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DHS to build 20-mile wall along border in New Mexico 

by Stephen Dinan  

{ washingtontimes.com } ~ Homeland Security began building a border wall in New Mexico on Monday... moving to replace vehicle barriers with a modern fence that will deter pedestrians attempting to cross in the remote desert west of El Paso. The 20-mile project has been on the books for some time and the contract was awarded Jan. 22, meaning it was finalized before the recent fight over border wall money in the new 2018 spending bill. But the administration says it wouldn’t have been built but for President Trump’s push for more border wall. “We need effective barriers to deny the entry of illegal aliens and contraband,” said Aaron A. Hull, chief patrol agent for the El Paso Sector of the Border Patrol. “Our agents know that a balance of physical infrastructure, technology and personnel is key to securing the border and keeping our communities safe.”...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/9/dhs-build-20-mile-wall-along-border-new-mexico/
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FBI raids Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's office

by Steven Nelson

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ FBI agents raided the office of President Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday... at the request of special counsel Robert Mueller, Cohen's attorney said. The New York Times reported that the raid collected documents related to Cohen's October 2016 payment of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump. Cohen claims he paid Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, without Trump's knowledge, amid questions about whether the payoff is an illegal campaign contribution. Lawyer Stephen Ryan, who is representing Cohen, called the raid "completely inappropriate and unnecessary."...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/fbi-raids-trump-lawyer-michael-cohens-office.

Terrorists Took This Navy SEAL’s Eye – 

Here’s What They Couldn’t Take…

by BENNY JOHNSON

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Dan Crenshaw was on patrol in Helmand province of Afghanistan in 2012 when an IED blast ripped through his body... Crenshaw, a Navy SEAL, was medevaced out of the area and put into a medically induced coma. When he awoke, he was totally blind. Doctors told him he would never see again. Were it not for undergoing risky, experimental treatment — he might not have. Crenshaw regained sight in one eye but lost the other. The major physical setback could not stop Crenshaw. He redeployed, taking the fight back to the enemy even though he was one eye down. When he returned home to Texas, Crenshaw married the woman of his dreams, enrolled at Harvard and remained living the American dream. Even thought the Taliban took his eye, they could not take his freedom or American spirit. Now, at the age of 34, Crenshaw is running for Congress in Texas...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/09/dan-crenshaw-navy-seal-eye-message-to-taliban/?utm_medium=email

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

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‘A Partisan And A Zealot’ — 

Alan Dershowitz Goes After Robert Mueller

by JUSTIN CARUSO

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz appeared on New York’s AM 970, and he had some harsh words for special counsel Robert Mueller...  “I don’t think he cares whether he hurts Democrats or Republicans. But he’s a partisan and a zealot.” Dershowitz also said, “Those of us in Boston don’t have such a high regard for Mueller because we remember this story. The government had to pay out tens of millions of dollars because Whitey Bulger, the notorious mass murderer, became a government informer against the mafia.” He told the story of Whitey Bulger, then said the incident is “regarded in Boston as one of the great scandals of modern judicial history. And Mueller was right at the center of it.”...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/09/robert-mueller-dershowitz-zealot/?utm_medium=email 

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Body of Tennessee double-murder 

suspect believed to be found, sheriff says 

by Katherine Lam, Greg Norman, Nicole Darrah 

{ foxnews.com } ~ A body found in a wooded area in Mississippi on Monday is believed to be the remains of a 23-year-old Tennessee man... suspected of killing his mother and friend -- then detailing the murder in a twisted Facebook post. Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson confirmed the body of Casey Lawhorn was found in Vossburg, Miss., the state’s department of public safety said in a news release. The body was located in a wooded area, about 100 yards from where Lawhorn’s vehicle was discovered abandoned on Interstate 59 in Jasper County. The vehicle was located Sunday evening. Lawhorn’s death came a day after a twisted Facebook post detailed the double-murder. “What I did is unforgivable. And prayer is a waste of time, nothing happens after death, but if there is a hell, I'm going to be in the lake of ice at the bottom,” read a post on a Facebook page purportedly belonging to Lawhorn. “However, as I sit here in Mississippi, writing this on the side of I-59 south after my car broke down, what I look forward to is the nothingness after death. I've spent a lot of time thinking about murder, wondering what it feels like. But I've barely felt anything."...  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/09/body-tennessee-double-murder-suspect-believed-to-be-found-sheriff-says.html 

VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5767004396001/

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Judge Okays Infringing the Second Amendment 

by Nate Jackson:  The AR-15 is not protected by the Second Amendment, according to a federal court ruling Friday. In his decision in Worman v. Baker, U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young declared, “Assault weapons and LCMs [large capacity magazines] are not within the scope of the personal right to ‘bear arms’ under the Second Amendment.” Furthermore, he argued, “Because the undisputed facts convincingly demonstrate AR-15s and LCMs are most useful in military service, they are beyond the scope of the Second Amendment … and may be banned.” He insisted, “The test is not the AR-15’s present day popularity but whether it is a weapon ‘most useful in military service.’” You know what else was “most useful in military service”? The single-shot musket, at the time the Bill of Rights was crafted. It’s pathetically laughable to assert that the Founders meant what Young contends. Quite the contrary, the usefulness and popularity of the AR-15 mean that it is the epitome of what the Founders intended to protect.

               Moreover, Young even acknowledged the difference between the AR-15 and the M-16, if only to dismiss it: “The AR-15 design is almost identical to the M16, except for the mode of firing [emphasis added].” Young should have realized that semiautomatic vs. fully automatic makes all the difference. The fact that these two rifles look alikedoes not trump the fact that they function very differently. The deliberate leftist conflation of the two, simply due to some entirely cosmetic features, is solely for the purpose of undermining Second Amendment rights. We suggest Young take the time to learn the error of his ways.
               Young concluded by boasting of his ruling, “Justice Scalia would be proud.” Like Scalia, Young is an appointee of Ronald Reagan, but Young’s claim is outrageous, and if Scalia were alive to correct him, he would hammer this mendacious twisting of his words.
               As for Massachusetts’ law, bans on popular semiautomatic rifles with certain cosmetic features that have nothing to do with lethality are merely for show; they do not “save lives” as the state’s attorney general insisted after the ruling. Instead, they rob citizens of a tool useful in actually exercising their constitutional right.
               Eventually, the Supreme Court is going to have to stop avoiding gun cases and settle this matter.   
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55235-judge-okays-infringing-the-second-amendment

Tuesday Top Headlines 

by Political Editors:  FBI raids offices of Trump attorney Michael Cohen (Associated Press)

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$1 trillion deficits to return, national debt to rise, projects CBO (taxpayer-funded NPR)

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Lynch: Comey didn’t question calling liar-Clinton case a “matter” (The Washington Free Beacon)

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Some 200 migrants in Mexico caravan to seek U.S. asylum (Reuters)

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China’s president offers U.S. possible trade concessions (Associated Press)

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg issues mea culpa before Capitol Hill grilling (Fox News)

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Facebook releases data breach notification (World)

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Two black conservatives, Diamond and Silk, accuse Facebook of discrimination, censorship over “unsafe” label (The Daily Signal)

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Trump appointee at center of fight over religious freedom (The Hill)

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Missouri Gov. Greitens’ ex-lover accuser admits photo evidence may have been a “dream” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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Abortion-rights groups sue Mississippi over dozens of restrictions (National Review)

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Good news: Why Americans’ life expectancy is getting longer (UPI)

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Humor: In response to growing number of fistfights, London mayor bans hands (The Babylon Bee)

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Policy: In Syria we need strength, not another war (Washington Examiner)

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Policy: Every day is Equal Pay Day (Washington Examiner)   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55264-tuesday-top-headlines

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Calif Patriots Urge 2nd City to Sue State Over Illegal Sanctuary Law

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ MAGA patriot Arthur Schaper recently addressed a meeting of the Huntington Beach, CA, City Council... offering them his support and demands for an ordinance or other appropriate legal action nullifying California’s Sanctuary City Law. The intro by Gary Galino states that the city is planning a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Sanctuary State statute. They’re there to help make that happen. Schaper begins his comments by stating that he is “a proud Californian and a proud American.” He says, “This country, this state is still very much America.” He demands that the rule of law be enforced and urging them to pass a resolution opposing SB 54, the sanctuary state legislation. He encourages them to “Be the second domino with Los Alamitos. That was the strong second shot heard around the world and let it be a sound of restoration for this ‘Bear Flag Republican.’ A little history lesson, this is not stolen land. This is land that was bought and paid for. And even the Mexicans themselves wanted to become Americans.”...  https://rickwells.us/calif-patriots-sue-sanctuary-law/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym45brGIkgI

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Trump To Replace Liberal Lion Of The Ninth Circuit

by KEVIN DALEY

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Fearing a conservative jurist would replace Judge Stephen Reinhardt... the liberal lion of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a prominent progressive legal scholar quietly urged him to retire in the spring of 2014. U.C. Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky approached Reinhardt just months before the 2014 midterm elections and suggested he retire, The New York Times reported Saturday. Reinhardt refused the overtures. Months later, Republicans assumed control of the Senate, effectively ending former President Barack liar-nObama’s judicial confirmations. President Donald Trump’s election forced the judge into an awkward actuarial battle, an increasingly common phenomenon as judicial appointments become highly politicized. He died on March 29 at 87...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/08/stephen-reinhardt-ninth-circuit-trump/?utm_medium=email

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Rick Scott to challenge Bill Nelson for US Senate seat

by Melissa Quinn

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, will challenge Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., in the race for the U.S. Senate, Scott said Monday... “8 years ago today, I did something that everyone told me not to do — I announced that I was running for Governor. With the hard work of Floridians, we have come a long way, but our work is not done. That's why I have decided to run for the United States Senate. Let’s Get to Work!” Scott tweeted Monday. Scott told several news outlets he is running for the Senate and called Washington, D.C., “horribly dysfunctional,” according to the Associated Press. “You’re probably surprised, but I’m going to announce I’m running for senator,” Scott told Politico in an interview  published Monday. “You’re shocked, right?”...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rick-scott-to-challenge-bill-nelson-for-us-senate-seat
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US said to confirm Israel hit Syria base, 

as Russia complains it was not warned 

by timesofisrael.com 

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ US officials have reportedly confirmed that Israel carried out a predawn missile strike on an air base in central Syria... that reportedly killed 14 people on Monday, while Russia protested that it had not been informed ahead of time. NBC News quoted two US officials as saying that Israel had carried out the strike, adding that Washington had been informed in advance. Israel has refused to comment on the attack. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters that Israel had not spoken to Moscow ahead of the airstrike even though Russian military advisers could have been present at the base, which he described as “a cause for concern for us.”...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-said-to-confirm-israel-hit-syria-base-as-russia-complains-it-was-not-warned/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=cea6605211-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-cea6605211-54638825

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Europe's Civilizational Exhaustion

by Giulio Meotti

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In a prophetic conference held in Vienna on May 7, 1935, the philosopher Edmund Husserl said... "The greatest danger to Europe is tiredness". Eighty years later, the same fatigue and passivity still dominate Western European societies. It is the sort of exhaustion that we see in Europeans' falling birth rates, the mushrooming public debt, chaos in the streets, and Europe's refusal to invest resources in its security and military might. Last month, in a Paris suburb, the Basilica of Saint Denis, where France's Christian kings are buried, was occupied by 80 migrants and pro-illegal-immigration activists. The police had to intervene to free the site. Stephen Bullivant, a professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St Mary's University in London, recently published a report, "Europe's Young Adults and Religion": "Christianity as a default, as a norm, is gone, and probably gone for good – or at least for the next 100 years," Bullivant said...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12093/europe-civilizational-exhaustion 

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by Peggy Noonan
{ peggynoonan.com } ~ Easter, Passover, spring break, holiday weekend. Let us unfurrow the brow and look at something elevated. It’s a small thing, a half-hour television interview from 60 years ago, but it struck me this week as a kind of master class in how to be a public figure and how to talk about what matters. In our polarized moment it functions as both template and example.

