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It is happening! Commissaries are being closed on Military bases across the country. I said Democrats were willing to STARVE the Children of our Military to protect Illegals and that is EXACTLY what they are doing! #SchumerShutdown
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Martin Flanigan
BOYCOTT THE SUPERBOWL! What happened to the men of character like, Gale Sayers who used to be the NFL? It doesn't seem that long ago that it was filled with men of virtue like Roger Staubach, Joe Gibbs, Vincent Lombardi and MANY others. Now it seems like it is overrun by greed and ego maniac's! Instead of true hero's, men who you wanted to be like and admired for their inner strength of their souls as well as physical prowess. Did something happen internally to the NFL that perhaps we have not been told where they have decayed from the status of God fearing men to men who think of themselves as demi-gods? We fans love the game but not at such a loss of all that is good. Finish the job and BOYCOTT THE SUPERBOWL! We have our priorities and entertainment is second to character. God Bless America!
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Al Capone Lives!
by Cal Thomas
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Rusky Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
Dumps on Phony Trump Dossier, Fusion GPS
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Catherine Herridge reports on the developments since House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes sent a memo to all members... although only Republicans have chosen to read it, which outlines the abuses of power engage in the attempt by Democrats to subvert the Trump Presidency. She also has an interview with Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian Attorney who was intimately involved with Fusion GPS and attended a meeting with Trump campaign principals, including Don Jr., in Trump Tower that has gotten quite a lot of attention in the feverish effort to somehow tie Russia to the Trump campaign. In addressing the memo, Herridge plays a clip of Rep Ron DeSantis calling for it to be released to all Americans and notes that it grew out of the Democrat led Trump-Russia witch hunt. She says, “It focuses on the FBI, Justice Department, surveillance warrants for Americans, as well as the Trump dossier.”... https://rickwells.us/herridge-lawyer-trump-dossier/.
scum-Dick Durbin Literally Says
He Doesn’t Work for the American People
by BEN MARQUIS
{conservativetribune.com} ~ When men and women are elected to serve in either branch of Congress, they are supposed to be working on behalf of American citizens... focused on the issues that matter most to them, specifically for the residents and voters of the state and/or district that sent them to Washington. But according to The Daily Wire, it would appear that Democrat Illinois Senator scum-Dick Durbin is “focused” and “working” on behalf of an entirely different constituency than would be presumed by most people — namely illegal immigrants, and not American citizens or the voters within his own state. The Senate Minority Whip, a top leader in the Democrat Party, was recently asked by a reporter to respond to allegations that he had lied about President Donald Trump making the now-infamous “s***hole” remark during a recent closed-door discussion in the White House about immigration reform efforts... https://conservativetribune.com/durbin-doesnt-work-american-people/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativebyte&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance.
#ReleaseTheMemo:
Stop Robert Mueller’s Mission Creep
by SIDNEY POWELL
{dailycaller.com} ~ Weeks ago, it became apparent that we were dealing with not only “mission creep” by Robert Mueller... but with “a case of creeps on a mission—to destabilize and destroy this President.” Now our Republican congressmen who have seen “the memo” about what was really going on in President Barack liar-nObama’s Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation to damage Donald Trump are seeing more evidence it was indeed a case of “creeps on a mission.” While we are waiting for what should be a no-brainer release of the facts, please recognize that a federal court last year already found egregious and lawless deliberate abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by the FBI specifically, and certainly implicating DOJ. The court’s decision reveals that the upper echelon of the FBI (such as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and others deliberately gave unlimited and unsupervised access to the most private raw FISA data to a private contractor. Can you say Fusion GPS?... http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/19/releasethememo-stop-robert-muellers-mission-creep/.
It wasn't Just Republican-Democrats also
Voted to Shut Down Debate on Trump
Admin Surveillance Power
by Alex Emmons
A CRITICAL MASS of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Tuesday to shut down any further debate on a bill... that strengthens the government’s spying powers. The bill would renew a key surveillance authority for the National Security Agency until 2023 and consolidate the FBI’s power to search Americans’ digital communications without a warrant. The motion, which passed 60-38, virtually guarantees that the final bill will pass likely later this week and quashes any opportunity to debate whether protections should be added. Eighteen Democrats — including Sen. Dianne Fein-stein, who had previously proposed an amendment to restrict the FBI’s surveillance authority — voted in support of the motion. They were joined by 41 Republicans and one independent, Angus King, giving the pro-surveillance bloc the supermajority needed to push the bill forward. Sens. RINO-John McCain, R-Ariz., and Dan Sullivan, R-Ala., did not vote. Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, lobbied for the bill’s passage on the Senate floor alongside his Republican counterpart from North Carolina, Richard Burr, and Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats stood outside the Senate chamber; he had come in person to convince any skeptics of the bill’s merits, Burr said... https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/fisa-section-702-nsa-internet-surveillance-senate/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d5b1983aa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-d5b1983aa9-131896129.
scum-Dick Durbin's
DACA buddies support N. Korea
by TREVOR LOUDON
{wnd.com} ~ On June 15, 2012, then-President Barack liar-nObama delivered a speech in the Rose Garden announcing his intention to unilaterally grant... “temporary relief from deportation proceedings” for young people who met certain criteria. The executive order, referred to as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was “not amnesty,” according to liar-nObama. “… This is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It’s not a permanent fix.” One month after the president’s speech, a young woman named Tereza Lee met with about 40 young illegal immigration organizers-in-training to tell them the story about how she was the inspiration for scum-Dick Durbin’s original 2001 DREAM Act, which consistently failed to get the votes it needed to pass, even while Democrats had the majorities in the House and Senate. Tereza’s presentation was a part of a three-day “Social Justice Camp,” which was organized by the HANA Center, an affiliate of the radical organization NAKASEC. scum-Durbin has deep ties to the Chicago group formed by leaders of a nationwide North Korea support network. He has worked with the NAKASEC-affiliated HANA Center for several years, mainly to promote its pro-illegal alien amnesty/pro-DACA agenda... http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/dick-durbins-daca-buddies-support-n-korea/.
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Al Capone Lives!
{townhall.com} ~ "You can get a lot farther with a smile and a gun than you can with just a smile."
This quote has often been attributed to the late Chicago mobster Al Capone, who with his fellow organized crime buddies used extortion as one of their tactics to get what they wanted. Today's modern congressional Democrats have clearly benefited from Capone's example.
As has occurred many times before, congressional Democrats are threatening a government shutdown on Friday, if President Trump and Republicans don't cave on DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an American immigration policy that allows eligible immigrant youth, who entered the country as minors, protection from deportation and a work permit, which is valid for two years and subject to re-approval.
As you might expect, familiar lines are being used in print and broadcast media. "The government will run out of money," they say. No, it won't. The government never runs out of money. The government can't control its spending habit and that is where the real problem lies.
Once again, Democrats see an opportunity to damage the president and the Republican brand through fear and intimidation, tactics effectively used by Capone and his gang. Their media accomplices will visit familiar places to demonstrate the "harm" caused by closing the government and they will round up the usual suspects. Expect to see crying mothers with small babies complaining about whatever they want to complain about, closed parks and stories about how only "essential" government employees must report to work. Now there's a way to shrink the size and cost of government: keep the essentials and let go of the nonessentials.
It will likely not be noted by the media that anyone who is denied a paycheck during the "shutdown" will get it all back.
Republicans have always had a terrible defense against political extortion. Instead of standing and fighting for principles when did that last happen? they run like cowards in warfare, afraid of the battle.
Maybe this time will be different. Maybe. One hopes the strategy has been developed and is ready to implement.
One option would be a televised address by President Trump, who should be joined by Speaker Paul Ryan. They might appeal to the nation's past when personal debt was a stain on one's character and national debt was a stain on the country. They might remind people of their ancestors, many of whom believed doing for one's self was to be preferred over dependence on government, unless one was truly needy, through no fault of their own. If the narrative is to be changed, the public's thinking must change first.
The government must not be seen as our keeper. The recent tax cut should be used to encourage Americans to invest and save for their future and to build wealth that will allow them to take care of themselves. Wealth, or at least the wealthy, is regarded as evil, while spending -- even deficit spending -- is thought of as good. How did that transformation occur?
We've gone from the days of our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, whose wisdom remains for anyone wishing to consider it, to the notion that everything government does is good, noble and righteous and the individual is to be the servant of the state.
