Like other liberally motiivated and dominated States, like NY, IL, and of course our capitol, Oregon is an anti-self defense State. Where the Second Amendment, like our First Amendment, our National Security policies, and even the very US Constitution, has been buried under thousands of pages of laws and regulations that defy our Natural Rights to defend ourselves, our loved ones, and our property.
When a Citizen is stripped of these rights, they instantly become targets for criminals to prey on.
Under Obama's very liberal policies, Islamic groups from Al Qaeda to ISIS to the Muslim'hood, etc, have been emboldened to indulge in their heinous and inhumane acts of PUBLIC violence against Christians, Jews, and Americans and Israelis as a whole. Obama calls it his Foreign Policy. Where the innocent are kidnapped, raped and murdered. But, if the victims are "lucky", they just won't get murdered. But, n exchange, they will get sold as sex slaves - regardless of how YOUNG they are.
The same policies that are being applied in the MidEast has been being applied here at home. Christians and Jews are being targetted and murdered. But, it doesn't end there. White people and police officers are being hunted as well. Groups like the militant, pro Islamic groups, like Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, and the latest faction known as Black Lives Matter have been virtually given the WH's blessing to commit crime. And it can all be traced back to Philadelphia during the 2008 Presidential Elections. Where the original racist militant faction known as The Black Panther Party broke the law by blocking the poll etrance first by intimidation. They garnished militant gear and waved night sticks. When that wasn't enough, they vocally yelled racial death threats to the white voters on line; and even against a black man for accompanying his white girlfriend that were also on line.
How do I know this for sure? THERE ARE VIDEOS! And the DoJ has copies! Was an investigation started? Yes. What was the outcome? NOTHING! The moment Eric Holder was appointed by Obama as the US Atty Gen, which puts him in charge of the Justice Dept, he fired the lead investigator and dropped the case despite SOLID EVIDENCE that a grand jury would have sent to trial. The former USAG had been reported as to saying that he was not going after black people. Shortly after, Obama had critcized the police in Cambridge as to "acting stupidly" - although he had admitted just seconds prior that he knew none of the details of the situation at hand. In the end, Obama's insults were not justified. But it was these beginnings of Obama's "social justice" policies that set off the events that we've been seeing since 2009.. The democrat's have always believed that a gun free society, w/ open borders, is the path to their "utopian" society. Here's a question. Do the surviving victims or their families believe that these policies are working? Are we any closer to "utopia" at all? Just think about it.
ps: To Army veteran Chris Mintz. You've earned my respect and admiration. Your selfless actions epitomize true heroism and patriotism. People like yourself give us hope. Happy Birthday to your 6 year old son. God Bless.
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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Double Suicide: The Presidential Campaign of 2015
Charles Krauthammer
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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backstabber Boehner Failed to Lead 
On Friday, conservatives celebrated backstabber John Boehner's announced resignation. After all, the trouble with congressional Republicans isn't the lawmakers elected in the sweeping victories of 2010 and 2014, it's leadership that is more interested in the position of power than the principles of good governance. As we noted Friday, backstabber Boehner's likely successor is current Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. He is arguably more conservative than backstabber Boehner though largely cut from the same cloth. That said, if elected speaker, he will undoubtedly face pressure to move the congressional agenda to the right. Option B is for House conservatives to rally around an alternative candidate, but backstabber Boehner's surprise announcement left little time for a successful campaign.
backstabber Boehner also had some parting words over the weekend, echoing the biblical warning to "beware of false prophets." He was referring to those who think holding congressional majorities means getting your way all the time, even with a president of the opposite party. So far as that goes, he's correct that expectations have sometimes been too high. For example, shutting down the government to stop nObamaCare was never going to succeed. But what has grassroots conservatives outraged is, again, the failure of principled leadership. backstabber Boehner was such a failed leader and negotiator that he made nObama stronger than he should have been after two electoral "shellackings." Conservatives don't expect to roll back most of nObama's overreach until we retake the White House, but Democrat majorities didn't have much trouble getting things done with George W. Bush at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Is it too much to ask that a Republican Congress do likewise? Certainly we expect more than preemptive surrender at every opportunity. -The Patriot Post
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Email Scandal Deepens While Hilly Clinton Laughs
On Friday, the State Department announced that it handed over 900 emails to the House Select Committee that Hilly Clinton had sent and received regarding Libya and Benghazi. Last December, the Department of Defense discovered email conversations between then-Gen. David Petraeus and Clinton dating back to Jan. 2009. The Pentagon handed the documents over to State and the revelation was reported Friday. This news contradicts three of Clinton's lies: First, that she is fully cooperating with the investigation. Second, she previously claimed she operated her homebrew server from March 2009 onward. And third, that she only deleted emails that were private in nature. Just last week, Clinton said, "When I did it, it was allowed, it was above board. And now I'm being as transparent as possible, more than anybody else ever has been." As the revelations have grown more damning, Clinton has become more dismissive — one of the only rhetorical tricks she has left. Last week, she joked, "You can count on me not to have a private email server," in response to a question about how transparent her administration will be if she attains the White House. When Chuck Todd of "Meet the Press" grilled Clinton Sunday on her email use, Clinton replied, "Another conspiracy theory?! Ha ha ha ha." It's no laughing matter, though, Clinton's dishonesty is on display, and the fact that she's continuing to be dishonest indicates that this scandal may hide a larger one that may have hurt the nation.
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nObama's Deal With China: Cyber Security in Our Time
Barack nObama just made the easiest cyber-security agreement in the world. From the administration that brought you the Russian reset, the red line in Syria and the nuclear deal with Iran comes an agreement with China that is billed as protecting American trade secrets and intellectual property. In the past, the U.S. has accused China of stealing billions of dollars' worth of information through hacking — for example, information about America's F-35 fighter jet from the plane's manufacturers. When China's President Xi Jinping visited nObama in Washington last week, they agreed: No more cyber stealing. "Both countries affirm that states should not conduct or knowingly support misappropriation of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information with the intent of providing competitive advantages to their companies or commercial sectors," reads a White House Fact Sheet on the agreement. "Both countries affirm that states and companies should not by illegal methods make use of technology and commercial advantages to gain commercial benefits." But here's the catch: Both countries deny spying on the other. So why make the agreement in the first place? As The Washington Post points out, this agreement doesn't stop attacks against the information held by the two governments, like the theft of federal employees' data from the Office of Personnel Management. The Chinese are too good at cyber espionage to give up simply because nObama made a pinky-promise with them. -The Patriot Post
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GOP 2016 POWER INDEX: JEB JOLTED FROM TOP SPOT
There’s been a seismic shakeup this week, knocking Jeb Bush from the top spot for the first time since the race began and putting Sen. Ted Cruz at the top.
The latest WSJ/NBC News poll has Donald Trump and Ben Carson tied for the lead with Sen. Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina tied for third place. But few would imagine that those rankings will be predictive. Bush and Cruz in are farther behind, but the Fox News First Power Index is about more than just the latest polls. It’s about who has the best path to their party’s nomination.
What put Bush at the top of the list from the start was that his superior organization, enormous cash reserves and united support from the GOP establishment would allow him to do what the last two GOP nominees did and outlast and outspend insurgent rivals in the springtime.
But now it’s clear that Bush has some serious problems and seriously doesn’t seem to know how to fix them.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” Bush acknowledged his struggles saying, “Candidates have to get better, and that’s what I intend to do.” But, as he has done before, Bush said that his deep financial resources would keep him in the race and help deliver a victory.
But if Bush is at the point of reassuring jittery donors that he can make it for the long haul at the very moment that his former protégé Rubio is having his second moment in the sun, it’s not a good thing. While Ohio Gov. John Kasich can rustle some Bush money on Wall Street and K Street and poses a serious threat for a New Hampshire win, it is Rubio who could actually knock Bush out nationally.
The Bushies call Rubio “Judas,” so at least they get how big a threat he is.
Fox News First still believes that the race will still come down to two candidates by March 15 or immediately afterward. Maybe it will be a five-way brawl all the way to the convention, but we’ve heard that before.
And as of today, the best bet for the insurgent side, Cruz, looks like a stronger choice than the establishment favorite, Bush.
Money matters for Cruz, too. The super-duper PACs backing Cruz guarantee he will be in the game well into March, but his campaign is also raising well online.
Although Cruz trails Bush in the RCP average, but as we often discuss, at this point, we care as much (or more) about voters’ net favorable views of candidates as we do actual ballot preferences. And in that measure, Bush is a disaster.
Among all voters in the latest Fox News poll, Bush turns in a net favorable score of negative 21 points. That’s nearly as bad as Donald Trump who sits at -25 points and worse than Hilly Clinton, who registered at -18 points.
With Republican voters Cruz isn’t the top of the class, but shows his strength with +21 points. It’s better than Trump’s +12 and soars over Bush’s meager +1 point.
Ben Carson has the highest favorability at +52 points, far and away the most popular guy in the field. Other top spots for favorability go to Rubio (+35 points) and Carly Fiorina (+30 points).
But here we go back to fundamentals. Can these candidates, particularly Carson, endure as top-tier contenders? Are they gifted enough politicians and do they have the operational wherewithal and fundraising depth to fight in what will be the fastest-moving GOP primary cycle in memory.
When you have a candidate that has both favorability and money though, that’s when you have a viable challenger.
Cruz, as we discussed earlier, has the money but he also his self-described“grassroots army,” including a stable niche among evangelical groups. He took the top spot in the straw poll at this weekend’s Value Voters Summit in Washington for the third year in a row.
Now, all that sounds good at the end September, but will it sound so good at the end of the year?
The stakes are higher for Cruz in the coming congressional showdowns over spending, abortion and leadership, then any other candidate. If Cruz finds a way of keeping the faith of his core supporters, but not acting like a “false prophet” then it could be the start of something big.
But if the 2013 Cruz-centric showdown and shutdown is the model for what’s coming, Cruz won’t hold the top spot for very long. -Fox News
There’s been a seismic shakeup this week, knocking Jeb Bush from the top spot for the first time since the race began and putting Sen. Ted Cruz at the top.
The latest WSJ/NBC News poll has Donald Trump and Ben Carson tied for the lead with Sen. Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina tied for third place. But few would imagine that those rankings will be predictive. Bush and Cruz in are farther behind, but the Fox News First Power Index is about more than just the latest polls. It’s about who has the best path to their party’s nomination.
What put Bush at the top of the list from the start was that his superior organization, enormous cash reserves and united support from the GOP establishment would allow him to do what the last two GOP nominees did and outlast and outspend insurgent rivals in the springtime.
But now it’s clear that Bush has some serious problems and seriously doesn’t seem to know how to fix them.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” Bush acknowledged his struggles saying, “Candidates have to get better, and that’s what I intend to do.” But, as he has done before, Bush said that his deep financial resources would keep him in the race and help deliver a victory.
But if Bush is at the point of reassuring jittery donors that he can make it for the long haul at the very moment that his former protégé Rubio is having his second moment in the sun, it’s not a good thing. While Ohio Gov. John Kasich can rustle some Bush money on Wall Street and K Street and poses a serious threat for a New Hampshire win, it is Rubio who could actually knock Bush out nationally.
The Bushies call Rubio “Judas,” so at least they get how big a threat he is.
Fox News First still believes that the race will still come down to two candidates by March 15 or immediately afterward. Maybe it will be a five-way brawl all the way to the convention, but we’ve heard that before.
And as of today, the best bet for the insurgent side, Cruz, looks like a stronger choice than the establishment favorite, Bush.
Money matters for Cruz, too. The super-duper PACs backing Cruz guarantee he will be in the game well into March, but his campaign is also raising well online.
Although Cruz trails Bush in the RCP average, but as we often discuss, at this point, we care as much (or more) about voters’ net favorable views of candidates as we do actual ballot preferences. And in that measure, Bush is a disaster.
Among all voters in the latest Fox News poll, Bush turns in a net favorable score of negative 21 points. That’s nearly as bad as Donald Trump who sits at -25 points and worse than Hilly Clinton, who registered at -18 points.
With Republican voters Cruz isn’t the top of the class, but shows his strength with +21 points. It’s better than Trump’s +12 and soars over Bush’s meager +1 point.
Ben Carson has the highest favorability at +52 points, far and away the most popular guy in the field. Other top spots for favorability go to Rubio (+35 points) and Carly Fiorina (+30 points).
But here we go back to fundamentals. Can these candidates, particularly Carson, endure as top-tier contenders? Are they gifted enough politicians and do they have the operational wherewithal and fundraising depth to fight in what will be the fastest-moving GOP primary cycle in memory.
When you have a candidate that has both favorability and money though, that’s when you have a viable challenger.
Cruz, as we discussed earlier, has the money but he also his self-described“grassroots army,” including a stable niche among evangelical groups. He took the top spot in the straw poll at this weekend’s Value Voters Summit in Washington for the third year in a row.
Now, all that sounds good at the end September, but will it sound so good at the end of the year?
The stakes are higher for Cruz in the coming congressional showdowns over spending, abortion and leadership, then any other candidate. If Cruz finds a way of keeping the faith of his core supporters, but not acting like a “false prophet” then it could be the start of something big.
But if the 2013 Cruz-centric showdown and shutdown is the model for what’s coming, Cruz won’t hold the top spot for very long. -Fox News
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Ted Cruz Outraged Over Planned Parenthood Failure
{totalconservative.com} ~ Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz had harsh words for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell and House Speaker backstabber John Boehner on Thursday, criticizing them for their failure to defund Planned Parenthood... Cruz, never shy about opposing the establishment, said Republicans were making a big mistake by promising to avoid a government shutdown. “When you have a radical in the White House who will exploit that promise, what it means in effect is that Republican leadership will support every failed big government policy of President nObama,” Cruz said. That appears to be the case yet again, as the Senate prepares to vote on a new short-term spending bill that would keep the government open until December 11. The new continuing resolution is identical to the one voted down on Thursday with one exception: it allows taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood. http://totalconservative.com/ted-cruz-outraged-over-planned-parenthood-failure/
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After this decision by the U.S. Army, NO ONE should enlist
{Lt. Col. (Retired) Allen West} ~ There are some decisions which I simply cannot fathom how anyone could make... We’ve discussed here the issue surrounding U.S. Army Special Forces Green Berets Captain Dan Quinn and Sergeant First Class Charles Martland. These men were relieved of their positions by the chain of command because they physically assaulted an Afghan police officer who had raped a young boy and beaten his mother. We reported on SFC Martland’s appeal regarding his involuntary discharge from the Army because of the adverse actions taken against him and placed in his personnel record. Captain Quinn left the Army. We shared with you earlier this week how the U.S. Military has issued orders to troops in Afghanistan to disregard the instances of sexual abuse of young boys by Afghan officials – even if they occurred on U.S. Military bases. We know three Marines lost their lives in Helmand province when one of these “chai boys” took the AK-47 of the pedophile Afghan police chief and gunned them down while they worked out in the FOB gym. And now we get this news. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/after-this-decision-by-the-u-s-army-no-one-should-enlist/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email092815&utm_medium=email.
nOBAMA FREES 20TH 9/11 HIJACKER
{Matthew Vadum} ~ The nObama administration quietly shipped Osama bin Laden's bodyguard back to the Wahhabist Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last week despite warnings that the Muslim terrorist remains a serious threat to the United States... The newly released terrorist detainee is Abdul Shalabi, 39, who trained to be the 20th hijacker for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Shalabi was set free even though military officials deemed him too dangerous to be unleashed on the world and too valuable as an intelligence asset to be released from U.S. custody. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said last week that the liberation of Shalabi, whom he referred to as a "dangerous detainee," is "another example of President nObama playing politics with national security and putting campaign promises ahead of U.S. national security interests." Shuttering the terrorist detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has long been a goal of President nObama, going back at least to the campaign trail in 2008..
