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What kind of POS brags about committing voter fraud in Alabama and shares it on the internet? It seems lying and cheating is the two plays Democrats have left in their playbook...very sad time in our country that this happens, let alone Democrats being proud of it!

"THIS IS A REAL POS DEMORAT"!

( When things reach this point were the elite  are above the LAW and you can no longer have a honest election    it is TIME FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO REBEL AND RESTORE THE RULE OF LAW!

LET US START NOW ALSO REMEMBER NOV. 8TH 2018 IS OUR NEXT ELECTIONS LET US USE THE POWER OF THE VOTE TO TAKE THEM DOWN! )

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What kind of POS brags about committing voter fraud in Alabama and shares it on the internet? It seems lying and cheating is the two plays Democrats have left in their playbook...very sad time in our country that this happens, let alone Democrats being proud of it!

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How Kaspersky’s Software Fell Under Suspicion of Spying on America

Officials lack conclusive evidence, but incidents involving the firm’s antivirus products raised alarms

Eugene Kaspersky at his company’s Moscow headquarters in 2017. Pavel Golovkin/Associated Press

Eugene Kaspersky was late for his own dinner party.

At his invitation, guests from the Washington cybersecurity community waited one evening in 2012. Seated at the National Press Club were officials from the White House, State Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies, said people who were there. Guests had started their first course when Mr. Kaspersky arrived, wearing a tuxedo with a drink in hand.

Mr. Kaspersky, chief executive of Russian security-software vendor Kaspersky Lab, proposed a toast to the ranking guest, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, whose country had suffered a cyberattack five years earlier. The assault followed Estonia’s decision to remove a Soviet-era monument from its capital, and U.S. officials suspected Russia was behind it.

“Toomas,” Mr. Kaspersky said. “I am so sorry that we attacked you.”

The comment stopped all conversation until Mr. Ilves broke the silence. “Thank you,” he said, raising his glass. “This is the first time anyone from Russia has ever admitted attacking my country.”

​No one suggested Kaspersky was involved in the Estonian hack, but Mr. Kaspersky’s toast played into a suspicion held by many in the U.S. intelligence community that his company might be wittingly or unwittingly in league with the Russian government—a suspicion that has only intensified since.

The process of evaluating Kaspersky’s role, and taking action against the company, is complicated by the realities of global commerce and the nature of how modern online software works. A top Department of Homeland Security official said in November congressional testimony the U.S. lacks “conclusive evidence” Kaspersky facilitated national-security breaches.

Employees at Kaspersky Lab in Moscow, October 2017.
Employees at Kaspersky Lab in Moscow, October 2017. Photo: Kirill Kallinikov/Sputnik/Associated Press

While the U.S. government hasn’t offered conclusive evidence, Wall Street Journal interviews with current and former U.S. government officials reveal what is driving their suspicions.

Some of these officials said they suspect Kaspersky’s antivirus software—the company says it is installed on 400 million computers world-wide—has been used to spy on the U.S. and blunt American espionage. Kaspersky’s suspected involvement in U.S. security breaches raises concerns about the relationship between the company and Russian intelligence, these officials said.

DHS, convinced Kaspersky is a threat, has banned its software from government computers. The company sued the U.S. government on Dec. 18 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., saying the ban was arbitrary and capricious, and demanding the prohibition be overturned. DHS referred inquiries to the Justice Department, which declined to comment.

Kaspersky, in a statement, said: “Unverified opinions of anonymous officials about Kaspersky Lab continue to be shared, and should be taken as nothing more than unsubstantiated allegations against a company whose mission has always been to protect against malware regardless of its source, and which has repeatedly extended an offering to the U.S. government to help alleviate any substantiated concerns. We have never helped and will never help any government with its cyberespionage efforts.”

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
More Evidence the FBI Fixated 
on Trump, Fixed for liar-Clinton
by Nate Jackson
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Sarah Sanders Defends Trump From 
WH Sharks Feeding On Fictional “DOSSIER II”
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{rickwells.us} ~ The Democrats’ fabricated dossier is now being exposed for the garbage that it is... so it’s time for them to roll out their next green plastic container, another trashy tabloid work of fiction, the Michael Wolff book, already being discredited before it’s even been released. It doesn’t need to be true, the “journalists” in the Washington Press Corps will treat it as fact,  so long as it’s anti-Trump and they can twist the claims into attacks against our President. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders responds to a stupid question asked by one of the gotcha propagandists masquerading as a journalist in the White House press corps, stating that President Trump “absolutely believes in the First Amendment.”...  https://rickwells.us/sanders-defends-trump-dossier-ii/
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Israel Uncovers Iran-Backed Terror Cell
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by Vijeta Uniyal
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Israeli security forces have busted an Iranian-backed terror cell... Israel’s domestic Shin Bet security service uncovered a Palestinian terrorist operation directed by Iranian handlers to carry out suicide bombings and shooting attacks against Israel. Three Palestinians have admitted volunteering for suicide missions aimed at Israeli targets, media reports suggest. Since the early 1980s, the Islamic regime of Iran has been waging a terror campaign against Israel. Tehran-sponsored  Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups have been carrying out terrorist operations targeting Israeli citizens for decades now. Iran’s theocratic and military leadership pursuing an aggressive nuclear and missile program have repeatedly threatened to wipe the Jewish State of the map. Jerusalem-based newspaper Times of Israel revealed the details of the Israeli investigation...  https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/israel-uncovers-iran-backed-terror-cell
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ISIS Trolls NYC Again with Selfie Taunt: 
‘We Are in Your Home’
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by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ New York City was taunted by ISIS propaganda online with a selfie of a man covering his face with an ISIS flag scarf... posing in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The caption read: “We are in your home.” This is at least the second time NYC was trolled by pro-ISIS propaganda in a matter of months. TruthRevolt reported in November that a photo of an ISIS flag with One World Trade Center in the background circulated on message boards. The picture was also taken at the exact spot a jihadist carried out van attack on Halloween two months later. The NYPD is currently searching for the unidentified man in the new photograph. ISIS is calling for new lone wolf attacks, releasing a propaganda poster of a knife-wielding mujahideen in a Christian church. The caption states: “It’s cheaper than a chainsaw!”...  https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/isis-trolls-nyc-again-selfie-taunt-we-are-your-home
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U.S. Muslim Population Expanding Rapidly
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by LEO HOHMANN
{wnd.com} ~ Pew Research Center came out this week with an updated estimate of the American Muslim population... which is sure to cause a stir on all sides of the issue. The new numbers come in at 3.45 million Muslims living legally in the U.S. in 2017. That represents only 1.1 percent of the U.S. population but it’s up, by Pew’s estimates, from 3.31 million in 2016. The U.S. Muslim population grows by about 100,000 every year, according to the Pew study. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, says Pew’s estimates are way off, and that the true number is roughly double, in the 6 to 8 million range – and that was more than two years ago...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/u-s-muslim-population-expanding-rapidly/
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Judge Rules Fusion GPS Can’t Hide Their 
Dirty Money Trail From Intel Committee
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{rickwells.us} ~ Fusion GPS will not be able to hide their bank records from the House Intelligence Committee... in the furtherance of their cover up, in conjunction with the DOJ and FBI, of apparent criminal wrongdoing in their production and dissemination of the fictitious Steele dossier.  U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled on Thursday that the company contracted by the liar-Clinton campaign in conjunction with the liar-nObama administration and the corrupt leadership of the FBI and DOJ, cannot prevent the House Intelligence Committee from gaining access to their financial records through subpoena. The House Intelligence Committee is attempting to follow the money trail as part of their investigation into DOJ and FBI corruption as well as the source and motivation behind the creation of the anti-Trump hit piece. Buzzfeed News obtained court records that indicate the request by Fusion GPS for an injunction has been denied...  https://rickwells.us/judge-fusion-gps-money-intel/
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More Evidence the FBI Fixated on Trump, Fixed for
liar-Clinton
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           On Aug. 24, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray received subpoenas from the House Intelligence Committee to turn over any documents related to the phony anti-Donald Trump dossier produced by British spook Christopher Steele for Fusion GPS. The same dossier that was funded by liar-Hillary Clinton and the DNC. The exceedingly generous deadline for subpoena compliance was yesterday, so, naturally, these officials filled the interim with delays and excuses, waiting until Wednesday evening to agree to a deal with Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to provide the requested information. Nunes last week threatened the pair with contempt charges if they failed to do so. We’ll see what revelations we learn.
          Speaking of Fusion GPS, its founders, former Wall Street Journal reporters Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, penned a New York Times op-ed claiming victim status in Republicans’ “fake investigations.” The pair seek to rebut the charge at the center of it all — that the dossier prompted the FBI’s investigation into Trump/Russian “collusion” in the first place: “We don’t believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the F.B.I.‘s investigation into Russian meddling.”
          However, as former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy outlines in what we consider an indispensable timeline of the dossier and the FBI, their claim is less than believable. While the FBI and Justice Department continue to stonewall on their use of the dossier, McCarthy asserts, “Contrary to what I hoped would be the case, I’ve come to believe Steele’s claims were used to obtain FISA surveillance authority for an investigation of Trump.”
          The Wall Street Journal responded to the Fusion GPS op-ed in an editorial thoroughly debunking its claims: “Let’s see. The liar-Clinton campaign hires Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, to investigate the Trump campaign. Fusion hires a former British spy, Christopher Steele, who produces a dossier based on Russian sources full of rumor, hearsay and an occasional fact to allege collusion between the Kremlin and Trump campaign. The dossier gets to the FBI, which uses it to justify opening a counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign, perhaps including a judicial warrant to spy on Trump officials. Then Fusion has Mr. Steele privately brief select media reporters, ensuring that the dossier’s contents become public before the election. And now Fusion GPS complains about being a victim? Only in Washington, folks.”
          Meanwhile, there’s the investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton’s illegal activities with her private email server. Republican investigators say they’ve uncovered hard evidence that the FBI knew liar-Clinton broke the law and that at least one witness lied to the FBI — in this case the technical expert who worked for Bleach Bit and wiped liar-Clinton’s server (“like with a cloth or something”) after a congressional subpoena. His admission of lying came one day after James Comey began drafting his statement exonerating liar-Clinton. That and other outstanding FBI evidence gathering, plus interviews with 17 witnesses including liar-Clinton herself, meant that damning information was still coming to light even as Comey was letting liar-Clinton off the hook. The lying witness wasn’t prosecuted; he was given an immunity deal.
          All of the above is how banana republics operate, not republics defined by constitutional Rule of Law. And yet somehow, nothing is surprising any longer.  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53240