Coolidge said "no" to new spending and to government programs that did not directly serve the people and would not undermine personal initiative. Like President Trump, he cut taxes significantly and left office with a surplus.
If the government "shuts down" on Friday, it will not only be the Democrats' fault. Republicans must also share part of the blame for their past failures to inform the public about the dangers posed by big government and big spending, not only financially, but in robbing the nation and its people of their character.
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Democrats Seek a Government Shutdown
by Political Editors
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CNN Cur ACOSTA Asks STUPID Attack Question,
Is Completely TAKEN APART By Mulvaney
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Unfortunately, after CNN’s cur dog Jim Acosta was told to “Git” by President Trump... for the journalistic equivalent of hiking his leg on the Oval Office couch, rudely disrespecting the President, they still allowed him to return. This time the anti-Trump blowhard was seated in his usual position on the front row of the press briefing room, and once again exhibited his extremely bad judgment, this time by asking one of his customary stupid, attack questions of Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney was giving an update on the wrestling over funding the government and Democrats continuing the use of their ability to block passage of a bill in the Senate as a cudgel for attempting to force capitulation-prone Republicans to give in to their demands for squatter amnesty. Mulvaney referred to the threatened government shutdown in his remarks as the “clown-Schumer shutdown.”... https://rickwells.us/cnn-acosta-destroyed-mulvaney/.
President Trump Signs 2018
FISA Authorization With Changes
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By Democrats' Standard for Trump,
Why Wasn't liar-nObama Impeached?
by Alex Parker
{truthrevolt.org} ~ In Larry Elder's new Townhall editorial, he asks: "Under the New Trump Standard, Why Wasn't liar-nObama Impeached?"... Elder states in the opening: "In the era of President Donald Trump, Democrats think presidents should be impeached over policy differences." The best-selling author then describes the Left's obsession with Trump's supposed collusion with Russia, and their inability to accept the result of endless investigation. Despite a complete lack of any evidence to support the notion, many Blue State representatives still call for the President's impeachment. But Elder points out the Left's staunch hypocrisy... https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/larry-elder-democrats-standard-trump-why-wasnt-obama-impeached.
U.S. withholds additional
$45 million from terror-linked U.N. agency
by ART MOORE
{wnd.com} ~ Days after announcing it was withholding $65 million from a U.N. agency supporting Palestinian refugees... the United States announced it will not provide a separate $45 million it had pledged to the agency, according to the State Department. As WND reported, the State Department announced Tuesday it is withholding $65 million the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNWRA, warning any additional U.S. donations would depend on changes in how the agency operates and is funded. In 2016, the U.S. donated $355 million to UNWRA. The $45 million allotment was meant for food aid as part of the UNRWA’s West Bank/Gaza Emergency Appeal... http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/u-s-withholds-additional-45-million-from-terror-linked-u-n-agency/.
Government shutdown begins
after most Democrats block spending bill
by Susan Ferrechio
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The federal government appeared to be headed toward a partial shutdown late Friday after most Senate Democrats and a few Republicans... voted to block a bill that would have authorized funding for another four weeks. Authorization for federal spending expires at midnight, but after a day of last-ditch negotiations, there was no deal between Republicans and Democrats on how to proceed. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called up the bill that would have funded the government through Feb. 16 shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, but most Democrats voted against it. Democrats are holding out for a deal to protect the so-called "Dreamers" from deportation, one that hasn't materialized yet... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/government-heads-toward-shutdown-after-spending-bill-fizzles-in-the-senate/article/2646544?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/19/18&utm_medium=email.
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Democrats Seek a Government Shutdown
by Political Editors: A government shutdown is looming if Congress doesn’t get a budget deal passed and Republicans know that although they have been willing to negotiate in good faith, it is they, not the Democrats, who will be blamed for a shutdown. In this latest Mexican standoff, Democrats are demanding a deal (amnesty) on DACA be included in any budget deal, but the deal must also exclude any funding for the border wall.
by Political Editors: A government shutdown is looming if Congress doesn’t get a budget deal passed and Republicans know that although they have been willing to negotiate in good faith, it is they, not the Democrats, who will be blamed for a shutdown. In this latest Mexican standoff, Democrats are demanding a deal (amnesty) on DACA be included in any budget deal, but the deal must also exclude any funding for the border wall. Last week, Sen. scum-Dick Durbin (D-IL) sought to sabotage any potential progress toward a budget deal when he ran to reporters after a closed-door meeting to blast Donald Trump for allegedly using crass language. The stunt proved successful, giving the Leftmedia another faux controversy to exploit while continuing to aid Democrats in their anti-Trump resistance. Democrat duplicity and deceit knows no bounds.
The Democrats are angling for a government shutdown for purely political reasons, even while claiming to be seeking to keep programs such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funded — even after Republicans have been more than willing to reauthorize funding.
As The Wall Street Journal editorial board explains, “Democrats think a shutdown will improve their chances of retaking the House and Senate in November. Everything they do, every decision they make, is a political calculation with that in mind. Thus supposedly grave moral choices like children’s health care and legal status for immigrants are more important as political battering rams than as policy accomplishments. Dysfunction is desirable because Republicans are nominally in charge and will get the blame.”
So, if this standoff results in yet another government shutdown, the party to blame will be the Democrats, even as their cohorts in the mainstream media are already seeking to convince Americans otherwise. Talk about fake news. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53549-democrats-seek-a-government-shutdown
It isn't Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you
Blogger for the the Coalition for Trump
Unlike Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s sharia-compliant New York City public schools, one Long Island school district will not be bribed or coerced into closing schools for two Muslim holidays each year
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has again rejected adding two Muslim holidays to the 2018-2019 school closings calendar. After nearly four hours of heated debate from the public, the Hewlett-Woodmere Board of Education voted NOT to approve school closings for the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid Al Adha. Muslims comprise only a tiny minority of students in this district.
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LI Herald “The common reason for discomfort in adding the Eid holidays was a lack of confidence in having a strong enough secular purpose for adding the holiday,” said Board President Scott McInnes. He stressed that the decision was influenced by discussions with legal counsel, not by comments made by the public last week.
Emotions ran high when roughly 200 parents, students, alumni and residents attended a Hewlett-Woodmere Board of Education work session on Jan. 10, at which trustees decided against including the Muslim holidays of Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha on the 2018-19 school calendar.
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Eid al Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, when Muslims fast during the day. On Eid al Fitr, they feast with family members and friends after a morning prayer, and children often receive gifts in honor of the good deeds they performed during Ramadan. Eid al Adha marks the end of the Hajj, or trip to Mecca, when family and friends gather to reflect on family values and sacrifice.
(They also perform the barbaric Islamic ritual of cutting fully conscious animals throats just deep enough so they don’t die instantly, but rather needlessly suffer agonizing pain for serveral minutes beofre they finally succumb and die in the streets. Small children are encouraged to watch and participate in this savage display of animal cruelty thoughout the Muslim world)
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Shahnaz Mallik, who has a grandchild in the district, began submitting petitions to the district last February. She collected more than 200 signatures on one of them, but many residents objected to the fact that a majority of the signatures were from people outside the district.
Mallik had also spoken on the issue several times at previous board meetings. “Many Muslims at many schools in this district should have the same opportunity and respect that students of other faiths have,” she said. “Muslim students should be able to celebrate their most holy days of Eid without having to worry about missing any schoolwork.”
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The district’s attorney, John Gross, said that he would be comfortable going to court to defend the district’s decision to add the Muslim holidays to the calendar, noting that the Supreme Court has not ruled on the constitutionality of closing school on religious holidays.
A text message, forwarded to the Herald by several sources after the meeting, urged people to attend the session. The message read, in part, “Most importantly, observance of a Muslim holiday will draw other religious Muslims to the area, which eventually would make our houses value go down, as no decent person would want to buy a house next to that. The demographics will change and our properties will be worthless.”
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It was uncertain how widely the message was circulated. But it raised concern about Islamophobia in the Hewlett-Woodmere area. The meeting was tense. Board President Scott McInnes asked people to stop interrupting one another several times.
In an obvious quid pro quo to Muslims for financially supporting his campaign for NYC Mayor, one of DeBlasio’s very first moves upon becoming mayor was to declare that all NYC schools would be closed for two Muslim holidays every year.
