Recently attended the Pueblo County Republican Caucus. I presented a RESOLUTION to the assembly which consisted of precincts 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206 207 and 208. The RESOLUTION was to make it a MANDATORY DEPORTABLE offense for any illegal immigrant that is caught voting in any election in the US, Territory or Possession in any federal, state or local election. I have also e-mailed President Trump, Sen Gardner and Rep Scott Tipton asking the last two to sponsor a bill in their respective house's of Congress of the same. I have not heard back from either of these folks. My hope is that if this law gets put into effect that it would deter illegals from voting as it could result in them being expelled from our Country!
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Dems & Leftmedia Fools to Preach
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LOW IQ mad-Waters Lets TRUTH Slip –
MUELLER Working for DEMS To “GET TRUMP”
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ AM Joy more closely resembled AM bitterness or hatred, with the bulldog mug of Joy Reid... and the unmistakable rants of mad-Maxine Waters following another wildly successful campaign rally by Donald Trump. It could have been worse, they could have had video of mad-Waters as well. She came on to fire back at President Trump for comments he made, particularly his accurate description of her as being “Low IQ.” mad-Waters doesn’t attempt to prove him wrong, so he’s likely got her number on that score, instead opting to dub President Trump with his own nickname of “Con Man Don.” As she’s busily firing off the insults and threats, mad-Waters makes a statement that actually goes to prove not only is she of a low intelligence quotient, but that she and her fellow corrupt Democrats are engaged in subversion of this President in their efforts to impeach him for reasons that still, after a year and a half haven’t been uncovered... -https://rickwells.us/waters-mueller-dems-trump/.The Left’s Fake Anti-Semitism
and its Real Anti-Semitism
by Daniel Greenfield
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ After weeks of outrage at the close ties between top Democrats and Louis Farrakhan... the leader of an anti-Semitic hate group, the media finally condemned anti-Semitism by a top political official. President Trump and OMB Director Mick Mulvaney had referred to outgoing NEC Director Gary Cohn as a “globalist.” And “globalist,” according to Think Progress, the Huffington Post, Salon and Vox, is an “anti-Semitic slur.” Those are the same media outlets that had no problem using “globalist” as a slur when targeting Trump. The controversy over liar-nObama, Davis, scum-Keith Ellison, Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory has played out in the Jewish and conservative media. But no one in the mainstream media is willing to ask why liar-nObama, the No. 2 man at the DNC, the Congressional Black Caucus and the next generation of intersectional feminist leaders are comfortable hanging out with a racist who suggested that Jews use pot to make black men gay. But the media will only discuss anti-Semitism is when it serves its political agenda... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269553/lefts-fake-anti-semitism-and-its-real-anti-daniel-greenfield .
The Islamic State is Far From Finished in Iraq
by Amir Toumaj and Romany Shaker
{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ Deadly attacks by the Islamic State are calling into question Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s declaration of a “final victory” over the so-called Caliphate... With national elections set for May, further attacks could threaten Abadi’s bid for a second term while benefiting pro-Iranian forces. On February 18, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for an ambush near the city of Hawija, in Kirkuk province, which killed 27 members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), or al-Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic. A week later, Islamic State fighters killed two policemen and wounded another who were guarding the Khabbaz oil field near Kirkuk. The next day, an attempted suicide bombing injured three PMF fighters at the Kirkuk headquarters of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, an Iranian-backed Shiite militia that is now part of the PMF. Asaib Ahl al-Haq is under the effective control of the Quds Force, the external operations branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Asaib Ahl al-Haq played a lethal role in Iraq’s anti-U.S. insurgency, claiming 6,000 attacks against U.S. forces. It opened its first Kirkuk headquarters in October 2017... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/amir-toumaj-the-islamic-state-is-far-from-finished-in-iraq/ .
Red Flag Warning: States Confiscating
Guns by Ignoring Fourth Amendment
by Bob Adelmann
{ thenewamerican.com } ~ An assortment of new restrictions on the Second Amendment in Florida also launched an attack on the Fourth Amendment, as well... As The New American noted last week, Florida’s new “red flag” law abrogates the Fourth Amendment on the way to violating the Second Amendment: Simply put, someone who thinks someone else might be a danger to himself or others can present his arguments to a judge who then, based upon those arguments, is free to decide whether the state police armed with guns and badges can forcibly remove privately and legally owned firearms from that person’s possession. The “red flag” provisions do not allow the person charged to defend himself or even to know who his accuser might be. Further, he must prove his innocence in order to get his confiscated firearms returned to him. He is “guilty until he proves himself innocent.” All in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/28472-red-flag-warning-states-confiscating-guns-by-ignoring-4th-amendment .
Fifty Former Failed liar-nObama Administration
Foreign Policy “Experts” Form Think-Tank
To Unite Against President Trump
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ From the insufferable Iran deal… to the appeasement “Russian Reset”… to the Libya fiasco… to the rise of ISIS… to installing the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt… to the explosion of terrorism in Yemen… to civil war in Syria… to the crisis in Ukraine… to the 2010 State Department apology tour (WikiLeaks cables scandal)… to their inability to stop North Korean nuclear ambitions and the rise of China as an influential power… there were/are zero foreign policy successes in eight years of the liar-nObama administration. There was not a single liar-nObama foreign policy initiative that had any success. Every single place where the prior administration put their attention, the results were complete failure, crisis, chaos and worse conditions in the aftermath. That’s the 2009-2017 reality. Today it is discovered that fifty of the most well known liar-nObama foreign policy officials have come together to form a think-tank group called “National Security Now“. Their singular mission is to be the “resistance” to the Trump administration’s foreign policy. You have to see the names to recognize how bad these people were at policy... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/12/fifty-former-failed-obama-administration-foreign-policy-experts-form-think-tank-to-unite-against-president-trump/ .
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Dems & Leftmedia Fools to Preach Against GOP Tax Cuts
by Political Editors: There’s no question Democrats and their Leftmedia propaganda outlets don’t like the Republican tax cuts, because it means government is taking less money from of hard-working Americans. And less money equates to less control. But they can’t state their genuine reason for objecting so they attempt to either belittle the amount of money Americans save from tax cuts as mere “crumbs” or decry them as “unpatriotic” as House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi (D-CA) infamously expressed. She altered her stance a bit this week, saying, “Certainly, we love when people get a bonus, and if they get a raise. But if it is so small in comparison — if the choice was made for corporate America and the top 1% in our society, at the expense of working families, something is wrong with this picture.” Middle-class Americans keeping more of their own money while wealthier Americans keeping more of theirs is not anybody doing anything at the expense of anybody else.
Even the Leftmedia has struggled in its attempt to paint the tax cuts as bad for Americans. Case in point, The New York Times recently ran an article that sought to use a hypothetical middle class couple’s tax return to show that they would actually end up paying thousands more in taxes under the new law. The Times article stated, “Bottom line … the family would owe $3,896 more in taxes under the new law.” Bad, right?
Not so fast. The Times, relying on TurboTax vice president Bob Meighan’s calculations, missed a significant deduction, a deduction that University of Chicago law professor Daniel Hemel noticed. The Times failed to calculate a deduction for the hypothetical couple from the new law based on the description of the couple being “self-employed.” Hemel tweeted, “NYT has a really nice infographic explaining the ways in which the new tax law will play out on the 1040. Unfortunately, the bottom line conclusion — that Samuel & Felicity will owe $3,896 more in taxes under the new law — appears to be wrong. They’ll actually owe less.” The Times later admitted that it’s calculations were off and that its hypothetical couple would actually come out on top by $43. But that’s just mere “crumbs,” we’ve been told.
The truth is Democrats’ decision to resist and take a stand against the GOP’s obviously beneficial tax cuts has proven to be a politically foolish stunt. It was spitting into the wind, only to have it blow back in their faces. However, admitting they were wrong may be an even more costly defeat, so they are stuck trying to convince the vast majority of taxpaying Americans not to believe that the growing numbers on their paychecks are a good thing. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54658-dems-and-leftmedia-fools-to-preach-against-gop-tax-cuts
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Liberal mag inadvertently
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Tuesday Top Headlines
by Political Editors: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to be replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo (ABC News)
by Political Editors: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to be replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo (ABC News).
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Mueller invokes unusual “conspiracy to defraud government” charge to ensnare more targets (The Washington Times)
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liar-Clinton says racist poor people voted for Trump, “optimistic, diverse, dynamic” people voted for her (The Daily Wire)
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Policy: Progressives might not want to look to the Old West for gun control ideas (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: Beware, Mr. President: North Korea wants its own version of the Iran nuke deal (New York Post)
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Judge Jeanine – Trump Genius Brought
N Korea To The Table Where Others Failed
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro observes the fact that “genius is rarely recognized at the time it occurs... greatness most often realized not in the moment but rather in retrospect.” That is the situation she sees with President Trump, as he has “waged his unique battle to get North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, to the bargaining table. What’s worse, aside from their criticism of his style, the media and establishment politicians have a deep-rooted hatred for Trump, who represents the end of their good old boy self-serving system and a return of power to the American people. She points out that as Kim continued to launch his missiles and conduct nuclear tests President Trump warned him he was in danger of experiencing “fire and fury like the world has never seen” and “that his nuclear button was bigger and more powerful than the dictator’s.”... https://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-trump-genius/Crazy Joy Reid Has New Fake Claim About NRA
by Joe Newby And Jeff Dunetz
{ lidblog.com } ~ Does Joy Reid get these crazy lies while in the padded room... wearing a jacket with he loooooooong sleeves that tie together in the back? During the Saturday edition of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” host Joy Reid falsely claimed the National Rifle Association (NRA) is aligned with the alt-right in an effort to make guns a cultural issue, Breitbart.com reported. “The NRA has sort of aligned itself with the so-called alt-right,” she said, offering no proof whatsoever of her outrageous claim. “They’ve made it a cultural issue and sent signals that it is the scary brown people you need to arm yourself for civil war against. It’s crazy messaging. That next generation, very multi-racial, very multi-cultural. They’re not interested in that message.”... https://lidblog.com/crazy-joy-reid-fake-claim-nra/ .
A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism
in Britain: February 2018
by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ February 1. Foreign Office officials invited 1,800 female staff members to wear Islamic headscarves to mark World Hijab Day... The department gave away taxpayer-funded headscarves, claiming they symbolized "liberation, respect and security." Critics, citing the compulsory veiling of women in Islamic countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, said the garment is a symbol of male oppression. Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said, "I'd like to know whose bright idea this was. It is ridiculous, a complete waste of taxpayers' money and not the business of a government department. I can't see the Foreign Office promoting Christianity or the handing out of crosses." February 1. Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, declared that it is "fundamentally wrong" to use the phrase "Islamist terrorism" to describe attacks carried out in Britain and elsewhere. Hill said that the word terrorism should not be attached "to any of the world religions" and that the term "Daesh-inspired terrorism" should be used instead. Tory MP Philip Davies blasted Hill for "pandering" to political correctness: "It might not be acceptable in the trendy metropolitan circles he moves in, but all he's doing is showing how out of touch he is with the public at large. I suggest this politically-correct snowflake gets out more."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12019/islam-multiculturalism-britain-february .
Nearly finished US peace plan won’t
call for two-state solution — report
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Austin package explosion leaves teen dead,
woman hurt after second blast in 2 weeks
by Travis Fedschun
{ foxnews.com } ~ A teenager was killed and a woman was seriously hurt after a package exploded at an Austin home early Monday... in a blast similar to another deadly incident nearly two weeks ago in Texas' capital city, officials said. Austin Police said they received a call about the explosion in a neighborhood on the northwest side of the city around 6:45 a.m., after the 17-year-old resident found a package on the front step, brought it inside, and opened it in the kitchen where it exploded. "It is very similar to the incident that occured in Austin on March 2," Austin Police Chief Brian Manley told reporters... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/12/austin-package-explosion-leaves-teen-dead-woman-hurt-after-second-blast-in-2-weeks.html.
Liberal mag inadvertently
exposed 'Trump dossier' lie
by ART MOORE
{ wnd.com } ~ A lengthy, glowing New Yorker magazine profile on the anti-Trump “dossier” author, Christopher Steele, reported the former MI6 agent knew that his work was funded by the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
That claim conflicts with the FBI’s explicit statement in its October 2016 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance application that Steele was unaware of who financed his work for Fusion GPS, the opposition-research company hired by the Democrats’ law firm Perkins Coie, reports investigative reporter Sara Carter.
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has testified to Congress that the dossier was essential to obtaining the warrant to spy on former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer wrote that several months after Steele was subcontracted by Fusion GPS in the spring of 2016, he learned his research was being jointly subsidized by the liar-Clinton campaign and the DNC.
But in a footnote on the warrant application to the FISA court on Oct. 21, 2016, the FBI stated “Source #1,” meaning Steele, was “never advised” as to “the motivation behind the research into Candidate #1’s Trump’s ties to Russia.”
Former Senator Tom Coburn provides the solution to how “we the people” and the states can finally wrest control from Washington insiders in “Smashing the DC Monopoly,” available at the WND Superstore.
Carter asks: “Did Steele lie to the FBI or did the FBI choose not to disclose this information to the secret court?”
Steele held personal animus toward Trump, and was “passionate” about ensuring the real estate billionaire did not become president, Senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr informed the Justice Department, according to the House Intelligence Committee’s majority Republican memo, released Feb. 2. Ohr met multiple times with Steele, beginning in the summer of 2016.
Steele was suspended and then terminated by the FBI as a source after he disclosed to the media his relationship with the bureau. But Steele, the memo states, continued contact with the Justice Department through Ohr, who worked closely with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Republican senators Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and rino-Lindsey Graham, a senior committee member, have named Steele in a criminal referral, accusing him of making false statements about “the distribution of claims contained in the dossier.”
Meanwhile, the former Russian double agent authorities believe was poisoned with a nerve agent in the U.K. last weekend has links to Steele, the London Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.
The Telegraph said Sergei Skripal, who remains in critical condition, was in close contact with a security consultant who worked for Steele. The paper said that if the Kremlin believed Skripal “might have helped with the compilation of the dossier, it could explain the motive for the assassination attempt in Salisbury town center.”
Steele: Dossier ‘unverified,’ ‘raw intelligence’
The former Trump campaign volunteer Page has denied all of the accusations made against him in the Steele dossier and has filed lawsuits against Buzzfeed and other media outlets for publishing the claims.
Powerline blogger Scott Johnson points out that the New Yorker feature by Jane Mayer, which “presents Steele as a left-liberal heartthrob,” doesn’t mention the fact that Steele is the defendant in several defamation lawsuits contesting the veracity of the dossier.
With the stakes raised for false testimony, Steele has downplayed the significance of his findings, noted former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy.
In a lawsuit by filed in London by Aleksej Gubarev, whom Steele accused of participating in Russian intelligence hacking, the former British spy testified the dossier is merely a compilation of bits of “raw intelligence” that were “unverified.”
Steele explained he passed along the information because it “warranted further investigation,” not because he could vouch for its truthfulness.
Powerline’s Johnson observed that the New Yorker’s Mayer “should have been especially interested in Steele’s disclaimer of the veracity of his dossier.”
Mayer wrote that she represented the New Yorker when it was among the “major press organs” that met with Steele “during the stretch run of a contentious presidential election.”
Deadline for answers on ‘dirty dossier’
In an interview Monday with Fox News, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., reacted to the New Yorker profile, calling it “more evidence about how dirty this dossier is.”
“The dossier on the face of it is ridiculous,” Nunes said. “The Russians had an operation against us, but they’ve always had an operation against the United States of America, going back for many, many years and many elections.”
Nunes told Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Wednesday that top officials from the liar-nObama and Trump administrations have until Friday to answer a questionnaire to find out what they known about the Democrats’ funding of the dossier.
Nunes said his committee has received “quite a few” responses, noting the initial deadline was last Friday. A few extension requests were granted, he said, and there are a few individuals who never replied.
“If they don’t respond by the end of this week, then they will be getting subpoenaed to do a deposition,” Nunes warned.
Wednesday night, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he is considering appointing a special counsel to probe the FBI and Justice Department investigations of alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russia in the 2016 election.
{ wnd.com } ~ A lengthy, glowing New Yorker magazine profile on the anti-Trump “dossier” author, Christopher Steele, reported the former MI6 agent knew that his work was funded by the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
That claim conflicts with the FBI’s explicit statement in its October 2016 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance application that Steele was unaware of who financed his work for Fusion GPS, the opposition-research company hired by the Democrats’ law firm Perkins Coie, reports investigative reporter Sara Carter.
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has testified to Congress that the dossier was essential to obtaining the warrant to spy on former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer wrote that several months after Steele was subcontracted by Fusion GPS in the spring of 2016, he learned his research was being jointly subsidized by the liar-Clinton campaign and the DNC.
But in a footnote on the warrant application to the FISA court on Oct. 21, 2016, the FBI stated “Source #1,” meaning Steele, was “never advised” as to “the motivation behind the research into Candidate #1’s Trump’s ties to Russia.”
