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TheFrontPageCover
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Political Pawns Ignorantly 
March Against Gun Rights 
by Thomas Gallatin
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FBI May Have Violated Criminal Statutes in FISA Scandal 
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{ patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is meant to regulate exactly how approval can be obtained... to get approval by the court for surveilling Americans. The focus of this act is Americans who are unlawfully colluding with foreign governments. Because of the very serious nature of these investigations, accuracy contained in the warrant request must be both accurate and detailed. If we are to believe Mr. Nunes, this was far from the case when it came to the information the FBI used when it secured the FISA warrants in this case... https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/fbi-violated-criminal-law-fisa/?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=cna1&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=cna1.
One Trump-Russia probe coming to a close
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by Sharyl Attkisson
{ sharylattkisson.com } ~ We asked the lead Republican and Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee for interviews.. to talk about their findings in their Russia related investigations. Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) agreed to chat. Sunday on Full Measure, he’ll give details on  their investigation into Trump-Russia collusion, which is almost over. We still have to hear from Special Counsel Robert Mueller on the same topic. Meantime, the Intel committee also unearthed allegedly improper, politically-motivated “unmaskings.” liar-nObama officials requested the “unmasking” of the names of hundreds of US citizens who were supposedly “accidentally” captured in government  surveillance. The names are supposed to be strictly protected for privacy reasons but some of them, including political enemies of the liar-nObama administration and liar-Clinton campaign, were leaked to the press in a derogatory way. The committee is also looking into alleged conflicts of interest and unethical behavior by some at the FBI and Justice Department...   https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/02/16/one-trump-russia-probe-coming-to-a-close/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29 
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Trump Call for Line-item Veto Not a Good Idea
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by Steve Byas
{ thenewamerican.com } ~ “To prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again, I’m calling on Congress to give me a line-item veto for all government spending bills,”... President Donald Trump declared in reaction to the monstrosity of a budget Congress sent him, known as an “omnibus” spending bill. Trump expressed reluctance when putting his signature on the bill, warning that he will not sign such legislation again. An omnibus bill combines several spending bills into one. In this case, supporters argued that it was needed to avert a government shutdown. Members of Congress had little time to read through the bill before it was voted on by the House of Representatives and the Senate. Trump should have vetoed this bill, and he is quite correct in saying that Congress included funding for “things that are really a wasted sum of money.” Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was one of those who wisely voted against the omnibus bill, citing some solid reasons. First, he noted that the $1.3 trillion spending bill was “2200 pages drafted by the Swamp in the dark of night,” adding that this legislation “will plunge our nation even deeper into debt.”...   https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/28582-trump-call-for-line-item-veto-not-a-good-idea 
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A Message From Parkland You Didn’t Hear at March for Our Lives
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ Thousands of people gathered Saturday in Washington, D.C., and around the nation for anti-gun rallies spurred by the Feb. 14 massacre... at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. But not everyone from the Parkland community supports the anti-gun rhetoric on display at the March for Our Lives protests. Kyle Kashuv, a student at the school where a 19-year-old with a rifle killed 17 and wounded 17 others, and Andrew Pollack, whose daughter was among those killed there, are speaking out with another perspective“ They’re all together, it’s great. They’re going to be heard. But I would urge them to focus on school safety,” Pollack, who appears in a video from The Daily Caller, said before the rallies...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/03/24/message-parkland-wont-see-mainstream-media/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpsaE1XTm1NVGN5WXpKbCIsInQiOiJ1NGt5ekpZeUxMTkZ4WGRBQWRqUDNySVJVOVAyQ1wvditpZGlWYlpNR2Q1QnpRYTlXc2RDdG9pZ1htVHpNSXFqazU2TlozTlNaWW43bFdEY1RLc1RuTWVwd3BiXC95N2RBSnhhZmh3STg1SWFpaDVUVXlWaExQdnRwUHNoNjJqekcwIn0%3D
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Napolitano: Trump Needs to Take Lawyer Issue, Probe Seriously
by Sandy Fitzgerald

{ newsmax.com } ~ President Donald Trump must take special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation seriously while he's pulling together a legal team... Judge Andrew Napolitano said Monday, calling it "unbelievable" the president has only a few people representing him. "Bob Mueller has, as I said, 13 federal prosecutors — experienced prosecutors — and 30 FBI agents," Napolitano, Fox News' senior legal analyst, told "America's Newsroom." "The president has one full-time and one part-time lawyer. That's it." His comments come after The New York Times reported on Sunday that Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing would not be joining the president's special counsel legal team, as it was revealed that their law firm has represented other clients involved in Mueller's probe. One of those people, former Trump campaign adviser Sam Clovis is a witness who will be testifying against Trump, Napolitano said....
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Political Pawns Ignorantly March Against Gun Rights 

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               And what was the message? Well, to put it simply, the right to feel safe trumps an individual’s Second Amendment right to be safe. Democrats and the mainstream media touted the “courage” and “leadership” of these young Americans, using the backdrop of the Parkland, Florida, atrocity to suggest that students understand the “gun issue” better than the average adult. Though many of the marchers were highly emotive but well-intentioned, their benign indifference to (and abject ignorance of) Liberty and its most foundational assurances is undermining their fundamental rights. But they won't recognize that until those liberties are lost. The leftists at the helm of the Democrat Party have based the achievement of their statist objectives in such ignorance, which they have institutionalized in the government schools — the pool from whence came many of the march’s attendees.
               Why don’t students know what an “assault weapon” is? Why don’t they know why the Constitution protects the God-given right to bear arms? Because they are not taught; they are indoctrinated.
               The truth is this march was part of an organized and orchestrated effort by wealthy leftists, who, by appealing to emotions over facts, press their statist agenda. These students are simply being used as pawns in a culture war that aims to convince Americans their Second Amendment rights are the root of the problem, causing violence and crime, rather than the palladium of Liberty. Students are not being taught the true value of the right to bear arms. Instead, they are being taught to view the Second Amendment as a flawed ethic that the Founding Fathers got wrong and that needs to be eliminated. Clearly, as Mark Alexander notes, “Our nation has reached the pinnacle of privilege when some citizens have become so ignorant and complacent that they want rights taken away.”   ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/54964-political-pawns-ignorantly-march-against-gun-rights

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Wed/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Is Trump Assembling a War Cabinet? 
by Pat Buchanan  
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Wednesday Top Headlines 
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More good news: U.S. energy exports hit record in 2017; petroleum and natural gas both hit all-time highs (CNS News)
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At least 12 states to sue Trump administration over census citizenship question (The New York Times)
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Orange County supervisors vote to join Trump’s fight against California “sanctuary” laws (Los Angeles Times)
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China says North Korea’s Kim pledged commitment to denuclearization (Reuters)
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Trump administration strikes trade deal with South Korea (NPR)
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States brace for liar-nObamaCare sticker shock (The Washington Times)
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Supreme Court takes new look at partisan gerrymandering (NBC News)
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Al Sharpton’s half-brother charged in murder after marching against guns (Washington Examiner)
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NRA PAC donations more than tripled in February (The Washington Free Beacon)
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If the jackboot fits? A new epithet emerges for Parkland teens calling for more gun control: Nazis (The Washington Post)
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Air Force risks losing third of F-35s if upkeep costs aren’t cut (Bloomberg)
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From the annals of “settled science”: Scientists discover “new organ” hiding in plain sight (New York Post)
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Backlash after Planned Parenthood branch tweets: “We need a Disney princess who’s had an abortion” (Fox News)
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NFL owners finalize $90M social-justice deal without resolving protests (The Washington Times)
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Policy: Facebook privacy scandal: why regulation is not the answer (Investor’s Business Daily)
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Policy: A quiet win at the Department of Education (National Review)   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55022-wednesday-top-headlines
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American who escaped Al Qaeda captivity 
says FBI, under Mueller and Comey, betrayed him
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by Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. Browne, Cyd Upson
{ foxnews.com } ~ After he escaped from Al Qaeda in Syria, American photojournalist Matt Schrier investigated his own kidnapping... and uncovered what he describes as a pattern of "betrayal" by FBI agents handling his case. Schrier is now asking hard questions of former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who now leads the special counsel Russia probe, and former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by President Trump in May 2017. "Not every FBI agent is bad. Some are very good people," Schrier told Fox News. "But the ones that are bad need to be weeded out. And the ones who let them be bad, and who turn their head, need to be exposed." In an exclusive cable interview that first aired Monday on "The Story" with Martha MacCallum, Schrier went in depth, sharing emails, financial records and formal letters of complaint, which backed up allegations that after he was taken hostage in 2012, the FBI monitored his accounts as Al Qaeda terrorists used his money to buy at least a dozen computers and tablets...
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Bozell Announces ‘Fact-Checking 
the Fact-Checkers’ Project: ‘Americans Deserve the Truth’ 
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by Craig Bannister
{ cnsnews.com } ~ The Media Research Center (MRC) has launched a new project: Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers... As major news outlets increasingly rely on leftist “fact-checkers” to verify the credibility of news, this MRC initiative will vigilantly ensure the fact-checkers themselves are reliable – or, expose them as liberal partisans if they aren't. “In an era of ‘fake news’ and inaccurate reporting, it is important now more than ever that the fact-checkers themselves are exposed for their biases,” MRC President Brent Bozell said Tuesday in a statement announcing the project. Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers will rate the pronouncements of the so-called fact-checkers and call out their liberal dishonesty, Bozell said...
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Were The ‘Favors’ This Social Media Giant 
Did For liar-nObama A Violation Of Federal Law? 
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{ clashdaily.com } ~ It’s written by Hans A. von Spakovsky, a former Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission in 2006-7... And his read of the facts involved is that there WERE violations of Campaign finance law. Considering the criminal prosecution of Dinesh D’Souza, added to the frenzied attention we’ve been seeing with both data-mining this story involves ‘data’ the relentless hammering on election tampering, this could be a big deal. Cambridge Analytica is the scapegoat these days, but there is a far more serious instance of data-sharing. And the company made by the world’s youngest Billionaire played a significant role in that. But a more serious case of apparent misconduct involves Facebook data going to a different presidential campaign – this time in 2012. In this case, which is getting far less attention, Facebook reportedly voluntarily provided data on millions of its users to the re-election campaign of President liar-nObama... https://clashdaily.com/2018/03/clash-quiz-favors-social-media-giant-obama-violation-federal-law/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=280007&utm_keyword=major1&utm_content=9835110&utm_source=Email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:9835110&utm_campaign=Were%20The%20%E2%80%98Favors%E2%80%99%20Facebook%20Did%20For%20Obama%20A%20Violation%20Of%20Federal%20Law?
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FBI arrests man after suspicious 
packages mailed to DC-area military, government facilities
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by Melissa Quinn
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The FBI has arrested a man accused of sending multiple suspicious packages... to military installations and government facilities in the Washington, D.C., area, the bureau said Tuesday. The man, Tranh Cong Phan, 43, was taken into custody at his home in Everett, Wash., and is scheduled to appear in federal court on Tuesday afternoon, according to the FBI. The FBI confirmed Monday it was investigating suspicious packages that were sent to mail processing facilities at Fort McNair, Fort Belvoir, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, and the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va. One package received Monday morning at the National Defense University at Fort McNair contained explosive material, which prompted an evacuation. That package tested positive for “black power and residue,” an Army spokesman said...
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Stormy Daniels admits she 
lied about alleged Trump affair in previous statements 
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{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ Daniels admitted on Sunday that she lied in previous public statements about her alleged affair with Donald Trump... The actress told 60 Minutes that she felt pressured to sign the nondisclosure agreement with Cohen before the presidential election. Daniels admitted to being untruthful in the public statement she issued in mid-January of this year, denying the affair. She had written at the time: I recently became aware that certain news outlets are alleging that I had a sexual and/or romantic affair with Donald Trump many, many, many years ago. I am stating with complete clarity that this is absolutely false. My involvement with Donald Trump was limited to a few public appearances and nothing more. She had again reiterated, “It never happened,” in a statement tweeted by Buzzfeed on January 30...  https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/sex-scandals/daniels-admits-she-lied.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=CNA2&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=CNA2
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Is Trump Assembling a War Cabinet? 
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by Pat Buchanan 
{ townhall.com } ~ The last man standing between the U.S. and war with Iran may be a four-star general affectionately known to his Marines as "Mad Dog."

Gen. James Mattis, the secretary of defense, appears to be the last man in the Situation Room who believes the Iran nuclear deal may be worth preserving and that war with Iran is a dreadful idea.

Yet, other than Mattis, President Donald Trump seems to be creating a war cabinet.

Trump himself has pledged to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal -- "the worst deal ever" -- and reimpose sanctions in May.

His new national security adviser John Bolton, who wrote an op-ed titled "To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran," has called for preemptive strikes and "regime change."

Secretary of State-designate Mike Pompeo calls Iran "a thuggish police state," a "despotic theocracy," and "the vanguard of a pernicious empire that is expanding its power and influence across the Middle East."

Trump's favorite Arab ruler, 32-year-old Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, calls Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei "the Hitler of the Middle East."

Bibi Netanyahu is monomaniacal on Iran, calling the nuclear deal a threat to Israel's survival and Iran "the greatest threat to our world."

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley echoes them all.

Yet Iran appears not to want a war. U.N. inspectors routinely confirm that Iran is strictly abiding by the terms of the nuclear deal.

While U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf often encountered Iranian "fast attack" boats and drones between January 2016 and August 2017, that has stopped. Vessels of both nations have operated virtually without incident.

What would be the result of Trump's trashing of the nuclear deal?

First would be the isolation of the United States.

China and Russia would not abrogate the deal but would welcome Iran into their camp. England, France and Germany would have to choose between the deal and the U.S. And if Airbus were obligated to spurn Iran's orders for hundreds of new planes, how would that sit with the Europeans?

How would North Korea react if the U.S. trashed a deal where Iran, after accepting severe restrictions on its nuclear program and allowing intrusive inspections, were cheated of the benefits the Americans promised?

Why would Pyongyang, having seen us attack Iraq, which had no WMD, and Libya, which had given up its WMD to mollify us, ever consider given up its nuclear weapons -- especially after seeing the leaders of both nations executed?

And, should the five other signatories to the Iran deal continue with it despite us, and Iran agree to abide by its terms, what do we do then?

Find a casus belli to go to war? Why? How does Iran threaten us?

A war, which would involve U.S. warships against swarms of Iranian torpedo boats could shut down the Persian Gulf to oil traffic and produce a crisis in the global economy. Anti-American Shiite jihadists in Beirut, Baghdad and Bahrain could attack U.S. civilian and military personnel.

As the Army and Marine Corps do not have the troops to invade and occupy Iran, would we have to reinstate the draft?

And if we decided to blockade and bomb Iran, we would have to take out all its anti-ship missiles, submarines, navy, air force, ballistic missiles and air defense system.

And would not a pre-emptive strike on Iran unite its people in hatred of us, just as Japan's pre-emptive strike on Pearl Harbor united us in a determination to annihilate her empire?

What would the Dow Jones average look like after an attack on Iran?

Trump was nominated because he promised to keep us out of stupid wars like those into which folks like John Bolton and the Bush Republicans plunged us.

After 17 years, we are still mired in Afghanistan, trying to keep the Taliban we overthrew in 2001 from returning to Kabul. Following our 2003 invasion, Iraq, once a bulwark against Iran, became a Shiite ally of Iran.

The rebels we supported in Syria have been routed. And Bashar Assad -- thanks to backing from Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and Shiite militias from the Middle East and Central Asia -- has secured his throne.

The Kurds who trusted us have been hammered by our NATO ally Turkey in Syria, and by the Iraqi Army we trained in Iraq.

What is Trump, who assured us there would be no more stupid wars, thinking? Truman and LBJ got us into wars they could not end, and both lost their presidencies. Eisenhower and Nixon ended those wars and were rewarded with landslides.

After his smashing victory in Desert Storm, Bush I was denied a second term. After invading Iraq, Bush II lost both houses of Congress in 2006, and his party lost the presidency in 2008 to the antiwar Barack liar-nObama.

Once Trump seemed to understand this history.

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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Holy Week in Jail 
by Tom McLaughlin
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Shocking New Texts from Disgraced 
Anti-Trump FBI Lovers Strzok-Page
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by Onan Coca
{ lidblog.com } ~ Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) has the hottest gossip in Washington, D.C... and it’s likely to force the media to keep asking questions about the nature of the corruption that seems to have plagued the FBI during the Comey/McCabe and liar-nObama administrations. Meadows has gotten his hands on more Strzok-Page texts that incriminate the FBI actions pertaining to the 2016 Presidental election. Meadows is the leader of the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative organization that while not “hostile” to President Trump, has been stood in his way on various issues including the  Omnibus spending bill and raising tariffs. However, while he and his caucus may not be Trump’s biggest fans, they are tired of watching the Democrats get away with lawlessness while simultaneously accusing the President of crimes no one actually believes he committed. Late Sunday night he released a few of the latest texts incriminating the FBI in a coordinated effort to collude with liar-Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential election...  https://lidblog.com/strzok-page-election/
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Patriot Rep Steve King Takes
On Commie Millennial Disarmament Agitators 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ One of the attention addicts being trotted out by the anti-American disarmament peddlers on the communist left is Emma Gonzalez... who, judging from the appearance of her pants, must have been in one of those revolutionary machete fights on the way to the March for Confiscation and Slavery on Saturday. Her presentation included a stunt in which she stood on stage and made a repulsive spectacle of herself as cried like Hussein liar-nObama and Chuck clown-Schumer, blaming, not the killing field gun-free zones that allowed the massacre to take place, or the failures of law enforcement to do their jobs, but the guns the killer used. After all, they are the true enemy of the communist Democrats that prevent them from seizing power and engaging in political genocide. As part of her revolutionary “Che Guevara” outfit, Gonzalez wore a Cuban flag on her fatigue jacket. That, along with her hypocrisy, was noted by Rep Steve King’s campaign staff...  https://rickwells.us/steve-king-commie-agitators/
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Leftists Are the Attackers, Not the Victims
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by Lloyd Marcus
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Duped family members, friends, and fellow Christians have fallen for leftists' lie that all they are tearfully asking for is fairness and tolerance on various issues... The truth is, leftists are rabid, relentless attackers, using government, deception, and guilt-tripping to silence all opposition to their extreme anti-God, anti-traditional family, and anti-freedom agendas. Indoctrinated by leftists from kindergarten through college, youths actually believe that our First Amendment right of free speech should be repealed because conservative speech and ideas are offensive to them. Youths also believe they have a right to physically beat you up to shut you up. Outrageously, leftists are making tremendous gains on making speaking the truth about various issues illegal. Take abortion for example. Leftists say they are pro-choice. The truth is, leftists are at war with innocent unborn babies, wanting as many murdered as possible. Why? Because leftists believe that humanity is bad for the planet. Leftists write countless articles infecting youths with their lie that  childbirth is environmentally irresponsible. Leftists say screw God's command to "be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:28). Leftists, in their prideful arrogance, believe they are smarter than God...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/leftists_are_the_attackers_not_the_victims.html
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All The Second Amendment Lies 
From So-Called ‘March For Our Lives’
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by Warner Todd Huston
{ lidblog.com } ~ As with most things liberals do, they claim that they are being “inclusive” when they really aren’t... and the so-called “March For Our Lives” was a perfect example of this. Also, as with most things liberals do, the whole raison d’etre is based on lies, second amendment lies, and the weekend’s march was filled to the brim with that, too. Then there is the violent rhetoric and hate for all things they disagree with. In all, this so-called march was just another example of left-hate at its worst. First of all, this rally was far from merely a rally to talk about gun laws. It also became a massive Democrat Party voter registration drive. According to Breitbart News: “One woman registering voters told Breitbart News that 500 volunteers were in the crowd on Saturday to sign up protesters.”  Far from focusing on gun laws, this so-called march was just a smoke screen to enlarge the Democrat Party… which, by the way, has failed to pass any new gun laws...  https://lidblog.com/second-amendment-lies/.
Stormy Daniels And Cohen Lawyers Go Head To Head
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by AMBER ATHEY
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Lawyers for porn star Stormy Daniels and Trump attorney Michael Cohen waged war for their respective clients... during an intense CNN panel on Monday evening. Daniels appeared on “60 Minutes” for a long interview on Sunday night where she answered numerous questions about her alleged affair with Donald Trump but stopped short of providing any evidence that could prove her claims. “I was completely underwhelmed,” David Schwartz, the attorney for Cohen, said. “What new did we learn? I mean, you’re an iconic news person — that was not anything, you know, dramatic by any stretch of the imagination.” Schwartz also called out Daniels and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, for accusing Cohen of threatening her into signing a non-disclosure agreement about the alleged affair...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/26/stormy-trump-lawyers-battle-cnn/?utm_medium=email
VIDEO at the site.
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Holy Week in Jail 
by Tom McLaughlin
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{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ It’s Holy Week, but how many Americans know anymore what that is? For Christians, it’s the final week of the Lenten Season, but this year it coincides with the Final Four, the end of March Madness. Perhaps the latter is more recognized than the former in today’s America.