On the other hand, in the Montgomery County school district in Maryland, officials refused the demand to close schools for Muslim holidays. Instead, there will no longer be any religious designation to school holidays, which means Christmas vacation will be now called Winter Break. So far, there will be no school closings for Muslim holidays under any name.
Newt Gingrich: Trump's first year proves we are incredibly fortunate to have him as our president
Posted by William M. Finley
Blogger for the the Coalition for Trump
President Trump's first year in office: A look back
January 20, 2018 marks the one year anniversary of President Trump taking office. Here is a look back at the ups and downs of 365 days unlike any other in American politics.
Here’s my assessment of President Trump as we mark the first anniversary of his inauguration Saturday: I have known nine presidents, beginning with President Richard Nixon. Of those nine, the only one who was as effective as President Trump in his first year was President Ronald Reagan.
That judgment may surprise a lot of people, because the opposition in the news media and among the left-wing “resistance” has been so strong and one-sided that they have consistently misrepresented and maligned President Trump and his administration.
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This effort has produced a distorted, minimized view of what has been accomplished by this remarkably energetic and controversial commander-in-chief.
To understand the current distortions, remember what a year ago was like.
(Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
In January 2017, it seemed amazing that this businessman-publicist-marketer defeated 16 other Republicans for the GOP nomination and then defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the presidency.
It seemed equally extraordinary that Donald Trump carried Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in the presidential election. These were states that had consistently voted for Democratic presidential candidates in recent years. One could have made a lot of money betting on the entire trifecta going to Trump.
So, in a highly polarized world of intense media hostility with overwhelmingly negative coverage of President Trump, how can we assess his first year?
These achievements sent the left into a state of shock. The day after President Trump’s inauguration, they organized mass rallies in Washington and other cities across the country.
Left-wing protestors promised “resistance” to the so-called “imposter,” who they simply could not accept as president of the United States. At the rally on the National Mall, Madonna proclaimed: “I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.” The crowd loved it.
Professor Allen Guelzo, the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College, commented that the last time we saw this depth of hostility and contempt for a president was after the election of Abraham Lincoln. The slave owners of the South absolutely loathed him.
One year after President Trump’s inauguration, the left’s hostility toward him is even worse.
The White House press corps’ reaction to White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson’s briefing on President Trump’s annual physical was a perfect example of this hostility. The media’s antagonistic (and just plain stupid) questions proved the propaganda war against Trump was not going away.
Dr. Jackson – a highly respected Navy rear admiral, who served as a physician in both the Bush and Obama White Houses – clearly and explicitly reported to the media that President Trump was in excellent physical health for his age and that he had completed a flawless cognitive exam.
Yet the White House press corps doggedly repeated ludicrous questions, clearly seeking to undermine the doctor’s assessment and skew his report to fit the phony narrative that the president is “unfit for office.”
This Trump Derangement Syndrome that the media unfortunately suffer from has become a major barrier to accurate coverage of the Trump presidency.
(Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
So, in a highly polarized world of intense media hostility with overwhelmingly negative coverage of President Trump, how can we assess his first year?
The best way is to look at results and measure them against what candidate Trump said he would try to accomplish.
Trump promised to appoint conservative judges to the federal courts. He received advice from Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society. He also benefitted from remarkable leadership in the Senate by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. R-Ky. And then President Trump nominated and won confirmation for Neil Gorsuch for a seat on the Supreme Court.
Gorsuch is a justice dramatically more conservative than anyone Hillary Clinton would have appointed. Additionally, in Trump’s first year in the White House, 12 federal appellate court judges have been approved by the Senate.
As Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, pointed out, no other first-year president has seated this many appellate court judges in the 228-year history of the appellate courts.
President Trump is also now, without question, the all-time champion of rolling back red tape, as he has taken on the Washington bureaucracy and deregulation. Under President Trump, Congress has eliminated 14 Obama-era regulations through the Congressional Review Act.
The current estimate is that the Trump administration is repealing 22 regulations for every new one it has created. This is a major contribution to economic growth and a big plus in implementing campaign promises.
President Trump promised a new, smarter, lower-risk strategy to enable the military to do its job and defeat ISIS. ISIS has lost virtually all its territory at minimum risk. This is yet another promise kept.
Iran and North Korea must be considered works in progress. Neither problem has been solved but neither has imposed its will up to now.
Announcing that the American Embassy in Israel would be moved to Jerusalem is another campaign promise on which the president followed through, and it doesn't seem to have caused any major disruption in the Arab world.
President Trump’s instincts for rebuilding the American military are right, but he has not yet solved the problem of getting Congress to pass the stable funding stream the military must have.
On the other hand, the president methodically waged a disciplined 11-month campaign to get the large tax cut he believes the American economy needs if it is to grow faster.
The response of the American business community to the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has been more positive and more visible than anyone could have hoped.
President Trump is also making good on his pledge to make better trade deals for America. Saudi Arabia alone signed as much as $400 billion in contracts with American companies during the president’s visit to Riyadh.
As a result of President Trump’s economic leadership, the “new normal” of less than 2 percent annual economic growth is rapidly being replaced by estimates in the range of 3.5 to 4 percent.
At the same time, the black unemployment rate is down dramatically, and CEO and small business confidence are up dramatically.
The first year has seen some disappointments. Failing to repeal ObamaCare was painful. Not getting started on infrastructure has been disappointing. Failing to develop conservative solutions for poverty in America has been unfortunate. Allowing symbolic language and arguments about race to drive people apart has been counter to the promise inherent in President Trump’s Inaugural Address.
However, on balance, it is fair to say President Trump has already achieved so much that he rivals Reagan as an effective, focused leader. We are incredibly fortunate to have him in the White House as our nation’s 45th president.
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Did Donald Trump Change
His Mind on Domestic Spying?
by Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Trump Calls clown-Schumer’s Bluff in
WH Meeting Over Govt Funding, Squatter Amnesty
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ You almost have to laugh at the transparent politics and its supporting propaganda spewing out of the mainstream media... although our military men and women and their families certainly won’t find being Chuck clown-Schumer’s bargaining chip humorous. Leftist online rag Roll Call reported, “Minority Leader Charles E. clown-Schumer left the Capitol for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Friday afternoon with a chance to broker a government shutdown-averting deal with President Donald Trump — and without Republican lawmakers in the room.” One of the functions of the Congress is to fund the government. It’s not to hold funding hostage as a means of gaining concessions from the opposition party but to allocate funds so that the rest of the government can operate... https://rickwells.us/trump-schumer-bluff-amnesty/.
Congress seeks release of secret doc
revealing liar-nObama as 'vengeful narcissist
by BOB UNRUH
{wnd.com} ~ A top-secret memo that has been released to members of Congress, but still is being withheld from the American public... characterizes Barack liar-nObama as “the vengeful narcissist” and alleges surveillance abuses by his administration that one representative likened to the work of Russia’s KGB. The document, released to members by the House Intelligence Committee, centers on the the controversy over unmasking and FISA surveillance, reported FoxNews.com. The House Intelligence Committee Thursday approved a motion by Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., to release it to all House members, with Democrats opposing the move. Lawmakers said they could not yet discuss the contents, but now there’s an effort to make the memo available to the public... http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/congress-seeks-release-of-secret-doc-revealing-obama-as-vengeful-narcissist/.
Media Smother Indictment in liar-Clinton/
liar-nObama Uranium One Russia Deal
by William F. Jasper
{thenewamerican.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton, Barack liar-nObama, Robert Mueller, and other top “Deep State” operatives are undoubtedly very nervous about a federal grand jury indictment... that was handed down recently. On Friday, January 12, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment that has the potential to start a chain reaction regarding the long-simmering Uranium One case, which we have been reporting on for several years. The new indictment could lead to the investigation and prosecution of former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director Robert Mueller now a special prosecutor, and former President Barack liar-nObama — all of whom were involved in a deal that transferred 20 percent or more of U.S. uranium production to Russia. Unlike the empty conspiracy theory in the “Russia collusion” fishing expedition led by Mueller against President Trump, the Uranium One case involves real conspiracy fact and is of utmost concern to our national security. According to a Department of Justice statement issued on January 12, the 11-count indictment charges Maryland resident Mark Lambert with “one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to commit wire fraud, seven counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of international promotion money laundering.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28073-media-smother-indictment-in-clinton-obama-uranium-one-russia-deal.
