The left and Hollywood have been hurling lies at the right for a long time - such as "racist" and "offending" without proof that makes them slanderous, hippocritical racists - but finally now and not too soon by any means they're coming back to them. They're getting their own medicine back. To the best of my recollection this tactic of diversity came from the left in the 1980's when one of their policies was proven to be wrong. Since they never admit they're wrong the left had to come up with something to try to continue it anyway. So, they came up with this idea "diversity." It has an advantage but it means quotas. Once it enters a topic or subject it means that according to someone's criteria there has to be a certain number of the people and/or things in the subject or there is some kind of unfairness or discrimination. The people who use that tactic say we are suppose to judge by our ability and "content of character" but they contradict each other. Now, finally, the chickens asre coming home to roost.
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Theodore Roosevelt on immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
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“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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Fraud!!! nObama Lied and Misled
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Mauling MLK's Legacy
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday celebrating the man who in 1963 dreamed that "my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Fifty-three years later, leftists, especially those indoctrinating our children in public schools, are making an utter mockery of that concept.
Illinois' New Trier High School is but one example. While most Americans are enjoying the federal holiday, New Trier has made today a mandatory school day, during which they will marinate their students in a series of seminars exploring black victimhood, inherent biases against people of color, and white guilt and privilege — "to better understand how we can all work to counter the impact of systemic racism in our lives," the school's website states.
More than 60 workshops are a compendium of leftist talking points. -The Patriot Post
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Democrats Want to Strip Immunity From Gun Companies Socialist Bernie Sanders was surprisingly moderate about the issue of gun control last May. The Washington Post wrote of Sanders' position then, "When socialism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a concealed firearm — without a permit." Among the issues, Sanders voted on a National Rifle Association-backed bill in 2005 that affirmed gun companies had immunity if one of their firearms were used in a crime or murder — just like a car company would have if someone decided to drive the car into a crowd of people. But Hilly Clinton, the "realistic progressive," believes that she has a backdoor policy that could dismantle the gun industry: remove that immunity from the nation's firearms manufacturers. Her plan would choke up their legal teams with lawsuit after lawsuit when guns are used for illegal acts, not just when manufacturing defects cause firearms to fail.
This week, Sanders, who said he's running "an issue-oriented campaign," indicated he is moving toward Clinton's position. Democrats in Congress introduced a law that would roll back essential parts of the 2005 immunity law and hours before Sunday's debate Sanders said he would support it. He said in the debate that he'd "support stronger provisions," but he doesn't want to make it so a small, community gun shop is liable if it sold a gun later used in a crime. But that's beside the point. The First Amendment is protected by legislation that prevents the sue-happy from muzzling someone's free-speech rights, though the Left regularly attacks free speech and religious liberty. Clinton's idea of stripping gun companies' immunity and siccing lawyers upon them is no less unconstitutional. -The Patriot Post
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ACLU Forces NYPD to Consider 'Equality' Before Security
For years, the New York Police Department viewed Islamic terrorism through a study titled "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat." It featured analysis from the RAND Corporation, studies of recent terrorist attacks in other countries, and studied how Muslim men radicalized to the point of attacking the West. Recently, the American Civil Liberties Union managed to force the NYPD to stop using the report to understand the metastasizing threat of Islamic terror. It was biased against Muslims, the ACLU insisted, and that obviously trumps security to the politically correct Left — once again illustrating the Left's blithe disregard for how Islamic terror develops. Instead, they want national security to be an equal opportunity investigation, lumping right-wing extremists and Islamic terrorists in the same suspect file.
In related news, the House voted, with enough votes to override a veto, to send a bill to the Senate that would reform how Syrian and Iraqi refugees are screened before entering this country, ordering FBI background checks on them. Barack nObama and the Senate Democrats will fight, saying that the legislation isn't compassionate, but the bill's success in the House shows there is real concern over this administration's refusal to diagnose the reason some Middle Eastern immigrants turn to violence. -The Patriot Post
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'Death list' and IRS ravaged
'women of Clinton'
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“Iran will now have more resources
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Sharona Schwartz
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/netanyahu-iran-will-now-have-more-resources-to-divert-to-terrorism
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Court Requires NYPD to
Purge Docs on Terrorists Inside U.S.
Adam Kredo
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Banned Commercial That Bill
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Pentagon Considering
Retroactive Demotion for Gen. Petraeus
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{teaparty.org} ~ The Pentagon is considering retroactively demoting retired Gen. David Petraeus after he admitted to giving classified information to his biographer and mistress while he was still in uniform, three people with knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast... The decision now rests with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who is said to be willing to consider overruling an earlier recommendation by the Army that Petraeus not have his rank reduced. Such a demotion could cost the storied general hundreds of thousands of dollars—and deal an additional blow to his once-pristine reputation. “The secretary is considering going in a different direction” from the Army, a defense official told The Daily Beast, because he wants to be consistent in his treatment of senior officers who engage in misconduct and to send a message that even men of Petraeus’s fame and esteemed reputation are not immune to punishment. What about Hilly's miss us of classified information http://www.teaparty.org/pentagon-considering-retroactive-demotion-gen-petraeus-139714/?fb_action_ids=1542013692778520&fb_action_types=og.comments.
NYC Mayor Surrenders to Shariah Law...
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nObama’s Coal Killer
Blocks Energy But Same Logic Won’t
Stop Terrorist Import Program
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Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell
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Soros-Linked Human Rights
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nObama Pardons 21 Iranians
Convicted of Violating Sanctions
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Rep. Trey Gowdy, Journalist Sharyl Attkisson, and the Benghazi Families Unite Against Hilly Clinton!
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Fraud!!! nObama Lied and Misled
about Iran Deal/Hostage Exchange on Sunday
Jeff Dunetz
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nObama said, “Iran is being subjected to the most comprehensive, intrusive inspection regime ever negotiated to monitor a nuclear program. Inspectors will monitor Iran’s key nuclear facilities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.” But inspectors are not allowed in Key Nuclear facilitates.
nObama said, “Iran is being subjected to the most comprehensive, intrusive inspection regime ever negotiated to monitor a nuclear program. Inspectors will monitor Iran’s key nuclear facilities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.” But inspectors are not allowed in Key Nuclear facilitates.
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For example when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its report Saturday saying that Iran has complied with the P5+1 nuclear deal. It would have been astounding if they had announced a different result, after all it was Iran who inspected some of Iran’s nuclear facilities including Parchin.
For example when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its report Saturday saying that Iran has complied with the P5+1 nuclear deal. It would have been astounding if they had announced a different result, after all it was Iran who inspected some of Iran’s nuclear facilities including Parchin.
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When air, soil, and dust samples were taken from the Parchin nuclear site there was no one form the IAEA present. It was Iranian nuclear experts who took the collection. IAEA chief Yukiya Amano claims that the collection was done according to the IAEA guidelines, because everything was observed buy the UN nuclear agency on TV monitors….Television? Does Mr. Amano also believe there is really a star ship Enterprise speeding through the Universe? Anything can be shown on a TV feed, without someone there we can never prove what happened or didn’t happen.
When air, soil, and dust samples were taken from the Parchin nuclear site there was no one form the IAEA present. It was Iranian nuclear experts who took the collection. IAEA chief Yukiya Amano claims that the collection was done according to the IAEA guidelines, because everything was observed buy the UN nuclear agency on TV monitors….Television? Does Mr. Amano also believe there is really a star ship Enterprise speeding through the Universe? Anything can be shown on a TV feed, without someone there we can never prove what happened or didn’t happen.
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In world politics very few secrets stay that way. The side deal originally published by the AP exposed Iranians would get to collect their own samples at Parchin, those samples would have to come from mutually agreed upon areas under overlapping photo and video surveillance, and the number of the samples would be limited.
In world politics very few secrets stay that way. The side deal originally published by the AP exposed Iranians would get to collect their own samples at Parchin, those samples would have to come from mutually agreed upon areas under overlapping photo and video surveillance, and the number of the samples would be limited.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had long sought access to Parchin which has long been suspected of being the location were Iran was developing it’s detonation systems for nuclear weapons.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had long sought access to Parchin which has long been suspected of being the location were Iran was developing it’s detonation systems for nuclear weapons.
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In October 2014 Iran admitted to using Parchin to test exploding bridge wires, which are used as nuclear detonators, but they claimed the test explosions were not for weapons development.
In October 2014 Iran admitted to using Parchin to test exploding bridge wires, which are used as nuclear detonators, but they claimed the test explosions were not for weapons development.
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Access is needed to clarify the nature and scope of Iran’s past nuclear weapons work. What were the possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s atomic program? They need to establish what the Iranians did and how far they got, which are the prerequisites to setting up a a baseline for an inspection regime against future violations. The nObama administration had promised lawmakers that IAEA inspectors would be able to inspect Parchin and resolve all PMD issues before any final deal was inked. But that didn’t happen; instead they allowed Iran to sign a secret side deal with the IAEA permitting the Iranians to self-inspect the facility rather than grant IAEA inspector robust access.
Access is needed to clarify the nature and scope of Iran’s past nuclear weapons work. What were the possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s atomic program? They need to establish what the Iranians did and how far they got, which are the prerequisites to setting up a a baseline for an inspection regime against future violations. The nObama administration had promised lawmakers that IAEA inspectors would be able to inspect Parchin and resolve all PMD issues before any final deal was inked. But that didn’t happen; instead they allowed Iran to sign a secret side deal with the IAEA permitting the Iranians to self-inspect the facility rather than grant IAEA inspector robust access.
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Even the IAEA report in December when they announced they finally had all the evidence about Iran’s previous nuclear activity relied on unverified information from the terrorist regime. If you read the report this phrase is repeated over and over, “The information available to the Agency…” A nice way of saying we had to take what we got from Iran. An Iranian statement this morning confirmed that the Iranians collected their own samples.
Even the IAEA report in December when they announced they finally had all the evidence about Iran’s previous nuclear activity relied on unverified information from the terrorist regime. If you read the report this phrase is repeated over and over, “The information available to the Agency…” A nice way of saying we had to take what we got from Iran. An Iranian statement this morning confirmed that the Iranians collected their own samples.
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In other words, the inspections were meaningless.
In other words, the inspections were meaningless.
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While the president said during his announcement on Sunday Morning that Iran had installed nearly 20,000 centrifuges that can enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb, and “today, Iran has removed two-thirds of those machines, ” he was being accurate but not honest.
While the president said during his announcement on Sunday Morning that Iran had installed nearly 20,000 centrifuges that can enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb, and “today, Iran has removed two-thirds of those machines, ” he was being accurate but not honest.
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The deal allows the rogue nation to continue to run centrifuges most of which will be enriching uranium. But if the Iranians are really running a peaceful program there is no need for them to have centrifuges or enrich uranium. Even John hanoi-Kerry said at the beginning of negotiations that there was no reason for Iran to enrich and more importantly there was no right for them to enrich.
The deal allows the rogue nation to continue to run centrifuges most of which will be enriching uranium. But if the Iranians are really running a peaceful program there is no need for them to have centrifuges or enrich uranium. Even John hanoi-Kerry said at the beginning of negotiations that there was no reason for Iran to enrich and more importantly there was no right for them to enrich.
