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2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Lion Ted
by Jeremy Carl
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GOP Convention Highlights, Final Day
Ivanka Trump: "For more than a year, Donald Trump has been the people's champion, and tonight he's the people's nominee. Like many of my fellow Millennials, I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat. More than party affiliation, I vote on based on what I believe is right, for my family and for my country. Sometimes it's a tough choice. That is not the case this time. ... Real change — the kind we have not seen in decades — is only going to come from outside the system. And it's only going to come from a man who's spent his entire life doing what others said could not be done."
Billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel: "I build companies and I support people who are building new things, from social networks to rocket ships. I'm not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America. ... Americans get paid less today than 10 years ago. But healthcare and college tuition cost more every year. Meanwhile Wall Street bankers inflate bubbles in everything from government bonds to liar-Hillary Clinton's speaking fees. Our economy is broken. If you're watching me right now, you understand this better than any politician in Washington. And you know this isn't the dream we looked forward to. ... When Donald Trump asks us to Make America Great Again, he's not suggesting a return to the past. He's running to lead us back to that bright future."
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: "To some people — and some presidents — America is just another country. To Republicans, America is the greatest nation on earth. We don't apologize for America. We celebrate America. At every level, Republicans stand for aspiration and achievement. We stand for peace and prosperity. We stand for freedom and fairness. These values have inspired people the world over, ever since we won our freedom over two centuries ago. ... If liar-Hillary Clinton is given the chance, she'll stack the Supreme Court with activist left-wing judges who will treat the Constitution like a doormat. You can kiss your gun rights goodbye if she ever finds her way into the White House. In foreign policy, a liar-Clinton presidency means forgetting our friends and enabling our enemies. ... You all know [Donald Trump has] brought millions of new voters into our Party because he's listening to Americans who are anxious about a country which has lost its way." -The Patriot Post
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A Series of Election Questions
The 2016 Republican National Convention is now in the books, and the Democrats' version begins Monday. With that in mind, here are some considerations for Republicans of all stripes — elected officials, party poohbahs and voters, whether registered GOP or merely considering their votes — in this tumultuous election year.
The most remarkable thing about the 2016 cycle is how disliked both parties' nominees are. And, particularly on the Republican side, how bitterly divided some folks remain. Yet notwithstanding a few third-party options, either liar-Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be the president come Jan. 20, 2017. So what's a voter to do?
The Patriot Post has for 20 years been on the front lines of the fight for Liberty and Rule of Law. We regularly (and vigorously) advocate for the Constitution and First Principles. That includes often asking, how do we best advance our principles?
Conservatives are far more likely than leftists to stand for principle, which sometimes puts them at odds with "the team." There may be a few disgruntled Bernie Sanders voters out there, but the fact is Democrats always come together when it counts. That means they often achieve more of their objectives than Republicans do. And even when Republicans do accomplish their goals — slowing the advance of Barack nObama's agenda, for example — many on the team complain that a near-sack and incomplete pass on nObama's part wasn't a pick-six by Team Red. Of course, no team scores on every play.
Here, then, are some questions to ponder:
-Will liar-Hillary Clinton sign a repeal of nObamaCare? Will Trump?
-Will liar-Clinton seek to raise taxes? Will Trump?
-Who will put forth a better foreign policy vision? Will either candidate restore America's standing in the world?
-What will each one do about the Islamic State and the global terrorism threat?
-What will the two candidates do with immigration policy?
-What would a Republican Congress be able to do with Trump?
-What would a Democrat Congress be able to do with liar-Clinton?
-Will liar-Clinton appoint judges and justices who will uphold the Constitution? Will Trump?
-Does either candidate have the character of a president? If not, does that matter any more?
Perhaps the biggest questions are these: Does party trump principle? Or is it the other way around? Do the two ever work together? Is principle advanced when the team loses?
We suppose if you asked 100 people those questions, you'd get a variety of thoughtful answers. But that's what faces voters when they head to the polls. -The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Mona Charen: "By praising him so often and so unequivocally, didn't Cruz help to detoxify Trump? Cruz is a decent and honorable person, but he abetted Trump's indecency until Trump's muzzle swung in his direction. And by sowing so much unfair suspicion about the Republican Party, didn't Cruz help create the 'burn it down' mood of 2016, which, in the end, devoured Cruz's own hopes, along with so much else? Politicians position, hedge and dodge. Understood. But when that positioning comes in the form of undermining a key institution, i.e. the Republican Party, it's playing with fire. Institutions take decades or generations to build. The Republican Party, for all its faults, was the only vehicle for conservative ideas in our society. Ted Cruz, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and the rest picked an ironic time to undermine it, since the party has never been more thoroughly conservative (at least as reflected in elected officials) than it was in 2016. Now, with a Trumpified Republican Party, conservatives are homeless and arguably crippled. If Trump wins, the transmogrification of the Republican Party will be total and “conservatives” will be Trumpites. If he loses (which is much more likely), the stain of Trumpism may keep Republicans from the White House for another generation. Either way, conservatism is the loser." -The Patriot Post
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Just Who Is the ‘Establishment?’
by J. Kenneth Blackwell
by J. Kenneth Blackwell
{theacru.org} ~ We all claim to hate the “establishment.” And why not? Look at the mess around us. It’s obvious that the folks in charge haven’t done a very good job... But who is the establishment? The term gets tossed around a lot as an insult these days —- even by some people who sure appear to be part of it. Some of those campaigning against the establishment assume that anyone holding office is a member. That’s a big mistake. Many of the most courageous warriors for liberty were elected to something. After all, if the government is the problem, then you’ve got to get into it to fix it... http://www.theacru.org/just-who-is-the-establishment/
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Afghanistan, a Model for nObama’s
Failed Global Leadership
by Ari Lieberman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Twin suicide blasts struck Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul last week killing at least 80 and injuring as many as 260. The death toll is likely to rise as many of the injured are in a critical state... The resultant carnage was gruesome even by Afghan standards. Bodies in grotesque, unnatural postures, were strewn about. Some had severed limbs while others were decapitated. The Islamic State, aka ISIS, ISIL or Daesh – the nObama administration is still in the midst of formulating a policy on what to call them -- claimed responsibility for the atrocity. Those targeted were Afghan Hazaras, Persian-speaking people who are followers of the Shia brand of Islam; the rest of the nation practices Sunni Islam. They are a victimized minority who comprise roughly 20 percent of the Afghan population and were protesting lack of electricity -- a luxury most Westerners take for granted – when the blasts occurred. The impoverished Hazaras have also proven to be a fertile recruiting ground for the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has utilized members of the group as mercenary proxy soldiers to fight its sectarian conflicts in Iraq, Syria and possibly Yemen. And thanks to the $150 billion cash infusion from nObama’s Iran deal, the malignant mullahs will be able to sustain the payroll and likely expand their mercenary force, thus further fueling instability and sectarian violence... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263627/afghanistan-model-obamas-failed-global-leadership-ari-lieberman
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liar-Hillary VP pick's dark ties to Islamists
by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton’s newly-announced running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, has been portrayed as a safe pick, a “pristine” candidate with a history of missionary work in Central America... a fluent Spanish-speaker and a moderate by Democrat standards. But a new report out by a national-security expert suggests maybe Kaine’s record isn’t so clean after all. He has a history of embracing Islamists, writes Ryan Mauro in an article for the Clarion Project. “He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect and received donations from well-known Islamist groups,” says Mauro, a fellow with the Clarion Project and an adjunct professor of homeland security at Liberty University in Virginia... http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/hillary-vp-picks-dark-ties-to-islamists/
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Carson – Amazed At Level Of
Corruption Throughout Politics
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton is once again denying any involvement in the latest email scandal. This newest opportunity for her to profess her innocence is centered on the DNC conspiring with the liar-Clinton camp to steer the nomination her way... Of course she’s claiming complete ignorance of any wrong doing. We’ve seen her in action before; we know how much her denials and her word are worth. Dr. Carson is asked about one of the emails in which the CFO for the DNC, Brad Marshall, floated the idea of attacking Sanders on his religion. Carson replies that using one’s religion against them regardless of who they are is a bad idea and unconstitutional. They discuss how this was done to Sanders because he was the outsider candidate that the establishment opposed, in a manner similar to the Trump candidacy. They talk about why Trump was able to persevere where Sanders was not. Dr. Carson attributes it to the level of corruption within each party...
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The REAL Reason Barack And Michelle nObama
Lost Their Law Licenses Is EXPOSED
by Clyde
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Disturbing new reports have surfaced that claim both Barack and Michelle nObama lost their law licenses for criminal reasons... According to Before It’s News, Barack Hussein nObama surrendered his law license in 2008 in order to dodge charges that he lied on his bar application. His wife Michelle also surrendered her law license back in 1993, after a federal judge told her she could either surrender her license or be charged with insurance fraud...
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Three Charged in $1 Billion
Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Scheme
by Bob Adelmann
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Last Friday the Justice Department charged a Miami-area healthcare operator, a hospital administrator, and a physician’s assistant with conspiracy involving submitting fraudulent bills to Medicare and Medicaid exceeding, for the first time, $1 billion... The three included Philip Esformes, the owner of more than 30 Miami-area nursing and assisted-living facilities, hospital administrator Odette Barcha, and physician assistant Arnald Carmouze. They were charged with money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, and receiving kickbacks, along with other charges. The conspiracy had been going on for 14 years, and came to a end with the help of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force (MFSF), which began investigating healthcare fraud in March 2007. Since that time, nearly 3,000 defendants, including doctors, nurses, physicians' assistants, hospital administrators, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers have been charged with bilking Medicare for more than $10 billion...
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Marine Corps F-35B Makes its
Red Flag Air Combat Debut
by Gidget Fuentes
by Gidget Fuentes
{usni.org} ~ The Marine Corps’ next-generation fighter took to the skies last week with its military contemporaries during Red Flag, the military’s premier advanced aerial combat training exercise... Six jets with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 flew to Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., on the north edge of Las Vegas, to join with nearly 100 aircraft for the Red Flag 16-3, the third of four air-to-air exercises the Air Force is hosting this year in the vast Nevada Test and Training Range. Aircraft participating in the exercise, which began July 11 and runs through July 29, are practicing a wide range of missions including aerial combat, attack and close-air support in mock war games against opposing forces. This Red Flag marks a debut of sorts for the F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter and VMFA-121, which one year ago became the military’s first operational F-35 squadron. Last December, the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, Ariz.-based squadron practiced expeditionary operations while supporting 1st Marine Division units during exercise Steel Knight across southern California, and it has continued to build up its flight and operational experience ahead of this first large-scale, multi-service exercise... https://news.usni.org/2016/07/25/marine-corps-f-35b-makes-red-flag-air-combat-debut?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=2ab4433013-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-2ab4433013-231491269&mc_cid=2ab4433013&mc_eid=3999f18767
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OK, liar-Hillary:
Have fun defending nObama's record
by David Limbaugh
{wnd.com} ~ Some Republicans are disillusioned with their party’s nominee, but imagine how rank-and-file Democrats must feel. Their presumptive nominee, liar-Hillary Clinton, not only is exceedingly unappealing in her own right but also seeks to fulfill Barack nObama’s third term and must defend – even champion – his disastrous record... Apart from liar-Clinton’s own baggage – her corruption, her empty record, her enabling of her husband’s sexual exploits, her enormous unlikability – she has sidled up to nObama so much during his tenure that she is stuck with his record, whether she likes it or not. As President nObama’s record reflects the worst presidential performance in modern memory – and probably longer – liar-Clinton has her work cut out for her, but she will have a smorgasbord of excuses available... http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/ok-hillary-have-fun-defending-obamas-record/
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To liar-Hillary, black votes matter
by Thomas Sowell
{wnd.com} ~ Black votes matter. If Republicans could get 20 percent of black votes, the Democrats would be ruined. This is highly unlikely, given the approach used by Republicans... However, the point is that Democrats must not only continue to get nine-tenths of black votes, they also need to get a high turnout of black voters on Election Day. People who expected the election of President Barack nObama to lead to racial healing and a post-racial society failed to take account of the political reality that racial healing and a post-racial society would, at a minimum, reduce black voter turnout. Black votes matter to many politicians – more so than black lives. That is why such politicians must try to keep black voters fearful, angry and resentful. Racial harmony would be a political disaster for such politicians... http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/to-hillary-black-votes-matter/
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ISIS lauds "results" of a bloodthirsty
Ramadan, claims 5200 victims
by LISA DAFTARI
by LISA DAFTARI
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In a celebratory infographic posted online, the Islamic State is claiming major victory in killing and injuring up to 5,200 people over the holy month of Ramadan... The infographic, lauding the "results" of a bloodthirsty Ramadan, published by ISIS' Al Naba weekly magazine notes the 14 terror attacks around the globe attributed to ISIS including the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida and the Dhaka, Bangladesh bakery attack. They also mention the Magnanville, France stabbing of a police officer and his wife and a suicide bomb attack that killed 14 Nepalese soldiers who worked at the Canadian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/isis-lauds-results-of-a-bloodthirsty-ramadan-claims-5200-victims?f=must_reads
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Lion Ted
by Jeremy Carl
{nationalreview.com} ~ What happened last night on Facebook, Twitter, Instant Messenger, and e-mail was unprecedented, for this writer at least. It started almost as soon as Ted Cruz left the podium in Cleveland, and it built up momentum until it quickly became an avalanche. I didn’t just hear from politicos (though I certainly did hear from them) or conservatives (ditto) – I heard from liberals, moderates, and even from friends who are relatively apolitical. Some wanted to hear my opinion on Cruz’s speech and the subsequent reaction. But most just wanted to let me know that they thought it was fantastic.
Most of those I heard from were movement conservatives – not surprising considering that movement conservatives have been among the strongest anti-Trump partisans. But other messages came from liberals, including my sister, who messaged me “Yeah, Ted Cruz!” – the first time she has ever praised a Republican other than her brother.
Obviously, not everyone at the convention center felt the same way, though to some degree, as Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort seemed to acknowledge, the boos were choreographed by the Trump campaign. Yet the party establishment (and hard-core Trump supporters) will be more furious at Cruz than ever before, at least until November, at which point the political wisdom, or lack thereof, of Cruz’s move will be more apparent. However, it is well worth pointing out, even a Trump victory in 2016 would not automatically be devastating to Cruz’s future prospects. Trump must both win in 2016 and govern reasonably effectively (by conservative lights) for Cruz’s non-endorsement to live in long-term infamy. Cruz does not believe that will happen.
Yet for all of the political analysis of Cruz’s supposed calculation in not endorsing, much of it seems too clever by half — as the analysis largely reflects the author’s predisposition toward Cruz. In that regard, I should state my own biases. While I have at times been critical of Cruz, in general I am a fan. I endorsed him in the 2016 election, and nothing from last night causes me to reconsider that endorsement (quite the opposite). What’s more, Cruz’s decision shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone paying attention to the post-election statements from either the senator or his team. In various conversations with people close to the campaign in recent weeks, they were unanimous that they did not expect Senator Cruz to ever endorse Donald Trump, and certainly not at the convention. And Senator Cruz’s team went out of its way when they were given a speaking slot to indicate that an endorsement was not required of them in exchange for it. Frankly, it was gross political malpractice by the Trump team to allow Cruz to deliver his speech essentially unvetted, yet, given other gaffes made at the convention, it’s hardly surprising.
In this case, the simplest explanation for Senator Cruz’s behavior is also the best one: He didn’t endorse Trump because he didn’t think Trump was worthy of endorsement.
Donald Trump insulted Cruz’s wife, (presumably) planted false tabloid stories about him in the National Enquirer, and suggested, completely baselessly, that his father might have been involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. Beyond these outrageous personal insults, it is clear that Trump’s conservatism, such as it is, has little in common with the limited-government, pro-federalism conservatism of Senator Cruz.
Does that mean that Cruz might not have endorsed Trump were it obviously politically advantageous for him to do so?
Of course not.
Cruz is a political animal — he isn’t Ron Paul searching for the most extreme way of standing by his principles with no regard to their practical consequences. But those close to Cruz felt that strategically, the political implications of his move were unknowable. While a Rubio-style soft endorsement would have been politically much safer, ultimately there were presumably enough unknown unknowns about the politics that Senator Cruz decided that the best course of action was simply to do what he felt was right and hope, without any guarantees, that the politics would eventually work out for him.
Ultimately, Cruz’s performance in the hall outlined his strongest political quality: his courage, a virtue that, ironically, he shares to some degree with his Trumpian nemesis. For those of us who believe that courage is the virtue we will need most if we are to have any chance of effectively challenging liberalism’s false premises and rolling back its cultural hegemony, that courage is the reason we can make peace with Cruz, whatever his other flaws.
And Cruz’s courage is very different from Trump’s. Trump’s “courage” is more akin to the courage of a man who simply doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him (and therefore it tends to come packaged with a healthy dose of pathological narcissism and a failure to listen to good advice). Despite the stoic face he puts on, it is clear that Cruz is to some degree bothered by the opprobrium that is heaped on him (indeed, his discomfort was even visible at times during the speech). But it is a far more human and admirable courage than Trump’s hyper-confident bluster. This is not to suggest that Cruz is not a calculating politician (indeed he is, far more than most). Nor does it deny that he may well bear some responsibility for other behaviors that have not endeared him to his Senate colleagues. But after all of the calculating is done, Senator Cruz, more than any other national Republican, is willing to go out alone and defend an unpopular conservative position when doing so may have substantial personal and political costs.
”It was the glory of this man that he could stand alone with the truth and calmly await the result,” said Frederick Douglass at the funeral of his fellow radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, who first took up the cause at a time when it was deeply unpopular. While the stakes of Cruz’s speech, significant though they were, pale in comparison with the battles fought by Douglass and Garrison, the core principles Douglass stated apply equally. And in this case, the truth, whether or not the delegates in Cleveland wanted to hear it, is that Donald Trump, whatever virtues and vices he may have, and regardless of whatever GOP officialdom wants to pretend, is not a conservative, at least in the way that Americans have thought of conservatism over the last several decades. Ted Cruz didn’t join #NeverTrump yesterday. But he did declare that he wasn’t going to pretend that Trump’s record was something it wasn’t.
Senator Cruz’s decision was clearly unpopular with many GOP delegates and insiders in Cleveland. But for many in the wider political world outside the convention hall, Lyin’ Ted became Lion Ted on Wednesday night. And 2016 will likely not be the last time we’ll hear his roar.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
In Wake of Baton Rouge, Like Lives,
All Words Matter
by Susan Stamper Brown
All Words Matter
by Susan Stamper Brown
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A Texas-Sized Voter ID Problem
Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas's voter ID law discriminates against minority voters. The court didn't strike down the law entirely, however, instead sending it back to a lower court, ordering changes before the coming November elections.
Currently 33 states have some form of voter ID laws. Of these states, nine have a strict photo ID requirement. Not surprisingly, many of the states with no form of voter ID laws — like California, New York and Massachusetts — are not only Democrat controlled but are some of the most liberal in the nation.
The concern that Texas and many other states have is the very real problem of voter fraud, which has grown in part as a result of the unabated flow of illegal immigrants over America's porous borders. Since the current administration has refused to enforce our nation's immigration laws, many state governments have responded by enacting voter ID laws as a means of protecting their citizens.
Democrats like to repeat the mantra that they fear minority voters not being allowed to vote. In reality, Democrats are making a play for minority votes, all while sacrificing the integrity of the nation's electoral process. Why? Democrats don't think it's a bad thing if illegal immigrants or felons (thanks to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe) vote, so long as it keeps Democrats in power.
-The Patriot Post
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Children and Cartoon Violence
Allyne Caan: When Wile E. Coyote debuted decades of road-runner targeted violence in the late 1940s, there was a national outcry that children would begin building copy-cat Acme contraptions to catapult boulders onto their unsuspecting neighbors. Even worse were Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam who used guns to target an innocent anthropomorphic rabbit, thereby modeling misbehavior with guns to children. Ok, we kid. There wasn't an outcry.
Back then, society still had something called a moral compass and children were, by and large, raised in two-parent families that generally taught them right from wrong and the difference between fantasy and reality. And kids therefore knew "Looney Toons" wasn't reality. How far we've come.
It's not surprising that the latest attack on our constitutional right to bear arms is being pedaled as a "save the children" campaign.
Dr. Alan Delamater, the director of clinical psychology at the Mailman Center for Child Development at UHealth at the University of Miami Health System recently opined, "Exposure to guns and violence is not good for optimal child development, nor is it good for public health. Research shows that repeated and excessive exposure to aggression and gun violence through movies, TV and video games increases the probability of children behaving aggressively toward others later."
Sounds logical, right? Only, as The Truth About Guns founder Robert Farago writes, "And yet tens of millions of American children grow-up to be law-abiding citizens. Gun owners, too! How in the world does that happen?"
Anti-gun activists will find any reason to blame guns (or, in this case, video games involving guns) for violence. But their thinking defies logic. As anyone of even mediocre intelligence knows, if you repeatedly conduct an experiment but consistently have different results, the variable — not the constant — is causing the change.
Guns, as we know, have been around and accessible for centuries. Guns aren't the variable. And for decades, countless children have been exposed to video games yet have not grown up to be violent killers. Video games aren't the variable, either.
Instead, we have to look beyond the video games and guns —a blasphemous thought for those who want to disarm Americans — and to the utter instability of the American family and the moral worldview now prevalent in our society.
More than 24 million children in America (33%) live in a home without their biological father, according to the National Center for Fathering. Among black children, the percentage rises to more than half. In fact, economist Walter Williams writes, "About 73 percent of black babies are born to unwed mothers. By the way, that percentage was 25 in 1963 and 11 in 1938." During the post-war generation, when kids knew not to imitate Wile, Yosemite and Elmer at home, more than 87% of children grew up with two biological parents who were married to each other. But that was before the "Great Society."
Statistics show that children — specifically boys — without fathers are more likely to become involved in crime.
It's hardly surprising. Children who grow up in fatherless homes understandably suffer from anger over being fatherless. Unless they are adequately taught to work through this anger, they can become violent. As Psychology Today reported a few years ago, 85% of youth in prison for crimes, including violent crimes, have an absent father.
Couple this fatherlessness, anger and violence with a rejection of traditional morality, and voila, we have the variable. (Hint: It's still not guns or video games).
Today, 57% of American adults believe that knowing right from wrong is "a matter of personal experience," according to a Barna study. Among Millennials, an astounding 74% strongly or somewhat agree with the statement, "Whatever is right for your life or works best for you is the only truth you can know."
