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Top Islamo-pandering stooges of 201

Top Islamo-pandering stooges of 2017

Interesting post from a site aptly titled Useful Stooges.

Source: Top three stooges of 2017 – Useful Stooges

It’s not clear what, if anything will happen to Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding now that its founder, benefactor, and namesake is under arrest in his Saudi homeland for bribery, extortion, and money-laundering, but chances are good that the current director, Jonathan A.C. Brown, will land on his feet. Allah knows there are plenty of other magnificent job opportunities in the Western world for top-flight apologists for radical Islam, and Brown is at the very tip of the top. Since converting to the Religion of Peace in 1997, as we wrote in March, he’s been an ardent apologist for Islamic slavery (which, he’s explained, is “kinder and gentler” than other kinds of slavery, because it’s not “racialized”), a defender of Koranically sanctioned child marriage, and a whitewasher of the sharia-imposed death penalty for gays.

Which brings us to Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, an assistant editor at Foreign Policy who, after Brown came under legitimate attack for his disgusting views, dismissed the criticism as Islamophobia. This, it turned out, was not a one-off: Allen, who’s married to a Muslim, had previously written an article in the Washington Post suggesting that her family was Islamophobic for serving non-halal food on Thanksgiving, and has since painted U.S. government terror probes as acts of bigotry. Yes, as we noted in May, Allen skirted the fact that these probes have uncovered widespread terrorist links, but never mind: in her world, Muslims are always innocent and concern about terror always a front for hate.

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Why a lot of Vietnam Vets will cringe if you tell them “Thank you for your service”

( yes it always make me fell kind of taken back and my mined goes back to the war and how we were treat N. I know they mean well many don't remember or are to young to remember how it was! I guess like everything about Nam better late than never ! )

William Finley

 


According to one Vietnam Vet I happpen to know well, Mr. BNI, who was in combat for 18 months with the U.S. Marine Corps in the late ’60’s, hearing that phrase now can never make up for the fact that returning servicemen and women never heard it back then.

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When Mr. BNI, still in uniform, got off the plane returning him to the states from Vietnam, he was welcomed back by crowds of long-haired, dirty-looking hippies (as they were called at the time) waiting at the airport, chanting things like “baby killer” and “murderer,” while making gestures that included the middle finger and being spat on. Yes, it’s true, this really happened. One returning Marine was even trampled and killed by a mob of anti-war protesters in San Francisco.

There is also the problem of the over-used expression – ‘Thank you for your service’ –  which nobody said back then, but everyone says now. After something has been repeated so many times, by so many people, it starts losing its meaning and becomes something that you say automatically, whether you mean it or not (especially by those on the Left).

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 The Homecoming for Vietnam Veterans  explains this better than I can:

We were bombarded with hate!  People stood on the side of the road holding signs condemning the war and us returning veterans.  They chanted slogans as a group and yelled insults to us as we passed.  Once the bus began pulling away, tomatoes and eggs fell from the sky, splattering against the windows.  All of us on the bus sat quietly, shocked, jaws agape, unable to believe what had just happened.

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We were treated like outcasts, blamed for a war we didn’t start, accused of killing innocent women and children, called dope heads, spit at and ridiculed by citizens, American citizens.

The news media had continued to flame the public opposition to the Vietnam War by broadcasting distorted and biased accounts from the battlefield. Reporting that the use of drugs in Vietnam was escalating, increased incidents of soldiers refusing direct orders to go out on patrols, and the military inflating body counts and misleading the public on the war – so the warriors were blamed for losing the war!

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Clearly, it was unpopular for someone to be a Vietnam Veteran or even a member of the military.  In the 1970’s, Vietnam Veterans were discriminated against for jobs, publishing books of their war experiences and were referred to as the social delinquents in our society – even the VFW refused to allow us membership. It seems like every movie about Vietnam to that point portrayed the veteran as a killing machine with mental problems, bad marriages, hooked on drugs or alcoholics.

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They were considered an unstable and dangerous lot – a group that citizens should be wary of and avoid.  Vets clammed up, refrained from wearing military uniforms in public, grew beards and long hair to fit it with his peers, keeping primarily to themselves.  The truth was that our country just wanted to forget about Vietnam and didn’t want any reminders circulating.

How many of you are aware that in 1998, sociologist Jerry Lembeke published a book:  The Spitting Image:  Myth, Memory and the legacy of Vietnam, which completely discredits the claims that American Soldiers were spit on when they returned home and that it was a common urban myth, constructed to ruin anti war protesters.

Shortly after the book came out, a Chicago columnist, Bob Greene, came up with an idea for a newspaper column that eventually resulted in a published book.  In a column that is syndicated in 200 newspapers nationwide, he asked the following question:  “If you are a reader of this column, and you are a Vietnam Veteran, were you ever spat upon when you returned to the U.S.?” The response was overwhelming and more than 1000 soldiers wrote in.  The many letters confirmed the rumors and make a poignant, genuine statement on their own.

Greene writes, “I did indeed include the invitation for anyone who had spat upon a returning soldier to write in and explain his or her motives, and to reflect on how he or she feels about it now.“

“There were no responses.”

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Today, the American psyche is ingrained with greater respect for the military, in large part, because people recognize that past treatment of Vietnam vets was a mistake.

But to some Vietnam Vets like Mr. BNI, utter disdain for the military is still the sentiment of most people on the Left. The only difference now is, they hide it better, by saying things like “Thank you for your service.” As a tribute to him, and all his fellow Vietnam Veterans, I dedicate this video:

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWyEnuibuA

h/t Jim Diehl  “Gathering Of Eagles”

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The more of us choose to stay silent, the more dangerous it becomes for the few who continue speaking out”

Gathered in Copenhagen “for a conference of terror attack survivors, artists and journalists vowed to continue fighting for free speech, despite a wave of violence targeting critical voices.”

Last January, one of Charlie Hebdo’s most outspoken journalists quit her job because “it has gone soft on Islamist extremism. Zineb El Rhazoui accused the weekly of bowing to Islamist extremists and no longer daring to draw the Prophet Mohammed.” Then she was threatened by Islamic State supporters  who called for her murder by “lone wolves.”

Now the 35-year-old El Rhazoui remains a staunch human rights campaigner and warns that the more Westerners are silenced, the more dangerous it becomes for those who speak out. She is right, but it will not stop there. Jihadists will continue to expand their activities until no one can escape them. Sharia requires that every infidel submit and bow to it.

Westerners are losing freedoms, slowly slipping into the shadows of dhimmitude. Already, Islamic supremacists have managed to force their values upon infidels through their “Islamophobia” drives. All religions can be criticized, but not Islam; human beings can be violated and murdered in accordance with Islamic religious edicts, while infidels must “shut up for the good of diversity.”

Western politicians and leaders are also running scared, surrendering the banner of freedoms and hard-earned Judeo-Christian principles to Islamic supremacists.

“The Terror Attack Survivors Who Refuse To Be Silenced”, Agence France-Presse, January 14, 2018:

COPENHAGEN: Gathered in the Danish capital for a conference of terror attack survivors, artists and journalists vowed to continue fighting for free speech, despite a wave of violence targeting critical voices.

“We are all targeted, indiscriminately, and the more of us choose to stay silent, the more dangerous it becomes for the few who continue speaking out, like me,” said Zineb El Rhazoui, a 35-year-old journalist from French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

She was on holiday on January 7, 2015, when jihadists broke into the Paris offices of the magazine, massacring 12 people in an attack that shook France and the world.

The assault sparked mass protests and a wave of solidarity, with people across the world adopting the slogan “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie).

“The more of us speak out, defend our freedom and refuse to give up on our liberties, the less the danger will be … focused on certain people,” El Rhazoui told AFP on the sidelines of a conference hosted by the Danish parliament on Saturday.

Her commitment to her beliefs has not come without a cost; everywhere she goes, she is accompanied by security guards.

Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who in 2007 sparked controversy with his drawings of Muslim Prophet Mohammad, said nothing would change if he stopped working.

“If you stop, the things going on will not stop,” Vilks said.

He has also been the target of several attempted assaults, the latest in Copenhagen in February 2015, during a conference dubbed “Art, blasphemy and freedom”.

‘That was it’

Like El Rhazoui, Vilks leads a complicated life. Under constant surveillance, he must coordinate with his security guards in order to plan his day.

“If I have forgotten to buy some milk, I cannot actually go out and buy the milk, and I cannot in practice call the bodyguards and say ‘I want to buy some milk’,” he said.

“As a film … you have to plan your days in a certain way,” the 71-year-old added.

But after surviving an attack, some people choose to move away from activism.

Patrick Piscot was just 18 years old when he survived the July 2011 bomb and gun massacre by Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik that left 77 people dead.

Breivik was sentenced in 2012 to 21 years behind bars.

“If you survive something I believe that it is your responsibility to get over it in your own way, you have the key to how you want to change your life,” said Piscot, who decided to ended his political activism soon after the attack.

“I continued to participate in AUF (the Workers’ Youth League in Norway) for three weeks or months after the massacre, but that was it…..

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The Daily Jot - The aftermath

Daily reporting and analysis of current events from a biblical and prophetic perspective
 
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Bill Wilson
The aftermath
NOTEWhen writing about God and Jesus, The Daily Jot means YHVH as God and Yeshua Ha Mashiach as Jesus--the actual original names and the true nature and character of them.
  
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is the one who started the firestorm of President Donald Trump disparaging poor nations that happened to be of African descent. It took just one leftist who often has exaggerated the truth for political gain to fan the flames of racism once again in America. The theme of the left has been to declare certain things-whether true or not, or even partially true-characterize them as racist, homophobic, misogynist, Islamophobic, or whatever phobia casts a doubt on a person's character, and then paint those who support that person politically with the same broad brush. This is what has happened with the alleged remark by the President.
 
