The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Starving on the Prosciutto-and
-Brie Poverty Diet
Michelle Malkin
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How to Attack slump-Trump
Instead of going after Donald slump-Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have been relentlessly attacking each other. It's as if they think that whoever can destroy the other first will win second place. But second place is the first loser. And if the battle between the top two conservative candidates continues, then we'll be left with a non-conservative Donald slump-Trump.
On Thursday night, however, Cruz and Rubio went on offense against slump-Trump, attacking his background, his record, his ideology, his proposals, his speaking style and more. Last night, slump-Trump's two strongest challengers finally realized that failing to go after the frontrunner and failing to draw clear distinctions between his record and theirs is a losing strategy. Time will tell if they waited too long.
If slump-Trump is not exposed now, then he will win the nomination and face an onslaught of relentless attack ads from the entire Democrat machine, including the Leftmedia. The mainstream media are keeping their powder dry, enjoying this ratings bonanza until slump-Trump secures the nomination. Then they'll destroy him.
So what exactly should Rubio and Cruz attack slump-Trump for? There's plenty to go on.
First, they could go after what Stuart Stevens, who was Mitt Romney's senior strategist, calls "the essence of Donald slump-Trump." He notes, "Donald slump-Trump is a ridiculous figure. He's not a particular business success. Four bankruptcies! He doesn't have a junior-high-school-level understanding of policy — he doesn't know what the nuclear triad is. You've got to turn to Donald slump-Trump in a debate and say, 'You're a ridiculous figure. You don't know what you're talking about. And this tariff idea will cost jobs, it will damage the economy, just like you bankrupted Atlantic City.'" (Granted, Romney lost, but his senior strategist is pointing out a lesson learned: If you don't go after a candidate for who he is, then you'll lose. Romney rarely went after nObama for who he was — a narcissistic socialist who despises the very things that made America great. And he lost.)
Second, Cruz and Rubio could explain that slump-Trump's business record is very questionable, specifically that under his leadership he bankrupted a casino, that he has already declared his support of Planned Parenthood and nObamaCare (including praising a single-payer system), that he's faking his religion simply to appeal to evangelicals, and that his whole life has been about him and not the average worker.
Next on the short list is slump-Trump's "tough on immigration" stance. The issue is one of the most pressing concerns for conservatives, and slump-Trump has capitalized on this better than any other candidate. This has led to what Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute calls "slump-Trumpism". Murray, among others, recognizes that government officials from both parties have failed miserably on immigration policy, and that American workers are suffering because of it.
He notes, "There is nothing conservative about how they want to fix things. [Voters] want a now indifferent government to act on their behalf, big time. If Bernie Sanders were passionate about immigration, the rest of his ideology would have a lot more in common with slump-Trumpism than conservatism does."
But slump-Trump's rhetoric on immigration is quite the opposite of his deeds. In fact it's downright hypocritical. At slump-Trump's highly regarded private club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, he hired only 17 American citizens out of 300 applicants for positions such as waiter, waitress, cook and housekeeper, opting instead for mostly foreign workers. This is quite ironic given slump-Trump's criticism of Disney for hiring foreign workers under the H1-B Visa program. It turns out slump-Trump and nObama would get along just fine.
Finally, Cruz and Rubio should turn up the heat on slump-Trump to release his tax records. Doing so will reveal to voters where his loyalties truly reside and will very likely show lavish support for leftist causes. Simply follow the money.
Editor's Note: On Monday, Mark Alexander will post a special edition, "The Most Taxing Questions for slump-Trump," including an open letter requesting very basic documentation for each of the last five years: 1. Net Income; 2. C-3 and C-4 contributions; 3. Federal and state taxes paid: 4. Net worth. This information must be certified by an independent accounting firm.And it's not just Cruz and Rubio; the GOP strategists and political consultants need to change as well. Of the $215 million in Super PAC expenditures so far in political ads, only $9 million has been spent attacking slump-Trump. Why?