What else do we expect kids to learn from Democrat-run education industrial complex schools that reject God-given truth?
Yet, in the face of this crisis, what are leftists doing? They're teaching kids that homosexuality — which defies all laws of nature, breeds deadly illnesses, and carries significantly high suicide risks — is normal. The supposedly kid-friendly Nickelodeon, just introduced the network's first same-sex married couple in a children's cartoon.
In other words, "progressives" are advocating the further destruction of the family while indoctrinating children to accept a behavior that leads to disease and suicide.
And they're worried about video games corrupting the youth? -The Patriot Post
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nObama DHS Admitted Propaganda Targeting Whites
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ In April of 2009 the Department of Homeland “Security” issued a report titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.”... The first part of that report was an obvious attempt to portray white people as terrorists. Vilifying an innocent group while It completely whitewashed and ignored the Islamists and others who have, with few exceptions, been the ones with their fingers on the trigger or the detonator. The second part of the report is also an attempt to distort the truth and lay the foundation for the nObama regime’s war on America, on the immigration via invasion front. The federal propaganda piece thinly disguised as an objective government document stated: “Rightwing extremists were concerned during the 1990s with the perception that illegal immigrants were taking away American jobs through their willingness to work at significantly lower wages. They also opposed free trade agreements, arguing that these arrangements resulted in Americans losing jobs to countries such as Mexico.” The fact that illegal aliens are taking American jobs is indisputable. All anyone need do is walk by a construction site and listen to the language being spoken. They also mislabel predatory one-way trade practices as “free trade,” which is incorrect. The United States has no free trade agreements of any consequence with any nation. Everything is skewed to benefit the multinational corporations at the expense of the American citizens...
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Norway just DEPORTED 7000 Muslims...
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Norway has started an effective campaign against crime yet liberals are calling for its end due to “racism.” The program, which began deporting Muslims with ties to radical groups, has had a surprising consequence... Violent crime in the country is down more than 30%. Liberals are demanding an end to the program that they feel unfairly targets a religion. Someone probably needs to tell liberals that you can’t be “racist” against a religion. In the United States, the left would rather allow illegal immigrants into the country, regardless of their criminal backgrounds, due to the fact more of them vote for Democrat Party candidates... http://conservativetribune.com/norway-deporting-muslims-3/
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Member of the nObama Admin this Judge
Just Called a Hypocrite
{teapartyjournal.comFox News host, Judge Jeanine Pirro, has a reputation for calling things just as she sees them, without sugar coating or holding back uncomfortable truths... And now she thinks there’s a great big hypocrite operating in a position of power in D.C.: Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Since Lynch was appointed to head the Department of Justice, she has proved to be just as motivated by politics and ideology as her predecessor, Eric Holder. But it’s Lynch’s clandestine meeting with President Bill liar-Clinton just before the FBI came out with its recommendation not to indict liar-Hillary over her mishandling of State Department emails that has Pirro upset... http://teapartyjournal.com/guess-which-member-of-the-obama-admin-this-judge-just-called-a-hypocrite/
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Lesson from Munich: Even strict German
gun laws didn’t stop shooter
by Fuzzy Slippers
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ After every mass shooting, even those clearly terror related, nObama and Democrats leap at the chance to push for anti-Second Amendment legislation that will disarm the innocent and the law-abiding... From calls for gun control “action” to executive orders to “a day of action” for gun control, we consistently hear about the need for strict gun control from the left. Indeed, mass shootings and terror attacks needn’t be limited to our shores for the left to leap on a mass shooting or terror attack to push for gun control in America. After the Paris attacks, progressives called for more gun control . . . even as the Jesse Hughes, front man for the Eagles of Death Metal that was performing at the Bataclan at the time of the terror attack there, asks a pertinent question: “Did your French gun control stop a single expletive person from dying at the Bataclan?” We know, and it’s probably also well known to nObama and Democrats, that gun bans and laws do not prevent criminals and terrorists from getting guns because, by definition, they ignore the law... http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/07/lesson-from-munich-even-strict-german-gun-laws-didnt-stop-shooter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Political casualties:
The killing fields of Chicago
by DR. ROBIN MCFEE
by DR. ROBIN MCFEE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Although Malcolm X was denouncing the Children's Crusade during the tumultuous times of the civil rights era, and the use of kids as protestors, taking them out of school to publicly challenge the likes of Bull Connor and George Wallace... his words perhaps ring truer today than fifty years ago. Because in the time it takes for me to write this article, and you to read it, very likely another child has been victimized by senseless violence, and probably in Chicago or Oakland or Philadelphia or Los Angeles or Detroit or, well you get the idea. As a society we are allowing children to be caught in the cross fire of special interest groups, the racial divide, politics, and gunfire. And they aren't the only ones senselessly murdered. People from 1 - 60 are gunned down in our cities on a weekly basis. Just this 4th of July according to the Chicago Sun Times, four homicides and 50 shooting victims in the Windy City; this is considered progress compared to years prior. Small consolation given there is a 49 percent increase in both shootings and homicides during the first six months of 2016 in Chicago. Think of the irreplaceable loss of human capital... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/political-casualties-the-killing-fields-of-chicago?f=must_reads
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Why is Virginia a Haven for Would-be Jihadists?
by ABIGAIL R. ESMAN
by ABIGAIL R. ESMAN
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ What is it about Virginia? Already this year, six men from the "Cavalier State" have been arrested on terror-related charges - two of them in July alone... Another man has joined the Islamic State in Syria. Two of those charged were stopped from making a similar trip. These most recent arrests, one on July 3, the other on July 8, were based on charges of planning to provide material support to ISIS. Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the National Guard who was arrested July 3, allegedly discussed planning an attack against U.S. military in the homeland inspired by fellow Virginian Nidal Hasan's 2009 shooting at Fort Hood. According to court documents, Jalloh quit the Guard and later attempted to obtain funds and weapons for a domestic attack after being inspired by Anwar al Awlaki's videos on YouTube. Five days later, Virginia law enforcement arrested Haris Qamar, following an extended FBI sting operation. According to an FBI affidavit, Qamar made statements to an informant such as, "By-bye, DC, stupid a- kufar [infidels], kill 'em all," and posted to his Twitter account a prayer for "strength to the mujahedeen to slaughter every single US military officer."...
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How nObama Crippled the Iranian
People’s Freedom Quest
by SLATER BAKHTAVAR
by SLATER BAKHTAVAR
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The terrorist group ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (or Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, for those who prefer the acronym ISIL) can be traced at least as far back as 2004... when founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi pledged his allegiance to the infamous al Qaeda group and its then-leader, Osama bin Laden. The two organizations found themselves compatible, as both were devoted to Salafist Sunni Islam, which preaches a return to traditional Islamic values and practices. Originally known as "Jamat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad", Zarqawi changed the group's name to "al Qaeda in Iraq" when ties with bin Laden were solidified. Zarqawi himself was killed in 2006, his successors meeting their own fate later in 2010, and today the group is led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In the aftermath of the United States' ill-advised troop withdrawal from Iraq, the group prospered, eventually divorcing itself from al Qaeda and declaring itself an Islamic caliphate, so that it is now most commonly known as ISIS. The growth of ISIS has been as impressive as it has been alarming, with well-armed militants spreading across Iraq where even that nation's second largest city, Mosul, has fallen to the power of ISIS and is now administered by them and into Syria, sustaining themselves with funding from captured financial institutions, oil fields, and sympathetic radical Muslims in other Arab countries. Disturbing reports have also spoken of ISIS' widespread use of the capture and sale of young girls as sex slaves to raise revenue. They are brutally totalitarian in their adherence to their flavor of Islamic doctrine, having instituted flogging as punishment for the sale of alcohol or tobacco, hand amputation for stealing, and death for failure to convert to the "true" Muslim faith. They have also claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks around the world, including in the US and Europe. What is perhaps most terrifying of all is the fact that blame for the rise of ISIS can be laid squarely at the feet of United States President Barack nObama...
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Media Needs to Press nObama on Islam
by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC
by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In response to the July 14 Nice, France terrorist attack, killing 84, former House Speaker Newt Gringrich called for deportation of Muslims supporting sharia law... President Barack nObama immediately criticized the suggestion as "repugnant" and "un-American." Shariah law evolves primarily from the Koran-a body of moral and religious laws dictating almost every aspect of Muslim life. Coming from the lips of Allah, they supposedly represent perfection and are incorruptible by man's interpretation. However, many verses of the Koran conflict with each other. This led Muslim clerics to adopt the concept of abrogation-giving later verses preference-lest Allah be deemed imperfect!. Why has the media failed to query nObama on such aspects of Islamic law? Why, specifically, should nObama believe it repugnant to oppose such intolerance, brutality and inequality simply because it is packaged as a religion?... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/media-needs-to-press-obama-on-islam?f=must_reads
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liar-Hillary Clinton’s V.P. Pick, Tim Kaine
Has Anti-Israel Track Record
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ One of the reasons given for liar-Hillary Clinton’s selection of Tim Kaine as her vice presidential selection was that Kaine “is everything that Donald Trump and Mike Pence is not.”... And she is correct while Trump and Pence are seen as supporters of Israel who fight against radical Islamic terrorism, Kaine like Ms. liar-Clinton does not take pro-Israel positions, and has shown support for organizations connected to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. To supporters of the Jewish state among the most damaging things about Tim Kaine is that he is the darling of the anti-Israel organization J-Street. Founded in 2008 by George Soros and liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign director John Podesta, J-Street goes by the motto “pro-Israel, pro-peace,” has been but has been described by liberal attorney Alan Dershowitz as being neither pro-Israel nor pro- peace. One of the group’s founders Daniel Levy has been quoted as saying the creation of Israel in 1948 was wrong (there’s more if you are not convinced)... http://lidblog.com/hillarys-v-p-pick-tim-kaine-not-pro-israel/
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Turkey-Russia Pact Threatens Western Interests
in the Middle East
by Con Coughlin
by Con Coughlin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The deepening diplomatic pact between Turkey and Russia represents yet another damning indictment of the nObama Administration's ability to maintain relations with Washington's traditional allies in the Middle East... Western diplomats regard the decision by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to restore relations with Moscow last month as part of a carefully-coordinated attempt by Ankara to build a new power base in the region. For decades Turkey, a key NATO member, has said that it wants to forge closer ties with the West, to the extent that Turkish diplomats insist that Ankara is still serious about joining the European Union...
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In Wake of Baton Rouge, Like Lives,
All Words Matter
by Susan Stamper Brown
All Words Matter
by Susan Stamper Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ When we sow the wind, we should not be surprised when we reap a whirlwind.And the whirlwind in which we find ourselves is a nation so filled with unchecked anger and hatred it seems we can’t go a week without a cop killing, this time in Baton Rouge.
In this age of instant news, people feel compelled to react instantly before facts come out, aided by race-hustlers who consistently fan the flame of division with inflammatory words and then step back to watch the world burn. In response to the Baton Rouge killings, President nObama lectured Americans must “temper our words and open our hearts.”
Hi pot, meet kettle.
Cleveland’s Police Patrolmen’s Association president, Detective Steve Loomis, who spoke to Fox News while events were still unfolding in Baton Rouge says nObama’s own words are to blame.
“It’s absolutely insane that we have a president of the United States and a Democrat governor of Minnesota making the statements they made less than one day after the police-involved shootings,” Loomis said, “And those police-involved shootings, make no mistake, are what absolutely have triggered this rash of senseless murders of law enforcement officers across this country. It’s reprehensible. And the president of the United States has blood on his hands that will not be able to come washed off.”
The damning comments Loomis referenced were nObama’s: “When incidents like this occur, there’s a big chunk of our citizenry that feels as if, because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same…” And Minnesota Gov. Dayton’s: “Would this have happened if the driver were white, if the passengers were white? I don’t think it would have.”
Not long after, five officers were killed by a man who reportedly had it out for white people. And now, three more officers were killed on July 17.
It’s as simple to understand as an indisputable law of the universe: cause and effect. Coddling groups conceived in and fostered by hatred will reap bloody-bad results.
Ask slain Baton Rouge officer Montrell Jackson’s sister Joycelyn Jackson. The Washington Post reports she understands the anger fueling the Black Lives Matter movement, but still believes “God gives nobody the right to kill and take another person’s life…It’s coming to the point where no lives matter.”
And she’s right. In reality, though, all lives matter, but if you say that you’ll be labeled a racist. I suppose Jesus was also a racist in that he died for all, regardless of skin color. A song I learned as a kid went like this: “Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world; red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight; Jesus loves the little children of the world.” My how America’s changed.
Days before he was assassinated, slain Officer Jackson prophetically posted on Facebook that he was “tired physically and emotionally,” and said he wondered if the city he loved, loved him back. “In uniform,” he wrote, “I get nasty hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat…These are trying times. Please don’t let hate infect your heart…”
Obviously, Jackson’s alleged assassin allowed hate to fill his heart. The Daily Caller reports the shooter, Gavin Eugene Long “was a former Nation of Islam member” who “railed against ‘crackers’” on his YouTube Channel. The New York Daily News reported that in another video Long defended the Dallas cop shooter saying, “It’s justice. You know what I’m saying.”
Yes, Gavin, we got what you were saying. You showed us in Baton Rouge.
And mark my words, this mayhem will continue unless hatred is replaced with God’s love and forgiveness. Then sanity will return to the citizenry and law and order to this nation. God spoke to Job out of a whirlwind, so maybe there is hope for us in ours.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
The Left's Grassroots
by Caroline Glick
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GOP Convention Highlights, Day 3
Vice presidential nominee Mike Pence: "At the very moment when America is crying out for something new and different, the other party has answered with a stale agenda and the most predictable of names. ... The choice could not be more clear. Americans can elect someone who literally personifies the failed establishment in Washington, DC, or we can choose a leader who will fight every day to Make America Great Again. ... In the end, this election just comes down to just two names on the ballot, so let's resolve right now that liar-Hillary Clinton will never become president of the United States of America."
Ted Cruz: "I congratulate Donald Trump on winning the nomination. ... We deserve leaders who stand for principle, unite us all behind shared values, cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody. ... Please, don't stay home in November. ... Stand and speak and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution."
Marco Rubio: "The time for fighting each other is over. It's time to come together."
Scott Walker: "Last August, I said that any of the Republicans running would be better than liar-Hillary Clinton. I meant it then, and I mean it now. ... President Reagan appointed Justice Scalia to the Supreme Court 30 years ago. ... We cannot concede the Supreme Court to liar-Hillary Clinton for 30 years. The consequences are too great. ... [liar-Hillary Clinton's private email server] isn't just another liar-Clinton scandal. liar-Hillary's scandal put our national security at risk and that makes her unfit to be president of the United States."
Newt Gingrich: "There have been many fascinating things to watch about the extraordinary, historic rise of Donald Trump. But the most significant has been Donald Trump's courage to tell some important truths about our national security. For example: We are at war. We are at war with radical Islamists. They are determined to kill us. They are stronger than we admit and are greater in number than we admit. And there is no substitute for victory. In contrast to Donald Trump, our national security and foreign policy elites, led by liar-Hillary Clinton, are incapable of speaking with such honesty. While they lie about the threat, we need to tell the truth about the danger."
Laura Ingraham: "Today, we have stagnating wages, skyrocketing health care costs, doubling of the debt, the threat of ISIS and the rise of China, and the Democrats' answer to all that is to nominate the woman who helped orchestrate America's decline. ... Donald Trump respects us enough to tell us the truth about what has happened to our country. On things like immigration, trade, our status in the world. Even in the face of unfair criticism and sheer hatred." -The Patriot Post
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WaPo Defends liar-Hillary's Banana Republic
If there's one thing that summarily defines this week's Republican National Convention, it's a strong anti/liar-Hillary Clinton sentiment. This was on full display during Tuesday's speech from Gov. Chris Christie. At one point the stadium joined in a "Lock her up!" intonation, demonstrating the degree of frustration in the liar-Clintons' uncanny ability to skirt the legal system. Meanwhile, "liar-Hillary for Prison" clothing is a hot commodity, and understandably so. Yet in the eyes of The Washington Post editorial board, this anger is not only unjustified, it's akin to a mob mentality of some anti-democratic third-world nation.
The Post, in a piece titled "Memo to Republicans: Democracies don't lock up political opponents," says, "Mr. Christie, a former prosecutor and would-be attorney general, presumably knows that the U.S. legal system is meant to be insulated from politics. He should know better than to weaken that all-important separation." Ironically, and evidently unbeknownst to the board, politicization is exactly what's fueling Republican angst and what they strive to interrupt. The liar-Clintons have spent decades getting away with gross negligence, including the FBI's recent decision not to recommend charges against liar-Hillary. And the Post wants to lecture us on how "the U.S. legal system is meant to be insulated from politics"?
The Post goes on to argue, "Even if FBI Director James B. Comey had recommended she be charged ... there is essentially no chance she would have seen conviction and jail time." If that's the case, it's because the system is rigged. As National Review's Kevin Williamson argues, "Mrs. liar-Clinton couldn't get indicted if she tried." Meanwhile, try telling Rick Perry and Tom DeLay that politics had nothing to do with their indictments.
On a final note, the term "democracy" is a favorite leftist talking point, so let's not miss the Post's erroneously conflating America's form of government. (We're a republic.) The editors conclude, "When the critique of political opponents becomes so disproportionate and divorced from reality, democracy, which requires goodwill and compromise, cannot function." As columnist Ben Shapiro writes, "This is the whole point of the Constitution of the United States. There are certain rights that are inviolable, even by a majority. ... [M]orality doesn't follow the majority." America has lost its way. The fact liar-Clinton isn't sitting behind bars is all the evidence one needs. -The Patriot Post
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19,252 Emails from DNC Leaked by Wikileaks,
and Oh MAN Are They Great!
by Caleb Howe
{redstate.com} ~ On Friday, website Wikileaks posted over 19,000 emails that were taken from the Democratic National Committee that show story manipulation and collusion with the MSM... internal attempts to sabotage Bernie Sanders during the primary, and a whole lot more. This huge political story and scandal broke on Friday morning, though you may not have heard about it. It seems the collusion extended even to burying the story of the leak itself, as most news outlets gave it minimal coverage and little air time, and Twitter was accused of actively covering it up. Here are the story highlights we'll have much more on this throughout the weekend... http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/07/23/collusion-corruption-cover-20000-emails-dnc-released-wikileaks/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Is this the ‘Coming Apart’ election?
A Q&A with Charles Murray
by James Pethokoukis, Charles Murray
{aei.org} ~ Is America coming apart? Some days, it certainly seems so. Take the tumultuous 2016 election cycle, and add to it fears over globalization and automation, a reaction against Wall Street and the big banks, and a million other news items... and you have a brew that smells of a spoiling American — maybe even Western — economic, social, political, and cultural order. If America and the West are being exposed for their divisions between mainstream and elite, between those disenchanted by the 21st century and those eager to embrace it, some seriously innovative public policy is called for. Will something like the universal basic income do the trick? What are we not thinking of that could? I recently discussed all this with Charles Murray, AEI’S W. H. Brady Scholar, the mind behind “The Bell Curve,” “Coming Apart,” and “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State,” which came out in a revised edition last month. Here’s some of our conversation, which you can listen at in full over on Ricochet...
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Six Years After Dodd-Frank:
Higher Costs, Uncertain Benefits
by Sam Batkins, Dan Goldbeck
{americanactionforum.org} ~ Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act six years ago in an attempt to address the causes of the financial crisis. The law has imposed billions of dollars in costs with unclear benefits... Regulators have least 61 regulations remaining to finish implementing the law. According to American Action Forum (AAF) research, Dodd-Frank has imposed more than $36 billion in final rule costs and 73 million paperwork hours, up from $24 billion in final rule costs and 61 million paperwork burden hours from last year’s report. To put those figures in perspective, the costs are approximately $112 per person or $310 per household; for paperwork, it would take 36,950 employees working full-time (2,000 hours annually) to complete a single year of the law’s paperwork, and those are based on agency calculations. In recent research, AAF even found the law had resulted in a 14.5 percent decline in revolving consumer credit. From a housing market still experiencing mediocre growth, to an uneven labor picture, to significant consumer impacts, it’s clear the law has fundamentally altered capital markets and added layers of complexity for individuals and financial institutions...Dodd-Frank go away. https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/six-years-dodd-frank-higher-costs-uncertain-benefits/
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Police shootings and race
by Heather Mac Donald
{washingtonpost.com} ~ Eugene has kindly invited me to present findings from my new book, “The War on Cops.” The book argues that the Black Lives Matter narrative about a racist criminal-justice system is false and dangerous... dangerous to innocent black lives that are being lost to rising crime and, it would increasingly appear, to law and order itself as cops become the target of assassination. In future posts, I will discuss the most controversial aspect of “The War on Cops”: my claim that the current rise in violent crime in many American cities is the result of officers backing off of proactive policing. Today, however, I want to address the question of police shootings and race, in light of the recent fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn. Those shootings have amplified the charge that the U.S. is experiencing an epidemic of racially driven police shootings. A New York Times editorial, for example, asked, “When Will the Killing Stop?” The chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), asserted on the House floor that “most” of the people fatally shot by the police this year have been African American... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokhconspiracy/wp/2016/07/18/police-shootings-and-race/
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State Dept. won't say when it will start
liar-Clinton email investigation
by Sarah Westwood
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ State Department officials have not yet begun their internal investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton's private email use, and a spokeswoman refused on Friday to estimate when that probe would begin... Elizabeth Trudeau, State Department spokeswoman, declined to specify who would be included in the review or what the investigation would entail beyond noting that the Bureau of Diplomatic Security would bear ultimate responsibility for decisions affecting the personnel who are reviewed. The State Department has spent the past month vowing to open its own investigation into the "extremely careless" handling of classified information that transpired under liar-Clinton's leadership since the FBI director cleared her of criminal wrongdoing on July 5... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-dept.-wont-say-when-it-will-start-clinton-email-investigation/article/2596657?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Watchdog&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Watchdog%20-%2007/22/16&utm_medium=email
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You’ve Never Seen #BlackLivesMatter
Destroyed Like This!