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Under the agreement Iran is allowed to keep 5,060 centrifuges, which according to former deputy director of the CIA is a large enough program to produce bombs but not enough for a power program. On Feb. 18th of this last year, Mike Morell told Charlie Rose (video embedded below):
Under the agreement Iran is allowed to keep 5,060 centrifuges, which according to former deputy director of the CIA is a large enough program to produce bombs but not enough for a power program. On Feb. 18th of this last year, Mike Morell told Charlie Rose (video embedded below):
If you are going to have a nuclear weapons program, 5,000 is pretty much the number you need,” Morell, now a CBS analyst, said on Charlie Rose. “If you have a power program, you need a lot more. By limiting them to a small number of centrifuges, we are limiting them to the number you need for a weapon.” .Video: http://www.mrctv.org/videos/mike-morell-charlie-rose-21815-talking-iranian-centrifuges
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The president celebrated the release of five Americans from Iran and it’s true that we should all be happy these Americans are coming home.
The president celebrated the release of five Americans from Iran and it’s true that we should all be happy these Americans are coming home.
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But lets understand what we paid. The deal announced Saturday returns four Americans in exchange for the release of seven Iranians (a fifth American was released supposedly unrelated to to the prisoner exchange).
But lets understand what we paid. The deal announced Saturday returns four Americans in exchange for the release of seven Iranians (a fifth American was released supposedly unrelated to to the prisoner exchange).
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The seven Iranian who were released were either sentenced in or awaiting trial in the United States court system, and as the president said they were not associated with terrorism. What they were sentenced or arrested for was helping Iran secure what it needed for nuclear weapons. International arrest warrants for other Iranians accused of the same crime were dropped. The president called it a humanitarian gesture which is phony political speak for “we released them in exchange for our hostages.” We also announced that American taxpayers were giving Iran a $1.7 billion dollar check covering a $400 million debt and $1.3 billion in interest, but the timing being announced with the hostage exchange makes it sound more like a ransom.
The seven Iranian who were released were either sentenced in or awaiting trial in the United States court system, and as the president said they were not associated with terrorism. What they were sentenced or arrested for was helping Iran secure what it needed for nuclear weapons. International arrest warrants for other Iranians accused of the same crime were dropped. The president called it a humanitarian gesture which is phony political speak for “we released them in exchange for our hostages.” We also announced that American taxpayers were giving Iran a $1.7 billion dollar check covering a $400 million debt and $1.3 billion in interest, but the timing being announced with the hostage exchange makes it sound more like a ransom.
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In the end Iran released our hostages in exchange for nObama being able to claim Iran’s nuke program was neutralized, 7 criminals, a lifting of sanctions and anywhere between $100 and $150 billion dollars, and being able to sell its oil on the world market.
In the end Iran released our hostages in exchange for nObama being able to claim Iran’s nuke program was neutralized, 7 criminals, a lifting of sanctions and anywhere between $100 and $150 billion dollars, and being able to sell its oil on the world market.
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The bottom line is Iran got everything, and the U.S. basically taught terrorists around the world that the way to get their terrorists out of jail is to kidnap some Americans.
The bottom line is Iran got everything, and the U.S. basically taught terrorists around the world that the way to get their terrorists out of jail is to kidnap some Americans.
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Once again our president has been played for a fool.
Once again our president has been played for a fool.
To the best of my recollection the idea of using diversity as a political tool began - I know by the left - in the 1980's when one of their policies with someone or something was proven to be wrong. That left them with the option to admit that they were wrong or come up with some kind of excuse to push it through. And of course they took the latter. If diversity is used as a criteria in anything it's setting quotas that is discrimination. I don't know if there is discrimination in the Oscars and if there is it should be stopped. However, it could be just being used by a race baiter(s) to cause another problem to tear this country a part.
It's the "crisis" you never heard of, but thanks in part of Anita Dunn (who was forced to resign from the White House after showing affection toward Mao) and her public relations firm, you soon will.
The bill for decades of liberal spending programs fueled by borrowing by politicians in Puerto Rico has come due. Not surprisingly, the politicians want a bailout in the form of bankruptcy protection. Paying off the debts is the last thing on their minds.
Now the media is filled with stories designed to pressure Congress to give the big spenders another blank check. President Obama and his Treasury Secretary Jack Lew are demanding Congress act to save Puerto Rico from itself. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reports that Speaker Paul Ryan has agreed to move some sort of legislation before the end of March.
There are many problems but one of them, according to conservative lawyer Bruce Fein, is passing bankruptcy would be unconstitutional:
The contemplated bankruptcy legislation, however, would enable Puerto Rico to discharge or plunge the value of its existing debt without doing these things. The beneficiaries would be government employees, enterprises and contractors who profit from Puerto Rico's bloated and wasteful expenditures and handcuffs on free markets.
But the Contracts Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as expounded by the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. Trust Co. v. New Jersey (1977), would invalidate a retroactive bankruptcy law for Puerto Rico. Congress should stand pat, and members should honor rather than evade their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution. Puerto Rico and its creditors relied on existing laws when they negotiated lending terms, and there is no constitutional justification for changing the rules in the midstream.
Article I, section 10, clause 1 stipulates: “No State shall … pass any … Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts.” The text excludes the federal government. But Supreme Court decisions such as Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel (1998) have equated federal due process or takings clause limitations on retroactive impairments of property rights as coequal with Contract Clause limits on state impairments of contract obligations.
James Madison, father of the Constitution, defended the Contracts Clause in Federalist 44 as a bulwark against crony capitalism:
“The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community.”
In Federalist 62, Madison expanded on the cronyism and economic mischief that spring from mutability in the laws:
“[I]t gives [unreasonable advantage] to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the industrious and uninformed mass of the people. Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any way affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change, and can trace its consequences; a harvest, reared not by themselves, but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow-citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few, not for the many… “What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not but that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? What farmer or manufacturer will lay himself out for the encouragement given to any particular cultivation or establishment, when he can have no assurance that his preparatory labors and advances will not render him a victim to an inconstant government?”
In addition to the questions of the constitutionality, there remains a bigger political question -- why should the GOP hand the big spenders another lifeline? The time has come from free market reforms not for bankruptcy protection. Cut the size and scope of government in san Juan. Eliminate laws that drive out business. Reform welfare. Enact Right to Work provisions that protect workers from forced unionism. These are some positive steps the GOP can take. But giving Obama and his allies an escape route is not only bad politics, it is bad policy.
Dee stop talking and do. Let us MARCH on DC and NOW! I am in... I am sick of this talk and want to get in their faces. I have said this to Bozell as well. Make this Obama person sweat and distract him and any other thing we can do to make his life difficult and miserable.
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Benghazi Movie Premiere
Was a Memorable and Moving Event
Roger Aronoff
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Democrats Have Made the Dream a Nightmare
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' ... I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true." —Martin Luther King Jr.
Of course, today's Democratic Party has turned the wisdom of this iconic sovereign inside out, as if King had said, "I have a dream that my children will one day be judged by the color of their skin, not the content of their character." They've turned it from a dream into a nightmare.
King's 1963 address from the Lincoln Memorial was his most famous, but you have likely never read King's 1966 assessment of racial violence in nObama's hometown of Chicago back: "This is the most tragic picture of man's inhumanity to man. I've been to Mississippi and Alabama and I can tell you that the hatred and hostility in Chicago are really deeper than in Alabama and Mississippi." King added, "Those who are associated with 'Black Power' and black supremacy are wrong."
So you thought racism was just a "deep south problem"? That is what the Democrats and their Leftmedia sycophants would have you believe.
"Black supremacy" is precisely what was drilled into Barack nObama's psyche by his Marxist mentor Frank Marshall Davis and his religious mentor Jeremiah Wright.
Two years ago, nObama dismissed his low approval ratings as being due to racism: "There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president." Yes, nObama used the anniversary of King's birth to establish that his true legacy is being a half-black president who is nothing more than a race-bait political hustler.
Regardless of one's conclusion about King's proper place in history (given the historical account of his sometimes-lacking personal integrity and character), his letter from a Birmingham jail is well worth reading.
-The Patriot Post
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Iran's Powerball Jackpot
Great news, everyone: Barack nObama has saved the world through "smart, patient and disciplined" diplomacy once again. The occasion for his Sunday boast is two-fold: Iran released several American hostages and the U.S. lifted $100-$150 billion in sanctions on Iran.
Former Marine sergeant Amir Hekmati, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini, Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari and Matthew Trevithick were all held by Iran but released over the weekend — timed to coincide with sanctions relief — though the whereabouts of former FBI agent Robert Levinson remain unknown. At least nObama promised, "[W]e will never forget about Bob." But Iran got even more in return. nObama noted Sunday, "In a reciprocal humanitarian gesture, six Iranian-Americans and one Iranian serving sentences or awaiting trial in the United States are being granted clemency."
As The Wall Street Journal notes, "Iran gets back men who were assisting its military ambitions while we get innocents. This is similar to the lopsided prisoner swaps that Mr. nObama previously made with Cuba for Alan Gross and the Taliban for alleged deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl." Nonetheless, the emotionally appealing saga and release of our hostages will trump the consequences of this bad deal in Leftmedia coverage.
Meanwhile, we all know nObama's grand nuclear deal is really the sum of all lies, but that didn't stop nObama from bragging more Sunday: "Under the nuclear deal that we, our allies and partners reached with Iran last year, Iran will not get its hands on a nuclear bomb. ... Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen. And perhaps most important of all, we've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East." Again as if it's his way or war.
Notably, nObama announced new sanctions that applied to 11 persons and companies involved in Iran's missile program — months after two ballistic missile tests that violated UN resolutions. But this too is a smoke screen. Finally, as if it could get worse, the U.S. will pay Iran $1.7 billion (most of which is interest) to settle a 35-year-old disputed bill on military equipment we never delivered — because Iran happened to be holding more than 60 Americans hostage at the time.
So to recap, we get a few captive Americans (which is good), while Iran can detain 10 American sailors and exploit them for propaganda just before receiving nearly $2 billion in exchange for finalizing a deal preserving its nuclear program. nObama sure knows how to drive a hard bargain. -The Patriot Post
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Bernie's Health Plan Is Logical Step for Demos
Hours before the Democrat debate in Charleston Sunday night (another weekend debate that nobody watched, by the way), Bernie Sanders released his final solution for fixing the problems nObamaCare wrought: Instituting a single-payer health care system by giving "Medicare for all." The cost would be tremendous. The Wall Street Journal reported the socialist candidate's plan would increase government spending by $14 trillion over 10 years and would be "funded" by instituting a 2.2% increase tax on income, a payroll tax on employers, oh, and Sanders' go-to promise that the rich will pick up most of the bill. Since the beginning, some Democrats planned to use nObamaCare as a stepping-stone to single-payer health care. Sanders is just taking that logical next step and demanding what the Left has really wanted all along.
Hilly Clinton responded in the debate by attacking Sanders' consistency, arguing that he flipped on several issues to make himself more compelling to Democrat voters — such as becoming a more ardent supporter of gun control and tweaking his health care plan. Clinton's biggest critique of Sanders' plan is that it would dismantle nObamaCare, an evidently unforgivable sin after how hard Democrats wheedled and worked to get that failed institution passed. At one point, Sanders said many of his supporters implored him to make a "vicious attack" against Clinton, but he hasn't done that because he's "trying to run an issue-oriented campaign." And Sanders is overtaking Clinton in the polls, leaving the woman who regularly reads the political winds and changes tack accordingly to try to win voters by harkening back to nObama administration nostalgia. At least Sanders has the integrity to say he is a socialist. -The Patriot Post
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State Department
Discovers ‘Thousands’ of Previously
Undisclosed Clinton Documents
Alana Goodman
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Clinton Considered Secret
Plan to Spark Palestinian Protests
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THIS BRITISH LEADER: Thinks a
TALK with Brutal ISIS Jihadists is Sufficient
Keith Jacobs
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Video: http://bcove.me/koup646e
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Hilly To Jake Tapper: I’m
Too Busy Campaigning To See ’13 Hours.’
