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Friday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 25, 2019 at 11:11am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Alex Trebek Fired?

Gary Bauer

All The Russia Collusion Clues Are

Beginning To Point Back To

scumbag/commie-John Brennan

By Margot Cleveland

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Last weekend, NBC News reported that the Justice Department’s probe into the origins of the Russia collusion investigation is now focusing on the CIA and the intelligence community... NBC News soft-peddled this significant development by giving former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan a platform a pen? to call the probe “bizarre,” and question “the legal basis for” the investigation. Politico soon joined the spin effort, branding the investigation Attorney General William Barr assigned to Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham “Trump’s vengeance.” However, if the media reports are true, and Barr and Durham have turned their focus to scumbag/commie-Brennan and the intelligence community, it is not a matter of vengeance; it is a matter of connecting the dots in congressional testimony and reports, leaks, and media spin, and facts exposed during the three years of panting about supposed Russia collusion. And it all started with scumbag/commie-Brennan. That’s not how the story went, of course. The company story ran that the FBI launched its Crossfire Hurricane surveillance of the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016, after learning that a young Trump advisor, George Papadopoulos, had bragged to an Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, that the Russians had dirt on scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. This tip from Downer, when coupled with WikiLeaks’s release of the hacked Democratic National Committee emails and evidence of Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election, supposedly triggered the FBI’s decision to target the Trump campaign. But as the Special Counsel Robert Mueller report made clear, it wasn’t merely Papadopoulos’ bar-room boast at issue: It was “a series of contacts between Trump Campaign officials and individuals with ties to the Russian government,” that the DOJ and FBI, and later the Special Counsel’s office investigated. And who put the FBI on to those supposedly suspicious contacts? Former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan. “I encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign that I was concerned about,” scumbag/commie-Brennan told the House Intelligence Committee back in 2017. Whether or not there was collusion with Russia, scumbag/commie-Brennan didn’t profess to know, but he passed on the information to the FBI to reach a conclusion... https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/25/all-the-russia-collusion-clues-are-beginning-to-point-back-to-john-brennan/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=d37f75a247-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-d37f75a247-83771801

Stunning, Potentially Game-Changing, Court

Filing by Flynn Defense Lawyer Sidney Powell

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ In a lengthy court filing surrounding the issues of Brady discovery material, Mike Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, drops some serious evidentiary bombshells on the court... Ms. Powell brings Lady Justice to the courtroom, and her revelations are stunning. We’re going to go through the primary filing and four exhibits to the evidence Attorney Sidney Powell is delivering to Judge Emmet Sullivan which contain some explosive discoveries. Toplines including: (1) Lisa Page edited the Flynn 302’s, then forgot when questioned by DOJ officials, then re-remembered when shown her texts. (2) The 302’s themselves were written with lies that do not match notes taken during the interview. (3) The felony leaker of the Flynn-Kislyak phone call is named James Baker. (4) New texts from Page and Strzok that highlight the entrapment plan. (5) ODNI scumbag-James Clapper telling WaPo reporter Ignatius to “take the kill shot on Flynn“. (6) The purposeful use of Judge Contreras to take the December 1st 2017 plea agreement; and much, much more... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/25/stunning-potentially-game-changing-court-filing-by-flynn-defense-lawyer-sidney-powell/

FISA Abuse Report Is ‘Lengthy’ And Has ‘Few’ Redactions, DOJ Watchdog Tells Congress

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Justice Department inspector general’s report on possible FBI abuse of the foreign surveillance process is “lengthy,” and is likely to be made public with “few” redactions... the inspector general told lawmakers Thursday, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, informed Republicans and Democrats on four congressional committees with a status update on the report, which will detail an investigation into whether the FBI complied with laws and policies in applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Republicans have anticipated the report for months, with many speculating that it will show that the FBI misled the FISA court by relying heavily on the unverified Steele dossier to spy on Page. Horowitz’s description of the report is likely to please Republicans, in that it suggested most of the information that the watchdog uncovered will be made public. “Given that our draft report is lengthy, and concerns sensitive national security and law enforcement matters, we understood that it would take the Department and the FBI some time to work through and appropriately mark the entire report,” Horowitz said in the letter... https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/24/fisa-abuse-report-horowitz-release/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10666

Sens. Grassley, Johnson Demand Intelligence Inspector General Investigate Leaks

By Tristan Justice

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin sent a letter to the intelligence community inspector general Wednesday demanding the government watchdog agency confirm investigations into highly classified leaks... The letter, addressed to ICIG Michael Atkinson, calls out the inspector general for refusing to acknowledge whether there were any investigations into numerous leaks spilling from U.S. intelligence agencies.“As we have made clear in previous letters to you, since President Donald Trump’s election there have been a number of leaks of highly sensitive information,” the senators wrote. “These leaks are seemingly perpetrated to achieve partisan political ends at the expense of national security.” Earlier this month, the senators requested the intelligence community verify an investigation into dozens of leaks, including leaks related to disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who opened the 2016 investigation into Trump’s campaign searching for collusion with the Russian government and was later shown to have possessed extreme bias against the president. An exhaustive two-year investigation with unlimited resources by a congressionally appointed special counsel concluded this year finding no collusion by Trump. Atkinson responded, telling the senators that the intelligence community “cannot confirm or deny the existence of an investigation into those suspected leaks, or disclose the details of any such investigations.” On Wednesday, Grassley and Johnson charged that the response wasn’t enough, and demanded an answer in light of the fact that the inspector general for the Department of Justice has confirmed its own ongoing investigations into leaks of sensitive information that have garnered significant public interest... https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/25/sens-grassley-johnson-demand-intelligence-inspector-general-investigate-leaks/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=d37f75a247-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-d37f75a247-83771801

France: The Headscarf Debate

is Not about Headscarves

by Alain Destexhe

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ France's Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, has reopened the heated debate on the headscarf... Since 2004, it is unlawful in France to wear "conspicuously" religious signs or clothing in public schools. The interpretation of the law, as applied by the Ministry of National Education, specifies "the Islamic veil, whatever the name given to it, the Jewish kippah or a Christian cross of manifestly excessive size" as items that students are prohibited to wear in French state schools. However, women who are escorting children during school trips are still allowed to wear a hijab. As an increasing number of Muslim women have been doing so, this has disturbed some teachers and parents. They believe that the spirit of the law -- that headscarves should be banned from schools -- is not being respected. Recently, Blanquer sparked an outcry by saying that "the veil is not desirable" in French society. He added that this was his conception of "women's empowerment" and "the practice of women wearing a hijab during school trips should not be encouraged." Reacting to another incident, in which an elected official from the Rassemblement National party complained about a woman wearing a headscarf while accompanying children on a visit to the Burgundy Regional Assembly, some well-known actors and academics published an op-ed in Le Monde accusing Blanquer of "stigmatization at the highest level of the state." Blanquer's statement has created a deep division not only within French society, but also in President Macron's ruling party, La République En Marche ! (LREM). Christian Jacob, the newly elected president of the right-wing Les Républicains party, called for a new law banning anyone from wearing hijabs on school trips. Members of Parliament from LREM condemned Blanquer's statement; even President Emmanuel Macron's spokesperson, Sibeth Ndiaye, said "she doesn't have any problem with a woman wearing a hijab during school trips"... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15051/france-headscarf-hijab-debate

Marcellus Fracking Means Farewell

to Dems in 2020

By Daniel John Sobieski

{ americanthinker.com } ~ With Quid Pro loose lips liar-Joe Biden's confession to using U.S. resources to pressure a foreign government to benefit his son, maybe in the next Democrat debate, one of the questions will be why... if fossil fuels are evil, the Democrats are committed to ending their use, and we have a decade or so to live before we freeze our hoohahs to death, it was okay for Hunter Biden to sit on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas holding company. Seems Hunter had his very own greenback new deal. As President Trump's speech at the Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Wednesday noted, loose lips liar-Joe Biden's mythical claim that Trump inherited a booming economy from President scumbag/liar-nObama falls flat in the face of the reality that this is Trump's economy, fueled by deregulation, tax cuts, cutting of EPA shackles, and a booming energy industry allowed to use the latest technology to free a seemingly endless supply of oil and natural gas from the earth under our feet. The conference was staged by some very appreciative energy groups such as the Marcellus Shale Coalition, the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, and the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association. This energy abundance has put downward pressure on energy costs for consumers and industry and made us energy independent and immune from Middle East instability, quite possibly preventing a global oil recession or major war with the likes of a belligerent and aggressive Iran. While noting that he has opened up ANWR in Alaska for exploration and development, exited the job-killing and economy-choking Paris Climate Accord, and green-lighted the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, Trump pointed out the economic benefits shale development in general and the Marcellus shale formation stretching beneath Pennsylvania in particular as most significant, noting that the Dems have promised to ban fracking of shale rock to release the vast quantities of oil and natural gas within. Trump warned that the Democrats want to take away our energy as well as our guns and that the current prosperity spawned by shale and facking could end. As noted by David Lenery at The Center Square: "A thriving energy industry ... is an enormous benefit to citizens all across our country, all across our land," Trump said. "According to the Council of Economic Advisers, who cannot even believe the numbers and the success that we're having, the astonishing increase in production made possible by shale, and the shale revolution, saves Americans $203 billion every year, or $2,500 for a family of four in lower electric bills, lower prices, and at the gas pump.""Many politicians in our country are targeting your industry and your jobs for literally total destruction," he told the shale industry workers assembled at the conference. "Whether you like it or not, that's where they're going. ... Virtually every leading Democrat is pledged to entirely eliminate fossil fuels, wiping out American production of oil and coal and natural gas, and by the way, jobs. These Democrat plans would obliterate millions of American jobs, devastating communities across Pennsylvania, and bankrupting families all across our nation." Leading that pack of Dark Age advocates is Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren. In contrast, David Spigelmyer, president of the Marcellus Shale Association, noted on Fox and Friends the success of Trump's unleashing American energy...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/marcellus_fracking_means_farewell_to_dems_in_2020.html

Alex Trebek Fired?

Gary Bauer

Alex Trebek, the host of Jeopardy!, was fired after scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton accused him of being a Russian asset. Well, no, not really. But, hey, the day is not over yet!

Of course, I’m referring to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s bizarre accusation that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is being groomed by Russia. This is a particularly despicable smear against someone who serves in the U.S. military. As you may recall, Gabbard had to leave the campaign trail for two weeks this summer because she serves as a major in the Army National Guard.

Gabbard hit back hard, calling scumbag/liar-Clinton “the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long.”

It is extraordinarily disturbing that the default position of some major figures on the progressive left is to accuse anyone they don’t like of being a Russian asset.

They came up with an elaborate Russian-collusion conspiracy theory to smear Donald Trump. But now they don’t even need the conspiracy theory. If someone crosses scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, they must be working for the Russians.

The irony is that decades ago, Sen. Joseph McCarthy started identifying real communists in America. Unfortunately, he became reckless and started throwing the accusation at all kinds of people. In the process, he destroyed himself, and “McCarthyism” became a war cry that the left used against anyone who attacked liberals for being soft on communism.

By the way, a progressive hero, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, actually tried to get the Soviets to intervene in the 1984 election.

But today, the progressive movement is the only political force in America engaged in raw McCarthyism.

“commie-Bernie’s Back”

Vermont Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders drew 25,000 people to a rally in New York over the weekend. The aging socialist received the endorsement of the rising socialist, Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, much to the delight of the crowd.

I doubt if anyone of them saw the irony of this rally, which took place very near the site where Amazon had planned to open a new facility that coincidentally would have created 25,000 new jobs. But commie-AOC blew it up.

State’s Hate

Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has been bringing a lot of witnesses from the State Department up to Capitol Hill to testify behind closed doors in liar-Nancy Pelosi’s fake impeachment proceeding. Afterward, cherry-picked portions of their testimonies have been leaked to left-wing media outlets in a steady drip, drip, drip of news reports that are damaging to the president.

Allow me to make a personal observation. The State Department is well-known in Washington as a bastion of left-wing progressives. It went to the mat to prevent the Trump administration from moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. It is also likely the source of many leaks regarding the president’s previous calls with foreign leaders.

No one will be surprised to learn that government employees overwhelmingly preferred scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. But it may surprise some to learn that nearly all — 99% — of 2016 political donations from State Department employees went to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. That speaks volumes about the mindset at Foggy Bottom and the challenge any conservative administration faces.

But let me offer this personal vignette. Last year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the first annual Ministerial on Religious Freedom. I was invited to attend with several hundred other people and multiple heads of state from other countries.

As you can imagine, security was tight. Even State Department employees had to go through the extra security precautions during the ministerial in order to get into the building where they regularly worked. That meant I was standing in line with hundreds of those employees, and I could hear their conversations as we were all waiting to get into the building.

What I heard was raw, obsessive hatred for Donald Trump and Mike Pence. I heard one bureaucrat referring to Pence, who was speaking that day, say, “I can’t believe we’re allowing that bigot into the building!"

These are public servants paid by you. But they hate and despise any conservative administration that takes office.

Gantz Gets His Chance

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today reportedly informed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin that he is unable to form a government. Rivlin is expected to give the mandate to form a coalition government to Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz later this week.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Gantz will have 28 days to try to form a government. If he cannot, there will be a 21-day period in which any member of the Knesset can attempt to cobble together a coalition of 61 votes. If no one succeeds at the end of that 21-day period, then new elections will be called. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66250?mailing_id=4601&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4601&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Fri/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 25, 2019 at 9:31am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The United Nations' UN-acceptable Corruption

Lewis Morris

Friday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

DEEP-STATE SHENANIGANS, PART I: U.S. Attorney John Durham opens criminal inquiry in DOJ’s probe of the Trump-Russia investigators (Washington Examiner)

DEEP-STATE SHENANIGANS, PART II: FBI agents manipulated Michael Flynn file, as scumbag-James Clapper allegedly urged “kill shot,” court filing suggests (Fox News)

Government & Politics

ALL OR NOTHING: “Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that she will not seek re-election to Congress — declaring that she remains ‘fully committed to my offer to serve’ in the White House.” (New York Post)

NEPOTISM: loose lips liar-Joe Biden twice used his position as senator to intervene to boost son Hunter’s lobbying (Washington Examiner)

ET TU, BRUTE? Another House Democrat is under investigation for allegedly sleeping with staffer (The Daily Caller)

DEVOS REPRIMANDED: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos held in contempt for violating judge’s order on student-loan collections (Politico)

Heartland & Economy

CHILD-ABUSE UPDATE: Judge in Texas rules parents must make joint decision in gender-transition case (Fox News)

IP CONCESSION: China gives in on key U.S. trade-war demand regarding intellectual-property rights (Fox Business)

World

A NEVER-ENDING SAGA: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to call for elections after Brexit failure (National Review)

SYRIA SAFEGUARDS: U.S. has a plan to send tanks and troops to “secure” Syria oil fields amid withdrawal (Newsweek)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: The empty absurdity of the Democrats’ dangerous foreign policy (Issues & Insights)

POLICY: Facebook isn’t broken. Government shouldn’t “fix” it. (The Daily Signal)

HUMOR: Trump nixes carbon offsets; demands Californians buy Stupidity Offset Credits instead (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66361?mailing_id=4608&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4608&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Senator Lindsey Graham Introduces Resolution Condemning liar-Pelosi/scumbag-Schiff “Star-Chamber” Impeachment Fiasco

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Senator Lindsey Graham held a press conference to introduce a Senate Resolution condemning the House of Representatives’ closed-door impeachment investigation... There are currently 46 Republican Senators supporting the Graham-McConnell resolution: 1.Graham 2.McConnell 3.Grassley 4.Thune 5.Blunt 6.Shelby 7.Inhofe 8.Roberts 9.Crapo 10.Cornyn 11.Burr 12.Barrasso 13.Wicker 14.Risch 15.Boozman 16.Moran 17.Toomey 18.Rubio 19.Paul 20.Hoeven 21.Lee 22.Johnson 23.Scott (SC) 24.Fischer 25.Cruz 26.Capito 27.Cassidy 28.Lankford 29.Cotton 30.Daines 31.Perdue 32.Ernst 33.Tillis 34.Rounds 35.Sasse 36.Young 37.Kennedy 38.Hyde-Smith 39.Blackburn 40.Cramer 41.McSally 42.Braun 43.Hawley 44.Scott (FL) 45.Portman and 46.Sullivan. While the resolution is easily blocked by any democrat senator; what is important is to get senators on-the-record. This is an indicator of who will vote to impeach the President should articles ever reach the Senate. There are 53 Republican Senators and 47 Democrats. If your senator is not on the list supporting the Graham-McConnell resolution, it might be a good idea to STAND and demand to know why? When we see that justice is measured, not by due process, but by compulsion; when we see that in order to invoke our right to due process, we need to obtain permission from those who rebuke the constitution; when we see that justice is determined by those who leverage, not in law, but in politics; when we see that representatives get power over individual liberty by graft and by scheme, and our representatives don’t protect us against them, but protect them against us; when we see corruption holding influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and nullified; we may well know that our freedom too is soon to perish…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/24/senator-lindsey-graham-introduces-resolution-condemning-pelosi-schiff-star-chamber-impeachment-fiasco/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7XvyARuUT4

Current, Former NSC Staff Slated

for Impeachment Interviews

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

{ usnews.com } ~ The three House committees leading an impeachment investigation are scheduled to hear from current and former staff of the National Security Council next week... according to four people familiar with the inquiry's schedule. Closed-door interviews are tentatively scheduled with Charles Kupperman, a deputy to national security adviser John Bolton, and Tim Morrison, NSC's current Russia and Europe director. Kupperman and Bolton have both left the White House. The four people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the confidential schedule. The Democrats are investigating President Donald Trump's requests that Ukraine conduct certain investigations and whether the requests were in exchange for military aid. Trump requested the probes on a July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and both Kupperman and Morrison may have been listening into the call because of their positions in the White House. Kupperman's interview is scheduled for Monday, and Morrison's is set for Thursday. If Morrison appears for the interview, he will be the first White House aide to testify even as Trump has said his administration would not cooperate. Morrison could be a key witness. Top Ukraine diplomat William Taylor told lawmakers in his deposition Tuesday about phone calls he had with Morrison that described the Ukraine effort. In a detailed opening statement, Taylor said Morrison told him in an August phone call that the "president doesn't want to provide any assistance at all," speaking about the military aid that had already been authorized by Congress...

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-10-23/current-former-nsc-staff-slated-for-impeachment-interviews

Democrats Flout Congressional Procedure

To Keep Impeachment Inquiry Secret

by AMBER ATHEY

{ dailycaller.com } ~ House Democrats have repeatedly flouted normal congressional procedures in their attempts to conduct the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump behind closed doors... sources tell the Daily Caller. Three individuals who are intimately familiar with House procedures expressed dismay at several tactics used by Democrats, including the use of a SCIF — a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility — to conduct interviews, the issuing of subpoenas to force depositions, and the lack of a vote to give official authority to the committees charged with conducting the impeachment proceedings. These sources — who wished to be anonymous in order to speak candidly about the inquiry — told the Caller that these actions show that the Democrats are more concerned about optics than proper procedure or transparency. “There are no rules. House Intel Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff is making up the rules as he goes along,” a GOP aide said. House Republicans showed up to a closed deposition with Defense Department official Laura Cooper on Wednesday, demanding Democrats open the process to the public. Some of the congressmen reportedly entered the SCIF with their cell phones, a violation of national security protocol. West Virginia Rep. Alex Mooney, who publicized a phone call he made from the SCIF, later claimed he had done so from a secure line and not a cell phone. A former Oversight Committee counsel brushed off concerns about potential security violations, instead raising questions about why Democrats are conducting proceedings in a SCIF in the first place. The information being given in the depositions is not classified, as evidenced by the selective leaks to the press. Democrats would not be putting out the opening testimony of Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor, for example, if he were sharing classified information, the counsel reasoned. Further, an interview that could stray into classified territory would still start in a normal setting, and would only be moved to a SCIF if deemed absolutely necessary...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/24/democrats-ignore-congressional-procedure-impeachment-inquiry/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10650

Mo Brooks to Democrats

on Impeachment: ‘Do It in Public’

by KYLE MORRIS

{ breitbart.com } ~ Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) targeted Democrats and their impeachment efforts on Wednesday as he delivered a short speech before he... and several other members of Congress, stormed the secret room where House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA) has been operating the closed-door impeachment inquiry. “By golly, if they’re going to do it, do it in public,” Brooks said. “Don’t hide it from the American people. Show your face where we can all see the travesty that you are trying to foist on America & the degradation of our Republic that you are engaged in.” Brooks added, “We demand open proceedings. The American people deserve nothing less. Their representatives in Congress deserve nothing less.”The storming of the secret room by Republican members of Congress was led by House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). As reported by Breitbart News’s Kristina Wong, “The Republican lawmakers attempted to enter the room where scumbag-Schiff has been bringing in current and former State Department officials to testify on whether President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine in exchange for alleged help with the 2020 election.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/23/mo-brooks-to-democrats-on-impeachment-do-it-in-public/

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1187043743792275458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1187043743792275458&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F10%2F23%2Fmo-brooks-to-democrats-on-impeachment-do-it-in-public%2F

Here’s Why Californians Pay Way

More for Gasoline Than Everyone Else

by Chris White

{ dailysignal.com } ~ A gallon of gas costs more in California than in the rest of the country for a variety of reasons, but government regulations, rising house costs, and steep taxes are playing a significant role... California Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom asked his attorney general Monday to investigate oil companies for conspiring to keep gas prices artificially high. Yet years of tax increases, pricey fees, and a lack of infrastructure in California are more to blame than a vast conspiracy concocted by big oil. The Democratic governor is facing heat as prices go up and Californians lose power.Former Democratic Gov. Gray Davis of California has experience with such recriminations. He was recalled in 2003 for mishandling the state’s budget, increasing California’s car registration fees, high gas prices, and rolling blackouts. It was only the second such recall election in U.S. history. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger won the special election in November of that same year. A similar situation is unfolding in 2019. The price of a gallon of gas in California is slowly increasing. The average cost in the state has skyrocketed to $4.18 while drivers in other areas are paying as much as $5 per gallon, CNN Business reported on Oct. 8. California’s gas taxes are already some of the highest in the country, so the price increases are adding insult to injury. scumbag-Newsom’s predecessor, former Gov. Jerry Brown of California, signed a law in 2017 imposing a 12 cents a gallon increase on citizens and raising the tax on diesel fuel by 20 cents a gallon. It also implements an additional charge to annual vehicle license fees ranging from $25 to $175, depending on the car’s value. Brown sold the bill as a way to fix the state’s roads, but reports show the bulk of the money has not gone to street upkeep. California’s Transportation Agency announced in April 2018 grants to recipients for some $2.6 billion of the transit funding raised through the law. Critics railed against Brown’s measure. Opponents of the law managed to place a voter referendum on the 2018 November ballot to repeal the gas tax. It would have reportedly lowered the price of gasoline in the state to $2 a gallon by 2021, Politico reported in 2018. The initiative failed, the tax stayed in place, and Brown managed to weather the storm without much blowback. It remains to be seen if scumbag-Newsom can do the same... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/24/heres-why-californians-pay-way-more-for-gasoline-than-everyone-else/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heres-why-californians-pay-way-more-for-gasoline-than-everyone-else&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRjellUa3lPRFk0TXpNdyIsInQiOiJYbWNKUjdUcVBxWjV4bFpic3JJcHZGTmJRSDNibHlwdzRmQWJEemV0bnZ1dGdDcU1CaVRuK0h4RGJSZjZnZUFnYkU3bUlyODdlQUs2U1Q0M3lzM0F2T2hsVXROQnFoMmd3bnFROFpoZ1dIVFJNaTVDXC9SZ2cyekVvZ2tGQklsZzEifQ%3D%3D

Majority of Americans find fault

with 1st Amendment

by wnd.com ~ A majority of Americans are happy to have restrictions on speech imposed on America – including rewriting the First Amendment... if the speech to be restricted is called "hate speech," a new poll finds. The Campaign for Free Speech said its new poll shows "51% of Americans think the First Amendment is outdated and should be rewritten."The First Amendment protects those inalienable rights of free speech, assembly, freedom of religion and such. For the millennials, considered to be those people born in the 1980s or 1990s, 59% were willing to lose free speech. The poll explained it didn't define "hate speech" but left that up to each respondent, and found some stunning results. "Half think the punishment for 'hate speech' should include possible jail time, while the rest think it should just be a ticket and a fine," the report said. The poll said, significantly, "80% don't actually know what the First Amendment really protects. Those polled believed this statement is true: 'The First Amendment allows anyone to say their opinion no matter what, and they are protected by law from any consequences of saying those thoughts or opinions.'" "It's actually not true. The First Amendment prevents the government from punishing you for your speech with exceptions such as yelling 'fire' in a crowded area to induce panic," the report said. "But more broadly, freedom of speech does not mean you are protected from social consequences for your speech. You may have the right to say something extreme or hateful and not get thrown in jail, but others in society have the right to shun you," the report said... https://www.wnd.com/2019/10/majority-americans-find-fault-1st-amendment/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking

The United Nations' UN-acceptable Corruption

Lewis Morris: The recent addition of Venezuela to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) is yet another reminder about how ineffective and morally bankrupt the world body has become. The leftist dictatorship has jailed thousands and persecuted thousands more for not blindly following the regime of President Nicolas Maduro, who has turned down economic aid from other nations, presumably to teach his upstart populace a lesson.

Maduro’s government is no longer recognized as legitimate by the United States and close to 50 other countries. With this large and international group aligned against it, it seems hard to believe that Venezuela would win a seat on the HRC. But Libya and Sudan also received enough votes to join the Council this go-round, so it appears anything is possible — except common sense.

Venezuela received heavy support from Russia, China, and Cuba in its HRC bid, partly because it’s a fellow socialist state that is allied against the United States. Venezuela is also in deep to these countries to keep it on life support — they’re all taking discounted oil from Venezuela in exchange for medical supplies and food.

While on the HRC, Venezuela can be counted on to do everything it can to hide its government’s abuses of human rights. Venezuela, Sudan, and Libya all have horrible human-rights records. If the UN were even remotely a respectable organization, it would be completely against the rules for such a nation to sit on the Human Rights Council. It’s this hypocrisy that led President Donald Trump to withdraw America from the HRC last year. It’s also why the same group of rogue states prove themselves a menace year in, year out.

Another way to clean up the HRC is to change the voting procedure to an open ballot. Members of the UN General Assembly voted by secret ballot in this most recent HRC election, meaning no nation is accountable or answerable for its vote. When choosing the members of a world body that is tasked with protecting those who cannot protect themselves, voting parties should be required to vote publicly.

Yet finding support for even these basic reforms is next to impossible. Venezuela is one of a group of developing nations called the Non-Aligned Movement, which comprises a comfortable majority of the total UN membership. They may be called “non-aligned,” but these nations definitely act with a single voice when it comes to advancing their own causes, no matter how undemocratic they may be.

The United Nations clearly does not represent the best interests of the world. This is evident in the fact that Israel is considered a perpetual threat to human rights, while nations that are a proven threat to their own people (and Israel) serve on the HRC. It is evident in the crimes committed by UN peacekeepers whose crimes against neighboring states are buried in the press. It is also evident in sweeping UN treaties like the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that seek to strip sovereign rights from U.S. citizens while turning a blind eye to the nations that actually are breaking international laws.

President Trump has refused to play along with the UN’s anti-American, anti-freedom agenda. He has pulled out of the ATT, and he has pulled out of the HRC, but what’s next? Could America pull out of the UN altogether? And what would happen if we did? It certainly wouldn’t make the UN a better organization. And it arguably wouldn’t make our country safer.

It seems that the only reason for staying in the UN is to provide a counterbalance of sanity to keep it from going completely down the drain. But is that argument really all that compelling? ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66258?mailing_id=4601&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4601&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 25, 2019 at 6:57am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Rich and Poor

Tom McLaughlin

Ukraine foreign minister defends Trump's call

with Zelenskiy: 'I think there was no pressure'

By Melissa Leon

{ foxnews.com } ~ A top Ukrainian official on Saturday defended President Trump's July phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy... during which Trump reportedly urged authorities in Kiev to investigate dealings in the Eastern European county by the son of former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. “I know what the conversation was about and I think there was no pressure,” Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko told the Hromadske media outlet. "There was talk, conversations are different, leaders have the right to discuss any problems that exist. This conversation was long, friendly, and it touched on many questions, sometimes requiring serious answers." Zelenskiy's office has not commented on the allegations. Trump and Zelenskiy are expected to meet in person at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Trump had repeatedly asked Zelenskiy to investigate Hunter Biden, who had ties to a natural gas firm that was being investigated by a Ukrainian prosecutor as part of a corruption probe. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has suggested that loose lips liar-Joe Biden, the current frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, worked while he was vice president to protect his son's company from being investigated. "President Trump is interested, his advisor, Giuliani, newspapers, Democrats, Republicans are interested in whether pressure had been put on Ukraine," Prystaiko said during the same interview. "I want to say that we are an independent state, we have our own secrets." loose lips liar-Biden on Saturday denied he has ever spoken to Hunter about his business in Ukraine and called President Trump's actions an "overwhelming abuse of power." “Trump’s doing this because he knows I’ll beat him like a drum, and he’s using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me,” loose lips liar-Biden told reporters in Iowa on Saturday. President Trump earlier on Saturday tweeted about the "Ukraine Witch Hunt," which he says is a last-ditch effort by the "Fake News Media" to protect loose lips liar-Biden. "Now that the Democrats and the Fake News Media have gone 'bust' on every other of their Witch Hunt schemes, they are trying to start one just as ridiculous as the others, call it the Ukraine Witch Hunt, while at the same time trying to protect Sleepy loose lips liar-Joe Biden," Trump said. "Will fail again!"... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ukraine-trump-zelensky-biden

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6088358650001/#sp=show-clips

The Case for Indicting

scumbag/commie-John Brennan

by GEORGE NEUMAYR

{ spectator.org } ~ Former CIA director scumbag/commie-John Brennan calls the Justice Department’s widening probe into Spygate’s origins “bizarre.” It has no “legal basis,” he bleats... What’s bizarre is that the expanding inquiry didn’t happen earlier. scumbag/commie-Brennan’s responsibility for criminal leaks during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s investigation of Trump has been obvious for at least two years. Even Trump hater Peter Strzok, the FBI liaison to scumbag/commie-John Brennan, couldn’t believe the leaks coming out of his shop. Referring to scumbag/commie-Brennan’s agents as “sisters,” Strzok said to his mistress Lisa Page, “our sisters have begun leaking like mad. Scorned and worried and political, they’re kicking in to overdrive.” The “leaking like mad” began in the thick of the 2016 campaign, as the feverishly partisan scumbag/commie-John Brennan sought to sabotage Donald Trump before Election Day. Has John Durham, the U.S. attorney assigned to the probe of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s spying on Trump, talked to Harry dinky-Reid about scumbag/commie-Brennan’s leaking? He should. Recall scumbag/commie-Brennan’s blatant disclosure of classified information about the investigation to the former Nevada senator in the late summer/early fall of 2016. dinky-Reid has told reporters that scumbag/commie-Brennan used him as the conduit for that leak against Trump during the campaign: “Why do you think he called me?” In other words, scumbag/commie-Brennan knew damn well that he was criminally leaking to a fellow anti-Trump partisan. That’s enough to indict him right there. dinky-Reid, of course, was happy to broadcast the leak to the media, but even he found scumbag/commie-Brennan’s “ulterior motive” for a senatorial briefing a little odd, as he explained to David Corn and Michael Isikoff in their book Russian Roulette. Corn and Isikoff write that dinky-Reid “had concluded the CIA chief believed the public needed to know about the Russian operation, including the information about the possible links to the Trump campaign.” scumbag/commie-Brennan has said that the widening probe “concerns” him. It should. He is guilty as hell. The news that his subordinates are lawyering up suggests that he is perhaps hoping that one of those saps takes the fall for him. But the fact remains that he conducted the briefing with dinky-Reid in the hopes of dirtying up Trump before election day. Durham could also nail scumbag/commie-Brennan for perjury — his most obvious whopper being his denial before Congress of knowledge of the scumbag/liar-Hillary-financed Christopher Steele dossier. dinky-Reid had told scumbag/commie-Brennan about the Steele dossier in the summer of 2016. So, too, did Steele’s old colleagues in British intelligence, whose well-publicized role in feeding scumbag/commie-Brennan information about alleged Trump–Russia ties depended at least in part on Steele’s recycled yarns. Peter Strzok, to whom scumbag/commie-Brennan gave a special CIA award, would have also alerted him to Steele’s role in Crossfire Hurricane. The same demented political animus driving scumbag/commie-Brennan now drove him before the election. Through leaks to the press, he made it clear to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton that he wanted to remain as CIA director under her. In the last months of the campaign, scumbag/commie-Brennan was in effect auditioning for her. He had hoped his October surprise with Harry dinky-Reid would win him her enduring affection...

https://spectator.org/the-case-for-indicting-john-brennan/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=1e87af9154-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_24_01_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-1e87af9154-104608113

