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Why Our Military Forces Aren't
Ready for Prime Time
by John J. Bastiat
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The Debate Over Nationalism
Is A Debate Over The West’s Future
by Sumantra Maitra
{thefederalist.com} ~ A pivotal debate is happening over the meaning and merit of “nationalism.” It will decide the heart and soul, as well the character and future of the West... The French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, recently argued that Europe needs to turn to an empire to face off China and the United States. That came after both French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel argued for a common European army. The presidents of Hungary and Poland, on the other hand, have started to lead a bloc that extols the virtue of nationalism and federalism. Of course, President Trump also famously or notoriously, depending on which paper you’re reading said that one should be proud to be a nationalist. Two tweets that showed up one after the other on my Twitter timeline struck me as relevant to the conversation. The first was from Tom Nichols, which somewhat bafflingly and a historically stated: “Patriotism is the love of an idea. Nationalism is the love of a chromosome.” It’s baffling in the sense that it would imply that love for your home, or neighborhood, is the love of a theory. Wonder what John Adams, Mahatma Gandhi, or Vaclav Havel would have to say to that? The second was regarding a podcast of Yoram Hazony, in which he lambasts the European Union as a new liberal empire that wants to kill off every single independent nation-state in the European continent and then turn its sights on other great powers, possibly including the United States.Why is nationalism being portrayed by a certain section of liberal and libertarian intellectuals as a horrific throwback to a dangerous past? It relates to an understanding 100 years after World War I of the horrific slaughter that ended an old order and propelled us into a new....
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Wednesday Top Headlines
by Media Editors: The many reasons to be thankful (National Review)
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Trump lawyers submit written answers to special counsel’s questions (National Review)
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Feds have paid undercover informants in migrant caravan (NBC News)
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Mexico to deport migrant caravan members after Tijuana arrests (The Washington Times)
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House Democrats plan to investigate Ivanka Trump’s use of personal email for government business (The Washington Post)
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Democrat Ben McAdams ousts Republican Rep. Mia Love by 694 votes (The Salt Lake Tribune)
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Fudge endorses sick-Pulosi for speaker, dropping potential challenge (Politico)
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Detroit judge: Federal statue outlawing female genital mutilation is unconstitutional (CNS News)
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CDC, FDA warn against eating romaine lettuce after E. coli outbreak (ABC News)
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Megyn Kelly finalizing $30 million exit from NBC (Fox News)
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Maryland’s “Red Flag Law” spurs hundreds of gun confiscation requests (Hot Air)
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The DC establishment gets almost everything wrong about Trump’s Saudi posture (The Federalist)
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U.S. sanctions illicit Russia-Iran military funding network in Syria (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Tech’s “FAANG” stocks have lost more than $1 trillion and counting from highs amid tech rout (CNBC)
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Humor: Facebook suffers brief outage, utopia breaks out around world (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Why a carbon tax is the wrong solution (E21)
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Policy: A conservative anti-poverty program (Politico)
~The Patriot Post
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.Amid AG rumors, Gowdy says
he’s still ‘heading to South Carolina’
by Jamie Lovegrove
{postandcourier.com} ~ U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy downplayed speculation Wednesday that he could be the next attorney general... saying he would be willing to take a call from President Donald Trump but still plans to leave national politics. “I think the capital is not in South Carolina, and I’m heading to South Carolina,” said Gowdy, R-Spartanburg, who announced his decision in January to leave Congress. Several of Gowdy’s allies on Capitol Hill, including U.S. Sens. Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham from his home state of South Carolina, have recently suggested he would be a good choice for Trump’s next top law enforcement official after Jeff Sessions was forced out last week. Gowdy said he would at least be willing to hear out the president if he were contacted. The two have still never met or spoken before. “Anytime a president calls and asks you to talk to him, the answer is ‘yes,’ ” Gowdy said. “It was true of President scumbag/liar-nObama, it would be true of President Trump.” For most of his final term in office, Gowdy has chaired the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. That position, as well as his role on the Intelligence Committee, has at times put him in conflict with Trump, such as in July, when he said the president needed to stop suggesting that Russia didn’t attempt to interfere in the 2016 election...Top Dem Donors Hosted Director From Group
That Registered Dead People to Vote
by Brent Scher and Joe Schoffstall
{freebeacon.com} ~ The left's largest network of wealthy donors tapped an individual for a discussion on "expanding the electorate" at its fall investment conference from a group that was caught... submitting fraudulent voter registration forms—including registering dead people to vote—and saw one of its employees go to prison for the crime. The Democracy Alliance, a dark money donor club that consists of more than 100 millionaires and billionaires who each vow to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into the coffers of progressive groups every year, held its fall investment conference last Thursday and Friday at the Capital Hilton hotel in Washington, D.C., where donors and progressive activists huddled to begin plotting their upcoming strategy for the 2020 elections. Among the events was a strategy briefing on "expanding the electorate," according to documents obtained on site by the Washington Free Beacon. "The 2018 elections presented organizations and communities with an opportunity to truly transform and expand the electorate and elect the next generation of our country's progressive leadership," the agenda says of the discussion. "The state of American politics provided an environment conducive to mobilizing a new coalition of voters, inspiring them to vote, and persuading them that by investing their energy and resources into civic participation they can create positive change."....
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The Debate Over Nationalism
Is A Debate Over The West’s Future
by Sumantra Maitra
{thefederalist.com} ~ A pivotal debate is happening over the meaning and merit of “nationalism.” It will decide the heart and soul, as well the character and future of the West... The French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, recently argued that Europe needs to turn to an empire to face off China and the United States. That came after both French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel argued for a common European army. The presidents of Hungary and Poland, on the other hand, have started to lead a bloc that extols the virtue of nationalism and federalism. Of course, President Trump also famously or notoriously, depending on which paper you’re reading said that one should be proud to be a nationalist. Two tweets that showed up one after the other on my Twitter timeline struck me as relevant to the conversation. The first was from Tom Nichols, which somewhat bafflingly and a historically stated: “Patriotism is the love of an idea. Nationalism is the love of a chromosome.” It’s baffling in the sense that it would imply that love for your home, or neighborhood, is the love of a theory. Wonder what John Adams, Mahatma Gandhi, or Vaclav Havel would have to say to that? The second was regarding a podcast of Yoram Hazony, in which he lambasts the European Union as a new liberal empire that wants to kill off every single independent nation-state in the European continent and then turn its sights on other great powers, possibly including the United States.Why is nationalism being portrayed by a certain section of liberal and libertarian intellectuals as a horrific throwback to a dangerous past? It relates to an understanding 100 years after World War I of the horrific slaughter that ended an old order and propelled us into a new....
6 Bangladesh Muslims
Captured Within 12 Hours At Texas Border
by ROBERT SPENCER
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents continue to find illegal immigrants from Bangladesh who cross the border from Mexico... During a 12-hour period beginning on Saturday evening, six Bangladeshi nationals were apprehended in two separate incidents. Agents assigned to the Laredo South Border Patrol Station came upon a group of four suspected illegal immigrants while patrolling near Masterson Road in Laredo, Texas, on Saturday. The agents conducted interviews as part of Laredo Sector line watch operations. The questioning revealed the four young men were Bangladeshi nationals, according to Laredo Sector Border Patrol officials. The following morning, Laredo South Station agents carrying out line watch operations came upon another group of two suspected illegal immigrants walking near Oleander Street in Laredo. An interview with the subjects revealed the young men to also be Bangladeshi who were smuggled into the U.S., officials reported. In an incident on October 29, Laredo South Station agents patrolling along the Rio Grande River rescued a group of Bangladeshi nationals as they attempted to cross the river, Breitbart News reported. Two of the migrants nearly drowned before agents were able to pull them into their boat....
The EU's Dangerous New Confidence Game
by Douglas Murray
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ At the start of this decade, a minor story occurred that set the scene for the years that have followed... In 2010, a Saudi lawyer named Faisal Yamani wrote to the Danish newspapers that had published cartoons of Islam's prophet, Mohammed. Claiming to act on behalf of 95,000 descendants of Mohammed, the Saudi lawyer said that the cartoons were defamatory and that legal proceedings would thereby begin. However, everything about the supposed legal claim reeked. How had Mr Yamani located all these descendants? How had he come up with exactly 95,000 of them? And how could you claim that a statement about somebody who died 1,400 years ago was "defamatory"? Legally, one cannot "defame" the dead. Everything about the claim was laughable Yet it had its desired effect. At least one Danish paper -- Politiken -- swiftly issued an apology for republishing the cartoons. So Mr Yamani got what he wanted. He had one might suggest conjured up a set of alleged victims and cobbled together an alleged offence, but no matter, because he also got a European newspaper to fold in no seconds flat. It was an interesting probe of the European system of justice -- and a good example of submission. And a fine scene-setting precedent for the decade that has followed. Now, eight years later, an even greater act of submission has come along. This one not imposed from some dodgy Saudi lawyer, but from the highest court in Europe. At the end of last month, the European Court of Human Rights issued its ruling in a long-running case involving an Austrian woman named Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff. Way back in 2009, in Vienna, Sabaditsch-Wolff who has lived in several Muslim countries gave two seminars entitled, "Basic Information on Islam." During these talks, in the words of the ECHR... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13262/eu-confidence-game.
Why Our Military Forces Aren't Ready for Prime Timeby John J. Bastiat: As if well over a decade of neglect and budget-vampiring weren’t enough evidence, it’s now official: The U.S. faces a “crisis of national security.” That’s the blunt verdict from the National Defense Strategy Commission (NDSC), the bipartisan, independent assessment board formed by the House and Senate Armed Services committees. Unlike previous go-along-to-get-along reports that attempted to “make nice” with both sides of the political aisle, this report pulled no punches, estimating that the U.S. would be hard-pressed to fight more than one major conflict at a time and might even lose a war against either China or Russia.
Never at the top of any Democrat president’s priority list, national defense took an especially precipitous plunge during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s so-called “sequestration” budget pogroms. Barack scumbag/liar-nObama insisted that national security be placed on the same level as prison work-release programs, food stamps, and other Democrat “pet rocks” — every dollar cut from a “social” good had to be matched with a dollar cut from national defense. Thus, defense suffer asymmetrically deep cuts. Of course, the NDSC cited lack of funding as a primary culprit to the current crisis — but it wasn’t the only one.
The report also noted that while the U.S. has been focused on fighting smaller, counterinsurgency conflicts and combating terrorism in hot spots abroad, “our enemies have developed new ways of defeating U.S. forces.” As a result, “America is losing its advantage in key war-fighting areas such as power projection, air and missile defense, cyber and space operations, anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare, long-range ground-based fires, and electronic warfare.” Punctuating the forest-for-the-trees loss of the Big Picture suffered by upper-echelon military strategists and policymakers, the report further observed, “Many of the skills necessary to plan for and conduct military operations against capable adversaries — especially China and Russia — have atrophied.” That’s putting it mildly.
Naturally, the Left totally miscasts both the issue and the solution. Sometimes, leftist rhetoric even seeps into otherwise conservative areas. The Daily Wire’s Joseph Curl, for instance, smugly explains that “so-called ‘entitlements’ … are actually the programs that make America America.” So socialist income-redistribution programs make America America? But, we are told, “Americans are right to be wary of the U.S. war operation” that — using the magical accounting method of “a new study” from that bastion of conservative thought, the Watson Institute at Brown University — cost $6 trillion since 9/11. In other words, throwing trillions at entitlement programs is fine, but spending to defend the nation? That’s another story!
To only slightly exaggerate, it seems the study’s numbers include anything even remotely “war-related,” including Grandma’s new dentures to replace the old ones she spit out in anger after watching TV and seeing all the horrible things our military is doing over there. Seriously, though: Their accounting wasn’t even close.
But why not, then? Shouldn’t we get to tally up the costs of all the addicts, convicts, and life-drop-outs the Left has foisted on America since LBJ’s failed “Great Society”? Wouldn’t we then have an apples-to-apples comparison of the so-called “real” costs between constitutional defense spending and the social programs that have raised our operating debt to $22 trillion and our unfunded liabilities to over $200 trillion? It’s also interesting to note how the Left can so skew its worldview as to lump its social-program costs into costs actually used to maintain national security. Perhaps these defense funds should be allocated to better purposes or used more efficiently, but defense spending is just that: Spending on defense.
The Pentagon recognizes the fiscal problems associated with accounting for global military operations in the context of the modernization and sustainment needs of a strong defense force. Accordingly, using an army of 1,200 auditors, it just completed its first-ever audit. Again, leftists were drawn to attacks on the character of the U.S. military like flies to poo. For example, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) declared, “The unchecked waste, fraud and abuse at the Pentagon is an insult to the American people.” No, the insult is a Democrat Party that would rather buy votes with redistributed income than defend our nation.
That the Department of Defense was willing to conduct an introspective into getting its house in order is worthy of praise, not condemnation. Such an audit was high on President Donald Trump’s “to-do” list and the fact he was able to convince the Pentagon to do it is also worth noting.
Finally, back to the report on American military readiness. It concludes with this ominous warning: “The costs of failing to meet America’s crisis of national defense and national security will not be measured in abstract concepts like ‘international stability’ and ‘global order.’ They will be measured in American lives, American treasure, and American security and prosperity lost. It will be a tragedy — of unforeseeable but perhaps tremendous magnitude — if the United States allows its national interests and national security to be compromised through an unwillingness or inability to make hard choices and necessary investments. The tragedy will be all the more regrettable because it is in our power to avoid it.”
Translation: We had better get our act together quickly or we may not have an act to get together at all. ~The Patriot Post
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Getting Harder To Be Catholic
by Tom McLaughlin
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Brutal and Pragmatic Honesty – President Trump Releases Statement on Kashoggi and Saudi Arabia
by sundance
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ President Trump, not necessarily the White House – but rather, President Trump, releases an absolutely pitch-perfect statement... that encapsulates the myriad of interests that have sought to exploit, manipulate, leverage and utilize the murder of Jamal Kashoggi. This entirely accurate and brutally honest statement by President Trump will drive the left-wing media, specifically WaPo, NYT and CNN, absolutely bananas: The world is a very dangerous place! The country of Iran, as an example, is responsible for a bloody proxy war against Saudi Arabia in Yemen, trying to destabilize Iraq’s fragile attempt at democracy, supporting the terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, propping up dictator Bashar Assad in Syria who has killed millions of his own citizens, and much more. Likewise, the Iranians have killed many Americans and other innocent people throughout the Middle East. Iran states openly, and with great force, “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” Iran is considered “the world’s leading sponsor of terror.” On the other hand, Saudi Arabia would gladly withdraw from Yemen if the Iranians would agree to leave. They would immediately provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance. Additionally, Saudi Arabia has agreed to spend billions of dollars in leading the fight against Radical Islamic Terrorism. After my heavily negotiated trip to Saudi Arabia last year, the Kingdom agreed to spend and invest $450 billion in the United States. This is a record amount of money. It will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, tremendous economic development, and much additional wealth for the United States. Of the $450 billion, $110 billion will be spent on the purchase of military equipment from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and many other great U.S. defense contractors. If we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries – and very happy to acquire all of this newfound business. It would be a wonderful gift to them directly from the United States!...