Jay Caruso
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Saudi/Iran Conflict Could
Threaten Global Economy
Martin Hutchinson
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New Survey Exposes
Stunning Cyber Attack Risks
Martin Denholm
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Socialism is Force - A Message
from one of the Smartest Men on Earth
Joe A. Gibertson
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Milton Friedman
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ In the video below, Milton Friedman explains why socialism is fundamentally flawed... The essential notion of a capitalist society is voluntary cooperation, while the basis of socialism is force. “Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad morale value of force triumphs over good intentions,” he says. Government is the large scale managing of relationships between people and those relationships should be based on respect, not use of force. http://punchingbagpost.com/socialism-is-force---a-message-from-one-of-the-smartest-men-on-earth.
Clinton's 'no individual
too big to jail' tweet backfires ... hard
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Islamist running 140 tax-funded
charter schools in U.S.
LEO HOHMANN.
Muhammad Fethullah Gulen
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{wnd.com} ~ Muhammad Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish Islamist, writer and preacher with a secret plan for bringing Shariah law to America... Arguably Turkey’s most influential spiritual leader of the past 50 years, Gülen left that country in the late 1990s and now directs his cult-like Islamic movement from a guarded compound in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Part of his empire consists of a thriving network of more than 140 charter schools in 26 states that sell themselves to parents as a secular and more academically rigorous alternative to public schools. As the second largest chain of charter schools in the United States, Gülen schools rake in tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars every year.
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Intermediate Black Hole
and Second Largest in Milky Way
Potentially Discovered
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{ibtimes.co.uk} ~ A new type of black hole and the second largest in our galaxy may have been discovered, say astronomers from Japan... The black hole is thought to be in the middle of an enigmatic gas cloud located 200 light years from the centre of the Milky Way. The researchers found that this gas cloud, known as CO-0.44-0.22, moves at such varying speeds that a specific type of black hole is thought to be the cause. Should this be the case, it would be the first ever official discovery of a third classification of the phenomenon – an ‘intermediate’ black hole. The gas cloud has been spotted 200 light years from the centre of the Milky Way, which spans 100,000 light years across. Researchers found that the cloud has an usually wide range of velocities – some were moving very fast as they approached a certain point and then moved slower as they moved away from it..
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Benghazi Movie Premiere
Was a Memorable and Moving Event
Roger Aronoff
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The premiere took place at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys football team, and was shown on a screen that was two-and-a-half times larger than the largest IMAX screen. The audience, depending on the source, was in the range of 30,000 to 40,000 people. Tickets were complimentary, and the event was set up as a benefit for military veterans. I was there along with other members of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi, which Accuracy in Media established back in the summer of 2013.
The premiere took place at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys football team, and was shown on a screen that was two-and-a-half times larger than the largest IMAX screen. The audience, depending on the source, was in the range of 30,000 to 40,000 people. Tickets were complimentary, and the event was set up as a benefit for military veterans. I was there along with other members of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi, which Accuracy in Media established back in the summer of 2013.
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We met the three named co-authors of the book on which the film was based, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi—John “Tig” Tiegen, Mark “Oz” Geist, and Kris “Tanto” Paronto—early on, and were well aware of their story. The book and the audio CDs were dramatic and exciting, but nothing prepared us for this movie, which opens this weekend nationwide, and is receiving mixed reviews.
We met the three named co-authors of the book on which the film was based, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi—John “Tig” Tiegen, Mark “Oz” Geist, and Kris “Tanto” Paronto—early on, and were well aware of their story. The book and the audio CDs were dramatic and exciting, but nothing prepared us for this movie, which opens this weekend nationwide, and is receiving mixed reviews.
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The premiere was quite an event, with two hours of festivities prior to the start of the film. The festivities included interviews with the three afore-mentioned men who were part of the Global Response Staff (GRS) at the CIA Annex; with the director, Michael Bay, who also directed the “Transformer” movies, along with “Pearl Harbor” and “Armageddon;” and with some of the actors, including John Krasinski of “The Office” fame. “Entertainment Tonight (ET),” the syndicated nightly show about the entertainment business, which, like the movie itself, is produced by Paramount, hosted the red carpet event on a stage on the floor of the stadium. You can see the ET report here:
The premiere was quite an event, with two hours of festivities prior to the start of the film. The festivities included interviews with the three afore-mentioned men who were part of the Global Response Staff (GRS) at the CIA Annex; with the director, Michael Bay, who also directed the “Transformer” movies, along with “Pearl Harbor” and “Armageddon;” and with some of the actors, including John Krasinski of “The Office” fame. “Entertainment Tonight (ET),” the syndicated nightly show about the entertainment business, which, like the movie itself, is produced by Paramount, hosted the red carpet event on a stage on the floor of the stadium. You can see the ET report here:
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The job of the GRS was to protect CIA personnel who were stationed at the Annex, which was approximately one mile away from the Special Mission Compound, often referred to as the consulate—although it wasn’t actually a consulate. Two of the three, Oz and Tig, were former Marines, and Tanto was a former Army Ranger..
I wrote about this when the book, 13 Hours, came out in 2014, and Fox News did a one-hour special on it. Fox News was punished for it by the nObama administration, according to Greta Van Susteren, who said that Fox was excluded from State Department and Central Intelligence Agency media background meetings. “Well, I think Fox News is being punished for aggressively asking questions, doing our jobs,” said Greta. That wasn’t all. “A few weeks later, when reporter Jennifer Griffin said she was told that there was a stand down order at Benghazi, I got a weird call from the nObama administration trying to pressure me to get Jennifer to back down on her report. I thought the call from the nObama administration was dirty,” contended Susteren.
I wrote about this when the book, 13 Hours, came out in 2014, and Fox News did a one-hour special on it. Fox News was punished for it by the nObama administration, according to Greta Van Susteren, who said that Fox was excluded from State Department and Central Intelligence Agency media background meetings. “Well, I think Fox News is being punished for aggressively asking questions, doing our jobs,” said Greta. That wasn’t all. “A few weeks later, when reporter Jennifer Griffin said she was told that there was a stand down order at Benghazi, I got a weird call from the nObama administration trying to pressure me to get Jennifer to back down on her report. I thought the call from the nObama administration was dirty,” contended Susteren.
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The film touches on the personal lives of the men, just enough to help understand their motivations.
The film touches on the personal lives of the men, just enough to help understand their motivations.
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I have written extensively about the series of scandals that comprise Benghazi, including this article from last month. And while the movie presents enough background information to touch on all of them—the focus of the film was on the failure to provide adequate security to the ambassador and others at the Special Mission Compound, and the dereliction of duty, in failing to bring military assets to at least attempt to help the security team hold off and kill the terrorists.
I have written extensively about the series of scandals that comprise Benghazi, including this article from last month. And while the movie presents enough background information to touch on all of them—the focus of the film was on the failure to provide adequate security to the ambassador and others at the Special Mission Compound, and the dereliction of duty, in failing to bring military assets to at least attempt to help the security team hold off and kill the terrorists.
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Just last month, Judicial Watch, which has unearthed many explosive documents over the last 20 years through Freedom of Information requests, and specifically on Benghazi, received an email pursuant to a 2014 FOIA lawsuit against the State Department. The email was from military chief of staff Jeremy Bash, who wrote to the State Department approximately three-and-a-half hours into the eight-hour attack—well before the terrorists killed CIA contractors and former Navy SEALs Glenn Doherty and Ty Woods—that “we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak. They include a SOF [special operations forces] element that was in Croatia…”
Just last month, Judicial Watch, which has unearthed many explosive documents over the last 20 years through Freedom of Information requests, and specifically on Benghazi, received an email pursuant to a 2014 FOIA lawsuit against the State Department. The email was from military chief of staff Jeremy Bash, who wrote to the State Department approximately three-and-a-half hours into the eight-hour attack—well before the terrorists killed CIA contractors and former Navy SEALs Glenn Doherty and Ty Woods—that “we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak. They include a SOF [special operations forces] element that was in Croatia…”
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Sharyl Attkisson, on her weekend Sinclair Broadcasting show “Full Measure,” did an outstanding investigative piece showing that military assets were in place and ready to come to the aid of the CIA Annex, but the request to cross the border into Libya was never made, and the forces that were “spinning” and ready to go were obviously told to stand down, whether by omission or commission. Attkisson’s investigation is divided into two segments of about six-and-a-half minutes each, and I highly recommend watching both segments. Segment one is here:
Sharyl Attkisson, on her weekend Sinclair Broadcasting show “Full Measure,” did an outstanding investigative piece showing that military assets were in place and ready to come to the aid of the CIA Annex, but the request to cross the border into Libya was never made, and the forces that were “spinning” and ready to go were obviously told to stand down, whether by omission or commission. Attkisson’s investigation is divided into two segments of about six-and-a-half minutes each, and I highly recommend watching both segments. Segment one is here:
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This is the sort of investigative reporting that Attkisson was prevented from doing at CBS News, where she worked for more than 20 years. It just so happens that the president of CBS News, David Rhodes, is the brother of President nObama’s Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, and this report on Benghazi serves as a devastating indictment of the nObama administration. David Rhodes was named to that position in 2011..
The reasons given by the nObama administration for not sending in Special Forces or military aircraft was that they didn’t have enough time and that the intelligence wasn’t good enough. As then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said during Senate testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, “…time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response.”
The reasons given by the nObama administration for not sending in Special Forces or military aircraft was that they didn’t have enough time and that the intelligence wasn’t good enough. As then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said during Senate testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, “…time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response.”
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But we know that they had advance warning, both tactical and strategic, of a potential attack in Benghazi. And considering that it was the anniversary of the 9/11/2001 attacks, there was no excuse for not being on high alert anyway. Attkisson’s reporting makes the dereliction of duty very clear.
But we know that they had advance warning, both tactical and strategic, of a potential attack in Benghazi. And considering that it was the anniversary of the 9/11/2001 attacks, there was no excuse for not being on high alert anyway. Attkisson’s reporting makes the dereliction of duty very clear.
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As much as the movie stays away from politics, and never once mentions Hilly Clinton or President nObama by name, it’s hard to imagine people watching this movie and not being outraged by the failures of this administration to protect these people who put their lives at risk for this country.
As much as the movie stays away from politics, and never once mentions Hilly Clinton or President nObama by name, it’s hard to imagine people watching this movie and not being outraged by the failures of this administration to protect these people who put their lives at risk for this country.
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Variety magazine headlined its article, “‘13 Hours’ Is Light on Politics, But Sure to Stir Benghazi Controversy.” But not everyone agreed that it was so light on politics.
Variety magazine headlined its article, “‘13 Hours’ Is Light on Politics, But Sure to Stir Benghazi Controversy.” But not everyone agreed that it was so light on politics.
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Many on the left are apoplectic about this film, fearing that it could tarnish even further the legacy of President nObama, and prove to be a serious problem for Mrs. Clinton’s bid for the White House. Here, for example, is an excerpt from a review in the left-wing British Guardian:
Many on the left are apoplectic about this film, fearing that it could tarnish even further the legacy of President nObama, and prove to be a serious problem for Mrs. Clinton’s bid for the White House. Here, for example, is an excerpt from a review in the left-wing British Guardian:
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Don’t tell me this movie isn’t political. Michael Bay’s Benghazi bonanza is timed for release just before the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. It’ll hit DVD in time for the general election. There are approximately 400,000 instances in this not-very-subtle screenplay where Fox News viewers are cued to hiss at a phantom Hilly Rodham Clinton, the right wing’s scapegoat for the missteps that kept the Benghazi outpost fighting so long without backup. As these brave men take fire, their inquiries about air support become a clear indictment against a perceived US policy of pussification. While the boondoggle portrayed in 13 Hours may be based on fact, this is movie is fueled by paranoia and hate. Paranoia about a culture too foreign to grasp except as a bunch of mindless monsters, and hate against a government that won’t let us destroy them. Abhorrent politics aside, it’s also a terrible movie. The dialogue is atrocious, the performances rote..
