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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Is He Trying To Bring Us Down?
Tom McLaughlin
 
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE 
For many of the planets in our solar system we have the Greeks and Romans to thank for their names. For example, Jupiter is named after Zeus and its moons for his conquests.  This holds true for nearly every planet in our solar system except for Uranus, whose
names can be traced to the plays of Shakespeare. So how did the earth’s moon get such a
seemingly generic name? Gizmodo explains: “The word ‘moon’ can be traced back to Old English, where it is said to have derived from the Proto-Germanic word ‘menon’, which in turn derived from the Proto-Indo-European  ‘menses,’ meaning ‘month, moon.’ This highlights how far back the association between the Moon and the passage of time goes.” 
-Fox News 
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 THE ROAD TO APPOMATTOX BEGAN WITH POLITICAL FAILURE 
The dictum that “war is the continuation of politics by other means” has never been so true as in the American Civil War. A political conflict over slavery sewn into the very soil from which the republic would grow proved too much for our system. After two generations of civic strife, war erupted in South Carolina on April 12, 1861. It would last until this date in 1865, with the surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House, Va. It was Palm Sunday in a tiny, dusty hamlet, unremarkable except for its railroad depot. Some 620,000 Americans had been killed in the previous four years. And it could fairly be said that their cause of death was political failure. That’s why the sesquicentennial of the end of the Civil War ought to be a somber moment for Americans today.
          We live with an increasingly failed political system and a society that shows deepening intolerance of the views of others. Public discourse of substance on any controversial topic is seemingly impossible. We are losing the tether. That’s not to say that we are on the brink of a new civil war, but it is undeniable that the path to national dissolution ran through hateful discourse and broken, insufficient politics. And that is to say nothing of the insult paid to those war dead by the individuals today who so roughly handle the institutions and culture that history show to be rare, precious and alarmingly fragile.  -Fox News 
 
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 Appomattox 101 -   Lee’s army had been on the run since the beginning of the month after it had been forced from its lines at Petersburg, Va. The once-fearsome force, a shell of its former self, was moving west to Appomattox to obtain a stockpile of desperately needed weapons and ammunition.  On April 7, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant wrote Lee prodding for surrender. “The results of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia,” Grant wrote.  He added that any further effusion of blood would be Lee’s responsibility. Lee did not yield, but did seek to find what conditions Grant would offer.
          On Apr. 8, Lee had plotted one final route of escape. After initial successes on April 9, he found himself trapped. It was then Lee knew what he had to do. He telegraphed Grant seeking a meeting to discuss surrender. Fittingly, but quite by happenstance, officers chose the home of Wilmer McLean, who had moved from Northern Virginia early in the war to escape the fighting, for the parley. Grant, still wearing a mud-spattered uniform, proved to be gracious and generous in his terms of surrender.  He permitted Confederate soldiers to keep their horses for the upcoming planting season. Officers were allowed to keep their side-arms and baggage.  After receiving parole, the Army of Northern Virginia was allowed to return home without any stigma of treason. Grant also provided rations for Lee’s starving men.
          Upon returning to his troops Lee said, “Men, we have fought through the war together. I have done the best I could for you. My heart is too full to say more.”  -Fox News 
 
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 HILLY’S LAUNCH DATE: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? 
The cover of this week’s edition of The Economist asks “What does Hilly stand for?” If you don’t know by now, folks, you haven’t been paying attention. Presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton stands for winning, whatever the cost. She has paid dearly over the past 40 years, and is now closer than ever to the ultimate goal. But if she is to be undone – yet again – in her quest for power it will be her desire itself that does her in. There is an ocean’s worth of leaks pointing to this weekend as when the former first lady will make her candidacy a formal, legal fact. Saturday or Sunday? Twitter or Youtube? Iowa first or someplace else? Bubba or Baby Charlotte? The correct answer to these questions is: Whatevs. The only question that would have been helpful to Clinton – Will she or won’t she? – was never seriously in consideration. And in that, she has had a damaging failure.
           The presidency is like a bank loan or a first date: It’s much harder to get if it seems like you really need it. And compared to Clinton’s decades-long pursuit of power, Mitt Romney looks like a slacker. From the day she left the White House in 2001, she has been trying to get back in. But Clinton missed a chance over the past year to give Americans cause to think she might not really run. One could argue that the fault is not her own, since she has been forced to alter her schedule and modify her message in order to quell concerns from Democrats and deal directly with double-duty scandals. The time in which it would have been helpful for the former secretary of state to have been seen as actually undecided about running was consumed in recovering first from a dreadful book launch and then the stories of her family foundation’s sketchy dealings and then, worst of all, the secret servers. 
          But the fault ultimately lies with the candidate. The problem with the book launch was Clinton’s refusal to back down about being “dead broke” and the double-barreled scandals were the consequences of her own ethical lapses. But let’s be plain: The real reason Hilly couldn’t appear to be in doubt another run is that we have come to know her too well over the years. It’s true that Americans instinctively mistrust anyone too hungry for power, but it’s not like Clinton could just reinvent herself (though not for lack of trying). Instead, Clinton’s efforts to appear undecided sounded parodic.
          [“Any day now, Hilly Clinton is expected to declare that she is running for president. For most Americans this will be as surprising as the news that Cinco de Mayo will once again be on May 5th.”–The Economist.-Fox News 
 
