by Thomas Gallatin: The former chief editor of the New York Times Magazine, Edward Klein, just released his book entitled, All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump. Klein references a recent FBI field report concluding that American radical leftist groups, like antifa, have been actively reaching out and communicating with the Islamic State in an effort to “resist” and overthrow President Donald Trump. “There is clearly overwhelming evidence that there are growing ties between U.S. radicals and the Islamic State, as well as several [ISIS] offshoots and splinter groups,” a recent FBI field report states. In fact, the report continues, “This is the greatest challenge to law enforcement since the Weather Underground and the Black Panther Party.” According to the report, there is evidence that members of a leftist radical group from Oakland traveled this past summer to Germany and met with individuals associated with the Islamic State. “Ties between three key leaders in the Oakland group met in Hamburg with a leader of the AQAP [al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula] and the AQIM [al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb]. The leader from AQAP is an Egyptian-born male who is know to be in charge of finances and recruiting for the group. There is evidence from informants that he is helping the Oakland group acquire the weapons they are seeking, primarily bomb making equipment and toxic chemicals and gasses,” the report surmises. The field report then said, “This group and their connections with radical Islamic groups must be disrupted and destroyed.”
How did this growing radicalization remain under the radar for so long? Klein blames Barack liar-nObama and his Justice Department’s misplaced focus on supposed threats posed by Tea Party “terrorists.” Klein writes, “The FBI is really playing catchup ball, because the liar-nObama administration refused to give the bureau the resources it needed to effectively infiltrate and surveil the radical groups on college campuses. … Any talk of a connection between radical Islam — a phrase the liar-nObama people wouldn’t even use — and American extremists was pretty much laughed off. Loretta Lynch would have blown a gasket if she heard that the FBI was surveilling so-called college political organizations. All that has changed under the Trump administration. Everyone’s aware that the resistance movement, with its effort to get rid of Trump by any means necessary, has created fertile soil for ISIS and al Qaeda to establish a beachhead in America.”
The radical Left in America today poses the greatest threat for the propagation of domestic acts of terror. Reports that these antifa groups are actively seeking out and associating with Islamic terrorists are highly concerning. Americans standing up for their constitutional rights are not the threat; rather it is those who preach that free speech equals violence and therefore must be silenced with violence. These groups are the true danger to Americans and our way of life. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52180
{totalconservative.com} ~ The media is predictably making a lot of hay out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s first indictments of the Russian investigation... but they are glossing over the inconvenient fact that very few – if any – of the charges being brought against Paul Manafort and Richard Gates have anything whatsoever to do with Mueller’s supposed scope of inquiry. Astute readers will recall that this investigation was supposed to determine if Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat liar-Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Right? That’s what all of this was about, right? Well, you wouldn’t know it from reading the charges against Manafort, which are mostly related to financial transactions and money laundering that preceded the Trump campaign by four years! In a column for National Review, former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy, himself no particular fan of Trump, said the indictments were only good news for the White House... http://totalconservative.com/former-prosecutor-blasts-manafort-indictment-no-collusion/
by Lewis Morris: It’s liar-nObamaCare enrollment season again, but this year’s sign-up period for the Unaffordable Lack of Care Act will be like no other before. Despite repeated Republican attempts to bring an end to liar-nObamaCare, the law’s own ineptitude and actions taken by the Trump administration will combine to make this year the weakest enrollment period on record. Congressional Republicans having utterly failed to move the ball forward, President Donald Trump has used a series of executive orders to weaken liar-nObamaCare since taking office. He has reduced the 90-day enrollment period to 45 days, cut the advertising budget for liar-nObamaCare by 90%, and reduced the number of federally funded enrollment advisers. These actions have lowered the public awareness level to such an extent that some people already believe liar-nObamaCare is done. If only that were true.
Trump put another nail in the liar-nObamaCare coffin last month when he brought an end to cost-sharing reduction payments to insurance companies. If you recall, these were payouts Barack liar-nObama made to insurance companies to cover their losses and keep premiums artificially low for lower-income consumers. Like many things liar-nObama did regarding his signature law, these payouts were not constitutional because the money was never appropriated by Congress. liar-nObama just used his “phone and pen” to give out the cash himself.
Democrats from 18 states sued the Trump administration to get their illegal money back, but Federal Judge Vince Chhabria rejected their suit. “It appears initially that the Trump Administration has the stronger legal argument,” the judge said, noting that forcing the payments to resume after 2018 insurance rates have already been set would benefit insurers and not consumers.
Though Judge Chhabria thinks otherwise, the long-term effect of the end of the CSR payouts will lead to more insurance companies pulling out of the exchanges. Those that remain will have to raise their rates. But that has already been the overwhelming trend since the year liar-nObamaCare went into effect.
Rates increased across the board for 2017. The price of bronze plans has gone up 18%, gold plans have risen 16% and platinum plans have gone up 24%. Democrats want to blame this increase on Trump, but these rates were set last year. The current insurance landscape is as it would be no matter who won the election last November.
The downward spiral will certainly continue. S&P estimates that enrollment for next year will be 7-13% lower compared to that of 2017. Trying to make the case that this is Trump’s fault is just an excuse by Democrats who want to blame the failure of their Great Health Care Achievement™ on the Republicans. From day one, liar-nObamaCare was on shaky ground. What we are witnessing now is the law’s continued death spiral.
If the two parties continue to play the blame game, however, the only loser will be Americans who need affordable health care. Democrats obviously have no interest in working with Republicans to find a way to achieve the goal of allowing the free market to provide affordable health care and insurance for all Americans. It should be painfully clear by this point that the federal government is incapable of making this happen. A new, market-based solution must be found, or the ranks of the uninsured will only continue to grow. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52175
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