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Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 23, 2019 at 5:27pm
TheFrontPageCover
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Cough Up, America
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by Cal Thomas  
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The US Strikes Back Against 
Russia’s European Gas Empire
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{dailysignal.com} ~ With the Kremlin tightening its grip on the European energy market, the U.S. has hardened its opposition to a controversial Russian gas pipeline... which is currently under construction through the Baltic Sea to Germany. For months, U.S. officials have said Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline is part of a broader Kremlin gambit to bypass Ukrainian transit pipelines, which have delivered the lion’s share of Russian natural gas exports to Europe for decades. Yet, despite U.S. protests, construction hasn’t stopped, and the 750-mile-long pipeline is about one-third complete as of this article’s publication. The U.S., for its part, escalated its resistance to the project this month, when U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell sent letters to construction contractors working on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, warning of “a significant risk of sanctions” unless they abandoned the project. “The problem with Nord Stream 2 is that it is not an economic project. It was developed for only one reason: to create an alternative route for transporting Russian gas on the way to Europe that does not pass through Ukraine,” Grenell said in an interview published in the German Rheinische Post newspaper on Jan. 15...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/19/the-us-strikes-back-against-russias-european-gas-empire/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRjME1XUmpabVl5TVRKayIsInQiOiJad2FZRGhaVFdaTTZzMjFrOFJqeXFtUHl3cVJuWmN6UWRXQmJOWVdJNlM0TG41WTlWdW1iZnp6cEppSllyM3p2NU95aHNicW1NOGVnVkpPeVpIaERtVkk5V3NtVWJJNFwvS1BHN2RqMXJ4RHY3MFl6Q0Y5K3hOUWtYbkRrOEp1bEYifQ%3D%3D
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German Defense Chief: Unleash NATO 
on Opponents of “World Order”
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ In a rambling column celebrating the controversial North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said... that the alliance's military force was needed for use against opponents of the “rules-based international order.” The bizarre screed comes as more and more people across the Western world and beyond turn against the globalist “world order” that von der Leyen says must be preserved, even by military force if need be. Among the most prominent critics has been the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, who globalists claim is seeking to blow it all up. The opinion piece, "The World Still Needs NATO" published in the far-left New York Times, offers a great deal of insight into the role globalists hope NATO will play in the emerging “world order” they are seeking to foist on humanity. For instance, NATO is not just a military alliance, but “a political alliance as well,” von der Leyen admitted. But amid historic skepticism about the alliance expressed openly by President Trump and the millions of American voters who elected him, the pro-NATO propaganda smacks of desperation. In short, it seems NATO's future is uncertain at best. And globalists, apparently recognizing the threat to their dangerous agenda, have launched a full-blown public relations campaign to shore up support for the scheme. A “stronger NATO will serve the security interests of all members,” claimed whoever wrote the piece for von der Leyen, probably PR professionals. “Most of all, it will send a clear signal to those opposing the rules-based international order: We trans-Atlantic allies are ready and willing to defend our soil, our people and our freedom.” Did you catch that? A strong NATO is needed to protect against those who oppose the “rules-based international order.” Indeed, she argued that NATO was not just about bases and troops, but about defending the “world order,” a term often used by globalists to refer to the institutions of global governance foisted on humanity — primarily using deception — since the end of World War II...
12 Iranians killed in Israeli strike 
on Syria; total rises to 21   
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by ANNA AHRONHEIM
{jpost.com} ~ New satellite images of an Iranian weapons storehouse at the Damascus International Airport showed the complete destruction to the site following Israeli airstrikes on Sunday... which killed twelve soldiers belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed. The satellite images released by the Israeli satellite company ImageSat International show Iranian weapons depots at the Damascus International Airport before and after the strikes.  The images showed that while the IDF hit and completely destroyed the targets in the vicinity of the airport, the nearby civilian passenger terminal remained intact. They also showed the damaged sustained by the Syrian army’s anti-aircraft systems following the attack.  Israel’s military made a rare admission of responsibility as it was carrying out the strikes, writing on Twitter at 1:42 a.m. that “We have started striking Iranian Quds targets in Syrian territory. We warn the Syrian Armed Forces against attempting to harm Israeli forces or territory.” IDF fighter jets struck Iranian and Syrian military targets, air defense batteries and Quds Forces positions throughout Syria in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, targeting military targets belonging to Iran’s Quds Force in Syria, including weapons storage sites, a site at Damascus International Airport, an Iranian intelligence site and an Iranian training camp...  https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Report-12-Iranians-killed-in-Israeli-strikes-on-Syria-total-rises-to-21-578242?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=21-2-2018
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ISIS Suicide Bomber Targets US Forces 
in Syria Again; No Casualties Reported
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Just five days after four American personnel were among 16 people killed in an ISIS suicide bombing in northern Syria... the terrorist group claimed responsibility for another bombing targeting U.S. troops in the same part of the country, although this time no casualties were confirmed. The U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition confirmed that a U.S. and “Syrian partner force” convoy had been targeted by an apparent vehicle bomb (VBIED), adding that there were “no U.S. casualties.” “We will continue to review the situation and provide updates as appropriate,” it said in a message early Monday afternoon Syria time.  According to the SITE Intelligence Group, ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombing via its “news agency,” Amaq. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an explosive-laded vehicle, driven by a suicide bomber according to its sources, was detonated on the road linking Raqqa to Hasakah as a convoy of U.S. and allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was passing. The monitoring groups said five SDF fighters were reported to have been killed, and two U.S. soldiers injured...
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As These Muslim Judges Are Elected In The US, 
Are Shariah-Compliant Rulings Straight Ahead?
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{thewashingtonstandard.com} ~ At the end of November 2018, I reported on the number of Muslims that won political office during the elections... However, have you heard of the Muslim judges that were elected to be on the bench in several key states. California, Michigan, Texas and New York all elected Muslim judges. At least six positions for judge were filled by Muslims. Keep in mind, that their ideology, theology and law are diametrically opposed to American and Biblical law.The following is the list of these six judges: Adel A. Harb is the nonpartisan judge of the 3rd Circuit Court in Michigan. Harb was appointed on October 22, 2015, by Republican Governor Rick Snyder to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Daniel Ryan. He ran unopposed for election in 2016 to serve out the remainder of Ryan’s term. George Abdallah Jr. is the nonpartisan judge of the Superior Court of San Joaquin County California Office 12 in California. Abdallah earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California and his J.D. from Humphreys College of Law. Halim Dhanidina is a nonpartisan Division 3 judge of the California 2nd District Court of Appeal. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) appointed Dhanidina to replace Justice Richard Aldrich on July 24, 2018, and he was confirmed by the Commission on Judicial  Appointments on August 23, 2018. Dhanidina was previously a judge on the Superior Court of Los Angeles County in California from 2012 to 2018. He was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in May 2012 to a newly created position...
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Cough Up, America
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by Cal Thomas

{townhall.com} ~ When you receive your paycheck and look at the withholding for federal, state and sometimes city taxes, along with Social Security and Medicare, you probably don't think you're underpaying governments and want them to take more.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio believes that if you have played by what used to be called "the rules" and are making a decent living, taking care of yourself and your family and not relying on government, your taxes should be increased.

In his State of the City address last week, de Blasio said, "...brothers and sisters, there's plenty of money in the world. There's plenty of money in this city. It's just in the wrong hands." He continued: "You haven't been paid what you deserve for all the hard work. You haven't been given the time you deserve. You're not living the life you deserve. And here is the cold, hard truth: It's no accident. It's an agenda." He blamed presidential administrations from Reagan to Trump.

The mayor ignores the tax cuts and in some cases spending reductions that have fueled an economic boom, producing more wealth for individuals and more revenue for governments.

The mayor is not alone in promoting unvarnished liberalism, which the many on the left have tried to mask behind the "progressive" euphemism. Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggests we institute a 70 percent tax rate on the wealthy. Julian Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio and HUD secretary, who just announced he is running for president, has resurrected the "fair share" lingo of past Democrats. In an interview with ABC News, Castro seemed nostalgic for a time when the top marginal tax rate was 90 percent.

Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D-MA), who has formed a presidential exploratory committee, hasn't said what top tax rate she favors, but she told CNBC last July that "Ninety percent sounds pretty shockingly high." Why, because it would stifle incentive? What about Eighty percent? Why not confiscate all private-sector money and let the government decide how much each of us should be allowed to have? Wouldn't pure socialism be a dream come true for the far left?

It's not that higher taxes and more government spending hasn't been tried. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, a series of U.S. programs charged with totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the country, is but one example. Johnson failed to achieve his goal of wiping out poverty because his social programs began in Washington, not in individual hearts and minds.

The Wall Street Journal recently carried a column about Sweden's experience with socialism. It was written by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Lee E. Ohanian, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of economics at UCLA.

The authors noted, "Until the mid-20th century, Sweden pursued highly competitive market-based policies. By 1970 Sweden achieved the world's fourth-highest per capita income. Then increasingly radical Social Democratic governments raised taxes, spending and regulation much more than any other Western European country. Economic performance sputtered. By the early 1990s, Sweden's per capita income ranking had dropped to 14th. Economic growth from 1970 to the early 1990s was roughly 1 percentage point lower than in Europe and 2 points lower than in the U.S."

In 1991, they write, a market-oriented government assumed power and instituted major reforms. As a result, the country is now "richer than all of the major EU countries and is within 15 percent of U.S. per capita GDP. While Sweden still has a larger government than the U.S., its tax code is flatter. The progressivity of the U.S. tax code distorts incentives." Precisely!

Sweden's experience with socialism has a lesson for Americans and especially millennials, a majority of whom favor socialism over capitalism, according to a 2016 Harvard University survey. Maybe they should take a closer look at their pay stubs and ask themselves whether they would be OK with handing over more of their net pay to federal, state and local governments that irresponsibly and unnecessarily spend their money on programs that don't work.

This year marks Cal Thomas' 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.
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Wed Med/AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 23, 2019 at 5:23pm
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
The Wall by the Numbers
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by Brian Mark Weber  
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Wednesday Top Headlines
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by Media Editors:  Senate leaders agree on possible path to reopening government (National Review)
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Shutdown votes set up political test for Senate (Associated Press)
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Hundreds of IRS employees are skipping work, which could delay tax refunds (The Washington Post)
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President Trump is planning to proceed with State of the Union, but details up in the air (Fox News)
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Hoyer breaks with Pulosi, says he would welcome Trump on House floor for State of the Union (The Daily Caller)
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White House announces 51 judicial picks, including two for leftist 9th Circuit (Fox News)
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to review census citizenship case (The Daily Signal)
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Covington Catholic High School announces closure over security concerns (The Daily Signal)
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Covington kids to visit the White House (The Daily Wire)
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Nathan Phillips rally attempted to disrupt Mass at DC’s National Shrine (Catholic News Agency)
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Nathan Phillips did not serve in Vietnam despite claims to the contrary (The Resurgent)
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lowlife-Kamala Harris raises $1.5 million in first 24 hours (Politico)
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New York passes abortion bill, which will expand the state’s already liberal abortion regime to allow late-term abortions (National Review)
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Iowa’s “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban ruled unconstitutional (Reuters)
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Ironic: Record private jet flights into Davos as leaders arrive for climate talk (The Guardian)
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Opposition launches protests to oust Maduro as U.S.-Venezuela tensions rise (The Washington Post)
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Humor: Being outraged by stupid nonsense replaces baseball as national pastime (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Trump’s military transgender ban is more reasonable than you think (Washington Examiner)
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Policy: How school choice is lifting thousands of kids across America (The Daily Signal)  
 
~The Patriot Post
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Democrats Dismiss Trump’s Political 
Concession, Demand More
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by Neil Munro
{breitbart.com} ~ Democrats immediately rejected President Donald Trump’s offer of a work-permit amnesty for one million registered migrants in exchange for 230 miles of new border wall... The rejection came even though Trump’s offer angered his base by trading a DACA temporary amnesty for a wall. Also, Trump did not ask for the reform of the many catch-and-release rules which allow the cartels to profitably smuggle hundreds of thousands of poor migrants into the U.S. labor market, welfare rolls, and U.S. K-12 schools. The speech came after Trump had offered a series of smaller concessions in closed-door negotiations since Christmas. Democrats quickly dismissed the amnesty offer. Sen. Chuck Schumer also rejected the compromise, saying, “offering some protections back in exchange for the wall is not a compromise but more hostage taking.”...  https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/01/19/democrats-dismiss-trumps-political-concession-demand-more/
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AG nominee Barr: dirty cop-Mueller report 
may not be publicly ‘release-able’
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{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ Democrats may have to surrender any hope of seeing Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s final report... especially if President Donald Trump’s first choice to become the next U.S. attorney general is confirmed. Answering questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, William Barr made it quite clear that the findings from dirty cop-Mueller’s report may not be “release-able.” And unfortunately for Democrats who want to see the president impeached, this is a completely justified legal opinion. The special counsel’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia has been ongoing for 18 months now, and both Democrats and Republicans are anxious to see what dirty cop-Mueller’s team has uncovered. So far, only a handful of campaign and administration officials have been charged for ancillary offenses unrelated to collusion, and the smoking gun that Trump’s critics so desperately desire has failed to materialize. In fact, dirty cop-Mueller’s final report may never see the light of day. When asked about the pending dirty cop-Mueller report during the first day of confirmation hearings, Barr explained how he would be confined by the statutes governing a special counsel...
BuzzFeed’s Report Has Been Disputed By diryt cop-Mueller,
But scumbag-Adam Schiff Is Going To Investigate Anyway  
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff said Sunday he will “absolutely” investigate allegations made in a controversial BuzzFeed article... even though the report has been directly disputed by the special counsel’s  office. “Absolutely. Absolutely,” scumbag-Schiff told CBS’s “Face the Nation” when asked whether he would investigate allegations laid out in a BuzzFeed article published Thursday. “Congress has a fundamental interest in two things. First, getting to the bottom of why this witness came before us and lied, and who else was knowledgeable that this was a lie,” the California Democrat added. BuzzFeed reported former Trump attorney Michael Cohen told the special counsel’s office President Donald Trump instructed him to lie to Congress about his efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. The website also reported documents and witness testimony would corroborate Cohen’s statements to prosecutors...  scumbag-Schiff is one big idiot and should have never been elected.
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Sen. scumbag-Durbin Co-Sponsored Plan 
To Protect Dreamers — Now That Trump 
Wants It, He’s Against It  
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by Virginia Kruta
{dailycaller.com} ~ Democratic Illinois Senator scumbag-Dick Durbin came out against the border security proposal announced by President Donald Trump on Saturday... publishing a statement before the president even delivered his remarks. In his statement, the Senate Minority Whip explained that he could not accept the deal Trump offered. “I cannot support the proposed offer as reported, and I do not believe it can pass the Senate.” The president’s plan included a three-year extension of legal protections for DACA recipients and those in Temporary Protected Status (TPS) — concessions that mirror those proposed in December 2016 in the bipartisan Bridge Act. The Bridge Act was drafted to protect Dreamers after then President-elect Trump promised to tear up the scumbag/liar-nObama-era executive order that put DACA on the books in the first place... Another idiot.
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Israel Air Force strikes southern Syria  
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by ANNA AHRONHEIM and SETH J. FRANTZMAN
{jpost.com} ~ Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted a projectile launched from Syria after Damascus accused Jerusalem of carrying out a rare daytime attack on the south of the country on Sunday... Pictures from Israel’s popular Mount Hermon ski resort, which was full of tourists enjoying the snow-filled hill, showed two trails from Iron Dome missiles while screams from children were heard in a video from the scene.  The interception came shortly after the Syrian regime accused Israel of carrying out airstrikes in the south of the country, triggering air defenses that intercepted several of them.  “A military source said that our air defenses had successfully engaged an Israeli aerial attack targeting the southern region and prevented it from achieving any of its objectives,” read a report by the official Syrian news agency SANA. Al-Manar, Hezbollah’s media network, reported the attack near Damascus but gave no further details. Syrian regime supporters said that a total of nine Israeli missiles were intercepted by regime air defenses. Russia's Ministry of Defense, according to RIA news agency, said four Israeli jets fired seven missiles at the international airport, causing no injuries to Syrian nationals...  https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Report-Israel-Air-Force-strikes-southern-Syria-578020
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The Wall by the Numbers
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by Brian Mark Weber:  Historian Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote, “There are 11 million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally.” (It may be closer to 22 million.) He continued, “Millions more emigrated previously and are now U.S. citizens. A recent poll revealed that one-third of Mexicans (34 percent) would like to emigrate to the United States. With Mexico having a population of about 130 million, that amounts to some 44 million would-be immigrants. Such massive potential emigration into the United States makes no sense.”

             Currently, the number of individual border apprehensions is decreasing, but the number of families crossing the border is increasing. This is due to the poor economic conditions and unstable political climate of Central American countries. The Washington Post reports that the percentage of border crossers that are families has increased from 55% to 64% in recent months.
               The border runs for about 2,000 miles, with about a third of it running along the Rio Grande. In other areas, mountainous  terrain makes it challenging to construct a wall. A wall, then, would be very helpful but would not alone solve the problem.
               “Nearly half of all the unauthorized migrants now living in the United States entered the country legally through a port of entry such as an airport or a border crossing point where they were subject to inspection by immigration officials,” according to a Pew Research Center study. “As much as 45% of the total unauthorized migrant population entered the country with visas that allowed them to visit or reside in the U.S. for a limited amount of time.”
               This prompts the question: Do we really need a literal wall stretching for 2,000 miles?
               In April 2017, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, Brandon Judd, testified before Congress, “I will not advocate for 2,000 miles’ worth of border. That is just not necessary. But what I will advocate for is a border wall in strategic locations, which helps us secure the border. … The building of barriers and large fences, a bipartisan effort, allowed agents in part to dictate where illegal crossings took place and doubled how effective I was able to be in apprehending illegal border crossers.”
               About one third of the 2,000-mile border already includes some type of barrier due to the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which mandated nearly 700 miles of border fencing. Nearly all of that is already in place, but there are long stretches where the border is wide open. And since nearly 12 million people live along the border, the impact of illegal immigration is immediate and serious. As the president mentioned in his recent address to the nation, it’s not just about illegals taking American jobs but also about the flow of drugs across the border.
               Jim Geraghty at National Review writes, “The good news for those who wish to see a wall built along the U.S.-Mexican border is that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has built seven miles of 30-foot-high wall in the past few months, and roughly 30 more miles of high fencing are slated for construction. The bad news is that there’s still a lot of border to go.” As of now, the funding isn’t there.
               Carlos Ballesteros wrote at Newsweek early last year, “Nearly a year into his presidency, Trump has not been able to secure the funding — or the support — he needs to build his border wall.” He adds, “The border wall has become a serious wedge between Democrats and Republicans.” Twenty-eight days into a partial government shutdown over its funding, that’s an understatement. But what the president wants is reasonable.
               Despite the fact that we have a third of the wall built, Stef W. Kight writes at Axios, “That still leaves more than half of the almost 2,000-mile border uncovered, and there are gaps and dilapidated fencing in the barriers that are in place. The fight that has shut down the government is basically about 234 miles of new border wall that President Trump wants, according to the Trump administration’s latest request.”
               With Nancy Pulosi refusing to give in — she has threatened to cancel the State of the Union address — the president must continue to hold firm in the face of both wobbly Republicans and intransigent Democrats. Maybe his strategy is working. In recent days, some House Democrats have expressed a willingness to compromise with the president. Even House Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland recently admitted that a “wall that protects people is not immoral.”
               With Democrats having been on board for a border wall in the past, it’s time to do what’s best for the American people. Trump’s request is minimal in its cost but critical in its ability to help us secure our southern border.  ~The Patriot Post

