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Monday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 12, 2019 at 1:57pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Questions Surround Epstein’s Untimely Death

Political Editors

A Universal-Background-Check Law Would Not Violate the Second Amendment

By JOHN YOO

{ nationalreview.com } ~ The terrible shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton in the past week have renewed cries for Washington, D.C., to do something... In our federal system, the most effective responses will have to come from state and local governments, which have the primary responsibility and the broadest tools for reducing violent crime. But the president and Congress can act in one area, the rules for buying guns. President Trump this week seized on the idea of expanding background checks for firearm purchasers. Before a Wednesday visit to Dayton and El Paso, where weekend shootings left 31 dead, Trump said there “was great appetite for background checks.” A proposal from Senators Patrick J. Toomey (R., Pa.) and Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) would expand the reviews to private transactions that were advertised publicly or took place at gun shows. Expanding background checks remains popular with the public, with about 90 percent, including eight in ten Republicans, in support. According to media reports, however, the National Rifle Association has criticized the idea. Some conservatives have questioned whether such rules are effective, noting that the shooters in all three cases would still have gotten hold of their high-powered weapons even if Toomey-Manchin were on the books. Neither side cited empirical studies that can answer the real question: Would expanded background checks deter future mass shooters — as well as ordinary murderers, who take far more lives, or foreign terrorists — from acquiring and using high-powered weapons? But what conservatives should not worry about is whether expanded background checks would intrude on the Second Amendment. Because identity politics is all the rage these days, I suppose I should make clear that I am no gun-control advocate, even though I am a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. I may be one of the few unfortunates who live within the city limits of the People’s Republic of Berkeley who own guns — though that may be because I grew up in Pennsylvania, where some schools have a day off at the start of hunting season. There are probably few other members of the Faculty Club who also belong to the Richmond Calif. Rod and Gun Club — if there are, I haven’t seen them at the range. I am sure that writing this op-ed will spark a movement to petition the Berkeley City Council to have me expelled from the city — again. But unfortunately for most Berkeley residents, the Second Amendment declares: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” In Heller v. District of Columbia (2008), the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear firearms, rather than just a collective right to a well-armed militia. The “inherent right to self-defense,” the Court found, is “central to the Second Amendment right.” As a result, the District of Columbia could not ban handgun possession in the home... https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/universal-background-check-law-would-not-violate-second-amendment/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdWaU16UXpaVFUxWVRBNSIsInQiOiI2OUdnWlBHQ29Od3dmRXp3dGRcL1l1THIrekJ5ak5XWFh6RkRNRzhJWUh3WHNLbGVWOHl3c09kcnh0TGF5UnllOFc0SUo1UUs3QjIzc1hKNDNZOGFTbGNTcnRNMngzZFpXZTNWSXVQcGt2cDA5eVdoNU9aVEJwT0FQWmpMcEhNSEoifQ%3D%3D

Steve Bannon Extensive

Interview With Maria Bartiromo

by sundance

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo for a wide-ranging discussion on current political and geopolitical events... Topics include the U.S-Mexico border security and immigration; the 2020 democrat candidates announced and unannounced; the bigger geopolitical issues behind the U.S-China trade conflict; loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden’s direct financial relationship to the Chinese communist government; the USMCA trade agreement; Trump’s leverage to increase an EU free economic alliance against China; and radical action by dems.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/11/sunday-talks-steve-bannon-extensive-interview-with-maria-bartiromo/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpMCWAK9XyY

Social Security Administration to increase

benefits in 2019 and issue warning to recipients

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By Tori McNabb

{ redrightvideos.com } ~ President shows no signs of slowing down in the new year, despite his sweeping success of accomplishing most of his campaign promises in the first half of his first term in office... While Democrat leaders are enjoying their break from government duties while Congress is shut down, Trump has been hard at work in the White House. The president wants to start the new year out right by bringing big changes after exposing a major scandal in this country. Social Security recipients will see an increase in their benefits for 2019. Benefits will rise almost three percent due to a cost-of-living adjustment announced back in the fall. That’s the biggest jump in seven years. For the average retired worker, it will mean about $39 more each month or $468 per year. The cost-of-living adjustment is based on a broad index of consumer prices calculated by the government. At the same time though, be on the lookout for scammers pretending to be from the Social Security Administration. The S.S.A said so far this year, more than 35,000 people reported the scam, compared to just over 3,000 last year. The scammers will often say your Social Security number is about to be suspended because of suspicious activity. Your Social Security number will never be suspended and you do not have to verify your number to anyone who calls. The Social Security Administration will never call to threaten your benefits or tell you to wire money or send cash.

https://redrightvideos.com/trump-just-warned-millions-of-americans-of-major-scandal-big-changes-coming/

UK: Going Easy on ISIS Terrorists,

Hard on Those Who Fought Them?

by Judith Bergman

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The West has mercilessly let down persecuted minorities in the Middle East, while showing great concern for the well-being of returning ISIS terrorists, their children and their spouses... There seems to have been no such concern for the victims of ISIS terrorists, particularly the Christians and Yazidis. In the Netherlands, the Dutch immigration service has been sending Yazidi asylum seekers back to refugee camps in northern Iraq, and arguing that they have sufficient access to food and other facilities, Dutch media outlet Trouw recently reported. By contrast, in February, Dutch Minister of Justice Ferdinand Grapperhaus said that the Netherlands is "looking into" the option of trying to move Dutch women and children living in refugee camps in Syria to safe areas where they can return to the Netherlands. "What we are looking into is can we get them to safe areas, with the help of the people who have power over the camps," Grapperhaus said. "Then they can register at the Dutch consulate and we can get them to the Netherlands and the children to social services. That is my main motivation." As of May, the Netherlands was negotiating the safe passage of 10 women and their children, who have been staying in refugee camps in northeast Syria. The Netherlands, according to the Dutch news outlet AD, wants to ensure that these women and children can reach the nearest Dutch consulate in Erbil, Iraq without being arrested, tried and sentenced to death. Pari Ibrahim, the founder and executive director of the Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF), told the website Kurdistan 24 that she is very concerned about the Yezidis in Iraq. "We do not think European immigration authorities should be rejecting Yezidi asylum cases," she said. "Survivors of a genocide have special and unique needs that should be recognised." Some officials in the Netherlands, evidently, appear to think otherwise. In addition, some European countries are actually in the process of prosecuting nationals who travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight against ISIS. In the UK, it is estimated that just a few dozen British volunteers fought against ISIS. By comparison, approximately 850 UK nationals travelled from the UK to join ISIS...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14320/uk-returning-isis-terrorists

Corporate Shakedown

by Patrick Hauf

{ freebeacon.com } ~ American businesses are adopting increasingly liberal policies and public stances due to pressure from progressive activists within corporate America... rather than social media outrage cycle, according to corporate watchdogs. The practice of marshaling a minority of stakeholders in a company to advance a political cause is often referred to as "shareholder activism," and the tactic has proven effective in the 21st century. Shareholders of publicly-traded corporations push for reforms aimed at achieving political, rather than business, ends. The results can be seen in major American companies publicly backing liberal positions on major culture war issues, from the "racism" of the American flag, to transgender bathrooms, and pro-life legislation. Stephen R. Soukup, vice president of the market research firm "The Political Forum," works to inform his audience of this corporate bias through his company's newsletter. He said he worries that not enough conservatives are aware of this leftwing bias within the shareholding world to even begin fighting back effectively. "The initial goal should be to make shareholders and large institutional investment firms aware that this is going on," he told the Washington Free Beacon. "You have no idea how many people have reached out to me saying they had no idea." The next step, he says, is to get conservatives to create their version of this business strategy that will help restore their influence in the business sphere...

https://freebeacon.com/issues/corporate-shakedown/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=cd09cc16fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_11_10_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-cd09cc16fa-45611665

Questions Surround Epstein’s Untimely Death

Political Editors: Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide while in jail on Saturday has sparked a flurry of questions and conspiracy theories surrounding the high-profile sex-trafficking case against the multimillionaire financier and sex offender. What has fueled many of the questions and conspiracy theories were Epstein’s connections to famous and powerful individuals, the most notable being Bill Clinton. The suspicious circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death certainly have not helped matters.

Why, for example, was Epstein seemingly suddenly taken off suicide watch? As The Wall Street Journal reported, “Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said in a letter to [Attorney General William] Barr: ‘Every single person in the Justice Department — from your Main Justice headquarters staff all the way to the night-shift jailer — knew that this man was a suicide risk, and that his dark secrets couldn’t be allowed to die with him.’” Who ordered the change, and why? Why was his cellmate transferred out shortly before Epstein’s death? And the biggest question of all: Who benefits now that Epstein will not be tried?

Clearly, Barr was not happy to learn of Epstein’s death, as he immediately ordered the inspector general to investigate the incident in addition to the FBI’s inquiry that is currently underway. Epstein’s accusers are also not happy, as they have now been robbed of their day in court to prove their claims against him.

It will be interesting going forward to see what the investigations turn up and if any others who were implicated are charged as party to Epstein’s sex-trafficking crimes. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64784?mailing_id=4466&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4466&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Mon/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 12, 2019 at 9:43am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The GOP’s Challenge in 2020?

Don’t Make It About Trump

Tim Chapman - executive director of Heritage Action for America

Monday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Politics

‘THE HUNT’ CANCELED: “Universal Pictures on Saturday canceled plans to release ‘The Hunt’ — a thriller about a group of ‘globalist elites’ killing people for sport — after two recent mass shootings that left a total of 31 people dead in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio,” The New York Times reports. According to Todd Starnes, the “grotesque film … depicted elitists hunting and slaughtering supporters of President Trump. … The script also explains that one of the characters was stalked and hunted like prey for being pro-life.”

dinky-WARREN CASHES IN: “Presidential contender Elizabeth dinky-Warren on Saturday unveiled her plan to combat gun violence, including proposals to triple the tax applied to firearm sales and raise the tax on ammunition even more dramatically.” (CNBC)

DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD: “As California Democrats try to keep President Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot next year, Republicans in other states are pondering plans to cancel or modify their own 2020 presidential nominating contests and essentially affirm the party’s support for Mr. Trump before voters head to the polls.” (The Washington Times)

YEARNING FOR A RECESSION: “Comedian Bill Maher on Friday said he ‘really’ wished there was another economic recession, arguing such an event would ruin President Trump’s chances of winning reelection,” according to The Hill. Last December, our own Mark Alexander warned, “Caught in the Democrats’ political crossfire are tens of millions of American workers and their families whose jobs and income prospects will fall victim to the Demos’ politically induced recession — the direct result of having thrown economic confidence under the bus in order to attack Trump.”

Around the Nation

STRAIGHT PRIDE DENIED: “A Northern California city has denied a request to hold a so-called Straight Pride rally at a park. … City spokesman Thomas Reeves says the permit request was denied over safety concerns, because the group lost its liability insurance and the parks department determined the event wasn’t consistent with park use. However, Reeves says the city would allow the rally at a downtown plaza if the group proves it has insurance by Tuesday.” (Associated Press)

RAINBOW MAFIA: “A federal judge in Virginia ruled Friday in favor of a transgender former student, concluding that a school board’s transgender restroom ban was discriminatory. … [The former student] was forced to use the girl’s restroom or a private restroom and was prohibited from using the men’s room as a result of the school’s policy, despite the fact that he underwent chest reconstruction surgery and hormone therapy as part of his transition.” (Fox News)

VILLAGE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM: “A proposed ethnic-studies curriculum developed for California public high schools has ignited outrage over its shabby treatment of Jewish Americans and Israel, leading to fears that students could soon receive a crash course in anti-Semitism.” (The Washington Times)

ATTACK THWARTED: “A Las Vegas man who reportedly wanted to shoot up area synagogues and a gay bar has been charged in federal court for possessing bomb-making materials. Conor Climo, 23, a security guard, had allegedly been communicating with a violent white supremacist group called the Atomwaffen Division. According to the criminal complaint, Atomwaffen Division ‘encourages attacks on the federal government, including critical infrastructure, minorities, homosexuals, and Jews.’” (Washington Examiner)

Other Notables

HONG KONG TURBULENCE: “Hong Kong International Airport has canceled all remaining flight departures for the day after thousands of anti-government protesters flooded its terminals. … Monday marked the fourth straight day protesters have occupied the airport, one of the world’s busiest. … Protesters have been pressuring the Hong Kong government for the past 10 weeks to answer their five demands, which include formally withdrawing the now-suspended extradition bill that kick-started these demonstrations and establishing an independent commission to investigate police conduct in their handling of the protests.” (ABC News)

VIRTUE SIGNALING: “Two US gold medal winners could face sanctions after staging dramatic podium protests against US President Donald Trump at the Pan American Games in Lima. Gwen Berry stunned the crowd when she raised a clenched right fist and bowed her head as the US national anthem closed her gold medal ceremony for the women’s hammer. … On Friday, two-time Olympian fencer Race Imboden, 26, set the tone after ‘taking a knee’ as his team celebrated gold in the team foil event.” (Agence France-Presse)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: Ten questions parents should ask before school starts (Forbes)

POLICY: Seven reasons to oppose red-flag gun laws (Foundation for Economic Education)

SATIRE: To show support for gun control, Matt Damon remakes Jason Bourne series with bananas instead of firearms (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64782?mailing_id=4466&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4466&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Clashes break out on Temple Mount between

Muslim protesters, Israeli police

by JUDAH ARI GROSS

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Clashes broke out between Muslim protesters and Israeli police forces on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount holy site on Sunday... during a period of peak religious tensions over the confluence of Jewish and Muslim holy days. At least 61 Muslim worshipers were injured in the clashes, according to the Red Crescent. At least four officers were also lightly-to-moderately wounded, police said. Sunday marks both the start of Eid al-Adha, an Islamic holiday commemorating the end of the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, and the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the temples that once stood on the Temple Mount and other disasters in Jewish history. Following a security assessment, police said non-Muslims would be barred from entering the Temple Mount, where tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers had arrived during the morning. Hundreds of Jews had gathered at the gates leading to the holy site on Sunday morning. After another security assessment, some Jewish visitors were allowed to enter the site. Several dozen visited under close police escort and Muslim worshipers began throwing chairs and other objects at the group. The Jewish visitors left the compound shortly thereafter. Army Radio put the number of Jewish visitors at 150, and said they had been allowed a shorter-than-usual tour of the site. Palestine TV, the official Palestinian Authority television channel, reported that the Jewish visitors entered and exited the Temple Mount within a few minutes...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/clashes-break-out-on-temple-mount-between-muslim-protesters-israel-police/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-08-11&utm_medium=email

Former DNC Head Donna Brazile: Trump ‘Had Nothing to Do’ with Mass Shootings

By C. DOUGLAS GOLDEN

{ westernjournal.com } ~ There are more than a few Democrats willing to line up in order to ascribe blame to President Donald Trump for the mass shootings that happened last weekend... Former Democratic National Committee chief Donna Brazile isn’t one of them. In a Friday interview on Fox News Radio, Brazile — a political strategist who managed the DNC during the latter part of scumba/liar-Hillary Clinton’s presidential run and had previously acted as campaign manager for scumbag-Al Gore in 2000 — said the president “should not be blamed for … these individual killers” and decried the conversation about whether or not the president was a racist.Brazile’s comments came after she was asked about a string of Democrat presidential candidates who had declared President Trump a “white supremacist” in the wake of the El Paso, Texas massacre. In that shooting, the alleged killer posted a racist manifesto to social media before killing 22 people at a Walmart. “loose lips liar-Biden was specifically asked to call or was pressed basically to call President Trump a white supremacist,” host Guy Benson said. “He declined to do so. He said I’m not going to go there you’re trying to pull that particular sound bite out of me. I’m not going to give it to you. lowlife-Kamala Harris sort of dodged that same question, other people like Elizabeth dinky-Warren saying, ‘absolutely yes. Donald Trump is a white supremacist.’ What’s your take on that question and how Democratic candidates are responding to it?”“This conversation about race and racism, domestic terrorism, white supremacy, white nationalism, it is that I am profoundly saddened as an American,” Brazile replied. “The reason why is to point fingers and the plate is so-called blame game. President Trump had nothing to do with the maniac, and I’m being gracious here, the maniac who shot up a Walmart store. He had nothing to do with the person who shot up, you know, the bar in Dayton.” “This is unbecoming of a country. The president of United States, you know, should not be blamed for, you know, these individual killers.” Brazile went on to say that “what we have to hold each other responsible for is our tone. We all have to set a tone.” “We need to set a tone for our kids for our future for the values that we share as Americans. And, you know, we like these gotcha questions. Hey, are you a racist or you — I don’t like that,” Brazile said. “I’m black, yes I’m black. That’s who I am, but that’s not everything. You don’t know anything else about me other than the color of my skin. That’s not how we should do it.” Brazile, of course, isn’t in or running for office, which means that she can tell the obvious truth: Trump bears no responsibility for the racist degenerate responsible for the El Paso shooting, nor is he a “white supremacist.” The reason we’re having this “conversation” — which always seems to take the form of a lecture in which conservatives are told exactly how perfidious they are — is because political hay can be made by smearing the president and his allies as racists who encourage violence... About time someone from the other side said the truth. https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/former-dnc-head-donna-brazile-trump-had-nothing-to-do-with-mass-shootings/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-CT&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=conservative-tribune

scumbag/commie-Brennan’s Role In Russia Collusion Hoax Becomes Clearer

by Sarah Lee

{ redstate.com } ~ The question of who knew the full scope of the Russia collusion hoax has, thus far, remained unanswered... The bit players like Bruce Ohr and Peter Strzok seemed to understand their role in carrying out what Strzok called “the insurance policy”, but surely someone knew what all the disparate moving pieces were doing. As mentioned, that question is unanswered. But there are candidates, one being former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan, who has popped back up again in the news as someone who, even if he turns out to be simply one of the moving pieces in the larger scheme to denigrate the Trump campaign with false allegations of Russia connections, may have perjured himself again before Congress nonetheless. Here’s American Greatness pulling from a July 29 Maria Bartiromo interview with House Oversight member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA): During an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo Sunday morning, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) suggested that former CIA director scumbag/commie-John Brennan lied under oath to Congress in May 2017. In written testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, scumbag/commie-Brennan claimed that he had briefed each member of the so-called Gang of Eight about “Russian attempts to interfere in the election” between August 11, 2016 and September 6, 2016. After his meeting with scumbag/commie-Brennan, dinky-Reid fired off a letter to FBI Director scumbag-James Comey demanding an investigation into “the questions raised” in the scumbag/liar-Clinton/DNC/Steele dossier. But Nunes told Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” that he and former Speaker Paul Ryan were never told about the Steele Dossier, which contained allegations about Russian interference and contacts with the Trump campaign. “The CIA has mostly come clean about its activities during the 2016 election,” Nunes said. “The only one who has questions to answer is scumbag/commie-John Brennan,” he added. “We now know that scumbag/commie-John Brennan briefed Harry dinky-Reid on the dossier in August of 2016,” Nunes said. “At the same time, he never briefed me or Paul Ryan, who was the Speaker of the House at the time.”...

https://www.redstate.com/slee/2019/08/09/icymi-brennan-perjury-allegations-bubbling/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680

Germany's Pro-Iran, Anti-Israel Foreign Policy

by Soeren Kern

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ A senior German diplomat appointed to head an EU barter system that would enable European companies to sidestep U.S. sanctions on Iran... stepped down after giving an interview in which he criticized the existence of Israel and praised Tehran's ballistic missile program. The episode — the latest of a series of occurrences that have laid bare the anti-Israel foundation of Germany's foreign policy — is an embarrassing setback for the German government and will complicate its efforts to salvage the Iran nuclear deal. Bernd Erbel, a 71-year-old former German ambassador to Iraq and Iran, said that he would not assume leadership of Instex, a payment mechanism to facilitate European business with Iran, after the newspaper Bild, on August 8, published the contents of an extensive interview Erbel gave to Ken Jebsen, a German-Iranian radio host who has been described as a "conspiracy theorist" and an "anti-Semite." In the 2.5-hour interview, Erbel said that Israel was founded "at the expense of another people" and claimed that "the Palestinians are the victims of our victims." He added that "had the Jewish state been founded in Prussia, then the Palestinian problem would not have existed." Erbel claimed that the Jewish state is "more than ever a foreign body in the region" and that for "psychological" reasons Israel is incapable of empathy. In the interview, Erbel defended Iran and said that "the last time Iranian troops crossed the border to another country for purposes of aggression" was in the 18th century, when Iran invaded India. Bild noted: "That Iranian troops have been at war in Iraq since 2003, and since 2011 in Syria, supporting the Houthi militia in Yemen and Gaza, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Harakat al-Sabireen, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards together with Hezbollah in southern Syria with rockets targeted at Israel — all these offensive military actions by Iranian troops abroad are kept secret by Erbel."...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14699/germany-iran-israel

worthless-Rashida Tlaib Misrepresented

scumbag-Soros Stipend in Financial Disclosures

by Joe Schoffstall

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Congresswoman-elect worthless-Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) did not disclose the name of the source of funds for a fellowship that was paid by liberal billionaire scumbag-George Soros—as required by the House ethics committee... and also disclosed a lesser amount than she received, according to a review of tax and financial disclosure forms. The Washington Free Beacon obtained the most recent copies of tax forms for a number of scumbag-Soros's organizations, including the Open Society Institute, the legal name for the Open Society Foundations, the entity in which scumbag-Soros pushes millions in funding to a number of liberal causes and organizations. An expenditure of $85,307 to worthless-Rashida Tlaib in Detroit, Mich., from 2017 is shown on page 97 of the 321-page report to "to increase involvement of disenfranchised urban communities of color with their local governance process by creating a community benefits strategy for equitable development and creating a leadership training for impacted residents focused on negotiation skills and identifying leverage at the local level." worthless-Tlaib did not report any income in the amount of $85,307 on financial disclosure forms submitted as she was running for office, which identified the names of the sources that provided her income in three of four cases. worthless-Tlaib received compensation from the Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center, Wayne State University, and Metro Solutions, the forms show. However, the fourth reported source of earned income is marked as a "Leadership in Government Fellowship," but does not identify who provided the payment... UPDATE: Jonathan Kaplan, the communications officer for the Open Society Foundations, sent the following quote after publication: "worthless-Rashida Tlaib was awarded a Leadership in Government fellowship from the Open Society Foundations in the fall of 2016. Her project: to focus on increasing the civic participation of disenfranchised urban communities of color. When Ms. worthless-Tlaib informed us that she was planning to run for Congress, we mutually agreed to suspend her fellowship and no further payments were made."

https://freebeacon.com/politics/rashida-tlaib-misrepresented-soros-stipend-financial-disclosures/

The GOP’s Challenge in 2020?

Don’t Make It About Trump

Tim Chapman - executive director of Heritage Action for America

{ politico.com } ~ As the Democratic presidential candidates gather to debate in Detroit this week, they have reason to be confident: At this moment in time, essentially any of them could beat President Donald Trump come November 2020.

Democrats are ahead in essentially every national poll. Trump trails all five of the Democrats’ leading White House contenders, and his numbers are even worse in some critical swing states like Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the generic congressional ballot tilts even further to the left than it did on the eve of the 2018 midterms. If the 2020 elections were held today, voters—including many who have voted Republican often in the past—would likely hand Democrats the White House.

Why? Because 2020 is shaping up to be a referendum on the president’s personality—which is bad news for conservatives. If the election is all about Trump the person—as embodied in his ongoing fight with the so-called “Squad” of four far-left Democratic Congresswomen—the right will not likely have a large enough coalition to win.

The president has a unique ability to dominate news coverage. But to win in 2020, the central question of the 2020 campaign cannot be solely about who President Trump is; it must instead be about what President Trump and the GOP will do with four more years.

Right now, the Republican Party doesn’t have a strong enough response to that second question. But the answer does exist—if the GOP is willing to embrace it.

Over the past four months, Heritage Action, the organization I lead, conducted a series of highly detailed public opinion surveys in battleground states, swing districts and at the national level. Our goal was simple: To find out what issues currently motivate the coalition that elected Donald Trump and Republican congressional majorities in 2016, so that we can keep that coalition together and expand it while advancing the conservative ideals we hold dear.

We found that the GOP isn’t connecting the dots between its own innate conservative principles and voters’ preferences—which, our polling reveals, are more similar than many realize. And as a result, the crucial swing voters in the middle identify the Republican Party as the party of Trump and his outsized personality instead of the party of economic progress and cultural stability.

Our study also pointed to a way to unify Republican voters while drawing in independents, moderate Democrats, suburbanites and working-class swing voters with a strong conservative platform focused on four distinct areas: immigration, culture, the workforce and economic fairness.

On some of these issues, the GOP has a long road ahead to both develop workable policies and differentiate itself from Democrats. On other issues—including immigration—polling shows that President Trump and the broader party are headed in the right direction, but their approach could use some fine-tuning. But across the board, regardless of how much work needs to be done, we found that there are—or there can be—conservative policies that appeal to swing voters. And those proposals need to be as much a part of 2020 as Donald Trump, because if they aren’t, they both will likely lose.

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We began our study with an open mind, building our surveys to gauge gut reactions, rather than refine messaging around our preferred policies (our full polling methodology and language are available here). Each poll was designed to build on the previous one, leading to a detailed picture of what issues unify Republican voters while simultaneously drawing in independents, moderate Democrats, suburbanites and working-class voters.

To start, we asked voters what they considered the most important issue heading into the 2020 election. Unsurprisingly, the answers differed dramatically by party affiliation. About a third of Democrats are squarely focused on Donald Trump, compared to only 11 percent of independents and 2 percent of Republicans. On the other side, some 36 percent of Republicans saw immigration as the top issue, while 12 percent of independents and 5 percent of Democrats said the same thing.

Across every demographic group in our diverse group of battleground districts, immigration was identified as the single biggest issue. But the reasons voters gave for immigration’s importance weren’t what you’d expect—at least not if you listen to the way the issue is often discussed.

On the one hand, 83 percent of Republican voters said that “illegal immigration affects my life,” including strong majorities of working-class and suburban voters. Yet when asked what they considered to be illegal immigration’s biggest consequence, the most common answer wasn’t violence, job losses or cultural change; more than half said overuse of social services.

When you add in those respondents who answered “all of the above,” more than three-quarters of Republican voters were deeply concerned about illegal immigrants abusing our health care system, schools and welfare programs. Among independent voters, a plurality of 43 percent listed it as immigration’s biggest consequence which may explain why 72 percent of GOP voters and 54 percent of independents want legal immigrants to be admitted to the U.S. on the basis of merit or skills.

This is decidedly not how President Trump, conservative media pundits or GOP candidates talk about illegal immigration. By focusing on crime and job losses, the party and its leaders are making the least persuasive case for border security and immigration reform. As a result, Democrats feel little public pressure to compromise on the issue, even as their presidential candidates move aggressively leftward by promising the use of social services to illegal immigrants. If politics is a game of contrast, then the GOP can play it much better.

A similar lesson holds for cultural issues. When we drilled down, we found many examples where Republicans, independents and Democrats find common ground—and where the GOP can make major gains.

Take political correctness. More than 90 percent of Republicans agree it’s a problem, and more than three-quarters say it’s a “major” problem. Among for independents, almost 80 percent are concerned about political correctness. More to the political point, 57 percent of general election voters say national Democrats are becoming culturally extreme.

Part of the reason is the Democrats’ leftward shift on traditional hot-button social issues. Case in point: House and Senate Democrats recently blocked a proposal requiring doctors to provide medical care to infants who survive abortion—and every Democratic presidential candidate has toed the party line in opposing such care. Yet even while we found that more Americans identified as pro-choice instead of pro-life 48 percent, versus 45 percent, 76 percent of respondents—including huge majorities of Republicans, independents and even pro-choice Democrats—overwhelmingly support the policy Democrats blocked.

Republicans have defaulted to defense on culture over the past decade-plus, often due to pressure from big business and the libertarian wing of the party. Yet the GOP now has an opportunity to play offense. By undertaking a concerted effort to contrast its positions with those of the Democrats, Republicans can unify their base and bring in those independents and moderates who are concerned by the left’s growing cultural extremism.

The third major opportunity that we identified involves the workforce and, specifically, the future of work in America. The economy is strong, and the polling reflects that. But there are widespread worries that it won’t last. A majority of general election voters think their children and grandchildren will have fewer economic opportunities than they did. A strong plurality worry that their wages won’t keep up with the cost of living. And a staggering 82 percent of all voters think automation and outsourcing will destroy a significant number of jobs and careers within the next decade.

Here’s where the need for a bold new Republican policy agenda becomes clear. On economics, Republicans must turn the page in their playbook. There’s no consensus within the GOP, much less beyond the party, for an economic platform centered solely on tax cuts and deregulation. Among all voters, there’s essentially an even split on whether the Trump agenda of tax cuts and deregulation helped or hurt the middle class. Among independents, 50 percent say it hurt, while only 42 percent say it helped; the numbers are also bad among suburban women, a critical group of 2020 voters. Even though such policies are effective—and helped Trump lift the economy from the scumbag/liar-nObama doldrums—they simply aren’t the golden ticket for another winning coalition.

If not “more tax cuts and less red tape,” then what economic agenda can the GOP embrace? Polling suggests that Republicans could become the party of workers by becoming the party of skilled trades—a natural bridge between practical suburbanites and the industrial populace who voted for Trump.

More than two-thirds of suburban, working-class and independent voters agree that there are many skilled labor jobs available—jobs that don’t require a college degree or crushing student debt, but pay as much (or more) as jobs that do. Similar numbers of Republicans say workers need more training to fit into today’s job market. And huge numbers of Republican voters—especially the pro-Trump working-class types—think a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost.

By supporting apprenticeships, vocational training and workforce development while simultaneously targeting the economic distortions that stifle opportunity, the GOP can tilt the playing field back toward blue-collar workers, unite its base and attract suburban and working-class voters, as well as a good number of Democrats. It’s less a matter of contrast than persuasion that conservative policies can help all Americans find good-paying, fulfilling work. Where such policies exist, the party needs to rally around them; where they don’t yet exist, the party and its allies need to get to work designing them.

Another workforce-related opportunity is infrastructure. A winning Republican coalition depends on its base, suburban voters and independents—all of whom support infrastructure spending tailored exclusively to roads and bridges. Done right—that is, without wasteful spending, mission creep or sweetheart deals for unions and big businesses—infrastructure investments can rebuild roads and bridges while also helping to build a local workforce and grow American factories and manufacturing.

The final major issue area that we identified is the broadest and most treacherous for the GOP: Economic fairness.

By now, it’s well-known that voters of all political stripes worry the system is rigged in favor of the wealthy and well-connected. This feeling pervades attitudes toward the economy, health care and myriad of other issues. We found that suburban and middle-class voters have a strong desire to increase taxes on corporations and the wealthiest 10 percent of earners. Yet with Democrats running hard on this issue, the GOP can’t just ignore matters of fairness.

This is where the party and its allies have the most work to do—a mix of persuasion and contrast. Republicans can focus on policies such as business-led job training, higher education reform and another round of middle-class tax cuts. But we must also show that Democratic proposals would exacerbate a two-tiered, unfair society. In the case of Medicare for All, Republicans should argue that it would create a one-size-fits-all government-run program for normal folks, while the rich will find other ways to get better care. In the case of student-loan forgiveness, we can show that it would reward colleges’ bad behavior without helping the next generation get the training they need to fill the jobs of tomorrow.

Most of all, promoting economic fairness requires policy innovation. Issues like paid family leave, the high cost of living and ever-pricier health care aren’t going away. The only viable option for Republicans is to do the hard work of crafting workable conservative policies. Without an alternative, the American people will increasingly turn to the party that has a plan, however bad it may be.

***

Donald Trump won in 2016 by promising to address many of the issues our study identified. By highlighting the crisis of illegal immigration, criticizing the cultural elitism of the coasts while favoring the “forgotten American” and inspiring workers with the promise of renewed American greatness, Trump put his finger on the pulse of the GOP and much of middle America, even if he left the specifics to figure out later.

Heading into 2020 and the elections beyond it, the Republican duty is to refine—and where necessary, redirect—the president’s vision into a long-term policy platform. It’s not a matter of bowing to Trump; it’s a matter of articulating the conservative solutions that will make life better for all Americans and fit the needs of voters today.

The good news is many members of the GOP are starting to do this, with a clear focus on nearly all of the issues our polling identified. Yet it’s not nearly enough—and it’s not nearly the whole party, much less its allies on the outside. Overall, the Republican Party isn’t unifying around its most potent issues, while in other areas, it’s focused on defending past achievements and ideas instead of developing new proposals. Even never-Trumpers must realize the GOP needs a platform that can win after the Trump era ends.

What the GOP can be, it must be: The party of pro-America legal immigration, of American culture and unity, of the American worker and a fair, robust economy. This is what the 2016 coalition wanted, and still wants. This is what the crucial middle wants. This is what conservatism is based on. And this is what the Republican Party needs to rally around to ensure the continued viability of its principles and its own existence as a viable political entity.

It’s not too late to set the stage for victory in 2020. And it’s not too early to plan for what happens on January 20, 2021—and every day thereafter.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/29/trump-2020-republican-message-policy-heritage-action-227481?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpsa04yRmxPVGs1T1dKbCIsInQiOiI5V3BxODhySmhKYVVSdERyQXBXOWt3cXRCSkZGUXlrRitqbjhYeGVEamdiMTF4RUdXV053RkF3Uk5iQXc1R2hyXC8wNHVGNCsyYUN0V1lNZDBJQzBISFVieExVR2ZOejIydVwvaVlGTFRkbkpWVVFmbkhoU0k2dTdNbERnbENQeXNrIn0%3D

Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton: The Untold Truths -Part 2

Posted by Craig Andresen on August 12, 2019 at 8:20am

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Last week, in the wake of mass murders in Gilroy, California, El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, President Trump said, “Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun.” Naturally, that had liberals, especially those running for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination boiling mad.

Liberals were fit to be tied because they know he’s right, and because that line of thinking is in direct opposition to the liberal agenda of relieving law abiding American citizens of their rights under the 2^nd Amendment, and of their decades of preaching that the guns themselves, or other factors opposed to their agenda are the problem.

Liberals don’t want to address the real issue where such acts of violence are concerned, and there’s a damn good reason why they don’t want to address those things. Doing so would produce a two-fold detriment to the liberal agenda…fund raising would suffer, and such introspection would expose and destroy a major plank in their platform.

Let’s look at fundraising first.

