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TheFrontPageCover
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Susan Rice's Last-Minute CYA Email 
by Political Editors
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Napolitano – Rice Email, Meeting Shows
Orchestration By Hussein liar-nObama 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Stuart Varney asks Judge Andrew Napolitano if Susan Rice is “covering the ‘president’s’ tracks” by writing the CYA memo... fifteen minutes after the inauguration of President Trump started at 12 noon on January 20th, 2017. Napolitano replies, “Sounds like it.” He names the participants in the meeting as Hussein liar-nObama, loose lips-Joe Biden, James Comey, Acting AG Sally Yates,  and Susan Rice. The issue discussed is the Russia, Russia, Russia. Napolitano asks the obvious question, “Why would she write this thing to herself sixteen days after it occurred, why would she put the phrase ‘by the books’ in quotation marks, what would be the purpose of this unless something came to her or the ‘president’s’ attention between January 5, when the conversation occurred, and January 20th, when she wrote this email to herself, that caused her to either want to varnish the meeting, acknowledge its existence but put a good gloss on it?”... https://rickwells.us/napolitano-rice-orchestration-obama/
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2 Anti-Trump FBI Officials Also 
Used Private Email, Their Texts Indicate
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by Kevin Mooney
Two FBI officials who exchanged anti-Trump text messages on government equipment during the 2016 presidential campaign... also conducted official business over private email accounts, according to a Senate report. In one electronic text message on April 10, 2016, FBI official Peter Strzok told agency lawyer Lisa Page: “Gmailed you two drafts of what I’m thinking of sending Bill, would appreciate your thoughts. Second more recent is updated so you can skip the first.” Strzok expressed frustration about being “left out of the loop,” according to the report from a Senate committee. It is not clear who “Bill” is. Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal analyst at The Heritage Foundation and a former Justice Department official, told The Daily Signal that use of private email makes it possible for federal employees to evade information requests...   http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/13/2-anti-trump-fbi-officials-also-used-private-email-texts-indicate/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RKbE9EZG1ZalJsT0RVdyIsInQiOiJLMGg2UFFQVGJTWEF3ZnhJRnR2TVB6d0JwdXdFTDdoOWgwbzZlS0ZsZlFDbmN3VkM1ZnZGM1pEbWkxb0dCSXBHQ3N0NHN5bUplMzJYS2drRDlzbEZhNW1STEh3VVBHR3RsT1E0cjI2Qit6eTdlUFZ5QUw2cFJFemgrdnJxUzVVeWpGRnZla21pN0p6ellPQUNmZm9iNGc9PSJ9 
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Comey Held Secret liar-nObama White 
House Meeting Before The Inauguration
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by RICHARD POLLOCK
{ dailycaller.com } ~ FBI Director James Comey held a secret Oval Office meeting with President Barack liar-nObama two weeks before Trump’s inauguration... and may have deliberately misled Congress about it, according to an email sent by National Security Advisor Susan Rice that GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and rino-Lindsey Graham partially unclassified.  The meeting — which Comey never previously disclosed to Congress — occurred in the White House on Jan. 5, 2017. It included liar-nObama, Vice President loose lips-Joe Biden, Rice deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and Comey. The topic of the meeting was potential Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. By failing to inform the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about the meeting in his June 8, 2017, testimony, Comey may have deliberately and intentionally misled Congress about his interactions with the former president, especially a meeting so close to Trump entering the White House... http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/13/comey-obama-secret-meeting/ 
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If Comey, FBI Didn’t Think Flynn Lied, 
Then Why Did He Plead Guilty?
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by Mary Chastain
{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn has come back into the news... after The Washington Examiner‘s Byron York reported that former FBI Director James Comey told Congress the department doesn’t think Flynn lied to them.  According to York, sources close to Comey’s meetings with Congress last March said that what actually happened in those meetings did not match what the media reported. It’s also important to remember that as incoming national security advisor, it’s not illegal or out of the ordinary that Flynn spoke with Kislyak. Bush’s national security advisor Stephen Hadley even said that he didn’t find it a problem if Flynn spoke to Kislyak about Russian sanctions and a Washington Post report showed that nothing happened...  https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/02/if-comey-fbi-didnt-think-flynn-lied-then-why-did-he-plead-guilty/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29 
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Manhunt launched for DACA 
recipient wanted for murder in Texas 
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{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ Deluna is charged with the Jan. 26 felony murder of Rahman Rupani, a 30-year-old father of two... who came to the aid of another man that Deluna shot outside of a store in Houston, Texas. Rupani, whose father owns the store, was married and had two children. The incident reportedly started with a fight involving Deluna and several men at a taco stand close ro the store. Deluna retrieved a gun from his car, returned, and shot one man, according to authorities. Rupani was inside the store when the shot was fired. He rushed outside to come to the victim’s aid before Deluna shot him twice, fatally. A third man came out of the store and was shot in the leg. Deluna has since evaded capture for three weeks...   https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/national-sovereignty/crimes-by-illegal-immigrants/manhunt-launched-wanted-murder.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=CNA_20170715&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=CNA_20170715
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Susan Rice's Last-Minute CYA Email 

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          In the email, Rice made notes about a meeting that occurred two weeks prior on Jan. 5, 2017, involving liar-nObama, then-FBI Director James Comey, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, loose lips-Joe Biden and Rice. The subject of the conversation was liar-nObama’s supposed desire that the FBI’s investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia go “by the book.” According to Grassley and rino-Graham, the meeting also covered the phony Christopher Steele dossier — you know, the one funded by liar-Hillary Clinton and the DNC. No wonder “one source familiar with the meeting” denied it covered the dossier.
          That date is significant because this meeting took place the day before Comey and the FBI visited Trump Tower to brief the president-elect on the investigation and the dossier, which had already been used to justify surveillance of Trump’s campaign. As Rice indicates, the meeting participants debated what and how much to tell Trump — liar-nObama wanted to hide some things.
          Rice’s emphasis on liar-nObama’s “by the book” instruction particularly stinks of covering his rear, whether he actually said it or Rice embellished the recollection. Literally on the way out the White House door for the last time, Rice made it a priority to leave a paper trail confirming   liar-nObama’s careful handling of the investigation. If anything had gone wrong — which we now know in great detail just how wrong it did go — that record would supposedly prove it wasn’t liar-nObama’s fault.
          Grassley and rino-Graham wrote their own letter to Rice demanding answers to a few questions by Feb. 22. Those questions include some that are of the “what did you know and when did you know it?” variety. The answers — if Rice bothers to provide them — will be key in understanding more about the whole affair.   

~The Patriot Post

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https://patriotpost.us/articles/54108-susan-rices-last-minute-cya-email
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Wed/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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McConnell's DACA Strategy: 
Let Demos Look Extreme 
by Nate Jackson
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Dems Demonizing Term Chain Migration 
So We Won’t Talk About Silent Invasion 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ The Democrats, led by the despicable scum-Dick Durbin, first began using the tactic a few weeks ago... They’re attacking the terminology of their “legal” invasion as being offensive in order to force us to quit talking about it and the closing of the open door. They are experts at distortion so it’s a natural ploy for them to utilize. Dems are now attempting to create the false reality that the black snowflakes they claim to represent, those they feed upon, are offended by the use of the term “chain migration.” Sen Bob Menendez makes that idiotic statement in the clip below. It’s a benign reference to a very dangerous process, the ability of one immigrant to sponsor many others. It has absolutely nothing to do with slavery, at least not until the Democrats started doing so as part of their daily dose of disinformation...  https://rickwells.us/dems-chain-migration-invasion/.
3 Things to Pay Attention 
to in the Trump Defense Budget
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by Frederico Bartels 
The Pentagon on Monday announced the president’s budget request for defense at $716 billion. That number is in line with the recent budget agreement... The budget should be guided by the national security strategy through the national defense strategy. Nonetheless, the effect of both of these strategies on the defense budget is still to be determined, since they were released very soon after the budget itself, and the Pentagon has fairly long budget cycles. The national defense strategy calls for a defense budget that is sustained, predictable, and increased. The budget needs to advance all three pillars together. But Congress will have a determining role in that discussion; after all, it will appropriate the actual funds...  http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/13/three-items-to-pay-attention-in-the-trump-defense-budget/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tds-fb?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tds-fb?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tds-fb?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpZNFpqUmpOV1F5TmpnNSIsInQiOiI1OUdqSGxOQ1NScDYwbStRMlE1NGMrR1A0NzE4VnM5bGZ4OThTNUMzckhcL3g4MDloZUpiY1BFYzM1ejlWV1ZrXC9BNDNyeXNrelJ3SmhlQTRzMzQ4dklFUHFQU0p1OUFDbmRaV1wvM1VcL0J2M2RzR2k3eUVGK0lKNFRjWVJ3c3hUVnEifQ%3D%3D 
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liar-Clinton’s Multi Million-Dollar 
Communist Uranium Deal 
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{ judicialwatch.org } ~ liar-Bill Clinton advocated for an oppressive communist leader known for human rights violations, corruption and election fraud... to help a Vancouver businessman get uranium and, in return, the millionaire cut a hefty check to the former president’s foundation. liar-Clinton proudly used his clout to seal the sort of deal that would otherwise be impossible between an unknown uranium mining entrepreneur and the communist dictator of a former Soviet Republic (Kazakhstan), who happens to own one-fifth of the world’s uranium reserves. With the help of his good buddy liar-Clinton, Vancouver mining mogul Frank Giustra secured tens of millions of dollars worth of uranium to fuel nuclear reactors worldwide. The thank you note included a $31.3 million donation to the liar- William J. Clinton Foundation as well as a future pledge of $100 million...  https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2008/01/clintons-multi-million-dollar-communist-uranium-deal/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newslink&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180214162827 
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Federal Judge Strikes CAIR-Hamas 
Reference From San Diego Suit
by John Rossomando

A federal judge partially granted a motion Monday by San Diego's Unified School District (SDUSD)...
 to strike references to the Council on American Islamic Relations' (CAIR) ties to Hamas from a lawsuit seeking to block the school system from working with CAIR. The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund's (FCDF) claims the school district violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and California law by enacting a CAIR supported anti-Islamophobia/anti-bullying program last spring. Mentioning CAIR's Hamas ties in the litigation was "impertinent, immaterial and scandalous," school district officials claimed in December. Including references to CAIR's Hamas connection and the fact some of its officials had been convicted on terrorism charges is intended to "inflame the public."...  https://www.investigativeproject.org/7348/federal-judge-strikes-cair-hamas-reference-from 
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Why Trump Was Right Not To Condemn Porter Right Away 
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Susan Rice Memo Trying To Cover Up liar-nObama’s Tracks?
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Russia Probe A Classic liar-Clinton Dirty Trick?
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Sen. Gardner: Tax Bill Is Working, More “Crumbs” Are Announced Every Day To Americans
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Wages And Fraudulent Voting Driving People From California
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Intel Director Coats: North Korea Poses an ‘Increasing Threat to the United States’
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Maddog Mattis: Fight Is Not Over Against ISIS
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McConnell's DACA Strategy: Let Demos Look Extreme 
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We use the word “hostage” for a reason. Democrats generally despise Trump’s generous compromise offer, and as Sen. scum-Dick Durbin (D-IL) lectured, “Dreamers should not be held hostageto President Trump’s crusade to tear families apart and waste billions of American tax dollars on an ineffective wall.” Think about that for a moment: According to scum-Durbin and his Democrat cronies, people who are here illegally, in violation of American Rule of Law, are being “held hostage” to demands that the law be enforced.
          Indeed, such “logic” motivates McConnell’s strategy. He knows all too well that Democrats will rabidly oppose any Republican plan because of both their Trump Derangement Syndrome and their hope to rally their own base with the immigration issue for the 2018 election. By all means, Democrats should counter Trump’s America First agenda with their platform of putting illegal aliens first. Or, as Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw put it, “It looks to me like McConnell is throwing Chuck clown-Schumer as much rope as he’s willing to take and inviting the Democrats to go hang themselves with it.”
          That isn’t to say a path to citizenship for DACA recipients is especially controversial; we don’t think it is. (Expanding it beyond the initial 800,000 or so is another matter.) But it is to say that the vast majority of Americans see Trump’s proposal as eminently reasonable, while Democrats’ steadfast refusal to take “yes” for an answer is exposed as the fanatical and divisive partisanship that it is.   ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/54106-mcconnells-daca-strategy-let-demos-look-extreme

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Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Is US Being Sucked Into Syria's War? 
by Pat Buchanan  
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Iran Unveils New Homemade Nuclear-
Capable Ballistic Missiles Amid 
Massive War Celebrations 
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by Adam Kredo 
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Iran unveiled a series of new homemade nuclear-capable ballistic missiles during military parades held over the weekend... a move that experts view as a bid to bolster the hardline ruling regime as dissidents continue efforts to stir protest. On the heels of an encounter between an Iranian drone and Israeli forces, Iranian leaders showcased their ballistic missile capabilities, which includes a nuclear-capable medium-range missile that appears to share similarities with North Korean technology, according to experts. The nuclear-capable missile can strike Israel even when fired from Iranian territory, raising concerns about an impending conflict between Tehran and the Jewish state that could further inflame the region... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-unveils-new-homemade-nuclear-capable-ballistic-missiles-amid-massive-war-celebrations/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=5ac41c6445-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-5ac41c6445-45611665 
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Seriously Ill American Imprisoned 
in Iran Rushed to Hospital Late Sunday 
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by Susan Crabtree
{ freebeacon.com } ~ An ailing 81-year-old Iranian-American who Iranian authorities recently returned to prison against the advice of doctors was rushed the hospital... with a racing heart rate Sunday, according to his attorney. Baquer Namazi, who has a pacemaker and has suffered life-threatening heart problems in Iran's notorious Evin prison for two years, was sent to the hospital late Sunday night when his heart rate doubled from its usual 60 beats per minute to 120 beats per minute. He also experienced fluctuations in blood pressure and a severe loss of energy, his attorney Jared Genser said in a statement. His family once again fears he could die at any time and has pleaded with Iranian authorities to release him on humanitarian grounds...  http://freebeacon.com/issues/seriously-ill-american-imprisoned-in-iran-rushed-to-hospital-late-sunday/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=5ac41c6445-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-5ac41c6445-45611665 
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Republicans need a 
nudge to lower health care costs
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by James C. Capretta and Lanhee Chen 
{ aei.org } ~ Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration repealed the penalties associated with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate... in the tax act that passed in December. Now they need to replace the mandate with something that will address rising premiums and command broader support. Automatic enrollment into health insurance plans is a good place to start. A replacement for the mandate is needed because the A.C.A.’s insurance rules are still in place. Those rules, which enjoy bipartisan support, protect the sick by requiring insurers to charge the same premiums to all consumers of the same age without consideration of their health status. The mandate was supposed to encourage the healthy to stay continuously insured, through a federal tax assessment for every month without coverage, even though they could drop coverage and later acquire it when needed, without paying higher premiums. With enforcement of the mandate ending in 2019, more healthy people may leave the A.C.A.’s exchanges, driving up premiums even faster for those who remain in the market. Automatic enrollment counters the natural human inclinations toward myopia and inertia. Many people do not plan adequately for contingencies, either because they don’t want to or because they lack the resources to do so. Further, the natural disinclination toward taking action means some consumers will not jump through the hoops necessary to sign up for benefits even if they find what is being offered attractive...  http://www.aei.org/publication/republicans-need-a-nudge-to-lower-health-care-costs/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdSbFpUY3pNbUU1TWpSayIsInQiOiIxTmJ6NUFCNGZQVTVtMlhDalMxM2wxUGRDaDFDbnBMVm81RHp5dzd2NGdcLzBjNklLM00rSG1hUlwvTVJRZ0ErZ1YyVURLVVJOQ0s5SCtMTzVTTWFXMmE1MXBoaFlIUUtEbDVtTnVVT0xEdE1IM3BRdmxMNkorN3RUM212aUJFdHhyIn0%3D 
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It’s time for Trump to 
attack Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
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by Richard Goldberg
{ nypost.com } ~ When Iran flew an unmanned aerial vehicle into Israel this weekend, the mullahs were testing President Trump, not just Israel... The Iranian drone, reportedly based on US technology, was a reminder of America’s abandonment of an active military deterrent, which began in 2011 when President Barack liar-nObama allowed Iran to recover a highly classified UAV instead of sending a missile to destroy it. In the years that followed, liar-nObama applied intense pressure to prevent an Israeli airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities, abandoned coercive diplomacy to appease Tehran in nuclear negotiations and responded to the capture of 10 US sailors with the diplomatic equivalent of “Thank you, sir, may I have another.”  Worse still was liar-nObama’s refusal to act in Syria, even to enforce his own red line on the use of chemical weapons...   https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/its-time-for-trump-to-attack-irans-revolutionary-guard/ 
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If liar-Hillary Is Arrested, 
The Left Will VIOLENTLY Revolt!
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by Mac Slavo
{ shtfplan.com } ~ Mike Adams, commonly known as the Health Ranger, has sounded the alarm that we should prepare for violent civil unrest... Should liar-Hillary Clinton ever be arrested for her crimes against the United States, Adams says the left will launch a violent uprising. Adams has been at the forefront of the political scandal surrounding democrats for some time. He’s been decently accurate when predicting which moves the left will make next. Now he wants everyone to be aware of what he says will happen in the event of liar-Hillary Clinton’s arrest. A couple of months ago, Adams reported on contractors being told to brace for a domestic deployment. He now believes he understands why these people were put on alert...let them revolt.  Lock her upl  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/health-ranger-if-hillary-is-arrested-the-left-will-violently-revolt_02122018.
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Is US Being Sucked Into Syria's War? 
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by Pat Buchanan 
{ townhall.com } ~ Candidate Donald Trump may have promised to extricate us from Middle East wars, once ISIS and al-Qaida were routed, yet events and people seem to be conspiring to keep us endlessly enmeshed.

