The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
America's Suicide Note
Burt Prelutsky
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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Hilly: 'I [Fill in the Blank] for Convenience' Hilly Clinton finally addressed the brouhaha over her majesty's secret servers at a press conference Tuesday, but beginning with the first seemingly planted question it amounted to partying like it was 1999. Last week, Clinton handed over 55,000 pages of emails from her private clintonemails.com email accounts. It's a fair guess that hardly covers her entire tenure as secretary of state. So where's the rest? What's she hiding? Since the account is hers, she has sole access and control over it (well, besides potential hackers), and she's refusing to turn over everything. She reiterated Tuesday that she would not turn over the actual emails or the servers, which "will remain private." She claims 30,000 emails were personal -- including messages with husband Bill, who claims to have sent all of two emails, ever -- and she admitted to deleting many of them because she "didn't see any reason to keep them." That's nice, but as a high-ranking public official it's not for her to decide which emails are personal and which are official, or what's relevant for keeping. -The Patriot Post 
Iran Letter Went to the Wrong Recipient
Forty-seven Senate Republicans sent a letter to Iran's leadership earlier this week making clear that the nuclear deal currently being negotiated does not meet the standards of a binding treaty, and that a future U.S. president could nullify it at any time. In other words, stating the obvious. The reaction was swift and furious -- from the Democrats, that is. Every leftist from presumptive presidential candidate Hilly Clinton to Smiling loose lips Joe Biden piled on, calling the letter "dangerous" and "out of step with the best traditions of American leadership" (rimshot!), while claiming it was motivated by a "rush to war" by Republican "traitors." If anyone is a traitor, it's the guy negotiating the deal -- Hanoi John Kerry. All that said, it would have been better if the Republican senators had not sent this letter to Iran. In addition to being a poor method of conducting diplomacy, it's bad politics. It will be spun by the Democrats and their sycophants in the media as just another example of personal animus and racism toward Barack nObama. And it will probably end up being a self-inflicted political wound that could have been avoided. Those who defend it on the basis that Democrats have done it before miss the mark. Since when has imitating Democrats been good practice? A better approach would have been to address the letter to nObama himself and the American public, and publish it in The Washington Post and other newspapers. -The Patriot Post 
HILLY TELLS DEMS, PRESS TO SUCK IT UP
Hilly Clinton had a pretty straightforward message for Democrats and the media: Suck it up. She’s all they’ve got. There’s no viable alternative to her other than a Republican president. So they will have to choose whether they will side with her or with the GOP. Clinton even said that she would much rather have been there making partisan attacks on Senate Republicans, but noooooooo… she had to speak about her emails. All of those in the media and in Congress who had cautiously suggested that Clinton should show she was innocent of wrongdoing by coming clean got a big, wet raspberry from the Democratic frontrunner. The woman who has had attendants by her side since the 1980s offered one flimsy excuse – convenience – for having operated a secret email server for government business every day of her tenure as secretary of state. And after that, it was just plain dismissive.
“I’m like two steps short of a hoarder. So, I have an iPad, a mini-iPad, and iPhone, and a blackberry.” –Hillary Clinton courting donors in Silicon Valley last month. -Fox News 
Audacity of ‘nope’ - Clinton said she has already destroyed – or, in Clintonian terms, “chose not to keep” – the evidence that would corroborate her claim of transparency. And she will not allow any outside access to the servers. Poof. Hard delete, indeed. Where Richard Nixon claimed the missing minutes from his audio tapes were accidentally erased, Clinton simply said she destroyed the stuff. A tactically better choice than Nixon’s, perhaps, but it’s beyond audacious. Now Republicans can choose whether or not to subpoena the servers, which were designed to leave no traces of deleted items. But she’s not taking any chances. Investigators can now decide whether a lengthy legal fight with the Clintons, possessed of limitless resources and huge influence, is worth it for something the candidate says is already gone. -Fox News 
Personal hygiene - The press conference would have been an unmitigated disaster if it were solely about making a defense to the general voting public or making the candidate more appealing. But that’s not why everyone was gathered there on the brown carpet that looked like it had been lifted right out of a motel conference room. Clinton succeeded in the most important area. The Democratic frontrunner told her party and the members of the press who crave access that they could either choose her – “trust me,” she said – or the other side, Republicans. There’s no Barack nObama walking through the door to get them off the hook this time. She’s not changing, she’s not disclosing and she’s not sorry. Clinton’s defiance won praise from some expected precincts and more will cautiously declare themselves convinced by her claim that she is a worthy investigator of herself. And the logic does sort of hold together in an odd way: If you are willing to trust her with the enormous power and privilege of the presidency, why wouldn’t you trust her to redact her own emails? If you think she had latitude to operate in secret as a cabinet secretary, imagine her in the White House. If you’re ready for Hilly, you’re ready to say she did a great job at transparency.
