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PARDON ME
by Burt Prelutsky
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CNN And MSNBC Claim DACA-Recipients Are ‘Children’
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by Amber Athey
{dailycaller.com} ~ CNN and MSNBC are repeating the false claim that DACA recipients are “children” or “kids,” while actually most are adults... While DACA recipients were illegally brought to the United States by their parents when they were children, the minimum age to apply for the program is 15 years old. In fact, the majority of the applicants were over the age of 20 based on 2014 data from the US government. Some have estimated that the average age of dreamers is 25 or 26 years old–hardly children. But those watching CNN and MSNBC might be under the impression that the DACA debate centers on young kids...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/05/cnn-and-msnbc-claim-daca-recipients-are-children-video/?utm_medium=email
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Hurricane Irma 'extremely dangerous'
Category 5 storm, evacuations ordered for Florida Keys
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by Travis Fedschun
{foxnews.com} ~ Hurricane Irma continued to strengthen Tuesday as an "extremely dangerous" Category 5 storm, prompting states of emergency in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida -- with the powerful storm forcing evacuations in the Florida Keys... Irma's maximum sustained winds had increased to near 185 mph, and the storm was located about 180 miles east of Antigua, moving west at 14 mph, the National Hurricane Center said in its 2 p.m. ET advisory. "Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next day or two, but Irma is forecast to remain a powerful category 4 or 5 hurricane during the next couple of days," the NHC said...  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/05/hurricane-irma-extremely-dangerous-category-5-storm-evacuations-ordered-for-florida-keys.html
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Paul Ryan just got Thrashed after he Turned
on Trump yet again, this time from his worst nightmare
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{rightwingvideos.com} ~ Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, that Paul Ryan’s primary opponent, Paul Nehlen says Ryan is colluding with Dems to shutdown the government over wall funding. The state of Wisconsin voted for Donald Trump for President in 2016.  http://rightwingvideos.com/paul-ryan-just-got-thrashed-after-he-turned-on-trump-yet-again-this-time-from-his-worst-nightmare/
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Top Senator’s Son Joins Antifa –
 Congrats Dad, You Raised a Terrorist!
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by Jim Hoft
{thegatewaypundit.com} ~ After years of far left Antifa violence, hundreds of bloodied bodies and tens of thousands of dollars of property damage the FBI and DHS have listed Antifa violence as “domestic terrorist violence.”... In March Linwood Kaine, youngest son of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, was arrested at the Minnesota State Capitol in March after disrupting a pro-Trump rally. The Antifa mob was hurling punches and spraying Trump supporters with pepper spray...  http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/09/top-democrat-tim-kaines-son-antifa-member-congratulations-tim-youve-raised-terrorist/
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Secretary of Defense Mattis: A North Korean Attack "Will Be Met With a Massive Military Response"
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Southern Poverty Law Center's Swing to the Left "Turned Into a Windfall"
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TUCKER: Spars with BLM Supporter: "I'm Trying to Take You Seriously, But I Can't"

http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5560222448001

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White House Daily Briefing: Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders (08-31-2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNmxpcC5CSA

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Senator Ted Cruz Hits Gov. Chris Christie: I'm Sorry That There Are Politicians Desperate To Get In The News

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5557597795001

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Kellyanne Conway: Trump doesn't let critics stop his agenda

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5558655177001

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TUCKER: Trump supporter recounts beating by Antifa group
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PARDON ME
by Burt Prelutsky
 
It figures that those who call themselves progressives would be up in arms over Donald Trump’s granting Maricopa County’s longtime sheriff, Joe Arpaio, a presidential pardon.  But, then, when are those yahoos not up in arms?

It didn’t seem to bother them in the least when on his way out of the White House in 2001, liar-Bill Clinton granted fugitive financier Marc Rich a pardon in exchange for a million-dollar campaign contribution, or when Barack liar-nObama pardoned Oscar Lopez Rivera, a bomb-making terrorist affiliated with the Puerto Rican FALN (Fuerzas Aramadas de Liberacion Nacional).

But when it came to a sheriff whose biggest sin was that he was an absolute zealot when it came to enforcing America’s federal immigration laws, the leftists have been carrying on as if he’s the living embodiment of Vlad the Impaler.  And, as usual, it’s not just the leftists who have attacked Trump’s decision.  As you might expect, House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose boyish demeanor barely conceals his political hypocrisy, was among the first of the yahoos to voice his displeasure.

Although you’d never know it -- judging by the amount of moral outrage emanating from the deplorables who infest the media and both sides of the congressional aisle -- the truth is that Arpaio wasn’t even convicted of a felony.  The pardon was for a misdemeanor that carried at most a six-month sentence.  But, as President Trump and most reasonable people understood, at the age of 85, even six months might have constituted a life sentence for Sheriff Joe.

● At times, a lot of us have looked across the world and wished we had someone with the mettle of a Margaret Thatcher or a Bibi Netanyahu in the White House.  It now appears that some of the staunchest defenders of liberty and commonsense are to be found in Eastern Europe.

It was Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban who recently delivered a speech in Romania titled “Will Europe Belong to Europeans?”

He expressed grave concern over whether a Christian Europe would be over-run by Muslims.  He placed the blame for the Islamization of the continent on “the so-called Christian Democrat parties in Europe, which have become increasingly un-Christian.”

He went on to identify the source of the contamination as George Soros, the multibillionaire who has spent a fortune financing a host of radical groups on both sides of the Atlantic.

Orban went on to describe an alliance that has been forged between Brussels, the de facto capital of the European Union controlled by a group of bureaucratic elitists dedicated to globalism, and George Soros.

Even in the U.S., Soros remains a shadowy figure who prefers to remain cloaked in darkness while financing anarchists, communists, black and Hispanic racists, and just about any other group of people who despise America as much as he does.

Soros, like Viktor Orban, was Hungarian.  In his teens, although born a Jew, he collaborated with the Nazis.  Although I’m not a psychiatrist, I think I am every bit as qualified as the professionals who are always ready to psychoanalyze Donald Trump, to declare that Soros is a victim of what has come to be known as the Stockholm Syndrome.  In his case, I’d call it the Budapest Syndrome.

The Syndrome first came to light in the wake of a prolonged bank robbery in Stockholm, when it was discovered that many of the hostages had come to identify with the criminals, not with those who eventually rescued them.

I assume it came about when the victims recognized their utter dependency on those who had the power to kill them at any moment and for any reason.  Therefore, every second they remained alive was another second in which their gratitude for remaining alive increased.

Patty Hearst was a classic example.  She even joined her captors in robbing banks.

In the case of Soros, at an impressionable age, he saw the Nazis as the supermen they claimed to be.  At the same time, he saw Gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals and his fellow Jews, being herded like so many cows and sheep into cattle cars and being taken off to be slaughtered.  The die was cast.  Soros was determined to be a butcher, not a side of beef.

And a butcher he has remained.

In concluding his speech, Prime Minister Orban said: “In the future, we will have to stand our ground against Soros’s mafia and the Brussels bureaucrats, and the media operated by them,” and that under his leadership, Hungary would remain a place where “Western European Christians will always be able to find security.”

In a recent article, I said that George Soros reminded me of Dr. No, Auric Goldfinger and some of the other super villains invented by Ian Fleming.  The tragedy is that while Mr. Soros isn’t a fictional character, James Bond is.

● In the meantime, according to a piece in the August issue of The New American, the U.N. is plotting to exploit Artificial Intelligence (AI) to further its globalist agenda.

At a summit held in Geneva, the stated goal of the gathering was to “accelerate and advance the development and democratization of AI solutions that can address specific global challenges related to poverty, hunger, health, education, the environment, and others.”

Among the participants were “top UN bureaucrats, communist operatives, as well as representatives of increasingly anti-liberty technology mega-companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft.”

As the magazine concludes: “The simplest way to prevent such an Orwellian nightmare is for the U.S. government to withdraw from the U.N. using the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (H.R. 193).”

Although Nikki Haley is a fine ambassador to the U.N., as was John Bolton, the fact remains that the U.N. is mainly comprised of Islamist states, secular dictatorships and a bunch of nations you’ve never heard of, that share a basic belief; namely, that the United States and Israel are the two most evil nations on earth.

In what other organization would veto powers be granted to the likes of Russia and China?  And in what other organization would one of the two most openly despised members continue to contribute 25% of the operating expenses?

Years ago, citizen Trump said that the United Nations should be evicted from New York, and he offered to buy the land and turn the space into a 5-star hotel.  I believed that was the Trump I was helping to get elected.  My view of the U.N. hasn’t changed.  I wonder why his has.


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The Front Page Cover
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All This 'True Conservative'
Talk About 'Principles' Is Just Another Lie
by Kurt Schlichter
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 Wednesday Top Headlines 
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To end DACA, follow the Constitution (National Review)
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DACA backlash shows Democrats don’t really think their policies should be subject to elections (The Federalist)
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North Korea nuclear test furthers EMP bomb (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Texas churches sue FEMA for relief funds (World)
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Appeals court reinstates strict Texas voter ID law (The Washington Times)
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Gowdy says FBI, Justice Department not cooperating on Trump dossier: “We got nothing” (The Washington Times)
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Corruption trial for Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez starts today; New York Times forgot to mention his party (Hot Air)
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Justice Department drops defense of liar-nObama OT rule (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Law professors celebrate “bourgeois norms,” attacked as racists (The Federalist)
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Charlottesville Part 2? Council votes to remove “Stonewall” Jackson statue (Fox News)
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Why U.S. colleges are the world’s best and way too expensive (Washington Examiner)
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Silicon Valley conservatives report being too afraid to use the industry’s products for political expression (Washington Examiner)
Good News? Robots will take only 9% of jobs, not 38% says new study (Reason)
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Policy: A fair DACA deal. (National Review)
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Policy: Technology is outsmarting net neutrality. (American Enterprise Institute)  ~The Patriot Post
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Iran Launches Battle To Complete
Land Bridge Across Syria To Mediterranean Sea
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by J.E. Dyer
{lidblog.com} ~ As reported last week Iran wants to gain control of Deir ez-Zor (in Syria), because doing so will complete her land bridge across Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean... This move must be blocked if there is to be any hope of stabilizing the Middle East and keeping it peaceful enough to be habitable for its peoples. If they are to have the opportunity for, prosperity, commerce, consensualism in politics, two-way access to other peoples and cultures, and lives that are not trapped between extremism, state corruption, and incessant infighting, radical-Islamic Iran must not be allowed to dominate the region...  http://lidblog.com/iran-battle-complete-land-bridge/
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The Islamic Future of Europe
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"Anti-fascists" beat a man who they claimed
is a "right-wing sympathizer" at Las Ramblas, Barcelona
by Guy Millière
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The terrorist attack in Barcelona received the same reaction as all the large-scale terrorist attacks in Europe: tears, prayers, flowers, candles, teddy bears, and protestations that "Islam means peace "... When people gathered to demand tougher measures against the rising influence of Islamism across the continent, they were confronted by an "anti-fascist" rally. Muslims organized a demonstration to defend Islam; they claimed that Muslims living in Spain are the "main victims" of terrorism. The president of the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Societies, Mounir Benjelloun El Andaloussi, spoke of a "conspiracy against Islam" and said that terrorists were "instruments" of Islamophobic hatred. The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, cried in front of the cameras and said that her city would remain an "open city" for all immigrants. Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, a conservative, was the only one who dared to call jihadist terrorism by its name. Almost all European journalists said Rajoy's words were too harsh...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10940/europe-islamic-future
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Russia probes kick into high gear
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by AUSTIN WRIGHT and ALI WATKINS
{politico.com} ~ The congressional Russia investigations are entering a new and more serious phase as lawmakers return from the August recess amid fresh revelations about contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia... In the coming weeks, both intelligence committees are expected to conduct closed-door interviews with high-ranking members of the Trump campaign, and potential witnesses could include Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort and Donald Trump Jr. The two panels are also looking at possibly holding public hearings this fall...  http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/04/trump-russia-investigations-congress-242256
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NORTH KOREA’S ULTIMATUM TO AMERICA
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by Caroline Glick
{frontpagemag.com} ~ The nuclear confrontation between the US and North Korea entered a critical phase Sunday with North Korea’s conduct of an underground test of a thermonuclear bomb... If the previous round of this confrontation earlier this summer revolved around Pyongyang’s threat to attack the US territory of Guam, Sunday’s test, together with North Korea’s recent tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the continental US, was a direct threat to US cities. In other words, the current confrontation isn’t about US superpower status in Asia, and the credibility of US deterrence or the capabilities of US military forces in the Pacific. The confrontation is now about the US’s ability to protect the lives of its citizens. The distinction tells us a number of important things. All of them are alarming...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267787/north-koreas-ultimatum-america-caroline-glick
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NKorea missile fear sets
pre-emptive strike debate in Japan
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{hosted.ap.org} ~ Japan is debating whether to develop a limited pre-emptive strike capability and buy cruise missiles - ideas that were anathema in the pacifist country before the North Korea missile threat... With revisions to Japan's defense plans underway, ruling party hawks are accelerating the moves, and some defense experts say Japan should at least consider them. Japan has a two-step missile defense system, including interceptors on destroyers in the Sea of Japan that would shoot down projectiles mid-flight and if that fails, surface-to-air PAC-3s on and... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_NKOREA_PREEMPTIVE_STRIKE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-09-01-23-30-16
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All This 'True Conservative'
Talk About 'Principles' Is Just Another Lie
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by Kurt Schlichter
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After two years of lectures about “principles” and “the Rule of law” by the establishment-loving hacks furious that normal Americans rejected them and elected Donald Trump, their performance last week demonstrated that their high-minded dedication to conservatism is all a fraud. It’s not about “principles” or “the Rule of Law.” It’s only about holding on to power – theirs.
 