Former Senator Tom Coburn provides the solution to how “we the people” and the states can finally wrest control from Washington insiders in “Smashing the DC Monopoly,” available at the WND Superstore.
Carter asks: “Did Steele lie to the FBI or did the FBI choose not to disclose this information to the secret court?”
Steele held personal animus toward Trump, and was “passionate” about ensuring the real estate billionaire did not become president, Senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr informed the Justice Department, according to the House Intelligence Committee’s majority Republican memo, released Feb. 2. Ohr met multiple times with Steele, beginning in the summer of 2016.
Steele was suspended and then terminated by the FBI as a source after he disclosed to the media his relationship with the bureau. But Steele, the memo states, continued contact with the Justice Department through Ohr, who worked closely with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Republican senators Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and rino-Lindsey Graham, a senior committee member, have named Steele in a criminal referral, accusing him of making false statements about “the distribution of claims contained in the dossier.”
Meanwhile, the former Russian double agent authorities believe was poisoned with a nerve agent in the U.K. last weekend has links to Steele, the London Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.
The Telegraph said Sergei Skripal, who remains in critical condition, was in close contact with a security consultant who worked for Steele. The paper said that if the Kremlin believed Skripal “might have helped with the compilation of the dossier, it could explain the motive for the assassination attempt in Salisbury town center.”
Steele: Dossier ‘unverified,’ ‘raw intelligence’
The former Trump campaign volunteer Page has denied all of the accusations made against him in the Steele dossier and has filed lawsuits against Buzzfeed and other media outlets for publishing the claims.
Powerline blogger Scott Johnson points out that the New Yorker feature by Jane Mayer, which “presents Steele as a left-liberal heartthrob,” doesn’t mention the fact that Steele is the defendant in several defamation lawsuits contesting the veracity of the dossier.
With the stakes raised for false testimony, Steele has downplayed the significance of his findings, noted former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy.
In a lawsuit by filed in London by Aleksej Gubarev, whom Steele accused of participating in Russian intelligence hacking, the former British spy testified the dossier is merely a compilation of bits of “raw intelligence” that were “unverified.”
Steele explained he passed along the information because it “warranted further investigation,” not because he could vouch for its truthfulness.
Powerline’s Johnson observed that the New Yorker’s Mayer “should have been especially interested in Steele’s disclaimer of the veracity of his dossier.”
Mayer wrote that she represented the New Yorker when it was among the “major press organs” that met with Steele “during the stretch run of a contentious presidential election.”
Deadline for answers on ‘dirty dossier’
In an interview Monday with Fox News, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., reacted to the New Yorker profile, calling it “more evidence about how dirty this dossier is.”
“The dossier on the face of it is ridiculous,” Nunes said. “The Russians had an operation against us, but they’ve always had an operation against the United States of America, going back for many, many years and many elections.”
Nunes told Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Wednesday that top officials from the liar-nObama and Trump administrations have until Friday to answer a questionnaire to find out what they known about the Democrats’ funding of the dossier.
Nunes said his committee has received “quite a few” responses, noting the initial deadline was last Friday. A few extension requests were granted, he said, and there are a few individuals who never replied.
“If they don’t respond by the end of this week, then they will be getting subpoenaed to do a deposition,” Nunes warned.
Wednesday night, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he is considering appointing a special counsel to probe the FBI and Justice Department investigations of alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russia in the 2016 election.
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Only Fools Believe North Korea
by Cal Thomas .
Snarky Snowflake Chuck Todd Attacks Mnuchin
Because Trump Called Him “a Bad Word”
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ NBC propagandist Chuck Todd is increasingly seething, especially as he brings the interview to close... about the way President Trump addressed him as a “son of a bitch” during the PA rally. In typical form, rather than acknowledging the achievements of the President, Todd attempts to build a case against him. He’ll then act like an unspeakable wrong has been committed against him when Trump responds. Todd hijacks an interview with Treasury Secretary Mnuchin for his forum, steering the conversation away from Trump’s achievements on trade and North Korea onto the less-important issue of Trump’s nicknames for his opponents, first with mad-Maxine Waters. Mnuchin dodges the question as to whether a hypothetical staffer could say mad-Waters is “low IQ” and keep their job, saying that things are different with campaign rallies. Todd then produces his next “piece of evidence,” the statement by Trump against the antagonistic “fake news” media in attendance. Todd distorts what took place as Trump encouraging the rally attendees to boo the media, which doesn’t really require any encouragement, and imploring them to cheer the Korean dictator... https://rickwells.us/snarky-chuck-todd-trump/.CIA Director Mike Pompeo
-vs- Margaret Brennan
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ CIA Director Mike Pompeo appears on CBS Face the Nation to discuss the possibility of negotiations with North Korea and other issues around the globe. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/11/sunday-talks-cia-director-mike-pompeo-vs-margaret-brennan/.White House backs off call to
raise minimum age to buy long guns
by Samuel Chamberlain and Joseph Weber
{ foxnews.com } ~ The White House announced a series of recommendations Sunday night meant to stop school shootings... including a full audit and review of the FBI tip line after warnings about a student who killed 17 people at a Florida high school last month were not acted upon. The administration did not call for immediately increasing the minimum age for buying long guns to 21, as President Trump had previously advocated. However, it did announce that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would chair a federal commission on school safety to study the proposal. DeVos said in a statement that the commission would look at a "wide range" of ideas in order to ensure that "no student or family should ever have to live the horror of Parkland or Sandy Hook ever again.”... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/11/white-house-backs-off-call-to-raise-minimum-age-to-buy-long-guns.htmlA Star Is Born! Speech On Guns By VA
Lawmaker Causes Democrat
Walk-Out, Goes Viral
by AMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO
{ dailywire.com } ~ All eyes are suddenly fixed on Nick Freitas, a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates... now that he's ticked off a lot of Democrats with his powerful speech on guns that quickly went viral, raking in over 12 million Facebook views since Friday. The powerful and aggressive speech, which touched on inconvenient truths about the Democrat Party's history, even triggered some Democrats to walk off the House floor. Freitas delivered his remarks on Friday as a response to the very heated gun control debate... https://www.dailywire.com/news/27878/watch-tim-kaine-challenger-gives-viral-gun-control-amanda-prestigiacomo.Liberal Crackpots Think Putin Stole
The Election With Lame Memes
by SCOTT GREER
{ dailycaller.com } ~ CNN uncovered a terrifying, Russian-produced weapon of influence last Thursday. It’s a poorly-made internet video game called “liar-Hilltendo.”... It’s certainly bizarre that Russian operatives spent time and money creating ridiculous projects like “liar-Hilltendo,” but the game, the memes, the Facebook ads and bot tweets don’t exactly paint the picture the media wants. Namely, the idea that Russia somehow hijacked our election thanks to the lame games, bad memes, silly Facebook ads and bot tweets with poor grammar... http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/11/russia-meddling-conspiracy-theory/?utm_medium=email .
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Only Fools Believe North Korea
by Cal Thomas
{ townhall.com } ~ To what shall North Korea's latest pronouncement to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for certain "security" guarantees be compared?
Choose from one of the following familiar promises: Of course I'll respect you in the morning; I promise to pay you back; I'm from the government and I'm here to help. There are more but you get the idea.
It has always been this way with North Korea. It reaches an agreement and then breaks it when it suits, only to use the period when the agreement is in force to violate it and then create a false pretext to nullify it, all the while continuing to build a nuclear arsenal. North Korea then reaches another agreement, which, again, it violates and the cycle continues.
If North Korea were applying for a loan, no bank would lend it a dime because of its deplorable credit rating, yet the West, which often appears to bank more on hope than reality, continues to dole out food and other aid hoping good intentions change Pyongyang's behavior.
The Arms Control Association (ACA), "a national nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies," has compiled a list of North Korea's broken promises and behavior that includes selling missile and nuclear technology to Iran and other enemies of the United States. The list runs 37 pages.
"Following the collapse of this agreement in 2002, North Korea claimed that it had withdrawn from the NPT in January 2003 and once again began operating its nuclear facilities."
The pattern repeated again in 2003, the ACA found, during the Six-Party Talks involving the U.S., North Korea, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan. After two years of stalemate and one crisis after another, North Korea pledged in 2005 to abandon "all nuclear weapons and existing weapons programs" and promised to return to the NPT agreement.
By 2009, after what by then had become familiar disagreements over inspections leading to verification that North Korea was living up to its promises, Pyongyang violated the 2005 agreement by launching missiles and vowing never to return to talks, a pledge it repeated until this latest reported promise to hold new talks about abandoning its nuclear weapons.
Last November, President Trump properly returned North Korea to the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Pyongyang had been there before, but was removed from the list in 2008. Not that it had stopped sponsoring terrorism, but the West does these sorts of things from time to time, falsely believing that what free people do affects the behavior of tyrants and dictators. Apparently, we have forgotten that communists lie as a matter of policy and they aren't the only ones, as we have seen with Islamic fundamentalist regimes.
Assuming North Korea is now serious about talks following Kim Jong-un's promise to never abandon his nukes (that promise is more credible), what is likely to come of it? If history proves anything -- and it does -- the answer is nothing that will benefit South Korea, the rest of Asia and most especially the United States. But it will make us feel good for "trying." Kim knows this. It's probably why he will lead us down this dark road again, only to get mugged at the end of it.
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Racial Quotas Kill Kids
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Judge Jeanine schools media: Kim Jong-un
isn’t dealing with liar-nObama, who
‘buckles to dictators’
by Tom Tillison
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro has a way of cutting to the chase when it comes to politics... and she did just that while commenting on the developing news of a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Pirro reassured the country that Jung-un “is not dealing with a Barack liar-nObama, who buckles to dictators,” while stressing that “genius is rarely recognized at the time it occurs.” “Instead of recognizing the historic moment and the genius that got a whack into a madman to the bargaining table, the mainstream media chooses to heap criticism on Donald Trump when their own champions accomplished absolutely nothing,” Pirro said... http://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/03/11/judge-jeanine-schools-media-kim-jong-un-isnt-dealing-with-obama-who-buckles-to-dictators-612519?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS#.White House Legislative Affairs Director
Marc Short Discusses Steel and
Aluminum Trade Tariffs
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short appears on Fox News to discuss the Steel and Aluminum tariffs... being implemented by President Trump to protect the U.S. steel and aluminum manufacturing industry. The Wall Street antagonists together with politicians purchased by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and K-Street lobbyists working on behalf of Wall Street, have vowed to fight President Trump’s trade initiatives. The steel and aluminum tariffs are the first in a series of trade actions by President Trump that he outlined during his candidacy. Wall Street politicians (globalists) are now engaged in a fight against Main Street economic and trade policy (nationalists). There are trillions at stake. The anger against the President over the steel/aluminum tariffs is nothing in comparison to what lies ahead; with a likely NAFTA withdrawal and other MAGAnomic trade initiatives looming on the horizon. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/10/white-house-legislative-affairs-director-marc-short-discusses-steel-and-aluminum-trade-tariffs/.Maria Bartiromo Discusses
North Korea With John Bolton
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the latest stunning announcements from North Korea... The mustache aligns with those who say the talks between Kim Jong-un and President Trump should begin ASAP to see if the DPRK is really serious about denuclearizing the Korean peninsular... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/11/sunday-talks-maria-bartiromo-discusses-north-korea-with-john-bolton/.dinky-Warren On Trump Warpath – Uses
Real Indian Women As Her Human
“Heritage” Shields
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ CNN’s marquis Trump-hater, Jim Acosta, questions Sen Elizabeth Warren about her claims to be of native American heritage... naturally, taking her dubious and unsubstantiated claims at face value. At the 5:53 mark of the video he asks her if she’s bothered by President Trump calling her Pocahontas and if she’s going to run for President in 2020. She carefully spins her response, saying, “Let me tell you my story,” never claiming that it is true, which actually does sound a lot like John Smith and Pocahontas. She describes her dad’s family being bitterly opposed to him marrying her mother because she was part Indian. Maybe she looked like dinky-Warren and they were just using an easy excuse to try and help their future grandchildren. Acosta interrupts, as she’s spending valuable anti-Trump airtime rambling on about herself, asking, “So does that bother you when the President calls you Pocahontas? Do you think that he is being disrespectful to native Americans when he does that? Doesn’t that bother you because of your family’s heritage?”... https://rickwells.us/warren-trump-warpath-indian/.
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Antonio Sabato Jr. Slams Hollywood Hypocrisy On Gun Violence.
Gordon Chang: Sanctions Have Severely Crippled North Korean Regime.
Trump Lawyers Seek Deal With Mueller, Testify In Exchange For Quick End To Probe.
Is California Breaking Federal Laws?.
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Racial Quotas Kill Kids
by Ann Coulter
{ freedomsback.com } ~ President liar-nObama did a lot of bad things, but pound for pound, one of the worst was the January 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter sent jointly by his Education and Justice Departments to all public schools threatening lawsuits over racial discrimination in student discipline. The letter came after years of his administration browbeating schools for their failure to discipline every race of student at the same rate.
As the Huffington Post put it: “American Schools Are STILL Racist, Government Report Finds.” The evidence? “Five percent of white students were suspended annually, compared with 16 percent of black students, according to the report.” Q.E.D.
According to theory, there’s NO WAY blacks and Hispanics are doing things that require more school discipline than whites or Asians. So if more black students are expelled than Asians, well, gentlemen, we have our proof of racism. To comply, schools would have to stop suspending black kids for breaking a teacher’s jaw, but suspend Asians for dropping an eraser.
Using the same logic, I could close the achievement gap between blacks and Asians in a single day by going to every principal’s office in the country and burning the transcripts. Liberals are saying, “You know, that’s not a bad idea.”
The “school-to-prison pipeline” argument for racial quotas in discipline was hatched in education schools and black studies departments. What I want to know is: How did they test the idea?
To validate the theory that recording students’ criminal behavior produces students with criminal records, we divided students into two groups. Group A we continued to suspend when they acted up; Group B we would not suspend no matter what — even when they engaged in their little mischief, like cracking heads with crowbars, dropping teachers off buildings, using a switchblade to cut other students’ eyes out.
RESULT: At the end of the year, Group B had better records.
Were the researchers really in suspense about how the experiment was going to turn out? I could have told them at the beginning that their odds of success were tremendous — unless they forgot halfway through and began accidentally suspending students in Group B.
But the liar-nObama administration said: Wow! That’s amazing. Do you think other schools could replicate those results?
One of the administration’s models was Broward County, Florida. Which is kind of important, now that we know that it was Broward’s official policy to make it impossible to arrest students like Nikolas Cruz, thus allowing him to amass a cache of firearms, walk into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and murder 17 people.
The “school-to-prison pipeline” nonsense may not be the explanation for every school shooting, but it is absolutely the explanation for THIS school shooting. No matter what Cruz did, no matter how many times his crimes were reported to the sheriff or school officials, there was no way a lad with a name like “Nikolas Cruz” was ever going to leave school with a record.
Broward County’s innovative idea of eliminating school discipline captivated liar-nObama’s Department of Education. It was expressly cited by the department’s Civil Rights Division with the notation: “New model for other jurisdictions?”
Last October — nearly a year into the Trump administration — Broward Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie humbly noted that the district was receiving “invitations from around the country, including from The White House and Federal Office of Civil Rights, to share details about the historic reforms” on school discipline.
Either: Liberals truly believe that all races commit crimes at exactly the same level, frequency and intensity; or they are willing to have people die for their political agenda.
Conservatives didn’t pick this school shooting as the test case for gun control. It was liberals who were going to ride the Parkland shooting all the way to the midterms. They thought they had a beautiful story about the evil NRA.
Not the mass shooting in Orlando — because of the obvious immigration angle. Not San Bernardino — for the same reason. Not Las Vegas — probably for the same reason, but we’ll never know because law enforcement has issued only lies and nonsense about that shooting.
The media did all the hard work of making sure Parkland was the only topic on anyone’s mind, with everyone demanding that we “do something!”
And then we got the facts. Cruz’s criminal acts were intentionally ignored by law enforcement on account of Broward’s much-celebrated “school-to-prison pipeline” reforms.
Thank God for the internet, or we’d never have known the truth.
Admittedly, most of the harm done by the policy that enabled Cruz is not usually a mass shooting. The main damage done by the “school-to-prison pipeline” idiocy is: broken bones, smashed teeth, traumatized students, making it impossible for other students to learn, having a bad influence on marginal students and teachers sinking into depression.
Check at your local school for the full results. Thanks to the liar-nObama administration, this crackpot theory is sweeping school districts across the nation!
The next time Democrats control Congress and the presidency, we will have racial quotas for prisons, too. When that happens, you better hope the government hasn’t taken your guns.
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Democratic Trumpsteria Continues
by David Limbaugh .
