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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Hilly Changes on Crime
Debra J. Saunders
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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BILLIONAIRE DONOR STEYER GETS HILLY HOUSECALL
Billionaire Tom Steyer and his wife Kat Taylor host Hilly Clinton at their home in upscale Pacific Heights-San Francisco today. The “Conversation with Hilly,” in which the presumptive Democratic nominee will likely be pressed for her position on the Keystone XL pipeline, kicks off a three-day California fundraising swing. Steyer is a green-energy mogul whose business depends on government subsidies and government regulation of his fossil-fuel competitors. Though Clinton has been officially non-committal on Keystone, don’t be surprised if her leftward shift continues as she plays up to West Coast donors.
[Down the tube? - An environmental group calling on Clinton to outline her plan for addressing climate change, including opposition to Keystone XL, is staging a rally outside the Steyer fundraiser today.] -Fox News
Billionaire Tom Steyer and his wife Kat Taylor host Hilly Clinton at their home in upscale Pacific Heights-San Francisco today. The “Conversation with Hilly,” in which the presumptive Democratic nominee will likely be pressed for her position on the Keystone XL pipeline, kicks off a three-day California fundraising swing. Steyer is a green-energy mogul whose business depends on government subsidies and government regulation of his fossil-fuel competitors. Though Clinton has been officially non-committal on Keystone, don’t be surprised if her leftward shift continues as she plays up to West Coast donors.
[Down the tube? - An environmental group calling on Clinton to outline her plan for addressing climate change, including opposition to Keystone XL, is staging a rally outside the Steyer fundraiser today.] -Fox News
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The host with the most - Steyer has been touted as “the most influential environmentalist in American politics.” He pumped more than $73 million into PACS pushing climate change in the midterms – and has been cast as a liberal counterforce to the Koch brothers. Steyer’s prolific fundraising for President nObama and subsequent visits to the White House on environmental issues have gone hand-in hand with benefits to his ‘clean energy” interests. The scope of Steyer’s kingmaker status has driven Democrats to stage events like their one-party climate change talkathon in Congress last year and Sen. dinky Harry Reid’s annual clean energy summit. Keynoting last year’s Las Vegas gathering of industry leaders – you guessed it: Hilly Clinton. -Fox News
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WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
CNET: “In Tom Clancy's sensationalist novel ‘Debt of Honor,’ a disgruntled pilot decides to avenge his lost honor by crashing a fuel-laden 747 directly into the U.S. Capitol, causing the giant building to explode and collapse. The scope of that fictional disaster was hard to fathom prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. But even before 9/11, anyone who had been in Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937, would have had a pretty good sense of just how big an explosion Clancy had in mind. Because that day, the Hindenburg, a German zeppelin that was famous the world over for ferrying the rich and powerful across the Atlantic, blew up as it attempted to land, a catastrophe that rocked the globe, kickstarted the news industry, and closed the book for good on a form of travel that, while far beyond the means of most people, unquestionably appealed to the romantic notions of the masses.” -Fox News
CNET: “In Tom Clancy's sensationalist novel ‘Debt of Honor,’ a disgruntled pilot decides to avenge his lost honor by crashing a fuel-laden 747 directly into the U.S. Capitol, causing the giant building to explode and collapse. The scope of that fictional disaster was hard to fathom prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. But even before 9/11, anyone who had been in Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937, would have had a pretty good sense of just how big an explosion Clancy had in mind. Because that day, the Hindenburg, a German zeppelin that was famous the world over for ferrying the rich and powerful across the Atlantic, blew up as it attempted to land, a catastrophe that rocked the globe, kickstarted the news industry, and closed the book for good on a form of travel that, while far beyond the means of most people, unquestionably appealed to the romantic notions of the masses.” -Fox News
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Sixteeners split on GOP budget vote - The three declared Republican presidential candidates in the Senate were divided in casting their ballots on the GOP budget plan Tuesday. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted against the measure, while Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., voted yea. The 10-year non-binding blueprint passed 51-48 and will serve as a starting point for spending bills later this year. -Fox News
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BIBI IN A JAM AFTER ALLY DEFECTS TO OPPOSITION