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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 23, 2019 at 8:12am
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~  
Male Issues
by Tom McLaughlin
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How Democrats came to love 'coequal'
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The divided government of 2019 is a mirror image of the divided government of 2011. Back then, Democrats controlled the White House and Senate... while Republicans had recently taken control of the House with a big victory in the 2010 midterm elections. Today, Republicans control the White House and Senate, while Democrats have recently taken control of the House with a big victory in the 2018 midterm elections. It's the same situation, essentially. But today there is a vastly different public conversation about the balance of power in government. These days, we are often reminded that Congress is a coequal branch of government, and therefore, Speaker Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif., stands on an even level with President Trump. Back in 2011, when the two players were Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, there wasn't as much of that kind of talk. A comparison, from the Nexis database of newspapers, magazines, websites, and television transcripts: From Election Day 2010 until Jan. 20, 2011, there were 18 mentions of "Boehner" and "coequal." From Election Day 2018 until Jan. 20, 2019, there were 683 mentions of "Pulosi" and "coequal."Democrats have been saying it every day, starting with Pulosi the morning after the election. Congress' role is "not to be a rubberstamp, but a coequal branch," she said, adding that she and her colleagues had a "responsibility for oversight as an independent, coequal branch." Pulosi said much the same many more times by Jan. 3, when she officially won the speaker's gavel. In her first speech on the House floor, she said, "The legislative branch is Article I: the first branch of government, coequal to the president and judiciary."... She needs to read the constitution not what she feels or thanks.
The Democrats Own the Shutdown
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{americanthinker.com} ~ Chuck scumbag-Schumer may well have been pleased when President Trump signified his willingness to shut down the government to advance border security to fulfill his most politically charged campaign promise... Even some conservative pundits were aghast at Trump’s audacity in making such a proclamation, because, as everyone knows, Americans hate government shutdowns. But scumbag-Schemer and company don’t really hate government shutdowns. In fact, back in November, scumbag-Schumer threatened to shut down the federal government over his demand that the dirty cop-Mueller investigation be protected by Congress after the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “If Trump’s interim Attorney General Whitaker does not recuse himself,” wrote Michele Blood at LifeZette on November 11, “scumbag-Schumer said he would attach a demand for Whitaker’s non-interference to “must pass” legislation such as the spending bill -- then risking another shutdown.” Where were all the headlines about  scumbag-Schumer’s desire to shut down the government to protect dirty cop-Mueller’s investigation? To say that they were few and far between would be unjustifiably generous to the media. There are two things that are absolutely certain. First, “must-spend” legislation is far more common than it used to be, given that we now have a make-believe debt limit which is ignored “suspension” is the verbiage used more often, in an effort to feign fiscal responsibility and exceeded. In other words, most new spending legislation requires congressional agreement on how much will be spent, and on what, or the government will shut down. Second, Democrats believe that a government shutdown, for any reason, can be blamed on Republicans, and that the media will help advance that narrative...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/the_democrats_own_the_shutdown.html
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The Race to the Far Left
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{spectator.org} ~ scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton ran far to Donald Trump’s left and lost much of the country. It appears from the early crop of Democratic presidential contenders... that the party’s 2020 strategy is to offer an even starker ideological choice. They sound ready to run an even more bi-coastal campaign than scumbag/liar-Hillary’s, which will leave much of the center open to Trump and keep the right galvanized. The buzz around lowlife-Kamala Harris is this week’s window on the party’s far-left fixations. lowlife-Harris is so far to the left she considers membership in the Knights of Columbus a hate crime. A few weeks ago, she took a run at a Trump judicial nominee for that high offense, treating him as the moral equivalent of a KKK member.  It appears that lowlife-Harris and her colleague Dianne Fein-stein are in a competition to see who can strike a greater blow for anti-Catholic bigotry. While Fein-stein worries about the “dogma living loudly” within Catholic judicial nominees, lowlife-Harris wanted to know if Brian Buescher was “aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization.” For lowlife-Kamala Harris, the only good Catholic is a bad one. But of course she has received almost no flak for her open display of anti-Catholic bigotry. Such radicalism barely even registers with the media, which has its own anti-Christian narratives to push, such as its ginned-up controversy about Karen Pence’s employment at an “anti-LGBTQ school.” CNN headlined one of its stories about the matter, “Pence Praises Wife Despite Controversy.” For the Democrats and the media, the mere participation of Christians in public life remains an ongoing “controversy,” which they feel entitled to protest or report until they have disappeared from public life. That such a stance has driven Christians into the arms of Trump doesn’t seem to bother them. lowlife-Kamala Harris thinks that she can seize upon this moment of secularist smugness. But it gives her even less national appeal than scumbag/liar-Hillary. lowlife-Harris is the prototypical San Francisco Democrat, for whom most of the country’s population falls into a basket of deplorables. She is running on a platform of socialism, secularism, and sanctuary cities...  https://spectator.org/the-race-to-the-far-left/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=f305308e3b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_22_11_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-f305308e3b-104608113
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Trump Jr.: Michael Cohen wasn’t taken seriously
 on Trump Tower Moscow project
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen wasn’t taken very seriously when he worked to secure a Trump Tower deal in Moscow... and wasn’t a “deal guy,” according to Donald Trump Jr. Despite Cohen’s efforts, Trump Jr., who is an executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said there were many unknowns for the project, including the developer and the site, but didn’t disclose when the deal was last discussed with Cohen. “Ultimately, it was Michael Cohen essentially trying to get a deal done,” Trump Jr. told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Monday evening. “He was there for a long time, he wasn't exactly a deal guy. He didn’t bring too many to the table, so I don't think anyone took it all that seriously. That is the reality of what went on.”The comments follow BuzzFeed News' bombshell report that claimed Trump Jr, along with his father President Trump and his sister Ivanka Trump, requested Cohen to move forward on a Trump Tower in Moscow and check in with them about the potential project throughout the 2016 election. The report claimed Trump told Cohen to lie when the deal was being discussed to Congress, but in a rare public statement special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s office disputed the story. BuzzFeed has stood by its reporting...
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Male Issues
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Men aren’t doing well here in the 21st century. Male life expectancy has always been lower than that of females by about five years but lately, it is declining further. Researchers cite what they call “deaths of despair” in non-college-educated white men aged 45-54. “The mortality rate for that group… increased by a half percent each year from 1999 to 2013,” according to NPR, mostly because of suicide, drugs, and alcohol, yet progressives insist men should renounce their “white male privilege.” It would appear that white men are feeling anything but privileged.  
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Fifty years ago, 60% of those with bachelor’s degrees were men. Today the reverse is true. Boys are behind girls in primary and secondary schools as well and according to a 2002 60 Minutes report they’ve been falling behind for along time. Increasingly, boys simply don’t like school. For many parents, it’s a fight to get their sons to school every morning.  
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During my teaching career, it was clear that the culture of most public school classrooms suited girls much more than boys, many of whom found it confining and restrictive. They needed more active, hands-on activities such as a vocational school environment would provide. Unfortunately, those were reserved for high school boys only — by which time many had developed profoundly negative feelings about school and themselves that were very hard to penetrate.  
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Men who do go to college might be considered part of a “rape culture,” especially white men. Ask the Duke Lacrosse team. Ask the University of Virginia’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity about “rape culture.” With no evidence, and only on the word of a single woman in each case, two large universities made these young men’s lives hell because both institutions denied the men any presumption of innocence and automatically assumed the worst. The same phenomenon led to the Kavanaugh Hearings debacle.  
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At the Women's March  
 
This is not to deny that a lot of men behave abominably toward women and always have. Such men have little or nocontrol over their sexual urges and don’t think they need to either, no matter who is hurt by their actions. Relatively recent laws against sexual harassment were much needed and overdue, but presumption of innocence and due process must be enforced at all times.  
 
 
Last week’s news included articles on “toxic masculinity” and a Gillette commercial titled: “Is This The Best A Man Can Get?” Several conservative pundits objected but I saw little problem with it. It dramatized examples of men and boys bullying others and disrespecting women, but also of good men speaking up and acting to intervene.  
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Conspicuous by its absence in any of this was the plague of pornography to which so many men and boys have become addicted, and which contributes enormously to the dehumanization of women. That scourge was never mentioned.  
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At the March For Life  
 
Last weekend there were two women’s marches in Washington. Friday saw the 44th March for Life. It was attended by a hundred thousand or more conservative women and a few men marching against abortion. Saturday it was the 3rd annual Women’s March with liberal women and many themes: Mostly it was a march against President Trump because the 1st march occurred the day after his inauguration. Second to that was a pro-abortion theme. Then there were climate change, black lives matter, and an anti-male theme. One sign called for the extinction of old white men.   
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At the Women's March  
 
Numbers were down at the Women’s March after a controversy over anti-Semitism — especially that of Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. One of the March’s organizers, Tamika Mallory, has a close association with Farrakhan and refused to denounce his Anti-Semitic statements. Ironically, it was Farrakhan who organized the Million Man March which drew more than 400,000 in 2005 and pushed themes of black unity, personal responsibility, and respect for black women — all good things it would seem. Anti-semitic remarks by Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian Muslim, drove down numbers as well.  
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At the Women's March  
 
Meanwhile, $4.4 million in taxpayer money funded an American Psychological Association study that purports to define “traditional masculinity” and especially what it sees as negative aspects of it. Psychologists from Clark University and other institutions contributed to the "First-Ever Guidelines for Practice with Men and Boys," which includes, for example, a "Male Role Norms Inventory-Short Form” by former APA President Ronald Levant — an analysis of how much “toxic masculinity” men have as determined by questions like: “Do you think men should be macho, or do you lean more to the metrosexual?” That is the highlighted question on his web site.  
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At the Women's March  
 
Levant discounts biological differences between men and women, believing masculinity is entirely a social construct. I suspect that when men learn more about the APA’s new guidelines, even fewer will seek counseling from guys like Levant. They’d rather kill themselves.
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 22, 2019 at 7:35pm
TheFrontPageCover
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What Separates Violence From Nonviolence?
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by Nate Jackson  
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Liz Cheney: Pulosi ‘Commandeered’ The House
On The DACA Issue She’s Now Voting Against  
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by Molly Prince
{dailycaller.com} ~ The third-ranking House Republican, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, criticized House Speaker Nancy Pulosi on Sunday for opposing proposals she recently supported as a way to resist negotiating with President Donald Trump... “It’s very difficult to understand when you’ve got the president’s proposal that obviously includes money for the border wall, also includes an extension for the DACA folks, also includes an extension for TPS. Those are issues, DACA in particular, that Speaker Pulosi, she commandeered the floor of the House of Representatives for eight hours less than a year ago on particularly this issue of helping to ensure that people that are here, the so-called dreamers, are not deported,” Cheney told Chuck Todd while on “Meet the Press.”“For Pulosi now to simply reject out of hand when the president actually has said, ‘Okay, let’s look at ways we can come closer,’ it shows you they’re just not interested in negotiating,” Cheney continued.The Republican-led House passed a stopgap funding bill Dec. 20 that included appropriations to construct a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. However, with a 51-seat majority, Senate Republicans fell short of the necessary 60 votes needed to send it to Trump’s desk for signature...
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Termites, Bigots and GOATs: Rationalizing
Complicity with Anti-Semitism
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Those women and men who marched in the Women's March under the leadership of Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory colluded with anti-Semitism... These two leaders of the Women's March worship the most influential anti-Semite in the United States today, Louis Farrakhan. They claim to disagree with his crass anti-Jewish and anti-gay and anti-feminist preaching -- although there is reason to doubt this, as it relates to Jews -- but they admire him for his impact on elements of the Black community. They must understand that this impact includes influencing hundreds of thousands of Blacks to consider Jews to be "termites" and destroyers of the world. But they do not care. They regard him as great — Mallory has called him "the GOAT" ("Greatest of All Time"). Marching with these supporters of an anti-Semite is the equivalent of marching under the banner of David Duke, who inspires white supremacists with the same sort of bigotry with which Farrakhan preaches Black supremacy. Hitler inspired pride in Aryans, Mussolini made the trains run on time, and Stalin spread the wealth. But would the women who marched with Farrakhan's admirers have marched with these bigots. What is the difference? The painful difference is that anti-Semitism is more tolerated on the hard left than other forms of racism. Moreover, anti-Semitism can mask itself as anti-Zionism -- singling out only the nation state of the Jewish people for unique opprobrium, an act which is itself a form of bigotry, although one that is acceptable on the hard left. Consider the front page story in the New York Times Sunday Review, which singled out the Palestinian issue as "one of the great moral challenges of our time" -- ignoring Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Tibet, Cyprus and many far greater moral challenges, which are largely ignored by the hard left. The Palestinian issue receives center stage on the hard left, not because of how the Palestinians have been treated -- they did, after all, reject offers of statehood and the end of the occupation on numerous occasions -- but because of who is allegedly oppressing them: namely the nation state of the Jewish people...
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Senate Democrat Accuses House Republicans 
Of Colluding To ‘Derail’ Mueller Probe, 
Calls For Investigation  
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ A Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is calling for an investigation of House Republicans he claims have colluded with the Trump White House... to derail special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse did not cite evidence to back up his allegations. But speaking to the hosts of the “Skullduggery” podcast, the Democrat said that an investigation should be opened into whether President Donald Trump’s Republican allies sought to “impede and throw sticks into the spokes of the dirty cop-Mueller investigation.” “It definitely needs to be investigated, in my view,” Whitehouse said on the podcast, which is hosted by Yahoo’s Michael Isikoff. “Whether it amounts to criminal conduct or not, clearly the efforts of the House Republicans were designed to impede and throw sticks into the spokes of the dirty cop-Mueller investigation.”...
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Iranian Forces Fire Rockets Into Israel, And The
IDF Responds With “Waves Of Guided Missiles”
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by MICHAEL SNYDER
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ Israel and Iran are edging dangerously close to a state of all-out war. On Sunday night, Israeli forces rained missiles down on Iranian forces based in the Damascus area “for nearly an hour”... According to the IDF, this was a response to “dozens” of missiles that were fired by Iranian forces in Syria toward targets in Israel earlier that day. The Israelis were able to intercept the Iranian missiles, but if any of them had gotten through they could have caused a tremendous amount of damage. Some of the missiles that Israel fired at the Iranians were reportedly intercepted, but quite a few of them did hit their intended targets. If the violence continues to escalate, we could potentially soon be talking about an all-out war between Israel and Iran in which both sides use their weapons of mass destruction. The missile strikes against Iranian targets in Damascus made headlines all over the globe. According to Syrian state media, there were “consecutive waves of guided missiles”… Syrian state media cited a Syrian military source as saying Israel launched an “intense attack through consecutive waves of guided missiles”, but that Syrian air defenses destroyed most of the “hostile targets”. The Syrians are boasting that they were able to destroy quite a few of the Israeli missiles, but independent observers confirm that quite a few Iranian targets were destroyed...
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Iranian Air Force Commander: We Are 
Prepared To “Eliminate Israel From Earth”
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by MAC SLAVO 
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ An Iranian air force commander has warned that the country is prepared to “eliminate Israel from Earth.” Tehran’s fighting words come just after Israel launched air raids... on alleged Iranian targets inside Syria, killing 4 Syrian soldiers. Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, the commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF), issued the provocative statement to the Young Journalist Club news agency, according to reports from the Iranian media. Should Iran attempt to eliminate Israel from Earth, however, a third world war would be the most likely result. According to RT, the commander said: “the young people in the air force are fully ready and impatient to confront the Zionist regime and eliminate it from the Earth! Our future generations are learning required know-how for the promised day to destroy Israel!” Nazirzaheh implied that Iran’s high level of military preparedness has deterred the country’s enemies from attacking the Islamic Republic. But they aren’t above verbal aggression. Israel has defended its actions against Syria. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the air raid against Syria as retribution against those who wish to destroy Israel.“We are operating both against Iran and against the Syrian forces that are abetting the Iranian aggression,”  Netanyahu said in a speech. “We will strike at anyone who tried to harm us. Whoever threatens to eliminate us, bears full responsibility.”...
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What Separates Violence From Nonviolence?
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by Nate Jackson:  El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, are neighboring cities separated only by a border wall. Juarez is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. El Paso has a low crime rate. The only thing separating the violence from the nonviolence is a border wall.

             Now Texas congresswoman Veronica Escobar, who replaced Beto O'Rourke, thinks that wall should come down. “We know that walls don’t work, that they don’t stop drugs, that they don’t stop migration.” But when asked if she would tear down that wall, she responded, “You know I, I, it’s, it’s really ugly. It, it, it is I think a monument to division.” Yeah, division between violence and non-violence.
               Former Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan, who we quoted  last week as supporting the wall, lives in El Paso. “I see a lot of the pundits talking and they have never been to the border, and they never talk to the experts, and they’re absolutely dismissing the facts,” said Morgan.
               “Wall work,” he asserts. “If you saw the previous caravans, what stopped them? What stopped them was a multi-layered strategy that the Border Patrol has been using for decades, and they say they need now. And that’s that trifecta of infrastructure, technology, and personnel.”  

~The Patriot Post

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFUt38XwhTQ

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Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 22, 2019 at 12:49pm
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~  
Dems' $15 Minimum Wage = 
Two Million Lost Jobs
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by Political Editors  
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HPSCI Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff 
Discusses ‘Resistance’ Agenda and Priorities
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ There are two distinct narrative angles that are intersecting in the current weekend talk venues. One is the government shutdown and how the resistance is attempting to gain maximum political benefit against the White House... The second is how the larger ‘shutdown narrative‘ is being deployed as cover for revelations within prior testimony showing how the scumbag/liar-nObama DOJ and FBI weaponized against their political opposition. In this regard, the shutdown as planned by Speaker Nancy Pulosi serves a dual purpose; it is helping to construct a larger oppositional narrative while burying a story the MSM are desperate not to cover. The two narratives are intertwined and it would be against the interests of Pulosi, scumbag-Cummings, scumbag-Schiff and scumbag-Nadler, to reach a shutdown agreement. HPSCI Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff appears after VP Mike Pence on FtN and highlights this intended dual purpose. scumbag-Schiff immediately transfers from the shutdown into a discussion of using Michael Cohen: the two narratives are intertwined. *Note*:  It’s important to remember the democrat strategy is planned out. Oversight Committee  scumbag-Cummings, builds to HPSCI Committee scumbag- Schiff who ultimately leads to Judicary Committee scumbag- Nadler.  scumbag-Jerry Nadler is where they hope to initiate the ‘impeachment‘ angle.
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‘Save The Dreamers’: WaPo Implores 
Democrats To Take Trump’s Wall Deal  
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by Chris White
{dailycaller.com} ~ House Speaker Nancy Pulosi and congressional Democrats are losing one big voice in their opposition to President Donald Trump’s push for a border wall... The Washington Post’s editorial board. WaPo noted in a Sunday editorial reasons  why Pulosi should rebuke the president’s most recent offer to temporarily extend protections for the so-called Dreamers. But the paper eventually explained that taking the deal would ultimately help those who came here through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “He should not be rewarded for having taken the government hostage. Any piece of a wall would reinforce his hateful, anti-immigrant rhetoric,” WaPo noted. “He’s unreliable, having made and withdrawn similar offers in the past.” WaPo’s editorial board has criticized Trump in the past for what its writers call pushing immigration policies that would “cripple the economy.” It’s taking a different approach now. Sunday’s editorial explains why young people who came to the U.S. through the scumbag/liar-nObama-era program are in peril of being deported...
The GOP Finally Has a Fighting General
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{spectator.org} ~ In November, 1863, the New York Herald reported that a temperance committee had asked President Lincoln to dismiss Ulysses S. Grant... They told him the general was an imbiber of strong spirits, to which Lincoln replied: “I wish you would tell me the brand of Whiskey Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel to my other generals.” This story is probably apocryphal, but it captures the contempt with which the socially awkward Grant was viewed by the eastern establishment. This came to mind when I read the following about President Trump by a little old lady named George Will: By his comportment, the president benefits his media detractors with serial vindications of their disparagements.… For most Americans, President Trump’s expostulations are audible wallpaper, always there but not really noticed.… And as balm for his base, which remains oblivious to his likely contempt for them as sheep who can be effortlessly gulled by preposterous fictions. Will contends that Trump’s “deportment” is what drives the abuse and lies to which the President is subjected by the frauds of the Fourth Estate. Likewise, Grant’s exaggerated drinking was an excuse the northern press employed to denounce his tactics during the Civil War, as well as the necessity, when he was President, to keep troops stationed in the southern states. Will, in his dotage, has evidently forgotten that the media has relentlessly savaged any and all Republicans. To blame Trump for his treatment by CNN, MSNBC, et al. is like blaming a woman for her own rape. Fortunately, Lincoln wasn’t stupid enough to listen to newspaper publishers or the temperance committees. He needed a “fighting general” to replace strangely inert commanders like George B. McClellan and Henry Halleck. By the time Lincoln lost patience with these dawdlers, Grant had won important victories at Forts Henry and Donelson. Soon he would also capture the crucial town of Vicksburg. Halleck was so jealous of Grant that he launched a campaign to undermine Grant’s credibility in Washington sound familiar?. But Lincoln wanted battlefield victories rather than Washington gossip...  https://spectator.org/the-gop-finally-has-a-fighting-general/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=3c1b8b43b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_21_11_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-3c1b8b43b8-104608113 
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Rep John Ratcliffe Discusses dirty cop-Mueller, Ohr,
and Evidence Against Corrupt DOJ Officials
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ An important interview between Judiciary Committee member John Ratcliffe (R – TX) as he discusses the likely motive behind why dirty cop-Mueller decided to talk out against the Buzzfeed report... Representative Ratcliffe points to the testimony of AG nominee William Barr as the annoying pebble that made dirty cop-Mueller’s team stop to shake out their shoe. Additionally, in an outline to highlight the corrupt abuse of the Rosenstein/dirty cop-Mueller probe, Ratcliffe outlines Bruce Ohr’s testimony and exposes a larger issue: if dirty cop-Mueller was honorable, when he became aware of the scheme he would have dropped his inquiry. Fox News did not post the second part of that interview. However, we located a secondary source below:  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/20/sunday-talks-rep-john-ratcliffe-discusses-mueller-ohr-and-evidence-against-corrupt-doj-officials/
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SOTU and Shutdown — Options for January 29
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{spectator.org} ~ On January 30, 2018, President Trump delivered a State of the Union message that was extremely well received by the American people... whatever their party affiliation, and very poorly received by the Democrat members of the Senate and House. How well was it received by the people? It was the highest-rated presidential address in the history of cable news. A CBS instant poll showed: 97% of Republicans liked it; 72% of independents; and 43% of Democrats. 80% stated they believed the President was trying to unite the country rather than divide it. When the TV cameras panned the audience, the Democrats, as Wayne Allyn Root observed in his report, “The Night the Democratic Party Committed Political Suicide,” “frowned, grimaced, groaned and looked sick to their stomachs” when they heard the President report on huge job creation over the year, jobs in manufacturing, jobs in construction, lowest employment ever among African Americans, lowest employment ever among Hispanics, lowest employment in 18 years for women. “Democrats were outed as the party that is rooting for America’s failure.” The Democrats were so anti-Trump, they evidenced no sympathy for a couple in the gallery who were victims of MS-13 gang violence — the murder of an American in their own country by illegal aliens. For all their talk, Democrats don’t care about “safe spaces.” It is little wonder, then, that, as soon as President Trump concluded his speech, the Democrats fell over themselves as they ran for the exits. And it is little wonder that newly elected Speaker of the House Nancy Pulosi wanted to find a reason for Democrats to avoid having to listen to President Trump deliver another State of the Union this year, on January 29, when he would list his achievements, one after another for an hour, during his second year in office. If I can adapt a line from Col. Nathan R. Jessup in the movie A Few Good Men (1992) and direct it to the Democrats: “You can’t handle the truth!”...  https://spectator.org/sotu-and-shutdown-options-for-january-29/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=3c1b8b43b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_21_11_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-3c1b8b43b8-104608113 
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Dems' $15 Minimum Wage = Two Million Lost Jobs
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by Political Editors:  Congressional Democrats rolled out their latest vote-fishing and yet economy-crippling legislative proposal Wednesday — a nationwide minimum wage of $15 an hour to be fully implemented by 2024. With the announcement, Speaker Nancy Pulosi opined, “A $15 federal minimum wage affirms the bedrock idea of fairness in our country: that hard work deserves a decent wage.”

             Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) declared, “When we put money in the pockets of American workers, they spend that money in their communities. So this bill will stimulate the economy on main street.” Scott failed to elaborate on who the “we” is that he’s referring to, but it’s a good bet he wasn’t talking about business owners who pay wages. Instead, he was no doubt referencing himself and Democrats, given the party’s long history of believing that the government, not private citizens working in a free-market economy, is responsible for producing wealth.
               Naturally, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders voiced his support for the Demo legislation: “We are living today in an American economy that is doing very well for the people on top. Not so well for working families.” Clearly, Sanders has been ignoring the reality on the ground, as both jobs numbers as well as wages have been rising precisely because taxes have been cut for everyone and government has gotten out of the way. Funny how the government taking less of people’s hard-earned money actually works to stimulate more economic growth, as opposed to any government-run wealth-redistribution scheme. But admitting that reality would be self-defeating for Democrats, who believe that government’s job is to control everyone.
               Speaking of controlling, Prof. David Macpherson, chairman of Trinity University’s economics department,  found that, based on the Congressional Budget Office methodology, implementing a federal $15 minimum wage would lead to the loss of two million jobs, with small businesses suffering the most. In fact, those who would be most negatively affected by the minimum wage hike would be the poor and the young. In other words, it would do exactly the opposite of what Democrats are currently claiming. It would also serve to slow much of the economic progress the nation has experienced under a particular president they detest so much.  ~The Patriot Post

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Tues Med/AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 22, 2019 at 10:22am
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~  
O'Rourke's Coming Constitutional Crisis
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by Michael Swartz
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Tuesday Top Headlines
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by Media Editors:  Supreme Court to hear case on New York City’s restrictions on gun owners under Second Amendment (USA Today)
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Supreme Court allows Trump restrictions on transgender troops in military to go into effect as legal battle continues (The Washington Post)
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Trump’s proposal to reopen the government, sweetened with immigration provisions, is headed for Senate action, its prospects uncertain (Associated Press)
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Locals help border agents survive the shutdown with free meals, zero-interest loans (Washington Examiner)
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Illegal immigrant expected to face murder charges in Nevada killing spree (Fox News)
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Murders in Mexico rise by a third in 2018 to new record (Reuters)
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House Judiciary Committee Democrat: Kavanaugh will “likely” be investigated for perjury (National Review)
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Lawyer for Covington Catholic High School families threatens lawsuits against media unless they retract false stories (PJ Media)
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Leftist mobs doxx the wrong kid in aftermath of the media’s false Covington story (Townhall)
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Democrats shut down Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren’s attempt to court Native American voters with casino bill (The Daily Wire)
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While GOP punishes Steve King, anti-Semitic Democrat Ilhan Omar gets choice committee (The Epoch Times)
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Former Planned Parenthood director says her pro-life organization has converted almost 500 abortion workers to be pro-life (CNS News)
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Google must pay $57 million, France says — the first major penalty under a sweeping new European Union privacy law (Ars Technica)
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American University’s multicultural room condemned as too inclusive of all races (The College Fix)
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Humor: Press that sicced mob on teenagers based on 10-second video clip unsure why some people call them “fake news” (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: What “Trumponomics” is all about (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: The Los Angeles teacher strike: Three things you should know (Foundation for Economic Education)  
 
~The Patriot Post
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Vice President Mike Pence -vs- FtN Margaret Brennan
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ After President Trump put an offer on the table that was rejected by democrat leaders, Vice President Mike Pence appears on CBS Face the Nation to debate the stalemate with resistance advocate Margaret Brennan.
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The Vatican Surrenders to China
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Pope Francis has surrendered partial control of the Chinese Catholic Church to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)... His Holiness agreed to grant the Party considerable authority over personnel matters. After decades of refusing to give China the right to appoint Catholic bishops, as a condition for normalization of relations, the Vatican finally conceded to the regime's demand to allow the CCP a decisive role in the selection of bishops to head Catholic dioceses. The Vatican's concession came despite the CCP's continued persecution of the unofficial, independent, underground Catholic Church in China. Yet the Vatican probably does not view this as a defeat but rather as a means to an end. The diplomatic hierarchy of the Catholic Church may be confident that the truth of its spiritual message will endure long after the CCP dissolves into the same historical trash bin as other totalitarian ideologies have done. The Church's consenting to fold its independent political posture into the Chinese regime's Communist Party apparatus gives Beijing the authority to appoint bishops politically acceptable to the CCP. In granting China this right, the Vatican implicitly is recognizing the legitimacy of the regime's CCP instrument to infiltrate and control Roman Catholicism in China, which is the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA)...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13577/vatican-catholics-china 
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Top Homeland Security Dem breaks with party:
'I would not rule out a wall in certain instances'
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by Gregg Re  
{foxnews.com} ~ House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., broke with some of his fellow congressional Democrats on Sunday... by acknowledging in an interview that he "would not rule out a wall in certain instances," although he cautioned that the White House needs a better "plan" than simply using a wall as a "talking point." However, House Speaker Nancy Pulosi, who preemptively rejected Trump's proposed border wall compromise on Saturday as a "nonstarter," has pledged not to fund the president's border wall under any circumstances -- and, Thompson suggested in an interview with ABC News' "This Week," Trump is stuck with her. "Mr. President, Democrats will work with you," Thompson said. "But you can't pick what Democrats you work with. We have picked our leaders, and you have to work with our leaders." Thompson continued, "The notion that we can’t have barriers is just something that’s not true."...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-homeland-security-dem-i-would-not-rule-out-a-wall-in-certain-instances?utm_source=american-truth_org
Rep. Tlaib Requests Taxpayers 
Fund Her Anti-Semitism
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{clarionproject.org} ~ Newly-inaugurated Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib just requested taxpayer money to fund a Congressional delegation to the Palestinian Authority-controlled territories in Israel... At the same time, her equally new colleague from Rep. Ilhan Omar was just appointed by her fellow Democrats to the prestigious House Foreign Affairs Committee. What do these events have in common and, more importantly, what do they portend for the Democratic Party? Both Tlaib (D-MI) and Omar (D-MN) are open supporters of the boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) movement against Israel. The BDS movement aims to strangle the Jewish state economically while at the same time calls for the flooding of Palestinians into Israel to destroy the Jewish character of the state. According to the definition of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and officially adopted by the U.S. and 31 other nations, the BDS movement has been deemed at its core an anti-Semitic movement. This is because the movement “applies double standards by requiring of Israel a behavior not expected or demanded of by any other democratic nation.” For example, there are at least 100 land disputes across the globe that are not subject to “BDS” movements...  https://clarionproject.org/rashida-tlaib-just-requested-taxpayers-fund-anti-semitism/
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What It Takes to Become a Millionaire
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{prageru.com} ~ What’s the difference between America’s millionaires and the rest of us?... Chris Hogan, author of Everyday Millionaires, and his research team interviewed over 10,000 millionaires to find out, and what they discovered explodes a number of common myths.
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O'Rourke's Coming Constitutional Crisis
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by Michael Swartz:  While Robert “Beto” O'Rourke is regularly in the news, it’s interesting to hear these particular words from him: “I trust the wisdom of people. And I’m confident — especially after having traveled Texas for two years — people are good, fundamentally, and if given the choice to do the right thing, they will; to do the good thing, they will.”

             O'Rourke may or may not be running for president in 2020, but we can be certain that neither his previous comments on the “exhaustion” of the Constitution nor his favored “progressive” policies square with that bit about trusting people to do the right thing. Naturally, conservatives have had a field day criticizing Beto’s notion that the Constitution is an outdated document, but they’re also giving some thought to the state of our government and whether it’s even trying to keep the checks and balances that were designed into it. For example, Congress has repeatedly ceded authority to the president because it’s easier than taking tough votes.
               Is congressional oversight really a thing of the past? For the cynic, perhaps so. Even the progressive Left gets it. This passage comes from one of their political bibles, the Indivisible Guide:

Constant reelection pressure means that MoCs [members of Congress] are enormously sensitive to their image in the district or state, and they will work very hard to avoid signs of public dissent or disapproval. What every MoC wants — regardless of party — is for his or her constituents to agree with the following narrative: “My MoC cares about me, shares my values, and is working hard for me.” [Emphasis added.]

Our nation came into being because men with deep foresight and a love of Liberty wanted to live their lives free from tyranny. They carefully set up a government with three co-equal parts in the hope that this would maintain a balance and keep one branch from dominating. But that freedom came with the vital responsibilities of diligence and morality, and as we became ever further removed from the generation that founded our nation, we backslid away from those twin supports. “It’s not my job” practically became the national mantra.
               In the case of Congress, it meant figuring out ways not to have to take unpopular votes — and risking electoral defeat — by delegating its authority. Something had to fill the vacuum, and ambitious progressive chief executives have too often been happy to do so, winning elections on the emotional appeal of promising a life of ease to those who didn’t mind ceding just a little bit more of their freedom and fortune in the process.
               Perhaps the earliest example of this was President Woodrow Wilson, whose election in 1912 (by a mere plurality of the vote thanks to a Republican Party torn between its own Roosevelt progressives and its Taft conservatives) ushered in a plethora of radical changes in the form and powers of government. In Wilson’s first term, the Constitution was changed to allow for taxation of income and direct election of senators, and the Federal Reserve was formed. Wilson’s second term brought with it Prohibition and women’s suffrage. All those changes, enacted within an eight-year period, permanently altered the direction of the American republic and set the stage for a century of eroded Liberty by way of, among other things, the New Deal, the Great Society, and scumbag/liar-nObamaCare.
               Some might call what Wilson began “fundamental change,” but the problem with its evolution from Wilson to Barack scumbag/liar-nObama is something we’ve addressed before: “If you believe government has whatever power it desires and is the answer to every problem, as scumbag/liar-nObama clearly does, you should at least competently run it. Instead, systemic bureaucratic corruption and craven political considerations rule the day.” Career bureaucrats have thus jettisoned the Rule of Law for the rule of men.
               Those who — perhaps naively — believed the days of incompetent progressive government were over when Donald Trump rolled into town have certainly been disappointed with his lack of progress in draining the Swamp. Surely many of those Trump believers were also confident the Tea Party would restore the vision of our Founding Fathers based on a single election only to be disappointed by the buck-passing excuse that their House majority only gave them control of one-half of one-third of the government. But that House majority added the Senate four years later and grabbed the White House in 2016.
               So, the good people thought, finally, all the pieces are in place for reform that would restore our constitutional republic. But then the goalposts were moved again. The Republicans, we were told, would need 60 votes in the Senate to override Democrat obstructionism. And then came the 2018 midterms.
               Given those grim electoral results, one might wonder whether the people even want a constitutional republic. In the midst of the 2017 scumbag/liar-nObamaCare battle, writer W. James Antle pointed out an inconvenient truth about modern America: “In practice, the American people want a much bigger federal government than the Constitution currently authorizes. Not long ago, a conservative wag quipped that if a president actually tried to enforce the Constitution’s limits on federal power, he or she would be impeached.”
               On Jan. 3, 2019, articles of impeachment against President Trump were introduced in Congress. While it’s claimed that the impeachable offense is obstruction of justice, the reality is that Trump was obstructing the transfer of power to the unelected bureaucrats amassing their fiefdoms and making their favored friends wealthy on the backs of the long-suffering taxpayer. It’s a process that results in a few well-connected “haves” lording it over the many hapless “have-nots.”
               If power is ceded to the unelected few, or if differences in philosophy become so great as to be irreconcilable, the last resort becomes violent revolution — and our nation has already tried that, twice. The harder and more necessary responsibility is for good people to demand that their elected representatives return to honoring their oaths of office and abiding by our foundational documents. Nothing short of that will suffice.  ~The Patriot Post

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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 22, 2019 at 8:22am
TheFrontPageCover
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DNC Quietly Dumps Women's March
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by Jordan Candler  
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Senate will vote next week on Trump plan
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced he will take up legislation next week incorporating the deal President Trump outlined in a Saturday afternoon address... that supporters hope will end a partial government shutdown now entering its second month. The Kentucky Republican’s move to bring the deal up for a vote will put political pressure on Democrats in both chambers, who through their leaders publicly rejected Trump’s proposal Saturday afternoon. It would take 60 votes to advance the measure in the Senate, which means Republicans will need the support of seven Democrats to pass the measure, assuming no GOP lawmakers vote against it. The shutdown has increasingly hurt the operations of dozens of partially closed federal agencies and has left 800,000 federal workers without paychecks. “I intend to move to this legislation this week,” McConnell said in a statement after Trump’s announcement. “With bipartisan cooperation, the Senate can send a bill to the House quickly so that they can take action as well. The situation for furloughed employees isn’t getting any brighter and the crisis at the border isn’t improved by show votes. But the President’s plan is a path toward addressing both issues quickly.”...
Deputy White House Press Secretary 
Hogan Gidley Discusses Shutdown Impasse
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley appears on Fox News with Jeanine Pirro to discuss the current partial government shutdown and the impasse between the White House and Speaker Nancy Pulosi.  
IRS Loophole: Millions Of Illegal Aliens Are 
Getting A Bigger Tax Refund Than You Are
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by TIM BROWN 
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ This is not surprising given the nature of the tax system and history the Internal Revenue Service has with fraud and giving away millions, if not billions... to those who are illegally in the united States.  However, in a nine-part series, investigative journalist Bob Segall of WTHR in Indiana exposed just how corrupt the IRS is and the massive amount of fraud that is going on in the system, especially with what is being termed "undocumented workers," and how US money is leaving the States to go into the hands of people who don't even live here. The series first appeared in 2012, under the usurpation of Barack Hussein scumbag/liar-nObama Soetoro Sobarkah. The series is listed below with the video report beneath each description. Part one: Tax loophole costs billions - Millions of illegal immigrants are getting a bigger tax refund than you. Eyewitness News shows a massive tax loophole that provides billions of dollars in tax credits to undocumented workers and, in many cases, people who have never stepped foot in the United States. And you are paying for it!...  https://freedomoutpost.com/irs-loophole-millions-of-illegal-aliens-are-getting-a-bigger-tax-refund-than-you-are/
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dirty cop-Mueller's Office Released Buzzfeed 
Report Denial to Cover Their Asses'
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by Scott Morefield
{dailycaller.com} ~ Conservative radio host Mark Levin criticized Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s office in the wake of its denial of a recent Buzzfeed report... which claimed former Trump attorney Michael Cohen had testified that he had been instructed by his former boss to lie to Congress. During a Friday night appearance on “Hannity,” Levin contended that dirty cop-Mueller’s office  released its denial of the Buzzfeed report earlier that evening not because of the story’s merits or lack thereof, but rather “to cover their asses because they don’t want a leak investigation.” The conservative radio host began by criticizing dirty cop-Mueller’s office for allowing the report to continue in the news as long as it did, resulting in “false reporting” and President Trump “being smeared.” “They won’t be held to account,” he said. “They won’t apologize. They will continue on tomorrow until the next great fake story.” When the special counsel’s office did release its statement, however, Levin believed it “didn’t do anybody any favors.”...
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President Trump Gets Slammed 
by Pulosi & Others for a Reasonable Offer
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{independentsentinel.com} ~ President Trump’s move today was clever. He offered three years of protection for DACA and TPS. There is no way the DACA will be deported in three years, and probably will never be... The President wasn’t giving up anything. At the same time, he made the Democrats look radical and unreasonable. It’s about impeachment and overturning the election. Democrats are set on impeaching the President, and they won’t deal on anything in any way ever. Nancy Pulosi is a vicious, hard-left woman who will never secure the border except in a minimal and ineffective way. It’s not only about winning in 2020, but it’s also about ideology. She’s not a deep thinker, but she is moving very far-left. Pulosi is willingly leaning towards the hard-left base. She just put Socialists in charge of the House Financial Services Committee...  The dems don't have a leaders they have nothing.
Jew-Hatred in the Democratic Party
by Eileen F. Toplansky

{americanthinker.com} ~ It is really time for the liberal American Jewish Democrat to acknowledge that blatant anti-Semitism has infected the Democratic Party... Nancy Pulosi has appointed Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Relations Committee. Omar is viciously anti-Israel and is in favor of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Omar has long been a harsh critic of Israel. In fact, in 2012 – just "a few days after Gaza-based Hamas terrorists had launched more than 150 deadly rockets into the Jewish state, prompting an Israeli military response – she tweeted that 'the apartheid Israeli regime' had 'hypnotized the world' in order to conceal its own 'evil doings.'" In fact, the only apartheid in the Middle East comes from Arab countries and is clearly documented by Muslim reporter Khaled Abu Toameh, who regularly highlights the Arab apartheid against Palestinians. Furthermore, "in 2016, Omar stated that she was in favor of completely divesting the University of Minnesota of its Israel bonds. The following year, she opposed a bill designed to counter economic boycotts targeting the Jewish state." In addition, "in 2018, Omar ran for the U.S. House of Representatives seat formerly held by scumbag-Keith Ellison. Her campaign was supported by ... the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations  (CAIR), which  held three fundraising events on Omar's behalf."... America you better wake up for your mistake are starting to show especially in Minnesota.
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DNC Quietly Dumps Women's March
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by Jordan Candler:  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) finally purged the Women’s March from its ranks — but only because the political optics had made the action unavoidable.

             National Review’s Jack Crowe says that the DNC “has joined a number of prominent progressive advocacy groups in withdrawing its support for the Women’s March in the wake of reports detailing anti-Semitic conspiracy-mongering and support for notorious bigot Louis Farrakhan among its leadership.” This year’s Women’s March will occur Saturday in DC, but with relatively meager support.
               “The list includes fewer than half of the 500 sponsors who supported the march last year,” Crowe reveals, “and many of the most prominent past supporters, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, Emily’s List, and NARAL, are among the defectors. The DNC was initially listed as a sponsor when the list went up on Sunday but it, along with the NAACP and the National Organization for Women, were removed at some point thereafter. The DNC’s withdrawal came after Women’s March co-chair Tamika Mallory defended her past description of Farrakhan as the ‘GOAT’ or ‘greatest of all time’ during a Monday morning appearance on ABC’s The View.”
               Farrakhan, of course, would love nothing more than to exterminate the Jews, whom he considers to be insects. As recently as October, he groused, “You know what [my foes] do: call me an anti-Semite. Stop it! I’m anti-Termite.” This prompted even Chelsea scumbag/liar-Clinton to fire back, “Comparing Jews to termites is anti-Semitic, wrong and dangerous.” According to The Washington Free Beacon, “He has also attacked ‘that Satanic Jew,’ called Jews ‘the mother and father of apartheid,’ and said that ‘when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door.’”
               Tellingly, the entire Women’s March leadership is  composed of bigots. As our Nate Jackson reported in November, “Theresa Shook, founder of the Women’s March, called for Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour, and Carmen Perez of Women’s March, Inc. to step down because they ‘have steered the Movement away from its true course.’” All this and more eventually forced the DNC’s hand. And while it made the right decision not to sponsor the March, it had nothing to do with morality or conscience. This was all about damage control.
               Ironically, while the Women’s March takes place tomorrow, a far larger and more endearing event is happening today in DC — the March for Life. These gatherings occurred back to back last year as well. As we wrote at the time, “One side features love and science. The other has distorted those things beyond recognition.” This year is no different. Nor will the media coverage be any different. As columnist Gary Bauer observed  earlier this week, “While the media will ignore the March for Life, there will be wall-to-wall coverage of the Women’s March.”
               The biggest irony of all? While the DNC feigns concern over Farrakhan’s hatred of the Jews, the Women’s March would share an alarming ideological kinship with him even if its leadership wasn’t going to bat for him. Both the Women’s March and Farrakhan consider certain people to be disposable. The Leftmedia and DNC are incapable of acknowledging the parallel.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/60614?mailing_id=4022&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4022&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 21, 2019 at 6:07pm
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Trump, Cohen, and the 'Russian Dealby Mark Alexander  
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Speaker Nancy Pulosi Rejects President 
Trump Proposal to End Shutdown
by sundance
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ 30 Minutes before President Trump began to outline his compromise proposal 4:00pm, from the White House, Speaker Nancy Pulosi auto-published the response position of Democrats, NO DEAL... “Democrats were hopeful that the President was finally willing to re-open government and proceed with a much-needed discussion to protect the border. “Unfortunately, initial reports make clear that his proposal is a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives. It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter. For one thing, this proposal does not include the permanent solution for the Dreamers and TPS recipients that our country needs and supports. President Trump outlined a common-sense bipartisan solution to reopen government. Nancy Pulosi took a zero-sum position and rejected the proposal. Without pressure from ‘moderate’ democrats if any exist, the impasse continues...
Democrats and the border: 
What they don’t want you to know
by Deroy Murdock  
{foxnews.com} ~ Is steel more moral than concrete? House Democratic leader Nancy Pulosi of California said last week that she and other Democrats consider a border wall “immoral.”... But some of the same Democrats who decry President Donald J. Trump’s proposed concrete wall as a 30-foot-tall human-rights violation actually approved 700 miles of steel barriers under the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (SFA). Give Pulosi this: She is consistent. She voted against SFA. Maybe, deep down, she wants an America without borders. Meanwhile, these current, former, and then-ascendant Senate Democrats all voted for SFA, which President George W. Bush signed into law. On September 26, 2006, the Senate passed SFA 80–19, with 26 Democrats voting Yea. Illegal immigrants from the so-called caravan lately have been caught on camera burrowing under and vaulting over the steel fence. One of these barricade climbers, Honduran Maryury Elizabeth Serrano-Hernandez, 19, soon went into labor and delivered an American-citizen anchor baby in a San Diego hospital on November 27. Border Patrol officers told Fox News that the mother, the father (age 20), their newborn son, and another boy (age 2) all were “placed into immigration proceedings and released on their own recognizance on December 2.” Let’s see if they eventually attend their asylum hearing or simply dissolve into the American landscape...
Can Republicans dodge shutdown blame this time?
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by Susan Ferrechio
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Republicans may escape the brunt of the blame for the government shutdown, but only because they’ve been hiding on the sidelines while President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pulosi duke it out... According to several recent polls, most blame Trump and the Democrats for the current standoff that has left part of the government partially closed for four weeks. And at least one survey that asks about the congressional GOP’s responsibility for the shutdown, independently of Trump, shows that the public might give them a pass this time. A CBS News/YouGov poll conducted Jan. 9-11 questioned 1,470 adults about who they believe is responsible for the standoff and government closures. Only 3 percent blamed congressional Republicans. A plurality blamed Trump (47 percent) and 30 percent blamed Democrats in the CBS/YouGov survey, while 20 percent blamed “all equally” for the mess. “Polls show the bulk of the blame falls on Trump, and not Republicans in Congress,” Ron Faucheux, president of Clarus Research Group, a polling and research firm, told the Washington Examiner... Do you really believe these polls numbers.
Frightening! Democrats 2024 Plans 
Include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
{americanlibertyreport.com} ~ Ever since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) burst onto the national spotlight, conservatives have had a heyday making light of the young socialist and her many gaffes... AOC has certainly given them plenty of ammunition – almost every interview she’s in features missteps and inaccuracies that would make a high school civics student roll their eyes in disbelief. Thus, most of the coverage of Ocasio-Cortez from conservative media has been mocking in nature. There’s a concerning chance, though, that while we are caught up mocking the absurdity of Ocasio-Cortez and her policies, we are missing the real danger that she presents. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a rising star in the Democratic Party. How quickly she has risen to national fame is simply unprecedented for a freshman Congresswoman. Many have already declared that AOC represents the future of the party, and they may very well be right. If Ocasio-Cortez does go on to become one of the most powerful figures in the Democratic Party, she and her policies will no longer be much of a laughing matter. Ocasio-Cortez is a radical, unapologetic socialist. Conservatives may snicker when she proposes things such as a 70% tax rate and a federal jobs guarantee, but Ocasio-Cortez isn’t joking – if given the opportunity, she will make these socialist policies a reality... Wake up America don't be fooled.
Foul Mouthed Rashida Tlaib Addresses CAIR…Praises Islam Slams America
by Cristina Laila
{thegatewaypundit.com} ~ Newly-elected foul-mouthed Muslim Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) gave a radical speech and declared the ‘war cry of Allah’ at a reception for terror-tied CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) on Thursday... Rashida Tlaib immediately declared victory for Allah after she walked up to the lectern to deliver her speech. After greeting the crowd in Arabic, Rashida Tlaib said, “Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim,” which means, “In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate.” This very phrase begins every chapter in the Quran except one and is seen as a Muslim war cry. In fact, this is the very same phrase Bowe Bergdahl’s father said in front of the White House in 2014 after scumbag/liar-nObama traded Taliban terrorists in exchange for traitor Bergdahl. Back in 2014, Brigitte Gabriel of Act for America told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that this phrase declares the greatness of Allah over the land, calling it a “war cry of Allah” and a Muslim victory call.  Muslims often try to downplay this victory war cry as an ordinary everyday prayer, however it is seen as a ‘war cry of Allah’ by hardliners...MI have you notice the mistake you made in voting for her yet.  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/democrat-rashida-tlaib-recites-muslim-victory-call-war-cry-of-allah-in-radical-speech-at-cair-reception-video/
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Poll: Amid wall fight, Latinos love Trump
by wnd.com  
{wnd.com} ~ Confounding conventional wisdom, a new poll shows President Trump’s approval rating among Latinos has skyrocketed by 20 points since the government shutdown over the border wall Republicans want to fund... An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll in early December showed Trump at 31 percent among Latino adults. But the latest Marist poll, released Thursday, shows the president’s job approval among the same demographic at 51 percent. Remarkably, the poll indicated a jump in Latino approval at the same time the president’s overall approval among Americans dropped 7 points since December. Taken Jan. 10-13, 2019, the poll asked: “Do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president? And, would you say you strongly approve/disapprove of the job he is doing or just approve/disapprove?” Among Latinos, 29 percent said “strongly approve” and another 22 percent replied “approve,” for a total of 51 percent. The poll found 41 percent of Latinos “strongly disapprove” of the president’s performance...  https://www.wnd.com/2019/01/poll-amid-wall-fight-latinos-love-trump/
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Trump, Cohen, and the 'Russian Dealby Mark Alexander:  There is more trouble in Trumpville this week — more fallout from the scumbag/liar-Clinton/Demo Party collusion to set up Donald Trump for a post-election takedown.