In March 1958, the fierce young journalist Mike Wallace —already famous for opening an interview with the restaurateur Toots Shor by asking, “Toots, why do people call you a slob?”—decided to bore in on Oscar Hammerstein II. For the record, Shor responded that Wallace had him confused with Jackie Gleason.  Hammerstein was the fabled lyricist and librettist who with composer Richard Rodgers put jewels in the crown of American musical theater—“Oklahoma,” “South Pacific,” “The King and I,” and “Carousel,” whose latest Broadway revival is about to open. He was a hero of American culture and a famous success in a nation that worshiped success.

Wallace was respectful but direct and probing. He asked Hammerstein if critics who’d called his work sentimental didn’t have a point.

Hammerstein said his critics were talented, loved the theater, and there was something to what they’d said. But he spoke of sentiment “in contradistinction to sophistication”: “The sophisticate is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes drowns himself. He thinks he can drive better than he really can and sometimes causes great smash-ups. So, in my book there’s nothing wrong with sentiment because the things we’re sentimental about are the fundamental things in life, the birth of a child, the death of a child or of anybody, falling in love. I couldn’t be anything but sentimental about these basic things.”

What, Wallace asked, was Hammerstein’s message in “South Pacific”?

Hammerstein said neither he nor Rodgers had ever gone looking for vehicles by which to deliver messages. They were attracted to great stories and wanted to tell them on stage. But “when a writer writes anything about anything at all, he gives himself away.” He inevitably exposes his beliefs and hopes. The love stories in “South Pacific” were shaped by questions of race. The main characters learned that “all this prejudice that we have is something that fades away in the face of something that’s really important.” That thing is love.

Does this reflect his views on interracial marriage?

Hammerstein, simply: “Yes.”

“The King and I,” he said, is about cultural differences. The Welsh governess and the Siamese children know nothing of each other at the start: “There again, all race and color had faded in their getting to know and love each other.” On the other hand, “Allegro,” about disillusionment and professional achievement, carries a warning: “After you’re successful, whether you be a doctor or a lawyer or a librettist, there is a conspiracy that goes on in which you join—a conspiracy of the world to render you less effective by bestowing honors on you and taking you away from the job of curing people, or of pleading cases, or writing libretti and . . . putting you on committees.” He added he was “a fine one to talk”: he couldn’t stop joining committees.

Is he religious? Here Hammerstein told a story. A year ago he was rushing to work and jaywalked. A policeman called out; Hammerstein braced for a dressing down. But the officer recognized him and poured out his appreciation for his work. Hammerstein thanked him and moved to leave, but the policeman had a question. “He said, ‘Are you religious?’ And I said, ‘Well, I don’t belong to any church,’ and then he patted me on the back and he said, ‘Ah, you’re religious all right.’ And I went on feeling as if I’d been caught, and feeling that I was religious. He had discovered from the words of my songs that I had faith—faith in mankind, faith that there was something more powerful than mankind behind it all, and faith that in the long run good triumphs over evil. If that’s religion, I’m religious, and it is my definition of religion.”

Then to politics.

Wallace: “You are an active liberal.”

Hammerstein: “Yes, I guess I am.”

What connection does this have with your work?

“I think it must have a connection, because it expresses my feelings, my tendencies,” Hammerstein said. “As I’ve said before, a writer gives himself away if he’s writing honestly.”

Wallace: “Would you agree that most of our writers and directors on Broadway and television in Hollywood are liberal and that there is a liberal complexion to their work?”

“I think I would, yes,” Hammerstein replied, honestly and with no defensiveness.

Wallace’s office had just spoken to “a militant dissenter” from liberalism, Ayn Rand, author of the recently published novel “Atlas Shrugged.” She said: “The public is being brainwashed by the so-called liberal or leftist philosophies, which have a stranglehold on the dissemination of ideas in America.” How did Hammerstein respond?

He didn’t like her adding the word leftist, “because you can be a liberal without being a leftist, and many and most liberals are.” Beyond that her criticism was an example of what’s working. “I think it’s fine that there is a Miss Rand who comes out stoutly for the conservative. I think it’s fine that we have all kinds of thinkers in the world. . . . I admit that the majority of writers in this country are on the liberal side.”

But he added, of Rand: “We need her to hold us back, and I think she needs us to pull her forward.”

Italics mine. Because liberals and conservatives do need each other, and the right course can sometimes be found in the tug between them.

Wallace: “The public does rarely get anything but a liberal viewpoint from Hollywood or from television, from Broadway,” and the charge can be “safely made that there is a certain intolerance of conservative ideas among liberals.”

Hammerstein, again undefensive: “I think so too.”

What’s to be done about it? Nothing, said Hammerstein: “Just be yourself, that’s all.” If the public likes Miss Rand, “there will be a Miss Rand trend.” Let the problem work its way out in a free country.

Hammerstein said he tries sometimes to vote Republican “just for the sake of switching—just for the sake of telling myself I’m not a party man,” which he doesn’t want to be. “But somehow or other I always wind up voting Democratic.” Balancing the budget bores him. “I have an idea that the more liberal Democratic tendency—to borrow and owe money is healthier for us.” Most big corporations borrow, and they make progress with the money. When the U.S. borrows money, Hammerstein said, he felt “the people in the lower income bracket get the most out of it. But I’m no economist—this is merely a guess.”

We’re all guessing, and working on instinct and experience.

Moral modesty and candor are good to see.

In our public figures, especially our political ones, they are hard to find. I offer Hammerstein’s old words as an example—a prompter—of what they sound like.

A radiant Easter, a beautiful Passover to my radiant and beautiful readers.

Gowdy Tells Trump to Force End to DOJ Stonewalling - 

Warns the Three Amigos

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep Trey Gowdy was interviewed by Maria Bartiromo on Sunday on the topic of Congress versus the Justice Department... and the obstructionist game of hide and seek that is being played with the truth. Gowdy, who is at one moment overly supportive of the Mueller witch hunt, the FBI and DOJ while expressing frustration at being lied to and denied access to the information they’re deliberately withholding, describes being provided two different redacted versions of the Peter Strzok memo that started the Russia hoax witch hunt, what he refers to as an investigation. He says he’s struggling to understand why. Stop scratching your head, Congressman, it’s because they’re dirty cops who have been caught doing things that could send them to prison and expose corruption throughout the subversive deep state, particularly in their unlawful conduct on behalf of the liar-nObama/liar-Clinton/scum-Soros Mafia... https://rickwells.us/gowdy-trump-doj-stonewalling/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dkwaYlWadY

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Media Matters: Bully Masquerading as Tax-Exempt Charity

by Charles Ortel

{ americanthinker.com } ~ According to public records, David Brock’s Media Matters group has ignored important legal requirements for tax-exempt charities... Instead of reveling in the impact of his attacks against Laura Ingraham, David Brock and his team at Media Matters for America  (MMFA) need to try complying with the strict laws that do regulate activities of publicly supported, tax-exempt organizations. In theory, MMFA is an “educational” charity.  IRS guidance concerning how an educational charity may avoid illegal partisan and legislative advocacy is instructive. So, if MMFA were, in fact, a lawfully organized and operated charitable organization in each jurisdiction where it solicited contributions and/or carried out activities in furtherance of its specific and authorized tax-exempt purposes, MMFA would have to avoid publishing “material which discredits particular institutions and individuals on the basis of unsupported opinions and incomplete information about their affiliations,” adopt “an unbiased position,” “stick to a reasoned approach and avoid unsupported opinion,” and “avoid the advocacy of specific legislation as a substantial part of their activity.”...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/media_matters_bully_masquerading_as_taxexempt_charity.html 

Syrian Air Base Bombarded In Pre-Dawn Strike

by WILL RACKE

{ dailycaller.com } ~ A barrage of missiles struck a military base inside Syria early Monday morning... according to multiple reports from Syrian state media and observers on the ground. The attack targeted Tiyas air base near Homs in eastern Syria, the site from which an Iranian drone crossed into Israeli airspace in February. Israel responded to that incursion by bombing the Tiyas base, losing an F-16 fighter jet to a Syrian anti-aircraft missile in the process. Air defenses intercepted eight missiles launched at the base, Syrian state media said. No government has yet claimed responsibility for the airstrikes, and U.S. defense officials denied American military assets took part in the attack, The Associated Press reported...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/08/syria-air-base-missile-attack/?utm_medium=email
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Trump’s Top National Security Spokesman To Resign

by WILL RACKE

{ dailycaller.com } ~ National Security Council principal spokesman Michael Anton plans to leave the White House, he said... according to Politico Sunday night. The announcement of Anton’s departure coincides with that of outgoing National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, whose last day was Sunday. Anton is expected to leave the White House in the coming weeks, though a specific date has not been set. Anton reportedly plans to join Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center as a writer and lecturer. The center is a Washington, D.C., extension of the conservative Michigan college. “I will be forever grateful to President Donald Trump for the opportunity to serve my country and implement his agenda,” Anton said, according to Politico...

http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/08/national-security-michael-anton-resign/?utm_medium=email

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As the Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Richer

by Daniel Hannan

{ prageru.com } ~ The rich are getting richer, and the poor are... also getting richer. What's driving this wealth creation process? In this video, Daniel Hannan explains why it is capitalism — and capitalism alone — that has led to the unprecedented enrichment that is the central fact of Western life.  https://www.prageru.com/videos/rich-get-richer-poor-get-richer

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Bzw8W1rS8

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by Ann Coulter
{ freedomsback.com } ~ Once upon a time, we cared about the welfare of our fellow Americans. Farmers in the Midwest devastated by tornadoes, trailer parks washed away in a Florida hurricane, our country’s ranking on various international comparisons — we all rooted for our fellow Americans. Like all countries, we would squabble, but we were family. We were all Americans.

Not anymore! Now, no one cares about anything but getting rich, the better to separate oneself from the lives and concerns of poorer Americans.

Businessmen, Wall Street bankers, ethnic activists, Democrats and Republicans including the president, apparently — all of them have a stronger fellow feeling toward Saudi princes and German bankers than toward Iowa farmers. Being “inclusive” to “Dreamers” necessarily means being exclusionary toward our own working class.

So what if wages have flatlined — or declined! — for several decades? The smart set aren’t wage-slaves.

Mexican drug cartels aren’t swarming through their towns. They live in fancy neighborhoods.

Somali refugees aren’t beating up their kids — who are safely ensconced in expensive private schools, anyway.

Members of our governing class seem to have decided the country is doomed, so they may as well make their pile. Sure, they’ll have to face the wrath of voters and may be voted out of office, like Eric Cantor. But they’ll end up on corporate boards or win lucrative lobbying contracts. Plus, being “progressive” on immigration will look great on their kid’s Princeton application.

Everybody’s looking out for No. 1.

It wasn’t always this way. Politicians, liberal activists and journalists used to care about even non-fashionable Americans.

One doesn’t have to go back to the Garfield administration to find a time when everyone wanted to protect the nation from dysfunctional immigration — the crime, the drugs, the poverty, the wage-depressing effect, the burden on our social services. Positions that are today considered hateful used to be called “common sense.”

A 1995 news article in The New York Times calmly described preparations the Immigration and Naturalization Service was making in case a “vast flood of illegal immigrants” surged across the Mexican border, “inundating entire communities as it washes north into the American heartland.” Under the liar-Clinton administration, the illegals would face either “immediate voluntary deportation” or “emergency detention.”

No indignant denunciations followed.

More hate speech from the Times:

“Fighting illegal immigration is a difficult and important job. But Congress should do it in a way that will deter illegal entry at the border.” — New York Times editorial, Sept. 29, 1997

“The I.N.S. is extremely troubled, but has improved under the leadership of Doris Meissner. Since her appointment in 1993, … the border is tighter, and the I.N.S. is deporting record numbers of criminal aliens.” — New York Times editorial, Aug. 10, 1997

Just a few years ago, Charles Lane, an editorial writer at The Washington Post, called for “prompt exclusion of unaccompanied Central American minors” during the border surge under liar-nObama. “Only by showing people there is nothing to be gained by paying traffickers for the traumatic voyage through Mexico will the chaos cease.”

