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Snowflakes and Soros Part 1

The election of Trump has led to a cacophony of whiners, criers and safe spacers to meltdown. These snowflakes had to cancel classes and even exams because they were so upset. Disappointment was not enough, the “popular kids  of the snowflake brigade have run their mouths to inflict their incite protests and riots throughout the blue areas of this country. Backed by the media, academia, and even the political progressives in the government have allowed these snowflakes to inflict all of America with lectures, lies, classless and arrogant “better than thou” attitude leading to blocking streets and causing riots that destroy other peoples’ property.

It is not a matter of debates on the merits of the election with the progressive/socialists anymore. To progressives it is only the enforcement of their values and views that are important. They and the groups that are funding them will not allow any question of the superiority of the views, and intend to bring the full force of the progressive globalist viewpoint on all who show any dissent. It is upon our betters to tell us what to think, what we can or can not say, or what we can do or not do. They force us to bake cakes, they force 80 year old men and women to pay for birth control, you have no say in the way your life is to be lived. These same progressives do not and will not take the time to understand why they lost. Even high school students, who because of the present educational system based more on indoctrination than education barely understand what an election is much less the electoral college, are outside in the streets waving signs saying “Not my President” and waving Mexican flags in the streets of American cities. Ask one of them what they are protesting and they will tell you, they don’t know, they are just doing what teachers asked them to do.

Whether trying to flip the electoral college, or recounts that lead to nowhere, this election is not going to change. The electors from the electoral college are being harassed by forces outside of the government backed by globalists and corporate elitists. Also involved is the progressives in the Congress,  starting with Barbara Boxer are whining about the electoral college, an entity that has worked well for th8s country for over 200 years. The electoral college is the lynchpin of this being a Republic and not a democracy. Those who claim the US in a democracy are failing to understand the Founding Fathers and our way of governing. Most claim it is a democracy so that the ill informed will agree with changing how elections are resolved. If the electoral college was abolished, not only would campaigning be totally different, but the more populous areas of the country would have a virtual stranglehold on elections.

Slate’s Jamelle Bouie has called Trump supporters “morally grotesque”. Is that because Trump supporters  are tired of being told by a lying mainstream media what to think, say, or do? Perhaps it is because they are tired of being called racist (now being replaced with “White Supremacists” because “racist’ has lost all meaning.), bigots, homophobes, xenophobes and not worthy of consideration or consultation when it comes to the running of this country. It is easier, with the help of the mainstream media, this administration , and the sycophants in the media to call them fake, to shout them down, and not spend any time trying to discuss solutions or reason with them.

 

 

But it isn’t just these special “snowflakes” that are in the process of trying to bring this country down.  According the progressives the country and capitalism are a bankrupt and ideas of free speech and religious liberty do not deserve the respect that has made it an integral part of the culture of the United States.

The progressives are angry about the fact that the socialist revolution of liberal/socialism that they were looking forward to pushing even more forward. They had discounted those in the flyover country as being ignorant fools that weren’t even paying attention. They were wrong.

The globalists have indoctrinated our students  with ideas that the nation state, of which the US is paramount must be replaced with multinational  corporate super-institutions with open trade and open borders. The belief that ethnic  and gender differences and groupings of people into identity groups are more important that national unity. Muslims are treated as willing to be assimilated into the culture by the globalists that disdain borders and no matter what the people of a country want, from Europe to our country, mass immigration will continue to bring chaos and riots to those countries that still wish national sovereignty.

United We Dream, a Soros funded progressive immigration group has planned and funded student protests on college campuses throughout the country to push for “sanctuary campuses” for illegal immigrants. Mainstream media has portrayed these protests as the students rising up on their own to the danger that Trump has brought forth. The website for United We Dream declares that the purpose of these protests are because immigrants need to tap into the incredible strength that brought us to this country and which they use to survive. Not mentioned is that Americans have no problem with immigrants, but with illegal immigrants who are here against the laws of the country. Sanctuary campuses and Sanctuary cities must be treated the same way. If you do not follow the laws of the country, you do not get federal funding.

It all comes down to what the American people believe about what our country should be, and whether our laws that have served this country for all these years are archaic and no longer what this country must be based on. Some of these foundatinal beliefs are

  1. National borders are a large portion of the beliefs of this country. Theprogressives will reject this, trying tolead us to a progressives idea of a North Amrican Union where all borders will be disposed of allowing the free travel of all people, further eroding our national identity.
  2. Political correctness and multiculturalism are more important tha free speech, and will lead to a growing threat of the opportunity to disagree, and lead to the abandonment on national cohesion.
  3. That American is nothing more than a “victimizing nation” according to Shelby Steele in the Wall Street Journal. That our country must submit to oppression to redeem itself from it’s past.
  4. Te elitist view of those in journalism today continue and will move even farther to the left to try and show that Trumps discussion with those of our citizens who know these institutions, academia, media and government  were failing the American people was an outlook they could never understand in the elitist world in which they live.

 

 

Of course, if you listen to the elite media, Trump only won because of all the racists, homophobes, xenophobes and those in no need of safe spaces, grief counselors, puppies or candy. We are the working people of this country. We are those who have stood in the jungles of VietNam, the frozen fields of Korea, or the deserts or Iraq and Afghanistan, and will continue to do so.  It is starting to change. No longer will people let themselves be called racists, homophobes, or any other name that the progressives call us without backlash.

In the words of your Messiah Obama, “We won, you lost, get over it.

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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Most Dems regard Israel as a 'burden' on US with too
much influence over policy: prestigious lib think tank
by Shibley Telhami
 
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 SHORT CUTS 
The Gipper: "Government is like a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and a no sense of responsibility at the other."

Magnanimity: "Don't forget — I hit Mitt [Romney] pretty hard also, I mean, before the fact. And so I understand how it all works." —Donald Trump on why he's considering Romney for secretary of state

Demo-gogues: "I don't think that people want a new direction. Our values unify us. And our values are about supporting America's working families." —Nancy Pulosi on winning the Democrat leadership post again (Boy did she miss the point of the 2016 election.

Color us skeptical: "I don't think liar-Hillary has any interest in running again." —Gov. Terry McAuliffe (The liar-Clintons are incapable of avoiding the spotlight.)

Journalism: "Some Americans have found a new folk hero in a familiar face: liar-Hillary Clinton, comfortably dressed suburban retiree." —New York Times

And last... "To my knowledge, no one has ever burned a flag at a trade school. I wonder why that is?" —Mike Rowe 
~The Patriot Post
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Priebus – Yeah, Millions Of Illegals Could
Have Voted In CA And Elsewhere
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ CBS News is no friend of the Trump administration so it’s not surprising that their “Face the Nation” program would include an assertion by its host John Dickerson that Donald Trump is a liar... It would be surprising if he had similarly identified Hussein liar-nObama, for even one of the innumerable times his mouth was moving, but that’s not going to happen. He’s also not going to allow anything to diminish the claim of the Democrats that liar-Clinton won the popular vote. It’s a critical component of their effort to de-legitimize and diminish Mr. Trump’s landslide victory, one that he pulled off in spite of their fraud. Ignore the size of their crowds and the years-long campaign to outlaw voter ID requirements and to flood the country with illegals. Ignore the fact that there were people on their own and George Soros’ payroll, directed by the White House and liar-Clinton, who beat up Trump supporters and incited riots. Democrats would never do anything dishonest to “win” and election. Just ignore all of it, you sorry excuse for journalists...  http://rickwells.us/priebus-yeah-millions-illegals-voted-ca-elsewhere/
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liar-nObama Legacy Smothering Americans
In Regulations – Even As He Hits The Curb
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Fox News’ James Rosen reports on the regulation push by the control freak in the White House, noting that his replacement, President-elect Trump has stated that his biggest surprise as a politician is the fact that regulation, not taxation, is cited by business leaders as the biggest drag on growth... In his speech announcing that some jobs would be remaining from Carrier, he noted that over the course of the last six years 260 new federal regulations have gone into effect, 53 of them that impacted that facility. The government is running employers out of the country. Rosen says the liar-nObama regime is on pace to enact over 3,700 new rules and regulations this year, which would be a new record. The Federal Register is on pace to exceed 87,000 pages. White House spokesliar Josh Earnest defends the regulatory inundation by the regime, saying it won’t “be characterized by a last minute rush on the way out the door.” Instead, it’s a constant tsunami that never ends...  http://rickwells.us/obama-legacy-smothering-americans-in-regulations-even-as-he-hits-the-curb/
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Veterans center employees resign
after gruesome discovery
by Sara Gonzales   
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{theblaze.com} ~ A total of four staff members employed at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Talihina, Oklahoma, have resigned after maggots were discovered in the wound of a resident who had been hospitalized at the facility... The resident, who later died, was originally hospitalized at the facility for an unspecified infection. Executive Director Myles Deering said last week that although the maggots were found in the man’s wound before he died, his cause of death was sepsis and was determined to be unrelated to the parasites. “He did not succumb as a result of the parasites. He succumbed as a result of the sepsis,” Deering stated. Three nurses, including the director of nursing, and a physician’s assistant resigned after the investigation started. Shane Faulkner, a spokesman for the department confirmed, “All four chose to resign before the termination process began.”...  http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/04/veterans-center-employees-resign-after-gruesome-discovery/
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Trump Assembles a War Cabinet
to Meet Foreign Threats
by Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ With the selections of General James N. “Mad Dog” Mattis as Secretary of Defense and Lt. General Michael T. Flynn as national security adviser, President-elect Donald J. Trump has indicated that he is prepared to meet foreign threats from Russia, China, and global Islam... Indeed, Flynn argues in his book, The Field of Fight, that the U.S. is facing a “working coalition” of enemies that includes radical Islamists, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua. The subtitle, How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, suggests that radical Islam is the main enemy. But the content of the book suggests something else—that Russia and China are behind this “enemy alliance” of countries and movements trying to destroy us. “We face a formidable group of terrorists and hostile countries, and we’ve got to be better prepared to compete or we will need to be ready to destroy them,” says Flynn...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/trump-assembles-a-war-cabinet-to-meet-foreign-threats/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email120516&utm_medium=email
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White House (not the Army) halts Dakota
Access Pipeline work yet again
by Jazz Shaw
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{hotair.com} ~ Remind me again… how many more days is it until this administration is finally gone? Throwing yet another wrench into what has long since been settled law in the courts... the Army Corps of Engineers (CoE) issued another conflicting announcement this weekend in which they claimed that an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to go under Lake Oahe would not be granted. This, of course, had the professional protesters in the area celebrating and the company building the project shaking their heads in disbelief. (CNN)). As NBC News was reporting yesterday, both Energy Transfer Partners (the owners of the project) and both of the state’s senators called foul and said that these delays and harassment would end once liar-nObama leaves office...  http://hotair.com/archives/2016/12/05/white-house-not-the-army-halts-dakota-access-pipeline-work-yet-again/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Most Dems regard Israel as a 'burden' on US with too
much influence over policy: prestigious lib think tank
by Shibley Telhami
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ President liar-nObama is considering what legacy to leave for Trump towards a key U.S. ally, including whether to take any action on the conflict during his remaining weeks in office. Brookings Institute Nonresident Senior Fellow Shibley Telhami conducted two surveys -- one before and one after the U.S. elections -- on American public attitudes toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Below are several key findings:

Is Israel an Ally or a Burden to the United States?
  1. Most Americans, 76%, across party lines, agree that Israel is a strategic asset to the U.S. At the same time, a majority of Democrats (55%), say that Israel is also a burden.
  • A large majority of Americans (76%) agree that Israel is an important ally to the United States as it provides essential military and intelligence cooperation and plays a regional

*A large majority of Americans (76%) agree that Israel is an important ally to the United States as it provides essential military and intelligence cooperation and plays a regional role that's helpful to American interests.

*A majority of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents agree that Israel is an important ally to the United States, however, Republicans (85%) are more likely than both Democrats (70%) and Independents (68%) to agree with this. Democrats and Independents (26% for both) are more than twice as likely as Republicans to disagree with this statement.

*Americans who are 55 years of age or older and more likely to say that Israel is an important ally to the United States (86%). A majority of 18 to 34 year olds and 35 to 54 year olds also feel this way with 70% and 71% respectively.

*Slightly more than half of Americans (54%) disagree with the concept of Israel being a burden to the U.S. as Israel's actions in the region generate hostility toward the United States in Arab and Muslim-majority countries whereas 40% of Americans feel this way.

*Across party lines, significantly more Republicans disagree with this (71%) compared to Democrats (39%) and Independents (52%). Less than a quarter of Republicans agree that Israel is a burden (24%) whereas more than half of Democrats do (55%). Just about more than half of Independents (52%) disagree that Israel is a burden and 41% agree that it is.

*Sixty-one percent of people who are 55 years of age or older disagree that Israel is a burden to the U.S. and 31% agree that it is a burden. More than half of 35 to 54 year olds disagree with this (51%) and slightly less than half of 18 to 34 year olds do (49%).

Israeli Influence on American Politics and Policies

  1. Americans remain highly divided with 55% of Democrats saying Israel has too much influence compared with 54% of Republicans who say that Israeli influence is at the right level.

*Overall, 44% of Americans say that the Israeli government has about the right level of influence, 39% say it has too much influence, and 15% say it has too little influence.

*When broken down by party, more than half of Democrats believe that Israel has too much influence (55%) and more than half of Republicans believe that it has about the right level (54%). Republicans are evenly split in their opinion on whether Israel has too little or too much influence with 22% believing it has too much and 22% believing it has too little influence.

*Compared to one year ago, the number of Republicans who agree that Israeli influence is at about the right level slightly increased from 52% to 54%. For Democrats, the percentage who agree that Israel has too much influence increased from 49% to 55%.

President liar-nObama and the United Nations
  1. Pluralities of the American public support liar-nObama Administration action at the United Nations on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict before leaving office.

*A plurality of Americans (46%) say that they either strongly or somewhat support the liar-nObama administration backing or sponsoring a United Nations resolution that outlines the parameters for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before liar-nObama leaves office. A quarter of Americans neither oppose nor support this resolution, while 27% either strongly or somewhat oppose it.

*Democrats are far more likely than both Republicans and Independents to support this resolution. Seventy percent of Democrats support it compared to 22% of Republicans and 37% of Independents.

*On the issue of President liar-nObama supporting or sponsoring a United Nations resolution to end Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank before he leaves office, a plurality of Americans (40%) either strongly or somewhat support this. Twenty-three percent of Americans neither oppose nor support and 33% either strongly or somewhat oppose this resolution.

*When asked what they believe the new Trump administration will in fact do, the differences in numbers are not as great. Sixty-two percent of Republicans believe that it will lean toward Israel and 55% of Democrats and 46% of Independents believe that this is what the new administration will in fact do. Independents are more likely to say that the new administration will in fact lean toward neither side (42%) with 35% of Republicans and 27% of Democrats believing this.

President-Elect Trump and the Israeli-Palestinian Issue

  1. Most Americans want President Trump to lean towards neither side in mediating the Israel-Palestinian conflict, but most expect him to lean toward Israel.

*Most Americans want the new Trump administration to be even handed on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, with 57% saying that he should lean toward neither Israel nor the Palestinians in mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, when asked what they believe the new Trump administration will in fact do, most Americans said that they believed he would not be even handed and would instead lean toward Israel (57%).Across party lines, there are significant differences in what side Americans believe the new Trump administration should lean in mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

*A majority of Republicans believe that the new administration should lean toward Israel (56%), which is more than three times the amount of Democrats (17%) and almost double the size of Independents who say this (29%). A majority of both Democrats and Independents believe that it should lean toward neither side with 69% and 66% respectively. Forty-two percent of Republicans believe that it should lean toward neither side and less than one percent of Republicans believe that the new administration should lean toward the Palestinians.

*When asked what they believe the new Trump administration will in fact do, the differences in numbers are not as great. Sixty-two percent of Republicans believe that it will lean toward Israel and 55% of Democrats and 46% of Independents believe that this is what the new administration will in fact do. Independents are more likely to say that the new administration will in fact lean toward neither side (42%) with 35% of Republicans and 27% of Democrats believing this.

Reaction of the United States to Israeli Settlements

5.The American polarization on how to react to Israeli settlements has expanded over the past two years as 60% of Democrats now support imposing economic sanctions or more serious action.

*Americans continue to be highly polarized along party lines on imposing some economic sanctions or taking more serious action on Israeli settlements but the gap has widened over the past year. In November 2016, a majority of Democrats (60%) supported imposing some economic sanctions or taking more serious action compared with 49% in November 2015. Looking at Republicans over these years, 31% supported imposing sanctions and taking more serious actions in November 2016 and 26% supported this in November 2015.

*In November 2016, when asked how they believed the U.S. should react to new settlements, a majority of Americans (52%) supported the U.S. doing nothing or limiting opposition to words. Republicans and Independents were more likely to agree with this (68% and 54% respectively) than most Americans and Democrats were less likely (37%).

*Over the past year, the support for imposing economic sanctions and taking more serious measures has gone up overall. In November 2015, 37% of Americans supported this compared to 46% November 2016.

UN Security Council and the Establishment of a Palestinian State
6. Overall, Americans supporting a U.S. veto of a UN resolution on Palestinian statehood remain a minority (31%), including 51% of Republicans but only 16% of Democrats.
 
*When asked what they think the U.S. should do as a member of the UN Security Council if the UN considers a plan to endorse the establishment of a Palestinian state, 32% say that the U.S. should abstain from voting, 31% say that the U.S. should vote against endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state, and 34% believe the U.S. should vote in favor of endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
 
*Independents are more than twice as likely (59%) than both Republicans and Democrats to think that the U.S. should abstain from voting (29% for both). A majority of Republicans (51%) think that the U.S. should vote against endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state and a majority of Democrats (51%) think the U.S. should vote in favor of endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
 
*Compared with last year (November 2015), the percentage of Democrats who support the establishment of a Palestinian state has increased from 39% to 51%. In addition, the number of Democrats who believe the U.S. should abstain from voting has decreased from 42% to 29%. For Republicans, there has been a decrease in support for abstaining from voting, which dropped from 37% to 29% in the past year. The number of Republicans who think the U.S. should vote against endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state increased from 43% to 51%.
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Secret's out! Why Trump really
met with Romney
by Gina Loudon
 
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 Taiwan Calling Trump 
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Over the weekend, the Leftmedia was pulling out its collective hair over news that Donald Trump had accepted a congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-Wen. Once again Trump has rocked the Washington bureaucratic elites' boat by breaking with a long-running precedent. Since 1979, no president or president-elect has spoken with a sitting president of Taiwan, due to China's "one China" policy — a policy the U.S. has acknowledged but never officially adopted.
          On Sunday, VP-elect Mike Pence reacted to the media's over-reaction by pointing to its blatant hypocrisy: "It's a little mystifying to me that President liar-nObama can reach out to a murdering dictator in Cuba in the last year and be hailed as a hero for doing it and President-elect Donald Trump takes a courtesy call from a democratically elected leader in Taiwan and it's become something of a controversy."
          While some have suggested that this is yet further evidence that Trump doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to foreign affairs, it's a better bet that this was a calculated move aimed at challenging China over its recent power-plays in the East and South China Seas. As The Wall Street Journal stated, "Mr. Trump shouldn't concede Beijing's power to intimidate the world's democracies into isolating Taiwan. The U.S. has an interest in supporting Taiwan as a model for China's future development. And adapting Taiwan policy could benefit the wider U.S.-China relationship."
          Barack liar-nObama's policy with the "People's Republic" has done little to dissuade China's growing expansionist appetite. A newer approach is needed to both encourage U.S. allies in the region and warn China that the U.S. stands committed to promoting its allies' continued independence and sovereignty. Clearly, Trump is not afraid to take the call. 
~The Patriot Post
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 Castro Vehicle Breaks Down, Just Like His Policies 
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A fitting final metaphor for Fidel Castro's puppet Soviet regime: The Russian UAZ-469 light utility vehicle hauling Castro's corpse in the state funeral procession experienced engine failure and had to be pushed by soldiers along the "Caravan of Liberty." That was the ironic name Castro's communist guerrillas gave their 1959 march from Santiago to Havana to topple the Batista government.
          By the way, all the mainstream media are referring to this vehicle as a "Jeep." Cease and desist! Jeeps were the primary light four-wheel drive vehicle used by the U.S. Army and our allies in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and are now a popular SUV. That broken-down piece of socialist junk pulling Castro's carcass is not a Jeep!
          And while we're on the subject of hogwash, Fidel's brother Raul declared, "The leader of the revolution rejected any manifestation of a cult of personality and was consistent in that through the last hours of his life, insisting that, once dead, his name and likeness would never be used on institutions, streets, parks or other public sites, and that busts, statues or other forms of tribute would never be erected." And why should he? He's got plenty of help in the media's cult of propaganda.  ~The Patriot Post
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The North Korea Card
by DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Contrary to bipartisan conventional wisdom of Washington, D.C.'s foreign policy elites - the looming nuclear missile threat from North Korea cannot be addressed by playing "the China card."... Republican and Democratic administrations have for years begged Beijing to use China's economic leverage to compel North Korea to abandon its illegal development of nuclear missiles, to no avail. Evidence is overwhelming that China, far from being the solution to a nuclear-armed North Korea, is co-conspiring with Russia to build a nuclear missile "North Korea card" to play against the United States:...
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hanoi-Kerry: Bennett's ideas are 'profoundly disturbing'
by David Rosenberg
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry made a foray into internal Israeli politics on Sunday night, slamming the Israeli cabinet and singling out Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) by name... saying that Bennett’s recent statements on the future of Judea and Samaria were “profoundly disturbing”. hanoi-Kerry spoke Sunday evening at the annual Saban Forum, hosted by the left-leaning Brookings Institute, one of whose overseas branches is in Qatar. The Secretary spoke at length about his feelings towards Israel and Zionism, and his belief that Israel is headed in the wrong direction – and that the future of Israel is at risk...hanoi-Kerry failed to mention the illegal building by the Palestinians. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221266
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Tucker Carlson DESTROYS Muslim Prof
Who Blames Right-Wingers For Muslim Terrorism
by Onan Coca
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{lidblog.com} ~ Muslim Professor Engy Abdelkader is a darling of the left when it comes to the issue of “Islamophobia” in America. She routinely blames the evils of  Muslim Terrorism  on the victims in Western culture... Here in America, she chides innocent people who have done no evil to the Muslim immigrants that our nation has taken in for the acts of violence done in the name of “Allah.” For example, this is what Abdelkader said in the pages of TIME magazine about Muslim terrorism… “Islamophobia, including xenophobic political rhetoric that excludes refugees, exacerbates cultural homelessness because it erodes a sense of purpose while feeding the extremist narrative that our societies are anti-Islam and anti-Muslim.” Why yes, she did just blame the victims for the crimes of her fellow Muslims...  http://lidblog.com/tucker-carlson-muslim-terrorism/
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Democrats Express Solidarity with Islamic
Extremists in Wake of Election
by John Rossomando
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Democratic politicians eager to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community and speak against hate in the wake of the recent heated presidential election threw their support behind some of its most extreme elements... Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, together with local Democratic politicians from Northern Virginia, made this evident when they showed up at a Veterans Day event at the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va. Dar al-Hijrah stands in infamy as the mosque attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers and where the late Al-Qaida terrorist leader Anwar Awlaki served as an imam. A 2002 U.S. Customs and Border Protection database report obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) described Dar al-Hijrah as a "front for Hamas operatives in the U.S." A 2007 report said the "mosque has been under numerous investigations for financing and providing aid and comfort to bad orgs and members."...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5716/democrats-express-solidarity-with-islamic
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ISIS Declares War on
Trump’s Inauguration Day!
by Walter White
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office in less than two months, and ISIS is using his inauguration on January 20th to declare war, calling it “Bloody Friday.”... It is being reported that in addition to declaring war on Trump’s inauguration day, ISIS has recruited multiple English-speaking operatives to communicate their deadly message. In addition to the ISIS threat, U.S. special forces will be on “high alert” during Trump’s inauguration, “But security analysts have been following communications between members of the group who are planning large scale attacks on that day, it has been claimed.”...
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Secret's out! Why Trump really
met with Romney
by Gina Loudon
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{wnd.com} ~ Many of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters thought it was crazy that the president-elect met with Mitt Romney twice.

Maybe it was, instead, crazy like a fox.

Just like so many times during the campaign, some of us are playing checkers while Trump is playing chess. Here’s why I think there is a special psychology to President-elect Trump’s strategy with Romney. And here is why I believe there is no way he actually picks Romney as secretary of state, even though Romney is said to be on the short list and has had the most highly publicized meetings with Trump.

Romney was one of the most ardent enemies of candidate Trump during the race. He was solid in his disdain for the billionaire, rogue candidate. He was arguably the head of the octopus in the “Never Trump” movement.

In one of Romney’s only public speeches during the presidential campaign, Romney called Trump a “phony,” “fraud,” “con man” and “fake.”

“His domestic policies would lead to recession,” Romney added. “His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill.”

Romney appeared on Fox News and demanded Trump release his taxes saying, “Either he’s not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is, or he hasn’t been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay. Or perhaps he hasn’t been giving money to the vets or the disabled, like he’s been telling us he’s been doing.”

Romney even went so far as to recruit a Utah Mormon, Evan McMullin, to run for president as an independent in an effort to cause Trump to lose the Republican state of Utah and possibly the Electoral College vote.