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It’s been nearly two years since I volunteered for a weekly Bible study at Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) in Portland, Maine and it’s a challenge. When I taught history I’d have the same students every day and planned lessons each building on the other. At the jail, I never know who will come through the door or how many. Maybe two or three will have attended before. Maybe none. Sometimes it’s a completely new group. Some enter carrying donated Bibles which are supplied free but most arrive empty-handed. 
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Windham Correctional Facility
 

Most CCJ inmates are there less than a year either awaiting trial or already sentenced. Those who get longer stretches go to Windham Correctional Center or Maine State Prison in Warren. Inmates at every prison were in a jail first and given high recidivism, all correctional facilities have revolving doors.

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An average Bible Study has eight or ten guys, some with much biblical knowledge, some with none, others in between. I always have a plan but it seldom unfolds as intended. How can I impart a sense of what Holy Week means to inmates who don’t know what Christianity is? Those with knowledge are eager to expand it. Others have no idea of what the Bible contains and for their sake I most offer a broad context.
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I tell them the Bible has two parts: the Old Testament and the New Testament. Last week I drew a timeline on a white board. Explaining that we don’t know when creation occurred, I began by writing:

Abraham — 2000 BC
Moses — 1500 BC
King David — 1000 BC.
Babylonian Exile — 500 BC
Jesus Christ — 0.
Muhammed — 600 AD.

Dates were approximate and the Bible doesn’t mention Muhammed, but most inmates have been exposed to Islam because it’s usually not their first experience behind bars. They’ve have done hard time in prisons where Islam has a significant presence and occasionally I’ll get Muslims from Somalia or converts.
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After fixing the Bible in time, I fix it in space using a folder full of maps. Starting with a world map showing Maine and Israel highlighted in red, I then I hold up one of the Mediterranean Sea with Rome, Greece, and Israel highlighted. Then I’ll draw a crude map of the eastern Mediterranean across the Persian Gulf toward Iran on the white board. Often there are Iraq and Afghanistan veterans present who know the region. I trace Abraham’s migration from the Persian Gulf up through Syria and down to Israel. Then I trace Israel’s enslavement in Egypt, the exodus back to Israel under Moses, the rise of King David, the establishment of Jerusalem, Israel’s captivity in what’s now Iraq during the Babylonian exile, and finally back to Israel for the birth of Jesus.
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If I ask how long ago Jesus lived there are lots of blank stares. “What year is this?” I say. “In the western world, we measure time from before Jesus and after Him because He was considered the most important figure in history and the Bible is divided the same way: The Old Testament is about events before Christ. The New Testament begins with His birth 2018 years ago. We get our seven-day week from the creation story in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament.”
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Wide eyes tell me most never realized this. Finally, I explain the four gospels which begin the New Testament, each of which ends with events of Holy Week — the Last Supper, Crucifixion, Resurrection — the crux of Christianity.
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Questions are asked and answered. Then comes a review of original sin — Adam and Eve’s fall from grace in Genesis. Throughout the Old Testament Jews sacrificed lambs to atone for sin. The New Testament tells of Jesus Christ offering himself as the perfect sacrifice by His death on the cross, then rising from death. That’s why He’s called “The Lamb of God” — the final atonement.
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This week I’ll offer a more detailed summary of Holy Week: Christ re-entered Jerusalem on Sunday. Thursday he held the Last Supper, was betrayed, put before Pontius Pilate, then beaten and scourged. On Friday he was crucified with two others. On the third day, Easter Sunday, he rose from the dead.
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Recently a very young inmate with a cross crudely tattooed between his eyes came in early before anyone else. He asked me, “Is it ever too late to get into heaven?” I told him of the “good thief” crucified next to Jesus who said to Him, “Remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
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“Today you will be with me in Paradise,” Jesus said.

“No,” I said. “It’s never too late.”
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Two School Shootings, One Media Narrative 
by Arnold Ahlert
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Gohmert Calls For New GOP Leadership – 
End of Senate Filibuster For Spending Bills 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ In the setup for his interview with Rep Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Stewart Varney plays a clip of President Trump saying... that this was the only time he was going to sign a garbage bill like the one he just held his nose and signed, the backstabbers Paul Ryan – Mitch McConnell disaster that was once again the fulfillment of the Democrat Party’s wish list. After noting that Gohmert didn’t vote for the bill, Varney asks if it’s time for backstabbers Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan to hit the dusty trail. Gohmert points out that the spending bill could end up costing the Republicans the majority and in that case there’d be a total change of leadership in the House no matter what. Evidently he’s choosing to battle Ryan later, if need be. Gohmert points out that the Senate likes to hang on to bad leadership, so there might not be any changes on that side. He says, “You’ve got to remember, Stewart, when you’ve got McConnell, Cornyn, clown-Schumer in the room from the Senate. You’ve got Ryan, you’ve got Pulosi,” somehow he’s not sure about Steny Hoyer, “I don’t think he’s for a wall,” saying that apparently “there’s nobody in the room that wants a wall.”...
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Marines Experiment With New Technology 
Concepts for the Urban Battlefield
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by Gidget Fuentes
{ news.usni.org } ~ The Marine Corps is planning for a future that will pit Marines against an enemy well-versed in fighting and hiding in crowded urban areas... and equipped with high-tech weapons and communications systems. Current events have validated these assumptions about future operations, including the use of bomb-bearing and swarm-capable drones during recent attacks on a Russia base in Syria. Such threats loomed large as a Marine infantry rifle company took to the streets of a Camp Pendleton combat town this week to experiment with several dozen new technologies and prototypes designed to make them more lethal, effective, efficient and agile in an urban fight. About 180 Marines are participating in the Urban 5th Generation Marine Exploration and Experimentation 2018 exercise at Camp Pendleton. U5G 2018 runs from March 15-25 and is the first in a progressive series of exercises this year focused on identifying potential technology enhancements for the Marine Corps rifle company and its subordinate units...  https://news.usni.org/2018/03/26/marines-experiment-new-technology-concepts-urban-battlefield?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=612bae35f3-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-612bae35f3-231491269&mc_cid=612bae35f3&mc_eid=3999f18767 
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Wasserman Schultz, Dems Coming 
After Ammo With Background Check 
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{ ickwells.us } ~ A simple look at the banner containing the reporter’s name and the hash tag #neveragin reveals the content of the report isn’t going to be objective... The reporter points out that “students” have been “demanding more gun control” since the Parkland shooting and takes the position that we should let children, most of whom have never read the Constitution, determine the content of our laws for us. She says, “And now we’re starting to see some action,” with the grotesque Debbie Wasserman Schultz targeting “a major loophole she says she’s planning to close.” Having never been investigated further for her role in the Pakistani Awan espionage ring, Schultz still has power and her position. After first referencing the disarmament march on Saturday, Schultz rolled out the next phase of the globalist’s orchestrated gun confiscation effort. She said, “Saturday was a launch pad. So anyone that thinks that that was the end is sadly mistaken.”... https://rickwells.us/wasserman-schultz-after-ammo/
NATO Braces for Putin’s Next Military Move in Eastern Europe
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by Nolan Peterson 
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Since 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military aggression in Ukraine has rearranged the national defense chessboards of countries across Eastern Europe... In turn, the NATO military alliance has deployed weapons and troops eastward, to “make clear that an attack on one Ally would be considered an attack on the whole Alliance,” said NATO’s website. And the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has approved delivery of American anti-tank weapons to Ukraine. Yet, U.S. and NATO military leaders may have it wrong when it comes to anticipating Russia’s next military move in the region, a U.S. think tank says.  “The Russian military is well-positioned to launch a short-notice conventional war in Ukraine and a hybrid war in the Baltic states, the opposite of what Western leaders seem to expect in each theater,” Catherine Harris and Frederick Kagan wrote in a March joint report for the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project... https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/03/26/nato-braces-putins-next-military-move-eastern-europe/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpaaU9UTmtaakU1T1RsbCIsInQiOiIyNFZuWU9kVFNBRXNSV1FlMGFQaWRDSWs3bVozcHg4bjNaMG01bEdrRjczeXdtQlhlUmpnclUyVWpjcXhSTEFjUHNIRlY4ZnpONGJyWFVKc0hUaUpHWmpLYm9LaW5kSWx4b1BrbkR5d3IyeGtIR25JNkdMazMxeUZzckErMjhFcCJ9
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Bell Tolls for Cuomo 
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{ judicialwatch.org } ~ New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been slowly sinking in his own personal purgatory lately... beset by the corruption trial of a former close aide and a primary challenge from the Left by actress Cynthia Nixon. Things got worse last week when news emerged that a Cuomo-appointed parole board was freeing cop killer Herman Bell. The news sent a shock wave across New York. Bell was one of three members of the radical Black Liberation Army responsible for the brutal 1971 slaughter of two New York City police officers, Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones. Judicial Watch told the story when Bell came up for parole in 2014. Piagentini and Jones were ambushed at a housing project in Harlem, lured there by a fake 911 call. Readers of Investigative Bulletin will recall a fake call, a year later, lured NYPD Patrolman Phillip Cardillo to his death in Harlem. Jones died immediately in a hail of gunfire. Piagentini took longer to die, pleading with his killers that he had a wife and daughters at home. They showed him no mercy, firing twenty-two bullets into his body. Justice caught up with Herman Bell in 1973 and he has been in prison ever since. For decades, he insisted he was innocent. His story began to change only when it became obvious that he would never escape prison without accepting responsibility for his crimes. But as late as a 2012 appearance before the parole board, he still insisted he was “a political prisoner.”... https://www.judicialwatch.org/bulletins/bell-tolls-cuomo/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tipsheet&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180327161452
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Two School Shootings, One Media Narrative 

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               Despite a plethora of evidence to the contrary, the Parkland  narrative continues to be framed as a gun control issue, and thus remains front and center. This includes the latest expletive-filled diatribe by the media-anointed anti-gun “authority,” Parkland student David Hogg. By contrast, the Great Mills narrative of a “good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun” has, by comparison, been relegated to the ash heap of history.
               The Parkland atrocity occurred Feb. 14. Every day since, South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel newspaper has published either a front page story, an editorial, a steady barrage of anti-gun letters to the editor, or some combination of all three. Sunday’s paper was no exception. Both the front page and the editorial section were entirely focused on the March for Our Lives, the progressive-controlled anti-gun demonstration that took place Saturday in Washington, DC, and in other cities around the country.
               This writer checked every page of the Nation & World section in the same newspaper, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Not a word about Great Mills — despite the reality it occurred on March 20, more than a month more recently than Parkland.
               What has become “ancient history” with regard to Parkland? The massive failure of government at every level — including the race-based liar-nObama administration school discipline policy that enabled the massacre. A Google search of “policies responsible for Parkland shooting” reveals the most recent story written about the colossal failures evinced by both the FBI and Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel’s department was posted March 5, by the conservative website RedState. A Feb. 23 Washington Post article mentions one of the prime players in that failure, deputy Scot Peterson.
               Yet the point of the Post piece was not about the armed deputy’s cowardice but about clinical psychologist Laurence Miller’s assertion that arming teachers is “a recipe for disaster.”
               NPR columnist David Desroches adds a racist angle to the progressive push-back against armed presence in schools. “Studies have shown that students do better when they feel safe, but there’s a line,” he asserts. “If a school is too secure, it can have the opposite effect. Especially for students of color.”
               What about an armed police presence? Following the Newtown shooting in 2013, Chicago public school teacher Ashley Lauren Samsa derided that proposition, insisting it “will only add to a culture where guns are commonplace, making them part of every day life rather than weapons to be used only when absolutely necessary.”
               Perhaps Samsa was unaware that guns in Chicago — in the hands of criminals — are already commonplace and have turned that city into a killing field, despite it having some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation.
               That guns in the hands of the law-abiding are a recipe for disaster, inherently racist, or culturally deleterious goes a long way toward explaining why the heroic efforts of Great Mills High School resource officer, Blaine Gaskill, who directly confronted and ultimately killed the shooter, remain largely under-reported.
               And when stories about guns saving lives are reported? CNN  pointed out that “students at Great Mills High School walked out of class as part of a student-led protest against school violence in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School” and that students from the Florida school were “offering their thoughts and calling for an end to gun violence in schools.”
               That would be the same CNN that apparently canceled an interview with Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland student who is pro-Second Amendment. Why? In an interview with The Daily Signal, Kashuv stated the obvious: “There’s a clear media blackout for people that don’t have the same agenda as the news organization.”
               CNN’s agenda has been clear for quite some time. Its orchestrated  anti-gun town hall following the Stoneman shooting was reminiscent of George Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate,” with NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio alternatively playing the part of 1984’s  Emmanuel Goldstein. What is the likelihood CNN will host a similar town hall where Second Amendment supporters can air contrasting opinions? Zero.
               Several Google searches using a variety of terms centered on the media bias that accrues to the two incidents yielded a single piece by The New American, a conservative website. Columnist Bob Adelmann took the usual suspects to task, rightly explaining the incident in Maryland provides no “grist for the anti-gun media.”
               He further notes The Washington Post, which assigned seven reporters to the story, framed the issue as one crediting Gaskill “with  possibly saving lives by quickly engaging the shooter.” (Italics added.) Yet three paragraphs later, and exactly like CNN, the Post reminded its readers that the incident “comes days before thousands are expected in Washington for Saturday’s March for Our Lives rally, a march against gun violence and school shootings.”
               The end of the piece reeks of anti-gun calculation, courtesy of the Maryland killer’s neighbor, Toni Foreman. “What’s next, world?” she asks. “What do we need to do so our kids can be safe and go to school? How many more kids have to die?”
               As many as those who eschew an armed presence in schools, while maintaining a reverence for the intellectually bankrupt notion of “gun free” zones are willing to countenance, Ms. Foreman. Reflexively anti-gun people so out of touch with reality that the Blue Mountain School District in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, will be “arming” students — with buckets of river stone. “If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full students armed with rocks and they will be stoned,” district superintendent Dr. David Helsel warns.
               Such lunacy will be aided and abetted every step of the way by a mainstream media that would rather advance a narrative than report the facts.
               And there is nothing more inimical to the media’s “assault weapon” ban narrative than the inconvenient fact that the Maryland assailant used his father’s legally owned, 9mm Glock handgun to commit his crime.
               What now, for that narrative — other than the American Left’s desire to ban guns outright laid bare?
               On March 14, during the National School Walkout — as in the prior leftist-orchestrated, student recruitment effort — a New Prague High School student holding a sign that said, “Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People,” was removed from the march by the school’s principal. According to fellow student Kenny MacDonald, the “offending” student was also threatened with arrest.
               Ironically, that violation of the student’s First Amendment rights was an object lesson regarding the need for the Second Amendment. That this immutable reality is disdained by a thoroughly corrupt media who are the greatest beneficiaries of a Second Amendment that protects a First Amendment that protects them — is even more ironic.   ~The Patriot Pos
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Tues/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCove

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Trump Chooses Readiness 
for Real War Over Culture War 
by Harold Hutchison
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Trump Rebuilds U.S. Military
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by Matthew Vadum
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ After eight long years of Barack liar-nObama decimating the military... President Trump is proudly beginning the process of rebuilding the nation’s armed forces and defense capabilities. As the president signed the omnibus spending bill Friday that avoided another partial government shutdown and funded the government through the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30, Defense Secretary James Mattis, hailed the measure as “the largest military budget in history, reversing many years of decline and unpredictable funding.” At the White House Trump explained why such a spending boost was necessary as he reflected on the serious damage that the previous president did to national security and military preparedness...
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Overhaul of U.S. Telecoms Database 
Sparks Fear of Catastrophic Failure 
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by Adam Kredo
{ freebeacon.com } ~ An impending overhaul of the national U.S. telecommunications database is prompting fears the transition could spark a catastrophic failure... crippling emergency communications networks across the United States, according to industry insiders who told the Washington Free Beacon the foreign firm handling the upcoming transition may not be prepared to initiate the switch. On April 8, a foreign firm will initiate the first phase in a Federal Communications Commission-mandated overhaul of the national telecoms database that stores and facilitates millions of American phone numbers. The national database, known as the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC), handles 6 billion calls and texts per day, and if the system fails, no calls at all will be able to be placed. It is being taken over by a foreign-owned firm with a past of breaching U.S. national security clauses banning it from employing foreign workers, such as those tied to China...
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Sen. Lee Officially Blocks 
Trump’s Choice for Colombia Ambassador 
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by Susan Crabtree
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) is blocking the confirmation of Joseph Macmanus... a career foreign service officer nominated to the post of U.S. ambassador to Colombia. "Sen. Lee still has his hold on Macmanus, and we have no plans to lift it," Lee's spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon Friday. Senators can single-handedly prevent any presidential nominee from receiving a vote on the Senate floor through a parliamentary procedure known simply as a "hold." The hold can last for the rest of the congressional year and force President Trump to either nominate a new person for the role or wait until January when a new Congress begins to nominate Macmanus again... http://freebeacon.com/issues/sen-lee-officially-blocks-trumps-choice-colombia-ambassador/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=a698a292d0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-a698a292d0-45611665
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Houthi leader again promises to 
take part in any future conflict between Hezbollah and Israel
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by CALEB WEISS
{ longwarjournal.org } ~ In a recent interview with the Lebanese publication Al Akhbar, Abdel Malek al Houthi, the leader of Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi insurgent group... again promised his forces would fight alongside Hezbollah in a future conflict with Israel in Lebanon. “If there is a new war with Israel, we will not hesitate to send the fighters,” al Houthi says. He follows this statement up by saying that there are “thousands of fighters from the sons of the tribes excited to fight against Israel.” These comments were directed to Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanese Hezbollah. Additionally, referring to the Houthi’s relationship to both Hezbollah and Iran, the Houthi leader said that “we consider this the responsible, correct, and natural position according to our Islamic affiliation and because of high interest to our nation.” He then states “we see in our brothers in the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah brothers who won the honor of liberation and who carried the flag of the Ummah in the face of American hegemony and have taken a sincere stand with the Palestinian people...   https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/03/houthi-leader-again-promises-to-take-part-in-any-future-conflict-between-hezbollah-and-israel.php 
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Michael Cohen's lawyer sends Stormy Daniels 
cease and desist letter after '60 Minutes' interview

{ foxnews.com } ~ The lawyer for Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney... sent adult film star Stormy Daniels a cease and desist letter late Sunday following her interview with “60 Minutes” where she spoke about her alleged affair with Trump and claimed she faced threats to her safety. Brent Blakely, Cohen's attorney, demanded that Daniels apologize for insinuating that his client was behind the threat she described that allegedly took place in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011. Daniels said in the interview that an unidentified man told her: "Leave Trump alone. Forget the story."....
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Trump Chooses Readiness for Real War Over Culture War 

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               The gist of the policy is that those who have undergone gender-reassignment surgery are disqualified from serving, as are those who are transitioning. Some service members are being grandfathered in, but they have to meet deployability standards. Those diagnosed with gender dysphoria can serve, provided they show three years of medical stability.
               First of all, many Americans — including at least two of your Patriot Post team members — are what might be called “involuntary civilians” due to medical issues or history. There’s a whole list of disqualifying medical conditions available at Military.com.
               Now compare the sex-transition process as described by Buzzfeed (not exactly a conservative bastion) or WebMD (generally non-political) to a couple of prescriptions for inflammatory bowel disease (a disqualifier for enlistment), having a hernia, or poor vision (which wiped out the military career of one Tom Clancy and kept Ronald Reagan stateside in World War II).
               WebMD describes some very major surgical procedures in the sex-transition process. These are only “necessary” because of a serious mental condition called gender dysphoria, and that’s not to mention a high likelihood of suffering post-surgery anxiety or depression, as well as physical complications arising from the reassignment surgery. After reading those sites, ask yourself this question: Would I consider someone going through that process as being able to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan for a year?
               The top consideration for the United State military is to have personnel ready for combat. There are already other worrying signs that some standards are being loosened, including a Marine Corps decision that completing the combat endurance test would not be a graduation requirement (one a few dozen women failed to complete) for the Infantry Officer’s Course. If someone is medically unable to deploy for a length of time, then another person must go in their place.
               Here’s a dirty little secret about the military: Its main purpose isn’t to “reflect America,” or to advance social acceptance of certain favored leftist traits; it’s to defend this country. That is accomplished by killing the bad guys, and breaking (or taking) their stuff, preferably in a manner that convinces other would-be bad actors on the international scene to not do anything to threaten America.
               Again, some on The Patriot Post team have felt the pain of being told we can’t serve our country. None of us, however, really understand what going through gender dysphoria is like. The new military guidelines, though, seem to strike a reasonable balance. Those with gender dysphoria should be able to serve, but if it reaches the point where the transition process must be started, then the best option is to grant them a medical discharge, and if they have served honorably, cover the costs of the process. After all, they did volunteer to lay down their lives for this country. What must not happen is for the military to become the vehicle to pay for the transitions of all comers.   

