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THIS IS WHAT AMERICANS CARE ABOUT

By: Juan Reynoso, WTP activist  -  www.represent.us

http://anticorruptionact.org/.     STAND FOR AMERICA        http://www.teaparty.org/

"Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty."

We must seek the truth and let the people know. America will never be destroyed from the outside; it will be destroyed from within. Greed and the love for money are evil. The evil factors that will destroy our country are: Corporate greed and bribes that corrupts our government, military interventions to rob foreign countries of their natural resources and the NEOCON promotion of globalization and free trade. If we falter to take action and loss our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves by ignorance and apathy. We know our enemy; we must destroy them before they destroy us.

Fellow Americans, the following is the result of our research:

This is what the American people cares about.

1-     Americans want good paying jobs to support their families and working conditions to allow them to care for their families, pay vacation and working hours to promote family unification. http://www.lowwagework.org/facts-about-low-wage-work.html

2-     End globalization and free trade. http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/how-globalism-has-destroyed-our-jobs-businesses-and-national-wealth-in-10-easy-steps

3-     End crony capitalism. https://hensarling.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/a-time-for-choosing-the-main-street-economy-vs-the-washington-crony

4-     End political deception, lying and corruption by the news media. http://www.newsfocus.org/media_control.htm

5-     End the U.S government control of our education system. http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/education/k-12-education-subsidies

6-     End the federal government violation of States and the people’s rights. http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/the-constitutions-structural-limitations-on-power-should-be-the-focus-of-the-bill-of-rights/

7-     End all military interventions in the states of this union and foreign countries. http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html

8-     End the IRS and establish a new tax system to stop corporate greed. http://www.atr.org/authors/emma-boone

9-     End government corruption. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/the-main-problem-in-america-corruption.html

10-  End the wars in the Middle East and stop the killings in the name of Democracy. http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166

11-  Prosecute George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and all the traitors that deceived the American people to send our soldiers and die for corporate America.  http://www.seniorforums.com/showthread.php/14693-Review-of-the-Iraq-Invasion

12-  Reparation of damage to the families that lost their husbands, sons Daughters in the Middle East wars, because it is a criminal action to send our soldiers to die under the pretense that they are defending our country from an enemy and for Democracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CSPbzitPL8

13-  End police brutality , the killings of Americans and corruption in our country’s police force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvwx7U2bdIg

14-  Pass a law to reward and protect whistleblowers that expose government and corporate corruption, deception and violation of our constitution, the constitutional rights of the people and the killings of citizens that tell the truth and exposed corruption.  http://www.whistleblowing-cee.org/summing-study/#VI.%20Acts%20on%20classified%20information%20or%20secret%20acts

15-  Stop the hunting, persecution and prosecution of Americans whistleblowers that exposed government or corporate corruption. Whistleblowers tell the truth because their moral principles, conscience and their love for our country, our country’s values and for what America stand for; Freedom, liberty and justice for all. The criminals are rewarded and the truth tellers are hunt, persecute and prosecuted for telling the truth.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/untouchables/ -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvJqA3rRRgA   -   http://otherwords.org/the-sad-fate-of-americas-whistleblowers/

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The Force Awakens opened this Friday to packed theaters across America. I haven’t seen it for a number of reasons, among which is an unwillingness to tent out for days just to buy tickets. The film will nonetheless make oodles of money, I’m sure, as Star Wars has replaced the Bible as Western civilization’s primary cultural commonality, both relevant and accessible to people across the societal spectrum.

This seventh chapter of the epic space opera may be the first to steer clear of political themes. According to film critic Matt Singer, “The Force Awakens is — arguably to its detriment — completely uninterested in politics.” This newfound political disinterest may have something to do with the fact that Star Wars is no longer the property of its creator, George Lucas, who infused the prequels and, to a lesser extent, the original trilogy, with political overtones.

Star Wars has never been what it appears to be—good clean fun with spaceships and laser beams. Don’t feel bad; that’s what I thought it was too when I was a little kid playing with action figures.

Space ships and laser beams are the packaging not the story. To get to the real story it’s necessary to turn the clock back to April 1973, a time of great disillusionment, when the last American combat troops were withdrawing from Vietnam and the Watergate hearings were only a month away. With these generation-shaping events as a backdrop, twenty-eight year old George Lucas began typing the story of a courageous farm boy from the galaxy’s rural backwaters who took on a rotting empire replete with militarism and darkness—and won.

He told his audience that it all took place “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” but its actual setting was both contemporary and terrestrial. Star Wars was an allegory for the world as seen through the eyes of a baby boomer who had come of age on a college campus in the 1960s, who had felt the draft board breathing down his neck, and who had imbibed the spirit of San Francisco, where he was living at the time. The militaristic empire he imagined was his own country and the rebels were communist Vietnamese, though they could have been any number of “anti-imperialist” forces around the globe—the ANC in South Africa, the Tupamaros in Uruguay, etc. The Death Star was a warning against the destructive power of nuclear weapons, though it could be seen as analogous to the Pentagon. Darth Vader? Probably Dick Nixon or just a stand-in for the soulless admirals and generals in command of the war machine.

Lucas had other influences, of course, because inspiration is never that simple. Star Wars was also one part Flash Gordon serial and one part gun-slinging western with a whole heap of Kurosawa’s samurai cinema thrown in. The story also paralleled the Third Reich, starring Darth Vader as Hitler and stormtroopers as, well…stormtroopers.

But it was always about America, the only country George Lucas had ever known. If the film evoked images of Nazi Germany, the logical conclusion was that that’s what America had become or was on the verge of becoming. Star Wars could be read as a cautionary tale of what might happen if we didn’t change course.

Consider some of the notes Lucas scribbled in late 1973: “Aquilae is a small independent country like North Vietnam, threatened by a neighbour or provincial rebellion, instigated by gangsters aided by empire. Fight to get rightful planet back. Half of the system has been lost to gangsters…The empire is like America ten years from now, after gangsters assassinated the emperor and were elevated to power in a rigged election…We are at a turning point: fascism or revolution.”

That’s not exactly the Star Wars we all know and love, largely because Lucas’s concept still had a lot of growing to do, but the framework was there. From its earliest drafts, the script told the story of a scrappy underdog, patterned after North Vietnam, doing battle with a corrupt American empire. The underdog had only his convictions to give him heart, while the empire, which seemed invincible, was actually rotten to the core.

The politics got even more heavy in the prequels, culminating in the hyperpolitical Revenge of the Sith, which the Washington Post jokingly dubbed The Empire Strikes Bush. Actually, the Galactic Empire is Bush, but I understand it’s a fun witticism. Sith’s subliminal messages were not lost on The New York Times’s film reviewer A.O. Scott, who wrote: “’Revenge of the Sith’ is about how a republic dismantles its own democratic principles, about how politics becomes militarized, about how a Manichaean ideology undermines the rational exercise of power. Mr. Lucas is clearly jabbing his light saber in the direction of some real-world political leaders. At one point, Darth Vader…echoing the words of George W. Bush, hisses at Obi-Wan, ‘If you’re not with me, you’re my enemy.’”

That wasn’t really Darth Vader; or not yet. It was Anakin Skywalker, but clearly he was mimicking Bush’s post-9/11 admonition to foreign leaders, “Either you’re with us, or you are with the terrorists.”

So you can imagine my disappointment when I learned that the newest film would abstain from political commentary. That’s really unfortunate because we need it now more than ever. We’re a nation adrift, led by a corrupt, unprincipled political class that seems to have pulled the wool over the eyes of half the population.

Consider for a moment the scene in Revenge of the Sith in which Emperor Palpatine convinces the Senate to cede unprecedented power to him, thus establishing the Galactic Empire “in order to secure the security” of the Republic. Queen Amidala famously remarks “So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.” Lucas was surely knocking Bush though it’s even more relevant today. The scene seemed a clever reference to the PATRIOT Act which, in case you haven’t noticed, is still the law of the land because Barack Obama approved its extension. But the Senate scene was about a lot more than just the PATRIOT Act; it was about our willingness, in times of trouble, to cede the power vested in the people and their elected representatives to a single charismatic leader. In light of Obama’s imperial presidency, the scene has assumed new meaning.

Richard Nixon and George W. Bush weren’t great presidents but neither were they Emperor Palpatine. I can’t say the same about President Obama who really does bear a striking resemblance to that wrinkled geezer in a hoody. So why can’t we make a movie about his policies, about his administration?

The Obama Administration has given us so much material to work with, the script would practically write itself. Imagine an evil Sith Lord who sweeps away any restraints on his authority with the words, “If the Senate won’t act, I will” or “We can’t wait for (fill in the blank).” The same Sith Lord could go to war in a sandy place resembling Tatooine without the approval of the Senate. Here’s a better one—the aforementioned villain pits one alien race against another (Jawas vs. Ewoks?) with his constantly divisive rhetoric, then uses the crisis to snatch up all the blasters and lightsabers in the galaxy. Stormtroopers go planet to planet, kicking down doors and confiscating anything that resembles a weapon. One of the Sith Lord’s closest advisors then turns to his boss and mutters something like “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Another idea: A council of supposed sages, call them judges if you will, abandon their fidelity to the law they swore to uphold and begin making decisions based on their own personal agendas. Here’s a good one—the Jedi are prohibited from practicing their ancient religion for fear that some people might get their feelings hurt.

Why, oh why, did Star Wars stop being political at the very moment that the most Palpatine-esque president ever to defile the Oval Office came to power? Maybe it’s because George Lucas isn’t at the helm anymore, though it’s doubtful that his directing and/or production would have made a difference. I suspect that The Force Awakens would still avoid criticizing the president because Lucas has, or once had, a man-crush on him. Said Lucas in 2008: “We have a hero in the making back in the United States today because we have a new candidate for president of the United States, Barack Obama.” Whether Lucas still feels that way is unknown. Perhaps he’s been appalled with what he’s seen in the ensuing seven years but I doubt it.

It’s almost as if political commentary just isn’t cool in show biz anymore. Would a major movie studio even make a film that was so obviously critical of this president and his policies? I have my doubts. Dissent isn’t patriotic anymore, less so in Hollywood, so I guess we’ll have to settle for spaceships and laser beams. What a pity.

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Bergdahl Court Martial also Indicts Obama

The decision to refer the case of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to a general court martial on charges of desertion by Gen. Robert B. Abrams, the head of Army Forces Command at Ft. Bragg, N.C., shows there remains at least one general not cowed by President Obama’s purge of command officers deemed insufficiently subservient to his policies of appeasement and unilateral disarmament.

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Saturday ~ The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
A Humble Pre-Christmas Effort
to Share My Enthusiasm for the Bible
David Limbaugh
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Principal to Students: No Christmas for You  
The Grinch tried to steal holiday cheer at one Brooklyn school, where Eujin Jaela Kim, the principal at Public School (PS) 169, wanted to make sure political correctness takes precedence over religious semblance. The New York Post reports, "Santa Claus is banned. The Pledge of Allegiance is no longer recited. 'Harvest festival' has replaced Thanksgiving, and 'winter celebrations' substitute for Christmas parties." Those were the changes made after "[a] memo last month from assistant principal Jose Chaparro suggested a 'harvest festival instead of Thanksgiving or a winter celebration instead of a Christmas party.' He urged staff to 'be sensitive of the diversity of our families. Not all children celebrate the same holidays.'" According to PTA president Mimi Ferrer, "We definitely can't say Christmas, nothing with Christmas on it, nothing with Santa. No angels. We can't even have a star because it can represent a religious system, like the Star of David." The Brooklyn Department of Education bans things that "depict images of deities, religious figures or religious texts." And according to Johanna Bjorken, the business manager for PS 169, "Santa Claus is considered an 'other religious figure.'" However, "[A] DOE spokesman told The Post that Santa is allowed as a secular figure," and the school has traditionally included him. So the choice was made solely by Kim, who, as a member of the grievance industry, is being insensitive to most of her 1,600 students in the name of "inclusivity." Here's a question: If you can't follow the traditions of Thanksgiving and Christmas, why celebrate them at all?
          Fortunately, political correctness got run over by a reindeer. Common sense prevailed, and the school has tossed the principal's policy. "I apologize for any confusion this may have caused," Kim said. Confusion, indeed.  -The Patriot Post
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 Boston Tea Party  
On Dec. 16, 1773, "radicals" from Boston, members of a secret organization of American Patriots called the Sons of Liberty, boarded three East India Company ships and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
          This iconic event, in protest of oppressive British taxation and tyrannical rule, became known as the Boston Tea Party.
          Resistance to the Crown had been mounting over enforcement of the 1764 Sugar Act, 1765 Stamp Act and 1767 Townshend Act, which led to the Boston Massacre and gave rise to the slogan, "No taxation without representation."
          The 1773 Tea Act and resulting Tea Party protest galvanized the Colonial movement opposing British parliamentary acts, which violated the natural, charter and constitutional rights of the colonists.
          Three years later, this rebellion had grown to such extent that our Founders were willing to give up their fortunes and lives, attaching their signatures to a document that declared, "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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
          For more on our nation's founding and the role the Tea Party played, see Mark Alexander's column, "Essential Liberty."
  -The Patriot Post
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE  
Smithsonian: “A prominent educator and patron of the arts, Henry Coletravelled in the elite, social circles of early Victorian England, and had the misfortune of having too many friends. During the holiday season of 1843, those friends were causing Cole much anxiety …As [Cole] watched the stacks of unanswered correspondence he fretted over what to do… He approached an artist friend, J.C. Horsley, and asked him to design an…illustration—a triptych showing a family at table celebrating the holiday flanked by images of people helping the poor—and had a thousand copies made by a London printer. The image was printed on a piece of stiff cardboard 5 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches in size. At the top of each was the salutation, ‘TO:_____’ allowing Cole to personalize his responses, which included the generic greeting ‘A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year To You.’ It was the first Christmas card.”  -Fox News
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 HILLY MEETS WITH MUSLIMS  
Star Tribune: “Hilly Clinton cited efforts already underway in Minnesota as an example of how to fight domestic recruitment of terrorists, using a Minneapolis speech on Tuesday to call for a stepped-up effort but one that respects people of different backgrounds…At least 12 Somali-American men from Minnesota have been charged with attempting to go abroad to fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Minnesota is part of a nationwide pilot project, a collaboration of federal and local law enforcement, Muslim religious leaders and youth groups trying to intervene with young people who might be vulnerable to recruitment. Clinton praised the program and said it should be better-funded.” 
 -Fox News
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 Clinton’s Program to Counter ISIS Propaganda ‘Embarrassing,’...  
{Daniel Wiser} ~ A program touted by Hilly Clinton that was designed to counter the online propaganda of ISIS has been sharply criticized as ineffective and even embarrassing, according to recent reports... In a speech Tuesday, Clinton, the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, mentioned the creation of an interagency center in 2011 while she was secretary of state. That initiative, known as the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, employed specialists to “to wage online battles with extremists to counter their propaganda,” she said. As part of her plan to counter the radicalization of Americans, she said that “we need to step up our game” and intensify existing efforts to combat the digital messaging of ISIS and other terrorist groups.
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 Media Continue Attacks on Muslim Brotherhood Critics  
{Roger Aronoff} ~ The mainstream media never tire of attacking those who warn that the Muslim Brotherhood has established deep ties to the nObama administration and Hilly Clinton... That might just be because the media have forged their own intimate ties to the Muslim Brotherhood group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Preeminent figures who dare to contradict the narrative of the liberal media, arguing that the greater concern is terrorism or shariah law, not Islamophobia, are regularly cast as conspiracy theorists, and worse, outright racists. The head of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), Frank Gaffney, has been repeatedly attacked by the media for his message that Americans cannot be forced to yield to shariah. On December 8th he said on CNN that CAIR has “been established in court to be a Muslim Brotherhood front organization” that associates with the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.
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 nObama And Ryan Circumventing Congress To Finance Climate Fund 
{constitutionrising.com} ~ Some of those who witnessed the forced elevation of voodoo-based profiteering into a financial commitment imposed upon every American citizen regardless of their wishes... the UN Paris Climate Extortion Agreement, mistakenly believed at the time that it would not be enforceable because the Constitution requires that international treaties be ratified by the Senate. Unfortunately, in many ways the Constitution is only as good as those “public servants” who serve under it and when the executive branch and most of Congress have placed themselves in positions superior to and disrespectful of the Constitution or the oath they took to abide by it that logic no longer applies. In today’s hijacked America, circumventing the Constitution through various legal maneuvers of crafted usurpations is the accepted methodology of governance, with a reliance upon a dumbed down, uneducated, gullible and disinterested public as fruitful ground for exploitation.   http://constitutionrising.com/archives/23765
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 Young News Anchor message to nObama goes viral - Tomi Lahren 
{Tomi Lahren} ~ Following the news of the deadly shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tomi Lahren used the “Final Thoughts” section of her show to unleash a passionate rant on the president’s fight against terrorism... “President nObama, if you won’t say it, I will — radical Islam. This is not workplace violence; this is not a criminal act with motives unknown, this is terrorism,” Lehren says in the video. “What he linked to ISIS or al-Qaida or Hamas, or any of the other 15-plus offshoot terrorist groups? Does it matter? I’m sorry, but radical Islam is becoming the rule, not the exception. Yesterday’s moderate is today’s terrorist. I care that this S.O.B. killed four of our United States Marines. And I care that our commander-in-chief is more concerned with Muslim sensitivity than the honor and sacrifice made by these Marines.”  Lahren is referencing the 24-year-old shooter Mohammad Abdulazeez, who killed four U.S. Marines and one active duty Navy reservist in Chattanooga July 15th.  Lahren, who comes from a family of Marines, closed her segment with: -“They, the radical Islamists have brought the fight right here to the red, white, and blue, and it’s about time we bring it to them. Full force. Let’s show them what the United States of America looks like up close and personal. Show them what a B1 Bomber looks like flying overhead. Show them what they’re messing with. Put the fear of God in their desert, because clearly our lack of strategy isn’t working.”     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABrauM7yvco&feature=youtu.be
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 Time To Go Egyptian On Traitors Ryan, nObama, Congress  
{constitutionrising.com} ~ The sellout of the American people by the traitors in DC, those who occupy seats in both the Democrat and Republican parties continues and accelerates... The anointment of Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House illustrates the fact that both parties are controlled by political prostitutes who are mere puppets of the money elites, those who truly run our nation. We the people are being sold out by the two year financing arrangement that Paul Ryan is ramming through which is a virtual Christmas present, if that is a holiday he celebrates, to Hussein nObama. It’s surely a holiday nObama doesn’t celebrate, but he’ll take the legislative funding anyway. The reason both parties have solidified their power over the years is not to benefit the incumbents as much as it is to benefit the communist party that supports them. Once they get one of their operatives into power they certainly don’t want to have to repeat the process. Now they’ve got control of both parties which gives them Congress and the White House.
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 nObama huddles with Bloomberg as he preps order on guns  
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 Largest Gitmo Transfer Since 2007 Underway  
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 FBI Chart Reveals Link between CAIR and Terrorist Group Hamas  
{Alice Greene} ~ The Muslim advocay group we know as "CAIR" (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) has long been suspected of terrorist connections... Those suspicions have been proven true, according to an FBI chart showing that the organization responsible for forming CAIR was “established to support Hamas.”  The chart in question shows undeniable connections between CAIR and a Palestinian terrorist group known as Hamas, including the fact that PALCOM (the Palestine Committee), the group responsible for creating CAIR, was formed to support Hamas. Furthermore, CAIR executive director Nihad Awad used to work as an official for PALCOM.  The FBI chart was obtained by the IPT (Investigative Project on Terrorism) through a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request and places CAIR into the jihadi category. The document shows several Hamas-related groups, including CAIR, that were formed to support the Palestinian terrorist organization. The chart also reveals the fact that CAIR’s former vice chairman, Nabil Sadoun, has ties to Hamas.  
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 Rush Limbaugh: DISBAND The GOP After THIS Final BETRAYAL!!  
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Rush Limbaugh is completely fed up. And you should be too. While America was distracted by the GOP debate and gawking at the latest controversy around Donald Trump, the Republicans passed a budget... And it isn’t pretty. Let’s have Rush Limbaugh explain the rest: The country was just sold down the river again by your very Republican Party. I have a headline here from the Washington Times: “White House Declares Total Victory Over GOP in Budget Battle.” That headline’s a misnomer. There was never a battle. None of this was opposed. The Republican Party didn’t stand up to any of it, and the die has been cast for a long time on this. I know many of you are dispirited, depressed, angry, combination of all of that. But, folks, there was no other way this could go. Because two years ago when the Republican Party declared they would never do anything that would shut down the government and they would not impeach nObama, there were no obstacles in nObama’s way and there were no obstacles in the way of the Democrat Party.
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 Carter’s Rebuke of Navy Budget Proposal Points to Split...  
{Sam LaGrone} ~ Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s list of directives Monday to the Navy to retool its budget for Fiscal Year 2017 revealed a split in priorities between the Secretary of the Navy and the Pentagon on the future of the force... While the reduction of the Littoral Combat Ship buy, from 52 to 40, was the bumper sticker from the four-page rebuke issued to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, the context of Carter’s memo points to a larger question of differing views on the future U.S. Navy operations: an argument of presence versus posture. Since Mabus took his post in 2009 he’s pushed hard to make new ship construction a priority for the service to maximize the Navy’s presence in the world. Carter, however, has emphasized a high-end warfighting posture over lower-end presence functions inherent in the LCS/frigate designs. Budget cuts for the service but not nObama's.
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A Humble Pre-Christmas Effort
to Share My Enthusiasm for the Bible
David Limbaugh
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{townhall.com} ~ As the Christmas season approaches, I want to explain why I am so enthusiastic about the subject matter I've written about in my new book, "The Emmaus Code: Finding Jesus in the Old Testament."
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As I came to Jesus Christ kicking and screaming, I have always been passionate about sharing the epiphanies that led me to become a believer. I love to relate my excitement about the Bible and encourage others to give it a chance -- really give it a chance -- and to avail themselves of the full riches of God's Word.
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I admit that before I embraced the Gospel, I hadn't given sufficient serious thought to whether the Bible actually is the Word of God. It's hard to believe I was so negligent about something that matters so much. To my surprise, I find many people today -- adults included -- who seem to give this very little thought. It is one of my humble goals with this book to nudge people to contemplate it.
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For too many years, I fashioned God in my own image. I thought I could bootstrap my way into understanding who he is without ever going to the very book in which he reveals himself to us and shows us precisely who he is. In retrospect, I wonder how I could have been so unserious as to formulate my beliefs without giving the Word of God a fair hearing. How could I have been so engrossed in my earthly existence that I essentially ignored God's revelation?
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When -- in the process of studying Christian apologetics, the Bible and theology -- it finally hit me that the Bible is the living Word of the living God, I was blown away. I was stunned, excited and overwhelmed by this truth that I'd avoided for too long. I finally realized that I was holding in my hands a book whose every word was inspired by the God of the universe. I understood that when I opened that book and began to read it, I was opening myself up to God's direct communication to me.
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I'm not talking about sitting around in meditation imagining that I could be receiving promptings from God, which, of course, can also be a legitimate experience. Instead, I'm talking about reading God's words that were written to me and to you -- words that I now understood are unmistakably from him and directed to me individually. This is not a matter of speculation. I had already satisfied myself by putting Christianity's claims to the test and realizing that every bit of Scripture is God-breathed. I can rely on it for life as surely as I rely on every breath I take for life.
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Corniness aside, you can imagine the feelings I experienced with this "aha" discovery. I immediately wanted to inhale every syllable of the Bible and learn everything I could as quickly as I could. How could I possibly ever get enough of this spiritual food?
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As I began to learn more, I became eager to share what I'd learned with my friends and family and anyone else who would listen -- many of whom, I assumed, had been every bit as negligent as I'd been about this most serious of matters. I wanted to help them enjoy the same kind of excitement that was overtaking me.
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I was under no illusion that the people I approached would just automatically embrace my new "discoveries," no matter how infectious I'd hoped my spirit would be. I also doubted that many would all of a sudden reorder their schedules to begin studying the Bible and theology with relentless fervor.
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So, as I've mentioned before, I began to write a book for laypeople that would serve as an introduction to the Bible, beginning with the Old Testament. I intended to walk the readers through the Scriptures, showing how each book of the Bible, beginning with Genesis, points to Jesus Christ.
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Perhaps because I wasn't sufficiently prepared to write such a book then -- more than 20 years ago -- I abandoned the project. A generation's worth of years later, I started the project anew, and I completed it this time with "The Emmaus Code."
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I sincerely hope that you will consider picking up the book for yourself or as a Christmas gift for someone else who you believe might benefit from a book designed to introduce readers to the Old Testament and, most importantly, to its essential Christ-centeredness. Everyone owes it to himself to learn as much as he can about God's Word, and I pray this book will encourage readers to do just that.
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Jesus himself told his disciples on the road to Emmaus that they had misunderstood the Scriptures in anticipating that the Messiah would deliver Israel from its political and military enemies. He came not to conquer earthly kings but to die a sacrificial, substitutionary death on our behalf and thereby conquer Satan, sin and death, so that by faith in him, we can live.
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He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" Then he "interpreted to them in all the Scriptures (the Old Testament) the things concerning himself."
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By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist -  www.represent.us

Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties. We must seek the truth and let the people know.

2016 is the years of political revolution.

America it is not for sale. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/05/the-hundred-rich-people-who-run-america.html

American politicians are owned by a handful of oligarchs

http://www.sott.net/article/298989-American-politicians-are-owned-by-a-handful-of-oligarchs

The making of political puppets through bribes- http://maplight.org/content/73373

Fellow Americans, we the people are the hope of America’s future and our freedom. 2016 is the years of political revolution, Democrats and Republicans are fed up with Washington corrupt politicians, puppets of the oligarchs.  We only have two candidates that will change the path of America’s self-destruction; they are Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul.   We must become activist and stand for America. 2016 is mean to be the year of reclamation and the turning point to reclaim our Constitution, our country’s principles, values and social responsibility;  and most important our God given rights to freedom, Liberty and the rule of law.  Our country has serious issues; we have become a country with a large corrupt powerful government that is controlled by the oligarchs; the oligarchs own and control this system of crony capitalism and monopolist predator corporatism. Wall Street and the oligarchs of this country made and control the many puppets in our government that by deception and lies passed free trade legislations that have destroyed our economic and the means for the American worker to earn living wages, sufficient to meet their basic needs to support their families and to provide discretionary income and the means to finance the education of their children’s.  To be more precise, Americans want their dignity back and Living Wages, free of any handouts, social service or welfare assistant, we want our dignity and freedom back.

Democrats and Republicans must become one voice and vote for America; we believe that before anything, we are Americans and the foundation of our country is our US Constitution. We will not allow the use of any political ideology to destroy our constitution, our country nor our economic and welfare.

This is the truth, it all started with Ronald Reagan and George H.W Bush and continue with Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; since Ronald Reagan most Democrats and Republicans become puppets of the oligarchs and their multinational corporations, they supported and promote free trade, globalization and the one world order system of government control by the multinational corporations and the IMF. The puppets that are in our government are the ones responsible for the destruction of millions of Americans jobs and the demise of our economic freedom.  The enslavers of the American people is our own government they are the ones that promoted globalization and slave wages, the oligarchs got richer at the expenses of the American working class and use their money to control our economic and our government. We must show the oligarchs and the puppets in our government, that all the money in the world, will not be enough to demise our God given freedom nor control the destiny of the American people. The people of these United States believe that ours is a Christian nation and soon, God almighty will give us the light to enable us to see through the dark, the path of evil control by the devil and the path of God’s law and the love for humanity and peace.  The choice is ours; salvation and follow God’s law or follow the devil and a life of greed for money, power, wars and destruction of humanity. In God I trust, that we will see the right path and united as a nation reform our country ones again as a Christian nation and restore in the people of this great country our moral principles and values and stand as one protecting our nation, our U.S. Constitution and our God given rights to freedom and Liberty for all Americans. We must never forget that our nation is a nation governs by the people and for the people.

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The Democrat National committee undermines Bernie Sanders campaign.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/sanders-campaign-threatens-to-sue-dnc-216942

American politicians are owned by a handful of oligarchs

http://www.sott.net/article/298989-American-politicians-are-owned-by-a-handful-of-oligarchs

Income Inequality is destroying America’s Middle Class.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2014/12/18/101790/as-income-inequality-rises-americas-middle-class-shrinks/

Wealthy corporations will replace American workers with low-wage foreign workers.

http://www.naturalnews.com/052365_Omnibus_spending_bill_GOP_betrayal_financial_suicide.html

Our freedom and economic future.

http://grandfather-economic-report.com/

Things They Didn’t Tell You in History Class

http://www.oftwominds.com/journal08/christoffersen8-08.htm

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Friday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Immigration and Our 
Founding Fathers' Values
Michelle Malkin
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 And One of the Biggest Whoppers of the Year Goes To...  
One of the largest bastions of the Leftmedia, The Washington Post, has said the "Hands up, don't shoot" narrative that gelled after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson was one of the biggest political lies of 2015. The false narrative was that Brown had his hands up when Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed him. A grand jury later ruled that Wilson acted in self-defense.
          The Post's Fact Checker blog released a list of claims it said were the "The biggest Pinocchios of 2015." Among the claims flagged by the Post, Hilly Clinton lied when she said the Defense of Marriage Act was signed by her husband to prevent a DOMA amendment to the Constitution, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy mislead Americans when he said, on average, there was a school shooting every week since the Sandy Hook massacre, and Barack nObama fibbed when he said the Keystone Pipeline would transport oil not for American consumption.
          But in terms of the most stubborn lies, "Hands up, don't shoot" was one of the worst. It was repeated before a NFL game, as well as on the steps of the Capitol and on the House floor. In communities nationwide, it was a false narrative that fomented discord and served as race bait between law enforcement and residents. Unfortunately, this BIG Lie has had a big cost in terms of a spike in crime in big cities.  -The Patriot Post
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 Paris Climate Conference Focused on Fear, Not Climate Reality  
The Paris climate conference is now over. Whether the nations there enthusiastically supported "doing something" about the world's thermostat, or whether they were set to be recipients of a whole lot of wealth redistribution, one thing is clear: The agreement means almost nothing for the climate and everything for loss of economic productivity and Liberty.
          After all the time involved and the carbon dioxide produced getting thousands of people from 196 nations all in the same place and then back home again, the agreement does not put the world on a path toward what alarmists regard as a safe level of rising temperature. But the agreement sets forth a clear path for countries to identify their own targets for CO2 reduction. Ultimately, participants want a global carbon-free environment by 2060, at the latest, meaning that every car, building, plane, ship, train and power plant would have to operate without burning any fossil fuels.
          Days prior to the closing, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told the ministerial session, “The clock is ticking toward climate disaster.” Repent now, for the end is near.
          The populist potentate of ecotheology, Al Gore, compared combating climate change to the abolition of slavery, giving women the right to vote and the civil rights battle. Gore said, “The right choice is to safeguard the future for the next generation and for the generations to come.”   -The Patriot Post
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 Lessons of the Fifth GOP Debate  
Nine Republican candidates took the stage last night in the fifth debate of this primary cycle. The theme was national security, and there's no question the next president will have an enormous task endeavoring to recover from Barack nObama's years of domestic and foreign policy failures. But perhaps the overarching takeaway is that everyone on the stage brings their constituents to the election that matters most — defeating Hilly Clinton in 2016.
          Here is my summary: The most prepared were Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina. The least prepared were Ben Carson and Donald Trump. Carson in particular is a smart, moral, nice guy who is painfully unprepared to be commander in chief.
          Some other observations: Rand Paul too often sounded petulant, but he had the best cheer leading section. Trump and Jeb Bush hate each other — perhaps because they are most alike as silver-spoon politicos. Trump again demonstrated he is the master of sound bites but thin on any real understanding of issues. Bush, on the other hand, is knowledgeable, but comes across as whiny and mad at Trump for taking his candy. Chris Christie would have been far more formidable in 2012. John Kasich wins the "time bell violator" award.
          Last but certainly not least, the most notable political phenomenon with the greatest potential consequences in 2016 and beyond would be the rocketing rise of Trump. His celebrity name recognition, contentious remarks and populist rhetoric have kept the blustering billionaire at the top of pop-presidential polls for months.
          Trump’s support is a reflection of how dissatisfied millions of disenfranchised grassroots conservatives are with Republican "leadership." The status quo represented by former House Speaker John backstabber-Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell has, in effect, underwritten Trump’s rising stardom. Despite greatly increasing the numbers of conservatives in the House and Senate in the historic "Republican Wave" elections nationwide in both 2010 and 2014, the much-loathed "establishment types" held the House reins until Paul Ryan replaced backstabber-Boehner, and they still control the Senate. GOP leaders continue to marginalize or ignore the concerns of the conservative/Republican base — grassroots conservatives — and we are rightly outraged.
          2016 will either provide an opportunity for the renewal of American exceptionalism in 2017 — the restoration of principles that have made our nation great — or it will end with the election of Hilly Clinton and a more precipitous national and international degradation.   -The Patriot Post
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 Policy Compromise Marks This House Spending Bill  
Whatever happens on Capitol Hill in the next few days, let's remember that the outgoing speaker handed Speaker Paul Ryan the beginnings of this budget. It takes a while to turn a monolithic institution like Washington. Early Wednesday morning, the full-text version of the $1.1 trillion, 2,009-page spending bill was posted online. After negotiation, Republican and Democrat leadership left happy with the compromises (which is itself worrisome). If all goes well, then Ryan told GOP lawmakers he wanted to return to regular order in the New Year.
          While spending levels are pretty much set, the sticking points were the policy amendments tacked onto this must-pass piece of legislation, the "riders," as they are called in Washington. Among potential GOP accomplishments, the bill would delay implementation of nObamaCare provisions like the "Cadillac tax" on high-end health care plans and a tax on medical devices. The legislation would also lift the 40-year-old ban on oil exports — a measure for which the now-struggling oil industry lobbied for two years. As for Democrats, they were able to extend tax credits for wind and solar energy while blocking GOP efforts to end of the visa-waiver program and Barack nObama's immigration policies. GOP leadership doesn't know how the rest of the party will vote on the spending bill Friday. In the meantime, members of the House Freedom Caucus are approaching the process critically, worried that GOP compromise will not result in Democrat compromise. This still is the first demonstration of Ryan's leadership.   -The Patriot Post
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 nObama’s Lack Of Clarity On ISIS Confounds DOD And Critics Alike  

{Jonathan Levin} ~ President nObama and the Defense Department are warning of the dangers of deploying ground troops to Syria without first answering whether ISIS can be defeated without them... Critics say the status quo is not doing the job.  Max Boot wrote in the Wall Street Journal on December 8 that air power alone cannot defeat ISIS.  The same morning, former Army Chief of Staff retired General Ray Odierno likewise told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that air power has never won any war in history, and added that “you can’t defeat ISIS without having people on the ground.” On the other hand, Gen. Paul Selva, Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee the next day that, “it’s clear from ISIL’s strategy that their objective is to cause us to engage in what they believe is an apocalyptic war with the West.”  Selva added, “anything that we do to feed that particular frame of thinking counters our national security.” Now I don't agree with that. They don't have ISIS's strategy let alot ours.   http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/12/obamas-lack-of-clarity-on-isis-confounds-dod-and-critics-alike/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29

