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Renewable Energy's Inconvenient Truths
Arnold Ahlert
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Police close Temple Mount
after firebomb attack
by Khaled Abu Toameh
{jpost.com} ~ The police on Tuesday closed the entrances to the Temple Mount after violent clashes with dozens of Palestinians... Officials have said that the religious site will re-open tomorrow. The clashes erupted shortly before 2 pm after a fire erupted inside a police post on the compound, also known as Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary). Police said the fire was caused by a firebomb. Some Palestinians, however, rejected the police account that the post was torched by a firebomb. At least two eyewitnesses claimed that the fire was caused by children who were playing with fireworks. This was not the first attack of its kind against the police post, which Palestinians see as a symbol of Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount. In 1990, Palestinian rioters tried to attack a number of policemen who had barricaded themselves inside the post. The policemen managed to flee the scene and the rioters torched the post and damaged police equipment. In 2014, Palestinian rioters again torched the post after policemen who were stationed there were ordered by their commanders to leave out of fear for their lives... https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Riots-on-Temple-Mount-Palestinians-throw-explosive-device-at-police-583195.
Chuck scumbag-Schumer, Nancy Pulosi
threaten Trump over proposed wall funding
by Jerry McCormickTo Disarm North Korea, Hit
Hard on Human Rights
by Gordon G. Chang.
Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin among 50
snared in elite college cheating
scam, authorities say
by Katherine Lam
{foxnews.com} ~ Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were among more than four dozen people charged in a nationwide college admissions cheating scandal... that involved wealthy individuals paying up to $6.5 million to place their children into elite universities, according to court records revealed Tuesday. The alleged scam -- which involved students being placed into top colleges such as Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, University of Southern California, UCLA and the University of Texas -- was run by a man in California, William Rick Singer, who helped parents get their children into the schools through bribes, court documents unsealed in Boston showed. Officials have been investigating the scam for more than a year. Singer, who authorities said will plead guilty to racketeering, ran the charity, Key Worldwide Foundation, which received $25 million in total to guarantee the admissions, U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said during a Tuesday news conference. The charitable foundation was used as a front to run the scam. "This is a case where they flaunted their wealth, sparing no expense to cheat to the system so they could set their children up for success with the best money can buy,” Joseph Bonavolonta from the FBI Boston Field Office said in a Tuesday news conference. Most of the students did not know their admission to the school was due to a bribe, authorities said. In some cases, however, the children and their parents all took part in the scam... https://www.foxnews.com/us/college-entrance-exam-cheating.
Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters says she
has enough evidence to ‘impeach’ Trump
by Jerry McCormick.
Renewable Energy's Inconvenient Truths
Arnold Ahlert: “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” —George Bernard Shaw
Michael Shellenberger, a Time magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and president of the policy and research organization Environmental Progress, has some bad news for a lot of know-nothing Democrat politicians. After spending years dedicating his life to addressing climate change, he discovered an inconvenient truth. “It gradually dawned on me that there was no amount of technological innovation that could solve the fundamental problem with renewables,” he reveals.
Unfortunately, for a Democrat Party determined to put ever-greater portions of American life under federal government control, facts don’t matter. “This is the first time Democrats have decided to go on offense on climate change,” Sen. Chuck scumbag-Schumer (D-NY) laughably asserted last week.
That is, quite simply, a lie. In 2009, House Democrats passed The American Clean Energy and Security Act, sponsored by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA). The so-called Waxman-Markey bill aimed to cut 2005 greenhouse-gas emissions level 17% by 2020, and 80% by 2050, via an economy-wide limit on carbon pollution. They were also on board with cap-and-trade, as in buying and selling pollution credits — while promoting renewable energy as a panacea. “We are now one step closer to delivering on the promise of a new clean energy economy that will make America less dependent on foreign oil, crack down on polluters, and create millions of new jobs all across America,” said Barack scumbag/liar-nObama in a written statement at the time.
The bill died in the Senate, where even Democrats had little enthusiasm for it. Moreover in stark contrast to scumbag/liar-nObama’s determination to “end the age of oil,” as he stated in 2007, the Trump administration’s America First energy policy has made our nation the world’s largest global crude-oil producer. And in 2018, American became a net oil exporter for the first time in 75 years.
The scumbag/liar-nObama administration also embraced a number of stimulus-backed, green-energy boondoggles that cost taxpayers billions of dollars. In 2012, The Daily Signal publisheda list of 34 taxpayer-supported entities that were failing, including 19 that had already filed for bankruptcy. Those bankruptcies reeked of crony capitalist corruption. The House Oversight Committee discovered that 22 out of 26 companies receiving Department of Energy loans had “JUNK” ratings — at the time they received the loans.
The “green jobs” initiative also ended in abysmal failure. A report issued by the Department of Labor inspector general revealed only 11,000 people were placed in permanent jobs, 16% of the original goal. The IG also discovered that grants for job creation went to entities like immigration activist group La Raza, which received $1.5 million — and created zero jobs.
All of this is worth remembering when one realizes that the Obama administration’s efforts pale in comparison to what today’s Democrats wish to inflict on America with their Green New Deal. Anyone who believes the latest Democrat effort to “save the planet” wouldn’t be exponentially greater than that of the Obama administration — in terms of cost, corruption and power consolidation — is delusional.
Yet those pesky facts illuminated by Shellenberger persist. Wind and solar? “Electricity from solar roofs costs about twice as much as electricity from solar farms, but solar and wind farms require huge amounts of land,” he explains. Further noting a transparently obvious reality that apparently eludes Democrats, he adds, “When the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing, you have to quickly be able to ramp up another source of energy.”
In other words, despite all the wind and solar that might be produced, a backup system — or intermittent power outages — are the only choices available.
Converting dams into giant batteries? Geographic problems, expensive retrofits, and the competition for already scarce water resources needed for irrigation and drinking. Batteries per se? “Despite what you’ve heard, there is no ‘battery revolution’ on the way, for well-understood technical and economic reasons,” Shellenberger explains.
And then there’s sheer irony that arises when one group of dedicated environmentalists squares off against another. Building solar farms requires huge amounts of land — which have to be cleared of all animal life, even endangered species. Wind turbines “are the most serious new threat to important bird species to emerge in decades,” he notes.
What about the promised savings from solar panels and wind turbines decreasing in cost? “Between 2011-17 the cost of solar panels declined about 75 percent, and yet [California’s] electricity prices rose five times more than they did in the rest of the U.S.,” Shellenberger writes. “It’s the same story in Germany, the world leader in solar and wind energy. Its electricity prices increased 50 percent between 2006-17, as it scaled up renewables.”
So what’s the answer? Nuclear power. “Over the last several hundred years, human beings have been moving away from matter-dense fuels towards energy-dense ones,” he explains. “First we move from renewable fuels like wood, dung, and windmills, and towards the fossil fuels of coal, oil, and natural gas, and eventually to uranium.”
And despite everything American have been told, “the energy density of the fuel determines its environmental and health impacts,” Shellenberger asserts. “Spreading more mines and more equipment over larger areas of land is going to have larger environmental and human safety impacts.” By contrast, nuclear power is not only safer, the subsequent clearing of air pollution will “reduce how much we’ll heat up the planet.”
Nonetheless, as The New Republic’s Eric Armstrong puts it, the most “damaging and confounding fight” against scientific literacy “has been the left’s quixotic fight against nuclear power.” He adds, “There is a Shakespearean quality in the fact that one of the environmental movement’s biggest victories in the past 50 years — crippling the expansion of nuclear power — has actually done irreparable harm to the environment.”
Maybe that’s because Democrat Party environmentalism isn’t really about the environment. “Democrats see fighting climate change as a winning issue on the campaign trail — a way to mobilize not only young voters but also progressives, who are increasingly talking about the environment in terms of economic and social justice,” The New York Times explains.
Economic and social justice are propaganda terms use to obscure the real agenda of federal power consolidation, and ultimately the one-world governance epitomized by the Paris Climate Agreement, the one where “no major advanced industrialized country is on track to meet its pledges,” stated an analysis by Nature, an international science journal.
Yet Democrats would be wise to tread carefully. As “green” French President Emmanuel Macron learned, substance trumps style. Not only did France endure weeks of rioting precipitated by higher gas prices, populist resistance to French elitism soared. In other words, Democrats’ insistence on implementing their Liberty- and economy-crushing Green New Deal might just ensure Donald Trump’s reelection.
At the end of his piece, Shellenberger poses the ultimate question: “Now that we know that renewables can’t save the planet, are we really going to stand by and let them destroy it?”
Renewables — or Democrats? ~ The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61663?mailing_id=4126&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4126&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=bodyTheFrontPageCover
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Deficit Spending as Far as the Eye Can See
Nate Jackson
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If Pulosi Believed Her Claims About Trump
And Russia, She Would Impeach
by David Marcus
{thefederalist.com} ~ There was some sad news for progressives yesterday as House Speaker Nancy Pulosi told Washington Post Magazine that she will not pursue impeachment against President Donald Trump... It’s not just Pulosi: House intelligence committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff also came out against trying to remove the president from office, saying “failed impeachment is a bad idea,” and that it can’t happen “in the absence of very graphic evidence.” The speaker claimed “he’s just not worth it,” but anyone who has read a newspaper or turned on the television in the past two years knows full well that if Democrats believed there were serious evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump, articles of impeachment would be flying out of printers in her office. Just back in January, speaking about the Roger Stone case, Pulosi said “It’s also bothersome his [Stone’s] and the president’s suggestion that’s that we should question whether we should be in NATO, which is a dream come true for Vladimir Putin.” Back in July of 2017, Pulosi promised there is “cold, hard evidence” of collusion between Russia and the Trump family. Less than a month ago, scumbag-Schiff was even more bullish on the collusion question. He told CNN, “You can see evidence in plain sight on the issue of collusion, pretty compelling evidence.” One thing is clear to any fair observer: if Pulosi and scumbag-Schiff really believed their outlandish rhetoric on Russian collusion, they would be moving to impeach the president. If they believed, as they previously claimed, that there is clear evidence to show Trump is in bed with Putin, they could not move fast enough to present that evidence and force Republicans to defend an obviously compromised commander in chief. The fact is, they don’t have the evidence, and they don’t expect Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller to provide it...Open Borders Is Just Another Form Of
Foreign Intervention Doomed To Fail
by Benjamin Bossi
{thefederalist.com} ~ Libertarian-leaning conservatives such as me understand that while the United States is an exceptional nation, we can’t alleviate the entirety of the world’s suffering... We tried to do just that in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and failed miserably. Why can’t libertarians extend this perspective to immigration? The United States cannot save the world by opening our borders. Its ills are too great and numerous. By taking in millions upon millions of immigrants, even legally, we dilute our political culture of ordered liberty and diminish our ability to be a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world. Meanwhile, we do little to nothing to alleviate the overall suffering of the vast majority of the world’s people. Is it worth it to help one million, two million, even ten million foreigners if we make the lives of 325 million Americans worse? When this question is posed in the context of foreign policy, libertarians will unanimously say no. Yet the worst big government neo-conservatives align with open borders libertarians not to mention open-borders leftists on immigration policy because neo-conservatives apply their naive worldview consistently to international issues. Libertarians must extend the realist, humble perspective that they apply to foreign policy to immigration policy. The United States can and should be an example for the rest of the world, but we cannot hope to rid the world of suffering, despite our best intentions. According to data compiled by the late Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, most immigrants come to the United States with decidedly left-wing views on everything from health care, to gun control, to the overall size of government. According to a study conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies’ James Gimple, most immigrants are more than twice as likely to identify with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party...Are we underestimating Iran's
cyber capabilities?
by Annie Fixler.
AG William Barr Meets AG Advisory Committee, Chairman Richard Moore and
Vice-Chair John Huber
by sundanceWhy Trump Wins on National Emergency
by Dov Fischer
{spectator.org} ~ Since passage of the 1976 National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. §§ 1601-1651, some 60 or so “national emergencies” have been declared by American Presidents... Approximately half have expired over time, and 32 “national emergencies” now are active, typically renewed annually. Quick — hide under your chair! Under the law, the President has authority to declare a “national emergency” as long as it falls within any of 136 statutorily prescribed areas. Among those areas, he may authorize military construction projects using any existing defense appropriations for such military constructions: In the event of a declaration of war or the declaration by the President of a national emergency in accordance with the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) that requires use of the armed forces, the Secretary of Defense, without regard to any other provision of law, may undertake military construction projects, and may authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to undertake military construction projects, not otherwise authorized by law that are necessary to support such use of the armed forces. Such projects may be undertaken only within the total amount of funds that have been appropriated for military construction, including funds appropriated for family housing, that have not been obligated. The President has declared a “national emergency” at the southern border and wants already-approved funds to be redirected towards construction of the ubiquitously discussed wall. Although his declaration should have included explicit references to the crises of human trafficking and opioid smuggling at the border, he did lay out the case for declaring an immigration emergency. Invoking his statutory authority, the President declared in pertinent part: By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 201 and 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), [I] hereby declare that a national emergency exists at the southern border of the United States, and that section 12302 of title 10, United States Code, is invoked.… To provide additional authority to the Department of Defense to support the Federal Government’s response to the emergency at the southern border, I hereby declare that this emergency requires use of the Armed Forces and, in accordance with section 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1631), that the construction authority provided in section 2808 of title 10, United States Code, is invoked and made available, according to its terms, to the Secretary of Defense and, at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, to the Secretaries of the military departments. He has that authority, and he wins under the law. OK... https://spectator.org/why-trump-wins-on-national-emergency/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=70f0a4350c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_12_04_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-70f0a4350c-104608113
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Deficit Spending as Far as the Eye Can See
Nate Jackson: President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal will be released today, revealing his priorities for the next decade and beyond. Frankly, that’s all a president’s budget does — Congress routinely says, “Yeah, thanks,” and then promptly ignores every president’s budget. But what does Trump prioritize? Primarily two things: the military and the border wall.
