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By: Juan Reynoso, WTP- activist - txusa2016@gmail.com
http://anticorruptionact.org/. STAND FOR AMERICA http://www.teaparty.org/
"Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty."
The truth will soon be known- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsrhgxQeBKA
Fellow Americans, seek the truth and let the people know. America will never be destroyed from the outside; it will be destroyed from within. The evil truth is that our central Banking and corporate American money have corrupted our government and transformed our Democracy into this system of Plutocracy. We are destroying ourselves by ignorance, apathy and complete denial of what we are going through; we falter and lost our economy and freedoms and soon we are to lose our liberty because we are blind and ignorance.
Today, it is difficult to watch the news without feeling discouraged and disgusted at how deep our world is sinking into an immoral abyss for the love of money and power. However, to blame the politics of this nation for such a state is to not fully comprehend what is going on around us. The Bankers and the corporate elite are our real enemy.
We are in a War to protect our God given freedom and Liberty and our enemy is using a powerful weapon ”MONEY”; they know of our needs for money to support our families, so they use money to control us; The Bankers and Corporate America are the Devils army.
The Devil is at work in the hearts and minds of millions of Americans. He'll use whatever tactics he can to harm, tempt, incite, and sway the masses away from God’s law and moral principles. The Devil is tragically taking the lives of good people and precious, innocent children, women and men here in America and the world. Bush and Obama are doing the work of the Devil in the Middle East and in our country. In just 14 years they increased our national debt by 14 trillion Dollars and demise our economy and the world economy and made millions of Americans economy slaves and demised the middle class, while the oligarchs got richer beyond our imagination.
The training to suppress the American people is happening and they are deceiving the people. Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria, a command spokesman, said in an e-mail. “Training exercise Jade Helm is going to assist our Special Operations Soldiers and leadership in refining the skills needed against an ever changing foreign threat. The nature of warfare is always changing and U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s mission is to make certain the Army’s various Special Operations Forces are trained, equipped and organized to successfully conduct worldwide special operations in support of our nation’s interests. Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria is a whore, to keep his job he lied to us; the truth is that they see the American people as a threat we are a threat to the US Banking System and the predator corporatism of this country. We do not have any foreign threat; our only threat are the oligarchs that own the Banking system and the predators US corporations, the world’s oppressors that in partnership with the IMS and the world bank destroy the world’s economy and made the working people of the world an economy slave class; but regardless of what our adversary does in this world, regardless of their plans, their actions, or the harm they inflicts, it is comforting to know that they will lose in the end. they are doomed to fail like Roma- and the UK. https://libya360.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/empire-of-hypocrisy-torture-slavery-oppression-and-endless-war/
Our History of corruption.
https://mises.org/library/corrupt-origins-central-banking
Federal Reserve System is Corrupt
Bankers corrupt our government.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/crooked-bankers-are-corru_b_1664643.html
Banking Corruption
http://www.wanttoknow.info/bankingfactsinformationcorruption
Our army are ready to kill Americans that oppose to the takeover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXaYNtMIGUY
They are lien to us it is a training to suppress Americans
Our future- being replacing by technology.
The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
Appeals Court Hears Arguments on nObama Immigration Action
CAIN BURDEAU Associated Press
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
~~~lll~~~
Are We Doomed to Repeat the Past?
Seven decades after one of the most embarrassing lessons in modern military history, every nation is now familiar with the infamous promise of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when he haplessly enabled Adolf Hitler’s World War II kickoff by appeasing the enemy: “Peace in our time.” Unfortunately, America’s leaders have not learned that lesson because they also failed to internalize the wisdom of 19th-century philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” There are, of course, the standard lessons and adages. These include the lesson of hubris — that is, a leader will unvaryingly become politically blind when arrogance and pride take over — as well as the lesson that nations should measure each other by their actions, not by empty words. And then there's the truism that a leopard cannot change its spots. All of these are especially applicable, of course, in dealing with Iran. But by far the most important maxim for the leader of any nation faced with a critical issue is this: “There is wisdom in the counsel of many” (Proverbs 15:22). His Anointedness, Barack nObama, has ignored this time-tested axiom repeatedly since taking office, choosing instead to go it alone in setting national priorities, including national security priorities. While the stakes in these conceits have always been high, they are now, well, thermonuclear hot. -The Patriot Post 
The 'Doc Fix' Will See You Now
In a Congress known for enacting temporary stopgap measures to save face while repeatedly kicking the proverbial can down the road, legislators actually did something permanent this week. Unfortunately, the solution may prove worse than the problem. On Tuesday, the Senate, by an overwhelming 92-8 vote, passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, a Medicare overhaul bill commonly known as the “doc fix.” The bill, which the House passed last month with 392 votes, will end the annual threats of Medicare-reimbursement cuts to doctors stemming from the 1997 Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) law. Under SGR, Medicare’s budget was calculated by linking Medicare spending to economic growth. This became problematic once health care costs began rising faster than the growth of the economy — meaning, physicians were regularly at risk of Medicare reimbursement cuts. So, 17 times over the last 14 years, Congress passed temporary “doc fixes” to protect physician reimbursements. The new measure eliminates the need for these fixes by repealing the SGR law. It sounds well and good at first glance — and, indeed, a permanent fix was needed for a flawed system — but beware of bipartisan legislation that sounds well and good. For starters, the bill adds at least $141 billion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years. Remember all those Republican promises of fiscal responsibility? Well, the dodo bird’s got nothing on them. -The Patriot Post
HOT WATER FOR HILLY IN FAMILY FIB
BuzzFeed: “Speaking in Iowa Wednesday, former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton said that all her grandparents had immigrated to the United States, a story that conflicts with public census and other records related to her maternal and paternal grandparents. The story of her grandmother specifically immigrating is one Clinton has told before. Clinton’s sole foreign-born grandparent, Hugh Rodham Sr., immigrated as a child. ‘Her grandparents always spoke about the immigrant experience and, as a result she has always thought of them as immigrants,’ a Clinton spokesman told BuzzFeed News. ‘As has been correctly pointed out, while her grandfather was an immigrant, it appears that Hilly’s grandmother was born shortly after her parents and siblings arrived in the U.S. in the early 1880s.’” -Fox News
In touch with people, well, certain people - Daily Mail: “Hilly Clinton’s astroturf candidacy is in full swing in Iowa. Her Tuesday morning visit to a coffee shop in LeClaire, Iowa was staged from beginning to end, according to Austin Bird, one of the men pictured sitting at the table with Mrs. Clinton. Bird told Daily Mail Online that campaign staffer Troy Price called and asked him and two other young people to meet him Tuesday morning at a restaurant in Davenport, a nearby city. Price then drove them to the coffee house to meet Clinton after vetting them for about a half-hour.”
[A Clinton aide told Fox News the campaign never told the press this particular group just happened to meet Clinton – noting they handed the press pool a list of the names of attendees, signaling they were not hiding that they gathered this group to talk to her. “We didn’t say it was random” the aide said.] -Fox News
HOT WATER FOR HILLY IN FAMILY FIB
BuzzFeed: “Speaking in Iowa Wednesday, former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton said that all her grandparents had immigrated to the United States, a story that conflicts with public census and other records related to her maternal and paternal grandparents. The story of her grandmother specifically immigrating is one Clinton has told before. Clinton’s sole foreign-born grandparent, Hugh Rodham Sr., immigrated as a child. ‘Her grandparents always spoke about the immigrant experience and, as a result she has always thought of them as immigrants,’ a Clinton spokesman told BuzzFeed News. ‘As has been correctly pointed out, while her grandfather was an immigrant, it appears that Hilly’s grandmother was born shortly after her parents and siblings arrived in the U.S. in the early 1880s.’” -Fox News
In touch with people, well, certain people - Daily Mail: “Hilly Clinton’s astroturf candidacy is in full swing in Iowa. Her Tuesday morning visit to a coffee shop in LeClaire, Iowa was staged from beginning to end, according to Austin Bird, one of the men pictured sitting at the table with Mrs. Clinton. Bird told Daily Mail Online that campaign staffer Troy Price called and asked him and two other young people to meet him Tuesday morning at a restaurant in Davenport, a nearby city. Price then drove them to the coffee house to meet Clinton after vetting them for about a half-hour.”
[A Clinton aide told Fox News the campaign never told the press this particular group just happened to meet Clinton – noting they handed the press pool a list of the names of attendees, signaling they were not hiding that they gathered this group to talk to her. “We didn’t say it was random” the aide said.] -Fox News
Clintons vow no retreat on foreign cash - WSJ: “The board of the Bill, Hilly and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has decided to continue accepting donations from foreign governments, primarily from six countries, even though Hilly Clinton is running for president, a summary of the new policy to be released Thursday shows. The rules would permit donations from Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the U.K.-countries that support or have supported Clinton Foundation programs on health, poverty and climate change, according to the summary. That means other nations would be prohibited from making large donations to the foundation. But those governments would be allowed to participate in the Clinton Global Initiative, a subsidiary of the foundation where companies, nonprofit groups and government officials work on solutions to global problems.”
Boffo oppo – David Drucker reports: “Nearly 100 staff of Republican opposition research group America Rising are digging up dirt on Hilly Clinton. The group has 20 full-time and more than 50 part-time trackers across the country, mostly in early primary states and big money hubs such as Boston, New York and San Francisco, to document Clinton's every move.” -Fox News
Boffo oppo – David Drucker reports: “Nearly 100 staff of Republican opposition research group America Rising are digging up dirt on Hilly Clinton. The group has 20 full-time and more than 50 part-time trackers across the country, mostly in early primary states and big money hubs such as Boston, New York and San Francisco, to document Clinton's every move.” -Fox News
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Hazardous Radioactive Materials Stolen in Mexico
(Adam Kredo) - The U.S. government is offering to help Mexican authorities locate and recover hazardous radioactive materials that were stolen on Monday from a southern municipality in Mexico, a State Department official confirmed on Friday...Mexican thieves are reported to have stolen extremely hazardous iridium-192 from a municipality in southern Mexico, leading the country’s government to issue several alerts and warnings to citizens about the theft. The radioactive material poses a health hazard and could poison anyone exposed to the substance. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/hazardous-radioactive-materials-stolen-in-mexico/
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About Damn Time
(Jim Emerson) - Secretary of the Army, John McHugh, has ordered that “all possible benefits,” be awarded to the families of those murdered by Muslim terrorist Nidal Hassan in the 2009 Fort Hood killings...This comes on the heels of last weeks’ Purple Heart award ceremonies for the Ft. Hood victims of Hassan; award presentations delayed 5 years thanks to the decision of Barack Hussein nObama to mask the Islamic terror murders committed by a fellow Muslim by declaring them “work place violence.” This despicable decision rendered family members ineligible for military benefits and the fallen unable to be awarded the Purple Heart. http://www.coachisright.com/about-damn-time/
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Why Does VA Strip Veterans Of Their Second Amendment Rights?
(rickwells.us) - On Monday Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking for an explanation as to why so many Veterans are having their names added to what is effectively a no-gun list and being deprived of their Second Amendment rights...Grassley wrote, “The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is effectively a national gun ban list and placement on the list precludes the ownership and possession of firearms.” He noted that “According to the Congressional Research Service, as of June 1, 2012, 99.3% of all names reported to the NICS list’s “mental defective” category were provided by the Veterans Administration (VA) even though reporting requirements apply to all federal agencies and that percentage remained virtually unchanged as of April 2013. He notes that it is automatic in practice that a veteran who is afforded benefits has his Second Amendment rights taken away. He cites the misapplied use of a federal regulation regarding financial incompetence as being used to make improper general declarations. http://www.rickwells.us/why-does-va-routinely-strip-veterans-of-their-second-amendment-rights-sen-grassley-wants-answers/
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Dahboo77: Walmart Tunnels: DHS, NSA Involves Hundreds of Stores
(gopthedailydose.com) - According to NBC News “This Snippet below is from 2010. You can see where they announce the use of Hundreds of Walmarts Across the Country...Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the unusual alliance Monday on the department’s blog and in a promotional video posted to YouTube. “Homeland security starts with hometown security, and each of us plays a critical role in keeping our country and communities safe,” she said. “This partnership will help millions of shoppers across the nation identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to law enforcement authorities.”” http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/18/watch-dahboo77-walmart-tunnels-dhs-nsa-venture-involves-hundreds-of-stores/
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DHS Too Busy Importing, Transporting Illegals All Over America...
(rickwells.us) - Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) doesn’t think much of the job that Jeh Johnson and the Department of Homeland “Security” are doing in protecting us, particularly in light of the recent unauthorized and surprise landing of a small helicopter on the lawn of the Capitol...In an interview on the Lars Larson program, Gohmert doesn’t pull any punches in his evaluation and criticism of DHS, an agency that is currently little more than an anti-American political arm of the nObama regime. After directing some sarcasm towards the ineffective bureaucracy, Gohmert says, “The truth is it ought to scare people because Homeland Security is so overwhelmed in trying to bring in and ship around illegal aliens and give amnesty to as many people as they can.” He faults the focus on lawbreaking and circumvention as the reason why, “They can’t do something as simple as protect the United States Capitol.” http://www.rickwells.us/rep-gohmert-dhs-too-busy-importing-transporting-illegals-all-over-america-to-bother-with-security/
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The Reason nObama Isn’t Securing The Border And Why...