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54966-trump-chooses-readiness-for-real-war-over-culture-war

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Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Why won't Trump end the two-state farce?
by Caroline B. Glick 
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Texas AG Probing Border 
County Judge ‘Voting’ Years After Death 
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by MERRILL HOPE
{ breitbart.com } ~ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating a case of purported voter fraud where a border county judge, who, although dead since 2010, continues to vote... This stunning information surfaced at a February Senate Select Committee on Election Security meeting when Brantley Starr, deputy first assistant to the AG, gave a “shout out” to the retired district judge born in 1930 who remains on the registration rolls despite his death nearly eight years ago. “The interesting thing that’s remarkable of him voting three times in his 80’s is he died in May of 2010,” remarked Starr. That voter was Starr County Judge Blas Chapa, whose obituary ran in The Monitor within days of his passing. KRGV obtained the late judge’s voting records from the Texas Secretary of State. They showed Chapa voted right up to two months before he died. His voter registration account status remains “active” and, as noted, he voted three times since he died. Records indicate that despite his May 2010 death, he’s credited for casting a regular ballot in November 2010, plus the 2016 primary and general elections... http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/03/09/texas-ag-probing-border-county-judge-voting-years-death/#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=texas%7C2018%7C20probing%7Cborder%7Ccounty%7Cjudge
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Surprise, Surprise: March For Our Lives Once 
Again Shows Why The Left Can’t Be Trusted On Gun Control 
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by Matt Vespa
{ townhall.com } ~ There are areas where gun control activists and the pro-Second Amendment camp can meet... There are gun violence protective orders; keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, domestic abusers, and the mentally ill. But we’ll never get there. It’s all a trap. Even bills that strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) are a dangerous game because if you give the Left an inch, they’ll take a mile. They admitted it yesterday. Deleney Tarr, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student, gave an impassioned speech about how they’re going to do exactly that concerning gun control legislation, which is why Republicans, conservatives, pro-Second Amendment supporters, and any American who supports the Bill of Rights and the Constitution needs to start packing more sandbags and make sure our base turns out in 2018. The Huffington Post had a transcript of her speech from yesterday’s March To Take Away Our Rights…I mean—March For Our Lives rally.  First of all, let’s drop the myth that America is a shooting gallery. It’s not, especially in our schools, which are safer than ever. School shootings are still rare. Mass shootings are rare. Second, Fix NICS was part of the omnibus bill that was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Friday, so background checks have taken a step forward in being tightened. The NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation supported Fix NICS...   https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/03/25/surprise-surprise-march-for-our-lives-once-again-shows-why-the-left-cant-be-trusted-on-gun-control-n2464461 
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Mueller's Russia-Collusion Case 
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by Michael W. Chapman
{ cnsnews.com } ~ Commenting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of alleged Russia-Trump campaign collusion... Judicial Watch's Director of Investigations Chris Farrell said much of the so-called evidence collected by Mueller is tainted and that if Mueller had "any integrity," he would shut the investigation down. Farrell added that the entire case "is collapsing on itself in slow-motion." Farrell made his remarks on the March 21 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight. In discussing the case,  Farrell noted that the FBI's chief counterintelligence officer, Peter Strzok, had to be removed from Mueller's team last July because of numerous anti-Trump text messages he exchanged with his mistress, Lisa Page, a senior FBI attorney...  https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/judicial-watch-muellers-russia-collusion-case-colllapsing-itself-slow-motion?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVdNMk1qTm1ZbVZpTnpFNSIsInQiOiIwY3ozZkdFdmtzZVFUNHIzZ2oyNkFZaFp3dFBlM0ZrSnpKWlhUZ3BVeEEwZ3RTXC9UY3d3eGNVVDY0SHFMTk1aYTFhaFFuTzNwaXpjbmZ0SXZsZHF6QUc1RXg5U3FCeVpyXC9VZUZWTG1KMkpsYnpndGVUZkhLY2xIdkNpczJCVmZ3In0%3D.
The Bolton Warning
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by Joseph Klein
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ As had been predicted for some time, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is leaving his post as President Trump’s national security adviser... Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will replace General McMaster, effective as of April 9th. Like President Trump himself, John Bolton is an iconoclast. He will bring a no-holds-barred attitude to his White House position as the president’s new national security adviser, taking on dictators, appeasers, globalists and bureaucrats alike. Mr. Bolton indicated during an interview following the announcement of his appointment that, while he will not hold back from offering his candid opinions for the president’s consideration, he will also make sure that the president is presented with multiple viewpoints in helping him make key national security decisions. Moreover, he vowed to support whatever the president finally decides to do. Known as an infighter over the years against the foreign policy establishment bureaucracies, Mr. Bolton also said that part of his job will be “making sure the bureaucracies get the decision and implement it.” As reported by Foreign Policy, we can expect a “massive shake-up at the National Security Council, aiming to remove dozens of current White House officials, starting with holdovers from President Barack liar-nObama’s administration.”...
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liar-nObama Fantasizes About A 
Million Little Hussein or Michelle Brown Shirts 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Hussein liar-nObama is so impressed with himself and his domestic partner that he recently told a group in Japan... who voluntarily submitted to his blathering lecture, how wonderful it would be if he could create “a million young Barack liar-nObamas” for “human progress.” Are there that many homosexual communist Muslims in Kenya or would he have to settle for reasonable facsimiles from other countries where fake documents are as easy to come by as his were in Hawaii? He’s already almost doubled his target numbers with the count from the annual Hajj to Mecca coming in at over 1.8 million for 2016. Many of those are probably little Hussein or Michelle liar-nObamas in the making. Allahu Akbar, you’re a refugee.  liar-nObama made the statement as he was telling a Japanese audience about himself, as he inevitably always does, and what he’s been up to since his occupation of the White House ended and his anti-American crime syndicate was forced underground... https://rickwells.us/obama-million-brown-shirts/
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Why won't Trump end the two-state farce?
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by Caroline B. Glick
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ PLO chief and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is no idiot. He didn't survive as Yassir Arafat's deputy for 40 years and as his successor for 14 by being stupid.

So if he isn't stupid, why is he attacking the United States? Why did he deliver an anti-American diatribe Monday night that would have made Ho Chi Minh proud?

Not only did Abbas call US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman a "son of a dog." He blamed the US for all the woes of the Arab world.

Abbas said, "The so-called 'Arab Spring,' which is lauded by some simple-minded idiots, incapable of thinking, is in fact an 'American Spring,' which began in Gaza. We all know how Hamas joined the elections and then staged a coup, having received many American guarantees, both implicit and in public, because the US wants to separate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, so that there will be no united Palestinian state."

In other words, everything that happened in the Arab world over the past seven years has been part of an American plot to harm the Palestinians.

Monday's speech was not Abbas's first statement of this sort. In January, he bitterly attacked Friedman and US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley and called for Trump's "house to be destroyed." In the same speech, he said Israel was hooking Palestinian youth on drugs, that Zionism is an imperialist plot cooked up by Oliver Cromwell and that the Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel are dead.

Taken together, these two speeches make abundantly clear that Abbas has no interest whatsoever in any accord with Israel. Indeed, they show that Abbas remains the same anti-Semitic terrorist he was when he wrote his PhD dissertation and a bestselling book both proclaiming the Holocaust was a Zionist plot.

But unfortunately with everything having to do with Abbas, Saul Bellow's famous quip, "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep," seems to obtain at the White House.

Trump's chief negotiator Jason Greenblatt's response to Abbas's diatribe was a textbook case of willful ignorance.

"The time has come for President Abbas to choose between hateful rhetoric and concrete and practical efforts to improve the quality of life of his people, and lead them to peace and prosperity. Notwithstanding his highly inappropriate insults against members of the Trump administration -- the latest iteration being his insult of my good friend and colleague Ambassador Friedman -- we are committed to the Palestinian people and to the changes that must be implemented for peaceful coexistence."

Greenblatt added, "We are finalizing our plan for peace and we will advance it when circumstances are right."

Greenblatt's statement demonstrated that the Trump administration will not walk away from the conceptual framework the liar-Clinton administration adopted in 1993. That framework places the PLO -- and Israeli concessions to the PLO -- at the center of US policy in the Middle East.

By saying that the US will present its plan "when circumstances are right," Greenblatt said that there is no US ultimatum to the PLO. If Abbas doesn't want a deal, they will wait him out and offer it to his successor, or his successor's successor.

Whereas all Greenblatt did was make a statement, the Justice Department has put the US's addiction to the PLO into practice, by siding with the terror group against US victims of PLO terror.

In 2004 eleven families of US citizens wounded or murdered in PLO terror attacks in Israel filed a damages suit against the PLO in federal district court. Ruling on the basis of the 1992 Anti-Terrorism Act, in 2015, the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in Sokolow vs. the PLO under. The Anti-Terrorism Act permits US victims of overseas terror attacks to sue the perpetrators for damages in federal court.

The court awarded $218.5 million in damages. That sum was automatically tripled under the statute. So the PLO was ordered to pay its US victims $655.5 million in punitive damages.

The PLO appealed the ruling claiming that the US lacks jurisdiction. In August 2016, the 2nd circuit appellate court concurred and overturned the district court's verdict.

The plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court. The Court is scheduled to announce if it will hear the appeal on March 26.

The entire House of Representatives submitted an amicus brief asking the Court to hear the victims' appeal. The lawmakers noted that the 1992 law was passed precisely to enable terror victims like the Sokolow plaintiffs to receive damages for their suffering. 23 senators, spanning the ideological spectrum from Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren to Sen. Ted Cruz submitted an amicus brief along the same lines.

Last June, the Court asked US Solicitor General Noel Francisco to submit his own opinion. Francisco ignored the request for eight months. Then, late last month, After conferring with State Department and National Security Council officials, late last month Francisco submitted a brief siding with the PLO against its American victims.

Jurists attest the issue of jurisdiction raised by the PLO is complex. But the complexity of the law recommends against the Solicitor General's position and for Supreme Court adjudication.

The practical implication of the Solicitor General's brief is that the US government officially stands with the PLO against its victims and against the Congress.

The Solicitor General's brief like Greenblatt's statement prove that Abbas isn't stupid. He is rightly convinced that US government support for the PLO is so strong even the Trump administration won't abandon it.

Many observers argue that events are shifting realities so rapidly, what the administration wants is immaterial. It won't be able to sustain US support for a PLO-centric Middle East policy over time, even if it wants to.

This week the Senate is set to pass the Taylor Force Act. The measure will cut off a significant portion of US civilian aid to the PA due to PA payments to terrorists and their families. Trump is pledged to sign the bill into law.

As for the Trump teams peace plan, this week it was reported that the White House decided to delay presenting the plan due to Abbas's hostility.

Senior sources close to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attest that the prime minister subscribes to the view that Israel's best bet is to keep its head down. Netanyahu, his associates say, opposes putting forward an Israeli strategy for securing Israel's interests in Judea and Samaria because he doesn't want to upstage Trump.

Greenblatt's statement, and the Justice Department's support for the PLO against its US victims show the problem with Netanyahu's approach. Israel has long-term interest in Judea and Samaria that are undermined by the two-state formula. So long as Israel's interests are held in abeyance out of concern for the PLO, those interests are endangered.

Something has to give.

If the Trump administration won't take the initiative, Israel has to act.

Although the Trump administration may react negatively to such an Israeli move, a different administration would react much more negatively. Indeed, whereas Israel could depend on the liar-nObama administration to harm it if it dared to walk away from the failed and dangerous two-state model, Israel has an ally willing to listen to its concerns and intentions in the Trump White House.

To understand what can and must be done, it is important to consider the lessons of two past events.

From 1967 until 1993, US policy towards Israel and the Palestinians was to view the Palestinians as the party responsible for the absence of peace. The US held that so long as the PLO remained committed to its charter which called for a terror war against Israel until the Jewish state is annihilated, the US could have nothing to do with it. Moreover, the US opposed Palestinian statehood.

In 1993, the Rabin-Peres government went behind the US's back and opened a secret backchannel to the PLO. The Oslo initiative was undertaken without any US involvement. Then president Bill Clinton didn't recognize the PLO until after Arafat and then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the first Oslo agreement.

In other words, although supporting the PLO and its demands on Israel has been the centerpiece of the US's Middle East policy since 1993, the US didn't initiate the policy. Israel initiated it. The US merely followed Israel's lead.

In 1981, like Abbas today, then Syrian dictator Hafez Assad said he intended to fight Israel for another hundred years.

Then prime minister Menachem Begin realized that under the circumstances, there was no reason for Israel to maintain its military government in the Golan Heights any longer. Israeli citizens living on the strategic plateau couldn't be expected to live under a military government based on Syria's legal code for a hundred years, just to convince the Syrians that Israel wanted peace.

As Begin explained, if the Syrians changed their minds, Israel would negotiate. In the meantime, Begin reasoned, the civil rights of Israeli residents of the Golan Heights could only be protected by Israel's liberal legal code. So he passed the Golan Heights law which applied Israeli law to the Golan Heights.

In the intervening years, successive rounds of negotiations between Israel and Syria demonstrated that Begin was telling the truth. Applying Israeli law to the Golan Heights to facilitate the rule of law did not prevent Israel from negotiating possible territorial compromises in exchange for peace.

By the same token, today the half million Israelis who live in Judea and Samaria are treated as second class citizens. They are subjected to military rule predicated on Jordanian law.

Hoping to conclude a peace agreement with the PLO, successive governments have neglected the civil rights of these citizens. Now that Abbas announced the abrogation of the peace deals they signed with Israel, this position is impossible to justify.

As Begin did in 1981, the government should apply Israeli law to Area C of Judea and Samaria. Area C includes all the Israeli communities and all of the military installations Israel requires to defend itself from Palestinian and foreign Arab aggression.

Unlike his predecessors, Trump dared to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Unlike his predecessors, Trump will open the US embassy in Jerusalem. But like his predecessors, Trump will not initiate a breach with the two-state formula. As Rabin and Shimon Peres demonstrated in 1993, the US may follow Israel's lead if it is convinced that Israel's move is reasonable and adheres to the US's interest in regional stability and peace.

By invoking Begin's rationale for applying Israeli law to the Golan Heights, Netanyahu can make a credible case for why a similar move is required today in Judea and Samaria, as the smart PLO leader makes clear that he has no intention of making peace with Israel -- or with the United States.

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Tues/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Authoritarianism for Me but Not for Thee 
by David Limbaugh  
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Tuesday Top Headlines 
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FBI investigating suspicious packages sent to government offices (The Washington Times)
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FTC confirms it’s investigating Facebook (The Hill)
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House judiciary committee subpoenas 1.2M documents reviewed by DOJ IG (CNS News)
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The McCabe-Flynn double standard (The Wall Street Journal)
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California to sue Trump admin over citizenship question in 2020 census (Fox News)
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Orlando nightclub shooter’s father was FBI informant, say lawyers for killer’s widow (NPR)
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House and Senate Dems introduce bill to require background checks on ammunition sales (The Hill)
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Democrat NC sheriff hopeful apologizes for joke about taking guns away from people’s “cold, bare hands” (Fox News)
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“Transgenderism” causing parents to choose unisex baby names (The New American)
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Stormy who? Trump approval rating surges to highest point in nearly a year (The Washington Times)
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Humor: Confirmed: 2018 spending bill includes $30 million for paying off Trump mistresses (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Lawmakers pile up massive debt, putting tax cuts at risk (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: Congress should get past liar-nObamaCare, forget bailouts, and embrace real health reform (The Heritage Foundation)   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54990-tuesday-top-headlines
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Marching Disarmament Snowflakes 
Can’t Define Mythical “Assault Weapon” 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Nothing tells the story of how utterly stupid and easily led millennials and other followers of the Democrat mind-poison are... as well as the inane utterances that come out of their own uninformed mouths. Campus Reform attended the “March for Our Lives” on Saturday and vividly proved that point. The reporter begins by asking some of the attendees what kind of changes they would like to see implemented. Theoretically they must have some strong, informed position as their motivation for being out, away from home and demonstrating to change our government and trample on the rights of others. That isn’t the case for Democrat lemmings. Repeating chants are often as close to articulating their positions as they’re able to get. If they stray away from the confines of their nursery rhyme they get into trouble, as they demonstrated when asked the most basic of questions... https://rickwells.us/marching-disarmament-define-assault/
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A London Meeting Before The Election 
Aroused George Papadopoulos’s Suspicions
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by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Two months before the 2016 election, George Papadopoulos received a strange request for a meeting in London... one of several the young Trump adviser would be offered — and he would accept — during the presidential campaign. The meeting request, which has not been reported until now, came from Stefan K. Halper, a foreign policy expert and Cambridge professor with connections to the CIA and its British counterpart, MI6.  Halper’s September 2016 outreach to Papadopoulos wasn’t his only contact with Trump campaign members. The 73-year-old professor, a veteran of three Republican administrations, met with two other campaign advisers, The Daily Caller News Foundation learned.  According to a source with knowledge of the meeting, Halper asked Papadopoulos: “George, you know about hacking the emails from Russia, right?” Papadopoulos told Halper he didn’t know anything about emails or Russian hacking, the source said and spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. The professor did not follow up on the line of inquiry...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/25/george-papadopoulos-london-emails/?utm_medium=email 
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Tucker Finally Had Enough of David Hogg, 
Took Him Down on National TV
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by CILLIAN ZEAL
{ conservativetribune.com } ~ In the wake of the Parkland shooting, the left has waged a proxy war on guns. And they’ve done so with child soldiers... The most prominent of these has been David Hogg. If you’ve been anywhere near a TV, computer, smartphone or newspaper these past few weeks, you’ve undoubtedly seen Hogg, whose only compelling argument is that he survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and that you need to listen to him. Fox News host Tucker Carlson has had enough of this line of thinking. On his Friday show, in an analysis of the rhetoric of David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez — two of the most vocal anti-gun Stoneman Douglas students — Carlson called them extremists who are “definitely not fit to be making policy for the rest of us.”... https://conservativetribune.com/tucker-finally-had-enough/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune
VIDEO at the site.
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Palestinians: Why Hamas Will Not Disarm
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by Khaled Abu Toameh
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is living in an illusion if he thinks that his rivals in Hamas would ever agree to lay down their weapons or cede control over the Gaza Strip... Hamas has no intention of dismantling its military and security apparatus. It also does not have any intention of allowing Abbas's security forces to be stationed in the Gaza Strip. This refusal is why the "reconciliation" deal that Abbas signed with Hamas in Cairo in October 2017 will never be translated into facts on the ground. Hamas is prepared to give Abbas anything he wants in the Gaza Strip except for security control. Hamas has no problem allowing Abbas and his government to function as a "civil administration" in the Gaza Strip by providing funds and various services to government institutions there. If Abbas wants to pay salaries to civil servants in the Gaza Strip, that is fine with Hamas. If he wants to pay for fuel, water and electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, that is also fine with Hamas... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12095/hamas-gaza-weapons-control
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Trump orders expulsion of 60 Russian 
intelligence officials from US
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by Katelyn Caralle
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian intelligence officers from the U.S., senior administration officials announced Monday... in retaliation for Moscow's use of chemical weapons against a former Russian spy in the U.K. this month. Out of the 60 Russians who are being ordered to leave the country, 48 work at Russian embassies and consulates and 12 at the United Nations in New York. The administration is also closing the Russian Consulate in Seattle. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement that said the Seattle consulate closure is due to its proximity to a U.S. submarine base and Boeing. Naval Base Kitsap, which is about a 90-minute drive from Seattle, houses the Navy's West Coast-based Trident ballistic missile submarines...
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Authoritarianism for Me but Not for Thee 
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by David Limbaugh 
{ townhall.com } ~ It's funny how projection works. These hysterical Democrats calling for President Trump's impeachment because of his dastardly "authoritarian tendencies" are the ones with authoritarian tendencies.