Trump will propose a big boost for the Pentagon, $8.6 billion in new funding for a border barrier, and what The Washington Post says are “major spending cuts across a range of domestic government programs.” Reportedly, that’s a 5% reduction in nondefense discretionary spending amounting to $2.7 trillion.
In practice, however, what are “major cuts” in Beltway Speak are actually slight reductions in the growth rate. Despite media messaging that permeates even many other conservative outlets, actual cuts — i.e. literally spending less year over year — are rare.
The Post notes, “The government now has more than $22 trillion in debt, and the deficit is projected to run between $900 billion and $1 trillion in the coming years.” Of those numbers, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) rightly complains, “Consider that the president’s budget proposes we spend vastly more money than we take in for 15 years, bust the spending caps again, leave ourselves with about a trillion dollars in deficit spending in fiscal 2020, accumulate debt well over $30 trillion by 2030, and lead us to spending more in interest payments than we do on Social Security or defense.”
Indeed, under Trump’s plan, eliminating the deficit will now take 15 years. “Even with deep spending cuts, the president’s plan would not balance the budget until the mid-2030s,” the Post reports, “falling short of the 10-year time frame that Republicans have sought for years.” Ever notice that we never actually get closer to the end of that 10-year window? Republicans and Democrats alike have been promising to “eliminate the deficit in 10 years” since the last time the federal government had a budget surplus in fiscal 2001. Funny how future Congresses and presidents have their own agendas, including kicking the can down the road.
The media deride the tax cuts for that shift in time frame, but the reality is that Trump campaigned on not touching two of the Big Three major entitlements — Social Security and Medicare — and those programs are the primary drivers of deficit spending and national debt. And most Americans just don’t want the reforms needed to change that.
As for the military, it does indeed need a buildup after years of war and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s policies, so a boost is all well and good. And yes, the border barrier should be a priority, but we all know how well the shutdown worked out for security funding. “scumbag-Chuck and Nancy” are no warmer to the idea of giving Trump what he wants now than they were in December. “Congress refused to fund his wall and he was forced to admit defeat and reopen the government,” the pair warned in a statement. “The same thing will repeat itself if he tries this again. We hope he learned his lesson.”
Few in Washington ever really learn lessons. They just keep spending the money of future generations. ~ The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61679?mailing_id=4126&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4126&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=bodyTheFrontPageCover
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House Demos' Election (Fraud) Bill
Thomas Gallatin
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Tuesday Top Headline Summary
Media Editors: “House Speaker Nancy Pulosi said in an interview that she opposes moving to impeach President Trump even though she believes he is ‘unfit’ for office,” The Washington Post reports. The Post infers that “Pulosi is well aware of the political risks of impeachment and how pursuit of the president could energize Republicans voters ahead of the 2020 election.” But National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke speculates that Pulosi is privy to certain information related to the dirty cop-Robert Mueller probe.
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“President Trump kicked off a new battle with Congress on Monday by releasing his fiscal 2020 budget plan seeking billions more in funding for a border wall and controversial work requirements for Americans collecting a variety of welfare benefits. Both proposals are sure to face resistance from Democrats, especially coming off a partial shutdown triggered by a border wall dispute that only ended when Trump declared a national emergency over immigration — a step being litigated in the courts and challenged in Congress. The requests are part of the president’s $4.7 trillion budget plan.” (Fox News)
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“As growing chaos took hold in Venezuela, a country whose people have had little power, water and communications for days, the United States announced plans to withdraw all remaining personnel from its embassy there this week. … [Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo announced the decision late Monday as Venezuela struggles to restore electricity following four days of blackouts around the country and a deepening political crisis.” (Associated Press)
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“The 2020 Democratic National Convention will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez announced Monday, a decision that comes after scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton narrowly lost the critical state to Donald Trump in 2016. … The city beat out Miami and Houston as the site to host the Democratic Party’s convention, which will take place between July 13 and 16. … scumbag/liar-Clinton’s unexpected loss in Wisconsin sparked widespread griping in the party that the state, which she did not campaign in once during the general election, was largely ignored in favor of bigger electoral prizes like Florida, which also ultimately went to Trump on election night.” (ABC News)
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According to Politico, “Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of the most outspoken advocates of the #MeToo movement who has made fighting sexual misconduct a centerpiece of her presidential campaign, spent last summer pressing legislators to update Congress’ ‘broken’ system of handling sexual harassment. At the same time, a mid-20s female aide to Gillibrand resigned in protest over the handling of her sexual harassment complaint by Gillibrand’s office, and criticized the senator for failing to abide by her own public standards.” Recall back in December when a lowlife-Kamala Harris aide stepped down for likewise harassing a female.
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“The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a far-left nonprofit known for its ‘hate group’ designations, has surpassed a half billion dollars in total assets and now has $121 million parked offshore, according to the group’s most recent financial statements. … The SPLC’s assets increased despite its total revenue falling by $15 million last year. The SPLC hauled in $136 million in total revenue throughout 2017. This number fell to $121 million in 2018. Its contributions and grants also fell by more than $20 million from 2017 to 2018, from $132 million to $111 million. Despite the fall in revenue, the SPLC’s vast investment portfolio expanded in 2018, which included a drastic increase in the amount of money it has parked overseas.” (The Washington Free Beacon)
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“ICE health officials have been notified of 236 confirmed or probable cases of mumps among detainees in 51 facilities in the past 12 months, compared to no cases detected between January 2016 and February 2018. Last year, 423 detainees were determined to have influenza and 461 to have chicken pox. All three diseases are largely preventable by vaccine. As of March 7, a total of 2,287 detainees were quarantined around the country.” (Reuters)
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“New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that NYC’s public schools will be going vegetarian one day per week in order to save the Earth. … Recent studies, however, have demonstrated that while eating meat does have an environmental impact, cows aren’t the Four Horsemen of the climate change apocalypse, and … in most places in the world where populations aren’t swimming in excess food, cattle, pigs, goats, and chickens provide much-needed sources of protein.” (The Daily Wire)
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“President Trump apparently is tired of switching clocks just like everyone else,” Fox News reports. Coming off a universally sleep-deprived weekend during which America set the clocks to spring forward an hour, Trump tweeted that he’s ‘O.K.’ with making Daylight Saving Time ‘permanent’ — in other words, enough with the clock changing. … Republican Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott filed a bill last week to extend daylight saving time for the entire year, called the Sunshine Protection Act.“ Help fight communism by making daylight great again.
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Humor: "We must resist Trump!” cries woman whose life hasn’t changed in the slightest since Trump was elected (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: “It would take real reforms to Medicare that change its spending and funding formulas in order to get the U.S. government off its current path to fiscal disaster,” write the Washington Examiner editors. “Wealthy retirees should be responsible for more of their own coverage. More services should have larger co-pays. But the Trump White House has timidly sworn off these reforms.”
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Policy: The Heritage Foundation’s James Gattuso says, “Just over one year ago, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to repeal the network neutrality rules it adopted in 2015. However, the FCC regulation could make a comeback if House Democrats have their way.” Here’s why this is a bad idea.
~The Patriot Post
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California: Majority of Millennials
Consider Leaving State
by Tim Brown.
Pulosi Opposes ‘Divisive’ Efforts to Impeach
Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It’
by Alex Griswold
{freebeacon.com} ~ House Speaker Nancy Pulosi revealed for the first time Monday that she opposes the impeachment of President Donald Trump... "There have been increasing calls, including from some of your members, for impeachment of the president," noted Washington Postreporter Joe Heim. "I’m not for impeachment," the California Democrat responded. "This is news. I’m going to give you some news right now because I haven’t said this to any press person before." "Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country," she continued. "And he’s just not worth it." Pulosi insisted later in the interview that it is her view Trump is "ethically" and "intellectually" unfit to be president, but she doesn't believe that ought to be her focus. "I don’t usually talk about him this much. This is the most I’ve probably talked about him. I hardly ever talk about him," she said. "You know, it’s not about him. It’s about what we can do for the people to lower health-care costs, bigger paychecks, cleaner government." Pulosi was previously critical of calls for impeachment without overtly opposing the idea, saying billionaire Tom Steyer's media blitz during the 2018 midterm elections was "a gift to the Republicans." Pelosi was also among the top Democrats who were critical in January of Rep. Rashida Tlaib's call to "impeach the motherf***er."... https://freebeacon.com/politics/pelosi-opposes-divisive-efforts-to-impeach-trump-hes-just-not-worth-it/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=ebeb0f6b5d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-ebeb0f6b5d-45611665 .
The Democrats have been taken over
by their Socialist Wing
by Matty Mattson
{ipatriot.com} ~ At his weekly press conference, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) railed against the far-left lurch that the Democrat Party has undertaken in recent years... The leader argued that the “transition” was now complete, the Democrats have been taken over by a new Democrat-Socialist Party, McCarthy also explained that the GOP in the House was “united and frustrated.” “We’re very united, and frustrated, that the Democratic Party is now taken over by the socialist-progressive wing on their side,” McCarthy opined.We saw when this new Democrat-Socialist Party was presented with an amendment that recognizes that allowing illegal immigrants to vote diminishes the franchise and diminishes the voting power of American citizens, they rejected that. What’s most ironic is we voted on this a few months before, and 49 Democrats voted to uphold the franchise of the American voters. Today, only 6 Democrats voted for identical language, only 6. What changed in those few short months? The sanctity of the ballot is suddenly controversial in the new Democrat-Socialist Party. The socialist grip could not be tighter. This week, the House Republicans also asked for unanimous consent for the 12th, 13th, and 14th time to consider the born-alive abortion survivor protection act, and each time the Democrats rejected it, but we will continue to ask every single day until the Democrats agree to bring it up. This isn’t the Democratic Party that we’ve come to know, the transition is now complete. The Democrat-Socialist wing of the party controls their own leadership. We continue to see the very clear contrast between freedom and socialism throughout this Congress....
The 109th Congress Border Wall Bill –
What’s Changed?
by Marissa Martinez
{aim.org} ~ There has been a lot of conversation as to when the border wall along our southern border first started... Many folks believe the controversial topic was only brought to light by then Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump during his 2015-2016 campaign. Although this is one of many campaign promises, the real estate mogul didn’t craft this legislation himself. In fact to the surprise of many, legislation titled “The Secure Fence Act of 2006” was signed into law on October 26, 2006. George W. Bush was the pioneer in adding a physical barrier to enhance the security to the south end of our country. In “The Secure Fence Act of 2006,” the White House Press Secretary’s office put out the following statement: “By making wise use of physical barriers and deploying 21st-century technology, we can help our Border Patrol Agents do their job and make our border more secure.” Even though the 109th Congress held a Republican majority until the 2006 mid-terms, this act received full bi-partisan support. In the House of Representatives by a vote of 283-138, it passed into the Senate, receiving 80-19 votes, passing onto the President’s desk. The difference between Bush’s trailblazing immigration policy versus Trump’s continuous path on the same trail of safety and security is time. Specifically, a decade in between the two pieces of legislation. Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the U.S., told a New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, “I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about.” President Carter, not a Republican nor a Trump supporter, claiming him and his wife voted for commie-Bernie Sanders in the 2016 democratic primary, noticed how bias and difficult the news coverage has been on our current president. A 2019 Pew study also found that 73 percent of Republicans do not believe the mainstream media understand ‘people like them.’.
commie-AOC Implies America is Garbage,
Suggests Reagan Stirred Racial Animus
by Virginia Kruta
{dailycaller.com} ~ Democratic New York Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that “where we are” as Americans amounts to “garbage”... during an appearance at the South By Southwest Conference & Festivals (SXSW). commie-Ocasio-Cortez sat down with The Intercept’s senior politics editor Briahna Gray to talk about the progressive left’s next move. “What’s really hard for people to sometimes see is that we are on this path of a slow erosion, and a slow slow slow just like — move away from what we’ve always been,” commie-Ocasio-Cortez began by explaining how she feels that America has moved away from what it should be. “You won’t even realize that you’ve drifted a hundred miles.” She then appeared to suggest that her Democratic Socialist policies represent core American values, arguing that we had just strayed so far from them that we couldn’t recognize them anymore. “So when someone’s talking about ‘our core,’ they’re like, ‘oh, this is radical,’ but it isn’t radical. This is what we’ve always been,” she said. “I think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are,” she concluded, “but where we are is not a good thing. And this idea of like, ten percent better than garbage, it shouldn’t be what we settle for.”... commie-AOC is totally off her rocker and is wrong.