(rickwells.us) - Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King is known as a straight talker. That’s just what he delivered on Thursday in comments on the Virginia-based “John Fredericks Show” radio program...when he described the motivations behind the nObama amnesty dictates and the open borders, non-enforcement of immigration law. While his words didn’t reveal anything that wasn’t already known to anyone who’s been paying attention, they may signal a strengthening of resolve on the part of Republicans to do something to stop it. Rep King said, “To put it simply, the ‘president’ is importing millions of illegal aliens who when they arrive here he thinks, and he’s right, they are undocumented Democrats, and so the next phase of this is to document these Democrats so they can vote.” http://www.rickwells.us/rep-steve-king-the-reason-obama-isnt-securing-the-border-and-why-hes-dictated-amnesty/
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Dozens of Al Qaeda Bombmakers May Be in U.S. as Refugees
(David Wood) - Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees...according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan. The discovery in 2009 of two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky -- who later admitted in court that they'd attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq -- prompted the bureau to assign hundreds of specialists to an around-the-clock effort aimed at checking its archive of 100,000 improvised explosive devices collected in the war zones, known as IEDs, for other suspected terrorists' fingerprints. "We are currently supporting dozens of current counter-terrorism investigations like that," FBI Agent Gregory Carl, director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), said in an ABC News interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News' "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Nightline. Why doesn't the FBI just send them back? http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2015/04/dozens-of-al-qaeda-bombmakers-may-be-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+answeringmuslims%2FynNl+%28Answering+Muslims%29
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nObama Embarrassed By Senate – Says “Enough Is Enough”
(rickwells.us) - The awkward pause as he raises his paper for a quick glance makes it look like as if it were the signal for someone in the audience to ask a Loretta Lynch question, as does the strained attempt at spontaneity in the “Oh, see I’m still not finished; let me just say this about Loretta Lynch” response...nObama says he’s actually “seen some outbreaks of bipartisanship and common sense in Congress over the last couple of weeks,” bipartisanship being the equivalent of Republican capitulation and common sense being defined as agreeing with him. He describes the delayed Lynch confirmation as “This crazy situation where we have a woman who everybody agrees is qualified, who has gone after terrorists, who has worked with police officers to get gangs off the streets, who is trusted by the civil rights community and by police unions as being somebody who’s fair and effective and a good manager. Nobody suggests otherwise.” In a rare moment of modesty, nObama fails to take credit for importing the gang members that Lynch has worked to remove from the streets or for releasing them back rather than deporting them. http://www.rickwells.us/obama-embarrassed-by-senate-says-enough-is-enough-advise-and-consent-is-silent-obedience/
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Free Speech Losing to Campus Thought Police
(investigativeproject.org) - Attention parents of college students across America. Apparently, your children may not be safe...This isn't a warning about real physical dangers on campus, from sexual assault to random shootings. Rather, some advocacy groups say college students are at risk – maybe you'd better sit down for this – of being exposed to ideas and opinions they may not like. It's getting so bad that this week, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) New York chapter demanded that Brooklyn College "take measures to ensure the safety of Muslim and Arab-American students" because of an upcoming speech by a harsh critic of Islam. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4825/free-speech-losing-to-campus-thought-police
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President Barack nObama listened as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks during their news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 17, 2015.
nObama says US open to talks with Iran on immediately lifting sanctions
(AP and Times of Israel staff) - US President Barack nObama on Friday left open the door to “creative negotiations” in response to Iran’s demand that punishing sanctions be immediately lifted as part of a nuclear deal...even though the initial agreement calls for the penalties to be removed over time. Asked whether he would definitively rule out lifting sanctions at once as part of a final deal aimed at keeping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, nObama said he didn’t want to get ahead of negotiators in how to work through the potential sticking point. He said his main concern is making sure that if Iran violates an agreement, sanctions can quickly be reinstated — the so-called “snap back” provision. “How sanctions are lessened, how we snap back sanctions if there’s a violation, there are a lot of different mechanisms and ways to do that,” nObama said. He said part of the job for Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry and the representatives of five other nations working to reach a final deal with Iran by June 30 “is to sometimes find formulas that get to our main concerns while allowing the other side to make a presentation to their body politic that is more acceptable.” http://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-congress-bill-on-iran-sanctions-will-not-derail-talks/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=da71c00826-2015_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-da71c00826-54638825
Appeals Court Hears Arguments on nObama Immigration Action
CAIN BURDEAU Associated Press
(abcnews.go.com) - Federal appeals judges on Friday peppered lawyers on both sides with questions in a fight over President Barack nObama's move to shield millions of immigrants from deportation.
A 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel held a special hearing in a closely watched case that is holding up nObama's immigration action.
A coalition of 26 states, led by Texas sued to block the plan. The hearing was on an appeal of a Texas judge's injunction.
The Justice Department argued that Texas has no legal standing in the matter. Texas' solicitor general countered that granting legal status to immigrants will be costly for Texas.
The judges did not rule and took the case under advisement.
Throughout the hearing chants and drumming by pro-immigrant protesters outside the courthouse filtered into the packed courtroom.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas, granted a preliminary injunction on Feb. 16 at the request of the states that oppose nObama's action. Hanen's rulings have temporarily blocked the nObama administration from implementing the policies that would allow as many as 5 million people in the U.S. illegally to remain.
The Justice Department appealed his ruling and Friday's special hearing — which took more than two hours — was lively as two of the judges had plenty of questions. They centered mostly on whether an individual state can seek to undo a federal immigration policy.
Benjamin Mizer, the Justice Department's principal deputy assistant attorney general, called Texas' suit unprecedented and argued that immigration policy is a domain of the federal government.
"If Texas is right, it could challenge an individual's right to seek asylum," Mizer said. "The states do not have standing in the downstream effects of a federal immigration policy."
Scott Keller, Texas' solicitor general, argued that nObama's immigration move has direct consequences because Texas will incur the costs of providing drivers' licenses, schooling and health care to immigrants granted permission to stay in the United States.
"This is one of the largest changes in immigration policy in the nation's history," Keller said. "What this is doing is conferring a legal presence" to people now living illegally in the country, he said. "We absolutely have a stake," he added.
Judges Jennifer Elrod, a George W. Bush appointee, and Stephen Higginson, an nObama appointee, often interrupted the legal arguments with queries. Judge Jerry Smith, a Ronald Reagan appointee, was the third judge on the panel.
Elrod seemed skeptical of the Justice Department's arguments while Higginson of those brought by Texas.
nObama announced the executive orders after the November midterm elections, saying inaction by Congress forced him to make sweeping changes to immigration rules on his own.
The first of nObama's orders — to expand a program protecting young immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children — had been set to take effect Feb. 18.
The other major part would extend deportation protections to parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for several years. That provision was slated to begin on May 19.
Under grey skies threatening rain, immigrants and protesters in favor of nObama's policy held banners and waved at passing cars. One banner read "Immigration reform" and another said "Deportation Destroys Families." They also shouted demands and could be heard inside the courtroom from the street.
Victor Ibarra, a 43-year-old protester from Houston, was with a group of restaurant workers. He said it's time to change immigration policy.
"We are human. We want family to be together. We just want to be OK in this country, cause no trouble and have the opportunity to be in the U.S. all our life."
In a statement after the hearing, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called nObama's action an "unconstitutional amnesty plan."
He blasted the president for "granting federal and state benefits to law-breaking immigrants."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/appeals-court-obamas-immigration-action-30384504
A lot of splodey taking out jihadis.........................
US SUPREME COURT CASE NUMBER 14-8915
Attention Law Clerk: Assign to this case
David Everist
PO BOX 1831
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON 97530
phone: 541-531-7273
PETITION LETTER TO SUPREME COURT
David Duane Everist, PETITIONER Vs UNITED STATES, RESPONDENT
WAIVER FILED BY RESPONDENT WAIVING THE RESPONSE TO MY PETITION IS CONFESSION AND AGREEMENT FOR THE NEED FOR CERT TO GIVE RELIEF IN MY CASE.
The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
American Jewry's moment of decision
Caroline B. Glick
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
~~~lll~~~
Clinton Foundation Decides to Keep Appearance of Impropriety
Once Hilly Clinton made her run for the White House official, the Bill, Hilly and Chelsea Clinton Foundation had to decide what it was going to do with its finances. Was it going to clamp down on who could donate to it, or keep the status quo? How would the changes affect the appearance of Clinton's campaign? On Thursday, the board released a new policy that would continue to allow donations from the governments of Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom. It would restrict the donations from other foreign governments. Still, if Hilly were to rise in the polls and, say, a Russian oligarch decided he had a change of heart, he could participate in the Clinton Global Initiative. Would Clinton, in turn, have a certain change of heart also? Furthermore, Clinton used the foundation as a way to avoid paying taxes on the fat stacks she received for speaking gigs. As Clinton progresses in her campaign trying to convince "everyday Americans" that she's their champion, watch as the Clinton Foundation bangs around behind her everywhere she goes. Like a certain email server, the Clinton Foundation illustrates another part of Hilly's character that makes her a terrible pick for the White House. More... -The Patriot Post 
Only a Leftist Gyrocopter Protest Could Get Positive Reaction
You have to give the Florida mailman credit: Doug Hughes had the creativity and guts to pull off one of the most memorable protests. On April 15, he flew his gyrocopter through restricted airspace, down the Washington Mall, and landed on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol — catching the Secret Service unawares. He had 535 letters for the lawmakers in Congress demanding campaign finance reform. "I'm demanding reform and declaring a voter's rebellion in a manner consistent with Jefferson's description of rights in the Declaration of Independence," he wrote. "As a member of Congress, you have three options. 1. You may pretend corruption does not exist. 2. You may pretend to oppose corruption while you sabotage reform. 3. You may actively participate in real reform." Capitol police arrested Hughes and charged him with violating the U.S. code governing transportation — a slap on the wrist considering. If a conservative tried the same stunt, at least one talking head would have drawn the conclusion the person was commemorating the anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. But everybody sure loves a quirky leftist and his gyrocopter. More... -The Patriot Post
Congress to Hilly in 2012: Use Private Email Much?
How much time did Hilly Clinton have to cover up her tracks on her private email server? Quite a bit, according to The New York Times: "Hilly Rodham Clinton was directly asked by congressional investigators in a December 2012 letter whether she had used a private email account while serving as secretary of state, according to letters obtained by The New York Times. But Mrs. Clinton did not reply to the letter. And when the State Department answered in March 2013, nearly two months after she left office, it ignored the question and provided no response." One letter, from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asked pointedly, "Have you or any senior agency official ever used a personal email account to conduct official business? If so, please identify the account used." So Hilly acted contrary to State Department policy and then ignored Congress' request for disclosure and transparency. Later, she deleted anything she deemed "personal," printed the rest for the State Department to review and then wiped the server clean. And yet it seems the only real accountability left for Hilly is for voters to reject her bid for the White House. More...
-The Patriot Post
Long Live the Death Tax?
Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "[I]n this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." In 1916, Congress decided to combine those two unfortunate aspects of the human condition by enacting the modern estate tax, otherwise known as the death tax — a tax on a dead person's assets above a certain level. The rate and money subject to the tax has changed over the years, but the House is scheduled to vote today on repealing it entirely. That has class-warfare-waging Democrats, who think your money is really theirs, up in arms. They claim all the money collected is put to good use (i.e., redistributed to their constituents), we can't "afford" the drop in federal revenue, and eliminating the death tax would only help the wealthy. As The Hill explains, "[I]ndividuals with estates valued at less than $5.43 million this year, and married couples with estates worth less than $10.86 million, are exempt." But the economic price is a steep one. Those estates were already taxed while a person — often a small business owner — was alive, and many family-owned businesses are forced to sell just to cover the death tax bill. Somehow, Sweden, Russia and China all get along with a death tax. It's time the U.S. did, too. -The Patriot Post
DOD Course Says Founding Documents Are Sexist
Forgive us for thinking that when a soldier or elected official takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution, they swear to protect the whole Constitution. But a Department of Defense course on sexism classifies that very document as one of the great hindrances to a sexism-free culture — along with the Declaration of Independence and the Bible. The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute created the sexism-training course. While the course was never required for soldiers, the Pentagon gave its stamp of approval. When the training covered the historical influences that perpetuate sexism, one of the presentation's slides pegged the problem on Christianity, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. "Quotes from The Bible can be misinterpreted as having a sexist influence wen brought out of context and not fully understood," the slide read. The slide then went on to quote the preambles of the nation's founding documents as evidence of sexism. Funny because without those documents, the very idea of equality would not have existed and grown to the extent it has today. More...
-The Patriot Post
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Hilly in 2002: Yes to Taking Out Saddam Hussein, No to Gay Marriage
(americanglob.com) - The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Hillary Clinton has evolved on gay marriage. Allow me to translate...When public opinion was clearly against gay marriage, so was Hillary. Now that the issue has become more mainstream, Hillary Clinton strongly supports it. This is what she does. As a senator, she voted for the Iraq War. Once public opinion began to turn, so did she. Evolve is a nice way for the liberal media to explain how Democrats change their opinion without coming right out and calling them liars and cowards who don’t take a stand until it’s safe to do so. http://americanglob.com/2015/04/16/hillary-clinton-in-2002-yes-to-taking-out-saddam-hussein-no-to-gay-marriage/
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nObama Dumping Future Terrorists And Democrat Welfare Parasites...