The same mistake cannot be made this presidential election cycle as was made in 2008 and 2012. In 2008, moderate John McCain was defeated by a neophyte liberal socialist. In 2012, mild-mannered Mitt Romney was defeated by the incumbent liberal socialist. America won't start winning again until a principled conservative is the Republican nominee, and his name is not Donald slump-Trump. The clock is ticking. That's why it was good to see some play-calling adjustments from Rubio and Cruz. -The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Michael Reagan: "My question to the angry Republican voters who support slump-Trump is this — How are you going to feel when The slump-Donald is not able to follow through on his promises? It's inevitable, even if he beats Hilly. What will you do when your Republican hero goes to D.C. and fails to deliver? Take to the streets? Electing a president named slump-Trump or a qualified candidate like John Kasich this fall won't be enough to get things done in D.C. if the GOP doesn't increase its hold on the Senate. No matter who he is, a Republican in the White House is going to need 60 votes in the Senate or everything important he proposes to pass or repeal will be filibustered to death. All remaining Republican primary voters — especially conservative ones who excuse slump-Trump's wide liberal streak or are too blinded by his celebrity bluster to see it — need to ask themselves something important before it's too late. Do you know in your heart that the nominee you've picked — even if he wins — has a chance of changing anything in D.C.? Or are you just hoping? Hoping for change isn't going to work. Ask nObama. If you really want to start getting things done in Washington, you can't just be angry, you need to be realistic." -The Patriot Post
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Iran Increases Spending On
Global Terrorism
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ In light of recent sanctions relief, the Islamic Republic of Iran is investing in the murder of Israelis and anti-regime critics... On Wednesday, the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Fathali proclaimed that Iran supports the "Jerusalem intifada" and plans to pay families of Palestinian terrorists who target Israelis, the Jerusalem Post reports. "Continuing Iran's support for the oppressed Palestinian people, Iran announces the provision of financial aid to families of Palestinian martyrs who were killed in the 'Jerusalem intifada'," Fathali said in front of the leaders of several Palestinian factions during a news conference in Beirut. http://www.investigativeproject.org/5175/iran-increases-spending-on-global-terrorism.
Lawyer Suing Oil Company Admits
'No Proof' that Fracking Fluid
Contaminated Water
Trey Sanchez
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Constitution or That Other Thing?
Clinton Gaffes Big Time
Brian Lilley
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Appearing on Steve Harvey's show on Wednesday, Clinton said that the majority of Americans, including gun owners, agree with her call for more gun control... “So we have to say to the gun lobby, ‘You know what, there is a Constitutional right for people to own guns, but there is also a Constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that enables us to have a safe country where we are able to protect our children from their senseless gun violence,” Clinton said. Of course Clinton was confusing one of the most valued rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and part of the preamble of the Declaration of Independence. The second amendment guarantees that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Meanwhile, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," is found not in the Bill of Rights but in the Declaration of Independence. The mistake was quickly spotted and jumped upon by the Republican National Committee. RNC spokesman James Hewitt emailed a statement to reporters blasting Clinton as a Yale Law School graduate that doesn't know what she is talking about. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/constitution-or-other-thing-clinton-gaffes-big-time.
Muslim Navy engineer with secret access
accused of concealing double
life as Iranian citizen
Pamela Geller
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Funding Levels Creating Risk In U.S.
Navy Attack Submarine, Surface
Combatant Fleets
Megan Eckstein
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USS Minnesota (SSN-783) under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding in 2012
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{news.usni.org} ~ The Navy is doing “the best we can do for the dollars we have” but has developed its attack submarine acquisition plan, cruiser modernization plan and Littoral Combat Ship/frigate down select plan based on funding shortfalls rather than strategic needs... Navy acquisition chief Sean Stackley told the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee. The Navy, along with General Dynamics Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding, have built two attack submarines a year since 2011 and have seen cost and schedule improvements as a result. With the Ohio Replacement Program (ORP) ballistic missile submarine construction approaching in the 2020s, the Navy has planned for two submarines a year going forward – though some years would include two attack subs and some would include one of each. With the additional upcoming introduction of the Virginia Payload Module (VPM) – an extra section in the Virginia-class attack subs that would increase their weapons payload from 12 to 40 Raytheon Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles – the Navy previously thought the industrial base could only handle one VPM a year, in addition to the boats, but was looking into the idea of putting VPM on all the Virginia-class boats. http://news.usni.org/2016/02/25/stackley-funding-levels-creating-risk-in-u-s-navy-attack-submarine-surface-combatant-fleets?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=8d3d92e997-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-8d3d92e997-231491269&mc_cid=8d3d92e997&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Iran’s elections: A test of
nObama’s nuclear deal
J. Matthew McInnis
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Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati (R), a candidate for the upcoming vote on the Assembly of Experts, and Iran’s former chief negotiator Saeed Jalili attend a conservatives election campaign gathering in Tehran February 24, 2016.