Timed perfectly for the holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., Durbin hit a home run in further establishing an international narrative that America is racist because it has a racist president and, therefore, the people who support him or voted for him are also racist.  Al Sharpton, for example, told TMZ, "You don't have to spray paint the N-word over the Oval Office and sleep with a KKK hood to be racist. If you have racist policies, say racist things, operate in a racist manner you are a racist, period end of story." Congressman John L. Lewis (D-GA) told ABC's The View that he boycotted the Trump inauguration because, "The movement taught us to withdraw from evil. And I never felt that his election was legitimate."
 
Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) told MSNBC, "his statements that he made clearly shows that he wants to make America not great, but wants to make America just white..." On The McLaughlin Group, leftist Bill Press said of those who voted for Trump, "So, you got 35 percent of the most extreme wacko racist-I don't know-rednecks in the country." Joel B Pollak, Senior Editor of Breitbart News, summarizes: "Durbin knew exactly what he was doing when he leaked, or distorted, the president's remarks. He was confirming Trump's image in the minds of his critics, mobilizing forces of fear and division - such that a black librarian could tell the Los Angeles Times on Sunday that Trump would "love to take us back all the way to slavery."
 
This week is likely a pivotal moment in the Trump presidency. The leftists have nailed a narrative that slots Trump AND his supporters as racists-this is a deep hole to dig out of. Especially when the 24-7 news media repeats it with impunity. We cannot control what the left or the news media is doing. We cannot control Trump's word usage, although someone needs to help him with this. We can control what we are doing and saying. It is a time to dismiss this vile and untrue rhetoric and build our case for living out Luke 6:31, "And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them likewise. " It is unfair to stereotype everyone as a racist who disagrees with liberal politics. They accuse others of the very thing they do.
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson

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48 HRS After Trump’s ‘Sh*thole’ Comment, Clintons PAY DEARLY For What They Did In Haiti

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 9:46
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48 HRS After Trump’s ‘Sh*thole’ Comment, Clinton's PAY DEARLY For What They Did In Haiti

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It’s been mentioned, that the Awan bros employed a DC car dealership as a front for engaging in human organ harvesting and sales overseas. Scary the lack of emergency medical resources in the Haitian earthquake, I ponder how many young healthy organs were harvested for top dollar in the Haitian catastrophe?

Haiti is an indication of China Aid during WW2. The then Democratic administration and the US Army under General Stilwell claimed that 800,000 tons of materials were sent to China under the lend lease agreement. But in truth only 5% or 4,000 tons was ever supplied to the Chinese army at the time while fighting against the Imperial Japanese army. Moreover $100 million dollars worth of gold bought by the Chinese Government was never delivered. In current day’s dollar the gold alone is equal to 45 billion dollars. The then Democratic Treasury Secretary basically explained he does not know. That was the end of the FBI investigation!!!!!

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The Establishment continue to push forward in their attempt to shut down the alternative press that is rapidly growing and pushing out the faltering mainstream media. As the EU demands social media sites censor fake news and Reddit, Facebook and other sites begin blocking Fusion Laced Illusions and other alternative media it is now alarmingly evident that their truly is a war on free speech.

 

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Tues/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Are Trump's Accusers 'Mad'?
by Cal Thomas
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Tuesday Top Headlines
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U.S. military members receive biggest pay bump since 2010 (Fox Business)
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Another leftist-run corporation praises tax cuts (2nd Vote)
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Trump attacks “scum-Dicky Durbin” over “s—thole” deceit (The Hill)
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Current count: 252 of 633 key administration positions still lack Trump nominations (The Daily Signal)
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liar-nObama achievements could fit in a closet — Move to shut down liar-Obama’s presidential center (Washington Examiner)
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liar-Obama’s administration didn’t follow procedure for checking illegal immigrants’ ties to terrorism (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Court battle brewing over work rules for Medicaid (The Hill)
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School district pays gender-confused teen $800,000 after refusing to let her bunk with boys (The Federalist)
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NAACP says MLK’s vision can’t be achieved without fighting global warming (The Daily Caller)
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Navy SEAL battling for U.S. House seat (The Washington Free Beacon)
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NFL’s kneeling comes to abrupt halt: Protesters miss playoffs (The Washington Times)
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Fake attacks spread to Canada — Toronto police say cutting girl’s hijab “did not happen,” close case (CBC)
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Humor: Mass panic erupts as Heaven accidentally sends out rapture alert (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: The return of earmarks won’t solve congressional irresponsibility (National Review)
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Policy: The surprising truth about income inequality (The Hill)  ~The Patriot Post
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 Sara Carter – Big liar-Clinton/liar-nObama 
Deep State Developments Exploding Soon
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{rickwells.us} ~ Investigative journalist Sarah Carter admits she’s nervous and a bit anxious about the upcoming week... believing that some major revelations are in store for America regarding the abuses of power under the liar-nObama regime and within the deep state bureaucracy.  She begins with the topic of Uranium One and the issuance of an 11 count indictment for bribery and money laundering against Mark Lambert, a 54-year-old Veteran of both Desert Shield and Desert Storm. His coconspirator, Darin Condrey, has already been convicted. The indictment charges Lambert with seven counts of a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, one count of conspiracy to violate the Act, two counts of wire fraud and one count of international promotion money laundering. He is alleged to have bribed a Russian official, Vadim Mikerin, in order to obtain contracts for the movement of US Uranium within the United States... https://rickwells.us/carter-clinton-obama-exploding/
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UNICEF: Another UN Agency 
corrupted by anti-Israel politics
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Boko Haram justifiably appear on the UN’s list of grave violators of children’s rights in conflict zones... But UNICEF is also spearheading a campaign to have Israel’s military included on this blacklist, which could lead to Security Council sanctions if successful. It’s preposterous that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) could be grouped among terror groups and militias from failed states, together with the planet’s worst offenders in terms of protecting children. But the problem is that UNICEF has for years been partnering with a group of virulently anti-Israel non-governmental organizations (NGOs), who play an integral role in advancing this campaign to blacklist the IDF, receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from UNICEF to do so...  https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/01/unicef-another-un-agency-corrupted-by-anti-israel-politics/
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Global Warming Dealt Death Blow 
as Sahara Desert Gets 16 Inches of Snow
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ Global warming fear-mongers made dire predictions just a few short years ago that mankind had witnessed the “end of snow”... because of how much human activity had heated and altered the earth’s climate. Of course, as much of the United States was recently gripped by bitter cold temperatures and blanketed with snow — even as far south as northern Florida — climate change proponents like former Vice President scum-Al Gore ludicrously argued that excessive cold and snowy weather were actually signs of a warming planet, or something nonsensical like that. Their arguments about global warming make even less sense now that snow has fallen in one of the most unlikely locations ever — the Sahara desert of North Africa, according to the U.K. Daily Mail...   https://conservativetribune.com/global-warming-sahara-desert-snow/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=weeklyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Republican congressman says liae-Hillary’s
‘Uranium One’ link could be a smoking gun
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{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ After more than a year of investigation, federal prosecutors may have finally found evidence of collusion... between a presidential candidate and the Russian government. But the liar-Clintons aren’t going to like it. At least two Republican lawmakers see the Department of Justice’s investigation into the Uranium One scheme — and the subsequent 11-count indictment of a Maryland businessman made on Friday alleging bribery in the scandal — as a smoking gun against former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton...  https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/government-corruption/hillary-smoking-gun-found.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=morning&utm_campaign=CNA_20180115-1
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President Trump Stops To Tell 
Reporters His Side of the Stories
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump stopped to take a few questions from reporters as he and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy... were making their way inside his Mar-a-Lago resort on Sunday evening. One reporter asks what they were talking about, to which Trump replies they’re talking about a lot of things and that the DACA amnesty for illegals is one of them. Asked if he’s going to get any Democrat support for a DACA deal, Trump expresses his view that Democrats don’t really want a deal. He says, “I think they talk about DACA but they don’t want to help the DACA people,” pointing out that they’re not children as they used to be referred to. He says, “I think you have a lot of sticking points but they’re all Democrat sticking points, because we are ready, willing and able to make a deal but they don’t want to.”... https://rickwells.us/trump-reporters-side-stories/
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Are Trump's Accusers 'Mad'?
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by Cal Thomas
{townhall.com} ~ "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." -- W.C. Fields

Having lost an election they thought they would win and unable to get over it; having been staggeringly wrong about their predictions that a Trump presidency would be the end of global economies; now putting faith in a special counsel to bring down the president with evidence that looks increasingly dubious, the left has taken refuge in the only shelter available to them: the president is off his rocker, mad, crazy, unstable and therefore the 25th Amendment must be invoked and Trump removed from office.

Is that the best they've got? Let's see them run on that platform this November and in 2020.

The latest entry to the "wild and crazy guy" Olympics is Michael Wolff, author of the instant best seller "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House." Wolff claims to have interviewed 200 current and former White House insiders who all believe -- every one of them -- that the president is a lunatic and in need of a straightjacket. Wolff claims to have recordings of his "off the record" interviews. Let's hear them.

A number of current and former White House insiders, including the president, have stated publicly they were never interviewed. Some who may have been interviewed say the quotes attributed to them are wrong. Again, Wolff should roll the tape.

If what's written in "Fire and Fury" is accurately transcribed, what motivated those Wolff allegedly interviewed to undermine, even betray, the president? What did they hope to gain? Democratic administrations are not known for behaving this way. What prompted such Republican disloyalty?