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 RNC launches Stop Hilly campaign -   Hoping voters will slam the brakes on Hilly Clinton, the Republican National Committee released an ad today titled “Stop Hilly.” The video shows a silhouetted Hilly figure walking out on stage to a podium with voiceover snippets including, “Hilly Clinton has some explaining to do.” “Used her personal email account to conduct official business” “Wanted to reset relations with Russia.” “Not really working out well” “Potentially catastrophic move for Hilly Clinton” “Taking millions of dollars from foreign governments” “Sniper fire, it was a total crock, it was a lie,” and Clinton’s own: “What difference at this point does it make” “This is just par for the course for the Clintons, they’re always a bit secretive,” the ad concludes. 
-Fox News 
 
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 nObama's misguided war on 'conversion therapy' 
(Dr. Michael L. Brown) - With all the major, life-critical issues taking place in America and around the globe, it is absolutely mind-boggling that President nObama has decided to declare war on so-called "conversion therapy,"...joining in the battle to outlaw professional counseling for minors struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender identity confusion. This is political correctness run amok, and the president, with all his power and influence, is intruding himself where he most certainly does not belong, standing in the way of personal autonomy and individual choice, seeking to deprive young people of the very thing that might just save them from many years of suffering and pain. By what authority does he seek to do this?       http://onenewsnow.com/perspectives/michael-brown/2015/04/10/president-obamas-misguided-war-on-conversion-therapy?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16780782&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=18850#.VSlXE8J02vE
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 The Flexible-Fuel Solution  
(James Woolsey) - Negotiators in Geneva appear to be sleepwalking into a Sunni–Shia nuclear arms race, so a bad neighborhood — as former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak so memorably described the Middle East — is likely to get much worse...The Islamic State’s Mesopotamic marauding is adding industrial quantities of fuel to the fire. Since the region is home to some two thirds of world conventional oil reserves, oil prices are unlikely to stay at two digits for very long. That’s unfortunate, since low oil prices — while depressing for the shale patch — are certainly fantastic for the majority of Americans. High global oil prices erode disposable income and act as a tax hike on Americans, while funneling billions upon billions of dollars to some of the world’s worst regimes. It’s been nice to have a respite from $147 oil, but policymakers should be well aware that, despite reduced imports, it is still the regimes of OPEC that — by both their action and their inaction — have the most influence over the price of oil. While we’ve never imported more than 15 percent of our oil needs from the Middle East, what we have imported and still do import from the region — due to the fungibility of the commodity — is the price of the black liquid. Analysts wait with bated breath for Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi’s statements because they know that if the Saudis choose to tighten the taps significantly, oil prices will climb.        http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/r-james-woolsey-the-flexible-fuel-solution/
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 KT McFarland on strategic  
4.
 HILLY’S EMAILS 
(foxbusiness.com) - Hilly knows better, and her excuses for using a personal email account to do government business are insufficient. KT discuses four important implications...
the glaring absence of a historical record, the possibility of an unprotected account being hacked, violations of legal precedent, and the larger issue of transparency.      http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4090591096001/kt-mcfarland-hillary-clinton-should-know-better-/?#sp=show-clips
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 Hilly Clinton’s Criminal Scandal-Palooza Just Got a Whole Lot Worse 
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Tim Brown) - On Wednesday Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) held a press conference to answer questions about his positions on many different issues at play on today’s American political scene...At one point one of the reporters asked him about the possibility of running against Hilly Clinton in 2016, to which Senator Paul affected a knowing grin and answered cryptically that he thought Hilly Clinton would likely have much bigger problems very soon. The reporter pressed him on that, but Senator Paul demurred and began fielding questions on other topics. Well, just a day later, on Thursday, we may have learned about what Senator Paul was implying during his press conference. According to an investigative report from the International Business Times that was released on Thursday, then Secretary of State Hilly Clinton seemed to suddenly change her mind about Colombian human/workers rights abuses just as the Clinton Foundation was receiving millions of dollars in donations from a Canadian firm with heavy interests in Colombian oil.  The Hill reported on the story and offered this brief summary of what the IBTimes found.        http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2015/04/hillary-clintons-criminal-scandal-palooza-just-got-a-whole-lot-worse/
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 The IRS Loses a Big Procedural Battle in Its War With the Tea Party  