I personally thought the film was brilliant, powerful and emotional. It felt like you were watching this horrible nightmare unfold before your eyes. I strongly urge everyone to go see this film. You won’t wonder any more what all the fuss is about Benghazi. And I certainly hope that the members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi all see the film before issuing their final report.
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By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on americanpbn.com
With the release of Bow Bergdahl, a deserter who is now facing court martial and for whom, 6 American soldiers were killed…Barack Hussein Obama set the standard for Islamists. Take Americans, hold them hostage and Obama will give you damn near anything you want for them. He’ll pay the ransom.
Last week, 10 American sailors were taken by Iran and in what I am sure was just a convenient coincidence, Obama released 10 GITMO scum the day after Iran sent our sailors back to our Navy and…so far…Iran still has our boats which, I am quite sure, go nicely with the drone Obama gave them a few years ago.
Now we have the great prisoner swap where we got 4 Americans back from Iran and THEY got 7 Iranian nuclear “researchers” back from US along with 14 more who had charges against THEM dropped.
The message from Obama is clear…if you’re a jihadi, some 7th century barbarian and you come across an American…grab them, demand a ransom and then just sit back and wait to get paid. Nothing to it.
This insanity must stop and I believe the perfect jumping off point is at hand.
In a recent January 16 Article on News With Views, writer J.B. Williams has penned yet another article addressing natural born citizen titled, “TRUE FACTS ABOUT THE ENDLESS NATURAL BORN DEBATE.” Unfortunately nowhere in Williams article is there anything resembling facts, much less truthful ones.
Williams’ article actually misrepresents the #1 terms for natural born citizen, when it is solely his own distorted cherry-picking of Vattel’s writing, in which Williams entirely bypasses Vattel’s explicit and clear definition of natural born stated in § 212 of Law of Nations, and instead extracts only the immediately following reference to paternalism, and the father determining the citizenship of the offspring. It is this reference that Williams represents as the legitimate definition of natural born, despite it being one recognized by only Williams himself. Talk about “truth”…
As far as the actual definition provided by Vattel, Williams presents this as his #3 recognition of natural born, but dishonestly impugns this as only the “birther” definition. Williams then proceeds to blame those birthers for focusing on McCain, and thereby allowing Obama to remain unchallenged in office. Notably, by this specious rationale, Williams has revealed the motivation for his extensive abuse of Vattel as being an underlying prejudice to validate only one individual – John Sydney McCain.
All the evidence, as provided by Williams himself, clearly indicates Williams’ own prejudicial determination to recognize John McCain as a natural born citizen, even while still condemning Obama, with the difference between the two being the status of the fathers. Therefore Williams reprehensibly pushed past Vattel’s clear and concise definition of natural born, onto the irrelevant narrative of about paternalism.
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DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP
Bob Lonsberry © 2016The account of two U. S. Navy vessels being seized by the Iranian navy earlier this week seems completely implausible.No part of it makes any sense.The story is that two river patrol boats – bristling modern-day incarnations of the Vietnam swift boats – were navigating south from Kuwait to Bahrain. At some point, via some means, the two boats, with their contingent of five sailors each, surrendered to the Iranians.Two accounts have been offered as to how that happened. The first was that one of the vessels lost its engine and that they both then drifted into Iranian waters. The other was that the two boats had been operating fine, but inadvertently navigated into Iranian territory.Simply put, they got lost.Neither account seems possible.First off, if one of the boats broke down, and the sailor aboard trained to tend the engine couldn't fix it, the other boat would merely take it in tow and they would proceed on their way. That is not a novel maritime undertaking.The second scenario – oops, we got lost – is even less likely. It turns out that navigation and navigation equipment are kind of a high priority for the Navy. Boats don’t get lost. Highly technical navigation equipment on both boats would have told crew members exactly where they were.And in the unlikely event that both boats lost all electronic navigational equipment, and the compasses lost track of magnetic north, there is the simple fact that sailing from Kuwait to Bahrain pretty much involves nothing more complex than keeping the shore on your starboard side. And should you lose sight of shore, and can remember that the map has safety to the west and danger to the east, you’d think that the position of the sun in the sky or the fact that prevailing winds in the Persian Gulf in the winter are northwesterly, would somehow have allowed our sailors to find the Saudi shoreline instead of Iranian waters.And all of that presumes that these two boats were operating alone in the open seas, which they presumably were not. There is, in fact, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier battle group operating in the Persian Gulf.The USS Harry S Truman owns the Persian Gulf these days, and the significant American military presence in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait – lands immediately proximate to the waters where our sailors were operating – makes us the biggest dog on the block.And we’ve got radar and helicopters and airplanes and stuff like that.And if an American vessel breaks down at sea, or strays from course, under those operational conditions, there are a lot of American assets that would both notice the problem and be able to offer relief.Yet no one did.We’re supposed to believe nobody radioed a couple of inexplicably lost boats to ask where they were going? When one of them supposedly broke down, a carrier battle group had no means to come to their assistance?That makes no sense.It’s completely unbelievable.So is the apparent conduct of the sailors in the face of a supposed challenge by the Iranian military.If one of the vessels was disabled, as is claimed, and hostile craft are approaching, bringing with them the prospect of capture and captivity, don’t you put all 10 sailors on the able boat, sink the disabled boat, and race the bad guys back to international waters?From the Iranian video, it looks like two or three bass boats and four guys in mismatched uniforms, with a couple of AK's, captured two far-larger and better-armed American boats, both of which were bristling with mounted machine guns.Here’s a fact: When you're kneeling on the deck of your own boat, with your hands clasped behind your head, and some guy’s shouting at you in terrorist language, things didn't go right.And yet, that’s exactly what supposedly happened here. Ten American sailors, successors to Captain James Lawrence, are on their knees next to their unfired guns, in the face of a smaller and less well-armed opponent – with little American flags snapping in the breeze.This is not the stuff of Commodore Perry and Admiral Farragut.And you wonder whose call it was.How far up the chain of command did they have to go to find the cowardly lion who ordered this genuflection before a bunch of savages? Did this get bounced all the way to the Pentagon, or the Situation Room? Which secretary of what made the decision not to put a squadron of naval aviators above those two boats to keep the camel jockeys at bay?It is shameful, a worldwide embarrassment for the nation and the Navy.And it is topped off by an obsequious videotaped apology, and pictures of our sailors, captive in hostile hands, the female with a towel over her head.The President can ignore this.But we can’t.We got pantsed. We got humiliated. We showed either weakness or incompetence. And unfortunately either one only invites aggression against us.It is inconceivable that you could find 10 Americans willing to surrender themselves and their equipment without a fight. It is not plausible that any young man or woman entering into the naval service would willingly kneel on the deck of a combat-capable ship.Somebody told them to give up.And that somebody, and the philosophy he represents, will be the death of us.- by Bob Lonsberry © 2016
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Clinton Campaign Flounders Ahead of Iowa Caucus
Getting Hilly Clinton elected is a family (crime) business, but one that's facing a bear market. Her lead in the polls has shrunk to only 8.6 percentage points ahead of Bernie Sanders — the narrowest gap in the campaign so far. Clinton is running an uneven racetrack. Of course an avowed socialist named Sanders is making headway, because a socialist named Barack nObama has paved the way and the party can't tell the difference between Democrat and socialist.
This is terrible news for the Clinton campaign 15 days ahead of the Iowa caucus, as Clinton's lead is shrinking faster than it did in 2008. In what appeared to be a last ditch effort to reach out to younger voters, the Clinton campaign sent Chelsea Clinton to attack Sanders' health care policy in New Hampshire Tuesday, saying it would destroy nObamaCare, and thus take away health insurance from millions. (She didn't mention he would replace it with a single-payer system.) Chelsea is the figure Clinton has used to soften her image, to highlight her maternal side, to mitigate the fact that she fought for her husband's reputation after women accused him of sexual assault — a fact that has come back to hurt Hilly because today's society is more likely to believe women who speak up.
But this race isn't for Sanders or Clinton — with the baggage of the email scandal and dealings through her nonprofit — to decide. "The person who will decide the nomination on the democratic side is FBI Director James Comey," said commentator Charles Krauthammer. "If he decides to do a criminal referral [on Clinton], I think she can collapse — either it's quashed and then there's a huge scandal, or there's an indictment, in which case, [Joe] loose lips-Biden steps forward and he offers himself, self-sacrificially." Don't count out Elizabeth Warren, either. While many of the deadlines have passed to get loose lips-Biden's or Warren's name on the primary ballots in key states, Democrats could make the unusual move of running a brokered convention months later, replacing their inevitable candidate with a savior. -The Patriot Post
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Archbishops Rebuke Episcopal Church
The Archbishops of the World Anglican Communion convened in Canterbury, England, this week, and in a grave decision regarding the future of the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA), directed Archbishop Justin Welby to relegate of the American church to "observer" status. The move, which prevents Episcopal leaders from any role regarding "issues of doctrine or polity," has been anticipated for some years. The Episcopal Church was organized after the American Revolution and George Washington was an early communicant. But, as with the erosion of many other bedrock institutions by America's elite, ECUSA's current leaders have discarded the Church's biblical foundation.
In 2003, the "enlightened" U.S. bishops rebuffed the 85-million member World Anglican Communion, and codified their rejection of scriptural authority by ordaining Vicky Imogene Robinson, a divorced father of two, as the first openly homosexual Bishop of New Hampshire. Since then, ECUSA's Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori (the first female archbishop in apostolic Christian history), has embraced a broad slate of statist positions in opposition to the basic tenets of the church. She has decreed that "gay marriage" has equal in standing with biblical marriage, in clear opposition to Jesus's teaching on marriage, and the tradition and reason pillars of the church. She has further offended Christians by affirming a "nuanced approach" on killing unborn children — a "do as you please" approach. As a result, there are now fewer than 650,000 church attendees in the U.S. — and that number continues to decline. ECUSA leaders have done with the Bible what their fellow leftists have done with our Constitution. The ECUSA suspension is, in effect, one step short of expulsion, isolating the apostate U.S. Church so that its wealth and corrupting influence can't further diminish the biblical foundations of the World Church.
For further reading, see Mark Alexander's essay "Gender Identity, The Homosexual Agenda and The Christian Response."
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Fleecing Taxpayers for Sport
An overwhelming vote by NFL owners Tuesday means the St. Louis Rams will return to Los Angeles for the 2016 season after having spent 21 years by the Mighty Mississippi. St. Louis sportswriter Bernie Miklasz summed up the situation well, saying the "NFL is guilty of a personal foul." Miklasz's recap of the sordid details is well worth reading, even for those uninterested in the Rams themselves or football in general. Focused as we are on promoting Liberty and free enterprise, we consider the fleecing of taxpayers to be the essence of this story.