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 Welcome to Hamas West, Aka Connecticut College  
{Phyllis Chesler} ~ The Connecticut College administrators have finally put it in writing. And they did so on the last day of the semester before the winter break when they knew that students would be leaving or already gone... Based on what they wrote, these administrators would welcome a professor who teaches that the earth is flat. One can only wonder if they would also welcome Darwin’s discoveries about evolution—or might they view evolution as Darwin’s own opinion to which he has every right unless it offends a person of color who might become violent, in which case, Darwin’s ideas may be taught as long as Creationism is given equal time. The American campus now welcomes all expressions, Big Lies, lethal narratives, speech that incites people to violence, junk science, ideas that are false and that endanger their own students—all are welcome.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261143/welcome-hamas-west-aka-connecticut-college-phyllis-chesler
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 As Army Shrinks, Milley Considers Ways to Regenerate Force  
{Jen Judson} ~ The US Army chief of staff is looking at how the service might quickly regenerate the force when needed at a time when it is rapidly reducing its size... The Army has already shrunk the force by 80,000 troops since withdrawing from Iraq in 2011, and it plans to further reduce its end strength in the coming years. The service is scheduled to reach an end strength of 450,000 troops by the end of fiscal 2017. If the Army continues to get hit with budget cuts, it could see a deeper cut down to 420,000. On Monday at a Center for a New American Security conference in Washington, Gen. Mark Milley took pains to dispel the myth that it’s easy to regenerate an Army.
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 Liberal Media Thinks It Is Too “Offensive” To Call ISIS This…  
{Andrew McNealy} ~ MSNBC host Chris Matthews is offended that Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey would dare to call ISIS terrorists “animals.”... “And also, animals!” fumed Matthews. “I mean, call them what they are, bad people. But what’s this ‘animal’ thing that Christie’s throwing around?” Instead of animals, Matthews suggested that Christie use the term “bad guys” to ISIS. ISIS routinely beheads its own people, as well as Middle Eastern Christians and any Western journalist they can get their hands on. And, from a liberal perspective, ISIS has even more of a record of atrocity when it comes to so-called “marginalized” groups, like women and gays. Matthews and the liberals are dump and stupid idiots. Hey, maybe they'll be offended.
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 nObama to New U.S. Citizens: Syrian Refugees...  
{Steve Byas} ~ Speaking Tuesday at a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., President nObama took the opportunity to lecture the newly minted Americans and subtly criticize Republican presidential candidates about immigration in general, and the issue of Muslim immigration in particular... “In the Syrian refugee today, we should see the Jewish refugee of World War II,” nObama declared, in an obvious reference to the incident when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt refused to admit Jews into the United States, sealing their fate, as they were then returned to Europe and Hitler’s death camps. The president's analogy fails, however, in one critical respect. Not one person at the time believed that the Jews asking for admission into America in an effort to escape persecution of the Nazis in Germany were any threat whatsoever to commit murderous acts of terrorism inside the United States. On the other hand, not one person can assure us today that no ISIS terrorists would be among the genuine Syrian refugees fleeing persecution of those same terrorists in the Middle East.     http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/22153-obama-to-new-u-s-citizens-syrian-refugees-like-jewish-refugees-of-wwii?utm_content=Rudy%20Tirre&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Obama%20to%20New%20U%2ES%2E%20Citizens%3A%20Syrian%20Refugees%20Like%20Jewish%20Refugees&utm_campaign=Obama%20to%20New%20U%2ES%2E%20Citizens%3A%20Syrian%20Refugees%20Like%20Jewish%20Refugees%20of%20WWIIcontent
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 Why Syria can't be fixed  
{Daniel Greenfield} ~ nObama is betting the last of his foreign policy cred on beating ISIS by fixing Syria through a peace process that brings together Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and just about everybody who is anybody in the international terrorism and regime change racket to fight the ISIS war that he doesn’t want to fight... There’s just one little problem. Nobody on the guest list wants to fix Syria. They want to control it. The reason that ISIS exists is the same reason that Syria can’t be fixed. ISIS didn’t get so big because Muslims are angry about our foreign policy. It got huge because Sunni Muslims hate Shiite Muslims. Al Qaeda in Iraq didn’t become popular because it killed American soldiers, but because it suicide bombed Iraqi Shiites. It really took off once there was a civil war underway between Syrian Shiites and Sunni Islamists. 
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 Carter Directs Navy to Cut Littoral Combat Ship Program to 40 Hulls  
{Sam LaGrone} ~ Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has ordered the Navy to trim its total buy of Littoral Combat Ships to 40 and down select to a single shipbuilder and design for the class as part of its fiscal year 2017 budget, according to a memo obtained by USNI News... The directive to trim the service’s planned total of 52 planned LCS and Frigate hulls and direct the savings into other programs was contained in the Monday letter from Carter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. The new plan would call for a building only six LCS between fiscal years 2017-2020 – eight less than the Navy’s submitted in its 2017 plan – and directs the Navy to down select to a single shipyard and a single hull type in 2019. This is a no-brainier. We know what this pres is doing.
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 hanoi-Kerry is wrong...Assad can never stay  
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 More Lies from Abbas about The "Intifada"  
{Bassam Tawil} ~ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas now wants us to believe that the Palestinian "youths," who are sent out to murder Jewish soldiers and civilians, are acting out of "despair."... He wants us to believe that these "youths" decided to murder Jews because their dream of a two-state solution has not been realized. Abbas is also trying to convince us that these "youths" are upset about Israeli checkpoints, construction in settlements, and visits by Jews to the Noble Sanctuary (Temple Mount). These latest statements by President Abbas show that he is either completely disconnected from reality, or else thinks that everyone will believe whatever he tells them. His claim -- that the Palestinian assailants who carry out stabbing and car ramming attacks against Israelis, are frustrated because the two-state solution has not yet been realized -- is, frankly, an insult. We still have never encountered one case -- ever -- where a terrorist complained about the absence of a two-state solution. Also, contrary to Abbas's claim, none of the terrorists has ever complained about settlements or checkpoints. In fact, these "youths" that Abbas is talking about are mostly affiliated with Hamas, and do not believe in any two-state solution. Like Hamas, these terrorists want to see Israel wiped off the map.
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 Sen Sessions Warns Of Ryan, McCon-nell Betrayal Omnibus  
{constitutionrising.com} ~ On Wednesday Senator Jeff Sessions delivered a warning of the treachery underway in Congress by the servants of big money, including most egreiously, Speaker Paul Ryan, in conjunction with the criminal nObama regime... He made an impassioned plea for responsible government that serves the American people on the Senate floor as well as an accompanying posting to his Senate website. Senator Sessions detailed the treachery of the open borders globalist puppet and terror enabler Paul Ryan and the many anti-American, destructive components included in the 2 year omnibus spending bill. Financing for every anti-American program nObama wanted is part of the deal. It’s an inexcusable abuse of power and the American people that is without precedent. Senator Sessions’ speech is highlighted in the video below as well as a text version from his website in which he wrote:
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Immigration and Our 
Founding Fathers' Values
Michelle Malkin
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{townhall.com} ~ President nObama claims that restricting immigration in order to protect national security is "offensive and contrary to American values." No-limits liberals have attacked common-sense proposals for heightened visa scrutiny, profiling or immigration slowdowns as "un-American."
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America's Founding Fathers, I submit, would vehemently disagree.
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Our founders, as I've reminded readers repeatedly over the years, asserted their concerns publicly and routinely about the effects of indiscriminate mass immigration. They made it clear that the purpose of allowing foreigners into our fledgling nation was not to recruit millions of new voters or to secure permanent ruling majorities for their political parties. It was to preserve, protect and enhance the republic they put their lives on the line to establish.
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In a 1790 House debate on naturalization, James Madison opined: "It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable?"
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No, not because "diversity" is our greatest value. No, not because Big Business needed cheap labor. And no, Madison asserted, "Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship, without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of."
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Madison argued plainly that America should welcome the immigrant who could assimilate, but exclude the immigrant who could not readily "incorporate himself into our society."
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George Washington, in a letter to John Adams, similarly emphasized that immigrants should be absorbed into American life so that "by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people."
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Alexander Hamilton, relevant as ever today, wrote in 1802: "The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family."
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Hamilton further warned that "The United States have already felt the evils of incorporating a large number of foreigners into their national mass; by promoting in different classes different predilections in favor of particular foreign nations, and antipathies against others, it has served very much to divide the community and to distract our councils. It has been often likely to compromise the interests of our own country in favor of another."
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He predicted, correctly, that "The permanent effect of such a policy will be, that in times of great public danger there will be always a numerous body of men, of whom there may be just grounds of distrust; the suspicion alone will weaken the strength of the nation, but their force may be actually employed in assisting an invader."
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The survival of the American republic, Hamilton maintained, depends upon "the preservation of a national spirit and a national character." He asserted, "To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens the moment they put foot in our country would be nothing less than to admit the Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty."
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On Thursday, a bipartisan majority of U.S. senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee adopted a stunningly radical amendment by Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., to undermine the national interest in favor of suicidal political correctness. The measure would prevent the federal government from ever taking religion into account in immigration and entrance decisions "as such action would be contrary to the fundamental principles on which this Nation was founded."
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This pathway to a global right to migrate runs contrary to our founders' intentions as well as decades of established immigration law. As Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., pointed out in a scathing speech opposing the Leahy amendment: "It is well settled that applicants don't have the constitutional right or civil right to demand entry to the United States. ... As leaders, we are to seek the advancement of the Public Interest. While billions of immigrants may benefit by moving to this country, this nation state has only one responsibility. We must decide if such an admission complies with our law and serves our national interest."
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Put simply, unrestricted open borders are unwise, unsafe and un-American. A country that doesn't value its own citizens and sovereignty first won't endure as a country for long.
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America Marches On.

The time fellow American's has come. No more whining, complaining, pointing fingers, or just talking. Its now or never. I am forming and organizing what I predict to be the largest, most massive March anywhere, anytime on Washington DC. Hopefully for June this summer. We will go and prepared for the worst and hope for the best. And it will not be like the others. Were going with one thought in mind. To take our Nation back for and by the people. To reinstate God, Family, Country, Constitution, and Flag back into our Nation and Heritage. With God at our side, And his guidance we will decisively re-establish our control over this once great Nation. I have and am contacting several prominent and important people to help and assist. But I need and want your assistance just as much. There's alot to do, I can't do it all. I'm doing this for you, my God and Family on down to my grandchildren. And my Country. One person cannot change all the wrong going on here. But a mass of people can change the World. We either do this , And do it now or let it forever die. Please leave me input. Its as much your fight as is mine. May God Bless You All

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Friday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Why Take The Trump Stunt Seriously
Charles Krauthammer
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 TOASTERS DON’T TOAST CRUMPETS, PEOPLE DO
Conservatives in the United States are worried about keeping their firearms. In Britain, the battle for liberty is somewhat, er, different as the Guardian tells: “A prized communal toaster has sparked a standoff between council staff and Conservatives at Bradford town hall, with councillors vowing to hide the appliance from health and safety staff who say it is a fire risk. Staff working in the [historically preserved], 19th-century building are banned from using toasters because they are a fire hazard and contravene the council’s eco-friendly policies on energy use. The rebellion by Conservative councillors was precipitated by an internal memo sent to all staff that said an environmental awareness officer had spotted contraband items. An amnesty would be held on Monday, it said, for ‘all portable heaters, fans and toasters ... [which] do not comply with the council’s agreed recycling and heating efficiency policies.’”  -Fox News
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 Leader Low on Resolve Attempts Smack Talk  
Speaking at the Pentagon, the commander in chief with an approval rating that has steadily declined since the beginning of September made an attempt to talk smack against the Islamic State. "As we squeeze its heart, we'll make it harder for ISIL to pump its terror and propaganda to the rest of the world," nObama said in a follow-up to his Oval Office speech. "ISIL leaders cannot hide and our next message to them is simple: You are next."
          The only thing that's changed is the rhetoric. After the recent attacks on the West, Americans are increasingly worried about nObama's strategy against the group, a strategy the chief executive only doubled down on Monday, naming off a list of eight Islamic State leaders that coalition airstrikes supposedly killed. nObama continued, saying the Islamic State has not made any major advancements in Iraq and Syria since the summer. So we're winning, right?
          According to commentator Charles Krauthammer, it's the same rhetorical trick presidents used to convince Americans the Vietnam War was a success. Meanwhile, the Islamic State struck San Bernardino, Paris and downed a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai Peninsula. "When you have to resort to statistics," Krauthammer said, "he has a list of people whom we've killed, as if anyone has any idea who they are. It's reminiscent of the strategy of the Vietnam War where we would announce the body counts — the ratio of dead Vietcong to Americans. It was always lopsided, and we lost the damn war because that's not how you gauge who's winning or losing a war." But hey, smart power demands committing to a failing strategy, holding out until someone more experienced can take over.  -The Patriot Post
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 DHS Won't Review Social Media Posts of Visa Entrants  
The nObama State Department once had a "brilliant" plan — fight the Islamic State in part by waging a propaganda war on social media. In other words, bureaucrats would try to deter potential ISIL recruits with Twitter and Facebook posts. After a while, however, State finally admitted that hashtag diplomacy wasn't really working all that well. But you know what else isn't working? U.S. policy of not considering the social media posts of foreigners trying to enter the U.S. through the visa program. ABC News reports, "Fearing a civil liberties backlash and 'bad public relations' for the nObama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end a secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, a former senior department official said." Why does that matter? Well, if officials had reviewed the social media posts of Tashfeen Malik, she might not have been granted a visa in May 2014 — a full 18 months before she and her husband killed 14 in San Bernardino. Even Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gets it: "Had they checked out Tashfeen Malik, maybe those people in San Bernardino would be alive." Remember, no one has a right to come to the U.S., and the fact that Islam is as much a political system as a religion means these reviews are far more important than a little uncomfortable PR for the nObama administration.  -The Patriot Post
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 The Bill of Rights  
Today, Dec. 15, is the anniversary of the 1791 ratification of our Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to our Constitution, and the Rule of Law it enshrines.
          The Bill of Rights was inspired by three remarkable documents: John Locke's 1689 thesis, "Two Treatises of Government," regarding the protection of "property" (in the Latin context, proprius, or one's own "life, liberty and estate"); in part from the Virginia Declaration of Rights authored by George Mason in 1776 as part of that state's Constitution; and, of course, in part from our Declaration of Independence authored by Thomas Jefferson. 
          Read in context, the Bill of Rights is both an affirmation of innate "unalienable rights" of man, and a clear proscription upon any central government infringement of those rights. As oft trampled and abused as the Bill of Rights is by those who've sworn an oath "to Support and Defend" our Constitution, most notably "judicial supremacists," or the "despotic branch" as Jefferson called the judiciary, Patriots must remain ever vigilant in order to sustain our rights.  -The Patriot Post
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 Israel Estimates Massive Hezbollah Losses in Syria  
{algemeiner.com} ~ Israeli officials estimate that one third of Hezbollah’s active fighters have been killed or wounded in the Syrian civil war, Israeli news site Walla reported on Tuesday... According to the report, based on anonymous sources, between 1,300 and 1,500 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in combat in Syria, and an additional 5,000 have been wounded and are out of commission. Although Hezbollah — designated by the US and Israel as a terrorist group — is not open about its armed strength, some estimates say it could have up to 18,000 full-time and volunteers troops. Hezbollah, long seen by Israelis as part of the Middle East axis also including Syria and Iran, has been fighting on behalf of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his backers in Tehran almost since the beginning of the armed conflict at the end of 2011.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/12/15/report-israel-estimates-massive-hezbollah-losses-in-syria/
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 White House Opens Door to CAIR Rep, Ignores Muslim Reformers  
{investigativeproject.org} ~ He accused the FBI of killing two men in cold blood in separate incidents. But nObama administration officials saw Hassan Shibly as a suitable representative of the American Muslim community... to include at Monday's White House meeting on combating religious discrimination, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned. Shibly is the chief executive director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Florida. Since 2008, FBI policy has barred outreach communication with CAIR officials due to documents seized by law enforcement which place CAIR and its founders at the heart of a Hamas-support network at the time of CAIR's creation. Eyewitness interviews recently obtained by the IPT further detail CAIR's ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Until it determines "whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner," a senior official wrote in 2009.
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 Gen Jerry Boykin – Why Allow Sharia Proponents Into The Country 
{constitutionrising.com} ~ In pointing out the nature of Islam, Retired General Jerry Boykin notes that it is only approximately sixteen percent religion... with the other eighty-four percent being a mixture of ideology, life-controlling dogma and “First and foremost a legal system called Sharia.” Boykin says, “If you survey most of the Muslims in America, even though they’re not violent, they don’t participate in jihad, and you ask them if they would support the implementation of Sharia, sadly, recent polls show that they would support the implementation of Sharia.” He continues, pointing out to Tony Perkins, “That means the destruction of the US Constitution. You cannot have coexistence between a democracy and Sharia.”
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 hanoi-Kerry And nObama Blink Under Putin’s Glare  
{constitutionrising.com} ~ John hanoi-Kerry made an announcement on Tuesday  following talks in Moscow with Russian President Putin that represent the first step of a substantial position shift... a reversal from that which has been another of those notorious nObama pink lines in the Syrian sand. It’s the official position of the nObama regime as to the future of the Assad government in Syria. nObama and hanoi-Kerry have previously maintained that Assad must step down and be replaced with their “rebel” government, another al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS variation that can help establish a chaotic no-go zone similar to that which they created with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and ISIS in Libya. It’s the same type of terrorist caliphate they are presently laying the groundwork for in the United States with their “refugee” terrorist importation policy. Their commitment has obviously weakened in the face of domestic terrorism and their exposure as complete incompetents or worse when it comes to matters of Homeland Security. Jihadi Jeh Johnson has been oddly quiet, having refrained from smacking his jowls like he’s got peanut butter stuck to his gums even once in a post-San Bernardino TV interview.        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/23694
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 Petition Congress to 'halt Muslim immigration now'  
{wnd.com} ~ The United States is fighting a clash of civilizations with a dysfunctional immigration system, which is mocked and exploited by its mortal enemies. In response, today WND has launched a petition demanding that Congress temporarily halt Muslim immigration into the U.S. ... Americans promised to “Never Forget” after the 9/11 terror attacks, but for the past seven years President nObama and his allies have tried to persuade the nation that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, ISIS is “contained,” and al-Qaida is “on the run.” Meanwhile, ISIS controls large swathes of Iraq and Syria, murders another Christian every five minutes, its supporters have perpetrated deadly attacks inside Europe and on American soil, and al-Qaida remains potent across the Middle East and North Africa. The WND petition asserts that whether members of Congress accept Donald Trump’s idea to pause all Muslim immigration, or Sen. Rand Paul’s measure to stop immigration from 34 Islamic nations, or other suggesting a temporary pause in  all immigration, many believe it is time for what CNBC economist Larry Kudlow calls a “wartime lockdown.”   http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/petition-congress-to-halt-muslim-immigration-now/
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 U.S. knows ISIS hiding spots, won’t launch strikes...  
{Robert Spencer} ~ In a secret project tied to the overall U.S. campaign against the Islamic State, intelligence officials have spent months mapping out known physical locations of media safe houses where the extremist group’s operatives are compiling... editing and curating raw video and print materials into finished digital propaganda products for dissemination across the Internet. Most of the locations are embedded in heavily residential areas in Syria, Iraq and Libya and are not being targeted by U.S. airstrikes because of nObama administration concerns about civilian casualties, according to sources who spoke to The Washington Times only on the condition of anonymity. The White House also has been pressing the intelligence community to continue studying the facilities for a deeper understanding of how the Islamic State and its media enterprises operate, the sources said. But its okay for ISIS to attack and kill civilians. Makes no sense.
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 Three Hilly Clinton Stories You Probably Missed  
{Andrew Stiles} ~ Democratic frontrunner Hilly Clinton, on the other hand, hasn’t gotten a lot of attention lately, that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been making news. Here are few Hilly headlines you might have missed during the media’s most recent Trumpgasm... 
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Senate investigators have asked the State Department for backup copies of emails sent by Bryan Magliano, the guy Hilly hired to maintain her secret email server, and has since pled the Fifth in response to the ongoing federal investigations. The State Department, however, just told those investigator that they couldn’t find any copies of those emails. The FBI, which has taken possession of Pagliano’s government computer, might have better luck.
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Just another run-of-the-mill story about nepotism/corruption involving Hilly Clinton and Goldman Sachs, her favorite Wall Street bank: As secretary of state, Hilly Clinton intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm to meet with her or other State Department officials, according to the recently released Clinton emails. One of the firm’s investors had asked Clinton’s son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, who is married to Chelsea Clinton, for help setting up such contacts, the emails show.