Friday night, a drone, apparently modeled on a U.S. drone that fell into Iran's hands, intruded briefly into Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights, and was shot down by an Apache helicopter.

Israel seized upon this to send F-16s to strike the airfield whence the drone originated. Returning home, an F-16 was hit and crashed, unleashing the most devastating Israeli attack in decades on Syria. Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu says a dozen Syrian and Iranian bases and antiaircraft positions were struck.

Monday's headline on The Wall Street Journal op-ed page blared:

"The Iran-Israel War Flares Up: The fight is over a Qods Force presence on the Syria-Israeli border. How will the U.S. respond?"

Op-ed writers Tony Badran and Jonathan Schanzer, both from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, closed thus:

"The Pentagon and State Department have already condemned Iran and thrown their support behind Israel. The question now is whether the Trump administration will go further. ... Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has affirmed that the U.S. seeks not only to ensure its allies' security but to deny Iran its 'dreams of a northern arch' from Tehran to Beirut. A good way to achieve both objectives would be back Israel's response to Iran's aggression -- now and in the future."

The FDD is an annex of the Israeli lobby and a charter member of the War Party. Chagai Tzuriel, who heads the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence, echoed the FDD: "If you Americans are committed to countering Iran in the region, then you must do so in Syria -- first."

Our orders have been cut.

Iran has dismissed as "lies" and "ridiculous" the charge that it sent the drone into Israeli airspace.

If Tehran did, it would be an act of monumental stupidity. Not only did the drone bring devastating Israeli reprisals against Syria and embarrass Iran's ally Russia, it brought attacks on Russian-provided and possibly Russian-manned air defenses.

Moreover, in recent months Iranian policy -- suspending patrol boat harassment of U.S. warships -- appears crafted to ease tensions and provide no new causes for Trump to abandon the nuclear deal Prime Minister Hassan Rouhani regards as his legacy.

Indeed, why would Iran, which, with Assad, Russia and Hezbollah, is among the victors in Syria's six-year civil war, wish to reignite the bloodletting and bring Israeli and U.S. firepower in on the other side?

In Syria's southeast, another incident a week ago may portend an indefinite U.S. stay in that broken and bleeding country.

To recapture oil fields lost in the war, forces backed by Assad crossed the Euphrates into territory taken from ISIS by the U.S. and our Kurd allies. The U.S. response was a barrage of air and artillery strikes that killed 100 soldiers.

What this signals is that, though ISIS has been all but evicted from Syria, the U.S. intends to retain that fourth of Syria as a bargaining chip in negotiations.

In the northwest, Turkey has sent its Syrian allies to attack Afrin and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened Manbij, 80 miles to the east, where U.S. troops commingle with the Kurd defenders and U.S. generals were visible last week.

Midweek, Erdogan exploded: "The Americans tell us, 'Don't come to Manbij.' We will come to Manbij to hand over these territories to their rightful owners."

The U.S. and Turkey, allies for six decades, with the largest armies in NATO, may soon be staring down each other's gun barrels.

Has President Trump thought through where we are going with this deepening commitment in Syria, where we have only 2,000 troops and no allies but the Kurds, while on the other side is the Syrian army, Hezbollah, Russia and Iran, and Shiite militias from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan?

Clearly, we have an obligation not to abandon the Kurds, who took most of the casualties in liberating eastern Syria from ISIS. And we have a strategic interest in not losing Turkey as an ally.

But this calls for active diplomacy, not military action.

And now that the rebels have been defeated and the civil war is almost over, what would be the cost and what would be the prospects of fighting a new and wider war? What would victory look like?

Bibi and the FDD want to see U.S. power deployed alongside that of Israel, against Iran, Assad and Hezbollah. But while Israel's interests are clear, what would be the U.S. vital interest?

What outcome would justify another U.S. war in a region where all the previous wars in this century have left us bleeding, bankrupt, divided and disillusioned?

When he was running, Donald Trump seemed to understand this.
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TheFrontPageCover
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Drowning in Debt 
by Cal Thomas  
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Wednesday Top Headlines 
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Second judge blocks Trump administration from ending DACA (The Hill)
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Democrat wins legislative seat in Florida — 36 elections go from red to blue since 2016 (The Washington Post)
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Israeli police recommend bribery charges for Netanyahu (The Hill)
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U.S. strikes killed scores of Russian fighters in Syria (Bloomberg)
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Another global warming oops: Sinking islands are apparently growing (The Resurgent)
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High school bans “racially offensive” national anthem (The Washington Times)
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Dumb and Dumber: Trump’s lawyer says he paid Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket (Fox News)
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Who would have guessed? More cops mean less crime, analysis shows (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Trending now: Facebook lost around 2.8 million U.S. users under 25 last year (Recode)
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Humor: Trump announces plan to replace food stamps with new low-income foraging program (The Onion)
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Policy: Assessing the Trump infrastructure plan (City Journal)
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Policy: Valentine’s Day is here, and the sugar lobby will take its cut (American Enterprise Institute)   
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Watergate Part Deux: Still Don’t Think 
There Is A Double Standard? Think Again!
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by Joe Messina
{ lidblog.com } ~ Many reading this may have no clue as to what “Watergate” was... But because of Watergate, Republican President Richard Nixon had been labeled the biggest crook and most corrupt president in history, until NOW! President Nixon was been involved in and tried to cover up a break in of the Democrat National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington DC. Nixon was well-known for being paranoid and for trying to undermine anyone he suspected of being an enemy. Nixon, like President Trump, was being undermined by Democrat operatives who were stealing information and leaking it to the media. Nixon had a group of men known as the “White House Plumbers” who’s only job was stopping White House leaks...  https://lidblog.com/watergate-part-deux/ 
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Trump Supporters In Iowa Blow Every Single
One Of CNN’s Narratives Out Of The Water
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by JUSTIN CARUSO
{ dailycaller.com } ~ CNN’s Martin Savidge recently visited Iowa to interview supporters of President Trump, and on almost every single question... they defended the president and bucked the media narrative. The panel of four Trump supporters consistently expressed doubt about the Russia investigation and the FBI. One man called the Russia investigation a “political witch hunt from the get-go” and a “disgrace.” Another man said that Trump is “exactly what I voted for.”  And when asked whether they had faith in the FBI, one man answered, “Hell no. No, absolutely not.”... http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/12/cnn-iowa-trump-voters/?utm_medium=email.
Intriguing Links Emerge 
In GOP Led Dossier Investigation
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by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Republican-led investigation into the infamous anti-Trump dossier has recently revealed several intriguing links... between Christopher Steele, lawyers, lobbyists, Democratic politicians, a former State Department official, and a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin. Most of the revelations come thanks to Sen. Chuck Grassley. The Iowa Republican released a letter in January that cited the names of several political operatives and lawyers who had not previously been linked to the dossier Steele wrote while on the payroll of the liar-Clinton campaign and DNC. And Thursday, a batch of text messages leaked to Fox News revealed that Steele used a back channel to communicate with Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence...
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Democratic Sen. Mark Warner texted 
with Russian oligarch lobbyist in effort to
contact dossier author Christopher Steele
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by Ed Henry
{ foxnews.com } ~ Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who has been leading a congressional investigation into President Trump's alleged ties to Russia... had extensive contact last year with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch who was offering Warner access to former British spy and dossier author Christopher Steele, according to text messages obtained exclusively by Fox News. "We have so much to discuss u need to be careful but we can help our country," Warner texted the lobbyist, Adam Waldman, on March 22, 2017. "I'm in," Waldman, whose firm has ties to liar-Hillary Clinton, texted back to Warner. Steele famously put together the anti-Trump dossier of unverified information that was used by FBI and Justice Department officials in October 2016 to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of former Trump adviser Carter Page. Despite the efforts, Steele has not agreed to an interview with the committee...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/08/democratic-sen-mark-warner-texted-with-russian-oligarch-lobbyist-in-effort-to-contact-dossier-author-christopher-steele.html
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liar-nObama's CIA chief accused 
of lying about anti-Trump 'dossier'
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by ART MOORE 
Under oath before the House Intelligence Committee last May, former CIA director John Brennan testified that the infamous anti-Trump “dossier”... funded by the Democratic Party played no role in the intelligence community’s publicly released conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Brennan further declared he did not know who commissioned the opposition-research document, even though senior national security and counter-intelligence officials at the Justice Department and FBI knew the previous year it was funded by the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Now, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is investigating whether or not Brennan committed perjury, reports Paul Sperry at RealClear Investigations...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/02/obamas-cia-chief-accused-of-lying-about-anti-trump-dossier/ 
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Drowning in Debt 
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by Cal Thomas 
{ townhall.com } ~ In "Hamlet," Shakespeare pens one of the most familiar lines -- and best advice -- ever written. Before Laertes leaves for Paris, his father, Polonius, tells him: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be..."

We have ignored that advice for far too long, which is why the U.S. national debt is $20 trillion with more to come, thanks to the Republican Congress, which has passed a two-year spending bill that calls for $300 billion in new spending and removes caps applied by the Budget Control Act of 2011.

It's being sold to the public with the highest and purist motives. We need to support our "brave" men and women in uniform and repair our roads and bridges.

As Politico first reported, an audit revealed a Defense Department agency can't account for $800 million targeted for building projects. Worse, if that's possible, the Defense Logistics Agency has no paper trail and can't tell auditors where the money went. And Congress is going to give them more.

As for infrastructure, wasn't the liar-nObama "stimulus," otherwise known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, supposed to have fixed roads and bridges? It was more like a down payment because government never has enough of our money.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), spoke the truth when he held up passage of the budget bill. As reported by The New York Times, Paul said: "I want people to feel uncomfortable. I want them to have to answer people at home who said, 'How come you were against President liar-nObama's deficits and then how come you're for Republican deficits?'"

Paul was the only Republican senator to vote against the measure which is expected to increase the debt to $30 trillion over the next decade, when probably all of those in the Senate will be dead or gone and won't have to take responsibility for it.

In addition to providing more money for the military, some Republicans are claiming with a straight face that this massive new spending is needed to finish repeal of liar-nObamacare. No one can seriously believe that, especially with all of the additional pork that is undoubtedly added on to this bill in order to gain "bipartisan" support. So if it's bipartisan, it must be good, right? Spending may be the last bipartisan act in Washington.

President Trump says if there were more Republicans in Congress the new spending and increased debt would not have happened. Maybe.

It's helpful to remind these free-spending Republicans what our Founders warned about the dangers of debt.

James Madison said: "Debts and taxes are the known instrument for bringing the many under the domination of the few" and "I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse."

Thomas Jefferson spoke to the dangers of a government drunk on out-of-control spending that leads to increasing debt: "To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."

Among the reasons empires and great nations have collapsed is public debt. Seeking to pacify the masses by never saying "no" to anything, politicians mortgage the future while preserving their current careers. Maybe America should change its initials from USA to ATM.

To invoke singer/songwriter Don McLean in a different context and applying it to modern politicians: "They would not listen they're not listening still; perhaps they never will."

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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Backstabbers! 
Republicans Betray American Taxpayers 
by Todd Starnes  
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Trump's Immigration 
Plan Gathers Steam in Senate
by Brian Lilley

{ truthrevolt.org } ~ President Donald Trump's plan to grant legal status, under certain conditions, for some 1.8 million "dreamers"...
 if he can get funding for a border wall and massive change to legal immigration is starting to pick up momentum on Capitol Hill. Senators voted 97-1 on Monday to begin debating the plan that has significant Republican support, including the backing of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, reports The Washington Post: McConnell endorsed a sweeping GOP plan that fulfills Trump’s calls to legalize the status of 1.8 million “dreamers,” spends at least $25 billion to bolster defenses along the U.S.-Mexico border, makes changes to family-based legal migration programs and ends a diversity lottery system used by immigrants from smaller countries.  The Secure and Succeed Act is “the only piece of legislation that can get through the Senate, through the House of Representatives, most importantly signed by the president,” said its lead sponsor, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa)... 
https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/trumps-immigration-plan-gathers-steam-senate
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Ginsburg – liar-Clinton Didn’t Lose Because
She’s Crooked, Trump Was Too Macho 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg has no place being on any judicial bench, even small claims or night court... Her sexist prejudices would likewise disqualify her, if objectivity were a requirement, from any family court, as a man entering the courtroom immediately forfeits the presumption of equal treatment under the law. The singular place she most doesn’t belong and is least suited for is the Supreme Court, where she currently presides, apparently determined to remain until she kicks off. She has been a sexism agitator all of her life, particularly in her positions with the ACLU, where she co-founded the “Women’s Rights Council” before becoming the ACLU’s general counsel in 1973. Establishment puppet Orrin Hatch recommended Ginsburg to Janet Reno as a replacement for the retiring Byron White. Reno then suggested her name to liar-Clinton, who did the dirty deed and nominated her... https://rickwells.us/ginsburg-clinton-trump-macho/.
Trump-Hating Media Fawn 
Over Dictator Kim at Olympics 
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by Mark Tapson 
{ truthrevolt.org } ~ The news media can't stop accusing President Donald Trump of dictatorial tendencies and comparing him to Hitler and Mussolini... but they fell all over themselves praising the real-world dictator of North Korea, monster Kim Jong Un, and his advisor sister at the 2018 Winter Olympics. You can't buy the kind of propaganda handed to North Korea on a silver platter by the mainstream media this weekend at the Olympics being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Here is a sampling,  courtesy of Fox News, of headlines that appeared on smitten leftist outlets such as CNN and ABC: “Kim Jong Un’s sister is stealing the show at the winter Olympics” “The ‘Ivanka Trump of North Korea’ captivates people in the South at the Olympics” “North Korea’s cheerleaders steal spotlight at Winter Games with synchronized chants”...  https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/trump-hating-media-fawn-over-dictator-kim-olympics 
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Comey told Congress FBI 
agents didn't think Michael Flynn lied
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by Byron York
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ In March 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey briefed a number of Capitol Hill lawmakers on the Trump-Russia investigation... One topic of intense interest was the case of Michael Flynn, the Trump White House national security adviser who resigned under pressure on Feb. 13 after just 24 days in the job. There were widespread reports that Flynn had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about telephone conversations that he, Flynn, had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition in late December 2016. On Jan. 24, 2017, two of Comey's FBI agents went to the White House to question Flynn, and there was a lot of speculation later that Flynn lied in that interview, which would be a serious crime. There was also a lot of concern in Congress, at least among Republicans, about the leak of the wiretapped Flynn-Kislyak conversation. Such intelligence is classified at the highest level of secrecy, yet someone — Republicans suspected liar-nObama appointees in the Justice Department and intelligence community — revealed it to the press...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-comey-told-congress-fbi-agents-didnt-think-michael-flynn-lied/article/2648896?platform=hootsuite 
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New Text Messages Prove 
One Thing: Barack liar-nObama Lied 
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{ fixthisnation.com } ~ Someone needs to demand that every single available text message that was sent between the star-crossed FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page be released to the public... because it seems that every new release brings us one step closer to the truth. By the time it’s all said and done, these two could go down as unintentional heroes of the republic, having ripped the mask off of the single most damning conspiracy in our nation’s 250-year history. Of course, that honor would be a little easier to bestow upon them if they weren’t, you know, active participants. This week, thanks to newly revealed messages between the two, we learned that President liar-nObama lied when he told the public that he does not keep abreast of ongoing FBI investigations. He said that in an interview when asked what he personally knew about the liar-Clinton email scandal and the investigation into the then likely Democrat nominee for president. No one particularly believed that load of horse crap at the time, and now we have messages that prove he was being less than truthful about his hands-on experience with the FBI...  http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/new-text-messages-prove-one-thing-barack-obama-lied/ 
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Backstabbers! 
Republicans Betray American Taxpayers 
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by Todd Starnes 
{ townhall.com } ~ While American taxpayers were nestled snug in their beds congressional Republicans were plotting to pass the second largest spending increase in a decade.

