The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
What Harvey Wrought
by Pat Buchanan
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Tuesday Top Headlines
Trump administration announces plan to end DACA (ABC News)
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Sen. Graham supports Trump tossing DACA over to Congress (CNS News)
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liar-nObama ready to “speak out” if Trump cancels DACA (Hot Air)
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North Korea nuclear progress puts Iran on renewed pathway to bomb (The Washington Free Beacon)
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North Korea crisis: Russia’s Putin warns of “global catastrophe” (NBC News)
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Homeland Security makes it official: Antifa “domestic terrorists” (Truth Revolt)
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Hurricane Irma barrels toward Caribbean, Florida (Reuters)
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Harvey death toll rises to at least 60 (The Hill)
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Menendez corruption case puts other Democrats at legal risk, sidelines senator for trial (The Washington Times)
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School district apologizes after teacher bans “Make America Great Again” shirts (Washington Examiner)
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Verizon wants to build an advertising juggernaut, but it needs your data first (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
Cuba opens five-month transition likely to end Castro reign (Fox News)
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Policy: Why we need tax reform now (The Heritage Foundation)
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Policy: To defeat North Korea, focus on a coordinated strategy (Manhattan Institute) ~The Patriot Post
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Angry Judge JEANINE – Sessions Must Go After
JIM COMEY – The ESSENCE of PUBLIC CORRUPTION
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine is stern and no-nonsense in her open in which she says, “It is time for both the Department of Justice and the State Department to be true to their mission and recognize the significance of the election of 2016.”... She says, “The American people elected Donald Trump to change the way things are done in Washington. To us, truth and justice matte and law and order is mandatory. No more cover ups, no more rigged investigations, no more cutting organized criminal enterprises like the liar-Clinton Foundation any slack.” Judge Jeanine notes, “This week we learned that James Comey, long before that fateful July 4th weekend when liar-Hillary Clinton was interviewed, actually began drafting a memo exonerating a criminal target of a federal investigation of all criminal liability.”... http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-time-jim-comey-essence-corruption/
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Antifa Violence on College Campus’
Finally being Covered by Mainstream Media
{patrioticviralnews.com} ~ The Leftist mainstream media is now beginning to acknowledge that “Antifa” protesters are no better than the extreme Right hate groups that they’ve vowed to battle... In terms of tactics, it’s certain that these masked perpetrators are every bit as vicious as the racists and white supremacists they’ve targeted in terms of their violent tactics and vows to attack police, the media and anyone else who gets in their way. As MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski tell it, these Leftists are quite literally a different shade than previous generations of peaceful protesters who would formerly engage in dialogue or constructive debate when confronted. Their militarized garb and accessories, use of weapons and body armor and willingness to commit abhorrent acts of vandalism differentiate them from citizens who simply have an opinion to express... http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/antifa-violence-on-college-campus-finally-being-covered-by-mainstream-media/
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N. Korea Threatens To Use H-Bomb For
EMP Attack, Destroying U.S. Electric Grid
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ This weekend North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test, they claimed that it was a Hydrogen bomb Although it hasn’t been confirmed that the test was a hydrogen bomb... the reports are this weapon has significantly more power than previous tests. Making the test more concerning was the statement released by the state-run KCNA news service and not receiving much coverage in the MSM, “The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds kiloton, is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack(electromagnetic pulse) according to strategic goals.” Much easier than spending a nuclear weapon to make a direct hit on the U.S. mainland, for an EMP attack all North Korea has to do is launch a low-yield nuclear missile from a submarine, ship, or by one of the ballistic missiles, they claim to be able to arm, and explode it at high altitude, above the atmosphere atop the U.S. mainland... http://lidblog.com/n-korea-threatens-use-of-h-bomb-emp-attack/.