Taxpayers put up $280 million to largely finance the building of the Edward Jones Dome in downtown St. Louis two decades ago. Inexplicably, St. Louis included an opt-out clause so the Rams could leave if they no longer liked the stadium. Surprise — the team exercised its option. Now, without the Rams' presence and their $500,000 annual rent, the remaining $100 million bill becomes all the more difficult to pay off. Indeed, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is working on legislation to require franchises to pay back taxpayer money if they leave town "prematurely." The problem, however, is that cities are willing to put taxpayer money on the line for these stadium boondoggles in the first place. St. Louis taxpayers are in a bad spot, but their own politicians put them in this predicament — as do politicians in cities around the country when handing out hundreds of millions of dollars to billionaire sports owners. And McCaskill sure didn't seem to mind the city's offer of yet another $400 million to partially finance a brand new stadium for the Rams to replace the one not even as old as the team's youngest player. (And you thought players had short careers.)
In the end, the Rams brought one Super Bowl title to the Gateway City, but they also brought 16 years of losing (and often downright lousy) football, as well as the politically charged Michael Sam draft debacle and the notoriously non-factual "hands up, don't shoot" player protest in the wake of the Ferguson shooting. And the city is still on the hook for $100 million now that the party's over. Maybe LA shouldn't be so quick to celebrate the NFL's return. -The Patriot Post
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Prisoner swap had ties to nuclear
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{foxnews.com} ~ The White House acknowledged Saturday that the prisoner exchange with Iran that included Washington Post reporter Jason Razaian was connected to the international nuclear deal with Tehran but that it was also was just a “one-time-only” situation that will not open the door to prisoner swapping between the rival nations... As Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently concluded the nuclear talks, they also “recognized a unique opportunity … for release of those citizens,” a senior nObama administration official said on a conference call with reporters. “This is one-time-only type of arrangement. We don't anticipate replicated in the future, but if the window opened up we’d wanted to take advantage of it,” the official also said..
nObama grants 'refugee' status
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{wnd.com} ~ The number of Central American migrants crossing illegally into the United States through the Southern border has grown exponentially under the nObama administration.... More than 130,000 came in 2014 alone, most of them welcomed by sanctuary cities and then protected from deportation by President nObama’s executive actions. The legality of those actions remains unsettled and appears headed to the Supreme Court. But now President nObama has invented a new way to continue the influx of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador and do it in a way that is deemed “legal.” He will simply re-categorize them as “refugees.” It's going to be an ugly last year. http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/obama-grants-refugee-status-to-new-wave-of-migrants/
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nObama Administration stonewalling
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Leading senators on Monday petitioned multiple nObama administration agencies to stop stonewalling a congressional investigation into the immigration histories of at least 113 foreign-born individuals implicated in terrorist operations after legally entering the United States, according to a copy of the letters... The latest investigation comes just days after the Washington Free Beacon disclosed that an additional 41 foreign-born individuals who legally entered the United States had been arrested for planning a number of terror attacks. Sens. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) disclosed Monday that they had been pressuring the nObama administration for months to disclose the immigration histories of these foreign-born individuals implicated in terror plots. Agencies including the Departments of State and Homeland Security have stonewalled these efforts, declining since mid-2015 to provide Congress additional information. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-stonewalling-investigation-113-terrorists-united-states/.
Stunning Truth Behind the Capture of
Our U.S. Sailors by Iran
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What the US Government Won’t
Tell You About the Prisoner Swap With Iran
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10,000 Fighters Now in Hilly’s Libya
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As deal kicks in, PM credits
Israel with deferring Iran nukes
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2016.
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{timesofisrael.com} ~ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israeli efforts had put a nuclear bomb out of Iran’s reach for the time being... a day after the implementation of the landmark accord and the removal of sanctions from the Islamic Republic was announced. “If it weren’t for our efforts leading the way in enforcing the sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program, Iran would have had a nuclear weapon long ago,” the prime minister said at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. “Israel’s position is, and remains exactly as it has always been — to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. What’s clear is that Iran will now turn its resources toward its terrorist activity in the region and rest of the world, and Israel is prepared to handle that threat,” he said..
The roots of Black Lives Matter unveiled
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What Saul Alinsky Taught nObama...
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John hanoi-Kerry – Iran Deal
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The GOP Establishment’s Civil War
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It is still true that the party has never had a year like this, with the ground shifting beneath its feet. It’s hard to see this clearly because on the surface the things you expect to see happening are happening.
It is still true that the party has never had a year like this, with the ground shifting beneath its feet. It’s hard to see this clearly because on the surface the things you expect to see happening are happening.
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The candidates are starting to throw hard punches. They’re all trying to show they can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee—a necessary talent if you make it to the general election. No point in hand-wringing or telling them to stop on the grounds that what they’re doing will produce, for the Democrats, a badly bloodied GOP nominee.
The candidates are starting to throw hard punches. They’re all trying to show they can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee—a necessary talent if you make it to the general election. No point in hand-wringing or telling them to stop on the grounds that what they’re doing will produce, for the Democrats, a badly bloodied GOP nominee.
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Best and worst have come from Chris Christie, who has a way of keeping things lively. Earlier he counseled his fellow contenders not to savage each other—don’t waste your ammo, keep your eyes on the prize. Good advice. This week Marco Rubio’s PAC unloaded a spot slamming Mr. Christie on the old charge he embraced President nObama during Hurricane Sandy. The governor answered Wednesday on Laura Ingraham’s radio show. He called Mr. Rubio “a first-term United States senator who has never had a tough race.” He continued: “This guy’s been spoon-fed every victory he’s ever had in his life. That’s the kind of person that we want to put on stage against Hilly Clinton? I don’t think so. She’ll pat him on the head and then cut his heart out.” It was wonderfully colorful and malicious and reminded me of Sen. Bob Kerrey, who said of Bill Clinton in 1992 that he wouldn’t win in November because he hadn’t served in Vietnam: “He’s going to get opened up like a soft peanut.”
Best and worst have come from Chris Christie, who has a way of keeping things lively. Earlier he counseled his fellow contenders not to savage each other—don’t waste your ammo, keep your eyes on the prize. Good advice. This week Marco Rubio’s PAC unloaded a spot slamming Mr. Christie on the old charge he embraced President nObama during Hurricane Sandy. The governor answered Wednesday on Laura Ingraham’s radio show. He called Mr. Rubio “a first-term United States senator who has never had a tough race.” He continued: “This guy’s been spoon-fed every victory he’s ever had in his life. That’s the kind of person that we want to put on stage against Hilly Clinton? I don’t think so. She’ll pat him on the head and then cut his heart out.” It was wonderfully colorful and malicious and reminded me of Sen. Bob Kerrey, who said of Bill Clinton in 1992 that he wouldn’t win in November because he hadn’t served in Vietnam: “He’s going to get opened up like a soft peanut.”
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Democratic presidential primaries in those days were fierce. They’re not anymore, because the new Democratic Party, the one of the progressive left, has only a single unifying principle: winning. Hilly Clinton’s opponents haven’t laid a glove on her, and won’t.
Democratic presidential primaries in those days were fierce. They’re not anymore, because the new Democratic Party, the one of the progressive left, has only a single unifying principle: winning. Hilly Clinton’s opponents haven’t laid a glove on her, and won’t.
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Mr. Rubio has turned stern and indignant, as if he’s decided the base is angry so he’ll enact anger too. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, he darkly alleges, are “isolationist candidates” whose intent is “weakening our military and intelligence capabilities.” Mr. Paul responded by comparing Mr. Rubio to Rahm Emanuel.
Mr. Rubio has turned stern and indignant, as if he’s decided the base is angry so he’ll enact anger too. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, he darkly alleges, are “isolationist candidates” whose intent is “weakening our military and intelligence capabilities.” Mr. Paul responded by comparing Mr. Rubio to Rahm Emanuel.
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More touchingly, Jeb Bush again warned the base about Donald Trump. “It’s very fun to talk about the theatrics,” he said on “Morning Joe.” Mr. Trump has tapped into “angst and anger,” but “his views are not the views of a conservative.”
More touchingly, Jeb Bush again warned the base about Donald Trump. “It’s very fun to talk about the theatrics,” he said on “Morning Joe.” Mr. Trump has tapped into “angst and anger,” but “his views are not the views of a conservative.”
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Mr. Trump’s supporters don’t care if he’s classically conservative. Doctrinal purity is not the story this year. The GOP base is a big jumble.
Mr. Trump’s supporters don’t care if he’s classically conservative. Doctrinal purity is not the story this year. The GOP base is a big jumble.
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Democrats are likely less unified than they think. On the rightward and leftward edges of both parties they hate political correctness, illegal immigration, Wall Street.
Democrats are likely less unified than they think. On the rightward and leftward edges of both parties they hate political correctness, illegal immigration, Wall Street.
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A new playbook is emerging while some contenders seem to be reading from the old playbook and wondering why the plays they’re calling aren’t working.
A new playbook is emerging while some contenders seem to be reading from the old playbook and wondering why the plays they’re calling aren’t working.
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And the GOP is struggling. In Virginia the state Republican Party wants a so-called loyalty oath in the March 1 presidential primary. Virginia is an open-primary state—any registered voter can vote in either primary—but the GOP apparently wants to discourage independents and Democrats from voting for Mr. Trump. So they’ve decided voters should sign a statement of affiliation with the GOP before they get to cast a ballot. This is so idiotic it’s almost unbelievable. When Democrats and independents want to vote in your primary you should be happy. Politics is a game of addition! You want headlines that say “Massive GOP Turnout.” You don’t greet first-time voters with an oath but with cookies, ginger ale and balloons. Ronald Reagan reached out to Democrats in 1984: “Come too, come walk with me.” We still speak of Reagan Democrats.
And the GOP is struggling. In Virginia the state Republican Party wants a so-called loyalty oath in the March 1 presidential primary. Virginia is an open-primary state—any registered voter can vote in either primary—but the GOP apparently wants to discourage independents and Democrats from voting for Mr. Trump. So they’ve decided voters should sign a statement of affiliation with the GOP before they get to cast a ballot. This is so idiotic it’s almost unbelievable. When Democrats and independents want to vote in your primary you should be happy. Politics is a game of addition! You want headlines that say “Massive GOP Turnout.” You don’t greet first-time voters with an oath but with cookies, ginger ale and balloons. Ronald Reagan reached out to Democrats in 1984: “Come too, come walk with me.” We still speak of Reagan Democrats.
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I do not understand the inability or refusal of Republican leaders to take Mr. Trump seriously. They take his numbers seriously—they can read a poll—but they think, as Mr. Bush said, that his support is all about anger, angst and theatrics. That’s part of the story, but the other, more consequential part has to do with real policy issues. The establishment refuses to see that, because to admit it is to implicate themselves and their leadership. Political consultants can’t see it because they don’t think issues matter—not to them and certainly not to the dumb voters.
I do not understand the inability or refusal of Republican leaders to take Mr. Trump seriously. They take his numbers seriously—they can read a poll—but they think, as Mr. Bush said, that his support is all about anger, angst and theatrics. That’s part of the story, but the other, more consequential part has to do with real policy issues. The establishment refuses to see that, because to admit it is to implicate themselves and their leadership. Political consultants can’t see it because they don’t think issues matter—not to them and certainly not to the dumb voters.
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But issues do matter, and Mr. Trump has functioned this year not as a great communicator or great compromiser but as the great disrupter. He brags that he has brought up great questions and forced other candidates to face them and sometimes change their stands—and he has. He changed the debate on illegal immigration. He said he’d build a wall and close the border and as the months passed and his competitors saw his surge, they too were suddenly, clearly, aggressively for ending illegal immigration.
But issues do matter, and Mr. Trump has functioned this year not as a great communicator or great compromiser but as the great disrupter. He brags that he has brought up great questions and forced other candidates to face them and sometimes change their stands—and he has. He changed the debate on illegal immigration. He said he’d build a wall and close the border and as the months passed and his competitors saw his surge, they too were suddenly, clearly, aggressively for ending illegal immigration.