Impeachment Misfire

William Taylor’s Smokeless Gun

by DAVID CATRON

{ spectator.org } ~ Since late Tuesday the nation has been deafened by media outlets declaring that diplomat William Taylor provided “damning” congressional testimony involving President Trump’s actions toward Ukraine... The New York Times, for example, produced this breathless headline: “Donald Trump’s Quid Pro Quo Is Now a Smoking Gun.” Evidently, the “reporters” responsible for this story failed to read Taylor’s opening statement. It consists almost entirely of hearsay, shows that he wasn’t on the fabled phone call between presidents Trump and Zelensky, and confirms that he was assured by high-ranking Trump administration officials that the president sought no quid pro quo arrangement with Ukraine in exchange for aid: On September 7, I had a conversation with Mr. Tim Morrison the head of the White House National Security Council’s Eurasia desk in which he described a phone conversation earlier that day between Ambassador Sondland the U.S. ambassador to the European Union.… According to Morrison, President Trump told Ambassador Sondland that he was not asking for a “quid pro quo.” William Taylor is, for the time being at least, the acting United States envoy to Ukraine. The 15-page opening statement he read aloud before taking questions from committee members reveals more about Taylor’s role in the metastasizing administrative state than any offense committed by President Trump. It contains, for example, a considerable amount of kvetching about the way Trump’s administration was managing its relationship with the new Zelensky government: “I found a confusing and unusual arrangement for making U.S. policy towards Ukraine.” Anyone with experience in large bureaucracies will recognize this standard complaint of all such functionaries when faced with change. Taylor is typical of the breed: On May 28 of this year I met with Secretary Mike Pompeo who asked me to return to Kyiv to lead our embassy in Ukraine.… During my meeting with Secretary Pompeo on May 28, I made clear to him and the others present that if U.S. policy toward Ukraine changed, he would not want me posted there and I could not stay. But there may be more to Taylor’s aversion to policy changes than mere bureaucratic inertia. He may have personal objections to President Trump’s encouragement of an investigation by the Zelensky government into possible corruption involving a Ukrainian energy company. Taylor says in his statement that he was “alarmed” when informed that the company in question was Burisma. It isn’t clear why this would cause him such concern. As a former ambassador to Ukraine, he is surely aware of the Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, negotiated 20 years ago, whereby Ukraine must cooperate in certain U.S. investigations. He may, however, have personal reasons to wring his hands about such joint inquiries. Taylor’s opening statement indicates that, subsequent to his replacement by erstwhile President scumbag/liar-nObama as the ambassador to Ukraine, “I have stayed engaged with Ukraine, visiting frequently since 2013 as a board member of a small Ukrainian non-governmental organization supporting good governance and reform.” As Breitbart reports, however, there is more to this story than the promotion of good governance. The small non-governmental organization, the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, has close ties with an entity called the Atlantic Council, which happens to be funded by everyone’s favorite Ukrainian energy company — Burisma Holdings. Taylor, like Hunter Biden, has been a beneficiary of Burisma largesse: U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, who provided key testimony to the Democrats’ controversial impeachment inquiry yesterday, has evidenced a close relationship with the Atlantic Council think tank, even writing Ukraine policy pieces with the organization’s director and analysis articles published by the Council. The Atlantic Council is funded by and works in partnership with Burisma...

https://spectator.org/impeachment-misfire-william-taylors-smokless-gun/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=1e87af9154-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_24_01_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-1e87af9154-104608113

AG Barr Approved Expansion

of Durham Probe to Include Scrutiny of

scumbag/commie-Brennan, scumbag-Clapper

by Guy Benson

{ townhall.com } ~ Thanks to Fox News' reporting, we already knew that the footprint of the Durham probe into the origins and conduct of the Trump/Russia investigation had been expanded... NBC News has added more details into the mix, including the development that Durham's work is poised to expand in order to scrutinize key scumbag/liar-nObama-era intelligence figures, such as former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan and ex-Director of National Intelligence scumbag-James Clapper: A review launched by Attorney General William Barr into the origins of the Russia investigation has expanded significantly amid concerns about whether the probe has any legal or factual basis, multiple current and former officials told NBC News. The prosecutor conducting the review, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, has expressed his intent to interview a number of current and former intelligence officials involved in examining Russia’s effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, including former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan and former director of national intelligence scumbag-James Clapper, scumbag/commie-Brennan told NBC News. scumbag/commie-Brennan and scumbag-Clapper, each of whom has serious issues with the truth, have been active partisan combatants in the Trump era, as have several of their law enforcement counterparts -- including the former FBI director, who was reprimanded for misconduct on leaks, and his top deputy, who was fired for repeatedly lying under oath. scumbag/commie-Brennan went so far as to describe some of President Trump's admittedly weak and embarrassing conduct as "treasonous." The extent to which scumbag/commie-Brennan and scumbag-Clapper et al were involved in any potential wrongdoing or envelope-pushing is an interesting and valid subject for exploration. And as Ed Morrissey points out, NBC's revelation that some intelligence officials are reportedly obtaining legal counsel amid Durham's inquiry is intriguing: Barr almost certainly approved this expansion and direction because of what Durham has already found. And what Durham has already found, NBC notes, has intelligence operatives lawyering up...The DoJ made sure to note at the beginning that Durham was conducting an internal review, not a criminal investigation, although there was nothing to prevent it from developing into one. The DoJ does not comment on the existence of criminal investigations until they either close one or get an indictment — with a couple of notable scumbag-James Comey-related exceptions — and they’re not talking now, either. These developments, however, make it look like Durham has turned the corner from review to full-blown criminal investigation. At least that’s the impression that some of the people involved must have. There's no timeline on when Durham's Barr-backed investigation will wrap up, or when the public may get access to its findings. The fact that scumbag/commie-Brennan and scumbag-Clapper are apparently slated to be interviewed does not necessarily mean that they're in any legal or ethical peril themselves, but it does suggest that Durham's fully justified and appropriate review is going to be comprehensive... https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/10/22/nbc-news-ag-barr-approved-expansion-of-durham-probe-to-include-scrutiny-of-brennan-clapper-n2555103

Netanyahu agrees to meet PM-designate

Gantz; other right, Orthodox leaders wait

By RAOUL WOOTLIFF

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Blue and White’s Benny Gantz and Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in the coming days to discuss the possibility of forming a unity government... the parties said on Wednesday night, hours after the centrist leader was tasked with forming a government where the incumbent premier failed. Likud confirmed a meeting would be held in the coming days but stressed that Netanyahu was negotiating on behalf of the 55-member bloc of right-wing and religious parties loyal to him, without whom he will not enter a coalition. Blue and White has previously rejected this negotiation position outright. Immediately after receiving the mandate to form a government from President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday evening, Gantz got to work speaking with party leaders and inviting them to meet to negotiate their potential entry into the Blue and White-led coalition he hopes to establish. But in the round of phone calls, Netanyahu’s allies also maintained they would only enter talks after Likud negotiators, who are representing the bloc, meet with their counterparts in Blue and White. Gantz had already invited representatives of Likud to a meeting. In his speech on Wednesday evening, Gantz promised to build a government of national reconciliation and said he would invite Netanyahu and his Likud to be part of it. Following the brief ceremony with Rivlin, Gantz immediately began phoning party leaders and inviting them to personally meet with him while also setting up meetings between his Blue and White negotiating team and other parties’ counterparts... https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-phones-all-party-leaders-to-set-up-coalition-talks-will-meet-netanyahu/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-10-24&utm_medium=email

Bad News From Judge Nap: scumbag-Schiff’s Following The Rules … Approved

By House Republicans

by ED MORRISSEY

{ hotair.com } ~ Who the heck told scumbag-Adam Schiff that he could conduct impeachment inquiries in secret? As it turns out... Judge Andrew Napolitano told his colleagues on Donald Trump’s favorite morning show, it was backstabber-John Boehner and the House Republican majority in 2015. “I read the House rules,” Napolitano told Fox & Friends, and “this initial level of inquiry can be done in secret.” Secret interviews were conducted in both the Nixon and scumbag/liar-Clinton impeachments, although by staff rather than by the committees involved, Napolitano notes, so what scumbag-Schiff is doing isn’t without precedent after all: This is a good rebuttal to accusations of a star-chamber approach, but it’s not a complete defense to them. While the idea of interviews and depositions being taken in secret are not new, this process for doing them is at best proving problematic. Staff attorneys would probably know to keep their mouths shut about what transpires in such depositions, but scumbag-Schiff’s panel has been selectively leaking like a sieve ever since they started. His Democratic panel members have been all over the news making claims about blockbuster opening statements and testimony. Judge Napolitano notes that this is similar to a grand-jury process where testimony will later get tested in court. Only in form is that statement true. In practice, grand juries take secret testimony all the time, but they are also forbidden by law to comment publicly on it. scumbag-Schiff’s panel is trying the case in public without the president or his legal team able to access the witnesses or testimony, which seems less like a grand jury and more like a kangaroo court … or a star chamber. The result of this is a process devoid of credibility, through the fault of scumbag-Schiff and his House Democratic team. Furthermore, it’s entirely unclear that this will ever move to a fair process before the House votes on articles of impeachment. Napolitano is correct that staff attorneys took secret testimony in the previous two impeachment inquiries, but they then held public hearings for the cross-examinations that he describes, allowing the American public to see in real time what was being said and how reliable it was. scumbag-Schiff’s use of the rules is aimed to avoid that step and go directly to impeachment, forcing the Senate to do the job the full House should have done in the first place. Just because the rules allow it doesn’t make it good. Or right, either.

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/10/24/bad-news-judge-nap-schiffs-following-rules-approved-house-republicans/

Rich and Poor

Tom McLaughlin

{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ It occurred to me a few years ago that I’m a rich man. Many would doubt that if they knew the sum total of my assets and annual income, but it’s true if you accept the definitions of rich and poor my students and I developed over the years: “Poor” is having insufficient funds to supply adequate food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. “Rich” is defined as having all those things and some extra besides. If you have a little extra, you’re a little rich. If you have a lot extra, you’re very rich.

By that definition, I’ve never been poor because I’ve always had basic necessities. Early in my marriage, however, our family was below the poverty line as calculated annually by the federal government according to income and size of family. I was a low-paid teacher with a stay-at-home wife and four children.

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Working the woodpile at our old house

Our house needed constant repair and maintenance. We drove a vehicle that did too, but never did we lack the basics. I had to learn carpentry, plumbing, and electrical skills to fix up my house, and I had to buy or borrow the necessary tools. I had to learn basic mechanics to work on my vehicles because they frequently broke down and I couldn’t afford to have someone else do it. I had to cut my own firewood for heat. Those were our circumstances for most of three decades.

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My wife and me

About twenty years ago things changed. Opportunities came up and my income rose. I could start paying down the mortgage and other debts and after ten years I was debt-free. I considered taking early retirement from teaching and a few years later I did — while keeping the part-time jobs I always had. My income went down, but with no payments to make we still lived well. I spent more time on photography, which I enjoy very much, and now I’m making money with that too. Life is good. I have everything I want — another definition of rich.

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Although I’ve written the following before in this space, it’s worth repeating. My wife will agree that the happiest times of our lives so far were when we had only those basic necessities and no more — when we were under the federal poverty line. I worried about paying the bills many months, but we did it. We never threw food away and ate a lot of soup. We shopped at thrift stores and yard sales and we got excited when finding a nice piece of furniture or clothing cheap.

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Our youngest in the old kitchen

My late father-in-law came up during the depression and his family didn’t have much. Still, I remember him saying: “I was happiest when we were eating onion sandwiches.” By that, he meant bread and onions were all there was to eat for a while. My own father was the same age and he also came up through the depression His father, my grandfather, was a binge-drinking alcoholic who often burned up his paycheck with booze. He made enough money as a street-car driver in the Carmen’s Union (of which he was president), and somehow kept his job, but his family lacked basic necessities. Those were not happy times for my father, the oldest of his six children. If not for my grandfather’s drinking, his family would not have been poor.

Sad evidence of poor money management

It might be claimed that America won the war on poverty. If we still have people lacking funds for basic necessities, it’s likely because, like my grandfather, they don’t manage their money well. Yes, there are people who have had serious health problems and have run up enormous medical bills. Even if they went bankrupt and had to go on welfare, their basic needs are still met — unless they spend unwisely. Unfortunately, that describes a rising number of Americans

More sad evidence

Their DBT cards are charged up at the beginning of every month but they run out of funds after the first or second week. Can that be helped? Not by government, it can’t. If their allotments were increased, it’s likely they’d continue to spend frivolously and still be poor for two or three weeks of every month. Maybe they’ll run out of food or heating oil. Maybe they won’t have enough for gasoline. Maybe they’ll be late on the rent or the electric bill or the gas bill, or all of those.

Schools used to teach something called “home economics,” but I don’t think it’s part of the curriculum in most schools anymore. Even if people learned those skills, a certain amount of self-discipline is still necessary. My grandfather lacked it, and too many others in America do too. Their numbers are rising. As my old friend, fellow selectman and “Overseer of the Poor,” the late Stub Eastman, said: “We have the poor, and the poor have us.”

Some things never change, and recent promises by 2020 Democrats won’t have any effect either.

https://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/10/rich-and-poor.html

Thursday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 24, 2019 at 4:19pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Who Makes the Decisions in America?

Harold Hutchison

House Republicans Request

scumbag-Adam Schiff Bring Whistleblower

Forward For Questioning

By Ashe Schow

{ dailywire.com } ~ Republican members on the House Intelligence Committee have written a letter to Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA) requesting he bring forward the whistleblower... whose August 12 complaint prompted an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. In the letter, sent Wednesday to scumbag-Schiff and obtained by The Daily Wire, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Devin Nunes (R-CA), and Michael McCaul (R-TX) asked why scumbag-Schiff changed his mind on calling the whistleblower to testify. “We are surprised by your announcement that the Committees will not receive testimony from the anonymous intelligence community employee whose complaint initiated the so-called impeachment inquiry,” the congressmen wrote. “You had earlier committed that the employee would provide ‘unfiltered’ testimony ‘very soon,’ only to reverse course following revelations that the employee had a bias against President Donald Trump and that you had received a secret, early account of the allegations.” “As the so-called impeachment inquiry gathers information that contradicts the employee’s allegations, we ask that you arrange for the Committees to receive public testimony from the employee and all individuals he or she relied upon in formulating the complaint,” the congressmen added. The congressmen insisted that in light of these inconsistencies, scumbag-Schiff should make available the testimony of the whistleblower and all the people he or she spoke to in order to write the complaint. The congressmen then seemingly took a page from House Democrats by concluding in their letter: “Your failure to arrange for the Committees to receive this testimony shall constitute evidence of your denial of fundamental fairness and due process.”...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-request-adam-schiff-bring-whistleblower-forward-for-questioning

scumbag-Adam Schiff Desperate to Hide

William Taylor Testimony that Would

Kill Ukraine Hoax

by JOHN NOLTE

{ breitbart.com } ~ The Big Fake News today is that Ukraine’s top diplomat, William Taylor, delivered a smoking gun to Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) secret impeachment hearings... That is not hyperbole, those are the headlines — “smoking gun.” So here we are again with Russian Collusion 2 in full swing, with the WALLS CLOSING IN ON TRUMP, and all of it backed by a coordinated news cycle about how President Trump is toast, done, over and out, corrupt and kaput fer realzies this time. Except…Once again, it’s all fake news but you knew that. Even though scumbag-Schiff’s secret impeachment inquiry is supposed to be secret, leaks to the far-left CNN-NYTimes-WashPost geared for the Get Drumpf! crowd are currently being reported everywhere without a hint of scrutiny from the media, unaware or unashamed of being so obviously manipulated by the scumbag-Schiff Cabal. Someone, somehow leaked Taylor’s opening statement to the media — and, gee, we can only sit here and imagine who that might have been. Meanwhile, even though we are talking about a process designed to overturn a national election, the accused — President Trump — has no rights, nor do his surrogates among House Republicans. They are not only restricted from calling their own witnesses, which is unprecedented in the history of impeachment, they cannot even publicize their side of the story without violating scumbag-Schiff’s fascist rules. Worse still, while Taylor’s opening statement is leaked to the media, this one-sided document from a career diplomat who obviously despises Trump, the transcripts and recordings of his entire testimony remain hidden, guarded, secreted away… And the so-called media are perfectly fine with this, perfectly happy to publish what scumbag-Schiff wants them to publish, even though they know it does not tell the full truth... https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/23/nolte-adam-schiff-desperate-to-hide-william-taylor-testimony-that-would-kill-ukraine-hoax/#

Democrats Are Embarrassed By

scumbag-Schiff’s Impeachment Tactics,

And They Should Be

By Adam Mill

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Criticisms of Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s impeachment tactics have begun to bite. Fair-minded people have begun to ask why is it necessary to have secret witnesses, secret hearings, and leaks of distorted... out-of-context excerpts from transcripts, Why is it necessary to block the president from sending representatives to attend these hearings so he can have equal access to any evidence? Why was it necessary for House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Schiff to “parody” the transcript of the president’s call to the Ukrainian president? Aren’t parodies supposed to be funny? Shouldn’t the chairman be proceeding with sober deliberation and fairness instead of romping about with gleeful shtick? If scumbag-Schiff cannot take the proceedings seriously, what of the 218 representatives who voted against the resolution condemning scumbag-Schiff? The resolution failed despite the undisputed truth of the allegations. scumbag-Schiff did manufacture “a false retelling of the conversation between President Trump and President Zelensky.” scumbag-Schiff did tell the American people, “We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower,” when his staff actually coached the “whistleblower” before he or she approached the inspector general. And why are Democrats shutting out Republicans from the process? Listening to the Democratic presidential primary debate last week, I heard something that made my ears prick up. The criticisms of the fairness of the impeachment inquiry have begun to resonate. The evidence: Some of the candidates and their fawning CNN enablers felt compelled at least to pay lip service to the importance of a fair process. I had to review the transcript to confirm that my ears were not playing tricks on me. CNN moderator Anderson Cooper asked candidate scumbag-Cory Booker, “Sen. scumbag-Booker, you have said that President Trump’s, quote, ‘moral vandalism’ disqualifies him from being president. Can you be fair in an impeachment trial?” scumbag-Booker responded, “So, first of all, we must be fair. We are talking about ongoing proceedings to remove a sitting president for office. This has got to be about patriotism and not partisanship. Look, I share the same sense of urgency of everybody on this stage. I understand the outrage that we all feel. But we have to conduct this process in a way that is honorable, that brings our country together, doesn’t rip us apart.”...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/24/democrats-are-embarrassed-by-schiff-tactics-and-they-should-be/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=0c108dba39-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-0c108dba39-83771801

Of Course President Trump Is Being Lynched

By Brian C. Joondeph

{ americanthinker.com } ~ President Donald Trump once again did the unthinkable: he hit back against the media and their political party, also known as the Democrats, over their contrived efforts to impeach him for the unforgivable sin of beating their chosen 2016 presidential candidate... Impeachment is being pushed without authorization from the full House, as in, "The House of Representatives ... shall have the sole Power of Impeachment." The Constitution gives this power not to the speaker or the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, but to "The House," meaning the entire House. Sure, the House can change the rules. They could vote to make Joy Behar the speaker of the House, since the speaker does not have to be a member of Congress, but that would be a radical departure from precedent, just as the current impeachment process is. How is the House pushing impeachment? Through a "secret" process rather than through a "due" process. Hearings are conveniently being held clandestinely, since, if the oxymoronic "House Intelligence" Committee holds hearings, everything can be covered under a blanket of "national security." The accusers call witnesses while the defense can only watch, unable to take notes or call their own witnesses, subpoena documents, receive transcripts of the proceedings, or anything else normally afforded the defense under the due process of American jurisprudence. How would one describe such a circus? How about using the word "lynch"? Cambridge Dictionary describes lynching: "If a crowd of people lynch someone who they believe is guilty of a crime, they kill them without a legal trial, usually by hanging." By the way, lynching is a diverse process, applicable to anyone, regardless of skin color, sex, or any other characteristic. Supreme Court nominees Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, while of different skin colors, were both treated to Democrat lynchings... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/of_course_president_trump_is_being_lynched.html

Well well well, what do we have here? William

Taylor met with scumbag-Schiff’s staffer

in Ukraine 4 days prior to leak

by Sam J.

{ twitchy.com } ~ Everything we’re reading about this leaker yeah, that’s a bad visual on its own just stinks to high heaven... It could be that we read so many tweets from so many different people on the topic that it seems extra stinky to us. Then again, reading this tweet from Ivan Pentchoukov about William Taylor meeting with scumbag-Schiff’s staffer in Ukraine four days before the leak seems … well, pretty damn stinky. Amazingly indeed. Something strange is afoot at the Circle K. And a source. Hrm. Right?! So much of this has just been one crazy coincidence after another. No wonder scumbag-Schiff For Brains has worked so hard to keep the interviews secret, he only wants certain bits and pieces getting out. Shameful. But wait, there’s more …Told you … lots of coincidences here.

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2015 Federal Election Finance Violations

And Fraud Yields 2019 Plea Agreement

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by Rodney Graves

{ wizbangblog.com } ~ Federal prosecutors today filed a criminal case charging Imaad Shah Zuberi, a Southern California campaign fundraiser, with falsifying records to conceal his work as a foreign agent... while lobbying high-level U.S. government officials. The criminal charges allege that Zuberi engaged in lobbying efforts that earned him millions of dollars, most of which was pilfered from his clients, and Zuberi has agreed to plead guilty to those charges at a later date, pursuant to a plea agreement. Who, you might ask? Who had influence for sale in 2015? How much? Zuberi delivered $615,000 to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s joint fundraising committee, scumbag/liar-Hillary Victory Fund and reportedly contributed between $250,000 and $500,000 to the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation. He gave $102,135 to the scumbag/liar-nObama Victory Fund in 2008 & bundled $500,000 for scumbag/liar-nObama in 2012. And when the tide changed the targets changed. With a $900,000 donation to the Trump Inaugural fund. So, what do you think the media headlines are?

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Who Makes the Decisions in America?

Harold Hutchison: There are times when things can boil down to a single big question that America has to face. We face one of those times now. Two items have drawn headlines that could very well determine if we can keep the Republic that Benjamin Franklin and the rest of our Founders left us.

These two items don’t even seem to fit. The first is the very controversial matter of the holding up of military aid destined for Ukraine. The second is the Supreme Court case involving the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) declaration that “sex discrimination” also includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. But both boil down to a single question: Who makes the policy decisions in the United States of America?

If you are familiar with the Constitution, you know that answer: Congress makes laws, with both the House and Senate agreeing to the legislation by a majority vote in final passage (the Senate currently takes 60 votes to stop a filibuster). Two-thirds majorities are needed to pass a law over a president’s veto.

Nothing in there gives the EEOC power to make that call on its own. The commission can enforce the current laws, but when it comes to changing those laws (and that is what it was doing), that is left strictly to Congress. The cases the Supreme Court heard two weeks ago could very well determine if rogue bureaucrats can make such radical changes to legal interpretations or not.

If the Supreme Court doesn’t put the EEOC in its place, then how much do our elections matter? Do they even matter at all? Such questions would undoubtedly be percolating through large swaths of the United States, and the consequences stemming from the answers that many Americans would come up will not be escapable.

The situation with Ukraine, and to a lesser extent, Syria, also involves this question of who makes policy: Is it the elected officials, or is it the bureaucrats? Imagine if a fraction of the tactics used on President Donald Trump had been broken out in defense of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program or to thwart Barack Obama’s efforts to withdraw from Iraq — misguided as they were. How do you think those trying to tear down Trump would be reacting?

We already have a sense of that. When Charles Stimson, a Defense Department official in the George W. Bush Administration, suggested that companies that were represented by the treasonous Gitmo bar rethink who they hired, he was driven out of public service by a media outcry. That was just for making a few comments to the press. What the Deep State has done to President Trump far exceeds what Stimson did — and Stimson was only trying to win the Global War on Terror. Yet the outcry of 2007 on behalf of the Gitmo bar — some of whom later ended up in the Obama administration — is not being mirrored now.

It’s impossible to deny that a pernicious and blatant double standard exists. We have previously discussed the lack of accountability stemming from bureaucratic abuses. The stakes have only grown since then. Now, fueled by bureaucrats who openly hate the president the people elected, we have a constitutional crisis emerging.

Regardless of the wisdom of President Trump’s foreign-policy decisions, the Constitution clearly places the conduct of foreign policy in the president. Similarly, the Constitution denies bureaucrats the right to make changes to the country’s laws. That is the purview of Congress. Either way, by the end of 2020, we will know whether that will remain the case in the United States of America. ~The Patriot Post

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Thursday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 24, 2019 at 12:29pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Dems' Impossible Dream: Gun-Confiscation

Political Editors

Republicans Call Out scumbag-Schiff For

Flip-Flopping On Whistleblower Testimony

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The top Republicans on three congressional committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump called out Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff Wednesday... for reversing course on calling a CIA whistleblower to testify before Congress, according to a letter the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained. The Republicans also asked scumbag-Schiff to arrange public testimony from the whistleblower and any other individuals he relied on as part of an Aug. 12 complaint filed with the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) regarding Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. “We are surprised by your announcement that the Committees will not receive testimony from the anonymous intelligence community employee whose complaint initiated the so-called impeachment inquiry,” wrote Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Devin Nunes of California and Michael McCaul of Texas in the letter to scumbag-Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. They noted that before the House Intelligence Committee released the whistleblower complaint on Sept. 26, scumbag-Schiff had committed to “very soon” calling the whistleblower to provide “unfiltered” testimony. The Republicans said that scumbag-Schiff, a California Democrat, reversed course “following revelations that the employee had a bias against President Donald Trump and that you had received a secret, early account of the allegations.” The whistleblower, an unidentified CIA analyst, met with a staffer working for scumbag-Schiff prior to filing his complaint with the ICIG, The New York Times reported on Oct. 2. scumbag-Schiff’s aide directed the CIA analyst to file the complaint with the ICIG and also briefed scumbag-Schiff on the encounter. scumbag-Schiff indicated prior to the release of the complaint that he was unaware of the subject matter. He also failed to disclose that someone in his office had met the whistleblower. scumbag-Schiff said on Oct. 13 that the whistleblower no longer needs to testify because witnesses and a transcript of Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president validated the complaint... https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/23/schiff-flip-flop-whistleblower-testimony/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10639

Impeachers Searching for New Crimes

by Alan M. Dershowitz

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The effort to find or create impeachable offense against President Donald Trump has now moved from the subjects of the Mueller investigation -- collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice... to alleged recent political "sins": "quid pro quo" with Ukraine and obstruction of Congress. The goal of the impeach-at-any-cost cadre has always been the same: impeach and remove Trump, regardless of whether or not he did anything warranting removal. The means -- the alleged impeachable offenses -- have changed, as earlier ones have proved meritless. The search for the perfect impeachable offense against Trump is reminiscent of overzealous prosecutors who target the defendant first and then search for the crime with which to charge him. Or to paraphrase the former head of the Soviet secret police to Stalin: show me the man and I will find you the crime. Although this is not Stalin's Soviet Union, all civil libertarians should be concerned about an Alice in Wonderland process in which the search for an impeachable crime precedes the evidence that such a crime has actually been committed. Before we get to the current search, a word about what constitutes an impeachable crime under the constitution, whose criteria are limited to treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. There is a debate among students of the constitution over the intended meaning of "high crimes and misdemeanors." Some believe that these words encompass non-criminal behavior. Others, I among them, interpret these words more literally, requiring at the least criminal-like behavior, if not the actual violation of a criminal statute. What is not debatable is that "maladministration" is an impermissible ground for impeachment. Why is that not debatable? Because it was already debated and explicitly rejected by the framers at the constitutional convention. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, opposed such open-ended criteria, lest they make the tenure of the president subject to the political will of Congress. Such criteria would turn our republic into a parliamentary democracy in which the leader -- the prime minister -- is subject to removal by a simple vote of no confidence by a majority of legislators. Instead, the framers demanded the more specific criminal-like criteria ultimately adopted by the convention and the states... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15069/impeachers-new-crimes

McConnell backs resolution condemning

House impeachment inquiry

By JORDAIN CARNEY

{ thehill.com } ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is throwing his support behind a resolution condemning the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump... Senate Republicans are expected to introduce a “Graham-McConnell” resolution later Thursday “condemning the House of Representatives closed door, illegitimate impeachment inquiry,” per a release from Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) office. McConnell confirmed to reporters that he will back the measure, saying "obviously I support it." Graham said earlier this week that he was planning to introduce the resolution, telling Fox News’s Sean Hannity that it “puts the Senate on record condemning the House. It’s unclear if the resolution will come up for a vote. It would allow GOP senators, who have grown increasingly frustrated with the House, to formalize their opposition. But it would also likely fail to get the 60 votes needed to pass. McConnell and his caucus have increasingly railed against the House impeachment inquiry process, which includes near-daily closed-door depositions with current and former officials. "Overturning the results of an American election requires the highest level of fairness and due process, as it strikes at the core of our democratic process," McConnell wrote in a tweet earlier this month...

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/467279-mcconnell-backs-resolution-condemning-house-impeachment-inquiry

Rep. McCarthy: House Democrats Do Not

Believe In Fairness For President Trump

by oann.com ~ House Minority Leader is accusing Democrats of treating the president as “guilty until proven innocent.” While speaking at the GOP weekly briefing Tuesday... he said House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi does not believe in fairness. He then lashed out at House Democrats for changing the rules to hide transcripts and to shut Republicans out of the impeachment process entirely. “I would love to be at a press conference with every Democrat that already supports impeachment…tell me the one thing that you have read to support impeachment, because they won’t let you read the transcripts,” said McCarthy. “They want to leak certain items, they don’t want to have it in Judiciary Committee where the American public can see it like we’ve done it before, they don’t want to have you vote on an inquiry because they don’t believe in a fair process.” The representative went on to say that’s why he stands by the resolution to censure scumbag-Adam Schiff, and he questioned the Democrat’s ability to tell the truth. The GOP leader called on his peers in the lower chamber to “be better than this” and to begin passing legislation that will actually benefit the American people. https://www.oann.com/rep-mccarthy-house-democrats-do-not-believe-in-fairness-for-president-trump/?fbclid=IwAR2jI22SNvO_nNYOynjuB0SkKUAeOf4GtUMQoOxmLwjHLLBviFbxu0JUaHM

Florida Senate votes to permanently

oust Broward Sheriff Scott Israel

By Danielle Wallace

{ foxnews.com } ~ The Florida Senate on Wednesday voted to permanently oust suspended Broward Sheriff Scott Israel over his officers' response to the mass shooting... that killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. The GOP-controlled state Senate voted 25-15 in favor of Israel’s permanent removal. “I hope the outcome provides some measure of relief to the Parkland families that have been doggedly pursuing accountability,” Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said in a statement after the vote. All five state senators representing Broward County voted for Israel to remain in office, which parents of victims said they viewed as an act of betrayal. “That was very difficult to watch. They cried with us. They might even have seen my child dead, and so it was very difficult, and I know the Broward County voters are watching," Lori Alhadeff, whose daughter Alyssa was killed at the school and has since been elected to the Broward School Board, told the Sun Sentinel. The chamberwide vote Wednesday confirmed an initial decision made by the state Senate Rules Committee Monday. The four Broward County senators on that committee voted to reinstate the sheriff, prompting the families of many Parkland victims to crowd the offices of state senators pleading for them to permanently oust the sheriff when the vote came to the floor. State Sen. Perry Thurston told fellow Democratic senate lawmakers earlier Wednesday that “if I was a parent I would want vengeance too” but claimed “95 percent of Broward County feels differently about the attempt to remove the sheriff.”... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/parkland-shooting-broward-sheriff-scott-israel-permanently-removed-florida-senate

Pompeo Slams China For Attacking U.S.

Businesses Exercising Their

Freedom Of Speech

by NICK SHERMAN

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized China on Monday for attacking U.S. businesses whose employees exercised their freedom of speech... “From a foreign policy perspective, we think that it is completely inappropriate for China to attack U.S. businesses whose employees or customers exercise their fundamental freedoms here in the United States,” Pompeo told Wilfred Frost of CNBC’s “Closing Bell” in an interview. Pompeo’s comments come after several incidents of Chinese influences on U.S. companies, such as the NBA’s partnership with Chinese companies. Pompeo said he wants to “encourage every company to make a – take a good, close look, ensuring that these kinds of things – the reciprocity – that president Trump has been demanding from China – actually takes place.” When asked if Hong Kong played an important part in the trade talks between China and Trump, Pompeo said no, but that China “made a commitment to one country, two systems. President Trump has said that they need to continue to honor that commitment that they made not only to Britain, but to the United Nations and the world, and they need to live up to that there in Hong Kong.” China has also been targeting companies that show support to the protesters in Hong Kong, such as the Gaming company Blizzard.Blizzard recently aroused controversy after the company suspended a gamer and forced him to return his winnings from a contest they hosted after he supported the protests in Hong Kong. https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/23/pompeo-slams-china-businesses/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10639

Dems' Impossible Dream: Gun-Confiscation

Political Editors: Conservatives should thank Democrat presidential candidate socialist-Beto O'Rourke for exposing just how negative his party views Americans’ Second Amendment rights. socialist-O'Rourke finally admitted publicly what leftists talk about only in secret — namely, how to achieve their goal of a disarmed America. socialist-O'Rourke has freely moved from “nobody wants to take your guns” to “hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”

Initially, socialist-O'Rourke dubiously claimed that if his gun “buyback” law was passed, no force would be necessary to enforce the law because he trusted that Americans would simply comply with the law. That raises the obvious question: If socialist-O'Rourke was so willing to trust his fellow citizens to follow the law, then why seek to confiscate their firearms in the first place? As he was pressed on the issue of citizen compliance, socialist-O'Rourke finally acknowledged that in order to enforce his mandatory firearm “buyback,” force would be required.

Clearly, socialist-O'Rourke is using his gun “buyback” policy as a political strategy to appeal to the emotional fears of those who see firearms rather than the criminals wielding them as the problem. What is ironic is that socialist-O'Rourke, who attacked law enforcement as “Jim Crow,” is now fine with law enforcement enforcing mandatory gun confiscation.