AP: “With the clock ticking, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raced to put together a governing coalition Tuesday or face the prospect of being forced out of office by a former ally. Netanyahu’s Likud Party won March 17 elections, emerging as the largest single party in parliament. But he has had a tough time striking deals with other parties to secure a 61-seat majority in the 120-seat parliament. If he fails by the end of the day Wednesday, President Reuven Rivlinmust give someone else the job.” -Fox News
AP: “With the clock ticking, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raced to put together a governing coalition Tuesday or face the prospect of being forced out of office by a former ally. Netanyahu’s Likud Party won March 17 elections, emerging as the largest single party in parliament. But he has had a tough time striking deals with other parties to secure a 61-seat majority in the 120-seat parliament. If he fails by the end of the day Wednesday, President Reuven Rivlinmust give someone else the job.” -Fox News
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FBI Director Warns: Potentially ‘Thousands’ Of ISIS Followers In US
(gopthedailydose.com) - The FBI currently has hundreds of investigations of potential homegrown terrorists under way, with cases open in every state... FBI Director James Comey warned that there are as many as “thousands” of people inside the United States taking in ISIS’ online “poison.” Comey noted as recently as two years ago that the FBI could focus on tracking those within the U.S. who visited jihadi websites, but a shift to social media by ISIS sympathizers has changed all that. Who are we going to believe, the experts or the FBI? http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/05/08/fbi-director-warns-potentially-thousands-of-isis-followers-in-us/
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ER Visits Supposed To Drop Like A Lead Balloon Under nObamacare
(rickwells.us) - One of the many promises made in the selling of nObamacare was the idea that once people received their socialized medicine, they would stop visiting hospital emergency rooms for standard, non-emergency care... That appears to be, in practice, nothing but another of the many claims made by Democrats that proved in practice to be a total falsehood. In a moment of feigned financial responsibility, Hussein nObama is shown campaigning for the passage of his mandatory health care plan based upon the premise that we shouldn’t be forced to ultimately pay for an unneeded emergency room visit caused by an uninsured patient. Now we’re not only forced to pay for that visit, we’ve got an insurance premium of our own to go along with it, plus our subsidies to pay other people’s coverage. What’s the excuse now, nObama and is there a plan “B?” http://www.rickwells.us/er-visits-were-supposed-to-drop-like-a-lead-balloon-under-obamacare-another-obama-falsehood/
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FBI, Homeland Security have not bothered to contact Pamela Geller
(Robert Spencer) - Apparently the nObama FBI and DHS not only are unwilling to discuss Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism; they’re also unwilling to protect those who do... Hannity: “This is a serious threat. Basically a Fatwa, a death threat, has now been issued. Your reaction to that? Have you had any contact with the FBI?” Geller: “They have not contacted me, but of course we’ve now increased my team. I have a team now, private security, and NYPD counterterror has been in touch with me.” http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/05/fbi-homeland-security-have-not-bothered-to-contact-pamela-geller-after-islamic-state-threatens-to-murder-her?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=cc6883bde2-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-cc6883bde2-123451509
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Vote For The Biggest Crook, Hilly Promises More Lawbreaking
(rickwells.us) - It wasn’t long ago that an adherence to the values of honesty, the rule of law and a patriotic respect of our national sovereignty were an intrinsic part of the American ideal and significant components of what America looked for in choosing a president... Those days are long gone, at least when it comes to the Democrat half of the equation. These days gender, race and other insignificant factors, as well as a willingness to violate the Constitution and American law for the right “cause” are what many voters are looking for. Some of those who vote will, by design, be members of the class of illegals who will benefit directly from Democrat lawbreaking. One of those pandering for the lawbreaker vote is the career criminal who many ignorant Americans plan to vote for based simply upon the type of plumbing she was born with, Hilly Clinton. On Tuesday she declared that she would not only maintain the lawless direction of the current occupant of the White House, but she would expand upon it. This last statement should wake up a lot of voters. http://www.rickwells.us/vvote-for-the-biggest-crook-hillary-clinton-promises-more-lawbreaking-to-entice-criminal-voters/