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Mr. Trump touched an important nerve in opposing the political correctness that has angered the American people for a quarter century. He changed the debate when he asked for a pause in Muslim immigration until America “can figure out what’s going on.” In the age of terror, that looked suspiciously like common sense. Americans do not want America to become what Europe is becoming.
Mr. Trump touched an important nerve in opposing the political correctness that has angered the American people for a quarter century. He changed the debate when he asked for a pause in Muslim immigration until America “can figure out what’s going on.” In the age of terror, that looked suspiciously like common sense. Americans do not want America to become what Europe is becoming.
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You only have to look at what is reported to have happened in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve to get a sense that Europe’s establishment, with its politically correct thinking, is losing control. Angela Merkel is a great lady and most of her leadership has been sound as a drum, but she will probably lose her job eventually because of her epic miscalculation in accepting more than a million Middle Eastern refugees.
You only have to look at what is reported to have happened in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve to get a sense that Europe’s establishment, with its politically correct thinking, is losing control. Angela Merkel is a great lady and most of her leadership has been sound as a drum, but she will probably lose her job eventually because of her epic miscalculation in accepting more than a million Middle Eastern refugees.
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Her decision was no doubt driven by heart and sympathy, but it reminds me of the fall of Margaret Thatcher. In 1989 Thatcher moved to impose a change in the British tax system. This caused resentment and then unrest. She wouldn’t back down, and the next year she fell. Years later she told me what she’d learned. People are afraid, she said; they live closer to the margins than we understand. When you propose a big change you can leave people feeling as if the rug is being pulled from under them. That’s a big thing to learn, and she spoke of it with humility.
Her decision was no doubt driven by heart and sympathy, but it reminds me of the fall of Margaret Thatcher. In 1989 Thatcher moved to impose a change in the British tax system. This caused resentment and then unrest. She wouldn’t back down, and the next year she fell. Years later she told me what she’d learned. People are afraid, she said; they live closer to the margins than we understand. When you propose a big change you can leave people feeling as if the rug is being pulled from under them. That’s a big thing to learn, and she spoke of it with humility.
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She lost her job by being too tough. Ms. Merkel has imperiled hers by being too soft. But the lesson is the same: know how close to the edge people feel, how powerless, and respect their anxiety. Don’t look down on it, and them.
She lost her job by being too tough. Ms. Merkel has imperiled hers by being too soft. But the lesson is the same: know how close to the edge people feel, how powerless, and respect their anxiety. Don’t look down on it, and them.
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Back to the Republicans. It reflects badly on the party that Donald Trump—whom one journalist this week characterized as a guy running around with his hair on fire—had to become the party’s 2016 thought leader.
Back to the Republicans. It reflects badly on the party that Donald Trump—whom one journalist this week characterized as a guy running around with his hair on fire—had to become the party’s 2016 thought leader.
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Bernie Sanders has, in a way, had the wit to see this, which is why he said he is reaching out to Trump supporters.
Bernie Sanders has, in a way, had the wit to see this, which is why he said he is reaching out to Trump supporters.
By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist - www.represent.us – texusa2016@gmail.com
Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
Seek the truth and let the people know. Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties.
Wake-up Americans we are not a Democratic Republic, we are a plutocracy run by big money.
Big Money rules - The U.S. plutocracy. http://www.dailyrepublic.com/opinion/localopinioncolumnists/big-money-rules-us-plutocracy/
Fellow Americans, do not blame the Latinos or illegal aliens for the unemployment and low wages in our country. The people that created this economic hardship and unemployment in our country are, the corrupt sycophants, sociopaths, pathological liars that we elected to office and the greedy elite that transformed our free enterprise and capitalism into crony-capitalism, predator corporatism and a monopolist system where the big fish eat the small fish and that big fish is help and protected by the sycophants that we elected to office and passed legislations “FREE TRADE”to help them to get rich and destroy our economic and make millions of American workers economy slaves.
TOP U.S. CORPORATIONS. CEOS PAY.
http://www.equilar.com/reports/18-200-highest-paid-CEO-rankings-2015.html
WORST U.S. CORPORATIONS - WORKERS EXPLOITERS AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT
http://www.globalexchange.org/corporateHRviolators
AMERICA’S GREEDIEST CEOS
http://toomuchonline.org/presenting-americas-ten-greediest-2013/
PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE, THE WORST CORPORATIONS.
http://eco-chick.com/2009/05/3845/profits-before-people/
US CORPORATIONS- CRIMINALS PSYCHOPATH.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-corporation-as-psychopath/5345811
SOCIOPHATS CORPORATE CRIMINALS.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/powers-abuses-americas-mega-corporations/185775/
http://www.laborrights.org/in-the-news/14-worst-corporate-evildoers
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/disca/ownership-summary
100 Highest Paid CEOs
Ticker | Company | CEO Name | Year | Compensation ($) |
David M. Zaslav | 2014 | $156,077,912 | ||
Mario J. Gabelli | 2014 | $88,518,411 | ||
Satya Nadella | 2014 | $84,308,755 | ||
Lawrence J. Ellison | 2014 | $67,261,251 | ||
Jon Feltheimer | 2014 | $63,601,493 | ||
T.M. (Roe) Patterson | 2014 | $62,863,840 | ||
Steven M. Mollenkopf | 2014 | $60,740,592 | ||
Leslie Moonves | 2014 | $57,175,645 | ||
Daniel R. Hesse | 2013 | $47,077,699 | ||
Robert A. Iger | 2014 | $46,497,018 | ||
Philippe P. Dauman | 2014 | $44,334,858 | ||
Joseph W. Brown | 2014 | $43,602,334 | ||
Marissa A. Mayer | 2014 | $42,083,508 | ||
Leonard S. Schleifer, M.D., Ph.D | 2014 | $41,965,424 | ||
Mr. Joshua W. Sapan | 2014 | $40,313,856 | ||
Marc Benioff | 2015 | $39,907,534 | ||
John R Strangfeld | 2014 | $37,483,092 | ||
Jeffrey R. Immelt | 2014 | $37,250,774 | ||
Jeffrey M. Leiden | 2014 | $36,635,468 | ||
Rob Marcus | 2014 | $34,615,597 | ||
Marillyn A. Hewson | 2014 | $33,687,442 | ||
Liam Mcgee | 2014 | $33,479,089 | ||
Martine Rothblatt | 2014 | $33,214,929 | ||
R.W. Tillerson | 2014 | $33,096,312 | ||
Brian L. Roberts | 2014 | $32,961,056 | ||
Jeffrey L. Bewkes | 2014 | $32,903,139 | ||
Herv?? Hoppenot | 2014 | $32,691,026 | ||
Gary Loveman | 2014 | $32,650,741 | ||
Eric J. Foss | 2014 | $32,422,382 | ||
Gregory B. Maffei | 2014 | $32,368,101 | ||
Larry J. Merlo | 2014 | $32,350,733 | ||
Zachary Nelson | 2014 | $31,640,991 | ||
Robert F. X. Sillerman | 2013 | $30,286,521 | ||
W. Nicholas Howley | 2014 | $30,245,400 | ||
Shaygan Kheradpir | 2014 | $30,165,992 | ||
Howard M. Lorber | 2014 | $29,636,639 | ||
K. Rupert Murdoch | 2014 | $29,247,871 | ||
David M. Cote | 2014 | $29,142,121 | ||
Steve Ells | 2014 | $28,924,270 | ||
W. James Mcnerney, Jr | 2014 | $28,861,920 | ||
Carol Meyrowitz | 2015 | $28,692,391 | ||
Brian C. Cornell | 2014 | $28,164,024 | ||
John J. Koraleski | 2014 | $28,144,047 | ||
Jonathan Oringer | 2014 | $27,586,959 | ||
R.M. Lance | 2014 | $27,575,900 | ||
William H. Swanson | 2014 | $27,371,707 | ||
Paul M. Rady | 2014 | $27,334,673 | ||
Louis Ch??nevert | 2014 | $27,107,982 | ||
Lamberto Andreotti | 2014 | $27,062,382 | ||
Wayne B. Goldberg | 2014 | $26,739,908 | ||
Andrew Liveris | 2014 | $26,642,438 | ||
Wayne T. Smith | 2014 | $26,441,382 | ||
William Mccomb | 2014 | $26,225,335 | ||
J.S. Watson | 2014 | $25,970,417 | ||
Ari Bousbib | 2014 | $25,936,121 | ||
John H. Hammergren | 2014 | $25,919,882 | ||
Ronald N. Tutor | 2014 | $25,555,415 | ||
Stephen A. Wynn | 2014 | $25,322,854 | ||
Muhtar Kent | 2014 | $25,224,422 | ||
Kenneth C. Frazier | 2014 | $25,029,370 | ||
Alex Gorsky | 2014 | $24,989,306 | ||
Susan D. Devore | 2014 | $24,909,229 | ||
Thomas B. Barker | 2014 | $24,628,995 | ||
Ralph Lauren | 2014 | $24,537,936 | ||
Greg C. Garland | 2014 | $24,508,433 | ||
John C. Plant | 2013 | $24,466,286 | ||
Stephen P. Macmillan | 2014 | $24,458,289 | ||
James M. Cracchiolo | 2014 | $24,455,192 | ||
Robert J. Hugin | 2014 | $24,236,113 | ||
Michael J. Saylor | 2014 | $24,101,665 | ||
Leslie H. Wexner | 2014 | $24,094,036 | ||
John D. Wren | 2014 | $24,014,697 | ||
Brian Harris | 2014 | $24,003,492 | ||
R. Stephenson | 2014 | $23,984,315 | ||
Laurence D. Fink | 2014 | $23,862,458 | ||
James L. Dolan | 2014 | $23,702,403 | ||
I. Read | 2014 | $23,283,048 | ||
James P. Gorman | 2014 | $23,270,044 | ||
A. Jayson Adair | 2014 | $22,878,001 | ||
K.I. Chenault | 2014 | $22,796,083 | ||
Brian D. Jellison | 2014 | $22,689,220 | ||
Indra K. Nooyi | 2014 | $22,485,574 | ||
John B Hess | 2014 | $22,459,530 | ||
Ursula M. Burns | 2014 | $22,205,362 | ||
Lloyd C. Blankfein | 2014 | $22,162,912 | ||
Barry D. Zyskind | 2014 | $22,130,044 | ||
Rajiv De Silva | 2014 | $22,071,596 | ||
Alan Mulally | 2014 | $22,042,128 | ||
Richard A. Gonzalez | 2014 | $22,006,271 | ||
Darren Huston | 2014 | $21,966,094 | ||
Wesley G. Bush | 2014 | $21,795,703 | ||
C. E. Bunch | 2014 | $21,628,081 | ||
John Richels | 2014 | $21,611,030 | ||
Howard Schultz | 2014 | $21,466,454 | ||
John G. Stumpf | 2014 | $21,426,391 | ||
Irene Rosenfeld | 2014 | $21,039,946 | ||
Gregory J. Goff | 2014 | $20,855,549 | ||
R. A. Walker | 2014 | $20,720,187 | ||
Thomas F. Farrell, II | 2014 | $20,612,945 | ||
Leonard Bell, M.D. | 2014 | $20,570,703 |
Executive Pay watch
In 2013, the average CEO made 331 times more than the average worker. The average worker earned: $16.94 an hour - Anthony J. Alexander (FE) $11,207 an hour
Average worker pay according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data for production and nonsupervisory workers.