A Sleeping Son Of A B**** – Trump
Hammers Chuck Todd In PA Speech
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ President Trump entertained the folks at a rally in Pennsylvania as only he can... and taking advantage of the opportunity to take a few shots at the dishonest propaganda media, Chuck Todd in particular. Trump as describing a video he saw from 1999 in which he was being interviewed on Meet the Press. Trump said, “It’s 1999, I’m on Meet the Press, a show now headed by sleepy eyes Chuck Todd, he’s a sleeping son of a bitch, I’ll tell ya. Trump notes that he was saying back then, before it became en vogue, “you’ve got to take them out now.” He notes the video then showed President liar-Clinton, who he impersonates saying, “We are pleased to announce we have made a deal with North Korea.” Trump says, “You know how that deal turned out, right? We gave billions and billions of dollars and lots of other things and we got nothing.”... https://rickwells.us/sleeping-son-trump-todd/.MORE Despicable Behavior Unearthed
in Broward Sheriff’s Motley Crew
by Andrew West
{ constitution.com } ~ The seemingly unending saga of incompetence at the Broward County Sheriff’s Department enters its third week in earnest today... as even more evidence of complete and utter failure has been uncovered. For those of you still catching up, the Broward County Sheriff’s Department has been engaged in a debacle of the highest order following the Valentine’s Day Massacre carried out by former Stoneman Douglas High School student Nikolas Cruz. The obviously mentally ill teen, who heard demonic voices directing him while he slay 17 of his former classmates two weeks ago, had been reported to police and the FBI nearly four dozen times before his rampage, with callers informing authorities in no uncertain terms that Cruz was a threat to the school. He was “going to explode” and “shoot someplace up”, according to those who attempted, in vain, to stop him. Media SHOCKED to Learn Who’s Behind the Real Scandal of the Douglas High School Shooting... https://constitution.com/despicable-behavior-unearthed-broward-sheriffs-motley-crew/ .
Devin Nunes Dropped The Shocking
Scoop On Who Colluded With Russia 
{ americanpatriotdaily.com } ~ “Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes made a stunning claim on Fox News Monday... “Democrats were trying to get information from Russians to use against the Trump campaign.” “We know exactly who was getting information from the Russians. It was the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign — they were getting information from the Russians, dirt on Trump to use in a campaign. That’s the very thing that for a year and a half we’ve been trying to investigate whether the Trump campaign was getting dirt against liar-Hillary Clinton from the Russians. We have no evidence of that.” “But yet here we have another example, even if the story is not, you know, completely accurate, we know that the Democrats were trying to get information from Russians to use against the Trump campaign.” ... And what on earth, can't Mueller see that. http://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/featured/devin-nunes-dropped-who-colluded-with-russia/ .
Activists Demand Justice After Border
Agents Arrest Illegal… Then They Learn
What She Did for a Living
by Will Racke
{ westernjournal.com } ~ An arrest by the U.S. Border Patrol has stirred up outrage in the activist community as a purported example... of how President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies are unjustly tearing immigrant families apart. Viral videos posted to Facebook and YouTube on Thursday show Border Patrol agents — some in uniform and some in plain clothes — seizing Perla Morales-Luna as she was walking with her daughters in National City, California, last week. “Perla Morales-Luna was identified as an organizer for a transnational criminal smuggling organization operating in East County, San Diego,” the agency’s San Diego field division said in a statement... https://www.westernjournal.com/activists-demand-justice-border-agents-arrest-illegal-learn-living/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal.
After Grand Jury Testimony, Sam Nunberg
Says He Doubts Mueller Probe Leads To Trump
by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ A former Trump aide who testified before special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury on Friday says... he does not view the Russia probe as a “witch hunt,” though he also does not believe the investigation leads to President Donald Trump. Sam Nunberg offered the assessment in an interview with ABC News following his six-hour testimony before the grand jury, which convened in Washington, D.C. The interview was much tamer than a series of media appearances that Nunberg made earlier this week in which he threatened to defy Mueller’s subpoena by skipping the grand jury testimony... http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/10/sam-nunberg-testimony/?utm_medium=email .
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Democratic Trumpsteria Continues
by David Limbaugh
{ townhall.com } ~ If liberals would quit acting so crazy, maybe they would have a chance of making significant gains in Congress in the upcoming midterm elections and achieve their goal of eroding support for President Donald Trump. But it's not gonna happen.
Liberals' extremism and outrageousness and conservatives' failure to stop them created the conditions leading to Trump's election. Now the left's unrepentant persistence is sustaining and even increasing Trump's support. Please let liberals' learning disability continue.
They freak out over everything Trump does, apparently not realizing that their over-the-top reactions are way more unreasonable than anything Trump is doing. At a party fundraiser this past weekend, Trump quipped that Chinese President Xi Jinping is "now president for life. President for life. No, he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday."
You can imagine the monolithic liberal media beta males congregating at their watercoolers and whispering, "I know he's joking, but he does have authoritarian tendencies. Creepy."
Some even raced to their bullhorns and made fools of themselves publicly with the specious claim. CNN's Chris Cillizza penned an opinion piece under the title "This may be the scariest thing Donald Trump has said as president."
Wow. Do you think Cillizza seriously believes that this is scarier than Trump's promise to cut taxes, which has already led to an economic boom that jeopardizes the beleaguered Democrats' upcoming electoral prospects? What about his promise to appoint judges who genuinely care about the Constitution and the rule of law? Those things are indeed frightening for Cillizza's ilk, so he must have agonized over giving the nod to Trump's dictator joke.
In his quasi-hysterical piece, Cillizza wrote: "It's not totally clear to me whether Trump was half-joking or not. Trump's speech was behind closed doors." Well, it's not clear to me whether Cillizza is in possession of a humor molecule. His memory is also apparently on the blink, for he didn't mention former President Barack liar-nObama's reported lament that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. liar-nObama was complaining about the constitutional restraints that kept him from just dictating policy on certain issues. But his statement would have been much easier to take seriously than Trump's because he actually did trample the Constitution every time he could get away with it. Yet his liberal media enablers stood silent.
Liberals' hyperventilation over Trump's tongue-in-cheek throwaways is a mild example of their venom and fruitcakery. When columnist Bethany Mandel published an op-ed in The New York Times relating her experience in buying a gun to protect her family, gun control activist Shannon Watts accused her on Twitter of having fear, paranoia and white privilege. Watts tweeted that Mandel's white skin makes her less likely to be at risk as a gun owner, regardless of her hardscrabble background. "I guess you don't believe in racism," Watts tweeted to Mandel.
Leave it to an identity politics-obsessed leftist to invoke racism to attack a white Jewish wife and mother of three for purchasing a weapon to defend herself and her family in the face of actual threats made against her. I would say you can't make this stuff up, but it's better to say you don't have to make this stuff up, because leftist nastiness and nuttiness are a gift that keeps on giving.
Speaking of which, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions strongly criticized Libby Schaaf -- the mayor of Oakland, California -- for warning immigrants who are here illegally about upcoming raids, she fired back that Sessions has racist motives. "How dare you distort the reality about declining violent crime in a diverse sanctuary city like Oakland, California, to advance your racist agenda?" she said. California Gov. Jerry Brown accused the federal government of launching a "reign of terror." "This is basically going to war against the state of California," Brown said.
It's hard for me to understand how even leftists have the audacity to publicly admit that they think there is nothing illegal or immoral about a city official's giving a heads-up to law violators that federal law enforcement officers are on the way.
OK, it's not really that hard. Last year, California state Sen. Kevin de Leon claimed that the Trump administration's law enforcement policies were based on principles of white supremacy rather than American values. And only about a month ago, House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi shrieked that the Republicans' immigration plan was designed to "make America white again."
For all the Democrats' stated concerns over Trump's alleged excesses, he doesn't hold a candle to their daily behavior even on his worst day. Recent polls show that Trump's re-election prospects are looking pretty good. The game of politics is fluid and unpredictable, so these polls say little about what will happen in 2020. But they do tell us how these tired Democratic tactics are going over today.
As a Republican, I can only hope they continue.
Apparently, Google execs have yet another issue with Lionel Nations talking about the "birther" issue by refusing to allow any forum discussion. It's going to be time soon to regulate these giant social-media forums.
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The Elimination of Higher Education
by Michael Swartz
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Illegal Alien Smuggler Falsely Portrayed
As Victim of “Family Hater” Trump
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ An illegal alien who was walking with her three daughters, was arrested on March 3rd in the National City area of San Diego... supposedly while they were on their way to pay the rent. The open-borders left is going crazy because her teenage or adult daughters were squealing like stuck pigs while it was taking place and it was captured on cell phone video. They should have expected it would happen. Perla Morales-Luna wasn’t just an ordinary, garden variety illegal squatter, but a Mexican cartel employee who is described as a fairly high-level operator in an alien smuggling ring. The up is down, right is wrong left is in a frenzy, proclaiming that separating the illegal from her children is evidence that our immigration system is running amok and spreading fear in “communities.” Everybody who goes to jail or prison is separated from their families, do they make that same claim about those criminals? Is our Justice System in all fifty states and around the world running amok?... https://rickwells.us/illegal-alien-smuggler-trump/.Kris Kobach says Kansas voter registration
law blocked up to 18,000 noncitizen votes
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Tyranny of Shaming
by Nonie Darwish
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Every day we hear on television, "We need an honest discussion about race in this country"... Many well-meaning Americans, however, may have had enough of this endless, empty and dysfunctional discussion of race. To an outsider, Americans seem obsessed with race; and the discussion always deteriorates to shouting, insulting, blaming, finger-pointing, distorting reality and removing any hope of taking responsibility for oneself. The goal of the discussion always seems to be to try to claim that "I am holier than thou." We immigrants, on the other hand, the minute we land in the US, we feel the political struggle for our vote. The day I got my citizenship and went out to register to vote, some people in the room told me to register as a Democrat because the Democrats would protect my rights from the racist establishment and give me "stuff." Many of the people who had come with me did register that way, but I found the urging alarming. I grew up under a socialist, totalitarian system under the leadership of President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt -- a nanny state that also gives you "stuff'." What many Americans do not realize is that the free stuff can be too expensive... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12016/tyranny-of-shaming .
Sanders Owns Libtard Claiming Absence
of Leaks Means Trump Acted Impulsively
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Snarky media propagandist Kristen Welker mistakes an absence of leaks from her usual sources for spontaneity... which she then goes on to characterize as recklessness because the leakers were kept out of the loop on the decision to meet with Kim Jong Un. We can expect they’ll be further excluded in the future, perhaps right out the door. Welker asks Sarah Sanders one of her typical condescending questions, “Top officials at the White House and at the Pentagon seemed to be taken by surprise by the announcement. Was this done in a haphazard way?” Sure Welker, everything President Trump does is haphazard by your standards. Find a dictionary and look up getting things done. Maybe you’ll get a clue but probably not. Sanders ignores the derogatory manner in which the question is phrased, replying, “No, not at all. As I said, this has been part of an ongoing campaign that’s been going for over a year and just because some of the individuals that may regularly leak to the press weren’t involved in the conversation doesn’t mean that the appropriate parties that lead those agencies were not in the room and not part of that discussion.”... https://rickwells.us/sanders-libtard-trump-impulsively/.This Islamist Group Has No Business
Anywhere Near Our Schoolchildren
{ fixthisnation.com } ~ In a ruling on Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the San Diego Unified School District to turn over all correspondence it has had with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)... regarding a bullying initiative aimed at curing area schools of Islamophobia. Responding to a request by the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund, the judge found there was enough evidence in the record to suggest that the school district has continued its communications with CAIR after assuring the court that it was severing ties with the controversial organization. The FCDF is hoping that the revelation of such correspondence will compel the court to take further action to keep CAIR’s Islamist propaganda out of San Diego schools. “There are no programs promoting ‘Jewish culture,’ the FCDF told the court in their request for an injunction. “There are no lectures from priests on how to accommodate Catholic students during Lent. And there are no partnerships with Evangelical Christian activists. In short, the San Diego Unified School District has placed their power, prestige, and purse behind a single religion: Islam”... http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/this-islamist-group-has-no-business-anywhere-near-our-schoolchildren/
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The Elimination of Higher Education
by Michael Swartz: In less than a week, Americans will be exposed — with practically wall-to-wall coverage at that — to 68 of our institutions of higher learning as they take part in the annual NCAA basketball tournament. Teams that outperform expectations will benefit from an uptick in applications, and although many of the schools participating are already household names, who doesn’t take pride in seeing their alma mater in “The Big Dance?” Unfortunately for the high school Class of 2019, whose students are just now beginning to determine where they’ll go to college, there’s a different sort of elimination going on, with much higher stakes. A long-term downturn in enrollment, along with a decline in the number of Americans who believe a college education is worth the money, is beginning to affect many schools’ bottom line. While this won’t immediately affect a state-supported public university or Ivy League schools with their multi-billion dollar endowments, those who’d prefer a smaller campus and more intimate setting may find that many small colleges are the first to fold.
As an example, based on a Wall Street Journal ranking of more than 1,000 schools accounting for a number of factors, one observer painted a bleak picture for schools near the bottom of the list. “You’re going to see, over the next five years, a real increase in the number of schools in serious trouble,” said Ohio University’s Richard Vedder, who heads the school’s Center for College Affordability and Productivity. “A degree from one of these lower schools doesn’t mean much of anything.” These closings will also expand the so-called “education deserts” that are defined in part as areas outside a convenient radius from four-year colleges.
Truth be told, though, the “desert” seems to be on campus, and it’s a desert where independent thought and ideological diversity are all but impossible to find. We joke about the “snowflakes” who can’t seem to cope when events don’t turn out as they hope, but the information silo being created by these schools is no laughing matter. When left-wing professors outnumber their right-leaning colleagues by more than 10 to 1 — leaving their unemployable graduates with useless degrees and student loan debt for which taxpayers will ultimately be on the hook — more and more concerned parents and prospective students are looking elsewhere.
“An increasing percentage of high school graduates are moving directly into job-prep education,” writes Peter Heck at The Resurgent. “Either offered by a business itself, or channeled through a trade school or online academy, these innovative programs give students direct training in the field they want to work in rather than forcing them to fill 90% of their course schedule with classes that don’t pertain to their desired field.”
Why spend well over $100,000, they reason, when there are good-paying jobs that don’t require a degree or, if a more traditional degree is desired, online institutions that provide a good, basic education to “nontraditional students” for a fraction of the cost?
Over the last 75 years, college has evolved from a place where only the best and brightest went to pursue higher education to its current marketing as a basic necessity. However, while students, parents and (mostly) taxpayers have “invested” billions to make state-supported public schools a luxurious interim experience for those soon to join the “real world” beyond campus, the model and mode of education has changed. Today, thousands have gained their degrees without ever setting foot on a campus, while still others are making the companies that sponsored and provided their post-high-school education more successful as they apply the skills and knowledge they were taught in these programs.
While none of these schools and institutes for training will ever make the field of 68 for “March Madness,” they provide the key for stopping the madness of spiraling student debt and useless but politically correct degrees. And have we mentioned that the world needs skilled tradespeople and entrepreneurs that do well without setting foot on a college campus? Yes, we have. But it bears repeating. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54646-the-elimination-of-higher-education
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A Florida Deputy Failed; Responding
SWAT Members Punished
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Monday Top Headlines
by Political Editors: Treasury report: True U.S. government shortfall is $88.9 trillion, an average of $704K per household (PJ Media)
by Political Editors: Treasury report: True U.S. government shortfall is $88.9 trillion, an average of $704K per household (PJ Media).
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Xi Jingping cleared to rule indefinitely as China officially scraps term limits (The Washington Post)
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Trump’s plan to combat school shootings includes allowing armed teachers, federal commission, review of FBI tip line (The Washington Times)
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Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott signs sweeping gun bill, NRA sues and critics on both sides abound (Miami Herald)
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Baltimore approves spending of $200,000 to pay lawyers to help illegals fight deportations (The Baltimore Sun)
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Cost for California bullet train system rises to $77.3 billion — $13 billion over budget and four years late (Los Angeles Times)
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Policy: Minimum income is not a right (American Enterprise Institute) ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54683-monday-top-headlines
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Rep Jordan – Investigate liar-nObama
and loose lips-Biden Senior Staffer
Married To Fusion GPS Employee
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Jim Jordan joined David Asman to discuss the situation developing in which another high level Democrat... this time inside the liar-nObama White House, Shayla Murray, has a direct connection by marriage to high level official inside Fusion GPS. This goes way beyond the level of a credible mere coincidence. Murray is married to Neil King Jr., who works at Fusion GPS alongside founder and suspect Glenn Simpson. She worked for former Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden as his deputy chief of staff and communications director and then went on to be a senior adviser to Hussein liar-nObama. She was one of those who was sent a questionnaire by the House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes asking when she first learned of the dossier and that it was funded by the DNC and liar-Clinton campaign. She was also asked what official action she took based upon it or the knowledge... https://rickwells.us/jordan-obama-biden-fusion/.Secretary Rex Tillerson Discusses North
Korea and Pending U.S. Talks Between
President Trump and Kim Jong-Un
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ During a press availability with Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson... was asked about the recent stunning developments between the U.S. and North Korea. The Q&A segment is outlined below: QUESTION: Thank you so much. Mr. Secretary, for months you’ve been saying that conditions are not yet right for talks with North Korea, and that you would know it when you saw it. Less than 24 hours ago, that was still your position. What changed in the last 24 hours that gave the Trump administration confidence that now is the right time? Can you explain the logic behind starting this process, talks about talks, as you’ve described it at the level of the leaders of the country? And did you know when you made those comments yesterday that this meeting was in the works?... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/10/secretary-rex-tillerson-discusses-north-korea-and-pending-u-s-talks-between-president-trump-and-kim-jong-un/.