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Monday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 12, 2019 at 6:49am

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Blind Hate Drives Campaign to

Fire CNN's Jake Tapper

By Steven Emerson

Killing One Another

By Ben Voth

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton unleashed their own secondary agony of interpretation provided by our Jacobin commentary class. At the heart of this pathological narrative are cynical manipulative notions of white supremacy, gun control, and a larger agenda of galvanizing rejections of President Trump... We can find our way past these false interpretations and back toward a world where we are not killing one another. A key commentator on this matter is former El Paso congressman and now Democratic presidential candidate socialist-Beto O’Rourke. socialist-O’Rourke spares little wrath in describing the reactionary and acidic response he seeks for the public with regard to President Trump: "This is the most racist President we've had since perhaps Andrew Johnson, in another age and another century, and he is responsible for the hatred and the violence that we're seeing right now.” He went further to attack a journalist who asked if Trump was racist by responding: “What the f**k!” socialist-O’Rourke’s boiling over at the President is part of a larger blue privilege narrative about President Trump either being a white supremacist or appealing to them. Drawing on deliberate distortions of the President’s remarks regarding the protests at Charlottesville, the blue privilege interpreters create an ongoing gaslit echo chamber that the President regularly appeals to white supremacists and is an apparent racist. It is important for us as Americans to reject the psychological projection of the media culture led by figures like CNN’s Don Lemon. Media organizations like CNN are elevating white supremacist rhetoric with the purpose of creating associations between such individuals and the President. Richard Spenser is a regular guest on CNN and without this deliberate promotion by media outlets Spenser and his archaic notions of race would continue to wither in the American public consciousness. In reality, the United States is most successful political project of racial and ethnic integration in human history. The separatist notions of race were successfully dismantled by a wide array of American heroes like James Meredith, James Farmer Jr., Medgar Evers, Mickey Schwerner, Diane Nash, and many more. While racism will likely always remain a problem, the deliberate elevation of separatist voices like Spenser’s constitute the ugly basis of why such ideas find increasing salience in 2019. Of course, the El Paso shooter is quoted with regard to his racist desire to rid Texas and the United States of Hispanics. This is plainly racist rhetoric. At issue is how this violence came to be spawned. In his own manifesto, the shooter sought to distance himself from the master narrative of the media: “My ideology has not changed for several years. My opinions on automation, immigration, and the rest predate Trump and his campaign for president. I am putting this here because some people will blame the President or certain presidential candidates for the attack. This is not the case. I know that the media will probably call me a white supremacist anyway and blame Trump’s rhetoric. The media is infamous for fake news.” Of course, the shooter’s views are thoroughly pathological, but the selective quoting of the shooter by ideological reactionaries serves to escalate public anger and hatred. Moreover, the radical leftist views of the Dayton shooter are largely ignored in favor of lives that matter for an ideological agenda -- to say nothing of individuals dying in urban centers such as Chicago on a daily basis. The problem is further confounded by reports that the shooter was particularly set off by remarks in the first Presidential primary debate where so many Democratic party candidates raised their hands for providing free health care to illegal immigrants. Should we think that these candidates “caused” the shooting? Of course not...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/killing_one_another.html

Khamenei's Nuclear Fatwa

is a Deception, a Ploy and a Lie

by Majid Rafizadeh

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In the world we live in where many things are certain, one of them is the Iranian regime's recent efforts to invoke a fatwa in an attempt to deceive the West... The declaration of a fatwa by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to serve as "proof" that Tehran is not pursuing nuclear weapons is a move both mischievous and clever. Recently, the junior Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, met with Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif, who in his deliberations with Senator Paul told him about Iran's unwillingness to seek nuclear weapons because of Khamenei's fatwa. Iran's Supreme Leaders had been previously quoted as saying: "We consider the use of such weapons as haraam [religiously forbidden] and believe that it is everyone's duty to make efforts to secure humanity against this great disaster". Going even further, the Supreme Leader claimed that the production or use of nuclear weapons are governed by Islamic laws which ban them. On his official website, he adds that "Both sharia Islamic laws and aqli related to logic and reason fatwas dictate that we do not pursue them." If history is anything to go by, the Supreme Leader's statement is barely worth a pinch of salt. It is notable that the first time Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons took place right after his government was caught red-handed pursuing secret nuclear activities and enriching uranium in two clandestine nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak in 2002 in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Having had their deception found out, the Iranian authorities subsequently adopted deception as a national policy by promoting the narrative of aversion to nuclear weapons to the world while embracing and furthering their nuclear activities privately. In a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for instance, Iran deployed Khamenei's declaration of a fatwa to dodge further discussion about its nuclear program. Iran claimed that "the production, stock-piling, and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons."... Don't be fooled world he is lying.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14667/iran-nuclear-weapons-fatwa

The Early Stages of Civil War Activities Have Commenced with the Infiltration of Law

Enforcement With Support From the Democrats

by Dave Hodges

{ thecommonsenseshow.com } ~ In a classic revolutionary tactic, legitimate law enforcement and the political opposition to the Left is being attacked from within and from without... Many do not realize it yet, but America is in full civil war mode. In NYC officers are being doused with water. In Times Square, officers were attacked when they were attempting an arrest and NYC mayor scumbag-De Blasio laughs about the events. Around the country, officers are increasingly being assaulted. Before a revolution can succeed, legitimate law enforcement must be neutralized. Even the Border Patrol is having issues. Two days ago, cartel members shot 50 rounds of ammunition at BP agents as they were patrolling the Rio Grande in a boat. The Democrats are cheering this lawlessness on. Even loose lips liar-Joe Biden is calling for the complete evisceration of our borders. Several Democrats are actively interfering with lawful ICE activities. This is sedition and treason. It is not just law enforcement, that is under attack even America’s elected leaders are being threatened Rand Paul went back to the surgery for the bearing he suffered at the hands of his neighbor. Mitch McConnell is being threated with being stabbed to death in 24/7 marches on his home. And when McConnell’s people took videos and posted them on Twitter, their accounts were suspended. Yet, Twitter did not nothing to the gangsters assailing McConnell. (Twitter reinstated McConnel's account) Three months ago, I was in regular communication with a DEA agent. This agent related to me that some of his colleagues were frustrated by the lack of cooperation from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department with regard to tracking drug cartels and he wanted me to know that the lawlessness had spread to Los Angeles. Specifically, the DEA agent was responding to a series of articles and interviews I conducted with the assistance of Marilyn Rupar in relation to the massive corruption in the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department and their country legal system. The agent was interested in Alexandra Daley revelations about lowlife-Kamala Harris, who was also interested in the shenanigans of lowlife-Kamala Harris with regard to the coverup of drug dealing by the Sinaloa cartel in Alameda County, as then District Attorney lowlife-Harris refused to prosecute both the cartel drug crimes and the affiliated child-sex-trafficking. This lawlessness spread to the Governor’s office. The California Governor, in an effort to protect lowlife-Kamala Harris’ run for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, has sealed all of these arrest and prosecution records associated with lowlife-Kamala Harris after Tulsi Gabbard brought up these issues in public. I recently published a broadcast to this effect. In a highly censored broadcast, I detailed the obscuring of lowlife-Harris record as a prosecutor and who she was beholding to...

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/early-stages-civil-war-activities-have-commenced-infiltration-law-enforcement-cartels-support

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNA6Ce6l-AI

scumbag/liar-nObama admin "rigged" climate

change models to inflate the "cost of carbon"

by conventionofstates.com ~ For years liberty-loving Americans have suspected that the climate change crisis is more about increasing the power of the federal government than about slowing the earth's warming... We got confirmation of that last week when Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff admitted that the Green New Deal is really about changing the "entire economy," not climate change. But a statistician for the Heritage Foundation pointed out at a recent conference that our federal "leaders" have been fudging the climate change numbers long before the Green New Deal phenomenon. Speaking at the 13th International Conference on Climate Change, Kevin Dayaratna said that the true cost of carbon dioxide emissions can be "all over the map" because the numbers can be easily "rigged by politicians" to achieve their desired results. The statistical models used by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration to set regulatory policy are flawed because they are highly prone to user manipulation, Dayaratna told conferees. In fact, only one of the three models in use during the scumbag/liar-nObama years considered potential benefits, but did so with “outdated assumptions,” he said. President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s Environmental Protection Agency defined the social cost of carbon as the “economic damages per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions.” Climate models seek to measure the long-term impact of carbon dioxide emissions. Dayaratna and his team at Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis adapted and tested two of the three models. After making “very reasonable changes to the assumptions in the social cost of carbon,” Dayaratna said, they found that costs could drop dramatically anywhere from 40% to 200%. And under reasonable assumptions, he said, costs could become negative and thus net benefits to society. “The sheer fact that these models can be manipulated to get any result you want speaks volumes to their uselessness in regulatory policy and the danger of putting them into the hands of policymakers,” Dayaratna said...

https://conventionofstates.com/news/statistician-obama-admin-rigged-climate-change-models-to-inflate-the-cost-of-carbon?utm_source=Convention+of+States+Project&utm_campaign=07e6584982-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_45196125c1-07e6584982-214976545

Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration Into Canada

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By RAMI DABBAS

{ jihadwatch.org } ~ “We build the Muslim individual, and then the Muslim community, then the Islamic state, and then the Islamic caliphate.”... This sentence is perhaps the most important one in the history of the terror group known as the Muslim Brotherhood. The expansion of the Muslim Brotherhood in various countries of the world should not be ridiculed or underestimated, given the problems that the terrorist group is making among the world’s major powers, in an attempt to do nothing less than control the world. In the past, the US Congress discussed the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide. Former Rep. Ron DeSantis, now Governor of Florida, once noted that the Brotherhood is a real danger to national security and American interests, and warned that ignoring this threat is not wise. Rep. Stephen Lynch pointed out that many terrorist groups get their policies from the Muslim Brotherhood, pointing out that there are groups belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood that carry out terrorist attacks in Egypt. The United States House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security held a meeting with the title “the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide.” The subcommittee said the purpose of the hearing was to “consider the Muslim Brotherhood’s threat to the United States and its interests and how to address them effectively.” The 2018 summer disputes between Canada and Saudi Arabia were related to the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence. Saudi Arabia is considered the most important supporter of the Egyptian regime and its President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, while Canada has become a de facto refugee camp for the terrorist group after the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt in 2013. In that year, following the Muslim Brotherhood’s being driven from power in Egypt after a popular uprising on June 30, many Brotherhood leaders fled Egypt to Canada, where they found a safe haven to avoid justice for their crimes and terrorism against the Egyptian people. The Muslim Brotherhood used this crisis for the expansion of its terrorist ideology, as an extension of the global plans they have had since the group’s founding... Canada you need to wake up.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/08/muslim-brotherhood-infiltration-into-canada

Blind Hate Drives Campaign to

Fire CNN's Jake Tapper

By Steven Emerson

{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ If Saturday's horrifying terrorist attack in an El Paso Walmart had taken place in Jerusalem, leaving 22 Israelis dead, the killer would rot in jail knowing his family would be taken care of, paid every month by his government.

He might one day have a park, or a school, or a street named in his honor. He would be held up as a hero and used to inspire more killing. Children would be encouraged to follow his lead.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of how the Palestinian Authority and others incite violence against Israeli civilians. But it's why, in the wake of discussions about the role political rhetoric plays in attacks like the El Paso massacre, CNN anchor Jake Tapper made a passing reference to Palestinian incitement.

For the sin of invoking a real thing, Israel-haters are demanding Tapper be fired.

It seems to have started with Sana Saeed, a host and producer with Al-Jazeera's online arm, AJ+.

"Collect your man, CNN," she wrote Sunday after calling Tapper's remarks "the height of unethical journalism." That's a charge on a scale with plagiarizing, lying or stealing information. What, exactly, did Tapper say to generate such an accusation?

"You hear conservatives talk all the time rightly, in my view about the tone set by, well, the Arab world," Tapper said. "The Palestinians and the way they talk about Israelis, justifying ... no direct link between what the leader says and the violence to some poor Israeli girl in a pizzeria but the idea you're validating this hatred."

"You can't compare the ideology of Hamas with anything else," Tapper said, "but at the same time, either tone matters or it doesn't."

Sober viewers might note that Tapper is using the example of Palestinian incitement to ask whether people are being inconsistent in minimizing political rhetoric in the El Paso shooting. But Palestinian advocates blinded by a hatred for Israel are not sober viewers.

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., accused Tapper of "comparing Palestinian human rights activists to terrorist white nationalists," and dismissing it as a lie. It is a lie, Tapper replied, because that's not at all what he said.

He invoked a dead Israeli girl in a pizzeria if worthless-Tlaib wants to argue the suicide bomber was a "human rights advocate," let her do it on the House floor.

MPower Change, run by worthless-Tlaib ally and Israel-basher Linda Sarsour, then launched a campaign demanding Tapper's firing. In addition to rejecting the very idea of a Jewish state as "creepy," Sarsour spreads a blood libel that holds American Jews liable for police shootings of unarmed black people.

"Tapper distorted the violence in El Paso by invoking occupied Palestinians and Arabs out of nowhere and comparing them to the white nationalist shooter," an MPower Change statement said. "... By inserting Palestinians and Arabs in a conversation about white supremacist violence, Tapper pushed the Islamophobic 'terrorist' narrative about Muslims and Arabs that's been mainstreamed over the past few decades."

People can debate whether Tapper had a point about rhetoric inciting Saturday's bloodshed. But MPower Change's description misrepresents the entire exchange. That didn't stop the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace(JVP) from joining MPower Change's campaign.

It's not the first misguided run Sarsour has made at Tapper. When he criticized her and others in the national Women's March for praising fugitive cop-killer Assata Shakur in 2017, Sarsour accused Tapper of being part of the "alt-right."

Again, Tapper's question after El Paso challenged the Trump administration and its supporters those Sarsour, worthless-Tlaib, JVP all oppose to consider whether their rhetoric might have been a factor in a self-professed white nationalist's terrorist attack. But they couldn't see that because he dared mention Palestinian incitement.

We have taken note of the blind hate Islamists and their allies have for Israel, showing how it drives them to make insane comparisons between Israel's army and ISIS and blacklisting Muslims who support Palestinian nationalism but aren't sufficiently rabid in their criticism of Israel.

This campaign isn't going anywhere. But it's another clear example of how those who claim to combat hate have plenty of their own demons to wrestle.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0819/tapper_attack.php3

Follow-up Letter to NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (Re: Border Security) (Part 2)

Posted by Jake Martinez on August 11, 2019 at 12:00pm

Please Read Part 1:

Follow-up Letter to NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (Re: Border Security)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 31, 2019:

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

Note: The disturbing information revealed in the following recent articles and videos relates to and/or further supports my recent follow-up letter to our NM Governor contained in Part 1-You Decide:

New Poll: Swing Voters Overwhelmingly Reject 2020 Dems Who Promise More Immigration!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Guest Author-On August 6, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/new-poll-swing-voters-overwhelmingly-reject-2020-dems-who-promise-more-immigration/

Obama Biden

2020 Dems Attack Biden Over Obama’s Mass Deportations!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Guest Author-On August 1, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/2020-dems-attack-biden-over-obamas-mass-deportations/

ACLU Sues Over Trump’s Fast-Tracked Deportations Policy!-Posted on The Western Journal-By AP Reports-On August 6, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-aclu-sues-trumps-fast-tracked-deportations-policy/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

ICE Raid Food Processing Plant

Donald Trump: ICE Deportation Raids a ‘Good Deterrent’ to Illegal Immigration!-Posted Breitbart.com-By Charlie Spiering-On August 9, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/09/donald-trump-ice-deportation-raids-a-good-deterrent-to-illegal-immigration/

ICE Official Has Blunt Response as Criticisms Mount: We’re ‘Not a Social Services Agency’!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jack Davis-On August 11, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ice-blunt-response-criticisms-mount-not-social-services-agency/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=breaking&ff_content=western-journal

People waiting for immigration interviews

Trump admin introduces new rule to screen out immigration applicants likely to depend on welfare!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On August 12, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/immigrants-cant-self-sufficient-wont-pass-test-us-immigration-chief-explains-public-charge-rule-levin/

DHS Updates Immigration Rule Limiting Welfare Recipients: The Trump administration enacts rules that limit number of immigration applicants who have used welfare services!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On August 13, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64811-dhs-updates-immigration-rule-limiting-welfare-recipients?mailing_id=4469&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4469&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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What's the Problem With Asking Immigrants to Contribute Instead of Going on Welfare?-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On August 13, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274620/whats-problem-asking-immigrants-contribute-instead-daniel-greenfield

UN To America: Open the Border, Kill More Babies!-Posted on The New American-By Alex Newman-On August 12, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/33102-un-to-america-open-the-border-kill-more-babies?vsmaid=5571&vcid=7778

ICE Protest

Exclusive–Watch: Leftists Threaten Contractor in Fla; Day Before ICE Facility Shot at in Texas!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By John Binder-On August 13, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/13/exclusive-watch-leftists-threaten-before-shooting-at-ice-facility-we-know-where-all-your-children-live/

Michelle Malkin: Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding the Wicked War on ICE?-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Michelle Malkin-On August 14, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/michelle-malkin/michelle-malkin-open-borders-inc-whos-funding-wicked-war-ice

The Associated Press

Feds: Mississippi Food Plants ‘Willfully’ Hired Illegal Aliens Over Americans!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By John Binder-On August 16, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/16/feds-mississippi-food-plants-willfully-hired-illegal-aliens-over-americans/

Latino

Poll: Half of Hispanic Americans Approve of Trump Following ICE Raids!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By John Binder-On August 16, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/16/poll-half-of-hispanic-americans-approve-of-trump-following-ice-raids/

Appeals court sides with Trump administration on asylum rule, limits injunction

Appeals court sides with Trump administration on asylum rule, limits injunction!-Posted on Fox News-By Adam Shaw, Bill Mears | Fox News-On August 16, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/court-trump-administration-asylum-rule

Sen. Graham: 'If I Were Mitch McConnell, I Would Make Every Democrat Vote on My (Immigration) Bill'!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On August 19, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/sen-graham-if-i-were-mitch-mcconnell-i-would-make-every-democrat-vote-my

Illegal Convicted of Sexually Abusing 7-Year-Old, 3 DUIs, Reentered US and Lived Near Nursery School!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By CNSNews.com Staff-On August 19, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/illegal-convicted-sexually-abusing-7-year-old-3-duis-reentered-us-and

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“More Than 10 Million” Illegals in California Alone: Xavier Becerra breaks the news, files suit against Trump administration public-charge rule!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On August 19, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274666/more-10-million-illegals-california-alone-lloyd-billingsley

Sign: U.S. Border Ahead

The magic power of enforcement? Texas border crossings cut in half!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Daniel Horowitz-On August 19, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/magic-power-enforcement-texas-border-crossings-cut-half/

donald trump is shown

DOJ: Trump Decision to End DACA Was Lawful!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Theodore Bunker-On August 20, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/daca-dreamers-justice-department-supreme-court/2019/08/20/id/929192/

Thousands of Central American Migrants Take Free Rides Home Courtesy of U.S. Government!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On August 21, 2019:

https://ijr.com/thousands-central-american-migrants-free-rides-home-us-government/

Watchdog alerts Trump that border agency violated DNA collection law for years, letting violent criminals walk free

Watchdog alerts Trump that border agency violated DNA collection law for years, letting violent criminals walk free!-Posted on Fox News-By Gregg Re, Catherine Herridge, Cyd Upson | Fox News-On August 21, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watchdog-trump-cbp-dna-collection

Trump Considering Executive Order To End Birthright Citizenship!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Shelby Talcott, Daily Caller-On August 21, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-considering-executive-order-to-end-birthright-citizenship/

Birthright Citizenship and Detaining Illegal Aliens: One change to detention rules and one mulled change President Trump would like to make!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On August 22, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64991-birthright-citizenship-and-detaining-illegal-aliens?mailing_id=4487&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4487&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Trump Right: 14th Amendment Did Not Guarantee Birthright Citizenship!-Posted on The New American-By Steve Byas-On August 22, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/33206-trump-right-14th-amendment-did-not-guarantee-birthright-citizenship?vsmaid=5699&vcid=7778

George Washington Law Professor: Opposing Birthright Citizenship Is Not Racist!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On August 22, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/george-washington-law-professor-opposing-birthright-citizenship-not-racist/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-CT&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=conservative-tribune

DOJ: 64% of Federal Arrests in 2018 Were of Non-U.S. Citizens!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Terence P. Jeffrey-On August 22, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/doj-64-federal-arrests-2018-were-non-us-citizens

Report: Trump Preparing Executive Order to Let States Refuse Refugees!-Posted on The New American-By Luis Miguel-On August 23, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/33215-report-trump-preparing-executive-order-to-let-states-refuse-refugees?vsmaid=5713&vcid=7778

CNN Flubs Sob Story About Illegal Immigrant with 2 Whopping Lies!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jared Harris-On August 25, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/cnn-flubs-sob-story-illegal-immigrant-2-whopping-lies/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=ct-breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Acting CBP Commissioner: Lawsuits Expected over “Flores” Rule Change: “Indefinite” Detention A “False Narrative!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 25, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/08/25/acting-cbp-commissioner-lawsuits-expected-over-flores-rule-change/

Bill Barr moves to make major immigration court changes!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-On August 25, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/bill-barr-court-changes/

New Video Shows the Updated Border Wall is Working

New Video Shows the Updated Border Wall is Working!-Posted on Townhall-By Katie Pavlich/@KatiePavlich-On August 26, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/08/26/new-video-shows-the-updated-border-wall-is-working-n2552177

Trump Asks Supreme Court For Clearance To Enforce Tough Asylum Rules, Citing ‘Unprecedented Surge!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Kevin Daley, Daily Caller-On August 27, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-asks-supreme-court-for-clearance-to-enforce-tough-asylum-rules-citing-unprecedented-surge/

Michelle Malkin: Get off the sidelines and #StandWithICE!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Michelle Malkin-On August 28, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/28/michelle-malkin-get-off-the-sidelines-and-standwithice-802019

Antifa at Berkeley August 2018

Increasing violence against ICE? Feds let ‘Occupy ICE’ perpetrators off easy!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Daniel Horowitz-On August 29, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/increasing-violence-ice-feds-let-occupy-ice-perpetrators-off-easy/

A caravan of migrants traveled through Guatemala en route to the United States on Wednesday.CreditCreditOrlando Estrada/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Exclusive–Guatemala Intel Secretary Fact-Checks Beto O’Rourke: Migrant Crisis Caused by Poverty from Democrats Pushing ‘Socialist Corrupt Ideology’ on Central America!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Robert Kraychik-On August 28, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2019/08/28/exclusive-guatemala-intel-secretary-fact-checks-beto-orourke-migrant-crisis-caused-by-poverty-from-democrats-pushing-socialist-corrupt-ideology-on-central-america/

Report: Trump Administration Could Begin DNA Testing ‘Hundreds Of Thousands’ Of Illegal Aliens!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Daily Caller-On August 30, 2019: https://thepoliticalinsider.com/report-trump-administration-could-begin-dna-testing-hundreds-of-thousands-of-illegal-aliens/

Ilhan Omar: Let’s Put the UN in Charge of the Southern Border!-Posted on The New American-By Luis Miguel-On August 30, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/33278-ilhan-omar-let-s-put-the-un-in-charge-of-america-s-migration-crisis?vsmaid=5782&vcid=7778

'Anti-AOC' Latina Congressional Candidate Says American Hispanics Want Safe and Secure Borders!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Randy DeSoto-On August 28, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/anti-aoc-latina-congressional-candidate-says-american-hispanics-want-safe-secure-borders/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=libertyalliance

Hundreds of Migrants in 19 States Hit with Mumps Epidemic!-Posted on Godfather Politics-By Warner Todd Huston-On August 31, 2019:

https://godfatherpolitics.com/hundreds-of-migrants-in-19-states-hit-with-mumps-epidemic/

Sheriff Rips Sanctuary County Leader After String Of Rapes By Illegal Aliens!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Jason Hopkins Immigration and politics reporter-On September 2, 2019:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/02/sheriff-rips-maryland-county-illegals/

Exclusive Excerpt — Michelle Malkin: ‘Open Borders, Inc: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction?’-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Michelle Malkin-On September 8, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/08/exclusive-excerpt-michelle-malkin-open-borders-inc-whos-funding-americas-destruction/

Good Border News but Bad Bench News: Illegal crossings are significantly down, but an Obama judge undermines Rule of Law again!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On September 10, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65366-good-border-news-but-bad-bench-news?mailing_id=4522&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4522&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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9th Circuit Court Hands Trump A Big Victory On Asylum Fight!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller-On September 11, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/9th-circuit-court-hands-trump-a-big-victory-on-asylum-fight/

Supreme Court Rules for Trump: Ends All Injunctions That Blocked the White House’s Ban on Asylum!-Posted on The Political Insider-By PoliZette Staff, LifeZette-On September 11, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/supreme-court-rules-for-trump-ends-all-injunctions-that-blocked-the-white-houses-ban-on-asylum/

Chuck Schumer forcing vote to terminate Trump’s border emergency declaration!-Posted on Daily Christian News-By Ben Marquis-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.dailychristiannews.com/schumer-vote-terminate-declaration/

Jihad

The primary threat now is civilization jihad, and it’s on our own shores!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Daniel Horowitz-On September 12, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/primary-threat-now-civilization-jihad-shores/

Michelle Malkin

Exclusive–Michelle Malkin: End to Refugee Resettlement ‘Long Overdue’ After Americans Have Gotten No Say!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By John Binder-On September 13, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/13/exclusive-michelle-malkin-end-to-refugee-resettlement-long-overdue-after-americans-have-gotten-no-say/

Michelle Malkin speaking at an event in Greenville, South Carolina.

Video: Exclusive–Michelle Malkin to Trump: ‘Shut Down’ Federal Reserve Remittance Program for Illegal Aliens!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By John Binder-On September 13, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/13/watch-exclusive-michelle-malkin-to-trump-shut-down-federal-reserve-remittance-program-for-illegal-aliens/

Sanctuary City Ahead

Republicans would be dumb not to pick a budget fight over sanctuary cities!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Daniel Horowitz-On September 13, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/republicans-dumb-not-pick-budget-fight-sanctuary-cities/

Hundreds Protest Failure To Enforce Immigration Laws Where 8 Undocumented Migrants Charged In Sex Crimes!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Alicia Luke-On September 13, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/hundreds-protest-failure-to-enforce-immigration-laws-where-8-undocumented-migrants-charged-in-sex-crimes/

Facebook Removes Angel Mom's Posts on Illegals, Permanently Bans Donations to Angel Families Group!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On September 15, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/facebook-removes-angel-moms-posts-illegals-permanently-bans-donations-angel-families-group/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=ct-breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Congress Border Wall

Interior Department transfers 560 acres of federal land to Army for border wall construction!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Julio Rosas-On September 18, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/interior-department-transfers-560-acres-of-federal-land-to-army-for-border-wall-construction

Sex Crimes and Illegal Aliens: Border Patrol, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Complete Wall System in San Diego!-Posted on News With Views-By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On September 23, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/sex-crimes-and-illegal-aliens-border-patrol-u-s-army-corps-of-engineers-complete-wall-system-in-san-diego/

The Death of American Citizenship!-Posted on PJ Media-By Victor Davis Hanson-On September 26, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-death-of-american-citizenship/

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Trump’s Immigration Agenda Hit With String Of Losses By Obama Judges!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller-On September 30, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trumps-immigration-agenda-hit-with-string-of-losses-by-obama-judges/

Trump Suspends Entry of Immigrants Who Cannot Pay for Healthcare!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 4, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-immigrants-healthcare/2019/10/04/id/935757/

Amnesty for DACA

Business to Supreme Court: Ending DACA Amnesty Will Boost Americans’ Wages!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Neil Munro-On October 4, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/04/business-to-supreme-court-ending-daca-amnesty-will-boost-americans-wages/

Trump Says Acting Homeland Security Secretary Mcaleenan Is Stepping Down!-Posted on Independent Journal-Review-By Reuters-On October 12, 2019:

https://ijr.com/trump-mcaleenan-stepping-down/

Judge Blocks Trump Rule That Could Deny Visas and Green Cards to Immigrants on Welfare!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Bradley Evans-On October 11, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/judge-blocks-trump-rule-deny-visas-green-cards-immigrants-welfare/

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The Senate Voted to End Emergency on the Border: But Hezbollah, ISIS, gangs and drug cartels didn’t get the memo!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Michael Cutler-On October 16, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/senate-voted-end-emergency-border-michael-cutler

Trump Vetoes Second Resolution To End Border Emergency Declaration!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller-On October 16, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-vetoes-second-resolution-to-end-border-emergency-declaration/

Video: Untold Story of Property Owners Who Let Us Build Wall On Their Land!-Posted on YouTube.com-By We Build The Wall-On October 7, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jej8FbHA24E&feature=youtu.be

Mexico Deports Hundreds Of Indian Migrants Back To Their Home Country!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller-On October 17, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/mexico-deports-hundreds-of-indian-migrants-back-to-their-home-country/

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Video: Michelle Malkin Speaks at the Freedom Center: Who's really behind America's immigration crisis?-Posted on Frontpagemag.com-On October 21, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/michelle-malkin-david-horowitz-freedom-center-frontpagemagcom

Senate Judiciary Committee to Hold Hearing on “Sanctuary Jurisdictions” Tuesday Morning. What Is “The Impact?”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/22/senate-judiciary-committee-to-hold-hearing-on-sanctuary-jurisdictions-tuesday-morning/

Third World Countries Develop New Export Item!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Servando Gonzalez-On October 22, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/third-world-countries-develop-new-export-item/

Soros

Report: George Soros Gave $300k to Italian Radicals in 2017 to Promote Immigration!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2019/10/23/report-george-soros-gave-300k-to-italian-radicals-in-2017-to-promote-immigration/

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Video: When Migrants Scream “Allahu Akbar!” What could possibly go wrong?-Posted on Frontpagemag.com-On October 24, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/video-when-migrants-scream-allahu-akbar-frontpagemagcom

Volunteers from Madres Buscadoras de Sonora search a mass grave near the city of Puerto Peñasco.

42 Bodies Found in Mass Grave near Popular Mexican Tourist City!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Robert Arce-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/10/27/42-bodies-found-in-mass-grave-near-popular-mexican-tourist-city/

ICE Accuses 'Sanctuary' County Sheriff of Ignoring Their Calls After Calling for Dialogue!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jack Davis-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ice-accuses-sanctuary-county-sheriff-ignoring-calls-calling-dialogue/

Trump Blasts Chicago’s Sanctuary City Policy!-Posted on The New American-By James Murphy-On October 29, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/33875-trump-blasts-chicago-s-sanctuary-city-policy

California-Mexico border

San Diego gang violence SOARS amid weak-on-crime and sanctuary policies!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Daniel Horowitz-On October 29, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/san-diego-gang-violence-soars-amid-weak-crime-sanctuary-policies/

Mexico Reports 250% Spike in Africans Trying to Enter U.S. Through Border!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On October 29, 2019:

https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/mexico-reports-250-spike-in-africans-trying-to-enter-u-s-through-border/

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Border Patrol agent Vincent Pirro looks on near a border wall that separates the cities of Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, in San Diego. Hundreds of thousands of people have been arriving at the border in recent months, many of them …

Border Patrol Agent Returns Fire, Kills Shooter in New Mexico!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Bob Price-On November 4, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/11/04/border-patrol-agent-returns-fire-kills-shooter-in-new-mexico/#

Sanctuary County Rolls Back Its Anti-ICE Policy Following String Of Illegal Aliens Charged With Rape!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Jason Hopkins-On November 4, 2019:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/04/montgomery-county-backpedals-sanctuary-policy/

U.S. Supreme Court Mulls Making It Easier to Deport Immigrants for Crimes!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On November 5, 2019:

https://ijr.com/supreme-court-mulls-making-easier-deport-immigrants-crimes/

Murdered Family in Mexico

NARCO-TERROR: 9 U.S. Women, Children Murdered by Cartel Gunmen near New Mexico Border!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Ildefonso Ortiz-On November 5, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/11/05/narco-terror-10-u-s-women-children-murdered-by-cartel-gunmen-near-new-mexico-border/

Los Zetas

News Reports About Rape Against Slain Mormons on Border Unverified, Likely Inaccurate!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Ildefonso Ortiz-On November 5, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/11/05/news-reports-about-rape-against-slain-mormons-on-border-unverified-likely-inaccurate/

Sonora state police man a roadblock days after a gunbattle between police and a drug cartel assault force that overran a town last May 16 near the Arizona border that left 23 dead, including five police officers in the town of Cananea, Mexico, Friday May 18, 2007. The nation's top …

Mexico Identifies Sinaloa Cartel Cell Possibly Tied to Massacre of Mormon U.S. Family!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby-On November 5, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/11/05/mexico-identifies-sinaloa-cartel-cell-possibly-tied-to-massacre-of-mormon-u-s-family/

Trump: Time for Mexico to 'Wage WAR' on Drug Cartels

Trump: Time for Mexico to 'Wage WAR' on Drug Cartels!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Theodore Bunker-On November 5, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-mexico-border-killing/2019/11/05/id/940190/

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers his report on the first 100 days of government, at the National Palace in Mexico City on March 11, 2019. - It has been a frenetic first 100 days for Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, though his sometimes chaotic attempts to deliver …

Mexico Declines President Trump’s Offer for ‘War’ Against Cartels!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby-On November 5, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/11/05/mexico-declines-president-trumps-offer-for-war-against-cartels/

ICE arrest

While ICE tries to protect us from dangerous criminals, the media wrongly accuses agency of killing detainees!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Daniel Horowitz-On November 5, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/ice-tries-protect-us-dangerous-criminals-media-wrongly-accuses-agency-killing-detainees/

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Michelle Malkin: Three cheers for refugee reduction, new annual cap!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Michelle Malkin-On November 6, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/11/06/michelle-malkin-three-cheers-for-refugee-reduction-new-annual-cap-849005

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

Letter to NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (Re: Border Security) (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 14, 2019:

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

Letter to NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (Re: Border Security)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 21, 2019:

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

Letter to Our NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (Re: Newly Proposed Gun Control Measures)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 19, 2019:

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

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

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

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-t...

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

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

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

The Fightin Side of Me!

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

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

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

“Food for Thought”

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

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

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.

Semper Fi!

Jake

Saturday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 10, 2019 at 3:32pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Identity Politics Violence is Tearing America Apart

by Daniel Greenfield

New York City’s Rent Control Laws Erase

Property Rights and Worsen Housing Supply

by Amy Swearer and GianCarlo Canaparo

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Owning property means more than having your name on a deed. Lawyers and judges often refer to property ownership as a “bundle of rights,”... because with ownership comes more than just the mere right of possession. You also have the right to use, modify, dispose of, and exclude others from your property. You don’t need a law degree to appreciate any of that. Every child with a favorite toy understands the idea, and any grade school student who’s had a civics class knows why property rights are so important. As Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story once put it: “In a free government, almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.” Just think of Venezuela, a country whose constitution guarantees a litany of high-minded rights, such as free speech, but where the government’s monopoly over property rights allows it to buy the votes of its starving people with food handouts. Because property and liberty are inextricably entwined, the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from taking private property for public use without first paying the owner “just compensation.” If the government wants to take away your property rights or give them to someone else, it must pay you for them. New York City missed the memo. The city’s recently amended rent-stabilization laws strip many property owners of all meaningful property rights and give them nothing in exchange—all to advance what Mayor scumbag-Bill de Blasio calls the “socialistic impulse” to have the city government “determine every single plot of land and how development would proceed.”...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/06/new-york-citys-rent-control-laws-are-erasing-property-rights-and-worsening-housing-supply/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpObU1EWTNaREJoTWpKbCIsInQiOiJpdWV0UXFBS0gxQ2ZNSnlxb016VThUSW5xeHFHUWcrSGR6RHR5OVltaXFYOHd4K0czUGhYSGxBNTZHbjdiQXQxekdCT1ZRUlJENURWMHVua3JJZlJUS29QK3ZqcFBzaFZTXC9SSkZNQjdaWno2V3ZjWW9rZnpJQzdDSjRoWlwvMEx6In0%3D

Bill Barr Leaves Dianne Fein-stein Speechless

After She Tries to Accuse Trump of

Obstruction, “That’s Not a Crime”

By Cristina Laila

{ thegatewaypundit.com } ~ Attorney General Bill Barr Wednesday testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about Mueller’s report... Ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Dianne Fein-stein (D-CA) grilled Bill Barr about the so-called ‘obstruction episodes’ in Mueller’s report. Fein-stein questioned Barr about the report’s claims that President Trump asked his lawyer Don McGahn to fire Mueller — Trump also asked McGahn to correct the inaccurate New York Times article stating he instructed Mueller’s firing. In reality, President Trump instructed his counsel to look into Mueller’s conflicts of interest and ultimately Mueller was never fired — a fact that Bill Barr pointed out to Fein-stein. Fein-stein continued to push back and argued that Trump trying to prevent further criticism of himself is somehow a crime — Bill Barr put her in her place. “You have a situation where the President tries to change a lawyer’s account in order to prevent further criticism of himself,” Fein-stein said. “That’s not a crime,” Barr said leaving Fein-stein speechless. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/bill-barr-leaves-dianne-feinstein-speechless-after-she-tries-to-accuse-trump-of-obstruction-thats-not-a-crime-video/

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loose lips liar-Biden Loses Cool. Snaps At Coed, Grabs Her Arm And Pulls Her Back

When She Tries To Leave

by Jeff Dunetz

{ lidblog.com } ~ Today “Good ole loose lips liar-Joe” was just “Angry Old loose lips liar-Joe” While appearing at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday... the former SCHMOTUS, and front running candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination loose lips liar-Joe Biden lost his cool in public. He snapped at and grabbed the arm of a conservative coed who asked him a question. This raises the question if loose lips liar-Joe Biden loses his cool when being asked a question by a conservative co-ed when he is just running for POTUS, can he handle the stress of being POTUS? Thanks to Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk the exchange went very public. “My team just forwarded this video to me,” he tweeted. “Watch former Vice President loose lips liar-Biden forcefully grab one of our young field staffers at yesterday’s Iowa State Fair after she asked him how many genders there are. ”The coed, identified as “Katie,” asked loose lips liar-Biden, “How many genders are there?” loose lips liar-Biden thought for a bit before answering, “There are at least 3.” Katie followed that up with another question: “What are they?” Sounds like a fair question, since we’re only aware of two. loose lips liar-Biden lost his cool and told Katie, “Don’t play games with me, kid!” But he wasn’t finished. As she tried to walk away, he grabbed Katie by the arm and told her, “Oh, by the way, the first one to come out for marriage was me.” Katie later said she was “very mad” at the treatment she received from loose lips liar-Biden. But at the bright side at least he didn’t tell her to get off his lawn. After all, he takes pride in being a cranky old guy. Of course, the people on Twitter laid into him... https://lidblog.com/biden-loses-cool/

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scumbag liar-Nadler impeachment claim

pleases base but defies House rules, history

by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler told CNN this week his panel is conducting “formal impeachment proceedings” against President Trump... and could be ready to file articles of impeachment this fall. The New York Democrat's announcement blew up social media and thrilled the Democratic base, which has been clamoring for the House to take formal steps to oust the president. But scumbag liar-Nadler’s claim defies House rules and the way the chamber has processed impeachment actions against past presidents. The top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, called out scumbag liar-Nadler’s CNN claim almost as soon as he uttered it on the CNN set. “Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler is either uninformed about what a formal impeachment inquiry is or he is deliberately misleading the American public to score cheap political points,” Collins tweeted Thursday. “Which is it, Chairman?” House Democrats have struggled with an intraparty divide over impeachment. More than half of the caucus is now calling for an impeachment inquiry and the demand is particularly fervent among the more liberal lawmakers. But House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and dozens of other lawmakers are opposed to holding a House vote on an impeachment inquiry out of fear it will dominate the agenda in a critical election year and could turn off voters in key swing districts. She is pushing scumbag liar-Nadler and other pro-impeachment lawmakers to pursue their investigation into President Trump without the “I” word but rather with hearings and court battles for witnesses and documents... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/nadler-impeachment-claim-pleases-base-but-defies-house-rules-history?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notification&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_08/09/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

Accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is dead

by Vivek Saxena

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Convicted billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reportedly killed himself via hanging while incarcerated at a Manhattan jail early Saturday morning... law enforcement officials have confirmed with various news agencies. “Emergency responders received a 911 call around 6:40 a.m. at Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Epstein was being held without bail, awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking,” ABC News affiliate WTVD confirmed. “A gurney carrying a man who looked like Epstein was wheeled out of the Manhattan Correctional Center around 7:30 a.m. The ambulance went to New York Downtown Hospital,” the New York Post added. Upon arrival, he was reportedly in cardiac arrest. The suicide comes roughly two weeks after Epstein, who was arrested and charged with sex trafficking underage girls early last month, was placed on suicide watch after what appeared to be a failed suicide attempt. At the time he was found nearly unconscious with marks on his neck at a cell in the same Manhattan facility, the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he reportedly died Saturday. “While … two sources said that Epstein may have tried to hang himself, a third source cautioned that the injuries weren’t serious, questioning whether Epstein might have staged an attack or a suicide attempt to get a transfer to another facility,” NBC News reported at the time. His suicide Saturday strongly suggests that what happened late last month was indeed a failed suicide attempt. The 66-year-old billionaire’s suicide also coincides with the release a day ago of an estimated 2,000 documents linked to a defamation suit filed against him and his “madam,” Ghislaine Maxwell. These documents have implicated a number of prominent figures — including former President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former Sen. George Mitchell — in some of Epstein’s activities...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/10/accused-pedophile-jeffrey-epstein-is-dead-abc-news-confirms-784098?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

Identity Politics Violence is Tearing America Apart

by Daniel Greenfield

{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ Three years ago, a bloody summer of black nationalist violence claimed the lives of eight police officers with the massacre of five police officers by Micah X. Johnson in Dallas and the murder of three police officers in Baton Rogue by Gavin Long.