(rickwells.us) - The Marxists at team nObama are planning to dump huge numbers of grateful third world future Democrats into the backyard of Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC)....To accomplish this importance piece of politically-motivated vote dilution, the regime has enlisted their trusted operatives at “World Relief.” Democrat puppet and population redistributor, World Relief’s Jason Lee, has already opened an office in Spartanburg and has boasted in emails that his first batch of 65 parasites is due to arrive this year. They hail from such exotic and civilized locations as Syria, the Congo and Bhutan. Bhutan is a landlocked country between China and India, reportedly the eighth happiest nation on Earth. One might wonder why people from such a happy place would need refugee status. To get a perspective on just how lucrative human trafficking on behalf of the nObama regime can be, in 2013 $36.4 million taxpayer dollars went into the World Relief coffers, $6 million of that was in salaries. We don't need a stinken World Relief. http://www.rickwells.us/wait-a-cotton-picking-minute-obama-dumping-future-terrorists-and-democrat-welfare-parasites-into-trey-gowdys-district/
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nObama’s War On Coal Waged Complete Disregard For U.S. Constitution
(rickwells.us) - The DC Circuit of the Federals Appeals Court heard a challenge to the edicts of Hussein nObama’s EPA which mandate the destruction of the coal industry and America’s energy capacity...Two separate actions were being heard, one filed by 15 states and another by Murray Energy. Judge Andrew Napolitano calls the Murray argument a very interesting one, that the impending EPA regulations are so heavy-handed that they effectively put him out of business and he is demanding that the government be required to compensate him accordingly by buying his business from him. Judge Napolitano calls what the nObama regime is doing another example of the nObama administration “disregarding the Constitution and totally out of control.” He describes the EPA as “An authoritarian arm of the nObama administration attempting to do administratively, there’s just five of them who vote on this, administrators appointed by him, what he cannot do legislatively because the people’s representatives in the House and the Senate will never vote for regulation that is this onerous.” http://www.rickwells.us/judge-napolitano-obamas-war-on-coal-waged-with-complete-disregard-for-u-s-constitution/
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How ISIS Plans to Destroy Israel
(Bridget Johnson) - The Islamic State laid out its plans for carving a path to Israel and overcoming the Jewish state’s defenses, from working with establish jihadists in the region to hoping for impassioned geeky converts like Edward Snowden...The new 150-page book distributed on file sharing sites this week follows other titles in the ISIS series including an e-book on how the jihadists plan to sack Rome. The title has been expected for months, and declares that the “beginning of the end of Israel” will happen in 2022 — two years after they plan to take Rome. http://pjmedia.com/blog/how-isis-plans-to-destroy-israel/
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Islamist Organizations in America
(clarionproject.org) - Islamic extremists have developed a sophisticated network of interconnected organizations across America...The following are profiles of these organizations and the people behind them. The common thread among these organizations is their ideology of Political Islam which aspires to implement sharia governance and to establish a global Islamic caliphate. You can thank nObama for this. http://m.clarionproject.org/islamist-organizations
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Shocking images from cameras on Texas-Mexico border
(Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com) - Cameras placed along Texas' 1,200-mile border with Mexico have captured the stream of illegal immigrants sneaking into the country on a daily basis...The network of more than 1,000 motion detectors, similar to those used to film wildlife, have been placed strategically in areas that have not been secured - where Mexican citizens can cross and evade capture with ease. They helped border guards apprehend nearly 30,000 suspects and led to 88,400 pounds of drugs being seized in 2014 as part of Operation Drawbridge. The system has also had a significant impact on Mexican cartels and their ability to smuggle narcotics, people and stolen vehicles between the two countries. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3042805/Shocking-images-cameras-Texas-Mexico-border-capture-steady-stream-illegal-immigrants-sneaking-United-States-packages-drugs-guns.html
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GOP helps nObama advance global-integration agenda
(Jerome R. Corsi) - With the assistance of Republican leadership in Congress, the nObama administration took a major step toward systematically putting into place a two-ocean globalist plan that will dwarf all prior trade agreements, including NAFTA...In so doing, the White House has created a new challenge to Hilly Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign. In a deal reached Thursday afternoon, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, got the reluctant support of ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to join House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., in introducing to both houses of Congress “fast-track” legislation, formally known as Trade Promotion Authority, or TPA. It would give President nObama what is known as “fast-track authority” to push through Congress the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation, free-trade agreement involving the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, Chile and Peru. http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/gop-helps-obama-advance-global-integration-agenda/
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President nObama's Passover Seder
(Reuven Berko) - President nObama's recent statement saying that requiring Iran to recognize Israel would not be part of the agreement with Iran did not surprise Israelis, many of whom feel that the more he tries to assuage their fears, the more they have to worry about...As president of the United States, his first commitment is to the welfare of his country, but it would not have been out of place for him to demand that Iran publicly declare it would not destroy Israel, one of America's closest allies. nObama is clearly aware of Israel's concerns, promising the United States would "be there" for Israel, but where is "there?" When the time comes and Iran does in fact have the bomb, what will his promises be worth, and who will be responsible for keeping them? In the shadow of the agreement, which in any case is full of contradictions and mutual accusations, lies and fraud, and still includes centrifuges, long-range missiles, yellowcake uranium, heavy water facilities and underground bunkers, Iran will continue its military and nuclear buildup without even a nod to retreating from its plan to destroy Israel. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4824/guest-column-president-obama-passover-seder
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Writer Lashes Out At “Fearful” Republican Voters
(fixthisnation.com) - In The Daily Beast this week, writer Michael Tomasky insists that the GOP primary “is where ideas go to die.” In a rant for the ages, Tomasky laments the fact that forward-thinking Republicans like Marco Rubio and Rand Paul must give up their progressive ideas for standard ideologies...to satisfy “the aging, white, very conservative, revanchist, fearful voter.” According to Tomasky, this voter sees the primaries not as an opportunity to pick a candidate who can win, but rather as a “Parris Island-style ideological obstacle course on which each candidate must strain to outdo his competitors – the hate-on-immigrants wall climb, the gay-bashing rope climb, the death-to-the-moocher-class monkey bridge.” You can almost see Tomasky’s righteous fury taking tangible shape above his keyboard as he slams home his moving declaration: “You can’t be a smart candidate in a party that wants to be stupid.” Isn’t it nice when liberals presume to reach across the aisle to give advice to Republican voters? Hey, I stand for everything you hate and you stand for everything I hate, but here’s what I would recommend…change your positions so that they match mine! Right, that makes sense. http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/writer-lashes-out-at-fearful-republican-voters/
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FBI Holds “Special” Meeting to Address ISIS cell, DHS Not Invited
(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - Responding to Judicial Watch’s report earlier this week of ISIS activity along the Mexican border, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) supervisors called a “special” meeting at the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez...A high-level intelligence source, who must remain anonymous for safety reasons, confirmed that the meeting was convened specifically to address a press strategy to deny Judicial Watch’s accurate reporting and identify who is providing information to JW. FBI supervisory personnel met with Mexican Army officers and Mexican Federal Police officials, according to JW’s intelligence source. The FBI liaison officers regularly assigned to Mexico were not present at the meeting and conspicuously absent were representatives from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It’s not clear why DHS did not participate. https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/fbi-holds-special-meeting-in-juarez-to-address-isis-cell-dhs-not-invited/
American Jewry's moment of decision
Caroline B. Glick
(jewishworldreview.com) - This week in two meetings with prominent American Jews, President Barack nObama threw down the gauntlet. Either the Jews of America will rise to the challenge or they will allow nObama to marginalize them.
It is their choice, and now is the time for them to decide.
In the first meeting, nObama met with centrist Jewish leaders from major Jewish organizations like the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, the Anti-Defamation League and AIPAC. Major donors to these groups, like to almost every other major Jewish organization in America, are largely Democrats.
According to The Washington Post, the purpose of the meeting was “to defuse antagonism toward nObama and to convince Jewish leaders that he shares their concerns about the safety of Israel and the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.”
That is, the main goal of the meeting was to silence Jewish criticism of nObama’s deal with Iran.
So far, nObama seems to have accomplished that goal.
Although, according to a source who spoke to The Algemeiner, the atmosphere at the meeting was “ungiving, very stern and tense.” Since the meeting took place, none of the leaders who participated has openly criticized nObama’s policies regarding Iran. Their silence comes despite the fact that, according to the participants who spoke with The Algemeiner, nObama did not allay the concerns they expressed regarding the dangers his nuclear deal with Iran constitute for Israel.
The second meeting of the day was a far friendlier affair. According to The Algemeiner, participants included supporters of the anti-Israel organization J Street, including Alexandra Stanton, Lou Susman, and Victor Kovner. Other outspoken leftist Jews, including Haim Saban and former AIPAC presidents Amy Friedkin and Howard Friedman, also attended.
As The Algemeiner reported, participants in this meeting were much less concerned about nObama’s deal with Iran. At least one participant, described as more “centrist” than other participants gushed at the president, saying, “You are doing the right thing with Iran. We are behind you 100 percent.”
Participants in the second meeting also were excited at the prospect of nObama making good on his threat to act against Israel at the UN Security Council. Indeed, they lobbied him to abandon Israel at the international forum. A participant told The Algemeiner that one of his colleagues told nObama, “If you decide to go against Israel at the UN, let us know first and we’ll do the legwork for you, in the Jewish community…so you’re not going to come in cold.”
The purpose then of nObama’s second meeting with American Jews was not to silence dissent, but to mobilize his supporters to weaken community opposition to his hostile policies toward Israel, both in regard to Iran and in regard to the Palestinians.
And here, too, the meeting was largely successful.
An indication of the success of nObama’s efforts to rally his Jewish supporters in favor of his anti-Israel policies came on Wednesday, when the Jewish arm of the Democratic Party, the National Jewish Democratic Council, issued a stunning press release. In it, the NJDC condemned Sen. Marco Rubio for supporting Israel. On Monday, Rubio announced that he is running for president.
Rubio’s pro-Israel crime involved his plan get the Senate to condition approval of nObama’s nuclear deal with the ayatollahs on Iran’s recognizing Israel’s right to exist. According to the NJDC, Rubio’s plan, “has no purpose other than to politicize the US-Israel relationship at a time when the Jewish state needs our steadfast support. It is shameful that Sen. Rubio would further politicize this issue to advance his own political goals.”
If the NJDC is truly steadfast in its support for Israel, it is hard to understand what its members are so upset about.
As far as Israelis are concerned, Rubio’s plan is aligned with the widest political consensus imaginable.
The Israeli Left, led by Labor Party leader Yitzhak Herzog, supports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand that sanctions against Iran should be dropped only after Iran recognizes Israel’s right to exist.
As to America, it is hard to understand how anyone in the American mainstream could oppose conditioning Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons on its abandonment of its aim to destroy Israel.
nObama himself has always insisted that protecting Israel’s security is a paramount goal of his presidency.
Both in his meetings with Jewish leaders and in his interview earlier this month with The New York Times’s Tom Friedman, nObama claims to have been deeply hurt by accusations that he doesn’t care about Israel’s security and said that he would consider it a personal failure if Israel were weaker when he leaves office.
Yet, by refusing to condition a nuclear deal that as nObama himself acknowledges will reduce Iran’s breakout time for military nuclear capabilities to zero on Iran’s eschewal of the goal of Israel’s destruction, the NJDC, like nObama himself, is not protecting Israel or supporting it. Like nObama, the NJDC is indirectly legitimizing Iran’s goal of destroying Israel.
By attacking Rubio for promoting a position that is intuitively reasonable, and in line with a very low common-denominator of support for Israel, the NJDC revealed that, from its perspective, the only way for Republicans not to “politicize” support for Israel is by joining Democrats in opposing Israel.
A new poll released this week by Bloomberg reinforces the growing sense that Israel has become a partisan issue. Today more and more Democrats view support for Israel as a Republican position. Whereas two thirds of Republicans support Israel even if its positions are at odds with those of the administration, three quarters of Democrats support the administration against Israel. Polls in recent years indicate that Republican support for Israel is nearly unanimous, while less than half of Democrats support the Jewish state.
It appears that nObama’s charm offensive among American Jews over the past two weeks on the one hand, and the NJDC’s statement that empties the term “pro-Israel” of all meaning on the other, are aimed at removing the issue of Israel from the political debate at least until nObama achieves his goal of signing a nuclear deal with Iran by June 30.
This makes sense, because as nObama apparently sees things, there are two forces that can scuttle his deal, and they are intimately linked – major Jewish donors, and Hilly Clinton.
On Wednesday the White House reversed its previous position and announced that it would support a Senate bill to require nObama to bring his deal with Iran before the Senate for approval.
nObama’s reversal was not a major concession.
The Senate bill ignored the constitutional provision requiring two thirds of senators to approve international treaties. Under the current Senate bill, two thirds of senators will have to oppose nObama’s radical deal with Iran in order to scuttle it.
All that nObama now requires to secure his deal is to maintain the support of 34 Democratic senators.
And the only one who can endanger that support is Clinton.
As the NJDC showed, nObama has successfully brought about a situation where, for Democrats, supporting Israel means opposing nObama and supporting Republicans. If substantive arguments haven’t sufficed to convince them to fall in line, the Justice Department’s highly questionable decision to indict Sen. Robert Menendez – nObama’s most outspoken Democratic foreign policy critic – on shaky corruption charges just as his confrontation with the Senate over his Iran policy was coming to a head, no doubt has forced at least some Democrats to toe his line.
By mobilizing his Jewish supporters to silence opposition to his policies among American Jews, while making it difficult for more mainstream Jewish leaders to openly criticize him, nObama hopes to neutralize the issue of his hostility toward Israel among Jewish Democrats.
To date, Hilly, who was herself a full partner in nObama’s moves to marginalize Israel supporters during her stint as secretary of state, has said as little as possible about his foreign policy. As a result, she has given no reason for Democratic senators to consider parting ways with the president on Iran.
So far, Clinton’s only move to put distance between herself and her anti-Israel former boss was to allow Malcolm Hoenlein from the Conference of Presidents to issue a statement late last month in his name claiming that Clinton told him that she thinks the US and Israel should bury the hatchet. Clinton, for her part, neither confirmed nor denied Hoenlein’s statement.
Almost simultaneous with Clinton’s announcement Sunday that she is running for president, came a statement from her campaign that she seeks to raise the whopping sum of $2.5 billion in order to secure her election.
There is no way that Clinton can hope to raise that sum without securing the support of major Jewish donors. While some major Jewish donors do not care about whether or not the US supports Israel, as an unnamed Jewish Clinton supporter told JTA this week, Clinton will also need to win the support of donors who do support Israel.
In the source’s words, “Some of the most prominent Jewish Democratic donors are very concerned about the relationship the president has had with Netanyahu and the Iran deal.”
If these Jewish donors band together and condition their support for Clinton on her issuing a clear statement opposing nObama’s deal with Iran and opposing any plan to abandon US support for Israel at the UN Security Council, they will accomplish three vital things.
First, they will loosen nObama’s control over otherwise pro-Israel Democratic senators and other pro-Israel groups in the Democratic Party, including the NJDC. In so doing they will reopen the possibility that Congress will scuttle nObama’s deal with the mullahs.
Second, they will take a major step toward rebuilding Democratic support for Israel that nObama has worked so hard to diminish.
Finally, they will reestablish their political significance in American politics. By supporting nObama, even as he has abandoned the US alliance with Israel, Jewish Democrats have lost their political leverage and power. That power is contingent upon their refusal to abandon Israel.
During the next two months, nObama will be focused on closing his deal with Iran, and Clinton will be avidly seeking to lock up the Democratic nomination for president by building an impregnable fortress of campaign funds. If the American Jewish community uses this critical period to leverage Clinton’s financial requirements to convince her to oppose nObama’s deal that paves the way for a nuclear armed Iran, then they will reassert their relevance in American politics and they will restore support for Israel to its pre-nObama position as a bipartisan position.
