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ISIS Church Blaze in Canada

ISIS Church Blaze in Canada

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An APB goes out when someone leaves bacon on or near a mosque, but an ISIS church fire burning in Canada? Ho hum …. nothing to see here, folks, keep moving.

Priest was crying. No one cares.

So far crickets from Justin Trudeau (too busy washing his Quran socks, I’m sure). Church had three graffiti about ISIS.

Burlington church vandalized with ‘ISIS’ graffiti after suspicious fire

By Rick Zamperin, Global News, August 16, 2017:

A fire gutted the Baptist Church in Burlington, Ont., early Wednesday and as Tom Hayes reports, investigators are treating the blaze as suspicious.

The Ontario Fire Marshal has been called in to investigate a suspicious fire at a church in North Burlington.

READ MORE: Burlington church vandalized with ‘ISIS’ graffiti after suspicious fire

Firefighters were called to Trinity Baptist Church on Appleby Line, north of the 407, just after 1 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Pictures posted online show that the church was also vandalized. Graffiti spray painted on the side of the 126 year old building spelled out ‘ISIS’ and ‘ISIS will remai[n]’.

When fire crews arrived on the scene, smoke and flames were seen shooting up from the roof of the building.

No one was hurt.

Firefighters were able to save the new part of the church but the old portion of the structure has been destroyed.

READ MORE: Fire that destroyed Baptist church in Burlington, Ont. being treated as suspicious

The damage estimate has not been released.

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Leftist Icon to Speak at Radical Islamic Confab
September 2, 2017/by Jordan Schachtel

Linda Sarsour, a progressive icon, anti-Semite, and terrorist apologist, continues her rise in the leadership of America’s radical Islamic organizations.

Fresh from promoting conspiracy theories about Jewish control of the media, Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour will continue speaking at events hosted by these fringe Islamic outfits, while surrounded by nefarious characters that seek to undermine the American way of life.

She is listed as a featured speaker for the upcoming Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America’s (MAS-ICNA) combined 2017 convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Federal prosecutors have described the Muslim American Society (MAS) as an “overt arm” of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), which also has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, advocates for a global Islamic caliphate that is ruled by Sharia law.

Sarsour will share a platform with many who share her extremist views.

Imam Suhaib Webb of the Islamic Society of Boston is listed as a featured speaker. Webb, who was once a close friend of deceased al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, is the leader of a congregation that has drawn over a dozen suspected or convicted terrorists.

Hamza Tzortzis, another panelist at the coming convention, has endorsed the death penalty for leaving Islam and/or insulting Islam. He views homosexuality as a “criminal act” akin to rape and murder. Tzortzis advocates for an Islamic State, using “offensive jihad,” or outright violence, to create a Sharia-compliant society. He has also defended child marriage and wife beating.

Jasser Auda, another confirmed speaker, has several ties to the global Muslim Brotherhood. Like Sarsour, he often complains about how he is being undermined by “Zionist agendas.”

Omar Suleiman, a preacher who remains immensely popular at Muslim Brotherhood-aligned events, has called homosexuality a “disease” and a “repugnant shameless sin,” in advocating for the deaths of homosexuals under Islamic law. Suleiman has hinted that he understands the practice of “honor killing” family members.

Jonathan Brown, who will also speak at the event, made waves earlier this year after delivering a lecture at Georgetown University in which he endorsed slavery and rape as moral Islamic concepts.

This is but a small sample of the individuals whom Sarsour — who continues to be represented as a freedom fighter by countless left-wing politicians, pundits, and activists — will share a stage with. (For more from the author of “Leftist Icon to Speak at Radical Islamic Confab” please click HERE)

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Trump Declares Sunday Day of Prayer: ‘God Is Our Refuge and Strength’

Surrounded by members of the clergy, President Donald Trump signed a declaration Friday designating Sunday as a day of prayer for the victims of Hurricane Harvey.

“From the beginning of our nation, Americans have joined together during times of great need to ask for God’s blessing and God’s guidance,” Trump said.

“It’s going to be a very special day. I don’t know when this was done last, but it’s been a long time ago,” Trump said to the clergy with him in the Oval Office.

Before signing the declaration, Trump praised the response to the crises caused by the hurricane.

“Friend helping friend, neighbor helping neighbor, stranger helping stranger: We’ve seen it perhaps more so than at any time so vividly, at least during Hurricane Harvey,” Trump said.

“When we look at Texas and Louisiana, we see the American spirit of service embodied by countless men and women. Brave first responders have rescued those stranded in drowning cars and rising water,” he said.

Trump singled out the Coast Guard for praise.

“And I have to tell you, I’ve watched the Coast Guard; thousands of lives have been saved by our great Coast Guard. They have done incredible work in the most vicious seas.”

The proclamation urged all Americans to join in prayer on Sunday.

“As response and recovery efforts continue, and as Americans provide much needed relief to the people of Texas and Louisiana, we are reminded of scripture’s promise that ‘God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.’ Melania and I are grateful to everyone devoting time, effort and resources to the ongoing response, recovery and rebuilding efforts. We invite all Americans to join us as we continue to pray for those who have lost family members or friends and for those who are suffering in this time of crisis,” the proclamation said.

The nation has been united in the effort to support Texas and Louisiana, Trump added in the proclamation.

“Individuals of every background are striving for the same goal: to aid and comfort people facing devastating losses. As Americans we know that no challenge is too great for us to overcome — no challenge,” he wrote.

“We invite all Americans to join us as we continue to pray for those who have lost family members and friends and for those who are suffering from this great crisis,” he wrote.

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVv0Z9fTawU

In his proclamation, Trump noted that Americans uniting in a day of prayer is a tradition older than the nation itself.

“This tradition dates to June 12, 1775, when the Continental Congress proclaimed a day of prayer following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and April 30, 1789, when President George Washington, during the Nation’s first presidential inauguration, asked Americans to pray for God’s protection and favor,” the proclamation said.

On Thursday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared a day of prayer in Texas.

His proclamation noted that “throughout our history, Texans have been strengthened, assured and lifted up through prayer,” adding that “it is right and fitting that the people of Texas should join with their fellow residents and with others from across the country and around the world to seek God’s wisdom for ourselves and our leaders and ask for His merciful intervention and healing in this time of crisis.” (For more from the author of “Trump Declares Sunday Day of Prayer: ‘God Is Our Refuge and Strength'” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/09/trump-declares-sunday-day-prayer-god-refuge-strength/

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Diplomatic Security Special Agent Found Dead – Body Pulled From River


Federal agent Kurt Smolek was found dead after going missing on Monday. The lifeless body of Diplomatic Security Special Agent Kurt Smolek was found in the Potomac River on Wednesday evening.

Smolek (45) had been declared a “critical missing person” in a tweet released by the police department of the District of Columbia. A missing persons bulletin described hims as white with graying brown hair, brown eyes, 5 feet 8 inches tall and 190 pounds. According to a Missing Persons report by the DC Metropolitan Police Department, Smolek was last seen on August 28, 2017 at approximately 10 pm, in the 600 Block of Water Street, Southwest, Washington.

The United States Diplomatic Security Service (or DSS) is the federal law enforcement and security arm of the United States Department of State. The DSS is the lead U.S. law enforcement organization abroad. Its duties include protecting U.S. diplomatic missions, U.S. diplomats, and visiting foreign dignitaries; conducting criminal, counter-terrorism, and counterintelligence investigations abroad; advising U.S. ambassadors on security matters; and managing or implementing security programs worldwide. The DSS most notably provides protection for US diplomatic missions, US diplomats, and visiting foreign dignitaries. The DSS also performs a myriad of other activities including international investigations, threat analysis, counterterrorism, security technology, cyber security, and protection of people, property, and information. DSS Special Agents are federal agents with the power to arrest, carry firearms, serve arrest warrants, and perform other law enforcement activities. There are approximately 2,400 DSS special agents. Special Agents are sometimes referred to as “DS Agents,” or “DSS Agents.” Both terms are used interchangeably within the agency and other organizations. DSS is technically the correct term.

Thursday, Spero News reported the following statement, attributed to Christian Schurman, deputy assistant secretary of state and assistant director for International Programs:

“It is with great sadness that I share with you the news of the death of Diplomatic Security Special Agent Kurt Smolek. Kurt was found deceased today and the DS [Diplomatic Security agency] is working closely with local authorities to investigate the circumstances of his death. Please keep the Smolek famDC Police Department @DCPoliceDept

Critical #MissingPerson: Kurt Smolek, 45, last seen 8/28 in the 600 block of Water St, SW. Seen him? Call 202-727-9099 or text 50411.

ily in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.”