Europe's New Lie: Comparing Asylum
Shelters to Nazi Concentration Camps
The Greek Red Cross helps an Afghan migrant who just arrived
The Greek Red Cross helps an Afghan migrant who just arrived
from Turkey with an inflatable boat on Lesvos Island, Greece
by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ What is the best way to shut down the debate on immigration? By heightening the language to levels impossible to be debated. That is what has been happening in the new -- and false... trend of comparing the waves of migrants arriving in Europe to Jews during the Holocaust. Recently, Franco Berardi, the Italian author of a play in Germany, "Auschwitz on the Beach", charged Europeans with setting up "concentration camps" on its territory. One line in the performance was, "Salt water has replaced Zyklon B" -- a reference to the poison gas used by the Nazis in World War II to exterminate Jews. After protests from the Jewish community, the play was cancelled. Adam Szymczyk, the director of the Documenta exhibition, defined the show as a "warning against historical amnesia, a moral wake-up call, a call to collective action"... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10930/asylum-shelters-concentration-campsby Giulio Meotti
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Abbas is going to defy Trump and Netanyahu at the UN
by David Singer
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas seems set to once again embark on another futile journey to the United Nations (UN) seeking recognition of a second Arab state – in addition to Jordan – within the territory comprised in the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine... A senior unidentified Palestinian source threatened such action on 21 August: “If we don’t hear within a month and a half that the American team has stopped talking and started doing, Abbas intends to mobilize anyone and everyone he can for the UN General Assembly session on the establishment of a Palestinian state, regardless of the Israeli and American reactions,”... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20965?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl.
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by Pat Buchanan
{townhall.com} ~ Like 9/11, Hurricane Harvey brought us together.
In awe at the destruction 50 inches of rain did to East Texas and our fourth-largest city and in admiration as cable television showed countless hours of Texans humanely and heroically rescuing and aiding fellow Texans in the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
On display this week was America at her best.
Yet the destruction will not soon be repaired. Nearly a third of Harris County, home to 4.5 million people, was flooded. Beaumont and Port Arthur were swamped with 2 feet of rain and put underwater.
Estimates of the initial cost to the Treasury are north of $100 billion, with some saying the down payment alone will be closer to $200 billion. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the cost of Harvey will exceed that of the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt Europe after World War II.
Though the country has appeared united since the storm hit, it is not likely to remain so. Soon, the cameras and correspondents will go home, while the shelters remain full, as tens of thousands of people in those shelters have only destroyed homes to return to.
When the waters recede, the misery of the evacuees left behind will become less tolerable. Then will come the looters and gougers and angry arguments over who's to blame and who should pay.
They have already begun. Republicans who balked at voting for the bailout billions for Chris Christie's New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the coast in 2012 are being called hypocrites for asking for swift and massive federal assistance to repair red state Texas.
And whereas George W. Bush soared to 90 percent approval after 9/11, no such surge in support for Donald Trump appears at hand.
Indeed, the sneering and sniping began on his first visit to Texas.
He failed to celebrate the first responders, they said. He failed to hug any of the victims. He failed to show empathy. First lady Melania Trump wore spiked heels boarding Marine One for Texas.
A prediction: The damage done by Harvey -- as well as the physical, psychic and political costs -- will cause many to echo the slogan of George McGovern in 1972, when he exhorted the country to "come home, America."
The nation seems more receptive now, for even before Harvey, the media seemed consumed with what ails America.
The New York and D.C. subway systems are crumbling. Puerto Rico is bankrupt. Some states, such as Illinois, cannot balance their budgets. The murder rates are soaring in Baltimore and Chicago. Congress this month will have to raise the debt ceiling by hundreds of billions and pass a budget with a deficit bloated by the cost of Harvey.
And the foreign crises seem to be coming at us, one after another.
Russia is beginning military maneuvers in the Baltic and Belarus, bordering Poland, with a force estimated by some at 100,000 troops -- Vladimir Putin's response to NATO's deployment of 4,000 troops to the Baltic States and Poland.
The U.S. is considering sending anti-tank missiles to Kiev. This could reignite the Donbass war and bring Russian intervention, the defeat of the Ukrainian army and calls for U.S. intervention.
In the teeth of Trump's threat to pour "fire and fury" on North Korea, Kim Jong Un just launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan. Trump's answer: U.S. B-1Bs make practice bombing runs near the demilitarized zone. Reports from South Korea indicate that Kim may soon conduct a sixth underground test of an atomic bomb.
War in Korea has never seemed so close since Dwight Eisenhower ended the Korean War with an armistice more than 60 years ago.
Despite the opposition of his national security team, Trump is said to be ready to repudiate the Iranian nuclear deal in October, freeing Congress to reimpose the sanctions lifted by the deal.
This would split us from our NATO allies and, if Iran ignored the new U.S. sanctions or began anew to enrich uranium, force Trump's hand. Is he, are we as a country, ready for another trillion-dollar war, with Iran, which so many inside the Beltway seem so eager to fight?
The U.S. and Turkey have urged Iraq's Kurds to put off their nonbinding referendum on independence Sept. 25. The vote seems certain to endorse a separate state. A Kurdistan, seceded from Baghdad, would be a magnet for secession-minded Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iran, 30 million in all, and present a strategic crisis for the United States.