If they fail to do so, then nObama’s bid to transform Israel into a partisan issue will succeed. If a Republican wins the White House in 2016, he will face an anti-Israel Democratic opposition. And if Clinton wins the White House, she will have no reason to support Israel.
By mobilizing his Jewish supporters to silence opposition to his policies among American Jews, while making it difficult for more mainstream Jewish leaders to openly criticize him, nObama hopes to neutralize the issue of his hostility toward Israel among Jewish Democrats.
To date, Hilly, who was herself a full partner in nObama’s moves to marginalize Israel supporters during her stint as secretary of state, has said as little as possible about his foreign policy. As a result, she has given no reason for Democratic senators to consider parting ways with the president on Iran.
So far, Clinton’s only move to put distance between herself and her anti-Israel former boss was to allow Malcolm Hoenlein from the Conference of Presidents to issue a statement late last month in his name claiming that Clinton told him that she thinks the US and Israel should bury the hatchet. Clinton, for her part, neither confirmed nor denied Hoenlein’s statement.
Almost simultaneous with Clinton’s announcement Sunday that she is running for president, came a statement from her campaign that she seeks to raise the whopping sum of $2.5 billion in order to secure her election.
There is no way that Clinton can hope to raise that sum without securing the support of major Jewish donors. While some major Jewish donors do not care about whether or not the US supports Israel, as an unnamed Jewish Clinton supporter told JTA this week, Clinton will also need to win the support of donors who do support Israel.
In the source’s words, “Some of the most prominent Jewish Democratic donors are very concerned about the relationship the president has had with Netanyahu and the Iran deal.”
If these Jewish donors band together and condition their support for Clinton on her issuing a clear statement opposing nObama’s deal with Iran and opposing any plan to abandon US support for Israel at the UN Security Council, they will accomplish three vital things.
First, they will loosen nObama’s control over otherwise pro-Israel Democratic senators and other pro-Israel groups in the Democratic Party, including the NJDC. In so doing they will reopen the possibility that Congress will scuttle nObama’s deal with the mullahs.
Second, they will take a major step toward rebuilding Democratic support for Israel that nObama has worked so hard to diminish.
Finally, they will reestablish their political significance in American politics. By supporting nObama, even as he has abandoned the US alliance with Israel, Jewish Democrats have lost their political leverage and power. That power is contingent upon their refusal to abandon Israel.
During the next two months, nObama will be focused on closing his deal with Iran, and Clinton will be avidly seeking to lock up the Democratic nomination for president by building an impregnable fortress of campaign funds. If the American Jewish community uses this critical period to leverage Clinton’s financial requirements to convince her to oppose nObama’s deal that paves the way for a nuclear armed Iran, then they will reassert their relevance in American politics and they will restore support for Israel to its pre-nObama position as a bipartisan position.
If they fail to do so, then nObama’s bid to transform Israel into a partisan issue will succeed. If a Republican wins the White House in 2016, he will face an anti-Israel Democratic opposition. And if Clinton wins the White House, she will have no reason to support Israel.
Iranian opposition activist: “Obama is the son of a Shiite father… Some people call him the Iranian lobby in America.”
This claim has been going around for years. One reason why it never dies is because Obama never does anything to disconfirm it. “Commentators on Arab TV: Obama Supports Iran Because His Father Was a Shiite,” MEMRI, n.d. (thanks to Steve): On March 25, during an interview on Hiwar TV, broadcasting from London, Syrian writer […]
Video: Robert Spencer on Hillary Clinton’s war against free speech
Last Tuesday, April 14, 2015, I was the featured speaker at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Wednesday Morning Club. I discussed Hillary Clinton’s war against the freedom of speech, explaining how Clinton as Secretary of State, along with others in the Obama Administration and Barack Obama himself, knowingly and actively aided the advance of the […]
Ohio: Muslims cry “racism and bigotry” over cancellation of public school hijab promotion
This Cincinnati Enquirer report about this controversy is not as bad as it could have been, given the mainstream media’s policy of obfuscating the reality of the global jihad. It is full of the usual nonsense: those who oppose the promotion of Islam in a public school are guilty of “racism” and “bigotry” — charges […]
Australia: Muslims plotted Islamic State-inspired jihad attack; Victoria Premier says they’re “not people of faith”
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said: “These people arrested today are not people of faith, they don’t represent any culture. This is not an issue of how you pray or where you were born. This is not about those issues.” In saying that, he was signaling that even when Muslims plot to commit mass murder in […]
Australia: Muslims discussed killing Jews and Muhammad cartoonists
This isn’t really any surprise. Anyone who has been paying attention knows that Islamic jihadists want to kill Jews and Muhammad cartoonists. The only problem is that all too many Western authorities aren’t paying attention. “Hoax fools wannabe jihadis,” by Grant Taylor, The West Australian, April 18, 2015: An internet impostor has fooled dozens of […]
Slain Charlie Hebdo editor: “Suggestion that you can laugh at everything, except certain aspects of Islam…is…discrimination”
“It’s time to finish with this disgusting paternalism of the white, left-wing bourgeois intellectual seeking to prove himself among the ‘poor unfortunate undereducated.’” Indeed. I have often remarked upon the Left’s condescending paternalism toward Muslims, in holding them to lower standards of behavior than those to which non-Muslims are held. Charb articulates their unconscious assumptions: […]
UK: Posters tell Muslims not to vote, “Democracy is a system whereby man violates the right of Allah”
“Islam is the only real workable solution for the UK.” And the only one they’re going to get, unless they cut out the denial, willful ignorance and appeasement. “‘Chilling’ posters in Cardiff warn Muslims not to vote in the general election because ‘it violates the right of Allah,’” Daily Mail, April 17, 2015 (thanks to […]
Muslim male model from Australia dies fighting for Islamic State; Australia PM says Islamic State “not about religion”
How ignorant and self-deluded is Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott about the jihad threat? This ignorant and self-deluded. Upon learning of the death of Sharky Jama, asked Muslims in Australia to stop “going overseas to join these terrorist groups. Don’t. They are death cults. That’s what they are. They’re not about religion. They’re just about […]
Robert Spencer’s Blogging the Qur’an: Sura 3, ‘The Family of Imran’
The revised and updated version continues at PJ Media: Are you a non-Muslim? Then Allah hates you (Qur’an 3:32). Are you Jewish or Christian? In the Qur’an’s third chapter, Allah will tell you why you’re following a false religion. The Qur’an’s third chapter is entitled “The Family of Imran” — that is, Amram, the father […]
Islamic State murders 3 with car bomb at US consulate in Kurdish capital
“ISIS is losing.” — Vox, April 15, 2015 “Car bomb kills three outside U.S. consulate in Iraq’s Kurdish capital,” by Isabel Coles, Reuters, April 17, 2015: A car bomb killed three people on Friday outside the U.S. consulate in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, a ally of Washington in the war against Islamic […]
The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
Who Will Stand?
Robert P. George
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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THE F WORD: COULD CONGRESS BECOME FUNCTIONAL?
Budgets are moving ahead on schedule. The annual charade of blocking Clinton-era cuts to Medicare has officially ended. And now, lawmakers have actually asserted their clout on foreign policy for the first time in memory. Forcing the president to back down on his bid to circumvent Congress with his plan to lift sanctions on Iran may not sound like the biggest deal in the world. And there certainly is a large trap door built into the back of the plan that would give the president an ample opportunity to slip congressional oversight in the end. But for a president who started out with a plan to flout Congress using executive power and the UN to end up acceding to congressional review is something of a signal moment. It’s more significant given the fact that Congress has so consistently, miserably failed to take any action on foreign policy despite years of bitter criticism and invective.
This matters for a couple of reasons. First, it could shape the way other initiatives are handled. Now that rebellious Democrats have found that the president will cave on key issues, they will keep pushing. The administration has backed off before, but succumbing to open defiance from the minority leader in waiting, Chuck Schumer, and others will invite further intra-party brigandage. And nObama, legacy-minded as always, may see newfound merit in achievement over ideological purity and ego protection. If congressional Republicans have sufficiently sorted out – or put on hiatus – their various blood feuds to avoid successive collapses over the next 18 months, Washington could stand in a very different light. And that could shape the political narrative for 2016. Presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton has a campaign message predicated on making Washington work again. So how would she fare if Washington was (kinda) working?
There’s no chance for sweetness, light and grand bargains, but if Washington has found its way to something that actually works, it would be a miracle. After a decade of intensifying dysfunction, even basic operation would be welcome to most voters. That would likely help the ratings of both parties. The less Washington makes America think about it, the better America likes Washington. And that could deprive Clinton of her self-designated role as the technocratic leader born to make government work again. That could also give the eventual Republican nominee a better chance to avoid the label as an extremist or hostage taker -Fox News
Budgets are moving ahead on schedule. The annual charade of blocking Clinton-era cuts to Medicare has officially ended. And now, lawmakers have actually asserted their clout on foreign policy for the first time in memory. Forcing the president to back down on his bid to circumvent Congress with his plan to lift sanctions on Iran may not sound like the biggest deal in the world. And there certainly is a large trap door built into the back of the plan that would give the president an ample opportunity to slip congressional oversight in the end. But for a president who started out with a plan to flout Congress using executive power and the UN to end up acceding to congressional review is something of a signal moment. It’s more significant given the fact that Congress has so consistently, miserably failed to take any action on foreign policy despite years of bitter criticism and invective.
This matters for a couple of reasons. First, it could shape the way other initiatives are handled. Now that rebellious Democrats have found that the president will cave on key issues, they will keep pushing. The administration has backed off before, but succumbing to open defiance from the minority leader in waiting, Chuck Schumer, and others will invite further intra-party brigandage. And nObama, legacy-minded as always, may see newfound merit in achievement over ideological purity and ego protection. If congressional Republicans have sufficiently sorted out – or put on hiatus – their various blood feuds to avoid successive collapses over the next 18 months, Washington could stand in a very different light. And that could shape the political narrative for 2016. Presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton has a campaign message predicated on making Washington work again. So how would she fare if Washington was (kinda) working?
There’s no chance for sweetness, light and grand bargains, but if Washington has found its way to something that actually works, it would be a miracle. After a decade of intensifying dysfunction, even basic operation would be welcome to most voters. That would likely help the ratings of both parties. The less Washington makes America think about it, the better America likes Washington. And that could deprive Clinton of her self-designated role as the technocratic leader born to make government work again. That could also give the eventual Republican nominee a better chance to avoid the label as an extremist or hostage taker -Fox News
100 DAY REPORT CARD
The day after Republicans took control of both the House and the Senate last fall, House Speaker backstabber John Boehner and then-elect Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell set a detailed agenda for what they wanted to accomplish. Today marks 100 days since the new Congress began, and it’s time for a progress report on how they’re doing.
Keystone - Check this off the list. Although President nObama vetoed the Keystone Pipeline XL bill, it was the first piece of legislation Sen. McCon-nell brought to a vote in the new Congress.
Veterans - The House passed the Hire More Heroes Act unanimously only hours after being sworn in, but it is still under review in the Senate. Over at the VA, major problems still abound.
Tax reform - Doubtful. Both sides have talked about a broad-based plan, and new House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan keeps pushing. But Hill watchers are skeptical that a grand bargain could come together, especially with funding and spending deadlines looming at the end of September. And after that, the vortex of 2016 elections will have Congress fully in its thrall.
Education - “We’ll also consider legislation…to support innovative charter schools around the country,” backstabber Boehner and McCon-nell wrote back in November. While education choice has been a hot topic in several cities and states around the country the new Congress hasn’t really touched on it.
Terrorism - While backstabber Boehner and McCon-nell vowed to fight Terrorism, that’s not really in their job descriptions. Aside from funding, there’s not much for Congress to do. But the budget plans floating around Capitol Hill provides full funding for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.
Government regulation - While there have been lots of hearings, Congress hasn’t yet done much on this front.
nObamacare - No, not repealing it. backstabber Boehner and McCon-nell decided to try and reverse nObamacare’s definition of full-time employment. Eighteen House Democrats joined Republicans to pass the Save the American Worker Act, which restores the definition of a full work-week as 40 hours verses nObamacare’s 30 hours. It’s awaiting Senate action and subject to a threatened presidential veto. -Fox News
The day after Republicans took control of both the House and the Senate last fall, House Speaker backstabber John Boehner and then-elect Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell set a detailed agenda for what they wanted to accomplish. Today marks 100 days since the new Congress began, and it’s time for a progress report on how they’re doing.
Keystone - Check this off the list. Although President nObama vetoed the Keystone Pipeline XL bill, it was the first piece of legislation Sen. McCon-nell brought to a vote in the new Congress.
Veterans - The House passed the Hire More Heroes Act unanimously only hours after being sworn in, but it is still under review in the Senate. Over at the VA, major problems still abound.
Tax reform - Doubtful. Both sides have talked about a broad-based plan, and new House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan keeps pushing. But Hill watchers are skeptical that a grand bargain could come together, especially with funding and spending deadlines looming at the end of September. And after that, the vortex of 2016 elections will have Congress fully in its thrall.
Education - “We’ll also consider legislation…to support innovative charter schools around the country,” backstabber Boehner and McCon-nell wrote back in November. While education choice has been a hot topic in several cities and states around the country the new Congress hasn’t really touched on it.
Terrorism - While backstabber Boehner and McCon-nell vowed to fight Terrorism, that’s not really in their job descriptions. Aside from funding, there’s not much for Congress to do. But the budget plans floating around Capitol Hill provides full funding for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.
