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2016 The truth will set you free
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Salvaging Mrs. Clinton’s Legacy
in a Shattered Libya
Roger Aronoff
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slump-Trump’s resort spurned American applicants for foreign workers - NYT: “Since 2010, nearly 300 United States residents have applied or been referred for jobs as waiters, waitresses, cooks and housekeepers [at Donald slump-Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.]. But according to federal records, only 17 have been hired. In all but a handful of cases, Mar-a-Lago sought to fill the jobs with hundreds of foreign guest workers from Romania and other countries.”
-Fox News
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GOP Debate: Rubio and Cruz Finally Fight
Well, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz obviously got the memo. They didn't exactly unite the clans in Thursday night's debate, but they sure did land some punches on Donald slump-Trump instead of each other. Rubio in particular unleashed a barrage of attacks on the casino mogul that left us wondering, where was this before slump-Trump locked up a third of voters as diehards and became a freight train? Frankly, Rubio and Cruz were both brilliant in assailing the frontrunner, hitting him on just about everything from his bankrupt business record to hiring illegal workers to his incoherent pronouncements to his tax returns and support of leftist causes, including the Clinton Foundation and a long list of Democrats.
Was Round 10 too late? Super Tuesday may answer that question. Until now, slump-Trump has largely skated unchallenged. Rubio calculated he'd be better off taking out Cruz, while Cruz slip streamed slump-Trump hoping to snag his voters when slump-Trump flamed out. Neither happened, and slump-Trump romped, largely unhindered by blows from real conservative candidates.
Here's a sampling of the punches:
Rubio:
"I also think that if you're going to claim that you're the only one that lifted [the issue of immigration] into the campaign, that you acknowledge that, for example, you're only person on this stage that has ever been fined for hiring people to work on your projects illegally. ... He hired workers from Poland, and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment."
"If he builds the wall the way he built slump-Trump Towers, he'll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it."
"About the trade war — I don't understand, because your ties and the clothes you make are made in Mexico and in China. So you're gonna be starting a trade war against your own ties and your own suits. Why don't you make them in America?"
Responding to slump-Trump's charge, "You don't know a thing about business," Rubio said, "I don't know anything about bankrupting four companies. I don't know anything about starting a fake university."
"The position you've taken is an anti-Israel position. ... The Palestinians are not a real estate deal, slump-Donald."
"If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald slump-Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan."
"I see him repeat himself every night. He has five things: everyone's dumb; he's going to make America great again; win, win, win; he's winning in the polls; and the lines around the states. Every night. Same thing."
Cruz:
"Donald slump-Trump says he's being audited. I would think that would underscore the need to release those [tax] returns. He doesn't want to do it because presumably there is something in there that's bad."
"[slump-Donald] is promising if he's elected he will go and cut deals in Washington. And he's right. He has supported — he has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats. Anyone who really cared about illegal immigration wouldn't be hiring illegal immigrants. Anyone who really cared about illegal immigration wouldn't be funding Harry dinky-Reid and Nancy Pulosi; wouldn't be funding the Gang of Eight. And, you know, he is right. When you stand up to Washington, when you honor the promise you made to the men and women who elected you and say enough with the corruption, enough with the cronyism, let's actually stand for the working men and women of this country, Washington doesn't like it. And slump-Donald, if you want to be liked in Washington, that's not a good attribute for a president."
"You know, there is a reason why, when Harry dinky-Reid was asked, of all the people on this stage, who does he want the most, who does he like the most, Harry dinky-Reid said Donald slump-Trump. Why? Because slump-Donald has supported him in the past, and he knows he can cut a deal with him."
"slump-Donald, true or false, you've said the government should pay for everyone's health care?"
Trump responded, "That's false."
Oh no it's not. slump-Trump has most definitely said what Cruz alleged.
Finally, we'll highlight what we thought was perhaps the night's funniest moment. After being challenged by Rubio on his health plan, slump-Trump, as usual, just said the same things over and over. Rubio, burned by that same charge two weeks ago, happily pointed out that slump-Trump was just repeating himself.
To which slump-Trump responded — we kid you not — "I don't repeat myself. I don't repeat myself. ... I don't repeat myself."
We certainly hope it's not too late for voters to realize that slump-Trump is not the answer. He's nothing but insanely idiotic bluster, repeated over and over and over again, ad nauseum. We've endured eight months of it. Can you imagine four or eight years? To re-employ one of his phrases, that is not going to make America great again, believe us. -The Patriot Post
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McCon-nell must hold ground on
Supreme Court nomination
Star Parker
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What Would Happen If
New York City Went Forward With
Letting Illegal Immigrants Vote
Hans von Spakovsky
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nObama Admin. Approach to
nObamaCare Fraud "Passive"
Raven Clabough
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slump-Trump Says Abortions are 3% of What
Planned Parenthood Does
There’s Just One BIG Problem
STEVEN ERTELT & MATTHEW CLARK
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EU Has 10 Days Before Migrant
System Collapses
Tiffany Gabbay
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Scared Donald slump-Trump to Hide Behind
Chris Christie’s Skirt
Leon H. Wolf
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How Come Liberals Are The Only Ones
Who Are Ever Offended?