[“The 1990s tactics don’t work in an age where you can’t possibly spin and intimidate 300 million people.” – National Journal columnist Ron Fournier in an interview with the Daily Beast.] -Fox News 
1.
The Mountain Behind Hilly’s Email Molehill
(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - After watching Clinton’s “trainwreck” of a press conference earlier today, he remarked, “I just had this horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that we’ve been here before, and Oh my God, here we go again...Not only did she not answer – she raised a lot more questions.” An AP fact-check found Clinton’s explanations to be less than exculpatory. “This is a big hill,” he continued. “It’s not a molehill. This is a big hill – this email – and the mountain standing behind it are all those contributions from foreign governments and corporations – 26 of whom tried to get work from the State Department.”
2. Senator nObama’s '08 Message to Iran Undermines GOP Letter
(Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.) - President nObama set his Vice Presidential attack dog on the forty-seven GOP senators who dared send their March 9th letter to Iran’s leadership warning them any deal signed with Team nObama may be short-lived when a new president comes to office...But loose lips Biden, like his boss, fails to do his homework before making outlandish statements or else chooses conveniently to overlook the facts. According to Pajamas Media columnist Michael Ledeen, in 2008, a Democratic senator sent a personal emissary to Tehran encouraging the mullahs not to sign an agreement with the outgoing Bush Administration as negotiations would take on a much friendlier tone following President Bush’s departure from office. That senator was a presidential candidate at the time. His name was Barack nObama.
http://www.aim.org/guest-column/senator-obamas-2008-message-to-iran-undermines-condemnation-of-gop-letter/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email031315&utm_medium=email 3.
Hilly’s Crime: Section 1001
(J. Christian Adams) - Shannen Coffin, former counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, told Fox’s Megyn Kelly on Wednesday night that there is “no doubt” that former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton committed a felony when she didn’t turn over her email records as she left the State Department...if she signed the usual exit form given to all exiting employees. The State Department’s “Separation Statement,” Form OF-109, can be seen
here. It requires the outgoing State Department employee to certify that all “classified or administratively controlled documents and material” have been “surrendered to responsible officials.” But it doesn’t just require the return of classified materials. It also requires the employee to certify that she has “surrendered to responsible officials all unclassified documents and papers relating to the official business of the Government acquired by me while in the employ of the Department.”
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/03/12/hillarys-crime-1001/ 4. Massive search ahead for documents withheld by Hilly Clinton (Byron York) - Here's what Republican lawmakers are thinking after news that Hilly Clinton deleted 30,000-plus emails she deemed beyond the range of congressional inquiries...1) During Clinton's four years as secretary of state and after, Congress sent dozens, perhaps hundreds, of document requests, subpoenas and other inquiries to the State Department. 2) Many of those requests, probably the majority of them, covered the secretary of state's office. 3) Congress never received Clinton's emails as part of the Department's response to those requests. 4) Clinton destroyed at least half of her total emails at a time when those requests from Congress — including subpoenas — were fully in effect. 5) Congress wants to know what was withheld. "It's not just Benghazi," says Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "Part of what we need to do is take an inventory of congressional requests, including subpoenas. It appears on the surface that none of the State Department's responses was complete. We're going to go back and ask them again."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-massive-search-ahead-for-documents-withheld-by-hillary-clinton/article/2561401?utm_campaign=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205&utm_source=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205%20-%2003/12/15&utm_medium=email 5. Rasmieh Odeh Sentenced to 18 Months In Prison, Then Deported (investigativeproject.org) - Rasmieh Odeh, a Palestinian woman who conceived of and led a deadly 1969 Jerusalem bombing plot that killed two civilians, has had her citizenship revoked and will serve 18 months in an American prison for naturalization fraud...Prosecutors had asked for her to serve five to seven years. Her defense maintains even her 18-month sentence in prison is "unjust." At Thursday's sentencing hearing, both the courtroom and media overflow rooms were filled to capacity with over a hundred supporters from the larger Arab American community attending the hearing. Her support base anxiously tweeted a rolling commentary on the verbatim transcript of court proceedings being relayed to them online. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4797/rasmieh-odeh-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison
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Hilly’s Damage Control Isn’t Working
7. America’s Drone War Could Be In MAJOR Trouble
(Casey Harper) - New reports indicate that America’s reliance on drone warfare in the Middle East could be in jeopardy, but not for legal reasons...It’s not politics or ethical investigations that are the latest threat, but the simple fact that drone operators are calling it quits in record numbers. Plagued by the trauma of civilian deaths and a heavy workload, drone operators are quitting faster than they can be replaced, and the Air Force is at a loss on what to do, TomDispatch reports. Currently, about 1,000 drone pilots work in the program, but the Air Force would ideally like to have 1,700. This goal has proven difficult to accomplish, though, since for every 180 pilots that graduate from training annually, 240 quit.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/10/endangered-nintendo-warriors-americas-drone-war-could-be-in-major-trouble/?utm_campaign=547f4d2f01958a5001000e49&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJjNTliYzIxYy1kM2ZhLTQ5MWMtYjhmZC02M2M2MjhjYzNjZjMifQ%3D%3D 8.
