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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Let’s Get On a Pro-American Track
Phyllis Schlafly
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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The Trouble With the NSA's Haystack 
Terrorism has again become one of the foremost concerns for Americans today. People are generally worried about the increased jihadi threat and look to government to ensure safety and security. While the Constitution certainly empowers the federal government to provide for the common defense of our nation, including counterterrorism measures, what it should not do is infringe on the rights of American citizens — specifically, the Fourth Amendment.
Last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the National Security Agency’s massive telephone metadata collection efforts are not authorized by the Patriot Act. However, the court did not rule the NSA’s actions are unconstitutional and it did not issue an order for the NSA to stop its data collection because the Patriot Act's Section 215, which the NSA cites as its authority, is set to expire June 1. In other words, Congress must act soon anyway, and a vote is expected by May 22.
That the NSA is collecting phone records on all Americans may not seem terribly important — especially the more the public becomes accustomed to the idea — but it's a critical issue. Like so many other things during this administration's tenure, it pertains to the very real potential, if not actual, abuse of power. -The Patriot Post
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Democrats Undermine nObama's Pacific Trade Deal Effort
Like it or not, Barack nObama's trade deal is needed if the U.S. is going to maintain influence in the Pacific Rim as a counterweight to China. But the community organizer in chief can't even muster the support of his own party. nObama attacked Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying she's wrong on the matter. The Wall Street Journal says nObama's polarization tactics worked better when there was a Democrat majority in Congress. Now that the playing field has changed, he's attacking his own party. As a result, Democrat lawmakers voted against their president Tuesday, refusing to fast-track the trade legislation.
Without the up-down, yes-no vote, the nObama administration has a more challenging task. Charles Krauthammer opined, "It would help if when the president says [Warren] is dead wrong, he would actually make a case to explain why, rather than say, 'I would never sign a deal that's not good for working Americans. Trust me.' That's what he does with Iran, that's what he does with everything. ... [O]n this, acting in the national interest as president, he knows that in the end free trade is a good idea. And this agreement, in particular, is extremely important geopolitically as a way to hold our Pacific Rim allies, who will be cut loose and will enter into China's orbit if we don't." But nObama is such a narcissist, he can't help but demean his own party. If that keeps up, then the last two years will quickly become a lame-duck presidency. More... -The Patriot Post
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How Hilly's State Dept. Cleared Bill's Speeches
"I gotta pay our bills," Bill Clinton said recently when explaining his exorbitant speaking fees. Well, the Associated Press reports on the State Department's enabling of Bill's gravy train: "State Department officials gave speedy and sometimes only cursory consideration to potential conflicts of interest when approving former President Bill Clinton's lucrative speeches to global companies and foreign governments during Hilly Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. ... Again and again, the ethics office responsible for vetting his appearances hurriedly signed off on them, even in cases where questions had been raised about the behavior of organizations hiring Bill Clinton to appear. It approved at least 330 requests for the former president's appearance at speeches, dinners and events. More than 220 of those were paid events that earned the family nearly $50 million [emphasis added]
One example was a speech to Barclays, the British bank that soon thereafter was fined $300 million for violating financial sanctions against Burma, Cuba, Iran, Libya and Sudan. And then there was the time Bill spoke to British-based HSBC, under investigation for — get this — money laundering. It's no stretch to conclude that Hilly Clinton wasn't about to use her authority at State to block Bill's payday. They were "dead broke," she told us, and that money was helping them just get by. -The Patriot Post
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Military Paid NFL to Honor the Troops
From 2011 to 2014, the Department of Defense paid 14 NFL teams $5.4 million to honor soldiers during games. That's right: What we thought was a genuine display of patriotism, like Hometown Hero, only came about because the NFL (formerly a "nonprofit" — pfft) wanted more money and the U.S. military wanted advertisement. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who first drew attention to the practice, said, "They realize the public believes they're doing it as a public service or a sense of patriotism. It leaves a bad taste in your mouth." While the NFL is contemptible for trading salutes for cash, the U.S. military also shoulders some of the blame for manipulating special moments into theater to gain more recruits. What do the soldiers, some with injuries from war, who walked out onto the field in front of thousands think of the fact that they were used as pawns in a marketing campaign that earned a sports franchise millions?