In the book's prologue, as noted by Business Insider, Wolff writes: "Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are boldly untrue. These conflicts, and that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book."

"Sometimes," he writes, "I have let the players offer their versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge them. In other instances I have, through a consistency in the accounts and through sources I have come to trust, settled on a version of events I believe to be true."

As noted by The Washington Times: "Of course, that belief may be misplaced -- and voila, a little untruth is born. But it's up to the reader to decide. Or, the anti-Trump media and Democratic Party 'Impeach Trump' crowd, as the case may be."

People tend to pay attention only to those views and accusations that reinforce their own beliefs. Most conservatives read conservative newspapers, listen to talk radio and watch Fox News. Most liberals read liberal newspapers and watch MSNBC where programs like "Morning Joe" are mouthpieces for their liberal agenda.

The champion of conservative talk radio is Rush Limbaugh. On his program last Friday, Limbaugh got to the heart of the anti-Trump movement, which he said is establishment and therefore bipartisan.

"This is the reaction of people not in charge," he said. "These are people that have lost touch. They've lost their grip. Because Trump is threatening the little fiefdom they've created. They've set it up so that they're the experts and nobody else can possibly understand what they're doing. ... And in less than a year, Trump has come in and run rings around them, and that poses such a big threat, he's got to go."

Limbaugh noted that some of the same things being said about Trump were said about George W. Bush, i.e. that he's stupid, a cowboy and doesn't read books Bush did, lots of them.

With so many things going well for the administration, especially on the economy, jobs, unemployment and the defeat of ISIS in Syria, it's the left that may be in need of a straightjacket. Perhaps they should just chill out and have another beer.
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Government shutdown looms with no DACA deal in sight
PHOTO: People hold signs against President Donald Trumps proposed end of the DACA program that protects immigrant children from deportation at a protest in New York City, Aug. 30, 2017.
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WATCH Trump and lawmakers battle over Dreamer immigration deal

Congress has until midnight Friday to strike a deal on a host of thorny issues before government funding is set to run out, but talks appear to be at a standstill and a stopgap spending bill is looking more likely.

At the heart of it: the fate of nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants.

Democrats insist that if Republicans want their support for a spending deal, it must include a legislative fix to help DACA recipients. Republicans maintain that DACA must be dealt with separately from spending negotiations.

While a bipartisan group of senators claimed to have struck a deal that would shield DACA recipients from deportations and address border security, President Donald Trump roundly rejected their plan at an Oval Office meeting late last week.

Talks got even more complicated after sources said -- and at least one Democratic lawmaker at the meeting publicly claimed -- that Trump had made disparaging remarks about accepting immigrants from African nations.

On Sunday, Trump emphatically denied calling them "s---hole countries," adding that he is the "least racist person" reporters "have ever interviewed."

He went on to blame Democrats for holding up negotiations, telling reporters, "Honestly, I don't think the Democrats want to make a deal. I think they talk about DACA, but they don't want to help the DACA people."

And on Monday Trump tweeted:

With Congress heading towards another government shutdown, all eyes are on negotiators as they scramble to come up with a spending deal that will placate members on both sides of the aisle.

The spending bill

Just two weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., seemed confident Democrats and Republicans could work together on spending.

"I am optimistic that we can begin 2018 with a bipartisan, two-year funding agreement that meets several critically-important objectives," McConnell said at the beginning of the new year.

Congressional leaders are scrambling to negotiate a funding bill that sets spending caps, reauthorizes the Children's Health Insurance Program, and provides supplemental disaster relief for communities ravaged by hurricanes last fall.

Republicans and Democrats both want to lift spending caps, which limit the amount of money the government can spend without adding to the deficit.

While Republicans are calling for a boost in defense spending, Democrats insist that any military spending increase be matched by an equal increase in spending on domestic programs. Republicans have said this notion of “parity” is a non-starter.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said negotiators on both sides of the aisle are “making progress” on establishing spending caps, and downplayed the chances of a government shutdown.

But he acknowledged another short-term spending bill was likely in the cards in order to give lawmakers more time to strike a deal on a long-term spending bill.

“We will have to do something short-term,” Ryan admitted last week during remarks at the University of Wisconsin-Milwuakee.

GOP defense hawks say a short-term spending bill cripples the military and the country's national security.

Democrats, for their part, are loathe to support a spending bill that doesn’t include a legislative fix to help the so-called Dreamers – the nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

Fate of the Dreamers

The lone bipartisan plan to address DACA recipients and border security is now on the cutting room floor, but negotiators say they plan to whip up support from their colleagues.

"President Trump called on Congress to solve the DACA challenge. We have been working for four months and have reached an agreement in principle that addresses border security, the diversity visa lottery, chain migration/family reunification, and the Dream Act—the areas outlined by the President. We are now working to build support for that deal in Congress," the bipartisan group of six senators said in a joint statement last week.

The Trump administration has set March 5 as the deadline to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for young undocumented immigrants if Congress fails to come up with its own solution.

PHOTO: Yurexi Quinones, 24, of Manassas, Va., who is studying social work and a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA, rallies next to Ana Rice, 18, of Manassas, Va., in support of DACA, in Washington, Sept. 5, 2017.AP
Yurexi Quinones, 24, of Manassas, Va., who is studying social work and a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA, rallies next to Ana Rice, 18, of Manassas, Va., in support of DACA, in Washington, Sept. 5, 2017. more +

Republicans say Democrats are holding spending negotiations "hostage" and have said the DACA program must be addressed separately and in a standalone bill.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, and other Democrats are pushing for a DACA fix to be included in a spending agreement this week because they fear if it's delayed any longer than that, Republicans won't put any legislation on the floor for a vote.

Republican leadership have said they intend to bring a vote to the floor in February or March.

"We’ve heard that before and it never happens," Schumer said last week.

Immigration hardliners in the Senate have already said their colleagues' bipartisan plan "isn't serious."

“There has been no deal reached yet on the future of DACA in the Senate. Some of our colleagues have floated a potential plan that, simply put, isn’t serious. It is disingenuous to discuss providing status to, potentially, millions of individuals without taking credible steps to truly protect our borders and secure the interior," Sens. Cotton, Grassley, and Perdue said in a statement last week.

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One Of America’s Favorite Restaurant Chains Just Trashed Our Military Vets – Boycott Them Now!



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Dave and Buster’s arcade and restaurant located in Kentwood, Michigan decided to go against two of our veterans. Victor Murdock and Adrienne Brown of the American Legion Riders Post 179 of Grandville, MI visited the restaurant. However, they were asked to either leave the restaurant or remove the vests.
 



The restaurant management believed that the patches that were sewed on the vests depicted the flag of America, a bald eagle and the Prisoner of War Flag. The officials from the restaurant claimed that their patches were related to gangs because of the symbols.
 



Military.com reported that the headquarters of Dave and Buster’s which is based in Texas released a statement that read: “The group was asked to remove the jackets or turn them inside out because the business’ dress code prohibits evidence of gang affiliation. Spokeswoman April Spearman said the policy was in place ‘to ensure that everyone is able to enjoy themselves in a fun and safe environment.”
 



However, Dave and Buster aren’t probably aware of the history. The America Legion is considered to be the oldest veteran group in America. It is the total opposite of a gang. Also, the symbols, the American Flag, the Prisoner of War Flag and the bald eagle are not related to a gang in any way.
 
According to Conservative Fighters, “since its charter and incorporation by Congress in 1919 following World War I, the American Legion has served as a patriotic veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness.”
 



For their comments, Dave and Buster’s will probably be attacked all over the social media. There is a chance that restaurant gets boycotted. They deserve it for their disrespectful behavior towards America and its veterans.
 
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Our President and Savior Reigns

What makes America beautiful is FREEDOM. That is what the globalists want to take away from you. They will try to trick you into thinking socialism is not TYRANNY. They will USE the sympathetic figures to promote their twisted ideals. And if you are not VIGILANT, you too will be deceived! Don't let it happen to YOU. When the liberals lovingly refer to their "Doctor King" as a socialist, denounce him and his divisive agenda for what it was: FASCISM.

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2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to your Savior.

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Democrat Demagoguery Reigns Supreme

Have Republicans learned absolutely nothing! We're being subjected to classic demagoguery by Secy. Nelsen. Poor darling illegal immigrants in danger of being deported; boo hoo. There here illegally.

Republicans should be presenting the parents of Kate Steinle, of the victims of Orlando Fla. nightclub massacre as witnesses to dangers of illegal aliens.

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Video Tom Borelli Discusses Democrats Race Card Antics on Fox Business Network

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Democrats are saying President Trump is a racist for political gain and to distract Americans from President Trump’s accomplishments.

With the economy growing, the stock market at all time highs, and low unemployment, Democrats desperately needed to change the momentum President Trump had following the numerous companies giving bonuses, raising wages, and the hour long White House meeting on DACA.

Conservative Review contributor Tom Borelli Ph.D. discussed this topic on Fox Business Network’s “The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan,” with host Trish Regan and Democrat strategist Robin Biro.

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Yo, Trump Haters: Rand Reveals What Trump Did For Haiti Prior To Election – This’ll Ruin Your ‘Racism’ Fairytale


The line that Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon and the race-baiters on the ‘news’ want you to believe is that Trump is racist and hates Haitians.

Somebody give Snopes and Politifact the memo:

Fact-check, “False”. In fact, after reading this story, you might want to go back and question ALL the accusations of ‘racism’ and ‘white supremacy’ that they were so quick to report. Better still, ask WHY they were so breathless to report them.