The Republican-controlled Congress voted to raise caps on spending by $300 billion over the next two years. There are some estimates that suggest the bill will increase government spending by $1.5 trillion.

Shame on us for taking the Republicans at their word. These are the same rapscallions who promised to cut spending and reduce the size of government. 

There is no question that the U.S. Armed Forces need every penny allocated in the budget. But domestic spending is out of control. 

Republicans said they had no choice but to approve the spending increase because Democrats were willing to hold the military hostage.

Instead of standing their ground and taking their case to the American people, the Republicans capitulated to the demands of Nancy Pulosi and Chuck clown-Schumer.

The House Freedom Caucus and Sen. Rand Paul stood their ground and held the line for the American taxpayer. But I've come to the conclusion that Establishment Republicans have no intention of honoring their pledge to the taxpayers.

The Republicans told us they needed control of the House before they could get anything done. So we gladly gave them control of the House. But nothing ever got done.

Then, they told us they needed control of the Senate. So we happily gave them control of the Senate. But still, nothing ever got done.

Then, they told us they needed control of the White House. So we elected Donald J. Trump as the president of these great United States.

And it pains me to write this, but the government is still growing and spending is still out of control.

So you can imagine my frustration when the Republicans told us that if we really want to change the direction of Washington it will require MORE Republicans in Congress.

I'm reminded of an old Southern saying - fool me once shame on you -- fool me twice -- well - you're probably a Congressional Republican.

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We Need TRUST our ONE True GOD In USA Again!!

✝✡Please Pray for Israel and our Christian Nation USA✡✝

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Psalms 46:1-2 KJV ) “GOD is our Refuge and Strength, a Very Present Help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;”!!

Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV ) “Trust in the LORD ( ADONAI ) with all thine Heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways Acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy Paths.”!! TRUST in the LORD Jesus-Yeshua Christ with All Thine HEART and SOUL!!

Psalms 20:7 KJV ) “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we Will Remember the Name of the LORD our GOD.”!! 

Proverbs 14:34 KJV ) “Righteousness exalteth a Nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”!! TRUST in the LORD Jesus-Yeshua Christ with all thine HEART and SOUL!! 

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We Need God In  America Again – Karis Peters!!

II Chronicles 7:14 KJV ) “If My People, which are Called by My Name, shall Humble themselves, and Pray, and Seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I Hear from Heaven, and Will Forgive their sin, and Will Heal Their Land.”!!

Psalms 33:12 KJV ) “Blessed is the Nation whose GOD is  the LORD; and the People whom He hath Chosen for His Own Inheritance.”!!

Genesis 12:2-3 KJV ) “And I Will Make of thee a Great Nation, and I Will Bless thee, and Make thy Name Great; and thou shalt be a Blessing: And I Will Bless them that Bless thee ( Israel and USA ), and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all Families of the Earth be Blessed.”!! May GOD BLESS Israel-Yisrael / USA and our Christian Earth!!

Psalms Chapter 117 KJV ) “O Praise the LORD, all ye Nations: Praise Him, all ye people. For His Merciful Kindness is Great Toward us: and the Truth of the LORD Endureth For ever. Praise ye the LORD.”!! Honor Ye the LORD Praise Ye the LORD Forevermore!!

Romans 14:11 KJV ) “For it is Written, As I live, Saith the LORD, every Knee shall Bow to ME, and every Tongue Shall Confess to GOD.”!!

John 3:16-17 KJV ) “For GOD so Loved the World, that He Gave His only Begotten Son ( Jesus Christ – Yeshua HaMashiach ), that whosoever Believeth in Him should not perish, but have Everlasting Life.  For GOD Sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the WorldTthrough Him might be Saved.”!!

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Jesus ( Yeshua ) Christ is Holy / Righteous / Worthy / Peaceful / Loving / Saviour!! Praise HIS HOLY Name Jesus ( Yeshua ) Christ Today and Everyday!!

Please Pray for Israel-Yisrael / Christian Nation United States of America, and our Christian Earth Everyday “Pray Without Ceasing.” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV )!!

Mark 3:25 KJV ) “And if a house DIVIDED against itself, that House Cannot Stand.”!!

Philippians 2:10-11 KJV ) “That at the Name of Jesus Christ – Yeshua HaMashiach-MESSIAH every Knee should Bow, of things in Heaven, and things in Earth, and things under the earth; And that every Tongue should Confess that Jesus-Yeshua Christ is LORD, to the Glory of GOD the FATHER.”!!

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Love Always and Shalom ( PEACE ) EVERYONE, YSIC \o/

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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Taxpayers Scalped by Demos 
and Insurance Companies 
by Robin Smith
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Sanders Nails NBC Hypocrite Over Porter
“Concern” – Leakers In This Room 
A Bigger Threat 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ One response to the attempted gotcha question by NBC troll Kristen Welker, asking, “Why are high level aides allowed to work with classified information... without permanent security clearance would have been to ask her how, given the months-long process she expects the government to function while waiting for the FBI, or should we just call a timeout at the UN and ask everyone to wait with us as our government really shuts down? Another response might have been to ask her in what way the process is different from that under her communist premier, Hussein liar-nObama, just to see what kind of sputtering non-sense fell from between her jowls.  Sarah Sanders handled it pretty well, saying, “That’s a question that the FBI and other Intelligence communities, they make that determination, that’s not something that’s decided by the White House. She then asks an even dumber version of her first question, asking, “Can you guarantee that you  are protecting classified information, given that you have someone like Rob Porter, who didn’t have a permanent security clearance with access to classified information?”...  https://rickwells.us/sanders-nails-nbc-hypocrite/
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Dems Willing to Be 
Flexible on Funding for Trump’s Wall
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by TRENT BAKER
{ breitbart.com } ~ Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said that Democrats are willing to be flexible... with funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall, calling it “important” to invest in border security. “Bipartisanship has broken out in at least some areas. I hope we can carry forward this bipartisan cooperation in other areas like reforming and rebuilding our immigration system, which is sadly broken,” Blumenthal said to host John Catsimatidis. “On the wall, we would be willing to be flexible on border security,” he added. “There are ways, again, to be bipartisan in devising solutions to make our borders more secure using surveillance and sensors, better training for agents who patrol our borders, using new technology, strengthening some of the physical structures and fences … and if the president wants to call it a wall, so be it.” http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/02/11/blumenthal-dems-willing-flexible-funding-trumps-wall/
Senator Chuck Grassley Questions Susan Rice
About ‘Unusual’ Documentary Letter to Herself
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Earlier today Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a letter to President liar-nObama’s former National Security Adviser, Susan Rice... about a curious email she sent to herself documenting a White House conversation between President liar-nObama and former FBI head James Comey. On the day of the inauguration, January 20th, 2017; at the very last minutes of the outgoing administration; Mrs. Rice documented a conversation which took place on January 5th, 2017 between President liar-nObama, Asst. AG Sally Yates and FBI Director James Comey.  Vice-President loose lips-Joe Biden and Susan Rice were in attendance.  On its face the Rice note would appear to be a CYA memo documenting a conversation in the even the larger efforts of the White House and DOJ/FBI were discovered to be conspiring to create a series of false accusations, the “insurance policy” per se’, against the incoming president.  Rice appears to be leaving a document trail in the event she needed to extricate herself from risks associated with the intention of the ‘small group’...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/12/senator-chuck-grassley-questions-susan-rice-about-unusual-documentary-letter-to-herself/ 
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Sen rino-Graham -“Cover Girl” Susan Rice 
Sent Herself Last Minute Email To 
Protect liar-nObama 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Senators rino-Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley have discovered some new information in the form of some peculiar emails... sent by Hussein liar-nObama’s former National Security Adviser and chief unmasker, Susan Rice. She sent them to herself literally as they were walking out of the White House, around noon on inauguration day, January 20th, 2017. rino-Graham explains his concern over what appears to be a clumsy, last minute effort to create a narrative as protection against the discovery of the criminal offenses of liar-nObama and his regime, to include the Russia story, it’s fabricators, the liar-Clinton campaign, the money handlers and the FBI, DOJ, and intelligence communities’ deep state operatives. Senator rino-Graham describes Rice as emailing herself “about a meeting that occurred on January the 5th, in the Oval Office, and she says in the email that the ‘president’ was being briefed by the intelligence community about Russian hacking in the 2016 election, and he had a follow-on brief meeting with Sally Yates, Jim Comey, herself and Vice-President loose lips-Biden, and she quotes what the ‘president’ said.”...  https://rickwells.us/graham-rice-email-protect-obama/
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Unprecedented: Nunes Could Bring 
Chief Justice to House to Testify

{ totalconservative.com } ~ If you needed any further evidence that we were in uncharted waters, let this be the last signal you need...
 In his quest to shine the bright light of truth on the FISA court abuses of the FBI and Justice Department, Rep. Devin Nunes said Thursday that he was thinking very seriously of doing something that had never been done before: Asking the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to testify in front of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Nunes said the unprecedented step may be necessary because as the top man on the nation’s high court, John Roberts is responsible for appointing all judges to the FISA court. Nunes stressed that no final decision had been made about bringing Roberts to testify, but the mere suggestion of the possibility shows you how serious this investigation has become. “The chief justice appoints the FISA judges,” Hewitt noted. “Have you had a chance to chat with him or any of the FISA judges about what went on at the FISA court with regard to the Page application?”...   http://totalconservative.com/unprecedented-nunes-bring-chief-justice-house-testify/ 
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Taxpayers Scalped by Demos and Insurance Companies 

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Using her platform within the Democrats’ flock of mimicking parrots in the celebrity media, dinky-Warren, again, called for a Medicare system for all. By that, she means a government-run health care system that would hypothetically provide a universal plan — in other words, one that makes the government the customer as the entity that creates the rules and pays. The Democrat-presidential-wanna-be constructs an argument for socialized, government-controlled health care by claiming insurance companies have, through their evil cronyism, fleeced Americans of billions of dollars while offering substandard insurance policies for health care coverage.
          Let’s get this right: It is because of government manipulation of one-sixth of the U.S. economy that we continue to see increasing prices in health care. When patients are not the customers and cannot make buying decisions for a service sought and rendered, prices end up being excessive. Want lower prices? Try the free market.
          In fact, dinky-Warren stands as one of the barriers to creating the best health care at the most affordable price for the greatest number of people.
          She bellowed last week about “wildly profitable” insurance companies that receive government subsidies — read: your tax dollars — as she demanded “fair treatment” for patients in her ongoing political argument for a single-payer health insurance system. But she neglected to mention that the “subsidies” to insurers that she correctly deems as cronyism are a result of a bill passed without a single Republican vote and signed into law by the previous Democrat president, Barack liar-nObama, in March 2010. To be fair, dinky-Warren isn’t directly responsible because she wasn’t in the Senate at the time liar-nObamaCare was foisted on us. That happened while Ms. Fake Indian Ancestry was still enjoying minority status on faculty at Harvard.
          liar-nObamaCare came with the guarantee BIG Lie that you could keep your doctor and plan, if you so desired, and that every family would enjoy a minimum of a $2,500 annual savings on the cost of their insurance. None of these talking points materialized because nothing about the bill permitted those outcomes. Failed policy created a bloated bureaucracy and a market tied up with red tape instead of increased access to better health care for reasonable prices.
          For some reason, we’re reminded of President Ronald Reagan’s famous line: “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.
          dinky-Warren’s line of attack isn’t new. In January at the Families USA Conference, the Massachusetts senator declared, “And as we wrestle with insurance companies to get them to treat their customers a little better, keep in mind on this that taxpayers are directly responsible for a huge proportion of those giant profits. The top insurers in the United States pull in nearly 60% of their total revenue from Medicare and Medicaid — that is more than $200 billion in 2016 revenues coming directly from American taxpayers.
          Now, who is the customer if the patient is insured via Medicaid, Medicare or liar-nObamaCare? Not the patient or consumer of health services. The customer in every one of these insurance policies that covers health services is the government. The government determines the coverage of each plan available. The government determines the reimbursement contract for medicines and services provided. The government pays the bill.
          Not only does dinky-Warren have the market forces wrong, she and her fellow Democrats are feeding the failure. Unfortunately, it’s become a bipartisan affliction. While Republicans did repeal the individual mandate and ended the “death panels” that existed to ration care, many of these same politicians are also supporting billions of dollars more to be sent from the U.S. Treasury to bailout these insurance companies that lobbied for the failed policy of liar-nObamaCare. As a trio of policy experts from the Heritage Foundation and Galen Institute summed it up, a bipartisan effort is underway to infuse “new federal spending into the veins of insurance companies that are hemorrhaging red ink on the liar-nObamacare exchanges.”
          As always in DC, the answer to government failure is more money and a bigger bureaucracy.
          When the consumer is offered a service or product, he or she assesses the cost versus the benefit or need. Right now, there is no price transparency, as a rule, in health care. A few states are bravely knocking down the barrier to a free market of hidden costs of health care, but not at the federal level.
          Currently, the buying power in the world of health insurance exists in the hands of the government — the federal or state government — not individuals. When more than 60% of the insurance business comes through a government entity, individuals have no voice.
          Democrats are responsible for America’s less-than-optimal health care system because they created and enabled failure in a critical aspect of our economy that is controlled by corporate welfare and socialistic control. dinky-Warren ignores that inconvenient truth.
          Reagan, again, was right when he surmised, “Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.” Empower patients through effective policy that creates a consumer-driven health care system, not government-controlled health insurance policies.   ~The Patriot Pos
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Tues/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCove

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Israel's Grand Inquisitor
by Caroline Glick
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White Powder Terrorism Stunt Against Don Jr
and Vanessa Trump Is No Harmless Prank 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Once again lowlife leftists have demonstrated that they’ll do just about anything in the pursuit of their perverse political objectives... including sending a hoax anthrax envelope to President Trump’s daughter-in-law and her mother. Vanessa Trump, the wife of Donald Trump Jr., was rushed to a Manhattan hospital on Monday as a precaution after she opened an envelope that was addressed to her husband at approximately 10 am Monday morning. It contained a white powder, which was later determined to be cornstarch. The incident took place in the New York home of her mother, Bonnie Haydon. The envelope, which was postmarked in Boston, contained not only the cornstarch powder, but a letter that indicated that the stunt was some sort of retribution for Donald Trump Jr.’s supposed transgressions of the past...  https://rickwells.us/white-powder-terrorism-trump/ 
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Crude Oil Prices Fall Below $60, 
Traders Expect $55 or Lower 
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by Bob Adelmann 
{ thenewamerican.com } ~ With the price of crude oil for March delivery falling below $60 a barrel last week on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)... half of OPEC’s worst nightmare is taking place: Higher oil prices sought by the cartel are bringing on American production at a faster rate than ever before. The other half of the nightmare would be a slowdown in global demand for the stuff. A sell-off was triggered by an announcement last week from the Energy Information Agency (EIA) that U.S. crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day (bpd) last month — the first time since 1970 — and would continue to set records into 2018. In addition, U.S. oil rig count jumped by 26, the largest jump in a year. Helping along was the overbought position by traders expecting crude oil prices to move even higher. It’s estimated that those traders owned a billion barrels of oil through futures and options contracts, and when oil began to tip over, many rushed to unload them, accelerating the decline... https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/28257-crude-oil-prices-fall-below-60-traders-expect-55-or-lower 
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The Dumb Controversy 
over the scum-Schiff Memo
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The scum-Schiff memo, principally authored by Democratic staff on the House Intelligence Committee under the direction of ranking member scum-Adam Schiff (D., Calif.)... is the response to the Nunes memo, which was composed by the committee’s Republican staff under the direction of Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.). Substantively, the scum- Schiff memo is unlikely to do Democrats much good, since the Nunes memo’s principal allegations have been corroborated — namely: The liar-nObama administration (a) used the unverified Steele dossier to get a FISA warrant on former Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page and (b) did not tell the FISA court that the dossier was a liar-Clinton-campaign product. Democrats nevertheless appear to have laid a trap to try to goad Republicans into objecting to their memo. The trick would enable Congressman scum-Schiff to claim Republicans are hiding critical facts. Committee Republicans were shrewd enough to avoid the trap, but the Trump White House has been taken in.  This is an easy one: The president should release the memo with his own redactions. It would then be up to scum-Schiff to make the next move: Either prove Republicans are concealing facts that damage the president or expose himself as a charlatan...  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456321/democratic-memo-trump-should-release-necessary-redactions-only?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-02-12&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives 
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Radical Islamic Scholar Hillary Let
Back into U.S. as Sec. of State Jailed for Rape

{ judicialwatch.org } ~ The radical Islamic scholar that liar-Hillary Clinton let back into the U.S. after a lengthy ban over terrorist ties is in jail on rape charges... 
This week a judge in France denied bail for liar-Clinton’s pal, Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder and Hamas funder Hassan al Banna. Ramadan, a professor at Oxford University, was arrested in Paris last week and charged with raping two Muslim women. Both women were raped in France, according to a European news report. The first one, a 40-year-old disabled Muslim convert claims Ramadan raped and beat her in the southeastern city of Lyon in 2009 and the other, a 41-year-old feminist activist, says Ramadan raped her in Paris in 2012. A respected Swiss newspaper, Tribune de Genève, has also reported that Ramadan seduced and had sexual relations with teenage girls at a Geneva school where he once taught. The women say Ramadan told them they were special before having sex with them in the back of his car. One of the women was 14 at the time and the others were 15 to 18 years old. They say Ramadan used his authority as their teacher to seduce them. Oxford University placed Ramadan on a leave of absence after the rape allegations surfaced as well as other accusations of assault and sexual harassment. “Professor Ramadan’s teaching, supervising and examining duties will be reassigned, and he will not be present at the University or College,” reads a statement issued by Oxford in early November. “The University has consistently acknowledged the gravity of the allegations against Professor Ramadan, while emphasising the importance of fairness and the principles of justice and due process.” As Barack liar-nObama’s Secretary of State liar-Clinton, a self-proclaimed women’s rights activist her  liar-Hillary for America policy included confronting violence against women and has a section on sexual assault went to bat for Ramadan...  
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Israel's Grand Inquisitor
by Caroline Glick


{ truthrevolt.org } ~ On Wednesday night Israelis received yet another demonstration of the country’s desperate need for legal reform.