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Trans Model Fired for ‘All White People Are Racist’ Quip

French cosmetics giant L‘Oreal fired its first transgender model to appear on a British advertising campaign after she described all white people as racist on Facebook.

London-based model Munroe Bergdorf announced on her Facebook page on Aug. 27 that she was to be part of the French cosmetics brand’s new advertising campaign celebrating diversity.

In an online message that later appeared on Friday to have been deleted, Bergdorf said, according to the Daily Mail newspaper: “Honestly I don’t have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people any more. Yes ALL white people.” (Read more from “Trans Model Fired for ‘All White People Are Racist’ Quip” HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/09/trans-model-fired-white-people-racist-quip/

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JUSTICE PREVAILS: New FBI Director Just Made Every ANTIFA Member A Criminal With Just Two Words

 

Written by JayWill7497

To everyone who has been to a Trump rally or even seen an internet video, there can be ZERO question that Antifa are a heap of threatening and violent psychopaths utilizing force to demolish our country. That much is a fact.

Now, those anarchists who prey on badly informed Liberal teens have been SMASHED one final time that will shut them down for certain:

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have declared Antifa a “Domestic Terror” Organization!

This is truly NOT a recent breakthrough, either. It turns out the FBI and DHS decided back in 2016 that Antifa was a terror organization and started warning states back then of the danger they presented.

Nevertheless, many Dems saw these Alt-Left extremists as “allies” in the battle against the Republicans and chose to IGNORE the warning.

Thanks to the Label, on the other hand, the new FBI Director Christopher Wray is working overtime to put all the recognized Antifa on the Terror Watch List to stop them from creating WMDs and traveling overseas to get “anarchy training” in Greece and Italy.

And so now the ball is in the Democrat court. They were so set to declare Trump was WRONG to call Antifa violent and dangerous. It turns out the FBI agreed with Trump even back then. Help share this important report everywhere and put Antifa away once-and-for-all.

To watch  videos http://fusionlacedillusions.com/index.php/2017/09/02/justice-prevails-new-fbi-director-just-made-every-antifa-member-criminal-just-two-words/

Got a tip or a rumor? Contact me here.

 

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

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This Classic Movie Is Now Too Controversial to Play in Theaters

The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week, many of which often go underreported by the mainstream media. This week, the film for which the first African-American won an Oscar for, “Gone With the Wind,” is now deemed “too controversial” to play in theaters. And an Indiana elementary school teacher told her students not to say God in class—and parents were outraged.

We also bring you some of the heroic acts from Hurricane Harvey—demonstrating America at its best. We covered all of this and much more on this week’s top 10 must-see moments. Check out the video.

(For more from the author of “This Classic Movie Is Now Too Controversial to Play in Theaters” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/09/classic-movie-now-controversial-play-theaters/

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Politics of Protesting Unelected Politicians
by Caroline Glick
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Trump Irritated With Anti-MAGA Globalists
Inside Administration, Tolerating Kelly’s Controls
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump shares some of the same concerns over members of his staff that many Americans in his base have long been voicing... Some of the globalists are wearing thin and even the gatekeeper of access, General Kelly, is reportedly seen as being too restrictive. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that President Trump “chafes at some of the retired Marine Corps general’s moves to restrict access to him.” Kelly’s strict and morally superior demeanor has earned him the nickname “the church lady” among White House staffers. They also report that insiders tell them President Trump is “simmering with displeasure over what he considers personal disloyalty” exhibited by Gary Cohn, the National Economic Council Director. It’s not just you, Mr. President, Democrat Cohn disagrees with every aspect of your MAGA agenda. Why is it he’s on your staff again?...  http://rickwells.us/trump-irritated-anti-maga-globalists-inside-administration-tolerating-kellys-controls/
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U.S. says Iran shows
‘true colors’ by restoring Hamas ties
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by Robert Spencer
{jihadwatch.org} ~ U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday Iran had shown its “true colors” by restoring ties with Palestinian militant group Hamas and must be held to account by the international community... The new leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Monday that Tehran was again its biggest provider of money and arms after years of tension over the civil war in Syria. Hamas had angered Iran by refusing to support its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in the six-year-old civil war. Haley described the Hamas leader’s statement as a “stunning admission.” Iran is subject to an arms embargo – with exceptions granted only in cases when it has received U.N. Security Council approval for imports or exports...  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/u-s-says-iran-shows-true-colors-by-restoring-hamas-ties
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BOMBSHELL DOC CLEARS TRUMP ON
RUSSIA… NO WONDER MEDIA’S COVERING C-VILLE
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{rightwingvideos.com} ~ Trump haters aren’t going to like this one bit. Martin Lioll for the Conservative Tribune reports, We’re just a few weeks short of autumn now, and the only collapse we’ve seen is of the Russian narrative. The media has, you may have noticed, moved on to Charlottesville.  http://rightwingvideos.com/breaking-bombshell-doc-clears-trump-on-russia-no-wonder-medias-covering-c-ville/
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Congressman Makes Genius Move
to Stop Mueller Once And for All
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by Martin Walsh
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Special counsel Robert Mueller has made several ominous moves in his investigation of President Donald Trump and his associates, and one congressman is tired of the witch hunt... Congressman Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., introduced an amendment earlier this week to restrict Mueller’s ambiguous and wide open investigation into Trump’s unproven connections to Russia. DeSantis’ bold provision would terminate funding for Mueller’s probe six months after the amendment was passed, forcing Mueller to show what he has rather than stalling for years...  http://conservativetribune.com/congressman-move-stop-mueller/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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The Politics of Protesting Unelected Politicians
by Caroline Glick

{truthrevolt.org} ~ The big story in Israel over the past several weeks has been the protests outside the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, which have grown in size and bitterness over the past month.

For the past nine months, every Saturday night protesters have gathered outside Mandelblit’s apartment building in Petah Tikva to demand that he indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The protesters have not been specific about the particular transgression Netanyahu should be indicted for. One memorable banner made the point succinctly, declaring, “Bibi is guilty until proven guilty!”

The anti-Mandelbit protests are led by the high-profile far-left political strategist Eldad Yaniv and by Meni Naftali. Naftali has been leading a well-funded public and legal campaign against Sara Netanyahu since he was fired as manager of the prime minister’s official residence in 2014. The protests are also the brainchild of Raviv Drucker who doubles as an “objective” journalist on Channel 10 and a New Israel Fund sponsored far-left political activist.

Mandelblit is overseeing two criminal investigations against Netanyahu. The first involves the question of whether or not Netanyahu received more gifts than he should have from his personal friends.

The other investigation concerns conversations Netanyahu had in 2014 with his nemesis, Yediot Aharonot publisher Arnon Mozes. Netanyahu recorded these discussions with Mozes of a hypothetical deal, never executed, whereby Mozes would attenuate his newspaper’s war against Netanyahu in exchange for reduced circulation of Yediot’s chief competitor, Israel Hayom.

If Mandelblit decides to indict Netanyahu in either of the probes, the leftist establishment, including the media, will demand that Netanyahu resign in keeping with a non-binding Supreme Court decision from 1993 which insists that indicted politicians must resign.

If Netanyahu resigns, his governing coalition will fall apart and early elections will be called.

This past Saturday night, while Yaniv and Naftali and their comrades protested outside of Mandelblit’s residence for the 40th time, in Jerusalem, another group of protesters set up shop outside the home of Supreme Court President Miriam Naor.

The protesters in Jerusalem demanded that Naor stop stalling the court’s hearings regarding a petition by residents of poverty-stricken south Tel Aviv.

Over the past decade and a half, the traditionally working-class southern quarter of the city has been flooded by illegal migrants from Africa. These illegal migrants have transformed the neighborhoods into areas wracked by violent crime, the likes of which Israel had never seen.

Media coverage of both the longstanding protests outside of Mandelblit’s home and the protest Saturday night outside Naor’s home has been dominated by three issues. First, there is the question of the protesters’ behavior.

For instance, since last Saturday night the discussion of the anti-Mandelblit protests has been dominated by a video of Avraham Porat, one of Naftali’s long-time fundraisers, verbally assaulting an ultra-Orthodox man who questioned the demonstrators’ decision to begin their event before the end of Shabbat. Porat was videoed hurling a full-blown antisemitic diatribe at the man. Porat demanded that he “take the rug off your head” (meaning his kippa) and shave off his beard.