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Hilly Clinton has repeatedly insisted that she never (sent or) received information on her private email server that was classified (at the time). The intelligence community rejects that assessment, which Hilly has dismissed as a “disagreement” between government agencies. Fox News reports on a new development that undermines Hilly’s case: An intelligence community review has re-affirmed that two classified emails were indeed “top secret” when they hit Hilly Clinton’s unsecured personal server despite a challenge to that designation by the State Department, according to two sources familiar with the review. The sources described the dispute over whether the two emails were classified at the highest level as a “settled matter.”
Video:  http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=92335&siteSection=freebeacon_hom_non_non_dynamic&videoId=29436940
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 U.S. Visas continue to be handled by foreign contractors  
{Wayne Madsen} ~ The U.S. State Department, under both presidential hopeful Hilly Clinton and current Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry, has continued a policy of outsourcing the preparation and acceptance of U.S. visa forms by outside contractors... In fact, the U.S. embassy in Islamabad referenced on its website a “new system” operating worldwide that handles visa applications. Accused San Bernardino Islamic State terrorist Tashfeen Malik was approved for a K-1 fiance visa by the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan even though she had a history of involvement with radical jihadist Salafist groups in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and jihadist-oriented social media sites.
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 UN IAEA Decides In Favor Of Iran – Not That They Weren’t Cheating  
{constitutionrising.com} ~ It’s a safe bet that when the United Nations is involved in the oversight of anything it will at best be strongly politicized and at worst a completely dysfunctional, self-serving, dishonest charade designed to achieve a particular illicit result while providing the false appearance of legitimacy... The latter is not only a less appealing outcome, it is also a much more common one; what might be described as “the UN way.” Just because nuclear weapons and the ability to destroy the world are part of the equation does not in any way lessen the likelihood of an unfavorable result. On Tuesday the UN’s IAEA voted to let bygones be bygones and forgive the transgressions by Iran of the last decade and a half. The decision is consistent with the insane, mad rush to arm the terrorist nation with nuclear weapons in some sort of global death wish being imposed by the nObama regime upon all the people of the world – his global slaves, still, for the time being referred to as global “citizens.” The profiteers of the UN Security council are lining up to make some big bucks as are their comrades. They’re all on board to maximize their short-term reward realized at the expense of creating a very big long-term problem.
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 Navy Under Secretary Nominee Davidson Fields Ford Carrier...  
{John Grady} ~ The nominee for the Navy’s number two civilian post told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that she shares its concerns with the cost overruns and delays in the delivery of the Ford–class nuclear aircraft carrier and was “open to all options” in considering alternatives... In answer to a question about problems with the General Atomics Advanced Arresting Gear on the Ford–class carrier at her confirmation hearing, Janine Davidson said that it was critically important in “making sure your advanced technology . . . is ready to go.” Sen. John McCain, (R-Ariz.) and chairman, said, “To be honest we have not seen any progress” in controlling costs and speeding delivery of these ships.
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Why Take The Trump Stunt Seriously
Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ So how exactly does this work, Donald Trump’s plan to keep America safe from Islamic terrorism by barring entry to all Muslims? He explained it Tuesday on TV. The immigration official will ask the foreigner if he’s a Muslim.
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“And if they said, ‘yes,’ they would not be allowed in the country?”
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Trump: “That’s correct.”
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Brilliant. And very economical. That is, if you think that bloodthirsty terrorists — “people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” as Trump describes them — will feel honor-bound to tell the truth to an infidel immigration officer. They kill wantonly but, like George Washington, cannot tell a lie. On this logic hinges the great Maginot Line with which Trump will protect America from jihad.
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I decline to join the chorus denouncing the Trump proposal as offensive and un-American. That’s too obvious. What I can’t get over is its sheer absurdity.
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Here’s a suggestion (borrowed from my Fox News colleague Chris Stirewalt) to shore it up. At every immigration station at every airport in America, we will demand that every potential entrant — immigrant, refugee, student or tourist — eat a bacon sandwich. You refuse? Back home you go!
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True, the Stirewalt Solution casts the net a bit wide, snaring innocent vegetarians and Orthodox Jews. But hey, as Trump said Tuesday “We’re at war — get it through your head.” Can’t get squeamish about collateral damage.
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Dozens of others have already pointed out how strategically idiotic is Trump’s exclusion principle. Absent a renewed Christian crusade against radical Islam — with those fabulous Hollywood-wardrobe tunics — the war on terror will only be won in alliance with moderate Muslims. Declaring them anathema is not the best beginning to coalition-building.
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To take but the most obvious example: Our closest and most effective allies on the ground in the Middle East are the Kurds. Trump would turn them back at the Orlando airport. No Disney World for them. Or does he not know that they are Muslim?
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It is embarrassing even to embark on such arguments. To treat “no Muslims allowed” as a serious idea is to give credit to what is little more than a clever stunt by a man who saw Ted Cruz beating him for the first time in the Iowa Monmouth poll and five hours later decided it was time to seize the stage again.
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This got the thinkers going again. National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, whom I (otherwise) hold in considerable esteem, spent 1,000 words trying to tart up the ban in constitutional and statutory livery, stressing — hilariously — that he is dealing with the Trump proposal “in its final form.” As if Trump’s barstool eruptions are painstakingly vetted, and as if anything Trump says about anything is ever final.
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Take his Syria policy. In September, he said we should wash our hands and just let Russia fight the Islamic State. Having, I assume, been subsequently informed that Vladimir Putin’s principal interest — and target — is not the Islamic State but the anti-Assad rebels, Trump now promises to “bomb the s— ” out of the Islamic State.
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I’m sure there’s a Trump apologist out there working to explain the brilliant complementarity of these two contradictory strategies. Just as a few months ago there was a frenzy of learned scholarship about the constitutional history of the 14th Amendment following another Trump eruption — the abolition of birthright citizenship.
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Whatever the final outcome, Trump’s campaign has already succeeded, indelibly affecting both this race and the Republican future. At a time of economic malaise at home and strategic collapse abroad, Trump has managed to steer the entire GOP campaign into absurdities, like mass deportation of 11 million illegal immigrants, and impossibilities, like the exclusion of Muslims from our shores.
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“No Muslims allowed” is the perfect example. President nObama’s Oval Office address on Sunday night marked a new low in his presidency. The shopworn arguments, the detached tone, the willful denial that there might be anything wrong with his policy was deeply unsettling for left, right and center. Even The New York Times had to admit “nObama’s Plans to Stop ISIS Leave Many Democrats Wanting More,” which is Timesese for Democrats Stunned by Vacancy in the Oval Office. Here was an opportunity for the Republican field to launch an all-out takedown of the nObama (and Hilly Clinton) foreign policy.
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Within less than a day that opportunity was wiped out. Once again, it’s the Donald Show.
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Weather Weasels of the Apocalypse REJOICE!!!

By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on americanpbn.com

global_warming.gif?width=236Now that Obama has ISIS contained…Paris, San Bernardino, most of the Middle East, a good portion of North Africa and areas of Europe along with various other places within the geographical boundaries of earth notwithstanding…the collective heads of state have turned their collective heads to more pressing matters.

WEATHER WEASELS OF THE APOCALYPSE…REJOICE…AS THEY HAVE SAVED OUR ORB FROM ITSELF!!!

That’s correct…a CLIMATE CHANGE deal has been reached and thus, for the first time since the creation of the 3rd rock from the sun, our climate will not change!!!

There was a standing ovation as the 195 countries involved in utter nonsense announced that a deal had been reached by which the world’s temperature would not rise by more than 2 degrees Celsius and fossil fuels would become obsolete.

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Obamas Gun Jihad

Our Muslim Marxist President is doing his best to take the guns away from patriots in our country. He has tried over the past six years to force Congress to do his bidding to violate the 2nd Amendment. Congress, to its credit has pushed back and allowed the law abiding people of this country to continue to keep the right given to them in the Constitution.

After San Bernardino, a city 30 miles from my home and the hometown of my wife, it did not take long for the Democrats to bring out the response they always do. It was the guns fault, and therefore, no one should have one.Knee jerk responses to be sure, and even with the assistance of a front page editorial in the New York Times, could not change the thinking of the American people that they have a right to self defense.  Petula Dvorak of the Washington Post even went so far as to claim the “Evil Republicans” because they respect the 2nd Amendment.

Of course, according to Ms. Dvorak more gun free zones are the answer. If only everyone would turn in their guns, all would he sweetness and light with unicorns and rainbows. I don’t know what neighborhood this lady lives in, but in any neighborhood I ever lived in, the people I know are very happy to be able to keep their guns. Gun free zones work according to the Progressives and socialists. Should we ask  the children at Sandy Hook, or the writers at Charlie Hebdo, of the county workers in San Bernardino how well that works? Obama, that fine bastion of constitutional law proclaimed that the US is the number one purveyor of these attacks. Actually no, Norway is first, followed by Finland, Slovakia, Israel, and Switzerland. Sorry, Evergreen, you numbers lie again.

We have had seven years of the truth being a far distant cousin of the Democrats, but they all agree that they need to take our guns. Obama has already issued 23 executive actions which were never voted on and are clearly unconstitutional being rights that can not taken away without changing the founding documents of our country. The National Instant Criminal Background Check, (NICS) is being used by the federal government as the implementation of a national database. This has been admitted by federal officials and openly reported in the news.

The newest step being pushed by Obama is to try and cause gun manufacturers to fail. Gun sales have skyrocketed, and Obama has now used his federal power in a vendetta against Smith and Wesson using the Security Exchange Commission.  Our Marxist in chief is using the advocate of the state of New York asking federal regulators to investigate if the manufacturer Smith and Wesson had made adequate disclosures in its financial statements. The public advocate, Letitia James has stated that the SEC “should investigate whether Smith and Wesson misrepresented or omitted information about how often its products are involved in crimes and what it has done to keep its product out of the hands of criminals”.

I would appreciate anyone who can tell me how any company, selling any product, can be forced to be responsible for the misuse of their product? Smith and Wesson does infact provide training and a gun lock with each gun sold, and no one can explain what more they should do.

This is nothing more than a witch hunt and nothing more. It is this President attempting to circumvent Congress with a targeting of a business that he does not feel is subservient to his agenda as a tyrannical king who can make proclamations for what he desires to be so. The final question is what business is next. Obama has a year to go, and now is the time to draw a red line in the sand (Obama might understand that) and say no more.

 