The Dismal nObama “Strategy” Failure In Syria...
{rickwells.us} ~ With results that can best be described as beyond pathetic, the nObama regime’s supposed strategy for countering ISIS, that of training proxy fighting units known as the NSF... the New Syrian Force fighters, has succeeded only in arming and staffing our enemy. Those of us who have experienced the nObama and Bush economies are likely to have some familiarity with the markings on an occasional check returned as being insufficient. NSF seems like a very appropriate designation for this “fighting force.” Apparently moderate Syrians aren’t the dedicated jihadi-haters John McCain and Lindsey Graham told us they were. As dismal as the current results are, and they’re awful, how bad could they have been if those two had been successful in persuading us to accept a much larger effort to recruit and train what are essentially terrorists or mercenaries in disguise? They have proven to have little ambition to fight on our behalf or theirs against the ISIS terrorists. http://rickwells.us/the-dismal-obama-strategy-failure-in-syria-more-surrenders-of-us-supplied-weapons-by-cowards-we-trained/.
AP Uncovers Proof Hilly Clinton May Have Perjured Herself
{Onan Coca} ~ More bad news for Hilly Clinton came out on Friday when the AP reported that the nObama administration had discovered a chain of work related emails between Hilly Clinton and David Petraeus... that she had not turned over previously. Clinton had told Congress (and the nation) that she had turned over ALL work related emails and that the email scandal was simply a Republican witch hunt. However, the discovery of these work related emails makes her story far less compelling. Over the last few months it has become obvious that Clinton is not telling the whole story when it comes to her private email server.
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Republicans Help MSNBC Create “Global Citizens”
{Cliff Kincaid} ~ Stephen Colbert, Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), the Chair of the Democratic National Committee... were among those appearing at the Global Citizen Festival on September 26, broadcast by cable channel MSNBC. Incredibly, despite the left-wing slant of the event, Republican Senators Thad Cochran (MS) and Bob Corker (TN) lent their names to the Honorary Congressional Host Committee for the gathering, while Republican Rep. Charlie Dent (PA) was listed as a participant. Labeled as an effort to eradicate poverty by 2030, the movement to create “global citizens” is actually designed to make the U.N. into a world government to manage a transition to a new worldwide economic system. It’s being called “sustainable development” but amounts to a system of global socialism—redistributing wealth from the United States to the rest of the world. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/republicans-help-msnbc-create-global-citizens/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email092915&utm_medium=email.
U.S. Should Not Take Syrian Refugees, Lebanese American Says
{Tyler O'Neil} ~ It is vital for American national security not to accept the huge influx of Syrian refugees because the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS) has infiltrated them... according to Brigitte Gabriel, founder and president of ACT for America, the largest grassroots national security organization. “We know ISIS infiltrated them, they were coming here under the disguise of refugees, but they are actually ISIS recruiters and ISIS sympathizers,” Gabriel told PJ Media in an interview at the Values Voter Summit on Saturday. She added that the refugees “are making up names — they can tell us anything, and there is nothing we can do to check it.” http://pjmedia.com/blog/u-s-should-not-take-syrian-refugees-lebanese-american-says/.
GOP, LET nOBAMA SHUT IT DOWN AND OWN IT
{David Limbaugh} ~ Establishment Republicans inside and outside Washington miss the grass roots’ point. Even if we don’t eventually prevail with defunding Planned Parenthood, we need to take this issue to the American people... Establishment types believe that just as we are finally poised to recapture the White House, crazy tea party extremists are about to mess everything up because voters would blame and punish the GOP in 2016 for a shutdown. But they always tell us to wait until the next election. When we didn’t control the House, they told us to wait until we did. Same with the Senate. Now they say we have to wait until Jeb Bush is president. They’ve cried wolf so long that conservatives no longer believe them. The conservatives aren’t idiots. They knew when they elected these majorities that they would have great difficulty advancing the conservative agenda with President nObama in office. But they didn’t expect them not to even try.
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nObamaCare: Rising Deductibles, Even More Than Premiums
{Michael Tennant} ~ Prior to the passage of nObamaCare, President Barack nObama repeatedly promised that his healthcare overhaul would reduce health-insurance premiums by as much as $2,500 per family... But according to a recent report, not only have premiums continued to rise under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but deductibles have grown dramatically, often to the point that having insurance isn’t a guarantee of affordable care. The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)/Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) 2015 Employer Health Benefits Survey, released September 22, reveals that family premiums for employer-based health plans rose 4.2 percent this year, up from three percent in 2014. This relatively small increase is part of a trend that began in 2005, well before nObama took office, so at best nObamaCare can be said not to have caused premiums to rise at a much faster rate than they were rising beforehand. The president, however, did not promise slower growth in premiums; he promised to reduce them. Moreover, noted Investor’s Business Daily..
Pulosi: Planned Parenthood Videos Aren't Real
{Mark Tapson} ~ Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pulosi told interviewer Jake Tapper... that the controversial undercover videos by the activists at Center for Medical Progress showing Planned Parenthood doctors negotiating prices for fetal tissue are not real. So she hasn't seen the videos but they can't be real, because that's not a reality Pulosi is willing to accept, much less defend. It's called being in denial. She continued. As Pulosi went on she grew increasingly incomprehensible: No, she became more blind plus being an idiot. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/pelosi-planned-parenthood-videos-arent-real
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Double Suicide: The Presidential Campaign of 2015
Charles Krauthammer
. {freedomsback.com} ~ Meanwhile, on the Democrats’ side: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://freedomsback.com/charles-krauthammer/double-suicide-the-presidential-campaign-of-2015/ |
By: Craig Andresen and Diane Sori / Right Side Patriots on CPR Worldwide Media / www.cprworldwidemedia,net
“If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it’s a terrorist, right?” 
– Russian Foreign Mister Sergey Lavrov when countering criticism that Russia had bombed Syrian rebels and not ISIS
According to Defense Secretary Ash Carter…an Obama puppet…Russia’s air strikes in Syria will backfire and escalate the Syrian civil war. ‘Captain Obvious’ may be onto something here, but even a blind squirrel can find a nut. The problem is, Carter has no idea why, exactly, this could cause the civil war there to escalate, but Obama certainly does, but telling the truth would not serve his agenda.
To find the truth, we must first examine just how the situation came to be what it now is and while Obama and his puppets continue to blame Putin, the truth takes us down a completely different path.
I did not know this, did you? MOSLEM vs MUSLIM
Let's call them what they truly are "Moslem"... Until around the late 1980s, the word was commonly spelled Moslem in the English language... not Muslim... only until Moslems realized westerners started to understand the true nature of why it was spelled Moslem they wanted it spelled
Muslim... and they hate it when it's spelled Moslem.
A Muslim in Arabic means "one who gives himself to God," <rarely used before the late 1980s by English speaking people... example: to describe an Imam a preacher of the Qu'ran and Islam>
and by contrast, a Moslem in Arabic means "one who is evil and unjust" <mostly used by English speaking people before the late 1980s who described the true nature of one who follows Islam>... anyone see Taqiyya (تقيةWink at work here... Taqiyya (تقيةWink a word for lying used in Islam by Moslems <deceiving infidels / non-believers>.
"truthful knowledge is power and words matter"... "Peace to all infidels".
http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/34789/13453679/Moslem_vs._Muslim_-_is_the_latter_less_offensive_than_the_former
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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
It's Time We Acknowledge The
Dangers Posed by Muslims
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John Porter
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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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Gen. David Petraeus on the 'Geopolitical Chernobyl' 
During congressional testimony Tuesday, Ret. Gen. David Petraeus didn't mince words about Barack nObama's strategy in the Middle East. "We are not where we should be at this point," he said in regards to Iraq. He had particularly strong words for the situation in Syria, which he called a "geopolitical Chernobyl — spewing instability and extremism over the region and the rest of the world." The fight, he declared, will come to us whether we like it or not: "The Middle East is not part of the world that plays by Las Vegas rules: What happens in the Middle East is not going to stay in the Middle East." As part of his testimony, Petraeus, who masterminded the Iraq surge under George W. Bush, laid out the strategic framework he would implement today. According to The Daily Signal's Natalie Johnson, "Petraeus advised the U.S. to form enclaves in Syria protected by coalition air power to strengthen support for moderate Sunni rebels, train additional forces, and provide haven for displaced Syrians. He also urged the U.S. to take a hardline position against President Bashar al-Assad's indiscriminate barrel-bomb attacks that the Syrian Air Force continues to deploy across civilian areas."
Petraeus also addressed the elephant in the room — his affair with Paula Broadway and subsequent disclosure of secrets to her that landed him in hot water. "Four years ago, I made a serious mistake, one that brought discredit and pain to those closest to me. There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life." Petraeus — a guy we need now more than ever — was punished for his malfeasance. Hilly Clinton, meanwhile, is the leading Democrat candidate for president despite far more serious crimes. -The Patriot Post
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POLL-O-RAMA: TRUMP TREADS WATER AS OTHERS RISE
After more than a week wandering in the data desert, we have stumbled into an oasis of polls. Three fresh surveys on the GOP race – Fox News, Bloomberg and Quinnipiac University – give us the first reliable snapshot after the second candidate debate.
You already know about one of the main areas of agreement in the polls: Carly Fiorina, Sen. Marco Rubio and Ben Carson all emerged stronger from last week’s contest. And now those three plus front runner Donald Trump, journeyman candidate Jeb Bush and Sen. Ted Cruz constitute a clear top tier.
We also see how the road will get tougher for the candidates clearly excluded from the big leagues. How long candidates like Mike Huckabee and New Jersey Gov.Chris Christie can keep raising enough cash to stay on the trail looks like an open question.
The polls also agree that Trump is unchanged. In fact, Trump is just the same as he has been since he rode a wave of outrage over his comments about illegal immigrant rapists and murders to the top of the field in July.
Trump’s share of the vote is the same as it was before the Fox News debate seven weeks ago. It’s a flat line. But the lines beneath him aren’t. Trump’s lead over his closest competitor, Carson, in the Real Clear Politics average has fallen from 14 points to 8 points in the past two weeks.
Like Mitt Romney in 2012’s general election, Trump appears to be trying to sit on a lead. And it will likely work out about as well. Trump’s adamant refusal to answer the lingering question before his campaign – whether he is still a birther and whether he believes President nObama is a secret Muslim – reflects a play-it-safe strategy that will not wear well.
While Trump is trying to gin up old controversies, he’s putting his show into re-runs.
Meantime, candidates who take chances and act boldly are making gains. Trump can’t expect to keep replaying his greatest hits of August and keep these competitors from gaining on him.
With Bush out of the hunt for now and the field thinning, Trump has to face the reality that his real rivals now are Carson, Rubio and Fiorina and despite his attacks, they’re still rising. With the most voters again judging him the worst in the debate, he can’t just keep treading water month after month and hiding from the tough questions. -Fox News
After more than a week wandering in the data desert, we have stumbled into an oasis of polls. Three fresh surveys on the GOP race – Fox News, Bloomberg and Quinnipiac University – give us the first reliable snapshot after the second candidate debate.
You already know about one of the main areas of agreement in the polls: Carly Fiorina, Sen. Marco Rubio and Ben Carson all emerged stronger from last week’s contest. And now those three plus front runner Donald Trump, journeyman candidate Jeb Bush and Sen. Ted Cruz constitute a clear top tier.
We also see how the road will get tougher for the candidates clearly excluded from the big leagues. How long candidates like Mike Huckabee and New Jersey Gov.Chris Christie can keep raising enough cash to stay on the trail looks like an open question.
The polls also agree that Trump is unchanged. In fact, Trump is just the same as he has been since he rode a wave of outrage over his comments about illegal immigrant rapists and murders to the top of the field in July.
Trump’s share of the vote is the same as it was before the Fox News debate seven weeks ago. It’s a flat line. But the lines beneath him aren’t. Trump’s lead over his closest competitor, Carson, in the Real Clear Politics average has fallen from 14 points to 8 points in the past two weeks.
Like Mitt Romney in 2012’s general election, Trump appears to be trying to sit on a lead. And it will likely work out about as well. Trump’s adamant refusal to answer the lingering question before his campaign – whether he is still a birther and whether he believes President nObama is a secret Muslim – reflects a play-it-safe strategy that will not wear well.
While Trump is trying to gin up old controversies, he’s putting his show into re-runs.
Meantime, candidates who take chances and act boldly are making gains. Trump can’t expect to keep replaying his greatest hits of August and keep these competitors from gaining on him.
With Bush out of the hunt for now and the field thinning, Trump has to face the reality that his real rivals now are Carson, Rubio and Fiorina and despite his attacks, they’re still rising. With the most voters again judging him the worst in the debate, he can’t just keep treading water month after month and hiding from the tough questions. -Fox News
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Trump business imports lots of labor - CBS4 News: “A CBS4 News review of U.S. Labor Department records found that Trump businesses have requested hundreds of visas in recent years claiming they were unable to find Americans willing to do even the most basic tasks. And that is particularly true at Trump’s famed Palm Beach estate called Mar-A-Lago. Every year since at least 2008, Mar-A-Lago has requested anywhere from 70 to 90 visas to bring foreign workers into the country as cooks, waiters and housekeepers. The starting pay is between $10 and $12 an hour.” -Fox News
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BIDEN GETS ANOTHER BOOST
Amid another cascade of bad news for Democratic frontrunner Hilly Clinton, there’s more good news for Vice President loose lips Joe Biden’s potential candidacy. The latest Fox News poll shows the vice president nearly doubled his share of the vote since last month and a new Quinnipiac University poll has loose lips Biden outperforming all other Democrats in hypothetical head-to-head matchups against Republican opponents.
Of the top-tier Republicans: Trump, Carson, Fiorina, and Bush, loose lips Biden led all except Ben Carson, with whom he was tied. Clinton only performed about as well as Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, tying or trailing all candidates except Donald Trump, whom they both beat by single digits. loose lips Biden, though, beat Trump like a drum: 11 points. -Fox News
Amid another cascade of bad news for Democratic frontrunner Hilly Clinton, there’s more good news for Vice President loose lips Joe Biden’s potential candidacy. The latest Fox News poll shows the vice president nearly doubled his share of the vote since last month and a new Quinnipiac University poll has loose lips Biden outperforming all other Democrats in hypothetical head-to-head matchups against Republican opponents.
Of the top-tier Republicans: Trump, Carson, Fiorina, and Bush, loose lips Biden led all except Ben Carson, with whom he was tied. Clinton only performed about as well as Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, tying or trailing all candidates except Donald Trump, whom they both beat by single digits. loose lips Biden, though, beat Trump like a drum: 11 points. -Fox News
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ISIS Plans ‘Nuclear Tsunami’
{PAMELA GELLER} ~ nObama’s “Junior Varsity” wants a “nuclear tsunami” that wants to wipe hundreds of millions from the face of the earth in the biggest religious holocaust the world has ever seen... nObama says, “Islam is peace” and has ignited a nuclear arms race in the Islamic world. You don’t have to be Nostradamus to know where it’s all going. A veteran German journalist who became the first to gain access as an embedded reporter with Islamic State (ISIS) revealed the jihadist terror group plans to bring nuclear annihilation across the globe. http://pamelageller.com/2015/09/isis-plans-nuclear-tsunami.html/.
UN Attack On America – 17 Global Goals To Seize America’s Wealth...