The second issue is whether the protests outside of Mandelblit’s house, and to a lesser degree the protests outside of Naor’s home, are politically or ideologically motivated.

In the case of Mandelblit, the protesters insist that they are motivated simply by concern over corruption. They wish to unseat Netanyahu because in their opinion he is corrupt.

The fact that the same protesters, or similarly funded ones, were not manning the barricades outside of Mandelblit’s predecessors’ homes to demand the indictment of Netanyahu’s predecessors from Shimon Peres to Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert demonstrates fairly clearly that despite their protestations to the contrary, politics is the anti-Mandelblit protesters’ primary motivation.

As for Naor, the issue of ideology is cut-and-dried. Supreme Court justices, including Naor herself, have repeatedly made clear through both their public pronouncements and their rulings that the majority of justices are ideologically aligned with the far Left. And whereas residents of Tel Aviv are not organically tied to the political Right, activist Supreme Court justices have placed them firmly in the rightwing camp by operating hand in globe with far-left NGOs, supported by the US-based New Israel Fund and other groups, to prevent successive governments from removing the illegal migrants from south Tel Aviv specifically and from Israel more generally.

As to the specific protesters outside Naor’s home last Saturday, Naor’s court blocked discussion of their petition regarding the transfer of the illegals to willing third countries for nearly two years in response to a petition from a consortium of far-left NGOs. Monday, two days after the protest, the court suddenly rendered its decision. The court, which had issued an injunction barring the government from removing illegal migrants to third countries for the entire period the petition was sitting open on its docket, decided that the government has a right to deport them. On the other hand, the court said that the state can only deport illegals who agree to leave and that the state cannot incarcerate them for more than 60 days. In other words, the court effectively forced the state to allow illegal migrants to remain in Israel for as long as they wish with no consequences whatsoever.

This then brings us to the final question that has dominated discussion of the protests against Mandelblit, and since last Saturday night, against Naor, outside their private homes. Should protesters congregate outside the home of unelected officials in an attempt to influence their actions just as activists demonstrate outside the homes of politicians?

The answers commentators have provided to the question have predictably aligned with their own political sympathies. Commentators on the Left side with the protesters outside Mandelblit’s home and oppose the protest outside Naor’s home. Commentators on the Right adopt the opposite position. But both positions miss the basic reality that protesters have intuitively acted upon.

Today, Supreme Court justices and the state prosecutors led by the attorney general are the most powerful political actors in Israel. Indeed, to the extent that protests outside the homes of public officials have any impact on their behavior, it makes more sense for citizens to protest outside the homes of justices and the attorney general than it makes to protest outside the homes of politicians.

By conducting criminal probes against the sitting prime minister which revolve around issues of personal behavior that bear no connection to Israel’s national security or interests, Mandelblit has made himself the most powerful political force in the country. And he has also made himself a reasonable target for a political campaign. In other words, he brought it on himself.

If he wants the protesters to go away, he should stop seizing political power. He should announce that he is suspending the criminal probes against Netanyahu and any criminal probes against any other currently sitting elected officials that are now underway. He should also stipulate that he will not conduct any further criminal probes of sitting politicians for the duration of their tenure in office unless they are suspected of treason or other security-related offenses.

This then brings us to the Supreme Court.

In 1992 the Supreme Court seized the power of the Knesset to make laws by arrogating to itself the right to overturn them. It subsequently seized the power of the government to execute laws and determine Israel’s national policies by granting itself the power to arbitrarily decide that government decisions and policies are illegal.

In other words, for a generation the court has been acting as a judicial tyranny.

In response to the court’s decision Monday, the residents of South Tel Aviv announced that they would maintain and expand their demonstrations outside Naor’s home until the Supreme Court cancels its decision and allows the government to govern. Their decision was the most reasonable response to the verdict. Like Mandelblit with his political probes, Naor and her fellow radicals brought the public’s scrutiny and fury on themselves. Until they stop behaving like judicial dictators, they should expect for the public to demonstrate against them.

The reason then that the demonstrations against Mandelblit on the one hand and Naor on the other are reasonable and should be expected to continue is that due to the tyrannical power the legal system exerts over the government and Knesset, Israel’s viability as a representative democracy has been weakened. Until we restore our system of government and restore the balance of power between the branches of government, the public is right to treat our justices and prosecutors as politicians.
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Israel wants seat at table
as powers seek end to Syria war
by David Wainer

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 Friday Top Headlines 
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A photo essay of Americans helping each other — this is who we really are. (The Daily Signal)
 
U.S. adds 156,000 jobs in August; unemployment 4.4%. (MarketWatch)
 
So Comey decided not to prosecute liar-Hillary months before he told us. (Hot Air)
Judge orders feds to release details of liar-Clinton email probe after FBI refused request. (The Washington Times)
There is new fundraising fodder at the Southern Poverty Law Center — 1,503 “Confederate place names” now being targeted. (CNS News)
More than 70% of voters want lower taxes … no shocker here! (The Washington Free Beacon)
Trump rolls back liar-nObama’s costly and onerous diversity regulations. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Settled science? Yet another comprehensive study casting doubt on conventional wisdom about fat and carbs. (PBS)
Cornell encourages students to report peers for “negative reactions” to LGBT “Safe Place” project. (Washington Examiner)
Fraternity and sorority retreat canceled after banana peel found in tree — seriously, this happened. (Campus Reform)
Illinois’ Republican governor wins a choice program for poor students. (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
Policy: Trump’s reversal of liar-nObama pay gap rule is good news for women, minorities. (The Daily Signal
Policy: The cost of inaction on tax reform. (American Action Forum~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/5106
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US orders Russia to close three diplomatic
offices after Putin orders cuts to American staff
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by Joel Gehrke and Melissa Quinn
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~The State Department has ordered Russia to close three of its U.S. facilities by Saturday after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the U.S. to reduce its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 employees... The Trump administration said the decision was made "in the spirit of parity invoked by the Russians," and gave the Kremlin until Sept. 2 to close its Consulate General in San Francisco, a chancery annex in Washington, D.C., and consular annex in New York City. With this action, both countries will remain with three consulates each," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement. "While there will continue to be a disparity in the number of diplomatic and consular annexes, we have chosen to allow the Russian government to maintain some of its annexes in an effort to arrest the downward spiral of our relationship."...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/us-orders-russia-to-close-three-diplomatic-offices-after-putin-orders-cuts-to-american-staff/article/2633084?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News%20-%2008/31/17&utm_medium=email
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Mainstream media attack President Trump for visiting Texas

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5557020064001

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MSNBC vs. Ted Cruz: How Can You Support Harvey Relief When You Opposed Sandy Relief?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/08/28/katy_tur_vs_ted_cruz_how_can_you_support_harvey_relief_when_you_opposed_sandy_relief.html

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Grades Federal Government's Response to Hurricane Harvey
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White House Daily Briefing: Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders (08-25-2017)
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I Think Congressional Republicans Are
Setting Up President Trump to Fail on the Border Wall
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by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ News reports suggest that as Texas is grappling with Hurricane Harvey’s flooding, Republicans in Washington intend to cut upwards of a billion dollars from disaster relief funding and FEMA in order to pay for President Trump’s border wall... That sounds like political suicide given press coverage of Texas and congressional Republicans are not suicidal, they are survivalists. In fact, they are rather Lord of the Flies. Look at it this way. Republicans in Congress do not do anything that risks them looking bad on camera. They do their best to play to the press as Republicans in Washington are far more interested in being liked by the media than by their constituents. It is one of several reasons they had no interest in actually repealing Obamacare. Now they’re faced with a natural disaster of Biblical proportions and their response is to cut funding for disaster? That makes no sense...  http://theresurgent.com/i-think-congressional-republicans-are-setting-up-president-trump-to-fail-on-the-border-wall/
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Judge Orders FBI To Make
Details Of liar-Clinton Email Probe Public
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by Jack Crowe
{dailycaller.com} ~ A federal judge ordered the FBI Thursday to publicly release previously unseen documents related to the investigation into former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server... U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg ordered the FBI to produce uncensored court documents describing the grand jury subpoenas issued to force liar-Clinton’s internet service providers to turn over information related to her private server use, according to a statement released by Cause of Action Institute. The ruling was made in response to a motion filed in June as part of a suit brought by Cause of Action Institute and Judicial Watch. The organizations claim the Department of State violated the Federal Records Act by failing to maintain records related to liar-Clinton’s handling of classified information...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/31/judge-orders-fbi-to-make-details-of-clinton-email-probe-public/?utm_medium=email
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Judicial Watch – New Emails Show
Huma Abedin Key In Pay For Play, Influence Peddling
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{rickwells.us} ~ Bill Marshall, one of Judicial Watch’s senior investigators, with years of experience in both the public and private sectors sat down with Carter Clews for a discussion that included Huma Abedin and her role in the liar-Clinton Crime Syndicate... including its government wing, the US State Department. Marshall has reviewed approximately 25,000 pages of Abedin’s emails in twenty different productions from the State Department, emails that were from her non-State Department account, a liar-Hillary Clinton account. Marshall repeats the characterization we’ve heard used before that Abedin is much more than just an aide to liar-Clinton, she’s a daughter of sorts, “who caters to her every whim.” He says the latest production of emails, which they plan to release this week, “suggests that Huma was almost feeding information to liar-Hillary to repeat, to parrot and it will be obvious to the readers when they see what we’ll be releasing.”...  http://rickwells.us/judicial-watch-new-emails-show-huma-abedin-key-pay-play-influence-peddling/
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Israel wants seat at table
as powers seek end to Syria war
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by David Wainer
{jewishworldreview.com} ~
As world powers seek an endgame to Syria's six-year war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants a seat at the table.