Sheriff: FBI Has Ongoing Case
Against Individual Other Than Paddock
by JUSTIN CARUSO
{dailycaller.com} ~ Las Vegas sheriff Joe Lombardo revealed that there is an ongoing FBI case against an “individual of federal interest”... other than Stephen Paddock or his girlfriend Marilou Danley. “We do not anticipate charges being brought forward against Marilou Danley,” Lombardo said in his first press conference on the shooting since October 2017. “As to any other people, the FBI has an ongoing case against an individual of federal interest,” he continued. “I will not be able to elaborate on that statement as because it’s a pending investigation. Any further information in reference to that individual can be provided by the FBI.”... http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/19/sheriff-fbi-ongoing-case-against-individual-other-than-paddock-video/?utm_medium=email.
President Trump Addresses March for Life Participants and Pro-Life Leaders
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Jim Acosta Doing What He Does Best, Looking Stupid.
Gen. Mattis: Shutdown Would Harm Military Operations.
Malkin on Kimmel Pushing Dem Talking Points With Advice From clown-Schumer.
Is commie-Bernie Sanders Getting Dementia?.
Leftist NY Gov. Cuomo Would Rather Raise Taxes Than Allow Fracking.
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Did Donald Trump Change
His Mind on Domestic Spying?
{townhall.com} ~ Late last week, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, repeated his public observations that members of the intelligence community -- particularly the CIA, the NSA and the intelligence division of the FBI -- are not trustworthy with the nation's intelligence secrets. Because he has a security clearance at the "top secret" level and knows how others who have access to secrets have used and abused them, his allegations are extraordinary.
He pointed to the high-ranking members of the liar-nObama administration who engaged in unmasking the names of some people whose communications had been captured by the country's domestic spies and the revelation of those names for political purposes. The most notable victim of this lawlessness is retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, a transcript of whose surveilled conversation with then-Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak found its way into print in The Washington Post.
During the George W. Bush and Barack liar-nObama years, captured communications -- digital recordings of telephone conversations and copies of emails and text messages -- did not bear the names of those who sent or received them. Those names were stored in a secret file. The revelation of those names is called unmasking.
Nunes also condemned the overt pro-liar-Hillary Clinton bias and anti-Trump prejudice manifested by former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey and their agents in the field, some of whose texts and emails we have seen. The secrets that he argued were used for political purposes had been obtained by the National Security Agency pursuant to warrants issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Yet Nunes voted to enhance federal bulk surveillance powers.
Bulk surveillance -- which is prohibited by the Constitution -- is the acquisition of digital versions of telephone, email and text communications based not on suspicion or probable cause but rather on geography or customer status. As I have written before, one publicly available bulk surveillance warrant was for all Verizon customers in the United States; that's 115 million people, many of whom have more than one phone and at least one computer. And it is surveillance of Americans, not foreigners as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act contemplates.
How did this happen?
It happened in the dark. The NSA has persuaded the FISC, which meets in secret and only hears the government's arguments, to permit it to spy on any American it wishes on the theory that all Americans know someone who knows someone else who knows someone who could have spoken to a foreign person working for a foreign government that could wish us ill.
This is the so-called judicial logic used to justify the search warrant on all of Verizon's customers. This is what happens when judges hear only one side of a dispute and do so in secret.
The FISA amendments for which Nunes and other House members voted, which are likely to pass in the Senate, would purport to make bulk surveillance on all Americans lawful. At present, it is lawful only because the FISC has authorized it. The FISA amendments would write this into federal legislation for the next six years.
And these amendments would permit the FBI and any American prosecutor or law enforcement agency -- federal, state or local -- to sweep into the NSA's databases, ostensibly looking for evidence of crime. If this were to become law, there would no longer be any unmasking scandals, because the stored data contains the names of the participants in the communications and would be readily available for harassment, blackmail or political use.
It would also mean that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution -- which guarantees privacy in our persons, houses, papers and effects -- would have been gutted by the very officeholders who swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend it.
Does the American public know this? Does the president?
Last week, I made an impassioned plea on Fox News Channel directly to the president. I reminded him that he personally has been victimized by unlawful surveillance and the political use of sensitive surveillance-captured data; that the Constitution requires warrants for surveillance and they must specifically describe the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized; that warrants must be based on probable cause of individual behavior, not an area code or customer list; that the purpose of these requirements is to preserve personal privacy and prohibit bulk surveillance; and that he took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.
About an hour later, the president issued a tweet blasting bulk surveillance and unmasking. Two hours after that, he issued another tweet supporting the enactment of the FISA amendments.
What's going on here?
I suspect that leaders in the intelligence community hurriedly convinced the president that if he sets aside his personal unhappy experiences with them and any constitutional qualms, they will use the carte blanche in the FISA amendments to keep us safe. This is a sad state of affairs. It means that Donald Trump changed his mind 180 degrees on the primacy of personal liberty in our once-free society.
The elites in the federal government and the deep state -- the parts of the government that are unauthorized by the Constitution and that operate in the dark, what candidate Trump called "the swamp" -- have formed a consensus that marches the might of the government toward total Orwellian surveillance.
This is a march that will be nearly impossible to stop. This is the permanent destruction of the right to privacy. This is the exaltation of safety over liberty, and it will lead to neither. This is the undoing of limited government, right before our eyes.
It isn't Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you
Posted by William M. Finley
Blogger for the the Coalition for Trump
Parents and taxpayers in Charleston, West Virginia, are starting to ask questions about what’s going on in their public schools after teachers were recently targeted by what appears to have been a brazen violation of separation of mosque and state.
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LeoHohmann (h/t Susan K) Kanawha County Schools Superintendent Dr. Ronald Duerring gave his approval for the Islamic Association of West Virginia to place personal invitations into each teacher’s school mailbox to attend a “Get to Know Your Muslim Student Event” at the mosque on Jan. 25.
“We came back from lunch [on Jan. 4] and found them in our mailboxes,” said a teacher who asked not to be identified for fear of professional repercussions.
The invitation included a request for teachers to “Please RSVP by Jan. 19.” See the invitation below.
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The invitation appeared in the teacher mailboxes of at least three Charleston-area schools:
- South Charleston High School
- John Adams Middle School
- Ruthlawn Elementary
When contacted by a local resident in his district and asked about the Muslim outreach to teachers, Duerring said he had spoken with the school-district attorney, Jim Withrow, who said there “wasn’t a problem” with regard to church-state issues.
Duerring, reached by phone Thursday afternoon, said he did not consider it at all controversial for schools in his district to be allowing mosque leaders access to their teachers. “That’s not a controversy for us and, no, I am not going to answer any of your questions,” Duerring said before abruptly ending the conversation.
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Brenda Arthur, a local insurance broker who leads the Greater Charleston ACT For America chapter, says she will approach the Kanawha County Board of Education at its Thursday night meeting on Jan. 18 to address the controversial invitations.
“I told them this is, to us, an egregious violation of the separation of church and state. They only give you five minutes, so I’ve got to give it my best shot,” said Arthur, a Jewish American who feels her tax dollars should not be going toward the promotion of Islam in the schools. Arthur said Islam appears to be advancing its agenda throughout West Virginia in a series of aggressive moves.
The city’s only mosque – Islamic Association of West Virginia – doubled in size about two years ago. CAIR, or the Council on American Islamic Relations, announced plans last year to open an office in Charleston, likely in anticipation of a second wave of 100 Muslim refugees arriving from Syria.
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Because of a citizen backlash, however, that second wave never happened. After Donald Trump took office in January he drastically lowered the ceiling on the number of refugee arrivals, from 110,000 under Obama down to 50,000 and then 45,000. The Episcopal-backed Interfaith Ministry’s big plans for more Syrians were nixed.
But the Muslim Student Association and other Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups have been upping their game in the state ever since. The MSA joined with the San Jose, California-based Islamic Networks Group, or ING, to put on a seminar at the mosque for students.
Islamic Network Group was founded by Maha El Genaidi, who once advised American Muslims not to talk with FBI agents without an attorney present, and to notify CAIR or the Muslim Public Affairs Council of any investigative inquiries.
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CAIR, ING, MSA and other Islamist organizations often approach schools under the guise of being concerned about bullying, then use that to leverage special concessions for Muslim students, such as Islamic prayer rooms, separate food arrangements, etc.