The media in Israel – like their counterparts in the US – tout themselves as democracy’s watchdogs. But on Wednesday night, we saw once again that our fiercest journalists are actually the lapdogs of our unelected legal fraternity, whose members share their hatred for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their general attachment to the ideological Left.

Wednesday night’s primetime news broadcasts all opened with the sensational news that the police’s top investigators from the Lahav 433 unit – Israel’s equivalent of the FBI – were sitting at that very moment with Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich to decide what crimes to recommend Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit indict Netanyahu for.

According to police leakers, their intention is to recommend that Mandelblit indict Netanyahu for at least one count of bribery.

Netanyahu allegedly helped his old friend Hollywood movie mogul Arnon Milchen renew his US visa. Over the years, Milchen allegedly showered Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, with cigars and champagne. 

An hour after the news broadcasts all ended, Israel’s flagship investigative news magazine Uvda broadcast a slickly edited, hour-long interview its anchor, Ilana Dayan, conducted over several weeks with Alsheich.

To be clear, Dayan’s interview wasn’t a complete love-fest. She asked Alsheich several biting questions. But overall, Dayan did everything she could to present Alsheich as a hero, a self-made man and all all-around awesome guy.

Dayan devoted a long portion of her interview to Alsheich’s tragic loss of his beloved mother when he was 14. Barely holding back his tears, Alsheich told Dayan that he decided not to let his loss hold him back, and then humbly bragged that he basically raised himself after she passed away.

Dayan spent another long sequence of her interview with Alsheich discussing his role as a Shin Bet interrogator in the tragic Nachshon Wachsman affair.

In 1994, Hamas terrorists kidnapped IDF Cpl. Nachshon Wachsman, a paratrooper hitching a ride on the side of the highway in central Israel.

At the time, Alsheich was a Shin Bet investigator. It turns out that he was the officer who interrogated the Wachsman’s kidnappers’ accomplices. Through them, the Shin Bet located the house near Ramallah where Wachsman was being held, and learned the conditions of his confinement.

Then-prime minister and defense minister Yitzhak Rabin and then-IDF chief of General Staff Ehud Barak ordered the IDF’s elite reconnaissance unit Sayeret Matkal to storm the house and rescue Wachsman. The rescue attempt failed, Wachsman was murdered and one of his rescuers, Capt. Nir Poraz, was killed in the raid. The Wachsman episode was a national tragedy that traumatized the entire country.

By placing Alsheich at the center of the drama, and superimposing video images of Rabin on her conversation with Alsheich, Dayan presented Alsheich as the unsung hero of the national tragedy. In so doing, she effectively rendered him untouchable.

Once she built Alsheich up as a hero, she shifted her attention to the Netanyahu probes. And when Alsheich began to speak, you understood why he needed the buildup.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Alsheich sounded like a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist when he started talking about his probes of the prime minister.

Alsheich presented Dayan with four separate criminal conspiracies, all of which he either directly or indirectly claimed are Netanyahu’s handiwork. It is important to note that each of the conspiracies he alleged involve crimes far graver than accepting too many cigars from an old friend. And none of them is currently being investigated.

The first conspiracy theory he presented as fact was his claim that Netanyahu arranged for private detectives to gather dirt on the police officers investigating him.

Alsheich said that “very powerful forces” hired private detectives who “were wandering around the investigators” and “sniffing about.” 
He then said that Dayan was “correct” when she asked if the targeted officers were involved in the Netanyahu probe.


The second conspiracy Alsheich attested to surrounds a female police officer referred to as “Z.” In 2011, Z. filed a sexual harassment complaint against Police Ch.-Sup. Roni Reitman, commander of Lahav 433. Z. alleged that Reitman sexually harassed her on three occasions. There were witnesses to two of the alleged incidents. The police’s internal affairs unit administered lie detector tests for Z. and Reitman. She passed hers. He failed his. The investigators recommended indicting Reitman.

After sitting on the file for four years, in 2015 then-attorney-general Yehuda Weinstein closed the case, citing the long period that had passed since the alleged harassment took place.

Alsheich responded to Weinstein’s decision by immediately instating Reitman as the commander of Lahav 433. At the urging of her commander, in 2016 Z. petitioned the High Court of Justice and asked the justices to order Alsheich to fire Reitman. Last year, the court ruled in Z.’s favor and gave Alsheich 60 days to fire Reitman.

Alsheich responded to Z’s petition to the court by referring to her as a “criminal.” He opened a disciplinary tribunal against Z. and her commander, claiming they spent too much time together.

Reitman’s lawyers alleged Netanyahu put Z. up to submitting the petition in a plot to force Reitman off his case. Alsheich has repeatedly expressed his agreement with Reitman’s allegation.

In his interview with Dayan, Alsheich said, “I want Reitman’s claims to be investigated.”

Attorney Chai Bar-El who represents Z. responded cynically to Alsheich’s and Reitman’s conspiracy claim in an interview last month with Mida online magazine.

“It’s good that Alsheich’s conspiracy didn’t start in 2011, and that he isn’t claiming that Z. was sent ‘to seduce’ Reitman so that [Netanyahu] would have a card in his future investigations,” Bar-El said.

The third Netanyahu conspiracy Alsheich alleged in his interview with Dayan is that Netanyahu is spreading false rumors about tensions in Alsheich’s relationship with Mandelblit in order to intimidate police investigators.

A few weeks ago, Reshet news on Channel 13 reported that Mandelblit told his associates that if Netanyahu is tried and found innocent, his acquittal will destroy the legal system. When Dayan asked Alsheich about the report, Alsheich insisted it was false and introduced his third conspiracy.

“Maybe someone wanted the investigators to think that this is what Mandelblit said,” he said.

Dayan responded with amazement, “Did Netanyahu engineer this also?”

Alsheich answered coyly, “Did I say Netanyahu?”

Alsheich’s final conspiracy is his allegation that Netanyahu effectively offered him a bribe when he appointed him police commissioner.

Alsheich was serving as deputy director of the Shin Bet when Netanyahu appointed him police chief in 2015. Alsheich had made no secret of his desire to be promoted to Shin Bet director. Alsheich told Dayan that Netanyahu told him upon his appointment that he would appoint him Shin Bet director if he is still prime minister when Alsheich finishes his tour of duty at the police.

In response to Alsheich’s interview, Netanyahu reinstated his frequent demand that Alsheich’s allegations be investigated. Netanyahu noted that with investigators convinced that he is the functional equivalent of a mafia boss, there is no way he can expect to receive fair treatment.

And again, every one of Alsheich’s alleged conspiracies is on its face an exponentially more serious offense than accepting a bunch of cigars and champagne from an old buddy.

Dayan asked Alsheich why he isn’t investigating his own allegations. Alsheich answered dismissively that an investigation “doesn’t serve the current interests of our central probe.”

Alsheich made the even more bizarre claim that the conspiracies are nothing to worry about, because simply by exposing them to the public, he put a stop to them.

This assertion is particularly distressing because it exposes the police chief’s profound ignorance of the basic precepts of law enforcement.

If Alsheich were able to stop a gang of bank robbers from committing further bank heists by going public with their operation, would that mean that he should let them off the hook for their previous robberies?

THE POLICE INVESTIGATIONS of Netanyahu bear an extraordinary resemblance to the US special counsel’s probe of allegations that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential elections. But there is one major difference. In Israel there is no equivalent to congressional oversight of the executive branch.

Last weekend, the US experienced a public and constitutional earthquake with the publication of the so-called Nunes memo. The memo summarizes the findings of the House Select Committee on Intelligence’s probe of senior FBI and Justice Department officials’ apparent abuse of their power in pursuit of a surveillance warrant against a campaign adviser to then candidate Donald Trump.

It showed that those top officials hid from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges the fact that the basis for their surveillance request was a dossier prepared by the private investigations firm Fusion GPS that was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

The Nunes memo is an earthquake because it showed that the top echelons of the American law enforcement community committed a grave breach of trust and undermined basic democratic norms. The information that has come to light during the course of the congressional probes makes clear these top officials were motivated to act as they did by their partisan convictions and deep-seated animus toward Trump and his supporters.

FROM AN Israeli perspective, the most extraordinary aspect of the Intelligence Committee probe and the parallel probes being conducted by other House and Senate committees is that they are taking place at all.

The US Constitution provides for freedom of the press, understanding the key role a free press is capable of playing in a democracy. But the constitution empowers Congress with oversight powers over the executive branch.

In Israel the Knesset holds no such power. Likud lawmakers have no oversight power. They cannot force Alsheich to explain the basis for his claims that Netanyahu put Z. up to petitioning the High Court. They cannot make him support his claim that Netanyahu hired private detectives to spy on his investigators. They cannot investigate the hemorrhage of leaks from police investigators that deny Netanyahu the basic rights of criminal suspects and the presumption of innocence.

They cannot subpoena police communications to discover the motive for Lahav 433’s decision to investigate Netanyahu and not investigate other politicians against whom far weightier allegations have been leveled.

Wednesday night was an eye opener for many Israelis who saw for the first time Alsheich’s conspiratorial obsession with Netanyahu.

But in the absence of a major overhaul of the legal system in a manner that provides the Knesset with the tools to oversee the executive branch and the judiciary, nothing will be done to remedy the situation, and the future of Israel’s democratic system will continue to rely on the goodwill of our unelected, unaccountable attorney-general.
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We Need To Start Transitioning To Paper
Ballots To Combat Russian Hacking 
by Matt Vespa  
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Opinion in Brief

Burt Prelutsky: “Each time I see footage of the Democrats at Trump’s State of the Union speech I’m reminded of those sneering football players who spent the season getting more attention for what they were doing on the sidelines than what they were doing on the field. The 242 Democrats (49 senators, 193 House members) who sat on their hands even when Trump pledged to support family leave, something not even liar-nObama called for, may have thought they were expressing their disapproval of the man, but I suspect that a great many Americans saw it for what it was; they were showing their contempt for those of us who had elected the man at the podium. They were taking a knee and giving the rest of us the finger. Perhaps the most telling moment came when Nancy Pulosi turned to glare over her right shoulder and appeared to be making sure that none of her stooges were caught applauding for veterans, an end to chain migration or the Pledge of Allegiance.”   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54071-monday-opinion 

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Bongino – Nunes Investigating Brennan 
For Perjury, scum-Adam Schiff Is A Snake 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Democrat politicians are predictable in their use of their anti-American play book and their incessant assaults on our country... Dan Bongino made that point in a Monday interview on Fox and Friends, as well as pointing out that John Brennan and James Clapper are in a lot of trouble. While noting that they are “downright evil” he acknowledges that they are tactically brilliant, citing the inclusion of classified information in their memo, which would make it impossible to release for national security reasons and then claim censorship and partisanship on the part of the White House. Steve Doocy raises the reports that Devin Nunes’ House Intelligence Committee is looking at former CIA Director John Brennan, with the issue being potential perjury by Brennan in public hearings. Brennan denied knowing of or using the Fusion GPS dossier, or of even knowing who commissioned it, all of which, evidence is now showing, was false...  https://rickwells.us/bongino-nunes-brennan-schiff/.
Donald Trump Jr.'s wife hospitalized after
opening envelope with white powder 
by Katherine Lam 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Donald Trump Jr.’s wife, Vanessa Trump, was hospitalized Monday after receiving a letter containing white powder... New York City police told Fox News. President Trump‘s daughter-in-law opened the letter addressed to Donald Trump Jr. about 10 a.m. at the couple's Manhattan apartment. It's unclear what the "white powder" was. Vanessa Trump was taken to the hospital as a precaution, police said. Two other people were reportedly also taken to the hospital, according to ABC7NY. The couple has five children, though it was not clear if any were home at the time of the incident. Police and Secret Service are investigating the incident...   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/12/donald-trump-jr-s-wife-hospitalized-after-opening-envelope-with-white-powder.html
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DHS: 'NBC News Continues to Falsely Report'
on Russian Hacking, 'Misrepresented 
Facts,' 'Confused Public' 
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by Craig Bannister  
“NBC News continues to falsely report my recent comments” about Russian hacking and the 2016 elections... DHS’s Jeanette Manfra said Monday, warning the network’s ‘irresponsible reporting” is undermining DHS’s efforts to do its job. In a statement regarding the recent NBC news coverage on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) efforts to combat election hacking, Jeanette Manfra, National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, accuses NBC of misleading and confusing the public by misrepresenting her remarks: “Recent NBC reporting has misrepresented facts and confused the public with regard to Department of Homeland Security and state and local government efforts to combat election hacking.”...  https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/dhs-nbc-news-continues-falsely-report-russian-hacking-misrepresented-facts?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRVMk1tVTROekZtWXpKaSIsInQiOiJqZUk5Z0txVVFRTmtIUUJsRGpiVkNsMlA0WnhXelZkNjFreG9lNkZPbXJMeCtpZ1MrOHQ3dXprelNcL1wvNFwvQ1wvbGVSVEpZT1wvcndGN0ZjRFBLOW1VdnhkVWFxVFBsSmVjMWVkNDRZd21NNTE4TzlCYzVQTlFQMllRTUxQZnpcL1Q0OCJ9 
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Remington Gets Ready to File for Bankruptcy 
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{ bearingarms.com } ~ There’s been much debate surrounding the so-called “Trump Slump” in the gun industry. How bad is it? How long will it last?... Will it change the face of the industry? Is it even real? While we still don’t have any concrete answers to these questions, there is one thing we know for certain: Remington Arms is struggling. Last month, the firearms manufacturer – one of the oldest and largest in the country – began exploring options to restructure its $950 million debt. The company not only saw a significant drop in sales in 2017 but lost a number of its investors. The gun manufacturer has also been caught up in a handful of legal proceedings, including another  lawsuit related to the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. On Monday, the company officially announced that it had reached a restructuring support agreement with creditors to reduce its debt and allow it to continue normal operations as it enters bankruptcy proceedings...  https://bearingarms.com/erika-h/2018/02/12/remington-announces-restructuring-support-agreement-fund-bankruptcy-proceedings/?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad
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Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo 2/11/18
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We Need To Start Transitioning To Paper
Ballots To Combat Russian Hacking 
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by Matt Vespa 
{ townhall.com } ~ No, we don’t need to go to paper ballots because we didn’t get hacked. The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan suggested on NBC’s Meet The Press over the weekend that we should start transitioning to paper ballots to avoid a possible partisan crackup in America if an election is contested based on such an event (via RCP): 

PEGGY NOONAN: I would say, here's my big concern. We are, as we all know, a deeply divided country. We have these partisan fights, they're very rough and tough, this side watches this, the other side watches this, we're not in the same information flow. One thing that could damage this nation terribly is having a national election where the outcome is unclear because we got hacked.

The states is a national election. By the year 2020, right away we should start saying, "You've got to go paper ballots." We'll figure out all this Internet magic, technological stuff, but for now, paper ballots in America so Ohio knows how it voted.

Yet, vote tallies weren’t hacked; the Department of Homeland Security said so last year. Even the liar-nObama administration said that the “will of the American people” was reflected in the 2016 election, with the DHS noting they did not detect “any increased level of malicious cyber activity aimed at disrupting our electoral process on Election Day.”

The Washington Post also reported after the 2016 election that it’s virtually impossible to hack an American election:

That's the question at its root: Could hackers change the numbers to change our elections? The Fix spoke by phone and email with Merle King, executive director of the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University to get an answer. In summary: It would be harder than we think — in part because we tend to conflate a number of very different election systems.

"One of the challenges the public has in sorting through the various threads of the current election cycle's stories is understanding the differences between a campaign system, an election system and a voting system," King told us.

