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Avoiding Hilly Misery
Alan Caruba
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WHO NEEDS A PAC? STRICKLAND’S GOT A PENSION
National Journal: “If Ted Strickland wins a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2016, he would, at age 75, be the oldest freshman ever elected to the chamber by popular vote. The Ohio Democrat would also arrive in Washington with something else unusual for a freshman senator: He’s already collecting a congressional pension. The pension is a benefit accrued during two separate stints in the U.S. House of Representatives… If elected, Strickland would apparently not be able to simultaneously draw both a $174,000 Senate salary and his House pension, according to federal retirement rules. Presumably, he would collect the larger salary. ‘Although the congressional retirement checks stop coming when an ex-lawmaker reenters the House or Senate, the benefits will only be sweeter when he or she retires again,’ noted Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union, which tracks congressional pensions.” -Fox News 
National Journal: “If Ted Strickland wins a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2016, he would, at age 75, be the oldest freshman ever elected to the chamber by popular vote. The Ohio Democrat would also arrive in Washington with something else unusual for a freshman senator: He’s already collecting a congressional pension. The pension is a benefit accrued during two separate stints in the U.S. House of Representatives… If elected, Strickland would apparently not be able to simultaneously draw both a $174,000 Senate salary and his House pension, according to federal retirement rules. Presumably, he would collect the larger salary. ‘Although the congressional retirement checks stop coming when an ex-lawmaker reenters the House or Senate, the benefits will only be sweeter when he or she retires again,’ noted Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union, which tracks congressional pensions.” -Fox News
nObama Revises His 2008 Messianic Message on Economy
During his visit to Jamaica, Barack nObama diverted attention away from his failed fiscal policies by further demonizing Wall Street and Big Business. When asked what advice he'd give to himself in 2008, nObama said he would dial back on his "Yes we can" rah rah rah: "I would have probably advised was that I might have needed to warn the American people and paint a picture for them that was more accurate about the fact that it would take some time to dig ourselves out of a very big hole. ... I think I would have advised myself to do a better job spending more time not just getting the policy right, but also describing it in ways that people understood, that gave them confidence in their own future." Translation: He would further temper his messianic save-the-economy rhetoric with even more blaming George W. Bush. There's something noble about a leader who can only promise, as Winston Churchill did, "blood, toil, tears and sweat." But that kind politician advocates for personal responsibility — something nObama's never heard of. More... -The Patriot Post
Mass Exodus From ME Welfare Program as State Requires Work
Let's say you live in the great state of Maine, down on your luck and needing some kind of social safety net to get you through. Would you say that spending at least 20 hours volunteering, working or participating in a work-training program is a fair trade-off for getting on the state's food stamp program? Even if you spend all your time playing "Call of Duty," surely you could carve out some time on the weekends to volunteer at the local animal shelter. But that requirement was too tough for 9,000 Mainiacs. Some 12,000 people were on Maine's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program before Jan. 1. After the government started enforcing the 20-hour rule, however, only 2,680 people stayed. Maine's Department of Health and Human Service's Commissioner, Mary Mayhew, told the Associated Press, "If you're on these programs it means you are living in poverty and so the more that we can help incentive people on that pathway to employment and self-sufficiency the better off they're going to be." While states like Georgia dabbled with drug testing welfare recipients (which had spotty results), it seems like the best way to help "the least of these" and prevent welfare fraud is to require a bit of honest work. More... -The Patriot Post
The Left, incensed that owners of Memories Pizza would decline to cater
a same-sex wedding because of religious objections, tried to protest the pizza parlor serving a one traffic-light Indiana town out of existence. Due to the threats, Kevin O'Connor closed his shop for eight days. But he reopened April 9 to a full restaurant and not a protester in sight, according to the Associated Press. "I'd do the same thing again," O'Connor told the AP. "It's my belief. It's our belief. It's what we grew up on. I'm just sorry it comes to this because neither one of us dislike any of those people. I don't hold any grudges." During the time his business was shuttered, a producer from The Blaze created a fund for the pizza shop that collected over $800,000 in donations. So are the owners rolling in the dough? ('Scuse the pun.) "It was really making us uncomfortable," O'Connor said. After spending a bit on his pizza parlor, he'll donate some of it to charity. So much for the Left's conspiratorial explanation of the donations as some kind of guerrilla marketing campaign. The Left couldn't sustain its rage. What's left is an operating pizza parlor and the disturbing realization that the Left trivializes religious liberty. More... -The Patriot Post
Jihadi Bomb Plot Foiled in Kansas