CNN talking heads are still telling panelists that Trump is ‘absolutely’ a racist. And that was the real meaning of his (alleged) Sh*thole statement.

Unlike most leftist Slactivists, the ‘evil One-percenter’ Trump puts his money where his mouth is.

Paul appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with host Chuck Todd where he revealed that Donald Trump, as a private citizen, was a major financial backer of medical mission trips to Haiti which resulted in life-changing surgeries for hundreds of Haitians.

Let the leftists answer how ‘racist’ Trump could say this?

When there was no political gain to be made, nor political favor to be exchanged, Trump bankrolled a mission of mercy… to Haiti.

Here it is, with full context. The relevant part picks up around the 30 second mark:

“I know personally about his feelings towards Haiti and toward Central America, because when I was not a candidate for president and he wasn’t a candidate for president I went down there on a medical mission trip,” Paul continued. “I did about 200 cataract surgeries with a group of surgeons in Haiti and the same in Central America, and when we asked Donald J. Trump as a private citizen to support those trips, he was a large financial backer of both medical mission trips.”

“So I think it’s unfair to sort of draw conclusions from a remark that I think wasn’t constructive is the least we can say, and it’s unfair to all of a sudden paint him as ‘he’s a racist’ when I know for a fact he cares very deeply about the people in Haiti because he helped finance a trip where we were able to get vision back for 200 people in Haiti,” Paul concluded.

But since the Clinton Foundation investigation is still going strong, maybe Haiti is a topic the news SHOULD be covering. Here’s a story that went public in 2015, well before Clinton won her party’s Primaries.

How the Clinton Foundation Got Rich off Poor Haitians

Ladies, tell everyone that you don’t like the emasculated, metro-sexual ‘feminists’ — you’d rather have a President with balls:

And gents, let everyone know that you want your President to be just as much of a man as you are:

Donald J. Trump is our 45th President. Why? Because Americans from all races and classes are sick of whining Republicans and corrupt Democrats. Finally, we have a President who isn’t afraid to say what he thinks even if it is not popular with the press. Trump is not a typical politician. Trump can’t be bought. He will back up what he says with action, no matter the cost. Finally. A president with balls!
Get yours today and trigger the leftists and the RINO NeverTrumpers.

The Effeminization Of The American Male
by Doug Giles


Doug Giles, best-selling author of Raising Righteous And Rowdy Girls and Editor-In-Chief of the mega-blog, ClashDaily.com, has just penned a book he guarantees will kick hipster males into the rarefied air of masculinity. That is, if the man-child will put down his frappuccino; shut the hell up and listen and obey everything he instructs them to do in his timely and tornadic tome. Buy Now:The Effeminization Of The American Male


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Soros Vows To Continue Fight Against Plague Of Nationalism with His World Governance

George Soros has vowed to intensify his battle against national sovereignty, the obstacle that is preventing him from manipulating his way into a position of global domination.

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George Soros’ plans to destroy the civilized world and then reconstruct it in his own design with him at the top isn’t going so well. Surrendering self-determination and one’s culture, language, national identity and religion isn’t attractive to most folks.


Lazy people, useful idiots, and those who view themselves as being in the exploitative elite might favor the idea, until tyranny arrives and it’s not as it was advertised.

Soros announced in an interview with the Financial Times that he will continue his fight against the “plagues” of freedom, self-determination and Western culture. He’s attacking our Christian values and individual national identity by flooding our countries with non-assimilating Muslims because he knows that is the best way to achieve division, a precursor to conquest.

He vowed to fight the spread of nationalism, which he said has become the world’s “dominant ideology.” Nationalism has been around since the beginning of time, even longer than Soros. That is a fight he’s not likely to win. People like having their own countries, they take pride in being who and what they are. That is particularly true of the citizens of the prosperous and civilized nations of the West that he’s targeting for elimination.

In his complaints about the nationalists defending their nations against his attacks, orchestrated through his Open Society Foundation false fronts, Soros whined, “It’s déjà vu all over again with one big change — the dominant ideology in the world now is nationalism. It’s the EU that’s the institution that’s on the verge of a breakdown. And Russia is now the resurgent power, based on nationalism.”

The EU is breaking down because it is a tyrannical dictatorship, that prohibits self-determination by its member nations. He’s been busted sticking his nose into America’s business as well, in league with the corrupt globalist Democrats.

Jumping on the same bandwagon he’s using in attacking President Trump in America, Soros is blaming Russia and President Putin for many of the attacks against him. “Snowflake” Soros said, Putin “doesn’t like me,” failing to own up to his interference in Putin’s nation as well. Soros and his OSF have been banned from Russia for the “security risks” they present.

His unpopularity is not due to some unreasonable or evil conspiracy against him. It’s a direct result of his subversion against duly elected governments. The US taxpayers financed some of his international misdeeds during the regime of his puppet, Hussein Obama. Five million dollars of American taxpayer money went to Soros’ OSF in Macedonia between 2012 and 2016 to foment civil unrest, including the translation and publication of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals into Macedonian.

Speaking on behalf of the Hungarian government, Zoltan Kovács noted that Soros had, “never been elected by anyone, the organizations – NGOs, ‘human rights’ groups and so on — have never been elected by anyone.” He added, “[They are] clearly engaging in determining how political decisions should be made. And this is wrong.”

In Romania, the leader of the ruling party described Soros as having “financed evil” in reference to his stirring dissent and radicalism. Israel’s ruling Likud party was also targeted by Hussein Obama with $300 million of US taxpayer dollars. Eli Hazan, Israeli foreign relations director stated that he enjoys fighting the international troublemaker. He said, “If I can help other organizations or governments to work against Soros, I will do it with pleasure because it is a struggle of ideas that may shape the future in the world.”

In presenting the false image of the liberal idealist who somehow isn’t trying to topple governments, Soros mischaracterized his missteps as honest mistakes.  His Georgian puppet and their former leader, Mikheil Saakashvili, is now under criminal investigation for allegedly taking money from a Russia-based oligarch to destabilize Ukraine. It does seem there is a pattern developing.

We’re supposed to believe that civil unrest wasn’t Soros’ intention all along, that this guy who almost destroyed the British Pound and the Bank of England, is a good guy who simply made a bad but innocent choice as to which politician to buy. Soros said it taught him a “painful lesson,” to “keep a greater distance from the internal politics of the countries where I have foundations.” Why does he have those foundations in those countries in the first place?

He’s saying that, as an individual, he needs to be more stealthy in the conduct of his attacks against sovereign nations so it can’t be pinned on him. In no way is he denouncing the practice, only getting caught doing it.

Laughably, Soros said he was committed, despite the “attacks on him,” to work harder to foster “liberal democracies,” what we know as communist hellholes, and fight global corruption. Apparently he doesn’t want the competition.

Soros announced that, despite his age at 89, he plans to remain chairman of OSF for another five years. Of course, that’s provided that Satan doesn’t call him home before then.

 

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Former President Obama’s silent Coup d’Etat conspiracy unraveling

written by L.J. Keith Jan 15, 2018

A politically motivated White House and critical elements of the National Security apparatus have engaged in a widespread and far-reaching organized crime operation. Their purpose: to defame, defeat, destroy and ultimately conspire to remove President Donald Trump from the Oval office.

Silent Coup d’Etat – the conspirators

In their quest to overthrow American’s way of life, the conspirators operate in conjunction with the heads of the intelligence agencies, the highest levels of the Justice Department, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and the DNC.

Their purpose was to destroy Donald Trump, elect Hillary Clinton, and cover up the criminal activities of Hillary Clinton’s State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

Together they conspired to frame Donald Trump with a concocted dossier of Kremlin disinformation paid for by the Clinton Campaign and the DNC.


The fall of the House of Clinton

Silent Coup d’Etat – clearing Hillary, targeting Trump

They destroyed every concept of justice and fairness in the process of clearing Hillary Clinton of pay to play bribery allegations and criminal obstruction in the destruction of 33000 emails under subpoena.

Fusion GPS, in conjunction with the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and the White House, pushed the Clinton/DNC/ Kremlin document to Clinton allies at the top of the FBI. They then used it to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, Trump himself, and his associates.

When Trump was elected that same cadre of corrupt elite officials used the powers of the Federal government and the intelligence agencies to undermine the incoming president in an unprecedented attack on the political system and the constitution.

Silent Coup d’Etat – all the way to the White House

We now know that a silent Coup d’Etat was launched by Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, John Brennan, James Clapper and the senior officials of the FBI. That coup has been unfolding over the last two years. Its target is President Trump.

It is easily the biggest uncovered political scandal and criminal treason in the history of the Republic.

Constant leaks and attacks on the incoming President, from the intelligence agencies and the FBI, in coordination with the media, were an alarming early indicator.

Now we know that the same people intimately involved in protecting Hillary Clinton were intimately involved in the politically motivated conspiracy to take down Donald Trump with fake Clinton funded documents obtained from the Kremlin.

Meanwhile, Trump officials are surveilled and unmasked by everyone from Samantha Powers to Ben Rhodes to James Comey.  Media leaks are a flood of unnamed sources. All push a discredited Russian collusion angle.


Hillary Clinton invokes a New McCarthyism against Trump

Silent Coup d’Etat – the real collusion was the Clinton Campaign, the DNC and the Russians

Now it is clear the only collusion with the Russians was the one concocted by Hillary Clinton, the DNC, Fusion GPS, the FBI and the Obama White House.

It is now clear that the FBI not only paid Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, but used the dossier to get FISA warrants, perpetuating a fraud on the court.

Like some 3rd world tyrant, the organs of the government were purposely weaponized and used for blatantly political purposes against a leading political opponent.