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by sundance{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ President Trump’s statement on Saudi Arabia is one of the most forthright explanations of foreign policy by a US President, ever... No obfuscation; no convoluted parseltongue; just plainly spoken brutal honesty. The Saudis may do bad things but they are better than their enemies, and our alliance with them is in our national interest. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a similar statement in his media press briefing today.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/11/20/secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-holds-press-briefing-answers-questions-on-kashoggi-determinations/VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag4AR4l2bEk
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Trump’s Pick for Saudi Ambassador
is Expert on Hezbollah and Iran
by Seth J. Frantzman
{meforum.org} ~US President Donald Trump has nominated John Abizaid as ambassador to Saudi Arabia... The retired general has opposed the Iranian nuclear program but also urged Israeli restraint in confronting it. As an observer for the UN in 1985, Abizaid saw some of Hezbollah’s first terrorist attacks, and has spoken about the threat of terrorism in the region. His nomination comes at a crucial juncture for US-Saudi relations and also Riyadh’s role in the region. Abizaid will fill a spot that has been open for several years. A former US Central Command commander, Abizaid has a long background in the Middle East and its wars. Abizaid is of Lebanese descent and a fluent Arabic speaker. Retiring from the US military in 2007, he was the longest serving commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) at a time when the US was embroiled in a variety of wars in the region. This gives him an unprecedented view into the current US role, including the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, areas that Saudi Arabia also has an interest in. However, much has changed in the last decade, and Abizaid is coming to Riyadh at a unique time. He has viewed Iran’s nuclear program as a danger to the region, but also said in 2007 that the US could learn to “live with a nuclear Iran.” In comments to the Center for Strategic and International Studies that year, he noted that the US had learned to deal with a nuclear China and Russia...
https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/trump’s-pick-for-saudi-ambassador-is-expert-on-hez
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EU still struggling with payment system to
bypass Iran sanctions
by Behnam Ben Taleblu
{fdd.org} ~ Austria’s refusal to play host to a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) payment system that would circumvent U.S. sanctions... is the latest in a series of setbacks for EU states struggling to save the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. EU members appear to understand that playing host to the SPV increases their potential for exposure to U.S. secondary sanctions. Since the U.S. left the Iran nuclear deal in May, the EU has been scrambling to find creative ways to incentivize Iran to continue adhering to the accord. While EU leaders desired to have the SPV established by November, devising a sanctions-proof channel to clear trade and engage in bartering with Iran was much harder than anticipated. The value of the proposed European SPV is more symbolic than economic. EU leaders remain committed to sovereignty over their trade and security policies, yet there are three main impediments to the plan’s success: The power and reach of U.S. secondary sanctions. Risk aversion of banks and businesses toward an essentially illicit finance vehicle many European and multinational firms have already withdrawn from the Iranian market. The challenges of establishing a payment system that avoids the U.S. financial system altogether... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2018/11/19/eu-still-struggling-with-payment-system-to-bypass-iran-sanctions/
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Getting Harder To Be Catholic
by Tom McLaughlin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ When secular American culture unraveled after the 1960s, I took comfort that the Catholic Church seemed to anchor traditional morality. Now, however, I’m cheering the secular authorities investigating corruption in the Catholic Church because the Lavender Mafia controlling both the Vatican and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) continues to bury it. Attorneys general in more than a dozen states have begun investigations into cover-ups of sexual predation and coverup by Catholic bishops similar to the one reported out by the Pennsylvania AG last summer. In just the past month, two federal investigations began and two lawsuits were filed in federal court as well. 
Under this cloud, the USCCB met in Baltimore last week. Its president, Cardinal Archbishop Daniel DiNardo of Houston, Texas wanted that body to vote on a measure that would do two things: form a lay Catholic commission to investigate the Cardinal McCarrick scandal, and petition the Vatican to release documents on McCarrick's case. DiNardo knows how angry ordinary Catholics are that the pope and the Vatican hierarchy continue to cover for homosexual predators in their midst and that US bishops have either cooperated in this or remained silent. He knows grassroots Catholics want action now.
But it was not to be. Pope Francis pulled the rug out from under DiNardo as the conference began when he brazenly ordered that no vote be taken! The pope’s toadies in the USCCB like Cardinal Cupich of Chicago and others cheered this move and suggested the USCCB vote should be taken next spring instead — after still another “conference” with the pope in Rome. They want to kick the can of corruption down the road yet again.
Humiliated by this action from The Dictator Pope (the title of Henry Sire’s devastating book on Pope Francis I just finished reading), Cardinal DiNardo moderated a debate over an obsequious motion that would only suggest the pope do these things. Unbelievably, even that vote failed 137-83. That means there are still 137 American bishops who think they can just drift along as they always have and ordinary Catholics in the pews will sit back and let them.
They’re wrong. Millions left the church after the 2002 Boston Globe Spotlight Series exposed widespread corruption. Many who remained have been further sickened by the revelations this past summer that hierarchical corruption was only covered up yet again. Worse, Archbishop Vigano, the former papal ambassador to the United States, has testified that the corruption extends to the Chair of Peter itself and calls on Pope Francis to resign! Vigano also accused US Cardinals Cupich and Wuerl of lying about it all. Another resolution in support of Vigano’s testimony was debated at last week’s USCCB Conference. Although it too failed, at least 43 bishops voted in favor.
Does that mean nearly a quarter of US Bishops believe Pope Francis should resign? Do they also believe many of their fellow bishops and cardinals are lying? It appears that way. What does this say about the spiritual condition of the Catholic Church in the United States and around the world? Locally, Maine’s Bishop Robert Deeley and Manchester, New Hampshire’s Bishop Peter Libaski were among the 83 voting for an investigation, but sadly, neither voted in support of the Vigano testimony.
Foreign Affairs Magazine calls this is the worst crisis in Catholic Church since Martin Luther posted his “95 Theses” in 1517 and precipitated the Protestant Reformation. Others claim it’s the worst since 1054 AD when the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches split.
According to Market Watch, some of us protest with our wallets. We don’t put money in the collection box or have severely cut back on what we used to contribute. When attending mass in nearby New Hampshire, I’d be sickened seeing a photo of former Manchester Bishop John McCormack on the wall of the narthex and I wasn’t about to put anything over $5 in the collection box if he was going to get any of it. I know I was not alone.
My wife and I attend mass at several different parishes depending on where we are on any given Sunday. Given the performance at last week’s bishops’ conference in Baltimore, I’m not inclined to raise my contribution anywhere in New England. Instead of money, some Catholics have begun putting a signed note in the box protesting both the pope and the USCCB. Maybe that will shake things up enough for real reform. Nothing else has worked.
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Humiliated by this action from The Dictator Pope (the title of Henry Sire’s devastating book on Pope Francis I just finished reading), Cardinal DiNardo moderated a debate over an obsequious motion that would only suggest the pope do these things. Unbelievably, even that vote failed 137-83. That means there are still 137 American bishops who think they can just drift along as they always have and ordinary Catholics in the pews will sit back and let them.
Does that mean nearly a quarter of US Bishops believe Pope Francis should resign? Do they also believe many of their fellow bishops and cardinals are lying? It appears that way. What does this say about the spiritual condition of the Catholic Church in the United States and around the world? Locally, Maine’s Bishop Robert Deeley and Manchester, New Hampshire’s Bishop Peter Libaski were among the 83 voting for an investigation, but sadly, neither voted in support of the Vigano testimony.
Whether it’s the worst in five centuries or the worst in a millennium, it’s getting harder to be a traditional Roman Catholic these days. I understand those who have been steadily leaving since 2002, but I choose to stay and fight. However, if last week’s USCCB meeting was a battle, traditionalists like me appear to be losing. Polarization in the Catholic Church is widening and there are many suggestions about how to participate in the struggle for its soul.
My wife and I attend mass at several different parishes depending on where we are on any given Sunday. Given the performance at last week’s bishops’ conference in Baltimore, I’m not inclined to raise my contribution anywhere in New England. Instead of money, some Catholics have begun putting a signed note in the box protesting both the pope and the USCCB. Maybe that will shake things up enough for real reform. Nothing else has worked.
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'Nuke Americans Who Resist
Gun Confiscation!'
by Mark Alexander
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Trump administration vows to continue
fight after judge blocks asylum ban
by Anna Giaritelli
Caravan of 'Migrants' - a Crisis
Decades in the Making
by Michael Cutler
Identity Politics Shape Dem Fight
for House Leadership
by Daniel Greenfield
Florida Vote 2018: Criminal Investigations
May Be Tip Of The Iceberg
by J.E. Dyer
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Mexican Journalist Takes a Close Look at Caravan...
by BRYAN CHAI
{westernjournal.com} ~ As you’ve no doubt heard by now, there is a large migrant caravan barreling towards America’s southern border... Anyone who cares about border security or keeping the sanctity of legal immigration intact is justifiably appalled by the caravan. Naturally, the liberal media clearly don’t care about either. That’s the most plausible explanation why they’ve so willingly ignored one of the latest stories to arise from the caravan.Conciencia Radio journalist Alex Backman, based in Tijuana, posted a chilling video where he recounted some of horrifying revelations about what was really happening with some of the people on the caravan. Some of his revelations paint a very vivid picture of what to expect if the far left were to get their way and have that caravan allowed into the country unabated. The migrants on the caravan are robbing and stealing. They are carjacking people. Worst of all, there are even allegations of rape... https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/mexican-journalist-takes-close-look-caravan-uncovers-horrible-truths-medias-not-reporting/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-CT&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=conservative-tribune.
'Nuke Americans Who Resist Gun Confiscation!'by Mark Alexander: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is taking the lead on gun confiscation, beginning with what he calls “assault rifles.” You know — those extra dangerous rifles that he says are “more powerful and cause more carnage when used with a pistol-grip.” In an op-ed assault on the Second Amendment, Swalwell, not the brightest Democrat, proposed an Australian-type gun “buyback,” which sounds like a voluntary proposal … until he insists the government should “go after resisters” who don’t comply.
When challenged that this was the first step toward total confiscation, Swalwell insisted, “Wrong. Just assault weapons. Keep rifles, shotguns, pistols. Basically, the weapons that allow you to hunt, shoot for sport, and protect your house.” By the Left’s definition, “assault weapons” include many semiautomatic rifles. And as with nearly all Democrats these days, Swalwell reduces the Second Amendment to nothing more than hunting and home protection. Why the Founders went to such great lengths to codify a right to hunt alongside such essential liberties as free speech, religious liberty, and due process is never explained.
One of his critics fired back, “So basically @RepSwalwell wants a war. Because that’s what you would get.” Swalwell responded, “And it would be a short war my friend. The government has nukes.”
That’s right — Swalwell suggested that if you don’t comply with a “voluntary” gun buyback, the government will nuke you. “Trust the government. But also, we’ll nuke you if you resist.”
Memo to Eric: The first shots of the first American Revolution were fired when the British government attempted to seize arms in Concord, Massachusetts. And that IS the reason the Second Amendment was written into our Constitution — to guarantee the citizens’ right to defend against government tyranny. Nevertheless, Swalwell insists, “You claiming you need a gun to protect yourself against the government is ludicrous.” Says the guy who threatened to nuke American citizens.
For the record, Swalwell is assuming our military would wage a war against the American people at his bidding. Think again. The first hill they will take if so ordered will be Capitol Hill. ~The Patriot Post
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Leftists Don't Want You
to Believe Your Own Eyesby Media Editors
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Martha McSally may get another shot at becoming a senator
https://mediadc.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9daff05/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1060x557+0+22/resize/1200x630!/quality/90/?url=https://mediadc.brightspotcdn.com/c2/1c/dfdd65a64cdda6ea3912c5f27f0a/ap-18293080286728.jpg" />by Diana Stancy Correll
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Martha McSally, R-Ariz., who unsuccessfully ran against Rep. Kyrsten Sinema for Senate, may have another shot at becoming a senator in the near future... Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has had conversations with Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey about selecting McSally to replace Sen. Jon Kyl, who was tapped by Ducey after Sen. rino-John McCain’s death this summer. But Kyl may not fulfill the remainder of his term through 2020, meaning that Ducey could appoint a replacement that would serve until 2020. A special election would then be held in 2020 to determine who would hold the seat through 2022. According to CNN, Kyl has determined whether he will remain in the Senate or not, but has not yet disclosed his decision. Meanwhile, McConnell and other Republican figures are advocating for McSally to replace Kyl if he departs the Senate. Kyl praised McSally last week during an interview with CNN, saying, "I regret that she didn't make it in her election." "Martha McSally would be a very good member of the United States Senate, however she got there,” Kyl said...Pentagon Caught in a Perfect Political Storm
by JED BABBIN
{spectator.org} ~ Sebastian Junger’s book The Perfect Storm chronicled an unusual weather event when several storm fronts combined to create a storm of unimaginable strength... Years of cuts in defense spending, the atrophying of our forces strained by seventeen years of war, President Trump’s sudden decision to cut Pentagon spending willy-nilly, and the Democrats’ taking control of the House has created a perfect political storm that will batter the Pentagon and enormously damage our national security. Time and again, President Trump has demanded that the military be rebuilt to be the biggest, baddest actor on the planet. The 2019 Pentagon budget was increased, at Trump’s request, by an amount too small to do more than just begin the effort to repair the damage done by eight years of scumbag/liar-nObama’s cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And yet, on October 17, Trump announced that the Defense Department budget for fiscal year 2020 would be $700 billion, a reduction of $16 billion from FY 2019, $33 billion less than the planned budget for FY 2020. Even if the Pentagon were spending money the right way — which it isn’t, as we’ll see in a minute — Trump’s unexpected decision will be severely worsened by the Democrats’ takeover of the House....
U.S. Military Hardens Border Security – Mexico
Begins Recognizing Consequences
The Fake News is showing old footage of people climbing
over our Ocean Area Fence. This is what it really looks
like - no climbers anymore under our Administration!
by sundance
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ History is full of examples of what happens when illegal migration patterns are halted. We only need to look toward Tunisia, Libya and Morocco for recent examples... As the Central American migration horde begins to bottleneck within northern Mexico, it is likely President-elect Lopez-Obrador is beginning to evaluate those prior consequences. President Trump took pro-active steps to harden the U.S. border through the deployment of U.S. military, and specifically through Corps of Engineers working in concert with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to make illegal entry into the U.S. far more difficult. As an outcome, the mass influx of Central American travelers is backing-up in Tijuana Mexico; and this mass collection of people -mostly military aged males- will almost certainly continue for the next six months. It did not take long for Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum to see the impact to his town. Local protests began within days of the first several thousand arriving. Things will likely not end well unless active steps are taken soon to turn around the migrants. Hundreds of Tijuana residents, opposed to what they described as the “chaos” of the Central American migrant caravan, gathered at a prominent roundabout in Tijuana Sunday morning, before marching to a large, temporary shelter, which now holds about 2,400 migrants... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/11/19/u-s-military-hardens-border-security-mexico-begins-recognizing-consequences/ .
Democrat Losers: Undignified and Dangerous
by DAVID CATRON
{spectator.org} ~ What do scumbag-Al Gore, scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, and scumbag-Bill Nelson have in common?... Each asked the voters for important positions of leadership and promptly proved themselves unworthy of those offices when the answer was “No.” It isn’t necessary, of course, to revisit scumbag-Gore’s reluctant acceptance of reality or scumbag/liar-Clinton’s querulous hypocrisy. The tawdry details of those episodes are well known. But the long-term harm they wrought on the republic merits consideration. The extent of that damage was clearly demonstrated Friday, when Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams finally admitted that the laws of mathematics could not be overcome by frivolous lawsuits. The Friday non-concession speech Abrams inflicted on the citizens of Georgia was easily one of the most disgraceful political performances of the century thus far. She grudgingly acknowledged that Brian Kemp will be the Peach State’s next governor, but went on to accuse him — without evidence — of voter suppression during his tenure as secretary of state. Even worse, her bitter diatribe included a promise to file additional lawsuits in order to “pursue accountability in Georgia’s elections and integrity in the process of maintaining our voting rolls.” Abrams pledged to fight mythical “mismanagement of this election and to protect future elections from unconstitutional actions.” None of these charges have any basis in fact. In reality, the worst “crime” she accused Kemp of committing — the removal of dormant registrations from the voter rolls — has already been ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court. The real problem is no more complicated than the inability of Abrams to garner enough votes to win the election. It was obvious that the Democrat’s bid was a lost cause on Election Day. Kemp’s lead was, as Mark Steyn phrases it, “beyond the margin of lawyer.” But Abrams was still in denial when asked by a Sunday morning talking head, “Is he the legitimate governor-elect of Georgia?” Her response was utterly irresponsible. The Daily Caller reports: The law, as it stands, says that he received an adequate number of votes to become the governor of Georgia. And I acknowledge the law as it stands. I am a lawyer by training and I have taken the constitutional oath to uphold the law.… What you are looking for me to say is that there was no compromise of our democracy and there should be some political compromise in the language I use and that’s not right. What’s not right is saying that something was done properly when it was not....