Johnson had declared his support for the Black Lives Matter racial nationalist group and told police that he wanted to kill white people, and especially white police officers.

In the fall, Marc LeQuon Payne tried to run over Phoenix police officers. Next spring, Kori Ali Muhammad went on a shooting spree in Fresno, murdering three white men.

Muhammad and Long were both part of the Moorish Science Temple black nationalist movement. Muhammad had posted Nation of Islam content which claims that "white devils" are subhuman. Long had admired the killing spree by Johnson. Payne had posted that, “the Caucasian needs to be slaughtered like the pigs that they are right along with the niggas who serve and protect them.”

Long wasn’t alone in viewing Johnson as a black nationalist hero.

A former Miss Alabama had described the racial nationalist killer as a “martyr”. Babu Omowale, a co-founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, said, "The fact that Micah just got five of the bastards, that's what got you all upset right now." Yafeuh Balogun, another co-founder of the black nationalist group named after the founder of the Black Panther Patyu, wrote, "He shall be celebrated one day."

While the white nationalist shooters of this year have been banished to 8chan, Johnson, Payne and Long were radicalized and posted their rantings on Facebook. The outpouring of support for their acts of violence also took place on Twitter and Facebook with no effort at censorship by the social media sites.

The alternating mass shootings by white nationalists and black nationalists predated Trump. They’re part of a cycle of violence going back decades if not generations. The cycle of violence had largely died down until it was triggered by the resurgence of identity politics in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration.

The rise of a new age of identity politics was not a response to injustice, but a cynical political strategy.

Facing a more challenging political landscape after his original victory, scumbag/liar-nObama pivoted from universal appeals to racial nationalist rhetoric. “Punish your enemies,” he urged Latinos. loose lips liar-Joe Biden told black people that Republicans would "put y'all back in chains." The racial nationalism became more strident as the political position of the Democrats weakened. Race riots were stirred up from Ferguson to Baltimore. The violence spiraled into mass shootings of police officers and white people.

Violence was only the most explosive symptom of a deeper racial polarization. White nationalist hate groups, long considered a joke, experienced their biggest revival in decades. Black Lives Matter protests convulsed major cities. Christian churches were vandalized with graffiti reading, “Negroes Are the Israelites,” while two synagogue shootings and a rash of swastika graffiti exploded into the news.

The hate group revival was tapping into polarized racial attitudes. Their growth was not an outlier, but an expression of the deeper sickness of identity politics. Polls showed that perceptions of race relations on both sides had cratered. Politics had become driven by naked appeals to racial interests. America had become a fractured country whose inhabitants identified as members of warring tribes.

The identity politics fracturing of the country was motivated by the political roadmap of the Democrats.

Trump had performed better with black voters than Mitt Romney, but black voters had become a larger share of the Democrat base, and the Democrats relied largely on racial appeals to mobilize their votes. These appeals highlighted a classic racial nationalist message that that pitted blacks and whites against each other with black people depicted as being the enslaved and oppressed victims of white people.

Such messages only deepened the racial polarization on both sides. And the political racial polarization limited the options of the Democrats who had become inescapably dependent on the black vote, yet knew no other way to speak to black voters except through conspiracy theories of racial victimhood.

The Democrats feared losing the black vote and the only way they knew how to keep it was by doubling down on the racial polarization that had divided the country and hollowed out their political party.

Conspiratorial messages of racial victimhood were meant to stem the defection of black voters and increase turnout by spreading racial paranoia and hostility toward white people and Republicans.

By 2014, what had been a cynical and divisive political strategy became a killing field as violence exploded in major cities, initially by mobs, and then through acts of racial nationalist terrorism.

The gunmen spreading terror and death are the manifestation of the identity politics strategy.

Racial violence is a deliberate effort to polarize the country by sowing racial hatred. The gunmen in their manifestos often speak of a desire to radicalize and divide the country along racial lines. The objective of the killers attacking churches, shopping centers and public streets is another brand of identity politics.

White and black racial terror plays into stereotypes and hostilities on both sides. Beyond inspiring a small group of potential imitators, the shooters also reinforce the racial nationalism of the other side. They play into the identity politics conviction that beneath the surface, a racial civil war is underway.

Identity politics was born out of an effort by leftist activists to identify and mobilize potential supporters by breaking down a sense of national solidarity along the lines of group victimhood. Every act of terror breaks down national solidarity further and strengthens the appeals to race over nationality.

Lessons about tolerance, white privilege and racial consciousness don’t end racism. They spread it.

What inhibits racism isn’t leftist politics, it’s nationalism. We are less likely to view each other as the enemy if we are all on the same team. When nationalism declines, then tribes arise. Identity politics is the politics of tribalism. Its group nationalisms are not positive affirmations of a common strength, but negative identifications of a common enemy without and a common weakness within the victim group.

And it’s only natural for warring tribes, taught that they are the victims of oppression, to turn violent.

Nations make war on rival nations. When a nation fractures into rival nations warring with each other, acts of racial terror become commonplace. That is what is happening to the United States of America.

The only way to stop racism is by rebuilding our common purpose as a nation.

Without nationalism, different groups will find their own purpose through a lens of group identity. These identities will be innately hostile to each other and to the country they were formerly part of. They will reject its founding principles for failing to serve the interests of their tribes and they will destroy them.

Democrats and their media eagerly denounce these behaviors when they manifest in white nationalism, while upholding them when they appear in black nationalism. And that’s the problem. The politics of racial nationalism are either good or bad. They can’t however be good for one race and bad for another.

When you divide a country along racial lines, the divide will cut along both sides, not just your side.

The resurgence of racial nationalist violence won’t end until we affirm the centrality of the nation over the identity politics that has fractured our political and cultural life. Until we get rid of identity politics, racial nationalist violence will continue tearing apart communities across a divided United States.

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 10, 2019 at 11:30am

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China’s Currency Devaluation Will Hurt China

More Than It Hurts The United States

By Helen Raleigh

Ingraham calls out Dems:

'They are throwing kerosene on a fire'

By Victor Garcia

{foxnews.com} ~ Fox News' Laura Ingraham took on Democrats Tuesday night for what she said is an attempt to capitalize politically on the shooting massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio last weekend... and said she would not allow "the left" to divide Americans and distract from real solutions to real problems. "We should not, and we will not, allow the political hucksters of the left to separate us or distract us from addressing these real problems that need practical, workable solutions," Ingraham said on "The Ingraham Angle." "Let's not give either an evil racist force or a lunatic left wing nut any satisfaction by turning on one another in the wake of these heinous acts of domestic terror," she said. Ingraham accused Democrats of using the tragedies to silence and marginalize President Trump and his supporters. She also called their attempt to equate Trump's border policies with racism as "obscene." "Now conflating the evil racism of a deranged killer with Trump's reasonable and much-needed call for border security is not just offensive, it's absolutely obscene," Ingraham said. The host said "the left" is now branding "half the population" as racists and making them targets, warning Democrats that their actions will only lead to people getting hurt. "This is a campaign of intimidation. And I'm telling you it's going to end up getting more people hurt," Ingraham said. Ingraham brought up "left-wing" protesters showing up at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's house and shouting death threats as an example of Democrats inciting their base. "They are throwing kerosene on this fire and the end game is to drive those who disagree with them underground," Ingraham warned.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ingraham-calls-out-dems-they-are-throwing-kerosene-on-a-fire

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6068772115001/#sp=show-clips

Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court

Rules New Governor Has To Go

by EVIE FORDHAM

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that its new governor, elevated to replace a leader accused of corruption, has got to go... Pedro Pierluisi will have to step down after being promoted from secretary of state because he was never confirmed to that position by both chambers of the island’s legislature, reported CNN. Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez Garced, an ally of ex-Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, is set to become governor. Two prominent Puerto Rican politicians filed lawsuits to remove Pierluisi after Rosselló resigned Aug. 2. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz are behind the suits, NBC News reported Monday. Schatz’s suit maintains that Pierluisi stop acting as governor since he has only been confirmed by the island’s House of Representatives, reported CBS News. Pierluisi became secretary of state after Rosselló’s Secretary of State Luis G. Rivera Marín stepped down as part of the same scandal that brought down the former governor. Thousands of protesters in Puerto Rico demanded Rosselló resign over corruption charges and what many believe are misogynistic private messages he shared with officials. Even U.S. lawmakers weighed in. Vazquez said she didn’t want the governorship on Twitter, reported CNN. She has been justice secretary since January 2017...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/07/puerto-rico-governor-pierluisi/

Super-Silent Russian Submarines Are

in British Waters, Making Navy Anxious

By Chris Roberts

{ observer.com } ~ Modern military hardware need not be “new” in order to be extremely effective—and to be an ongoing source of anxiety among your rivals for world power... The B-52 bomber—which is slated to be in use for almost a century with the United States Air Force, albeit with significant improvements in engines and avionics over the models you remember from Dr. Strangelove, by the time it is retired—is one example. Another example is the Kilo-class submarine, which entered service with the Soviet Navy in 1980, and—following significant upgrades—is today under the Russian flag harassing British warships and tapping into internet cables on the ocean floor virtually undetected, according to very rattled sources within the UK military. The Telegraph was the first to report the worries, which include the belief that new and improved diesel-powered Kilo-class boats—more accurately referred to as the Varshavyanka class—equipped with stealth technology are stalking British warships undetected, in British territorial waters. And at least one Russian submarine has already successfully demonstrated its potential by cruising nearly undetected along a NATO member-state’s coastline, the newspaper reported. We say almost, because if it were truly undetected, it couldn’t become a threat in the press. The new Kilos, first delivered to the Russian Navy in 2013, have been on Western military observers’ minds for several years in no small part because the Russians have chosen to sink most of their Navy-related investments, post-USSR, into submarines. They are relatively small—238 feet long and 32 feet wide—and have a small crew of 53 sailors. As The National Interest reported, they aren’t fast, they can’t cruise particularly long, and they aren’t very good in the deep ocean...

https://observer.com/2019/08/super-silent-russian-kilo-submarines-new-tech-british-waters/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_content=2019-09-08-17733485&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=channel-daily-distribution-new

Food Stamp Participation Lowest in 10 Years

by KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ

{ breitbart.com } ~ The number of individuals participating in the nation’s food stamp program has sunk to its lowest level in ten years, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)... The most up-to-date enrollment data from the USDA showed that in April 2019, the most recent data from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), 35,993,281 individuals were on food stamps. Ten years ago in July 2009, which was six months into former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s first full year in office, 35,602,939 individuals remained on the food stamp dole, according to the USDA data. Food stamp enrollment spiked in 2013 under the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s second term, when food stamp participation reached its peak in U.S. history. After 2013, SNAP enrollment plummeted once state legislatures passed laws requiring food stamp recipients to work, attend school, volunteer, or participate in job training for a set number of hours per week to receive benefits. Food stamp participation took a nosedive even further once President Trump took office, as 2.9 million individuals dropped out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) since his first full month in office.USDA officials said those numbers are “preliminary” due to the government shutdown at the end of 2018, which affected food stamp administration at the beginning of 2019. Trump has signaled that he wants to curb the nation’s dependency on food stamps and wants those coming into the country to be self-sufficient. The president told Breitbart News in an Oval Office interview that he does not want any immigrants coming into the U.S. to be dependent on welfare programs. “I don’t want to have anyone coming in that’s on welfare,” Trump told Breitbart News in March. The USDA also announced in June that it would be putting policies into place that would restrict certain groups from obtaining SNAP benefits...

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/07/08/food-stamp-participation-lowest-10-years/

Is Putin Covering Up A Nuclear Disaster?

By WILL STEWART

{ dailymail.co.uk } ~ Suspicions are growing today that Russia has suffered another nuclear accident after ambulances covered in protective film were seen transporting six people with serious radiation poisoning in a mystery explosion at a military base... Alarming footage also shows men in protective clothing loading casualties into the vehicles in the wake of a blast at the Nyonoksa weapons testing site in the sub-Arctic Arkhangelsk region yesterday. Earlier the clothes of the victims and the medics who first treated them were destroyed, it was reported, before causalities were transferred for treatment at the Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Centre in Moscow. Moscow has thrown a veil of secrecy over the explosion, which killed two and left six injured on Thursday. Radiation levels are said to have temporarily soared 20 times above the normal level in Severodvinsk, a city 18 miles away, sparking 'panic' and 'hysteria' and a rush to buy iodine from pharmacies. Today, reports surfaced in Russia claiming the spike in radiation may have been caused when one of Vladimir Putin's top secret Zircon hypersonic missiles exploded during tests. Meanwhile, in a separate incident, lightning has stuck a Siberian military base and caused a series of explosions just four days after huge blasts previously rocked the same depot in Achinsk...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7340445/Putins-6-000-mph-hypersonic-missile-exploded-test-causing-radiation-spike-north-Russia.html

China’s Currency Devaluation Will Hurt China

More Than It Hurts The United States

By Helen Raleigh

{ thefederalist.com } ~ President Donald Trump announced last week that the United States will impose 10 percent tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports beginning Sept. 1. At the beginning of this week, China retaliated by ordering state enterprises not to purchase U.S. agricultural goods and letting the Chinese yuan fall below the psychologically important rate of 7 yuan against $1.

The world hasn’t seen the yuan devalued to this level since 2008. China denies that the devaluation of its currency was a deliberate retaliatory step against Trump’s tariff threat. But no one believes it.

Stock markets worldwide experienced significant losses in reaction to China’s retaliation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 900 points during Monday’s trading hours. According to MarketWatch.com, the U.S. major stock markets’ indices ended the day with “the S&P 500 off 6% from its record close set on July 26, while the Nasdaq is off 7.3% from its all-time closing high set the same day and the Dow has pulled back 6% from its July 15 record finish.”

The steep sell-off reflects investors’ concern that the escalating U.S.-China trade war means more uncertainty ahead, and investors hate uncertainty more than anything. What China did this week is its strongest counteraction so far in its ongoing trade war with the United States. It might have achieved the desired effect of causing panic among U.S. investors and businesses, but its action will end up hurting China more than it hurts the United States.

Devaluing a country’s currency in such a subjective way is a double-edged sword. It’s true that currency devaluation will make Chinese exports cheaper and more competitive, while making U.S. goods more expensive and less competitive. Exports of goods and services make up 20 percent of China’s gross domestic product but only 12 percent of U.S. GDP. So the harm it will do to U.S. exports is limited.

When a country devalues its currency, it will inevitably face capital flight risk. That’s exactly what happened to China back in 2015. It is well known that China controls the value of its currency by setting a daily exchange rate for the yuan versus the U.S. dollar.

In August 2015, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) arbitrarily devalued the yuan several days in a row. PBOC explained the move was to liberate yuan’s management and bring its value more in line with the market. But many economists point out that economic data in the previous months showed China’s economic growth had slowed down and exports fell. So the bank intentionally weakened China’s currency to boost exports and economic growth.

But to the PBOC’s surprise, its yuan devaluation also caused stock markets worldwide to fall, and both domestic and international investors lost confidence in the Chinese economy. Nervous investors began to pull their capital out of China. To stem capital flight, China implemented extreme capital control measures, including:

*Prohibiting outbound investments of U.S. $1 billion or more by state-owned enterprises in a single real estate transaction

*Reviewing outbound money transfers of U.S. $5 million by foreign companies

*Requiring foreign banks operating in China to seek preapproval from authorities to buy foreign exchange for their clients

Setting a personal foreign exchange allowance that permits a Chinese citizen to buy up to U.S. $50,000 worth of foreign exchange a year. In actual practice, the personal allowance is even lower. A former People’s Bank of China adviser confirmed at a conference early this year that he couldn’t even transfer U.S. $20,000 out of China to pay for a trip abroad.

But heavy capital controls only inspired people and businesses to find creative ways to move capital out of China, including creating fake invoices, false trade records, and customs forms. One Chinese national reportedly “used the US$50,000 annual foreign exchange purchase quotas of 84 people to remit US$4.35 million to his own accounts in Australia and Hong Kong.”

This is why, despite the strict capital control, China still saw more than U.S. $500 billion capital outflow in 2015. Capital flight out of China continued in 2016, mainly due to the concern of currency devaluation and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s aggressive anti-graft campaign.

Capital flight is a huge problem in China because it reduces the country’s tax base and thus reduces the government’s revenue. It negatively affects the Chinese government’s ability to cover domestic and foreign expenditures.

No wonder China reportedly has spent U.S. $1 trillion in foreign reserves to fight capital flight since 2015. But this week’s devaluation of the yuan stirred up fresh concerns that China may see another massive capital flight, which harms China more than anyone else.

Devaluation not only causes capital flight, but also worsens China’s debt problem. China’s official debt to GDP ratio is at 47.6 percent. But few believe that’s true. The Bank for International Settlements records China’s debt to GDP ratio at 255.7 percent and corporate debt to GDP ratio at 160.3 percent. The Institute of International Finance estimates China’s debt to GDP at 300 percent.

Last year, S&P Global Rating issued a warning to China about its growing debt problem. Devaluation of the yuan will amplify the debt burden of U.S. dollar-denominated debt and add to the risk of defaults by over leveraged Chinese corporations and local governments.

Besides risks of capital flight and its debt burden, China’s deliberate devaluation of its currency will cause more retaliation from the United States. Through a tweet, Trump called China’s action a “currency manipulation” and demanded a response from the Federal Reserve.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin followed the president’s tweet by officially designating China as a currency manipulator, stating the U.S. will work with the International Monetary Fund to “eliminate any unfair competitive advantage gained by China.” Many previous administrations made noise about officially designating China a “currency manipulator,” but shied away from it since 1994. Such a designation will justify any further retaliation against China by the Trump administration.

Even China recognizes the many downsides of devaluating its currency. On Tuesday, the People’s Bank of China took steps to prevent the yuan from devaluating too much, too soon. What we learned from China’s latest retaliation is this: China has little interest in compromising and meeting the U.S. demand on thorny trade-related issues such as forced technology transfer.

The several rounds of trade negotiations between the United States and China from last year to this year appear more like China’s delay tactic. What is China waiting for? Xi is a president for life, and he doesn’t face reelection. As the head of an authoritarian state, Xi has little trouble silencing any dissent.

But Trump has to face an election. China is willing to endure economic pain to certain level as long as it can inflict sufficient pain on the U.S. economy and possibly influence the outcome of the U.S. election in 2020. Xi is probably waiting Trump out so he can negotiate with someone new in the White House.

The economy has been a bright spot in Trump’s first term. Monday’s stock market sell-offs show that even though China is hurting more than the United States in this ongoing trade war, China still has tools to harm the U.S. economy and public psyche. Stock market performance doesn’t necessarily correspond to the underlying health of our economy, but a steep sell-off does harm the general public’s perception of and confidence in the U.S. economy.

In the past, Trump avoided bringing up China’s human rights violation and flattered Xi openly on social media, probably hoping to bring China to a trade deal he wants. So far, that approach hasn’t yielded any desired outcome.

When the proposed tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect on Sept. 1, American consumers and businesses will suffer. If Trump wants to win in 2020, he needs to do a better job convincing the American people what he hopes to achieve though the trade war and why the economic price American businesses and people are about to pay is worth it.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/09/chinas-currency-devaluation-will-hurt-china-hurts-united-states/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=ae561a8295-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-ae561a8295-83771801

Saturday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 10, 2019 at 6:52am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The Left Is on a Mission

to Annihilate Conservatism

David Limbaugh

Martha MacCallum: Blaming Trump in wake of

mass shooting isn't 'where we want to be right

now' during 'national moment of crisis'

By Julia Musto

{ foxnews.com } ~ Blaming President Trump in the wake of two mass shootings last weekend “isn’t where we want to be right now” in a “national moment of crisis,”... “The Story” host Martha MacCallum said on Wednesday. Trump traveled to Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday morning to visit the site of last weekend’s mass shooting. The perpetrator -- 24-year-old Connor Betts -- wore a mask, bulletproof vest, and hearing protection. He was killed by police within 30 seconds of opening fire. He still managed to kill nine and wound 27 with a .223-caliber high-capacity rifle with 100-round drum magazines. One of the people he killed was his 22-year-old sister. The shooting happened just hours after another man in his twenties with an anti-immigrant manifesto shot and killed 22 people in an El Paso Walmart. Appearing on “America’s Newsroom” with anchors Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith, McCallum told the pair: “This is obviously the sad, repetitive, duty of the President of the United States... this is his job. It’s his role in this country and there will be people who will be detractors, there will be people who are really glad he’s there. “If the president wasn’t going, the criticism would be that he isn’t going." Democrats denounced the president’s address on Monday. 2020 presidential candidates challenged the president for not mentioning the roles high-powered weapons played during the weekend of violence. Additionally, they called him out for discussing a potential link between violent video games, internet bigotry, and mental illness, as well as for misstating the name of the Ohio city hit by tragedy. “It feels like it isn’t where we want to be right now in terms of this conversation and pointing that kind of blame,” MacCallum said. Describing the El Paso shooter she remarked, “The seeds of his hatred and his evil go far deeper than anything he might have heard someone say -- the president, even -- on television.” According to ABC News, the two shootings in Dayton and El Paso have brought the total number of such incidents up to at least 17 — an average of one every 12.7 days this year. “This is something that I think the country wants to address,” MacCallum told Hemmer and Smith. “We’re in a national moment of crisis here. You’ve got an extraordinary number of these shootings that have happened in our country and it reminds me of, in some ways, the 9/11 moment.” MacCallum said she believes the next steps could potentially be addressed with the Red Flag laws the president and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are pushing for. She questioned if there was a way for schools and “different data points who have had run-ins” with potentially dangerous people could be “part of a base that pops up” during background checks... https://www.foxnews.com/media/martha-maccallum-trump-blaming-mass-shootings

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6069203914001/#sp=show-clips

We Need Criminal and Crazy Control,

Not Gun Control

by Daniel Greenfield

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Mass murder is not a gun control problem. In 2003, Kim Dae-han, a middle-aged taxi driver, killed 192 people and left 151 others wounded... by setting a South Korean subway train on fire using paint cans filled with gasoline. In 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Muslim terrorist, killed 86 people and wounded 458 others by ramming a truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in France. In 2001, Muslim terrorists killed 2,977 people and injured 6,000 more, by using box cutters to hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings. Guns are a tool. There are a whole lot of other devastating ways to kill lots of people. American mass killers often use guns because they’re convenient and available. There are plenty of alternatives like trucks, boxcutters, pressure cooker bombs and paint cans full of gasoline. Mass murder isn’t caused by the tools you use. The Nazis were not inspired to kill Jews by the invention of Zyklon B. The Japanese did not decide to kill hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians because of the availability of airplanes. The Soviet Communists did not commit their acts of mass murder because their arms stockpiles didn’t need a waiting period to obtain machine guns for their mass shootings. Murder is not a technical problem. It’s a moral problem. It happens because of internal decisions made in the mind, not external tools. The tools are used to implement the decisions of the mind. A society with mass murder is experiencing a moral problem. America’s moral problem is more complex than that of Nazi Germany or its Communist counterparts. We don’t have a government that is actively killing people. Instead we have a government that has made it easy for killers to operate by dismantling the criminal justice and immigration systems, making it very difficult to stop the three primary categories of killers, gang members, terrorists and the insane. And media corporations have been allowed to glamorize killers who seek fame through massacres. Gun controllers insist that the Founding Fathers never anticipated the problem of mass shooters. That’s probably true. But they would have also never tolerated the conditions that brought them into being, a permissive criminal justice system, a failure to institutionalize the mentally ill, and a media that promotes these acts of violence under the guise of condemning them and clamoring for gun control. The America of the Bill of Rights could have had modern weapons without constant mass shootings...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274571/we-need-criminal-and-crazy-control-not-gun-control-daniel-greenfield

scumbag-George Soros Dazed By New Evidence Billionaire Had Top Access To Highest

Levels Of Government

By Adam Casalino

{ patriotjournal.org } ~ scumbag-Soros got caught – now Democrats are taking a big hit! For decades, Democrats have condemned Republicans for being influenced by big donors—well isn’t this ironic!.. All along, Democrats have been catering to one super-rich liberal. A man by the name of scumbag-George Soros. Conservatives have known for a long time that scumbag-Soros is a megadonor that influences the Democrats. But we had no idea just how much control he had over the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. Now, the truth is coming out. During the 2016 Election, scumbag-Soros was frequently consulting with the State Department. In the spring of 2016, Team scumbag-Soros marched to the top of the State Department to protect some of his investments, according to newly released department memos providing a rare glimpse into the Democratic donor’s extraordinary access to the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. Woah. According to this new report, scumbag-George Soros appears to have had incredible influence in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. Citizens United have uncovered numerous calls, emails, and meeting requests from scumbag-Soros to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland during the 2016 Election. His people had access, nearly direct access, to the State Department. One of his people was literally giving advice to Nuland, telling her what to do. scumbag-Soros gives as much as $1 billion a year to political causes. He has helped 2 dozen prosecutors get elected, trained fellows working at the State Department, and supports global media institutions. But we are learning just how much influence he expected to have after scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton was elected. He thought, with her help, he could reshape his home country’s government—to benefit his business. Democrats like scumbag/liar-nObama, scumbag/liar-Clinton, and liar-Nancy Pelosi have received windfalls from this man. It’s impossible to ignore the fact that he has shaped the policy of liberals around the world. Are you surprised that all 2020 candidates are pushing left like never before? You can thank scumbag-George Soros the globalist for that...

https://patriotjournal.org/soros-evidence-top-access-government/

Take A Breath, America Is Still A Decent

Country Filled With Decent People

by TUCKER CARLSON and NEIL PATEL

{ dailycaller.com } ~ What’s the point at which rhetoric forces action? When do words become incitement? At what point do political attacks get so reckless and unhinged that you can no longer heal the divide they create with politics... It’s hard to know exactly, but the left is getting very close. Take, for example, this exchange on MSNBC, in which frequent guest Malcolm Nance accuses the president of the United States of sending secret messages to neo-Nazis: “These people feel that they are the foot soldiers and executors of the disenfranchisement that the white race is feeling, and Donald Trump is giving them subliminal orders in their head,” Nance said. Subliminal orders? Whatever Trump’s faults, you can be certain he isn’t doing that. Trump is the least subliminal politician in American history. He has no subtext. If he’s thinking it, he says it. The claim is ludicrous. But at MSNBC, it wasn’t even the weirdest thing recently said on air. That distinction goes to Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI official turned talking head-conspiracy nut. He used numerology to explain the president’s coded messages: “It’s the little things and the language and messaging that matters,” Figliuzzi said. “The president said that we will fly our flags at half-mast until Aug. 8. That’s 8/8. Now, I’m not going to imply that he did this deliberately, but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that’s being demonstrated by the White House. The numbers 8, 8 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them, the numbers 8, 8 together stand for ‘Heil Hitler.”Got that? Eight is a racist number. That’s MSNBC’s position. In other words, things are getting dangerously crazy on the left. How crazy? On Monday, former Jeb Bush spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace explained that Trump is planning a genocide of Hispanic Americans...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/08/msnbc-trump-nicole-wallace-malcolm-nance/?utm_medium=email

Maduro claims John Bolton was behind

2018 assassination attempt

by conservativeinstitute.org ~ Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro claimed in an interview that he can prove that National Security Adviser John Bolton ordered an assassination attempt against him last year... an accusation that does not place the Trump administration in a very good light, despite the undeniable need for regime change in that country. “I can tell you that today I have proof that the assassination attempt was ordered by John Bolton in the White House,” Maduro told Blumenthal. “We have testimony, we have witnesses, proof,” Maduro continued. “All the material authors of this assassination attempt by drone were captured. Some of the operational and intellectual authors were captured. And it all points to Julio Borges in Bogotá. It all points to Juan Manuel Santos in Colombia. All of it. All the logistics, the institutional support, technical assistance, support from Colombian intelligence. It all points to John Bolton, who has a criminal mentality, a murderer’s mentality.” Maduro claimed that those who planned the logistics of the attack are “under U.S. government protection” in Miami. The dictator did not offer to provide such evidence to Blumenthal or explain what exactly it might include. The assumption of those on the left will undoubtedly be that President Donald Trump must have been somehow involved in the assassination attempt if it is true that Bolton played a role. However, Maduro actually contradicted this line of thinking in the interview. “I can’t accuse President Trump, I can’t do it at this time, but I do have all the evidence to accuse and ask for a landmark investigation into John Bolton,” Maduro said. While Maduro claims that he was legitimately and fairly elected president of Venezuela, many countries around the world including most of Latin America, the U.S., and Canada, have said that corruption in the process made the election meaningless and have recognized opposition party leader Juan Guaidó as the true president. Trump has denounced Maduro and the socialist government of Venezuela, a regime many blame for the widespread food shortages, massive inflation and humanitarian crises that have gripped the country. A particularly corrupt element of Maduro’s election strategy was to promise poverty-stricken Venezuelans that they would receive food subsidies in exchange for their vote, with citizen compliance ultimately tracked via their government assistance identification cards...

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/maduro-bolton-assassination-attempt.htm?utm_source=dc3&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc3-1

The Left Is on a Mission

to Annihilate Conservatism

David Limbaugh

{ townhall.com } ~ While President Donald Trump is an ideal scapegoat for leftist hatred and demagoguery, the left's ultimate goal is to permanently reduce conservatism and the Republican Party to minority status by indelibly associating them with racism.

Listen to what the Democratic presidential candidates and other Democrats are saying. If you support border enforcement, you are a racist. If you support Trump, who pushes border enforcement, you are a racist. If you don't condemn Trump for being a white supremacist, which he is not, you are a white supremacist.

Democratic Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro, chairman of the presidential campaign for his twin brother, Julian, published the names of San Antonian contributors to Trump's reelection campaign, publicly denouncing them for "fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as 'invaders.'"

Castro's message is clear: Anyone who donates to Trump's campaign is a racist. As there is little difference between supporting Trump and donating to his campaign, Castro is saying that all Trump supporters are racists. Worse, Castro, and others, are trying to tie the mass shooting in El Paso to Trump and his supporters. There is nothing subtle about this. Their aim is to shame people into leaving the GOP.

One of the doxed donors, William Greehey, who incidentally contributed to Castro's 2011 and 2013 campaigns, was appalled at this slander and identified it for precisely what it is. "It is just amazing to me that he would do that," said Greehey. "Then he's calling me a racist because I'm supporting Trump. I mean, this is just ridiculous. There's a lot of things you don't like about the president and his tweeting, but here Castro is doing the same thing with his tweeting."

Wayne Harwell, another Castro donor caught in his doxing web, said: "If someone dislikes you enough to try to affect your business or personal life, I will not support him anymore. Maybe Castro's supporters should look over their shoulder. Frankly, I think the nasty rhetoric coming from the Democratic national candidates is worse than anything Trump has said." Bingo.

Even when called out, Castro didn't back down, other than to disingenuously claim he didn't create the list but only shared it. Seriously, Joaquin? He said it wasn't his intent to target the people he doxed -- an outright lie on its face -- but would like for them to "think twice about supporting a guy who is fueling hate in this country."

Sorry, Mr. Castro, and all progressives who keep spreading this lie, but Trump is not trying to build a wall because he doesn't like Hispanics, and every time you mouth this toxic mantra, you show you are willing to cast all border hawks as racists. More to the point, Castro, you are the one fueling hate in this country, and people are wising up to your scheme.

Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker is also casting Trump and his supporters as white supremacists. Here's the logic: Trump is a white supremacist because he wants to protect the border. A white supremacist, who may not even be a Trump supporter, slaughtered people. Therefore, Trump incited the massacre. And those callous enough to support Trump must be white supremacists as well.

Though scumbag-Booker called on Trump to denounce white supremacy after the shooting, when Trump did just that, scumbag-Booker would not accept it. Moreover, scumbag-Booker's campaign team called for cancellation of all Trump rallies because they are a "breeding ground for racism and bigotry." Never mind the abominable infringement on people's constitutional right to association that this unserious dabbler in presidential politics is advocating. Consider the malice in his charge that patriotic Americans gathered together to support President Trump are breeding racism and bigotry. No matter how twisted scumbag-Booker's thinking is, he knows better.

If this weren't proof enough of progressive malevolence, we have the reliably bizarre loose lips liar-Joe Biden, who expressly claims that Trump is intentionally stirring up white supremacy. "It's both clear in language and in code this president has fanned the fumes of white supremacy," said loose lips liar-Biden. "Trump's vacant-eyed mouthing of the words written for him, condemning white supremacists this week, I don't believe fooled anyone at home or abroad. ... Energetic embrace of this president by the darkest hearts and most hate-filled minds in this country say it all."

It's obvious that loose lips liar-Biden has lost all semblance of shame. The last person in America who talks in code is President Trump. He is direct, and his message is not about racism or white supremacy but about equal and robust opportunity for all.

Obviously, leftists haven't just gone off the rails with their insane policy ideas and by "insane," I mean "crazy". They are now demonizing half of Americans -- the half that don't embrace their insanity -- as enablers of a president who enables white supremacy -- though he denounces it. It's gotten to the point that these intolerant, mean-spirited extremists are trying to harm people simply for having a different political opinion, as shown by their boycotting fitness centers Equinox and SoulCycle because the owner of their parent company hosted a Trump fundraiser.

