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The Front Page Cover
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Starving the Beast
by Cal Thomas
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Morris – Good News For Flynn, liar-nObama
Judge Recuses, Replaced With Judicial Icon
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Dick Morris open his good news narrative by saying, “I think we caught a break.” He reveals that... “The liar-nObama appointee judge, who was assigned to handle the Flynn case, has recused himself.” Morris says, “We don’t know why but it’s interesting, and in his place has been appointed Emmitt Sullivan, another District Court Judge that works in DC. And Sullivan may have ongoing jurisdiction over this entire investigation of the Flynn, Russia, Trump meddling ‘scandal.'” “That is very good news,” says Morris, pointing out that although he was appointed by liar-Bill Clinton, he’s been a force in the judiciary for fairness and objectivity. Morris says, “He was incredible when there was an attempt made to frame Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) and convict him of a crime.”... https://rickwells.us/morris-flynn-obama-judge-replaced/.
Wait, What? State Department
Won't Say Jerusalem is in Israel
by Katie Pavlich
{townhall.com} ~ Just two days after President Trump officially announced the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel... the State Department will not say what country in which the city exists. During his speech on Wednesday, President Trump called Israel a sovereign nation entitled to determining it's own capital. "Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital. Acknowledging this as a fact is a necessary condition for achieving peace," Trump said. "It was 70 years ago that the United States, under President Truman, recognized the State of Israel. Ever since then, Israel has made its capital in the city of Jerusalem -- the capital the Jewish people established in ancient times. Today, Jerusalem is the seat of the modern Israeli government. It is the home of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, as well as the Israeli Supreme Court. It is the location of the official residence of the Prime Minister and the President. It is the headquarters of many government ministries."... https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/12/08/wait-what-state-department-wont-say-jerusalem-is-in-israel-n2420179?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=.
CNN Botches Major ‘Bombshell’ Alleging
Contacts Between Don Jr. And WikiLeaks
by CHUCK ROSS
{dailycaller.com} ~ CNN misreported key details of an offer made to Donald Trump Jr. last year of a batch of stolen Wikileaks documents... The story, which CNN published on Friday and covered extensively on TV, was touted as the first evidence that the Trump campaign was given a heads-up about documents stolen from Democrats. But the story appears to have been riddled with errors, while also lacking key context... http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/08ecnn-botches-major-bombshell-alleging-contacts-between-don-jr-and-wikileaks/VIDEO at the site.
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Welcome to the Hell Hole that is Brussels
by Drieu Godefridi
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ When then-candidate Donald Trump noted in January 2016 that, thanks to mass immigration, Brussels was turning into a hell hole... Belgian and European politicians presented a united front at the media barricades: How dare he say such a thing? Brussels, capital of the European Union, the very quintessence of the post-modern world, the avant-garde of the coming new "global civilization," a hell hole? Of course assimilating newcomers is not always easy, and there may be friction from time to time. But never mind, they said: Trump is a buffoon, and anyway, he has zero chance of getting elected. Such were the thoughts of those avid readers of The New York Times International Edition and regular watchers of CNN International. However, Donald Trump, in his unmistakable, brash style, was quite simply right: Brussels is rapidly descending into chaos and anarchy. Exactly two months after that dramatic Trumpism, Brussels was eviscerated by a horrific Islamic terror attack that left 32 people dead. And that was only the tip of the monstrous iceberg that has built up over three decades of mass immigration and socialist madness... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11468/brussels-hell.
Limbaugh – If Roy Moore
Wins Franken Will Stay, Lead Moore Attacks
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Rush Limbaugh addresses the language and the manner in which pervy Al Franken announced his possible, eventual, if he feels like it... when he gets darn good and ready, resignation from the Senate and what might well be his clever reason for doing so. Limbaugh says, “I’m telling you, he still hasn’t resigned, not technically. What he announced is intention to resign in the coming weeks. I’m telling you this guy has left himself an out.” He says, “So the Roy Moore election is going to be the determinant here. If Roy Moore loses then Franken will say, “Okay, I’ve got to quit. But if Roy Moore wins, he set the table for this today. ‘It’s ironic that I’m resigning when the Republican Party’s prepared to elect a child molester.”...He is not a child molester. He is wrong on that. https://rickwells.us/limbaugh-moore-franken-attacks/.
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Starving the Beast
{townhall.com} ~ One way to kill a predatory animal is to deny it sustenance. The tax-cut bill passed by the Senate, if it clears a conference with the House and President Trump signs it, may be the first step toward starving the big government beast.
Reporting on the Senate vote early Saturday morning reflected the biases of various media outlets. Predictably, The New York Times and Washington Post characterized the cuts as favoring the "rich," while doing nothing for the poor. Bulletin: Relatively few low-income people pay federal income taxes. They join the 46 percent of Americans who pay no taxes to Washington.
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization focused on eliminating waste and inefficiency in the federal government, expressed a view opposite that of the major media. CAGW president Thomas Schatz said: "This taxpayer-first bill lowers tax rates on American families; simplifies the tax code; reduces the tax burden on small businesses; and makes American companies more competitive globally."
Two frustrating things about this: One is that too many people expect more from government than they expect from themselves. The Founders never intended government to be a nanny. That it has become one, egged-on by many politicians who preserve their careers by making people dependent on Washington, is why liberty shrinks and debt deepens.
The second and perhaps biggest frustration is that solutions to growing debt exist, but are ignored by many of these same politicians. They fear attacks by liberals who claim conservatives don't care about children, the sick and elderly. One need only consider now-Speaker Paul Ryan's proposal to reform Medicare and Social Security a few years ago. Rather than debate the merits of Ryan's proposal, a liberal group hired an actor who was shown pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair over a cliff.
Google "cut federal spending" and you will see dozens of suggestions. Mostly liberal and some Republican politicians don't want to embrace them because cutting spending would reduce their power over us.
Two of these proposals deserve serious attention. One comes from Downsizing the Federal Government, a website designed to highlight where federal spending goes and how to reform each government department, which proposes shrinking "every federal department by cutting the most harmful programs. This study proposes specific cuts that would reduce federal spending by almost one-quarter and balance the budget in less than a decade."
The philosophy behind their proposal which is too long to reprint, so look it up is this: "The federal government has expanded into many areas that should be left to state and local governments, businesses, charities, and individuals. That expansion is sucking the life out of the private economy and creating a top-down bureaucratic society that is alien to American traditions. So cutting federal spending would enhance civil liberties by dispersing power from Washington."
A similar proposal comes from The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.,-based conservative think tank. Nothing has changed, except more debt, since senior fellow Brian Riedl wrote it seven years ago. It includes empowering state and local governments by transferring programs and power out of Washington to governments closer to the people, consolidating duplicative programs, of which there are many, privatizing the many programs that could be done better by the private sector, elimination of outdated and unnecessary programs and the familiar elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse.
I would add reform Social Security and Medicare, the main drivers of increased spending, which President Trump has hinted Republicans may try next year.
Ignoring solutions and letting the debt increase is irresponsible. With this Congress, as with many before it, sexual harassment isn't the only example of irresponsibility.
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