The Front Page Cover
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Washington's birds on a wire
by Wesley Pruden
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. Honoring the Heroes of D-Day
Today is the anniversary of D-Day. On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower issued this charge: “You are about to embark upon a great crusade. … The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of Liberty loving people everywhere march with you. … You will bring about … the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe. … Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely. … And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”
More than 160,000 troops landed on a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified beaches along the Normandy coast of France in what was the largest invasion force in history, involving more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft. Some 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded that day. We owe these Patriots and generations of others an enormous debt of gratitude, and we owe them our steadfast devotion to Liberty over tyranny in our own day, so that the gift of Liberty may be extended to the next generation.
Continuing reading https://patriotpost.us/articles/49457 ~The Patriot Post
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GOP Congress Wasting Time
Needed To Advance Trump Agenda
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts “on what passes for leadership in Congress these days.” He notes, “President Trump today met with Republican leaders, looking to spur them on to act on his agenda... including health care, tax reform and the budget. But time is running critically short for Congress.” Dobbs points out, “After today they’ll be in session for just thirty days before going on a five week August Recess. Majority Leader McConnell today promised a Senate health care vote in ‘the near future.’ That’s as specific as he’s willing to be.” “The House passed its health care bill just over four weeks ago, but only after Speaker Ryan failed to secure the votes back in March. As for tax reform, Ryan is intent on pushing his own agenda, insisting on a border adjustment tax in any so-called tax reform. The border adjustment tax is fully opposed by the Trump White House.”...http://rickwells.us/dobbs-gop-congress-wasting-time-needed-advance-trump-agenda/
7 said killed, 4 taken
hostage in raid on Iranian parliament
by Sue Surkes
{timesofisrael.com} ~ Two people were confirmed killed and several others were reported injured after armed men burst into Tehran’s parliament building and the mausoleum of revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini on Wednesday... with state media reporting at least two suicide bombings. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the assaults — a highly unusual direct confrontation with the Iranian regime, focused on resonant symbols of its authority. Citing unconfirmed reports, the Mehr news agency said seven people were killed in parliament and four were being held hostage. One security guard was confirmed killed during an exchange of gunfire in a corridor of the parliament, and several people were injured. The attacks began midmorning when assailants armed with Kalashnikov rifles stormed the parliament building. One of the attackers later blew himself up inside, where a session had been in progress, according to a statement carried by Iran’s state TV...http://www.timesofisrael.com/one-dead-hostages-taken-during-attack-on-iranian-parliament/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=5f43b6f8a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-5f43b6f8a5-54638825.
Haley’s Ultimatum on UN
Human Rights and Israel: Fix It or Else…
by Steve Berman
{theresurgent.com} ~ Using the strongest words yet, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley issued what could be called an ultimatum to the UN Human Rights Council. In a speech in Geneva, Haley kept a promise she made last week... She called on the UN to make two key changes: “Act to keep the worst human rights abusers form obtaining seats on the Council.” “Agenda Item Seven must be removed.” This is the permanent item that singles out Israel for condemnation. She singled out Russia, Zimbabwe, and North Korea; and accused China, Burundi and Saudi Arabia of failing to “uphold the highest standards” of human rights. “They clearly do not uphold those highest standards,” she said... http://theresurgent.com/haleys-ultimatum-on-un-human-rights-and-israel-fix-it-or-else/.
“Pink Slime” Trial Begins: Beef Products, Inc.
Sued ABC News for Food-libel, Defamation
by Fuzzy Slippers
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Opening statements in what could be the largest defamation case in U.S. history are set to begin Monday in a South Dakota courtroom... In suing ABC News for its coverage of a widely used processed-meat product that the news organization and others have branded “pink slime,” Beef Products Inc. claims it was a victim of a journalistic hit job. The family-owned South Dakota meat processor claims the reporting reduced its revenues.. . . . The company filed suit . . ., accusing ABC of creating a false impression “that BPI’s product was not beef or meat, had little or no nutritional value, and was not safe to eat.” Beef Products says the product, called lean finely textured beef or LFTB, is merely the result of discovering how to extract more lean beef from cows...http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/06/pink-slime-trial-begins-beef-products-inc-sued-abc-news-for-food-libel-defamation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29.