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House Demos' Election (Fraud) Bill
Thomas Gallatin: The Democrat-controlled House passed bill HR 1 Friday — the dubiously named “For the People Act.” The purpose of the bill, according to Democrats, is to “expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants.” However, far from “expanding Americans’ access to the ballot box,” the bill instead runs roughshod over Americans’ constitutional rights and states’ rights, diminishing the power of citizens’ votes by failing to prohibit noncitizen voting.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) noted the irony of a bill ostensibly crafted to expand and protect the voting rights of Americans but doing the exact opposite: “It sounds like I’m making it up. What kind of government would cancel the vote of its own citizens, and replace it with noncitizens?” Crenshaw added, “Today I offered a motion to recommit #HR1 reaffirming that only US citizens should have the right to vote. Dems rejected it. Next time you go to the ballot box, keep that in mind. The future of their party is in cities like San Fran, where illegals can vote. Let that sink in.”
The bill makes an absolute mockery of federalism, as it would establish greater centralized control over elections by Washington bureaucrats. In other words, this bill is little more than a federal power grab that National Review’s editors criticize for “creating a chilling effect on political communications through sheer uncertainty and confusion.” NR’s editors further note, “Democrats seem to believe that political speech is just too dangerous to be unrestrained. It has to be micromanaged, regulated by technocrats until it is directed into its government-approved lanes. This is of course exactly what incumbent politicians tend to prefer. They want predictable debates, reliable funding streams, and (above all) power — including the power to punish their opponents.”
In fact, HR 1 is so bad that even the leftist American Civil Liberties Union opposes it, writing in a 13-page letter that the bill would “unconstitutionally impinge on the free speech rights of American citizens and public interest organizations.” And the chairman of the Institute for Free Speech, Bradley Smith, observes that the Democrats’ “goal seems to be to limit discussion of candidates to the candidates and parties themselves, at the expense of the public at large. However, even candidates are likely to find their speech severely restricted were H.R. 1 to become law.”
The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky astutely argues, “All legislation proposed by Congress should be necessary, constitutional, and good policy. H.R. 1 is none of these things. It is unnecessary, unconstitutional, and bad policy. It does nothing to protect voters or to help election officials administer a fair and secure voter registration and election process. Put bluntly, it imposes federal micromanagement on the states, reversing the local oversight of the election process that our Founders believed was essential to preserving liberty and freedom in America.”
This is nothing but a bald-face attempt by Democrats to further direct and control the outcome of America’s national elections. It is anything but constitutional or democratic for that matter. Legislation like this, coupled with the attempt by several Democrat-controlled states to subvert the Electoral College, is yet more evidence of the extreme Left’s near-complete takeover of the Democrat Party. And for all intents and purposes, the current Democrat Party has more in common with one-party Marxism than the U.S. Constitution. ~ The Patriot Post
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The Day Liberals Went Brain Dead
Roger Helle
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CAIR: Fire Jeanine Pirro for Remarks
About Rep. Omar’s Hijab and Shari’a
by Patrick Goodenough.
Disturbing proof of U.S. voter fraud
now documented
Equivocating on Condemnation of Anti-Semitism
by Deborah WeissSex Matters
by Sean McDowell White House rejects Dem request to
interview ex-Trump aide
by Scott Wong and Morgan Chalfant
.The Day Liberals Went Brain Dead
What we are being promised is endless investigations into anything and everything to throw as much doubt on President Donald Trump and his administration as possible. Speaker Pulosi said if the shutdown ended she would negotiate with Trump in good faith. We’re waiting. But what I believe has shocked most Americans is the sudden rush to legalize abortion, removing any and all restrictions right up to the moment of birth.
If that wasn’t shocking enough, the governor of Virginia, a pediatric neurologist, was being interviewed about the pending legislation to allow late-term abortion. He stated the baby would be born and placed in a room and made comfortable while the doctor and mother discussed whether to murder the baby or not! Color me skeptical, but does it not seem interesting that the photos from him in medical school either in “blackface” or a KKK costume popped up? Suddenly we’re no longer discussing the murdering of a newborn child, but a 30-year-old yearbook photo. But not to worry, the entire matter is being quickly forgotten. The governor and scandals involving the lieutenant governor and state attorney general have all been forgotten by the media.
Let’s not forget the new media darling, newly minted former bartender and now Congresswoman commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Up to this point, she has been very amusing to watch and listen to. Graduating from Boston University with a degree in economics and international relations, she is a walking gaffe machine! If I were her parents, I would ask for a refund of her tuition. But now she is pushing her New Green Deal, which would send our country’s economy back to the agrarian age. Didn’t Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin try that? At a cost of a couple of hundred million lives all totaled, I might add.
But that’s the price we pay for “progress!” Now if she were the only one that believed that’s a good idea, we could laugh it off. But most of the Democrat candidates running to be president are endorsing this nonsense like she’s the new Albert Einstein. I want to be kind to her, but whenever she opens her mouth she sounds like an idiot. To watch the media fawn over her as if she said something profound leaves you wondering what has happened to our country.
I know there are still moderates in the Democratic Party, but where are you? If you don’t speak up on the direction your party is going, you may not have a party in the very near future. Don’t check your brain at the moment you cast your vote.
Something to think about? ~ The Patriot Post
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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
Over the past couple of weeks, liberals have dug themselves quite a hole. Prevailing wisdom offers this bit of sage advice…when you find yourself at the bottom of a deep hole…
Stop digging.
Liberals, being liberals simply got themselves a bigger shovel.
I won’t get into the whole mess concerning that obtuse “resolution” passed in the House last week regarding hate speech while completely ignoring Ilhan Omar from whose islamist lips the statements came that started the whole thing because my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Diane Sori has covered that extremely well in her latest op-ed, “A Resolution and a Truth Many Find Offensive…Part 1” which you can read by clicking here.
In other words…rather than dealing with the pile of dirt liberals left beside the hole that they’re digging, I am choosing to deal with the hole itself.
While it has been said that a rose by any other name is still a rose…the hole at which liberals find themselves at the bottom of today…by another name is…
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Is Trump's Free Speech EO a Good Idea?
Political Editors
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Trump unveils budget with ambitious goals
for spending cuts, economic growth
by Colin Wilhelm.
Yes, Trump is target of 'presidential harassment'
by Byron York.
commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
The Face of the Left
by Lloyd MarcusA Month of Multiculturalism in Britain:
February 2019
by Soeren KernWolfgang Schmucks – loose lips-Joe Biden
Leads Iowa Poll, commie-Bernie Close Second
by sundance.
Is Trump's Free Speech EO a Good Idea?
Political Editors: When President Donald Trump addressed the crowd at CPAC last weekend, he announced that he would be signing an executive order “requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research dollars.” This announcement came on the heels of an incident on the UC Berkeley campus, where a young conservative activist, Hayden Williams, was attacked and punched in the face while recruiting college students to join the conservative organization Turning Point USA. “If they want our dollars — and we give it to them by the billions — they’ve got to allow people like Hayden and many other great young people and old people to speak,” said Trump.
Trump hit upon a sore subject for many conservatives: the ongoing attempt by many American universities to silence and limit conservative voices on campuses all across the country. It’s a very real problem that has been repeatedly documented by many, including The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, himself a frequent target of leftist protests and abuse.
However, while we respect the president’s desire to protect the free-speech rights of all Americans, especially where those rights are being systematically and sometimes violently attacked, his proposed executive order runs into the realm of overreach. Unlike instructing executive agencies as to how and where to spend money based on an emergency declaration, President Trump has no authority to determine policies at our nation’s universities. One of the many problems with federal funding is that it comes with so many strings. But Trump is proposing a rope. Instead, he should do the constitutional thing: Work to cut off funding altogether. ~ The Patriot Post
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Miserable Military Housing
but Billions for Illegals
Political Editors
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Senator John Kennedy Rebuttal
to Andrew McCabe
by sundance.
scumbag-Adam Schiff: dirtry cop-Mueller
making a 'mistake' without Trump
testimony under oath
by Zachary Halaschak.
NEC Chairman Larry Kudlow -vs- Chris Wallace
by sundance.
Growing Missile Threats Demand Increased Investments in U.S. Missile Defense
by Bradley Bowman and Andrew Gabel .
Decepticon Barrasso Discusses National
Emergency Border Declaration
by sundance.
Miserable Military Housing but Billions
for Illegals
Political Editors: After a growing number of complaints sparked a Reuter’s investigative story, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing recently to determine the degree and scope of unsafe living conditions many military families had experienced while residing in on-base housing units.
As Reuter’s reported, the unsafe living conditions included some bad stuff: “Lead paint hazards threaten children; rampant mold sickens others; ceilings leak or collapse into bedrooms, and rodents soil cribs and carpets. Even some new homes are riddled with defects, and the housing often isn’t accessible to state or county inspectors. Families have limited tenant rights and can be left penniless or powerless to challenge property managers in business with their military employers.”
While the Leftmedia has sought to place blame for the problem on the government’s decision to contract out on-base housing to private companies rather than on the actual issue of poor program oversight, what we find more disturbing and frustrating is how U.S. military personnel and their families are treated versus illegal aliens.
The U.S. has been catering to the welfare of illegal aliens, costing taxpayers billions annually. In fact, as we’ve previously noted, the Center for Immigration Studies found that “63% of noncitizen-headed households got some form of welfare benefit in 2014, compared with 35% for citizens.” How many of these noncitizens are paying taxes? Or to put it into context, how many noncitizens are actively serving the U.S. by defending her to the point of giving up their lives, as do members of America’s military? It’s indeed a shame that those who serve our nation to preserve our freedom should be subjected to such poor living conditions. ~The Patriot Post
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Save Social Security or Expand It?
Brian Mark Weber
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Monday Top Headline Summary
Media Editors: With friends like these… “Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama in an interview published Friday, belittling his ‘pretty face’ and saying his agenda of hope and change was an illusion,” the New York Post reports. “She cited the ‘caging of kids’ at the Mexican border and the ‘droning of countries around the world’ on scumbag/liar-nObama’s watch — and argued that he wasn’t much different from President Trump.” Fox News adds, “The broadside delivered at scumbag/liar-nObama is highly unusual for any Democrat, especially one who has been in the House for two months and has already ticked off party elders with her outspokenness.”
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According to The Washington Post, “President Trump on Monday will propose major spending cuts across a range of domestic government programs while seeking a large increase for the Pentagon, a budget plan that’s already encountering withering opposition from Democrats who control the House, as well as some Republicans. … Even with deep spending cuts, the president’s plan would not balance the budget until the mid-2030s.” Reuters says Trump also “will ask the U.S. Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for the wall he promised to build on the southern border with Mexico to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking.”
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“A federal judge in California who ordered the Trump administration to reunite more than 2,800 migrant families separated at the southwest border says potentially thousands more could be affected by his ruling. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw of San Diego said in a preliminary ruling issued late Friday that parents who were separated from their children on or after July 1, 2017, should be included as part of a class-action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. … Sabraw said he will hold a hearing later this month to decide whether the government will have to identify and reunite the additional families.” (NPR)
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“Ethiopian Airlines temporarily grounded its fleet of Boeing 737 Max 8 planes Monday, a day after one of them crashed shortly after takeoff, carving a gash in the earth and killing all 157 people on board. Thirty-five countries had someone among the dead, including the United States. There were at least eight Americans on the aircraft. There was no immediate indication why the plane went down in clear weather while on a flight to Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya, but the crash was strikingly similar to that of a Lion Air jet that went down in the sea off Indonesian last year, killing 189. Both accidents involved Max 8s.” (CBS News)
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“Generation Z has a more positive view of the word ‘socialism’ than previous generations, and — along with millennials — are more likely to embrace socialistic policies and principles than past generations, according to a new Harris Poll,” Axios reports. Among these two generations, 73.2% believe in taxpayer-funded universal health care; 67.1% believe in taxpayer-funded college; and 49.6% would rather live in a socialist country.
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Speaking of socialism… “Furious Venezuelans lined up to buy water and fuel on Sunday as the country endured a fourth day of a nationwide blackout that has left already-scarce food rotting in shops, homes suffering for lack of water and cell phones without reception. Authorities have managed to provide only patchy access to power since the outage began on Thursday in what President Nicolas Maduro called an act of U.S.-backed sabotage, but critics insist it is the result of incompetence and corruption.” (Reuters)
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“‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett has been indicted on 16 felony counts following his Chicago attack allegations. … The indictment — eight counts from what he told the officer who responded to the report of the attack and eight for what he later told a detective — comes a little more than two weeks after prosecutors announced one felony count of the same charge.” (Fox News)
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“A lawyer representing Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann said … that Sandmann plans to sue CNN for at least $250 million. … ‘CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes. It’s broadcast into their homes,‘ [attorney L. Lin] Wood told [Mark] Levin. … 'You have a situation where CNN couldn’t resist the idea that here’s a guy, a young boy, with a "Make America Great Again” cap on. So they go after him.’“ (The Hill)
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"The [Trump] administration is drawing up demands that Germany, Japan and eventually any other country hosting U.S. troops pay the full price — plus 50 percent or more for the privilege. That may see some nations asked to cough up five to six times as much as they do now. If the plan gets traction it could prove to be a paradigm shift for U.S. foreign policy and its relationships around the world. It risks fanning debates in some countries about whether they even want U.S. troops and creating a vacuum that might give the advantage to the likes of China and Russia.” (Bloomberg)
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“The Trump administration signaled Friday it intends to implement a ban on transgender people serving in the military after a federal court struck down the last injunction against the policy the previous day. … Former Defense Secretary James Mattis laid out a policy in March 2018 that would allow transgender people to serve if they do so ‘in their biological sex.’” (The Hill)
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Policy: The Heritage Foundation’s Michaela Dodge says, “The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee demonstrated a scary lack of understanding of nuclear weapons policy Wednesday during a hearing seeking outside perspectives on the U.S. nuclear posture. Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., jumped at the opportunity to attack the U.S. fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles, known as ICBMs, calling them unnecessary for deterrence and easily identifiable targets. Smith misunderstands the value that ICBMs bring to U.S. national security and that of our allies, which is scary given the importance of the role he plays.”