It wasn’t but about six weeks after the November bullying seminar at one Charleston high school that the invitations for teachers to come to the city’s only mosque appeared in mailboxes. And the advancement of Islam in West Virginia hasn’t stopped there.
Another teacher who asked not to be identified for fear of losing her job, said she was one of about 40 teachers at her school who received the invitation to the mosque. She said reactions to the invitation varied among her colleagues.
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“I actually found it first and told a friend who is also a teacher. She’s pretty disturbed about the whole thing. My first reaction was disbelief. “Some teachers were very offended by it,” she added. She said most of the teachers are afraid to say anything about the invitations. But a few have voiced concerns that it may look bad for their careers if they don’t attend the event.
If the effort to get teachers indoctrinated into the belief system of Islam can happen in West Virginia, it can happen anywhere, says Mathew Staver, executive director and lead attorney with Liberty Counsel.
“I think this invitation crosses the line because it specifically indicates that the teachers are invited to come to the mosque with a Muslim association to learn about the religion of Islam, that’s the sole purpose of it, not only to learn about their culture but about the Islamic religion,” Staver said. “It was authorized by the superintendent and the principals to be sent to all the teachers in at least three schools. It would be no different than a church sending out an invitation to come and learn about the Christian students and particularly their Christian faith.”
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If it had been a similar outreach by a Christian church, instead of a mosque, Staver said he feels certain the ACLU and the Freedom from Religion Foundation would be putting the school district on notice about a violation of the so-called “establishment clause” of the First Amendment.
Staver said he can’t imagine that any other faith would get this type of inside access to the teachers to invite them to a specific event designed for the teachers to learn about their religion.
“Who would think that little West Virginia would be a target but these are exactly the kind of places they think they can go into and get a foothold without anybody noticing,” said Arthur, a native West Virginian who moved back to the state in 2013.
We didn’t know at the time they were intending to establish a second Muslim resettlement site here. Looking back, when you put the pieces together it makes all the sense in world why they did it because they were expecting a second wave of migration. That’s been shelved for now, Trump happened.”
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In Augusta County, Virginia, parent of 9th grade students were shocked when the class was told to copy the Shahada, the Islamic statement of faith which translates to, “there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” A concerned parent said “she felt the assignment tried to indoctrinate her child into the Islamic religion.
“There was no trying about it. The sheet that she (the teacher) gave out was pure indoctrinate in its origin,” said Herndon.
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President Donald J. Trump had arguably the best first year for any President in US history since Washington – in spite of massive headwinds from the actions of the corrupt and criminal prior administration, the Democrat Party and their MSM! Below is a list of his major accomplishments.
President Trump was inaugurated on January 20th, 2017, one year ago. Since then his accomplishments are nothing short of miraculous. In spite of massive attacks from the MSM, an investigation created through the efforts of the prior corrupt administration, and a Democrat Party that does all they can to derail him, the President kept his promises and did all he could to Make America Great Again. The results speak for themselves.
The Economy –
The US stock market is a barometer of economic activity and since President Trump was elected President it has skyrocketed.
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The stock market on Wednesday, January 17th, 2018, this past week, says it all. On that day the Dow broke 26,000 points for the first time in its history. As a result the Dow broke the record for the fastest 500, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 and 7,000 point increases between major milestones in the history of the Dow. All of these increases occurred since Donald Trump was elected President.
The Dow today stands at 26,071.7. It is up 42% since the 2016 election and 31% since last year’s inauguration. The Dow had more all-time closing highs in 2017 than any year in history. President Trump enjoys 95 all-time highs since his election and 78 since his inauguration. The Dow is up an amazing 7,739 points since the election.
Americans of all walks of life are seeing their 401k’s explode because of President Trump.
Today there are more people working than at any time in US history. More than 2 million new jobs were created in 2017 under President Trump and as a result more than 160 million people are working in the US today.
President Trump increased the GDP growth rate to above 3% in the 2nd and 3rd Quarters and the 4th Quarter was sizzling. President Trump could reach a 3% GDP growth rate his first year in office, an annual GDP that the US hasn’t seen in a decade. At the end of the 3rd Quarter the national GDP reached $19.5 trillion for the highest recorded GDP in US history.
The President’s tax plan passed in late December and is already benefiting Americans and American companies. Employees will see increases in their pay next month due to the lower Federal taxes. Millions of Americans have received bonuses due to the tax cuts and major companies have announced plans to move capital and operations to the US due to these cuts. The benefits of these cuts haven’t even transpired yet but the excitement amongst workers and companies is electric. 2018 is poised to have one of the greatest economies in US history!
Foreign Policy
President Trump vowed to destroy ISIS. Despite President Obama saying that ISIS will be around for a generation, these murderers and terrorists in the Middle East were decimated over the past year. Both Syria and Iraq have declared victory over ISIS and due to President Trump’s resolve, less than 1,000 ISIS fighters are estimated remaining.
President Trump met with the Pope, leaders of 50 Muslim countries and Israeli and European leaders in his first trip abroad. He demanded that the Muslim leaders remove radicals from their countries.
The President refused sending Pakistan security assistance in the millions due to the Pakistani’s harboring terrorists. He stopped an Obama last minute $221 million transfer to Palestine and cut aid to Palestinians in half. He showed that the US is unwilling to work with Muslim entities that support radical Islam.
On President Trump’s successful trip to Asia he bundled an estimated $300 billion in deals for the US. He met with Asian leaders and was the first US President and foreign leader to dine in China’s Forbidden City since the founding of modern China.
US Policy
The President named and successfully put in place a new Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch. He signed more than 90 executive actions in his first 100 days alone. The actions included –
* Dismantling Obama’s climate change initiatives.
* Travel bans for individuals from a select number of countries embroiled in terrorist atrocities.
* Enforcing regulatory reform.
* Protecting Law enforcement.
* Mandating for every new regulation to eliminate two.
* Defeating ISIS.
* Rebuilding the military.
* Building a border wall.
* Cutting funding for sanctuary cities.
* Approving Keystone and Dakota pipelines.
* Reducing regulations on manufacturers.
* Placing a hiring freeze on federal employees.
* Exiting the US from the TPP.
The list of POTUS 45’s successes goes on and on.
Undoubtedly there is more to do. The wall is not yet in place and Democrats are willing to shut down the government and stop providing money to our troops so that illegals are given citizenship. The FBI and DOJ are headed by Obama leftovers who are involved in corrupt and criminal activities. A bogus investigation was created by these scoundrels and the current AG who recused himself from anything Russia appears to be inept and sleeping. But based on President Trump’s performance to date, he will address these issues successfully in due time as well.
Overall President Trump’s first year in office was outstanding. He was attacked from all sides at times and stood tall and to his principles. America is stronger and greater than ever before. The economy is growing and the world is safer. 2017 was certainly one of the greatest years in US history. President Trump kept his promises and has truly Made America Great A
William FinleyBlogger for the the Coalition for TrumpTrump accuses Democrats of 'holding our Military hostage' over shutdown impasse
Posted by William M. Finley
Blogger for the the Coalition for Trump
Trump waits for Senate action on short-term funding
The White House is trying to deflect any responsibility if there is no agreement, while the OMB director is pointing out there is nothing in the temporary spending bill that the Democrats oppose; John Roberts has the roundup for 'Special Report.'
President Trump blamed Democratic lawmakers for a government shutdown Saturday, accusing them of “holding our Military hostage” over their demand that a short-term spending bill include protection for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children.
“Democrats are holding our Military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration,” he tweeted. “Can’t let that happen!”
Earlier in the day, he blasted Democrats for playing ‘Shutdown politics’ instead of working to make a deal with their counterparts across the aisle.
“They could have easily made a deal but decided to play Shutdown politics instead,” said Trump, who on Saturday officially marked his first year in office.
Congress overnight failed to reach an agreement on a temporary spending bill to keep the federal government from running out of money. It has resulted in the temporary shuttering of at least some agencies and services and furloughing some non-essential employees.
The GOP-led House passed a temporary spending measure earlier this week but it failed in the Senate, where the Republican Party has just a 51-49 member majority.
House and Senate members remain on Capitol Hill this weekend. The House is holding a rare Saturday session, but procedural moves in the Senate will likely mean no final resolution until at least Monday.
“For those asking, the Republicans only have 51 votes in the Senate, and they need 60,” Trump said in another tweet Saturday. “That is why we need to win more Republicans in 2018 Election! We can then be even tougher on Crime (and Border), and even better to our Military & Veterans!”