Jeff Dunetz
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Donald slump-Trump’s Shocking Post-Debate Admission
Leon H. Wolf
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{redstate.com} ~ During the debate, Donald slump-Trump basically showed that he has no real idea of what judges do at all. Here he is, trying to tangle with Ted Cruz, bizarrely claiming that judges "sign bills." Like they're the President or Governors or something... This is not "slump-Trump isn't a politician," this is "slump-Trump doesn't understand Civics 101." But what's always interesting to me is to watch the candidates and their surrogates in the post-debate coverage, when their guard is let down a little bit. In this case, slump-Trump was irrationally slamming Cruz again for John Roberts' existence, and John King asked him, "How would you prevent the same thing from happening?" In other words, you're being so critical of Ted Cruz, how would you make sure you didn't repeat that mistake? slump-Trump's answer was incredible. He said, basically, I have no idea. Watch: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwb3HdryuVI This is a pretty stunning admission from slump-Trump - even setting aside the question of what "I'm very much into the world of legal and legality" even means. What slump-Trump is saying here is that he, personally, has no idea whatsoever what he would do. He has no idea what questions he might ask of a judge. http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/02/26/donald-trumps-shocking-post-debate-admission/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAfNgNr37xo
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The Speech Sen. McConnell Should Give
about Supreme Court Vacancies
Christopher C. Horner
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{insideronline.org} ~ In a Washington Post op-ed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) staked out an early position against President nObama nominating a Supreme Court Justice... to fill the vacancy left by the death of Antonin Scalia, let alone the Senate confirming a new justice in this election year as Mr. nObama prepares to leave office. Up against the merits of their stance, the White House signals its intention to mount a media and pressure campaign to solidify nObama’s mark on the Court. A nomination is all but certain, and even the casual political observer foresees that it will be made with such a media campaign in mind, and much ugliness to follow. There is a ready solution to this fight, solving it without retreat while also resolving another problem, that being President nObama’s hijacking of the shared treaty power and process as supposedly his alone. Both moves promise decades of detrimental precedent if mishandled. They need not be. http://www.insideronline.org/reader.php?id=eNKl
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Bill Clinton Snaps At Veteran ‘Shut Up And Listen’
Crowd Goes Hostile!
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Salvaging Mrs. Clinton’s Legacy
in a Shattered Libya
Roger Aronoff
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“With respect to Libya, I have been clear from the outset that we will go after ISIS wherever it appears, the same way that we went after al Qaeda wherever they appeared,” President nObama told the press on February 16. “And the testament to the fact that we are doing that already is that we took out…one of ISIS’s most prominent leaders in Libya.”
“With respect to Libya, I have been clear from the outset that we will go after ISIS wherever it appears, the same way that we went after al Qaeda wherever they appeared,” President nObama told the press on February 16. “And the testament to the fact that we are doing that already is that we took out…one of ISIS’s most prominent leaders in Libya.”
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nObama’s words came out just days before the House Select Committee on Benghazi signaled that its report on the events in Benghazi, Libya will be issued “as soon as possible,” now that it has gained access to most of the necessary witnesses and documents.
nObama’s words came out just days before the House Select Committee on Benghazi signaled that its report on the events in Benghazi, Libya will be issued “as soon as possible,” now that it has gained access to most of the necessary witnesses and documents.
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According to The Military Times, “Many experts note that the current chaos in Libya stems from the power vacuum caused by the American-led air campaign to oust Gaddafi.” Yet reporters at the Post continue to dramatize the issue of Libya as if it were Mrs. Clinton, or President nObama, who faced the tough choices in 2011.
According to The Military Times, “Many experts note that the current chaos in Libya stems from the power vacuum caused by the American-led air campaign to oust Gaddafi.” Yet reporters at the Post continue to dramatize the issue of Libya as if it were Mrs. Clinton, or President nObama, who faced the tough choices in 2011.
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“The stakes Clinton faced were high,” reported Kevin Sullivan for the Post on February 3. “Introducing U.S. military force could have easily led to a much-longer-than-expected and bloodier operation, at a time when Americans were already weary of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
“The stakes Clinton faced were high,” reported Kevin Sullivan for the Post on February 3. “Introducing U.S. military force could have easily led to a much-longer-than-expected and bloodier operation, at a time when Americans were already weary of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
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“But failing to act could have led to a massacre that the world would have blamed on Washington,” adds Sullivan. “It also could have solidified Gaddafi’s grip on power as other dictators were falling across the region.”