Meanwhile, Sen. dinky Harry Reid has bigger fish to fry. He took to the Senate floor to complain about the suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for knowing about improperly inflated footballs. "I find it stunning that the National Football League is more concerned about how much air is in a football than with a racist franchise name that denigrates Native Americans across the country." If dinky Reid were serious about his political charade, he'd just pay the Washington Redskins to change their name. With all this nonsense, maybe it's time for the nation to return to America's pastime — baseball. More... The Patriot Post
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Social Insecurity: The Looming Crisis For years, actuaries, financial analysts and policy wonks have warned that Social Security is doomed to crash. Contrary to rosy predictions a decade ago that this popular government program has a funded lifetime of 33 more years and won’t sink into the red until 2017, Social Security actually went red in 2010 and will go broke in 2024.
In 1983, the Social Security trustees predicted that reforms would maintain the program’s solvency through 2048. Even they’ve changed their tune, though they won’t admit it’s as moribund as it actually is.
Since its inception, Social Security has promised each succeeding generation that there will be at least a minimum of money for them at retirement. All working people are taxed at the rate of 12.4% of each paycheck, with the promise of a return. (Yes, employers pay half, but they also pay employees less as a result. It still costs "X" to employ a person; whether 6.2% is earmarked for direct Social Security payments matters not.) But that money’s gone in an insolvent system.
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Palestinian Authority's "Crimes of High Treason"
(Khaled Abu Toameh) - The Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership continues to give false hope to Palestinians regarding the "right of return" to their former villages and towns in Israel, as do the leaderships of most Arab countries... This is what the Arab and Palestinian leaders have been doing since the establishment of Israel in 1948 -- and why millions of Palestinians continue to live in refugee camps throughout the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. Instead of helping the refugees and encouraging them to move on with their lives, Arab and Palestinian leaders continue to ask them to stay where they are because, they will are told, they will return to the homes of their grandfathers and great grandfathers inside Israel. Arab and Palestinian leaders are afraid to confront the refugees with the truth sixty-seven years later, namely that the majority, if not all, will never return to towns and villages that no longer exist inside Israel. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5722/palestinian-authority-treason
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Study Exposes the Ugly Depth of European Muslim Anti-Semitism
(Abigail R. Esman) - A new study published by the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP) confirms what many have long suspected: that the worst crimes against Jews in Europe are perpetrated by (European) Muslims... and that Muslims have been responsible for a "disproportionate" number of anti-Semitic attacks over the past 15 years. And it isn't just about Israel. Overall, trends in Jew-hate have fluctuated by country since the beginning of this century. For the most part, reports of anti-Semitism are lower now than they were during the "second intifada" of 2008-2009 despite terrorist attacks on Jews in Brussels, Copenhagen and Paris in the past year alone. But anti-Semitic incidents have risen substantially from 1990s levels; and while, as the ISGAP report notes, "surveys on anti-Semitism that distinguish between Muslims and non-Muslims" have been subject to criticism, "the sum of available studies to date provides strong evidence that the level of anti-Semitism is indeed particularly high among Muslims." http://www.investigativeproject.org/4850/study-exposes-the-ugly-depth-of-european-muslim
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Senate Dems block key plank of nObama trade agenda
(foxnews.com) - President nObama suffered a defeat at the hands of his own party on Tuesday, as Senate Democrats blocked a key component of the president's trade agenda... After fierce lobbying on both sides of the issue, the bid to start debate -- on expanding the president's authority to negotiate trade deals -- failed on a 52-45 vote. It needed 60 votes to advance. The president's supporters will likely try again, but the vote nevertheless marks a stinging rebuke of a major nObama priority by members of his own party. Republicans mostly had aligned with nObama on the issue and, after the failed test vote, urged Obama's fellow Democrats to drop their resistance. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/12/hill-showdown-set-in-trade-battle-between-senate-dems-obama/
Video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4232415037001/liberals-spar-with-white-house-over-trans-pacific-tra
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nObama Admin Admits It Violated Judge’s Order