Republicans have said the stalemate is essentially the result of Democrats wanting the temporary bill to include protections for illegal immigrants brought as children to the United States, considering Trump is winding down Obama-era protections from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Democrats have said Republican proposals have also come up short on funding for such concerns as the opioid crisis and hurricane disaster relief for Puerto Rico.
Trump on Saturday also tweeted: “This is the One Year Anniversary of my Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present. #DemocratShutdown."
Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
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Every Intelligence Committee Democrat votes against letting full House see facts about Trump campaign wiretap warrants
( The Socialist Democratic Party is the party of criminals, dishonest, treason, conspiracy and the enemy of the AMERICAN PEOPLE who choose the well fair of Muslims and illegals over the AMERICAN PEOPLE! They are the reason our country is in this mess!!
Nov. 8th 2018 is our next election we must remove these SOCIALIST!!!! )
Principles for a FREE SOCIETY
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Published by: Dan Calabrese on Friday January 19th, 2018
What are they afraid of?
Remember how hard the Justice Department and the FBI fought to not have to turn over documents concerning their pursuit of a warrant to wiretap Trump campaign official Carter Page in 2016? Remember how the House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed the documents in August, but had to deal with constant foot-dragging and excuses until Paul Ryan had to threaten them with a contempt of Congress charge to finally get access to the documents?
If you're any sort of critical thinker, it made you wonder what they were hiding - especially since it appears they may have used the fake Steele dossier to convince the FISA court to issue a warrant to wiretap Page. That would mean a Democrat administration got permission under false pretenses to spy on a Republican presidential campaign. That's bigger than Watergate.
Well. The House Intelligence Committee finally got to see the documents it wanted, including the FISA warrant application. So if the Steele dossier was in fact the primary basis for that wiretap warrant, the committee members are now aware of it. But they didn't get to keep copies. They were only allowed to view them and take notes. As a result, some committee members drafted a memo summarizing the facts they learned from viewing these documents. And on Thursday, the committee voted to make these memos available to all House members.
That measure passed, but guess who voted against it. Yep. Every Democrat on the committee:
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes also moved Thursday to release to the public his committee’s interview with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson. Every Democrat joined Republicans in voting for that public disclosure. Yet every Democrat voted against letting the rest of the House see a memo that will list the facts about the FBI’s use of FISA warrants to surveil members of the Trump campaign in 2016. Strange. What are Democrats afraid of?
Ranking Democrat Adam Schiff has been a loud voice for accountability regarding the Trump-Russia probe, but his outrage evaporates regarding the role that Fusion GPS and its Democratic financiers may have played in persuading the FBI to seek a warrant to eavesdrop on American civilians. What were the FBI’s reasons and the evidence it used to seek such an extraordinary writ?
All of this is relevant to the House’s recent vote to extend Section 702 that allows law enforcement to monitor foreigners. Mr. Nunes provided two closed briefings to Republicans last week as they prepared to renew Section 702, and he assured Members that he’d seen no evidence that government had abused 702 powers. But he also said he had seen evidence that law enforcement misused powers involving the surveillance of U.S. citizens as part of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign.
Thus the vote to let all Members see a memo describing relevant classified documents at intelligence agencies. The Constitution and Congress impose strict rules on government surveillance of U.S. citizens, and the FISA court relies on the integrity of law enforcement when granting warrants. If a senior Member of the House is attesting to abuse, all of Congress should see the evidence before deciding how to respond.
The FBI is telling members of Congress that sharing this document with the entire House will endanger national security. But every member of Congress has a high-level security clearance, although I can understand why you'd be nervous about letting the likes of Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee or Hank Johnson see truly sensitive information. But remember, they're not releasing the FISA application itself - only a summary of the facts learned from looking at it. I don't know how explicitly the memo writer laid out the facts, but my guess is that he/she took care to protect sources and methods in the course of doing so.
Then again, are sources and methods not what the FBI and Democrats really fear at all? Democrats are invested in nothing like they are the Trump/Russia collusion narrative, and it's learned the whole thing was based on a pack of lies, they're going to have a hard time recovering from that politically. As for the FBI, if they were the ones who took the lies and ran with them out of partisan motives to influence a presidential election, the agency is going to have a very hard time recovering its reputation.
Did that happen? It seems this memo offers us some answers. And only one of the two parties wants the full House to see what's in it.
Why do you suppose that is?
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I just can't figure out the Democrats reasoning, they are not logical.
Why can't Demorats put AMERICA first, not ILLEGALS first.
Or maybe I just reached that age at 86 when nothing makes any sense anymore?
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Newly released Clinton emails include classified messages, show knowledge of security problems: watchdog
A conservative watchdog group on Friday released 78 pages of new Hillary Clinton emails –three of which contained classified information and others that revealed the former secretary of state knew about potential security issues with her private email server.
The State Department turned over the new emails to Judicial Watch as part of the group’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, which is on an accelerated schedule of production ordered by U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg.
Boasberg ordered the State Department to complete processing of the remaining 72,000 pages recovered by the FBI in its investigation into Clinton’s private email server by Sept. 28, 2018.
Judicial Watch said the new emails appear to be among those that Clinton had attempted to delete or had otherwise failed to disclose.
“The fact that Hillary Clinton and her agents tried to destroy or hide emails shows how she flagrantly and knowingly violated the laws that protect classified information and government records,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “And these new emails refute Hillary Clinton’s repeated claims of having little or no knowledge about her email system. She clearly was fully in charge of setting up her outlaw email system and overseeing its use.”
The new emails reveal Clinton’s apparent knowledge of “system vulnerabilities” with her non-state.gov email address.
One email on June 6, 2011 from Clinton aide Justin Cooper, who asked State Department IT aide Bryan Pagliano to set up Clinton’s private email server, warned about “overseas” security issues with her emails and BlackBerry devices.
“All of your older messages will remain on the server. There is a way for me to move everything onto the new device, but the security whizzes have convinced me that this is a horrible thing to do because you also transfer any viruses, spyware and junk overseas providers hide on there,” Cooper wrote in the email. “We also have some new security features and policies [sic] that I would like to add to any new berry you have –the most noticeable difference will require a more complex password. It is a constant fight to keep up with the security measures and unfortunately we keep seeing reminders of why we need to.”
Throughout the FBI investigation, and congressional probes into the private email server, Clinton claimed she wasn’t involved in issues involving the “email system.”
But new emails show exchanges between Clinton and top aides, like Pagliano and Cooper, who helped to set up the servers, discussing backups of emails and the setting up of Clinton’s ipad.
Cooper reportedly had no security clearance.
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Big Brother on America's Fishing Boats
by Michelle Malkin.
Dobbs, Farrell – Release Intel Memo, Americans
Must See Systemic Corruption at DOJ, FBI
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch joins Lou Dobbs to discuss the Intelligence Committee memo... that names names and offenses in instances of corruption and abuse of power targeting candidate and President Trump in an effort to overthrow our President through the abuse of the FISA surveillance program. He plays a clip of Rep Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who, along with a handful of his colleagues, is calling for the memo to be made public so that the American people can see what the corrupt Democrats under Hussein liar-nObama were doing to subvert our government by the people. Farrell points to gross over classification that is preventing the American people from seeing the memo detailing what the corrupt officials, who are still at work, were and are doing. He says that if Americans knew what was going on “heads would roll,” as Rep Gaetz indicated... https://rickwells.us/dobbs-farrell-corruption-doj-fbi/.