Looking back after the election, we now see Trump did not need Utah. Trump’s electoral win was so big, he could have lost Utah and Florida the state every expert said Trump must win and still won the presidency.

Romney now looks foolish and on the wrong side of history after Trump beat McMullin handily in Utah, outperformed Romney with every demographic and won six states that Romney couldn’t pull off in 2012.

After the election, President-elect Trump began meetings with potential Cabinet members, and Romney gladly accommodated, because it was his only shot at relevance other than “two-time loser for president.”

Trump knew exactly what he was doing, in my opinion.

He wants to silence the “Never Trump” movement entirely so he can act as president without the little dogs nipping at his heels.

Now that Romney has not only met with the president-elect in his home at Trump Tower, but has also dined with Trump at the most exquisite of his restaurants, how can Romney possibly criticize Trump ever again in the future?

Like a child he wanted to punish, President-elect Trump knew that if Romney took the bait and came to these interludes, he would be asked about them afterward. Naturally, desperate to be relevant again through an appointment of some sort, Romney would praise the same Donald Trump he trashed and recruited against for the last year and a half.

Now imagine the position in which Romney finds himself. No matter what happens, if he ever says an unkind thing about President Trump or his family, Romney will look schizophrenic. First he hates him, then he praises him. He can’t go back to disparaging him now that Trump has put him in this position.

Crazy like a fox, indeed. Always playing chess while the rest of us are left scratching our heads and speculating about his demise with the American public.

Analysts like me are going to have to remember to go deeper, and sometimes to shut up and wait to comment, because Trump is likely strategizing again beyond the level of sophistication that many in media can even extrapolate.

He did it in his campaign over and over. How many times was he counted out because of a misstep or a hurdle that experts said he could never overcome?

Remember when he said he was going to “build a wall” and many concluded “he’s done”?

Remember when he called for the Muslim ban?

Remember when Trump hit his ceiling in the polls at 20 percent, then 30 percent, then 40 percent?

The fact of the matter is, the average person, especially the average media or political personality, is reading from a different playbook. The elite in this country honestly believe they are better than the “deplorables” out there in rural America. They believe the American voter is to be manipulated, not courted.

Donald Trump demonstrated again this week that his relationship with the American people is a courtship and one that he is willing to engage, even in victory. He showed us his favorite place to be isn’t sitting in Trump Tower entertaining dignitaries and wiping his feet on his enemies, but that he wanted to be at a rally, with average Americans. He wants to have a conversation again with those who have been silenced. He didn’t want to celebrate with the New York City cake eaters. He wanted to celebrate with the millions of voiceless Americans for whom he ran.

So he did.

Right after he finished his interviews with Cabinet possibilities and effectively silenced his white-gloved enemies, he went directly to where he really loves to be – with the American people.

The strategy of candidate Trump in this election was positively fascinating for this psychological analyst to watch, and I have to admit, I am even more excited to watch his presidency. But, we must be careful not to view Trump’s actions through the prism of the old political playbook or we will continue to misjudge and underestimate him just as we have for the past 17 months.
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by Paul Beston
 
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Stein Wants Straight Popular Vote – Recount
To Discredit Both Trump, Electoral College
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Chris Wallace asked Jill Stein some questions that were on the minds of many Americans observing her antics in calling for a recount, though he did fail to mention George Soros by name... On Fox News Sunday Wallace raised the issue of Stein being an agent of liar-Clinton, noting that she was going to be holding an event across from Trump Tower and asking why she chose that location, saying, “What’s he got to do with it?” She says she wants to hold her conference where she can stand up loud and strong to say she won’t be intimidated and obviously where she can target Mr. Trump as her opponent. She could just say that’s where George told me to go, but she can’t be that obvious. It’s okay, we understand. Stein appears to be unhappy with the challenges filed by Trump in response to her frivolous attacks, something she reveals in shifting to and raising complaints about his actions. Stein says, “We will not be intimidated, we will not be frightened by having to jump through all these legal hoops. We say what is Donald Trump frightened of because he is obstructing, he is delaying these cases. Apparently not rolling over and challenging what is itself a delaying tactic aimed at denying Mr. Trump his electoral votes is intimidating her and equally likely, costing her Uncle George more money than she had originally been given in her allowance...  http://rickwells.us/stein-straight-popular-vote-recount-discredit-trump-electoral-college/

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liar-nObama Administration Sides With Protesters,
Halting Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline
by Jamie Gregora
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The Department of the Army handed protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline a victory Sunday when it announced the project would be re-routed. The decision came on the eve of the government’s Monday deadline for protesters to evacuate their encampment... For the past several months, members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have waged a campaign against the pipeline, drawing the support of environmentalists and liberal entertainers. They were upset that the pipeline would cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota. Now, the company installing the 1,172-mile pipeline will have to find another route or appeal to the incoming Trump administration in 2017. “Although we have had continuing discussion and exchanges of new information with the Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access, it’s clear that there’s more work to do,” Jo-Ellen Darcy, the Army’s assistant secretary for civil works, said in the statement Sunday. “The best way to complete that work responsibly and expeditiously is to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing.”...  http://dailysignal.com/2016/12/02/why-the-dakota-pipeline-protesters-wont-evacuate-by-deadline/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpWbVpHWXdORFEyWVdKaCIsInQiOiJUVElrMklkVFJIdXRqWFl0YkluSGw1NE9pK0tQNmdOYWdldFhJQ1dzMjluUU01OHVqb1wvYUxoU3o1VHRLT0Uwd1dob2FJUzh2SWdMNkhJcHdGOElpTDFDS3Y5R2V5dTJZb0ZXNmtkd2t2WWM9In0%3D
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The Real Illegal Settlements
by Bassam Tawil
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An example of massive illegal Palestinian construction
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ As the international community continues to slam Israel for construction in Jewish settlement communities, Palestinians are quietly engaging in massive construction of entire neighborhoods in many parts of the West Bank and Jerusalem... In addition to overlooking the Palestinian building project, the West has clearly been neglecting a crucial difference between the two efforts: while the construction in the Jewish settlements of the West Bank and neighborhoods of Jerusalem has long been carried out within the frame of the law and in accordance with proper licenses issued by the relevant authorities, the Palestinian construction is illegal in every respect. In this behind-the-scenes endeavor, which does not meet even the most minimum standards required by engineers, architects and housing planners, the Palestinian goal is to create irreversible facts on the ground. A quick tour of the areas surrounding Jerusalem from the north, east and south easily exposes the colossal construction that is taking place there. In most cases, these high-rise buildings are slapped together without licenses or any adequate planning or safety concerns...
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GOP: It Could Take Us Three Years to
Repeal/Replace liar-nObamacare
{restoreamericanglory.com} ~ With control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, Republicans know they’ve used liar-nObamacare as a campaigning tactic for the last time. It’s time to put up or shut up, and their voters are not in the mood for another massive GOP betrayal... Which may be why top Republican lawmakers are now preaching patience as they try to figure out how to best go about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. According to Politico, the GOP wants to “repeal” liar-nObamacare as early as possible in 2017, but they are planning to include within that legislation a delay that could keep the healthcare law in place for as long as three years. “We’re talking about a three-year transition now that we actually have a president who’s likely to sign the repeal into the law. People are being, understandably cautious, to make sure nobody’s dropped through the cracks,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn told the website...  http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/health/gop-it-could-take-us-three-years-to-repealreplace-obamacare/
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Germany Submits to Sharia Law
by SOEREN KERN
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ A German court has ruled that seven Islamists who formed a vigilante patrol to enforce Sharia law on the streets of Wuppertal did not break German law and were simply exercising their right to free speech... The ruling, which effectively legitimizes Sharia law in Germany, is one of a growing number of instances in which German courts are - wittingly or unwittingly - promoting the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in the country. The self-appointed "Sharia Police" sparked public outrage in September 2014, when they distributed yellow leaflets which established a "Sharia-controlled zone" in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal. The men urged both Muslim and non-Muslim passersby to attend mosques and to refrain from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, gambling, music, pornography and prostitution...
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On a Sunday Morning
by Paul Beston
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{city-journal.org} ~ In the early 1970s, when I was approaching school age, my mother needed some flooring laid in our home and hired a man named Ockie to do the work. I remember little about him other than that he was the first person of Japanese descent whom I had seen in my young life. Years later, she told me that Ockie had been interned as a youngster, along with his parents, in California during the war. “He was very angry about it,” she remembered; he had pointed out that his father was an American citizen. At the time, all I knew was that Ockie was Japanese, and that America had fought the Japanese, but that we were friends now, as my mother assured me. Adults were funny: they blew things up to the heavens and then sat in quiet kitchens, pricing linoleum by the square foot.

Even then, I knew the two words—Pearl Harbor—and I had images to go with them, especially that of the smoldering USS Arizona, pictures of which I’d seen in the World Book encyclopedia. Pearl Harbor meant “sneak attack” and December 7, 1941, a “date which will live in infamy.” I had heard Franklin Roosevelt’s voice saying these words, his cadence sealing them into permanent memory. In the original draft of this speech, the president had written that the day would live in “world history,” but he struck that phrase in favor of the archaic-sounding, morally fearsome “infamy.” You didn’t need to know what the word meant. You only needed to hear him say it.

I’m sure that my mother and Ockie had at least one thing in common: they both knew where they were when they heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor. For a younger generation, the “where were you when” moment is September 11, 2001, an atrocity that prompted comparisons with Pearl Harbor, whose survivors were preparing to mark the 60th anniversary of the attacks that year. The two cataclysms had much in common—they were unexpected, horrific, and destroyed thousands of lives—but they also quickly took on the character of their very different cultural epochs. Pearl Harbor aroused American resolve that channeled itself into a unified war effort, one that would produce an industrial war-making machine such as the world has never seen—just what was needed to win a war such as the world had never seen. September 11, by contrast, spawned a short-lived autumn of flag-waving that soon reverted to parochialism, political factionalism, and the by-now well-rehearsed cultural message that somehow, we must have deserved it. Ours is an age more inclined to apologize for rendering judgment than to condemn the deeds that prompt the judgment.

It was different in 1941. To the generation that lived through Pearl Harbor, and especially those who were there that day, Roosevelt’s words rang true.

Seventy-five years later, the oil is still leaking from the Arizona; droplets come to the surface in ghostly rainbow patterns. “Black tears,” survivors called them. The Arizona is the most visible symbol of the American catastrophe of that day. Of the ship’s 1,511 crewmen, 1,177 perished—nearly half of the 2,403 lost at Pearl Harbor, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The ship was doomed by a 1,700-pound Japanese bomb that blasted through its storage area, which held 1 million pounds of ammunition and 180,000 gallons of gas. These incendiaries acted in the same way that aviation fuel did on 9/11, turning the battleship into an inferno. Sailors could barely stand on deck without hopping from one foot to the other because of the heat, and they could smell the burning oil spilling into Pearl Harbor. Some of those who survived the wreck had to brave swimming through the fiery waters.

The Japanese had struck that morning shortly before 8 am, Hawaiian time—early afternoon in Washington, D.C. Their attack was long planned, even as diplomatic talks continued between Tokyo and Washington in an attempt to resolve disputes involving Japanese aggression in China and Southeast Asia and a resulting U.S. oil embargo. An armada of Japanese destroyers and aircraft carriers steamed across the Pacific toward Hawaii in complete radio silence, avoiding detection.

On the morning of December 7, the Japanese launched 353 planes, in two waves. Their main targets were the American airfields—Hickam, Wheeler, Ford Island, Kaneohe Naval Air Station, and Ewa Marine Corps Air Station—and Battleship Row, where, along with the Arizona, a host of American battleships were sitting in port. These included the Nevada, West Virginia, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. As luck would have it, no U.S. aircraft carriers were at Pearl Harbor that day.

It was Sunday morning, peacetime. Many American seamen were getting some extra sleep or making their way back to their ships after a Saturday evening out. Defenses were down. Radar was primitive in 1941, though it did pick up the Japanese squadron moving into Hawaiian airspace at 7 o’clock. An American commander dismissed the sighting, assuming that it was the expected arrival of American B-17s from San Francisco.

When the bombs started dropping at about 7:55, many assumed that it was a drill. The Navy and Army ran frequent bombing tests. On board the Nevada, Oden McMillan was about to lead his band in morning colors, which started promptly at 8. As the band lined up, they saw planes dive-bombing Ford Island, but they thought nothing of it until low-flying Japanese planes dropped a torpedo, aimed at the Arizona, and then flew over the Nevada, strafing it with fire. The band knew now that the attack was real—but kept playing. It had never occurred to McMillan, Walter Lord wrote in his classic Day of Infamy, “that once he had begun playing the National Anthem, he could possibly stop.” The band made its way through “The Star Spangled Banner,” the ship’s deck wobbling and splintering below the musicians’ feet. “Not a man broke formation until the final note died,” Lord wrote. “Then everyone ran wildly for cover.”

All told, in a two-hour attack, the Japanese sunk or damaged 18 American ships, including eight battleships, though most would be salvaged. Only the Arizona and the Oklahoma, which was capsized, suffered total loss. These repairs might have been much slower in coming had the Japanese not opted to abort a third phase of the attack, on Pearl Harbor’s fuel-oil storage and ship-rebuilding facilities. Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, seeing that the Americans were beginning to pick off more of his strike force with antiaircraft fire, decided to play it safe and terminate the mission.

As it was, the devastation was immense. For days afterward, rescue crews worked to cut holes through the Oklahoma’s hull to rescue the men trapped inside. Some were saved; many others died of asphyxiation or drowning. But the grimmest fate was that of three young sailors—Clifford Olds, Ronald Endicott, and Louis “Buddy” Costin—on board the West Virginia, which had sunk to the bottom of Pearl Harbor, trapping the men inside the pump room. It was well-provisioned, with food rations and fresh water. But there was no feasible way to drill through the pressurized hull underwater to rescue the men without causing a blowout that would kill their rescuers. No rescue was attempted, though the seamen made themselves heard, banging away in the hope that someone above would save them. They survived for more than two weeks in these agonizing circumstances. “Pretty soon nobody wanted to do guard duty, especially at night when it was quiet,” said Marine Corps bugler Richard Fiske. “It didn’t stop until Christmas Eve.”

The Japanese also destroyed 188 American aircraft and damaged another 159—many of them lined up at Hickam Field in neat rows, easy targets for Japanese bombers. Army lieutenant general Walter Short, worried about Japanese saboteurs on Oahu, thought that they would be better protected that way. Like naval admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Short dismissed chances that the Japanese might attack Pearl Harbor. Kimmel believed that any Japanese attack would happen at sea. Short and Kimmel would both lose their commands after the attack and spend the rest of their lives defending their decisions. Still, Kimmel didn’t need to be told what the attack meant for his future. Watching the bombing from his office window, he ripped his four-star admiral shoulder boards off of his sleeve and replaced them with two-star shoulder boards. By one account, after a bullet whizzed through the window and narrowly missed the admiral, Kimmel said, “It would have been merciful had it killed me.”

Not just its human losses, but also the images of a devastating military rout, with the mighty U.S. fleet in flames, coupled with the chilling success with which the Japanese had caught us unawares, ensured that Pearl Harbor would stay forever in the minds of Americans who lived through the events. Those up in arms about “fake news” today should have heard some of the fake news that proliferated after the attacks about Japanese saboteurs, who were seemingly everywhere. According to one rumor on Oahu, Japanese milk delivery drivers used radio transmitters to help guide in the enemy planes. “The stories spread faster than they could possibly be disproved or checked,” Lord wrote. Two months later, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, mandating internment.

Hindsight offers consolations, not only the advantage of knowing that we would win the war, but also that the heroism that would make that feat possible was present on December 7, too, almost everywhere one looked.

John William Finn, a chief petty officer in the Navy, was stationed at Kaneohe Bay. The bombs woke him from a Sunday morning slumber; he drove over to the base, only about a mile from his home, and he saw the bombers in the air. By the time he arrived, many of the base’s seaplanes had already been destroyed. The base had no antiaircraft guns, so Finn detached the machine gun from one of the planes, mounted it on a stand in an exposed area, and started firing—and barely stopped for the next two hours, though he suffered 21 separate wounds from shrapnel, one of which caused him to lose feeling in his left arm. His Medal of Honor citation described his “complete disregard for his own personal safety.” He later shrugged: “It just wasn’t my day to die.” At 99, he stood next to President liar-nObama at Arlington Cemetery on National Medal of Honor Day.

It certainly seemed that it was 19-year-old Donald Stratton’s day to die. On board the Arizona, the seaman first class could see the Japanese pilots’ faces, they flew so low; some were smiling, even waving. Stratton suffered burns across 70 percent of his body and survived only when Joe George, a boatswain’s mate on board the USS Vestal, a repair ship docked alongside the Arizona, disobeyed orders and threw out a line to Stratton and other desperate Arizona crewmen. They climbed across, hand over hand, 70 feet to the Vestal. Stratton spent about a year in the hospital—at one point, doctors put maggots on his body to eat the masses of dead skin—before being discharged and sent home to Nebraska. He reenlisted, endured another boot camp, and fought at Okinawa, where he dodged death again.

Many other Arizona survivors might not have made it without the heroics of Lieutenant Commander Samuel Fuqua, who was knocked unconscious by one of the first bombs, came to, and got busy fighting the ship’s fires. After the Arizona took its fatal blow, which killed many of its men in an instant, Fuqua became the ship’s senior surviving officer. Strafed constantly by enemy fire, he led the ship’s evacuation. “I can still see him standing there, ankle deep in water, stub of a cigar in his mouth, cool and efficient, oblivious to the danger around him,” said a crewman, Edward Wentzlaff. On his way in to shore on a boat, under heavy fire, Fuqua hauled survivors out of the water.

Perhaps the most inspiring moment of the day on the American side was the sight of the USS Nevada, though damaged by bombs, pulling out of the harbor, the only ship from Battleship Row to get moving. The Nevada managed to shoot down a handful of Japanese planes, but, at risk of sinking, it was grounded off an area known as Hospital Point. Many, like Seaman Thomas Malmin, who was aboard, recalled seeing, through clouds of black smoke, the ship’s flag flying on the fantail. Malmin “recalled that ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ was written under similar conditions, and he felt the glow of living the same experience,” Lord wrote. “He understood better the words of Francis Scott Key.”

Less dramatic gestures of resistance were also plentiful. “Praise the lord and pass the ammunition,” said the chaplain on board the New Orleans as its men attempted to fire back at the marauders. A boatswain’s mate on the Monaghan, waiting for ammunition to be brought up to the deck so that he could begin firing at the Japanese, threw wrenches at their planes in the meantime. At Ewa, the Marine air base, a lone Marine, armed only with a pistol, stood beside a ruined plane, firing away at the Japanese bombers, even as they swooped down on him. Japanese lieutenant Yoshio Shiga, one of those enemy pilots, called him the bravest American. The defiance extended to the infirmaries, too. A doctor refused a navy seaman’s request for orange juice, thinking that it might be fatal, since the seaman had a serious stomach wound. When he protested, the doctor told his nurse to get the juice; the patient would probably die anyway, he whispered. “I heard you, doctor,” the seaman called out, “and I still want orange juice.” He didn’t die.

The hardiness extended as well to the nation’s political leaders. Roosevelt’s speech set the tone, with its stark opening sentence and its direct, euphemism-free admission of what had occurred: “The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost.”

The president’s Republican adversaries in Congress, including isolationists who had accused him of trying to get the United States into war, now lined up behind him. “There is no politics here,” said Joseph W. Martin, the House minority leader. “There is only one party when it comes to the integrity and honor of the country.”  He was echoed by the Senate minority leader, Charles L. McNary of Oregon. “The Republicans will all go along, in my opinion, with whatever is done.”  And the isolationist congressman Hamilton Fish of New York, a World War I veteran and reservist, urged Americans to get behind the president. “And if there is a call for troops,” Fish added, “I expect to offer my services to a combat division.”

Behind the unity was anger and a desire for putting things right. “I am an old-time Yankee,” said Congressman Charles A. Eaton of New Jersey, a Republican, “and when people start shoving us around I’m ready to shove back.” Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia agreed. “All American resources should be mobilized to wipe Japan off the map,” he said, in words that, if uttered today, would surely require a public retraction. “The only course open to America is to declare war on Japan and I hope this will be done tomorrow by unanimous vote of Congress.” Close enough: on December 8, the Senate voted 82-0 and the House 388-1 to declare war. The holdout was Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana, a committed pacifist and the first woman to serve in Congress.

Perhaps the most marked contrast with our time can be found in the tones of the paper of record. In its editorial the morning after Pearl Harbor, the New York Times sounded a clarion for American unity and commitment to victory, not just of the nation but of its principles: “The time has come to forget pride of judgment, throw partisanship to the winds and rally to the flag of the United States. Let us close our ranks without a moment’s loss of time. . . . Let every patriot take his stand on the bastions of democracy. We go into battle in defense of our own land, of our present and our future, of all that we are and all that we still hope to be, of a way of life which we have made for ourselves on free and independent soil, the only way of life which we believe to be worth living.”

No wonder we won.

After 9/11, plans got underway nearly immediately for a memorial, and commemoration ceremonies have been held on every anniversary. By contrast, in the years immediately after Pearl Harbor, while the date was noted and some ceremonies conducted, winning the war took precedence. In 1943, FDR made this clear when he vetoed a bill declaring December 7 Armed Services Honor Day. In a message to Congress, he explained why: “Dec. 7, two years ago, is a day that is remembered in this country as one of infamy on the part of a treacherous enemy. The day itself requires no reminder, and its anniversary should rather serve to cause all the people of the nation to increase their efforts contributing to the successful prosecution of the war.”

Once victory was accomplished, more expansive anniversary remembrances began. Books and films proliferated. The Arizona memorial opened in 1962; it sees more than 2 million visitors every year. In 1966, on the 25th anniversary, the island had a surprising visitor: 64-year-old Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese Navy commander who led the air attack. Now a Christian evangelist, Fuchida had published a book about his conversion, From Pearl Harbor to Calvary, and he spent much time in the United States in his later years. As the decades passed, some Japanese and American veterans of Pearl Harbor gathered together in reconciliation. Others, like Donald Stratton, preferred to stay away. He’d have to forgive the men, like Fuchida, who had killed so many of his friends in the next life, he said, when he would have a better heart.

Fuchida’s saga tells an instructive story about American tolerance—but not the kind we normally hear. A generation commonly branded today as backward-thinking, prejudiced, and provincial welcomed a man who once led a deadly invasion that slaughtered its sons; it even let this former invader’s children live and work in the United States. A generation in its prime of life today, meanwhile, sparing no hosannas to itself for its tolerance and progressive values, needs pointers from the New York Times on how to talk to family members who voted the other way in a presidential election.

“We were not extraordinary men, those of us who fought on that infamous date in December seventy five years ago,” Stratton writes in his magnificent new memoir, All the Gallant Men. “We were ordinary men. What was extraordinary was the country we loved. We loved who she was, what she stood for. We loved her for what she meant to us, and for what she had given to us, even in those meager times. It didn’t matter where you hailed from, whether you came from the mountains or the prairies, a sprawling city or a small coastal town: you loved her. We all did.” That love helped bring this country through the fire.

Seventy-five years later, a small band of survivors, including the 94-year-old Stratton, who will attend with his wife of 66 years, gathers on Oahu. It will be, almost surely, the last milestone anniversary involving participants. From our distant perch, it seems impossible to understand and fully absorb the magnitude of Pearl Harbor: in that vanished world, young men did things that we cannot imagine, and the events themselves, while framed by formidable scholarship and many excellent narrative histories, are also shrouded in myth. We cannot stand where Americans stood then or feel what they felt, but we can remind ourselves that there is no hell on earth like war, no bravery or love of fellows more surpassing than that seen in the armed forces—and no hardship we face now that compares remotely with the darkness that that American generation confronted, across two oceans. It all started on that quiet Sunday morning, 75 years ago. On December 7, pause a moment if you can.
 