Let’s take the latest in a seemingly endless series of #fails from that smarmy dope Paul Ryan, King of the Fredocons. First, he rushed to help out the liberals with their ridiculous narrative about how Donald Trump is a “Nazi” Wait, I thought the narrative memo had him being a Russian fifth columnist – damn, our president sure is versatile! You couldn’t keep Ryan from eagerly jumping in with his usual more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger-about-Trump thing to help the left push its latest meme. Antifa though? Not so fast! Ryan, the poodle that he is, obediently waited until Nancy Pulosi led the way and offered some tepid words about these commie blackshirts and their thirst for blood before Brave Sir Ryan ran out and offered some tepid words about these commie blackshirts and their thirst for blood.
 
Paul Ryan is a guy who can’t even take his own side in a fight – or, more to the point, our side in a fight. Now, a quick quiz: When Donald Trump proposed to keep his promise to the Republican voters who elected him and end the unconstitutional DACA program that the liar-nObama administration enacted to ignore duly-enacted immigration laws, what did Passive Paul do?
A. Ryan immediately offered his support for the president undoing this Rule of Law abomination that Ryan expressly called “unconstitutional” on Fox back in October 2014.
 
B. Ryan immediately demanded the president not undo this Rule of Law abomination that Ryan expressly called “unconstitutional” on Fox back in October 2014.
 
C. Ryan immediately asked someone to explain what the phrase “keep his promise to the Republican voters who elected him” means.
 
D. B and C
So, for the benefit of us suckers, basically Ryan was against DACA when it couldn’t be undone, but is now panicking when it can be undone because it might actually be undone – unless President Trump lets Ryan roll him, in which case he deserves to be laughed at in exactly the way his Never Trump enemies will laugh at him.
 
Gosh, this DACA two-step kind of reminds me of liar-nObamacare and how gung-ho the True Conservatives were to repeal it when they couldn’t repeal it and how suddenly they turned ungung-ho when they actually could. Weird. If I was cynical, I’d say that it seems like the establishment GOP has been lying to our faces for years and years, but that couldn’t be true because our establishment betters have principles and stuff.
 
Of course, it’s not just the Wisconsin Wimp shifting into conservagimp mode. Soon-to-be-former Senator RINO-Jeff Flake, that braying doofus, naturally joined the cave-in chorus. Ben Sasse, RINO-Flake’s braying doofus doppelgänger, probably joined in, but I refuse to spend valuable time looking at his tedious Twitter feed to find out. And since it involved betraying Republicans, you have got to assume RINO-John “Blue Falcon” McCain is in on it too.
 
Yeah, because “principles” and stuff. Because enforcing the law is the most important thing there is, except for doing what the rich guys who fund the establishment want. That’s really the most important thing.
 
Yeah, so after nearly two years of tiresome finger-wagging about “the Rule of Law” and how we need to put our “principles” above our desire for “winning,” the whole sordid scam we always knew it always was is revealed for the world to see. They can’t hide it anymore and they aren’t even trying. Their glorious “conservative principles” aren’t principles at all but a skeevy ploy designed to tie our hands and keep us from pursuing policy goals our establishment coalition partners disfavor. They want open borders. They want illegals. They want cheap foreign labor that doesn’t get uppity to man their donors’ corporations so the Captains of Crony Capitalism don’t have to fuss with American workers who won’t tolerate being treated like chattel. Yeah, “we’re better than that” all right – if you mean that we are better than enforcing the laws the American people passed through a constitutional process if the ruling class decides it doesn’t like them.
 
“The Rule of Law” is for us, not for them. “The Rule of Law” was supposed to be a shield to protect us from the ravages of the powerful, but our Truer-Than-You Cons use it as a sword to cut our legs out from under us and keep us from defending our own interests.
 
Oh, you can’t possibly exercise the power against our leftist enemies that they always exercise against you. Because principles.
 
Oh, you can’t possibly be uncouth and actually fight back against our enemies. Because principles.
 
Oh, a principle is getting in the way of something the establishment wants? What’s a principle?
 
So now, suddenly, Congress is moving to try and keep DACA alive through – gasp! – legislation, though that’s probably not going to happen since most GOP legislators understand that amnesty is ballot box poison. See, that’s why they loved DACA – they can’t pass it as a law, so they simply feigned outrage for the benefit of us rubes when liar-nObama did exactly what they wanted with his pen.
 
And in the most Congressional GOP move of all possible Congressional GOP moves, they now want to try to pass a proposed DACA fix using Democrat votes and so their proposed deal to the Democrats – who really, really want 800,000 future voters – is to trade it for…wait for it…still waiting…nothing. The GOP isn’t asking for anything. No new limits on immigrants, no reform of chain immigration, certainly no wall. Nothing. I hope the dealer tries out this innovative new negotiation strategy on me the next time I bargain to lease a fine German sports sedan.
 
Actually, the GOP does get something – shafted, as usual. Yeah, their deal is we give you Democrats what you want and, in exchange, you call us racists when Elizabeth dinky-Warren proposes to declare all these middle-aged Dreamer kids US citizens. Because, you know, they had dreams and stuff.
 
Pathetic. You know, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that the real reason the Republicans don’t want to end the filibuster to allow them to pass legislation is that they would then be expected to pass legislation that their voters want and the GOP establishment doesn’t.
 
Here’s the thing. There are two parties in America, one to the right and one to the left. The left/right spectrum used to be the only axis that mattered, and the coalitions within the parties fit pretty well, if not perfectly. But the bipartisan establishment, the meritless meritocracy that rules us, grew more arrogant even as it grew more inept. It ignored problems and troubling trends even as it cashed-in for itself over the decades. I remember working in Congress back in Washington in 1986, and the region was not rich and it was not fancy. But now it’s fantastically rich and fantastically fancy. But the establishment ignored the normals out in America as it gorged on the fruits of the normals’ labor, and that’s why a second axis arose and intersected with the American politician spectrum. This new axis measures pro- or con- regarding the status quo and the ruling class. So now there are really four political parties stuffed into two political party infrastructures:
1. Right, pro-establishment (The RINOs)
2. Right, anti-establishment (The Trump voters)
3. Left, pro-establishment (liar-Hillary’s snobby urban corporatist jerk corps)
4. Left, anti-establishment (The Bernie/dinky-Warren/Stalin Axis of Venezuela)
This explains why we see the DC establishment unifying to protect its power and privilege – and holding us normals in utter contempt. Most Democrat senators and Republican senators have much more in common with each other than with us – to the GOP establishment, Trump’s clearly the bigger threat than a counterpart across the aisle. It also explains why you hear about Bernie supporters who went for Trump instead of Felonia von Pantsuit. That’s the fault line – the desire to keep or destroy this monstrous status quo. This new axis will reshape the political parties as their uncomfortable coalitions jockey for control of their respective party’s infrastructure Yeah, the Dems have big problems too. Hell, it may reshape – violently – our whole country if we aren’t careful.
 
The fact is that the establishment doesn’t care about “the Rule of Law” or “principles” – it cares about its own power and maintaining the status quo. So keep that in mind the next time you hear some establishment snob lecturing you on how you are morally obligated not to do anything to advance you own interests because of “principles.”
 
It’s all just another lie.
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Elian Gonzalez Was A Dreamer Too, Liberals

4064455906?profile=originalELIAN GONZALEZ WAS A DREAMER TOO, LIBERALS

 

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                                                                       Daniel John Sobieski

 

The fake news that the Trump administration was “considering” using 100,000 National Guardsmen to round up illegal aliens has been thoroughly debunked by now, except in the minds of those who screech, “But, but, there was a memo!”

Well, the memo, as the Independent Journal Review reported, was a DHS draft memo that was never put forward for serious consideration. Nor did it mention the figure 100,000, The hyperventilating Associated Press put the fake news out that it was an actual plan one smidgeon short of an imminent executive order. President Trump said the report was false. The Pentagon said the report was false. So just who were “considering” it? The janitorial staff after emptying the waste basket it was tossed in?

ICE arrested over 700 illegals in recent operations and reported that they are doing exactly what they did under President  Obama. ICE reports that some 75 percent of these illegals had criminal records. They should be deported to protect American citizens such as Kate Steinle, murdered in the sanctuary city of San Francisco.. President Obama used to tout his record number of deportations. ICE reports that one 2012 operation netted 350 percent more illegals than recent raids In April, 2012, ICE arrested more than 3,100 illegals with criminal records  Problem was Obama’s deportees kept coming back over an unsecured border. An illegal that was deported four or more times was counted as four or more deportations.

Undaunted by the facts, fake news outlets like CNN weave tales of children living in fear that ICE will shatter their dreams with that proverbial midnight knock on the door:

Donald Trump's win shattered the dreams and ignited the fears of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers."

They are the young people who were brought to the United States by their parents as children.

This population, which the American Immigration Council says is roughly 1.8 million, feels exceptionally vulnerable under a Trump presidency because many came out of the shadows when President Barack Obama offered them temporary legal presence through executive action in 2012. Now, with a president-elect who promised to deport the undocumented, the fear of deportation is more real than ever.

Time was when liberal Democrats like Hillary Clinton shared Donald Trump’s dream of family reunification for illegal alien families on the other side of the border. Hillary should know about deportations, since she was First Lady when presidential hubby William Jefferson Clinton returned a young Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba, literally at gunpoint.

As recently as June, 2014, when unaccompanied minor children were being ferried by “coyotes” under contract north on the tops of boxcars in what GOP presidential contender Jeb Bush said was an “act of love”,  Hillary Clinton told CNN  such children should be quickly returned to their foreign parents, to send a message:

 “They should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who the responsible adults in their family are because there are concerns about whether all of them can be sent back, but I think all of them that can be should be reunited with their families,” she said, adding that the United States must do more to confront the violence in the region and strengthen border security. “But we have to send a clear message that ‘Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean your child gets to stay. We don’t want to send a message that is contrary to our laws or encourage more children to make that dangerous journey.”

They should be sent back as soon as possible, she said, which is what Donald Trump is saying. We don’t want to encourage more children to come, which is what Donald Trump is saying. Trump would go farther, building the same type of fence Israel has built and Saudi Arabia is building as well as interpreting the 14th Amendment as it was written, an amendment to guarantee freed slaves, not illegal aliens, their U.S. citizenship.