The campaign system is the tool set used by candidates or parties to get people elected. The election system covers voter registration systems and other data centralization and is specific to jurisdictions. The voting system is the actual process of voting: the machines, the ballots and the designations of who votes where and on what. Information flows between these systems, but not always in two directions: Campaigns, for example, use voter registration data from the elections system but don't send information back to it. So if a campaign is hacked or if the Democratic National Committee is, there's no risk to the voter registration database.

Confusing these systems can mean misunderstanding the threat — and the intent of the hackers. Take what happened in Arizona or Illinois, where voter files were lifted from the election system.

"When I hear about a hack, and it's attributed to a Russian IP address, my first reaction is it's identity theft," King said. "They're looking for large lists of critical information that can be used to create identities for credit card theft, etc. I don't instinctively think it's an attack on our election system."

The important point King makes is that hacking the elections system and the voting system are very different in nature and effect. "If the election systems were hacked, there are paper backups of the electors list — every precinct has to maintain a paper copy of the voter list — so you could disrupt an election by attacking those election systems," he said. "But most importantly, you could not alter the outcome of the election by hacking those systems. That would have to occur in the voting system" — the actual process of casting ballots. And that's harder than it seems.

The publication then listed how Florida verifies its results. The 49 other states have a similar process. It’s not as easy as the media and Democrats are making it out to be on television.  

In Pennsylvania, which was a target of Green Party candidate’s Jill Stein’s failed recount effort, no evidence of tampering were found, backing up DHS claims. Also, to actually tamper with an election result in the Keystone State, you’d have to mess with the 4,500 voting machines, which experts say would take four months to do it successfully. That’s only after you’ve been able to break into the secure facility where all the voting machines are stored, which is under 24-hour surveillance (via CBS Pittsburgh):

“We have not seen any evidence that anything has been compromised since we had the machines,” Allegheny County Director of Elections Mark Wolosik said.

There are a lot of reasons for that. Let’s say you could break into the machines and reprogram them to favor a candidate.

The first issue,” Wolosik says is, “They are an island unto themselves. They are not connected to any other machine.”

So any manipulations would have to be one machine at a time, which Dr. Shamos estimates would take 15 minutes per machine, with 4,500 machines.

“To do it for all the machines in the county would take four months,” said Dr. Shamos.

It would also have to be done undetected in a warehouse that is under surveillance 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Over the past week, the election machines have moved from the warehouse to the polling places.

“Prior to leaving our warehouse, they are sealed with an individually numbered seal that is recorded,” Wolosik said.

Then, on the morning of the election, the poll workers compare the number to the seal.

“If there are any discrepancies, they are not to use that machine and to call our office immediately,” said Wolosik

[…]

One other safeguard – while voting is going on, an independent accounting agency randomly selects a voting machine somewhere in the county and tests it to see if there’s any Trojan horse software running on it.

So, can we bring down the paper ballot-Russia hacking hysteria down a few notches? 

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Israel has taken its biggest step into 
the Syrian war yet. What does that mean?
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Tuesday Top Headlines 
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by Political Editors:  Senate starts another round of debate on immigration (NBC News)
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Lead Senate immigration hawks introduce Trump immigration plan as bill (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Trump budget proposal projects deficit spending for the next decade (The Daily Signal)
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Administration proposes cutting all federal funds for NPR, PBS (Fox News)
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On her last day in office, liar-nObama National Security Advisor Rice sent suspicious letter about liar-nObama, Comey, Trump-Russia collusion meeting (The Daily Wire)
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Dossier’s 10 core collusion accusations remain unverified (The Washington Times)
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Good news for Republicans: Stealth liar-Hillary planning to campaign invisibly in 2018 (National Review)
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AG Jeff Sessions used the phrase “Anglo-American” and the Left is melting down (Hot Air)
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liar-nObama’s portrait artist has also painted black people beheading white people (The Daily Wire)
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The Education Department says it won’t act on transgender student bathroom access (NPR)
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Humor: Bigoted Olympics separates events into men’s, women’s (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Our national debt and government spending are a moral abomination (The Federalist)
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Policy: Trump infrastructure plan: privatization, deregulation, and spending (Reason  
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Bobble-Head scum-Schiff BUSTED LYING On Nat’l TV To Cover Dem Political Stunts 
{ rickwells.us } ~ It’s time to for CBS to prepare fumigate the studio, scum-Adam Schiff is joining Major Garrett as a guest on Face the Nation... Garrett introduces scum-Schiff as “the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee,” which is not unlike recognizing the largest tick on an ailing hound.  Garrett reads a tweet sent by President Trump in response to the bad-faith effort on behalf of scum-Schiff and his sleazy Democrat accomplices to release a rebuttal to the Republican memo, a document that could not be made public due to the Democrats having deliberately packed it full of classified information.  President Trump tweeted, “The Democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods and more, would have to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would blame the White House for lack of transparency. Told them to re-do and send back in proper form!... https://rickwells.us/schiff-busted-lying-stunts/.
Rep. Says Somebody’s Got to go
to Jail Over FISA or “Our System Is Over”
by S.Noble
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ The FBI and DoJ are accused of spying on the Trump campaign... The warrant they ostensibly used was based on a dossier with information provided by the liar-Hillary campaign and the DNC. There is evidence of a widespread cover-up and a possible coup attempt by liar-Hillary supporters in the agencies. The FBI appears to have lied to the FISA secret court, using the fake dossier, to get a warrant on a peripherally-involved Trump campaign aide, Carter Page. They labeled him a spy which would allow them to spy on the entire Trump campaign. The shocking thing is no one has gone to jail. In fact, no one has even lost their job. They get to resign on fat pensions or they get a different job, sometimes a lesser job without a cut in pay...  http://www.independentsentinel.com/rep-says-somebodys-got-go-jail-fisa-system/
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Why FBI Supervisor David Laufman’s Resignation Is a Big Deal
by S.Noble
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Hugh Hewitt posted several tweets yesterday that might explain why the “David Laufman resignation is a big deal.”... Laufman was the Primary Supervisor of Counter-Intelligence in National Security. In his position, he had to be involved in the FISA application on Carter Page. His section was responsible for much of the potential corruption. Hewitt writes: He would have been involved in the liar-Clinton email investigation. His section handled cases involving leaks of classified information. The decisions concerning granting immunity, and allowing conditions to be attached to the examination of computers would have come from his office. If you remember, the FBI did not examine the “hacked” DNC computers. It was turned over to a private firm called CrowdStrike which is tied to Fusion GPS...  http://www.independentsentinel.com/fbi-supervisor-david-laufmans-resignation-big-deal/ 
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Gohmert – Corrupt, Lying DOJ-FBI 
Officials Should Already Be In Prison 
{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Louie Gohmert addresses the problem at the White House with the vetting of John Kelly aide Rob Porter... noting that the only thing that General Kelly did wrong in the process was that he trusted the FBI, something that he now knows can’t be done. He points out that once Kelly knew that the reports of spousal abuse by Porter were correct he was immediately out the door. Gohmert and Judge Jeanine both support President Trump in his fair approach to scandals and rumors, referencing his tweet on the topic. President Trump stated, “People’s lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused – life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?”... https://rickwells.us/gohmert-corrupt-doj-fbi-prison/.
Holder for president? Not a chance 
by Chad Groening 
A California-based conservative black activist says former Attorney General scum-Eric Holder should be in jail... not considering a run for president. During a recent breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, scum-Holder said he would make his decision by the end of the year. He joins New Jersey Senator scum-Cory Booker and California Senator Kamala Harris as high-profile blacks who could be challenging for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. But Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), says scum-Holder "has no chance."...  https://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2018/02/12/holder-for-president-not-a-chance?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16789490&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=32828 
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Israel has taken its biggest step into 
the Syrian war yet. What does that mean?

by Adam Taylor 
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ The Syrian war has seen no shortage of twists already this year, but this weekend, it saw one of its most consequential. On Saturday, Israel's military announced that it had carried out a "large-scale" aerial attack inside Syria, after back-and-forth clashes overnight in which an Iranian drone was shot down in Syrian territory and an Israeli F-16 was downed by Syrian antiaircraft fire.

Despite its proximity, Israel has largely stood on the sidelines of the Syrian conflict over the past seven years. Saturday's airstrikes, however, suggest that it may soon end up sucked into a conflict that is looking increasingly chaotic after the military defeat of the Islamic State. If Israel does become more engaged in the fighting next door, it could have serious consequences for the war in Syria war - and for the region as a whole.

What has Israel's involvement in the Syrian war been so far?

Israel shares a contentious border with Syria - the Golan Heights - and it has long had openly adversarial relations with not only Bashar al-Assad's government but with Syria's allies Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia. However, Israel also had little reason to support the Islamic State or al-Qaeda-aligned Islamist groups that became the Syrian government's primary rivals.

Still, Israel has conducted dozens of covert airstrikes against Hezbollah weapons convoys in Syria. These interventions generally were not announced publicly and were small in scale. Syrian government forces and their allies have generally refrained from responding, wary of opening up yet another front in an already chaotic conflict.

Things began to change over the past year, however, as the Islamic State lost territory and Assad's forces and their allies regained control of the conflict.

Last year, Israel pushed back against a partial cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia, arguing that it allowed Iranian expansion near Israel's borders. Many in Israel feared not only that Iran and its allies would entrench themselves near the Israeli border but that Hezbollah had been using the Syrian fighting as a training and that Iran might help the militia upgrade to the use of precision-guided missiles.

"We will not allow that regime to entrench itself militarily in Syria, as it seeks to do, for the express purpose of eradicating our state," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Washington in December.

Why is what happened Saturday different from previous Israeli strikes?

Israel has carried out a number of significant attacks in Syria in recent months, but Saturday's incident is different. Israel says the episode began with an Iranian drone crossing into its territory from Syria in the early hours of Saturday. The Israeli military later released footage that it said showed the drone being brought down by an attack helicopter.

Iran has denied this, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahran Qasemi calling the claim "ridiculous." If it is true, however, it would appear to mark a significant provocation from Tehran and perhaps even an attempt to bait Israel into a reaction.

Israel soon sent fighter jets into Syria to attack the T4 military base near the Syrian city of Palmyra, from which the drone supposedly was launched. Syrian forces in turn responded with what the Israeli military called "substantial Syrian antiaircraft fire," which appears to have caused the crash of an Israeli fighter jet after its two-member crew ejected.

The crew members were taken to hospital; one is reported to be in a serious condition. "This is the first such incident in the last 30 years," Israeli military journalist Amos Harel wrote Saturday, adding that Syria's willingness to retaliate to Israeli airstrikes showed "the regime's newfound sense of power."

In a statement, Hezbollah said that the downing of the Israeli F-16 marked a "new strategic phase" in the conflict. "Today's developments mean the old equations have categorically ended," the group said in a statement.

After the downing of the fighter jet, the Israeli military struck again, targeting 12 military sites in Syria - eight Syrian and four that it says were Iranian - marking Israel's most significant strikes in Syria in decades. Brig. Gen. Tomer Bar, second-in-command of Israel's air force, told Haaretz newspaper that these strikes were "the biggest and most significant attack the air force has conducted against Syrian air defenses" since the 1982 Lebanon War.

If Israel became more militarily involved in the conflict, what would it mean for the Syrian war - and the wider region?

Open conflict across the Syrian border is unlikely to be in the interest of either Israel or Iran-aligned forces at the moment. But the tit-for-tat fighting shows that neither side is willing to back down. If the conflict escalates, it could end up adding a dangerous angle to the ongoing Syrian conflict - and one that could wind up involving other powers in the region and beyond.

The T4 military base struck by Israel on Saturday houses not only Syrian soldiers but Russian military officers, too. Some Israeli observers have said it is hard to imagine that the Russians there would not have known about the Iranian drone or the subsequent antiaircraft fire. Awkwardly, late last month, Netanyahu visited Moscow to push Russia to rein in its Iranian allies in Syria.

The United States, a key Israeli ally, is already involved in the Syrian conflict, backing Syrian rebels, and at times has found itself at odds with Russia. This past week, U.S. warplanes bombed pro-government forces after they allegedly advanced on U.S.-backed forces in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said it is unclear whether Russian contractors were among those involved in that advance.

The U.S.- and Russian-backed forces had a common enemy in the Islamic State, but as the fight against ISIS forces is winding down, new conflicts seem to be rising in Syria. Turkey, for example, recently launched its own offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria's north, placing it in de facto opposition to the United States, which had allied itself with some Kurdish forces to defeat Islamic State forces.

An open conflict between Israel and Iranian-backed forces would add to the entanglements and chaos in Syria. It would also risk pulling neighboring Lebanon or other Arab states into a new war, too.

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Israel has taken its biggest step into 
the Syrian war yet. What does that mean?
by Adam Taylor  
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Tuesday Top Headlines 
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Lead Senate immigration hawks introduce Trump immigration plan as bill (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Trump budget proposal projects deficit spending for the next decade (The Daily Signal)
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Administration proposes cutting all federal funds for NPR, PBS (Fox News)
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On her last day in office, liar-nObama National Security Advisor Rice sent suspicious letter about liar-nObama, Comey, Trump-Russia collusion meeting (The Daily Wire)
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Dossier’s 10 core collusion accusations remain unverified (The Washington Times)
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Good news for Republicans: Stealth liar-Hillary planning to campaign invisibly in 2018 (National Review)
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AG Jeff Sessions used the phrase “Anglo-American” and the Left is melting down (Hot Air)
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liar-nObama’s portrait artist has also painted black people beheading white people (The Daily Wire)
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The Education Department says it won’t act on transgender student bathroom access (NPR)
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Humor: Bigoted Olympics separates events into men’s, women’s (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Our national debt and government spending are a moral abomination (The Federalist)
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Policy: Trump infrastructure plan: privatization, deregulation, and spending (Reason  
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Bobble-Head scum-Schiff BUSTED LYING
On Nat’l TV To Cover Dem Political Stunts 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ It’s time to for CBS to prepare fumigate the studio, scum-Adam Schiff is joining Major Garrett as a guest on Face the Nation... Garrett introduces scum-Schiff as “the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee,” which is not unlike recognizing the largest tick on an ailing hound.  Garrett reads a tweet sent by President Trump in response to the bad-faith effort on behalf of scum-Schiff and his sleazy Democrat accomplices to release a rebuttal to the Republican memo, a document that could not be made public due to the Democrats having deliberately packed it full of classified information.  President Trump tweeted, “The Democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods and more, would have to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would blame the White House for lack of transparency. Told them to re-do and send back in proper form!... https://rickwells.us/schiff-busted-lying-stunts/.
Rep. Says Somebody’s Got to go
to Jail Over FISA or “Our System Is Over”
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by S.Noble
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ The FBI and DoJ are accused of spying on the Trump campaign... The warrant they ostensibly used was based on a dossier with information provided by the liar-Hillary campaign and the DNC. There is evidence of a widespread cover-up and a possible coup attempt by liar-Hillary supporters in the agencies. The FBI appears to have lied to the FISA secret court, using the fake dossier, to get a warrant on a peripherally-involved Trump campaign aide, Carter Page. They labeled him a spy which would allow them to spy on the entire Trump campaign. The shocking thing is no one has gone to jail. In fact, no one has even lost their job. They get to resign on fat pensions or they get a different job, sometimes a lesser job without a cut in pay...   http://www.independentsentinel.com/rep-says-somebodys-got-go-jail-fisa-system/
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Why FBI Supervisor David Laufman’s
Resignation Is a Big Deal
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by S.Noble
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Hugh Hewitt posted several tweets yesterday that might explain why the “David Laufman resignation is a big deal.”... Laufman was the Primary Supervisor of Counter-Intelligence in National Security. In his position, he had to be involved in the FISA application on Carter Page. His section was responsible for much of the potential corruption. Hewitt writes: He would have been involved in the liar-Clinton email investigation. His section handled cases involving leaks of classified information. The decisions concerning granting immunity, and allowing conditions to be attached to the examination of computers would have come from his office. If you remember, the FBI did not examine the “hacked” DNC computers. It was turned over to a private firm called CrowdStrike which is tied to Fusion GPS...  http://www.independentsentinel.com/fbi-supervisor-david-laufmans-resignation-big-deal/ 
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Gohmert – Corrupt, Lying DOJ-FBI 
Officials Should Already Be In Prison 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Louie Gohmert addresses the problem at the White House with the vetting of John Kelly aide Rob Porter... noting that the only thing that General Kelly did wrong in the process was that he trusted the FBI, something that he now knows can’t be done. He points out that once Kelly knew that the reports of spousal abuse by Porter were correct he was immediately out the door. Gohmert and Judge Jeanine both support President Trump in his fair approach to scandals and rumors, referencing his tweet on the topic. President Trump stated, “People’s lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused – life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?”... https://rickwells.us/gohmert-corrupt-doj-fbi-prison/.
scum-Holder for president? Not a chance 
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by Chad Groening 
A California-based conservative black activist says former Attorney General scum-Eric Holder should be in jail... not considering a run for president. During a recent breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, scum-Holder said he would make his decision by the end of the year. He joins New Jersey Senator scum-Cory Booker and California Senator Kamala Harris as high-profile blacks who could be challenging for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. But Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), says scum-Holder "has no chance."...  https://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2018/02/12/holder-for-president-not-a-chance?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16789490&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=32828 
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Israel has taken its biggest step into 
the Syrian war yet. What does that mean?
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by Adam Taylor 
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ The Syrian war has seen no shortage of twists already this year, but this weekend, it saw one of its most consequential. On Saturday, Israel's military announced that it had carried out a "large-scale" aerial attack inside Syria, after back-and-forth clashes overnight in which an Iranian drone was shot down in Syrian territory and an Israeli F-16 was downed by Syrian antiaircraft fire.