Leftists are doing incalculable damage to the fabric of society and race relations, but I can't help but believe that if they keep this up -- and they most certainly will -- they will pay a heavy political price in 2020.

https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2019/08/09/the-left-is-on-a-mission-to-annihilate-conservatism-n2551423?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/09/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

Friday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 9, 2019 at 3:50pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Proposed Gun Laws Would Do Nothing to

Prevent Mass Killings, and Everyone Knows It

By Michael Filozof

A Resurgence of Old-school

Courageous Americans

By Lloyd Marcus

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Following the horrific El Paso and Dayton shootings, I boycotted media. As expected, Democrats and fake news media were despicably giddy, thrilled for another opportunity to push for disarming law-abiding gun owners... and falsely demonizing Trump and his supporters. I boycotted media because was I could not stomach wimpy Republicans and #NeverTrumpers running to microphones to surrender to anti-American leftists' spin of the facts. I thought, “I am not going to allow cowards supposedly on our side to raise my blood pressure.” A case in point is John Kasich, who raced to the CNN microphones to further the insidious lie that Trump is responsible for the shootings. What is wrong with Kasich, and why does he call himself a Republican? Some on our side do not comprehend that Democrats and fake news media are not interested in truth and fairness. Attempting to play nice with these anti-American progressives is insane. Progressives are like unruly children. They must be firmly told no and sent to their rooms. Progressives must be defeated. Allowing progressives to dominate public education, social media, the fake news media, and entertainment media has gotten us into this mess. Christian churches abandoned God's command to be salt by foolishly staying out of politics. Consequently, we are one election away from transformation into a socialist country in which debauchery is government-mandated. The Democratic Party has become a cesspool of pure evil and anti-Americanism. Their demonic behavior is expected. It is upsetting when people on our side surrender to the Democrats' false premises rather than staying on offense and strongly pushing back with the truth...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/a_resurgence_of_oldschool_courageous_americans.html

A two-step plan for price

transparency in health care

by James C. Capretta

{ realclearpolicy.com } ~ The Trump administration recently issued a second hospital price transparency rule that builds upon the rule released last year requiring hospitals to post their “chargemaster” rates, or list prices, online... The new proposed rule, if finalized, would go a step further by requiring hospitals, beginning in 2020, to disclose the rates they have negotiated directly with insurance plans. Today, these private-payer rates are considered confidential and proprietary by both the hospital and insurance industries and are not made available to the public. The rule requiring disclosure of chargemaster rates, which went into effect in January, is making it easier to find list prices for thousands of hospital billing codes, but this information is not terribly useful for most consumers. Hospitals offer discounts off of their list prices to insurance plans, and most patients have insurance. Hospitals sometimes use chargemaster rates when billing patients without insurance, but that is rare. Even many uninsured patients end up getting discounts when they settle their bills. Tying price data to insurance billing codes also makes the information less relevant for consumers because the terminology used is not intended for a lay audience. Moreover, it is not possible for a consumer to find the “all in” prices for services that involve multiple billing codes. For instance, when a patient needs a hip replacement, there will be fees for the surgery, the anesthesia, the operating room, the lab tests, imaging services, and follow-up care. The current regulation requires hospitals to disclose pricing for the component parts but not for the full package, which is what would be relevant for consumers. The administration’s new regulation would force the disclosure of the discounted rates paid by insurers and also would promote more consumer-friendly price data for a list of 300 “shoppable services.” Hospitals would be required to identify services that are more amendable to consumer discretion because they can be scheduled by using accessible descriptions and identifying prices for ancillary services that usually accompany a primary charge. While this is a step in the right direction, it does not go far enough. Promoting a stronger consumer role will require far more disruption of the status quo. In particular, two steps are necessary: a required pricing list established by the federal government of strictly standardized services, and universal reference-based payments by insurance plans for services on the required pricing list... https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2019/08/08/a_two-step_plan_for_price_transparency_in_health_care_111253.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0Rka05UVTFORGd3TUdFMyIsInQiOiJIek1Pc014Z0NPVGd6N2hJOG0rSnhXNXhcL0xSbEU1c2p3eWsyWjB5UWVXMndQTjNRTDl4TUNxbkpidndSQjZPZ3hSRHpLUTQ0Y00zeVV6WXYydzZubFZiR3Y5TnNFU2FLSGxGekhTbFwvdVVoUjhWR0hOZGptY3I4NDk4N0lWSWI4In0%3D

Palestinians: In Need of a Mirror?

by Bassam Tawil

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Palestinians are again celebrating the murder of a Jew – this time 18-year-old Dvir Sorek, an unarmed off-duty soldier who was fatally stabbed and whose body was discovered August 8... on rocky ground in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc near Bethlehem. Not even a single Palestinian has condemned the ruthless killing of the teenager. The Palestinian Authority (PA), whose leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has previously said that he is opposed to terrorism, apparently does not see a need to denounce the killing of Sorek. Instead, the Palestinian Authority continued to issue multiple statements condemning Israel for "violating international law" for building new housing units for Jewish families in the West Bank. The statements, issued hours after the terrorist attack in Gush Etzion, made no reference to the murder of the Jewish teen. In the eyes of the Palestinian Authority leadership, the inauguration of a new neighborhood in a settlement is a "major crime" that needs to be brought before the International Criminal Court. Here is what Mahmoud Abbas's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudaineh, had to say about the building of the housing units in the settlement of Bet El, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah: "This act is condemned and rejected and in violation of international resolutions, including UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which says settlement activity constitutes a flagrant violation of international law. These continued provocations and hostile acts require practical decisions." Just as Israeli security forces were conducting a manhunt for the terrorist or terrorists who killed the Jewish teenager, Abbas instructed his foreign ministry to file a complaint against Israel with the International Criminal Court over its policy of settlement construction. Abbas also instructed his envoy to the UN, Riad Mansour, to hold consultations with members of the Security Council in preparation for holding an emergency session to condemn Israel's settlement activity... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14689/palestinians-need-mirror

Taliban leader quashes Eid cease fire,

urges followers to continue jihad

By BILL ROGGIO

{ longwarjournal.org } ~ In his yearly Eid-al-Adha message to his followers, Taliban emir Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada dashed all hopes for a holiday ceasefire and urged his jihadists to continue the fight... Unlike last year, when Hibatullah issued a unilateral three-day cease fire during Eid, he urged his followers to continue the fight and “pave the way for withdrawal of invaders and establishment of a true Islamic system.”Hibatullah’s message, which was published today on the Taliban’s official website, Voice of Jihad, is consistent with the Taliban’s strategy of ramping up the pressure while negotiating with the US to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan. … the Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate – with Divine Help from Allah and support of its resolute nation – has taken incredible strides forward both militarily and politically and are progressing towards success with great wisdom and caution. The Mujahideen have taken over large areas across the country amid the Al-Fath Operations. Besides rural areas, they have extended and solidified their control over highways and strategic points. They have taken military initiative from the enemy on the ground and left them with only blind airstrikes. The spirit of solidarity, coordination, discipline and obedience is at an all-time high. The “true Islamic system” and “Islamic government” that Hibatullah refers to is the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. It is a decisive achievement that majority of the Afghan political class currently backs the Islamic Emirate in its demand for the establishment of an Islamic government and withdrawal of foreign forces and supports its eighteen-year lawful call for such an outcome. And again: Whether we perform armed Jihad for the cause of Allah or engage in dialogue and negotiation processes, both are a means for ending the occupation and establishing an Islamic system. Hibatullah’s demand for the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is nothing new. This has been a consistent theme of the Taliban since the US invaded in 2001... https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/08/taliban-leader-quashes-eid-cease-fire-urges-followers-to-continue-jihad.php

A Health Care System That's

the Envy of the World

By Valerie Sobel

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The following events did not take place in the Soviet Union or Cuba. None of this inhumanity was a figment of my imagination. I'm narrating the details without hyperbole... Recently, I took a ride through one amazingly affordable health care system — the one scumbag/liar-nObama and other notable Democrats paint as the "envy of the world." See how quickly you can figure out where this envy of the world dwells. Got your seat belt on? This liberal utopia is a bit bumpy.You enter a hospital emergency room. For two months prior, you suffered abysmal pain, unable to shower, straighten out, or sit. You're the Hunchback of Notre Dame, debilitated with no reprieve. When one of your legs isn't numb from hip to toe, you experience sharp stabbing sensations that make you want to slit your wrists. Yet you do exactly what your nation's one-tier medical system instructs you to do: you visit a family doctor who routinely suggests an MRI. And since you live in the proud lap of liberalism, which ensures the all-inclusive equity of suffering, you are told that your MRI is a mere twelve months away. A referral to a spine clinic was offered at a six months' wait. Lucky for you, a generous dose of an opioid was prescribed in the interim. The 60 Oxycontin pills the most addictive opioid on the market, with a street value of $60/pill were augmented by 270 pills of Gabapentin, a drug designed to deceive your brain into thinking you are not in pain. You walk away a guaranteed addict with a pocket full of mind-altering chemicals. By now you should be entirely consoled by the idea that many are in the same boat of egalitarianism for suffering and queues. The thought of equitable misery is expected to work as an instant pain-reliever. This barbaric philosophy is at the crux of government policies that outlaw private health care in this country. This is how my friend's journey through the cartel of socialist policies began... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/a_health_care_system_thats_the_envy_of_the_world.html

Proposed Gun Laws Would Do Nothing to

Prevent Mass Killings, and Everyone Knows It

By Michael Filozof

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The country is again in an uproar following the latest mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. In response to the hysterical clamor in the media to "do something," politicians in both the Democratic and Republican Parties want yet again! more gun laws Republicans, including President Trump, are proposing a "red flag" confiscation law that would enable police to summarily seize an individual's guns based on hearsay. Such a law would blatantly violate the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. In practice, these laws would have no significant effect on actual shooters, but would ensnare people like Donald Montgomery, a retired police officer from Long Island who sought insomnia treatment — and was declared "mentally ill" and had his guns permanently seized under scumbag-Andrew Cuomo's notorious "SAFE" Act. Republicans should know better, but apparently, they don't.

Democrats are calling for a national ban on semi-automatic "assault weapons" and magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds. If elected, there is no question that they will enact such a ban. Some are even calling for a national confiscation, patterned on the confiscations in Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.

What is absolutely certain is that such a ban will have no impact whatsoever on mass shootings. It is entirely possible to commit mass murder with weapons that do not fall under the label of "assault weapons," and a significant number of mass shooters have done so. In 1949, World War II veteran Howard Unruh murdered 13 people with a German Luger pistol with an 8-round capacity. In 1966, University of Texas shooter Charles Whitman employed a bolt-action Remington hunting rifle in his spree. In 1993, Jamaican immigrant Colin Ferguson, motivated by anti-white hatred, murdered six people and wounded 19 on the Long Island Railway with a 9mm pistol. In 2006, Korean immigrant Seung-Hui Cho murdered 32 people at Virginia Tech with a brace of pistols, a 9mm Glock and a .22 caliber Walther. Two thousand nine Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Hasan used a Fabrique Nationale pistol to kill thirteen and wound thirty victims. Twenty thirteen Navy Yard killer Aaron Alexis used a stolen 9mm pistol and a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun. The Thousand Oaks, California killer murdered thirteen people with a .45 cal. pistol in 2018.

I could go on listing examples of mass shootings committed without so-called "assault weapons," but the facts are easily available to anyone with the intellectual honesty to research them. Unfortunately, almost no one in the media or the Democratic Party has such honesty. The demonization of "assault weapons" is merely a pretext to get gaggles of ignorant, squealing soccer moms who don't know a muzzle from a buttplate to demand what the Democrats have always wanted: total gun control.

Indeed, if you look at the history of gun control, there is almost no firearm that Democrats haven't wanted to ban. Their modus operandi has always been to employ demagogic politics after sensational killings to advance the agenda of complete disarmament.

During the 1930s, shootings with machine guns were rare, but saturation press coverage led to the 1934 National Firearms Act, which effectively banned them. However, gangster Clyde Barrow, who helped inspire the legislation by committing numerous robberies and murders with machine guns, didn't purchase his Browning Automatic Rifles legally; they were stolen from a National Guard Armory. Sixty years later, the ban didn't stop two crooks, a scam artist and a Romanian immigrant, from illegally modifying rifles for fully automatic fire and engaging in a protracted shoot-out with the cops during a bank robbery in North Hollywood, California.

In 1963, communist Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy with a surplus Italian rifle he had ordered in the mail. Instead of banning communists, Democrats banned the mail order of guns. In 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King with a pump-action Remington hunting rifle. He bought it at a sporting goods store, not through the mail. That same year, Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert Kennedy with a cheap .22 revolver; Democrats then proposed banning "Saturday Night Specials." And in 2005, the Democrat-led California Legislature banned single-shot .50 cal. rifles — even though no crimes had ever been committed with them.

Too small, too big, too powerful, too weak — it doesn't matter; Democrats want to ban them all. Democrats are fond of saying mass shootings don't happen in other countries that have gun control, but that claim is so easily disproven as to be farcical. Even in nations that have enacted laws that Democrats dream of — gun bans, confiscations, and universal registration — there have been a number of mass shootings. A universal registration requirement and the total prohibition on AK-47s in France failed to stop the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan shooters from killing 142 people. The British handgun and semi-automatic rifle confiscations did not prevent Derrick Bird from murdering 12 and wounding 11 with a legally registered bolt-action .22 and a shotgun in 2010. The Egyptian ban on all rifles failed to prevent jihadists from killing over 300 at a Sinai mosque in 2017, and India's ban on all firearms and ammunition was ineffective in stopping the Mumbai massacre in 2008. Nor did strict Russian gun laws stop the Beslan slaughter of 330 schoolchildren in 2004, or the mass shooting in Crimea in 2018.

The supposedly "conservative" intellectual Charles Krauthammer gave away the endgame in 1996: confiscation of all guns. Referencing the 1994 scumbag/liar-Clinton "assault weapons" ban, Krauthammer acknowledged that the ban would have little effect on actual homicides: Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic — purely symbolic — move. ... Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation. ... De-escalation begins with a change in mentality. And that change in mentality starts with the symbolic yielding of certain types of weapons. The real steps, like the banning of handguns, will never occur unless this one is taken first, and even then not for decades. The postmodern welfare state seeks to ban all guns because it is ultimately totalitarian. It seeks to regulate and provide happiness and entertainment for the masses, so long as they agree to sacrifice their individuality and independence. Tocqueville prophesied in 1833 that democracy would create a new kind of despotism:

Above this race of democratic men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? ...

The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

That is the real goal of proposed gun confiscations and "red flag" laws: to completely disarm the public, destroy all individuality and all independence, and have the population eating from the hand of the government as if they were domesticated animals.

All in the name of "safety" and "happiness," of course.

As of this writing, they are frighteningly close to achieving it.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/proposed_gun_laws_would_do_nothing_to_prevent_mass_killings_and_everyone_knows_it.html

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 104C)

Posted by Jake Martinez on August 9, 2019 at 1:30pm

Please Read Part 104B:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 104B)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-June 2, 2019:

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

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that 'we need criminal and crazy control, not gun control and that when criminals and mentally ill individuals aren't locked up and/or provided appropriate mental healthcare, then everyone ends up in jail'-You Decide:

We Need Criminal and Crazy Control, Not Gun Control: When criminals and psychos aren’t locked up, then everyone ends up in jail!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On August 9, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274571/we-need-criminal-and-crazy-control-not-gun-control-daniel-greenfield

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

Image: The one thing that nearly every mass shooting has in common… and it isn’t guns

The one thing that nearly every mass shooting has in common… and it isn’t guns!-Posted on Natural News-By Mike Adams-On August 6, 2019:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-08-06-the-one-common-thing-that-nearly-every-mass-shooting-has-in-common.html

If the Liberals Wanted a Safer America They Would Ban SSRI's and Promote Universal Firearms Training!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On August 9, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/if-liberals-wanted-safer-america-they-would-ban-ssris-and-promote-universal-firearms-training

From El Paso to Antifa to LA: America the Insane!-Posted on PJ Media-By Roger L. Simon-On August 4, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/from-el-paso-to-antifa-to-la-america-the-insane/

William Patrick Williams, 19, was arrested by special agents of ATF and FBI Thursday, following a brief hospitalization. He made his initial appearance in court Friday morning.

Grandma Thwarts Shooting by Convincing Grandson to Get Medical Help!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Amy Furr-On August 5, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/08/05/grandma-thwarts-shooting-by-convincing-grandson-to-get-medical-help/

Chuck Schumer digs in on gun control bill that wouldn’t have prevented Texas or Ohio mass murders!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On August 6, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/chuck-schumer-digs-gun-control-bill-wouldnt-prevent-texas-ohio-mass-murders/

Pelosi Asks Trump to Call a Senate Vote on House-passed Gun Control!-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On August 9, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/33089-pelosi-asks-trump-to-call-a-senate-vote-on-house-passed-gun-control?vsmaid=5555&vcid=7778

Plan To Boost ‘Red Flag’ Gun Laws Gains Momentum in Congress!-Posted on The Western Journal-By AP Reports-On August 6, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-plan-boost-red-flag-gun-laws-gains-momentum-congress/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

Conservatives Mobilize Against Republicans Supporting ‘Red Flag’ Gun Confiscation Law!-Posted on The Epoch Times-By Patrick Howley-On August 7, 2019:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/conservatives-mobilize-against-republicans-supporting-red-flag-gun-confiscation-law_3033422.html

National Rifle Association sends stern warning to POTUS over ‘red flag’ laws!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Andrew West-On August 8, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/national-rifle-association-sends-stern-warning-to-potus-over-red-flag-laws/

Red flags

El Paso suspect’s mother reportedly called the cops about him. That doesn’t mean a ‘red flag’ law would have prevented it!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On August 8, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/el-paso-suspects-mother-reportedly-called-cops-doesnt-mean-red-flag-law-prevented/

Flashback: This is Why Trump Should Not Support “Red Flag” Gun Laws: Man shot and killed by police who were confiscating firearms without due process!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By Kelen McBreen | Infowars.com-On August 9, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/flashback-why-trump-should-not-support-red-flag-gun-confiscation/

Trump on Gun Background Check Legislation: 'I Want to See it Happen'

Trump on Gun Background Check Legislation: 'I Want to See it Happen'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Newsmax Wires-On August 9, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/gun-background-checks-trump/2019/08/09/id/928005/#ixzz5w7omsUGy

NRA logo at annual meeting 2018

NRA dismisses calls for more background checks after shootings as ‘rhetoric for billionaire activists and campaign rallies’!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On August 8, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/nra-dismisses-calls-background-checks-shootings-rhetoric-billionaire-activists-campaign-rallies/

Trump Says NRA’s ‘Strong Views’ On Background Checks Are Being Heard!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Whitney Tipton, Daily Caller-On August 9, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-says-nras-strong-views-on-background-checks-are-being-heard/

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, on August 7 2019. - Trump is traveling to the mass shooting sites in Ohio and Texas. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Donald Trump: Republicans Can ‘Lead the Charge’ on Expanding Background Checks!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Charlie Spiering-On August 9, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/09/donald-trump-republicans-can-lead-the-charge-on-expanding-background-checks/

Trump at NRA meeting

Is Trump headed for a post-shooting gun control fight with the NRA?-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On August 9, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-headed-post-shooting-gun-control-fight-nra/

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Scalise: Proposed Laws Wouldn't Have Stopped My Shooter!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Sandy Fitzgerald-On August 9, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/steve-scalise-gun-laws-shooters-mass-murder/2019/08/09/id/928058/

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Shooting at a packed nightclub in Canada, where gun control is already way stricter than the U.S.!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On August 5, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/shooting-packed-nightclub-canada-gun-control-already-way-stricter-u-s/

What About Firearms That Saved Lives Last Month?-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On August 8, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/33078-what-about-firearms-that-saved-lives-last-month?vsmaid=5537&vcid=7778

Good Guy With A Gun Appears To Have Stopped A Would-Be Shooter At A Missouri Walmart!-Posted on Townhall-By Matt Vespa/@mvespa1-On August 8, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/08/08/close-call-missouri-police-arrested-man-armed-with-rifle-at-local-walmart-n2551435

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Socialist Country w/World's Highest Murder Rate Complains Americans Have Right to Bear Arms!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On August 6, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274548/socialist-country-wworlds-highest-murder-rate-daniel-greenfield

Flags at half mast after TX and OH shootings

Levin: America doesn’t need ‘more laws, more government.’ It needs more virtue!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On August 6, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/levin-america-doesnt-need-more-laws-more-government-it-needs-more-virtue/

Philadelphia Archbishop on Gun Control: ‘Only a Fool Can Believe That [It] Will Solve the Problem’!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Setyon-On August 7, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/philadelphia-archbishop-gun-control-fool-can-believe-will-solve-problem/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=libertyalliance

Heading to El Paso, Trump Nixes Assault Weapons Ban!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On August 7, 2019:

https://ijr.com/trump-nixes-assault-weapons-ban/

This Lie From Bill Clinton’s Past Will Take Down the Democrat Party in 2020!-Posted on Great American Daily-On August 9, 2019:

https://greatamericandaily.com/lie-bill-clintons-past/

lindsey graham at senate hearing

Lindsey Graham Politely Explains to Idiot Reporters Why He needs an AR-15!-Posted on PJ Media-By Stephen Kruiser-On August 10, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lindsey-graham-politely-explains-to-idiot-reporters-why-he-needs-an-ar-15/

Video: Clues Have Been Given, Up Is Down, Left Is Right, Trust The Mission - Episode 1939b (Mark: 23:24)!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On August 9, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir4liHvnDqY

Knives Account for 3 Times as Many Murders as Rifles Do According to the FBI!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Bradley Evans-On August 10, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/knives-account-3-times-many-murders-rifles-according-fbi/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-08-11

White House Summons Tech, Social Media Firms After Shootings!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On August 10, 2019:

https://ijr.com/white-house-summons-tech-social-media-firms/

Walmart, ESPN Take Stand Against Violent Video Games in Wake of Mass Shootings!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Bryan Chai-On August 10, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/walmart-espn-take-stand-violent-video-games-wake-mass-shootings/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-08-13

Scalise Warns It’s a ‘Slippery Slope’ to Blame Others for Mass Shootings: ‘The Shooter Is Responsible’!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Madison Dibble-On August 12, 2019:

https://ijr.com/scalise-warns-its-a-slippery-slope-to-blame-others-for-mass-shootings/

Latest Mass Shootings: What You Need to Know!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On August 12, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/latest-mass-shootings-what-you-need-to-know/

Trump Gets Pushback from NRA, Senators, 2A Organizations, and Opinion Molders Over His Push for New Gun Control Laws!-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On August 12, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33101-trump-gets-pushback-from-nra-senators-2a-organizations-and-opinion-molders-over-his-push-for-new-gun-control-laws?vsmaid=5571&vcid=7778

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Gun rights supporters say Trump could lose their vote!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Steven Nelson-On August 12, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/gun-rights-supporters-say-trump-could-lose-their-vote

A Closer Look at the Dangers of Red Flag Laws!-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On August 13, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/33114-a-closer-look-at-the-dangers-of-red-flag-laws?vsmaid=5590&vcid=7778

Video: Mass shootings are a deep state WAR against Trump!-Posted on Brighteon.com-By H.R. Report-On August 13, 2019:

https://www.brighteon.com/7fe3ddbb-1545-4d9b-a241-a3c683719bdf

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The Hunt For Red America: A film about slaughtering "deplorables" is postponed - until the Left senses the time is right!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On August 14, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274617/hunt-red-america-lloyd-billingsley

Universal Background Checks Require Gun Registration!-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On August 14, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/33128-universal-background-checks-require-gun-registration?vsmaid=5603&vcid=7778

Senate Dems Give SCOTUS 2A Ultimatum: "Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be 'restructured,'" they admonish!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Jordan Candler-On August 15, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64846-senate-dems-give-scotus-2a-ultimatum?mailing_id=4474&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4474&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Nearly 200 House Dems Now Support Bill Outlawing All New Semi-Automatic Weapons!-Posted on PJ Media-By Stephen Green-On August 15, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/nearly-200-house-dems-now-support-bill-outlawing-all-new-semiautomatic-weapons/

MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE - AUGUST 15: President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a rally in Manchester on August 15, 2019 in Manchester, New Hampshire. The Trump 2020 campaign is looking to flip the battleground state of New Hampshire with the use of a strong economy and appeals to his …

President Trump: ‘It’s Not the Gun That Pulls the Trigger’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins-On August 15, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/15/trump-not-gun-pulls-trigger/

Trump Blames Mass Shootings on Mentally Ill, Calls for More Mental Institutions!-Posted on Independent Journal-By Reuters-On August 16, 2019:

https://ijr.com/trump-blames-mass-shootings-mentally-ill-more-mental-institutions/

McCarthy Addresses Dems Push for Gun Control Action: ‘We Want a Process That Works’!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Madison Summers-On August 15, 2019:

https://ijr.com/mccarthy-addresses-dems-push-gun-control-action/

‘Black Guns Matter’ Says 90% of Mass Shootings Are in Gun-Free Zones, But Stats Say It’s Even Higher at 94%!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Benjamin Arie-On August 14, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/black-guns-matter-says-90-mass-shootings-gun-free-zones-stats-say-even-higher-94/

Indoctrinating and Radicalizing Mass Murderers: Leftist political "gun control" theatrics versus the root causes of sociopathic violence in America...!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On August 14, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/64849-indoctrinating-and-radicalizing-mass-murderers?mailing_id=4472&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4472&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header.default

Mass Shootings: Hegel’s Dialectics In Action!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Servando Gonzalez-On August 16, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/mass-shootings-hegels-dialectics-in-action/

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Video: Gun Confiscation Should Begin and End With Those Groups Who Kill the Most People!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On August 16, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/agenda-21-conspiracy-martial-law/gun-confiscation-should-begin-and-end-those-groups-who-kill-most-people

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Trump Backs Bid Against New York City Gun Rules At Supreme Court!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Kevin Daley, Daily Caller-On August 16, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-backs-bid-against-new-york-city-gun-rules-at-supreme-court/

Gun Laws Should Have Prevented Philly Shooter from Owning Guns. They Didn’t!-Posted on The Western Journal-By AP Reports-On August 17, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-philadelphia-standoff-suspect-charged-attempted-murder/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Defensive Gun Uses Abound Nationwide: Numerous stories from July alone illustrate how prevalent such uses really are!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On August 19, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64917-defensive-gun-uses-abound-nationwide?mailing_id=4480&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4480&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Florida Man Lost His 2A Rights, Thanks To Red Flag Laws And Mistaken Identity!-Posted on Townhall-By Beth Baumann/@eb454-On August 19, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/08/19/red-flag-law-failure-guy-is-stripped-of-his-gunsbecause-of-another-mans-criminal-activity-n2551921

Socialists Chip Away At The Second Amendment!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-BY Kelleigh Nelson-On August 19, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/socialists-chip-away-at-the-second-amendment/

Mark O'Connor fills out his Federal background check paperwork as he purchases a handgun at the K&W Gunworks store on the day that U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, DC announced his executive action on guns on January 5, 2016 in Delray Beach, Florida.

President Trump Shifts Away from Background Check Push!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins-On August 20, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/20/president-trump-shifts-away-from-background-check-push/

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stands at his podium during the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York. The first of four debates for the 2016 Election, three Presidential and one Vice Presidential, is moderated by NBC's Lester Holt. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

President Trump: We Won’t Sacrifice Gun Rights to ‘Slippery Slope’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins-On August 20, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/20/president-trump-we-wont-sacrifice-gun-rights-slippery-slope/

FL Teen Arrested For Making Mass Shooting Threat...And It Didn't Take A Red Flag Law!-Posted on Townhall-By Matt Vespa/@mvespa1-On August 22, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/08/22/fl-teen-arrested-for-making-mass-shooting-threat-and-it-didnt-take-a-red-flag-n2552014

The 'It's Easier To Buy A Gun Than Cold Medicine' Crowd Just Got Slapped With Reality!-Posted on Townhall-By Matt Vespa/@mvespa1-On August 22, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/08/22/the-its-easier-to-buy-a-gun-than-cold-medicine-crowd-just-got-slapped-with-reality-n2552072

What “Right To Keep And Bear Arms” Is That?-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Edwin Vieira Jr.-On August 23, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/what-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms-is-that/

Marching Toward Gun Confiscation: Prohibition Advocates Released Unhinged Gun Control Plan!-Posted on NR-ILA-On August 26, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190826/marching-toward-gun-confiscation-prohibition-advocates-released-unhinged-gun-control-plan

Divide and Conquer: Giffords (Formerly LCAV) Looks to Split Gun Owners to Enact Controls!-Posted on NR-ILA-On August 26, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190826/divide-and-conquer-giffords-formerly-lcav-looks-to-split-gun-owners-to-enact-controls

Flag on the Play: Media Promotes Gun Confiscation Laws by Exaggerating “Study” Results!-Posted on NR-ILA-On August 26, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190826/flag-on-the-play-media-promotes-gun-confiscation-laws-by-exaggerating-study-results

Pastor, Father of Mass Shooting Victim, Calls for the Gov’t to ‘Be for the People’ Instead of Focusing on Guns!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Madison Summers-On August 29, 2019:

https://ijr.com/pastor-father-victim-shooting-calls-government-for-people/

Despotic Judiciary Assaults Second Amendment: Seventh Circuit Court upholds a ban on "assault weapons" and "high capacity" magazines!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On August 30, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65165-despotic-judiciary-assaults-second-amendment?mailing_id=4502&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4502&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

School Expels Student Because He Went Shooting with His Mom!-Posted on Godfather Politics-By Warner Todd Huston-On August 30, 2019:

https://godfatherpolitics.com/school-expels-student-because-he-went-shooting-with-his-mom/

Texas Lawmaker Delivers Blistering Rebuke To Anti-Gun Democrats, Media!-Posted on The Daily Wire-By Ryan Saavedra/@realsaavedra-On September 1, 2019:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/51279/texas-lawmaker-delivers-blistering-rebuke-anti-gun-ryan-saavedra

Video: Exculpatory Evidence, August Was Hot Month, Next Wave Incoming - Episode 1958b (Mark: 25:08)!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On September 1, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wnYn-OjsBo

Who’s to Blame for Evisceration of the Second Amendment?-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On September 2, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/whos-to-blame-for-evisceration-of-the-second-amendment/

Dems' Assault on the Second Amendment: Their claim of wanting to uphold Americans' right to bear arms is simply not genuine!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On September 3, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65221-dems-assault-on-the-second-amendment?mailing_id=4508&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4508&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Odessa and Midland police and sheriff's deputies surround a white van in Odessa, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, after reports of gunfire. Police said there are "multiple gunshot victims" in West Texas after reports of gunfire on Saturday in the area of Midland and Odessa. (Tim Fischer/Midland Reporter-Telegram via AP)

Gov. Greg Abbott: Midland Shooter Previously Failed Background Check!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins-On September 3, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/03/gov-greg-abbott-midland-shooter-previously-failed-background-check/

D'Souza: Gun Confiscators Are 'Coming Out of the Closet' in 'All-Out Assault' on 2nd Amendment!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On September 4, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/dsouza-gun-confiscators-are-coming-out-closet-all-out-assault-2nd-amendment

San Francisco Declares NRA a 'Domestic Terrorist Organization'!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On September 4, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/san-francisco-declares-nra-domestic-terrorist-organization

What George Soros Just Invested MILLIONS In Will Leave You Speechless!-Posted on Conservative Alliance-On September 4, 2019:

https://theconservativealliance.org/what-george-soros-just-invested-millions-in-will-leave-you-speechless/

Meghan McCain Predicts 'a Lot of Violence' as Dems Ramp Up Call for Gun Grabs!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jared Harris-On September 4, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/meghan-mccain-predicts-lot-violence-dems-ramp-call-gun-grabs/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-09-05

President Donald Trump and NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre in the White House in 2017. Photo: Michael Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images

Report: Gun Control Spells Political Loss for President Trump!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins-On September 6, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/06/report-gun-control-spells-political-loss-for-president-trumpreport-gun-control-spells-political-loss-for-president-trump/

Leftists Said Maine's Permitless Carry Law Would Cause Chaos. Now It's the Safest State in US!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Cade Almond-On September 7, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/leftists-said-maines-permitless-carry-law-cause-chaos-now-safest-state-us/

In this photo illustration online social media logos are seen displayed on a smartphone.

To Prevent Mass Shootings, Trump Looks Into ‘Controversial’ Mental Illness Proposal!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By James Barrett-On September 9, 2019:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/51566/prevent-mass-shootings-trump-looks-controversial-james-barrett

NRA sues San Francisco over 'domestic terrorist organization' declaration

NRA sues San Francisco over 'domestic terrorist organization' declaration!-Posted on Fox News-By Danielle Wallace | Fox News-On September 10, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nra-sues-san-francisco-domestic-terrorist-organization-gun-control

NJ Magazine Ban Backfires as Not a Single One Has Been Turned In!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jared Harris-On September 10, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/nj-magazine-ban-backfires-not-single-one-turned/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=libertyalliance

Gun Sales Jump 15.5 Percent in August as Dems Renew Push for Regulations!-Posted on National Review-By Mairead McArdle-On September 10, 2019:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/gun-sales-jump-15-5-percent-in-august-as-dems-renew-push-for-regulations/

Red Flag gun laws are rooted in communist methods of oppression!-Posted on BobLivingstonLetter.com-By Brandon Smith-On September 11, 2019:

https://boblivingstonletter.com/alerts/red-flag-gun-laws-are-rooted-in-communist-methods-of-oppression/

Twitter, the GAP, 143 Other Businesses Press Congress for Gun Control!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins-On September 12, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/12/twitter-the-gap-143-other-businesses-press-congress-for-gun-control/

Senate Aviation and Space Subcommittee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX) questions witnesses during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. In the wake of President Donald Trump's orders to create a military Space Force, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine testified about …

Ted Cruz: Corporate Gun Control Is ‘Social Signaling at the Country Club’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins-On September 12, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/12/ted-cruz-corporate-gun-control-social-signaling-country-club/

Parkland father exposes how killer was enabled by Obama's school-leniency policies: 'The left, they don't want to hear my story'!-Posted on The Blaze-By Breck Dumas-On September 12, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/parkland-father-exposes-how-killer-was-enabled-by-obamas-school-leniency-policies

House Passes Sweeping Gun Regulations: Pelosi seeks to pressure McConnell into accepting Democrats' draconian gun measures!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Polit ical Editors-On September 13, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65457-house-passes-sweeping-gun-regulations?mailing_id=4529&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4529&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Demo Debate: Gun Confiscation: Beto O'Rourke seeks attention. The DNC hopes to push the envelope further left!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On September 13, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65459-demo-debate-gun-confiscation?mailing_id=4529&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4529&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Second Amendment Under Assault in the States!-Posted on The New American-By Steve Byas-On September 12, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/33399-second-amendment-under-assault-in-the-states

Video: On Watch: Revealing the TRUTH about Gun Control, Red Flag Laws, & the 2nd Amendment!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On September 12, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_0ZvAm96fo

Trump will not consider House-passed universal background check bill: Report!-Posted on Daily Christian News-By Ben Marquis-On September 17, 2019:

https://www.dailychristiannews.com/trump-universal-background-check/

MSNBC tries to show public support for gun control — and fails spectacularly at it. Well that's embarrassing!-Posted on The Blaze-By Carlos Garcia-On September 17, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/msnbc-tries-to-show-public-support-for-gun-control-and-fails-spectacularly-at-it

Alcohol, Guns, and Prohibition: A homicide victim is far more likely to be murdered by an assailant using a knife, blunt object, or fists than by a rifle of any type!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On September 18, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/65561-alcohol-guns-and-prohibition?mailing_id=4538&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4538&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header.default

In this May 1, 2011, photo, musician and gun rights activist Ted Nugent addresses a seminar at the National Rifle Association's 140th convention in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Ted Nugent says new Michigan hunting rules will trigger 'widespread civil disobedience'!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times-On September 18, 2019:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/18/ted-nugent-says-new-michigan-hunting-rules-will-tr/

Colt suspends production of AR-15 for civilian market!-Posted on AP News-By PAT EATON-ROBB-On September 18, 2019:

https://apnews.com/fbdf5e5f6d654332bbedfaffe3663154

The Real Threat of the Demos' 'Universal Background Checks': A national firearm registry will ultimately result in firearm confiscation under a Socialist Democrat regime!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On September 25, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/65708-the-real-threat-of-the-demos-universal-background-checks-2019-09-25?mailing_id=4551&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4551&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header.default

AR 15 for sale at store

The FBI’s annual crime report is out, and the anti-gun crowd won’t like it!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On October 1, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/fbis-annual-crime-report-anti-gun-crowd-wont-like/

Dems' 'Gun Safety' Proposals Trample Second Amendment: A majority of Democrat candidates jump aboard a proposal to "buy back" firearms!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 3, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65872-dems-gun-safety-proposals-trample-second-amendment-2019-10-03?mailing_id=4568&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4568&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Joe Biden speaks at gun control forum

The supposedly moderate Joe Biden wants gun owners to either hand over their firearms or register with the feds!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On October 4, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/supposedly-moderate-joe-biden-wants-gun-owners-either-hand-firearms-register-feds/

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Gun Control, Knife Control, and Glass Control: Only when guns, knives and glass bottles are banned, we’ll be safe!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 3, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/09/gun-control-knife-control-and-glass-control-daniel-greenfield

Monthly Gun Sales Up 10 Percent Since Last September: Dem proposals may be driving surge!-Posted on The Washington Free Beacon-By Stephen Gutowski-On October 5, 2019:

https://freebeacon.com/issues/monthly-gun-sales-up-10-percent-since-last-september/

Guns on outside hip holsters

Supreme Court rejects NYC’s attempt to get Second Amendment case thrown out!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On October 7, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-nycs-attempt-get-second-amendment-case-thrown/

California's New Red Flag Law Is So Extreme, Even the ACLU Is Ringing the Alarm!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jared Harris-On October 12, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/californias-new-red-flag-law-extreme-even-aclu-ringing-alarm/

Report of Total Gun Control Fail: Less than 1% of 500,000 Bump Stocks Surrendered!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jared Harris-On October 12, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/report-total-gun-control-fail-less-1-500000-bump-stocks-surrendered/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

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No Ban Needed: Existing Gun Law Should Have Stopped Sutherland Springs Shooting!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jared Harris-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/no-ban-needed-existing-gun-law-stopped-sutherland-springs-shooting/

Incredible video shows moment HS coach disarms student with shotgun — and embraces him with bear hug: 'I felt compassion for him!'-Posted on The Blaze-By Chris Enloe-On October 19, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/shocking-video-shows-moment-hs-coach-disarms-student-with-shotgun-and-embraces-him-with-bear-hug

Police Organizations Torch 2020 Democrat's Gun Confiscation Plan As 'Asinine, Ridiculous, and Likely Unconstitutional'!-Posted on Townhall-By Matt Vespa/@mvespa1-On October 21, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/10/21/police-organizations-torch-2020-democrats-gun-confiscation-plan-as-asinine-rid-n2555097

Gun Owners: Here's Why You Should Think Twice Before Posting Pictures of Your Firearms on Social Media!-Posted on Townhall-By Beth Baumann/@eb454-On October 23, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/10/23/big-brothers-watching-think-twice-before-you-post-pictures-of-your-firearms-on-social-media-n2555263

Source: Trump Focused on Mental Health Legislation Instead of Gun Control!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins-On October 26, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/26/source-trump-focused-on-mental-health-legislation-instead-of-gun-control/

New Mexico Sheriff Delivers BAD News To Beto O’Rourke!-Posted on Conservative Alliance-On October 27, 2019:

https://theconservativealliance.org/new-mexico-sheriff-delivers-bad-news-to-beto-orourke/

demonstrator as she holds a sign that reads 'Ban Assault Weapons and Bump Stocks to Begin With…,' during the March For Our Lives rally against gun violence, near Columbus Circle, New York, New York, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Gun Grabbers Misleading Us!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Walter E. Williams-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/walter-e-williams/gun-grabbers-misleading-us

Dave Chappelle: First Amendment Only Safe Because of the Second Amendment!-Posted on The New American-By Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/33884-dave-chappelle-first-amendment-only-safe-because-of-the-second-amendment

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Pregnant Woman With AR-15 Defeats Home Invaders in Gun Battle: Husband badly beaten by thieves before wife opened fire!-Posted on News Wars-By Dan Lyman-On November 4, 2019:

https://www.newswars.com/pregnant-woman-with-ar-15-defeats-home-invaders-in-gun-battle/

Gun Owners Laugh In MSNBC Host’s Face When He Asks About Gun Buyback Proposals!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Peter Hasson, Daily Caller-On November 7, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/gun-owners-laugh-in-msnbc-hosts-face-when-he-asks-about-gun-buyback-proposals/

Please Read Part 104D:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 104D)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2020:

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

Please Also Read Part 105:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 105)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 14, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-105

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Letter to Our NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (Re: Newly Proposed Gun Control Measures)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 19, 2019:

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

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

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

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

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-representative-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-3

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

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

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

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

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

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

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

The Fightin Side of Me!