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Thursday ~ The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
Answering John hanoi-Kerry
Caroline B. Glick
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 CNN changes rules to admit Rand to main debate 
Time: “[Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul] has struggled in the polls and among donors, and seen his support erode even further amid renewed concerns over the threat of terrorism following the Paris and San Bernardino attacks. In recent days, as it became clear Paul was unlikely to make the debate stage, his campaign began a social media push to call on the network to change its rules to allow his participation, just as the network did for former HP CEO Carly Fiorina before its September debate. In the end, the network announced that Paul would be allowed to participate in the main stage, stating Paul was ‘showing viability’ by polling at 5% in a Fox News Iowa poll released Sunday morning, but it did not explain—as it did in the case of Fiorina—how it let Paul, whose polling average considered by the network is below the required 4% in the state, on stage.”  -Fox News
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE  
Today in 1799, George Washington breathed his last breath, dying (most likely of quackery) at his beloved estate, Mount Vernon, at the age of 67. Washington only had about two-and-a-half years of his long-awaited retirement before he met his end. During his many years away from home at war and as president, Christmas was one part of life at Mount Vernon for which Washington yearned most – understandable given how he spent some Christmases. What would Christmas look like to our nation’s first president? Much of it would look familiar today, including a church service and large gathering of family and friends. The Washingtons loved to entertain and Christmas was no exception. The day typically included a feast followed by the seasonal activity of foxhunting. Something that would have been missing? St. Nicholas paying a visit and a glittering evergreen tree. Both would not be popular in America until the first large wave of German immigrants reached our shores in the mid-1800s. 
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 WATCHDOGS BARK OVER HILLY’S HELP FOR SON-IN  - LAW’S BIZ 
Fox News: “A conservative watchdog group will call for a federal investigation Monday into Hilly Clinton’s actions toward a deep-sea mining company tied to her son-in-law, according to a published report. According to Time magazine, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), plans to file a complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics alleging that Clinton gave Neptune Minerals ‘special access to the State Department based upon the company’s relationships with Secretary Clinton’s family members and donors to the Clinton Foundation.’
          “The complaint comes two weeks after emails released by the State Department show that Clinton, now the Democratic presidential front-runner, ordered a senior State Department official to look into the request from Marc Mezvinsky. Mezvinsky, a partner in a New York hedge fund and the husband of Clinton’s daughter Chelsea, had received an email in May 2012 from investor Harry Siklas asking if he could help set up contacts with Clinton or other State Department officials.”  
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 FUNDING BILL UNDER THE GUN, AGAIN  
Time is again running short as lawmakers try to hammer out a long term spending deal and avert a new government shutdown deadline 
of Wednesday midnight. Riders to the $1.1 trillion spending bill that would fund the government through the Fall of 2016 continue to be the sticking point. With both parties looking to tout those riders as policy victories in 2016, pressure is building on new rail yard master Speaker Paul Ryan to get the omnibus legislation out of the station without leaving disgruntled passengers, especially among the Republican conference, in the process.
          The Hill: “The House could vote Wednesday at the earliest if the catch-all spending bill, known as an omnibus, is made public on Monday in order to meet a rule that all legislation be made public for three calendar days before a vote. But the House won’t have its first votes of the week until Tuesday night — an indication that the omnibus might not be released until as late as possible. The Senate will likely have less than 24 hours to pass either the omnibus bill or yet another stopgap measure to avoid a government shutdown Wednesday night…. The spending bill is also expected to be linked to a major package renewing expiring tax credits, with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) saying that negotiations would likely extend through the weekend.” 
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 Chinese Submarine Practiced Missile Attack on USS Reagan  
{Bill Gertz} ~ A Chinese attack submarine conducted a simulated cruise missile attack on the aircraft carrier USS Reagan during a close encounter several weeks ago, according to American defense officials... The targeting incident near the Sea of Japan in October violated China’s 2014 commitment to the multinational Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea, known as CUES, designed to reduce the risk of a shooting incident between naval vessels, said officials familiar with details of the encounter they described as “serious.” A section of the non-binding 2014 agreement states that commanders at sea should avoid actions that could lead to accidents or mishaps. Among the actions to be avoided are “simulation of attacks by aiming guns, missiles, fire control radar, torpedo tubes or other weapons in the direction of vessels or aircraft encountered.” Why mention this. The pres of America will look the other way.
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 What About Iran's "JCPOA"?  
{Lawrence A. Franklin} ~ Iran is cheating already -- or is it? Iran has not signed anything, so presumably it cannot be cheating on something it never agreed to – as predicted on these pages half a year ago... The self-appointed P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany), elected by no one but themselves, should be embarrassed to find that they have made a deal with no one but themselves. The lavishly touted and lavishly dangerous "Iran Deal" not only paves the way for Iran to have nuclear weapons, as it was planning, anyway; it also rewards Iran's repeated violations of the Non-Proliferation Treaty -- which it did sign -- with up to $150 billion. With a punishment like that, we should all start violating commitments. Iran's recent missile tests have, been undermining the rationale of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which the P5+1 signed with itself. If Iran is concerned that its missile tests might have violated multiple UN Resolutions, a paltry detail such as that clearly has not bothered anyone before, so why should it bother anyone now?       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7056/iran-jcpoa-violations
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 Gowdy OBLITERATES 2nd Amendment Restrictions...  
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Trey Gowdy PERFECTLY executes the END ALL question to the argument against not allowing people randomly put on the government’s no-fly list to purchase firearms…it’s FLAWLESS!... Trey Gowdy made a phenomenal point about the Second Amendment without having to argue. Which, if you’ve ever had the misfortune of arguing with a leftist, is a great way of making your point. Make a leftist defend why they support anything by asking questions. Put them on defense exactly as Gowdy did here. He didn’t get on a soapbox, he didn’t tell her she was an idiot (well, not overtly), he didn’t call her a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. He asked her what other Amendments a citizen would have to petition the government for to get back. It brilliantly illuminated how government abuses people’s Second Amendment rights and the slippery slope which could lead to the restriction of the other rights.
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 Iran Rattling Saber After Nuclear Deal  
{restoreamericanglory.com} ~ Did you ever make peace with someone only to find out they were bad-mouthing you behind your back?... Most of us leave these petty squabbles behind when we trade high school for adulthood, but we remember the lessons well. When an individual is saying one thing to your face and something else when you aren’t around, that individual is not to be trusted. You can’t always map human behavior one-to-one with the machinations of nation states, but it makes for an interesting way to view the nuclear deal between Iran and the United States. After lengthy negotiations in which the U.S. apparently gave in to Iranian demands again and again, the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader has shown no interest in pursuing a real diplomatic relationship with the West. Unlike that slimy character you might have known in high school, though, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei isn’t bothering to hide his true feelings about the United States. In an unverified tweet, Iran’s spiritual commander said, “US president has said he could knock out Iran’s military. We welcome no war, nor do we initiate any war, but…” To finish the thought, Khamenei included a picture ostensibly showing President nObama holding a gun to his own head. Written on the picture is the conclusion of the quote: “…if any war happens, the one who will emerge loser will be the aggressive and criminal U.S.”       http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/freedoms/iran-rattling-saber-after-nuclear-deal/
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 Misinformation on guns: Keep it coming, nObama  
6H0oMJDNBYF995aEpMfRCD8EmZaq7DEWpM8vaUYm8E17nYo1y4iKTcu1CXjTKmUPl8tZE3K8K0PHRgqc-CuPFqCZoNKOq4qD1uvMAtd_V0k=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=http://www.wnd.com/files/2014/02/David-Limbaugh_avatar.jpg" width="68" height="68" /> {David Limbaugh} ~ The nObama administration is not only at odds with America, as founded, but also woefully out of touch with ordinary Americans, and it is deceitful or delusional (or both) on guns... President nObama twisted himself into a pretzel to deny that the San Bernardino, California, massacre was committed by Islamic terrorists. Even as facts accumulated – making the obvious undeniable – he continued to cling to the preposterous narrative that it was workplace violence. It’s those high-stress jobs, you see, that cause otherwise peaceful people to fire up their time machines and go back to buy weapons to kill dozens of people who have nothing to do with their workplace grievances. In the first place, these liberals have never been able to refute the axiomatic truth that making our gun laws more restrictive would not have prevented the various mass shootings they invariably use to launch new salvos against gun ownership. So the fact that they even raise the issue after these incidents is obscenely dishonest, opportunistic and hyper-partisan.
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 Syrian Refugees Trashing Germany  
{Trey Sanchez} ~ A recent video has emerged showing exactly what Syrian refugees are leaving behind on the roadways in Germany... Look at the sides of the Autobahn which are literally littered with trash stretching up and down the roadway:Photos from previous months have circulated online that not only shows similar debris, but  also new, and very usable, items like diapers and baby strollers. As evidenced in the pictures, they have been left on buses and on the streets.
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 nObama to expand modern-day slave trade with TPP  
{Kit Daniels} ~ Not long after the White House invited Thailand to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the AP reported the country was relying on slave labor to ship shrimp to the U.S... And it’s unlikely Thailand’s billion-dollar slave industry would prevent it from joining the TPP considering that nObama previously removed an anti-slavery provision from the TPP and also allowed Vietnam to join the partnership despite its flourishing slave trade. “For… 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water,” the AP revealed. “They ripped the guts, heads, tails and shells off shrimp bound for overseas markets, including grocery stores and all-you-can-eat buffets across the United States.” “After being sold to the Gig Peeling Factory, they were at the mercy of their Thai bosses, trapped with nearly 100 other Burmese migrants.”
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 nObama disrespects Jew and Israel at WH Chanukah party  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ Last Wednesday’s White House Chanukah party was different from the usual fare. President nObama used the event to disrespect Israel and the Jewish people... by bringing in a BDS-supporting reform rabbi to give a politicized speech before she changed the words of one of the traditional Chanukah blessing. The President’s choice for making the Chanukah candles-lighting blessings at the gala, Susan Talve gave a candle-lighting “speech,” calling for justice for the Palestinians, invoking the Muslim deity Allah  and black lives matter. Talve called terrorism something that should be dealt “with with peace and understanding.” Talve is more than just a rabbi in ordained by the Reform Movement, but she is also a board member of the organization, “T’ruah” which calls itself “The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.”  T’ruah is a leftist group which, among other things supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. It takes the same “Israel is always wrong” position that U.S. President nObama takes.
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 NATO Weapons Make Boko Haram World’s Deadliest Terror Group 
{Warren Mass} ~ The Nigerian Boko Haram terrorist group was responsible for 6,644 deaths in 2014, compared to 6,073 attributed to ISIS, making it the deadliest terrorist group in the world last year... And, in what has become a disturbingly familiar pattern in the rise of terrorist organizations, Boko Haram’s growing strength is a direct consequence of NATO’s war on Libya. This information about the relative deadliness of Boko Haram and ISIS was part of a report recently released by Global Terrorism Index, a project of the Sydney, Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). The results were cited in an article by freelance writer Dan Glazebrook originally published by RT on November 27 and reprinted with permission the next day by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.  In his article, Glazebrook observed that when Boko Haram began its terrorist operations in 2009 (the group was founded in 2002) it had very little in the way of sophisticated arms. Glazebrook quoted from a 2014 article by Peter Weber in The Week that traced the improvement in Boko Haram’s weaponry, which had “shifted from relatively cheap AK-47s in the early days of its post-2009 embrace of violence to desert-ready combat vehicles and anti-aircraft/ anti-tank guns.”        http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/22141-nato-weapons-helped-make-boko-haram-worlds-deadliest-terror-group?utm_content=Rudy%20Tirre&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Read%20on%2E%2E%2E&utm_campaign=NATO%20Weapons%20Helped%20Make%20Boko%20Haram%20World%E2%80%99s%20Deadliest%20Terror%20Groupcontent
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 Two Glaring NYT Displays of Ignorance About CAIR in One Day  
{Steven Emerson} ~ America's "paper of record" might be well served to spend some time reviewing actual records... A day after the Investigative Project on Terrorism published exclusive stories detailing the Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood ties at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) from the moment of its birth, and the radical, pro-jihad views of a longtime national board member, the New York Times gave CAIR two free passes. First, it invited CAIR-San Francisco director Zahra Billoo to write a column lamenting an increase in anti-Muslim threats and attacks in recent weeks. IPT readers know that Billoo has a long record of radical statements, including accusing U.S. soldiers of engaging in terrorism in 2012. Last year, she compared the Israeli army to ISIS, and she heads the chapter which posted an infamous "wall of resistance" poster sowing fear and suspicion among Muslims against federal law enforcement.
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Answering John hanoi-Kerry
Caroline B. Glick
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ On Saturday, US Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry gave a speech before the Brookings Institute’s Saban Forum.
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hanoi-Kerry focused on the Palestinian conflict with Israel and sought to draw a distinction between the two-state policy model, which he supports, and the one-state policy model, which he rejects.
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To justify his rejection of a policy based on Israeli sovereignty over areas beyond the 1949 armistice lines, hanoi-Kerry raised a series of questions about what a one-state policy would look like.
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I answered all of his questions, as well as many others, in great detail in my book The Israeli Solution: A One- State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.
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I will do so again here, albeit with the requisite brevity.
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But before discussing the specific questions hanoi-Kerry raised with regard to the one-state model, it is important to discuss the nature of the policies hanoi-Kerry described in his speech.
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hanoi-Kerry argued Israel should deny civil and property rights to Jews beyond the 1949 armistice lines, and ignore the building and planning laws of both Israel and the military government in Judea and Samaria in order to allow unrestricted Arab construction in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
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Such steps, he argued, will advance the cause of peace because they will pave the way for an Israeli withdrawal from the vast majority of these areas. Such a withdrawal in turn will bring about the desired two-state solution.
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Since the two-state solution is supported by the whole world, hanoi-Kerry argued that once Israel withdraws from the areas, it will gain the support of the world, peace with its Arab neighbors as well as the Palestinians, and become more prosperous and happy than it is today. It will also secure its democracy.
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On the other hand, hanoi-Kerry argued, if Israel respects the civil and property rights of Jews and continues to enforce the law toward Arabs as well as Jews, and if it eventually applies its laws to any or all of Judea and Samaria, Israel will enter a state of perpetual war with the Palestinians and the wider Arab world. Israel will cease to be a democracy. Israel will be impoverished.
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Israel will be isolated internationally even more than it is today.
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If hanoi-Kerry’s options were real options, then Israel would have a clear and easy choice, just as he argues it has.
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But unfortunately, they aren’t real options. They are fantasies.
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Today Israel has three options. As hanoi-Kerry advocates, it can withdraw from Judea and Samaria and partition Jerusalem. But if it does so, there is no reason to believe that the outcome will be a Palestinian state, let alone peace.
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Rather, it is far more likely that an Israeli withdrawal will lead to the establishment of a second independent Palestinian enclave that the Palestinians and the international community will insist is still under occupation, just as the Palestinians and the international community insist that Gaza remains under Israeli occupation 10 years after Israel vacated the Gaza Strip entirely.
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Without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, Israel will become a strategic basket case in an increasingly chaotic region. It will invite aggression from the Palestinians and from the east that it will be hard pressed to defend against.
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Just as Israel is condemned for every action it has taken to defend against Palestinian aggression from Gaza, so it will be condemned for the actions it will be forced to take to defend itself from Palestinian aggression in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and beyond.
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In other words, the so-called “two-state solution” is a recipe for war and expanded international isolation for the Jewish state.
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The second option for Israel is to maintain the status quo. Today, Israel shares governing power in Judea and Samaria with the PLO. Sometimes the PLO cooperates with Israeli security forces, and sometimes it cooperates with terrorist groups.
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The PLO rejects Israel’s right to exist. It uses every available platform to undermine Israel’s legitimacy and wage economic and political war against the Jewish state.
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The advantage of the status quo is that under it, Israel has security control over Judea and Samaria. Consequently, it is able to prevent Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem from becoming strategically indistinguishable from Gaza, where Hamas is now openly collaborating with Islamic State forces in Sinai.
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Israel’s third option is to apply its laws over all or parts of Judea and Samaria. The first benefit of this option is that it maintains Israel’s ability to defend itself against security threats emanating from the Palestinians and from the east.
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Beyond that, under Israeli law, the civil rights of Palestinians and Jews in Judea and Samaria will be vastly improved. Israel’s liberal legal code is superior to both the military code governing the Jews and the Palestinian Authority’s law of the jackboot which governs the Palestinians.
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Whereas the status quo invites and engenders politicization of Israel’s military commanders who serve as the governing authorities of the areas, the third option would end the politicization of the IDF. Generals would take a backseat to elected leaders and government ministries. Police would be responsible for law enforcement. Rather than deploy regular and reserve units to dispel rioters, police, who are better trained for such events, would be judiciously deployed in areas where they are most needed. The IDF’s operations would be limited to counterterrorism.
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None of Israel’s actual three options will necessarily enhance its international standing. This is the case because, as we have seen, Israel’s international standing has little to do with anything Israel does.
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But then again, by exhibiting strength, and forcefully asserting its rights, Israel may find itself winning the respect of some foreign governments that currently view it is weak and open to blackmail.
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This brings us to hanoi-Kerry’s questions about a one-state model.
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hanoi-Kerry asked, “How does Israel possibly maintain its character as a Jewish and democratic state when from the river to the sea there would not even be a Jewish majority?” The answer is easily. Israel will retain its strong Jewish majority, and its commitment to democracy, after it applies its laws to Judea and Samaria.
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hanoi- Kerry asked, “Would millions of Palestinians be given the basic rights of Israeli citizens including the right to vote, or would they be relegated to a permanent underclass?” The answer is yes, they would be given the basic rights of Israeli citizens, including the right to vote, and no, they would not be relegated to a permanent underclass.
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hanoi-Kerry asked, “Would the Israelis and Palestinians living in such close quarters have segregated roads and transportation systems with different laws applying in the Palestinian enclaves?” The answer is, no.
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hanoi-Kerry asked, “Would anyone really believe they were being treated equally?” The answer is that, as we have seen repeatedly, no matter what Israel does, and no matter what the Palestinians do, people like hanoi-Kerry will always claim that Israel is mistreating the Palestinians.
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hanoi-Kerry asked, “What would the international response be to that, my friends, or to a decision by Israel to unilaterally annex large portions of the West Bank?” The answer, again, is that the international response to such a move would be about the same as the international response to the continuation of the status quo or to an Israel withdrawal. To wit, the response will be hostile to Israel.
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hanoi-Kerry asked, “How could Israel ever have true peace with its neighbors, as the Arab Peace Initiative promises and as every Arab leader I have met with in the last year reinforces to me as recently as in the last month that they are prepared to do?” The answer is that Israel can have true peace with the Arab world when the Arab world accepts the legitimacy and permanence of the Jewish state.
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hanoi-Kerry asked, “How will Arab states make peace... if there is no chance for a two-state solution?” The answer is that they will make peace when they decide they want peace and they rid their societies of Jew hatred.
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hanoi-Kerry asked, “How will the Arab street in today’s world let... the two-state solution go by?” The answer is that the Arab street doesn’t believe in the “two-state solution.” The Arab street wants the dissolution of Israel.
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Finally, hanoi-Kerry asked, “And wouldn’t Israel risk being in perpetual conflict with millions of Palestinian living in the middle of a state?” The answer is that Israel is at risk of perpetual conflict with the Palestinians and the Arab world as a whole for as long as the Arabs hate Jews. The millions of Palestinians living within Israel’s borders constitute a far smaller strategic danger to Israel than the millions of Jew-hating Arabs, who have terrorist armies, perched on its international borders.
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At the outset of his remarks, hanoi-Kerry explained that as far as US Middle East policy is concerned, “Our goal, our strategy is to help ensure that the builders and the healers throughout the region have the chance that they need to accomplish their tasks.”
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Sadly, this is neither a goal nor a strategy. It is the sort of platitude you’re likely to find inside a Chinese fortune cookie.
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If hanoi-Kerry is interested in an actual strategy, he can fork out a few bucks and buy my book.
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Obama’s Deal With the Devil…Part 3 of 3

By Craig Andresen and Diane Sori  Right Side Patriots on American Patriots Broadcasting Network

odev-1.jpg?width=297In Part 1of our Investigative Report: ‘Obama’s Deal With the Devil’, we presented why we believe Obama gave the speech he did and why the San Bernardino police are acting after the fact in a way they should have acted before the fact. In Part 2 of ‘Obama’s Deal With the Devil’, we disclosed who Obama really is and why things are unfolding as they are including outing those who are not what they seem to be. And now Part 3…

On Monday, Barack HUSSEIN Obama spoke at the Pentagon to tout what he wants us to believe are successes in the fight against ISIS in Syria. “As we squeeze its heart, we’ll make it harder for ISIL to pump out its terror and propaganda”…and note his once again shout-out to the Levant.

And while Obama tried to sound reassuring, it was more apparent that he is desperate. He is desperate to regain that which he has lost…his hold over the forces of islam…a hold which existed only in his arrogance as he was never the one calling the shots, but was the one who all along has been bowing to the demands of 7th century barbarians.