 
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UK: Another Massive Charity
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The head of the Islamic Education and Research Academy
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ On November 4, the British charity regulator, the Charity Commission, published a report of its inquiry into the Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA), a British Salafist group and religious training organization... The inquiry was initially welcomed by moderate Muslim groups and counter-extremism analysts, but many will be disappointed with the Charity Commission's recommendations. More than a dozen pieces have been written for the Gatestone Institute examining the iERA's links to extremism, as well as the failure of government, media and even Jewish organizations to tackle this fast-growing Salafist group. In 2014, one of these articles exclusively revealed that the "Portsmouth Five," a notorious group of ISIS recruits from southern England, were all members of an iERA youth group. In 2014, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain published their own comprehensive report, which looked even more closely at the officials, preachers and extremist links of the iERA. In the wake of significant media coverage, the Charity Commission launched their investigation. The "inquiry's scope," the Charity Commission claims, was to look at the iERA's extremist links, as well as its "financial management."...
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Moment of truth for Muslim DNC chief candidate
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{wnd.com} ~ The Democratic National Committee is having a big problem finding a new face to fill its critical vacancy as chairman in the wake of its loss of the presidency and its continued minority role in both houses of Congress in 2016... U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first black Muslim ever to be elected to Congress, has emerged as the leading candidate, but has been entangled in a controversy over recent and older anti-Semitic public statements caught on recordings. While the Anti-Defamation League had previously defended his candidacy, the recordings changed the minds of the leadership, which has since labeled them as “deeply disturbing and disqualifying” for the position...Are Democrats seriously going to make this lightning rod their top leader?   http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/moment-of-truth-for-muslim-dnc-chief-candidate/
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Judge Jeanine – Trump Economic Adviser Moore,
Carrier Symbolizes Plan
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore joins Judge Jeanine for a discussion of the meaning of the Carrier deal and what lies ahead. Moore says... “This is just the start of something big,” noting that Trump won’t be endeavoring to save American industry one company at a time.”  He says, “But I think he was sending a message here to the voters of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, for those Midwestern states, that he cares about them and he is going to fight for their jobs. And that’s what they’ve wanted to hear for a long time.” Moore references a clip Judge Jeanine played earlier in which liar-nObama said, ‘Well, there’s nothing we can do about it.’ Yes there are things we can do,” says Moore, “to bring jobs back to factory workers and the hardworking middle class people who’ve lost their jobs. We can lower our taxes, we can lower our regulatory costs, we can lower our energy costs and make America a very competitive place, and this is just the start.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-trump-economic-adviser-moore-carrier-symbolizes-plan/
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Sheriff Babeu – In A Month We’re Going After The
Criminals liar-nObama’s Been Protecting
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Sheriff Paul Babeu can barely contain his enthusiasm for what lies ahead after January 20th. It’s a time when he and other law enforcement professionals, both local and at the federal level, finally get to return to doing the job the people pay them to do... It’s the wondrous time when the obstructionist scofflaws currently occupying and abusing positions will be kicked to the curb. They play a couple of quotes from President-elect Trump during his thank you tour stop in Cincinnati. In one he pledges to restore our sovereignty, a huge commitment that is diametrically opposed to what we would have been enslaved to under the corrupt globalist Democrats. In two others Trump says “We will finally end illegal immigration” and “We will construct a great wall at the border.”...  http://rickwells.us/sheriff-babeu-month-going-criminals-obamas-protecting/
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Electoral College Under Attack Again
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{conservativebyte.com} ~ The Memphis Democrat filed a constitutional amendment Thursday that calls for eliminating the electoral college and allowing for direct election of the president and vice president... The congressman’s amendment comes as Democrat liar-Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote in last month’s presidential election topped 2.5 million. liar-Clinton lost the electoral college – and the presidency – to Republican Donald Trump. “For the second time in recent memory, and for the fifth time in our history, we have a President-elect, who lost the popular vote,” said Cohen, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice…This would be a big mistake.  http://conservativebyte.com/2016/12/electoral-college-under-attack-again/
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liar-nObama's last licks
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Israel’s coalition crisis over the settlements regulation bill is not a normal power struggle between overweening politicians. It is not popularity contest between Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and his Kulanu Party and Education Minister Naftali Bennett and his Bayit Yehudi Party.

It is also not about contenders for the helm challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political primacy.

The settlement regulation bill proposes to extend the authority of the Military Government in Judea and Samaria to seize privately owned land. That authority is now limited to seizure for military purposes. The bill would allow the Military Government to seize land for the purpose of private construction as well.

The political fight over the bill is not merely a fight over the community of Amona, which will be destroyed by order of the High Court if the law isn’t passed before December 25.

The fight over the law is a fight about the character of Israel.

Opponents of the bill argue that the law undermines the power of the Supreme Court and endangers Israel’s international standing. Proponents of the bill argue that Israel needs to ensure the primacy of the Knesset. They further argue that there is no point in bowing to the will of an international community that is constitutionally incapable of ever standing with Israel.

In case you were wondering, proponents of the bill have it right.

The settlement regulation bill is not a radical bill. It is a liberal reform of a legal regime that harms the civil rights of both Palestinians and Israelis.

Palestinians today are denied their full property rights. Shortly after its establishment in 2004, the Palestinian Authority made selling land to Jews and Christians a capital offense. Dozens of Palestinians have been murdered over the past two decades in extrajudicial executions by both Palestinian security forces and by terrorist militias working hand in glove with Palestinian security forces for the “crime” of selling their land to Jews.

Earlier this year, the Israeli group Ad Kan documented employees of the European-financed far-left groups Ta’ayush and B’Tselem conspiring to hand over to Palestinian forces a Palestinian landowner who expressed interest in selling his land to Jews. During surreptitiously recorded exchanges, they acknowledged that the PA would likely execute him.

The settlement regulation bill empowers the military commander to seize privately owned land and compensate the owners. In other words, it provides a means for willing Palestinian sellers to sell their property to willing Jewish purchasers without risking the lives of the owners.

As I noted in a column on the subject of the bill last week, the legal opinion published by Attorney- General Avichai Mandelblit opposing the settlement regulation bill included four arguments.

Prof. Avi Bell from the Bar-Ilan University School of Law rebutted all of Mandelblit’s claims in an article published two weeks ago in Yisrael Hayom.

As Bell showed, Mandelblit’s claim that the proposed law breaches international law is both irrelevant – since Knesset laws supersede international law, and at best arguable.

Mandelblit further argued that the Knesset has no right to pass laws that supersede international laws pertaining to the belligerent occupation of land seized in war. But Bell demonstrated that the opposite is true. For instance, Israel’s Golan Heights Law from 1981 canceled the military government on the Golan Heights and applied Israeli law to the area.

Mandelblit claimed that eminent domain cannot be used to seize land for private construction projects. But as Bell showed, there are dozens of decisions by US courts permitting eminent domain to be used in just such cases.

Finally, Mandelblit argued that the Knesset doesn’t have the authority to pass laws that contradict High Court decisions. Here too, Bell showed that the opposite is the case.

Israel’s constitutional order is based on its Basic Laws. Basic Law: Knesset defines the Knesset as the highest legislative authority. In line with this, the Knesset has passed numerous laws over the years that have overturned High Court decisions.

On the basis of Mandelblit’s last argument, on Monday, Kahlon announced that Kulanu would not support the settlement regulation law.

Kahlon insisted that his party would not support any law that undermines the court’s authority and since the court ruled that Amona must be destroyed and its residents rendered homeless by December 25, Kahlon will take no action to save the community.

Kahlon insists that he is motivated by a desire to protect the court’s prerogatives. But when assessed in the context of actual laws, it is clear that his position doesn’t primarily defend the court. Rather it undermines the Knesset, and through it, Israeli democracy.

If the Knesset doesn’t have the right to pass laws that run counter to Supreme Court decisions, then the public that elected the Knesset is effectively disenfranchised. Far from securing Israel’s democracy and constitutional order, opposition to the settlement regulation bill undermines both.

Then there is the issue of Israel’s international standing.

On Monday the security cabinet convened to discuss the settlement regulation bill. According to leaked accounts of the six-hour meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Bennett that passage of the bill is liable to cause the International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to indict Netanyahu as a war criminal.

He also warned that passage of the bill is liable to induce US President Barack liar-nObama to enable an anti-Israel resolution to be adopted by the UN Security Council.

Netanyahu’s claims are deeply problematic.

Insofar as the ICC is concerned, three points counter Netanyahu’s argument. First, Bensouda is already conducting an investigation of Israel.

She opened her investigation shortly after she wrongly admitted “Palestine” as a state member of the ICC.

The ICC will continue to investigate Israel whether or not the Knesset passes the settlement regulation law. And the merits of the bill will have no impact on the ICC’s decision to prosecute or close the investigation.

The second problem with Netanyahu’s claim is that just by making it – and leaking it to the media – he empowered the ICC.

The ICC is becoming weaker by the day. Angry over the political nature of its prosecutions, African states are abandoning it. Russia also has announced it is walking away.

Israel should welcome this development.

The Treaty of Rome which established the ICC made clear that one of the court’s purposes is to criminalize Israel.

By arguing that the ICC will respond to the passage of the regulation bill by indicting Israel, Netanyahu is lending credence to the false claims that there is something unlawful about the bill on the one hand, and that the ICC’s politically motivated investigation of Israel is legally defensible on the other hand. Indeed, by claiming wrongly that passing the bill will expose Israel to ICC investigation, Netanyahu is effectively inviting the ICC to persecute him.

The ICC, like its comrades in the lawfare campaigns worldwide, always target those perceived as vulnerable to pressure. This is why leftists like former justice minister Tzipi Livni are targeted for war crimes complaints while current Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is left alone.

The most extraordinary example of this sort of political targeting came on Monday. The same day Netanyahu was making the case for the ICC and liar-nObama in the cabinet, word came that Palestinian immigrants in Chile have filed a war crimes claim against three High Court justices. Former Palestinians from Beit Jala, south of Jerusalem, filed war crimes charges against retired Supreme Court president Asher Grunis and sitting justices Uzi Vogelman and Neal Hendel, all being accused of committing war crimes for their decision last year regarding the route of the security barrier around Jerusalem.

There is no governing institution in Israel more sensitive to war crimes accusations than the Supreme Court. To avoid just such charges, justices routinely second-guess military commanders and the government and deny them the right to use their best professional judgment to defend the country.

In the decision for which they are accused of war crimes, the three justices gave qualified approval to the IDF to complete the security barrier around Jerusalem on land owned by the petitioners in Beit Jala. In their ruling, the justices actually sided with the petitioners’ claim that the proposed routes harmed their rights and insisted that the IDF prove that it had no means of defending the capital without building the barrier along the proposed routes.

And for their efforts, the justices are now being accused of war crimes.

The same flawed premise at the heart of Netanyahu’s claim that approving the bill will cause Israel to be prosecuted for war crimes stands at the heart of his claim that passing the law will increase the possibility that liar-nObama will allow an anti-Israel resolution to pass in the UN Security Council.

The problem with this argument is that it ignores the basic fact that liar-nObama’s desire to stick it to Israel at the UN Security Council has been a consistent feature of his presidency for eight years. liar-nObama has wielded this threat against Israel without regard for its actual policies. He has threatened us when the government froze Jewish building rights. He has threatened us when the government respected Jewish building rights. If liar-nObama decides to enable an anti-Israel resolution to pass through the UN Security Council during his remaining seven weeks in office, he will do so regardless of whether the Knesset passes or scuppers the settlement regulation bill.

The only thing likely to prevent liar-nObama from harming Israel at the Security Council at this point is a clear message to the UN from the incoming Trump administration.

For instance, if President-elect Donald Trump announces directly or through an intermediary that Security Council action against Israel over the next seven weeks will induce the Trump administration to withhold US funding from the UN, UN officials will likely stuff draft resolutions to this effect into a drawer.

Netanyahu’s actions do more to harm his future relations with Trump than advance his current relations with liar-nObama. If Netanyahu blocks passage of the settlement regulation bill, he is likely to enter the Trump era as the head of a government on the verge of collapse. Rather than be in a position to reshape and rebuild Israel’s alliance with the US after eight years of liar-nObama’s hostility, Netanyahu may limp to his first meeting with the new president, the head of dysfunctional government beyond his control, and at the mercy of a legal fraternity and an international judicial lynch mob that he will have just empowered.
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 Plugging the Swamp Drain at Treasury? 
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Michael Swartz: For more than 16 months, Donald Trump ran a populist campaign based on supporting Main Street instead of Wall Street. But a sign hat the rhetoric isn't going to meet reality was Trump's appointment of Steven Mnuchin, a onetime partner of the much-maligned Goldman Sachs, as his finance chairman. Once elected, it was no surprise that Trump tapped Mnuchin for his treasury secretary. He's made many smart cabinet moves to shore up various constituencies, and with this one, he's thrown Wall Street a bone.
         Remember, this was the candidate who accused fellow Republican Ted Cruz on Twitter: "Goldman Sachs owns him, he will do anything they demand. Not much of a reformer!" Add to this the facts that Mnuchin is second-generation Goldman Sachs, worked for a time for a firm controlled by radical leftist financier George Soros, and has donated millions of dollars to Democrats over the years, and it seems a curious choice. Then again, Donald Trump admitted he wasn't running as a conservative, so this shouldn't be completely unexpected.
          Nor is the Goldman Sachs-to-Washington connection stopping with Mnuchin. High on Trump's short list for a high-level position is Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn. We also shouldn't forget that the much-reviled Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon spent time there in the 1980s. It's a series of selections that's turning heads, and bringing some to ask: How much Goldman Sachs is too much?
          And while Trump's pick for Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, isn't a Goldman Sachs alumnus, he's associated with Rothschild, another Wall Street firm. But Ross, until recently a longtime Democrat donor as well, made his billions buying and selling distressed businesses in the coal and steel industries, among others.
          Assuming all of Trump's selections are confirmed, the finance portion of his cabinet will look more like Wall Street than Main Street. Obviously they will be experts in the financial field, but the question is whether they will be using the same playbook Trump used to win election. This holds especially true for Trump's tax plan, which Mnuchin said would be the "largest tax change since Reagan" while warning that the changes would not address the extremely progressive nature of the tax code. "Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions, so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," said Mnuchin. While it sounds like those in the top 1% of households are greedy because they make 17.2% of the income, they pay more than their fair share according to the Tax Policy Center — 28.7% of all federal taxes. In any case, it's a sure bet Democrats will be restoring their mantra of "no tax cuts for the rich" no matter what Mnuchin does.
          And if nothing else, the incoming treasury secretary is already on the Democrats' bad side: As an investor in several blockbuster films (as part of a financial entity called RatPAC-Dune Entertainment), he was a backer of the film "American Sniper." Some colleges banned the film from campus because a few Muslim students were offended.
          Donald Trump won election by cutting against the political grain. That doesn't mean he's always going to cut against that grain. And his election doesn't mean the swamp will be drained overnight. The question about his money men is whether they'll help drain it.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/digests/46244
 SHORT CUTS
Insight: "Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage." —Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
          For the record: "Candidates must shape policies that appeal to a broad range of people, not just coastal liberals or southern conservatives. Just how badly did liar-Hillary Clinton fail in that regard? In a nation of 3,142 counties, parishes, and boroughs, liar-Hillary Clinton won less than five hundred of them. The left's interpretation of that loss is to attack Trump voters as bigots, racists and homophobes. But increasingly we are seeing true bigotry on the left. They are, on a near daily basis, affirming so many people's votes for Donald Trump. —Erick Erickson
          A bridge too far: "BuzzFeed can't argue that the same-sex-marriage issue is ethically settled, because it isn't for a sizable population of our country and our world. It is no longer okay — indeed, it never was — to write cutesy articles shaming religious people as homophobic for simply being one of the many millions of Americans in 2016 who attend a religious congregation that does not support same-sex marriage. That is not a good move for activism or journalism." —homosexual Brandon Ambrosino in The Washington Post
          Wishful thinking: "I thought I'd just come by and tell you how exhilarated I am by the strong vote that I have from my colleagues as we go forward. ... This is so much bigger than politics. It's about the character of America, the responsibility to the people, our obligation to our founders, our gratitude to our men and women in uniform and our respect for the aspirations of America's children and our families." —Nancy Pulosi
          Braying Jackass: "I know that the president-elect has indicated that he deserves credit for ... [the Carrier] announcement, and I guess what I would observe is that if he is successful in doing that 804 more times, then he will meet the record of manufacturing jobs that were created in the United States while President liar-nObama was in office. There were 805,000 manufacturing jobs that weren't just protected or saved, but actually created while President liar-nObama was in office." —Josh Earnest
          And last... "The death of Fidel Castro reminds us that the respectable press, the 'two-sources' press, the press that enforces standards and performs reality checks and practices 'shoe leather' journalism and all that, has been peddling 'fake news' about Cuba and Castro for 60 years." —Mona Charen  ~The Patriot Post

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Iran Threatens to Walk Away From Nuke Deal,
Retaliate Against U.S. for New Sanctions
by Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Iran is threatening to walk away from the nuclear deal with the United States and pursue forms of retaliation, including a national boycott of American goods, as a result of Congress’s overwhelming vote on Thursday... to level new sanctions against Iran for another 10 years, according to multiple comments by senior Iranian officials. Following the Senate’s 99-0 vote to renew economic sanctions on Tehran, senior Iranian officials said the United States is in violation of last summer’s nuclear deal and that Iran is prepared to retaliate, which could include abandoning the agreement. The comments come as the liar-nObama administration scrambles to preserve the deal in its final months in office, ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has been assembling a cabinet filled with fierce opponents of the accord...This agreement was never voted upon by Congress. Why are they treating as such.   http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-threatens-walk-away-nuke-deal-promises-retaliation-u-s-new-sanctions/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=791f5920e5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-791f5920e5-45611665
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Republicans Praise Trump; China Launches Complaint
by Sandy Fitzgerald
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{newsmax.com} ~ Republican lawmakers are praising President-elect Donald Trump for talking to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen by telephone, but on Saturday, mainland China launched a complaint about the phone call... amidst concerns that the call could jeopardize United States relations with Beijing. "America has always been a champion of democratic values and individual freedoms, and I applaud the President-elect for making a strong statement in support of those values around the world," Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Arizona, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, told The Hill in a statement about Friday's phone call. "I commend President-elect Trump for reaching out to the democratically-elected President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen."...  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/GOP-Praise-Trump-China/2016/12/03/id/761973/?AID=7236
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liar-nObama DHS Smuggling Massive Hordes
Of Unknown OTM Illegals Into US?
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ If this report is accurate in its location there are, at a minimum, some serious questions that need to be answered. If it is true, what appears to be and is reported to be by the author of the video... non-English and non-Spanish speaking foreigners, are lined up outside an immigration facility on the Mexico-US border. They also appear to be being processed in some manner and then enter the US. If we accept, for vigilance’s sake, the idea that this is occurring, the troubling next question is why and there is no easy, non-nefarious answer for that. Has Hussein liar-nObama moved forward to the next step in his lawless fundamental transformation of America with the blatant smuggling of illegal aliens of unknown origin into the United States? Sure, he’s been importing various sub-categories of illegal aliens from neighboring countries for years now. He’s relied upon a contorted legal distortion that DHS uses as their excuse for violating federal law and committing treason. This would follow the progressive model from that lawlessness to a greater offense...
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Judge Jeanine Reveals Ugly Truth
About Democrat Leadership
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro offered some hard truth to a Democrat Party still reeling from presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss in November... Appearing “Fox & Friends,” Pirro said that by refusing to accept the election results and learn from them, Democrats were risking their future. “We’ve got a Democratic Party that cannot come to grips with what has happened,” she said. “We had a terrific candidate and they had a candidate who should have been indicted 86 times.”...  http://conservativetribune.com/judge-jeanine-democrat-party/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTDailyEmail&utm_content=2016-12-03
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Look who's really generating phony stories!
by Joseph Farah
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Matt Vizer of the Boston Globe
{wnd.com} ~ This was the headline in a Politico story Friday: “Trump inherits liar-nObama boom.” Written by Ben White, the publication’s chief economic reporter, not I must point out, Barack liar-nObama’s chief speech writer... the fake news story was apparently designed to persuade Americans that we are living in what he characterizes as “a fairly robust economy with the lowest jobless rate in nearly a decade, record home and stock prices and a healthy growth rate.” For this reason, White states: “Trump instead will take office with an economy at near full employment and wages and spending rising. The economy is in such strong shape that the Federal Reserve is likely to raise interest rates again later this month to try and cool things off.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/look-whos-really-generating-phony-stories/
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ADL Retracts Ellison DNC Endorsement
by The Investigative Project on Terrorism
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison's 2010 comments about Israeli political influence, first reported Tuesday by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, are "deeply disturbing and disqualifying" to his bid to become head of the Democratic National Committee, the Anti-Defamation League announced in a statement Thursday afternoon.

In remarks given at a private fundraiser, Ellison, D-Minn. implied Israel enjoyed disproportionate and inappropriate control over U.S. foreign policy. The IPT obtained a recording of those comments:

"The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million. Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right? When the Americans who trace their roots back to those 350 million get involved, everything changes. Can I say that again?"

Thursday's statement, ADL chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt said Ellison's comments expose a belief that American policy is driven not by the country's best interests, but by "religiously or national origin-based special interests ... Additionally, whether intentional or not, his words raise the specter of age-old stereotypes about Jewish control of our government, a poisonous myth that may persist in parts of the world where intolerance thrives, but that has no place in open societies like the U.S."

Greenblatt defended Ellison last week against criticism of his past association with the Nation of Islam and his close relationships with Islamist groups like the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), both of which were created by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Ellison "long ago ... disassociated himself from the Nation of Islam and apologized for its anti-Semitism," Greenblatt wrote. And, "we have seen no concrete evidence of any link between Ellison and the Brotherhood."

"He has been outspoken about anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in his role as a congressman. Local Jewish leadership in his district speaks highly of him," Greenblatt wrote.

But the 2010 comments exposed by the IPT changed all that. Bipartisan support for Israel, "our most important ally in the region, a democracy whose emphasis on equality and commitment to the rule of law stands in stark contrast to the anarchy and authoritarian regimes that prevail in much of the Middle East" is vital, Thursday's statement said. The next head of the Democratic Party should "have fidelity to these timeless ideals at all times."

The DNC is expected to choose its next leader in early 2017.
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
It's liar-nObama, Not the American People,
Who Won't Listen
by David Limbaugh
 
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 The Top School Choice 
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Allyne Caan: While most leftists have spent the last 23 days bemoaning the election results and pushing for recounts for no reason other than they lost, President-Elect Donald Trump has been building a cabinet that has some refreshingly solid picks. His list includes Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Sen. Tom Price for HHS secretary, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to head Transportation, Gov. Nikki Haley as UN ambassador, Rep. Mike Pompeo as CIA director, banker Steve Mnunchin for Treasury, and financier Wilbur Ross for Secretary of Commerce. Some more prominent posts are yet to be filled, but the rumor mill includes some intriguing names.
          As National Review's Jim Geraghty writes, "We may quibble with a few here and there, but overall it's a really good group ... [and] a pretty darn conservative cabinet." Indeed, for anyone concerned Trump's cabinet may include more Fruity Pebbles than brain food, his picks thus far should help allay those fears.
          And while we've noted before that it's difficult to select our least favorite federal agency (there are so many), Trump's choice of Betsy DeVos to lead a consistent contender — the Department of Education — is particularly encouraging. A longtime school choice advocate and chair of the American Federation for Children, a pro-school choice organization, DeVos is a firm believer in empowering parents — especially those from low-income families — to choose the best educational options for their children. In her state of Michigan, DeVos helped pass the state's first charter-school bill. Who better to lead an agency whose stated mission is "to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access"?
          In DeVos, children will finally have an advocate who cares more for their educational opportunity than for carefully preserving a government behemoth that condemns too many students to mediocrity and even complete academic failure.
          Unfortunately, some would rather see the behemoth saved and children sacrificed. No sooner had Trump named DeVos than the usual suspects in the battle against educational opportunity — the teachers unions — emerged in full force. National Education Association (NEA) president Lily Eskelsen Garcia claimed DeVos has "undermine[d] public education," "lobbied for failed schemes, like vouchers," and "consistently pushed a corporate agenda to privatize, de-professionalize and impose cookie-cutter solutions to public education."
          And American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten tweeted, "Trump has chosen the most ideological, anti-public education nominee since the creation of the Dept of Education," adding Trump's choice makes "maks [sic] it clear his admin will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public edu [sic]."
          Of course, as Wall Street Journal editorial writer Jason Riley notes, "Since what's good for the unions is often bad for the schools, and vice versa, Ms. Weingarten's apoplexy is reason to cheer."
          Indeed, while critics claim Michigan's charter schools are examples of what doesn't work, National Review Senior Editor Ramesh Ponnuru blasts craters in this argument, noting the purported "disaster" of Michigan's charters led to "more learning in a year" for charter students than for traditional public school students.
          But that matters little to the unions who care more for maintaining their own political power than for educating children. As we've noted before, charter school teachers aren't unionized; ergo, they don't pay union dues. Traditional public school teachers, on the other hand, are often forced to pay the union as a condition of employment. Cha-ching. And as Star Parker points out, in the 2016 election cycle, the NEA and AFT spent more than $33.6 million in political contributions and more than $3 million on lobbying. Do you think they were lobbying for educational opportunity for kids? No, they were lobbying for things like higher taxpayer-funded pensions for teachers. That and they were donating to Democrats.
          Riley writes that while DeVos has stated she hopes to "tear down the mindset that assigns students to a school based solely on the zip code of their family's home," Weingarten "has fought to keep persistently failing schools open because they still provide jobs for her dues-paying members."
          Bottom line: Those who categorically reject the belief that parents should be able to choose the best educational environment for their child will never approve someone like DeVos, a fierce advocate for children.
          Thankfully for the thousands of students hoping for a shot at a better education, DeVos doesn't need their approval. 
~The Patriot Post
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Sanctions against Hezbollah
in Latin America too often limited
by Emanuele Ottolenghi
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Sanctions against terror financiers are believed to be among the most effective tools the U.S. government has in its economic warfare arsenal... In practice, however, these measures have only a limited impact. U.S. sanctions against Hezbollah in Latin America are a perfect illustration of this. Since 2004, the U.S. Department of Treasury has periodically sanctioned Hezbollah financiers in Latin America. Yet many remain active in illicit trade and finance, are able to travel abroad, and likely enjoy significant access to the global financial system. Their defiance highlights the need for urgent countermeasures...
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Egypt’s Unlikely Ardor for Trump
by Oren Kessler
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ More than three weeks after the election, the American public remains divided over Donald Trump’s surprise victory. Six thousand miles away, however, one U.S. ally has demonstrated a far more unified response... Egyptians, particularly those of a pro-government bent, are among the world’s happiest about the Trump win. That may seem odd for a Muslim-majority country, given that Trump has floated the idea of a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States and even a registry for Muslims already in the country. To understand Trump’s appeal to Egyptians, therefore, it’s critical to look at the candidate he defeated. liar-Hillary Clinton is hugely unpopular in Egypt—a function primarily of her having served as secretary of state under U.S. President Barack liar-nObama during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, which toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. Tendays into the revolution, liar-nObama demanded that his Egyptian counterpart, a three-decade U.S. ally, heed protesters’ demands and immediately step down. For those Egyptians who were positively inclined toward the military-led regime—and even for much of the apolitical middle,  which is concerned above all with stability—the move was a betrayal. It paved the way for the Muslim Brotherhood’s election a year later and its subsequent, bloody removal by a new military regime in July 2013. liar-Clinton’s close relationship with her aide Huma Abedin—whose family some critics allege is sympathetic to the Brotherhood —didn’t help her favorability ratings in Egypt...
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liar-nObama Strikes ‘Classified’ Deal to Accept 2,500 Refugees Australia Rejected
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{minutemennews.com} ~ Nearly 2,500 refugees from terrorism hotspots around the world are bound for the U.S. after being rejected by Australia, but not even top lawmakers can get answers about who they are... In an unprecedented move, the U.S. State Department has classified details on refugees to be resettled in America via a secret deal made with Australia. The bi-lateral agreement, which Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called a “one-off,” involves 2,465 people currently being held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru who will now be transferred onto U.S. soil...liar-nObama is a complete jerk.
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Threatening Electors Violates Federal Law.
So Why Isn’t Loretta Lynch Doing Anything About It?
by Hans von Spakovsky
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{theacru.org} ~ Before Donald Trump’s stunning victory on November 8, liberals called for acceptance of election results. But since the election didn’t go as they’d planned, some have taken to harassing and intimidating electors in an attempt to change the election results... Some of these threats may violate federal law, yet the Justice Department acts strangely uninterested in investigating. Following the election, a coalition of liberal activist groups launched #NotMyPresident Alliance, an organization dedicated to fighting the inauguration of President-elect Trump. As part of that effort, #NotMyPresident distributed personal contact information —- including telephone numbers and addresses —- of electors in states that voted Republican. According to Buzzfeed, Maddie Deming, a strategist for the group, said they wanted to put electors in the spotlight and “to hold them accountable for their decision.” Whatever the intent, the initiative has produced a deluge of threats...  http://www.theacru.org/threatening-electors-violates-federal-law-so-why-isnt-loretta-lynch-doing-anything-about-it/
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DHS Officials Engaged In Treasonous Alien Induction Should Face Prison
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ DHS has abandoned even the facade of border enforcement, further enticing a flood of illegals to the American border. We can only hope that those responsible... including DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, CBP Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske, Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol Mark Morgan, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and of course, Hussein liar-nObama will be charged, prosecuted and imprisoned for their treasonous actions and the creation of both a humanitarian and national security crisis. Having progressively veered away from enforcement of our border and immigration laws, and adopted a perverted definition of a refugee as well as an overly broad interpretation of our laws, there no longer remains any semblance of border security or enforcement. What our Border Patrol is now engaged in is a shameful, lawless mass induction, the processing of foreign invaders into our nation, in direct violation of federal law and their oaths to protect our nation and uphold the Constitution...
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It's liar-nObama, Not the American People,
Who Won't Listen
by David Limbaugh
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{townhall.com} ~You have to give President Barack liar-nObama credit for one thing: consistency. Nothing is ever his fault. Nothing will ever be his fault. Faulting Fox News and the American people, on the other hand, now that's a different story.