But that’s assuming law enforcement would even do so.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that Jim Pasco, executive director of the largest police union in the country, the National Fraternal Order of Police, has different ideas. Pasco states, “Mr. socialist-O'Rourke may not be aware that state and local police officers (who compromise more than 90% of all police in the U.S.) receive their orders from their local jurisdictions — not from the Federal Government.”

Sheriff AJ Louderback of Jackson County, Texas, noted that many sheriffs across the nation simply would not comply: “I think [socialist-O'Rourke’s] seriously misjudging the law enforcement response to what he wants to do. Many sheriffs would not comply with his plan.”

There’s also the reality of how many firearms exist in the U.S. There are an estimated 16 million AR-15s in the country, which represents only 4% of the total number of firearms in the U.S. As the Washington Examiner observes, “The reality is that there are so many of these rifles that even an astronomical surrender rate would leave a massive stockpile in civilian hands. The surrender rate would probably be low, leaving tens of millions of rifles in circulation.”

Rifles of any type were involved in just 403, or 2%, of all murders in 2017. In fact, hands and feet were used to murder more people (692) than rifles. If socialist-O'Rourke’s gun confiscation were to be “enforced,” deaths from firearms would likely increase exponentially. The truth is O'Rourke’s gun confiscation is a plan for pitting the government against its own people. ~The Patriot Post

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoFKskvSq4

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Thurs/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 24, 2019 at 9:10am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

CNN: A Case Study in Hypocrisy

Thomas Gallatin

Thursday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

“WHAT IS scumbag-ADAM SCHIFF TRYING TO HIDE?” GOP lawmakers storm closed-door impeachment session, as scumbag-Schiff walks out (Fox News)

DECEMBER TARGET: Democrats set December impeachment target, but obstacles abound — like the fact the whole thing’s a charade (Reuters)

Government & Politics

#METOO: Katie Hill becomes first female lawmaker to face House ethics inquiry over sexual relationship with subordinate (Washington Examiner)

ADVERSE SOCIETY: scumbag-Soros-funded group Open Society Policy Center eclipses $70 million spent on lobbying since Trump took office (The Washington Free Beacon)

COMMON GROUND, PART I: Bipartisan bill would streamline path to citizenship for children of U.S. military (The Washington Times)

COMMON GROUND, PART II: House unanimously passes bipartisan bill to make animal cruelty a federal crime (USA Today)

National Security

NEEDLES IN A HAYSTACK: State Department says 100+ ISIS prisoners missing after Turkish invasion of Syria (National Review)

Culture & Heartland

AND NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON: Texas governor announces investigation into case of mother transitioning seven-year-old against father’s wishes (The Daily Caller)

IDIOCRACY: Majority of Americans want First Amendment rewritten; 51% of Millennials want fines or jail time for “hate speech” (The Washington Free Beacon)

GOOD RIDDANCE: Florida Senate votes to permanently oust Broward Sheriff Scott Israel (Fox News)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: Securing the Internet starts with planning and awareness (American Enterprise Institute)

POLICY: Refugee policy reforms — enduring or ephemeral? (National Review)

HUMOR: Walls of Congress dissolve into endless blue void as Zuckerberg informs lawmakers there’s no way to escape Facebook (The Onion)

~The Patriot Post
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The Gang That Couldn’t Impeach Straight

by J.E. Dyer

{ lidblog.com } ~ The media and House Democrats are trying to railroad the American people with misleading headlines into buying off on an impeachment... that would shame a kangaroo court. I think most people understand that, without having to go through the bill of particulars line by line. But just for fun, let’s briefly consider each point we’re being encouraged to ignore or believe wrongly about. First – and this is the one that should be decisive and fatal in its own right – the House Democrats are holding secret hearings in which the people never see what questions are being asked, who’s asking them, or what we can independently verify the witnesses have said. That alone should kill the “impeachment” effort. A president cannot, must not, be impeached based on testimony given behind closed doors. Nothing justifies it. This isn’t about what is due the president. It’s about what is due the people. Second, the Democrats are nevertheless “leaking” selective information to the media from each hearing, while keeping almost the entire House of Representatives out of the closed-door sessions and muzzling committee Republicans. The Republicans, unlike the Democrats, are not disclosing details from the testimony, because doing so violates the House rules for closed-door testimony. The Democrats are breaking the rules every day. This inherently demonstrates bad faith on the part of the Democrats’ leaders. We have no reason to believe anything the Democrats give the media to publish. Therefore, any ridicule from anyone about the propensity to believe or not believe allegations about Trump is moot. That cannot be overemphasized. The “you’re a stupid Trumpista” card is played out. In fact, it is somewhere between vile, disgusting, and pathetic to keep trying to play it. It only makes the card player a fool. Hold hearings in the open, by the rules, or shut up... https://lidblog.com/impeachment-gang/

Building a Movement to Stop

‘Democratic Socialism’

Kay Coles James

{ dailysignal.com } ~ The rising tide of socialism in America is reaching a critical point as more Americans warm up to the idea of bigger, more intrusive government... A Gallup poll earlier this year found that 43% of Americans say socialism would be a good thing for the country. Other polls show similar findings. The percentages are even higher for women, minorities, and young people. If we hope to recognize this country 10 years from now, if we want to pass on to our children and grandchildren a nation that’s at least as free and prosperous as the one we inherited, we need to focus our efforts on turning everyday Americans away from the false promises of bigger government. And we need greater education and outreach to do it. Certainly, one reason for this worrying trend is because average people see problems in this country they want solved, and a flurry of politicians, lobbying groups, and others excitedly offer them more big government in response, with many of their solutions verging on outright socialism. Just look at “Medicare for All,” free college tuition, and the Green New Deal as examples. What many average Americans fail to see is that conservatives see the same problems they do and want to solve them, too, but just by different means. But how do we convince them that we have better answers? Fortunately, we have several factors on our side. First, we have the truth. Socialism has failed in every country, every time it’s been tried. Additionally, here in the United States and in countries that have softer “democratic socialism,” decades of data show that big-government policies continue to fail over and over again. More often than not, they end up hurting the very people they were supposed to help. Welfare in the United States is just one example. Second, some of the polls showing Americans warming up to socialism also show that, when pressed, respondents didn’t understand what socialism actually involved. While initially they loved the idea of free college tuition, free health care, and the Green New Deal, when they were told even a few details—like what it would cost them in new taxes, how their choices would go away, how bureaucrats in far-off places would be making decisions for them—they quickly turned against the proposals...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/22/building-a-movement-to-stop-democratic-socialism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=building-a-movement-to-stop-democratic-

Our Core Cultural Conflicts

by Star Parker

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Two recent high-profile speeches by Trump administration officials say much—maybe even all we need to know—about the core cultural conflicts in the country and what will define the upcoming election... One speech, titled “Being a Christian Leader,” was delivered by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the American Association of Christian Counselors in Nashville, Tennessee. Attorney General William Barr delivered the other speech to the law school and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. Pompeo discussed how, as a young man at West Point, he refocused his Christian faith to the center of his life. He went on to relate how this influences today how he understands America’s role in the world and how he does his job as secretary of state. Barr discussed the aggressive and destructive secularism now sweeping the country. He touched on the key point, made first by then-President George Washington in his 1796 farewell address to the nation, that a free nation must be a self-governing nation and that this only is possible through moral virtue. Limited government requires a population that rules itself. This requires, as Barr explained, “shared moral values” that “rest on authority independent of men’s will—they must flow from a transcendent Supreme Being.” There is no way two high-profile officials from the Trump administration would give public presentations like these without support from the president, particularly in today’s highly charged political environment. Pompeo and Barr communicated a worldview starkly in contrast to what we’re hearing from the Democratic presidential hopefuls, most recently at the debate in Westerville, Ohio. The line is drawn clearly in the sand. President Donald Trump is running on the premise that America is a free nation Under God. Democrats see our future in secular humanism... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/23/our-core-cultural-conflicts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-core-cultural-conflicts&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0dJMk0yUXdNRE5pT0dVeCIsInQiOiJVeSt2VGdDYzY3T0F6WTFtMEY0dmNnTGZIRGxGd3lDa3RzYU11dXhkVWZDQ1oyOXZLNFdKMGVUTUt5akQ0aE15d1RKVHVZVG1PSU42YzJ1dlpzSjBLWnlzZGVGU3lPeTdZMXUyMGw2eENtV1FRQmE4MXcyUnhNbnJSbmZRbCt3SCJ9

Grassley Suspects ‘Deep State’

Responsible for Delay in FISA Abuse Report

by Chuck Ross

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, expressed frustration Monday at a months long delay in the release of the Justice Department inspector general’s report on possible FBI surveillance abuse against the Trump campaign... questioning whether the “deep state” has somehow slowed the release of the document. “All of the delays and excuses why the Horowitz IG FISA report isn’t public yet after several months of anticipation of its issues leads me to the suspicion it’s going to be ‘deep six’ [sic] by the deep state,” Grassley wrote on Twitter.Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, began in March 2018 investigating whether the FBI complied with legal requirements in applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The bureau relied heavily on the unverified Steele dossier in applications for the warrants, as well as for the main investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, dug up dirt on the Trump campaign on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign. In the dossier, he alleged that Trump aides, including Page, worked with Kremlin operatives to influence the 2016 election. Steele also claimed that there was a “well-developed conspiracy of coordination” between the Trump team and Russians. But the special counsel’s report undercut much of the dossier. It said there was insufficient evidence to establish a Trump-Russia conspiracy. The Office of Inspector General report was initially expected to be released in June, but has been steadily delayed amid new developments, including an interview that same month with Steele. Horowitz told several congressional committees on June 25 that the investigation was nearing completion. He submitted the report to the Justice Department and FBI for a declassification review on Sept. 13...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/22/grassley-suspects-deep-state-is-responsible-for-delay-in-fisa-abuse-report/

McConnell Introduces Resolution

Opposing Trump on Syria Withdrawal

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by Luis Miguel

{ thenewamerican.com } ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other leading Senate Republicans introduced a resolution on Tuesday opposing President Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria... The senators contend that the president’s decision has benefitted ISIS, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia, and Iran. “If not arrested, withdrawing from Syria will invite more of the chaos that breeds terrorism and creates a vacuum our adversaries will certainly fill,” McConnell said. The measure introduced by McConnell would require the president to report to Congress that both ISIS and al Qaeda have been defeated “before initiating any further significant withdrawal” of troops from the region. According to McConnell, Russia will “gain more leverage” in the Middle East, Iran could get greater access to a “strategic corridor that runs all the way from Tehran to the very doorstep of Israel,” and the Assad regime will be enabled to “reassert its oppressive control” — all unless the president reverses his decision. McConnell simultaneously urged President Trump to rescind his White House invitation to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan until a “more enduring cease-fire” between Turkish and Kurdish forces has been achieved. Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Congress “didn’t have an opportunity” to provide input before the president went ahead with the withdrawal. “Congress has a voice and now is the time ... to exercise it,” Burr stated... Mitch and Burr get over it, President Trump is the Command in Chief.

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/33832-mcconnell-introduces-resolution-opposing-trump-on-syria-withdrawal

Joe Scarborough’s Latest Lie,

Claims GOP Secretly Wants Trump Out

by Jeff Dunetz

{ lidblog.com } ~ Gee, remember when he was a conservative Republican? Joe Scarborough has really changed since he started sleeping with his very liberal married co-host, who he eventually married... Back then, I would watch his show every morning. That was before Morning Joe became totally unwatchable and Scarborough joined the rest of his network in feeding viewers lies and ad hominin attacks against President Trump and everything Republican. According to Joe Scarborough’s latest lie, President Trump would be impeached and Vice President Mike Pence would be elevated to the Oval Office within hours if the Senate were able to conduct their vote in secret. Scarborough went on to argue that GOP senators prefer to “talk about policy” and not the president’s attempts to “loot the federal treasury to make hundreds of thousands of dollars” at his resorts. Joe, Doral was going to host the G7 for free as for the other resorts I would love to hear about it…where’s your proof? Mike Barnicle added that he didn’t think any member of the Senate “would want their children or grandchildren to espouse the values that Donald Trump maintains each and every day of his life.” Joe agreed–now that’s rich. What does Joe Scarborough know about values? He should worry about the values he espouses to his children and Mika’s children and all their future grandchildren. Joe and Mika were both married with children when you guys decided to throw out your marriage vows and started sleeping with each other. What kind of values are those?... https://lidblog.com/joe-scarboroughs-latest-lie/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_IYUD5mDh0

CNN: A Case Study in Hypocrisy

Thomas Gallatin: Project Veritas recently exposed the fact that the gross anti-Trump bias espoused by CNN on a 24/7 basis stems from directives issued by CEO Jeff Zucker. However, CNN’s bias problem doesn’t merely stem from the management. On Monday, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin apologized for his part in covering scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Following the news Friday that the Justice Department had concluded its investigation into scumbag/liar-Clinton’s mishandling of classified emails while she was secretary of state, determining that there was no “deliberate” mishandling of classified information, Toobin blamed the mainstream media and himself for making a story out of “a big nothing.” Toobin opined, “I think I paid too much attention to them, and I regret that.”

Furthermore, Toobin lamented, “scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton likely lost the election because of it, and I think I should have been talking about other issues, not about emails.” It appears Toobin has an outsized view of his own political influence, but more significant is Toobin’s ridiculous assertion that scumbag/liar-Clinton’s email scandal was “a big nothing.” While the State Department couldn’t seem to find a deliberate intention to mishandle classified information (give us a break), that didn’t mean the investigation found no wrongdoing. In fact, the investigation found more than 600 security violations by 38 State Department employees during scumbag/liar-Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. Moreover, the entire point of her email secrecy was to hide the way she used the State Department as a pay-to-play arm of the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation.

This was a massive story as the evidence of violations demonstrates, and Toobin’s notion that the story should have been ignored by the news media only highlights the fact that he’s committed not to practicing good journalism but to political activism. The Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams observes, “A real journalist would not apologize for covering a legitimate news story, including one that involves an FBI investigation and a secretary of state-turned-presidential candidate who had been ‘extremely careless’ with classified intelligence.”

So, does Toobin offer a similar apology for CNN’s fake news on the Trump/Russia collusion hoax? Nope. In fact, Toobin claims, “Comparing Donald Trump’s record of ethical problems with scumbag/liar-Hillary’s emails lent a misleading impression. And I have to say, I am determined not to do that again to the extent that I can. I am going to try to look at corruption and ethics issues each on their own rather than trying to create some sort of equivalence that isn’t there.” Toobin’s statements serve to cement the fact that CNN has become the de facto propaganda wing of the Democrat Party. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66265?mailing_id=4601&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4601&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Thursday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 24, 2019 at 7:19am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

There Is Nothing Wrong With Quid Pro Quos

It Just Depends What the Quo Is

Marc A. Thiessen

Giuliani Associates Plead Not Guilty

To Campaign Finance Charges

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Two associates of Rudy Giuliani who helped the Trump lawyer in his Ukraine-related investigations pleaded not guilty in federal court in New York City on Wednesday to campaign finance charges... Prosecutors have accused Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman of illegally masking the source of contributions to Republican political candidates in order to advance personal and political interests. According to an indictment unsealed on Oct. 10, Parnas, Fruman and two other associates “conspired to circumvent the federal laws against foreign influence by engaging in a scheme to funnel foreign money to candidates for federal and State office so that the defendants could buy potential influence with candidates, campaigns, and the candidates’ government.” Prosecutors also alleged that the Soviet-born Parnas and Fruman made illegal campaign contributions in order to “cause the U.S. government to remove or recall the then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.” That scheme involved campaign contributions to a former lawmaker identified as Pete Sessions, a Republican from Texas. “PARNAS’s efforts to remove the Ambassador were conducted, at least in part, at the request of one or more Ukrainian government officials,” the indictment says. Parnas met with Sessions on May 9, 2018 to discuss Yovanovitch. That same day, Sessions sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accusing the diplomat of making derogatory statements about Trump. The Trump administration recalled Yovanovitch from her post in May 2019. Parnas made a $2,700 campaign contribution to Sessions on June 25, 2018. According to the indictment, Parnas and Fruman committed to raising another $20,000 for the Republican, who lost his re-election bid several months later...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/23/giuliani-associates-not-guilty-trump-ukraine/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10638

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

GOP Destroyed Impeachment Witness

William Taylor’s Testimony

by DAVID KRAYDEN

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that the GOP dismantled a suggestion from Ukrainian Envoy William Taylor during his closed-door testimony to the House Intelligence Committee... that President Donald Trump had tied aid to Ukraine to an investigation into former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. “In 90 seconds, we had Republican Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe destroy Taylor’s whole argument,” McCarthy told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle. ”Numerous media reports suggested Taylor’s testimony was devastating and provided ammunition for the impeachment inquiry. However, McCarthy claimed those reports are based on leaks coming from the committee chairman, Democratic California Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, and do not reflect Ratcliffe’s efforts to disprove Taylor’s testimony.The House minority leader told Ingraham that he cannot get into specifics about the questioning because of the veil of secrecy that scumbag-Schiff has placed over the impeachment inquiry. “scumbag-Adam Schiff won’t let us talk about what happened,” he said in reference to the closed-door session. “There is no quid pro quo.” Ratcliffe told Fox News after listening to Taylor that the envoy brought up some interesting information but said nothing “worthy of impeachment.” McCarthy also said the GOP members of the intelligence committee are being treated like children by scumbag-Schiff’s people... https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/23/house-minority-leader-kevin-mccarthy-gop-john-ratcliffe-impeachment-witness-testimony/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10638

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLKzDAF23B4

Hannity blasts scumbag-Adam Schiff, says he doesn't want impeachment transcripts public

for fear of exposing 'corrupt narrative'

By Charles Creitz

{ foxnews.com } ~ Sean Hannity on Tuesday night slammed House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., claiming closed-door Trump impeachment inquiry hearings... he is overseeing remain hidden from many Republicans, the White House and the public because of the "corrupt narrative" they could expose. Hannity said former Presidents Richard Nixon and scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton faced much more transparent impeachment proceedings, with then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich using the 1970s as a model for his caucus' inquiry into scumbag/liar-Clinton. However, scumbag-Schiff's hearings, though secretive, are not going well for the Democrats, the "Hannity" host claimed. Hannity said he has sources who claim the impeachment inquiry proceedings are, "blowing up in the corrupt scumbag-Schiff's face." "Nothing is transparent," he said."Democrats don't want these transcripts to become public because it will destroy this phony, corrupt narrative. Instead, they want to control all the information so they can selectively leak that one sentence that they think helps them." Hannity accused scumbag-Schiff and other top Democrats of "editorializing" testimony in order to garner further opposition to President Trump. "The whole process is more corrupt, lacking all due process, all constitutionality, and constitutional protections. It is based on utter and complete nonsense. All the president is really guilty of is faithfully executing the laws of this land and fulfilling his constitutional duty," he said. The host also claimed scumbag-Schiff and other Democrats involved in the inquiry are "a lawless mob" that continues to disregard the truth and reject legislative norms. Claiming scumbag-Schiff is operating in a cowardly manner, Hannity said the impeachment proceedings must be rejected in order to ensure the U.S. continues to be a functioning Republic. "We better stop or we're not going to have a country, and yes it's that serious," he said. "scumbag-Adam Schiff -- he is holding secret hearings, secret meetings, that result in secret transcripts all hidden from the American people."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/hannity-blasts-adam-schiff-trump-impeachment-inquiry-democrats

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6096897359001/#sp=show-clips

Breathe Free: Capitalism Helps

Protect the Environment

by Nicolas Loris

{ dailysignal.com } ~ A recent Rasmussen poll found 20% of voters feel we should eliminate capitalism to protect the environment. That’s like saying we should eliminate teachers to improve education... Truth be told, capitalism has helped cleanse our planet—improving living standards while protecting the environment. Rather than eliminate capitalism, policymakers need to unleash it. Markets incentivize efficiency by rewarding people for coming up with ways to do more or do better with less. People choose—and businesses make—more efficient products because it saves them money while delivering what customers want. Over the past decade, market forces have driven a massive transition within the energy industry. In 2008, coal provided roughly half of the country’s electricity generation. Now, coal’s share is about a quarter. Increased production of natural gas has driven energy bills and emissions downward. In direct response to cheap gas, the Nuclear Energy Institute organized nuclear power plants nationally to find operating efficiencies that have reduced costs by 19%, saving consumers $1.6 billion and keeping emissions-free electricity in the marketplace. The energy industry is far from the only sector that has made positive economic and environmental contributions. For instance, the cement industry is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore how to refine its processes in ways that will improve resiliency, reduce emissions, and save lives. Investments in cement, steel, plastic, and other building materials will make our houses and highways sturdier and our products more durable—with a smaller environmental footprint. All of these activities result directly from free enterprise—companies providing consumers with the goods and services they want while using fewer resources and emitting fewer unwanted emissions. As a country prospers, its citizens are better able to care for the environment and reduce pollutants emitted from industrial growth. In fact, The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom and Yale University’s Environmental Performance Index show a strong correlation between a country’s environmental performance and economic freedom i.e., its embrace of capitalism... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/22/breathe-free-capitalism-helps-protect-the-environment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breathe-free-capitalism-helps-protect-the-environment&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRJMU56STVZelEwWXpZMCIsInQiOiJmWU5WTXhNVE9TWUMrb2pINjQrcHRsY09wS3k0WkJsejhhdDdtSzNOb0dDNThRSUNaXC91Q3NTUVVsWndWcUdWaTk5T0JDRWVHZDViQVduaWdiNWtkUVU5cmlkYkR2Tmo1c0NLNlZKVW5ubXYwT0NNTDl6U2R1aXE2b1RmTEtuWkgifQ%3D%3D

Fake Refugees Make

Themselves at Home in U.S.

By BOB DANE

{ immigrationreform.com } ~ “Tens of thousands”of fraudulent refugees from Africa bought their way into the United States since the late 1990s and are still living here, a CNN investigation reported this month... Kenyans, posing as persecuted Somalis, told the news network how they and their families came to the U.S. and used food stamps and other public services for years. “I feel bad for the real refugees, but at the same time it is all about first come, first served,” one Kenyan said. Abuse of the African resettlement program was uncovered in 2008. The Bush administration halted admission of “P-3” Third Priority, Family Reunification refugees after DNA tests by the State Department revealed a nearly 90 percent fraud rate in the system. The program restarted in 2012, reportedly with tighter DNA screening. The Trump administration maintains its enhanced vetting system is vigorous. But for African “facilitators” — middlemen who take and distribute bribe money on the continent — it is the first layer of vetting by the Kenyan government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that matters the most. “At the very beginning, before the applicant even gets to the U.S. embassy vetting, the selection has been done at the UN level,” one facilitator said. He told CNN he has been gaming the UN resettlement system for years. The CNN report on refugee fraud comes five months after NBC News exposed chronic corruption at UNHCR. Clearly, deep-seated problems are not being fixed. It’s equally obvious that continued reliance on African governments and a tainted UN agency won’t clean up the mess. By lowering future annual refugee intakes, the Trump administration may curtail opportunities for fraudsters. Alas, it doesn’t do anything about the tens of thousands of refugees who scammed their way into this country and remain here...

https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/10/17/immigration-fraud-refugees-immigrationreform-com/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=7d66d9fd-84f7-48fd-94fa-e4c861d97467

Baltimore’s Global Warming Lawsuit Against

Energy Companies Can Proceed, Supremes Say

by Kevin Daley

{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ The Supreme Court allowed the city of Baltimore to proceed with its climate change lawsuit against two dozen fossil fuel companies Tuesday... after the corporate defendants asked the justices to put the dispute on hold. The oil and natural gas companies — among them BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and Royal Dutch Shell — are fighting to move Baltimore’s lawsuit out of a Maryland state court into a federal court. They wanted the justices to stop state court proceedings while they fight to remove the dispute to a federal forum. “It is difficult to imagine claims that more clearly implicate substantial questions of federal law and require uniform disposition than the claims at issue here, which seek to transform the nation’s energy, environmental, national security, and foreign policies by punishing energy companies for lawfully supplying necessary oil and gas resources,” the corporations told the high court in legal filings. “Respondent wants a Maryland state court to declare applicants’ historical energy production and promotional activities across the United States and abroad to be a public nuisance, thereby regulating interstate and international energy production in the name of global warming,” the application adds. The lawsuit alleges that the fossil fuel companies have engaged in a “coordinated, multi-front effort” to conceal the harm of greenhouse gas emissions that attend the use of their products. The plaintiffs claim the energy industry has been investigating atmospheric carbon accumulation since at least 1958, and has long been aware of its environmental consequences... https://thepoliticalinsider.com/baltimores-global-warming-lawsuit-against-energy-companies-can-proceed-supremes-say/?utm_campaign=TPI10232019PM&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

There Is Nothing Wrong With Quid Pro Quos

It Just Depends What the Quo Is

Marc A. Thiessen

It’s Washington’s new favorite Latin phrase: quid pro quo. On Capitol Hill, Democrats seeking to impeach the president are trying to prove that he engaged in a quid pro quo (“this for that”) with U.S. aid to Ukraine. The president has insisted “there was no quid pro quo.” But then last week, White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney seemed to admit to a quid pro quo during his hapless news conference.

It seems as though the fate of the Trump presidency hangs on those three Latin words. Find proof of a quid pro quo and Trump is a goner.

But that’s not exactly true. The United States engages in quid pro quos all the time when it comes to foreign assistance. Our aid is not charity; Americans expect to get something in return for it. We have leveraged U.S. assistance in exchange for a host of objectives: economic reform, democratic reform, better pursuit of corruption, access to strategically important areas and so on.

In 1978, Jimmy Carter agreed to provide Egypt with billions of dollars in foreign aid in exchange for making peace with Israel, as part of the Camp David Accords. That was a quid pro quo. In 2004, George W. Bush created the Millennium Challenge Account, which required countries to meet a host of eligibility requirements — free speech, free assembly, rule of law, property rights, transparency — before they could receive a grant of aid. That program was one big quid pro quo.

Congress imposes quid pro quos on U.S. foreign aid all the time, as well. Democrats howled when Trump cut aid to Central America earlier this year, but as Lester Munson, former staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, points out, “If you look at the appropriations bill that actually provided the president with the money to give assistance to Central America, there are 15 different reasons you might suspend the aid there.”

Even former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden has admitted to a quid pro quo with Ukraine. He held up $1 billion in loan guarantees (a quid) to get them to fire a prosecutor who was not investigating corruption (a quo). This was perfectly legitimate, he says, and he may well be right.

So, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with quid pro quos. It just depends what the quo is.

In his news conference, Mulvaney said “the money held up had absolutely nothing to do with loose lips liar-Biden.” Good, because holding up U.S. aid as a quid pro quo for investigating the president’s political rival would be highly problematic. Rather, Mulvaney said, it was based on three issues: first, concerns about corruption in Ukraine; second, concerns about burden-sharing by our European allies in supporting Ukraine; and third, “whether they were cooperating in an ongoing investigation with our Department of Justice” into the origins of the Mueller probe that is being led by U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, a career prosecutor. It was the third — conditioning aid on the Durham investigation — that prompted Democrats to say: Gotcha!

Mulvaney later said he misspoke, and that’s probably true. As Kurt Volker, the former U.S. envoy to Ukraine, explained in his sworn deposition before the House Intelligence Committee, the Ukrainians did not know that the aid was being held up until more than up a month after Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (during which Trump never mentioned the aid was on hold). “They became aware later [that the aid was held up], but I don’t believe they were aware at the time, so there was no leverage implied,” Volker told the committee. If you are demanding a quid pro quo, you have to tell the country that you are holding up the quid until they deliver the quo. The Ukrainians didn’t even know there was a quid.

But let’s say Trump had in fact withheld U.S. aid to get Ukraine to cooperate with the Durham probe. There would be absolutely nothing wrong with that. The president, as the country’s chief law enforcement officer, would be entirely within his rights to use aid as leverage to get Ukraine cooperate with an official Justice Department investigation. If it turns out that the quo was “investigate my 2020 opponent,” as Ambassador William Taylor reportedly alleged during testimony on Capitol Hill Tuesday, then Trump is in big trouble; but if the quo is “cooperate with the Justice Department,” that’s perfectly fine.

So, while Democrats may be insisting that Trump delenda est — “Trump must be destroyed” — they will need something more than this quid pro quo to do it. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66287?mailing_id=4603&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4603&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103U)

Posted by Jake Martinez on October 24, 2019 at 6:30am

Please Read Part 103T:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103T)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 18, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-103t

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that 'AG Barr, Senator McConnell and President Trump must hang together, or they will surely hang separately'-You Decide:

Barr, McConnell and Trump Must Hang Together, Or They Will Surely Hang Separately!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Mike Weinberger-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/barr-mcconnell-trump-must-hang-together-will-surely-hang-separately/

Note: I believe that the information revealed in the following articles and videos relates to and/or further supports the disturbing information revealed in the above thought-provoking article-You Decide:

Video: Follow The Clues, Another Piece Of The Puzzle Added, [DS] Ready To Face Justice - Episode 2000b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atqrJosro4Q

Video: Durham & Barr Found Something Significant, [DS] Hires Lawyers - Episode 2001b!- Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT9d-CMXziA

Durham's probe into possible FBI misconduct expanded based on new evidence, sources say

Durham's probe into possible FBI misconduct expanded based on new evidence, sources say!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Gregg Re, Catherine Herridge | Fox News-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-durham-investigation-possible-fbi-misconduct-expanded-new-evidence-sources

NBC News: AG Barr Approved Expansion of Durham Probe to Include Scrutiny of Brennan, Clapper!-Posted on Townhall-By Guy Benson/@guypbenson-On October 22, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/10/22/nbc-news-ag-barr-approved-expansion-of-durham-probe-to-include-scrutiny-of-brennan-clapper-n2555103

‘Rattled’ Deep-State CIA Agents Lawyer Up as DOJ’s Durham Closes In!-Posted on Liberty Headlines-By Ben Sellers-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.libertyheadlines.com/doj-probe-expands-cia-rattled/

Report: Brennan And Clapper To Be Interviewed As Part Of Investigation Into Russia Probe Origins!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Chuck Ross, Daily Caller-On October 21, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/report-brennan-and-clapper-to-be-interviewed-as-part-of-investigation-into-russia-probe-origins/

Poll: Majority of Americans Believe Obama Officials Broke Law To Stop Trump: Devastating blow to fake news media and Democrats!-Posted on Infowars.com-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/poll-majority-of-americans-believe-obama-officials-broke-law-to-stop-trump/

Video: Ep. 1092 Liberals Have Given Up On America. The Dan Bongino Show 10/21/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE_oq_p_wOE

Trump tells 'Hannity' he wants AG Barr to 'find out what is going on' with potential ties between Hillary Clinton, Steele dossier and Ukraine

Trump tells 'Hannity' he wants AG Barr to 'find out what is going on' with potential ties between Hillary Clinton, Steele dossier and Ukraine!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Liam Quinn | Fox News-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-hannity-barr-ukraine-hillary-clinton-steele-dossier

CNN: A Case Study in Hypocrisy: Jeffrey Toobin apologizes for covering Hillary Clinton's email scandal in 2016!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 22, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66265-cnn-a-case-study-in-hypocrisy?mailing_id=4602&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4602&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Trump Hammers Hillary During Interview with Hannity: 'She's Crazy'!-Posted on The Wester Journal-By Andrew J. Sciascia-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-hammers-hillary-interview-hannity-crazy/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=libertyalliance

Hillary Clinton––The Human Spittoon: “A POWER JUNKIE!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Joan Swirsky-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/23/hillary-clinton-the-human-spittoon-2/

hilLRY

America Does Not Know How Close It Is to Being Ruled DIRECTLY by Satan!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 23, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/america-does-not-know-how-close-it-being-ruled-directly-satan

'The View' Cut Newt When He Brought Up Evidence Hillary Abused Power, Not Trump!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Randy DeSoto-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/view-cut-newt-brought-evidence-hillary-abused-power-not-trump/

Video: Ep 1093 Explosive New Details About The Deep State Coverup. The Dan Bongino Show 10/22/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZCLpv_XnN0

Hannity: “Sources” Say House Dems’ Witnesses “Debunked” Quid Pro Quo Claim. Nunes Reports Dems “More And More Upset!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/22/hannity-sources-say-house-dems-witnesses-debunked-quid-pro-quo-claim/

Republican lawmaker 'destroyed' latest impeachment inquiry witness argument: McCarthy

Republican lawmaker 'destroyed' latest impeachment inquiry witness argument: McCarthy!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Charles Creitz | Fox News-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/kevin-mccarthy-claims-republican-lawmaker-destroyed-latest-trump-impeachment-inquiry-argument

Rep. Jerrold Nadler Praises Fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok for Acting in 'Highest Traditions' of Govt. Service!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/rep-jerrold-nadler-praises-fired-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-acting-highest-traditions-govt-service/

Mitt Romney said one word about Barack Obama that left Trump seeing red!-Posted on Renewed Right-On October 23, 2019:

https://renewedright.com/mitt-romney-said-one-word-about-barack-obama-that-left-trump-seeing-red/

Video: Ep. 1094 The Deep State Plotters Had a Backup Plan & That’s Failing Too. The Dan Bongino Show!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEpAGkKK0Y

Gaetz: Old rules won’t work against unethical Dems acting like ‘angry pack of rabid hyenas’!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Frieda Powers-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/24/gaetz-old-rules-wont-work-against-unethical-dems-acting-like-angry-pack-of-rabid-hyenas-843230

Congress

House Republicans request first impeachment witness: The whistleblower!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Susan Ferrechio-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/house-republicans-request-first-impeachment-witness-the-whistleblower

Umm: Former Clinton Advisor Believes Hillary Can Beat... President Pence?-Posted on Townhall-By Beth Baumann/@eb454-On October 23, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/10/23/umm-former-clinton-advisor-believes-hillary-can-beat-president-pence-n2555274