{rickwells.us} ~ To those unfamiliar with the UN’s global government attack on freedom, capitalism and the United States, the ambiguous term “sustainable development” doesn’t have much meaning... It’s deliberately vague and can mean pretty much anything anyone chooses. Under the UN it means a “Nanny World” of global Marxism and austerity, with every person on the planet living at the same level of destitution and minimized resource consumption. To the degree that it is achieved by lifting up the poor, it’s equally dependent upon a corresponding degradation of the living standards of the more affluent. The people of the United States pay the nanny’s salary and all expenses, which are extremely hefty and burdensome. It is the opposite of the system we Americans have thrived under in the past and which the rest of the world, led by our own hijacked government, is now working feverishly to destroy..
Sponsoring the Agents of Our Own Destruction
{godfatherpolitics.com} ~ According to U.S. Census Data, “the United States admits roughly 100,000 Muslim immigrants legally each year, representing the fastest growing block of legal immigration into the United States.”... “Pew Research has estimated that immigration will cause the population of U.S. Muslims to more than double over the next two decades -- from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030. This demographic change is entirely the product of legal admissions -- that is, it is a formal policy of the federal government adopted by Congress.” And over 50% of Muslims currently residing in America believe they have a choice of being governed by Sharia, instead of the Constitution and U.S. law. Their reasoning is that the Constitution was written by man, whereas Sharia is the law of Allah. As their population expands, we should expect that percentage to grow. http://godfatherpolitics.com/25350/sponsoring-the-agents-of-our-own-destruction/.
Army Discharges War Hero Who Blew Whistle on Afghan Rape
{Morgan Chalfant} ~ Rep. Vern Buchanan (R., Fla.) is demandingthat the decorated Green Beret who blew the whistle on U.S.-allied Afghan forces raping boys be reinstated by the Army immediately... Buchanan labeled war hero Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland’s dismissal from the force a “national disgrace.” Martland stood up for an Afghan rape victim in 2011. “Driving Sgt. Martland out of the Army is a national disgrace,” Buchanan said in a statement. “He stood up for American values and should be commended, not punished.” This week, reports surfaced that U.S. soldiers and Marines have been instructed to ignore suspicions of Afghan forces raping boys. While Martland appealed his dismissal from the Army, he was rejected this week. He will be discharged at the start of November. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/gop-congressman-demands-reinstatement-of-green-beret-who-blew-whistle-on-afghans-raping-boys/.
Pictures of Saudi bulldozing bodies of dead Hajj pilgrims like garbage
They don’t have too much regard of other Muslims, do they? Nor do they seem to care about their own prophet... Pictures emerge of Saudi officials bulldozing bodies of dead Hajj pilgrims like garbage and dumping them into a pile. The Saudi’s have leveled ancient buildings and turned Mohammed’s only remaining historic places of origin into urinals and shops. The Wahhabi ideology has linked together an utter disregard for the historical heritage of Muslims with an unabashed embrace of vapid capitalism. In both Mecca and Medina, the Saudi state has already bulldozed over 90% of the Islamic monuments going back some 1400 years. In their place, they are putting up five star hotels, urinals, parking lots, and shopping malls..
Clinton Defender Just Can’t Answer One Simple Question…
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Germany: Migrants In, Germans Out The Death of Property Rights
{Soeren Kern} ~ German authorities are applying heavy-handed tactics to find housing for the hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees pouring into the country from Africa, Asia and the Middle East... With existing shelters filled to capacity, federal, state and local authorities are now using legally and morally dubious measures — including the expropriation of private property and the eviction of German citizens from their homes — to make room for the newcomers. German taxpayers are also being obliged to make colossal economic sacrifices to accommodate the influx of migrants, many of whom have no prospect of ever finding a job in the country. Sustaining the 800,000 migrants and refugees who are expected to arrive in Germany in 2015 will cost taxpayers at least 11 billion euros ($12 billion) a year for years to come. You think this won't happen here, think again..
Americans On The Hook To Fund Aids Eradication In Africa
{rickwells.us} ~ Hussein nObama continues to act as our dictator, not bothering to ask the American people how we feel about the arrangement and without so much as a peep out of our supposed representatives in Congress... He’s moving beyond just imposing his will unilaterally upon the American people and taking charge of the world through the United Nations, all while using the contents of the United States treasury as a bargaining chip. He’s moving ahead, with support from criminal or criminally stupid comrades in the media, movies, music and politics, as well as the very wealthy business types who stand to make a lot from their monopolistic arrangements. In imposing his dictatorial control over the world, nObama is using the guidelines of Agenda 2030, the new and “improved” Agenda 21 Marxist framework, as the basis for establishing himself as the leader of the enslaved world. Anyone with half a brain who has read that touchy-feely idiots’ wish list can see that it has nothing in common with our America way of life and is quite similar to life under the former Soviet Union, minus the phony humanitarian pretenses. http://rickwells.us/americans-on-the-hook-to-fund-aids-eradication-in-africa-because-its-obamas-homeland-or-just-big-pharmas-jackpot-2/.
Migration Crisis: "Islam Will Conquer Europe Without Firing a Shot"
{Bassam Tawil} ~ With the anniversary of Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, internal Palestinian discourse revolves around radical Islam and America's actions... It relates to the slaughter, rape and millions of refugees who have fallen victim to Al-Qaeda, humanitarian calamity of and the Islamist terrorist organizations to which it gave birth, such as ISIS. Today an apocalyptic proportions is unfolding in territories that used to be Arab states but are now the battle grounds for feuding Arab tribes, whose only objective is to destroy one another. In their heart of hearts, the Arabs living in Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories know, although it is a bitter pill to swallow, that we have been favored by fortune because under the State of Israel we live in security. This reality is brought home to us by the feeble international response and the strange behavior of U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of the Western world who have abandoned the Arabs to the atrocities of the Sunni Islamists (and their supporters in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar), and to the murderous proxies of the Iranian Islamic Revolution (mainly in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon). http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6542/migration-crisis-islam-will-conquer-europe
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‘Meet The Press’ Runs Brutal Video Of Hilly’s Flip-Flops
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ Hilly Clinton was a guest on “Meet The Press” on Sunday, after Chuck Todd subjected her to a bit of back and forth about her emails... he played her a brutal video showcasing both sides of some her best flip-flops, including the Iraq War, Gay-Marriage, and the Keystone Pipeline. It was almost as if NBC was trying to save the GOP some cash by producing and effective anti-Clinton commercial (not that I mind.) After watching this segment, you will agree that this video is gonna leave a mark. The video was blocked and unable to view it. I wonder who is behind that?.
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It's Time We Acknowledge The
Dangers Posed by Muslims
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{coachisright.com} ~ With the events we are watching unfold in Europe and much of the Middle East; with the constant attacks on people of many other nations, including the United States, there is concern and discussion in our country and indeed, all over the world about the war being waged by, “Muslim Radicals” on behalf of their Religion of Islam. This is a war against all people who are not of the Muslim faith or who do not support Islam and Sharia Law. Make no mistake, we are under attack by Muslims..
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If we are to survive it is an ABSOLUTE MUST that we recognize this powerful and fundamental difference between Islam and the other religions of the civilized world. Ladies and gentlemen, WE ARE AT WAR. It is World War III. When our nation is at war, who is Constitutionally, the Supreme Commander of all efforts to defeat our enemies? It is our president.
If we are to survive it is an ABSOLUTE MUST that we recognize this powerful and fundamental difference between Islam and the other religions of the civilized world. Ladies and gentlemen, WE ARE AT WAR. It is World War III. When our nation is at war, who is Constitutionally, the Supreme Commander of all efforts to defeat our enemies? It is our president.
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The events we are watching unfold in Europe and the Middle East, the be-headings of Americans by the Islamic State and other such events of murder and mayhem have taken place without our president so much as naming the enemy. This has aroused concerns in many that President nObama might in fact be a Muslim. There is an Islamic doctrine known as “taqiyya” that permits Muslims to deny they are Muslim if it would be dangerous to admit the truth and to knowingly deceive infidels (anyone who is not a Muslim). Ask yourself if you believe Barack nObama to be capable of lying, or of being deceitful to achieve an end.
The events we are watching unfold in Europe and the Middle East, the be-headings of Americans by the Islamic State and other such events of murder and mayhem have taken place without our president so much as naming the enemy. This has aroused concerns in many that President nObama might in fact be a Muslim. There is an Islamic doctrine known as “taqiyya” that permits Muslims to deny they are Muslim if it would be dangerous to admit the truth and to knowingly deceive infidels (anyone who is not a Muslim). Ask yourself if you believe Barack nObama to be capable of lying, or of being deceitful to achieve an end.
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The Red Storm Has Returned - And It's Here To Stay
The biggest planet of our Solar System, Jupiter, is famous for its Great Red Spot. That "Spot" is actually a tremendpus chemical storm somewhat similar to Earth's hurricanes. Big enough to envelope our little "Blue Marble" three times over.
W/ the events that I've seen occurring in the MidEast alone, IMO, Russia, China, Iran and ISIS are pretty much the Earth's new "great RED spot".
There is NO doubt in my mind that political, and even moral, IMPOTENCE is what I heard in Secy Kerry's voice! The Obama administration has handed the MidEast to Vladimir Putin on a silver platter. No different to me than Chamberlain doing the same w/ Czechouslovakia.
The old KGB communist hardliner gave Obama, John Kerry, and Hillary "the Reset Button" Clinton a true lesson in the game of Chess; but at a global scale.
While Russia bombs Obama's "allies" in Syria. (Which so happens to be AL QAEDA mind you), Obama goes to the UN to continue pushing their "climate change" b*llsh*t! While Secy (or is it "Sissy" ) of State Kerry tries DESPERATELY to save "face" (well, at least one of them anyways) Putin is spitting at, and slapping them - many times over!
Anybody that understands these things know that Putin doesn't give a rat's @ss about Iran, Syria, or even Israel - let alone ISIS. Putin is from the old Soviet Iron Curtain school. As such, his focus and goals are the same as they were during their glory days: POWER! His interests w/ Iran and Syria are, imo, three-fold: 1. Iran's oil. They have gobs of it; and Putin wants his power hungry hands on as much of it as he can get! 2. Distribution. His interest in Syria is its land (to build a pipeline), and even more importantly, the sea ports (for his military stronghold and to fill his super tankers w/ crude). Which he'd then sell to the EU. 3. Leverage. He now OWNS the sole source of Europe's supply of natural gas that flows into their now "invisble" borders. Meanwhile, the American liberal-machine is strangling our OWN economy w/ their pressuring the private sector to "go Green" by running away from the very sources that we have PLENTY of; and Russia and China heavily thirst and hunger for: oil and coal. What is America mow erecting? WINDMILLS! And powering our Navy w/ experimental ALGAE fuel - at over $120/ a gal! While Russia and Iran swap missile defenses etc, and the building of nuclear plants, for crude - Obama continues to play campaign politics by nominating someone to be the Secy of the Army whose key qualiiication would seem to be, at least perhaps in Obama's eyes, that the nominee is openly gay. Raise your hands if you believe McConnell and his band will ever challenge the credentials of the nominee!
Meanwhile, the other old school communist chess player, who, although isn't as loud as Putin, is very much as ambitious, and as antagonistic against Obama. That other BIG player is just as skilled at the global chess game as well. They are also plowing forward; thus they are also very thirsty for fuel: CHINA. They now virtually OWN the South and East China Sea. Having Bitten off isles that belong to SOVEREIGN nations in the area like Vietnam, the Phillippenes and even Japan - w/ no cnsequences whatsoever! Not even a scolding from the UN. I've said for years now that the only reason that China hasn't TAKEN Taiwan is simply because they just don't WANT to. But, imo, under Obama's "watch" (laughable), it seems that event is more probable than merely possible.
The former general, David Petraeus, was reported to've said that the events in the MidEast are like a "global Chernobyl". The "clock" is ticking... And too many are glued to their idiot-tubes waiting to see WHO will Trunp trash next! Un...friggin...believeable!
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"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."
God give us hope, he point for us the path to follow and the direction that will lead us to the gate of freedom and endless opportunities to live in harmony with God’s creation and happiness, but he give us the freedom to choose God’s path to freedom and happiness or the path of greed and destruction created by man’s evil desire to control others for their own benefit. We must know that we can deceive men, but no God, our creator knows our pass, present and future; choose the right path, our purpose in life is to be the stewards of God creation, to love God and our fellow man. Be happy follow God’s law.
Things the Bible Says About Money
http://www.relevantbibleteaching.com/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=140035785&sec_id=140001239
Controlling Your Thoughts
http://www.openbible.info/topics/controlling_your_thoughts
Do Unto Others
http://www.openbible.info/topics/do_unto_others
Our Government Narcissistic abuse as in the Bible.
https://afternarcissisticabuse.wordpress.com/darkness/what-does-the-bible-
Being our Brothers keepers.
Words Have Meaning...
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" quote, Samuel Adams.
Words have meaning... but never so clear, that a tyrant can not subvert and convert them to his purpose. Hence, for justice to prevail... a MORAL people must hold the heads of justice accountable for their words.
'Tis but the sound of fury, unleashed in the souls of tyrants... that corrupt words destroy the community of man; with the tongue men set afire civilization and bring captive millions. Words, steeped with ill will, sooner beget terror in the hearts of men than a sword. For with steel men are dispatched and soon are forgotten, but with words history is written and rewritten, defining the very soul of men and nations.
Our judicial system has become the harbinger of illiteracy... spurning common sense and the direct meaning of WORDS. At will the tyrant now rages, his words to twist the souls of men; bantering about the meaning of words, despots do spin a web of deceit, trapping the common good with gobbledygook. The wicked restrain justice and impale the righteous with words.
It is time to restore common sense... to the rhetoric of men. Justice is best served when the lexicon of man is firmly established and honored by all. Justices and men of high rank need to be clear in the use of their language; so that, none will misunderstand their point. However, it is the despot who thinks to deceive with words and his entendre, keeping the very root of his purpose and meaning hidden, from the public and common speech.
Let the lawyers be chastened and the twisted metaphor be made clear... words have meaning and they dare not change, that history may remain true to the facts and the laws of men stable in there application. Words have in them the eternal power of creation... they are the window of the soul.
By RA Nelson
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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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What Next?
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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loose lips BIDEN RIDIN’ HIGH IN NEW POLL
A Bloomberg News poll out today shows Vice President loose lips Joe Biden in a strong position if he does indeed mount a challenge to his party’s once-inevitable frontrunner. loose lips Biden was the pick of 25 percent of Democratic voters, just 8 points behind Clinton, who announced her candidacy nearly six months ago. loose lips Biden is one point ahead of left-wing heartthrob Sen. Bernie Sanders.
But the worse news for Clinton is the poll also shows Clinton at her lowest favorability rating yet among the general electorate – 38 percent, down 10 points from April – with loose lips Biden riding to a new high of 49 percent. loose lips Biden is seen more favorably by Democrats, too. Seventy percent said they had a favorable opinion of Clinton compared to 80 percent for loose lips Biden. -Fox News
A Bloomberg News poll out today shows Vice President loose lips Joe Biden in a strong position if he does indeed mount a challenge to his party’s once-inevitable frontrunner. loose lips Biden was the pick of 25 percent of Democratic voters, just 8 points behind Clinton, who announced her candidacy nearly six months ago. loose lips Biden is one point ahead of left-wing heartthrob Sen. Bernie Sanders.