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Four global macroeconomic
policy blunders
Desmond Lachman
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nObama Admin Caught Making Illegal Move That Makes nObamaCare Look Even Worse
Randy SeSoto
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ The nObama administration has been caught — once again — seeking to circumvent the law related to nObamacare by diverting billions in funds intended for the U.S. Treasury to cover private insurance companies’ losses... In 2014, Sen. Marco Rubio inserted language into the omnibus spending bill which specifically barred the Department of Health and Human Services from dipping into the general funds of the Treasury to bailout failing insurance companies, the Washington Post reported. Marc Thiessen, writing for the Post, observed that the provision is “quietly killing” nObamacare, while the New York Times headlined in December, “Marco Rubio Quietly Undermines Affordable Care Act.” The Hill called the provision, “the biggest blow in the GOP’s five-year war against nObamacare.” http://www.westernjournalism.com/exposed-obama-admin-caught-making-illegal-move-that-makes-obamacare-look-even-worse/.
Break Glass and Read Before
Voting for slump-Trump
JOY OVERBECK.
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CENTCOM Intel Data Destroyed To Make nObama
ISIS “War” Look Good
Rick Wells
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Fact-Checking The Washington Post Fact Checker
on Mrs. Clinton’s Emails
Roger Aronoff
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Starving on the Prosciutto-and
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Michelle Malkin
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Talia Jane, a 25-year-old melodramatic millennial, made social media waves last week with her "open letter" to the CEO of crowd-sourced review website Yelp. The indigent English major in smart glasses lamented her deplorable plight toiling in the company's San Francisco-based customer support office of its food delivery and takeout division Eat24 -- oh, the poetic injustice -- as she bravely battled hunger pangs.
Talia Jane, a 25-year-old melodramatic millennial, made social media waves last week with her "open letter" to the CEO of crowd-sourced review website Yelp. The indigent English major in smart glasses lamented her deplorable plight toiling in the company's San Francisco-based customer support office of its food delivery and takeout division Eat24 -- oh, the poetic injustice -- as she bravely battled hunger pangs.
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Sure, she had "great" benefits, she admitted, including "vision, dental, the normal health insurance stuff?." Normal? I've been in the workforce 25 years and never had vision benefits. Have you?
Sure, she had "great" benefits, she admitted, including "vision, dental, the normal health insurance stuff?." Normal? I've been in the workforce 25 years and never had vision benefits. Have you?
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But, she complains, the inhumane co-pays were killing her: "$20 to see a doctor or get an eye exam or see a therapist or get medication. Twenty bucks each is pretty neat, if spending twenty dollars didn't determine whether or not you could afford to get to work the next week."
But, she complains, the inhumane co-pays were killing her: "$20 to see a doctor or get an eye exam or see a therapist or get medication. Twenty bucks each is pretty neat, if spending twenty dollars didn't determine whether or not you could afford to get to work the next week."
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Call the wahmbulance ASAP.
Call the wahmbulance ASAP.
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The ululations of the aggrieved swelled as Pained Jane kvetched about her bills, bills, bills. "Will you pay my phone bill for me?" she needled Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. "I got paid yesterday ($733.24, bi-weekly) but I have to save as much of that as possible to pay my rent ($1,245) for my apartment that's 30 miles away from work because it was the cheapest place I could find that had access to the train, which costs me $5.65 one way to get to work. That's $11.30 a day, by the way. I make $8.15 an hour after taxes. I also have to pay my gas and electric bill. Last month it was $120."
The ululations of the aggrieved swelled as Pained Jane kvetched about her bills, bills, bills. "Will you pay my phone bill for me?" she needled Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. "I got paid yesterday ($733.24, bi-weekly) but I have to save as much of that as possible to pay my rent ($1,245) for my apartment that's 30 miles away from work because it was the cheapest place I could find that had access to the train, which costs me $5.65 one way to get to work. That's $11.30 a day, by the way. I make $8.15 an hour after taxes. I also have to pay my gas and electric bill. Last month it was $120."
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Utilities. Transportation. Taxes. Budgeting. The fiscal responsibilities of adulthood border on human rights abuse. But wait, Talia Jane's anguish knows no bounds.
Utilities. Transportation. Taxes. Budgeting. The fiscal responsibilities of adulthood border on human rights abuse. But wait, Talia Jane's anguish knows no bounds.