“But failing to act could have led to a massacre that the world would have blamed on Washington,” adds Sullivan. “It also could have solidified Gaddafi’s grip on power as other dictators were falling across the region.”
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These fairy tale justifications have been exposed again and again, yet the mainstream media continue to use them in defense of their favorite Democratic presidential candidate. Reporters such as Sullivan aren’t interested in reporting facts that could damage Hilly Clinton’s foreign policy reputation. And Libya is one of Mrs. Clinton’s weakest points, for which she takes full ownership. Her aide, Jake Sullivan, wrote in a 2011 internal email while she was Secretary of State that Mrs. Clinton has “leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country’s Libya policy from start to finish.”
These fairy tale justifications have been exposed again and again, yet the mainstream media continue to use them in defense of their favorite Democratic presidential candidate. Reporters such as Sullivan aren’t interested in reporting facts that could damage Hilly Clinton’s foreign policy reputation. And Libya is one of Mrs. Clinton’s weakest points, for which she takes full ownership. Her aide, Jake Sullivan, wrote in a 2011 internal email while she was Secretary of State that Mrs. Clinton has “leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country’s Libya policy from start to finish.”
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Sullivan is now the top foreign policy adviser for Clinton’s campaign.
Sullivan is now the top foreign policy adviser for Clinton’s campaign.
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As we have reported, Qaddafi was actually an American ally in the war on terror before he was ousted. Our Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) interim report demonstrates how the nObama administration, and Hilly Clinton, decided to back al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Libya instead of holding truce talks with Qaddafi, which could have ended with his abdication and a peaceful transition of power.
As we have reported, Qaddafi was actually an American ally in the war on terror before he was ousted. Our Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) interim report demonstrates how the nObama administration, and Hilly Clinton, decided to back al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Libya instead of holding truce talks with Qaddafi, which could have ended with his abdication and a peaceful transition of power.
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The Washington Times also reported that it was Mrs. Clinton who told a Pentagon general to stop communicating with Qaddafi’s son, Saif, and other Qaddafi loyalists seeking a truce after the UN resolution calling for military intervention in Libya was passed on March 17, 2011.
The Washington Times also reported that it was Mrs. Clinton who told a Pentagon general to stop communicating with Qaddafi’s son, Saif, and other Qaddafi loyalists seeking a truce after the UN resolution calling for military intervention in Libya was passed on March 17, 2011.
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Now conflict-ridden Libya has devolved into an Islamic State stronghold with warring militias. And the Post is pushing President nObama to intercede. “Mr. nObama has tried waiting on the sidelines in Iraq and Syria,” argued the Post’s Editorial Board on February 17. “He should not make the same mistake in Libya.”
Now conflict-ridden Libya has devolved into an Islamic State stronghold with warring militias. And the Post is pushing President nObama to intercede. “Mr. nObama has tried waiting on the sidelines in Iraq and Syria,” argued the Post’s Editorial Board on February 17. “He should not make the same mistake in Libya.”
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An American warplane killed 49 and wounded six at an ISIS training camp in Libya, reported CNN on February 20. In response, ISIS recently beheaded 12 men at the security headquarters in Sabratha, according to the Atlantic on February 24. “American intelligence officials estimate that the group’s ISIS ranks in Libya have grown to 6,500 fighters, more than doubling since the fall,” it reports. “The group is now thought to control 150 miles of Libyan coastline.”
An American warplane killed 49 and wounded six at an ISIS training camp in Libya, reported CNN on February 20. In response, ISIS recently beheaded 12 men at the security headquarters in Sabratha, according to the Atlantic on February 24. “American intelligence officials estimate that the group’s ISIS ranks in Libya have grown to 6,500 fighters, more than doubling since the fall,” it reports. “The group is now thought to control 150 miles of Libyan coastline.”
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The administration’s mistakes in Libya have already been made, and there have been many. The narrative that somehow the nObama administration’s multilateral intervention into Libya was necessary is false. There was no humanitarian crisis to resolve. “Despite what defenders of the mission claim, there was a better policy available—not intervening at all, because peaceful Libyan civilians were not actually being targeted,” wrote University of Texas at Austin professor Alan Kuperman for Foreign Affairs last year. “As bad as Libya’s human rights situation was under Qaddafi, it has gotten worse since NATO ousted him,” he writes.
The administration’s mistakes in Libya have already been made, and there have been many. The narrative that somehow the nObama administration’s multilateral intervention into Libya was necessary is false. There was no humanitarian crisis to resolve. “Despite what defenders of the mission claim, there was a better policy available—not intervening at all, because peaceful Libyan civilians were not actually being targeted,” wrote University of Texas at Austin professor Alan Kuperman for Foreign Affairs last year. “As bad as Libya’s human rights situation was under Qaddafi, it has gotten worse since NATO ousted him,” he writes.