The great civil rights icon Barbara Jordan produced a report on immigration more than two decades ago, calling on the government to end chain migration and put a dead stop to illegal immigration, for the benefit of all Americans.

“Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.”

She added: “Deportation is crucial.”

Far-left Democrats used to openly proclaim ideas that would get them banned from Twitter today:

“When push comes to shove, there is only one realistic way that you can stop illegal immigration into this country, and that is by making it illegal and being tough enough that illegal immigrants cannot work in this country.” — Democratic Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, 1985

“No sane country would reward illegal immigrants, right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission, and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee full access to all public and social services this society provides — and that’s a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense in county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers?” — Democratic Sen. Harry dinky-Reid, 1993

Very recently, a presidential candidate who seemed to actually care about America’s working class denounced illegal immigration as “a Koch brothers” idea. That was commie-Bernie Sanders.

He explained: “Open borders? No, that’s a Koch brothers’ proposal. … That’s a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States. … It would make everybody in America poorer — you’re doing away with the concept of a nation-state. … You have an obligation in my view to do everything we can to help poor people.

“What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour — that would be great for them. I don’t believe in that. I think we have to raise wages in this country; I think we have to do everything we can to create millions of jobs.” — commie-Bernie Sanders in interview with Ezra Klein of Vox on July 28, 2015

Forget hypocrisy — I don’t care about that right now. It’s the cruelty that interests me.

Have well-heeled Americans really decided to abandon their fellow citizens? These merchants of compassion have none to spare for our own people? I’m not a steelworker, a waitress or a black teenager looking for an entry-level job, either. But I still care about other Americans.

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

First, it was the cinnamon challenge…a viral internet fad a couple of years ago where idiots would attempt to eat a spoonful of ground cinnamon in under 60 seconds…without drinking anything.

It was, of course, dangerous as cinnamon can coat the mouth and throat, which in turn can result in coughing, gagging, vomiting and inhaling of cinnamon, which in turn leads to throat irritation, breathing difficulties, and risk of pneumonia or a collapsed lung.

None of the risks prevented hundreds of millennials from trying to do it, and post their ill-fated attempts to YouTube, but luckily, that fad came to an inglorious end.

But…what’s a world without an obtuse fad?

The next big thing for millennial morons was the Tide Pod challenge…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

 I urge all followers to send Trump a tweet asking him not to make deal with Rocket Man if it involves us giving him money not to proliferate, since that's the same scenario that's gone on for decades and N. Korea always takes money and continues to build nukes underground. Pls go to: http://PatriotsVotingCoalition.weebly.com  and make suggestions under COMMENTS. Twitter will try to block this message too. Earl

Meadows - Momentum Building

 for Rosenstein Impeachment - He Has One Week

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Mark Meadows has had enough of the obvious delay by the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, Christopher Wray... and their deep state partners in crime. They laughed in the face of Congress in the face of subpoenas and he’s promising not to let them get away with it. Judge Jeanine starts off a tweet on the topic from President Trump which reads, ” Lawmakers of the House Judiciary Committee are angrily accusing the Department of Justice of missing the Thursday Deadline for turning over UNREDACTED Documents relating to FISA abuse, FBI, Comey, Lynch, McCabe, liar-Clinton Emails and much more. Slow walking – what is going on? BAD!” Meadows agrees that DOJ and FBI gave them absolutely nothing, saying, “The President’s right to be frustrated, I’m frustrated, but you know what, enough with the talk.” He says, “Here’s the next two things that we have to do is we’ve given a very short deadline,” allowing them to the end of this week...

https://rickwells.us/meadows-rosenstein-impeachment/

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Israeli officials: U.S. must strike in Syria 

by GIL HOFFMAN 

{ jpost.com } ~ The United States must attack the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria in response to the regime chemical gas strike on the Syrian town Douma... that killed more than 70 people, Strategic Affairs and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Sunday. Erdan, who is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s No. 2 in Likud, said he hoped US military action against the regime would be taken as it was when the Syrian Army used chemical weapons against its people in the past. “The shocking attack shows the incredible hypocrisy of the international community focusing on Israel confronting the terrorist organization Hamas that is sending civilians to our fence, when dozens are being killed in Syria every day,” Erdan told Army Radio. “It shows the need for strengthening the presence of Americans and other international forces, because without them the genocide we are seeing will only intensify.” The minister also said Israel must intensify its diplomatic and humanitarian efforts to help the Syrian people...  http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israeli-officals-US-must-strike-in-Syria-549144?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=8-4-2018&utm_content=israeli-officals-us-must-strike-in-syria-549144 

King Bill Crates Big Brother Combined 

IRS, DHS, SS Tracking of All US Workers to Nab Illegals

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep. Steve King (R-IA) appeared on the Friday edition of Breitbart News Tonight... discussing immigration and a new plan he has for forcing employers to utilize E-verify in order to claim certain tax benefits. It that was killed by the cheap labor business lobby-owned, establishment Republican leadership. King identified one weakness of E-Verify is that it still requires enforcement, an action that is conducted with varying degrees of intensity by the political leanings of the person sitting in the White House. He said, “The one thing that causes me pause about mandatory E-Verify is you still have to enforce it. You still have to show up with ICE and go through and examine the records and punish the employer if he’s violating and hiring illegals. We didn’t have enforcement throughout this time, which is why we have this problem, so I think under the Trump administration, we’d have pretty good enforcement. Under a future administration, maybe not so much.”... https://rickwells.us/king-big-brother-irs-dhs-ss-tracking/ 

Trey Gowdy Has Had It With the Swamp 

by Publius:  South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy is retiring from Congress an unhappy man. He’s even counting the number of trips to the airport he has left until he can leave DC for good. VICE News interviewed the departing congressman in part to make the GOP look bad and in part to highlight the disenchantment of a man they call “hyper partisan.” At the same time, Gowdy says a lot of true things about politics and party that are worth hearing.   ~The Patriot Post

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQt0gZt3zDg
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55212-video-trey-gowdy-has-had-it-with-the-swamp

Lidblog@optonline.net

Dozens Killed In Suspected Chemical Weapons Attack On Hospital In Syria 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWUqZoV0Nxo

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Diamond and Silk Fight Back Against Facebook Lies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxyRhTf4noI

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Former CIA Officer Talks Actions US Can Take On Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqzC_u9M7Fc

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Greg Gutfeld Presents ‘Hillary’s Greatest Hits’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=LZrE0LvA21w

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Hamas Is Sending Civilians To Die For Media Coverage, Says Abbas’ Advisor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPVj6who4-8

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Rod Rosenstein’s Wife, A Top Lawyer For Democrats Including liar-nObama & liar-Clinton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49uMF9XX27M

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Secret Talks Underway Between US And North Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrldJXMj95c

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Gordon Chang: China Trade War Has Been Happening For Decades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fASqu_5rIkY

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by Katie Pavlich 
{ townhall.com } ~ Speaking to reporters at the White House Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen briefed reporters on President Trump's plans to send the National Guard to the southern border with Mexico and warned human smugglers are taking advantage of legal loopholes in U.S. immigration law. 

"Smugglers are gaming the system," Nielsen said. "The traffickers and smugglers know that if you arrive with a family, under our current legal and court systems, you have a much better chance of being released into the United States."

Nielsen noted that while illegal aliens used to mostly be single males, 40 percent today are family units with small children. She credits this change to U.S. catch and release policy, which requires Border Patrol and I.C.E. agents to allow family units to stay in the United States. They are given a court date, which they rarely show up to, and take years to process. Currently the wait time to see an immigration judge is as long as three years with a backlog of more than 80,000 cases. 

"Legal loopholes continue to hamstring efforts to enforce our immigration laws and secure our border, ultimately resulting in catch and release. Catch and release practices have enabled the vast majority of Unaccompanied Alien Children [UAC] who enter the United States each year to avoid removal," the White House released in a statement Wednesday. "Currently, based on a consent decree in a court case from roughly twenty years ago, the Department of Homeland Security can only detain UAC for a maximum of 20 days combined. All UAC must be promptly transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services for reunification with sponsors in the interior of the United States. Further, current Federal law prevents UAC who are not from Canada or Mexico from being promptly returned to their home countries. UAC are unlikely to appear in court for removal hearings once released, and as a result they generally go on to remain in the country."

"For years, catch and release has enabled tens of thousands of UAC to enter and remain in the United States. It is time to close the loopholes and ensure Federal authorities are empowered to fairly and effectively carry out immigration enforcement efforts," the statement continues.

President Trump terminated administrative catch and release policies last year, but Congress is the only way to change U.S. immigration law that allows illegal aliens to stay in the U.S. after entering the country without permission.

"The problems with catch and release are solvable problems," Nielsen said, adding Congress has an obligation to change the law. "Our current border security and immigration laws fail the American people."

Nielsen also said President Trump wants to end all magnets that continue to attract illegal aliens to the United States.

"Border security is national security. Security of our nation is not a partisan issue," she said.

Rod Rosenstein Gave Mueller Secret 

Permission to Expand Investigation Beyond Trump 

by patrioticviralnews.com 

{ patrioticviralnews.com } ~ Chris Ferrell Director of Investigations for Research for Judicial Watch recently spoke with Lou Dobbs of Fox Business... about what he called a “really gross abuse of due process” in the Mueller investigation. He revealed that Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein gave Robert Mueller “secret permissions” to expand his investigation of Paul Manafort last August. Manafort’s attorneys recently gained permission to make public that it was Rosenstein that allowed Muller to expand his investigation to as far back as 2006. Ferrell’s comments echo ours here. By making such an open-ended mandate, Rosenstein opened the door to what we see now – resurrecting 2005 tax crimes, 2010 bank fraud crimes, and 2013 foreign agent crimes. Rob Rosenstein is “Deputy” Attorney and can only operate under constitutional duties granted to him when Jeff Sessions recused himself...  http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/rod-rosenstein-gave-mueller-secret-permission-to-expand-investigation-beyond-trump/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6FD3Oowdi0

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New details about basis for 

Andrew McCabe's firing from FBI revealed

by Catherine Herridge & Samuel Chamberlain

{ foxnews.com } ~ Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired last month for committing three violations of the bureau's ethics code... an investigative source told Fox News on Thursday. The violations initially were uncovered by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General and confirmed by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility. They included lack of candor under oath, lack of candor when not under oath, and the improper disclosure of non-public information to the media about the FBI investigation into the liar-Clinton Foundation. The violations stemmed from McCabe's response to an October 2016 Wall Street Journal report about sizeable campaign donations from Democrats to McCabe's wife, Jill, during her campaign for the Virginia State Senate. The investigation found that McCabe instructed FBI lawyer Lisa Page and FBI public affairs chief Michael Kortan to work with the Journal's reporter to set the record straight... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/05/new-details-about-basis-for-andrew-mccabes-firing-from-fbi-revealed.html

VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5764872232001/

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Dept of Justice Grants House and Senate 

Intel Committee Full Access To Review FISA Application

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Until today the only people allowed to review the full Title-1 FISA application were Trey Gowdy, scum-Adam Schiff, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Rep John Ratcliffe... In an interesting development, the Department of Justice has responded to HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes notifying him the DOJ will allow all members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees full access to review the unredacted FBI/DOJ FISA application used to gain a Title-1 surveillance warrant against U.S. citizen Carter Page. ‘Separately, Justice Department spokesman Ian Prior said the department on Monday will supplement its document production to the House Judiciary Committee by producing another 1,000 pages of materials in response to a subpoena issued by committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte.’ This is an interesting development for several reasons...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/04/06/breaking-dept-of-justice-grants-house-and-senate-intel-committee-full-access-to-review-fisa-application/

VIDEO 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFrB50Cy-co

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

VIDEO 3:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qOFwf3QxZ

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Paul Manafort says FBI illegally 

searched storage unit containing Ukraine files

by Al Weaver

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Trump's 2016 campaign, has asked a federal judge to throw out all evidence... in his criminal trial that was obtained when the FBI searched a storage unit that contained materials related to work by him and Rick Gates in Ukraine. Manafort's lawyers on Friday issued a motion to suppress evidence, which would disallow special counsel Robert Mueller from using the evidence from the Alexandria, Va.-based storage unit. "The evidence obtained from the government's search of the storage unit should be suppressed," said the lawyers in the motion. Kevin Downing and Thomas Zehnle, Manafort's lawyers, say that FBI agent searched the unit on May 26, 2017, and only did so "after obtaining 'consent' to do so from a former low-level employee of Davis Manafort Partners, Inc." They added that the low-level employee "had no actual authority to allow the FBI Agent into the premises."...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/paul-manafort-says-fbi-illegally-searched-storage-unit-containing-ukraine-files 

by Cal Thomas 
{ townhall.com } ~ Fox News host Laura Ingraham has apologized, as has the network, for nothing more serious than her tweet: "David Hogg rejected by four colleges to which he applied and whines about it. Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA ... totally predictable given acceptance rates."