Israel says Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah are working to entrench themselves militarily in neighboring Syria, where they're backing Syrian government troops, and it's rattled that a recent truce deal brokered by Russia and the U.S. doesn't block that.

Israel's fear that Tehran is establishing launchpads in Syria for future attacks against the Jewish state dominated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's talks Wednesday with President Vladimir Putin in Russia.

The strengthening of Iran's position in Syria represents a threat to Israel, the Middle East and the whole world, Netanyahu said after the three-hour meeting, and said he had made very clear to Putin that Israel considered this unacceptable.

Past such discussions with Putin had advanced Israel's security interests, Netanyahu said in comments posted to YouTube, adding, "I think I can say the same thing about this one."

Complicated alliances in the Syrian war make Netanyahu's mission a tough one. Israel could escalate the pinpoint strikes against Iran and Hezbollah it has already carried out during the war if it isn't satisfied that Putin and President Donald Trump are taking its security concerns into account. Moshe Ya'alon, who served as Israel's defense minister during part of the war, said Israel may be forced to act militarily if Iran isn't expelled.

"We had the expectation that a deal between Trump and Putin would deal with the Iranian threat on our border," Ya'alon said in an interview in Tel Aviv. "It's clear that if there is no solution, in the end we might have to take action ourselves."

Netanyahu set off for Russia with Mossad spy chief Yossi Cohen and internal security head Meir Ben-Shabbat after an Israeli delegation came back from Washington this month with no announcement of progress on Israel's demands. Russia, whose military intervention turned the tide in favor of Syrian President Bashar Assad, may not support the demand for a complete Iranian withdrawal: Iran is one of the co-sponsors of Moscow's peace efforts in Syria, and Russia is unlikely to antagonize it.

Israel -- which waged the loudest campaign against the Iran nuclear deal -- accuses the Shiite-led Islamic Republic of building military bases in Syria and carving out a land corridor to transfer arms and fighters from Tehran to Beirut. It also says Iran is building precise-munition factories in Lebanon, Hezbollah's base.

"There should be no arrangement that allows Iran and its proxies to base themselves militarily in Syria," said Chagai Tzuriel, director-general of Israel's Intelligence Ministry. "An Iranian military presence in Syria will be a constant source of friction and tension not only with Israel, but with the Sunni majority in Syria, with the Sunni countries in the region, and with Sunni minorities outside the region."

Russia probably will try to find some kind of compromise, analysts said.

"The dominant view is that Iran is still a partner in Syria and now is not the time to sow tensions," said Alexander Shumilin, head of the Middle East Conflict Analysis Center at the government-run Institute for U.S. and Canada in Moscow. What it might do is "let Iran strengthen its positions in western Syria," further from Israel, he said.

Zvi Magen, a former Israeli ambassador to Moscow and now a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, expects Netanyahu and Putin "will try to find a solution in which the Iranians can stay in Syria under Russian control," with no military units and no military bases.

Israel never accepted Iran's assertion that its nuclear program -- temporarily curbed under the nuclear pact -- has no military component. It also has clashed over the decades with Hezbollah, which has significantly expanded its military arsenal since its last war with Israel 11 years ago.

While Israel has largely stayed out of the Syrian fighting, Netanyahu recently said the Israeli military struck Hezbollah in Syria dozens of times. Ya'alon hinted Israel also has targeted Iranian operatives, noting that when Iran tried to orchestrate terrorist attacks in the Israeli-held Golan Heights, "all those operatives are no longer alive."

Russia won't brush off Israeli concerns because it wants to prevent a direct Israeli-Iranian confrontation that would deepen the region's chaos, said Yossi Mekelberg, a senior consulting research fellow at the Chatham House research center in London.

"Unlike with the nuclear project, Israel actually has the capability to kill Iranian operatives in both Syria and Lebanon with quite some ease," Mekelberg said. "The fear then becomes that both sides miscalculate to the point of direct confrontation between Iran and Israel. This is a very delicate, explosive situation."
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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
This charming, diminutive woman
was also an intrepid WWII spy
by David Ignatius
 
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TRUMP Blew Away Reporter’s “Gotcha”
Attempt With HUGE DONATION To Harvey Victims
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{rickwells.us} ~ The reporter sets up her “gotcha you hypocrite” attempt fairly well, referencing “the huge outpouring of support from people all around the country” to the victims of Hurricane Harvey... She said, “You’ve seen people lining up to volunteer, you’ve seen tens of millions of dollars. Can you speak to what the President and his family have done regarding donations for Harvey relief, personally?” Sarah Huckabee Sanders is ready for this one, responding, “Yes, I can. I had a chance to speak directly with the President earlier and I’m happy to tell you that he is, uh, would like to join in the efforts that a lot of the people that we’ve seen across this country do, and he’s pledging a million dollars of personal money to the fund.”...  http://rickwells.us/trump-blew-away-reporters-gotcha-attempt-huge-donation-harvey-victims/
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The liar-nObamacare death
spiral is quietly getting much worse
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by Justin Haskins
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ If the current state of the health insurance market weren't so tragic, former President Barack liar-nObama's many promises and statements about liar-nObamacare would be laughable... liar-nObamacare could end up being remembered as one of the greatest policy failures in modern history. Premiums and deductibles have skyrocketed, millions of people have lost their insurance and been forced to purchase a new plan and sometimes get new healthcare providers as a result, and the policy's greatest "achievement," if you can even call it that, is getting tens of millions of people dependent on government via Medicaid...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-obamacare-death-spiral-is-quietly-getting-much-worse/article/2632860
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Mueller, New York AG Team
up on Manafort in Russia Probe
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by Solange Reyner
{newsmax.com} ~ FBI special counsel Robert Mueller, assigned to oversee the federal probe into potential collusion between members of Donald Trump's campaign team and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign... has teamed up with New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman on the investigation into Paul Manafort and his financial transactions, Politico reported Wednesday. Manafort was Trump's campaign chairman and is under investigation for possible violations relating to his consultant work for Ukraine's former ruling party. The focus on Manafort has intensified as of late. FBI investigators raided his home in Virginia on July 26, seizing documents and other materials, and Mueller on Tuesday issued subpoenas to Manafort's former lawyer and his current spokesman...  http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/mueller-schneiderman-team-up-manafort/2017/08/30/id/810797/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1750953_08312017&s=al&dkt_nbr=010504qteqsd
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Has France Been Bought
by a State Sponsor of Islamic Terrorism?
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France's then-President Nicolas Sarkozy greets Qatar's
then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani
by Drieu Godefridi
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The state of Qatar has been officially labelled as a "state sponsor of terrorism", and an active supporter of Islamic terrorist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State... not by Western governments, but by Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islamic faith, and the other Islamic regimes of the region. Knowing the facts of Qatar -- 11000km2, one-third the size of Belgium, population 2.5 million -- the question may seem far-fetched: How could France, the great France, possibly be bought by a tiny state such as Qatar? For the single reason that, thanks to its huge gas and oil reserves, Qatar has the highest per capita income in the world and huge reserves of cash to invest everywhere, whereas France, thanks to 40 years of socialism, is in dire need of cash and has a tradition of corruptible officials, to say nothing of a propensity for "collaboration"...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10911/france-qatar
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New ADL Hire Helped liar-nObama
Admin Forge Ties With Hamas-Linked Group
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by Ari Lieberman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ On August 28, The Anti-Defamation League announced that it had hired liar-nObama holdover, George Selim, as its “Senior Vice President of Programs.”... According to the ADL’s press release, Selim will be the ADL’s point man on programs connected to law enforcement, education and community security. This newly created position will ostensibly help the ADL better track, monitor and thwart all forms of xenophobia and prejudice. Selim will report directly to the ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt. On paper, Selim, an Arab-American of Egyptian and Lebanese descent, appears qualified for the role. He served in the Bush and liar-nObama administrations in various capacities, principally in the areas of community outreach and countering violent extremism (CVE). But beneath the surface lies a more sinister side to Selim, one that renders him entirely unfit for his new position...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267745/new-adl-hire-helped-obama-admin-forge-ties-hamas-ari-lieberman
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This charming, diminutive woman
was also an intrepid WWII spy
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by David Ignatius
{jewishworldreview.com} ~
Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens, one of the remarkable spies of World War II, died last week in France at the age of 98. Like so many intelligence officers, she had a gift for getting people to talk. But she had something else: dauntless, unblinking courage in facing the enemy.