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Policy: Three doctors in Congress — Reps. Scott DesJarlais, Paul Gosar, and Andy Harris — diagnose the problems with Medicare for All (The Daily Signal)
~The Patriot Post
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Former DNC Chair: Dem Party Made Huge
‘Mistake’ by Barring Fox News
by Henry Rodgers
{westernjournal.com} ~ Former Democratic National Committee chairman Ed Rendell said the Democratic party made a big “mistake”... by barring Fox News hosts from moderating 2020 debates. “I think it was a mistake for the DNC to do what it did,” Rendell, said Thursday night on Fox News. “I know they were taken off a little bit by the New Yorker article, but as you said: If I was DNC chair, I would, and I think Tom Perez is doing a good job — but if I was DNC chair, Laura, I would say give me Brett Bair, Chris Wallace, and Juan Williams and you can have that Fox debate anywhere, anytime, any number of times. I’d be confident that it’d be fair.”After the news broke, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace accused some Democrats of having “Fox derangement syndrome.” “Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates,” Tom Perez said in a statement. “Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates.” Perez is the current chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Fox’s Senior Vice President Bill Sammon released a statement on behalf of the network Wednesday, saying he hopes the DNC will reconsider. “We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate.”....
Special Prosecutor John Huber Meets
with Attorney General Bill Barr
by Cristina Laila
{thegatewaypundit.com} ~ John Huber, the special prosecutor tapped by former AG Jeff Sessions to investigate FISA abuses by scumbag/liar-nObama’s DOJ/FBI, met with newly-confirmed Attorney General Bill Barr this week... Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee say John Huber still has not interviewed key witnesses and they want answers. Mark Meadows (R-NC), Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Doug Collins (R-GA) sent a letter to special prosecutor John Huber on January 8th demanding answers by a January 21st deadline. “Your investigation has been ongoing for over nine months. During the course of our extensive investigation we have interviewed more than a dozen current and former DOJ and FBI personnel, and were surprised to hear none of these potentially informative witnesses testified to speaking with you,” the GOP lawmakers wrote. The Republican Congressmen then blasted Huber for being a no-show at the December hearing where scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation whistleblowers Lawrence Doyle of DM Income Advisors and John Moynihan of JFM Associates testified. “Further, last month, then-chairman Mark Meadows invited you to testify as a witness at the Subcommittee on Government Operations’ hearing ‘Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations: A Case Study on the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation.’ We were disappointed to learn from the department that you were not enthusiastic about testifying when declining the invitation.” The GOP Congressmen gave Huber a deadline of January 21st to respond to the following demands....
Pentagon Mulling $1 Billion in Leftover Military
Pay And Pension Accounts for Border Wall
by Randy DeSoto
{westernjournal.com} ~ The Pentagon is reportedly planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension allotments to help finance border wall construction... according to a top Senate Democrat. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last month to obtain additional funding building additional barriers along the U.S. border with Mexico. Besides the $1.375 billion Congress voted to authorize for barrier funding in February, the White House plans to redirect $3.6 billion from a military construction fund, $2.5 billion from a Department of Defense drug interdiction program and $600 million from the Treasury Department from a drug forfeiture fund. The national emergency is specifically being used to tap the $3.6 billion from the military construction fund. Senate Minority Whip scumbag-Dick Durbin of Illinois told the Associated Press that the DOD plans to repurpose $1 billion from excess military recruitment bonuses and pensions toward wall funding. He explained that Army recruitment is down, and voluntary early retirement numbers were also lower than anticipated, which resulted in the surplus funds being available. According to the AP, the Pentagon is trying to minimize the money being taken away from other military construction projects, which lawmakers want to see spent in their home states and districts....
Fleeing jihadi brides say last remnants
of ISIS 'caliphate' are a 'catastrophic'
by Ross Ibbetson
{dailymail.co.uk} ~ brides fleeing the last remnants of the ISIS 'caliphate' say they have left behind a 'catastrophic' hell, as the evacuation of civilians will be halted today ahead of a final battle... One woman described how the town of Baghouz in eastern Syria was subjected to constant bombings and fires, saying: 'you would wake up and everything was destroyed.' More than 7,000 - mostly women and children, as well as some suspected ISIS fighters - have been packed out of the town in the last two days. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) say they will resume their ferocious siege on the last few hundred jihadists today after helping people to surrender. 'The last days were horrible,' said Sana, a 47-year-old Finnish woman among the thousands who fled the bastion on Tuesday. 'Bombing, shooting, burning all the tents... you would wake up and everything was destroyed.' The operation to smash the last remnant of the 'caliphate' that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed in 2014 resumed Friday after a long humanitarian pause. Veiled from head to toe, Sana mixed milk powder with water to feed her children....
How We Could See Bibles Back
in the Classroom
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Save Social Security or Expand It?
Brian Mark Weber: In 2018, young voters who helped bring the U.S. House back into the hands of Democrats thought their dreams had come true. Just tax the rich, they thought, and they’d coast along through their adult years. But Democrats know that someone has to pay. They just don’t want anyone else to know.
Take Social Security, for instance. Now that Nancy Pulosi is once again speaker of the House, her party is working on a plan to make all those young people pay more to keep Social Security solvent. Rep. John Larson (D-CT) wants to expand benefits through his Social Security 2100 Act.
Yet, as the editors at The Wall Street Journal remind us, “The political pitch is that this would make Social Security more financially secure, but it would do the opposite. Social Security financing is increasingly stretched as fewer workers are available to support each baby boomer retiree. Social Security’s trustees reported in 2018 that filling the looming financing gap would require an ‘immediate and permanent’ payroll tax increase to 15.18%, a 17% benefit cut, or some mix of both.”
Someone should alert these up-and-coming American socialists that they’re actually going to have to pay for all that “free” stuff. And they’ll pay big when they finally enter the workforce. Some of them will have to fork over a third or even half of their income to foot a bill that’s becoming an ever-more massive portion of federal outlays.
The editorial board at USA Today writes that in the next fiscal year, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will “account for nearly 62 percent of all expenditures, far exceeding national defense (15.7 percent) and interest on the national debt (9.7 percent.) In fact, the federal government might best be described as a nuclear-armed, if woefully underfunded, health care and retirement provider. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that in just 10 years, half of all federal spending (except for debt service) will be benefits to senior citizens.”
And that’s one of the main issues with the Social Security 2100 Act. The plan may very well keep Social Security funded, but there won’t be a penny left for all those other utopian projects Democrats dream of implementing. How many Millennials would support this act if they knew it would require putting aside fantasies of free tuition or the Green New Deal?
Of course, all of this assumes that the money collected for Social Security is put aside for our seniors. How many times have we heard about a Social Security “lock box” or trust fund that the government raids whenever it needs funding for its pet projects? And let’s not forget about the national debt, which has just surpassed $22 trillion.
Democrats and Republicans alike don’t seem to care about anything other than pandering to their interest groups. In this case, it’s seniors. But at least Democrats reward their supporters — unlike the GOP, which talks a good game about reform but doesn’t tend to follow through when it has the opportunity.
During the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency, Republicans controlled all branches of the federal government. They could have done what they’ve promised but failed to do for decades: rein in federal spending and privatize entitlements in order to keep the government leaner and more efficient.
That’s a tall task for a party that couldn’t even muster enough support in its own ranks to repeal and replace scumbag/liar-nObamaCare. It doesn’t help that President Trump himself has promised to not touch entitlements. For now, the Social Security 2100 Act isn’t likely to go very far with Republicans holding the Senate. But Democrats are moving forward to expand government programs that Republicans didn’t have the courage to tackle.
Unfortunately, this latest scheme is nothing more than a shell game designed to help Democrats attract more senior votes in the next election. Sure, it may put a few more bucks into grandma’s purse during her golden years. But everyone contributing to the system now will pay the ultimate price when this fiscal house of cards collapses. ~The Patriot Post
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Hyperventilation Over the Trade Deficit
Michael Swartz
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Trump seeks $8.6B from Congress for
border wall in fiscal 2020 budget
by John SicilianoFOIA Discovery Reveals AG Jeff Sessions
Initiation Letter To U.S. Attorney John Huber
by sundance.
Jim Jordan Discusses Pulosi and
scumbag-Schiff’s Manipulation of Michael Cohen
by sundance.
"Is It Really Human Beings Doing This?"
by Raymond Ibrahim.
How Legalized Abortion Renders Us Impotent
in the Fight Against Radical Islam
by Cassandra Chambers
{americanthinker.com} ~ Each faith has its own rules for right behavior to which non-members are not bound. My Jewish friends don’t care if I eat a pork chop. Whether or not non-Catholics eat a steak on Ash Wednesday... or don’t go to church means nothing to me. It’s one of the glories of our country that we respect these differences. Tolerance and mutual respect help us live together in peace, but they constitute the seed of relativism with which every faith in our open society has to contend. How do we understand what values are particular to our faith group and which should be universal? A chaste college freshman encountering free-love dorm life may think, “Although it is wrong for me to engage in promiscuous premarital sex, it’s not against the moral code of my classmates and is therefore not wrong for them.” This perspective leads directly to rationalizing abortion on the same ground. To adopt the “personally-opposed to abortion but won’t oppose a woman’s choice” position, by the nature of abortion, requires accepting simultaneous conflicting fundamental truths, and in turn requires that no essential truth exists. If someone close to you has an abortion, it can’t be murder because your loved one is not a murderer. Morally, how do you square the near-universal revulsion at a mother killing her newborn baby with the large segment of society that will fight for her right to end the baby’s life a week or two earlier? By continuing to allow legal abortion, we tacitly proclaim that abortion is not wrong. If deliberately terminating an innocent baby is not wrong, then what is wrong? The answer is “nothing.” If nothing is wrong, then morality is just a construct, and no religion has any basis for claiming validity. This nothingness is why we can’t rationally discuss important issues anymore. The idea of a higher truth encourages debate. No matter how firmly we hold our convictions, if we believe that there is an ideal truth which we desire to comprehend, it is possible to rationally argue, with the hope of persuading and/or learning from people with whom we disagree...
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Hyperventilation Over the Trade Deficit
Michael Swartz: Earlier this week, the Commerce Department released figures on American trade, and as usual our nation was seemingly on the short side of the ledger. Among those nations and entities we had the highest negative balance with were China ($419.2 billion), the European Union ($169.3 billion), and Mexico ($81.5 billion). Also noted in the annual summary: Exports to China were down year-over-year, presumably due to tariffs set in place last year.
Predictably, the Beltway media and Democrats (but we repeat ourselves) howled in protest and blamed Donald Trump. “U.S. trade gap with China reaches all-time high under Trump,” thundered Politico’s Doug Palmer. His piece was a representative sample of the coverage, which as an added bonus liberally quoted House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who predictably blamed Trump’s trade policies. The report “shows that the president has flunked the test he set for himself,” charged Hoyer. “It is time for President Trump to acknowledge that his scattershot approach to trade policy is failing and explain how he intends to change course and reverse these record deficits.”
Yet it’s worth mentioning, as The Washington Times pointed out, Trump faces some serious headwinds. China’s shaky, export-dependent economy had its worst performance in almost three decades last year; meanwhile, GDP growth in the EU was less than 1% and Japan flirted with recession. Combine that with a strong dollar that’s making imports cheaper and exports pricier, and the growing trade deficit becomes more predictable.
Bear in mind: That latter factor is ironically a headwind of Trump’s own making, as our economy has seen improved growth and employment since he took office, bolstering the dollar against other world currencies backed by nations with more sluggish conditions.
So do these deficits really matter when the economy is chugging along? “Capital investment matters more to job creation than trade flows do,” opined The Wall StreetJournal. The editors helpfully add that “a larger trade deficit is a benign byproduct of a healthier American economy.” Indeed, that’s true to the extent that we have consumers prosperous enough to afford the vast array of goods on the world market that aren’t necessarily created here. Moreover, the one area where we run a healthy trade surplus is in the service sector, which reflects well on the skill of our labor.
In addition, as Heritage Foundation trade economist Tori Whiting states, the trade deficit number leaves out an important piece of the economic puzzle: “Investment in America by foreign companies is everywhere. Japan’s Toyota, South Korea’s Samsung, the United Kingdom’s HSBC, and the Netherlands’ Philips all create thousands of jobs for Americans.” One can argue the benefits of foreign ownership of various icons considered “American,” such as Jeep (now part of the Italian company Fiat) and Budweiser (now owned by a Belgian conglomerate), but thousands of loyal Americans make their living creating and selling foreign-owned products thanks to our growing share of the global marketplace.