On the day Fort Hood victims received their Purple Hearts, CBS News reports on the latest attempted jihad against the U.S. military on American soil: "A 20-year-old man has been charged with planning a suicide bomb attack against the Fort Riley military base in Kansas, in an alleged plot to support the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), federal prosecutors said Friday. John T. Booker, of Topeka, was arrested Friday morning while trying to arm what he thought what a 1,000-pound bomb inside a van near the base, according to court documents." Booker also goes by the name Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, which might give a clue as to his motive. He didn't exactly keep it a secret, though, posting on Facebook last year, "I will soon be leaving you forever so goodbye! I'm going to wage jihad and hopes that i [sic] die." He's also merely one in a series of would-be ISIL jihadis foiled in their attempts to attack America. More... -The Patriot Post
Indiana Pizza Parlor Reopens Without Fanfare The Left, incensed that owners of Memories Pizza would decline to cater
a same-sex wedding because of religious objections, tried to protest the pizza parlor serving a one traffic-light Indiana town out of existence. Due to the threats, Kevin O'Connor closed his shop for eight days. But he reopened April 9 to a full restaurant and not a protester in sight, according to the Associated Press. "I'd do the same thing again," O'Connor told the AP. "It's my belief. It's our belief. It's what we grew up on. I'm just sorry it comes to this because neither one of us dislike any of those people. I don't hold any grudges." During the time his business was shuttered, a producer from The Blaze created a fund for the pizza shop that collected over $800,000 in donations. So are the owners rolling in the dough? ('Scuse the pun.) "It was really making us uncomfortable," O'Connor said. After spending a bit on his pizza parlor, he'll donate some of it to charity. So much for the Left's conspiratorial explanation of the donations as some kind of guerrilla marketing campaign. The Left couldn't sustain its rage. What's left is an operating pizza parlor and the disturbing realization that the Left trivializes religious liberty. More... -The Patriot Post
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Feds Investigating Southern United Neighborhoods (ACORN)
(Steven Ahle) - An inquiry and a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the watchdog group, Cause of Action (CoA) reveals a federal investigation into misuse of nObamacare funds used to help recruit for United Labor Unions Local 100 (ULU) which is associated with the SEIU...The money had been granted to Southern United Neighborhoods (SUN) aka (ACORN). After their request under the FOIA was reviewed. What I think the investigation should be focusing on is why is the federal government handing out grants to SUN and NeighborWorks America. These are actually ACORN, who happens to be banned from receiving federal grants. Maybe they have a friend in high places, like the oval office? http://redstatements.co/feds-investigating-southern-united-neighborhoods-acorn-for-misuse-of-public-funds-2/
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Who’s afraid of Khamenei’s redlines?
(J. Matthew McInnis) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei appeared to double down yesterday on his redline that Tehran must receive immediate—rather than phased—relief from all sanctions if a comprehensive nuclear agreement is finally signed between the P5+1 and Iran in June...If Khamenei is serious, the deal outlined last week by President nObama and Secretary Hanoi Kerry could be dead already. But should we take Khamenei at his word? On April 9, in his first public speech since the framework was announced, Khamenei expressed general ambivalence about the potential agreement. Since nothing is written and signed yet, he mused, why should he have an opinion? Instead, Khamenei reiterated his requirements for a final nuclear deal. In addition to immediate sanctions removal, he maintained that significant nuclear research and development capacity must be allowed (which he will get), that Iran’s defensive capabilities such as ballistic missiles are non-negotiable (which he will also get), and that international inspections of military sites are forbidden (which he should not get, but more about that below). http://www.aei.org/publication/whos-afraid-of-khameneis-redlines/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=041315
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Murderers’ Row at Columbia
(Matthew Vadum) - Weather Underground terrorist and convicted cop killer Kathy Boudin is now surrounded by fellow felons on the staff of the Columbia University School of Social Work where she crusades against the supposedly systemic racism of the justice system...The septuagenarian Boudin is assistant adjunct professor and director of the school’s “Criminal Justice Initiative: Supporting Children, Families and Communities” (CJI), which appears to be focused on keeping criminals like her out of prison by abolishing imprisonment as a punishment. As her official bio states, the initiative, which she co-founded, “is dedicated to ending society’s reliance on incarceration and retribution and advancing solutions.” http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/murderers-row-at-columbia/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fe45ed2de5-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-fe45ed2de5-156509103
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Egyptian soldiers prepare to blow up a large smuggling tunnel they discovered along Sinai's border with Gaza, September 2014.
