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State Department Refuses to Investigate Clinton
Where there's smoke, there's fire. And even though the smoke is billowing out of the Clinton Foundation, the State Department says it won't dig further into Hilly Clinton's actions as secretary of state. "The State Department has not and does not intend to initiate a formal review, or to make a retroactive judgment about items that were not submitted during Secretary Clinton's tenure," spokesman Jeff Rathke said. State has the most information on Clinton's actions — more than Congress — because she dumped 30,000 of her emails on the department before wiping her private hard drive clean. But it refuses to look deeper or give the emails to someone who will.
It's common sense to be suspicious of the Clinton Foundation, given the kinds of reports coming out about the "charity." According to the book "Clinton Cash" by Peter Schweizer, at least four members of the Clinton Foundation board were charged with financial crimes, including fraud and bribery. As for the uranium deal the State Department approved under Clinton's leadership (the one that gave Russia control over much of the U.S.'s uranium reserves) the Kazakh official who helped broker the deal is serving a 14-year sentence for making corrupt uranium deals with foreign governments. Furthermore, the Clinton Foundation is unlikely to disappear if Clinton becomes president. After all, what's first swinger Bill to do? -The Patriot Post
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Six Baltimore Officers Fight Prosecution, Allege Overreach
The six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray filed a motion Friday to dismiss the charges. "Rarely in the history of any criminal case has a prosecutor so directly maintained so many conflicts of interest," the motion read. "Rarer still are instances where such clear conflict exists and a prosecutor steadfastly refuses to recuse him or herself. … This motion is being filed at this junction because the Defendants have grave concerns about the charging decisions which will be made in the near future and their ability to receive due process of the law."
When State Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged the officers with everything from false imprisonment to second degree depraved heart murder, she told the people protesting police brutality, "I heard your call." In doing so, she implied that she ignored her duty to uphold the law in favor of mob "justice." Furthermore, the conflicts of interest are thick and damning. First, Mosby is married to the city councilman who represents the district where Gray was arrested and where the rioting was the worst. Second, the attorney for the Gray family is considered a mentor to Mosby. The charges from Mosby's office were slapped together and fired off in such a shoddy manner that Mosby mistakenly accused two people who only shared the names of two of the officers. More... -The Patriot Post
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Police Lives Matter
Sometimes cops protect and serve, and sometimes they need to be protected and served. A rookie Oklahoma City police officer found that to be true while pursuing a robbery suspect on foot. After becoming separated from his partner, Officer Adam Eller struggled with one of the suspects, who snatched Eller's baton and beat him with it. An armed citizen came to the rescue, however, drawing his firearm, warning the assailant to stop, and holding him until police backup arrived. Eller likely owes his life to this good guy with a gun.
Two Hattiesburg, Mississippi, officers weren't so fortunate. Officers Benjamin Deen, 34 with a wife and two kids, and Liquori Tate, a 25-year-old rookie, were conducting what they thought was a routine traffic stop when the vehicle occupants opened fire, wounding the officers. Both later died at a local hospital, the first deaths for the Hattiesburg Police in three decades.
We note these cases together for two reasons: First, the assailants in both cases were black, while two of the three officers were white. Profiling doesn't happen without reason. Second, black lives matter, but so do police lives. Officers are human and capable of doing wrong, but they put their lives on the line for their communities, too. -The Patriot Post
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FIRST IN FOX NEWS FIRST: JEB ANSWERS MEGYN ON LEGACY WOES
In an interview with Megyn Kelly set to air tonight, Jeb Bush answers the charge from critics that he is “the worst possible candidate to put up against Hilly Clinton” because of his famous last name. “I haven’t been in Washington over the last… ever,” Bush said in a wide-ranging interview that airs tonight on “The Kelly File” at 9 p.m. ET. “I’m not part of Washington.”