(Hans von Spakovsky) - In another midnight filing last week in the immigration lawsuit filed by 26 states against the nObama administration in the Southern District of Texas, the U.S. Justice Department admitted that the Department of Homeland Security had violated federal Judge Andrew Hanen’s Feb. 16 injunction... against President nObama’s immigration amnesty plan. This was not the first such admission by the government. It had previously filed an “Advisory” on March 3 informing Judge Hanen that between Nov. 20, 2014, when the president announced his immigration plan, and Feb. 16 when the injunction was issued, the Department of Homeland Security had begun implementing part of the president’s plan by issuing three-year deferrals to over 100,000 illegal aliens. In other words, despite having told Judge Hanen both in court and in written pleadings that no part of the president’s plan was being implemented until late February at the earliest, government officials were doing exactly the opposite. So what happens next? http://dailysignal.com/2015/05/12/obama-administration-admits-it-violated-judges-order-to-halt-implementation-of-immigration-plan/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojvK3OZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4JTcdgI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
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Washington Is Mismanaging Your Gas Tax Dollars
(Michael Sargent) - Transportation funding could hit a dead-end at the end of the month. On May 31, the Highway Trust Fund’s authorization to pay for the nation’s highway and mass transit projects will expire.,, Even worse, the fund is running a $13 billion cash flow deficit this year and is expected to exhaust all its money sometime in July unless lawmakers take action. Here’s a snapshot from Heritage’s latest Backgrounder on what you need to know about the Highway Trust Fund: http://dailysignal.com/2015/05/12/washington-is-mismanaging-your-gas-tax-dollars-heres-why-states-should-have-control/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojvK3OZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4JTcdgI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
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nObama Just Made A Surprising Move That Environmentalists Hate
(Heather Laskin) - On Monday, the nObama administration gave Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc. conditional approval to start drilling for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea this summer... Abigail Ross Hopper, director of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, said in a statement: “We have taken a thoughtful approach to carefully considering potential exploration in the Chukchi Sea, recognizing the significant environmental, social and ecological resources in the region and establishing high standards for the protection of this critical ecosystem, our Arctic communities, and the subsistence needs and cultural traditions of Alaska Natives.” And why not the Keystone XL Pipeline? http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-admin-approves-offshore-drilling-in-arctic-ocean/?utm_source=MailChimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=top-story&utm_campaign=DailyEmail05.12.15
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Why Do We Have A Death Tax?
(John C. Goodman) - Not all taxation is theft. But one tax that comes about as close as possible to being theft is the estate tax. After all, dead people aren’t getting any more services from government... I suppose there are a few people who are buried in pauper’s graves at county expense. But those are not the ones whose estates are being confiscated. I have never understood the logic behind seizing a part of the estates of the recently departed. If there is a valid argument for doing so, why doesn’t it apply with equal force to the estates of the living? The House of Representatives voted by a large margin the other today to abolish the estate tax. In doing so they took a very popular step. http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2015/04/27/why-do-we-have-a-death-tax/
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The Age Of Un-Enlightenment
(Kirsten Powers) - The illiberal left isn’t just ruining reputations and lives with their campaigns of delegitimization and disparagement. They are harming all of society by silencing important debates... denying people the right to draw their own conclusions, and derailing reporting and research that is important to our understanding of the world. They are robbing culture of the diversity of thought that is so central to learning and discovery. It’s sadly ironic that so many of the illiberal left view themselves as rational, intellectual, fact-based thinkers and yet have fully embraced a dogmatic form of un-enlightenment. Deviating from lefty ideology is equated to heresy and academic inquiry is too often secondary to ideological agendas. The illiberal left insert ideologically driven statistics into the media and academic bloodstream and then accuse anyone who questions them of diabolical motives. When researchers make discoveries supporting the wrong ideological conclusion, the character assassination and intimidation begin. http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/11/the-age-of-un-enlightenment/
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New Eyewitness Bombshell, What Happened to Natalee Holloway
(conservativetribune.com) - Almost a decade after the tragic and mysterious disappearance of Alabama high-schooler Natalee Holloway in Aruba, a new witness has come forward with a shocking account... that may finally shed light on what may have been the young girl’s final hours. Jurrien Dej Jong, a native of Aruba, told television show Inside Edition that he was one of the last people to see Holloway alive, and that he knows exactly what became of her. http://conservativetribune.com/eyewitness-natalee-holloway/
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China Diverted Nuclear Technology to Submarines a U.S. Violation