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By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on americanpbn.com
“For more than a year, America has led a coalition of more than 60 countries to cut off ISIL’s financing, disrupt their plots, stop the flow of terrorist fighters, and stamp out their vicious ideology. With nearly 10,000 air strikes, we are taking out their leadership, their oil, their training camps, and their weapons. We are training, arming, and supporting forces who are steadily reclaiming territory in Iraq and Syria.”
That is just some of the nonsense Obama spewed forth a week ago in what was his last State of Fabrication address but that’s not all he had to say on the topic of ISIS.
“Masses of fighters on the back of pickup trucks and twisted souls plotting in apartments or garages pose an enormous danger to civilians and must be stopped. But they do not threaten our national existence.”
“We don’t need to build them up to show that we’re serious, nor do we need to push away vital allies in this fight by echoing the lie that ISIL is representative of one of the world’s largest religions. We just need to call them what they are — killers and fanatics who have to be rooted out, hunted down, and destroyed.”
Let’s start right there, shall we…with calling them what they are.
"New York Values For Dummies"
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By Oscar Y. Harward
New York values representing a majority of their votes represent: ‘pro-abortion’, ‘same-sex marriage’, ‘homosexuality and lesbian activity’, ‘gun control’, ‘Islam’ equal to or superior to ‘Christianity’, ‘higher taxes’, ‘‘Main-stream’ Medias’ news reporting, etc.
When 2016 Republican Party candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks about New York values, he is expressing the ‘facts’ with ‘truths’.
New York values representing a majority of their votes include supporting: ‘all abortions’; including even the third trimester abortions as in conflict with our Founding Fathers’ July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
New York values representing a majority of their votes include supporting: ‘same-sex marriage’ as well as homosexuality and lesbian activity; all values that disobey our Holy Bible: Genesis 19:1-5; Leviticus 18:22; Leviticus 20:13; Mark 7:21; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 5:1.
New York values representing a majority of their votes include supporting: ‘gun control’ including their efforts to damage and/or destroy the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution. The Second Amendment should and must be taught in our ‘public’ schools the importance of owning a gun for protecting their own life, the lives of their family, in hunting wildlife for food, in shooting as a hobby, and most importantly, for our protection from a tyrannical government.
New York citizens vote to elect and re-elect some candidates who support ‘Islam as a religion, the Quran, and Sharia law’; equal to or over ‘Christianity, the Bible, and our Constitution’.
Islam is not a religion. Islam is a society who supports the total elimination by killing all Christians, Jews, and all others who oppose Islam. Islamic Muslims openly communicate their hate on a daily basis. Islamic Muslims practice their beliefs on a daily basis as they attack and kill those who oppose Islam. See the ‘Islamic’ hate evidence.
New York values representing a majority of their votes include supporting: elective and appointed officials who vote for and/or authorize ‘higher taxes’, less freedoms, and immorally values.
A USA Today article dated October 2012 says the State of New York ranks #1 on the ‘highest’ taxes followed by New Jersey, Connecticut, California, and Wisconsin.
The State of Alaska ranks #1 on the ‘lowest’ taxes followed by South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Wyoming.
New York values representing a majority of their votes include supporting: a majority of ‘Liberal’ and ‘Main-stream’ Medias of the news to include ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Daily News, etc.
New York values representing a majority of their votes include denying: responsible Conservative reporting of the news as ‘Fox News Channel’, ‘America News Channel’, New York Post, Washington Times, etc. and many Conservative ‘Talk-Radio’ programs.
On the other side, many New Yorkers showed their best of heroism during the 9/11/01 as attacked by ‘terrorist’ Islamic Muslims; and in every respect, on other occasions.
All of our children should and must be taught in all ‘public’ schools everything about our, our World History, our American History, our Constitution, and our American flag.
Yes, there are many differences between New York values v. mid-America, USA.
13 Hours and Counting to the end of Hillary's Candidacy
Patricia Smith and Charles Woods, parents of two of the Benghazi dead, Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, would disagree with the notion that history is a lie agreed upon. They do not agree with and do not consent to Hillary Clinton’s attempted rewriting of history and the attempted hiding of what is arguably her criminal negligence in what she calls the “fog of war.”
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/em13_hoursem_and_counting_to_the_end_of_hillarys_candidacy.html#ixzz3xcgueR3S
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The State Of The Presidency: Spent
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER.
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A Way to Slow Executive Overreach
"Our Founders distributed power between states and branches of government, and expected us to argue, just as they did, fiercely, over the size and shape of government, over commerce and foreign relations, over the meaning of liberty and the imperatives of security," Barack nObama told us Tuesday night in a civics lesson meant to browbeat everyone into agreeing with him.
So how do we use the separation of powers he mentioned to slow the unilateral advance of his agenda by executive fiat? Genevieve Wood of The Heritage Foundation has a strategy: "Though Congress has given up much of its power when it comes to using its 'power of the purse' to stop executive overreach, there is one power it still holds, and there is absolutely no reason not to use it. Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, popularly known as 'Advice and Consent,' requires the Senate to approve all presidential appointments of cabinet officials, ambassadors, and federal judges. The day of the Senate 'consenting' and following a go-along get-along strategy on such matters should be over."
While this wouldn't cause much trouble for judicial appointments — 91% of those seats are filled — there are more than 100 key administration jobs being held by an acting deputy if not by an empty chair. (And we all know how much nObama likes empty chairs.) It's not uncommon for this to happen to some extent in the final year of a president's second term, but nObama's vacancies are more numerous than his predecessors'. Republicans shouldn't hesitate to use any tool at their disposal to make nObama's final year as unproductive as possible.
-The Patriot Post
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nObama Still Working to Close Gitmo
During his State of the Union remarks, Barack nObama said that he would continue to make the closing of Guantanamo Bay Detention Center a reality — just like he's said for the last seven years. "I will keep working to shut down the prison at Guantanamo," nObama said. "It's expensive, it's unnecessary, and it only serves as a recruitment brochure for our enemies." Late last year, nObama lost a political fight to close the prison that is holding terrorists and suspected terrorists. He tried to attach a proposal to the defense-spending bill that would authorize a move of Gitmo detainees to a prison in the States — even vetoing the bill when it arrived on his desk without his demands. Now, nObama will again use executive action to subvert the will of Congress and U.S. law. His administration has been releasing prisoners, five in trade for Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, and now 10 Yemenis will be shipped off to the United Arab Emirates because this administration no longer considers them a threat. But this administration also once argued Iraq was stable enough to leave. While nObama won't close Gitmo all at once, he will close it one prisoner at a time. -The Patriot Post
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State of Fundamental Change When Barack nObama campaigned for president in 2008, he pledged to strengthen the economy, create jobs and restore confidence in America. On Tuesday in his final State of the Union Address, he tried to convince America that he had succeeded. But after seven years of watching the White House operate outside the realm of reality, no one is fooled.
nObama set the stage by preemptively insulting anyone who would attempt to unravel the spin he was about to spew, stating, "Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction." Of course, someone who lives in a world of fantasy, where a jump in the national debt from $10.6 trillion in 2009 to $18.8 trillion today is "economic progress," can hardly be trusted to judge fact and fiction.
In the land of reality, nObama's economy is a downright failure. First, as The Daily Signal explains, while nObama touted lower unemployment and more jobs, the fact is that the 5% unemployment rate today is worse than the 4.4% rate under George W. Bush in May of 2007. And the unemployment rate doesn't count the millions who have left the workforce during nObama's reign. Indeed, the labor participation rate today is the lowest since 1977, standing at just 62.6%. What's more, the average unemployed worker has been jobless for more than six months, longer than at any time between 1945 and nObama's inauguration.
As for those new jobs? Job creation has mostly kept pace with population growth. While treading water is better than the alternative, it's hardly worthy of a medal. -The Patriot Post
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Iran, the American Sailors,
and Current Laws
Cully Stimson 
James Phillips.
{dailysignal.com} ~ Given the news that Iran held U.S. naval personnel and their two vessels for a day or so, and broadcast the images and videos of the sailors, we thought it prudent to explore the legal, security, and policy ramifications of Iran’s latest provocative actions....
1) Why did Iran hold American sailors? There are myriad issues tied up in Iran’s actions, and it is important not to merge or commingle the legal, national security, and political aspects of their actions. But before exploring those parts, it goes without saying that Iran clearly broadcast images of U.S. sailors, on their knees, as a way of embarrassing the sailors, this administration, and the United States of America. These are not the actions of a country that can be trusted, let alone those of what the Obama administration considers a potential ally.
1) Why did Iran hold American sailors? There are myriad issues tied up in Iran’s actions, and it is important not to merge or commingle the legal, national security, and political aspects of their actions. But before exploring those parts, it goes without saying that Iran clearly broadcast images of U.S. sailors, on their knees, as a way of embarrassing the sailors, this administration, and the United States of America. These are not the actions of a country that can be trusted, let alone those of what the Obama administration considers a potential ally.
2) Was the timing of this maritime capture and detention arbitrary, or is something else going on?
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nObama Sacrifices National Security
to Keep Iran Happy
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In Dangerous Gamble,
the nObama Administration Is Abandoning
Decades-Old Mideast Alliances
Tony Badran
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ In response to the crisis in relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, following the latter's assault on the Saudi consulate and embassy in Iran, the nObama administration has taken to the media to unleash a furious rebuke... But the administration's condemnation was not aimed primarily at Tehran; instead it's been largely directed at America's longstanding ally: Saudi Arabia. Administration officials have charged that, by executing radical Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, the Saudis have exacerbated sectarian tensions in the region and jeopardized U.S. policy in Syria. "This is a dangerous game they are playing," an unnamed U.S. official told the Washington Post. "There are larger repercussions," including damage to "counter-ISIL initiatives as well as the Syrian peace process." This is a common thread that runs through the administration's briefings against the Saudis, which reveals the White House's backing of Iran's regional position over and against the traditional U.S. alliance system. The claim that the Saudis were damaging the supposed Syrian "peace process" sounds surreal on its face. But it is quite revealing, not just about how the White House defines success, but also about its overall policy in Syria.
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The Islamic State vs. Al-Qaeda:
The War Within the Jihadist Movement
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross(Co-authored with Nathaniel Barr and Bridget Moreng)
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The post-Arab Spring period has seen extraordinary growth in the global jihadist movement... In addition to the Islamic State seizing a vast swathe of territory spanning Syria and Iraq and al-Qaeda establishing itself as a potent military force in the Syrian civil war, instability and unfulfilled expectations in numerous countries — including Egypt, Libya, Mali, Tunisia, and Yemen — have presented jihadists with unprecedented opportunities. But even as the jihadist movement experiences rapid growth, it has also endured unprecedented internal turmoil. The Islamic State’s emergence marks the first time that leadership over the global jihadist movement has been seriously contested. Since that group’s expulsion from the al-Qaeda network in February 2014, a fierce competition between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda has defined the militant landscape. The United States has an opportunity to exploit and aggravate fissures within the jihadist community, but to do so successfully, it is essential to understand the differences in the modus operandi of these two rival jihadist groups. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/gartenstein-ross-daveed-the-islamic-state-vs-al-qaeda-the-war-within-the-jihadist-movement/
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Defense Secretary Slips Up,
Reveals nObama Admin LED IRAN
Straight to Our Sailors
conservativetribune
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The Cult of Liberalism has
Infected the USA and SOTU is proof
Nicholas Wishek
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The Federal Lands Freedom Act:
Empowering States to Control
Their Own Energy Futures
Katie Tubb and Nicolas D. Loris
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{insideronline.org} ~ The United States is now the world’s leader in both natural gas and oil production— centuries’ worth of oil, natural gas, and coal resources lie beneath private property as well as under lands owned by state governments... While federally owned lands are also full of energy potential, a bureaucratic regulatory regime has mismanaged land use for decades. The tremendous economic benefits of open energy markets and the proven track record of the individual states’ regulatory structures dictate a re-examination of the way the federal government manages resources on federal lands. The Federal Lands Freedom Act gives states the authority to administer leasing, permitting, and regulatory programs for development of all energy resources on federal lands. States are already well positioned to help make a transition to better management of these resources. While Congress should pursue opportunities to reduce the size of the federal estate, the Federal Lands Freedom Act is a significant step toward better management of America’s lands and natural resources. http://www.insideronline.org/reader.php?id=XqER
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Incandescents Now
More Efficient than LEDs
JEFFREY A. TUCKER.