The electability argument is usually the ace in the hole for the establishment-backed candidate in the Republican Party, but it actually cuts the other way for Bush. Bush, who served as Florida governor from 1999 to 2007, has watched his former protégé, Sen. Marco Rubio, receive a surge in support, including from many establishment figures. Old GOP hands worry about whether the inability to prosecute Clinton on her weakest points – entitlement, exploitation of insider status and preservation of the status quo – could ever be offset by Bush’s money, organization and political skills. Those concerns were highlighted by the first excerpts from the interview to emerge. Kelly asked Bush if he would have ordered the 2003 invasion of Iraq even “knowing what we know now.” Bush said he would.
In the newly released clip, Bush said he would overcome the perception that “the country needs a fresh start” by running on his record in Florida: “I got to serve as a governor of a state, a purple state, and I was the most successful conservative governor probably during the time that I was there – I’d say Mitch Daniels and Jeb Bush are the two most successful governors. I can tell that story, and I can offer ideas that are about the future, not the past. And I’m energetic and passionate about the needs, the things we need to fix.”
The interview, which touches on Bush’s support for Common Core educational standards, religious liberty, the specifics of his policies on illegal immigration, racial tensions and other topics, was Bush’s first sit-down session on television since December. -Fox News
In an interview with Megyn Kelly set to air tonight, Jeb Bush answers the charge from critics that he is “the worst possible candidate to put up against Hilly Clinton” because of his famous last name. “I haven’t been in Washington over the last… ever,” Bush said in a wide-ranging interview that airs tonight on “The Kelly File” at 9 p.m. ET. “I’m not part of Washington.”
The electability argument is usually the ace in the hole for the establishment-backed candidate in the Republican Party, but it actually cuts the other way for Bush. Bush, who served as Florida governor from 1999 to 2007, has watched his former protégé, Sen. Marco Rubio, receive a surge in support, including from many establishment figures. Old GOP hands worry about whether the inability to prosecute Clinton on her weakest points – entitlement, exploitation of insider status and preservation of the status quo – could ever be offset by Bush’s money, organization and political skills. Those concerns were highlighted by the first excerpts from the interview to emerge. Kelly asked Bush if he would have ordered the 2003 invasion of Iraq even “knowing what we know now.” Bush said he would.
In the newly released clip, Bush said he would overcome the perception that “the country needs a fresh start” by running on his record in Florida: “I got to serve as a governor of a state, a purple state, and I was the most successful conservative governor probably during the time that I was there – I’d say Mitch Daniels and Jeb Bush are the two most successful governors. I can tell that story, and I can offer ideas that are about the future, not the past. And I’m energetic and passionate about the needs, the things we need to fix.”
The interview, which touches on Bush’s support for Common Core educational standards, religious liberty, the specifics of his policies on illegal immigration, racial tensions and other topics, was Bush’s first sit-down session on television since December. -Fox News
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CLINTONS TRY TO MUZZLE CHARITY WATCHDOG
The vigorous counterattack by the Clinton campaign to discredit the scandal prompted by “Clinton Cash” isn’t the first such battle the Clintons have engaged in over the foundation donations, New York magazine reports. “After being the subject of a spate of negative newspaper accounts about potential conflicts of interest and management dysfunction this winter — long before Clinton Cash — the Clinton Foundation wound up on a ‘watchlist’ maintained by the Charity Navigator, the New Jersey-based nonprofit watchdog…. Navigator executives counter that the Foundation has demanded they extend the Clintons special treatment. They also allege the Foundation attempted to strong-arm them by calling a Navigator board member. ‘They felt they were of such importance that we should deviate from our normal process. They were irritated by that,’ says [former Navigator CEO, Ken Berger].” -Fox News
The vigorous counterattack by the Clinton campaign to discredit the scandal prompted by “Clinton Cash” isn’t the first such battle the Clintons have engaged in over the foundation donations, New York magazine reports. “After being the subject of a spate of negative newspaper accounts about potential conflicts of interest and management dysfunction this winter — long before Clinton Cash — the Clinton Foundation wound up on a ‘watchlist’ maintained by the Charity Navigator, the New Jersey-based nonprofit watchdog…. Navigator executives counter that the Foundation has demanded they extend the Clintons special treatment. They also allege the Foundation attempted to strong-arm them by calling a Navigator board member. ‘They felt they were of such importance that we should deviate from our normal process. They were irritated by that,’ says [former Navigator CEO, Ken Berger].” -Fox News
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Security Analyst On Iran Nuke Deal
(noisyroom.net) - National Security Fraud On The Part Of The Obama Administration. Security Analyst on Iran Nuke Deal: ‘We’re Dealing With National Security Fraud on the Part of the nObama Administration’... http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/05/10/security-analyst-on-iran-nuke-deal-national-security-fraud-on-the-part-of-the-obama-administration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29
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Federal court takes action on Clinton email scandal
(foxnews.com) - Case reopened by federal judge in bid to make private emails public...