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

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

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

“Food for Thought”

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

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.

Semper Fi!

Jake

Friday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 9, 2019 at 11:54am

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~ Featuring ~

Navy Considering More Advanced Burke

Destroyers as Large Surface Combatant

Timeline Slips

By Megan Eckstein

{ news.usni.org } ~ The Navy is looking at “something beyond even a Flight III” combat capability for its new-build destroyers... as its plans for transitioning from building the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to the future Large Surface Combatant continue to evolve and the LSC procurement date continues to slide. Program Executive Officer for Ships Rear Adm. Bill Galinis told USNI News that questions about what the Large Surface Combatant needs to be and significant pressure on the annual shipbuilding budget are forcing the service to think about what the Arleigh Burke program will look like beyond the current multiyear contract for the Flight III configuration. The Large Surface Combatant program is meant to replace both the Ticonderoga-class cruiser and the DDG-51s, and previous documents from the Pentagon showed LSC acquisition beginning in Fiscal Year 2023, following heel-to-toe behind the end of the current contract for Flight III DDGs that ends in 2022. However, USNI News first reported in March that LSC acquisition had fallen to a 2025 start date – though the Navy pushed back at the time and said it could accelerate the program to resume that planned 2023 start date if industry were able to support a faster design process. Galinis told USNI News today that the Navy is now looking at 2026 or possibly later to begin the Large Surface Combatant. “We’re even considering right now, as we have these conceptual discussions on the Large Surface Combatant, do we need something beyond even a Flight III on the 51s? And again, I tell people, the budget always gets a vote, so you’ve got to think about what the Navy is doing over the next five to 10 years in terms of ship construction: we’ve got frigates coming online, Columbia ballistic missile submarines hands down is the top priority, we’re recapitalizing the sealift fleet, we need to continue building Virginias attack submarines, we just executed a two-carrier buy,” he said during a panel presentation at the American Society of Naval Engineers’ annual Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium. “So competing priorities; where do you fit in there for the surface fleet and how do you continue to move forward with improving and getting that current combat system upgrade?” Asked about what might come between the current Flight III design and the Large Surface Combatant, Galinis told USNI News after his panel that “we are in the very early stages of that – again, to try to keep up, to pace the threat, to outpace the threat.”... https://news.usni.org/2019/08/08/navy-considering-more-advanced-burke-destroyers-as-large-surface-combatant-timeline-slips?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=c60a214a80-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-c60a214a80-231491269&mc_cid=c60a214a80&mc_eid=3999f18767

The Palestinians Do Not Want Equal Rights

by Aaron Kliegman

{ freebeacon.com } ~ On Sunday, CNN's Jake Tapper suggested that Palestinian leaders "validate" hatred toward Israel while discussing the tone of American leaders following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas... which, according to authorities, a suspected white supremacist perpetrated. Rep. worthless-Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), a Palestinian-American, took offense to Tapper's comment. "Comparing Palestinian human rights advocates to terrorist white nationalists is fundamentally a lie," she tweeted the next day. "Palestinians want equality, human dignity & to stop the imprisonment of children. White supremacy is calling for the *domination* of one race w/ the use of violence." worthless-Tlaib seemed to imply that Palestinian hatred, incitement, and terrorism against Israel are understandable, if not moral and legitimate, because such behavior is meant to achieve equality and dignity, while white supremacists use their rhetoric and actions to seek racial domination. Like-minded progressives, most notably Reps. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), have similarly argued that Palestinians have little choice but to respond to Israeli "crimes" with violence, and that Palestinians—and their ardent, progressive supporters in the West—simply want equal rights for the Palestinian people. These voices ignore history, which completely contradicts their arguments, not to mention actual reality in Israel and the Palestinian territories, where the situation on the ground also contradicts their arguments. Instead, they focus on personal stories to make the case that Israel is evil and the Palestinians are noble victims. But even here, playing with the public's emotions, the anti-Israel progressives lose the debate. Two recent anecdotes show why and reveal the problem at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first story culminated on Tuesday, when Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri awarded residency to a Palestinian man who saved the lives of a rabbi's children in the West Bank. The unnamed man, 28, and his wife were traveling near their home in Hebron on July 1, 2016, when they found an overturned vehicle that had gone off the road. Terrorists had sprayed the car of Rabbi Miki Mark with bullets, murdering him, seriously injuring his wife, Chava, and hurting their two teenage children. The Palestinian man and his wife immediately stopped and helped the trapped family evacuate the car, before administering first aid and comforting them until emergency medical services arrived. "I took the boy and I hugged him. I gave him some water and applied iodine, and just kept telling him that everything was going to be OK," the man said. "It doesn't matter to me if it was an accident or a terror attack; it's irrelevant. These are people, children, who need help, and if I can help, I will help them." "The girl told me, ‘God sent an Arab to help us,'" he added...

https://freebeacon.com/blog/palestinians-do-not-want-equal-rights/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d78f2293ce-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_08_08_41_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d78f2293ce-45611665

German Refusal to Join American Anti-Iran

Coalition Rankles U.S. Diplomats

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Top U.S. diplomats are pressuring the German government to reverse its recent decision to decline participation in a U.S.-led coalition in the Persian Gulf... aimed at combating Iran's repeated attempts to hijack international oil tankers, according to multiple U.S. officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. With tensions escalating in the Straits of Hormuz, a key international shipping lane in the Persian Gulf, Germany and France have rebuffed requests from the Trump administration to join its military coalition, which has sought to retain order in the area amid increasingly hostile acts by the Iranian regime. New warnings issued by the U.S. Maritime Administration this week allege that Iran is using increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks to jam ships' GPS networks and mimic communications from American military vessels, contributing to uncertainty in the region that threatens to ignite a full-blown war. As of Thursday, Iran continued to hold hostage a British tanker ship it invaded in the area, prompting concerns for the welfare of the crew that has been held hostage now by the Iranians for nearly three weeks. Senior U.S. diplomats told the Free Beacon that Germany's refusal to join the American coalition in the Persian Gulf is only serving to embolden Iran and demonstrate to the hardline regime there that the West is not unified in its objection to Tehran's increasingly brash behavior...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/german-refusal-to-join-american-anti-iran-coalition-rankles-u-s-diplomats/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d78f2293ce-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_08_08_41_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d78f2293ce-45611665

Judicial Watch FOIA

Bruce Ohr 302 Reports Released

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Bruce Ohr is a DOJ official who was interviewed by the FBI during the DOJ/FBI collaborative effort to target president-elect Donald Trump after the 2016 election... Mr. Ohr was interviewed on 12 different occasions between November 22nd 2016 and May 15th 2017. Judicial Watch has finally received the copies of the FBI investigative notes, aka “302 reports”. The last interview of Bruce Ohr (May 15th, 2017) took place two days prior to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. Throughout the interviews Bruce Ohr was acting as the go-between delivering information from his wife Nellie Ohr at Fusion GPS and one of Fusion’s contract investigators, Christopher Steele. The 302 reports are heavily redacted sources and methods; however, we already know the majority of names underneath the redactions. Here are the *302 investigative notes...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/08/judicial-watch-foia-bruce-ohr-302-reports-released-full-pdf/

Rudy Giuliani Reacts to Release

of Bruce Ohr 302 Reports

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani appears on Fox News with reaction to the release of information contained within the FBI investigative notes of DOJ official Bruce Ohr... Within the interview Giuliani drops a few bombshells, including an apparent lengthy amount of time that U.S. Attorney John Durham has spent in Europe investigating the FBI and CIA operations against the Trump campaign. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/08/rudy-giuliani-reacts-to-release-of-bruce-ohr-302-reports/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09XL2KJJ3mw

Trump names counterterror chief Joseph

Maguire acting director of national intelligence

By Bradford Betz

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump said Thursday National Counterterrorism Center Director Joseph Maguire would become acting Director of National Intelligence, effective Aug. 15... when current Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is set to leave the administration. The president also announced that Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon will leave that position on the same day. "Admiral Maguire has a long and distinguished career in the military, retiring from the U.S. Navy in 2010," Trump tweeted. "He commanded at every level, including the Naval Special Warfare Command. He has also served as a National Security Fellow at Harvard University. I have no doubt he will do a great job!" Coats also praised Maguire, saying in a statement that he "has had a long, distinguished career" and will lead the intelligence community with distinction. Trump nominated Maguire, a leader in the U.S. Navy SEAL community, as director of the center on June 2018 and he was confirmed by the Senate on December 2018. Trump praised Gordon as "a great professional with a long and distinguished career. "I have gotten to know Sue over the past 2 years and have developed great respect for her," said Trump. Despite the president's praise, it was clear that she was not going to be named acting director or be nominated to replace Coats as the new director. In a two-paragraph letter, Gordon thanked Trump for the opportunity to serve the nation as deputy national intelligence director for two years... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joseph-maguire-acting-director-national-intelligence

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6070131730001/#sp=show-clips

Twitter Shows Double-Standard

in Locking Team Mitch Account

by Marissa Martinez

{ aim.org } ~ On Wednesday afternoon angry and confused conservative voices started filling the Twitter verse over Twitter’s decision to “lock-up” and suspend Senate Majority Leader... Mitch McConnell’s campaign account known as “@Team_Mitch.” Twitter suspended Team Mitch’s account after the campaign tweeted about the personal, hate-filled attack on the Majority Leader while he was home recovering from a fractured shoulder. Team Mitch stated they had appealed the violation but Twitter stood by their decision. A Twitter spokesman told Politico that the account was “temporarily locked out of their account for a Twitter that violated our violent threats policy, specifically threats involving physical safety. The locked account comes just two days after a visibly angry mob of left-wing protesters stormed the outside of McConnell’s Louisville, Kentucky home, screaming profanities like “Just stab the mother f—– in the heart” and that he “should have broken his little raggedy, wrinkled- neck.” Although Twitter suspended Team Mitch for its “violent content”, they allowed the hashtag, “#MassacreMitch” to trend on their platform for hours during the protest, which also violates their own community standard of “prohibiting the glorification of violence.” McConnell’s campaign manager, Kevin Golden, said, “This is the problem with the speech police in America today… Twitter will allow the words ‘Massacre Mitch’ to trend nationally on their platform. But locks our account for posting actual threats against us.” A progressive news, policy, and commentary group in Kentucky called, “Forward Kentucky” took to their Twitter account to give prominence to the double standard within the social media community. https://www.aim.org/aim-column/twitter-shows-double-standard-in-locking-team-mitch-account/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Aug-08-2019&utm_medium=email

scumbag liar-Nadler: ‘This is

formal impeachment proceedings’

By ANDREW DESIDERIO

{ politico.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler said publicly for the first time on Thursday that his panel is conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump... adding that the committee will decide by the end of the year whether to refer articles of impeachment to the House floor. The committee has said as much in recent court filings as it seeks former special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury materials and testimony from his investigation’s star witnesses. But it was a rare rhetorical escalation from the New York Democrat, who has privately pushed Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi to support a formal inquiry of whether to remove the president from office.“This is formal impeachment proceedings,” scumbag liar-Nadler said in a CNN interview. “We are investigating all the evidence, gathering the evidence. And we will at the conclusion of this — hopefully by the end of the year — vote to vote articles of impeachment to the House floor. Or we won’t. That’s a decision that we’ll have to make. But that’s exactly the process we’re in right now.” That timeline would put an impeachment battle in the middle of the Democratic presidential primary contests, which begin in early 2020 — a concern for Democrats who believe that the window to act on impeachment is quickly closing. liar-Pelosi has said impeachment is too divisive for the country and has relied on her six investigative committees to uncover new information about Trump’s alleged misconduct, focusing on his finances and his conduct as president. But scumbag liar-Nadler said liar-Pelosi “has been very cooperative” in his panel’s efforts, and she personally signed off on recent court filings that effectively put to rest the semantic debate over whether to call the Judiciary Committee’s investigation an impeachment inquiry. “The fact is, we are doing an investigation. We are investigating the facts, investigating the evidence,” scumbag liar-Nadler said. “We are going into court to get witnesses all with a view toward deciding and recommending to the House whether to impeach the president.”... I do hope this falls flat on their faces and lose big time in 2020.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/nadler-this-is-formal-impeachment-proceedings-1454360

ICE raids at Mississippi food processing plants

net 680 illegal immigrants

by conservativeinstitute.org ~ Weeks after President Trump threatened to begin deporting large numbers of illegal migrants, he followed through on his word... Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rounded up 680 illegal immigrants in Mississippi on Wednesday, in the largest single workplace raid in 11 years and “the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in our nation’s history.” “These are not victimless crimes,” an ICE official said. “Illegal workers create vulnerabilities in the marketplace…as well as stealing the identities of legal U.S. workers, citizens, and legal immigrants alike, who must suffer the long-lasting consequences of their stolen identities.” The joint operation between ICE and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi was preceded by a year-long investigation. The raids swept through seven food processing plants in Bay Springs, Carthage, Canton, Morton, Pelahatchie and Sebastapol. Agents asked workers at the targeted sites to provide papers proving their legal status. Those who could not were arrested, while legal workers were allowed to leave the plants after undergoing a physical search. Some illegal immigrants tried to escape on foot, but were ultimately stopped by ICE agents who surrounded the facilities’ perimeters. At a plant owned by Koch Foods, Inc. in Morton, detained workers filled up three buses and were taken to a hangar at the Mississippi National Guard base in Flowood, Mississippi, for processing. Some of the arrested migrants have already been given deportation orders and will be swiftly forced to leave the country. Others will be processed in immigration court and may be released after a review, while others will face criminal prosecution. “All the unlawfully present foreign nationals arrested Wednesday are being interviewed by ICE staff to record any potential mitigating humanitarian situations,” ICE said in a statement. “Based on these interviews, and consideration of their criminality and prior immigration history, ICE is determining on a case-by-case basis based on the totality of the circumstances which individuals will be detained and which persons may be released from custody at present.” Koch Foods, which is not affiliated with the billionaire Koch brothers, is one of the largest poultry companies in the U.S. with an estimated $3.2 billion in revenue. ICE agents seized business records from the plants and also arrested some management personnel...

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/national-sovereignty/illegal-immigration/ice-raids-mississippi-immigrants.htm

Russian Missile Test Site Explosion

Kills 2, Injures 8

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ An explosion at a Russian Arctic missile test site killed two and injured at least six others Thursday, according to Russian government officials... The first reports of an incident which occurred at a base in the northwestern Arkhangelsk region started appearing on the Russian news service Interfax just before noon local time. Initial reports were sketchy, but the incident reportedly occurred during the test of a liquid jet engine typically used on rockets, according to an account posted by the BBC. TASS news service reported a brief rise in radiation levels. The Russian Ministry of Defense released a statement saying radiation levels in the region were normal and “no harmful atmospheric discharges after Arkhangelsk range explosion.” The ministry did close navigation for a month in the White Sea near the military range and the port of Arkhangelsk. The region is used by the Russian navy to test intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to the BBC report. This region plays a significant role for Russian military planners. The port of Arkhangelsk is the home to a substantial portion of Russia’s Joint Strategic Command North, which includes elements of all branches of the Russian military. Also, Russia’s Northern Fleet has a significant presence in the region. The Northern Fleet accounts for about two-thirds of the Russian navy’s nuclear strike capabilities, according to a June research paper by London-based think tank Chatham House. The Arkhangelsk incident occurs a week after an ammunition depot in Siberia caught fire. In this incident, one person died, eight others were injured, and thousands of residents were evacuated, according to several media outlets including a BBC report. A month ago, 14 sailors died when a secretive Russian submarine caught fire near the Northern Fleet’s base in Severomorsk. The submarine was identified as Losharik (AS-12), a nuclear-powered submarine that is widely believed to be a key asset for the Russian Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research, also known as GUGI. These submarines are used for covert operations and GUGI reports directly to Russian military intelligence — the GRU — instead of operating as part of the Russian Navy.

https://news.usni.org/2019/08/08/russian-missile-test-site-explosion-kills-2-injures-8?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=c60a214a80-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-c60a214a80-231491269&mc_cid=c60a214a80&mc_eid=3999f18767

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 9, 2019 at 7:37am

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~ Featuring ~

Left & Right

by Tom McLaughlin

Gas prices: News about oil that

will impact what you pay at the pump

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By Brittany De Lea

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

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/oil-prices-fall-gas-drivers

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

How Red Tape and Bad Policy

Make Way for Voter Fraud

by Virginia Allen

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Two years ago, I thought voter fraud was a rarity in the United States. I figured that such crimes took place only in nations with corrupt and broken governments—not in “the land of the free.”... I was wrong. The first person to open my eyes to the amount of voter fraud in America was Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, where I work. During a lecture at Heritage last year on election integrity, von Spakovsky told the story of a woman named Wendy Rosen. In 2012, Rosen won the Democratic nomination for Maryland’s 1st Congressional District and was set to face off against incumbent Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md. Election Day was quickly approaching when several Maryland Democratic leaders brought allegations of voter fraud against Rosen. Initially, Rosen denied the allegations, but she eventually confessed to voting in Baltimore in both 2006 and 2010 despite her legal residence being in Florida. While Rosen’s story is disturbing, especially considering the fact that she was almost elected to Congress, her actions are not rare. The Heritage Foundation’s voter fraud database cites nearly 1,200 proven cases of voter fraud in America. Each case is documented in the course of nearly 400 pages. Jason Snead, a senior policy analyst at Heritage, wrote in a commentary that “the Heritage database is not a comprehensive list of all the fraud that has struck American elections in recent years.” “That number is likely far larger—especially since so few actual instances of election fraud are detected, investigated, and prosecuted to begin with,” Snead wrote...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/07/how-red-tape-and-bad-policy-make-way-for-voter-fraud/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJOaU1EbGlZak5oTURaaCIsInQiOiJQU1hrb1lTM3AzbXViK3hza1R1MFFKakFEV05LdE1GVWR6NE5sZmN6VGh1QjNoZkduYTRWQkVwZ09qdmZwRmZUMmp5SUpQUzBZT1wvYnB5TUs0XC96czFuUkFWRSthczZMYXRnbmZJR3pSQlhOd1QyQjE5UjhucXpBdUQ1amNMWjY0In0%3D

Loose Money, Big Deficits, and

the Iceberg Ahead

by HUNT LAWRENCE and DANIEL J. FLYNN

{ spectator.org } ~ Donald Trump accuses China of currency manipulation as he pressures the Federal Reserve to do the same thing. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em... “Our problem is not China,” the president tweeted on Wednesday. “We are stronger than ever, money is pouring into the U.S. while China is losing companies by the thousands to other countries, and their currency is under siege — Our problem is a Federal Reserve that is too proud to admit their mistake of acting too fast and tightening too much (and that I was right!). They must Cut Rates bigger and faster, and stop their ridiculous quantitative tightening NOW. “Yield curve is at too wide a margin, and no inflation! Incompetence is a terrible thing to watch, especially when things could be taken care of sooo easily. We will WIN anyway, but it would be much easier if the Fed understood, which they don’t, that we are competing against other countries, all of whom want to do well at our expense!” The online outburst followed a precipitous drop in both the stock market and Treasury yields, which came in large part as a result of continued worries over the ramifications of a trade war with China. The Fed, which just lowered interest rates, does not partake in quantitative tightening and has not done so for some time. It likely lowers rates further as the year progresses. Trump knows this, and the market expects this. So why continue carping on the Federal Reserve when it did, and likely continues to do, what you wish it to do just not at the degree you wish it to? Donald Trump faces a tight reelection bid next year. The Democratic nominee almost seems irrelevant. Only Trump matters, to his supporters who vote for him and to his detractors who vote against him. No matter the opposition candidate — even if the Ouija-Boardish Marianne Williamson or the politically inexperienced and heretofore unknown Andrew Yang — Democrats unite to vote to remove their scariest boogeyman from office. They care not who replaces him but only that someone replaces him. To squeeze whatever juice remains from the few undecideds who decide the race, the president requires the economy to move full speed ahead. This explains his enthusiastic endorsement of the $350 billion spending increases included in last week’s budget deal. This explains his non sequitur tweet storm against the Federal Reserve when the Federal Reserve does not meet again for another month and a half... https://spectator.org/loose-money-big-deficits-and-the-iceberg-ahead/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=73b04936bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_09_01_51&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-73b04936bf-104608113

Durham and Graham obtained deposition of scumbag/liar-Clinton 'dirt' tipster Joseph Mifsud

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by Jerry Dunleavy

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ U.S. Attorney John Durham and Sen. Lindsey Graham, leading separate inquiries into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, have obtained an audio deposition of Joseph Mifsud... the mysterious Maltese academic who claimed Russia had “dirt” on scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. The revelation about Mifsud came from The Hill’s John Solomon, who spoke with Sean Hannity on Fox News last Thursday. Solomon’s widely reported bombshell last week was that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz had criminally referred former FBI scumbag-James Comey to the DOJ because of his alleged leaking of classified information in his memos and a lack of candor with investigators, but the DOJ declined prosecution. But this tidbit about Mifsud made fewer headlines. Special counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report, released in April with redactions, stated Mifsud traveled to Moscow in April 2016, after which he met George Papadopoulos in London. Mueller's report said that during this meeting, Mifsud informed Papadopoulos he learned the Russians had “dirt” on scumbag/liar-Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails." Papadopoulos later repeated this claim to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, who informed the U.S. government and prompted the original counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s campaign in 2016. Mifsud’s alleged attorney Stephan Roh said in late July that Durham intended to interview Mifsud. He said that if an interview failed to pan out, Durham's team at least wanted to view a recorded deposition Mifsud gave in 2018 on his role in the Trump-Russia controversy. Roh said he would provide at least one page of the deposition to Durham's investigators. Solomon told Hannity that Durham’s team “obtained an audiotaped deposition of Joseph Mifsud, where he describes his work, why he targeted Papadopoulos, who directed him to do that, what directions he was given, and why he set that entire process of introducing George Papadopoulos to Russia in motion in March of 2016.” Solomon called the meeting between Papadopoulos and Mifsud “really the flash point, the starting point of this whole Russia collusion narrative.” And Solomon said Graham “has also obtained the same deposition.” “So you now have the Senate and a federal prosecutor,” Solomon said...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/durham-and-graham-obtained-deposition-of-clinton-dirt-tipster-joseph-mifsud

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dj-3eqPNvo

Joe DiGenovoa predicts ‘sad’ days ahead for

former ‘scumbag/liar-nObama people’

who ‘broke the law’

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by Frieda Powers

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova predicts “a lot of former scumbag/liar-nObama people” will be facing a “sad” day in the fall in the wake of the investigation into the origins of the Russia probe... Speaking about reports that the FBI referred 14 employees to its internal ethics office for leaking classified information, Joe diGenova told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that people will soon be held accountable despite a lack of action by FBI Director Christopher Wray. Documents from the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility were obtained by watchdog group Judicial Watch and indicated that at least two dozen employees had been reported in the last three years for allegedly leaking sensitive or classified information. The Department of Justice decided last week against prosecuting former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey for including classified information in personal memos. Lou Dobbs found scumbag-Comey “getting a pass” to be “irksome,” and asked diGenova on “Lou Dobbs Tonight”Wednesday why U.S. Attorney John Durham and his examination of the FBI’s Russia inquiry was taking so long. “Actually Lou, it’s not,” diGenova replied, repeating his assertion last week that the process is moving at “lightning speed.” “Here’s what’s going on. Durham has been asked to perform a miracle after three years of incompetence with Sessions and Rod Rosenstein and then Mueller,” the former US Attorney said. “And now Durham is being asked to mop it up. He is moving with incredible speed. He’s conducted over 50 interviews with key personnel,” he continued. “And I’m going to tell you tonight that scumbag-James Comey and a lot of other people are going to be very sad in September. It’s going to be a wonderful time for the country and accountability and a very bad time for a lot of former scumbag/liar-nObama people who broke the law,” diGenova added, echoing remarks made by Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday... https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/08/joe-digenovoa-predicts-sad-days-ahead-for-former-obama-people-who-broke-the-law-783466?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v81npj-joe-digenova-says-obama-lackeys-will-be-held-accountable.html

Andrew McCabe Files Federal Civil Lawsuit

Against DOJ and FBI – Claims Trump Carried

Out “Unconstitutional Plan” Against Him

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Today former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe files a federal civil lawsuit claiming wrongful termination by the DOJ and FBI... Exactly the same parameters are used by McCabe as were asserted by FBI Agent Peter Strzok in a very similar lawsuit earlier this week…. Only McCabe claims a conspiracy carried out by President Trump.Again, as with the earlier Strzok lawsuit, both are not going through the process within the Department of Labor for a wrongful termination complaint. Instead both are using federal courts in an effort to construct a narrative of sorts. The motive here is 100% political obfuscation, and the same Lawfare team is involved in the construct. Both Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok are claiming their first amendment (speech) and fifth amendment (due process) rights were violated. Both have filed civil suits under the same pretext. However, McCabe’s Lawfare lawyers construct an argument that goes one step further. According to Andrew McCabe, President Donald Trump constructed a master conspiracy of influence upon the DOJ and FBI; thereby usurping the powers of the constitution in a sketchy legal theory they cannot define. Thus the McCabe lawyers define the action by President Trump under “legal nullity” – An operation that theoretically is, or might be, of some legal significance, but in fact lacks any identity or distinct structure of its own...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/08/andrew-mccabe-files-federal-civil-lawsuit-against-doj-and-fbi-claims-trump-carried-out-unconstitutional-plan-against-him/

The Ideological Roots of 'The Squad'

in Academic 'Postcolonial' Theory

By L.E. Ikenga

{ americanthinker.com } ~ To understand the ideological goals of the so-called “Squad” of commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, worthless-Ilhan Omar, worthless-Rashida Tlaib and worthless-Ayanna Pressley, one needs to understand the academic theories labeled colonial and postcolonial studies... Many of us “people of color” who have direct or indirect ties to other parts of the third world have seen this nonsense being peddled many times before. What we are witnessing, despite the veneer of watermelon politics, is not just Marxism, or Alinkyism, or socialism, or communism, or Black Pantherism, or eco-fascism. We are seeing iron-fisted colonial and postcolonial theory acting itself out on the national stage. The study of European colonialism and its aftermath, post colonialism, is a combination of all of those leftist social, economic, and environmental projects rolled into one, presented under the auspices of a systematic academic canon. It uses insider academic jargon to bemoan the aftereffects of having once been dominated, and against their will, culturally transformed by a European colonial power. Hence, the terms “colonialism” and “postcolonialism.” This is what most people who are not of European descent study when they go to college in this country. If they don’t study it in college, they get a version of it in high school through “social studies” classes. If they never went to high school, they get a Jerimiah Wright version of it from the pulpit. If they don’t go to church, they get it from community organizers in the streets. And if they are not in school, at church, or in the streets, then they are getting it from home. The bottom line is that one way or another, they get it. However, it is the colleges and universities that are doing the most to perpetuate this ideological system intent on destroying all Christian societies and civilizations. Whether they just take a few classes as electives or end up minoring or majoring in some form of colonial and post colonial theory, this is the radical intellectual ghetto that most blacks and Hispanics are herded into the moment that they step foot on most college campuses. It is what people like me were almost browbeaten into studying when I attended the City University of New York decades ago. When I chose instead to study Old Western Culture, I was overlooked for numerous scholarships and fellowships; treated by the predominantly far-left academic administrators as if I were a leper; and laughed at behind my back by many of my fellow students. But as someone who already had first-hand knowledge of several West African regions and a keen interest in a systematic study of her tribal lineage, I saw no need to spend three or four years of my life buttering up to professors who would present me with a revisionist version of my authentic history...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/the_ideological_roots_of_the_squad_in_academic_postcolonial_theory.html

Swing Voters Have No Use for Candidates

Who Support More Migration

by themadpatriots.com ~ “We are a nation of immigrants,” the Democrats say over and over and over again sometimes joined by Republicans on Capitol Hill who have been trained to do the Chamber of Commerce’s bidding... As such, we should not only welcome the illegal immigrants flowing across our borders, but we should be looking for new, exciting ways to bring legal immigrants into the country. What would America be without immigrants, they say. And with that catchphrase in mind and the as-yet-unproven mantra “Diversity is our greatest strength, they lavish us with schemes like chain migration, DACA, pathways to citizenship, work visas, and every other kind of lure that will bring the world to us. No walls, only bridges. Well, swing voters aren’t buying it. According to the latest survey from Harvard/Harris, 69% of swing voters say they are unlikely to support a 2020 presidential candidate who runs on a platform of increasing immigration. Furthermore, among all registered voters, 64% say the same thing. Only when you drill down to Democrats themselves do you find a more positive number, and even then…the statistics aren’t great for pro-immigration candidates. Only 45% of Democratic voters want a candidate who supports bringing in more migrants. For these voters, President Trump is the only reasonable choice in the race. Because no matter where you look on the Democratic stage, you will find candidates who want to flood the U.S. with cheap labor from foreign countries. Take the most “moderate” Democrat with a chance to win the nomination: loose lips liar-Joe Biden. He’s running on the old platform of cutting illegal immigration while boosting legal immigration. He’s thrown his support behind a platform that would allow any foreign degree-holder to seek an office job in the United States. At the same time, while he isn’t so far gone as to endorse decriminalizing the border, he has endorsed the idea of offering free healthcare insurance to the illegals already living in the country. On the other side – the far-left side – you have lunatics like Julian Castro who want to complete do away with the laws governing our border. Or, if you want someone who actually has a prayer of winning, take a look at Elizabeth dinky-Warren: She also wants to decriminalize illegal immigration, do away with policies that prevent “asylum-seekers” from disappearing into the U.S., and bring in more foreign competition. There is no mainstream Democrat running on a platform of lowering immigration rates. If you want that flavor of politics, you have to look to the Republican Party. More specifically, you have to vote for Donald Trump. If Democrats don’t get a handle on this issue, 2020 could turn into a MAGA landslide of epic proportions.

http://www.themadpatriots.com/politics/swing-voters-have-no-use-for-candidates-who-support-more-migration/

Left & Right

by Tom McLaughlin

{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Newspaper publisher Mark Guerringue sits in the left chair for this episode. The producer gives us two questions to start with... Are commie-Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth dinky-Warren too far left to beat Trump?

I answer that if the election were held today, Trump would win, but it's a long way off and anything could happen in the next fifteen months. The Democrat field is so far left that what we used to consider centrist has also shifted considerably to the left to the point where John Delaney is called moderate.

Mark believes Delaney, Hickenlooper and Bullock to be moderate because they're capitalist and don't want to give free medical care to undocumented immigrants. Mark also contends that Mitch McConnell is blocking efforts to monitor/regulate social media, thus enabling Russians and others to continue influencing elections.

I say all that is overblown and an issue manufactured by Democrats to harass the Trump Administration. Mark asked what I think of Meuller's appearance before Congress. I said Meuller appeared doddering, incompetent, showing signs of dementia. Mark emphasized that Meuller responded "Yes" to a Democrat congressman's question: "Would you have recommended indictment if Trump were not president?" Mark believes there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in spite of the Mueller report claim that there wasn't. I question whether Meuller wrote the report, that he appeared incompetent at the hearing and I believe the entire Russia collusion affair was invented by the scumbag/liar-nObama Administration intelligence apparatus, the scumbag/liar-Hillary Campaign, and the DNC, that they all spied on the Trump Campaign, the Trump Transition Team, and the Trump White House. I believe there will be indictments of several people associated with those organizations. A grand jury is right now investigating this under special prosecutor Durham. I contend there is little or no evidence for the ubiquitous charges that Trump is racist. All his "evidence" is circumstantial, that he questioned scumbag/liar-nObama's birthplace only because scumbag/liar-nObama was black -- that he criticized the Squad because only because they're brown and black. He, Trump just is racist, Mark claims. It's obvious, he says. Not to me it isn't. I claim Trump's criticism of the squad is because of the Squad's views, but the left, including Mark in this case, says it's only because of their skin color. I contend that cities around the country that Democrats have run for sixty years are hell-holes. Mark says they're thriving, that they're centers of entrepreneurship. He discounts that the murders in Chicago and Baltimore have anything to do with Democrat leadership.

Brian said... Tom said: "I contend there is little or no evidence for the ubiquitous charges that Trump is racist. "

Funny thing to say when you haven't been able to refute any of the evidence I have given you already.

Jokes at a rally about shooting immigrants. A man of character, a rino-John McCain say, or any non- racist would have shut that shit down, not joke about it.

Trump Casino was fined $200,000 for transferring black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices. Again, a real man, a non-racist, would have told the bigots to do their gambling elsewhere.

How about violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing to rent to blacks and to lying about availabilities?

How about the statement “laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” To which he said, when asked about the truth of the report, it was "probably true".

“See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” Oh yeah, the Trail of Tears is a hilarious thing to joke about. I bet he knows some good concentration camp jokes too.

Oh yeah, there is also the reference to Haiti and African countries, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” He then suggested that the US should take more people from countries like Norway. The implication: Immigrants from predominantly white countries are good, while immigrants from predominantly black countries are bad.

The "Look at my black over there" would have been hilarious in a comedy about racism. In real life though.....

Birtherism? You can pretend it may not have been racist, but that is even more than Kushner could do when interviewed on HBO:

“Was birtherism racist?” Swan asked.

Visibly uncomfortable, Kushner responded, “Um, look, I wasn’t really involved in that.”

“I know you weren’t,” Swan said—and repeated the question.

“Like I said, I wasn’t involved in that,” Kushner said.

Even he couldn't make such a blatant lie!

And sure (wink, wink) Trump could have said "send them back" to white people who's parents immigrated to America. Yeah, right.

And just maybe he would keep claiming some white teenagers were guilty and should be executed even after DNA cleared them.

But you don't really believe these things, not along with all the other evidence. You just say what you have to say to keep towing the company line and because you don't WANT to believe he's a racist. Because what would that say about you, his supporter.

Self denial is a very strong phenomenon. But the evidence is pretty damn clear about Trump's racism.

I guess MY big question is, now that Mr. G has been "on" a few times, are his
musings what he thinks, or are they simply following the editorial business model that's been established for The Conway Daily Sun?

Brian said...And I wonder whether Tom's musings are what he thinks or if he is simply following the talking points established by the talking heads of the radical right.

I also wonder if he at least hears the dings of facts thrown at him as they bounce up against his bubble. Do they at least get his attention and make him think..."oooh, gotta ignore that, it would disturb my pre-conceived notions"

Whichever it is, he sure has gotten adept at hiding from facts, questions, and reality. Head in the sand syndrome.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RRaQ3I_9SQ

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/08/left-right-august-31-2019.html

Thursday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 8, 2019 at 3:55pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Judge Napolitano on 'Fox & Friends': Would proposed 'red flag' gun laws be constitutional?