The 17-year-old Hogg, a survivor of the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is the new face of the anti-gun movement, having achieved overnight victim status, reserved, apparently, only for those on the left, which supposedly insulates him from criticism.

Hogg rejected Ingraham's apology and called her a "bully." Whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me"? If Hogg thinks he is being bullied by Ingraham, how would he react to a real bully, the kind who punches you in the face?

Instead of adopting a "poor me" stance, Hogg should have asked to appear on Ingraham's show where the two could have debated the issues. He didn't make this request; instead he swiped at Ingraham in the media. Isn't there something a little cowardly about that?

I first met Laura Ingraham in the early '80s when she was a student at Dartmouth College. Even then she was smart, articulate and opinionated. She and two male colleagues got into a battle with the college administration over a student publication called "The Dartmouth Review." The conservative campus newspaper often satirized the growing political correctness movement, including attempts by the school to remove its Native American mascot.

Laura is a kind, compassionate woman and a practicing Roman Catholic. She is a single mother of three adopted children who might have experienced a far different life without her. She is also a breast cancer survivor.

The left says things far worse than what she tweeted about David Hogg. My hate mail makes her remarks seem tame by comparison, but I don't demand apologies. I can take it.

Speaking of comparisons, recall what Joy Behar said on ABC's "The View" about Vice President Mike Pence's Christian faith. She mocked his beliefs and suggested they might reflect a mental illness.

Apparently under similar pressure from ABC, Behar apologized on the air and went further, calling the vice president and apologizing to him directly, which he graciously accepted.

In an interview with The Outline, Hogg spewed the worst profanities and insulted parents, who he thinks are stupid because they are not fluent in social media. Where is parental discipline when it's needed most? If he were my kid and behaved as he does, he'd be grounded. If the behavior continued, he'd have to find somewhere else to live.

Some sponsors have pulled their commercials from Ingraham's show, as some did after Behar's insulting remark.

This is the wrong approach. Instead of boycotts and threats, how about celebrating the First Amendment by encouraging people to say what they think? Then viewers can decide whether to "buy" what a program is selling or change channels. That was what the left said to do in the 1980s when conservatives were upset by some TV programming. "If you don't like it, change the channel," they said. If that was an option then, why isn't it an option now?

Debate is better than boycotts and pressure, egged on by groups that raise funds from this type of controversy. The country and its politics would benefit from genuine debate, rather than attempts to silence people with whom we might disagree.

Let David Hogg speak his immature mind and let Laura Ingraham have her say. And then let them debate each other, assuming Hogg doesn't want to adopt another role, that of coward.

Monday Top Headlines 

by Political Editors:  Trump signs memo ordering end to “catch and release” practices (The Hill)

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Massachusetts U.S. district judge rules Second Amendment does not apply to “assault weapons” (Reason)

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London’s mayor declares “knife control” policies to stop record murder rates (The Daily Wire)

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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s key female advisor arrested for firearm possession (Free Beacon)

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South Carolina secession bill introduced over gun rights (The Washington Times)

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Trump threatens “Animal Assad,” Putin over alleged chemical attack in Syria (CBS News)

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Iran threatens to restart nuke enrichment program in matter of days … as if they ever stopped (The Washington Free Beacon)

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Xi takes center stage to defend China’s trade from Trump barrage (Bloomberg)

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Trade appeasement: China puppet North Korea confirms talks on denuclearization (Bloomberg)

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Tip of the iceberg — Facebook suspends another data analytics firm after CNBC discovers it was using tactics like Cambridge Analytica (CNBC)

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Feds seize Backpage website, charge founder after human-trafficking investigation (USA Today)

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Humor: Movement that demands forceful silencing of all opposing viewpoints unsure why nation so divided (The Babylon Bee)

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Policy: Understanding the hidden $1.1 trillion welfare system and how to reform it (The Heritage Foundation)

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Policy: Trade wars have no winners, only badly damaged survivors (Investor’s Business Daily)   

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55237-monday-top-headlines

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Farrell - 99% Guarantee Sessions 

and DOJ Engaged in Classic Cover Up

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Gregg Jarrett quotes critics of the appointment of John Huber to an as yet ambiguous and undefined position... as some sort of investigator into the misconduct at DOJ as he did on the day of the announcement, as window dressing. He says it’s clear to him that this was all just engineered by Rod Rosenstein to placate members of Congress and those who have been critical of the DOJ.” Judicial Watch’s Chris Farrell describes the still unexplained position as “the usual condescending pat on the head.” He says, “If you read the announcement letter that the Attorney General sent over to Grassley” and two others, “he uses every word except investigate, prosecute. It’s all he’ll review and consult.”goodness sakes, where all the witnesses and documents are in Washington. Jarrett asks Farrell, “Do you think Jeff Sessions is in on it or is he just so utterly clueless that he doesn’t know the wool is being pulled over his eyes by Rod Rosenstein?” Farrell says he doesn’t know Sessions well enough to make that call, but that “the outcome, the results, the conduct is pathetic.”...  https://rickwells.us/farrell-sessions-doj-classic-cover/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZXjpnI5gk4

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Understanding the Hidden $1.1 Trillion Welfare 

System and How to Reform It

by Robert Rector and Vijay Menon 

{ heritage.org } ~ The true cost of welfare or aid to the poor is largely unknown because the spending is fragmented into myriad programs... Current welfare is focused largely on increasing benefits and enrollments and redistributing income. Self-defeating behaviors that increase the need for assistance are rarely even mentioned. Policymakers should replace welfare’s current focus with a new set of interlinked goals: reducing self-defeating and self-limiting behaviors, increasing self-support, and improving true human well-being. Welfare reform should (1) require all able-bodied adult recipients to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving aid, (2) remove the substantial penalties against marriage within the welfare system, and (3) fund programs aimed at improving behavior on a payment-for-outcome basis rather than today’s fee-for-service basis...  https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2018-04/BG3294_4.pdf
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France: Soon with No Jews?

by Guy Millière

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ A year ago, in Paris, on April 4, 2017, Sarah Halimi, an elderly Jew, was horribly tortured and murdered in her home in Paris... then thrown from her window by a man shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("Allah is the greatest") . She had reported to the police several times that she was the victim of anti-Semitic threats -- in vain. Less than a year later in Paris, another elderly -- and disabled -- Jew, Mireille Knoll, was raped, tortured and murdered in her apartment by another Muslim extremist. Mrs. Knoll, a Holocaust survivor, had also contacted the police to say that she had been threatened. Again, the police did nothing. For months, the French justice system tried to cover-up the anti-Semitic nature of Sarah Halimi's murder; the judge in charge of Mireille Knoll's case at least recognized the anti-Semitic nature of her murder at once. Both women were victims of an anti-Semitic hatred that is rising quickly in France...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12121/france-no-jews

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US blocks Arab-led UN call 

for independent probe of Gaza protests 

by timesofisrael.com 

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ The United States for a second week in a row blocked a UN Security Council statement supporting the right of Palestinians... to “demonstrate peacefully” and endorsing Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ call for an independent investigation into deadly protests in Gaza. Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour told reporters at UN headquarters in New York on Friday evening that 14 of the 15 council nations agreed to the statement, but the United States, Israel’s closest ally, objected. Mansour called the US rejection “very irresponsible,” saying it gave Israel “the green light to continue with their onslaught against the civilian population” in Gaza... Palestinians are not peaceful at all. Mansour you are lying and covering up the true facts.  https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-blocks-arab-led-un-call-for-independent-probe-of-gaza-protests/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=96825860f0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-96825860f0-54638825 

ICE Employer Raid Captures 97 Illegals Working in Slaughterhouse

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted their largest workplace raid in a decade... at a meatpacking plant in Tennessee on Thursday, picking up 97 illegal aliens working in violation of immigration law. It’s not as if they and their employer haven’t been warned. Most of the illegals were Mexicans, with ten arrested on federal criminal charges and another on state charges. The remaining 86 were picked up for suspicion of being squatting in the United States illegally. Local illegal alien advocacy groups immediately flew into rage and outrage. Stephanie Teatro, Director of a group called the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, complained that the illegals in the state were frightened by the raid...  https://rickwells.us/ice-employer-raid-illegals/ 

by Byron York 
{townhall.com} ~ Recently, I took part in a debate on the question "Does the Russia investigation endanger the rule of law?" I said yes.

First, a caveat. If "endanger the rule of law" means "destroys our legal order and threatens our democracy," then no, I don't think the Trump-Russia investigation does that. But if it means "involves our nation's most powerful law enforcement and intelligence agencies in reckless political conduct that undermines our system of elections and the orderly transfer of power," then yes, the Trump-Russia investigation does, in fact, endanger the rule of law.

Two incidents from 2016 and early 2017 point to the danger posed by overzealous Trump-Russia investigators.

The first is that the Justice Department used the Logan Act, which bars private Americans from conducting foreign policy, as a pretense to pursue an investigation against the Trump team.

The Logan Act was passed in 1799 and has never been used to successfully prosecute anybody. No one has even tried since the 19th century. It is, by any practical measure, dead -- look up the legal concept of "desuetude."

And yet, in the summer of 2016, some prominent Democrats began accusing Trump of violating the Logan Act. They said he broke the law by sarcastically encouraging Russia to release liar-Hillary Clinton's famous deleted emails. Several called for hearings.

Then, after Trump's victory, stunned and angry Democrats watched him prepare for the presidency -- and prepare to undo many of Barack liar-nObama's policies.

Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman introduced the "One President at a Time Act of 2016," which would specifically subject presidents-elect to the Logan Act. Rep. John Conyers, then the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the Justice Department to investigate Trump for a possible violation of the Logan Act.

All of that was just political posturing -- not a threat to the rule of law. But unbeknownst to the public, the liar-nObama Justice Department was using the Logan Act as a pretext to take action against the incoming administration.

When intelligence intercepts picked up Michael Flynn, the incoming national security adviser, talking to the Russian ambassador in late December, the liar-nObama Justice Department saw that as a possible violation of the Logan Act. It wasn't; many foreign policy experts saw nothing wrong with that.

Nevertheless, four days into the Trump administration, Sally Yates, the liar-nObama holdover leading the Justice Department, sent agents to the White House to question Flynn, ostensibly on the suspicion that he might have violated the Logan Act.

It was that interview that ultimately resulted in Flynn pleading guilty to one count of lying to the FBI.

The bottom line is, the Flynn saga, which is at the heart of the Trump-Russia investigation, appears to have hinged on a trumped-up suspicion that a new administration had broken a centuries-old law that has never been prosecuted before -- when, in fact, the new administration's real transgression was to make clear it would throw away many of its predecessor's policies.

The second incident that suggests the Trump investigation threatens the rule of law is the FBI's use of the Trump dossier -- a liar-Clinton campaign opposition research product -- as a part of its counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.