Hollywood’s Ugly Side
by Sharyl Attkisson
{ sharylattkisson.com } ~ “Hollywood Hypocrisy” is our cover story on Sunday’s Full Measure. Hollywood’s double standard regarding its treatment of women is coming home to roost... We go to L.A. to examine the sordid history of the casting couch and whether real change is on the way. Joce Sterman looks into the problem of sexual misconduct in the U.S. military. She found that the military branches don’t even have a common definition of what constitutes sexual harassment. That makes it difficult to fix the problem within our nation’s biggest employer. And we go back to the Southern Philippines where ISIS Islamic extremist terrorists are trying to establish an independent state or “caliphate” from which they can launch attacks throughout Southeast Asia. As the U.S. assists the Philippines’ military, there are new warnings from the U.S. State Department about dangerous developments. https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/03/09/hollywoods-ugly-side/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29.UN probe: Russia behind deadly
airstrike in Syria's Idlib
by JAMEY KEATEN and PHILIP ISSA
{ foxnews.com } ~ U.N. war crimes investigators said Tuesday that a Russian plane was apparently behind an airstrike in November in Syria's Idlib province... that killed 84 people at a marketplace, an attack which could amount to a war crime. The findings, reported by the U.N.'s Commission of Inquiry on Syria, were the first time the group has pinned responsibility for civilian deaths in Syria directly on Russia. According to the report, "all available information" indicates that a Russian plane carried out the Nov. 13 airstrike that hit a market, surrounding houses and a police station run by Western-backed Syrian rebels in the town of Atarib, in northern Idlib. At least 84 people were killed and about another 150 were wounded in the attack... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/03/06/un-probe-russia-behind-deadly-airstrike-in-syrias-idlib.html
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U.N. and scum-Soros Corruption in Guatemala.
Tom Fitton’s Video Weekly Update – March 9, 2018.
JW 60 Seconds: What's in a Name? Loretta Lynch's Alias Helps Her Hide from the Law.
Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit on DOJ for Records on Bruce Ohr, Fusion GPS.
Judicial Watch issues lawsuit against Department of Justice.
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A Florida Deputy Failed; Responding SWAT Members Punished
by Jordan Candler: When it comes to the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, it’s increasingly clear that apprehension played a huge role while bravery is facing rebuke. Two new reports are sickening. We’ve chronicled the deplorable actions of the initial responding officers whose inclination was to wait outside the school. Well, it got worse. News last night was that Broward Deputy Scot Peterson, the on-campus security guard, knew and informed other officers over the radio that gunfire was happening “inside” the building — despite his later insistence that he wasn’t sure whether shots were fired outside. “Do not approach the 12 or 1300 building, stay at least 500 feet away,” Peterson said over the radio. So he remained outside and instructed others to do likewise.
But then there was Sgt. Jeff Heinrich, an officer with the Coral Springs Police Department. He and his family are deeply involved with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. But even though the fate of his wife and son was unknown during the rampage, Sgt. Heinrich — who at the time of the shooting was off duty but happened to be on school property — nevertheless did what the other officers refused to do: He entered the school in an effort to engage the shooter.
This week we learned that Sgt. Heinrich’s impulse to selflessly and independently enter the danger zone was shared by Detectives Jeffrey Gilbert and Carl Schlosser. Both of them are Miramar Police Department SWAT members. Upon hearing news of an active shooter, the on-duty detectives reflexively made their way toward the high school. Unfortunately, their valor is being met with reprisal.
According to The Hill, Gilbert and Schlosser “have been suspended from duty over their decision to respond without permission to the shooting at a high school that killed 17 students and faculty last month. … Following their suspension, the two were ordered to turn in their SWAT-issued rifles, but they remain on active duty for other assignments, according to the newspaper.”
Police Benevolent Association President Jeff Marano responded: “While it may have been a violation of policy to not notify their supervisors that they were going there, their intentions were brave and heroic, I think.” Indeed.
Admittedly, the policy isn’t without merit. The Sun Sentinel recalls last year’s ordeal at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in which “over 2,000 cops responded to the original report of gunfire and false reports of additional shots fired.” The Sentinel explains that a “crowd of arriving law enforcement can jam roads that ambulances need to use, overwhelm radios and in general, add to the confusion of the police response.”
Fair enough. But the Parkland ordeal is very upsetting for numerous reasons. Not only did authorities fail to heed dozens of warning signs well before the attack, but the response by Broward County sheriff’s deputies — rather, the nonresponse — created a dilemma. Yet the brave souls who were willing to engage the shooter are being punished for it.
At the very least, their supervisors could exercise some discretion — and some decency.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54628-a-florida-deputy-failed-responding-swat-members-punished
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Foreign Aid Often Hurts More Than Helps
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Bolton – Kim Is Lying, Stalling For
Time, Trying To Hogtie Trump
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ John Bolton points out that North Korea is very close to achieving “their dream of the past twenty-five years or more... being able to deliver thermo-nuclear warheads on target in the United States. They’re very close and they don’t want anything that would interfere with them crossing that finish line.” Shannon Bream asks, “If they’re that close, why in the world would they agree to now halt the program, to give it up completely? It just doesn’t logically make any sense.” Bolton replies, “Because they’re lying,” and that “they want to buy time, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, whatever it is they need to get across the finish line.” Bolton predicts “it could either be a long and unproductive meeting or a short and unproductive meeting,” dependent upon the posturing of Kim Jong Un. Shannon Bream plays a clip of Marco Rubio predicting it is a ploy on the part of Kim in which will portray himself as being cooperative to the world and President Trump as uncooperative, persuading them to back off of sanctions... https://rickwells.us/bolton-kim-lying-trump/VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JTYS59R4v4
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Radio Legend Michael Savage Approached
To Run Against Sen. Dianne Fein-stein
by Joshua Caplan
{ hegatewaypundit.com } ~ Radio legend Michael Savage revealed to his audience Friday that ‘very important people,’ have approached him to run against Senator Dianne Fein-stein (D-CA)... “Some very important people have come to me and said ‘Savage, would you like to run as an independent for the U.S. Senate in the of California against the esteemed Dianne Fein-stein?’ Now you may say ‘you don’t have a ghost of a chance.’ With all those illegal aliens, with all that union money, with no press on your side, how could you David run against the Goliath of Fein-stein?” […] I’ve been holding down the fort for 24 years this March. 24 years in the radio business and I am younger than Dianne Fein-stein. That’s right. I’ve been asked by a number of very powerful, important people to run as an independent for the U.S. Senate in the state of California and I am contemplating whether I really want to leave what I’ve worked for all my life and roll in the mud because politics is the dirty business on the planet.” Savage did not reveal who is pushing him to run for the U.S. Senate or what type of backing he would receive... http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/report-radio-legend-michael-savage-approached-run-sen-dianne-feinstein-audio/.
Chairman Nunes Reveals Fusion GPS
Connection to liar-nObama White House
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Well this latest twist is sketchy as hell. In December last year we learned about Nellie Ohr working for Fusion GPS... and channeling liar-Clinton/Steele ‘dossier’ information to her husband Bruce Ohr who worked in the DOJ National Security Division. Today Fox News is revealing that Fusion-GPS #2 man-in-charge, Neil King Jr., was/is married to President liar-nObama’s White House Policy Adviser, Shailagh Murray; who was also Joe loose lips-Biden’s Deputy-Chief-of-Staff. It’s becoming more and more transparently obvious that Fusion-GPS was one of the contractors with access to the FBI and NSA database; and when Admiral Rogers shut down that access April 18, 2016, Fusion-GPS needed a workaround to access the system through the Dept. of Justice National Security Division (DOJ-NSD), via Bruce Ohr... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/09/sketchy-business-chairman-nunes-reveals-fusion-gps-connection-to-obama-white-house/ .
CNN Anchor: Trump Goes Down as a
‘Great President’ if He Solved North Korea
Crisis, ‘There’s No Way Around That’
by David Rutz
{ freebeacon.com } ~ CNN anchor Erin Burnett commented President Donald Trump would go down as a "great president" if he managed to solve the generational North Korean nuclear crisis... adding "there's no way around that." The White House stunned the world Thursday night with the announcement that Trump had accepted an invitation from Kim Jong Un, the young dictator of North Korea who has repeatedly threatened the United States with destruction. If the summit takes place—the South Koreans have said the meeting will take place by May—it would be the first face-to-face meeting between a U.S. president and a North Korean leader. It was the main topic on cable news Thursday night, and Burnett made the comment after moderating a panel on the significance and pitfalls of such a meeting....
Colombia Ambassador Pick’s Testimony Spurs
Questions About Role in Benghazi Aftermath
by Susan Crabtree
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) wants more answers from Joseph Macmanus, a career foreign service officer nominated for the post of U.S. ambassador to Colombia... about his role in helping former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton respond to the 2012 Benghazi attack. "The senator remains concerned about the ability of the nominee to effectively represent the United States as ambassador to Colombia," a Rubio spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon late Thursday, a day after Macmanus testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "The confirmation process is still ongoing, and the nominee will have an opportunity to address further questions," Rubio's spokesman added. Rubio is one of several Republican senators who have taken issue with Macmanus's nomination over his close ties to liar-Hillary Clinton during her tenure at State, amid other concerns... http://freebeacon.com/politics/colombia-ambassador-picks-testimony-spurs-questions-role-benghazi-aftermath/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=35fe95160d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-35fe95160d-45611665 .
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Foreign Aid Often Hurts More Than Helps
by Brian Mark Weber: There’s an old saying that charity begins at home. While the spirit of the phrase is controversial in our hyper-political climate, the fact is that sending federal aid overseas is more of a feel-good solution than a long-term way of reducing poverty or increasing the ability of people to become more self-reliant and prosperous.
by Brian Mark Weber: There’s an old saying that charity begins at home. While the spirit of the phrase is controversial in our hyper-political climate, the fact is that sending federal aid overseas is more of a feel-good solution than a long-term way of reducing poverty or increasing the ability of people to become more self-reliant and prosperous. For decades, the United States has sent aid to countries around the world with the noble intention of helping those unable to access the basic necessities of life such as medicine, running water and shelter. But some Third World countries never break the cycle of poverty, and this often has more to do with their corrupt political leaders than a lack of work ethic, resources or a desire to improve. When these corrupt regimes are flush with American cash, it’s no wonder that so many poor nations fail to prosper.
The best way for people to escape poverty is to implement a free-market economy, support individual freedom and business expansion and fight political corruption. The reason tyrannical and corrupt regimes don’t follow this advice is self-evident.
The data show that free nations are more prosperous than those whose political systems aim for equality at all costs. The Heritage Foundation’s 2018 Index of Economic Freedom ranks 180 nations based on their level of economic freedom and the corresponding level of poverty. Some economic studies send mixed messages, but not this one. The numbers are irrefutable: As economic freedom increases, poverty decreases.
As Patrick Tyrrell writes at The Daily Signal, “This finding should not be overlooked when organizations like the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank plan aid for developing countries. Such aid too often ignores economic freedom violations by despots, dictators, and autocrats.”
There seems to be little thought given to where the aid goes when it leaves places like the IMF or World Bank, or how the money is spent if it actually makes it past an entrenched autocracy. But should we expect anything different from organizations that habitually overlook corruption in countries receiving aid?
Tyrrell adds, “Strongmen who disregard property rights or the rule of law to remain in power have been rewarded with billions of dollars in foreign aid from rich countries for decades. Despots and dictators have often used this aid to solidify their grips on power, such as by withholding food aid from groups that do not support them.”
So that’s why decades of American and international aid hasn’t even made a dent in the problem.
Not surprisingly, the political Left is often the driving force behind these global relief programs, and government aid isn’t the only problem. More often than not, so-called progressive aid organizations are plagued by malfeasance while the people in need to continue to suffer. We only need to look at what the loar-Clinton Global Initiative did with contributions from wealthy, progressive donors. Remember the millions that were sent the liar-Clintons’ way in order to help the Haitian people recover from the 2010 earthquake? Haiti still hasn’t recovered, yet the liar-Clintons have rolled in cash.
Another segment of our society pushing for more global assistance is progressive Christians, who use their faith as justification for pouring billions of dollars of government aid into poverty-stricken countries. Once a donation drops into the collection basket, the assumption is that a hungry mouth will be fed and medicines will be delivered.
Unfortunately, this is rarely the case. As The Resurgent’s Peter Heck suggests, “Christians who see their brother in need personally should give generously from their own resources, bank accounts, and wealth to care for them. Christians who see their brothers in need in other parts of the world should support charitable organizations that work to rebuild their lives through missions and relief efforts.”
This sounds reasonable considering that Americans are the most generous people in the world. “Americans out-donate Britain and Canada two-to-one and nations like Italy and Germany 20-to-one,” The Almanac of American Philanthropy reported in 2016. “What’s more, more than half of every single income class except those earning less than $25,000, give to charity. The much maligned top 1% in the U.S. economy fork over one-third of all donations made.”
But Heck adds, “Christians who are interested in results more than political posturing, should encourage and urge their government to spread a doctrine of economic freedom to the impoverished world. That, far more than confiscation and redistribution of wealth, achieves the results we desire.”
The problem with sending money overseas is that it doesn’t get to the needy, and it therefore has a minimal impact on people’s long-term living conditions. Princeton University economist Angus Deaton, who worked for decades at the World Bank, asserts that rich do-gooders may be exacerbating the problem of corruption in the Third World, given that there’s been so little to show for $135 billion in global aid.
What Deaton and other economists discovered was that countries receiving aid actually found their economic situation growing worse because the relationship between the governments and their people changed. This makes sense. A country is less likely to be accountable to its people if the government can rely on a steady stream of international aid.
The U.S. should lead the way toward reform. This includes ensuring that nations receiving aid are working toward implementing policies that expand the economic and political rights of their people, and working directly with aid organizations rather than funneling money through politicians and despots.
We can also apply these standards to our own cities, by promoting entrepreneurship and supporting business-friendly policies that help the downtrodden build independence and wealth. Like Third World despots, Democrat mayors across the country have largely squandered hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars since the “Great Society.”
Only when we battle poverty at its root cause will we break the cycle of political corruption and poverty. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54648-foreign-aid-often-hurts-more-than-helps
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China Extends NoKo Nuke Olive Branch
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NRA Immediately Responds With Lawsuit
Over Unconstitutional Florida Gun Law
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ One hour after RINO Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a massive attack on the Second Amendment into law... the NRA was in a court house filing their challenge on constitutional grounds. The new law, signed on Friday, calls for waiting periods for long guns, firearm confiscation by the government and a ban on bump stocks. It also raises the age at which one can legally purchase a rifle or shotgun in the state to 21 from 18. It is that provision that is the foundation of the legal action by the NRA. Marion Hammer spoke for the NRA, telling Breitbart News that they “filed a lawsuit in federal court against the State of Florida for violating the constitutional rights of young adults between the ages of 18-21.”... https://rickwells.us/nra-lawsuit-florida-gun-law/ .
House Intel Expands Dossier Probe With Letter
To liar-nObama Adviser Linked To Fusion GPS
by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence are seeking information about the Steele dossier... from a former liar-nObama administration official who is married to an employee of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that commissioned the dossier. The committee, chaired by GOP Rep. Devin Nunes of California, issued questionnaires Friday to around a dozen former President Barack liar-nObama’s administration officials. The Daily Caller News Foundation is told that one of the letters was sent to Shailagh Murray, a former journalist who served as senior adviser to liar-nObama and as former Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden’s deputy chief of staff... http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/09/house-intel-dossier-probe/ .
DREAMers Go Rogue… Trash Democrat
Party in Unprecedented Move
by BENJAMIN ARIE
{ conservativetribune.com } ~ Playing identity politics is a risky game. The Democrat Party no doubt thought it could snag easy votes by pandering to the largely Latino population of “Dreamers”… but the left’s eagerness to blame Republicans for every problem is now causing many in that community to reject liberal promises. During a recent appearance on Fox News, an illegal immigrant and participant in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program named Cata Santiago had harsh words for Democrats and their inability to work with President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers. “They don’t walk their talk,” declared the 20-year-old immigrant, who is a Mexican citizen but was taken to the U.S. by her parents when she was only 8... https://conservativetribune.com/dreamers-trash-democrat-party/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune.