But the worse news for Clinton is the poll also shows Clinton at her lowest favorability rating yet among the general electorate – 38 percent, down 10 points from April – with loose lips Biden riding to a new high of 49 percent. loose lips Biden is seen more favorably by Democrats, too. Seventy percent said they had a favorable opinion of Clinton compared to 80 percent for loose lips Biden. -Fox News
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WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
America is mourning today the passing today of one of its true originals, Yogi Berra. He didn’t get the chance to play for his hometown St. Louis Cardinals, but had a legendary career as catcher and later manager of the New York Yankees. But Berra was really a philosopher in pinstripes. The NYP collected some of his best malapropisms, jokes and bits of wisdom, including the very best when one is facing uncertainty with difficult choices in life: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” How many of us have been sorry we failed to choose when we had the chance? RIP. -Fox News
America is mourning today the passing today of one of its true originals, Yogi Berra. He didn’t get the chance to play for his hometown St. Louis Cardinals, but had a legendary career as catcher and later manager of the New York Yankees. But Berra was really a philosopher in pinstripes. The NYP collected some of his best malapropisms, jokes and bits of wisdom, including the very best when one is facing uncertainty with difficult choices in life: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” How many of us have been sorry we failed to choose when we had the chance? RIP. -Fox News
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The Most Distrusted Administration in History In 2006, a relatively unknown U.S. senator named Barack nObama told an audience at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, that one of the most important values a government should foster is openness and integrity. "In the end, if the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists — to protect them and to promote their common welfare — all else is lost," nObama said. In 2007, as a candidate for president, he announced a plan to restore trust in government. "The American people want to trust in our government again," he said. "We just need a government that will trust in us." Throughout his presidency, nObama has repeatedly made a big deal out of restoring trust in government. And in June 2014, he declared, "Government is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together."
How's all that Hope 'n' Change™ working out? nObama oversaw a government that lied about its care of veterans while awarding its top bureaucrats with bonuses. It targeted nonprofit conservative organizations though IRS investigations. nObama himself strong-armed wildly unpopular deals through Congress, such as nObamaCare and the treaty-that's-not-a-treaty condoning Iran's use of nuclear power. If these instances are not scandals, they are at least scandalous.
And then on Saturday, Gallup released a poll that found Americans' distrust in government has grown. When nObama was first in office, 66% of Americans said there is widespread corruption in the halls of government. That number has climbed to 75% today. Nice work, nObama. -The Patriot Post
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Francis Advocates for Social Justice Before Congress
Pope Francis appeared before Congress today, the first time that the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has done so. The concern is that Pope Francis will be turned into a partisan tool. In essence, Barack nObama already has tried to place the papal seal on his homosexual and climate change agendas. In this speech before Congress, the pope exhorted the lawmakers to pursue social justice — for strengthening the family, the abolition of the death penalty and to fight against poverty through wealth redistribution. "It is important that today, as in the past, the voice of faith continue to be heard, for it is a voice of fraternity and love, which tries to bring out the best in each person and in each society," Francis said. "Such cooperation is a powerful resource in the battle to eliminate new global forms of slavery, born of grave injustices which can be overcome only through new policies and new forms of social consensus." In essence, the pope's comments advocated for big-government solutions to the world's ills, a position that confuses corporatism with capitalism. But while the subsequent headlines will blare that the pope spoke against conservative principles, it must be noted Francis slipped away from his itinerary last night to visit with the Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of nuns that care for the elderly. A Vatican spokesman told reporters that Francis visited the nuns in order to express support for the group's legal battle with the federal government over the contraception mandate in nObamaCare. So Francis is at least determined he won't only be a tool for nObama's agenda... -The Patriot Post
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Refugee Crisis Demands Coherent Foreign Policy
{Pete Hoekstra} ~ Perplexed Washington establishment politicians fail to grasp the West’s need to develop an effective foreign policy in the Middle East to address the current refugee crisis... The U.S., largely through neglect, allows Islamists to inflict unspeakable genocide against innocent men, women, and children. The largely hands-off approach has resulted in hundreds of thousands of families fleeing Syria, as well hundreds of thousands more internally displaced persons in Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Yemen, to seek freedom in Europe and elsewhere. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/refugee-crisis-demands-coherent-foreign-policy/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email092515&utm_medium=email.
Former Congressman Frank Wolf: Indict Baghdadi & Jihadi John...
{John Rossomando} ~ If Attorney General Loretta Lynch can indict the head of FIFA, global soccer's governing body, then she should be able to indict the Islamic State's self-described caliph... Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and "Jihadi John" for genocide, said former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf. Wolf wrote to Lynch Sept. 8 calling on her to take action. He believes that the grisly murders of Americans Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, James Foley and the brutal torture and killing of aid worker Kayla Mueller give the U.S. jurisdiction to try Al-Baghdadi and "Jihadi John." "Given the overwhelming and publicly available evidence of genocide, I call upon your office to initiate a thorough investigation into individuals who may be criminally liable under U.S. law for genocide and other serious human rights abuses such as slavery," Wolf wrote. "... I would urge you to announce that even where there may not be jurisdiction to prosecute under U.S. law, you will endeavor to work with foreign prosecutorial authorities to initiate criminal proceedings in countries that may have legal jurisdiction.".
California GOP Largely Abandons Immigration Position
{/immigrationreform.com} ~ Last Sunday, delegates of the California Republican Party voted to substantially abandon the party’s position on immigration.... The changes to the platform were made at the party’s semi-annual convention in Anaheim, California. Notably, the term “illegal alien” was eliminated entirely from the vocabulary of the platform. Delegates to the California GOP convention also removed language stating that allowing illegal aliens to remain in the United States “undermines respect for the law” and added a disclaimer asserting California Republicans “hold diverse views on the subject.” Delegates also removed language supporting cross-deputizing state and county law enforcement to help federal officials enforce immigration law against criminal aliens from the platform. (Breitbart, Sept. 21, 2015) Language supporting guest worker programs for illegal aliens, however, was included with the omission of the requirement that workers have identification with biometric data..
{Alex J. Pollock} ~ Nothing else can or does create as much systemic financial risk as the Fed does by its monetary manipulations... Since the dollar is the dominant international currency, the risk is created not only for Americans, but for people all over the world. The scale of the current manipulation, or in Dr. Brown’s phrase, the “Great Monetary Experiment,” which the Fed is imposing on everyone, is unprecedented. But there is nothing new in the Fed’s creating systemic risk, and blundering while it’s at it. As the book relates in detail, this has been going on for nearly a century. For example, the “powerful global asset price inflation” of the mid-1920s was “fueled by the monetary disequilibrium created by the Benjamin Strong Fed.”
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Epic List Of nObama’s Lies Goes Viral…
{conservativetribune.com} ~ President Barack nObama has only a fleeting acquaintanceship with the truth, and that is a generous assessment... In reality, nObama is quite possibly one of the biggest liars our nation has ever suffered in the White House. Far from being “the most transparent administration,” as he once promised, his cabal is extra-secretive about their actions and agenda, often covering up or lying about things that didn’t even need to be covered up or lied about. With so many lies and half-truths told by this president, it is sometimes hard to keep them all straight. Thankfully, somebody was kind enough to compile a list of some of the biggest whoppers nObama has told over the past seven years:
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New Crop of Hilly's Benghazi-Related Emails Suddenly Surfaces
{Cortney O'Brien} ~ The State Department has suddenly realized that it failed to hand over a "handful" of former secretary of state's emails that were directly related to the terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya... On Friday, the agency announced it would turn those over to the House Select Committee on Benghazi: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2015/09/25/new-hillary-emails-n2057064
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Hilly Signed Off On Decision She Said She Was Not Involved in
{Casey Harper} ~ A newly uncovered document shows that Democratic presidential candidate Hilly Clinton personally signed off on a questionable employment decision she previously claimed she was not involved with... Top Clinton aide Huma Abedin was able to work for the Clinton Foundation, Department of State and the private consulting firm Teneo Strategies as a Special Government Employee (SGE). When questioned about the arrangement, Clinton denied any involvement, but new documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that Clinton personally signed off on the position change. Clinton signed the document March 23, 2012 to approve the change in title, according to the documents first reported by Politico..
JW: New State Department Documents Reveal Hilly Clinton Email Gap
{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch today released newly obtained Department of State documents showing a nearly five-month total gap in the emails former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton decided to return to the State Department late last year... The documents also show that one key State Department official did not want a written record of issues about the Clinton emails. The documents also raise new questions about the accuracy of representations made to Judicial Watch, the courts, Congress, and the public by the nObama administration and Clinton. The documents were produced under court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Judicial Watch filed on May 6, 2015 (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)). The lawsuit was filed after the nObama State Department violated federal law and failed to respond to two separate FOIA requests, including a request for records about the actual production of the emails records by Clinton to the State Department. The first batch of documents obtained by Judicial Watch contains a heavily redacted email from State Department official Eric F. Stein to Margaret P. Grafeld, dated April 21, 2015, with the subject “HRC Emails.” Stein is deputy director of global information systems at the State Department and Grafeld is deputy assistant secretary of global information systems. Stein reports to Grafeld that the “gaps” in Clinton’s emails include:.
JW Exposes Hilly Clinton Lie
{judicialwatch.org} ~ I’m sure you’ve seen and read the usual DC establishment talking heads professing confusion as to why Hilly Clinton would make the “mistake” in setting up a separate email system to conduct government business as secretary of state... Of course, these types never see the obvious answer – because she had something to hide! And so did a lot of other nObama administration officials, some still running things at the State Department. If you have any doubt about this, please take a look at the new State Department records we released yesterday that reveal Hilly Clinton personally signed the authorization for Huma Abedin, her then-deputy chief of staff, to become a special government employee. The records also show that Abedin declined to provide complete information about her husband Anthony Weiner’s financial dealings. The records were uncovered as a result of a court order in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial, to put it charitably, employment status of Abedin (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The records show also that Abedin used a clintonemail.com account to communicate about her special status. (We know only that Abedin had a clintonemail.com account to conduct business. Neither Clinton nor the State Department are telling who else from the State Department participated in this shady Clinton email system.) http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/jw-exposes-hillary-clinton-lie/
It’s Official: Ground Zero Mosque DEFEATED!
{PAMELA GELLER} ~ We did it! We the people. President nObama pushed for it, then-Mayor of NYC Michael Bloomberg supported it, the media actively campaigned for it... the elites in their increasingly fragile ivory towers stumped for the mosque. But the people stood up and fought it and won. Hey nObama, YES. WE. CAN. Photo above: One of our rallies against the Ground Zero mega-mosque. Never give up. Never give in. Never surrender. Here’s the Ground Zero mosque story. Watch this documentary, it tells the whole story. .
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What Next?
Michael Makovsky
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It's understandable to want a mental break after a long and hard-fought struggle. But the world hasn't taken a break. The consequences of the deal are already reverberating.
It's understandable to want a mental break after a long and hard-fought struggle. But the world hasn't taken a break. The consequences of the deal are already reverberating.
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On Monday, September 21, Iran self-inspected a key suspect nuclear weapons site without international inspectors present. "This deal is not built on trust," President nObama had told us. "It is built on verification." But apparently we trust Iran to carry out that verification. That same day, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a two-and-a-half-hour emergency meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin (followed by a meeting of Russian and Israeli military chiefs) to discuss Russia's military presence in Syria.
On Monday, September 21, Iran self-inspected a key suspect nuclear weapons site without international inspectors present. "This deal is not built on trust," President nObama had told us. "It is built on verification." But apparently we trust Iran to carry out that verification. That same day, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a two-and-a-half-hour emergency meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin (followed by a meeting of Russian and Israeli military chiefs) to discuss Russia's military presence in Syria.
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The front page of the Wall Street Journal on September 22 captured the new Middle East, with a picture of Netanyahu meeting Putin at the top, and below it the headline "Russia, Iran Team Up in Syria." Putin is depicted as the central player with whom sworn enemies Iran and Israel have to deal. And where is the United States? At best, watching from behind. At worst, making life more difficult for our friends and allies. We've become like William Macy in the 2003 movie The Cooler, whose very presence and proximity turns people's luck bad.
The front page of the Wall Street Journal on September 22 captured the new Middle East, with a picture of Netanyahu meeting Putin at the top, and below it the headline "Russia, Iran Team Up in Syria." Putin is depicted as the central player with whom sworn enemies Iran and Israel have to deal. And where is the United States? At best, watching from behind. At worst, making life more difficult for our friends and allies. We've become like William Macy in the 2003 movie The Cooler, whose very presence and proximity turns people's luck bad.
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Such is the strategic reality that has emerged from the Iran deal. It has put an exclamation point on a collapse of American leadership that had been building during the entire nObama administration (and the last part of the Bush administration, too). It signaled a decisive reversal of decades of American dominance of the Middle East. Following our feckless blunders in withdrawing from Iraq, drawing but not enforcing a red line in Syria, and declaring quasi-war but doing very little against the Islamic State, the Iran deal was the straw that broke the camel's back of American credibility in the region. It blessed the emergence, 15 years hence, of a nuclear-weapons-capable and ballistic-missile-armed Iran, enriched and empowered a vehemently anti-American and anti-Israeli, terrorist-supporting regime, and spurred nuclear proliferation in the region.
Such is the strategic reality that has emerged from the Iran deal. It has put an exclamation point on a collapse of American leadership that had been building during the entire nObama administration (and the last part of the Bush administration, too). It signaled a decisive reversal of decades of American dominance of the Middle East. Following our feckless blunders in withdrawing from Iraq, drawing but not enforcing a red line in Syria, and declaring quasi-war but doing very little against the Islamic State, the Iran deal was the straw that broke the camel's back of American credibility in the region. It blessed the emergence, 15 years hence, of a nuclear-weapons-capable and ballistic-missile-armed Iran, enriched and empowered a vehemently anti-American and anti-Israeli, terrorist-supporting regime, and spurred nuclear proliferation in the region.
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What is to be done? We can mitigate some of the deal's costs in the near term, walk away from it as soon as possible, and act to prevent rather than enable or try to contain a nuclear-armed Iran. These must be fundamental elements of any successful U.S. national security policy.
What is to be done? We can mitigate some of the deal's costs in the near term, walk away from it as soon as possible, and act to prevent rather than enable or try to contain a nuclear-armed Iran. These must be fundamental elements of any successful U.S. national security policy.
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How does one begin?
How does one begin?
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First, don't obsess about sanctions. Recognize that eagerness to do something can get in the way of doing what is needed. Sanctions can be an important tool of foreign policy, but they are a limited tool. Lawmakers concerned about the threat of Iran's nuclear program naturally gravitated toward sanctions as one of the few areas where the legislative branch can lead and set foreign policy. But this also gave many members of Congress an easy but ultimately ineffective out. Sanctions did not succeed in pressuring the regime in Tehran to cease its nuclear program. Even as they damaged Iran's economy, the regime continued installing new centrifuges. nObama was right when he said, "Sanctions alone are not going to force Iran to completely dismantle all vestiges of its nuclear infrastructure." Sanctions are only one supporting element of a new policy against Iran.
First, don't obsess about sanctions. Recognize that eagerness to do something can get in the way of doing what is needed. Sanctions can be an important tool of foreign policy, but they are a limited tool. Lawmakers concerned about the threat of Iran's nuclear program naturally gravitated toward sanctions as one of the few areas where the legislative branch can lead and set foreign policy. But this also gave many members of Congress an easy but ultimately ineffective out. Sanctions did not succeed in pressuring the regime in Tehran to cease its nuclear program. Even as they damaged Iran's economy, the regime continued installing new centrifuges. nObama was right when he said, "Sanctions alone are not going to force Iran to completely dismantle all vestiges of its nuclear infrastructure." Sanctions are only one supporting element of a new policy against Iran.