Graham: Horowitz to Testify, and Report to be Released, “Pretty Soon.” BUT WHEN?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/24/graham-horowitz-to-testify-and-report-to-be-released-pretty-soon/

Video: The Ingraham Angle 10/23/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News October 23, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By tolno7-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZD3CGz92pg

Video: The Patriots Just Trapped The [DS] Again, Moves And Countermoves - Episode 2002b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ih836oFcM

Rush: The Never-Trumpers Offended by Trump's 'Scum' Comment Call Him & His Kids So Much Worse!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/rush-never-trumpers-offended-trumps-scum-comment-call-kids-much-worse/

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Video: Unmasking the Obama Administration | Inside Report!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVyY5aOGuY

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Lindsey Graham Punches Back After Susan Rice Calls Him a Vulgar Name!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor-On October 24, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/lindsey-graham-punches-back-after-susan-rice-calls-him-a-vulgar-name/

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17 Democrats Who Weren’t Held Accountable for Scandals by Their Constituents!-Posted on PJ Media-By Matt Margolis-On October 24, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/17-democrats-who-werent-held-accountable-for-scandals-by-their-constituents/

Trump Accuses Obama of Treason

Trump Accuses Obama of Treason!-Posted on TTN-By TTN Staff-On October 25, 2019:

https://trumptrainnews.com/articles/trump-accuses-obama-of-treason#Tokcb1iLgoErdofU.99

President Trump Calls Out “Treasonous” Obama For Illegal Spying: Upcoming book gives inside look at Trump presidency!-Posted on Infowars.com-By Kelen McBreen | Infowars.com-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/president-trump-calls-out-treasonous-obama-for-illegal-spying/

Another Civil War in our Country? “HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Tom Arnold-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/25/another-civil-war-in-our-country/

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Video: Q&A with Dave Hodges-Breaking News with Paul Martin About Obama Seeking Asylum!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 26, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/agenda-21-conspiracy-economics/qa-dave-hodges-breaking-news-paul-martin-about-obama-seeking-asylum

Video: Treason Message Sent, Operation Documents Confiscated, Timing Is Everything - Episode 2005b (Mark: 26:36-36:55)!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNfcyq_7oJY

Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the above recent articles and videos regarding 'treasonous Obama' relates to and/or further supports my blog from the recent past-You Decide:

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Articles of Impeachment and Impeachment Proceedings)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 12, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-representative-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-2

Video: EP 1095 The Deep Staters Are Turning on Each Other. The Dan Bongino Show 10/24/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAQf7DabF0

BREAKING: Review Into Origins of the Russia Investigation Is Now A Criminal Inquiry

BREAKING: Review Into Origins of the Russia Investigation Is Now A Criminal Inquiry!-Posted on Townhall-By Bronson Stocking-On October 24, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/10/24/untitled-n2555337

Durham's investigation into possible FBI misconduct is now criminal probe, sources say

Durham's investigation into possible FBI misconduct is now criminal probe, sources say!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Gregg Re, Ed Henry | Fox News-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-durham-investigation-fbi-misconduct-criminal-probe

Dems' Russia-Collusion Charade — The Criminal Investigation: Implications point to deep-state members within the intelligence community!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 25, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66362-dems-russia-collusion-charade-the-criminal-investigation?mailing_id=4609&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4609&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 10/24/19 [Full] | BREAKING Fox News October 24, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By GREAT NEWS US-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWYZXFK_XSI

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 10/24/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News October 24, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Brainz TV-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRCMif8lYU0

Video: Sean Hannity [FULL] 10/24/2019 -BREAKING FOX NEWS October 24, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Brainz TV-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl4zqJr06hs

Video: The Ingraham Angle 10/24/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News October 24, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Brainz TV-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfFnLZWQdcs

Video: Schiff Hits An Impeachment Roadblock, [DS] Feeling The Pain, Next Wave Coming - Episode 2003b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pajVXFdYgpg

SHOCK REPORT: FBI Altered Flynn Docs; Clapper Called for 'Kill Shot'

SHOCK REPORT: FBI Altered Flynn Docs; Clapper Called for 'Kill Shot!’-Posted on TTN-By TTN Staff-On October 25, 2019:

https://trumptrainnews.com/articles/shock-report-fbi-altered-flynn-docs-clapper-called-for-kill-shot#HlUdzf74qOKx0mFh.99

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Framing Flynn: The “Kill Shot” sets up a showdown at Deep State Corral!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On October 28, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/framing-flynn-lloyd-billingsley

James Comey Could Soon Face Criminal Probe!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Bradley Cortright-On October 25, 2019:

https://ijr.com/comey-face-criminal-probe/

Comey Moving to 'New Zealand' If Trump Wins Again!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Eric Mack-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/jamescomey-fbi-deepstate-resistance/2019/10/27/id/938880/

clapper

James Clapper on DOJ Criminal Probe: I Could Be ‘One of Those Under Investigation!’-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joshua Caplan-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/25/james-clapper-on-doj-criminal-probe-i-could-be-one-of-those-under-investigation/

Image: Deep state in total panic as Durham’s investigation confirmed to have transitioned to CRIMINAL phase… indictments imminent

Deep state in total panic as Durham’s investigation confirmed to have transitioned to CRIMINAL phase… indictments imminent!-Posted on Natural News-By Mike Adams-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-10-25-deep-state-in-total-panic-as-durham-investigation-confirmed-criminal-phase.html

Attorney General nominee William Barr testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Barr will face questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday about his relationship with Trump, his views on executive powers and whether he can fairly oversee the special …

Video: Former FBI official James Baker flipped, cooperating with Barr investigation!-Posted on YouTube.com-By One America News Network-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-d-_qEM3Q&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2IYmlbmEFwPxxgEgOcdjGQuJL-yuMMbqd5qthws-CwGEoLc97wPfIi9YU

BREAKING: Review Into Origins of the Russia Investigation Is Now A Criminal Inquiry

Senate Democrats Demand William Barr Recuse Himself from ‘Trump Ukraine Matters’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joshua Caplan-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/25/senate-democrats-demand-william-barr-recuse-himself-from-trump-ukraine-matters/

The Deep State Is Framing Trump on Ukraine!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Dick Morris-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/dick-morris-deep-state-framing-trump-ukraine/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=libertyalliance

If You Want To Keep Trump, You Better Speak Up Now!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Dick Morris-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/dick-morris-want-keep-trump-better-speak-now/

trump and JFK

Video: If Trump Is Removed, It Has to BE "NEXT MAN UP"! The Movement Must Continue!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 27, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-martial-law/if-trump-removed-it-has-be-next-man-movement-must-continue

Video: Ep. 1096 Why is John Brennan Melting Down? The Dan Bongino Show 10/25/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qGgtVTEUmU

Sara Carter: “The Heat is On” Clapper, Brennan. “NOT ON ‘IMPEACHMENT!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 26, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/26/sara-carter-the-heat-is-on-clapper-brennan/

Video: The Ingraham Angle 10/25/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News October 25, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Josy Oficial-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3mcou024Ro

Video: Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch Weekly Update-Topics: Finally! DOJ Criminal Investigation of #Spygate; Smoking Gun Clinton Email Cover-Up Doc; & MORE!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIfoWkijBYQ

(INSETS: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Brennan) IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR THE TELEVISION ACADEMY - Malcolm Nance moderates Veterans Day: Television and the Military Experience, a special Television Academy member event, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 at the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, Calif. (Photo by Phil …

Malcolm Nance: Trump May Be After Obama, Biden, Clinton, Brennan — ‘Ultimate Distraction to Steal an Election!’-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joshua Caplan-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/10/25/malcolm-nance-trump-may-be-after-obama-biden-clinton-brennan-ultimate-distraction-to-steal-an-election/

george soros is shown

Soros Predicts Trump's 'Demise Next Year'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Jeffrey Rodack-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/soros-elizabeth-warren/2019/10/25/id/938677/

Soros Claims Tide Is Turning Back To Globalists, Says He’s Proud Of Having Enemies: “I’m very proud of the enemies I have!”-Posted on InfoWars.com-By Kelen McBreen | Infowars.com-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/soros-claims-tide-is-turning-back-to-globalists-says-hes-proud-of-having-enemies/

George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations attends the European Council On Foreign Relations Annual Council Meeting conference in Paris, Tuesday, May 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

George Soros on Lifelong Funding of Leftwing Causes: ‘Tide Has Turned Against Me’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Penny Starr-On October 28, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/28/george-soros-lifelong-funding-leftwing-causes-tide-turned-against-me/

Video: Pain Coming, It Will Devastating For The [DS], Watch Those Who Scream The Loudest - Episode 2004b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84gCN25TXkU

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - OCTOBER 26: James Comey speaks onstage during the 2019 Politicon at Music City Center on October 26, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Politicon )

James Comey on DOJ Criminal Probe: ‘I’m Not Worried About a Single Thing’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joshua Caplan-On October 26, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/26/james-comey-on-doj-criminal-probe-im-not-worried-about-a-single-thing/

Video: Justice With Judge Jeanine 10/26/19 FULL | Jeanine Pirro Fox News October 26, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Josy Oficial-On October 26, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ha9pMfc-7E

Notorious ISIS Leader Baghdadi Confirmed Dead in US Operation: 'He Died Like a Coward'!-Posted on The Western ZJournal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/notorious-isis-leader-baghdadi-confirmed-dead-us-operation-died-like-coward/

Trump: ISIS Leader Died 'Whimpering, Crying and Screaming'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/trump-announces-isis-leader/2019/10/27/id/938882/

Obama Administration Freed Al-Baghdadi From U.S. Prison Camp Back In 2009 (Details). No foresight…!-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On October 28, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/obama-administration-freed-al-baghdadi-from-u-s-prison-camp-back-in-2009-details/

Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the above article regarding the 'Obama Administration freeing Al-Baghdadi from a U.S. prison camp back in 2009' relates to and/or further supports my following blog from the recent past regarding-You Decide:

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Articles of Impeachment and Impeachment Proceedings)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 12, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-representative-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-2

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Susan Rice Whines: Trump Didn’t Have ‘Common Courtesy’ to Inform Obama of Al-Baghdadi Raid!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor-On October 29, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/susan-rice-whines-trump-didnt-have-common-courtesy-to-inform-obama-of-al-baghdadi-raid/

Parents of Kayla Mueller relieved by death of ISIS leader

Mom of slain ISIS hostage says daughter may still be alive if Obama was ‘as decisive’ as Trump!-Posted on USA Today-By Karina Bland, Arizona Republic-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/27/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-held-arizona-kayla-mueller-hostage/2479281001/

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Al-Baghdadi Dead, Leftists Crestfallen: A hero of the Left has passed away!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Robert Spencer-On October 28, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/after-al-baghdadi-robert-spencer

Washington Post Praises ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi As ‘Austere Religious Scholar.’ What…in…the…WORLD?-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On October 28, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/washington-post-praises-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-as-austere-religious-scholar/

Operation Kayla Mueller — Baghdadi Dead: U.S. forces took out the self-proclaimed "caliph" of the Islamic State in a big win!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On October 28, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66388-operation-kayla-mueller-baghdadi-dead?mailing_id=4615&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4615&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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US Had New ISIS Leader in Custody!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 28, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2019/10/us-had-new-isis-leader-custody-daniel-greenfield

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How Baghdadi's Death Reveals Trump's Clever Syria Strategy: U.S. president outsmarts Putin -- leaves him with Syria headaches as U.S. withdraws!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Joseph Klein-On October 28, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/how-baghdadis-death-reveals-trumps-clever-syria-joseph-klein

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A Dead Caliph and the Eternal Jihad: Trump deserves praise for winning this battle. But is America winning the war?-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Raymond Ibrahim-On October 29, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/dead-caliph-and-eternal-jihad-raymond-ibrahim

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What Baghdadi’s Death Tells Us About the Real Terror Threat: Always look for the country behind the curtain!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 30, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/what-baghdadis-death-tells-us-about-real-terror-daniel-greenfield

Pentagon Releases Video of Raid on al-Baghdadi Compound!-Posted on The Western Journal-By AP Reports-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/pentagon-releases-video-raid-al-baghdadi-compound/

Moral compass in man's head

America’s moral divide extends even to the world’s most evil terrorist!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Daniel Horowitz-On October 28, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/americas-moral-divide-extends-even-worlds-evil-terrorist/

The new America: NO to voluntary Christian prayer in schools. YES to mandatory Muslim prayer!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Daniel Horowitz-On October 28, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/new-america-no-voluntary-christian-prayer-schools-yes-mandatory-muslim-prayer/

Report: Trump to Address Nation Sunday Morning. TOPIC STILL A MYSTERY!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 26, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/26/report-trump-to-address-nation-sunday-morning/

Trump Honored with 'Bipartisan Justice Award' by Black Leaders for Criminal Justice Reform!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jack Davis-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-honored-bipartisan-justice-award-black-leaders-criminal-justice-reform/

Ex-CIA Officer on Chance of Hillary 2020 Run: Makes Me Want To Drink - and I'm Not Even a Drinker!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 26, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ex-cia-officer-chance-hillary-2020-run-makes-want-drink-not-even-drinker/

After Classless Performance at Cummings Funeral, Hillary Urged to ‘Stay Away’ by Bill Maher!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Andrew West-On October 26, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/after-classless-performance-at-cummings-funeral-hillary-urged-to-stay-away-by-bill-maher/

trump 2020

Video: The Left Is Publishing Trump Supporter Addresses In the Hope That They Get Attacked-Lisa Haven-CSS!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 26, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/left-publishing-trump-supporter-addresses-hope-they-get-attacked-lisa-haven-css

Trump Asks For List Of Never Trumpers In His Administration!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Alicia Luke-On October 25, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/trump-asks-for-list-of-never-trumpers-in-his-administration/

Marine Gunnery Sergeant on Trial For Jesus!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Mike Heath-On October 27, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/marine-gunnery-sergeant-on-trial-for-jesus/

Please Read Part 103V:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103V)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 29, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-103v

Please Also Read Part 104:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 104)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 16, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-104

Note: I also believe that the extremely disturbing information revealed in the above articles and videos relates to and/or further supports my following blogs from the recent past-You Decide:

Letter to NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (Re: Mueller Report)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 27, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-nm-u-s-senator-martin-heinrich-re-mueller-report

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 91)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-91

CIA Assessment Concludes Putin Was Trying to Help Trump Win White House!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 10, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cia-assessment-concludes-putin-was-trying-to-help-trump-win-white

Obama is the Manifestation of a Multi-Generational Soviet Plot to Destroy America!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 2, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-is-the-manifestati...

The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2013:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-radica...

When A U.S. President IS Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 17, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/when-a-u-s-president-is-...

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Articles of Impeachment and Impeachment Proceedings)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 12, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-representative-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-2

White Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Weather Underground, Barack Obama, and the Fundamental Transformation of the United States!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 28, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/white-reds-exploiting-bl...

Communists and Muslims: The Hidden Hand of the KGB!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 29, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4301673%3ABlogPos...

America’s “Long War” Against Humanity!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on January 30, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/america-s-long-war-against-humanity

Dogs of War, Architects of Terror!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dogs-of-war-architects-of-terror-1

Was Obama’s Real Job to Destroy America’s Moral & Ethical Foundations?-Posted on The Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 24, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-s-real-job-to-destroy-america-s-moral-ethical

Is America being turned into a NARCO Nation by design?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/is-america-being-turned-...

New EPA Land Grab, Complete Control Over All Private Land in America! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 11, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-epa-land-grab-comple...

Greatest Fraud Perpetrated In American History!-Posted on WordPress.com-On June 20, 2011:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpet...

Investigators Find That Obama's Online Birth Certificate Presented To The American Public Is 'Fake'!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 15, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/investigators-find-sourc...

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Udall Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!–Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 25, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

Follow-up Letter to NM Governor Martinez Requesting The Removal of President Obama From The NM 2012 Presidential Election Ballot!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on July 26, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-g...

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Congressman Martin Heinrich Regarding My Request For Full-scale Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arapio’s Cold Case Posse!–Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 26, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

CIA-Columbia Cover Up!-Posted on WordPress.com-On April 28, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/cia-columbia-obama-cover-up/

Why did a black preacher from Harlem have a 'hit' placed on his life?-Posted on WordPress.com-On October 19, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.cooinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/why-has-a-black-preacher-from-harlem...

Was Obama Pre-selected & Groomed To Be Our U.S. President & Take Down America to Usher In The NWO Due To His CIA, Communist and Muslim Connections & Influences?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 16, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-selected-groom...

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 13, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-rep...

Obama: Submit to Globalism or Face War, Death, Destruction!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 17, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/obama-submit-to-globalism-...

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

Not Since JFK, Has a President Spit Into the Face of the Globalists, Until Now!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 21, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/not-since-jfk-has-a-pres...

9/11 TRUTH SEEKERS: THE ‘LUNATIC FRINGE’ IS WHOM?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 25, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/9-11-truth-seekers-the-lunatic-fringe-is-whom

Brainwashing in America: "WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY”!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 21, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

The MSM conglomerates are the most prolific and insidious "fake news" propagators in the marketplace of ideas!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-msm-conglomerates-ar...

Where Is America Today?-Posted on WordPress.com-On May 26, 2010:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/where-is-america-today-2/

Note: The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

The Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzd_vRFpms

“Food for Thought”

Hello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Against The Deplorable Obstructionists That Are Doing Their Utmost To Take Down Our Democratically Elected President, His Administration and Ultimately Destroy our Country/Republic?-God Bless America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.

Semper Fi!

Jake

The Great Impeachment Debacle – Part 1

Posted by Craig Andresen on October 24, 2019 at 5:49am

Be sure to Click LIKE at the bottom of this article, and share it everywhere!!

By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

It has been said that French army tanks in WWII had four gears in reverse for varying speeds of retreat, and one gear forward on the off chance they’re attacked from the rear.

Right now, congressional democrats are backing up faster than a French tank battalion.

A week ago, Nancy Pelosi said that there is no plan, at this time, to hold an impeachment vote in the house. There is one reason why, after three years, they wouldn’t hold such a vote…they just don’t have anywhere near the needed numbers. Let’s face it, such a vote would be the fourth, and the previous three failed miserably.

Adam Schiff, just over a week ago, actually floated the idea that there may not be any need to have the “whistleblower” testify before congress.

Now why do you suppose that is? I’ll tell you why…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

Wednesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 23, 2019 at 3:57pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

liar-Pelosi's Fact-Free Sheet on Impeachment

Nate Jackson

Impeachment war: Democrats threaten GOP

with ethics charges for barging

into closed proceeding

by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ House Democrats threatened Republican lawmakers with rarely used ethics violations for trying to enter closed-door impeachment proceedings... The threat came after Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee were ejected from the room after entering without authorization. They wanted access, arguing the witness, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper, is under the Armed Services panel’s jurisdiction. “Now we are being threatened with ethics violations,” Rep. Michael Waltz, a Florida Republican, said after leaving the room. “We, as sitting members of Congress, with jurisdiction over the witness, and over military aid, are being threatened.” The group of Armed Services panel lawmakers was in the second set of Republicans to try to gain access to the closed-door proceeding on Wednesday. Armed Services is not among a trio of panels House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi has sanctioned to oversee the impeachment proceeding. When the uninvited Republicans entered the room, House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, who is overseeing the proceeding, got up and left, and took Cooper, the witness, with him. Partisan bickering then ensued before the GOP interlopers were escorted out. “We simply very calmly walked into the room, sat down, and were ready to hear the proceedings,” Waltz said. “scumbag-Adam Schiff got up and left — with the witness.” Republicans who are not members of the three panels do not have access to transcripts of the testimony, they said... Thats BS.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/impeachment-war-democrats-threaten-gop-with-ethics-charges-for-barging-into-closed-proceeding?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/23/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=BS5261

Democrats say they

have game changer on impeachment

By SCOTT WONG and CRISTINA MARCOS

{ thehill.com } ~ A top U.S. diplomat gave explosive testimony Tuesday tying Ukraine aid to politically motivated investigations, a development Democrats called a game changer... that could extend the impeachment inquiry into 2020. William Taylor, the head of the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, informed House lawmakers he was told nearly $400 million in military aid was contingent on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announcing investigations into former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, the Burisma energy company and 2016 election interference. Taylor’s testimony, that he understood the Trump administration was pushing for a quid pro quo, added more fuel to the Democrats’ hard-charging investigation. Taylor tied President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and Trump officials including Energy Secretary Rick Perry to a shadow foreign policy campaign that sought to obtain a public statement about political investigations. “The push to make President Zelensky publicly commit to investigations of Burisma and alleged interference in the 2016 election showed how the official foreign policy of the United States was undercut by the regular efforts led by Mr. Giuliani,” he told House investigators. Some Democrats on Tuesday said Taylor’s “credible” testimony means some witnesses, including U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, may need to be called back to testify a second time to resolve what Democrats now see as inconsistencies in their statements. Taylor testified that Sondland told him Trump said he wanted the Ukrainian government to state publicly it would launch investigations into the loose lips liar-Bidens and the 2016 elections and that “everything,” including the military aid, depended on it. “During our call on September 8, Ambassador Sondland tried to explain to me that President Trump is a businessman. When a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes him something, he said, the businessman asks that person to pay up before signing the check,” Taylor told investigators. Taylor also said he learned from two other officials that the order to hold security assistance for Ukraine came from acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney... https://thehill.com/homenews/house/467028-democrats-say-they-have-game-changer-on-impeachment

Iran's Missile Attack Hoax

By Sam Faddis

{ americanthinker.com } ~ On October 11, 2019, Iran announced that one of its oil tankers was struck by missiles while operating in the Red Sea. Almost two weeks later, exactly what happened to the tanker Sabiti remains unclear... and no independent information has emerged to confirm that there ever was an attack. What is clear is that the official Iranian explanation is nonsensical. The original Iranian report identified a different Iranian tanker, the Sinopa, as having been struck. At the time of the alleged attack the Sinopa was indeed in the Red Sea, but was some distance away from the Sabiti, sailing in a completely different direction to a different destination. How a report from a tanker stating that it had been attacked was then confused with an attack on a completely different vessel, the Sabiti, remains unexplained. At the time of the alleged attack the Sabiti had been operating with its maritime tracking system switched off for some two months. The system was reactivated only after the attack was reported. No explanation for the system being deactivated has been offered by the Iranian authorities. Historically, Iranian vessels deactivate their tracking systems when involved in activities that are in violation of international sanctions. After the report of an attack was transmitted, the Sabiti continued south in the direction of Eritrea for 500 miles. Only then did it turn toward Iran. The vessel’s speed was logged via maritime tracking at 9.6 knots, normal cruising speed for an oil tanker of its class. Neither of these things is consistent with actions to be expected by a commercial vessel that has just been attacked and is in distress. No request for assistance was made by the Sabiti. No other vessels came to its assistance, including other Iranian vessels. No other ships in the Red Sea reported any indication of an attack, or smoke, or flames. Following the attack, the official Iranian news agency IRNA released a photo showing what it claimed was the stricken tanker Sabiti. However, the photo published by IRNA was subsequently shown to have been of other incidents in June when the Kouka Courageous, a chemical products tanker sailing under the flag of Panama, and Front Altair, a crude oil tanker under the flag of the Marshall Islands, were attacked in the Gulf of Oman. Photos released of the Sabiti by the Iranian state TV broadcaster IRIB showed no damage of any kind to the vessel...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/irans_missile_attack_hoax.html

Hawley to Introduce Bill to Move Federal

Agencies out of Washington D.C.

to Economically Stagnant Areas

By JACK CROWE

{ nationalreview.com } ~ Days after squaring off online against “elitist” critics of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s relocation of agency jobs, Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) will introduce legislation on Wednesday... that would move the majority of the federal bureaucracy out of Washington D.C. to economically depressed areas, according to a summary of the bill provided to National Review. The “Helping Infrastructure Restore the Economy (HIRE) Act,” which is cosponsored by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.), would move 90 percent of the positions within ten executive agencies to economically distressed regions that have a stake in the work of those respective agencies. Under the bill, the Department of Agriculture would be relocated to Hawley’s home state of Missouri while the Department of Education would move to Blackburn’s Tennessee, in order to disperse the economic benefits associated with relatively high-paying government jobs that currently accrue to just a few zip codes. “Every year Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars fund federal agencies that are mainly located in the D.C. bubble. That’s a big part of the problem with Washington: they’re too removed from the rest of America. The Hire Act will move policymakers directly into the communities they serve, creating thousands of jobs for local communities and saving taxpayers billions of dollars along the way,” Hawley said in a statement. The bill comes in the wake of Hawley’s online feud with Department of Agriculture research analyst Andrew Crane-Droesch, who wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday arguing that Perdue relocated his division, the Economic Research Service, to Kansas City. Mo. last year in order to undermine its staff because their research didn’t support the administration’s policy goals. “I assume this is a parody, right? DC bureaucrats aren’t actually saying out loud that moving to Missouri is … punishment, are they? Because surely nobody could be that condescending & elitist,” Hawley wrote on Twitter in response to the op-ed. Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent moved to defend Crane-Droesch on Twitter, prompting Hawley to label him a “smug, rich liberal elitist” — a charge which CNN anchor Jake Tapper then implied was motivated by anti-semitism...

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hawley-to-introduce-bill-moving-federal-agencies-out-of-washington-d-c-to-economically-stagnant-areas/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=18410959

Turks Using Chemical Weapons

Against Kurdish Civilians

by clarionproject.org ~ Turkey is using chemical weapons against Kurdish civilians, according to numerous reports, including the Kurdish Red Crescent... which sent a report directly to Clarion Project yesterday. Horrific burns sustained from skin exposure to white phosphorous have been documented in adults and children alike in Syrian-Kurdish hospitals. The bombs containing the suspected substance were dropped in the border town of Ras al-Ayn. The allegations were made before the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement, which appears to be a sham. Numerous pictures showing gruesome wounds were on social media and in the media. Newsweek magazine quoted British chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, who told the outlet, “This very much looks like it was caused by white phosphorus. In 24 hours, I have been shown more photographs of these kinds of burn than at any recent stage in Syria’s war. “White phosphorus is a horrific weapon, which can be delivered by aircraft or artillery. It reacts to the moisture in the skin in a way that intensifies its burning, so that water cannot put it out.” The substance was also documented by Mustafa Bali, head of media relations for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Kurdish-led, combined force opposing the Turks in Syria...

https://clarionproject.org/turks-using-chemical-weapons-against-kurdish-civilians/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f0b1597cd3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_23_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-f0b1597cd3-6442509&mc_cid=f0b1597cd3&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/mustefabali/status/1184605697771757574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1184605697771757574&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fclarionproject.org%2Fturks-using-chemical-weapons-against-kurdish-civilians%2F

Anti-Trump Camp Includes Hatred of Israel

By Civis Americanus

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels purportedly said, "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty," a principle the Democrat Left puts into practice with unfounded accusations that Donald Trump supports racism, white nationalism, and anti-Semitism... The anti-Israel organization If Americans Knew praised Democrat front-runner Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren by stating, "She said 'yes' to pressuring Israel to end the occupation. Keep saying yes, and add some teeth to it." The same web page adds, "Israel has been a 'foreign policy problem' for years, but also -- especially recently -- it has become a diplomatic albatross around America’s neck." The political Left, rather than Donald Trump, has a problem with our fellow democracy Israel to the extent of excusing, ignoring, and whitewashing behavior similar to that of which they accuse Trump: Palestinian discrimination against and even physical abuse of women, religious minorities, and LGBT people. It is past time for Jewish voters to wake up to the unpleasant fact that they are the moral equivalent of the Democratic Party's battered spouse, the voter whose support the party takes for granted regardless of its embrace of controversial figures like scumbag-Al Sharpton, scumbag-Louis Farrakhan, and now commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, worthless-Ilhan Omar, and worthless-Rashida Tlaib. Here is what actor scumbag-David Clennon has to say about a cultural boycott of Israel, and on the same web page where Truthout declares, "We need your help to put an end to the destruction and abuse of the Trump administration -- before it's too late." scumbag-Clennon complains, "A successful Hollywood producer is threatening to initiate a new blacklist against one somewhat successful but slightly washed-up actor: me." The context of the producer's statement was scumbag-Clennon's refusal to audition for a Netflix series because it is "…a joint project of U.S. and Israeli television companies." scumbag-Clennon then adds quite plainly, "Since the Israeli massacre of 2,200 residents of Gaza in 2014, I have supported the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel under the larger umbrella of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement." scumbag-Clennon also characterizes Israel's Operation Protective Edge as a "massacre of 2200 residents of Gaza" while omitting its context. Israel did nothing to Gaza until the terrorist organization Hamas kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers an act of war and fired rockets at Israel another act of war. It is to be remembered that, when the Nazis bombed English cities, and then fired cruise and ballistic missiles at English cities, the Royal Air Force turned Hamburg and Dresden into crematoria and would have probably dropped a nuclear bomb on Berlin had the war continued into August 1945. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris explained what should have been obvious: "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now, they are going to reap the whirlwind." Some people denounced Harris as a butcher and a war criminal, but his superiors including Prime Minister Churchill and/or Parliament could have ordered him to stop area bombing. They didn't, and Churchill was apparently comfortable with the idea of nuking Berlin. Britons who had but minutes -- and some Israelis have only 15 seconds -- to get into bomb shelters before Nazi missiles arrived probably agreed with area bombing of German cities. Royal Air Force personnel even wrote personalized messages for Hitler on their bombs before they dropped them. If Israel were to put Harris' methods minus, however, attacks on genuine civilian targets into practice, Hamas' incendiary balloons and rockets would stop within days... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/antitrump_camp_includes_hatred_of_israel.html

liar-Pelosi's Fact-Free Sheet on Impeachment

Nate Jackson: Whenever a Democrat talks about upholding the oath to “support and defend” the U.S. Constitution, there are two appropriate responses: outrage and/or laughter. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi has elicited cause for either one with her “fact sheet” laying out the case for the Democrats’ impeachment coup because President Donald Trump “has betrayed his oath of office.”

Not surprisingly, liar-Pelosi’s distort-the-facts sheet fails to actually make that case. She points to the July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and subsequent “cover up” as “evidence” of Trump’s offenses, and she quotes the whistleblower complaint to allege that Trump “is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.”

In other words, liar-Pelosi’s big splash is nothing new. And it’s not even evidence; it’s skewing the facts of the matter to sell a narrative. The key fact here is that Trump asked for Ukrainian assistance investigating what happened in the 2016 election. Whatever benefits to his 2020 campaign there may be are incidental to the 2016 questions and U.S. foreign-policy interests, however careless and sloppy Trump is when he speaks.

So, where does this impeachment charade go from here? Well, liar-Pelosi hasn’t even held a House vote yet, though she says Democrats are proceeding “solemnly.” Right.