Do you remember when liar-nObama traipsed around the country and desperately pleaded with Americans to vote for liar-Hillary Clinton because his agenda and his legacy were on the ballot? He made a similar pitch before the shellacking his party took in the 2014 congressional elections.

Yet did he acknowledge after this 2014 failing that he had anything to do with it? Does he own up to his leading role in last month's presidential election?

Let's rewind the tape further, to liar-nObama's reaction to his party's stunning defeat in the 2010 congressional elections, which was largely about liar-nObamacare. He didn't acknowledge any personal culpability for visiting that monstrosity on the American people through trickery and deceit. He simply lamented that he hadn't done a good enough job getting the message out to the American people about it, despite his 50 propaganda speeches trying to persuade us to ignore our lying eyes.

Do you see the pattern here? liar-nObama's view is that the American people -- those in the red states, anyway -- are a little slow, paranoid and bigoted and need to be brought along carefully into the 21st century, where progressivism has ushered in a new age of enlightenment. His only failing has been in inadequately re-educating the bitter clingers.

Let me give you another example. Remember liar-nObama's depiction of the Islamic State group as "a JV team"? How about his claim, the night before the terrorist massacres in Paris, that the Islamic State was "contained"?

Did he ever acknowledge his errors there? No. Again, his only failing was in not having communicated sufficiently his counterterrorism strategies to the American people. He said his strategy against the Islamic State was working. This was before, as I recall, his admission that he had no policy. The problem was that saturated media coverage after the Paris attacks was fueling terror fears in the United States. He said: "We haven't, on a regular basis, I think, described all the work that we've been doing for more than a year now to defeat" the Islamic State. "If you've been watching television for the last month, all you've been seeing, all you've been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you. And so I understand why people are concerned about it."

Again, there's nothing to see here. It's not a terrorism problem but a perception problem. There's no liar-nObamacare problem; it's just that the American people don't get it.

Even liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd acknowledged, in 2012, that liar-nObama and his wife, Michelle, are condescending and aloof. The liar-nObamas "do believe in American exceptionalism -- their own, and they feel over assaulted and underappreciated," she wrote. The liar-nObamas haven't disappointed Americans; "we disappointed them."

Even earlier, in February 2010, liar-nObama pledged to "listen" to Republicans at a health care summit. But, as columnist Joseph Curl wrote, "turns out he meant he'd be listening to his own voice. By the end of the televised event, Mr. liar-nObama had spoken for 119 minutes -- nine minutes more than the 110 minutes consumed by 17 Republicans. The 21 Democratic lawmakers used 114 minutes, giving the president and his supporters a whopping 233 minutes."

And why do the rubes keep misperceiving liar-nObama's greatness? Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity.

In a recently published interview with Rolling Stone, liar-nObama denied that he and his party overlooked the "cohort of working-class white voters" that supposedly accounted for Donald Trump's victory. Absolutely not his fault. "Part of it," said liar-nObama, "is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country, but part of it is also Democrats not working at a grass-roots level, being in there, showing up, making arguments."

The challenge Democrats have, according to liar-nObama, is not that they've neglected these communities from a policy perspective. "What is true, though, is that whatever policy prescriptions that we've been proposing don't reach, are not heard by, the folks in these communities. And what they do hear is 'liar-nObama or liar-Hillary are trying to take away your guns' or 'they disrespect you.'"

I repeat: This guy is remarkably, incorrigibly consistent. He has made no policy errors; his message just isn't getting through, partly because the conservative media are lying about it and partly because people are just too darned dense.

I hate to keep bringing up the past, but his war on the conservative media is nothing new, either. I wrote about it in 2010 in my book "Crimes Against Liberty." He began snubbing Fox reporters at news conferences for insufficiently pandering. The White House blog regularly denounced Fox News and other critics. White House communications director Anita Dunn recommended a "rapid response" to counteract "Fox's blows" against the administration, calling Fox News "part of the Republican Party." Presidential adviser David Axelrod said Fox News Channel is "not really a news station."

Remember when liar-nObamacare's principal architect, Jonathan Gruber, openly admitted that the liar-nObama administration was able to deceive the American people about liar-nObamacare and chalked it up to "the stupidity of the American voter"?

So go ahead and cry us a river about how the conservative media are mistreating you, Mr. liar-nObama, and misleading the public. You have been trying to deceive us for eight years, and the public has been onto you for at least 6 1/2 of those years. Now voters have handed you your biggest spanking yet, and you still will not listen. You can't listen. It's not what you do. But the American people have been listening, and they do understand your policies. And it's a new day in America.

 
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
After a Mere 25 Years, the Triumph
of the West is Over
by Charles Krauthammer
 
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 Top Headlines 
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Democrats doubt "rigged" election and insist liar-Clinton has a "good chance" in the contested recount. (Hot Air)
  • Senators promoting full legal status for illegal immigrants — a.k.a. future Demo voters. (Washington Times)

  • The latest pollaganda: Only 1 in 4 want Trump to repeal liar-nObamaCare. Don't believe it. (CBS News)

  • Anti-Defamation League: Ellison's past remarks about Israel "disqualifying." (The Hill)

  • The Rainbow Mafia is ganging up on the Gaines family, but are silent on Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison and his anti-homosexual imam. (National Review)

  • Latest VA no-accountability incident — 600 veterans at risk of HIV and Hepatitis infection. (Miami Herald)

  • The Ohio State jihadi was taking a class about microaggressions. Either it didn't work ... or it did. (Reason)

  • Dakota Access pipeline protesters accused of destroying the environment — no irony here, move on... (Washington Times)

  • Congress ignores liar-nObama's threat, overwhelmingly passes new Iran sanctions. (Washington Free Beacon)

  • Disgraced French president Hollande is forgoing re-election. Has France had enough socialism?(Reuters)

~The Patriot Post
 OPINION IN BRIEF 
David Harsanyi: "Trump's crony bailout of Carrier Corp. is disturbing because it sounds a lot like the 'economic patriotism' agenda of the left. It's the standard cronyism in which we've seen one administration after the next indulge. Cronyism. Bullying. It's a bad deal for American workers in the long run, but sadly, 'picking winners and losers' is not outside the norm of big-government politics. If liar-nObama had pulled off the Carrier deal, the same people would have been complaining on opposite sides of the issue. Moreover, Trump's contention that giant infrastructure bills and government spending are economic drivers is also something conservatives should oppose. But that doesn't make this the era of Trump; it means we're still in the era of Washington, D.C. Freak out accordingly."   ~The Patriot Post
 
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Iran Denies Existence of 7% of Its Population
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{clarionproject.org} ~ Five-million Iranians have simply disappeared. That’s if you believe the country’s latest report to the U.N. on its work with minorities within the country... The report’s authors chose to ignore the existence of one of the largest minorities, the five-million Ahvazi Arabs. The human-rights organization of the Ahvazi people noted the omission of the Ahvazi Arabs, and indeed the failure to mention the existence of Arabs in the country at all. This apparent neglect comes despite the fact that the vast majority of the Ahvazis are Shiites – which is the major religious denomination in the Islamic Republic of Iran...  https://www.clarionproject.org/news/iran-denies-existence-7-its-population
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Senate, in 99-0 Vote, Sends Iran Sanctions
Bill to liar-nObama’s Desk
by PATRICK GOODENOUGH
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Despite Iranian complaints and administration arguments that the move is unnecessary, the U.S. Senate on Thursday approved legislation extending the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) for another ten years - by a vote of 99-0... Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont did not vote. The Iran Sanctions Extension Act, which passed in the House in a 419-1 vote a fortnight ago, now goes to President liar-nObama's desk. Unlike other pending Iran-related legislation, the White House has not indicated that liar-nObama would veto the bill - the scale of support indicates a veto would be overridden in any case...
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Can Trump Stop Muslim Brotherhood’s
‘Civilization Jihad’?
by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC (RET)
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Twenty years ago, we paid al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's war declaration against America little heed. On 9/11, we suffered the consequences of doing so... Six years ago, not only did we pay Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Badie's war declaration against America little heed, but President Barack liar-nObama openly embraced the group, inviting its leadership to the White House. Meanwhile, allies Egypt, Saudi Arabia and later the U.K. denounced Muslim Brotherhood for its Islamist ideology. Sen. Ted Cruz introduced legislation earlier this year declaring it a foreign terrorist organization for promoting radical Islam's Wahhabism via its various proxies. Approved by the House Judiciary Committee, referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, liar-nObama stalls the bill's progress. Despite Badie's 2010 war declaration, the Brotherhood initiated a secret war plan much earlier, discovered by accident in 2004, hidden in a Muslim activist's home during a warranted search...
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How Trump will and won't transform
the Supreme Court
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by BETSY MCCAUGHEY, PHD
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The battle lines are forming over Donald Trump's anticipated Supreme Court nominee. A conservative advocacy group is running TV ads urging Trump to appoint a justice in the mold of the late Antonin Scalia... New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer fires back that Democrats will try to block any nominee who isn't "mainstream." Trouble is, anybody who disputes the Democrats' left-wing definition of the Constitution as a malleable "living" document is outside their mainstream. Meanwhile, pro-choice groups are panicked about losing abortion "rights." For now, it's much ado about nothing. No matter whom Trump appoints this time, there are already five pro-choice justices on the court, counting Justice Anthony Kennedy. It would take a second Trump appointment to tilt the court the other way. During the campaign, Trump pledged to appoint justices who would uphold "the Constitution as it was meant to be." Trump's victory suggests the public agrees...
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American Renewal
by Clifford D. May
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Slowly and perhaps even surely, Donald Trump is pulling together a team he believes can help him achieve his goals. Which are what exactly? The most basic are given to him in Article II, Section One, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution... On Jan. 20, 2017, Mr. Trump will swear to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,” and to the best of his “ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Faithful execution implies a presidential obligation to enforce the laws of the land. What about laws he objects to as a matter of principle or policy? He can work with Congress to repeal them. But to disregard them as one might argue President liar-nObama has done is to violate his oath...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-american-renewal/
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After a Mere 25 Years, the Triumph
of the West is Over
by Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Twenty-five years ago — December 1991 — communism died, the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union disappeared. It was the largest breakup of an empire in modern history and not a shot was fired. It was an event of biblical proportions that my generation thought it would never live to see. As Wordsworth famously rhapsodized about the French Revolution, “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive/ But to be young was very heaven!”

That dawn marked the ultimate triumph of the liberal democratic idea. It promised an era of Western dominance led by a pre-eminent America, the world’s last remaining superpower.

And so it was for a decade as the community of democracies expanded, first into Eastern Europe and former Soviet colonies. The U.S. was so dominant that when, on Dec. 31, 1999, it gave up one of the most prized geostrategic assets on the globe — the Panama Canal — no one even noticed.

That era is over. The autocracies are back and rising; democracy is on the defensive; the U.S. is in retreat. Look no further than Aleppo. A Western-backed resistance to a local tyrant — he backed by a resurgent Russia, an expanding Iran and an array of proxy Shiite militias — is on the brink of annihilation. Russia drops bombs; America issues statements.

What better symbol for the end of that heady liberal-democratic historical moment. The West is turning inward and going home, leaving the field to the rising authoritarians — Russia, China and Iran. In France, the conservative party’s newly nominated presidential contender is fashionably conservative and populist and soft on Vladimir Putin. As are several of the newer Eastern Europe democracies — Hungary, Bulgaria, even Poland — themselves showing authoritarian tendencies.

And even as Europe tires of the sanctions imposed on Russia for its rape of Ukraine, President liar-nObama’s much touted “isolation” of Russia has ignominiously dissolved, as our secretary of state repeatedly goes cap in hand to Russia to beg for mercy in Syria.

The European Union, the largest democratic club on earth, could itself soon break up as Brexit-like movements spread through the continent. At the same time, its members dash with unseemly haste to reopen economic ties with a tyrannical and aggressive Iran.

As for China, the other great challenger to the post-Cold War order, the administration’s “pivot” has turned into an abject failure. The Philippines has openly defected to the Chinese side. Malaysia then followed. And the rest of our Asian allies are beginning to hedge their bets. When the president of China addressed the Pacific Rim countries in Peru last month, he suggested that China was prepared to pick up the pieces of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, now abandoned by both political parties in the United States.

The West’s retreat began with liar-nObama, who reacted to perceived post-9/11 overreach by abandoning Iraq, offering appeasement (“reset”) to Russia and accommodating Iran. In 2009, he refused even rhetorical support to the popular revolt against the rule of the ayatollahs.

Donald Trump wants to continue the pull back, though for entirely different reasons. liar-nObama ordered retreat because he’s always felt the U.S. was not good enough for the world, too flawed to have earned the moral right to be the world hegemon. Trump would follow suit, disdaining allies and avoiding conflict, because the world is not good enough for us — undeserving, ungrateful, parasitic foreigners living safely under our protection and off our sacrifices. Time to look after our own American interests.

Trump’s is not a new argument. As the Cold War was ending in 1990, Jeane Kirkpatrick, the quintessential neoconservative, argued that we should now become “a normal country in a normal time.” It was time to give up the 20th-century burden of maintaining world order and of making superhuman exertions on behalf of universal values. Two generations of fighting fascism and communism were quite enough. Had we not earned a restful retirement?

At the time, I argued that we had earned it indeed, but a cruel history would not allow us to enjoy it. Repose presupposes a fantasy world in which stability is self-sustaining without the United States. It is not. We would incur not respite but chaos.

A quarter-century later, we face the same temptation, but this time under more challenging circumstances. Worldwide jihadism has been added to the fight, and we enjoy nothing like the dominance we exercised over conventional adversaries during our 1990s holiday from history.

We may choose repose, but we won’t get it.

http://freedomsback.com/charles-krauthammer/after-a-mere-25-years-the-triumph-of-the-west-is-over/

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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Is Flag Burning Protected Speech?
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
 
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 Fixating on the Fixer-Uppers 
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Expressed by the "inclusive" message of "conform or die, you backward bigots," tolerance as defined by the Left has more in common with the Inquisition than Webster's Dictionary. The latest intolerant lynching comes from the Internet's leading "lolcat" gif distributor, BuzzFeed, which occasionally takes a stab at journalism. The site unearthed a "shocking" possibility about two HGTV superstars with the headline, "Chip and Joanna Gaines' Church Is Firmly Against Same-Sex Marriage." What's so shocking about Christians holding the orthodox view that homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage are sinful? Nothing, but from the Rainbow Mafia's perspective, this "intolerant" belief must not be tolerated or allowed to go unpunished.
          But what's the story here? A lovable Christian couple with a hugely popular fixer-upper show may believe something — that has never been mentioned on the show — that the Left deems offensive. Clearly, this hit piece was designed not to report a story, but to threaten a popular couple should they not disavow beliefs the Left finds reprehensible. Buzzfeed is merely acting as the thought police.
          The template for this is simple. Back in 2014, the Benham Brothers, who own a successful real estate company in North Carolina and happened to be conservative Christians, were fired from HGTV after the Rainbow Mafia bullied the network. BuzzFeed knows they can foment a major "issue" because HGTV is so otherwise flamboyantly "gay." This is also reminiscent of Mozilla's CEO Brendan Eich being forced out of his job over donations to California's Prop. 8 on same-sex marriage. Or the Oregon bakers who were put out of business and fined $135,000 for declining to cater a lesbian wedding. The list of examples is growing all the time.
          One reason why a large majority of evangelicals voted for Donald Trump was to push back against the leftist social engineering and destruction of America's values — specifically these kinds of threats to religious liberty. Obviously, the Rainbow Mafia intends to double down, and Chip and Joanna Gaines are just the latest victims.  ~The Patriot Post
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 Climate Regs Impede Carbon Reductions 
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Under the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, participating nations were to pursue a roughly 5% emissions reduction, relative to 1990 levels, by 2012. The endeavor was considered a success by most environmental warriors. As a newly released Breakthrough Institute study notes,    "Every country achieved their emissions reduction commitments." But was the agreement really all it's cracked up to be? The aforementioned Breakthrough study goes on to reveal that, no, it's not.
          "Overall, the carbon intensity of economies that were party to the Kyoto Accord fell more rapidly in the decade before the agreement was signed than in the decade after," according to the report. "In the 10 years before signing, the compound annual growth rate for carbon intensity was -0.7%. In the 10 years after signing it was only -0.2%."
          "Similarly," the study continues, "the low-carbon share of energy was growing at an annual rate of 1.0% in the ten years prior to 1997, and only at a rate of 0.3% annually for the ten years after, meaning deployment of clean energy stalled or slowed in comparison to fossil fuels in these countries after they signed Kyoto." What's the explanation? "What becomes clear in looking at climate policy as it has been implemented at the international level is that most countries have only been willing to commit to decarbonization targets that are consistent with expected business-as-usual trends, accounting for measures that they have intended to take in any event."
          Thankfully, America did not participate in this scheme, thanks to the Republican Senate blocking Bill liar-Clinton and Al Gore. And though the liar-nObama administration cosigned the U.S. to last year's Paris climate accord, past efforts to implement a carbon-reducing system would have fallen short, just like the Kyoto Protocol. According to Reason's Ronald Bailey, "[T]he Breakthrough analysts conclude that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have actually fallen faster since 2010 than they would have had the the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade scheme been adopted by Congress. The U.S. trend toward lower carbon dioxide emissions was helped along by the global financial crisis, a weak recovery, and the ongoing switch from coal to cheap natural gas for electricity generation."
          As for what comes next, Breakthrough says, "Even should the next administration withdraw from the Paris Agreement and abandon the Clean Power Plan, the United States might outperform the commitments that the liar-nObama administration made in Paris if it keeps the nation's nuclear fleet online, continues tax incentives for deployment of wind and solar energy, and stays out of the way of the shale revolution. By contrast, a Democratic administration indifferent to the fate of the nation's existing nuclear fleet and hostile to shale gas production might ultimately slow US decarbonization trends."
          Given these circumstances, the most pertinent question is this: Why are ecofascists hampering our ability to reduce emissions, which can be accomplished without onerous government regulations? ~The Patriot Post
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Self-Censorship: Free Society vs. Fear Society
by Giulio Meotti
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Mohammed cartoon                    Flemming Rose
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In the summer of 2005, the Danish artist Kåre Bluitgen, when he met a journalist from the Ritzaus Bureau news agency, said he was unable to find anyone willing to illustrate his book on Mohammed, the prophet of Islam... Three illustrators he contacted, Bluitgen said, were too scared. A few months later, Bluitgen reported that he had found someone willing to illustrate his book, but only on the condition of anonymity. Like most Danish newspapers, Jyllands-Posten decided to publish an article about Bluitgen's case. To test the state of freedom of expression, Flemming Rose, Jyllands-Posten's cultural editor at the time, called twelve cartoonists, and offered them $160 each to draw a caricature of Mohammed. What then happened is a well-known, chilling story. In the wave of Islamist violence against the cartoons, at least two hundred people were killed. Danish products vanished from shelves in Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Oman, the UAE and Lebanon. Masked gunmen stormed the offices of the European Union in Gaza and warned Danes and Norwegians to leave within 48 hours. In the Libyan city of Benghazi, protesters set fire to the Italian consulate. Political Islam understood what was being achieved and raised the stakes; the West did not...
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Scoop Jackson Republicans
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson was a Democrat in the era of pro-life, conservative Democrats who hated communists, loved America, and could relate to the blue collar workers of the rust belt... Jackson was loved by labor unions, hated by communists, and hated by liberals. He was a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976, losing first to McGovernor and then to Carter. If you heard any of Donald Trump’s speech in Ohio last night, you’ll hear the echoes of Jacksonian democracy in it — Scoop with a scoop of Andrew to go with it. Trump’s speech was all about “made in America,” build up American infrastructure, hire Americans, and build up the military. He wanted less business regulations, tax reform, and he is going to make America awesome...
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Oregon School District Thinks Santa Claus Is Disrespectful and Insensitive To Others
by Jay Caruso
{redstate.com} ~ When exactly did we become a nation of whiny babies? When was that plateau reached? A school district in Oregon sent a memo to staff telling to decorate their doors for the upcoming Christmas season... but asked them to remember to be sensitive and respectful to others and avoid images of a fat elf in a red suit that goes by the name of Santa Claus. For real. You may still decorate your door or office if you like, but we ask that you be respectful and sensitive to the diverse perspectives and beliefs of our community and refrain from using religious-themed decorations or images like Santa Claus. How about a snowflake?...Here they go again. AGAIN.  http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/12/01/oregon-school-district-thinks-santa-claus-disrespectful-insensitive-others/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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U.S. soldiers plead guilty in military
human smuggling ring
by Sharyl Attkisson
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ Two U.S. Army soldiers caught with two illegal immigrants in their vehicle last June have reportedly plead guilty to human smuggling. Marco Antonio Nava, Jr. and Joseph Cleveland were arrested last June... They told authorities it wasn’t the first time they’d smuggled illegal aliens into the U.S. for payments of $1,000 or $1,500. They named other military peers they said were involved in the ring at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Texas. No word on the status of the investigation into the rest of the alleged smugglers. The illegal immigrants had been picked up at a trailer, then dropped off at a house 30 minutes north of Houston, Texas. According to Nava, each of the soldiers involved was paid $1,000 cash for that successful smuggling trip. They were to be paid $1,500 for the June 18 run a week later that Border Patrol agents intercepted. Border agents were able to review text messages exchanged between six soldier smugglers...  https://sharylattkisson.com/u-s-soldiers-arrested-for-allegedly-smuggling-illegal-immigrants/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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ISIS Sets Eyes on Creating New ‘State’
by David Harris
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{clarionproject.org} ~ Despite taking heavy losses in a battle with the Philippines military, an ISIS-affiliate has reportedly raised its flag over municipal buildings in a southern city in the South-East Asian country... This led one expert to forecast Islamic State will announce a new province on one of Philippines largest islands. Senior Analyst at IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre Otso Iho believes (Arabic link) it is only a matter of time before ISIS controls swathes of southern Philippines with its base on Mindanao, the country’s second-largest island with a population of 20 million. Several Islamist terror organizations have already pledged allegiance to ISIS, including Abu Sayyaf and Maute. Iho expects they will be ready to merge under the ISIS flag. Right now there is little to prevent these groups from operating freely in Mindanao, he said...  http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/isis-sets-eyes-creating-new-%E2%80%98state%E2%80%99
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Is Flag Burning Protected Speech?
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion." — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

Is flag burning protected speech? This old issue returned front and center earlier this week after President-Elect Donald Trump tweeted that he found it so reprehensible, it should be criminal. He even suggested a punishment — loss of citizenship or one year in jail. Is the president-elect correct? Can the government punish acts that accompany the expression of opinions because the government, or the public generally, hates or fears the opinions?