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(rickwells.us) - Once again Texas finds itself obligated by federal failures and its own sense of duty to assume a lead role in the battle of sovereign Americans against the invading forces of our enemy to the south, Mexico... It is a war they are forced to wage not only against the physical assault represented by the individuals who enter their state illegally, but against the corrupt federal enablers in DC as well. On Wednesday, the Texas State Senate approved a measure which would afford legal jurisdiction to Texas law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws. The mechanism through which Texas would create this authority is the Interstate Compact Clause of the United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 10. It provides that states have the authority to enter into agreements which much then be approved by a vote of Congress. There is no presidential veto exposure in such arrangements an alliance with only one other state is sufficient. http://www.rickwells.us/texas-senate-acts-to-substitute-new-texas-state-border-law-for-unenforced-federal-legislation/
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“Climate” Criminals Won’t Admit Plan To Bypass Congress
(rickwells.us) - The most opaque administration in history is once again operating in secret as it attempts to snare the United States inextricably in an international web of extorted payments and sovereignty compromises under the United Nations... The pretext upon which these crimes are being perpetrated is their current favorite, the false pseudo-religion based upon global gullibility and greed, man-caused climate change. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) knows what’s up, and he’s got the questions to prove it. In Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearings on Wednesday he asked State Deapartment Acting Assistant Secretary Judith Garber some questions as to the methodology that is being used to force the un-American and destructive treaty past Congress and upon the American people.
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Unbelievable: Feds Complicit in Illegal Border Smuggling Tunnel
(hannity.com) - Last week, Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) joined Sean to inform him of a sophisticated illegal smuggling tunnel built at the Arizona-Mexico border... According to Border Patrol agent, Chris Cabrera, the agency was aware of the tunnel (and wanted to patrol it), but were told not to by their superiors. Below is Rep. Salmon's letter to DHS secretary Jeh Johnson which details his concerns about the tunnel: http://www.hannity.com/articles/news-476261/unbelievable-feds-complicit-in-illegal-border-13571151/
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CNN Idiot: Hate Speech Not Constitutionally Protected
(totalconservative.com) - That CNN has become the journalistic equivalent of old manure is a truth that most Americans have embraced. So much so, in fact, that it almost feels like bullying to point out when one of their anchors makes a public fool of themselves... Still, when Chris Cuomo is out there tweeting his idiocy for the world to see, it’s hard not to take notice. It may not be tasteful to rubberneck when you drive past a car accident, but it’s just so damn hard to resist. In response to someone who said they were tired of people pretending as though hate speech did not fall under the realm of free speech, Cuomo tweeted: “Hate speech is excluded from protection. Don’t just say you love the constitution…read it.” Wow. There’s something beautiful about ignorance when it comes served with a side helping of arrogance. It can be infuriating, but there are other times when you just have to throw back your head and laugh. That an ostensibly-respected journalist thinks there is a clause in the First Amendment forbidding “hate speech” falls somewhere in the middle. It’s funny, but it’s also a little sad. http://totalconservative.com/cnn-idiot-hate-speech-not-constitutionally-protected/
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Will the Fallout from the Iran Deal Make the Middle East Less Stable?
(John Hannah) - Let’s stipulate that any effort to reach a nuclear accord with a rabidly anti-American theocracy like the Islamic Republic of Iran is by its nature a risky enterprise... That’s especially the case given the mullahs long track record of lying, cheating and deception when it comes to their nuclear ambitions. But how much risk is too much? At what point do the likely downsides of a deal exceed the upsides? And are there mitigation measures available that might nevertheless make a high-risk agreement worth concluding? Any definitive assessment won’t be possible until a final deal is actually inked. But based on the Lausanne framework served up last month, some preliminary concerns are certainly worth airing. And it ain’t pretty. There seems a high likelihood that we’re setting ourselves up for some extremely dangerous, even catastrophic, outcomes — ones that would make the deal being contemplated not just risky, but downright reckless. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/john-hannah-will-the-fallout-from-the-iran-deal-make-the-middle-east-less-stable/
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What to Do About ISIL?