I'll bet you didn't know that the president commits an impeachable offense if his political opponents harbor an irrational fear that he has authoritarian tendencies -- whether or not he has acted outside the scope of his constitutional authority, flouted the rule of law or done anything else that could be remotely construed as a high crime or misdemeanor. I didn't, either.

But doesn't it bother you just a little bit that the very people who are calling for Trump's removal because they don't like him or his policies want to put their own authoritarians in power, where they can actually flout the rule of law?

My chief complaint is not their hypocrisy, though it abounds among these sanctimonious progressives. It is that they are eager to twist the law to suit their political agenda while masquerading as sacred guardians of the Constitution.

Someone should ask these mob-thinking witch-hunters how they can contemplate impeachment without a colorable claim that Trump has committed an impeachable offense. Other than their incapacity for self-reflection, why are they demanding an official proceeding to remove the president based on what he stands for and things he says?

Granted, impeachment is largely a political matter, but riotous partisans shouldn't be allowed to just make things up and ignore the plain language of the Constitution and the historical background informing its provisions. Sure, liberal activists who can find an emanation and penumbra behind every constitutional rock can distort any constitutional provision beyond recognition. But would anyone but a rabid authoritarian pretend that the Framers intended "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" to include any lawful conduct or tweet that could be exploited in bad faith to overturn the democratic will of the voters?

The less likely it appears that Trump did anything improper with Russia, the more desperate these Democratic authoritarians become. There is an inverse relationship between the amount of actual evidence against Trump and the intensity of the Democrats' impeachment rhetoric. Old adages endure for a reason, and the Democrats are quite familiar with this one: "If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell."

Everywhere we look, Democrats are pounding the table and yelling like hell. On MSNBC's "All In With Chris Hayes," Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders said Trump has "a strong authoritarian personality" and shows a "disrespect for democracy" in the U.S. His proof: Trump admires foreign dictators, and he disrespects democracy in terms of voter suppression, gerrymandering and his attacks on the media. Well, I hate to tell you, commie-Bernie, but one of the telltale signs of leftists these days is their adoration for dictators such as the Castros. I also regret to inform you that Barack liar-nObama declared war on Fox News and conservative talk radio without a syllable of protest from you or your comrades. And gerrymandering? Really? Nevertheless, it's amusing for socialists to complain about authoritarianism when their lives are dedicated to consolidating governmental power to exercise authoritarian control over their subject citizens. But at least Sanders is not demanding impeachment -- yet.

Liberal MSNBC host Brian Williams slammed Republicans for lacking the courage to discuss impeaching Trump. Unsurprisingly, the authoritarian-prone Williams didn't cite any impeachable offenses.

Campus Reform reports that Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe is teaching a class that explores what impeachment and removal by other means might resemble in the Trump era. He has a new book coming out on the subject, and he was already calling for impeachment last May in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

In that essay, Tribe cited no impeachable misconduct on Trump's part. He just groused about the "emoluments clause" -- give me a break -- and that "ample reasons existed" to worry about Trump even before he fired FBI Director James Comey. Tribe argued that the nation couldn't afford to wait to begin impeachment proceedings. "To wait for the results of the multiple investigations underway is to risk tying our nation's fate to the whims of an authoritarian leader."

Soon after, Tribe said on MSNBC: "Letting him just sit out the time ... is too dangerous for the country. We have to start an impeachment investigation in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee now while the FBI continues to do its work."

Does that sound a bit authoritarian to you? Just begin the formal process to remove a sitting, duly elected president against whom there is no evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor. No big deal, right?

Not one member of the reckless cabal wildly calling for Trump's impeachment -- which includes leftists and parts of the never-Trump right -- can cite an actual abuse of authority by Trump, much less a high crime or misdemeanor. President liar-nObama violated the Constitution and the rule of law for sport, and liberals didn't care.

For the left, this isn't about the Constitution, the rule of law or authoritarianism; it's about getting rid of Trump at any cost to the Constitution and the rule of law -- and by any authoritarian means necessary.

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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
The Stormy Daniels story 
is not about Stormy Daniels 
by William A. Jacobson 
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Trump Says Military Will Build The Wall,
 It’s Funded, Starting Immediately 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Perhaps President Trump watched the Ann Coulter interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday, read my article on the topic on Friday... or already had his scheme worked out ahead of time for building the border wall now, without any further delays or exposure to the associated hazards to our nation that the open borders inflict on a daily basis. It could be that he’s been planning this tactic for his entire presidency, as a means to get around the appropriations obstruction the Democrats and open borders RINOs are using to prevent any real progress. He has the prototypes to choose from and the exemption for the Environmental impact assessments courtesy of a proper decision by Judge Curiel. The money has been given to the military in record amounts and is more than sufficient, it seems from his tweets, to immediately begin wall construction. A wall is a defensive barrier, it naturally should be constructed by the Defense Department. Viewing the border crisis as it truly is, an issue of national security, the most logical action is to engage the military in our defense. President Trump tweeted Sunday that the $1.6 billion is just a down payment, work will start immediately and that the rest of the money will come. It appears that the money is already in hand, with the omnibus bill allocating $655 billion to fight the war on terror. Mattis has plenty in the DoD account, it’s just a matter of him writing the check...
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Spying On Team Trump & Unmasking & Leaking: 
It Took Entire liar-nObama Administration
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by J.E. Dyer
{ lidblog.com } ~ It’s a lot easier to pull teeth than it has been to extract sense and meaning from the parade of data points we’ve been treated... to in the last 15 months on Whatever We’re Calling This Thing. Russiagate, Muh Trump, Deep State Attacks – pick your cultural pop-reference of choice. But we’ve reached the point at which two threads I’ve been presenting converge.  It’s time to lay out why they do, and what it means. The latest evidence of a leak from inside the White House clarifies the moment. What’s important about the leak is that it happened. After all these months of vigilance, it still happened. If you simply assume that that’s because neither Trump nor John Kelly is competent to run a staff, there’s not much I can do for you. The media have been doing their best to promote that as a theme, after all... https://lidblog.com/obama-administration-spy-leak-unmask/
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NUNES Says IMPEACH SESSIONS, 
DOJ Officials If Docs Not Produced Immediately 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Devin Nunes, who comes from a farming background as a dairyman, addresses the topic of President Trump imposing tariffs on China and the retaliations they have threatened... saying that China is a big problem and that the House Intelligence Committee is involved in “investigating many aspects of China.” He states unequivocally that “China is in fact stealing our intellectual property, they’re spreading globally, they continue to manipulate currencies, so China has to be taken on.” He points out that “Every President has said they’re going to get tough on people who cheat on trade. This President is actually doing it,” saying as it happens we’re going to have to watch the markets and that every trade agreement is going to be negotiated. He recommends not only looking at the imposition of tariffs but also at situations where they can be eliminated, specifically Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines as a means of opening markets and providing alternatives to China... https://rickwells.us/nunes-impeach-sessions-doj/.
Funding the Planned Parenthood Chop Shop
by Daniel John Sobieski

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Irony has been redefined in the omnibus budget bill, where there is funding for both fighting opioid addiction and Planned Parenthood... meaning the government is simultaneously paying for the saving and destruction of human life. Defunding Planned Parenthood is something more than a campaign promise. Life is supposed to be the first unalienable right conferred on us by our Creator. Liberals are also supposed to be in favor of "safe spaces." One would think the womb should be the safest space of all. It is not so considered on K Street. The leading cause of death for Americans under 50 years old is abortion, the single largest practitioner of which is Planned Parenthood....
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Former FBI Agent Says Andrew McCabe ‘Targeted’, ‘Slandered’ Her 
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CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Apologizes to Marco Rubio for Mischaracterization (She Lied)
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Greg Gutfeld: The Mistake loose lips-Joe Biden Is Making In His 2020 Audition
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Alan Dershowitz Slams Former Student, CNN’s Tobin for Anti-Trump Bias
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The Stormy Daniels story 
is not about Stormy Daniels 
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by William A. Jacobson
{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ I didn’t plan on watching the 60 Minutes interview of “Stormy Daniels.” And I didn’t watch it when it first aired.

But I did later read the transcript, and some things jumped out at me that led me to watch at the 60 Minutes website.

If you want to lose 26 minutes of your life that you’ll never get back, head over to the links and watch.

Some observations, in no particular order.

1. Anderson Cooper did a good job. He asked the right questions about her credibility and that of her lawyer Michael Avennatti (a former Rahm Emanuel oppo researcher and obviously someone seeking to make name for himself as a hero of #TheResistance). Cooper conducted himself as professionally as possible given the subject matter.

2. This is not Bill Clinton stuff. No allegation of sexual harassment or assault (Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, etc.), or abusing power over an underling (Lewinsky). It’s not even Al Franken territory of alleged non-consensual sexual touching. According to Daniels, there was a single encounter in 2006 that was completely consensual.

3. No minds were changed about Trump as a result of the interview or the story itself. Trump allegedly cheating on a wife is a Casablanca moment. No one actually cares about the story, it’s just political posturing.

4. The Stormy Daniels story is not about Stormy Daniels. It’s about removing Trump from office in one of two ways:

(a) getting Trump under oath in the hope that he will lie, providing a basis for impeachment should Democrats regain control of the House and Senate, or prosecution.

(b) providing material for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to use to try to pressure Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen into turning on Trump.


It will take time to percolate, but I have zero doubt that this is not about clearing Stormy Daniel’s name, as she claimed, or about righteousness, as Avenatti claimed was his motivation. It’s about #TheResistance.

As such, this non-story holds great danger for Trump.

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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Deliverance From liar-Hillary Clinton 
by Peggy Noonan 
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Kashuv Proves Not All Parkland Survivors 
Are Pro-Confiscation Trump-Hating scum-Soros Tools 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Contrary to the impression that the disarmament left and their propagandists are trying to create... not every survivor of the Parkland massacre is an anti-Second Amendment gun confiscation advocate. Although they refuse to allow any of them into the spotlight, there are some supporters of gun rights and the Constitution among the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. One of those is Kyle Kashuv, a junior at the Parkland High School that was targeted by Nikolas Cruz. He’s asked for his opinion of the left’s darling foul-mouthed spokesperson, David “Che’ Hogg. Kashuv is polite in his critique, saying, “I was at the march itself and I saw it as extremely anti-GOP. One of the biggest causes of this entire march is being anti-Republican and we’ve seen that in marches itself.” He continues, “A lot of things that David Hogg has said are egregious and inflammatory. I don’t think that the NRA has that much evil power that it’s been putting on politicians, I don’t. It’s led by 5.5 million people who back it. And I really don’t think that what David Hogg is saying right now is true and I don’t think what he’s doing is positive for the American people.”... https://rickwells.us/kashuv-parkland-trump-soros/ 
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Trump: Border wall construction will start on Monday
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by Sarah Westwood
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump said Friday that construction of his promised border wall would start "immediately" after signing the omnibus spending bill... which included $1.6 billion in funding for the wall. "We're going to be starting work literally on Monday," Trump said during an event Friday at the White House. "We have a lot of money coming to the border." Trump had threatened earlier Friday to veto the spending bill Congress passed on Thursday because it did not include sufficient funding for the wall and because it omitted expiring protections for young, undocumented immigrants. Although the White House requested $25 billion in funding for wall construction, lawmakers included just $1.6 billion in the final version of their omnibus. That money can only go to fencing, however, and cannot be used to build a concrete wall anywhere along the border...
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HEIL HOGG – Disarmament Teen Figureheads 
Lead “Surrender to Tyranny” Movement 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Anyone who thinks this March for Our Lives, the gun confiscation spin-off from the folks that brought you Black Lives Matter... and all of the other Soros-funded attacks on America, is being led by these punk kids at the forefront, is an idiot of the type that shouldn’t go outside unsupervised or without their name and address pinned to their shirt. The foul-mouthed teens are the tools being used to manipulate a lot of very naive and short-sighted people, they’re the child actors in a much less cute remake of “The Goonies.” They are the talking heads promoting the political agenda of the same control freaks who marched in New York and elsewhere to put the UN in charge of our economy through “The People’s Climate March” in 2014 behind the excuse of our supposed obligations due to “climate change.” They’re the same ones who tried to confiscate our guns with a UN small arms treaty during the liar-nObama nightmare and failed... https://rickwells.us/heil-hogg-disarmament-teens/.
Joe diGenova and wife not joining Trump legal team after all
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by Tom Tillison
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Turns out, President Donald Trump will not be adding the “aggressive voice” he was hoping for to his legal team... amid the president’s criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of collusion with Russia. Former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Joe diGenova and his attorney wife, Victoria Toensing, will not be coming aboard, despite an announcement last week to that effect, according to the president’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow. Not that diGenova may not assist Trump on other matters. “The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Sekulow, said in a statement on Sunday morning, according to The New York Times. “However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. The president looks forward to working with them.”...   https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/03/25/joe-digenova-and-wife-not-joining-trump-legal-team-after-all-617244?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS#
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Maria Bartiromo Interviews Devin Nunes
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Maria Bartiromo has an interview with Devin Nunes encompassing multiple topics from China and Trade to the FBI/DOJ investigation. .
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Deliverance From liar-Hillary Clinton 
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by Peggy Noonan
{ peggynoonan.com } ~ It takes a long time for candidates to get over losing the American presidency. Some never do. It’s not just personal anger—“I will not be denied my destiny!”—it’s something more poignant. It’s that the greatest prize was there, beautiful and within your grasp and then—dust. You’re holding nothing.

You’re rocked, concussed, and as months pass even your adrenal glands don’t know what to do. Once you had to be up and ready every day to make crucial, far-ranging decisions. Now you’re wondering which channel is Bravo. Once they cheered as you walked in the room; now some avert their eyes. Once you were surrounded by top staff; now it’s the B team. Once you depended on loyalty; now you hope for discretion.

A perpetual low-grade mourning ensues. You were rejected by a nation. In time the ego rebels: Stupid nation!

Which is where liar-Hillary Clinton is, still. She can’t get over it and can’t keep it inside. But by articulating the Democrats’ central national weakness this week, she did them a service. She reminded them: It’s real, the weakness, and must be remedied.

In Mumbai, at a conference sponsored by India Today, Mrs.   liar-Clinton was interviewed onstage by the newspaper’s founder, the slavishly admiring Aroon Purie —“May I take the liberty of giving you a title: Should Be President!”—who made her way too comfortable.

Why, he asked, did she lose to the outlandish Donald Trump ?

“If you look at the map of the United States,” she said, “there’s all that red in the middle where Trump won. I win the coasts. . . . But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward.” Mr. Trump’s campaign “was looking backwards. You know, you didn’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women getting jobs, you don’t wanna see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are.”

Why did 52% of white women support Mr. Trump? Because the Democratic Party doesn’t do well with white men and married white women. “Part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.” James Comey announced that he had reopened the investigation of her State Department emails, and “white women who were going to vote for me, and frankly standing up to the men in their lives and the men in their workplaces, were being told, ‘She’s going to jail. You don’t want to vote for her.’ ”

So, to recap: Trump supporters were racist, narrow and ignorant, and Trump women are not tough and modern but fearful, cowering and easily led. They live in a big mass of red in the middle like an ugly wound, or an inflammation! while we have the coasts—better real estate. And better people.

During the campaign Mrs. liar-Clinton was often urged to speak her heart, show us what’s inside. It turns out it is rather dark in there. This is not precisely news—she had famously labeled half of Trump supporters “the basket of deplorables.” Barack liar-nObama in 2008 betrayed a similarly crude, uninformed class bias and snobbery when he said of working-class voters, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”

But it was instructive this week to see some Democrats push back. Many did so not for attribution, but some went on the record. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri told the Washington Post: “Those are kind of fighting words for me. . . . I don’t think that’s the way you should talk to any voter.” Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio told Huffington Post: “I don’t really care what she said, I just think that’s not helpful.” Ms. McCaskill and Mr. Brown are both up for re-election in states Mr. Trump carried.

It was as if they realized: People don’t want to be led by a party that looks down on them.

Mrs. liar-Clinton’s comments prompt an essential question: To the extent those in the deindustrialized Midwest need help and support, isn’t that what the Democratic Party is for? Doesn’t it exist to help the little guy, the marginalized, the left-behind? That’s what it always said!

This isn’t help, it’s condescension.

It is “Deliverance” politics. The blockbuster movie version of James Dickey’s novel came out in 1972, when the liar-Clintons and I were young, and made a vivid impression on a rising tide of baby boomers. It satisfied all their biases. A group of cool, modern, rational urban professionals journeyed into the backwoods, only to meet the rest of America—the cross-eyed rapist banjo players. That movie did more to shape the preconceptions of a generation of young Democrats than any other, except “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Also we’re all our first ZIP Codes. Mrs. liar-Clinton’s was upper-middle-class suburbia and on to Wellesley. She wasn’t surrounded by working-class folk and had little reported affinity for the rustics she met as first lady of Arkansas. Her weakness is that of too many in her party: They don’t seem to like a lot of the people of the nation they wish to lead.

And those people can tell.

A path forward? Reckon with your biases and attempt to be more generous, which is the job of all of us, always.

There is probably something to learn from Conor Lamb’s victory this week in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District. Tuesday night voters chose a man who won’t cut entitlements, supports tariffs to protect the steel industry, opposes a ban on assault weapons, supports union members, opposes Nancy Pulosi, and allows no criticism of Donald Trump.

Which sounds like they elected Donald Trump.

Mr. Lamb, however, is a 33-year-old former prosecutor and marine—cool, tall, with a watchful, Tom Cotton-like gaze. It isn’t hard to imagine voters saw him pretty much as Trump without the bother of Trump. His victory says several things. The president’s style, approach and nature have given offense. The Democrats came to play. They were businesslike: Keep local races local, run with the district, not away from it, and you can win.