From a broader perspective, however, Andrew McCarthy, author of Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for scumbag/liar-nObamas Impeachment, says Democrats have made a mockery of a solemn process. “Our constitutional system will be damaged because impeachment will be discredited,” he writes. “That will not make it any less indispensable than [James] Madison judged it to be. Yet its invocation will be even less likely in some grievous future instance, when a presidential abuse of power actually does imperil the nation. We will have a virtually omnipotent president.” And that, he adds, “is not a prescription for the preservation of liberty.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66266?mailing_id=4601&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4601&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 23, 2019 at 12:06pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

British Gay Mafia Forces Chick-fil-A

to Shut Down Restaurant

Todd Starnes

GOP lawmakers storm closed-door

impeachment session, as

scumbag-Schiff walks out

By Ronn Blitzer and Chad Pergram

{ foxnews.com } ~ House Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., on Wednesday essentially stormed a closed-door session connected to the impeachment investigation of President Trump... prompting House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff to suspend the proceedings in a remarkable scene. The standoff happened Wednesday morning after lawmakers held a press conference in which they accused House Democrats of lack of transparency. “We’re going to try and go in there, and we’re going to try to figure out what’s going on, on behalf of the millions of Americans that we represent that want to see this Congress working for them and not obsess with attacking a president who we believe has not done anything to deserve impeachment,” Gaetz said. The Republicans specifically called out scumbag-Schiff, D-Calif., who is leading the investigation. “What is scumbag-Adam Schiff trying to hide?” asked House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La. “I think that’s the question so many people have, so many of my colleagues have, so many people in the press should have.” “Voting members of Congress are being denied access from being able to see what’s happening behind these closed doors where they’re trying to impeach the president of the United States with a one-sided set of rules,” Scalise continued. “They call the witnesses. They don’t let anybody else call the witnesses.”“We’re gonna go and see if we can get inside,” Gaetz said at the conclusion of the press conference. From there, about 30 House Republicans flooded the room where Laura Cooper, who oversees Ukraine policy at the Department of Defense, was set to testify. Because there was no agreement for non-committee members to be present, this "sit-in" created an immediate standoff. Fox News is told that scumbag-Schiff did not ask the U.S. Capitol Police to arrest or remove Republicans who charged in — but he did leave the room and apparently does not plan to start the interview until the situation is resolved. Fox News is told about a dozen Republicans were still in the secure facility known as a SCIF as of early afternoon. In another complication, some non-committee members brought in phones and other electronic devices in possible violation of House rules... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-lawmakers-in-blasting-secret-impeachment-probe-before-attempting-to-storm-the-proceedings

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6097071623001/#sp=show-clips

Rep. Mike Johnson on

Conservatives’ New Health Care Plan

by Rachel del Guidice

{ dailysignal.com } ~ It’s been two years since Republicans fell one vote short of repealing and replacing scumbag/liar-nObamacare. Since then, Democrats have moved further to the left and pushed for a single-payer system... while Republicans have developed free-market alternatives. In today’s special edition of The Daily Signal Podcast, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., shares about a new plan put forward by the Republican Study Committee, which he says would lower costs and expand options for Americans. His interview begins at 8:15. This episode was recorded at President’s Club, an annual gathering of Heritage Foundation supporters in Washington, D.C.Rachel del Guidice: We’re honored today to be joined on The Daily Signal podcast by Congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who is also chairman of the Republican Study Committee. Congressman Johnson, thank you so much for being with us today. Rep. Mike Johnson: Thanks for having me. It’s good to be with you. del Guidice: Well, you are very busy right now. You’re currently in the midst of rolling out the RSC’s health care plan, which is entitled “A Framework for Personalized, Affordable Care.” Can you tell us a little bit about it? Johnson: Yeah. Thanks so much for the opportunity. We have been working on this product that we released this week for almost a year. Everyone remembers what happened back in 2017, the big effort Republicans made to repeal and replace scumbag/liar-nObamacare. It failed by one vote in the Senate; rino-John McCain famously did the thumbs down, and since that occurred, there hasn’t really been any idea or proposal in this space at all. It’s been almost a vacuum of ideas. What is filling it now is something that greatly concerns all of us, and should concern every American. That is the Democrats. All of the ones on stage running for president, and many of the leaders, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and company, and the Congress, who are proposing basically two options in this crisis that we have in American health care...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/23/rep-mike-johnson-on-conservatives-new-health-care-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rep-mike-johnson-on-conservatives-new-health-care-plan&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRsbVkyUm1aV1F5WkdaaSIsInQiOiI0ak1wMTc5MkdIWGFETkc0Q3hzMitRSmlYa0J6cXpQaDRxRzNYM1lLMXlHOVBmeUxLTkJVU1wvUWdDbW9tNXBER1B6dWFNQ3A1dWhnOHNWZ3B3T3NnRkxYYURZRENVT3VHeStodklteWE5ODVGRFVTb2dMc1FpVDg5NXFqblI2eGcifQ%3D%3D

VOICE VIDEO: (care plan starts at 8:15)

https://player.pippa.io/thedailysignal/episodes/tds_102319_mixdown?theme=default&cover=1&latest=1

Rush Limbaugh: Dems'

impeachment witnesses 'crapping out'

by wnd.com ~ Democrats have been boasting they will have their impeachment inquiry of President Trump completed by Thanksgiving... All of a sudden, however, they're now talking about Christmas. They explain that their witnesses – testifying behind closed doors to House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff's team – are giving them so much new evidence of massive wrongs by the president that they need more time. Bunk, contends talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh. They want more time because they haven't obtained what they want from the witnesses, he insisted on Tuesday. "This is not an impeachment that they're running. It is a deception," he said. "It's nothing more than a sham bunch of interviews in a basement, and now scumbag-Schiff is not even releasing the transcripts to Republicans, not allowing Republicans in." scumbag-Schiff, he said, simply comes out and lies about the testimony of witnesses, who later deny the chairman's claims. Limbaugh said that what's happening is "the exact opposite" of what Democrats are saying. "They aren’t finding any impeachable evidence. That's the problem!" He pointed out it was scumbag-Schiff who "promised everybody he had evidence of Trump and Russia colluding, and he has yet to produce it." So now the story is about all the witnesses and all the information they have about the president. "They need more time to investigate all these new leads," he said. "But we know that is a lie. You know how we know that's a lie? Because if there was any new dirt on Trump, scumbag-Schiff would have immediately leaked it to the New York Times or the Washington Post. There haven't been any new crimes reported by either of those stellar fake news sites. In fact, the Democrats' real problem is that their star witnesses are crapping out on 'em. Big time." Limbaugh said the Democrats' witnesses are giving up "zero evidence of any criminal behavior, high crime behavior, misdemeanor behavior, impeachable offenses. There isn't any! There are none. Instead of coming up with dirt on Trump they're basically supporting everything Trump has said." That's evident, he explained, because Democrats are concealing the transcripts of the testimonies... https://www.wnd.com/2019/10/rush-limbaugh-dems-impeachment-witnesses-crapping/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking

Trump announces 'permanent ceasefire' in

Syria between Turkey and Kurds;

lifts sanctions on Ankara

By Ronn Blitzer and Andrew O'Reilly

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump announced on Wednesday that conditions have been met between Turkey and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for what he called a " permanent ceasefire" between the two sides... and that the United States is lifting sanctions on Ankara that were implemented following the invasion of northern Syria. Speaking at the White House, Trump said that while a "permanent ceasefire" will be tough to maintain in the volatile region, he hopes that it will last and end the conflict between Turkey and the Kurds. "I do believe it will be permanent," he said. "This was an outcome created by us, the United States, and nobody else...we've done something very, very special" Trump's comment follows an early morning tweet, where he said a “safe zone” along the Turkey-Syria border and as he faces strong bipartisan criticism for pulling back U.S. troops from northern Syria. The president was optimistic after the initial 120-hour pause in the Turkish military operation there ended, and as the SDF withdrew from a stretch of territory in northern Syria. “Ceasefire has held and combat missions have ended. Kurds are safe and have worked very nicely with us,” Trump tweeted. “Captured ISIS prisoners secured.” What happens next is unclear. The U.S. withdrawal was followed by Turkish aggression, and Trump faced criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike who blamed him for allowing the violence to go unchecked and leaving Kurdish allies to fend for themselves. Turkey and Russia reached an agreement Tuesday that would transform the map of northeast Syria, installing their forces along the border and filling the void left by the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops. But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Vice President Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Ankara last week to work out the cease-fire. Though that period has since lapsed, Pence said there's an opportunity for a permanent cease-fire in the region. James Jeffrey, a career diplomat who oversees Washington’s role in the global fight against the Islamic State, also told lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he does not believe the troop withdrawal added to Turkey’s decision to invade northern Syria. Jeffrey, however, did concede that if U.S. forces had been told to stand their ground amid a Turkish invasion, Turkey may have thought otherwise about crossing the border... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-live-trump-syria

Terrorists Call for Killing Jews

from UN HQ in Gaza

by Bassam Tawil

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Leaders of several Palestinian factions are again calling for stepping up terrorist attacks against Jews. The difference is that this time... the calls were made during a sit-down strike held by Palestinians outside the offices of the United Nations in the Gaza Strip. The leaders of the Palestinian factions chose to issue their calls for killing Jews in front of the UN offices in the Gaza Strip. It is as if they are asking the UN to approve their continual terrorist attacks against Israel. What is clear -- and disturbing -- is that the UN officials in the Gaza Strip choose to remain silent when the Palestinian leaders came to their offices to incite their people to step up their terrorist attacks. The sit-down strike was organized by the "Jerusalem Department" of Hamas, the terrorist group that has been ruling the Gaza Strip since the summer of 2007. The purpose of the sit-down strike was, according to Hamas, to protest visits by Jews to the Temple Mount, or Haram Al-Sharif -- a site in Jerusalem sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip near Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs the West Bank near Jordan, as well as other Palestinian factions have long been waging a vicious campaign of incitement against the decision by Israeli authorities to allow Jews to tour the Temple Mount compound. The Palestinians are opposed to the presence of Jews on the Temple Mount -- whether as visitors or worshippers. Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount is completely forbidden by the Israeli police, and Jewish visitors are forbidden from singing, whispering, praying or making any kind of religious displays. Still, the Palestinians continue to incite against the Jewish tours, ignoring the fact that the Israeli authorities do not allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. The PA and Hamas officials and media outlets regularly describe the peaceful visits by Jews as "violent invasions by extremist Jewish settlers into the Al-Aqsa Mosque."...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15003/call-for-killing-jews-un-gaza

commie-AOC Defies liar-Pelosi,

DCCC with Texas Endorsement

by Collin Anderson

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) has endorsed another liberal challenger looking to unseat an incumbent House Democrat backed by party leadership... commie-Ocasio-Cortez endorsed progressive Jessica Cisneros in her primary challenge against Rep. Henry Cuellar (D., Tex.), citing Cisneros's status as a "strong new ally in the fight for Medicare for All." Cisneros is supported by Justice Democrats, the same progressive group that backed commie-Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) in 2018. commie-Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement marks another act of defiance toward Democratic leadership. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D., Ill.) have endorsed Cuellar. commie-Ocasio-Cortez attacked Cuellar in her endorsement, accusing the incumbent Democrat of fighting for "big corporate donors" and suggesting he is "quite regressive" compared to his constituency. The Cuellar campaign denounced the freshman congresswoman's endorsement as out-of-state meddling. commie-Ocasio-Cortez, his spokesman said, does not speak for the people of Texas. "This race is going to be decided by the voters of the 28th District of Texas, not out-of-state PACs and celebrities who seem to be the only people supporting our opponent," said Cuellar spokesman Colin Strother. Cisneros, 26, did not respond to request for comment. She previously served as an intern in Cuellar's office before accusing him on the campaign trail of being "Trump's favorite Democrat" on the campaign trail. She welcomed commie-Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement on Twitter...

https://freebeacon.com/politics/aoc-defies-pelosi-dccc-with-texas-endorsement/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=919f1c9e36-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_22_08_19_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-919f1c9e36-45611665

Anti-Trump Camp Includes Hatred of Israel

By Civis Americanus

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels purportedly said, "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty," a principle the Democrat Left puts into practice with unfounded accusations that Donald Trump supports racism, white nationalism, and anti-Semitism...The anti-Israel organization If Americans Knew praised Democrat front-runner Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren by stating, "She said 'yes' to pressuring Israel to end the occupation. Keep saying yes, and add some teeth to it." The same web page adds, "Israel has been a 'foreign policy problem' for years, but also -- especially recently -- it has become a diplomatic albatross around America’s neck." The political Left, rather than Donald Trump, has a problem with our fellow democracy Israel to the extent of excusing, ignoring, and whitewashing behavior similar to that of which they accuse Trump: Palestinian discrimination against and even physical abuse of women, religious minorities, and LGBT people. It is past time for Jewish voters to wake up to the unpleasant fact that they are the moral equivalent of the Democratic Party's battered spouse, the voter whose support the party takes for granted regardless of its embrace of controversial figures like scumbag-Al Sharpton, scumbag-Louis Farrakhan, and now commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, worthless-Ilhan Omar, and worthless-Rashida Tlaib. Here is what actor scumbag-David Clennon has to say about a cultural boycott of Israel, and on the same web page where Truthout declares, "We need your help to put an end to the destruction and abuse of the Trump administration -- before it's too late." scumbag-Clennon complains, "A successful Hollywood producer is threatening to initiate a new blacklist against one somewhat successful but slightly washed-up actor: me." The context of the producer's statement was scumbag-Clennon's refusal to audition for a Netflix series because it is "…a joint project of U.S. and Israeli television companies." scumbag-Clennon then adds quite plainly, "Since the Israeli massacre of 2,200 residents of Gaza in 2014, I have supported the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel under the larger umbrella of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement." scumbag-Clennon also characterizes Israel's Operation Protective Edge as a "massacre of 2200 residents of Gaza" while omitting its context. Israel did nothing to Gaza until the terrorist organization Hamas kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers an act of war and fired rockets at Israel another act of war. It is to be remembered that, when the Nazis bombed English cities, and then fired cruise and ballistic missiles at English cities, the Royal Air Force turned Hamburg and Dresden into crematoria and would have probably dropped a nuclear bomb on Berlin had the war continued into August 1945. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris explained what should have been obvious: "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now, they are going to reap the whirlwind." Some people denounced Harris as a butcher and a war criminal, but his superiors including Prime Minister Churchill and/or Parliament could have ordered him to stop area bombing. They didn't, and Churchill was apparently comfortable with the idea of nuking Berlin. Britons who had but minutes -- and some Israelis have only 15 seconds -- to get into bomb shelters before Nazi missiles arrived probably agreed with area bombing of German cities. Royal Air Force personnel even wrote personalized messages for Hitler on their bombs before they dropped them. If Israel were to put Harris' methods minus, however, attacks on genuine civilian targets into practice, Hamas' incendiary balloons and rockets would stop within days... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/antitrump_camp_includes_hatred_of_israel.html

British Gay Mafia Forces Chick-fil-A

to Shut Down Restaurant

Todd Starnes

The first Chick-fil-A in Great Britain will shut down six months after it opened after a massive protest by a militant group of sex and gender revolutionaries.

The Atlanta-based restaurant, one of the most popular in the nation, had opened a franchise in a mall about 90 minutes from London.

Reading Pride, an LGBTQ advocacy group, said it was “staunchly opposed to Chick-fil-A setting up shop in the UK and certainly in Reading.”

“The chain’s ethos and moral stance goes completely against our values, and that of the UK as we are a progressive country that has legalized same-sex marriage for some years, and continues to strive towards equality,” read a statement from the group.

As a result of its efforts, an untold number of British workers will be heading to the unemployment line.

The Washington Post reports that the restaurant was overwhelmed by a tsunami of online hate from militant gays and their supporters.

“You may be closing down six months’ time, but we have a message for you,” one man said. “You will not be opening anywhere else in the U.K. And if we do see you on our soil, we will stand up and we will challenge you again.”

As I write in Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left From Killing a Nation, there is a war against traditional values across the globe.

A small but vicious group of LGBT activists is hell-bent on forcing every human on the planet to bow down to its radical agenda. It even targets conservative gays — anyone who dares to stand in its way. And it will even lie to get its way.

The latest controversy stems from a fake news report published by Think Progress that alleged Chick-fil-A donated money to anti-gay hate groups. Among the groups it referenced were the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

It also took offense because the family that owns Chick-fil-A believes in traditional marriage — one man, one woman.

It’s time for freedom-loving people, gay and straight, to condemn the militant gay mafia and put a stop to its radical agenda. Otherwise, we will all be forced to sacrifice our religious beliefs on the LGBT altar of political correctness. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66230?mailing_id=4598&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4598&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wed/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 23, 2019 at 9:30am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Calling America Racist While

Ignoring Chinese Slavery

Arnold Ahlert

Wednesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

RUDY GIULIANI MOST IMPLICATED: Diplomat Bill Taylor, testifying in House impeachment probe, raises concern about possible quid pro quo over investigations seen as aiding Trump (The Wall Street Journal)

SANCTIONS LIFTED: Trump announces “permanent ceasefire” in Syria between Turkey and Kurds; lifts sanctions on Ankara (Fox News)

WICKED BEDFELLOWS: “Russia and Turkey have agreed to ensure Kurdish forces withdraw from areas close to Syria’s border with Turkey and to launch joint patrols, in a deal hailed as ‘historic’ by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.” (Agence France-Presse)

Government & Politics

IDENTITY SOCIALISM: Fake Indian Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren is running out of fake money to pay for her terrible ideas (Reason)

COLLUSION DELUSION: “Do-nothing Congress”: liar-Pelosi, Democrats produce more subpoenas than laws (The Washington Times)

NINTH CIRCUS: Ninth Circuit upholds block on birth-control exemption for religious employers (National Review)

Business & Technology

NURTURING COMPETITION: Senate Republican Josh Hawley introduces bipartisan bill empowering users to withdraw their data from social-media giants (National Review)

OFF TO MORE FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENTS: Tech companies are accelerating their exodus from China (The New American)

MEANWHILE… For the first time, there are fewer wealthy Americans than Chinese (CBS News)

Other Notables

HOT AIR: California governor who wanted higher gas prices wants investigation of high gas prices (Associated Press)

CONCESSION: “The Hong Kong government on Wednesday withdrew the controversial extradition bill that sparked months of violent protests, but that is only one of the five demands that continue to drive protesters to the streets.” (Fox News)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: Is it time for America to begin decoupling from communist China? (The Federalist)

POLICY: Breathe free: Capitalism helps protect the environment (The Daily Signal)

HUMOR: scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton sells out tour for new book, Everyone I Don’t Like Is a Russian Agent (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66299?mailing_id=4603&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4603&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The Deep State Comes Out Of The Shadows

by John Merline

{ issuesinsights.com } ~ Two news stories published over the weekend had the same message. The State Department was out to get President Donald Trump after suffering years of “frustration.”... At least these denizens of the deep state are being honest. Politico’s 2,000-word story – titled “The Revenge of the State Department” – begins by reporting on the fact that “current and former Foreign Service officers have defied Trump administration orders and trudged to Capitol Hill to testify before House committees investigating whether to impeach the president.” These officials, the story says, are “furious,” “terrified,” “incredulous,” “disappointed,” “fed up,” “livid,” with a “deep well of resentment,” in an “unbearable” situation. Some of them, Politico reports, are using the hearings as a “platform to air long-held grievances over Trump.” And their colleagues are “hailing them as heroes.” What, exactly, are these career State Department bureaucrats angry about? They’re mad that several of them “were demoted or sidelined following attacks by the conservative media.” They complain about what they see as Trump’s “dangerous brand of diplomatic malpractice.” They’re upset that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo didn’t publicly support Marie Yavonovitch after Trump removed her from her post as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, and that Pompeo “is willing to sell out the department to keep favor with Trump.” They’re also enraged that Pompeo gave a speech to the American Association of Christian Counselors and talked openly about the importance of his faith. That, according to Politico, “troubled many diplomats.”... https://issuesinsights.com/2019/10/21/the-deep-state-comes-out-of-the-shadows/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newslink&utm_term=members&utm_content=20191023142035

scumbag-Adam Schiff’s “Media Leaks

to Frame Impeachment Narrative Are False”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Representative John Ratcliffe appears with Martha MacCallum to discuss the ongoing closed-door testimony... from officials upset about President Trump’s unorthodox approach to foreign policy. Mr. Ratcliffe notes the purposeful leaks from Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff and his Lawfare staff to their aligned media scribes are intentionally false by design. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/22/john-ratcliffe-adam-schiffs-media-leaks-to-frame-impeachment-narrative-are-false/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bzUBX7wfqs

Lawless Democrats won’t let

any Republicans see the transcripts

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By S.Noble

{ independentsentinel.com } ~ We hope the Republicans have been bringing tape recorders into the scumbag-Schiff committee hearings since there is no other way they will be able to recall what went on in the hearings... nor will they be able to counter any lies. The Democrats have become so unAmerican in the use of their Soviet-style tactics as they roll towards impeachment that they won’t even allow Republican members of the committee to see the transcripts. Democrats are lawless as people can see in their treatment of the border and any number of issues, but their refusal to be fair in any way during the impeachment process is what you would expect from the Soviets. They have given Republicans and the President no rights whatsoever in the process which they make up as they go along. They won’t give them the right to call witnesses as they stack the deck with disgruntled employees. They will not call the so-called ‘whistleblowers’ who are the main witnesses. The main witness once worked in the White House with loose lips liar-Joe Biden and has ties to a 2020 opponent of Donald Trump’s. He is not a direct witness, and he only reported rumors and information gathered from newspaper articles. Yet, he gets to hide his identity and the President is not allowed to face his accuser. Democrats are falsely calling this a grand jury and the hearings, ‘depositions.’** The President has been deprived of all his civil rights. Now, the Democrats will be able to hide the transcripts and make up a report based on their version of what is in them. If they are telling the truth, why do they need to do this??? Obviously, they plan to lie. There is no regard for due process or the rule of law and when these Democrats have all the power, we will no longer live in a free country. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said on The Ingraham Angle last night, “The reality is when you close the doors, you’re saying we don’t trust anybody but us to get to the truth. And they’re actually, the word came out tonight, they’re not even going to let these guys, members of the committee, get access to the transcripts anymore.”...

https://www.independentsentinel.com/lawless-democrats-wont-let-any-republicans-see-the-transcripts/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqkQ6Uwnk5E

Germany's Maas says Turkey 'invasion'

illegitimate under international law

by dw.com ~ Germany's foreign minister has described Turkey's offensive against Syrian Kurds as an "invasion" and said Berlin saw it as illegitimate... But the Turkish president's spokesman said Ankara's forces merited gratitude. Germany rejects Turkey's justification for a military push into Kurdish-dominated regions of northeast Syria, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Sunday. "After everything we know and after everything that Turkey itself has cited as a legal basis, we cannot share that view," Maas said in remarks broadcast by the public broadcaster ZDF. "We do not believe that an attack on Kurdish units or Kurdish militias is legitimate under international law," the foreign minister added. His comments were echoed by other top officials, including Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. At a conservative party congress, she said Turkey was violating the "basis of the post-World War II order," whereby conflicts should be solved by diplomacy instead of force. Turkey has cited links between the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighting against the Turkish state as justification to clear its border of "terrorists" in self-defense. Since the Turkish military and its rebel proxies launched the offensive on October 9, at least 160,000 people have been displaced and scores killed. Human rights organizations have warned that the Turkish-led offensive may have committed war crimes, including targeting civilians and carrying out summary executions. Maas warned that Germany was keeping an eye on Turkey's actions following a fragile US brokered truce. "We have been very clear that we are keeping other measures open — and they might also include economic sanctions." According to a survey conducted by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen pollster, 91% of Germans are against arms exports to Turkey and 65% support punitive economic measures against the country due to its offensive in Syria... https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-maas-says-turkey-invasion-illegitimate-under-international-law/a-50909349

Unidentified Drones Attack

Iranian-Backed Militia in Eastern Syria

By TZVI JOFFRE

{ jpost.com } ~ Unidentified drones attacked Syrian areas controlled by the Assad regime and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias at the Hamdan airport near the town of Al-Bukamal in the eastern region of Deir ez-Zor... according to opposition-affiliated TV station Halab Today. Before the attack, three drones were seen flying from the direction of areas under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces militia, according to Step News, a news agency founded by Syrian activists and journalists. At noon, explosions were heard at the Hamdan airport. Ambulances were sent to the airport, but the number of causalities is unknown. Iranian-backed militias in Al-Bukamal have been targeted by airstrikes multiple times in the past year. Syrian forces and Iranian-backed militias began transferring equipment and materials to Al-Bukamal for the purpose of building bridges across the Euphrates River, according to local news outlet Deir ez-Zor 24. International coalition aircraft intensified flights over the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor last week. Sites controlled by Iran in Al-Bukamal have been targeted multiple times by airstrikes in recent months. A strategic border crossing between Iraq and Syria is located in the area. Iranian forces and militias loyal to them are fortifying their positions in the Deir ez-Zor area in eastern Syria where Al-Bukamal is located, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights [SOHR]. In September, at least 37 militants were killed in two airstrikes which also destroyed vehicles, ammunition depots, weapons and buildings in the Al-Bukamal area. Many of those killed were of Iraqi nationality. The attacks in the Al-Bukamal area have been blamed on both Israel and Saudi Arabia. "Saudi fighter jets have been spotted along with other fighter jets that have attacked facilities and positions belonging to Iranian militias," said an unnamed source to the Independent in Arabic. The attacks targeted positions belonging to the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in Al-Bukamal and other areas near the Iraq-Syria border. Saudi sources later denied the report, according to the Independent. On September 9, airstrikes allegedly carried out by Israel destroyed a military base in the area under Iranian control, according to the SOHR.

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Unidentified-drones-attack-Iranian-backed-militia-in-eastern-Syria-report-605436

Scaramucci to Mulvaney

'Resign, go to confession'

By JOHN BOWDEN

{ thehill.com } ~ Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci urged acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to step down and "go to confession"... after a tumultuous week for the Trump administration. During an appearance on CNN's "New Day," Scaramucci was asked by anchor John Berman what advice he would give to Mulvaney after the chief of staff appeared to admit to the existence of a quid pro quo between President Trump and Ukraine's president over the issues of military aid and an investigation into former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden."If I were giving Mick Mulvaney advice, if I were him I would resign, I would get myself a really good lawyer, because you're going to have to explain a lot of things," Scaramucci said. "What I would say to Mick, is, you're a good Catholic — resign, go to confession, OK, then let's rebuild your career from here," he added.Scaramucci, who served just ten days in the Trump administration before himself resigning after an explosive tirade to a reporter was published, has in recent weeks become a vocal critic of the White House amid Democrats' impeachment inquiry over the growing Ukraine scandal. In August, he said it was "pretty obvious" that he would not support Trump's reelection while accusing the president of sounding "nonsensical" before the American public. Critics of the White House argue that Trump's attempts to persuade Ukraine's president to investigate loose lips liar-Biden represent an abuse of power and an attempt to spur a foreign power to interfere in a U.S. election. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/466734-scaramucci-to-mulvaney-resign-go-to-confession

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1186254236016959488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1186254236016959488&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fadministration%2F466734-scaramucci-to-mulvaney-resign-go-to-confession

Calling America Racist While

Ignoring Chinese Slavery

Arnold Ahlert: “In the NFL, they got a bunch of old white men owning teams and they got that slave mentality. And it’s like, ‘This is my team. You do what the f—k I tell y'all to do. Or we get rid of y'all.’” —LeBron James, December 2018

Like so many American leftists, LeBron James is quite comfortable with the idea that America is an inherently racist country that must forever atone for its legacy of slavery. Most of the Democrat presidential candidates take it one step further and support reparations for slavery, as in the idea that those who never participated in the practice should compensate those who never experienced it.

Yet if there is any lasting legacy of racism going forward, the lion’s share of it is owned by the Democrat Party. That history includes ties to Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan, as well as 20 Democrat platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject from 1868 through 1948. It also includes opposition to the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, banning slavery, guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves, and granting black Americans the right to vote, respectively. All of this is historically undeniable.

Even more undeniable? The reality that slavery was abolished 154 years ago.

In America. What about China? According to the Global Slavery Index, as many as 3.8 million people there live in slave-like conditions. Moreover, the website adds, forced-labor conditions “have been documented in electronics factories supplying major brands such as Apple, Acer, HP, and Sony, among many others.”

What other companies use slave or forced labor? A $3 trillion apparel and footwear industry that employs an estimated 60 million to 75 million people who are paid very little — or nothing at all. A 2018 report produced by the nonprofit KnowTheChain offers details: “Workers have been found to be at risk of forced labor in the picking of cotton, harvesting of rubber, on cattle ranches used for the production of leather, in the farming of silk cocoons, the spinning of yarn, and in the manufacturing of apparel and footwear.”

Until it ostensibly cleaned up its act in 1998, Nike reportedly used sweatshops and child labor to make its footwear. Unfortunately, an August 2017 article published by the Quartz website stated that “Nike’s sweatshop problem is threatening a comeback,” including claims that “workers at a Nike contract factory in Hansae, Vietnam, suffered wage theft and verbal abuse, and labored for hours in temperatures well over the legal limit of 90 degrees, to the point that they would collapse at their sewing machines.”

In 2016, LeBron James’s business partner, Maverick Carter, implied that James’s 2015 deal with Nike was in excess of $1 billion — easily surpassing the 10-year, $300 million deal fellow NBA player Kevin Durant signed with Nike in 2014. Ironically, James began wearing Nike sneakers with the word “equality” stitched on the heel during 2017-2018 NBA season as a protest — against the policies of American President Donald Trump.

Fox Sports Radio host Clay Travis wasn’t buying it. “LeBron James is selling a tennis shoe with equality written on the back of it, which is made by slave labor overseas,” he noted. “The irony of this decision is mind-blowing.”

Not really. Leftists’ one-sided obsession with reparations and slavery is much like their one-sided obsession with global warming: focus their rage at an America leading the world in greenhouse-gas reductions, while giving China, a.k.a. the world’s largest polluter, a pass.

Despite such overt hypocrisy, reality intrudes. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection accuses Hetian Taida Apparel Co. in China’s Xinjiang province of using forced or prison labor, and last month the agency banned U.S. imports of the company’s garments,” Wall Street Journal columnists Jianli Yang and Lianchao Han report. “It’s a first step, but the U.S. should go much further. China, the world’s largest cotton producer, has built the world’s largest prison system to provide the labor needed to sustain cotton production.”

Jainli and Liancho also reveal that China has “the most expansive and intrusive surveillance system in the world in Xinjiang, making the province essentially an open-air prison.” And when the communist government fully employs the Social Credit Rating system it will forcibly impose on its people beginning next year?

Last May, Trump administration Assistant Secretary of Defense Randall Schriver accused Beijing of putting more than a million minority Muslims in “concentration camps” the Chinese describe as vocational education training centers. Sayragul Sauytbay, a teacher who escaped from China and was granted asylum in Sweden, offers a firsthand account of those “education centers.” “Twenty prisoners live in one small room,” she reveals. “They are handcuffed, their heads shaved, every move is monitored by ceiling cameras. A bucket in the corner of the room is their toilet. The daily routine begins at 6 A.M. They are learning Chinese, memorizing propaganda songs and confessing to invented sins. They range in age from teenagers to elderly. Their meals are meager: cloudy soup and a slice of bread.”

Nonetheless, when LeBron was venting his anger at NFL “slave owners,” he offered nothing but praise for NBA commissioner Adam Silver. “He doesn’t mind us having … a real feeling and to be able to express that.”

When it really counted, Silver himself was not so expressive. “It is inevitable that people around the world — including from America and China — will have different viewpoints over different issues,” Silver cravenly stated in response China’s reaction to Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s support for Hong Kong protesters. “It is not the role of the NBA to adjudicate those differences.”

Yet some adjudication is “more equal” than others: the same NBA moved its All-Star game out of North Carolina in response to what the league described as North Carolina’s H2 “anti-LGBT” bill because it required schools and public facilities containing single-gender bathrooms to only allow people of the corresponding birth-certificate sex to use them. In a statement, the league bemoaned the “climate created by HB2.”

The “climate” created by a communist government that relegates millions to a life of slave labor? Full speed ahead.

The Tariff Act of 1930, a.k.a. the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, barred the importation of all good produced by “convict labor or forced labor.” In 2016, a Republican-controlled Congress ostensibly closed a loophole in that bill that allowed companies to import goods derived from slavery if domestic production couldn’t meet demand for those goods.

Yet somehow, America still managed to reach a record-setting $419 billion trade deficit in 2018 with the world’s leading slave state.

“The last thing the NBA, Disney, Apple, Nike and the rest of the ‘megas’ want is competition,” explains columnist Daniel Greenfield. “What they want is a walled garden tended by a kindly Zen-Communist tyrant who will give them a virgin territory in exchange for a huge slice of the pie to be shared with local political partners.”

And useful idiots in America, who never miss a chance to denigrate their own nation, will be with them — every sneaker-clad step of the way. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66238?mailing_id=4598&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4598&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 23, 2019 at 6:54am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

CNN Blows Another Debate

Michael Reagan

Don’t Blame Trump for Syria

by Bruce Thornton

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ President Trump is facing intense criticism for his decision to withdraw fewer than 1000 U.S. troops from northeastern Syria... The dispute largely reflects the bipartisan NeverTrump penchant for politicizing every Trump decision in order to weaken the president. But there are honest people on both sides of the issue who have compelling arguments for their positions. Unfortunately, no rational argument can resolve this disagreement over our presence in Syria, for its causes run much deeper than military tactics and foreign policy strategies: The divided aims underlying our interactions with the world that have left us with a schizophrenic foreign policy. America has long tried to reconcile our desire to be wary of “foreign entanglements,” with our involvements abroad forced on us by changes in technology like the steamship and the telegraph, and by a growing global trade that enriched our own economy at the cost of increasing “entanglements” in foreign affairs. Our participation in the Great War of 1914-1918 made us a global power, just at the time that the ideology of “moralizing internationalism” had taken hold in the West, famously expressed in Woodrow Wilson’s call “to make the world safe for democracy.” For many, the return to isolationism following the war, evident in the Senate’s refusal to ratify the Versailles Treaty, was a disaster that helped spark the much more devastating Second World War. During the Cold War, our standoff with a nuclear armed communist superpower legitimized our deep involvement in managing and defending the Free World we now led. Multinational alliances, conventions, institutions, treaties, and covenants were the means for promoting liberal democracy and human rights, and for adjudicating international disputes and global conflicts while limiting armed violence to proxy duels. The successful end of the Cold War created the illusion that our traditional isolationism was no longer viable, given what George H.W. Bush called the “new world order.” Yet this global leadership still cut against the grain of America’s tradition of avoiding involvement in overseas disputes. In part these isolationist inclinations reflect the age-old flaw of democracies and their regularly scheduled elections, in which political power and policies shift from one party to another, empowering democratic voters to pursue their traditional preference for “butter” over guns. More important, democratic recycling of political leadership promotes short-term thinking, as writers from Demosthenes to de Tocqueville to Churchill have pointed out. Writing after the spectacular carnage of World War II, for example, Churchill attributed the slaughter in part “to the structure and habits of democratic states,” which “lack those elements of persistence and conviction which alone can give security to the humble masses,” and in which “even in matters of self-preservation, no policy is pursued for even ten or fifteen years at a time.” If you think the Cold War policy of containment disprove this assessment, remember it was “cold” because of the Mutually Assured Destruction that would result from a direct confrontation. Imagine how the postwar conflict between the U.S. and the USSR would have played out if the Trinity nuclear test had failed on July 16, 1945...