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Wednesday ~ The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 HILLY SLIDES IN BATTLEGROUND POLL ON SYRIA,  FBI PROBE 
The pro-GOP group American Crossroads’ monthly battleground state poll, conducted by Vox Populi, shows a five-point dive in support for Hilly Clinton against a generic Republican opponent since last month’s poll. Clinton’s stance on accepting Syrian refugees, and her ongoing FBI investigation made over half of respondents less likely to vote for her. In a head-to-head faceoff, Clinton sits at 35 percent to her Republican challenger’s 54 percent, a 19-point deficit compared to a 12-point deficit in the November matchup. The poll also saw a 2-point uptick in Clinton’s unfavorable rating, which now sits at 57-percent. See the full results here.
          [Hilly Clinton’s campaign talked up her aggressive ad in favor of gun control. But the NYT reports that the campaign barely aired the spot in Iowa and New Hampshire, which also happen to be swing states with loads of gun owners.]  -Fox News
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 Will Hilly return donation from controversial Muslim  cleric? -  Free Beacon: “An Islamic Turkish religious leader whose followers have donated up to $1 million dollars to the Clinton Foundation is being taken to court on charges that he is using U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund a reclusive cult that is indoctrinating U.S. children and silencing critics by force, according to a copy of the legal complaint filed Wednesday in a U.S. District Court. Fethullah Gülen, a Muslim cleric whose movement has been described by critics as cult-like, stands accused of using hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds to establish more than 120 charter schools in the United States that are used to proselytize and indoctrinate American youths.”   -Fox News
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 MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH  
Lawmakers wrangling for a long-term funding deal under threat of a government shutdown at midnight are giving themselves more rope. A five-day extension of current spending levels passed the Senate Thursdayand is expected to pass the House today. While horse trading continues on the $1.1 trillion tax and spending legislation a new political wrinkle is in play as Democrats push for changes in gun policy.
          WashEx:  “Democrats added a demand to the spending bill talksThursday when they suddenly insisted that an agreement must include lifting a federal law preventing the Centers for Disease Control from studying the impact of gun violence…The current law that Democrats oppose…prevents the CDC from spending federal funds ‘to advocate or promote gun control.’…a string of mass shootings has emboldened Democrats to push Republicans to lift the ban, and it has suddenly become one of the main sticking points in the omnibus negotiations.”  
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 YOU EXPECTED BIBI TO HAVE A LAP DOG?  
BBC: “A dog recently adopted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuKaiya, bit two visitors, one a lawmaker, during a religious event. The incident happened during a candle-lighting ceremony to mark the Jewish festival of Hannukah at Mr Netanyahu’s residence. MPSharren Haskel and the husband of Tzipi Hotovely, the deputy foreign minister, were not seriously hurt. Mr Netanyahu’s son took the dog in from a rescue home earlier this year. Prime Minister Netanyahu tweeted a picture of himself with the 10-year-old mixed breed in August. ‘If you want a canine, find an adult dog to rescue. You won't regret it,’ he wrote. Kaiya has met several high profile visitors including US Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry.”  
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 Security Lapses Let Islamic Killer into America 
{fixthisnation.com} ~ While we’ve known for some time that the nObama administration is doing very little to destroy the Islamic State, the shootings in San Bernardino have made it clear that his presidency has overseen a weakening of our nation’s natural security system as well... There’s simply so excuse for the amount of intelligence our national security agencies missed in granting a fiancé visa to killer Tashfeen Malik. According to new reports, U.S. law enforcement officials missed Malik’s jihadist social media postings despite a rigorous screening process when they were putting her through the visa process. According to officials, Malik was able to pass at least three background checks because no one bothered to see what kind of anti-American crap she was posting on the internet. Immigration officials, according to the New York Times, don’t usually look at social media when putting an applicant through their security screenings. This, despite the fact that Pakistan shares very little information with our intelligence agencies, making traditional background checks useless.
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 IDF strikes two Hamas military targets in response to Gaza rocket fire 
{YAAKOV LAPPIN} ~ The Israel Air Force struck two Hamas terrorist sites overnight between Sunday and Monday, hitting targets in central and northern Gaza... following a Gazan rocket attack on Southern Israel  that occurred on Sunday night. There were no injuries reported in the rocket strike. The IDF Spokesman Unit said the airstrikes were a response to the rocket attack a few hours earlier. On Sunday night, a projectile fired from Gaza exploded in an open area in the Sha'ar Hanegev Council, triggering warning sirens in Sderot and in the surrounding areas. There were no injuries or damage in the attack.        http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/IDF-strikes-two-Hamas-military-targets-in-response-to-Gaza-rocket-fire-437236
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 One Christian Slaughtered Every Five Minutes  
{Raymond Ibrahim} ~ Throughout September, as more Christians were slaughtered and persecuted for their religion -- not just by the Islamic State but by "everyday" Muslims from all around the world --  increasing numbers of people and organizations called for action... Meanwhile, those best placed to respond -- chief among them U.S. President Barack nObama and Pope Francis -- did nothing. "Why, we ask the western world, why not raise one's voice over so much ferocity and injustice?"asked Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian Bishops Conference. Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III said: "I do not understand why the world does not raise its voice against such acts of brutality." As one report put it: "Human rights activists see it. Foreign leaders see it. And more than 80 members of the U.S. Congress see it. Together, they are pressuring the leader of the free world President nObama to declare there is a Christian genocide going on in the Middle East."
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 Witnesses Say CAIR's Hamas/MB Links Cemented From Start  
{investigativeproject.org} ~ Like a good politician, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) repeatedly proves adept at inserting itself into national debates... When presidential candidate Ben Carson said he could not support a Muslim president, CAIR gathered reporters to express outrage and call on Carson to drop out of the race. When a 14-year-old Texas boy was detained for bringing what he said was a homemade clock to school that a teacher feared might be a bomb, a CAIR official expressed outrage and sat by the boy's side during news conferences and interviews. And in the immediate aftermath of the Dec. 2 mass killings in San Bernardino by a radicalized Muslim man and his wife, CAIR called a news conference where its top Los Angeles official "unequivocally" condemned the killings. CAIR's aggressive approach, and a combination of media ignorance or laziness, generates uncritical television and newspaper stories throughout the country. This helps the organization reinforce its self-anointed and incorrect reputation as the voice for America's roughly 2 million Muslims. CAIR is presented as a responsible, moderate organization.
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 Judge orders U.S. landlord to learn Islam
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                                                     Judge Paul Yee Jr.
And a higher court has been asked to look into the actions by Judge Paul Yee Jr., of the Massachusetts court system. It happened at the sentencing for Daisy Obi, who is a landlord, for a physical altercation in which tenant Gihan Suliman was knocked down a flight of stairs, suffering a bruise, cuts on her lip and a ligament injury. Obi was convicted of the altercation, even though she denied it. She also denied allegations she berated Suliman over Islam. And when you find out the landlord's side of the story, you just may pop a gasket.
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 hanoi-Kerry Admits Cutting Carbon Emissions Wouldn’t do Anything 
{Philip Hodges} ~ John hanoi-Kerry admitted that even if the U.S. were to totally revamp its energy system, and every American were careful to live exactly the way climate alarmists want them to live, it wouldn’t do anything, because the real problem is the developing world... According to hanoi-Kerry, they’re the ones who are responsible for 65% of global emissions. At the COP-21 climate conference in Paris, he stated: “… The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what – that still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world. What a bunch a fools our leaders are.        http://lastresistance.com/15179/video-john-kerry-admits-cutting-u-s-carbon-emissions-wouldnt-do-anything/
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 E.P.A. Broke Law With Social Media Push for Water Rule  
{ERIC LIPTON and MICHAEL D. SHEAR} ~ The Environmental Protection Agency engaged in “covert propaganda” and violated federal law when it blitzed social media to urge the public to back an nObama administration rule... intended to better protect the nation’s streams and surface waters, congressional auditors have concluded. The ruling by the Government Accountability Office, which opened its investigation after a report on the agency’s practices in The New York Times, drew a bright line for federal agencies experimenting with social media about the perils of going too far to push a cause. Federal laws prohibit agencies from engaging in lobbying and propaganda. “I can guarantee you that general counsels across the federal government are reading this report,” said Michael Eric Hertz, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York who has written on social media and the government
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 Major San Bernardino cover up revealed  
{ANDREW SPALDING} ~ The attacks in San Bernardino, Calif. shocked the nation. Immediately following the attacks, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest repeatedly called the terrorist attacks “gun violence.”... Earnest then used the attack to reiterate President nObama’s determination to change gun laws and promote his administration’s anti-gun agenda. Western Journalism has reported on the nObama administration’s attempts to downplay the incident and their initial refusal to call the shooting a terrorist attack. On Thursday, a whistleblower came forward. Phillip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security investigator, says he could have likely prevented the attacks in San Bernardino if the government had let him do his job. Three years ago, Haney had developed surveillance that revealed a global network of jihadists had infiltrated the United States. Haney’s claim that he was prohibited from investigating the mosque that the terrorists attended is now being followed up with accusations that nObama issued a directive to downplay the terrorist attacks. Unnamed sources have come forward and reported that the White House tried to spin the attack by putting pressure on officials to downplay what happened as terror, presumably in favor of the term “gun violence.” Jack Murphey of SOFREP wrote that a confidential source revealed, “nObama held a meeting in the Oval Office with his National Security Council, the attorney general, and the directors of the DHS, FBI, and NSA, in which a directive was given to downplay the terrorism angle.” This changes EVERYTHING!
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 Adm Ace Lyons Speaks At Security Summit On nObama’s Religion... 
{constitutionrising.com} ~ At today’s “Nevada Security Action Summit,” in Las Vegas, Retired Admiral James “Ace” Lyons had a few words to say about the situation our country faces in the wake of seven years of non-stop assault by the anti-American subversive in the White House... The first video below is a question from an attendee as to “Why no one is gutsy enough to call a Muslim a Muslim in our White House, it’s pretty obvious that he is.” Admiral Lyons responds, “Well, all I can say is, he certainly acts the part, doesn’t he.” The second video is a clip of the Admiral’s prepared remarks, the kind of direct talk we’ve heard from him before. He opens with the statement, “When the ‘president’ of the United States is not interested in America leading, or American winning, then you understand that the greatest threat to our national security resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.”
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 John hanoi-Kerry – Don’t Slow The Islamic Flow...  
{constitutionrising.com} ~ John hanoi-Kerry would almost have you believe he’s got a part time or maybe even a full-time second job as an Imam the way he advocates for Islam and for the blind importation of Islamists into America... Of course the Islamists have penetrated every federal agency and department in the nObama regime, by design. Their cover organizations and front groups, such as CAIR, figure prominently in the speaking engagements and policy decisions of those who occupy positions which are supposed to be in the interest of the American people and our nation. The terrorism enabler and lifelong America-hater John hanoi-Kerry was politicking for his favorite preferential group, Islamists, as a guest of Meet the Press on Sunday. He said, “And so I think that you’ve got to be very careful, just by categorizing people by being Muslim, that is discrimination and it is contrary, I think, to the fundamental values of our country.”  He’s right, it’s discriminatory, and it’s smart. It’s called recognizing a threat and reacting appropriately.
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What The Hell Are We Doing?
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ If America would ask its young men — and now women — to fight a war, the rest of us must be willing to go all-out to win it. If we’re not, it’s immoral to send them. Soldiers and citizens must understand what’s at stake andhave confidence in 
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our commander-in-chief to defeat the enemy. Half-measures won’t suffice. War is all hell, as General Sherman said, and when you’re going through hell, don’t stop until you come out the other side. Go all-out or don’t go.
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So, are we going to defeat ISIS or not? It’s not clear. President nObama promised to degrade and destroy ISIS more than a year ago, but admits he doesn’t have a strategy. He’s been bombing ISIS for a year, but not most of the oil trucks carrying oil from ISIS-controlled oil fields, and then only after he drops leaflets first giving them a 45-minute warning! After the ISIS attack on Paris, France bombed hundreds of these trucks and that left Americans wondering. If we’ve been bombing ISIS for a year, why are there so many trucks left for the French? Where are those oil trucks making deliveries? There are only a few possibilities given that they are, after all, trucks.
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When ISIS set off a bomb aboard a Russian passenger jet, and Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane, Russia accused Turkey of buying oil from ISIS. Could that be true? Turkey is allied to the United States. It belongs to NATO. The nObama Administration insisted Turkey is not buying ISIS oil, but ISIS makes $4 million per day selling it and there are only so many places a truck can go, right? Turkey is right next door.
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Last month, the UK Guardian reported that: “Turkish businessmen struck lucrative deals with ISIS oil smugglers, adding at least $10m (£6.6m) per week to the terror group’s coffers.” The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick reports that: “For nearly two years, we have known that Turkey is Islamic State’s major arms supplier. And for six months we have known that they are their partners in oil exports.” The Daily Beast reports that fifty US intelligence agents filed a formal complaint with US Central Command that intelligence reports were being doctored by senior intelligence officials in the nObama Administration for political reasons. When America  special forces killed an ISIS finance guy, they seized his computer with information on ISIS oil sales to Turkey.
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Monroe Mann, one of my former students, returned from northern Iraq where he’d been a US Army intelligence officer working with the Kurds. He delivered a presentation to all five of my US History classes and his esteem for Kurdish soldiers as allies of the United States was enormous. After nObama was elected, he pulled all US forces out of Iraq and the Kurds were on their own. Today, most analysts recognize them as the only effective opposition to ISIS on the ground — but nObama won’t send them military aid. Why? Because Turkey doesn’t want him to. Historical Kurdistan overlaps Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey — and Turkey is afraid of a Kurdish independence movement. So are the other countries.
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Confused yet? It gets worse. After nObama allowed Bashar Assad to overstep his red line on chemical weapons, Russia moved in to support Assad. Iran supports him too. nObama has walked on eggshells negotiating his ill-advised nuclear treaty with Iran and didn’t want to upset the mullahs by undermining their ally Assad. Even though nObama declares over and over that Assad has to go, he has no strategy to accomplish that either. Meanwhile he’s overseeing feeble military efforts against both Assad and ISIS while Russia and Iran openly support Assad and Turkey secretly supports ISIS. Should we be sending any US soldiers into a conflict in which we’re not sure who we’re fighting for or against? When we don’t know who our enemies are or who our friends are?
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“War is the locomotive of history,” said Bolshevik commander Leon Trotsky. Teaching US History, my approach was to analyze each war’s causes, major battles, and most of all — its effects, after which students were tasked to consider whether it was worth fighting. Then I’d tell them to imagine themselves as 18-year-old males during each war and ask themselves if they would have volunteered to fight in it. I also taught current events and we followed Desert Storm, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War as they happened. Like Monroe Mann, many went on to fight. Some still are.
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They’d ask me what I’d have done, but I’d defer until each had taken a position and defended it. If I were teaching about the situation in Syria and Iraq today, I’d have to tell them I would stay home until we figure out what the hell we’re doing.
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Climate Change... An inconvenient look

4064189996?profile=originalOkay, you all know about climate change, right? This is the phrase the left started using after the whole “Global Warming” crap didn’t pan out. They claim that the vast majority of climate scientists believe in it; but that’s just it, CLIMATE SCIENTISTS. You remember… they used to call themselves “environmental scientists”. So when they say “Climate Scientists” they mean the guys that would be out of work if it all turned out to be bullshit. 40 years ago nobody heard of climate scientist because they didn’t exist, they were called environmentalists back then. Remember the stoned hippies blathering on about the condor? Same assholes.

Now everyone has heard of a geologist right? These are the guys that study rocks to determine what life was like on earth millions of years ago (that’s almost longer that Nancy Pelosi’s been alive). Geologists tell us the earth has been going through circular changes for as far back as we can read the rock strata. They tell us that it’s been cold and hot before; sometimes really cold and really hot. Do the majority of Geologists believe in Climate change? Yes. Do they think man had anything to do with it? NO!

Before I continue ripping these lying hippies a new one, let’s talk a little bit about what good they have done. I grew up in the 1970’s and remember everybody throwing trash from their cars. I remember illegal dumping of toxic chemicals and 3rd stage smog alerts in the Los Angeles basin. You couldn’t eat fish caught off shore, acid rain fell from the skies of New York City and landfills were useless after they were filled. Something needed to be done and it was these filthy hippies and their tireless efforts that stopped…

Wait, I’m sorry, back that up. It was Ronald Reagan that pushed through and signed the clean air and water act and Richard Nixon that created the EPA through an executive order. What did Carter do? SQUAT! Clinton? He mandated through executive order that government buildings had to recycle, which they were already doing without being ordered to, and he tried to push through Gore’s carbon credit scam; the American people weren’t buying it. So it was Republicans that saved the environment? Somewhere a liberal just read that and their head popped like a pimple. (Rip another bong-load and keep reading, Shaggy).

The fact is we have become good stewards of the land compared to the 1970’s, the “Silent Winter” days and the era of “Love Canal”, when we were less than a decade from disaster. The air is clean, so is the water, poisoning the environment is a serious crime, littering is socially unacceptable, fish are safe to eat (more or less), and landfills become golf courses which makes trash heaps the most expensive real estate you can find. Is there more to do? Yes, but it’s a matter of enforcing existing laws, not making new ones that only serve to make Al Gore Richer.

What do I mean “Making Al Gore richer”? The whole “Carbon Credit” (also known as Cap and Trade) scam is set up like a stock market; guess who owns the biggest share of this new market exchange? That’s right, Al Gore (I’m assuming you guessed correctly since we were just talking about him a second ago). Al and his buddies stand to make Bill Gates kind of money if this crap becomes law. Do you know how the whole thing works?

The idea behind this is everyone gets a certain amount of carbon credits; the air you breath, trash, car emissions, etc. Businesses too only get a certain amount and will not be allowed to exceed it unless they pay for carbon offsets. Carbon offsets include planting trees, increasing estuaries (swamps) and other hippie nonsense that make pinko’s think they are making a difference. The Idea is that companies can avoid being heavily fined and even jailed by buying credits from companies that plant trees, flood farmland to make swamps and build “Green Energy” solar panels and wind turbines. Forget for a moment that solar panels are an environmental hazard or that commercial windmills never make enough electricity to justify their cost before they burn out. Let just focus on “Cap and Trade” for now.

So, let’s say you have a business that manufactures marital aides (Well, It’s as good a business as any for our purpose here). So your factory produces X amount of carbon more than the government allows; where do you go to buy carbon credits that the government will accept as genuine? That’s right, Al Gore’s carbon credit exchange (even sounds like a used car lot). Al gets a piece of every transaction, and you get… well, you get screwed, which is appropriate considering the products you make.  

Anyway, by forced regulation, a new crop of “Green” businesses pop up to service an industry nobody needs, that does nothing and is mandated by law. This is not a new idea; it was tried before by the Catholic Church in the late Fifteenth century. They called them indulgences, and you could “offset” your sins by paying the church for absolution for yourself or a dead relative in purgatory. Sounds fair, right? Martin Luther didn’t think so; it was a chief complaint of the 95 theses (not feces, but that would have been funnier) he nailed to the Cathedral door in Wittenberg. There’s also a joke in here somewhere about the Pope and his diet of worms... But I digress.

Now, I would like to take a minute to get back to Global Warming, or whatever they are calling it this week, and address the movie “Inconvenient Truth”. It is a work of fiction, presented as a PowerPoint presentation, but this hasn’t stopped the Nobel Prize Committee from granting that once respectable award to Al Gore for his brilliant narration. This is the same group that gave President Obama the prize for being Black (just saying). “An Inconvenient Truth” is to Cap and Trade what interest rates and inflation are to the Federal Reserve. Now the movie with less truth in it than a used car salesman’s pitch, and less entertainment value than watching an old woman shop for shoes, is being forced on our children by almost every teacher’s union and school district in the nation and presented to these developing minds as fact. Just see what happens if you tell the school you don’t want your child exposed to that garbage. You will be labeled as an extremist, right wing nut and CPS will show up at the door of your abusive, unfit household. Nobody likes being the bad guy, right?  

So what am I saying about Carbon Credits in a nutshell? It’s a multi-billion dollar job-killer, created from liberal guilt and indoctrinated into our kids by their socialist teacher, that accomplishes nothing but making a few scam artists richer. Did that some it up for you? Now, I don’t care if a bunch of privileged, cocktail party liberals voluntarily spend their money on this crap; I have friends that would love to make a good living planting trees. However, to make it law and have it apply equally, even to people that know it’s a scam is criminal. What such a law would do to our economy is close to treason, but what’s wrong with a little treason if it helps you feel you’ve made a difference?

One last thing: when it comes to applying a new carbon laws equally, just remember that Obamacare was supposed to be applied equally, but donors to Obama’s campaign got waivers and dispensations. Dispensations? Another word the Catholic Church used to fleece the faithful out of their money in the 16th century…

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Tuesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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"Know who you are standing with"
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 Fear and Loathing at the Paris Climate Summit  
It's rarely a good thing when world leaders in a group think mood decide to act quickly. On Saturday, the "international community" who met at the UN Summit on Climate Change in Paris reached an agreement. Most of the world's leaders have pledged to lower their countries' emissions rates. The pressure is on for developed countries to pay out a collective $100 billion a year to poorer countries to help them adapt to a supposedly swiftly heating planet — a handout that will do nothing for the global thermostat.
          Indeed, the real climate agenda is not about climate at all, but rather an effort from the leftist elite to "level the economic playing field," giving countries like China and India a pass while shaming and bankrupting the United States. Case in point: Barack nObama's loathing and regulation of the fossil fuel industry is causing massive economic headaches for regions of the country whose lifeblood is black gold. "Forgive us for looking through the legacy smoke," wrote The Wall Street Journal editorial board, "but if climate change really does imperil the Earth, and we doubt it does, nothing coming out of a gaggle of governments and the United Nations will save it. What will help is human invention and the entrepreneurial spirit."
          While the best qualities of human resourcefulness are ignored (because they require Liberty), Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry is appealing to the baser methods of human motivation to keep this accord in place. The man who once said climate change was a weapon of mass destruction wants to whip fellow countries towards the fight against nature with shame and international condemnation because it's "the most powerful weapon in many ways." Shame and mockery is all they've got left.  -The Patriot Post
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 After Sandy Hook, Americans Recognized Need for Guns  
The Left cannot fathom why mass shootings cause the number of gun purchases to rise. Today marks the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, where 26 elementary school children and their educators died at the hands of a mentally deranged man — one of the most horrific mass shootings in modern history. In the aftermath, Barack nObama and his gun-grabbing lemmings felt a sense of vigor. A handful of states like New York and Connecticut passed stricter gun laws. But the tragedy was not quite the tipping point they were after. According to a review by the Associated Press, more states than not have recognized the Second Amendment more fully, increasing the freedom of self-defense and the right to bear arms.
          Mississippi may consider a bill allowing churches to designate armed parishioners. Wisconsin eliminated a 24-hour waiting period. You don't need a permit to carry a concealed weapon in Kansas. For months, the FBI has been breaking records on how many times the National Instant Criminal Background Check System is used to check on a firearm purchaser.
          Meanwhile, gun control advocates like nObama spokesman Josh Earnest just don't get it. Last week, Earnest told reporters, "The more that we see this kind of violence on our streets, the more people go out and buy guns. That is both ironic and tragic." Why does he think this is? Does he honestly think more law-abiding people passing background checks want to jump into street violence? Instead, maybe, just maybe, Americans realize that as self-governing people they must ensure their own security — that more guns equal less crime.  -The Patriot Post
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 These Are Not the Weapons You're Looking For 
The Zero-Tolerance Empire strikes back. This time, a Houston seventh grader was informed he had to zip up his jacket to cover his Star Wars T-shirt because it portrayed a storm trooper holding a — gasp! — blaster. (It is called Star Wars, after all.) The boy's father was incredulous, saying, “It’s political correctness run amok. You’re talking about a Star Wars T-shirt, a week before the biggest movie of the year comes out. It has nothing to do with guns or making a stand. It’s just a Star Wars shirt.” Not to Sith dealing in absolutes school officials bound by zero-tolerance policies it isn't. The school's handbook lists potential violations of dress code. Among them are “symbols oriented toward violence.” And if there's anything more obnoxious than Jar Jar Binks, it's school officials who can't make rational decisions about school policy. But hey, at least the kid didn't chew his Pop Tart into a blaster. Administrators might have thrown him into the sarlacc pit for that one.   -The Patriot Post
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 Religious vs. Political Islam  
Americans take many things for granted. One of them is a rather brilliant decision made by the Founding Fathers, who were among the many settlers coming to the New World to escape religious oppression by state-affiliated faiths. The Founders decided that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Hence, while people were free to worship as they please, church and state would remain separate entities. Islam makes no such distinction, and America is in desperate need of a forthright conversation regarding the differences between religious and political Islam.
          "Some Muslims come to the United States to practice their religion peacefully, and assimilate into the Western tradition of tolerance of other people’s liberties, including religious liberty — a tradition alien to the theocratic societies in which they grew up,“ writes National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who led the case against the 1993 World Trade Center bombers. "Others come here to champion sharia, Islam’s authoritarian societal framework and legal code, resisting assimilation into our pluralistic society. Since we want to both honor religious liberty and preserve the Constitution that enshrines and protects it, we have a dilemma.”
          Dilemma indeed. As McCarthy further explains, the overwhelming majority of people emigrating from Muslim-majority countries to Western nations are coming from societies where "Islam is a comprehensive ideological system that governs all human affairs, from political, economic, and military matters to interpersonal relations and even hygiene.” And while Islam does have religious tenets, McCarthy argues "these make up only a fraction of what is overwhelmingly a political ideology.”
          At the center of that political ideology is Sharia Law, a system of governance that embraces such concepts as discrimination against women, homosexuals and non-believers, the suppression of free speech and unfettered economic activity, and the denial of due process and protection against cruel and unusual punishment.  -The Patriot Post
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 'Climate criminal' blows whistle: 'It's just about the money!'  