Mr. Lamb has been called pro-life. He is not. He effectively obscured the issue by saying he personally opposed abortion but would do nothing to change the law, including ban late-term abortions.

Saying you are personally opposed but support the law is the longtime, agreed-upon position of Catholic Democrats, who’ve been saying it for 40 years. But from Mr. Lamb it sounded new. The Democratic Party now depends so heavily on pro-abortion groups for money and other support that on-the-ground Democrats increasingly fear even to admit their personal opposition. They just say they’re for “reproductive freedom”—next question.

It will be interesting to see how that plays out nationally. I suspect it will become an impediment: You don’t squelch views in such an extreme way without paying a price.

But the larger point. Democrats can continue to act as if they see America as “Deliverance” writ large, or they can be more generous in their judgments, and more human.

If they go the former route, their future national candidates will likely wind up selling books in Mumbai to audiences who love them in part because they don’t know them.

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Six Months Late, Congress 
Passes Spendthrift Omnibus 
by Michael Swartz
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Coulter Urges Trump To USE SEABEES 
to Build BORDER WALL as Defense Spending 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro welcomed Ann Coulter to her program on Saturday, asking “How are you Ann?”... She replied as many Americans probably would, “Deeply depressed, and you?” Judge Jeanine answered, “I’m certainly concerned” and then invited Coulter to tell her audience what it is that’s bothering her. Coulter campaigned vigorously for President Trump and has supported him primarily for his stance and promises on building a border wall. That’s not going to happen anytime soon and perhaps never, thanks to the treasonous backstabbers Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell presenting him with a heaping pile of open borders garbage rather than a continuing resolution, a military spending package and the remaining omnibus bill or, better yet, a budget. She says she can’t sugar-coat what a disaster President Trump’s signing of the omnibus bill is. Looking for a silver lining to the open border cloud of dust from invading parasites, she says, “I mean there are 24 Republicans in the Senate who voted against the omnibus spending bill and about half of them did it for the right reason.”...
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CNN Defames Geller to Embarrass John Bolton
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by Pamela Geller
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Is there no limit to how low CNN will sink? CNN's Don Lemon hosted a panel Thursday night featuring leftist turncoat Peter Beinart and "conservative" commentator Ben Ferguson... to discuss incoming National Security Adviser John Bolton's supposed "anti-Muslim ties." Beinart was on the warpath, attempting to smear Bolton by association with me, because he wrote the foreword to my 2010 book The Post-American Presidency: The liar-nObama Administration's War on America, written with Robert Spencer and spoke at several of my rallies. Beinart couldn't tell the truth, which is that in The Post-American Presidency I accurately exposed liar-nObama's hatred for Israel, post-American internationalism, opposition to the freedom of speech, and much more -- long before they became obvious to the world. So instead, Beinart, calling me "the most notorious anti-Muslim bigot," lied repeatedly, claiming that in the book I said that Barack liar-nObama was trying to impose Sharia law in the United States, and that liar-nObama was a Muslim....   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/cnn_defames_geller_to_embarrass_john_bolton.html
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US Taylor Force Act to become law, Palestinians slam passage
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by MICHAEL WILNER
{ jpost.com } ~ Congress is expected to pass a bill this week that threatens to freeze State Department funds to the Palestinian Authority... unless it ends its longstanding practice of compensating the families of terrorists convicted in Israeli courts. The PA passionately opposes this bill, claiming that its “martyr” compensation scheme benefits generations of families that include those of legitimate combatants in the Palestinian struggle for independence. Israel argues that the program encourages Palestinian violence against innocent civilians. The Trump administration agrees with Israel, and US President Donald Trump has personally appealed to PA President Mahmoud Abbas in past meetings to end the program. Senior administration officials told The Jerusalem Post that Trump supports the legislation and plans on signing it into law once it reaches his desk... http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/US-Taylor-Force-Act-to-become-law-despite-Palestinian-Authority-opposition-546780?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=25-3-2018&utm_content=us-taylor-force-act-to-become-law-despite-palestinian-authority-opposition-546780
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GOP Congressmen Issue Ominous Impeachment Warning
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by Randy DeSoto
{ westernjournal.com } ~ A pair of Arizona GOP congressmen predicted on Saturday that if House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi regained the speaker’s gavel... her first move would be to introduce articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. One of the lawmakers added that if the measure passed in the House, a Republican-controlled Senate may not have Trump’s back. Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar — both members of the Freedom Caucus — encouraged attendees at the Western Conservative Conference in Phoenix not to lose heart in the wake of the passage of the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill on Friday...
More veterans seek Trump's pardon for combat-zone convictions 
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by Elizabeth Llorente 
{ foxnews.com } ~ When Michael Behenna told his parents he wanted to enlist in the Army after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks... they were proud. Worried, too. The Behennas themselves were devoted to careers in public service. Scott Behenna was an FBI intelligence analyst and retired Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation special agent. Vicki Behenna prosecuted Timothy McVeigh for the lethal Oklahoma City bombing. But as parents they were fearful that if he were deployed to a battlefield, Michael, the eldest of their three sons, could be maimed or killed. Instead, First Lt. Michael Behenna returned from Iraq in 2008 with a murder charge. He was found guilty of unpremeditated murder in a combat zone and locked up at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan...  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/23/more-veterans-seek-trumps-pardon-for-combat-zone-convictions.html 
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Six Months Late, Congress Passes Spendthrift Omnibus 
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               “For perspective,” notes Investor’s Business Daily, “until 1991, the entire budget of the federal government for the whole year was less than $1.3 trillion.”
               While a majority of both Republicans and Democrats favored the bill, there was significant opposition from both parties for two vastly different reasons — in particular, progressive Democrats were rankled by the failure to address so-called “Dreamers” in this omnibus, while the GOP’s Freedom Caucus rightly complained about spending too much. Yet the centrists and the establishment prevailed, as their alacrity was further aided by the desire of some members to beat it out of town for junkets or to attend the Friday funeral of the late Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY).
               If haste makes waste, though, there’s a lot of both in this 2,232-page behemoth — a measure Fox News host Laura Ingraham described as a “business-as-usual spend-o-rama.”
               Proponents, however, are quick to point out that the omnibus will continue increasing the defense budget and provide $4 billion in funding to combat the opioid crisis. And (as we place our tongues firmly in our cheeks) there’s more good news: It took President Donald Trump twice as long to rack up his first trillion in deficit spending as it did his predecessor. That’s awfully weak sauce, though, as there’s much more in this massive well of red ink that promises a trillion-dollar annual shortfall not to like.
               Then again, he tweeted Friday morning, “I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.”
               A number of items that majority Republicans have been running on and promising to do for years have been effectively crushed, along with any heretofore surviving GOP fiscal hawks, under the wheels of the omnibus. For example, the long-sought border wall for which President Trump sought $25 billion will get a paltry $1.6 billion — and only a portion of that will construct a physical fenced barrier. In fact, the government will spend only $100 million more on border fencing than it will for a railway tunnel that connects New York and New Jersey. And to think we’ve been told Mr. Trump is a tough negotiator.
               Moreover, we can look forward to a fully funded Planned Parenthood ($500 million a year) that receives only about $150 million fewer of our tax dollars than the border wall, er, fence. Your government at work.
               Even in the rare cases when the administration wants to spend less, Congress is only too happy to give them more. For example, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had been thoughtfully pruning programs she thought unworthy of continued funding, but these provisions were funded anyway. DeVos simply hasn’t learned her lesson, said one senator. “After more than a year on the job, I would have hoped Secretary DeVos would have learned by now that her extreme ideas to privatize our nation’s public schools and dismantle the Department of Education do not have support among parents or in Congress,” lectured Democrat Sen. Patty Murray, “but unfortunately that does not seem to be the case.” (These ideas certainly have support in our humble shop, though. Perhaps Murray would enlighten us as to the article and section of our Constitution that enumerates the federal government’s power over education?)
               But Murray wasn’t finished needling DeVos and other proponents of fiscal sanity. “I’m proud to have worked with Republicans in Congress to flatly reject these ideas,” she added, “and increase funding for programs Secretary DeVos tried to cut.”
               Those who take seriously the concepts of limited government and fiscal responsibility were hoping against hope that a principled senator or two — perhaps Rand Paul (R-KY) or Mike Lee (R-UT) — might throw a wrench into the gears once again. They did try. But such a bold and courageous move might leave us at risk of another government shutdown, a prospect most other Republicans dread like Dracula fears sunlight.
               Thus, our nation’s near-term financial fate, and its long-term solvency, inch ever closer to the abyss.
               National Review’s editors may have said it best: “What might turn out to be the signature achievement of unified Republican government this year is the sort of legislation that would have been right at home in the liar-nObama administration.”
               Since we’ve tried pleading, cajoling and tossing out spendthrifts at the ballot box only to find the Swamp refilling itself a few months later, perhaps this radical idea makes sense: “I’d like to suggest in the strongest terms possible that you pray for those in government at all levels,” writes Heidi Munson at The Resurgent. Indeed, nothing else has worked, and this deal only covers the six months until the next government fiscal year begins. At which time this circus starts anew.   ~The Patriot Pos
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Will the Deep State Break Trump? 
by Pat Buchanan  
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Spending Bill or Budget, No Wall – 
Unless Trump Has Something Up His Sleeve 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ For those who may have felt better about the omnibus bill, having seen a post on Facebook that President Trump... is engaging in some of the worn out 3D Chess and checkmated Democrats because the spending bill is in the form of an omnibus bill rather than a budget, it’s time to come back down to earth. Regardless of the terminology or its structure, it’s the spending bill for 2018 passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President. It’s what we’re stuck with. The post, apparently originally a tweet by Swamp Drainer @FedupWithSwamp, states “It’s not an official ‘Federal Budget’. It’s an Omnibus bill…not a Budget…Congress basically screwed themselves by not passing a Budget…Per the Constitution…the President must adhere to a Budget set forth by Congress and direct the expenditures as provided therein. He goes on to say, “An Omnibus Spending Bill may have some ‘instructions’ as to how the money will be spent…but liar-nObama ignored them. He spent the money, or didn’t spend it, however he wanted to. And Congress didn’t do a thing about it! Because they couldn’t. He is bound to realize that those ‘appropriations’ for different things in these Omnibus bills…are merely ‘suggestions’.”...  https://rickwells.us/budget-wall-trump-sleeve/ 
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Trump Summoned for AG 
Lawsuit Alleging Constitutional Violation  
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by Joe Schoffstall
{ freebeacon.com } ~ President Donald Trump received a summons for a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Washington, D.C., and Maryland alleging... he has violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which bars foreign governments from paying U.S. officials, according to reports. The suit is being aided by the executive director of a liberal watchdog group that filed an almost identical earlier lawsuit before being thrown out last year after a judge said it did not have standing. The AG's original complaint alleging the violation of the Emoluments Clause was filed last June by Democratic attorneys generals Brian Frosh, the AG of Maryland, and Karl Racine, the AG of the District of Columbia, along with individuals in their offices. The lawsuit has since expanded to include Trump in his personal capacity,  WAMU reports...  Emoluments Claus is giving or receiving gifts from foreign countrys thru the Trump business. Which his son runs.   http://freebeacon.com/politics/trump-summoned-ag-lawsuit-alleging-constitutional-violation/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=f07e9b891d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-f07e9b891d-45611665
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Goodlatte Subpoenas Justice for 
Documents Related to liar-Clinton Probes 
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by Susan Crabtree
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday subpoenaed the Justice Department for documents related to internal DOJ and FBI... decisions in the investigation of former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton's private email server, as well as potential abuses of laws governing the surveillance of members of Trump presidential campaign. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.), who chairs the panel, said he has grown increasingly frustrated by the DOJ's unresponsiveness to his requests for more than 1.2 million documents related to the FBI investigation into liar-Clinton's email. So far the department has only produced "a fraction" of the documents both he and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) have requested, he said... http://freebeacon.com/politics/goodlatte-subpoenas-justice-documents-related-clinton-probes/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=f07e9b891d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-f07e9b891d-45611665
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Why did sponsors of ‘March for our lives’
 spend so much money to hide their identities?
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by Thomas Lifson
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The people who sprang into action after the Parkland, Florida shooting and made David Hogg into an instant celebrity... culminating in the mass rallies yesterday, want to make sure that you do not find out who they are. There are people rich enough to not care about money very much standing behind their latest useful demagogue. The choice of this nonprofit vehicle means that donors lose tax deductibility for their donations. Those who live in high tax states like California and New York, can lose almost half the value of their donations that could have been deducted from their state and local tax burden. By no means are they done with the dark money-financed activities. Names from organizations from left are  George Kieffer, chair of the Board of Regents of the University of California; Jeri Rhodes, who is with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Washington-based lobbying group founded by Quakers; Aileen Adams; who served under former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; Nina Vinik, an attorney who has a background in gun violence prevention; Vernetta Walker from BoardSource, an organization that provides support for nonprofit leaders; and Melissa Scholz, an attorney who has expertise in nonprofit law and the Koch brothers.
JW Videos
Can Mueller produce any credible evidence against Trump?
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Tom Fitton’s Video Weekly Update
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Bruce Ohr, Fusion GPS, & the DNC-Funded Trump Dossier
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Why did DOJ hide Strzok’s link toFISA court judge?
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FBI, DOJ doesn’t care about the rule of law 
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'The FBI is STILL protecting Andrew McCabe' - JW President Tom Fitton
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Will the Deep State Break Trump? 
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by Pat Buchanan 
{ townhall.com } ~ "It is becoming more obvious with each passing day that the men and the movement that broke Lyndon Johnson's authority in 1968 are out to break Richard Nixon," wrote David Broder on Oct. 8, 1969.

"The likelihood is great that they will succeed again."

A columnist for The Washington Post, Broder was no fan of Nixon.

His prediction, however, proved wrong. Nixon, with his "Silent Majority" address rallied the nation and rocked the establishment. He went on to win a 49-state victory in 1972, after which his stumbles opened the door to the establishment's revenge.

Yet, Broder's analysis was spot on. And, today, another deep state conspiracy, to break another presidency, is underway.

Consider. To cut through the Russophobia rampant here, Trump decided to make a direct phone call to Vladimir Putin. And in that call, Trump, like Angela Merkel, congratulated Putin on his re-election victory.

Instantly, the briefing paper for the president's call was leaked to the Post. In bold letters it read, "DO NOT CONGRATULATE."

Whereupon, the Beltway went ballistic.

How could Trump congratulate Putin, whose election was a sham? Why did he not charge Putin with the Salisbury poisoning? Why did Trump not denounce Putin for interfering with "our democracy"?

Amazing. A disloyal White House staffer betrays his trust and leaks a confidential paper to sabotage the foreign policy of a duly elected president, and he is celebrated in this capital city.

If you wish to see the deep state at work, this is it: anti-Trump journalists using First Amendment immunities to collude with and cover up the identities of bureaucratic snakes out to damage or destroy a president they despise. No wonder democracy is a declining stock worldwide.

And, yes, they give out Pulitzers for criminal collusion like this.

The New York Times got a Pulitzer and the Post got a Hollywood movie starring Meryl Streep, for publishing stolen secret papers from the Pentagon of JFK and LBJ -- to sabotage the Vietnam War policy of Richard Nixon.

Why? Because the hated Nixon was succeeding in extricating us with honor from a war that the presidents for whom the Times and Post hauled water could not win or end.

Not only have journalists given up any pretense of neutrality in this campaign to bring down the president, ex-national security officers of the highest rank are starting to sound like resisters.

Ex-CIA Director John Brennan openly speculated Tuesday that the president may have been compromised by Moscow and become an asset of the Kremlin.

"I think he's afraid of the president of Russia," Brennan said of Trump and Putin. "The Russians, I think, have had long experience with Mr. Trump and may have things they could expose."

If Brennan has evidence Trump is compromised, he should relay it to Robert Mueller. If he does not, this is speculation of an especially ugly variety for someone once entrusted with America's highest secrets.

What is going on in this city is an American version of the "color revolutions" we have employed to dump over governments in places like Georgia and Ukraine.

Goal: Break Trump's presidency, remove him, discredit his election as contaminated by Kremlin collusion, upend the democratic verdict of 2016, and ash-can Trump's agenda of populist conservatism. Then, return America to the open borders, free trade, democracy-crusading Bushite globalism beloved by our Beltway elites.

Trump, in a way, is the indispensable man of the populist right.

In the 2016 primaries, no other Republican candidate shared his determination to secure the border, bring back manufacturing or end the endless wars in the Middle East that have so bled and bankrupted our nation.

Whether the Assads rule in Damascus, the Chinese fortify Scarborough Shoal, or the Taliban return to Kabul are not existential threats.

But if the borders of our country are not secured, as Reagan warned, in a generation, America will not even be a country.

Trump seems now to recognize that the special counsel's office of Robert Mueller, which this city sees as the instrument of its deliverance, is a mortal threat to his presidency.

Mueller's team wishes to do to Trump what Archibald Cox's team sought to do to Nixon: Drive him out of office or set him up for the kill by a Democratic Congress in 2019.

Trump appears to recognize that the struggle with Mueller is now a political struggle -- to the death.

Hence Trump's hiring of Joe diGenova and the departure of John Dowd from his legal team. In the elegant phrase of Michael Corleone, diGenova is a wartime consigliere.

He believes that Trump is the target of a conspiracy, where Jim Comey's FBI put in the fix to prevent liar-Hillary's prosecution, and then fabricated a crime of collusion with Russia to take down the new president the American people had elected.

The Trump White House is behaving as if it were the prospective target of a coup d'etat. And it is not wrong to think so.