To compile the dossier, a Democratic law firm hired the opposition research group Fusion GPS, which hired a former British spy named Christopher Steele, who paid a number of Russian "collectors," who then talked to other Russians, who provided gossip about Trump. The most spectacular gossip is the dossier's description of Trump, in a Moscow hotel room in 2013, watching as prostitutes played out a kinky sex scene.

Steele took his material to the FBI, and the bureau agreed to pay Steele to keep gathering dirt on Trump -- an astonishing development in the midst of a presidential election.

And even though the pay-for-dirt deal fell through, the FBI still incorporated the dossier into its Trump-Russia investigation. It was used as the basis to ask a secret court to grant a warrant to wiretap an American, Carter Page, in October 2016.

Now fast-forward to the transition. In early January 2017, intelligence chiefs James Comey, John Brennan, Mike Rogers and James Clapper traveled to Trump Tower to brief the president-elect on Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 campaign.

After the briefing, by a plan they had devised earlier, three of them left the room, leaving Comey alone with Trump. Comey gave Trump a summary of the dossier, including the Moscow sex scene.

Imagine that. The very first time the incoming president met the FBI director face-to-face, the FBI's message was: We know about you and those hookers in Moscow.

In their new book "Russian Roulette," authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn report Trump thought the FBI was blackmailing him:

"Trump had seen this sort of thing before," they write. "Certainly, his old mentor Roy Cohn -- the notorious fixer for mobsters and crooked pols -- knew how this worked. So too did Comey's famous predecessor J. Edgar Hoover, who had quietly let it be known to politicians and celebrities that he possessed information that could destroy their careers in a New York minute."

The intel chiefs' briefing of Trump soon leaked to the media. And the fact that top officials had seen fit to tell the incoming president about the dossier made it a legitimate news story. Within hours, Buzzfeed published the entire dossier on the internet.

As Sen. Charles clown-Schumer said as all this was happening: "You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you."

With the Logan Act, liar-nObama holdovers used a dead law as a pretense to push the Trump investigation. With the dossier, they used unverified opposition research not only to investigate the Trump campaign, but to execute a clever maneuver to make the dirt public.

And this was all done by the nation's top law enforcement and intelligence officials, targeting a new president. So yes, it is reasonable to say the Trump-Russia investigation endangers the rule of law.

Trump Orders End to Catch and Release - 

Review of Potential Detention Facilities 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ President Trump signed a memorandum on Friday instructing federal agencies to “expeditiously end” the practice of “catch and release”... which equates to a free pass into the interior of the country for illegal aliens, and a court date that most entertain no intention of showing up for. Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with other agencies, to prepare and submit a report to him within 45 days “detailing all measures that their respective departments have pursued or are pursuing to expeditiously end ‘catch and release’ practices.” The memo directs all departments to, among other things, share information on any contracts to construct or operate detention facilities adjacent to the southern border and any efforts to station asylum officers at detention facilities... https://rickwells.us/trump-catch-release-detention/ 

FEMA Announces That Americans Are On Their Own

by Dave Hodges

{ thecommonsenseshow.com } ~ They say preppers should wear tin foil hats. However, preppers may be the only people that survives what is coming... There is too much going on for their not to be some future disruption of sevices. Shocking Statement, ~Brock Long, Head of FEMA In a statement during a recent interview, FEMA administrator. FEMA is now admitting that the agency can’t manage and lead emergency response efforts for every single disaster. As a result it has a new strategic plan for the next four years. Another glaring alarm is that FEMA wants to turn over the recovery portion of the Emergency Management Cycle to the state and locals.   receive federal funding, even for a dollar.

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/fema-announces-that-americans-are-on-their-own/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fema-announces-that-americans-are-on-their-own

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7Ay9zaPTw

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Ignorance: The Greatest Threat to Black Americans

by Lloyd Marcus

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Turning 65, my relative is about to retire from her job as a Baltimore City transit bus-driver. She said she is extremely tired of having to deal with black people with entitlement mindsets... Self-preservation has taught her not to argue with thugs boarding her bus, refusing to pay the fare. Upon asking a gentleman to pay his bus fare, he exploded in anger, ranting about how a black man can't catch a break in this f****** country. He excoriated my relative for being a black woman unwilling to give a black man a break. My relative wisely kept silent as not to escalate the situation. She angrily retorted in her brain, "A black man needs to work! Why do you think someone owes you something? I do not like to work. But work is what I must do to enjoy the life I live -- my home, car and etc. It is called being a responsible adult, doing what one has to do."...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/ignorance_the_greatest_threat_to_black_americans.html

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liar-nObama Connection to 

Andrew McCabe Legal Defense Hush Money

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Andrew McCabe collected over half a million dollars towards his legal expenses from a GoFundMe page... where leftists who support the politicization of law enforcement for the advancement of their agenda helped provide the financial means for him to fight being held accountable for his crimes. That he lied to the FBI is in dispute only in the unfounded denials of McCabe, pleading for mercy from a system that would never consider extending it to a mere citizen. He didn’t mean to lie four times under oath, they were four accidents. We all make mistakes. But that GoFundMe wasn’t set up by McCabe personally, his lobbyists did it for him. And he’s got plenty of money to pay them now. It’s also not an accident that they are connected to Hussein liar-nObama, one of the many people that McCabe is still covering for at DOJ and someone he could spill the beans on if things don’t go his way. The last thing they want is for him to get desperate for cash... https://rickwells.us/obama-mccabe-hush-money/ 

When the Lie Becomes a Pillar of the State

by Fay Voshell

{ americanthinker.com } ~ It was the film’s most wonderfully stirring scene. Cheering crowds, including newly released concentration camp victims still in their black and white striped prison garb... swarmed to meet Comrade Stalin, who had descended from the sky in his personal plane to celebrate the Russian victory over the last Nazi forces in Berlin.  “Glory to Stalin! He is forever true,” the crowd shouted and sang. They simply could not contain their euphoria. Stalin, clad in a snow white, bemedaled jacket matched with crisp, sharply creased black trousers, slowly descended the stairs. He then greeted the victorious military leaders one by one, all the while graciously accepting the acclaim of the fevered mob...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/when_the_lie_becomes_a_pillar_of_the_state.html

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Dems' Goal: Make Illegals a Legal Voting Block 

by Political Editors:  The Democrat party used to tout itself as the party most concerned with representing the working middle class, blue-collar America, the little guy. Under this guise, Democrat candidates would embrace trade unions while regularly preaching against the abuses of big business. However, over the last few years Democrats have taken a harder turn to the Left. A radical leftism has grown within the party ranks, and the party of the “little guy” has turned up its nose at middle America. In stead of seeking to advocate for the rights of everyday Americans, Democrats are now mocking them and labeling them as the problem.

               The politics of class warfare has long been a staple of the Democrat party and it has always been home to an elitist class desiring to force its socialist ideology upon the rest of America. However, this elitism has never been so pronounced or so out of touch with everyday Americans as it is today. Democrats, it can be argued, are campaigning against America and its history. And nowhere is this reality more evident than in the sanctuary state of California — a state long controlled by Democrats.
               In 2013, California passed Assembly Bill 60, which granted illegal aliens the right to obtain legal driver’s licenses. Since the bill’s passage, more than one million illegals have obtained licenses. Investor’s Business Daily explains, “Providing documents to ‘undocumented immigrants,’ of course, merely makes them ‘immigrants.’ That’s the intent, we suppose, of a law that makes it not only legal but easy to remain in California, even if you commit felonies once you are here. All they have to do, thanks to that 2013 law, is ‘prove their identity and residence within the state.’”
               Democrats are transitioning from using the issue of illegal immigration as a means for advocating higher wages to now turning and pressing for legalization of illegals as the party seeks to build a new voter bloc to replace the largely abandoned middle working class and blue-collar Americans and their values. How else does one explain the comments from presumed 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris? Harris tweeted last month, “For the second year in a row, few undocumented youth applied for financial aid in California because they are distrustful of our government. This is a direct product of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. No one in America should ever have to live in fear of our government.” The intent is clear, Democrats’ long-term strategy and goal is to make illegal aliens legal, granting them the right to vote, and in so doing replace their dwindling traditional base.   
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55202-dems-goal-make-illegals-a-legal-voting-block

The following pretty much tells you all you need to know about what's going on in America now. In 2001 I was prosecuting a class action suit against Hillary & DOD to recover the earned, promised, no cost lifetime healthcare 4 retired military. One of the class members called me and said I should look at the website for the Progressive Caucus, then look at the website for the Communist Party of America. The platform issues were identical, word for word. Not trusting the Internet I went to Pelosi's office in D.C. the following week to hear from the horse's mouth a denial or confirmation. Instead I got a staffer who never answered my questions. Two days later I flew back to San Antonio, looked on the website again, and the platform had been totally erased. I told many people about it, but since it was no longer there, they didn't believe me. Then in 2012, LTC. USA, Ret. Alan West found the same thing, somehow, but the media squashed the story, but if you google Alan West/2012/Communist Party/Progressive Caucus, you'll see his version of how he knows that the Progressive Caucus, all of its members (70 at the time), 7 all of those afraid to come out of the communist closet, are nothing less than communists in our very own Congress. Check it out for yourself. Twitter tries to block my conservative messages like this one, so ignore them; I do. Instead, I prefer to communicate at my web page: http://PatriotsVotingCoalition.weebly.com   click Contact & tell us 3 things you'd like to see our government do next. You may also want to read a free copy of "The Real Communist Plot", which is posted on the site. Earl

Sessions DOJ Ignores Congress' Subpoena 

Deadline -Coup, liar-Clinton Cover Up Continue

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ AG Jeff Sessions’ obstruction of justice and covering for the deep state criminals in the Justice Department continues... with the missing of the deadline to submit documents ordered in a subpoena by the House Judiciary Committee. Those documents, which have been withheld since mid-2017, relate to a variety of issues, most notably the sham investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton regarding her criminal conduct around her emails. The documents in question also deal with FISA Warrant abuses, that include likely criminal conduct by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, and the stifling of the liar-Clinton Foundation investigations. Judiciary Chairman Goodlatte issued the subpoena to DOJ two weeks ago after four months of waiting for a response to a written request issued four months earlier. The noon deadline came and went on Friday without the subpoenaed documents being provided...

https:///sessions-doj-subpoena-coup/

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Can Governors Refuse Trump’s Request 

To Send The National Guard To The Border?

by Emily Larsen

{ checkyourfact.com } ~ Trump’s memorandum requires the consent of governors to send National Guard troops to the border. If governors refuse, he could try different legal tools to deploy the Guard... Lieu sent the tweet after Trump signed a memorandum  Wednesday requesting the use of the National Guard to help fight drug trafficking... illegal immigration and gang activity at the border. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown also said Wednesday that if Trump asked her to deploy Oregon National Guard troops to the border, she would refuse. The National Guard is unique from other military branches in that operates under both state and federal authority. The geographically diverse guard troops can bridge the “zone of ambiguity” across governments to more effectively respond to natural disasters or other emergencies. Guard troops primarily serve their state but answer to both their governor and the president. Lieu is correct that the authority Trump cites in his memorandum allows governors to refuse the request to send National Guard troops to the border. The president can legally utilize the Guard though two legal statues: Title 32 or Title 10... http://checkyourfact.com/2018/04/06/fact-check-national-guard-border/?utm_medium=email

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Governor Revolts, Refuses to Order Nat’l Guard to Border 

by RANDY DESOTO 

{ conservativetribune.com } ~ Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown announced on Wednesday that she would not comply with President Donald Trump’s request... to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border if asked to do so. Trump issued a proclamation that same day calling on the defense secretary to “request use of National Guard personnel” to secure the border. The president cited the flow of illicit drugs, MS-13 gang activity and illegal immigration as his reasons for the move. NPR reported all the recent presidents including Barack liar-nObama, George W. Bush, liar-Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan have ordered National Guard troops to the border, citing drug smuggling and illegal immigration. Oregon’s Gov. Brown, like her California counterpart, has been an outspoken critic of Trump. Maybe Brown needs to care more about her charge of protecting her citizens and less about trying to score political points against Trump, if she truly wants to lead her state.  https://conservativetribune.com/governor-refuses-natl-guard-border/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativevideos&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance 

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Trump’s New Russian Sanctions Target Putin’s Inner Circle 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQ2idy0IWs

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Levin: Mueller Is Rogue Prosecutor Investigating Nothing

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

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Citizen’s Emotional Pro-2nd Amendment Speech To City Council Goes Viral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo_X53dNTS8

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Tom Fitton: ‘Did 1.1 MILLION People Vote ILLEGALLY for liar-Hillary Clinton?’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=nzfsDN_Uj7A

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Hamas Is Destroying Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MxI_XENV9Y

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BET Founder: The Economy Is Growing Due To Trump’s Tax Cuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=2dnDVn_-F3U

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Sarah Palin: It’s Obvious Why Dems Don’t Want Secure Border

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIULx35lSfQ

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Murders Can’t Be Up, They Have STRICT GUN LAWS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43nh_tFcU-k

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Mike Huckabee On Trump’s Tariffs: We Have Played The Chump Long Enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2viOVGmcTs

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Virgin Galactic Tests New Spaceship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAI5uTt6994
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George Washington University Tackles

'Christian Privilege' 

by Jordan Candler:  Multiculturalism is rearing its ugly head at George Washington University (GWU), where students are being indoctrinated in 15 workshops ostensibly geared toward destroying various forms of “privilege.” We’re accustomed these days to hearing terms like “white privilege,” but GWU’s Multicultural Student Services Center is going even further by demeaning all God-fearing people with a workshop called, “Christian Privilege: But Our Founding Fathers Were All Christian, Right?!” The workshop was scheduled for Thursday.

