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Cut Taxes, Grow Economy

by Nate Jackson

Federal Judge Orders Release

of Christopher Steele Deposition

by Chuck Ross

{westernjournal.com} ~ A federal judge in Florida on Thursday ordered the release of depositions given by former British spy Christopher Steele and a longtime associate of rino-John McCain’s in a lawsuit filed against BuzzFeed regarding Steele’s anti-Trump dossier... U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro overruled requests by Steele and David Kramer, the former rino-McCain associate, to keep depositions that they gave in the BuzzFeed lawsuit under seal. On Dec. 19, Ungaro dismissed a lawsuit filed against BuzzFeed by Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian businessman accused in the dossier of using his companies to hack into DNC computers. The depositions by Steele and Kramer, a former State Department official, are likely to shed light on how the dossier was compiled and disseminated to U.S. government officials and the media. Ungaro ordered the documents’ release on March 14. Kramer, a former State Department official, provided the dossier to a BuzzFeed reporter on Dec. 28, 2016, several weeks after meeting with Steele in London. Steele was hired in June 2016 by opposition research firm Fusion GPS to investigate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. He produced 17 separate memos dated between June 20, 2016 and Dec. 13, 2016, alleging a vast conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Kremlin to influence the election. Though the document remains unverified, the FBI cited Steele’s report extensively in applications to obtain surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.The dossier suffered a heavy blow Wednesday, during the congressional testimony of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Cohen denied under oath that he visited Prague during the 2016 campaign, as the dossier alleges...

https://www.westernjournal.com/judge-orders-release-christopher-steele-deposition/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

Even Something as Great as School Choice

Should Not Be Federalized

by Neal McCluskey

{cato.org} ~ Today, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL), in conjunction with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, will unveil a bill to create a $5 billion scholarship tax credit... an unprecedented federal school choice effort. An op-ed all three have in USA Today spells out both the good of federal school choice, and inadvertently, the potential bad which makes it too dangerous to justify. First, the good. DeVos, Cruz, and Byrne argue, quite rightly, that “education isn’t about school systems. It is about school children.” If you recognize basic reality, you’ll know that all children and families are different—different talents, values, dreams—hence it makes no sense to say all should get uniform education. But opposing school choice is de facto endorsing the idea that education should be largely uniform. One size must fit all. They also make another crucial point, one that is starting to elicit push-back from public schooling advocates who insist that public schooling and public education are synonymous. DeVos, Cruz, and Byrne write that their proposal is not “an attack on public education.” Of course it isn’t. For one, they say their proposal would allow credit-eligible funds to be used for public school options. More broadly, just as public assistance doesn’t mean every recipient of help must go to a government grocery store, nothing about public education implies government must supply the schools. Indeed, we’ve been moving away from things like government housing projects for decades. Now the bad. School choice is about individualization and freedom, and almost certainly that is what DeVos, Cruz, and Byrne want. But federal initiatives are a terrible way to deliver that. The reality is that what the feds fund, even indirectly, they inevitably want to control. DeVos, Cruz, and Byrne specifically acknowledge that historical reality in federal education policy. They write, “A series of administrations on both sides of the aisle have tried to fill in the blank with more money and more control, each time expecting a different result.” Note that the primary vehicle for that control, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, started aimed just at funding low-income districts. It eventually became the uber-controlling No Child Left Behind Act... https://www.cato.org/blog/thanks-no-thanks-federal-school-choice?/%20?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJaaU5qQTRZVGM0WldJeSIsInQiOiJTdXcwdUZGeUkxdGtVWlB1YnIxNmZhRU1HdDFxOW52U2NuMlU4ZWlCYXE1SDBIZjZYczZPSUhuSXh5eFdUVkRoM3RadmEwejdtZ3dOZmVlZFRIdkIzV0VQK0N1MXVDU1VVZVNhSkdNUUJBOU5vVU00dytPYlJMN1lhaU1xRnBVUyJ9

GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy: scumbag-Adam

Schiff Has Met Standard to Recuse

Himself From Trump Probe

by DEBRA HEINE

{pjmedia.com} ~ During his weekly press conference on Thursday, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calf.) said it looks like House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has met his own standard to recuse himself... from the Democrats' expanded investigation into President Trump's finances. His comments followed the seven-hour testimony of ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday, where Cohen testified that he had met with scumbag-Schiff to discuss "topics" prior to the hearing. On Thursday, two Republicans on the House Oversight Committee referred Cohen to the Justice Department for alleged perjury, accusing him of making intentionally false statements during his public testimony. “Yesterday there was a hearing. Two weeks ago I put out questions for Chairman of Intel. Committee scumbag-Adam Schiff – I even have more questions now," said McCarthy. “In the hearing with Mr. Cohen, he said that he talked to Chairman scumbag-Schiff. Question I have, what did they talk about? How many times did they discuss? Did staff meet? Where did they meet? Did they travel to meet?" the Republican leader continued... https://pjmedia.com/trending/gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-adam-schiff-has-met-standard-to-recuse-himself-from-trump-probe/?utm_source=PJMCoffeeBreak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=March2019

