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2019? More Of The Same, Maybe Worse
by Tom McLaughlin
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Limbaugh: Trump can
build border wall without Congress
by wnd.com
{wnd.com} ~ Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh says there might be “hell to pay,” but he says the time has come for President Trump to “break” the Democrats and build the border wall using the executive power he already has... It’s all over the refusal of Democrat leaders to fund border security, or negotiate over those plans, and it comes down to a “showdown” of power between the executive branch and the legislative branch. “He is the executive. He does not have some of the executive power, he has all of it!” Limbaugh said on his Monday broadcast. “There are all kinds of departments and bureaucracies and areas of the executive branch with unspent money, and Trump can go get whatever he needs from any of those different departments and allocate it, and he can get started building the wall, and he can do it constitutionally on the premise that he is engaging in an act of national security!” Limbaugh explained: “There are many people who think the president has the executive power to start building this wall with money that’s already been allocated in budgets that exist in the executive branch and he can and he does. There will be hell to pay.” “I mean, if you think this is bad, the minute a wall’s construction has actually begun with money that Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer and his gang don’t think they participated in allocating or appropriate, they go nuts and they start shouting and yelling ‘impeachment.’ But the fact of the matter is – and the Washington swamp would be too.”...Trump: Turkey And Saudi Arabia
Will Step Up In Syria
by Saagar Enjeti
{dailycaller.com} ~ President Donald Trump justified his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, noting Monday that Turkey and Saudi Arabia... would instead bear the brunt of the remaining anti-Islamic State effort. Trump noted Sunday that he had a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the situation in Syria and his pledges to support anti-ISIS efforts.Trump has received pointed criticism from several congressional Republicans and others for his Syria decision who warn that ISIS is not yet wholly defeated in Syria and that a withdrawal will abandon allies on the ground. U.S. strategy to defeat ISIS relied primarily on training, equipping, and supporting Syrian Kurdish forces on the ground. Turkey, however, is vehemently opposed to U.S. support for Syrian Kurdish forces and considers them a terrorist group intent on challenging the legitimacy of the Turkish state. Trump has repeatedly said in recent days that the U.S. has no other role in Syria than to destroy ISIS and now that the vast majority of its caliphate is gone the nearly 2,000 troops on the ground are no longer necessary....
FDA Policies Kill
by Walter E. Williams.
North Korea must pay $501 million to
Otto Warmbier’s parents, judge rules
by Greg Norman
{foxnews.com} ~ An American judge has ruled that Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime must pay $501 million to the parents of Otto Warmbier after their son died... following his time spent in captivity there. The ruling Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is largely symbolic, though, as it is unlikely North Korea hands over any cash. It comes after Warmbier’s parents sued the Hermit Kingdom for more than $1 billion. “North Korea is liable for the torture, hostage taking, and extrajudicial killing of Otto Warmbier, and the injuries to his mother and father, Fred and Cindy Warmbier,” Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell wrote in the ruling. The college student from Ohio was on a tour in North Korea when he allegedly stole a propaganda sign from a hotel. He was arrested in January 2016 and held captive for more than 17 months. Warmbier died from severe brain damage after he was repatriated to the U.S. in June 2017. He was 22. North Korea has repeatedly denied accusations Warmbier was tortured and officials told their U.S. counterparts at the time that he had suffered from botulism and then slipped into a coma after taking a sleeping pill. But doctors in Cincinnati said their examination showed no evidence of botulism, the strong neurotoxin produced by a bacterium...https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-must-pay-501-million-to-otto-warmbiers-parents-judge-rules
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Social Security Admin Stole Thousands from Dead Woman, Family Still Waiting for Repayment
by CILLIAN ZEAL