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"I've since stopped using my heater," the call-center indentured servant lamented in between diatribes about Yelp's complimentary coconut water and pistachio nuts for employees. "Have you ever slept fully clothed under several blankets just so you don't get a cold and have to miss work? Have you ever drank a liter of water before going to bed so you could fall asleep without waking up a few hours later with stomach pains because the last time you ate was at work? I woke up today with stomach pains. I made myself a bowl of rice."
"I've since stopped using my heater," the call-center indentured servant lamented in between diatribes about Yelp's complimentary coconut water and pistachio nuts for employees. "Have you ever slept fully clothed under several blankets just so you don't get a cold and have to miss work? Have you ever drank a liter of water before going to bed so you could fall asleep without waking up a few hours later with stomach pains because the last time you ate was at work? I woke up today with stomach pains. I made myself a bowl of rice."
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The Bataan Death March survivors have nothing on Baby Jane!
The Bataan Death March survivors have nothing on Baby Jane!
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Look, poverty and starvation are no joke. But this woman's self-indulgent hyperbole is beyond parody.
Look, poverty and starvation are no joke. But this woman's self-indulgent hyperbole is beyond parody.
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Somehow, Jane was able to un-double herself up from her hunger-induced fetal position to get on her smartphone to tweet constantly. She also maintains a Tumblr site on which she routinely derided her (now former) employer, along with her own eponymous blog and separate Paypal, Venmo and Square Cash accounts to collect reader donations in the aftermath of her wholly justified firing.
Somehow, Jane was able to un-double herself up from her hunger-induced fetal position to get on her smartphone to tweet constantly. She also maintains a Tumblr site on which she routinely derided her (now former) employer, along with her own eponymous blog and separate Paypal, Venmo and Square Cash accounts to collect reader donations in the aftermath of her wholly justified firing.
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While Narcissa by the Bay wallowed in public self-pity over her inability to afford groceries ("bread is a luxury to me"), her social media accounts were filled with food, glorious food.
While Narcissa by the Bay wallowed in public self-pity over her inability to afford groceries ("bread is a luxury to me"), her social media accounts were filled with food, glorious food.
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Eagle-eyed Internet users archived Instagram and Twitter images of Talia Jane indulging in a spa day with a fashionable facial mask made of Lush-brand coffee grounds; showing off her well-stocked kitchen, where she baked sumptuous cupcakes, "prosciutto-brie-cilantro-garlic biscuits," "brie-stuffed meatballs topped with brie and rosemary sprigs," "roast chuck marinated in herbs," "a s--- ton of Swedish potatoes au gratin," and "mini pumpkin pies."
Eagle-eyed Internet users archived Instagram and Twitter images of Talia Jane indulging in a spa day with a fashionable facial mask made of Lush-brand coffee grounds; showing off her well-stocked kitchen, where she baked sumptuous cupcakes, "prosciutto-brie-cilantro-garlic biscuits," "brie-stuffed meatballs topped with brie and rosemary sprigs," "roast chuck marinated in herbs," "a s--- ton of Swedish potatoes au gratin," and "mini pumpkin pies."
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In one of her richer moments (pun intended), Jane brags about having Bulleit Kentucky Bourbon delivered to her office through a smartphone app. "I've been meaning to buy whiskey," she burbles, but I always forget until after I'm phone and my pants are off" presumably when she's under all her blankets shivering from cold and deprivation. "Alcohol delivery services aren't available where I live because I'm in the suburbs," so "I had alcohol delivery to my job. Oddly enough, no one asked about it."
In one of her richer moments (pun intended), Jane brags about having Bulleit Kentucky Bourbon delivered to her office through a smartphone app. "I've been meaning to buy whiskey," she burbles, but I always forget until after I'm phone and my pants are off" presumably when she's under all her blankets shivering from cold and deprivation. "Alcohol delivery services aren't available where I live because I'm in the suburbs," so "I had alcohol delivery to my job. Oddly enough, no one asked about it."
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Starving on a "living wage" with booze delivered straight to her desk. The struggle is so real.
Starving on a "living wage" with booze delivered straight to her desk. The struggle is so real.
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My husband and I immediately read this fraud's screed to our 15-year-old and 12-year-old children as an object lesson in how not to be a grown-up:
My husband and I immediately read this fraud's screed to our 15-year-old and 12-year-old children as an object lesson in how not to be a grown-up:
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Demand more than you are worth.
Demand more than you are worth.
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Expect all the benefits of autonomy without any of the accountability.
Expect all the benefits of autonomy without any of the accountability.
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Snivel, moan, repeat.
Snivel, moan, repeat.
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