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A dose of discernment needed to 'drain the swamp'
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 by Erik Rush
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 Trump Seeks to Protect Religious Freedom 
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It's no coincidence that on this National Day of Prayer Donald Trump will be signing an executive order designed to reverse Barack liar-nObama's stifling of religious freedom. It's widely anticipated that Trump's order will also roll back the Johnson Amendment, which forbids tax-exempt organizations such as churches from engaging in political activities. "Politicians and unelected bureaucrats shouldn't have the power to shut up their critics," a White House official stated. The president "thinks that's intolerant and un-American."
          Trump is to be commended for seeking to undo liar-nObama's abuses. While the Left will claim this opens the door to discrimination of those in the homosexual "community," the reality is a question of precedent. In other words, whose rights are sovereign? The answer clearly established by the First Amendment is the free exercise of religion. Under liar-nObama there was a push not only to limit religious expression in public, but also to define what was to be "morally" acceptable and force concession. This was not only a violation of religious freedom, it was a violation of free speech. Barring extreme conditions, it is not for the government to dictate what ideas or thoughts regarding religious beliefs are appropriate and acceptable.
          Attorney Stuart Lark said of the announcement, "Our country has a long history of protecting religious organizations from laws that substantially burden their ability to act in accordance with their beliefs. These protections foster pluralism and minimize the impact of government action on private religious choices, and in so doing they advance core principles underlying the First Amendment. To the extent the executive order expands these protections, it will be a welcome development for the many diverse faith communities in this country."
          So, on this Day of Prayer, take a moment to thank God for the freedoms we have to freely worship and follow our religious convictions, and for leaders who stand to defend these freedoms.  ~The Patriot Post
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Brigitte Bardot urges French voters
not to support Macron...
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by Pamela Geller
{pamelageller.com} ~ I am a Bardot fan. She (along with Marilyn and Liz) embodied the modern woman and what I, as a young girl, wanted to grow up to be — independent, sexy, fierce — unapologetically all-woman trailblazers... And that would have been enough. But I am still a huge Bardot fan, because she is one of the few voices on the world stage who speaks candidly about sharia and the jihad threat. And she has suffered the consequences. Most acutely. Convicted of provoking discrimination, Bardot has been charged and fined five times for “inciting racial hatred” because of her stand against sharia and jihad. In her 2003 book, she laments the “Islamization of France” and the “underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam.”... http://pamelageller.com/2017/05/bardot-vote-le-pen-not-macron.html/
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Trump Returning US To Historic Roots
Of Liberty, Religious Freedom
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs congratulates Pastor Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church of Dallas on President Trump’s religious liberty executive order... Jeffress describes what President Trump has done as “historic,” saying, “Today marks the beginning of the end of government’s 60-year-old war against religious liberty. "And if anybody doubts the reality of that war, Lou, just look at the Atlanta fire chief who lost his job because he published a book supporting traditional marriage. Or look at liar-nObama’s assault on the Little Sisters of the Poor, they were there today in the Rose Garden with us. I mean, President Trump has realized that this is not right, this goes against the fabric of what America is about, and he is intent on protecting what we people call our first freedom, the free exercise of religion, and I’m grateful to him for it.”...http://rickwells.us/dobbs-jeffress-trump-returning-us-historic-roots-liberty-religious-freedom/
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Don’t Squander Arab Good Will
on the Peace Process
by John Hannah
{mosaicmagazine.com} ~ Both Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump have suggested that renewed Israel-Palestinian negotiations could be aided by the involvement of Arab states friendly to the U.S. and Israel... including Persian Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia that have a growing unofficial economic and military relationship with the Jewish state. To John Hannah, this is precisely the wrong way to take advantage of improving ties between Israel and Arab countries: While I agree wholeheartedly that a historic opportunity may now exist to advance relations between Israel and several of its Arab neighbors, it would be unfortunate to squander it in service of efforts to solve a maddeningly intractable conflict that has defied resolution for nearly 70 years—and whose current prospects for progress are probably as bleak as they’ve been in a generation.... https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2017/05/dont-squander-arab-good-will-on-the-peace-process/
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Challenges Facing the Senate After House Passes
liar-nObamacare Replacement Bill
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by Melissa Quinn
{dailysignal.com} ~ Republicans cleared a major hurdle on Wednesday in advancing their proposal repealing and replacing liar-nObamacare. But the House GOP’s health care bill is likely to see major changes in the Senate... where Republicans must contend with strict budget rules and slim margins to pass the legislation. The House passed the American Health Care Act by a vote of 217-213 Thursday afternoon, capping weeks of negotiations that sought to satisfy conservative and centrist Republicans. The bill repeals a number of liar-nObamacare’s major provisions, including the individual and employer mandates, and replaces the law’s tax credits with age-based, refundable tax credits... http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/04/challenges-facing-senate-house-passes-obamacare-replacement-bill/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RVME9ETTFZVFkyT1ROaiIsInQiOiJnTmY3cDIzNE1kbmVpMjhtY3AyblFiR2J5dVVoSmlsUW5McUh2UWZ3R2FDUmdYbGdQRVUwaVkzWm5UM1wvV1B0YVJycDVkXC9NamhkS3FDWVFTQWRYZFY0TDBzaGM3VzEyNVRGaU1YK1VjUTZXWUJ4c2Z0RDVIaGFLbGM2M0FhdlFFIn0%3D
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Europe: More Migrants Coming
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (left) threatened to
send millions of migrants to Europe
by Soeren Kern
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The European Union has called on its member states to lift border controls — introduced at the height of the migration crisis in September 2015 — within the next six months... The return to open borders, which would allow for passport-free travel across the EU, comes at a time when the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean continues to rise, and when Turkish authorities increasingly have been threatening to renege on a border deal that has lessened the flow of migrants from Turkey to Europe. Critics say that lifting the border controls now could trigger another, even greater, migration crisis by encouraging potentially millions of new migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East to begin making their way to Europe. It would also allow jihadists to cross European borders undetected to carry out attacks when and where they wish... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10307/europe-more-migrants