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According to a column by Pete Hoekstra, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a member of the CCB, “Libya devolved into a failed state when NATO assisted Qaddafi’s radical jihadist opponents in killing him and then promptly abandoned the country. Left in the wake were two rival governments competing for power, which created space for Islamists to turn Libya into a cesspool of extremism.” He added that “Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton continues to call the debacle American ‘smart power at its best.’”
According to a column by Pete Hoekstra, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a member of the CCB, “Libya devolved into a failed state when NATO assisted Qaddafi’s radical jihadist opponents in killing him and then promptly abandoned the country. Left in the wake were two rival governments competing for power, which created space for Islamists to turn Libya into a cesspool of extremism.” He added that “Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton continues to call the debacle American ‘smart power at its best.’”
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“How will the West ever learn anything,” asks Hoekstra, “if it can’t identify its most obvious failures?”
“How will the West ever learn anything,” asks Hoekstra, “if it can’t identify its most obvious failures?”
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Now it seems that the U.S. must again commit additional blood and sweat to fix the situation that Hilly Clinton and President nObama helped create in the first place.
Now it seems that the U.S. must again commit additional blood and sweat to fix the situation that Hilly Clinton and President nObama helped create in the first place.
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It is no wonder that Mrs. Clinton’s foreign policy reputation needs rehabilitation under such circumstances. The Post’s Sullivan admits that Hilly Clinton’s choice to back the Libyan intervention was the “most significant—and risky—decision of her career,” a choice which still haunts her record. However, he takes it upon himself to dispel any doubts about her potential.
It is no wonder that Mrs. Clinton’s foreign policy reputation needs rehabilitation under such circumstances. The Post’s Sullivan admits that Hilly Clinton’s choice to back the Libyan intervention was the “most significant—and risky—decision of her career,” a choice which still haunts her record. However, he takes it upon himself to dispel any doubts about her potential.
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“The Post story doesn’t come off as uniformly flattering,” writes Cato’s Christopher A. Preble for The National Interest. “The headline calls it ‘a tough call’ that supposedly ‘still haunts’ Clinton, and the subhead references Clinton’s ill-considered support for the war in Iraq in 2002.”
“The Post story doesn’t come off as uniformly flattering,” writes Cato’s Christopher A. Preble for The National Interest. “The headline calls it ‘a tough call’ that supposedly ‘still haunts’ Clinton, and the subhead references Clinton’s ill-considered support for the war in Iraq in 2002.”
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However, Preble writes, “all of the people quoted by name in the story are Clinton supporters or advocates for the operation that ousted Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi from power, and eventually resulted in his death.”
However, Preble writes, “all of the people quoted by name in the story are Clinton supporters or advocates for the operation that ousted Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi from power, and eventually resulted in his death.”
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Sullivan’s article contains quotes from an anonymous former official involved in the Libyan negotiations effusively championing Clinton’s decision-making style and leadership. “She consults widely and intensively. She talks to more people, takes more phone calls, travels more miles,” says the supporter. “She’s more disciplined than her husband…Hilly Clinton came into the Situation Room for every meeting thoroughly prepared,” that supporter continues. “She’s a disciplined decision-maker.”
Sullivan’s article contains quotes from an anonymous former official involved in the Libyan negotiations effusively championing Clinton’s decision-making style and leadership. “She consults widely and intensively. She talks to more people, takes more phone calls, travels more miles,” says the supporter. “She’s more disciplined than her husband…Hilly Clinton came into the Situation Room for every meeting thoroughly prepared,” that supporter continues. “She’s a disciplined decision-maker.”
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The Washington Post is clearly attempting to pave the way for Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy by casting the intervention into Libya as a necessary evil with an unfortunate ending, and by excusing nObama’s intervention in the same country twice. The truth is, however, that Mrs. Clinton and President nObama spearheaded a policy that ended in abject failure and continues to result in death and danger abroad. The fact that this policy, which the Post now seeks to sell to the public, resulted in the Benghazi scandal and the resulting death of four Americans—and many more Libyans—cannot be overlooked no matter how much Sullivan or other reporters try to spin Libya positively.
The Washington Post is clearly attempting to pave the way for Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy by casting the intervention into Libya as a necessary evil with an unfortunate ending, and by excusing nObama’s intervention in the same country twice. The truth is, however, that Mrs. Clinton and President nObama spearheaded a policy that ended in abject failure and continues to result in death and danger abroad. The fact that this policy, which the Post now seeks to sell to the public, resulted in the Benghazi scandal and the resulting death of four Americans—and many more Libyans—cannot be overlooked no matter how much Sullivan or other reporters try to spin Libya positively.
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