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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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N.Y. Times Rides to Mueller's Rescue
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
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Lawless Dems Only Shot At DACA Amnesty –
Give Trump Border Wall Funding
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{rickwells.us} ~ Kansas Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach joined Neil Cavuto for a discussion of two important issues... the wrangling between parties over border security and amnesty for illegals and fraudulent voting in the United States. Cavuto asks if Democrats will concede on the border wall in exchange for the DACA amnesty. Kobach replies, “I think they have to if they want to get anything on DACA, an amnesty for those 800,000 individuals.” He points out, “DACA is bad policy. You’re legalizing 800,000 illegal aliens to compete against Americans in their 20s and 30s who have a 9% unemployment rate, 19% underemployment.” “So this is something there’s got to be a lot in return for,” says Kobach. “Not just the wall but also the RAISE Act to stop chain migration and mandatory E-verify to stop the surge of new illegals who will come in from getting jobs. So I think the parties are at opposite ends of the spectrum right now and unless Democrats move I don’t think anything is going to happen.”...  https://rickwells.us/dems-daca-trump-wall/
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Justice Department to give 
House investigators 'dossier' evidence
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by ALICIA POWE
{wnd.com} ~ The Justice Department finally has decided to cooperate with the House Intelligence Committee... agreeing to provide records that could reveal whether the salacious Trump-Russia “dossier” was used to justify FBI surveillance of Trump campaign officials. The chairman of the committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., says he has spoken with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and a deal had been reached with Justice to provide witnesses and documents about the probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.  Included in the deal is evidence about the dossier, funded by Democratic operatives and containing unsubstantiated allegations of Trump collusion with Russia...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/justice-department-to-give-house-investigators-dossier-evidence/
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Trump and Bannon Bury the Hatchet?
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by Mateus Kadesh
{ipatriot.com} ~ After several days of ugly quotes about the Trump administration... Steve Bannon has finally woken up and is now begging for forgiveness. His most recent comments make him seem quite apologetic. Here’s what he said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight: The President of the United States is a great man. You know I support him day in and day out, whether going through the country giving the Trump Miracle speech or on the show or on the website, so I don’t you have to worry about that. But I appreciate the kind words. The President caught wind of Bannon’s comments and decided to forgive his former employee...  https://ipatriot.com/trump-bannon-bury-hatchet/
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scum-Keith Ellison Donor: ‘Israelis Have to be
Bombed,’ Only Understand ‘Resistance’
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by Brent Scher
{freebeacon.com} ~ An official at the anti-Israel American Muslims for Palestine group who openly advocates for violence against the Jewish state... contributed $2,500 to Democratic Party leader Rep. scum-Keith Ellison (Minn.) last year, according to campaign disclosure documents. The contribution from Taher Herzallah, AMP's associate director of outreach and grassroots organizing, came in March 2017 shortly after Ellison was named the Democratic National Committee's deputy chairman. Herzallah is best known as one of the "Irvine 11," a group of students who were sentenced to three years probation for actions taken to disrupt a 2010 speech by then-Israeli ambassador Michael Oren. He more recently—just a few weeks before his contribution to Ellison—was arrested for disrupting confirmation hearings for U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman...Rep. scum-Keith Ellison should be kicked out of congress and deported. He is a Muslim.  http://freebeacon.com/politics/keith-ellison-donor-israelis-bombed-understand-resistance/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=eb12362df9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-eb12362df9-45611665
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Drawing Decides Seat In Va. Legislature
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ISIS Supporters Post Selfies Around NYC Warning of Possible Terror Attacks
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Steve Scalise: Credibility Of Mueller Investigation Is Very Much In Question
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Democrats Won’t Compromise On Border Wall, But Want DACA Deal
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Motel 6 Sued For Sharing Info With ICE
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Official Defends Trump Voter Fraud Probe Which Was Killed By Democratic Resistance
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N.Y. Times Rides to Mueller's Rescue
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by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
{wnd.com} ~ What caused the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016, which evolved into the criminal investigation that is said today to imperil the Trump presidency?

As James Comey’s FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller have, for 18 months, failed to prove Donald Trump’s “collusion” with the Kremlin, what was it, in mid-2016, that justified starting this investigation?

What was the basis for the belief Trump was colluding, that he was the Manchurian candidate of Vladimir Putin? What evidence did the FBI cite to get FISA court warrants to surveil and wiretap Trump’s team?

Republican congressmen have for months been demanding answers to these questions. And, as Mueller’s men have stonewalled, suspicions have arisen that this investigation was, from the outset, a politicized operation to take down Trump.

Feeding those suspicions has been the proven anti-Trump bias of investigators. Also, wiretap warrants of Trump’s team are said to have been issued on the basis of a “dirty dossier” that was floating around town in 2016 – but which mainstream media refused to publish as they could not validate its lurid allegations.

Who produced the dossier?

Ex-British spy Christopher Steele, whose dirt was delivered by ex-Kremlin agents. And Steele was himself a hireling of Fusion GPS, the oppo research outfit enlisted and paid by the liar-Clinton campaign and DNC.

Writes the Washington Times, Steele “paid Kremlin sources with Democratic cash.”

Yet, if Steele’s dossier is a farrago of falsehoods and fake news, and the dossier’s contents were used to justify warrants for wiretaps on Trump associates, Mueller has a problem.

Prosecutions his team brings could be contaminated by what the FBI did, leaving his investigation discredited.

Fortunately, all this was cleared up for us New Year’s Eve by a major revelation in the New York Times. Top headline on Page 1:

“Unlikely Source Propelled Russia Meddling Inquiry”

The story that followed correctly framed the crucial question:

“What so alarmed American officials to provoke the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign months before the presidential election?”

The Times then gave us the answer we have been looking for:

“It was not, as Trump and other politicians have alleged, a dossier compiled by a former British spy hired by a rival campaign. Instead it was firsthand information from one of America’s closest intelligence allies.”

The ally: Australia, whose ambassador to Britain was in an “upscale London Bar” in the West End in May 2016, drinking with a sloshed George Papadopoulos, who had ties to the Trump campaign and who informed the diplomat that Russia had dirt on liar-Hillary Clinton.

Papadopoulos had reportedly been told in April that Russia had access to liar-Clinton’s emails.

Thus, when the DNC and John Podesta emails were splashed all over the U.S. press in June, Ambassador Alexander Downer, recalling his conversation with Papadopoulos, informed his government, which has excellent ties to U.S. intelligence, and the FBI took it from there.

The Times’ story pounds home this version of events:

“The hacking and the revelation that a member of the Trump campaign may have had inside information about it were driving factors that led the FBI to open an investigation in July 2016 into Russian attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of Trump’s associates conspired.”

This, the Times assures us, “answers one of the lingering mysteries of the past year.”

Well, perhaps.

But if Papadopoulos’ drunken babbling to the Aussie ambassador triggered the investigation in July 2016, why was George not interviewed by the FBI until January 2017?

According to the Times, an FBI agent in Rome had been told by Steele in June 2016 what he had learned from the Russians.

And Steele was interviewed by the FBI in October 2016.

If Papadopoulos triggered the investigation, why the seeming FBI disinterest in him – as compared to Steele?

Yet another major question remains unanswered.

If, as the Times writes, the FBI was looking “into Russian attempts to disrupt the elections,” why did the FBI not open an investigation into the KGB roots of the Steele dossier that was written to destroy the Republican candidate, Donald Trump?

If Trump’s alleged “collusion” with Putin to damage liar-Clinton was worthy of an all-out FBI investigation, why did the liar-Clinton-DNC scheme to tie Trump to Russian prostitutes, using British spies and former KGB agents, not merit an FBI investigation?