(Charles Crawford) - At a recent conference, I found myself bemoaning the ineffectiveness of Western military action against the Islamic State (ISIL). We in the West had decided to attack ISIL, but seemed to be pulling our punches... Why were their banking, propaganda and other facilities that support their terrorist operations not being blown to bits? Imagine the surprise when a senior U.S. expert on these issues replied that by far the best thing to do with ISIL was precisely nothing: the Middle East and wider "Muslim world" was doomed to a massive revolting civil war, so let them get on with it and take stock of the situation once it clarified. That, perhaps, is rather easier for an American to say. European leaders stare aghast at the rising death toll among refugees ("migrants") in boats in the Mediterranean. Is it moral to do Nothing? But does doing Something simply encourage more terrified people to try to cross to Europe and stay there? Where does such a process end? Whose continent is Europe anyway? http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5694/isil-policy
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Hilly Changes on Crime
Debra J. Saunders
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(jewishworldreview.com) - "It's time to end the era of mass incarceration," Hilly Clinton proclaimed in a scheduled criminal-justice speech Wednesday that gave her the opportunity to address sentencing reform in the context of the troubles in Baltimore. It was a lukewarm effort in keeping with Hillyland rules. Say as little as possible. Offend no interest group. Let handlers alert the media that the candidate is engaging in a big policy shift that is bound to attract young voters, even if the big policy shift leaves out specific positions on, say, marijuana legalization or the death penalty..
I don't think it was smart to combine sentencing reform and the use of force by police in the same speech. We do not know whether Baltimore police caused the death of Freddie Gray, who died from a spinal cord injury after being taken into police custody. State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby made a damning case as she announced she was charging six officers with murder or lesser charges. Still, we haven't heard from the cops yet. People thought a white cop had killed an unarmed black youth in Ferguson, Missouri, only to learn police Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown in self-defense. Sometimes facts support the very understandable suspicion that race is the defining element when police use force; think of the video of a white South Carolina officer shooting an unarmed African-American in the back multiple times. Sometimes they do not. Until the facts are in, police deserve the same presumption of innocence that is the right of every American. Clinton should have said as much.
I don't think it was smart to combine sentencing reform and the use of force by police in the same speech. We do not know whether Baltimore police caused the death of Freddie Gray, who died from a spinal cord injury after being taken into police custody. State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby made a damning case as she announced she was charging six officers with murder or lesser charges. Still, we haven't heard from the cops yet. People thought a white cop had killed an unarmed black youth in Ferguson, Missouri, only to learn police Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown in self-defense. Sometimes facts support the very understandable suspicion that race is the defining element when police use force; think of the video of a white South Carolina officer shooting an unarmed African-American in the back multiple times. Sometimes they do not. Until the facts are in, police deserve the same presumption of innocence that is the right of every American. Clinton should have said as much.
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Instead, she focused on the need to reduce incarceration rates, as keeping offenders "behind bars does little to reduce crime." This is a change of tune. The Washington Post duly noted that Clinton is breaking with her husband's 1994 crime law, without mentioning his legislation by name. The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act created tough penalties for drug offenders and dedicated $30 million to hire local police and build prisons. Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann declared he was delighted Hilly Clinton made criminal-justice reform the focus of the first major policy address since she announced her candidacy for president. But he also was disappointed that Clinton never addressed her support of draconian drug law sentences.
Instead, she focused on the need to reduce incarceration rates, as keeping offenders "behind bars does little to reduce crime." This is a change of tune. The Washington Post duly noted that Clinton is breaking with her husband's 1994 crime law, without mentioning his legislation by name. The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act created tough penalties for drug offenders and dedicated $30 million to hire local police and build prisons. Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann declared he was delighted Hilly Clinton made criminal-justice reform the focus of the first major policy address since she announced her candidacy for president. But he also was disappointed that Clinton never addressed her support of draconian drug law sentences.
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Hilly Clinton campaign spokesman Jesse Ferguson, however, did tweet that the reason Hilly's take is different from Bill's is not that Bill was wrong in 1994 but that "times change."