We’ll grant that President Trump won office in part because of his vow to create better trade deals, and the deficit situation on the surface looks like evidence that his approach isn’t working. But the Beltway echo chamber isn’t interested in the prime reason for the increasing trade gap. That’s because those politicos can’t bring themselves to admit the Trump economy is doing well. In fact, Democrats are invested in just the opposite, as Mark Alexander observed back in December. As if on cue, the media has whipsawed from talking about the “Trump boom” last summer to the looming “Trump recession” these days.
Yet Trump still has cards to play, as does Congress. The president is slated to meet again with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this spring at Mar-a-Lago, with the expectation of signing a new trade deal. For its part, Congress has yet to approve the deal the Trump administration reached with Canada and Mexico to replace NAFTA. Quick action on these fronts could allow us to “change course and reverse these record deficits” and, more importantly, do so without harming our economy.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61631?mailing_id=4122&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4122&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=bodyThe United States of America, the greatest country in the world, the land of the free.
So why is it that over half the nations of the world hate us?
And why is it that we are giving billions of dollars to these nations when we have unemployed, starving and homeless people right here at home?
Why do we send our young men and women to foreign lands to fight and die for causes that are none of our business and do nothing to better the lives of our people?
Why do we have to be the police for the whole world?
Why do our own representatives have to be so corrupt, choosing to get into bed with special interest groups and corporate giants to the detriment of their own constituents?
Why can’t we forget about the rest of the world and their greed and take care of our own? Is it because of our own greed?
Why do we have a tax code so voluminous and complicated that we need CPAs and tax lawyers just to know what we need to give to support our voluminous government? And while we’re at it, why do we need a tax code at all? Everyone just needs to agree via voting, the services that our government needs to provide, then we each need to pay the same percentage. Why is that so hard?
Why does the federal government have to stick its nose into nearly every aspect of our lives when this country was founded on the premise that the states could handle most of their own matters without federal interference?
Can’t we just stay home and solve our own problems?
Who in the hell do we think we are?
We are supposed to be, “One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
A Confused American
Edward S. Umlauf, D.O.
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Fascist Democrats Won't Condemn
Anti-Semitism
Nate Jackson
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Here comes Trump's first veto
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Trump Just Got Another Confirmation
Through the Senate
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Finnish Government Collapses Due
to Rising Cost of Universal Health Care
by Jeffrey Cimmino
{freebeacon.com} ~ The government of Finland collapsed Friday due to the rising cost of universal health care and the prime minister's failure to enact reforms to the system... Prime Minister Juha Sipila and the rest of the cabinet resigned after the governing coalition failed to pass reforms in parliament to the country's regional government and health services, the Wall Street Journal reports. Finland faces an aging population, with around 26 percent of its citizens expected to be over 65 by the year 2030, an increase of 5 percent from today. Sipila's reforms "intended to remove power from the 295 municipalities that currently oversee health and social care, and place responsibility within a leaner, more efficient system of 18 elected regional authorities," according to the Journal. The prime minister also wanted patients to be able to choose from a range of public and private providers. Sipila said "there's no other way for Finland to succeed" besides these reforms, which could have led to $3.4 billion in savings for the government. Finland's aging population is increasing the financial strain on its health care system. From a BBC News report: As an increasing number of people live longer in retirement, the cost of providing pension and healthcare benefits can rise. Those increased costs are paid for by taxes collected from of the working-age population – who make up a smaller percentage of the population than in decades past... https://freebeacon.com/politics/finnish-government-collapses-due-to-rising-cost-of-universal-health-care/by Jeffrey Cimmino.
A South Asian Threat in America
by Sam Westrop.
What Climate Organizers Can Learn
From Two Centuries of Indigenous Resistance
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Fascist Democrats Won't Condemn
Anti-Semitism
Nate Jackson: The whole point of the Democrats’ originally planned resolution this week was to rebuke the repeated and specific anti-Semitic remarks of a sitting member of Congress. The actual resolution they passed Thursday did not do that. Worse, but predictably, the 23 Republicans who declined to participate in what became a generic “anti-hate” charade are now being vilified for daring to vote against “condemning hatred and bigotry.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has been the source of much consternation since winning a seat in Congress last November, showing her true hateful colors on multiple occasions. Nevertheless, Speaker Nancy Pulosi (D-CA) protested that Omar’s “words are not based on any anti-Semitic attitude” but are instead because “she didn’t have a full appreciation of how they landed on other people.” Translation: Omar is dumb, not racist. As for the resolution, Pulosi insisted, “It’s not about her. It’s about these forms of hatred.”
The resolution was so watered down to include “Islamophobia,” anti-Hispanic sentiment, and even law-enforcement profiling that Hamas-supporting Omar herself voted for it. Again, given that its original purpose was indeed, contra Pulosi, a rebuke of Omar, that should tell you all you need to know about the radicals who now run the Democrat Party.
Now, the resolution didn’t cover every kind of hate — just those flavors Democrats wanted to highlight. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said he was “shocked” that the measure “refused to similarly condemn discrimination against Caucasian Americans and Christians.” We’re sure he meant “shocked” about as facetiously as Captain Renault in “Casablanca.”
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) opposed the resolution, calling it a “sham” that was actually “designed to protect anti-Semitic bigotry.” Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) added, “By refusing to mention Rep. Ilhan Omar by name and allowing her to keep her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Democrats have sent a message that anti-Semitism is less serious than other types of hate.” Indeed, House Minority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said as much, dismissing families of Holocaust survivors as not truly understanding how the former refugee Omar is the one “living through a lot of pain.”
Why has anti-Semitism been legitimized by Democrats? Because they are increasingly becoming fascist — a bastardized socialist philosophy in which anti-Semitism is deeply rooted. Their 2020 platform is one of authoritarian government control of private industry, class warfare, and a race-based hierarchy of victim groups. That’s fascism in a nutshell, despite the fashionable leftist historical lie that puts 20th-century fascists and their ideological descendants on the Right. After all, as Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels is attributed to have said, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.”
And if anyone knows how to repeat a lie often enough, it’s Democrats. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61650?mailing_id=4122&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4122&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=bodyUS House Democrat Party majority members vote to allow ‘illegal immigrates to vote in US Elections.
What is more dangerous than Capitol Hill Democrats to give our CONSTITUTION RIGHTS to give away our ‘PRECIOUS’ RIGHTS to illegal immigrants?
Capitol Hill Democrats have gone totally CRAZY.
Today, Democrat Party Democrats voted to give ‘illegal’ immigrants the RIGHTS to vote in America; all contrary to the RIGHTS of our US Constitution.
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The Unemployment Rate Can Only Go So Low
Thomas Gallatin
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The Jones Act Is an Antiquated, Protectionist
Policy Failure. Mike Lee Is Aiming to Kill It.
by Eric Boehm.
The Left vs. Life in General
by Deana Chadwell.
Pompeo Reminds China It’s in Trump’s World
Now with Use of Force Announcement
by Ben Marquis
{westernjournal.com} ~ For the past several years, the communist nation of China has sought to expand and exert its influence over other nations in the region... specifically those that share the international and territorial waters of the South China Sea. By way of taking over existing uninhabited islands — or manufacturing man-made islands altogether — and then militarizing them with landing ships and missile launchers, China has established a presence and laid sole claim to waters that are at best regarded as open and international, and at worst already claimed by other nations in the area, such as the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam. But per a report from The Washington Free Beacon, those efforts by China to impose its will and control over the regional waters that serve as a vital route for roughly $5 trillion in international trade annually have just run into the determined opposition of President Donald Trump’s administration, as was relayed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a recent visit to the Philippines.In a joint press conference with Filipino Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Pompeo made it abundantly clear that the United States would honor its long-held mutual defense agreement with the Pacific Ocean island nation against any sort of threat posed by China to their sovereignty. “As an island nation, the Philippines depends on free and unobstructed access to the seas,” Pompeo said, according to a State Department transcript. “China’s island-building and military activities in the South China Sea threaten your sovereignty, security, and therefore economic livelihood, as well as that of the United States. “As the South China Sea is part of the Pacific, any armed attack on Philippine forces, aircraft, or public vessels in the South China Sea will trigger mutual defense obligations under Article 4 of our Mutual Defense Treaty.” Pompeo was asked what sort of action the U.S. might take in the event it proved necessary in the South China Sea....
commie-Ocasio-Cortez hit with new
ethics complaint over boyfriend's email account
by Perry Chiaramonte
{foxnews.com} ~ A conservative group that filed a complaint with the FEC alleging Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign may have illegally funneled thousands of dollars... through an allied PAC to boyfriend Riley Roberts on Thursday lodged a fresh complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics. The new filing also concerns the famous congresswoman's boyfriend, but focuses on his use of a congressional email account. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation, a political nonprofit, alleges in the complaint that the New York Democratic lawmaker used her newly found congressional privileges in an unethical manner when she set up the House email address for Roberts. “This Complaint alleges Representative commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez improperly converted U.S. House resources to her non-official, personal use by obtaining an official ‘@mail.house.gov’ e-mail address for her boyfriend, despite the fact he was not employed by her congressional office,” reads a line from the complaint obtained by Fox News. “Moreover, it appears she obtained the e-mail address for him by falsely designating him a ‘staff’ member.” Attorneys for the foundation allege that commie-Ocasio-Cortez violated restrictions on personal use of House services and equipment—as outlined in the House Ethics Manual. They maintain that the provision of an official House-based email address for Roberts is a violation of rules that prevent outside individuals from having an official account...None of this is normal
by Fred Barnes.
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The Unemployment Rate Can Only Go So Low
Thomas Gallatin: The jobs numbers for February came in at a startlingly low number of only 20,000 jobs added, well below the 180,000 jobs many economists had expected. However, the headline employment rate dropped further than anticipated, down to 3.8%, while real unemployment (the U-6 rate) plunged from 8.1% to 7.3%. The really good news is wage numbers. CNBC reports, “Average hourly earnings increased by 3.4 percent on year over year, easily the best of the economic recovery that began nearly 10 years ago. That compares with a 1.5 percent increase in the consumer price index for all urban consumers from January 2018 to January 2019. Economists had been expecting a wage increase of 3.2 percent.” It’s the seventh straight month of wages gains of 3% or higher.
So, what does this all mean? For one thing, it appears that as more and more Americans find gainful employment, the overall number of new jobs being filled will naturally decrease. Second, a lower unemployment rate means that employers will be competing for employees, which in turn drives up wages.
The low jobs-created number is somewhat concerning as it may indicate a slight slowing of economic growth, which Democrats are hoping turns into a recession they will then blame on President Donald Trump. As Mark Alexander wrote in December, “Caught in the Democrats’ political crossfire are tens of millions of American workers and their families whose jobs and income prospects will fall victim to the Demos’ politically induced recession — the direct result of having thrown economic confidence under the bus in order to attack Trump.”
Finally, this is only one month’s numbers, and a seeming anomaly at that. It will be more informative to see where everything stands at the end of the first quarter. But one more thing: The labor force participation rate remained at a five-year high of 63.2%. A lot of Americans are working. ~The Patriot Post
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South Carolina's College Constitution Course
Culture Beat
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Harry dinky-Reid, hanio-John Kerry and
scumbag-Al Gore named in Areva’s
$28 billion corruption case
by Jean Patrick Grumberg.
Warning to American Jews:
Wake Up Before It’s Too Late!
by Ed Brodow.
The Swamp Fights Back
by Victor Davis HansonEthics Group Files House Complaint
on commie-AOC Over Social Media Use
by Chris White
{westernjournal.com} ~ A Washington, D.C-based ethics group is claiming that New York Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s social media usage violates House ethics rules... against using taxpayer resources for political purposes. commie-Ocasio-Cortez’s political Instagram account contains direct links to her House Instagram account and includes a link for political contributions, alongside posts of official video footage on the House floor, according to a complaint Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust plans to file Thursday with the Office of Congressional Ethics. The group claims these actions violate House ethics rules.“In a way, it’s a straight forward complaint,” Kendra Arnold, executive director of FACT, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Broadly speaking, the rules clearly define that politics and government works cannot overlap. There are reasons for that: mostly because we don’t want our taxpayer dollars going toward campaigns.” FACT is a nonprofit group whose past president was Matthew Whitaker, an attorney who served as President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general in 2018. “One is influencing the other,”Arnold said, referring to what she believes is the New York Democrat’s penchant for using Twitter as a form of cross-promotion....
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South Carolina's College Constitution Course
Culture Beat: South Carolina’s Senate recently passed an update to the Reinforcing College Education on America’s Constitutional Heritage Act, the state’s 95-year-old legislation requiring all college students at state schools to take a course on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers. The update to the law was brought forward after the president of the University of South Carolina, Harris Pastides, refused to comply with the law back in 2014 because he termed it “archaic.”
How “progressive” of him.
Pastides raised particular objection to the law’s language that stated a student could not graduate until the “power of his loyalty” to the Constitution had been examined. Pastides called this “problematic” and believed it to be unconstitutional. But it’s ironic to think that requiring students to pass a course on the history of the founding documents of the country — including the Constitution — can be construed as unconstitutional.