Then worse, to defile everything we are supposed to believe about the use of power, those same agencies of government were used to orchestrate a sustained and coordinated attack on the duly elected President.

Silent Coup d’Etat – all the way to the Oval Office.

It is an affront to democracy. The outgoing President, now defeated, deliberately set out to sabotage his successor.

A cadre of seditious officials around him continues to attempt to do so to this day.

Do you think for one minute that President Obama or Valerie Jarrett weren’t aware of every step in the unfolding onslaught of this coordinated conspiracy to take Trump down.

It is inconceivable.

It was their minions, Ben Rhodes, Susan Rice, and Samantha Powers, operating on their orders, who weaponized and leaked intelligence surveillance.

Silent Coup d’Etat – the evidence mounts

We have the texts of Sr FBI investigator Peter Strzok to his paramour. We have his vitriolic meeting to discuss an “insurance policy” in the office of Andrew McCabe.

Strzok’s fingerprints literally stretch from exonerating Hillary Clinton, to launching the Russia investigation in the FBI, to interviewing and implicating General Flynn.

We have the senior FBI official Bruce Orr, whose wife worked for Fusion GPS. We have unprecedented bias exposed across a spectrum of senior Justice Department officials.

We have reams of bizarre, illegal, nefarious, politically vicious behavior from James Comey, who is as much Rasputin as he is a demented version of J. Edgar Hoover.

These are despicable crimes against the State. This is a seditious abuse of power, and a criminal conspiracy against a duly elected President. It is, in a word, treason.

All the principle actors: Obama, Jarrett, Clinton, Comey, Rhodes, Rice, Brennan, and Clapper, are consciously aware of what they were, have been, and are doing. They would make Nixon blush.


Russia, Hillary Clinton, DNC, collude with limy foreigner to throw election

Silent Coup d’Etat – What were they thinking

They thought they were going to get away with it. They were certain Hillary would win.

So was everyone else. Even the Russians were certain. No one expected Trump to win.
That’s what makes the whole Russian collusion story unbelievable to begin with.

But weaponizing a phony political dossier paid for by the opposition campaign, using it to get FISA warrants on your political opposition, and then leaking and smearing the candidate, and then new American President, in an attempt to cripple him, is beyond the pale of acceptable behavior.

Silent Coup – McCarthyite, East German, Stassi tactics

These are authoritarian, East German, Stassi tactics. These are third world, police state, Nazi tactics. These are open political crimes against the state, an attempted Coup d’Etat.

They have occurred, and are occurring, right in front of our noses.

The collaboration of the mainstream media with this McCarthyite slur is a calumny against journalism. It will forever tar the integrity and legitimacy of the media in the eyes of the public.

But why? Why not just accept the stunning election results of 2016 from the greatest Democracy on earth.

Because they had done too much. Their ass was in the wringer. They knew they were about to get caught. They needed an “insurance policy”.  Everything they had done was about to be exposed.

Silent Coup d’Etat- treachery at the top of the intelligence agencies

So they attacked. Surveilling the transition team with trumped up FISA warrants. Leaking classified documents to the press to ruin General Flynn.

Heads of intelligence agencies were blatantly leaking classified information, and attacking the President-elect openly on a daily basis in the press and on TV.

Consider the undignified, treacherous, and seditious behavior of John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, and Ben Rhodes. Who do you think the leakers and the unnamed sources at the New York Times and the Washington Post were.

Just look at their malignant criticisms of an incoming President. Look at the stream of constant malicious attacks, from the very heads of the intelligence services and the National Security apparatus.

Look at James Comey’s consistently erratic behavior. The leaking of documents to get a special counsel. His bizarre duplicitous Congressional testimony and open hatred of the elected President.

Look at the manipulations and backflips to get a special counsel, Robert Mueller. Then look at how Mueller has staffed his investigation and sullied his integrity with one tainted official after another.

All of it is based on phony politically motivated Russian disinformation, agitprop, paid for by the DNC and Clinton Campaign and used by the FBI and Obama to attack and destroy President Trump.

Silent Coup d’Etat – Hillary’s excuses

Hilllary has squandered $2 Billion dollars in a failed campaign and they needed an excuse. They had created this infantile McCarthyite smear during the campaign, pushed it throughout the transition, into his presidency, and they perpetuate it today.

It boggles the mind. They must think we’re really stupid.

That doesn’t even touch on their underlying motive, the need to cover up the Loretta Lynch/ Bill Clinton fisaco, Uranium One bribery, Clinton Foundation corruption, State Department pay to play, and the ties between all of this and the top levels of the Obama White House.

Criminal conspiracies against the Republic of this magnitude cannot go unpunished.

The evidence is prima face’, clear on the face of it. There are few graver crimes than using the power of the government to destroy your internal political opposition. We should all fear that.

For now Obama’s silent coup d’etat co-conspirators better lawyer up.

They are going to need it.

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Does America Have a Global Mission?
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Sen Cotton Defends Trump – Sen scum-DURBIN
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{rickwells.us} ~ John Dickerson plays a clip of Senator David Perdue calling out Senator scum-Dick Durbin as a liar... in an interview he had with George Stephanopoulos, beginning at the 2:20 mark in the video. Perdue said clearly, “I’m telling you he did not use that word, George, and I’m telling you it’s a gross misrepresentation. How many times do you want me to say that?” Asked for his take on the matter, Cotton replied, “John, I didn’t hear that word either. I certainly didn’t hear what Senator scum-Durbin has said repeatedly.” Cotton goes on to point to scum-Durbin’s record as a liar, stating “Senator scum-Durbin has a history of misrepresenting what happens in White House meetings, though, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by that.”... https://rickwells.us/cotton-defends-trump-durbin-lying/
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'Lost' Cronkite broadcast 
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{wnd.com} ~ A newly discovered CBS News clip broadcast by Walter Cronkite while still in Saigon following the Tet Offensive... reveals the influential newsman had a much different perspective on the battle than he expressed in the history-making commentary he delivered after returning to New York days later. Anyone who had reached the age of awareness when Cronkite delivered his famous live editorial Feb. 27, 1968, knew the significance of what “the most trusted man in America” was saying: The U.S. had lost the Vietnam war. President Lyndon Johnson’s famous reaction told the story: “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America,” he is reported to have said. “Tonight, back in more familiar surroundings in New York, we’d like to sum up our findings in Vietnam, an analysis that must be speculative, personal, subjective,” he said in opening his brief closing report. “Who won and who lost in the great Tet Offensive against the cities? I’m not sure. The Viet Cong did not win by a knockout but neither did we.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/lost-cronkite-broadcast-reveals-180-degree-war-flip/
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Jamie Lee Curtis Blames Trump -“Unstable
Idiocy” Caused Hawaii Missile False Alarm
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s probably no accident that out of control libtards Jamie Curtis and Arnold Schwarzenegger were cast... as a husband and wife in the 1994 movie “True Lies,” although “Truly Liars” would have been more reflective of who they are. Neither was hired for their stunning good looks or acting ability, so there must have been something more happening behind the scenes. Dedication to the proposition that America must become a communist nation ruled by their cabal would seem to be a likely basis, taking into consideration their conduct in the days since. Displaying her total disconnection from reality, logic and proper mental function, Curtis, who identifies as a female, went on a Twitter tirade in the wake of the false alarm ballistic missile warning in Hawaii...This shows how stupid Hollywood is. https://rickwells.us/curtis-trump-hawaii-missile/
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders blasts 
the Wall Street Journal for ‘fake news’
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{theblaze.com} ~ White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hit back at the Wall Street Journal over the weekend... for allegedly doctoring President Donald Trump’s words following a recent interview. It all began when the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Trump said he has a very good relationship with North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un. Trump’s comments came one day after he expressed willingness to re-enter discussions with the country over its nuclear program. However, the White House contests that reporting and they have released proof showing that Trump didn’t say what the Journal reported him saying...   https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/01/14/sarah-huckabee-sanders-blasts-the-wall-street-journal-for-fake-news-then-she-releases-proof
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Sen. Cotton Says He Did Not Hear Vulgar Comments From President Trump
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Sen. Perdue: POTUS Didn’t Say Sh*thole
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Gutfeld: What Are You Complaining About, Liberals?
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Alveda King On Race Relations, Donald Trump, And Martin Luther King Jr.
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Israel Destroys Another Hamas Terror Tunnel
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SNL Takes Down Morning Joe, Mika, And Michael Wolfe
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Does America Have a Global Mission?
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by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
{wnd.com} ~ Informing Iran, “The U.S. is watching what you do,” Ambassdor Nikki Haley called an emergency meeting Friday of the Security Council regarding the riots in Iran. The session left her and us looking ridiculous.

France’s ambassador tutored Haley that how nations deal with internal disorders is not the council’s concern. Russia’s ambassador suggested the United Nations should have looked into our Occupy Wall Street clashes and how the Missouri cops handled Ferguson.

Fifty years ago, 100 U.S. cities erupted in flames after Martin Luther King’s assassination. Federal troops were called in. In 1992, Los Angeles suffered the worst U.S. riot of the 20th century, after the L.A. cops who pummeled Rodney King were acquitted in Simi Valley.

Was our handling of these riots any business of the U.N.?

Conservatives have demanded that the U.N. keep its nose out of our sovereign affairs since its birth in 1946. Do we now accept that the U.N. has authority to oversee internal disturbances inside member countries?

Friday’s session fizzled out after Iran’s ambassador suggested the Security Council might take up the Israeli-Palestinian question or the humanitarian crisis produced by the U.S.-backed Saudi war on Yemen.