Susan Rice Criticizing Trump Success With
N Korea, The Mess She Left Him To Fix
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Both liar-nObama National Security Adviser Susan Rice and her fellow globalist, Mrs. Alan Greenspan, Andrea Mitchell... seem to be taking it personally that President Trump is making progress in dealing with North Korea that nobody before him, including Rice and their messiah were able to. Given the fact that Trump has already outperformed liar-nObama on foreign policy, it’s questionable whether the opinions of either of these two cackling hens is of any value, but they certainly are not shy about giving them, along with heaping helpings of anti-Trump rhetoric. In describing getting nothing accomplished through the laughable liar-nObama policy of “strategic patience,” doing nothing as N Korea built their nuclear program, Mitchell says, “What you’ve described is a traditional, appropriate diplomatic process.” For some reason Rice finds the characterization of her failures in that manner humorous, laughing dismissively at President Trump... https://rickwells.us/susan-rice-trump-korea/.Senate Claims to Fix its Wall Street Bill,
But a look at the Text Says It's a Giveaway
by David Dayen
{ theintercept.com } ~ EARLIER THIS WEEK, the Senate got 50 Republicans, 16 Democrats, and one Democratic-leaning independent to move forward on S.2155, the bipartisan bank deregulation bill... With that base of support, prospects for passage are extremely bright — or dark, depending on how you view a bill that the Congressional Budget Office says heightens the risk of a financial crisis for the purpose of loosening rules on banks. There’s just one problem left: Almost nobody has any idea what the bill will ultimately look like. And they almost certainly won’t know until hours, or perhaps minutes, before they have to make a final decision. Senate Banking Committee chair Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and four Banking Committee Democrats filed several last-minute changes in what’s known as a manager’s amendment late Wednesday. That’s a bill that incorporates unknown changes to a piece of legislation that has already passed committee. To spot the changes, a reader must compare the language of both bills... https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/senate-bank-bill-wall-street-banking/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f87e916ec0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-f87e916ec0-131896129 .
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China Extends NoKo Nuke Olive Branch
by Thomas Gallatin: President Donald Trump on Thursday accepted an invitation to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, an invitation that was relayed to the U.S. by South Korean officials who had recently met with the North. It’s important to note here that thus far the North Korean regime has not publicly or officially requested a meeting with Trump. That said, there is no reason to doubt Kim’s desire to have a face-to-face meeting with the president, as it would serve to validate his leadership status on the world scene. On the possibility of a diplomatic solution, Trump struck a positive yet realistic note, tweeting, “Kim Jong Un talked about denuclearization with the South Korean Representatives, not just a freeze. Also, no missile testing by North Korea during this period of time. Great progress being made but sanctions will remain until an agreement is reached. Meeting being planned!” There has been quite a bit of Leftmedia consternation over the implications of Trump’s acceptance. Many have questioned if Trump fully appreciates the dangers. U.S. policy has long resisted offering any validation to the rogue regime — validation it could then leverage geopolitically. As has been repeatedly noted by the MSM, this face-to-face meeting would be a first for a sitting U.S. president.
However, what has been missed by much of the MSM coverage is the region’s biggest player, China. The Kim regime’s long-running control of North Korea could not have existed without significant support from the communists in Beijing. In fact, North Korea is a puppet of the Chinese.
It is interesting to note that the day Trump announced his plan for tariffs on steel, North Korean officials reached out to officials in the South requesting a meeting. Undoubtedly, Kim has felt the sting of Trump’s economic sanctions, but more than Kim, it is the Chinese who have the most to lose economically, especially if war were to break out on the Korean peninsula. Trump’s announcement of a tariff on Chinese steel and aluminum may have finally been the straw that broke the camel’s back. If China is willing to truly end the nuclear threat posed by its North Korean puppet, then maybe it can get concessions from Trump on tariffs.
The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is China’s largest single trade partner and second largest regional partner behind only the European Union, accounting for over $521 billion in trade annually. Meanwhile, the North Korean economy is almost entirely dependent on China, which accounts for over 90% of its imports and over 85% of its exports. Quite literally, China is North Korea’s lifeline. Thus, as we have noted previously, China is the key to effectively dealing with North Korea.
Trump has indicated that he has no plans to withdraw any sanctions until there are actual results, and talks don’t equate to results. Rep. Edward Royce (R-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee argued for a cautious approach, saying, “We can pursue more diplomacy as we keep applying pressure ounce by ounce.” He added, “Remember, North Korean regimes have repeatedly used talks and empty promises to extract concessions and buy time. North Korea uses this to advance its nuclear and missile programs. We’ve got to break this cycle.”
Kevin Martin, president of Peace Action, said, “North Korea is putting virtually all topics of concerns on the table. Trump now has the opportunity to achieve what no president has been able to achieve in seven decades of U.S.-North Korea relations: make real strides towards lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.” Is it North Korea or is it China that is putting denuclearization on the table? Either way, it is sincerely hoped that a nuclear North Korea comes to an end. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54651-china-extends-noko-nuke-olive-branch
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Man of Steel Tariffs
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Kim Jong Un The Party Animal – S Koreans
Say He Loves His Humor And Booze
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ There’s little debate over whether or not Kim Jong Un is a ruthless and brutal tyrant... but it does seem he’s one with a some normal aspects to his personality. We’re learning that when he met with the South Korean contingent for dinner, there was a lot of alcohol flowing and he actually joked about himself. Taken in addition to the surprising messaging of the N. Korean Olympic delegation, which included his sister and the “geisha cheerleaders,” we perhaps are seeing a different Kim than the squatty little dictator we’ve believed he was. Kim received two years of his education at Liebefeld-Steinhölzli Schule, a Swiss state school. He received failing grades in science, but was more adept in music and math. His dictator dad gave him an external perspective as part of his grooming process. He interacted with other foreign kids, the children of diplomats, which was also a valuable learning experience. Some of those foundational skills may now be coming into play... https://rickwells.us/kim-party-humor-booze/.Russian Spy Ship Off Georgia Coast
by Bill Gertz
{ freebeacon.com } ~ A Russian spy ship is currently conducting surveillance operations in waters near a U.S. ballistic missile submarine base in Georgia... according to Navy officials. "We are tracking the Viktor Leonov's presence off the East Coast, much like we are aware of all vessels approaching the United States," said Navy Cmdr. Bill Speaks, a Navy spokesman. "We respect the right and freedoms of all nations to operate in international waters in accordance with international law," he added. A military official said the Leonov, a ship known for conducting annual forays near sensitive U.S. military facilities off the East Coast, is currently operating off the Georgia coast near Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, home to U.S. nuclear missile submarines... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-spy-ship-off-georgia-coast/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=01a8ee6a11-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-01a8ee6a11-45611665 .
Pro-Abortion Justice Anthony Kennedy
Will Reportedly Retire This Summer,
Replacement Could Overturn Roe
by STEVEN ERTELT
{ lifenews.com } ~ Christmas may have come early for the pro-life movement. Since 1973, pro-life people have been yearning for the day that a majority pro-life Supreme Court would overturn Roe v Wade... Although the high court has been closely divided over the years it has always stayed at least one vote on the pro-abortion side. Justice Anthony Kennedy is one of those votes in favor of keeping Roe vs Wade in place and its allowance for virtually unlimited abortions nationwide. But the latest news today indicates he may possibly be retiring this summer — opening the door for another justice who respects the value of human life or at least the rule of law without using the Supreme Court to invent a fictitious right to abortion... http://www.lifenews.com/2018/03/09/pro-abortion-justice-anthony-kennedy-will-reportedly-retire-this-summer-replacement-could-overturn-roe/.
Karma For Iran As London Embassy
Is Taken Over by Jihadists
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ It’s been thirty-eight years since a mob of Iranian “students” seized the US embassy in Tehran and took the Americans inside captive... holding them for 444 days. Karma sometimes takes a while to make its way back around but today it paid the Iranians a well-deserved visit, coming to their own embassy in London. Four men have forced their way onto the Iranian embassy with only baseball bats and machetes as weapons. London police have been deployed to the site. Slogans chanted by the attackers indicate they are radical Islamists of the Sadeq Shirazi Shiite sect. The Iranian Fars News service reports that that group is supported by London, whose Mayor Khan is also a jihadi. The Iranian Ambassador to Britain, Hamid Baeedinejad, confirmed the attack. He tweeted, “A few followers of Shirazi have attacked the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Embassy in London and broke the flag mast.” He noted that they were “chanting slogans against Iranian officials.” It seems that the regime’s “death to America” tactic can be modified for use in other situations... https://rickwells.us/karma-iran-london-embassy/ .
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‘Muslims Tend To View Every Criticism Of Islam As Islamophobia’ – Toronto Lecture.
Laura Ingraham: ‘California Is Almost Acting Like It’s a Separate Country’.
WaPo Video Proves scum-Keith Ellison Lying About His Ongoing Relationship With Farrakhan.
Tariffs Are A Move Towards Fair Trade: Former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli | CNBC.
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Man of Steel Tariffs
by Nate Jackson: President Donald Trump announced his 25% steel and 10% aluminum tariffs Thursday, a week after floating the idea. They’ll take effect in two weeks. Perhaps most importantly on the actual policy, Trump carved out exemptions for Canada and Mexico while NAFTA negotiations continue — just as we speculated he would. Trump also indicated there would be possible exemptions for other nations if reciprocal trade concessions are made. The economics of his tariffs, as we argued last week, are a mixed bag. While obviously the steel and aluminum industries will benefit — indeed, companies are already announcing expansion and jobs — industries dependent on steel and aluminum will suffer, jobs will be lost and many products will become more expensive.
But those aren’t Trump’s only considerations. During his televised signing ceremony, he declared, “Today I’m defending America’s national security by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum.” Aside from any real national security concerns, there are two reasons for his focus. First, in order to act without Congress, he must justify it on national security grounds. Were the tariffs only for economic reasons, he’d be stuck waiting. Second, the same justification avoids World Trade Organization sanctions.
From a strategic perspective, Trump’s tariffs are 90% “art of the deal” and 10% bluster — a shot over the bow of NAFTA nations as well as China (see North Korea for why that’s true). Trump is a dealmaker first and foremost, and he arguably knows more about business than any previous president in history — and most definitely more than many of the talkingheads churning the news-cycle rant loop about tariffs. He’s using that knowledge for the purposes of foreign policy.
As for all the Republican blowback, it’s largely about necessary political cover in an election year. The targeted tariffs play well with Trump’s America First blue-collar base across the nation (formerly the Democrats’ base), and particularly in a few hard-hit industrial states.
Unfortunately, as we noted Wednesday, EU officials have shrewdly targeted Harley Davidson, based in House Speaker Paul Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin, bourbon made in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home state of Kentucky, and orange juice from Florida, the perennial swing state. That punishes Trump’s allies and voters.
At the same time, the U.S. economy is an enormous chunk of the world economy and most of our trade partner beneficiaries will tread carefully in terms of retaliation. On balance, we’d say tariffs are a net drag on the economy, as the vehement opposition signifies, but Trump has an uncanny way of turning this kind of chaos to his advantage. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54649-man-of-steel-tariffs
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Slouching Towards Anti-Semitism
by Arnold Ahlert
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Massive Iranian Missile Buildup
Sparks Fear of ‘Second Holocaust’
by Adam Kredo
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Iran is undertaking a massive buildup of its ballistic missile program, sparking fears of a "second Holocaust"... amid sensitive international negotiations that could see the Trump administration legitimize Iranian missiles capable of striking Israel, according to multiple sources familiar with ongoing diplomatic talks. As the Trump administration and European allies continue discussions aimed at fixing a range of flaws in the landmark Iran nuclear deal, sources familiar with the progression of these talks say the United States is caving to European demands limiting restrictions on Iran's ballistic missile program. While the Trump administration went into the negotiations with a hardline stance on cutting off Iran's ballistic missile program, it appears the United States is moving closer in line with European positions that would only regulate a portion of the missiles... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/massive-iranian-missile-buildup-sparks-fear-second-holocaust/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=01a8ee6a11-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-01a8ee6a11-45611665 .
Remote-access software
found on popular voting machines
by wnd.com
{ wnd.com } ~ Despite alleged Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, no evidence has been produced showing Moscow’s hackers – or anyone else... being able to remotely access and change votes on any of the 350,000 electronic voting machines used in the U.S. Americans have largely accepted that the machines are safe from hackers because they’ve repeatedly been told the devices are “air-gapped” – isolated from all unsecured networks, including the internet. That is untrue, according to a New York Times Magazine investigation last month that described Election Systems & Software, the largest manufacturer of voting machines, selling hardware with election-management systems pre-installed with remote-access software. The company also is said to have encouraged past purchasers to install the software on machines that did not currently have it so ES&S technicians could do troubleshooting and maintenance without having to be onsite... http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/remote-access-software-found-on-popular-voting-machines/The Second Era of No Decision
by Matthew Continetti
{ freebeacon.com } ~ I had to travel to Silicon Valley to be reminded of how much our time resembles the late nineteenth century... Visiting the Stanford campus this week on a Hoover Institution media fellowship, I spoke to professors who view D.C. politics from a distance both critical and geographic. I was startled by how often the Gilded Age came up, unprompted, in my conversations. It was helpful to be reminded that, while the Beltway is obsessed with personalities—Stormy Daniels, Gary Cohn, Robert Mueller, Jared Kushner, and above all Donald Trump—the structural forces that have brought us to this moment are more important and more enduring. Niall Ferguson mentioned a lecture he first delivered in 2016 on the five ingredients of a populist backlash. Recalling the Gilded Age of robber barons, bimetallism, the Panic of 1873, and Yellow Journalism, Ferguson pointed to income inequality, immigration, elite corruption, financial crisis, and demagogues as commonalities between that distant era and our own. In an excellent 2017 presentation, D.C. consultant Bruce Mehlman noted further parallels. Both epochs had massive changes in employment. During the Gilded Age, agricultural jobs disappeared as workers poured into manufacturing. Today, manufacturing jobs go missing as workers enter the service sector. Disruptive technologies and the men who amass fortunes from innovation also define both periods. Then it was Carnegie and steel, Rockefeller and oil, Vanderbilt and railroads. Now it is Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and web search, Jeff Bezos and e-commerce, Mark Zuckerberg and the social network... http://freebeacon.com/columns/second-era-no-decision/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=01a8ee6a11-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-01a8ee6a11-45611665 .
AIPAC has a substantive case to make
to Dems --- but are they capable of doing so?
by Caroline B. Glick
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ AIPAC’s mission to cultivate and maintain bipartisan support for Israel in the United States is an important mission... Unfortunately, the messages AIPAC’s leaders delivered during the organization’s annual policy convention this week in Washington indicate that they are at a loss for how to achieve their mission in the contentious political environment now prevalent in post- liar-nObama America. Their befuddlement is not surprising. For the eight years of Barack liar-nObama’s presidency, AIPAC’s leaders showed a consistent inability to understand the challenges they faced. And since they were unable to understand how or why the liar-nObama administration was undermining AIPAC, they couldn’t protect AIPAC or advance its mission during his tenure in office. At this week’s AIPAC convention, the message emanating from the speeches AIPAC’s senior leadership delivered was that they still don’t get what happened. And largely as a consequence, they do not understand the challenges they face as an organization moving forward. And again, since they don’t understand what happened, or what is happening, they are incapable of meeting today’s challenges to AIPAC’s mission in a constructive way... http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0318/glick030818.php3The Real Foreign Threat to
Our Elections is Non-Citizen Voters
by J. Christian Adams
{ news.grabien.com } ~ PIRRO: "Welcome back to “Justice.” My next guest believes the real uninfluence in our elections has been ignored for years... Jay Christian Adams joins me to explain. Christian, thanks for being us tonight. When our government says illegals don’t vote and they tell us that all the time. Is that a lie?" ADAMS: "It’s certainly not true because I can give name after name after name of foreign citizens in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas, California, who have been posting ballots in federal elections. At least the years in federal prison when an illegal registers and votes." https://news.grabien.com/story-j-christian-adams-foreign-influence-our-elections-are-illega VIDEO at the site.
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Slouching Towards Anti-Semitism
by Arnold Ahlert: At the 2012 Democrat Party Convention, the effort to reinstate the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital into the party’s platform was met with a chorus of boos loud enough to completely fluster convention chairman and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. After calling for a vote three times, Villaraigosa simply decided the “ayes” were in the majority — an assertion met with another chorus of boos. An anomalous moment? Clarifying is more like it. “The California Democratic Party adopted a resolution at their annual convention on Sunday to oppose federal bills intended to thwart the movement to boycott Israel,” The Forward reported on Feb. 28.
In 1977, Congress passed legislation prohibiting Americans from complying with foreign government-imposed boycotts against nations friendly to the United States. It was supported by the Business Roundtable, American Jewish organizations and Jimmy Carter’s administration. In 2017, Congress sought to update that law with the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, adding international organizations like the United Nations or the EU that might also be inclined to pressure businesses to boycott the Jewish State.
This effort was aimed at defusing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which has been the radical Left’s favorite pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel platform, with all the attendant assertions of Israeli “occupation” of Palestinian territories included.
“Radical” is a key word here. In 2016, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 2844. The anti-discrimination law made it clear that California’s government would bar companies that engage in discrimination against any sovereign nation from doing business with the state. Sec. 2. (c) of the law specifically barred discrimination against “the nation and people of Israel.” The State Senate approved the bill by a vote of 34 to 1, and the State Assembly approved it by a vote of 69 to 1.