Now it’s a full-blown Hilly document destruction scandal
(Kemberlee Kaye) - It’s no longer just about using a personal email account and server. Whew, boy. It is not looking pretty. There are several developments on both fronts...the email scandal, and the Clinton Foundation foreign government sugar daddy scandal. But we’ll start with the email.
1. No one read Hilly’s emails before they were presumably destroyed
2. Hilly won’t confirm she signed mandatory form indicating she’d turned over all classified documents (including emails) to the State Department
3. Questions surrounding the digital security of Hilly’s emails mount as Jen Psaki confirms Clinton never used a State Department issued Blackberry
4. Hilly gets a good glimpse of the White House Bus’s undercarriage
5. Last night, we covered a new government report that discovered the State Department only kept 61,156 emails out of over one billion in 2011
6. Could Hilly really do her job without sending classified information?
7. Clinton Foundation staff were paid with taxpayer dollars
And there you have it. Another day in the life of the Clinton family.
9. Preparing for the Next Debt Fight
(Doug Bandow) - While the nObama administration lectures Europe about the latter’s fiscal policies, Washington continues to run deficits. The problem is bipartisan. When George W. Bush took office the national debt was $5.8 trillion...hen Barack nObama took over it was $11.9 trillion. Now it is $18.2 trillion. And these numbers will look like the “good ol’ days” when the entitlement tsunami hits in coming years. Interest alone ran $431 billion last year. As interest rates rise to more normal levels, debt payments will be one of the big spending boulders, alongside Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and military. Worse, economist Laurence Kotlikoff figures total unfunded liabilities today run about $200 trillion. But who’s counting? Certainly not the president!
http://www.theacru.org/preparing-for-the-next-debt-fight/ 10. The Founders Didn’t Fail—We Are Failing The Founders (Benjamin Weingarten) - Conservatives are understandably depressed in the wake of Speaker backstabber Boehner and the Republican-controlled Congress’ predictable caving on executive amnesty...Let me stop right there by emphasizing that I only said conservatives. Were our republic healthy, every single American would be depressed that President nObama’s amnesty—which on dozens of occasions he said he did not have the authority to enforce—will continue apace to the benefit of lawbreakers at the expense of American citizens. Americans would be further demoralized at the notion that our president politicized the sovereignty of our nation represented by failing to protect its borders, all in a transparent attempt to win a permanent Democratic majority—which the shortsighted Republican establishment seem perfectly fine with, since they want immigration and the idea of “those racist Republicans” to become non-issues. Some are lamenting the cowardice of our representatives, and to that I quote a former NFL Coach: “They are who we thought they were!”
http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/03/13/the-founders-didnt-fail-we-are-failing-the-founders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29 America's Suicide Note
Burt Prelutsky

(burtprelutsky.com) - Anyone who’s lived a while has had friends and relatives die, and knows the grief that can overwhelm the survivors. It’s further compounded when the death is a suicide. At such times, you can’t help thinking about what you might have said or done that could have prevented it. That’s how I now feel about America.
I suppose each of us must determine for himself if the crime taking place is suicide by means of a slow-acting poison or murder that can be laid at the feet of homicidal liberals, but I don’t think there can be any question that America is not long for this world.