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Second, stick to what works. The sanctions fixation obscured a strategy that actually has an empirical record of reining in illicit nuclear programs: a credible military threat. Tehran suspended parts of its nuclear program in 2003-04, when the mullahs worried they'd be next after the United States toppled Saddam Hussein. The Iraq war also led Muammar Qaddafi to destroy his nuclear program. More recently, in September 2012, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a red line at Iran acquiring a bomb's worth—about 155 kilograms—of 20 percent enriched uranium. At the time, Iran was already dangerously close to this threshold; but it never crossed it. Hearing and, more important, believing Netanyahu's implicit threat, Iran chose to keep its stockpile from exceeding Israel's red line.
Second, stick to what works. The sanctions fixation obscured a strategy that actually has an empirical record of reining in illicit nuclear programs: a credible military threat. Tehran suspended parts of its nuclear program in 2003-04, when the mullahs worried they'd be next after the United States toppled Saddam Hussein. The Iraq war also led Muammar Qaddafi to destroy his nuclear program. More recently, in September 2012, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a red line at Iran acquiring a bomb's worth—about 155 kilograms—of 20 percent enriched uranium. At the time, Iran was already dangerously close to this threshold; but it never crossed it. Hearing and, more important, believing Netanyahu's implicit threat, Iran chose to keep its stockpile from exceeding Israel's red line.
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Third, the next president—especially if he or she wisely walks away from the deal—must use this credible military option not only to prevent Iran from going nuclear but also to confront Iran more broadly in the region. We can never be safe, nor can we ever regain international credibility, if Iran develops nuclear bombs or runs free as a dominant regional power. Attaining the capability to prevent these things will require freeing the U.S. military from the shackles of sequestration and boosting its capacity in the Middle East and beyond.
Third, the next president—especially if he or she wisely walks away from the deal—must use this credible military option not only to prevent Iran from going nuclear but also to confront Iran more broadly in the region. We can never be safe, nor can we ever regain international credibility, if Iran develops nuclear bombs or runs free as a dominant regional power. Attaining the capability to prevent these things will require freeing the U.S. military from the shackles of sequestration and boosting its capacity in the Middle East and beyond.
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We have compared this period to the late 1930s, when the West, tired of war, failed to confront the strategic challenge of Nazi Germany. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin fiddled as Europe began to burn. But even in Baldwin's last year in office British military spending increased significantly, and it rose further under Neville Chamberlain, a total of 83 percent between 1936 and 1939. At least Chamberlain recognized that Britain had to rearm, even while he pursued appeasement.
We have compared this period to the late 1930s, when the West, tired of war, failed to confront the strategic challenge of Nazi Germany. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin fiddled as Europe began to burn. But even in Baldwin's last year in office British military spending increased significantly, and it rose further under Neville Chamberlain, a total of 83 percent between 1936 and 1939. At least Chamberlain recognized that Britain had to rearm, even while he pursued appeasement.
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nObama, however, is slashing defense budgets. After five years of sequestration, the United States is on course to have the smallest Army since 1940 and the smallest Navy since 1930. As a group of retired high-ranking military leaders put it in a report commissioned by the Jewish Institute for Natioal Security Affairs: "Should the worst happen—should Iran threaten the security of our allies, should it decide, after 15 years, to sprint for a nuclear weapons capability—the U.S. armed forces will rise to challenge, but they will do so with less manpower, fewer capabilities, more antiquated platforms and a lower level of readiness than they have now or have had in a very long time." It is amazing—and appalling—that the United States will not have an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf as the Iran deal goes into effect. The United States must also continue efforts to develop weapons to defend against Iranian aggression—particularly missile defense systems—as well as, if necessary, to degrade and destroy their nuclear infrastructure, whether through cyber attack or the 30,000-pound, bunker-busting, Fordow-penetrating Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP).
nObama, however, is slashing defense budgets. After five years of sequestration, the United States is on course to have the smallest Army since 1940 and the smallest Navy since 1930. As a group of retired high-ranking military leaders put it in a report commissioned by the Jewish Institute for Natioal Security Affairs: "Should the worst happen—should Iran threaten the security of our allies, should it decide, after 15 years, to sprint for a nuclear weapons capability—the U.S. armed forces will rise to challenge, but they will do so with less manpower, fewer capabilities, more antiquated platforms and a lower level of readiness than they have now or have had in a very long time." It is amazing—and appalling—that the United States will not have an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf as the Iran deal goes into effect. The United States must also continue efforts to develop weapons to defend against Iranian aggression—particularly missile defense systems—as well as, if necessary, to degrade and destroy their nuclear infrastructure, whether through cyber attack or the 30,000-pound, bunker-busting, Fordow-penetrating Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP).
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Fourth, boost the military capability of Israel and of our Arab allies, while ensuring Israel retains its qualitative military edge. The United States can help Israel acquire the tools to be more self-reliant both in its offensive and defensive capabilities. Congress has a big role to play here. Congress, with nObama's support, has supplied Israel with financial aid for its Iron Dome system, which worked well in the war with Hamas in Gaza last year, but which will not suffice in the face of Hezbollah's tens of thousands of rockets and missiles. The United States can significantly augment Israel's missile defense capabilities, as well as work with it to improve its anti-mortar capabilities. American offensive help to Israel can begin with offering Israel MOPs and the spare B-52s that can deliver them. B-52s could also help Israel in a war with Hezbollah, which would surely be part of any conflict it has with Iran. Serious thought must be given to how else best to boost Israel's defensive and offensive capabilities, and to do so in a manner dramatic enough to signal Iran, as well as others, that we will stand by Israel.
Fourth, boost the military capability of Israel and of our Arab allies, while ensuring Israel retains its qualitative military edge. The United States can help Israel acquire the tools to be more self-reliant both in its offensive and defensive capabilities. Congress has a big role to play here. Congress, with nObama's support, has supplied Israel with financial aid for its Iron Dome system, which worked well in the war with Hamas in Gaza last year, but which will not suffice in the face of Hezbollah's tens of thousands of rockets and missiles. The United States can significantly augment Israel's missile defense capabilities, as well as work with it to improve its anti-mortar capabilities. American offensive help to Israel can begin with offering Israel MOPs and the spare B-52s that can deliver them. B-52s could also help Israel in a war with Hezbollah, which would surely be part of any conflict it has with Iran. Serious thought must be given to how else best to boost Israel's defensive and offensive capabilities, and to do so in a manner dramatic enough to signal Iran, as well as others, that we will stand by Israel.
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Britain required a new leader, Winston Churchill, in 1940 to finally address the Nazi cancer. The United States needs a new leader as well, a Republican with a firm understanding of America's role in the world and the steel to pursue our interests properly and relentlessly. Still, re-armament helped provide the tools when Britain regained its will. When we have an American leader willing to restore America's place in the world and actually prevent a nuclear Iran, that president too must have the tools—as must the Israelis—to do the job.
Britain required a new leader, Winston Churchill, in 1940 to finally address the Nazi cancer. The United States needs a new leader as well, a Republican with a firm understanding of America's role in the world and the steel to pursue our interests properly and relentlessly. Still, re-armament helped provide the tools when Britain regained its will. When we have an American leader willing to restore America's place in the world and actually prevent a nuclear Iran, that president too must have the tools—as must the Israelis—to do the job.
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"Does Donald Trump's Family Bible Make Him A Christian?"
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By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net
“So part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also involve a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.”
Those were Obama’s words at the United Nations (of thugs, thieves and despots) just a couple of days ago. He stood up there, just like he did a couple of years ago when he said that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam” and said that non-Muslims must reject the IGNORANCE that equates Islam with terror.
It’s IGNORANT to equate ISLAM…with TERROR?
Oh really?
I just watched the trailer for Robert Redford’s latest film, “Truth,” due out October 16th. The film depicts the 2004 forged documents scandal that ended journalist Dan Rather’s career with CBS. Redford stars as the newsman.
The movie is based on the book “Truth and Duty: the President, the Press, and the Privilege of Power” by Mary Mapes, the former 60 Minutes producer who also lost her job over the fake National Guard memos.
Allow me to briefly summarize the shoddy journalistic practices employed at CBS, about which an entire book could be written, for the benefit of those too young to remember Rathergate. For starters, the scandal should really be called Mapesgate because Mapes was primarily responsible for the unethical behavior at CBS. She was absolutely obsessed with the idea that President Bush shirked his duty in the Texas Air National Guard, which she just knew to be true. How fortunate Mapes was to meet a man named Bill Burkett, who happened to provide her the proof she had always wanted.
Sadly, Burkett suffered from the world’s first confirmed case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Besides having once had a nervous breakdown, he had also advanced other baseless accusations against Bush during the 2000 campaign as well as when he was governor of Texas. Burkett claimed to have documents revealing that young Lieutenant Bush had gone AWOL in 1972, though he kept changing his story as to where he got them. Mapes fell in love with the documents and rushed them to air, despite the fact the network’s own expert would not vouch for them.
In a clear case of coordination, Mapes then called strategist Joe Lockhart, a high-ranking consultant with the Democratic Kerry campaign, to ask him if he’d be interested in talking to Burkett. Totally unethical. She should have been fired just for that. Even Mapes’s own father said of her: “I’m really ashamed of my daughter, what she’s become. She went into journalism with an ax to grind, that is, to promote feminism—and radical feminism, I might say—and liberalism.”
Just don’t accuse Mapes of having an agenda. She hates that.
Within hours of the broadcast, sharp-eyed Americans noticed that the memos appeared to have been written using Microsoft Word. Although Mapes and Rather stubbornly refused to admit that they were forgeries, both were eventually canned.
Mapes was lucky enough to get a book deal out of it. I didn’t waste my time or money reading it, but apparently the gist of it is—stop me if you’ve heard this one—that she’s the victim, that she was just speaking truth to power, and that the story was solid even if it was based on false documents. That may sound silly, of course, but people have to understand that in those days dissent wasn’t racist, it was the highest form of patriotism. And by dissent, I mean making crap up to swing an election.
That’s the book that will soon be dramatized on the big screen. Am I the only one in America who’s tired of Hollywood enshrining lies in our collective history through the use of propagandistic movies?
Too many of us learn about history through cinema, a pitfall we should all try to avoid. We shouldn’t confuse movies for depictions of actual historical events. Besides the fact that they’re meant to entertain, most of them are also made by loony leftists.
In that regard, “Truth” reminds me of another cinematic abortion released five years ago called “Fair Game,” which supposedly told the story of Joe Wilson and his CIA officer wife Valerie Plame. Its depiction of events was so far removed from reality that it can only be called fiction.
When the Washington Post asked Joe Wilson about the film’s veracity, he said something very telling its defense—“For people who have short memories or don’t read, this is the only way they will remember the period.” How’s that for honesty? I think what he’s saying is that even though “Fair Game” may not align with the historical record, in time it will become the historical record. People who just didn’t pay much attention to the story, or were born after the fact, will conjure up images of “Fair Game” when they think of Plamegate.
And they will think that they saw events as they really happened. What a terrible disservice.
In real life, Joe Wilson was sent by his wife Valerie Plame to Niger to investigate reports that the Iraqi government was purchasing or attempting to purchase uranium. In July 2003, he wrote an op-ed for the New York Times saying that he hadn’t found any evidence to support that conclusion. Shortly thereafter, columnist Robert Novak mentioned Wilson’s wife’s name in an editorial, thus blowing her CIA cover. Wilson and others jumped to the conclusion that the White House was punishing him for his stand against the Iraq War. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to investigate the leak. He actually already knew at the beginning of the investigation that the perp was Richard Armitage, second in command at the State Department and a critic of the Iraq War. Fitzgerald launched an investigation into a question to which he already knew the answer, and eventually tripped up White House aide Scooter Libby, who lied under oath about the matter. Libby went to prison while Armitage was never even charged.
Who plays Armitage in the film? No one. He never appears on screen and his name appears only in a textual epilogue. Also, Libby is the leaker and he did it to put Plame’s life in jeopardy. In other words, the real story of the Plame leak was scrapped in favor of a fantasy. In time, few will remember that it isn’t true.
No film has used subterfuge to influence public opinion about an historical event quite like Oliver Stone’s 1991 blockbuster “JFK.” It supposedly tells the true story of District Attorney Jim Garrison of New Orleans, the only man ever to charge anyone for President Kennedy’s murder. As it turns out, the man he put on trial, businessman Clay Shaw, also happened to be innocent. The case Garrison’s office assembled against him was a textbook example of reckless prosecution. After a lengthy trial, the jury deliberated for just 54 minutes before returning a verdict of not guilty.
But that’s not how Stone tells the story. In Stone’s film, Garrison is the hero. His investigation meets stiff resistance from the federal government, presumably because Kennedy’s killers are still very much in power. The assassination is a conspiracy of epic proportions, involving top military brass, defense contractors, the CIA, FBI, Dallas Police, Vice President LBJ, anti-Castro Cubans, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and even the President’s own Secret Service. Lee Oswald not only didn’t act alone, he didn’t act at all. Just a patsy. Oswald was conveniently “sheep-dipped” to look like an unstable Marxist then placed in proximity to the murder so the real killers could make a clean get-away.
The Chicago Tribune editorialized, “The danger is that Stone’s film and the pseudo-history it so effectively portrays will become the popularly accepted version.” Very true, and there’s no doubt that Stone intended to make his film an historical reference that would guide public memory of the assassination. Released with the film was a companion book sent to thirteen thousand teachers across the country. To think that any teacher would present the film to her class as truth! But I’m sure some did and do.
Stone offered an insight into his thinking in an introduction he wrote for a book by Fletcher Prouty, the archetypal crackpot and basis for the mysterious Mr. X character portrayed in “JFK.” Wrote Stone: “Who owns reality? Who owns our history? He who makes it up so that most everyone believes it. That person wins.”
Clearly, the truth isn’t nearly as important to Stone as being the master of the narrative, a task made all the more easy when you happen to be a big Hollywood director with a movie studio at your fingertips. The rest of us aren’t so lucky.
History matters. It matters enough that Hollywood should make an effort to tell the story the way it really happened, or at least to label fiction as such. In the meantime, it’s up to the rest of us to watch historical films with a discerning eye.
Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/hollywood-uses-propagandistic-films-to-enshrine-lies-in-history/
President Obama Addresses the United Nations General Assembly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMgRqkF2tbo
Without a doubt our country is govern by a shameless President that is driven by his sycophantic and sociopath ideology. It is deplorable that a mindset exists which allows us to think, that simply because we are Americans and born within our borders, we are somehow entitled to enjoy a greater degree of respect and dignity, but we are not prepared to acknowledge the birthright of the world community to live as they wish and elect their own president and have the right to self-determination.
The issue is not terrorism. It is injustice! America has been unjust and dishonest in its dealings with other nations. Our history of military interventions for the only purpose of controlling the natural resources of foreign nations is huge and it was done to protect the interest of the US multinational corporations; For many years our leaders lie and deceived the American people to seek our support and send our soldiers to fight wars for the interest of the US corporations; all these wars were provoked by our government and we paid the price with the lives of thousands of our soldiers and the trillions of Dollars expended that resulted of this huge national debt of over 18 trillions Dollars.
Now, there's one thing we might ask, who is worst the politicians that deceive us and commit all these crimes and send our soldiers to die for the corporations or we the people that have done nothing to stop these criminals. Everybody complains about the politicians and what they done to our country, the poverty, the homeless and the lack of good paying jobs. Everybody says politicians suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t come from a foreign country; they come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant sycophants leaders.