             Regarding dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s investigation and the convictions of Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, I wrote last August that the investigation doesn’t “have anything to do with ‘Russian collusion,’ but the worms are out, and in the case of Cohen, so much for ‘lawyer-client privilege.’ … As his former attorney, Cohen knows where, on Trump’s behalf, he hid corporate and personal legal skeletons.”
               To date, Trump’s Cohen problem has centered on campaign-finance issues. But in late November, when it became clear that Cohen’s plea deal included perjury charges related to his congressional testimony about the timing of discussions about a future Russian building project, there were questions about why Cohen would lie about the timing.
               A report broke last night that Cohen lied at Trump’s direction. According to the Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney, “President Trump now stands accused of directing his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about Trump’s attempt to court Vladimir Putin during the campaign and build a hotel in Moscow.”
               During his presidential primary campaign, Trump asserted that he had no “business” in Russia at the time. It can be argued that it was fair enough for Trump to make that claim, because an ongoing conversation about the prospect of a future project does not constitute “business” in the present, as if Trump owned a property in Russia at the time. Trump has admitted he had conversations with Russia about a project.
               However, given that Cohen admitted to lying to Congress about when the 2016 discussions regarding a potential future project in Russia ended, if there is irrefutable evidence that Trump instructed Cohen to lie to Congress about it, that does  constitute suborning perjury — a serious offense. Keep an eye on this one.
               That speculation notwithstanding, now that Democrats  control Congress, expect to hear a renewed chorus of howls to investigate and impeach Trump.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/60632?mailing_id=4022&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4022&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  
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The Sad State of the 4th Estate…Part 1

Posted by Craig Andresen on January 21, 2019 at 2:04pm

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

A Kentucky catholic school has issued an apology to a group of native Americans for cc-na-1.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710x“mocking” them at an event a week ago at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. but if you ask me, it is the native Americans who owe those students the apology.

According to the diocese, the students might face expulsion.

In issuing a joint statement, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic High School apologized and stated that they are investigating, and will take “appropriate action, up to and including expulsion.”

Naturally, liberals and the Pravda mainstream media seized on the event to scream “racism” because some of the students were wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, and their socialist collective outrage was focused on one particular student, Nick Sandmann, who stood there, smiling, as native American, Nathan Phillips, a 64-year-old man stood about six inches from the student…beating a drum, and chanting.

If all it takes for a catholic school, and their diocese to issue an apology and threaten to expel their students is an absurd claim by liberals…then it is the school and their diocese that should lose the support of their community.

Here’s what really happened…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 21, 2019 at 8:18am
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The “Green New Deal” Is a Fiscal Fantasy
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by Milton Ezrati  
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Trump offers immigration compromise to end 
partial shutdown; Dems cool to offer
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by Adam Shaw  
{foxnews.com} ~ President Trump, in a televised White House address Saturday, offered Democrats a compromise package on immigration... in an effort to end the nearly month long partial government shutdown -- although some prominent Democrats were dismissing the olive branch as a "non-starter" before Trump even spoke. Trump announced that he was prepared to back a three-year extension of protections for 700,000 immigrants who came to the country illegally as children and were shielded from deportation under the scumbag/liar-nObama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This, in exchange for the $5.7 billion he has requested for a barrier on the southern border with Mexico. "Walls are not immoral," he said, adding that a wall "will save many lives and stop drugs from pouring into our country." "This is not a concrete structure from sea to sea," he said, addressing some previously expressed concerns about the so-called "wall." "These are steel barriers in high-priority locations."...
dirty cop-Mueller's office pushes back on bombshell
allegations Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller's office is pushing back Friday against a report that claimed President Trump told his attorney Michael Cohen to lie... in congressional testimony about his business dealings with Russia. The new allegations, published by BuzzFeed on Thursday, relied on statements from unnamed federal law enforcement officials. “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” said Peter Carr, a spokesman for dirty cop-Mueller's office. The report detailed claims that in 2015 and 2016, Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump, and son Donald Trump Jr. had asked Cohen to handle a deal regarding a potential Trump Tower Moscow and give them regular updates on its progress. Trump allegedly later told Cohen to lie about the timing of the deal, which the report claimed the special counsel’s office learned about through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. dirty cop-Mueller is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Cohen, who pleaded guilty in August to eight counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud, admitted in his November plea deal that the negotiations for Trump Tower Moscow continued into the campaign.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/muellers-office-pushes-back-on-bombshell-allegations-trump-told-cohen-to-lie-to-congress?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_01/18/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News
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Pulosi’s Own House Maj. Leader Just Defied 
Her About the Wall on National TV
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by BEN MARQUIS
{westernjournal.com} ~ Throughout the still-ongoing partial government shutdown, Democratic Party leader and House Speaker Nancy Pulosi has adamantly refused to grant President Donald Trump’s request for border wall funding... Pulosi and others in her party have referred to the proposed border wall as being “immoral,” “racist” and wholly ineffective at stopping illicit cross-border traffic. However, while Pulosi may remain staunchly opposed to any sort of negotiations with Trump that would include the appropriation of taxpayer funds for border wall construction, there are signs that not everybody in her party may be quite as strong in their resistance against working with Trump on this issue. Reports had already begun to circulate in the past week that some members of the Democratic caucus were signaling an openness to granting Trump the requested funding in exchange for some unspecified liberal priority on immigration — such as a possible trade for legal status for enrollees of the scumbag/liar-nObama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — if only to bring an end to the lengthy shutdown, and now it appears that even a top House Democrat has undermined Pulosi’s obstinate refusal to negotiate by contradicting her messaging. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer appeared on Fox News‘ “Special Report” with anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday, and proceeded to suggest that border walls were, in fact, not immoral or racist, and were actually quite effective in some locations, even contradicting himself in one instance. Following some dialogue about the dust-up between Pulosi and Trump over the State of the Union address  scheduled for Jan. 29, as well as the stalled negotiations over the partial government shutdown, the conversation soon shifted to focus on the proposed border wall. After a few moments, Baier played a clip of Pulosi righteously intoning that a border wall was an “immorality,” but when pressed by Baier if he agreed with that characterization, Hoyer disagreed. Hoyer said, “Look, I don’t think this is an issue of morality, it’s an issue of does it work.” He then cited a few top Republicans who allegedly have said that walls don’t really work...  https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/pelosis-house-maj-leader-just-defied-wall-national-tv/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-CT&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=conservative-tribune
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Trump’s Not Kidding When He Promises 
‘Cutting-Edge’ Missile Defense  
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by Matthew Kroenig  
{thefederalist.com} ~ Thursday at the Pentagon, President Trump released his administration’s long-awaited Missile Defense Review (MDR)... In his announcement, Trump promised “nothing less for our nation than the most effective, cutting-edge missile defense systems.” Indeed, the steps called for in this review will go a long way to toward employing new technologies to address next-generation threats and strengthening U.S. and allied security. The missile threats to the United States and its allies have significantly increased in recent years. North Korea may now be able to reach the continental United States with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Despite the curbs on Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran’s missile program continues to advance, making it the most sophisticated in the Middle East. Importantly, America’s great power competitors, Russia and China, may have an edge over the United States in developing next-generation hypersonic missiles—missiles that travel at more than five times the speed of sound and are maneuverable, allowing them to defeat legacy missile defense systems. Against this worsening security backdrop, missile defenses contribute to U.S. and allied security in three important ways. First, they can be used for defense in the event of conflict. We have seen U.S. Patriot missile defenses in action in the conflict in Yemen as Saudi Arabia has shot down dozens of Iranian-supplied Houthi missiles headed for Riyadh. Second, missile defenses contribute to deterrence, dissuading an adversary from launching an attack in the first place...
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Special Counsel dirty cop-Mueller’s Office DEMOLISHES
BuzzFeed Claim that Trump Told Associate to Lie
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by WARNER TODD HUSTON 
{godfatherpolitics.com} ~ On Thursday funny cat pic site BuzzFeed published another one of its loosely sourced stories that the media unsurprisingly grabbed with gusto... This story claimed that President Trump had instructed his associate to lie to investigators. BuzzFeed reported that Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, told prosecutors working for Special Counsel dirty cop-Mueller that Trump had told him to lie to Congress about his efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the 2016 campaign. Then, all day Friday the usual suspects on TV and in the media went on the attack against Trump saying that the BuzzFeed report was the “proof” that Democrats needed to impeach President Trump. Trump LIED to investigators, they claimed. But late on Friday, dirty cop-Mueller’s office put out a statement that totally destroyed BuzzFeed’s report...  https://godfatherpolitics.com/special-counsel-muellers-office-demolishes-buzzfeed-lie-that-trump-told-associate-to-lie/
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Pulosi “Too Busy” to Meet 
With Victims of Illegal Alien Violence

{restoreamericanglory.com} ~ The cold-hearted Speaker of the House was “too busy” to meet with a group of Angel Moms who camped out inside her Capitol Hill office on Tuesday... Though some of the Angel Moms – women who have lost children to the violence and crime of illegal aliens – traveled quite far to ask Nancy Pulosi to support building a wall across the U.S. border, the newly-minted Speaker had her staffers tell them that she didn’t have the time to do so. We can only imagine how busy she must be meeting with scumbag-Adam Schiff to discuss which phony investigation to throw at the Trump administration first. “At @SpeakerPulosi office asking for a meeting for Angel Families,” tweeted Julianne Thompson. “She was too busy to meet with them.” “It’s a slap, it’s a stab, it’s a kick in the gut, in the groin,” said Sabine Durden of Pulosi’s refusal to meet. “It’s not a matter of if you’re going to be affected by illegal alien crime, it’s when you are going to be affected,” insisted fellow Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza. In a Periscope video, Women for Trump organizer Amy Kremer said that Pulosi’s people went as far as to lie to the victims of violent crime, telling them that the Speaker was not in her office at the time... What is wrong with her.  http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/breaking-news/pelosi-too-busy-to-meet-with-victims-of-illegal-alien-violence/
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The “Green New Deal” Is a Fiscal Fantasy
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by Milton Ezrati

{city-journal.org} ~ Congresswoman commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—AOC, as she’s often now called—claims that her so-called Green New Deal will help end global warming and cure several societal ills. The effort, she concedes, will be expensive, but the dangers we face from climate change and other social problems warrant national mobilization, on the level of the Second World War. Paying for the plan, she suggested, might involve a dramatic hike in the top marginal income-tax rate—up to 70 percent. That figure shocked some, but not Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who considers it “reasonable.” Details remain vague, but some context on the AOC plan, and on the sleight of hand that Krugman uses to support it, is revealing.

So far, the only concrete step commie-Ocasio-Cortez describes to enact the Green New Deal is the formation of a House select committee to formulate specific goals. On the environmental side, these would include, among other things, expanding renewable-energy sources until they provide 100 percent of the nation’s power; building an energy-efficient “smart grid;” upgrading every residence and industrial building in the U.S. for energy efficiency, comfort, and safety; eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions for industry and agriculture; funding “massive” investments to draw down greenhouse-gas levels; and making the United States a leader in the use and export of green technology.

To these ambitious goals, commie-Ocasio-Cortez adds a long list of social objectives: providing training and education for the energy transition, including “job guarantees at a living wage for everyone who wants one”; diversifying the economies of regions dependent on fossil-fuel extraction; helping communities most affected by pollution; protecting the “sovereign rights of tribal nations”; mitigating racial, regional, and gender-based inequalities; developing universal health-care and income-support programs; and ensuring that organized labor has a major role in all these efforts.

Achieving even a small portion of this to-do list would have enormous costs. At last count, there were some 136 million housing units in the United States. Upgrading each unit to high standards of energy efficiency would cost, conservatively, at least $10,000 per home, adding up to a total cost of $1.3 trillion. Doing the same for industrial structures would easily exceed that amount. The single-payer health-care part would cost another $3 trillion or more, annually. Stabilizing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would add another $1 trillion to $2 trillion to the price tag—and all these still only account for three items on AOC’s list.

To be fair to commie-Ocasio-Cortez, she does not downplay the costs. She did, after all, draw a parallel to World War II. She has also acknowledged that a 70 percent marginal tax rate would increase annual federal receipts by only about $225 billion—far short of what would be needed. For the rest of the cost, she would rely on debt, “printing money,” and government willingness to take an equity stake in some of the enterprises involved.

AOC’s proposals to expand government ownership and take on more debt didn’t cause much of a media stir. What did get attention was her suggestion to raise taxes on the wealthy—in part because Krugman has taken up the fight on her behalf. Krugman argues that higher taxes hurt the rich less than they hurt the non-rich, that scholarship has shown that a high marginal rate is “optimal,” and that the U.S. economy has prospered in the past with a 70 percent top rate—and, in fact, in the 1950s and early 1960s, it thrived under an even higher (92 percent) maximum rate. Krugman’s point about relative levels of pain is irrefutable but also beside the point. Of course, the rich can cope better with a higher marginal tax rate—that’s why the United States has a progressive system. The more important issue is what such a high rate would do to work incentives and business expansion and innovation. Krugman denies that higher rates would have a negative impact, but several studies either differ with him or find the answer at least ambiguous.

On the question of an “optimal” tax rate, Krugman quotes two academic studies, one by Nobel laureate Peter Diamond with Emmanuel Saez and another by David Romer and his wife Christina, former head of President scumbag/liar-nObama’s Council of Economic Advisors. The first study puts the optimal tax rate at 73 percent; the Romers say 84 percent. What Krugman fails to mention is that neither figure takes account of state and local taxes. When Diamond and Saez include these taxes in their calculations, they adjust the optimal federal rate down to 48 percent—much closer to the present maximum rate of 37 percent. The Romers don’t offer that adjustment, and their work has other problems. It concentrates on the U.S. interwar period, when a statistically insignificant number of American taxpayers were in the highest tax bracket. The authors admit that this matter may introduce biases into their conclusions, as would the number of other shocks befalling the economy at the time, such as the Great Depression. Krugman fails to mention these points as well.

Krugman and AOC play fast and loose when it comes to the country’s prosperity under high tax rates. It’s true that the United States prospered with a top rate of 70 percent and higher in the mid-twentieth century. But the tax code then included loopholes that drastically reduced the amount of income subject to those rates. All the tax cuts since then have closed those loopholes. One can forgive commie-Ocasio-Cortez for missing the difference, as she has consistently shown economic and historical ignorance, but Krugman should know better.

In the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, for instance, when the 70 percent maximum rate prevailed, taxpayers could write off all state and local taxes, with no limit—including sales taxes, licensing fees, property taxes, and income taxes. They could also write off all interest expenses without limit—on their mortgages (no matter how many), all credit-card debt, auto loans, or home-improvement loans. Imagine the benefits to a plutocrat, buying a third home or a fifth Bentley. His tax would be calculated on net income, reduced by any fees, sales, or transfer tax, as well as all the interest expenses on the mortgages or auto loans over the years. The code included dividend exclusions and generous provisions for capital-gains preferences. Taxpayers back then could shelter unlimited amounts in IRAs. Social Security payouts were tax-free, no matter how high a person’s income. Individuals could write down their taxable income through averaging provisions and transfer as much income as they liked to their children, who paid at lower rates. There was no limit to rental-loss deduction. Business losses counted against all income.

Given these breaks and loopholes, it’s no surprise that few people actually paid those high rates on much of their income. The nonprofit Tax Foundation estimates that in the 1950s, for instance, when the top statutory rate was 92 percent, the top 1 percent of taxpayers wrote off so much income that their effective average federal tax rate was about 17 percent. If our highest earners today were offered the 2019 code or the old one, they might well go for the old rules, even at a 92 percent top rate.

Defending the proposed high marginal tax rate, Krugman displays a graph showing the top tax rate mapped against economic growth—growth being strongest when the top rate was highest. But perhaps that period of high growth was driven by the low effective tax rate on the wealthy during those years of ostensibly high statutory rates. This explanation is as plausible as any other, though Krugman does not discuss how much tax the wealthy actually paid in the 1950s. Nor does he concede that economic growth rates over the last 70 years may have been affected by anything besides the movement in the top statutory tax rate.