Why was there less concern about the liar-Clinton campaign’s ties to Russian agents, than to Trumpian “collusion” that is yet unproven?

Consider what the British spy Steele and his former KGB/FSB comrades accomplished:

They have kept alive a special counsel’s investigation that has divided our country, imperiled the FBI’s reputation, preoccupied and damaged a president and partially paralyzed the U.S. government.

Putin must be marveling at the astonishing success of his old comrades from KGB days, who could pull off an intelligence coup like this and so cripple the superpower that won the Cold War.
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Fri/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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An unfond farewell to un-statesman Orrin Hatch
by MICHELLE MALKIN
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Trump plan would allow drilling 
in almost all U.S. waters
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by Josh Siegel
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Trump administration proposed Thursday opening up almost all U.S. federal waters for oil and natural gas drilling... offering a record number of offshore lease sales. The draft proposal would allow offshore drilling for crude oil and natural gas on the Atlantic Coast and in the Arctic, reversing the liar-nObama’s administration’s block in those areas. It also permits drilling along the Pacific Coast as well as more possibilities in the Gulf of Mexico. “We are embarking on a new path committed to energy dominance in America,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told reporters Thursday. “This is a clear difference between energy weakness and energy dominance. We are going to become the strongest energy superpower.”...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-plan-would-allow-drilling-in-almost-all-us-waters/article/2644975?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/04/18&utm_medium=email
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Iran is propping up Hamas’ terror 
capabilities – they must be stopped
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by Kanisorn Pringthongfoo
{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ A top Israeli official warned on Monday that Iran is boosting Hamas’s terror campaign in the Gaza Strip... Intelligence Minister Israel Katz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the rogue regime, which is facing its biggest challenge from protesters since 2009, is directly involved in supporting terror threats from Hamas. Hezbollah, which is also backed by Iran, poses a further threat. Israel must consider the threats and work to “change the situation,” with cooperation from the U.S, Saudi Arabia, and other Sunni states if possible, he said. “In recent days, while we face the known threat from Gaza, there is a direct Iranian intervention. Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas are involved in operative preparations to upgrade the threat to Israel from the direction of Gaza,” Katz stated...   https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/foreign-policy/iran/iran-propping-up-hamas.htm?bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiYzM2M2U0NGMtNjcxZS00YzJlLWJkYjktYzRiZjI3OGZmOGFkIn0%3D&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=dynamic_campaign
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Reps. Meadows, Jordan: It's 
Time for a New Attorney General
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by Susan Jone
{cnsnews.com} ~ Two members of the House Freedom Caucus say it's time for Jeff Sessions to leave his job as attorney general... In an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner on Thursday, Reps. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) noted that the "manufactured hysteria" over Russian collusion has "masked the substantial accomplishments of President Trump's administration."  Among other things, they complain about the FBI refusing to answer critical questions that Congress repeatedly has asked regarding the Trump-Russia investigation; and they also condemn the many apparent FBI leaks to reporters, most recently the New York Times...  https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/reps-meadows-jordan-its-time-new-attorney-general?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1dOaVltTTVaRFUxT1RjNSIsInQiOiJzdzkzYWowcWxhVExYQTRuRTVsMzVFNzN6cXNMSjRJMGNMUEtjNm5EbURIZGh0bHB4ZzloVFd3V0JcL29DQ1JTUUplbmJDUTNcL0xiNmdGcTFYWWNGRlwvNkVndUFHcVl4Y1luSllBbHFIWmpcL2g4OTFNbmhXZWdGdDF2NUVyT0ptWjcifQ%3D%3D
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Cory Gardner vows to hold Trump's judicial
nominees until marijuana decision is reversed
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by Pete Kasperowicz
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado said Thursday he would block all of President Trump's judicial nominees... until the administration reverses its decision to rescind a policy that de-prioritized the enforcement of federal marijuana laws. Gardner, whose home state legalized the use and possession of marijuana in the wake of that federal policy, said on the Senate floor he was not happy with the surprise decision, especially after both Attorney General Jeff Sessions and candidate Donald Trump said they would not interfere with states on this issue. "And that's why I will be putting today a hold on every single nomination from the Department of Justice until Attorney General Jeff Sessions lives up to the commitment that he made to me in my pre-confirmation meeting with him," Gardner said...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cory-gardner-vows-to-hold-trumps-judicial-nominees-until-marijuana-decision-is-reversed/article/2644989?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/04/18&utm_medium=email
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Trump Cuts Refugee Resettlement by 70%

{totalconservative.com} ~ According to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies, President Trump’s administration has put a significant crater in the number of refugees allowed into the United States... 
Taking over for President liar-nObama, whose refugee policy could best be described as “the more, the merrier,” Trump managed to slice our admissions by nearly 70% in his first year in the White House. Researcher Nayla Rush of CIS released the study, which compares refugee admissions from January to December 2017 with the same period of time in 2016, when liar-nObama was calling the shots. The difference is like night and day. Rush found that Trump admitted only 28.875 refugees into the country during the first eleven months of his presidency, quite the downturn compared to the 93,668 that came into the country under liar-nObama’s watch the year before. Furthermore, Trump has placed a refugee cap of 45,000 for the 2018 fiscal year, which brings it to its lowest point in nearly 40 years. Of course, if the administration continues to exercise the kind of restraint we’ve seen thus far, that cap will remain entirely theoretical. And when you look at what refugees have done to the state of affairs in Europe, it’s hard to see that as anything but excellent news for the U.S...  http://totalconservative.com/slashed-trump-cuts-refugee-resettlement-70/
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An unfond farewell to un-statesman Orrin Hatch
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by MICHELLE MALKIN
{wnd.com} ~ The longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history announced this week that he will finally, finally, finally, finally, finally, finally, finally retire.

That’s seven “finallys” – one for each of the consecutive six-year terms Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, served. He begin his occupancy in 1976, when all phones were dumb, the 5.25-inch floppy disk was cutting-edge, the very first Apple computer went on sale for $666.66, the Concorde was flying high, O.J. Simpson was a hero, Blake Shelton was a newborn, the first MRI was still a blueprint, and I was a gap-toothed first-grader wearing corduroy bell-bottoms and crushing on Davy Jones.

This encrusted longevity will be marketed by Hatch, 83, and his supporters as proof of his “statesmanship.” Indeed, The Atlantic magazine described him this week as “an elder-statesman figure in the GOP.” Newsweek likewise reported on the farewell announcement of the “elder statesman.” And Hatch’s own press minions have disseminated press releases quoting other entrenched politicians such as Sen. Chuck clown-Schumer, D-N.Y., hailing their boss’s “reputation as a statesman.”

But that word doesn’t mean what Beltway barnacles think it means.

Merriam-Webster defines a “statesman” as a “wise, skillful, and respected political leader.” Earning the approbation of other office-clinging politicians doesn’t make you a “respected political leader.” It makes you an echo-chamber chump.

Wise? Skillful? Hatch was a Big Government business-as-usual dealmaker. His wisdom was of the wet-finger-in-the-wind variety, claiming a Reagan conservative mantle during election cycles and then throwing constitutional conservatives under the bus once comfortably back in his well-worn Senate committee seats.

Hatch joined with his old pal Teddy Kennedy to create the $6 billion national service boondoggle and the $8 billion-a-year CHIP health insurance entitlement.

He preached about the “rule of law,” but was an original sponsor of the open-borders DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout, and, despite claiming to oppose it, he voted to fully fund the unconstitutional liar-nObama amnesty during the lame-duck session.

He crusaded for “fiscal conservatism,” yet voted for massive Wall Street bailouts, 16 debt ceiling increases totaling $7.5 trillion, and scores of earmarks totaling hundreds of millions of dollars for porky projects. He ends his four-decade reign as the Senate’s top recipient of lobbyist cash.

And for the past two years, Team Hatch allies have spearheaded a multimillion-dollar fundraising campaign, squeezing donations from corporate donors and pharma and tech lobbyists to subsidize a “Hatch Foundation” and “Hatch Center” to commemorate the Hatch legacy.

“Statesman” isn’t a titled earned by mere length of service. It’s not a cheap status conferred like an AARP card or IHOP senior discount. A politician who notches decades of frequent flyer miles back and forth between Washington and his “home” state, enjoying the endless perks of incumbency, does not acquire statesmanship by perpetual re-election and political self-aggrandizement.

The idea of amassing $4 million to $6 million campaign war chests, as Hatch did the past two election cycles, is antithetical to the ideal of statesmanship. In the days of Cincinnatus and George Washington, self-sacrifice and civic virtue marked true statesmen. Affability, which Hatch is credited with possessing by his backroom Democratic chums, was no substitute for the humility exhibited by statesmen who volunteered to relinquish power at the very height of it – not in its waning twilight.

So: Call Hatch a clock-puncher. Time-bider. Log-roller. Deal-cutter. Back-slapper. Call him most anything else now that he’s finally, finally, finally, finally, finally, finally, finally called it a day.