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A dose of discernment needed to 'drain the swamp'
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 by Erik Rush
{wnd.com} ~ As many readers will concur, in general, American voters are not particularly discerning. Studies have been done detailing how questionable candidates have been elected to office simply because they’re glib, charismatic, or physically attractive. If a candidate looks good and sounds good, most voters will defer to that candidate, no matter how fundamentally insubstantial he or she may be.

Obviously, this has been a recipe for disaster, not just in individual cases, but as a long-term practice.

Exceptions to the widespread superficial assessment of political candidates have been instances in which significant numbers of voters have suffered due to the policies of a particular elected official or political party. Usually, this suffering has been economic in nature, but not always. In these cases, voters have tended to gravitate toward the candidate who promises to ameliorate that suffering. We witnessed this in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan and in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump.

When President Trump discussed “draining the swamp” of Beltway establishment hacks, his supporters cheered, but few realize how enormous an undertaking this actually is. It is one that cannot be accomplished by one president alone, no matter how sincere or dedicated that president may be toward accomplishing it.

Voters themselves have the potential to gain much more ground in this area, but they will have to employ discernment to do so.

When I speak of discernment, I am not referring to the spiritual gift of discernment discussed within the church. In practical terms, discernment is not some esoteric ability that some possess and some do not. I am speaking about employing the process of coming to logical, useful conclusions based on an aggregate of information some of which may be obscure to some degree. This, of course, involves a measure of critical thinking.

That’s the rub, because critical thinking has been discouraged among the populace, whether through the social engineering bent that’s been adopted by our educational institutions, media, or our political leaders themselves.

As I have indicated with increasing frequency, it has become quite clear that the majority of our Republican lawmakers – even many who claim to be conservatives – are nothing but big-government progressives. In general, congressional Republicans have taken on the role of playing the impotent foil to leftist Democrats who are railroading us toward a hard-line socialist state.

Why have Republican lawmakers taken on this role? Because the Washington establishment naturally fears that if a significant number of voters came to an understanding of the myth of our two-party system as it currently functions and the actual dynamic of Beltway politics, they might storm Washington, drag lawmakers out to the National Mall and burn them in a pile with the intention of starting over with a Congress that is not beholden to special interests or socialist ideology.

One potential instance of discernment among voters could be a very simple and fundamental one: the realization that progressivism isn’t “progressive” at all. In fact, it is actually retrogressive. Modern democracies and republics were, for the most part, instituted based upon the novel Enlightenment idea that populations could govern themselves, rather than being ruled by monarchs and oligarchs as they’d been for centuries. Progressivism takes all of that back in advancing a paradigm of government wherein populations are once again ruled by oligarchs. In America, progressives have overcome the hurdle of the party system by insinuating their operatives into both parties, yet maintaining the illusion that voters have a choice between competing ideologies.

Here’s another: Every so often, we read about a prominent political couple wherein one member is purportedly a staunch conservative and the other is a fire-breathing liberal. This is highly dubious considering the disparity of core beliefs between the two, something akin to a Baptist or Catholic marrying a practicing Satanist. Such marriages would necessitate the parties being so monumentally shallow that their stated core beliefs meant very little to them, or that the arrangements are simply political theater. Here, the “conservative” is an abject poser, and both parties’ political allegiances are rooted in progressivism.

Take House Speaker Paul Ryan, for example. He’s sold himself as a conservative, but Ryan’s actions, from the time he became speaker until the present, have indicated an individual who is either an ideological progressive, or someone who has become wholly corrupted by the establishment and simply seeks to maintain his place in the sun.

Ryan is married to Janna Ryan, a far-left liberal lawyer and trust fund baby who comes from a traditionally Democratic family. Janna Ryan could arguably be characterized as a left-wing activist. A K Street corporate lobbyist before marrying Ryan, she is described in numerous publications as “a liberal, left-wing progressive, anti-constitutional, big-government George Soros supporter who voted for Barack Hussein liar-nObama twice.” Her interests reportedly include women’s rights and social justice. This has not been widely discussed in the press, other than through the superficial media lens; the Ryans are just another power couple with divergent political beliefs who’ve somehow managed to make their marriage work.

How sweet.

Well, that might play with the undiscerning, but given Ryan’s deportment to date, it ought to raise a whole lot of questions among those seeking discernment concerning this speaker. These “mixed marriages” are but one of many tell-tale clues that such individuals may not be accurately or faithfully representing their political alignment.

This being the case, how might voters become more discerning?

That one is quite simple: If voters come to the realization that meticulously scrutinizing their prospective elected officials is an imperative, many will opt to engage their brains, dig a little deeper and take the steps necessary to really learn about political candidates and officeholders.
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