By David Montanaro

Karen Armstrong and the Islamists

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by Anne-Christine Hoff

{ americanthinker.com } ~ What do the Dalai Lama, a former nun, and a group accused of supporting terrorism have in common?... All of them are connected to a multinational initiative to “help people adjust creatively to our globally interdependent world,” known as the Charter of Compassion. The former nun is prominent author and academic Karen Armstrong. In 2009, after receiving the prestigious $100,000 TED Prize, she, along with other members of the founding council, drafted the Charter for Compassion, advocating that those of all religions bind together to create a “global community.” The list of signatories of the charter reads like a “Who’s Who” of global superstars, including New Age guru Deepak Chopra, South African Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu, filmmaker David Lynch, actress Goldie Hawn, Oxford scholar Tariq Ramadan, the Dalai Lama, and singer Peter Gabriel, to name a few. Even though the Charter for Compassion bills itself as a document to bind all of the religions of the world together around the concept of compassion, the charter seems far more interested in Islamic jurisprudence than true ecumenicalism. For example, a section of the official website deals exclusively with Islamophobia and links to resources by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR has long been accused of promoting an Islamist ideology, and even U.S. Federal prosecutors have shown the group’s close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. CAIR itself has been designated as a terror group by the United Arab Emirates...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/karen_armstrong_and_the_islamists.html

Here’s Why Elizabeth dinky-Warren’s Wealth

Tax Is Completely Unconstitutional

By Kyle Sammin

{ thefederalist.com } ~ If any trait characterizes the far left in 21st-century America, it is plans. They have plans for the country, plans for you, plans for your kids, plans for your house, and plans for your workplace... And your property? You know they’ve got plans for that. In the 19th-century quasi-socialist movement once made up of farmers and laborers who wanted to build, harvest, and create, planning was a piece — but only a piece — of the agenda. Democratic socialism or whatever guise the hard left puts on these days is the realm of people who build nothing, but they have plans upon plans for things others have built. The leading presidential candidate of the planners is the senior senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth dinky-Warren. She has made a slogan about having a plan for this and that, and her plan likely to do the most damage to America and the rule of law is her ill-considered, demagogic plan for a wealth tax. The plan appeals to a certain envious segment of the mob, but a few minutes’ thought reveals its manifold flaws. As her opponent and former Rep. John Delaney said in the last Democratic presidential debate, the wealth tax is both a violation of the Constitution and a crime against good sense. The main problem with dinky-Warren’s plan is that it violates the Constitution. Understanding why requires understanding the difference between direct taxes and indirect taxes. dinky-Warren, a Harvard law professor, surely gets this, but she’s counting on voters to not to pay attention. dinky-Warren calls her plan the “ultra-millionaire tax,” and that certainly has a pleasant ring to it for many people. Look! There’s even a graph! She makes a lot of graphs. Can the super rich afford to pay a little more in taxes? Sure, they won’t starve. Do people think the top income tax rates should be higher? Polls from earlier this year show a majority of voters would be happy to raise that rate quite a bit. But that is not what dinky-Warren is calling for here. When we say “tax the rich,” we typically mean “increase the top marginal rate of the federal income tax.” Maybe we even mean “impose a sales tax on the kind of luxury items rich people buy,” or “eliminate the favorable tax treatment for capital gains and deferred income.” These are all permissible, if not necessarily smart. Yet dinky-Warren’s tax is a wealth tax, a direct federal impost on people’s property, and that presents a huge constitutional problem...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/08/heres-elizabeth-warrens-wealth-tax-completely-unconstitutional/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=bb76ee8afa-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-bb76ee8afa-83771801

It's Time to Restore Our Judicial Branch

By Lathan Watts

{ americanthinker.com } ~ If you ask most Americans if they want judges who are presently serving on state or federal courts to act like politicians, you’d likely get a resounding “No.”... Take, for example, a 2016 Marist poll in which 52 percent of Americans say they want the Court to interpret the Constitution “as it was originally written.” Sadly, many judges in America act like policymakers instead of working as impartial arbiters of our nation’s laws. The result is an unnecessary politicization of the judicial branch. This trend needs to stop. Too many Americans from all points along the political spectrum view the judicial branch as a mini legislature to bypass lawmakers in the states and on Capitol Hill. Too many judges have accepted or advanced this expansion of authority. Consequently, we now see unelected judges deciding which laws to enforce or worse, issuing their own edicts from the bench. Nothing could be further from the way our Founders wanted the judicial branch to operate. That federal judges are appointed for life should make it easier for them to resist arbitrary rulings influenced by the fleeting political whims of the electorate. Their role is to declare what the law is, not what they think it should be. Likewise, when assessing the constitutionality of a law, judges should let the Constitution guide them. Their proper role is to evaluate in light of what the Constitution says, not what the desired policy should be or the political popularity of matter in question. For example, the U.S. Supreme Court in a rhetorically and logically contorted opinion National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius -- retooled and saved the unconstitutional Affordable Care Act. Ironically, the author of that opinion also delivered a stern dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, “It is not about whether, in my judgment, the institution of marriage should be changed to include same-sex couples,” says Chief Justice John Roberts: “It is instead about whether, in our democratic republic, that decision should rest with the people acting through their elected representatives, or with five lawyers who happen to hold commissions authorizing them to resolve legal disputes under the law.”... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/its_time_to_restore_our_judicial_branch.html

Killing Free Speech in France,

Germany and on the Internet

by Judith Bergman

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In May, France called for increasing government oversight over Facebook. Now Facebook has agreed to hand over to French judges the identification data of French users... suspected of hate speech on its platform, according to France's Secretary of State for the Digital Sector, Cédric O. Previously, according to a Reuters report, "Facebook had refrained from handing over identification data of people suspected of hate speech because it was not compelled to do so under U.S.-French legal conventions and because it was worried countries without an independent judiciary could abuse it". Until now, Reuters noted, Facebook had only cooperated with the French judiciary on matters related to terrorist attacks and violent acts by transferring the IP addresses and other identification data of suspected individuals to French judges who formally demanded it. Now, however, "hate speech" -- as speech that fails to comply with current political orthodoxy is conveniently labelled -- appears to have become comparable to terrorism and violent crime. How autocratic, yet Cédric O apparently loves it: "This is huge news, it means that the judicial process will be able to run normally". It is highly probable that other countries will want to have a similar agreement with Facebook; it also appears likely that Facebook would comply. In May, for instance, as France was debating legislation that would give a new "independent regulator" the power to fine tech companies up to 4% of their global revenue if they do not do enough to remove "hateful content" from their network, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg commented: "I am hopeful that it the French proposal can become a model that can be used across the EU". France is the first and so far only country to have entered into such an agreement with Facebook. The new agreement could signal the de-facto end of free speech on Facebook for French citizens. Self-censorship in Europe is already widespread: a recent survey in Germany showed that two thirds of Germans are "very careful" about what topics they discuss in public -- Islam and migrants being the most taboo. Knowing that a mere Facebook post could end you up in front of a judge in court is very likely to put a decisive damper on anyone's desire to speak freely...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14678/free-speech-france-germany-internet

FBI Rescues over a Hundred Missing Kids

by americanretirementclub.com ~ The FBI and law enforcement officers have been under attack by the true enemies of the Democratic Party... They have violently yelled and screamed and falsely accused these heroes of wrongs done that they are actually innocent of. Over the past few days, the FBI and other agencies spread out all over the country looking for children that have been sold into sex slavery or were kidnaped from their families with the intent of selling them to criminals. Many of these places that the children were found were motel rooms, truck stops, and sex trafficking homes. There were 168 little kids rescued from the evil clutches of the people that took them. These are the same criminals that come over the borders of the country that the president wants to keep out. But the demonized Democrats want to let them in. The heroes of the law enforcement agencies found these kids and rescued them from their prisons. The liberal left and the media will want everyone to believe that the police and the FBI somehow mistreated these little kids. But the truth is that they rescued them from a life of sex slavery. When a child goes missing there is s number of rules that must be followed in order for a search to begin. One of the big rules is that a certain amount of time must elapse before a child can be declared missing. But new rules are being proposed that would allow the report to be handed to law enforcement quicker so the chances of finding the missing child are greater. Once the child is declared missing they are entered into a missing child database. This database is used by many agencies to find missing children. Sadly the media and stupid Democrats say they are for the children, but they hate the law enforcement officers that put their lives on the line to bring the kids home. The true heroes of this find are not the lawmakers but the law enforcers that gave of their time to find these missing kids...

https://americanretirementclub.com/fbi-rescues-over-a-hundred-missing-kids/

Judge Napolitano on 'Fox & Friends': Would proposed 'red flag' gun laws be constitutional?

By David Montanaro

{foxnews.com} ~ Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano weighed in Tuesday on "Fox & Friends" on the constitutionality of proposed "red flag" laws in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

The debate centered around the 24-year-old Dayton shooter, who reportedly was suspended during high school for compiling a “hit list” of those he wanted to kill, and a “rape list” of girls he wanted to sexually assault.

Host Ainsley Earhardt asked whether preventing him from purchasing a firearm would have been "common sense," arguing that there were true "red flags" in this case.

Napolitano said the behavior was "reprehensible," but any legislative change must adhere to the Constitution. He said since the shooter was not charged with a crime, the incidents did not show up on gun databases when he purchased weapons.

"Honest, decent, law-abiding people should not lose their rights because some judge thinks they might do something in the future. That's the Soviet Union model, not the American," he responded.

Sens. Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal announced Monday a bipartisan bill that would create a federal grant program to assist states in adopting “red flag” laws, in response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend.

Graham, R-S.C., who also serves as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced the plan for bipartisan legislation. The bill will “assist and encourage” states to adopt Red Flag Protection Order laws to “timely intervene in situations where there is an imminent threat of violence.”

Graham said that he spoke with President Trump about the legislation on Monday morning and said “he seems very supportive.”

“Many of these shootings involved individuals who showed signs of violent behavior that are either ignored or not followed up. State Red Flag laws will provide the tools for law enforcement to do something about many of these situations before it’s too late,” Graham said, adding that he hopes that “Republican and Democratic colleagues will join us to finally move forward in the effort to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.”

Napolitano said any law that deters future crimes is a positive step, but the Constitution must be protected. He said the federal government cannot order the states to enact such laws but can encourage the laws and "pay the states to do it."

"The theory of the Constitution is we don't punish people or take their rights away from them because of what they might do, what they could do, because of what we fear they'll do, but only because of what they have done," he said, arguing Trump is in a "real bind" on how to curb gun violence without infringing on the Second Amendment.

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6068516943001/#sp=show-clips

https://www.foxnews.com/media/judge-napolitano-red-flag-gun-laws-constitution

Thursday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 8, 2019 at 12:09pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

No City for Old Commies

Daniel Greenfield

MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace Lies Saying Trump

‘Talking About Exterminating Latinos’

by WARNER TODD HUSTON

{ godfatherpolitics.com } ~ This is called “journalism.”: MSNBC “reporter” Nicolle Wallace went on the air and falsely insisted that Trump is “talking about exterminating Latinos.”... Talk about fake news… no, it is more like utter calumny. President Donald Trump has never said anything like that. So much journalism! On Tuesday, Wallace was discussing the president’s “violent rhetoric” when she outright lied about what Trump has said. “What do you do when, certainly, the last Republican president fought for, sought and it’s not ideal but had 44% of Latino voters,” Wallace said. “So politically powerful inside the last Republican administration. President scumbag/liar-nObama used the power of the presidency to try to pass comprehensive immigration reform, with the Latino community, Latino leaders, at the table.” “You now have a president, as you said, talking about exterminating Latinos,” Wallace exclaimed. Many Twitter users struck back at Wallace’s lies: After taking much criticism, Wallace soon “apologized” with one of those non-apology apologies. She should be fired.

https://godfatherpolitics.com/msnbcs-nicole-wallace-lies-saying-trump-talking-about-exterminating-latinos/

‘Such a charade!’ scumbag-De Blasio bashes

Fox News, battles Sean Hannity

during unruly exchange

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by Vivek Saxena

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ New York City Mayor scumbag-Bill de Blasio made history Wednesday evening by becoming the only Democrat presidential to sit with Fox News host Sean Hannity for a lively discussion... It’s unlikely that any of his peers — particularly Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren, who’s described Fox as a “hate-for-profit” network though that description seems to fit CNN more than Fox — will follow suit, though a few have participated in Fox-hosted town halls. But just because scumbag-de Blasio was humble enough to sit with a Fox News host didn’t mean he wasn’t about to take shots at the network, which is widely hated by the left for being the only network willing to approach the news from a conservative versus liberal angle. At one point in his heated discussion with Hannity, the NYC mayor accused outright accused the network of perpetrating a “charade” in which it allegedly distracts Americans from the “real issues.” The “charade” remark was made during a discussion on illegal immigration. Echoing the sentiment of most conservatives, Hannity said that so-called “comprehensive immigration reform” should only be addressed after the border is thoroughly secured via a wall...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/08/such-a-charade-de-blasio-bashes-fox-news-battles-sean-hannity-during-unruly-exchange-783238?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v81lth-hannity-confronts-de-blasio-on-gun-rights.html

Hannity corners scumbag-de Blasio on gun rights

VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v81lth-hannity-confronts-de-blasio-on-gun-rights.html

Democrats and Republicans both love the same thing: Disastrous healthcare price controls

by Ryan Ellis

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ If there’s one thing Republicans can agree on when it comes to healthcare, it’s that they are opposed to “Medicare for all.” Alternatively known as “socialized medicine” or “single-payer healthcare,”... "Medicare for all" is a polite way of saying that the government will take over the healthcare sector and control it from top to bottom. Support for "Medicare for all" collapses when people learn what it entails: the loss of private sector health insurance plans they mostly like, massive tax increases, and the government rationing drugs and doctor visits. President Trump will be running against "Medicare for all" no matter who the Democrats nominate against him in 2020. There’s one problem, though. In case after case, President Trump and congressional Republicans are paving the way for "Medicare for all" by endorsing one of its central pillars: the government setting price controls on providers. Most of the time these days, price control ideas have as their target drug manufacturers, but they are not alone. Doctors, ambulance services, and hospitals have also been proposed as targets of government price-fixing. The form price controls take varies, but the end result is always the same: a price set by the government and not the market. A price control might look like an average of other price controls from socialized medicine countries, or binding arbitration with a stick, or an inflation adjusted price cap. It’s all just means to the same end. Some conservatives like price controls, because the Congressional Budget Office will score them as lowering government spending in the short run. If the government is spending $1 for a widget because that’s what it costs in the market but then imposes a price control of 60 cents, CBO will of course say that taxpayers save 40 cents per widget. But that’s like saying cutting off your leg will help you lose weight. It’s true, but it misses a much larger point. Price controls are bad because they lead to scarcity. If a healthcare provider is forced to accept a below-market price by the government, they are not going to go out of their way to make their product or service available. We see that in other countries with price controls, where people are forced to endure long waits for doctor visits, surgical procedures, and breakthrough medicines...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/democrats-and-republicans-both-love-the-same-thing-disastrous-healthcare-price-controls

Assistant secretary of State

resigns after immigration clash

By ZACK BUDRYK

{ thehill.com } ~ The State Department’s top diplomat for Latin American matters has resigned after a dispute with the White House over Guatemalan immigration policy... according to The Washington Post. A senior administration official told the newspaper Kim Breier, assistant secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, is leaving her post after White House policy adviser Stephen Miller berated her in an email chain for what he perceived as an insufficient defense of the Trump administration’s “safe third country” asylum agreement with Guatemala. Miller told Breier that it was "her job" to defend the agreement, which requires Central American migrants to seek asylum in Guatemala before applying for asylum in the U.S., the official added. The Post notes that it is unclear whether this was a primary cause of her resignation. A second senior official, however, told the newspaper no such email chain exists. While other State Department officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have reportedly objected to the policy, Breier, a Mexico expert, primarily took issue with White House micromanagement, according to the Post, which cited officials. Breier was reportedly a key figure in ongoing negotiations with Mexican officials, including talks in June that eventually averted threats by the White House to impose steep tariffs on Mexican goods. Mexican officials have remained in contact with her and see her exit as a major blow to relations, CNN reported, citing Mexican sources...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/456674-assistant-secretary-of-state-resigns-over-immigration-policy-report

Democratic lawmaker criticized

for tweeting names of Trump donors

By JONATHAN EASLEY

{ thehill.com } ~ House Republican leaders and President Trump’s campaign lashed out at Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), the brother of Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro... for tweeting out the names and business interests of dozens of donors to the Trump reelection campaign. Joaquin Castro late Monday used his Twitter account to publish the names of 44 Texans who donated the maximum $2,700 to Trump, specifically calling out the owners of several prominent businesses in San Antonio, where the Castro brothers are from. “Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders’,” the lawmaker tweeted. Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh accused Castro of “endangering the safety of the people he is supposed to be representing.” “Democrats want to talk about inciting violence?” Murtaugh said. “This naming of private citizens and their employers is reckless and irresponsible. He is endangering the safety of people he is supposed to be representing. No one should be targeted for exercising their First Amendment rights or for their political beliefs. He should delete the tweet, apologize, and his brother’s campaign should disavow it.” The Trump campaign also reported Castro’s tweet to Twitter, saying it broke the company’s abuse and harassment provision. Candidates are required to disclose the names and employers of donors who give $200 or more in Federal Election Commission filings, which are available online for anyone to see... https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/456429-democratic-lawmaker-criticized-for-tweeting-names-of-trump-donors

No City for Old Commies

Daniel Greenfield

{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ A Russian Communist painter spent decades defacing San Francisco with ugly social realist art. The son of a Russian Orthodox priest who had left his faith and found a new one, Victor Mikhail Arnautoff depicted a world of stolid ugliness, of shapeless men and women crowding a foreshortened world.

Arnautoff did not like America. And he was a bad painter. His people are soulless representations of an objectified working class. No one smiles in these murals. They occasionally frown and grimace. Their world, like the people in it, has no dimension or depth. Even the revolution will not save them. Only transform them from one type of routine into another in a hopeless world without beauty or meaning.

To social realists like Arnautoff, people were a type of machinery. Society was a factory. Human bodies were just lumpy misshapen industrial architecture. Life was work and work was a struggle.

But the WPA era was a golden age for leftist muralists whose ugly social realist art still scars buildings and lobbies across the country. The Federal Art Project littered Marxist dogma across countless government buildings, often encoded into murals of Washington, Lincoln, and other great Americans.

Arnautoff had assisted Diego Rivera, but his own murals were, until now, far more obscure. And the mural whose fame outlived the Communist, who died in Leningrad in the 70s, had been painted on the walls of an American high school. Generations of high school students had passed it without caring.

Until now.

When Victor Arnautoff took on the job of depicting George Washington’s life for the walls of George Washington High School in San Francisco, he mixed his usual bad style with anti-American dogma. The Communist Party member depicts Washington as a slave owner and a murderer of American Indians. His America was an imperialist nation built on the oppression of minorities and exploitation of workers.

Few noticed. Time passed.

Arnautoff moved to the Soviet Union in the 60s after being investigated by the House Unamerican Activities Committee. He continued to produce ugly but unknown murals in the USSR.

And then modern identity politics leftists, to whom Arnautoff was just another dead white man, noticed the George Washington High School murals and decided that they were racist and must be destroyed.

After a vote by a San Francisco school board, $600,000 will be spent destroying the anti-American mural.

The irony of a Communist artist’s anti-American art falling victim to contemporary anti-American activists shows that even long after Stalin’s death, the purge of Soviet artists still continues. The battle over the mural has pitted old lefties, who understood what Arnautoff was trying to accomplish, with a new generation of identity politics crybullies who monetize their brand by crying about their trauma.

Old lefties have begun pursuing a ballot measure to save the mural.

At an ILWU meeting, celebrating Arnautoff ‘s participation in the labor movement, a small group of young lefties took the meeting hostage to protest the mural, while elderly lefties shouted, “Shame” at them. The sight of scraggly bearded reds in open collar shirts practically weeping as a new generation of cultural revolutionists refused to listen to their explanations of the mural was tragically hilarious.

The revolution was not only devouring its own children, but even its own grandparents.

Here was a HUAC martyr being unthinkingly dismissed as a white racist because he had depicted Washington as a slaveowner and Indian killer, without understanding that was his whole point. San Francisco’s ILWU, an organization with deep Marxist roots, was fighting #PaintItDown, a group of middle-class women in the education industry, chanting about decolonization and cultural trauma.

The ILWUers depicted the #PaintItDown protesters as “rightists,” and Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor, compared them to Trump supporters, but both are radical lefties. The mutual incomprehension and hostility just show a culture clash between two ideological generations.

The ILWU speaks in the hoary language of class warfare. It venerates a radical history going back over a century. To #PaintItDown, the history of a white labor movement is irrelevant. What matters are the voices of minorities. And some of its loudest white women claim Indian descent, making them indigenous. While everyone else in the country, including the elderly Marxists, are “settlers.”

To the elderly radicals reciting the tales of ancient strikes and protests, the angry lefty soccer moms are bourgeois rightists, and to the anti-mural protesters, the ILWU’s lefties are a bunch of white settlers.

And the future does not belong to elderly Marxists, but to hashtag social justice activists.

The Nation, whose history goes back to the days of the Arnautoff mural and beyond, betrayed its comrades, and took the side of the middle-class teachers, therapists and social justice soccer moms.

San Francisco school board President Stevon Cook compared supporters of the mural to “defenders of the confederate flag or those who fought to keep up the prominent statue of Robert E. Lee.” Suddenly, a Communist artist was Moses Jacob Ezekiel and the ILWUers were the Daughters of the Confederacy.

Cook probably hates America no less than Arnautoff did. At his first board meeting, he jettisoned the Pledge of Allegiance for a Maya Angelou quote. To the mural’s defenders, history matters. To its opponents, the past is irrelevant. Not just the past embodied by George Washington, but also the one embodied by Victor Mikhail Arnautoff and the aging Stalinists watching faded filmstrips of the USSR.

Lefties never seem to grasp that destroying everything about America means their own destruction. They thought that the revolution would mean destroying the White House, the Chamber of Commerce, the Bank of America, the Constitution, bourgeois values, marriage, and golf courses, but would leave their world of radical bookstores, cafes, history books, concerts, murals, and positions intact.

Now in San Francisco, the revolution has come for them.

"I just wonder how some of our local residents who claim to be progressive, yet still advocate to keep the mural, are feeling when they see the likes of the National Review and Tucker Carlson come to their defense," Cook wrote.

He has a point.

The true progressive has no past. Like a figure in a social realist mural, he is trapped in a dimensionless present which he cannot escape except by dreaming of an impossible utopian future. Even the Marxist with the scraggliest beard has a conservative streak. There is some part of the past he would preserve.

When Marxists fight to preserve the past, they are conserving something. They are being conservative.

Socialism demands the elimination of property, and yet there is always some trinket that the collectivist clings to, that he hides away, because it makes him human. The right side of history mandates the destruction of the past, but the men and women who fought for utopia cling to the past because it gives them meaning. We are only as human as we distinguish ourselves from the collectivist leftist herd.

Leftist ideology demands that its members give up their humanity. But humanity always finds a way. The inhuman demands of leftist ideology eventually come up against the demands of our humanity.

Toward the end of his life, Victor Arnautoff returned to the Soviet Union where he drew pictures of Vladimir Lenin and Felix Dzerzhinsky, the monstrous founder of the Communist secret police. He continued producing school murals depicting an idealized Communist utopia. Many did not survive the fall of the Soviet Union a decade after his death. Even in the USSR, his style had become antiquated.

Arnautoff claimed that art was only as legitimate as its “social” purpose. But leftist social politics is always changing. Beauty and truth endure. There was neither beauty nor truth in Arnautoff’s work.

It was always doomed.

The story of Arnautoff’s mural is not that of George Washington. It is the story of a destructive political movement that destroys itself. The Left likes to claim the future. But, like Arnautoff, it has no future.

When you have no past, you have no future.

George Washington’s work lives on. Victor Mikhail Arnautoff’s work is already gone.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/08/no-city-for-old-commies.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+%28from+NY+to+Israel+Sultan+Reveals+The+Stories+Behind+the+News%29

Thurs/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 8, 2019 at 9:07am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

How Did Jews Get Kicked Off the ‘Woke Team’?

THANE ROSENBAUM

MSNBC reporter stunned by Latino

response to Trump visit to El Paso

by Carlos Garcia

{ theblaze.com } ~ An MSNBC correspondent expressed his bewilderment at the response from El Paso, Texas, resident to a visit from President Donald Trump... in the wake of a horrible racially motivated attack. Jacob Soboroff said that many residents were "surprisingly positive" during the visit from the president on Wednesday. "Jacob, you've been in El Paso, talking to the community," said MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi. "What's the feeling there about the president's visit?" "Well, Ali, given the way that the president has talked about Latinos, and Latinos make up the vast majority of the population of the city of El Paso, surprisingly positive is the way that people are responding here, in the wake of the shooting," Soboroff responded. "I see calls for unity and a great spirit of togetherness," he added. The account for the Trump 2020 campaign posted the video of the comments, but Soboroff objected to the editing of the video that cut out the last part of his report where he said El Paso residents were optimistic despite the president's statements."How about you guys show the rest of the clip instead of this out-of-context distortion?" responded Soboroff.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/msnbc-reporter-stunned-by-el-paso-response-to-trump?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__AM-Final%202019-08-08&utm_term=TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM%20-%20last%20270%20days

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1159179086851399682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1159179086851399682&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fres%2Fcommunity%2Ftwitter_embed%2F%3Fiframe_id%3Dtwitter-embed-1159179086851399682%26created_ts%3D1565204805.0%26screen_name%3Djacobsoboroff%26text%3DHow%2Babout%2Byou%2Bguys%2Bshow%2Bthe%2Brest%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bclip%2Binstead%2Bof%2Bthis%2Bout-of-context%2Bdistortion%253F%250A%2B%250AEl%2BPasoans%2Bare%2Bpositive%2B%252A%25E2%2580%25A6%2Bhttps%253A%252F%252Ft.co%252FzDQVMzoOvj%26id%3D1159179086851399682%26name%3DJacob%2BSoboroff

Why endless wars can’t be ended

by Clifford D. May

{fdd.org} ~ “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Plato made that incisive observation a rather long time ago... Yet a surprising number of politicians, journalists and think tank denizens continue to affix bumper stickers to their Priuses if they’re on the left and SUVs if they’re on the right demanding an end to “endless wars.” President scumbag/liar-nObama’s approach to national security was based on the comforting notion that the “the tide of war is receding.” He vowed “to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end,” and to “bring our troops home from Afghanistan.” The possibility of a linkage between these two battlegrounds didn’t occur to him. His withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 was followed by the rise of the Islamic State. Three years later he would reluctantly send U.S. troops back to Iraq. He would go on to give the revolutionary Islamists next door in Iran – responsible for killing hundreds of Americans – billions of dollars in exchange for their promise to develop nuclear weapons more slowly. This was, for them, the deal of the century but that did not prompt them to revise their often-chanted goal of “Death to America!” Mr. scumbag/liar-nObama also signaled to the Taliban that its patience and determination would pay off – just, please, not on his watch. Given this background, President Trump now faces tough choices. While he, too, is eager to end endless wars, he also aims to “make America great again.” Can that be achieved with scumbag/liar-nObama 2.0 policies? Can that be achieved if self-proclaimed jihadis – Sunni or Shia, Persian, Arab or Afghan – have Americans on the run? Wars have shaped history, but the ways wars are fought evolve. Americans grew accustomed to relatively short, high-intensity conflicts with a decisive conclusion. Our contemporary enemies prefer long, low-intensity conflicts that, they believe, will wear us out over time. And they get a vote. They are taking the fight to the bad guys, ensuring that America’s enemies cannot plot in comfort and safety, and hindering their efforts to bring the war home to us. America’s professional warriors deserve to be applauded, not patronized. Back in the 1960s, the hippies had a saying: “Suppose they gave a war and nobody came.” The chowderheads at such groups as Code Pink will never understand that America’s enemies will keep on coming so long as they think they have a chance to damage, defeat and destroy us... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/08/07/why-endless-wars-cant-be-ended/

A pause in the battle over the

Cadillac health insurance tax

by Alan D. Viard

{ aei.org } ~ The longstanding battle over the Cadillac health insurance tax entered a pause, after the Senate left for its summer recess without acting on the bill... that the House passed by a 419-6 vote on July 19. As I previously explained, that bill would repeal the Cadillac tax before it takes effect in 2022, depriving the country of a powerful tool to control health care costs. Unfortunately, the momentum for Cadillac tax repeal remains strong. A Senate bill to repeal the tax has drawn 62 sponsors. Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-South Dakota) recently suggested that the Senate move this fall to repeal the Cadillac tax in conjunction with the extension of expired tax provisions.Of course, there has been no change in the economic case for letting the Cadillac tax take effect. The tax would provide an effective, though imperfect, offset to the unwarranted income and payroll tax break enjoyed by high-end employer-provided health insurance plans. On July 29, nearly 100 economists and other policy experts, spanning the political spectrum, came together to oppose Cadillac tax repeal. In a letter to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) and Senate minority leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer (D-New York), they urged “Congress to take no action to weaken, delay, or reduce the Cadillac tax until and unless it enacts an alternative tax change that would more effectively curtail cost growth.” In addition to eight scholars in residence at AEI myself among them and scholars at other conservative organizations, the signatories included scholars at the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Scholars at numerous universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Dartmouth, and the University of Pennsylvania, also signed. As the letter notes, the signatories hold a variety of views on other provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The letter also highlighted the fiscal impact of the House-passed repeal bill, noting that it “would add directly to the federal budget deficit, an estimated $197 billion over the next decade according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.” The fiscal harms would grow over time. The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center estimates that the bill would add a staggering $947 billion to the deficit during its second decade. By voting to repeal the Cadillac tax last month, the House chose to increase health care costs and widen the fiscal imbalance. The Senate will soon decide whether to follow suit. http://www.aei.org/publication/a-pause-in-the-battle-over-the-cadillac-health-insurance-tax/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRZd056VXlaRFkwT1dGaiIsInQiOiJzKzRnUEJTakZiK0RQTnJHQjJWekFKT01zVjlLNlk4SG00OFNEK0hvN1AzRm9FUmMyWTFTaW56Rm5SUUtDUW5TeUZEcFhPbkxKbXQ2S1kwaVwvbUlSZnk2N0I0R1FlK3lcLzE5dkdzSWZjZWtlZllNaHlXcjNmdUVKN2F3QUJWTVwvTyJ9

Next Generation Of Air Dominance

Will Rely On Sharing Data

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ Developing data links to enable existing aircraft to transfer data with forces at sea and on land could prove to be more critical than crafting new platforms for America’s next air war... experts said on Wednesday. The next generation of air dominance will be a plan that will organize air assets and integrate their abilities into an overall operation involving land, sea, air, space and cyberspace platforms. The key to creating such a system is building capacity for secure data sharing between platforms, service branches and allied nations, said members of a panel speaking Wednesday at the Mitchell Institute. “The next generation of air superiority is a network-connected family of systems that works together to gather things we need to gather,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. David Krumm, the director of global power programs in the office of the assistant secretary of the air force for acquisition, technology and logistics. “It is not one thing; it is a multiple of things.” The Pentagon’s next generation of air superiority already has core elements, namely the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. The aircraft can collect tremendous amounts of data, said Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Jon Davis (ret.), a former deputy commandant for aviation.“Right now the F-35 has incredible sensors,” Davis said. “It is the smartest kid in class and will be the smartest kid in class for some time.” The military needs the F-35 to share the information it gathers, Davis said. This is an engineering challenge the military is working on solving – how to digest the vast amounts of data collected. The goal is for the F-35 and other aircraft to make each other better shooters, but also make the sea and land forces better shooters he said. Nearly three years ago, the Navy and Lockheed Martin tested pairing an F-35B with an Aegis Combat System armed with a Raytheon Standard Missile-6. An Aegis test site at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, used data from the F-35 to launch an SM-6 anti-air missile at a Beechcraft MQM-107 target representing an adversarial fighter...

https://news.usni.org/2019/08/07/experts-next-generation-of-air-dominance-will-rely-on-sharing-data?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=ca41f6572d-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-ca41f6572d-231491269&mc_cid=ca41f6572d&mc_eid=3999f18767

Jumbo rates are below conforming rates:

when did this happen and why?

by Stephen D. Oliner, Lynn M. Fisher, Tobias Peter & Mike Fratantoni

{ aei.org } ~ Pre-crisis estimates of the jumbo-conforming spread, utilizing a variety of methodologies, ranged from 10 to 25 basis points... In the post-crisis period, this spread has decreased and has been negative since 2013, indicating a lower rate on jumbo loans. This study re-examines the jumbo-conforming spread in light of market and policy changes, utilizing loan-level data from 2000 to 2017. We show that changes in GSE guarantee fees, movements in the GSE funding advantage, and bank deposit growth – which we use as a proxy for jumbo loan demand – all help explain the variation in the jumbo-conforming spread over this period. The shift from a positive spread before the financial crisis to a negative spread post-crisis is due specifically to a combination of increased bank demand for jumbo loans and higher GSE guarantee fees. Even though the GSE rate advantage has disappeared, some borrowers continue to opt for GSE loans at the conforming limit. The borrowers bunching at the limit likely would not meet the underwriting requirements for a jumbo loan or did not undertake the rate shopping and negotiation required to obtain a substantial jumbo rate advantage. We thank Xudong An and other participants at the 2019 AREUEA International Conference for helpful comments. Dr. Fisher completed this paper while a resident scholar and co-director of the Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute. The views expressed herein are the authors’ alone and do not represent those of the American Enterprise Institute, the Mortgage Bankers Association, the UCLA Ziman Center, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, or the United States... https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Oliner-WP-080719.pdf

How Did Jews Get Kicked Off the ‘Woke Team’?

THANE ROSENBAUM

{ jewishjournal.com } ~ “Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles” is more than just a lyric these days on Broadway. The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s absolutely flawless production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” with its stellar cast, lush orchestration, nimble choreography, and sleek minimalist take on the shtetls of yesteryear — all performed in Yiddish with a soulful musicality that makes the actual translation almost unnecessary — is also the source of a puzzling Broadway mystery, and an inconvenient truth.

Who are these actors supposed to be portraying, and what in the world are they speaking?

Surely these are not Jews.

Well, yes, they are, but the confusion is somewhat understandable in this new morning of American “wokeness,” with its heightened awareness of social injustice and indictments of discrimination everywhere. In this universe of automatic virtue bestowed upon anyone with a history of oppression, Jews are, bizarrely, kicked off the team, their privileges suspended all because of their ostensible white privilege.

Indeed, they are now members of fine standing within the patrician white class, indistinguishable from WASPs, not a trace of Ellis Island on their finery and surely not among the steerage class. Jews are no different than upscale voyagers on the Mayflower. Guilty oppressors and not the powerlessly oppressed. Exploiters and never among the plundered. Murderers themselves and not the mass murdered. Craven colonizers of the Middle East, settlers with no ancestral homeland of their own. The cosmopolitan shysters of Western civilization — pronounced guilty of sins that can never be atoned.

Are these actors imposters speaking a foreign tongue that isn’t Hebrew, performing in a Broadway musical that has conjured fictional Jews? They certainly do not in any way resemble how Jews are regarded on American college campuses and on the staffs of assorted intellectual magazines: as white Americans with no discernibly ethnic character, no claim to minority status, or, heaven forbid, historical sympathy. Deserving not even of the benefit of the doubt.

Yes, on Broadway, in the most foreign and feigned of tongues, we are being hoodwinked by Jews who are truly staged. How else to explain that they spend the duration of the play in abject, but good-natured poverty. And even more improbably, they are haunted by violent, riotous pogroms where weddings come to an abrupt end and entire Jewish villages are forced into exile — only one of many such expulsions that they purportedly faced.

Aren’t Jews already “rich men”? What are they singing and complaining about?

In the mythologically intersectional safe space where some now live, the trigger-happy environment where trigger warnings are in abundance and where microaggressions are maximized into war crimes, “Fiddler on the Roof,” in Yiddish no less yet another thing Jews ended up losing along the way, is a historical anomaly if not outright falsehood. In today’s progressive precincts, Jews need not apply for special pleading or inclusion in anything where their very own politics of identity is to be counted and respected.

But here’s the thing: Wokeness includes the experience of Jews living in the Diaspora and in Israel. In both places, they have been persecuted minorities: whether facing the Christian anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust in Europe, the czarist anti-Semitism that led to pogroms in the Pale of Settlement or the communist persecution of Jews in Soviet Russia, and, of course, the Islamic terrorism or Pan-Arab Jew-hatred that has plagued Israel since its existence in 1948 and for centuries before that — yes, when Jews lived in their historic ancestral, biblical homeland. Social injustice and systemic anti-Semitism have been endemic to the Jewish experience — no matter where they have lived.