The episode exposes a malady of American foreign policy. It lacks consistency, coherence and moral clarity, treats friends and adversaries by separate standards and is reflexively interventionist.

Thus has America lost much of the near-universal admiration and respect she enjoyed at the close of the Cold War.

This hubristic generation has kicked it all away.

Consider. Is Iran’s handling of these disorders more damnable than the thousands of extrajudicial killings of drug dealers attributed to our Filipino ally Rodrigo Duterte, whom the president says is doing an “unbelievable job”?

And how does it compare with Gen. Abdel el-Sissi’s 2012 violent overthrow of the elected president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, and Sissi’s imprisonment of scores of thousands of followers of the Muslim Brotherhood?

Is Iran really the worst situation in the Middle East today?

Hassan Rouhani is president after winning an election with 57 percent of the vote. Who elected Mohammed bin Salman crown prince and future king of Saudi Arabia?

Vladimir Putin, too, is denounced for crimes against democracy for which our allies get a pass.

In Russia, Christianity is flourishing, and candidates are declaring against Putin. Some in the Russian press regularly criticize him.

How is Christianity faring in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan?

It is alleged that Putin’s regime is responsible for the death of several journalists. But there are more journalists behind bars in the jails of our NATO ally Turkey than in any other country in the world.

When does the Magnitsky Act get applied to Turkey?

What the world too often sees is an America that berates its adversaries for sins against our “values,” while giving allies a general absolution if they follow our lead.

A day has not gone by in 18 months that we have not read or heard of elite outrage over the Kremlin attack on “our democracy,” with the hacking of the DNC and John Podesta emails.

How many even recall the revelation in 2015 that China hacked the personnel files of millions of U.S. government employees, past, present and prospective?

While China persecutes Christians, Russia supports a restoration of Christianity after 70 years of Leninist rule.

In Putin’s Russia, the Communist Party is running a candidate against him. In China, the Communist Party exercises an absolute monopoly of political power, and nobody runs against Xi Jinping.

China’s annexation of the Paracel and Spratly Islands and the entire South China Sea is meekly protested, while Russia is endlessly castigated for its bloodless retrieval of a Crimean peninsula that was recognized as Russian territory under the Romanovs.

China, with several times Russia’s economy and 10 times her population, is far the greater challenger to America’s standing as lone superpower. Why, then, this tilt toward China?

Among the reasons U.S. foreign policy lacks consistency and moral clarity is that we Americans no longer agree on what our vital interests are, who our real adversaries are, what our values are, or what a good and godly country looks like.

Was JFK’s America a better country than liar-nObama’s America?

World War II and the Cold War gave us moral clarity. If you stood against Hitler, even if you were a moral monster like Josef Stalin, we partnered with you.

From Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946 to the end of the Cold War, if you stood with us against the “Evil Empire” of Reagan’s depiction, even if you were a dictator like Gen. Pinochet or the shah, you were welcome in the camp of the saints.

But now that a worldwide conversion to democracy is no longer America’s mission in the world, what exactly is our mission?

“Great Britain has lost an empire,” said Dean Acheson in 1962, “but not yet found a role.”

Something of the same may fairly be said of us today.
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Uncensored President
by Mark Alexander
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Trey Gowdy Resigns From House 
Ethics Committee Amid Tumultuous Tenure
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by CHRIS WHITE
{dailycaller.com} ~ South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy resigned his membership on the House Committee on Ethics... to concentrate on his other legislative duties. Gowdy, a Republican, tendered his resignation Jan. 11 from the powerful ethics committee. His new position as Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee prompted the resignation, according to a letter Gowdy sent to House Majority Leader Rep. Paul Ryan. “Accordingly, I tender my resignation from the House Ethics Committee pending your designation of a replacement,” he told the Wisconsin Republican. “Thank you again for this opportunity and thank you to my colleagues on the Committee for their hard work and friendship.”...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/13/trey-gowdy-resigns-from-house-ethics-committee-amid-tumultuous-tenure/?utm_medium=email
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Ryan Incites Fellow Racists On CNN 
To Disrupt Businesses and “Get Trump”
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{rickwells.us} ~ CNN is not even trying to hide the fact that they are agitating against President Trump as their resident racist bridge troll... April Ryan, uses their air space to incite her fellow racists to harass companies in a radical effort to “change the dynamic,” a euphemism for “get Trump. She deliberately uses a vague term because neither she or her corrupt anti-American employer wants to be sued and CNN doesn’t want to impact their diminishing advertiser revenue as the result of their political agitation. Ryan, the anti-white toad who rudely shouted racist accusations at President Trump during the Friday MLK event in the White House, talks of her conversation with “one African-American influencer” who remains unidentified...  https://rickwells.us/ryan-racists-cnn-get-trump/
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General says ‘Jewish brains’ have found
solution to eliminate all Hamas tunnels
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by TAMAR PILEGGI
An IDF general on Sunday said the Israeli military, helped by the “Jewish brain,” had devised a solution... that would see all of Hamas’s cross-border tunnels into Israel destroyed. Speaking in Arabic to US-based satellite TV station Alhurra, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said that “the Israeli genius along with the Jewish brain have come up with a solution to all of the terrorists’ tunnels.” “Just like there’s ‘Iron Dome’ for the air, there’s a technological umbrella of steel underground,” he said. “I want to send a message to everyone who is digging or gets too close to the tunnels: As you’ve seen in the past two months, these tunnels bring only death,” he added Hebrew/Arabic link according to translations of the interview...  https://www.timesofisrael.com/general-says-jewish-brains-found-solution-to-eliminate-all-hamas-tunnels/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=87b0f99aab-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_14+breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-87b0f99aab-54638825
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Revealed! How Trump will get 
Mexico to pay for wall
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{wnd.com} ~ Quietly, and without any fanfare from major media, Donald Trump has unveiled his plan for getting Mexico to pay for the border wall... He says he plans to offer a new deal on NAFTA that will share increased revenues between the two countries more equitably, a small portion of which will be diverted to pay for the cost of the wall. The Trump administration is currently seeking federal funding for the wall while renegotiating the U.S. trade deal with both Mexico and Canada. “They can pay for it indirectly through NAFTA,” Trump said Thursday in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “We make a good deal on NAFTA, and, say, ‘I’m going to take a small percentage of that money and it’s going toward the wall.’ Guess what? Mexico’s paying.”... http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/revealed-how-trump-will-get-mexico-to-pay-for-wall/
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Unhinged Chuck Todd Unleashes 
Distorted Rant To “Prove” Trump Is a Racist
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{rickwells.us} ~ The anti-Trump media is pulling out all of the stops in the latest of their never-ending efforts to discredit... diminish and besmirch the character of President Trump. The latest falsehood barrage involves their moronic contention that an accurate statement of the fact that current immigration policy is flooding our nation with less civilized and deliberately non-white people from “sh*thole countries” is somehow racist. It’s a factual observation that confirms and calls into question the current anti-Caucasian racism of the left and policies put into practice by the white-hating, non-American impostor, Hussein liar-nObama...  https://rickwells.us/unhinged-todd-rant-trump-racist/
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The Uncensored President
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by Mark Alexander:  If you haven’t figured this out yet, Donald Trump tends to be unfiltered and uncensored. While I don’t condone his coarse language or style, and see it as unbecoming the office he holds, the fact is those Trump characteristics resonates with the majority of “blue-collar” Americans. As I noted in my profile on Trump Wednesday, “He is a New Yorker, and he’s always acted like an archetypal New Yorker — brash, boastful, uncensored and unpredictable.”

          In regard to Trump’s alleged “s—thole countries” comment, I would suggest that he should be credited with exercising restraint in his description of those countries by not padding “s—thole” with even more offensive descriptors.
          For the record, most of your Patriot editorial team members have traveled to the countries Trump was referencing (among others), and some of us have lived in them. We can corroborate first hand that the remarks attributed to Trump regarding El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti, and some countries in Africa, are accurate — primarily because those third-world countries have been governed by corrupt regimes for generations. That does not, of course, mean that citizens from those nations have no value, and Trump did not assert that.
          Joe Concha, media analyst for The Hill, noted: “This is how he speaks. He’s inelegant, yes. He’s unfiltered, yes. But what people like about him so much is that he’s authentic. … I don’t think one Trump supporter jumps to the other side because of this comment.” Actually, Trump’s remark will bring more working blue-collar Democrats, those who have been ignored by the Democrat Party for 30 years, onto the Trump train.
          Predictably, Demos and their mainstream media outlets are feigning outrage that such a word was used in the White House. scum-Dick Durbin (D-IL), who confirmed CNN’s report of Trump’s comments, wailed from the fainting couch, “I cannot believe that in the history of the White House and that Oval Office any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak.” What planet has he been on?
          liar-Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton’s White House tirades, as described by their Secret Service agents, make Trump’s alleged remarks sound like playground banter. (And recall, it was liar-Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton who exploited the Haitian people for their own financial gain…)
          Of course, all the hyperbolic rhetoric on the Left is all about their effort to paint Trump as a racist.
          Their objective in doing so, is to cast Trump’s plans for immigration reform and border security as “racist” rather than protecting the integrity of our nation’s Rule of Law and the jobs of American workers. Democrats know that their political future depends on importing immigrants — a population they label as a victim class, which they can then exploit for votes. As Democrats have veered farther left, their working-class base has diminished. Rather than pivot their agenda back to the political center, they have doubled down on legal status for illegal immigrants.
          Update: It turns out that CNN’s report was fake news. Though CNN ran the quote repeatedly Thursday, and other Letmedia outlets propagated it, Trump did NOT say it. According to CNN’s Jake Tapper Friday: “The president did not refer to Haiti as a ‘s**thole’ country,‘ though another source is claiming "he did say it about countries in Africa.”
          Tapper says, “There was a conflation of two different remarks by the president.” He claims now, “When talking about 'temporary protected status’ countries as part of the immigration deal, it was mentioned that Salvadorans, Hondurans and Haitians have that status,” and that later, Trump made a remark about “s**thole countries” in a conversation related to Africa.
          For the record, at this point, having to walk back the initial claim with the “conflation of the two” excuse would be sufficient grounds for any journalist with an ounce of integrity, and any other media outlet propagating the original claim, to issue a full and unconditional retraction. Of course, no journalist with an ounce of integrity would have reported this in the first place, which is why no such retraction will be forthcoming from CNN
  