               Earlier this week, The College Fix reported, “The event will teach that Christians enjoy a privileged, easier life than their non-Christian counterparts, and that Christians possess ‘built-in advantages’ today, according to its online description. The workshop will also discuss how Christians receive ‘unmerited perks from institutions and systems all across our country.’” In what alternate universe?
               Interestingly, the Fix goes on to note, “By the end of the training, the organizers want participants to be able to name ‘at least three examples of Christian privilege’ and ‘at least three ways to be an ally with a non-Christian person,’ the website states.” As Christians already know, one core tenant of genuine Christianity is to show grace and mercy (i.e. “be an ally”) toward sinners and unbelievers. Meanwhile, some Islamists, particularly in the Middle East, systemically enslave women, rape them and treat them like garbage. They also kill or persecute “infidels” and perpetuate jihad. Where’s the denunciation of this extremely violent form of privilege?
               The workshop could only redeem itself if it pointed out, as Peter Heck does, that “Christians are privileged to join as heirs in a Kingdom that was not ours and that we’ve done absolutely nothing to earn.” But of course that’s not the angle George Washington University planned to take, and it’s a shame. As Heck notes, “You want to know what privilege is? True privilege? It’s that ‘while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.’ The truth is you can’t really know privilege unless you are a Christian.” What a refreshing and thoroughly Christian take on the subject.
               In 1788, George Washington wrote, “The hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.” Something for the students at George Washington University to think about.   
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55179-george-washington-university-tackles-christian-privilege

Europe Will Now Decide if the Iran Deal Survives

by Mark Dubowitz 

{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ If you heard a series of loud booms on March 22, they probably came from the exploding heads of many in the American and European political elite... following the appointment of John Bolton as White House national security adviser. With the ascension of this “hawk,” President liar-nObama’s nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic of Iran appears to be on life support. Whether the deal survives is effectively Europe’s choice, but Mr. Trump must be prepared to accept a real fix if it’s offered. On Jan. 12, Mr. Trump laid out three conditions for the Europeans to meet for the U.S. to remain in the nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. First, eliminate the provisions under which key nuclear restrictions expire over time. Second, constrain Tehran’s nuclear-capable long-range missile program. Finally, allow for the inspection of military sites where the regime conducted clandestine nuclear activities in the past and may be doing so now. If the Europeans do not agree to these demands by May 12, Mr. Trump will impose powerful economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. The U.S., France, the U.K. and Germany negotiated the 2015 deal, along with Iran, China and Russia. Beijing and Moscow aren’t likely to agree to a fix. But the Europeans are another story: They are massively invested in the U.S. and remain critical business partners for the Iranians. Europe is exposed to American secondary sanctions against Iran, and it has economic leverage over Tehran. Europeans also fear U.S. or Israeli military action against the Islamic Republic... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/dubowitz-mark-europe-will-now-decide-if-the-iran-deal-survives/

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Sen. dinky-Elizabeth Undermines President Trump 

with her ‘Apology Tour’ Across the World 

by patrioticviralnews.com 

{ patrioticviralnews.com } ~ Normally when a Democrat in Congress or a Republican “Never Trumper” mouths off about foreign policy... the American people pop some popcorn and sit back to see how President Trump will eviscerate them on Twitter. We’re easy to please with our candidate in the White House, thank you very much. But when a Democrat Senator hoping to run for president in 2020 criticizes and undermines our nation’s foreign policy on foreign soil, it becomes a whole new ballgame. Sen. Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” dinky-Warren may have really stepped in it with her recent visit to China. In fact, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should have the Justice Department open an investigation for the possibility that Fauxcahontas violated the Logan Act, which has been settled law since 1799. The Logan Act bans unauthorized persons — including US Senators — from butting into negotiations that the US government is having with foreign powers. Whether Sen. dinky-Warren likes President Trump’s foreign policy or not, he is the current Commander in Chief and his foreign policy is, for all intents and purposes, the policy of the US government. The Logan Act effectively works as an anti-treason law — and dinky-Warren may be guilty of violating it... http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/sen-elizabeth-undermines-president-trump-with-her-apology-tour-across-the-world/

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Poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal 

no longer in critical condition, hospital says 

by Kathleen Joyce 

{ foxnews.com } ~ Sergei Skripal, the former Russian spy who was poisoned in the UK last month... is no longer in critical condition and is responding to treatment, Salisbury District Hospital said Friday. Hospital officials said Skripal is "responding well to treatment" and is "improving rapidly," Sky News reported. The BBC reported Skripal was conscious and speaking. Skripal, 66, along with his daughter, Yulia Skripal, 33, were poisoned with novichok, a Soviet-engineered nerve agent, in the southwestern city of Salisbury on March 4. The two were found unconscious on a public bench before being transported and treated at Salisbury District Hospital...

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/04/06/poisoned-former-russian-spy-sergei-skripal-no-longer-in-critical-condition-hospital-says.html

VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5759955379001/

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Chappaquiddick the Movie: Crime, Corruption, Collusion, Coverup 

by Steve Byas

{ thenewamerican.com } ~ If you are hoping to see a credible cinematic portrayal of a corrupt U.S. senator, intoxicated with power, privilege, and prestige... who leaves a girl to die and then swings into damage-control mode to rescue his own political career, this movie will not disappoint. No normal-length movie could possibly cover the complexities of the event in the summer of 1969, known simply as “Chappaquiddick,” after the island off the coast of Massachusetts, where Senator Edward Kennedy’s presidential ambitions vanished after he left a young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, to die in his submerged Oldsmobile in a tidal pond. Yet, this film, through the expert cinematic efforts of director John Curran and screenwriters Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan, comes as close as one can expect from a movie attempting to explain an event that is still shrouded in some mystery. What is known ultimately kept Ted Kennedy from having a reasonable chance of being elected president, and the film covers the known quite well. It opens with Kennedy, played in a sterling performance by Jason Clarke, walking back to the cottage where he and five other men all but one married, without their wives were having a party — referred to as a “cookout” — with six single young women. But on his return to the party, he has left behind Mary Jo Kopechne, the woman who departed with him...

https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/movies/item/28681-chappaquiddick-the-movie-crime-corruption-collusion-coverup
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Ex-CIA Head Quizzed On Trump-Russia

 Ties- Full House Intelligence Hearing

by Michael McIntee

{ youtube.com } ~ Former CIA Director John Brennan has said an investigation into possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and the Kremlin is "well-founded"... He told the House Intelligence Committee he was aware of intelligence showing contact between Russian officials and "US persons involved in the Trump campaign". Mr Brennan said the Russians "brazenly interfered" in last November's US elections and were "very aggressive". But he said he did not know if the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow. Mr Brennan, who stepped down as CIA director in January, testified on Tuesday: "I encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and US persons involved in the Trump campaign that I was concerned about because of known Russian efforts to suborn such individuals. "It raised questions in my mind whether or not Russia was able to gain the co-operation of those individuals."  VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdJ3OZS928Q 

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At Last — A Military Religious Liberty Win 

by Jordan Candler:  A win for religious liberty in the military is not something we hear much of these days, but alas, miracles occasionally do happen. Leland Bohannon is a colonel in the Air Force who was unfairly denied the rank of one-star general last year. A longtime friend of his explains in a blog post the events that led to “Bo’s” being denied a promotion:

Important – Catherine Herridge Confirms Lisa Page Statements

Contradicted Andrew McCabe, Ultimately Leading to His Firing

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Fox News Catherine Herridge reports today, per her FBI investigative sources... it was an investigative interview with FBI Attorney Lisa Page, in July 2017, that contradicted FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and ultimately led to his firing. That revelation is exactly what we anticipated was the origin to Inspector General Michael Horowitz gaining the text messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. The issue is actually more stunning than presented.  However, first here’s the report from Herridge. In May, June and July 2017, while FBI Deputy Director Andrew “Andy” McCabe was lying to FBI investigators and the Inspector General, Lisa Page was working for McCabe as his legal counsel. Therein lies the heart and origin of the motive for Lisa Page to flip against the conspiracy group when she discovered Andrew McCabe lying to investigators about his instructions to her...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/04/05/important-catherine-herridge-confirms-lisa-page-statements-contradicted-andrew-mccabe-ultimately-leading-to-his-firing/ 

Iran Continues to Hide Past Nuclear Weapons Work 

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Iran continues to hide key work it undertook on nuclear weapons development while perfecting ballistic missile technology... that could carry such a weapon, according to a new report from a senior Israeli military official that has fueled calls from Trump administration insiders and Congress to nix the deal ahead of a May deadline. Significant flaws in the original nuclear deal reached by the liar-nObama administration with Iran has enabled Iran's ballistic missile program and permitted the Islamic Republic to obfuscate ongoing work on nuclear enrichment and possible weaponization technologies, according to Jacob Nagel, the former head of Israel's National Security Council. Loopholes in the original agreement have allowed Iran to continue working on advanced nuclear centrifuges that can enrich uranium—the key component in a nuclear weapon—at least 15 to 20 times faster than original models of these devices, according to Nagel, who is serving as a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, or FDD...