Eighteen months later, these same Democrats opposed federal legislation similar to the bill they had passed almost unanimously. Thus, what used to be “radical” leftist politics is now mainstream Democrats Party politics in the Golden State — all the attendant anti-Semitic implications included.
Is it just Golden State Democrats? The ACLU branded versions of the act making its way through both chambers of Congress as anti-First Amendment, despite the reality that nothing prevents anyone from expressing any opinion about Israel. Yet that was all the necessary cover for Democrats fearful of their increasingly leftist, pro-BDS base. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand withdrew her support for the bill, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren hedged, insisting, “The boycott is wrong, but I think outlawing protected free speech activity violates our basic Constitution.” Democrat Senators Chris Murphy (CT) and Tammy Duckworth (IL) and Rep. Joe Kennedy (MA) were also vacillating with regard to the legislation.
And not just that legislation. Last August, Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer (D-NY) announced he’d co-sponsor the Taylor Force Act, named after Army veteran Taylor Force, who was murdered by a Palestinian while touring Israel. The act would stop American taxpayers from subsidizing the Palestinian Authority (PA) until it ended its reprehensible habit of providing terrorists freed from prison with a government job and a salary — one that is higher if their crime is more heinous.
The consummate no-brainer? Four Democrat senators, Chris Murphy (CT), Tom Udall (NM), Jeff Merkley (OR) and Corey Booker (NJ), voted to kill it in committee. And while the bill passed overwhelmingly in the House, it has yet to be voted on in the Senate.
Why are many Democrats embracing such hostility toward Israel? According to a poll conducted by Nielsen Scarborough, 56% of their constituents back economic sanctions and other get-tough measures against Israel, and 72% believe America unfairly favors Israel over the Palestinians.
Moreover, a Pew poll released in January reveals that since 2001, the share of Democrats sympathizing more with Israel has declined 11 points, from 38% to 27%. The decline among Democrat Millennials is even more pronounced: Approximately 27% of Millennials now say they are more sympathetic to the Palestinians than Israel, compared to only 9% in 2006.
The party’s schism is best revealed by the split between supporters of liar-Hillary Clinton and commie-Bernie Sanders. liar-Clinton’s supporters favored Israel over the Palestinians, 47% to 27%. commie-Sanders supporters favored the Palestinians over Israel, 39% to 33%.
Since commie-Sanders supporters tend to be younger, Democrat politicians are apparently becoming more attuned to their social justice warrior sensibilities. Sensibilities increasingly aligned with the contemptuous notion that Israel is an apartheid state engaged in Palestinian genocide.
Yet Israel is only part of the dynamic, or perhaps better described as a useful distraction for the increasing levels of progressive-supported anti-Semitism per se. Nothing speaks to this reality better than leftist support for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who once called Judaism a “gutter religion.”
In a major speech on Feb. 25, Farrakhan remained true to his worldview, asserting that Jews were “the mother and father of apartheid,” and declaring that “when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper sidestepped a media-imposed blackout and covered the speech, noting that despite the “inherent” anti-Semitism and anti-homosexual comments expressed by Farrakhan, “several leaders of the Women’s March are supporters of Farrakhan and have not condemned him.” He also leveled the same accusation against members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
The proverbial shoe fits. One of Women’s March organizers was Linda Sarsour, who has long supported Farrakhan. She once insisted “nothing is creepier than Zionism,” and justified terrorism as a response to a “racist, supremacist, violent [Israeli] regime” that views Palestinians as “less than human.”
Another organizer, Tamika Mallory, criticized by Tapper for attending Farrakhan’s rant, was “defended” by Bronx rapper and political activist Mysonne — who insisted Farrakhan was right to blame Jews for the “violence, control, pain and destruction” they have imposed on black people.
Mallory herself, who received a shout-out from Farrakhan at the rally, posted a number of tweets insisting she was the victim of “bullying.”
The Congressional Black Caucus? At least seven Democrats — Reps. mad-Maxine Waters (CA), Barbara Lee (CA), Danny Davis (IL), Andre Carson (IN), scum-Keith Ellison (MN), Gregory Meeks (NY) and and Al Green (TX) — have attended meetings with Farrakhan.
The same Congressional Black Caucus that buried a 2005 photo of Farrakhan with Barack liar-nObama.
Thus, the paper asserts, the Democrat Party’s “reliable support for Israel looks to be a thing of the past.”
Columnist Dennis Prager is even more assertive, declaring, “The day America abandons Israel will be the beginning of the end of America as we know it.” Not America, Mr. Prager. The Democrat Party. One on the verge of a moral meltdown fueled by identity politics, in all their tribalist — and burgeoning anti-Semitic — glory. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/5461 9-slouching-towards-anti-semitism
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Mueller's Unending Investigation
by Political Editors
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Biased CBS Libtards Openly Pushing
nOprah Winfrey for President Narrative
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ One of the hosts of the libtard propaganda chat show “CBS This Morning,” Gayle King... appears from their girl talk to have personally invited noWinfrey on the program earlier this week to bolster her chances in an potential run for the White House and to convince her to do so. It seems that the leftist media is so comfortable in their control of the messaging that they no longer even attempt to hide their bias, at least King doesn’t. She tells noWinfrey, “nOprah, nobody should be convinced to run for the Presidency she’ll try anyway, but I also think you have a very unique ability in terms of healing and connecting all people.” There you go, leftists. It doesn’t matter if you can run a country, something Hussein liar-nObama proved in getting reelected, as long as you can make the stupid people feel better and impose communism through making them feel equal and “connected,” you’re perfect for the job... https://rickwells.us/cbs-oprah-winfrey-president/.Nearly 22,000 ‘truly needy’ people died
waiting for Medicaid under liar-nObamacare
.
Susan Rice Unmasked The
Names In The Seychelles Meeting
by Denise Simon
{ trevorloudon.com } ~ Who is George Nader? A Lebanese-American businessman, Nader currently serves as an adviser to Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan... who has developed a close relationship with Jared Kushner. For years, Nader has been a well-known, if somewhat off-the-radar, figure in certain political circles. According to the Times, Nader worked with the liar-Bill Clinton administration in its attempt to broker a peace deal between Syria and Israel, convincing the White House that he could leverage his influential contacts with the Syrian government. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Nader worked with Prince’s private security company, Blackwater—which is now known as Academi—as a “business-development consultant,” according to a 2010 deposition. At the time of the 2016 election, he was serving as an adviser to Prince Mohammed, and was a frequent visitor to the White House during the early months of the Trump administration, where he met with Kushner and former chief strategist Steve Bannon. George Nader, a Middle East expert connected to several associates of President Donald Trump, is now cooperating with the special counsel Robert Mueller and has testified before a grand jury in the Russia investigation, The New York Times reported Tuesday. FBI investigators approached Nader when he landed at Washington Dulles International Airport in January and served him with search warrants and a grand jury subpoena, the report said. At the time, Nader was en route to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Donald Trump and his associates to celebrate the anniversary of Trump’s first year in office... http://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/03/susan-rice-unmasked-the-names-in-the-seychelles-meeting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29U.S. drone strike kills key
Pakistani militants – more than 20 dead
U.S.-Funded UN Commissioner in D.C.
to Promote Leftwing Agenda in Guatemala
{ judicialwatch.org } ~ The head of a U.S.-funded global commission operating under the famously corrupt United Nations (UN) is in Washington D.C. today to promote his leftist agenda in Central America...The Colombian attorney and former judge, Ivan Velásquez, runs the UN-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a controversial body known to utilize measures that threaten the impoverished Central American nation’s sovereignty. Officially, the CICIG claims to strengthen the rule of law. Like many leftwing global organizations, its stated purpose is to protect “the right to life and to personal integrity” of citizens from vigilante groups that “commit illegal acts” — those linked to “agents of the State or with the capacity to generate impunity for their illegal actions.” The reality is that Velásquez appears to be part of a broader effort launched under Barack liar-nObama—and apparently supported by the Trump administration—to destabilize moderate and conservative governments abroad. Judicial Watch uncovered details of a similar initiative in Macedonia, where the liar-nObama administration spent millions of taxpayer dollars to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government by colluding with leftwing billionaire philanthropist George scum-Soros. In Guatemala, the liar-nObama administration meddled to protect guerrillas backed by communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton helped oust an attorney general that was replaced by a sympathizer of the guerrillas, Claudia Paz y Paz... https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/03/u-s-funded-un-commissioner-d-c-promote-leftwing-agenda-guatemala/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=on+watch&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180309192710
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Mueller's Unending Investigation
by Political Editors: Special Counsel Robert Mueller recently subpoenaed emails from 10 members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle. This latest news seems to counter recent widespread speculation that Mueller was getting close to wrapping up his investigation, as it will likely take months to go through those emails. It also undermines the assertion that the investigation had turned from focusing on Trump; it clearly hasn’t. Judge Andrew Napolitano stated this week, “I believe he’s gearing up and the president remains in his crosshairs.” In fact, Napolitano noted, “There are actually three sets of legal crosshairs, so to speak. One seeks to determine whether the Trump campaign received ‘anything of value’ from any foreign national or foreign government, and whether Trump personally approved of it — a felony. Another inquiry seeks to determine whether the president himself attempted to obstruct the work of the Mueller grand juries by firing then-FBI Director James Comey for a corrupt reason, one that is self-serving and lacking a bona fide governmental purpose — also a felony. The third inquiry seeks to examine whether Trump misused or misrepresented corporate funds or bank loans in his pre-presidential life — another felony. On this last point, he has already been accused by Nunberg, and the grand jury no doubt will hear about it.”
Finally, Napolitano says, Mueller’s grand juries “could go to the end of Trump’s term.” So it’s looking more likely that the country and Trump will have to endure many more months, even years, of a continued cloud over this presidency.
Gary Bauer observes, “Every day since the election, the Trump administration has been hobbled and hounded by a hostile media and a resistance movement fueled by the fantasy that Trump will be impeached because of collusion with Russia. Every day that Mueller continues his investigation — continues distracting the administration and dividing our country — is a victory for [Vladimir] Putin’s strategy.” Which is just what the Democrats ordered. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54616-muellers-unending-investigation
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Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot
by Michelle Malkin .
Sanctuary Cities a Threat to ICE Officers
and Community, Increase Deportation Risk
https://rickwells.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1156-homan-ice-sanctuary-city-940x400.jpg" width="422" height="179" />by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan is Tucker Carlson’s guest... discussing the federal government’s lawsuit against the State of California and the insanity of officials in creating a dangerous situation for law enforcement and the community alike. The only ones who benefit from sanctuary policies are the criminals and the pandering Democrats at election time. Carlson notes the conditions under California’s SB-54 law, which make it a violation of state law for a citizen to obey federal law and cooperate with ICE officers, even to the point of simply responding to their questions. Homan says things are much more difficult in California, since they aren’t able to take custody of a deportation target in the jail but must instead attempt an arrest on their turf, where they may be armed and where there are unknown individuals associated with them present... https://rickwells.us/ice-sanctuary-officers-deportations/.Agent Strzok Refused to Probe Breach of
liar-Hillary’s Server by Foreign Entities
http://patrioticviralnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Capture-a-a-a-a-lkjafsdas-e1520525716694.jpg" width="350" height="193" />Is Greece about to Recognize
Jerusalem as Israel's Capital?
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/pics/3176.jpg" width="390" height="260" />by Maria Polizoidou
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On his return from a recent two-day trip to Israel -- where he met with high-level officials -- Adonis Georgiadis... the vice president of Greece's opposition party, New Democracy, declared his support for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. In an interview with Skai Radio on March 7, Georgiadis called it "almost funny to discuss whether Jerusalem is a Jewish city or not." "It was founded by the Jews... in ancient times. You can read Flavius Josephus or read Diodoros Siceliotis and see the references to the city of Jerusalem, where there was the High Priest of Solomon's Temple and that it was the city of the Jews. This is the reality." When challenged by the interviewer, who said, "But as time went by, many things happened in the city's history," Georgiadis, a historian, replied... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12009/greece-jerusalem-israel .
Third-Highest House Democrat Shared Stage With Farrakhan, Now Refuses To Denounce
http://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Democrat-James-Clyburn-e1520548744401.jpg" width="406" height="174" />by PETER HASSON
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The third-highest ranking House Democrat shared a stage with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan... a notorious racist and anti-Semite, and has refused to condemn the hate group leader. South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn attended a 2011 event with Farrakhan and shared the stage with him, even after Jewish groups voiced their opposition to Clyburn attending the event. Clyburn told the Final Call, a Nation of Islam publication, that he was “not bothered in the least bit” by criticisms of his attendance at the event. As the assistant Democratic leader, Clyburn is the third-highest ranked Democrat in the House. He declined to condemn Farrakhan in a statement released to The Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday...There is no doubts, we always knew where he stood. http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/08/james-clyburn-top-democrat-ties-farrakhan/?utm_medium=email Burn: Trump Reneges on Deal With
clown-Schumer, Teaches Dem
What Betrayal Feels Like
http://conservativetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Trump-Schumer-1-592x331.jpg" width="370" height="207" />by THOMAS PHIPPEN
{ conservativetribune.com } ~ President Donald Trump reportedly threatened to veto the $1 trillion budget to fund the government... if it includes funding for a tunnel project connecting New York City and New Jersey. Trump reportedly told House Speaker Paul Ryan to keep $900 million for the tunnel project out of the omnibus bill, which funds the government past March 23, but now the president indicates he’s willing to derail the budget to prevent the project, Politico reported. “We definitely had the commitment,” New York Republican Rep. Peter King told Politico of reaching a deal with Trump to back the Gateway project. The White House now views the project as something New Jersey and New York taxpayers should pay for....
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Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot
https://media.townhall.com/townhall/reu/ha/2018/46/c3e231b6-e7d9-4ce2-98f7-a9fc66edb32a.jpg" width="411" height="210" />by Michelle Malkin
{ townhall.com } ~ Will the VA scandal never end?
While the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary lives high on the hog and his lying chief of staff resigns in disgrace while escaping any punishment, legions of vets every day in this country are denied the medical care they earned.
President Trump was supposed to drain the swamp. But at the historically fraud-ridden and profligate VA, the alligators continue feasting on the public dime.
Trump's VA secretary, David Shulkin, is an liar-nObama holdover. His main agenda is to block any real reforms for veterans, which includes expanding their ability to obtain care from private doctors and hospitals. His daughter, Jennifer, is a Harvard law student and loudmouth Huffington Post contributor who used her Twitter account recently to defend her dad against "right-winged, pro-privatization Trump appointees."
Two weeks ago, Shulkin launched a purge of what he calls "subversive" employees that he accuses of trying to undermine him. It's the same tactic liar-nObama VA officials used to silence whistleblowers who exposed secret waiting lists to nowhere that cost untold thousands of patients across at least seven states their lives.
This latest witch hunt for dissenters comes in the wake of a scathing inspector general's report last month on Shulkin's 10-day junket to Europe last summer. The VA secretary spent a grand total of three and a half days on supposed business meetings in Copenhagen and London. For the rest of the time, Shulkin directed a VA underling to act as his personal travel agent -- on your dime -- to plan sightseeing for him and his wife, including:
--Touring Amalienborg Palace for the changing of the guard and visiting Christiansborg Palace, Rosenborg Castle and Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark.
--Boating and dining in Copenhagen and dining in Malmo, Sweden.
--Trekking to the Churchill War Rooms, Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Westminster Abbey, Thames River, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Shakespeare's Globe, the London Eye and Windsor Castle.
The inspector general discovered that Shulkin also improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets from a British socialite. To evade ethics guidelines, Shulkin claimed the socialite was his wife's "friend," but the socialite couldn't even remember Shulkin's wife's name when questioned by investigators.
Nice family vacay if you can get it -- and you can get it subsidized, if your underlings lie.
Shulkin's chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, admitted doctoring an email in order to get Shulkin's wife's airfare paid for by the public. Wright Simpson misled an ethics officer into believing that Shulkin was receiving an award at a dinner and that his wife therefore qualified as an "invitational traveler." It was a big fat fabrication. Shulkin received no award. His wife was not eligible for the travel reimbursements for her whopping $4,000 plane tickets.
Nevertheless, Wright Simpson -- a career bureaucrat who started at the VA in 1998 and ascended during the liar-nObama administration -- was allowed to retire with full benefits. No punishment.
Shulkin remains unrepentant and baselessly blamed a computer "hack" for his top aide's email shenanigans. The IG found no evidence of his backside-covering claim. The ghost of Anthony Weiner lives.
And just wait, another shoe of corruption is about to drop. According to The Daily Beast, another IG report involving Shulkin's "use of his security detail to run personal errands" may be released in the next week. Shulkin's response? Underlings are reporting that he is in the throes of "paranoia," ordering an "armed guard" to stand watch outside his office and banning employees he suspects of "disloyalty."
The VA's culture of fear and reprisals against whistleblowers is endemic. Accountability is rarer than a Siamese unicorn. Fiscally responsible vets seeking coverage for emergency room bills are punished for not seeing VA doctors enough. The administrators responsible for blowing a billion-dollar hole in the budget of the Aurora, Colorado, VA boondoggle have escaped any consequences.