President Bill Clinton was also for family reunification of minor children with their parents south of U.S. territory as shown by the case of Eliang Gonzalez, the young Cuban boy who as he was nearing his sixth birthday on Thanksgiving 199 when a fisherman off the Florida coast found him hanging on tp an inner tube after his mother, among others fleeing Castro’s Cuba drowned in the attempt.

Elian’s mother was hoping to bring Elian and join the extended family in the U.S. as they fled the poverty and oppression (sound familiar?) of Cuba. Elian’s father, who was separated from his wife at the time, chose to stay behind. As Investor’s Business Daily editorialized:

 As Fox News Latino reported, Gonzalez's Miami relatives had refused to surrender him to authorities, leading to the infamous raid on April 22, 2000, on President Bill Clinton's watch, by armed federal agents who seized Elian at gunpoint from a closet where he was hiding at his uncle's home in Little Havana.

 He was forcibly returned to Cuba two months later….

It was then-Deputy Attorney General Holder who invented the "legal" cover for federal agents to forcibly enter the home of Elian Gonzalez's legal custodians, American citizens all, so he could be returned to the warm embrace of Castro in communist Cuba.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that once the INS chose a guardian, the guardianship could not be changed. On Dec, 1, 1999, the INS asserted that Miami-based uncle Lazaro Gonzalez was now Elian's legal custodian. Holder then decided on his own that the court ruling and the INS determination were both invalid and that Elian would be returned to his father in Cuba…

Today, if Elian Gonzalez were Honduran and his reunited family likely to vote Democratic down the road, he might get to stay with Holder's blessings under the same rule of lawlessness that once forcibly returned a young Cuban boy to Castro's tyranny.

Aye, there’s the rub, Hispanics were more in political play in 1999 and the Cubans of south Florida were staunchly Republican. Just ask Florida Senator and presidential contender Marco Rubio, himself the son of Cuban immigrants seeking freedom from oppression. Today, “illegal alien” is a term many find synonymous with “undocumented Democrat”.

So it is no surprise that Democrats, who under Bill Clinton, stood silently by as Elian Gonzalez was seized at gunpoint and forcibly removed to the oppression of Castro’s Communist Cuba, now hyperventilate as Donald Trump proposes building a high wall, albeit with a big gate, to protect American sovereignty and the declining value of U.S. citizenship.

We should at least copy what has been called the “Great Wall of Saudi Arabia”. Built to block a potential influx of Islamic State terrorists, it accomplishes what a sovereign state is obligated to do – protect its borders. We too often ignore the fact that among the flood of “oppressed” illegal aliens, gang members like those of MS-13 and terrorists could be hiding, as Marine Corps. Gen. and now DHS Secretary John Kelly once testified before Congress:

"Clearly, criminal networks can move just about anything on these smuggling pipelines," he testified in February to the House Armed Services Committee. "Terrorist organizations could seek to leverage those same smuggling routes to move operatives with intent to cause grave harm to our citizens or even quite easily bring weapons of mass destruction into the United States."

Build Trump’s fence first, and then talk about immigration reform. And while we are having this conversation, liberals, let us remember it was Bill Clinton who pointed a gun at Elian Gonzalez, not Donald Trump.

 

          Daniel John Sobieski is a free lance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.               

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This week marks the 13th Anniversary of the Muslim massacre and rape fest of children and teachers at a Beslan school in Russia

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For three days, these children and adults were held hostage in a sweltering gymnasium, denied food and water, stripped of their clothing, forced to keep their hands over their heads, while many of the children were raped and sexually abused.  The harrowing siege ended on September 3rd with a series of explosions and a hail of gunfire between the terrorists and Russian security forces that resulted in the deaths of as many as 380 hostages – more than half of them children.

To read more http://www.barenakedislam.com/2017/09/05/this-week-marks-the-13th-anniversary-of-the-muslim-m

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NCREASED BLACKLISTING which smears patriotic Counterjihadists, Christians, and Conservatives as “hate groups” aims to defund them and scrub their existence from the internet

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In addition to the Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC list of hate groups and individuals, sites like Bare Naked Islam have been blacklisted by the (Jewish) Anti-Defamation League ADL, Pro-Publica and the newest one called Color of Change/Blood Money.

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On Wednesday, online civil rights group Color of Change launched a website, Blood Money, that targets major credit card companies such as Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express, as well as PayPal and Apple Pay, for processing funds for hate groups and white supremacist organizations.

Color of Change has rolled out its version of the Southern Poverty Law Center blacklist. The race-baiting group, co-founded by CNN’s Van Jones, put up a petition demanding that credit card companies stop taking “blood money” by “processing funds for over 100 white supremacist hate groups.”

To read more http://www.barenakedislam.com/

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Michigan: Yemeni Muslims Suing KFC… For Serving Bacon

( Muslims do not assimilate! They infiltrate! )

Source: KFC Sued For Serving Bacon To Muslim Couple – Dearborn, MI Patch  h/t freerepublic.com

A Muslim couple from Dearborn is suing Kentucky Fried Chicken for having recently been served bacon on a chicken sandwiches. An unspecified amount of damages are being sought by the couple, who purchased the sandwiches at a Lincoln Park KFC. They allege cheese and bacon were added to the sandwiches after they requested cheese only, according to a Detroit Free Press report.

In May, a Dearborn man of Muslim faith sued Little Caesars for $100 million after he was allegedly served and then accidentally ate pepperoni made with pork, a food prohibited by Islamic law. The boxes were labeled “halal,” but the pies inside were topped with regular pepperoni.

Dearborn attorney Majed Moughni filed lawsuits in both cases. He is also representing a Jewish woman in Sterling Heights, who is suing Denny’s Restaurants for also having been served bacon, the Free Press reported.

“The newer lawsuits allege breach of contract, negligent representation, and are asking for monetary damages for what they said is emotional and physical distress from having eaten bacon. Both lawsuits have been filed in Wayne County Circuit Court.”

“At KFC we respect the religious beliefs of our guests of all faiths,” said a KFC spokesman. “We believe this lawsuit was filed as a result of a miscommunication between the guest and our team member. We cannot comment further on pending litigation against one of our franchisees.”


More via: Detroit Free Press

Yemeni-American Muslim couple from Dearborn,  Askar Abubaker, and his wife, Hasinah Saeed, who wears an Islamic face veil, ordered chicken sandwiches at a KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) restaurant in Lincoln Park on Dix Road on the afternoon of July 1.

According to the lawsuit, Abubaker asked the employee behind the counter what was in the chicken sandwich. He then asked the employee: “Do you have cheese?”

The KFC employee replied: “We have cheese and bacon, it’s going to be an additional $1.”

Abubaker said he asked whether it was American cheese; the employee said only Swiss cheese was available.

“I’ll take Swiss only, no bacon,” Abubaker said he told the employee, ordering two chicken sandwiches.

After taking bites, and finding out there was bacon, he told the cashier: “What is this? Why did you guys put this in my food?”

Abubaker  said the cashier replied: “This is bacon, I’m sorry, I’ll make another one.”

The Muslim couple alleges the “employees were looking at us and smiling.”

The attorney handling the cases, Moughni, said there needs to be changes in how restaurants are handling food.

“You can’t allow this practice to continue, whether you’re Muslim or Jewish, and you walk into an establishment and they don’t care about what they are serving.”

Moughni filed a similar lawsuit in May against a Little Caesars Pizza in Dearborn that advertised halal pepperoni pizza, which Moughni said wasn’t halal and contained pork. An attorney for Little Caesars has said the lawsuit should be dismissed and is without merit.

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Michigan: Yemeni Muslims Suing KFC… For Serving Bacon

( Muslims do not assimilate! They infiltrate! )

Source: KFC Sued For Serving Bacon To Muslim Couple – Dearborn, MI Patch  h/t freerepublic.com

A Muslim couple from Dearborn is suing Kentucky Fried Chicken for having recently been served bacon on a chicken sandwiches. An unspecified amount of damages are being sought by the couple, who purchased the sandwiches at a Lincoln Park KFC. They allege cheese and bacon were added to the sandwiches after they requested cheese only, according to a Detroit Free Press report.

In May, a Dearborn man of Muslim faith sued Little Caesars for $100 million after he was allegedly served and then accidentally ate pepperoni made with pork, a food prohibited by Islamic law. The boxes were labeled “halal,” but the pies inside were topped with regular pepperoni.

Dearborn attorney Majed Moughni filed lawsuits in both cases. He is also representing a Jewish woman in Sterling Heights, who is suing Denny’s Restaurants for also having been served bacon, the Free Press reported.

“The newer lawsuits allege breach of contract, negligent representation, and are asking for monetary damages for what they said is emotional and physical distress from having eaten bacon. Both lawsuits have been filed in Wayne County Circuit Court.”

“At KFC we respect the religious beliefs of our guests of all faiths,” said a KFC spokesman. “We believe this lawsuit was filed as a result of a miscommunication between the guest and our team member. We cannot comment further on pending litigation against one of our franchisees.”


More via: Detroit Free Press

Yemeni-American Muslim couple from Dearborn,  Askar Abubaker, and his wife, Hasinah Saeed, who wears an Islamic face veil, ordered chicken sandwiches at a KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) restaurant in Lincoln Park on Dix Road on the afternoon of July 1.

According to the lawsuit, Abubaker asked the employee behind the counter what was in the chicken sandwich. He then asked the employee: “Do you have cheese?”

The KFC employee replied: “We have cheese and bacon, it’s going to be an additional $1.”

Abubaker said he asked whether it was American cheese; the employee said only Swiss cheese was available.

“I’ll take Swiss only, no bacon,” Abubaker said he told the employee, ordering two chicken sandwiches.

After taking bites, and finding out there was bacon, he told the cashier: “What is this? Why did you guys put this in my food?”

Abubaker  said the cashier replied: “This is bacon, I’m sorry, I’ll make another one.”

The Muslim couple alleges the “employees were looking at us and smiling.”

The attorney handling the cases, Moughni, said there needs to be changes in how restaurants are handling food.

“You can’t allow this practice to continue, whether you’re Muslim or Jewish, and you walk into an establishment and they don’t care about what they are serving.”

Moughni filed a similar lawsuit in May against a Little Caesars Pizza in Dearborn that advertised halal pepperoni pizza, which Moughni said wasn’t halal and contained pork. An attorney for Little Caesars has said the lawsuit should be dismissed and is without merit.

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Michigan: Yemeni Muslims Suing KFC… For Serving Bacon

( Muslimns do not assimilkate! They infilyrate! )

Source: KFC Sued For Serving Bacon To Muslim Couple – Dearborn, MI Patch  h/t freerepublic.com

A Muslim couple from Dearborn is suing Kentucky Fried Chicken for having recently been served bacon on a chicken sandwiches. An unspecified amount of damages are being sought by the couple, who purchased the sandwiches at a Lincoln Park KFC. They allege cheese and bacon were added to the sandwiches after they requested cheese only, according to a Detroit Free Press report.

In May, a Dearborn man of Muslim faith sued Little Caesars for $100 million after he was allegedly served and then accidentally ate pepperoni made with pork, a food prohibited by Islamic law. The boxes were labeled “halal,” but the pies inside were topped with regular pepperoni.

Dearborn attorney Majed Moughni filed lawsuits in both cases. He is also representing a Jewish woman in Sterling Heights, who is suing Denny’s Restaurants for also having been served bacon, the Free Press reported.

“The newer lawsuits allege breach of contract, negligent representation, and are asking for monetary damages for what they said is emotional and physical distress from having eaten bacon. Both lawsuits have been filed in Wayne County Circuit Court.”

“At KFC we respect the religious beliefs of our guests of all faiths,” said a KFC spokesman. “We believe this lawsuit was filed as a result of a miscommunication between the guest and our team member. We cannot comment further on pending litigation against one of our franchisees.”


More via: Detroit Free Press

Yemeni-American Muslim couple from Dearborn,  Askar Abubaker, and his wife, Hasinah Saeed, who wears an Islamic face veil, ordered chicken sandwiches at a KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) restaurant in Lincoln Park on Dix Road on the afternoon of July 1.

According to the lawsuit, Abubaker asked the employee behind the counter what was in the chicken sandwich. He then asked the employee: “Do you have cheese?”