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53408

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Mon/Med-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Consumers Find Seattle Soda Tax Distasteful
by Jordan Candler
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Sen Perdue Was In The Room – 
scum-DURBIN IS LYING, Trump Never Said It
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{rickwells.us} ~ Senator David Perdue voices his disgust over the smear tactics that are being employed by Democrat scum-Dick Durbin... in smearing President Trump as a racist over words that were not even said. In an interview on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Perdue said, “This all started with a total misrepresentation of a meeting that happened last Thursday. And people forget that just two days earlier, this President, in an open meeting, with media in there for almost an hour, George, debated this with both sides.” He describes the scope of the meeting, much of it in keeping with America’s desires for border security, including the border wall. Perdue said, “And then coming out that meeting we had a gross misrepresentation of what happened in that meeting, but it’s not the first time we’ve had a gross misrepresentation by that individual.”...  https://rickwells.us/perdue-durbin-lying-trump/
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Interesting Segment With Shannon Bream

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Last night on Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream, there was an interesting segment with a relatively unfamiliar face... 
Policy Advisor and Author, Sidney Powell, appeared on the show to discuss the concluding DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, aspects to the current congressional investigations. Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, has been running a little-watched parallel investigation that is already producing results—when he is not manipulated or overborn by Robert Mueller. His name is not familiar to most Americans, but Mr. Horowitz has played an important role since President liar-nObama named him Inspector General (IG) for the Department of Justice in 2012... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/13/interesting-segment-with-shannon-bream/
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Sara Carter and Dan Bongino Discuss The
Steele Dossier and The DOJ/FBI FISA Abuse
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Dan Bongino does a great job in this interview. Sara Carter, plays the role of controlled opposition...  Carter shiftily helps liar-Hillary Clinton deal with her “Dossier Problem“. Unfortunately, but not unpredictably, Sara Carter begins deploying deep state ‘countermeasures’ from her ‘sources’ that are telling her Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele and liar-Hillary Clinton was hoodwinked by a comprehensive Russian disinformation campaign; carried out by professional Russian intelligence agents; who duped the liar-Clinton Campaign into THINKING Trump was a proxy political agent of Russia. Ergo,… the ever patriotic liar-Clinton campaign had no other option, except to do their civic  duty, and inform the FBI of the Russian claims…  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/13/trial-balloon-sara-carter-and-dan-bongino-discuss-the-steele-dossier-and-the-doj-fbi-fisa-abuse/
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Proposed DACA deal would give 
parents ‘temporary protected status’
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by Renee Nal

{revorloudon.com} ~ President Trump publicly rejected a proposed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty deal put together by a “bipartisan” group of Democrats and RINOs... that would have given parents of so-called DREAMers “temporary protected status.” Worse, the deal would have opened up to illegal aliens who are “eligible for DACA but didn’t sign up.” Piecing together the proposal is difficult because “Details about the Democrats’ plan are still secret,” as explained by Neil Munro at Breitbart, who goes on to say that “advocates say it extends the amnesty to include the several million illegal immigrants who brought up to 3.25 million illegal-immigrant children into the United States.” President Trump responded to the proposal on Twitter, referring to it as “a big step backwards.” The plan was presented by Sens. scum-Dick Durbin, Lindsey Graham, RINO-Jeff Flake, Cory Gardner, Michael Bennet and Bob Menendez, all of whom are pro-Amnesty. According to CNN, Sens. Tom Cotton, David Perdue and Rep. Kevin McCarthy “pushed back at the scum-Durbin and Graham proposal.”...  http://www.http://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/01/trump-rejects-proposed-daca-amnesty-deal-would-have-given-parents-temporary-protected-status/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29/2018/01/trump-rejects-proposed-daca-amnesty-deal-would-have-given-parents-temporary-protected-status/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29   
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Democrats Don’t Think They Should Have to
Concede Anything to Get DACA Amnesty

{totalconservative.com} ~ Many Democrats, particularly in the House, are horrified that their leaders would even agree to discuss issues beyond legal status for Dreamers... and limited measures to curb illegal immigration. The concerns span multiple factions of the Democratic conference, and, combined with opposition from Republican immigration hard-liners, they could put passage of a DACA deal at risk. “We’re willing to give a little when it comes to border security, but we’re not willing to give away the whole hog and farm,” said Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who attended the meeting. You have to realize that these Democrats aren’t talking about something big like the wall, which remains completely off the table even as far as the leadership is concerned. No, they’re willing to add a few Border Patrol agents to the roster…and that’s about it. No cuts to legal immigration. No end to the diversity visa lottery. No crackdown on chain migration. Nothing. They’re essentially saying they won’t vote for anything that isn’t a clean DACA bill – or at least one that’s as clean as you could possibly get in a bipartisan bill...  http://totalconservative.com/democrats-dont-think-concede-anything-get-daca-amnesty/ 

