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May 22 2017
Saudis rejoice over the ‘DEATH’ of Barack Hussein Obama’s policies
Israel was not the only country in the Middle East happy to see Barack Obama out of the White House. President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia over the weekend served as a very public slap in the face of his predecessor. And it was the Saudis, not Trump, who delivered the blow.
Israel Today Saudi newspapers Okaz and Al-Madina noted that there was a lot of frustration with Obama’s defeatist policies regarding Iran, and that Saudi Arabia sees Trump as heralding a new era of strength in the face of such enemies.
In the days leading up to his trip, a number of regional officials, like the Foreign Minister of Bahrain, said that Trump understands the Middle East far better than Obama could ever hope to.
Al-Sharq al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned newspaper published in London, went a step further, publishing a caricature of a wreath being laid at a tombstone reading “Obama’s Policies.”
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Maryland: Is MAS-ICNA America’s Most Extreme Islamic Conference?
( Muslims do not assimilate, they infiltrate )
Source: American Islam’s Most Extreme Conference
Last month, Keith Ellison’s name disappeared from a list of speakers at one of the largest conferences in the Muslim calendar. The annual event, which took place in Baltimore from April 14-16, was organized by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and the Muslim American Society (MAS).
In December 2016, Ellison also withdrew from the convention’s sister-conference, the “MAS-ICNA conference,” after reports about extreme clerics sharing the stage.
April’s conference was no different. Speakers included Siraj Wahhaj, an imam who addresses Muslim events across the country every week, and is a former advisory board member of the Council on American Islamic Relations. Wahhaj has preached:
“I don’t believe any of you are homosexual. This is a disease of this society. … you know what the punishment is, if a man is found with another man? The Prophet Mohammad said the one who does it and the one to whom it is done to, kill them both.”
Elsewhere, Wahhaj cites the death penalty for adultery, advocates chopping off the hands of thieves, and tells Muslims:
“Take not into your intimacy those outside of your race. They will not fail to corrupt you. Don’t you know our children are surrounded by kafirs [disbelievers]. I’m telling you, making the hearts of our children corrupt, dirty, foul.”
Other listed speakers included Abdul Nasir Jangda, who advocates sex-slavery and gives husbands permission to rape their wives; Suleiman Hani, who claims that “Freedom of speech is a facade” used to stifle “objective discussion” of the “Holocaust and Jews”; Mohammad Elshinawy, who claims that women who fail to wear the hijab will contract breast cancer; and Yasir Qadhi, whose violent homophobia was recently the subject of an investigative report by The Times.
Other speakers included (clockwise from top left) Abdul Nasir Jangda, Suleiman Hani, Yasir Qadhi, and Yusuf Islahi.
Such extremism is not confined to the speakers. The organizing bodies, MAS and ICNA, are not ordinary Muslim organizations, but Islamist groups with long-standing ties to extremism at home and abroad. Senior MAS-ICNA official Ahmed Taha, the organizer of the December conference, is a strident anti-Semite. He published a text on social media that states, “O Muslim, O servant of God. There is a Jew behind me, come kill him.”
MAS was founded in 1993 by operatives of the Muslim Brotherhood, while ICNA has identified itself as an American front for Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), a South Asian Islamist group that Bangladeshi officials have linked to terrorism. One of the other listed speakers at the ICNA-MAS conference was, in fact, Yusuf Islahi, a member of the Central Advisory Council of the Indian branch of Jamaat-e-Islami. According to the academic Irfan Ahmad, Islahi claims that Jews were behind the 9/11 attacks, as part of a conspiracy to defame Islam.
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Non-Muslims either do not know any better, or else are seeking votes. Neither reason helps anyone but the extremists. Politicians and journalists — by speaking at Islamist conferences, or treating the Muslim community as a homogenous bloc represented by self-appointed groups such as MAS or ICNA — actually serve to legitimize extremist Islamist leadership.
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Samuel Westrop who authored the piece at the Middle East Forum thinks MAS-ICNA is the most extreme. We’re not so sure and it doesn’t seem to differ from other Muslim conferences in the U.S.
CAIR and ISNA, both Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the U.S. hold Islamic conferences. Hizb ut Tahrir holds events in the U.S. They all have the same goal – sharia. Many of the same notorious Muslims speak at these conferences. They are all on par with ICNA and MAS if not worse.
In fact, both CAIR and MAS are designated terrorist groups by the UAE.
Furthermore, are the conferences any different than the thousands of mosques in the U.S.?
UK: Schools told to change class times, exam times and sports days because of Ramadan
( Muslims do not assimilate, they infiltrate )
More unreasonable accommodations to Muslims in the UK, as Sharia rules continue to encroach upon British society and subjugate Britons:
Recommendations include schools should make adjustments to accommodate the needs of fasting pupils, hold exams in rooms in the shade, change times of revision lessons and provide prayer rooms as well as to make sure exam rooms are in the shade with fans and bottles of water available.
Last year, rumours circulated that summer A-Level exams would be changed to accommodate Ramadan, until the Joint Council for Qualifications dispelled the “misunderstanding” in a “strongly worded statement.” This latest call to “change revision classes, exams and sports” during Ramadan opens the door to the UK adjusting the time of A-Level exams and making more such accommodations to Sharia in the future.
In a similar vein not long ago, Derek Holloway, the head of Religious Education in the Church of England’s education office, said that children should be forced to learn about Islam, and that parents should lose the right to remove their children from religious education classes that teach about Islam.
“Schools told to change revision classes, exams and sports days during Ramadan”, by Adam Smith, Metro UK, May 21, 2017:
Schools are being told to change revision classes and reschedule sports days to accommodate the needs of Muslim pupils fasting for Ramadan.
A new report is also urging schools to ‘show sensitivity’ when organising graduation celebrations and make PE lessons ‘less strenuous’ as fasting students could be weaker than normal.
This year the Muslim holy month of Ramadan falls starts at the end of May and will clash with GCSE and A Level exams across the country.
It means that thousands of pupils could face sitting exams with empty stomachs, as those who have reached ‘maturity’ are forbidden to eat during daylight, in warm exam rooms at the height of summer.
The report has been published by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), which represents more than 18,000 head teachers and college leaders.
Author Anna Cole said: ‘Young people should be made aware that Islam does not require them to put their futures in jeopardy.’
The report also warns a ‘combination of long days, higher temperatures as well as examinations’ putting extra pressure on young Muslims, many will still opt to participate in Ramadan.
The ASCL research paper concludes primary-aged children should not fast and recommends head teachers to ‘ease the pressure’ on Muslim students.
Recommendations include schools should make adjustments to accommodate the needs of fasting pupils, hold exams in rooms in the shade, change times of revision lessons and provide prayer rooms as well as to make sure exam rooms are in the shade with fans and bottles of water available.
The report warns ‘If a student taking an exam is showing any signs that they may be dehydrated, such as a headache or drowsiness, they should be advised to terminate the fast immediately by drinking some water.’
The report was written in consultation with scholars from across the spectrum of Islamic religion.
The guidelines said: ‘Observing Ramadan may bring many benefits to individuals and communities, but also has the potential to cause the individual temporary hardship through hunger and lack of liquids during fasting hours which may impact on physical wellbeing and cognitive performance…..
Muslim Comedian Ramy Youssef’s Punchline: “Submit to Islam”
( Muslims do not assimilate, they infiltrate )
Ramy Youssef, standup comedian and star of Nickelodeon’s “See Dad Run,” appeared recently on Steven Colbert’s “Late Show.” Ramy’s performance reminded us that although there are certainly Muslims in the world, there are no “Muslim comedians.” Or at least none that are funny.
Humor is a form of human communication that entails surprise, playful judgement, and truth.
“Humor is the good natured side of a truth.” – Mark Twain
It is that last ingredient that is especially missing from the work of the wave of “Muslim comedians” such as Ramy Youssef who are coming our way.
For humor to be successful, it needs to have a bass line, an integrity.
As Twain put it:
“…humor cannot do credit to itself without a good background of gravity & of earnestness. Humor unsupported rather hurts its author in the estimation of the reader.” – Mark Twain
Ordinarily, ambiguity is not good for a comedian, who wants to avoid the “I don’t get it” response. Andy Kaufman used ambiguity in his humor, but he was actually funny and there was never any doubt that he was not advancing a political agenda.
Muslim comedians, by contrast, are almost always political. Islam is a political movement. “Muslim comedian” is a political designation.
The term “Muslim comedian” is not analogous to “Jewish comedian.” Jewish culture had a well-established literature and tradition of humor long before the arrival of mass media. There is nothing comparable to this in Islam.
Qualify the term “comedian” with other political movements, or things that are perceived to be political, and you come up with parings such as “white comedian,” “Christian comedian,” and “Nazi comedian.” None of these things would succeed unless they were done as satire, such as Colbert’s Republican comedian shtick.
With Islam, you don’t get any satire. You get your subtext served straight up, with no chaser.
Humor and truth are closely related. The truth that Islamic humor reveals consists of puns, pranks, ridicule, throwing melon rinds at each other, and practical jokes. Tricking people and jokes that are made at other people’s expense is typical of Muslim humor.
This is the dualistic nature of Islam, in which the humor is barbed: wounding on one end, and flattering on the other.
Islam doesn’t have a real tradition of what we would call good humor.