Here is the backstory.

Last weekend, in a series of continued emotional responses to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, and prodded by the death of Fidel Castro — the long-time, brutal, profoundly anti-American dictator of Cuba — students on a few American college campuses publicly burned American flags. These acts regenerated the generation-old debate about the lawfulness of this practice, with the president-elect decidedly on the side of those who condemn it.

For the sake of this analysis, like the U.S. Supreme Court, which has addressed this twice in the past 17 years, I am addressing whether you can burn your own American flag. The short answer is: Yes. You can burn your flag and I can burn mine, so long as public safety is not impaired by the fires. But you cannot burn my flag against my will, nor can you burn a flag owned by the government.

Before the Supreme Court ruled that burning your own flag in public is lawful, federal law and numerous state laws had made it criminal to do so. In analyzing those laws before it declared them to be unconstitutional, the Court looked at the original public understanding of those laws and concluded that they were intended not as fire safety regulations — the same statutes permitted other public fires — but rather as prophylactics intended to coerce reverence for the American flag by criminalizing the burning of privately owned pieces of cloth that were recognizable as American flags.

That is where the former statutes ran into trouble. Had they banned all public fires in given locations, for public safety sake, they probably would have withstood a constitutional challenge. But since these statutes were intended to suppress the ideas manifested by the public flag burning, by making the public expression of those ideas criminal, the statutes ran afoul of the First Amendment.

The First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from enacting laws infringing upon the freedom of speech, has consistently been interpreted in the modern era so as to insulate the public manifestation of political ideas from any government interference, whether the manifestation is by word or deed or both. This protection applies even to ideas that are hateful, offensive, unorthodox and outright un-American. Not a few judges and constitutional scholars have argued that the First Amendment was written for the very purpose of protecting the expression of hateful ideas, as loveable or popular ideas need no protection.

The Amendment was also written for two additional purposes. One was, as Justice Jackson wrote as quoted above, to keep the government out of the business of passing judgment on ideas and deciding what we may read, speak about or otherwise express in public. The corollary to this is that individuals should decide for themselves what ideas to embrace or reject, free from government interference.

In the colonial era, the Founding Fathers had endured a British system of law enforcement that punished ideas that the King thought dangerous. As much as we revere the Declaration of Independence for its elevation of personal liberty over governmental orthodoxy, we are free today to reject those ideas. The Declaration and its values were surely rejected by King George III, who would have hanged its author, Thomas Jefferson, and its signers had they lost the American Revolutionary War. Thank G0D they won.

Justice Jackson also warned that a government strong enough to suppress ideas that it hates or fears was powerful enough to suppress debate that inconveniences it, and that suppression would destroy the purposes of the First Amendment. The Jacksonian warning is directly related to the Amendment's remaining understood purpose — to encourage and protect open, wide, robust debate about any aspect of government.

All these values were addressed by the Supreme Court in 1989 and again in 1990 when it laid to rest the flag burning controversies by invalidating all statutes aimed at suppressing opinions.

Even though he personally condemned flag burning, the late Justice Antonin Scalia joined the majority in both cases and actively defended both decisions. At a public forum sponsored by Brooklyn Law School in 2015, I asked him how he would re-write the flag burning laws, if he could do so. He jumped at the opportunity to say that if he were the king, flag burners would go to jail. Yet, he hastened to remind his audience that he was not the king, that in America we don't have a king, that there is no political orthodoxy here, and that the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, leaves freedom of expression to individual choices, not government mandates.

The American flag is revered because it is a universally recognizable symbol of the human sacrifice of some for the human freedom of many. Justice Scalia recognized that flag burning is deeply offensive to many people — this writer among them — yet he, like Justice Jackson before him, knew that banning it dilutes the very freedoms that make the flag worth revering.
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
The Left Continues to Self-Destruct
by Michael Brown
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 Top Headlines 
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Tennessee arson wildfires leave 7 dead. Fortunately, rain has put most fires out. (NBC affiliate)
  • Overwhelmed Border Patrol Agents are spending an increasing amount of time taking care of kids and families instead of enforcing border law. (Washington Free Beacon)

  • Texas Gov. Greg Abbot announced this week that he's "going to sign a law that bans sanctuary cities." The timing will undoubtedly sit well with incoming president Donald Trump. (The Hill)

  • Black officer not charged in shooting death of black man who brandished a stolen gun — and didn't comply with police orders. (Fox News)

  • A Tacoma police officer was fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call. (The News Tribune)

  • California's new cow fart regulations stink. (Reason)

  • Fake news alert: A bisexual student in Chicago falsely claimed she was antagonized by "anti-gay" Trump supporters. (Washington Times)

  • Trump vocalizes opposition to flag burning. Naturally, protesters burned flags outside Trump's hotel. (The Hill)

  • "Far more costly than previously thought": Thanks in part to liar-nObama's unilateral rule, taxpayers are projected to dole out $108 billion in student loan forgiveness. (Wall Street Journal)

  • Levi's prefers defenseless shoppers, bans firearms from its stores. (Pajamas Media)

~The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Larry Elder: "Every sane person expects Green Party candidate Jill Stein's attempt to overturn the election with her vote recount effort to crash and burn. Given this, why would the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign file a motion in support of a Stein-initiated request for a hand vote recount in Wisconsin? Under the reasonable assumption that what's good for the liar-Clintons is good for the liar-Clintons, one is left with but one conclusion. liar-Hillary Clinton's political death is premature. After the election, Donald Trump analysts, having seen the liar-Clintons pull a raft of rabbits out of a hat, should know better. There is no such thing as the 'end of the era of the liar-Clintons.' With the Democrats' Trump Derangement Syndrome already in full bloom, and the clowns at MSNBC practically drafting articles of impeachment of President-elect Trump, liar-Hillary Clinton expects the Trump presidency to be a disaster, or at least to be quasi-credibly attacked as such — which is the same thing. Health permitting, she's gearing up for another shot in 2020. In fact, it's inaccurate to say 'gearing up.' She never stopped."  ~The Patriot Post
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TWO-TIME LOSERS: liar-Clintons
“STUNNED” As Recount Falls Apart
by William Smith
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s desperate attempt to overturn the presidential election results in key states is coming apart at the seams... After decades of getting everything they want, the liar-Clintons are finally tasting the bitter rejection of the American people — and the mounting recount failures, combined with the election results, have reportedly left husband Bill liar-Clinton dazed and dumbfounded. liar-Hillary’s last ditch attempt at a recount, spear-headed by over six million in donations by heavily Democratic backers to Green Party candidate Jill Stein, is facing increasing difficulties and missteps. In Wisconsin, Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn has refused to order local officials to conduct the state’s presidential recount by hand, acknowledging that Stein’s wild conspiracy theory of Russians hacking voting equipment had zero evidence...
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The UN's Palestine Language
by A.J. Caschetta
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{meforum.org} ~ US President-elect Donald Trump won the White House promising to reform our dysfunctional government. But will he also stand up to the even more dysfunctional United Nations?... As the Trump campaign emphasized in a position paper released November 2, the UN has long displayed "enormous anti-Israel bias." For decades, UN agencies have slandered the Jewish state, most recently with the April 2016 accusation that it has been "planting Jewish fake graves" in Palestinian territory, with UNESCO declaring last year that the ancient Jewish Biblical sites Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs are actually Muslim holy sites, and with its declaration last month that the Temple Mount, where the First and Second Jewish Temples were destroyed in 587 BCE and 70 CE, is an Islamic site with no connection to Judaism...How can they claim that when they know their wrong.  http://www.meforum.org/6396/un-palestine-language?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=907cd7ccac-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-907cd7ccac-33703665
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Congressional Panel Finds Planned
Parenthood and Others Broke Law
Selling Aborted Baby Parts
by Cheryl Sullenger
{lifenews.com} ~ The House Select Panel on Infant Lives has released a list of nine criminal and regulatory referrals against abortion providers and/or fetal tissue procurement companies made as a result of their investigation into the illegal practice of selling aborted baby remains for profit... The list was released in advance of an expected vote today on H. Res. 933, which would cover the expenses of the Select Panel’s work through the end of the year. Floor debate is currently scheduled to begin around 2:30pm ET, with 30 minutes for debate allotted to each of the two sides. The Select Panel was created in October 2015, in response to undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress that showed Planned Parenthood officials haggling to achieve the highest price for aborted baby tissue and organs that were to be provided to a middle-man organ procurement business...  http://www.lifenews.com/2016/12/01/congressional-panel-finds-planned-parenthood-and-others-broke-law-selling-aborted-baby-parts/
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Funding to Domestic Programs Being Cut
to Fund Illegal Immigrant Minors
by Raven Clabough
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reports that the Department of Health and Human Services is cutting funding to domestic programs to pay for room and board for illegal alien youths... HHS must come up with $167 million to cover the costs to feed and shelter the unaccompanied minors through December 9 and has turned to other programs, including Medicare, for the money. And while the programs from which the money is being transferred are unconstitutional uses of taxpayer dollars, the move underscores that the American people are not this administration's priority. According to Jessica Vaughan, policy director for the Center for Immigration Studies, approximately 255 illegal alien youths have been taken into custody by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) every day this month, resulting in the largest number of illegal alien children in government care. As a result, the ORR is in need of more funding to cover the costs associated with caring for the arrivals and is resorting to taking money from domestic programs to cover current costs...  http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/24739-funding-to-domestic-programs-being-cut-to-fund-illegal-immigrant-minors
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Pastor to Black Lives Matter:
'Stop Blaming Police'
by Mark Tapson
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Promoting his new book Black Self-Genocide: What Black Lives Matter Won't Say, Christian pastor Bishop Wellington Boone told Fox & Friends hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade Wednesday... that the Black Lives Matter movement gets it all wrong on violence in the black community: it is black Americans, not police officers, who are to blame. Boone says in his book that inner city gangs are the real problem, not white police officers: "I am a Black American man. If I walk down the streets of any inner-city in America, I am in far more danger from people of my own race than from any White police. This is not a new phenomenon." The bestselling author told the hosts that instilling a stronger sense of faith and family within black communities would help diminish the violence, and toward that end he hopes to rally fellow black pastors to help spread the message...
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The Left Continues to Self-Destruct
by Michael Brown
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{stream.org} ~ Rather than learn some valuable lessons from the resounding electoral victory of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, it appears that the left is lurching further leftward, thereby paving the way to its own demise.

Here are some recent examples.

The Washington Examiner claims, according to inside sources, that “CNN is taking an increasingly negative approach toward its coverage of President-elect Trump, causing at least some tension within the network.”

Another inside source told the Examiner that “CNN has always pledged to hold Trump accountable and that’s what we should be doing.” However, “Since the election, CNN has out MSNBCed MSNBC,” meaning, become even more liberal than the very liberal MSNBC. “In the long term,” the source said,“that’s a dangerous place to be.”

Does CNN not recognize that its reputation for being the liar-Clinton News Network has greatly damaged its credibility? Does the network not understand that appearing to be even more blatantly biased against the president-elect will do far more harm than good?

Perhaps even worse is a major article in the Washington Post, claiming (in the words of the Post’s Executive Editor Marty Baron) that a “Russian propaganda effort helped spread fake news during election,” according to “independent researchers.” (These “independent researchers” are behind the anonymous PropOrNot website, which was the primary source of the attempted exposé.)

According to Ben Norton and Glenn Greenwald, writing on TheIntercept.com on November 26, “This Post report was one of the most widely circulated political news articles on social media over the last 48 hours, with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of U.S. journalists and pundits with large platforms hailing it as an earth-shattering exposé. It was the most-read piece on the entire Post website on Friday after it was published.”

And what, exactly, did this article claim? (Remember that we’re talking about the Washington Post, not the National Enquirer.) Norton and Greenwald explain, “The group’s list of Russian disinformation outlets includes WikiLeaks and the Drudge Report, as well as liar-Clinton-critical left-wing websites such as Truthout, Black Agenda Report, Truthdig, and Naked Capitalism, as well as libertarian venues such as Antiwar.com and the Ron Paul Institute.”

So, it is the evil and ubiquitous Russian Empire that is fueling the right-wing fires of Drudge Report (which, of course, is simply a news aggregator rather than a news manufacturer) along with the libertarian fires of the Ron Paul Institute. Who knew?

So much for the liberal media being careful not to discredit itself in the aftermath of its election misreporting, because of which one can only wonder how long the New York Times slightly introspective mea culpa will last and how deep it will go.

The Times did, though, make a strong appeal for the Democrats to put their emphasis back on the economy rather than on leftist agenda items. But have the Democrats learned their lesson? Their consideration of Rep. Keith Ellison for party chair indicates that they are not getting the message either.

As noted by Fred Lucas on The Stream, “The leading candidate to be the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has said he wants the Democratic Party to come out against the Second Amendment, compared the 9/11 attacks to the Nazi Reichstag fire, and was affiliated with the controversial Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.”

Lucas also points out that Ellison “once said eventual nominee liar-Hillary Clinton would have to prove she’s not a Republican to get his support.” Seriously?

Do the Democrats really think that identifying a radical-left Muslim as their party chairman will help them regain political power in America? Have they learned nothing from the Trump victory?

To give just one more example of the left’s failure to put its finger on the pulse of America, consider ESPN’s response to the death of Fidel Castro. But first, to put this in context, note that, in the month of October alone, ESPN lost 621,000 subscribers, which is a staggering number. And while it is impossible to state with certainty that some of this loss was due to ESPN’s liberal political views (baseball legend Curt Schilling accused ESPN of being “bigoted and intolerant” towards conservatives like himself), note that in January, 2016, an ESPN memo advised that “we should refrain from political editorializing, personal attacks or ‘drive-by’ comments regarding the candidates and their campaigns (including but not limited to on platforms such as Twitter or other social media).”

How, then, did ESPN report the death of the Cuban dictator? It praised him for his sporting accomplishments, with the headline of the 1,100 word article reading, “Fidel Castro, 90, fused sports into Cuba’s national identity.”

To be fair, the extended obituary did speak candidly (albeit non-condemningly) of Castro’s conflicts with America and did mention the negative effects of some of his economic policies. But rather than devote even one syllable to the many atrocities committed by Castro, ESPN chose to celebrate Cuba’s athletic prowess, noting, “Soon after coming to power, Castro recognized the potential benefits of national excellence in athletics and Cuba eventually became one of the strongest sporting nations in the world — despite a population only slightly greater than New York City’s.”

Yes, ESPN reminds us, “At the Olympics, Castro’s athletes were at their best,” closing the article with a recent (and representative) quote from Castro, one meant to present his defiance of America in a positive light. What fight he had, to the end!

In light of this small but representative sampling, I have a word of free advice for the “progressive” left wing, including CNN, the Washington Post, the Democratic Party, and ESPN: Just as Communism rose and fell, you too will go into extended decline unless you learn from the error of your ways and make a course correction.

For the media, that means reporting the news rather than manufacturing the news and striving for unbiased, honest reporting. For the Democrats, that means stepping back from radical leftist causes. For ESPN, it means staying out of politics and being a network devoted entirely to sports.

Will the left learn? I do hope so, but I’m not holding my breath.

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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
The Real Reason liar-Hillary
Asked for a Recount
by Ed Klein
 
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 GOP Has Golden Opportunity to Expand Liberty 
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Louis DeBroux: For those who work to restore constitutionally limited government — as we in our humble shop do daily — a recent Quinnipiac poll is daunting. It shows large majorities or pluralities of Americans oppose reducing regulations, oppose across-the-board tax cuts, and favor increased federal spending on infrastructure and other goodies.
          Leaving aside the accuracy of the poll (Quinnipiac had liar-Hillary Clinton +7 nationally less than two weeks before the election), the polling reveals a paradox in the mindset of the American electorate. Every American — Republican and Democrat, men and women, young and old, black, white, Hispanic or Asian, rich or poor — wants government to mind its own business ... except for their preferred program or regulation.
          John Stossel writes, "Few people bother to go to Washington to ask for spending cuts. Even though America is heading toward bankruptcy, 90 percent of congressional testimony comes from people who want more stuff."
          What far too few Americans understand is that to empower government is to restrict individual liberty, and once you agree to grant government power over A, you have opened the door to granting government power to do B, C and D.
          That is why the Founding Fathers strictly limited the power of the federal government, forbidding it from any and all actions not specifically authorized under the U.S. Constitution and, for emphasis, declaring in Amendments IX and X the primacy of the individual and the states over every sphere not listed in those enumerated powers.
          The Founders understood the truth and wisdom in George Washington's declaration: "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master!"
          Few Americans, for example, would disagree with the idea that everyone should have access to health care, but the devil is in the details. Without the vote of a single Republican, arrogant Democrats, invigorated by their electoral victories, passed liar-nObamaCare, ostensibly to guarantee health care to every American. As a result, the IRS was granted access to our medical information, we were forced to buy an outrageously expensive product whether we wanted it or not, we faced a bevy of new taxes and burdensome regulations, and tens of millions of Christians were forced to fund abortion through their insurance.
          Government is necessary to protect the rights of individuals, but it is the nature of government to expand and acquire power, and that power is acquired at the expense of individual liberties. As another Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, so eloquently put it, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
          Ironically, the very government that we empower to do our bidding against our neighbor ends up being the government that becomes our master.
          Disagree? Keep in mind that when the 16th Amendment (the income tax) was proposed, its proponents promised that it would only affect the very rich. The bottom bracket was a 1% tax on income over $20,000 ($488,341 in 2016 inflation-adjusted dollars) and a top bracket of 7% for income over $500,000 ($12,208,535 in 2016 inflation-adjusted dollars). It was a way, its proponents argued, to make the rich pay their "fair share" (sound familiar?). Yet in a very short time the rates went up and the entry point for the bottom bracket went down, eventually capturing many more Americans in its web, and creating the IRS, possibly the most feared institution in American government, with the power to ruin your life and take everything you own.
          Government is a necessary evil. As a third Founder, James Madison, argued in Federalist No. 51, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."
          Thus, individual liberties are safest when government is smallest, and when the power of government is closest to the people. As constructed by the Founders, the vast majority of government is enacted at the local and state level, with only a small portion belonging to the federal government.
          When they held the White House, Senate, and House under George W. Bush, the Republicans blew a golden opportunity. Instead of reducing the size and scope of government, they doubled government spending and gave us Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, and an expansion of nearly every federal department and agency.
          In 2016, Republicans get a do-over. While Democrats claim the GOP has no mandate because liar-Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, Republicans can counter with the fact that the GOP won a 3.2 million national popular vote majority in House races, and under Barack liar-nObama, Republicans have won a net 11 Senate seats, 63 House seats, 14 governorships, and roughly 1,000 state legislative seats.
          Republicans have a rare opportunity to reduce the size and scope of government at every level, and return to the form envisioned by the Founders, where government is limited and individual liberty is vast. It's in the best interests of every American to encourage them to do just that. Our job is to educate our fellow Americans accordingly. ~The Patriot Post
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liar-Clinton Campaign Seeks Volunteers
To Help Voter Recount Effort
by Jack Davis
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ Even as liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign team seeks to publicly distance itself from a vote recount effort, the campaign website is seeking volunteers to get involved... liar-HillaryClinton.com is seeking individuals who can volunteer to participate in the Michigan and Wisconsin recounts that were sought by Green Party candidate Jill Stein. “Help with the Michigan recount,” the site says. “Let us know if you want to get involved.” Some commentators noted that the liar-Clinton camp’s support for the recount could have repercussions...Dumbest move yet.  http://www.westernjournalism.com/clinton-campaign-seeks-volunteers-help-voter-recount-effort/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=WJDailyEmail&utm_content=2016-12-01
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Gorka – liar-nObama Puts Terrorist Civil
Rights Above US Security, Freedoms
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Donald Trump offers his perspective on the Somali terrorist who attacked innocent students at Ohio State, stating quite clearly, “ISIS is taking credit for the terrible stabbing attack at Ohio State University... by a Somali refugee who should not have been in our country.” Hannity asks how the Islamist was able to fly under the radar at a time when he was posting terrorist messages on social media and why we haven’t initiated a system by which we monitor the radicals and intervene before they attack. Dr. Sebastian Gorka asks Hannity if he really wants to “undermine the civil rights of terrorists? Because that’s what the liar-nObama administration says.” Gorka explains, “Because that’s how an immigrant comes to San Bernardino, who has been studying at a theological Madrassa in South Asia and the State Department, who is looking at her fiancé visa application, isn’t allowed to look at her Facebook page. It’s insanity, it’s just absolute insanity. That’s the liar-nObama counterterrorism policy today.”...  http://rickwells.us/gorka-obama-puts-terrorist-civil-rights-security-freedoms/
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FBI, Pentagon Counterspies
Hunt Fraudulent Navy Contractor
by Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Counterintelligence agents from the FBI and Pentagon are pursuing a suspected foreign agent posing as a Navy officer who offered fraudulent contracts to defense contractors in a bid to obtain sensitive and embargoed American technology... The FBI on Wednesday sent a security alert about the scam uncovered recently by a contractor in Massachusetts to contractors engaged in secret defense work. An FBI counterintelligence agent stated in the alert that the contractor reported “an individual posing as U.S. Navy officer” was issuing fake Navy contracts for computer and telecommunications equipment...
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Saudi “deradicalization” centers a scam that are
being used to recruit and train jihadists
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{themuslimissue.wordpress.com} ~ Saudi Arabia is using one of its ‘terrorist rehab’ centres to recruit and train jihadists, according to testimony from a prisoner at Guantanamo... A former Al-Qaeda member of Saudi origin, he made the claim to the prison’s parole board when explaining his refusal to enroll in Riyadh’s de-radicalization programme. Counterterrorism experts have long suspected Saudi Arabia’s “rehabilitation” center for terrorists does a poor job of de-radicalizing jihadists. But a Saudi detainee at Guantanamo Bay now reveals it’s actually a recruiting and training factory for jihad. According to recently declassified documents, senior al Qaeda operative Ghassan Abdullah al-Sharbi told a Gitmo parole board that the Saudi government has been encouraging previously released prisoners to rejoin the jihad at its terrorist reform school, officially known as the Prince Mohammed bin Naif Counseling and Care Center...
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Fake News Sites Continue False Claim
about the Iran Nuke Deal
by Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ The mainstream media and President liar-nObama have made a considerable issue out of the dissemination of fake news leading up to the election, even going so far as to hint that Donald Trump’s victory might have been owed in part to the work of the fakers... On cue, The Washington Post recently published a story citing anonymous sources that claimed the fake news was the product of Russian propaganda. Yet Fortune magazine concluded that the Post’s “analysis was fairly weak,” and “Much of [the evidence] seems flimsy at best.” That didn’t stop the Post from blaming Russian propaganda, based on biased evidence and anonymous sources. As AIM’s Cliff Kincaid recently explained, Facebook and Google are looking to create an algorithm that eliminates fake news on their websites. To do so is to risk disproportionate discrimination against information from outside the mainstream, including conservative and left-wing blogs, points out The Hill. “Critics also charge that the ‘fake news’ trope obscures the fact that the mainstream media have their own problem with false or misleading stories,” writes Cathy Young in The Hill. Kincaid also cites something called the First Draft Coalition, a sort of Ministry of Truth comprised of media organizations that we are supposed to trust to produce content free of fake news...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/fake-news-sites-continue-false-claim-about-the-iran-nuke-deal/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email120116&utm_medium=email
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The Real Reason liar-Hillary
Asked for a Recount
by Ed Klein
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{townhall.com} ~ Why did liar-Hillary Clinton join Jill Stein, the Green Party’s oddball presidential nominee, in asking for a recount of the votes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania when everyone knows that such a recount won’t change the outcome of the 2016 election?

Part of the answer is that people close to liar-Hillary—Huma Abedin, Chelsea liar-Clinton, and Sidney Blumenthal—encouraged her to ask for a recount as a way of lifting her spirits.

“She is weepy, looks ten years older and is very whiny,” said one of liar-Hillary’s closest friends. “She has been drinking wine pretty heavily, much more than usual. She mopes around all day, swimming in a sea of recriminations and complaining that her campaign managers were ‘incompetent,’ Bill and Chelsea ‘didn’t work hard enough,’ FBI Director Comey was ‘in league with Trump.’”

In addition, President liar-Obama convinced liar-Hillary that it was in the best interest of the Democratic Party if the liar-Clinton legal team got involved with the recount and didn’t leave it to Jill Stein.