We Can’t Live In Fear Of Intel
Community, Able To Blackmail Officials
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Rand Paul has long been a proponent of corralling the runaway surveillance by intelligence agencies and was the first to state publicly that he had been told by people in a position to know that had also been surveilled and unmasked by Susan Rice... There’s nothing that Paul has, he says, in his course of events that would have provided Rice with a legitimate reason to unmask him, let alone to surveil him. The only possible reason is the collection of information for use politically. Since Senator Paul made his announcement, friend of the left and also a GOP presidential candidate in 2016, Senator Lindsey Graham has also made a similar assertion publicly. Senator Paul says his level of concern has been increasing, and that he’s sent several letters, to both the Senate and House Intelligence committees, as well as to the White House asking if political figures, presidential candidates unmasked by the liar-nObama regime.” Paul says, ” If the liar-nObama administration used intelligence for political purposes, this is a really, really serious abuse of power and must be investigated...http://rickwells.us/rand-paul-we-live-fear-intel-community-able-blackmail-officials/
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by Wesley Pruden
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ If Robert Mueller concludes, after a $100 million investigation into whether Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to rig the 2016 election, that there was no "there" there, then what?
Will the liberals then organize a lynch mob to go after Mr. Mueller? He can't count on escaping a little tar and feathers, if not the rope. The Democrats are already drooling in anticipation of getting the goods on the president. Their media allies are feeding them a steady diet of appetizers. President Trump is widely accused of trying to intimidate the special prosecutor. On any morning there's no room on the front pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post for anything but appetizers.
The press mob after the president could be easily turned against Mr. Mueller unless he comes across with what the mob wants. Mr. Mueller has been in Washington long enough to know how this game is played. He can't help but feel intimidated.
The press thinks of itself as a regiment of resolute investigators of independent mien, trained by Sgt. Joe Friday "just the facts, ma'am", but the investigators are mostly birds on a wire, one flies off and all the others follow, then one returns to the wire and all the others follow him.
This week there's a feast of worms to attract the early birds on the wire, with enough even for the latecomers.
The Great Russian-Trump Collusion is always good for a headline or a tweet about trivia, perhaps exciting enough to tempt CNN to interrupt its endless coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner, but there's the continuing fallout of President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris global-warming pact, and the trial of comedian Bill Cosby for using the prospect of a job in television with an assist from the pharmaceutical sciences to persuade a lady to come across with a little enhanced companionship.
There's James Comey's more or less promised blockbuster about what President Trump said to him over the coffee cups. The week should be an unusual triple-header on the front pages, the evening news and the usual bang-and-shout on cable-TV.
Most of the big birds on the wire will exhaust themselves flying back and forth between the wires. Men, the wise man said, think in herds, and it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
And of all the offspring of Time, as another wise man said, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.
A Scottish journalist named Charles Mackay even wrote a book about this phenomenon in 1841, "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," inspired by the great Dutch tulip madness early in the 17th century.
Soon after the tulip, an extraordinarily beautiful flower to be sure, was exported to Holland from Turkey, the Dutch imagined that everyone could get rich in the tulip trade.
Every day brought a new and more spectacular speculation, like The New York Times discovering that Donald Trump once pulled the hair of the little girl in the desk in front of him, or The Washington Post learning from an anonymous source that the Donald once broke wind during the prayer at the only time he ever attended a church service. Presbyterians of that day were starchy, indeed.
Soon tulips were expensive far beyond the dreams of the poor and even the rich and powerful. A single bulb might be exchanged for 8 fat swine, or 12 fat sheep, or 2 tons of butter or a thousand pounds of cheese. Every town of significant size had a tulip exchange.
Farmers, mechanics, footmen, maidservants and even chimney sweeps dabbled in the tulip trade, like in a later day television anchorpersons, even unto the sweethearts of the cable, demanding millions of dollars to switch networks, the better to barter exaggerations.
Many tulip traders grew rich, but eventually the bubble burst. Only the elegant tulip survived.
There's a lesson here for speculators of every stripe. Playing the game of "can you top this?" are men posing today as wise men who compete to see who can say the most unlikely things about the man who invites scorn with a loose lip.