The truths reveled by Muslim humorists are Islamic truths, and will only be applicable to Muslims. The more Islamic a comedian becomes, the less humorous he will be.
There are three points at which Ramy Youssef became a Muslim instead of a comedian:
This seems to be an invitation to participate in bigotry, not humor. Additionally, it opens the door to some hard truths that could lead to some sophisticated humor. We very much need to have a discussion about this difficult subject, that is, the fact that Allah, the god of Islam, is not the same god as Yahweh.
When Ramy senses he is losing traction, he shifts gears, and begins talking about his roots.
“I lived in a town where I watched my gay friends struggling to come out to the religious community”
Youssef touches on the deadly collision between gay Muslims and their larger community, and there is a great deal of truth to be spoken here. In the right hands, a humorous message could be conveyed, but not from Ramy Youssef. As if he were in a Mr. Magoo cartoon, he flips a u-turn and heads back down the way he came, referencing himself, and says:
“now I am in L.A., where I am a religious person trying to come out to the gay community.”
Ramy is a Muslim oppressed by homosexuals? “Religious person”? Jews aren’t killing gays, and neither are Christians. But Muslims are – daily. Flipping the script is a familiar rhetorical device used by Muslims, but it is not funny.
Ramy’s soliloquy about joining ISIS is fraught with ambiguity. He says that looking at the news has him wondering if he will “do something.” He imagines being contacted by ISIS members who remind him of his obligations as a Muslim, and he agrees. Ramy says he would join ISIS for a wand, because a wand is cooler than democracy.
We are all gravely concerned about Muslims who live among us suddenly flipping out and killing people with cars, bombs, and/or knives. Where is that reality, that truth in Ramy’s humor?
This performance was like an Islamic version of an Andy Kaufman routine, in which the whole dynamic was turned around, and he was laughing at us. Isn’t he laughing up his sleeve because we don’t get the joke?
When the subtext is this close to the surface, it can be mistaken for a joke, but he just got the audience to applaud their own annihilation.
He is not cracking a joke, he is telling you the naked truth from his heart.
Robert Spencer: Linda Sarsour Goes On Taqiyya Spree, Says Muhammad was Human Rights Activist, Feminist, First Victim of “Islamophobia”
( Muslims do not assimilate, they infiltrate )
By Robert Spencer - on May 21, 2017
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Advancing Islamic Lies 21 Facebook Twitter Google+ Do Linda Sarsour’s feminist friends and allies simply take everything they say at face value? Does they never encounter news items about the women who are brutalized in the Islamic world and in Muslim families in the West for not wearing the hijab that she insists is her “choice”? Are they so incurious as to accept what she says about Muhammad without asking themselves why, if Muhammad was a human rights activist, do the countries of the world that most proudly and scrupulously implement and enforce all the teachings of Muhammad have such abysmal human rights records? I know, I know: feminists are busy people. They don’t have time to check up on every one of their heroes’ claims. But in this case, it has to be done. As the lionization of Linda Sarsour continues, and she rises ever farther in the limelight, with Congress, the Senate, and who knows? Maybe even the Presidency beckoning, it’s important to do what is called in the establishment media “fact-checking.” The media, of course, means by “fact-checking” not actual checking of facts, but “the obscuring of the truth by comparing it unfavorably to Leftist talking points.” That is not what I mean. I mean actual fact-checking, that is, checking to see if Linda Sarsour’s claims are true. Because if they aren’t, then the American Left is hailing, and will soon be electing to high offices, an inveterate liar. And we already have quite enough of those in Washington as it is. So below are some facts about Sarsour’s claims. AFDI’s protest against CUNY’s commencement keynote speech invitation to jihad activist and BDS leader Linda Sarsour on May 25 at noon, 217 East 42nd Street. Make your plans to come and announce your attendance here. “War is deceit,” said Muhammad, and the anti-Semitic, pro-Sharia Muslim “feminist” Linda Sarsour was listening. 1. Muhammad was a feminist? In reality, the Qur’an taught that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34 Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127 The Qur’an likens a woman to a field (tilth), to be used by a man as he wills: “Your women are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth as you will” — Qur’an 2:223 It declares that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man: “Get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as you choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her” — Qur’an 2:282 It allows men to marry up to four wives, and have sex with slave girls also: “If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice, two or three or four; but if you fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly, then only one, or one that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice” — Qur’an 4:3 It rules that a son’s inheritance should be twice the size of that of a daughter: “Allah directs you as regards your children’s inheritance: to the male, a portion equal to that of two females” — Qur’an 4:11 It allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated” — Qur’an 65:4 Islamic law stipulates that a man’s prayer is annulled if a dog or a woman passes in front of him as he is praying. “Narrated ‘Aisha: The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, “Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people).” I said, ‘You have made us (i.e. women) dogs.’ I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I would slip away. for I disliked to face him.” — Sahih Bukhari 1.9.490 Another hadith depicts Muhammad saying that the majority of the inhabitants of hell are women: “I looked into Paradise and I saw that the majority of its people were the poor. And I looked into Hell and I saw that the majority of its people are women.” — Sahih Bukhari 3241; Sahih Muslim 2737 When asked about this, he explained: “I was shown Hell and I have never seen anything more terrifying than it. And I saw that the majority of its people are women.” They said, “Why, O Messenger of Allah?” He said, “Because of their ingratitude (kufr).” It was said, “Are they ungrateful to Allah?” He said, “They are ungrateful to their companions (husbands) and ungrateful for good treatment. If you are kind to one of them for a lifetime then she sees one (undesirable) thing in you, she will say, ‘I have never had anything good from you.’” — Sahih Bukhari 1052 And in another hadith: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) went out to the musalla (prayer place) on the day of Eid al-Adha or Eid al-Fitr. He passed by the women and said, ‘O women! Give charity, for I have seen that you form the majority of the people of Hell.’ They asked, ‘Why is that, O Messenger of Allah?’ He replied, ‘You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religious commitment than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.’ The women asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what is deficient in our intelligence and religious commitment?’ He said, ‘Is not the testimony of two women equal to the testimony of one man?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Is it not true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her religious commitment.’” — Sahih Bukhari 304 Another statement attributed to Muhammad: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning.” — Sahih Bukhari 4.54.460 2. Muhammad was an animal rights activist? Do dogs count as animals? Islam hates dogs: “Once Gabriel promised the Prophet (that he would visit him, but Gabriel did not come) and later on he said, ‘We, angels, do not enter a house which contains a picture or a dog.’” — Sahih Bukhari 4.54.50 “Abdullah (b. Umar) (Allah be pleased with them) reported: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) ordered the killing of dogs and we would send (men) in Medina and its corners and we did not spare any dog that we did not kill, so much so that we killed the dog that accompanied the wet she-camel belonging to the people of the desert.” — Sahih Muslim 3811 “Ibn Mughaffal reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) ordered killing of the dogs, and then said: What about them, i. e. about other dogs? and then granted concession (to keep) the dog for hunting and the dog for (the security) of the herd, and said: When the dog licks the utensil, wash it seven times, and rub it with earth the eighth time.” — Sahih Muslim 551 3. Muhammad was a human rights activist? Do Jews count as humans? The Qur’an depicts the Jews as fabricating things and falsely ascribing them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181, 5:64); loving to listen to lies (5:41); disobeying Allah and never observing his commands (5:13); disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); and more. It tells Muslims that Jews will be their worst enemies (5:82) and that they’re under Allah’s curse (9:30), and that Muslims must wage war against and subjugate them under the hegemony of Sharia, denying them basic rights (9:29). 4. Muhammad was the first victim of “Islamophobia”? Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse? Why would anyone have disliked Muhammad other than because of what he said and did? Might statements of his such as these, attributed to him in canonical ahadith, have contributed to this climate of “Islamophobia”? “I have been made victorious through terror.” — Sahih Bukhari 4:52.220 “Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them.” — Sahih Muslim 4294 “I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah, and he who professed it was guaranteed the protection of his property and life on my behalf except for the right affairs rest with Allah.” — Sahih Muslim 30 “May Allah curse the Jews and Christians for they built the places of worship at the graves of their Prophets.” — Sahih Bukhari 1.8.427 Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
Notre Dame Valedictorian Commencement Speech: “Our generation must stand against scapegoating Muslims”
( ( Muslims do not assimilate, they infiltrate! )
The poisonous fruit of the leftist/Islamic takeover of our nation’s universities.
Who will speak for the scapegoating of counter-jihadists, counter terrorism experts and voices for freedom? Who will speak for the victims of jihad, Muslim hoax hate crimes and faux “islamophobia”?
Who speaks for the victims of tens of thousands of Islamic terror attacks since 9/11.
The left has removed reason, logic, and humanity from the education of our young. Think of the millions of jihad victims and then think of Caleb Joshua Pine. Imagine the unending inculcation our youth must have endured for this valedictorian tool to come to this anti-intellectual conclusion. The age of the primitive, as evidenced by the violence and abuse by these same goons when conservative speakers are, on that rare occasion, invited to speak on college campuses.
Our nation’s best and brightest brainwashed into our dumb and dumbest.
We Must Stop Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Sexual Pleasure
Cosmopolitan writer Jill Filipovich ranks right up there with some of the most devoted religious people I’ve ever heard. Her singular focus, dedication and commitment is impressive. She is 100% sold-out, all-in, nothing held back. A true believer if there ever was one.