Hilly Clinton campaign spokesman Jesse Ferguson, however, did tweet that the reason Hilly's take is different from Bill's is not that Bill was wrong in 1994 but that "times change."
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I was disappointed in Clinton's willingness to throw all law enforcement — federal, state and local — in one pile as she talked about "excessive incarceration." Federal mandatory minimum sentences have fallen disproportionately on African-Americans and doomed low-level offenders — often with no history of violence, sometimes with no prior convictions — to years, even decades, in prison. As I've written for decades now, Congress needs to return sanity to the system so that minimum sentences reflect the low end of the corrections spectrum, not the harshest punishment imaginable.
I was disappointed in Clinton's willingness to throw all law enforcement — federal, state and local — in one pile as she talked about "excessive incarceration." Federal mandatory minimum sentences have fallen disproportionately on African-Americans and doomed low-level offenders — often with no history of violence, sometimes with no prior convictions — to years, even decades, in prison. As I've written for decades now, Congress needs to return sanity to the system so that minimum sentences reflect the low end of the corrections spectrum, not the harshest punishment imaginable.
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Gray, 25, was swept into a different vortex — local law enforcement — with at least 18 arrests since 2007, mostly on drug charges, and with more than one arrest in certain months. Until his untimely death, Gray was a repeat offender for whom arrest meant not draconian time but a turnstile experience. Bill Otis, a former federal prosecutor with the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, believes the circumstances of Gray's death "are quite suspicious," but not all facts are in. Otis also thinks that any 25-year-old with 18 arrests has "made his decision on how he's going to live," so don't blame criminal penalties for his crimes.
Gray, 25, was swept into a different vortex — local law enforcement — with at least 18 arrests since 2007, mostly on drug charges, and with more than one arrest in certain months. Until his untimely death, Gray was a repeat offender for whom arrest meant not draconian time but a turnstile experience. Bill Otis, a former federal prosecutor with the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, believes the circumstances of Gray's death "are quite suspicious," but not all facts are in. Otis also thinks that any 25-year-old with 18 arrests has "made his decision on how he's going to live," so don't blame criminal penalties for his crimes.
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Clinton had to give this speech, given that Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a declared White House hopeful, has been a hard-core critic of Washington's war on drugs. "If he's the Republican nominee and she's the Democratic nominee," opined Tom Angell of the pro-legalization Marijuana Majority, it will be embarrassing for Clinton.
Clinton had to give this speech, given that Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a declared White House hopeful, has been a hard-core critic of Washington's war on drugs. "If he's the Republican nominee and she's the Democratic nominee," opined Tom Angell of the pro-legalization Marijuana Majority, it will be embarrassing for Clinton.
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The person who really showed up Clinton is mother and grandmother Toya Graham of Baltimore. While Clinton cites her status as a grandmother as a factor behind her position of the day, Graham has a flesh-and-blood stake in Baltimore. She showed up at Monday's riot because her 16-year-old son had told her he planned to participate and she did not want him to become the next Freddie Gray. When Graham saw her son in a mask holding a rock, she lost it and clobbered him. Graham later said to CBS News that she told her son: "You will not be throwing rocks and stones at police officers. At some point, who's to say that they don't have to come and protect me from something?"
The person who really showed up Clinton is mother and grandmother Toya Graham of Baltimore. While Clinton cites her status as a grandmother as a factor behind her position of the day, Graham has a flesh-and-blood stake in Baltimore. She showed up at Monday's riot because her 16-year-old son had told her he planned to participate and she did not want him to become the next Freddie Gray. When Graham saw her son in a mask holding a rock, she lost it and clobbered him. Graham later said to CBS News that she told her son: "You will not be throwing rocks and stones at police officers. At some point, who's to say that they don't have to come and protect me from something?"
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Clinton wants to be president, so she simply said Baltimore should and does "tear at our soul." If Clinton cannot speak Toya Graham's plain truth, she has no business running.
Clinton wants to be president, so she simply said Baltimore should and does "tear at our soul." If Clinton cannot speak Toya Graham's plain truth, she has no business running.
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