“The president felt that the progressives were acting stunned and helpless and had to rise out of their stupor and show that they weren’t going to take their defeat lying down,” said the source. “Contesting the results of the election was the best and fastest way to stir the morale and fighting spirit of the demoralized party.

“liar-nObama felt that a recount would plant a seed with the base that the election was somehow dishonest,” the source continued. “He wanted to raise serious questions about the legitimacy of the Trump presidency.”

And what did Bill liar-Clinton—the man Charlie Rose called “the best political animal that’s ever been in American politics”—think of all this?

Said a close liar-Clinton adviser: “Bill thinks the recount is going to backfire as a strategy because there are probably no more than a handful of questionable ballots and they could actually wind up adding to Trump’s numbers and validate rather than invalidate his election.”
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69 Years Ago Today: UN Resolution 181 Partitioned Palestine To Create Jewish State
by Jeff Dunetz
 
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Germany Submits to Sharia Law
by Soeren Kern
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ A German court has ruled that seven Islamists who formed a vigilante patrol to enforce Sharia law on the streets of Wuppertal did not break German law and were simply exercising their right to free speech... The ruling, which effectively legitimizes Sharia law in Germany, is one of a growing number of instances in which German courts are — wittingly or unwittingly — promoting the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in the country. The self-appointed "Sharia Police" sparked public outrage in September 2014, when they distributed yellow leaflets which established a "Sharia-controlled zone" in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal. The men urged both Muslim and non-Muslim passersby to attend mosques and to refrain from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, gambling, music, pornography and prostitution...Germany just throw themselves under the bus.  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9461/germany-sharia-law
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Crazy California Is Drawing Up Regulations
To Enact Anti-Cow Fart Law
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ If anything proves that the global warming/climate change nonsense has gone too far, this is it. During his first stint as governor of California in the late 1970s Jerry Brown was known by the nickname of “Governor Moonbeam.”... Perhaps this go round he should be called “Governor Methane,” as his obsession with the climate change hypothesis is now leading California to regulate cow “emissions.” In September Brown became the first governor ever to sign a bill that regulates supposed greenhouse gases from livestock operations and landfills. But no one asked the bovine methane moo-ers whether or not they agree. Cattle and other farm animals are a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas as well as being more potent as an aroma. The methane is released when they belch, fart,  and release the raw material for cow chips...This shows Americans how stupid the dems/Brown and Pulosi are. It stinks. http://lidblog.com/california-it-anti-methane-cow-fart-bill/
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Leave the United Nations
by RUTH KING
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The story of Taiwan's expulsion from the UN is a cautionary tale for Israel. In 1971, after Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger implemented a rapprochement with the despots of Communist China, pro-American Taiwan was expelled by the United Nations to accommodate Peking (now Beijing)... Although Taiwan gave up all claims to the mainland, it didn't help at the UN which systematically reduced Taiwan's role, banning it not only from the Security Council but from the General Assembly. It has hung on to a peripheral place on a few subcommittees, where it is routinely harassed by other members. Taiwan continues to apply for UN membership but its applications have been denied, shamefully with American support for the continuing ban. Nonetheless Taiwan remains a thriving democracy now governed by a woman, Tsai Ing-wen. The American embassy today is in Tel-Aviv not in Jerusalem, Israel's capital. The United Nations edges closer and closer to recognition of a "Palestinian" state. Israel can meet the fate of Taiwan should  a "Greater Arab Palestine" be formally endorsed by the representatives of the  "HateIsraelstans"- those post-colonial nations that won independence in the 1950s, increasing the number of UN member states to 193, most of them oppressive tyrannies...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/leave-the-united-nations?f=must_reads
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Break the Cross!' Muhammad Commands It
by RAYMOND IBRAHIM
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ What more evidence is needed to prove that Islam is at war with Christianity than its well documented hatred for the quintessential symbol of Christianity: the Cross?... This recently occurred to me as I was surfing Arabic language videos and websites discussing Christianity-only to encounter one hostile video, fatwa, or sermon after another against the cross. Only one seemingly spoke well of the cross-though for a reason that again demonstrated Islam's hostility for Christians. According to Al Azhar professor Dr. Salim Abdul Galil, Muslims can be tolerant of the cross-they can even wear and pray to it-but only when in need of deceiving Christians, whom the learned professor portrayed as the natural enemies of Muslims...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/break-the-cross-muhammad-commands-it?f=must_reads
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Top Muslim University Rejects Reform,
Stands by ‘Terrorist Curriculum’
by Raymond Ibrahim
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{frontpagemag.com} ~Much of the curriculum of Al Azhar—the Islamic world’s most prestigious university, located in Cairo—is based on Islamic books written in the medieval era or earlier... These books—histories, biographies of Muhammad, hadith (words and deeds of the latter), tafsirs (Koran exegeses), etc.—are often criticized by more reform-minded Muslims for being too backwards, teaching things such as unrelenting jihad and hatred for non-Muslims. During a recent televised interview, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, Egypt’s highest authority on Islam and Grand Imam of Al Azhar, was asked about his university’s reliance on these books. His responses left many reformers disappointed. Tayeb insisted that all books used by Al Azhar are fine: “Our heritage books are innocent and being abused by those ignorant or indecent among us—and that’s all they can be: either ignorant or indecent.”...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264986/top-muslim-university-rejects-reform-stands-raymond-ibrahim
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69 Years Ago Today: UN Resolution 181 Partitioned Palestine To Create Jewish State
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Sixty-nine years ago the United Nations passed Resolution 181  (embedded below) which called for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state (back then Jews living in the Holy Land were called Palestinians).  It was approved on November 29, 1947 with 33 votes in favor, 13 against, 10 abstentions and one absent (see the end of the post for who voted what). The original partition resolution passed by the UN in November 1947, did not call for the establishment of a state of Israel. UN Resolution 181 called for dividing Palestine into Independent Arab and Jewish States.

Even France voted in favor of the partition plan which may have been the last time France voted in favor of Israel at the UN.  It wasn’t the last time Great Britain didn’t have the guts to vote in favor of Israel (they abstained).

On that very same day, November 29th, 1947 the Arab world declared war on the nascent Jewish State, and sixty-nine years later most of the Arab league still refuse to acknowledge that Jewish State’s existence, nor do they allow her citizens to raise their children in peace:

Even as we look toward the horizon, we must be firmly connected to reality, to the truth. And the simple truth is that the root of the conflict was, and remains, the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own, in their historic homeland.

 
The Arabs rejected any Jewish state, in any borders.
 
Those who think that the continued enmity toward Israel is a product of our presence in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, is confusing cause and consequence.

The attacks against us began in the 1920s, escalated into a comprehensive attack in 1948 with the declaration of Israel’s independence, continued with the fedayeen attacks in the 1950s, and climaxed in 1967, on the eve of the Six Day War, in an attempt to tighten a noose around the neck of the State of Israel.
All this occurred during the 50 years before a single Israeli soldier ever set foot in Judea and Samaria. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu May 2009
Despite being the treated as the scapegoat for all the world’s problems, Israel has spent much of the past 69 years as the Middle East version of Reagan’s shining city upon the hill, that may be one of the reasons she is hated so much.
Oh, and despite what you may hear from the Anti-Israel mainstream media, the US/Israel relationship is not one-sided. Israel has been invaluable in the war against Islamist-Terrorism

Today, Israeli contributions to U.S. national interests cover a broad spectrum. Through joint training, exercises and exchanges on military doctrine, the United States has benefited in the areas of counter-terrorism, intelligence and experience in urban warfare. Increasingly, U.S. homeland security and military agencies are turning to Israeli technology to solve some of their most vexing technical and strategic problems.

This support includes advice and expertise on behavioral screening techniques for airport security and acquisition of an Israeli-produced tactical radar system to enhance force protection. Israel has been a world leader in the development of unmanned aerial systems, both for intelligence collection and combat, and it has shared with the U.S. military the technology, the doctrine and its experience regarding these systems. Israel is also a global pacesetter in armored vehicle protection, defense against short-range rockets, and the techniques and procedures of robotics, all of which it has shared with the United States.

In fact, the Jewish State has not only aided the United States, Israel has made contributions to the entire world:

In the last 60 years, the UN’s partition decision has been overwhelmingly vindicated. In a region plagued with religious extremism, tyranny and economic stagnation, Israel stands as a model of democratic pluralism, economic growth and human progress. The Jewish state has contributed to the global community in myriad ways, including an entrepreneurial social sector and a cutting-edge high-tech economy. It has also generously offered its assistance to all countries in need.

Yet Israel’s right to exist is still under attack, often by the same forces that rejected the two-state solution six decades ago. …..In an Orwellian twist contrived by Arab countries, the UN in 1977 declared Nov. 29 a “Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.” This distorted the original UN decision beyond recognition – using it to undermine, rather than promote, the cause of peace. Last year’s “Day of Solidarity” UN event, for example, featured a large map of “Palestine” on which Israel did not appear. The official explanation was that it was simply that the map predated Israeli independence – but the implication of a Palestine without Israel was clear.

 
Diane Steinman wrote the words above nine-years-ago on 60th anniversary. When she said,  “it’s time for UN member states to reclaim the moral high ground and to once again allow the United Nations to become a relevant player in the quest for peace,” she was only partially right.

Amos Oz’s father told his young son on Nov. 29, 1947, “From now on, from the moment we have our own state, you will never be bullied just because you are a Jew and because Jews are so-and-so’s. Not that. Never again. From tonight that’s finished here. Forever.”

Unfortunately, Amos Oz’ dad was wrong. Israel and Jews all over the world are bullied and just because we are Jewish. President liar-nObama, much of the Democratic Party, most Muslim countries, and the organization that gave birth to the Jewish State, the United Nations are doing their best to lead the rest of the world to make Mr. Oz a liar.

It is immoral the way President liar-nObama has taken every opportunity possible to  throw Israel under the bus, the way he tries to force Israel to agree to Abbas’ terms without making Abbas and his government agree to stop calling for his people to attack Israelis, stop teaching anti-Jewish hate to its children, stop celebrating terrorists murderers, stop making payments to the families of terrorists (in some cases with American money), or even agree to Israel’s simplest demand, recognize her as a Jewish state.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu outlined it brilliantly in his speech before Congress in 2011. He talked about how Israel has been ready to establish a Palestinian State for decades, but there has been one hold-up.

“You see, our conflict has never been about the establishment of a Palestinian state. It has always been about the existence of the Jewish state. This is what this conflict is about….

They were simply unwilling to end the conflict. And I regret to say this: They continue to educate their children to hate. They continue to name public squares after terrorists. And worst of all, they continue to perpetuate the fantasy that Israel will one day be flooded by the descendants of Palestinian refugees.

My friends, this must come to an end. President Abbas must do what I have done. I stood before my people, and I told you it wasn’t easy for me, and I said… “I will accept a Palestinian state.” It is time for President Abbas to stand before his people and say… “I will accept a Jewish state.”

In fact every prime minister after Yitzchak Rabin has agreed there should be a Palestinian State (Rabin did not agree).

The United States must regain the high ground against terrorism it had before liar-nObama became president Terrorism is evil no matter who does it Mr. liar-nObama. It is disingenuous for us to continue to reward and “prop up” President Abbas, a man who leads an organization Fatah that is still trying to destroy Israel through terror, which still refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish State, which refuses to recognize any of the Jewish holy sites as Jewish or Christian sites as Christian. By all indications Mr. Trump will change liar-nObama’s anti-Israel policies.

At times Israel and the Jewish people in general have been their own worst enemies, accepting “peace partners” and voting for politicians who wish to see them destroyed. Ze’ev Jabotinsky was correct when he wrote in “The Iron Wall:”

“It is incredible what political simpletons Jews are. They shut their eyes to one of the most elementary rules of life, that you must not “meet halfway” those who do not want to meet you.”

Here are a few things about Israel that the UN, the EU, Arab League or even the United States doesn’t understand. Jews were first there in the time of Abraham, over 4,000 years ago. He even purchased land there in Hebron. Abraham’s grandson Jacob (Israel) purchased land at Shechem. Though the numbers have varied Jews have lived in the Holy Land since Joshua crossed the Jordan River 3,500 years ago (by the way the Jordan River is more like a creek). The top of the Temple Mount was purchased from Araunah the Jebusite, by King David for the precise purpose of building Jewish Temples about 3,000 years ago. Jews lived in Jerusalem ever since.

Additionally the UN that didn’t gave the Jews the right to live in the holy land, neither did any country or the land purchases by biblical heroes. The landlord was never the Arabs, and before the partition in 1947 there was never a state of Palestine. Jews have lived in the Holy Land continuously for the past 3,500 years because of an unbreakable contract with the real landlord, God.  We may have been punished at times  with exile but God always promised us return. The UN may have voted for partition, but they were simply acting as the agent of God, and if they didn’t pass that resolution, he would have found another way. As Israel’s first prime minister David Ben Gurion once told CBS News

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.”

About 2,600 years ago the prophet Jeremiah was sitting in prison as the Armies of Nebuchadnezzar were about to invade the Kingdom of Judea. His cousin Hanamel visited him and asked the prophet to buy his land in the field in his hometown of Anathoth. Needless to say property values were not great since Jerusalem was being besieged by what was then the most powerful army in the world. It didn’t seem as if it would be a good investment. But God told Jeremiah to buy the land, not because the prophet would ever get to enjoy it, but as a symbol, that one day the Jews would return to the land.

Somewhere buried under the ground in the biblical city of Anathoth the bill of sale is buried, as an everlasting symbol to the Jewish people’s eternal covenant with God, a covenant that was recognized by the UN 69 years ago via General Assembly Resolution 181.

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

In favor: 33
Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussian S.S.R., Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, Liberia, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, Ukrainian S.S.R., Union of South Africa, U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Uruguay, Venezuela.

Against: 13
Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen.

Abstained: 10
Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia.

Below is UN Resolution 181 

GA181 by Jeff Dunetz on Scribd

http://lidblog.com/69-years-ago-un-resolution-1

Read more…

Please read Part 1:

Walid Phares

Trump Will Declare the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization! (Part 1)

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/trump-will-declare-the-muslim-brotherhood-a-terrorist

The following recent article relates to and/or further supports my above blog regarding this extremely disturbing issue-You Decide:

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ISIS Claims Responsibility for OSU Attack: ‘While the Left tries to blame guns for the near-massacre – even though guns weren’t used’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Matthew Vadum-On November 30, 2016:

The Muslim terrorist group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for U.S. green card holder Abdul Razak Ali Artan’s brutal car-and-machete attack at Ohio State University.

On Monday morning 18-year-old Artan drove his car through a crowd of pedestrians at OSU’s Columbus campus. He exited the vehicle and then began hacking away at people with his knife. A police officer at the scene shot and killed him. Media reports indicated 12 people were injured in the attack but none suffered life-threatening injuries. Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs promptly said “I think we have to consider that it is” a terrorist attack.

Sure enough, on Tuesday Islamic State claimed responsibility for the terrorist assault. The group’s Amaq News Agency stated the OSU attack was perpetrated by a "soldier of the Islamic State."

Artan did in fact follow the express directives of Islamic State. In September 2014 the group issued this order to its followers:

So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….

On Facebook, Artan referenced jihadist mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki and wrote: “I am sick and tired of seeing my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured EVERYWHERE. … I can’t take it anymore. America! Stop interfering with other countries … [if] you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks.”

As soon as details about Artan began trickling out it was obvious to anyone not wearing politically correct blinders that the attack was an act of Islamic terrorism. KARE11.com reported “Artan was a Somali refugee and Ohio State student who left his homeland with his family in 2007. They lived in Pakistan before coming to the U.S., where Artan became a permanent resident in 2014.”

Somalia and Pakistan are “two epicenters of the global jihad,” writes Robert Spencer. If President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to place a temporary moratorium on immigration from jihadist-friendly countries had been in effect “Monday’s jihad attack at Ohio State University would never have happened,” he adds.

Under President Obama, Somali refugee resettlement has surged by an astounding 250 percent. As Jim Stinson writes at LifeZette:

Somalia is an overwhelmingly Muslim nation. Over 99 percent of Somalians are Muslim, according to Pennsylvania State University. Mass Muslim migration to Western nations in recent years has generated major concerns about cultural assimilation, vetting procedures, and, ultimately, instances of radicalization and violence.

Somali refugees have taken up residence in communities across America, creating Little Mogadishus across the fruited plain. Somalis in Columbus have been implicated previously in Islamic terror plots.

Despite the evidence pointing to jihad as the motive, talking heads spent untold hours on cable news networks Monday handwringing as they cautioned against leaping to conclusions about the motive of the killer. This is the way it works nowadays. The Obama administration, local authorities, left-wing kooks on Twitter, and the media play a gigantic game of pretending not to notice that terrorist attacks are terrorist attacks.

Knee-jerk leftists immediately tried to change the subject from terrorism after the attack, blaming guns even though firearms were not used in the attack.

At 11:52 a.m. Monday, recently defeated vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) had already jumped on the let’s-blame-it-on-guns bandwagon, tweeting “Deeply saddened by the senseless act of gun violence at Ohio State this morning. Praying for the injured and the entire Buckeye community[.]”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) tweeted "Today is yet another ... sad day in our country because of a senseless shooting at an Ohio State University.

Annoying affective actor George Takei joined in, tweeting, "Tired of the shootings, and the complicity of the NRA? Join us to help fight.” He included a link to his (closed) Facebook group.

Gun control fanatic Shannon Watts tweeted "For school shooting victims it's not too soon to discuss our nation's lax guns laws - it's too late[.]"

The Left has no ideas. They use the same old script from the same old playbook.

On June 12 of this year the mangled bodies of 49 dead Americans were still warm on the blood-stained nightclub floor at Pulse in Orlando, Fla. when the Left launched a propaganda campaign to protect the totalitarian ideology of the Muslim terrorist who methodically slaughtered these innocents. The killer, Omar Mir Siddique Mateen, had carried out the worst mass shooting in American history and the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. 

Journalist Tom Brokaw editorialized at the time that the real problem was guns not Islam. “Everything seems to get settled by a gun for whatever reasons,” he said. 

The lies, reflexive reactions, and red herrings of TV talking heads like Brokaw were repeated over and over again by left-wingers all over the Internet and their allies in the media echo chamber.

Democrat lawmakers blamed inanimate metal objects for the terrorist massacre. They staged a raucous “sit-in” in the House of Representatives on June 22 in an attempt to force a vote on expanded gun control measures. Journalists indulged the politicians by providing saturation media coverage of the stunt.

Soon after the attack, President Obama shrugged, claiming it was too early to know “the precise motivations of the killer.” New York’s toxic leftist mayor, Bill de Blasio, blamed firearms, lamenting that “we have lost precious lives to the gun.” Salon writer Amanda Marcotte blamed conservatives, Christians, and “the cult of toxic masculinity.” Purported comedian John Fugelsang attacked gun rights, quipping that so many victims were killed rapidly because “in America, maniacs still have a God-given right to not have to reload mid-massacre.” 

The Left used the deadly Dec. 2, 2015 Muslim terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., to advance the gun control agenda. Before much was known about the perpetrators, the media spent the afternoon of the day of the attack speculating about the shooters, predictably blaming conservatives, Tea Party supporters, and militia groups.

President Obama demanded "common sense gun safety laws" and called for a law blocking individuals on the "No Fly List" from legally purchasing firearms, a measure that would almost certainly violate the Constitution.

Democratic candidates for president tripped over each other as they raced to express choreographed outrage on Twitter. Hillary Clinton urged "action to stop gun violence." Bernie Sanders whined, "This sickening and senseless gun violence must stop." Martin O'Malley declared, "Enough is enough: it's time to stand up to the @NRA and enact meaningful gun safety laws."

Of course it was a gun that ended Abdul Razak Ali Artan's terrorist attack in Columbus.

And as long as the Second Amendment is respected, Americans armed with guns will keep on foiling Muslim terrorists.

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The following recent articles revealed: 1) that the Ohio State University attack is now confirmed and was carried out by at least 3 Muslims;  2) the full text of Somali refugee terrorist Abdul Razak Ali Artan’s Facebook rant; 3) that the Ohio State attacker ’Should Not Have Been in Our Country’;  4) that there have been 8 bloody terror attacks in U.S. in 18 months and they all have 1 thing in common; and 5)  that the CIA Chief recently warned Trump that tearing up the Iran nuke deal would be 'Disastrous.' What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

Ohio State University Attack Is CONFIRMED - Was Carried Out By At Least 3 Muslims, 1 Named Ali Mohammed And Has All The Hallmarks Of An ISIS Lone Wolf!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Walid Shoebat-On November 29, 2016:

http://freedomoutpost.com/ohio-state-university-attack-is-confirmed-was-carried-out-by-at-least-three-muslim-terrorists-one-named-ali-mohammed-and-has-all-the-hallmarks-of-an-isis-lone-wolf/

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Read the Full Text of Somali Refugee Terrorist Abdul Razak Ali Artan’s Facebook Rant!-Posted on InformationLiberation-By Chris Menahan-On November 29, 2016:

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=55900

Abdul Razak Artan, a third-year student in logistics management, sits on the Oval in an August 2016 photo provided by The Lantern, student newspaper of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. on November 28, 2016. Courtesy of Kevin Stankiewicz for The Lantern/Handout via REUTERS

Donald Trump: Ohio State Attacker ’Should Not Have Been in Our Country’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Charlie Spiering-On November 30, 2016:

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/30/trump-ohio-state-attacker-not-country/

Abdul Razak Artan, a third-year student in logistics management, sits on the Oval in an August 2016 photo provided by The Lantern, student newspaper of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. on November 28, 2016. Courtesy of Kevin Stankiewicz for The Lantern/Handout via REUTERS

8 bloody terror attacks in U.S. in 18 months have 1 thing in common: ‘Media fail to connect dots: 'They're willfully lying to the public'!-Posted on WND.com-By Leo Hohmann-On November 30, 2016:

http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/9-bloody-terror-attacks-in-u-s-in-18-months-have-1-thing-in-common/#3S3LH1UXQftHzXHM.99

Image: CIA Chief Warns Trump: Tearing Up Iran Nuke Deal Would Be 'Disastrous'

CIA Chief Warns Trump: Tearing Up Iran Nuke Deal Would Be 'Disastrous'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Mark Swanson-On November 30, 2016:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/john-brennan-trump-tear-iran/2016/11/30/id/761418/?ns_mail_uid=9614347&ns_mail_job=1698148_11302016&s=al&dkt_nbr=xfmtwtgd

The following recent articles and videos revealed; 1) that an Ohio State Official recently defended OSU terrorist; 2) that a North Carolina man recently plead guilty to plotting terror attacks against Americans; 3) that a Muslims of America group is preparing for ‘Jihad’ against Trump; 4) that Dr. Sebastian Gorka recently stated that Obama’s counter-terrorism policy is ‘absolute insanity’; and 5) that 9/11 families recently stated that Sen. McCain and Graham’s change would “effectively gut” bill that allows lawsuits against Saudi Arabia. What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

Ohio State Official DEFENDS Terrorist… FB Post Will Make You Physically Ill-Posted on Conservative Tribune-On December 1, 2016:

http://conservativetribune.com/ohio-state-official-terrorist/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WCJEmail&utm_campaign=DailyBest&utm_content=2016-12-01

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North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Plotting Terror Attacks Against Americans!-Posted on Christian News-By Heather Clark-On November 30, 2016:

http://christiannews.net/2016/11/30/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-to-plotting-terror-attacks-against-americans/

American Islamist Group Preps for Conflict Against Trump

Muslims of America Group Prepares for Jihad Against Trump!-Posted on ConservtiveByte.com-On November 29, 2016:

http://conservativebyte.com/2016/11/muslims-of-america-group-prepares-for-jihad-against-trump/

Video: Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Obama counterterrorism policy is ‘absolute insanity’!-Posted on ConservativeVideo.com-On December 1, 2016:

http://conservativevideos.com/dr-sebastian-gorka-obama-counterterrorism-policy-absolute-insanity-video/

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9/11 Families Say McCain, Graham change would “effectively gut” bill that allows lawsuits against Saudi Arabia!-Posted on GOPUSA-By Associated Press-On  December 1, 2016:

http://www.gopusa.com/?p=17843?omhide=true

The following recent article revealed that the incoming UN Chief recently directed Europe to 'ignore its voters' and open its borders to Muslim migrant refugees. What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

4063518162?profile=originalNew UN Chief to Europe: Ignore Voters, Open the Borders!-Posted on The New American-By Alex Newman-On December 1, 2016:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/24744-new-un-chief-to-europe-ignore-voters-open-the-borders

The following recent articles and video(s) contained therein revealed: 1) that a radioactive device was recently stolen in Iran and officials warn that it could yield a “Dirty Bomb”2) that World War III is upon us;  3) that the Islamic State recently released a video threatening to ‘assassinate’ President-Elect Donald Trump; and 4) that the 9/11 mastermind recently revealed that Trump’s plan to fight terrorists would work-You Decide:

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Report: Radioactive Device Stolen In Iran: Officials Warn: “Could Yield A Dirty Bomb”!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Mac Slavo-On December 1, 2016:

http://freedomoutpost.com/report-radioactive-device-stolen-in-iran-officials-warn-could-yield-a-dirty-bomb/

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World War III Upon Us!-Posted on iPatriot-By Ray Thomas-On December 2, 2016:

http://ipatriot.com/world-war-iii-upon-us/

Islamic State Releases Video Threatening to Assassinate President-Elect Donald Trump!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Walid Shoebat-On December 2, 2016:

http://freedomoutpost.com/islamic-state-releases-video-threatening-to-assassinate-president-elect-donald-trump/