{patriotvideos.net} ~ If you have been lucky enough to avoid the race-baiting propaganda of media outlets such as MTV or Vox, I envy you. These left wing media outlets continue hype the tragic shootings of black men with a ridiculous narrative of racist cops murder people for doing normal activities... Steven Crowder has had enough, he takes each and every controversial shooting and breaks it down with the facts. Ever since the shooting of Travoyn Martin much of the media has been intentionally misleading the public about police shooting. Even major news networks got caught deceptively editing the 911 call that led to the shooting. NBC even tried to hide George Zimmerman’s head injuries by placing their logo over it... http://patriotvideos.net/youve-never-seen-blacklivesmatter-destroyed-like-this/
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Russian warplanes reportedly
bombed US base in Syria
by foxnews.com
{foxnews.com} ~ Russian warplanes reportedly bombed a secret military base in Syria used by elite American and British forces last month... The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the Russian strike on the CIA-linked site was part of a campaign by Russia to pressure the White House to agree to closer cooperation in the Syrian skies, U.S. military and intelligence officials said. Despite the fact that some forces could have been killed and the bombing dampened relations between Russia and the Pentagon and CIA, the White House and State Department still persued a compromise... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07/22/russian-warplanes-reportedly-bombed-us-base-in-syria.html
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Terrifying Gun Law Package Being
Eyed By This New Governor
{therighttobear.com} ~ While it’s doubtful Governor Kate Brown of Oregon travels anywhere without her cavalcade of armed guards and security personnel she wouldn’t think twice about denying Americans their rights to remain protected... Kate Brown, the newly appointed governor of Oregon has unveiled a disgusting bunch of gun laws aimed at depriving Americans their freedom to freely exercise second amendment rights. If passed these laws would be amongst the most restrictive in the nation. Guns.com reports on her proposed legislation... http://therighttobear.com/terrifying-gun-law-package-being-eyed-by-this-new-governor/
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Rep. Gowdy Tears Into liar-Clinton Before The Break
Questioning on Benghazi. Watch the facial expressions and the look of disrespect... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxpJvrclIfM
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DOJ Political Correctness Gets Out of Hand –
Phases Out This ‘Controversial’ Word
{patriotsandpolitics.com} ~ In an effort to help young people involved in the justice system find jobs and housing, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced $1.75 million for Public Housing Authorities (PHAs)... and nonprofit legal service organizations to address the challenges justice-involved individuals face when trying to find work and a place to call home. Even U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch got in on the action: The future of our nation depends upon the future of our young people – including young people who have become involved with our justice system. By helping justice-involved youth find decent jobs and stable housing after they return home, these critical grants provide a foundation for a fresh start and offer a path towards productivity and purpose. In the months ahead, the Department of Justice will continue helping justice-involved youth enrich their lives and improve our country... http://patriotsandpolitics.com/doj-political-correctness-gets-out-of-hand-phases-out-this-controversial-word/
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The Left's Grassroots
by Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ It was an ironic coincidence that the same day the Knesset passed the updated, watered down “NGO law,” the US Senate Permanent Select Committee on Investigations published its final report on the nObama administration’s use of an Israel-registered NGO to run a campaign to bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the 2015 election.
Hours after opposition leader Isaac Herzog hysterically and falsely alleged, from the Knesset podium, that “the blossoms of fascism are rising in Israeli society,” the Senate committee announced that the OneVoice organization unlawfully used US taxpayer money to conduct a political campaign to bring down Netanyahu in 2015.
In 2013-14, OneVoice received $465,000 from the US State Department to conduct a campaign to raise domestic Israeli support for the State Department- brokered peace process with the PLO.
In December 2014, the Knesset called an early election. The same month, OneVoice merged with a new group called V-15, or Victory 2015. Together they led a campaign to unseat Netanyahu. OneVoice informed the State Department, through then-consul- general in Jerusalem Michael Ratner, of its intentions.
According to the Senate report, Ratner unlawfully subsequently deleted his communications with the group regarding its anti-Netanyahu campaign.
To run the pro-peace process campaign, the State Department gave OneVoice money to build databases of Israeli voters, to train campaign cadres and to build a major online presence. OneVoice used these US-financed resources for its campaign to overthrow Netanyahu in contravention of US law.
From the perspective of the Israeli public, the Senate report is illuminating for two reasons. First, it reveals the true nature of the crisis in Israel’s relations with the US. Second, it demonstrates how foreign government-funded Israel-registered NGOs harm the country.
From the outset of Barack nObama’s presidency, which has overlapped Netanyahu’s tenure as prime minister, the Left’s central argument against Netanyahu has been that he upended Israel’s alliance with the US.
The Senate report shows that this claim is a lie.
The Senate report shows that the nObama administration has used the Israeli Left as its agent to advance its Israel policy – a policy that the Israeli public rejected in three successive elections. That policy requires Israel to renounce its rights to Judea, Samaria and united Jerusalem and cede those territories to the PLO.
After the peace talks failed, the administration’s leftist Israeli agents used the resources the US paid for, to wage a massively funded campaign to demonize Netanyahu with the aim of unseating him in the general election.
In other words, the Israeli Left, which warns about a breach with Washington, has been the main beneficiary of and a partner in facilitating and expanding this breach.
To the extent that Netanyahu shoulders any responsibility for this state of affairs, he is responsible for his failure to rein in the Left or to call it out for its anti-democratic behavior.
And this brings us to the uproar the Left raised at the Knesset on Tuesday against the NGO law. The updated text does nothing to stop this sort of subversion by foreign governments working with the Left. All it does is require foreign government-funded Israel-registered organizations to note that they are funded by foreign governments on their official communications. So what is behind their uproar? To understand, it is first necessary to understand how foreign government funding of Israel-registered groups harms Israel. Understanding the nature of the damage also points to the direction the Knesset must go to repair the damage.
Israel is harmed by these relationships in three ways. The first two are apparent in the OneVoice story. First, they harm Israel’s public discourse and through it, our democracy.
OneVoice/V-15 based their US-funded and -directed campaigns on the central claim that they were grassroots groups of regular Israelis who felt the time had come to stand up and be counted. In other words, they claimed they were the silent majority.
Variations of this claim of native authenticity stand at the root of all the operations of foreign- funded NGOs.
As the Senate investigation showed, in the case of OneVoice, this claim is entirely fraudulent. It is also a fraud when staked out by the likes of B’Tselem, Peace Now, Yesh Din, Breaking the Silence and dozens of other groups, which receive the bulk of their funding from foreign governments. If it weren’t for their foreign funders, they wouldn’t be doing what they are doing.
By presenting themselves as grassroots Israeli voices, when in fact they are paid representatives of foreign governments who act to advance the interests of those governments in Israel, these groups distort the domestic discourse. We think we are talking to Israelis who are invested in the future of this country. But we are actually talking to Europeans and Americans whose loyalty is not to Israel and its future and indeed is often hostile to Israel. The Israelis we face are not independent actors. They are paid contractors of foreign powers.
This brings us to the second type of damage that these groups cause Israel. They facilitate the West’s anti-Israel policies.
Anti-Israel governments need to sell their hostile policies to their electorates. They need to fund them. To do so, they need to build and maintain domestic support for their political war against the Jewish state. To secure this support, these government quote the findings of studies that they paid their Israel-registered NGOs to carry out for them.
So not only does foreign government sponsorship of Israel-registered NGOs harm Israel’s democratic order. It causes massive damage to Israel’s ability to defend itself abroad.
The last way that foreign government-funded NGOs harm Israel isn’t reflected in the OneVoice example. But it is reflected in the action of hundreds of other NGOs funded by foreign governments, every day.
Foreign governments use Israel-registered NGOs to gum up the works of the Israeli judicial system to impede the operations of the entire government.
And they do this deliberately.
Take the Norwegian Refugee Council for instance.
According to a recent report by NGO Monitor, between 2011 and 2013, the Norwegian government- funded NRC gave Israeli and Palestinian groups $20 million to file lawsuits against the Israeli government in Israeli courts. During that period, the sponsored groups – among them Yesh Din and the Public Committee against House Demolition – filed 677 suits in local courts and the Supreme Court.
According to NGO Monitor’s report, a lawyer affiliated with the NRC program stated that these cases are an attempt to “try every possible legal measure to disrupt the Israeli judicial system.”
In his words, “As many cases as possible are registered and... as many cases as possible are appealed to increase the workload of the courts and the Supreme Court to such an extent that there will be a blockage.”
To sum up then, foreign governments work through Israel-registered NGOs to harm Israel by weakening its democracy, obstructing and weakening its justice system and weakening its international position.
And against these damaging operations, all the Knesset has done is require these groups to mention they are funded by foreign governments on their official communications.
In other words, the Knesset has so far failed to deal with this large and growing problem.
So what can be done? To repair the actual damage, rather than go through the motions, the Knesset needs to pass three laws.
First, we need to have a full picture of the relationships between these groups and their foreign funders. Who initiates their projects? Who oversees them? What does the Norwegian Ambassador tell B’Tselem’s director when he hands her the monthly check? In January, Ad Kan revealed that Breaking the Silence gathered information about IDF weapons systems, tactics and troop movements from reservists.
Who tasked the “Israeli” organization to do so? Once the public knows the answers to these questions, these groups’ ability to distort the public debate and so harm our democracy will be vastly curtailed.
To this end, the Knesset must pass a law requiring groups that receive funding from foreign governments to report the contents of all of their communications with those governments. Europeans governments refuse to divulge the details of their relationships with these groups. And as the State Department’s deletion of its emails to OneVoice makes clear, the US does as well. The reason for their secrecy is obvious.
The purpose of their relationships with these groups is subversion.
OneVoice used a resource – a voter database – whose creation was financed by the US government.
When native Israeli V-15 workers knocked on voters’ doors and urged them to bring down Netanyahu, it would have been useful for the public to know that those campaign workers were trained on the US taxpayers’ dime, and that they knew its addresses because the State Department paid for V-15’s voter rolls.
The Knesset must pass a law requiring all groups that use resources in their work that have been funded by foreign governments to report the foreign origin or ownership of those resources.
Finally, there is the lawfare issue.
The government is sued by foreign government- funded Israel-registered NGOs nearly every day. The lawsuits are only made possible and often directed by those governments. Their objective is to prevent the smooth functioning of the government and legal system.
The Knesset should pass a law that requires foreign governments that fund lawsuits through NGOs to be identified as parties to those lawsuits in court documents. So, too, foreign governments that sue the government should be required to pay court costs.
Foreign states have chosen to use undiplomatic means to influence government policies. The Knesset needs to make sure that these means are brought out in the open so we can know what we’re dealing with.
This finally returns us to Herzog and his fellow leftists, and their unhinged, libelous response to the passage of the toothless NGO law this week. Those libels were part of an ongoing campaign by Herzog and his comrades to delegitimize the government and Israeli society as a whole as an illegitimate gang of brownshirts in training.
Now that we understand the collaborative relations between the Left and foreign governments, we realize that these statements are part of the deal.
Herzog and his colleagues, who benefit from these subversive operations by foreign governments, help them along in their efforts to delegitimize the country.
After all, that’s what friends are for.
The time has come to put an end to this travesty.
As the Left showed on Tuesday, yet again, it has no intention of cleaning up its act. Subversion is the only card it has left. To save our democracy, the Knesset needs to stop beating around the bush and get to work.
Hours after opposition leader Isaac Herzog hysterically and falsely alleged, from the Knesset podium, that “the blossoms of fascism are rising in Israeli society,” the Senate committee announced that the OneVoice organization unlawfully used US taxpayer money to conduct a political campaign to bring down Netanyahu in 2015.
In 2013-14, OneVoice received $465,000 from the US State Department to conduct a campaign to raise domestic Israeli support for the State Department- brokered peace process with the PLO.
In December 2014, the Knesset called an early election. The same month, OneVoice merged with a new group called V-15, or Victory 2015. Together they led a campaign to unseat Netanyahu. OneVoice informed the State Department, through then-consul- general in Jerusalem Michael Ratner, of its intentions.
According to the Senate report, Ratner unlawfully subsequently deleted his communications with the group regarding its anti-Netanyahu campaign.
To run the pro-peace process campaign, the State Department gave OneVoice money to build databases of Israeli voters, to train campaign cadres and to build a major online presence. OneVoice used these US-financed resources for its campaign to overthrow Netanyahu in contravention of US law.
From the perspective of the Israeli public, the Senate report is illuminating for two reasons. First, it reveals the true nature of the crisis in Israel’s relations with the US. Second, it demonstrates how foreign government-funded Israel-registered NGOs harm the country.
From the outset of Barack nObama’s presidency, which has overlapped Netanyahu’s tenure as prime minister, the Left’s central argument against Netanyahu has been that he upended Israel’s alliance with the US.
The Senate report shows that this claim is a lie.
The Senate report shows that the nObama administration has used the Israeli Left as its agent to advance its Israel policy – a policy that the Israeli public rejected in three successive elections. That policy requires Israel to renounce its rights to Judea, Samaria and united Jerusalem and cede those territories to the PLO.
After the peace talks failed, the administration’s leftist Israeli agents used the resources the US paid for, to wage a massively funded campaign to demonize Netanyahu with the aim of unseating him in the general election.
In other words, the Israeli Left, which warns about a breach with Washington, has been the main beneficiary of and a partner in facilitating and expanding this breach.
To the extent that Netanyahu shoulders any responsibility for this state of affairs, he is responsible for his failure to rein in the Left or to call it out for its anti-democratic behavior.
And this brings us to the uproar the Left raised at the Knesset on Tuesday against the NGO law. The updated text does nothing to stop this sort of subversion by foreign governments working with the Left. All it does is require foreign government-funded Israel-registered organizations to note that they are funded by foreign governments on their official communications. So what is behind their uproar? To understand, it is first necessary to understand how foreign government funding of Israel-registered groups harms Israel. Understanding the nature of the damage also points to the direction the Knesset must go to repair the damage.
Israel is harmed by these relationships in three ways. The first two are apparent in the OneVoice story. First, they harm Israel’s public discourse and through it, our democracy.
OneVoice/V-15 based their US-funded and -directed campaigns on the central claim that they were grassroots groups of regular Israelis who felt the time had come to stand up and be counted. In other words, they claimed they were the silent majority.
Variations of this claim of native authenticity stand at the root of all the operations of foreign- funded NGOs.
As the Senate investigation showed, in the case of OneVoice, this claim is entirely fraudulent. It is also a fraud when staked out by the likes of B’Tselem, Peace Now, Yesh Din, Breaking the Silence and dozens of other groups, which receive the bulk of their funding from foreign governments. If it weren’t for their foreign funders, they wouldn’t be doing what they are doing.
By presenting themselves as grassroots Israeli voices, when in fact they are paid representatives of foreign governments who act to advance the interests of those governments in Israel, these groups distort the domestic discourse. We think we are talking to Israelis who are invested in the future of this country. But we are actually talking to Europeans and Americans whose loyalty is not to Israel and its future and indeed is often hostile to Israel. The Israelis we face are not independent actors. They are paid contractors of foreign powers.
This brings us to the second type of damage that these groups cause Israel. They facilitate the West’s anti-Israel policies.
Anti-Israel governments need to sell their hostile policies to their electorates. They need to fund them. To do so, they need to build and maintain domestic support for their political war against the Jewish state. To secure this support, these government quote the findings of studies that they paid their Israel-registered NGOs to carry out for them.
So not only does foreign government sponsorship of Israel-registered NGOs harm Israel’s democratic order. It causes massive damage to Israel’s ability to defend itself abroad.
The last way that foreign government-funded NGOs harm Israel isn’t reflected in the OneVoice example. But it is reflected in the action of hundreds of other NGOs funded by foreign governments, every day.
Foreign governments use Israel-registered NGOs to gum up the works of the Israeli judicial system to impede the operations of the entire government.
And they do this deliberately.
Take the Norwegian Refugee Council for instance.
According to a recent report by NGO Monitor, between 2011 and 2013, the Norwegian government- funded NRC gave Israeli and Palestinian groups $20 million to file lawsuits against the Israeli government in Israeli courts. During that period, the sponsored groups – among them Yesh Din and the Public Committee against House Demolition – filed 677 suits in local courts and the Supreme Court.
According to NGO Monitor’s report, a lawyer affiliated with the NRC program stated that these cases are an attempt to “try every possible legal measure to disrupt the Israeli judicial system.”
In his words, “As many cases as possible are registered and... as many cases as possible are appealed to increase the workload of the courts and the Supreme Court to such an extent that there will be a blockage.”
To sum up then, foreign governments work through Israel-registered NGOs to harm Israel by weakening its democracy, obstructing and weakening its justice system and weakening its international position.
And against these damaging operations, all the Knesset has done is require these groups to mention they are funded by foreign governments on their official communications.
In other words, the Knesset has so far failed to deal with this large and growing problem.
So what can be done? To repair the actual damage, rather than go through the motions, the Knesset needs to pass three laws.
First, we need to have a full picture of the relationships between these groups and their foreign funders. Who initiates their projects? Who oversees them? What does the Norwegian Ambassador tell B’Tselem’s director when he hands her the monthly check? In January, Ad Kan revealed that Breaking the Silence gathered information about IDF weapons systems, tactics and troop movements from reservists.
Who tasked the “Israeli” organization to do so? Once the public knows the answers to these questions, these groups’ ability to distort the public debate and so harm our democracy will be vastly curtailed.
To this end, the Knesset must pass a law requiring groups that receive funding from foreign governments to report the contents of all of their communications with those governments. Europeans governments refuse to divulge the details of their relationships with these groups. And as the State Department’s deletion of its emails to OneVoice makes clear, the US does as well. The reason for their secrecy is obvious.
The purpose of their relationships with these groups is subversion.
OneVoice used a resource – a voter database – whose creation was financed by the US government.
When native Israeli V-15 workers knocked on voters’ doors and urged them to bring down Netanyahu, it would have been useful for the public to know that those campaign workers were trained on the US taxpayers’ dime, and that they knew its addresses because the State Department paid for V-15’s voter rolls.
The Knesset must pass a law requiring all groups that use resources in their work that have been funded by foreign governments to report the foreign origin or ownership of those resources.
Finally, there is the lawfare issue.
The government is sued by foreign government- funded Israel-registered NGOs nearly every day. The lawsuits are only made possible and often directed by those governments. Their objective is to prevent the smooth functioning of the government and legal system.
The Knesset should pass a law that requires foreign governments that fund lawsuits through NGOs to be identified as parties to those lawsuits in court documents. So, too, foreign governments that sue the government should be required to pay court costs.
Foreign states have chosen to use undiplomatic means to influence government policies. The Knesset needs to make sure that these means are brought out in the open so we can know what we’re dealing with.
This finally returns us to Herzog and his fellow leftists, and their unhinged, libelous response to the passage of the toothless NGO law this week. Those libels were part of an ongoing campaign by Herzog and his comrades to delegitimize the government and Israeli society as a whole as an illegitimate gang of brownshirts in training.
Now that we understand the collaborative relations between the Left and foreign governments, we realize that these statements are part of the deal.
Herzog and his colleagues, who benefit from these subversive operations by foreign governments, help them along in their efforts to delegitimize the country.
After all, that’s what friends are for.
The time has come to put an end to this travesty.
As the Left showed on Tuesday, yet again, it has no intention of cleaning up its act. Subversion is the only card it has left. To save our democracy, the Knesset needs to stop beating around the bush and get to work.
By Jiri Valenta and Leni Friedman Valenta
“Unafraid, Bi-Partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom”
Although we have been equal opportunity writers in attacking politicians of both stripes, we readily confess that we are presently supporting Donald Trump as the agent of peaceful revolution we need.
Nevertheless, we have viewed sympathetically the campaign of Bernie Sanders, a decent man who has been grinding many of the same axes against a “rigged System” as Trump. Thus, not eager to see the ring of Mordor placed on corrupt Hillary’s finger, we share the anger of the Sanders supporters at the DNC’s hugely unfair treatment of him.
Some DNC e-mails hacked from Hillary’s private server by the famous Guciffer, confirm the conclusion of former Editor-in-Chief of the New York Times Edward Klein. His book, The Truth About Hillary, pictures, “a Nixon disciple of hardball politics.” Agreeing is Bob Woodward, who broke the Watergate case, and has repeatedly compared her to Nixon.
The content of some of the DNC hacked e-mails now retrieved, confirm our earlier warnings to Bernie Sanders. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is Hillary’s instrument, just as Haldeman and Erlichmann, the famous Watergate duo, were Nixon’s. Like Nixon, Hillary does not get her own hands dirty, but she is in charge.
One of the hacked emails is from DNC CFO Brad Marshall dated May 5 2016, that reads as follows: “From:MARSHALL@dnc.org To: MirandaL@dnc.org, PaustenbachM@dnc.org, DaceyA@dnc.org Date: 2016-05-05 03:31 Subject: No shit."
“It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God? He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist”.
We consider this remark offensive to Southern Baptists, Kentuckians, West Virginians and Jews. One of us worked closely with Southern Baptists. They are unmatched in their support for Israel, regarding the Jews as God’s chosen people. Debbie was working with Brad Marshall. Didn’t she know his “dirty tricks,” Nixonian line of thinking?
In response to Debbie’s own hardball tactics, Mika Brzezinski, one of the anchors of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, suggested several weeks ago the DNC chairwoman had been unfair to Sanders and should step down. Meanwhile Sanders himself demanded her ouster.
On May 18, enraged Debbie tried to punish Mika for her demand. “This is the LAST straw,” wrote Debbie to DNC Communications Director, Luis Miranda. Please call [MSNBC President] Phil Griffin. This is outrageous. She needs to apologize.” Despite Debbie’s demand for “heavy manners,” Mika has not done so to date.
On May 21, Wasserman Schultz also wrote to Miranda that the very idea Sanders would oust the DNC leader from her position if he is elected was silly, because Sanders would not be the nominee. How did she know then?
We have also warned Bernie how Hillary and her hench-people operate . In our November 13, 2015 “Open Letter to Bernie Sanders: Bolshevik vs Menshevik,” we urged him to hit back the hardballs or lose. Essentially, Hillary, the acolyte of 60’s radical Saul Alinsky is what Clinton aide Paul Bengala called her-- a “Bolshevik.” He was referencing her uncompromising oppressive management of her White House team under her.
The latest leaked DNA e-mails confirmed the biased, rigged and unethical election operation, managed by Ms. Wasserman-Schultz -- surely following Hillary’s guidelines.
In our Open Letter to Bernie voiced our suspicions about a media person, who asked Sanders during the campaign if he had dual citizenship in Israel. The reporter, WAMU liberal Radio Host Dianne Rehm, said she had seen his name on a list circulated on the internet and that someone on Facebook said to ask the question. Did that person work for Hillary, Debbie or cunning Bill?
Sanders, who had spent some younger years on a kibbutz, bristled when questioned by Rehm, and affirmed he was an American citizen only. Rehm apologized to viewers, but we still wonder if the question was asked to reveal his Jewish background in the effort to hurt his chances with some voters.