“Fiddler on the Roof” is a reminder of how difficult it has been historically to put a secure roof over the heads of the Jewish people. Of course, any reasonably informed and intellectually honest person would not need to be reminded that Jews, who surely have thrived in the United States and elsewhere, also still remain, regionally, an ethnic minority everywhere.

https://jewishjournal.com/columnist/302659/how-did-jews-get-kicked-off-the-woke-team/

Thursday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 8, 2019 at 6:54am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Mueller may have lied to Congress

by Breck Dumas

{ theblaze.com } ~ Congressional Republicans say Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller may have lied during his testimony before the House Intel and Judiciary Committees last month... and a new report shows there is evidence to back up the claim. The allegations were detailed in a report — including documentary evidence —published by RealClearInvestigations on Wednesday. Reporter Paul Sperry provided newly-released court documents indicating that Mueller might have made his brief press conference in May "as damage control after a federal judge privately threatened to hold his team in criminal contempt of court over what she called misleading language in his final report about Russian government interference in the 2016 election." Indeed, the day before Mueller made his public appearance on May 29, Judge Dabney Friedrich scolded the special counsel for implying that accused "trolling" firms run by Russian citizens were linked to the Russian government without providing evidence for such a link.
Friedrich ordered the prosecution under threat of contempt to clarify that its allegations "remain unproven." During Mueller's press conference he emphasized that the indicted Russians were "private" entities. According to RealClear Investigations, that apparently satisfied Friedrich. The judge wrote in a July 1 opinion "that Meuller had 'demonstrated' the government had complied with her order with his statements to the media." But when Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) questioned Mueller during the former special counsel's testimony, the congressman asked, "Why did you suggest Russia was responsible for the troll farms, when in court you've been unable to produce any evidence to support it?" Mueller refused "to get into that any further." McClintock noted, "In fact, the judge...considered holding prosecutors in criminal contempt. She backed off, only after your hastily called press conference the next day in which you retroactively made the distinction between the Russian government and Russian troll farms. Did your press conference on May 29th have anything to do with the threat to hold your prosecutors in contempt the previous day for publicly misrepresenting evidence?" "No," Mueller responded. McClintock told RealClearInvestigations of Meuller's answer, "It certainly doesn't pass the smell test," adding "If he lied, he's guilty of perjury and lying to Congress. I think this would be of interest to the U.S. attorney investigating misconduct in this matter and the inspector general's office."...

https://www.theblaze.com/news/report-mueller-may-have-lied-to-congress?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM-Final%202019-08-07&utm_term=TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM%20-%20last%20270%20days

US brings ISIS fighters home for trial, but

extremists could benefit from

other nations' inaction

by Jerry Dunleavy

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The U.S. is bringing home citizens who joined the Islamic State to stand trial, but some Western European and other nations refuse to... and a new watchdog analysis says ISIS could benefit from their inaction. This decision to let ISIS-joining citizens avoid justice leaves approximately 800 Europeans among the 2,000 foreign ISIS fighters from 50 countries in legal limbo in northeast Syrian detention camps run by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-allied coalition of mostly Kurdish militias, where 10,000 ISIS fighters are believed to be held. The Pentagon’s inspector general report, released Tuesday, warned that the SDF does not have the capability to “indefinitely detain” thousands of ISIS fighters in what are described as “pop-up prisons.” Only seven countries — the U.S., Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Morocco, and North Macedonia — announced they will bring back fighters to face charges. Italy is the only Western European country to do so. France complained about death sentences handed down in Iraq against a dozen French ISIS members, and the U.K. is stripping citizenship from fighters. Outside of Europe, the rest are mainly from former Soviet republics, the Middle East and North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. President Trump has repeatedly urged Western European countries such as Britain, France, and Germany in particular to take back homegrown militants to "put them on trial" for their crimes. Ambassadors Jim Jeffrey and Nathan Sales, who focus on ISIS and counterterrorism, urged U.S. allies last week to take responsibility for their homegrown fighters. Sales said this crisis is a priority and that the U.S. is leading by example and wants other countries to repatriate and prosecute. Sales said the U.S. brought back five U.S. ISIS members four men and one woman, with one convicted and four pending charges...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/us-brings-isis-fighters-home-for-trial-but-extremists-could-benefit-from-other-nations-inaction?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_08/07/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

Israel involved in US-led naval mission in

Strait of Hormuz — foreign minister

by timesofisrael.com ~ Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that Israel was involved in a US-led naval mission to provide maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz... where Iran recently seized merchant ships. Speaking at a closed session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Katz said Israel was assisting the mission with intelligence and other unspecified fields, the Ynet news reported. He said the mission was in Israel’s strategic interest of countering Iran and boost ties with Gulf countries. According to the Israeli news site, Katz told the committee that he instructed his ministry to work to include Israel in the mission after a recent visit to Abu Dhabi. The foreign minister was said to have discussed this at the time with an unnamed senior Emirati official, with whom he discussed the “Iranian threat.” Katz also reportedly praised Britain’s announcement Monday that it would join the mission, making it the only country so far to officially do so. The report did not specify whether Katz said Israel would send naval vessels to take part in the US-led mission. A report from the Kan public broadcaster last month said that Israel was not expected to send ships, but would provide intelligence...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-involved-in-us-led-naval-mission-in-strait-of-hormuz-foreign-minister/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-08-07&utm_medium=email

U.S. Air Force prepares for

more airstrikes in Somalia

by Jerry McCormick

{ patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ Somalia has already seen as much activity in 2019 from U.S. airstrikes as it did during all of last year... However, reports now indicate the U.S. Air Force is ramping up to conduct even more airstrikes against terrorists in Somalia in the very near future. The uptick in airstrikes is an effort by this administration to help the Somali government obliterate terrorists without risking the lives of American soldiers. In 2018, a total of 47 airstrikes were launched in Somalia. So far in 2019, 47 airstrikes have already been conducted, with more on deck to occur soon. Colonel Chris Karns, the spokesman for U.S. Africa Command, stated, “The 47 for 2019 are all in support of the Federal Government of Somalia.” “It is imperative that pressure is maintained on violent extremist organizations to create conditions for further political and economic development in Africa,” he added.In the most recent airstrike, which was conducted on July 27, military officials believe a key ISIS member was killed while sustaining no civilian casualties. The goal of these strikes is to keep ISIS off-balance while at the same time providing an opportunity for the local government to obtain a stronghold in the area. In addition to these airstrikes, U.S. forces are working with local forces to fight these terrorists on the ground. As stated many times, such efforts would be wasted if local forces are not also engaging these terrorist forces. The training being provided will put the local soldiers on a far different level from what ISIS and Al-Shabaab militants are used to dealing with when encountering local forces.

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/us-air-force-airstrikes/

Judicial Watch records show 14 FBI officials

leaked sensitive or classified info;

some barely punished

by Vivek Saxena

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Through a Freedom of Information Act request filed in January, the watchdog group Judicial Watch has obtained proof that 10 of 14 FBI employees... who were referred to the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility for leaking sensitive or classified information remain gainfully employed with the bureau. “No wonder the FBI was leaking so profusely,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement following the public release of this proof on Tuesday. “Collectively, these documents show lenient treatment for evident criminal activity. Only four of the 14 employees found to have made an unauthorized disclosure were dismissed from the FBI. And even though Andrew McCabe was fired and referred for a criminal investigation for his leak, no prosecution has taken place.” JW announced it received records of 14 referrals of FBI employees to the organization’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) for the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or classified information. https://t.co/hqeQru5K6q pic.twitter.com/a1aZMun0Pb During the FBI’s 2016 investigation into the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation, then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe ordered a subordinate to leak information about the investigation to The Wall Street Journal. Two years later, the Department of Justice Inspector General found that McCabe had performed the leak so as to “advance his personal interests at the expense of department leadership.” The problem is McCabe was never truly held accountable — i.e., prosecuted — and would have even retired with a large pension had then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions not fired him in March of 2018...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/07/judicial-watch-records-show-14-fbi-officials-leaked-sensitive-or-classified-info-some-barely-punished-782820?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

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

Trump Supporters Clean Up West Baltimore

As Thankful Residents Defy Media Narrative

by Brandon Morse

{ redstate.com } ~ After President Donald Trump drew attention to Baltimore, some of his supporters went down to West Baltimore to assist with a cleanup effort... The group posted pictures of the effort with before and after photos and found some interesting things along the way. According to OANN, the group was led by activist Scott Presler, who lead over 100 volunteers after the controversy first arose in the media. Presler said his cleanup effort started with a simple tweet about going to clean up Baltimore, even if it’s just by himself. The tweet went viral, and before he knew it the effort had a slew of volunteers ready to go. The residents themselves were highly grateful and didn’t seem to be angry at Trump whatsoever. In fact, at least one of them didn’t understand why people were angry with Trump for bringing attention to it. The clean-up crew came across some interesting trash that really showed how long it had been sitting there for. This one newspaper seemed to have been lying around since scumbag/liar-nObama’s first election to the President. There were also posts showing the before and after efforts of the clean-up crew... https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2019/08/06/trump-supporters-clean-west-baltimore-thankful-residents-defy-media-narrative/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158440422328479746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1158440422328479746&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redstate.com%2Fbrandon_morse%2F2019%2F08%2F06%2Ftrump-supporters-clean-west-baltimore-thankful-residents-defy-media-narrative%2F

Liberal media slam Trump supporter who led volunteer clean-up effort in Baltimore

by theblaze.com ~ Rather than join the social media melee about Baltimore's problems, Trump supporter Scott Presler decided to do something about it... He organized a massive volunteer event, inviting "Americans to help Americans" in cleaning up the neighborhoods of West Baltimore. On Monday, at least 170 volunteers showed up from all over the country to haul away almost 12 tons of trash. In response, media outlets, such as The Baltimore Sun, slammed Scott and the group of "right-wing extremist" volunteers, saying the effort was nothing but a political ploy for President Donald Trump. Scott joined Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere filling in for Glenn Beck this week on the radio program Wednesday, to discuss his inspiration for organizing the Baltimore event and why he says his motivations were not political. "I was inspired by President Trump's tweet. There was a lot of talking going on — everybody was whining, complaining. Nobody was actually doing," Scott said. "I put out one tweet — just one tweet — saying, 'I'll go to Baltimore, even if it's me on the street corner all by myself, and I'll pick up trash.' And that one tweet went viral, and people all across the country were saying, 'Scott, how can I contribute? What can I do? How can I support your efforts?' And so, I never thought that Monday was going to be a nationwide effort, but it truly was." Scott emphasized that "the people of Baltimore love their city" and praised the local people who jumped in to help the clean up effort. "The city is forgetting its own people," he added. "These are the forgotten citizens of Baltimore."...

https://www.theblaze.com/glenn-radio/liberal-media-slam-trump-supporter-who-lead-volunteer-clean-up-effort-in-baltimore?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM-Final%202019-08-07&utm_term=TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM%20-%20last%20270%20days

VIDEO: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheBlaze%2Fvideos%2F2351193428476252%2F&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=video

US Showdown With Turkey to

Prevent Slaughter of Christians, Kurds

by clarionproject.org ~ The U.S. is engaged in a showdown with Turkey over Turkish President Recip Erdogan’s threats to “eliminate”America’s Kurdish and Christian allies in northeast Syria... Erdogan says he will invade northeast Turkey “very soon” to “eliminate all threats to its national security,” a commonly used euphemism by the Islamist president against the Kurds and other minority groups which comprise the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Erdogan views the SDF — America’s allies who eliminated ISIS — as a threat to Turkey due to the Kurd’s aspirations for sovereignty. An attack would also threaten the safety of U.S. forces working with the SDF in the area. It would also mean that the Kurds would not have the capacity to guard the 15,000 foreign ISIS fighters they have captured, as every soldier would be needed for the fight against Turkey. Although Erdogan has been making the threats for a number of months, in recent days, the Turks appear to have opened a section of the border wall, making way for an invasion...

https://clarionproject.org/us-showdown-with-turkey-slaughter-christians-kurds/

Wednesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 7, 2019 at 3:51pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

scumbag-Al Sharpton is

not a lifelong fighter for justice

Seth Mandel

How ‘Medicare for All’ Would Impact Our Lives

by Daniel Davis

{dailysignal.com} ~ scumbag/liar-nObamacare is old news for the political left. Now, the big item is “Medicare for All”—a single-payer, government-run health care system... But what kind of impact would that have on Americans’ lives? In this episode, we discuss that and more with the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Seema Verma, who joins us for an exclusive interview. Plus: The New York Times caves to pressure from the left by changing a Page One headline, putting President Donald Trump in a more negative light. We’ll discuss.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/07/how-medicare-for-all-would-impact-our-lives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-medicare-for-all-would-impact-our-lives&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRBME9XWTBZMk0yTWpsaCIsInQiOiI4bzMrblg5anU4WktjRVZcL2VWUlBBTkpPNVp2d0NcL3V2WHorMkhsZGJvZ2hwcEpLeHdwemFyazBOTTRRRGNHVkY4WndZN2pobTR4WUNCcFNIeFFFdzZJaXJDVldOWFJhTGIzUGxCYUlxelNcL3lyRHFCbDlzTkpDTmxtbkRRQW4weCJ9

VOICE VIDEO: https://soundcloud.com/dailysignal

Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff Discusses White Supremacy Following Mass Shootings

By RYAN TOROK

{ jewishjournal.com } ~ Following the mass shootings on Aug. 3 in El Paso, Texas, and just hours later in Dayton, Ohio, Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) had a lot to say... Addressing pews packed with Jews, Christians and Muslims at All Saints Church in Pasadena on Aug. 5, scumbag-Schiff denounced white supremacy, accused President Donald Trump of fomenting division and called on his colleagues in the Senate to pass common sense gun legislation. “I wish this was not such a timely discussion, but after the terrorist attack in El Paso, where a white supremacist killed 22 people and injured many more, there is no escaping the clear and present danger of white supremacist violence in the United States and the terrible urgency to confront it,” scumbag-Schiff said. “Simply put, it’s domestic terrorism.” scumbag-Schiff’s headlining appearance at the public forum, titled “Countering White Supremacy,” was coordinated by faith-based organizations IKAR, All Saints, the Islamic Center of Southern California and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) long before the weekend attacks. The tragedies were on the minds of all the panelists, including All Saints Rector Mike Kinman, musician activist Andre Henry and Brooke Wirtschafter, director of community organizing at IKAR.Moderating the panel, MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati read from Trump’s televised statement from earlier that day condemning “racism, bigotry and white supremacy” as “sinister ideologies that must be defeated.” scumbag-Schiff, however, was not impressed. “Condemnations of white supremacist ideology ring hollow when they are bookended by tweets using the same language white supremacists use,” he said. “I don’t expect Trump to change. It’s up to us to mobilize, organize and demand better.” Asked by Al-Marayati if he thought there was any chance for bipartisan action on some of the issues raised by Trump, scumbag-Schiff said in normal times he would think so, but these are not normal times...

https://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/community/302586/rep-adam-schiff-discusses-white-supremacy-following-mass-shootings/

Socialism May Be Absurd, but

It’s No Laughing Matter

by Jarrett Stepman

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Socialism is no laughing matter, but it’s sometimes difficult to refrain from chuckling at the absurdities of its most devoted adherents... Several videos of a Democratic Socialists of America conference in Atlanta have been making the rounds on social media. In one video, posted on Twitter by Young Americans Against Socialism, an audience member identifying himself as James Jackson from Sacramento, California, aired his grievance to the conference chairwoman. “Uh, quick point of personal privilege, um guys, I just want to say, can we please keep the chatter to the minimum? I’m one of the people who’s very, very prone to sensory overload,” Jackson said. “There’s a lot of whispering and chattering going on. It’s making it very difficult for me to focus,” he said. “Please, I know we’re all fresh and ready to go, but can we please just keep the chatter to a minimum? It’s affecting my ability to focus.” Jackson was immediately and angrily rebuked by someone who appeared to be a man in a pink dress. “Point of personal privilege! Point of personal privilege!” the audibly agitated attendee called out. “Please do not use gendered language to address everyone!” He apparently didn’t like Jackson’s use of the word “guys.” This wasn’t the end of the drama. Jackson spoke again, and this time he was much angrier. “Quick point of privilege once again … Hi, James Jackson, Sacramento Democratic Socialists of America, he/him,” Jackson began...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/06/socialism-may-be-absurd-but-its-no-laughing-matter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=socialism-may-be-absurd-but-its-no-laughing-matter&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRBME9XWTBZMk0yTWpsaCIsInQiOiI4bzMrblg5anU4WktjRVZcL2VWUlBBTkpPNVp2d0NcL3V2WHorMkhsZGJvZ2hwcEpLeHdwemFyazBOTTRRRGNHVkY4WndZN2pobTR4WUNCcFNIeFFFdzZJaXJDVldOWFJhTGIzUGxCYUlxelNcL3lyRHFCbDlzTkpDTmxtbkRRQW4weCJ9

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/Patriot4444/status/1158115443174809600

Illegal crossing arrests at Mexican border

dropped by about 20,000 in July: Officials

by Anna Giaritelli

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The number of people arrested for illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border declined by approximately 20,000 in July... the second monthly decline in a row following a steep increase this spring, according to three senior Homeland Security officials and a nongovernmental official. Apprehensions, or those arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents for entering the country between official crossing points on the southwest border, dropped more than 20% from June's 95,000 arrests to about 72,000 in July, officials said. Illegal crossing arrests along the southwest border have dropped about 45% from a peak of 132,000 in May, which was the highest total since 2006. Arrests are an indicator of the rate at which people are attempting to cross illegally. The Department of Homeland Security is expected to announce the July numbers later this week, likely Thursday. Officials cited Mexico's stepped up enforcement efforts for preventing a portion of people from passing through the country on the way to the United States. In addition, summer apprehension rates have historically dropped 16 of the past 17 years due to the extreme heat in that region, which prompts many to make the journey during the spring and fall. Illegal crossings hit a 17-year low in March 2017 when only 12,500 people were apprehended. That number began climbing in mid-2017 from 20,000 to 30,000 arrests each month. It surpassed an average of 40,000 arrests per month by the spring of 2018 and continued climbing to around 50,000 each month last fall. In February, arrests spiked to 66,000 before dramatically jumping to 92,000 in March and 99,000 in April before reaching May's 13-year high... These numbers will increase during spring and fall.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/illegal-crossing-arrests-at-mexican-border-dropped-by-about-20-000-in-july-officials?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_08/06/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

“He’s Fed Up”: Trump to Pull Troops Out of Afghanistan Before Election

By Shawn

{ fixthisnation.com } ~ NBC News reported this weekend that President Donald Trump has had it with America’s longest war. Tired of seeing our troops mired in what appears to be an unwinnable situation... a neverending, violent standoff with the Taliban – the president is looking to withdraw every single last soldier out of Afghanistan before the 2020 election. But while our ongoing negotiations with the Taliban could make that possible, the report suggests that there are significant forces inside the federal government pushing back on Trump’s exit. Anyone paying attention to the situation in Afghanistan knows that the Taliban is far from defeated. The Afghan army, despite benefiting from U.S. training, support, and weapons for nearly twenty years, is simply not up to the task of defending their country from the Islamic extremists. That leaves the United States with three choices: Continue the status quo, which is costing us billions in treasure; ramp up the war, which would inevitably see the American death toll ramp up as well; or get the hell out. Trump is quite plainly arguing for the third option, and it’s getting increasingly difficult to see any other reasonable option. Alas, he will have to convince the hardliners. “A person familiar with the internal debate said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has backed a full withdrawal from Afghanistan while National Security Adviser John Bolton has sided with the military in supporting keeping a small troops presence there.” The danger, of course, is that we pull out of the country only to see it once again become a terrorist safe haven, giving rise to the kind of Islamic threat that can hit us when we least expect it. This is what the military and Bolton would like to avoid. The ultimate call, though, will be Trump’s to make.

http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/hes-fed-up-trump-to-pull-troops-out-of-afghanistan-before-election/

scumbag-Al Sharpton is

not a lifelong fighter for justice

Seth Mandel

{jewishworldreview.com} ~ President Donald Trump has perfected the art of the undorsement, the ability to get his opponents to beatify whoever and whatever he denigrates. Whether a first-term congresswoman, a quarterback or the city of Baltimore, #resistance to his targeting is futile.

Unfortunately, "the enemy of my enemy is my infallible hero" is a terrible approach to politics, aptly demonstrated this week when Trump turned his sights on the public figures who stepped in to defend Baltimore's honor.

scumbag-Al Sharpton - who should still be seen as a notorious hate figure but has somehow escaped that fate - practically tripped over himself trying to get Trump's attention. It worked. "scumbag-Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score," Trump tweeted. "Just doing his thing. Must have intimidated Comcast/NBC. Hates Whites & Cops!"

Then ensued one of the more depressing news cycles of the year, as major Democratic presidential candidates praised scumbag-Sharpton to the heavens.

scumbag-Sharpton "has spent his life fighting for what's right and working to improve our nation, even in the face of hate. It's shameful, yet unsurprising that Trump would continue to attack those who have done so much for our country," tweeted Sen. lowlife-Kamala D. Harris of California.

Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren of Massachusetts insisted that scumbag-Sharpton "has dedicated his life to the fight for justice for all. No amount of racist tweets from the man in the White House will erase that - and we must not let them divide us. I stand with my friend scumbag-Al Sharpton in calling out these ongoing attacks on people of color."

New York Mayor scumbag-Bill de Blasio boasted of his decades-long relationship with scumbag-Sharpton, thanks to which he could attest that "Trump's characterization is not only disrespectful, it's untrue."

Then former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, that great moderate hope, added his voice to the chorus, calling scumbag-Sharpton "a champion in the fight for civil rights."

Say it ain't so, loose lips liar-Joe.

scumbag-Sharpton is unworthy of such praise, so much so that the decision to back him reflexively is a massive moral demerit. Calling scumbag-Sharpton a lifelong fighter for "justice" ignores his history of race-baiting and deadly anti-Semitic incitement.

In August 1991, after City College professor Leonard Jeffries ranted that "everyone knows rich Jews helped finance the slave trade" and that "Russian Jewry had a particular control over the movies, and their financial partners, the Mafia, put together a financial system of destruction of black people," scumbag-Sharpton rushed to his defense, threatening, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." Days later, a Jewish driver accidentally struck and killed a black 7-year-old named Gavin Cato in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. That set off three days of rioting, in the first hours of which a group of African Americans chanting "Kill the Jew" did just that, beating and stabbing an Orthodox Jew named Yankel Rosenbaum, who died of his injuries.

But scumbag-Sharpton was only warming up. He led crowds in shouting for "justice" - pay attention here, Sen. dinky-Warren - as rioters wantonly beat Jews in the streets to chants of "Heil Hitler." At Cato's funeral, scumbag-Sharpton poured out every last drop of gasoline he had left: "Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights. The issue is not anti-Semitism; the issue is apartheid. . . . All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise, no meetings, no kaffeeklatsch, no skinnin' and grinnin'."

Nor was that an isolated incident. In 1995, scumbag-Sharpton and his National Action Network colleague Morris Powell agitated against Fred Harari, a Jewish shop owner in Harlem. "We are not going to stand idly by and let a Jewish person come in black Harlem and methodically drive black people out of business up and down 125th Street," Powell said. scumbag-Sharpton added, "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business on 125th Street." A few months later, a gunman entered the store and set it ablaze, killing seven and then shooting himself. When the shop reopened, Powell was back at it, warning, "Freddy's not dead."

scumbag-Sharpton, meanwhile, is free of shame or apology. "You only repent when you mean it, and I have done nothing wrong," he insisted years later. In 2011, he wrote a gobsmacking piece of revisionist history for the New York Daily News, claiming his remarks were being manipulated by "extremist Jews," though he conceded that some of the marchers' rhetoric "played to the extremists rather than raising the issue of the value of this young man whom we were so concerned about." scumbag-Sharpton then pronounced: "It is not enough to be right. We had our marches, and they were all peaceful." That is, scumbag-Sharpton doesn't think he's getting enough credit for his behavior.

So how did someone with this record become a figure who could be praised unequivocally by leading presidential candidates and no one bats an eye? The answer is, he won a game of chicken. scumbag-Sharpton's smartest move was to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. It put his rivals in a bind: Attacking him on his record risked alienating black voters. But ignoring his record would sanitize it by legitimizing his candidacy and rendering future criticism vulnerable to an effective counter: Why didn't you say it to my face?

scumbag-Sharpton, much like Trump himself, also made use of the opportunities afforded him by pop culture. During the campaign, in December 2003, scumbag-Sharpton hosted "Saturday Night Live." Over the years he appeared as himself in shows such as "Boston Legal," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Girlfriends," as well as the 2002 Adam Sandler comedy "Mr. Deeds." In 2011, MSNBC gave him his own show, which he hosts to this day, in addition to his participation in live campaign coverage. During the 2008 campaign, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama leaned on scumbag-Sharpton to help fend off criticism from other black leaders, and scumbag-Sharpton visited scumbag/liar-nObama's White House more than 100 times. scumbag-Sharpton helped scumbag-de Blasio's mayoral run in 2013 and was rewarded with unprecedented access.

And that's the most galling part of the mainstreaming of scumbag-Al Sharpton. He never sought absolution. He simply got away with it.

So at Wednesday night's Democratic presidential debate, no one asked dinky-Warren about scumbag-Sharpton's record or the message she might be sending with such fulsome praise. Nor was South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg - who has struck up a very public alliance with scumbag-Sharpton in an attempt to burnish his standing with black voters - prodded about the hypocrisy on display. Republicans, Buttigieg lectured, "are supporting naked racism in the White House, or at best silent about it. And if you are watching this at home and you are a Republican member of Congress, consider the fact that, when the sun sets on your career and they are writing your story, of all the good and bad things you did in your life, the thing you will be remembered for is whether, in this moment, with this president, you found the courage to stand up to him or you continued to put party over country."

What would Buttigieg say about his own support of a public figure with a long history of bigotry? We don't know, because no one thought to ask him at the debate. I have repeatedly asked his campaign for comment, to no avail.

We are routinely told that harsh criticism of minority members of Congress amounts to incitement to violence. What of scumbag-Sharpton, who initially made his career out of explicit incitement to violence? This is no idle concern. "The increase in the number of physical assaults against Orthodox Jews in New York City is a matter of empirical fact," reports Armin Rosen at Tablet. "Anti-Semitic hate crimes against persons, which describes nearly everything involving physical contact, jumped from 17 in 2017 to 33 in 2018, with the number for the first half of 2019 standing at 19, according to the NYPD's hate crime unit. . . . And yet, many believe the attacks are even more widespread than has been reported." scumbag-De Blasio claims anti-Semitism is a right-wing phenomenon, but in New York, Rosen writes, "the perpetrators who have been recorded on CCTV cameras are overwhelmingly black and Hispanic."

You can believe that Jewish lives matter, or you can pepper your public career with slavish fan fiction about scumbag-Al Sharpton. When the sun sets on the careers of this crop of Democrats and their stories are written, what will the record show about the choice they made?

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0819/sharpton_past.php3

Wednesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 7, 2019 at 11:44am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Warning! Coming to a Republican

District Near You!

Mark Alexander

Democrats to Seniors: Drop Dead

by BETSY MCCAUGHEY

{ spectator.org } ~ Baby boomers beware. If you’re in your 50s or 60s and you’re counting on Medicare to pay your future hospital bills, you’re in for a shock... Medicare Part A — the fund that pays hospitals and nursing homes — is running out of money. A mere seven years from now, it will no longer have enough to pay your providers’ bills in full. The Medicare Trustees sounded the alarm in June, urging Congress to act “as soon as possible” to protect people “already dependent” on the program. Good advice, but don’t expect most politicians to take it. The Democrats running for president are in fantasy land, proposing to expand Medicare to millions of younger people or even to the entire population through “Medicare for All.” Never mind Medicare’s insolvency. That’s like a family that can’t pay its mortgage out shopping for a mega-mansion. Amazingly, in four national debates so far, not one moderator has asked the presidential wannabes how they would secure Medicare’s finances and keep the promise the nation has made to seniors. As if 65-and-overs don’t count. Message to the Democratic Party: If they don’t count, don’t count on their votes. Millennials also should be outraged. If Medicare falters, they’ll be choosing between sending their kids to camp and paying for Grandma’s hip replacement. Fortunately, President Trump is stressing the urgency of “securing and improving” Medicare to avert a meltdown. His budget slows the growth in Medicare spending by trimming what hospitals and other institutions are paid. Another change will allow knee replacements to be performed at ambulatory surgery centers, which are lower-cost. The idea is to stretch the money in the Medicare Insurance Fund and make it last longer. Predictably, Trump’s political opponents are trying to torpedo his efforts. A new digital ad by the Democratic-leaning group Priorities USA in battleground states like Michigan claims Trump is cutting Medicare “just to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.” It’s a blatant lie, and even the left-leaning Washington Post and PolitiFact admit that. Medicare Part A is funded through a payroll tax paid by employers and employees. As soon as the tax is collected, it’s spent. Today’s workers and employers fund health care for today’s seniors. Trouble is, there are too many boomers retiring, compared with the number of workers paying the tab. Economists have predicted the shortfall for years. During the 2012 presidential election, when Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan proposed Medicare reform, Democrats ran a TV ad depicting Ryan gruesomely rolling a wheelchair-bound granny off a cliff. The bitter lesson was that demagoguery works. Don’t level with voters about the problem. Just make big, impossible promises... https://spectator.org/democrats-to-seniors-drop-dead/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=df0dac76f6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_07_11_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-df0dac76f6-104608113

How to Talk to Millennials About Socialism

by Ben Wilterdink

{ blog.independent.org } ~ By now it is largely considered common knowledge that American Millennials are more enamored with socialism than previous generations... While cutoff points vary, Millennials are most commonly understood as the generation of those born between 1981 and 1996—meaning that, as of 2019, Millennials range in age from as old as 38 to as young as 23. Poll after poll has found that this generation is increasingly skeptical of capitalism and more open to trying socialism. While those headline findings don’t quite present a full and accurate picture of what’s going on, the trend is concerning, and should spur those of us who value a system of government that recognizes individual rights, human dignity, and the power of mutually beneficial voluntary exchange to be ready to defend those principles in the public square. While it is true that many, or even most, Millennials tell pollsters that they prefer socialism over capitalism, this finding obscures the fact that many don’t really understand what those terms mean. A March 2019 Harris Poll, reported by Axios, shows that nearly 50 percent of Millennials and G-Zers (the generation born after 1996) would prefer to live in a socialist country. Other polls have shown similar interest in socialism among younger Americans. Despite these dismal poll results, a 2018 Gallup poll found that only 17 percent of respondents defined socialism as government ownership of the means of production. The same poll reported that a higher percentage of respondents (23 percent) considered socialism to mean some form of equality. Regardless of what this misunderstanding might reflect about the state of education in America, there are some good reasons why Millennials might be confused. This is a generation that mostly grew up after the cold war had ended and entirely missed the Reagan era. Instead, this generation came of age during the economic downturn of 2008 and witnessed the corporate bailouts that followed. They then watched as right-leaning pundits attacked many of President scumbag/liar-nObama’s initiatives as “socialist” even though none of them actually handed over permanent control of business to the government. Finally, first Candidate then President Donald Trump, was hailed by many as the capitalist answer to the growing popularity of socialism on the political left, even as he promised tighter restrictions on international trade. All this has left Millennials with a very confused picture of what capitalism and socialism actually are, an opening that radical left politicians like commie-Bernie Sanders and commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been quick to exploit. Going beyond these labels, however, there are some trends that should provide reason for optimism. A 2016 Gallup survey found that 98 percent of 18 to 29 year olds had a favorable opinion of small business and 90 percent had favorable opinions of entrepreneurs. Furthermore, Millennials are excited by the possibilities of technology and innovation to improve people’s lives. These are points of agreement that serve as helpful starting points in any conversation about the drawbacks of socialism or the merits of free enterprise...

https://blog.independent.org/2019/07/19/how-to-talk-to-millennials-about-socialism/

Facing Extinction in Iraq, Can Christians

Hope for Aid from the West?

By EDWARD CLANCY

{ nationalreview.com } ~ In the night of August 6, 2014, ISIS fighters swept through northern Iraq’s Nineveh Plains and drove more than 120,000 Christians into exile in Kurdistan... Five years later, ISIS has been ousted, and a measure of stability has returned to the region. With ISIS defeated, 40,000 Christians have returned to their ancient homeland, repopulating nine historically Christian towns. Overall, about 250,000 remain in Iraq, down from 1.5 million in 2003, on the eve of the U.S. invasion. For the moment, they are safe, but Sunni Muslims and Iran-backed militias have designs on their land and property. The U.S. has pledged to channel significant USAID funding to faith-based organizations on the ground that help to oversee the rebuilding of homes, schools, and hospitals as well as of water and electricity infrastructures and to make vital repairs. In order to further stabilize the region and increase economic opportunity, funds must be disbursed quickly. One of Iraq’s most prominent Christian leaders has deeper concerns. On the fifth anniversary of the ISIS invasion of northern Iraq, Bashar Warda of the Chaldean Catholic archdiocese of Erbil, Kurdistan, stresses that “Christianity in Iraq is perilously close to extinction.” The Church in Erbil has cared for the exiled families from the Nineveh Plains for almost three years. In an interview with Aid to the Church in Need, Archbishop Warda insists that the ISIS atrocities are part of “the recurring cycle of violence targeting Christians in the Middle East for more than 1,400 years.” From the beginning of Islam in the seventh century, whether Christians and other non-Muslims “were to be tolerated and to what degree” depended on the “judgment and whim” of particular rulers, Warda explains. In the end, Christians were tolerated or not “depending upon the intensity of the prevailing jihadi spirit.” The archbishop notes that even during the Arab Golden Age, from the eighth to the 14th centuries, which was “built on Chaldean and Syriac scholarship” and marked by rich Muslim–Christian dialogue, “it was never a question of equality” between Christians and Muslims. The horrors of ISIS have “shocked the conscience” of the Islamic world. What remains to be seen, says Warda, is whether “Islam will continue on its current political trajectory, in which sharia law is the basis for civil law and nearly every aspect of life is circumscribed by religion, or whether a more civil, tolerant movement will develop.” On that score, recent alarming reports have circulated that the Iraqi parliament is due to vote on a provision to appoint mullahs as judges, with the prospect that sharia law will override secular laws that are in conflict with it...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/christians-iraq-face-extinction-can-they-hope-for-aid-from-west/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-08-06&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

The Trade War Isn’t The Only

Reason For The Dow’s Big Drop

By Willis L. Krumholz

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Last week, President Trump threatened to place a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports on September 1 unless trade talks with China showed more sign of progress... Already, America has tariffed $250 billion of Chinese imports at 25 percent, and if tariffs are placed on the $300 billion basket of goods, this would increase tariffs on all Chinese imports to the United States. President Trump is unhappy that talks last week in Beijing between Chinese officials and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin broke down. He’s also unhappy that China hasn’t followed through on a promise to purchase more U.S. agriculture goods, like soybeans, in exchange for the United States allowing our chipmakers think Intel and Qualcomm to supply chips to Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications giant. There are risks to the president’s strategy. While the trade war has yet to significantly affect U.S. consumers, global business sentiment has been negatively affected as global supply chains have been upended, and the $300 billion basket of goods to potentially be tariffed next month is much more consumer-oriented than the $250 billion basket already tariffed. China can also attempt to retaliate, even though its ability to do so is limited because it doesn’t buy that many American goods. And even China’s tariffs on U.S. agriculture are more complicated than the media would have you believe. For example, China restricted U.S. pork imports since 2011 by spuriously claiming U.S. pork is unsafe. And because African swine fever (ASF) is wiping out China’s pig population, and pigs eat soybean meal, China is demanding less soybeans generally, even from Brazil. But the one channel where China could “retaliate” was in their currency rate, because a weaker Chinese currency helps keep Chinese goods attractive to American buyers, despite higher tariffs. China’s currency, called either the yuan or the renminbi (RMB), is pegged by the Chinese central bank the People’s Bank of China, or the PBOC to a basket of currencies, chiefly the dollar. The PBOC usually moves the peg higher or lower as it pleases, but market forces also push and pull on it. It is harder for the PBOC to fight the market on a prolonged basis, especially when the RMB wants to move lower. In years past, China used its peg to suppress its currency value even as it ran huge trade surpluses. In a free market, China’s currency value would rise over time due to the world buying its goods, yet China instead printed RMB and sat on the dollars it received. The RMB printing caused bubbles in China, and sitting on the dollars kept China’s exports super-competitive, by keeping China’s wages artificially low in U.S. dollar terms...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/07/trade-war-isnt-reason-dows-big-drop/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=da264a125d-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-da264a125d-83771801

ass Shootings in Gun-Free Zones

by GEORGE PARRY

{spectator.org} ~Consider this excerpt from the “manifesto” issued by the shooter who murdered 22 people Saturday in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart store... Remember: it is not cowardly to pick low hanging fruit. AKA (sic) Don’t attack heavily guarded areas to fulfll (sic) your super soldier COD Call of Duty first person shooter video game fantasy. Attack low security targets. Even though you might out gun a security guard or police man, they likely beat you in armor, training and numbers. Do not throw away your life on an unnecessarily dangerous target. If a target seems too hot, live to fight another day. According to ABC News, El Paso law enforcement officials advise that, moments before his killing rampage, the shooter cased the Walmart “looking for Mexicans.” While that may be so, it is nevertheless true that, consistent with his “manifesto,” his recon was also calculated to make sure that he would be attacking in a low-security area. In that regard, the Walmart store had no armed security guard, no police presence, and was located in a shopping mall that was a self-proclaimed “gun-free zone.” Similarly, in the Dayton, Ohio, mass shooting on Sunday, which immediately followed the El Paso murders, the victims were attacked as they exited a nightspot that was a gun-free zone. And, in the Garlic Festival shootings in Gilroy, California last week, the victims were trapped inside a fenced area after going through metal detectors to make sure that they were disarmed. The shooter avoided the metal detectors by cutting through the fence and then attacking a victim pool that the Gilroy authorities had rendered incapable of defending themselves. So it is that these most recent massacres share the one common element of almost all mass casualty shootings: gun-free zones. According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, between 1950 and 2018 97.8 percent of all mass public shootings occurred in gun-free zones. Similarly, in the 20 states that allow teachers to be armed, there have been no school shootings as well as no accidents or injuries caused by firearms possessed by teachers. In addition to the El Paso shooter’s “manifesto,” there is abundant anecdotal evidence that mass casualty shooters prefer gun-free zones. For example, in 2016, Dearborn Heights, Michigan, ISIS supporter Khalil Abu Rayyan had an online discussion with an undercover FBI agent in which he discussed his plan for a “martyrdom operation” by attacking a Detroit church. He told the agent that this would be an easy target because “people are not allowed to carry guns in church.” Fortunately, Abu Rayyan was arrested before he could achieve martyrdom. Similarly, in 2015, Elliot Rodger murdered six people in a Santa Barbara, California, gun-free zone. In his 141-page “manifesto,” he explained that in planning his attack he had decided against launching it in other locations where someone with a gun might be present to cut short his killing spree... Do you dems hear this?

https://spectator.org/mass-shootings-in-gun-free-zones/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=df0dac76f6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_07_11_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-df0dac76f6-104608113

Warning! Coming to a Republican District Near You!