The KFC employee replied: “We have cheese and bacon, it’s going to be an additional $1.”

Abubaker said he asked whether it was American cheese; the employee said only Swiss cheese was available.

“I’ll take Swiss only, no bacon,” Abubaker said he told the employee, ordering two chicken sandwiches.

After taking bites, and finding out there was bacon, he told the cashier: “What is this? Why did you guys put this in my food?”

Abubaker  said the cashier replied: “This is bacon, I’m sorry, I’ll make another one.”

The Muslim couple alleges the “employees were looking at us and smiling.”

The attorney handling the cases, Moughni, said there needs to be changes in how restaurants are handling food.

“You can’t allow this practice to continue, whether you’re Muslim or Jewish, and you walk into an establishment and they don’t care about what they are serving.”

Moughni filed a similar lawsuit in May against a Little Caesars Pizza in Dearborn that advertised halal pepperoni pizza, which Moughni said wasn’t halal and contained pork. An attorney for Little Caesars has said the lawsuit should be dismissed and is without merit.

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Muslim cleric: “True Islam” means “entering each and every home” and “raiding Rome”

( Muslimns do not assimilkate! They infilyrate! )

Abu Qatada lived in Britain for many years. How many Muslim who he taught and trained are still there and still active?

“Salafi Jordanian Cleric Abu Qatada Al-Filastini: True Islam Leads to Raiding Rome and Confrontation,” MEMRI, August 12, 2017:

Video https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/muslim-cleric-true-islam-means-entering-each-and

In a recent address, Salafi Jordanian cleric Abu Qatada Al-Filastini said that if Muslims adopt the “banner of true Islam,” they would be upholding an Islam that implements the prophecies about “entering each and every home” and “raiding Rome.” “There can be only one outcome: confrontation,” said Abu Qatada, whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Othman. The address was posted on his YouTube channel on August 12.

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The Daily Jot Ending the dream

Daily reporting and analysis of current events from a biblical and prophetic perspective
 
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Bill Wilson
Ending the dream

NOTE:  When writing about God and Jesus, The Daily Jot means YHVH as God and Yeshua Ha Mashiach as Jesus--the actual original names and the true nature and character of them.
  
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
President Donald Trump put an end to the illegal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. What you likely will not hear in the news media, the protests and all the back and forth about this policy is that it was Constitutionally illegal. In his effort to remake America, the immediate past "president" created the policy in 2012 to allow the illegal immigration of children into the US and ran into legal issues by attempting to expand it in 2014. About 800,000 illegal aliens aged 15-36, the majority of them adults, are impacted by this unilaterally invoked policy that had no legal basis. Now, the leftists are going crazy that Trump might expel these "children" from the United States.
 
The White House statement said, " DACA was not statutorily authorized and was therefore an unconstitutional exercise of discretion by the executive branch...The Trump Administration is taking responsible action to wind down DACA in an orderly and minimally disruptive manner....DHS's enforcement priorities remain in place. However, absent a law enforcement interest-which is largely the standard that has been in place since the inception of the program-the Department will generally not take actions to remove active DACA recipients." The Trump Administration is allowing a six-month window for Congress to act with responsible legislation.
 
Trump was lambasted by the previous "president"  in a statement saying he asked Congress to act, but..."That bill never came...my administration acted to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people, so that they could continue to contribute to our communities and our country... This is about whether we are a people who kick hopeful young strivers out of America, or whether we treat them the way we'd want our kids to be treated." The previous "president" broke the law by allowing these kids AND their parents to stay in the country illegally. When Congress didn't do what this "president" wanted, he chose to make his own law. Now there are consequences and to many they seem to be inhumane and unfair.
 
The previous "president" had a dream to remake America into a socialist nation. To achieve his dream, he was willing to break the law. The immigration laws of this nation are similar to those in the Bible. Leviticus 24:22 says, " You shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country." There is a path to legal citizenship and also to work here legally. If the first act of entering a country is to break the law, then no law is truly respected. The willful act of ignoring the law by the previous "president" has brought harm to those he was trying to protect, and to many Americans who were victims of the crime that was created as a result. Now another President gets the heat for ending the dream by enforcing the law. 
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson

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Battles Lines Drawn in the Fight for School Choice

It’s looking likely that a school choice bill passed by the Arizona legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey will ultimately be decided by voters in 2018.

Senate Bill 1431, a measure that expands eligibility for students to enroll in a school-voucher program, was passed in April. The bill makes all 1.1 million Arizona students eligible to apply for the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) — a program in which students in public schools can use a voucher to attend a school of their choice, be it public or private.

Previously, only a select group of students in Arizona were eligible to apply, such as children with disabilities or students enrolled in under-performing schools. The ESA program now gives eligibility to all Arizona students, but it caps actual enrollment to 30,000.

After its passage in the state legislature, however, opposition groups garnered more than enough signatures to block its implementation.

Save Our Schools, an organization formed in resistance to the bill, collected 111,540 signatures to force Senate Bill 1431 to the ballot box. Only 75,321 valid signatures were needed.

Implementation of the measure has been put on hold as the secretary of state’s office checks the validity of the signatures. If the office finds that there are enough valid signatures (which is likely, given the high number submitted), the expansion of the program will be left for voters to decide next year.

Opponents argue the Arizona school system is already underfunded — the state historically ranks very low in terms of student performance — and an expansion of ESA would only siphon more money away from cash-starved schools.

“The fundamental argument is that we’re not adequately funding the education system that we have, that the vast majority of families are using. So let’s not create another way of cutting into that funding until we’ve solved that,” said Dawn Penich Thacker, the communications director of Save Our Schools Arizona.

Thacker spoke to Western Journalism about why her group is against the expansion of ESA and what needs to be done to fix the Arizona school system.

“Our main issue was that this was not a collaborative process. One movement got to have its say. So Save Our Schools Arizona wants to back away from that, put it to the voters and then say ‘let’s start over.’ What will help education in Arizona? It will probably be a hybrid of things. It will probably be a mix of choice options, public education and who knows what else. But let’s have that conversation,” she said.

“It’s hard to improve if you’re broke. Our schools are no different.”

Thacker pointed out that despite Arizona families having “choice” options, the vast majority of them choose public schools for their children. She believes if the bill is put into the hands of voters, they will ultimately choose to vote down an expansion of ESA.

“Voters want a strong education system that is built in. Ninety-five percent of Arizona families, even though we are a choice state, are still choosing public options.”

Thacker said she was caught off guard by the amount of private and home school family volunteers petitioning against ESA expansion.

These unlikely opponents of the measure told her that its implementation would lead to the type of regulation that they tried to get away from in the public system. Accepting voucher money from the government would, in their eyes, eventually take away choice.

They believe this particular law would take away the freedom that they get with current school choice options.

“Whenever you take something from the government, there are going to be strings attached,” Thacker warned.

But there are many supporters of ESA expansion who do not see it this way.

“The number of dollars that would be affected by this change, while it’s an important change, is still pretty narrow. This is almost a pilot program. It’s capped at just a few thousand kids who are going to be able to take advantage of it. In a state this size, giving these sorts of ESA options to a few thousand kids, is not a significant shift of dollars away from public schools,” said Kory Langhofer, an attorney for the Goldwater Institute.

The Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit over the attempt to delay the program’s expansion. The conservative think tank believes school choice empowers families and students, and it argues that halting the program’s implementation is putting the education of Arizona children in limbo.

“What this bill does is if your kid is not getting a proper education, it gives you a chance to fix that. It gets your kid into a better school where they can learn to be successful,” Langhofer told Western Journalism.

Langhofer said Arizona children can’t wait 18 months for a 2018 voter referendum (what would take place if the signatures collected by Save Our Schools are deemed valid).

“The reason people are opposing the referendum is because if your kid is in a bad school right now and you need to get them a better education, you can’t afford to wait 18 months for that. The bill can be put on hold, but your kid’s third-grade education can’t be put on hold,” Langhofer said.

Currently, the ESA program is only available for a select group of Arizona students. Langhofer pointed out that these students are in the best position to say whether it works, and he argued they approve.

“The families who are using the program are in the best position to say whether it’s helping them and they seem to happy. They continue to stay in the program.”

Langhofer and other supporters of school choice support the bill that was passed by the Arizona legislature. He believes Gov. Ducey has done a good job in tackling education issues.

“Fixing education is not easy. It’s extremely expensive. I think it’s the biggest line item in the state’s budget and if you’re going to make meaningful changes that large and run by bureaucracy, it’s difficult to turn the ship. The changes he (Ducey) made have been good for education, good for school choice.”

If and when the decision to expand school choice is left to the citizens of Arizona, Langhofer is expecting a tough campaign for the hearts and minds of the state’s voters. (For more from the author of “Battles Lines Drawn in the Fight for School Choice” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/09/battles-lines-drawn-fight-school-choice/

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Ex-Navy Seal Issued A Warning Dedicated To Anyone Who Wants To Harm President Trump

A post shared on Facebook this week, set social media on fire. It’s actually a warning for Clinton supporters that can be deadly for them if they try to take down President Trump.

Ex-Navy Seal Craig “Sawman” Sawyer issued a warning dedicated to anyone who is trying to take down the President on the un-Constitutional way.

Only the Congress has the right to remove a sitting president, according to U.S. Constitution, for his incapability to understand that the Constitution is the law and he must stand by the oath to respect and protect it.

Ex-President Barack Obama made the very same oath which made him an easy target for impeachment, but instead, he ends up leading this country into failure for 8 long years.

Here is the letter that Ex-Navy Seal Craig wrote:

“Note: Nowhere here does this say innocent civilians or a legit impeachment. On the contrary, this speaks specifically to an illegal silent coup by corrupt officials using false charges, as has leaked out by Clinton cronies lately. Anything else is a different scenario entirely. Honor our Constitution! Keep it straight.

Americans, Patriots, pray for our nation. Pray for our President.

I’m hearing serious rumblings of a hostile, illegal coup against our democratically elected President by seditious, deep-state subversives funded by Soros & other globalists. Very disturbing.

Patriots, this would be nothing less than an act of war against the American people. It would be the removal of our boldest defender & last possibility of maintaining our protective Constitution. Under the boot of globalists, life as we know it, would immediately decline to the model that suits the globalist interest – Marxist/Socialist/Communist. They get complete control, you get zero. Freedom, Gone! Liberty, Gone! This agenda is evil and simply cannot be allowed, at ANY cost.

Like ALL military, law enforcement and government officials, I took an oath to defend our Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic. By abandoning the rule of law and conducting a coup against the President & policies WE THE PEOPLE elected, they have made themselves enemies of the United States.

Under threat, ALL patriots, whether civilian, law enforcement, government, or military, have the duty to defend our Constitution against such enemies. Some speculate on “civil war”. I readily recognize a much more sobering reality: Anti-American subversives involved in ANY WAY in an unconstitutional coup against our President will be run down and executed immediately by the world’s most supreme warriors. There will be nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, no mercy, no sense of humor. Harsh examples will be made. My prediction is it will be a gruesome massacre. Why? Because one side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets & the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use.

It will likely only take a few hours. Lessons will be learned. History will take note. Order restored.

Patriots, We The American People stand united as one, against ALL enemies. We are peace-loving people who abide by the rule of law. Prepare yourselves in case this ridiculous insanity actually gets played out and the rule of law goes out the window under their gross miscarriage of our legal process. Shaking my head…

United We Stand! At the ready. USA!”

A post shared on Facebook this week, set social media on fire. It’s actually a warning for Clinton supporters that can be deadly for them if they try to take down President Trump.

Ex-Navy Seal Craig “Sawman” Sawyer issued a warning dedicated to anyone who is trying to take down the President on the un-Constitutional way.

Only the Congress has the right to remove a sitting president, according to U.S. Constitution, for his incapability to understand that the Constitution is the law and he must stand by the oath to respect and protect it.

Ex-President Barack Obama made the very same oath which made him an easy target for impeachment, but instead, he ends up leading this country into failure for 8 long years.