America’s most precious possession, the Constitution, has been dragged through the mud by those whose egotism is so great that they seem to believe that their whims -- whether motivated by honest conviction or for strictly partisan reasons -- trumps what a bunch of divinely-inspired, long dead white guys, came up with a couple of hundred years ago.
And unlike what passes for leadership these days -- a bunch of braying donkeys and preening peacocks -- who never give a thought to anything beyond their next election, these were men who pledged their sacred honor and meant it, and, moreover, had sacred honor to pledge.
One can easily imagine America gazing into her mirror, tears running down her cheeks, thinking that even Alzheimer’s might be a blessing. That way the reflection looking back would remind her how grotesque she has become, but she would at least be spared remembering the beauty that she once possessed.
• In the meantime, I think it is criminal that the Supreme Court justices get to take off for so many months. I realize that several of them are getting on in years, but they’re not doing manual labor. In fact, they barely do any mental labor. All the grunt work is done by their staff. Those are the eager beavers whose job it is to hunt down precedence and write up briefs, and then get to brag for the next 50 years that they worked for a judge who owed his judicial career to some political hack.
It seems to me that when the President or members of Congress question the constitutionality of an executive edict or a piece of legislation, it should be fast-tracked to the Supreme Court. Why should it have to go through lower courts when everyone knows the final decision is inevitably going to rest with the Supremes? It’s obviously far more important to decide whether nObama had the authority to change the Affordable Care Act a dozen times or grant executive amnesty to five million illegal aliens than whether the justices give their blessing to same-sex marriages.
And just maybe if the justices didn’t take four month vacations, they’d have time to do both.
• I used to think that there should be a way to prevent everyone named Kennedy from seeking political office. I have now come to add the names of Bush and Clinton to that short list. With over 300 million people in the country, I’m sure we can do better.
• Speaking of people named Clinton, in spite of having signed a pledge not to accept bribes -- I mean, contributions -- from foreign nations while Hilly was serving as Secretary of State, it now appears that the Clinton Foundation was raking in all they could grab from Algeria, Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Australia and Oman, between 2009 and 2013.
What is it about that particular job that it keeps getting filled by people from the bottom of the barrel? As bad as Mrs. Clinton was, we now have Hanoi John Kerry, who is in the process of giving the store away to Iran, the country that has done more to support Islamic terrorism than even Saudi Arabia, just so nObama can brag that he got a nuclear deal signed with the mullahs. The big question about Hanoi Kerry is how anyone who slandered American soldiers in the 1970s, and lied about his own military service, can wind up running the State Department in 2015.
The ugly truth is that Hanoi Kerry has said far viler things about his fellow Americans than he ever has about those currently beheading and frying Christians.
Someone once suggested that people get the government they deserve. If true, imagine what that says about us.
• In other news, when Stephen Hawking recently decided to boycott an Israeli conference as a way to display his sympathies with the so-called Palestinians, some people wondered how such a brilliant fellow can also be a Jew-hater. How, they muse, can such a brainy chap align himself not only with those who elected Hamas to govern them, but to spit on those who invented the miraculous microchip that allows him to speak?
The answer is that brilliance in one area -- outer space in this case -- doesn’t mean that one can’t be a nincompoop in every other area. Brilliance is a nice gift, but it’s really no substitute for wisdom and commonsense.
Hawking’s decision also highlights the fact that the two places where you can’t swing a cat without hitting an anti-Semite are the Middle East and among the English intelligentsia.
What I find most startling about this state of affairs isn’t that the likes of Hawking, Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, to name but a few, hate Jews. In England, as in most of the European nations, hating Jews is what passes for tradition. Sometimes, I even suspect it’s the only exercise they get. The real mystery is that in doing so, they feel the need to identify themselves with the backward savages who subjugate women and homosexuals, do everything in their power to stifle free speech and religious freedom, and, with rather delicious irony, happen to openly despise science, arts and entertainment, and those who are so engaged.
• Finally, I am passing along something that has gone viral, but you may have missed it. It is rumored that Pete Carroll, the coach of the Seattle Seahawks, is apparently ready to sign on as a special consultant to Pope Francis.
It seems the Pope wishes to recruit Carroll to be an envoy for the Vatican because he is the first man in history who, on Sunday, February 1st, 2015, caused 100 million people to jump up and yell “Jesus Christ!” in unison.
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