De Clarens stole one of the vital secrets of the war -- Germany's plans to build and test the V-1 and V-2 rocket bombs at Peenemunde. Her intelligence encouraged the British to bomb Peenemunde, delaying and disrupting the program, and "saving thousands of lives in the West," said James Woolsey, then CIA director, at a private ceremony at the agency in October 1993 honoring de Clarens.

How did this charming, diminutive woman accomplish her mission impossible? She listened. De Clarens was a fluent German-speaker, and in 1943, she teased the first threads of information about the rocket program out of some German officers she had befriended in Paris as a translator. And then she kept pulling on the string.

"I was such a little one, sitting with them, and I could not but hear what was said. And what they did not say, I prompted," she told me in 1998. "I teased them, taunted then, looked at them wide-eyed, insisted that they must be mad when they spoke of the astounding new weapon that flew over vast distances, much faster than any airplane. I kept saying: 'What you are telling me cannot be true!' I must have said that 100 times."

"I'll show you!" one of the Germans finally said, eager to convince the pretty young Frenchwoman. He displayed a document from Peenemunde; de Clarens, with her photographic memory, registered every word and transmitted the information through her case officer to London.

Her code name was "Amniarix," and she was part of a British spy ring in Paris known as the "Druids." She was recruited by a former mathematics professor in 1941 to what he called his "little outfit." She had been spying on the Germans informally since they conquered France in 1939, passing on bits of information to French contacts.

De Clarens made it all sound easy, no more than anyone would do, when I first interviewed her in 1998. "I just did it, that's all." She had never spoken to a journalist before, but when I showed up after an introduction from Woolsey, the story began to flow and continued into the early morning. I published her amazing tale, but she was happier living in the shadows, and I don't think she told the full story ever again.

She was a graceful woman, elegant as a French movie star, but she spoke in an incongruous deep voice. On one of many visits in later years, she frightened one of my daughters by demanding in that gravelly bass: "If you don't get me a whiskey right away, I will be very angry with you!"

What she didn't want to tell me, in that first conversation or ever, was how much she had suffered. After the British received her reports about the rocket bombs, they wanted to bring her to London to debrief her.

A boat evacuation was arranged from Brittany in the spring of 1944, but she was betrayed to the Germans on her way to the beach. She spent the last year of the war in three Nazi concentration camps, each harsher than the last. When she was finally rescued by the Swedish Red Cross, she was nearly dead of starvation and tuberculosis. She never revealed to the Germans a hint of the secrets she had stolen.

When I pushed her to talk about her time in the camps, her voice became distant and irregular, as if it was physically painful to remember, and to know that she had survived when so many others didn't. "After the war, the curtain came down on my memories," she said. And then, with a modesty born of deep suffering, she insisted: "What I did was so little. Others did so much more. I was one small stone."

The mystery of Jeannie's story for me was where her bravery came from. Why did she do what was right, when so many others were afraid to take action? She shook her head, as if I was missing the point. "It wasn't a choice. It was what you did. At the time, we all thought we would die. I don't understand the question. How could I not do it?"

She was an extraordinary woman. I'm glad she let me pull the story from her (http://wapo.st/2wi8acF), so that others can read and remember what courage is.
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The FBI Will Expose Hillary’s DIRTIEST FILES If Everyone Does One Simple Thing Now

Ty Clevenger, a New York lawyer, filed a Freedom of Information Act request concerning Hillary Clinton’s email investigation in March 2016. Last week he heard back from the FBI regarding the request- and guess what? His request was denied.

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Why was it denied? According to the FBI, not enough “public interest” was shown to justify completing the request. The FBI says that it will only release records from files of former investigations if the subject directly consents, is deceased, or if there is strong public interest in the case.

FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy bolstered the last claim, telling Cleavenger in an email that:

“You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject.”

And also:

“It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public’s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA.”

Now, considering that the Clinton email investigation was a major scandal during the 2016 election that captivated a good part of the electorate, I’d  say that seems like “public interest’ to me.

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Clevenger was specifically looking for documents that were filed after a referral to the Department of Justice from former House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, who asked the DOJ to:

“investigate and determine whether Secretary Clinton or her employees and contractors violated statues that prohibit destruction of records, obstruction of congressional inquiries, and concealment or cover up of evidence material to a congressional investigation.”

Clinton was found to have used a secret, non-government, server during her time as Secretary of State. The FBI determined that she did not deserve charges because she allegedly did not know the dangers of having a secret serve, even though sje did put national security at risk.

Cleavenger said of the ruling to the Washington Times:

“I’m just stunned. This is exactly what I would have expected had Mrs. Clinton won the election, but she didn’t. It looks like the Obama administration is still running the FBI.”

How can a story receive national news coverage and not be a matter of public interest? If this is the new standard, then there’s no such thing as a public interest exception.

A petition has already been started to refute Hardy’s claims and prove that there IS interest in the Clinton email scandal.

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Something is seriously up with this FBI investigation if they think there’s no “public interest.” Sounds like a lame excuse. Luckily we have people like Ty Cleavenger willing to get to the bottom of it one and for all! Get on that petition and sign away, Patriots!

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Congress Seeks to Cut U.S. Taxpayer Funded “Aid” to Terror-linked Islamic Charity

Source: Congress Seeks to Cut U.S. Aid to Islamic Charity Tied to Terror

A new congressional measure seeks to cut all U.S. funding for an Islamic charity that has been banned in some countries for providing assistance to Hamas and other terror-tied organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

The new measure, which was proposed as an amendment to Congress’s yearly appropriations bill, which sets U.S. expenditures, would ban any taxpayer funds from being provided to Islamic Relief Worldwide, or IRW, a global charitable organization that has been linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

IRW is banned in some Middle Eastern countries for its alleged support of terror organizations, though the United States has continued to provide taxpayer funds to the organization under the Obama administration, sparking outrage among some lawmakers and regional experts.

The move to ban U.S. funding to IRW was authored by Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who told the Free Beacon that the U.S. taxpayers should not be giving to any organization tied to terror movements, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, which continues to support extremist activities.

“U.S. tax dollars cannot go to groups involved in funding terrorism,” DeSantis told the Free Beacon. “Any group tied to Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood should be ineligible for funding.  It is a slap in the face of the American taxpayer to allow such groups to receive federal funding.”

IRW has been a source of tension for some time. Congressional leaders and terrorism experts expressed shock at the Obama administration in 2015, when the Free Beacon disclosed the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, a taxpayer funded group, had awarded IRW $100,000 in grants.

The Obama administration awarded IRW another $270,000 in 2016 via a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services.


If the Swamp can’t designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terror group, does anyone think they will prevent wasting American taxpayer’s money on jihad?

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U.S. says Iran shows ‘true colors’ by restoring Hamas ties

This is a surprise? Not to anyone who has been watching Iran closely. Has the now thoroughly McMastered Trump administration completely retreated from reality regarding Iran?

“U.S. says Iran shows ‘true colors’ by restoring Hamas ties,” by Michelle Nichols, Reuters, August 31, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday Iran had shown its “true colors” by restoring ties with Palestinian militant group Hamas and must be held to account by the international community.