Here is the letter that Ex-Navy Seal Craig wrote:

“Note: Nowhere here does this say innocent civilians or a legit impeachment. On the contrary, this speaks specifically to an illegal silent coup by corrupt officials using false charges, as has leaked out by Clinton cronies lately. Anything else is a different scenario entirely. Honor our Constitution! Keep it straight.

Americans, Patriots, pray for our nation. Pray for our President.

I’m hearing serious rumblings of a hostile, illegal coup against our democratically elected President by seditious, deep-state subversives funded by Soros & other globalists. Very disturbing.

Patriots, this would be nothing less than an act of war against the American people. It would be the removal of our boldest defender & last possibility of maintaining our protective Constitution. Under the boot of globalists, life as we know it, would immediately decline to the model that suits the globalist interest – Marxist/Socialist/Communist. They get complete control, you get zero. Freedom, Gone! Liberty, Gone! This agenda is evil and simply cannot be allowed, at ANY cost.

Like ALL military, law enforcement and government officials, I took an oath to defend our Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic. By abandoning the rule of law and conducting a coup against the President & policies WE THE PEOPLE elected, they have made themselves enemies of the United States.

Under threat, ALL patriots, whether civilian, law enforcement, government, or military, have the duty to defend our Constitution against such enemies. Some speculate on “civil war”. I readily recognize a much more sobering reality: Anti-American subversives involved in ANY WAY in an unconstitutional coup against our President will be run down and executed immediately by the world’s most supreme warriors. There will be nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, no mercy, no sense of humor. Harsh examples will be made. My prediction is it will be a gruesome massacre. Why? Because one side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets & the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use.

It will likely only take a few hours. Lessons will be learned. History will take note. Order restored.

Patriots, We The American People stand united as one, against ALL enemies. We are peace-loving people who abide by the rule of law. Prepare yourselves in case this ridiculous insanity actually gets played out and the rule of law goes out the window under their gross miscarriage of our legal process. Shaking my head…

United We Stand! At the ready. USA!”

The left will, of course, say that this is a result of “Trump Rhetoric,” and will not admit that actually is a result of the destructive presidency of Barack Obama.

The left for long years were presenting themselves as victims, and we can clearly see that now. They thought that after Obama and his absurd social justice programs, they will never lose. The couldn’t imagine that someone like Donald Trump will win the elections with huge support from voters. They were so unsatisfied, that nothing else left for them other than violent protests.

On the other hand, the right are pacifists and people who don’t support a war, but if someone messes with our president, they will do everything to protect him. The best thing for left is to be quiet, as we did during the Obama presidency.

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Deneen comments on the media attacks against Trump supporters

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Bill de Blasio goes full Communist, argues against private property, says state should determine who lives where

In an interview published Monday at NY Mag, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio went full Communist, arguing against private property rights while saying the state should decide who gets to live in what buildings.

“In 2013, you ran on reducing income inequality. Where has it been hardest to make progress? Wages, housing, schools?” Chris Smith asked.

“What’s been hardest is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property,” de Blasio said. “I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be.”

Wait a second — de Blasio thinks residents of New York want the city to decide who gets to live in what buildings?  No wonder we like to refer to him as “Comrade” de Blasio.  But there’s more.

“I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs,” he added, apparently drawing from the Communist maxim of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

He then admitted his desire for central planning: “And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that’s the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development.”

He added:

I’ll give you an example. I was down one day on Varick Street, somewhere close to Canal, and there was a big sign out front of a new condo saying, “Units start at $2 million.” And that just drives people stark raving mad in this city, because that kind of development is clearly not for everyday people. It’s almost like it’s being flaunted. Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents. That’s a world I’d love to see, and I think what we have, in this city at least, are people who would love to have the New Deal back, on one level. They’d love to have a very, very powerful government, including a federal government, involved in directly addressing their day-to-day reality.

It’s not reachable right now. And it leaves this friction, and this anger, which is visceral. I try to explain the things we can do. It’s a little bit of a Serenity Prayer — let’s talk about the things we can fix. The rent freeze we did reached over 2 million people.In 2015 and 2016, the mayor’s appointees ruled that new one-year leases on rent-stabilized units could not increase. I’ve talked to people who were going to be evicted, and we stopped the eviction by giving them a free lawyer. And I’ve talked to people who got affordable housing under our plan for 200,000 apartments.

America Rising PAC said de Blasio “channeled Vladimir Lenin and Fidel Castro in his comments about private property.”

“Mayor de Blasio has long been anti-capitalism,” America Rising added. “With his latest incendiary comments to New York Magazine, it’s clear he’s serious about challenging Bernie Sanders in 2020 for the title of most out-of-touch leftist running for president.”

“This is today’s Democrat Party,” Jim Hoft said at the Gateway Pundit. “Open Communism.”

Sadly, a growing number of people actually support this nonsense, despite the fact that socialism has never worked and Communism has killed some 100 million people.

Maybe de Blasio should go live in Venezuela for a few years… Maybe he’ll have a change of heart.  Or not…

H/T Gateway Pundit

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SMACK DOWN: After Reporter Calls Trump Cold-Hearted, All HELL Breaks Loose…

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During an explosive on-camera press briefing today, Sarah Huckabee Sanders took questions from the press on the announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions this morning that the White House intends to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) with a six month delay, giving Congress time to act on the legislation or face its complete repeal.

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John Roberts began by asking Sarah how she thinks the divided Republican party in Congress is going to be able to get anything accomplished easily. She interrupts him and completely ruins his narrative with the TRUTH.

“With all due respect, I don’t think the American people elected Congress to do things that were ‘easy,’ they elected them to make a government that works … and works for the American people. That’s their job. If they can’t do it then they need to get out of the way and let somebody else who can take on a heavy lift and get things accomplished.”

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is 100% correct! Congress has failed America on so many levels over the past six months. It’s time that they do their job, or let someone else more capable take over!

A few questions later, a reporter even goes so far as to say thatPresident Trump is “cold-hearted” for his decision on DACA. To which Sanders replies that the President is doing what he was ELECTED TO DO! He is following the rule of law, unlike Obama who ignored the legal process ENTIRELY!

This needs to be said over and over until RINOs and Democrats get it in their head that they work for the American people and the American people are fed up with their flip-flopping and obstructionist tactics.

Congress, get ready to do your job – DACA!

The extremely important mid-term elections are coming up in 2018 and these congressional leaders are on notice that they better do their job or get out!

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CNN and MSNBC Claim DACA-Recipients Are ‘Children’

CNN and MSNBC are repeating the false claim that DACA recipients are “children” or “kids,” while actually most are adults.

While DACA recipients were illegally brought to the United States by their parents when they were children, the minimum age to apply for the program is 15 years old. In fact, the majority of the applicants were over the age of 20 based on 2014 data from the US government. Some have estimated that the average age of dreamers is 25 or 26 years old–hardly children.

But those watching CNN and MSNBC might be under the impression that the DACA debate centers on young kids.

(Read more from “CNN and MSNBC Claim DACA-Recipients Are ‘Children'” HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/09/cnn-msnbc-claim-daca-recipients-children/

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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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MOBS: A GROWTH INDUSTRY
by Burt Prelutsky
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Racist Hispanic Agitator Demands DACA, AMERICANS’ JOBS and PAPERS For Illegals Or Trump’s A LIAR
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{rickwells.us} ~ Three questions pop to mind when witnessing the disgusting display of this anti-American interview. First, why does President Trump have a racist who represents the racist organization... the “United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce” on his national diversity council? Second, why does President Trump have a national diversity council, what is in essence another race-based social engineering organization as part of his administration? Third, why is it ‘deplorable’ to enforce the laws of this nation as they are written without subjective special interests or favoritism in the United States? It’s interesting that the racist advocate for Hispanic border-crashers, Javier Palomarez, says that the so-called “DREAMers” aren’t costing us anything. He’s one of those fat cat business types who get richer by pilfering off of the American people, employing low wage foreign labor, so it may not be costing him. Those jobs that he touts the “DREAMers” as having belong to Americans. They’ve been stolen by him, his racist amigos, and the illegals, enabled by another illegal alien, the former pretend ‘president,’ Hussein liar-nObama...  http://rickwells.us/racist-hispanic-agitator-demands-daca-americans-jobs-and-papers-for-illegals-or-trumps-a-liar/
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Trump administration ends DACA, with 6-month delay
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{foxnews.com} ~ The Trump administration on Tuesday announced the “orderly wind down” of the liar-nObama-era program that gave a deportation reprieve to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children – putting pressure on Congress to come up with a replacement... “I do not favor punishing children, most of whom are now adults, for the actions of their parents. But we must also recognize that we are a nation of opportunity because we are a nation of laws,” President Trump said, in a lengthy written statement explaining the decision.  The Department of Homeland Security formally rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, with a six-month delay for current recipients. According to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke, the interval is meant to give Congress “time to deliver on appropriate legislative solutions.”...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/05/trump-administration-ends-daca-with-6-month-delay.html
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Is liar-nObama's 'civilian
national security force' finally here?
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 by Joseph Farah

Way back on July 2, 2008, Barack liar-nObama issued a declaration that made my head spin, yet no one, and I mean no one, took notice until I wrote about it several days later. Then it caught fire. That fire has never been quenched... In a long campaign speech, he dropped this little bomb: “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Over the years, I’ve wondered what became of that idea – a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the U.S. military. Lately, I’ve been getting inquiries from readers about whether we’re now seeing the realization of liar-nObama’s concept in the streets of America – from Berkeley to Charlottesville...
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liar-nObama's Inner Circle Has A
2020 Candidate — And It's Not Joe Biden
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by Emily Zanotti
{dailywire.com} ~ Former President Barack liar-nObama's "inner circle" is forming around a candidate for the 2020 Presidential election, but it looks like liar-nObama and his top donors won't be backing former Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden... loose lips-Biden has emerged as a formidable force for Democrats, particularly against President Donald Trump, who appeals to the same blue-collar, working class, moderate Dems that loose lips-Biden counts among his prime audiences. The former Veep certainly sees himself as the top Trump foil, even though he'll be pushing 75 by the time the next opportunity to challenge Trump at the ballot box rolls around. liar-nObama's top donors and closest supporters are reportedly looking at former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick instead...  http://www.dailywire.com/news/20602/obamas-inner-circle-has-2020-candidate-and-its-not-emily-zanotti
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Wildfires are destroying
huge swaths of Montana and Idaho
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by Kemberlee Kaye
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Texas’ Gulf Coast isn’t the only part of the country being ripped apart by a natural disaster. More than half a million acres of Montana and part of Idaho are being destroyed by wildfires. To give you an idea of how widespread the current devastation is:. California is strike by wildfires.  http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/09/wildfires-are-destroying-huge-swaths-of-montana-and-idaho/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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MOBS: A GROWTH INDUSTRY
by Burt Prelutsky

There is no longer a good reason why all those 20-somethings should be lying around in their parents’ basements just because they majored in Black, Hispanic or Transgender Studies, and graduated with a degree in vandalism.

It so happens there are plenty of jobs just waiting for them.  All they have to do is type in political activism, and they will emerge in a left-wing wonderland where if you’re willing to organize on behalf of the ACLU, People for the American Way, SAG-AFTRA, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Ben & Jerry’s political arm or just show up and make trouble at a Trump event, that lazy couch potato can roll off the couch and earn from $1,600-$2,400-a-month.  And if you display the sort of initiative that George Soros really admires, say by bringing a club or a baseball bat to the party, I’m sure the sky’s the limit.

What’s more, it’s highly unlikely that you will wind up with a rap sheet, because mayors are insisting that the cops turn a blind eye to all sorts of mischief involving statues and monuments.  It’s true that a few rabble-rousers in Boston were arrested recently, but even that wasn’t for toppling longstanding statues, but for breaking longstanding statutes.  

To me, one of the oddities of declaring war on statues is that it has branched out from targeting Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and other Confederate generals, to including the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Christopher Columbus.

I’m frankly surprised that aside from a single incident in Illinois, Abe Lincoln has been spared.  After all, if he hadn’t decided to deny the South the right to secede from the Union, there wouldn’t have been a Civil War that left 700,000 dead and no need to have all those Confederate generals in the first place.