From the get-go, Debbie has run the DNC in politically correct Bolshevik fashion for her sponsor, Hillary. Students of Russian politics, we were reminded of Lenin and his allies management style in coping with Central Committee’s opponents. The nomination was rigged from the start with the almighty super delegates, much resembling the so-called “hundred reds” appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev’s for the Congress of People Deputies. Super delegates do not exist in the GOP.
We are not suggesting that our Florida congresswoman, Wasserman Schultz, Jewish herself, has anti-Semitic proclivities. Perhaps Debbie herself is not aware that congenital liar Hillary is not the supporter of Israel she pretends to be, but a long-time advocate of the Palestinian cause.
All new converts to Hillary-ism, some of them prominent American Jews and unrepentant defenders of” W”-Condi’s catastrophic, 2003 invasion of Iraq, should review Ed Klein’s findings. He reports how Hillary, running for Senator of New York in 2000, “… had attended secret fund -raisers sponsored by Muslim groups, some of which were dedicated to destruction of Israel” and “realized she had painted herself into a corner!” Added Klein, “She was “booed” off the stage during a Solidarity for Israel rally at the Israeli consulate in New York.”
She and Obama not only supported Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, they punished the new leader, Al Fatah El Sisi, who saved Egypt from another Islamist regime. Both, she and her running mate, Tim Kane have ties with Muslim radical groups, and vigorously support the disastrous 2015 nuclear deal with Shiite Iran.
In light of all this, we agree with writer Barbara Olson’s judgment of Hillary, “The supreme irony is that Hillary, a 1960’s liberal, … has become even more darkly Nixonian in her outlook and methods – though without Nixon’s knowledge, statesmanlike substance and redemptive Quaker conscience.”
Leni Friedman Valenta, a Brandeis and Yale-educated playwright, is a former Democratic Municipal Chair of Westwood N.J., contributor with Jiri to scholarly journals and editor of our jvlv.net, Institute of Post-Communist studies and Terrorism website. Dr. Jiri Valenta, a former Brookings Fellow, prominent author and present member of Council on Foreign Relations, has served for more than a decade as a member of the National Committee on Soviet Jews with Nathan Sharansky, Ellie Wiesel and Richard Pipes.
With all his hollow promises of building a wall, bringing jobs back to America, repealing Obamacare and bombing terrorists combined with his constant spew of lies directed at Ted Cruz and family, Donald Trump has managed with help from his “bought and paid for” media sycophants to accumulate enough votes to become the presumptive candidate for President! At the convention anti-Cruz establishment opportunists sold their votes to put Trump over the top securing his nomination as GOP candidate for President of the United States. Trump won! So why did the “Trumpster” minions boo Senator Cruz excessively during his speech at the convention while applauding Trump’s lies all knowing that only congress can do all the things that he promised? Was this all planned by Trump? Why does he continue to attack Senator Cruz? Is it because Cruz, a devout Christian, wouldn’t endorse a person who viciously attacked him with lies or because Cruz told all Americans to vote their conscience? Who is the real loser here?
Trump needs all the help he can muster to win the presidency. A gentleman or true conservative would have apologized to Ted Cruz in public and asked for his support instead of burning the bridge. Unfortunately, Donald Trump is not a conservative nor is he a gentleman. Trump is a Republican in name only. So as Americans here we are once again forced to decide between two prolific liars for President , a documented incompetent and corrupt politician in Hillary Clinton and another narcissistic wannabe thug in Donald Trump. Which candidate would you trust with the keys to your home? Is it time to stay home and allow Democrats to finish the job of transforming America
into their new Progressive Nanny State Utopia? Only then could all Americans finally understand how left wing Democrat policies have destroyed the greatest Free Capitalist Society on earth. Or do we vote status quo for the GOP congress giving Trump “Obama like” overreaching unconstitutional powers so he too could single handedly destroy the United States? The only other alternative we have as voters is to take our anger out on those in congress who went against our demands and are responsible. Time to hold our nose once again and vote for Trump while cleaning house of establishment RINO representatives and replacing them with only true constitutional conservatives. This will be our last chance to restore America to the Constitutional Republic our forefathers envisioned.
Words Have Meaning… they cut across time and space, they empower the powerless
What are words but the jealous rendition of man’s imagination… laid bare for the world to see. It is with words that we pontificate the ways of men, too establish governments and laws. It is with words that we build up and tare down… it is with the power of the pen that we turn swords into plow shares and redirect the power of mankind to a better purpose.
Hence, let our words speak of liberty and defend the cause of justice… for without liberty and justice we are but prisoners of tyranny and the lesser angels of mankind. Let us exalt the rhetoric of peace and love… let us embrace the soundness and eloquence of truth… that we may all have peace and prosperity, purchased with the sweat of our own labor and endeavors.
For, the wicked speak words of deceit… looking to confuse and destroy the rational minds of our Nation with folly… foolish dreams of utopian delights… where no man need work or struggle for self, but every man becomes part of the collective, a mere cog in the machinery of the State…
Words have meaning and the words of our President cut sharply across the grains of liberty… denying our heritage and promising the foolish what they can not have… Another’s property, labor, and self worth. These are innately the rightful dominion of the individual…not the State or the collective.
Let us therefore find the words with which to beat back the errant ways of the foolish… the evil machinations of a government that seeks to bind us all, to itself… A collective driven by an evil wind. Freedom is not free and for the free to remain free they must be prepared to resist the bitter nature of mankind… first with words but never alone… words must be backed by action… or they are but sounding brass and tinkling bells, the stories of children, impetus vessels of little worth.
BY:
RA NELSON
COL. US Army (ret)
Unless President Obama, the Chief Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) of this nation goes on prime-time TV and makes an announcement similar to the following; the ambushing and killing of LEOs will continue to increase and spread across this nation. I'm reminded of an old Randolph Scott western I recently watched, titled; "A Lawless Street". What's happening here now, if not stopped, will certainly lead to a lawless nation; and ultimately all-out anarchy. This situation is unprecedented. A cop in one part of the nation is accused of and/or not found guilty of unnecessarily killing a Black person; and some black thugs thousands of miles away, randomly ambushes and murders a White cop; who may have on that very same day, rescued or saved a Black person from death or serious injury. It is absolutely inconceivable and astonishing that Commander-in Chief, Obama has not gone on prime time TV and made a statement similar to the following: "As the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of this nation; I'm greatly saddened and regretful that it has even become necessary for me to make a speech such as this. However, I want to make this absolutely clear. I will not tolerate LEOs' unnecessary killing of anyone; Black, White, or otherwise, period. Nor will I tolerate the ambushing and killing of LEOs. There are over six hundred thousand LEOs in this nation. And as in every society, race, and profession; and yes, even the ministry and politics; there is the good, the bad, and the ugly. Thankfully for this nation, the vast majority of LEOs are extraordinarily good, brave, compassionate, and professional people. So listen up and listen carefully. I've directed the Attorney General to closely monitor the judicial process and outcome of controversial killings by LEOs; and the ambushing of LEOs. My bottom line is that in either case; those found guilty in a court of law shall receive the maximum sentence allowed by existing law. And one final warning; if a LEO is found not guilty, I will not tolerate any rioting and lawless behavior in response. And if necessary; I shall authorize deployment of National Guard Troops. And I would expect Governors and Mayors to unleash the full force of their law enforcement capabilities to stifle any such incidents; and to arrest and prosecute offenders to the full extent of the law; period"!
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2016 The truth will set you free
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Thoughts on the Cruz non-endorsement
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Elizabeth Warren to Airbnb: No Sleep for You!
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and two other Democrat senators sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking that it "study and quantify" popular short-term lodging companies, specifically Airbnb. Democrats' claim their purpose for sending this request is that they are "concerned that short-term rentals may be exacerbating housing shortages and driving up the cost of housing in our communities." The letter continues by citing concerns over potential safety and health violations and mentions reports of — what else? — "widespread discrimination against African-American guests."
This may sound similar to all the wrangling the past couple of years over the driver network program Uber and other similar ride-share companies. And in many ways it is. As with the complaints about Uber, all the huffing and puffing about safety violations, discrimination and "exacerbation of the housing market" are merely a smoke screen for the real agenda — government revenue and the union racket. Commercial enterprises such as the large hotel industry provide a higher tax revenue to both local and federal coffers than does little Aunt Margaret who rents out her spare bedroom a few times a year. And wouldn't you know, the hotel industry has also jumped on board the anti-Airbnb bandwagon. Competition is leading to loss of revenue, so the unions are calling in the big dogs to sit on the scales.
Warren and her fellow leftist travelers believe that the only good government is a big controlling one, and statists' primary means to accomplish this aim is through onerous regulations and taxes. Free market capitalism rests on greater individual freedom leading toward greater innovation and individual wealth and a robust economy, as has been proven time and time again. Socialism on the other hand tends toward suppression of individual freedoms, resulting in lack of innovation and growth and large governments whose control and over-regulation leads to a deflated economy. Just ask Venezuela. -The Patriot Post
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America's Biggest Scandal
Arnold Ahlert: On Monday night, liar-Hillary Clinton attacked GOP vice presidential candidate Mike Pence, calling him "one of the most hostile politicians in America when it comes to public education." Give liar-Clinton credit for one thing: She clearly recognizes the single greatest threat to progressive hegemony is well-educated Americans. That's exactly why the Democrat-educrat alliance will attack anything that threatens their de facto monopoly control of public schools.
The alliance is unquestionable. So far in the 2016 election cycle — just as it has been in every election cycle — the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) have directed millions of dollars in campaign contributions almost solely to Democrats, at 100% and 98%, respectively.
The results of the Democrat-run education industrial complex have been nothing short of catastrophic. "Twelve million poor children, mainly black and Hispanic, are trapped in failing government schools that are teaching them nothing," David Horowitz explained in 2014. "As a result, they will never get a chance at a middle-class life. Virtually every school board and every administration in inner city districts is controlled by Democrats, and has been for over fifty years. Everything that is wrong with inner city schools that policy can fix, Democrats are responsible for."
Even worse, the "fix" as they say is in, and even the reliably leftist New York Times was capable of smelling the stench. In December 2015, the paper revealed that while "the number of students earning high school diplomas has risen to historic peaks ... academic readiness for college or jobs are much lower." How much lower? "The most recent evaluation of 12th graders on a national test of reading and math found that fewer than 40 percent were ready for college level work," the Times revealed. "College remediation and dropout rates remain stubbornly high, particularly at two-year institutions, where fewer than a third who enroll complete a degree even within three years."
How is this possible? "Grade inflation is rampant in New York City's (NYC) public schools, reports a new study by StudentsFirstNY," columnist Heather Kays reveals, further noting that in schools "where fewer than 10 percent of students pass state tests, 85 percent of students were passing their school's coursework."
New York is hardly an outlier. Public schools all over the nation have been steadily inflating grades since 1990. The 2007 National Household Education Survey revealed an astounding 81% of students got mostly As and Bs in high school.
Moreover, many school districts are abandoning anything resembling real standards to facilitate the process. California, South Carolina and Tennessee recently eliminated a requirement that students pass exit exams to qualify for a diploma, and Alaska, California, Wisconsin and Wyoming lowered the number of credit requirements needed to graduate. In Connecticut, social promotion is all that matters. "Promotion and graduation require no actual learning," writes Chris Powell, managing editor of the Journal Inquirer. "Rather, only simple attendance is required. Promotion and graduation are left to the discretion of local school boards, which have lost the nerve to enforce standards that measure learning."
Other school districts are making 50 out of 100 the lowest grade a teacher can give a student, provided the student a makes a "reasonable attempt" or "good faith effort" to do the work. Many are also embracing "standards-based grading," a term designed to obscure the reality such "standards" allow students to turn in work late, retake exams, and limit the percentage homework can count in the calculation of one's overall grade.
Theresa Mitchell Dudley, president of the Prince George's County Educators' Association, explains the transparent flaws: "You can't go to an employer and say, 'Here's my work, it's two weeks late,' and expect that your boss is not going to fire you."
Perhaps not. But you can certainly cultivate a sense of utterly misplaced indignation in millions of weak-thinking students who will be subsequently drawn to a Democrat Party that assures them they are victims of an inherently unfair society that only the ministrations of benevolent government — controlled by those same Democrats — can ameliorate.
None of this is remotely possible absent a virtual monopolistic system that requires children to attend schools in assigned districts, even if those schools are failing, or pay tuition many Americans can't afford to attend private alternatives. liar-Clinton attacked Pence because he favors school choice, charter schools, career and technical education, and merit-based raises for teachers — every one of which are wholly anathema to Democrats and their union allies who want absolute control, absent a shred of accountability.
Make no mistake: Education is the primary arena in the battle for the nation's soul. Every problem we currently endure, from cultural pollution to endemic political corruption, and all things in between, can be traced back to the decline in standards and the ongoing indoctrination afflicting America's schools and colleges. "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted," promised Marxist champion Vladimir Lenin.
Four years has become 12-16 years of institutionally sanctioned dumbing-down, courtesy of a Democrat-educrat alliance that is arguably the biggest scandal in the history of the nation.
And it's about time Americans deeply concerned about the future of our country started treating it that way. -The Patriot Post
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The jihadis in France, the Islamists in Turkey
by Clifford D. May
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Streets ran red with blood in both France and Turkey last week. A terrorist atrocity and an attempted coup are quite different events. But underlying both is this question... How are the most dynamic forces within the Islamic world shaping the 21st century? Jihadism is, as should be obvious, one of those forces. Those fighting what they call a holy war — al Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Islamic Republic of Iran among them — regard “others” as enemies who must submit or be conquered or be killed. Their goal, and they’re candid about this, is to establish Islamic domination anywhere they can and, eventually, everywhere they can. To call such behavior radical or extreme is ahistorical. They are doing what tribes, nations and empires have done since time immemorial. It is we in the West who have deviated from the norm by insisting that it has somehow suddenly become natural for peoples to peacefully coexist, to celebrate their differences, and to accept compromises rather than pursue victories... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-the-jihadis-in-france-the-islamists-in-turkey/
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Defusing the Iran Deal’s Ticking Time Bomb
by John Hannah
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ As it was in the beginning, so it remains one year on: The overriding danger of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran nuclear deal, is its provisions for automatically lifting the most important restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program by 2030... All the deal’s other shortcomings — of which there are many — largely pale in comparison. Plausible arguments can be made that those reflect difficult but necessary compromises, calculated risks that can be effectively mitigated by aggressive enforcement efforts and U.S. determination to confront Iranian aggression more broadly. Much harder to defend is a sunset clause that paves the way for an unreconstructed Iran to become a nuclear weapons threshold state in a mere 15 — wait, make that 14 — years. That’s not a calculated risk. That’s a formula for strategic disaster. Under the JCPOA, by 2030 Iran will be permitted to build an industrial-size nuclear industry. It will be able to operate an unlimited number of advanced centrifuges and accumulate as large a stockpile of fissile material as it desires. That, in theory, includes weapons-grade uranium. At that point, it would be weeks, maybe even days, away from having the fuel for a small arsenal of nuclear weapons. All of this legitimized by the United States and the rest of what passes for the international community...The stupidity of nObama.
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Iran Preparing to
Reopen Prohibited Nuclear Sites
by Adam Kredo
Ali Larijani
{freebeacon.com} ~ Top Iranian leaders have instructed the country’s atomic energy organization to prepare for the reopening of multiple nuclear sites that had been shuttered as part of last summer’s nuclear agreement... Ali Larijani, the leader of Iran’s parliament, requested this week that the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization prepare a plan to reopen nuclear enrichment facilitates that had been shutdown as part of the effort to limit Tehran’s research into nuclear weapons technology, according to comments carried in Iran’s state-controlled media. Iranian leaders are displeased with a recent United Nations report chastising the Islamic Republic for violating international agreements prohibiting the country’s work on ballistic missiles...And nObama will do nothing.
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Germany: The Terrifying
Power of Muslim Interpreters
by Stefan Frank
by Stefan Frank
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Alexander Stevens is a lawyer at a Munich law firm specializing in sexual offenses. In his recent book, Sex in Court, he describes some of his strangest and most shocking cases... One such case raises the question: What do you do when interpreters working for the police and courts lie and manipulate? As no one monitors translators, it is likely that in many instances, the dishonesty of interpreters goes undetected -- Stevens' book chronicles the devastating effects one dishonest interpreter had on a case. The parents of a Syrian girl, "Sali," had promised their daughter to a man named Hassan, who, at the time, was still living in Syria. The arrangement was seen as mutually beneficial: Sali's parents would receive money and Hassan would be allowed to enter Germany. Sali would never willingly have married a man 34 years her senior, but the family's honor required it. However, Sali did not receive any benefits from this arrangement. Hassan's interest in Sali was apparently confined to her body. He forced Sali to perform all kinds of sexual practices several times a day, and brutally abused the girl in the process. Sali was unable to hide the fact that she took no pleasure in these rapes and she became ill, so Hassan reproached her and "openly threatened to demand a large compensation payment from her family, for the cost of the wedding reception and lost pleasures of love." Sali sought help from a women's shelter, where an employee took her to a lawyer: Stevens. At the shelter, Sali described her misfortune, but was careful repeatedly to come to her husband's defense. She was more worried about her family's honor, should Hassan decided to divorce her, than about herself... http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8391/germany-muslim-interpreters
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Civilization Jihad on Full Display
at Vernon Hills Illinois High School
by Bethany Blankley
{constitution.com} ~ In case anyone missed it, earlier this year in Vernon Hills, Illinois, what is known as the second phase of Civilization Jihad was on full display at the town’s public high school... American teenage girls were taught how to wear the Islamic head dress known as the “hijab”– in their public high school– by six girls who are members of the school’s Muslim Student Association. If there is a Christian Student Organization, it’s highly unlikely that Vernon Hills High School would allow Christians to talk about Jesus, display crosses, or pray as a group on school property– or teach anyone else in a classroom about anything related to Christianity. Same goes for Jews or Satanists. Actually– Christians are already prohibited from displaying any act or sign of their faith in public schools. The question is why aren’t the same standards applied to Muslim students?...
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Gowdy Nails Lynch:
We Have a Two-Tier Justice System
{rightwise.com} ~ Trey Gowdy didn’t earn his reputation as a ‘Pit Bull’ for being meek and mild when it comes to pointing out injustice and corruption... Take the recent hearing in D.C. where he faced Attorney General Loretta Lynch and asked her a string of questions designed to get at the heart of what was behind her baffling decision to take a private meeting with President Bill liar-Clinton just days before announcing that she would accept the FBI’s recommendation concerning liar-Hillary Clinton’s investigation. Gowdy declared that questioning Lynch was a waste of time, that Lynch was too preoccupied with protecting her presidential candidate to be bothered with the truth. Or even doing her job... http://rightwise.com/news/gowdy-nails-lynch-two-tier-justice-system/
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Judicial Watch Goes to Court
On liar-Clinton Testimony
{judicialwatch.org} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton sent three lawyers to federal court this past Monday in an effort to convince a judge that she shouldn’t have to provide testimony under oath to your Judicial Watch... about why she set up and used a non-state.gov email account to conduct official business as secretary of state. As you will recall, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had granted “discovery” to Judicial Watch into former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s email system. Sullivan had noted at the time that “based on information learned during discovery, the deposition of Mrs. liar-Clinton may be necessary.” The discovery arises in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, former deputy chief of staff to liar-Clinton. The lawsuit, which seeks records regarding the authorization for Abedin to engage in outside employment while employed by the Department of State, was reopened because of revelations about the liar-clintonemail.com system (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). JW sought liar-Hillary Clinton’s testimony a few weeks ago after my attorney colleagues deposed seven former liar-Clinton top aides and current State Department officials, including top liar-Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin. Judicial Watch’s legal team also took the testimony of IT official Brian Pagliano, who asserted his Fifth Amendment right not to testify during the Judicial Watch deposition... http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/judicial-watch-goes-to-court-on-clinton-testimony/
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Virginia Supreme Court kills
McAuliffe's felon-voting scheme
by wnd.com
{wnd.com} ~ A huge vote bump expected by the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign in the state of Virginia just vanished, thanks to that state’s Supreme Court, which Friday struck down the controversial executive order by Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe allowing hundreds of thousands of convicted felons to vote in November... Approximately 206,000 Virginia felons were affected by his April 22 order. But McAuliffe’s order is unconstitutional, the court ruled 4-3, ordering that the Virginia Department of Elections “cancel the registration of all felons who have been invalidly registered” since McAuliffe issued his order. Aug. 25 is the deadline for cancelling all of the unconstitutional felon voter registrations, the majority ruled. Before the high court’s decision, some 11,662 felons had registered to vote following McAuliffe’s executive order, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch... http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/virginia-supreme-court-kills-mcauliffes-felon-voting-scheme/
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nObama Admits His Treason,
War On US Sovereignty, Our Constitution
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ There are important aspects to Hussein nObama’s “Can’t Stop Globalization” statement on Friday that might go unnoticed to those still expecting a “pro-American” position from this America-hating subversive actively working to destroy our country... He tells us it’s too late to save our country, that globalization is inevitable, irreversible and beyond our control. His Friday statement with Mexican President Nieto included the following. “Globalization is a fact because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation, and we’re not going to be able to build a wall around that.” He said, “What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds so that it increases opportunities for ordinary people, so it’s creating better jobs, so we are strengthening protections for workers, so we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth.”...He is lying. Just like he lied about nObamacare and on other issues, Iran. http://rickwells.us/obama-admits-treason-war-constitution/
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Catch-22: Guns, violence and race in America
by John Myers
{personalliberty.com} ~ The progressives are ignoring two grave risks to Americans; domestic violence and Islamic terror. At the same time they want to make us more vulnerable by taking away our guns... And who will be there to protect us? The police? Not likely, as President Barack nObama and his political allies in government are busy re-engineering American society, including eviscerating our police forces as was again made tragically evident on Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In harm’s way are American citizens kept ignorant by the propagandists in the media who report ad nauseam on a perceived growing violence between police and African Americans, as millions of black people, in permanent poverty and living in the growing ghettos, are becoming enraged... http://personalliberty.com/catch-22-guns-violence-race-america/
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Thoughts on the Cruz non-endorsement
by Tom
{trevorloudon.com} ~ There is much huffing and puffing regarding Ted Cruz’s refusal to specifically endorse Donald Trump.
The criticism of Cruz might be valid, and it might not be. It depends upon what were his motivations.