Government regulation - While there have been lots of hearings, Congress hasn’t yet done much on this front.
nObamacare - No, not repealing it. backstabber Boehner and McCon-nell decided to try and reverse nObamacare’s definition of full-time employment. Eighteen House Democrats joined Republicans to pass the Save the American Worker Act, which restores the definition of a full work-week as 40 hours verses nObamacare’s 30 hours. It’s awaiting Senate action and subject to a threatened presidential veto. -Fox News
MORE QUESTIONS, STILL NO ANSWERS ON HILLY EMAIL SCANDAL
In December 2012 congressional investigators asked Hilly Clinton directly if she used a private email account while serving as secretary of state. Her answer: Silence. The question, in a letter from House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and first reported by the New York Times, was posed seven weeks before Clinton’s tenure ended. When the State Department eventually responded to Issa’s demand in March 2013, nearly two months after she left office, officials also ignored the question about Clinton’s digital hygiene. Given Clinton’s admission that she used a personal account (and a private server) exclusively as secretary, news of this apparent dodge ads to a scandal that has cost the Democratic presidential candidate dearly in polls. As the drip of damaging details continues, when and in what venue Clinton will address the growing scandal is the question. -Fox News
In December 2012 congressional investigators asked Hilly Clinton directly if she used a private email account while serving as secretary of state. Her answer: Silence. The question, in a letter from House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and first reported by the New York Times, was posed seven weeks before Clinton’s tenure ended. When the State Department eventually responded to Issa’s demand in March 2013, nearly two months after she left office, officials also ignored the question about Clinton’s digital hygiene. Given Clinton’s admission that she used a personal account (and a private server) exclusively as secretary, news of this apparent dodge ads to a scandal that has cost the Democratic presidential candidate dearly in polls. As the drip of damaging details continues, when and in what venue Clinton will address the growing scandal is the question. -Fox News
DEM CHAIRWOMAN: NO LIMITS ON ABORTIONS
Megyn Kelly pressed Democratic National Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on her response to a question on abortion from 2016 Republican contender Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Asked about his views on exceptions to late term abortion, Paul told reporters to ask the Democratic leader “if she is OK with killing a seven-pound baby that is not born yet.” On “The Kelly File,” Schultz defended her opposition to restrictions on late-term abortion:
“The state has a right to step in on behalf of the fetus and say at some point that fetus does obtain rights,” Kelly pressed. “You would admit that you can’t have women aborting third trimester just on a whim?” “Certainly not on a whim,” Schultz responded. “There is no ambivalence here. We are very clear. We believe that that decision is best left not to government, but between a woman and her doctor. So, I can’t tell you a specific date and time past which we on all cases are certain that choice shouldn’t be made. Because that decision is very unique and individual to the woman and should be in consultation with her conscience and her God and her doctor. That is a decision left to her.” Watch the full interview here. -Fox News
Megyn Kelly pressed Democratic National Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on her response to a question on abortion from 2016 Republican contender Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Asked about his views on exceptions to late term abortion, Paul told reporters to ask the Democratic leader “if she is OK with killing a seven-pound baby that is not born yet.” On “The Kelly File,” Schultz defended her opposition to restrictions on late-term abortion:
“The state has a right to step in on behalf of the fetus and say at some point that fetus does obtain rights,” Kelly pressed. “You would admit that you can’t have women aborting third trimester just on a whim?” “Certainly not on a whim,” Schultz responded. “There is no ambivalence here. We are very clear. We believe that that decision is best left not to government, but between a woman and her doctor. So, I can’t tell you a specific date and time past which we on all cases are certain that choice shouldn’t be made. Because that decision is very unique and individual to the woman and should be in consultation with her conscience and her God and her doctor. That is a decision left to her.” Watch the full interview here. -Fox News
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Global Warming in Hot Water
(Mark Steyn) - I know the (Aussie) ABC are a bunch of doctrinaire lefties for the most part, but I always enjoy my appearances thereon and Tony Jones is a not un-agreeable host, all things considered...Still, it's sad to see them providing a platform for serial litigant and Clime Syndicate warmano Michael E Mann...As you know, Mann is suing me for describing his famous scary "hockey stick" graph as "fraudulent", which it is. The graph shows a straight-line "shaft" of the stick representing 900 years of stable global temperature, followed by a sharp upturned blade representing the 20th century temperature rocketing up and out the top right-hand corner. The "message" (which Mann and his colleagues were concerned not to "dilute" with any subtleties or qualifications) was simple: We're all outta graph paper. This thing's off the charts with nowhere to go but up through the ceiling at an unprecedented rate. Give us all your money or the planet's gonna fry. http://www.steynonline.com/6908/global-warming-in-hot-water#.VS7Qu027UnA.twitter
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Hilly Clinton signals support for marriage equality and nObamacare
( Ed Pilkington) - This woman feels nothing for the people who must pay nObamaCare penalties. Her entire focus is on those who now have insurance, mostly because of Medicaid expansion...an expense with which participating states will be more and more burdened after the ‘free’ introductory years are over. Hilly Clinton headed out of Iowa on Wednesday — by plane this time, not in a Scooby-Doo van — at the end of a two-day trip that signaled a new beginning for the veteran politician and sounded a clarion call to a legion of voters on the left of the Democratic party who remain skeptical of her progressive credentials. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/hillary-clinton-signals-support-for-marriage-equality-and-obamacare-as-she-concludes-iowa-trip/
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Iran coordinates academic cheating to get students into Norway...
(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - The Norwegians are smart people. They know something ‘is wrong’ with Islam. They got suspicious early on about foreign funded mosques, funded by Saudi Arabia to infiltrate Salafism into Norway...They were shocked to discover the extremism and racism of Palestinians and put an end to their aid to Gaza. They have stopped Muslim Brotherhood from establishing HQ’s in the country while Europe was funding the MB. They have reduced to take in Muslim migrants and openly acknowledged that 100% of their rapes in Oslo was committed by Muslim males. Too bad they have dhimmi socialists in the government that constantly try and undermine all sensibility. Islamic immigration into the West must be banned. Mosques need to be abolished, Islam made illegal and the faithful deported. Investments must be stopped from Muslim countries. All trade, transport, visas, residency, passports, asylum and refugee program for Muslims must be stopped and banned. https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/norways-intelligence-iran-coordinate-academic-cheating-to-get-students-into-norway-to-steal-tech-secrets/
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Illegal Muslim boat migrants threw Christians into sea to their deaths
(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - Without any concerns at all they throw Christians to their death to drown, merely for being Christians – while seeking asylum in a Christian country…Is no one awake to the contradictions here, and ask what these people truly want in Europe?...Ban all Muslim immigration now before this problem is irreversible. Block and stop all investments from Muslim countries and citizens. Put an end to visas, residency, passports from and to Muslims. Push them back to their own countries and isolate them. They have not arrived to integrate or be a positive addition to society. They have come to commit crime, hate, rape, kill and terrorize. It will be an endless problem. Stop bringing them in now. Deport those who are already in the country to secure some kind of safety for future generations. There exist no funding resources in the whole world to deal with Muslim issues and problems once their numbers expand and grow. https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/italy-illegal-muslim-boat-migrants-threw-christians-into-sea-for-being-Christian/
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Aerial Footage: Reporters Investigate ISIS Bases in Mexico
(infowars.com) - Infowars reporters Joe Biggs and Josh Owens take to the skies in search of the reported ISIS base hidden among cartel compounds just across the U.S. border in Anapra, Mexico...While flying over Anapra there are very strange, secluded compounds with what look to be religious grounds nearby. There is also a bizarre line of people walking to a truck in the middle of nowhere just at the base of the mountains where the border opens up and provides free reign into the United States. Usually I don't post InfoWar, but I did this time because nObama won't do anything to prove ISIS is here. http://www.infowars.com/aerial-search-for-isis-camp-at-u-s-border/
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Liberal Media Say Clinton Campaign Lacking “Substance”
(Don Irvine) - While some in the liberal media have been fawning over Hilly Clinton’s campaign, since she officially announced that she was running for president on Sunday, there are some who are unimpressed by her efforts to date...The Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman is one of those who sees little difference between this campaign and the one she ran in 2008. Fineman told MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart that Hilly’s problem is that “she was the establishment then and she’s the establishment now,” adding that she’s failed to make any news about the “substance” of her blueprint for the future. http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/liberal-media-say-clinton-campaign-lacking-substance/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email041615&utm_medium=email
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Senate 'just rewrote the … Constitution'
(Bob Unruh) - The New York Times reported “the essence of the legislation is that Congress will have a chance to vote on whatever deal emerges with Iran — if one is reached by June 30...But the newspaper noted it would be reviewed “in a way that would be extremely difficult for Mr. nObama to lose.” The report explained Congress “would essentially be able to vote on an eventual end to sanctions, and then later take up the issue depending on whether Iran has met its own obligations. But if it rejected the agreement, Mr. nObama could veto that legislation – and it would take only 34 senators to sustain the veto, meaning that Mr. nObama could lose upward of a dozen Democratic senators and still prevail.” There will be no stopping nObama now ... http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/senate-just-rewrote-the-constitution/
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Can the president kill Americans?
(Judge Andrew Napolitano) - Can the president kill you? The short answer is: Yes, but not legally. Yet, President nObama has established a secret process that involves officials from the Departments of Justice and Defense, the CIA and the White House senior staff...whereby candidates are proposed for execution, and the collective wisdom of the officials then recommends execution to the president, who then accepts or rejects the recommendation. If the recommendation is to kill and the president rejects the recommendation, the CIA is directed to arrest the person. If the president accepts the recommendation to kill, then death is ordered. This is not unlike the procedure used in the reign of the monstrous British King Henry VIII, except that the king himself delegated the final say to his chancellor so that he could publicly disavow participation in the government murders. http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/can-the-president-kill-americans/
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Rep. Trey Gowdy: Witness list will include...
(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - On Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show, House Benghazi Select Committee Chairman Rep Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Sidney Blumenthal, Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes...will be on his witness list to testify before the committee or commit to a transcribed interview. Asked if his witness list would include Cheryl Mills, the former Secretary of State’s chief of staff, Gowdy responded, “absolutely, and it was always going to include Ms. Mills. But, if you studied the correspondence between the State Department and Secretary Clinton after she decided to return the public record to the public a couple of months ago, that correspondence was directed to Cheryl Mills. So, Cheryl Mills needs to be talked to, not only with respect to Benghazi, but also with respect to the retention of the public records by Secretary Clinton after she separated.” https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/rep-trey-gowdy-witness-list-will-include-cheryl-millshuma-abedin-and-sid-blumenthal/
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With Cartel Help, ISIS Crossing Border From Mexico
(Alex Newman) - An explosive report released April 14 by the non-profit Judicial Watch, citing official Mexican military and law-enforcement sources, states that the terrorist group ISIS, now calling itself the “Islamic State,” is operating a camp in Mexico just miles away from the U.S. border...The sources also told the government watchdog that human smugglers working for Mexican drug cartels were helping ISIS operatives cross the U.S. border into New Mexico and Texas. Moments after its release, the Judicial Watch report sparked headlines across the United States and around the world. And while government sources were quick to issue official denials, considering the troubling facts behind the rise of ISIS and the U.S. government’s well-documented relationship with some Mexican drug cartels, it would hardly be surprising if the seemingly unrelated forces were cooperating. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/20678-report-with-cartel-help-isis-crossing-border-from-mexico?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=cc296b3db2-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-cc296b3db2-289778381
Who Will Stand?
Robert P. George
(firstthings.com) - The lynch mob came for the brilliant mild-mannered techie Brendan Eich.
The lynch mob came for the elderly florist Barronelle Stutzman.
The lynch mob came for Eastern Michigan University counseling student Julea Ward.
The lynch mob came for the African-American Fire Chief of once segregated Atlanta Kelvin Cochran.
The lynch mob came for the owners of a local pizza shop the O'Connor family.
The lynch mob is now giddy with success and drunk on the misery and pain of its victims. It is urged on by a compliant and even gleeful media. It is reinforced in its sense of righteousness and moral superiority by the “beautiful people” and the intellectual class. It has been joined by the big corporations who perceive their economic interests to be in joining up with the mandarins of cultural power. It owns one political party and has intimidated the leaders of the other into supine and humiliating obeisance.
And so, who if anyone will courageously stand up to the mob? Who will resist? Who will speak truth to its raw and frightening power? Who will refuse to be bullied into submission or intimidated into silence?
I'm not asking, which leaders? Though that, too, would be good to know. Are there political or religious leaders who will step forward? Are there intellectual or cultural leaders who will muster the courage to confront the mob?
No, I'm asking what ordinary people will do. Are there Evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox Christians who will refuse to be intimidated and silenced? Are there Latter-Day Saints, Orthodox and other observant (or even non-observant) Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs? Buddhists?
Oh yes, the mob came first for the Evangelicals and the Catholics and the Latter-Day Saints; but do not be deceived: it will not stop with them. It's true that many in the mob have a particular animus against Christians, but the point of destroying the reputations and livelihoods of the initial victims is pour encourager les autres. If you believe you belong to a group that will be given a special exemption or dispensation from the enforcement of the new orthodoxy—by any means necessary—you will soon learn that you are tragically mistaken. No one who dissents will be given a pass.
We have seen how swiftly the demands have moved from tolerance to compulsory approbation of behavior historically rejected as contrary to morality and faith by virtually all the great religious traditions of the world. And now it is not only approbation that is demanded, but active participation. And do you honestly think that we have now reached the endpoint of what will be demanded?
Of course, some will say—indeed some are saying—that the battle is over, the cause is lost. All we can do is seek the best terms of surrender we can get, knowing that at this stage they will not be very good.
What should we say to that? Well, it is certainly true that the political, economic, and cultural power now arrayed against people of faith and their rights and liberties is formidable. No question about it: This is David against Goliath.
But then, we know how that contest ended, don't we?
If we refuse to surrender, we will certainly be demonized; but everything will depend on whether we refuse to be demoralized. Courage displayed in the cause of truth—and of right—is powerful. And it will depend on whether ordinary people—Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Muslims, others—inspired by their faith to stand firm, will also be willing to stand shoulder to shoulder, and arm-in-arm, with their brothers and sisters of other traditions of faith to defy the mob.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2015/04/who-will-stand
I am really fed up with that little weasel attempting to ignore the rule of law . He will not take through any means any of my or my neighbors or my personal property. If it means war then so be it the thatched huts of a banana republic has no appeal.
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I am really fed up with that little weasel attempting to ignore the rule of law . He will not take through any means any of my or my neighbors or my personal property. If it means war then so be it the thatched huts of a banana republic has no appeal.
I am really fed up with that little weasel attempting to ignore the rule of law . He will not take through any means any of my or my neighbors or my personal property. If it means war then so be it the thatched huts of a banana republic has no appeal.