(Bill Gertz) - China has illegally diverted U.S. civilian nuclear technology to its nuclear submarine program in violation of a 1985 cooperation agreement, according to Senate testimony Tuesday... Additionally, China appears to be violating an international Nuclear Suppliers Group commitment by exporting additional nuclear reactors, some with U.S. technology, to Pakistan, according to Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Chinese nuclear violations were revealed during a hearing on the 1985 U.S.-China nuclear cooperation agreement that is set to expire at the end of the year. The nObama administration is seeking a new agreement, known as a 123 agreement, after the section of the Atomic Energy Act regulating nuclear technology sharing. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/senators-say-china-diverted-u-s-nuclear-technology-to-submarines-in-violation-of-85-accord/
Let’s Get On a Pro-American Track
Phyllis Schlafly
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(freedomsback.com) - Congress, led by Sen. Mitch McCon-nell (R-KY) and Speaker backstabber John Boehner (R-OH), is preparing to betray American workers, and the grassroots should rise up and say, “No, you don’t.” The secretive underhanded deal is called Fast Track, and that’s an appropriate title because, indeed, it puts Americans on a fast track to lower wages and fewer available jobs..
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), one of the few members of Congress who have actually read and studied Fast Track plus its companion trade bill called Trans-Pacific Partnership, has compiled a list of objections to it that are downright frightening. They should be read by all who care about their own future and the future of our once-prosperous nation. Here are some of the ways that Fast Track and TPP will betray us.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), one of the few members of Congress who have actually read and studied Fast Track plus its companion trade bill called Trans-Pacific Partnership, has compiled a list of objections to it that are downright frightening. They should be read by all who care about their own future and the future of our once-prosperous nation. Here are some of the ways that Fast Track and TPP will betray us.
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The text of TPP emphasizes that it is a “living agreement.” Translated out of bureaucratese code language, that means the text of TPP can be changed in major and minor ways by executive action after Congress passes the document. The TPP could, for example, add additional countries, such as Communist China, which for years has been cheating America coming and going.
The text of TPP emphasizes that it is a “living agreement.” Translated out of bureaucratese code language, that means the text of TPP can be changed in major and minor ways by executive action after Congress passes the document. The TPP could, for example, add additional countries, such as Communist China, which for years has been cheating America coming and going.
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TPP will facilitate the expanded movement of foreign workers into the United States. TPP opens the door to more waves of illegal immigrants and allows nObama to make future changes without any congressional oversight or expiration date.
TPP will facilitate the expanded movement of foreign workers into the United States. TPP opens the door to more waves of illegal immigrants and allows nObama to make future changes without any congressional oversight or expiration date.
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Kevin L. Kearns of the U.S. Business and Industry Council calls this “another power grab” that will let nObama and his employees rule by executive action. By the device of not calling TPP a treaty (even though it involves 12 countries on three continents), the globalists induce the Senate to abandon the 67-vote threshold for treaty ratification and even the 60-vote threshold for important legislation.
Kevin L. Kearns of the U.S. Business and Industry Council calls this “another power grab” that will let nObama and his employees rule by executive action. By the device of not calling TPP a treaty (even though it involves 12 countries on three continents), the globalists induce the Senate to abandon the 67-vote threshold for treaty ratification and even the 60-vote threshold for important legislation.
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Fast Track consolidates power in the executive branch and eliminates Congress’ constitutional power to amend or even debate trade legislation. Fast Track allows only a specified up-or-down vote on this momentous international agreement without any public oversight or ability to amend it or filibuster it.
Fast Track consolidates power in the executive branch and eliminates Congress’ constitutional power to amend or even debate trade legislation. Fast Track allows only a specified up-or-down vote on this momentous international agreement without any public oversight or ability to amend it or filibuster it.
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Fast Track will increase our trade deficits, which reduce economic growth. Economists have estimated that the last trade deal, which we made with South Korea and which is the template for TPP, wiped out 50,000 American jobs.
Fast Track will increase our trade deficits, which reduce economic growth. Economists have estimated that the last trade deal, which we made with South Korea and which is the template for TPP, wiped out 50,000 American jobs.