If motivated by electoral / 2020 viability calculations, the criticism is amply warranted. If by personal motivation, it gets more complicated.
Let us not forget that Trump spent the primaries impugning his character “Lyin’ Ted.
Trump insulted Cruz’s wife.
Trump then went on to impugn Cruz’s father with the implication that he was involved with the Kennedy assassination.
Done throughout the primaries with tweets that in tone and verbiage more befitting an adolescent middle-schooler than a candidate for President of the United States of America.
Trump never apologized for any of that. Draw your own conclusions regarding what the original behavior and subsequent failure to apologize says about Trump.
While such impugning would be appropriate against liar-Hillary especially since that would be fact-based, it is not when both untrue and directed against a competitor in your own party.
If I were Cruz, I’d be hard-pressed to “endorse” any man who’d behaved that way to me and my family. In fact, I’d question the character, integrity and backbone of any man who did not seethe with outrage over such conduct to his family. Indeed, had Cruz gone on to endorse Trump, I’d start to question Cruz’s character as he’d be showing a willingness to throw his personal and family reputation aside merely for meeting some political expectations that he forget it all and endorse, as if nothing ever happened.
Cruz did tell people not to stay home and to vote their conscience for candidates who would defend the Constitution — while not an endorsement of Trump, it was also in effect “freeing” his supporters from “Never Trump.” Somewhat the point Newt Gingrich made later when he spoke. Given the circumstances, that could be considered a significant concession to Trump and the GOP.
I’m not sure anyone could have asked or expected more from Cruz. In a sense, Donald Trump has reaped what he sowed.
The criticism of Cruz might be valid, and it might not be. It depends upon what were his motivations.
If motivated by electoral / 2020 viability calculations, the criticism is amply warranted. If by personal motivation, it gets more complicated.
Let us not forget that Trump spent the primaries impugning his character “Lyin’ Ted.
Trump insulted Cruz’s wife.
Trump then went on to impugn Cruz’s father with the implication that he was involved with the Kennedy assassination.
Done throughout the primaries with tweets that in tone and verbiage more befitting an adolescent middle-schooler than a candidate for President of the United States of America.
Trump never apologized for any of that. Draw your own conclusions regarding what the original behavior and subsequent failure to apologize says about Trump.
While such impugning would be appropriate against liar-Hillary especially since that would be fact-based, it is not when both untrue and directed against a competitor in your own party.
If I were Cruz, I’d be hard-pressed to “endorse” any man who’d behaved that way to me and my family. In fact, I’d question the character, integrity and backbone of any man who did not seethe with outrage over such conduct to his family. Indeed, had Cruz gone on to endorse Trump, I’d start to question Cruz’s character as he’d be showing a willingness to throw his personal and family reputation aside merely for meeting some political expectations that he forget it all and endorse, as if nothing ever happened.
Cruz did tell people not to stay home and to vote their conscience for candidates who would defend the Constitution — while not an endorsement of Trump, it was also in effect “freeing” his supporters from “Never Trump.” Somewhat the point Newt Gingrich made later when he spoke. Given the circumstances, that could be considered a significant concession to Trump and the GOP.
I’m not sure anyone could have asked or expected more from Cruz. In a sense, Donald Trump has reaped what he sowed.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Resisting The Revisionists: Finally, A First Step
by Charles Krauthammer
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Now That Trump Is the Nominee...
"It's my honor to throw Donald Trump over the top tonight with 89 delegates," said Donald Trump Jr., speaking for the state of New York's 89 delegates that officially granted the nomination to his father Donald Trump. The primary contest has been unofficially over for months now since Trump's final two rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, dropped out of the race in April. Though unconventional and uncouth, we've written extensively that Trump was able to energize support with his simple populist message of "making America great again." That appealed to many who have become wearied by the unfulfilled promises (both real and perceived) of the establishment.
There are still conservatives who are not on board the Trump Train. While there are certainly legitimate concerns that we have highlighted, his choosing of Mike Pence as a running mate should be an encouraging sign. At least it's a good start, sending the message that Trump can work with other Republicans.
Given the fact that either Trump or liar-Hillary Clinton will be elected president in November, the focus now must turn to defeating the very real threat of another liar-Clinton presidency. Conservatives know that liar-Hillary Clinton would continue the current leftist policies that are actively destroying the very foundations of this great nation. The prospects are truly frightening of where the country will be with four more years of socialist leadership. However, if Republicans continue to stubbornly bicker and maintain their fractured boundaries, refusing to unite together to face the greater foe, then we face four more years of continuing down this dangerous road of increasing government overreach and loss of Liberty. -The Patriot Post
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GOP Convention Highlights, Day 2
Excerpts from Day 2 of the Republican National Convention: House Speaker Paul Ryan: "This year of surprises and dramatic turns can end in the finest possible way — when America elects a conservative governing majority. We can do this, we can earn that mandate, if we don't hold anything back, if we never lose sight of the stakes, if we never lose sight of what's on the table. ... Have we had our arguments this year? Sure we have. You know what I call those? Signs of life. Signs of a party that's not just going through the motions. Not just mouthing new words for the same old stuff. Meanwhile, what choice has the other party made? ... They are offering a third nObama term, brought to you by another liar-Clinton."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell: "I'm here to tell you that liar-Hillary Clinton will say anything, do anything and be anything to get elected president and we cannot allow it. ... The American people are tired of hearing about the bounty of government while the cost of just caring for a family or meeting daily expenses grows out of reach. Over the past few years, they've seen government officials abuse their office and get rewarded for it. They've seen the middle class shrink. And in the midst of all this they have raised a simple complaint. Who is looking out for us? At a moment when so many feel betrayed by their government, why in the world would Democrats put forward such a candidate?"
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: "Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, let's present the case now, on the facts, against liar-Hillary Clinton. She was America's chief diplomat. Look around at the violence and danger in our world today every region of the world has been infected with her flawed judgment. ... liar-Hillary Clinton, putting herself ahead of America — guilty or not guilty? liar-Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment — guilty or not guilty? Time after time, the facts, and just the facts, lead you to the same verdict both around the world and at home. ... We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people."
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey: "Over the years, liar-Hillary Clinton has done a lot and said a lot to show why she should not be president. But how she treated government secrets as secretary of state, and what she said before and after she was caught, sums up the case against her. She sent and received secret and top-secret and beyond-top-secret emails on an unsecure private email system instead of on the secure government system — and she did it without authorization."
Sen. Ron Johnson: "What difference, at this point, does it make? I am the guy who provoked that infamous response from liar-Hillary Clinton by asking a simple question: 'Why didn't you just pick up the phone and call the survivors?' It makes a difference to the young Yazidi woman I met who was captured and brutalized by ISIS barbarians, the joy of life hauntingly absent in her eyes. It makes a difference to the travelers, passing through airports in Brussels and Istanbul, who just wanted to get home to their family and friends. It makes a difference to the ordinary Americans sharing holiday cheer at a Christmas party in San Bernardino. It makes a difference to the young men and women dancing on a summer night at a club in Orlando. And it makes a difference to the families watching fireworks at a celebration of freedom in Nice. ... It doesn't have to be like this — we shouldn't have to live in fear. This is a fight for freedom. It's not someone else's fight, this is our fight. And it is a fight we absolutely must win." -The Patriot Post
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Sacramento Under Siege By Illegals and Islamists
by Bethany Blankley
{constitution.com} ~ It is no longer safe to sit outside in a public park in Sacramento, the capital of California... Look at these men who are hitting people with what appear to be long wooden sticks or baseball bats. Chaos ensues and people get up off of their blankets to get away from the violence. This is nObama’s “hope and change.” http://constitution.com/insanity-sacramento-siege-illegals-islamists-video/
VIDEO: at the site
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Soldiers In A Repeat Of Benghazi,
But This Time In Turkey?
by Walid Shoebat
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ We covered earlier this week how Turkish President Erdogan used a false flag military “coup” to consolidate his own power, eliminate the remaining opposition, and rally support to himself and his perverted aim of rebuilding the Ottoman Menace into its former Empire... This brings us to an interesting role, and that is of the US Government in this crisis, and, more importantly, the particular persons in power in the US government right now. I say this with regard to the US-Turkish military partnership at Incirlik Air Force Base in Eastern Turkey. The last eight years under Nobel Peace Prize recipient US President nObama have been anything but peaceful, as the USA has invaded close to a dozen nations around the world, most of them Muslim. However, the nation that stands out the most for the purpose of this situation is Libya, since it was in Libya that Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton and her cohorts committed the infamous Benghazi scandal, in which four American CIA operatives were lynched to death by US-backed Muslim terrorists for political ends. Not only did these men call for help repeatedly, but liar-Clinton stood by as these men died, and then, with not even the slightest disturbance in conscience, blamed the attack on a petty film made by a nobody and which we have written about before here only on Shoebat.com because Walid indirectly had personal connections to this film by blood and not by choice]). Most famously, liar-Clinton lied to Congress about the Benghazi attacks, famously remarking, “What does it matter” when asked about what happened:...
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French Foreign Minister Outlines Relationship
With Russia, Warns Turkey Against
Building Autocratic Regime
by John Grady
by John Grady
Jean-Marc Ayrault
{usni.org} ~ The French foreign minister warned Turkey not to use its state of emergency decree following a failed military coup as a way to “set up a regime that could become autocratic” during a discussion at a Washington, D.C., think tank... Jean-Marc Aytrault, appearing Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in answer to a question France and other democratic nations like the United States, “have duties to tell certain truths.” “We have expressed our concerns,” he said over the removal of 15,000 educators from their positions, the rounding up of jurists and military officers suspected of participating in the attempted coup to oust the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... https://news.usni.org/2016/07/21/french-foreign-minister-outlines-relationship-russia-warns-turkey-building-autocratic-regime?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=2fc06c916e-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-2fc06c916e-231491269&mc_cid=2fc06c916e&mc_eid=3999f18767
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U.S. Retirees Rank Third in Income,
Third in Happiness. I’ll Call That a Win
by Andrew G. Biggs
{aei.org} ~ Does money buy happiness? I don’t know, but it doesn’t much matter because U.S. retirees have both... A new study finds that the U.S. ranks 14th out of 43 countries in terms of retirees’ quality of life. From this, I anticipate the usual fretting about Americans’ retirement saving and calls for radical reforms. But how seriously should you take these kinds of numbers? Answer: not at all. When it comes to two key factors – incomes and happiness – U.S. retirees are ranked third in the world. I’ll call that a win. The Wall Street Journal reports on the Natixis Global Retirement Index, a new ranking of “how well retirees live in 43 nations based on 18 measures of health, wealth, quality of life and “material well-being” that affect citizens’ retirement security. The measures include per capita income, health-care costs and longevity figures published by organizations including the World Bank, the World Health Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.”... http://www.aei.org/publication/u-s-retirees-rank-third-in-income-third-in-happiness-ill-call-that-a-win/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=072216
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On eve of Rio games, terror threat looms in Brazil
by Roger F. Noriega
{aei.org} ~ A radical jihadist group “Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil,” also referred to as the “Brazil Caliphate”, became the first group in the Western Hemisphere to pledge loyalty to ISIS... Ansar al-Khilafah publicly posts jihadist propaganda through the messaging app Telegram, which it also used to make its pledge to ISIS. In one post, the group refers to the recent attack in Nice, noting the ease with which a similar attack could happen during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro set to begin in August. “If French soldiers failed to prevent a terror attack happening in France, of what use will they be in trying to train Brazilian police?” the group taunted. Today, the Brazilian government reacted to this news with the arrest of ten Brazilian nationals suspected of planning attacks during the Rio Olympics... http://www.aei.org/publication/on-eve-rio-terror-threat-looms-in-brazil/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=072216
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American Studies Association discussing possible academic boycott of Turkey, but why stop there?
by William A. Jacobson
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Yesterday I asked the question, in light of the academic purge in Turkey, Will anti-Israel academic boycotters now also boycott Turkish universities?... As noted in that post, 250 university presidents and major university associations have condemned the academic boycott of Israel. In particular, the December 2013 adoption of the academic boycott of Israel by the American Studies Association was condemned as violation of academic freedom. Read the dozens and dozens of statements describing how the ASA has violated academic freedom here. The American Association of University Professors, which has acted at the unofficial authority on academic freedom since the early 1900s, came out against the ASA’s academic boycott of Israel because it views any systematic academic boycott as destructive:.. http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/07/american-studies-association-discussing-possible-academic-boycott-of-turkey-but-why-stop-there/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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If Our Police Aren't Safe. Neither Are We
by CATHY HINNERS
by CATHY HINNERS
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Please stop holding vigils. Right now they serve no purpose other than to be a target for those that want to kill in the name of their god or their perceived notions of racism... If you want to do something, educate yourselves on the threats. Learn who the enemy is. Yes, enemy. We are at war, and the bigger picture must be seen. The first thing to be understood is who the enemy is. The current administration has done a great disservice to the American people by hiding the truth of the agenda of those killing Americans on American soil. They aren't thugs, creating chaos because they are mentally unstable. They are Muslims performing jihad because their doctrine directs them to. The sooner this is admitted; the sooner we will win. Unfortunately, Muslims in America who believe in sharia law, and who follow the footsteps of their prophet Muhammad have joined forces with disgruntled members of groups such as Black Lives Matter, the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam. This is important because of Muhammad's history... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/if-our-police-arent-safe-neither-are-we?f=must_reads
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How 'sanctuary hospitals' cost America big
by BETSY MCCAUGHEY, PHD
by BETSY MCCAUGHEY, PHD
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Medical bills are pushing more Americans into severe "financial distress" even if they have insurance, according to a top medical journal. These bills force hundreds of thousands into bankruptcy each year... What's so galling is that while Americans struggle to pay their bills, freeloaders from other countries get the same care at no cost by gaming our generous open-door hospital policies. They take a flight to the United States, go straight to an emergency room and get pacemakers, chemotherapy and other expensive care, leaving American taxpayers to foot their bills. Evan Levine, cardiologist at a Bronx teaching hospital, recently treated a Trinidad resident who had learned his pacemaker battery was about to give out. He came to New York to avoid paying for cardiac care back home. Cost to him? Zero, aside from airfare...This is not right. They need to pay their share. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/how-sanctuary-hospitals-cost-america-big?f=must_reads
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Think Progress Editor Calls Killing Cops ‘Justice’
by Onan Coca
{lidblog.com} ~ Un-freaking-believable. Think Progress is an organization wholly devoted to spreading liberal misinformation and idiocy across any and all media platforms possible... They’ve long been about the business of destroying our nation one bad idea at a time, and they’ve now found a new, creative, and disgusting way to see that done. Think Progress’s LGBT Editor Zack Ford showed how little respect for our laws, our history, and our nation the liberal outfit had when he recently tweeted this in response to the murders of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ford (and Think Progress) was quickly called to the carpet for the disturbing Tweet. Ford promptly deleted the offending Tweet (not before some industrious folks had screen grabbed it) blaming the uproar over his comments on other people not understanding what he was trying to say... http://lidblog.com/think-progress-editor-calls-killing-cops-justice/
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The Fight Against ISIS Will Suffer
Because of Turkey’s Coup
by Jonathan Schanzer
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The failed coup in Turkey will set back global efforts to combat the Islamic State. For one, trust between Ankara and Washington is at an all-time low... A Turkish minister charged on TV that the United States was behind the attempted coup. The State Department fired back, stating that, “claims about any role by the United States in the failed coup attempt are utterly false and harmful to our bilateral relations.” The U.S. use of the Incirlik airbase – a crucial U.S. and NATO military asset in Turkey – is also now in doubt. On Saturday, the Turkish government cut power and closed the airspace, forcing operations against the Islamic State to grind to a halt. Operations have resumed, but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may still try to use the base as a bargaining chip to demand America’s extradition of Fetullah Gulen, his archrival based in rural Pennsylvania since 1999... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-the-fight-against-isis-will-suffer-because-of-turkeys-coup/
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Resisting The Revisionists: Finally, A First Step
by Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ “The most significant reinforcement of our collective defense any time since the Cold War,” President nObama called it. A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps, but it was still an achievement: Last week’s NATO summit in Warsaw ordered the deployment of troops to Eastern Europe, the alliance’s most serious response yet to Russia’s aggression and provocations on its western frontier.
The post-Ukraine economic sanctions have been weak; the declamatory denunciations, a mere embarrassment. They’ve only encouraged further reckless Russian behavior — the buzzing of U.S. ships, intrusions into European waters, threats to the Baltic States.
NATO will now deploy four battalions to front-line states. In Estonia, they will be led by Britain; in Lithuania, by Germany; in Latvia, by Canada; in Poland, by the United States. Not nearly enough, and not permanently based, but nonetheless significant.
In the unlikely event of a Russian invasion of any of those territories, these troops are to act as a tripwire, triggering a full-scale war with NATO. It’s the kind of coldblooded deterrent that kept the peace in Europe during the Cold War and keeps it now along the DMZ in Korea.
In the more likely event of a “little green men” takeover attempt in, say, Estonia about 25 percent ethnically Russian, the sort of disguised slow-motion invasion that Vladimir Putin pulled off in Crimea, the NATO deployments might be enough to thwart the aggression and call in reinforcements.
The message to Putin is clear: Yes, you’ve taken parts of Georgia and Ukraine. But they’re not NATO. That territory is sacred — or so we say.
This is a welcome development for the Balts, who are wondering whether they really did achieve irreversible independence when the West won the Cold War. Their apprehension is grounded in NATO’s flaccid response to Putin’s aggressive revanchism, particularly in Ukraine. nObama still won’t provide Ukraine with even defensive weaponry. This follows years of American accommodation of Putin, from canceling a Polish-Czech missile defense system to, most recently, openly acquiescing to Russia’s seizure of a dominant role in Syria.
And what are the East Europeans to think when they hear the presumptive presidential candidate of the party of Reagan speaking dismissively of NATO and suggesting a possible American exit?
The NATO action takes on even greater significance because of the timing, coming just two weeks after Brexit. Britain’s withdrawal threatens the future of the other major pillar of Western integration and solidarity, the European Union. NATO shows that it is holding fast and that the vital instrument of Western cohesion and joint action will henceforth be almost entirely trans-Atlantic — meaning, under American leadership.
The EU, even if it doesn’t dissolve, will now inevitably turn inward as it spends years working out its new communal arrangements with and without Britain. Putin was Brexit’s big winner. Any fracturing of the Western alliance presents opportunities to play one member against another. He can only be disappointed to see NATO step up and step in.
After the humiliating collapse of President nObama’s cherished Russian “reset,” instilling backbone in NATO and resisting Putin are significant strategic achievements. It leaves a marker for nObama’s successor, reassures the East Europeans and will make Putin think twice about repeating Ukraine in the Baltics.
However, the Western order remains challenged by the other two members of the troika of authoritarian expansionists: China and Iran. Their provocations proceed unabated. Indeed, the next test for the United States is China’s furious denunciation of the decision handed down Tuesday by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague — a blistering, sweeping and unanimous rejection of China’s territorial claims and military buildup in the South China Sea.
Without American action, however, The Hague’s verdict is a dead letter. Lecturing other great powers about adherence to “international norms” is fine. But the Pacific Rim nations are anxious to see whether we will actually do something.
Regarding Iran, we certainly won’t. Our abject appeasement continues, from ignoring Tehran’s serial violations of the nuclear agreement the latest: intensified efforts to obtain illegal nuclear technology in Germany to the administration acting as a kind of Chamber of Commerce to facilitate the sale of about 100 Boeing jetliners to a regime that routinely uses civilian aircraft for military transport particularly in Syria.
The troop deployments to Eastern Europe are a good first step in pushing back against the rising revisionist powers. But a first step, however welcome, seven and a half years into a presidency, is a melancholy reminder of what might have been.
The post-Ukraine economic sanctions have been weak; the declamatory denunciations, a mere embarrassment. They’ve only encouraged further reckless Russian behavior — the buzzing of U.S. ships, intrusions into European waters, threats to the Baltic States.
NATO will now deploy four battalions to front-line states. In Estonia, they will be led by Britain; in Lithuania, by Germany; in Latvia, by Canada; in Poland, by the United States. Not nearly enough, and not permanently based, but nonetheless significant.
In the unlikely event of a Russian invasion of any of those territories, these troops are to act as a tripwire, triggering a full-scale war with NATO. It’s the kind of coldblooded deterrent that kept the peace in Europe during the Cold War and keeps it now along the DMZ in Korea.
In the more likely event of a “little green men” takeover attempt in, say, Estonia about 25 percent ethnically Russian, the sort of disguised slow-motion invasion that Vladimir Putin pulled off in Crimea, the NATO deployments might be enough to thwart the aggression and call in reinforcements.
The message to Putin is clear: Yes, you’ve taken parts of Georgia and Ukraine. But they’re not NATO. That territory is sacred — or so we say.
This is a welcome development for the Balts, who are wondering whether they really did achieve irreversible independence when the West won the Cold War. Their apprehension is grounded in NATO’s flaccid response to Putin’s aggressive revanchism, particularly in Ukraine. nObama still won’t provide Ukraine with even defensive weaponry. This follows years of American accommodation of Putin, from canceling a Polish-Czech missile defense system to, most recently, openly acquiescing to Russia’s seizure of a dominant role in Syria.
And what are the East Europeans to think when they hear the presumptive presidential candidate of the party of Reagan speaking dismissively of NATO and suggesting a possible American exit?
The NATO action takes on even greater significance because of the timing, coming just two weeks after Brexit. Britain’s withdrawal threatens the future of the other major pillar of Western integration and solidarity, the European Union. NATO shows that it is holding fast and that the vital instrument of Western cohesion and joint action will henceforth be almost entirely trans-Atlantic — meaning, under American leadership.
The EU, even if it doesn’t dissolve, will now inevitably turn inward as it spends years working out its new communal arrangements with and without Britain. Putin was Brexit’s big winner. Any fracturing of the Western alliance presents opportunities to play one member against another. He can only be disappointed to see NATO step up and step in.
After the humiliating collapse of President nObama’s cherished Russian “reset,” instilling backbone in NATO and resisting Putin are significant strategic achievements. It leaves a marker for nObama’s successor, reassures the East Europeans and will make Putin think twice about repeating Ukraine in the Baltics.
However, the Western order remains challenged by the other two members of the troika of authoritarian expansionists: China and Iran. Their provocations proceed unabated. Indeed, the next test for the United States is China’s furious denunciation of the decision handed down Tuesday by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague — a blistering, sweeping and unanimous rejection of China’s territorial claims and military buildup in the South China Sea.