The time has come to change this path of self-destruction and establish a new moral leadership in our country responsible to the people of this country and stop all foreign interventions, wars will be declare by congress not the President, the time has come to respect the rights of all nations and stop being the world’s bully; our place in the world community is to seek cooperation to help other countries to be self-sufficient and care for their own people the best they can, but not to dictate or control the political affairs of other countries, nor seek motives to invade and control other nations natural resources.
Help us to restore moral responsibly in America. http://billmoyers.com/episode/bernie-sanders-breaking-big-moneys-grip-elections/. Become an activist for Bernie Sanders.
http://billmoyers.com/episode/steve-fraser-new-robber-barons/
America is the bully of the Free World.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1999-03-01/bully-free-world
Obama is a pathological liar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cse5cCGuHmE
Obama a President without a shame. Master of deception
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK7JEYqIfw4
Obama has amnesia or he is stupid or a complete ignorant.
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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Another Cynical Democratic
"Citizenship USA" Voter Drive
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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President Xi Needs an Uncomfortable Visit to U.S. 
Last year, Barack nObama visited China in an effort to rally support for an international treaty on climate change and underscore the economic opportunities the two countries have in working together. Oh, how things have changed. Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Washington, DC, this week, and the issues facing the two countries are more ... awkward. The Chinese stock market plummeted at the end of August due to an opaque, centrally planned economic system, which rocked the global economy. China continues to grow belligerent in the Pacific, laying claim to vast swaths of the South China Sea, and sending ships to steam off the Alaskan coast while nObama visited the Arctic Circle. Furthermore, the country has detained American Sandy Phan-Gillis since March on charges of "spying and stealing state secrets." This comes at a time when the U.S. strongly suspects it was China that stole the data of millions of federal employees and everyone who applied for a security clearance. "Denying ourselves engagement with the Chinese would deny ourselves the ability to advance our interests and to make clear to China where we stand,"said Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications. "We won't paper over those differences." We're not holding our breath. After all, nObama's paper tiger diplomacy has created room for China to flex its might toward America. An uncomfortable visit would do much to restore America's spine in the relationship, so it's too bad it's going to be a lavish "state visit" instead. -The Patriot Post
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Hilly Flip-Flops on Her Keystone Pipeline Legacy On Tuesday, Hilly Clinton expounded a bit on the legacy she formed while secretary of state. She's previously boasted of playing a "leading role" in starting the review process for building the proposed Keystone pipeline, which was designed to transport crude oil from Canada to American refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. It's been gummed up in bureaucratic review since 2010, though Clinton said then she would be "inclined" to approve it. But now, she wants the pipeline buried. "I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline as what I believe it is — a distraction from important work we have to do on climate change," Clinton told a crowd in Iowa. "Therefore I oppose it." Clinton's decision was not based on principles good for the economy, but rather political gain with her ecofascist base. Fellow Democrat candidate Martin O'Malley said, "On issue after issue, Secretary Clinton has followed — not forged — public opinion. Leadership is about stating where you stand on critical issues, regardless of how they poll or focus group." (The ironic thing is the public supports the Keystone pipeline by an overwhelming margin.) The result of Clinton's inaction as secretary resulted in lost jobs and lost economic activity. Now, after the Left has stonewalled the project for years, Clinton wants to simply sweep it aside. Furthermore, she had the "courage" to make this announcement while the media focused squarely on PopeFrancis' visit. -The Patriot Post
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Iran Prepares to Annex Iraq
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told his nation Tuesday that Iran and Iran alone has the military might in the Middle East to keep the Islamic State at bay. The remarks came during a military parade commemorating the start of the 35-year-old Iraq-Iran War. "[If] terrorists begin to expand in the region, the only hope will be Iran's army and the Revolutionary Guards," Rouhani said. And does anyone think they would leave if they came in to wipe out the Islamic State? Rouhani continued, saying the West had little influence in the struggle: "Today, our armed forces are the biggest regional power against terrorism." Seeing how the United States' proxy fighters are doing against the Islamic State, the Iranian president might just be correct. The fight against the Islamic State has ground to a standstill in Iraq, as an offensive to retake Ramadi from the Islamic State has been delayed. So the U.S. turns to Syria, where only a handful of American-trained Syrian rebels are still in the fight. Many of the fighters were delayed in Turkey, but when they returned, they handed over their weapons to the al-Qaida affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra. This was exactly the worry many people had in giving arms and training to proxy fighters. As Marco Rubio said: Our military "was not built to conduct pinprick attacks." If we want to take a simplistic route to foreign policy and focus our whole attention to the short term — dealing with the Islamic State — then maybe we should just give Iran $150 billion. Oh, wait... -The Patriot Post
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EMAIL NEWS WIPES HILLY’S SECOND RESET
Hilly Clinton’s furious effort to refocus her struggling campaign on something other than the scandals that have dogged it from the start just ran smack into a brick wall.
First, the WaPo reported that Clinton had misrepresented why she turned over emails from her private server. It wasn’t routine records keeping as Clinton claimed, but the discovery of her secret email server more than a year ago that triggered the request for her documents and her eventual compliance. That dropped just as Clinton hit the Des Moines Register for a meeting with editors and she was caught flat-footed.
The shambles of her initial claims about her email is nearly complete. Pro tip: When you are busted being shady, don’t be shady in your explanation.
Clinton was hoping to get back to her new focus: trying to paint herself as more liberal than the nObama administration (seriously!) as she pushes for a huge increase in refugees from the Syrian civil war and for – quite suddenly – the rejection of a new oil pipeline from Canada. Clinton’s goal is to paint herself as left of Vice President loose lips Joe Biden.
It’s revealing that Clinton has set her new ideological position in the space between loose lips Biden and the Democrats’ version of Ron Paul, Sen. Bernie Sanders. That’s a weird space, dude. And it’s one in which a general election bid would have a cramped launch pad, to say the least. She must really be worried about defeating a historically weak field to torch so many general election votes.
Transparent, rapid-fire pandering is usually bad news, but it’s still better than being reduced to legalistic dissembling in front of a gaggle of reporters. Yet there Clinton was, watching the second reset of her second campaign fall apart like cheap shoes in a rainstorm.
But her bad day wasn’t over yet. Not by a long shot.
Bloomberg was about to report that the FBI probe into Clinton’s handling of secret documents as secretary of state had unlocked the more than 30,000 documents that Clinton in March had declared destroyed.
The sounds of heads exploding in Brooklyn could be heard across the land.
Remember that Clinton took the brazen step of destroying evidence she said would exonerate her. She claimed she handed over all official emails and destroyed the rest in the interest of her family’s privacy. It would clear her name against allegations of ethical and national security misconduct, but she didn’t want anyone nosing around her and her husband’s emails.
It sounded absurd, but hey, if the server was “wiped” or shredded, cooked on high in a microwave for an hour and then dumped into the Marianas Trench, there wasn’t anything that could be done about it.
Unless Clinton was foolish enough to have deemed the emails gone when they really weren’t and when the server itself wasn’t in her custody. Which now, it appears, was the case. She was bluffing.
As Stephan Dinan reports, though, the FBI isn’t exactly advertising its findings. The agency is refusing even to discuss the investigation with the State Department, which was ordered by a judge to try to collaborate with the Justice Department to determine what might be recovered from Clinton’s email.
How, when and if the contents of the once-secret server are made public are all open questions. But, if the emails Clinton said she ordered be destroyed have been recovered and if that discovery is confirmed, the emails can be had by congressional investigators.
It goes like this: The first and most immediate threat to Clinton’s campaign and, potentially, her freedom is the possibility of criminal prosecution for knowingly mishandling state secrets. If she is even charged with a crime for her email practices, she’s toast. And if the emails she said would “remain private” reveal any sensitive government business, she’s burnt toast.
But even if the emails Clinton wanted destroyed yield no charges for her or her intimates, they will certainly be sought by the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi terror attack. And that’s where the risk of the discovery of something not criminal but politically devastating comes into play.
Outside of the real, but still unlikely chance that Clinton would get popped for national security violations, the existential threat to her bid to return to the White House is in her and her husband’s convoluted and ethically dubious moneymaking practices of the past decade. If the committee gets evidence that supports the claims that Clinton did inappropriate favors for patrons while in office, that’s probably a death knell, depending on how gross of a violation.
And then there’s the embarrassment factor of what was said by Clinton and her top aides in unguarded conversations.
Gulp… -Fox News
First, the WaPo reported that Clinton had misrepresented why she turned over emails from her private server. It wasn’t routine records keeping as Clinton claimed, but the discovery of her secret email server more than a year ago that triggered the request for her documents and her eventual compliance. That dropped just as Clinton hit the Des Moines Register for a meeting with editors and she was caught flat-footed.
The shambles of her initial claims about her email is nearly complete. Pro tip: When you are busted being shady, don’t be shady in your explanation.
Clinton was hoping to get back to her new focus: trying to paint herself as more liberal than the nObama administration (seriously!) as she pushes for a huge increase in refugees from the Syrian civil war and for – quite suddenly – the rejection of a new oil pipeline from Canada. Clinton’s goal is to paint herself as left of Vice President loose lips Joe Biden.
It’s revealing that Clinton has set her new ideological position in the space between loose lips Biden and the Democrats’ version of Ron Paul, Sen. Bernie Sanders. That’s a weird space, dude. And it’s one in which a general election bid would have a cramped launch pad, to say the least. She must really be worried about defeating a historically weak field to torch so many general election votes.
Transparent, rapid-fire pandering is usually bad news, but it’s still better than being reduced to legalistic dissembling in front of a gaggle of reporters. Yet there Clinton was, watching the second reset of her second campaign fall apart like cheap shoes in a rainstorm.
But her bad day wasn’t over yet. Not by a long shot.
Bloomberg was about to report that the FBI probe into Clinton’s handling of secret documents as secretary of state had unlocked the more than 30,000 documents that Clinton in March had declared destroyed.
The sounds of heads exploding in Brooklyn could be heard across the land.
Remember that Clinton took the brazen step of destroying evidence she said would exonerate her. She claimed she handed over all official emails and destroyed the rest in the interest of her family’s privacy. It would clear her name against allegations of ethical and national security misconduct, but she didn’t want anyone nosing around her and her husband’s emails.
It sounded absurd, but hey, if the server was “wiped” or shredded, cooked on high in a microwave for an hour and then dumped into the Marianas Trench, there wasn’t anything that could be done about it.
Unless Clinton was foolish enough to have deemed the emails gone when they really weren’t and when the server itself wasn’t in her custody. Which now, it appears, was the case. She was bluffing.
As Stephan Dinan reports, though, the FBI isn’t exactly advertising its findings. The agency is refusing even to discuss the investigation with the State Department, which was ordered by a judge to try to collaborate with the Justice Department to determine what might be recovered from Clinton’s email.
How, when and if the contents of the once-secret server are made public are all open questions. But, if the emails Clinton said she ordered be destroyed have been recovered and if that discovery is confirmed, the emails can be had by congressional investigators.
It goes like this: The first and most immediate threat to Clinton’s campaign and, potentially, her freedom is the possibility of criminal prosecution for knowingly mishandling state secrets. If she is even charged with a crime for her email practices, she’s toast. And if the emails she said would “remain private” reveal any sensitive government business, she’s burnt toast.
But even if the emails Clinton wanted destroyed yield no charges for her or her intimates, they will certainly be sought by the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi terror attack. And that’s where the risk of the discovery of something not criminal but politically devastating comes into play.
Outside of the real, but still unlikely chance that Clinton would get popped for national security violations, the existential threat to her bid to return to the White House is in her and her husband’s convoluted and ethically dubious moneymaking practices of the past decade. If the committee gets evidence that supports the claims that Clinton did inappropriate favors for patrons while in office, that’s probably a death knell, depending on how gross of a violation.
And then there’s the embarrassment factor of what was said by Clinton and her top aides in unguarded conversations.
Gulp… -Fox News
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Republicans Try Once More to Defund Amnesty
{fixthisnation.com} ~ House Republicans, no doubt feeling the heat generated by Donald Trump’s anti-establishment presidential campaign, are vowing to take another shot at defunding nObama’s amnesty... A group of 170 House Republicans known as the Republican Study Committee has devised a plan to cut funding to White House programs that provide work permits and legal status to undocumented immigrants. “The president did not follow the law when he did this, and we need to fully defund his illegal actions,” said Rep. Bill Flores, the chairman of the committee. Flores is supposed to meet with Republican leaders this week to offer up the group’s proposal, which would give Congress another point of disagreement on the fall spending bill. If Republicans and Democrats fail to come together on a bill by September 30, the government will go into partial shutdown. Already, many conservatives in the House and Senate have promised not to yield when it comes to funding Planned Parenthood. With the addition of this immigration proposal, fireworks are inevitable.http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/republicans-try-once-more-to-defund-amnesty/
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nObama’s dangerous drive to make US combat troops co-ed
{Betsy McCaughey} ~ President nObama is already weakening our military by shedding troops, weapons and ships... But even these cuts aren’t as dangerous as his misguided crusade for a gender-blind military. “Valor has no gender,” nObama naively announced. True, but strength, speed and sharpshooting accuracy are gender-specific. A new 9-month, $36 million study conducted by the Marine Corps shows that the overwhelming majority of women Marines underperform on tasks such as running while wearing 100 pounds of gear, or carrying a wounded buddy to safety, or firing an M4 rifle to stop the enemy’s grenade. These politically incorrect facts should make the nObama administration reconsider zealously opening all combat jobs to women. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/obamas-dangerous-drive-to-make-us-combat-troops-co-ed/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email092415&utm_medium=email.
Govt Shutdown Threats Looming, Senate to Vote on Spending Bill
{Raven Clabough} ~ President nObama’s refusal to cooperate with Congress has compelled Republicans to take matters into their own hands to avoid a government shutdown... Unfortunately for Republican leaders, these efforts are placing them at odds with their conservative colleagues. And while it may be politically savvy for Democrats to hold Republicans over a barrel or let them take the fall for the resulting government shutdown, creating a proverbial rock or hard place dilemma for the GOP, it is once again a loss for the American people and a win for the nObama administration. Congress has until September 30 to pass a spending bill in order to avoid a government shutdown on October 1. The debate surrounding a spending bill has been contentious, as a number of lawmakers have called for an end to funding for Planned Parenthood after controversial videos revealed its illegal and barbaric practice of harvesting fetal organs. Democrats, meanwhile, are refusing to approve a bill that does not remove the spending limits known as the sequester..
Time to Dismantle the UN Human Rights Council
{Jagdish N. Singh} ~ Like it or not, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a big flop... It does not care a fig for what it is supposed to do: promote and protect human rights in general, and freedom of association, assembly, expression, belief and religion, sexual preference and women's rights and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities in particular. The past record of the UNHRC shows it has overlooked rights violations in a large part of the world in general and the Middle East in particular. The UNHRC has notoriously been obsessed with inventing rights violations by Israel, the Middle East's only democracy, where women and minorities -- the most oppressed sections in most of the nations in the world -- enjoy equality in law and practice both. Since March 2006, when the UN General Assembly brought the UNHRC into existence, it has condemned Israel 61 times, compared to just 55 condemnations of all other nations in the world combined..
nObama Throws Christian Refugees to Lions
{Raymond Ibrahim} ~ The fate of those Iraqi Christians who had fled from the Islamic State only to be incarcerated in the United States has finally been decided by the nObama administration... they are to be thrown back to the lions, where they will likely be persecuted, if not slaughtered, like so many Iraqi Christians before them. Fifteen of the 27 Iraqi Christians that have been held at a detention center in Otay Mesa, California, for approximately six months, are set to be deported in the coming weeks. Some have already been deported and others are being charged with immigration fraud. Many of the Iraqi Christian community in San Diego -- including U.S. citizen family members vouching for the refugees -- had hopes that they would eventually be released. Mark Arabo, a spokesman for the Chaldean community, had argued that "They've escaped hell. Let's allow them to reunite with their families." One of the detained women had begged to see her ailing mother before she died. The mother died before they could reunite, and now the daughter is to be deported, possibly back to the hell of the Islamic State. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6564/obama-christian-refugee.