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-continues-hide-past-nuclear-weapons-work/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=ff0f3b234c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-ff0f3b234c-45611665

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commie-Bernie Sanders Finally Admits 

the Ugly Truth About the Democratic Party

by CILLIAN ZEAL

{ conservativetribune.com } ~ Over a year after the Democrats relinquished control of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Barack liar-nObama’s legacy is being chipped away at, day after day... And it’s not just his legacy — it’s also the legacy that Democrats tried to build during their opposition to the Bush administration. It’s almost like the last 15 years or so have been a failure for the Democrats. But don’t take my word for it — take commie-Bernie Sanders’. At an event Wednesday, the socialist independent senator and rumpled Clarence Darrow impersonator from Vermont told an audience that “the last 15 years or so has been a failure” for the Democrats. It’s almost like commie-Bernie Sanders was reading my mind. The remarks came during an appearance in Jackson, Mississippi at of course a “forum for economic justice” honoring the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, during which The New York Times speculated he was trying to court black voters... https://conservativetribune.com/bernie-sanders-ugly-truth/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune

VIDEO:   https://conservativetribune.com/bernie-sanders-ugly-truth/

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The Battle of Woke Island 

by Matthew Continetti

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Toward the end of Vanity Fair‘s story on the "woke civil war" at the New York Times came this revealing detail... To assuage employees concerned that the paper is not as progressive and socially conscious as it could or should be, publisher A.G. Sulzberger, opinion editor James Bennet, and others have been "holding office hours" where internal critics speak freely. I cannot be the only reader for whom the mere mention of office hours evokes memories of college, of mid-afternoon visits to professors for inquiry, flattery, argument, and complaint. Professors and students, lecturers and auditors participate in "office hours." Editors, reporters, private and public sector workers—all adults outside academia, really—do not. Instead we have these things called "meetings." For the uninitiated, they are mandatory and take place at my convenience. Here, then, is yet another example of how the politics and rhetoric of the university have slowly colonized America's economic, cultural, and political institutions, how recent graduates are carrying with them into the workforce all the bad ideas they learned from their humanities courses, independent research, and campus programming. I am talking about the modes and categories of identity politics, of viewing all human phenomena through the prism of race and gender and sometimes, though rarely, of class, of robbing individual human beings of their moral agency and reducing them to membership in a group, and of organizing these groups into a hierarchy of victimization and grievance...  http://freebeacon.com/columns/battle-woke-island/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=ff0f3b234c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-ff0f3b234c-45611665

Andrew McCabe’s GoFundMe Campaign 

Was Put Together by K Street PR Firm

by Colin Kalmbacher

{ lawandcrime.com } ~ Andrew McCabe recently raised over half a million dollars from small donors by way of crowdfunding platform GoFundMe... McCabe’s cash-collecting prowess was buoyed by several #Resistance-linked personalities and MSNBC’s own Rachel Maddow, who suggested McCabe should run for office because he’s so good at raising money. Was this apparent “grassroots effort” actually a PR campaign put together by high-priced, well-connected, and experienced PR professionals in order to take advantage of the #Resistance’s seething anger at the Trump administration? A Monday report in Slate suggested as much. Law&Crime  can now confirm that some of those allegations are true, while some of them appear to oversell the issues at hand.  At or around 2 p.m. on March 29, “Friends of Andrew McCabe” launched a GoFundMe page to raise money for the “Andrew McCabe Legal Defense Fund.” The unidentified authors of the GoFundMe described the reason for their fundraising effort as follows... https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/andrew-mccabes-gofundme-campaign-put-together-k-street-consulting-and-pr-firm/ 

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by Rick Noack 
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ Saudi Arabia appears to be in the middle of an attempt to rebrand the kingdom as progressive and, judging from the headlines since last year, the strategy appears to be working, at least to some extent.

Last September, the kingdom announced it would finally allow women to drive. One month later, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said he wanted to return to a "moderate Islam."

Now, in an interview with The Atlantic magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg, the crown prince has acknowledged that Jewish people have a right to their own homeland --- long a taboo for the conservative kingdom that was long known as a fierce foe of Israel's creation.

While Saudi Arabia in the past has talked about recognizing Israel in the context of a peace deal with the Palestinians, the crown prince's straight up acknowledgement that the Jews have a right to a homeland is the clearest statement to date.

On a practical level, Saudi Arabia has de-facto acknowledged that right since at least 2002 when it began sponsoring an initiative to foster a two-state solution - a solution that has also long been supported by the United States, even though with different premises. But officially, Saudi Arabia does not recognize the state of Israel.

While Saudi officials made Israel's withdrawal to its territory prior to the 1967 Israeli-Arab war a precondition for closer relations in the past, that fundamental demand was not explicitly repeated by the crown prince in the Atlantic interview.

"I believe that each people, anywhere, has a right to live in their peaceful nation. I believe the Palestinians and the Israelis have the right to have their own land. But we have to have a peace agreement to assure the stability for everyone and to have normal relations," he told The Atlantic.

The timing for the acknowledgment does not appear to be a coincidence, as it follows months of diplomatic gestures, including the opening of Saudi Arabia's airspace to commercial Israel-bound flights and the acknowledgment of backchannel communications between both governments.

After decades of threatening rhetoric, Saudi officials appear increasingly willing to strike a carefully conciliatory tone as they seek a new ally to confront their common arch enemy Iran and build stronger economic ties.

"Saudi Arabia has traditionally been a place that has produced a lot of anti-Semitic propaganda. Do you think you have a problem with anti-Semitism in your country?" Goldberg asked later in the Atlantic interview, to which Mohammed responded: "Our country doesn't have a problem with Jews. Our Prophet Muhammad married a Jewish woman. Not just a friend --- he married her."

"Our prophet, his neighbors were Jewish. You will find a lot of Jews in Saudi Arabia coming from America, coming from Europe. There are no problems between Christian and Muslims and Jews. We have problems like you would find anywhere in the world, among some people. But the normal sort of problems," said Mohammed, adding that there were "lot of interests we share," including economically.

The crown prince's economic reasoning laid out in the interview will likely play into the hands of critics who have long suspected the kingdom's progressive rebranding to be primarily a marketing ploy. When the crown prince announced a more "moderate Islam" last year, critics cautioned that the declaration might have more to do with boosting the kingdom's economy rather than reversing decades-old practices.

Mohammed, 32, has attempted to position himself as a favorite for the kingdom's younger citizens, who are less religious than older generations and are facing disproportionately high unemployment rates. The Saudi leader is currently pursuing a major reform plan, named Saudi Vision 2030, to revitalize the kingdom's economy.

The need for reforms may already have reversed at least some of the leadership's previous ultraconservative stances, including the driving ban for women. The step was widely interpreted as a sign that the modernizers within the Saudi government may have gained ascendance over the conservative hard-liners. Saudi Arabia's hard-liners have been under mounting pressure to agree to such proposals, as the kingdom has become increasingly engulfed in economic woes.

But the reforms have still been limited. Women's subordination to men remains unchanged and repressions against Shiites have continued --- despite Mohammed's assurances in the interview that all was well between Sunnis and Shiites in the country.

In fact, Crown Prince Mohammed has repeatedly stirred tensions against Iran, a majority-Shiite country. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper last year, he blamed Saudi Arabia's arch enemy Shiite Iran for Saudi Arabia's turn toward Wahhabism, an ultraconservative branch of Islam, which is being promoted by Riyadh both domestically and abroad. Religious scholars say that the Saudi state is deeply rooted in and has long been intimately entwined with Sunni Wahhabism. That same Islam was widely promoted in Muslim countries around the world, thanks to the Saudi state's deep pockets.

In the Atlantic interview, Mohammed nevertheless doubled down on his criticism, saying that "the Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good."

Opinion in Brief

David Limbaugh: “The Left’s crusade against Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt should be seen for what it is — a witch hunt. … This conspiratorially organized assault against Pruitt is precisely what Barack liar-nObama and his friends mean by community organizing. It is vicious, relentless street fighting aimed at discrediting Pruitt and taking him down because he is one of the rare administrative officials who won’t put politics above the law and will stand up to those who do. … Leftist activists and their media co-pilots are hellbent on disgracing Pruitt and destroying his reputation to effect his removal, so they are throwing all kinds of phony scandals against the wall of public opinion to pressure the White House to give them Pruitt’s head. The energy they are expending on this should tell you how important progressives view unelected, unaccountable administrative agencies in implementing their draconian regulations, which have been choking our individual liberties and wreaking havoc on our economy. … The Left considers Pruitt a hill to die on. So should we.”   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55199-friday-opinion

Border Patrol Official - US Laws 

Make Real Border Enforcement Almost Impossible

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitello tells responds to a question... of what would happen if the open borders lobby got their way and federal border enforcement disappeared, imperfect as it is. Vitello says, “The border’s a dangerous place. People are coming up from all over the world through Mexico and other places and you would have a much different situation in these big border cities if the border patrol wasn’t there, if the state and local law enforcement wasn’t there protecting people.” Carlson questions how much help the United States is really getting from Mexico in patrolling and controlling the border, given the debate that has amped up in recent days. He notes that rant from the Mexican Senate in which they called for an end to their participation in border security, asking what would happen if that enforcement was withdrawn... https://rickwells.us/border-patrol-us-laws-impossible/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP1VHkQgOAo

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State Department Records Show liar-Obama Administration Helped

Fund scum-George Soros’ Left-Wing Political Activities in Albania

by judicialwatch.org 

{ judicialwatch.org } ~ Judicial Watch obtained 32 pages of records showing the liar-nObama administration sent U.S. taxpayers’ funds... to a group backed by billionaire scum-George Soros, which used the money to fund left-wing political activities in Albania, including working with the country’s socialist government to push for highly controversial judicial “reform.” The records also detail how the scum-Soros operation helped the State Department review grant applications from other groups for taxpayer funding. The records were obtained in a May 26, 2017, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) after both the State Department and USAID failed to respond to March 31, 2017, FOIA requests Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (No. 1:17-cv-01012)). Judicial Watch agreed to dismiss the lawsuit after it received the documents and payment of attorneys’ fees. The new documents show USAID funds were funneled through that agency’s Civil Society Project to back scum-Soros’s left-wing Open Society Foundations in Albania, particularly the scum-Soros operation efforts to give the socialist government greater control of the judiciary. USAID reportedly gave $9 million in 2016 to the “Justice for All” campaign, which is overseen by scum-Soros’s “East West Management Institute.”... https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-doj-records-show-obama-administration-helped-fund-george-soros-left-wing-political-activities-albania/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newswatch&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180406163336
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Interview With Prepper: ‘We Were Held 

Without Charges’ For Survivalist Facebook Posts

by Mac Slavo

{ shtfplan.com } ~ It is no longer a conspiracy theory, but a fact that people are being specifically targeted for their participation in what some call “prepping” and others dub survivalism... A couple from California had their home raided and were held without charges for making non-violent posts on Facebook about survival techniques and thought-provoking discussions. We were able to sit down and chat with Sarah Leach about why the government felt it necessary to raid the home she shared with her husband over what amounted to thought-provoking Facebook posts. Although Leach admitted she wasn’t certain which particular Facebook post lead to the SWAT teams seizing all of their handguns and AR-15s,  she was sure nothing she had posted was violent. Leach said her posts were meant to provoke thought, and hold those accountable who have committed crimes orhuman rights violations. Leach was also able to get her story out to The Free Thought Project. The Leaches are the owners of a tactical supply company. Leach and her husband were violently arrested and then detained for hours with no explanation while their home was raided by a SWAT Team and their assets were seized. But it gets worse. The couple was detained for over 13 hours without charges before they were told the reason for their arrest....

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/interview-with-prepper-we-were-held-without-charges-for-survivalist-facebook-posts_04042018

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Israel’s Mossad Chief ‘100 Percent 

Certain’ Iran is Still Pursuing Nuclear Bombs

by Mary Chastain

{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ Another blow to President liar-nObama’s beloved Iran nuclear deal, so it’s no wonder it’s not plastered all over the news... Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency chief Yossi Cohen is “100 percent certain” that Iran has not abandoned the idea of possessing a nuclear bomb. Cohen called the nuclear deal a “terrible mistake,” saying it allows Iran to keep key elements of its nuclear program intact and will remove other restraints in a few years. “Then Iran will be able to enrich enough uranium for an arsenal of nuclear bombs,” Cohen said, according to the meeting participant, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing a classified security matter... https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/04/israels-mossad-chief-100-percent-certain-iran-is-still-pursuing-nuclear-bombs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Houston Area Councilwoman Slapped With Misdemeanor

 for Berating Trump Shirt Wearing Teenage Girl

by Kemberlee Kaye

{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ Four teenage girls were standing in line at Tiny’s Milk and Cookies in West University Place... a tiny municipality nestled within the Houston city limits. They were waiting to buy cookies for kids at their church. One of the teenaged-girls was wearing a Trump t-shirt that said, “Make America Great Again.” While waiting, West U Councilwoman Kellye Burke walked up to them and screamed, “Grab em by the p*ssy girls!” They tried to laugh it off, but Burke kept on. Again, she screamed expletives at the girls, who were then frightened. Burke then yelled “MAGA!” repeatedly while shaking her fist, according to one of the girl’s fathers, who accompanied them to the bakery. Burke was charged with a Class C misdemeanor for disorderly conduct. Burke apologized to one family. They accepted her apology... https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/04/houston-area-councilwoman-slapped-with-misdemeanor-for-berating-trump-shirt-wearing-teenage-girl/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29

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Trump Deploys Troops to Border 

by Thomas Gallatin:  President Donald Trump is following through with his plan to better secure the nation’s southern border. On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson announced that Trump is deploying the National Guard to the border to assist the Border Patrol. Neilson stated, “It’s time to act,” adding that the federal government has begun the process of working with state governors with the “hope that the deployment begins immediately.” Nielson continued, “I don’t want to get ahead of the governors. This is a partnership with them. We are giving them the opportunity to review our suggestions of how the National Guard can support the Border Patrol.”

