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GOP Seeks to Hold dummycrats-Dems
Accountable for Kavanaugh Mess
by Political Editors
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Rebuilding Syria: The Responsibility Principle
by Malcolm Lowe.
China’s Economy Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up to Be
by Gabriella Beaumont-Smith.
The Saudi Monarchy May Have Killed a Free Man
by Doug Bandow{cato.org} ~ Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi moved to the United States after he was pressured to stop criticizing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s new authoritarian order... He explained his decision a year ago in the Washington Post : “I have left my home, my family and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.” Khashoggi, who once advised members of the royal family, appears to have paid the ultimate price for living his principles. On Tuesday he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, seeking to complete paperwork to facilitate his remarriage. He never exited. Alive, anyway. The Saudi authorities insist that he had left and they also are looking for him. It first appeared likely that he had been kidnapped, a common tactic used by Riyadh against dissident princes and other critics. The Turkish police noted the departure of several diplomatic vehicles from the building, in which he could have been taken, drugged and/or bound. However, Ankara now concludes that Khashoggi was murdered by a special hit squad brought in for that purpose. Stated an anonymous official: “We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate.” If true, Riyadh has dramatically escalated the war on its critics, many of whom, as Khashoggi related, currently languish in prison. However, having denied that the journalist is either at the consulate or in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the regime could not easily later release him from prison. And death certainly ends his criticism... https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/saudi-monarchy-may-have-killed-free-man?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpFNE1qTTVZV00wWmpVMCIsInQiOiJKQnJIbFVzOWVHQ0lidGpJQU1qNmFjc0hGNllzalwvWk9URVlaenNHNFVDeGozK1FPUWY4NVwvN2M3a1krcnJpdkN0NERNSTI5QnhUakZVQ3ZabURLVUpkeWluSzJGYmFxTmZEXC9hVE0yNjhrTkYxQnNQYktuOGpOMmh6emZkc01aWiJ9
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.Think Your State Is Fiscally Sound? Think Again
by Veronique de Rugy
{reason.com} ~ It's that time of the year again when we find out how deep in the red our country is thanks to the 2018 edition of the Mercatus Center State Fiscal Rankings... The study authors, Eileen Norcross and Olivia Gonzalez, find that when you rank states by their fiscal health, you can identify the best and worst state. But the scariest finding is that no state is really fiscally healthy. Norcross and Gonzalez are very transparent about each decision behind the study methodology. They use states' own audited financial data to create five different indices cash solvency, budget solvency, long-term solvency, service-level solvency, and trust-fund solvency to analyze and create the overall ranking. The final product is the result of many factors and deliberative choices. Based on the most recent government data available for all states, this year, the top five most fiscally solvent states, from one to five, are Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Florida, and Oklahoma. One thing these states have in common is that they have some cash on hand and relatively low short-term obligations. That makes them relatively healthier than others. It's that time of the year again when we find out how deep in the red our country is thanks to the 2018 edition of the Mercatus Center State Fiscal Rankings. for all states, this year, the top five most fiscally solvent states, from one to five, are Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Florida, and Oklahoma. One thing these states have in common is that they have some cash on hand and relatively low short-term obligations. That makes them relatively healthier than others.The bottom five states in terms of fiscal solvency, from 46 to 50, are Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Illinois. These states face large debt obligations and have too little cash on hand to pay short-term bills. It doesn't take a professional accountant to understand that those bad fiscal habits could spell disaster for states during a recession or emergency. Again, the study's most important finding is that being at the top makes you healthier than others by comparison but not necessarily healthy overall. In fact, the authors show that every single state would be in trouble if another financial crisis were to happen...
JW Videos of the Week
The Dangers and Costs of Illegal Immigration feat. The Remembrance Project.
Tom Fitton’s Video Weekly Update – October 12, 2018.
The Left’s Failed Attempt to Take Out Brett Kavanaugh–and Holding It Accountable for Its Smears.
scumbag/liar-nObama ATF Tried to Do ‘End-Run’ Around 2nd Amendment by Banning Ammo.
liar-Hillary Clinton Should Testify Under Oath.
American People saw Through the dummycrats-Dems’ Actions During Kavanaugh Process.
GOP Seeks to Hold dummycrats-Dems Accountable for Kavanaugh Messby Political Editors: “I believe the scumbag/clown-Schumer political operation was behind this from the very beginning,” stated Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) during an interview this week with radio host Hugh Hewitt. The “this” Cotton was referring to are the growing questions Republicans have raised over exactly who was responsible for leaking Christine Blasey Ford’s letter to the press — the letter launched the accusation hoopla against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. And clearly Cotton believes that the arrow of suspicion is pointing squarely at Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer (D-NY).
Cotton further opined in his call for a probe:
We learned last week that a woman named Monica McLean was Ms. Ford’s roommate and she was one of the so-called ‘beach friends’ that encouraged Ms. Ford to go to [Sen.] Dianne Fein-stein and the partisan dummycrats-Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. It just so happens that Monica McLean worked for Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney in Manhattan, now a virulent anti-Trump critic on television and former counsel to Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer.
I strongly suspect that Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer's political operation knew about Ms. Ford’s allegations as far back as July and manipulated the process all along to include taking advantage of Ms. Ford’s confidences and directing her towards left-wing lawyers who apparently may have violated the DC code of legal ethics and perhaps may face their own investigation by the DC Bar.
The following day, Hewitt questioned Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) over Cotton’s charge that scumbag/clown-Schumer was essentially responsible for orchestrating the leak of Ford’s letter, asking, “Was scumbag/clown-Schumer driving this bus?” Lee backed off a little bit, stating, “I don’t know whether it was Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer himself. It certainly could have been. But there was something going on here, because there was a decision made somewhere along the line after they became aware of this information, and six weeks until it actually came out. They [the dummycrats-Democrats] were doing stuff.”
What is clear is that Republicans are not content to let the dummycrats-Democrats get away with their conspired smear-job on Kavanaugh. And in order for this type of conspiring behavior displayed by the dummycrats-Democrats to be prevented in the future, it must be exposed and addressed. The Republicans have a responsibility to investigate this matter further.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58791?mailing_id=3792&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3792&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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