{fee.org} ~ Researchers at the MIT are publicizing that they have fixed the incandescent lightbulb with a brilliant improvement... They have wrapped the interior filament in a crystal glass that both bounces light and contains heat. It recycles energy in a way that addresses the main complaint against Edison’s bulb: It burns far too much energy for the light that it produces. Why is this interesting? About a decade ago, governments around the world developed a fetish for banning incandescents (through an efficiency rule) and replacing them with expensive LED technology and florescent bulbs. It happened in Europe first but eventually came to the United States. The last American factory to produce them closed in 2010, and they are ever harder to find in even the big-box hardware stores. (As with all such bans, there are exceptions for elites who desire specialty bulbs.) The change has been seriously annoying for many consumers. It has even given rise to hoarding and gray markets (in Germany, such bulbs were repackaged as “heat balls”). It has produced something of a political backlash, too..
'Overwhelming Evidence' that
Rescue Teams in Benghazi were Turned Back
Alice Greene
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Sharyl Attkisson
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Iran JUST Released
American Pastor, Marine And Reporter
Carol Morello, William Branigin
and Karen DeYoung
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{washingtonpost.com} ~ Iran released Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and three other detained Iranian Americans on Saturday in exchange for seven people imprisoned or charged in the United States... U.S. and Iranian officials said, a swap linked to the implementation of a landmark nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers. Hours after Iranian officials said Rezaian, 39, was freed from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison after 18 months of captivity, and after a planned ceremony on the nuclear accord in Vienna was repeatedly postponed, the Post journalist and the other Americans remained in Tehran, waiting to be flown out of the country aboard a Swiss plane. But the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency then announced the release of a report Saturday “confirming that Iran has completed the necessary preparatory steps to start the implementation” of the nuclear deal, a move that apparently paves the way for the exchange to go ahead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iran-releases-post-correspondent-jason-rezaian-iranian-reports-say/2016/01/16/e8ee7858-ba38-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html.
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The State Of The Presidency: Spent
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER.
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The signs of intellectual exhaustion were everywhere. Consider just three. After taking credit for success in Syria, raising American stature abroad and prevailing against the Islamic State — one claim more surreal than the next — nObama was forced to repair to his most well-worn talking point: “If you doubt America’s commitment — or mine — to see that justice is done, just ask Osama bin Laden.”
The signs of intellectual exhaustion were everywhere. Consider just three. After taking credit for success in Syria, raising American stature abroad and prevailing against the Islamic State — one claim more surreal than the next — nObama was forced to repair to his most well-worn talking point: “If you doubt America’s commitment — or mine — to see that justice is done, just ask Osama bin Laden.”
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Really? Five years later, that’s all you’ve got?
Really? Five years later, that’s all you’ve got?
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Indeed, it is. What else can nObama say? Talk about Crimea? Cite Yemen, Libya, Iraq, the South China Sea, the return of the Taliban?
Indeed, it is. What else can nObama say? Talk about Crimea? Cite Yemen, Libya, Iraq, the South China Sea, the return of the Taliban?
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“Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office,” nObama boasted. Surveys, mind you. As if superpower influence is a Miss Universe contest. As if the world doesn’t see our allies adrift, our enemies on the march and our sailors kneeling, hands behind their heads, in front of armed Iranians, then forced to apologize on camera. And our secretary of state expressing appreciation to Iran after their subsequent release.
“Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office,” nObama boasted. Surveys, mind you. As if superpower influence is a Miss Universe contest. As if the world doesn’t see our allies adrift, our enemies on the march and our sailors kneeling, hands behind their heads, in front of armed Iranians, then forced to apologize on camera. And our secretary of state expressing appreciation to Iran after their subsequent release.
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On the domestic side, nObama’s agenda was fairly short, in keeping with his lame-duck status. It was still startling when he worked up a passion for a great “new moonshot”: curing cancer.
On the domestic side, nObama’s agenda was fairly short, in keeping with his lame-duck status. It was still startling when he worked up a passion for a great “new moonshot”: curing cancer.
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Is there a more hackneyed national-greatness cliche than the idea that if we can walk on the moon … ? Or a more hackneyed facsimile of vision than being “the nation that cures cancer”? Do nObama’s speechwriters not know that it was Richard Nixon who first declared a war on cancer — in 1971?
Is there a more hackneyed national-greatness cliche than the idea that if we can walk on the moon … ? Or a more hackneyed facsimile of vision than being “the nation that cures cancer”? Do nObama’s speechwriters not know that it was Richard Nixon who first declared a war on cancer — in 1971?
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But to see just how bare is the cupboard of ideas of the nation’s most vaunted liberal visionary, we had to wait for the stunning anachronism that was the speech finale. It was designed for inspiration and uplift. And for some liberal observers, it actually worked. They were thrilled by the soaring tones as nObama called for, yes, a new politics — a post-partisan spirit of mutual understanding, rational discourse and respect for one’s opponents.
But to see just how bare is the cupboard of ideas of the nation’s most vaunted liberal visionary, we had to wait for the stunning anachronism that was the speech finale. It was designed for inspiration and uplift. And for some liberal observers, it actually worked. They were thrilled by the soaring tones as nObama called for, yes, a new politics — a post-partisan spirit of mutual understanding, rational discourse and respect for one’s opponents.
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Why, it was hope and change all over again. You’d have thought we were back in 2008 with nObama’s moving, stirring promise of a new and higher politics that had young people swooning in the aisles and a TV anchor thrilling up the leg — and gave nObama the White House.
Why, it was hope and change all over again. You’d have thought we were back in 2008 with nObama’s moving, stirring promise of a new and higher politics that had young people swooning in the aisles and a TV anchor thrilling up the leg — and gave nObama the White House.
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Or even further back to 2004, when nObama electrified the nation with his Democratic convention speech: “There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”
Or even further back to 2004, when nObama electrified the nation with his Democratic convention speech: “There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”
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Tuesday night, nObama did an undisguised, almost phrase-for-phrase reprise of that old promise. Earnestly, he urged us to “see ourselves not, first and foremost, as black or white, or Asian or Latino, not as gay or straight, immigrant or native born, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans first.”
Tuesday night, nObama did an undisguised, almost phrase-for-phrase reprise of that old promise. Earnestly, he urged us to “see ourselves not, first and foremost, as black or white, or Asian or Latino, not as gay or straight, immigrant or native born, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans first.”
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On cue, various commentators were moved by this sermon summoning our better angels. Good grief. I can understand falling for this 12 years ago. But now? A cheap self-quotation, a rhetorical mulligan, from a man who had two presidential terms to act on that transformative vision and instead gave us the most divisive, partisan, tendentious presidency since Nixon.
On cue, various commentators were moved by this sermon summoning our better angels. Good grief. I can understand falling for this 12 years ago. But now? A cheap self-quotation, a rhetorical mulligan, from a man who had two presidential terms to act on that transformative vision and instead gave us the most divisive, partisan, tendentious presidency since Nixon.
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Rational discourse and respect for one’s opponents? This is a man who campaigned up and down the country throughout 2011 and 2012 saying that he cares about posterity, Republicans only about power.
Rational discourse and respect for one’s opponents? This is a man who campaigned up and down the country throughout 2011 and 2012 saying that he cares about posterity, Republicans only about power.
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The man who accused opponents of his Iran treaty of “making common cause” with Iranians “chanting death to America.”
The man who accused opponents of his Iran treaty of “making common cause” with Iranians “chanting death to America.”
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The man who, after Paul Ryan proposed a courageous, controversial entitlement reform, gave a presidential address — with Ryan, invited by the White House, seated in the first row — calling his ideas un-American.
The man who, after Paul Ryan proposed a courageous, controversial entitlement reform, gave a presidential address — with Ryan, invited by the White House, seated in the first row — calling his ideas un-American.
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In a final touch of irony, nObama included in his wistful rediscovery of a more elevated politics an expression of reverence for, of all things, how “our founders distributed power between … branches of government.” This after years of repeatedly usurping Congress’ legislative power with unilateral executive orders and regulations on everything from criminal justice to climate change to immigration (already halted by the courts).
In a final touch of irony, nObama included in his wistful rediscovery of a more elevated politics an expression of reverence for, of all things, how “our founders distributed power between … branches of government.” This after years of repeatedly usurping Congress’ legislative power with unilateral executive orders and regulations on everything from criminal justice to climate change to immigration (already halted by the courts).
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There is wisdom to the 22nd Amendment. After two terms, presidents are spent. Nothing shows it like a State of the Union valedictory repeating the hollow promises of the yesteryear candidate — as if the intervening presidency had never occurred.
There is wisdom to the 22nd Amendment. After two terms, presidents are spent. Nothing shows it like a State of the Union valedictory repeating the hollow promises of the yesteryear candidate — as if the intervening presidency had never occurred.
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GREAT NEWS!
[F]ederal tax revenues hit a record $765B for the 1st Qtr of FY 2016 [1].
A "record"! Wow! You see! The economy IS improving after all! YAY! - Joe Repubic
Slow down, and put down your pompoms, Joe! The question an INFORMED person would ask is "HOW MUCH did the federal govt SPEND during that same quarter?". The answer: $980B! A $215B DEFICIT! At this rate, the country will be further in the abyss by approx another $TRILLION!
BUT WAIT!
Since been established that the federal govt, along w/ The Fed, have been cooking-the-books on EVERYTHING, is it possible...just possible...that this 1Q/FY2016 figure is also yet another crap stew cooked up by Uncle Scam?!
Well, it's been reported that the State Department somehow is missing $6B [2] from their books as well!
NEW QUESTION:
WHY aren't the members of the Republican club in DC yelling from the halls of Congress and everywhere else on all the purse-bursting-spending and the accountability going on right under their noses? M answer: Because to do so would be yet another FARCE; yet another act of hypocrisy on THEIR part! As the repubs have APPROVED every spending bill and every Exec Ordor that came out of Oabma's play book!
Back in 2009, the GOP candidates PROMISED the country that they'd put a stop to the DC soending-madness and secret/ middle-of-the-night deals. They DIDN'T!
We were then reassured that if the GOP also gained the Senate that they would THEN be able to put a stop to the DC madness and runaway spending. It got WORSE!
Since the 2014 results, the cheerleading-fans of the DC Republicn machine have been painstakingly trying to convince those that have their eyes wide OPEN that if the GOP would get the WH in 2016 -- then our problems would be solved!
Now there's the new hero/warrior/savior for this next election cycle. One pops up every time! The only thing that I see that's constant and consistent is the INSANITY being played out by both the politicians...AND the voters...alike.
Dr Martin Luther King's "Dream", as well as those of our Founders and Framers, has fundamentally transformed into a nightmare!
Luis
[1[ http://freebeacon.com/issues/765b-government-collects-record-high-taxes-in-1st-quarter-of-fy-2016/
[2] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/4/state-dept-misplaced-6b-under-hillary-clinton-ig-r/?page=all