● One can judge how corrupt the media has become when you realize that both Reuters and the Washington Post described the masked and armed anti-Trump mob in Phoenix as “peace activists.”

I suppose you could describe them that way if you’re the sort of moral cretin who’d describe the members of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Taliban, as freedom fighters.

As a rule, though, when I see Americans in the streets wearing gasmasks, carrying clubs and throwing rocks and bottles at the cops, I assume they’re fascist thugs who belong in jail, preferably one run by Joe Arpaio.

● In the always tough competition for being named Hypocrite of the Year, I think that even with four months remaining in 2017, we have a winner.  In her book, “What Happened,” which I believe should end with a question mark, liar-Hillary Clinton reports that during the second presidential debate when Donald Trump approached her on stage, she felt she was not only in the presence of evil, but that she felt her skin crawling.  And, why wouldn’t she?  After all, she regarded him as a creep, a serial groper of women, and here he was, absolutely looming over her like a gargoyle.

The problem is that for millions of us, it sounded less like a 69-year-old writing a book about a political campaign and more like a page out of liar-Hillary Rodham’s diary after her first date with liar-Bill Clinton.

With Mrs. liar-Clinton, the laughs never stop.  Consider that when she was asked how it was that she was named liar-Hillary, she mentioned that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who was knighted for his conquest of Mt. Everest.  The problem is that she was born in 1948, and Sir Edmund didn’t climb the world’s tallest mountain until 1953.

Frankly, I think we are long past having to select a Hypocrite of the Year on an annual basis.  It’s time to either end the competition or at least commission a trophy to be bestowed in the future and call it the liar-Hillary.

● That’s not to suggest that we don’t have a lot of competitors when it comes to battling it out for second place.  Consider if you will how many celebrities vowed in 2016 to move to some other country if we yahoos went ahead and elected Donald Trump.  I’m only guessing, but it wouldn’t surprise me if those promises didn’t help push Trump over the top in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

I mean, if I’d been one of those people sitting on the fence last November, I would certainly have cast my lot with Trump if I thought it would mean that Barbra Streisand, Bryan Cranston, Miley Cyrus, Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, Jon Stewart, George Lopez, Ne-Yo, Cher, Keegan-Michael Key, Chelsea Handler, Samuel Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Neve Campbell and Al Sharpton, would all be packing their bags.  Unfortunately, they no longer seem to hear the siren call of Canada, Mexico, Sweden and South Africa.

Okay, I admit I never heard of Ne-Yo and Keegan-Michael Key, either, but they promised to leave, and they and their damn hyphens are still hanging around.

If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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The Strategic Case for Kurdistan
by Caroline Glick
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Tony Shaffer – N Korea Better
Learn Trump Doesn’t Kowtow Or Appease
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{rickwells.us} ~ The conversation begins with Lt Col Tony Shaffer comparing a hydrogen bomb with a “run-of-the-mill atomic bomb.” Shaffer says, “simply put, it’s an order of magnitude more severe regarding explosive effects... He describes the hydrogen bomb as a “fission/fusion two stage explosion. The Fission goes off, fusion hits in, it is an order of magnitude. Hiroshima was 15 kilotons, we’re talking about upwards of 100 to 1,000 kilotons above that. So this is a very severe, very important step forward if they’ve mastered it.” He says, “The components look about right regarding the photographs but we just don’t know at this point.” Shaffer believe the US response needs to be a very stern, looking them square in the eye, saying, ‘This continued menacing of the allies in the region and us is not acceptable.”...  http://rickwells.us/tony-shaffer-n-korea-better-learn-trump-kowtow-appease/
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Why Is Health Insurance so Complicated?
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{truthrevolt.org}~ Why is health insurance so complicated, while car insurance and life insurance are so simple? Can health insurance be more like, well, insurance? Lanhee Chen, fellow at the Hoover Institution, explains... Americans carry many different forms of insurance. There’s car insurance, home insurance, life insurance, even pet insurance . . . Most of these insurance policies work well and are fairly priced. But there is one glaring exception: health insurance. Only health insurance becomes more complicated and more expensive at the same time. So, the obvious question is: why?...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/prager-u-why-health-insurance-so-complicated
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulp5xtbIuV0
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Congress Has About 60 Days Left. Here’s What Conservative Groups Think of the Progress It Has Made
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by Rachel del Guidice
{dailysignal.com} ~ “The congressional agenda would be daunting even if lawmakers were content to just keep the trains running on time,” Dan Holler, spokesman for Heritage Action for America, the lobbying affiliate of The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal in an email... “The reality is that given the failures of the last eight months, securing major conservative policy wins is essential.” In 2017, the House has about 50 scheduled days left in session, while the Senate has 60...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/09/03/congress-60-days-left-heres-conservative-groups-think-progress-theyve-made/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRrM09EWmhNRFJpWlRnMiIsInQiOiJhQ2c0OEZzdVh4dDJUOTJvZitHWURkeWlEWHlFUDNoQTB2aVJDcTN6Q081c3Y5RjR1a0toUGtwa2xlNWhON3dMQmVrK3VPTkI0MXZycVRpUTllOWZoejdsTENJbnpQb1hxRVhrbU1NUzNNQnhoTDhxVUNUSXpoYmN4TWozcHI3Qy
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U.N. AMB. Haley: Kim Jung Un Is ‘Begging For War’
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The Threat Of A North Korean Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack On US
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Warning To Looters, In Texas They Believe in the Second Amendment
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Actress Julienne Davis Slammed For Coming Out As A Conservative
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Amazing Lost Worlds That Really Exist On Earth
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I Support DACA in Principle,
But President Trump Is Right to End It
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by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ In principle, I think DACA makes sense. There are people here today whose parents brought them here illegally as toddlers. They know no other home. They are, for all intents and purposes, American... Many of them have grown up and are college aged or older and I am not opposed to them staying if they have no criminal record. But, there is a big caveat to this. President liar-nObama, almost until the moment he enacted DACA, insisted such an act by the President would be unconstitutional. I agree. While in principle I support DACA, I do not believe the President has the power to enact it without legislation. There is no legislation that would give the President the power to do it. Therefore, I believe DACA is unconstitutional. Regardless of my personal preferences, I think the constitution has to override everything else. And without constitutional authority, whether I like it or not, I cannot support it. Nonetheless, it is the right thing to do regardless of the President’s motives...  http://theresurgent.com/i-support-daca-in-principle-but-president-trump-is-right-to-end-it/
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The Strategic Case for Kurdistan
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ If the leaders of Iraqi Kurdistan aren’t intimidated into standing down, on September 25, the people of Iraqi Kurdistan will go to the polls to vote on a referendum for independence.

The Kurds have been hoping to hold the referendum since 2013.

Whereas Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restated his support for Kurdish independence earlier this month in a meeting with a delegation of visiting Republican congressmen, the Trump administration has urged Kurdish President Masoud Barzani and his colleagues to postpone the referendum indefinitely.

US Defense Secretary James Mattis, who visited with Barzani in the Kurdish capital of Erbil two weeks ago, said that the referendum would harm the campaign against Islamic State.

In his words, “Our point right now is to stay focused like a laser beam on the defeat of ISIS and to let nothing distract us.”

Another line of argument against the Kurdish referendum was advanced several weeks ago by The New York Times editorial board. The Times argued the Kurds aren’t ready for independence. Their government suffers from corruption, their economy is weak, their democratic institutions are weak and their human rights record is far from perfect.

While the Times’ claims have truth to them, the relevant question is compared to what? Compared to their neighbors, not to mention to the Times’ favored group the Palestinians, the Kurds, who have been self-governing since 1991, are paragons of good governance. Not only have they given refuge to tens of thousands of Iraqis fleeing ISIS, Iraqi Kurdistan has been an island of relative peace in a war-torn country since the US-led invasion in 2003.

Its Peshmerga forces have not only secured Kurdistan, they have been the most competent force fighting ISIS since its territorial conquests in 2014.

The same is the case of the Kurdish YPG militia in Syrian Kurdistan.

As for Mattis’s argument that the referendum, and any subsequent moves to secede from Iraq, would harm the campaign against ISIS, the first question is whether he is right.

If Mattis is concerned that the referendum will diminish Iranian and Turkish support for the campaign, then his concern is difficult to defend.

Turkey has never been a significant player in the anti-ISIS campaign. Indeed, until recently, Turkey served as ISIS’s logistical base.

As for Iran, this week Iranian-controlled Hezbollah and Lebanese military forces struck a deal to permit ISIS fighters they defeated along the Lebanese-Syrian border to safely transit Syria to ISIS-held areas along the Syrian border with Iraq. In other words, far from cooperating with the US and its allies against ISIS, Iran and its underlings are fighting a separate war to take ISIS out of their areas of influence while enabling ISIS to fight the US and its allies in other areas.

This then brings us to the real question that the US should be asking itself in relation to the Kurdish referendum. That question is whether an independent Kurdistan would advance or harm US strategic interests in the region.

Since the US and Russia concluded their cease-fire deal for Syria on July 7, Netanyahu has used every opportunity to warn that the cease-fire is a disaster.

In the interest of keeping Mattis’s “laser focus” on fighting ISIS, the US surrendered its far greater strategic interest of preventing Iran and its proxies from taking over the areas that ISIS controlled – such as the Syrian-Lebanese border and the tri-border area between Iraq, Syria and Jordan. As Netanyahu warns at every opportunity, Iran and its proxies are moving into all the areas being liberated from ISIS.

And Iran isn’t the only concern from either an Israeli or an American perspective. Turkey is also a looming threat, which will only grow if it isn’t contained.

Turkey’s rapidly accelerating anti-American trajectory is now unmistakable.

Last week during Mattis’s visit to Ankara, Turkish- supported militias in northern Syria opened fire on US forces. Not only did Turkey fail to apologize, Turkey condemned the US for retaliating against the attackers.

Moreover, last week, Turkish authorities announced they are charging US pastor Andrew Brunson with espionage, membership in a terrorist organization and attempting to destroy Turkey’s constitutional order and overthrow its parliament.

Brunson was arrested last October.

Whereas until last year’s failed military coup against the regime of President Recep Erdogan, Turkey demonstrated a firm interest in remaining a member of NATO and a strategic ally of the US, since the failed coup, Turkey has signaled that it at best, it is considering its options. US generals say that since the failed coup, they have almost no one to talk to in the Turkish military. Their interlocutors are either under arrest or too afraid to speak to them.

The regime and its supporters express both neo-Ottoman and neo-colonial aspirations, both of which place Turkey on a collision course with the US.

For instance, Melih Ecertas, the head of Erdogan AK Party’s youth wing, proclaimed that Erdogan is not merely the president of Turkey, rather he is “president of all the world’s Muslims.

So, too, Muslim Brotherhood leader Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi called Erdogan “the hope of all Muslims and of Islam.”

Qaradawi, who lives in Qatar and is Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite channel’s superstar preacher, has good reason to love Erdogan.

In June, Erdogan decided to make a strategic move to protect the pro-Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Iranian Qatari regime from its angry neighbors, led by Saudi Arabia. Turkey’s deployment of forces to Doha stalled the Saudi-led campaign against the Qatari regime.

If the regime survives, and if world oil prices continue to drop and so weaken Saudi economic power, Turkey’s decision to deploy its forces to Qatar could be the first step toward realizing its neo-Ottoman ambitions.

As for neo-imperialism, last October Foreign Policy reported that Turkish television now uses a map from 1918 to define Turkey’s current borders. From 1918 through 1920, Turkish territory included large portions of Iraq, among them Kurdistan and Mosul, as well as large swaths of Syria, including Aleppo.

Foreign Policy reported that use of the map indicates that as the post-World War I map of the Middle East becomes obsolete, Erdogan sees an opportunity to expand Turkish territory.

Then there are Erdogan’s moves to build strategic ties with Russia and Iran.

Last November the NATO member announced it is negotiating the purchase of an S-400 air defense system from Russia.

As for Iran, last week Maj.-Gen, Mohammad Hossein Baghari, Iran’s chief of General Staff, paid the first official visit by an Iranian army chief to Turkey since the 1979 revolution. Baghari met not only by his Turkish counterpart, Gen. Hulusi Akar, but with Erdogan as well.