David Gergen, who has advised Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and liar-Clinton and often badly, as the modest Mr. Gergen himself might attest is typical of the Washington wise men who are about to exhaust their adjectives.
Mr. Gergen is beside himself over the president's scorn of the Paris agreement. He thinks the president was already in "impeachment territory," and walking away from Paris was "one of the most shameful acts in our history." But he's not alone in Tulip-like mania.
There should be a big market in Washington for Midol, waiting for a supplier to exploit opportunity.
Washington's birds on a wire
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ If Robert Mueller concludes, after a $100 million investigation into whether Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to rig the 2016 election, that there was no "there" there, then what?
Will the liberals then organize a lynch mob to go after Mr. Mueller? He can't count on escaping a little tar and feathers, if not the rope. The Democrats are already drooling in anticipation of getting the goods on the president. Their media allies are feeding them a steady diet of appetizers. President Trump is widely accused of trying to intimidate the special prosecutor. On any morning there's no room on the front pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post for anything but appetizers.
The press mob after the president could be easily turned against Mr. Mueller unless he comes across with what the mob wants. Mr. Mueller has been in Washington long enough to know how this game is played. He can't help but feel intimidated.
The press thinks of itself as a regiment of resolute investigators of independent mien, trained by Sgt. Joe Friday "just the facts, ma'am", but the investigators are mostly birds on a wire, one flies off and all the others follow, then one returns to the wire and all the others follow him.
This week there's a feast of worms to attract the early birds on the wire, with enough even for the latecomers.
The Great Russian-Trump Collusion is always good for a headline or a tweet about trivia, perhaps exciting enough to tempt CNN to interrupt its endless coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner, but there's the continuing fallout of President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris global-warming pact, and the trial of comedian Bill Cosby for using the prospect of a job in television with an assist from the pharmaceutical sciences to persuade a lady to come across with a little enhanced companionship.
There's James Comey's more or less promised blockbuster about what President Trump said to him over the coffee cups. The week should be an unusual triple-header on the front pages, the evening news and the usual bang-and-shout on cable-TV.
Most of the big birds on the wire will exhaust themselves flying back and forth between the wires. Men, the wise man said, think in herds, and it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
And of all the offspring of Time, as another wise man said, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.
A Scottish journalist named Charles Mackay even wrote a book about this phenomenon in 1841, "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," inspired by the great Dutch tulip madness early in the 17th century.
Soon after the tulip, an extraordinarily beautiful flower to be sure, was exported to Holland from Turkey, the Dutch imagined that everyone could get rich in the tulip trade.
Every day brought a new and more spectacular speculation, like The New York Times discovering that Donald Trump once pulled the hair of the little girl in the desk in front of him, or The Washington Post learning from an anonymous source that the Donald once broke wind during the prayer at the only time he ever attended a church service. Presbyterians of that day were starchy, indeed.
Soon tulips were expensive far beyond the dreams of the poor and even the rich and powerful. A single bulb might be exchanged for 8 fat swine, or 12 fat sheep, or 2 tons of butter or a thousand pounds of cheese. Every town of significant size had a tulip exchange.
Farmers, mechanics, footmen, maidservants and even chimney sweeps dabbled in the tulip trade, like in a later day television anchorpersons, even unto the sweethearts of the cable, demanding millions of dollars to switch networks, the better to barter exaggerations.
Many tulip traders grew rich, but eventually the bubble burst. Only the elegant tulip survived.
There's a lesson here for speculators of every stripe. Playing the game of "can you top this?" are men posing today as wise men who compete to see who can say the most unlikely things about the man who invites scorn with a loose lip.
David Gergen, who has advised Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and liar-Clinton and often badly, as the modest Mr. Gergen himself might attest is typical of the Washington wise men who are about to exhaust their adjectives.
Mr. Gergen is beside himself over the president's scorn of the Paris agreement. He thinks the president was already in "impeachment territory," and walking away from Paris was "one of the most shameful acts in our history." But he's not alone in Tulip-like mania.
There should be a big market in Washington for Midol, waiting for a supplier to exploit opportunity.
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