Without American action, however, The Hague’s verdict is a dead letter. Lecturing other great powers about adherence to “international norms” is fine. But the Pacific Rim nations are anxious to see whether we will actually do something.
Regarding Iran, we certainly won’t. Our abject appeasement continues, from ignoring Tehran’s serial violations of the nuclear agreement the latest: intensified efforts to obtain illegal nuclear technology in Germany to the administration acting as a kind of Chamber of Commerce to facilitate the sale of about 100 Boeing jetliners to a regime that routinely uses civilian aircraft for military transport particularly in Syria.
The troop deployments to Eastern Europe are a good first step in pushing back against the rising revisionist powers. But a first step, however welcome, seven and a half years into a presidency, is a melancholy reminder of what might have been.
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2016 The truth will set you free
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America’s Torn To Shreds While
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Trump - The Convention Keynotes
Mark Alexander: "The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people." —Thomas Jefferson (1801)
Last night was the conclusion of, to put it kindly, one of the most contentious party primaries in American history. It would follow that the most cantankerous of the candidates, Donald Trump, prevailed.
In this quadrennial campaign season, the Republican Party fractures have been rivaled only by the 1856 political convention, when the Whig party disintegrated and three new parties, the Republicans, the Know Nothings, and the North Americans, were vying for its constituents. But the GOP convention held the Party together, despite one notable failure to endorse on day three, and the fact that two primary contenders were no-shows.
Mr. Trump needed to accomplish four things in his GOP acceptance speech.
He needed clearly frame his presidential objectives, a challenge for a candidate who has a tendency for "syntactical drift." He did.
He needed to clearly highlight the abject failures of the nObama/liar-Clinton regime and hang liar-Hillary Clinton with her disastrous political and policy record. He did.
He needed to offer solutions to the broad range of serious problems our nation faces, after almost eight years of that regime. He did.
Finally, he needed to reach far across Democratic Party lines for this generation's blue-collar working Americans, as Ronald Reagan did so effectively in 1980 and 1984. Trump can win only if those voters cross party lines in large numbers. He succeeded in extending that reach.
Ivanka Trump introduced her father, and as The Washington Post noted, "She was poised. She was confident. And, most of all, she was on message. ... Ivanka did it all without savaging liar-Hillary Clinton or Democrats. She simply painted an alternative — and far more appealing — picture of a man who everyone already thought they knew. Ivanka's speech was a home run..." (Full Transcript Here)
For his part, Donald Trump delivered (yelled, really) what was, arguably, the broadest and most populist speech by any presidential candidate in the history of our Republic. The MSM talking heads described Trump's remarks as "dark." Well, he shined a bright light on the fact that our nation is in a very dark place right now.
I have excerpted the highlights of his remarks — the following are Trump's words, with my parenthetical observations:
Who would have believed that ... we would have received almost 14 million votes, the most in the history of the Republican Party; and that the Republican Party would get 60% more votes than it received [in 2008]. The Democrats, on the other hand, received 20% fewer votes than they got four years ago.
Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity and peace. We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.
Our Convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. ... Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country. The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
It is finally time for a straightforward assessment of the state of our nation. I will present the facts plainly and honestly. We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore. If you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully crafted lies, and the media myths, the Democrats are holding their convention next week. Go there.
(Trump noted the significant increase in violent crime, and then transitioned to a hot-button for most Republicans — immigration.)
Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens. The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015. One such border-crosser was released and made his way to Nebraska. There, he ended the life of an innocent young girl named Sarah Root. ... One more child to sacrifice on the altar of open borders.
What about our economy? ... Nearly four in 10 African-American children are living in poverty, while 58% of African-American youth are not employed. Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when [nObama] took his oath of office less than eight years ago. Another 14 million people have left the workforce entirely.
nObama has doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. Yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in third-world condition, and 43 million Americans are on food stamps.
(Trump noted nObama's disastrous "Iran deal.")
America is far less safe — and the world is far less stable — than when nObama made the decision to put liar-Hillary Clinton in charge of America's foreign policy. Let's defeat her, OK? ... Her bad instincts and her bad judgment — something pointed out by Bernie Sanders — are what caused the disasters unfolding today. Let's review the record.
(Trump laid out the most notable of liar-Clinton's foreign policy malfeasance.)
After 15 years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before. This is the legacy of liar-Hillary Clinton: death, destruction terrorism and weakness. But liar-Hillary Clinton's legacy does not have to be America's legacy.
A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes. ... Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. ... The American People will come first once again.
(Trump reiterated his plan to correct the catastrophic national security and economic damage done by nObama and liar-Clinton.)
A number of these reforms will be opposed by some of our nation's most powerful special interests. That is because these interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit. ... Big business, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged system in place. They are throwing money at her because they have total control over every single thing she does. She is their puppet, and they pull the strings. That is why liar-Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change, never ever. My message is that things have to change — and they have to change right now.
I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country. ... But they're not going to be forgotten for long. These are people who work hard but no longer have a voice. I AM YOUR VOICE.
I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
When a secretary of state illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it and faces no consequence — I know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. ... Her single greatest accomplishment may be committing such an egregious crime and getting away with it — especially when others, who have done far less, have paid so dearly.
I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves. Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it. Millions of Democrats will join our movement, because we are going to fix the system so it works for all Americans.
When I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order to our country.
(Trump mentioned "law and order" four times in his remarks.)
[nObama] has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color... This administration has failed America's inner cities. It's failed them on education. It's failed them on crime. It's failed them in every way and at every single level.
(Trump reiterated the Islamic threat globally and locally.)
We are going to defeat the barbarians of ISIS. ... We must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terrorism. This includes working with our greatest ally in the region, the State of Israel.
(Trump reiterated his immigration reform plans.)
Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never will be. Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.
We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities.
My opponent wants sanctuary cities. But where was sanctuary for Kate Steinle? Where was sanctuary for the children of Mary Ann, Sabine and Jamiel? ... By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will stop the cycle of human smuggling and violence. By enforcing the rules for the millions who overstay their visas, our laws will finally receive the respect they deserve.
Tonight, I want every American whose demands for immigration security have been denied — and every politician who has denied them — to listen very closely to the words I am about to say. On January 20th of 2017, the day I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. ... My plan is the exact opposite of the radical and dangerous immigration policy of liar-Hillary Clinton. Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration. Communities want relief.
liar-Hillary Clinton is proposing mass amnesty, mass immigration and mass lawlessness. Her plan will overwhelm your schools and hospitals, further reduce your jobs and wages, and make it harder for recent immigrants to escape from poverty and join the middle class.
(Trump reiterated his commitment to fair trade policies.)
I have a different vision for our workers. It begins with a new, fair trade policy that protects our jobs and stands up to countries that cheat. It's been a signature message of my campaign from day one, and it will be a signature feature of my presidency from the moment I take the oath of office.
Remember, it was Bill liar-Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country. Never again. I am going to bring back our jobs to Ohio and Pennsylvania and New York and Michigan and to all of America. ... [liar-Hillary Clinton] has supported virtually every trade agreement that has been destroying our middle class. She supported NAFTA, and she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization — another one of her husband's colossal mistakes.
I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers, or that diminishes our freedom and independence. ... America first! America first!
(Trump reiterated his commitment to tax and regulatory reform, and rebuilding America.)
Middle-income Americans and businesses will experience profound relief, and taxes will be greatly simplified for everyone. Reducing taxes will cause new companies and new jobs to come roaring back into our country. ... Then we are going to deal with the issue of regulation, one of the greatest job-killers of them all.
We will build the roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports and the railways of tomorrow. This, in turn, will create millions more jobs. We will rescue kids from failing schools by helping their parents send them to a safe school of their choice. My opponent would rather protect bureaucrats than serve American children, and that's what she's doing and that's what she's done. We will repeal and replace disastrous nObamaCare. You will be able to choose your own doctor again.
We will completely rebuild our depleted military, and the countries that we are protecting, at a massive cost to us, will be asked to pay their fair share. We will take care of our great Veterans.
We are going to ask every department head in government to provide a list of wasteful spending projects that we can eliminate in my first 100 days. The politicians have talked about it, I'm going to do it.
(Trump reiterated what I believe is the most important issue of this election.)
We are also going to appoint justices to the United States Supreme Court who will uphold our laws and our Constitution. The replacement of our beloved Justice Scalia will be a person of similar views, principles and judicial philosophy.
My opponent wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment. I ... will protect the right of all Americans to keep their families safe.
(Trump referenced his faith-based support.)
I would like to thank the evangelical and religious community, because, I'll tell you what, the support they've given me, and I'm not sure I totally deserve it...
(Trump concluded in Reagonesque style.)
We can accomplish these great things, and so much more — all we need to do is start believing in ourselves and in our country again. It is time to show the whole world that America is back — bigger and better and stronger than ever before. ... But to do that, we must break free from the petty politics of the past. America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics and cynics.
I am your voice. So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you tonight: I'm with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you. To all Americans tonight, in all of our cities and in all of our towns, I make this promise: We Will Make America Strong Again. We Will Make America Proud Again. We Will Make America Safe Again. And We Will Make America Great Again.
(A full transcript of Mr. Trump's speech can be read here.)
Mr. Trump's remarks could be summed up in this comment from President Reagan's 1981 inaugural speech: "We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick — professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies and truck drivers. They are, in short, 'We the people,' this breed called Americans."
Next up is the Democrat convention, and the Left will begin saturating the airwaves with ad campaigns featuring Trump's own derogatory remarks in public venues over the last 20 years, and criticism of Trump by his primary opponents this year.
But liar-Hillary cannot pillory Trump on many issues. As we have written previously, "What's she going to hit him with? His marital history? His ethics? His honesty? His wealth? His Wall Street connections? His political incorrectness? On every one of those issues, one of two things applies: Her record is either as bad as or worse than his, or he's managed to turn a 'weakness' into a strength. Nothing may typify the latter better than his politically incorrect demeanor. Surely vast swaths of working class Democrats are tired of bowing to liar-Clinton-style 'progressive' thought control, and they find Trump's unfiltered presentation a breath of fresh air. We have to admit — a Trump-liar-Clinton debate would be reality TV worth watching." -The Patriot Post
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A Cop’s Perspective on Black Lives Matter
by Andrew Chavarrilla
{lidblog.com{ ~ America in 2016 is a very different place. We have become a country devoid of love and respect for people who risk everything for our safety all day, every day... I remember a time when the local cop was a good person, everyone knew them, and you would address them as Sir or Ma’am. Today we call them horrific names and have people chant for them to fry. Despite this abuse, the police still show up for work and are willing to risk their life for you. Things have escalated over the last 10 days, as we have witnessed mass shootings targeting both the Dallas and Baton Rogue Police Departments where eight police were killed and Close your eyes for a moment and try imagine what a police office is feeling right now. Try imagine how you would feel at the start of your next shift. Imagine the emotions felt by the partners, kids and family of police officers. Now ask yourself an honest question – Is it worth it? Would you risk your life today for anyone, for someone who potentially hates you? A Texas Law Enforcement Officer and dear friend of Liberty Cannon had the following to say. She shared this with us under the condition of anonymity:... http://lidblog.com/a-cops-perspective-on-black-lives-matter/
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The Palestinians:
Refugee Camps or Terrorist Bases?
by Khaled Abu Toameh
by Khaled Abu Toameh
The Wavel refugee camp for Palestinians, near Baalbek in Lebanon
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ ISIS is on the mind of the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership. Top PA officials have expressed concern that jihadi groups, including ISIS, have managed to infiltrate Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon... Lebanese authorities are also worried -- so worried that they have issued a stiff warning to the Palestinians: Stop the terrorists or else we will take security into our own hands. According to Lebanese security sources, more and more Palestinians in Lebanon have joined ISIS and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front, a Sunni Islamist militia fighting against Syrian government forces. In response, the Lebanese security forces have taken a series of measures in a bid to contain the problem and prevent the two Islamist terror groups from establishing bases of power in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon... http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8511/palestinians-refugee-camps
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Could This Mean The End of nObamacare?
{patriotsandpolitics.com} ~ If you’re one of the millions of Americans who think nObamacare has been a disaster from the start, there are probably some very satisfying “I told you so’s” in your future... And if you’re one of those who continue to insist on how great nObamacare is, you might want to look the other way, just like you’ve apparently been doing for the past several years. Well, in March, it was reported that the last remaining nObamacare exchanges are on the verge of failing. Two more exchanges in Connecticut and Oregon recently decided to close shop. Right now, roughly one-third of the exchanges are left out of 23 that were set up. Virtually every exchange that remains could fold this year. Ali Meyer of The Washington Free Beacon reported once again from the ruins of this health care venture:...
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‘Worthless Christians’ Treated ‘Like Animals’
by Raymond Ibrahim
{frontpagemag.com} ~ A pro-ISIS group calling itself the United Cyber Caliphate defaced the website of the Christian Reformed Church in the city of Lamont, Michigan... A 15-year-old teenage girl discovered the website’s defacement—which consisted of a YouTube ISIS propaganda video and Arabic text—while searching for the church’s phone number. The video’s spokesman says, “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses and enslave your women by the permission of Allah, the Exalted. This is His promise to us, He is glorified and He does not fail in His promise.”...This is in America. Other countries follow below. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263581/worthless-christians-treated-animals-raymond-ibrahim
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Nat’l Intelligence Dir. Makes Decision About liar-Hillary’s Security Clearance
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Generally, the presidential nominees of the two major political parties receive security briefings just after the conventions — which are set to take place in the next two weeks... in an effort to provide a smooth transition from the campaign trail to the White House. However, House Speaker Paul Ryan advocated for presumed Democrat presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton not receive the nomination briefings, citing her “extreme carelessness” regarding classified information. He submitted this request to National Intelligence Director James Clapper, who outright rejected him in a written response, according to CNN: “Nominees for president and vice president receive these briefings by virtue of their status as candidates, and do not require separate security clearances before the briefings. Briefings for the candidates will be provided on an even-handed non-partisan basis.”...It looks like she has wormed her way out of another one. http://conservativetribune.com/intelligence-dir-makes-decision/.
Top liar-Clinton VP Pick Also Destroyed
Emails, Used a Secret Account
{minutemennews.com} ~ One of the top candidates being considered for liar-Hillary Clinton’s running mate is a pol who has had some email problems of his own... Tom Vilsack, the former governor of Iowa and Barack nObama’s current secretary of agriculture, was caught up in a 2004 scandal that resulted in emails being “inadvertently” destroyed. Vilsack partially blamed himself for destroying electronic communications regarding the Iowa Department of Economic Development Foundation. The Des Moines Register had requested the emails. Vilsack’s response to the controversy, rather ironically, mirrored liar-Clinton’s response to her own email scandal: Je basically said he was old and didn’t know how to use email... http://minutemennews.com/top-clinton-vp-pick-also-destroyed-emails-used-a-secret-account/
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nObama Justice Department Laughed Off
Armed New Black Panther Threat
by Christian Adams
{theacru.org} ~ In 2009 and 2010, lawyers working at the United States Justice Department warned top nObama political appointees and other Justice Department officials about the dangerous threats of New Black Panthers to kill police officers and other whites... I was one of those lawyers who delivered those warnings. Our warnings came in the context of the Voting Rights Act case I and other lawyers brought against the New Black Panthers on behalf of the United States in 2009, a case the nObama administration ultimately abandoned. Both top DOJ officials, including now Labor Secretary Tom Perez, as well as rank and file employees in the Civil Rights Division, were warned but did not take the New Black Panther threat seriously or otherwise considered the organization to be a laughable joke. Allies in the media echoed the narrative that the defendants in the voter intimidation case were harmless clowns. Among the information presented to top officials was a video produced by the New Black Panthers entitled “Training Day.” The video proposes killing police officers by ambush. I wrote about the video:... http://www.theacru.org/obama-justice-department-laughed-off-armed-new-black-panther-threat/
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Bomb squad responds to ‘very deliberate’
attack on police station
by foxnews.com
{foxnews.com} ~ An Australian police bomb squad is examining a car that was driven into an underground parking garage at a western Sydney police station. Police have arrested the driver, who reportedly tried to set himself on fire... The Australian newspaper reported that authorities found gas bottles packed inside the car. The bottles did not explode. The circumstances were still being investigated. New South Wales police said in a statement that a perimeter had been established around the station in the western Sydney suburb of Merrylands as a precaution. They said they had no other information...
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Roger Ailes is out
as head of Fox News, Fox Business
by DAVID BAUDER
{ap.org} ~ Roger Ailes is out as chief executive at Fox News Channel, his career at the network he built from scratch and ran with an iron hand for nearly 20 years over with stunning swiftness following allegations that he forced out a former anchor after she spurned his sexual advances... Network parent 21st Century Fox said that Rupert Murdoch, the company's executive chairman, would run Fox News and its sister Fox Business Network, which Ailes had also led, until a successor could be found. Murdoch and 21st Century Fox and Murdoch did not address the widening scandal in the statement on the resignation but lauded Ailes for his contributions. Ailes did not comment in the statement, and no details were given on a settlement agreement... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TV_FOX_AILES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-07-21-16-35-59
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“Don’t give up the ship”
by Adm. James A. Lyons
{aim.org} ~ The recent release of the investigative report on the “surrender” of two U.S. Navy heavily armed, 48-foot Riverine Coastal Patrol Boats in the North Arabian Sea on Jan. 12... to slightly smaller, armed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy center-console fishing-type boats was more than an embarrassment for the Navy. The details of the extensive five-month investigative report indicate a much more symptomatic problem: the destruction of our warrior mentality. The mental toughness that should have been embedded in all officers given the privilege to command was clearly lacking in this incident. Like it or not, more than 240 years of U.S. Navy customs and traditions were thrown overboard with the surrender of our patrol boats without a shot being fired. This tragedy cannot be dismissed as old news or ignored. The circumstances leading up to the engagement and surrender of the two patrol boats is more than troubling. The fact that the patrol boats deviated from their planned track, developed engine problems during the transit, plus a whole host of other well-documented, unprofessional actions by the on-scene commander and his immediate chain of command, is immaterial to the core issue — the warfare character of the commander and his crew... http://www.aim.org/guest-column/dont-give-up-the-ship/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email072116&utm_medium=email
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America’s Torn To Shreds While
nObama Stirs More Division
by Susan Stamper Brown
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“Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions.” – George W. Bush speaking at the July 12 police officer memorial in Dallas.
(townhall.com} ~ The answer to where you go next after you’ve hit rock-bottom depends on whether rock-bottom was your goal in the first place.
Either way, we’ve arrived. Look around. Turn on the news, if you’ve allowed your last meal time enough to digest. We’re here…at the bottom…and it’s not pretty. That is, unless tearing America to shreds by creating irreparable division is your intention.
Racial division will be President nObama’s legacy. But it didn’t have to be this way, given the dark-skinned Oval Office occupant who gave the impression that his effervescent presence alone would be enough to improve race relations.
But, you’ve got to at least give it the old college try -- to do what’s best for America, not use your position to sow discord and stir up trouble and division like nObama did while speaking at the slain police officer memorial service in Dallas July 12.
“None of us is entirely innocent and this includes police departments,” said the Great Divider, in the presence of family members, colleagues, and friends of officers slain by an assassin who said he “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”
Sickening.
His speech had the potential to be his best ever -- until he went full-politics during a time meant for mourning, making a laughably false claim that it is easier for a teenager to get a Glock than a computer or book.
Why the gun lecture?
nObama’s rush to judgment time and again concerning these incidents suggests he filters the world through a prism that refracts a reality based on biased perspective, not facts.
From Boston in 2009 to Dallas today, he repeatedly castigates police prior to gathering full information about circumstances. From Poland, before facts were gathered regarding the Minnesota and Louisiana officer-related shootings, nObama rushed to judgment -- saying the shootings were “symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year...” Had he paused, he’d have discovered at least one of the officers was not white.
And the disunity pot was again stirred, violence erupted not long after -- with the assassination of white police officers in Dallas. Officers were also shot in Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee.
People concerned about racial disparity ought to read “The War on Cops” book by Heather MacDonald. On a recent Rush Limbaugh show MacDonald cited some interesting facts highlighting that more whites and Hispanics are killed by cops than blacks. In fact, somewhere around 12 percent to four percent respectively. She also said blacks are dying at a rate “six times higher than whites and Hispanics combined…because they commit homicide at eight times the rate higher than whites and Hispanics combined.”
But no one wants to talk about that or what’s happening in nObama’s hometown, Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reported on July 11 that around 2100 people were shot in nObama’s no-guns-allowed metropolis. “A total of 43 people were shot during an 11-hour stretch Friday night into Saturday morning” running up the grand total of 344 homicides this year.
Doesn’t it make sense that police officers would find themselves confronting suspects and using force on occasion -- in certain minority neighborhoods where people are killing each other?
Fox News Channel’s “Kelly File” hosted a diverse panel July 11 to discuss racism, police and potential solutions which quickly morphed into a Jerry Springer-like show when things got heated and people made outrageous statements like the police should be abolished.
At that moment, it became quite clear to me that the best place to go after hitting rock-bottom is to our knees. The division in America cannot be fixed by anything less than Divine intervention. We are witnessing what happens when a nation turns away from God and attempts to fix things on its own
(townhall.com} ~ The answer to where you go next after you’ve hit rock-bottom depends on whether rock-bottom was your goal in the first place.
Either way, we’ve arrived. Look around. Turn on the news, if you’ve allowed your last meal time enough to digest. We’re here…at the bottom…and it’s not pretty. That is, unless tearing America to shreds by creating irreparable division is your intention.
Racial division will be President nObama’s legacy. But it didn’t have to be this way, given the dark-skinned Oval Office occupant who gave the impression that his effervescent presence alone would be enough to improve race relations.
But, you’ve got to at least give it the old college try -- to do what’s best for America, not use your position to sow discord and stir up trouble and division like nObama did while speaking at the slain police officer memorial service in Dallas July 12.
“None of us is entirely innocent and this includes police departments,” said the Great Divider, in the presence of family members, colleagues, and friends of officers slain by an assassin who said he “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”
Sickening.
His speech had the potential to be his best ever -- until he went full-politics during a time meant for mourning, making a laughably false claim that it is easier for a teenager to get a Glock than a computer or book.
Why the gun lecture?
nObama’s rush to judgment time and again concerning these incidents suggests he filters the world through a prism that refracts a reality based on biased perspective, not facts.
From Boston in 2009 to Dallas today, he repeatedly castigates police prior to gathering full information about circumstances. From Poland, before facts were gathered regarding the Minnesota and Louisiana officer-related shootings, nObama rushed to judgment -- saying the shootings were “symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year...” Had he paused, he’d have discovered at least one of the officers was not white.