Just please don’t call him “statesman.”
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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Leftists Beclown Themselves on Iran
by Nate Jackson
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Gingrich Advocates DOJ PURGE – All Talk,
Nobody Willing To Make It Happen
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{rickwells.us} ~ Maria Bartiromo points out that Republicans on key congressional committees have uncovered FBI documents which state... “‘The sheer volume of classified information that flowed through liar-Clinton’s insecure emails’ was proof of criminality.” Newt Gingrich points out how all of the criminal evidence is pointing to just how corrupt the liar-nObama DOJ and liar-Clinton State Department were and how corrupt the liar-Clinton Foundation still is. He says, “These things are all coming together and I think they’re going to keep coming out and I think it’s going to get worse as people realize how hard some people worked to avoid the truth and to avoid doing their job.” Bartiromo asks the question of frustrated Americans everywhere, “But what is going to come out and what will happen as a result of this? I mean, I am astounded to read some of this stuff. First you have all of these FBI agents, from Bruce Ohr, his wife worked at Fusion GPS, they created the dossier. You’ve got Peter Strzok and his lover, Lisa Page, saying they wanted an insurance policy just in case Trump won.”... https://rickwells.us/gingrich-advocates-doj-purge/
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Iran’s Despotic Ayatollah Echoes US
Liberal Ideas-That Should Tell You Something
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{lidblog.com} ~ Two days after Christmas, the Twitter feed for Iran’s murderous, dictatorial, Islamist leader... the Ayatollah Khamenei, posted a tweet using the American left’s rhetoric to attack the U.S.A. The tweet ended using the hashtag of the anti-American Black Lives Matter movement. This should alarm any liberal who has even the tiniest capability for introspection. If I were a liberal and my exact rhetoric was being used by a regime that murders gays, beats women for wearing the wrong clothing, tortures political dissidents, and outlaws all religions but the approved, state religion, I’d wonder just where my own thought process had gone wrong...  https://lidblog.com/ayatollah-supports-liberals/
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Is Hezbollah Eating the Iranian People's Bread?
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by Yves Mamou
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In the holy city of Qom in Iran, on December 30, 2017, anti-regime demonstrators shouted "Death to Hezbollah"... "Aren't you ashamed Khamenei? Get out of Syria and take care of us", and "Not Gaza, or Lebanon". In an Islamic country, whose official slogan is "Death to America" and "Death to Israel", to see Iranian people shouting "Death to Hezbollah" is totally surreal. By wishing "Death to Hezbollah", Iranians demonstrators were not only protesting a "rise of the price of eggs" as the Ayatollahs' propaganda machine tried to claim. The demonstrators were demanding that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spend Iranian money for Iranian people -- and only for Iranian people...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11666/iran-hezbollah-financing
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Chuck Grassley: Former FBI
Director Comey Leaked Classified Information
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by Jim E.
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ My have the tables turned. Former FBI Director James Comey has made a big show of being a stalwart law enforcer... all to the point of refusing to show deference to the President of the United States. If you remember, if it was Comey who, being none too impressed with President Trump, actually fomented the ongoing investigation into possible Russian collusion during the 2016 campaign. Comey did so by leaking information to his law school buddy, Daniel Richman. This information lit the spark that ignited the entire Mueller-led probe into the Trump campaign’s connection to Russia, and continues to act as a yoke on the Administration to this day...  https://thepoliticalinsider.com/grassley-comey-classified/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_1_4_2018&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI
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Republican David Yancey wins Virginia 
House of Delegates race in random drawing
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by Melissa Quinn
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Republican David Yancey was declared the winner of the race for the 94th District of the Virginia House of Delegates... after a highly anticipated random drawing Thursday. But it’s unlikely that the result of the drawing will end the weeks-long saga, as the Democrat, Shelly Simonds, can request another recount as the losing candidate, which would put the high-stakes race in limbo again for at least several more days. With Yancey's win, Republicans will have a 51-49 majority in the House of Delegates. The Virginia Board of Elections met Thursday and randomly selected the winner from two film canisters placed in a bowl from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the culmination of several weeks of uncertainty surrounding who would win the seat for the 94th district in the state House...   http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republican-david-yancey-wins-va-house-of-delegates-race-in-random-drawing/article/2644957?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/04/18&utm_medium=email
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Leftists Beclown Themselves on Iran
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          In fact, David Harsanyi nailed it, writing, “The Iranian people are in the midst of their largest protests since the 2009 Green movement, and many on the Left don’t seem especially thrilled about the prospects of a free Iran. The muted reaction is partly due to a troubling trend of justifying and excusing Islamic fascism in a broader and confused attempt at signaling tolerance. But almost surely an even more powerful factor is the need to protect Barack liar-nObama’s legacy and criticize Donald Trump.
          A few examples: The New York Times, in a story that included coverage of the death of 12 protesters at the hands of Iranian government forces, blamed … the protesters. “Iranian authorities have clamped down on Tehran after demonstrators across the country ignored calls for calm,” the paper of record tweeted. Imagine a similar framing of anti-Trump rallies last year had the result been a dozen deaths at the hands of police. That’s right — a similar framing is unimaginable.
          Speaking of anti-Trump protesters, the Women’s March, famous for running around the DC Mall wearing vagina hats, has been utterly silent about the Iranian protests, in which The Washington Times notes “women have become symbolic leaders.” American feminists fancy themselves the oppressed subjects of the dystopian TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” but when they have a chance to stand up for actually oppressed women around the world, their silence is deafening.
          Finally, both The New York Times and Newsweek scolded Trump over his statements about Iran blocking social media sites. When Trump condemned the Iranian government’s crackdown, Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman responded by tweeting, “The president often blocks individual people from seeing the @realDonaldTrump Twitter feed.” Newsweek made the supposed contrast even more clear, tweeting, “Trump bars Americans on Twitter but tells Iran to unblock social media sites.” As if the comparison is even remotely relevant. Hateful leftist Twitter trolls being blocked is not the same thing as shutting down access to Twitter. Oh, and by the way, nearly the entire American mainstream media apparatus is freely opposed to Trump. That’s a contrast from the state-run propaganda in Iran.
          But by all means, leftists will continue to ignore protests for Liberty in Iran all while circling the wagons to defend liar-nObama’s horrible nuclear deal.  
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53209

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France: Muslim threatens to “slaughter the faithful’ during Church mass

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There is no news report on this story in English. Imagine if a Christian stormed a mosque during Friday prayers and threatened to slaughter the faithful. Of course, you can’t because because that never happens. But if it did it would be worldwide news.

The elected UMP Pierre Bédier, former mayor of Mantes-la-Jolie, estimates that there is 80% of Muslims in the district in what is called the the cultural specialization of the district”.

Mantes-la-Jolie: he threatens to “kill” the faithful at Mass
December 29, 2017, Le Parsien via ‘Observatoire de’lslamisation’ (thanks to Alexandre):

The mayor of Mantes-la-Jolie, Raphael Cognet (LR) and the priest of the church of Val-Fourre complained after the remarks made by an individual last Sunday at the end of the mass.

While the church service was coming to an end, a stranger entered the church and made disturbing remarks, threatening to slaughter the faithful. Among those present were the Mayor of Mantes-la-Jolie and the parish priest. They would not have been specifically targeted.

The man, in his thirties, has still not been found. It could be an imbalance.