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Sen. Sessions called on nObama to rewrite the deal. Sessions said, “We don’t need a Fast Track but a regular track” so we can evaluate the false promises.
Sen. Sessions called on nObama to rewrite the deal. Sessions said, “We don’t need a Fast Track but a regular track” so we can evaluate the false promises.
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Fast Track turns over some of our authority as a sovereign nation to international authorities, which is a major longtime goal of the internationalists, the so-called kingmakers and big business lobbyists. The code language that hides this in TPP is the statement that calls it a “living agreement.”
Fast Track turns over some of our authority as a sovereign nation to international authorities, which is a major longtime goal of the internationalists, the so-called kingmakers and big business lobbyists. The code language that hides this in TPP is the statement that calls it a “living agreement.”
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This means nObama and his executive-branch pals can take all kinds of actions that Article I of the U.S. Constitution reserves to the legislative branch, such as ratifying or changing a treaty and controlling immigration.
This means nObama and his executive-branch pals can take all kinds of actions that Article I of the U.S. Constitution reserves to the legislative branch, such as ratifying or changing a treaty and controlling immigration.
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Why should we trust the nObama administration and its foreign partners to rewrite international agreements without congressional approval? Is Congress simply giving away its constitutional authority to global busybodies?
Why should we trust the nObama administration and its foreign partners to rewrite international agreements without congressional approval? Is Congress simply giving away its constitutional authority to global busybodies?
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Is Congress using secret agreements to cede our once-remarkable American prosperity to Asia? As former Nucor Steel Chairman Daniel DiMicco said, free trade is really “unilateral trade disarmament and enablement of foreign mercantilism.”
Is Congress using secret agreements to cede our once-remarkable American prosperity to Asia? As former Nucor Steel Chairman Daniel DiMicco said, free trade is really “unilateral trade disarmament and enablement of foreign mercantilism.”
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Most presidential candidates are trying to avoid this issue, but Mike Huckabee was blunt, warning of “dire consequences if we let nObama have this victory.” Huckabee said he opposes trade agreements that push wages “lower than the Dead Sea.”
Most presidential candidates are trying to avoid this issue, but Mike Huckabee was blunt, warning of “dire consequences if we let nObama have this victory.” Huckabee said he opposes trade agreements that push wages “lower than the Dead Sea.”
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Huckabee also reminded us that, “the last time we really fast-tracked something was nObamacare. Why do we want to believe that the government fast-tracking something without thoroughly understanding the implications is the best way to go?”
Huckabee also reminded us that, “the last time we really fast-tracked something was nObamacare. Why do we want to believe that the government fast-tracking something without thoroughly understanding the implications is the best way to go?”
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Another possible presidential candidate, Donald Trump, who literally wrote the book on “The Art of the Deal,” tweeted that TPP is a “bad, bad deal” in part because it fails to address Japan’s outrageous currency manipulation, which has caused many U.S. steel plants to shut down this year, idling thousands of American steelmakers. Yet Japan’s prime minister was recently honored with the rare privilege of addressing a joint meeting of Congress (at which he openly lobbied for the TPP) and entertained at a White House State Dinner.
Another possible presidential candidate, Donald Trump, who literally wrote the book on “The Art of the Deal,” tweeted that TPP is a “bad, bad deal” in part because it fails to address Japan’s outrageous currency manipulation, which has caused many U.S. steel plants to shut down this year, idling thousands of American steelmakers. Yet Japan’s prime minister was recently honored with the rare privilege of addressing a joint meeting of Congress (at which he openly lobbied for the TPP) and entertained at a White House State Dinner.
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Another likely presidential candidate is Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who declared, “I’m for free trade, but I am not for giving more authority to a president who ignores the Constitution, the separation of powers and will of the American people.”
Another likely presidential candidate is Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who declared, “I’m for free trade, but I am not for giving more authority to a president who ignores the Constitution, the separation of powers and will of the American people.”
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“This particular president must not be given any more power to do anything else to harm this country,” Jindal continued. “He cannot be trusted.”
“This particular president must not be given any more power to do anything else to harm this country,” Jindal continued. “He cannot be trusted.”
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