And the disunity pot was again stirred, violence erupted not long after -- with the assassination of white police officers in Dallas. Officers were also shot in Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee.
People concerned about racial disparity ought to read “The War on Cops” book by Heather MacDonald. On a recent Rush Limbaugh show MacDonald cited some interesting facts highlighting that more whites and Hispanics are killed by cops than blacks. In fact, somewhere around 12 percent to four percent respectively. She also said blacks are dying at a rate “six times higher than whites and Hispanics combined…because they commit homicide at eight times the rate higher than whites and Hispanics combined.”
But no one wants to talk about that or what’s happening in nObama’s hometown, Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reported on July 11 that around 2100 people were shot in nObama’s no-guns-allowed metropolis. “A total of 43 people were shot during an 11-hour stretch Friday night into Saturday morning” running up the grand total of 344 homicides this year.
Doesn’t it make sense that police officers would find themselves confronting suspects and using force on occasion -- in certain minority neighborhoods where people are killing each other?
Fox News Channel’s “Kelly File” hosted a diverse panel July 11 to discuss racism, police and potential solutions which quickly morphed into a Jerry Springer-like show when things got heated and people made outrageous statements like the police should be abolished.
At that moment, it became quite clear to me that the best place to go after hitting rock-bottom is to our knees. The division in America cannot be fixed by anything less than Divine intervention. We are witnessing what happens when a nation turns away from God and attempts to fix things on its own
FLASH!!!
Yet ANOTHER ongoing shooting spree by Islamic terrorists at a mall in Munich. At least FIFTEEN reported dead s so far.
And it's happening prior to Hillary's announcement of her veep choice. Np dpibt Obama, Lorretta Lynch and the queen herself, Hillary Clinton, are wondering in raw anger, "WHY DID THEY HAVE TO DO THIS ONE [NOW]???!!! How are we going to fuggin clean THIS ONE up?"
It seems that the German people haven't given the Islamists enough "compassion, unity and love", right, Lynch?
Perhaps the Germans need to "change the way they think", right, Barack?
No, wait a sec. It just has to be this HOT, HOT, global waming weather, right, Kerry?
Well, at least the Hillary has already raked in MILLIONS from the Saudis thru the Clinton Foundation, huh. WHEW!
FLASH!!!
Yet ANOTHER ongoing shooting spree by Islamic terrorists at a mall in Munich. At least FIFTEEN reported dead s so far.
And it's happening prior to Hillary's announcement of her veep choice. Np dpibt Obama, Lorretta Lynch and the queen herself, Hillary Clinton, are wondering in raw anger, "WHY DID THEY HAVE TO DO THIS ONE [NOW]???!!! How are we going to fuggin clean THIS ONE up?"
It seems that the German people haven't given the Islamists enough "compassion, unity and love", right, Lynch?
Perhaps the Germans need to "change the way they think", right, Barack?
No, wait a sec. It just has to be this HOT, HOT, global waming weather, right, Kerry?
Well, at least the Hillary has already raked in MILLIONS from the Saudis thru the Clinton Foundation, huh. WHEW!
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
liar-Hillary Clinton and Personal Honesty
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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liar-Clinton Bemoans 'White Privilege'
The GOP assembled Monday in Cleveland for the start of the Republican National Convention, but that wasn't the only political event happening in Ohio. liar-Hillary Clinton attended her own confab in the southwest corner of the state — the NAACP's 107th Annual Convention, which is taking place this year in Cincinnati.
liar-Clinton took advantage of a speaking slot to emphasize what she believes is a "need to make reforms to policing and criminal justice," adding, "[W]e cannot rest until we root out implicit bias and stop the killings of African-Americans." She also lampooned "white Americans" whom she says "need to do a better job of listening when African-Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers [blacks] face every day." She went on to lecture, "We need to recognize our privilege and practice humility rather than assume that our experiences are everyone's experiences."
It's worth recounting the words of Mark Alexander, who, after the death of Michael Brown in 2014, summed up the growing problem of black privilege: "I would argue that there are to varying degrees undeniable societal biases based on all those human traits and attributes we are supposed to ignore — race, gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, etc. Do I think those biases are so pronounced that some groups experience more privilege under some circumstances than others? Yes. Is it worth discussing? Yes, but only if that discussion includes the whole color spectrum of privilege. ...
"In Ferguson, black privilege meant that a drug-using 300-pound black man was entitled to walk into a convenience store, brazenly steal merchandise and physically assault a tiny store clerk. It means he was entitled to walk down the middle of a street taunting traffic. It means that when a police officer told him to get out of the street, he was entitled to punch the officer through his patrol vehicle window and attempt to take the officer's weapon. It means that he was entitled to defy lawful police orders to stop when he turned and charged toward that officer to assault him again. It means when the officer shot that black man, it was, by default, racist. It means that you can adopt a 'hands up' symbolic gesture, though the assailant's hands were not up. It means that race trumps facts, even as determined by a grand jury. It means that, in the name of 'civil rights,' black people are entitled to riot and loot small businesses, most owned by responsible and hard-working black residents."
liar-Clinton and her sycophants will never acknowledge this when they've got a political agenda to peddle. -The Patriot Post
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Pentagon's New Transsexual Manual
Commanding officers in the U.S. military must be wondering if they have entered bizarro world after receiving the latest procedural manual from the Pentagon — the sex-change manual. In the midst of all the challenges the U.S. military faces, from budget constraints to the continued war in Afghanistan and the fight against terrorism, the most challenging and out right absurd is that of Barack nObama's social engineering via his recent order to end the ban on transgendered service members.
The Washington Times reports, "Commanders must hold training sessions to indoctrinate troops on transgender issues and nondiscrimination." As to the reason for this new manual, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said, "We have transgender soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines — real, patriotic Americans — who I know are being hurt by an outdated, confusing, inconsistent approach that's contrary to our value of service and individual merit."
Retired Army officer Robert Maginnis responded that Carter is "delusional if he believes our military needs transgenders/transsexuals to remain in the 'finest fighting force in the world.'" On the contrary, Maginnis said, "Transsexuals suffer from more psychiatric pathologies than the general population, and active suicide ideation and major depression episodes occur more frequently within this group." He continued, "Creating a bureaucracy to sort out transgender issues will go down in the history of our Armed Forces as the worst waste of defense dollars ever."
Not only a waste of money, it will be a waste of time as a person deemed to have gender dysphoria will need an extended leave time of stability of 18 months after completing medical treatment. Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon stated, "We have transgender members in the military services today. We believe that we have the same obligation to them that we have to our other service members. Allowing these transgender individuals to serve openly does not bring new medical problems into the military. It brings these medical problems into the open and enables us to treat them in a way that promotes the readiness of the force."
nObama is more committed to "transforming" the U.S. military into a socially engineered puppet designed to further his agenda of fundamentally transforming the country rather than in providing the needed funding and support allowing them the means of successfully fulfilling the role for which they were originally established — the defense of the United States. -The Patriot Post
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The Iran Deal – A Blueprint for War
by Ari Lieberman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ There’s an iconic scene in the Star Wars trilogy where the protagonistic smuggler, Lando Calrissian, bitterly notes that a deal he struck with the evil Darth Vader is “getting worse all the time.”... That exasperated sentiment strikes the right tone for the way many now view the deeply flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), alternatively known as the Iran Deal. To refer to the Iran Deal as deeply flawed is in fact, a gross understatement. The JCPOA contained many disquieting clauses that many, including nObama’s supporters, saw as gravely dangerous. The deal made a mockery out of nObama’s claims that Iran’s nuclear facilities would be subjected to “anytime anywhere” inspections. In fact, under the deal, Iran is permitted to delay inspections by up to twenty-four days. Moreover, the opaque Parchin facility, where Iran has conducted its most secretive nuclear experiments, continues to remain largely off limits to international inspectors... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263569/iran-deal-%E2%80%93-blueprint-war-ari-lieberman
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Slavery: Racially Incorrect Facts
by Jack Kerwick
{frontpagemag.com} ~ As was recently shown, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, with its central claim that police around the country are hunting and killing innocent black men, is a lie... Yet the BLM myth is enmeshed within a larger narrative, a narrative of eternal White Racism. And couched within this tale are distortions and outright crucially false ideas of slavery. One glaringly inconvenient truth that, odds are, few folks of any race are aware is that the very first legal slave owner in America was one Anthony Johnson—a black man. More specifically, Johnson was an Angolan who himself had been an indentured servant in the colony of Virginia before he became a tobacco planter himself. One of the African indentured servants who worked Johnson’s 300 acre plot of land was John Casor... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263533/slavery-racially-incorrect-facts-jack-kerwick
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Federal appeals court orders changes
to Texas voter ID law
by foxnews.com
{foxnews.com} ~ A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Texas' strict voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and ordered changes before the November election... The ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals instructs a lower court to make changes that fix the "discriminatory effect" of the 2011 law, but to do so in a way that disrupts this year's election season as little as possible. President Barack nObama's administration took the unusual step of deploying the weight of the U.S. Justice Department into the case when it challenged the law, which requires Texas residents to show one of seven forms of approved identification. The state and other supporters say the Texas law prevents fraud. Opponents say it discriminates by requiring forms of ID that are more difficult to obtain for low-income, African-American and Latino voters...That's bulls. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/20/federal-appeals-court-orders-changes-to-texas-voter-id-law.html
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Both GOP and Democrats Unite to Pass
New Iran Sanctions
by Kerry Lear
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Although the GOP and Democratic party disagree on almost every major policy issue, both parties represented by members of the Senate agree that Iran needs more new restrictions... It’s been a long year since the Iran deal was signed and Iran has consistently proved that they are not going to comply with the “terms.” With that being said, the Iran Sanctions Act was introduced late last week by Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Bob Corker (R-TN), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Joe Manchin (D-WV.) Specifically, “the legislation seeks to step up mandatory sanctions against individuals and entities involved with Iran’s ballistic missile program, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and cyber-threats and espionage efforts... http://punchingbagpost.com/both-gop-and-democrats-unite-to-pass-new-iran-sanctions
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nObama and UN Join Forces to Assault
Parental Rights Worldwide
by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Under the guise of fighting “violence against children,” the nObama administration has joined forces with socialist foreign regimes and various United Nations agencies in a “global partnership” to wage war on parental rights... The controversial worldwide initiative, which aims to criminalize spanking and smacking as disciplinary tools, among other things, is part of the UN's Agenda 2030, also known as the “Sustainable Development Goals.” Essentially, the UN is betting that framing the assault on families as a bid to end “violence against children” — something nobody in their right mind would oppose — will make it easier to pursue the sidelining of parents. The plan also calls for vast new data-gathering capabilities to ensure children are being raised in accordance with extreme UN standards that were unthinkable even a few years ago. But opponents of the UN agenda argue that the global organization itself is among the lead violators of children's rights — and parents, by contrast, are the primary protectors of children...What gives nObama the right to impose this on America?
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Iran Prepares Plans to
Build Uranium-Enrichment Plant...
by Lea Speyer
{algemeiner.com} ~ Iranian officials issued new threats against the West on Wednesday, warning that failure to uphold the nuclear deal will result in harsh consequences, Iranian state media reported... In an address to the country’s parliament — the Majlis — Speaker Ali Larijani called on the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) to prepare plans to build a nuclear plant with the express purpose of enriching uranium, the semi-official state news agency Fars reported. According to Larijani, “disruptive moves” by the UN and the US, coupled with what he claimed to be America’s disloyalty to the year-old Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), are sufficient cause for Tehran to take defiant measures...They been cheating all along.
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CAIR Campaign Aims To Register A Million U.S.
Muslims Voters To Combat Trump…
by Dylan
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ U.S. Muslim leaders hope to register a million voters from within their community to help combat what they say is the anti-Muslim stance of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump... The United States has only about 3.3 million Muslims, but campaign organizers say Muslim voters could have an outsize impact in swing states that are key to the November general election, such as Virginia and Florida. "We want the Muslim community to understand that if you give up your rights voluntarily, no one will come and give it back to you,” said Osama Abu Irshaid, a member of the board of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, which is spearheading the drive...
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Ted Cruz shocker! 'Vote your conscience'
by wnd.com
{wnd.com} ~ Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who lost the Republican nomination to Donald Trump, shocked the GOP convention Wednesday night by conspicuously refusing to endorse him in his bid against liar-Hillary Clinton for the presidency in November... The speech was vintage Cruz in many ways – hearkening America back to freedom and the rule of law. But as the speech came to crescendo, the crowd in Cleveland began to realize he would not be endorsing Trump. Instead of saying “vote for Trump,” Cruz called on Republicans to “vote your conscience.”... http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/ted-cruz-shocker-vote-your-conscience/
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nObama Withheld from Congress Another
Secret Side Deal with the Iranians
by FRED FLEITZ
by FRED FLEITZ
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Veteran Associated Press IAEA reporter George Jahn made news yesterday by revealing a secret agreement to the July 2015 nuclear deal with Iran (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA)... This agreement says that in January 2027, Tehran will be allowed to replace the primitive 5,060 uranium centrifuges it is allowed to operate while the nuclear agreement is in effect with more-advanced designs, even though other restrictions on Iranian uranium enrichment remain in place for 15 years. I believe this is a significant development because it represents another secret JCPOA side deal that the nObama administration illegally withheld from Congress. This agreement means that in only eleven years, Iran will be permitted to substantially increase its capability to produce nuclear fuel faster and in larger amounts. Since Iran is permitted to conduct R&D on advanced centrifuges while the JCPOA is in place - and can expand this effort after eight and a half years - it probably will be able to quickly construct and install these advanced centrifuges... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obama-withheld-from-congress-another-secret-side-deal-with-the-iranians?f=must_reads
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An Open Letter to liar-Hillary Clinton
About Black Babies
by Michael Brown
{townhall.com} ~ I know that you and Mr. liar-Clinton have been considered real friends of the African American community to the point that, before President nObama’s election, your husband was jokingly referred to as the nation’s first black president... I also know that you have identified proudly as an “old fashioned Methodist” and that you warmly welcomed a contingent of African American pastors who laid hands on you and anointed you as the next president. It is against this backdrop that I write this letter to you. Speaking on July 18th to the NAACP convention, you said, “Right now, black kids are 500 percent more likely to die from asthma than white kids. 500 percent. Right now a black baby in South Carolina is twice as likely to die before her first birthday as a white baby... http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2016/07/20/an-open-letter-to-hillary-clinton-about-black-babies-n2195194?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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liar-Hillary Clinton and Personal Honesty
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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{townhall.com} ~ When FBI Director James Comey publicly revealed his recommendation to the Department of Justice last week that former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton not be prosecuted for espionage, he unleashed a firestorm of criticism from those who believe that liar-Clinton was judged by different standards from those used to judge others when deciding whether to bring a case to a grand jury.The FBI investigation had a bizarre ending to it. FBI recommendations are never made public as this one was. Attorney General Loretta Lynch had been compromised by her politically disastrous but legally consequential meeting out of the view of the media with Bill liar-Clinton just one week before Comey's announcement. Whatever they discussed, the overwhelming public impression was such that Lynch removed herself and her senior aides from the case, effectively leaving the FBI to have the final say. This is unheard of in the post-Hoover FBI.
The Comey announcement itself gave two reasons for recommending against indictment. One was that "no reasonable prosecutor" would take the case. That is not a judgment the FBI gets paid to make. The FBI's job is to gather, present and evaluate facts and evidence, not predict what prosecutors might do with it. The other stated reason for recommending against indictment was that though liar-Clinton may have been "extremely careless" in handling state secrets, she was not "grossly negligent," which is the standard required by the espionage statute.
Yet Comey also acknowledged that liar-Clinton sent state secrets to nongovernmental colleagues who lacked national security clearances, that those people were hacked by hostile intelligence services and that she used her numerous non-secure mobile devices recklessly while inside the territorial borders of those hostile governments. If all that is somehow extremely careless but not grossly negligent, then many who have done far less than liar-Clinton -- and have been prosecuted and convicted -- were wrongly prosecuted.
Since Comey's announcement last week, several new factors have come to light. One is that the DOJ never presented any evidence to a grand jury. It never sought subpoenas from a grand jury. This is unheard of in major criminal investigations because the FBI alone has no subpoena power and needs a grand jury to issue subpoenas for it.
The absence of a sitting grand jury also makes one wonder about the circumstances under which and the purpose for which the DOJ obtained immunity for Bryan Pagliano, liar-Clinton's internet technology adviser. She paid him $5,000 to migrate her public and her secret State Department email streams from the government's secure servers to her own non-secure servers. Immunity, which is essentially the pre-indictment permanent forgiveness of criminal behavior, cannot be given lightly and can only be given in return for testimony -- usually to a grand jury or a trial jury. Strangely, that was not the case here.
Nevertheless, liar-Clinton's persistent problems with personal honesty have brought her face to face with three more criminal investigations. One is for public corruption. The second is for perjury. And the third is for misleading Congress.
The public corruption investigation has been underway for a few months. The allegations are that she exercised the powers of her office as secretary of state to enrich her husband and herself. The evidence here is ample. There are dozens of documented instances in which foreign governments and individuals received beneficial treatment from her State Department -- usually exemptions from compliance with American laws or regulations -- and then collectively gave hundreds of millions of dollars to the liar-Clinton Foundation at a time when it was not a registered lawful charity.
The second investigation liar-Clinton faces is for perjury. This arises out of a Freedom of Information Act civil lawsuit during which she swore in writing and under oath, citing the phrase "under penalty of perjury," that she surrendered all of her work-related emails to the State Department. When she left the State Department, she effectively took all of her emails with her. Then, when the FOIA cases began, she returned about half of what she had taken, claiming that the other half was personal.
The FBI found that she failed to return thousands of work-related emails, some of which she and her lawyers attempted to destroy and some of which they succeeded in destroying. Who ordered the destruction?
Finally, liar-Clinton will most likely be confronted with charges of misleading Congress. Misleading Congress consists of intentionally creating a false impression in response to material congressional questions. She did this when she denied to the House Select Committee on Benghazi that she had sent or received emails via her home servers that contained state secrets.
The FBI found 110 emails in that category, at least two dozen of which were at the highest level of protection that the government accords its secrets. She also told that same committee that she had surrendered all her work-related emails to the State Department.
Former New York Yankees pitching great Roger Clemens was tried twice after a trial that ended with a hung jury, he was ultimately acquitted for misleading Congress when he was forced to speak to a House committee about the contents of his blood and urine as a baseball player. liar-Clinton has misled Congress about her lawful obligations as secretary of state, and she skates free.
Back in the Whitewater days, when the propensity of both Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton to lie routinely and naturally first became apparent to the media and the public, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire referred to Mrs. liar-Clinton by a moniker that enraged her husband. He became so fearful of the truth and so furious with Safire that he publicly threatened to punch Safire in the nose.
Safire called liar-Hillary Clinton a congenital liar. He was right. That was 20 years ago. Some people never change.
Last night it became quite evident where the country stood politically speaking. On the left the masses stand FOR "progress"; which is ,simply just the latest term for socialism and communism. In turn, they stand AGAINST States' sovereignty; which is another way of describing the individual Natural Rights of American Citizens which is acknowledged, assured and protected by the USConstitution.
To the "right", the loudest delegates, who had applauded Ted Cruz's call for the individual rights of the States to write their own laws and to choose their own.paths. The delegates applauded his call for the 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights of ALL American Citizens as well as putting "America first" and to build a Wall at the border. Ted Cruz TWICE honored the nine year old that was the daughter who is one of the victims of the five police officers that were murdered in Dallas.
These things and more were loudly applauded by the delegates - UNTIL it became evident that Cruz was not going to endorse the nomniee - despite the FACT that he opened his speech by cngratulating Trump for winning the nomination and having stood FOR the positions Donald Trump took on the border / immigration, Islamic terrorism, the economy as well as the FAILURES and CORRUPTION in Washington, DC. Once it became evident that Cruz was not going to endorse the nominee, everything that he stood for, including his mentioning the nine year old the second time, was then BOOED! Once again his wife, Heidi, was yelled at w/ total disrespect; and she needed to be escorted for protetion.
At any moment, had Ted Cruz showed Trump's family any level of disrespect?
Which "pledge" was Cruz, or ANY of the candidates for that matter,,was or IS he supposed to honor; the one written on a worthless piece of paper which was for the sole purpose of political expedienncy, to which the likes of Kasich, who governs the very State that hosting the Convention btw,, and Jeb Bush didn't even appear in Cleveland - although NO headlines are spitting at their faces as they are Ted Cruz's. Hav you even noticed that?
The Trump supporters are saying that Cruz should have endorsed Trump - for PERMITING him to speak at the Convention in the first place. If such is the case, WHY did Trump ALLOW Cruz to speak - KNOWING the contents of Cruz's speech prior?
Donald Trump's rise was very much because Washington DOES NOT honor their OATHS of Office - to uphold and the Constitution. THAT is the "pledge" that matters to me.
Time will tell son enough if Trump will honor the PROMISES he made during the past year. If he will also go along w/ the century old status quo and the further epxansion of this authoritarian federal govt. I genuinely hope I'm wrong about Trump. I hope that his liberal past is not preface.
Luis
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The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
The Dumbest Idea
by Thomas Sowell
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The Bad Guy Wins in Turkey
Harold Hutchison: Friday's failed coup in Turkey is a setback for human rights, democracy, the United States, and the Middle East in general. You're probably asking why that would be the case when Turkish President Recip Tayyap Erdogan appears to have been democratically elected a number of times. A closer look at Erdogan's conduct, however, shows he is not exactly a hero of freedom and democracy. Quite the contrary — he is a thug dictator.
Erdogan's regime long has been cracking down on the opposition press in Turkey. One opposition party has claimed that nearly 1,900 journalists have lost jobs since Erdogan took power. Opposition media outlets have been fined for covering anti-government demonstrations. The government has the power to shut down websites without a court order, and famously blocked YouTube and Twitter after audio of an incriminating conversation surfaced. A former Miss Turkey was sentenced to a year in jail for allegedly insulting Erdogan, and a 13-year-old was arrested for a Facebook post.
Since the coup collapsed by early Saturday, Erdogan's regime has detained more than 6,000 military officers, soldiers, judges, police officers and others. He declared, "This uprising is a gift from god to us because this will be a reason to cleanse our army." While rumors that Erdogan set up the whole thing are likely overblown, he clearly didn't let a crisis go to waste.