Jameson Broggi at The Daily Signal noted the state’s important role in founding the country, writing, “In 1776, 56 Americans signed the Declaration of Independence, recognizing God-given unalienable rights and pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor in support of that. These were not just words for these men, but a commitment. Three of the four signers from South Carolina paid a price when they were captured by the British during the War for Independence.”
In any event, South Carolina has finally responded to update the language of the law mandating a three-credit-hour course on America’s founding documents as a graduation requirement. Hopefully, South Carolina’s House will follow suit and pass the update to the legislation as well. Heaven knows young people need some help in the civics department. ~The Patriot Post
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Democrats Are Goose-Stepping
Towards Irrelevancy
Arnold Ahlert
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Cohen met with scumbag-Schiff staff for over 10 hours before House Oversight Committee
hearing, sources say
by Gregg Re and Catherine Herridge .
Breaking! Crisis in the U.S. Congress!
by Peter Coker.
House Dems Pass Bill to Let Illegals Vote,
Force Presidents to Release Taxes
by Kaylee McGhee
{libertyheadlines.com} ~ House Democrats voted for a bill on Friday that would allow illegal immigrants to vote in local elections and force future presidents to release their tax returns to Congress... The bill, HR 1, or the For the People Act, was the Democrats’ top legislative priority this year and passed the House in a 228-197 vote. It claimed it would expand voter registration and access, as well as redefining campaign-finance laws. “We are prepared to open up the political process and let all of the people come in,” Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said. Illegal immigrants and non-citizens are not legally allowed to vote in federal elections, but Republicans worry that HR 1 will provide yet another incentive for families to attempt to gain access to the country. “It sounds like I’m making it up. What kind of government would cancel the vote of its own citizens, and replace it with non-citizens?” Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said. The bill would also require presidential and vice presidential candidates to release their tax returns — an underhanded swipe at President Donald Trump, who refused to release his returns... Maybe this will all fall back on them and why didn't they include all representatives tax returns. https://www.libertyheadlines.com/dems-illegals-vote-tax-returns/
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In Surprise Move, House Republican
Releases Bruce Ohr Transcript
by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ Georgia Rep. Doug Collins unilaterally released a 268-page transcript Friday... of a deposition that Justice Department official Bruce Ohr gave to Congress in August. Collins, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, took the unusual step by reading a statement on the House floor and providing a link to the Ohr transcript in the public record. The representative said his patience with the Justice Department “has grown thin.” Ohr served in 2016 and 2017 as a back channel between the FBI and Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the anti-Trump dossier alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked as a contractor for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele....
Pulosi Demands Newcomers be Given Vote
by wnd.com: House Speaker Nancy Pulosi apparently is demanding that illegal aliens be allowed to vote... At a news conference Tuesday, she promoted a proposed voting- rights bill that would prohibit state officials from checking whether voters legally have the right to vote. The California Democrat chastised Republicans who support laws requiring identification to register and vote by evoking Republican President Ronald Reagan. “In the campaign, the candidate that I, the president that I quoted the most was Ronald Reagan,” she said. “Does that surprise you? Maybe. But Ronald Reagan said this: ‘This is the last speech I will make as president of the United States. And I have a message I want to communicate to the country I love.'” Pulosi said Reagan “went on to talk about the Statue of Liberty and what it means to the world – that beacon of hope, what it means to people who have come here and seen that statue welcoming them – he said, our ancestors, our grandparents, our parents.” She then turned the corner. “We, in California, see people coming from a different direction, but the same welcome. You see them coming, many from the south, southern border, but should be the same welcome. He went on to say, though, after talking about the Statue of Liberty: ‘the vital force of America’s preeminence in the world is every new generation of immigrants who come to our country. And when American fails to recognize that as our vital force, American will fail to be preeminent in the world’ – preeminent in the world.”... Pulosi need to read the U.S. Constitution on voting and the rest of the dems.
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Democrats Are Goose-Stepping Towards Irrelevancy
Arnold Ahlert: Democrats recently held a meeting where party leaders made it clear loyalty is the only thing that matters. Unsurprisingly, a headline from The Washington Post article describing the meeting vastly understated reality: “House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates.” Socialist/Marxist hard-core radicals lashing out at progressives is more like it — in a party where ever-increasing demands for “authenticity” are the only currency that matters.
What kind of authenticity? “Triggering the blowup was Wednesday’s votes on a bill to expand federal background checks for gun purchases,” the Post explained. “Twenty-six moderate Democrats joined Republicans in amending the legislation, adding a provision requiring that ICE be notified if an illegal immigrant seeks to purchase a gun.”
In other words, Democrat Party members who would like to take Americans’ guns away were furious that some of their colleagues supported making sure illegals can’t get guns. As a result, media-made “superstar” commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared through her spokesman that Democrats who side with Republicans “are putting themselves on a list.”
It’s going to be quite a list, and ideology is only half of the equation. As Victor Davis Hanson so aptly explains, Democrats are a party where “ending capitalism, the internal combustion engine, and so-called white privilege become, for now, the new revolutionary agendas.” And while the old party elitists may pay lip service to the first two tenets, he warns, “The third canon of race unfortunately is not apparently, like gender, a social construct, but innate, unchanging and genetic — and historically an igniter of tribal strife every time it is elevated to being essential rather than incidental to identity.”
The new breed of Democrats, whose ignorance is only exceeded by their arrogance, couldn’t care less. If the old guard won’t get more tribal, they are eminently expendable. Thus, when former VP loose lips-Joe Biden called current VP Mike Pence a “decent guy,” he infuriated leftists who believe Pence’s anti-same-sex marriage stance is all that matters. And when failed New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon called him out, loose lips-Biden backtracked. “You’re right, Cynthia. I was making a point in a foreign policy context, that under normal circumstances a Vice President wouldn’t be given a silent reaction on the world stage. But there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, and that includes the Vice President,” he tweeted.
loose lips-Biden is the tip of the iceberg. commie-Bernie Sanders? Just “an old white, and rather affluent career politician, still barking at the class-struggle moon,” as Hanson puts it. A person “burdened by his utter lack of intersectionality,” National Review editor Rich Lowry adds. Elizabeth dinky-Warren? Her Native American “ancestry” has proved to be as tenuous as her explanations for exploiting it, making her just another rich, old, white women.
lowlife-Kamala Harris? In order to authenticate her “blackness,” the daughter of a Tamil Indian mother and Jamaican father told a radio audience she used to get high in college while listening to “Snoop” and “Tupac” — neither of whom released music until years after she graduated. scumbag-Cory Booker? Apparently inventing a drug dealer friend named “T-Bone” was his ticket to “down with the struggle” relevancy.
And on it goes, as each of these Democrats and others try to out-authenticize one another by moving further and further left. commie-Ocasio-Cortez wants a 70% tax rate? Punked by Ilhan Omar, who wants to jack it to 90%. Both are outflanked by Warren, who apparently believes advocating for outright wealth confiscation will mitigate her tribal deficiencies.
The party’s new breed and their establishment fanboys and fangirls are also on board with a Green New Deal, universal Medicare (and the subsequent elimination of private insurance), tearing down the existing border wall, reparations for black and Native Americans, abolishing ICE, and embracing post-birth abortions.
And yet, as always, Democrats remain fearful too much elucidation of their intentions is their worst enemy. “Democratic leaders agree that candidates need to be careful not to say anything now that could haunt them in the general election, if they become the nominee,” The Washington Post reports.
The haunting is in full swing. As Hanson points out, Democrats are a party “in which over a dozen and often overlapping victim cadres agree that each degree of non-white-maleness adds authenticity and becomes a force multiplier of left-wing radicalism.”
It is a force multiplier whose ultimate destination elicits a question: How could any white, heterosexual, male — routinely vilified as “privileged,” “cisgender,” and “toxic” — still be a member of the Democrat Party, much less one of its presidential candidates?
And what about Christians, who were referred to as “bitter clingers” by the former Democrat president, and saw the Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal organization, vilified as a promoter of “extremist” views by two Democrat senators?
Jewish Americans? How many anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, pro-BDS, Louis Farrakhan-supporting Democrats does it take to engender irreparable alienation?
After all, the House failed to pass a resolution condemning anti-Semitism.
Yet the rush to the left remains undimmed. “So many Democratic presidential prospects are now claiming the progressive mantle in advance of the 2020 primaries that liberal leaders are trying to institute a measure of ideological quality control, designed to ensure the party ends up with a nominee who meets their exacting standards,” Politico reports.
Quality control? Exacting standards? Ideological purity with all the attendant fanaticism is more like it. “You don’t just get to say that you’re progressive,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told party donors at a conference last December. She and her followers envision 2020 as a watershed election where they will get a chance to “leverage our power.”
As always, power is all that matters to the American Left. That’s at least partly why DNC chairman Tom Perez announced Fox News would be barred from holding a Democrat Party presidential debate because of its “inappropriate relationship” with President Trump. Apparently 90% negative coverage of the president by the media is insufficient.
The list of initiatives mentioned above is all about the Liberty-crushing empowerment of progressive-controlled government, and their desire to abolish the Electoral College and pack the Supreme Court with four new leftist justices is all about making the arrangement permanent. Yet why are the same Democrats who hid behind a facade of “tolerance” for decades now embracing in-your-face radicalism?
Two reasons: The election of Donald Trump so enraged them they can’t contain themselves, to the point where they’ve made it clear they intend to investigate unprecedented portions of his adult life, and the lives of his associates and family, irrespective of their relationship to his presidency — and irrespective of what the Mueller investigation finds.
In other words, Democrats are embracing the Stalinesque “show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” mindset championed by the Soviet dictator’s secret-police director Lavrenty Beria.
Yet far more important, Democrats think a combination of mass immigration — absent assimilation — and five decades of indoctrination-based education, that produced legions of Americans united solely by the idea they live in an inherently flawed nation needing radical transformation, has reached critical mass.
Don’t bet on it. “Progressives are like a worn rope being pulling apart at both ends,” Hanson states. “At one end, there is an effort to radicalize prior radicalization, and on the other end victimhood is heading toward parody.”
Not parody. Self-inflicted political irrelevancy. ~The Patriot Post
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DNC Blacklists Fox Dem Debate Coverage
Thomas Gallatin
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A Presidential Committee on Climate
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As the Democrats Go Socialist,
They Go Anti-Semitic
by Daniel GreenfieldDozens arrested as haredi protesters
shut down Jerusalem roads
by David Rosenberg
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ More than two dozen haredi protesters were arrested in Jerusalem Thursday afternoon, after hundreds of demonstrators blocked roads in the capital... to protest the recent arrest of a haredi draft dodger. Police reported that some 500 demonstrators had converged on the intersection of Jaffa Road and Shaarei Yisrael Street near the Central Bus Station, not far from an IDF draft office. Demonstrators gathered to protest the recent arrest of Meir Blau, a young haredi man who refused an order to appear at the IDF draft office. According to Israel Police, 28 demonstrators have been arrested. “Israel Police forces are working with determination against the rioters in order to keep the roads and light rail line open, and have thus far arrested 23 demonstrators,” said a police spokesperson, before the number of suspects arrested rose to 28. Some demonstrators clashed with police, cursing the officers as “Nazis”. “Better to die than enlist,” said some. “Go to jail, not the army,” said other protesters. The demonstration was organized by the Yerushalmi Faction, a radical haredi movement founded by the late Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach with the goal of winning blanket exemptions for the entire haredi population... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/260046.
2 Gazans nabbed after infiltrating
into Israel, sparking panic
by Judah Ari GrossDemocrats, Including commie-Ocasio-Cortez,
Vote Against Green New Deal Amendment
by Michael Bastasch
{westernjournal.com} ~ Democrats on the House Committee on Financial Services voted unanimously against an amendment introduced by a GOP lawmaker... to spark debate about a key demand of the Green New Deal. Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy, the committee’s ranking Republican, introduced the amendment to the committee Democrats’ budget resolution, though he said in a hearing Wednesday he did not plan on voting for it. Duffy’s intention, instead, was to use the amendment to debate a key demand of the Green New Deal, which was introduced by New York Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in February. That bill, which is backed by some Democratic 2020 presidential candidates, included a call to retrofit every building to maximize energy efficiency. Duffy’s amendment would have changed the wording of one line of a financial services committee budget and views resolution to be in line with the Green New Deal’s call for “maximum energy efficiency” and “zero-emissions.” The amendment said the budget should furnish funds “to provide all people with affordable, safe, and adequate housing that has been newly built or retroactively upgraded to achieve maximum energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability, using only clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources.” That’s similar to the Green New Deal resolution’s call for “upgrading all existing buildings in the United States and building new buildings to achieve maximum energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability, including through electrification.”... Still the we the people will have to pay for it..
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DNC Blacklists Fox Dem Debate Coverage
Thomas Gallatin: “Democrats demand only Leftmedia propaganda distributors televise their presidential primary debates” — that would be the more accurate headline to the Democratic National Committee’s decision to blacklist Fox News from its slate of primary debates. Citing a recent story written by leftist activist “journalist” Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, DNC Chair Tom Perez announced his decision to preclude Fox News from even televising any of the Democrats’ presidential primary debates. The real problem with Fox is that it doesn’t join the 90% negative coverage President Donald Trump receives from the rest of the mainstream media.