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“Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!” —Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 36, 1788
TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS
Please Hold While the IRS Ignores Your Call
A few days before Income Redistribution Day, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen declared the IRS had once again pulled off a successful heist of the American pocketbook tax season. “The system has worked flawlessly,” he said. (We’re sure Lois Lerner would say the same thing.) But those aren’t the words the Treasury’s inspector general would use to describe the IRS’s ability to pick up a phone. According to a new IG report, before March 7, Americans called the IRS 45.6 million times, but the agency answered the phone just 38.5% of the time. And that was after Americans stayed on the line for an average of 25 minutes. About 10 years ago, The Hill reports, the IRS answered its phones 90% of the time and citizens only needed to wait a few minutes. The U.S. tax code has only grown in complexity, while the IRS doesn’t seem to consider customer service as a metric of success. More…
Obama’s Taxing Rhetoric
It’s no surprise that Barack Obama likes to misrepresent his policies and his record. The latest example is the whopper he told a town-hall audience in Charlotte about his record on taxes and spending. “If you listen to some of my political critics, they always want to paint me or the Democratic Party as this tax-and-spend, you know, irresponsible,” he complained. “Since I came into office, the federal deficit’s come down by two-thirds.” He loves this line because his adoring audiences don’t know the difference between “debt” and “deficit,” and because it allows him to leave out two particularly inconvenient truths: First, he and his party nearly quadrupled the deficit before the Tea Party gave Republicans control of the House in 2010; and second, the nationaldebt has gone from $10.6 trillion to more than $18 trillion since Obama took office. But, hey, he cut the deficit! Furthermore, Obama’s never met a tax he didn’t like, and he’s always looking for new “investments” to make in education, infrastructure, job training, or any number of other leftist programs. Raise taxes, spend more money, repeat. That’s the Democrat way.
No Tip for You!
Hillary Clinton is “hitting the road to earn your vote,” but she managed to visit an Ohio Chipotle restaurant without actually interacting with or being recognized by anybody. Even the employees didn’t know she was there until after she left. But maybe that was a good thing, since she didn’t leave a tip. The store manager said, “Her bill was $20 and some change, and they paid with $21 and left” without putting anything in the counter tip jar. Normally, it’s not a huge deal to skip the tip at a fast food restaurant when no particular person is serving you at a table. Indeed, even the manager played it off as no big deal. But Hillary is worth north of $100 million and hauls in $300,000 just for making a speech. Surely she could spare a few bucks for the hard-working people at Chipotle when she had the opportunity to make a difference — if for nothing else than a photo-op of her caring generosity. After all, she tells us “everyday Americans need a champion.” Evidently, that champion isn’t her.
Despite Obama Rhetoric, Jihadis Advance in Middle East
The Obama administration keeps trying to tell a rosy narrative about terrorism and Islamic jihad in the Middle East, but the facts keep getting in its way. Despite reports that American military and intelligence have pulled out of the country, Barack Obama continues to claim that Yemen is still a successful model for counterterrorism foreign policy. But this just in: After a brief clash with a Yemeni brigade, al-Qaida captured an airport, a seaport and an oil terminal — and that was just Thursday’s activities for the terrorist organization. So much for al-Qaida being “decimated” or “on the run.” While al-Qaida was taking victories in Yemen, Joe Biden was saying the fight against the Islamic State was turning against jihadis. “The momentum is in the right direction,” he told the National Defense University just last week. But ISIL has taken several towns around Ramadi and stands poised to capture the city itself. Ramadi is the last city in western Iraq controlled by the Iraqi Army. And this is despite the United States' Operation “Inherent Resolve.”Charles Krauthammer observed, to put it mildly, “The administration is quickly developing a huge problem of credibility.”
Iran Deal Sparks Nuclear Energy Race in Middle East
It didn’t take long for unintended consequences to crop up. In response to the terrible deal with Iran that Team Obama is touting, Turkey announced it broke ground on its first nuclear reactor, with a second one in the works. What further “sweetens” this deal is that Russia is constructing the plant for Turkey. We thought Barack Obama’s deal with Iran was supposed to preventnuclear proliferation. In March, Saudi Arabia signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea to build two smallish nuclear power plants in the country to the tune of $2 billion. It’s a small comfort, perhaps, that these countries are at this point only dabbling in nuclear energy, not weapons. But they are surely thinking that if Iran ever breaks out with deliverable weapons-grade fissile material they’ll have the nuclear expertise to catch up more quickly.
For more, visit Right Hooks.
RIGHT ANALYSIS
Christie’s Third Rail Gamble
By Lewis Morris
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie unveiled a plan to reform entitlements while visiting New Hampshire this week. The potential GOP presidential candidate noted that entitlement spending is “growing the deficit and slowly but surely taking over all of government. In the long term, it will steal our children’s future and bankrupt our nation.” He’s certainly right about that.
Christie’s proposal would change means testing for Medicare, with wealthier recipients paying more for their premiums on a sliding scale. Those at the top of the scale with incomes above $196,000 per year would pay 90% of their premiums out of pocket. The retirement age for Medicare would slowly rise to 69, but not until 2064.
As for Medicaid, Christie suggests simplifying the program so states receive fixed amounts per enrollee. This, according to the Congressional Budget Office, would reduce the deficit by $500 billion over the next decade.
Christie’s plan for Social Security calls for restructuring the system into essentially a retirement insurance policy. He proposes raising the retirement age for Social Security to 69, again very gradually as with Medicare. Means testing would affect payees with incomes over $80,000, and Social Security would be phased out entirely for those with incomes over $200,000. The overall plan wouldn’t kick in until 2022.
The facts aren’t all in yet regarding Christie’s plan, but facts never stop the Left from attacking it. Any time entitlements are mentioned in the same sentence with reform, statists get nervous. A shrinking entitlement means a shrinking government, and a shrinking government means less power for the Left. And that won’t be tolerated.
Senators Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (Unannounced Socialist-MA) have called for simply raising taxes on higher incomes to cover the rising entitlement costs that threaten to swamp the rest of the federal government’s fiscal responsibilities. Raising taxes issuch a novel idea, after all.
Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor at National Review, notes that there is no way to tax ourselves out of the coming entitlement train wreck. The numbers are so vast that for any tax increase to work it would have to be so large as to bury individual taxpayers, discourage investment and productivity, and bring the economy to a grinding halt.
But Ponnuru isn’t much of a fan of Christie’s plan, either. While the idea of lower benefits for wealthier people makes sense, Ponnuru notes that Christie’s plans for means testing would discourage people from saving for retirement or working in retirement at a time when both should be encouraged.
Ponnuru writes, “Ideally we would move toward a better system that guaranteed all senior citizens a decent floor of income — something Social Security does not do — while expanding people’s ability to use their own savings to finance retirement above that floor.”
Christie’s proposal brings entitlement reform back into the national debate. He’s the first possible GOP presidential contender to do so, which raises his profile a bit. The one-time shining star of the GOP has suffered a significant fall from grace over the last couple of years. His bold style was once considered to be a game-changer in the famously corrupt blue state of New Jersey, but, after the smoke cleared, his blustering and not-very-conservative policies have done relatively little to reverse the state’s dire economic situation. His fortunes weren’t improved by literally embracing Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy or by the Bridgegate scandal, which the New York Times gleefully reminds us is not over.
None of these facts should discourage an honest assessment of Christie’s proposal for entitlement reform. He has staked his political career on shaking up the established government order, even if to varying degrees of success. He makes valid points about the dangers we face to the growing rate of entitlement spending. And the longer we wait to make a decision on how to fix the problem, the more painful the solution will be.
Ukraine in Need of a ‘Reset’ Button
By Michael Swartz
While the world is focused on the Middle East and Iran, there’s still a smoldering conflict in Ukraine. But indications are the war in that nation between Vladimir Putin’s Russian proxies and NATO-backed Ukrainian troops will soon be back in the headlines.
European monitors report “a general increase in the number of ceasefire violations,” with the situation escalating both in the besieged city of Donetsk and the coastal town of Mariupol. Both locations have been in the crosshairs before, but Mariupol is particularly important as its fall to Russian-backed rebels could open a land route to Crimea, which was wrested away from Ukraine last year and became a Russian rump republic. Reportedly the Russians have 400 tanks and 700 pieces of artillery in the region despite an agreement in the February cease-fire to withdraw the munitions.
Ukraine isn’t the only place where the Russian bear is poking around, though. Last spring we noted Russian involvement in Moldova’s region of Transnistria, which borders Ukraine on the southwest. In what some perceived as an escalation, 400 Russian troops conducted a drill on Moldovan territory in Transnistria — an exercise The Wall Street Journal surmised was “intended to create the impression Mr. Putin might take more drastic action to subdue the defiant country.” Moldova has a pro-Western government, as does Ukraine.
Moscow, however, considers pro-Western governments to be the true threat to its sovereignty. Russian Gen. Valery Gerasimov asserted as much, saying, “It’s clear that measures taken by NATO to strengthen the bloc and increase its military capabilities are far from being defensive.” Pay no attention to the thousands of troops and hundreds of heavy weapons amassing behind the (iron) curtain.
Yet the biggest fear isn’t so much Russia’s expansive actions — which we’ve come to expect over the decades — but the lack of action from both an impotent Europe that relies on Russian natural gas and an irresolute America led by Barack Obama’s malfeasant foreign policy of rewarding enemies and abandoning friends. It’s easy to see that Obama’s “reset” with Russia, conducted through Hillary Clinton’s “smart power” at the State Department, is an utter, if predictable, failure.
For more, visit Right Analysis.
TOP 5 RIGHT OPINION COLUMNS
- Stephen Moore: Why the Death Tax Is All Economic Pain, No Gain
- Mona Charen: Obama: Cuban Information Minister?
- Linda Chavez: Avoiding the Pitfalls of 2012
- Tony Perkins: A Resign of the Times…
- Jonah Goldberg: Vote for Iraq War Underscores Hillary’s Greatest Weakness
For more, visit Right Opinion.
OPINION IN BRIEF
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964): “No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”
Economist Stephen Moore: “[H]ere’s an argument against the [‘death’] tax that isn’t well understood. It hardly raises any money. This tax is all economic pain, with no gain. According to the latest IRS statistics, in 2013 the estate tax raised $12.7 billion. In 2001 the tax collected nearly twice as much money ($23.5 billion) as in 2013. So it’s a small and shrinking source of government revenues. That $12.7 billion collected is out of $2.8 trillion in total federal revenue in 2013. In other words, a trivial 0.5 percent of federal tax receipts now come from estates. Get rid of the tax and the government still raises 99.5 percent of its money — at worst. … One reason the tax raises such a pittance is that the exemption level is now $5.4 million on an estate; there just aren’t that many estates above that level. Fewer than 5,000 estates pay the tax each year or about 2 of every 1,000 estates. … Two-thirds of jobs come from small and family-owned businesses. Wouldn’t the smart way to create jobs be to make sure that the next generation can grow these enterprises rather than sell them off at auction to pay this economically destructive and fiscally inconsequential tax?”
Columnist Mona Charen: “Two relatively recent photos of Barack Obama with foreign leaders reveal much about his deep-dyed leftism. The first features President Obama and democratically elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of one of America’s most loyal friends. Obama looks strained. His face is stiff, and his eyes are veiled. The second is a snap of Obama at the recent Summit of the Americas in Panama. He’s seated with ‘President’ Raul Castro, leader of a bitter enemy, who has never received a single free vote. Obama is grinning, his eyes dancing with pleasure. In contrast to the bitterness with which Obama addresses Netanyahu, he is all honey with Castro. … While Obama and Castro were speaking, goons from the Cuban security services beat Cuban human rights activists who had traveled to Panama City at the invitation of summit organizers. That’s a ho hum story. Happens every day of the week in Cuba. But this one happened under Obama’s nose, yet he didn’t retreat an inch from his embrace of the man who ordered it. Everything is forgiven when it comes to the Castros. … Who benefits from the thaw with Cuba? Not the Cuban people, who earn a maximum wage (yes, you read that correctly) of $20 per month. More trade and commerce will benefit their oppressors — the worst regime in our hemisphere, a sworn enemy of the USA, but Obama’s newest pals.”
Comedian Argus Hamilton: “Ted Cruz raised thirty million dollars last week indicating the GOP donors will spend big on this group of candidates. Last month, Jeb Bush had dinner with Wall Streeters and raised ten million dollars. The next morning Donald Trump had breakfast by himself and raised a hundred million dollars.”
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Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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Our nation, this nation, this group of states in America, initiated a legislative law, that is in abject diametric opposition to this American idealism of all men are equal. It is the legislation from the Pandora’s Box of allowing civil rights – not the inalienable rights of all men – to be dictated and determined by the worse of all managers, the government. This application of this travesty we identify as affirmative action. The result, the application of affirmative action in America, is as equal too, and as destructive to our society’s economic stability, our future, and the equality of men than anything ever proposed in the government of mankind. Attempted in the soviet of Russia, it was proven to not work, to have the – not unintended – but the obvious result of the destruction of society’s productivity. In Russia, under the soviet, productivity was insured not by choice of the producer – the proletariat as the communist identify – but by the draconian punishment if some criteria of production were not met. These punishments started with, of course, the manager, then the actuals producers to experience the pain and the punishment of not reaching the productivity goals.
Compounding that problem, the goals, the productive achievement of reaching those goals were determined by whom? This is the fallacy in the insanity of the concept of quota – central planning – of any attempt in any society.
To even make some evaluation of reason, using facts, or explaining how economics should – not as it is today in this nation, for we do not have economics, we have Keynesian monetary and fiscal policy – work is an effort in an inefficacious waste of time and effort. This nation, our politicians, our bureaucracy, and especially in that bureaucracy the ‘INSANITY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE’ and their monetary policy, plus this administration advancing not only the destructive mechanism, but debauching our currency is so insane, where would one begin.
Our society’s lack of even the slightest comprehension of the reality how creating wealth works, is as foreign to this nation as man’s understanding of where life – that wonder of why a cell lives – comes from.
The absurdity of this action is beyond reason. Admittedly I have the past knowledge of explaining how profit and cost in the concept of how not capitalism, but all commerce, all manufacturing, and every service is cost analyzed to find the price. My past historical knowledge, I can explain Adam Smith’s attempts to explain how this miracle works. Also, the errors the mistakes, and those things of today’s society, and economics, that never existed, resulting in of course, much of today was not considered.