Trump Ends $1.3 Billion Payments To Pakistan:
“I Ended It Because They Don’t Do Anything For Us”
by Tim Brown
{https://thewashingtonstandard.com/trump-ends-1-3-billion-payments-to-pakistan-i-ended-it-because-they-dont-do-anything-for-us/} ~ US President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his administration’s decision to stop hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Pakistan... saying the country does not do “a damn thing” for the US and its government had helped Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden hide near its city. Referring to Laden and his former compound in Abbottabad, Trump in an interview to Fox News said “You know, living – think of this – living in Pakistan, beautifully in Pakistan in what I guess they considered a nice mansion, I don’t know, I’ve seen nicer.”The compound was demolished shortly after US Naval Special Warfare Development Group forces, in a daring helicopter raid, killed Laden there in 2011. “But living in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everybody in Pakistan knew he was there,” Trump added. “And we give Pakistan $1.3 billion a year. … Laden lived in Pakistan, we’re supporting Pakistan, we’re giving them $1.3 billion a year – which we don’t give them anymore, by the way, I ended it because they don’t do anything for us, they don’t do a damn thing for us,” he said. The ties between the two countries strained after Trump, while announcing his Afghanistan and South Asia policy in August last year, hit out at Pakistan for providing safe havens to “agents of chaos” that kill Americans in Afghanistan and warned Islamabad that it has “much to lose” by harbouring terrorists....
Trump Fires Shot at dirty cop-Mueller: “Gone Absolutely Nuts!”
{restoreamericanglory.com} ~ A week after President Trump relieved Attorney General Jeff Sessions of his duties, he had the dirty cop-Mueller investigation in his sights on social media... blasting the inquiry as having “gone absolutely nuts” in the year and a half since its creation. “The inner workings of the dirty cop-Mueller investigation are a total mess,” the president wrote on Thursday. “They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. They are a disgrace to our Nation and don’t care how many lives they ruin.” Trump followed that up with a second tweet focusing specifically on the special counsel himself. “These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted dirty cop-Bob Mueller, who worked for scumbag/liar-nObama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side,” he said. “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!” It’s not clear what inspired Trump’s latest broadside attack on the special counsel; it has been several weeks since the president last mentioned the witch hunt on social media. One possible culprit: Trump has reportedly been working with his lawyers on completing a list of written questions from dirty cop-Mueller. It’s possible that simply going over the questions riled his anger over what seems to be an unending investigation into his 2016 campaign...
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Leftists Don't Want You to Believe Your Own Eyesby Media Editors: Tucker Carlson discusses this with from former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright. ~The Patriot Post
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Seven Ways to Stop Democrats From Stealing Electionsby Media Editors: Can Republicans ever win enough votes to overcome the extra Democrat ballots that magically appear at the 11th hour … or 15th hour? ~The Patriot Post
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Endangered Syndrome
Get ready to watch one of the most heart-wrenching pro-life ad campaigns you’ve ever seen.
It’s called “Endangered Syndrome,” and in it, children with Down syndrome dress up as endangered species—pandas, polar bears, and lions. Why?
Because like endangered animals, in many parts of the world, children with Down syndrome are becoming critically endangered, if not extinct. The point is simple—if we care so much about endangered animals, shouldn’t we also care about endangered humans, too?
In the U.S., at least 67 percent of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted. In the U.K., that number is closer to 90 percent. In Denmark, it’s 98 percent.
In Iceland, the prospect of people with Down syndrome becoming extinct is not hypothetical. From 2004 to 2013, fewer than four babies with the disorder were born each year, according to the campaign. The abortion rate there for babies with Down syndrome is effectively 100 percent.
In 2017, CBS News infamously broadcasted a news report asking: “Is Iceland on track to eliminate Down syndrome?” The problem was, Iceland wasn’t eliminating Down syndrome; it was eliminating anyone who has it. ~The Patriot Post
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIYPwP5Nec4
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'Undermining Democracy,' Democrat Style
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Tuesday Top Headlines
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U.S. shuts down busiest border crossing to help bulk up infrastructure and security (Washington Examiner)
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Troops land at border, lay razor wire, ready tent cities, and anger narco gangs (Washington Examiner)
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Senators Fein-stein and lowlife-Harris push White House for deal on judicial nominees (The Washington Times)
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White House fully restores Jim Acosta’s press pass, but institutes new rules for journalists (CBS News)
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Ivanka Trump’s lawyer slams “misinformation being peddled” after report that she used private email for government business (Fox News)
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Humor: Jim Acosta immediately decks White House intern after being let back into press pool (The Onion)
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Senate barrels toward showdown over Trump's court picks
by JORDAIN CARNEY.
One Angry Man – Joe diGenova Skewers Goodlatte,
Gowdy, McCarthy, Ryan and Rosenstein
by sundanceUS shuts down busiest border
crossing between Mexico, California
by Anna Giaritelli.
Election avoided? Bennett and Shaked
walk back resignation threat
by LAHAV HARKOV
{jpost.com} ~ Bayit Yehudi abandoned its threat to leave the coalition if Education Minister Naftali Bennett is not made defense minister... in statements by Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked at the Knesset Monday. This development leaves Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon as the sole coalition partner calling for an early election, making it far less likely than it had seemed in recent days. Kahlon’s spokesman said the minister’s position had not changed, and he still believes a one-seat majority destabilizes the coalition and leaves it open to blackmail and “anti-fiscal bills” from backbenchers. “If the prime minister is serious in his intentions, I am saying now: We are removing all political demands and standing here to help Israel win again,” Bennett said. “It’s better that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu beat me in politics than Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh beat Israel in the battlefield.” The Bayit Yehudi leader made his statement in response to remarks Netanyahu made the night before, saying holding an election now would be irresponsible and a result of petty politics, and vowing that he is protecting Israel’s security and he has a plan of action against Hamas. Bennett and Shaked backed down after a week in which the Knesset seemed headed for an election, with Avigdor Liberman resigning from the Defense Ministry and pulling Yisrael Beytenu from the coalition, and Bennett immediately demanded to replace him. Netanyahu said there is no need for an election, but Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon called for an election to take place as soon as possible, and Interior Minister Arye Deri and Bennett joined the call. But Deri retreated from his remarks on Sunday, and on Monday, Bennett did the same... https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Election-avoided-Bennett-and-Shaked-walk-back-resignation-threats-572245?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=20-2-2018&utm_content=election-avoided-bennett-and-shaked-walk-back-resignation-threats-572245.
Lincoln and Thanksgiving: The Origin of an American Holiday
by Melanie Kirkpatrick .
As we said Friday, Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election have nothing on Democrat schemes to undermine election integrity.
Clearly, Florida has some work to do to shore up election laws. But Georgia may be the more troublesome state. Abrams rose to prominence by running massive voter registration drives in order to flood Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office with perhaps fraudulent registrations, only to cry racism when Kemp, who also happened to be her gubernatorial opponent, worked to sort it out.
That narrative is so key to her entire campaign that she isn’t going to let it go in defeat. She’s launching a political action committee called Fair Fight Georgia, which she will use to wage a legal battle. “Let’s be clear: This is not a speech of concession,” Abrams said. “In the coming days, we will be filing a major federal lawsuit against the state of Georgia for the gross mismanagement of this election and to protect future elections from unconstitutional actions.”
In her speech announcing she wouldn’t actually concede but rather found “no further viable remedy,” Abrams also expounded her narrative: “Trust in our democracy relies on believing that there are good actors who are making this happen. And [Brian Kemp] was a horrible actor who benefited from his perfidy. That’s problematic. … Will I say this election was not tainted, was not a disinvestment and a disenfranchisement of thousands of voters? I will not say that.” Abrams admonished her supporters not to give up just because the process was “as rotten and rigged as you’ve always believed.”
Furthermore, the abortion-supporting Abrams added, “Something being legal does not make it right.”
Georgia voters best prepare for future election cycles to replay this manufactured grievance, as Democrats work to rally their urban Atlanta base with fairy tales of voter suppression in hopes of turning the Peach State blue.
P.S. Remember when Democrats lambasted Donald Trump for musing that he might not accept the 2016 election results if scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s corruption and voter fraud won the day? Those same Democrats went on to create a two-year narrative of “Russian collusion” to undermine Trump’s victory. They’re using that playbook again in Georgia. “If [Abrams] had a fair election, she … would have won,” scumbag/liar-Clinton declared. As usual, scumbag/liar-Clinton’s account of What Happened isn’t exactly reliable. ~The Patriot Post
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Let the Democrats Keep Showing Their Hand
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Pirro: Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris
Comparsion of ICE to KKK is Pure Insanity
{insider.foxnews.com} ~ In her Opening Statement, Judge Jeanine Pirro blasted Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris for comparing... Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Ku Klux Klan. Last week, lowlife-Harris (D-Calif.) grilled President Trump's nominee for ICE director, Ronald Vitiello, on the "perception" that the two organizations are acting in similar ways. "Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and discretion at ICE has been used to enforce laws?" lowlife-Harris asked, questioning whether Vitiello believes a perceived similarity exists between ICE and the Klan. Pirro asked on Saturday how lowlife-Harris would act on her promise to combat gangs and fight human trafficking without ICE. "Who you gonna call, Ghostbusters? Was the con then or is the con now?"...
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Devin Nunes Discusses Rosenstein “Dirty Cop”
Success Outlasting FBI and DOJ Investigation
by sundance.
Brenda Snipes submits
resignation as Broward elections supervisor
by Anthony Man.
GOP Audits Elections Office in County That Swung to Democrats
by Jason Hopkins
{westernjournal.com} ~ The Arizona Republican Party will conduct an independent audit of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office after three statewide Republican candidates... who initially led on election night saw their races swing the other way as outstanding ballots were counted. Despite leading on election night and for some time afterwards, GOP Rep. Martha McSally ultimately lost her Senate campaign to Democrat Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. The neck and neck race took almost a week to call. The former Air Force pilot initially led her Democratic challenger by about 16,000 votes the day after Election Day. However, the slow count of mail-in ballots pushed Sinema into the lead and eventually handed her victory. McSally wasn’t the only Arizona Republican who saw her lead vanish as outstanding ballots trickled in. Republican Frank Riggs initially led Democrat Kathy Hoffman in the race for Arizona superintendent of public instruction. He went on to lose about a week later. Katie Hobbs, the Democrat candidate for Arizona Secretary of State, had been trailing Republican Steve Gaynor on Election Day, and the Associated Press went so far as to project Gaynor the winner that night. However, after several days of ballot counting, the Democratic candidate is now expected to win that race... https://www.westernjournal.com/gop-audits-elections-office-county-swung-democrats/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance.
Democratic senators sue to block appointment
of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general
by Alex Pappas
{foxnews.com} ~ Three Democratic senators on Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of President Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker... as acting attorney general. Trump appointed to Whitaker to lead the Justice Department after Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced out of the role earlier this month. The senators who filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia are Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono. All three released fiery statements Monday. “Installing Matthew Whitaker so flagrantly defies constitutional law that any viewer of School House Rock would recognize it. Americans prize a system of checks and balances, which President Trump’s dictatorial appointment betrays,” Blumenthal said. "The stakes are too high to allow the president to install an unconfirmed lackey to lead the Department of Justice – a lackey whose stated purpose, apparently, is undermining a major investigation into the president,” Whitehouse said.lex Pappas... This is really getting out of hand. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-senators-sue-to-block-appointment-of-matthew-whitaker-as-acting-attorney-general
{foxnews.com} ~ Three Democratic senators on Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of President Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker... as acting attorney general. Trump appointed to Whitaker to lead the Justice Department after Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced out of the role earlier this month. The senators who filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia are Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono. All three released fiery statements Monday. “Installing Matthew Whitaker so flagrantly defies constitutional law that any viewer of School House Rock would recognize it. Americans prize a system of checks and balances, which President Trump’s dictatorial appointment betrays,” Blumenthal said. "The stakes are too high to allow the president to install an unconfirmed lackey to lead the Department of Justice – a lackey whose stated purpose, apparently, is undermining a major investigation into the president,” Whitehouse said.lex Pappas... This is really getting out of hand. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-senators-sue-to-block-appointment-of-matthew-whitaker-as-acting-attorney-general
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Let the Democrats Keep Showing Their Hand
by David Limbaugh
{townhall.com} ~ The Democratic Party's emerging radical bloc is alarming, but the leftist group's youthful intemperance could backfire and re-energize Republicans' 2020 electoral prospects.
Even before all the hanging chads and miraculously divined ballots have been examined in Florida, newly elected leftist commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is already engaging in activism in the halls of Congress. On Tuesday morning, the future representative from New York joined a protest organized by the Sunrise Movement outside the offices of Democratic leader sick-Nancy Pulosi to demand immediate action on climate change -- as if the dinosaur wing of the Democratic Party weren't sufficiently extremist on environmental issues.
commie-Ocasio-Cortez, who validates the maxim "youth is wasted on the young," is part of the Justice Democrats, which promoted leftist challengers during the 2018 Democratic primary cycle. The Sunrise Movement is demanding House support of a "Green New Deal," which contemplates forming a committee to write policies aimed at creating jobs by moving the nation off fossil fuels -- as counterintuitive as that may strike you.
Waleed Shahid, the Justice Democrats' communications director, insists that the Democratic Party's leadership must get serious about the climate and the economy. "Anything less is tantamount to denying the reality of climate change," said Shahid. "The hopeful part is that we're ushering in a new generation of leaders into the Democratic Party who understand the urgency and will help build a movement to create the political will for bold action." Yes, they must get moving before any more of scumbag-Al Gore's hysterical doomsday predictions fail.
The adage "with age comes wisdom" is biblically based and objectively observable -- except, perhaps, in the case of sick-Pulosi and her old-guard Democrats. They have invited all types of radicals into their coalition, so they can hardly complain when the fruit of their poisonous tree begins to blossom. Accordingly, sick-Pulosi pretended to support this presumptuous upstart's mini-rebellion.
"We are inspired by the energy and activism of the many young activists and advocates leading the way on the climate crisis, which threatens the health, economic security and futures of all our communities," said sick-Pulosi. "I have recommended to my House Democratic colleagues that we reinstate a select committee to address the climate crisis. ... We welcome the presence of these activists, and we strongly urge the Capitol Police to allow them to continue to organize and participate in our democracy."
Her groveling wasn't enough to pacify the implacable Justice Democrats, who tweeted: "Our response: Not good enough. sick-Pulosi is reinstating a 2007 committee tasked with investigating the harms of climate change. We don't need more investigation. We need specific plans matching the urgency and scale mandated by the UN's IPCC report on catastrophic climate change."
The good thing about cliches is that, usually based on human experience, they're often true. So, the current plight of the sick-Pulosi Democrats is that they have made their bed and now have to lie in it. For the next two years, they're going to be lying in the same bed as the rebels -- a bed that has two left sides.
The Democrats have lived by the sword of radicalism, embracing every last crazy idea of the extreme left and incorporating it into their agenda, and may they electorally die by that sword in 2020.