The new leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Monday that Tehran was again its biggest provider of money and arms after years of tension over the civil war in Syria. Hamas had angered Iran by refusing to support its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in the six-year-old civil war.

Haley described the Hamas leader’s statement as a “stunning admission.” Iran is subject to an arms embargo – with exceptions granted only in cases when it has received U.N. Security Council approval for imports or exports.

“Iran is showing its true colors. Iran must decide whether it wants to be a member of the community of nations that can be expected to take its international obligations seriously or whether it wants to be the leader of a jihadist terrorist movement. It cannot be both,” Haley said in a statement.

“It’s long past time for the international community to hold Iran to the same standard that all countries who actually value peace and security are held to,” she said.

Neither Hamas nor Iran have disclosed the full scale of Tehran’s backing. But regional diplomats have said Iran’s financial aid for the Islamist movement was dramatically reduced in recent years and directed to the Qassam Brigades rather than to Hamas’ political institutions…

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Florida: Muslim’s cries of ‘identity politics’ ring hollow in Orlando City Council race

A year after the Orlando jihad that killed 49 people, a Muslim is running to join the city council. And she doesn’t want her opponents to talk about her faith. Source: Asima Azam’s cries of ‘identity politics’ ring hollow in Orlando City Council race – Florida Politics

For most voters, a candidate who embraces faith — no matter which faith that would be — is seen as a positive.

But in the case of Asima Azam, a real estate attorney vying to be the first Muslim-American elected to the Orlando City Council, the way she espouses her faith smacks of just a bit of hypocrisy.

It’s not that Azam is Muslim, which (unfortunately) has become a highly charged issue in recent American politics.

It is while Azam is certainly quick to proclaim her faith, as she does in an Orlando Sentinel profile piece, she is equally quick to condemn opponents for merely mentioning it.

In February, the Sentinel wrote: “Azam said she believed, and the Orlando Sentinel’s archives suggest, she would be the first Muslim to sit on the council.”

And when Fox 35 interviewed Azam, faith is in the very first question: “You would make history because you would be the first Muslim-American to be elected to Orlando’s City Council.” In response, she proudly accepted the description: “I am a second-generation Muslim-American. My parents came from Pakistan, I’m a wife, a mom and I’m a working mom …”

Again, diversity in representation, particularly on the municipal level, is always a good thing.

However, when Robert Stuart, Azam’s opponent for the District 3 seat, mentions in a polling question that she is Muslim-American — a fact she openly embraces — both Azam and Democrats were quick to cry “identity politics.”

You just cannot have it both ways.

Comparing her statements — where Azam self-identifies as Muslim — with the polling she decries, conducted by well-regarded Democrat pollster Jim Kitchens (also a resident of District 3), they are virtually identical.

Voters were asked if the following statement increased or decreased the likelihood they would vote for my opponent or if there was no impact: “Asima Azam is a wife, mom of three and a real estate attorney. She has served on Orlando’s Building and Zoning Board but has never run for political office before. News reports state that if she won, she would be the first Muslim American elected to the Orlando City Commission.”

If the question was divisive and troublesome, why is it that Fox 35 or the Sentinel are not guilty for doing, in essence, the exact same thing?

If Azam were truly offended, why did she repost and publish the question verbatim to her Facebook page? Why not refuse to answer the Fox 35 question, or object to the Sentinel headline?

One reason the campaign now finds it offensive could be to score some quick political points with “identity politics.” Indeed, Democrats were eager to take up the issue in a recent fundraising email.

Stuart’s campaign conducted a scientific poll, using a proper sampling of District 3 voters. There were no robocalls or push-polls. It was simply asking for positive and negative responses about Stuart and his opponent, their faith, and our community service.

Such surveys are commonplace, and often use identifying features (such as the way each candidate presents themselves) to gauge voter interest.

While Azam is impressive, it is hypocritical for her to tout her heritage one moment, and accuse others of identity politics the next.


Terror-linked CAIR called it Islamophobia. But of course, they prefer sharia. Does Azam have any affiliation with CAIR? Does she support CAIR? What mosque does she attend? Voters should find out.

Muslims are aggressively working to infiltrate politics at every level across the U.S.

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Trump-Type Populism Hits Germany’s Polls as Alt-Right Poised for Historic Parliamentary Wins

The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, a populist-minded political group, is currently polling high above the pack in parliamentary elections — a sign of sorts that the same type of President Donald Trump fever that swept through America in November is hitting hard in overseas’ spots as well.

The AfD rose to prominence a couple years ago, when the migrant crisis was rising to the top of citizens’ minds. And now?

Angela Merkel has raised the ire of Germany’s citizens, who are sick and tired of the cultural and political shifts due to the chancellor’s open borders’ welcome to mostly Muslim migrants.

The party’s candidates are far above the five percent margin needed to win Parliement seats. They currently stand between seven and 10 percent, in fact.

Back then [in 2015] the party commanded a considerably larger share of the opinion polls with about 15 per cent, but has gradually fallen back as the populist movement which threatened to overwhelm Europe subsided.

Nevertheless AfD remains on course for an historic victory next month, a prospect that will set alarm bells ringing across much of Europe, Politico reported.

The idea that a far-right party could win seats in the Bundestag while blaming a specific ethnic group for the nation’s troubles was, until very recently, unthinkable.

But the decision by Chancellor Angela Merkel to welcome almost a million migrants and refugees into Germany since 2015 has divided the nation, and stirred a sense of anger and resentment not seen in Germany for many years.

While the AfD was founded in 2013 as a eurosceptic party, it found purchase as an anti-immigrant movement opposed to the perceived “Islamification’ of Germany.

The mass sex assaults in Cologne on New Years Eve in 2016 helped boost anti-migrant sentiment and position the AfD as a seemingly legitimate political alternative, a feeling that was reflected across the much continent.

It led to the likes of Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen emerging as surprisingly popular election candidates in the respective Dutch and French elections, although both were soundly beaten by more moderate opposition.

But while those results were viewed as the breaking of the populist wave, the AfD has managed to cling onto relevance in Germany.

And the party has done so despite repeated comparisons to the Nazis, an accusation some of its leading election candidates have done little to challenge.

Last week AfD co-founder Alexander Gauland was sued for inciting racial hatred after calling for Aydan Özoğuz, the government’s commissioner for integration, to be “disposed of in Anatolia”. Ms Ozoguz comes from a Turkish background.

Both Ms Merkel and her Social Democrat rival Martin Schulz branded the comments “racist”.

Mr Schulz said: “We must do everything to ensure that such racists don’t enter the Bundestag!”

Anti-immigration campaigners from the AfD have been protesting against Ms Merkel since she hit the campaign trail in early August.

This week she was heckled by AfD supporters as she attempted to deliver an election campaign speech in Brandenburg City.

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Colin Kaepernick’s “Authentic Islam”-following fiancé: Now you know why Linda Sarsour loves him

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Colin Kaepernick, former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, has dominated not just sports news, but mainstream headlines since last year, when he began infamously kneeling during the National Anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice in the United States.

His silent protest turned the NFL and sports entities like ESPN into a hotbed of racial and political tension, real America was once again fed up by cultural Marxism injected into everything, and by the end of the 2016-2017, NFL season ratings were down 9% for regular season games and 6% for the playoffs.

Naturally, Kaepernick has become another one of the left’s darling heroes. Celebrities such as Susan Sarandon, Spike Lee, former President Barack Hussein Obama, and, of course, Linda Sarsour have all touted their praise.

However, without a doubt, Kaepernick’s most ardent supporter is his fiancé, MTV DJ and “Teen Mom” host, Vanessa “Nessa” Diab. It is confirmed the two will have an Islamic wedding, and there is also much speculation that Protestant-raised Kaepernick has converted to Islam. Many sports insiders are adamant that Diab, who supports the National of Islam, is actually the one who pushed him to begin the National Anthem protest. Whether or not there is any credence to these allegations, it is a fact that his public activism did not begin until after he and Diab began dating in 2015.

Diab is a 36-year old American-born Muslim who has stated that she follows “authentic Islam.” She wears short skirts, no hijab, and lots of make up; but her seeming Americanization is weak cover for her Islamic Supremacist and un-American viewpoints. Diab supports the ideologies of Malcolm X and believes the former communist dictator Fidel Castro was a better leader than American ones. She recently called Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Biscotti a “slave master,” and thinks that minorities who like America are suffering from “Stockholm syndrome.” Perhaps the most telling quote about her state of mind comes from a 2014 Guy Code podcast, where she said,

“When 9/11 happened, it didn’t surprise me at all. Wow. Mmkay. This is what we went through [while visiting Saudi Arabia as a child], probably, every couple months.’”