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Baltimore: nObama’s Civil-Rights Crusade against Police Departs
(Andrew McCarthy) - Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. When Republican leaders rationalized confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general – notwithstanding her stated commitment to facilitating President nObama’s lawlessness... they mumbled about how the country needed to end the tenure of Eric Holder. You may remember him as the original nObama attorney general whose confirmation Republicans strongly supported despite extensive evidence of his unfitness. As a number of us countered, and as anyone with a shred of common sense knows, major Justice Department policy is and has always been set by President nObama. While Ms. Lynch is temperamentally different from Mr. Holder, her confirmation portended no change of direction. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/baltimore-is-just-the-latest-target-in-obamas-civil-rights-crusade-against-police-departments/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email051215&utm_medium=email
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nObama Lets Illegal-Alien Criminals Run Free
(Deroy Murdock) - Does nObama have it out for his countrymen, or does he simply not give a damn about his fellow Americans?... This inescapable question occurs in light of his release of 66,565 convicted illegal-alien criminals over the past two years. Rather than deport these often-violent lawbreakers to their homelands, nObama sets them loose on U.S. streets. According to data that Immigration and Customs Enforcement delivered to the House Judiciary Committee last month, ICE released 30,558 illegal-alien criminals from federal custody into the general population in fiscal year 2014. To use more-sensitive language, these undocumented crime workers collectively were responsible for 79,059 convictions. These included 13,636 convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol, 1,346 for domestic violence, 1,194 for battery, 373 for sexual assault, 186 for kidnapping, and 86 for homicide.Then why do Hollywood and the black continue to support him and the Hilly? http://www.aim.org/guest-column/obama-lets-illegal-alien-criminals-run-free/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email051215&utm_medium=email
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Kingdom of the Screwdriver
(Dr. Steven J. Allen) - For a while yesterday, many on the Left were jubilant at the shooting (falsely reported, it turned out) of George Zimmerman, a Latino who, one day in 2012, dared defend himself as his head was being bashed against the concrete in a (mistaken) gay-bashing by a doped-up teenager... As the evidence showed, he was quite reasonable in his belief that he was shooting the teenager before the teenager could kill him. In Baltimore over the weekend, the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince held a concert in which he sang of victims of police brutality like Michael Brown, who was not actually the victim of police brutality but who assaulted a convenience store clerk half his size, then went after a police officer, trying to take the officer’s gun and presumably kill him with it. The officer killed him first—a shooting that even the Obama administration was forced to admit was fully justified. From Mumia Abu-Jamal to the perpetrators of the Tawana Brawley, Duke lacrosse, and University of Virginia fraternity hoaxes… Why, so often, do people on the Left glorify liars and criminals? Why do they so often direct their anger and hatred at the victims? http://capitalresearch.org/2015/05/kingdom-of-the-screwdriver/
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Fighting against tyranny in some unique ways
(Martin Morse Wooster) - What’s the best way to fight the dictatorships of the world? Look at the activities of the State Department these days and you’d think that sending tweets is an example of furious action... These days a combination of prudence and traditionally excessive bureaucratic caution keeps our Foreign Service officers securely protected in our embassies. But surely there’s something that can be done to fight the world’s tyrants, as Matt Labash shows in this excellent profile of Thor Halvorssen in the Weekly Standard. Halvorssen is not yet forty, but he is a particularly dynamic social entrepreneur, having created three useful organizations. He began by co-founding the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which fights for free speech on college campuses. Next came the Moving Picture Institute, which teaches students how to write and direct freedom-oriented films. But his primary effort these days is the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), which Labash profiles. http://www.philanthropydaily.com/fighting-against-tyranny-in-some-unique-ways/