Trump Shoots Down
Senate Liberals’ Amnesty Bill
{Iconservativehq.com} ~ f you read or watch the establishment news media, you might have read that President Trump rejected the “bipartisan immigration compromise”... proposed by Senators RINO-Flake (R-AZ) and scum-Durbin (D-IL). The reality is that what President Trump rejected was “bipartisan” only in that it was negotiated between a liberal Democrat scum-Durbin and a liberal Republican RINO-Flake and it in no way represented a “compromise” between opposing viewpoints on how to solve America’s illegal immigration crisis. RINO-Flake and scum-Durbin group also includes Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet (CO) and Bob Menendez (N.J.) and Republican Sens. Cory Gardner (CO) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.). The group has been discussing for months an amnesty deal, but we wouldn’t really call that a “negotiation,” since they all agree on granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and doing as little immigration enforcement as possible... http://www.conservativehq.com/node/27232
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BREAKING DOJ
To Re-Try This Corrupt Democrat
by Matt Friedman
{trumptrainnews.com} ~ Two months after a jury failed to come to a verdict in the corruption case against Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez... and co-defendant Salomon Melgen, the Justice Department on Friday said they want to retry him. The department filed a one paragraph notice of intent in federal to retry the case. “The United States files this notice of intent to retry the defendants and requests that the Court set the case for retrial at the earliest possible date,” reads the notice, signed by Annalou Tirol, acting chief of the public integrity section. “Defendants Robert Menendez and Salomon Melgen have been indicted for bribery and corruption by two separate grand juries properly empaneled in the District of New Jersey. The first trial ended in a mistrial with a deadlocked jury. An early retrial date is in the best interests of the public, and the United States is available to schedule a retrial at the Court’s earliest convenience.”... http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/breaking-doj-to-re-try-this-corrupt-democrat
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President Trump Calls Out Russia for
Helping North Korean Sanctions Evasion
by Mathew Ha, Boris Zilberman
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ “Russia is not helping us at all with North Korea,” President Trump said yesterday in an Oval Office interview with Reuters... “What China is helping us with, Russia is denting,” the president added. Trump is correct when he accuses Moscow of being complicit in the Kim regime’s efforts to evade sanctions. Although Moscow voted for the latest round of UN sanctions restricting North Korea’s access to petroleum, coal, and other key revenue sources, recent reports suggest there has been a noticeable increase in shipping traffic between North Korean ports and the Russian city of Vladivostok, located roughly 80 miles from the North Korean border. In September 2017, Treasury’s assistant secretary for terrorist financing, Marshall Billingslea, shared in a congressional hearing that both Russian and Chinese ports are allowing North Korean ships to off load coal in clear violation of UN sanctions. Reuters also revealed that Russian-flagged vessels directly engaged in ship-to-ship transfers as recently as October 2017. As President Trump insinuated, ongoing trade between North Korea and Russia is providing a lifeline to the Kim regime... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/mathew-ha-president-trump-calls-out-russia-for-helping-north-korean-sanctions-evasion/
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Sen. Chuck clown-Schumer meets with
President Trump amid budget logjam
by Adam Shaw.
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Big Brother on America's Fishing Boats
{townhall.com} ~ Salt water. Seagulls. Striped bass.
My fondest childhood memories come from fishing with my dad on the creaky piers and slick jetties of the Jersey shore. The Atlantic Ocean is in my blood. So when fishing families in New England reached out to me for help spreading word about their economic and regulatory struggles, I immediately heeded their call.
Now, these "forgotten men and women" of America hope the Trump administration will listen. And act.
The plague on the commercial fishing industry isn't "overfishing," as environmental extremists and government officials claim. The real threats to Northeastern groundfishermen are self-perpetuating bureaucrats, armed with outdated junk science, who've manufactured a crisis that endangers a way of life older than the colonies themselves.
Hardworking crews and captains have the deepest stake in responsible fisheries management -- it's their past, present, and future -- but federal paper-pushers monitor them ruthlessly like registered sex offenders.
Generations of schoolchildren have been brainwashed into believing that our seas have been depleted by greedy commercial fishermen. In the 1960s and 1970s, it is true, foreign factory trawlers from Russia and Japan pillaged coastal groundfish stocks. But after the domestic fishing industry regained control of our waters, stocks rebounded.
Reality, however, did not fit the agenda of scare-mongering environmentalists and regulators who need a perpetual crisis to justify their existence. To cure a manufactured "shortage" of bottom-dwelling groundfish, Washington micromanagers created a permanent thicket of regional fishery management councils, designated fishing zones, annual catch limits, individual catch limits and "observers" mandated by the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
Even more frustrating for the fishing families who know the habitat best, the federal scientists' trawler surveys for assessing stocks use faulty nets that vastly underestimate stock abundance.
Meghan Lapp, a lifelong fisherwoman and conservation biologist, points out that government surveyors use a "net that's not the right size for the vessel," which produces "a stock assessment that shows artificially low numbers. The fishing does not match what the fishermen see on the water."
Instead of fixing the science, top-down bureaucrats have cracked down on groundfishermen who fail to comply with impossible and unreasonable rules and regulations. The observer program, which was intended to provide biological data and research, was expanded administratively not by Congress to create "At Sea Monitors" who act solely as enforcement agents.
Yes, Big Brother dispatches a fleet of spies to track and ticket commercial fishing families while they work. And the biggest slap in the face? New England groundfishermen have to pay for it. A study done by the National Marine Fisheries Service estimates the program costs about $710 per day or $2.64 million per year.
Last fall, I visited the Williams family, which owns two fishing vessels based in Point Judith, Rhode Island, and Stonington, Connecticut, to see the crushing impact of this ever-intrusive bureaucracy for myself. Patriarch and small-business owner Tom Williams Sr. began fishing with his father-in-law in the 1960s. Son Tom Jr. captains the Heritage, which harvests cod, flounder and haddock. Son Aaron operates the Tradition, which harvests scup, whiting, squid and sea bass. Grandson Andrew, 20, is the fourth-generation fisherman in the family.
"What we do is feed America," soft-spoken Tom Sr. told me. "We're not just indiscriminately raping the ocean, we're trying to feed people -- feed them good, healthy, quality fish."
Long before he departs from the dock, Tom Jr. must seek permission to do his job.
"Before we sail, we have to do declarations on our boat tracks, which is a vessel monitoring system," Tom Jr. explained. "We have to declare what areas we're going to be fishing in. We also have to submit a sector-trip start hail and operator's permit number. ... Then you have to submit a daily task report, what area you were in, and all the species that you caught."
On top of all that, an at-sea observer boards the Williams' boats and bunks in tight quarters with the crew, looking over their shoulders at every turn. Over the years, the expanding reach of regulators has become overbearing and, as brother Aaron described it, "humiliating."
David Goethel, a boat captain and research biologist who served on the New England fishery management council, sued to overturn the unfunded at-sea monitoring mandate. But he was rebuffed by the U.S. Supreme Court last fall because he filed the suit too late.
He worries not only about his survival and the fate of the New England groundfishing industry, but about the precedent this power and money grab has set.
"There's nothing to stop other government agencies from doing an end-run on Congress to get a budget increase by passing off their regulatory cost to the regulated public," Goethel warned.
For his part, 20-year-old Andrew Williams hopes someone in Washington will ignore the environmental propaganda he has been taught in the classroom and get the facts.
Working on the seas "is all I ever known," he told me. "It started when I was 8 years old, and I never thought about doing anything else."
Like his family, neighbors and crewmates, he is hoping President Donald Trump can help make commercial fishing great again by getting government out of the way.
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Keep In Mind that Most of Democrats in Senate and Congress are Not True Democrats, They Are Marxists-Leninists-Communists Working Very Hard to Destroy United States by Taking Side with Illegal Invasion of USA, Anti-American Hate and Terrorists. There Will Be No Peace In This Country Until These Traitors are Arrested For Treason and an Accessory to Crimes. Looks Like That Democratic Voters Have No Brain and Heart Capacity to Vote for Decent People in Their Godless Democratic Party.
The Front Page Cover
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Extreme California Poverty Is
Tied to Unbounded Welfare
by Jordan Candler
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A Literal Border Wall?
by Political Editors: With President Donald Trump having just trotted out his “awards” for fake news, the mainstream media was again on the lookout for an opportunity to discredit him with his base. A seeming opportunity arose after a meeting between Trump’s Chief of Staff John Kelly and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The Washington Post reported that Kelly told the CHC that Trump had not been “fully informed” on the logistics of building a literal 2,000 mile border wall, and that the Mexican government would not be paying for the wall. Later Wednesday evening in an interview on Fox News, Kelly seemed to acknowledge the accuracy of the Post’s account, while he repeatedly praised Trump for his “flexibility.”
by Political Editors: With President Donald Trump having just trotted out his “awards” for fake news, the mainstream media was again on the lookout for an opportunity to discredit him with his base. A seeming opportunity arose after a meeting between Trump’s Chief of Staff John Kelly and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The Washington Post reported that Kelly told the CHC that Trump had not been “fully informed” on the logistics of building a literal 2,000 mile border wall, and that the Mexican government would not be paying for the wall. Later Wednesday evening in an interview on Fox News, Kelly seemed to acknowledge the accuracy of the Post’s account, while he repeatedly praised Trump for his “flexibility.” Thursday morning, Trump responded with a series of tweets in which he re-emphasized his commitment to building the border wall and having Mexico pay for it. Uh oh, is Trump clashing with Kelly? Is Trump changing his stance on immigration and securing the border? While the MSM would love for this to be the case, it’s far from it.