Despite its proximity, Israel has largely stood on the sidelines of the Syrian conflict over the past seven years. Saturday's airstrikes, however, suggest that it may soon end up sucked into a conflict that is looking increasingly chaotic after the military defeat of the Islamic State. If Israel does become more engaged in the fighting next door, it could have serious consequences for the war in Syria war - and for the region as a whole.

What has Israel's involvement in the Syrian war been so far?

Israel shares a contentious border with Syria - the Golan Heights - and it has long had openly adversarial relations with not only Bashar al-Assad's government but with Syria's allies Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia. However, Israel also had little reason to support the Islamic State or al-Qaeda-aligned Islamist groups that became the Syrian government's primary rivals.

Still, Israel has conducted dozens of covert airstrikes against Hezbollah weapons convoys in Syria. These interventions generally were not announced publicly and were small in scale. Syrian government forces and their allies have generally refrained from responding, wary of opening up yet another front in an already chaotic conflict.

Things began to change over the past year, however, as the Islamic State lost territory and Assad's forces and their allies regained control of the conflict.

Last year, Israel pushed back against a partial cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia, arguing that it allowed Iranian expansion near Israel's borders. Many in Israel feared not only that Iran and its allies would entrench themselves near the Israeli border but that Hezbollah had been using the Syrian fighting as a training and that Iran might help the militia upgrade to the use of precision-guided missiles.

"We will not allow that regime to entrench itself militarily in Syria, as it seeks to do, for the express purpose of eradicating our state," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Washington in December.

Why is what happened Saturday different from previous Israeli strikes?

Israel has carried out a number of significant attacks in Syria in recent months, but Saturday's incident is different. Israel says the episode began with an Iranian drone crossing into its territory from Syria in the early hours of Saturday. The Israeli military later released footage that it said showed the drone being brought down by an attack helicopter.

Iran has denied this, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahran Qasemi calling the claim "ridiculous." If it is true, however, it would appear to mark a significant provocation from Tehran and perhaps even an attempt to bait Israel into a reaction.

Israel soon sent fighter jets into Syria to attack the T4 military base near the Syrian city of Palmyra, from which the drone supposedly was launched. Syrian forces in turn responded with what the Israeli military called "substantial Syrian antiaircraft fire," which appears to have caused the crash of an Israeli fighter jet after its two-member crew ejected.

The crew members were taken to hospital; one is reported to be in a serious condition. "This is the first such incident in the last 30 years," Israeli military journalist Amos Harel wrote Saturday, adding that Syria's willingness to retaliate to Israeli airstrikes showed "the regime's newfound sense of power."

In a statement, Hezbollah said that the downing of the Israeli F-16 marked a "new strategic phase" in the conflict. "Today's developments mean the old equations have categorically ended," the group said in a statement.

After the downing of the fighter jet, the Israeli military struck again, targeting 12 military sites in Syria - eight Syrian and four that it says were Iranian - marking Israel's most significant strikes in Syria in decades. Brig. Gen. Tomer Bar, second-in-command of Israel's air force, told Haaretz newspaper that these strikes were "the biggest and most significant attack the air force has conducted against Syrian air defenses" since the 1982 Lebanon War.

If Israel became more militarily involved in the conflict, what would it mean for the Syrian war - and the wider region?

Open conflict across the Syrian border is unlikely to be in the interest of either Israel or Iran-aligned forces at the moment. But the tit-for-tat fighting shows that neither side is willing to back down. If the conflict escalates, it could end up adding a dangerous angle to the ongoing Syrian conflict - and one that could wind up involving other powers in the region and beyond.

The T4 military base struck by Israel on Saturday houses not only Syrian soldiers but Russian military officers, too. Some Israeli observers have said it is hard to imagine that the Russians there would not have known about the Iranian drone or the subsequent antiaircraft fire. Awkwardly, late last month, Netanyahu visited Moscow to push Russia to rein in its Iranian allies in Syria.

The United States, a key Israeli ally, is already involved in the Syrian conflict, backing Syrian rebels, and at times has found itself at odds with Russia. This past week, U.S. warplanes bombed pro-government forces after they allegedly advanced on U.S.-backed forces in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said it is unclear whether Russian contractors were among those involved in that advance.

The U.S.- and Russian-backed forces had a common enemy in the Islamic State, but as the fight against ISIS forces is winding down, new conflicts seem to be rising in Syria. Turkey, for example, recently launched its own offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria's north, placing it in de facto opposition to the United States, which had allied itself with some Kurdish forces to defeat Islamic State forces.

An open conflict between Israel and Iranian-backed forces would add to the entanglements and chaos in Syria. It would also risk pulling neighboring Lebanon or other Arab states into a new war, too.

Read more…

The Law of the Land in La La Land

By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

cali-1.jpg?width=165This is the time of the year when states…all of them…introduce new legislative proposals, hoping, often times beyond hope, that such proposals will, indeed, become the laws of their respective states.

Some of the new proposals make sense, but, a vast majority are just plain stupid.

When it comes to stupid…

You can’t fix it, but you can sure find it in California.

Yes…that bastion of left coast liberalism, California, is perhaps the nation’s leader in butt-stupid laws every year, and this year is certainly no exception. Before we get into what may well be this year’s bone-crushingly stupid law proposals from the land of fruits, nuts and flakes…perhaps we should first have a look at what they’re trying to top.

Back in 2017…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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Deneen reports on the media glorifying North Korea minister of propaganda

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The Leftist Media Deserves a Gold Medal for Propaganda

William Finley

Dr. Gary Katz 1st
Liaison Officer at USMC and IDF
Mr. Finley has successfully surpassed [by a very wide margin] the now decaying and irrelevant trash NYT. Congratulations, Bill! By the way, I frequently pass along some of Mr. Finley's posts and many of his accurate and pithy introductions and analytical commentary to a group of Prime Ministers, military officials, and people of integrity...from all walks of life. With respect & Appreciation, Dr. Gary Katz

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The Law of the Land in La La Land

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The Law of the Land in La La Land


By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

This is the time of the year when states…all of them…introduce new legislative proposals, hoping, often times beyond hope, that such proposals will, indeed, become the laws of their respective states.

Some of the new proposals make sense, but, a vast majority are just plain stupid.

When it comes to stupid…

You can’t fix it, but you can sure find it in California.

Yes…that bastion of left coast liberalism, California, is perhaps the nation’s leader in butt-stupid laws every year, and this year is certainly no exception. Before we get into what may well be this year’s bone-crushingly stupid law proposals from the land of fruits, nuts and flakes…perhaps we should first have a look at what they’re trying to top.

Back in 2017…

Liberals in California took on one of the most flagrant abuses of…something…known to man, and a situation that absolutely screamed out for government intervention.

Bovine flatulence.

It seems that dairy farmers in California were letting their happy cows get away with…farting…and it had to stop.

Lacking the incentive, dairy farmers did nothing on their own to plug the problem…so…the government stepped in and laid down the law.

Never mind that 53 California dairy farmers went hooves up, going bankrupt, shutting down or MOOving to more fart-friendly states…California’s anti-fart laws are still on the books.

California’s socialist elite collective made it law that, should you be a dairy farmer, henceforth you must either…CAPTURE YOUR COW’S FARTS…or pay a hefty fine. CARB (CA Air Resources Board) even offered this fine solution for compliance with the law…

Just stick a tube up the butts of your cows, and into their digestive systems, with which the malodorous emanations would be diverted from the air…and into a backpack.

Naturally, the solution fails to make clear whether it is the cow in question, or the dairy farmer in question that is supposed to be wearing the fart collection backpack, but one assumes it is the cow, and for that matter, the solution also fails to make clear exactly what is to be done with a backpack full of farts once said backpack as reached full capacity…that, one supposes, was beside the point.

The point was…cull the farts, collect them, or pay the piper.

I know it’s going to take quite a bit to blow away the California cow fart law…but California is always up for the challenge, and this year, they have introduced a couple of doozies for your consideration.

First…

Ian Calderon is California’s majority leader in their lower House, and this year he has introduced a bill, hoping it becomes law, that makes it a crime for any waiter, in any restaurant, to offer…unsolicited…a straw through which that restaurant’s patron could sip a drink.

Under the proposal, any waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

That’s not an “either or” thing…that’s BOTH…a $1000 fine AND 6 months behind bars.

According to Calderon…”We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans.”

One might think that Calderon might be alone on his island of straws, but this is California we’re talking about…and he’s not. It seems that there are several cities in the state of fart-free cows that have already enacted “straws by request” laws, and not to be left out of this leftist plot to fine and jail waiters and waitresses, the L.A. Times has penned an Op-Ed in its favor…stating that aside from landfill issues…and I’m NOT making this up…”repetitive sucking may cause or exacerbate wrinkles on the lips or around the mouth.”

Isn’t that exactly why God invented Botox?

This new straw law begs the question…how many straws are ending up in landfills, water ways and in the ocean anyway? Naturally, Calderon has an answer for that pressing question…about 500 million plastic straws every day. And from where, exactly, does that number come from? Ahhh…it comes from the National Park Service…which got the number from…Eco-Cycle, a recycling company which states that IT got the number from…one Milo Cress…who got it from…phone surveys he conducted of straw manufacturers in 2011, when he was just 9 years old.

So…how accurate is the 500 million plastic straws a day figure?

Well…in 2011…there were about 312 million people living in the United States…that’s 312 million men, women and children…so…for that 500 million plastic straws per day figure was correct…every man, woman and child in America would have had have used 1.6 plastic straws per day with which to suck their drinks, causing wrinkles on the lips and around the mouth.

So, the numbers are likely using common core math, as liberals are want to do, but rather than just outlawing plastic straws altogether in California…one has to suspect that, should this become law, thousands of undercover California Bureau of Investigation agents will be employed to order drinks all over California, every day, for the expressed purpose of sending hapless waiters and waitresses to prison, to sit there on the “Group W Bench” with all the mother rapers. father stabbers, and father rapers!

Look, nobody likes seeing a soda straw up the nose of a sea turtle…so…why not just make it illegal for waiters and waitresses to serve a drink with a straw in it to a sea turtle, and be done with it?

Now as dumb as that law seems…there is perhaps one even more butt stupid being proposed in California this year…

A proposal from assemblyman Rob Bonta, a liberal from Oakland, would allow people who fear they are at risk of suicide to…anonymously and confidentially…submit their names to the state office that conducts background checks for firearm purchases…in order to prevent themselves from purchasing a gun.

Okay…let’s just take this on a step at a time…first of all…how many people, even in California, would submit their names to a state agency because they fear that they, themselves, might commit suicide? I’m guessing very few, but the reasoning behind this portion of the proposal is…obtuse…at best. It seems that there is some study out there that cites a figure of 57 percent, for Californians who commit suicide within one week of buying a gun…so…if you’re a Californian…who is planning to shoot yourself…you would have the option of putting your name on a list of people to whom the state of California would not allow to buy a gun.

Now, it seems to me, that if you are already in that mind frame…planning to shoot yourself…you’d be unlikely to do anything to prevent yourself from buying a gun. Pretty much, I’d think you’d bypass the option…buy the gun…and then you’d take one last suck through a plastic straw and squeeze the trigger.

But…that’s not where this proposed law ends…far from it in fact…

If the feeling passes…once you decide that living in a plastic straw free society…or after doing your time in the big house for giving a plastic straw to a customer, learning your lesson and once again feeling like life is worth living…through a process involving a court hearing, (that would be a hearing in a liberal California court, in front of a liberal California judge) a person may have their name removed from the list…if they can PROVE they no longer intend to shoot themselves with a gun.

That’s correct…in order to have your 2nd Amendment rights restored…you would have to PROVE that you no longer INTEND…to kill yourself with a gun.

YOURSELF…not somebody else…you would have to PROVE you no longer INTEND to kill…YOURSELF.

How exactly does one prove that they do not intend to do something?

You can’t…which means that this proposed law is nothing more than a way for California liberals to get you to give up your 2nd Amendment rights…forever…not to mention the fact that it will, no doubt, lead to the unintended consequence of more Californians buying toasters due to the lack of a law which would force one to prove, in a California court, that one has no intention of using their newly purchased kitchen alliance…in the bathtub…with a plastic straw in their mouth.

I swear to God, the sign on the state border should say…

“Welcome to California…We’re dumber than a backpack full of cow farts.”

Copyright © 2018 Craig Andresen / thenationalpatriot.com

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Today, Tuesday, February 13th, from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss the case of the dueling memos; possible stupid new California laws; and important news of the day.

Hope you can tune in at: http://listen.samcloud.com/w/73891/American-Political-Radio#history

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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Trump -- Middle American Radical 
by Pat Buchanan  
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Video: What Is the German 120db Movement? 
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/54056-video-what-is-the-german-120db-movement
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Rep Jordan – SWAMP WON, GOP CAVED 
As Usual, American People Lost 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ The Chris Wallace interview with Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) starts at the 12:26 mark in the video... with the discussion first addressing the enormous spending bill that was just passed through Congress and the failure of Republicans to support and force fiscal responsibility upon the federal government. Wallace points to the passage of the bill and President Trump’s signing it as evidence to “some people” that the era of fiscal restraint and the TEA Party is over. Jordan says what he knows is that “This was not consistent with what the American people elected us to do, not consistent with what we told them we were going to do.”  He agrees that Republicans don’t have the sixty votes needed for impunity of action in the Senate but neither do the Democrats and is in favor of changing the Senate rules to allow for things to get done legislatively. Wallace asks if, given those realities, if he’s saying the minority Democrats won and Republicans caved... https://rickwells.us/jordan-swamp-won-gop-caved/.
Explosive New Allegations 
from the Second Anti-Trump Dossier 
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{ patrioticviralnews.com } ~ Let’s review the facts. The liar-Clinton campaign and their affiliates hired a foreign spy to dig up dirt on their political opponent... They then directed that spy as to what should be in his report and helped him fabricate multiple points that have now been completely debunked. That spy’s work was consolidated into a dossier that was then used by a secret court under President liar-nObama to justify a surveillance operation against Trump’s campaign. It’s impossible to overstate the true level of corruption and injustice that happened in this sequence of events. It’s like deep-state bingo. Trump has been repeatedly accused of colluding with a foreign government even though the only “evidence” is uncorroborated and at least partially disproven. We now have absolute proof that it was in fact the liar-Clinton Campaign that colluded with a foreign spy. We also now have proof that liar-nObama was aware of the investigation into Trump’s campaign and may have been directly involved in the process. This is an appropriation of government agencies to spy on a political opponent. It makes Watergate look tame by comparison. It is mind boggling that the Democratic Party still exists at this point, and yet, they are moving to release a second dossier against Trump.   http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/explosive-new-allegations-from-the-second-anti-trump-dossier/.
Immigration Anarchists' Lies Debunked
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by Michael Cutler 
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ So much of what has come to pass for “common knowledge” is actually an example of how the principle of “The Big Lie”... can alter the public’s understanding of critical issues. Immigration has proven to be particularly vulnerable to this tactic. Under that principle, officials intentionally concoct falsehoods and repeat them at every possible opportunity to convince the masses that the lies are the truth. This principle was adopted by Nazi Germany in order to con the German populace into accepting the unfathomable depravity of the Third Reich. Today the attention span of most Americans can be measured in minutes, if not seconds, further exacerbating the susceptibility of folks to fall victim to language manipulation tactics. The tactics employed by the open-borders/ immigration anarchists to further their cause are so easy to disprove that even a child could see through their warped logic...   https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269299/immigration-anarchists-lies-debunked-michael-cutler 
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GOP Senators to Introduce Immigration,
Border Security and DACA Framework Tomorrow
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ A group of U.S. Senators tomorrow will introduce a common-sense proposal aimed at providing legal certainty for undocumented children... brought to the United States by their parents and preventing others from falling into the same legal limbo in the future. Their proposal, which mirrors the White House framework  announced by President Trump, provides a generous opportunity for approximately 1.8 million DACA or DACA-eligible immigrants to earn citizenship while strengthening our nation’s border security and enforcement measures to reduce illegal immigration. The Secure and Succeed Act, sponsored by Senators Cotton, Grassley, Cornyn, Tillis, Perdue, Lankford, and Ernst, appropriates $25 billion for real border security such as physical and virtual fencing, radar and other technologies. It also provides for additional personnel for border control and ends key loopholes in current law that allow dangerous criminals to enter our country...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/11/gop-senators-to-introduce-immigration-border-security-and-daca-framework-tomorrow/ 
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China is gaining on the United States. 
What are we doing about it? 
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by Oriana Skylar Mastro and Ely Ratner 
{ aei.org } ~ America’s military advantage over China is rapidly eroding... This fact was underscored by the Trump administration’s first National Defense Strategy recently released by Defense Secretary James Mattis, who declared that “great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of U.S. national security.” This pronouncement of China as a top priority is well-considered, long overdue, and—potentially—historic. Much will ride on whether President Donald Trump can actually deliver on refashioning U.S. defense policy. His first State of the Union address was not encouraging. After only a passing mention of China, he gave considerably more attention to the Islamic State and North Korea, calling into question whether he shares his team’s commitment to confronting the China challenge. If he does, the president will have to do more than revise his rhetoric. The Trump administration needs to commit additional funds to remain militarily competitive in Asia. Mattis himself admits, “If you don’t get the resources … then your strategy is nothing more than a hallucination.”  Trump’s budget next week will be an early indicator that more dollars are or are not in fact dedicated to enhancing U.S. military power and solving operational challenges in the Western Pacific... http://www.aei.org/publication/china-is-gaining-on-the-united-states-what-are-we-doing-about-it/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRnd05UazNOREUwTkRJNCIsInQiOiJrWCtiZlFNRkRhTmZYcW9FQkVteDJYZXp3bmFJMmFFZVVVaVBmYlozN3NxWFVOdWtZNWpYd3BhcGp0QkNVTXpCT3hMTXdzM3c2OTl5MmhwOEE0ZHV5cDBVbjVMbFIxbzBESlNwYngzbitxZU5lUTdvREJMcHNkOHVpK0JURXRSQyJ9 
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Trump -- Middle American Radical 
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by Pat Buchanan 
{ townhall.com } ~ President Trump is the leader of America's conservative party.