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United Nations and EU Funding Anti-Israel Hate And Activist Groups
(rickwells.us) - As if we needed another reason to kick the UN out on their global government rear ends, we now learn that the anti-American Marxist forces at the UN are equally anti-Israel... perhaps even more so as they aren’t parasitically feeding off of Israel, making its survival a non-issue for the world government organization. A report has just been released by the watchdog group NGO Monitor which finds that the UN, in conjunction with their EU sister organization and European governments are dumping millions of dollars into the coffers of anti-Israel and anti-Semetic groups. http://rickwells.us/united-nations-and-eu-funding-anti-israel-hate-and-activist-groups-time-for-the-un-to-go/
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Say The “Magic Word” And Get A Work Permit, Welfare, EBT, Medicaid
(rickwells.us) - The fact that the use of a single word, asylum, by an illegal alien will circumvent our entire immigration system is a flaw in our system which the nObama regime is exploiting feverishly in their program to flood the United States with dependent foreigner... The distortion of the asylum process into an open invitation to an imported dependent population has been the method through which the nObama regime has wrapped themselves in a false veil of legitimacy as they flood our nation with illegal aliens, particularly from Central America. In a Fox News report, Kenneth Palinkas, president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council said, “Almost anyone at all can call themselves an asylum seeker and get in. It’s a global joke. It’s not border security if anyone can recite the magic words and get waved right on in.” http://rickwells.us/illegal-alien-jackpot-say-the-magic-word-and-get-a-work-permit-welfare-ebt-and-medicaid/
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nObama Sued for Attempted Blackmail…Other States Join In
(Steven Ahle) - The state of Florida has now filed a lawsuit against Barack nObama who attempted to force Florida to bend to his will using blackmail. Florida had refused to accept nObama’s demand to expand their Medicaid program to include able bodied adults with no children... The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government (nObama) cannot cut off current Medicaid to any states that refuse to expand Medicaid, which the court found to be unconstitutional. Some claim that it’s not blackmail. They could be right, the word extortion might be a better fit. Florida’s program is called LIP and nObama has informed Florida that contrary to the ruling by SCOTUS, that he will be cutting them off. That would force Florida to either fund LIP exclusively by themselves or end the program for millions who depend on it for their healthcare coverage. The expansion of Medicaid in Florida comes at a steep price. The leftwing Urban Institute in 2012 estimated that the expansion of Medicaid would cost Florida 82 billion dollars over the next 10 years, but Lip will only cost them 22 billion over the same period. All this so shiftless bums can get free medical from the government. http://redstatements.co/obama-sued-for-attempted-blackmail-other-states-join-in/
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Speak Free or Die
(Kurt Schlichter) - I damn sure didn’t go to war for this country twice to come home and be told by a bunch of homely chicks with daddy issues, effete literary fops scandalized by the notion of resistance to Third World pathologies, and nimrod sons of politicians playing at journalism what I can and can’t say... And I don’t think most Americans are ready to have everything they speak, write, or think perused for possible hate criminality by these same goose-stepping creeps. We’d rather die than “live” on our knees, begging permission to exercise the right God gave us to say whatever we damn well please, whenever we damn well please, and in the manner we damn well please. And those who want to shut us up better be equally committed if they want to succeed. http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2015/05/11/speak-free-or-die-n1996058
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Alan Caruba
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(factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - Commenting on the rioting in Baltimore, the Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henniger was almost to the end of his April 30 text when he said “On Wednesday morning, the year’s first-quarter GDP growth rate came in—0.02%. Next to nothing. For the length of the nObama presidency, with growth significantly below norm, unemployment for blacks aged 24 and younger has hovered between 30% and 40%. That’s the real powder key, not the police.”