Gaza: Egypt Responsible For Weapons Shortage
(Khaled Abu Toameh) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's uncompromising war on terrorism, especially along the border with the Gaza Strip, seems to be bearing fruit...It is a war that is being waged away from the spotlight and with almost no reaction from the international community. This situation is a perfect example of how the international community and the United Nations do not care about the "plight" of the Palestinians as long as Israel is not involved. Sisi's war on terrorism has thus far failed to spark the same uproar, if any, that is often triggered by Israeli military operations against Hamas and its smuggling tunnels. But it is not only the isolation that worries Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip. Rather, it is that Egypt's tough security measures --which include the destruction of more than 1700 tunnels and the creation of a security zone along its border with the Gaza Strip -- have brought the smuggling of weapons to a near halt. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5545/gaza-egypt-weapons
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nObama's Darlings: The Israeli Left Are Bashing His Iran Deal
(Jeff Dunetz) - Boy oh boy some politicians have no sense of loyalty. Benjamin Netanyahu's major opposition who received support and advice from some of President nObama's campaign people (and some State Dept. dDollars) during the recent Israeli election, announced their Iran plan Sunday...It was was more "hawkish" than anything Netanyahu has said: In a position paper released Sunday, the Zionist Union's leaders demand the United States to "give legitimization ahead of time to any action Israel will need to take to protect its safety". (…)The crux of Herzog and Livni's plan is a call on the American administration to commit in advance to approve an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities if Iran violates the framework agreement signed a week and a half ago by trying to produce nuclear weapons. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/04/obamas-darlings-israeli-left-are.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=08f6200297-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-08f6200297-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-08f6200297-291705165
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dinky Harry Reid’s obstructionism used against GOP candidates
(Fuzzy Slippers) - On both sides of the aisle, there are a lot of questions and concern as people wonder what these first-termers have accomplished. This is, of course, a fair question to ask...but to be equally fair, we should take note of dinky Harry Reid’s lockdown of the Senate for the past six years. Not only were Republican senators unable to accomplish much in dinky Reid’s Senate, but neither were Democrat senators (some of whom lost their seats as a result, at least in part). We all watched as frustrated politicians on both sides of the aisle complained that there were more than 300 bills “sitting on dinky Harry Reid’s desk,” so it seems less than reasonable to focus on legislative accomplishments by first-term GOP senators who were apparently very busily working on legislation that then ended up mired down by dinky Reid. Even House Dems were urging dinky Reid to pass their bills in the Senate. To no avail. At the time, we all thought it was unreasonable of dinky Reid to refuse to pass even those bills that would surely pass with bipartisan support: http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/04/harry-reids-obstructionism-used-against-gop-candidates/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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nObama Wants to Send U.S. Tax Dollars to Central America
(Sara Noble) - Barack nObama wants more redistribution of U.S. wealth to foreign dictators. Two days ago he said he requested a billion dollars in aid to be handed over to Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala for their prosperity. What about our prosperity?...Never mind that the governments of at least two of them are extremely corrupt. El Salvador’s president is a narco-president. nObama offered $20 million to the Caribbean nations for clean energy – that’s supposed to compete with Venezuela’s oil and another $50 million for jobs in those countries.. He’s very generous with our money. He’s using climate change as an excuse to redistribute our wealth. http://www.independentsentinel.com/obama-wants-to-send-u-s-tax-dollars-to-central-america-for-clean-energy/
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Countdown to Israel Attack: Russia Lifts Ban on Missile Sales to Iran
(AmyElizabeth) - Russia announced Monday that it will sell Iran advanced S-300 surface-to-air missiles. The decision, which ends an embargo dating back to 2010, shows that President Barack nObama is rapidly losing control of the international consensus on Iran...It also sets Israel a deadline to attack Iran–since Israel has treated the S-300 system as a “red line,” and has attacked Syria several times recently to prevent advanced Russian air defense and anti-ship missile systems from becoming operational. Some Israeli analysts have recently suggested that Israel will only attack Iran if the regime’s nuclear program poses a direct and imminent threat–if the “sword is at the throat.” http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/13/countdown-to-israel-attack-russia-lifts-ban-on-missile-sales-to-iran/
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nObama Leaves U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati Behind In Iran
(news.investors.com) - A Marine veteran has been held captive in Iran since August 2011, when he was taken prisoner while visiting family and charged with spying. Does President nObama hear his plea for unconditional freedom?...With the exception of deserters like Bowe Bergdahl, those who put on a uniform and serve their country seem like afterthoughts to this administration, if they're thought of at all. Just ask Andrew Tahmooressi, the Marine sergeant allowed to languish 214 days in a Mexican jail for the crime of missing a highway exit. Or now, Amir Hekmati of Flagstaff, Ariz., a Marine vet who sits in an Iranian jail, having made the mistake of trying to visit his Iranian family. http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/040715-746803-marine-amir-hekmati-jailed-in-iran.htm?p=full
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Iraqi PM to Seek Military Aid During US Visit
(voanews.com) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is headed to the United States, where he is expected to ask President Barack nObama to provide his country with more air support and billions of dollars in new arms shipments to fight Islamic State militants...Abadi said Monday the United States has already increased its support of Iraq, "but we want to see more," as Baghdad's forces attempt to recapture vast reaches of their country that have been seized by the insurgents in the last year. ''We, in Iraq, are fighting terrorists on the ground. Terrorism is not only threatening Iraq, it threatens the region and the world alike," Abadi said as he left Baghdad. "We are in need of international support for curbing terrorism. The militants are now smuggling oil and antiquities in order to get money. Thus we are in need of an international effort to halt all criminal attempts by terrorists who aim to continue the bloodletting in Iraq.'' http://www.voanews.com/content/iraqi-pm-to-seek-military-aid-during-us-visit/2717147.html
Avoiding Hilly Misery
Alan Caruba
(factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - While we endure the daily lies of President nObama, do we really want to have another four to eight years more of Hilly Clinton’s? It’s not like we don’t have ample evidence of her indifference to the truth and that is not what America wants in a President, now or ever.