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Fri/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Bureaucrats Earn How Much?
by Lewis Morris
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Friday Top Headlines
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U.S. created 148,000 jobs in December, vs. 190,000 jobs expected (CNBC)
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Trump administration plan would widely expand drilling in U.S. continental waters (The Washington Post)
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Federal judge obliterates Fusion GPS’ attempt to hide info from investigators (The Federalist)
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FBI launches new liar-Clinton Foundation investigation over pay-to-play; Justice Department looks into her email server (The Hill)
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Trump administration seeks $18 billion over decade to expand border wall (The Wall Street Journal)
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Trump rule aims to extend health care option to 11 million uninsured (The Daily Signal)
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U.S. suspends most security assistance to Pakistan (NPR)
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Sessions ending liar-nObama’s policy on federal marijuana laws (Associated Press)
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Leigh Corfman files defamation lawsuit against Roy Moore (Hot Air)
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Demo leader Keith Ellison endorses antifa (Powerline)
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NFL’s TV ratings dropped 10% this season amid lower attendance (Fox News)
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Humor: Mayor declares Chicago crime-free zone, criminals disperse (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Global warming isn’t making weather more extreme (Investor’s Business Daily)
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Policy: Cure for cold: more drilling, more pipelines (E21)  ~The Patriot Post
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Fitton – DOJ Must Do What Trump Was ELECTED
TO DO, Start With liar-Clinton, Abedin
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{rickwells.us} ~ The Tom Fitton interview begins with a clip of Daily Caller reporter Luke Rosiak presenting... a timeline of the initial activities of Huma Abedin when she went to work for liar-Hillary Clinton at the State Department. Rosiak said, “When she first came onboard on this new job, they sent her passwords to all the government systems. The first thing she does is turn around and email it to her Yahoo account. In 2012 it’s well-known that Yahoo has these issues.” He points out that five days later she’s sending classified information about Syria to Yahoo.” Fitton is asked if the DOJ should step in and investigate, given the presence of classified information in the emails, a violation of the law. He points out that you are not allowed to remove classified information from secure government systems or to place it onto insecure private systems, yet, “This is what happened with the liar-Clinton system... https://rickwells.us/fitton-doj-clinton-abedin/
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Iran Holds Pro-Government Rallies, 
Claims Uprising is Over
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Iran has seen six days of protests filled with people sick of the oppressive regime and demanding change... Not to be outdone, the regime staged pro-government rallies while Iran’s Revolutionary Guards declared the uprisings have ended. At first the regime seemed to brush aside the protests, blaming them on foreign agents and infiltrators. That seemed to change as the protests grew and the regime arranged pro-government protests to counter the others...  https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/01/iran-holds-pro-government-rallies-claims-uprising-is-over/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Chaffetz on the Deep State: ‘Having 
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{breitbart.com} ~ Wednesday on Fox News‏ Channel’s “Fox & Friends” former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said the deep state was “very real.”... Co-host Steve Doocy said, “Today is going to be a big day because Devin Nunes has subpoenaed a bunch of records from the Department of Justice, We will find out exactly how many of them show up and how many of them are blacked out. John Solomon has some good reporting over at The Hill where they revealed yesterday that there is written evidence that apparently the FBI believed that laws were broken regarding the liar-Hillary Clinton email scandal. And it looks like that the IT guy covered things up when he — even though they were subpoenaing the email records — he went and BleachBit it or whatever he did to it to destroy the hard drive.”...  http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/01/03/chaffetz-deep-state-lived-real/
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North Korea Appears To Have Bombed 
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{dailycaller.com} ~ North Korea appears to have accidentally sent a missile crashing down into a city during a test that... went awry last April, a new open source intelligence report revealed Wednesday. North Korea tested a new intermediate-range ballistic missile six times last year. The first three tests ended in failure, with one test sending a ballistic missile into a town not too far from the test site. North Korea conducted its third test of the previously-unseen Hwasong-12 IRBM, an impressive weapon that served as a stepping stone in the development of a longer-range missile able to range the U.S. mainland, on April 28, 2017. The missile fell out of the sky over North Korean territory after its first-stage engines failed after about a minute of powered flight, The Diplomat reports, citing U.S. government sources with knowledge of the North’s weapons programs...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/03/north-korea-appears-to-have-bombed-itself-in-botched-missile-test-report/?utm_medium=email
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Tucker Bursts Into Laughter During Interview
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Fox News’ Tucker Carlson laughed at Democratic California Rep. John Garamendi Wednesday night... when the congressman seemed to agree with Tucker on some immigration positions. Garamendi said, “Border security–absolutely essential. How do you spend the money for border security? A wall, is that the best way? Many of us think that is not the best way. We also need to deal with the agricultural guest worker program, which is a major problem here in California.”...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/03/tucker-bursts-into-laughter-during-interview-with-dem-congressman-on-immigration-video/?utm_medium=email
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Bureaucrats Earn How Much?
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          A recent study by OpentheBooks.com, a nonprofit watchdog group, found that taxpayers pay over $1 million a minute to cover the two-million-person federal workforce. Including pay and benefits, that comes out to around $136 billion a year.
          Yes, we have a large federal workforce, so perhaps the numbers aren’t surprising. But working for the government also has significant perks, according to the study, which breaks down salaries by agency and states. The average federal worker in 78 government agencies makes about $100,000 per year. After three years, they get 10 federal holidays, 13 sick days and 20 paid vacation days.
          Moreover, the report says, “Nearly 30,000 rank-and-file federal employees who received more than $190,823 out-earned each of the 50 state governors.” That’s astounding.
          Also, the study does not take into account the Department of Defense or the men and women on active military duty. Of the agencies and departments that were examined, the Postal Service and the Department of Veterans Affairs were the largest employers, accounting for 32% and 19%, respectively, of all federal workers.
          Over 400,000 federal employees take home six-figure incomes. Over the last decade, the number of federal workers making over $200,000 a year increased by 165%. There is even a heart surgeon on the VA payroll who makes more than the president.
          It’s worth noting that many federal employees are hardworking people who take their jobs seriously and only aim to do patriotic service. Unfortunately, that isn’t true for enough of them.
          Public-sector unions have exercised a great deal of power to drive up the wages and benefits for federal workers. And there is a high level of graft and waste that takes place in the federal bureaucracy. This is doubly troubling because it’s this very bureaucracy that manages the government and pretty much all our daily interactions with it.
          These bureaucrats often have more influence over us than our elected representatives. Congress makes laws and the president enforces them, as the Constitution dictates, but it is the bureaucracy that handles everything on a day-to-day basis. The growth of the federal government and the waste that takes place within it has reached epic proportions.
          What makes the situation even worse is the gaggle of Leftists who populate many of these government agencies. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a perfect example of how the inmates are running the asylum. Upset by President Donald Trump’s appointment of Mick Mulvaney to head the agency, CFPB personnel now flout transparency rules and engage in other tactics meant to sabotage the agency’s workings.
          This sort of behavior, which goes on across the federal bureaucracy, is an affront to the American people. Taxpayers deserve to get their money’s worth from federal agencies, but many of the people who work for these agencies act as if they are doing us a favor. With this sort of behavior, it’s no surprise that people don’t trust or even respect the federal government.
          If Trump is serious about draining the swamp, then he needs to pursue measures that call for more accountability and transparency within the federal bureaucracy. It will mean a battle with the public-sector unions that will likely get ugly, but it’s a battle that needs to be waged.  ~The Patriot Pos
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Data: Trump Admin. Reduces Refugee Admissions by 70% in First Year

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Since the hijrah into Germany, their violent crime shot up – 92% committed by Muslim migrants. The crime statistics in other European countries that opened their borders to the immigration jihad

President Trump is saving us, our children from this scourge.

Data: Trump Admin. Reduces Refugee Admissions by 70% in First Year

January 1, 2018 | John Binder | Breitbart:

President Trump reduced foreign refugee admissions by roughly 70 percent in nearly the first year of his presidency, a new report reveals.

Center for Immigration Studies researcher Nayla Rush released a new study comparing refugee admissions to the United States under Trump versus those under former President Obama between Jan. 20 to Dec. 20, 2017, and the same time period in 2016.

During the first 11 months of Trump’s presidency, the populist-nationalist president cut the number of foreign refugees entering the U.S. by about 70 percent, according to Rush’s research.

In his first 11 months, Trump admitted 28,875 foreign refugees to the U.S., a vast difference from the whopping 93,668 foreign refugees admitted in the same time period under Obama. Likewise, for Fiscal Year 2018, Trump has lowered the number of refugees who can enter the U.S. to 45,000, which as Rush notes, is the lowest refugee cap since 1980.

Between Jan. 20 and Dec. 20, 2017, more than 53 percent of the 28,875 refugees resettled in the U.S. were Christians, while 32 percent were Muslim, 5.4 percent were Buddhist and nearly 4 percent were Hindu.

Compare that to Obama refugee resettlements in 2016 when 45 percent of the 93,668 refugees admitted were Muslim and 44 percent were Christians.

Due to left-wing judges holding up implementation of Trump’s travel ban — which sought to halt refugee resettlement to the U.S. from terrorist-funding countries — nearly 5,600 refugees from Somalia, Iran and Syria were able to enter the U.S. this year.

But, in December 2017, Trump’s travel ban on refugees from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Somalia, Venezuela, and Yemen was able to be fully implemented, thus far ending refugee resettlement from these countries for the time being.

Under Trump, only roughly 2,000 Syrian refugees entered the U.S. in 2017, a far cry from the mass resettlement of more than 15,000 Syrian refugees in a single year under Obama.

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FBI launching new investigation on Clintons
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Friday, January 5, 2018
The Hill reports that the FBI is launching a new investigation into the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton's "pay to play" scheme-specifically whether the Clintons promised or performed any policy favors in return for largesse to their charitable efforts or whether donors expected government favors. Let us remember on August 25, 2016, The Daily Jot reported that Clinton's presidential campaign did not deny that the Clinton Foundation took money from people in exchange for meetings at the State Department. Clinton's campaign, however, attacked Associated Press, who broke the story that Clinton operated a pay to play scheme for favors and access to her at the State Department.
 
AP had documented a pattern and a notable system of corruption, confirming earlier reports by government investigative watchdog, Judicial Watch. On Monday, August 22, 2016 Judicial Watch released 725 of new State Department documents and 20 previously unreleased emails , in which the former Secretary of State's top aide Huma Abedin "provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the secretary of state. In many instances, the preferential treatment provided to donors was at the specific request of Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band." These and the AP investigation reveal an elaborate scheme to enrich the Clintons while she was Secretary of State.
 