Take notes, folks. This is what it looks like when you shape your life, your philosophy and your decisions around the tenets of pure religion hedonism.
In this case, the deity is guaranteed to accommodate, because it’s the face in the mirror. Inside the Shrine of Sexual Pleasure, there on its altar the required sacrifice of blood is paid in an endless stream of silent victims, given over in dutiful homage by all the disciples seeking unrestricted happiness.
Ms. Filipovich believes women cannot be equal to men unless we abort our babies. She believes sex can only be freely, fully enjoyed if we have the assurance that we can get rid of any pesky little people that result from our sexual exploits.
If You Object to Abortion, You Must Hate Women
As the Washington Free Beacon noted:
In a December CNN op-ed, she lamented President Donald Trump’s election because “sex is about to get a lot less fun.”
She argued that, in addition to the usual “benefits” of abortion, “more of us are able to have sex without the anxiety of pregnancy, to enjoy the unique and fundamentally human pleasure that sex creates, and to tend to our relationships without the interruption and emotional devastation that an unintended pregnancy can bring.”
“In essence,” said LifeNews, “she accused conservatives of wanting to control women and prohibit them from having recreational sex.”
She continues:
But the future of women’s health under President Trump, and HHS Secretary Price, looks grim: Price’s plan turns sex for pleasure into a luxury item and puts our health at risk. And it sends women a clear message: That partaking in a full range of human enjoyment and physical experience isn’t for us, and that we exist instead to reproduce.
She thinks anyone who objects to abortion is out to ruin the sex lives of women because they’re misogynist pigs who hate women. There simply can’t be any reason to object to abortion other than that you hate women. And you hate sex. And you don’t want women to ever ever ever enjoy sex. Because SEX! Life is all about sex!
I’m Sick and Tired of the Abortion Narrative
Frankly, this is so tiresome and annoying. It’s brainless, insulting and cheap. The irony, Ms. Filipovich, is that sex is all about life!
I’m tired of hearing people like Filipovich, Democrat chairman Tom Perez, Nancy Pelosi, Cecile Richards and 99.9% of Hollywood tell me that abortion is vital — no, indispensable — to women’s health, well-being, equality, success and happiness in this world. I’m sick of hearing that women simply cannot thrive without the legal right to terminate their babies.
I’m sick of the womb being cast as the ball and chain around a woman’s neck. I’ve had it with babies being cast as the aggressor, the enemy, the thief of dreams. Abortion advocates rely on the narrative the Mom and Baby are locked in combat with each other, and only one can come out alive. This demented view of pregnancy means Mom has to kill Baby in self-defense.
I’m sick of fertility being cast as a disease, and pregnancy as some flukey and horrible thing that happens sometimes after you have sex, even though it shouldn’t because latex and chemicals are supposed to prevent that. I mean, how’d that happen?
I’m sick of women being told they cannot be happy unless their female bodies cease to do female things. I’m tired of hearing that women must be like men in every way, or they cannot be considered equal. What a load of horsehockey.
But at least Ms. Filipovich is honest where the politicians and Planned Parenthood continue to lie through their teeth. Abortion absolutely is utilized as “back-up birth control.” It’s the contraceptive method you use when your other contraceptive methods have failed. And nobody knows better than Planned Parenthood just how often contraception fails. That reliable, splendid failure brings in tremendous revenue — more abortions!
Pitting Women Against Their Bodies and Their Children
Filipovich says abortion has to be available so women can have “worry-free” sex. Without knowing she can abort the baby if she becomes pregnant, a woman simply can’t relax and “partake in a full range of human enjoyment.”
If I can’t kill you later, how can I possibly enjoy myself now?
This isn’t feminism. It’s not womanhood. It’s not equality, or freedom, or liberation, or progress. It’s not health care. It’s completely depraved and unutterably sad.
To consign women to this — you must live your life at war with your own body and at war with your child, if you ever hope to be “happy” — is the most hopeless and inhumane kind of slavery. It chains women to the lie that their female nature is a continuous threat to their plans and their own personhood. In order to achieve anything worthwhile, women have to be men. Hmm. Sounds like sexism to me.
Nothing Could be More Anti-Woman Than Killing Babies
Corrupt men throughout history have done a stellar job of demeaning and objectifying women for their own pleasure, but in 2017 it’s fashionable for women to disdain their own bodies and have a flippant disregard for the most innocent of human beings.
Well, not this woman. Filipovich’s hedonistic worship of sexual pleasure is revolting. Women are not served by this violent notion that it’s us versus our own babies in a fight to the death.
The future of women’s health has nothing to do with uninhibited sex and everything to do with respect for the female body as God designed it, and reverence for human life. Nothing could be more anti-woman than abortion.
Sorry, Ms. Filipovich, but child sacrifice doesn’t make for great sex, either. (For more from the author of “We Must Stop Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Sexual Pleasure” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/05/must-stop-sacrificing-children-altar-sexual-pleasure/
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Defending Trump Against Excessive
Charges Is Not Selling Out
by David Limbaugh
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Middle East
It should come as a shock to no one that Iran's leadership, despite because of Barack liar-nObama's highly touted but foolish and deceitful nuclear deal, has continued in its nefarious ways. On Wednesday, the Trump administration levied new sanctions on Iran after learning that the mullahs have continued to push forward on developing a ballistic missile program and for their continued support of Syria's Bashar al-Assad in the way of providing explosives.
A senior Trump administration official stated, "President Trump is determined to hold Tehran accountable for its dangerous and aggressive behavior that is destabilizing the Middle East, while making it clear to the Iranian people that he stands with them — not with the regime that has oppressed them for so long."
Trump has yet to pull the U.S. out of the liar-nObama-Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, that lifted severely restrictive sanctions from the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. But Trump's State Department continues to conduct its review of the deal.
While Trump heads off on his first foreign trip, he is looking to set a distinctly different tone from that of his predecessor. His first stop will be in Saudi Arabia, where he will look to firm up America's commitment to standing by our allies in the Middle East in resisting Iran's aggression. It's no coincidence that the Iran announcement was followed two days later by a trip to Riyadh. Those new sanctions give more weight to Trump's words, and spending time with Iran's greatest Islamic regional opponent sends a strong message to Tehran. ~The Patriot Post
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Trump-ordered tactics have
left ISIS 'no escape,' Jim Mattis says
by Jamie McIntyre
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is crediting changes in tactics ordered by President Trump for increasing the pressure on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and leaving the beleaguered fighters with no avenue of escape... "He directed a tactical shift from shoving ISIS out of safe locations in an attrition fight to surrounding the enemy in their strongholds so we can annihilate ISIS," Mattis said Friday during a Pentagon briefing on the counter-ISIS campaign. Mattis said that by making sure foreign fighters can't get away, or return to their home countries, "We don't simply transplant this problem from one place to another."... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-ordered-tactics-have-left-isis-no-escape-jim-mattis-says/article/2623628
Testified Week Before Firing NEVER Pressured
To BACK OFF ANY Investigation
by Rick Wells
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The question asked of Congressman Peter King is phrased quite diplomatically by Martha MacCallum, in regarding what appears to be a contradiction in the public Senate testimony of then-FBI Director Comey... under oath and his leaked secret supposed memo. She points out that the way Comey answered in early May “Raises some doubts as to whether or not the President was putting any pressure on him about the investigation into him.” She points out that the question was asked regarding the liar-Clinton “investigation” specifically but is answered in a general way that is relevant. Comey is asked, “So, if the Attorney General or senior officials at the Department of Justice opposes a specific investigation, can they halt that FBI investigation?” He replied, “In theory, yes.” Asked “has it happened,” Comey responded, under oath, “Not in my experience, because it would be a big deal, to tell the FBI to stop doing something without appropriate purpose.”... http://rickwells.us/comey-busted-testified-week-firing-never-pressured-back-off-investigation/
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Who Will Stand up for Civil Liberties?
by Alan M. Dershowitz
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ At a moment in history when the ACLU is quickly becoming a partisan left wing advocacy group that cares more about getting President Trump than protecting due process who is standing up for civil liberties?... The short answer is no one. Not the Democrats, who see an opportunity to reap partisan benefit from the appointment of a special counsel to investigate any ties between the Trump campaign/ administration and Russia. Not Republican elected officials who view the appointment as giving them cover. Certainly not the media who are revelling in 24/7 "bombshells." Not even the White House, which is too busy denying everything to focus on "legal technicalities" that may sound like "guilty man arguments." Legal technicalities are of course the difference between the rule of law and the iron fist of tyranny. Civil liberties protect us all... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10386/who-will-stand-up-for-civil-libertiesby Alan M. Dershowitz
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Washington watchdog
challenges Mueller's judgment
by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ The Washington watchdog Judicial Watch is challenging the judgment of Robert Mueller, the former FBI chief who just this week was picked to head up a special investigation into alleged collusion by the Trump campaign with the Russian government in the 2016 presidential race... Judicial Watch says Mueller was the FBI director who “caved” to the demands of radical Islamic groups and removed critical training materials from the government’s library of available resources. He had no sooner been appointed to investigate Russia collusion and “related matters” when he faced a call for his resignation. It was Gregg Jarrett in a commentary at Fox News who said that since Mueller worked closely with now-fired FBI chief James Comey, there’s a clear conflict of interest...Have to agree with JW. http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/washington-watchdog-challenges-muellers-judgment/.