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9/11 Mastermind Reveals Trump’s Plan to Fight Terrorists Works: ‘Khalid Sheikh Mohammed shows anti-war leftists were playing into Al Qaeda’s hands’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On December 2, 2016:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265006/911-mastermind-reveals-trumps-plan-fight-daniel-greenfield

The following recent articles and videos revealed: 1) that ISIS plans 'Jihad attacks' on Trump’s Inauguration day; 2) that an Islamist group on American soil is stockpiling weapons because they expect a confrontation with Feds under Trump; 3) that an ABC News Report recently reported that the San Bernardino terror attack was triggered by a ‘Christmas Party’; 4) that over 100,000 Muslims & Africans are waiting on the US-Mexico border ready to invade the US; and 5) that Turkey is provoking a ‘WWIII false flag event.’ If True-What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

EXCLUSIVE: ISIS declares WAR on Trump's inauguration day calling it 'BLOODY FRIDAY'

ISIS plans JIHAD ATTACKS on Trump’s Inauguration day calling it ‘BLOODY FRIDAY’!-Posted on The D.C. Clothesline-By Pamela Geller-On December 4, 2016:

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/12/04/isis-plans-jihad-attacks-on-trumps-inauguration-day-calling-it-bloody-friday-2/

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Islamist Group on American Soil Stockpiling Weapons; Expect Confrontation with Feds Under Trump!-Posted on Minutemen News-On December 3, 2016:

http://minutemennews.com/islamist-group-american-soil-stockpiling-weapons-expect-confrontation-feds-trump/

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Warped ABC News Report: San Bernardino Terror Attack Was Triggered By Christmas Party!-Posted on Liberty Alliance-On December 2, 2016:

http://libertyalliance.com/warped-abc-news-report-san-bernardino-terror-attack-triggered-christmas-party/

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Over 100,000 Muslims & Africans Waiting On The US-Mexico Border To Invade The US!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Walid Shoebat-On December 4, 2016:

http://freedomoutpost.com/over-100000-muslims-africans-waiting-on-the-us-mexico-border-to-invade-the-us/

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Video: Turkey’s Is Provoking WW III-False Flag Event Is Imminent!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On December 2, 2016:

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/12/02/turkeys-is-provoking-ww-iii-false-flag-event-is-imminent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turkeys-is-provoking-ww-iii-false-flag-event-is-imminent

I believe that the following article from the past relates to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Putin says the illuminati plan to use Islam in order to spark World War 3

Putin: Illuminati Plans To Use Islam To Spark World War 3!-Posted on You News Wire-By Baxter Dmitry-On April 2, 2016:

http://yournewswire.com/putin-illuminati-plans-to-use-islam-to-spark-world-war-3/

The following recent articles revealed: 1) that in Germany a Muslim refugee recently raped and murdered a Government Officials daughter and in Sweden five Muslim migrants gang-raped and brutally beat a young boy at knife point, but these disturbing cases got very little attention in the U.S., where the Democratic Party and the news media are in agreement with President Barack Obama’s desire to bring tens of thousands of Muslim refugees with no plausible method of “vetting” the asylum seekers; 2) that major Companies, Humanitarian Organizations, and NGOs are working with the EU to smuggle millions of illegal Muslims into Europe using our taxpayer dollars; 3) that WikiLeaks exposed Obama’s key ally in the war against ISIS as financier of Islamic State; 4) that Obama recently blamed U.S. intelligence for missing rise of the Islamic State; 5) that Obama's National Security Report Card is ‘Unsatisfactory’; and 6) that UN Chief recently compared populist success of Trump and Farage to ‘Islamic State.’ What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

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Germany: Muslim Refugee Rapes, Murders Government Officials Daughter!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On December 9, 2016:

http://newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news553.htm

The victim, who is under 15, was filmed during the attack, which happened in woodland in Uppsala (file picture), south east Sweden

Five Muslim migrants gang-rape, brutally beat, boy at Knifepoint!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Pamela Geller-On December 6, 2016:

http://freedomoutpost.com/five-muslim-migrants-gang-rape-brutally-beat-boy-at-knifepoint/

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Major Companies, Humanitarian Organizations, And NGOs Are Working With EU To Smuggle Millions Of Illegal Muslims Into Europe Using Your Taxpayer Dollars!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Walid Shoebat-On December 6, 2016:

http://freedomoutpost.com/major-companies-humanitarian-organizations-and-ngos-are-working-with-eu-to-smuggle-millions-of-illegal-muslims-into-europe-using-your-taxpayer-dollars/

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WikiLeaks Exposes Obama’s Key Ally In The War Against ISIS As Financier Of Islamic State!-Posted on Western Journalism-By Yochanan Visser-On December 6, 2016:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/wikileaks-exposes-obamas-key-ally-war-isis-financier-islamic-state/

President Obama said that during his eight years in charge, "no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland." (Associated Press)

Obama blames U.S. intelligence for missing rise of the Islamic State!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Dave Boyer, The Washington Times-On December 8, 2016:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/8/obama-says-us-intelligence-missed-the-rise-of-the-/

Obama's National Security Report Card – Unsatisfactory!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By David Limbaugh-On December 9, 2016:

http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/david-limbaugh/obamas-national-security-report-card-unsatisfactory

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage (right) poses with US President-elect Donald Trump in New York

UN Chief Compares Populist Success of Trump and Farage to Islamic State!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Liam Deacon-On December 9, 2016:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/12/09/un-chief-compares-populist-success-trump-farage-islamic-state/

The following recent articles and videos revealed: 1) that the former Dean of Islamic Law in Qatar recently stated that Islamic Jihad ‘has accompanied Arab societies throughout Islamic history’; 2) that the 'Secret' refugee resettlement program is a ‘Trojan Horse’ that is transforming America; 3) that Putin has his military on full alert following Obama’s ‘Christmas Threat’; 4) that Obama is once again illegally sending 200 troops to Syria; 5) that Obama recently told troops that they may ‘criticize our President’ and that this is not a war between the U.S. and Islam; 6) that Obama recently stated that ‘no foreign terrorist organization’ has attacked in the U.S. during his tenure; 7) that AG Lynch is scheduled to visit a ‘radical Mosque’ favored by Obama and Johnson (DHS); 8) that Trump could expose Obama’s crooked ‘Iran Nuke Deal’; 9) that a Dutch court recently ruled that Dutch nationalist lawmaker Geert Wilders’ expression of ‘patriotism and free speech’ is considered to be a criminal offense; and 10) that Facebook is censoring Germans demonstrating against 'Muslim rapefugees.' If True-What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

Former Dean of Islamic Law in Qatar: Islamic Jihad “Has Accompanied Arab Societies Throughout Islamic History”!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On  December 10, 2016:

http://freedomoutpost.com/former-dean-of-islamic-law-in-qatar-islamic-jihad-has-accompanied-arab-societies-throughout-islamic-history/

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'Secret' refugee resettlement transforming America: 'If they're not assimilating, then we're creating a huge Trojan horse'!-Posted on WND.com-By Paul Bremmer-On December 11, 2016:

http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/secret-refugee-resettlement-transforming-america/#q0EwTfd7vPQut1cl.99

Vladimir Putin puts Russian military on full alert as Obama issues 'christmas threat'

Putin: Military On Full Alert Following Obama’s ‘Christmas Threat’!-Posted on You Wire News-By Sean Adl-Tabatabai-On December 11, 2016:

http://yournewswire.com/putin-military-full-alert-obamas-christmas-threat/

FILE - In this June 30, 2016, file photo, Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon.

Obama Once Again Illegally Sending 200 Troops to Syria!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On  December 10, 2016:

http://freedomoutpost.com/obama-once-again-illegally-sending-200-troops-to-syria/

Obama to Troops: You May “Criticize Our President,” but This is Not a War between the United States & Islam!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On December 9, 2016:

http://freedomoutpost.com/obama-to-troops-you-may-criticize-our-president-but-this-is-not-a-war-between-the-united-states-islam/

Obama: “No foreign terrorist organization” has attacked in US during my tenure!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Pamela Geller-On December 8, 2016:

http://freedomoutpost.com/obama-no-foreign-terrorist-organization-has-attacked-in-us-during-my-tenure/

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks about the killing of police officers in Dallas, Texas, during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, U.S., July 8, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

AG Lynch To Visit Radical Mosque Favored By Obama, Johnson!-Posted on GOP Daily Dose-By Rick Wells-On December 10, 2016:

http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/12/10/ag-lynch-to-visit-radical-mosque-favored-by-obama-johnson/

Trump Could Expose Obama’s Crooked Iran Nuke Deal!-Posted on The Black Sphere-By Dawn Gaye-On December 9, 2016:

http://theblacksphere.net/2016/12/trump-could-expose-obamas-crooked-iran-nuke-deal/

Patriotism, Free Speech Ruled Criminal Offense For This Leader

Patriotism, Free Speech Ruled Criminal Offense For This Leader!-Posted on GOP Daily Dose-By Rick Wells-On December 10, 2016:

http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/12/10/patriotism-free-speech-ruled-criminal-offense-for-this-leader/

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Fakebook Censors Germans Demonstrating Against Muslim Rapefugees!-Posted on The Black Sphere-By Kevin Jackson-On December 6, 2016:

http://theblacksphere.net/2016/12/fakebook-censors-news-rapefugees/

The following recent thought-provoking article reveals that cities in Sweden are being told to prepare for War-You Decide:

Cities in Sweden Told to Prepare For War!-Posted on The D.C. Clothesline-By Paul Joseph Watson-On December 15, 2016:

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/12/15/cities-in-sweden-told-to-prepare-for-war/

The following article and video revealed: 1) that the Obama Administration ‘laundered’ U.S. cash to Iran via the New York Federal Reserve and several European banks; and 2) that Judge Jeanine Pirro recently exposed something eye-opening regarding Obama and Islam on live TV-You Decide:

John Kerry, Javad Zarif / AP

Obama Admin ‘Laundered’ U.S. Cash to Iran Via N.Y. Fed, Euro Banks: ‘Congressman: ‘Administration laundered this money in order to circumvent U.S. law’!-Posted on The Washington Free Beacon-By Adam Kredo-On September 19, 2016:

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-laundered-u-s-cash-iran-via-n-y-fed-euro-banks/

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Video: Judge Jeanine Goes on Live TV, Exposes THIS About Obama… And Islam!-Posted on Angry Patriot-On December 24, 2016:

http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/judge-jeanine-obama-and-islam/

The following recent thought-provoking article explores the 'real life spiritual warfare' that we are currently dealing with here at home and around the world-You Decide:

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Delivering us from evil: David Kupelian goes beyond 'The Exorcist' to explore real-life spiritual warfare!-Posted on WND.com-By David Kupelian-On December 14, 2015:

http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/delivering-us-from-evil/#rxKMc2AIrq16YgGG.99

The following recent articles revealed: 1) that Obama recently got rid of visitor registry before Trump takes office; and 2) that Obama has made our holidays hazardous due to some of his statements (e.g. The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam, etc.). If True-What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

Obama gets rid of visitor registry before Trump takes over

Obama gets rid of visitor registry before Trump takes over!-Posted on The Hill-By Jessie Hellmann-On December 22, 2016:

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/311498-obama-administration-nixes-visitor-registry-ahead-of-trumps-inauguration

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The Season of Living Dangerously: ‘How the outgoing president has made our holidays hazardous’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On December 23, 2016:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265232/season-living-dangerously-lloyd-billingsley

The following recent article revealed that the Obama Administration and the main (lame) stream media are lying to the American people about the recently cancelled registry program supposedly used as a ‘Muslim tracking system.’ If True-What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

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You Are Being Lied To: The Cancelled NSEERS Program Is NOT A Muslim Tracking System!-Posted on Liberty Alliance-On Decmeber 23, 2016:

http://libertyalliance.com/lied-cancelled-nseers-program-not-muslim-tracking-system/

The following recent articles revealed: 1) that a study recently revealed that ‘90,000 Christians were killed in 2016, which relates to 1 Every 6 Minutes’; and 2) that Trump recently stated that ‘Islamist terrorists continually slaughter Christians.’ If true-What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

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90,000 Christians Killed in 2016, 1 Every 6 Minutes: Study!-Posted on The Christian Post World-By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter-On December 30, 2016:

http://www.christianpost.com/news/90000-christians-killed-in-2016-1-every-6-minutes-study-172464/#QRkzHKIvcuwGx9ez.99

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‘Islamist Terrorists Continually Slaughter Christians’: Trump Says What Obama Refused to Say!-Posted on The Stream-By Michael Brown-On December 20, 2016:

https://stream.org/islamist-terrorists-continually-slaughter-christians-trump-says-obama-refused-say/

The following recent article revealed a leaked audio of Secretary Kerry revealing that Obama ‘intentionally allowed the rise of ISIS’ as a means of deposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government. This article also revealed that ‘Evan McMullin’, who ran for President in 2016 against Trump, was caught paling around with ‘#NeverTrump Adam Kinzinger’ in Turkey in 2014 while meeting with the ‘Muslim Brotherhood affiliates (guise SETF)’, who are essentially the political arm of ISIS under a differing name, which seems to make a good case for why they adamantly opposed Trump.  If True-What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

Absolutely Stunning – Leaked Audio of Secretary Kerry Reveals President Obama Intentionally Allowed Rise of ISIS…!-Posted on The Last Refuge-By sundance-On January 1, 2017:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/01/01/absolutely-stunning-leaked-audio-of-secretary-kerry-reveals-president-obama-intentionally-allowed-rise-of-isis/

The following recent articles and videos revealed: 1) that Trump recently stated that if you leave the U.S. to join ISIS, ‘you’re banned from returning for life’; 2) that a 'refugee' named Mohamed recently 'sexually assaulted a disabled U.S. woman’ and the main (lame) stream media is silent; 3) that former Congressman Joe Walsh recently stated that the reason Obama hates Israel is because ‘he's Muslim’; and 4) that Obama was caught on tape stating what he really thinks about the ‘Bible’ and ‘it’s sick.’ If true-What’s wrong with this picture?-You Decide:

Video: Trump: If You Leave The U.S. To Join ISIS, You’re Banned From Returning For Life!-Posted on The GOP Daily Dose-By William Smith-On January 4, 2017:

http://gopthedailydose.com/2017/01/04/trump-leave-u-s-join-isis-youre-banned-returning-life-video/

Daadab camp near the Kenya-Somalia border is one of the world's largest refugee camps. The government of Kenya says it will shut down the camps soon because they are an economic burden and a "breeding ground" for terrorism.

'Refugee' named Mohamed sexually assaults disabled U.S. woman, media silent: 'They won't put this in the paper'!-Posted on WND.com-By Leo Hohmann-On January 3, 2017:

http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/refugee-named-mohamed-sexually-assaults-disabled-u-s-woman-media-silent/#I97JO8Ek68OC4ylL.99

Former Congressman Joe Walsh on Why Obama Hates Israel: "He's Muslim"!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On January 3, 2017:

http://freedomoutpost.com/former-congressman-joe-walsh-on-why-obama-hates-israel-hes-muslim/

Video: Obama Caught On Tape Saying What He Really Thinks About The Bible - It’s Sick!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By MIchael DePinto-On January 3, 2017:

http://freedomoutpost.com/obama-caught-on-tape-saying-what-he-really-thinks-about-the-bible-its-sick-video/

Please read Part 3:

Walid Phares

Trump Will Declare the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization! (Part 3)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/trump-will-declare-the-muslim-brotherhood-a-terrorist-2

I believe that the above articles and/or videos relate to and/or further support my following blogs-You Decide:

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Implicated In Bankrolling of Extremist Terrorist Movements Around The World!!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 16, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/saudi-arabia-implicated-in-bankrolling-of-extremist-terrorist

Muslim Brotherhood Declares War on America-Will America Notice!

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/muslim-brotherhood-declar...

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The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 2):

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-radica...

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When A U.S. President IS Muslim Brotherhood!

https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4063371724?profile=original
The Islamic Infiltration: Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets!

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/the-islamic-infiltration-...

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‘Civilization Jihad’ And Obama’s Connections!
 
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Who ran cover for Obama’s Islamic background? ‘Tracing The Politics And The Money Behind Obama’s 2008 Campaign’!

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/who-ran-cover-for-obama-s-islamic-background-tracing-the-politics

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Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Articles of Impeachment and Impeachment Proceedings)!
Stephen-K-Bannon-NH-Getty

Hypocrisy Watch: Networks Pound Bannon, But Ignore Democrat Ellison’s Radicalism!

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/hypocrisy-watch-networks-p...

Nazi Collaborator Soros Continues Multi-pronged War on Trump, Calls Him “Would-be Dictator”!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 5, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/nazi-collaborator-soros-continues-multi-pronged-war-on-trump

4064258232?profile=originalObama: Submit to Globalism or Face War, Death, Destruction!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 17, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/obama-submit-to-globalism-...

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The MSM conglomerates are the most prolific and insidious "fake news" propagators in the marketplace of ideas!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Udall Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 30, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u-s-senator-udall-requesting-congression-2

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Bingaman Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 1, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u-s-senator-bingaman-requesting-2

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Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Congressman Heinrich Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 1, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u-s-congressman-heinrich-requesting-2

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Follow-up Letter to NM Governor Martinez Regarding The Removal of President Obama From The NM 2012 Presidential Election Ballot!Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on May 1, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-governor-martinez-regarding-the-removal-2

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Udall Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!-Posted on TeaParty.org-By Jake Martinez-On June 10, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4301673%3ABlogPost%3A766218&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arapio’s Cold Case Posse!Posted by Jake Martinez-On June 10, 2012:

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u-s-senator-bingaman-requesting-3?xg_source=activity

4063758287?profile=original

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Congressman Heinrich Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!-Posted on We The People USA-By Jake Martinez-On June 10, 2012:

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u-s-congressman-heinrich-requesting-4?xg_source=activity

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Follow-up Letter To NM Governor Martinez Requesting The Removal of President Obama From The NM 2012 Presidential Election Ballot!Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on June 10, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-governor-martinez-requesting-the-removal

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Udall Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 18, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

4063590393?profile=originalA Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

4063360053?profile=originalThe Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32-OyyLJzHw&feature=player_embed...

4063359977?profile=originalWhen Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqO_Hljf08

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog and/or videos, please copy website link and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial by this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide: 

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/what-happened-to-free-speech/

“Food For Thought”

4063359991?profile=originalHello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Before The Lights Go Out?-God Bless America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

God Bless Our Country/Republic.
Semper Fi!
Jake

Please See:

Trump Will Declare the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization! (Part 2)!-Posted on New American Gazette-On December 1, 2016:

http://newamericangazette.com/2016/12/trump-will-declare-the-muslim-brotherhood-a-terrorist-organization-part-2/

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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Cheap shots, Russian hackers and fake news
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 by Erik Rush
 
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 Top Headlines 
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Welcome to our retooled Top Headlines section. Our objective is to save you time by reviewing hundreds of news and policy sites every morning. In addition to our top-of-the-fold Right Analysis and Hook summaries, here are more of today's top stories.
  • Trump names former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao (wife of Senate Leader Mitch McCon-nell) Transportation Secretary. (USA Today)

  • Trump picks Wall Street investment guru Steve Mnuchin to lead Treasury. (Wall Street Journal)

  • Trump deals with Carrier to keep jobs in America — a key campaign promise and he is not in the White House yet. (Bloomberg)

  • Economy likely won't top 3% for the year — goodbye, Barack liar-nObama. (Washington Free Beacon)

  • Trump's difficult transition from business to the presidency. (USA Today)

  • Nancy Pulosi survives challenge, retains failed Democrat leadership role. (Washington Post)

  • Keith Ellison, leading candidate for the DNC, took a 2008 trip to Saudi Arabia to meet with a radical cleric and a bank that funds suicide bombings. (Washington Free Beacon)

  • Surprise! liar-nObama's "Iranian nuke deal" is working as planned — U.S. cash has already been diverted to armies. (Washington Times)

  • While Veterans suffer... a grinch at the VA is busy trashing an employee's Christmas tree. (Washington Examiner)

  • Free speech update: Web hosting company shuts down conservative site boycotting Target stores. (Daily Signal)

  • "Ready for Michelle" PACs urge the first lady toward a 2020 run. Ready for another liar-nObama? (The Hill)

  • And for fun, a little satire: U.S. Christians brace for a brutal onslaught of "Happy Holidays" attacks. (Babylon Bee) ~The Patriot Post

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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Star Parker: "If the teachers unions are outraged by Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos as the new secretary of education, our president-elect must have made a good choice. ... [F]or those with the least power, the poor, parents are totally locked into failing schools controlled by bureaucrats and unions. If giving parents education choice was a bad idea, why do so many want it? ... Betsy DeVos' special interest is advancing freedom by bringing education opportunities to poor children. The unions' special interest is keeping a stranglehold on public schools and looking out for their members and their left-wing agenda. ... A headline on the National Education Association website says, 'Transgender students thrive in supportive schools.' Can you imagine the NEA worrying about Christian children getting biblical values? Parents should be free to choose a school embracing transgender values or Christian values. It should be up to them, not unions or bureaucrats. Having known Betsy DeVos for years, I am confident that unions will find their fears justified, and that our new secretary of education will provide leadership to significantly improve education in our country by bringing freedom and choice to families." ~The Patriot Post
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Keith Ellison - The Wrong Man
at the Wrong Time
by Alan M. Dershowitz
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    Congressman KeithEllison's                       LouisFarrakhan                                    
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ What should a political party that has just lost its white working-class, blue-collar base to a "make America great again" nationalist do to try to regain these voters?... Why not appoint as the new head of the party a radical left-wing ideologue who has a long history of supporting an anti-American, anti-white, anti-Semitic Nation of Islam racist? Such an appointment will surely bring back rust-belt voters who have lost their jobs to globalization and free trade! Is this really the thinking of those Democratic leaders who are pushing for Keith Ellison to head the Democratic National Committee? Keith Ellison is, by all accounts, a decent guy, who is well liked by his congressional colleagues. But it is hard to imagine a worse candidate to take over the DNC at this time. Ellison represents the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party, just when the party -- if it is to win again -- must move to the center in order to bring back the voters it lost to Trump. The Democrats didn't lose because their candidates weren't left enough. They won the votes of liberals. The radical voters they lost to Jill Stein were small in number and are not likely to be influenced by the appointment of Ellison. The centrist voters they lost to Trump will only be further alienated by the appointment of a left-wing ideologue, who seems to care more about global issues than jobs in Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. Ellison's selection certainly wouldn't help among Jewish voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania or pro-Israel Christian voters around the country...
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Attentional Millennials: We Owe You Nothing!
by Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ In a recent poll, and by a 2 to 1 margin, Millennial’s say they would rather have Fidel Castro as President over Donald Trump. Yes, America, this is what we have raised, a generation that wants something for nothing... Some should ask these illiterate Castro lovers one question: How did Cubans fare under this despot? The following video explores the mindset of so many of our young people and how they got this way. The implications for America are very dire.
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Flag burning and the difference
between speech and expression
by Rebecca Burgess
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Supporters of the “NYC Revolution Club” burn the flag
{aei.org} ~ During and in the decade following the Vietnam War, flag burning of American flags by American citizens in public protest became a near-celebrated thing... as plaintiff Gregory Johnson successfully defended a right before the Supreme Court to go unpenalized for such behavior (Texas v. Johnson). A newfound right to freedom of expression rather than speech was suddenly found by a closely divided Court (5-4) within the hidden corners of the Constitution. Fast forward thirty-plus years, and others burning the American flag in the wake of Trump’s election to the presidency are reprising the role of Johnson among others —then protesting the election of Ronald Reagan. But in 1984, when Johnson stole and burned a flag, it was within the context of 48 out of 50 states plus federal statute forbidding it. Then, writing for the five-justice majority, Justice William Brennan wrote that Texas had punished Johnson for exercising the “freedom that the flag’s cherished emblem represents,” meaning that by preventing Johnson from expressing a political inclination through arson, it was Texas, not Johnson, who committed an offense against the flag...  https://www.aei.org/publication/flag-burning-and-the-difference-between-speech-and-expression/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=120116
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Stop Bigotry Against Christians in America. Demand Federal Religious Liberty Legislation
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ Yesterday, Kate Aurthur at BuzzFeed maliciously targeted Chip and Joanna Gaines because they are Bible believing Christians. Aurthur’s article at BuzzFeed attempted to harm them and their television success because the church they attend supports real marriage... which BuzzFeed’s editorial policy decries as bigotry. Over the past several years, the gay mafia has specifically targeted Christian small businesses for harassment. Christian florists, bakers, photographers, t-shirt printers, pizza restauranteurs etc. have seen gay activists come into their businesses, made demands they gay activists knew would put these Christians in conflict with their religious beliefs, then turned to various state governments to punish those Christians who refused to violate their faith. It is a recurring pattern and the activists are now less and less likely to even deny they are intentionally targeting Christians...
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Only 4 states can stop vote fraud
by Leo Hohmann
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{wnd.com} ~ The raging debate about voter fraud has been hijacked by the left, says a leading expert on the issue, and the left is driving the narrative in a false direction using slick deception... The question is: What will President-elect Donald Trump do about it? When people think about “voter fraud,” they tend to think about the dead voting, people voting in multiple precincts or party machines paying homeless people to cast ballots. While those are all legitimate concerns, the mass fraud happens long before the vote is cast – at the point of registration – says Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and co-author of the book, “Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk.”...
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Cheap shots, Russian hackers and fake news
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 by Erik Rush
{wnd.com} ~ At the risk of waxing redundant, I would like to suggest that all of my fellow citizens who put time, effort and sundry mental and emotional energies into preventing a liar-Hillary Clinton presidency take note of some of the recent top news stories in the context of November’s general election. This is in part because these factors drive home the character of the political left; they also illustrate the footing upon which the American left has found themselves (or believe they have found themselves) since the election. The latter can be used as a tactical advantage, so to speak, for our side moving forward.