The last thing this corrupted bureaucracy needs is a Captain Queeg-meets-Leona Helmsley at the helm.
As Colorado GOP Rep. Mike Coffman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee wrote in a letter to the White House last week: "Mr. President, you promised the American people that you would end the culture of corruption and bureaucratic incompetence that for far too long has defined the leadership of the VA. Unfortunately, Secretary Shulkin, by his conduct, lacks the moral authority to achieve your goals of a transparent, accountable VA."
President Trump, your corrupt VA secretary is hostile to you, to the truth and to the taxpayers. He needs to hear those famous words from you:
"You're fired."
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Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot
by Michelle Malkin .
Sanctuary Cities a Threat to ICE Officers
and Community, Increase Deportation Risk
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan is Tucker Carlson’s guest... discussing the federal government’s lawsuit against the State of California and the insanity of officials in creating a dangerous situation for law enforcement and the community alike. The only ones who benefit from sanctuary policies are the criminals and the pandering Democrats at election time. Carlson notes the conditions under California’s SB-54 law, which make it a violation of state law for a citizen to obey federal law and cooperate with ICE officers, even to the point of simply responding to their questions. Homan says things are much more difficult in California, since they aren’t able to take custody of a deportation target in the jail but must instead attempt an arrest on their turf, where they may be armed and where there are unknown individuals associated with them present... https://rickwells.us/ice-sanctuary-officers-deportations/.Agent Strzok Refused to Probe Breach of
liar-Hillary’s Server by Foreign Entities
Is Greece about to Recognize
Jerusalem as Israel's Capital?
by Maria Polizoidou
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On his return from a recent two-day trip to Israel -- where he met with high-level officials -- Adonis Georgiadis... the vice president of Greece's opposition party, New Democracy, declared his support for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. In an interview with Skai Radio on March 7, Georgiadis called it "almost funny to discuss whether Jerusalem is a Jewish city or not." "It was founded by the Jews... in ancient times. You can read Flavius Josephus or read Diodoros Siceliotis and see the references to the city of Jerusalem, where there was the High Priest of Solomon's Temple and that it was the city of the Jews. This is the reality." When challenged by the interviewer, who said, "But as time went by, many things happened in the city's history," Georgiadis, a historian, replied... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12009/greece-jerusalem-israel .
Third-Highest House Democrat Shared Stage With Farrakhan, Now Refuses To Denounce
by PETER HASSON
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The third-highest ranking House Democrat shared a stage with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan... a notorious racist and anti-Semite, and has refused to condemn the hate group leader. South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn attended a 2011 event with Farrakhan and shared the stage with him, even after Jewish groups voiced their opposition to Clyburn attending the event. Clyburn told the Final Call, a Nation of Islam publication, that he was “not bothered in the least bit” by criticisms of his attendance at the event. As the assistant Democratic leader, Clyburn is the third-highest ranked Democrat in the House. He declined to condemn Farrakhan in a statement released to The Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday...There is no doubts, we always knew where he stood. http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/08/james-clyburn-top-democrat-ties-farrakhan/?utm_medium=email .
Burn: Trump Reneges on Deal With
clown-Schumer, Teaches Dem
What Betrayal Feels Like
by THOMAS PHIPPEN
{ conservativetribune.com } ~ President Donald Trump reportedly threatened to veto the $1 trillion budget to fund the government... if it includes funding for a tunnel project connecting New York City and New Jersey. Trump reportedly told House Speaker Paul Ryan to keep $900 million for the tunnel project out of the omnibus bill, which funds the government past March 23, but now the president indicates he’s willing to derail the budget to prevent the project, Politico reported. “We definitely had the commitment,” New York Republican Rep. Peter King told Politico of reaching a deal with Trump to back the Gateway project. The White House now views the project as something New Jersey and New York taxpayers should pay for....
.
Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot
by Michelle Malkin
{ townhall.com } ~ Will the VA scandal never end?
While the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary lives high on the hog and his lying chief of staff resigns in disgrace while escaping any punishment, legions of vets every day in this country are denied the medical care they earned.
President Trump was supposed to drain the swamp. But at the historically fraud-ridden and profligate VA, the alligators continue feasting on the public dime.
Trump's VA secretary, David Shulkin, is an liar-nObama holdover. His main agenda is to block any real reforms for veterans, which includes expanding their ability to obtain care from private doctors and hospitals. His daughter, Jennifer, is a Harvard law student and loudmouth Huffington Post contributor who used her Twitter account recently to defend her dad against "right-winged, pro-privatization Trump appointees."
Two weeks ago, Shulkin launched a purge of what he calls "subversive" employees that he accuses of trying to undermine him. It's the same tactic liar-nObama VA officials used to silence whistleblowers who exposed secret waiting lists to nowhere that cost untold thousands of patients across at least seven states their lives.
This latest witch hunt for dissenters comes in the wake of a scathing inspector general's report last month on Shulkin's 10-day junket to Europe last summer. The VA secretary spent a grand total of three and a half days on supposed business meetings in Copenhagen and London. For the rest of the time, Shulkin directed a VA underling to act as his personal travel agent -- on your dime -- to plan sightseeing for him and his wife, including:
--Touring Amalienborg Palace for the changing of the guard and visiting Christiansborg Palace, Rosenborg Castle and Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark.
--Boating and dining in Copenhagen and dining in Malmo, Sweden.
--Trekking to the Churchill War Rooms, Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Westminster Abbey, Thames River, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Shakespeare's Globe, the London Eye and Windsor Castle.
The inspector general discovered that Shulkin also improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets from a British socialite. To evade ethics guidelines, Shulkin claimed the socialite was his wife's "friend," but the socialite couldn't even remember Shulkin's wife's name when questioned by investigators.
Nice family vacay if you can get it -- and you can get it subsidized, if your underlings lie.
Shulkin's chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, admitted doctoring an email in order to get Shulkin's wife's airfare paid for by the public. Wright Simpson misled an ethics officer into believing that Shulkin was receiving an award at a dinner and that his wife therefore qualified as an "invitational traveler." It was a big fat fabrication. Shulkin received no award. His wife was not eligible for the travel reimbursements for her whopping $4,000 plane tickets.
Nevertheless, Wright Simpson -- a career bureaucrat who started at the VA in 1998 and ascended during the liar-nObama administration -- was allowed to retire with full benefits. No punishment.
Shulkin remains unrepentant and baselessly blamed a computer "hack" for his top aide's email shenanigans. The IG found no evidence of his backside-covering claim. The ghost of Anthony Weiner lives.
And just wait, another shoe of corruption is about to drop. According to The Daily Beast, another IG report involving Shulkin's "use of his security detail to run personal errands" may be released in the next week. Shulkin's response? Underlings are reporting that he is in the throes of "paranoia," ordering an "armed guard" to stand watch outside his office and banning employees he suspects of "disloyalty."
The VA's culture of fear and reprisals against whistleblowers is endemic. Accountability is rarer than a Siamese unicorn. Fiscally responsible vets seeking coverage for emergency room bills are punished for not seeing VA doctors enough. The administrators responsible for blowing a billion-dollar hole in the budget of the Aurora, Colorado, VA boondoggle have escaped any consequences.
The last thing this corrupted bureaucracy needs is a Captain Queeg-meets-Leona Helmsley at the helm.
As Colorado GOP Rep. Mike Coffman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee wrote in a letter to the White House last week: "Mr. President, you promised the American people that you would end the culture of corruption and bureaucratic incompetence that for far too long has defined the leadership of the VA. Unfortunately, Secretary Shulkin, by his conduct, lacks the moral authority to achieve your goals of a transparent, accountable VA."
President Trump, your corrupt VA secretary is hostile to you, to the truth and to the taxpayers. He needs to hear those famous words from you:
"You're fired."
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Pruitt's $1 Billion Rollback at the EPA
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Sessions Ponders 2nd Special Counsel – Still Defending Wray, Rosenstein, DOJ Deep State
https://rickwells.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1156-jeff-sessions-940x400.jpg" width="410" height="174" />by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been facing increasing criticism for his failures to act in a timely manner... to issues of corruption within DOJ and the FBI, including his failure to examine the free pass given to liar-Hillary Clinton by James Comey and his inappropriate relationship and conduct jointly with former AG Loretta Lynch. Fox News’ Shannon Bream interviewed Sessions while he was in California addressing their rebellious state government through a meeting of law enforcement officers, and asked him about his efforts to clean things up in his own DOJ house. She asks Sessions for his view on a letter sent by Reps Goodlatte and Gowdy asking for the appointment of a second special counsel in order to investigate the FISA abuses and other likely criminal conduct by Department of Justice and FBI officials... https://rickwells.us/sessions-2nd-special-counsel/.U.S. Short Almost 2,000 Mariners
to Supply American Forces in War
https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2.-Cornhusker-State.jpg" width="379" height="284" />by John Grady
{ news.usni.org } ~ If push comes to shove, the U.S. doesn’t have enough mariners to move tanks, personnel carriers, ammunition, medicines, food and water into a hot zone in a prolonged crisis... the head of the Maritime Administration said Thursday. The U.S. is short about 1,800 mariners, Retired Rear Adm. Mark Buzby told a joint hearing of the House Armed Services readiness and seapower and projection forces subcommittees. That total doesn’t take into account casualties while operating in a contested environment, he said. In answer to a question from the panel, Air Force Gen. Darren McDew, head of Transportation Command, added, “We’ll have to fight our way in to get to the fight” and “we don’t control everything like we once did,” referring to air and sea, meaning potential loss of ships and crew. Although the number of qualified mariners is at a “historic low,” the decline may not have bottomed out... https://news.usni.org/2018/03/08/marad-u-s-short-almost-2000-mariners-supply-american-forces-war?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=3d90b38add-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-3d90b38add-231491269&mc_cid=3d90b38add&mc_eid=3999f18767 .
More Taxpayer Bailouts Will Only Paper
Over liar-nObamacare’s Many Failures
http://dailysignal.com/wp-content/uploads/Cash9-1250x650.jpg" width="375" height="195" />by Robert Moffit
{ dailysignal.com } ~ It appears that Congress, backed by powerful special interests in the health care industry, is getting ready to bail out, once again... liar-nObamacare’s failing health insurance program. Last year, President Donald Trump canceled the cost-sharing reduction subsidies for people buying coverage in the liar-nObamacare exchanges. These taxpayer subsidies offset the out-of-pocket costs of these enrollees. Trump’s horrified critics predicted that these spending cuts would mean millions would no longer be able to afford health insurance coverage. In fact, Trump’s critics were quite wrong... http://dailysignal.com/2018/03/08/more-taxpayer-bailouts-will-only-paper-over-obamacares-many-failures/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRkaFpqSTVPVGt4TWpaayIsInQiOiJ2OTNXcGpmRjZRM1p2T1VORzFWbWFTMlJtN1I3NzM4TkFtXC9OOW9OdW5waHpjb0ZQOGc2eVNiaUdOQTRQa0h3QzROUGpIUVl2TklrbVpsYUtOa2lSZjFLaDBJYkNNa1Z2SGdhOEM1aVpIdFQyYVlqSDhoWGR5V0hZSCtidlwvbW80In0%3D .
Trump Accepts Invitation From N Korea’s
Kim Jong Un For Face to Face Meeting
https://rickwells.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1156-trump-kim-940x400.jpg" width="404" height="171" />by ickwells.us
{ ickwells.us } ~ President Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in response to an invitation... extended earlier today sent to the South Korean government. South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-Yong recently led a delegation to Pyongyang which seems to be already bearing fruit. In a Thursday briefing, Chung delivered a personal letter to President Trump from Kim Jong Un, inviting the President to meet. Chung told reporters that North Korea has stated their commitment to denuclearization, stating that Kim had expressed “his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible.” He also announced the results, a positive response from the President, stating, “President Trump appreciated the greeting and said he would meet Kim Jong un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization.”... https://rickwells.us/trump-kim-meet-face/..
Jeff Sessions Says Seriously Considering Second (FISA) Special Counsel .
Fmr. liar-nObama Admin Official: “No Idea” Why DNC Chair Perez Lied About Fundraising Numbers.
Dana Loesch: I’m Not Going To Be Shamed For Defending My Family.
Karl Rove: Democratic Optimism For 2018 Midterms Too Overstated.
‘My Secret Life in the CIA’: Undercover in The War On Terror.
Being an Ex-Russian Spy Is A Very Dangerous Job.
North Korean Defectors Use Their Most Powerful Weapon: The Truth.
Ted Cruz Shreds Joe Scarborough’s Second Amendment Opinions.
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Pruitt's $1 Billion Rollback at the EPA
https://cached-assets.patriotpost.us/images/2017-11-01-7f15919a_large.jpg" width="454" height="227" />by Business Review Board: On Feb. 17, 2017, Scott Pruitt — formerly a conservative lawmaker and attorney general in Oklahoma — succeeded in becoming the new face of the EPA. Democrats didn’t take his ascension very well. In fact, Pruitt was forced to reinforce his security detail last autumn because of numerous death threats from ecofascists. The Left’s adversarial attitude toward Pruitt is better understood when you consider just how pivotal of a role he has in the Trump administration.
The EPA just revealed that Pruitt’s deregulatory endeavor has yielded $1 billion in cost savings after just one year. This was the direct outcome of nearly two dozen deregulations. More importantly, it’s also only a taste of what’s coming down the pipeline. The Clean Power Plan and Clean Water Rule are just two of the 44 additional deregulations that are currently on the agency’s docket. It’s estimated that the elimination of the Clean Power Plan could single-handedly save the economy upwards of $33 billion. With results like these, no wonder leftists loathe Pruitt with such tenacity.
Of course, this also speaks to the enormous influence of Pruitt’s predecessor, Gina McCarthy. Much of the current administration’s work is geared toward fixing what she broke and the billions of dollars with which she unnecessarily burdened the economy. Pruitt’s progress could be even further along had he not had to first put out a massive inferno of McCarthy’s making. Even still, he is making significant headway, and that will give the economy more and more breathing room. It’s also a reminder that no government agency should ever have so much control over a free-market economy. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54595-pruitts-1-dollars-billion-rollback-at-the-epa
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Pruitt's $1 Billion Rollback at the EPA
by Business Review Board
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Sessions Ponders 2nd Special Counsel – Still
Defending Wray, Rosenstein, DOJ Deep State
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been facing increasing criticism for his failures to act in a timely manner... to issues of corruption within DOJ and the FBI, including his failure to examine the free pass given to liar-Hillary Clinton by James Comey and his inappropriate relationship and conduct jointly with former AG Loretta Lynch. Fox News’ Shannon Bream interviewed Sessions while he was in California addressing their rebellious state government through a meeting of law enforcement officers, and asked him about his efforts to clean things up in his own DOJ house. She asks Sessions for his view on a letter sent by Reps Goodlatte and Gowdy asking for the appointment of a second special counsel in order to investigate the FISA abuses and other likely criminal conduct by Department of Justice and FBI officials... https://rickwells.us/sessions-2nd-special-counsel/.U.S. Short Almost 2,000 Mariners
to Supply American Forces in War
by John Grady
{ news.usni.org } ~ If push comes to shove, the U.S. doesn’t have enough mariners to move tanks, personnel carriers, ammunition, medicines, food and water into a hot zone in a prolonged crisis... the head of the Maritime Administration said Thursday. The U.S. is short about 1,800 mariners, Retired Rear Adm. Mark Buzby told a joint hearing of the House Armed Services readiness and seapower and projection forces subcommittees. That total doesn’t take into account casualties while operating in a contested environment, he said. In answer to a question from the panel, Air Force Gen. Darren McDew, head of Transportation Command, added, “We’ll have to fight our way in to get to the fight” and “we don’t control everything like we once did,” referring to air and sea, meaning potential loss of ships and crew. Although the number of qualified mariners is at a “historic low,” the decline may not have bottomed out... https://news.usni.org/2018/03/08/marad-u-s-short-almost-2000-mariners-supply-american-forces-war?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=3d90b38add-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-3d90b38add-231491269&mc_cid=3d90b38add&mc_eid=3999f18767 .
More Taxpayer Bailouts Will Only Paper
Over liar-nObamacare’s Many Failures
by Robert Moffit
{ dailysignal.com } ~ It appears that Congress, backed by powerful special interests in the health care industry, is getting ready to bail out, once again... liar-nObamacare’s failing health insurance program. Last year, President Donald Trump canceled the cost-sharing reduction subsidies for people buying coverage in the liar-nObamacare exchanges. These taxpayer subsidies offset the out-of-pocket costs of these enrollees. Trump’s horrified critics predicted that these spending cuts would mean millions would no longer be able to afford health insurance coverage. In fact, Trump’s critics were quite wrong... http://dailysignal.com/2018/03/08/more-taxpayer-bailouts-will-only-paper-over-obamacares-many-failures/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRkaFpqSTVPVGt4TWpaayIsInQiOiJ2OTNXcGpmRjZRM1p2T1VORzFWbWFTMlJtN1I3NzM4TkFtXC9OOW9OdW5waHpjb0ZQOGc2eVNiaUdOQTRQa0h3QzROUGpIUVl2TklrbVpsYUtOa2lSZjFLaDBJYkNNa1Z2SGdhOEM1aVpIdFQyYVlqSDhoWGR5V0hZSCtidlwvbW80In0%3D .