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/dont-blame-trump-syria-bruce-thornton

scumbag/liar-nObama Headlining

Democrat Redistricting Fundraiser at

Alex scumbag-Soros’s Home

by JOSHUA CAPLAN

{ breitbart.com } ~ Former President Barack scumbag/liar-Obama will headline a fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) at Alex scumbag-Soros’s New York City home on Monday evening... according to Politico Playbook. Also expected to attend the NDRC event are the group’s founder and chairman, former Attorney General scumbag-Eric Holder, and former Virginia governor and CNN contributor Terry McAuliffe. Founded in 2016, the NDRC is a super PAC aimed at positioning Democrats favorably in the round of redistricting after the 2020 census. Earlier this year, scumbag/liar-nObama’s political advocacy group, Organizing for Action (OFA), folded itself into scumbag-Holder’s group and launched a campaign called “All On The Line” aimed at promoting redistricting reform. In August, the group unveiled another initiative, Redistricting U, that saw activists provide free training and tools to volunteers involved in redistricting efforts and guide groups on how to “be leaders in the movement for fair maps.” “Training is at the heart of organizing. It’s why I’ve always made it a priority – from my 2008 campaign until now,” scumbag/liar-nObama wrote in a tweet announcing the effort, which is part of the “All On The Line” campaign.“The movement for fair maps will determine the course of progress on every issue we care about for the next decade,” the former president added. “And we can’t wait to begin organizing when the redistricting process starts in 2021. We need to build this movement from the ground up – right now.” Before leaving the White House, scumbag/liar-nObama stated that he would make redistricting efforts a top priority in his post-White House career. “Restoring fairness to our democracy by advocating for fairer, more inclusive district maps around the country is a priority for President scumbag/liar-nObama,” scumbag/liar-nObama spokesman Kevin Lewis said in a statement at the time.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/21/obama-headlining-democrat-redistricting-fundraiser-at-alex-soros-home/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29

Newt Gingrich Scorches liar-Pelosi,

scumbag-Schiff: 'Embarassingly

Dishonest' Politicians

By Joe Saunders

{ westernjournal.com } ~ When it comes to the “impeachment inquiry” threatening President Donald Trump, not many Americans have the perspective of Newt Gingrich... The former House speaker who oversaw the impeachment of then-President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton in 1998 knows what lawmakers have done before in taking on the White House from Capitol Hill. And the current farce led by the ferociously partisan House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and her lieutenant, Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, isn’t even close. “What they’re doing right now is a fundamental violation of American law,” Gingrich told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” on Monday. “scumbag-Schiff is an embarrassingly dishonest person,” the former GOP congressman from Georgia said. “liar-Pelosi has become an embarrassingly dishonest person.” As Americans who remember the scumbag/liar-Clinton years will recall, the contrast between what happened on Capitol Hill then versus what Democrats are doing now could not be starker. As Gingrich pointed out, Republicans organizing the scumbag/liar-Clinton impeachment were working with the report compiled by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who found 11 counts of lying, obstruction and other crimes that could merit impeachment. Today’s Democrats had their own special counsel investigation blow up in their faces, with a report that established no crimes by the president at all. It got even more embarrassing when special counsel Robert Mueller showed up for congressional hearings clearly out of his element. Instead of a vetted document compiled by experienced prosecutors, today’s Democrats are going off the shaky report of an even shakier “whistleblower” with reported ties to Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. During the scumbag/liar-Clinton impeachment, Gingrich said, Republicans relied heavily on precedents established during the impeachment of President Richard Nixon by N.J. Rep. Peter Rodino, the Democrat who chaired the House Judiciary Committee in 1974. Today’s Democrats are relying on nothing other than their power to control the operations of the House... https://www.westernjournal.com/newt-gingrich-scorches-pelosi-schiff-embarassingly-dishonest-politicians/

Trump’s ‘New Deal’ on Iran

by clarionproject.org ~ President Trump has no intention of just renegotiating the nuclear deal with Iran, rather it would have to be a “new deal” that forces Iran to stop all of it’s “menacing behavior.”... Watch Clarion Project’s National Security Analyst and Shillman Fellow Ryan Mauro on I24 News with good advice on how to proceed with the Islamic Republic: https://clarionproject.org/trumps-new-deal-on-iran/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b38f69430c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_22_01_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-b38f69430c-6442509&mc_cid=b38f69430c&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MILBt-Wsl0

scumbag/commie-Brennan And

scumbag-Clapper To Be Interviewed As Part

Of Investigation Into Russia Probe Origins

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ U.S. Attorney John Durham intends to interview former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan as part of his investigation into U.S. intelligence agencies’ activities in the Trump-Russia probe... according to NBC News. scumbag/commie-Brennan told NBC News, where he is an analyst, that both he and scumbag-James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, are sought for interviews with Durham’s investigators. The interviews, should they occur, would signal that Durham is expanding his investigation. Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham to oversee an inquiry into U.S. agencies’ Trump-related intelligence-gathering activities earlier this year. Barr said he was not satisfied with official explanations about the origins of the investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The FBI opened an investigation on July 31, 2016 into whether Trump associates were colluding with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election. The special counsel’s investigation found no evidence of a conspiracy or that any Trump associates acted as agents of Russia. But scumbag/commie-Brennan, a staunch critic of President Donald Trump and Barr, has fiercely defended the investigation of the Trump campaign. He is also questioning the legal basis for the Durham probe, which he called “bizarre.” “I don’t know what the legal basis for this is,” he told NBC News. “I’m very comfortable with everything I was involved in,” he added. Barr has said little in public about the investigation, but it reportedly centers on FBI and CIA activities before and during the Trump-Russia collusion investigation. Durham is also reportedly looking into what involvement foreign governments might have had in intelligence-gathering against Trump associates. The Durham probe has picked up steam in recent weeks, with Barr and Durham visiting Italy in September, reportedly to collect information about Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor who had contacts with former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/21/john-brennan-durham-cia-trump-russia/

Why CAIR Doesn’t Represent American Muslims

by clarionproject.org ~ In its effort to be piggyback on the intersectional Leftist crowd, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) espouses a lot of ideas that cater that many American Muslims... especially those who are religiously conservative do not align with. As counter-terrorism analyst Oz Sultan explains, the American Muslim diaspora comes from 77 diverse Muslim countries. There’s no standard bearer organization that can say they represent all of us, least of all CAIR. Listen to Oz explain why CAIR cannot possibly represent American Muslims. Also discover why his participation in the Park 51 project laid the foundation to shape a more integrated program that can address some of the critical issues American Muslims face around faith and identity. Oz Sultan is founder of Our House NYC. He’s also a Big Data and counterterrorism analyst who helps break down complex problems, including coining the term “jillennial” jihadi millennial. Sultan was part of the original Park 51 project and had the chance to observe the collaboration and communication breakdowns of leadership of prior generations in Muslim communities, and he’s shaping the next generation of dialogue models with Our House NYC. Our House NYC is envisioned to be the TEDx of religion. https://clarionproject.org/why-cair-doesnt-represent-american-muslims/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b38f69430c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_22_01_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-b38f69430c-6442509&mc_cid=b38f69430c&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOd1kwlaU7Q

CNN Blows Another Debate

Michael Reagan

Twelve presidential wannabes standing in a row on stage for three hours.

Three friendly liberal journalists under-handing softball questions to them.

Tons of BS about free government healthcare and why Trump should be impeached.

Until the personal shock I got at the end of the Democrats’ debate on CNN woke me from my stupor, I wasn’t sure I wasn’t watching a rerun of last month’s debate.

It was the same uninspiring lineup of leftwing political featherweights, plus a self-made billionaire in a hideous tie named Tom Steyer.

And this time instead of ganging up on poor old Joe Biden, everyone was picking a fight with Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren.

They were trying to get the former Native American to admit the truth she would not speak — that her “free” Medicare-for-All Plan is going to be paid for with higher taxes on the middle class.

Otherwise, the CNN debate was another in a series of three-hour ordeals featuring the usual Trump bashing, false promises, canned answers and left-wing Democrat talking points.

No one excelled. No one stood out from the 12-pack of mediocrity.

loose lips liar-Joe Biden was sad to watch as he continued his slow death spiral.

commie-Bernie looked healthy, but he’s stalled in the polls. The angry socialist will never win the nomination, even with the endorsement of commie-AOC and the rest of her Squad.

Sen. dinky/liar-Warren was her usual unlikable self — a Professor Know-It-All with dozens of big detailed federal plans that won’t work, will cost trillions and will turn America into a bigger Swedish welfare state than it already is.

She also showed she’s not too good at taking a punch — or a bunch of slaps — from her fellow lefties.

Mayor Pete did well because in a crowd of goofballs he actually sounded reasonable now and then.

He and impressive congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii were standouts, but they have no more chance of winning the right to lose to Trump than lowlife-Harris, socialist-O'Rourke, scumbag-Booker and the rest of the 2 per-centers.

As for the debate itself, what a joke.

CNN’s questioners were too biased to ask tough questions of their soulmates.

Plus, they completely avoided several radioactive subjects that would have forced Democrats to admit that President Trump has some successes he can take credit for, such as the booming economy, low unemployment and trade negotiations with China.

Stranger yet, there wasn’t a single question about the hottest news topic of the moment — China and its tiff with the NBA.

Maybe CNN was afraid China would black out its newscasts like they did the NBA games.

If I were really cynical, I’d suspect CNN of clearing its debate questions beforehand with the Democratic National Committee.

The result of CNN’s institutional incompetence and permanent liberal tilt was a debate that slogged on and on and got nowhere. No wonder the ratings tanked.

If I were CNN’s execs, next time I’d put a BS Meter at the bottom of the screen. Watching its arrow spike twice a minute at least would have provided a little fun for intrepid viewers like me who stuck it out for three hours.

How bad was the Democrats’ third debate? Well, the biggest winner of the night again was obviously President Trump, who’s still the front-runner.

In what has to be the strangest twist of all, the most-Googled name of the night after the debate was not Biden, Sanders, Warren or Gabbard. It was not even a Democrat.

It was a Reagan.

My brother Ron ended up being the most Googled thanks to the old commercial that CNN ran right before the final question.

The TV ad, shot about six years ago, featured Ron saying something like, “I’m a lifelong atheist and I’m not worried about burning in hell.”

The sudden appearance of my brother endorsing atheism on my TV was shocking, to say the least.

Maybe it was the only ad CNN could find, or maybe CNN aired it for free.

But for me it was a crummy reward for watching their horrible debate all the way to the end. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66197?mailing_id=4595&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4595&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tuesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 22, 2019 at 3:30pm

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~ Featuring ~

The Totalitarian American Left

David Limbaugh

Benny Gantz to Receive Mandate

From President Rivlin Wednesday Night

By GIL HOFFMAN

{ jpost.com } ~ President Reuven Rivlin will formally task Blue and White leader Benny Gantz with forming a new government on Wednesday evening at the President’s Residence... Rivlin’s spokeswoman announced on Tuesday. Gantz will have 28 days to build a coalition, beginning Wednesday night at midnight and ending just before midnight on November 20, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned his mandate to Rivlin on Tuesday evening. Sources close to Gantz said Blue and White would speak to representatives of each of the nine other factions in the Knesset during the four weeks. But they stressed that there was a difference between such talks and official coalition negotiations, which would only be held with possible coalition partners. “We will invite the Likud first, as we promised, but listen to all the factions,” a source close to Gantz said. “We will hear from those who know we will not sit in a coalition with them and continue with our potential partners.” When asked who could be a coalition partner, the source’s response left open the possibility of every faction except the Joint List. “We will not build a government with parties that do not believe in Israel remaining Jewish and democratic,” the source said. “This has not changed since the election.” The four Arab parties that make up the Joint List are divided over the question of whether they could provide a parliamentary safety net for a Gantz-led minority government. Balad leader Mtanes Shehadeh said his three MKs could not vote for such a government, but both Ayman Odeh, Hadash Party leader and Joint List chairman, and Ta’al Party head Ahmad Tibi spoke in favor of such a scenario. “If Gantz goes in the path of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, I would be happy to lead the safety net,” Odeh told Channel 12. But Gantz’s associates said he does not intend to build a minority government and would stick to his promise to form a unity coalition with Likud, Yisrael Beytenu and Labor-Gesher. Other parties on the Right and Left would then be invited... https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/First-day-of-Gantzs-mandate-Shaked-willing-to-come-to-negotiations-605373

They Aren’t Whistleblowers

They’re Double Agents

by GianCarlo Canaparo

{ dailysignal.com } ~ The New York Times on Oct. 4 reported that a second intelligence official “alarmed by President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine” is considering whether to file a complaint with the intelligence community inspector general... Like the first whistleblower, however, this individual is apparently trying to advance his agenda outside of the process provided by federal law. As we have detailed, the first whistleblower began with the office of Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, however, prohibits that direct contact, requiring instead that complaints follow a process that begins with the intelligence community inspector general. In like fashion, this second individual, who claims to have firsthand information regarding Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has chosen to talk to the media through his or her lawyer, rather than file a complaint. According to the lawyer, this person has firsthand knowledge of some of the allegations included in the first complaint and has spoken to the inspector general. Until this official files a complaint and it’s made public, we have no idea whether his or her account will, as the media have reported, bolster the secondhand and thirdhand information recounted in the first complaint. Until we see his or her complaint and the information actually detailed in it, the information the media report that his lawyer told them is still secondhand. Naturally, that hasn’t stopped the media from calling this a “firsthand” account and speculating wildly about its impact on Democrats’ impeachment efforts. The New York Times, for example, claims that it “would potentially add further credibility to the account of the first whistleblower.” There’s that word again: “whistleblower.” The media often use it, but all we know is that the second person has something to say that his or her lawyer has shared with the media. How does that make him or her a “whistleblower”? For that matter, is the first person a whistleblower? Let’s start with the law that protects intelligence officials who blow the whistle. The key provision of the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act is codified in Title 50 of the U.S. Code Section 3033... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/21/they-arent-whistleblowers-theyre-double-agents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=they-arent-whistleblowers-theyre-double-agents&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURBNVpXSmtaalZoTWpFdyIsInQiOiJBakZtaGFNZmlzWW5Ia3hnNis5TkdCb3ZXYnpJQzVoeXM1Q1NWRTdPMmt4N0xCbzJZSkN4U09qSTVoZnVZZXV4WEFPdm1sT1dTQXZaSFFEb2E5SWhXYmRBXC96Q0pFU1F0VGJnc0FtZDJzOG1KNldvMzkxYm9aeWhiTmcySG05WGIifQ%3D%3D

Democrats Consider Undermining

Administration’s Crackdown on Tax Avoidance

by Adam Michel

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Senate Democrats are trying to chip away at critical elements of the 2017 tax cuts. Included in the 2017 tax cuts is the new $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, one of the reform’s signature achievements... The cap advanced the bipartisan goal of treating taxpayers across the income scale more fairly by diminishing the previously unlimited subsidy for high-income taxpayers in high-tax states. The Senate is set to vote to overturn regulations that are necessary to implement the cap according to congressional intent. Overturning the regulations could increase the deficit by more $673 billion over 10 years and encourage high-income taxpayers to avoid taxes and make a profit in the process. The SALT cap was part of the most sweeping update to the U.S. tax code in more than 30 years, which cut taxes and has allowed the American economy to continue its longest economic expansion in recorded history. Undermining the SALT cap would begin to chip away at the core achievements of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Senators may be motivated by two misconceptions about the SALT deduction and the implementing regulations. Myth No. 1: The Cap Hurts Middle-Class Taxpayers. Before the 2017 tax cut capped the SALT deduction, 70% of taxpayers received no benefit from it. Most of the benefits flowed to wealthy taxpayers in high-tax states. Despite the SALT cap, the vast majority of taxpayers still got a big tax cut for three reasons. First, the tax law doubled the standard deduction, which means that about half of the people who previously chose to itemize their taxes which allows access to the SALT write-off now voluntarily choose to take the new larger standard deduction. Most of these people are better off than they were before... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/21/democrats-consider-undermining-administrations-ability-to-crack-down-on-tax-avoidance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=democrats-consider-undermining-administrations-ability-to-crack-down-on-tax-avoidance&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURBNVpXSmtaalZoTWpFdyIsInQiOiJBakZtaGFNZmlzWW5Ia3hnNis5TkdCb3ZXYnpJQzVoeXM1Q1NWRTdPMmt4N0xCbzJZSkN4U09qSTVoZnVZZXV4WEFPdm1sT1dTQXZaSFFEb2E5SWhXYmRBXC96Q0pFU1F0VGJnc0FtZDJzOG1KNldvMzkxYm9aeWhiTmcySG05WGIifQ%3D%3D

Democrats Memo LEAKS

Entire Impeachment Plan Just Got Revealed

by Martin Walsh

{ explainlife.com } ~ House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi crossed the red line and caved to the radical wing of the Democratic Party. She held off on trying to remove the president from office for a long time... but she agreed to launch an impeachment inquiry over a nothing burger phone call President Donald Trump had back in July with the Ukrainian.The move is already blowing up in the Left’s face. And now an internal memo from the Democrats just leaked, and it reveals their entire impeachment plan. Illinois Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos, who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, sent a memo to her colleagues advising them on messaging tactics regarding impeachment. But it was leaked to the Axios – and the memo clearly admits that this entire impeachment scam is purely political. The memo from Bustos is largely geared toward vulnerable Democrats in battleground districts that could decide who controls the U.S. House in 2020. “Below is a memo with messaging guidance on the impeachment inquiry,” Bustos wrote in an email to House Democrats.“This comes from research conducted by the DCCC’s pollsters over the past weeks. It reaffirms the strong position Democrats hold on this issue, due to the focus and restraint with which our Caucus has approached this pressing and serious matter. We hope you will find this guidance useful and we appreciate you keeping this within our Caucus.” The memo then provided House Democrats with “message guidance,” which is where it becomes obvious that this is nothing more than a total sham to bring down the president for political purposes. “When discussing Trump’s actions, keep the language simple, direct and values-based: President Trump abused his power and put himself above the law when he asked the Ukrainian President to interfere in the U.S. election,” the memo reads. Finally, the memo says House Democrats should “focus on the biggest issues facing families in the country,” acknowledging that issues like health care and wages “continue to out-rank impeachment as priorities for voters, especially swing voters.” There’s another big tell: Democrats are admitting that voters do not care about impeachment, yet it is all they talk about. Do-nothing Democrats in Congress refuse to work with Republicans to pass anything that would help the American people because all they care about it removing Trump from office.This memo makes that very clear. Democrats concede that several other issues “out-rank impeachment as priorities for voters, especially swing voters.” But the Left is still ramming ahead with their latest pipe dream of trying to remove the duly elected president from office because they hate him.

https://explainlife.com/democrats-memo-leaks-entire-impeachment-plan-just-got-revealed-17106/?utm_source=Explainlife.com%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email

Why LBJ’s Great Society

Gets a Failing Grade in Improving Education

by Fred Lucas

{ dailysignal.com } ~ President Lyndon B. Johnson’s vision for a Great Society unleashed an army of bureaucrats on American schools but produced little or no improvements to public education in 54 years... according to a new report published by The Heritage Foundation. The report, titled “The Not-So-Great Society,” delves into the impact of Johnson’s string of initiatives—among them Medicare, Medicaid, and various social welfare programs—on American education. Scholars from the leading think tank, as well as some outside experts, contributed to the report. One-third of Johnson’s touted War on Poverty invaded classrooms across the United States, which, the president said in 1965, is where “your children’s lives will be shaped.” “The federal Head Start program had as its goal—to quote Lady Bird Johnson—to ‘rescue our disadvantaged children’ and utterly has failed in that mission,” Lindsey Burke, director of Heritage’s Center for Education Policy, told an audience gathered Monday in Washington for the think tank’s annual President’s Club meeting. “We have spent $240 billion on Head Start since it was launched as a small summer program in 1965,” Burke said during a panel discussion about the report. “We have seen no impact on parenting practices, children’s social and emotional wellbeing, their access to medical care, nothing. What we have today, that legacy, is a $9 billion federal jobs program, to be honest. Head Start employs 255,000 adults.” The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act also expanded the federal government’s role in education, with the stated goal of closing the achievement gap between rich and poor students. But it hasn’t achieved that goal, Burke said. “Since 1965 when the Great Society launched, we have seen federal education spending quadruple, and yet that achievement gap remains the same between poor children and the more affluent kids today, a four-year gap in learning. We have not moved the needle at all,” Burke said. The problem hasn’t just been K-12, as 90% of all student loans to pay for college now come from the federal government... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/21/why-lbjs-great-society-gets-a-failing-grade-in-improving-education/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-lbjs-great-society-gets-a-failing-grade-in-improving-education&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURBNVpXSmtaalZoTWpFdyIsInQiOiJBakZtaGFNZmlzWW5Ia3hnNis5TkdCb3ZXYnpJQzVoeXM1Q1NWRTdPMmt4N0xCbzJZSkN4U09qSTVoZnVZZXV4WEFPdm1sT1dTQXZaSFFEb2E5SWhXYmRBXC96Q0pFU1F0VGJnc0FtZDJzOG1KNldvMzkxYm9aeWhiTmcySG05WGIifQ%3D%3D

Supreme Court Delivers Huge

5-4 Ruling; Dems Suffer Major Defeat

by Martin Walsh

{ explainlife.com } ~ There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court lately. Conservatives currently control a 5-4 majority on the nation’s highest court... and now there’s serious speculation circling throughout the mainstream media that at least 2 liberal Justices may retire in the near future. Democrats are freaking out that President Donald Trump could add more conservatives to the Court given two of the most liberal Justices — Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer — could step down soon because they are “aging” and have “serious health issues.”But that’s not what people are talking about this week. The U.S. Supreme Court granted the Michigan Republican party a win on Monday by throwing out a lower court ruling that required dozens of congressional and legislative districts to be redrawn. Democrats alleged that Republicans in Michigan had gerrymandered the districts to favor them and hurt liberals. The high court’s 5-to-4 decision reverses a ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, which demanded the state redraw nine congressional districts and 25 state districts by August 1, 2020. Monday’s decision follows the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that it would leave gerrymandering cases to state courts. “Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the June decision, which dealt with district boundaries in Maryland and North Carolina...

https://explainlife.com/supreme-court-delivers-huge-5-4-ruling-dems-suffer-major-defeat-17102/?utm_source=Explainlife.com%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email

The Totalitarian American Left

David Limbaugh

The left is becoming more unapologetically totalitarian every day. Every freedom-loving American should be alarmed.

From hounding conservatives out of restaurants to spitting on Trump supporters at rallies, from firing employees for politically incorrect statements to fining people for “misgendering” a person, the left is on a path toward absolutism.

Even some former and current leftists have recognized this intolerant trend and broken from their colleagues, lamenting their intolerance of opposing ideas and disturbing mission to suppress dissenting opinion.

Just the other day, three incidents typifying the left’s authoritarianism popped out at me as I was surveying the morning news.

The Federalist reported that venues in three North American cities — Toronto, Brooklyn and Portland — canceled screenings of a movie about Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson because of leftist criticism. Peterson exploded onto the scene in recent years with his no-nonsense, brilliant and clear-eyed critique of insane cultural trends, especially those concerning gender.

Peterson’s book “12 Rules for Life” is wildly popular, and there are countless viral videos featuring his encounters with various leftist interviewers, panelists and audience members who have tried and failed to entrap him on a number of issues, and been reduced — in every case — to blundering, ineffectual bullies. If you haven’t partaken of these videos, you owe it to yourself to witness one arrogant leftist after another being gobsmacked by the simple weapon of unadulterated logic. These videos are irresistibly contagious and imminently satisfying for those longing to see intellectually defenseless, virtue-signaling finger waggers brought to their knees through the medium of polite debate.

Peterson, you see, won’t kowtow to the leftists’ demand that we embrace the tenets of gender ideology, which teaches that gender is less about biology and more about personal identification. He refuses to support laws that criminalize one’s failure to use a person’s preferred pronouns, such as “they” instead of “she.”

Peterson has the temerity to say that men and women are biologically different, and that gender is not a fluid, human construct. That doesn’t sit well with the left, who not only insists that we accept its cockeyed ideas as normal but also advocates imposing them on us by force of law.

Can you get your mind around the irony of the left banning a movie about Peterson because he’s dangerous? Who is more dangerous: a person who peaceably expresses an opinion that happens to be supported by thousands of years of human experience and common sense, or those who try to ban his voice or even a movie about it? This is “1984”-level scary, and it’s getting worse by the hour.

On what possible grounds is the left arguing that Peterson’s views are dangerous? He doesn’t advocate violence; he isn’t a rabble-rouser or revolutionary. He simply states his opinion instead of genuflecting to the despotic left.

But they claim that if Peterson’s views are openly expressed, he might convince other people that he’s right, and that could lead to the proliferation of conservative thought. Peterson’s “conservative perspectives on feminism and gender,” according to an opinion piece in The New York Times, “are very popular among young men and often are a path to more extreme content and ideologies.” Think about this. Conservative speech is dangerous because it is a slippery slope to the adoption of conservative ideas? This must be satire. Do these clueless cranks know how ridiculous they sound?

Again, who is more extreme and dangerous: Jordan Peterson, who advocates the silencing of no one and expresses mainstream opinions, or leftists, who are actively trying to censor Peterson?

Please don’t make the reckless mistake of dismissing this crusade against Peterson as exceptional. This is the left’s pattern, and it is becoming more aggressive all the time.

The second and third incidents I came across are further proof that the left is increasingly Stalinist. In the most recent Democratic presidential debate, Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris pushed for the suspension of President Trump’s Twitter, speciously alleging that he is trying to obstruct justice and intimidate and threaten witnesses. You see, the left always has some urgent rationale to smother conservative speech — whether it’s to prevent the incitement of violence or obstruction of justice. But it just wants to shut us up.

Those who would silence the other side are the very definition of dangerous. Don’t take lowlife-Harris’ musings lightly, even if she is mostly posturing to gin up more support from the Trump-hating Democratic base. It is instructive that efforts to muzzle speech almost always come from the left, not the right, because the left is insecure about the popularity of its kooky ideas.

The third incident involved demagogue and former Rep. socialist-Beto O'Rourke, who said in a CNN forum on LGBT issues that churches and religious organizations should lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage. If I have to explain how outrageous this is, the country is in even greater danger than I imagined.

I found these examples in 15 minutes of reading this week. They are everywhere. America was founded on the idea of claiming and preserving our God-given liberties. The illiberal left, which believes our rights and freedoms come from government, is hell-bent on destroying our liberties and forcibly imposing its thoughts and ideas on all of us.

God save us. ~The Patriot Post

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Tuesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 22, 2019 at 11:59am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Democrats' College 'Affordability' Act

Is Anything But

Political Editors

‘Chairman scumbag-Schiff has made a mockery

of the House’s authority, reputation,

and grave responsibility…’

by libertyheadlines.com ~ House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are “afraid” of the chief impeachment investigator, following a failed effort to censure him... liar-Pelosi said “the GOP has not even tried to deny the facts” of Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate Democrats. In a statement, liar-Pelosi added a stiff defense of Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, the “the person of whom the President is most afraid.” She issued the statement after majority Democrats blocked a Republican effort to censure scumbag-Schiff. GOP members of the House had sought punishment for scumbag-Schiff because he falsely represented a transcript of the call between Trump and the Ukraine president in which a potential investigation of possible corrupt activities by loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden were discussed. He also lied about his role in orchestrating a whistleblower complaint about the call. Republicans are also criticizing scumbag-Schiff for the secretive way he is conducting the impeachment investigation, by barring members from witnessing depositions and testimony as is their right as Representatives, or to even view transcripts. “Chairman scumbag-Schiff has made a mockery of the House’s authority, reputation, and grave responsibility,” said House Republican Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana. “Throughout the pointless investigation into the debunked Democrat claim of Russian collusion, and now during this sham impeachment process, Chairman scumbag-Schiff has repeatedly lied to and misled the American people. Chairman scumbag-Schiff cannot be trusted to conduct a fair and open impeachment inquiry, because he cannot be trusted to tell the truth.”... liar-Pelosi is lying once again and the dems who blocked the censure-ships are idiots. https://www.libertyheadlines.com/democrats-block-schiff-censure/

Forget Syria. What Is The U.S. Doing About

The Failed State On Its Southern Border?

By Sumantra Maitra

{ thefederalist.com } ~ How would one categorize a nation-state whose army gives a drug baron’s son to cartel members after suffering brutal losses in pitched battles?... The country whose firebrand leftist president apologized on television and said the army’s surrender to a drug cartel was the correct thing to do, because “we do not want war”? If the reports are correct, this is precisely what happened in Mexico, around the same time the Democratic presidential primary field was debating whether there should be more trillion-dollar expenditures in the U.S. budget. Instead, a failed state on the southern border of the United States should ring alarm bells in the Pentagon. A map in the BBC showed how Mexico is divided into four cartel zones, similar to warlords in Afghanistan or Libya. A few days back, Mexican National Guards surrounded drug lord El Chapo’s son in a house and after a heavy gunfight forced him to surrender and be arrested. Then all hell broke loose. Cartel members surrounded the house and forced security to retreat. The army was called in after heavy violence, and even they were fought to a standstill. While there were not many reports of this in American mainstream media, social media was lit with videos of the Mexican military being surrounded by the cartel members. There were also videos of Sinaloa cartel members in armored cars, with anti-tank grenade launchers, and heavy machine guns patrolling the streets of Mexican cities. In short, the balance of power passed to the hands of drug gangs, militias, and cartel members, who rioted, freed prisoners, and humiliated the national government. Needless to mention, this is not normal. International relations is based on mutual trust between governments, who are expected to keep the authority in a region, especially one as vital as Mexico. Under El Chapo’s cartel, Sinaloa has been the biggest supplier of drugs in the United States. Even with El Chapo jailed, his family runs the business openly without any retribution... https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/22/forget-syria-what-is-the-u-s-doing-about-the-failed-state-on-our-southern-border/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=824f13a51f-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-824f13a51f-83771801

Smoking Gun Proof scumbag/liar-Hillary

Lied Under Oath About Arms Shipments

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By S.Noble

{ independentsentinel.com } ~ On Monday Judicial Watch founder Tom Fitton stated that he now has smoking gun documents that show scumbag/liar-nObama and scumbag/liar-Clinton were aware arms were going to Syria through Benghazi... They were also warned about the rise of ISIS. If you will remember, scumbag/liar-Hillary insisted on deposing Gaddafi and destroying Libya. Benghazi was a base for illegal arms running to Syria from Libya. scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton lied about knowledge of the arms shipments under oath, which is a crime. Fitton believes this may be why General Flynn was so desperately targeted by the scumbag/liar-nObama Deep State. Rand Paul alerted Americans about this in 2015 and 2016.Where is the rest of Congress on this? Why did Rand Paul fight alone? Remember when they ridiculed Rand Paul for simply asking the question? scumbag/liar-Hillary responded to his question as if she was dumbfounded. She answered, “Turkey?” She told him to redirect the question to the agency that ran the annex. Assange said at the time that there are emails that tie scumbag/liar-Hillary to knowing about the weapons that went through Libya. Paul said, “There have been many, many first-hand accounts, The New York Times, London Times, Washington Times have all reported on this… I find it hard to believe that scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, who all the news report have said she was the biggest advocate for arming the Islamic rebels in Syria, many of them turned out to be not only enemies of ours, some of them also turned out to be enemies of Israel.” She knew full well. Why is she walking free all these years. Rand Paul was right she should of been indicted. https://www.independentsentinel.com/smoking-gun-proof-hillary-lied-under-oath-about-arms-shipments/

VIDEO 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBLA0aEVd4

VIDEO 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uofvscfAx4

Why Hamas Supports Erdogan's War

by Khaled Abu Toameh

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated terror group ruling the Gaza Strip since 2007, is the only Palestinian party that has come out in support of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's war on the Kurds in Syria... A statement issued by Hamas on October 14 said that the terror group "understands Turkey's right to protect its border, defend itself and remove threats harmful to its national security against the tampering of the Zionist Mossad in the region, as part of Israel's effort to undermine Arab and Islamic national security." Hamas also praised Erdogan for his "support for the Palestinian cause and the rights of the Palestinian people" and expressed opposition to "the Zionist and US presence in the region." Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, voiced support for Turkey. "The Israeli media campaign against Turkey is rude and unacceptable. Israel will remain the enemy and Turkey will remain in the hearts of Muslims," he wrote on Twitter. Another Hamas leader, Izzar al-Risheq, said that his group is "confident that President Erdogan has no ambitions in Syria and he only wants to preserve the security of his country." The Muslims, he added, need to "end their conflicts so they would have the time to confront the big challenge imposed by the presence of the Zionist enemy." Hamas's patrons in Qatar, the Gulf country that has long been serving as the Muslim Brotherhood's most hospitable base of operations, have also defended Turkey's war on the Kurds. According to Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, speaking at the Global Security Forum meeting in Doha: "Weapons and training provided to Kurdish groups during the war against Daesh represent an imminent threat to the Turkish security... We can't heap the blame on Turkey as Ankara wants to clear its territory and stand up against terrorism. Turkey can't remain silent until terror hits its territory." Hamas's support for Turkey in its war against the Kurds contradicts its own claim that it does not meddle in the internal affairs of Arab and Islamic countries. In the past few years, several Hamas officials have repeatedly denied charges that their group was meddling in the internal affairs of Egypt, Syria, Libya and Jordan... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15049/hamas-support-erdogan-syria

Greta says Wallace’s 20% comment

was ‘to smear and cause trouble’

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By S.Noble

{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Far-left Democrat Chris Wallace, who is taking over where Shep Smith left off, spent an interview with Mick Mulvaney, attacking, chiding, and demeaning him over his recent interview... about political influence in elections, and the President’s Syria decision, and his actions in Ukraine. It wasn’t a serious interview, it was a partisan attack. In fact, it was worse than that, it was disinformation. It’s not legitimate reporting to use anonymous, vague sources just to upset or confuse the person being interviewed. Greta Van Susteren was angry about it and she was right to be. Wallace wallowed in gossip and propaganda throughout the interview, telling Mick Mulvaney that some “well-connected” D.C. Republican told him there’s a 20 percent chance Republicans will vote to remove the President in the Senate: Fox’s Chris Wallace said a “well-connected” Washington Republican told him that there’s a 20 percent chance enough Republicans will vote to remove President Trump from office in an impeachment trial in the Senate. Wallace mentioned his source’s comments during an interview with acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on “Fox News Sunday.” Wallace cited an overwhelming House vote criticizing the president’s policies in Syria and an op-ed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) slamming Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from that country. He then said he had “talked to a very well-connected Republican in Washington, someone whose name you would know well, who says that if the House votes to impeach and it gets to a trial in the Senate, there’s now a 20 percent chance enough Republicans would vote with Democrats to impeach the president.” Legitimate reporter Greta Van Susteren blasted Wallace for it although she thinks highly of him. She said the only purpose was “to smear and cause trouble.” That’s true!... https://www.independentsentinel.com/greta-says-wallaces-20-comment-was-to-smear-and-cause-trouble/

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1185915101313949696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1185915101313949696&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independentsentinel.com%2Fgreta-says-wallaces-20-comment-was-to-smear-and-cause-trouble%2F

Is It Time For America To Begin

Decoupling From Communist China?