James Comey agrees to testify in public hearing
by Todd Shepherd
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify in an open hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Chairman Richard Burr announced Friday... "The committee looks forward to receiving testimony from the former director on his role in the development of the Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, and I am hopeful that he will clarify for the American people recent events that have been broadly reported in the media," Burr said in a statement. No specific date has been set yet, but the statement said the committee expects the testimony to happen sometime after Memorial Day... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/james-comey-agrees-to-testify-in-public-hearing/article/2623680.
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Defending Trump Against Excessive
Charges Is Not Selling Out
by David Limbaugh
{wnd.com} ~ One thing should be clear, at least to Republicans: The left has had the long knives out for President Donald Trump since before he was inaugurated. It intended to destroy him regardless of his conduct in office.
Liberals and even some conservatives contend that Trump's defenders on the right are tainted, partisan, idolatrous cheerleaders who have sold their souls and principles to defend him against troublesome charges. Some argue that even if former Presidents Barack liar-nObama and Bill liar-Clinton engaged in similar activities, two wrongs don't make a right.
Trump supporters, they say, have always insisted they are strict adherents of the rule of law but are showing their true colors in defending Trump. But are they? Why is defending Trump against these excessive charges a betrayal of the rule of law? Just because he's handled some things disappointingly doesn't mean he's committed a crime or an impeachable offense. The rule of law requires that we be discriminating about these matters and not jump on the bandwagon to condemn Trump just because we don't approve of some of his actions or statements.
Without question, the rule of law and all other principles must be given the highest priority, and the Trump presidency doesn't change that. But there's something more involved here than mere Democratic hypocrisy.
We are talking about Democratic and liberal media wrongdoing. liar-nObama, when injecting himself into the investigation concerning liar-Hillary Clinton's emails and saying that no criminal activity had occurred, actually engaged in the very conduct of which Trump is being sloppily accused. The left had no objection. But at this point, it sure doesn't appear that Trump's comments to then-FBI Director James Comey about then-national security adviser Michael Flynn rose to the level of interfering with a proceeding, much less obstruction of justice.
Liberals are also engaged in wrongdoing by conducting this ceaseless witch hunt against Trump for alleged collusion with Russia to interfere with the presidential election when they know there is no evidence of any collusion. It is reprehensible that they are perpetuating this slander to delegitimize Trump and undermine the will of the American people.
So no, two wrongs don't make a right, but there aren't two equal "wrongs" here, and attempts to attribute moral equivalence to these separate sets of conduct are deceitful and scurrilous.
Of course, Trump supporters should not compromise their principles to defend him against legitimate charges, but we shouldn't throw him to the leftist wolves when the Democrats make false, excessive and otherwise unwarranted charges against him. There are a number of things I will criticize Trump for, but I am not going to accede to the Democrats' outrageously over-the-top characterization of these actions as criminal or impeachable just to appear fairer or nonpartisan.
I'm also not about to quit pointing out the monumentally worse behavior of the leftist media and Democratic Party just to avoid the undiscriminating claim that I am a Trump cheerleader.
We have to analyze whether Trump is culpable of those things of which he has been accused, but in no event should such accusations intimidate or deter us from condemning the left for making false charges and trying to wrongfully undermine Trump's presidency.
Put another way, I am not defending Trump because he is being attacked by the left. I am not attacking the left because I am trying to change the subject from legitimate allegations against Trump. If I defend Trump, it is because I believe he deserves defending, and if I criticize the left, it is because I believe it deserves criticism. I am not compromising my principles to attack the left for trying to smear Trump and destroy this country. I am acting in accordance with my principles.
Sure, Trump shoots from the hip on Twitter and in some interviews, but he did this long before the election. The question isn't whether he says things we wish he wouldn't or commits gaffes. The issue that is before us -- and will remain before us for as long as he's in office because the Democrats will see to it, irrespective of Trump's actions -- is whether Trump engaged in serious misconduct on any of these things. So far, it appears he has not -- from the firing of Comey to alleged collusion with Russia to the Comey memo to the alleged sharing of classified information with Russia. So why are some conservatives suggesting Trump just resign? It is neither prudent nor fair to rush to judgment. Let's be guided by the evidence rather than innuendo or some anti-Trump hysteria.
I admit I'm concerned about Trump's apparent flip-flop on Jerusalem, his seeming ambivalence about certain health care issues, the recent budget fiasco, the wall and confusion around tax reform. I just wish Trump would return forthwith to the agenda on which he was elected and the commitments he made to seeing it through.
I believe that if he would redouble his efforts to clarify his legislative priorities and present strong, viable proposals on all these issues and exercise leadership to advance them, he would unite a majority around him sufficient to pass them. As long as he rededicates himself to his campaign promises, his base will not abandon him, even with his occasional gaffes.
In the meantime, let's recognize that the left is at war with us and is relentless in pursuing it. We must fight back as hard as the left is attacking if we expect our ideas to prevail. And we can do that without compromising our principles, so let's get to work.
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‘Porngate’ Scandal Rocks State Government; Whistle Blower is Viciously Attacked
Pennsylvania’s state government is reeling from a scandal involving the exchange of sexually explicit images and other offensive material among judges, prosecutors and other top state officials.
“Porngate” has already resulted in the early retirement of one state Supreme Court justice, the suspension of another, and ongoing attempts to impeach embattled state Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who exposed the misbehavior.
On Tuesday, Kane announced that she would not seek re-election as she faces criminal charges of leaking secret grand jury evidence to a Philadelphia newspaper and allegedly lying about it under oath.
The state Supreme Court suspended Kane’s law license last September. The Pennsylvania House Subcommittee on Courts has scheduled a hearing next Tuesday to determine whether she should be impeached after an attempt in the State Senate failed last week.
“If the legislature spent a fraction of the time investigating this content as it has on the one individual who exposed it, we could start to restore credibility to our judicial system and give Pennsylvanians a system of justice in which they can be proud,” a defiant Kaneesponded. (Read more from “‘Porngate’ Scandal Rocks Pennsylvania State Government” HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/05/porngate-scandal-rocks-pennsylvania-state-government/
SEAL Smacks Down 4 Hostile Hosts at Same Time… Epic
By Kimberly J Smith
on May 19, 2017 at 4:58pm
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A U.S. Navy SEAL showed everyone how its done on Tuesday when he took down four CNN panelists in a matter of minutes.
Former SEAL Carl Higbie was a guest on a CNN round-table discussion Tuesday as the group discussed President Donald Trump alleged sharing of classified information with the Russians, despite National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster announcement Tuesday that the president’s conversations with Russian officials were “wholly appropriate.”
The panel questioned McMaster’s conclusion, and instead chose to focus on so-called anonymous sources that backed up their narrative that the president did indeed share classified information with the Russians.
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Higbie, who had obviously had enough of their ripping Trump interrupted and said, “I’ve been sitting here quietly listening to all this B.S., quite frankly. Did you listen to anything McMaster said today? Where he said, ‘I was in the room, that didn’t happen?'”
CNN anchor Kate Bolduan was practically frothing at the mouth at the notion that Higbie would dare question the “stellar” reporters of CNN and their sources.
“Do not even start with me that you’re just going to attack sources!” Bolduan yelled. “Do not attack the stellar sources of CNN!”
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Higbie then took aim at those so-called stellar reporters and anonymous sources, calling into question their authenticity.
“Two former officials? Come out, name those people, then we’ll have something to talk about,” he said.
“You’re basing all of these allegations off of one or maybe two sources.Two former officials? Come out, name those people, then we’ll have something to talk about. Who are the sources? Oh, because they’re hiding behind this anonymity,” he said.
Commentator Keith Boykin apparently couldn’t deal with the fact that someone would question CNN sources.
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“Carl, you’re embarrassing yourself. You’re embarrassing yourself, your party and your country,” Boykin told him.
“You should not be doing this, you’re a better person than this, I am ashamed for you,” he continued.
Seriously? Boykin’s attitude exactly the problem with most of the leftist reporters at CNN: they are embarrassed for all the wrong reasons. Instead of being embarrassed about how CNN refuses to back down from the Trump/Russia/collusion story despite lack of evidence, they’d rather continue to beat the proverbial dead horse.
It was the CNN panel whom Higbie embarrassed, but they are too dense to realize it.
Take a look at the part of the brutal exchange:
Once again, CNN demonstrated its bias against Trump by not even considering that McMaster’s conclusion could be true.
NORTH CAROLINA: Awesome and gutsy sign at Lakeside Fellowship Church
A small church in Mooresville, North Carolina, is causing a big ruckus with its controversial, yet factual sign. Below is one of the messages to passersby, courtesy of Lakeside Fellowship Presbyterian Church. The pastor and the current congregation say Lakeside is speaking God’s truth.
to see sign http://www.barenakedislam.com/…/north-carolina-awesome-and-…
Charlotte Observer While many churches hope to gain a smile with postings like “God answers knee mail,” Lakeside Fellowship favors a different approach to public outreach. In an online tab entitled “About our Signs,” Lakeside describes itself as a “Bible believing church” that tries to abide by scriptures and the commands of Christ.