Along with the steady growth of entitlement spending, the new dollars demanded for defense, the prospect of new wars and the tax cuts the White House supports, Hurricane Harvey should concentrate the mind.
Great as America is, there are limits to our wealth and power, to how many global problems we can solve, to how many wars we can fight and to how many hostile powers we can confront.
The "indispensable nation" is going to have to begin making choices. Indeed, that is among the reasons Trump was elected.
What Harvey Wrought
{townhall.com} ~ Like 9/11, Hurricane Harvey brought us together.
In awe at the destruction 50 inches of rain did to East Texas and our fourth-largest city and in admiration as cable television showed countless hours of Texans humanely and heroically rescuing and aiding fellow Texans in the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
On display this week was America at her best.
Yet the destruction will not soon be repaired. Nearly a third of Harris County, home to 4.5 million people, was flooded. Beaumont and Port Arthur were swamped with 2 feet of rain and put underwater.
Estimates of the initial cost to the Treasury are north of $100 billion, with some saying the down payment alone will be closer to $200 billion. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the cost of Harvey will exceed that of the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt Europe after World War II.
Though the country has appeared united since the storm hit, it is not likely to remain so. Soon, the cameras and correspondents will go home, while the shelters remain full, as tens of thousands of people in those shelters have only destroyed homes to return to.
When the waters recede, the misery of the evacuees left behind will become less tolerable. Then will come the looters and gougers and angry arguments over who's to blame and who should pay.
They have already begun. Republicans who balked at voting for the bailout billions for Chris Christie's New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the coast in 2012 are being called hypocrites for asking for swift and massive federal assistance to repair red state Texas.
And whereas George W. Bush soared to 90 percent approval after 9/11, no such surge in support for Donald Trump appears at hand.
Indeed, the sneering and sniping began on his first visit to Texas.
He failed to celebrate the first responders, they said. He failed to hug any of the victims. He failed to show empathy. First lady Melania Trump wore spiked heels boarding Marine One for Texas.
A prediction: The damage done by Harvey -- as well as the physical, psychic and political costs -- will cause many to echo the slogan of George McGovern in 1972, when he exhorted the country to "come home, America."
The nation seems more receptive now, for even before Harvey, the media seemed consumed with what ails America.
The New York and D.C. subway systems are crumbling. Puerto Rico is bankrupt. Some states, such as Illinois, cannot balance their budgets. The murder rates are soaring in Baltimore and Chicago. Congress this month will have to raise the debt ceiling by hundreds of billions and pass a budget with a deficit bloated by the cost of Harvey.
And the foreign crises seem to be coming at us, one after another.
Russia is beginning military maneuvers in the Baltic and Belarus, bordering Poland, with a force estimated by some at 100,000 troops -- Vladimir Putin's response to NATO's deployment of 4,000 troops to the Baltic States and Poland.
The U.S. is considering sending anti-tank missiles to Kiev. This could reignite the Donbass war and bring Russian intervention, the defeat of the Ukrainian army and calls for U.S. intervention.
In the teeth of Trump's threat to pour "fire and fury" on North Korea, Kim Jong Un just launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan. Trump's answer: U.S. B-1Bs make practice bombing runs near the demilitarized zone. Reports from South Korea indicate that Kim may soon conduct a sixth underground test of an atomic bomb.
War in Korea has never seemed so close since Dwight Eisenhower ended the Korean War with an armistice more than 60 years ago.
Despite the opposition of his national security team, Trump is said to be ready to repudiate the Iranian nuclear deal in October, freeing Congress to reimpose the sanctions lifted by the deal.
This would split us from our NATO allies and, if Iran ignored the new U.S. sanctions or began anew to enrich uranium, force Trump's hand. Is he, are we as a country, ready for another trillion-dollar war, with Iran, which so many inside the Beltway seem so eager to fight?
The U.S. and Turkey have urged Iraq's Kurds to put off their nonbinding referendum on independence Sept. 25. The vote seems certain to endorse a separate state. A Kurdistan, seceded from Baghdad, would be a magnet for secession-minded Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iran, 30 million in all, and present a strategic crisis for the United States.
Along with the steady growth of entitlement spending, the new dollars demanded for defense, the prospect of new wars and the tax cuts the White House supports, Hurricane Harvey should concentrate the mind.
Great as America is, there are limits to our wealth and power, to how many global problems we can solve, to how many wars we can fight and to how many hostile powers we can confront.
The "indispensable nation" is going to have to begin making choices. Indeed, that is among the reasons Trump was elected.
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