Judicial Watch stated: " The Abedin emails reveal that the longtime Clinton aide apparently served as a conduit between Clinton Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton while Clinton served as secretary of state. In more than a dozen email exchanges, Abedin provided expedited, direct access to Clinton for donors who had contributed from $25,000 to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. In many instances, Clinton Foundation top executive Doug Band, who worked with the Foundation throughout Hillary Clinton's tenure at State, coordinated closely with Abedin. In September 2016, Breitbart reported that records verified Hillary Clinton's foundation had taken between $74.5-87.8 million from Algeria, Brunei, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
 
The UK Daily Caller reported that " Qatar has given between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation and Saudi Arabia has donated upwards of $25 million dollars to the Foundation. " Clinton's previous emails indicated that money given to the Clinton Foundation was often paid in relationship to Clinton setting up meetings with high-ranking government officials, including herself. In Exodus 23:8 the Lord says, " And you shall take no bribe: for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous." Some translations say a bribe subverts the cause of the just. The on again off again FBI is once again investigating these shenanigans. It shouldn't be too difficult to figure out, but then again, it's as much political as it is legal.
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Clinton’s Trail of Bodies Grows, but Her Noose Is Tightening

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Clinton’s Trail of Bodies Grows, but Her Noose Is Tightening

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Bruce Steinberg and John Cruz were in possession of information that could have implicated both James Comey and Hillary Clinton in several criminal conspiracies. Today, one man is still alive and telling the story of Clinton/Comey criminal conspiracies and the other man’s corpse is not even recognizable after being burned beyond recognition in Costa Rica.

Bridgewater, James Comey and Bruce Steinberg

There is one significant and clear reason why John Cruz and his family are alive and Bruce Steinberg and his family are all dead. More on that later in the article.

Who is Bruce Steinberg? Or should I say, who was Bruce Steinberg? Bruce Steinberg and his entire family perished in fiery plane crash in Costa Rica that killed ten people.   Steinberg was also an executive at Bridgewater Associates, a company which, as Politico is reporting that James Comey spent three years as an executive employed by Bridgewater. Bridgewater Associates is a $150 billion hedge fund founded by Ray Dalio that the New Yorker has labeled “the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund”, as The New Yorker reported back in June of 2016. Ray Dalio was a key Clinton supporter and was staunchly opposed to Donald Trump. The Clinton’s were fighting rumors that they were involved Bridgewater’s more nefarious activities along with James Comey. And now the link between Bridgewater and the Clintons is dead along with his entire family. This is reminiscent of so many other Clinton deals gone bad (ie Whitewater) and the trail of bodies that follows a Clinton-inspired financial fiasco (eg McDougal).

But Wait…The Trail of Bodies Grows Even Longer

Zero Hedge is reporting in yet another airplane crash, involving ANOTHER small aircraft, , in another crash, that the Compass Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Richard Cousins and four members of Cousins family were killed in another event identical to the Steingberg family. Cousin;s seaplane crashed into the Hawkesbury River in Sydney, Australia. Cousins’ company the Compass Group built the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock. And how could Cousins have been a threat to the Clintons? Deciding what to put into the Presidential Library is an arduous task. One has to filter through volumes of documents and material that will not make it into the library. This task would have put Cousins in possession of some potentially damning information about the Clinton’s crminal activities. Of course, Cousins, on behalf of his firm, would have had to sign a non-disclosure agreement. However, such an agreement would not have been immune from a Federal subpoena for criminal wrongdoing. If I were an criminal investigator, this would be the starting point of any investigation into the Clinton criminal cartel. Are Steingberg and Cousins just another strange set of coincidences or, is there more?

I have yet, another coincidence.

From Neon Nettle:

One of the United States’ leading surgeons, who exposed misappropriation of funds by the Clinton Foundation in Haiti, has been found dead after being stabbed in the torso. 

Dr. Dean Lorich was found on the bathroom floor of his New York apartment by his 11-year-old daughter with a knife still stuck in his chest at around 1 pm on Monday. Those who follow Wikileaks and have investigated Hillary Clinton’s emails may recognize Dr. Dean Lorich’s name already.

In 2010, Lorich was part of a relief effort that flew to Haiti as a volunteer to offer his skills for civilians who had been injured during the earthquakes that devastated the region. Within 24 hours of the earthquake, a 13-member team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and operating room nurses was assembled, with a massive amount of orthopedic operating room equipment, and flew to Port-au-Prince with Dr. Lorich.

Bill and Hillary Clinton’s “charitable” Clinton foundation led the relief effort in Haiti raising millions of dollars from around the world to help the people recover from the natural disaster. Sadly, most of the funds never reached the people of Haiti, but instead, lined the pockets of the Clintons’ associates who were meant to redevelop the nation, but never delivered.

Dr. Lorich and his team were there to help save the limbs of those injured, which without the proper medical treatment, would have meant amputation for a lot of people….

Another man with damning criminal information about the Clinton cartel is dead and this cannot even be disguised as an accident.

Another Brewing Clinton-Based Criminal Conspiracy

President Trump is hot on the trail of Hillary Clinton. He has reacted to the suspicious fire at her residence with suspicion. Here is the President’s tweet on this matter:

Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on a submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others,”….

And then there is this tweet as the President is determined to force the DOJ to reopen the meail investigation. 

Many people in our Country are asking what the ‘Justice’ Department is going to do about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress, deleted and ‘acid washed’ 33,000 Emails? No justice!”

And now we conveniently have a fire. A fire in which potentially incriminating evidence is destroyed just days after these aforementioned Trump Tweets which threatened to reopen the investigation.

A Chappaqua Fire Department source confirmed fears that incriminating evidence against the Clintons has been destroyed just days after a White House insider warned that Donald Trump was preparing to prosecute their crimes.”I saw smashed up hard drives, melted memory cards and the charred remains of paper scattered all over the room and immediately knew the fire must have started there,” a Chappaqua Fire Department source told local news reporters.”I immediately called it a code 10-41 and requested a Fire Marshall,” explained a firefighter, after it was made clear that the house fire was “put out by Secret Service agents” before the Fire Department arrived.Code 10-41 is firefighters’ code for a suspicious fire.

It is prudent at this point in time to revisit the John Cruz allegations against Comey and the Clinton family cartel. They provide a global view of the extent of their criminal activity and the large scale in which this criminal activity is conducted.

Former Sr. HSBC Vice-President, John Cruz, Reveals Governmental and Banking Criminality Beyond Belief

John Cruz is your ordinary family man. He put himself through college and worked his way up the corporate ladder.  He excelled at working with bank customers. He rose to the position of Sr. Vice-President of HSBC Bank. Everything was fine was until he discovered that his bank was laundering drug money for the cartels and terrorists and some of the money ended up in the hands of the elite such as Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. And it is not just the laundering of money that is critical, it is more a matter of WHO was involved.

A Rude Awakening

John Cruz was fired from his job at HSBC Bank in New York for whistle-blowing on the bank’s illegal activities, his family was threatened. and yet,  he still feels that everyone needs to know what goes on behind the scenes of a major bank. Cruz even reported the illegal money laundering to Homeland Security, but to no avail. He should be an American hero, but instead, he was chastized, employment was hard to find and he lives in constant fear of his life. If it were not for the tapes he’s made and held back, for leverage sake, he would already be dead as well. The Cruz tapes are the only reason he is still alive and Steinberg’s as well as the Cousins’ family were wiped out in in a pair of fiery airplane crashes.

I have interviewed John Cruz several times in the past and as a result, I was the first to report on this inside story of monumental corruption involving HSBC Bank and the story of John Cruz, a critical eyewitness, who was serving as a Vice-President at HSBC at the time. The third interview with John Cruz produced first-hand eyewitness testimony that can only be described as stunning.

Senior Managment at HSBC Bank Wanted to “Know Nothing”

John Cruz discovered that massive amounts of durg cartel and terrorist money was being luandered through HSBC. Cruz investigated and found evidence of multiple money-laundering operations.  He went to his bosses and reported what he found after he had conducted field operational investigations and found evidence of boiler rooms operations and fake business addressses, etc. His bosses told him to get back to work and to forget what he had told them. The head of HSBC security told him “This is how we make money, forget what you think you have seen”.

Why You Should Be Outraged

Cruz also discovered that millions of Americans, unknown to themselves, have had fake stolen identity accounts opened up all around the world in order to launder money, resulting from drug transactions, in their name. That means that both you and I have our collective names associated with the most dangerous cartel members and terrorists on the planet and we don’t even know it.

If you run afoul of the former Obama/Clinton administration, this information could be used to falsely set you up. A work-related investigation could also turn up these anomalies. Every American should be outraged and when we add in the relevations contained in the following paragraphs, the American people should be shutting down their government, storing their own food, water, gold, guns and ammuntion. Every American should be taking the bulk of their money out of the bank and investing in previous metals. Civil disobedience should become the new national past-time, if the perpetrators do not go to prison. And who are the perpetrators?

  1. Hillary Clinton- Failed Presidential candidate
  2. James Comey- Fired FBI Director
  3. Loretta Lynch- Former Attorney General
  4. Eric Holder- Former Attorney General

Government Accomplices to HSBC’s Money Laundering: Comey and Clinton

"I'm in" According to Cruz, her Clinton Foundation profited from HSBC's terrorist affiliations.