Democrats used to tack to the center during general election season, knowing America has been a center-right nation. But since scumbag/liar-nObama's presidency, they've begun playing their left hand more openly. In the bluest of areas, they can afford to reveal their outright socialism, which explains commie-Ocasio-Cortez's unapologetically socialist campaign message. In other venues, such as Arizona, their radicals have to feign centrism, which explains socialist-Kyrsten Sinema's chameleonic transformation to would-be centrist.
The developing schism in the Democratic Party is a positive sign for Republicans, who should greatly benefit from Democratic fissures, especially if they lead to the Democratic Party's moving even further to the left and exposing its radicalism.
Though the electoral demographics seem to be shifting leftward -- and though our public schools, universities and dominant media culture are indoctrinating more Americans every day -- it's unlikely the majority of the country will be comfortable with leftist extremism as soon as 2020.
But this is hardly something Republicans can rejoice over, because until they get their own act together, they won't be able to properly capitalize on intramural conflict among Democrats. But from my perspective, anything that awakens a complacent America to the existential dangers posed by the radical left, which increasingly controls the Democratic Party, represents cause for hope and optimism.
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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
Oh boy…Thanksgiving…according to most liberals, the most politically incorrect holiday
between Columbus Day and Christmas.
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 at Plymouth Colony by the Pilgrims…that much pretty much everybody knows, but there’s a lot about that first celebration that nobody knows because only two accounts of it were ever written down.
Therefore, it falls to me to provide a bit of a history lesson which I am more than happy to undertake, so let’s get started with what little we actually know about that very first Thanksgiving…
To begin with…
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Will the Real Attorney General Please Stand Up?
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Democrat Party Of Florida Attorney: Destroying
Ballots Is Not “Fraud Or Corruption”
{thewashingtonstandard.com} ~ While reporting for Big League Politics inside the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office in Broward County, FL... I encountered Leonard Samuels, one of the lawyers who is being paid by the Democrat Party of Florida to represent Democrats and observe the voter recount. The following exchange was captured on video, wherein Samuels said that Brenda Snipes destroying ballots is not “fraud or corruption.”It’s something so shocking, you have to see it yourself to believe it! Laura Loomer: “Do you think that it’s appropriate for Brenda Snipes to be overseeing this given the fact that a judge ruled that she already destroyed ballots in a race between Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova? I mean, that seems a little unethical for her to be overseeing this?” Leonard Samuels: ‘Of course she should oversee this. She was appointed by a Republican governor Jeb Bush. She’s been reelected several times by the voters of Broward County… There’s been not one iota of fraud. There’s been not one iota of corruption.”... She broke the law and should be removed. Is this guy is a lawyer?
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‘He’s done a fantastic job’: Trump to nominate
Andrew Wheeler as permanent EPA head
{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ In the post-midterm shuffle of cabinet officials, President Donald Trump announced a new nominee for the senior post at the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday... Trump plans to nominate acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler for a permanent position at the agency and praised his interim performance. “He’s done a fantastic job, and I want to congratulate him,” Trump said after introducing Wheeler at a White House Medal of Freedom event. “Congratulations, Andrew. Great job.”Wheeler has been serving as the acting EPA chief since July 5, 2018, when his embattled predecessor, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, resigned amid allegations of waste, fraud and abuse. Pruitt was tormented by a steady barrage of negative news stories linking him to workplace retaliation and self-enrichment schemes, including the favorable lease of a Capitol Hill condominium provided by an energy lobbyist. Although Wheeler was previously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the EPA Deputy Administrator in April, his nomination to the top job will require Senate confirmation before becoming permanent. One of his first tasks will be to mend the agency’s tarnished reputation and restore public confidence in his post after Pruitt’s mismanagement invited around a dozen ethics probes into the EPA’s spending and policy decisions...
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Devin Nunes: 'Fourth bucket' of classified emails
show info withheld from FISA court
by Daniel ChaitinFederalist Society: Trump is Exactly
What Our Constitution Needed
by Andrew.
scumbag/mad-Waters gets Destroyed
by Popular Black Conservative
by TORI MCNABB.
Will the Real Attorney General Please Stand Up?
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~ Last week's surprise forced resignation of Jeff Sessions as attorney general of the United States set in motion a series of events that will soon resonate in all corners of the Department of Justice.
President Donald Trump has been steamed at Sessions ever since Sessions removed himself from supervision over the DOJ's investigation into whether a conspiracy existed between Russian agents and the Trump campaign in 2016 for the Russians to provide assistance to the campaign -- a felony.
Sessions' recusal was perfectly rational and ethically required; he had been a high-ranking official in the campaign and would probably be interviewed as a witness in the investigation. Because ethics rules prohibit DOJ officials from being witnesses in cases that they supervise, Sessions passed the case to his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, who promptly appointed former FBI Director dirty cop-Robert Mueller as special counsel to head the investigation.
When the special counsel began flexing his prosecutorial muscles a little too close to Trump Tower and the Oval Office for Trump's comfort, Trump's blood pressure rose, and he asked Sessions to sign and deliver an undated letter of resignation, which Sessions did. On Nov. 7, the day after the midterm elections delivered the House of Representatives comfortably to the Democrats, Trump released the still-undated letter, and Sessions was out of a job.
Then Trump began another legal firestorm by naming Sessions' chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, acting attorney general. He did this even though the federal statutes governing succession in the DOJ state that upon a vacancy in the office of attorney general, the deputy attorney general -- in this case, the same Rod Rosenstein -- shall become the acting attorney general.
In bypassing Rosenstein for Whitaker, Trump has added to the woes he will face when the Democrats take control of the House in early January. That's because of lingering and now public doubts about Whitaker's professional qualifications for office and clear statutory language that makes him legally ineligible to be acting attorney general.
Here is the back story.
Every federal executive department, from Defense to Treasury to Justice, has a principal officer -- usually called the secretary but called the attorney general for Justice -- and a deputy. Neither position can be occupied without a presidential appointment and a Senate confirmation.
The main purpose of the deputy is to be ready to fill in for the principal when that office becomes vacant. Congress created the office of deputy attorney general for the express purpose of having a presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed person in the wings should the attorney general's office fall vacant. On Nov. 7, the office fell vacant.
Should the president wish to bypass the deputy attorney general, he may do so, but he may only designate a person who already occupies a DOJ position that is presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed. Whitaker, Sessions' former chief of staff, was not in a presidentially appointed or Senate-confirmed job at the time Trump named him acting attorney general.
Whoever runs the DOJ has such vast power over its 90,000 employees, including the FBI -- not to mention that he or she is seventh in the presidential line of succession and has the unchecked power to commence criminal investigations, seek and obtain indictments, and terminate criminal investigations already begun -- that Congress passed statutes to ensure that no one could hold that job who has not been scrutinized by the rigors of Senate confirmation.
In Whitaker's case, that scrutiny -- if it were to happen -- would show a person whose legal thinking is so far outside the mainstream as to create material doubt about his professional qualifications. He recently offered public comments questioning the equality of the three branches of the federal government and challenging the constitutional power of the courts to engage in judicial review.
By saying the courts "are supposed to be the inferior branch" of the government, he has denied a fundamental principle of the Constitution -- a truism, if you will -- namely, that all three branches Congress, the president and the judiciary are coequal. And by questioning the power of the courts to review and void the unconstitutional behavior of Congress, the president and state and local governments, Whitaker has revealed an attraction to legal thinking that is profoundly at odds with 215 years of consistent American jurisprudence.
This is why you should care about who runs the Department of Justice. This is why the Constitution and federal law require that whoever is picked to run the DOJ be confirmed by the Senate. Because the Senate confirmation process is so rigorous, it exposes legal thinking on the part of the nominee, and if that thinking is at odds with basic American legal principles, the process gives senators the opportunity to challenge it.
Without the constitutionally and statutorily required Senate confirmation, a president could put any political hack he likes in charge of the DOJ and the FBI -- and thus all federal prosecutions and criminal investigations -- wreaking havoc on the rule of law.
Add to this, Whitaker will supervise the special counsel, whose current job is to investigate the president for potential criminal wrongdoing or impeachable offenses. It is contrary to the rule of law that the subject of a criminal investigation -- which Donald Trump currently is -- could select his own prosecutor.
The whole purpose of the rules and procedures of the special counsel is to keep that office insulated from the political process, immune from the political power of the people the office is investigating, and substantially within the professional judgment of politically independent prosecutors at the DOJ.
Litigation has been filed to remove Whitaker from the office he claims to hold. The courts have not done this before. The president should save them from this unpleasant but necessary task. Once Whitaker is removed, all of his official work will be void. Try putting that toothpaste back into its tube.
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Tijuana Mayor Blasts ‘Horde’ of
Caravan Migrants, Demands Immediate Action
by Will Racke
{westernjournal.com} ~ Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum said Thursday that caravan migrants arriving by the hundreds are no longer welcome... an increasingly common sentiment among residents of the Mexican border city. In an interview with Milenio Television, Gastelum described the caravan of Central American migrants as a “horde” that had been infiltrated by criminals who now threaten the community. “Tijuana is a city of immigrants, but we don’t want them in this way,” the mayor, a member of the conservative National Action Party, said. “It was different with the Haitians, they carried papers, they were in order. It wasn’t a horde, pardon the expression.”Gastelum called on the Mexican government to deport the caravan migrants as soon as possible. “You’re going to tell me we have to respect human rights,” he said. “But human rights are for law-abiding humans.” The mayor’s comments reflected anger among many Tijuana residents at the increasing number of caravan migrants who have been streaming into the city since last weekend. About 3,000 were there as of Thursday night, and thousands more are expected to arrive over the coming weeks. On Wednesday evening, hundreds of Tijuana residents protested at a park just south of the border fence, where many of the migrants have set up camp. Some of the protesters shouted anti-immigrant slogans and tossed rocks at the migrants, even as police looked on... https://www.westernjournal.com/tijuana-mayor-blasts-horde-caravan-migrants-demands-immediate-action/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal.
"A Pure Genocide": Extremist
Persecution of Christians, June 2018
by Raymond Ibrahim.
Illegal Immigrants Cost Taxpayers
$18.5 Billion/Yr. In Health Care Costs
by Warner Todd Huston.
Four possible outcomes of America’s withdrawal
from the Universal Postal Union
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Bob Goodlatte Discusses Turning Over DOJ/FBI Probe to Senate
by sundance
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Outgoing and retiring Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte... appears on Fox and Friends weekend to discuss the status of investigations into the DOJ and FBI corruption. Goodlatte notes the reason for former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey to refuse to testify to a closed session, and also outlines how the joint House Oversight and Judicary committee will turn over their investigative material to the Senate Oversight Ron Johnson and Senate Judiciary likely Lindsey Graham committees.
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A little corruption greases the election wheels
by Wesley Pruden
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Americans are an impatient lot. Given a choice between corrupt and incompetent, we're likely to choose corrupt. But corrupt-and-incompetent is rarely a popular combination.
That was how the colorful and often corrupt machine bosses of the 20th century survived and prospered. It's a long list — Frank Hague in Jersey City, Ed Crump in Memphis, Thomas Michael Curley in Boston, Tom Pendergast in Kansas City, Tammany Hall in New York, Huey Long in Louisiana. Alas, we often don't get to choose.
The bosses survived because their fiefdoms worked. The garbage got picked up, the waterworks worked, the streets got paved, the sewers got laid, the poor usually got a turkey for Christmas, somebody remembered the orphans. Nobody minded much if an alderman or two prospered on his own. Even a mayor has to eat, and if he eats higher on the hog than he ought to, well, as long as it wasn't too high, who was going to say?
You might think that Brenda Snipes, who presides over the elections in Broward County, Florida, has a sugar daddy somewhere in the shadows. Florida can't seem to elect anyone without making a federal case of it, and this year it has not one but two federal cases, one to elect a new U.S. senator and one to elect a governor. Mzz Snipes is up to her ears in evidence in both of races.
The problem is that Florida is awash in votes, found and counted for delivery just when the Democrats need them. And when the Democrats need them, Broward County is the place to go to get them. Mzz Snipes apparently has so many votes, presumably Democratic votes, she doesn't know where to put them. One box was found stashed away in a storage room at an elementary school, and it was not even show-and-tell day. Another box was found in the trunk of a car at the Fort Lauderdale airport.
Mzz Snipes is by all accounts both corrupt and incompetent. This has made her nationally infamous. Jeb Bush, the former governor who appointed her, now wants to get rid of her.
But after she was appointed by him to succeed another corrupt supervisor, she won re-election four times. "There is no question that Brenda Snipes as the Broward County Supervisor of Elections failed to comply with Florida law on multiple counts," Mr. Bush says, "undermining Floridians' confidence in our electoral process. Supervisor Snipes should be removed from office following the recounts."
Mzz Snipes has a high opinion of herself, and operates more like Ed Crump or Boss Hague than a mere governor or mayor. She was ordered last week by Gov. Rick Scott to report all voting results on election day, as required by state law. She refused. When a judge duly ordered her to obey the governor, she refused to obey the judge, too.
Jeb Bush is entitled to revise the old folk wisdom, from once bitten twice shy; he has been bitten twice and he's likely to be shy for the rest of his life. He appointed Mzz Snipes to replace a supervisor, Miriam Oliphant, whom he had earlier appointed. She violated election law by destroying paper ballots after 12 months instead of the legally mandated 22 months. She posted some election results even before the polls closed. That's a no-no nearly everywhere.
Voting machines were supposed to make stealing an election foolproof. But a machine a man can make can be trifled with by another man. "Show me a voting machine and I can make it play 'Home on the Range,'" the late, great Earl Long, the once permanent governor of "the great 'stet' of Louisiana," famously said. And he probably could, too.
Getting voters to the polls has always been only half the battle. The other half is getting an honest count of the vote. Even when there is no evidence of rank incompetence, an honest count is necessary to make the system work they way it's intended to work. Big-city bosses have mostly gone away, leaving us all at the mercy of incompetents.
Unlike her predecessor, who was marched out of office without ceremony after she was suspended for "grave neglect, mismanagement and incompetence," Mzz Snipes appears to rely on both corruption and incompetence to get the job undone. The Miami Herald reported that an election worker found several bags of "uncounted early ballots" in the Broward County office.
Nobody could be sure where the uncounted bags came from, or where they were supposed to go. Mzz Snipes, meanwhile, mixed rejected and accepted provisional ballots all together. It's all the same. No favorites played here. We're all democrats.
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Liz Cheney Discusses GOPe Priorities
by sundanceVoters Electing Democrats Who despise Them
by Taylor Lewisscumbag- Soros: “Protection” Of Muslim Migrants
“Is The Objective”… “National Borders” Is “The Obstacle”
by Tim Brown.
Canada’s Welcome Mat for Jihadis Poses Threat to US
{clarionproject.org} ~ Canada’s welcome mat for jihadis — including returning ISIS terrorists as well as numerous Islamists immigrants is well known... This not only threatens our northern neighbors but is an increasing threat to the U.S. as well. Some analyst believe it is only a matter of time before a major terror attack is carried out in the U.S. by jihadis based in Canada. Watch the following eye-opening report on the infiltration of radical Islamists into Canada. https://clarionproject.org/welcome-mat-for-jihadis-canada-threaten-us/
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Why Hezbollah Is in Argentina
by SHIREEN QUDOSIscumbag-Jim Acosta and the First Amendmentby Political Editors: In President Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with CNN, the administration defended its decision to revoke “reporter” scumbag-Jim Acosta’s press credentials after scumbag-Acosta’s accosting last week. CNN has filed suit to restore his access, and U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly temporarily restored scumbag-Acosta’s pass this morning. According to The Washington Post, “In his decision, Kelly ruled that scumbag-Acosta’s First Amendment rights overruled the White House’s right to have orderly press conferences.” With scumbag-Acosta there, orderly press conferences may be a thing of the past.