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Most Americans do not put the state of the economy at the heart of everything else is occurring. Instead they listen to politicians apply the blame to everything other than themselves. President nObama spent his entire first term blaming George W. Bush for the bad state of the economy he inherited, but instead of addressing it, he increased it by imposing nObamaCare, radically altering how many would be hired while others were cut to a part-time status. The bill added a number of taxes as well.
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When 2015 arrived in January CNS News reported that “A record 92,898,000 Americans 16 and older did not participate in the labor force in December, as the labor force participation rate dropped once again to 62.7 percent, a level it has not seen in 36 years,” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
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Remember those unemployed young blacks? In March the BLS noted that a record of 12,202,000 black people were not in the labor force. The unemployment rate for black people in March was 10.1 percent, which is nearly double the overall unemployment rate of 5.5 percent. For black teens, age 16 to 19, the unemployment rate was even higher at 25.0 percent, meaning that one in four black teens who were actively seeking a job did not have one.
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By the beginning of April, the BLS reported that “a record 93,175,000 Americans 16 and older did not participate in the labor force in March, as the labor force participation rate dropped to 62.7 percent, the lowest level seen in 37 years.”
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Also in April, the BLS reported that “a record 56,131,000 women, age 16 years and over, were not in the labor force the previous month, as the participation rate for this group dropped to 56.6 percent—a 27 year low.
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It was no surprise that the Department of Agriculture reported that “The number of beneficiaries who receive compensation from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, has topped 46,000,000 for 37 straight months.”
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The U.S. Census Bureau started 2015 with news that one out of five young adults—white, black, Hispanic—and ages 18 to 34, currently live in poverty! That’s 13.5 million people, “up from one in seven (8.4 million people) in 1980.”
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If all this strikes you as very bad news, it gets worse. In February, the Daily Caller’s White House Correspondence, Neil Monro, reported that “President Barack nObama has quietly handed out an extra 5.46 million work permits for non-immigrant foreigners who arrived as tourists, students, illegal immigrants or other types of migrants since 2009.”
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“’The executive branch is operating a high parallel work-authorization system outside the bounds of the (immigration) laws and limits written by Congress (and which) inevitably reduces job opportunities for Americans,’ said Jessica Vaughan, the policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies” which filed the FOIA request the revealed this travesty.
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So it didn’t matter to Barack nObama that millions of Americans were out of work while the White House masterminded a secretive program to provide non-Americans access to the jobs that were available.
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We are living in the midst of an economic disaster and despite the often rosy headlines the reality is one that Stephen Moore, the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, took note of in January in The Washington Times. He identified “hidden indicators” of the true state of the economy as 2015 began:
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“The $1 trillion growth gap. This economic recovery is the lowest in 50 years”
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“The restless recovery. It’s been 10 years since Americans in the middle class got a pay raise that kept pace with inflation.”
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“Inequality is worse. The Gini coefficient (as measured by the Census Bureau), the left’s favorite measure of income inequality, rose each of Mr. nObama’s first four years in office, breaking all-time highs in both 2011 and 2012, and it remains high.”
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“The debt has grown by $7.3 trillion. When Mr. nObama entered office the national debt was under $11 trillion. Now it’s more than $18 trillion…it will be $19 trillion when he leaves office.”
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The record speaks for itself. Americans are worse off today than when nObama took office in 2009. In the years since then he has totally failed to take the best understood steps to push back against a recession and unemployment. He has expanded the federal government. He has failed to initiate a reform of the nation’s tax code to stimulate investment and expansion.
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The nation’s first black President has so poorly served the interests of the African-American population that they are worse off today. He has practiced “equal inequality” by afflicting our other demographic groups, younger workers, woman, and everyone else who has been left unable to afford college and unable to purchase a home and start a family. These years will be seen in retrospect as a desert of opportunity.
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