Hillary’s Clinton Foundation profited from HSBC’s terrorist affiliations, acording to John Cruz.

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All HELL Breaks Loose At UN In Midst of Iran Protests, Nikki Haley Showed Up And Immediately SHUT Them DOWN

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Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador, didn’t wait long to go after Obama administration’s risky policy towards Iran. She gave her full support to the Iran protesters who are protesting for democratic refor

On January 2nd, Haley addressed to the UN and expressed America’s support for the protests in Iran. Haley also condemned Obama’ administration for supporting the repressive Mullahs.

The ambassador acknowledged the numerous victims who were killed by the Iranian administration. She didn’t forget to mention the failed Green Revolution that Obama didn’t support back in 2009.

The Green Revolution, such as this month’s protests in Iran, was supported by millions of Iranian young people through the country. The protesters seek for the Islamist rulers to loose the grip on power.

They then asked for public support by Obama in order to boost their steam but he declined their ask for help. Instead, he gave his support to the Mullahs who killed, tortured and imprisoned the protesters.

The Iranian people who weren’t afraid to step up were senselessly tortured.Haley swore that the U.S. won’t repeat Obama’s reaction.

“We must not be silent,” Ambassador Haley told the U.N. said. “The people of Iran are crying out for freedom. All freedom loving people must stand with their cause.”

“The international community made the mistake of failing to do that in 2009. We must not make that mistake again,” she added.

Donald Trump has been disapproving of the Iranian government even before he became President. Trump also judged Barack Obama’s sympathetic behavior toward Iran.

Haley said that “nowhere is the urgency of peace, security, and freedom being more tested than in Iran.” She added that “citizens are taking to the streets to protest the oppression of their own government.”

Then she praised the “bravery of the Iranian people.”

“It takes great bravery for the Iranian people to use the power of their voice against the government, especially when their government has a long history of murdering its own people who dare to speak the truth,” the former South Carolina Governor said.

“We applaud the tremendous courage of the Iranian people. The government of Iran is actively attempting to stop social media and other forms of communication that allow their citizens voices to be heard it. We want to help amplify the voices of the Iranian people.”

Haley told the UN that the protest are in “virtually in every city in Iran” and said the protesters are calling for the “freedoms that are enshrined in the United Nations charter.”

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DACA Is Not What the Democrats Say It Is. Here Are the Facts.

New Mexico Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, pictured above, is a prominent Democrat pushing for a DACA-style amnesty deal. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom)

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Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues—including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform—as a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and manager of the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative. Read his research.

Some members of Congress are threatening to block government funding unless Congress provides amnesty to so-called Dreamers—the illegal aliens included in President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which President Donald Trump is ending.

Responsible members of Congress should not give in.

Such an effort would be fundamentally flawed and would only encourage even more illegal immigration—just as the 1986 amnesty in the Immigration Reform and Control Act did.

Democrats portray the DACA program as only benefitting those who were a few years old when they came to the U.S. illegally, leaving them unable to speak their native language and ignorant of their countries’ cultural norms. Therefore, the reasoning goes, it would be a hardship to return them to the countries where they were born.

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Obama himself gave this rationale when he said DACA beneficiaries were “brought to this country by their parents” as infants and face “deportation to a country that [they] know nothing about, with a language” they don’t even speak.

While this may be true of a small portion of the DACA population, it certainly is not true of all of the aliens who received administrative amnesty. In fact, illegal aliens were eligible as long as they came to the U.S. before their 16th birthday and were under the age of 31 as of June 15, 2012.

DACA also required that beneficiaries enroll in school, graduate from high school, obtain a GED certificate, or receive an honorable discharge from the military; have no conviction for a felony, significant misdemeanor, or three or more other misdemeanors; and not pose a threat to national security or public safety.

However, the Obama administration appeared to routinely waive the education (or its equivalent) requirement as long as the illegal alien was enrolled in some kind of program. Only 49 percent of DACA beneficiaries have a high school education—despite the fact that a majority of them are adults.

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How thorough was Homeland Security vetting? In February 2017, after the arrest of a DACA beneficiary for gang membership, the Department of Homeland Security admitted that at least 1,500 DACA beneficiaries had their eligibility terminated “due to a criminal conviction, gang affiliation, or a criminal conviction related to gang affiliation.”

By August 2017, that number had surged to 2,139.

In fact, based on documents obtained by Judicial Watch, it is apparent that the Obama administration used a “lean and light” system of background checks in which only a few, randomly selected DACA applicants were ever actually vetted.

Additionally, DACA only excluded individuals for convictions. Thus, even if a Homeland Security background investigation—which apparently was almost never done—produced substantial evidence that an illegal alien might have committed multiple crimes, the alien would still be eligible for DACA unless Homeland Security referred the violation to state or federal prosecutors and the alien was convicted.

DACA had no requirement of English fluency either. In fact, the original application requested applicants to answer whether the form had been “read” to the alien by a translator “in a language in which [the applicant is] fluent.”

The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that “perhaps 24 percent of the DACA-eligible population fall into the functionally illiterate category and another 46 percent have only ‘basic’ English ability.”

This is a far cry from the image of DACA beneficiaries as all children who don’t speak the language of—and know nothing about the culture of—their native countries.

In fact, it seems rather that a significant percentage of DACA beneficiaries may have serious limitations in their education, experience, and English fluency that negatively affected their ability to function in American society.

Providing amnesty to low-skilled, low-educated aliens with marginal English language ability would impose large fiscal costs on American taxpayers resulting from increased government payouts and benefits, and would be unfair to legal immigrants who obeyed the law to come here.

Any congressional amnesty bill providing citizenship for DACA beneficiaries could significantly increase the number of illegal aliens who will benefit unless Congress amends the sponsorship rules under federal immigration law. Providing lawful status to millions of so-called “Dreamers” will allow the extended families of those aliens to profit from illegal conduct.

The U.S. accepts about a million legal immigrants every year. According to a recent study, of the 33 million legal immigrants admitted over the last 35 years, about 61 percent were chain migration immigrants.

The average immigrant has sponsored 3.45 additional immigrants, but for DACA beneficiaries, that number is likely to be much higher. This is because, according to an analysis by the Department of Homeland Security, 76 percent of the DACA beneficiaries were from Mexico. Mexican immigrants sponsor an average of 6.38 additional legal immigrants—the highest rate of any nationality for chain migration.

Providing amnesty would simply attract even more illegal immigration and would not solve the myriad of enforcement problems we have along our borders and in the interior of the country. Congress should concentrate on giving the federal government (with the assistance and help of state and local governments) the resources to enforce existing immigration laws to reduce the illegal alien population in the U.S. and stem entry into the country.

Until those goals are accomplished, it is premature to even consider any DACA-type bill.

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by Randall Nozick:

What The?!

Bear with me as I try to write this article. My hands are shaking and it’s making it hard to type or perhaps even think straight. I just finished a conference with a team of pro-Trump political strategists to get help with my current project for the Trump 2020 campaign. My head hurts, I’m pi$$ed off, and I have to find a way to report what just happened.

You’ll note from the headline, one of the attendees of this conference made a statement so inflammatory, no one could believe it had been said. The full quote:

“The way things are playing out, the chance of Trump being in office to run in 2020 are less than 20%. After all the fire and brimstone to get him in office, his supporters just laid down. They love to hear they’re winning and they love to talk about Trump 2020, but they aren’t doing the work to get there. It boils down to [Trump supporters] are too damn lazy to keep winning.”

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It was like that sound effect of a needle scratching off the side of an old vinyl record. Words of shock and disagreement followed. Remember, this is a group of PRO-Trump people talking about how to win in 2020 and the analyst who said it is one of the most devoted Trump supporters I’ve ever personally met. I’ll get back to what happened next after I explain…

How This Came Up

To put the statement in context, my current Trump 2020 project is to get volunteers for the America First Coalition’s drive to identify and support pro-Trump candidates in the 2018 Congressional Elections (aka “midterm elections”). My effort is concentrated on the primary elections, something most people usually skip. The primaries are the only chance the voting public has to make a change in their own political party before they would have to vote for the opposing party to remove someone from office.

In this election, it not only matters, it is critical to the Trump Presidency. In some districts, the Republican up for reelection is as likely to vote to impeach my President as the Democrat running against them in the general election. That means if the RINO can’t be removed from the ballot in the primaries, it will be a vote for one Trump-hater or another. Stopping this is an emergency.

What Happened Next

Having just been “schooled” on exactly why my efforts are completely wasted and how my President is being abandoned by his supporters, I took a deep breath and tried to calm everyone down to get to the bottom of this insane statement.

The analyst explained himself:

Look, you all know I don’t just support Mr. Trump, I really love him. I’d jump in front of a bullet for him. And as much as I love Mr. Trump, I love his supporters too. They’re more than just my fellow Americans, they’re like my extended family. So before you flame me, let’s just start there, OK? Just try understanding what I’m trying to say from there.

(Someone tried to speak, the analyst spoke over them.)