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Consumers Find Seattle Soda Tax Distasteful
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          First, some background. The city council signed off on a 1.75 cent per-ounce sweetened beverage tax last summer, which became effective on Jan. 1. This tax encompasses anything from sodas to sports drinks. According to The Seattle Times, tax advocates — no doubt in addition to yearning for more city revenue — reasoned that stretching wallets thin by utilizing the now-fashionable health-by-legislation model would prompt massive consumer turnoff. As Mosqueda went on to say, her team aspired to “impact norms and behaviors for folks in term of choice and consumption.” There were certainly impacts — and they were directed against the “leadership” of city council members.
          Just days into the new tax, Twitter users began venting their frustration. One picture, taken at a local Costco, revealed a staggering price of $17.55 for a case of three dozen 12 oz. Dr. Pepper cans. Costco took the liberty of revealing both its price ($9.99) and the cutely named “City of Seattle Sweetened Beverage Recovery Fee” ($7.56). You read that right — the tax was nearly aligned with the retail price. Gatorade wasn’t any better — for a person buying 35 of the 16.9 oz. variety pack, the retail price ($15.99) and the “recovery fee” ($10.34) added up to $26.33. But Costco, in text conveniently located alongside the price description, rose from masterful trolling to superior outwitting. The store pointed out to customers that a short drive to the suburbs could save them big bucks.
          Of course, such backlash was hiding in plain site. For example, in Philadelphia, where a similar scheme was enacted, research by the marketing firm Catalina discovered a 55% sales decline on soft drinks within the city limits, whereas sales climbed 38% in the outskirts. Catalina tellingly noted, “Many shoppers are now traveling outside the city to buy their sweetened beverages.” Seattle is going to experience the exact same aftermath. And its suburbs will gladly take the financial boon.
          Seattle has quickly become one of the nation’s premier examples of socialist incompetence. In 2016, the city concealed its “gun tax” debacle after it ran into similar misfortune and firearms dealers packed up to set sail for more business-friendly surroundings. In 2017, the city’s attempt to foster a “livable” minimum wage had unsurprisingly inverse results. In essence, the poor become poorer. And in November, a superior court judge ruled against an income tax on wealthy residents. Now city residents are faced with an absurd, autocratic and Orwellian ordinance that demands they get healthy. Which is ironic coming from Democrat leaders who continuously preach, “My body, my choice.” No wonder residents are resorting to revoltish tactics.  ~The Patriot Pos
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About Democrats' 'Certain Victory' in 2018
by Brian Mark Weber
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Monday Top Headlines
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How tax reform will put more money in your wallet this year (The Daily Signal)
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Trump has kept many promises during his first year in office (Associated Press)
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Trump: “I’m the least racist person you will ever interview” (The Hill)
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Trump administration resumes accepting DACA renewals after court ruling (The Wall Street Journal)
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American Psychiatric Association tells shrinks to stop armchair analyzing Trump (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Trump administration keeps Iran nuclear deal alive for now, but issues new sanctions unrelated to the agreement (The Washington Post)
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False Hawaii missile-alert feeds doubts about a real emergency (Associated Press)
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Illinois, New Jersey and New York are top states for outbound moves in 2017 (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Humor: Merciful Mark Zuckerberg allows three whole people to see conservative post (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: The importance Martin Luther King Jr. placed on moderation (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: “Yes” to the FCC’s proposed Office of Economics (National Review)  ~The Patriot Post
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Racists Lewis and mad-Waters Boycotting 
State Of Union Because Trump Is A White Boy
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{rickwells.us} ~ The air will be much fresher at the upcoming State of the Union Address as perpetually pissed off black bigots... Rep John Lewis (D-GA) and mad-Maxine Waters (D-CA), have decided they will not be in attendance. They have announced they’ll be joining the bicycle boy from Oregon, Earl “Blooming Idiot” Blumenauer, in protesting against President Trump by not showing up. Of course, all three also skipped the President’s inauguration, so it was to be expected and predicted. Odds are a few more anti-American Democrats will likewise choose to lay down on the floor and kick their feet, unable thus far to drive President Trump from office. The names Al Green, Barbara Lee and Sheila Jackson Lee come to mind. President Trump’s “crimes” of trying to protect America from the foreign invasion and his policy of enforcing our immigration laws, written in part by the same lying hypocrites who are now grandstanding, are just too much for them to accept...They are hypocrites because they are racists themselves.  https://rickwells.us/lewis-waters-trump-white-boy/
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God Forbid the 
Further NOprah-rizing of America
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ The American Left’s NOprah-mania about her running for president in 2020 is truly absurd... What on earth qualifies NOprah to run our country? I do not consider myself White House material. But if NOprah qualifies, I am a far superior candidate. Years ago when NOprah became a national phenomenon, I coined the phrase, the NOprah-lizaton of America. It seemed like NOprah seduced many Americans into placing feelings above facts and logic. Fake news media and most politicians have become NOprah-rized, behaving as though feelings trump everything. For example. Rather than honestly dealing with the negative consequences of illegals invading our country, Leftists and politicians are most concerned with the emotional side of the issue. God forbid we hurt the feelings or harm the self-esteem of illegals who do not give a rat’s derriere about our country or assimilating... http://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/01/god-forbid-the-further-oprah-rizing-of-america/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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Former Uranium Transportation Company President
Indicted on 11 Counts Related to Foreign
Bribery, Fraud and Money Laundering 
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ U.S. authorities believe from at least 2009 to October 2014 Mark Lambert and other company executives... including Daren Condrey, conspired to bribe Vadim Mikerin, an official at the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation subsidiary (TENEX), in order to secure contracts for transporting nuclear fuel. According to the indictment, beginning at least as early as 2009 and continuing until October 2014, Lambert conspired with others at “Transportation Corporation A” to make corrupt and fraudulent bribery and kickback payments to offshore bank accounts associated with shell companies, at the direction of, and for the benefit of, a Russian official, Vadim Mikerin, in order to secure improper business advantages and obtain and retain business with TENEX. In order to effectuate and conceal the corrupt and fraudulent bribe payments, Lambert and others allegedly caused fake invoices to be prepared, purportedly from TENEX to Transportation Corporation A, that described services that were never provided, and then Lambert and others caused Transportation Corporation A to wire the corrupt payments for those purported services to shell companies in Latvia, Cyprus and Switzerland...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/12/former-uranium-transportation-company-president-indicted-on-11-counts-related-to-foreign-bribery-fraud-and-money-laundering-scheme/
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Tom Fitton – liar-Clintons Draw Attention To Their
Pillaging, Reason Haiti Is Still A “Sh**hole” Today
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{rickwells.us} ~ The liar-Clintons seem to get some kind of a sick charge out of drawing attention... to their crimes and then beating back the public and law enforcement via their corruption network as things heat up. Perhaps it’s just uncontrolled arrogance accompanied by recklessness, even stupidity, that led to two tweets from the liar-Clinton crime family yesterday. First there was Chelsea liar-Clinton, who made a completely irrelevant statement that some people from the “sh*thole” countries might have been employed in Trump construction projects. They left the “sh*tholes” for that very reason, the reality of what they are and likely agree with the President’s assessment of their condition. A second tweet by the royal criminal queen, liar-Hillary Clinton, went on to draw attention to their own pillaging of Haiti, which was and remains in appalling condition despite millions in liar-Clinton Foundation” and US aid dollars... https://rickwells.us/fitton-clinton-corruption-haiti/
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Find the Handcuffs: Trump’s DOJ
Issues First Indictment of Uranium One Scandal
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ On Friday, the Justice Department filed an 11-count indictment against a Maryland businessman who bribed Russian officials... in order to secure business contracts to transport uranium to the United States from a Russian entity linked to former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton. The businessman, Mark Lambert, previously served as the “co-president of a Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad,” according to a DOJ news brief. The charges against Lambert involve an alleged plot by him and other company executives to bribe Vadim Mikerin, a top official at JSC Techsnabexport, or TENEX, “a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide.”...  https://conservativetribune.com/first-indictment-of-uranium-one/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=conservative-tribune
VIDEO at the site.
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About Democrats' 'Certain Victory' in 2018
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At least that’s what the mainstream media want you to believe. Then again, haven’t they been saying that during the entire first year of Donald Trump’s presidency? Heck, weren’t they predicting the same gloom and doom for Republicans in 2016? Nonetheless, Democrats are feeling good right now and boasting of their prospects in the next two elections.
          True, Democrats aren’t all talk. Billionaire Leftist Tom Steyer is putting his money where his mouth is. As Ben Kamisar writes in The Hill, “Steyer plans to channel the money in the House effort, which he said would total at least $30 million, toward his advocacy group, NextGen America. Steyer, who has also funded a multi-million dollar ad campaign calling for President Trump’s impeachment, wants to use the $30 million to boost turnout among millennial voters across 10 states.”
          Notably, however, Steyer has reduced his Demo graft — having dumped $74 million into the 2014 midterm when voters gave Republicans control of the Senate and their largest House majority since 1928. He then spent $91 million for Democrats in the 2016 election, when Republicans held their majorities and elected Donald Trump. And his $20 million on a campaign to impeach Trump resulted in only 58 of 435 House members voting to impeach — that’s $344,827.59 per vote.
          Clearly, leftist billionaire bucks alone aren’t enough to win elections. If it were, The Pantsuit would be president. What message are the Democrats going to run on? Taking back your tax cuts? Taking away your doctor? Sending companies back overseas? Dialing the Dow back to 17,000? Pushing for peace with the Islamic State? Let’s face it: Their platform is higher taxes, bigger government and more illegal immigration. And loathing Donald Trump.
          Indeed, Nancy Pulosi scoffed, “In terms of the bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they are giving workers to kind of put the schmooze on is so pathetic. It’s so pathetic.”
          Other issues Democrats face include betting on history (the minority party usually picks up seats in mid-term elections), hoping that Americans will see the election as a referendum on the Trump presidency, and counting on favorable polls. But it’s what Democrats aren’t looking at that could upend their hopes of taking back the Congress.
          As it stands, Democrats lack a compelling message for fixing any major problem facing the country. The utter dearth of any agenda is astounding.
          Yes, they’ve embraced a cynical and convenient crusade against sexual harassment, but they’re otherwise a rudderless opposition party. In the end, Dan Balz of The Washington Post asks a critical question: “As they begin what amounts to a three-year campaign cycle of midterm elections followed by a critically important 2020 presidential race, will Democrats be forthright in assessing and dealing with their own vulnerabilities?” Democrats are still a party in denial.
          They don’t get Trump, they don’t get why he beat liar-Hillary Clinton, and they don’t get the Republican Party. Former Democrat aide Brent Budowsky suggests, “On fundamental issues that motivate voters, the Trump Republicans include the entire upper strata of Republican leadership in the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. There is barely a dime’s worth of difference between the policies of President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Roy Moore of Alabama, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)
          Not a dime’s worth of difference? This is why Democrats lose elections. They make assumptions about what Republicans and their voters think, they tell pollsters about their assumptions, and then they come up with every conspiracy theory they can think of to explain their losses. There’s a world of difference between Trump and Ryan and McConnell (and 250 other Republicans). That’s why it took nearly a year for the Republicans in Congress to send a major piece of legislation to the president’s desk. They couldn’t agree on anything.
          Peter Hanby raises some additional concerns for Democrats in stating that “partisan gerrymandering has lowered the number of competitive House seats, that most of the competitive Senate races are taking place in red states where Trump is more popular than the national average, that the economy is actually doing pretty well. All of them are true. The Senate map is particularly difficult terrain for Democrats, who would have to win in places like Arizona, North Dakota, Missouri, and Tennessee to take back the upper chamber.”
          Reading headlines from leftist websites and newspapers is enough to dampen the spirits of any conservative these days, but reading beyond the headlines shows that there’s a lot of wishful thinking going on in Democrat think-tanks and media outlets. Still, Democrats really like their chances in the 2018 midterms.
          Political science professor Eric Smith has projected a Democrat takeover of the House, and possibly the Senate, based on a model he “drew on a forecasting model originally developed by political scientists Michael Lewis-Beck and Tom Rice.” Smith writes, “The model predicts that the Republicans will lose 38 seats in the House, a number that would give the Democrats a majority in the next Congress. But it’s important to note that simple models such as this one produce forecasts with real uncertainty. In this case, you can think of the forecast as having a ‘margin of error’ of 38 seats. Thus, a Democratic gain is likely, but the size of that gain is difficult to predict with confidence. Still, a House majority is very much within the Democrats’ reach.”
          Is that all they can come up with? As for the GOP, the key will be whether they can keep their act together as they did on tax cuts.      
          Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, gives credence to this notion, opining, “Trump has addressed this problem more directly than anyone since Ronald Reagan — in some ways, more than anyone including Reagan. He would drain the swamp. He would abolish the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Education. He has rallied the people in direct opposition to their governing elite. He has appealed to the people directly in opposition to their government.”
          But what about the Trump administration’s significant and numerous accomplishments, as outlined by Mark Alexander in “The Trump Effect”? Arnn notes that we now have “a constitutional majority that controls all the popular branches at the federal level, soon to have a profound effect on the judiciary. In addition, his party advanced from a strong position in state legislatures and governorships. The party of Trump, if the Republican Party is that party, is in a position to make changes, as good or better a position as it has enjoyed since the Great Society.”
          Between now and November, the degree to which President Trump is able to realize his bold vision for the country will have a significant impact on the election. That’s why speculation at this point should be taken with a grain of salt.  ~The Patriot Pos
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