“We don’t hate anyone. We do want to speak the Truth, and feel that very few are willing to do so in this age of political correctness,” the web page says. “Don’t fall prey to the hypocrisy of being prejudiced against those who you think are prejudiced nor intolerant of those who you think are intolerant.”
Several posts on the church’s Facebook page celebrate what the authors describe as Lakeside’s biblical grounding and the friendliness of the congregation. “They don’t hate anyone,” one writer said. “If you have never been inside, do not judge.”
The public commentary on the church sign roams across a number of secular matters – from the debate over Muslim immigration to bathroom right and presidential politics.
But critics say the church’s inflammatory and divisive messages are legitimate grounds for criticism. The reactions from area residents have veered from support for the church’s adherence to biblical principles to expressions of disbelief.
“I drive by this church every day and the signs displayed are increasingly hostile towards Muslims and basically anybody who isn’t a bigot or a Trump supporter,” one post on the church’s Facebook page reads.
“That sign puts a bad face on Christianity as a whole.”
“I’ve learned to turn a blind eye to the church because you never know what’s coming on that sign,” says Bob Ucman.
And there’s this one: “Your so-called church is a blasphemous representation of true Christianity.”
Facebook poster Gina Mann: “If you and your parishioners wish to worship in such a (hateful) way, you need to keep it inside the walls of your narrow-minded church,” she wrote.
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Next time a Muslim or a Leftist tells you: “No Muslim refugee has committed an act of terror on U.S. soil,” show them this
Thanks to Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch for compiling this handy list. From Ann’s list of over 2,000 posts on refugee crimes, here, and Islamic terror cases involving refugees. are the top ten, which should be more than enough to counter any Leftist/Muslim disinformation being spewed to you.
Below is a popular yet erroneous media talking point we keep hearing, since Trump proposed a Muslim travel ban:
This is the second most popular one:
When evaluating the fact that you (as a taxpayer) paid for a refugee’s opportunity to come to America and in some cases below even paid to raise the refugee to adulthood, does it matter for your anger level that he/she planned to kill Americans or planned to kill some innocents somewhere else in the world? So when the refugee advocates make a distinction about the location of the wannabe jihadist’s target, it’s a difference without a distinction to me!
• The Somali (Mohamed Osman Mohamud) arrested on charges he planned to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Oregon was a refugee. See here in 2010. He was arrested as he planned to detonate a bomb.
• Two Iraqi refugees were convicted on charges that they helped Al Qaeda in Iraq and may have killed American servicemen there. They lied on their refugee applications. Best coverage of 2011 case here by ABC News. The entire Iraqi flow to America had to be re-screened that year!
• In 2012 Abdullatif Ali Aldosary (an Iraqi refugee) set off a bomb at a Social Security Office in Arizona. Sentenced here.
• As successful asylum seekers, the Boston Bombers were refugees who had benefited from America’s generosity. One of many stories here about the 2012 deadly Boston Marathon attack by the Tsarnaev brothers (Chechen Muslims).
• In 2013 Fazliddin Kurbanov was arrested in Idaho and later convicted on terrorism charges. Kurbanov is an Uzbek refugee. See here.
• In early 2016 an Iraqi refugee (Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan) living in Texas was accused of planning to bomb a local popular mall, see story at Newsweek.
• In September 2016, a Somali refugee went on a stabbing spree at a mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Learn more here about Dahir Adan. Knife attacks are signature terror acts for devout Muslims.
• Also in September, the Chelsea bomber, Ahmad Rahimi, was arrested and we learned his family came to the US from Afghanistan and were given asylum. We need to be paying more attention to these asylum seekers since they enter the country completely unscreened and their numbers are on the rise. Story at CNN. Once granted asylum they are given all the same rights and privileges as the refugees we fly in.
• And, we can’t forget the most recent successful attack by Somali refugee slasher, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, at Ohio State University, see here.
• For number ten, I’m lumping the dozens of wannabe Somali refugee jihadists (mostly from Minnesota) who have been identified and/or convicted of wanting to leave the country to fight for al-Shabaab or ISIS. See here. Several like those in that recent case, were convicted. And remember not only did you pay for the refugee’s trip to America and his welfare when he got here, but now you will pay for (in many cases) their lives in prison.
~It is hard to rank murder cases, but for me the top of the list is a horrible rape and murder of a Christian refugee child in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2008. The Burmese Muslim murderer (Esar Met) is now incarcerated for life. The child was the youngest child and only daughter of a Burmese Christian family.
~In 2013 a Somali refugee in North Dakota was sentenced to life in prison for the 2011 murder of a native American family he had become involved with.
~In this case in 2014, an Iraqi refugee murdered his wife (she was going to leave him in 2012) and he penned a fake note trying to pin the murder on Islamophobes in the neighborhood. He was found guilty here and he wasn’t too happy about it! Even CAIR had gotten involved when he tried to pin the murder on Islamophobic Americans.
~And this is an awful case from Colorado where a gang of Iraqi refugees brutally raped a local Colorado Springs woman—“the worst case in Colorado history.” Diana West did a great investigative report on the story, here, at Townhall.
~Virginia Muslim on FBI Watchlist tries to behead man & woman in Roanoke. Farooqui allegedly injured a man and woman at an apartment complex in Roanoke, yelling “Allah Akbar” as he attacked them with a knife, sources told ABC News.
John Podesta Received $35 Million From Russia While Advising Clinton And Obama
By Hary Hibbs, GOP Daily, May 19, 2017:
John Podesta, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 national campaign chairman, may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the receipt of 75,000 shares of stock from a Kremlin-financed company when he joined the Obama White House in 2014.
The outlet also states that Podesta appears to be linked to a $35 million transaction between a Kremlin-funded company and a company he sat on the board of.
Making these claims is none other than Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer – the author of “Clinton Cash.”
Speaking on Fox & Friends this morning, Schweizer said the following:
In 2011, John Podesta joins the board of this very small energy company called Joule Energy based out of Massachusetts. About two months after he joins the board of a Russian entity called Rusnano, puts a billion rubles which is about 35-million-dollars into John Podesta’s company.
Now, what is Rusnano? It’s not a private company. It is directly funded by the Kremlin. In fact, the Russian science minister called Rusnano Putin’s child.
So, you have the Russian government investing in one John Podesta’s business in 2011, while he is an advisor to Hillary Clinton at the State Department.
It gets deeper.
Schweizer went on to point out that Podesta went to the White House in 2013 “to be a special counselor to Barack Obama.”
He said:
That requires that you have financial disclosures every year. In his financial disclosure form in 2013, [Podesta] not only fails to disclose these 75,000 shares of stock that he has in Joule Energy which is funded in part by the Russian government.
He also fails to disclose that he is on one of the three corporate boards that this entity has. It’s got this very complex ownership structure.
He discloses he is on the company in Massachusetts, that he is on the board of a company in the Netherlands, but he fails to disclose that he is also on the executive order of the holding company.
That’s a clear violation of the disclosure rules that needs to be looked at.
Barry Donadio is be joining friends, family and supporters for a social gathering at the Raddison Hotel located at 110 Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, Hauppauge, NY. The event is being held on June 16th 2017, from 6pm to 8pm. The room number will be announced on the public Facebook event page. Some light refreshments will be served.
Members of the public are welcome to come socialize with Mr. Donadio. He will also answer any questions regarding the book he published "TWA Flight 800 First Responder Witness Account".
Barry Donadio is a native of Bayshore, New York who led an honorable career in the Volunteer Ambulance Service, Volunteer Fire Department, the Military, Law Enforcement, and the United States Secret Service. He was assigned to the White House during the Bush and Obama Administrations. He also served in multiple Middle Eastern war zones during his career. In 2013, he authored the book " TWA Flight 800 First Responder Witness Account". This is an account describing his actions during the rescue of TWA Flight 800 on July 17th 1996. In 2014, he was elected to the Queen Anne's County Republican Central Committee in Maryland. He currently serves as President of Public Security LLC, which is private security and investigation firm licensed in Maryland, New York and the District of Columbia. In January 2017, he was appointed the Sergeant At Arms of the Maryland Republican Party.
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Rosenstein Joins the Posse
by Pat Buchanan
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Trump Expands Order Banning U.S.