In fact, Trump humorously rejoined, “Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!”
It’s not surprising that the DNC aims to continue promulgating the long-running charade of a non-biased MSM, while seeking to convince Americans that its increasingly extreme leftist ideology is mainstream. In fact, the hypocrisy on display here is quite frankly amazing even for Democrats. Recall back in 2016 when it was discovered that scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign organized with CNN’s Donna Brazille to feed questions for a town hall debate hosted by the network. Another example is the 2012 debate between Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and Mitt Romney in which CNN moderator Candy Crowley infamously injected herself to defend scumbag/liar-nObama with an erroneous “fact check” on Romney’s claim that scumbag/liar-nObama had initially denied the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi was terrorism. No bias there? Please.
The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway observes, “One of the reasons Trump was successful and won the presidency was that he declined to play the game where he treated the media as if they weren’t biased and facing massive credibility problems.” She then asks, “Do other Republicans enjoy being treated like second-class citizens? Do they think they must accept it?”
The fact of the matter is the illusion of the MSM being non-biased reporters of truth is no longer believed by the vast majority of the American public. The real question is why so many Republicans still seem to believe they must continue to kowtow to the media when they know the MSM will never give them a fair shake. ~The Patriot Post
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Donkeys Fight Over Who to Hate
Nate Jackson
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The Rise of Iraq’s Shia Militias:
An Emergent Threat to Israel
by Dr. Jonathan Spyer and Mr. Lazar Berman
{/jiss.org.il} ~ The Iraqi Shi’ite militias form a single, numerous and increasingly able component of the military and paramilitary assets available to Iran in its efforts... They substantially increase the scope for Iranian disruption in the region, and may significantly increase Iranian capabilities in the event of a war on Israel’s northern front. “The Iranian regime must respect the sovereignty of the Iraqi government and permit the disarming, demobilization, and reintegration of the Shia militias,” warned the US State Department on October 30, 2018, as part of the measures Iran needs to take if it wishes to avoid renewed sanctions. To no one’s surprise, Tehran failed to comply. The Shi’ite militias in Iraq are one of Iran’s most effective foreign policy tools. Along with minor proxies in the Palestinian territories and within Shi’ite communities in the Gulf, Iran had already created the powerful Hezbollah organization in Lebanon, a major threat to Israel and Jews worldwide, and an increasingly active player across the Middle East. The wars in Iraq and Syria, and the accompanying ethnic strife, have allowed Iran to create new armed Shi’ite organizations. Though of varying quality, several leading Shi’ite militias have proven competent, loyal, and dangerous. These organizations have become a new means for Iran to spread its influence, push back on American interests, and prepare the ground for new threats against Israel. At first glance, the Shi’ite militias seem to be an issue Israel can largely ignore. They operate far from Israel’s borders, and have been involved in fighting Sunnis, not the Jewish state. It would be a mistake, however, for Israel to miss the emerging threat....
Cali Court Ruling Allows Illegals
Full Appeal Rights Over Trivia
by S.Noble
{independentsentinel.com} ~ With the DOJ no longer hiring immigration judges due to financial concerns... the invasion at the border of fake asylum seekers is out of control. A new judicial ruling out of California just made it all a lot worse. Under U.S. law, migrants who don’t establish a “credible fear” of returning to their home country – a test by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers – now can appeal the decision to an immigration judge on minor, technical grounds. The court is treasonous and pushing for open borders. In its decision, the appeals court concluded the law violates decades of judicial rulings granting constitutional protection to non-citizens. “The historical and practical importance of this ruling cannot be overstated,” said ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt. “This decision reaffirms the Constitution’s foundational principle that individuals deprived of their liberty must have access to a federal court.” In the decision, the judges wrote: “We think it obvious that the constitutional minimum … is not satisfied by such a scheme.” These judges are breaking our asylum laws. This comes during an invasion.She Told The City Council She’d Be Back – She Blasted Them For Not Upholding The Law
by Tim Brown.
Persecuted Christian Woman Asia Bibi Remains Trapped In Pakistan Despite Acquittal
by Jon Brown
{dailycaller.com} ~ A Pakistani Catholic woman, acquitted in January of a blasphemy charge by the Supreme Court of Pakistan... remains trapped in the country amid fears that her health is failing. Asia Bibi, 53, is reportedly living with her husband at a secret location in Karachi, Pakistan, where she is being denied medical care for her “low blood pressure,” according to a source who spoke with The Daily Mail. The source explained that Bibi is “very unwell” and expressed frustration that she is being kept by the Pakistani army from following her children to Canada, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered asylum. “Everyone is very worried,” the source continued, according to the Mail. “She won her appeal and was supposed to be out of Pakistan by now. Even though the government says she can leave, the army has all the power in this case.” “They are in control of her. They are fearful about getting a negative press if she speaks out about her experiences – but they will get an even worse press if she dies in protective custody.”...No Accountability for Iran’s Nuclear Violators
by Matthew Zweig and Behnam Ben Taleblu
{fdd.org} ~ One year ago this January, Israeli agents broke into an undisclosed facility near Tehran that contained damning evidence of Iranian duplicity... While professing its pacific intentions, Iran carefully preserved the documentation from its long-denied nuclear weapons program. The Israeli raid and the information its agents collected provide the Trump administration with an opportunity—so far unrealized—to utilize the archives as part of its larger pressure strategy against Tehran. The first step towards doing so requires punishing the individuals named in the archive for their illicit nuclear activities. While skeptics were quick to dismiss the contents of the archive as “nothing new,” patient analysis of those contents has shown that Iran was much closer to a nuclear weapons capability than previously understood. Despite this revelation, European powers—with whom Israel had shared the archives—remained relatively muted as part of their larger effort to preserve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal. Worse, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)—the organization responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities— reiterated that it “had no credible indications of activities in Iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device after 2009.” Yet the very maintenance, concealment and possession of this material was relevant to the development of a nuclear weapon. Rather than engaging with the archival material, it was seemingly being written-off altogether. This head-in-the-sand approach has become less and less tenable as the significance of the archives has become increasingly clear. Last fall, nuclear experts David Albright and Olli Heinonen and their coauthors—all of whom had extensive access to the archive—published a steady stream of reports detailing the policy decisions and technical strides Iran had made towards a nuclear weapons capability. One critical detail was a decision by Iran to produce “five explosive systems.” These document exploitation efforts must continue, as they inform the public debate and can be used by the administration to publicly urge the IAEA to aggressively look into the archive’s contents. But that cannot be all. Washington should use the archives to support its maximum pressure campaign by using U.S. nonproliferation authorities to render judgment on and sanction those responsible...
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Donkeys Fight Over Who to Hate
Nate Jackson: It seems like only yesterday that House Democrats were going to steadfastly rebuke the racist face of anti-Semitism in their ranks once and for all.
Oh, wait; it was yesterday. And they declined to do so amid intra-party squabbling over identity politics.
The recurring theme of freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism brought Democrats to the brink of introducing a resolution condemning such anti-Semitism, though avoiding actually naming Omar. In fact, Nancy Pulosi even offered the asinine assessment that Omar’s comments were not “intentionally anti-Semitic.” But an uprising led by commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez forced an expansion of that resolution to include “all forms of hate,” including “Islamaphobia.” It’s no coincidence that Omar is Muslim. The Latina commie-Ocasio-Cortez even wants anti-“Latinx+” statements to draw a rebuke.
Several 2020 presidential contenders from the Senate, including lowlife-Kamala Harris, commie-Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth dinky-Warren, jumped to Omar’s defense.
Pulosi even reportedly grew so frustrated that she dropped her microphone and walked out of a closed-door Democrat meeting, bitterly complaining, “Well if you’re not going to listen to me, I’m done talking.” Perhaps all she needed to do was sleep on it, as Democrats will reportedly vote on the watered-down resolution later today.
The Wall Street Journal aptly notes, “An exercise that began with trying to distance Democrats from an anti-Semitic slur has evolved into a display of political cowardice that equates smears against Jews that have a horrific historical meaning with generalized ‘hate.’ Thus does a specific hatred get consumed, and trivialized, in today’s Democratic identity politics. And Ms. Omar can keep her Foreign Affairs Committee seat.”
Moreover, while commie-Ocasio-Cortez wants to deflect this hate problem to Republicans, it is Democrats who are trafficking in hatred these days — especially hate for Donald Trump. In fact, that’s what’s so ironic about this whole thing. As PowerLine’s John Hinderaker points out, “Ilhan Omar hates like a Democrat, and she openly expresses that hate like a Democrat. The problem is that she hates people who mostly support the Democratic Party.” I.e., Jews. As long as the hate is directed at groups leftists deem worthy of it, especially on the Right, Democrats are pleased. But you have to hate the “correct” people. ~The Patriot Post
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Dan Crenshaw on Limited Government
Nate Jackson
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The Democrats Cannot Hide Their
Anti-Semitism Problem
by Abraham H. Miller.
35 Key People Involved In The Russia
Hoax Who Need To Be Investigated
by Willis L. Krumholz
{thefederalist.com} ~ Funny how things change. The Washington Post couldn’t say a nice thing about congressional Republican efforts to investigate the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and FBI shenanigans... that occurred before and after the 2016 election. That’s if they even covered these efforts at all. But with Democrats controlling the House, and that legislative body’s subpoena power, the establishment media’s line has changed. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have just sent letters to 81 people, all associated with President Trump or the Russia probe, demanding answers on Russian election interference. This is part of Democrats’ effort to continue their hunt for proof of Russia collusion—although they are already sure that Trump is guilty—as Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s investigation appears to be winding down. To cover these events, the Post’s Philip Bump wrote an article titled: “The 81 people and organizations just looped into the Trump probe—and why they were included.” Of course, the article is totally unquestioning of the House Democrats’ desired narrative and motivations. It isn’t worth it to go through Bump’s whole article, but even the commentary about the first name on the list—Rinat Akhmetshin—omits glaring and important facts. Bump says Akhmetshin “joined his colleague Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer linked to the Kremlin, at the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower predicated on providing information that would undermine scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign.” But, Bump says, “the focus of the meeting instead reportedly focused on the Magnitsky Act—a law that resulted in sanctions on numerous prominent Russians.” Partisan Democrats in the scimbag/liar-nObama administration were all too willing to believe the allegations, and use them as an excuse for bad behavior whether they believed them or not. The documents have been called “dossiers,” but that really just attaches a fancy term to a Word document full of unverified mumbo jumbo that alleged Trump-Russia collusion....
White House Communications Director
Bill Shine resigns
by Melissa Quinn.
Iran: Child Executions, Amputations, Floggings
by Majid Rafizadeh.
Telling The Truth About Islam Always Gets
You In Trouble With Democrats
by George Rasley
{conservativehq.com} ~ Recently, twelve pro-Israel organizations signed a letter addressed to Speaker Nancy Pulosi and Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee... calling on them to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5) from the Foreign Affairs Committee after she espoused a series of anti-Semitic tropes. The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a longtime pro-Israel advocacy group, spearheaded the effort. While some of the groups are avowedly conservative, most of the organizations that signed on are either Jewish groups or groups that have close ties to the Jewish community. The reaction from the Left and from Left-aligned Islamists was swift and vicious. Emily Kopp, a former press intern for House Speaker Nancy Pulosi, used an op-ed in Capitol Hill’s Roll Call newspaper to describe ACT for America and our friends at the Center for Security Policy as "anti-Muslim hate groups" that "peddle anti-Muslim conspiracy theories." Kopp also accuses ACT for America of having ties to a neo-Nazi, based on disinformation published by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Wrote Kopp: But the coalition behind the letter — described by conservative media to be “leading Jewish organizations” — includes groups that maintain no relationship to the American Jewish community and peddle anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. One of the groups was once found to have ties to a longtime neo-Nazi. However, as PJ Media’s Debra Heine documented, ACT for America's "ties to a longtime neo-Nazi" consist entirely of an incident involving a white nationalist in Batesville, Ark., who tried to host a "March Against Sharia" event in their name in June 2017....
Dan Crenshaw on Limited Government
Nate Jackson: Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is no stranger to the fight. The former Navy SEAL lost an eye in an IED explosion during his third combat tour in Afghanistan. Ironically, he’s probably best known so far for his amicable performance on “Saturday Night Live” last November. But he’s not just a warrior who can get along with his leftist opponents. He’s a philosopher espousing the principles of constitutionally limited government.
“Why does the left hate the tax cuts?” Crenshaw rhetorically asked Tuesday. “[Because] they think the people exist to fund the [government]. We believe the [government] exists to protect the inalienable rights of the people. When people keep their money, we get more jobs & wage growth, & less wasteful spending by ‘benevolent’ bureaucrats.”
With that comment, he posted video of his remarks at a House hearing, where he really nailed it (emphasis his):
We’re talking about a difference in philosophy, not just tax rates. It’s a question of whether the government should be taking more of your money or whether you should keep more of your money. It’s the difference in the role of government, in what we believe. It seems to me that you all believe that the role of government is to tax the people as much as possible so that you and your benevolent fellow academics can dream up more programs for the government to spend money on. I don’t believe that. I don’t believe that’s what the role of government is for.