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Mon/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
March Madness, Washington-Style 
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano 
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Monday Top Headlines 
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How many people attended March for Our Lives? Crowd in D.C. estimated at 200,000 — well below expectations (CBS News)
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Rapper who performed at March for Our Lives was arrested for gun-related crime last year (The Blaze)
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Narrative fail: Tons of “good guys with guns” protecting March for Our Lives gun control rally (The Daily Wire)
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Justice Department proposes banning bump stocks, branding them machine guns (The Washington Post)
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Trump to expel dozens of Russians over UK poisoning (The Hill)
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Lawyers decline Trump legal team invite (AFP)
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Trump threatens to veto, then signs, “ridiculous” spending bill (The Daily Signal)
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U.S., China quietly seek trade solutions after days of loud threats (The Wall Street Journal)
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Report: Governments increasingly use counterterrorism laws as means to curb human rights (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Californians doing the once-unthinkable: Leaving California (Investor’s Business Daily)
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Overhaul of U.S. telecoms database sparks fear of catastrophic failure (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Humor: U.S. military announces plan to consolidate all wars into final, epic battle (The Onion)
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Policy: Sons of divorce, school shooters (Institute for Family Studies)
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Policy: Pruitt leads the way on regulatory rollback (Real Clear Policy)   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54968-monday-top-headlines
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Trump Reinstates Ban On Gender 
Dysphoria Transgenders In Military 
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{ rickwells.us } ~President Trump has once again issued a directive stating the obvious to the libtard plagued modern world... this time he declared that only normal, mentally healthy people who know if they’re a boy or a girl will be allowed to serve in the military. A judge overruled President Trump’s previous ban because she thought, in her opinion, that it was unsupported by facts. The black-robed tyrant didn’t need any facts of her own, just her own viewpoints that were “more informed and superior” to those of the President and his military leaders. Now the ban is back in effect after a review by Secretary of Defense Mattis. President Trump released a new memo on Friday stating, “Transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria — individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment including medications and surgery — are disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances.”...  https://rickwells.us/trump-reinstates-ban-transgenders/.
UK: Islamization Full Speed Ahead
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by Judith Bergman
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The UK is accelerating its Islamization at an ever-increasing speed... The desire of the British establishment to submit to Islam appears to be overwhelming. In a recent report, the Henry Jackson society exposed how the UK used taxpayer funds to support Islamist charities working against British society to the tune of more than six million pounds in 2017 alone. According to the report, "As the case studies in this report are illustrative rather than comprehensive, it is likely that this sum represents only the tip of the iceberg". The report concludes, "Until more comprehensive action is taken, a network of Islamist extremists operating in the UK will continue to use charities and taxpayer money to fund the spread of divisive, illiberal and intolerant views within our communities". Among the charities detailed in the report, are several Islamic charities involved in dawa  outreach, proselytization, such as the Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA), as well as several charities connected to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, such as the Muslim Charities Forum (MCF) and Islamic Relief. Deploying taxpayer money to support Islamic charities is not the only way in which the UK embraces Islamization...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12011/britain-islamization
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Congress Piles Up Massive Debt, Putting Tax Cuts at Risk
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by Adam Michel 
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Fiscal restraint is dead in Washington, and no one seems to care... The March omnibus spending deal follows through on an agreement to spend significantly more over the next two years than any liar-nObama-era spending cap increase. Such a dramatic departure from fiscal sanity is reckless. The now-certain return of trillion-dollar deficits threatens to undermine Republicans’ most significant legislative accomplishment: tax reform. Unlike additional government spending, properly designed tax cuts let people keep more of their own money, allow the economy to grow, and lead to higher wages and better economic opportunities.  Tax reform’s promise was simple. American families will send an average of 2,000 fewer dollars to Washington each year—a tax cut for America. Increased omnibus spending telegraphs the opposite message. Taxes won’t stay low for long... https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/03/22/congress-piles-massive-debt-putting-tax-cuts-risk/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpjeE5XTXlNRGN3WXpBNCIsInQiOiJKQkt6T0dCTVwvSHpCWkN0alV0aXdsVXNJbWREeFwvR08zNkk0RFpqS1B3UnFWemVEYU1iRnJGNW1UUlFOcnlBNTZHY1R3XC9GRFd6Q2NiWStQeHBwb253V0JPUFZITVlhNThmaTJVVlhCaUxpMlEzVVJPZXFJckh0bWxGV0VXenpLdCJ9
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Bombshell reveal: A grand jury already 
is hearing evidence on DOJ and FBI scandals
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by Thomas Lifson
{ americanthinker.com } ~ We are on the verge of a huge political explosion. While there have been calls for a special counsel to investigate the DOJ and FBI scandals... and many conservatives have been outraged at the seeming passivity of "Gentleman Jeff" Sessions aka Sessionzzz in some quarters, it now is clear as I have already figured that a grand jury far outside the Beltway already is hearing evidence dug up by DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz, whose report is now believed to be coming in April.  Following release of that report, expect heads to explode all over the media, all over the Deep State, and among NeverTrumps. The first hint that the wheels of justice already are turning came on March 7, when A.G. Sessions revealed to Shannon Bream...   https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/03/bombshell_reveal_a_grand_jury_already_is_hearing_evidence_on_doj_and_fbi_scandals.html.
Patriotism and the Three Scoundrels
by James Lewis

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The three biggest scoundrels of the swamp – Comey, Clapper, and Brennan – have been fired, which is a good start... And yes, it has to be said that there are good and decent, even patriotic people in the swamp, probably the majority, and that eventually, when the top layers get scraped off, we can look forward to more honest government. But even then, as Jefferson said, we have to keep a careful eye on people who have power without responsibility. And now the scoundrels are showing their true colors. Now they are openly political again, without the mumbo-jumbo of the D.C. front. So let's examine the latest scream of defiance from John Brennan – because that might show who he really is. We know, from his own confession, that he voted for the Communist Party of the USA earlier in life, and no congressman has so far dared to ask him the relevant question: "Are you still a communist?"... .
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March Madness, Washington-Style 
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by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ For the past few days, the nation's media and political class have been fixated on the firing of the No. 2 person in the FBI, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. McCabe became embroiled in the investigation of President Donald Trump because of his alleged approval of the use of a political dossier, written about Trump and paid for by the Democrats and not entirely substantiated, as a basis to secure a search warrant for surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser who once boasted that he worked for the Kremlin at the same time that he was advising candidate Trump.

The dossier itself and whatever was learned from the surveillance formed the basis for commencing the investigation of the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia by the liar-nObama Department of Justice, which is now being run by special counsel Robert Mueller and has been expanded into other areas. The surveillance of the Trump campaign based on arguably flimsy evidence put McCabe into President Trump's crosshairs. Indeed, Trump attacked McCabe many times on social media and even rejoiced when Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired him at 10 p.m. last Friday, just 26 hours before his retirement was to have begun.

Why the fixation on this? Here is the back story.

After the unlawful use of the FBI and CIA by the Nixon administration to spy on President Nixon's domestic political opponents, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978. This statute outlawed all domestic surveillance except that which is authorized by the Constitution or by the new Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

That court, the statute declared, could authorize surveillance of foreigners physically located in the United States on a legal standard lesser than that which the Constitution requires. Even though this meant Congress could avoid the Constitution — an event that every high school social studies student knows is unconstitutional — the FISC enthusiastically embraced its protocol.

That protocol was a recipe for the constitutional crisis that is now approaching. The recipe consists of a secret court whose records and rulings are not available to the public. It's a court where only the government's lawyers appear; hence there is no challenge to the government's submissions. And it's a court that applies a legal standard profoundly at odds with the Constitution. The Constitution requires the presentation of evidence of probable cause of a crime as the trigger for a search warrant, yet FISA requires only probable cause of a relationship to a foreign power.

In the years in which the FISC authorized spying only on foreigners, few Americans complained. Some of us warned at FISA's inception that this system violates the Constitution and is ripe for abuse, yet we did not know then how corrupt the system would become. The corruption was subtle, as it consisted of government lawyers, in secret and without opposition, persuading the FISC to permit spying on Americans.

The logic was laughable, but it went like this: We need to spy on all foreigners, whether they're working for a foreign government or not; we need to spy on anyone who communicates with a foreigner; and we need to spy on anyone who has communicated with anyone else who has ever communicated with a foreigner.

These absurd extrapolations, pressed on the FISC and accepted by it in secret, turned FISA — a statute written to prevent spying on Americans — into a tool that facilitates it. Now, back to McCabe.

Though the use of FISA for domestic spying on ordinary Americans came about gradually and was generally known only to those in the federal intelligence and law enforcement communities and to members of the Senate and House intelligence committees, by the time McCabe became deputy director of the FBI, this spying was commonplace. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is it really a court, given that its rulings are secret and it hears only the government and it rejects the constraints of the Constitution? has granted 99.9 percent of government surveillance requests.

So when McCabe and his colleagues went to the FISC in October 2016 looking for a search warrant to conduct surveillance of officials in the Trump campaign, they knew that their request would be granted, but they never expected that their application, their work and the purpose of their request — as far removed as it was from the original purpose of FISA — would come under public scrutiny.

Indeed, it was not until the surveillance of Trump and his colleagues in the campaign and the transition came to light — with McCabe as the poster boy for it — that most Americans even knew how insidiously governmental powers are being abused.

The stated reason for McCabe's firing was not his abuse of FISA but his absence of candor to FBI investigators about his use of FISA. I don't know whether those allegations are the true reasons for his firing or McCabe was sacrificed at the altar of government abuse — because those who fired him also have abused FISA.

But I do know that there are lessons to learn in all this. Courts are bound by the Constitution, just as are Congress and the president. Just because Congress says something is lawful does not mean it is constitutional. Secret courts are the tools of tyrants and lead to the corruption of the judicial process and the erosion of freedom.

And courts that hear no challenge to the government and grant whatever it wants are not courts as we understand them; they are government hacks. They and the folks who have facilitated all this have undermined personal liberty in our once free society.

The whole purpose of the Constitution is to restrain the government and to protect personal liberty. FISA and its enablers in both major political parties have done the opposite. They have infused government with corruption and have assaulted the privacy of us all.

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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Leftmedia Churn and the 
Cost of Trump's Affairs
by Nate Jackson
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Trump Fought The Swamp and The Swamp Won – 
He’d Better GET MEAN or AMERICA’S DONE 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ What all of this disaster with the spending bill has shown in no uncertain terms... is that the Democrats have figured out how to use the Senate at a cudgel against the American people by voting as a bloc. There is no such thing as independent Democrat votes. They vote based upon the Party plan and as the Party leadership instructs. The CNN talking heads were, as usual, heaping scorn upon President Trump following the votes and him signing the surrender agreement thinly disguised as a spending bill. In this unique instance they were, in many ways, right. This was not the great negotiator we had all been led to believe now occupied the White House. President Trump was rolled by the combined efforts of the Democrats and the treasonous RINOs in service to their establishment masters. As unpleasant as the reality is, denying it doesn’t make it go away. The Donald Trump of the campaign is nowhere to be found. The “liar-Hillary’s suffered enough” has now been extended to all Democrats and RINOs. The winning we were promised we’d see has all been on the side of the enemies of America, and President Trump was right, we’re tired of it...  https://rickwells.us/trump-swamp-won-mean/ 
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Mueller’s Investigation Flouts Justice Department Standards
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by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
{ nationalreview.com } ~ These columns have many times observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s failure to set limits on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation... To trigger the appointment of a special counsel, federal regulations require the Justice Department to identify the crimes that warrant investigation and prosecution — crimes that the Justice Department is too conflicted to investigate in the normal course; crimes that become the parameters of the special counsel’s jurisdiction. Rosenstein, instead, put the cart before the horse: Mueller was invited to conduct a fishing expedition, a boundless quest to hunt for undiscovered crimes, rather than an investigation and prosecution of known crimes.  That deviation, it turns out, is not the half of it. With Rosenstein’s passive approval, Mueller is shredding Justice Department charging policy by alleging earth-shattering crimes, then cutting a sweetheart deal that shields the defendant from liability for those crimes and from the penalties prescribed by Congress. The special counsel, moreover, has become a legislature unto himself, promulgating the new, grandiose crime of “conspiracy against the United States” by distorting the concept of “fraud.”...  https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/muellers-investigation-flouts-justice-department-standards/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newslink&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180324155752 
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U.N. council adopts 5 more anti-Israel resolutions
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by wnd.com 
{ wnd.com } ~ The United Nations, through its much-criticized Human Rights Council, has moved further out on the anti-Israel limb... adopting five more anti-Israel resolutions to finish up its current meeting in Geneva. The resolutions drew a response from U.S. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley that may not bode well for the international organization. She pointed out, according to the Jerusalem Post, that the same national representatives passed only one resolution against North Korea, one against Iran and one against Syria, arguably among the world’s worst human rights violators. “When the Human Rights Council treats Israel worse than North Korea, Iran, and Syria, it is the council itself that is foolish and unworthy of its name,” Haley said in the statement. “It is time for the countries who know better to demand changes. Many countries agree that the council’s agenda is grossly biased against Israel, but too few are willing to fight it.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/u-n-council-adopts-5-more-anti-israel-statements/
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scum-Keith Ellison Unplugged: Why Not Have a 'Maximum Wage?' 
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by JERYL BIER
{ weeklystandard.com } ~ Early in March, the Congressional Progressive Caucus met in Baltimore for its Strategy Summit 2018... Participants came from a wide range of liberal, progressive, and left-leaning groups and included individuals such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi, Women's March co-founder Linda Sarsour, Senator Barbara Lee, and the DNC's Deputy Chair Rep. scum-Keith Ellison. During the conference, freelance journalist Sarah Jaffe, writing for the website the Progressive, interviewed scum-Ellison, who recently assumed responsibility for the Medicare for All legislation that was formerly under the guidance of the now-departed John Conyers. In the course of a rather friendly interview, Jaffe questioned scum-Ellison about the Medicare legislation, racism, and income inequality. Some of scum-Ellison’s responses were jaw-dropping. With "economic justice" being one of the issues addressed at the summit, Jaffe mentioned to scum-Ellison that the congressman had "made a joke about a maximum wage." scum-Ellison quickly interrupted Jaffe, saying. "No, I did not make a joke about maximum wage, I made a statement about maximum wage...He would want to tax you more.
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President Trump Holds His Nose And Signs Budget Deal 
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John Bolton Fires Back Against commie-Bernie Sanders Tweet
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Why The Saudi Crown Prince Is On A Coast-To-Coast Tour Of The U.S.
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DOJ Charges 9 Iranians In Massive Hacking Scheme
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ISIS Hostage-Taker In France Shot And Killed
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CNN’s Stranglehold At America’s Airports
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Rash Of Opponents Take On Romney In Utah GOP Primary
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Most ELITE All-Female Armed Forces In The World!
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Hannity: CNN’s Jeff Zucker Is The ‘Porn King’ Of Cable News
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Leftmedia Churn and the Cost of Trump's Affairs

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               The Leftmedia’s 24/7 churn with these women and their stories is, first and foremost, a #MeToo-era effort to undermine Trump’s successful policy agenda and to anger female voters ahead of the 2018 and 2020 elections. It might work. And we all know how vigorously leftist feminists worked to oust liar-Bill Clinton for his despicable treatment of women. Oh, that’s right, they stood by their man.
               On that note, let’s get one thing straight. There’s a huge difference between consensual affairs between peers and an affair with a young subordinate or flat-out rape. None of it is acceptable in any sense, but liar- Clinton’s behavior was clearly far worse.
               But Trump is president now, not liar-Clinton. It’s 2018, not 1998. So conservatives and Christians must deal honestly and forthrightly with the fact that a dishonest and immoral man is our party’s standard-bearer.
               In 2016, a record 14 million people voted for Trump in the GOP primaries, apparently deciding that character didn’t matter nearly as much as whatever their issue(s) happened to be. More than 16 million people — also a record — voted against Trump in those same primaries. Their votes, however, were divided among 16 other candidates, thus leaving Trump victorious. In the 2016 general election, just shy of 63 million Americans accounting for a winning 304 electoral votes chose Trump because they concluded he was preferable to the only alternative,  liar-Hillary Clinton. Trump won despite his own gross character flaws — because of support for his agenda and opposition to liar-Clinton’s. For millions of conservatives, his impact on the judiciary alone was worth the vote, and his defense of religious liberty was desperately needed.
               Still, what many of Trump’s voters failed to realize, and what some Trump defenders are still refusing to acknowledge, is that a man’s private morality does affect his ability to govern. At a bare minimum, the bad press is a distraction; at worst, it reveals a deep untrustworthiness that plays out in policy and personnel decisions. Moreover, all the hush money and other legal wrangling over flings with porn stars could seriously jeopardize the president.
               With Trump, chaos is part of his agenda, so perhaps this all serves his purposes somehow. But what does that say of our great nation, or the office whose precedent was set by a man of great character, George Washington? Unless he loses in 2020, the problem with Trump’s character flaws and boorish style may not ultimately exact a toll on him. The price will, however, certainly be paid by the GOP and the nation in the years to come.   ~The Patriot Pos
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New Symbol of the Republican Party

The Republican Party in Congress has shown with the passing of the Omnibus Spending Bill that they have spent too much time in "Farmer Jones' House".  Maybe it is time to replace the lumbering elephant with the upright walking pig from Animal Farm.  What excuses are they planning on giving us when they abandon their support of the 2nd Amendment?

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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Give Me Your Dreamers…
by Ann Coulter 
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DOJ Admits They Have a 
Grand Jury Empaneled in FBI and DOJ Investigation
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) is one of the top three people throughout the entirety of congress... with a comprehensive knowledge of the events surrounding the investigations of the FBI and DOJ. Chairman Goodlatte is one of only four people outside the DOJ who have read the full DOJ FISA application used for a Title-1 Surveillance warrant of Carter Page. The House Judiciary Committee holds the primary statutory oversight over the U.S. Department of Justice. Additionally, Chairman Goodlatte is the congressional office working closest with DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. In short, Goodlatte is the center of all ‘oversight’ information circling the investigations into the DOJ and FBI. However, all of that said, even Chairman Bob Goodlatte doesn’t, and shouldn’t, know what criminal investigations are underway. We’ve explained this dynamic of disconnect numerous times. We really began emphasizing this when AG Jeff Sessions admitted he brought in a prosecutor from outside Washington DC to work with Inspector General Horowitz....
United Nations Report 
Highlights North Korea Sanctions Violations  
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by Mathew Ha 
{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ Last week, the UN Panel of Experts released its latest report on sanctions violations by North Korea and its enablers... The contents of the report indicate that the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign is working, yet there remains much to be done to ensure that Western pressure on North Korea is truly at a maximum. The Panel’s new report uncovered North Korea’s illicit military cooperation with countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Particularly disturbing is the “substantial new evidence” regarding Pyongyang’s support for the development of Syria’s chemical weapons program. North Korean support for the production of Syrian WMD also serves as an apt reminder of Pyongyang’s role in building a nuclear reactor in Syria that Israel destroyed in 2007. The UN also highlighted North Korea’s cyber operations against South Korean shipbuilding companies, such as Daewoo Ship Building & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd, to steal confidential information about warships, submarines, and other naval technologies. Such information would be invaluable for North Korean weapons developers. Specifically, the panel noted that North Korea stole information on “cold launch” technology it could use for its submarine-launched ballistic missile program...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/mathew-ha-united-nations-report-highlights-north-korea-sanctions-violations/
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Lou Dobbs Interviews Wilbur Ross on Tariff’s Targeting China
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross appears on Lou Dobbs show to discuss the ongoing trade initiatives against China and the issues of intellectual property theft... The world's second-largest economy has responded to President Donald Trump's controversial trade tariffs. China's commerce ministry proposed a list of 128 U.S. products as potential retaliation targets, according to a statement on its websiteposted Friday morning. The U.S. goods, which had an import value of $3 billion in 2017, include wine, fresh fruit, dried fruit and nuts, steel pipes, modified ethanol, and ginseng, the ministry said. Those products could see a 15 percent duty, while a 25 percent tariff could be imposed on U.S. pork and recycled aluminium goods, according to the statement...
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Germany at odds with US on condemning Hezbollah in Iran talks 
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by Benjamin Weinthal 
{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ Germany’s government has refused to agree to a key U.S. demand to designate the entire Lebanese Islamic militia Hezbollah... and not just a piece of it -- a terrorist organization as part of talks to rein in the nuclear program in Iran. Two sources familiar with the U.S. talks with Germany, France and the United Kingdom over remedying defects in the Iran nuclear deal told Fox News of Berlin's stance, saying that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration is the “least cooperative” of the three European powers. Germany is resisting the U.S. negotiating team appeal---and President Donald Trump's position-- to outlaw all of Hezbollah because that demand, say German diplomats, is linked to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The sources said Germany views the Trump administration as too pro-Israel. As a result, Germany does not want to ban all of Hezbollah, specifically its “political wing,” within its territory, where 950 Hezbollah members raise funds and are recruiting members...Say good-bye to Germany. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/germany-at-odds-with-us-on-condemning-hezbollah-in-iran-talks/
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Bruce Ohr, Fusion GPS, & the DNC-Funded Trump Dossier

{ judicialwatch.org } ~ In this edition of “Inside Judicial Watch,” Jerry Dunleavy sits down with JW Senior Attorney Ramona Cotca to discuss Judicial Watch’s legal battle... to find out what top-DOJ official Bruce Ohr was up to regarding any connection to Fusion GPS. The opposition research firm was responsible for producing the infamous Trump dossier, which was used by the FBI to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump Team. Bruce was in contact with Christopher Steele, the author of the Trump dossier. In fall 2016, the FBI cut ties with Steele. At the time, Bruce’s wife, Nellie, was an employee for Fusion GPS. This information was not disclosed to the DOJ. Judicial Watch filed two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the Justice Department for records about Bruce and Nellie Ohr’s involvement in the Trump dossier... https://www.judicialwatch.org/video-update/inside-judicial-watch-bruce-ohr-fusion-gps-dnc-funded-trump-dossier/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=action+alert&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180323192249.
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Give Me Your Dreamers…
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by Ann Coulter
{ freedomsback.com } ~ Does anyone know why President Trump loves “Dreamers” — i.e.: illegal aliens allegedly brought here before the age of 12 which no federal judge will ever check by their parents which no federal judge will ever check, “through no fault of their own” which no federal judge will ever check?