Carly Fiorina’s Post-Debate Abortion Ad is Intense—and Effective
{Amy Miller} ~ Carly Fiorina killed it during the last debate. Polling has her in second place behind Donald Trump, marking a whopping 12% increase in support from earlier this month... Considering she very nearly didn’t make the cut for CNN’s GOP throwdown, I think we can all afford to throw her props. Love her, hate her, or have questions about her, registered voters have spoken—they want to see more. It’s not surprising; many pundits predicted that all Carly needed to raise her profile within the crowded Republican field was a chance to steal the spotlight. She did it. Her star is rising, and she’s using the opportunity not only to hit back at her most vocal opponents, but to bolster her conservative bona fides before a divided voter pool. It’s a continuation of the strategy she used earlier this summer—when her polling numbers sat below 5%—but it’s still effective. This time around, Fiorina is rebooting the conversation on abortionwith a new Carly for America PAC ad that lashes out against Democrats who refused to acknowledge the existence of the Planned Parenthood sting videos after she referenced them in the CNN debate. http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/09/carly-fiorinas-post-debate-abortion-ad-is-intense-and-effective/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29 Video: https://youtu.be/Yhn0DdH8M-0
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Hilly: Media should be covering up for Politicians more
{Daniel Greenfield} ~ Hilly Clinton has a closet full of skeletons and she doesn't want anyone poking around them, but how much more can the media cover up for Hilly anyway?... Very difficult hurdles. Like not getting a US ambassador killed. Or having a husband that can keep his pants on for longer than 5 minutes. Or the time she laughed about helping a vicious rapist who beat a 12-year-old girl into a coma get off. Is the media supposed to hide a serious medical condition from voters? Is Hilly really going down this road? Who defines what information is? The media isn't supposed to be deciding what information best serves democracy. That's how we got to this perverse point of comprehensive media bias. The media is supposed to provide information and let the public decide. .
nOBAMA’S GENOCIDAL TREASON
{Daniel Greenfield} ~ No government has the blood of more American soldiers on its hands today than the government of Iran. From Lebanon to Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia to Iraq, Iran has been killing American soldiers for decades... 241 in Beirut. 19 at the Khobar Towers. Over 500 in Iraq and Afghanistan. The last time the United States officially fought Iran was under Reagan. But Iran has never stopped killing Americans. There is no reason to believe that it will stop once it has the nuclear weapons that nObama is helping its leaders obtain. The last time left-wing radicals aided the nuclear program of an open enemy of the United States, they were put on trial for it. The sentencing judge at the time said that because “the nature of Russian terrorism is now self-evident” there was no further room for claims that no harm had been done. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260196/obamas-genocidal-treason-daniel-greenfield.
{Melissa Quinn} ~ A government spending bill that prohibited Planned Parenthood from receiving federal dollars for one year and kept the government operating failed in the Senate today... The continuing resolution, introduced earlier this week by Senate Republican leaders, fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance in the upper chamber after senators blocked the measure, 47-52. The vote occurred just hours after Pope Francis delivered a historic address before a joint session of Congress. http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/24/senators-block-spending-bill-defunding-planned-parenthood-for-one-year/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohsqvLZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ATcZjMa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm
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backstabber John Boehner Will Resign From Congress
{Josh Siegel} ~ House Speaker John Boehner announced to Republican lawmakers this morning that he will resign as speaker and from Congress at the end of October, according to news reports... The news came as a surprise even though Boehner has faced renewed pressure from conservatives who want to use a must-pass spending bill to strip Planned Parenthood of its federal funding. “Americans deserve a Congress that fights for opportunity for all and favoritism to none,” Michael A. Needham, chief executive officer of Heritage Action for America, the lobbying affiliate of The Heritage Foundation, said in a prepared statement. “Too often, Speaker Boehner has stood in the way.”.
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Another Cynical Democratic
"Citizenship USA" Voter Drive
Michelle Malkin
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While hundreds of thousands of visa overstayers and deportation fugitives remain on the loose, federal bureaucrats at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are hastily recruiting tens of thousands of foreigners for the nObama administration's new "U.S. citizenship and immigrant civic integration" campaign.
While hundreds of thousands of visa overstayers and deportation fugitives remain on the loose, federal bureaucrats at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are hastily recruiting tens of thousands of foreigners for the nObama administration's new "U.S. citizenship and immigrant civic integration" campaign.
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For the past week, the agency has staged more than 200 naturalization ceremonies for more than 36,000 new citizens. In partnership with the Interior Department (the same one that blocked American veterans from visiting war memorials during the 2013 federal government standoff over spending), the feds hosted camera-ready events at national parks -- and encouraged their new political pawns to post propaganda photos across social media.
For the past week, the agency has staged more than 200 naturalization ceremonies for more than 36,000 new citizens. In partnership with the Interior Department (the same one that blocked American veterans from visiting war memorials during the 2013 federal government standoff over spending), the feds hosted camera-ready events at national parks -- and encouraged their new political pawns to post propaganda photos across social media.
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Local law enforcement agencies have a hell of a time getting hold of federal agents to help screen and detain criminal aliens. Fingerprint databases spread across DHS, the State Department and the Justice Department still don't talk to each other. There's still no comprehensive database to track the exits and entries of temporary visa holders -- let alone any functional system to kick out overstayers and keep them out.
Local law enforcement agencies have a hell of a time getting hold of federal agents to help screen and detain criminal aliens. Fingerprint databases spread across DHS, the State Department and the Justice Department still don't talk to each other. There's still no comprehensive database to track the exits and entries of temporary visa holders -- let alone any functional system to kick out overstayers and keep them out.
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But never mind all that! The nObama administration is here at the ready to provide new "customer service enhancements" this week so that "naturalization applicants will be able to use credit cards" to pay their $595 naturalization and $85 biometric fees. DHS has also formed a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture "to provide temporary office space to USCIS" and to "provide services to communities with significant numbers of immigrants who are not located near a USCIS office. Services will include biometrics collection, case interviews and information presentations."
But never mind all that! The nObama administration is here at the ready to provide new "customer service enhancements" this week so that "naturalization applicants will be able to use credit cards" to pay their $595 naturalization and $85 biometric fees. DHS has also formed a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture "to provide temporary office space to USCIS" and to "provide services to communities with significant numbers of immigrants who are not located near a USCIS office. Services will include biometrics collection, case interviews and information presentations."
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Wait, that's not all. The same government that wasted billions of dollars on the botched federal nObamacare website for Americans has helpfully set up "new interactive practice civics tests" to help their new future voters secure a permanent Democratic ruling majority. The election-year naturalizers will have the test ready "in English ... with other languages to follow" soon.
Wait, that's not all. The same government that wasted billions of dollars on the botched federal nObamacare website for Americans has helpfully set up "new interactive practice civics tests" to help their new future voters secure a permanent Democratic ruling majority. The election-year naturalizers will have the test ready "in English ... with other languages to follow" soon.
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Make no mistake: Cultural assimilation into American life isn't their goal. Political exploitation is.
Make no mistake: Cultural assimilation into American life isn't their goal. Political exploitation is.
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Did you know that the nObama White House released $10 million in taxpayer money to 40 of its favorite left-wing groups in 26 states to facilitate the expedient citizenship drive? The amnesty-championing Asian Americans Advancing Justice is just one of the social justice recipients involved in pushing green card holders to naturalize -- not to show their patriotism, but to march in partisan lockstep so that "political candidates will no longer be able to ignore this growing political force." ACORN lives.
Did you know that the nObama White House released $10 million in taxpayer money to 40 of its favorite left-wing groups in 26 states to facilitate the expedient citizenship drive? The amnesty-championing Asian Americans Advancing Justice is just one of the social justice recipients involved in pushing green card holders to naturalize -- not to show their patriotism, but to march in partisan lockstep so that "political candidates will no longer be able to ignore this growing political force." ACORN lives.
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How carefully will the nObama DHS conduct its background checks of citizenship applicants before the election? If history is any guide, we already know the answer: as carefully as the EPA protects rivers in Colorado!
How carefully will the nObama DHS conduct its background checks of citizenship applicants before the election? If history is any guide, we already know the answer: as carefully as the EPA protects rivers in Colorado!
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Remember: In the 1990s, the Clinton administration first turned immigration policy into a massive Democratic voter recruitment machine through the Citizenship USA program. Naturalization officers simply abandoned background checks wholesale. Former House Judiciary Committee chief counsel David Schippers recounted how a "blatant politicization" of the then-INS took place during the 1996 presidential campaign, during which the White House pressured the agency into expediting citizenship to thousands of aliens whom the White House counted as likely Democratic voters.
Remember: In the 1990s, the Clinton administration first turned immigration policy into a massive Democratic voter recruitment machine through the Citizenship USA program. Naturalization officers simply abandoned background checks wholesale. Former House Judiciary Committee chief counsel David Schippers recounted how a "blatant politicization" of the then-INS took place during the 1996 presidential campaign, during which the White House pressured the agency into expediting citizenship to thousands of aliens whom the White House counted as likely Democratic voters.
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"To ensure maximum impact," Schippers reported, "the INS concentrated on aliens in key states -- California, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Texas -- that hold a combined 181 electoral votes, just 89 short of the total needed to win the election." In all, he determined, "more than a million aliens would be naturalized in time to vote in the 1996 election."
"To ensure maximum impact," Schippers reported, "the INS concentrated on aliens in key states -- California, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Texas -- that hold a combined 181 electoral votes, just 89 short of the total needed to win the election." In all, he determined, "more than a million aliens would be naturalized in time to vote in the 1996 election."
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In 2003, an Immigration and Naturalization Services center in Laguna Niguel, Calif., solved massive backlog problems by putting tens of thousands of applications through a shredder. In 2006, I exposed how some high-immigrant regions rewarded adjudication officers with bonuses for rubber-stamping as many applications as possible without regard to security. And under President nObama, a whistleblower told Judicial Watch how the administration had abandoned required background checks in 2012, instead adopting "lean and lite" procedures to try to keep up with the flood of amnesty applications spurred by nObama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) directive, which grants illegal aliens a two-year deferment from deportation.
In 2003, an Immigration and Naturalization Services center in Laguna Niguel, Calif., solved massive backlog problems by putting tens of thousands of applications through a shredder. In 2006, I exposed how some high-immigrant regions rewarded adjudication officers with bonuses for rubber-stamping as many applications as possible without regard to security. And under President nObama, a whistleblower told Judicial Watch how the administration had abandoned required background checks in 2012, instead adopting "lean and lite" procedures to try to keep up with the flood of amnesty applications spurred by nObama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) directive, which grants illegal aliens a two-year deferment from deportation.
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The dysfunctional DHS can't control our borders. It has failed to prevent massive fraud in our asylum, student visa, visitor visa, business visa, tech worker visa and immigrant investor green card programs. And the department is overwhelmed with paperwork from 10 million applicants for nObama's executive amnesty waivers. But when it comes to signing up new potential Democratic voters in droves, the feckless feds run a NASCAR-ready well-oiled machine.
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Suicidal Republicans who continue to hand over the open-borders keys to their hit-and-run opponents reap what they sow.
Suicidal Republicans who continue to hand over the open-borders keys to their hit-and-run opponents reap what they sow.
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By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net
Another day and yet another of Hillary’s email sandal lies has been exposed. Her campaign staff is surely removing all sharp objects from her reach and no doubt, they have also relieved her of her shoe strings.
Hillary’s favorable ratings are sinking fast…down to but 38% a 7 point drop since May, her favorable rating, among democrats, is now down 11 points since May and since May, Hillary’s support from women has now dropped below 50%.
I expect any day now the call to abandon ship will be issued because, as though Trey Gowdy needs any more ammunition, Hillary’s emails are the gift that keeps on giving.
On Saturday, it was revealed or leaked that once again, Hillary lied. Previously, she had stated that she had turned over all…ALL of her work-related emails to the Department of State. Not only did she state it…she signed a sworn statement under penalty of perjury to it.
I, Hillary Rodham Clinton, declare under penalty of perjury that the following is true and correct:
1. While I do not know what information may be “responsive” for purposes of this law suit, I have directed that all my e-mails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or potentially were federal records to be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.
2. As a result of my directive, approximately 55,000 pages of these emails were produced to the Department on December 5, 2014.
3. Cheryl Mills did not have an account on clintonemail.com. Huma Abedin did have such an account which was used at times for government business.
Hillary, adding to the growing list of offenses, has now committed perjury because, it has been discovered that an email chain, between her and General Petraeus, had NOT been handed over as ordered by a federal judge but that’s not the biggest news coming from this particular breech of the law.
The BIG news is…who handed over this latest string of emails…
Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to U.S., Driving Population Growth and Change Through 2065
Views of Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Society Mixed
Fifty years after passage of the landmark law that rewrote U.S. immigration policy, nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States, pushing the country’s foreign-born share to a near record 14%. For the past half-century, these modern-era immigrants and their descendants have accounted for just over half the nation’s population growth and have reshaped its racial and ethnic composition.
Looking ahead, new Pew Research Center U.S. population projections show that if current demographic trends continue, future immigrants and their descendants will be an even bigger source of population growth. Between 2015 and 2065, they are projected to account for 88% of the U.S. population increase, or 103 million people, as the nation grows to 441 million.
These are some key findings of a new Pew Research analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data and new Pew Research U.S. population projections through 2065, which provide a 100-year look at immigration’s impact on population growth and on racial and ethnic change. In addition, this report uses newly released Pew Research survey data to examine U.S. public attitudes toward immigration, and it employs census data to analyze changes in the characteristics of recently arrived immigrants and paint a statistical portraitof the historical and 2013 foreign-born populations.
Post-1965 Immigration Drives U.S. Population Growth Through 2065
Immigration since 1965 has swelled the nation’s foreign-born population from 9.6 million then to a record 45 million in 2015.1 (The current immigrant population is lower than the 59 million total who arrived since 1965 because of deaths and departures from the U.S.)2By 2065, the U.S. will have 78 million immigrants, according to the new Pew Research population projections.
The nation’s immigrant population increased sharply from 1970 to 2000, though the rate of growth has slowed since then. Still, the U.S. has—by far—the world’s largest immigrant population, holding about one-in-five of the world’s immigrants (Connor, Cohn and Gonzalez-Barrera, 2013).
Between 1965 and 2015, new immigrants, their children and their grandchildren accounted for 55% of U.S. population growth. They added 72 million people to the nation’s population as it grew from 193 million in 1965 to 324 million in 2015.
This fast-growing immigrant population also has driven the share of the U.S. population that is foreign born from 5% in 1965 to 14% today and will push it to a projected record 18% in 2065. Already, today’s 14% foreign-born share is a near historic record for the U.S., just slightly below the 15% levels seen shortly after the turn of the 20th century. The combined population share of immigrants and their U.S.-born children, 26% today, is projected to rise to 36% in 2065, at least equaling previous peak levels at the turn of the 20th century.