House rejects Trump emergency declaration,

setting up potential veto showdown

by Gregg Re

{foxnews.com} ~ Democrats on Tuesday pushed unprecedented legislation through the House to block President Trump's national emergency declaration to steer billions of extra dollars to his southern border wall... raising the prospect that Trump might issue his first-ever veto to defeat the effort. The vote was 245-182, with all Democrats voting yea and 13 Republicans joining them. Tuesday's vote marked the first time the House or Senate has tried to terminate a presidential declaration of a national emergency, using the provisions of the National Emergencies Act of 1976. Former Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., attempted a similar effort regarding a national emergency declared by then-President George W. Bush, but the measure never came to a vote on the House floor. Should enough Republicans in the GOP-controlled Senate defect and support the House bill, a two-thirds supermajority in both the Senate and House would be needed to override Trump's veto. The White House issued a formal veto threat Tuesday ahead of the House vote, ramping up pressure on Republicans to hold the line. With 427 representatives voting, the House needed 285 yeas to have a veto-proof margin on this legislation, and fell far short. It took President George W. Bush more than five years before he used his veto, and President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama only 11 months. For President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, it took two and a half years... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-votes-to-reject-trump-emergency-declaration-setting-up-potential-veto-showdown

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6003494178001/

The United Church of Christ

Wrongfully Attacks Israel

by Denis MacEoin

{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a shrinking Christian denomination mainly active in the United States, and "perhaps the most liberal of the Mainline Protestant American denominations"... With just under a million members and 5,000 churches down from two million members and 7,000 churches in 1957, when it was founded, it still has prominent congregations in the heartland of the American Congregationalist movements, in states such as Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Although the UCC's membership has included many US governors, senators, Supreme Court Justices such as William H. Rehnquist; some outstanding theologians such as H. Richard Niebuhr, his older brother Reinhold, and Paul Tillich; and several writers, and academics, it is, however, best known today as the church that U.S. President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama attended for twenty years between 1988 and 2008. For all that time, it was his spiritual home: "Trinity was where I found Jesus Christ, where we were married, where our children were baptized." He attended Trinity UCC in Chicago, with the largest of the denomination's congregations, some 10,000 members. Trinity UCC is a black or "Afrocentric" church that bases itself on the pursuit of love and justice. Its black congregation stands out as different from the wider UCC's mainly white membership. scumbag/liar-nObama's "close spiritual advisor" in the church was none other than its senior pastor, Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr., who served as pastor there from 1972 to 2008. Wright was not merely a radical, but apparently believed and "preached anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, advocated bizarre pseudo-scientific racial ideas, opposed interracial marriage, praised communist dictatorships, denounced black 'assimilation' ... and really believed that HIV/AIDS was created by the American government to kill black people." As if this were not enough, Wright harboured deep anti-American beliefs. In a sermon delivered on September 16, 2001, entitled, "The Day of Jerusalem's Fall," Wright appeared to celebrate white America's suffering...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13656/ucc-attacks-israel

Cut Taxes, Grow Economy

by Nate Jackson: It’s not news that the economy has emerged from the doldrums of the previous administration and is growing at a healthy pace. Yesterday’s release of fourth-quarter and full-year GDP numbers was another confirmation.

Fourth-quarter growth was a modest but higher-than-expected 2.6%, slowing from 3.4% in the third quarter and 4.2% in the second, and growth for calendar year 2018 was a healthy 2.9%. Yes, that’s just shy of President Donald Trump’s promise to grow the economy at 3% or more each year. Yes, it marks a record 13th straight yearwithout 3% growth. And yes, the government shutdown may have put just enough drag on the economy that it missed the 3% mark.

But the White House offered a slightly different measurement, backed up by Bloomberg: “GDP grew by 3.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2018,” which “represents $280 billion more in American economic output” than if previous trends had continued. In any case, it’s part of a significant upward trend since Trump took office. Remember when Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and his Keynesian stimulus pals informed us that 2% growth may be the “new normal”? Or when former scumbag/liar-nObama adviser Larry Summers dismissed the idea that tax cuts would yield growth unless “you believe in tooth fairies and ludicrous supply-side economics”?

Well, according to Jim Moran, chief investment officer at Plante Moran Financial Advisors, “For all the hand-wringing and angst, you’d have to go back to 2005 to find a year in which the economy grew at a faster pace.” The bottom line: The Trump administration has an exemplary record on tax cuts, deregulation, and economic growth.

However, we’ve said repeatedly over the last two decades that the economy in many ways amounts to a measurement of consumer confidence — a measurement that’s pretty high right now. We’ve also warned that Democrats are so set on their “Hate Trump” campaign, especially leading into 2020, that they actually want a recession. How will they get one? Undermining consumer confidence with incessant Leftmedia doomsaying.

A prime example is the yarn that Republican tax reform is yielding smaller tax refunds— due to limited deductions for some and smaller withholding for others. Well, The Daily Signal reports, “Tax refunds have increased this week, the Treasury Department announced Thursday. … The average refund at this point in the filing season is now up 1.3 percent over last year.”

Either way, Heritage Foundation fiscal policy analyst Adam Michel gets it right: “The important point to remember is that 90 percent of Americans got a tax cut. It is likely that more Americans will also get larger refunds, but the two are not connected.” What is connected is that when the government confiscates and redistributes less of our money, the economy grows more substantially. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61505?mailing_id=4108&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4108&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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