Funds for Overseas Abortion
by Dave Bohon
{thenewamerican.com} ~ President Trump has expanded an executive order he signed in January re-implementing the Mexico City Policy that bans U.S. funds from paying for abortions overseas... The policy, originally implemented in 1984 by the Reagan administration, was rescinded by President Bill liar-Clinton, re-instituted during the eight years of the Bush administration, and rescinded again by President liar-nObama, allowing groups like International Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International to reap hundreds of millions of dollars for its abortion businesses overseas. As reported by LifeNews.com, the executive order signed by Trump on January 23 “stops taxpayer funding of groups that perform and promote abortions overseas, but does not stop non-abortion international assistance. The order ensures U.S. foreign aid will continue to go to health care and humanitarian relief.... It just will not subsidize abortion overseas.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/26058-trump-expands-order-banning-u-s-funds-for-overseas-abortion
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Democrats Took Only 4 Months To Install
Omnipotent Threat Inside Trump WH
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin noted that, “The Democrats got what they wanted, ladies and gentlemen, making his announcement of the appointment of Mueller as special prosecutor / executioner to target President Trump in the hunt for a Russian witch... Levin read the statement by Rosenstein, who Levin says buckled but some of us believe had a mission from the beginning. It would be interesting to learn the process by which he was selected for the position of Deputy Attorney General and who made the recommendation. Too much power and prominence has been placed into the hands of this nobody that we didn’t elect to be the minder for our President and AG Sessions. He points out that despite all of the scandals and corruption of the liar-nObama regime, including the “‘Iran Contra’ deal, the liar-Hillary Clinton emails, the IRS or Fast and Furious,” to name a few. “The media in Washington are wetting themselves. The Democrats in Washington are wetting themselves but they won’t show it. They’ll find another reason to attack.”... http://rickwells.us/levin-democrats-took-4-months-install-omnipotent-threat-trump-wh/
VOICE VIDEO: http://www.mrctv.org/videos/levin-media-and-dems-washington-are-wetting-themselves-over-appointment-special-counsel
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Trump signs $110 billion
arms deal with Saudi Arabia
by Daniel Chaitin
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump on Saturday signed a $110 billion arms deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia... The arms transaction is intended to bolster national security in Saudi Arabia as well as the country's ability to combat terrorism. The White House says the agreement will provide fighter jets, tanks, radar, combat ships and anti-missile defense systems to Saudi Arabia and will create defense-related jobs in the U.S. The defense cooperation agreements signed Saturday offer the Saudis $110 billion immediately and $350 billion of the next decade... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-signs-110-billion-arms-deal-with-saudi-arabia/article/2623704
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After Rosenstein Plants Mueller, ACLU Now Pushing Congressional Public Hearings
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ For anyone who might have been naive enough to think this “Special Prosecutor scam” was a real investigation into potentially real wrongdoing... perhaps this email just sent out by the ACLU will wake you up. Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, this supposed apolitical man of integrity, just planted an establishment controller into the system with the legal authority to eliminate our President. He did so approximately three weeks after being confirmed and a week after recommending the firing of James Comey that provided him the pretext for doing so. All of the Washington talking heads claim Rosenstein is above reproach – maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. It does not appear he shares the same vision for America as the people who voted President Trump into office. Rosenstein promised slime ball Chuck clown-Schumer he’d be a good boy in a private meeting stating “he would appoint a special counsel to conduct that investigation if one is required.” He didn’t say “if required” by whom or if that was a guarantee if it was “required” as a condition of Democrat support... http://rickwells.us/rosenstein-plants-mueller-aclu-pushing-congressional-public-hearings/.
'Swamp considerations' holding U.S. in Paris deal
by Greg Corombos
{wnd.com} ~ President Trump is running out of time to make good on his promise to withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement on climate policy obligations... and the delay is largely due to many different interests imploring him to back away from his campaign pledges. As Trump embarks on an ambitious eight-day trip to the Middle East and Europe, the pressure is only growing on him to keep the U.S. committed to the Paris deal. However, Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner, who served on Trump’s transition landing team at the Environmental Protection Agency, says all Trump needs to do is make good on his word. “We have to go back to the campaign and remember that a decision was made and it was to get out,” said Horner. “He gave reasons why. He said this would give others control over our energy use, how much we could use the things that are reliable and affordable, as well as the massive wealth transfer. He made the decision.”... http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/swamp-considerations-holding-u-s-in-paris-deal/
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Rosenstein Joins the Posse
by Pat Buchanan
{wnd.com} ~ "With the stroke of a pen, Rod Rosenstein redeemed his reputation," writes Dana Milbank of The Washington Post.
What had Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein done to be welcomed home by the Post like the prodigal son?
Without consulting the White House, he sandbagged President Trump, naming a special counsel to take over the investigation of the Russia connection that could prove ruinous to this presidency.
Rod has reinvigorated a tired 10-month investigation that failed to find any collusion between Trump and Russian hacking of the DNC. Not a single indictment had come out of the FBI investigation.
Yet, now a new special counsel, Robert Mueller, former director of the FBI, will slow-walk his way through this same terrain again, searching for clues leading to potentially impeachable offenses. What seemed to be winding down for Trump is now only just beginning to gear up.
Also to be investigated is whether the president tried to curtail the FBI investigation with his phone calls and Oval Office meetings with FBI Director James Comey, before abruptly firing Comey last week.
Regarded as able and honest, Mueller will be under media pressure to come up with charges. Great and famous prosecutors are measured by whom they convict and how many scalps they take.
Moreover, a burgeoning special counsel's office dredging up dirt on Trump and associates will find itself the beneficiary of an indulgent press.
Why did Rosenstein capitulate to a Democrat-media clamor for a special counsel that could prove disastrous for the president who elevated and honored him?
Surely in part, as Milbank writes, to salvage his damaged reputation.
After being approved 94-6 by a Senate that hailed him as a principled and independent U.S. attorney for both George Bush and Barack liar-nObama, Rosenstein found himself being pilloried for preparing the document White House aides called crucial to Trump's decision to fire Comey.
Rosenstein had gone over to the dark side. He had, it was said, on Trump's orders, put the hit on Comey. Now, by siccing a special counsel on the president himself, Rosenstein is restored to the good graces of this city. Rosenstein just turned in his black hat for a white hat.
Democrats are hailing both his decision to name a special counsel and the man he chose. Yet it is difficult to exaggerate the damage he has done.
As did almost all of its predecessors, including those which led to the resignation of President Nixon and impeachment of Bill liar-Clinton, Mueller's investigation seems certain to drag on for years.
All that time, there will be a cloud over Trump's presidency that will drain his political authority. Trump's enemies will become less fearful and more vocal. Republican Congressmen and Senators in swing states and marginal districts, looking to 2018, will have less incentive to follow Trump's lead, rather than their own instincts and interests. Party unity will fade away.
And without a united and energized Republican Party on the Hill, how do you get repeal and replacement of liar-nObamacare, tax reform or a border wall? Trump's agenda suddenly seems comatose. And was it a coincidence that the day Mueller was appointed, the markets tanked, with the Dow falling 372 points?
Markets had soared with Trump's election on the expectation that his pro-business agenda would be enacted. If those expectations suddenly seem illusory, will the boom born of hope become a bust?
A White House staff, said to be in disarray, and a president reportedly enraged over endless press reports of his problems and falling polls, are not going to become one big happy family again with a growing office of prosecutors and FBI agents poking into issues in which they were involved.
Nor is the jurisdiction of the special counsel restricted to alleged Russia interference in the campaign. Allegations about Trump's taxes, investments, and associates, and those of his family, could be drawn into the maw of the special counsel's office by political and business enemies enthusiastic about seeing him brought down.
More folks in Trump's entourage will soon be lawyering up.
While it's absurd today to talk of impeachment, that will not deter Democrats and the media from speculating, given what happened to Nixon and liar-Clinton when special prosecutors were put on their trail.
Another consequence of the naming of a special counsel, given what such investigations have produced, will be that Vice President Pence will soon find himself with new friends and admirers, and will begin to attract more press as the man of the future in the GOP.
A rising profile for Pence is unlikely to strengthen his relationship with a besieged president.
In the United Kingdom, the odds are growing that Trump may not finish his term.
So how does he regain the enthusiasm and energy he exhibited in previous crises, with such talk in the air?
A debilitating and potentially dangerous time for President Trump has now begun, courtesy of his deputy attorney general.
{wnd.com} ~ "With the stroke of a pen, Rod Rosenstein redeemed his reputation," writes Dana Milbank of The Washington Post.
What had Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein done to be welcomed home by the Post like the prodigal son?
Without consulting the White House, he sandbagged President Trump, naming a special counsel to take over the investigation of the Russia connection that could prove ruinous to this presidency.
Rod has reinvigorated a tired 10-month investigation that failed to find any collusion between Trump and Russian hacking of the DNC. Not a single indictment had come out of the FBI investigation.
Yet, now a new special counsel, Robert Mueller, former director of the FBI, will slow-walk his way through this same terrain again, searching for clues leading to potentially impeachable offenses. What seemed to be winding down for Trump is now only just beginning to gear up.
Also to be investigated is whether the president tried to curtail the FBI investigation with his phone calls and Oval Office meetings with FBI Director James Comey, before abruptly firing Comey last week.
Regarded as able and honest, Mueller will be under media pressure to come up with charges. Great and famous prosecutors are measured by whom they convict and how many scalps they take.
Moreover, a burgeoning special counsel's office dredging up dirt on Trump and associates will find itself the beneficiary of an indulgent press.
Why did Rosenstein capitulate to a Democrat-media clamor for a special counsel that could prove disastrous for the president who elevated and honored him?
Surely in part, as Milbank writes, to salvage his damaged reputation.
After being approved 94-6 by a Senate that hailed him as a principled and independent U.S. attorney for both George Bush and Barack liar-nObama, Rosenstein found himself being pilloried for preparing the document White House aides called crucial to Trump's decision to fire Comey.
Rosenstein had gone over to the dark side. He had, it was said, on Trump's orders, put the hit on Comey. Now, by siccing a special counsel on the president himself, Rosenstein is restored to the good graces of this city. Rosenstein just turned in his black hat for a white hat.
Democrats are hailing both his decision to name a special counsel and the man he chose. Yet it is difficult to exaggerate the damage he has done.