{GREG COROMBOS} ~ Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry told the Paris climate conference that ending all U.S. carbon emissions, or even those in all the industrialized world, would do nothing to impact the climate... leading one of the top critics of the climate-change movement to call the speech additional proof that the effort is all about wealth redistribution. In another major development, the latest draft of the climate agreement does not include the creation of the International Climate Justice Tribunal, which would have been a U.N. agency that billed industrialized nations for the cleanup of natural disasters around the world. In hanoi-Kerry’s address to the conference, he made a push to get developing nations to make major commitments in reducing carbon emissions. However, his comments also gave considerable fuel to those who believe hanoi-Kerry and others are on a fool’s errand. “The fact is that even if every single American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what? That still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution from the rest of the world,” hanoi-Kerry said. He took a step further.        http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/climate-criminal-blows-whistle-its-just-about-the-money/

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 McCon-nell Laying Ground Work For TPP Treachery...  
{constitutionrising.com} ~ Mitch McCon-nell is once again showing himself as the prostitute to the ruling class that he is. He’s the equivalent of the US Chamber of Commerce’s vibrating toy, one that has nothing but Energizers for them and looks nothing like a bunny... On Thursday McCon-nell announced that due to the anti-American nature of the toxic Trans-Pacific Partnership, it would have be to maneuvered through the Senate at a time when those purchased votes could be cast in defiance of the wishes of the American people with the least negative impact on the sellout Senators. No vote would be scheduled prior to the 2016 elections as the American people would see what is being done to them and likely respond by throwing his bums out. The vote will have to be delayed until after the election, in a lame duck session, so that those losers on their way out the door can give one final middle finger salute to America and those having just won reelection are temporarily beyond their reach.       http://constitutionrising.com/archives/23575
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 Sen Jeff Sessions Urges Lawmakers To Rescind TPA, Vote On TPP...
{constitutionrising.com} ~ The harshest critic of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and it’s placement of the interests of foreigners and the money changer class ahead of the United States citizens is undeniably Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)... He’s also been one of the few advocates for putting the economic well-being of American citizens and our nation first, including the access to good-paying jobs, the ability to earn a living wage, and the preservation of the endangered middle class. Senator Sessions opposed TPP and fast-track authority every step of the way earlier this year and is still working to put the American people first in the face of an onslaught against us by the corrupted members of Congress and the financial interests whom they serve. Recognizing the treachery that is afoot, including, most notably, among leaders and “respected” members of the Republican Party, Sessions posted an appeal. He asked that the people’s business be conducted in the light of day, away from the trickery, back room deals and complicity that has characterized the process to this point. On Friday Senator Sessions posted the following on his Senate website:       http://constitutionrising.com/archives/23581
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 Pamela Geller – Critical Mass May Still Save America  
{constitutionrising.com} ~ After Time Magazine announced German Chancellor Angela Merkel as their “person of the year” for the destruction of Germany and Europe in facilitating the Islamic invasion... Pamela Geller offers her insight into just what Merkel has done and how she will be remembered by history. Geller described the declaration as being typical for Time, noting that they had also named Adolph Hitler the man of the year at one time. She said, “Merkel will go down as a key figure, a single figure in the destruction of Europe.” She says “This is one large conspiracy we’re witnessing and the media and academia and political elites are responsible for the destruction of the West. I mean, what Merkel did was unforgivable. That number’s going to be 2 million and they’ve reached the point of no return.” She continues, “And they’re heralding the Muslim invasion as quote, humanitarian crisis, well let me tell you something. They heralded the Islamic supremacist revolutions that destroyed the Middle East and is destroying Africa as quote, end quote ‘the Arab Spring.’”       http://constitutionrising.com/archives/23595
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 See Something Say Nothing By CAIR, Islamists To “Shut People Up” 
{constitutionrising.com} ~ Jim Hanson, the Executive Vice President of the Center for Security Policy says that the reluctance to notify authorities of the suspicious activities of the San Bernardino killers was... “A rational response to a dedicated campaign by groups like CAIR and all of the rest of the Muslim Brotherhood front groups whose job is to shut people up talking about it. They want ‘see something say nothing to be the way Americans respond.’” Judge Pirro notes the lawsuit CAIR filed on behalf of Ahmed the Alarm Crock Terrorist Boy in Irving, Texas in the amount of $5 million dollars, naming Mayor Beth Van Duyne as a defendant. Hanson notes that he’s built briefcase bombs before and it was totally legitimate for this to have been handled as it was. It’s choreographed intimidation by the pro-Islamists intended to silence the resistance to their invasion. There’s also a history between CAIR and Van Duyne, as she had earlier been instrumental in their denial of being able to practice a separate Sharia Law within the city. A little Islamist revenge seems to have been at play in Ahmed’s target selection.
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 Microaggression Hypocrisy On The World Stage 
{Herbert London} ~ Microaggression, or a slight intended or unintended, has influenced public discourse from universities to world leaders... Yet it is interesting to note some slights are acceptable and others are not. It is considered inappropriate to use an adjective such as militant or radical to modify the noun Islam. However, it is increasingly appropriate to use the expression Zionist aggression, even when most Israeli military activity is defensive – a retaliation for violence inflicted on the Jewish state. In university life any slight, however, trifling has been elevated to an issue of major significance. A Halloween costume became a matter for presidential intervention at Yale. When the president of the University of Missouri neglected to recognize a group of students at a homecoming parade, he was charged with insensitivity. Alas, the world hasn’t gone completely crazy. These microaggressions are part of a left-wing strategy to disrupt prevailing convention. It is as if Saul Alinksy’s “Rules for Radicals” was the playbook. Invented slights, exaggerated as normative insults, become the catalyst for disruption and disruption is the seedbed for revolution. These efforts at disruption are indeed mindless, but even mindlessness has a purpose.
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 Dem Party is Broke – Wants Taxpayers to Fund Their 2016 Conv.  
{Jim Hoft} ~ The party of handouts want’s a taxpayer handout...  Democrat National Committee Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz drafted a plan demanding US taxpayers fund the DNC convention next year. Already struggling with finances, the Democratic Party has drafted a plan to have taxpayers help pay about $20 million for next summer’s nominating convention, reversing a change Congress approved just a year ago. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is also a congresswoman from Florida, has drafted a bill to restore money that both parties used to receive from the federal government to help defray the costs of running their quadrennial conventions. Democrats are plain nuts. 
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 Iran Withdrawing IRGC Forces From Syria as Tensions With Russia 
{David Daoud} ~ Iran has started to withdraw its elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces from Syria, the Saudi-aligned London-based daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Sunday... Among the reasons for the retreat cited in the report is the heavy losses suffered by Iran during the two months since Russia has begun conducting military operations there. According to the report, one Free Syrian Army officer claimed that tensions between the Russians and Iranians have been mounting, due to near-daily casualties incurred by the latter, purportedly as a result of the former’s pushing for increased ground operations. The officer said he learned of this while eavesdropping on their communications. Reports have also been circulating that the commander of the IRGC-Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, was seriously wounded during a battle in Aleppo.
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 Nonie Darwish: Why the U.S. should not take in Muslim immigrants  
{Pamela Geller} ~ Islamic turmoil never fails to dominate the headlines, and the West is yet again split on how to deal with the polarizing issue of Islamic immigration... But liberals can no longer afford to be motivated by only political short-term goals expressed with the usual shouting, name-calling and emotion. This issue can really hurt liberal and progressive causes, as well as conservative causes. Looking at the big picture of relocating populations, the first thing that comes to mind is that it should benefit and not hurt either the Muslim nations that are sending the immigrants out or Western nations that are absorbing the immigrants in. If by absorbing large numbers of moderate Muslims from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan etc., are we really helping these nations to reform? The answer is no, and this is why.
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 nObama is mishandling the terrorist threat, but so is the GOP  
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The Republican Congress recently passed the USA Freedom Act, placing new restrictions on the NSA’s terrorist surveillance capabilities.  Now, the Associated Press reports:
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President nObama’s Imaginary World
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{freedomsback.com} ~ President nObama lives in a world all his own. It’s a world in which he’s widely beloved but also misunderstood, a world in which everyone is racist except for those who support him, a world in which his foreign policy has been heroically successful and his domestic policy even more so. President nObama lives in Fantasyland.
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In this Fantasyland, it’s not enough for President nObama to define the world around him in self-serving fashion. He must define his enemies the same way. To that end, while visiting Paris for the Climate Change Summit that will supposedly usher in an era of global cooperation and environmental utopianism, nObama announced that he had finally found a way to defeat Islamic State. Talking about climate change, nObama said, was an “act of defiance that proves nothing will deter us … What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it?”
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Not to be Debbie Downer, but nothing in ISIS’ plans suggests that they care deeply about preventing a bunch of self-important bureaucrats from meeting in well-stocked, toney hotels to destroy the Western economy on behalf of scientific chimeras. ISIS, in fact, probably adores the notion that the West will take itself down a couple economic pegs in order to redistribute the wealth. Certainly other Islamic terrorists have felt that way. Osama Bin Laden, for example, lamented that the West did not spend more money on climate change relief efforts, and stated according to Al Jazeera, “Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury — the phenomenon is an actual fact. All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”
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Regardless of ISIS’ feelings on global warming, they obviously don’t sit around in Raqqa lamenting that their plans have been defeated by those dastardly Westerners and their catered diplomatic lunches. But President nObama says they do. That’s because he crafts his own enemies based on who he wishes they were. nObama is thoroughly uncomfortable with the idea that those who wish to fight him are members of radical Islam. He wishes they were right-wing American ideologues. So he simply plays them off as such.
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nObama did the same thing with regard to the Iran nuclear deal. While handing Iran $150 billion in funding, opening their economy, and granting them a full nuclear weapons program in a decade, nObama claimed that the real enemies of peace were Republicans siding with Iranian hardliners. Never mind that those hardliners didn’t exist. nObama created them magically, and then made them Republicans.
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Barack nObama is a leftist hammer in search of a conservative nail. No matter who his enemies actually are, he’ll characterize them as American conservatives for purposes of whacking them over the head. ISIS may have slaughtered Westerners in Paris thanks to radical Islam, but nObama will never acknowledge that: instead, he’ll just claim that they’re essentially Ted Cruz in keffiyehs.
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This isn’t rare. Jackie Kennedy once lamented that her husband had been shot by a “silly little communist” rather than dying for civil rights; her allies quickly turned JFK’s assassination into a referendum on American conservatism. nObama’s doing the same thing now. He has chosen his enemies, and they don’t include ISIS. That means that if ISIS must be his enemy, he will simply wave his Fantasyland wand, and they will be transformed into the Republican enemies he so craves.
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The problem is, they won’t. They’ll just keep killing. Reality remains reality, no matter how much President nObama sprinkles fairy dust and claps his hands.
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Tuesday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
The nonexistent case 
for progressive taxation
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 How to Track Five Million Illegals  
The common perception is that most illegal aliens come across the border with Mexico, but most experts still believe that between 40% and 50% of illegals are actually people who came legally and overstayed their visas. According to a 2006 study by the Pew Research Center, "Nearly half of all the unauthorized migrants now living in the United States entered the country legally through a port of entry such as an airport or a border crossing point where they were subject to inspection by immigration officials." In other words, these folks aren't "undocumented" at all; they've just slipped through the cracks because enforcement has long been, shall we say, lacking.
          If the giant bureaucracies of the Social Security Administration, Internal Revenue Service and Department of Homeland Security could work together, illegals who've overstayed would be easier to identify. (Maybe if the IRS wasn't so busy targeting conservatives... Just a thought.)
          Well, the Associated Press reports, there's an effort afoot to track those who overstay visas: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin capturing facial and eye scans of foreigners entering the country at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry on foot. By February, foreigners going to Mexico on foot through the checkpoint will get scanned. The trial run, which lasts through the end of June, will help determine if authorities expand biometric screening to foreigners at all land crossings on the 1,954-mile border with Mexico. Authorities will look at the accuracy of the cameras." The problem has never been the law. Congress has demanded these scans for more than 20 years. Again, it's lack of enforcement that presents the biggest problem. And a legitimate tracking system will go a long way toward fixing it.  -The Patriot Post
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 Did DHS End Program Tracking San Bernardino Attackers?  
Could U.S. law enforcement stop Tashfeen Malik — the woman who helped carry out the San Bernardino attack — after she applied for a visa, before she even entered the states? Former Customs and Border Patrol analyst Phil Haney told Fox News that it was possible, if the State Department and DHS' Office of Civil Rights had not stepped in over concerns that the program was politically incorrect. Haney had been tracking the Deobandi Movement, a group of fundamentalist Muslims, putting thousands of names and locations into a database, tracking the members as they traveled in and out of America using the visa waiver program. Both attackers were associated with the movement, and the wife's entry attempt might have been flagged had the investigation continued.
          Haney received a letter of commendation after his work identified 300 terrorists. But then the PC police stepped in and said Haney was profiling Muslims. Records were deleted. When he spoke up, Haney lost his security clearance in September 2014. Haney said, "The administration was more concerned about the civil rights and liberties of foreign Islamic groups with terrorist ties than the safety and security of Americans." This administration can't be trusted with national security issues. It shut down a program trying to prevent terrorist acts before they happen, but it wants to expand background checks on firearm purchase to prevent mass shootings before they happen. Go figure.
          In related news, there are reports that nObama instructed law enforcement to downplay the terrorism angle in the immediate aftermath of the attack, as it undercut his preferred narrative.   -The Patriot Post
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 The Executives Act on Gun Control  
Before the blood has even dried in San Bernardino, Barack nObama and his cronies began acting in political theater. This week, nObama's adviser Valerie Jarrett told a group of people holding a vigil in remembrance of the Sandy Hook massacre that her boss is considering proposals to institute a measure of gun control. More specifically, nObama will probably use his phone and pen to close the "gun show loophole" and expand background checks. Polls show people support background checks, so nObama's just trying to make Republicans look unreasonable for opposing him. That shores up an incrementally larger number of people who think Republicans just won't budge at all on the issue and don't care that Americans keep getting killed. Recall that nObama told NBC September 2014, "Part of this job is also the theater of it. A part of it is, you know, how are you, how, how are you, well, it's not something that — that always comes naturally to me. But it matters. And I'm mindful of that." Make no mistake: nObama is only playing political theater. As National Review's Charles C.W. Cooke noted, nObama doesn't have enough time in office to propose an executive order, hold a reasonable comment period and defend the action in court. It's all for show to demonstrate Democrats are doing something, anything, about "gun violence." 
          Meanwhile in the "Constitution State," Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy promised Thursday to sign an executive order banning the sale of firearms in the state to anyone that appears on the federal terrorism watch list, a clear erosion of due process. But like all the other gun control measures the state adopted after Sandy Hook, this one wouldn't have stopped that massacre. More theater.   -The Patriot Post
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 Gitmo's 'Going Out of Business' Sale  
Within days after taking office, Barack nObama pompously penned an executive order closing the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year. Seven years later, the facility remains open due to strenuous objections to moving Gitmo's occupants stateside (or elsewhere) as well as concerns over the cost of closing the prison. A recent Defense Department proposal pegged the cost as $600 million, which includes separate holding facilities around the country for the remaining detainees.
          Frustrated at the lack of progress, some in nObama's camp want him to go the executive order route again and with a stroke of a pen magically make the holding cells disappear. In reality, though, nObama has stepped up the pace of releasing prisoners over the last several months with another five transferred to the United Arab Emirates this week. The current population of 107 may be in double-digits by year's end if nObama has his way. Last month, nObama spokesman Josh Earnest intoned, “I'm not aware of any ongoing effort to devise a strategy using only the president's executive authority to accomplish this goal. But I certainly wouldn't ... take that option off the table.” Going it alone is never off of nObama's table.
          Emptying out the camp may be a campaign promise, but it also leaves the enormous risk of former prisoners returning to the battlefield, like a certain Yemeni al-Qaida leader.
          According to Thomas Joscelyn in The Long War Journal, "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a new video featuring a former Guantanamo detainee, Ibrahim Qosi, who is also known as Sheikh Khubayb al Sudani. In July 2010, Qosi plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism before a military commission. His plea was part of a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors during his remaining time in US custody. Qosi was transferred to his home country of Sudan two years later, in July 2012. Qosi joined AQAP in 2014 and became one of its leaders."
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 Trump: You Should Ban Islamists, Not Muslims  
{Daniel Pipes} ~ Donald Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, called on Dec. 7 for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."... Replace one word in this formulation and it goes from outrageous to brilliant. Reacting to massacres by Muslims in Paris and San Bernardino, Trump pointed to a Muslim hatred "beyond comprehension" for the West. Therefore, he concluded, "Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad." The negative responses, domestic and international, Muslim and non-Muslim, came in fast and furious – and rightly so, as Trump's crude blast is unconstitutional, unacceptable, unworkable, and unstrategic.       http://www.danielpipes.org/16331/trump-ban-islamists-not-muslims
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 Missing: The State Depart emails of Hilly's computer guy  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ Remember Bryan Pagliano? He’s the senior Hilly Clinton IT guy who worked for her at State, and on her home server... When Pagliano was called to testify before the Benghazi committee he “took the fifth.” The latest Pagliano-related issue is that his State Department emails seem to have disappeared. Well not all of them are missing,  just the ones written during Ms. Clinton’s tenure at Foggy Bottom. Politico is reporting that State Dept. officials told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a recent closed-door meeting that they could not locate what’s known as a “.pst file” for Pagliano’s work during Clinton’s tenure, which would have included copies of the tech expert’s emails, according to a letter Chairman Chuck Grassley sent to Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry (embedded below). A personal storage table or .pst  is an open file format used to store copies of messages, calendar events, and other items within Microsoft software such as Microsoft Exchange Client, Windows Messaging, and Microsoft Outlook.        http://lidblog.com/missing-state-department-emails-of-hillary-clintons-computer-guy/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=39fd67d15c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-39fd67d15c-291705165
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 Hilly Clinton Calls Family of the Benghazi Dead… Liars!  
{Onan Coca} ~ About a month ago we brought you a video produced by the folks at Townhall media that showed the majority of the families who lost loved ones in the Benghazi terrorist attack of 9/11/2012 were told by Hilly Clinton that the YouTube video was the cause of the attack... Now, almost exactly 4 weeks later, Hilly Clinton has responded to those families and what she is saying is DISGUSTING. This past Sunday, Hilly Clinton appeared on ABC’s This Week with the sycophantic George Stephanopoulos where she was asked about the Benghazi scandal and what these families had to say about her lies. Instead of apologizing or attempting to explain away her comments, Clinton chose to call these families LIARS.       http://eaglerising.com/27416/hillary-clinton-calls-family-of-the-benghazi-dead-liars/
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 Toronto’s Pearson Airport now has a “gender apartheid mosque”... 
{Ezra Levant} ~ The Globe and Mail reports that the official Syrian refugee intake area at Toronto Pearson Airport has a mosque... We’re banning the Lord’s Prayer, but we’re building mosques with tax dollars. But not just any mosque. A gender apartheid mosque. Men over there. Women over there. So the very first thing these Syrians are seeing is not the Canadian belief in the equality of men and women. I don't understand why the West is bending over backwards for these people. The people who want to kill us.
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 DHS Shut Down Investigation into San Bernardino Jihadists  
{Pamela Geller} ~ The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deleted intel records relating to notorious jihadists linked to San Bernardino Islamic terrorists Sayed Farook and Tashfeen Malik... because they wanted to protect the “civil liberties” of members of the caliphate-supporting network. My civil liberties and your civil liberties are being abridged in accordance with the blasphemy laws under Shariah (Islamic laws). My organization is engaged in 15 different free speech lawsuits against various cities. Our free speech lawsuit against Boston is heading to the Supreme Court because even though truthful, our ads violate the laws of sharia (“do not criticize Islam”). We are being forced to adhere to sharia mores, but jihad murderers are given sanctuary and protection — to slaughter Americans. The immoral of the story is — jihad terror.
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 Black Lives Matter Protester Never Saw THIS Coming...  
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Black Lives Matter protesters are quickly learning a harsh lesson in how the real world works, as supporters of the police and military everywhere are fighting back... some with their words, some, like the courageous Marine in the following video, with their fists. These two Black Lives Matter protesters were shouting across the street at this Marine, who was shouting, “Police Lives Matter” in return. Suddenly the man decides to cross the street and bridge the gap between the three of them, leading to an altercation that became heated quicker than you can say race-baiters. The story was first posted on Conservative Tribune, but was quickly retracted for an unknown reason. Regardless, we have the incredible video footage to share with you of one of the most aggressive arguments between two completely opposing people that I have ever seen.
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 hanoi-Kerry Saving The Planet For The Zombies – Feed The...  
{constitutionrising.com} ~ We all knew this grand proclamation was coming. It was as predictable as John hanoi-Kerry’s reptilian tongue being flicked to gauge the CO2 and methane content of the airborne manure he’s emitting... hanoi-Kerry and nObama forced this entire French farce and the grander fraud it “decided” upon the people of the United States and their counterparts, the willing leeches of the world. Now the incessant sales pitches designed to force us screaming into submission will begin. We can expect the relentless harping to include every aspect of daily life with the possible exceptions of nObama’s oversized ears, loathing of America and pathological lying as well as hnaoi-Kerry’s similarity to a Frankenstein zombie being the result of climate change. No aspect of American life will be free of their persistent assault until we relent, falsely admit that what we all know to be a scam is real and reward the climate charlatans with the payday they demand. Our elite masters didn’t go to all of this effort to be denied by a bunch of commoners.    http://constitutionrising.com/archives/23540
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 Sweden: Shambles in Asylum Heaven  
{Ingrid Carlqvist} ~ In spite of the supposedly tighter asylum rules announced November 24, chaos rules in Sweden... So far, in 2015, 150,000 asylum seekers have been registered; but as there is nowhere to house them, people are sleeping in tents, on cardboard boxes in exhibition halls, and even on the street. Many run away from the Immigration Service facilities. More than 22,000 people are supposed to be deported but refuse to leave. Swedes are understandably terrified that terrorists might be hiding among the refugees. The police are busy with pointless border controls and cannot attend to their normal work. It is not an exaggeration to say that in this situation, Sweden has lost track of pretty much everything.
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Even the asylum seekers are complaining. On a Swedish public television program, Uppdrag Granskning, aired on December 2, Salwa, a mother of young children, told the reporter how she is forced to live in an asylum house along with men she called "bad people." When the reporter explained to Salwa that 10,000 new asylum seekers arrive every week, and this was why everything was topsy-turvy, she replied: "Then close the borders. Stop taking in more people. If you have ten guests in your house and there is not enough room, would you still take in ten more?" 
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 Judge Jeanine: The Real Hero In Washington Needs Our Support  
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 Foreign Interests Prepare To Can Conservative Broadcasters  
{Cliff Kincaid} ~ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is about the vote to let the Arabs, Russians and Chinese buy U.S. radio and TV licenses and force conservative broadcasters off the air... Jerry Kenney and Cliff Kincaid discuss the critical deadline coming up for public comment on this treasonous change in the law on foreign ownership of the U.S. media. The public must act now.        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/12/foreign-interests-prepare-to-can-conservative-broadcasters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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The nonexistent case 
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{washingtonpost.com} ~ Progressives are increasingly preoccupied with income inequality, and their current hero, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), favors increasing the tax system’s progressivity. So, in this 103rd year of the income tax, it is timely to note that there still is no intellectually sturdy case for progressive taxation.
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Arguments for it are invariably arguments for increased equality of social outcomes. Because individuals have different vocational desires and different aptitudes for adding value to the economy, inequality is inevitable. Because individuals have different social sensibilities, opinions will differ about what degrees of inequality are intolerably unlovely (more about this aesthetic metric in a moment). But inequality, even when unlovely to some, is unjust only when it arises from unjust social arrangements. So, the degree to which inequality is morally troubling depends on the degree to which the process that allocates wealth does so according to political influence and rent-seeking rather than merit and self-reliance.
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Society should prevent extreme privation, no matter how far the top earners are from those near the bottom. But who is to decide, and how are they to decide, the ideal spread between the top and the bottom of income distribution? The argument for progressive taxation must demonstrate this: Such taxation does not do more harm by slowing economic growth than faster economic growth would do good by its distributive effects.
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Although the argument for progressive taxation usually begins with a moral judgment about social conditions, it usually becomes a moral assertion about equitable sacrifices. It asserts that money has declining marginal utility — that $1,000 subtracted from a wealthy person’s income diminishes that person’s happiness, or society’s sum of happiness, less than would $1,000 subtracted from the income of a person with a modest income.
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But this ostensibly scientific, meaning empirical, generalization about how people value money often conceals moral judgments about how people ought to value money, or — again, an essentially aesthetic judgment — about the “social value” of expenditures by the wealthy and the non-wealthy. When these moral judgments are codified in tax policy, they conflict with this idea: “It is one of the virtues of a free society that, within the widest limits, men are free to maximize their satisfactions according to their own hierarchy of preferences.”
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So wrote two University of Chicago law professors, Walter J. Blum and Harry Kalven Jr., in a famous 1952 essay, “The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation.” Their understanding of a free society is shared by many conservatives, including many Republican presidential aspirants, who favor a “flat” or proportionate income tax: If taxpayer A earns 20 times more than taxpayer B earns, taxpayer A pays 20 times more dollars.
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Proportionate taxation always is what progressive taxation never is: simple. What justifies progressive taxation, and characterizes progressivism, is confidence that at any moment in society’s endless evolution, what is equitable can be known and society can be fine-tuned to achieve it. Which is how we got our baroque tax code.
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As Blum and Kalven noted, “It is the very nature of majority rule that the majority can vote distinctive burdens for the minority.” It is, however, the nature of reality that burdens imposed on the wealthy minority can injure the majority by impairing economic incentives, thereby suppressing growth. Progressive taxation reduces the rewards of investments and the real rate of return on savings, thereby encouraging consumption over saving and hence over capital formation. When progressive taxation slows economic growth, it makes inequalities of wealth more durable by retarding the accumulation of new fortunes. And by encouraging constant tinkering with the tax code to perfect equity, progressive taxation gives a patina of altruism to rent-seeking by economic factions, whereby government enriches those sophisticated at manipulating it.
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Because other arguments produce only “uneasy” cases for progressive taxation, this is the argument of last resort: All striving occurs in, and all success is conditioned by, a social context. Each individual’s achievement, like each individual, is derivative of society, which is entitled to socialize — conscript — whatever portion of each individual’s acquisition that society calculates is its rightful share. Because collective choices (provision of education, infrastructure and other public goods) facilitate individuals’ strivings, the collectivity, represented by government, can take as much of created wealth as it decides it made possible. Being judge and jury in its own case, government will generously estimate its contributions and entitlements.
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The arguments for progressive taxation range from the feeble to the sinister. The case for it is not uneasy; it is nonexistent.
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IT IS TIME FOR A POLITICAL REVOLUTION