By Ben Weingarten

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Perhaps the most momentous part of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS) was its acknowledgment that the U.S. government’s historical premise... “that support for China’s rise and for its integration into the post-war international order would liberalize China” was wrong. Recent events indicate that not only was the theory underlying all U.S.-China policy for nearly 50 years incorrect, but that perhaps the opposite is true: Support for China’s rise and for its integration into the post-war international order has actually illiberalized America. Stated differently, there is a case to be made that since President Richard Nixon’s historic 1972 visit to China, the United States has become more like China than China has become like us. We may have been sowing the seeds of our own destruction. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is just one of many prominent Western industries as diverse as automobiles, fashion, and lodging that have cowed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) line, and engaged in self-censorship out of a desire for the almighty dollar. While the NBA is a particularly deserving target of ire, given the fact its social justice warriors have shown themselves to be hypocritical sellouts, one would be hard-pressed to find any entity with substantial profits or funding tied to China willing to permit the voicing of views that might rankle the CCP. “Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elites Slept,” a new book by U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding (Ret.), confirms this assessment. Spalding served as the chief China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as senior U.S. Defense official and defense attaché to China in Beijing, and later in the Trump National Security Council (NSC), where he was the chief architect of the NSS’s framework for national competition. According to Spalding, even organizations that would seem to have a vested interest in exposing China’s malign behavior remain mum. Spalding writes that upon his arrival at NSC: I made it a personal mission to meet with many leading think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, and law, auditing, and public relations firms that dealt with China. I was eager to seek their help in exposing the Beijing government’s influencing operations and sanctioning of illegal behavior. Additionally, I hoped they would help me explore policy options to counter China’s economic malfeasance. Time after time, I was rebuffed. People at these organizations would talk with me, and many of them even said they agreed with my concerns, but they claimed they couldn’t help. Doing so, some of the more forthright people said, might anger their Chinese funders or business accounts. The list of organizations that refused to engage with me publicly in my official capacity was stunning. Top white-shoe New York law firms. Organizations with mandates to promote democracy, freedom, and human rights would refuse to support my mission. …They were, in essence, being manipulated by a foreign power that is America’s greatest enemy. The willingness of American organizations to remain silent about Chinese Communist tyranny can be seen against a correlative backdrop of our burgeoning cancel culture, the censorship of Big Tech, and general decline of devotion to First Amendment principles alongside the Long March of political correctness through our institutions... https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/22/is-it-time-for-america-to-begin-decoupling-from-communist-china/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=824f13a51f-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-824f13a51f-83771801

Democrats' College 'Affordability' Act

Is Anything But

Political Editors: On Tuesday, House Democrats introduced their egregiously misnamed College Affordability Act. The bill is essentially a loan-forgiveness program, though it doesn’t necessarily cancel student loans outright. As The Daily Signal reports, “The College Affordability Act would cap monthly payments and enable students to enroll in an income-based repayment plan. Students who make regular payments would then have the remainder of their loan balances forgiven after 20 years.” So, irrespective of how much debt students might accumulate, they’ll be on the hook only for income-based repayment up to 20 years. Everything after that is forgiven (read: is picked up by taxpayers). And the bill would not only bail out students, but also parents who take loans to send their kids to college.

In addition, the act would change and expand the Pell Grant system, significantly increasing the maximum amount awarded as well as further incentivizing lawlessness by removing the current ban on prisoners — yes, prisoners — qualifying for these grants.

The bill would also create a $500 million grant program that’s inspirationally dubbed “America’s College Promise” and seeks to subsidize the cost of community college — again, at taxpayer expense.

We’ll say this for the Democrats: They’ve taken the fine art of euphemism to audacious new levels. Imagine, for example, if they were forced to sell to their constituents a more honestly named bill, such as “The College Loan Bailout Act” or “The Community College Subsidy Act.”

The estimated taxpayer cost for the College Affordability Act is $400 billion, but as is always the case in Washington it will certainly surpass that total. Finally, as the Signal notes, “[The act] includes absolutely no provision to drive down college costs or insulate taxpayers from students’ inability to pay off their loans. In fact, through increased access to income-based repayment, taxpayers are even more exposed.”

And here we thought this bill was about “affordability” rather than further subsidizing an outrageously overpriced enterprise. ~The Patriot Post

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Tues/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 22, 2019 at 9:18am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Why They Hate Tulsi Gabbard

Brian Mark Weber

Tuesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

POLITICAL FUTURES: Supreme Court throws out Michigan gerrymandering ruling in win for GOP (National Review)

IRAQ REBUFFS: Iraq says U.S. forces withdrawing from Syria have no approval to stay (Reuters)

World

TRUDEAU’S POTPOURRI: Canada’s Justin Trudeau wins second term but loses majority (Associated Press)

NETANYAHU YIELDS: Israel’s long-standing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he cannot form a government, handing the opportunity to his political rival (BBC News)

Government & Politics

DOUBLE STANDARDS: Democrat congresswoman allegedly has affair with young female staffer. Media completely ignores. (The Daily Wire)

HIGH-COURT SHOWDOWN: Manhattan DA, Trump lawyers strike deal to speed fight over Trump tax returns to Supreme Court (NBC News)

Culture & Heartland

DIABOLICAL: Jury rules against Texas dad trying to save his seven-year-old from gender “transition” (LifeSiteNews)

PARKLAND SHOOTING FALLOUT: Florida Senate committee upholds Sheriff Scott Israel suspension (The Daily Caller)

Climate

SUBMIT, OR ELSE: University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite climate change (The Washington Times)

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: 2019 ozone hole is the smallest on record since its discovery (NASA)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: Why LBJ’s Great Society gets a failing grade in improving education (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: A tuition-free, purpose-driven, coat-and-tie trade school (American Enterprise Institute)

HUMOR: Amazing: This mind-reader can instantly guess people’s pronouns with 99.9% accuracy (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
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Impeachment Witness Tells Congress He

Warned About loose lips liar-Biden/Ukraine

Problem In 2015, Got Shut Down By

loose lips liar-Biden’s Office

By James Barrett

{ dailywire.com } ~ In a newly reported development that further complicates the Democrats’ Ukraine corruption investigation, a State Department witness told congressional investigators this week... that in early 2015 he warned about the problematic optics of the vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company while his father was tasked with overseeing Ukraine-U.S. relations. The career State Department official told investigators his warning was rebuffed by loose lips liar-Biden’s office. Months later, loose lips liar-Biden would pressure the Ukraine — by withholding a billion dollars in aid — to fire the prosecutor who had looked into the company employing Hunter. Citing sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity, The Washington Post reported Friday that George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state and career State Department official, “testified Tuesday that he worried that Hunter Biden’s position at the firm Burisma Holdings would complicate efforts by U.S. diplomats to convey to Ukrainian officials the importance of avoiding conflicts of interest.” The sources told the Post that Kent “had concerns that Ukrainian officials would view Hunter Biden as a conduit for currying influence with his father, said the people.” Kent reportedly told congressional investigators that loose lips liar-Biden’s office dismissed his warning about the potentially problematic situation by saying the vice president did not have the “bandwidth” to address the Hunter-Burisma question because he was dealing with his other son, Beau, battling cancer. “Kent, who also testified about how Trump’s associates raised unfounded allegations about the former ambassador to Ukraine, is the first known example of a career diplomat who raised concerns internally in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration about Hunter Biden’s board position,” the Post reports, noting that the paper “has previously reported that there had been discussions among loosec lips liar-Biden’s advisers about whether his son’s Ukraine work would be perceived as a conflict of interest, and that one former adviser had been concerned enough to mention it to loose lips liar-Biden, though the conversation was brief.”... https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachment-witness-told-congress-he-warned-about-biden-ukraine-problem-in-2015-got-shut-down-by-bidens-office?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

Netanyahu tells president he can’t

form government; now it’s Gantz’s turn to try

by timesofisrael.com ~ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday evening announced he had failed to muster a coalition after almost four weeks of effort, and therefore returned the mandate to form a government to President Reuven Rivlin... Netanyahu’s 28-day deadline for building a government was due to expire on Wednesday. Rivlin is now expected, probably on Tuesday morning, to charge Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz with the task of trying to muster a coalition that can win a Knesset majority. Blue and White said it was determined to build a “liberal unity government” with Gantz at its helm. Gantz now has 28 days to try and do what Netanyahu could not. If he fails, any MK will have 21 days to obtain the support of a Knesset majority to form a government. If no one succeeds, elections will be initiated automatically — a third round inside a year after April’s and September’s inconclusive votes. At the end of May, after trying in vain for six weeks to build a coalition, Netanyahu called new elections rather than allow Gantz the chance to do so. Monday evening’s move to return the mandate to Rivlin followed repeated pledges by Likud that Netanyahu would not again dissolve parliament without letting his rival attempt to muster a majority. In a video statement, Netanyahu said he had worked “incessantly” over the past 26 days to form a “broad national unity government,” which would include his Likud party’s religious allies and the rival Blue and White party, but had been thwarted by its leader Gantz. “That’s what the people want,” Netanyahu said. “That’s what Israel needs in light of the growing security challenges it faces.” “Over the past few weeks I’ve made every effort to bring Benny Gantz to the negotiating table,” Netanyahu said. “Unfortunately, he just simply refused time after time.”... https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-tells-president-he-cant-form-government-now-its-gantzs-turn-to-try/?utm_source=Breaking+News&utm_campaign=breaking-news-2019-10-21-2168354&utm_medium=email

Gas prices: News about oil that

will impact what you pay at the pump

By Brittany De Lea

{ foxbusiness.com } ~ Oil prices plummeted on Wednesday after new data showed an unexpected build in oil, gas and distillate inventory supplies last week – and that is likely another good sign for drivers... Oil prices plunged to their lowest level since June 13 – down five percent at times during the trading session. As of Wednesday afternoon, West Texas Intermediate Crude was trading at $51.17 per barrel – down more than 4.5 percent, while Brent Crude was trading around $56.35 per barrel. Brent crude is falling into bear market territory, nearly 20 percent off its April peak. And while inventories might have a short-term impact, an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China is likely to continue to weigh on prices. Tensions ramped up over the past week as President Trump communicated his intent to impose 10 percent tariffs on the remaining $300 billion worth of goods coming into the U.S. from China. In response, China allowed the value of the yuan to drop to a more than 10-year low against the U.S. dollar – after which the U.S. labeled China a “currency manipulator.” “Demand for gasoline is likely to suffer not only because of the trade rift, but as summer closes, demand will drop,” Patrick DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst as GasBuddy.com, told FOX Business. That means lower gas prices are likely on their way for drivers. As of Wednesday, the national average was $2.69 per gallon, according to AAA. That is down about 3 cents from last week, 6 cents month over month and 17 cents from the same time last year. While a handful of gas stations are already seeing prices sink below the $2 per gallon threshold – a continuation of the trade tensions could exacerbate that trend. “By Thanksgiving, I think we'll see sub-$2/gal stations spread to thousands of stations, mainly in low price states in the South, perhaps a few stations in the heartland and Great Lakes,” DeHaan predicted. If the trade war escalates, the national average could fall as much as 50 cents per gallon by Thanksgiving, according to DeHaan. https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/oil-prices-fall-gas-drivers

VIDEO: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6069107791001/#sp=show-clips

More Ethanol Means Higher Prices,

and Not Just for Gasoline

by Nicolas Loris

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Over the summer, President Donald Trump tweeted that his administration was working on an ethanol package that would be “Great for all!” Now that we have the Environmental Protection Agency’s draft proposal, we can see he was half right... It’s great, all right—for the politically connected. It’s costly for everyone else. The Renewable Fuel Standard, commonly known as the ethanol mandate, forces suppliers to blend increasing amounts of renewable sources into domestic transportation fuel each year. In the United States, the most common form of ethanol is corn-based. Soybeans are another common input for biodiesel. The Trump administration’s proposal would force more biofuels into the market regardless of demand. Let’s examine who that’s not “great” for. If you like paying less for food, the Renewable Fuel Standard is not great. The mandate diverts food for fuel, boosting crop and feedstock prices. Research from the University of California at Davis finds that increased demand for corn and soybeans due to the Renewable Fuel Standard drove up prices by 30% and 20%, respectively. The mandate also increases other crop and food prices because it changes how farmers use their land. UC-Davis economist Aaron Smith estimates a roughly 20% rise in wheat prices because wheat acreage decreased as corn and soybean acreage increased. Higher crop prices harm consumers multiple times over. Corn is a key ingredient for many foods and an important feedstock for animals. Consequently, families pay more for cereal, chicken, turkey, beef, and all of the other food products that rely on corn as a staple input... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/18/more-ethanol-means-higher-prices-and-not-just-for-gasoline/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-ethanol-means-higher-prices-and-not-just-for-gasoline&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1dVell6RmxabVpqWlRWayIsInQiOiJcL2pqWGhwSzd4RUxkdmg1Qit0Q1dYV0k0YU9hM2NnZk1UUHoyaHRjV2JwXC9MazlYWmo1QnNqYUxaZVJHRURZMXlzaG9zRzF5cEN6UGsyamxVNGlPOWdrMEZvZ2RnR2lzbVBVMW14XC9zZ25vOGxDRnFGS2VGVFkwM214THhjWXZBaCJ9

Weapons Displayed at China’s Military

Parade Should Be a Wake-Up Call to US

by Emma Watkins

{ dailysignal.com } ~ China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 1 in typical fashion—with a military parade. Some of the new weapons on display that day provide cause for serious concern among U.S. policymakers... China showcased its new stealthy bat-winged unmanned aerial vehicle—the Gongji-11. But more significantly, it displayed the new road-mobile DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile and its submarine-launched ballistic missile, the JL-2. The DF-41 ICBMs are capable of striking the United States while carrying multiple nuclear warheads. The U.S., meanwhile, depends on nuclear delivery platforms that are in some cases 30-40 years old. China is nearly done with an across-the-board modernization of all its platforms. The U.S. does not even have a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile. But that’s not the worst of it. The starkest example of China’s new capabilities was its unveiling of its DF-17 hypersonic glide vehicle. These vehicles are capable of traveling at least five times the speed of sound greater than Mach 5. They use a standard ballistic missile booster at the outset but become a low-flying projectile for their second stage. They can be used to hit a target after the first stage’s ballistic reentry. Hypersonic glide vehicles are especially problematic because they are difficult to detect and defend against. Despite aspirations, the United States has yet to successfully test a hypersonic glide vehicle. Much of this has to do with the fact that the U.S. industrial base is not yet ready to begin producing these weapons. Conversely, the Chinese have thrown mass amounts of research and development money into hypersonics and prioritized their production. Experts have seen this showcase not only as a display of their rapidly growing military capabilities but also a sign of their intent to be a major military power... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/15/weapons-displayed-at-chinas-military-parade-should-be-a-wake-up-call-to-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weapons-displayed-at-chinas-military-parade-should-be-a-wake-up-call-to-us&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1dVell6RmxabVpqWlRWayIsInQiOiJcL2pqWGhwSzd4RUxkdmg1Qit0Q1dYV0k0YU9hM2NnZk1UUHoyaHRjV2JwXC9MazlYWmo1QnNqYUxaZVJHRURZMXlzaG9zRzF5cEN6UGsyamxVNGlPOWdrMEZvZ2RnR2lzbVBVMW14XC9zZ25vOGxDRnFGS2VGVFkwM214THhjWXZBaCJ9

Two Illegal MS-13 Gang Members Accused

of Hacking to Death 16-Year-Old Boy

by JOHN BINDER

{ breitbart.com } ~ Two illegal aliens associated with the violent MS-13 Gang are accused of using a machete and bat to beat and hack a 16-year-old boy to death... in the sanctuary county of King County, Washington. Rudy Osvaldo Garcia-Hernandez, a 28-year-old illegal alien, and Carlos Orlando Iraheta-Vega, a 20-year-old illegal alien, have each been charged with murdering 16-year-old Juan Carlos Con Guzman in King County, Washington — a sanctuary jurisdiction that shields criminal illegal aliens from deportation.The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency confirmed to the Washington Times‘ Stephen Dinan that both Garcia-Hernandez and Iraheta-Vega are illegal aliens who were both regularly released from custody multiple times instead of being turned over to federal immigration officials for deportation.Garcia-Hernandez and Iraheta-Vega are reported members of the MS-13 Gang. The violent street gang, based out of El Salvador, has built a growing army of El Salvadoran illegal and legal immigrants in the U.S. According to prosecutors, Guzman was lured by the two illegal aliens into a remote location for a fight. When the victim arrived, prosecutors said Garcia-Hernandez and Iraheta-Vega beat the 16-year-old boy with a baseball and then tortured him by hacking off his limbs with a machete and leaving his dead body in a nearby river.The illegal aliens are each being held in King County Jail on a $3 million bond. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/sanctuary-county-two-illegal-ms-13-gang-members-accused-of-hacking-to-death-16-year-old-boy/

Why They Hate Tulsi Gabbard

Brian Mark Weber: Note to Democrats: If you want to win your party’s presidential nomination in 2020, make sure you march as far to the left as possible — preferably off the cliff.

These days, any politician who doesn’t embrace the most radical elements of the Left’s agenda is disparaged and denounced. Democrats and their media brethren have been doing this to Donald Trump since he became a Republican, and now they’re going after one of their own.

Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat presidential candidate, Hawaii congresswoman, National Guard major, Samoan American, and Hindu is being portrayed as — get this — a Russian ally and a bedfellow of white nationalists. Why? Because she’s taken old-school Democrat stances on issues of foreign policy, drugs, and abortion.

That’s how far left the Democrat Party has moved.

Gabbard’s views on a range of issues certainly aren’t to be mistaken for Reagan-style conservatism. But compared to the rest of the Democrat field, she’s as American as Normal Rockwell. And this has apparently caused the media to smear Gabbard as a politician more at home on the alt-right than in the Democrat Party.

Swallow your drink first, but scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton likewise chimed in, “I think they’ve got their eye on someone who’s currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She’s the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.”

Gabbard called such smears “completely despicable.”

Earlier this month, The New York Times lamented, “On podcasts and online videos, in interviews and Twitter feeds, alt-right internet stars, white nationalists, libertarian activists and some of the biggest boosters of Mr. Trump heap praise on Ms. Gabbard. They like the Hawaiian congresswoman’s isolationist foreign policy views. They like her support for drug decriminalization. They like what she sees as censorship by big technology platforms.”

Wait a minute. Haven’t Democrats always been big supporters of drug decriminalization? When did that become a right-wing issue? And leftists have proudly marched against every U.S. military endeavor since Vietnam, but now we’re supposed to believe they’re foreign-policy hawks ready to defend American interventionism abroad?

Of course, it’s not about principle. It’s all about President Trump. Whatever he supports, Democrats must reflexively oppose. “Regime change wars are just fine with most 2020 Democrats, so long as it allows them to oppose Trump,” Jack Hunter writes at the Washington Examiner. “The president’s recent policy in Syria is not unlike the anti-regime change stance Obama promoted as a candidate in 2008. The scumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden ticket won the White House by opposing Bush’s regime change war in Iraq and promising not to repeat that mistake (although they eventually did).”

Republicans aren’t going to storm Gabbard’s Capitol Hill office and ask her to switch parties, but there’s a dose of decency and common sense in what she says. And she’s not afraid to step out of line, which is no doubt why Trump supporters often like what she has to say. In fact, that characteristic is part of why Trump was elected in 2016. Like the president, Gabbard marches to the beat of her own drummer.

Reason’s Robby Soave writes of Gabbard’s Libertarian appeal, “Indeed, Gabbard was the only candidate on the stage Tuesday night to advocate a unilateral, immediate end to the disastrous policy of intervening in every conflict in the Middle East with the goal of changing the regimes. As she wisely noted, such schemes have backfired in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, and likely would have backfired in Syria if undertaken there as well. Refreshingly, Gabbard called out both parties and the mainstream media for their complicity in the U.S.‘s foolish foreign policy interventionism.”

But she didn’t stop there. During the Ohio debate, Gabbard took a position that’s certainly to the left of most Republicans but still considered unacceptable by every other Democrat candidate. Responding to a question about states restricting abortion, Gabbard replied, “There should be some restrictions in place. I support codifying Roe v. Wade — while making sure that, during the third trimester, abortion is not an option unless the life or severe health consequences of a woman are at risk.”

Uh-oh, Tulsi. There goes the nomination.

In the minds of Democrats, taking the wrong stance on the military or drug enforcement is bad enough, but utter anything other than prostrate praise for the holy sacrament of “choice,” including government-funded abortion-on-demand, and you’re toast as a viable Democrat political candidate.

It’s sad to see one of our two major political parties destroy anyone who dares challenge their status quo. In the end, Tulsi Gabbard doesn’t have a chance of securing her party’s nomination, but her campaign has served America well by reminding the rest of us just how extreme the Democrat Party has become. And that’s good news for Trump in 2020.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66207?mailing_id=4595&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4595&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tuesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 22, 2019 at 7:09am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Who Really Pays for More

Government Healthcare?

Michael Swartz

California’s War on Citizenship

by Jarrett Stepman

{ dailysignal.com } ~ California—a one-party state dominated by progressives—has become the model for where progressivism will go when completely unchecked. Now, even the basic concept of citizenship is under full-blown assault... as the state has moved on from being a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants to outright insisting that noncitizens have the same access to the levers of power as citizens. California Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom recently signed legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to serve on government boards and commissions. He also signed another bill that would make it illegal to make immigration-related arrests at courthouses. The law allowing illegal immigrants to serve on boards and commissions will have all kinds of complications in implementation. If exercised, it could run afoul of federal laws and would certainly attract the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The bottom line, though, is that it’s an absurd piece of legislation coming from an absurd state that is squandering the benefits of its naturally advantageous climate. Combine this with the fact that the powers that be in the state outright encourage people to break our country’s laws, and it demonstrates how far California is drifting from a nation of “we, the people of the United States.” scumbag-Newsom, of course, called this blatant disregard for federal law a sign of “respect” to immigrants. “Our state doesn’t succeed in spite of our diversity. Our state succeeds because of it,” scumbag-Newsom said in a statement about the bill. “While President Donald Trump attacks and disparages immigrants, California is working to ensure that every resident—regardless of immigration status—is given respect and the opportunity to contribute.”... Sorry for the citizens of Calif who still live there.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/20/californias-war-on-citizenship/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=californias-war-on-citizenship&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpCaE1HVmhPRFpqTW1ZeiIsInQiOiJLRFN5cFExaXQ2dFVaVkJLS2k4WWp3VXBKTm51M2ZpN1MxRFdvcFZiRnd0bVBZNkVYM1FcL0tMWEVlQlV0TE1DZXBHSE11ZVh1Qm1uc3ZaUHR1NTI4R3lsZ1FCQUlBOHplTkk4MUxNbGhOYVZyNjR5YnROZDVxeUs0eE5PQWNWRVMifQ%3D%3D

Trump May Keep Small Force in Eastern Syria,

to Check ISIS and Protect Oilfields

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By Patrick Goodenough

{ cnsnews.com } ~ As U.S. troops are being redeployed from Syria to western Iraq, there were indications at the weekend that President Trump may be prepared to leave a residual force across the border in eastern Syria... in a bid to keep a lid on ISIS and help to ensure that oilfields in the area to not fall into hands of the Iranians, whose forces are in Syria to bolster Bashar Assad’s regime. Hints came on Sunday from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a close ally of Trump who has been vocally critical of his recent troop pullout decisions in the face of a Turkish assault on Syrian Kurdish forces who were allies with the U.S. in the fight against ISIS. In a marked change of tone, Graham told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that he was “increasingly optimistic that we can have some historic solutions in Syria that have eluded us for years, if we play our cards right.” Saying he had spoken to Trump over the weekend, Graham said “the president appreciates what the Kurds have done. He wants to make sure ISIS does not come back. I expect we will continue to partner with the Kurds in eastern Syria to make sure ISIS does not re-emerge.”... https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/trump-may-keep-small-force-eastern-syria-check-isis-and-protect

VIDEO: https://www.mrctv.org/videos/trump-said-be-mulling-keeping-small-force-eastern-syria-check-isis-and-protect-oilfields

BIG Mistake — liar-Pelosi

And scumbag-Schiff Now Face Jail

by Jim Hoft

{ wethepeopledaily.com } ~ It wasn’t that long ago that scumbag/liar-nObama deep state operatives, led by US Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates... accused General Michael Flynn of violating the Logan Act for making calls to foreign dignitaries including the Russian ambassador after Donald Trump won the election in 2016. We now know that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and deep state officials were spying on General Michael Flynn for at least a year prior to his private phone call with the Russian ambassador that they leaked to the liberal fake news media. The Logan Act, enacted in January 30, 1799, is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized persons with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States. General Michael Flynn’s job as National Security Advisor was to contact foreign dignitaries including the Russian ambassador after the 2016 election.Fast forward to today…Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and her top Lieutenant scumbag-Adam Schiff flew off to Jordan this weekend on their shadow diplomacy trip. The Democrat leaders met with Jordanian leaders and others to undermine President Trump’s Syrian policy. When scumbag/liar-nObama and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton tore apart the Middle East form Yemen to Egypt to Syria to Libya resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and millions of third world migrants flooding Europe and the US the Democrat Party leaders did nothing. But this weekend they flew to Jordan to undermine President Trump. Arrest these traitors! https://wethepeopledaily.com/2019/10/21/big-mistake-pelosi-and-schiff-now-face-jail/

FBI seized records on mayor’s home, red

light cameras and even a popular brewpub

in raid on southwest suburban Lyons

By JASON MEISNER, DAN PETRELLA and JAMIE MUNKS

{ chicagotribune.com } ~ FBI agents who raided the village hall in southwest suburban Lyons last month seized a plethora of evidence... including information on a clout-heavy red light camera company, a popular brewery, an embattled video gaming magnate and a construction magnate who owns a huge quarry in town, records show. On the day of the Sept. 26 raid, Lyons was also served with a federal grand jury subpoena demanding a wide range of records on a hotel and resort backed by Mayor Christopher Getty, the home security system at Getty’s residence and the entire Democratic Organization of Lyons Township — headed by state Sen. Steven Landek. The documents, released by Lyons after business hours on Tuesday, were the latest public disclosure in a sprawling federal political corruption investigation that has rocked Springfield and Chicago’s near southwestern suburbs, the traditional power base of Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan. The investigation, which records show has been going on behind the scenes since at least 2017, exploded in the public eye on Sept. 24, when the FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents carried out search warrants at the offices of state Sen. Martin Sandoval in the Capitol and in west suburban Cicero. So far, no one has been criminally charged in the ongoing probe. Lyons officials had initially issued a blanket denial of open records requests from the news media, claiming federal investigators had asked that no information be released about the warrant. But the town acquiesced after being sued by several media outlets. The subpoena and search warrant, totaling a combined nine pages, show that many of the records sought by the FBI in Lyons mirrored what was seized in a simultaneous raid in the tiny neighboring suburb of McCook, as well as the search two days earlier of Sandoval’s office in Springfield... https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-lyons-subpoena-federal-investigation-20191016-sordnocdbjg2jmmpcaq7wziuxi-story.html

The Left Loses Its Mind in Jails Debate

by Micah Morrison

{ judicialwatch.org } ~ Ideas have consequences and yesterday in New York City arrived more evidence that progressive forces in Gotham have lost their collective mind... The New York City Council voted to close the 400-acre Rikers Island jail complex. Keeping violent criminals off the streets? Future crime waves? Never mind, they’ll figure that out later. Rikers is a hellhole with a long history of human-rights abuses. Serious reform is needed. But that’s not what the radical Left is looking for. New York is in the vanguard of a national “Abolish Prisons” movement. All prisons must be done away with. Mayor scumbag-Bill de Blasio is on the bandwagon. “Mass incarceration did not begin in New York City,” he declared recently, “but it will end here.” Radical chic star commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also has signed on to prison abolition. “Mass incarceration is our American reality,” she wrote. “It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, & slavery. To end it, we have to change.” In case you’re wondering about commie-Ocasio-Cortez’s influence on the Left, commie-Bernie Sanders has been touting her upcoming endorsement, slated for a rally Saturday in Queens. Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar also endorsed commie-Sanders this week. Meanwhile, the jails controversy in New York is catching fire. On Wednesday, a City Council committee set in motion a land-use change that would ban jails on Rikers after 2026. Yesterday, the full council voted. Rikers will be closed and new, smaller jails will be built in four city communities—one each in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Rikers these days houses about 7,200 inmates, though it has capacity for many more. The four new jails would hold a total of about 3,200—roughly 800 inmates per jail... https://www.judicialwatch.org/investigative-bulletin/the-left-loses-its-mind-in-jails-debate/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tipsheet&utm_term=members&utm_content=20191021161828

Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven

by Stephen Meyer

{ prageru.com } ~ For a century, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has been as unquestioned as Newton’s theory of gravity. But science never stops asking questions... Or at least, it’s not supposed to. Stephen Meyer, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, takes up the challenge in this video by asking: Are there questions about the origins of life that Darwinism can’t answer? VIDEO: https://www.prageru.com/video/evolution-bacteria-to-beethoven/

Who Really Pays for More

Government Healthcare?

Michael Swartz: Americans of a certain age remember a former vice president named Walter Mondale who made his own run for the Oval Office four years after his boss had been defeated by Ronald Reagan. Refreshingly mindful of the cost of government, Mondale offered a spending plan whose centerpiece was a tax increase. His candor allowed him to carry his home state of Minnesota and Washington, DC — the latter presumably because its constituents believed an infusion of taxpayers funds would help preserve their government jobs. Alas, the other 49 states went for Reagan, whose fiscal policies had re-energized the American economy, and whose leadership had restored American prestige and confidence.

After the Mondale debacle, Democrats learned that the best way to approach fiscal issues was to avoid talking about tax hikes altogether. However, when the subject inevitably came up, their rote response was to claim that increases would spare the middle class and instead zero in on “the rich” who supposedly aren’t paying “their fair share.” (Spoiler alert: Oh yes they are.)

This avoidance tactic is the approach being used by Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren — but it’s not satisfying those who want to know how she would pay for her grandiose healthcare scheme dubbed “Medicare for All.” When you’re talking $34 trillion — up from the previously estimated $32 trillion — that’s a pretty important ask. Even commie-Bernie Sanders has had to grudgingly admit that, under his plan, taxes will increase for all. Of course, commie-Sanders claims the cost of healthcare will decrease more than the taxes will increase, creating a net gain for most Americans.

dinky/liar-Warren likewise repeats that “costs will go down,” but, on the other hand, she’s stubbornly sticking to her guns, insisting that no middle-class tax increase is needed and dodging the question enough to inspire a minute-long montage of her denials. “I will not sign a bill into law that does not lower costs for middle-class families,” she pledged, and try as they might, none of the other Democrats could get her to state otherwise. (Voters are similarly left high and dry as to how her other proposals will be paid for, too. But trust her; she has a plan.)

In fact, the constant questioning of dinky/liar-Warren about funding her plans has aroused the ire of certain journalists who now regard the public’s right to know as harmful to their team. “Of course, it’s legitimate to dig into the costs, but not in a way that creates a nice GOP campaign ad,” fumed Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan, who added that the question “misses the larger lens of overall costs.” Say what? (This is the same Margaret Sullivan, by the way, who accused conservative media of a “smear” for … telling the truth about dinky/liar-Warren’s autobiographical lies.)

Maybe it’s better explained by Huffington Post reporter Arthur Delaney, who considers asking a Democrat about tax increases “a trap, premised on the idea that raising taxes is always bad politics.” Seems like a pretty solid premise to us, at least on the subject of Medicare for All. (It also seems like dinky/liar-Warren’s needed a lot of defending lately.)

The bottom line is that unconstitutionally expanding the government’s role in healthcare is going to cost a lot of money, certainly more than the rose-colored-glasses crowd would have us believe. (We learned this when Medicare was first enacted in 1965, and it hasn’t gotten better with age.) That $34 trillion over 10 years — on top of an annual budget that’s already rapidly escalated to the $5 trillion mark — will either bankrupt our treasury or crowd out other essential (and actually constitutional) spending, such as defense.