There is no doubt that Kelly has brought much-needed order to the White House, specifically regarding messaging consistency. What Kelly is doing here is clearing up misperceptions rather than suggesting any policy changes. Regarding the wall, Trump has been pretty consistent in saying he is not looking for a literal 2,000 mile physical barrier. Trump’s wall is the promise of a serious lasting commitment to finally secure America’s southern border, via a physical wall where needed, as well as increased Border Patrol and other measures where geography prohibits an actual wall. Trump has not backed off this campaign commitment, even though the MSM would love to convince his base that he has. As columnist Salena Zito observed during the 2016 campaign, “The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53570-a-literal-border-wall
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Actual DOJ, FBI PLOT to OVERTHROW
TRUMP Revealed By Intel Committee
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Thanks to the efforts of Rep Devin Nunes, House Intelligence Committee Chairman and a few of his House colleagues... bombshell information is now very close to being released to the American people. A memo from the Intelligence Committee to the members of Congress was released today highlighting what they have learned from documents Nunes forced the obstructionists at DOJ and FBI, specifically Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray after a deadline for following through with contempt of Congress charges passed. The memo, according to Rep Jim Jordan and Rep Matt Gaetz, who have long been calling for the release of this information and accountability at DOJ and the FBI, is going to lead to firings and the criminal prosecution of high-ranking government officials. The release of this information to the public will mark the beginning of the end but the investigation by the Intel Committee is nowhere near complete... https://rickwells.us/jordan-gaetz-obama-doj-fbi/.
Canada: "Islamophobia Day"? Are You Kidding?
by Tom Quiggin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is being asked by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM, formerly known as CAIR CAN)... to designate January 29 as a "National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia." If he does, it is an indicator that the Islamists in Canada have succeeded in their program of political expansion and influence to the point of now being able publicly to manipulate the Prime Minister's Office. In fact, in Canada, "Islamophobia" comes in only fourth behind crimes against Blacks, Gays and Jews. Hate crimes against Muslims have dropped, even as the overall number of hate crimes increase, according to the last Statistics Canada reporting... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11767/canada-islamophobia-day.
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Slams Federal Judge’s ‘Offensive’ Comments, Declares
DACA Unconstitutional
by Ken Klukowski
{theacru.org} ~ Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday criticized a federal judge’s order reinstating DACA as offensive... for suggesting that ending DACA is racist. She went on to declare DACA unconstitutional, and unapologetically asserted that her oath of office is to follow the U.S. Constitution. Nielsen appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, discussing various issues the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is dealing with. A large part of the interview concerned the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which is an amnesty program for 800,000 illegal aliens announced by President Barack liar-nObama and developed by former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. DACA was the predecessor of DAPA, a larger amnesty program based on the same legal argument which covered four million illegal aliens. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that DAPA was illegal, and once President Donald Trump was inaugurated and Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirmed, the federal government dropped the remaining legal appeals and let the larger program lapse... http://www.theacru.org/secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-slams-federal-judges-offensive-comments-declares-daca-unconstitutional/.
Democrats Insist on DACA Amnesty
by Matthew Vadum
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Democrats’ insistence on an immediate immigration amnesty for potentially millions of young illegal aliens... may shut down the federal government at midnight tonight for the first time in the Trump era. The House vote to fund the government whose funds run out later today, came as the Trump administration sent out confusing mixed messages about its commitment to build a wall on the nation’s southern border and about the constitutionally dubious liar-nObama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that Trump said in September he planned to end. At that time Trump gave Congress six months to put some kind of a legislative fix in place. At a recent televised meeting with lawmakers at the White House Trump seemed to soften his position on DACA and border security but yesterday on Twitter he reaffirmed his previous hardline positions. Democrats want any funding legislation passed by Congress to provide legal certainty for the illegal aliens they intend to count on as future voters. Protecting DACA recipients is so important to the Left that Democrats have to “refuse to offer any votes for Republican spending bills that do not offer a fix for Dreamers and instead appropriate funds to deport them,” stated a secret strategy memo dated Jan. 8 revealed a few days ago... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269077/democrats-insist-daca-amnesty-matthew-vadum.
For Real Collusion, Look at
liar-nObama's Dirty Dealings with Iran
by Ari Lieberman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ By now it should be readily apparent to all, even those afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome... that the Trump-Russia collusion narrative is a spent force or as leftist political commentator Van Jones put it, “a big nothingburger.” Nearly a year has passed since the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller and not a scintilla of evidence demonstrating collusion has been forthcoming. Moreover, the investigation itself has been plagued by scandal and partisanship placing a cloud of taint over the entire inquiry. Nevertheless, Mueller’s Russia probe will continue to putter along and after wasting millions of taxpayer dollars as of December 2017, the cost has reportedly reached a staggering $7 million the former G-Man will get a trickle of indictments and plea bargains on peripheral figures for matters wholly unrelated to the original investigation. Democrats will then pat themselves on the back and Mueller will go back to obscurity. Democrats and their allies in the establishment media have cleverly succeeded in temporarily deflecting America’s attention away from the real collusion story, one with real substance and far greater ramifications. A persuasive case can be made that former president Barack liar-nObama colluded with a sworn enemy of the United States, the Islamic Republic of Iran... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269072/real-collusion-look-obamas-dirty-dealings-iran-ari-lieberman.
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Extreme California Poverty Is Tied to Unbounded Welfare
by Jordan Candler: California leftists constantly trumpet their supposedly progressive utopia, but the fact of the matter is that the state is in exceptionally critical need of reform. One of its big problem areas has to do with a systemically high poverty rate that drags California’s ranking to dead last. Believe it or not, close to one-quarter of all state residents meet the definition of poor.
by Jordan Candler: California leftists constantly trumpet their supposedly progressive utopia, but the fact of the matter is that the state is in exceptionally critical need of reform. One of its big problem areas has to do with a systemically high poverty rate that drags California’s ranking to dead last. Believe it or not, close to one-quarter of all state residents meet the definition of poor. This is truly baffling, particularly when you consider, as Pacific Research Institute’s Kerry Jackson writes, that “the state’s per-capita GDP increased roughly twice as much as the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5 percent, compared with 6.27 percent).” Yet in the 23-year period leading up to 2015, state and local municipalities oversaw the allocation of almost $1 trillion in welfare.
If mitigating poverty was simply about doling out financial assistance for the needy, California should top the list. But it’s doesn’t. In fact, it sits on the very bottom of the list. This cause and effect stems from the fact that any kind of welfare program that lacks accountability inevitably results in dependence on the state. As Jackson explains:
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some states … initiated welfare reform, as did the federal government under President liar-Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress. The common thread of the reformed welfare programs was strong work requirements placed on aid recipients. These overhauls were widely recognized as a big success, as welfare rolls plummeted and millions of former aid recipients entered the workforce. The state and local bureaucracies that implement California’s antipoverty programs, however, have resisted pro-work reforms. In fact, California recipients of state aid receive a disproportionately large share of it in no-strings-attached cash disbursements.
This is not how other states operate. Especially in Republican-led states, welfare is affixed with conditions, which necessitate pursuing a job. California’s plight resulted from leaders refusing to implement constraints and stipulations. There are some 883,000 public employees in California. And as Jackson explains, “A welfare bureaucracy has an incentive to expand its ‘customer’ base — to ensure that the welfare rolls remain full and, ideally, growing. … California has an enormous bureaucracy — a unionized, public-sector workforce that exercises tremendous power through voting and lobbying. Many work in social services.”
And this is to say nothing of the state’s housing, environmental and minimum wage boondoggles that unhelpfully ballooned welfare rolls. But at least Californians will have a bullet train! (Well, maybe, if the state can ever drum up the money.) When taking into account the madness of it all, it’s no wonder the state’s more conservative-minded — or “outcasts” — are working to mobilize support for a “New California.” As for the region’s metropolises, their model is unsustainable. A reckoning is coming eventually. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53508