By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist -  www.represent.us

Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties.

Democrats and Republicans only care about their party; their party over our country. But the time has come for a political revolution; nothing matters but our U.S Constitution, our country and the economic and welfare of the American people. Obama and Hillary are liars and have done more to destroy this country than George W. Bush “the war criminal” or any other man and women in the history of our country.  Benghazi should be used to discredit Hillary Clinton as commander in chief over and over again. http://wtfrly.com/2013/08/02/cnn-reports-what-alternative-media-knew-for-months-dozens-of-cia-agents-in-benghazi-during-attack/#.VfF_cJeLV6I

http://americanfreepress.net/?p=12411

Hillary Clinton should be ban from the political arena. She is sycophant self-serving person. Nothing matter but her and what she want. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423015/hillary-clinton-emails-inner-circle-yes-men

The political history of the Clinton's is full of criminals acts committed by the Clinton's and their associates. Bill and Hillary Clinton are sycophants, sociopaths; their ideology is: the ends justified the means.  Hillary insecurity as women transformed her into a pathological liar. Hillary Clinton was fire by her supervisor Jerry Zeifman, while working for the house judiciary committee during the Watergate investigation, because she was a liar. The Clintons are criminals and must be ban from the political arena

The Clintons, cleanup their history of crimes and corruption by killing the ones that know too much.

http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/BODIES.html

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/another-clinton-associate-found-dead-bill-hillarys-body-count-increases/

The Clintons Legacy of crimes and corruption.

http://prorev.com/legacy.htm

Clinton's Labor Legacy

http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/cap_st15.html

Hillary Clinton the criminal operating with impunity protected by the Obama administration

http://observer.com/2015/08/the-countless-crimes-of-hillary-clinton-special-prosecutor-needed-now/

Former Arkansas Trooper Speaks Out about the Clintons.

http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/former-arkansas-trooper-speaks-out/

Why Hillary Clinton let husband Bill seduce any woman in sight, She will do anything for power.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-507762/Why-Hillary-Clinton-let-husband-Bill-seduce-woman-sight.html

Hillary's insecurity as woman, make her to support humiliation and she swept Bill Clinton's affairs under the carpet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-508015/Hillarys-humiliation-How-swept-Bill-Clintons-affairs-carpet.html

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton’s Lesbian Affairs Named in Secret Emails

http://pamelageller.com/2015/04/hillary-lesbian-2.html/

Jennifer Palmieri. Is a whore, she sold her principles to protect Hillary Clinton

http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-email-server-defense-2015-8

Expose the Clintons.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/31/libs-sure-are-worried-about-this-benghazi-movie-huh/#ixzz3hXPMbrT3

Iraqis Uncover Sarin Gas Lab With Ties to U.S. Ally in Syria

http://americanfreepress.net/?p=11173

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Obama’s Deal With the Devil…Part 2 of 3

By Craig Andresen and Diane Sori  Right Side Patriots on American Patriots Broadcasting Network

In Part 1of our Investigative Report: ‘Obama’s Deal With the Devil’ ob-1.jpg?width=233(http://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/201…), we presented why we believe Obama gave the speech he did and why the San Bernardino police are acting after the fact in a way they should have acted before the fact. But what is…is…and we are left not with questions per se but with facts that we can no longer afford to overlook…and those facts center around Barack HUSSEIN Obama himself and where his true loyalties lie.

To put the pieces of the puzzle together we need just look at Obama’s actions, policies, and words since he became president. Let’s start with his Cairo, Egypt, speech soon after he assumed the office of the presidency. In that speech Obama aligned himself with the muslims by saying his job as president of the United States was to “fight against negative stereotypes of islam wherever they appear.” However, that is not the job of an American president…his job is to ‘protect the health, safety, and welfare’ of the American people above all else, as it is his job to show America in a positive light where and whenever possible. An American president does not defame or dishonor his country, its military, or its people…which Obama routinely does…nor does an American president bow to any foreign leader… especially to a leader whose allegiances are still somewhat in question. And in this case we mean Obama’s bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia in whose country islam’s (supposed) holy city of Mecca lies.

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According to a recent CNN/ORC poll, Americans have once again contracted war fever. For the first time a majority (53 percent) of the public wants to send ground troops to battle ISIS. Coming on the heels of three horrific ISIS-linked terrorist attacks—the Russian jetliner, the November attacks in Paris, and the San Bernardino spree killing—this is not entirely surprising. People are understandably fed up with Islamic crazies killing innocent people.

I’m sick of it too, though less eager to send ground troops. Not that we have any good options.

Our policy thus far has been “no boots on the ground,” or at least that’s what the White House has told us. “No boots” isn’t entirely true—just like everything else this lying president says. There are indeed some boots on the ground in the Middle East stamped “made in the USA” on their soles but for the most part we’ve chosen to fight ISIS from the sky.

Our airpower strategy has not rolled back ISIS, for a number of reasons, the first of which is that it telegraphs to the enemy that we are irresolute in our mission. We can’t stomach casualties and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the grand poohbah of ISIS, know this. Why should he despair? Second, airpower alone doesn’t win wars. No piece of territory is truly secure until the infantry marches in and plants the flag. Our Air Force is, of course, supporting ground troops but they happen to be Iraqi and our Iraqi allies have proven themselves to lack “combat effectiveness”—which is a nice way of saying that they suck hind teet.

The time has long since passed to decide whether we should go big or go home. I don’t like either option and for that I am glad I’m not the commander-in-chief. I’d rather not make such a weighty decision. Unfortunately, the guy who is charged with such decisions—with congressional approval of course—seems indecisive. He has condemned us to another few years of farting around with neither a cohesive strategy nor a vision of victory.

If the latest poll is any indicator, the American people, by a bare majority, have embraced “going big” and rejected “going home.” At least that’s what their fickle opinion is this week. Next week might be different and if troops remain in Iraq and Syria for any extended period of time public opinion will inevitably turn south. Americans only like war when it’s quick and easy. When soldiers start coming home in body bags we’ll blame our leaders for giving us the war we asked for.

I believe that most of that 53 percent of Americans who want to send our young people back to the sandbox labor under the mistaken belief that our military is a well-oiled machine that will make mincemeat out of ISIS. I would warn these people that our military is actually pretty ragged—under-funded, undertrained, and sorely lacking in the morale department. Most importantly, it’s been wussified—forced by politicians and general officers to become the “kindler gentler military” Stephanie Gutmann warned of fifteen years ago in her seminal book by the same name. If you haven’t read it, you need to.

Slashed military budgets have shrunken our armed forces. The US Army is now the smallest it’s been since before World War II and the US Navy the smallest since before World War I. We’re still asking this skeleton crew to keep the sea lanes open and to hold down the fort in Korea, something we didn’t ask of them in our pre-superpower era.

Morale continues its descent into the abyss. In 2014, the Military Times commissioned a survey of 2,300 military members to gage their satisfaction with military life—with bleak results. Only 56 percent of troops agreed with the statement “Overall my quality of life is good,” compared to 91 percent who said the same thing in 2009. Seventy percent of troops agreed with the statement that “quality of life will decline in coming years.” Only 27 percent said that officers in senior leadership positions had the rank-and-file’s best interest at heart—a clear indicator that careerism is having a corrosive effect on the military. As journalist Hope Hodge Seck wrote in the Military Times: “Today’s service members say they feel underpaid, under-equipped and under-appreciated, the survey data show.”

“Underpaid” is something of an understatement. Annual pay raises, which were once almost guaranteed to be at least two percent, are now sometimes as low as one percent. The last time pay raises exceeded two percent was in 2010, when the troops’ salaries were bumped up 3.4 percent. Since then, the pay raises have been 1.4 percent (2011), 1.6 percent (2012), 1.7 percent, (2013) one percent (2014), and one percent (2015). The pay raise taking effect this New Year’s Day is a mere 1.3 percent.

Perhaps the most terrifying trend in today’s military is the diminution of the warrior spirit. This “wussification” of the US military has probably been underway for decades but it shifted into hyperdrive after the ascendency of Barack Obama. His campaign to get women into combat arms positions—even elite units—without lowering standards was exposed as a farce at the very same press conference at which it was unveiled. As General Martin Dempsey famously pronounced in January 2013, “Importantly, though, if we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?” But don’t worry, standards won’t be lowered—and you’re sexist if you say otherwise.

The wussification of the Army is nearing its end stage. Consider the US Army Drill Sergeant School in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, where noncommissioned officers go to learn how to train raw recruits. It prides itself on its New Army ethos—which means that there’s a lot less butt-chewing and apparently, according to one drill sergeant quoted in an article by journalist Jeff Wilkinson, no more “smoking” the privates. For non-veterans, “smoking” is when the drill sergeant makes the privates engage in all sorts of physically demanding exercises—pushups for sure, but also alligator walking, walrus crawling, T-bones, flutter kicks, and leg lifts. “We don’t smoke people anymore,” said Drill Sergeant Danielle Brooks. “But sometimes you have to give them a little extra TLC.” I wish this were The Onion but it isn’t. The drill sergeant really thinks it’s her job to deliver tender loving care. She might as well wear a button that says “free hugs.”

This is not your father’s Army. It isn’t even the Army I joined in 1999. My drill sergeants relished “smoking” the privates. I recall one particularly hard drill sergeant who I’m quite certain would not graduate from today’s Drill Sergeant School on account of his old-fashioned approach to training. Whether the privates were getting enough TLC was not his top concern.

I’m sure that wussification proponents would argue that “smoking” the privates does little to improve their training. I disagree. “Smoking” the privates instills mental toughness and, at very least, gets them into shape. Many young people joining the military today are neither mentally tough nor physically fit so someone must furnish them with these commodities. I’ll use myself as an example—I lost forty pounds in basic training and gained a lot of self confidence. That would not have happened if Danielle Brooks had been my drill sergeant.

Before we go sending the bloom of our youth to fight crazy dudes on a mission from Allah, it might be prudent to ask ourselves if we have truly prepared them. Are we going to send a chubby teenager, who, through no fault of his own, never did so much as a pushup in basic training, off to battle ISIS? What if that teenager isn’t properly equipped and his morale is in the gutter because he can’t pay his bills? I say no. It wouldn’t be fair to that teenager to expect him to engage in real combat where he’s likely to have his feelings hurt with no one around to give him a hug.

We’ve neglected our armed forces for a long time and we can’t now expect that they will perform as they did in generations past. Let’s hit the brakes on the rush to send ground troops to the Middle East.

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