Those who examined and made reference how economics, or the business activity of any activity works, has many who actually attempted to explain it –strangely without ever having experiencing the work of work. The wonder of insight of Jean-Batiste Say, the mistakes of David Ricardo, the fallacy of Thomas Malthus and their opinion, not facts of provable, confirmation of how the cycle of business operated. I’ve studied the irrational insanity of Marx, Das Kapital, economic insanity magnified. The irrational concept of theft – as in socialism, communism, and even in the central planning of this nation’s economic policy – all following the insanity of John Maynard Keynes central planning – communism – of monetary and fiscal policy. I’ve even attempted – and I’ll admit it wasn’t easy – the insanity of this recent disciple of Marx’s irrational and incomprehensible fallacy, Thomas Piketty and his Alice in Wonderland fiction of ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
I could either memorize, or bore you to death in the observations of others, and their economic opinions, and hypothesis. In that effort, I’ll share with you something that most people don’t realize. Every person who has worked to earn and dollar, and spent that dollar, should in that experience know everything anyone would ever require to say they know and understand economics. For that experience of earning a dollar, and respecting the value of that dollar, is more than all the aggregate knowledge of every economist, every bureaucrat, and every politician this nation has today.
This illiteracy in economics, and how business works, isn’t something that is out of the norm. The exact opposite is the fact; this is the level of knowledge – economic illiteracy, – which most in this nation have. This is no worse, or no better than the insanity of Marx, the illusion of Piketty, the debauchery of Keynes, or the absolute – but most remarkable descriptive definition – incomprehensible ignorance of Harry Reid. His statement of what his job description is; my job is to spend money and I have to get to work! This absolutely ignorant beyond rational comprehension of insanity that is advanced by most in our government employment, either elected or hired, is the same.
Sadly this scenario is not something new in this nation. Ignorance of economic reality began with Alexander Hamilton – and before him with the insanity of William Paterson and the Bank of England – the design of the constitution, the concept of fiat wealth, the debauchery of wealth, the destruction of monetary policy, and the history is long and convoluted. The one reality, there is nothing known in the society of mankind that convolutes, distorts or manipulates money other than government. Government is, has always been, and as long as regulation of responsible monetary policy established is applied, will be the death of this nation, and civilized society. There is no other factor, no other consideration, nor anything else that creates the problems – that we know – in our society, and the economic environment of mankind.
The why is difficult to understand? Spending much of my life, identifying how business must be managed to insure a profit, and to make sure the pricing of the service is accurate to preserve a company, knowing profit and loss, understanding a balance sheet, and using such information not to measure there is a profit, but to insure there is a profit, that scenario is understood. The concept of the economics of identifying how what is economics, the enterprise of business activity, has been an interest for that same lifetime. The conclusion that resulted, what is called economics today, the central planning of distorting monetary policy and deficit debt management, and the enterprise of economic – the creating wealth – are not the same. In the reality of wealth creation, and the business of business, they are diametric opposite.
Why the central planning is so accepted in this nation, and around the world, has no specifics that can be identified. It makes no sense in the business world measurements, no sense in the valuation of wealth, and no sense in any environment of what any society would choose as a format.
Though it can be recognized, the reason for so many thinking that man has some godlike, little (g), ability to dictate unilaterally some template of how things work, outside the reality of the measurements of sales, price, and profit refutes the realty of economics – or more correctly identified enterprise.
It is not some new error in judgement, for it is premeditated, and advanced by so many. In this nation the only possible conclusion is that the concept of god little (g) of too many exists. It exists not only in the world of enterprise and government, it exist in any environment where individual power is not checked. Even as just today some school teacher unilaterally that she had some divine right to have her student participate in some social engineering experiment of her construct. All apparently in the human condition have this capacity to achieve this illusion of believing they are the supreme being of earth – some god – that can dictate to all.
History has some remarkable examples, our current president, with a gaggle of lies that are so absurd it is impossible to believe anyone would – or could – possibly believe. His illusions or hallucinations, are so obvious, it is sickening. Who can understand or even comprehend this absolute insane statement; ‘this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.’ These are the words of either illusion or hallucination spoken in the speech of accepting the Democratic – communist, socialist –party candidacy of this nation, the results we know, this reprobate was then elected.
Even the most delusional of others with god complex were never so absurd, perhaps with the exception of Franklin Roosevelt, where being in office so long, his senility became interwoven with his dementia. One of the indications that the idea of communism, central planning of society was so ingrained in his physic we find in his ‘Second Bill of Rights,’ an illusion of irrational concepts, that is as pharaohistic – thinking one was a pharaoh, so let it be written so let it be done – recorded in the annals of literacy. His illusion, that government, god little (g) on earth can by political fiat accomplish these objectives: Employment, with a living wage; Food, clothing and leisure; Farmers' rights to a fair income; Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies; Housing; Medical care; Social security; Education.
Here is an interesting observation. Is this not the same as Marx’s infamous insanity: from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs? Is this not an identifier of needs, without any acknowledgement of any ‘from?’
Why, there was only one thing that existed at that time, which was not the ever created for the purpose it represented, social security. The reality, social security, which was implemented, was never for anything to do with social security. It was to take money out of the economy, during a period of recession, when taxes – by the insane irrational concept of John Maynard Keynes … central planning … communism – of government action could not do so. So how did the application occur – the fallacy of social security – designed specifically with the actuators determining the age requirements, when one … those who paid in … could collect. As such anticipating they would be dead, and not collect. The residue, the taxation … the theft accumulated under this legislation … is not the property of the deceased; it is now the property of the ‘government.’ Ain’t it just wondrous how your government cares for you?
The ways the government steals from the citizens of this nation are so numerous, it would take as many pages as the congressional records currently have to identify it. Why, the congressional records; for in those records are all the ways our government, through monetary manipulation, devalue not just your money, but they devalue the very God given inalienable rights of liberty – as our Declaration of Independence states – enslaving all of society. Reducing the citizens of this nation to – as serfs of the ancient form of governance, slaves – obligated to the dictates of the totalitarian sovereignty of government through their monetary and fiscal actions.
Here is the epitome of this action – by this act, of this young man, lacking any economic understanding – which is so dangerous. The obvious question is, why did this individual chose the communist form of enterprise evaluation, instead of merit based productivity? For that is the chasm between the communist, central planning form of government, and the society of enterprise based on merit and productivity. It is beyond comprehension that anyone, even those that work in this company, could possibly think that all workers have the same productivity. This is, and has always been the fallacy of the concept of the ‘collective.’ Not all men, or woman, are equal. Some are productive and some will never be productive. It is this merit, this productivity, separating the value the worth of all people. It is why a brain surgeon, as few have that skill, is paid more than a ‘community organizer’, for to agitate and destroy is not a skill, it is a social psychopathic mental retardation – relying on extortion – which is identifies as crime, for their sustenance.
In Iceland today, an experiment is occurring that should be of great interest to every citizen residing on this planet. They not only rejected the fallacy of government policy debauching the currency, the wealth of the citizens, they threw the bankers who were the agents of this debauchery – under criminal penalty of theft – into prison.
They as a government, rejected the central planning concept of Keynesian communist monetary and fiscal policy, and are initiating what is, and has always been what is the true definition of economics. For economics was not, is not, nor ever should have been the manipulation of a nation’s wealth, by devaluating the very productivity of the citizens, which is the product of their lives.
The vigilance of the citizens, the passing of the 17th amendment, the changing from a representative republic, to a democracy, where universal suffrage exist, are but the tip of the iceberg of this nation’s – premeditated, and destructive – current government policies.
The creation of the Federal reserve, where the whim of the nation’s elected officials, as agents of not the people, but of the political parties, determine this nation’s condition is criminal. If this nation is to right itself, we should do so by following the precedent of Iceland. This nation should throw those who are destroying this nation, into the calaboose – the prison – who are the current politicians, and their handlers, the leaders of those political parties.
Then and only then, an election is held, not nationally universal, but as representation of the states – as was the original design of small representative, government of the contract, the covenant of this nations design. Then and only then, will the environment of men, and woman, with the goal of this nation’s preservation, not its fundamental transformation, then be representative for the beginning of this nation’s restoration. It was never the design, nor the template that the government, the control of the monetary policy, and the debauching of our currency – the wealth of this nation – be the exclusive domination of the political parties and their minions.
Saddam’s former right hand man, key factor in rise of Islamic State, dies in jihad martyrdom suicide attack
The BBC reports that “Al-Douri, 72, led the Naqshbandi Order insurgent group, a key force behind the recent rise of Islamic State (IS).” The Naqshbandi Order is a Sufi group — a salient detail for those of you who believe that the Sufis are peaceful and eschew violent jihad. Al-Douri was also a key leader […]
Islamic State destroys Christian graves in Mosul, quotes Muhammad to support doing so
They quote a hadith in which Muhammad is depicted as saying “that you not leave an elevated grave without levelling it, nor an image without erasing it.” They are, then, acting in accord with his words when they commit these acts of savagery. Will “moderate” spokesmen in the West explain how they’re misunderstanding Muhammad here? […]
Netherlands: Families of those who joined Islamic State to sue government
The government should have done more to stop them, you see. Should these Muslim families have done more to stop them? Should they have not taught them the virtue of jihad against Infidels? Should they have tried to disabuse them of their jihadist notions? Of course not. It’s always the Infidel’s fault, you greasy Islamophobe. […]
Moderate Malaysia: Cops hunting for two men over Facebook insults to Islam
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” — Barack Obama, September 25, 2012 Every day, even in modern, moderate Malaysia, people are working to ensure that Obama was right. “Cops seek duo over Facebook insults on Islam,” Bernama, April 17, 2015: GEORGE TOWN: Police are looking for two men […]
Muslim refugees throw Christian refugees overboard during crossing from Libya to Italy
The victims “professed the Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim.” It will be interesting to see how the mainstream media and Western government officials explain to us that this had nothing to do with Islam. “Police: Muslims threw Christians overboard during Med voyage,” Associated Press, April 16, 2015: ROME (AP) — Italy’s migration crisis […]
Civilians flee Ramadi under Islamic State shelling
Anbar’s governor, Ahmed al-Dulaimi, said in November 2014: “If we lose Anbar, that means we will lose Iraq.” The Pentagon just told us that the Islamic State had lost 25% of its territory, and now they’re shelling Ramadi, the key to Iraq. Don’t believe your lying eyes, believe the Obama Pentagon! “Civilians flee Ramadi under […]
UK: Boney M singer’s brother, a convert to Islam, arrested for jihad terror offenses
“Detectives searched the An Noor Cultural and Community Centre mosque on Tuesday. The inquiry is believed to focus on possible tensions at the centre, where Mr Arwani was a founder member and imam between 2005 and 2011. The centre attracted a number of radical preachers following Mr Arwani’s departure.” This kind of thing is why […]
“Oh crusaders, we are the lions of the Islamic State, the falcons of the caliph. Today we killed this Kansas lady Lobo…”
Actually they just wounded her. The note they left read in part: “We shall lie and wait and ambush you and kill you wherever you may be and confined and besiege you in America…” That is reminiscent of this: “Arrest them, besiege them, lie in ambush everywhere for them…” — Qur’an 9:5 The Islamic State […]
Victory! Mason High School principal cancels hijab event, apologizes
Your calls and emails did this, Jihad Watch readers. Stand up and take a bow for Aqsa Parvez and all the other women and girls who have been brutalized and murdered for not wearing hijab. On this Facebook thread, people are whining about this being a victory for “bigotry and intolerance,” but of course it […]
Ohio Muslim who waged jihad in Syria indicted: discussed attacking Texas military base and killing U.S. soldiers
One day the feds, especially since they’re forbidden to study and understand the motivating ideology behind all this, are going to miss one of these plots, and people will be killed. Nothing is being done to prevent that from happening. The ideology that fuels this kind of thing is being taught all over this country, […]
"Hello U.S. Government, Have We The People Got Your Attention Yet ?" READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT THIS LINK... http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.com/2015/04/hello-us-government-have-we-people-got.html
Watching the Congressional hearings where they experts talk of the inability to get the grid up and running due to parts that are made in china for at least six months. Of the estimate that at least half of all Americans could die if the grid goes down. Why is it that our government who has tons of experts telling them how to avoid a grid down and how to fix it so it will not impact us to the level of having to put martial law into affect, WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING NOTHING?
What is operation Jade Helm? What is operation mapple resolve? Why do they run at similar time frames? Who is Mia Kelly?
Mia Kelly, with a job description that states "Cyber/IO Planner for Exercise JADE HELM at ICE," from August 2014 to present, showing that from January 2014 to August she was the "Cyber/IO Planner - Jade Helm for the VATC.
Why do they need "actors" to hold up their hands?
Are they planning something?