Trump Accepts Invitation From N Korea’s
Kim Jong Un For Face to Face Meeting
by ickwells.us
{ ickwells.us } ~ President Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in response to an invitation... extended earlier today sent to the South Korean government. South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-Yong recently led a delegation to Pyongyang which seems to be already bearing fruit. In a Thursday briefing, Chung delivered a personal letter to President Trump from Kim Jong Un, inviting the President to meet. Chung told reporters that North Korea has stated their commitment to denuclearization, stating that Kim had expressed “his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible.” He also announced the results, a positive response from the President, stating, “President Trump appreciated the greeting and said he would meet Kim Jong un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization.”... https://rickwells.us/trump-kim-meet-face/..
Jeff Sessions Says Seriously Considering Second (FISA) Special Counsel .
Fmr. liar-nObama Admin Official: “No Idea” Why DNC Chair Perez Lied About Fundraising Numbers.
Dana Loesch: I’m Not Going To Be Shamed For Defending My Family.
Karl Rove: Democratic Optimism For 2018 Midterms Too Overstated.
‘My Secret Life in the CIA’: Undercover in The War On Terror.
Being an Ex-Russian Spy Is A Very Dangerous Job.
North Korean Defectors Use Their Most Powerful Weapon: The Truth.
Ted Cruz Shreds Joe Scarborough’s Second Amendment Opinions.
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Pruitt's $1 Billion Rollback at the EPA
by Business Review Board: On Feb. 17, 2017, Scott Pruitt — formerly a conservative lawmaker and attorney general in Oklahoma — succeeded in becoming the new face of the EPA. Democrats didn’t take his ascension very well. In fact, Pruitt was forced to reinforce his security detail last autumn because of numerous death threats from ecofascists. The Left’s adversarial attitude toward Pruitt is better understood when you consider just how pivotal of a role he has in the Trump administration. The EPA just revealed that Pruitt’s deregulatory endeavor has yielded $1 billion in cost savings after just one year. This was the direct outcome of nearly two dozen deregulations. More importantly, it’s also only a taste of what’s coming down the pipeline. The Clean Power Plan and Clean Water Rule are just two of the 44 additional deregulations that are currently on the agency’s docket. It’s estimated that the elimination of the Clean Power Plan could single-handedly save the economy upwards of $33 billion. With results like these, no wonder leftists loathe Pruitt with such tenacity.
Of course, this also speaks to the enormous influence of Pruitt’s predecessor, Gina McCarthy. Much of the current administration’s work is geared toward fixing what she broke and the billions of dollars with which she unnecessarily burdened the economy. Pruitt’s progress could be even further along had he not had to first put out a massive inferno of McCarthy’s making. Even still, he is making significant headway, and that will give the economy more and more breathing room. It’s also a reminder that no government agency should ever have so much control over a free-market economy. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54595-pruitts-1-dollars-billion-rollback-at-the-epa
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Is the Country Music Industry Turning Left?
by Culture Beat
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scum-HOLDER/liar-nOBAMA PARTNERED
With DRUG CARTELS? – Secrets Coming
Out In Fast and Furious
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Congressman Darrell Issa was chairman of the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee during the Fast and Furious scandal... He speaks to the significance of the new document production and the crimes of scum-Eric Holder that may now finally be exposed. Issa says, “It’s important because it does give us access, not just to the documents that are going to be turned over but an agreed on search. In other words, scum-Eric Holder systematically obstructed justice, including carefully making sure that the search was not thorough enough.” He says, “Once that was discovered and agreed to, it gives us an opportunity to get these documents and maybe additional documents that will shed light, for the Terry family, on the one question you heard Brian’s brother ask. It’s not just the cover up but it’s why.”... https://rickwells.us/holder-obama-drug-cartels/.President Trump Signs Trade Section
232 Proclamations on Steel and Aluminum
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump will sign a trade-section 232 proclamation today to elevate Steel and Aluminum manufacturing to be of national security status... The overall trade initiative which stems from the 232 proclamation will be a 25% trade tariff on imported steel and a 10% trade tariff on imported aluminum. POTUS Trump will control exemptions. The trade announcement is anticipated at 3:30pm in the White House today. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/08/president-trump-signs-trade-section-232-proclamations-on-steel-and-aluminum-330pm-livestream/Crafting a US Response to Turkish Intransigence
by Gregg Roman
{ meforum.org } ~ In a rare public policy speech in mid-December, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster singled out Turkey... as one of the two leading state sponsors alongside Qatar of "radical Islamist ideology." The Turkish government protested the statement as "astonishing, baseless and unacceptable," which means it was a pretty good start. McMaster's speech highlighted an emerging recognition among Trump administration officials that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Turkey poses a pernicious threat to US interests in the Near East. Since McMaster's speech, Erdoğan has invaded Afrin, Syria a city then controlled by America's Kurdish allies, massacring women, children and the elderly; promoted the use of child soldiers in his fight against the Kurds; and undermined U.S. sanctions against Iran. A Manhattan Federal District Court's guilty verdict against a Turkish banker accused of helping Iran evade sanctions speaks volumes about the growing threat posed by Erdoğan's Turkey. Although Erdoğan was not charged in the case, "testimony suggested he had approved the defendant's sanctions-busting scheme" to launder billions of dollars for Iran beginning in 2012, according to the New York Times... http://www.meforum.org/7239/crafting-a-us-response-to-turkish-intransigence?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=0c222e5361-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-0c222e5361-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-0c222e5361-33703665 .
Now Is Congress’ Prime
Opportunity to Act on Nuclear Waste
by Katie Tubb
Congress has pushed through a series of five stopgap measures to fund the government... and is now in final negotiations for a trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill to cover the rest of the fiscal year. For an hour on Monday night, a group of congressmen from both parties and from all across the U.S. took the floor to remind the nation and their colleagues why funding for nuclear waste management needs to be in that bill. Or, as one congressman put it, “why we need to get our act together.” To address the storage issue, Congress directed the Energy Department to begin collecting nuclear waste by 1998 and chose Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the site for a permanent repository, pending approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Yet 20 years later, Americans are still waiting... http://dailysignal.com/2018/03/07/now-congress-prime-opportunity-act-nuclear-waste/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RrMFlXUTFOV0kzT1RkaCIsInQiOiJXb01ZQnZoM3hWdWtIQjR6MW1TRUErQjJTbDVGeUNYVWhEK2JqcEszUEZrRlBDT2phZ2swTUluaGk1TkFKVW5yUk9QMnhkcW9SVGJEQ1d3TDJyWDc4OWZENjRra1h5T21iemlBMStBYkcyVG1CaDJkQ1VzWWtPdnFEUUxTd2dtdiJ9 .
Kim Jong Un extending invitation '
to meet with Trump, official says
by Brooke Singman and Matt Richardson
{ foxnews.com } ~ South Korea is expected to announce Thursday night that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is extending an invitation to meet with President Trump... a senior U.S. official revealed to Fox News. South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong will also announce an upcoming meeting between South Korean president Moon Jae-in and the North Korean leader, Fox News has learned. There currently are no plans to change U.S.-South Korea military exercises nor is their a commitment by Kim Jong Un to stop his nuclear testing. Earlier Thursday, President Trump announced that South Korea would be making a “major statement” about North Korea at 7 p.m. Eastern time Thursday, Fox News confirmed... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/08/kim-jong-un-extending-invitation-to-meet-with-trump-official-says.html.
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Is the Country Music Industry Turning Left?
by Culture Beat: Former Arkansas governor, presidential candidate and Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee accepted an appointment to the Country Music Association Foundation of directors last week only to resign the next day after receiving a backlash of politically motivated attacks from a number of country music executives for his social views. One of those most critical of Huckabee was the prominent executive Jason Owen, who represents such country artists as Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves and Faith Hill. Owens, who is a practicing homosexual and is “married” to his partner, blasted the CMA Foundation, writing, “Sandbox and Monument will no longer support the CMA Foundation in any way (this includes everyone we represent collectively) considering the heartbreaking news shared today regarding Mike Huckabee appointee/elected to the CMA Foundation.” He continued, “As you may know I have a child and two on the way. This man has made it clear that my family is not welcome in his America. And the CMA has opened their arms to him, making him feel welcome and relevant.”
In his letter of resignation Huckabee expressed his hurt over being mischaracterized and bemoaned the “intolerance” expressed by those who were critical of his appointment. Writing to the CMA Foundation, Huckabee said, “I have no expectation that it will change the irrational vitriol directed toward you or me for my religious or political views that necessitated my abrupt departure. I want you to know what you would never know by reading intolerant and vicious statements on the internet about who I am or what led me to want to be a part of your efforts to empower kids with the gift of music.” He adds, “Music changed my life. I was never good enough to make a full-time living at music, but the confidence I gained by playing, being in front of people, and competing against myself and the low expectations I grew up with was transformative.”
Huckabee then called out what has become increasingly prevalent within much of the mainstream media culture today — leftist intolerance. He wrote, “If the industry doesn’t want people of faith or who hold conservative and traditional political views to buy tickets and music, they should be forthcoming and say it.” The fact of the matter is that when artistic expression is relegated to only one political and social worldview, it quickly loses its genuine artistry and devolves into mere ideological propaganda. And it loses audience appeal.
Perhaps that’s because this is yet another case of a loud minority of gender confused people dictating policy for a larger group. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54563-is-the-country-music-industry-turning-left
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The Real Tariff Gambit
by Lewis Morris
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{ foxnews.com } ~ Kristian Saucier, the former U.S. Navy sailor who served one year in prison for taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear submarine, has been pardoned, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Friday. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/09/trump-pardons-former-navy-sailor-imprisoned-for-taking-photos-on-nuclear-submarine-white-house-says.html
Trump pardons former Navy sailor imprisoned
for taking photos on nuclear submarine,
White House says
by foxnews.com
{ foxnews.com } ~ Kristian Saucier, the former U.S. Navy sailor who served one year in prison for taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear submarine, has been pardoned, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Friday. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/09/trump-pardons-former-navy-sailor-imprisoned-for-taking-photos-on-nuclear-submarine-white-house-says.html
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UK officials say 21 people now being
treated in ex-Russian spy poisoning
by Kathleen Joyce
{ foxnews.com } ~ British police announced Thursday that 21 people were being treated after a former Russian spy... and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent. Kier Pritchard, the acting chief constable of Wiltshire Police, said a "total of 21 people are being treated as a result of the ex-Russian spy poisoning," Sky News reported. "Multiple people have been treated, around 21 people, including the man and woman found on the bench," Pritchard said. "A number of those have been through the hospital treatment process, they are having blood tests, support and adivce."... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/03/08/uk-officials-say-attack-on-ex-russian-spy-was-brazen-and-reckless-amid-probe-into-nerve-agent.htmlPentagon Gearing Up for Space Warfare
by Bill Gertz
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Pentagon is preparing for war should China, Russia, or other adversaries attack vital American satellites and other space systems... a senior Pentagon official told Congress on Wednesday. John Rood, undersecretary of defense for policy, testified before a House subcommittee that the Trump administration's new defense policy calls for conducting military and other operations in response to space attacks, mainly by China and Russia. Rood said American space systems are essential for "our prosperity, security, and way of life." "And Defense Department space capabilities are critical for effective deterrence, defense, and force projection capabilities," he told a hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-gearing-space-warfare/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=0b18d2096f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-0b18d2096f-45611665 .
The Next Palestinian President?
by GRANT RUMLEY
{ the-american-interest.com } ~ If there is any dynamism within Palestinian politics today, it’s in the discussion about who will eventually replace the aging Mahmoud Abbas... the octogenarian President who has reigned for over a decade. That discussion reached a fever pitch recently after Abbas stayed overnight at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, a visit his advisers attempted to portray as routine. Yet nothing is routine in predicting what will happen once Abbas departs the stage, and behind the scenes, the various aspirants to the Palestinian presidency jockey to replace their 82-year-old leader in a constantly changing arena. The dynamic in the West Bank is one of intense palace politics. Public speculation vacillates between those figures who are popular the imprisoned Marwan Barghouti, those who have loyal security forces Fatah leader Jibril Rajoub and Abbas’s intelligence chief Majed Faraj, and those who have money and regional favor the exiled Muhammad Dahlan. Amid this political maneuvering—or perhaps because of it—Abbas introduced another name to the succession discussion earlier last year by making Mahmoud al-Aloul the first-ever vice president of his Fatah party... https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/03/07/next-palestinian-president/
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Fmr. liar-nObama Admin Official: “No Idea” Why DNC Chair Tom Perez Lied About Fundraising Numbers
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'Bruce Ohr funneled liar-Clinton/DNC dossier to the DOJ:' JW Dir. of Investigations Chris Farrell
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WikiLeaks shows email exchanges between Podesta, liar-nObama
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Trey Gowdy 'Mops The Floor' With scum-Adam Schiff Before Entire Congress
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Hannity: Evidence is coming that will rock DC's foundation
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The Real Tariff Gambit
by Lewis Morris: President Donald Trump’s plan to increase steel and aluminum tariffs has resulted in an unusual coalition of opponents. First there are the free traders in the GOP, led by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, then there’s the globalist-minded International Monetary Fund, a smattering of big business trade groups, and, of course, leftist Democrats, who are against Trump’s plan simply because it is Trump’s plan. His top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, also resigned over it. Trump doesn’t mind or believe the opposition. “You know, when we’re behind on every single country, trade wars aren’t so bad,” he argued. “You understand what I mean by that? When we’re down by $30 billion, $40 billion, $60 billion, $100 billion, the trade war hurts them. It doesn’t hurt us, so we’ll see what happens.”
It should not come as much of a surprise that Trump would raise tariffs. One of his major issues on the campaign trail in 2016 was the bad deal the U.S. was getting on trade agreements like NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. His protectionist rhetoric won over voters in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and helped secure him the White House.
Trump has already made good on his word by pulling America out of the TPP, and now he has NAFTA in his sights. NAFTA is currently being renegotiated, and Trump has made no secret that he is perfectly willing to walk away from the agreement altogether if disparities in manufacturing and technology that negatively impact American workers are not addressed. While everyone around Trump is getting a case of the vapors about him starting a worldwide trade war, it is Canada and Mexico who may be the real targets of the impending steel and aluminum tariffs.
As our Nate Jackson said last week, “Trump often uses policies and rhetoric as negotiating ploys. Much as he’s verbally assaulted NAFTA, Trump may be merely setting a bargaining position, to be undone when he feels America’s position is stronger.”
Lo and behold, citing the trade deficits that the U.S. has with Canada and Mexico, Trump indicated via Twitter this week that he would be willing to make exceptions on the new tariffs with the NAFTA partners, but only if a new trade agreement is signed that is satisfactory to U.S. economic interests.
The GOP leadership gave voice to the biggest concern about where Trump’s actions will lead. “We are extremely worried about the consequences of a trade war and are urging the White House to not advance with this plan,” Paul Ryan’s spokeswoman AshLee Strong said. “The new tax reform law has boosted the economy and we certainly don’t want to jeopardize those gains.”
The case has also been made that if the tariffs are meant to punish China, then they will miss the mark. “Hitting China and Canada with the same tariff doesn’t penalize China relative to anyone else,” says Dan Ikenson of the Cato Institute. “That doesn’t, and shouldn’t, sit well with exporters from countries that have done nothing wrong.” This includes allies such as Japan, South Korea and the European Union, who have already voiced their plans for retaliation.
EU officials have politically targeted Harley Davidson, based in Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin, bourbon made in McConnell’s home state of Kentucky, and orange juice from Florida, the perennial swing state.
Raising tariffs is certainly tricky business in our multi-layered global economy. It is almost impossible to avoid collateral damage in other sectors of the economy, as these retaliatory threats prove. But it is worth remembering that the U.S. is already subjected to unfair tariffs from Europe, where American agricultural products are virtually frozen out of the market, and Asia, where manufactured goods and technology have a hard time finding buyers because of high tariffs.
If other nations can use tariffs to protect their economies and workers, then surely America has a right to do the same. Charles Payne of Fox Business News points out that the EU is offended by America’s new tariffs on steel and aluminum, but levies 10% tariffs on all U.S. car imports.
Pat Buchanan likewise challenged the assumption that trade protectionism is a surefire recipe for disaster. He writes, “Under protectionist policies from 1865 to 1900, U.S. debt was cut by two-thirds. Customs duties provided 58 percent of revenue. Commodity prices fell 58 percent. Real wages, despite a doubling of the population, rose 53 percent. Growth in GDP averaged over 4 percent a year. Industrial production rose almost 5 percent a year.”
The new NAFTA deal is supposed to be reached by the end of March, so we may know in a few weeks if Trump’s plan works or not. In the meantime, the broader argument about the wisdom of higher tariffs will continue to play out. And, who knows? If Trump has his way, it may lead to some more trade deals with other countries.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54567-the-real-tariff-gambit
