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Trump threatens to veto 

$1.3 trillion spending bill over border wall, DACA

by Anna Giaritelli

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump surprised Congress on Friday by threatening to veto the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill... that passed the Senate early in the morning because lawmakers refused to fund his border wall, and did nothing to deal with the expired Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats not even mentioned in Bill and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded," Trump tweeted Friday morning. The $1.3 trillion spending bill passed after midnight and if signed into law by Trump would avert another federal government shutdown...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-threatens-to-veto-13-trillion-spending-bill-over-border-wall-daca 

President Trump Demands 

Line-Item Veto Authority While Signing Omnibus 

by Jim E

{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Minutes after Trump issued his veto threat, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis immediately called him up to warn him that putting military funding at risk wasn’t a good idea... It looks like Trump got the message, and has signed the law into effect. But not before making a huge demand of Congress: the power of the line-item veto. The line-item veto is an authority many governors have, and it allows them to strike items from budgets they deem to be unnecessary, superfluous, and unconstitutional. For instance, a Republican president could veto spending on Planned Parenthood in a budget passed by Congress if he or she deemed it fit. There’s just one problem with the line-item veto, and it’s a constitutional doozy. The power vested in the line-item veto actually amounts to an executive – the president – being able to legislate by virtue of choosing what actually gets funded in a government budget. That’s not how the executive branch of our federal government was designed, however. The president enforces the law – he does not make them...   https://thepoliticalinsider.com/line-item-veto-trump-omnibus/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_campaign=TPI_breaking_newsletter3_3_23_2018&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI 

Justice Kennedy Calls Out Sotomayor 

for Breaking Very Basic Rule All Judges Know

by BEN MARQUIS

{ conservativetribune.com } ~ The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in NIFLA v. Becerra, a case out of California centered around abortion... that has big ramifications regarding the issue of free speech versus state-compelled speech, according to Fox News. At issue is a 2015 statute passed by the state of California which requires all pregnancy-related facilities to conspicuously post a disclosure informing women of the state-provided “free or low-cost access” to various forms of prenatal care, such as abortion. The law also requires unlicensed, non-medical facilities to prominently inform their clients that they are not licensed medical providers. However, the law was written with so many carveouts and exemptions that it ended up solely targeting a number of explicitly pro-life, nonprofit “crisis pregnancy centers,” which counsel women on options other than abortion, such as adoption. However, the law compelled these centers to inform the women of their abortion options.  David French of National Review noted that during arguments in front of the Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed to step outside the traditional norms of evidence submitted in the case and earned a rebuke for it from her colleague, Justice Anthony Kennedy...   https://conservativetribune.com/kennedy-calls-out-sotomayor/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune 

The Nuclear Option: Limitless 

Investigation of Trump Was Always the Plan 

by  CHARLES HUR

{ breitbart.com } ~ So this is the new standard for electing a president here in America, the greatest living experiment in self-governance... A man can run the gauntlet against more than 20 professional politicians and come out victorious. He can win more than 40 Republican primary contests and beat every professional political campaigner out there, earning the votes of more than 14 million Republicans.  He can then turn his attention to beating the most powerful, entrenched political machine America has seen in nearly a half-century. That corrupt machine had just pulled off its most devious and dishonest scam ever — rigging a presidential primary to snatch the party’s preferred Socialist candidate away from Democrat voters...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/21/mueller-investigation-cooked-up-long-before-trump-won-presidency/

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Mitch McConnell Has Strong Ties To 

The Communist Chinese And His Corruption Runs Very Deep 

by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

{ noisyroom.net } ~ I have written on the corruption of Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao a number of times... I was very disheartened when Chao became the Secretary of Transportation for the Trump administration. The dynamic duo are fully in bed with the communist Chinese and have been for many years. Peter Schweizer has a new book called Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends that digs into the background of the McConnells and their family wealth and where it came from. It’s not a pretty picture and it should not only tick you off, it should alarm every American out there. To be fair, it’s not just McConnell. This is happening on both sides of the political aisle. From Denise Simon – she has several pertinent points on hanoi-Kerry and loose lips-Biden and their Chinese corruption to keep in mind for 2020. The bottom line is that the Chinese are buying off our politicians. Enriching them and their families in exchange for military and economic concessions for China. Schweizer cites the family of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a particularly troubling example...  http://noisyroom.net/blog/2018/03/22/mitch-mcconnell-has-strong-ties-to-the-communist-chinese-and-his-corruption-runs-very-deep/

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by Michelle Malkin 
{ townhall.com } ~ A sickening act of youth violence in Florida glinted across the news headlines last week, and then disappeared from view.