Perhaps all the stir over AOC and Krugman matters little. The Green New Deal has no evident support from House Speaker Nancy Pulosi, or even many Democrats. Media coverage, however, has made commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—and her innumerate economics—part of our national conversation.
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'Angel Families' Protest Outside Pelosi's Office, Demand Border Security

Posted by Oscar Y. Harward on January 20, 2019 at 2:30pm

Which Political Party on Capitol Hill is responsible for our US Code when Illegal Immigrants create crime, even rape or murder, don’t go to jail; they are deported? – Oscar Y. Harward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNr0em3Ktpk

The media never cares when Americans are killed by illegal immigrants

The criminal alien DUI problem is also completely covered up by the media. Every year, ICE apprehends illegals responsible for roughly 80,000 DUIs, 76,000 other traffic offenses, 76,000 drug offenses, and 50,000 assaults. Yet the majority of illegals live in sanctuary jurisdictions that won’t turn over those with such “low-level” charges. Thus, one could imagine that the severity of the illegal crime wave is much worse than the ICE apprehensions suggest. Sure, even sanctuaries will turn over illegals once they’ve committed murder, but the murderers usually come from the pool of those who committed these other offenses for which the sanctuaries will not honor ICE detainers. - Conservative Review

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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 19, 2019 at 5:12pm
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Referenda Delenda Est
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by GEORGE WILL  
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Trump Puts Schumer and Pulosi 
in a Brilliant Vise Grip
by Jim Davis

{americanthinker.com} ~ The federal government shutdown has presented a unique opportunity for President Donald Trump to clear out the deadwood in the federal bureaucracy... saving U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars in salaries, perks, and rented office space for people who aren't doing anything productive. At the same time, Trump can get rid of dozens, possibly even hundreds of Deep State operatives in the government, handpicked by Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton for their loyalty to the Democratic Party, not their country or the law. These people leak like a screen door in a submarine, mainly to CNN and MSNBC, the twin headquarters of Trump-hatred on cable TV.  Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were choreographing their leaks to the media via text messages. Even though Strzok was fired and Page resigned, it's clear there are many others. They actively resist Trump and the Republicans at every opportunity. This is the core of the Resistance. A high-ranking Trump administration official wrote four days ago in the Daily Caller that the shutdown enables Trump to get rid of people like this. As members of the Senior Executive Service, many of them can't be fired unless they're convicted of a felony, or of committing some flagrant misconduct. This is indeed Trump's chance to "smoke out the Resistance," but he must do it carefully.  Thomas Lifson has published two columns in the American Thinker,  here  https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/omb_issues_guidance_on_reduction_in_force_layoffs_due_to_partial_shutdown.html  and here  https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/trumps_shutdown_trap.html , explaining that SES employees cannot be furloughed (laid off) under normal circumstances, but they can be removed during a Reduction in Force (RIF) when their positions are found to be unnecessary...
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Why Joe Biden (or any moderate) 
cannot be nominated
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{thehill.com} ~ Party demographics argue strongly against establishment Democrats’ hopes for a moderate 2020 nominee. The key to American presidential politics is winning the center; however... the key to winning today’s Democratic nomination is winning the left. Thus to aim at America’s center, establishment Democrats would have to avoid a majority of their own party by beating their left. Joe Bidenis Democrats’ flavor of the moment. He has an extensive history of party and national service, including as vice president. This means that in an unknown field likely to be populated by comparative unknowns, he stands out and is frequently listed as Democrats’ top 2020 presidential pick.Establishment Democrats would love nothing more than for this to happen and Biden to fill scumbag/liar-Clinton’s 2016 role of representing them. The problem is, it will not. Biden is stronger in theory than in primary, because Democrats’ establishment is as well: Liberals are the party’s majority. According to the latest Gallup poll, liberals now make up 51 percent of Democrats. Since 1994, when liberals and conservatives each comprised 25 percent of Democrats, liberals have doubled and conservatives fallen by half to just 13 percent...
Saved in America: how Mexican-based drug trafficking has
led to a horrifying human sex trade in US
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by Sharyl Attkisson
{sharylattkisson.com} ~ An eye-opening look at the startling scope of Human Trafficking right here in the US. It’s on the rise. Young girls are groomed and lured by drug cartel-connected thugs then sold as a product to be owned... Experts say it’s happening in every state— even in quiet towns where you wouldn’t expect it. That’s where an eclectic group of former police and Navy SEALS comes in. We’re in southern California with a team of operators searching for a missing teenager named Cecelia. Sean Murphy: So, we’ve got some intelligence that, two houses that she’s been floating back and forth from through the social media. So, we’re just going to go out and a set up on the house and hopefully we’ll get an eyeball on her at the house. Sharyl: Sean Murphy is a retired police lieutenant who’s on the case. Sharyl: Is there fear that she could be falling into a trafficking situation? Murphy: There’s always that fear. There’s some red flags with this one. One of the contacts is a 30-year-old male. Yeah—enough said about that. And she’s what, 14? Sharyl: Other Saved in America crew members are planted outside a group home for troubled girls. Ever since they discovered traffickers and gang members stalking the home for victims, they set up camp...
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Palestinians' Anti-Semitic Stereotyping of Jews
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Palestinians are continuing to use the Temple Mount, in Arabic known as the Haram al-Sharif, in Jerusalem, as a platform for incitement against Israel in general and Jews in particular... This incitement, which began after Jewish tourists were permitted to resume their visits to the holy site in 2014, has since taken various forms. The Jewish visits to the holy site had been suspended for several years during the Second Intifada uprising, which erupted in September 2000. Since 2014, the Palestinian Authority leadership, including President Mahmoud Abbas, have been waging an unprecedented wave of incitement against Israel and Jews to protest visits to the Temple Mount. In 2015, Abbas announced that the Palestinians "won't allow Jews with their filthy feet to defile our Al-Aqsa Mosque." He went on to praise Palestinians who were ready to sacrifice their lives in order to stop Jews from visiting the holy site: "We bless every drop of blood that has been spilled for Allah and Jerusalem. Every martyr Shahid will reach Paradise, and everyone wounded will be rewarded by Allah."...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13572/palestinians-anti-semitic-stereotyping-of-jews
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Referenda Delenda Est
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by GEORGE WILL

{nationalreview.com} ~ During the Second World War, as U.S. power was eclipsing Britain’s, Harold Macmillan, a future prime minister, reportedly said, “These Americans represent the new Roman Empire and we Britons, like the Greeks of old, must teach them how to make it go.” Today, Britain’s Brexit agonies — its two-and-a-half-year struggle to disentangle itself from the European Union — indicate that America’s Founders could teach 21st-century Britain something: Direct democracy is dangerous because public sentiments need to be refined by filtration through deliberative institutions.  

A June 2016 referendum endorsed (52 percent to 48 percent) exiting the EU. Implementing this has, however, become messier than anyone, especially voters, anticipated. In a House of Commons debate on Brexit, a Conservative member said that democracy is like sex — if it isn’t messy, you’re not doing it right. However, messiness is not proof of correctness.

European unification was conceived in fear — Europeans’ fear of themselves, a residue of wars produced by various atavisms, including unhinged nationalism. For decades Britain’s Tories have been bitterly divided about the project of “harmonizing” political practices and economic policies, with a probable consequence of homogenized national cultures. The embryo of the EU was a free-trade zone — a single market. But as the unification project became more ambitious, it required the derogation of national parliaments and hence of nations’ sovereignties. So, in 1988 Margaret Thatcher voiced what became Conservative Euroskeptics’ cri de coeur: “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.”

Hoping to cauterize the Conservative party’s long-festering wound, in 2016 then–prime minister David Cameron succumbed to the plebiscitary temptation, scheduling the referendum that he thought Remain would win. It lost, he resigned, and Theresa May, who had voted Remain, became prime minister. She called an election expecting to increase her parliamentary majority and thus her leverage for negotiating terms of divorce from the EU. Instead, she lost her majority and was forced into an alliance with a Northern Ireland party.

It is dismaying that most of the binding law in Britain comes from the European Commission in Brussels. But why, with its primacy at stake, did Parliament punt one of the most momentous decisions in British history to a referendum? The bedrock principle of representative government is that “the people” do not decide issues, they decide who shall decide. And once a legislature sloughs off responsibility and resorts to a referendum on the dubious premise that the simple way to find out what people want is to ask them, it is difficult to avoid recurring episodes of plebiscitary democracy.

Last October, 700,000 marched in London demanding a second referendum, which would indeed be based on better information: Few who voted Leave 30 months ago had any inkling of the complexity of unwinding decades of ever-thickening legal relationships. May contends that another referendum would “break faith with the British people.” This, however, postulates a false clarity about what the Leave-voting majority willed. May favors “delivering the Brexit people voted for,” but even the political leaders who favored Brexit voted simply for leaving, the details — wherein the devil always is — be damned.

A second referendum would have to offer a binary choice, lest there be an unhelpful plurality outcome. But should the choice be “Hard Brexit” no agreement about future relations with the 27 EU members versus May’s agreement? Her agreement versus remaining in the EU? Hard Brexit versus remain?

Although the deal May negotiated addresses immigration anxieties by ending the free movement of people between Britain and the EU, and limits payments to the EU and subjection to the European Court of Justice, Britain would remain indefinitely subject to many EU regulations and some assessments, but without the ability to shape them. On Tuesday, Parliament probably will resoundingly reject the deal. The 73 days until the March 29 deadline for leaving the EU will be eventful.

In 2016, a majority of voters over age 43 favored leaving, a majority of those younger favored remaining. Since then, mortality has taken many Leavers, and many young people have joined the electorate. So, demography, combined with a new understanding of Brexit’s certain costs and myriad uncertainties, could cause 2016’s big bang that began Brexit to end with a 2019 whimper of a referendum saying, “Oh, never mind.”  
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Sat Med/PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 19, 2019 at 3:11pm
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Trump Trumps Pulosi's SOTU Power Play
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by Thomas Gallatin  
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Trump expected to offer immigration 
compromise to end shutdown
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump is expected to offer Democrats a compromise on immigration Saturday aimed at ending the shutdown... According to Axios, Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner and Vice President Mike Pence have negotiated a deal with members that would offer Democrats protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and extend the legal status of Temporary Protected Status holders in exchange for the $5.7 billion for the wall. The legislation that would offer deferred action, known as the BRIDGE Act, would protect people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as minors, often known as "Dreamers," protection from deportation and give them work authorization, but not a path to citizenship. The Trump administration has previously sought to limit the TPS program, which allows people from designated countries affected by conflict or natural disasters to stay in the U.S. Trump is expected to make the announcement in remarks set for later this afternoon. He had offered few details of the upcoming announcement on the partial government shutdown as he spoke with reporters earlier Saturday, even as he insisted a wall at the southern border was a priority to stop caravans of migrants making their way north through Mexico. "I think it will be an important statement. Having to do with the, as you know, caravans are coming up. They have a big one coming up now. I'm disappointed Mexico is not stopping them. Mexico seems unfortunately powerless to stop them," he said...
Rare Statement: Special Counsel 
Says Buzzfeed Report is “Not Accurate”
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ All day the left-wing media have been breathlessly reporting on a Buzzfeed claim citing reports from Michael Cohen... In a story published Thursday, BuzzFeed cited two unnamed federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation on the matter who said Cohen acknowledged to dirty cop-Mueller’s office that he was instructed by Trump in 2017 to lie to Congress about the now-abandoned real estate deal to build a Trump Tower in Russia. Except there’s a problem…. well, it never happened. The claim was so ridiculous the Special Counsel spokesperson Peter Carr just made a statement: #FakeNews.Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s office on Friday issued a rare statement disputing a bombshell news report claiming President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie about the timing of discussions over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow. “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for dirty cop-Mueller’s office, said Friday...
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HR 204: The One Bill That 
Needs To Become Law In 2019
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{freedomoutpost.com} ~ If you are with me, then you know that the US needs to get out of the wasteful, anti-American, anti-Christians United Nations... Once again, a bill has been reintroduced to Congress to do just that:  Get us out of the UN. HR 204, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2019, was reintroduced by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), the current ranking member on the House Committee on Homeland Security, this month and was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, but don't expect it to just pass with ease, especially with anti-American Islamist Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on the committee. The legislation would repeal the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, United States Environment Program Participation Act of 1973 and the United Nations Headquarters Agreement Act. Additionally, the bill seeks to eliminate both assessed and voluntary contributions to the UN by the US, terminate all funding of peacekeeping operations and eliminate the UN from US property, as well as revoke any status of diplomatic immunity for any officer or employee of the UN, "including  any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations or any representative,  officer, or employee of any mission to the United Nations of any foreign government."  It would also repeal the following...  https://freedomoutpost.com/hr-204-the-one-bill-that-needs-to-become-law-in-2019/
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GOP Leaders Back New Franchise Rule
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by Bill McMorris
{freebeacon.com} ~ Republican Congressional leaders are throwing their weight behind a new federal labor regulation reversing a controversial scumbag/liar-nObama-era ruling... Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions, along with party leaders in the House and Senate, sent a letter to the National Labor Relations Board asking it to restore joint employer standards that protect franchise businesses. The NLRB, the top federal labor arbiter overseeing workplace disputes and union elections, is considering a formal rule that would shield parent companies from being held liable for labor violations committed by franchisees or subcontractors. That standard stood for decades until the scumbag/liar-nObama NLRB's 2015 Browning Ferris Industries (BFI) ruling. "The Board's BFI joint employer standard is the biggest attack on opportunities for American small businessmen and women to make their way into the middle class that anyone has seen in a longtime," Alexander said in the letter to Trump NLRB Chairman John Ring. "The Board's proposed standard will preserve the American Dream and economic benefits for millions by providing clear rules of the road." Congressional Republicans now see rule making as the quickest path to overturning the liability standards of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. Alexander sponsored a 2015 bill to restore the old franchise rules and the House passed similar legislation in a bipartisan vote in 2017, but neither has advanced through the Senate. Alexander and his committee colleagues said the agency had the right to determine how it would interpret the National Labor Relations Act...
Supreme Court to review 
‘mystery’ case tied to dirty cop-Mueller probe
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{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ dirty cop-Robert Mueller just got blindsided by the Supreme Court. In what can only be described as a shocking decision, the Supreme Court has decided to have a closed-door discussion... about the “mystery” case tied to his investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Last week, the Supreme Court declined to uphold a stay in this case that a company involved was fighting for. The company, which has remained unnamed, was facing a $50,000-per-day fine for not turning over documents to the dirty cop-Mueller team. That judgment was upheld by another federal judge, and the case was then referred to the Supreme Court. But when the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, another anonymous filing was made asking the court to review the file. While there were few details released about the court filing, it was assumed that the filing was related to this case. But since the initial case was declined by the Supreme Court, most believed the court would not even entertain reviewing the case. That assumption was dead wrong. However, if the court does hear the case and decide in favor of the defendant, it will be arguably the most significant blow to the Russian investigation dirty cop-Mueller has faced yet...
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Schumer-Linked Group Targets 
Senate Republicans Over Shutdown
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by Haris Alic
{freebeacon.com} ~ A group with ties to Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) announced on Friday it would launch a $600,000 media buy targeting Republicans over the government shutdown... seeming to confirm the notion that Democrats are "playing politics" with the impasse. Majority Forward, a 501(c)(4) "social welfare nonprofit" that isn't required to disclose its donors, will run 30-second ads on broadcast and cable television in an effort to pressure six Republican senators up for reelection in 2020 to cave and end the shutdown. The ads, which will air in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, and North Carolina, are designed to appeal to voters by incorporating specific effects of the shutdown unique to each state, as first reported by the Washington Post. "It's the longest government shutdown in history … and here in North Carolina, the shutdown's forced a slow down for hurricane recovery," says the narrator of the ad targeting North Carolina's Republican senator Thom Tillis. "Instead of being independent he sides with his party's leaders, who refuse to even allow a vote to reopen the government." "Tell Thom Tillis to put North Carolina over party and demand an end to the shutdown," the ad concludes with a number for the senator's Capitol Hill office...Voters don't fall for this, get the facts.  https://freebeacon.com/politics/schumer-linked-group-targets-senate-republicans-over-shutdown/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6697469739-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_18_09_13_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6697469739-45611665
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Iran and the Palestinians: Bonded Through Hate
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{freebeacon.com} ~ On Thursday, Hamas said that it had allocated new apartment homes funded by Iran in the Gaza Strip to Palestinian former prisoners who had been held in Israeli jails... Why are the Iranians paying for apartments in a little coastal enclave of two million people on the other side of the Middle East? For the same reason that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, recently said that the Islamic Republic cannot give up its "divine duty" to support Palestinians and that their "final victory … will be realized" in the "not-so-distant future": the Islamic Republic seeks Israel's destruction and views the Palestinians as an effective vehicle through which to achieve that goal. Moreover, Iran supports the Palestinians, especially Hamas, to expand its regional influence. It is no secret that opposing Israel is fundamental to the Islamic Republic's ideology, driving many decisions of Iranian foreign policy. Earlier this year, for example, Khamene called Israel a "cancerous tumor" that must be "removed and eradicated." Iran's support for the Palestinians goes far beyond rhetoric, however. Indeed, Iran transfers weapons and $70 million each year to Hamas and another $30 million to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another terrorist group. This support only scratches at the surface of the Iranian-Palestinian relationship. Both sides have worked together for decades, even before the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Tony Badran, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, details this important history in a new, must-read article for Tablet magazine. One of the more interesting details that may surprise some readers is that the Palestine Liberation Organization and its late former chairman, Yasser Arafat, played integral roles in the formation of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. But Arafat and the PLO's involvement did not stop there...  https://freebeacon.com/blog/iran-palestinians-bonded-through-hate/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6697469739-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_18_09_13_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6697469739-45611665
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Trump Trumps Pulosi's SOTU Power Play
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by Thomas Gallatin:  On Thursday, mere hours before House Speaker Nancy Pulosi was set to embark on a planned international trip, she received the following letter:

Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate. I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown. Obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.

I look forward to seeing you soon and even more forward to watching our open and dangerous Southern Border finally receive the attention, funding, and security it so desperately deserves!

The letter was signed, “Sincerely, Donald Trump.” Trump’s move was clearly a response to Pulosi’s political theatrics earlier this week when she threatened to postpone the annual State of the Union Address until after the partial government shutdown is ended due to bogus “concerns” over security.
               Sen. Ted Cruz was spot on regarding Pulosi’s motivation for postponing the SOTU: “It’s not a substantive disagreement; it’s that they’re terrified of their extreme left wing, who hates Trump. And that’s why we’re having a shutdown. So why does Nancy Pulosi not want the State of the Union? Because the State of the Union is an enormous platform for the president to speak directly to the American people, and she doesn’t want people focusing on the substance of this issue. She wants their information to come from the mainstream media rather than the president.”
               Mark Alexander speculates further: Pulosi may also be “concerned that new left-wing members of Congress will act poorly during Trump’s remarks.” Recall how foolishly the Democrats behaved during Trump’s SOTU speech last year.
               Pulosi and her fellow Democrats are in unfamiliar territory — they’re facing off against a Republican president who is willing to use Democrat hardball tactics. It’s as if they are fighting against their own shadow. It’s also important to note that Trump postponed a trip for members of his Cabinet to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, likewise citing the shutdown. Trump is sending a clear message: Everyone stays in Washington until this shutdown is resolved.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/60635?mailing_id=4022&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4022&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 19, 2019 at 12:51pm
TheFrontPageCover
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What is the Deep State?
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by Thomas Knapp  
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dirty cop-Mueller team disputes BuzzFeed
report claiming Trump told Cohen to lie
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by Alex Pappas, Brooke Singman and Jake Gibson  
{foxnews.com} ~ Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s office on Friday issued an extraordinary statement... disputing a bombshell news report that claimed President Trump directed Michael Cohento lie about the timing of discussions over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow. “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for dirty cop-Mueller’s office, said.The statement is remarkable in that dirty cop-Mueller's team rarely issues statements in response to news stories. But BuzzFeed's story sparked immense interest from Democrats, who called for renewed investigations and even suggested the allegations could be a basis for impeachment proceedings. Buzzfeed's Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith  tweeted after the release of the statement Friday: "In response to the statement tonight from the Special Counsel's spokesman: We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he's disputing."...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mueller-team-disputes-buzzfeed-report-claiming-trump-told-cohen-to-lie
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Liberals’ Real Problem Is That 
Christian Schools Exist at All
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{dailysignal.com} ~ It was supposed to be a day celebrating religious freedom in America. Instead, liberals decided to show everyone just how much our First Freedom is at risk... For Christians, who have tried to warn people that these past several years were about a lot more than marriage, the attacks on second lady Karen Pence certainly seem to prove their point. Three years after Obergefell v. Hodges, all of the lies about “love” and “tolerance” have been eclipsed by the court cases, articles, and editorial demonizing people of faith. What Americans see now is the truth: The left is coming for our freedom, and they have no intention of letting up. Like former Vice President Joe Biden’s wife, Karen Pence spent years in the classroom. When Vice President Mike Pence was in Congress, she taught art at Immanuel Christian School in Virginia, and no one batted an eye...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/18/liberals-real-problem-is-that-christian-schools-exist-at-all/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRFNFpUaG1ZV00xTmpZMSIsInQiOiJuRGNvak8wOXdXb21ubzd0YlphVndqK1JDQnhkK1BcL0NWZ0hwSXdRaFJLM1lxXC9rVzZIRk1lMzZ6NUZ1anA2K1wvTHh2bGNVVE1obVZhaDVFRFJnTVlGanorcHIybXJCZEVlNDVocFZwWU15XC9kYWdKRVYxYW9idDFlSEVveUJDYUgifQ%3D%3D  
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Congressman Introduces Bill 
to Get the U.S. Out of the UN
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ As outrage over the United Nations continues to grow,  legislation to restore American sovereignty by withdrawing from the scandal-plagued UN was introduced in the Congress this month... In addition to getting the U.S. government out of the UN and evicting the global outfit’s headquarters from U.S. soil, the bill would end American involvement in the full panoply of UN agreements and agencies. It would also prohibit putting of U.S. troops under UN command. The legislation has been introduced in Congress for decades. However, the current president’s publicly expressed hostility to globalism and his oft-stated support for U.S. sovereignty make the issue especially salient right now. In Congress and in the administration, as well as among everyday Americans, anti-UN sentiment is surging. Even some Democrats are fed up with the UN’s criticism of Israel. Advocates of the measure are urging Americans to contact their representatives, senators, and the White House in support. The American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2019 (H.R. 204) was introduced by Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) right as the new Congress was getting started. “One of my first priorities in this new Congress was to make sure this bill was reintroduced,” said Rogers, who serves as the ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security. “The United Nations is a disaster and our country bankrolls over 20 percent of its annual budget.” As in years past, Rogers outlined a range of concerns about the international organization. “The UN continues to attack our greatest ally Israel, and they continue to attack American ideals like the Second Amendment,” he explained, echoing frequent criticisms of the international organization widely referred to as the “dictators club” by critics. “President Trump has done his part to rein in the UN’s continual attacks on American sovereignty, but it’s time we did more.”...
Second meeting between Trump 
and Kim Jong Un set for February
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be held at the end of February, the White House said Friday after a meeting with one of Kim's top advisers... “President Donald J. Trump met with Kim Yong Chol for an hour and half, to discuss denuclearization and a second summit, which will take place near the end of February,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “The President looks forward to meeting with Chairman Kim at a place to be announced at a later date.” The president held a historic summit with Kim in Singapore in June. During the meeting, the two leaders discussed plans to move word toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.Trump said recently that sanctions against Pyongyang will continue but told reporters recently that things are going “very well” with North Korea. “There’s no rockets,” he told reporters this month, referring to North Korea's recent lack of missile tests. “There’s no anything. We’re doing very well.” National security adviser John Bolton, however, said in December that North Korea was not abiding by the commitments it made during the summit in Singapore...
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Trump Admin Considering 
Dramatic Change of Cuba Policy
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{westernjournal.com} ~ The Trump administration is weighing what could become the most serious tightening of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba in more than two decades... a move that could unleash a flurry of lawsuits against foreign companies that have invested on the island. A 1996 law known as the Helms-Burton Act gives  Americans the right to sue companies profiting from properties confiscated by Cuba’s government after its 1959 socialist revolution. That potentially could allow hundreds of lawsuits against corporations around the world, from Spanish companies that run Cuban hotels to Chinese and Turkish firms renovating Cuban ports. But every U.S. president since scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton has suspended the key clause, known as Title III, because of its potential to alienate U.S. allies and complicate any future American detente with Cuba.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday appeared to open the possibility that the U.S. government might allow that clause to take effect. He said the administration was suspending Title III again, but only for a month and a half instead of the six-month suspension that has been constantly renewed since 1996. Pompeo said the administration was conducting a careful review of Title III “in light of the national interests of the United States and efforts to expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba and include factors such as the Cuban regime’s brutal oppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms.” Both advocates of better U.S.-Cuba relations and opponents of the communist government said Thursday that they expected the Trump administration to allow at least some lawsuits against companies doing business in Cuba when the 45-day review ends. The lawsuits that follow could create a huge obstacle to foreign investment in Cuba — a major escalation of Trump’s relatively cautious approach so far to unwinding President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s historic detente with the island, which began in December 2014. In a tweet, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio described Pompeo’s statement as “is a strong indication of what comes next. If you are trafficking in stolen property in #Cuba, now would be a good time to get out.”...
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What is the Deep State?
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by Thomas Knapp

{fee.org} ~ Buzzwords come and buzzwords go. Lately, a trending buzzword – or, I guess, buzz phrase – among the politically inclined is “Deep State.” Google News returns 127,000 recent media uses of the phrase.  