(Hans von Spakovsky) - At almost the same time last week that the outgoing U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ronald Machen, gave Lois Lerner a get-out-of-jail free card over her contempt of Congress citation...the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service suffered a huge procedural loss in a court fight in Ohio. In litigation filed in 2013 by conservative organizations targeted by Lerner and her colleagues at the IRS, a federal judge granted a motion to compel and ordered the IRS to produce the names of the 298 targeted organizations identified by the IRS for the Treasury Inspector General. In 2013, NorCal Tea Party Patriots, the Faith and Freedom Coalition of Ohio, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a number of other conservative organizations (ten in all), sued the IRS, the Treasury Department, Lois Lerner and other individual IRS employees.       http://dailysignal.com/2015/04/06/the-irs-loses-a-big-procedural-battle-in-its-war-with-the-tea-party/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saturday&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojuqvKZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4GTsBhI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
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 Leftists Distort And Deny To Disarm  
(rickwells.us) - The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is an affirmation of the American citizens’ inherent right to bear arms. As simple and straightforward as the message and the language seem to be when it is read...it is often misconstrued and misinterpreted, both innocently and as the result of devious intent. In an article published in February of  2013 on Policymic.com (now mic.com), Matt MacBradaigh enumerated nine particular points regarding the Second Amendment which often fall into the abyss of misunderstanding, misinterpretation or deliberate disinformation. He offered his insight into the true meaning and intent of the Second Amendment as follows: (Excerpted from 2ndamendmentfight.com)        http://www.rickwells.us/leftists-distort-and-deny-to-disarm-nine-facts-about-the-second-amendment-the-marxists-dont-americans-to-know/
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 Judge Jeanine, John Bolton – The Leaked Secrets Of Secret Iran Deal  
(rickwells.us) - Judge Jeanine Pirro and former UN Ambassador John Bolton discuss the differing stories of just what is in the Iran nuclear deal that are being offered up by both the nObama regime and the Iranians as well as other inconsistencies in the message coming out of the White House regarding the deal...She plays a clip of Hussein nObama expressing his “concerns” over the debate, in which he rants, “I don’t understand why it is that everybody’s working so hard to anticipate failure.” Perhaps it has something to do with the track record of the failure in the White House and the Terrorists in Tehran.  He adds, “The opponents of the deal don’t seem to be focused on how do we get to a good deal as much as they’re focused on how can we show that it’s not possible to get a good deal.  And my simple point is, let’s wait and see what the deal is.” Apparently he just negotiated a deal and he doesn’t know what it is? That’s reassuring. Ambassador Bolton notes that the problems that nObama is complaining about are largely due to the erroneous information that has been dribbled out by his White House in an apparent failed effort to direct public option. He also notes that what the Iranians have described the deal as being is completely different from what the White House has leaked.       http://www.rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-john-bolton-the-leaked-secrets-of-secret-iran-nuclear-deal-are-not-as-advertised/
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 Not That We Don’t Trust Iran, It’s That We Don’t Trust Him  
(rickwells.us) - After failing in his threats to circumvent the United States Congress by taking his Iran nuclear armament deal to what he views as the true legitimate world authority, the United Nations...nObama is now attempting to adopt the benevolent dictator approach in order to achieve his goals. nObama pretends to be miffed at the criticisms by Senator John McCain of Secretary of State “Hanoi John” Kerry, who has, in the perverted view of the usurper of the White House, provided “exemplary service to this nation.” The question has to be asked, If nObama, who is engaged in the fundamental destruction of our nation, thinks you’re doing a great job; doesn’t it by definition preclude that work from truly being in service to the nation? He blasts McCain for questioning Hanoi Kerry’s level of trustworthiness in contrasting the statements of the White House versus those of the Iranian leadership. He may have a point, to a degree, that neither is to be trusted as both regime leaderships are notorious liars.       http://www.rickwells.us/denying-reality-obamas-panama-tantrum-not-that-we-dont-trust-iran-its-that-we-dont-trust-him/
10.
V-E DAY REMEMBERED  
(coachisright.com) - As we approach the seventieth anniversary of the German surrender to the Allies on May 7, 1945, it’s time we take a few moments to reflect on the superhuman efforts our great American military force expended to assure that victory...General of the Army and Supreme Allied Commander Dwight David Eisenhower brought about the cooperation of quarrelsome and oppositional Allies who gained reputations for fighting among themselves, America’s Joint Chief of Staff, George Marshall and Eisenhower himself nearly as much as they did the enemy! When Eisenhower cabled Marshall that Germany had surrendered at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945, Marshall sent this cable to Eisenhower at his Reims headquarters: “You have completed your mission with the greatest victory in the history of warfare. You have commanded, with outstanding success, the most powerful military force that has even (sic) been assembled. . .You have made history, great history for the good of all mankind, and you have stood for all we hope for and admire in an officer of the United States Army. ”       http://www.coachisright.com/v-e-day-remembered/
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Is He Trying To Bring Us Down?
Tom McLaughlin
     (tommclaughlin.blogspot.com) - Is he doing it on purpose?  As often as the thought 7edcd6ecb58ca8191d7cac3cf1b837e4.jpgentered my mind, I’d push it out. It didn’t seem plausible. If I told people they’d think me crazy, but the thought kept coming back: “Is President nObama trying to destroy the United States?” Is he a kind of Manchurian Candidate? That book’s main character, an American POW, was brainwashed by Chinese communists in Manchuria to reenter the US and assassinate a presidential candidate — thus enabling his running mate to take over as a dictator in the ensuing chaos. It was twice adapted to film and I watched both, but they were too far-fetched.
 