As did almost all of its predecessors, including those which led to the resignation of President Nixon and impeachment of Bill liar-Clinton, Mueller's investigation seems certain to drag on for years.
All that time, there will be a cloud over Trump's presidency that will drain his political authority. Trump's enemies will become less fearful and more vocal. Republican Congressmen and Senators in swing states and marginal districts, looking to 2018, will have less incentive to follow Trump's lead, rather than their own instincts and interests. Party unity will fade away.
And without a united and energized Republican Party on the Hill, how do you get repeal and replacement of liar-nObamacare, tax reform or a border wall? Trump's agenda suddenly seems comatose. And was it a coincidence that the day Mueller was appointed, the markets tanked, with the Dow falling 372 points?
Markets had soared with Trump's election on the expectation that his pro-business agenda would be enacted. If those expectations suddenly seem illusory, will the boom born of hope become a bust?
A White House staff, said to be in disarray, and a president reportedly enraged over endless press reports of his problems and falling polls, are not going to become one big happy family again with a growing office of prosecutors and FBI agents poking into issues in which they were involved.
Nor is the jurisdiction of the special counsel restricted to alleged Russia interference in the campaign. Allegations about Trump's taxes, investments, and associates, and those of his family, could be drawn into the maw of the special counsel's office by political and business enemies enthusiastic about seeing him brought down.
More folks in Trump's entourage will soon be lawyering up.
While it's absurd today to talk of impeachment, that will not deter Democrats and the media from speculating, given what happened to Nixon and liar-Clinton when special prosecutors were put on their trail.
Another consequence of the naming of a special counsel, given what such investigations have produced, will be that Vice President Pence will soon find himself with new friends and admirers, and will begin to attract more press as the man of the future in the GOP.
A rising profile for Pence is unlikely to strengthen his relationship with a besieged president.
In the United Kingdom, the odds are growing that Trump may not finish his term.
So how does he regain the enthusiasm and energy he exhibited in previous crises, with such talk in the air?
A debilitating and potentially dangerous time for President Trump has now begun, courtesy of his deputy attorney general.
About two hundred and fifty years ago the East India company found themselves in a dilemma. They had held tea off the market trying create a shortage, to drive up the price. Their stored tea had grown stale; it was stored in dark damp warehouses in lead lined shipping crates so there was no air circulation, perfect conditions to grow mildew. The flavor was further enhanced by hitchhiking insects which managed to hide in the cargo; the tea had been stored long enough for the insects to breed and produce more generations of insects, which pooped on the tea and died. No-one in Europe would buy the tea, not even the impoverished Irish who were accustomed to getting the discards from England. (historians now call it surplus tea, instead of garbage). The East India company claimed to be losing money due to an economic downturn; (Historians all repeat this lie. Businesses they support never lose money due to their own greed and mismanagement) The east India company threatened King George that they may not be able to pay dividends to him or the other shareholders in Parliament. King George was upset and he gave the London schemers free reign to develop a plan to keep the East India company profitable, (and paying their dividends). Prime Minister Lord North and the other schemers in London decided this unsold tea was the perfect product to force on the American colonies. They would use the full weight of the British navy and the powerful Admiralty Courts to prosecute and fine anyone importing tea from anyone other than the East India company. They would confiscate cargo and ships violating their mandate. The North American colonies rebelled.
A variation of this rebellion is taking place today over The Affordable Care Act and its variations. The hoard of Washington schemers came up with a plan to make themselves richer and more powerful than they are. Washington schemers decided they have the right to force Americans to buy a junk insurance product with high deductibles, and coverages people don’t want. Imitating the corrupt English Admiralty Courts they were able to get five justices on the Supreme Court to agree they have the same right King George had, to force Americans to buy something they don’t want.
The schemers plan drove out insurance companies who were not part of the "in crowd". Their plan guarantees profits, high salaries and huge bonuses to the insurance company executives, the Washington schemers favored. It also further impoverishes Americans struggling from the machinations of Marxist politicians, academics, lobbyists and government contractors, who all get wealthy from their schemes. The key to the obama scheme is the beleaguered millenials, who must buy an exorbitantly high priced product they don’t want and don’t need.
At the back of this scheme is the knowledge that the schemers have miseducated the millenials and turned them into weak and ignorant snowflakes, who have no idea why american colonials fought the revolution. In fact they have been taught to worship big government and its mandates. They were taught the American Revolution was caused by a handful of greedy, tax dodging slave holders. Freedom to make their own choices had nothing to do with the revolution. The idea of freedom is a sarcasm among the academic elites. Moreover, the Washington hoard has flooded the country with illegal aliens to dilute and destroy the American passion for freedom, while increasing the demand for free health care. (They demand health care provided by someone else... the millenials) Even limousine liberals like jimmy kimmel have gotten into the act by demanding that millenials pay for his health care. Ignore the fact that he makes more money in a year than most millenials will make in their entire lives. Since he is one of the elites, he feels entitled to live on the backs of others.
The only hope for the country to wrest power from the scheming Washington hoard is if the millenial generation wakes up and recognizes what atrocities have been perpetrated on them, and rejects obamacare and any variation of it. Will they cave in to congressional demands that they impoverish themselves and enrich the insurance companies and the elites by buying an overpriced junk product?
Or will they send Congress the same message the despised founding fathers sent King George and the London schemers? That is: UP YOURS.
The Front Page Cover
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Donald Trump's Seven Days in May
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Top Headlines
House may need to vote again on GOP liar-nObamaCare repeal bill. (Bloomberg)
Trump administration announces plans to renegotiate NAFTA. (ABC News)
FCC votes to advance net neutrality repeal. (The Hill)
Trump seeking replacements for some of his senior team. (CBS News)
More than seven million voter registrations are duplicated in multiple states. (The Washington Free Beacon)
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz retiring next month. (Chaffetz press release)
California professor bans college Republicans from Women's History Month events. (Washington Examiner)
U.S. strikes Syria militia threatening U.S.-backed forces. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Judge: Lerner's Tea Party-targeting testimony can stay secret for now. (The Washington Times)
Woodward: Reporters "binge drinking the anti-Trump Kool-Aid." (Washington Examiner)
Policy: The one change the government could make to drive down college prices. (The Daily Signal)
Policy: Health care reform: Mission possible. (Washington Examiner) ~The Patriot Post
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Trump Tries a ‘Waive-and-Slap’
Approach to Tehran
by Mark Dubowitz
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The Trump administration had no sooner renewed a waiver on U.S. sanctions against Iran’s crude-oil exports Wednesday than it introduced a raft of new sanctions against the regime... Call it the waive-and-slap approach. The oil-exports sanctions waiver, which will continue to temporarily allow Iran to sell its crude oil to international customers despite the statutory sanctions, had come due as part of the Iran nuclear deal. But their renewal is no sign that President Trump is flip-flopping on his campaign promise to “tear up” the deal. The Trump administration is currently conducting an Iran-policy review. The last thing Mr. Trump should do before this policy is finalized is to make drastic and premature decisions that could incite a diplomatic backlash... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/dubowitz-mark-trump-tries-a-waive-and-slap-approach-to-Tehran/
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Terror Finance Briefing Book
by Yaya J. Fanusie and Alex Entz
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The Terror Finance Briefing Book is a new product of FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF) created to help policymakers better understand how terrorist groups fund their operations... so that they may be targeted more effectively. This publication will compile financial assessments of select jihadist organizations in the Middle East and Africa. Each report will identify the key financial strengths and vulnerabilities of each group, review U.S. and international countermeasures, highlight possible wildcard scenarios which could impact future funding, and recommend the main areas where policymakers and counter-illicit finance strategists should focus their action. For each report, the first four pages serve as a visually-engaging briefing aid, providing a concise overview of the respective organization’s finances...http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/yaya-j-fanusie-terror-finance-briefing-book/
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Why Trump’s Iran Sanctions Waiver
Should Worry the Mullahs
by John Hannah
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ As part of the Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), that he inherited from his predecessor... President Donald Trump yesterday was forced to decide whether to renew the U.S. waiver on sanctions targeting Iran’s oil exports. Rather than violate the JCPOA and risk an early diplomatic crisis, the president — who has dubbed the nuclear deal the “worst” in history — swallowed hard and waived. But before the narrative takes hold that — despite all Trump’s huffing and puffing — he’s simply following in the footsteps of the liar-nObama administration’s Iran policy, a few pertinent observations:... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/john-hannah-why-trumps-iran-sanctions-waiver-should-worry-the-mullahs/
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Democrats Are Losing Winnable
Special Elections—Here’s Why
by John A. Tures
{observer.com} ~ With an energized base, Washington D.C. in turmoil, and being the party not associated with the chaos, Democrats should be picking off special election seats effortlessly... From Kansas to Omaha to Georgia, the party has fumbled several winnable races. It could get swept in all of them, if Democrats can’t win in Georgia, South Carolina and Montana. The question is why. There are several theories floating around. I’ll provide the best explanation for the party’s missed opportunities... http://observer.com/2017/05/why-democrats-are-losing-special-elections/?utm_campaign=national-politics&utm_content=2017-19-05-9652209&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=channel-national-politics-distribution
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Trump Cancels Trip To Revered Israeli
Historic Site Masada
by Randy Desoto
{westernjournalism.com} ~ President Donald Trump has canceled a scheduled trip to the mountain fortress of Masada after Israeli authorities informed his team that the president would not be able to land his helicopter at the ancient site... Trump was slated to give a speech at the location, but the address will instead be delivered at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. “The president will deliver remarks at the Israel Museum and celebrate the unique history of Israel and of the Jewish people while reaffirming America’s unshakable bond with our closest ally in the Middle East,” said U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster at a White House press briefing... http://www.westernjournalism.com/trump-cancels-trip-to-revered-israeli-historic-site-masada/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Donald Trump's Seven Days in May
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~ In a period of seven days this month, President Donald Trump fired James Comey as director of the FBI and was accused of sharing top-secret intelligence data with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador to the United States, the latter a known Russian spy.