Erdogan said after the meeting that he and Baghari discussed possible joint military action against the Kurds in northern Iraq, Syria and Iran.

In his words, “Joint action against terrorist groups that have become a threat is always on the agenda.

This issue has been discussed between the two military chiefs, and I discussed more broadly how this should be carried out.”

Baghari was more explicit. He effectively announced that Iran and Turkey will respond with force to the Kurdish referendum.

“Both sides stressed that if the Kurdish referendum would be held, it will be the basis for the start of a series of tensions and conflicts inside Iraq, the consequences of which will affect neighboring countries.”

Baghari continued, “Holding the referendum will get Iraq, but also Iran and Turkey involved and that’s why the authorities of the two countries emphasize that it is not possible and should not be done.”

This then brings us back to Israel and the US and why Netanyahu is right to support Kurdish independence and the Trump administration is wrong to oppose it.

So long as there is no significant change in the nature of the Iranian and Turkish regimes, their empowerment will come at the expense of the US, Israel and the Arab Sunni states.

The Kurds, with their powerful and experienced military forces in Iraq and Syria alike, constitute a significant check on both Iranian and Turkish power.

Several commentators argue that the Turks will respond to the Kurdish referendum by waging a war of annihilation against the Kurds in Iraq and beyond. Iran, they warn, will assist in Turkish efforts.

As far as Iran is concerned, in the near future, its central effort will remain in Syria. As for Turkey, whereas Erdogan and his followers may wish to undertake such a campaign, today it hard to imagine them succeeding.

A year after the failed coup, the Turkish military is astounding observers with its incompetent performance in Syria. Despite the fact that Turkish forces are fighting in Syria in areas adjacent to their border, they are unable to competently project their force.

Turkey’s underperformance in Syria makes clear that the Turkish armed forces, which Erdogan gutted in his purges of the officer and NCO corps in the wake of the failed coup, have not rebuilt their strength.

According to an analysis by Al-Monitor published last September, the first four rounds of purges in the immediate aftermath of the failed coup reduced the number of general officers by nearly 40%. The ratio of pilots to aircraft in the Turkish Air Force was reduced from more than three pilots per plane to less than one pilot per plane.

While Al-Monitor assessed last year that it would take up to two years for the Turkish Air Force to rebuild its pilot corps, last week it appeared that two years was a gross underestimation of the time required.

Last week the US rejected a Turkish request to have Pakistani pilots fly Turkish F-16s. The request owed to the critical shortage of pilots in the Turkish Air Force.

And Erdogan continues to purge his generals. In early August he sacked the commanders of Turkish land forces and the Turkish Navy.

Given the current state of Turkish forces on the one hand, and the battlefield competence of Kurdish forces, it is clear that the balance of the two forces has never been better for the Kurds.

If Kurdistan becomes independent with US and Israeli backing and survives, the implications for the longevity of the Erdogan regime, given the rapidly expanding size of the Kurdish minority in Turkey, are significant.

Likewise for Iran, an independent Kurdistan in Iraq will serve to contain Iranian power in Syria and potentially destabilize the Iranian regime at home.

In summary then, opponents of Kurdish independence are correct. An independent Kurdistan will destabilize the region. But contrary to their claims, this is a good thing. For the first time since 2009, destabilization will benefit the US and Israel and weaken Iran and Turkey.
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The Front Page Cover
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 Google Censorship: Competition Beats Regulation
by Arnold Ahlert
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 A Labor Day Look at Labor 
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by Political Editors:  Labor Day is upon us, a day set aside to celebrate the American worker. In this vein, here’s a quick look at several labor-related topics.
          One: Over the years, labor unions have become increasingly politically partisan, essentially morphing into PACs for Democrats. Unions’ original cause of representing worker rights and interests has become one of propping up union bosses. With union memberships steadily dwindling to only 11% of the U.S. workforce and only 6% of current union members having ever voted for unionization, it’s time for reform. Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) has introduced the Employee Rights Act, which would protect secret balloting, prevent members dues from being spent on anything except for collective-bargaining without a vote and provide for periodic recertification of union elections so that every employee has an opportunity to vote on whether they wish to be represented by a union.
          Two: As the economy steadily picks up steam, a problem has begun to emerge across the country: More and more employers are having difficulty finding workers. There are several factors that have contributed to this problem, including a lack of skilled workers, coupled with an unemployment rate siting at 4.4% — very close to “full” employment. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) recently introduced a bill that would help alleviate this problem by increasing the number of visas for foreign guest workers. The State-Sponsored Visa Pilot Act would allow for up to 500,000 visas to be divvied up across all 50 states. Keeping jobs and job growth in the U.S. verses companies shipping jobs overseas will benefit the economy and American workers. The issue also pits two big Democrat constituencies against each other — Big Labor and immigrants.
          Three: Unfortunately, when a tragedy happens there are those who, rather than working to help those in need, look to take advantage of the crisis. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Big Labor decided to exploit the disaster by conducting a fundraiser with the aim of supporting … unionization efforts. Texas Organizing Project Education Fund, a pro-labor union group, launched the Hurricane Harvey Community Relief Fund, stating, “Your donation is vital to ensuring that we have the resources we need to organize and fight for Texans devastated by Hurricane Harvey.”
          Finally: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been a staunch advocate for school choice, something the Left and teachers unions hate. DeVos has a long history of working for school choice via a voucher system in her home state of Michigan. Her early efforts there failed, but support for school choice has grown, specifically among the poor. DeVos said, “Times have continued to change and move more in favor of giving parents and students more choices, because we’ve seen consistently that too many kids are not being served in the schools to which they’ve been assigned.” And what has been the biggest obstacle to school choice? Teachers unions. Thankfully, DeVos is committed to advocating for greater freedom for students and parents.
          In any case, a happy Labor Day to those Americans taking a break from laboring today!  ~The Patriot Post
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Ex-Israeli intelligence chief:
Trump should attack North Korea if he can
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Amos Yadlin
{timesofisrael.com} ~ The former head of Israel’s Military Intelligence said Sunday that the US should launch a preemptive strike against North Korea if it has the capability to do so in the wake of an apparent hydrogen bomb test by Pyongyang... However, he said he was not sure, and didn’t know if Washington was sure, whether it had the ability to do so. Maj. Gen. (res) Amos Yadlin, who also served as IDF attaché to Washington and who is currently the director of the Institute for National Security Studies, told 103FM Radio said the military option against North Korea was very complicated and risky. While he recommended that US President Donald Trump “make a preemptive strike” to prevent North Korea from continuing to develop its nuclear weapons capability, he said such a strike would require “excellent intelligence.”...  https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-israeli-intelligence-chief-trump-should-attack-north-korea-if-he-can/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=4bcf95db06-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-4bcf95db06-54638825
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True: California City Will Pay
Gang Members to Remain Peaceful
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by Jon Rappoport
{activistpost.com} ~ This isn’t a satire on ultra-liberal California. FOX News 40 reports: “After a violent weekend of suspected gang-related shootings, Tuesday the Sacramento City Council took action to reduce the bloodshed.”... “It approved a controversial program called Advance Peace, which offers cash stipends to gang members who remain peaceful.” “The program targets key gang agitators, offering them cash stipends to graduate from school and remain peaceful…But the city would still have to pay half the cost of the program, $1.5 million out of the city’s general fund.” In other words, Sacramento, the capital city of the state of California, has surrendered...Is this where your tax dollars are going.  http://www.activistpost.com/2017/09/true-california-city-will-pay-ang-members-to-remain-peaceful.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a1ebe54ce0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-a1ebe54ce0-387888649
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Trump is Arming Police Again, and the Left Hates It
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{conservativezone.com} ~ President Donald J. Trump thumbs his nose at all things liberal, and his recent moves have leftists once again losing their minds... In his latest one-eighty on liar-nObama-era policies, Trump struck down the previous administration’s ban on police departments purchasing military surplus. While conservatives widely agree these are smart efforts to support law and order, the left at least pretends to be outraged. Most importantly, police across the country can be better prepared to defend against terror attacks, hostage situations and mass shootings...  http://www.conservativezone.com/articles/trump-is-arming-police-again-and-the-left-hates-it/
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Trump Out-Smarted Ryan and Pandering
RINOs – DACA’s Yours Now, You Fix It
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{rickwells.us} ~ Paul Ryan should have been more careful about what he pandered for. Now it appears he’s going to get his wish on DACA... that President Trump is going to give the dysfunctional gathering of DC streetwalkers in Congress six months to put our money where their mouths are. RINO Ryan made his ill-advised statement last week on a Janesville, WI, radio station, saying in response to a question as to whether or not Trump should end the illegal DACA program, “I don’t think he should do that.” Ryan added, “These are kids who know no other country, who were brought here by their parents and don’t know another home.” He called for a “legislative solution.” They’re not kids, by and large, any longer...  http://rickwells.us/trump-smarted-ryan-pandering-rinos-dacas-now-fix/
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 Google Censorship: Competition Beats Regulation 
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by Arnold Ahlert:  Despite its self-congratulatory assertions of tolerance and diversity, Google is a fraud. Moreover, many of its progressive supporters are hypocrites.
          “Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that the left was cheering Google for firing an employee who dared to question the company’s liberal orthodoxy?” asks Investor’s Business Daily. “Now the company is getting battered by the same crowd for allegedly causing a critic to be fired from a think tank.”
          The fired employee was engineer James Damore, whose two-pronged dissent was more than the politically correct crowd could endure. In a 10-page memo entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” he first asserted that Google’s culture was one “which constrains discourse and is complacent to the extremely sensitive PC-authoritarians that use violence and shaming to advance their cause.” Then he committed the ultimate “sin,” suggesting it’s possible the gender gap in certain workplace positions may have to do with the difference between men and women themselves, rather than some sort of implicit bias.
          That was a bridge too far. “To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK,” explained Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a staff memo, even as an updated memo stated “that we strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves” — unless they “cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.”
          Progressive reaction? “Even if it creates an anti-PC martyr, firing an employee who was comfortable airing his harmful bigotry is a laudable stand,” asserted Slate columnist April Glaser. “It should have been a no-brainer.”
          It was also a no-brainer to assert Damore was a “messenger for an older set of beliefs animating right-wing extremists,” as Quartz columnist Michael J. Coren insisted, or “a hero on the right-wing Internet,” as The Washington Post’s Abby Ohlheiser stated.
          In other words, anyone who violates progressive dogma is a right-wing extremist whose firing was wholly justified.
          Unfortunately for the self-righteous social justice set, Google’s disdain for dissent snared one of its own. Shortly after Washington think tank New America Foundation posted a piece on its website praising the $2.7 billion fine levied by European antitrust regulators against Google, company chairman Eric Schmidt made his displeasure known to New America president Anne-Marie Slaughter.
          Barry Lynn, director of New America’s Open Markets program, wrote the “offensive” post, asserting the EU “is protecting the free flow of information and commerce upon which all democracies depend.” He also urged “US enforcers” to “build upon this important precedent, both in respect to Google and to other dominant platform monopolists including Amazon,” explaining the “traditional American approach to network monopoly … is to cleanly separate ownership of the network from ownership of the products and services sold on that network.”
         Lynn’s post was taken down and then reposted hours later. But as The New York Times reported, “word of Mr. Schmidt’s displeasure rippled through New America,” leaving some people “concerned that Google intended to discontinue funding, while others worried whether the think tank could truly be independent if it had to worry about offending its donors.”
         They were right to worry. Last Wednesday, Slaughter informed Lynn “the time has come for Open Markets and New America to part ways,” according to an email that simultaneously asserted the firing was “in no way based on the content of your work,” while accusing Lynn of “imperiling the institution as a whole.”
          Lynn’s 10-member team initially stuck around trying to negotiate with Slaughter, but eventually got the axe as well. In a public statement disputing the Times’ story, Slaughter insisted Google did not lobby New America to expel Open Markets. Instead, she asserted, Lynn “repeatedly refused to adhere to New America’s standards of openness and institutional collegiality,” while offering no explanation for his team’s firing.
          One might be forgiven for wondering if Slaughter was influenced by the $21 million Google has bestowed on the think tank since 1999, or the fact that New America’s main conference room is called the “Eric Schmidt Ideas Lab.”
          Regardless, leftists were suddenly aghast that some of their fellow travelers could be treated like Damore and that Google’s “monopoly” should be broken up. Ultra-leftist Zephyr Teachout, who is chairing Open Markets reincarnation as an independent entity, believes Google “has established a pattern of lobbying and threatening to acquire power,” reaching a “dangerous point … where it no longer wants to allow dissent.” The New York Times followed up its original story with one entitled “Google’s Disturbing Influence Over Think Tanks,” and the Huffington Post huffed that “Google Just Proved That Monopolies Imperil Democracy, Not Just The Economy.”
          The tech giant was hardly chastened. Last Tuesday it issued an ultimatum to The Liberty Conservative (TLC), demanding that the right-leaning website either remove an article Google found offensive, or lose the ability to generate ad revenue from its site.
          The email was sent by AdSense, which acts as Google’s ad placement service, and its take on “free” speech is typically leftist: Anything deemed as “hate speech” justifies censorship. Even worse, AdSense stated the particular story was “just an example” of that violation and that “the same violations may exist on other pages of this website or other sites that you own.”
          On the TLC website Shane Trejo, media relations director of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Michigan, disputed the assertion, insisting the real reason for the warning was that the piece’s author, James Allsup, attended Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” rally. “Although the article itself contained no offensive content,” Trejo stated, “just the fact that it was authored by a man deemed to be an ‘unperson’ by the corporate elite was enough for Google to target it for censorship.”
          Allsup is a dodgy individual. But if Trejo is correct and Google is censoring people, how long will it be before Google expands its “enemies list” of those forbidden to publish at all, irrespective of what they write?
          Should Google be subjected to antitrust statutes? The company controls 80% of the online search market and 54% of the U.S. browser market. Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are similar behemoths, and all have made efforts to control and influence the flow of information, tilting overwhelmingly left in that regard.
          But does that make any of them monopolies? Teachout insists Google “is forming into a government of itself,” while admitting it couldn’t succeed in “entirely” silencing New Markets. The New York Post refers to “monopolists who dominate the internet” and The Week’s Ryan Cooper refers to both Google and Facebook as “platform monopolists.”
          Perhaps. Or perhaps they provide goods and services millions of people want. And for those that don’t, perhaps there’s a gargantuan opportunity for non-progressive entrepreneurs to set up alternative platforms. Better that than giving government another opportunity to put its regulatory thumb on the scale.
          Are the aforementioned corporations run by largely obnoxious, self-aggrandizing leftists? You betcha. But a free society is about competition, not censorship. Leftists would prefer the latter, now that the Wrath of Google has touched one of theirs.
          Conservatives? Censorship is easy. Free-market principles are hard.  ~The Patriot Post
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Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
What Harvey Wrought
by Pat Buchanan
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 Tuesday Top Headlines 
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Trump administration announces plan to end DACA (ABC News)
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Sen. Graham supports Trump tossing DACA over to Congress (CNS News)
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liar-nObama ready to “speak out” if Trump cancels DACA (Hot Air)
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North Korea nuclear progress puts Iran on renewed pathway to bomb (The Washington Free Beacon)
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North Korea crisis: Russia’s Putin warns of “global catastrophe” (NBC News)
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Homeland Security makes it official: Antifa “domestic terrorists” (Truth Revolt)
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Hurricane Irma barrels toward Caribbean, Florida (Reuters)
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Harvey death toll rises to at least 60 (The Hill)
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Menendez corruption case puts other Democrats at legal risk, sidelines senator for trial (The Washington Times)
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School district apologizes after teacher bans “Make America Great Again” shirts (Washington Examiner)
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Verizon wants to build an advertising juggernaut, but it needs your data first (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
Cuba opens five-month transition likely to end Castro reign (Fox News)
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Policy: Why we need tax reform now (The Heritage Foundation)
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Policy: To defeat North Korea, focus on a coordinated strategy (Manhattan Institute)  ~The Patriot Post
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Angry Judge JEANINE – Sessions Must Go After
JIM COMEY – The ESSENCE of PUBLIC CORRUPTION
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine is stern and no-nonsense in her open in which she says, “It is time for both the Department of Justice and the State Department to be true to their mission and recognize the significance of the election of 2016.”... She says, “The American people elected Donald Trump to change the way things are done in Washington. To us, truth and justice matte and law and order is mandatory. No more cover ups, no more rigged investigations, no more cutting organized criminal enterprises like the liar-Clinton Foundation any slack.” Judge Jeanine notes, “This week we learned that James Comey, long before that fateful July 4th weekend when liar-Hillary Clinton was interviewed, actually began drafting a memo exonerating a criminal target of a federal investigation of all criminal liability.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-time-jim-comey-essence-corruption/
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Antifa Violence on College Campus’
Finally being Covered by Mainstream Media
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{patrioticviralnews.com} ~ The Leftist mainstream media is now beginning to acknowledge that “Antifa” protesters are no better than the extreme Right hate groups that they’ve vowed to battle... In terms of tactics, it’s certain that these masked perpetrators are every bit as vicious as the racists and white supremacists they’ve targeted in terms of their violent tactics and vows to attack police, the media and anyone else who gets in their way. As MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski tell it, these Leftists are quite literally a different shade than previous generations of peaceful protesters who would formerly engage in dialogue or constructive debate when confronted. Their militarized garb and accessories, use of weapons and body armor and willingness to commit abhorrent acts of vandalism differentiate them from citizens who simply have an opinion to express...  http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/antifa-violence-on-college-campus-finally-being-covered-by-mainstream-media/
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N. Korea Threatens To Use H-Bomb For
EMP Attack, Destroying U.S. Electric Grid
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ This weekend North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test, they claimed that it was a Hydrogen bomb Although it hasn’t been confirmed that the test was a hydrogen bomb... the reports are this weapon has significantly more power than previous tests. Making the test more concerning was the statement released by the state-run KCNA news service and not receiving much coverage in the MSM,  “The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds kiloton, is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack(electromagnetic pulse) according to strategic goals.” Much easier than spending a nuclear weapon to make a direct hit on the U.S. mainland, for an EMP attack all North Korea has to do is launch a low-yield nuclear missile from a submarine, ship, or by one of the ballistic missiles, they claim to be able to arm, and explode it at high altitude, above the atmosphere atop the U.S. mainland...  http://lidblog.com/n-korea-threatens-use-of-h-bomb-emp-attack/
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Europe's New Lie: Comparing Asylum
Shelters to Nazi Concentration Camps
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The Greek Red Cross helps an Afghan migrant who just arrived
from Turkey with an inflatable boat on Lesvos Island, Greece
by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ What is the best way to shut down the debate on immigration? By heightening the language to levels impossible to be debated. That is what has been happening in the new -- and false... trend of comparing the waves of migrants arriving in Europe to Jews during the Holocaust. Recently, Franco Berardi, the Italian author of a play in Germany, "Auschwitz on the Beach", charged Europeans with setting up "concentration camps" on its territory. One line in the performance was, "Salt water has replaced Zyklon B" -- a reference to the poison gas used by the Nazis in World War II to exterminate Jews. After protests from the Jewish community, the play was cancelled. Adam Szymczyk, the director of the Documenta exhibition, defined the show as a "warning against historical amnesia, a moral wake-up call, a call to collective action"...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10930/asylum-shelters-concentration-camps
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Abbas is going to defy Trump and Netanyahu at the UN
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by David Singer
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas seems set to once again embark on another futile journey to the United Nations (UN) seeking recognition of a second Arab state – in addition to Jordan – within the territory comprised in the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine... A senior unidentified Palestinian source threatened such action on 21 August: “If we don’t hear within a month and a half that the American team has stopped talking and started doing, Abbas intends to mobilize anyone and everyone he can for the UN General Assembly session on the establishment of a Palestinian state, regardless of the Israeli and American reactions,”...  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20965?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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What Harvey Wrought
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by Pat Buchanan
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townhall.com} ~ Like 9/11, Hurricane Harvey brought us together.