Administration officials noted that the cable news network has more than 50 other journalists credentialed to cover the White House, adding that “no journalist has a First Amendment right to enter the White House.” Lawyers for the White House further argued, “The president is generally free to open the White House doors to political allies, in the hopes of furthering a particular agenda, and he is equally free to invite in only political foes, in the hopes of convincing them of his position. The First Amendment simply does not regulate these decisions. And the First Amendment does not impose stricter requirements when journalists, as a subset of the public, are granted or denied access to the White House.”
Once again, scumbag-Acosta and CNN have become the news rather than reporting the news. This is not how journalism is supposed to be done, and many Americans know it. A recent poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates found that 48% of voters found the mainstream media’s coverage of Trump to be “unfair, biased and disrespectful.” Jim McLaughlin noted, “Earlier in the year we found 77 percent can’t believe everything in the media. Only 14 percent did. So the partisan division has really hurt the media’s credibility and they may not recover from it without a major change in tone and substance.” He added, “The average American is much smarter than the media elites. … The American people have figured out that all too often what is supposed to be news, is just simply liberal opinion masquerading as so called journalism. President Trump continues to expose the bias in the media on a daily basis.”
A separate poll from YouGov found that 59% sided with the White House in its decision to revoke scumbag-Acosta’s press pass. Even former CNN host Larry King criticized his old employer for not being a “news network.” He showed little love for scumbag-Acosta, either: “To me, you know what this was? Eighth grade. It was the playground, ‘That’s my ball and I wanna play today on the team.’ It was childish. … It isn’t about you [scumbag-Acosta], it’s about him [Trump].”
Administration officials noted that the cable news network has more than 50 other journalists credentialed to cover the White House, adding that “no journalist has a First Amendment right to enter the White House.” Lawyers for the White House further argued, “The president is generally free to open the White House doors to political allies, in the hopes of furthering a particular agenda, and he is equally free to invite in only political foes, in the hopes of convincing them of his position. The First Amendment simply does not regulate these decisions. And the First Amendment does not impose stricter requirements when journalists, as a subset of the public, are granted or denied access to the White House.”
Once again, scumbag-Acosta and CNN have become the news rather than reporting the news. This is not how journalism is supposed to be done, and many Americans know it. A recent poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates found that 48% of voters found the mainstream media’s coverage of Trump to be “unfair, biased and disrespectful.” Jim McLaughlin noted, “Earlier in the year we found 77 percent can’t believe everything in the media. Only 14 percent did. So the partisan division has really hurt the media’s credibility and they may not recover from it without a major change in tone and substance.” He added, “The average American is much smarter than the media elites. … The American people have figured out that all too often what is supposed to be news, is just simply liberal opinion masquerading as so called journalism. President Trump continues to expose the bias in the media on a daily basis.”
A separate poll from YouGov found that 59% sided with the White House in its decision to revoke scumbag-Acosta’s press pass. Even former CNN host Larry King criticized his old employer for not being a “news network.” He showed little love for scumbag-Acosta, either: “To me, you know what this was? Eighth grade. It was the playground, ‘That’s my ball and I wanna play today on the team.’ It was childish. … It isn’t about you [scumbag-Acosta], it’s about him [Trump].”
~The Patriot Post
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Battling Online Smut Is Still
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Monday Top Headlines
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President Trump Receives Briefing
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by sundanceFlorida Democrats’ Alleged Election
Fraud ‘Potentially Grounds for RICO’ Investigation
by John Binder
{breitbart.com} ~ An effort to allegedly add Democrat votes after Election Day in Florida is “potentially grounds for a RICO” investigation... an election fraud expert says. The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) research director Eric Eggers exclusively told SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight‘s Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that a report revealing that Florida Democrats asked voters to submit absentee ballots after Election Day is a “smoking gun” and could possibly lead to a racketeering investigation. Eggers said: I spoke with a Republican attorney today who is quite familiar with this and connected to the inter-workings and they believe that it is not only the smoking gun, but it is potentially the grounds for a RICO case … this is not over. The first step is to get this out of the way. Let’s get the election certified and let’s get people sworn into office. But I think that this is a very real problem, ultimately whether it’s complete ignorance or an organized effort on behalf of the Florida Democratic Party to manipulate and violate the law … they sent altered forms out with the hopes that they could just get away with it because they could get some sympathetic judges who say, ‘Well, this is what the forms that these people received said so I guess we’ll have to go along with it.’ [Emphasis added] At the end of the day, the basic argument in Florida right now is this: Should the laws that were in place on the day of the election be upheld. And the Republicans are saying yes and the Democrats are saying no. [Emphasis added] As Breitbart News’s Joel Pollak reported, Florida Democrats allegedly asked voters to submit absentee ballots after Election Day, using an official form that had been altered to make it look as though voters were doing so within the legal deadline with the hopes that a judge would later allow the votes in the election....
‘Bikers for Trump’ Leader Finds
Smoking Gun at Broward Election HQ
by BENJAMIN ARIE
{westernjournal.com} ~ The hotly-contested midterm races in Florida may finally — mercifully — be coming to a conclusion... but many questions still remain. At the top of the list is something conservatives have been asking since last week: Did corrupt election officials purposely meddle with ballot results? As we previously reported, people including Broward County Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes have been credibly accused of election tampering or at least gross incompetence after ineligible, discarded ballots were mixed in with legitimate vote results. Now, a conservative behind the “Bikers for Trump” citizens group believes he’s found a smoking gun in Florida: Plastic seals that may have been wrongfully removed from sealed ballot boxes.“Bikers for Trump leader Chris Cox bustled through the throng of protesters at the Broward County elections office at the heart of the Florida recount fandango, drawing attention to colored zip-tie tags found on the ground near the building’s loading dock,” reported The Washington Times on Wednesday. “This election is a fraud,” Cox said in a recent video posted to social media. “It’s pretty disgusting here. I’m glad that you’re not here because this isn’t anything you want to see.” Although only about a dozen of the tags were allegedly found, that could potentially mean that tens of thousands of votes were tampered with. Each ballot box holds around 2,500 individual ballots. “Based on having 15 tags, that could mean that approximately 37,500 ballots could have been tampered with,” Cox’s attorney Derek A. Schwartz wrote... https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/bikers-trump-leader-finds-smoking-gun-broward-election-hq/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune.
Canada Now A Base For Islamic Jihadis Preparing Attacks On US
by Tim Brown
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ Stand up and take a bow, Justin! The US and Canada share the longest undefended border in the world... There hasn’t been a reason to defend it because there hasn’t been a serious threat from either country in a couple hundred years. There is now. Canada is today the happy home of thousands of radical Islamists, ex-ISIS fighters and the Muslim Brotherhood. Their numbers continue to grow, with Islamists infiltrating the Canadian government on several levels. Many Americans assume that all is peaceful and well with their northern neighbor. But security experts here warn that by welcoming radical Islamists, Canada now presents a danger to the United States. Canada as an ‘Aircraft Carrier’ for Muslim Terrorists to Attack America Terrorism expert David Harris, who worked for Canada’s spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told us a major attack on the United States by Muslim extremists based in Canada is “only a matter of time.” “Many years ago I suggested that many of the Islamist extremists might regard Canada as an aircraft carrier from which to maintain operations against the United States,” Harris said… You can say the same about Mexico..
Arrest warrant issued for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
by Jerry McCormick.
Battling Online Smut Is Still a Conservative Priorityby Brian Mark Weber: Imagine a child at home after school while the parents are at work. Now imagine what those parents would think if someone entered their home and showed their child pictures and videos of graphic sex acts. The parents would be outraged, and they’d call the police. But this is exactly what happens to millions of American children every day who come home and view pornography on their computer screens. It’s the reality of a society in which our minds are saturated with pornographic images, even when we’re not looking for them, and a porn industry that continues to grow exponentially.
Not long ago, our nation gave serious consideration to such issues. Both Republicans and even some Democrats warned about a society in moral decay.
Politico’s Tim Alberta writes, “From the 1960s through the turn of the century, pornography played a dominant role in the American political argument — its morality and legality, its restrictions and regulations, its implications and unintended consequences.”
Yet despite these efforts, and after President Ronald Reagan assembled a Presidential Commission on Pornography in 1985 to warn that the pornography industry’s “days are numbered,” the movement seems to have lost its punch. Politicians and even religious leaders are now reluctant to open up the discussion.
Certainly, the fight isn’t completely over. In 2015, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation hosted an anti-porn summit on Capitol Hill. The following year, Utah state senator Todd Weiler introduced a resolution calling pornography a “public health crisis,” and since that time, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas, Florida, and Kansas have introduced similar measures. Moreover, the Republican Party added to its 2016 platform the statement that “pornography has become a public health crisis that is destroying the lives of millions.”
Weiler, according to Alberta, “says American culture is past the point of no return when it comes to porn, and explains that he sponsored the measure for one reason — to start a conversation about protecting minors.” Weiler himself adds, “People sell all kinds of things on the Internet, but they don’t sell them to 15-year-olds because they would get in trouble — gun manufacturers, vaping companies, alcohol distributors. That’s not the case with porn websites.”
On the other hand, pro-pornography libertarian Elizabeth Nolan Brown writes at Reason, “Plenty of porn-adjacent panics have sprung up since the 1990s as well, and plenty of political effort has gone into fighting them. So, yes, we might have fewer federal obscenity prosecutions, but we also have many more federal sex crimes on the books overall and no shortage of activity on their behalf. Since 2000, we’ve seen an ever-escalating federal war on prostitution, all sorts of panic (and prosecutions) over teen sexting, and dozens of bills introduced (in Congress and statehouses) to revenge porn and sextortion.”
But the debate should be about more than merely stopping teens from sexting one another. American minds are inundated with pornography and experts in many fields of science and psychology know the damage that exposure can cause to our families and children. This includes increased stress on married couples that can lead to separation, divorce, or infidelity; a higher likelihood that a person may become addicted to porn; the degradation of women; the belief that emotion and commitment aren’t necessary in a relationship; an assumption that pornographic scenes are commonplace and acceptable; and a higher propensity to engage in casual sex that leads to sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies.
In 1996, Judge Robert Bork wrote a New York Times bestseller titled Slouching Toward Gomorrah in which he cautioned about the moral decline of our civilization. He was harshly criticized for suggesting that censorship of violence and graphic sex might have to be considered in the future to prevent irreversible moral decline. Today, many of his fears have come to fruition.
While censorship may not be the answer, we do need to rekindle a national discussion about morality. And we need to find ways to reverse the “anything goes” mentality and the moral relativism that has become the shameful norm in American society.
~The Patriot Post
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Democrats Are Trying to Steal an
Election in Florida
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scumbag-Bill Nelson concedes
in Florida Senate race vs. Rick Scott
by Barnini Chakraborty {foxnews.com} ~ Florida’s long-time Democratic Sen. scumbag-Bill Nelson conceded Sunday to Republican challenger Rick Scott... in the hotly contested race to become the next U.S. senator to represent the Sunshine State. Scott was leading scumbag-Nelson by 10,000 votes in the race to become the next U.S. senator to represent Florida, official results showed Sunday. scumbag-Nelson, who served three terms in the U.S. Senate, met his match in Gov. Rick Scott. The victory will be Scott’s third close statewide win in less than a decade. The victory also marks the first time in more than a century that the Sunshine State has two Republican senators representing them in Washington. The state is scheduled to certify results in the race on Nov. 20. Election Day results showed scumbag-Nelson trailing Scott by more than 56,000 votes. Scott’s lead narrowed to 12,603 votes after a statewide machine recount. The new numbers triggered an automatic hand recount under Florida law. It’s unclear what scumbag-Nelson’s plans will be post-race. The 76-year-old was first elected to office in a state House district near Cape Canaveral in 1972. He’s served three terms in the Florida House, six terms in Congress and was Florida’s insurance commissioner after Hurricane Andrew swept the Miami area...
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Stunning Footage Reveals the ‘Truth Behind the Caravan’
by Sara Carter.
Sweden: What 'Humanitarian Superpower'?
by Judith Bergman.
Socialism: The Opiate of the Corrupt and Ignorant
by Charles W. Calomiris
{economics21.org} ~ The overarching message of “The Opportunity Cost of Socialism”—a study recently released by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)... is that the advocacy of socialism cannot reasonably be based on policy preferences; its attraction has always been grounded in a combination of wishful thinking and ignorance. For example, the new CEA study shows that the socialist approach to “single payer” health care advocated by many on the left would cost much more and deliver much less, resulting in the significant worsening of mortality and morbidity, not just higher taxes and reduced economic growth. One prominent opinion page editor described the CEA study’s conclusions to me as too obvious to warrant mention. That reaction reflects the problem the study seeks to remedy. Obvious facts about socialism are not discussed enough. Few people are willing to read 50-page studies like the CEA’s, and there has been very little media coverage of it—journalists or politicians who could summarize the CEA findings haven’t seen sufficient reason to do so or may themselves be among the uninformed advocates of socialism. That is too bad because the ignorant advocacy of socialism is currently a significant threat to our democracy. Socialism has existed in many forms which lie on a continuum, from the central planning nightmare of the USSR, to the Scandinavian democratic experiments of several decades ago. The idea that unites the various embodiments of socialism along that continuum is that economic freedom is counterproductive to the aspirations of humanity. It would be far better and fairer, socialists argue, for the state to distribute scarce resources rather than letting the market allocate goods and services by itself. Socialism seeks control of economic decisions, either through central planning or through expropriative taxation and regulation, in the interest of the common man. Socialism’s appeal has always been its false promise to create wealth better than capitalism can. Advocates of socialism promise great economic achievements, which they argue are worth the price of reduced individual economic liberty. It is worth remembering that Karl Marx regarded socialism as an economic necessity that would emerge out of the ashes of capitalism precisely because capitalism would fail to sustain wealth creation. Marx made many specific, and erroneous, predictions about capitalism, including its declining profitability and rising unemployment... https://economics21.org/socialism-opiate-corrupt-and-ignorant-calomiris/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRZek5tUXhaV05pWmpnMyIsInQiOiJ0Qjd6cE5WREZyUU80SWxcLzdhcEhacUx1Vmk0cW5CZzF6dXBzUHZ4MjhNZE1wYndnQ3VQNk9rVjF0RzVURE5sdWIxQStlV25zUlR5eWJHZ3BNV2w1endHM1pKNjdpVmlhREg3dU84NFVFVU5pODJ1NWtiRnNrOUdsSnpoMytaaTMifQ%3D%3D
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Shock of irrelevance awaits House Republicans in minority
by David M. DruckerSecretive Liberal Donor Network Plots 2020 Strategy in DC
by Brent Scher and Joe Schoffstall
{freebeacon.com} ~ A secretive dark money network comprised of powerful liberal donors who help set the Democratic agenda descended on Washington, D.C., to begin plotting strategy... for the next two years leading up to the 2020 elections. The Democracy Alliance, a donors' club of liberal millionaires and billionaires that counts scumbag-George Soros as a member, gathered just blocks away from the White House at the Capital Hilton hotel for the group's fall investment conference to discuss post-midterm election strategy, according to a conference agenda obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. "Two years ago, on the day after Donald Trump's surprise victory, we threw out the planned agenda for that year's upcoming conference and got to work with colleagues and allies trying to understand what hit us," the agenda reads. "Now we meet at a different moment—still with much work to do, but with the wind at our backs." "Everything we need to digest, review, and address cannot be covered in two days alone, which is why this conference is a starting point for the work of the next two years to build an America where everyone can participate fairly in the democratic process, that supports an economy built on inclusivity, that leads to a safe environment and healthy communities, and that is equitable and just."...Why donate the millions to the needy. https://freebeacon.com/politics/secretive-liberal-donor-network-plots-2020-strategy-d-c/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=cdd7fdb083-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_16_09_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-cdd7fdb083-45611665
Democrats Are Trying to Steal an Election in Florida
by Marc A. Thiessen
by Marc A. Thiessen
Republican Gov. Rick Scott leads Democratic Sen. scumbag-Bill Nelson by 12,562 votes in the Florida Senate race. A margin of victory that large has never be overturned in a recount. According to FairVote, the average vote shift in statewide general election recounts is a meager 282 votes. “The biggest swing came in Florida’s 2000 presidential election recount, when scumbag-Al Gore cut 1,247 votes off George W. Bush’s lead, ultimately not enough to flip the state to his column,” according to a FiveThirtyEight report on what FairVote found.