In my Nov. 16 column, I covered the mental indolence and emotional dysfunction attendant to the left’s reaction to the election of Donald Trump to the office of president. In my column of Nov. 23, I warned that we ought not be surprised at anything our political adversaries do strategically (such as their strategy is) in reaction to that outcome between now and January.

In one instance, I suggested that the rash of cop killings we’d seen in the weeks following the election might be in direct response to the election, whether these were the work of disgruntled lone wolves or the subtle handiwork of shadowy organizers (perhaps even community organizers) seeking to flex their muscle even as they were being escorted from the ring, beaten and bloodied.

How interesting it is, then, that on the heels of my cautionary words, we are now being advised that there was a “massive surge” in the number of illegal border crossings in the months leading up to the November election, with 46,195 illegal aliens apprehended along the our border with Mexico in October alone, rivaling June 2014 – the period when 57,862 were apprehended during the infamous Unaccompanied Alien Children tsunami. As WND readers know, the latter was handily orchestrated by the liar-nObama administration, although they and the press characterized it as spontaneous. Please note that the October 2016 figure represents apprehended illegal border crossers only; we obviously have no data on those who successfully got through, or who among them might present a clear and present danger to our national security.

Then, we have the feeble but very high-profile efforts on the part of liar-Hillary Clinton supporters who contend that Trump’s election was not legitimate. The suggestion that the election was compromised to favor Trump by Russian hackers operating out of the basement of the Kremlin is a patently embarrassing one, but it obviously has not been discredited by the establishment press. Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee, who is in all likelihood acting as a surrogate for the liar-Clinton campaign as to avoid making them appear sore losers, is spearheading the effort to force election recounts in Wisconsin and other states. While it is unlikely that Stein and her compatriots actually believe their labors will result in a different outcome, engendering widespread ambivalence and resentment would probably be sufficient for them given the manner in which the left operates.

The new “fake news” boogeyman is another creation of these embattled losers. In capitalizing on an obscure blog and running with the theme, the left is hoping to encourage mainstream news consumers that it is only left-anointed, ideologically kindred news sources that can be trusted to inform them of “The Truth.” Widely discrediting the alternative media sources, blogs and social media outlets from which increasing numbers of Americans are now getting their news could, in theory, accomplish this.

A desperate ploy to be sure, but consider with whom we’re dealing and the fact that they are quite off balance right now.

Lastly, reaction to the passing of Cuba’s communist dictator Fidel Castro has been a great litmus test for those who are wholly in the tank for socialism. In my view, anyone who believes that this man was anything other than a thug and serial murderer should be on a watch list of dangerous American subversives. Characterizing Castro as a “great revolutionary leader” not only reveals such individuals as, well, dangerous subversives, but is a slap in the face to all who have sacrificed, fought and died in the struggle against communism. The left has been lionizing and propagandizing Castro for decades, so it stands to reason that they would wish to use his death to enhance their brand in the face of the populist backlash against socialism in America and other Western nations.

If we are going to continue dialing back the progress the left has made over the last hundred years, we have far more work to do than electing a president who has the potential to be transformational (even if his bona fides do not pass conservatives’ muster). If those Americans who voted for Trump wish to be effective in regaining that which they have lost and in preserving their liberties and mundane comforts in the long term, then they must be made viscerally aware that this is one in the same with stultifying the momentum of the political left once and for all.

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What are your human rights?

4064262385?profile=originalThe Magna Carta, or “Great Charter,” was arguably the most significant early influence on the extensive historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today in the English-speaking world. In 1215, after King John of England violated a number of ancient laws and customs by which England had been governed, his subjects forced him to sign the Magna Carta, which enumerates what later came to be thought of as human rights. Among them was the right of the church to be free from governmental interference, the rights of all free citizens to own and inherit property and to be protected from excessive taxes. It established the right of widows who owned property to choose not to remarry, and established principles of due process and equality before the law. It also contained provisions forbidding bribery and official misconduct. Widely viewed as one of the most important legal documents in the development of modern democracy, the Magna Carta was a crucial turning point in the struggle to establish freedom.

On October 24, 1945, in the aftermath of World War II, the United Nations came into being as an intergovernmental organization, with the purpose of saving future generations from the devastation of international conflict. The Charter of the United Nations established six principal bodies, including the General Assembly, the Security Council, the International Court of Justice, and in relation to human rights, an Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).The UN Charter empowered ECOSOC to establish “commissions in economic and social fields and for the promotion of human rights….” One of these was the United Nations Human Rights Commission, which, under the chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt, saw to the creation of theUniversal Declaration of Human RightsThe Declaration was drafted by representatives of all regions of the world and encompassed all legal traditions. Formally adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948, it is the most universal human rights document in existence, delineating the thirty fundamental rights that form the basis for a democratic society.Following this historic act, the Assembly called upon all Member Countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.”Today, the Declaration is a living document that has been accepted as a contract between a government and its people throughout the world. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it is the most translated document in the world.

A basic introduction to human rights, this booklet outlines their development through history, up to the present day. It also introduces the world’s most important human rights documents and includes the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Request your FREE booklet, The Story of Human Rights. 

http://www.humanrights.com/request-info/what-are-human-rights-booklet.html

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Can the truck deliver data faster than high speed Internet? Amazon believe that Yes, if a lot of data. And offered at the annual conference for clients in Las Vegas unusual way of transferring large amounts of data from data centers in the cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
During the presentation in the hall of the Sands Expo & Convention Center there was a huge Hauler with a trailer. The trailer, which the company called Snowmobile, shape and size resembles a cargo container and is a data store 100 petabytes (1 petabyte is 1 million gigabytes).
Amounts of information in databases of companies in recent times are measured not in terabytes, but in petabytes and even exabytes (1 billion gigabytes) and transfer them to cloud storage began to demand more time. Lightning fast speeds however in Amazon is not promised. Ten trucks with Snowmobile will be able to carry one exabyte of data from local to cloud storage in a little less than six months. According to the estimates of the same amount of data with high-speed Internet will be transmitted for approximately 26 years. The possibility of a relatively fast data transfer with Snowmobile and Snowball can attract customers to Amazon's cloud services. However, Jesse recognizes that most companies will many more years to use hybrid mode with cloud storage. So Amazon recently announced a partnership with VMware's customers, the latter will be able to take advantage of AWS services without transferring the data from their data centers.

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Thurs/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Justin Trudeau:
Baby-Faced Commie Apologist Unmasked
by Michelle Malkin
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 ESPN Is Losing ... Bigly 
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Over the last two months, ESPN has lost an astounding 1.176 million subscribers. October and November have set records in losses for the sports network, which now has a total number of cable and satellite subscribers at 88.4 million — down from well over a 100 million just a few years ago. ESPN, the largest provider of sports coverage in the nation, will see at least a $100 million loss in revenue this year thanks to this hemorrhaging of subscribers.
          There are several contributing factors, such as changing demographics and competition from other sports networks like Fox's FS1. However, the largest contributing factor may be that the Entertainment Sports and Programming Network has changed into a leftist propaganda rag, unabashedly mixing sports broadcasting and commentary with the promotion of leftist social activism and politics. It's the old leftist ploy of co-opting everything as a means of promoting and instilling their politically correct worldview into the populous, with the expressed purpose of excluding other perspectives. It's Orwellian.
          But American sports fans don't want to be lectured to on how "brave" Bruce Jenner was for declaring himself a woman, or listen to the glorification of Colin Kaepernick for disrespecting the national anthem. The history of sports in America is one of entertaining competition, not of "social justice" causes. There is no question that sports have had significant impact upon American culture, but conflating "social justice" with sports entertainment only turns people off. ESPN is learning the hard way that sports and politics just don't mix.  ~The Patriot Post
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 The Duplicate Green Card Fiasco 
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The Department of Homeland Security released a new report which found that over the last three years the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has produced at least 19,000 green cards that were duplicates or contained erroneous information. Over this same period, thousands of green cards were sent to incorrect addresses, creating another potential security risk. The report stated, "In the wrong hands, Green Cards may enable terrorists, criminals and illegal aliens to remain in the United States and access immigration benefits." The report disclosed that green card errors cost taxpayers $1.5 million in 2015 alone. Furthermore, the report also noted that, in 2013, more than 2,400 immigrants who were approved for two-year conditional stays in the U.S. "were inadvertently issued cards allowing them to stay for 10 years." The government has had some difficulty in tracking down some of the immigrants who received these incorrect green cards.
          In 2014, some 5,280 green cards were printed "with incorrect names and/or dates of birth," and some applicants received cards that were printed "No Given Name." Earlier this year, 18,000 green cards were sent out and reported as missing; 95% of them were delivered. Between 2013 and 2015, U.S. Customs and Border Control listed at least 4,600 cases of individuals who were using "imposter green cards."
          While mistakes will always occur, what is truly concerning is the significant rise in the number of mistakes being made by the USCIS over the last three years. Experts claim the rise is due to an immigration system that has simply become overwhelmed and is unable to handle even some of the most basic administrative tasks. Mistakes that are allowed to continue with little or no attempt to correct, indicate a management or leadership lacking concern over the ramifications of those errors. Honestly, it's not surprising given Barack liar-nObama's stance on illegal immigration that these problems were not seriously addressed. It may be that, from liar-nObama's perspective, they weren't really problems. 
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hanoi-Kerry Enraged – liar-Clinton Loss Means He Can’t Rip Us All Off As Planned
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Of course the global communists that are currently in charge weren’t able to complete their objective of complete and total destruction of the country with the liar-Clinton loss, but they’re very good at adaptation... Instead of behaving appropriately, with class and respect as is customary and keeping their mouths shut and their nose pointed elsewhere once their period in power is done. They’re going to be sharing their minuscule allocation of wisdom, wrapped in heaping doses of stupidity and treachery, with their successors and the rest of us. Just when we had hoped we might finally be free of these monsters, the arrogant, elite know-it-alls are proclaiming their intent to stick around. In a Tuesday speech, Secretary of State and liar-Hillary Clinton obstructionist John hanoi-Kerry announced that he would not “go quietly into the night,” that he will be playing a significant role in what he envisions as “one hell of a debate” about the country over the next few years...  http://rickwells.us/kerry-enraged-clinton-loss-means-rip-us-off-planned/
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Liberals Wrong Again: It Was G.W. Bush
Who Stopped Al Qaeda’s Second Major U.S. Attack
by Warner Todd Huston
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{constitution.com} ~ For years liberals, and even some on the right, claimed that George W. Bush caused more evil jihadists to join al Qaeda with his quick and strong response to the 9/11 attacks in 2001... But now the mastermind behind those attacks is admitting that W’s response to that terrible day is exactly what put a quick end to al Qaeda’s plans for further attacks and W wrecked mayhem among the terror group’s networks. These revelations have at last leaked out from among the interviews Khalid Sheik Mohammed — often known as KSM — gave to the CIA in the months and years after the brutal terror attacks in 2001. Mohammad was an evil mastermind and one of the key al Qaeda operatives who planned and executed the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers as well as the attack that sent United Airlines Flight 93 crashing into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. The attacks killed over 3,000 Americans in only a few hours on that terrible day...
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Report: Sarah Palin Under
Consideration for VA Secretary…
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ According to a report citing two transition sources, Governor Sarah Palin is being considered for the position of Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA)... Governor Palin has been a strong supporter of Donald Trump for several years and was one of his most fierce defenders against the insufferable GOP establishment class.  She would make an exceptional cabinet member in either VA or Interior. The bench for possible VA Secretary is extremely deep and loaded with dream team candidates, including:  Governor Sarah Palin, Senator Scott Brown and Chairman Jeff Miller (House VA Committee). The challenge of modernizing, restructuring, removing the corruptocrats and rebuilding the VA structure to provide improved veteran benefits, including healthcare, is urgent and important.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/11/30/report-sarah-palin-under-consideration-for-va-secretary/
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World Mayors Meet, Scheme To Impose
Climate Hoax, Deal With “Trump Problem”
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The dishonesty or foolishness is breathtaking. How can such nonsense come from the mouths of people whose duty it is to best represent the interests of their citizens?... Are they lazy and willing to accept propaganda in place of facts or active participants in the scam? The latter seems far more likely. Mayors from many of the world’s largest cities gathered in the filthy, crime-ridden toilet of Mexico City on Wednesday to plot their revised strategy for “fighting climate change.” The election of Donald Trump is throwing a huge monkey wrench into their wealth redistribution, control and taxation scheme. According to their website, the purpose of the event is to “advance urban solutions to climate change and highlight the leadership role of cities in addressing climate change and implementing the Paris agreement.” The Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Agreements are both stealth world austerity packages that cede control over every aspect of our lives to central world government bureaucrats. The world’s population needs saving, alright; we need to save ourselves from these would-be slave masters... http://rickwells.us/world-mayors-meet-scheme-impose-climate-hoax-deal-trump-problem/
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WOW! MSNBC Host Calls Out Elizabeth
dinky-Warren AS “SHRILL,” “UNHINGED”
by Harry Hibbs
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{americanlookout.com} ~ Elizabeth Warren is shrill and unhinged. But that’s not the sort of thing you expect to hear on MSNBC!... ELIZABETH WARREN: Republicans are taking over Congress, they are taking over the White House, but Republicans do not have majority support in this country. The majority of voters supported Democratic Senate candidates over Republican ones, and the majority supported a Democratic presidential candidate over a Republican one. The American people didn’t give Democrats majority support so we can come back to Washington and play dead. They didn’t send us here to whimper, whine, or grovel. MIKA: Yeah, well, you know what? There’s a huge part of the country that doesn’t think so and she might want to be a little inclusive because she is sounding like the people she is accusing of as being exclusive. I mean she’s just got to stop. I’m sorry. It’s getting exhausting. And this did not help during the campaign. It wasn’t. There’s an anger there that was shrill and a step above what it needed to be, unmeasured, and almost unhinged! It’s not going to work. At some point we have to look at what happened and look at the people we lost along the way.  http://americanlookout.com/wow-msnbc-host-calls-out-elizabeth-warren-as-shrill-and-unhinged-video/
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Justin Trudeau:
Baby-Faced Commie Apologist Unmasked
by Michelle Malkin
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Wasn’t one vapid pretty boy named Justin from Canada enough?

At least Justin Bieber is eye candy without the heartburn. Justin Trudeau, on the other hand, is the twinkly-eyed boy toy who makes informed adults wanna hurl.

For more than a year, the liberal Canadian prime minister enjoyed drool-stained global press coverage as the “hot hipster” and “dreamy sex symbol” with great hair and a tribal Haida tattoo. He basked in Ryan Gosling-esque memes about his commitment to feminism and touched off “Trudeau-mania” with a series of shirtless selfies and photobombs.

But this weekend, the sane world saw the baby-faced Commie apologist for the naked twit he truly is.

Mourning the death of repressive dictator Fidel Castro, Trudeau hailed his longtime family friend as a “larger than life leader” who “served his people for almost half a century.” Actually, El Comandante ruled with an iron fist and firing squads — serving himself to all of the island’s land, private businesses and media, along with his own private yacht, private island, 20 homes, fleet of Mercedes limos and bevy of mistresses.

Trudeau’s ridiculous mash note to the “legendary revolutionary and orator” caused the social media backlash of the year. The hashtag #TrudeauEulogies erupted to mock Trudeau’s soft-soaping of tyranny.

“As we mourn Emperor Caligula, let us always remember his steadfast devotion to Senate reform,” one Twitter user jibed in Trudeau-speak. “Although flawed Hitler was a vegetarian who loved animals, was a contributor to the arts & proud advocate for Germany,” another joked. “Kim Jong Il will always be remembered fondly for his leadership and contributions on climate change,” another chimed in.

Stung, the Canadian tundra hunk’s office announced Monday that he will not attend services for his beloved Uncle Fidel, who had served as a pallbearer at his former Canadian PM father’s funeral. But if Trudeau thinks the damage to his celebrity brand is temporary, he has another think coming.

Our neighbors to the north are now discovering what disillusioned Barack liar-nObama worshipers realized too late: Beneath the shiny packaging of supermodel progressivism lies the same old decrepit culture of corruption.

Political watchdogs have been buzzing about Trudeau’s shady fundraising ties to Chinese communist moguls. Like liar-nObama, Trudeau promised unprecedented transparency in government — “sunny ways” that would shed open light on how the Liberal Party was conducting the people’s business. Dudley Do-Right’s party declared there would be “no preferential access, or appearance of preferential access” in exchange for campaign cash and purported to ban favor-seekers with direct business before the government from attending political fundraisers.

Behind closed doors, however, Trudeau was selling out to wealthy Chinese-Canadians and Chinese nationals seeking government green lights for their business deals. According to his conservative critics, Trudeau and the Liberal Party have held 80 such cash-for-access fundraisers crawling with lobbyists and access traders over the past year.

The Globe and Mail newspaper revealed last week that Trudeau and his Liberal Party fundraisers had secretly organized one tony $1,500-per-head private residential gala in May attended by Chinese billionaires and bankers gunning for federal approval of projects. Echoing the operations of the liar-Clinton Foundation pay-for-play money machine, the nonprofit Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal raked in $1 million from a wealthy Chinese businessman a few weeks after the fundraiser. The donation includes funding for a statue of Pierre Trudeau, who once wrote a book hailing Chairman Mao.

The self-aggrandizing Commie fanboy apple doesn’t fall far from his cultural Marxist tree.
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Erroneous arrogance or just narcissism?

In his annual address to the Federal Assembly President of Russia Vladimir Putin said:
      "With Japan and India, we(Russia) will continue to be friends. But as relations with the United States, Vladimir Putin hopes that steps towards a rapprochement should follow from the new administration of the White House of US. The President said the cooperation between Russia and China a good international experience and a role model for the rest of the world." 

    If Mr. Putin says seriously, and he will adhere to this policy position and will continue to consider the issues of cooperation between the US and Russia in this plane, that is, that the President Trump something someone needs, I am sure that new hope President Trump will not justify. Of course, I can’t speak on behalf of the Trump, but I can only express my point of view, which, in my opinion, is quite obvious. It is quite obvious that the election Trump for President, this change of course on foreign economic policy of the United States, and given the fact that the US is a powerful economy, which affects the whole world, it is changing the vector of development of the world economy. And the sooner Mr. Putin will understand, it better for him, otherwise the relationship between the US and Russia will remain cold. Definitely Trump is a pragmatist and a set of likes or dislikes for him have absolutely no value. All that matters is the economic development of the United States, which will be based on many decisions including tough enough. The economic situation in the United States today is complex and it is influenced not only by internal factors. As ever we continue to face the consequences of the global economic crisis, which in my opinion has long ceased to be economic and has become a systemic crisis. Solutions require not economic but system transformations. And Yes, it is will be tough. It is even recognized Obama when at the opening of the UN Assembly said in plain text that the US not has enough resources to support alone the world economic order. But unlike Democrats and Hilary, Trump and the Republicans have an economic model and sufficient political determination and the necessary stiffness to stay the course. I'm afraid that Mr. Putin has in mind the intoxicating wind of change that ultimately may prove dangerous for him. I think that in light of the upcoming economic transformations, that Mr Putin should do the same first steps to convergence and the timely to take care of the title of a political partner, not Vice versa.

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I wanted to share the following thought-provoking article with you because it reveals a recent daunting Quinnipiac poll that shows large majorities or pluralities of Americans oppose reducing regulations, oppose across-the-board tax cuts, and favor increased federal spending on infrastructure and other goodies. Could this be true or is it 'fake poll'?-You Decide:

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GOP Has Golden Opportunity to Expand Liberty: But do Americans actually want to limit government?-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Louis DeBroux-On November 30, 2016:

For those who work to restore constitutionally limited government — as we in our humble shop do daily — a recent Quinnipiac poll is daunting. It shows large majorities or pluralities of Americans oppose reducing regulations, oppose across-the-board tax cuts, and favor increased federal spending on infrastructure and other goodies.

Leaving aside the accuracy of the poll (Quinnipiac had Hillary Clinton +7 nationally less than two weeks before the election), the polling reveals a paradox in the mindset of the American electorate. Every American — Republican and Democrat, men and women, young and old, black, white, Hispanic or Asian, rich or poor — wants government to mind its own business … except for their preferred program or regulation.

John Stossel writes, “Few people bother to go to Washington to ask for spending cuts. Even though America is heading toward bankruptcy, 90 percent of congressional testimony comes from people who want more stuff.”

What far too few Americans understand is that to empower government is to restrict individual liberty, and once you agree to grant government power over A, you have opened the door to granting government power to do B, C and D.

That is why the Founding Fathers strictly limited the power of the federal government, forbidding it from any and all actions not specifically authorized under the U.S. Constitution and, for emphasis, declaring in Amendments IX and X the primacy of the individual and the states over every sphere not listed in those enumerated powers.

The Founders understood the truth and wisdom in George Washington’s declaration: “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master!”

Few Americans, for example, would disagree with the idea that everyone should have access to health care, but the devil is in the details. Without the vote of a single Republican, arrogant Democrats, invigorated by their electoral victories, passed ObamaCare, ostensibly to guarantee health care to every American. As a result, the IRS was granted access to our medical information, we were forced to buy an outrageously expensive product whether we wanted it or not, we faced a bevy of new taxes and burdensome regulations, and tens of millions of Christians were forced to fund abortion through their insurance.

Government is necessary to protect the rights of individuals, but it is the nature of government to expand and acquire power, and that power is acquired at the expense of individual liberties. As another Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, so eloquently put it, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

Ironically, the very government that we empower to do our bidding against our neighbor ends up being the government that becomes our master.

Disagree? Keep in mind that when the 16th Amendment (the income tax) was proposed, its proponents promised that it would only affect the very rich. The bottom bracket was a 1% tax on income over $20,000 ($488,341 in 2016 inflation-adjusted dollars) and a top bracket of 7% for income over $500,000 ($12,208,535 in 2016 inflation-adjusted dollars). It was a way, its proponents argued, to make the rich pay their “fair share” (sound familiar?). Yet in a very short time the rates went up and the entry point for the bottom bracket went down, eventually capturing many more Americans in its web, and creating the IRS, possibly the most feared institution in American government, with the power to ruin your life and take everything you own.

Government is a necessary evil. As a third Founder, James Madison, argued in Federalist No. 51, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

Thus, individual liberties are safest when government is smallest, and when the power of government is closest to the people. As constructed by the Founders, the vast majority of government is enacted at the local and state level, with only a small portion belonging to the federal government.

When they held the White House, Senate, and House under George W. Bush, the Republicans blew a golden opportunity. Instead of reducing the size and scope of government, they doubled government spending and gave us Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, and an expansion of nearly every federal department and agency.

In 2016, Republicans get a do-over. While Democrats claim the GOP has no mandate because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, Republicans can counter with the fact that the GOP won a 3.2 million national popular vote majority in House races, and under Barack Obama, Republicans have won a net 11 Senate seats, 63 House seats, 14 governorships, and roughly 1,000 state legislative seats.

Republicans have a rare opportunity to reduce the size and scope of government at every level, and return to the form envisioned by the Founders, where government is limited and individual liberty is vast. It’s in the best interests of every American to encourage them to do just that. Our job is to educate our fellow Americans accordingly.

Source Link:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/46193

I believe that the above thought-provoking article relates to and/or further supports my following blogs-You Decide:

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Why Democrats Don’t Want To Make America Great Again!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/why-democrats-don-t-want-to-make-america-great-again

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Obama: Submit to Globalism or Face War, Death, Destruction!

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/obama-submit-to-globalism-or-face-war-death-destruction?xg_source=activity

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

4063590393?profile=originalA Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

4063360053?profile=originalThe Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc

4063359977?profile=originalWhen Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

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

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog and/or videos, please copy website link and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial by this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide: 

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/what-happened-to-free-speech/

“Food For Thought”

4063359991?profile=originalHello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Before The Lights Go Out?-God Bless America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

God Bless Our Country/Republic.
Semper Fi!
Jake
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Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

There IS, I suspect, a very good reason that the ilk of Obama, so many left wing nut-job celebrities and the always light yeacas-1.jpg?width=264rs to the left of liberal mainstream media has been shedding crocodile tears over the death of Fidel Castro.

CNN called the now dead dictator “magnanimous” and “grandfatherly.”

Absolute idiot, Colin Kaepernick stated that he agreed with Castro’s investing in Cuba’s education system, universal healthcare and wore a Castro shirt to a press conference just days before Castro died.

Steven Spielberg once said, “The best seven hours I ever spent was actually with Fidel Castro.”

In the past, Jack Nicholson called Castro a “genius” and Cuba under Castro, “a paradise.”

Chevy Chase said that Cuba is proof that, “sometimes socialism works.”

Over this past weekend, Barack Hussein Obama stated…

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