How will dinky/liar-Warren pay for it all? It’s a question that needs to be asked again and again, regardless of the media’s reluctance to do so. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66208?mailing_id=4595&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4595&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Monday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 21, 2019 at 4:00pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Talking Turkey With Trump

National Security Desk

A Drug Cartel Just Defeated

The Mexican Military In Battle

By John Daniel Davidson

{ thefederalist.com } ~ The southwest U.S. border might be quieter now than it was this spring at the height of the migrant crisis, but south of the Rio Grande the Mexican state is disintegrating... Last Thursday in the city of Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, a battle erupted between government forces and drug cartel gunmen after the Mexican military captured two sons of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The elder son, Ivan, was quickly freed by his men, who overpowered government forces and secured his release. Ivan then launched an all-out siege of the entire city in an effort to free his younger brother, Ovidio. The ensuing scene could have been mistaken for Syria or Yemen. Footage posted on social media Thursday showed burning vehicles spewing black smoke, heavily armed gunmen blocking roads, dead bodies strewn in the streets, and residents fleeing for cover amid high-caliber gunfire. Armed with military-grade weapons and driving custom-built armored vehicles, cartel henchmen targeted security forces throughout Culiacan, launching more than one dozen separate attacks on Mexican security forces. They captured and held hostage eight soldiers, then kidnapped their families. Amid the fighting, an unknown number of inmates escaped from a nearby prison. At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen were injured. The eight-hour battle ended when government forces, outgunned and surrounded, without reinforcements or a way to retreat, received an order directly from Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to release their prisoner and surrender. Lopez Obrador later defended this decision, insisting that his security strategy is working and saying, “Many people were at risk and it was decided to protect people’s lives. I agreed with that, because we don’t do massacres, that’s over.”... https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/21/a-drug-cartel-just-defeated-the-mexican-military-in-battle/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=68ad50a43d-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-68ad50a43d-83771801

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1185318386793943040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1185318386793943040&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2019%2F10%2F21%2Fa-drug-cartel-just-defeated-the-mexican-military-in-battle%2F

Do Not Trade with a China

that Lies, Cheats, and Steals

by Gordon G. Chang

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ "This won't revolutionize the U.S.-China relationship or the terms of trade between us, but it shows that the two countries can work together on an important issue,"... said Clete Willems of Akin Gump to Bloomberg, referring to President Trump's "phase one deal" announced October 11. "Learning to do so is critical to avoid a broad deterioration of all aspects of our relationship, which is not in anyone's long-term interest." Despite what Willems said, it now is in the long-term interest of the United States to walk away from trade deals with the People's Republic of China. Why? Four reasons: First, communist China has never accepted the notion of comparative advantage, which underpins the global trading system. Yes, the mercantilist Chinese believe we should buy their products, but they, the masters of non-tariff barriers and other forms of predation, have worked hard to keep foreign goods out of their market. How can America trade with a state that does not believe in the benefits of trade? Second, Communist China has in fact never honored a trade deal with the US. Beijing, over the course of decades, has systemically violated both its World Trade Organization obligations and its obligations to America in various bilateral agreements. Third, China's economic system is incompatible with America's. Xi Jinping, the Chinese ruler, has in recent years been forcibly marching the country backwards, the "great regression" as it is now called. He has, with ruthless determination, been closing off the Chinese market to foreigners with, among other things, highly discriminatory rule enforcement and the enactment of prejudicial laws and regulations. He has at the same time been recombining already large state enterprises back into formal monopolies, reversing the partial privatization of earlier years by increasing state ownership of state enterprises, having the state take control of private companies, shoveling more state subsidies to favored state market participants, and pursuing development through dubious industrial policies such as his infamous Made in China 2025 initiative to dominate 11 crucial technology sectors. Fourth, it is especially difficult to trade with a thief, especially when the thief views commercial contact as an opportunity to steal more. Xi's China has continued to criminally take U.S. intellectual property to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. This crime is essential to the achievement of the extraordinarily ambitious Made in China 2025 initiative... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15045/trade-china-cheating

North Korea Sees Little Reason

To Rein In Missile Program

By John Grady

{ news.usni.org } ~ Since the regime in Pyongyang doesn’t see any reason to rein in its nuclear weapons program or to put the brakes on its ballistic missile technology efforts... North Korea possibly poses “the most pressing national security issue we face,” a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Thursday. “Tearing up the Iranian nuclear agreement sends a signal” to North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un that the United States might not live up to its part of any future arrangement with Pyongyang, Sen. Chris Coons, (D-Del.) said while speaking at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. He said Kim and others in North Korea’s leadership are well aware of “the Libya model,” where Muammar Gaddafi, former leader of the nation, voluntarily ended his nuclear weapons program. A few years later was killed in a coup that toppled his regime and sent his country into years of civil war. “Why would he choose to give up nuclear weapons” and risk his regime’s existence, Coons asked rhetorically. Apparently, nothing is holding Kim back from resuming nuclear testing now. In the same way, North Korea continued ballistic missile testing following the two summit meetings with the United States, Coons said. Adding to the tension is the most recent test, of a sea-based missile raising the threat of quick, surprise attack to South Korea and Japan to a higher level Ukraine’s post-nuclear experience, Coons said, provides Kim with another example of the dangers he could face if he turned over his nuclear stockpile for disposal. Kyiv turned over nuclear weapons the Soviet Union left behind after its collapse. “Now it is a smaller nation and under assault by Russia,” Coons said...

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Turkey's Web of Islamist and Terror Support

Only Magnifies India's Kashmir Challenge

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by Abha Shankar

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ India joined world leaders earlier this month in slamming Turkey's military attack into northern Syria. "We are deeply concerned at the unilateral military offensive by Turkey in north-east Syria," said an Oct. 10 Ministry of External Affairs press release... "Turkey's action can undermine stability in the region and the fight against terrorism." Turkey launched a major military offensive Oct. 9 against Syrian Kurdish fighters considered by Ankara to be terrorists soon after President Trump announced the withdrawal of American troops from the region. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to a ceasefire Thursday following a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence in Ankara that is contingent on a Kurdish withdrawal from a 20-mile swath of land near Turkey's border. But despite the ceasefire, news reports said that air and artillery attacks from the Turkish side continued to target fighters and civilian areas. India's unusual criticism of Turkey on a global forum is a tit-for-tat response to Ankara's denunciation last month of India's move ending autonomy for the Himalayan Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, widely known as Kashmir. The Kashmiri people are "besieged and eight million people are still stuck in Kashmir, they cannot get out," Erdogan said during a speech at the United Nations. "It is imperative to solve this problem through dialogue and the basis of justice and equality instead of conflict." Erdogan did not limit his condemnation to India. He also called Israel the cause of "injustice" in the Middle East and vowed Turkey "will continue to stand by the oppressed people of Palestine as she has always done." But Erdogan is in no position to cast a stone. Under the leadership of his Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey has become notorious for its support of the international Muslim Brotherhood headquartered in Egypt, and Hamas, the Brotherhood's terrorist offshoot in the Palestinian territories... https://www.investigativeproject.org/8125/turkey-web-of-islamist-and-terror-support-only

dinky/liar-Warren Threatens Israel

‘Everything Is On the Table’

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Senator Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren (D., Mass.) took a hard line on Israel Saturday saying "everything is on the table" in imposing a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict... "It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table," dinky/liar-Warren said during a press availability with reporters Saturday. In a formulation more commonly deployed by previous presidents in threatening the use of force against America’s enemies, dinky/liar-Warren repeated the phrase but did not clarify precisely what pressure—military or otherwise—might be brought to bear. "Right now, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing settlements, but that does not move us in the direction of a two-state solution," dinky/liar-Warren was quoted as saying. dinky/liar-Warren's remarks come as the left wing of the Democratic Party has increasingly embraced boycotts of the Jewish state. Her remarks are likely to raise eyebrows in the Jewish and pro-Israel communities, which, while largely Democratic, continue to favor the U.S. alliance with the region's only democracy. U.S. support for Israel has historically been a bipartisan issue. The aid the United States sends to Israel is largely used to bolster the country's defense systems and is reciprocal in nature, meaning the technology developed is shared with and often employed by America... America she is not presidential material. https://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-threatens-israel-everything-table/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=ff5fd69c1d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_20_11_21_COPY_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-ff5fd69c1d-45611665

U.S. Sanctions Spur Dramatic

Decline of European Imports from Iran

by Saeed Ghasseminejad

{ fdd.org } ~ In the first six months of 2019, the value of European Union imports from Iran decreased by 94 percent in comparison with the same period in 2018, according to Eurostat... The oil trade has suffered the most: In 2019, EU countries have not imported any oil from Iran. These figures indicate that European companies are complying with U.S. sanctions despite efforts by European governments to establish an alternate payment system aimed at circumventing them. In the first half of 2018, EU countries imported 6.1 billion euros in goods from Iran, but in 2019, the number plummeted to 384 million euros. Purchases by the EU’s top five importer countries in the first half of 2018 – Italy, Spain, France, Greece, and the Netherlands – all fell sharply. Italy and Spain reduced their imports from Iran by 95 and 97 percent, respectively. Still, they remained in the top five importers for the first half of 2019, joined by Germany, Belgium, and Romania. A few countries – Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania, and Denmark – increased their imports in the first half of 2019, but the extent of their trade with Iran is negligible. The countries which imported the most were Romania and Bulgaria, which imported only 22 million and 19 million euros worth of goods, respectively. Meanwhile, the EU’s data for the first half of 2019 show a 54 percent decrease in exports to Iran compared to 2018’s first half, from 4.6 billion euros to 2.1 billion euros. The staggering decline of trade is primarily the result of U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, the lifeblood of the country’s economy. In 2018, EU countries imported 8.2 billion euros of crude oil from Iran, constituting 88 percent of the EU’s total imports from Iran that year...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/18/us-sanctions-spur-dramatic-decline-of-european-imports-from-iran/

Talking Turkey With Trump

National Security Desk: “President [Donald] Trump declared Thursday ‘a great day for civilization’ as Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced terms of a cease-fire agreement that would end violence between Turkey and Kurds in Syria, following a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara,” reports Fox News.

But, the Associated Press reports, “Fighting continued Friday in and around a northeast Syrian border town at the center of the fight between Turkey and Kurdish forces, despite a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that went into effect overnight.” Yet the ceasefire lasts for all of five days — long enough for the Kurds to evacuate “or else” — and there was only fighting because Trump allowed it in the first place.

Sen. rino-Mitt Romney (R-NeverTrump) declared Trump’s abandonment of the Kurds “a bloodstain on the annals of American history.” He accused Trump of caving to Turkey. “Are we so weak and inept diplomatically that Turkey forced the hand of the United States of America? Turkey!?”

Given how this has all played out so far, the on-its-face analysis is that Trump botched this one badly, just as rino-Romney and countless others have said. But is that all there is to it?

There are a lot more U.S. troops moving around the Middle East than the relative handful Trump pulled from northeastern Syria. In fact, at the same time we were withdrawing those advisers, the Pentagon was moving 3,000 more American troops to Saudi Arabia. And we’ve increased our overall military presence in the Middle East by 14,000 troops since May.

So what’s going on? Well, Iran is the elephant in the room these days. With Trump’s withdrawal from Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s foolish nuke deal followed by increased sanctions, Tehran is behaving as a cornered and wounded animal.

Why did Trump downplay the Saudis’ cold-blooded murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi? Because Saudi Arabia is a key piece on the Middle East chess board.

Why did Trump seemingly give a tyrant like Erdogan everything he wanted? Because Turkey is a (shaky) NATO ally and is currently home to dozens of American nuclear weapons, as well as U.S. military personnel at a couple of air bases. Trump has to prevent Ankara from going to Iran or Russia for any more help and alliance than it already is.

Why did Trump abandon the Kurds? Because brutal Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has clearly won that nation’s civil war, and the more he solidifies power — including now allying with the Kurds who were just a few years ago trying to oust him — “the less he’s going to need Russian or Iranian support,” argues Stephen Walt, a Harvard scholar.

In short, it’s not exactly like the Middle East has ever been a peaceful or America-friendly region. Trump’s tactics — and especially his appalling rhetoric — are as far from the status quo as you can get. Plenty of knowledgable and upright people disagree with his moves, but that doesn’t mean they’re impetuous or indefensible moves. At the same time, whatever Trump’s future chess moves are, we’re left to hope that they play out in a way that is beneficial to the U.S. And that’s not very clear at the moment. ~The Patriot Post

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Monday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 21, 2019 at 12:15pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Spinning Mulvaney's 'Quid Pro Quo'

Thomas Gallatin

Newt Gingrich: liar-Pelosi's Inquiry

'Total Mockery' of Justice

By Eric Mack

{ newsmax.com } ~ Democratic House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi's impeachment inquiry is a "total mockery" of the U.S. justice system, doing this investigation in "secret"... to damage President Donald Trump before the 2020 election, former Speaker Newt Gingrich said. "What liar-Pelosi has done is a total mockery," Gingrich told "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM-N.Y. "It's not the rule of law. "In fact, the entire concept of due process in the Bill of Rights was built around the repudiation of the ability of the government to frame you without you ever meeting your accuser." Gingrich pointed to the House's lack of an impeachment vote, which is allowing them to conduct the investigation behind closed doors and effectively leak damaging information against the president, like the whistleblower – "who really should just be called a leaker," Gingrich told host John Catsimatidis. "The idea that that can be done in secret, and we'll never know who made the charges and what the basis of it was, this goes against everything in the American system," he said. "It is doomed just to collapse, because the American people have an innate sense of fairness. And that sense of fairness is being totally . . . destroyed by the way that liar-Pelosi and the Democrats are proceeding."

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/inquiry-nancypelosi-house-speaker/2019/10/20/id/937870/?ns_mail_uid=62cddd55-241d-495e-8ad9-b8a04d508a36&ns_mail_job=DM59357_10202019&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010102q516ob

Senator Lindsey Graham -vs- Maria Bartiromo

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Good grief this guy is useless. Giving a great example of why politicians should shut up until they learn all the facts about subjects and events they are talking about... Senator Lindsey Graham appears on Fox News to explain how President Trump’s Syria plan is the best thing ever…Yes, this interview happens after Senator Graham has spent a full week telling all of the administration’s opposition how the Syria plan was the worst thing ever…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/20/sunday-talks-senator-lindsey-graham-vs-maria-bartiromo-2/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOUntMtlfo

liar-Pelosi Gaslighting Continues – False Claims Administration “defying lawful subpoenas

& document requests”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ liar-Nancy Pelosi continues to mislead her ‘impeachment’ constituents. Unfortunately the compliant media is refusing to hold her accountable... House Democrat leadership has taken a climate assessment of democrat House members and Speaker liar-Pelosi announced they will not hold a House impeachment authorization vote. As a direct and specific consequence all committee subpoenas do not carry a penalty for non-compliance. “Lawful subpoenas”, literally require an enforcement mechanism; that’s the “poena” part of the word. The enforcement mechanism is a judicial penalty, and that penalty can only be created if the House votes to authorize an impeachment inquiry. Absent a vote to authorize, the Legislative Branch has not established compulsion authority aka judicial enforcement authority, as they attempt to work through their quasi-constitutional “impeachment inquiry” process. Instead of subpoenas, scumbag-Adam Schiff House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and Chairman scumbag-Eliot L. Engel House Committee on Foreign Affairs can only send out request letters. The compliance is discretionary based on the outlook of the recipient...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/20/pelosi-gaslighting-continues-false-claims-administration-defying-lawful-subpoenas-document-requests/

Devin Nunes -vs- Maria Bartiromo

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com ~ Ranking member Devin Nunes appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to outline the ridiculously political sate of liar-Pelosi’s impeachment by decree and how scumbag-Adam Schiff has shredded all precedent.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/20/sunday-talks-devin-nunes-vs-maria-bartiromo/

VIDEO: https://videopress.com/v/SQybVQQF {copy and paste to view}

Durham’s Trail Leading to SSCI – Ali Watkins

Never Slept With James Wolfe –

It Was a Cover Story

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ With media reporting that U.S. Attorney John Durham has expanded the timeline and scope of his investigation into U.S. government and intelligence community activity during the 2016 election... there’s an interesting quote from NBC: …”Justice Department officials have said that Durham has found something significant, and that critics should be careful.”…The expanded investigative timeline is now into May 2017 when Mueller was appointed special counsel, and would mean all of the preceding and surrounding activity leading up to Mueller would be reviewed. With that carefully in mind….During the 2016 effort to weaponize the institutions of government against the outside candidacy of Donald Trump, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) was headed by Richard Burr and Dianne Fein-stein. After the 2016 election Senator Fein-stein abdicated her vice-chair position to Senator Mark Warner in January 2017. While the SSCI was engaged in their part of the 2016 effort Vice-Chair Fein-stein’s lead staffer was a man named Daniel Jones. Dan Jones was the contact point between the SSCI and Fusion-GPS. After the election, and after Fein-stein abdicated, Dan Jones left the committee to continue paying Fusion-GPS (Glenn Simpson) for ongoing efforts toward the impeachment insurance policy angle... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/20/durhams-trail-leading-to-ssci-ali-watkins-never-slept-with-james-wolfe-it-was-a-cover-story/

This Agency Is Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren’s Brainchild. The Supreme Court Will

Decide If It’s Constitutional

by Kevin Daley

{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a constitutional challenge to the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)... a watchdog agency whose existence is largely credited to Massachusetts Democratic. Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren. The bureau is arranged to insulate its employees and funding streams from political pressure and ensure its independence from big banks and financial institutions. At issue in Friday’s dispute is a provision forbidding the president from removing the bureau’s director except for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” Though the Department of Justice (DOJ) generally defends federal laws as a matter of course, the Trump administration told the justices that for-cause removal restriction on the president’s power violates the constitutional separation of powers. “Vesting such power in a single person not answerable to the president represents a stark departure from the Constitution’s framework,” the Trump administration told the justices in court filings. In a short Friday order, the justices also asked the parties to address whether the contested removal provision can be severed from the rest of the Dodd-Frank law. That gives the justices a path to strike down the removal position without imperiling the landmark Dodd-Frank law. The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act chartered the CFPB with a broad mandate to regulate mortgage servicing, pay-day lending, and stop predatory scams. As a professor at Harvard Law School, dinkyliar-Warren agitated for the creation of a consumer protection agency. Though former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama tapped her to set up the agency following passage of Dodd-Frank, she was ultimately passed over for the directorship due to protracted opposition to her appointment in the Senate. Like the CFPB, some federal agencies are chartered to operate with a degree of independence from the political branches. In the past, the Supreme Court has allowed independent multi-member panels like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or investigatory independent counsels. The administration argues those precedents don’t apply here, however, because the CFPB director exercises executive power alone with no accountability to the president...

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Spinning Mulvaney's 'Quid Pro Quo'

Thomas Gallatin: We’ve seen this movie before: Members of the Leftmedia are breathlessly asserting that they’ve finally uncovered the “smoking gun” that will prove President Donald Trump’s guilt. “Mulvaney brashly admits quid pro quo,” CNN’s headline blared. The rest of the Leftmedia dutifully declared that White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney had just undercut Trump’s denial of a quid pro quo with Ukraine. However, as with the story of the boy who cried wolf, few are taking the Leftmedia seriously, nor should they, as this is yet another instance of fake news.

So, what did Mulvaney actually say? During a press briefing on Thursday, Mulvaney explained that the foreign-aid package for Ukraine had been held up due to concerns over possible corruption. Mulvaney stated, “Did [Trump] also mention to me in the past the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely. No question about that. But that’s it and that’s why we held up the money.”

Aha! Democrats were quick to assert. Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff vacuously claimed, “I think Mr. Mulvaney’s acknowledgment means that things have gone very, very bad to much, much worse.” However, such sentiments only appear to be the case in scumbag-Schiff’s dream world.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, Mulvaney’s statements actually comport with what Trump and the White House have been saying ever since the “whistleblower” complaint arose. As the New York Post observes, “All Mulvaney did was repeat yet again that Trump ‘was worried about corruption with that nation’ — and specifically say those worries extended to cooperation in ‘the look-back to what happened in 2016.’” When pressed by a reporter that withholding the aid package amounted to a quid pro quo, Mulvaney responded, “We do that all the time with foreign policy. … We were holding up aid [to] the Northern Triangle countries [Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador] … so that they would change their policies on immigration.”

And once again Mulvaney reiterated that the temporary withholding of military aid for Ukraine had nothing to do with Trump’s request that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky look into loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s publicly admitted quid pro quo or Hunter Biden’s corrupt dealings in Ukraine.

The reality is that all U.S. presidents have engaged in foreign-policy deals that can be termed “quid pro quo,” as Mulvaney correctly asserts. The only question is whether Trump’s dealing with Ukraine was done solely and primarily for his own political benefit by seeking to take out a political opponent. And there is thus far no evidence supporting such a claim, irrespective of how loudly the Democrats and Leftmedia insist there is. In fact, if there were such damning evidence, liar-Nancy Pelosi and company would have already voted on articles of impeachment. Instead, the fact that House Democrats are holding this not-yet-voted-on impeachment “inquiry” entirely behind closed doors demonstrates that they have nothing. It’s all a game of political smoke and mirrors, which the Leftmedia seeks to convince the American people is real. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66210?mailing_id=4595&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4595&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Mon/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 21, 2019 at 9:09am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The President's Personality

Cal Thomas

Monday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

G7 U-TURN: “President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will no longer be hosting the next G7 summit at his Doral resort in Florida following pushback from ‘the Hostile Media & their Democrat Partners.’” (The Daily Caller)

MIDDLE EAST PUZZLEMENT: The Associated Press reports that “Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he is discussing an option that would keep a small residual U.S. military force in northeast Syria.” Furthermore, “While Trump has insisted he’s bringing home Americans from ‘endless wars’ in the Mideast, Esper said all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq.”

Government & Politics

scumbag/liar-HILLARY’S MALFEASANCE: State Department concludes scumbag/liar-Clinton email review, says it found nearly 600 security violations (The Daily Wire)

HUD’S HOODLUMS: HUD officials knowingly failed “to comply with the law,” stalled Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds (NBC News)

SNAKE-OIL SALESWOMAN DAWDLES: dinky/liar-Warren says she’ll reveal plan to pay for “Medicare for All” soon, amid fears of rising middle-class taxes (Fox News)

CFPB TESTED: The Supreme Court will consider a constitutional challenge to the composition of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (The Volokh Conspiracy)

Around the Nation

ILLEGAL-IMMIGRANT PROSECUTIONS: Record 110,000 illegal border crossers and smugglers prosecuted in 2019 fiscal year (Washington Examiner)

VILLAGE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM: Furman University has an “Acts of Intolerance” policy, which could punish “theme parties” and “costumes” that “reinforce stereotypes” (Campus Reform)

Other Notables

BOEING’S IMBROGLIO WORSENS: FAA asks Boeing why it hid test pilot’s discovery of “egregious” 737 Max issues (USA Today)

BREXIT UPDATE: “Prime Minister Boris Johnson will again try to put his Brexit deal to a vote in parliament on Monday after he was forced by his opponents to send a letter to Brussels seeking a delay to Britain’s departure from the European Union.” (Reuters)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: How bad constitutional law leads to bad economic regulations (The Atlantic)

POLICY: The principles of conservatism (The Heritage Foundation)

SATIRE: scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton asked to leave Costco after repeatedly accusing sample lady of being a Russian asset (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
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Kevin McCarthy -vs- Maria Bartiromo

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss ongoing politics in Washington DC. McCarthy discusses the meeting between Speaker liar-Pelosi and President Trump and the ongoing fiasco with liar-Pelosi’s “official impeachment inquiry” by decree.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/20/sunday-talks-kevin-mccarthy-vs-maria-bartiromo-2/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZGZvkeqDvo

Lindsey Graham Reverses Syria Stance,

Says Trump's Policy Could Succeed

by jpost.com ~ Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been one of the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump's decision to move US troops out of northeastern Syria... said on Sunday he now believed "historic solutions" were possible. In an interview with Fox News Channel, Graham said a conversation he had with Trump over the weekend had fueled his optimism that a solution could be reached where the security of Turkey and the Kurds was guaranteed and fighters from Islamic State contained. "I am increasingly optimistic that we can have some historic solutions in Syria that have eluded us for years if we play our cards right," Graham said. Graham said Trump was prepared to use US air power over a demilitarized zone occupied by international forces, adding that the use of air power could help ensure Islamic State fighters who had been held in the area did not "break out." Senator Jim Inhofe, a Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on Saturday that Trump understood the need for the United States to maintain air power in the region. "The US must retain air power to keep the pressure on ISIS, prevent our adversaries Russia and Iran from exploiting this situation and protect our partners on the ground," he said in a statement. ISIS is an acronym for Islamic State. Graham also said he believed the United States and Kurdish forces long allied with Washington could establish a venture to modernize Syrian oil fields, with the revenue flowing to the Kurds. "President Trump is thinking outside the box," Graham said of Trump's thinking on oil... https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Lindsey-Graham-reverses-Syria-stance-says-Trumps-policy-could-succeed-605230

Napolitano Wrong Again:

scumbag-Schiff Inquiry a Kangaroo Court

By Daniel John Sobieski

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano, who of late has been the poster child for the increasingly leftward tilt of the network touted as "fair and balanced,"... and who believes that President Trump is guilty of colluding with the Russians to affect the 2016 election and of pressuring Ukraine to investigate a political opponent, insists that the inquiry by Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff is perfectly legal because there is no requirement in law that a vote to conduct such an inquiry be taken. As he states in an article in the Daily Herald: The due process Trump seeks — notice, hearing, fairness, counsel, cross-examination, confrontation, neutral judges — is only relevant during a trial. The House does not conduct trials; the Senate does. There and only there — if we get there — will the president have his due process rights. But, as Napolitano himself notes, the House has rules, and one of those rules says that in the absence of a clear legal guideline, House precedent should be honored. The House may not have trials, but it is capable of witch hunts and inquisitions. President Trump is entitled under House precedent to the same process, including due process, that Richard Nixon and scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton got. Until the impeachment inquiry against President Trump, the House honored the tradition of relying on precedent as a guarantor of fairness: Little has changed in the House in terms of the process for impeachment. A guide to the process is House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House. As this guide explains, "Under the modern practice, an impeachment is normally instituted by the House by the adoption of a resolution calling for a committee investigation of charges against the officer in question." (p. 614) Although the Senate is more known for precedent, the House also relies on precedent to conduct business. There are different sources for precedent. One of those sources is Deschler's Precedents, authored by the first House parliamentarian, Lewis Deschler. In Chapter 14, Section 6, Deschler's Precedents discusses the impeachment process in great detail, including the precedent for an authorizing resolution for an impeachment proceeding. The Constitution gives the power of impeachment to the House of Representatives as a body and not just to the House Intelligence Committee of scumbag-Adam Schiff, who has colluded with an alleged Ukraine whistleblower. Also in violation of House precedent is the fact that the House Judiciary Committee, which should have jurisdiction, has been written out of the process. scumbag-Schiff's record of manipulation and deceit in this impeachment discussion and its purely political motivation has been well documented... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/napolitano_wrong_again_schiff_inquiry_a_kangaroo_court.html

Former Pompeo aide testifies

as Trump impeachment probe roars on

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By MIKE LILLIS

{ thehill.com } ~ The Democrats' impeachment inquiry sprinted forward on Wednesday as a former State Department official arrived at the Capitol... for what's expected to be another round of marathon testimony into the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine. Michael McKinley, a former top adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is slated to discuss issues surrounding Pompeo's role in the administration's pressure campaign to get Ukrainian leaders to investigate one of Trump's leading political opponents, former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. That campaign, which resulted in the removal of Marie Yovanovitch from her post as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in May, is at the center of the Democrats' hard-charging investigation into whether Trump sought to enlist foreign leaders to boost his reelection chances next year. The inquiry has been fueled by allegations, lodged by a government whistleblower, that Trump had also threatened to withhold almost $400 million in U.S. aide to Ukraine if President Volodymyr Zelensky failed to comply with the administration's request. Pompeo was reportedly on the July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky, when Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart for "a favor" — a reference to opening the loose lips liar-Biden investigation. McKinley, a career diplomat who resigned last week, had been serving as U.S. ambassador to Brazil in 2018 when Pompeo brought him back to Washington to serve as an informal liaison between the agency brass and the department's career diplomats. His resignation was reportedly in protest of Pompeo's failure, as perceived by a growing number of State Department employees, to protect diplomats from the administration's Ukraine operations amid allegations that they were politically motivated... https://thehill.com/homenews/house/466041-former-state-official-testifies-as-trump-impeachment-probe-roars-on

Abolish the Diversity Visa Lottery

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By Amil Imani

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The Diversity Visa Lottery, also known as the Green Card Lottery is an immigration program by which immigrants from nations with usually low rates of immigration to the United States are able to apply for a visa online... The platform, however, has been used by terrorists to penetrate America. On October 31, 2017, Sayfullo Saipov used a rental pickup truck to deliberately mow down pedestrians. After killing eight and injuring 13, he left the truck and shouted, "Allahu Akbar." Sayfullo is an Uzbekistan national and came to America in 2010. Later officials found a note about his allegiance to ISIS. This attack immediately received worldwide reaction from other lawmakers including the US. A bill proposed in August that would slash legal immigration levels in half over a decade also would eliminate the lottery program. The bill went to the House and overwhelmingly passed, but halted in the Senate. Each year, the Diversity Visa Program accepts 50,000 randomly selected people -- only from countries that don’t send many immigrants to the United States -- to obtain permanent residency commonly called a “green card”. It’s a way for individuals and families who otherwise wouldn’t have any way to legally immigrate to the United States to get a green card. The program is often seen as one that should be ended in a shift toward a more merit-based system. According to Heritage Foundation: “It does not bolster the skills of the American workforce, nor does it reunite families or serve any humanitarian function. Its only purpose is to increase ethnic and cultural heterogeneity in the U.S. -- a dubious goal that weakens the social ties within communities.” The diversity lottery has been an unwise policy since its inception in 1986, this program. This program is a dangerous gamble. Many Muslims who arrive in America, are deeply indoctrinated by Islamic credos and find it impossible to assimilate into host countries. In fact, their leaders and Imams encourage them to stay away from the American people and only stay within their own community. Hypocrisy is a Muslim trait while they strive to impose their own defunct 7th century barbaric ideology -- which is the cause of their own misery -- on the host nation. Both America’s political parties are guilty of keeping much of the U.S. population in the dark about Islam’s mission in the U.S. Those who dare to ask their representatives questions regarding this matter, will assure their constituents that in general, Muslims are law-abiding citizens of their adopted countries and it is only a minority that is responsible for the violence and chaos, so lies and deceptions are told... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/abolish_the_diversity_visa_lottery.html

Sweden: The Church that Spreads Hate

by Nima Gholam Ali Pour

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The Swedish Jerusalem Society, founded in 1900, has devoted its mission to charity work in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. For several decades, however... the Swedish Jerusalem Society has been hostile to the Jewish State of Israel. The association has three official goals in the Palestinian territories: Strengthen the position of women, Contribute to peace and reconciliation and Strengthen the Christian minority. Despite these noble goals, the Swedish Jerusalem Society publishes a journal in which the content, although often about Israel, has a tone that is extremely hostile and biased. In the journal's first issue of 2018, one can read an interview with a Palestinian school principal, in which she states: "We have suffered for so many years, and may suffer for a few more years, but it is unfair to give our capital to anyone else. Why not share it?" In the same issue, the bishop of the Lutheran Church in Jordan, who supports the anti-Semitic Kairos Palestine Document, says in an interview: "The chosen people -- so are we Christians, me too, not just the Jewish people. To be chosen can never happen at someone else's expense." In the same issue, in an interview with Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti, he compares the State of Israel to apartheid South Africa. It is important to highlight that when Barghouti made this comparison during the interview, no critical questions were asked of him. There were also no representatives from the Israeli side allowed there to comment or provide any kind of rebuttal. Consequently, what permeates the contents of the organization's journal is the demonization of Israel... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15028/sweden-church-hate

The President's Personality

Cal Thomas

Depending on the polls you read and how you read them, nearly half of those surveyed want the House impeachment inquiry of President Trump to continue. That is not the same as wanting him impeached, much less convicted by the Senate and removed from office, but it represents a momentum the president needs to address and soon.

The president is correct that he is being treated “unfairly” and has been since before the election, which the left still resents his having won. Still, would the president be in such deep water if he displayed a different personality, or at least was kinder to his political opponents?

Last week at a rally in Minnesota, the president said Barack scumbag/liar-nObama chose loose lips liar-Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008, because “loose lips liar-Biden understood how to kiss Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s ass.” That gets his mostly white rally-goers energized, but what effect does it have on the rest of the country?

Ellen DeGeneres recently demonstrated a different model for relating to political opposites. She was seen at a football game sitting in a box and smiling with former president George W. Bush, whose father was criticized by some on the right for speaking of the need for a “kinder and gentler” nation. DeGeneres said people should be more kind to each other, even if they have different political beliefs.

The New York Post noted, “DeGeneres, 61, has banned numerous celebrities from appearing on her show when they have expressed views that contradict her own, including those who have vocalized their anti-gay marriage views.” DeGeneres is gay and married to a woman.

Inconsistency is not unique to DeGeneres, but she has a point worth considering.

In their biography of the late Jack Kemp, the former congressman, 1996 vice presidential candidate and later HUD secretary, Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke write: “Kemp embodied a spirit sorely missing in today’s politics — in both parties. Kemp was positive, optimistic, idealistic, energetic, growth-and opportunity-oriented. He was incapable of personal attack and negative campaigning, even when it cost him. ‘The purpose of politics,’ he said, ‘is not to defeat your opponent as much as it is to provide superior leadership and better ideas than the opposition.’”

One of my favorite Kemp lines was that you don’t beat a thesis with an anti-thesis; you beat it with a better thesis.

President Trump has a better thesis. Like Kemp’s promotion of supply-side economics in the 1970s, which Ronald Reagan came to embrace, leading to an economic boom, Trump’s policies are working. He should spend less time calling his opponents names and more time dissecting policies that have failed the country in the past.

Democrats have nothing to offer but “free” stuff and impeachment. They are trying to make the president’s personality central to what some have called a “coup.” He is helping them. It is one thing to be combative, but quite another to be mean.

The president is pushing back against his critics in ways no other recent Republican president has done and good for him for doing so. But there is a way to do it that wins votes and prevails in the next election and another way that detracts from the president’s multiple achievements and could lead to political disaster.

The Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah, rhetorically asks, “Can a leopard change his spots?” At his age President Trump may not be able to change his “spots,” but he can tone down the invective against opponents, which is only giving them and everyone else who hates him permission to fire back in a similar manner. ~The Patriot Post

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