Yet not even his allies would describe him as a conservative in the tradition of Robert Taft, Russell Kirk or William F. Buckley.

In the primaries of 2016, all his rivals claimed the mantle of Mr. Conservative, Ronald Reagan. Yet Trump captured the party's heart.

Who, then, and what is Donald Trump?

In a Federalist essay, "Trump Isn't a Conservative -- And That's a Good Thing," Frank Cannon comes close to the mark.

Trump, he writes, "would more accurately be described as a 'radical anti-progressive'" who is "at war with the progressives who have co-opted American civil society." Moreover, Trump "is willing to go further than any other previous conservative to defeat them."

Many "elite conservatives," writes Cannon, believe the "bedrock institutions" they treasure are "not subject to the same infectious politicization to which the rest of society has succumbed."

This belief is naive, says Cannon, "ridiculous on its face."

"Radical anti-progressives" recognize that many institutions -- the academy, media, entertainment and the courts -- have been co-opted and corrupted by the left. And as these institutions are not what they once were, they no longer deserve the respect they once had.

Yet most conservatives will only go so far in criticizing these institutions. We see this in how cradle Catholics find it difficult to criticize the Church in which they were birthed and raised, despite scandals and alterations in the liturgy and doctrine.

Trump sees many institutions as fortresses lately captured by radical progressives that must be attacked and besieged if they are to be recaptured and liberated. Cannon deals with three such politicized institutions: the media, the NFL and the courts.

Trump does not attack freedom of the press but rather the moral authority and legitimacy of co-opted media institutions. It is what CNN has become, not what CNN was, that Trump disrespects.

These people are political enemies posturing as journalists who create "fake news" to destroy me, says Trump. Enraged media, responding, reveal themselves to be not far removed from what Trump says they are.

And, since Trump, media credibility has plummeted.

Before 2016, the NFL was an untouchable. When the league demanded that North Carolina accept the radical transgender agenda or face NFL sanctions, the Tar Heel State capitulated. When Arizona declined to make Martin Luther King's birthday a holiday in 1990, the NFL took away the Super Bowl. The Sun State caved.

This year, the league demanded respect for the beliefs and behavior of NFL players insulting Old Glory by "taking a knee" during the national anthem.

Many conservative politicians and commentators, fearing the NFL's almost mythic popularity in Middle America, remained mute.

But believing instinctively America would side with him, Trump delivered a full-throated defense of the flag and called for kicking the kneelers off the field, out of the game, and off the team.

"Fire them!" Trump bellowed.

And Trump triumphed. The NFL lost fans and viewers. The players ended the protests. No one took a knee at the Super Bowl.

Before Trump, the FBI was sacrosanct. But Trump savaged an insiders' cabal at the top of the FBI he saw as having plotted to defeat him.

Trump has not attacked an independent judiciary, but courts like the Ninth Circuit, controlled by progressives and abusing their offices to advance progressive goals, and federal judges using lifetime tenure and political immunity to usurp powers that belong to the president -- on immigration, for example.

Among the reasons Congress is disrespected is that it let the Supreme Court seize its power over social policy and convert itself into a judicial dictatorship -- above Congress.

Trump is no Beltway conservative, writes Cannon.

"Trump doesn't play by these ridiculous rules designed to keep conservatives stuck in a perpetual state of losing -- a made-for-CNN version of the undefeated Harlem Globetrotters versus the winless Washington Generals. Trump instead seeks to fight and delegitimize any institution the Left has captured, and rebuild it from the ground up."

The Trump supporters who most relish the wars he is waging are the "Middle American Radicals," of whom my columnist-colleague and late friend Sam Francis used to write.

There was a time such as today before in America.

After World War II, as it became clear our long-ruling liberal elites had blundered horribly in trusting Stalin, patriots arose to cleanse our institutions of treason and its fellow travelers.

The Hollywood Ten were exposed and went to jail. Nixon nailed Alger Hiss. Truman used the Smith Act to shut down Stalin's subsidiary, the Communist Party USA. Spies in the atom bomb program were run down. The Rosenbergs went to the electric chair.

Liberals call it the "Red Scare." And they are right to do so.

For when the patriots of the Greatest Generation like Jack Kennedy and Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy came home from the war and went after them, the nation's Reds had never been so scared in their entire lives.

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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
There's So Much Smoke. 
Why Worry About a Fire? 
by David Limbaugh  
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Nunes – We Provide Evidence 
But DOJ Refuses To Prosecute Crimes 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes explains where we are now in all of the turmoil surrounding his committee exposing... the liar-nObama deep state corruption both during his miserable treasonous regime and since his departure. Nunes says the Democrat memo “was not a surprise,” that after they had unsuccessfully attempted to block the release of the Republican memo by falsely claiming that it the sky would fall and it revealed sources and memos, they are now blocking their own memo by filling it full of those very same sources and methods. He notes that if they were sincere and being honest in their motivations and goal of having it released, they would have been in the Intelligence Committee offices redacting the memo in order to have it published. Nunes said, “If they really wanted to get it out, they’d be down there all day yesterday, redacting it, getting it back over to the White House so the public can know what’s in it...  https://rickwells.us/nunes-evidence-doj-prosecute/
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Feds to give all your health data to researchers
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by BOB UNRUH 
{ wnd.com } ~ The federal government has just launched a 10-year, $1.5 billion project for which researchers want your information. All of it... Medical records, mental-health records, lifestyle details, personal habits, physical measurements, blood pressure, height, weight, blood and urine samples, details on health-care visits, procedures, medications, and electronic health records, among others. Oh, and DNA, too. It’s called All of Us and scientists say they want at least one million people to be under observation on an ongoing basis. Explains one federal report, the effort by the NIH has the goal of developing “a 1,000,000 person-plus cohort of individuals across the country willing to share their biology, lifestyle, and environmental data for the purpose of research.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/02/feds-to-give-all-your-health-data-to-researchers/
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Gingrich Mystified by Sessions – Not Recused
From Going After Dem, DOJ Criminals 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Newt Gingrich believes the corruption and conspiracy go far beyond the DOJ and FBI using government resources to spy on the enemies of liar-Hillary Clinton... He references the Strzok statement in a text message to Page claiming that he has to brief Director James Comey because Hussein liar-nObama “wants to know everything” as raising “a whole series of questions about what the devil was going on.” He says, “I think you probably have the ‘president’ involved,” as well as Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Comey. “On both the protect liar-Hillary side and the get Trump side, it is the most extraordinary example of the deep state totally abusing the rule of law.” He notes the bravery of Devin Nunes in bringing the information forward and advancing the case, but now it’s broadened out to include Senator Ron Johnson and the Homeland Security Committee as well as Sen Charles Grassley and the Judiciary Committee...  https://rickwells.us/gingrich-mystified-sessions/
Game Over – Judge Jeanine Interview
With HPSCI Rep. Chris Stewart
by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The game is over. The jig is up. Victory is certain… the trench was ignited… the enemy funneled themselves into the valley… all bait was taken…
 everything from here on out is simply mopping up the details.  All suspicions confirmed. Why has Devin Nunes been so confident?  Why did all GOP HPSCI members happily allow the Democrats to create a 10-page narrative?  All questions are answered. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence member Chris Stewart appeared on Fox News with Judge Jeanine Pirro, and didn’t want to “make news” or spill the beans, but the unstated, between-the-lines, discussion was as subtle as a brick through a window.  Judge Jeannie has been on the cusp of this for a few weeks...https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/10/game-over-judge-jeanine-interview-with-hpsci-rep-chris-stewart/.
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Everything You Need To Know About The FISA Memo 
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Gary Sinise’s Commitment To Veterans
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Hispanic Trump Voter Defends President’s Rhetoric
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How Being Pro-Israel Landed The Marcus Family in a 7-Year War With liar-nObama’s IRS
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Politico’s Jake Sherman: Pulosi Completely Miscalculated On 8-Hour Speech, Dems Abandoned Her
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MSNBC: National Democrats Now Worried Their 2018 Bench Is Too Liberal
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There's So Much Smoke. 
Why Worry About a Fire? 
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by David Limbaugh 
{ townhall.com } ~ What are we to make of the GOP and Democrats' dueling scandal wars? So much information, so little time.

We'll have to wait until special counsel Robert Mueller completes his investigation to be sure, but I don't believe there's any credible evidence that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to affect the presidential election.

On the other hand, though I was initially skeptical that the investigations into the Democratic scandals would produce much, I've changed my mind. I know I'm biased, but after having studied the voluminous information more thoroughly, I'm convinced there is an alarming amount of evidence of misconduct. For every allegation that doesn't bear fruit, there are several that are damning. Let me highlight just some of the problem areas and add my observations as space permits.

--The Nunes memo contains inculpatory information against certain key Department of Justice officials, and no amount of obfuscation from propagandists about what it doesn't contain discredits its probative value. A dud it is not.

--The memo essentially claims that an anti-Trump dossier, which was just glorified opposition research procured and paid for by the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee through a law firm, was an essential component of an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a warrant to spy on Trump associate Carter Page. That is, it is incontrovertible that the warrant wouldn't have been issued without the dossier. Neither the initial application nor any of the renewals disclose or reference the role of the DNC or the liar-Clinton campaign, though senior DOJ and FBI officials were aware of the political origins of the dossier prepared by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. As it happens, the FBI presented another item of tainted evidence to the court -- a Yahoo news article based on information spoon-fed to reporter Michael Isikoff by Steele, the same character who prepared the dossier. The article was reportedly presented to the court as independent and corroborating evidence when it was just circular journalism -- recycled from the dossier. Moreover, Steele compiled the dossier based on information obtained, in part, from Russian operatives. Further poisoning the waters, liar-Clinton family confidants Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer were allegedly feeding information to Steele, possibly through a State Department official, for inclusion in the memo. The FBI allegedly represented to the FISC that Steele was credible, though former FBI Director James Comey has admitted the dossier contained unverified material. Steele, you should note, said that he was desperate that Trump not be elected. Steele was dropped as an FBI source because he allegedly lied to the bureau about leaking to the press.

--To prevent publication of the memo, Democrats knowingly misrepresented that it contained classified or other information damaging to national security.

--The criminal referral of GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and RINO-Lindsey Graham for Steele confirms key points of the Nunes memo -- namely, that the dossier was crucial to the FBI's warrant for Page and that the application omitted the key fact that the liar-Clinton campaign and the DNC had funded the research through Fusion GPS, which hired Steele. And, as noted, senior FBI officials knew this information and still didn't disclose it to the court in its application. Democrats and their apologists in the liberal media contend that there was a disclosure about the liar-Clinton and DNC connection in the footnotes, but rudimentary examination reveals that the footnote was deliberately vague and said nothing about DNC and liar-Clinton campaign involvement. It was as if the FBI inserted the footnote for reasonable deniability, knowing it would facilitate its deception of the court.

--The liberal media are in lockstep in denying the significance of the referral, as well, claiming it was a letter issued to bolster the Nunes memo, when in fact the referral had been submitted weeks before the Nunes memo was released and was independent of it.

--The thousands of text messages between adulterers Peter Strzok, FBI counterintelligence agent, and Lisa Page, FBI lawyer, were unseemly, improper, sometimes suggestive of egregious misconduct and alarmingly illuminating as to their mutually toxic anti-Trump bias, revealing them singularly unfit for the jobs they were performing. What did Page mean that liar-nObama wanted "to know everything" or that she needed to brush up on Watergate? What did Strzok mean by the following? "I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's office -- that there's no way Trump gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40."

--Though Strzok and other DOJ and FBI officials have been fired or reassigned, both Strzok and Page are still at the bureau, which is unconscionable, given their inexcusable behavior. Strzok should be terminated for making himself vulnerable to blackmail alone, yet he and his fellow Trump-hating lovebird remain perched on the government payroll.

--Just as the liberal media speciously attempt to downplay the Nunes memo and the Grassley/RINO-Graham referral, they contend that the GOP's original take on the Page text about keeping liar-nObama informed is wholly discredited because it concerned the Trump Russia investigation rather than the liar-Clinton email scandal as the GOP claimed. Not so fast. Even if the text was about keeping liar-nObama informed on the Russia investigation, it could be just as bad or worse, especially if they were informing him about the nefarious renewal of the warrant to spy on a political opponent during a presidential campaign with a fraudulent dossier paid for by the liar-Clinton campaign and the DNC. What and when did liar-nObama know?

--The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee just released a report on the liar-Clinton email scandal. It raises many questions about liar-Clinton and the FBI, such as why the FBI liberally used immunity offers instead of impaneling a grand jury to elicit evidence and why Comey circulated a statement exonerating liar-Clinton before she and many other witnesses had been interviewed. And don't get me started on liar-Clinton's serial killing of emails. Who else could get away with what she did?

Come on, naysayers. Be fair. There's so much smoke here -- and I've just covered some of the highlights -- we don't even have to worry about a fire. Asphyxiation can be just as lethal.