Mark Alexander

{patriotpost.us} ~Recently, there was a “near miss” in the conservative state of Tennessee. It involved our second-largest conservative county — and it exposed a well-planned strategy by a socialist cadre of outside “community organizers” endeavoring to turn a Republican congressional district Democrat. They didn’t conjure this up on their own.

The template for their activity is one being tested in other Republican districts across the nation by organizations with different names but similar goals. These efforts are modeled after the “Rules for Radicals” framework established by the original “community organizer,” Saul Alinsky. They are dark-money funded indirectly by leftists like scumbag-George Soros and his ultra-wealthy “Archenemies of Liberty,” including Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, and Jeff Bezos.

That leftist club, and its Democrat Party collective of congressional socialists, has been busy with a visible campaign to rig electoral demographics state by state, dispensing with the Electoral College in order to guarantee the perpetuity of leftist rule.

But the Left is also engaged in a much more subversive strategy to transform our constitutional republic into a permanent populist democracy: a district-by-district strategy.

In Tennessee, a group of former Obama “organizers” emerged from their rat holes after Donald Trump’s unexpected defeat of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton in 2016. Trump won Tennessee by 61% to scumbag/liar-Clinton’s 35%, which put the state directly in the Left’s crosshairs. Since then, pockets of leftist activists have worked to erode conservative districts — one by one. The template they are utilizing to achieve that goal is being propagated in at least four other Republican-controlled states right now, in preparation for rolling it out nationwide.

The Left’s first Tennessee target is the 3rd District held by my Republican friend, Chuck Fleischmann. While neighboring Knox County (Knoxville) in the 2nd District mirrored the statewide results for Trump in 2016, Hamilton County’s Trump support was softer, 55% Trump to 39% scumbag/liar-Clinton. Thus, the 3rd District became their test bed.

What follows is a profile of how these leftists embedded themselves in this district, ingratiated themselves with the wealthiest community liberals and their influential foundations, and set about to ultimately, turn the district from right to left. If you live in or near a marginal Republican congressional district, look for a similar quiet but invasive pattern of infiltration. If it’s not already in that district, it’s coming.

The largest urban center in the 3rd District is Chattanooga. That city is now controlled by a wealthy leftist Democrat, Andy Berke. He had set his political sites on the Senate seat that will be vacated by Lamar Alexander in 2020 — until Berke’s alleged “affairs with multiple female subordinates” derailed those plans. While Hamilton County repeatedly ranks at the top of national lists for beauty and recreational activity, under Berke’d Demo administration, Chattanooga’s management ranking has dropped precipitously, now dragging bottom at number 147 out of 150.

Unlike Chattanooga, Hamilton County’s school board and commission was controlled by conservatives ahead of the 2018 election — until a group of Berke-backed community organizers from Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s political machine set up shop in Chattanooga. They founded a thinly veiled political front called “UnifiEd” and set about their first task of unseating conservatives on the county school board and commission — stepping stones to 3rd District control.

Like so many malignant leftist initiatives, UnifiEd was, ostensibly, established “for the children” and promised to “improve education.” I mean, we’re all “for the children,” right?

That’s how these organizers and their benefactors, the latter themselves being the beneficiaries of generational wealth and privilege, attracted large donations from many unsuspecting marks and local foundations to fund their nefarious political charade. While their wealthy leftist backers knew exactly what they were funding, many of the donors to whom they provided access, did not.

UnifiEd parlayed its wealthy leftist connections as bona fides for their next asks — legal, but similar to how Ponzi schemes attract investors — often sweeping up unsuspecting donors in the process. And there is now substantial buyer’s remorse among some of those major donors. (You can read more about the UnifiEd organizers here, and how they used their wealthy benefactors’ connections here.)

Notably, it was this same group of wealthy UnifiEd backers who ensured that lower-income families in Hamilton County would not be eligible to participate in Tennessee’s Education Savings Account program — which provides parents of children in failing government schools a $7,000 per-student portable cost equivalent that they could then apply toward the tuition of a non-government school. The UnifiEd backers took this action to make sure that failing public schools wouldn’t be subjected to competition from non-government schools.

When UnifiEd was founded, its board promised, “What we won’t do is endorse individual candidates.”

But after Trump’s election, they knew they had to step up their game. So UnifiEd’s director, former scumbag/liar-nObama for America activist John “Jonas” Barriere, set up a political action committee, UnifiEd Action PAC. According to Barriere, “The goal of the political action committee is to advocate for the work that has traditionally been done by UnifiEd but in a different way.”

Different indeed — they used those funds to support the election of county school-board and commission pawns in order to control those political bodies and thus be able to implement their leftist agenda. And contrary to their original commitment not to endorse candidates, the PAC publicly endorse their slate of candidates. PAC president Lorie Runge claimed their objective was to achieve meaningful change funding candidates “at every level of local office … candidates who are ready to take bold action.” You know, all “for the children…”

Moreover their objective included the longterm control of the Chattanooga/Hamilton County school curriculums. So egregious are their “education initiatives” that this week, even Newsweek magazine published a story about UnifiEd’s mandated “teacher training” on “white privilege,” one segment asserting: “People of color cannot be racist because they lack the institutional power to adversely affect white lives.” This is what the wealthy leftists prescribed for Hamilton County teachers…and of course, some of them are drinking every last drop of the Kool Aid. They in turn, are indoctrinating the students in our county with this garbage – at taxpayer expense.

As for UnifiEd’s small cadre of “student activists” charged with recruiting other students within schools, one of them was arrested on double homicide charges.

Fortunately, a small group of conservatives in Chattanooga shed light on UnifiEd strategic agenda — better late than never! Consequently, the organization’s first big post-2018 goal, a $34 million “education” tax increase proposal for non-classroom personnel, was defeated by the Hamilton County commission in June of this year — after a couple of commissioners finally figured out UnifiEd was serving as the de facto political arm for a handful of wealthy leftists who are directors on the boards of three local foundations.

Now, scumbag/liar-nObama’s well-funded socialists and their wealthy benefactors are licking their wounds – and plotting their next move.

In retrospect, it is notable that the Hamilton County Republican Party was not engaged in an ideological or political battle with UnifiEd. They had become complacent as is the case in many “safe” conservative districts and were totally unprepared for how this group of leftists operated — not only working wealthy liberals and foundations but recruiting and training activists with the most up-to-date strategies.

If these leftist cadres haven’t yet infiltrated a Republican district near you, consider the template they deployed here — using the “for the children” mantra to take over governing bodies as a step toward both controlling the future of your children’s education, and the broader goal of controlling that district. There are no safe conservative districts any longer, and conservatives in those districts need to become activists!

Note: Because The Patriot Post operates on a very tight budget, both in terms of manpower and financial resources, our editorial and publishing efforts would suffer if individual staff members took time off at multiple times throughout the year. Thus, we take a break and cease our operations for a week in August to provide all of our editorial staff with the same week off. As always, I thank you for partnering with us in support of Liberty. Your steadfast support helps us to secure the blessings of Liberty in our day and extend it to the next generation. We’ll be back on our regular publication schedule on Monday, August 12. Until then, on behalf of your Patriot Post team and National Advisory Committee, thank you for standing on so many fronts in defense of Liberty!

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/64710-warning-coming-to-a-republican-district-near-you

Wed/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 7, 2019 at 9:31am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Ted Cruz: U.S. Colleges Are Raising a

by libertyplanet.com ~ Senator Ted Cruz addressed far-left indoctrination occurring at colleges and universities during a recent Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Student Conference... Speaking to the crowd of students, the 2016 presidential candidate said American “colleges and universities are trying really hard to raise a generation of pansies.” Cruz argued that places of higher learning shield students from “ideas that are scary” with preposterous “safe spaces.” The Senator maintained that young adults should instead be taught to tackle and engage with these types of ideas. Cruz remarked, “if you are a university administrator, the ideas that are represented in this room are terrifying.” Driving home his point, Cruz said, “there are no safe spaces in this room.” While speaking to the students, the 2016 presidential candidate challenged them to “defend liberty” because it both “works” and is “powerful.” He claimed Democrats have gone “stark-raving nuts” in their defense of socialism, which Cruz touted as having proven to be a “manifest disaster.” TheBlaze reported that the Senator “challenged Hollywood leftists to put their money where their mouths are and hop inside inflatable rafts at the southern tip of Florida and head toward the ‘socialist utopia that is communist Cuba’ if they hate capitalism so much.” Cruz admonished the left for being “so darned angry” and devoid of a sense of humor. He advised conservative students to avoid liberals’ fallacies and to attempt to “have fun” in spite of the nation’s current political struggles. When Cruz concluded his speech, he answered questions from the audience. One student relayed the outrageous political correctness that has taken over debate competitions on college and university campuses. The student shared that debate participants are forced to write their gender pronouns on a board. This individual also revealed that those who debate must “trigger warn” before unleashing any “edgy” content. Debaters can also get “equity called” for offensive statements. Allegedly, debate “gender minority” tournaments are also a thing. These matches exclude males...

https://www.libertyplanet.com/articles/ted-cruz-u-s-colleges-are-raising-a-generation-of-pansies/

House Democrats Are Coming

For Brett Kavanaugh

by KEVIN DALEY

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee asked the National Archives Tuesday to release documents from Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s service in the George W. Bush White House... The request tracks Democratic promises to scrutinize Kavanaugh even after his confirmation to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh’s White House records before voting on his nomination,” Democratic Reps. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler of California and Henry Johnson of Georgia wrote in a letter to the Archives. scumbag liar-Nadler chairs the Judiciary Committee, while Johnson leads a subcommittee that oversees the federal bench. “Now and as always, the Court’s fidelity to the principles of equal and impartial justice, as well as the public’s faith in the integrity of the judiciary, are foundational to maintaining the rule of law,” the pair wrote elsewhere. Kavanaugh held two positions in the Bush administration. From 2001 to 2003 he was a lawyer in the White House counsel’s office. Thereafter, he served as staff secretary until his confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2006. The National Archives has processed records from Kavanaugh’s tenure as White House counsel, according to the scumbag liar-Nadler-Johnson letter. Additional items will be available pursuant to the Presidential Records Act beginning in 2021. The letter asks for records relating to Kavanaugh’s tenure in both posts. Democrats asked the Archives to produce documents from Kavanaugh’s service in the White House counsel’s office, and to release records from his staff secretary files as they become available. “Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler’s request is so far outside the scope of judicial ethics, it’s harassment,” said Republican Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee. “Senate Democrats spent months launching false accusations in an attempt to smear Justice Kavanaugh’s reputation and block his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, and now House Democrats want to follow suit with yet another fishing expedition to tarnish his good name.”... What the hell are they doing. Kick them all out. scumbag liar-Nadler you are worthless.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/06/house-democrats-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_medium=email

SpaceX successfully launches

Israeli Amos-17 satellite

by EYTAN HALON

{ jpost.com } ~ David Grossman’s novel, A Horse Walks Into a Bar, the story of a stand-up comedian working through conflicts during one night’s performance... has been optioned by Village Roadshow Pictures for a feature film adaptation. The novel, first published in 2014 in Hebrew, was translated into English and won the 2017 Man Booker Prize. SpaceX successfully launched Israeli communication satellite Amos-17 into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Tuesday night, promising increased internet connectivity for sub-Saharan Africa once operational. Manufactured by Boeing Satellite Systems International, Ramat Gan-based Spacecom’s Amos-17 satellite soared into the Florida sky at 19:23 p.m. local time (02:23 a.m. Israel time) on-board a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle, en route to its 17°E orbital position over central Africa. The satellite separated from the launcher’s second stage 33 minutes after ignition as planned, and is in constant contact with its ground station. Amos-17 will commence a sequence of in-orbit tests in the coming weeks, expected to take approximately three months, prior to beginning commercial operations. “Amos-17 places us directly into the exciting growth of Africa’s Sub-Saharan vibrant markets,” said Spacecom CEO and president David Pollack following the launch...

https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/SpaceX-launches-Israeli-Amos-17-satellite-WATCH-LIVE-597879

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZh82-WcCuo

Did Beresheet's crash spill

thousands of 'water bears' onto the Moon?

by EYTAN HALON

{ jpost.com } ~ When Israeli lunar lander Beresheet crash-landed onto the Moon in April, watched live by millions across the world... the spacecraft left a rather serious dent in the lunar surface. According to a report published Monday by American magazine Wired, however, Beresheet may have left more on the Moon than previously thought. The SpaceIL spacecraft was apparently carrying thousands of microscopic tardigrades, also known as "little water bears," which are among the most resilient animals known to man. The tardigrades, only 0.5mm in length when fully grown, joined the lunar-destined journey as part of an initiative led by the Arch Mission Foundation, founded by Nova Spivack. Aiming to maintain a backup of planet Earth around the Solar System, Beresheet carried the foundation's lunar library – a tiny 30-million page archive of human history and civilization, human DNA samples and a few thousand dehydrated tardigrades. Based on the foundation's analysis of the spacecraft's trajectory and the composition of their lunar library, Spivack told Wired that he was quite confident that their payload mostly or entirely survived the impact. Engineers lost contact with the spacecraft only minutes before it was due to complete the historic lunar landing on April 11, making a high-velocity crash-landing inevitable. Reaching the moon was a feat previously completed only by the United States, Russia then the USSR and China, backed by giant sums far exceeding Beresheet’s modest NIS 350 million ($99m.) budget. "For the first 24 hours, we were just in shock," Spivack said. "We sort of expected that it would be successful. We knew there were risks but we didn’t think the risks were that significant."...

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Did-Beresheets-crash-spill-thousands-of-water-bears-onto-the-Moon-597849

Forty Years of Iranian Intolerance

by Denis MacEoin

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The regime that currently rules Iran was set up after a revolution in early 1979, and after forty years remains in power... It will have escaped no one's attention that relations between Iran and the West, notably the United States, have never been healthy and in recent months have deteriorated further. The United States has placed increasingly harsh sanctions on its clerical foe, including some on Iran's hard-line Supreme Leader (Rahbar-e A'zam), the ageing but still powerful Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. These sanctions are justified on several grounds: Iran's massive involvement in Middle East conflicts beyond its borders, For example, in Syria Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Venezuela and the Gaza Strip; its financial, moral, and physical support for major terrorist bodies such as Hizbullah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad; its funding and arming of its own Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), now designated as a terrorist entity by the US; its carrying out of executions of dissidents, homosexuals, religious minorities, among others, making it responsible for over half of all recorded executions worldwide; its enforcement of strict codes of modesty on women, who can be arrested merely for wearing a hijab badly or not at all – a policy that was reinforced in 2016 and 2019 through the recruitment of thousands of morality police; its mass arrests, imprisonments and murders of dissidents, human rights activists, religious minorities, and others, with little or no evidence and without access to defence, and its rejection of diplomatic efforts to secure the release of the innocent British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe because its government refuses to recognize the international standard of dual citizenship. There is also the matter of Iran's unremitting hatred for Israel, a country with which it does not even share a border, and expressed in regular chants of marg bar Isra'il, "Death to Israel" during demonstrations or after mosque sermons, and in aspirations to "wipe Israel from the map." Along with all that is also its deep antisemitism; its illegal arms smuggling to terrorists and its current attacks on shipping in the Gulf. Even a few of so many violations at home and abroad would be more than enough to condemn any country as a pariah state. The clerical rulers of Iran and their many acolytes, however, are actually proud of their longstanding refusal to join the secular democratic states of the West. That was, after all, the purpose of their revolution... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14633/iranian-intolerance

BWXT May Stop Making SSBN Missile Tubes,

Leaving Single Supplier

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ A key manufacturer of missile tubes for the Columbia-class submarine program is weighing not building anymore after its current commitment... leaving only one company to build the critical component for the Navy’s next ballistic missile submarine. BWX Technologies is discussing its future missile tube work with Columbia-class prime contractor General Dynamics Electric Boat, but the company has not yet firmed up a contract, Rex Geveden, chief executive of BWX, told analysts during a Tuesday morning conference call. The current order of missile tubes is expected to be completed by 2021. “At this point, we have not received any incremental orders for missile tube continuous production. As we have mentioned on prior calls, in the absence of any additional orders we plan to reallocate most of that CAPEX to support future growth in the core of Navy business,” Geveden said. The production facilities for missile tubes can switch over to making the nuclear reactors BWX builds for the Columbia-class and Virginia-class submarines and the Ford-class aircraft carriers, he said. The switch wouldn’t cost much capital investment, since the heavy equipment can be used to manufacture both products, Geveden said. If BWX does pivot its missile tube manufacturing facilities to nuclear reactor work, the company will save about $10 million, as BWX would not have to invest as much into expanding other reactor-build facilities. “Right now, we have more work than we have capacity for,” Geveden said of BWX’s reactor business. During the last quarter, Geveden said, BWX hired 100 new workers to meet demand, which increased with the Navy’s plan to buy a third Virginia-class submarine during Fiscal Year 2020. The Navy had been on pace to buy two Virginia-class submarines a year. “Because of the volume, because of the demand signal, we have mandatory over-time going at all of our plants, all five of our North American nuclear reactor plants,” Geveden said. With missile tube production, BWX faces twin challenges of finding and retaining highly trained workers while trying to earn a profit manufacturing complex products with little commercial appeal. BWX is not the only firm facing these pressures. The health of the defense industrial base is highlighted in Pentagon report released in October which details how scores of firms have succumbed to the same pressures facing BWX’s missile tube business...

https://news.usni.org/2019/08/06/bwxt-may-stop-making-ssbn-missile-tubes-leaving-single-supplier?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=b6fe346fdd-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-b6fe346fdd-231491269&mc_cid=b6fe346fdd&mc_eid=3999f18767

‘Largest Pedophile Ring On Earth’: Abuse

Lawyers Make First Case Against

The Boy Scouts

by MARY MARGARET OLOHAN

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Lawyers representing Boy Scout sexual abuse victims called on Congress to act in a Washington, D.C., Tuesday press conference... The Abused in Scouting (AIS) legal team announced their first case filed against the Boy Scouts of America at a Washington, D.C., press conference, claiming that there has been thus far no Congressional oversight involved in the massive sex abuse scandal within the Boy Scouts. The lawsuit was filed Monday in Pennsylvania and the plaintiff, who has remained anonymous, alleges that he was assaulted hundreds of times by a scout leader in the 1970’s. The file contains the names of over 300 alleged sex abuse predators from 48 states and the District of Columbia. North and South Dakota are the only states that have not spoken out to the AIS team, the lawyers said Tuesday. “Each one of these 350 abusers has probably dozens of other victims who have not come forward,” lawyer Stewart Eisenberg told reporters. The legal team told those gathered that over 800 abuse survivors between the ages of 14 and 88 have revealed tales of abuse to AIS after the organization began running nationwide ads encouraging survivors of abuse to speak out. Lawyer Andrew Van Arsdale spoke to the courage of those who have come forward thus far, saying that their decision to speak out is no easy one. These men “can still smell the scent of the man who crawled into their sleeping bag,” Arsdale told reporters. But Arsdale pointed out that AIS’s video calls on survivors to protect children by identifying their abuser, and that after abuse victims had seen the video, “the phones calls didn’t stop.”...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/06/boy-scouts-pedophile-lawsuit/?utm_medium=email

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC-4aCuyhIM

Scientist Group Catalyzes Gov’t

Suits Against Energy Companies

by Todd Shepherd

{ freebeacon.com } ~ The nonprofit group Union of Concerned Scientists continues to operate behind the scenes to encourage, promote, and orchestrate positive publicity for government lawsuits against energy companies... according to emails obtained via open records. this June, Santa Cruz mayor Martine Watkins traveled to Honolulu to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors summer meeting to talk about her city's lawsuit against Exxon and other energy producers. The California mayor was also boosting a resolution voicing support for cities' rights to sue oil companies and others. Emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) first approached Santa Cruz officials about the idea of Mayor Watkins appearing there. "If Mayor Watkins would be interested in these speaking opportunities, we would also request a briefing for her—and other relevant staff, possibly in your office as well—to help prepare for the activities," one of the emails from UCS to Santa Cruz read. "UCS has some new information to share that could be of interest." The emails show that UCS was willing to underwrite most if not all of Watkins's travel. Watkins appears to have paid travel expenses out of her own pocket, but UCS paid for her conference registration fees...

https://freebeacon.com/issues/scientist-group-catalyzes-govt-suits-against-energy-companies/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=489c2498a7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_06_08_35_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-489c2498a7-45611665

Frogs, Toads, Lizards and Bats ...

Were Found in Bagged Salads

By Mindy Weisberger

{ livescience.com } ~ In recent years, dozens of people in the United States who bought prepackaged salads at their local grocery stores found unexpected extra ingredients mixed in with their kale and romaine... frogs, lizards, rodents and even a bat. In 10 instances, the animals were still alive. Perhaps, that made the encounters less gruesome … or infinitely worse. Researchers recently reviewed reports of these animal discoveries dating back to 2003, describing their findings in a new study. They presented 40 examples of bagged salads purchases in 20 states that included unwelcome wildlife stowaways; 38 of these encounters took place during the past decade. 9 Disgusting Things That the FDA Allows in Your Food. The scientists collected data on incidents that had been covered by news outlets online, noting details such as the date and location of the animal discoveries; the type of produce; whether the produce was boxed or bagged; and the animal species — and if it was dead or alive. For the dead animals, the scientists recorded "whether the animal was whole or partial," they wrote in the study, published online July 20 in the journal Science of the Total Environment. Of the animals found in salad, about 53% were frogs and toads, and most of the frogs were in the treefrog group. Around 23% of the salad animals were reptiles, while nearly 18% were mammals and the rest were birds, the scientists reported. Most of the mammals were rodents, but the one instance of a bat in salad — a Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) found in Florida in 2017 — received significantly more media attention than other animals, likely because bats are known vectors for many diseases that affect people, the researchers explained. They also noted that animal appearances were three times more common in bags of conventional vegetables than in organic greens...

https://www.livescience.com/66095-frogs-in-bagged-salad.html

Meatpacking plant owner dodged employment

taxes with illegal cash payments to aliens

In addition to employing illegal aliens, a Tennessee meat packing plant has been accused of contaminating the local wastewater treatment facility with bloody effluent and e. coli.

By Dan Flynn

{ headlinehealth.com } ~ A Tennessee meatpacking plant owner, sentenced for three federal felony counts and one misdemeanor, on July 31 promises to turn himself in to federal prison... James Brantley, the owner of Southern Provision LLC, was sentenced to 18 months for each of three felony counts and six months for the misdemeanor. Judge J. Ronnie Greer, presiding judge for the U.S. District Court for Eastern Tennessee, ruled Brantley may serve the time concurrently. He must also pay $1,423,588.00 in restitution. Maximum penalties for the two tax felonies, a wire fraud violation, and the misdemeanor of employing unauthorized aliens might have sent Brantley, 62, to prison for more than 25 years. Most of the action in the Brantley case occurred last year. It went public in April when agents of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the Southern Provision slaughterhouse in Bean Station, TN, taking 104 undocumented aliens into custody. The Bean Station establishment has operated under a grant of inspection from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service since 2004 for both meat slaughter and processing...

https://headlinehealth.com/illegal-aliens-e-coli-at-tn-meet-co-1-4-mil-fine/

Wednesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 7, 2019 at 7:01am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

RNC sue California over state’s

new law targeting Trump’s tax returns

by personalliberty.com ~ President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee on Tuesday filed lawsuits against California’s new law... that would require presidential candidates to submit five years of tax returns in order to be placed on the state primary ballot. Called the California Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act, the law was seen as a direct shot at Trump’s reelection bid. California’s legislature passed a similar bill last year but it was vetoed by then-Governor Jerry Brown, who believed it would run afoul of the Constitution. According to the suits, the law would suppress the votes of millions of Californians who want to vote for Trump by adding a requirement for presidential candidates, as NewLanes.com reports. “The issue of whether the President should release his federal tax returns was litigated in the 2016 election and the American people spoke,” Jay Sekulow, an attorney for Trump, said in a written statement. “The effort to deny California voters the opportunity to cast a ballot for President Trump in 2020 will clearly fail.” Trump has refused to follow precedent of presidential candidates who for the last 30+ years have released their tax returns during their campaigns. Trump has repeatedly claimed he would release them once he was no longer be audited by the IRS. The two lawsuits – one by Trump and one by the RNC – follow a suit filed Monday by Judicial Watch on behalf of four voters. Another was filed last week by Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, a California businessman who has run several low-profile campaigns for president.

https://personalliberty.com/trump-rnc-sue-california-over-states-new-law-targeting-trumps-tax-returns/

Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok

Files Lawsuit Against DOJ and FBI

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok has filed a lawsuit in DC federal court seeking reinstatement and back pay as a result of his firing in 2018... According to the lawsuit Strzok is claiming his first amendment right to free speech was violated and his fifth amendment right to due process was violated. Upon initial review, this lawsuit looks like a stunt; motive undetermined, but perhaps related to the pending release of the IG report on FISA abuse where Strzok was a key participant. A federal civil lawsuit using the DC circuit and the U.S. Constitution as a primary protective assertion does not follow the path of a serious claim for wrongful firing or termination of employment. Traditionally, and with a genuine claim, wrongful termination actions would go through a formal complaint and review process within the U.S. Department of Labor. Hiring a lawyer and filing a federal civil lawsuit claiming disingenuous constitutional rights violations reeks of an ulterior motive for publicity; ie. purposeful political value in alignment with Strzock’s allies in Lawfare. This is a political stunt… 100% Peter Strzoks lawyers are: Aitan D. Goelman, from Zuckerman Spaeder LLP; Richard A. Salzman and Julia T. Quinn from Heller, Huron, Chertkof & Salzman PLLC...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/06/former-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-files-lawsuit-against-doj-and-fbi/

NEC Director Larry Kudlow Discusses Market

Reaction to U.S-China Trade Decoupling

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ National Economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow, appears on CNBC to discuss the U.S-China trade conflict... that led to yesterday’s stock market drop. Additionally, Kudlow notes the strong key performance indicators that highlight the strength of the U.S. Main Street economy. Larry Kudlow also held a press conference.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/06/nec-director-larry-kudlow-discusses-market-reaction-to-u-s-china-trade-decoupling/

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

VIDEO 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce6uqyqtxcs

Radical left, media allies ramp up calls to

‘go after’ and shut down Fox News,

much like 8chan

by Tom Tillison

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ The intolerant left, to include anti-Trump media forces, are in full force following the two shootings over the weekend that killed 31 people... seizing the moral high ground to go after political opponents — never mind one of the gunmen was a self-described “leftist” who favored Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren, D-Mass., for president. Not only are President Trump and the Republican Party being targeted, but so too is Fox News — the only major alternative voice to the liberal domination on cable TV. Amid the news that network provider Cloudflare shut down 8chan, the fringe site where the suspected El Paso gunman reportedly posted his hate-filled manifesto, radical leftists are hoping to see Fox News suffer a similar fate by claiming that the network is a voice of racism that spreads white nationalism, whatever that may be. This being consistent with the left’s dangerous habit of shutting down debate and silencing all opposition… while calling others fascists. Dan Pheiffer, former senior advisor to President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, led the charge with the familiar tactic of trying to shame advertisers. “If you work for Fox News, advertise on Fox News, or support Fox News in any way, you are enabling the spread of White Nationalism in America and probably making a pretty penny doing so,” he tweeted, in the furtherance of his political agenda... Its not going to happen, Pheiffer you're jerk. https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/06/radical-left-media-allies-ramp-up-calls-to-go-after-and-shut-down-fox-news-much-like-8chan-782346?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

Small Businesses Struggle With $15 Minimum

Wage Hike in NY: ‘They’re Shutting Down’

by Houston Keene

{ ijr.com } ~ Some small businesses in New York City are struggling to meet the demands that come with the city raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour... According to a report published Monday by the Wall Street Journal, many business leaders and owners in the Big Apple have said that they are having to cut hours, raise prices, and reduce staff in their businesses due to the rising labor costs that they say come from the recent city law bumping up the minimum wage. The owner of Lido Restaurant in the Harlem borough of the city, Susannah Koteen, has nearly 40 people working for her restaurant and is worried what the rising minimum wage could do to her business. While she has not had to reduce her staff, she has had to be more careful about overtime and pull back on some people’s shifts. “What it really forces you to do is make sure that nobody works more than 40 hours,” Koteen said. “You can only cut back so many people before the service starts to suffer.” Sarah McNally — who owns the local bookstore chain McNally Jackson Books, which employs 75 people at its four locations in New York City — said that there is “absolutely no benefit” to operating a retail business in the city, and is working to open two more stores to stay profitable. She has not had to reduce hours or employment to deal with the pay increase, though. “With raising minimum wage to living wage, it feels now like we’re at the bottom of the pay spectrum,” McNally said. “There’s absolutely no benefit to being a retail business in New York.”...

https://ijr.com/new-york-city-businesses-struggle-min-wage-increase/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=75406903&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8zfqS4NT-a7VW1MG4Mvdqoa_-1tk3NxlR-DPqAfhzuZTG51i0LakEl3c1_Vq0csQu80QpTPGNiK-NIs5LOHQkk9UBgdg&_hsmi=75406903

Steven Crowder Ejects Aggressive

Protester From ‘Change My Mind’ Table

by dailycaller.com ~ Conservative comedian and YouTuber Steven Crowder set up one of his “Change My Mind” panels outside of the White House Monday... and asked people to change his mind that President Donald Trump is not a racist. Chaos ensued when an aggressive anti-Trump protester sat down at his table to discuss the topic. The protester refused to leave at Crowder’s request and prompted security to step in and physically remove him.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/06/steven-crowder-change-mind/?utm_medium=email

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN8MS057FPo

Maryland Aims to Dismiss Suit

Challenging its Anti-BDS Rule

by John Rossomando

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ The fate of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's 2017 executive order barring state contractors from participating in the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement is in the hands of a federal judge... The order violates First Amendment rights, a lawsuit filed by a former Maryland state legislator claims. Saqib Ali is represented by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Legal Defense Fund. Hogan and the state's Attorney General Brian Frosh are listed as defendants. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake heard arguments last week concerning a state motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The international BDS movement aims to isolate Israel through economic, cultural and academic boycotts and sanctions modeled on the 1980s boycotts against South Africa's apartheid government. Opponents consider the movement anti-Semitic because it singles out the world's only Jewish state for treatment not imposed on other states with much worse human rights records, and because it is reminiscent of the Nazis' economic warfare against Jewish-owned companies. Opponents also note the link between the BDS National Committee, which coordinates the movement internationally, and Palestinian terror groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Last month, the U.S. House voted 298-17 on a resolution condemning BDS for "encouraging the Palestinians to reject negotiations in favor of international pressure" and citing BDS leader Omar Barghouti's statement that, "We oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No Palestinian, rational Palestinian, not a sell-out Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine." BDS "does not recognize, and many of its supporters explicitly deny, the right of the Jewish people to national self-determination," the resolution said...

https://www.investigativeproject.org/8022/maryland-aims-to-dismiss-suit-challenging-its

Shin Bet foils Hamas terror plot against

Israel and Palestinians

by ANNA AHRONHEIM

{ jpost.com } ~ The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) thwarted a major Hamas terrorist attack in Jerusalem... after an explosive charge ready for use and laboratory were uncovered in Hebron. The cell had been planning the attack before it was broken up by a joint Shin Bet, IDF and Israel Police investigation. It was operating under direction from Hamas’s military wing in the Gaza Strip to carry out attacks against Israeli and Palestinian Authority targets. Cell members were instructed to establish teams for carrying out kidnapping, shooting and stabbing attacks, to purchase weapons and to recruit others for carrying out terrorist attacks, the Shin Bet said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the security forces for thwarting the attack, saying that “our enemies should know that our long arm will reach whoever tries to attack us.” In June, 22-year-old Hebron resident Tamar Rajah Rajbi, a student at the Polytechnic College in Hebron and an activist in Hamas’s student arm Al-Kotla al-Islamiya was arrested at his home. At the time of his arrest, Rajbi was in possession of a 3 kg. explosive device with dozens of pieces of metal attached to it that would have likely caused extensive collateral damage when exploded. As part of the interrogation by the Shin Bet, it emerged that Rajbi had been recently recruited by Hamas operatives from the Gaza Strip to serve as a manufacturer of explosives. He was trained by Hamas operatives in the blockaded coastal enclave over the internet as to how manufacture explosive devices. In addition to what was seized by Israeli authorities, Rajbi was asked by his handlers to manufacture additional charges...

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Shin-Bet-foiled-Hamas-terrorist-attack-in-Jerusalem-597845

New York Times Continues

Spread of Economic Illiteracy

By Daniel Mitchell

{ cnsnews.com } ~ I periodically mock The New York Times when editors, reporters, and columnists engage in sloppy and biased analysis. Claiming Medicaid cuts in a piece that shows rising outlays for the program... Asserting that government schools are “starved of funding” when taxpayer subsidies actually have skyrocketed. Claiming that budget-cutting austerity nations are doing worse than “stimulus” nations, but getting the numbers backwards. Writing that the sequester will mean “deep automatic spending cuts” when the budget actually would climb by $2.4 trillion. Claiming that Italy is more prosperous than the United States and that there is less poverty. Asserting that U.S. multinationals pay little tax on foreign-source income, but forgetting to include the taxes paid to foreign governments. Cherry-picking income data to hide the fact that pro-market policies produce broadly shared prosperity. Attacking the fairness of America’s economy by using poverty data that doesn’t actually measure poverty. A column that blames capitalism for the shortcomings of China’s government-run health system. Now we have another example. Check out these excerpts from a New York Times column by Steven Greenhouse: “The United States is the only advanced industrial nation that doesn’t have national laws guaranteeing paid maternity leave. It is also the only advanced economy that doesn’t guarantee workers any vacation, paid or unpaid, and the only highly developed country other than South Korea that doesn’t guarantee paid sick days. … Among the three dozen industrial countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States has the lowest minimum wage as a percentage of the median wage — just 34 percent of the typical wage, compared with 62 percent in France and 54 percent in Britain. It also has the second-highest percentage of low-wage workers among that group … All this means the United States suffers from what I call ‘anti-worker exceptionalism.’ … America’s workers have for decades been losing out: year after year of wage stagnation.”...

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/daniel-mitchell/new-york-times-continues-spread-economic-illiteracy

IRAN Unveils Three New Missiles;

Warns of ‘Mother of All Wars’

By CHRIS PLEASANCE

{ dailymail.co.uk } ~ Iran unveiled what it described as three new precision guided missiles on Tuesday as President Hassan Rouhani warned of the 'mother of all wars' if the US attacks... Defence Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami said it proves Iran 'will not hesitate for a moment to defend itself' as he viewed the weapons in front of TV cameras. It comes after President Hassan Rouhani warned the US of the 'mother of all wars' if tensions in the Gulf spill over into conflict. While stressing that Tehran is willing to negotiate over its nuclear programme, Rouhani said that America must drop all sanctions before the country will talk. He added that while peace with Iran will be 'the mother of all peace', 'war will be the mother of all wars.' Among the new weapons unveiled by Tehran was a guided missile dubbed Yasin, which has folding wings and is designed to be fired from a drone. Another newly-developed weapon was the Balaban, which Iran said could be fired from an aircraft before being guided to its target using GPS and other sensors. Finally, the defence ministry unveiled an updated version of the heat-seeking Ghaem missile, which is also designed as an air-to-air weapon, the Fars news agency said. Iran has been engaged in sabre-rattling with the US for months after the Trump administration walked away from a nuclear deal signed under predecessor scumbag/liar-nObama...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7325835/Iran-warns-mother-wars-Britain-joins-task-force-Strait-Hormuz.html

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