So even if Nelson were to swing 10 times as many votes in this recount as Gore did in 2000, he would still come up short. Democrats know that recounting the existing votes is unlikely to change the result. So Democrats have filed a series of lawsuits asking courts to change Florida elections laws after the fact. The result would be that they can count ineligible votes in the hope that these will provide the margin necessary to overcome Scott’s lead. For example, Florida statute mandates that, with the exception of overseas and military voters, vote-by-mail ballots are counted only if they are “received by the supervisor of elections not later than 7 p.m. on the day of the election.” But scumbag-Nelson has sued demanding that mail ballots that arrived after the 7 p.m. deadline to be counted as part of the recount.
Similarly, Florida law says mail and provisional ballots are counted only if the signatures on them match the signatures that elections offices have on record. If there is a signature mismatch, the voter is notified and can “complete and submit an affidavit in order to cure the vote-by-mail ballot until 5 p.m. on the day before the election” (emphasis added). But Democrats are asking a judge to throw that law out and count ballots with signatures that don’t match the voter signature on file.
Federal prosecutors are investigating charges that Florida Democratic Party officials urged voters to fix their ballots after Election Day, including evidence that they changed official state election documents to indicate that ballots could be returned after the polls had closed. Initial reports indicated this was limited to a handful of counties, but a new report in the Naples Daily News has uncovered emails showing that “Florida Democrats were organizing a broader statewide effort beyond those counties to give voters the altered forms” with the goal to “fix and submit as many absentee ballots as possible with the altered forms in hopes of later including them in vote totals if a judge ruled such ballots were allowed.”
Florida law also instructs the Department of State to “adopt specific rules … prescribing what constitutes a ‘clear indication on the ballot that the voter has made a definite choice.’” The Department of State has done so, providing clear standards for determining whether a voter intended to vote for a particular candidate. Now Democratic lawyers are asking a judge to order Florida to ignore this intent standard when reviewing “under votes,” so they can add ballots that do not qualify under Florida law.
While national Democrats sue in the courts to change election law after the election, local Democratic officials running the recount are accused of engaging in serious irregularities. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Democrat-leaning Broward County submitted vote totals that include ballots disqualified by the canvassing board, while Palm Beach was rebuked by a judge after it duplicated 650 ballots without submitting them to canvassing board.
There is also evidence that officials in Democrat-leaning Broward Country have been dragging their feet in carrying out the recount. Miami-Dade — the most populous county in the state — was halfway done with its entire recount by Monday morning and easily met the 3 p.m. Thursday deadline required by law. But by Monday evening, Broward County had not yet started its recount. And on Thursday, Palm Beach failed to meet the legal deadline.
These counties’ problems could have many different possible causes, including incompetence, or fraud, or both. But it’s fair to ask whether these Democratic counties are intentionally slow rolling the recount to delay final election results in the hopes that Democratic lawsuits will work and that a judge will allow them to count ineligible votes in violation of state law. As Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., explained, “That isn’t a strategy to win an election, that is a strategy to steal an election.”
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/59513?mailing_id=3873&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3873&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=bodyCelebrity Author Barry Donadio now working on releasing his second book in 2019 (photo by Matthew Abbott)
Barry Donadio is in the process of publishing his 2nd book in 2019. Keep your eyes on Donadio tries his hand at a fiction book this time around.
Barry Donadio gained fame when he published his book “TWA Flight 800 First Responder Witness Account” in September of 2013. Since then, he has been busy by entering politics and leading his private security and investigation firm. He has also sanctioned himself as an advocate for Miliatry Veterans and he is vocal with his support of the second amendment. He has recently focused on supporting the national pride of the United States of America and bringing all Americans together.
Donadio’s new book “That Day When Hell Froze Over” is a fiction that takes place over a thousand years ago in present day Afghanistan. It is a mystical story of warfare of that time with interesting characters. An elite force of Catholic Knights that are separate from the Knights Templar. They are ordered by the Pope to drive deep into enemy territory as far as modern day Iran. The Knights were the best trained and most disipline that the Vatican had. The Knights encounter many dangers along their expedition, the most dangerous group they encounter is a small group of female virgins from the region of Afghanistan. The Knights are forced to battle the dammed of Hell, including Satan himself. After some setbacks in battle against some of Satan’s demons, the Angel Gabriel appears and arms the Knights with modern weapons and the knowledge to use them. Satan becomes concern as his demons begin to fall in numbers.
Donadio plans to self publish his new book in the form of an ebook and paperback through is firm Public Security LLC. The book is expected to be released by the end of 2019, but it is likely that it will be released sooner. It will be able to be purchased on Amazon.
“That Day When Hell Froze Over”, has been assigned ISBN: 9781731512833
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A Good 'First Step' Toward
Needed Prison Reform
by Michael Swartz
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Lindsey Graham To Head Up Senate Judiciary
by Molly Prince
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is poised to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee following the announcement on Friday... that Chairman Chuck Grassley will be heading the Senate Committee on Finance instead. “I very much appreciate Senator Grassley’s leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee,” Graham said in a statement. “He chaired the committee with a steady hand, sense of fundamental fairness, and resolve. His leadership serves as a model to us all.”“Senator Grassley has much to be proud of during his time as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,” the South Carolina senator continued. “His work, along with his Democrat and Republican colleagues, accomplished so much for the American people.” Graham has been shooting down rumors of a potential position with President Donald Trump’s administration as the attorney general to replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He noted in October that he will be running for his current seat when he is up for re-election in 2020. “Well, I’m going to run for Senate again — there ya go, you made news — I’m definitely running,” Graham told a reporter when asked about his future plans. “I enjoy my job. I think I’m better at it today than I’ve ever been. I love my job. I love representing the people of South Carolina.”....
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2.0
by ED MORROW.
Abrams concludes bid for Georgia governor: 'I don't want to
hold public office if I need to scheme my way into the post'
by Diana Stancy Correll.
Judiciary Chairman Goodlatte Wants
Comey and Lynch On Record Prior to Exit
by sundance.
The Ultimate Creative Guide to Voting in Disguise
by Andrew Stiles.
A Good 'First Step' Toward Needed Prison Reformby Michael Swartz: Three decades ago, crime in America was on the rise and the public was scared — and when John Q. Public is scared, often the first thing that’s said is, “There oughta be a law.” What followed was a “three strikes” law for habitual offenders and mandatory minimum sentencing for certain crimes. These changes helped lower crime levels appreciably, but there was a human toll to this hardline approach, too. People may shake their head in disbelief at a statistic we’ve pointed out, but because of drug-related convictions, our nation, which is home to just 4% of the world’s people, also hosts 25% of its imprisoned population. Not China, not Russia, but the Land of the Free, the U.S. of A.
It’s an issue where thoughtful conservatives have long favored necessary reforms, but one that our previous president addressed by, for example, using his pen and his phone to commute the prison terms of 46 drug offenders. Unfortunately, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s proposals muddied the waters by pulling in unrelated issues such as pre-K schooling and the restoration of voting rights for felons.
But thanks to a softening of public perception on crime, these reforms aren’t the “third rail” they once were. A simpler approach to prison reform, such as that advocated in a 2016 report by the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, focuses more on rehabilitation and incentives to reduce a prison sentence through cooperative and contrite actions. But it must be combined with sentencing reform, lest the effects of good behavior be thwarted because a federal judge is forced to restore a draconian sentence, such as the Matthew Charles case we documented earlier this year.
In a bitter irony, it was about the time Matthew Charles was re-sentenced that the House passed the First Step Act by a bipartisan 360-59 vote. But as Reason’s C.J. Ciaramella wrote at the time, the bill was only half a loaf: “Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Republican point man on criminal justice reform, [said] the bill is dead in the water unless it includes major reforms to federal sentencing law as well.”
Fortunately, the Senate had a complementary sentencing reform bill already in the process, and over the interceding few months a deal was reached that includes these sentencing reforms in First Step. This revised proposal is a bill that President Donald Trump has already vowed to sign, and in the waning days of the 114th Congress he’s called on First Step to become a priority item. “So far, seven major police organizations, more than 2,700 faith and evangelical leaders, and hundreds of conservative organizations and leaders support this legislation,” said the White House in a press release.
Not that he’ll get any credit for something that would help blacks. The Left, after all, has to maintain the narrative that he’s “racist.”
But even with the support of the president and conservatives like Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee — the former assistant U.S. attorney recently pointed out abuses in the current systemas his reason for favoring the First Step proposal — the bill has some tough sledding ahead. “We don’t have a whole lot of time left,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “We need an actual proposal, then we would take a whip count, see where we stand, and then weigh it at that point against the other things that absolutely have to be accomplished.”
Despite the addition of sentencing reform to the original bill, it will be hard to convince politicians who prefer to keep the present system as a political cudgel while stoking the fires of race and class envy.
“Let’s just start with the hard truth about our criminal justice system,” complained probable 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth dinky-Warren back in August. “It’s racist. It is. And when I say our system, I mean all the way. I mean front to back.” (In her case, criminal justice reform takes a back seat to “LGBTQ equality.”) Fellow far-left progressive senators (and potential 2020 candidates) lowlife-Kamala Harris and scumbag-Cory Booker also came out against reform, co-signing a letter from Sen. scumbag-Dick Durbin back in October calling First Step “a step backwards,” and warning that “the recidivism reduction plan that is the core of the bill could actually worsen the situation in our federal prisons by creating discriminatory non-evidence-based policies.” However, scumbag-Booker has since read the tea leaves and yesterday announced his support of the compromise bill.
With this Congress closing out its two-year run, and with Democrats poised to take control, this may be the last best opportunity for some sorely needed reform. ~The Patriot Post
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Demo Strategy: Delegitimize Republican Election Victories
by Thomas Gallatin
Florida state government contacts federal
prosecutors about altered election documents 
by Ben Marquis{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ With missed deadlines and mysteriously “found” ballots, some Republicans — including President Donald Trump — have accused election officials in two Florida counties of being less than honest about their election practices... And now, it looks like evidence has just surfaced that proves their allegations were true. Politico reported that in the days after the election, the Florida Department of State contacted federal prosecutors about official state election documents that had altered dates on them. These altered documents — which appeared in four counties, including the long-embattled Broward County — were directly linked to the Florida Democratic Party. Those official documents — known as “cure affidavits” — were sent to voters who’d voted by mail and needed to “fix” or “cure” incorrect or missing information on their ballots, something that was permitted by law up until Nov. 5, the day before the election. However, those documents from at least four counties — including Broward — were found to have listed Nov. 8, two days after the election, as the deadline by which vote-by-mail ballots could be “cured,” which would be too late and in violation of state law. Along with the documents with altered dates, email chains from election officials in the counties in question discussing the altered dates and violations of law were also handed over to federal prosecutors... https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/government-refers-federal-prosecutors/
by Ben Marquis.
Florida Counties Ditch Recount Results
As Numbers Favor Republicans
by Molly Prince
{dailycaller.com} ~ Two counties in Florida did not submit the results of the election recount in the required time frame... which would have otherwise increased the Republican candidates’ leads over their Democrat challengers, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Both Broward and Hillsborough Counties failed to meet Thursday’s deadline to submit the tallies from the machine recounts and instead ended up submitting the unofficial vote count reported on Saturday, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The recount would have ultimately increased the margin for both Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Rep. Ron DeSantis’s races by a couple hundred votes.The reasoning for the untimely tally in Broward County is unknown, however, Hillsborough County purposefully missed the deadline since the recount yielded fewer total votes than those recorded on Election Day, the Tampa Bay Times reported. “The fact that the percentages between the candidates remains the same gives us full confidence in our voting process and systems. Even though we achieved 99.84 percent success in our recount effort, we are not willing to accept that votes go unreported,” said Craig Latimer, the Hillsborough County Supervisor. “For that reason, the Canvassing Board has decided that the first unofficial results will stand as our second unofficial.”....
Media Ignores Damage Stone’s Recovered Emails
Do To dirty cop-Mueller Probe
by Brian McNicoll
{aim.org} ~ A story on the Daily Beast could blow the lid off a key piece of special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s investigation... into Russia meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The kicker head above the story, and its title – “Texts Show Roger Stone, Randy Credico Discussing WikiLeaks Plans: NBC” – indicate the story’s contents are bad for Stone and his friend President Trump, and could lead to criminal sanctions against one or both. The lead of the story continues down this path. “Radio host Randy Credico was providing former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone with ‘regular updates’ about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s plans to release hacked emails from scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign, text messages obtained by NBC News show,” the story read. Later, it says dirty cop-Mueller is “reportedly probing Stone to determine whether he had advance knowledge of WikiLeaks releasing scumbag/liar-Clinton’s campaign chairman’s hacked emails before the 2016 election” and whether Stone “tried to ‘intimidate and discredit’ Credico.” CNN took a slightly different tack in “Text messages show Roger Stone discussing WikiLeaks plans days before hack” by Sara Murray and Kate Sullivan. “Roger Stone exchanged text messages with his alleged WikiLeaks back channel about imminent ‘big news’ harmful to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign six days before WikiLeaks released hacked emails from former scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, according to new messages released by Stone,” Murray and Sullivan wrote... https://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-ignores-damage-stones-recovered-emails-do-to-mueller-probe/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Nov-16-2018&utm_medium=email.
Stacey Abrams says she can’t defeat Brian Kemp in Georgia governor race;
will sue over mismanagement of state's election
by Elizabeth Zwirz
{foxnews.com} ~ Stacey Abrams, the Democrat in Georgia’s governor race, acknowledged Friday that she cannot defeat her Republican opponent, Brian Kemp... but she vowed to file a federal lawsuit challenging the “gross mismanagement” of the state’s elections. Abrams’ address to her supporters essentially concluded her bid for the governor’s mansion, the final result of which had been in doubt since Election Day, but she noted that she was not officially conceding the race. While describing a variety of issues at the polls, Abrams said that "the state failed its voters." "I acknowledge that former Secretary of State Brian Kemp will be certified as the victor in the 2018 gubernatorial election. But to watch an elected official – who claims to represent the people in this state, baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people’s democratic right to vote – has been truly appalling," Abrams said. "So let's be clear, this is not a speech of concession." "Because concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper. As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede that. But my assessment is the law currently allows no further viable remedy," she continued, before adding that although she could fight to keep the election going, she doesn't "want to hold public office if I need to scheme my way into the post."... She's sounding like scumbag/liar-Hillary. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stacey-abrams-acknowledges-she-cant-defeat-brian-kemp-is-georgia-governor-race.