               Along with this news is a report that the apprehension rate of illegals at the border has increased by 203% since last March. Trump, who campaigned heavily on stemming the problem of illegal immigration via building up stronger border security and a wall, pointedly blamed Democrats for the lax laws, while emphasizing that he will act. Trump stated, “We have very bad laws for our border, and we are going to be doing some things. … Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military.” Trump added, “We can’t do anything about it because the laws that were created by Democrats are so pathetic and so weak.”
               Trump is doubling down on arguably the number one issue that won him the presidency, and he’s using it to create a clear political dividing line between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats have proven themselves the party of the radical Left by their siding with noncitizen illegal aliens over and against the interests of Americans. Thus Trump’s tweet on Monday: “Congress must immediately pass Border Legislation, use Nuclear Option if necessary, to stop the massive inflow of Drugs and People. Border Patrol Agents (and ICE) are GREAT, but the weak Dem laws don’t allow them to do their job. Act now Congress, our country is being stolen!”
               Predictably, the Leftmedia has been making hay over Trump’s call for sending the military to the border, as if it was unprecedented. Oregon Democrat Gov. Kate Brown pledged to defy Trump if he requests National Guard troops, tweeting, “If [Trump] asks me to deploy Oregon troops to the Mexico border, I’ll say no. As Commander of Oregon’s Guard, I’m deeply troubled by Trump’s plan to militarize our border.” The truth is the past five U.S. presidents have sent troops to the border to aid the Border Patrol.
               Meanwhile, that caravan of 1,000 illegal aliens crossing Mexico with the intent of illegally crossing into the U.S. appears to have had a change of plans. One of the caravan’s de facto leaders, Irineo Mujica, head of migrant advocacy group Pueblo sin Fronteras, stated, “We will wrap up our work in Mexico City. We have support teams at the border if there are people who need assistance there, but they would have to travel on their own.” Mujica added, “There are too many children — 450 in all. There are lots of babies. Hopping the train, as we did in the past, would have been crazy.” Was that really the reason, or did it have more to do with the fact that Trump is sending in the troops?   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55171-trump-deploys-troops-to-border

Mexico Senate Condemns Trump 

Using Nat'l Guard to End Their Aggression

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ How dare President Trump use our military to prevent drugs and people from illegally entering our country?... That’s almost as bad as him building a border wall in the eyes of the government of the hostile aggressor nation to the south, Mexico. The Mexican Senate passed a resolution seeking to end what they laughably referred to as cooperation with the United States against drug cartels and on immigration violation issues in response to President Trump’s decision to send the national guard to the border. What each Mexican Senator is more likely doing is lashing out in an attempt to prevent their own personal profiteering from the drug and human trafficking from being cut off. Their arguments are idiotic, even for Mexicans, the type of hypocritical “do as I say not as I do” nonsense that spews from the likes of Vicente Fox and others...I say to them, shove it.  https://rickwells.us/mexico-senate-trump-natl-guard/
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Conservatives spot new tactic to bypass Senate filibuster 

by Stephen Dinan  

{ washingtontimes.com } ~ Some of the conservative movement’s biggest names urged President Trump Thursday to use NAFTA negotiations as a way to get around a Democratic filibuster... and push through major cuts to government regulations. In a letter to the president, the conservatives urged him to tuck the REINS Act, which would give Congress a veto over any new major Executive Branch regulations, inside a newly negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement. Including it in NAFTA would allow Congress to pass the REINS Act on a majority vote, thanks to the fast-track trade negotiating powers Congress gave to the executive branch in 2015. That would give Republicans a chance to circumvent Democrats, who have threatened to filibuster to block the REINS Act should it come up as a stand-alone bill... https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/5/conservatives-spot-new-tactic-pass-bills-without-s/ 

liar-Clinton Foundation Violates Multiple State Laws, Regs 

by Charles Ortel 

{ libertyheadlines.com } ~ New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald should do what his Republican counterpart in Arkansas... Leslie Rutledge, and his Democrat counterparts, Eric Schneiderman in New York and Xavier Becerra in California seemingly won’t. He should investigate the required state public filings of the charity started Oct. 23, 1997, and originally known as The William J. liar-Clinton Presidential Foundation. MacDonald will find that directors of a purported charitable organization, using Federal Employer Number 31-1580204 and now known as The liar-Bill, liar-Hillary & Chelsea liar-Clinton Foundation, have attempted to hide the fact that the liar-Clinton family illegally usurped control when the nonprofit’s bylaws were amended Nov. 2, 2013, to make liar-Bill, liar-Hillary, and Chelsea Class A directors for their remaining lives. Why should MacDonald — or anybody else, for the matter, not named liar-Clinton — care about that fact? These heretofore unreported actions by the charity appear to violate numerous New Hampshire laws, including one that has been in effect since Jan. 1, 1998...  https://www.libertyheadlines.com/clinton-foundation-violates-multiple-state-laws-regs/ 

Media Idolizes Winnie Mandela, Hides Murder and Torture of Kids 

by Alex Newman 

{ thenewamerican.com } ~ The establishment media this week has engaged in a grotesque spectacle surrounding the death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Monday at age 81... Instead of being honest, much of the press has been idolizing as a hero the mass-murdering communist terrorist infamous for, among other crimes, ordering the murder and savage torture of numerous victims, including innocent children. Most of her victims were blacks who opposed or were believed to oppose her totalitarian agenda. Ruthless and unrepentant until the end, she refused to even apologize. One of her more prominent victims, 14-year-old Stompie Sepei, was brutally tortured for days and finally slaughtered by having his throat slit with gardening tools, all on Winnie's orders. South African Communist Party leader Nelson Mandela's ex-wife also was an enthusiastic supporter of “necklacing,” which involves putting a tire soaked in gasoline around a victim's neck, and then lighting it on fire. The slow, agonizing torture is one of the most horrendous ways to murder people known to man. But the disgraceful Western media seemed not to notice or care. Instead, much of the press lionized her as the “Mother of the Nation” a term her PR team apparently invented and popularized, an “anti-Apartheid activist,” and a “hero” who waged a “heroic struggle” against injustice....

https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/28669-media-idolizes-winnie-mandela-hides-murder-and-torture-of-kids

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Nunes Demands Original Document That Started The Russia Probe 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmHu69BweZw

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US Customs And Border Protection Chief Welcomes Nation Guard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=JOIs2XXRVl0

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Mike Huckabee: Interview With Mueller Could Be A Trap For Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzNvUds96SM

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Now Mueller’s Team Questioning Russian Oligarchs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQf5wtU4jfM

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liar-nObama CIA Director On Trump’s CIA Pick “Gina Haspel Is The Best Person Within CIA To Do This Job”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=XzNfgH1kM_0

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clown-Schumer Abuses The Filibuster: Rep. Lee Zeldin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9H5u3eoymI

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US Wants NAFTA Deal Agreed By Next Friday, Say Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3f_FvG2EeY

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by Judge Andrew Napolitano 
{ townhall.com } ~ Robert Mueller is the special counsel appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May 2017 to probe the nature and extent of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. The investigation began in October 2016 under President Barack liar-nObama when the FBI took seriously the boast of Carter Page, one of candidate Donald Trump's foreign policy advisers, that he had worked for the Kremlin.

The FBI also had transcripts of telephone conversations and copies of emails and text messages of Trump campaign personnel that had been supplied to it by British intelligence. Connecting the dots, the FBI persuaded a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to issue a search warrant for the surveillance of Page, an American.

Page never registered as a foreign agent, and working for the Kremlin and not registering as a foreign agent is a crime for which the FBI should have investigated Page. Such an investigation would have included surveillance, but not from the FISA court. Surveillance in a criminal case requires a search warrant from a U.S. District Court based upon the constitutional requirement of probable cause of crime -- meaning that it is more likely than not that the thing to be searched internet and telephone communications will produce evidence of criminal behavior.

But the FBI didn't seek that. Instead, it sought a warrant to surveil Page's communications based on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act standard, which is probable cause of communicating with a foreign power. This lower, easier-to-demonstrate and unconstitutional standard is the tool of choice these days for FBI agents because it requires less effort and is used in a court that grants 99.9 percent of search warrant applications.

The temptation to use the FISA court and its easy standard instead of a U.S. District Court and its privacy-recognizing constitutional standard to get a search warrant is often too much for the FBI to resist. This is a form of corruption because it presents a path for criminal investigators to invade the privacy of Americans that the Constitution protects.

Yet the FBI used whatever it learned from the surveillance of Page to get that surveillance extended. Even the Trump Department of Justice went to the FISA court to spy on Page. Lost in all this is the purpose of FISA -- to prevent government surveillance of Americans and limit it to agents of foreign powers.

When Jeff Sessions became attorney general, he recognized that he himself would most likely be a witness in the Mueller investigation because of his involvement in the Trump campaign, so he removed himself from all matters pertaining to Russia, and his deputy, Rosenstein, appointed Mueller to run the investigation.

What is Mueller looking for?

When the feds are examining a potential crime committed by a group, their treasure-trove of evidence can often be a member of the group who reveals the criminal behavior of his former colleagues. That's why the feds often indict people for crimes that appear to be irrelevant to the ones they are investigating -- in this case, lying to the FBI and bank fraud allegedly committed before the 2016 election.

When such an indicted person can then be persuaded to turn on his former colleagues in return for a lesser charge or a lighter sentence, prosecutors can have a field day. This is a form of bribery -- you tell us on the witness stand what we want to hear and we'll go easy on you -- that is permitted only to prosecutors; and the courts condone it. If defense counsel gave as much as a lollipop to a witness to shade his testimony, both would be indicted.

From the backgrounds of those whom Mueller's grand juries have indicted and from the deals they have cut with him, it appears that Mueller is looking at three areas of potential criminal behavior. Mueller has already established as a base line the saturation of the 2016 presidential campaign by Russian intelligence agents. If his indictments of these Russians are accurate, they were here virtually and physically and they spent millions to help Trump. But the indicted Russians are not coming back to the U.S. for their trials.

Mueller is examining their potential American confederates for the crime of conspiracy -- or, as my colleagues in the media call it, collusion. This would be an agreement by campaign officials to accept something of value from a foreign person, entity or government, even if the thing of value -- for example, liar-Hillary Clinton emails -- was never actually delivered. The crime is the agreement, and it is prosecutable after at least one of those who agreed takes a material step in furtherance of the agreement.

Mueller's second area of examination is possible obstruction of justice by President Trump himself. Obstruction is the interference with a judicial proceeding for a corrupt purpose. Was FBI Director James Comey fired because Trump couldn't work with him or because he was hot on the president's trail and Trump wanted to impede that? If it was the former, it would have been licit. If it was the latter, it could have been criminal.

The third of Mueller's areas is financial dealings by the pre-presidential Trump. These bear little surface relationship to Russian involvement in the campaign, yet evidence of wrongdoing must have come to Mueller from his FBI agents or his cooperating witnesses, and he is following the money as prosecutors do.

Where will all this go? The president cannot seem to find an experienced criminal defense lawyer. Mueller has 16 experienced federal prosecutors and a few dozen FBI agents passionately at work. And he also has witnesses he legally bribed and a few hundred thousand documents from the White House and from Trump's financial affairs that the president has not personally reviewed.

And now Mueller wants to interview the president. Who will have the upper hand if that happens?