The Comey firing was clumsy and rude. Comey learned of it from FBI agents in Los Angeles who noticed reports of it on television monitors that they could see while he was speaking to them. The White House initially claimed Comey had been fired because of his poor judgment in the liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation, in which he announced that she would not be indicted even though there was ample evidence to indict her and then reopened the case two weeks before Election Day even though there was no evidence to justify doing so.
Then the president said he had fired Comey because he objected to Comey's public personality. Then the president claimed that though Comey had told him he was not the subject of any FBI investigation, Comey had not been investigating Trump administration intelligence community leaks with the same vigor with which he had been investigating allegations of collusion between Trump's campaign and the Russian government.
Then Trump met with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador. Then someone who was at the meeting or privy to it afterward, American or Russian, revealed to The Washington Post that at the meeting, Trump had boasted of intelligence data related to the Islamic State group. Then Trump himself admitted sharing this intelligence with the Russians.
A leak of top-secret material by the president or by an anonymous source is potentially catastrophic, and the charge that the president himself revealed top secrets to a known Russian spy is grave, perhaps the gravest ever leveled at an American president in the modern era. The Americans and the Russians at the meeting with Trump denied that he had compromised intelligence sources or revealed the location of American military, but they did not deny that he had revealed top secrets.
All of these events took place in seven days. Here is the back story.
When Comey usurped the authority of the ethically challenged then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and announced that liar-Hillary Clinton would not be indicted for espionage -- the failure to safeguard state secrets that had been given to her for safekeeping -- even though there was a mountain of evidence of her guilt, it seemed to me that he was trying to have it both ways. He was trying to keep his job by pleasing both Republicans and Democrats. Instead, he grossly miscalculated and substantially irritated leadership in both parties, including liar-Clinton and Trump.
At the same time he was exonerating liar-Clinton legally while damning her politically, he was investigating the Trump campaign, about which he quite properly did not say a public word. And he authorized his agents to engage a former British intelligence agent to dig up dirt on candidate Trump and to pay him $50,000 for it. The story the agent dug up was so lurid and unbelievable that the FBI declined to make the payment.
Comey's leadership of the FBI was flawed, but not so flawed as the reasons given for his summary firing. Those inconsistent reasons fed the Democrats' narrative that Comey had been onto something in the Russia/Trump campaign investigation and the president had known it and wanted to derail it. The president has yet to deny this.
Though the president has complained that Comey failed to investigate leaks of intelligence data from within his administration, The Washington Post effectively accused the president himself of becoming the leaker in chief by revealing to the Russians information so secret that only a handful of Americans legally possessed it. That information consisted of the name of a city in Syria from which spies had reported that the Islamic State group was plotting to plant bombs on commercial airliners.
What is so secret about that? Intelligence data almost always requires reading between the lines. Doing so here reveals the country from which the intelligence came, as there is only one friendly country that has sufficient intelligence resources in that city to develop local human spies. That country, which the president did not name but which we know is Israel, at first threatened to cut off providing intelligence data to the U.S. because of the president's private revelations but later said that all is forgiven. So, the president told the Russians where to find Israeli spies in Syria.
The fact that these revelations were private is of legal significance. Under federal law, the president can declassify any secrets, even the most highly sensitive and guarded ones. He can do so by whispering the secret into someone's ear or by formally removing the secret from its classified status. But because he did not do the latter, the secret is still a secret -- yet The Washington Post has this material and may now legally reveal it.
How can a newspaper reveal a top secret that the president has not made public? If someone reveals the secret to the newspaper, it can. The person who did so in this case committed a felony, and the president is right to be angered over it. That person is probably a member of the intelligence community bent on frustrating or destabilizing or controlling the Trump presidency. Because that person gave it to the Post and because there is enormous public interest in knowing what Trump told the Russians, the Post is free to publish it.
All of this demonstrates that rogue intelligence agents can engage in their own form of agitprop -- agitation propaganda. And they can cause political harm with it. Yet the questions of whether Donald Trump revealed top secrets to the Russians and, if he did so, whether it was intentional or not and whether it was harmful to national security are questions to which we are entitled to answers. And was Jim Comey fired for getting too close to the truth or not close enough?
Why do these questions keep coming?
{townhall.com} ~ In a period of seven days this month, President Donald Trump fired James Comey as director of the FBI and was accused of sharing top-secret intelligence data with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador to the United States, the latter a known Russian spy.
The Comey firing was clumsy and rude. Comey learned of it from FBI agents in Los Angeles who noticed reports of it on television monitors that they could see while he was speaking to them. The White House initially claimed Comey had been fired because of his poor judgment in the liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation, in which he announced that she would not be indicted even though there was ample evidence to indict her and then reopened the case two weeks before Election Day even though there was no evidence to justify doing so.
Then the president said he had fired Comey because he objected to Comey's public personality. Then the president claimed that though Comey had told him he was not the subject of any FBI investigation, Comey had not been investigating Trump administration intelligence community leaks with the same vigor with which he had been investigating allegations of collusion between Trump's campaign and the Russian government.
Then Trump met with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador. Then someone who was at the meeting or privy to it afterward, American or Russian, revealed to The Washington Post that at the meeting, Trump had boasted of intelligence data related to the Islamic State group. Then Trump himself admitted sharing this intelligence with the Russians.
A leak of top-secret material by the president or by an anonymous source is potentially catastrophic, and the charge that the president himself revealed top secrets to a known Russian spy is grave, perhaps the gravest ever leveled at an American president in the modern era. The Americans and the Russians at the meeting with Trump denied that he had compromised intelligence sources or revealed the location of American military, but they did not deny that he had revealed top secrets.
All of these events took place in seven days. Here is the back story.
When Comey usurped the authority of the ethically challenged then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and announced that liar-Hillary Clinton would not be indicted for espionage -- the failure to safeguard state secrets that had been given to her for safekeeping -- even though there was a mountain of evidence of her guilt, it seemed to me that he was trying to have it both ways. He was trying to keep his job by pleasing both Republicans and Democrats. Instead, he grossly miscalculated and substantially irritated leadership in both parties, including liar-Clinton and Trump.
At the same time he was exonerating liar-Clinton legally while damning her politically, he was investigating the Trump campaign, about which he quite properly did not say a public word. And he authorized his agents to engage a former British intelligence agent to dig up dirt on candidate Trump and to pay him $50,000 for it. The story the agent dug up was so lurid and unbelievable that the FBI declined to make the payment.
Comey's leadership of the FBI was flawed, but not so flawed as the reasons given for his summary firing. Those inconsistent reasons fed the Democrats' narrative that Comey had been onto something in the Russia/Trump campaign investigation and the president had known it and wanted to derail it. The president has yet to deny this.
Though the president has complained that Comey failed to investigate leaks of intelligence data from within his administration, The Washington Post effectively accused the president himself of becoming the leaker in chief by revealing to the Russians information so secret that only a handful of Americans legally possessed it. That information consisted of the name of a city in Syria from which spies had reported that the Islamic State group was plotting to plant bombs on commercial airliners.
What is so secret about that? Intelligence data almost always requires reading between the lines. Doing so here reveals the country from which the intelligence came, as there is only one friendly country that has sufficient intelligence resources in that city to develop local human spies. That country, which the president did not name but which we know is Israel, at first threatened to cut off providing intelligence data to the U.S. because of the president's private revelations but later said that all is forgiven. So, the president told the Russians where to find Israeli spies in Syria.
The fact that these revelations were private is of legal significance. Under federal law, the president can declassify any secrets, even the most highly sensitive and guarded ones. He can do so by whispering the secret into someone's ear or by formally removing the secret from its classified status. But because he did not do the latter, the secret is still a secret -- yet The Washington Post has this material and may now legally reveal it.
How can a newspaper reveal a top secret that the president has not made public? If someone reveals the secret to the newspaper, it can. The person who did so in this case committed a felony, and the president is right to be angered over it. That person is probably a member of the intelligence community bent on frustrating or destabilizing or controlling the Trump presidency. Because that person gave it to the Post and because there is enormous public interest in knowing what Trump told the Russians, the Post is free to publish it.
All of this demonstrates that rogue intelligence agents can engage in their own form of agitprop -- agitation propaganda. And they can cause political harm with it. Yet the questions of whether Donald Trump revealed top secrets to the Russians and, if he did so, whether it was intentional or not and whether it was harmful to national security are questions to which we are entitled to answers. And was Jim Comey fired for getting too close to the truth or not close enough?
Why do these questions keep coming?