We’ve been lectured by Mark Zuckerberg about how much better “Dreamers” are than you lazy Americans — especially African-Americans, whose jobs are disproportionately taken by illegals. As former Mexican President Vicente Fox once charmingly put it, illegal immigrants “are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States.”

So why aren’t we being bombarded with television interviews and profiles of these amazing human beings?

Liberals can’t make an argument without producing a victim. Attack the media — they bleat about journalists getting shot in the face while reporting abroad. Complain about FBI corruption — they choke up over G-men putting their lives on the line EVERY DAY! Denounce the Deep State — they moan that CIA officers have been killed in the line of duty.

Isn’t this the moment for our hearts to be breaking over the millions of wonderful “Dreamers” who will suffer unless we amnesty them immediately?

Let’s see ’em! Surely they’ve got a few Einsteins! After all, the media are capable of turning a gang-admiring thug who forcibly robbed a convenience store and assaulted a cop into “Gentle giant, Mike Brown.” They turned jewelry-stealing juvenile delinquent Trayvon Martin into an altar boy.

But even MSNBC dare not show us Trump’s beloved “Dreamers.” The snarling Muslim showcased by the Democrats at their 2016 convention has gotten more airtime than any “Dreamer.”

There are plenty of vague descriptions of “Dreamers,” all of whom seem to be valedictorians. But can anyone identify precisely what they have contributed to our country — other than lots of police work, welfare and protests?

The best “Dreamers” always sound like the “honor student” in Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities: “somebody who attends class, isn’t disruptive, tries to learn, and does all right at reading and arithmetic.”

How about MSNBC interview five new “Dreamers” every night? Five non-hateful ones are probably the most they could get.

As long as Trump is going to keep babbling about these “absolutely incredible kids” — “I love these kids!” — and obstinately refuse to deport them, he must have met thousands of them. He plans to amnesty millions.

Why doesn’t Trump showcase his favorite two dozen “Dreamers”? Let the rest of us decide how “incredible” they are.

But no Glamour magazine profiles, please! We want to know everything, e.g.: How much have they cost the taxpayers in free school lunches and medical care? How many anchor babies have they had? What percentage have been convicted of a felony or killed someone in a drunk driving accident? How many have been admitted to college by taking affirmative action spots intended for the descendants of American slaves?

In 2009, The New York Times’ Lawrence Downes gushed over illegal alien Benita Veliz. Three years later, liberals still hadn’t come up with a better one: In 2012, she was the featured illegal alien at the Democratic National Convention. It only seems like the Democrats have an illegal alien speak at all their conventions. Veliz was the first.

Downes ticked off Veliz’s “impressive” accomplishments: “She was valedictorian at Jefferson High School” — naturally! — “graduating at age 16. She went to St. Mary’s University in San Antonio on a full scholarship.” A scholarship, I note, that otherwise might have gone to a yucky American.

I gather Veliz is the left’s designated baby seal of “Dreamers.”

Veliz is probably a nice lady, but she was valedictorian at a school that Downes would never send his kids to. Jefferson High School is 98 percent minority, less than half the students are “English proficient,” and only 16 percent are ready for college.

HOW DID AMERICA EVER GET BY WITHOUT HER?

Or to use Downes’ more-relaxed standard: “How will this country be a better place once we force Benita Veliz to leave it?”

Off the top of my head: There would be less strain on education budgets, hospital emergency rooms, roads and bridges, and that college scholarship Veliz got would be open to an American kid.

This is a country built by Western Europeans. Immigrants arrived after it was already set up and running well. The idea that any immigrant who hasn’t committed a felony is someone we can’t live without is absurd.

If you’re a yuppie in a rich white area and don’t like cleaning your toilets, the Trump administration has been great for you. But if you’re a Trump voter, you’re scratching your head wondering what happened to those campaign promises that set him apart from every other Republican. 


{ freedomsback.com } ~ Does anyone know why President Trump loves “Dreamers” — i.e.: illegal aliens allegedly brought here before the age of 12 which no federal judge will ever check by their parents which no federal judge will ever check, “through no fault of their own” which no federal judge will ever check?

We’ve been lectured by Mark Zuckerberg about how much better “Dreamers” are than you lazy Americans — especially African-Americans, whose jobs are disproportionately taken by illegals. As former Mexican President Vicente Fox once charmingly put it, illegal immigrants “are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States.”

So why aren’t we being bombarded with television interviews and profiles of these amazing human beings?

Liberals can’t make an argument without producing a victim. Attack the media — they bleat about journalists getting shot in the face while reporting abroad. Complain about FBI corruption — they choke up over G-men putting their lives on the line EVERY DAY! Denounce the Deep State — they moan that CIA officers have been killed in the line of duty.

Isn’t this the moment for our hearts to be breaking over the millions of wonderful “Dreamers” who will suffer unless we amnesty them immediately?

Let’s see ’em! Surely they’ve got a few Einsteins! After all, the media are capable of turning a gang-admiring thug who forcibly robbed a convenience store and assaulted a cop into “Gentle giant, Mike Brown.” They turned jewelry-stealing juvenile delinquent Trayvon Martin into an altar boy.

But even MSNBC dare not show us Trump’s beloved “Dreamers.” The snarling Muslim showcased by the Democrats at their 2016 convention has gotten more airtime than any “Dreamer.”

There are plenty of vague descriptions of “Dreamers,” all of whom seem to be valedictorians. But can anyone identify precisely what they have contributed to our country — other than lots of police work, welfare and protests?

The best “Dreamers” always sound like the “honor student” in Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities: “somebody who attends class, isn’t disruptive, tries to learn, and does all right at reading and arithmetic.”

How about MSNBC interview five new “Dreamers” every night? Five non-hateful ones are probably the most they could get.

As long as Trump is going to keep babbling about these “absolutely incredible kids” — “I love these kids!” — and obstinately refuse to deport them, he must have met thousands of them. He plans to amnesty millions.

Why doesn’t Trump showcase his favorite two dozen “Dreamers”? Let the rest of us decide how “incredible” they are.

But no Glamour magazine profiles, please! We want to know everything, e.g.: How much have they cost the taxpayers in free school lunches and medical care? How many anchor babies have they had? What percentage have been convicted of a felony or killed someone in a drunk driving accident? How many have been admitted to college by taking affirmative action spots intended for the descendants of American slaves?

In 2009, The New York Times’ Lawrence Downes gushed over illegal alien Benita Veliz. Three years later, liberals still hadn’t come up with a better one: In 2012, she was the featured illegal alien at the Democratic National Convention. It only seems like the Democrats have an illegal alien speak at all their conventions. Veliz was the first.

Downes ticked off Veliz’s “impressive” accomplishments: “She was valedictorian at Jefferson High School” — naturally! — “graduating at age 16. She went to St. Mary’s University in San Antonio on a full scholarship.” A scholarship, I note, that otherwise might have gone to a yucky American.

I gather Veliz is the left’s designated baby seal of “Dreamers.”

Veliz is probably a nice lady, but she was valedictorian at a school that Downes would never send his kids to. Jefferson High School is 98 percent minority, less than half the students are “English proficient,” and only 16 percent are ready for college.

HOW DID AMERICA EVER GET BY WITHOUT HER?

Or to use Downes’ more-relaxed standard: “How will this country be a better place once we force Benita Veliz to leave it?”

Off the top of my head: There would be less strain on education budgets, hospital emergency rooms, roads and bridges, and that college scholarship Veliz got would be open to an American kid.

This is a country built by Western Europeans. Immigrants arrived after it was already set up and running well. The idea that any immigrant who hasn’t committed a felony is someone we can’t live without is absurd.

If you’re a yuppie in a rich white area and don’t like cleaning your toilets, the Trump administration has been great for you. But if you’re a Trump voter, you’re scratching your head wondering what happened to those campaign promises that set him apart from every other Republican. 

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Sat/Med - PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Focusing on the Bigger Threat — Bureaucracy 
by Harold Hutchison
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John BOLTON On Replacing 
Globalist MCMASTER As Nat’l Security Adviser 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ President Trump’s incoming National Security Adviser, John Bolton... made an appearance in an interview with Fox News, in which, after accepting congratulations and an endorsement of his predecessor, he answered a few questions. The first was related to the non-scandal of President Trump recognizing that Vladimir Putin is the leader of a major global player and will be for another six years and having the good sense to treat him with the respect that position deserves. It’s something Democrats only understood as it pertained to the impostor Hussein liar-nObama and which they have chosen as yet another vehicle for attacks against the President. Bolton is asked, “Is there any scandal in the President ignoring the advice he gets and doing what he wants to do?” Bolton replies, “No, that’s why he got elected, you know. It’s not the function of political officials whether it’s the President or his nominees across the executive branch to do what their subordinates tell them to do.”... https://rickwells.us/bolton-replacing-globalist-mcmaster/
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Mueller Investigation is the Establishment’s Final Revenge
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by Andrew
{ conservativefreepress.com } ~ Even after he had secured the nomination, one will recall, there was talk of the RNC pulling a fast one... at the convention and crowning Ted Cruz, John Kasich, or even Paul Ryan their presidential nominee. Even after he won the election, please remember, there was talk of using the Electoral College to steal it away from him and hand it to liar-Hillary Clinton or some other, more deserving president. Thankfully, none of that nonsense ever materialized. But even though it has appeared for the last year or so that the vast majority of elected Republicans have fallen in line behind Trump, make no mistake about it: The Establishment is still alive and well. They don’t appreciate what this man is doing with foreign and domestic policy, even if they are too afraid to speak out against him publicly. Instead of taking him on politically and losing, they are working behind the scenes to undermine him at every turn. And nowhere is that made more obvious than in the continued farce known as the Robert Mueller investigation... http://www.conservativefreepress.com/politics/mueller-investigation-establishments-final-revenge/
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American Day of Reckoning for Muslim Brotherhood? 
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by RYAN MAURO 
{ clarionproject.org } ~ The Muslim Brotherhood’s sigh of relief after being rescued by Secretary of State Tillerson and National Security Adviser McMaster has been replaced by a sweaty panic... With Tillerson out and Pompeo in and McMaster’s days numbered, it is now probable that the Muslim Brotherhood will finally be designated by the State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, paving the way for its infrastructure in America to begin being dismantled. Groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood network like the Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat ul-Fuqra are likely to see a similar fate. President Trump’s desire to pressure Pakistan and more closely ally with India adds to the likelihood that these Pakistani-led groups will be blacklisted. The incoming secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, was one of the earliest cosponsors of the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act when he was a member of Congress. Now, as secretary of state, he has the authority to designate Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)...  https://clarionproject.org/day-reckoning-muslim-brotherhood/
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Palestinians Tortured; Media Silent
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by Bassam Tawil
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ What happens when Palestinians make allegations of torture and assaults on their public freedoms?... If the finger is being pointed at Israel, the international media falls over itself to bring the story to the broadest possible audience. The story would not even end there. Human rights organizations and United Nations agencies would blast Israel for "abusing" Palestinian human rights and the Security Council would hold an emergency session to condemn Israel. The response, however, when Palestinians fall victim to the practices of their own governments -- the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip -- is a completely different one. That is when silence descends upon the international media community hides behind a blue wall of silence...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12064/palestinians-torture-human-rights 
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Pennsylvania GOP moves to 
oust judges over gerrymandering decision
by REID WILSON 

{ thehill.com } ~ A Pennsylvania state representative has introduced resolutions to impeach four of the five state Supreme Court justices... who voted to override congressional district maps they said were unfairly gerrymandered on partisan lines. The resolutions, introduced by state Rep. Cris Dush (R), accuse Justices Kevin Dougherty, Christine Donohue, Debra McClosky Todd and David Wecht of misbehavior in office. In a memo to fellow House members, Dush said the ruling overriding Pennsylvania’s U.S. House district lines amounted to an overstep of judicial authority under the state Constitution, which lays out the path by which a bill becomes a law — in this case, a bill to delineate the district lines after the decennial Census and reapportionment process...  http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/379359-pennsylvania-gop-moves-to-oust-judges-over-gerrymandering-decision.
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Focusing on the Bigger Threat — Bureaucracy 

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               But when he is wrong, he can be tragically so. In 2009, he supported the liar-nObama administration’s successful effort to end F-22 production. With a resurgent Russia, it would be nice to have more than 187 Raptors on hand. In this case, his resignation and decision to blast Fox News as a propaganda outlet over the concerns being aired about Robert Mueller investigation could prove to be very mistaken in the future.
               When it comes to worries about the Deep State, there are reasons to be worried. Forget, for a moment, the FBI. Look at the IRS scandal and Lois Lerner. Lerner was the apparent point person who ran the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups — and she retired with a six-figure pension and wants her deposition permanently sealed. This is just the most egregious.
               The Justice Department has had its share of problems, not least of which was Fast and Furious, where hundreds of semiautomatic firearms were allowed to fall into the hands of drug cartels. Former Attorney General scum-Eric Holder got a contempt of Congress citation, but has walked free, and is even considering a presidential run.
               These pre-date the 2016 campaign, including the FBI essentially whitewashing liar-Hillary Clinton’s use of a bathroom server for classified information, which Barackliar-nObama apparently knew about according to illicit lovebirds Linda Page and Peter Strzok (unless they lied in their text messages). Oh, and Page and Strzok mentioned an insurance policy in case of a Trump win in the office of then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired last Friday for lying about media leaks. Oh, did anyone mention that McCabe’s wife got over a half million bucks in fund-raising help from Terry McAuliffe, a very close political ally of the liar-Clintons? Well, we did.
               We’ve learned that the Christopher Steele dossier, a salacious document that is a low-budget version of the Penthouse Forum, was opposition research paid for by liar-Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the DNC — a fact that those FBI officials applying for FISA warrants didn’t mention.
               And Ralph Peters is appalled that there is speculation about elements of the government trying to carry out a soft coup.
               The fact is, doubt about the trustworthiness of bureaucrats is increasing — and not just on these issues. NOAA has recently been busted for “adjusting” data to push a climate change agenda. Guess that’s why Democrat AGs and senators wanted to use RICO against “deniers” who were really calling out BS numbers. Keep in mind, stopping global warning was why the Luftwaffe went to biofuels… and ended up having to ground their Tornados.
               Nobody is denying Russia is a threat. In fact, we need to re-think staying in New START, and to keep increasing energy production to lower oil prices to hit Vladimir Putin’s wallet and improve our strategic position. But Russia’s threat to us is not as immediate as the threat from “civil servants” who seem to be overstepping their bounds — Ralph Peters’ vehement objections notwithstanding.   ~The Patriot Pos
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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America's Cloward-Piven 
Approach to Illegal Immigration 
by Arnold Ahlert
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Intel Report – CLAPPER LIED, Worked 
With FUSION GPS Who Had History With Russia 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ In using the more diplomatic language of DC, the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russian election meddling... has concluded that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper misled Congress about disclosing information to CNN. In regular English, they’re saying Clapper lied to Congress about leaking to CNN. The final report was approved by the committee on Thursday and must now be subjected to intelligence agency review. While the committee spent over a year, 472 days investigating and speaking with thousands of witnesses, it found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. That’s not to say they found nothing or that the time was wasted. The deep state Democrats have plenty to be concerned about if we can only get the DOJ to act, and Sessions to appoint a second special counsel. In addition to the ongoing revelations of corruption at the DOJ, FBI, State Department, Intelligence agencies and the entire liar-nObama regime that we are becoming more familiar with on a daily basis, Clapper was singled out specifically for his lying. The report states that “provided inconsistent testimony to the committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN.”... https://rickwells.us/report-clapper-fusion-russia/
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John Bolton on North Korea, China, 
Syria, and Other National Security Threats
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by Rob Bluey
{ dailysignal.com } ~ The most important strategic fact about the Trump administration is that it faces a range of threats across the entire spectrum... What happened is the country has inherited the consequences of a lot of President Barack liar-nObama’s mistakes. The bills are now coming due on the Trump administration’s watch on nuclear proliferation, the threat of North Korea, the failure of the Iran nuclear deal, the continuing threat of international terrorism, the strategic threats of Russia and China. There are a lot of them out there. They require different levels of attention and response. The president basically is pursuing a Reaganite “peace through strength” foreign policy. A lot of people thought he might be outside the conservative mainstream; I don’t think that’s correct...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/02/26/john-bolton-sums-north-koreas-role-olympics-outstanding-propagandists/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpnMU1HWXdNak13T1RGaiIsInQiOiJvaHdtclNFTkV2Y3A5aThkeUdWdmxjOXZjRFVzVHVlZmNqalwveDdJQ0lQdm45SGdSemNKT3c2alFvc0hNdFN2NlljMU0xcXlMZFV3eEtEa25BeHNKeitkcG9BTlhBYUVPZDlPb2s0bmJadXhJcjlNeGhZRHhtbUVvaURIRUtHS2wifQ%3D%3D.
House Judiciary subpoenas Justice Department 
for liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation documents
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by Diana Stancy Correll
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., sent a subpoena Thursday evening to the Department of Justice... to gain access to documents related to the agency’s investigation of former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s private email server in 2016. Goodlatte and House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., requested the documents four months ago. “To date, the Department has only produced a fraction of the documents that have been requested,” Goodlatte said in a letter Thursday. “Given the Department’s ongoing delays in producing these documents, I am left with no choice but to issue the enclosed subpoena to compel production of these documents,” Goodlatte added...
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by Rachel del Guidice 
{ dailysignal.com } ~ An Arizona lawmaker wants to deny federal funds to sanctuary cities by amending a spending bill keeping the government running through September... The amendment proposed by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., would withhold two kinds of federal grants to cities and other jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing immigration law, The Hill reported. “In other words, if you’re a sanctuary city, and you do not transfer information as required under Title VIII of the U.S. code, then you’re going to lose that grant funding,” Biggs told the news  organization.  The House Rules Committee, however, rejected the Biggs amendment after convening late Wednesday night... 
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Newly Released Video Shows Las Vegas Killer Before Shooting 
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Heh! Trump Vs. loose lips-Biden: Who Ya Got?
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Dana Loesch: Media Does Not Get A Pass For Doing It Right Once
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Common Liberal Arguments For Gun Control, Shot Down
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Dershowitz: Special Counsel Never Should Have Been Appointed
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John Dowd Resigns As Trump’s Lead Lawyer In Mueller Probe
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Trump Authorizes Tariffs On China On China For Intellectual Property
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Report Andrew McCabe Authorized Criminal Probe Of Sessions (While He Was Still In Senate)
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America's Cloward-Piven Approach to Illegal Immigration 