Every time US president Donald Trump finds himself under attack or just stymied in one of his policy initiatives, his supporters blame the Deep State. The Deep State is behind the “Russiagate” probes. The Deep State doesn’t like his Muslim travel ban or his scumbag/liar-nObamaCare replacement bill. The Deep State keeps forcing him to break his campaign promises of a less misadventurous US foreign policy.

I’m expecting reports, any day now, that the Deep State stole his limo keys and left the toilet seats up in the residence area of the White House.

So what, precisely, is the Deep State?  There’s actually both more and less to it than you might think.

Defining the Deep State

In a recent Bloomberg column, former scumbag/liar-nObama administration regulatory czar Cass Sunstein defines the Deep State as merely “the talented professionals who serve both Democratic and Republican administrations, and who are civil servants rather than political appointees.” While not incorrect as such, that definition is superficial and not especially informative.

Others identify the Deep State as residing completely or nearly completely in the US “intelligence community” specifically and the Military-Industrial Complex in general, or in Washington’s sprawling regulatory apparatus.

It’s in the intel/military definition that the idea tends to take on a more active, sinister connotations: Spies and generals conspiring to put over a coup of some sort, if necessary maybe even giving inconvenient political figures the JFK treatment. Without discounting that possibility, let me propose that while individuals acting in knowing concert might be a minor feature of the Deep State, they aren’t its essence.

In high school civics class theory, elections are meaningful and political government is a highly developed, well-oiled, deliberative decision-making machine in which ideas matter and the best ones win out, to the benefit of all.

In fact, it is in the nature of political government to put its own needs first, and its corps of unelected workers greatly outnumbering the politicians who have to explain themselves to voters closely identify its needs with their needs and vice versa.

Resistance to Change in Motion

The aggregate actions of long-term state functionaries will always tend to maximize the state’s growth and their own discretionary power. Not because they are venal or corrupt although some certainly are, nor because they necessarily subscribe to some particular ideology although some certainly do, but because like their actions, they themselves are an aggregate whose parts will overwhelmingly respond to the same incentives in the same ways.

You’ll never walk into a hotel and see a sign in the lobby announcing “Welcome Deep State, Conference Room 3A.” The Deep State isn’t a conscious conspiracy, even if there are conscious conspirators within it. The Deep State is a large mass with no guiding intellect. Its inertia tends to hold it in one place and/or to carry most of its members in the same direction.
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Sat Med/AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 19, 2019 at 10:55am
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90% of Guns Used in Crime Obtained Illegally
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by Political Editors  
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Trump says he’ll make ‘major announcement’
Saturday about partial shutdown, border ‘crisis’
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by Elizabeth Zwirz  
{foxnews.com} ~ President Trump on Friday tweeted that he’ll make “a major announcement” Saturday afternoon concerning the ongoing partial government shutdown... and the “humanitarian crisis” on the southern border. The announcement will occur at 3 p.m. at the White House, the president said. Funding for a barrier at the nation's southern border has been a point of contention between Republicans and Democrats during negotiations to end the partial shutdown, which began on Dec. 22. Trump has demanded almost $6 billion in funding for a wall or barrier, but Democrats have balked at that request. The shutdown affects about one-quarter of the government, including nine Cabinet-level departments. It has also culminated in some 800,000 federal employees off the job or working without pay...
DACA Recipient Goes All-In for Trump’s 
Border Wall: ‘Safety Should Be Number 1 Priority’
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by BENJAMIN ARIE
{westernjournal.com} ~ The media and the left — who can tell the difference? — often push a narrative that all Hispanics are united against President Trump... but a DACA recipient just set the record straight. Hilario Yanez was able to stay in the United States by taking part in the  Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals  program, which was created in 2012 by then-President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. You’d think that might make Yanez a “poster child” for opposing President Donald Trump … but he has a very different message. “I came here when I was a year old. And my mom brought me here through no fault of my own. I couldn’t make my own decision. I grew up undocumented. I grew up homeless,” Yanez said Tuesday during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”Yet Yanez isn’t pinning his future on liberalism. “It was my conservative values that made me who I am today, and as a result, I’m a first generation college graduate and I have an incredible job as well,” he explained.Then he dropped a bombshell: Counter to the frequent narrative, a surprising number of DACA participants stand with Donald Trump on the border security issue...  https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/daca-recipient-goes-trumps-border-wall-safety-number-1-priority/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativebyte&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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The Blue, the Black and UC Davis
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Convicted criminal Kevin Limbaugh, 48, known for violence toward co-workers, thought the Davis, California, police department was attacking him with “ultrasonic waves.”... On Thursday January 10, the unhinged criminal gunned down Davis police officer Natalie Corona, 22, a rising star in the Davis police department. The community hailed Corona as a hero who had dedicated herself to law enforcement and paid the ultimate price. The Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission (ECAC) at UC Davis didn’t see it that way. A photo of Corona, clad in an elegant blue dress and holding the “thin blue line” flag, went viral on social media. The Commission’s Facebook post, now deleted, said, “this flag represents an attempt by law enforcement to undermine the Black Lives Matter movement.” And Blue Lives Matter was “an effort to evade accountability and critical awareness of police treatment of communities of color.” The Commission’s post drew criticism from UC Davis student body president Michael Gofman, the economics and political science major who last year drew attention to anti-Semitic fliers on campus. Students for Justice in Palestine opposed a campus seminar on anti-Semitism to be held by the Anti-Defamation League. Last year, Gofman also opposed a mandate to remove the American flag from meetings of the school senate. After the flag flap over Natalie Corona, Gofman said in a post, “I am ashamed that some of these same people, protected by the very officers that they are condemning, have the audacity to politicize the loss of a young officer. Her only crime was being a police officer.” Gofman urged the Ethnic and Cultural Affairs to take down their “disgusting post,” and issue an apology...
DOJ official Bruce Ohr shared intel from dossier author in
2016 with prosecutors now on dirty cop-Mueller team
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by Catherine Herridge and Cyd Upson  
{foxnews.com} ~ Details about Justice Department official Bruce Ohr's meetings with the author of the salacious anti-Trump dossier were shared by Ohr with his expansive circle of contacts inside the department... including senior FBI leadership and officials now assigned to Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s investigation, Fox News has learned. Ohr gave a closed-door transcribed interview last August sharing details of his 2016 meetings with British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who authored the dossier later used to secure a surveillance warrant for a Trump campaign aide. The interview was part of the Republican-led House Oversight and Judiciary Committee probes. In a series of questions about his meetings with Steele, including one on July 30, 2016, and who he shared the information with, Fox News has confirmed the Ohr transcript stated: “Andy McCabe,  yes and met with him and Lisa Page and provided information to him. I subsequently met with Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, and eventually an FBI agent. And I also provided this information to people in the criminal division specifically Bruce Swartz, Zainab Ahmad, Andrew Weissmann.” “Andy” is Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director and acting director who left the bureau after the DOJ Inspector General concluded he lied about his role in a media leak about the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. His case is now with the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C.  Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page, whose anti-Trump texts emerged after the election, left the bureau last year...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bruce-ohr-shared-details-about-meetings-with-anti-trump-dossier-author-with-justice-department-colleagues
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Democrats Defeat Pro-Life Senate Bill to 
Permanently Ban Taxpayer Funding of Abortions
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{lifenews.com} ~ The Senate voted Thursday afternoon on a pro-life bill that would permanently ban taxpayer funding of abortions... However, pro-abortion Senate Democrats successfully filibustered the bill and prevented Senate Republicans from moving ahead to a final vote on the legislation. U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and James Lankford, R-Okla., introduced the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2019,” S. 109. The measure would establish a permanent, government-wide prohibition of taxpayer funding for abortion. Similar policies, such as the Hyde Amendment, currently require annual passage and do not apply to scumbag/liar-nObamacare. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell filed cloture on the bill and the Senate voted against ending debate. Senate Democrats, who almost all support abortion, prevented the bill from garnering the 60 votes it needed to move forward. This was be the first time the bill has received consideration in the U.S. Senate. Democrat Sens. Bob Casey and Joe Manchin voted for the funding ban, while pro-abortion Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against the measure, which was defeated 48-47...
Denver ‘Womxn’s March’ Scrubs Website of 
Secret Service Agent’s ‘Leadership’ Role
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by Susan Crabtree
{freebeacon.com} ~ While the Democratic National Committee and other liberal organizations are dropping their affiliation with the Women's March on Washington over allegations of antisemitism... a separate women's march in Denver is distancing itself from one of its controversial leaders. The Denver "Womxn's March," set to take place Saturday, has scrubbed its website of any mention of Kerry O'Grady, the senior Secret Service agent who decried taking "a bullet" for President Trump on Facebook the month before he was elected president. Just last week, O'Grady was prominently featured on the Denver "Womxn's March" website with a large photo and a bio under a section titled "2019 Executive Leadership team." The website noted that it was O'Grady's second year of involvement with the march and her first on the executive leadership team. It also noted that she "supported logistics and the leadership team directly in 2018." Separately, the website says march organizers included an "x" in the word "woman," "because we believe in equity and we act with purpose to make space for trans, non-binary, and genderqueer persons in our name." Following the publication of a Washington Free Beacon story raising legal questions about O'Grady's participation in the march's organization and evidence that she is still active on the Secret Service payroll, the march erased her from the site...  https://freebeacon.com/issues/denver-womxns-march-scrubs-website-of-secret-service-agents-leadership-role/
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90% of Guns Used in Crime Obtained Illegally
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by Political Editors:  The Justice Department recently released a report that once again confirms a long-running statistic regarding firearms and crime. The DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports that in 2016, some 287,400 individuals were imprisoned for committing crimes while in possession of a firearm and 90% of those firearms were obtained illegally. The report further notes, “More than half (56%) had either stolen it (6%), found it at the scene of the crime (7%), or obtained it off the street or from the underground market (43%). Most of the remainder (25%) had obtained it from a family member or friend, or as a gift.”

             Significantly, Guns.com notes, “When it came to retail sources such as gun shows, flea markets, firearm stores, and pawn shops, only about 10 percent said they were able to obtain their weapons from such outlets through purchases or trades. Of those, the majority reported that a background check was conducted as part of the sale, although in many cases they did not purchase it under their own name.” And in fact “only about 1 percent of prisoners who used a firearm during their crime had obtained it through a retail sale.”
               These latest statistics prove once again that the problem of preventing criminals from obtaining firearms is not solved via the creation of more laws that limit the ability of law-abiding Americans to purchase a firearm.
               The statistics also reveal the foolish aim by leftist politicians such as Sen. Dianne Fein-stein to go after “assault weapons,” which are most often defined on the bases of their aesthetically dangerous look and “mean-looking” attachments rather than on any evidence suggesting their use in criminal activity. In fact, as CNS News reports, “Handguns were, by far, the most commonly carried type of firearm among criminals. Of all prisoners, 20.8 percent possessed a firearm during their offense. Most of these firearms were handguns. In fact, 18.4 percent of all prisoners interviewed possessed a handgun during their offense, while only 1.5 percent possessed a rifle and only 1.6 percent possessed a shotgun.”
               Once again, the gun-grabber politicians foment a false narrative to demand the implementation of their “commonsense” gun-control measures. How will these new laws stop criminals from illegally obtaining guns? The fact is legally purchased firearms — no matter their make, model, magazine size, action, or “mean” appearance — are not the problem.  ~The Patriot Post

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 19, 2019 at 8:13am
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Furloughed Fed Employees 
Are Now on Paid Vacation
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by Thomas Gallatin  
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Has Spying Compromised the 
Separation of Powers and Liberty?
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{theepochtimes.com} ~ Founding Father James Madison informs us in “Federalist 51” that the separation of powers “to a certain extent is admitted on all hands to be essential to the preservation of liberty.”... The checks and balances intended by having three branches of government, and the federalism dichotomy between a national government and the states, were brilliant developments in protecting liberty by compartmentalizing governing powers.  Most Americans can easily identify the three branches of government. Three principals, however, actually wield power under the Constitution: the federal government, states, and We the People. Only the first two of those principals are directly regulated by the Constitution, which the fourth chief justice of our Supreme Court, John Marshall, described in a separation-of-powers case as our “fundamental and paramount law.”The Constitution, to say it another way, is the law that governs government itself. The extra safeguard of a Bill of Rights was added to this paramount law that governs government at the insistence of some of the Founders—in case the structural protections of liberty weren’t enough. Those safeguards, as with all laws, need some form of remedies or consequences for violations in order to give those laws teeth. So, what happens to this paramount legal structure when one adds in the phenomenon known as the “administrative state,” that collection of alphabet soup-named agencies that wield extraordinary amounts of power, or the more sinister-sounding “deep state,” some of whose members even deny its very existence? Also, what are the larger consequences to liberty when agents within the administrative or deep states are able to operate relatively free from consequences for unconstitutional overreach, lawlessness, and outright lawbreaking?...  https://www.theepochtimes.com/has-spying-compromised-the-separation-of-powers-and-liberty_2762718.html
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Top scumbag/liar-nObama White House lawyer 
made false statements To DOJ about 
Manafort-related work  
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ The former general counsel for President scumbag/liar-nObama made “false and misleading statements” to the Justice Department... regarding work he did for the Ukrainian government that has come under scrutiny in the special counsel’s probe. Greg Craig’s allegedly false statements were revealed in a settlement announced Thursday by the Justice Department. The agency announced it was settling with Craig’s former firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which worked with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on behalf of Ukraine beginning in 2012. Skadden Arps agreed to register retroactively with the Justice Department as a foreign agent of Ukraine and to pay a $4.6 million fine, the same amount that the firm was paid for its consulting work. Craig, who left Skadden Arps in April 2018, is not identified by name in the Justice Department announcement, but he has previously been identified as the lead Skadden Arps partner who worked on its Ukraine account. Other clues from the Justice Department settlement point to Craig as the lead partner referenced in case...
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A War to Achieve Modernity
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ But how does one go from darkness to hope? In the painting, Liberty, looking back over her shoulder reminds me of my past, a past I so tried to suppress... I find this hard to admit, but I had a radical moment, my time of Islamism. I longed for a revival of a golden age when Muslims were mighty and triumphant, ruling large parts of the world, fighting victoriously in the name of God. I gloried in this past. Reviving medievalism, these fantasies were a way to escape modern life. I dreamed of a past and future glory, like many in their dogmatic slumber. It never seemed like darkness; it seemed like a pearl of light. I was entrapped in the golden cage of Islamism. I was a bird of paradise that did not want to escape. Then it dawned on me: the way to hope is change and reform. Islam is the only religion which has not gone through reform. I am not afraid of speaking the truth, but religious extremists, especially, despise women who use their voices against them. There is an increased fear, and rightly so, about the free expression of extreme religious ideas and opinions that are polluting our social, cultural, economic and political orders in the Arab world, which is why Jamal Khashoggi stands as an enemy to free thinkers -- Muslims and states that turned against politics disguised as religion. "There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it," Khashoggi wrote. Religious liberals make up the minority in Arab countries. An alarming  84-86% of Muslims in Egypt and Jordan support the death penalty for Muslims who leave the religion, and 82-70% support stoning for adultery. Jordan and Egypt also happen to have a significant percentage of Muslim Brotherhood adherents in seats of power in parliament. Many of these extremists are gaining momentum, destabilizing the region through proxy wars...
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Pushes Largest Museum In US To Rethink 
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{dailycaller.com} ~ The Metropolitan Museum of Art is reviewing its gift acceptance policies after information that members of a prominent donor family... headed a deceit campaign to push the highly addictive prescription opioid OxyContin, The Met told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Other New York City art museums that have taken money from the Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, refused to comment on the Tuesday court filing  with documents showing members of the Sackler family covered up information about the dangers of OxyContin. “The Sackler family has been connected with The Met for more than a half century. The family is a large extended group and their support of The Met began decades before the opioid crisis. The Met is currently engaging in a further review of our detailed gift acceptance policies, and we will have more to report in due course,” Daniel H. Weiss, president and CEO of The Met, told TheDCNF in a statement Thursday. An employee at The Met told TheDCNF news about the Sackler family is what prompted the institution to review its policy, although the employee would not detail any review timeline...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/17/sackler-family-met-museum/?utm_medium=email
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The Crucifixion of James Watson
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{americanthinker.com} ~ CNN reports: "James Watson, who discovered the double-helix structure of DNA alongside Francis Crick in the 1950s based on the work of British chemist Rosalind Franklin... said in a PBS film that genes cause a difference in intelligence between white and black people in IQ tests. "The 90-year-old's comments were labeled 'reprehensible' by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on New York's Long Island, where Watson had been the director from 1968 to 1993. The laboratory said it 'unequivocally rejects the unsubstantiated and reckless personal opinions Dr. James D. Watson expressed,' noting the statements were 'reprehensible and unsupported by science.'" Watson was shortly relieved of his administrative duties, but not his title. Among other "reckless" statements attributed to the Nobel winner, Watson implied what has been statistically proved over and over: that stupidity is linked to genes. In CNN's report, the word "unsubstantiated" stands out most glaringly, especially in light of the existence of a warehouseful of substantiation to support Watson – for example, documented statistical IQ differences among the races among humanity...
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Furloughed Fed Employees Are Now on Paid Vacation
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by Thomas Gallatin:  President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday ensuring that the roughly 380,000 furloughed federal workers currently not receiving pay will be paid once the partial government shutdown ends. By taking this action, Trump eased the impact of the shutdown on federal employees while at the same time encouraging continued stability for labor-market statistics. As The Wall Street Journal explains, “Had that not occurred, the loss of more than 300,000 employees from the government’s payroll would have most likely overwhelmed any private-sector job creation. That in turn would have caused total nonfarm payrolls to decrease for the first time since October 2010, snapping a streak of 99 straight months of job growth. The streak is the longest on record dating to 1939.”

             Even with Trump’s action guaranteeing that there is light at the end of the shutdown tunnel, hundreds of thousands of federal workers — many of them essential and still on the job — are feeling the immediate financial hit from missed paychecks. Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pulosi and her fellow Democrats are content to play political games by refusing to even meet with Trump and Republicans in negotiation efforts and by requesting that Trump postpone the annual State of the Union Address over bogus security concerns. In truth, Pulosi doesn’t want Trump to have that much unfiltered access to the American people, where he can make a strong compelling case for the need for a border wall and can expose the Democrats for being opposed to enforcing the nation’s sovereign right to secure our borders. She’d rather continue the pain and theater of her shutdown so she can better represent people who aren’t even citizens of the nation.
               Importantly, though, despite the partial government shutdown, the vast majority of Americans are getting along just fine. In fact, if it wasn’t for the media constantly covering it, would many Americans even know there was a shutdown?  ~The Patriot Post

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Letter to Our NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (Re: Newly Proposed Gun Control Measures)!

Posted by Jake Martinez on January 19, 2019 at 7:30am

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I wanted to take the liberty of sharing the following letter that I recently sent to our NM Governor with you regarding the gun control measures currently being proposed by our NM Lawmakers:

January 18, 2019

Honorable Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham:

Congratulations on your recent election as our New Mexico Governor.

I am writing you today because in your opening day speech to New Mexico State Lawmakers you called on them to pass various gun control proposals that you supported on the campaign trail and which have been subsequently filed in the New Mexico Legislature.  

You also stated that “hunters, sportsmen and responsible gun owners also recognize the need for New Mexico to take steps toward smart, effective gun violence prevention...”, implying that the gun community supports the restrictive measures outlined below:

House Bill 8, so-called "universal background check" legislation sponsored by Representative Debra Sarinana, would ban all private firearms sales between law-abiding individuals. Gun owners will be forced to pay undetermined fees and obtain government approval before selling firearms to family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers, or fellow hunters, competitive shooters and gun club members. This proposal will have no impact on crime and is unenforceable without gun registration.

House Bill 35, sponsored by Representative Miguel Garcia, would require federal firearm licensed dealers to pay the state $200 annually to establish a system for the Department of Public Safety to run stolen gun checks on any used firearm an FFL purchases.  While FFLs and gun owners support getting stolen firearms off the street, a functional process that allows them to conduct such checks in real time needs to be worked out in advance of any such mandate.  And the state, rather than small business owners, should finance such a public safety initiative.

House Bill 40, sponsored by Representative Miguel Garcia, would require criminal records checks on private firearms sales at gun shows – a perennial target of the gun control crowd, even though studies show that these events are not a source of crime guns.

House Bill 83, extreme risk protection order or "red flag" legislation sponsored by Representative Damon Ely, would authorize the seizure of firearms and ammunition from individuals without due process. Unchallenged statements made by a petitioner before a judge, alleging that someone is a danger to themselves or others in an ex parte proceeding -- prior to any formal court hearing at which the respondent can be represented by counsel and present counter evidence -- would be sufficient for law enforcement to enter that person's home and confiscate their private property.

House Bill 87, sponsored by Representative Deborah Armstrong expands the state’s “prohibited person” firearm law by purportedly incorporating federal firearm disqualifications. The bill would prohibit individuals convicted of certain domestic violence misdemeanor crimes or who are subject to a domestic violence protective order from purchasing or possessing a firearm, with violations being a criminal offense. However, the bill goes beyond the prohibited categories in federal law in several significant ways. The state law definition of “household member” – unlike federal law – specifically includes a person who is or has been a continuing personal relationship, which applies to dating or intimate partners who have never lived together. The bill would include, as firearm-prohibiting offenses, nonviolent misdemeanors with no physical contact between the parties (like harassment by telephone or email, or criminal damage to the property or jointly owned property of a “household member”). Unlike federal law, this bill would require anyone subject to a protective order to surrender any firearms they own, possess, or control to law enforcement within 48 hours of the order. Not only does this bill impose a mandatory surrender, it authorizes law enforcement to seize any guns that are in plain sight or are discovered pursuant to a lawful search. Similar legislation had passed the Legislature in 2017 but was vetoed by Gov. Susana Martinez. Significantly, the 2017 legislation contained other options for affected parties to comply with the firearm surrender requirement, including storing their guns with licensed firearm dealers, or transferring the guns to a qualified third party. These key alternatives are not contained in this bill.