Business as Usual as UN Committee Passes Nine
Resolutions Slamming Israel in Single Day
{algemeiner.com} ~ A special committee of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday voted in favor of nine resolutions attacking the State of Israel... with the rest of the world left unmentioned. The resolutions were passed in quick succession by the General Assembly’s “Fourth Committee,” which is also known as the “Special Political and Decolonization Committee.” While the committee’s mandate covers a host of disconnected issues from peacekeeping to the uses of outer space, much of the focus of its work concerns the Palestinian question. In political terms, the committee is a significant source of support for UNRWA, the UN body dedicated solely to Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war and their descendants. It also operates the “The Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories” — which created in 1968 at the instigation of the Soviet Union and its Arab allies. Friday’s resolutions saw Israel condemned for alleged human rights abuses, its “occupation” of eastern Jerusalem, and its “occupation” of the Golan Heights captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War. The ongoing civil war in Syria itself, and the continuing abuse of human rights in the devastated Arab country, made no appearance in Friday’s deliberations. One resolution completely ignored Palestinian violence as it emphasized “the responsibility of Israel, the occupying Power, to investigate all acts of settler violence against Palestinian civilians and their properties and to ensure accountability for these acts.”... https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/16/business-as-usual-as-un-committee-passes-nine-resolutions-slamming-israel-in-single-day/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/
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Demo Strategy: Delegitimize Republican Election Victoriesby Thomas Gallatin: Democrats in Florida have now lost the machine recount in elections for both governor and senator, yet they refuse to concede and continue to campaign as if the election were still going. The result of the Senate election is that Republican Gov. Rick Scott beat Democrat Sen. scumbag-Bill Nelson by just under 13,000 votes. By Florida law, this narrow margin trigged a second recount, this one by hand, so one can reasonably argue that scumbag-Nelson’s waiting for the end of the second recount is at least understandable.
However, in the race for governor, Republican Ron DeSantis maintained more than a 33,000 vote margin over Democrat socialist-Andrew Gillum after the machine recount, which is beyond the minimum threshold required for triggering a second hand recount. And yet socialist-Gillum still refuses to concede defeat. Why?
Then there’s the Georgia governor’s election, where Democrat Stacey Abrams has no chance of making up the deficit to Republican Brian Kemp, and yet she continues to press the courts to allow the counting of previously rejected ballots. She hopes find enough votes not to make up the mathematically insurmountable deficit to Kemp but to shrink his percentage down below 50% and thereby trigger a runoff.
It is highly unlikely that Democrats will succeed in their efforts to steal the elections in Florida and Georgia, so why all the lawsuits and delay tactics? It’s all designed to create a narrative for the future, while at the same time seeking to diminish the legitimacy of the vote if it goes the Republicans’ way. The narrative? The only reason Republicans won was because they suppressed the vote by refusing to accept “thousands” of votes and therefore they are a danger to the democratic process itself. Never mind that there is not a shred of evidence supporting this spurious accusation, and in fact, that Democrats were the ones caught engaging in lawless behavior. The mainstream media will happily “remind” voters come next election how Republicans sought to suppress the vote and the “will of the people” in Florida and Georgia, while conveniently ignoring Democrat shenanigans. Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election have nothing on Democrat schemes to undermine election integrity. ~The Patriot Post
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Immigration Enforcement Is Just Like KKK,
Says lowlife-Harris 2020
by Nate Jackson
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Giuliani Dishes on Mueller Questions:
'Unnecessary' and 'Possible Traps'
by Jason Devaney Israel heads toward elections as
Jewish Home says it will leave coalition
by RAOUL WOOTLIFF
{timesofisrael.com} ~ The Jewish Home will leave the coalition, bringing down the government and forcing new elections... senior sources in the Orthodox-nationalist party told The Times of Israel Friday. The Jewish Home party’s decision came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett’s demand to be made defense minister in a Friday afternoon meeting between the two.The sources said a date for elections had not been agreed upon. Elections are formally set for November 2019, but it is now expected they will be held between March and May, with Netanyahu pushing for a later date and other parties seeking an earlier one. Netanyahu said in a statement, however, that he would continue to try to preserve the right-wing coalition. He also made a series of telephone calls to coalition chiefs telling them there was no reason to dismantle the coalition at this stage....
Altered Election Docs Found, Can Be Linked to FL Dem Party
by MALACHI BAILEY
{westernjournal.com} ~ The Florida Department of State has asked federal prosecutors to investigate altered official state election documents... that may be tied to the Florida Democratic Party. The department is concerned about “irregularities” related to the vote-by-mail process in at least four counties, Politico reported. Naturally, one of the counties was Broward Country — home of notorious Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes and Florida’s ground zero for election “irregularities.” The others were Citrus, Okaloosa and Santa Rosa. According to Politico, the altered documents were sent to voters whose mail-in ballots had been rejected but were being given a chance to correct the problems before Election Day. Those documents, known as “cure affidavits,” were required to be turned in by 5 p.m. on Nov. 5, the day before the election. Some of the documents sent to voters, though, had been altered to show the deadline was 5 p.m. Nov. 8, two days after the election. There is evidence to suggest that the altered documents are tied to the Florida Democratic Party. The department of state’s interim general counsel, Bradley McVay, received information about the altered documents on Friday....
CAIR Continues Building Its "Wall of Resistance"
Against Law Enforcement
by Patrick Dunleavy.
The Top Ten University Leaders Who Are Supporters of Terror
by Sara DoganImmigration Enforcement Is Just Like KKK, Says lowlife-Harris 2020by Nate Jackson: California Democrat Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris certainly showed her penchant for hysterics in the despicable Brett Kavanaugh hearings, but she reached another low Thursday. During a confirmation hearing for Ronald Vitello, a 30-year Border Patrol veteran, to become the permanent director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), lowlife-Harris declared the law-enforcement agency to be just like the lawless and racist KKK.
Prompted by lowlife-Harris’s questions about Vitello’s years-old social media post about the Democrat Party being “liberalcratic” or “NeoKlanist,” here’s the relevant exchange:
Vitiello: “The Klan was what we could call today a domestic terrorist group.”
lowlife-Harris: “Why? Why would we call them a domestic terrorist group?”
Vitiello: “Because they tried to use fear and force to change the political environment.”
lowlife-Harris: “And what was the motivation for the use of fear and force?”
Vitiello: “It was based on race and ethnicity.”
lowlife-Harris: “Right. Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and discretion at ICE is being used to enforce the laws? And do you see any parallels?”
Vitiello: “I do not see any parallels between sworn officers and agents…”
lowlife-Harris: “I’m talking about perception.”
Vitiello: “I do not see a parallel between what is constitutionally mandated as it relates to enforcing the law.
lowlife-Harris: "Are you aware that there’s a perception? Are you aware that there’s a perception?”
Vitiello: “I see no perception that puts ICE in the same category as the KKK…”
lowlife-Harris: “I’m not finished. I’m not finished. I’m not finished. Are you aware that there is a perception that ICE is administering its power in a way that is causing fear and intimidation, particularly among immigrants and specifically among immigrants coming from Mexico and Central America?”
Surely, lowlife-Harris just overlooked the fact that more than half of all Border Patrol agents are Hispanic or Latino.
The senator’s outrageous race-bait badgering is meant for two purposes: One, #Resistance cred for her 2020 presidential bid. Two, showmanship to create the perception of racist law enforcement she insists is already there.
To the extent that the perception of racism at ICE already exists, it is because Democrats have strategically fomented it for craven political gain. Democrats began a small movement to abolish ICE this past summer. While Harris stopped just short of fully jumping on that bandwagon, she attacked the agency anyway, saying, “We need to probably think about starting from scratch.” The abolition movement even led to multiple violent protests. Coincidentally we’re sure, this Demo trial balloon was followed by three caravans from Central America aiming to enter the U.S. illegally and then demand asylum.
lowlife-Harris wanted to know what Vitiello would do to fix the perception (she helped create). He responded that, for one thing, he’d defend the agency against “misleading rhetoric and misinformation.” That pretty well indicts every elected Democrat. ~The Patriot Post
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHAFD2vTT0E
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Why Israel let Hamas win
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Republican Young Kim loses lead in California House race,
accuses opponent Gil Cisneros of harassing vote counters
by Adam Shaw
{foxnews.com} ~ Republican congressional candidate Young Kim, who just days ago was poised to be the first Korean-American woman in Congress as she led a closely contested California House race... is accusing her opponent of "harassing and intimidating” vote counters as her lead has disappeared. Kim is vying to replace retiring Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., in California’s 39th District, which includes part of the state's more Republican Orange County. Last week, she held about a 3-point lead over Democrat Gil Cisneros with about 150,000 votes counted. But since then, that lead vanished, with Cisneros taking a 941-vote as of late Thursday. Her campaign did not immediately return a request for comment from Fox News. But Kim, who was in D.C. Wednesday for orientation for newly elected House members, released a blistering statement earlier in the week, accusing the Cisneros campaign of “harassing and intimidating vote counters in Orange County.”...What is going on? Investigate. Kim was elected and now she isn't..
Democrat Corruption is a Clear and Present Danger to America
by Patricia McCarthy.
Migrant caravan, Tijuana residents clash at
U.S. border fence: 'You're not welcome'
by Elliot Spagat and Maria Verza
{washingtontimes.com} ~ Members of a migrant caravan started to meet some local resistance as they continued to arrive by the hundreds in the Mexican border city of Tijuana... where a group of residents clashed with migrants camped out by the U.S. border fence. About 100 migrants declined offers of rides to shelters and had camped out late Wednesday by the steel border fence at Tijuana’s beach area, when a similar number of local residents marched up to the group shouting, “You’re not welcome,” and, “Get out!” Police kept the two sides apart. Vladimir Cruz, a migrant from El Salvador, said Thursday, “These people are the racists, because 95 percent of people here support us.” “It is just this little group that doesn’t support us,” Cruz said. “They are uncomfortable because we’re here.” Playas de Tijuana, as the area is known, is an upper-middle-class enclave, and residents appeared worried about crime and sanitation. One protester shouted, “This isn’t about discrimination, it is about safety!” There are real questions about how the city of Tijuana will manage to handle the migrant caravans working their way up through Mexico, and which may total 10,000 people in all....
Razor wire now covers border wall
where 'vanguard' of migrant caravan taunted U.S.
by Stephen Dinan
{washingtontimes.com} ~ Hours after images of migrants climbing a border wall in San Diego went viral, the Homeland Security Department deployed razor wire Wednesday to prevent a repeat...The immigrants, who said they were the vanguard of the caravans streaming north through Mexico, ascended the fence Tuesday in a display of defiance. Video and photos showed them cheering and jeering atop the slat-style fence. Although no arrests or confrontations were reported, Homeland Security took immediate steps to try to keep others from climbing by deploying concertina wire, which coils over itself, creating a thorough barrier.“ As we have said repeatedly, being a member of a caravan doesn’t give you any special rights to enter the country,” said Katie Waldman, Homeland Security spokeswoman....
Chaos As Snow Hits New York City Unprepared,
Mayor Catching Heat
by Scott Morefield
{dailycaller.com} ~ New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is catching heat from all corners as several inches of November snow... has virtually crippled one of America’s major cities. Even a congressman from De Blasio’s party was critical of the “unacceptable” response to the storm. “Transportation and transit are the lifeblood of our city,” tweeted Democratic Rep Adriano Espaillat. “3 inches of snow have crippled #NYC and this is unacceptable. Moms are stranded with their kids, people are running out of gas. This is unacceptable & we demand answers.” A few inches of snow typically would cripple an unprepared southern city, but one could be forgiven for thinking a city like New York City should be used to this kind of thing. Liberal pundit Keith Olbermann criticized New York City officials for “COMPLETELY FORGETTING” that snow can come in November, punctuating his comment with the hashtag “YouShouldAllResign.”... NYC just voted them back in. Will they ever learn?.
Why Israel let Hamas win
by Caroline B. Glick
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Israel’s security cabinet’s decision Tuesday afternoon to walk away from the war Hamas initiated Monday and to accept a “ceasefire” is frustrating and infuriating. Hamas shot nearly 500 projectiles into Israel in under 24 hours. It blew up a bus with a Kornet anti-tank missile. Sixty Israelis were wounded, several critically. One civilian was killed. Numerous homes were destroyed.
Israel has never experienced any rocket onslaught from Gaza remotely as intense as what Hamas and Islamic Jihad shot off on Monday and Tuesday. And yet, rather than respond with equal – or better yet – far greater force and teach Hamas and Islamic Jihad a lesson they would long remember, the security cabinet sufficed with a couple hundred pinpoint air attacks, and then accepted the IDF’s advice and opted for the ceasefire. In so doing, they left the residents of southern Israel virtual hostages of Hamas and Islamic Jihad who have retained the capacity to attack them at will.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s sudden resignation on Wednesday may help his little party Yisrael Beitenu get reelected to Knesset in the next elections. But if it does, then Liberman will have won his political survival at Israel’s expense. Hamas is entirely justified in presenting Liberman’s resignation as proof that it defeated Israel this week.
Winners don’t quit. Losers do.
But beyond being frustrating and infuriating, the cabinet’s decision is a cause for deep concern. Why did the cabinet opt to stand down in the face of Hamas’s unprecedented onslaught?
Leaving concerns about the prospect of war in the north with Iran, Hezbollah and Syria out of the picture for a moment, there are on the face of things, two basic explanations for the cabinet’s decision. First, maybe the Whats App jokes making the rounds are right. Maybe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers are a bunch of stupid chickens. Liberman effectively accused them of stupidity and cowardice at his press conference Tuesday afternoon when he announced his resignation. But there is no evidence that Netanyahu is stupid. To the contrary. As for fear, there is ample evidence that if he and his ministers were fearful, they have good reason to be deeply worried.
This brings us to the second and more realistic reason to view the cabinet’s decision to stand down in the face of Hamas’s aggression as a bright red warning light. The source of that concern is the IDF’s General Staff.
Israel does not seek to overthrow the Hamas regime in Gaza. And for good reason. The price of a war to overthrow Hamas would be exorbitant both in terms of the human and monetary cost of war. And the return would be dubious at best. Israel doesn’t have an army big enough to spare three divisions to control a post-Hamas Gaza. The other option often touted by the far Left is that Israel pay the price of overthrowing Hamas and then hand Gaza over to the PLO. The PLO, though, is no less hostile than Hamas. Israel has no interest whatsoever in empowering the PLO by giving it Gaza.
Given the absence of a better alternative to Hamas in Gaza, rather than work to overthrow the terror regime, Israel has focused its efforts on keeping Hamas as weak as possible. And so, since Hamas took over Gaza in 2007, Israel’s effective strategy for dealing with the terror regime can be equated to mowing the grass. Every time Hamas becomes too powerful, Israel finds itself in another round of war with it. The purpose of Israel’s operations is to cut Hamas down to size and walk away, until the next round of war.
But this week, Hamas made clear that Israel needs to mow it down. A terror regime capable of sending 500 projectiles into Israeli territory in less than 24 hours and destroying a bus with an anti-tank missile is a terror regime that has become too powerful.
So why didn’t the cabinet order the IDF to mow the grass in Gaza? Why didn’t our leaders order the IDF to kill Hamas commanders Yahye Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh? Why didn’t they order the IDF to destroy the rocket launchers and the crews that operate them? Why didn’t they order the IDF to destroy Hamas’s bases and missile depots?
There are two possible explanations for their decision not to give these orders. Taken separately and together they point to an acute problem with the IDF’s senior ranks that requires immediate attention.
One explanation has been highlighted by retired senior IDF commanders and Yediot Aharonot’s military commentator Yossi Yehoshua. This explanation argues that the cabinet decision to stand down on Tuesday owed to the General Staff’s refusal to take the actions necessary to cut Hamas down to size. The General Staff’s refusal, they say, stems from the role lawyers are now playing in the IDF’s targeting decisions.
Since Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009, military lawyers have been attached to fighting units down to the battalion level. These attorneys are allegedly prohibiting required action by claiming that strategically significant and operationally vital actions like killing Hamas commanders and bombing rocket launching units constitute war crimes.
Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot has demonstrated for years that he is willing to subordinate trigger pullers to attorneys who do not suffer the consequences of their lenient interpretations of the actions of Israel’s enemies. He elevated Military Advocate General Sharon Afeq to the rank of Major General. He supports indicting combat soldiers for alleged violent crimes on the basis of radical legal interpretations of actions in battle. The message Eisenkot has communicated to everyone from platoon leaders to division commanders is that they must subordinate their actions to the judgment of lawyers who have no command responsibilities.
It is important to point out that the “international law” being implemented by IDF commanders through military lawyers is not actually the law as written. It is a radical, ideological interpretation of general principles of international law.
For instance, there is no explicit, universally applied determination of what a “proportionate” response to aggression is. Everything is a judgment call. And the judgment that the IDF has internalized through its lawyers is the one pronounced by antisemitic UN agencies and antagonistic self-declared “human rights” organizations. Namely, that Israel is guilty until proven innocent.
Needless to say, the IDF’s internalization of this bigoted and deeply flawed interpretation of international law is causing grave damage to the IDF’s ability to defend the country from aggression.
The second, equally troubling explanation for the cabinet’s decision to stand down is that Netanyahu and his ministers don’t trust the IDF’s operational competence. For seven months, the IDF has failed to come up with ways to end Hamas’s operations along the border. The special forces operating in Gaza on Sunday were ambushed. Their cover was blown. And the IDF permitted a bus carrying 50 soldiers to enter a border area where it was entirely exposed to enemy fire. If this is how the IDF handles Hamas, how will it handle Hezbollah – which is 10 times more powerful?
What are we to make of the fact that all the security services and branches of the IDF unanimously supported standing down in the face of Hamas’s extraordinary aggression?
In other words, if Netanyahu and his ministers feared the outcome of a more forceful operations against Hamas and Islamic Jihad, their fears were well placed. Israel may be the innovation nation, but the IDF has failed to come up with innovative ways to deal with Hamas. To be sure, our special forces are undoubtedly exacting major blows at Hamas we never hear about.
But the fact is, the terror regime shot off 500 projectiles and blew up a bus with a missile in less than 24 hours. The border assaults have never stopped. You can’t fight a booby-trapped balloon with an F-35. Ceramic vests and Iron Dome batteries are no substitute for bold improvisation and ingenuity.
This then brings us to the question of what to do about Liberman’s vacancy at the Defense Ministry.
There are three possibilities for filling the vacancy. The first is that Netanyahu just adds defense to his collection of ministerial portfolios which currently includes the foreign ministry and the health ministry. The main problem with this option is that given the acuteness of the problem, the Defense Ministry requires a full-time minister. Netanyahu is already working 20 hours a day. He can’t and shouldn’t try to take this on.
The second possibility is that Netanyahu appoints Education Minister Naftali Bennett to replace Liberman as Bennett’s Bayit Yehudi Party is demanding. There are pluses and minuses to this option.
The main advantage of appointing Bennett is that he is the minister best suited to handle the challenge. Bennett understands the IDF’s weaknesses, particularly the General Staff’s lack of creativity and antiquated approaches to Israel’s innovative terrorist foes.
As Education Minister, Bennett has demonstrated a capacity to enact significant reforms and work cooperatively and productively with powerful people that do not share his ideological outlook. He is more likely to deliver the goods than any other minister in Netanyahu’s government.
The downside of appointing Bennett is that he is a politician and Israel is entering an election year. In election years, politicians have to be able to produce tangible results to voters. And it isn’t at all clear that Bennett will be able to do that. Indeed, he is just as likely to fail in his mission as succeed, particularly given that elections can be called at any minute. Taking the Defense Ministry is a major gamble for Bennett and his party.
The third possibility is that Netanyahu appoints a person to serve until the next government is formed who understands the problems that need to be solved. That person would be someone with no political aspirations. He needs to be willing to walk straight into a political buzz saw at home and abroad as he removes legal advisers from IDF divisions, brigades and battalions and orders commanders to get the job done.
This person needs to be willing to make a lot of people hate him as he cancels appointments of senior commanders and boots a lot of brass out of the IDF altogether.
Frankly, it’s not clear that anyone who fits the bill exists.
What is clear enough is that Israel’s enemies are sitting on our borders – in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza – and they are watching us and our General Staff. H hour passed when the missile landed on the bus on Monday. If we aren’t prepared to mow the lawn in Gaza – and Lebanon – today, then we need to fix what is broken here at home today. Because tomorrow they will strike us again. And tomorrow we may not have the option of walking away.
What is clear enough is that Israel’s enemies are sitting on our borders – in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza – and they are watching us and our General Staff. H hour passed when the missile landed on the bus on Monday. If we aren’t prepared to mow the lawn in Gaza – and Lebanon – today, then we need to fix what is broken here at home today. Because tomorrow they will strike us again. And tomorrow we may not have the option of walking away.
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Acting AG Won’t Fire Robert Mueller Says Sen. Lindsey Graham
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{clarionproject.org} ~ Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah is ramping up south of the US border, as witnessed by arrests of its operatives in Bolivia and Peru... Information revealed by the State Department’s top counter terror official Nathan Sales confirmed the increased presence of Iran and Hezbollah in Latin and South America. In Bolivia, “large caches of military equipment and explosives” belonging to Hezbollah jihadis were found in the La Paz area. Jihads have also been dispatched to Peru, where prosecutions of operatives by the government is ongoing. Last year in Paraguay, a number of Hezbollah-linked individuals – some with connections to the U.S. were arrested for money laundering and drug trafficking, according to the State Department. Panama also worked with the U.S. on a number of counter-terror efforts with suspects linked to Hezbollah. A House panel last spring heard testimony that Iran has “converted and radicalized thousands of Latin Americans” over the years through sending imams to the region and establishing mosques and “cultural centers.”... https://clarionproject.org/hezbollah-is-ramp-up-south-of-the-us/
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First Muslim Women in US Congress
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by Soeren KernElection Officials Accused of Intentionally Missing
Recount Deadline to Aid Democrats
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ GOP Senate candidate Rick Scott and a host of others are accusing a pair of Florida counties of intentionally missing a recount deadline... a move that actually helped Democrats avoid losing more votes. In what has been described as a “stunning development,” election officials in Broward County submitted their recount results two minutes after the deadline, meaning the state will not use those numbers. All recount efforts in Broward this past week have thus been invalidated. Scott had gained votes in the county by virtue of his opponent, incumbent Sen. scumbag-Bill Nelson, losing more. By submitting the results past deadline, numbers from Tuesday’s election will stand until manual recounts can be done. Because of this, Scott actually lost the 779 votes he would have gained in this recount....
Laura Ingraham to End Radio Show for Daily Podcast
by Jon Levine
{thewrap.com} ~ Fox News host Laura Ingraham announced Wednesday that she will end her longtime syndicated radio show... and transition into a new career in podcasting. “While hosting a prime-time television show and raising three children on my own, continuing a three-hour morning radio show was no longer feasible,” Ingraham said in a statement, saying that the demands of her Fox News program and early morning radio were too much. “Although I will greatly miss my radio listeners and affiliates, working late nights and early mornings has taken a toll on my family life. Plus, my radio audience is smart, savvy and committed, and I know most will follow my new show in the format that is revolutionizing the audio world — digital podcasting,” she said. The podcast, to be known as “The Laura Ingraham Show” will launch this January and be hosted by PodcastOne. “Due to her huge success on the Fox News channel, daily podcasts are a much better fit for Laura’s hectic schedule and provides her listeners in all markets access at any time to the new Laura Ingraham Show podcast,” PodcastOne chief Norm Pattiz said in a statement. “She’s at the top of her game and her new original podcasts will fit perfectly on PodcastOne.”....
San Fran Bilks Corporations to 'Help the Homeless'by Political Editors: It’s ironic that leftists continuously decry the increasing amounts of money spent in politics and yet at the same time believe that giving the government more money is the primary means to solving all of society’s problems. This logic was clearly on display last week, when 60% of voters in San Francisco said yes to Proposition C, a ballot initiative that levies a special tax on certain large corporations. Proponents estimate it will bring in $300 million a year, which will be spent on the city’s growing homeless/vagrancy problem. This $300 million is in addition to the $380 million the city is currently spending on a vagrant population of around 7,500.
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, was not pleased with the proposition, pointing out the inherently uneven nature of the tax. He wrote, “We’re happy to pay our taxes. We just want to be treated fairly with respect to our peer companies, many of who are 2-10 [times] larger than us. Otherwise we don’t know how to practically grow in the city. That’s heartbreaking for us as we love [San Francisco] and want to continue to help build it.”
Even Mayor London Breed came out against Prop C, which would be the largest tax hike in San Francisco’s history, though her concern stems more from questions regarding the law’s legality. Breed wrote, “If it passes, Proposition C will likely immediately become part of an ongoing lawsuit to invalidate it. … The City could be left balancing its budget with a $300 million unknown baked in.”
According to California law, “special taxes” — taxes that fund a specific government program — must garner at least two-thirds of the vote in order to be legally instituted. Clearly, 60% of the vote is a sizable majority but it’s not two-thirds; thus, lawsuits are bound to be raised should the city go forward with the tax.
But the economic impact may be more damaging to the city in the long run. City economists estimate that Prop C would cost San Fran $200 to $240 million in GDP annually and 14,700 to 17,500 jobs over the next two decades. How exactly will that make the city any more able to deal with the problem of vagrants on the streets? How about ending government-financed welfare programs and encouraging private individuals, churches, and nonprofits to engage the problem instead? True generosity can never be achieved through confiscated and redistributed wealth.
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Last month, when the Treasury Department reported that the fiscal year 2018 deficit was a staggering $779 billion, President Trump made an announcement... Before meeting with his cabinet, the president said he would be asking every secretary to trim five percent, "if not more," from his or her budget. Nor would he exempt the department of Defense. Here's hoping Trump changes his mind. Cutting the resources available to the Pentagon is a bad idea. A new report from the bipartisan National Defense Strategy Commission underscores just how bad. "Providing for the Common Defense" is the consensus of a dozen national security experts, including Jack Keane, Senator Jon Kyl, Eric Edelman, Gary Roughead, Michael Morell, Anne Patterson, and Roger Zakheim. These are sober people. Experienced people. They are not given to exaggeration. Yet their conclusions are alarming. "The security and well being of the United States are at greater risk than at any time in decades," they write. "America's military superiority—the hard-power backbone of its global influence and national security—has eroded to a dangerous degree." Great-power competition returned as our military advantage dissipated. "America's ability to defend its allies, its partners, and its own vital interests is increasingly in doubt."...Arizona GOP Announces Independent
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The Arizona Republican Party announced Thursday it will conduct an independent audit of the Maricopa County Recorder's Office... after legal issues and other complaints arose in the days-long count to decide Arizona’s next senator. After Election Day, about 650,000 votes were not yet tallied in counties across Arizona, but the lion's share of those outstanding ballots resided in Maricopa County, the fourth-largest county in the country. The vote count in the race between Martha McSally (R.,) and the eventual winner Kyrsten Sinema (D.,) went on for six more days beyond Election Day, in which time the GOP sued Maricopa County questioning how long the county could "cure" ballots where the signature on the ballot was not a good enough match to the voter's signature on file. In instances such as this, the recorder's office may contact the voter to verify the ballot. However, some recorder’s offices stopped this "curing" process when polls closed at 7 p.m. local time on Election Day, while Maricopa County continued to cure ballots beyond that... https://freebeacon.com/politics/arizona-gop-announces-independent-audit-maricopa-county-recorder/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=a483c75ded-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_15_10_07_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-a483c75ded-45611665.
hugs Disrupt MEF Congressional Event
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{meforum.org} ~ Three hooligans disrupted a Middle East Forum event in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. yesterday hurling expletives and insults... The louts continued to scream for some ten minutes, preventing the event from resuming until the Capitol Police arrived and expelled them. The event, sponsored by Congressman Paul Gosar (Republican of Arizona) in cooperation with MEF, a Philadelphia-based think tank, focused on censorship and “de-platforming.” This is the new trend of ostensibly non-political institutions - social media, Amazon, PayPal, O2, Hyatt Hotels, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Mastercard, among others - to deny service to conservatives or those who publicly discuss Islamism and related topics. Asone participant in the event, UK activist Tommy Robinson, put it, “They are trying to de-platform an event on de-platforming.” Robinson discussed PayPal having closed his account and the major impact this has had on the ability to convey his message. Rep. Paul Gosar opened the event with a warning that, “If you are not able to express your ideas on the common platforms, then you do not have free speech. If you are denied the ability to trade in the common marketplace, then you are not economically free - which is a prerequisite to political freedom.” Raheem Kassam, a UK citizen of Pakistani Muslim ethnic background, told about his being demonetized by YouTube, and the impact this had on his ability to do his work... .
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by Eddie ScarrySenator Lindsey Graham Discusses His
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Senator Lindsey Graham (U-DC) met with Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker earlier today and pauses to discuss with interested media... Graham confirms Whitaker is intent on allowing the dirty cop-Mueller investigation to come to its natural conclusion. Additionally, Graham discusses a potential for he and Whitaker to work together next year on issues vitally important to the institution. ie. do not expect any ‘spygate’ stuff being discussed at any time over the next several weeks. Additionally today, the Office of Inspector General, Michael Horowitz outlined departmental priorities for the DOJ in 2019. Which leans heavily toward the possibility the next DOJ-IG report will be a white-wash over the FISA abuse. Notably absent from the challenge priorities is any direct interest in eliminating corruption.
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Correcting Overheated Math in Alarming Ocean-Warmth Studyby Jordan Candler: There was a rare glimpse of camaraderie between researchers on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum following the release of a beleaguered new climate study. That study, broadcast in the journal Nature, asserted that ocean-warming calculations done by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were too conservative. Alternatively, the researchers contend that sea warmth is 60% higher what the IPCC declares.
However, mathematician Nic Lewis discovered a discrepancy shortly after the study went public. Lewis wrote that “a quick review of the first page of the paper was sufficient to raise doubts as to the accuracy of its results.” He went on to reveal, “Just a few hours of analysis and calculations, based only on published information, was sufficient to uncover apparently serious (but surely inadvertent) errors in the underlying calculations.”
The authors, it turns out, acknowledged Lewis’s complaint. The Scripps Institute of Oceanography’s Ralph Keeling, a study partaker, responded, “When we were confronted with his insight it became immediately clear there was an issue there. We’re grateful to have it be pointed out quickly so that we could correct it quickly.” He also stated, “Our error margins are too big now to really weigh in on the precise amount of warming that’s going on in the ocean. We really muffed the error margins.”
While the acknowledgment is refreshing, Lewis remains circumspect. In an email to Reason magazine, he cautions:
In general terms, if [Keeling] is only saying that they acknowledge that their study underestimated the uncertainty in their ocean heat uptake estimate, that is not enough. They should also acknowledge that another consequence of their mishandling of the treatment of uncertainty was that their central estimate of ocean heat uptake was overstated by approximately 30%. … I would hope that Nature will have any changes made by the authors to their assumptions examined carefully by peer reviewers who are experts in the same field as [the authors] as well as by statistically expert peer reviewers. However, the failure of the original peer review and editorial process to pick up the fairly obvious statistical problems in the original paper do not engender confidence in Nature’s approach.
This is an important point. National Center for Atmospheric Research climatologist Gerald Meehl says, “This is how the process works. Every paper that comes out is not bulletproof or infallible. If it doesn’t stand up under scrutiny, you review the findings.” Fair enough. However, Lewis was able to discern the problem in “a few hours of analysis and calculations, based only on published information.” This should create general alarm over other studies whose shaky underpinnings could be recklessly unseen or ignored. Indeed, few agenda-driven researchers are as deferential as Keeling. Either that, or the flaw was hidden in such plain sight that he had no choice but to accept correction. ~The Patriot Post