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               How does one foment a revolution? First, give its foot soldiers a veneer of legitimacy. In 2013, the Associated Press decided to drop the term “illegal immigrant” from its news coverage. Others soon followed suit, and now the majority of the media use terms like “undocumented immigrant” or “migrant” to describe illegals.
          Second, reward those who broke the law. Twelve states and the District of Columbia give illegals drivers’ licenses. The Mexican government issues them Consular ID cards allowing them to open U.S. bank accounts. Five states grant illegals in-state college tuition. Nearly 500 hundred municipalities now define themselves as sanctuary cities, shielding illegal immigrants from the law. Moreover, California has not only declared itself a sanctuary state, but has enacted laws limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities, and prohibiting employers from providing voluntary cooperation with ICE agents, absent a warrant or court order. And in a first for the nation, the state’s Senate Rules Committee has appointed an illegal immigrant to a statewide government job.
               This is nothing less than nullification. And nothing made that clearer than a 2010 lawsuit filed by the liar-nObama administration against Arizona, when it attempted to enforce immigration law the administration was conspicuously ignoring. In a 5-3 decision two years later, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Arizona law and in the process, “reinforced the federal government’s primacy in immigration policy,” as The Washington Post crowed at the time.
               To his credit, current Attorney General Jeff Sessions has filed a lawsuit against the state based on that premise, but it remains to be seen if this signals a paradigm shift, or merely a long-winded legal fight awaiting a future Democrat administration — one that will undoubtedly withdraw the suit.
                In the meantime, Congress is doing absolutely nothing to hold law-defying politicians accountable.
               Third, accuse those who would resist the revolution of being small-minded, nativist bigots. The same year the AP changed its stylebook, New York Times editor Lawrence Downes made sure those who resisted would castigated, insisting that “illegal” is often “a code word for racial and ethnic hatred.” Currently, Nation columnist Suman Raghunathan characterizes  resistance to illegal immigration as an “ethos of exclusion.” Root columnist Michael Harriot asserts that white people simply hate immigrants. And, Huffington Post contributor Dr. Alvaro Huerta asserts, the Trump administration’s effort to enforce the law is “a racist political platform based on anti-Mexicanism — a long-standing American tradition embraced mostly by millions of white citizens/voters.”
               Fourth, institute a disinformation campaign. Americans have been told approximately 11 million illegals reside in the U.S. — for more than a decade. This means we’re supposed to believe just as many illegals have died, or repatriated themselves, as have snuck into the nation or overstayed their visas in that same time period. We are assured that illegals commit fewer crimes than native Americans, or are less likely to be incarcerated, even as the reality that these are wholly avoidable crimes is conspicuously absent from such “analyses.” We are told illegally crossing the border is an “act of love”, that a border wall will be completely impractical, and that mass deportation is impossible, even as the reality of self-deportation, which could be engendered by genuine law enforcement efforts, is no longer part of the conversation.
               Fifth, secure federal government collaboration in the effort to advance wholesale lawbreaking. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the 1986 Immigration and Reform Act that granted unambiguous amnesty to 2.7 million illegal aliens. It was supposed to be a one-and-done amnesty, accompanied by promises to seal the border and crack down on businesses who hired illegals. The latter two promises were ignored, and thus we have at minimum a four-fold increase in the number of illegals now demanding  amnesty. Moreover, Barack liar-nObama’s unconstitutional granting of temporary legal status to a newly protected subgroup of illegals euphemistically referred to as Dreamers is a direct consequence of that failure.
               What about visa over-stayers who outnumber border crashers? Despite the explosion of technology, the Department of Homeland Security cannot track visa overstayers.
               Cracking down on businesses that hire illegals also remains a farce. As columnist Theodore Kupfer reveals, an E-Verfiy system that would be the most effective tool by far for combating further illegal immigration, and  incentivizing many illegals already here to return home “is not mandatory — and nobody, even among the most restrictionist Republicans, is demanding that it become so,” he writes.
               Orchestrated corruption is also part of the mix. A CNS News investigation reveals “more than 1.3 million cases of identity theft were documented by the IRS involving illegal aliens who had been issued Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers” in a five year period between 2011 and 2016. In addition, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) discovered around 1.2 million cases in 2017 alone where illegal aliens filed tax forms using Social Security Numbers that belonged to someone else, or were fabricated.
               Both crimes are felonies — yet the IRS couldn’t say whether even a single case had been referred for criminal prosecution.
               In the meantime, Congress is doing its best to maintain the odious status quo: the latest gargantuan spending bill will fund sanctuary cities, but unless the GOP capitulates to Democrat demands for a “pathway to citizenship” for the 1.8 million illegals no longer covered by DACA, funding for a border wall will not be part of the package.
               Sixth, get the media to continually advance a pro-illegal immigration narrative, or completely ignore the issue when an uncomfortable counter-narrative emerges. For at least four days, Americans were inundated with stories about the bridge collapse in Miami that killed six people, replete with investigative reports regarding why it happened. Yet in 2014, when the EV-D68 enterovirus killed nine children and afflicted over 50 more with full or partial paralysis — likely engendered by “liar-nObama’s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence,” as The Daily Caller put it — the mainstream media’s silence, coupled with their calculated lack of interest, was nothing short of appalling.
               In 1993, Daniel Patrick Moynihan coined the term “defining deviancy down.” In today’s America, nothing is more deviant than the ongoing attempt to foster the idea that the Rule of Law can be ignored when it doesn’t accrue to one’s political interests or ideological sensibilities — and that doing so constitutes “compassion.”
               That mindset is the driving force behind the revolution envisioned by Cloward and Piven, and those who embrace it must be seen as the cancerous anarchists they truly are.
               Our national sovereignty is at stake.   
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Sat/Med - AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Video of Vegas Shooter Finally Released,
Showing How He Brought In the Guns
by MATT AGORIST    
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clown-Chuck Schumer Snuck Something Into 
The Spending Bill That Is Bad News For Trump 
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by americanpatriotdaily.com 
{ americanpatriotdaily.com } ~ clown-Schumer and backstabber-Mitch McConnell secretly negotiated stuffing the legislation with brand new gun control... “Senate Minority Leader clown-Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi (D-Calif.) endorsed the inclusion of narrow, bipartisan legislation aimed at improving records and information-sharing in the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System — even though gun control advocates say the provision barely moves the needle on firearms restrictions. In return, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are discussing language stating that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can research gun violence. A law banning gun control advocacy by the CDC, known as the Dickey amendment, has long had a chilling effect on such research.” National Association for Gun Rights President Dudley Brown has blasted this scheme...A thing Kennedy would of done.  http://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/featured/chuck-schumer-spending-bill-bad-for-trump/ 
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NOT WINNING – Jordan Will Vote AGAINST Sellout, 
Anti-American Spending Bill 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Jim Jordan is upset with the bill that the uniparty leadership of the House and Senate have put together in private... dumped in their laps, and told them they’ve got 48 hours or less to either go along with the establishment program or be an inconsequential “no” vote. He’s asked what he doesn’t like about it, the size of the bill or what the money is being spent on. That’s an easy one, the answer is both. He says, “And it’s not even close to what we told the American people we were going to do. So it’s not just conservatives who don’t like this bill, the American people, when they find out what’s in it and that’s going to take a while.” He says, “We just got it twelve hours ago and we’re going to vote on it here in a few hours, and it’s 2,200 pages that fund sanctuary cities, funds Planned Parenthood, restricts Second Amendment liberties and grows the government at a $1.3 trillion price tag on this legislation, which will lead to a trillion dollar deficit.”...I strongly stand with Rep.Jordan and any Senator who votes no on this bill.  https://rickwells.us/jordan-sellout-spending-bill/.
Senate Democrats Prevent Stand-Alone Vote for Taylor Force Act 
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by Natalie Johnson
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Senate leaders have added the Taylor Force Act to the omnibus spending bill after two Democratic senators blocked an effort to pass it as a stand-alone bill... The measure would cut off U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority as punishment for its practice of paying salaries and benefits to terrorists and their families, including those who have murdered Americans. The Taylor Force Act boasts strong bipartisan support, prompting Senate leadership a few weeks ago to hotline the bill, which would set it up to pass by unanimous consent, a parliamentary procedure that expedites passage of noncontroversial legislation. If no senator objects to the move, the measure is passed without the need for a floor vote. But the Taylor Force Act was blocked after Democratic senators Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Dianne Fein-stein of California rejected the hotline, killing the unanimous consent process and forcing the bill to undergo the Senate's lengthy cloture process, several sources told the Washington Free Beacon. Neither Leahy nor Fein-stein have publicly opposed the bill... 
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Trump Admin Warns Palestinian 
Leadership It's Skating on Thin Ice  
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{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ Washington's patience for the Palestinian Authority leadership is nearly spent... Ever since President Donald Trump came to the White House, US-Palestinian relations have been tense, to say the least. Trump's overt affinity for Israel, and his unwillingness to tolerate the outrageous claims and demands of Palestinian leaders is, according to most Israelis, a breath of fresh air. Of course, the Palestinian Authority sees the situation quite differently. President Mahmoud Abbas has become so upset by the Trump Administration that he's taken to spouting personal insults against American diplomats...   http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/33634/Default.aspx
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House Intelligence Committee votes to end Russia investigation
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by Katelyn Caralle
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The House Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to approve its final report on Russia's interference in the 2016... a vote that also marked the end of the committee's investigation. "We voted today to end the investigation," Jack Langer, spokesman for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, said. The final report said lawmakers found no evidence of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s associates.  After over 70 witness interviews and over 300,000 documents collected and reviewed, Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., released a statement saying the report provides recommendations on how to improve election security...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/house-intelligence-committee-votes-to-end-russia-investigation 
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White House Briefing 
on Congressional Omnibus Spending Bill
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ In 2010 the GOP said give us the House and we’ll put budgets and spending back into regular order. We did, they didn’t... In 2014 the GOP said give us the Senate and then we’ll put budgets and spending back into regular order.  We did, they didn’t.  In 2016 the GOP said give us the White House and we’ll put budgets and spending back into regular order.  We did, and again, they did not. The White House is scheduled to brief media on the latest insufferable congressional Omnibus spending bill.  .
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Video of Vegas Shooter Finally Released,
Showing How He Brought In the Guns
by MATT AGORIST    


{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ Las Vegas, NV — It’s been close to six months since Stephen Paddock allegedly rented a room inside the Mandalay Bay Casino Resort in Las Vegas and then opened fire on on thousands of innocent people, killing 58 or them and injuring hundreds of others. Since that tragic day, victims, media, activists, and citizens have been calling for the release of surveillance footage that shows Paddock inside the hotel and, until now, these demands have fallen on deaf ears.

In spite of the dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests by local media and lawsuits demanding the release the surveillance footage, somehow the New York Times was able to obtain the exclusive footage allegedly showing Paddock inside the hotel.

In the chilling video, we see Paddock alone and blending in, never looking suspicious and even raising his hands in delight when he won $1,000 while gambling and eating sushi.

However, behind the scenes, Paddock was filling his room with dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

“Over and over in the clips, Mr. Paddock is seen leaving the Mandalay Bay for his home in Mesquite, returning with a dark minivan loaded with suitcases,” the Times reported. “Over and over, valets take his keys; over and over, bellhops stack his luggage on gold carts, helping him transport at least 21 bags over the course of seven days. As they take the service elevator upstairs, Mr. Paddock chats with them. He cracks a joke. He tips.”

The questions as to how Paddock was able to get this small arsenal in his room now appear to be answered thanks to the video—Paddock had the hotel staff load them up for him.

However, upon the release of this video, another question remains. How, exactly, did hotel staff not find bags with hundreds of rounds of ammunition—that would be far heavier than any clothing bags—suspicious?

Also, how, exactly Paddock managed to conceal the small arsenal of weapons from housekeeping is just as big of a mystery as to how he got them in the room in the first place without the staff noticing the weight of the bags.

“Toward the end of the footage, two guests carrying shiny plastic inner tubes get off the elevator, padding out in flip-flops. Mr. Paddock pauses to let them off, then gets on,” the Times reported. “It is the afternoon of Sept. 30. They seem to be on their way to the pool. He is on his way upstairs, where his guns await.”

What the video from the NY Times also reveals is that during the same time he was staying at the Mandalay Bay, he also rented a room at the Ogden just down the street. Internet records show that he researched the artists and setlists of another music festival which would occur just down the road from the Ogden.

This video provides some much-needed insight that the victims and their families—as well as all Americans—deserve to know.

However, it does not explain why he allegedly began shooting into a crowd of country music concert goers. It also does not explain why local police and the FBI have been covering up evidence and contradicting themselves repeatedly. Also a mystery is how the New York Times managed to obtain all this footage from MGM resorts and where is the rest of it. If they possess footage outside of Paddock’s room, surely they have the video of Jesus Campos being the ‘hero’ that police made him out to be. Where is it?

While the release of this footage is certainly a step in the right direction, this case remains shrouded in secrecy and deceit and until all the footage and evidence is publicly released, we all need to constantly keep asking these questions.

VIDEO:  https://nyti.ms/2ubwf7F via @nytvideo
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French consulate worker accused 
of smuggling weapons for Hamas
by Ruth Eglash & Loveday Morris
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Ingraham CHALLENGES TRUMP 
To Stand Against Reckless SWAMP SPENDING 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Laura Ingraham points to a stack of paper on her desk that is equal to the Omnibus spending package... that Congress will have approximately 48 hours to read portions of, revise virtually none of, consider and then either approve or “vote to shut down the government.” If the American people had our way, if we had real representation in DC, they’d pass a short term spending bill and then really get to work. Ingraham points out to the size of the spending bill and declares correctly that nobody is going to read it. They’ll perhaps scan portions, have their staffs do likewise and then vote on what they think is probably in there. She calls it a “business as usual spend-o-rama at a time when voters expected just the opposite, from a President who campaigned against the corruptocrats in DC.” She notes that with the sequester caps gone, Republicans “are linking arms with Democrats. Yes, they’re spending more on things we should not be funding at all and things the President vowed to defund.” She asks, “So how on earth do Republicans expect the voters to turn out in November for them if they can’t live up to the basic precepts of what they campaigned on?”... https://rickwells.us/ingraham-trump-swamp-spending/.
As Israel fetes 2007 strike on Syria nuclear reactor, 
is Assad building another?
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by JUDAH ARI GROSS
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ A US think tank revisits claims that the regime is constructing an underground facility, finding worrying questions but no real answers... While Israel strutted after announcing to the world on Wednesday that it had destroyed Syria’s nascent al-Kibar nuclear reactor in 2007, a US-based think tank published a report the same day suggesting that there is another atomic facility that Jerusalem should be worrying about. The paper, released by the Institute for Science and International Security, revisits a claim made in 2015 by the German daily Der Spiegel that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was constructing another nuclear reactor, this one underground, near the city of Qusayr, along the Lebanese border.  The findings of the new report are inconclusive, but determine that the Syrian regime certainly built something in the ground under Qusayr and that some of the claims made by Der Spiegel are supported by publicly available evidence, namely satellite images and geological data...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-israel-fetes-reactor-strike-is-syria-building-another/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=b357c16700-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-b357c16700-54638825
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Hannity Investigates Mueller, Turns Out 
He’s Not Nearly as Clean as Everybody Said
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by NICK GIVAS
{ dailycallernewsfoundation.org } ~ Fox News host Sean Hannity devoted time on his Tuesday show to examining the past of special counsel Robert Mueller and his findings were intriguing... Hannity referred to a report from Fox News’ Sarah Carter, citing Mueller’s career as a prosecutor in the 1980’s. When Mueller was serving as assistant U.S. Attorney, four men were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for a crime they did not commit and the special counsel was in charge of the case when it happened. “Robert Mueller’s career has been anything but impeccable,” Hannity said. “One of the worst stains on his record comes from his time Boston, where he served as assistant U.S. attorney and acting U.S. attorney in the 80’s. During this time notorious Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, he was actively engaged by the FBI as an informant. The relationship between Bulger and the bureau was wrought with nothing but corruption and criminal collusion.” “Bulger’s FBI handler, guy by the name of John Connolly covered up for many of the horrific crimes that were committed by Bulger and his associates, including one instance where four men were wrongfully framed and convicted and imprisoned for decades — all for a murder it turns out they did not commit,” Hannity continued. “The men were ultimately exonerated. A judge awarded $101 million in damages, but not before two of the men actually died in prison. Robert Mueller was the U.S. attorney in charge while these men were rotting in prison while certain agents in the FBI under Mueller covered up the truth.”...   http://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2018/03/21/hannity-digs-up-dirt-on-muellers-past-and-finds-hes-not-so-clean-after-all/
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How Facebook and Social Media Promote Terrorism
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by Uzi Shaya
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The nature of Islamic terrorism throughout the world has changed in recent years... Alongside the established and organized groups -- such as Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and even ISIS -- a new and different type terror has been created, one that is nourished ideologically, spiritually, and intellectually by these groups, yet shows no connection -- organizationally or operationally -- to them. This terror is defined by what we refer to as "lone wolves." These are individuals whose nationalistic motives, religious incitement or psychological needs propel them to commit acts of terror without being a member of an organized group or cell. The one unifying aspect for all these lone wolves is social media. Social media networks enable any individual to have his voice and his opinions heard so that his proclamations can resonate with audiences that are far-reaching. Unfortunately, the existing freedoms on social media have been manipulated by terrorist groups to create a threat that poses a clear and present danger to citizens around the world...  Doesn't this bring to mind, Austin. TX.  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12041/facebook-social-media-terrorism 
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Top Trump lawyer John Dowd 
resigns after calling for Mueller's ouster
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by Sarah Westwood
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ John Dowd, a top attorney for President Trump, resigned just days after calling for the removal of special counsel Robert Mueller... "I love the president and wish him well," Dowd told the Washington Examiner.  Dowd told the Daily Beast over the weekend that he hoped the Justice Department would end Mueller's probe into alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. While Dowd claimed initially that he was speaking as a representative of the president, he later backtracked and said he had expressed a personal opinion. Dowd's resignation comes just days after the president hired Joe diGenova, a controversial former prosecutor and legal pundit, to join his legal team. DiGenova argued previously that Trump is the victim of a conspiracy orchestrated by opponents within the Justice Department...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/top-trump-lawyer-john-dowd-resigns-after-calling-for-muellers-ouster 
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French consulate worker accused 
f smuggling weapons for Hamas
by Ruth Eglash & Loveday Morris
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ A French national working for his country's consulate in Jerusalem has been detained on suspicion of smuggling weapons out of the Gaza Strip for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Israel's internal security agency said Monday.

The consulate employee, identified as Romain Franck, is alleged to have smuggled weapons from Hamas-controlled Gaza to the occupied West Bank on five occasions in recent months, the security agency Shin Bet said in a statement.

He used a diplomatic vehicle belonging to the French consulate which are subject to less stringent security checks, it claimed.

Franck, identified by French media as 24 years old, is suspected of having transferred around 70 pistols and two assault rifles.

"The investigation clearly shows that the employee of the French consulate acted for financial gain, on his own initiative and without the knowledge of his superiors," said the Shin Bet statement. "This is a very grave incident in which the immunity and privileges granted to foreign missions in Israel was cynically exploited."

The Shin Bet said Franck had received the weapons from a Palestinian resident of the Gaza Strip employed at the French Cultural Center there. They said he then transferred the weapons to a Palestinian unit in the West Bank. The weapons were later sold them on to arms dealers, the agency said.

"We take this case very seriously and are in very close contact with the Israeli authorities on this case," said a spokesman for the French Embassy in Tel Aviv, adding that Frank was due to appear in court on Monday when the exact charges would become clear. "They are serious."

Israel also said it had also arrested a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, who works as a security guard at the French Consulate in Jerusalem, as well as several Palestinians from Gaza living illegally - under Israeli law - in the West Bank in connection with the smuggling ring. Six of the individuals will be indicted by the Southern District Court, the Shin Bet statement said.

Some of the suspects were also involved in smuggling money from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank, the Shin Bet alleged.

Tensions between Israel and Hamas have increased in recent weeks, with Israel accusing the militant groups of sending civilians to protest along its border fence. Gaza residents have held regular protests near the barrier since President Trump declared Jerusalem as Israel's capital, with several shot dead by Israeli security forces.

Rocket fire from Gaza also increased following the announcement, though has died down in recent months.

On Sunday, the Israeli military said it had destroyed a Hamas tunnel built to infiltrate into Israeli territory. On Thursday, the Israeli military said two explosive devices were detonated toward troops on a routine patrol. Last month, four soldiers were injured when an IED went off next to the fence.

"We are seeing Hamas instigate riots, calling on its civilians to march toward fence and engage with our troops," said Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, an army spokesman in a briefing with journalists on Thursday. "We are seeing a pattern here and we will not allow it to become standard operating procedure."
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