The role of government is to protect God-given rights that we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible. The role of government is to tax people to the least extent possible, while still taxing them enough to cover basic needs for government. And if we’re questioning what those needs are, we can just look at our Constitution; they’re generally pretty clear there.
Indeed, the Constitution is quite clear on the role of government, and today’s federal behemoth exceeds its mandate at nearly every turn. Much of that growth has been fueled by exactly what Crenshaw rightly criticizes: “more programs for the government to spend money on.” Democrats have become increasingly cynical and “generous” in their vote-buying scheme to offer “free stuff” to more people. But Republicans are hardly blameless. In 2017 and 2018, Republicans controlled both branches of government responsible for spending — and it increased drastically. Everyone wants to cut government, so long as it’s not their program. Thus, government never gets smaller.
If more elected Republicans would follow through on Crenshaw’s philosophy, that might begin to change. ~The Patriot Post
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States Increasingly Police
Family 'Thoughtcrimes'
Jordan Candler
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Friday Top Headline Summary
Media Editors: “The House passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other bigotry Thursday, with Democrats trying to push past a dispute that has overwhelmed their agenda and exposed fault lines that could shadow them through next year’s elections. … An earlier version focused more narrowly on anti-Semitism. The final resolution did not mention [Ilhan] Omar by name. Getting this debate right will be crucial for Democrats in 2020. U.S.-Israel policy is a prominent issue that is exposing the splits between the party’s core voters, its liberal flank and the more centrist Americans in Trump country the party hopes to reach.” (Associated Press)
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Rupturing the Democrat narrative: “The IRS released statistics Thursday showing that the average refund size in the first five weeks of the filing season was up $22 compared to a similar period last year. The average refund through March 1 was $3,068, which is 0.7 percent more than the average refund of $3,046 through March 2, 2018. … The new batch of IRS data is the second batch in a row showing the average refund size up slightly for the year.” (The Hill)
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“Job growth came to a near halt in February after a blistering start to the year, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by just 20,000 even as the unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday. … A more encompassing unemployment rate that counts discouraged workers as well as those holding jobs part time for economic reasons, often called the ‘real’ unemployment rate, plunged to 7.3 percent in February from 8.1 percent in January. … There was other good news in the report: Average hourly earnings increased by 3.4 percent on year over year, easily the best of the economic recovery that began nearly 10 years ago.” (CNBC)
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“Slowing global growth and trade friction may cloud the economic horizon, but U.S. small businesses in February went on an historic hiring binge. That’s according to the latest employment report from the National Federation of Independent Business… The organization’s chief economist William Dunkelberg reports that they’ve never seen results like these: ‘Job creation broke the 45-year record in February with a net addition of 0.52 workers per firm (including those making no change in employment), up from 0.25 in December and 0.33 in January. The previous record was 0.51 reached in May 1998.’ NFIB also found a historic low in the percentage of business owners reducing employment — just 3% of survey respondents.” (The Wall Street Journal)
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“At an economic forum at the White House [Wednesday], CEOs of a number of companies told President Trump that they are hiring an increasing percentage of workers who do not have college degrees. Apple and Lockheed Martin both stated that about half their hires last year did not have degrees, while IBM noted that there are strong opportunities for people without degrees. This is good news for people who choose paths other than college, such as training and employment in the skilled trades.” (The Resurgent)
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“A federal judge known for his impatience in court sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Thursday to less than four years behind bars, defying a requested prison term of 19 to 24 years by special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller. T.S. Ellis III, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and serves on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, called dirty cop-Mueller’s recommended sentence ‘excessive.’ Instead, the former U.S. Navy aviator … handed down a 47-month sentence.” (Washington Examiner)
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“A federal judge on Thursday dismissed Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit against President Trump that sought to end a hush-money settlement agreement between her and the president. The Los Angeles judge ruled that because Trump and his former lawyer have agreed not to hold Daniels to their non-disclosure agreement, the suit was inapplicable.” (New York Post)
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“Freshman Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib appeared to clash with party leadership on Wednesday after joining protesters to say she’d introduce a resolution this month urging the Judiciary Committee to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Trump. … Tlaib faced backlash early this year after she was captured on video, just hours after being sworn in, recalling a conversation with her son where she told him, ‘We’re gonna impeach the motherf—r.’” (Fox News)
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“President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen filed a lawsuit against Trump Organization on Thursday alleging that he was not paid for legal fees he incurred after turning on the president. Cohen, in the lawsuit filed in New York, says he was part of an agreement with the Trump Organization that outlined the business would cover expenses for his legal expenses as he became a focus of federal prosecutors in New York and with special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s office. He claims that in June 2018, when he began telling others he would cooperate with prosecutors, the Trump Organization stopped paying without any notice. Since then, he says, he’s incurred more than $1 million in legal expenses, which he argues Trump Organization should pay.” (USA Today)
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“The last injunction blocking President Trump’s transgender military ban from taking effect was lifted by a federal judge Thursday, moving the administration closer to being able to enforce the policy. In a six-page order issued on Thursday, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland Judge George Russell III wrote that he was lifting his injunction because ‘the court is bound by the Supreme Court’s decision to stay the preliminary injunctions in their entirety.’” (The Hill)
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Humor: Ilhan Omar withdraws support from bill to save the earth after learning that’s where Israel is (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Writing in The Daily Signal, Derrick Hollie argues: “The ‘Green New Deal’ will fail for many reasons. One is that the people pushing it seem oblivious to the needs of poor and minorities families, who would be directly hurt by the plan.”
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Policy: “As Americans work to file their taxes, Congress is setting to work on a package of expired tax credits this spring to enrich a few energy technologies at the expense of federal taxpayers,” reports The Heritage Foundation’s Katie Tubb, who adds: “Congress … does no service to these energy technologies and companies in the long run by subsidizing them.”
~The Patriot Post
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Trump Has Secured Funding For More
Than Half Of Border Wall
by Saagar Enjeti
{dailycaller.com} ~ One hundred eleven miles of new or replacement wall is either being built or is in progress on the southern border... after Trump’s first two years in office, an administration official tells The Daily Caller. All told, the administration has secured funding for approximately 445 miles of the total 722 miles desired by the Trump administration, a Caller analysis finds. The analysis holds only if all national emergency and executive action funding is upheld in court challenges. The administration official stressed that this figure constitutes only 18-foot bollard wall fencing or 32-foot levee wall fencing, which is the barrier that Trump has emphasized as necessary. The wall accounting begins in Fiscal Year 2017 in which $341 million was obligated for replacement wall in California, New Mexico, and Texas. This money funds construction for 40 miles of new or replacement wall of which 37 miles is completed or in progress...McConnell Mocks HR 1 As ‘Parade Of Horrible’
by Whitney Tipton
{dailycaller.com} ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell held a press conference Thursday to step up his attacks against HR1... the massive election reform bill currently being debated in the House, as a “turkey” and a “parade of horrible,” warning Democrats that supporting the bill will help Republicans win in 2020. McConnell was defiant when asked why he wouldn’t bring HR1 to the Senate floor. “Because I get to decide what we vote on,” was his response. McConnell criticized the bill again this morning during the Senate’s opening remarks. Of all the provisions he finds troublesome, he took specific issue with the section that would restructure Federal Election Commission (FEC) governance, dismantling the agency’s bi-partisan six member commission in favor of a format he believes will lead to partisan control. Summarizing the bill’s FEC reform as “a hostile takeover of the body that regulates political speech,” McConnell added “Democrats aren’t after an FEC that enforces the law, they’re after an FEC that enforces their ideology.” When asked if there was any compromise that would make the bill Senate floor-friendly, McConnell suggested breaking it apart. He would also like to see the issue of ballot harvesting included in the bill, a practice he believes leads to rampant vote fraud. With 236 House Democrat co-sponsors, the measure is likely to pass this Friday..
House passes broad resolution calling out
racism, 'anti-Semitic' comments --
without naming Ilhan Omar
by Gregg Re
{foxnews.com} ~ After several days of infighting and a near-rebellion by rank-and-file Democrats, as well as a major last-minute revision... the House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan resolution that only indirectly condemned Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's repeated 'anti-Semitic' and 'pernicious' comments -- without mentioning her by name. The final vote was 407 to 23, with 23 Republicans voting no, and all Democrats, including Omar, voting yes. Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King, who faced his own bipartisan blowback for comments purportedly defending white nationalists, voted present. The final draft of the resolution was expanded Thursday afternoon to condemn virtually all forms of bigotry, including white supremacy, in what Republicans characterized as a cynical ploy to distract from Omar's remarks. Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert, speaking on the House floor to announce that he would vote against the resolution, remarked, "Now the resolution condemns just about everything. ... Hatred for Israel is a special kind of hatred. It should never be watered down." Gohmert was joined in voting down the resolution by House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, as well as Reps. Lee Zeldin, Andy Biggs, Ken Buck, Michael Conaway, Chris Collins, Mike Rogers, Paul Gosar, Pete King, Rick Crawford, Ted Budd, Ted Yoho, Chip Roy, Dan Meuser, Jeff Duncan, Thomas Massie, Doug LaMalfa, Tom Graves, Steve Palazzo, Greg Steube, Mo Brooks, Mark Walker, and Michael Burgess. “Today’s resolution vote was a sham put forward by Democrats to avoid condemning one of their own and denouncing vile anti-Semitism," Cheney said in a statement. “While I stand whole heartedly against discrimination outlined in this resolution, the language before the House today did not address the issue that is front and center."... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-resolution-indirectly-calling-out-omars-anti-semitic-comments-without-mentioning-her-name.
Somaliland – Key to Winning
America's Longest War
by Michael Rubin.
Moldova’s Elections Show Putin’s Limits
by John Lechner and Aykan Erdemir
{fdd.org} ~ Moldovans went to the polls on Feb. 24 to elect a new parliament. Candidates and outside media touted the contest as a choice between Russia and the West as they had done in the run-up to presidential elections in 2016... Moldovans have been deeply divided on the country’s political orientation since the former Soviet republic declared independence in 1991, and security is always a pressing concern. Indeed, Moldova’s pro-Russian breakaway enclave, Transdniestria, has remained outside Chisinau’s control for over 25 years. Yet geopolitics aren’t what motivate most Moldovans at the voting booth. Corruption, the lack of rule of law, and failing institutions are of greater concern. Given these circumstances, it was no surprise that the ruling, nominally pro-EU Democratic Party, or PDM failed to hold its majority, garnering just 24 percent of the vote. The PDM’s chairperson, Vladimir Plahotniuc, is Moldova’s richest oligarch and is implicated in a slew of corruption scandals. The Party of Socialists of Moldova, pro-Russian and led by the country’s President Igor Dodon, secured 31 percent, less than expected for Moscow’s preferred candidate. The pro-European opposition bloc ACUM came in second with 26 percent. With no party gaining an outright majority, the true consequences of the election are yet to be seen; snap elections remain a possibility. Three developments, however, merit close attention. First, the elections showed the limits of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s influence in this small nation long considered to be in Moscow’s “near abroad.” After frequently polling in the mid-to-high 40 percent range, Dodon delivered far less, despite several Kremlin attempts to boost his prospects. Last November, Putin granted amnesty to all Moldovan immigrants working in Russia illegally, if they went home to vote. Two days prior to the election, Russian authorities launched an investigation into Plahotniuc’s alleged role in laundering funds for a “criminal syndicate.”... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/03/07/moldovas-elections-show-putins-limits/
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States Increasingly Police Family 'Thoughtcrimes'
Jordan Candler: Oregon, Washington state, and even Iowa are trailblazing another assault on constitutionally protected individual rights. The state legislature in Oregon is currently mulling over a bill that “directs Oregon Health Authority to study home visiting by licensed health care providers.” The bill contends that home visits are “necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety.”
There’s a similar scheme being conjured up in Washington. In January, Gov. Jay Inslee (now a 2020 Democrat presidential contender) declared: “My budget would also offer universal home visits. This gives every new parent the opportunity to get a visit from a nurse during the first few weeks back home with their newborn to share important information and build confidence.”
“Iowa Democrats are also attempting to gain oversight of families, specifically those of homeschoolers,” The Resurgent’s James Silberman reports. “IA HF272 would mandate quarterly ‘health and safety visits’ to homeschool families by school district officials. The bill states that these visits would be with the consent of the parents but also specifies that parents can be overridden if a judge determines there is probable cause for home inspection.”
PJ Media columnist Paula Bolyard astutely observes, “As someone who has been involved in the homeschooling movement for more than 20 years, I have seen many attempts to increase the oversight of children taught at home by requiring home visits by a teacher or social worker. … Anytime a state or locality has tried to draft legislation requiring home visits for homeschooled children, the immediate response has always been, ‘What are they going to do next, require inspections for children from birth until they enter school?’ The answer to that, of course, is yes. That has been the plan all along.”
This is statism, pure and simple. The Daily Signal this week relayed the story of a parent who said, “I was shocked when my 13-year-old daughter told me she was really my transgender son.” The parent added, “Where did she get the idea she was transgender? From a school presentation.”
This is precisely why more and more families are pulling their kids from public schooling and increasingly homeschooling. And while their reasons for doing so are more than justified, statists are ensuring that no age and no home is off limits when it comes to regulating thoughtcrimes.
~The Patriot Post
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