I’m not done! [unintelligible response] Just let me say this. Everybody stepped up and had a lot of faith… took a lot of risks… even lost friends and family relationships… real sacrifices is what they did… what they did to get Donald Trump into that office… to make Trump President. I think his supporters knew what all of us here knew… It was either Make America Great Again or watch America die forever.

(Someone tried to speak again.)

Damn it! Let me finish! [brief silence] So I guess it was a harsh statement because I feel frustrated and a little scared and mostly just want to figure out where to go from here… But I don’t think we can talk for a day or a whole damn year about this and make any progress if we’re too busy being nice and not talking about the real thing going wrong. “Lazy” is probably taking it too far, and I’m sorry I said that. But we see what we see. They’re acting like they can just sit back and let Trump do all the winning. It’s like they don’t get they have to help him win.

Dead Silence Followed

I think we all had the same chilling realization. Whether “lazy” was at the root of it or not, action was indeed not being taken outside of general celebration for the wins and talking smack on social networks to easy targets. And even worse, none of us had a clear plan to try to get people to understand this isn’t the time to sit back. If we are going to keep winning, it’s time to double down, double up, and bring it even harder than we did in 2016.

Now that the air was completely out of our tires, we continued the discussion. Here are some more quotes by other people during the discussion that followed:

  • Maybe Trump was right when he said, “You’ll get tired of winning.” Maybe this is what he meant? Are they just too tired to go on?
  • I see it all day on the news groups. They’ll read scandal candy like how Obama beat Trump in a pie eating contest, but real issues get skipped right past. It’s sad. 
  • It’s like the Deep State has planned this out to pacify us at just the right time. Like, what they think of us as “the ignorant stupid people who vote for Trump”. It’s like they’re counting on Trump’s supporters to avoid thinking about the problems and the work… I’ve even seen some Left Wing Media commentary that pretends to agree [emphasis hers] with Trump. Are they just trying to give us hollow victories to rest on? And with all the Russia, Russia, Russia, are they trying to do the carrot and stick routine on us to control what we think about? To make us not think about the work to do, just the little carrots? Is that what’s working here?

What Do We Do With This?

We spoke until we all realized, we needed to regather our thoughts. We had gone into this meeting with the wrong objective. There’s a fight before the fight: We have to get people to see the work to be done before we can even think about getting anyone to sign up for it.

For my part in rethinking this, I want help, your help. Please, tell me about your observations and what you think can be done to get people to understand the real War for America is still on, and our next battle is coming up fast. How do we get everyone back to the battlefield? Your comments will be taken to the next meeting with the strategists as first-hand accounts and every comment will be discussed.

Thank you for reading and thanks in advance for your thoughts on this.

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Firm behind Trump dossier loses bid to hide bank records

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Fusion GPS, the firm behind the scandalous “Trump dossier” that included a whole slew of unproven claims about President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, lost its bid Thursday to keep their bank records private, as a federal judge ruled against the firm.

The firm had hired former British spy Christopher Steele to create the document, which was first published by BuzzFeed in January of last year.

The House Intelligence Committee, along with committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) had slapped Fusion GPS with a subpoena, requesting the company’s bank records, in an effort to find out who, specifically, had paid for the creation of the salacious claims against Trump.

In his 26-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon rejected Fusion GPS’ claims that confidential information about its clients and sources would be in jeopardy of being leaked if the committee obtained the banking records it is seeking.

“The Subpoena at issue in today’s case was issued pursuant to a constitutionally authorized investigation by a Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives with jurisdiction over intelligence and intelligence-related activities — activities designed to protect us from potential cyber-attacks now and in the future. The Subpoena seeks the production of records that have a ‘reasonable possibility’ … of producing information relevant to that constitutionally authorized investigation,” the judge wrote.

Fusion GPS was founded by former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson and co-founder Peter Fritsch.

Ironically, Nellie Ohr, who is the wife of former (Obama administration) DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, was hired by Fusion GPS to help investigate then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016.

Fox News reported:

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon found Fusion’s objections to the subpoena to be “unavailing” and denied the research firm’s request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that would have prevented it from handing over the documents. Fusion GPS can appeal Leon’s ruling to a federal appeals court.

“Although the records sought by the Subpoena are sensitive in nature,” Leon wrote in a 26-page ruling, “the nature of the records themselves, and the Committee’s procedures designed to ensure their confidentiality, more than adequately protect the sensitivity of that information.”

Leon also rejected Fusion’s claim that the subpoena would have a chilling effect on its work for political clients and violate the firm’s First Amendment rights.

“While the opposition research Fusion conducted on behalf of its clients may have been political in nature,” Leon wrote, “Fusion’s commercial relationship with those clients was not, and thus that relationship does not provide Fusion with some special First Amendment protection from subpoenas … the First Amendment is not a secrecy pact!”

In October, Fox News confirmed that Fusion GPS was retained by Marc Elias, an attorney representing the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The DNC and the Clinton campaign paid Fusion to produce the dossier.

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Despite Islamic State Defeat, 
Jihadist Threat Persists
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Ex-Trump campaign manager Manafort 
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{foxnews.com} ~ Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his legal team are suing Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein... alleging the Russia probe has gone beyond the scope of the special counsel regulations, according to an 18-page civil complaint filed with the district court in Washington. "The investigation of Mr. Manafort is completely unmoored from the special counsel's original jurisdiction to investigate ‘any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump.’” In October, Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates pleaded not guilty to a 12-count indictment that included allegations of money laundering and making false statements in connection with their work in Ukraine...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/03/ex-trump-campaign-manager-manafort-sues-mueller-rosenstein-claims-russia-probe-has-gone-too-far.html
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How Crooked liar-Hillary Ripped off State Democrat
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Despite Islamic State Defeat, Jihadist Threat Persists
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          How can a group that has for the most part been defeated still remain a security threat to the U.S and her allies? Several reasons exist for this unfortunate reality. First, Islamic jihad is not at all limited to the Middle East. Despite most terrorist activity happening in the Middle East, there is still a worldwide threat from radicalized individuals and groups. With most of the caliphate’s fighters being killed or captured, the chances of smaller scale attacks from those who have escaped remains. Further, the chances of those fighters being able to carry out attacks from their homeland, or another country where a strategic attack can draw international attention, increases as well.
          Second, most of the leaders within the Islamic State remain at large. This poses an additional threat, because they can still plan for attacks in countries where they are not even present. It could also be that many of these leaders within the Islamic State are being tracked closely by the international intelligence community as a means to thwart and prevent attacks.
          The sad reality is that despite a concentrated group of jihadists being defeated, the asymmetric threat of Islamic jihad remains. The caliphate was the goal of the Islamic State and by accomplishing its goal for a time, morale was increased amongst its members and they in turn inspired other radical Islamists to join their cause.
          Was it too early for Iraq’s prime minister to declare victory against the Islamic State on December 9th? Some might say that his remarks were a bit premature, but he did not end with those remarks — a fact that was also largely ignored by the news media. Just three days after Abadi declared victory he warned that the Islamic extremists might “erupt again somewhere else” without there being international cooperation and commitment to combat the extremists. He also warned that “ISIS has this unfortunate ability to recruit young people very quickly.
          In other words, the Islamic State is on the run, but these jihadis do still have the capability to carry out attacks and they may gain a stronghold again somewhere if countries are not actively seeking to bolster their security posture. Peter Vincent, a counterterrorism expert and former Department of Homeland Security official, had this to say about the current state of the Islamic State: “It’s like a cornered cat that will lash out indiscriminately and viciously to save itself. … The war has yet to be won, and if it’s ever going to be won, it’s going to take many more years, and many more civilians will lose their lives
          Sadly, Western Europe, specifically the United Kingdom, is likely to see an increase in Islamic terrorism, primarily due to the mass migration of Muslims over the last five years. There is no doubt that there were hundreds if not thousands of Muslims that were already radicalized or have become radicalized and have sworn their allegiance to the Islamic State — what’s left of its physical caliphate notwithstanding. All of Britain’s spy agencies are aware of the impending threat, and are implementing additional security measures to try and prevent Islamic State attacks from occurring.
          In its 2016-2017 oversight report, Britain’s parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) noted, “The scale of the current threat facing the U.K. and its interests from Islamist terror groups is unprecedented.” The report continued, “This threat is predominantly driven by the activities of [the Islamic State], which seeks to maintain the group’s image and narrative of success in the face of military losses.”
          The ISC assesses that 2018 is not going to be much different. In fact, the threat of Islamic State activity in the UK is likely to be higher with there being varying levels of its activity between “directed, influenced and inspired operations.”
          The British spy agency M15 told the ISC that there are at least “3,000 subjects of interest on its radar, sitting on top of a pool of 20,000 individuals who had previously been subjects of interest.”
          Western Europe and the UK will need to remain vigilant and relentless in pursuit to quickly identify potential threats and eradicate them as soon as possible. The war against the Islamic State is not over; indeed the United States under the leadership of President Donald Trump may need to consider some additional support to our allies in Europe. As we have long argued, Jihadistan is a borderless nation of Islamofascists with global reach. Unfortunately, not a lot has changed, despite the truly good news finally coming out of Iraq.  ~The Patriot Pos
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