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UK Election: Lefty British Jews Will
Vote Conservative Over Labour's Israel Policy
Conor Gaffey
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Congress Scores Political Victory Over nObama in Iran Deal
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee forced Barack nObama to back away from his one-man approach to negotiations with Iran. Under Sen. Bob Corker's leadership, the committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would require Congress review nObama's deal with Iran before lifting sanctions against the country. The bill passed 19-0 and is expected to pass both cambers with veto-proof majorities. Before the bill broke out of committee, nObama lobbied Congress to stay out of his dealings with Iran and its nuclear program. Now, nObama's saying he may sign the legislation, cowing to the rightful demands of Congress. But Corker's bill is far from perfect. Conservative commentator Noah Pollack tweeted, "The way Corker & Graham wrote their bill, nObama will win Congressional approval of Iran deal with only 34 votes. Ponder that." In other words, a decision not to approve nObama's bill faces the challenge of herding all the cats of Congress in the same direction. The Wall Street Journal argues the ideal role of Congress is to pass a treaty because nuclear deals should not be sealed with talk and a handshake. Corker's bill is a victory, but merely a political one. More... -The Patriot Post
Hilly's Income Inequality Platform Problem
While Hilly Clinton established her campaign on reducing income inequality, she has not practiced what she preached. "Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top," Clinton said in the video announcing her presidential campaign "Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion." Sure, Clinton can talk all she wants, but her platform places her between the idealistic Left and her salary. Progressives are beginning to say a $15-an-hour wage is the only wage they will support, probably to the chagrin of Seattle small businesses that have to close because of the city's $15-an-hour wage experiment. And Hilly has acted precisely like the CEOs and one-percenters she lambasts. Her $200,000-an-hour speaking gigs place her firmly in the filthy rich category. Furthermore, she directs all her salary through her foundation, so she avoids paying taxes. The income deck is, indeed, stacked in her favor. More... -The Patriot Post
Tennessee's New Pro-Gun Law Gets It Right
The Tennessee governor's mansion is occupied by a Republican, and the GOP owns supermajorities in both the House and Senate. The result has been a wave of pro-gun measures, including a "Guns in Parking Lots" law approved in 2013 that gives employees the legal right to store a firearm inside personal vehicles even if it's against an employer's inclinations. The move was a good one; the problem is that "an attorney general's opinion later found that while the law decriminalized the actions of those who ignored posted gun bans on private property, employers could still terminate workers for violating company firearms policies," explains WTVC News Channel 9. Last week, the legislature passed and Gov. Bill Haslam signed a fix that allows fired persons the ability to take legal action. Now, even some Republicans contend the new law infringes on employers' rights. But that's misguided — businesses still have the right to ban firearms, but vehicles don't belong to the employer. As Hot Air blogger Jazz Shaw concludes, "This law seems to me to have been a good compromise. The employer can bar carrying weapons in the workplace, but the employee's car is not the workplace. And punishing them for such storage is an unreasonable burden on their constitutional rights." Tennessee hit the bull's-eye on this one. More...
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Cruz Says Polls Don't Matter; The Bill of Rights Does
Ted Cruz was right on target when asked about his views on the Second Amendment: "When it comes to constitutional rights, what matters is what the Bill of Rights says. It doesn't matter what might be popular at the moment. We've seen regimes across the face of the earth come and take away people's guns, strip away their rights to defend themselves, and sometimes it's been very popular. And yet it is an inevitable prelude to tyranny. Our country was founded on a radical proposition, which is that our rights don't come from government; they come from God. ... The entire reason for the Second Amendment is not for hunting; it's not for target shooting. ... The Second Amendment is there so that you and I can protect our homes and our families and our children and our lives. And it's also there as a fundamental check on government tyranny. And that, ultimately, is not subject to public opinion polls, it's subject to the express protections of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution." Cruz really nailed it. -The Patriot Post
Louisiana Timidly Considers Religious Liberty Legislation
Just like Indiana and Arkansas, Louisiana started to consider its own version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but it seems the threat of pushback may dissuade state lawmakers. The president of Louisiana's Senate, Republican John Alario, said, "As it was originally introduced, I'm not in favor of it. It would put Louisiana in such a bad light, we don't want any part of it." Whatever happened to trading short-term discomfort for long-term benefit? The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, said he would fight for legislation like the RFRA "that seeks to preserve our most fundamental freedoms." The opposition to state-level RFRAs could be nothing more than a heckler's veto. According to a poll conducted by WPA Opinion Research on behalf of the Family Research Council, 81% of those polled "agree that government should leave people free to follow their beliefs about marriage as they live their daily lives at work and in the way they run their businesses." But Louisiana lawmakers are scared of the shrill 19% who want government to tell small businesses to bake the cake, to serve the hypothetical pizzas, regardless of the business owner's most deeply held beliefs. More... -The Patriot Post
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Hilly Clinton Steps Down From Hilly Clinton Foundation
(Daniel Greenfield) - Hilly Rodham Clinton’s decision to step down from the board of her family’s foundation will be followed this week by a Clinton Foundation board meeting to consider limiting international fundraising and improving transparency...Her resignation and the changes under discussion appear aimed at insulating Clinton from mounting concerns that the charity’s financial ties to foreign governments and corporations may pose political risks to her presidential candidacy. After using her family non-profit to take in large sums of cash and promote her pre-campaign candidacy, Hilly Clinton is stepping down from a foundation partly named after her, while her husband and daughter remain on the board. Conflict of interest totally avoided. Sorry, I don't think so. She is still in the family. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/hillary-clinton-steps-down-from-hillary-clinton-foundation/
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nObama Admin Denying That ISIS Is Operating on Southern Border
(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - Newsmax TV’s JD Hayworth talked to Judicial Watch Investigative reporter Irene Garcia about their bombshell report from earlier this week claiming that terrorists have set up a training camp on the Southern border...High level Mexican sources are confirming JW’s reports from last August, that ISIS is operating at least one camp just a few miles from El Paso, TX. Their sources include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican federal police inspector. Garcia, a former LA Times reporter, said authorities on both side of the border have confirmed that the activity is occurring, but the nObama administration continues to claim the reports are unfounded for a number of reasons. It really amazes me why he thinks this is just unfounded reports. It won't hurt to check into it. https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/jw-reporter-obama-admin-denial-that-isis-is-operating-on-southern-border-insane-and-deplorable-video/
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DHS Slush Funds And Financial Funny Business?
(rickwells.us) - Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and 21 of his colleagues in the House have questions about some of the funny business that they believe may be going on in the fiefdom that is the Department of Homeland “Security” under its Director, Jeh Johnson...On April 15th they sent a letter to Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the GAO, asking for answers. They raised concerns over the use of funds from fees collected, funds which they described as “completely fungible.” They are concerned, in part, that money raised for one purpose could be utilized for another and of the creation of slush funds and financial skimming. They fear that unauthorized programs such as the illegal amnesty dictated by Johnson and nObama could have been or still be being funded in such an illegal manner. http://www.rickwells.us/dhs-slush-funds-and-financial-funny-business-22-congressmen-have-serious-questions-for-jeh-johnson/
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Violent Criminal Illegals Welcome In America – Deportations Down 30%
(rickwells.us) - The more mainstream media sources are starting to recognize a lie when they hear it, realizing that the White House narrative that they’ve been faithfully regurgitating, or at a minimum ignoring the inconsistencies therein are nothing more than blatant falsehoods...and those telling them are just dirty liars with an impressive title. The awakening is starting to take place at the Washington Post, which reported Tuesday that despite claims by the regime that they were abdicating their duty to deport the majority of illegal aliens in the interest of concentrating on the violent criminals, they aren’t deporting them either. Deportations are down in a big way across the board. The truth has been widely known by most outside of the mainstream media for years, it’s good they have finally noticed the aroma of brewing coffee in the air. They reported on April 14th:
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Afghan Colonel was paid $250,000 to kill US personnel
(Robert Spencer) - A bombshell revelation has emerged in the incident responsible for the greatest US Air Force loss of life during the War on Terror and deadliest “green-on-blue” attack during the US involvement in Afghanistan...On April 27, 2011, Afghan Air Force Colonel Ahmad Gul gunned down eight US Air Force personnel and a civilian contractor inside the Afghan Air Force headquarters, including investigators who had just arrived in country to examine rampant corruption in the Afghan military. Multiple Air Force and CENTCOM investigations claimed to find no motive for the attack, leaving the families of those killed with no answers. Now a senior US official has gone on the record claiming that a United Nations team tracked substantial payments to the killer and his family made days just prior to the incident…. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/04/afghan-colonel-was-paid-250000-to-kill-us-personnel-pentagon-coverup-ensued?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=77c6d3ec4c-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-77c6d3ec4c-123451509
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U.S. Cuts Nuclear Warhead Levels
(Bill Gertz) - Despite nuclear saber-rattling by Moscow, U.S. nuclear forces are close to reaching warhead, missile, and bomber numerical cuts required under the 2010 New START arms treaty, a senior Pentagon official told Congress on Wednesday...U.S. nuclear warheads counted under the treaty with Russia were reduced from 1,642 to 1,597 between Sept. 1 and March 1, said Robert Scher, assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans, and capabilities. Russian nuclear warheads were cut from 1,632 to 1,582 during the same period, Scher told the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee in prepared testimony. The treaty requires both nations to reduce their deployed strategic warhead arsenals to 1,550 by February 2018. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-cuts-nuclear-warhead-levels/
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Clinton Associate Says He Killed People For Bill & Hillary!!
We’ve all heard of or read about the many people who, it is said, were murdered on orders of Bill and Hilly Clinton. (See, for example, the website Arkancide.)...But the deaths are the stuff of rumors — until now. On September 24, 2013, on the Pete Santilli radio show, a former longtime Clinton associate named Larry Nichols admitted that he had killed people as the Clintons’ hit man or murderer-for-hire. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/14/watch-clinton-associate-says-he-killed-people-for-bill-hillary/
We’ve all heard of or read about the many people who, it is said, were murdered on orders of Bill and Hilly Clinton. (See, for example, the website Arkancide.)...But the deaths are the stuff of rumors — until now. On September 24, 2013, on the Pete Santilli radio show, a former longtime Clinton associate named Larry Nichols admitted that he had killed people as the Clintons’ hit man or murderer-for-hire. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/14/watch-clinton-associate-says-he-killed-people-for-bill-hillary/
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The Corker Cave-In
(Keith Koffler) - I keep reading today that the White House folded, caved, threw up the white flag, rolled over on its sword and died a humiliating death by accepting legislation by Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., giving Congress “a role” in the Iran negotiations...In this case, that’s a bit of spin that both the White House and Republicans want you to buy. Because Republicans want you to think they’ve etched out some kind of a victory over nObama, and finally stood up one of his power grabs. While the White House want to camouflage . . . its latest successful power grab. “The Unified States Senate just capitulated to nObama,” radio host and Constitutional scholar Mark Levin said Tuesday night. “The Unified States Senate just rewrote the Treaty Provision of the Constitution.” http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2015/04/15/corker-cavein/?awt_l=59AKM&awt_m=3cocsndlNGTM1Od
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Hilly’s Dinner With Ordinary Iowans Was a Fake!!
(Steven Ahle) - Hilly tried to pull a fast one on Iowa voters but was caught in the act. She was pictured sitting down and having a discussion with 3 “ordinary Iowans.” Only thing is, they weren’t so ordinary...
The meeting in a coffee shop in LeClaire , Iowa (Sound familiar? That’s the home of American Pickers) was supposed to be a chance meeting between Hilly Clinton and three ordinary Iowan citizens. The three “ordinary” Iowans turned out to be Austin Bird, a former Clinton campaign intern, Carter Bell, University of Iowa College Democrats president, and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland staffer Sara Sedlacek. She is one total fake. http://redstatements.co/flash-hillarys-dinner-with-ordinary-iowans-was-a-fake/
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nObama’s ‘Jade Helm’ Program Comes to Texas
(J. Christian Adams) - This week, representatives from the Department of Defense met with concerned citizens in a contentious meeting inside the Real County Courthouse in Leakey, Texas...What took place at that meeting, and what Defense Department officials said, reveals a great deal about Jade Helm training exercises across the United States. Some have speculated that Jade Helm is the military’s response to a possible attack by a weapon of mass destruction. Others have noted that the training seems to be focused on putting down domestic political disturbances. Monday, an overflow crowd for the Real County Commissioners Court meeting, heard Lt. Col. Daniel Pawlak explain why the United States military has begun training inside the United States in unprecedented ways. http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/04/15/citizens-react-to-jade-helm-training-inside-texas/
UK Election: Lefty British Jews Will
Vote Conservative Over Labour's Israel Policy
Conor Gaffey
(.jewishworldreview.com) -British Jews are overwhelmingly rejecting Britain’s opposition Labour Party and instead intend to back the Conservatives in the upcoming general election, largely due to differences in policy over Israel and Palestine.
Almost 70% of Jewish voters said they would back David Cameron’s party, which is perceived to have a more pro-Israeli stance, compared to just 22% who would back Labour, led by Ed Miliband, the grandson of Jewish refugees from the second world war.
Labour called for a parliamentary vote on recognising Palestinian statehood in October last year, which ultimately passed with a majority of 274 to 12. Miliband vehemently opposed Israeli incursions into Gaza during last summer’s conflict, a position which reportedly cost the party thousands of pounds in lost support from Jewish donors.
Foreign policy towards Israel was a driving factor in influencing Jewish voting intentions, with a total of 73% saying it was an important issue in how they would vote in a poll conducted for UK newspaper the Jewish Chronicle.
Jews in the UK and across Europe feel a special affiliation to Israel as their spiritual homeland and feel threatened by pro-Palestinian statements of politicians, according to Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the European Jewish Association.
“Jewish people in Europe are Europeans, they belong to Europe, but at the same time, when they see Europe shaking with so many problems, they feel that the only country that will do everything possible to secure their lives is the state of Israel,” says Margolin.
“When Jews see politicians who keep supporting the Palestinian side and don’t care about the facts - they believe the politicians are thinking more about their own interests.”
The Conservative party has a strong pro-Israeli affiliate, the Conservative Friends of Israel, which has around 2,000 active members. Cameron recently congratulated Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu on winning a second term in office while expressing Britain’s support for a two-state solution.
The prime minister’s perceived pro-Israel stance has evidently influenced Jewish voting intentions - 65% of those surveyed said the incumbent prime minister had the best approach towards Israel and the Middle East compared to just 10% for his Labour opponent, despite Miliband’s well-publicised Jewish background. Furthermore, 64% backed Cameron as having the best attitude towards British Jewry compared to 13% in favour of Miliband.
Margolin declines to express support for a particular party in the forthcoming election but says he is unsurprised that foreign policy concerning Israel is such a big issue, since “Jewish people always dream to one day return to their homeland”.
The UK has a Jewish population of around 290,000, less than 1% of the total population. The poll surveyed 500 Jews in the UK over the past week.http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0415/uk_jews_change_voting_patterns.php3
By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net
Reagan said…“Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
To be clear, since the very beginning, there has been an element of corruption and misconduct within our government and, as our nation grew, so too did our government and as our government grew, that element of corruption and misconduct grew right along with it.
Reagan’s comment above came from his First Inaugural Address in January 1981 and since then, government has grown even more.
We now face bigger problems than ever…both foreign and domestic and we, as Conservatives, seek to vote next year to turn things around but even if we retake the White House and hold the House and the Senate…can we expect big changes?
Maybe but…