The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act made significant changes to U.S. immigration policy by sweeping away a long-standing national origins quota system that favored immigrants from Europe and replacing it with one that emphasized family reunification and skilled immigrants. At the time, relatively few anticipated the size or demographic impact of the post-1965 immigration flow (Gjelten, 2015). In absolute numbers, the roughly 59 million immigrants who arrived in the U.S. between 1965 and 2015 exceed those who arrived in the great waves of European-dominated immigration during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Between 1840 and 1889, 14.3 million immigrants came to the U.S., and between 1890 and 1919, an additional 18.2 million arrived (see Table 1 for details).
After the replacement of the nation’s European-focused origin quota system, greater numbers of immigrants from other parts of the world began to come to the U.S. Among immigrants who have arrived since 1965, half (51%) are from Latin America and one-quarter are from Asia. By comparison, both of the U.S. immigration waves in the mid-19th century and early 20th century consisted almost entirely of European immigrants.
Latin American and Asian Immigration Since 1965 Changes U.S. Racial and Ethnic Makeup
As a result of its changed makeup and rapid growth, new immigration since 1965 has altered the nation’s racial and ethnic composition. In 1965, 84% of Americans were non-Hispanic whites. By 2015, that share had declined to 62%. Meanwhile, the Hispanic share of the U.S. population rose from 4% in 1965 to 18% in 2015. Asians also saw their share rise, from less than 1% in 1965 to 6% in 2015.
The Pew Research analysis shows that without any post-1965 immigration, the nation’s racial and ethnic composition would be very different today: 75% white, 14% black, 8% Hispanic and less than 1% Asian.
The arrival of so many immigrants slightly reduced the nation’s median age, the age at which half the population is older and half is younger. The U.S. population’s median age in 1965 was 28 years, rising to 38 years in 2015 and a projected 42 years in 2065. Without immigration since 1965, the nation’s median age would have been slightly older—41 years in 2015; without immigration from 2015 to 2065, it would be a projected 45 years.
By 2065, the composition of the nation’s immigrant population will change again, according to Pew Research projections. In 2015, 47% of immigrants residing in the U.S. are Hispanic, but as immigration from Latin America, especially Mexico (Passel, Cohn and Gonzalez-Barrera, 2012), has slowed in recent years, the share of the foreign born who are Hispanic is expected to fall to 31% by 2065. Meanwhile, Asian immigrants are projected to make up a larger share of all immigrants, becoming the largest immigrant group by 2055 and making up 38% of the foreign-born population by 2065. (Hispanics will remain a larger share of the nation’s overall population.) Pew Research projections also show that black immigrants and white immigrants together will become a slightly larger share of the nation’s immigrants by 2065 than in 2015 (29% vs. 26%).
The country’s overall population will feel the impact of these shifts. Non-Hispanic whites are projected to become less than half of the U.S. population by 2055 and 46% by 2065. No racial or ethnic group will constitute a majority of the U.S. population. Meanwhile, Hispanics will see their population share rise to 24% by 2065 from 18% today, while Asians will see their share rise to 14% by 2065 from 6% today.
From Ireland to Germany to Italy to Mexico: Where Each State’s Largest Immigrant Group Was Born, 1850 to 2013
The United States has long been—and continues to be—a key destination for the world’s immigrants. Over the decades, immigrants from different parts of the world arrived in the U.S. and settled in different states and cities. This led to the rise of immigrant communities in many parts of the U.S.
The nation’s first great influx of immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe. In 1850, the Irish were the largest immigrant group nationally and in most East Coast and Southern states. By the 1880s, Germans were the nation’s largest immigrant group in many Midwestern and Southern states. At the same time, changes to U.S. immigration policy had a great impact on the source countries of immigrants. In 1880, Chinese immigrants were the largest foreign-born group in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada. But with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese immigrants were prevented from entering the U.S. As a result, other immigrant groups rose to become the largest in those states.
By the early 20th century, a new wave of immigration was underway, with a majority coming from Southern Europe and Eastern Europe. By the 1930s, Italians were the largest immigrant group in the nation and in nine states, including New York, Louisiana, New Jersey and Nevada.
The composition of immigrants changed again in the post-1965 immigration era. By the 1980s, Mexicans became the nation’s largest immigrant group; by 2013, they were the largest immigrant group in 33 states. But other immigrant groups are represented as well. Chinese immigrants are the largest immigrant group in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Indians are the largest immigrant group in New Jersey. Filipinos are the largest immigrant group in Alaska and Hawaii.
For more, explore our decade-by-decade interactive map feature.
For the U.S. Public, Views of Immigrants and Their Impact on U.S. Society Are Mixed
For its part, the American public has mixed views on the impact immigrants have had on American society, according to a newly released Pew Research Center public opinion survey. Overall, 45% of Americans say immigrants in the U.S. are making American society better in the long run, while 37% say they are making it worse (16% say immigrants are not having much effect). The same survey finds that half of Americans want to see immigration to the U.S. reduced (49%), and eight-in-ten (82%) say the U.S. immigration system either needs major changes or it needs to be completely rebuilt.
The public’s views of immigrants’ impact on the U.S. vary across different aspects of American life. Views are most negative about the economy and crime: Half of U.S. adults say immigrants are making things worse in those areas. On the economy, 28% say immigrants are making things better, while 20% say they are not having much of an effect. On crime, by contrast, just 7% say immigrants are making things better, while 41% generally see no positive or negative impact of immigrants in the U.S. on crime.
On other aspects of U.S. life, Americans are more likely to hold neutral views of the impact of immigrants. Some 45% say immigrants are not having much effect on social and moral values, and 56% say they are not having much effect on science and technology. But when it comes to food, music and the arts, about half (49%) of adults say immigrants are making things better.
U.S. adults’ views on the impact of immigrants on American society also differ depending on where immigrants are from. Some 47% of U.S. adults say immigrants from Asia have had a mostly positive impact on American society, and 44% say the same about immigrants from Europe. Meanwhile, half of Americans say the impact of immigrants from Africa has been neither positive nor negative.
However, Americans are more likely to hold negative views about the impact of immigrants from Latin America and the Middle East. In the case of Latin American immigrants, 37% of American adults say their impact on American society has been mostly negative, 35% say their impact is neither positive nor negative, and just 26% say their impact on American society has been positive. For immigrants from the Middle East, views are similar—39% of U.S. adults say their impact on American society has been mostly negative, 39% say their impact has been neither positive nor negative, and just 20% say their impact has been mostly positive on U.S. society.
Many Americans say that immigrants to the U.S. are not assimilating. Two-thirds of adults say immigrants in the U.S. today generally want to hold on to their home country customs and way of life, while only about a third (32%) say immigrants want to adopt Americans customs. The survey also finds that 59% of Americans say most recent immigrants do not learn English within a reasonable amount of time, while 39% say they do.
The nationally representative bilingual survey of 3,147 adults was conducted online using the Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel from March 10 to April 6, 2015, before the current national discussion began about national immigration policy, unauthorized immigration and birthright citizenship. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
The Profile of Today’s Newly Arrived Is Markedly Different than that of New Arrivals in Previous Decades
The rewrite of the nation’s immigration policy in 1965 opened the door to new waves of immigrants whose origins and characteristics changed substantially over the ensuing decades. As a result, newly arrived immigrants in 2013 (those who had been in the U.S. for five years or less) differ in key ways from those who were new arrivals in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
Overall, the number of newly arrived immigrants peaked in the early 2000s: Some 8 million residents of other countries came to the U.S. between 2000 and 2005. The number of recent arrivals declined after that, to about 6 million for the years 2008 to 2013, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of federal government data.
Perhaps the most striking change in the profile of newly arrived immigrants is their source region. Asia currently is the largest source region among recently arrived immigrants and has been since 2011.3 Before then, the largest source region since 1990 had been Central and South America, fueled by record levels of Mexican migration that have since slowed. Back in 1970, Europe was the largest region of origin among newly arrived immigrants. One result of slower Mexican immigration is that the share of new arrivals who are Hispanic is at its lowest level in 50 years.
Compared with their counterparts in 1970, newly arrived immigrants in 2013 were better educated but also more likely to be poor. Some 41% of newly arrived immigrants in 2013 had at least a bachelor’s degree. In 1970, that share was just 20%. On poverty, 28% of recent arrivals in 2013 lived in poverty, up from 18% in 1970. In addition, fewer of the newly arrived in 2013 were children than among the newly arrived immigrants in 1970—19% vs. 27%.
Yet on several other measures, the characteristics of the newly arrived today are returning to those of the newly arrived in 1970. On gender, 51% of the newly arrived in 2013 were women, compared with 47% in 2000 and 54% in 1970. In terms of geographic dispersion, half of new arrivals in 2013 lived in one of four states: California, Florida, New York or Texas. Nearly two-thirds of new arrivals lived in those four states in 1990, up from a third in 1970. California alone had 38% of recently arrived immigrants in 1990, but the share has since declined, to 18% in 2013.
Unauthorized Immigration
This report’s estimates and projections of foreign-born residents in the U.S. comprise both legal and unauthorized immigrants. However, the numbers for each status group are not broken out separately except where stated.
In 2014, 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the U.S., according to the latest preliminary Pew Research estimate (Passel and Cohn, 2015). That estimate is essentially unchanged since 2009, as the number of new U.S. unauthorized immigrants roughly equals the number who voluntarily leave the country, are deported, convert to legal status or (less commonly) die.
According to Pew Research estimates going back to 1990, this population rose rapidly during the 1990s and peaked in 2007. The number of unauthorized immigrants declined during the recession of 2007-2009 before stabilizing. Illegal immigration from Mexico has been the main factor in these changes in the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population, though Mexicans remain by far the largest unauthorized immigrant group.
For more Pew Research analysis of unauthorized immigration, seehttp://www.pewhispanic.org/topics/unauthorized-immigration/
Roadmap to the Report
The report is organized as follows: Chapter 1 provides an overview of the nation’s immigration legislation, with a focus on key changes since 1965. It is accompanied by aninteractive timeline highlighting U.S. immigration legislation since 1790. Chapter 2explores the impact of post-1965 immigration on the nation’s demographics up to 2015 and provides a look forward at the future impact of immigration with new Pew Research population projections through 2065. Chapter 3 looks at the post-1965 flow of immigrants through the lens of the recently arrived, exploring changes in the group’s origins and other characteristics. Chapter 4 explores the U.S. public’s views of immigration and immigration policy. Chapter 5 provides a statistical portrait of the nation’s immigrants from 1960 to 2013 and is accompanied by an online interactive statistical portrait of the foreign born and an online interactive exploring the top country of origin among immigrants in each state from 1850 to 2013. Appendix A explains the report’s methodology, including for the population projections. Appendix B contains a U.S. immigration law timeline.Appendix C includes 1965 to 2065 population tables, and Appendix D contains the survey topline.
A Note on Terminology
“Foreign born” refers to persons born outside of the United States, Puerto Rico or other U.S. territories to parents neither of whom was a U.S. citizen. The terms “foreign born” and “immigrant” are used interchangeably in this report. Unless otherwise noted, recent arrivals include all the newly arrived regardless of their legal status, that is, both legal immigrants and unauthorized immigrants. However, in Pew Research Center survey data, “immigrant” is defined as someone born in another country, regardless of parental citizenship.
“Recent arrivals” or “newly arrived immigrants” refer to foreign-born persons who arrived within five years of the census enumeration or date of the survey. Unless otherwise noted, recent arrivals include all the newly arrived regardless of their legal status, that is, both legal and unauthorized immigrants.
“Legal immigrants” are those who have been granted legal permanent residence; those granted asylum; people admitted as refugees; and people admitted to the U.S. under a set of specific authorized temporary statuses for longer-term residence and work. This group includes “naturalized citizens,” legal immigrants who have become U.S. citizens through naturalization; “legal permanent resident aliens,” who have been granted permission to stay indefinitely in the U.S. as permanent residents, asylees or refugees; and “legal temporary migrants” (including students, diplomats and “high-tech guest workers”), who are allowed to live and, in some cases, work in the U.S. for specific periods of time (usually longer than one year).
“Unauthorized immigrants” are all foreign-born non-citizens residing in the country who are not legal immigrants. This definition reflects standard and customary usage by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and academic researchers.
Immigrant generations living in the U.S. are as follows: “First generation” refers to the foreign born (see above for definition). “Second generation” refers to people born in the U.S. who have at least one immigrant parent. “Third-and-higher generation” refers to people born in the U.S. with U.S.-born parents.
“U.S. born” refers to individuals who are U.S. citizens at birth, including people born in the United States, Puerto Rico or other U.S. territories, as well as those born elsewhere to parents who were U.S. citizens. The U.S.-born population encompasses the second generation and the third-and-higher generation.
References to all racial groups, including “Other,” refer to only non-Hispanics. References to specific racial groups, such as Asians, blacks and whites, include only single-race individuals. Asians do not include Pacific Islanders, unless otherwise noted. Hispanics are of any race.
“College completion” refers to those who have completed at least a bachelor’s degree. Prior to 1990 it refers to those who have completed at least four years of college.
Persons finishing “some college” have finished at least some college education, including those completing associate degrees. Those completing any college at all, including less than one year, are designated as finishing some college.
A “high school completer” refers to those who have at least obtained a high school diploma or its equivalent (such as a General Educational Development certificate, or GED). Prior to 1990 it refers to those who have completed at least four years of high school.
Throughout this report, the term “Latin America” refers to Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean and Mexico; references to “Central and South America” in Chapter 3 do not include the Caribbean, but do include Mexico, unless otherwise noted. In referring to countries of origin, “South and East Asia” refers to only those regions, while “Asia” refers to the full continent (see Recent Arrivals: Data Sources in Appendix A).
- These and other estimates and projections in this report may differ from census data in Chapters 3 and 5; see the methodology in Appendix A. ↩
- Among the nearly 59 million immigrants who have arrived in the U.S. since 1965, Pew Research estimates that 43.4 million still live in the U.S., some 10.8 million departed the U.S., and 4.3 million died. In 2015, about 1.5 million of the 1965 foreign-born population still lived in the U.S. ↩
- Measured on the basis of those arriving in the past five years, immigrants from Asia outnumbered those from Central and South America in 2011. On the basis of those arriving in the past year, Asia immigrants supplanted those from Central and South America in 2008. ↩
If you want to see the cumulative voting record for our congressmen, go to the Congressional conservative voting chart site. It lists the % of conservative (and liberal) votes for each member of congress.
For instance, John Boehner's record was 11% !!! Kevin McCarthy's was 67%.
If you want to see the cumulative voting record for our congressmen, go to the Congressional conservative voting chart site. It lists the % of conservative (and liberal) votes for each member of congress.
For instance, John Boehner's record was 11% !!! Kevin McCarthy's was 67%.
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Pelley: How do you fix it?
Trump: There’s many different ways, by the way. Everybody’s got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, “No, no, the lower 25 percent that can’t afford private. But–”
Pelley: Universal health care.
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Pelley: The uninsured person is going to be taken care of. How? How?
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Pelley: Make a deal? Who pays for it?
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So TEA Party, how does the Donald's plan differ from Obamacare or any other socialized medicine scheme? How will those of us who reject "mainstream" medicine with its dangerous drugs and toxic vaccines be able to obtain health care? How can he claim "most it's going to be a private plan..." if the govt (taxpayers) pay for it?
IMHO, it is time for the TEA Party to call out the Donald for being a crony socialist!
And while we are at it, let's make sure our TEA Party friends who have been mesmerized by the Donald get their heads back on...
What do you think?