House Bill 130, sponsored by Representative Linda Trujillo, would make gun owners criminally and civilly liable if a child gains unsupervised access to an unsecured firearm.  New Mexico already has a first-degree felony child abuse statute on the books to hold adults accountable for putting children's lives or health at risk in any manner. The tools exist to charge and prosecute parents or guardians in appropriate cases. Education is the key to protecting gun owners and their kids, not a state mandate on how one stores a firearm in his or her home.

While nobody is more adamant about preventing violent crime than gun owners and sportsmen, we know that the way to accomplish this is not through intrusive, ineffective and unenforceable gun control schemes, as revealed and/or documented in the following recent article and/or report, which states in part:

“Earlier this month, the Department of Justice published updated numbers on how guns used and found at the scenes of state and federal crimes were obtained, and the American people will be shocked to know that criminals still don’t like to follow gun laws.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) survey was conducted in 2016 and reported that an estimated 287,400 prisoners possessed a gun in 2016 while they committed the crimes for which they were imprisoned.

Overall, it turns out that the vast majority of them didn’t obtain their firearms from a retail source, and fewer than one percent of them got them at a gun show. And a lot of them got their weapons illegally…..”

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New gun crime numbers are bad news for the gun control lobby!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On January 17, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/new-gun-crime-numbers-are-bad-news-for-the-gun-control-lobby/

Additionally, I am extremely concerned, as should every New Mexico resident, about the disturbing information that was revealed in the following recent article, which states in part:

“The Washington Examiner on Wednesday reported that some ranchers near the southern border in New Mexico say they have discovered Islamic prayer rugs on their property in recent months.

A female rancher, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation from criminal cartels, told the Examiner, “There’s a lot of people coming in not just from Mexico.”

“People, the general public, just don’t get the terrorist threats of that,” she added. “That’s what’s really scary. You don’t know what’s coming across. We’ve found prayer rugs out here. It’s unreal. It’s not just Mexican nationals that are coming across.”

The rancher lives in the remote southwestern corner of the state near a tiny town called Animas. The nearest municipality of any size in Hidalgo County is Lordsburg, the county seat where a U.S. Border Patrol station is located, some 95 miles north of the border.

With no local police department in Animas, local residents rely on the County Sheriff’s Office and Border Patrol agents for their law enforcement needs, but given the fact that so few law enforcement resources are available in the area, many residents — including the rancher — have armed themselves and rely on friends and neighbors for support in times of need….”

New Mexico Border Ranchers: We Found Prayer Rugs on Our Property, ‘It’s Unreal’!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Ben Marquis-On January 16, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/new-mexico-border-ranchers-found-prayer-rugs-property-unreal/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=patriotupdate&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=libertyalliance

I hope that you and our New Mexico’s lawmakers take into account the extremely disturbing information revealed in the above recent article as you consider any additional gun control measures and/or laws as a means of preventing violent crimes knowing that the way to accomplish this is not through intrusive, ineffective and unenforceable gun control schemes, as meticulously documented in the above article and/or report.

Looking forward to hearing from your office regarding this extremely concerning issue.

Please feel free to contact me at my email address.

Thank you for your continued honorable service to our State and Country/Republic, not only as a former NM U.S. Representative, but now as our Governor.

God Bless you and your family.

Respectfully,  

Jake L. Martinez

Note:  The following recent articles and/or reports relate to my above recent letter to our NM Governor:

House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee Passes Bloomberg Anti-Gun Agenda on a 3-2 Vote!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On January 25, 2019:

On Thursday evening, the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee voted to sail through multiple bills backed by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg. The following bills were supported by Representatives Liz Thomson (D-Albuquerque) House District 24, Andrea Romero (D-Santa Fe) House District 46, and Angelica Rubio ( D-Las Cruces) House District 35. 

House Bill 8: "Universal" Background Checks - Sponsored by Representative Debra Sarinana, would ban all private firearms sales between law-abiding individuals. Gun owners would be forced to pay undetermined fees and obtain government approval before selling firearms to family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers, or fellow hunters, competitive shooters and gun club members. This proposal will have no impact on crime and is unenforceable without gun registration.

House Bill 40: Background Checks at Gun Shows: Sponsored by Representative Miguel Garcia, would require criminal records checks on private firearms sales at gun shows - a perennial target of the gun control crowd, even though studies show that these events are not a source of crime guns.

House Bill 83: Extreme risk protection order or "red flag" legislation sponsored by Representative Daymon Ely, would authorize the seizure of firearms and ammunition from individuals without due process. Unchallenged statements made by a petitioner before a judge, alleging that someone is a danger to themselves or others in an ex parte proceeding -- prior to any formal court hearing at which the respondent can be represented by counsel and present counter evidence -- would be sufficient for law enforcement to enter that person's home and confiscate their private property.

House Bill 87: Domestic Violence & Firearm - by Representative Deborah Armstrong expands the state's "prohibited person" firearm law by purportedly incorporating federal firearm disqualifications. The bill would prohibit individuals convicted of certain domestic violence misdemeanor crimes or who are subject to a domestic violence protective order from purchasing or possessing a firearm, with violations being a criminal offense. However, the bill goes far beyond the categories currently included in federal law, in addition to requiring firearm seizure.  

We would like to thank Representative Gregg Schmedes (R-Tijeras) and Representative Candy Ezzell (R-Roswell) for voting against these bills.

Additionally, The Senate Public Affairs Committee voted to pass Senate Bill 8, so called "universal” background checks Sponsored by Senator Richard Martinez (D) and Peter Wirth (D) on a vote of 4-3. Senators Gerald Ortiz y Pino (D), Liz Stefanics (D), Antoinette Lopez (D), and Jeff Steinborn (D) all voted for the bill.

We want to thank Senators Candace Gould (R), Craig Brandt (R), and Stuart Ingle (R) for voting against this bill.

NEXT STEPS: The next stop for the House bills that passed is the House Judiciary Committee. The next stop for Senate Bill 8 is the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Source Link:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190125/house-consumer-and-public-affairs-committee-passes-bloomberg-anti-gun-agenda-on-a-3-2-vote

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Last night, Bloomberg-backed SB8, "Universal" Background Check Legislation, Passed Senate Judiciary Committee on a Party-line 6-4 Vote!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On January 31, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190131/last-night-bloomberg-backed-sb8-universal-background-check-legislation-passed-senate-judiciary-committee-on-a-party-line-6-4-vote

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New Mexico: Bloomberg-Backed Gun Control to be Heard Tomorrow in Committee!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 6, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190206/new-mexico-bloomberg-backed-gun-control-to-be-heard-tomorrow-in-committee

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New Mexico: House Committee to Consider Gun Control Legislation Tomorrow!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 11, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190211/new-mexico-house-committee-to-consider-gun-control-legislation-tomorrow

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Don’t impose New York-style gun control laws here!-Posted on The Santa Fe New Mexican-By Barbara Rumpel-On February 4, 2019:

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/don-t-impose-new-york-style-gun-control-laws-here/article_4157a467-8e12-590b-8d0e-ca0789bc0b03.html

Controversial gun control bill passes House, heads to Senate

New Mexico governor urges action on gun background checks!-Posted on KOB4-By The Associated Press-On February 14, 2019:

https://www.kob.com/politics-news/new-mexico-governor-urges-action-on-gun-background-checks/5246693/?cat=513

New Mexico governor urges action on gun background checks

Controversial gun control bill passes House, heads to Senate!-Posted on KOB4-By Marian Camacho-On February 14, 2019:

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/house-bill-83-passes-house-gun-control/5246199/

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New Mexico: Chambers Trade Legislation to Criminalize Private Firearm Transfers!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 15, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190215/new-mexico-chambers-trade-legislation-to-criminalize-private-firearm-transfers

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New Mexico Action Needed! - House Committee to Consider New York Style Gun Control Legislation on Tuesday!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 23, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190223/new-mexico-action-needed-house-committee-to-consider-new-york-style-gun-control-legislation-on-tuesday

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New Mexico Action Needed: House Committee Passes New York Style Gun Control Legislation!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 27, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190227/new-mexico-action-needed-house-committee-passes-new-york-style-gun-control-legislation

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New Mexico Update: Multiple Gun Bill Hearings Scheduled for Saturday!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On March 1, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190301/new-mexico-update-multiple-gun-bill-hearings-scheduled-for-saturday

New Mexico county becomes ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary’ in protest of gun control legislation

New Mexico county declares itself 'Second Amendment Sanctuary County' to protest gun law:  Some law enforcement officers thinks the law is a bad idea!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Stephen Sorace | Fox News-On February 14, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-mexico-county-votes-to-become-second-amendment-sanctuary-in-protest-of-gun-control-legislation

10,000-Resident County Stands up to Entire State as Lawmakers Push Crippling Gun Control Law!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Kara Pendleton-On February 15, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/10000-resident-county-stands-state-lawmakers-gun-control-laws/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=rightalerts&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=ttp

San Juan County residents pack out the county commission meeting Tuesday night as commissioners voted 4-1 on a resolution to declare the county a Second Amendment Sanctuary County.

San Juan, Lincoln, Eddy latest to become Second Amendment Sanctuary Counties!-Posted on KOB4-By Marian Camacho-On February 20, 2019:

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/san-juan-county-second-amendment-sanctuary-county/5252446/?cat=504

New Mexico Counties Vote To Become ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary Counties’!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On February 22, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/new-mexico-counties-vote-to-become-second-amendment-sanctuary-counties/

Gun background check bill headed to governor for signature

Gun background check bill headed to governor for signature!-Posted on KOB4-By The Associated Press-On March 5, 2019:

https://www.kob.com/politics-news/gun-background-check-bill-headed-to-governor-for-signature-/5267441/?cat=504

Second Amendment Sanctuary County Movement Gaining Momentum!-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On March 6, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/31663-second-amendment-sanctuary-county-movement-gaining-momentum?vsmaid=3690&vcid=7778

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New Mexico: Senate Concurs on New York-Style Gun Control Legislation, Sends to the Governor’s Desk!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On March 7, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190307/new-mexico-senate-concurs-on-new-yorkstyle-gun-control-legislation-sends-to-the-governors-desk

Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, sitting right, signs a bill into law that expands background checks to nearly all gun sales in New Mexico in a ceremony in in Santa Fe, N.M., Friday, March 8, 2019.

New Mexico’s Democrat Governor Signs Bill to Criminalize Private Gun Sales!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins!-On March 9, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/09/new-mexicos-democrat-governor-signs-bill-to-criminalize-private-gun-sales/

This February 4, 2013 photo illustration in Manassas, Virginia, shows a Remington 20-gauge semi-automatic shotgun, a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, a Colt .45 semi-auto handgun, a Walther PK380 semi-auto handgun and various ammunition clips with a copy of the US Constitution on top of the American flag. US President Barack …

25 of New Mexico’s 33 Counties Declare ‘2nd Amendment Sanctuary’ Status!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins!-On March 9, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/10/25-new-mexicos-33-counties-declare-2nd-amendment-sanctuary-status/

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New Mexico: Senate Committee Scheduled to Consider “Red Flag” Legislation Tomorrow!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On March 8, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190308/new-mexico-senate-committee-could-consider-red-flag-legislation-tomorrow

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New Mexico: House Passes Gun Control Bill to Governor’s Desk!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On March 15, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190315/new-mexico-house-passes-gun-control-bill-to-governors-desk

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New Mexico: Legislature Adjourns from 2019 Legislative Session – Multiple Anti-Gun Bills Defeated!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On March 16, 2019:

Today, the New Mexico Legislature adjourned from its hectic and busy 2019 Legislative session at noon.  While this session saw the passage of extreme gun control legislation, Senate Bill 8, multiple gun control bills were also defeated as the final gavel dropped, Including:

House Bill 83: Extreme risk firearm protection order or "red flag" legislation sponsored by Representative Daymon Ely, sought to authorize the seizure of firearms and ammunition from individuals without due process. Unchallenged statements made by a petitioner before a judge, alleging that someone is a danger to themselves or others in an ex parte proceeding -- prior to any formal court hearing at which the respondent can be represented by counsel and present counter evidence -- would be sufficient for law enforcement to enter that person's home and confiscate their private property.

House Bill 130, sponsored by Representative Linda Trujillo, sought to make gun owners criminally and civilly liable if a child gains unsupervised access to an unsecured firearm. New Mexico already has a first degree felony child abuse statute on the books to hold adults accountable for putting children's lives or health at risk in any manner. The tools exist to charge and prosecute parents or guardians in appropriate cases. Education is the key to protecting gun owners and their kids, not a state mandate on how one stores a firearm in his or her home.

House Bill 35, by Representative Miguel Garcia, sought to require federal firearm licensed dealers to pay the state $200 annually to establish a system for the Department of Public Safety to run stolen gun checks on any used firearm an FFL purchases.  While FFLs and gun owners support getting stolen firearms off the street, a functional process that allows them to conduct such checks in real time needs to be worked out in advance of any such mandate.  And the state, rather than small business owners, should finance such a public safety initiative.

Senate Bill 201: Firearm Transfer Act - Sponsored by Senator Michael Padilla, sought to ban all private firearms sales between law-abiding individuals, including every gift, loan or a simple handing off of a gun to a friend at the range. Gun owners would be forced to pay undetermined fees and obtain government approval before selling or gifting firearms to family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers, or fellow hunters, competitive shooters and gun club members.

Source Link:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190316/new-mexico-legislature-adjourns-from-2019-legislative-session-multiple-anti-gun-bills-defeated

Note: I believe that the information revealed in the following recent article relates to and or further supports my above recent letter to our NM Governor-You Decide:

Senate Judiciary Committee Considers How to Balance Gun Rights With Mental Health Concerns!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On March 26, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/senate-judiciary-committee-considers-how-balance-gun-rights-mental-health

Flashback: Video: Black conservative leaders discuss how the NRA was created to protect freed slaves!-Posted on YouTube.com-By DAFRUSA-On 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RABZq5IoaQ

Note: I also believe that the disturbing information revealed in my above recent letter to our NM Governor, along with the other recent articles and videos relates to and/or further supports my following blogs from the recent past-You Decide:

Image: Civil war is coming, and the COLLAPSE is imminent… here’s how to maintain your sanity as it all comes down

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

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

Image: Civil war is coming, and the COLLAPSE is imminent… here’s how to maintain your sanity as it all comes down

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 99)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 16, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-99

Image: Civil war is coming, and the COLLAPSE is imminent… here’s how to maintain your sanity as it all comes down

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 63)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 8, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-63-1

Image: Civil war is coming, and the COLLAPSE is imminent… here’s how to maintain your sanity as it all comes down

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 64)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 27, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-64

Image: Civil war is coming, and the COLLAPSE is imminent… here’s how to maintain your sanity as it all comes down

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 86)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 30, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-86

Image: Civil war is coming, and the COLLAPSE is imminent… here’s how to maintain your sanity as it all comes down

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 94)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-94

Image: Civil war is coming, and the COLLAPSE is imminent… here’s how to maintain your sanity as it all comes down

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 95)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 17, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-95

Image: Civil war is coming, and the COLLAPSE is imminent… here’s how to maintain your sanity as it all comes down

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 96)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 25, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-96

Image: Civil war is coming, and the COLLAPSE is imminent… here’s how to maintain your sanity as it all comes down

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 97)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 31, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-97

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Billionaire Leftists Attack Your Gun Rights!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 28, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/billionaire-leftists-attack-your-gun-rights

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An Open Letter To Communist Valerie Jarrett!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on August 25, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-communist-valerie-jarrett

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What is the true intent of the UN Small Arms Treaty?-Posted on WordPress.com-On January 12, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/what-is-the-true-intent-of-the-un-small-arms-treaty/

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Letter to NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (Re: Border Security)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 14, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-governor-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-border

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

4063590393?profile=originalA Republic, If You Can Keep It!

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

4063360053?profile=originalThe Fightin Side of Me!

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

4063359977?profile=originalWhen Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

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

“Food for Thought”

4063359991?profile=originalHello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Against The Deplorable Obstructionists That Are Doing Their Utmost To Take Down Our Democratically Elected President, His Administration and Ultimately Destroy our Country/Republic?-God Bless America!

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.
 
Semper Fi!
Jake
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 18, 2019 at 4:59pm
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Pulosi's SOTU Political Play
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by Jordan Candler  
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Trump to Rapidly Expand U.S. Missile Defenses
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by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ President Trump announced a major shift in U.S. defense strategy on Thursday, ordering the Pentagon to rapidly expand current missile defenses and build new interceptors... space sensors, and advanced technology to neutralize foreign missiles at multiple stages of attack. The president announced during a speech at the Pentagon that missile defenses, currently limited to countering North Korean long-range missiles and future Iranian missiles, will no longer be constrained to rogue states. American missile defense systems will be expanded and new capabilities added that for the first time will prepare to counter much larger and increasingly advanced missile threats from Russia and China. "Our goal is simple: To be sure we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the United States, anywhere, any time, and any place," Trump said...
Lou Dobbs, Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing
Discuss Bruce Ohr Revelations
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova discuss how Justice Department official Bruce Ohr shared information from the dossier author in 2016 with DOJ prosecutors now working for special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller.  
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The Lackluster Democratic Field
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by Matthew Continetti
{freebeacon.com} ~ Beto O'Rourke is lost. The former Democratic congressman, who unsuccessfully challenged Ted Cruz in last year's election, has spent the last few weeks in a confused and melancholy state... Something possessed him to share images from a recent dental cleaning, perhaps the grossest introduction of a potential presidential candidate in the nation's history. He gave an interview to the Washington Post where the only specific plank in his immigration platform was opposition to President Trump's border wall. In the same interview, he mused that the Constitution may no longer apply to the United States, since we're an "empire" with troops deployed around the globe and "trading agreements." Then he published a blog post that read like wannabe Kerouac. "Learned about pump storage, battery technology, the role that production tax credits have had in making New Mexico a leader in wind energy production," he wrote. O'Rourke himself has no trouble generating hot air. Beto isn't merely the slightly flaky, out-of-work husband of a real-estate heiress. He's running  third in polls of the 2020 Democratic presidential field. His emo style and recent missteps exemplify the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the likely Democratic contenders. Judging from polls, Donald Trump is headed toward a one-term presidency. His best chance for reelection is pulling an opponent he can make as unpopular as he is. The Democrats seem more than willing to help him. In 1988, Democrats fielded the "seven dwarves" against George H.W. Bush. The 2020 cycle is shaping up to include 20 Smurfs. Trump is Gargamel. The possible candidacy of Joe Biden links the two elections. His 1988 bid went nowhere, much like his run two decades later. Today, after eight years as Barack scumbag/liar-nObama's vice president, Biden is among the most popular Democrats in the country and leads the 2020 field. A poll last August had him beating Trump by seven points. But Biden faces significant hurdles before he reaches the general election. As much as Democrats like him, they'd also like to see "someone new." Biden's age (76), record of bipartisanship, insider status, and white hetero-normative cisgendered male identity might hinder his chances in the primary. It's noteworthy that former scumbag/liar-nObama advisers haven't swung behind him. Some have been talking up Beto, and others have encouraged additional candidates to enter the race. There's a reluctance to embrace Biden reminiscent of Republican wariness toward Mitt Romney in 2012...
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Democrats, MSNBC Should Punish Their 
Lindsey Graham Gay-Baiters
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) has taken to defending President Donald Trump, despite his rather harsh criticism of Trump during the 2016 election... The simple explanation for this turnabout is strategy: Graham and Trump see eye-to-eye on a lot of policies and Trump is wildly popular among the South Carolina GOP base. After the moderate senator began defending the president, his support among South Carolina Republicans went up a whopping 21 points. On the other hand, maybe Trump has evidence that Lindsey Graham has unusual sexual inclinations, and is secretly forcing his hand. That's the theory being floated on ol' Twitter dot com, first going viral after a tweet from Democratic strategist, Resistance hero, and noted dumbass Jon Cooper.Now purely by coincidence, a few days later MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle said on air that maaaaybe Lindsey Graham had some dark secret and that's why he was suddenly supportive of Trump. "It could be that Donald Trump or somebody knows something pretty extreme about Lindsey Graham,"  Ruhle said. "We’re gonna have to leave it there." The next day, another popular Resistance Twitter account with the handle @MuslimIQ tweeted "I can’t even imagine what they have on Graham." "They got to him, he is compromised!" responded Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Even if the Cooper tweet never existed, anyone who has spent more than two minutes following politics knows the Lindsey Graham rumor is that he's gay. This is not a secret. Graham has addressed the rumors head on and on the record. When you talk about some tawdry secret Graham has, it's his sexuality. End of story...These dems are really sick and all they say is not true.  https://freebeacon.com/blog/democrats-msnbc-should-punish-their-lindsey-graham-gay-baiters/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=0013b4493b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_17_11_09_COPY_144&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-0013b4493b-45611665
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Alan Dershowitz: The 
Atlantic's Impeachment Argument Flawed
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by Solange Reyner   
{newsmax.com} ~ Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said The Atlantic's reasoning for why President Donald Trump should be impeached is flawed and does not comply with the specific provisions of the Constitution... "as it was written." Yoni Appelbaum, a senior editor at The Atlantic Magazine, on Thursday wrote Trump's actions are an "attack on the very foundations of America's constitutional democracy" and called on the House of Representatives to immediately open a formal impeachment inquiry. The president, he says, has failed to keep his oath of office and "routinely privileged his self-interest above the responsibilities of the presidency." Additionally, Appelbaum said Trump has "demanded that public officials put their loyalty to him ahead of their duty to the public," "evinced little respect for the rule of law" and has "repeatedly trampled upon" Constitutional rights. Dershowitz called Appelbaum's piece interesting and challenging, but said his argument is not valid as he "wants us to violate the Constitution, as it relates to impeachment." His criteria, argues Dershowitz, could also "be applied to nearly every president." "We should not violate the Constitution in order to 'safeguard' it," he adds.
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Pulosi's SOTU Political Play
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by Jordan Candler:  House Speaker Nancy Pulosi issued this appeal to President Donald Trump yesterday:

On January 3rd, it was my privilege as Speaker to invite you to deliver the State of the Union address on January 29th. …

The U.S. Secret Service was designated as the lead federal agency responsible for coordinating, planning, exercising, and implementing security for National Special Security Events by Public Law 106-544, December 19, 2000. However, both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now — with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs.

Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29th.

DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen immediately contradicted Pulosi’s assertion, saying the Secret Service is “fully prepared” for the SOTU. Pulosi responded curtly, “I don’t care what they say.
               Ed Morrissey quips, "And with that, the new Speaker of the House just made the best case possible for a perpetual shutdown. Kidding! What I meant to say was that Nancy Pulosi has finally sounded a note of wisdom, at least in her reminder that presidents used to just deliver a report in writing to Congress.” Indeed they did. As Pulosi also noted, “During the 19th Century and up until the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, these annual State of the Union messages were delivered to Congress in writing.”
               Morrissey rightly says this is “a tradition worth restoring, especially to reverse the treatment of the president as some kind of feudal lord in Congress.”
               Philip Klein chimes in, “There may be times when it makes sense for a president to address a joint session of Congress in front of the whole nation, such as when former President George W. Bush spoke to the nation after the Sept. 11 attacks and laid out his vision for fighting the ‘war on terror.’ But as an annual staged event, the State of the Union is pointless. In an era of the 24/7 news, the Internet, and social media, there is no reason for networks to provide airtime to this event. The president has endless tools at his disposal to make his case to Congress and the country.”
               Meanwhile, Pulosi is hardly acting with honorable intentions here. As Morrissey points out, “Pulosi’s not looking to restore the proper co-equal-branch dynamics under the Constitution. She was delighted to offer regal hosannas to Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, and she’d be equally delighted to offer them to President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or President Jill Stein, for that matter. She just doesn’t want Trump using Congress to beat up Democrats over the wall.”
               Indeed, security has nothing to do with her political theater. It’s entirely within Pulosi’s power to end the shutdown, which would render a SOTU delay completely unnecessary. But blocking funding for border security isn’t the only thing she’s after. She also wants to stifle her opponents’ justification for standing their ground. That’s called having your cake and eating it too.
               If Trump decides to continue with the address, Ben Shapiro offers this salient advice: “Trump should do a remote State of the Union from the border and feature Border Patrol agents and Angel Moms.”  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/60584?mailing_id=4020&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4020&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  
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Fri Med/PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 18, 2019 at 3:49pm
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Procter & Gamble's Toxic Sanctimony
by Michelle Malki  
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Bruce Ohr Testimony Undercuts 
Adam Schiff’s Defense Of FBI  
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s testimony about his meetings with FBI officials regarding dossier author Christopher Steele... severely undercuts claims made in 2018 by California Rep. Adam Schiff and his fellow Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee. Ohr told lawmakers Aug. 28, 2018, he briefed top FBI officials Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page in early August 2016, just days after he met with Steele, a former British spy who was investigating then-candidate Donald Trump. Ohr testified he told McCabe and Page about his interactions with Steele, who was working at the time for Fusion GPS, a Democrat-funded opposition research firm. The FBI relied heavily on Steele’s unverified dossier to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page...
Fein-stein’s Scattershot 
Anti-Gun Bill Badly Misses the Mark
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Democrats promised that if they retook control of the House, gun control would be a top priority. They have wasted little time in seeking to restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms... Sens. Dianne Fein-stein, D-Calif.; Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., introduced the latest version of the so-called assault weapons ban with 26 other Democrats as co-sponsors. The bill would prohibit the future sale, transfer, manufacture, and importation of “military-style assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines—in other words, it would keep law-abiding Americans from buying many of the most popular firearms used for hunting, shooting sports, and self-defense. The bill appears to be similar to ineffective legislation passed in 1994, in California and in Canada. If passed, it would have the same ineffective results...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/14/feinsteins-scattershot-anti-gun-bill-badly-misses-the-mark/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdWbU1qWTVZekZsT0RrMCIsInQiOiJnNm9UTTBnQnFkQmxnNmppd3BGS0l1YlJ6UldPNnQydXVySDd1dG9lcGhXRmFyNFcwOGFQSjBYR3A1SWdTRXBFZ241NmdDSVNFZlB3Rk5aenpyQzNcL0J0blNodmNQZG9SaDhHWEg3WWlwVDk4MndqMUZ1UjNOVnl6NUdTcjNLdEMifQ%3D%3D
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House Conservative Kicked Off Committee Reportedly Because
He Voted Against McCarthy For Minority Leader  
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by Henry Rodgers
{dailycaller.com} ~ Georgia Republican Rep. Jody Hice was reportedly removed from the House Armed Services Committee for voting against Rep. Kevin McCarthy for minority leader... The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Hice, who served on the committee since 2018 and is serving his third term in Congress, was removed from the committee after he decided to back Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan for House minority leader. McCarthy received 159 votes, compared to Jordan’s 43 votes, making him the minority leader of the House in a Dec. 14 vote. “While I am certainly disappointed that I will no longer have the privilege of serving on the House Armed Services Committee, I remain steadfast in my commitment to serving the 10th District of Georgia. My voting card belongs to them – and only them – and the priorities of my constituents will always be my central concern,” Hice told  TheDCNF. “I’m deeply honored to be their voice in Washington and will continue to support our men and women in uniform, fight for conservative policies, and help advance the President’s agenda.” A source with knowledge of the situation told TheDCNF, “We should be focused on working together to win the border security debate and protect Americans. Instead, leadership seems more concerned with settling scores.”...
Strasbourg: Capital of the EU 
and "The Future of Europe"
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by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ "New York, Geneva and Strasbourg are the only cities in the world which are home to international institutions without being national capitals"... an official page of the French city proudly proclaims. "The choice of Strasbourg as the European capital following the Second World War is no accident. The city stands as a shining symbol of reconciliation between peoples and of the future of Europe". Last December, however, Strasbourg was shocked by a new terrorist attack. Cherif Chekatt, shouting "Allahu Akbar", murdered five people, before being neutralized in a two-day manhunt. Among Chekatt's victims were Italian, Polish and French citizens. Unfortunately, Strasbourg has become one of Europe's hotbeds of jihadism, an ideology seemingly aimed at destroying Europe's people, not conciliating with them. The weekly Valeurs Actuelles called Strasbourg a "French bastion of jihadism". Seven men from Strasbourg, who went to Syria between December 2013 and April 2014, have already been sentenced to prison terms ranging from six to nine years. The heaviest sentence was handed to Karim Mohamed-Aggad, the brother of the Bataclan Theater suicide bomber Foued Mohamed-Aggad. The weekly L'Obs called Strasbourg "land of jihad". "It's true that we have statistically more 'S-Files' individuals labelled by authorities as a threat to national security here in Strasbourg and in the Bas-Rhin department than the national average", the mayor of Strasbourg, Roland Ries, said. Farhad Khosrokhavar, a sociologist and director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, explained...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13543/strasbourg-capital-europe
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Democrats in a Snit, Refuse 
to Attend Border Security Meeting

{patriotnewsdaily.com} ~ Congressional Democrats refused to come to the White House for a meeting on border security on Tuesday, digging their heels into their rejection of the wall and demonstrating to the nation that they have no interest... in bringing the government shutdown to an end. Throwing a political tantrum of epic proportions, Pulosi and Schumer have now abandoned the negotiating table in favor of lecturing Americans on television whenever they get the chance. Judging by the polls – which show more Americans than ever in favor of building the wall – they may want to rethink that strategy before it’s too late. “The President has a proposal on the table that includes additional technology at ports of entry, allows minors from Central America to seek asylum in their home country, and physical barriers between ports of entry made of steel instead of concrete,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders. “Today, the President offered both Democrats and Republicans the chance to meet for lunch at the White House. Unfortunately, no Democrats will attend. The President looks forward to having a working lunch with House Republicans to solve the border crisis and reopen the government.” At this point, it’s time to make Democrats take full responsibility for this shutdown. They are trying to use it as a political weapon against Republicans and President Trump, and that strategy needs to be addressed and destroyed before they will come to the table. For that, we need Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to go ahead and take action. Introduce to the floor a Homeland Security spending bill that includes $5 billion in wall funding. If Democrats want to introduce a clause stripping that money out of the bill, let them have a vote. We’ll see if they are right about passing the bill without the money. But whether they will or they won’t, it will surely fail on the Republican side. If McConnell wanted to end it there, that would be fine. The ball would officially be in the Democrat Party’s court...
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CNN Analyst Accuses Black Radio Host of 'White Privilege'
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by Media Editors:  In a radio exchange between Fox News’s David Webb and CNN’s Areva Martin, the latter challenged the host on “a whole ‘nother long conversation about white privilege — the things that you have the privilege of doing that people of color don’t have the privilege of.”

             Puzzled, Webb asked how he benefits. Martin responded, “By virtue of being a white male.”
               “Areva, I hate to break it to you,” replied Webb, “but you should’ve been better prepped. I’m black.”  ~The Patriot Post

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAlig2jW7SA

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Procter & Gamble's Toxic Sanctimony

by Michelle Malkin

One of the world’s most successful brands committed ideological hara-kiri this week. Recognized around the world as a symbol of manly civility for more than a century, Gillette will now be remembered as the company that did itself in by sacrificing a massive consumer base at the altar of progressivism.

To which I say: R.I.P.-C. (Rest In Political Correctness).

In case you hadn’t seen or heard, parent company Procter & Gamble launched a Gillette ad campaign blanket-demonizing men as ogres and bullies. Guilt-ridden actors gaze ruefully at their reflections in the mirror — not because they’ve neglected their hygiene, but simply because they’re men. Various scenarios of boys being boors and males being monsters flash across the screen before woke interlocutors show how “real” men behave in nonaggressive, conciliatory and apologetic ways.

At home and at work, in the boardroom, on the playground, and even while barbecuing in the backyard, Gillette sees nothing but testosterone-driven trouble. Message: Y chromosomes are toxic. The “best a man can get” can no longer be attained without first renouncing oppressive manliness.

Self-improvement must begin with self-flagellation.

A Gillette company statement explained that after “taking a hard look at our past” and “reflecting on the types of men and behaviors we want to celebrate,” officials decided to “actively challenge the stereotypes and expectations of what it means to be a man everywhere you see Gillette.”

But Proctor & Gamble, which bought Gillette in 2005 for $57 billion, doesn’t spell out which part exactly of the 118-year-old company’s past it now rejects. Was it founder King Gillette, the relentless entrepreneur who appealed to “red-blooded” young American soldiers? Was it the decades of multimillion-dollar promotional campaigns catering to physically superior athletes?

Or perhaps the mau-mauing marketers have adopted the radical feminist position that shaving itself is sexist. Is the ultimate goal to undermine the very raison d'etre of the $15 billion shave care industry?

I ask only half in jest. How else to explain this latest suicidal episode of collective consumer-shaming? Gillette’s two-minute, man-bashing missive may have racked up 7 million views on YouTube, but the “dislikes” outnumber “likes” by 4 to 1.

And the reviews are brutal:

“How to destroy your company in 1 minute 48 seconds.”

“Companies attempting to make profit should stick to that.”

“The single male is the most attacked maligned ridiculed and forgotten person in today’s society.”

“You can buy High Quality Razors that are NOT Gillette at the 99 Cents Store with NO lecturing on how to be a Man.”

“I’ll buy P&G products again when I see them release an equivalent ad targeting negative female traits: toxic femininity/paternity fraud/fake accusations… doubt that’s going to happen any time soon!”

“So now Gillette thinks that it is the arbiter of what all men should think, say, and watch. Screw Gillette, bought their products for almost 50 years, I will never buy another Gillette product. NEVER!!!”

“Thank you Gillette, I purchased your razors and chopped off my testicles with it. No more toxic masculinity!”

Ouch.

You may remember that P&G, which I un-fondly refer to Protest & Grumble, has dipped its sanctimonious toe into social justice waters before. In 2017, the company tackled identity politics with a video called “The Talk.” The preachy ad stoked fear and hatred of police and perpetuated racial stereotypes of officers lurking around every corner waiting to pounce on innocent black children and teenagers — alienating law enforcement families across the country and insulting every minority cop to boot.

The backlash against that ad apparently didn’t faze Protest & Grumble’s activist zealots. Once again, industry marketers are proving they’re not satisfied with selling useful products people want and need. No, they’re hell-bent on exploiting successful businesses to cram odious politics down consumers’ throats.

Like many Silicon Valley giants (hello, Facebook and Twitter) and SJW-hijacked sports enterprises (hello, NFL and ESPN), Gillette is now openly discriminating against its consumers-turned-critics to curry political favor with the #MeToo movement. Savvy social media observers caught the company throttling negative comments and dislikes on its YouTube video. They can manipulate likes and de-platform dissenters. But they won’t be able to disguise the bloodletting effect of toxic sanctimony on their bottom line.

Falling on your virtue-signaling blade may win you awards and headlines, but ultimately, it’s a fatal proposition.  ~The Patriot Post

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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 18, 2019 at 12:55pm
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Fund the Wall by Cutting Government Waste
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President Trump Signs Bill 
Guaranteeing Back Pay For Federal Workers
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by Rusty
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ President Trump on Wednesday signed the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019, guaranteeing back pay to over 800,000 federal workers... at the conclusion of the government shutdown. The White House quietly noted the move, saying it was done behind closed doors and with no media present. Workers were not in any real danger of losing wages due to the shutdown, but a bill guaranteeing their pay puts it on record that any wages not earned during that time will be recompensated. The Act, according to CNN, “requires the compensation of government employees for wages lost, work performed, or leave used during a lapse in appropriations that begins on or after December 22, 2018, and entitles excepted employees to use leave during a lapse in appropriations.” Sponsor of the bill, Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland, praised Trump for the move but urged colleagues to get the government reopened...
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Trump cancels Pulosi's 
overseas trip as shutdown fight escalates
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by Melissa Quinn
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump said Thursday he was canceling an upcoming overseas trip for House Speaker Nancy Pulosi due to the government shutdown... just a day after Pulosi threatened to cancel Trump's State of the Union address later this month. Pulosi, D-Calif., was scheduled to travel to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan for seven days, but Trump informed Pulosi in a letter Thursday the trip was canceled. Trump indicated he was canceling Pulosi's access to a government or military plane for the trip, as he suggested Pulosi might still attend if she were to fly commercial. "Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed," Trump wrote. "We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over."“In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate,” Trump added. “I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the shutdown. Obviously, if you would like to make your journey flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.”...
Freshmen Dems stumble in quest 
to confront McConnell on shutdown
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by Lukas Mikelionis  
{foxnews.com} ~ Next time, these members of Congress might want to check Mitch McConnell's itinerary first... Freshmen Democrats led by Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez struggled Wednesday to confront the Senate majority leader in-person over the government shutdown, as they carried a letter urging him to vote to reopen the government without border-wall funding – but couldn't seem to find him. The stunt – dubbed #WheresMitch on social media – came to an unceremonious and anti-climactic end after the pack first went to the wrong office of McConnell, then delivered the letter to his chief of staff, and ultimately declined to stake out the Senate floor.The group of Democrats, which included Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, California Rep. Katie Hill, and Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood, carried a letter – reportedly signed by over 30 House freshmen – urging McConnell to reopen the government and bring the House-approved funding package to a vote in the Senate. They reportedly first marched McConnell’s personal office in the Russell Senate Office Building – only to find out that he doesn’t work there. They shortly fled to the Republican’s Capitol office, where according to The Hill, the group was greeted by the senator’s chief of staff Don Stewart who cordially promised to deliver the letter to his boss... I'm sure McConnell will not respond to them if the wall funding is not included.
scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters Wants $13.27 Billion 
to End Homelessness (But No Money for a Wall)
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the new chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said... she will make housing a priority during her tenure, and she wants a "surge" of funding to address the "crisis." scumbag/mad-Waters said she will re-introduce a bill that provides "$13.27 billion in new funding over 12 years" for federal programs and initiatives to prevent homelessness." A very important issue we will be bringing renewed attention to in the Financial Services Committee is housing. This country is experiencing a house, affordability and homelessness crisis. Today, there are over half a million people out there experiencing homelessness right here in the richest country in the world. Over one-fifth of homeless are children. This includes the veterans who we failed to support when they returned home after serving our country; women fleeing domestic violence; people who have left prison after serving their debt to society; and people who have simply fallen on hard times. It is simply shameful, and Congress indeed has a responsibility to act. To tackle the homelessness crisis, Congress needs to provide a surge of funding and resources. Just as Congress puts billions of dollars into defense spending, we must provide the funding necessary to ensure that all Americans have access to safe, decent and affordable housing... You just can't blame the government for not caring. The homeless need to share the blame also.
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Michael Cohen levels new allegation, claims
he worked to rig online polls at Trump’s direction
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by Alex Pappas  
{foxnews.com} ~ Michael Cohen, the president’s former fixer who was recently sentenced to three years in prison, leveled a new allegation Thursday at President Trump by claiming... his former boss directed him to rig online polls ahead of the 2016 presidential race. Cohen tweeted the allegation after the Wall Street Journal published a story saying he paid thousands of dollars to a man named John Gauger of the company RedFinch to try to boost Trump’s standing in two polls. One was a 2014 CNBC online poll of the country’s top business leaders; the other was a 2015 online Drudge Report poll of potential Republican presidential candidates.“ As for the @WSJ article on poll rigging, what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of @realDonaldTrump @POTUS,” Cohen tweeted. “I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn’t deserve it.” The language is similar to that used by Cohen in previous statements claiming he made hush-money payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who claimed affairs with Trump. Cohen has said he did that at Trump's direction too. Despite the reported efforts in 2014 and 2015, Trump did not do well in either poll, according to the Wall Street Journal. Trump did not make it into the top 100 candidates of top business leaders, and Trump ranked in fifth place, or 5 percent, of the Drudge Report poll. Online polls, unlike scientific ones conducted by pollsters, are notoriously unreliable... I say so-what, all candidates do that.
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Fund the Wall by Cutting Government Waste
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by Jordan Candler:  The battle royale regarding border-wall funding continues to prolong the partial government shutdown. As The Washington Post reported Monday, “Trump and lawmakers paralyzed over shutdown as both sides remain dug in.” With both Democrats and Republicans remaining steadfast up to this point, there’s really no way of knowing when the historic shutdown will come to an end.

             Yet the reason is completely ridiculous. The money that Trump is seeking to allocate for the border wall is, relatively speaking, chump change. For perspective, Marc A. Thiessen  writes, “In 2019, the federal government will spend a whopping $4.407 trillion. Yet Congress and the president are shutting down the government in a dispute between the $1.3 billion the Democrats have approved for border security and the $5.7 billion the president is demanding — precisely 0.0998 percent of the total federal budget. In Washington, that is considered a rounding error.” No wonder he says this constitutes “the stupidest government shutdown in American history.”
               Suffice it to say, spending is DC’s modus operandi. Which means the complaints about funding the relatively cheap wall are simply political grandstanding. Consider some of these examples for context:

  • Conservative pundit Liz Wheeler reminded us this week that the horribly designed scumbag/liar-nObamaCare website cost taxpayers about $2.1 billion — yet the Left “didn’t think that was ‘too expensive.’” Amazingly, Democrats were willing to spend roughly 37% of what Trump’s wall would cost … on a website.

  • According to The Daily Caller, “[Chuck] scumbag/clown-Schumer … in early December asked Trump to support  'permanent tax incentives for domestic production of clean electricity and storage, energy efficient homes and commercial buildings, electric vehicles, and modernizing the electric grid.‘ … Extending tax subsidy provisions primarily benefiting wind and solar power would cost nearly $32 billion over the next four years, according to Joint Committee on Taxation estimates. Permanently extending these tax subsidies could add billions more to the tab. The committee estimates solar and wind tax subsidies will cost more than $7 billion in 2019.” That’s more than enough money to cover the cost of the border wall — and then some.

  • Likewise, the border wall could easily be covered via a decision from last May in which Trump moved “to rescind $15 billion in unspent money from previous years, including $7 billion from CHIP. ”

  • In 2014, NPR reported, “Government estimates suggest there may be 77,000 empty or underutilized buildings across the country. Taxpayers own them, and even vacant, they’re expensive. The Office of Management and Budget says these buildings could be costing taxpayers $1.7 billion a year.” These vacant buildings cost about 30% of what Trump’s wall would cost every year.

  • In 2015, National Review revealed, “The GAO reports that five federal agencies alone spent $3.1 billion on workers placed on administrative leave in a two-year timespan. A lot of that cash — $775 million, to be exact — went to public employees banned from their desks for more than a month.” These undeserved salaries could significantly help offset the cost of the border wall.

  • The unelected former First Lady Michelle scumbag/liar-nObama instituted school lunch standards that imposed $1.2 billion in compliance costs. Not only was it emblematic of the nanny state, but the scheme failed.

  • In 2016, The Patriot Post reported, “During the 2015 fiscal year, the U.S. government improperly paid out $136 billion, according to a Government Accountability Office report. … But it’s not the whole picture. The government doesn’t have to report improper payouts under a 1.5% error rate, and the GAO didn’t have access to the Pentagon’s budget. Still, with the data it did have, the GAO determined the government pays out money incorrectly 4.8% of the time.” At $136 billion, Trump’s border wall could be built 28 times.

  • Taxpayers shell out approximately $500 million annually to subsidize abortion via Planned Parenthood. Simply by ending these abortion subsidies, the government could provide a hefty down payment for the border wall.

This isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. Whether it’s spending  $387,000 on massages for rabbits or $856,000 educating mountain lions on how to operate a treadmill (not a joke), the government funds countless frivolous endeavors that add up to billions of dollars in waste.
               Moreover, this money has nothing to do with national security, which the Constitution says is one of the government’s few obligations. Democrats can oppose the wall on ideological grounds. But they can’t in good conscious claim to be concerned about what it might cost. Otherwise they’d also be aghast at what illegal immigration cost us every year — upwards of $296 billion.  ~The Patriot Post

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