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Mon/Med-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Prison Reform: The Time Is Now 
by Cal Thomas  
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Black Caucus Jihadis Met With 
Iranian Leaders, Farrakhan In Secret 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Three of the usual suspect Democrat members of the Congressional Black Caucus have been exposed... as having attended a meeting in 2013 with the leaders of the Islamic terrorist sponsoring Iranian government as well as the white-hating, anti-Semitic bigot, Louis Farrakhan. Representative scum-Keith Ellison (D-MN), who would, if not for the efforts of liar-Hillary Clinton, now be the DNC chairman instead of its number two, as well as his fellow Muslim, Rep Andre Carson (D-IN) and Gregory Meeks (D-NY) are the racist CBC members who accepted the invitation to sit down with America’s enemies. All of the Congressmen were also involved in the Awan espionage case as enablers, who, perhaps not so innocently, provided access to top American secrets that were later stolen. Rep Meeks continued Imran Awan’s employment and defended him long after the news broke of his espionage activities and he had been banned from the Congressional computer system... https://rickwells.us/black-caucus-jihadis-iranian/
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Israel Defends Herself Against Iranian
Incursion-Bibi:We Will Continue To
Defend Ourselves
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by Jeff Dunetz
{ lidblog.com } ~ It started just before dawn Jerusalem time on Saturday, the  Israel Defense Forces (IDF)  detected an Iranian drone... coming from Syria territory and allowed it to enter Israeli airspace for approximately 90 seconds before shooting it down. They allowed it to enter Israeli airspace so they could examine the wreckage and see what they were dealing with: The structure and technology of the drone were similar to the American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) tha Iran seized in 2011 including a “low signature” aimed at avoiding detection. There are rumors but no confirmation that the drone was armed.  Israel’s retaliation for the drone incursion was quick, eight Israeli f-16 planes swept into Syria carrying out strikes deep inside the country blowing up the truck that controlled the drone, and a Syrian airbase Retaliation for the incursion was swift, with eight Israeli F-16s into Syria to carry out retaliatory strikes deep inside the country, including on the vehicle that controlled the drone and an air base used by Iran. The Syrians reacted anti-aircraft missiles and one F-16 crashed in an empty field near the town of Harduf in northern Israel after both pilots were able to parachute to safety...  https://lidblog.com/israel-defends-iranian-drone/
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Grassley/rino-Graham Memo 
Affirms Nunes Memo — Media Yawns
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by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
{ nationalreview.com ~ In a word, the Grassley/rino-Graham memo is shocking. Yet, the press barely notices. Rest assured... If a Republican administration had used unverifiable hearsay from a patently suspect agent of the Republican presidential candidate to gull the FISA court into granting a warrant to spy on an associate of the Democratic nominee’s campaign, it would be covered as the greatest political scandal in a half-century.  Instead, it was the other way around. The Grassley/rino-Graham memo corroborates the claims in the Nunes memo: The liar-nObama Justice Department and FBI used anonymously sourced, liar-Clinton-campaign generated innuendo to convince the FISA court to issue surveillance warrants against Carter Page, and in doing so, they concealed the liar-Clinton campaign’s role. Though the Trump campaign had cut ties with Page shortly before the first warrant was issued in October 2016, the warrant application was based on wild allegations of a corrupt conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Moreover, the warrant meant the FBI could seize not only Page’s forward-going communications but any past emails and texts he may have stored — i.e., his Trump campaign communications...  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456287/grassley-graham-memo-affirms-nunes-memo-fisa-steele-dossier?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Week%20in%20Review%202018-02-11&utm_term=VDHM 
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liar-nObama Official: I Passed liar-Clinton
Lies to Steele That Were Used Against Trump
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by MARTIN WALSH
A top State Department official who served under former President Barack liar-n Obama’s administration has publicly confirmed... that he passed information from liar-Clinton operatives to ex-British spy Christopher Steele that was ultimately used against Donald Trump. In an op-ed published Thursday in The Washington Post, Jonathan Winer, former deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement, wrote that he had a friendly relationship with Steele, the former British spy who was paid by the Washington-based political research firm Fusion GPS to compile the information that became known as the “Trump dossier.” Steele’s dossier contained numerous salacious accusations about Trump, including one claim that he consorted with Russian prostitutes in Moscow in 2013...  https://conservativetribune.com/obama-official-i-passed-clinton-lies-to-steele-for-use-against-trump/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune
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At Least 17 Democratic Socialists Of
America Are Running For Office In Texas In 2018 
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by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton 
{ noisyroom.net } ~ Texas is in real trouble politically. The giant red state has been targeted by the left and they are dumping millions into the state to turn it blue forever... There are at least 17 Democratic Socialists of America candidates running for office in the state now. They look like just ordinary people… but these are socialists. They are communist-lite. They are Marxists and they are a stone cold threat to our way of life and our freedoms in this nation. As the Texas Observer put it, the revolution will be down-ballot. First up is Franklin Bynum’s campaign for Harris County misdemeanor court judge. He’s a 35 year-old former public defender and says he’s seen Houston’s criminal courts routinely railroad the poor into convictions that drive them further into poverty. Now, after nearly 10 years subject to the whims of conservative judges, he’s aiming to take the gavel for himself. I guarantee you that he will do what all liberal activist judges do… he’ll set criminals free to go back to what they were doing before. This has nothing to do with the poor. One of the primary goals of communists such as Van Jones is to empty our prisons regardless of the consequences...   http://noisyroom.net/blog/2018/02/10/at-least-17-democratic-socialists-of-america-are-running-for-office-in-texas-in-2018/ 
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Prison Reform: The Time Is Now 
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by Cal Thomas 
{ townhall.com } ~ It didn't seem to fit in President Trump's State of the Union address, perhaps something tossed in at the last minute, like a garnish. But there it was: "As America regains its strength, opportunity must be extended to all citizens. That is why this year we will embark on reforming our prisons, to help former inmates who have served their time get a second chance at life."

Like Richard Nixon opening the door to China, only a Republican could propose prison reform and not be labeled "soft on crime."

It is not news that American prisons are overcrowded, cost too much to maintain and warehouse men and women, many of whom should not be there. There ought to be an alternative for nonviolent, non-lethal offenders. Those being released from prison should be offered a second chance without the mark of Cain being stamped on them.

One step in that direction may be a recent story in The Washington Post. Ron Nelsen owns a garage door company in Las Vegas, but has had trouble finding people to work for him because of the falling unemployment rate. His assistant handed him a resume, and when Nelsen looked at it he discovered the applicant's recent jobs were all in a state prison.

Nelsen decided to interview the man, Ian Black. "He was articulate and respectful, and he told me he'd been an idiot when he was younger."

Still apprehensive, Nelsen took a chance on the convicted burglar and hired him. Black is part of a work release program. His parole hearing is set for this month. Nelsen calls Black "my best worker."

Nelsen is not alone. As the Post reports, more businesses are starting to give ex-convicts a second chance. This is not some liberal "feel-good" idea. Even the conservative Koch Industries is hiring former inmates. Mark Holden, general counsel for Koch Industries, is quoted as saying, "What someone did on their worst day doesn't define them forever."

Ask yourself which approach is likely to cut the recidivism rate, which remains especially high for those who can't find meaningful work: A spirit of forgiveness, mercy and a second chance or branding someone as irredeemable? The question should answer itself.

If he follows through on his promise, President Trump has an opportunity to go where few have gone before. As with his promise to free poor minority children from their failed public schools, reforming America's prison system and, indeed, America's approach to incarceration, which has done little to redeem or reform anyone, would be a lasting legacy.

According to the nonprofit, nonpartisan Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), which compiles data on our criminal justice system, "The American criminal justice system holds more than 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 901 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails and 76 Indian Country jails, as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers and prisons in the U.S. territories."

One in five prisoners in the federal prison system is there for nonviolent drug offenses. At the state and local levels it is different and although most of the incarcerated are there for infractions unrelated to drugs, most states continue to arrest people for drug possession. As the PPI notes, "Drug arrests give residents of over-policed communities criminal records, which then reduce employment prospects and increase the likelihood of longer sentences for any future offenses."

The trend of hiring former inmates who have served time for nonviolent offenses should be encouraged. Most prisoners will return to society. Will society welcome them with a job and a second chance, thus reducing the recidivism rate, or ostracize them and increase the chances they will commit new crimes against new victims in order to survive?

Ron Nelsen is setting a good example. Others should follow, because who among us has not needed a second chance at something?

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Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Israel Built a ‘Wall’ and Is Deporting 
Illegal Aliens. America Can Learn
by Caroline Glick
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Witch Hunter Warner’s Own Russia Collusion
Exposed, Rescue RINO Helps Cover Up 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ It should surprise no one that Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), often the de facto co-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee inquisition into President Trump... is joining with his fellow never-Trumper, RINO Sen Richard Burr (R-NC), in the attempt to remove President Trump from office. Warner is following the Democrat play book as part of the Trump witch hunt, accusing the President of doing what we now learn Warner was doing himself. Democrats have a double standard and their hypocrisy on their side, never shy about accusing their opponents of misconduct they are themselves engaged in. In this case, evidence has surfaced that Warner attempted to collude with Russians. Ed Henry reports that Warner “had extensive contact last year with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch who offered him access, yes, to Christopher Steele. Now Warner texted he would ‘rather not have a paper trail,'” says Henry, “in case he could not seal an agreement with the former British spy. Steele has still not agreed to an interview with the panel.”...  https://rickwells.us/witch-hunter-warner-russia/.
Tom Del Beccaro: All Corrupt
DOJ and FBI Roads Lead to liar-nObama 
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by Robert Kraychik 
{ breitbart.com } ~ Holistic analysis of the Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI’s interconnected and ostensible investigations... of liar-Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump amount to “the worst abuse of political power in American history related to elections,” according to Tom Del Beccaro. Del Beccaro, an attorney and contributor to Forbes, joined Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak to discuss his recently published – and continually updated – timeline of events, entitled “Biased FBI and DOJ Officials Broke the Law and Tried to Decide the Election.” “The DOJ and the entire liar-nObama administration wound down the liar-Hillary email crisis in time for her to really run for office and then ramped up the attacks on candidate Trump to stop him from being president,” said Del Beccaro...  http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/02/09/tom-del-beccaro-corrupt-doj-fbi-roads-lead-obama/.
Cue Liberal Outrage: Trump Creates 
National Vetting Center for Immigrants
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{ patriotnewsdaily.com } ~ President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week to create a new National Vetting Center... that will improve the government’s ability to coordinate between various agencies and ensure that migrants and visitors to the U.S. are properly screened before coming into the country. The move, which will surely anger immigration activists and liberals who think we would be better off if we just threw the borders open and allowed every Islamic terrorist and welfare-leeching bum in the world to come to our shores, was announced in a statement on Tuesday. “The NVC will better coordinate these activities in a central location, enabling officials to further leverage critical intelligence and law enforcement information to identify terrorists, criminals, and other nefarious actors trying to enter and remain within our country,” said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. “The NVC’s operations will adhere to America’s strong protections for individuals’ privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. The Administration’s top priority is the safety and security of the public, and the NVC will empower our frontline defenders to better fulfil that obligation.” The Department of Homeland Security will work hand in hand with the State Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and the director of national intelligence to develop the NVC...  http://patriotnewsdaily.com/cue-liberal-outrage-trump-national-vetting-center-for-immigrants/
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Who Will Be Plotting 
Against America After ISIS’ Defeat? 
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{ clarionproject.org } ~ Prof. Ryan Mauro, director of Clarion Intelligence Network and Clarion’s Shillman Fellow, reacts to a study... showing that 300 Americans left the country to join ISIS and 12 have returned, 3 of which have not been prosecuted. But even more important is that other groups – all of whom believe in a caliphate — are waiting in the wings for the defeat of ISIS and can be activated. These include groups coming from Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Qatarhttps://clarionproject.org/will-plotting-america-isis-defeat/.
Fein-stein Once Sounded Like 
President Trump On Illegal Alien Menace 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Back in 1994, Dianne Fein-stein looked and sounded a lot different... liar-Bill Clinton was the president and the Democrat Party still pretended to be an American political party, representing their version of what was best for America. That was before the attempt at the fundamental transformation and degradation of the United States by Hussein liar-nObama and the open global communism of the Democrat Party began to be practiced and actually praised by the media and the treasonous leftists. Senator Dianne Fein-stein is an example of that hard shift to the left by the commie Democrats, in this video sounding much more like President Trump and conservative Republicans than present day, out of touch with reality, liberal self...  https://rickwells.us/feinstein-trump-illegal-menace/
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Israel Built a ‘Wall’ and Is Deporting 
Illegal Aliens. America Can Learn
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by Caroline Glick
{ truthrevolt.org } ~ A decade ago, Israelis gave little thought to the issue of illegal immigration.

In 2006, there were 2,766 illegal migrants in Israel, nearly all of them from Eritrea and Sudan, who had entered Israel through its then-open, 150-mile border with Egypt.

In 2007, the dam of illegal immigration burst.

According to Israel’s Immigration and Population Authority, 5,179 African migrants – predominantly from Eritrea and Sudan — entered Israel from Egypt in 2007. The illegal migration reached its peak in 2011, when 17,281 arrived.

When you consider that in 2011, Israel’s total population stood at 7.7 million, that means that as a portion of its total population, Israel absorbed 95 times more illegal aliens that year than Spain did.

The illegal aliens settled overwhelmingly in poor neighborhoods in Tel Aviv. Violent crime in the areas skyrocketed with their arrival. Sexual offenses in neighborhoods with high percentages of African migrants were 3.5 times higher than in their rates in the general population. Violent crime was 2.5 times higher. Robberies occurred six times more often.

A survey of area residents taken by the Israeli police in 2015 showed that only 38 percent felt secure outside their homes after dark. Only 43 percent felt safe in their homes after dark.

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, began passing laws to provide negative incentives to illegal aliens. One law required migrants’ employers to set aside 20 percent of their wages, which the migrants would receive only upon leaving the country.

Most importantly, in 2012, Israel began building a “wall” — an impenetrable fence — along its border with Egypt. It was completed in 2013. The results were dramatic. Illegal immigration fell immediately by 98 percent.

In 2013, 123 African migrants entered the country. In 2017, no one arrived.

Today, among the 68,000 illegal migrants from Africa who have entered Israel in the past decade, 40,000 still remain in the country. And so last month, the Knesset passed a law enjoining the government to deport them either to their countries of origin or to willing third countries.

Rwanda and Uganda reportedly signed secret agreements with Israel permitting the migrants to relocate to their countries. Open-borders champions leaked the deals to the media, hoping to force the Rwandan and Ugandan governments to cancel the deals. This month, both governments denied ever signing such agreements, although migrants are being sent to both countries.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees deems both countries safe. And, for that matter, in February 2017, the Swiss Administrative Court determined that illegal migrants from Eritrea will not be in danger if they are deported back to Eritrea. That court ruling followed a report issued a month before by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), an EU think tank that helps Brussels determine immigration policy. EASO concluded that Eritrean asylum seekers are not eligible for asylum or refugee status because they face no danger from repatriation.

Following the Knesset move, the Israeli government decided that all illegal migrants who agree to leave Israel by the end of March will be paid $3500 and receive a free one-way ticket, either to third countries which have agreed to accept them, or to their countries of origin, whichever they prefer. Those who refuse to leave Israel by the end of March will be incarcerated pending deportation, and Israel will pay them a substantially smaller amount for leaving the country.

But according to the U.S.-based Atlantic, “For the Jewish activists who believe that Israel should be built on what they see as Jewish values, the next few weeks will be a crucial test of its identity as a nation—and how it is perceived by the world.”

This claim — that Israel’s policy is at odds with Jewish values — was made by the Atlantic’s Emma Green in a long article criticizing the new Knesset law.

Green’s article is part of a massive campaign being waged by Israel’s far left, with massive support from liberal American Jewish groups. The campaign’s purpose is to demonize the law, and coerce Israel’s government into not enforcing it.

The left’s campaign against Israel bears notable similarities to the campaign being waged by leftist activists and Democratic politicians in the U.S. demanding amnesty for illegal aliens in America.

Israeli opponents of amnesty for African migrants are not simply reviled as racists, however. Over the past two weeks, leftist pressure groups and activists have equated amnesty opponents to Nazis.

Africans who enter Israeli illegally in search of work are equated to Jews in Europe during Holocaust desperate to escape the Nazis.

The Israeli public supports deporting the illegal migrants — by a huge margin. A poll of Israeli Jews published this week by the mass circulation daily Israel Hayom found that 58 percent of Israelis support deporting the illegal migrants. Only 23 percent disagreed with the government’s policy. The rest had no opinion.

But Israel’s far left has never been moved by public opinion. Backed by wealthy liberal American Jewish organizations including the Anti-Defamation League, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Reform Movement’s Religious Action Center, J-Street, T’ruah, and the New Israel Fund, the Israeli far left responded with rage and slander to the law and the government’s decision.

Speaking at a conference in Tel Aviv Wednesday, Anti-Defamation League Director Jonathan Greenblatt blasted the government’s intention to deport the illegal migrants. He likened the situation in Israel to the situation in the U.S. with the so-called “Dreamers” children brought illegally to America as minors, and insinuated that Israel, and Americans who oppose amnesty for Dreamers, are racist. Before joining the ADL in 2015, Greenblatt worked in the liar-nObama White House under President Barack liar-nObama’s senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, directing the Office of Social Innovation and Civil Participation.

The New Israel Fund (NIF), a radical American Jewish group that spends millions of dollars every year in Israel funding radical leftist and Palestinian groups, has been at the forefront of the fight to force Israel to naturalize its African migrants. Currently, the NIF is underwriting at least six different groups in Israel to prevent the enforcement of Israel’s immigration laws and government decisions.

In an open letter, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch told supporters that the group is supporting the campaign to block the deportations “financially and with expert advice.”

For Americans interested in finding solutions to the illegal immigration crisis in the U.S., Israel’s experience is instructive on two counts.

First, border security works. The combination of legislation and the border wall ended infiltration by illegals almost instantaneously.

Second, as Israel’s current situation indicates, champions of illegal immigration have no intention of making any deal. They are not fighting for illegal aliens because they want to make the world a better place. They are championing their cause because they want to make Israel a different place. And since most Israelis like Israel the way it is, there is no common ground to be found.

Which brings us back to Green’s article in the Atlantic.

Green noted that at the end of the day, the dispute about illegal immigration in Israel is really a fight between Israelis and liberal American Jews, who make up the majority of the pro-illegal immigrant activists in Israel.

Green quoted Elliot Vaisrub Glassenberg, an American immigration activist working in Israel.

Vasirub Glassenberg explained, “For American Jews, what is the number one thing that it means to be Jewish: Tikkun olam: Working for a more ethical world. But when you asked Israelis what it means to be Jewish they answer, ‘Well, I’m Jewish. This is my identity.'”


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