Despite being in the public eye for over a decade, just like most other Muslim activists, her Wikipedia page is extremely bare. The only personal information on the page states that she is an American-born Muslim and her parents are of Egyptian origin. She traveled between the United States and the Middle East for her father’s American corporate job, and claims that because of his job, she was directly placed in a war zone.

“Here is the thing, I was a young girl fearing for my life-I wore gas masks to school,” Nessa said of being present during the Gulf War. “I heard war sirens constantly and I knew at this point I had to break out of this lifestyle.”

You can make your own judgment on the veracity of that claim.

After the American-born citizen was plucked out of safety and placed directly into the eye of danger as a child, she persevered and made it to the University of Southern California, where she majored in mass communications. It was this return to America for college that sparked the beginning of her activism, after she claimed to be a victim of Islamophobia.

Between Kaepernick’s anti-American protest and his Muslim fiancés activism, it was only a matter of time before sharia siren Linda Sarsour latched on.

Sarsour has long been a supporter of Kaepernick’s actions, and last week she spoke at the Justice League NYC and Color of Change rally after no team picked him up for the 2017-18 NFL season. The “I-don’t-understand-what-personal-accountability-is” left believes the NFL not signing Kaepernick (who opted out of his 49ers contract on his own volition this past March) is because of white supremacy. The rally’s organizers called for a boycott of both the NFL and its main sponsor, Verizon Wireless, if Kaepernick is not given a spot in the NFL by the start of the season.

During the rally, Sarsour called for people to rise up against “right-wing Zionists,” and went on to state that “we want you to know that we will not be silenced by ‘blue lives matter,’ by white supremacists, by neo-Nazis, by right-wing Zionists.” She wasn’t finished with her hate-filled anti-Jewish sentiment; she also stated: “People are not like us. The powers that be do not care about morality, or integrity, or dignity, or respect of our communities. They only speak one language, and the language is money,”

After Sarsour’s call for jihad at the Islamic Society of North America dinner earlier this summer, she finally stated something that I agree with: most Americans do not understand what the term means. If more Americans understood the term, they would realize that the host for one of America’s favorite shows, Teen Mom, was using her star power to bring Islamic Supremacy to the United States. Non-Muslims often mistakenly believe that jihad equates to a violent tragedy on the September 11 scale. This is not correct. The truth is that every Muslim has a personal jihad, many of them non-violent, but they all lead to the common goal of Islamic supremacy.

One person’s jihad may be to travel to infidel lands and dress, talk and act like the host country, (which they would NOT be allowed to do in an Islamic country), all the while making the host country feel like Islam isn’t a threat, and secretly laying the groundwork for a later Muslim takeover. Kaepernick’s girlfriend is clearly a master of this form of deception. There is no other explanation for someone who lived in Saudi Arabia and does not speak out about that country’s human rights atrocities but devotes her life to fighting so-called injustices in America. Period.

Kaepernick’s refusal to respect the Star Spangled Banner is not an exercise of his free speech to protest racial injustices; it’s a calculated aim at further division within the United States in order to usher in new forms of society and government. Whether or not Kaepernick himself has converted to Islam, he is certainly being closely influenced by a self-described “authentic” Muslim. We all must look at the historical proof that once Muslims are no longer the minority, they swiftly take control. The words that Winston Churchill allegedly spoke certainly withstand the sands of time, “Muslims are in the minority, they are very concerned with civil rights. When Muslims are in the majority, there are no civil rights.”

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You are the heart of our nation

NOTEWhen writing about God and Jesus, The Daily Jot means YHVH as God and Yeshua Ha Mashiach as Jesus--the actual original names and the true nature and character of them.
  
Friday, September 1, 2017
A nation lives through the hearts of its people. America is an ideal as much, if not more, than a nationality. The American ideal traditionally has been to live free and do no harm to others. In that ideal, we become Americans by assimilating to the values of our nation-freedom, equality, respect for others, rule of law. Founded in the principle that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us, we have the freedom to own land, to enterprise with our skills and dreams, to worship how we see fit, and, as Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:13, to "enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God." This is America. If you hold to these principles, you are an American. It's an ideal that lives in your heart.
 
Lately, especially in the last nine years, the American ideal has come under tremendous threat. There are people in gangs like Antifa, the news media, and even elected politicians who do not ascribe to the American ideal. In fact, they want to tear down everything that is American, and as the immediate past "president" put it, "remake America." It is in their heart to oppose everything that is American-its history, its capitalism, its religious foundations, its family units, its natural affections for those who are countrymen. This spirit that lives in these people is a rebellious one. The heart of these is as described in Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it."
 
There are those, however, who still embody the heart and spirit of America. They believe in freedom. They abide by the laws. They respect others. They stand for what is right according to a Godly standard. They are willing to speak up and take action when there is injustice. They hold dear to the creed that all men are created equal and have the God-given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They have a love for family. They are loyal. They are trustworthy. They are not afraid of a fight, but seek peace first. In short they are a King David type of people, to whom God may testify as conveyed in Acts 13:22, "I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will."
 
One way or another, if you are reading this, you are the heart of our nation. Whether you are a God-fearing American, one who understands that the American ideal and values also flow from the heart of God who created all things and called them good, or if you are a rebellious spirit having a wicked heart living in America, there is before you a choice of good or evil, of life or of death. The American ideal is goodness and life that shows lovingkindness and civility, but is not afraid to stand strong against unrighteousness. It's all about the heart. Let us pray a Psalm 51:10 prayer for all our countrymen that the Lord create in them, in all of us, "a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within" us. 
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson


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Texas Woman’s Gospel Performance at Harvey Shelter Goes Viral

A Texas woman’s gospel performance inside a shelter for Tropical Storm Harvey evacuees has gone viral after the impromptu performance lifted the spirits of people stranded away from home.

Although it is difficult to understand the full extent of damage from the monster storm until flood waters fully recede, at least 10,000 people have been rescued, more than 30,000 are in shelters and 20 people are reported dead.

Part of the 21-minute long performance was posted on Facebook by Joni Villemez-Comeaux, a volunteer at the Lone Star Convention and Expo Center north of Houston in Conroe. The video has been viewed over seven million times.

Victoria White, who works as an admissions counselor at Sam Houston State University, belted out songs with a few other evacuees, at one point singing “Spirit Break Out,” which was widely shared on social media. (Read more from “Texas Woman’s Gospel Performance at Harvey Shelter Goes Viral” HERE) to watch video http://joemiller.us/2017/08/texas-womans-gospel-performance-harvey-shelter-goes-viral/