In awe at the destruction 50 inches of rain did to East Texas and our fourth-largest city and in admiration as cable television showed countless hours of Texans humanely and heroically rescuing and aiding fellow Texans in the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

On display this week was America at her best.

Yet the destruction will not soon be repaired. Nearly a third of Harris County, home to 4.5 million people, was flooded. Beaumont and Port Arthur were swamped with 2 feet of rain and put underwater.

Estimates of the initial cost to the Treasury are north of $100 billion, with some saying the down payment alone will be closer to $200 billion. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the cost of Harvey will exceed that of the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt Europe after World War II.

Though the country has appeared united since the storm hit, it is not likely to remain so. Soon, the cameras and correspondents will go home, while the shelters remain full, as tens of thousands of people in those shelters have only destroyed homes to return to.

When the waters recede, the misery of the evacuees left behind will become less tolerable. Then will come the looters and gougers and angry arguments over who's to blame and who should pay.

They have already begun. Republicans who balked at voting for the bailout billions for Chris Christie's New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the coast in 2012 are being called hypocrites for asking for swift and massive federal assistance to repair red state Texas.

And whereas George W. Bush soared to 90 percent approval after 9/11, no such surge in support for Donald Trump appears at hand.

Indeed, the sneering and sniping began on his first visit to Texas.

He failed to celebrate the first responders, they said. He failed to hug any of the victims. He failed to show empathy. First lady Melania Trump wore spiked heels boarding Marine One for Texas.

A prediction: The damage done by Harvey -- as well as the physical, psychic and political costs -- will cause many to echo the slogan of George McGovern in 1972, when he exhorted the country to "come home, America."

The nation seems more receptive now, for even before Harvey, the media seemed consumed with what ails America.

The New York and D.C. subway systems are crumbling. Puerto Rico is bankrupt. Some states, such as Illinois, cannot balance their budgets. The murder rates are soaring in Baltimore and Chicago. Congress this month will have to raise the debt ceiling by hundreds of billions and pass a budget with a deficit bloated by the cost of Harvey.

And the foreign crises seem to be coming at us, one after another.

Russia is beginning military maneuvers in the Baltic and Belarus, bordering Poland, with a force estimated by some at 100,000 troops -- Vladimir Putin's response to NATO's deployment of 4,000 troops to the Baltic States and Poland.

The U.S. is considering sending anti-tank missiles to Kiev. This could reignite the Donbass war and bring Russian intervention, the defeat of the Ukrainian army and calls for U.S. intervention.

In the teeth of Trump's threat to pour "fire and fury" on North Korea, Kim Jong Un just launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan. Trump's answer: U.S. B-1Bs make practice bombing runs near the demilitarized zone. Reports from South Korea indicate that Kim may soon conduct a sixth underground test of an atomic bomb.

War in Korea has never seemed so close since Dwight Eisenhower ended the Korean War with an armistice more than 60 years ago.

Despite the opposition of his national security team, Trump is said to be ready to repudiate the Iranian nuclear deal in October, freeing Congress to reimpose the sanctions lifted by the deal.

This would split us from our NATO allies and, if Iran ignored the new U.S. sanctions or began anew to enrich uranium, force Trump's hand. Is he, are we as a country, ready for another trillion-dollar war, with Iran, which so many inside the Beltway seem so eager to fight?

The U.S. and Turkey have urged Iraq's Kurds to put off their nonbinding referendum on independence Sept. 25. The vote seems certain to endorse a separate state. A Kurdistan, seceded from Baghdad, would be a magnet for secession-minded Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iran, 30 million in all, and present a strategic crisis for the United States.

Along with the steady growth of entitlement spending, the new dollars demanded for defense, the prospect of new wars and the tax cuts the White House supports, Hurricane Harvey should concentrate the mind.

Great as America is, there are limits to our wealth and power, to how many global problems we can solve, to how many wars we can fight and to how many hostile powers we can confront.

The "indispensable nation" is going to have to begin making choices. Indeed, that is among the reasons Trump was elected.
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