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     I’m not alone. In February, former New York City Mayor and GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said, “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” and set off a prolonged media firestorm. Progressives were outrageously outraged for days, and what Giuliani said was relatively mild compared to what I was thinking. Not loving our country might cause him to be unmotivated, but that’s not as bad as purposely destroying it.
 
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     A week later, conservative columnist and New Hampshire resident Mark Steyn wrote:  “If nObama were working for the other side, what exactly would he be doing differently?” That’s been resonating in my brain ever since. nObama’s policies, have been ruinous. He’s nearly doubled our national debt to almost $18 trillion, and what do we have to show for it? He was going to rebuild our infrastructure with shovel-ready projects, but where are they? Hoover built a dam that still works. Roosevelt’s CCCs built the road through Evan’s Notch and the Kancamagus Highway here in Maine and New Hampshire, and many similar projects around the country. Yet after spending thousands of times more money than both those presidents put together, what can nObama point to? Nothing, and the economy still hasn’t recovered in the seventh year of his presidency.
 
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     He took over our health care system — one-sixth of our economy — and how’s that going? It’s a disaster. He took over the internet without any action by Congress. In violation of the Constitution, he issued executive amnesty to five million illegal aliens who were already bankrupting hospitals, schools, and welfare programs across the country. Now they’re eligible for Social Security — which is going bankrupt already without millions more drawing checks. He’s using the EPA to destroy the coal industry in the name of human-caused “Climate Change” — the biggest pseudo-scientific fraud of the century. Next he’ll take over the entire energy industry if he’s allowed, and our emasculated Republican congressional “leaders” do nothing to stop him.
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     It’s even worse overseas. nObama’s Middle East and North Africa policies are, in the words of his own former Middle East Ambassador James Jeffrey: “in a g*******d free fall.” Iran, the world’s biggest sponsor of international terrorism, orchestrated a million to chant “Death to America!” in its own capital, then gained control of four other capitals in the region including Sanaa, Baghdad, Damascus, and Beirut. Meanwhile, nObama’s Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry is, in the words of our strongest ally in the region: “paving the way for Iran’s atomic bomb.” How’s Libya after his “leading from behind”? It’s a basket case. Yemen, which six months ago he called a success story, has collapsed. US forces beat a hasty retreat, leaving weapons and intelligence documents behind. Hanoi Kerry’s State Department advised US citizens stuck in Yemen to “call India” for help getting out. At a briefing, one reporter asked State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf: “…then you alerted them to opportunities to leave the country?” “Correct,” she responded. “What are those opportunities now? Swim?”
 
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    Interviewed last week on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, former Vice President Dick Cheney said: “If you had somebody who, as president — who wanted to take America down. Who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the world, reduce our capacity to influence events. Turn our back on our allies and encourage our enemies, it would look exactly like what Barack nObama is doing.”
 
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     Yeah, okay, but has nObama been brainwashed? Let’s see: His father was a Muslim. His stepfather was a Muslim. He went to a Muslim school. Though much was sanitized and repressed, evidence exists of his mother, grandmother and grandfather at least leaning communist. The mentor his grandfather found for him, Frank Marshal Davis, was a communist. His political mentor in Chicago was Marxist domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. His pastor for twenty years, the Reverend White, chanted: “No-no-no! Not God bless America! God damn America! It’s in the bible!” nObama called himself a “community organizer” — an occupation created by Chicago socialist Saul Alinsky whose playbook to bring down the country nObama is following.

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     Yes, the thought keeps coming back, but lately I don’t push it out so quickly.
 
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