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 Ivy League Profs to Students: 'Think for Yourself'
by Thomas Gallatin
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 The North Korean Conundrum 
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by Lewis Morris:  Kim Jung Un continues to stir up trouble in Asia and danger for the entire world. The attention-starved North Korean dictator fired off another missile, sending this one over northern Japan and warning that it was a “meaningful prelude to containing Guam.”
          Japanese were startled by the launch and were sent running for cover by air raid sirens. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Donald Trump both condemned the action. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called upon the Security Council to take strong action. What that might look like is still unknown, though the UNSC did issue a condemnation of North Korea’s “outrageous” launch.
          The Security Council heaped sanctions on North Korea already for its missile launches earlier this month. Keeping China on board for tougher measures will be vital, as Kim’s fellow communists are pretty much the only friends he has — well, besides the Iranian mullahs.
          PJ Media’s Claudia Rosett recaps the history briefly: “North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday, an act that all by itself qualifies as a stunning provocation. This followed a bout of North Korean threats earlier this month to girdle Guam with missile strikes. Those threats followed North Korea’s successful tests last month of two intercontinental ballistic missiles. Those tests followed an 11-year span from 2006-2016 in which North Korea conducted five nuclear tests, prepared to conduct a sixth — which could come anytime now — and in 2010 unveiled a uranium-enrichment program to complement its production of plutonium for bomb fuel.”
          Some have speculated that Kim is trying to push the U.S. and its allies to sit down for negotiations, though he almost certainly won’t come to the table without first sufficiently demonstrating his capability of striking the U.S. mainland. It’s hard to see anything coming of negotiations, though — at least not anything better than has come out of a quarter century of such dialogue. Trump has vowed to keep North Korea from developing long-range nuclear capability. And Kim has sworn he won’t give up his nuclear program. Beyond that, what else is there left to discuss?
          We’ve been to this rodeo many times. The stakes are higher now, though, with North Korea’s growing nuclear capability. As The Wall Street Journal observes, “The intermediate-range missile test will further roil the politics of security in Northeast Asia and is another prod toward Japan acquiring its own nuclear deterrent.” Trump recognizes that, but what’s to be done about it?
          Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was short-sighted enough to say just days before this latest launch that we were actually making progress with North Korea. “I am pleased to see that the regime in Pyongyang has certainly demonstrated some level of restraint that we’ve not seen in the past,” he said last week. “We hope that this is the beginning of this signal that we’ve been looking for that they are ready to restrain their level of tensions, they’re ready to restrain their provocative acts, and that perhaps we are seeing our pathway to sometime in the near future having some dialogue.” His boss was little better. Trump declared last week that Kim was “starting to respect” the U.S.
          Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon went so far as to say there is no military solution to the problem in North Korea because of the inevitable damage to Seoul, South Korea, just 30 miles from the border. Bannon may be right that it’s at least a costly option, but it’s one of those things an administration shouldn’t say out loud.
          Trump has noted that “all options” remain on the table, and in order for that threat to deter Kim, he has to believe it. Force is the only language dictators understand. A display of power in Asia will let North Korea know that we will protect our allies. Trump standing side by side with South Korea and Japan will also demonstrate that we will protect our allies. After eight years of “leading from behind” and apologizing for American greatness, the international community needs to be reminded that we will not tolerate acts of aggression.  ~The Patriot Post
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TRUMP Tells Missouri – If SENATOR
Doesn’t Support TAX CUTS, Vote Her OUT
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump addressed the prospects of tax reform, what should be a no-brainer win for the American people and Congress were it not for the obstructionist bent of the anti-American Democrats... He was speaking in Missouri, and gave his comments a local flavor at the expense of their Democrat Senator. President Trump said, “We must, we have no choice. We must lower our taxes. And your Senator, Claire McCaskill, she must do this for you and if she doesn’t do it for you, you have to vote her out of office.” The crowd cheered, there probably weren’t a lot of Democrats or libtards in the room. As the applause dies down President Trump says, “She’s got to make that commitment, she’s got to make that commitment. If she doesn’t do it, we just can’t do this anymore with the obstruction and the obstructionists.”...  http://rickwells.us/trump-tells-missouri-senator-doesnt-support-tax-cuts-vote/
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USS Kearsarge, USS Oak Hill Leave Thursday
for Hurricane Harvey Relief Operation
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by Ben Werner
{news.usni.org} ~ Amphibious warships USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) and USS Oak Hill (LSD-51) are set to set sail on Thursday under orders Wednesday from Adm. Phil Davidson, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, to provide humanitarian aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey... Both ships are sailing from Virginia to the Texas and Louisiana gulf coast tomorrow. Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit will depart aboard Kearsarge when it sails from Naval Station Norfolk and Oak Hill is departing from Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, according to a Navy statement. “State and local agencies are in the lead for this response effort. We recognize recovery from this catastrophic disaster will be a long-term effort,” the statement said. “We are leaning forward to fully support FEMA and Texas with DoD assistance as requested.”...  https://news.usni.org/2017/08/30/uss-kearsarge-uss-oak-hill-leave-thursday-hurricane-harvey-relief-operation?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=318dc9e82a-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-318dc9e82a-231491269&mc_cid=318dc9e82a&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke resigns
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{foxnews.com} ~ Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke resigned from his position on Thursday, local media reported. The County Clerk says he received a resignation letter at 3:16 p.m... In June Clarke announced that he had rescinded his acceptance of a Homeland Security post. That followed an initial acceptance of a job as assistant secretary in DHS’s Office of Public Engagement. Clarke was supposed to serve as a liaison between DHS and state and local law enforcement.  Clarke, a tough-on-crime conservative Democrat, had built a following among conservatives with his provocative social media presence and for his support of President Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign (he also spoke at the Republican National Convention last summer). But he was later accused of plagiarism in his master’s thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/31/milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-resigns.html
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Feds Quickly Release Trump Lawyer’s
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by Ethan Barton
{dailycaller.com} ~ A liberal news outlet waited just four months before a federal agency gave it more than 1,000 pages of a Republican’s emails, while conservative groups’ requests have been ignored for years... according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. Records show the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reviewed more than 4,400 pages of emails related to a Freedom Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Andy Kroll, a reporter with the liberal news outlet Mother Jones. Kroll sought all emails Don McGahn sent between July 2008 through September 2013 while he was an FEC commissioner. The FEC received Kroll’s request Jan. 30, 2017, and released more than 1,000 pages of McGahn’s emails in June. McGahn became White House counsel 10 days before the request was received...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/30/exclusive-feds-quickly-release-trump-lawyers-emails-to-liberal-group-bury-dems-records-for-years/?utm_medium=email
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COMEY SHAM – Never Intended To Prosecute
liar-CLINTON – Decision Made Before 17 KEY Interviews
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{rickwells.us} ~ If we Americans had an actual Department of Justice or an FBI that was impartial and prosecuted the big criminals who reside inside of our government... with the same zeal it does the lowly commoners, this revelation would result in some immediate action. As it is, with the DOJ still apparently in the hands of Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and Hussein liar-nObama, with Jeff Sessions little more than a plantation worker dressed up in whiteface, nothing more than nods and affirmations of “see, I told you Comey was a dirty cop,” will be forthcoming. It turns out that former FBI director, James Comey had made his decision not to prosecute liar-Hillary Clinton long before she was “interviewed” on July 5th by the FBI and before that emergency grandkids and golf discussion was held between liar-Bill Clinton and AG Loretta Lynch on the Phoenix airport tarmac...  http://rickwells.us/comey-sham-intended-prosecute-clinton-april-decision-17-key-interviews/
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 Ivy League Profs to Students: 'Think for Yourself' 
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by Thomas Gallatin:  Several Ivy League professors from the universities of Harvard, Princeton and Yale sent out a letter of advice to all incoming college students this week. Their message: “Think for yourself.” In the letter they challenge students to avoid “the vice of conformism” and to avoid the trap of “what John Stuart Mill called ‘the tyranny of public opinion.’”
          Over the years, the once-high ideal of America’s institutions of higher learning being bastions of tolerance for the expression of freedom in thought and speech has eroded into them being little more than “safe space” echo chambers of leftist ideology and propaganda. In the past couple of years in particular Americans have witnessed various university and college campuses produce some of the most intolerant policies, voices and behaviors. The list includes the banning of various religious and social groups based on their supposed “bigoted” (non-leftist) ideology, the dis-invitation of various conservative speakers and the creation of “safe spaces” designed to prohibit and limit the freedom of speech in public places on campus. And finally, the growth of leftist social justice warriors who have advocated and engaged in violence in places like UC Berkeley and Middlebury, and most recently the takeover of Evergreen State College by a mob of these leftist SJW students.
          The sad thing is that only 15 professors signed the letter. This letter should have garnered near universal support from Ivy League faculty. When concerns over offending another individual’s feelings prohibit someone, specifically one whose career is based on educating and challenging others to learn about and engage new ideas or concepts, from honestly expressing their knowledge and thoughtful opinions without fear of reprisal, we have a problem. The concept that equates unpopular speech to literal violence against individuals with opposing views is a fallacy that has unfortunately gone unchallenged by many on the Left.
          Leftists’ argument for engaging in physical violence against others (like “punching a Nazi”) because they find their views repugnant or bigoted is the antithesis of tolerance and objective reasoning. Just yesterday a visiting assistant professor at the University of Tampa was fired for tweeting that he believed residents of Texas suffering from Hurricane Harvey were getting what they deserved because they voted for Donald Trump. His tweet read, “I don’t believe in instant karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas. Hopefully this will help them realize the GOP doesn’t care about them.” It is this type of what might be best described as anti-logic that elevates emotion over and against rational thought. It seeks to limit the freedom of speech because it simply cannot objectively justify the irrational over the rational. It cannot logically support the anti-scientific over the scientific and still refer to it as “science.”
          Popular opinion does not create or establish truth; it simply sets cultural precedent that should never be immune from challenge. Thankfully, at least 15 professors are brave enough to point out this reality to incoming college students. We hope many more embrace this truth.  ~The Patriot Post
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