The office has already been degraded to a point where neither our allies nor our enemies trusts anything nObama says. Do we really want to continue a process that could utterly destroy our nation?
Hilly Clinton’s announcement that she intends to run for President is predicated not on any achievements in her life beyond having married Bill Clinton. Instead, her message is that America needs a woman as President. Having already elected an abject failure because he was black, one can only hope and pray that enough voters will conclude that America needs to avoid race or gender to be the determining factor.
In 1974 the 27-year old Hilly was fired from a committee related to the Watergate investigation. Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised her and when the investigation was over, he fired her and refused to give her a letter of recommendation. When asked why, he said, “Because she was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee, and the rules of confidentiality.”
She has not changed. Writing about her emails, Ronald D. Rotunda, a professor at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, said her admitted destruction of more than 30,000 emails “sure looks like an obstruction of justice—a serious violation of the criminal law. The law says that no one has to us email, but it is a crime (18 U.S.C. section 1519) to destroy even one message to prevent it from being subpoenaed.” The law, said Rotunda, punishes this with up to 20 years imprisonment.
Instead, Hilly is asking voters to give her at least four years in the highest office in the land.
Even pundits like The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, writing in mid-March responded to Hilly saying “None of what you said made any sense. Keeping a single account mingling business and personal with your own server wasn’t about ‘convenience.’ It was about expedience. You became judge and jury on what’s relevant because you didn’t want to leave digital fingerprints for others to retrace.”
“You assume that if it’s good for the Clintons, it’s good for the world, you’re always tangling up government policy with your own needs, desires, deceptions, marital bargains, and gremlins.”
Around the same time as Dowd’s rebuke, I wrote that I thought that the revelations about the emails and the millions the Clinton foundation received from nations with whom she was dealing as Secretary of State would be sufficient for those in charge of the Democratic Party to convince her not to run. I was wrong. I was wrong because I profoundly underestimated Hilly’s deep well of ambition and indifference to the laws everyone else must obey. I was wrong because the Democratic Party is totally corrupt.
It is not as if anyone paying any attention would not know that she is politically to the far Left, a politician who does not believe that the powers of our government are derived from “the consent of the governed.” Throughout her life she has let us know that with quotes such as:
“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
“(We) can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”
“I certainly think the free-market has failed.” These quotes are the personification of Communism.
In March, the political pundit, Peggy Noonan, writing in The Wall Street Journal, said “We are defining political deviancy down.” Referring to the email scandal, she asked “Is it too much to imagine that Mrs. Clinton wanted to conceal the record of her communications as America’s top diplomat…?” That was the reason she ignored the government’s rules regarding such communications. Rarely mentioned is the very strong likelihood that her email account had been hacked by our nation’s enemies and thus everything she was doing, officially and privately, was known to them.
“The story,” said Noonan “is that this is what she does and always has. The rules apply to others, not her.” That is, simply said, a criminal mentality. “Why doesn’t the legacy press swarm her on this?” asked Noonan. “Because she is political royalty.”
We fought a Revolution to free America from the British royalty. This was so ingrained in the thinking of the Founding Fathers that section 9 of Article One of the Constitution says “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States. And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of Congress, accept any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” That’s what the foundation did.
Noonan had earlier written a book about Hilly. “As I researched I remembered why, four years into the Clinton administration, the New York Times columnist William Safire called Hilly ‘a congenital liar…compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.’”
“Do we have to go through all that again?” asked Noonan. “A generation or two ago, a person so encrusted in a reputation for scandal would not be considered a possible presidential contender. She would be ineligible. Now she is inevitable.”
Well, maybe not inevitable. We have a long time to go until the primaries arrive and then the election. We have enough time to ask ourselves if we live in a republic where merit, integrity, and honesty are still the standards by which we select our President.
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