{westernjournal.com} ~ The family of a recently deceased woman is fighting the Social Security Administration for thousands of dollars illegitimately taken from her bank account... and the government doesn’t seem particularly keen on doing anything about it. “Days after a suburban man’s mother died, he noticed large withdrawals from her bank account,” Chicago’s WBBM-TV reported. “Tim Carlberg feels beaten down by his almost four-month battle with the Social Security Administration. “Less than 10 days after his 89-year-old mother died in August, someone from the Social Security office electronically swooped in and withdrew five payments from her bank account. The problem is, they were only supposed to take back one payment, from the month she died.” In just three days, the overzealous bureaucrats at the SSA took $7,028 more than they were entitled to. To most people, that means the agency stole it. When Carlberg called Social Security, according to WBBM, he was told the agency had the wrong date of death in the system. While Dorothy Carlberg, a resident of suburban Chicago, died on Aug. 21, the administration had it entered as March 21. The fact that the mistake was acknowledged, Carlberg figured, was a sign it would soon be fixed...VIDEO: https://cbsloc.al/2BsGGUT
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Trump the Nationalist and
the Role of the Modern USA
by Michael Curtis
{americanthinker.com} ~ The decision of President Donald Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria and Afghanistan led to the announced departure on December 20, 2018 of secretary of defense James Mattis, four-star general... often regarded as a force for stability in the administration. Policy differences between Mattis and the president already existed over a number of issues: NATO, Korea, Afghanistan, Syria, the Iran nuclear deal, proposal for a military Space Force, American attitudes to allies. Irrespective of the controversy over Mattis's departure, more important is the issue of the desirable role of the United States in world affairs: should the U.S. continue or expand its overseas activities and be the leader of the global order, or should it reduce its commitments and withdraw from certain areas? President George Washington in his Farewell Address on September 19, 1796 spoke of the need for the new U.S to "pursue a different course." It is, he argued, true U.S. policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. Instead, the U.S. may safely trust in temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. The great rule of conduct for the U.S. in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. Differences on the U.S.'s role varied throughout its history. The country and President Woodrow Wilson were divided over U.S. policy toward World War I until the German submarine attacks on U.S. ships and the sinking of the British Lusitania in 1917. Similarly, strong differences were expressed over both participation in the conflict and the conduct of that war unconditional surrender or early armistice and on postwar policy; the Versailles treaty; the League of Nations, which was rejected by isolationists in the Senate; and reconstruction of Europe after the war. The crucial issue was the same in 1918 as it remains today: the nature of the role and global reach of the U.S. ... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/trump_the_nationalist_and_the_role_of_the_modern_usa.html
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2019? More Of The Same, Maybe Worse
by Tom McLaughlin
Will anyone be surprised if all the Democrats repeatedly call Trump a racist, xenophobic, transphobic, sexist liar? I won’t. Although nearly all criticized every president who ever sent the US soldiers into a Middle Eastern country, will they criticize Trump for pulling them out? That’s already started. How many will promise to abolish ICE? Most? Some have already, but will more make the pledge? When they’re subsequently asked if they support open borders, will they deny it? Of course, but only half of America will believe them. They’ll all promise to deport illegal alien criminals, but will any of them come out against sanctuary cities and states that harbor them? I doubt it.
Former Portland, Maine Bishop Malone
Cupich and McCarrick
Chicago Cardinal Archbishop Blase Cupich was appointed to the job upon recommendation by disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick according to testimony last summer by Italian Archbishop Vigano. “Regarding Cupich,” Vigano wrote, “one cannot fail to note his ostentatious arrogance, and the insolence with which he denies the evidence that is now obvious to all: that 80% of the abuses found were committed against young adults by homosexuals who were in a relationship of authority over their victims.” Following that bombshell, Pope Francis appointed Cupich to run the worldwide meeting of bishops in Rome in February to investigate clerical sex abuse! That should be interesting. Archbishop Vigano has called for Pope Francis to resign. Will he? No one knows.
As if all that weren’t bad enough, Patriots fans have to watch legendary quarterback Tom Brady show his age while realizing there’s no one on the bench capable of filling his shoes. Will 2019 see the Patriot dynasty coming to an end? The horror! I don't want to think about it.
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