There will be no CNN town halls or student walkouts over the lost life and preventable tragedy, because there are no guns to blame. Only dropped balls.

As the exploiters of crisis know full well, bureaucratic screw-ups don't make good fodder for partisan fundraisers and hipster T-shirts.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Palm Beach County police, 17-year-old Corey Johnson bought a knife last Sunday and brought it with him to a sleepover at longtime friend Kyle Bancroft's house. At 4 a.m., he decided to kill Kyle's mother, Elaine, his brother, Dane, and Dane's friend, Jovanni Sierra Brand.

Johnson repeatedly stabbed Jovanni in his bed and slit his throat. Then he attempted to murder Elaine as she approached the boys' bedrooms in response to Jio's last gasps. Dane rescued his mom and sustained 32 stab wounds. Both were hospitalized and survived. Jio was buried last Friday -- less than a week after celebrating his 13th birthday at a pizza party attended by Johnson.

The accused killer told police he "stabbed the victims because of his Muslim faith," watched videos of "Muslim jihadists" on his cellphone, and "was reading the Quran from his phone just prior to the attack to give him courage to carry out his intentions."

Perhaps he read the Sword Verses for inspiration? Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Hasan quoted from them in his presentation to classmates and superiors at Walter Reed Medical Center: "I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah."  

Or maybe it was Surah 9:5: "Fight and slay the idolaters wherever ye find them and seize them, confine them, and lie in wait for them in every place of ambush."

Johnson's brutal attack was no bolt out of the blue, no unexpected incidence of sudden jihad syndrome. Local school officials and police in Palm Beach County, along with federal and international law enforcement authorities, had encountered more red flags in their years of dealing with Johnson than at a Communist May Day parade in Havana.

In middle school, Johnson had reportedly stalked a student and sexually harassed her. She told school police. Nothing happened. He dabbled in white supremacy, anti-Semitism and gay-bashing, and then immersed himself in radical Islam -- rising at 5 a.m. daily to pray and revere the Syrian flag. Johnson's online jihad agitation, physical abuse and addiction to ISIS beheading videos prompted his sister in 2016 to confide in a school therapist, who contacted the local sheriff's office.

Johnson's mom, the sister told school officials, was in denial. The sister so feared for her life she slept with a knife under her bed.

Law enforcement officers at the Jupiter Police Department and Palm Beach County Sheriff's office convened at Johnson's high school last January to investigate the self-radicalized teen's contact with ISIS as he sought to join the terror group. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force became involved after European intelligence counterparts told them Johnson had used Instagram to issue security threats to a Catholic high school in England. The threats "were so severe in nature," local officials discovered, "that up to 100 students were removed from the school fearing some kind of attack."

One of the messages threatened: "By Allah, we will kill every single Infidel student at this school." Johnson told FBI agents he "was supportive of known terrorist Anwar al Awlaki" -- the spiritual patron of lone-wolf jihadists.

The FBI's plan of action? Inaction. The agency watched and waited and wanly admonished Johnson to knock it off because authorities "believed a redirection approach would be the most beneficial regarding his conduct."

"Redirection" is akin to the alternative social justice strategies school officials and police used in Parkland, Florida, before 17 innocent students and teachers died at the hands of teen shooter who was a walking neon sign for a mental health catastrophe.

No referrals, no charges, no records, no problems.

Except for the fact that Johnson ignored the FBI and continued his Islamic instigation online. After nearly a year of foot-dragging, the FBI gathered enough evidence to bring federal charges against Johnson for his social media terror threats. According to records released by the Jupiter Police Department, local officials were told the charges would be brought in the summer of 2017. But on the early morning of the jihad stabbings at Palm Beach Gardens last week, the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office had yet to take action on a known radicalized threat who had menaced his family, his schoolmates and innocents abroad.

It's a familiar narrative for the FBI -- from the Boston Marathon bombers to the Orlando nightclub shooter to the Fort Lauderdale airport jihadist to the San Bernardino terrorists. Family members, teachers, neighbors and co-workers saw something and said something. Investigators investigated. But nobody did nuttin' till it was too bloody late.

Nothing to see here; move along.