More ominously, our NATO ally Turks have ordered a halt to operations at Incirlink Air Base, which is used by the 39th Air Base Wing of the United States Air Force, and which also hosts British, Saudi and German aircraft that carry out strikes against the Islamic State. Not only is Incirlik less than 70 miles from the Syrian border, the United States has a number of "special weapons" stored there, mostly B61 gravity bombs. The base is a critical and strategic launching point for the U.S.
Erdogan has allegedly turned a blind eye to foreign fighters who travel through Turkey to join the Islamic State, and his sympathies have been increasingly Islamist. Under Erdogan's regime, Turkey denied the 4th Infantry Division permission to pass through Turkey to attack Saddam Hussein's regime from the north in 2003. Israel has also come under fire from Erdogan, particularly after the Gaza flotilla incident.
Since the failure of the coup, Erdogan has been moving to target his opponents. His regime is now demanding that the United States hand over Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan's. Gulen runs the Hizmet movement, which runs schools in Turkey. He also appears to be a real example of a moderate Muslim. He supports democracy, education, military action against the Islamic State, interfaith dialogue, and freedom of religion. Gulen cut ties with Erdogan after a 2013 corruption scandal, and since then, Erdogan has been moving to take out the moderate cleric.
Should the United States hand Gulen over to Erdogan, it would be for certain death. Not only would that strengthen the Erdogan regime, it would silence one of the most prominent moderate voices in Islam. That would be a huge loss for the people of the entire Middle East, not just a setback in the War on Terror. Bottom line on the coup: The fact that Erdogan's regime survived means the bad guy has won this round. But as is usually the case in the Middle East, there aren't all that many good guys. -The Patriot Post
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More Chaos on nObama's Watch
Charles Paige: Barack nObama and John hanoi-Kerry's response to the unsuccessful coup attempt in Turkey provided additional evidence about which is the real "JV" team. As if that point hadn't already been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. By continually adopting policies that are based on the make-believe world they'd like to have rather the rough and tumble one they're actually living in, nObama and hanoi-Kerry contribute to the instability that dominates current headlines and puts our national interests at great risk. As The Wall Street Journal notes, the attempted coup "adds an alarming twist in world events that already appear to be spiraling out of U.S. control."
A White House press release stated that nObama "reiterated the United States' unwavering support for the democratically-elected, civilian Government of Turkey" during a conference call with his national security team, as if election results are the sole determinant of legitimacy and common interest. Tellingly, Hamas — another "democratically elected civilian government" — released a similar statement. In throwing his "unwavering" support behind Erdogan early, nObama gave a boost to a regime that has steadily been moving into the Islamist camp. It will be ironic if — as many analysts predict — the slide toward authoritarianism accelerates and the last vestiges of real democracy are removed thanks, at least in part, to nObama's endorsement.
Then again, after enduring the last seven and a half years of nObama, perhaps that's not ironic at all.
Although he would almost certainly not present it in this fashion, nObama likely admires the extent to which Erdogan has "fundamentally transformed" Turkey, mirroring many of nObama's own promises — and outcomes. Erdogan promised to rule on behalf of all Turks, but increasingly he does not. He promised to repair the economy, but a recession could be on the horizon. He promised peace, but his combative policies isolated Turkey in the Middle East and estranged it from the West. He promised security, but Turks fear recent bombings are just the tip of the iceberg.
All of that sounds eerily familiar to the "Hope 'n' Change™" mantra nObama and Co. incessantly promoted in 2008. Look where that's got us. And look where Erdogan has Turkey. -The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Burt Prelutsky: "[E]ven I can't place the entire blame on nObama, either for black crime or for the decline in black employment. After all, he can't compel his fellow blacks to get an education, which is required in an increasingly technological world, or to get married. The fault lies with those who keep electing the dumbest, most corrupt politicians in America, and with the media for making Al Sharpton, who should be serving time for tax evasion and sedition, the spokesman for black America. ... Even half a century after the Civil Rights Act, after 50 years of Affirmative Action, Operation Head Start, trillions of dollars in welfare and small business loans, 72% of those black babies not aborted are born to single, uneducated women. The reality is that it's not much different when it comes to Caucasians. Most of the white prison inmates were raised in homes in which a father was only a rumor. It's not impossible for single women to raise decent, law-abiding children, but it's a lot harder to do it alone, especially when it comes to dispensing discipline and providing a role model for a teenage boy." -The Patriot Post
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nObama’s Links to Pro-Terrorist Groups
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ We now have evidence of contacts between Saudi officials and some of the September 11 hijackers. An old classified document has been declassified... On an equally, if not more important and current matter, what about the evidence of contacts between the nObama White House and the pro-terrorist Muslim Brotherhood? When will we be given a declassified copy of nObama’s Presidential Study Directive-11, or PSD-11, regarding the secret White House backing of the Muslim Brotherhood? Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has proposed a bill to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. It’s called the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act (S.2230). On another equally, if not more important and current matter, what about nObama White House contacts with the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM), a support apparatus for cop-killers?...
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The “Sisterhood” in the Media
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ In his “That Bloody Woman” editorial in Chronicles about liar-Hillary Clinton, Chilton Williamson, Jr. writes about the “cadre of aging and bitter feminists” backing the Democrat for president... He says they “would enthusiastically elect a dead woman as president to vindicate the Sisterhood younger women care little about.” It appears this “Sisterhood” is finding its voice in The Washington Post. As the trusted voice of far-left feminism in the nation’s capital, the Post ran these headlines on Saturday afternoon about Donald J. Trump’s decision to pick Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate: “Trump had a problem with women voters. Pence could make it even worse.” What is Pence’s problem? Well, he “has endorsed controversial legislation on abortion and Planned Parenthood.” Post reporter Katie Zezima neglected to mention that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, was founded by Margaret Sanger, a revolutionary socialist and anti-Christian activist who favored government programs to eliminate what she called “human weeds.”... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-sisterhood-in-the-media/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email071916&utm_medium=email
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nObama Announces Next Trojan Horse
Stage Of Gestapo Creation
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us| ~ nObama is taking advantage of timing that occurred as a result of tensions and violence that he created and the fact that many of his opponents are distracted by the Republican Convention to announce the next step of his takeover of local law enforcement... He describes his continued plotting of the roll out as “A useful discussion following up on the task force meeting that I had last week as well as a number of conversations that we’ve had with various stakeholders in the wake of the tragic events that we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks.” nObama has, over the last two years, created tensions while simultaneously targeting local law enforcement agencies for litigation abuse and takeover for non-compliance with federalization, replacing individuals that resist if necessary as conditions of consent decrees. The conversations with “stakeholders” and his supposed task force are meetings with his stable of agitators and socialist anti-American “race” groups as well as compliant Democrat police departments that are in on and a part of the federalization takeover scheme...
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Why I Rooted for the Turkish Coup Attempt
by Daniel Pipes
by Daniel Pipes
{danielpipes.org} ~ Having this nearly-minority-of-one stance suggests that an explanation longer than 140 characters is in order. Three reasons account for my supporting the ouster of the apparently democratically elected and democratically ruling president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan... by what are apparently the forces of reaction: Erdoğan stole the election. Erdoğan is an Islamist who initially made his mark, both as mayor of Istanbul and as prime minister of Turkey, by playing within the rules. As time wore on, however, he grew disdainful of those rules, specifically the electoral ones. He monopolized state media, tacitly encouraged physical attacks on opposition-party members, and stole votes. In particular, the most recent national election, on November 1, showed many signs of manipulation. Erdoğan rules despotically. Erdoğan has taken control of one institution after another, even in the two years since he became president, a constitutionally and historically non-political position. Erdoğan uses his despotic powers for malign purposes, waging what amounts to a civil war against the Kurds of southeastern Turkey, helping ISIS, aggressing against neighbors, and promoting Sunni Islamism...And nObama supports Erdogan. http://www.danielpipes.org/16823/why-i-rooted-for-the-turkish-coup-attempt
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Refugees secretly flooding into these states
by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ Despite more reports in recent weeks about Muslim “refugees” raping and attacking people in the U.S. and Europe, President nObama has ramped up his Syrian refugee program... delivering 625 to U.S. cities in one week and crossing the 6,000 mark for total Syrians who have entered the country since October. With a little over two months before the Sept. 30 deadline to fulfill his promise to the United Nations to resettle 10,000 Syrians, nObama has delivered 6,227 Syrian migrants to 38 states and dozens of cities. That means more than 1,000 have arrived just since July 1. Of the 6,227 total who arrived since Oct. 1, 2015, only 23 have been Christian and 10 Yazidi. All the of the remaining 6,194 Syrians, more than 98 percent, have been Sunni Muslim. That’s the same sect that makes up the ranks of ISIS, al-Nusra Front and other groups that are viciously persecuting Christians in Syria...He is stepping over the line and should be indicted. Where's Congress? http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/refugees-secretly-flooding-into-these-states/
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Is it Time for the U.S. to Take a Position
on Scarborough Shoal?
by Rear Adm. Michael McDevitt, USN
Scarborough Shoal
{usni.org} ~ Starting in early 2016, Scarborough Shoal suddenly became an issue of serious concern for U.S. officials. According to articles in the press reports information was obtained that strongly suggested that China was about to start turning Scarborough into another artificial island... similar to what they had done in the Spratlys. Apparently, one of the factors that suggested Beijing was about to act was a posting found on a Chinese website that included satellite photographs based on a construction bid proposal that would turn Scarborough into an island base similar to what China has constructed on seven Spratlys Islands. A modern Scarborough airfield with radar and other modern information, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) facilities so close to Philippine bases where U.S. has been granted rotational access by the Philippine government possess obvious strategic issues. As shown in the graphic below from the office of U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), turning Scarborough into a base with air search radars would allow China to have full-time radar coverage over most of Luzon...
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liar-Clinton Accused of Taking Down
Congressional Website Calling for Perjury Indictment
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ It is only one more scandal. The Congressional website which contained a call from 2 Congressmen to prosecute liar-Hillary for perjury has mysteriously been taken down... On July 11, Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) sent the following letter to US Attorney Phillps. I have been waiting for action on this item. I went to the Congressional website where I expected to see an update and the site is down and has been down for 2 days. Does liar-Hillary Clinton have that kind of power to erase this kind of evidence with regard to sociopathic criminality? liar-Clinton has escaped the prosecution the Congressmen called for based upon a technicality because she was not under oath when she was questioned. However, I have a source that said they strongly suspect liar-Clinton’s aids in taking down this Congressional website until the Democrats can get the letter removed. You see, it’s now to the point that even die-hard Democrats have had it with her criminality. One more revelation could be the tipping point for many of her supporters... http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/07/19/clinton-accused-of-taking-down-congressional-website-calling-for-perjury-indictment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clinton-accused-of-taking-down-congressional-website-calling-for-perjury-indictment
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Ex-CIA Director Woolsey: "The Administration
Cannot Keep Its Mouth Shut" on War Effort
by SUSAN JONES
by SUSAN JONES
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ "Military operations require secrecy," former CIA Director James Woolsey told Fox News in a recent interview. He criticized the nObama administration for telling the world -- and Islamic jihadists -- what it plans to do... "The administration cannot keep its mouth shut on these things," Woolsey said on Friday. "Had they been in power during World War II, they probably would have made speeches about how well we were doing breaking the Japanese codes. I have no idea why they do this sort of thing, unless they care more about the public relations than they do about winning the war. "And that is a very serious charge indeed. I'm not making it here, but it is certainly something that you have to start thinking about, when you see everything getting disclosed... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/ex-cia-director-woolsey-the-administration-cannot-keep-its-mouth-shut-on-war-effort?f=must_reads
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The Road To War
by HERBERT LONDON
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The road to the future is filled with potholes. This metaphorical sentence speaks to a world war already in process. Despite denials from the present U.S. administration... the war is organized, promoted and managed by radical Islamists. Driven by an ideology, these religious fanatics want to undermine the West so that a global caliphate can be established. The war is in its twenty-fifth year, but the U.S. and its allies still do not understand the magnitude of the struggle. On July 14th, a day celebrating French freedom, Bastille Day, at least eighty-four people were wantonly killed, including ten children. If there were ever a moment for an appropriate response, this is it. Paris, Orlando, Istanbul, San Bernardino, Brussels, stand as stark reminders of the international reach of Islamic terror. And there isn't an end in sight. Moreover, the murderer who killed innocents on the Promenade des Anglais had a history of aggressive views known to French authorities, just as the Orlando killer was investigated by the FBI before his murderous spree. It is not as if clues aren't provided by savage extremists... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-road-to-war?f=must_reads
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nObama Is Lying: Deportations Are DOWN
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ President nObama and the open borders people are lying to America. According to their own reports, deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are down again this year and are on pace to be the lowest since 2006... Deportation of criminal illegal immigrants criminally trespassing aliens, are also down despite what nObama tells you about his focus on booting criminal trespassers who commit crimes beyond the crime they committed by entering the United States. According to research by Jessica Vaughan Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. (CIS) the ICE statistics presented to congress through the third week of June, therefore covering approximately 75 percent of the federal fiscal year reveal ICE has completed 168,781 deportations, a slight decline from the same point in 2015, but a continuation of the steep decline that has occurred since 2012, when the administration took steps to suppress interior enforcement and exempt the vast majority of illegal aliens from deportation. ICE is on pace to complete about 230,000 deportations, which would be the lowest number since 2006... http://lidblog.com/obama-is-lying-deportations-are-down/
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US-Backed Syrian Rebel Group Beheads Child
{clarionproject.org} ~ US-backed Syrian rebels, screaming "Allahu Akbar," brutally beheaded a child named Abdullah Issa. The shocking clip shows fighters from Nour-al-din el-Zanki telling the camera... "These are the prisoners from Liwa al-Quds Jerusalem Brigade – a Palestinian militia group. He. Assad can't stoop any lower. He sent us children today, are you sending us children?" America funds Nour-al-din el-Zanki, which fights against the Assad regime. Liwa al-Quds The Jerusalem Brigade is a pro-Assad Palestinian paramilitary group. The rebel group accused the boy of being a spy...
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The Dumbest Idea
by Thomas Sowell
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{townhall.com} ~ If there were a contest for the most stupid idea in politics, my choice would be the assumption that people would be evenly or randomly distributed in incomes, institutions, occupations or awards, in the absence of somebody doing somebody wrong.
Political crusades, bureaucratic empires and lucrative personal careers as grievance mongers have been built on the foundation of that assumption, which is almost never tested against any facts.
A recent article in the New York Times saw as a problem the fact that females are greatly under-represented among the highest rated chess players. Innumerable articles, TV stories and political outcries have been based on an "under-representation" of women in Silicon Valley, seen as a problem that needs to be solved.
Are there girls out there dying to play chess, who find the doors slammed shut in their faces? Are there women with Ph.D.s in computer science from M.I.T. and Cal Tech who get turned away when they apply for jobs in Silicon Valley?
Are girls and boys not allowed to have different interests? If girls had the same interest in chess as boys had, but were banned from chess clubs, that would be something very different from their not choosing to play chess as often as boys do. As for chess ratings, that is not subjective. It is based on which players, with which ratings, you have won against and lost to.
Are women and men not to be allowed to make different decisions as to how they choose to spend their time and live their lives?
Chess is not the only endeavor which can take a huge chunk of time out of your life, and unremitting efforts, to reach the top. If you want to become a top scientist, a partner in a big law firm or a top executive in a major corporation, you are very unlikely to do it working from 9 to 5, or taking a few years off, here and there, to have children and raise them.
Applying the same unsubstantiated assumption to differences in "representation" between different racial and ethnic groups likewise produces many loudly expressed grievances, political crusades, and millions of dollars from lawsuits charging discrimination -- all without a speck of evidence beyond numbers that do not match the prevailing assumptions.
People who base their conclusions on hard facts often reach very different conclusions than those who base their conclusions on the preconception that outcomes would be even or random in the absence of somebody treating somebody wrong.
Something as simple as age differences among groups can doom any assumption of even or random outcomes.
If every 20-year-old Puerto Rican in the United States had an income identical with the income of every 20-year-old Japanese American -- and identical incomes at every other age -- Japanese Americans as a group would still have a higher average income than Puerto Ricans in the United States. That is because the median age of Japanese Americans is more than 20 years older.
People with 20 years more work experience usually make higher incomes. And age difference is just one of many differences between groups.
You can study innumerable groups in countries around the world today, or over centuries of recorded history, without finding a single example of the even or random outcomes that are used as a benchmark for determining discrimination.
Nevertheless, courts of law -- including the Supreme Court of the United States -- use something that has never been found anywhere as a norm to which current realities are to be compared. Billions of dollars, in the aggregate, have changed hands as a result of individual lawsuits charging discrimination.
Life is undoubtedly unfair. But that is not the same as saying that the unfairness occurred wherever the statistics were collected. The origins of this unfairness often go back to different childhood environments for individuals or different geographic or cultural settings for groups and nations.
These differences between nations, as well as differences between individuals and groups, reflect the fact that the world "has never been a level playing field," as economic historian David S. Landes put it. Renowned historian Fernand Braudel said, "In no society have all regions and all parts of the population developed equally."
How long will we continue to take something that has never happened, and never had much chance of happening, as a norm?
Political crusades, bureaucratic empires and lucrative personal careers as grievance mongers have been built on the foundation of that assumption, which is almost never tested against any facts.
A recent article in the New York Times saw as a problem the fact that females are greatly under-represented among the highest rated chess players. Innumerable articles, TV stories and political outcries have been based on an "under-representation" of women in Silicon Valley, seen as a problem that needs to be solved.
Are there girls out there dying to play chess, who find the doors slammed shut in their faces? Are there women with Ph.D.s in computer science from M.I.T. and Cal Tech who get turned away when they apply for jobs in Silicon Valley?
Are girls and boys not allowed to have different interests? If girls had the same interest in chess as boys had, but were banned from chess clubs, that would be something very different from their not choosing to play chess as often as boys do. As for chess ratings, that is not subjective. It is based on which players, with which ratings, you have won against and lost to.
Are women and men not to be allowed to make different decisions as to how they choose to spend their time and live their lives?
Chess is not the only endeavor which can take a huge chunk of time out of your life, and unremitting efforts, to reach the top. If you want to become a top scientist, a partner in a big law firm or a top executive in a major corporation, you are very unlikely to do it working from 9 to 5, or taking a few years off, here and there, to have children and raise them.
Applying the same unsubstantiated assumption to differences in "representation" between different racial and ethnic groups likewise produces many loudly expressed grievances, political crusades, and millions of dollars from lawsuits charging discrimination -- all without a speck of evidence beyond numbers that do not match the prevailing assumptions.
People who base their conclusions on hard facts often reach very different conclusions than those who base their conclusions on the preconception that outcomes would be even or random in the absence of somebody treating somebody wrong.
Something as simple as age differences among groups can doom any assumption of even or random outcomes.
If every 20-year-old Puerto Rican in the United States had an income identical with the income of every 20-year-old Japanese American -- and identical incomes at every other age -- Japanese Americans as a group would still have a higher average income than Puerto Ricans in the United States. That is because the median age of Japanese Americans is more than 20 years older.
People with 20 years more work experience usually make higher incomes. And age difference is just one of many differences between groups.
You can study innumerable groups in countries around the world today, or over centuries of recorded history, without finding a single example of the even or random outcomes that are used as a benchmark for determining discrimination.
Nevertheless, courts of law -- including the Supreme Court of the United States -- use something that has never been found anywhere as a norm to which current realities are to be compared. Billions of dollars, in the aggregate, have changed hands as a result of individual lawsuits charging discrimination.
Life is undoubtedly unfair. But that is not the same as saying that the unfairness occurred wherever the statistics were collected. The origins of this unfairness often go back to different childhood environments for individuals or different geographic or cultural settings for groups and nations.
These differences between nations, as well as differences between individuals and groups, reflect the fact that the world "has never been a level playing field," as economic historian David S. Landes put it. Renowned historian Fernand Braudel said, "In no society have all regions and all parts of the population developed equally."
How long will we continue to take something that has never happened, and never had much chance of happening, as a norm?
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Is the Party Over for Bushism?
by Pat Buchanan
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Division or Unity? Baton Rouge Reflections
Americans are yet again seeking to come to grips with a racially motivated attack on police. Three officers were murdered in Baton Rouge Sunday by a former Nation of Islam member. "Everyone right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further," Barack nObama said. "We don't need inflammatory rhetoric. We don't need careless accusations thrown around to score political points or advance an agenda." Well said. The trouble is America has listened to nObama over these last seven and a half years and has seen and heard little in the way of unifying action or non-agenda driven rhetoric. Just the opposite — few have been more divisive with inflammatory rhetoric meant only to score political points than nObama.
Case in point: When reflecting on the Louisiana murders Sunday, nObama chastised police: "If police organizations and departments acknowledge that there's a [race] problem and there's an issue, then that, too, is going to contribute to real solutions. And, as I said yesterday, that is what's going to ultimately help make the job of being a cop a lot safer." So if "racist cops" just admit they're racist, this will all clear up.
His statements on law enforcement and race relations have fomented division rather than brought unity. In his speeches after several mass murders he has sought to push his anti-gun agenda by focusing on the availability of guns as being the primary problem, not on the criminals committing these horrible crimes. He has continually chastised those who disagree with his political views as being driven by selfishness and a lack of concern for the plight of others. He has refused to enforce immigration laws with which he disagrees and yet he has stood and proclaimed, "America is a nation of laws, which means I, as the president, am obligated to enforce the law." He called the Baton Rouge murders an "attack on Rule of Law." This from the personification of disregard for Rule of Law.
So, as America copes with the recent atrocities in Baton Rouge and Dallas and seeks solutions to the growing unrest and divisions, we'd love to believe that nObama will follow his own advice on unity. That he will not use this latest tragedy to push his political agenda, but that he will seek to stand for those unifying principles that our Founding Fathers so carefully laid as our nation's foundation. But we're also not naïve. nObama's track record is utterly at odds with true racial healing. -The Patriot Post
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28 Pages: Saudi Arabia and 9/11
The shaky U.S.-Saudi alliance took another hit Friday as Congress released 28 pages of previously classified information that implicates the Saudi government in the 9/11 attacks. Several government officials, including at least two in the Saudi intelligence apparatus, communicated with and/or assisted the hijackers. There were financial connections, as well, including some to the royal family itself.
However, the report failed to amalgamate two very opposing viewpoints. Some, like Rep. Adam Schiff, argue: "The Intelligence Community and the 9/11 Commission, which followed the Joint Inquiry that produced these so-called 28 pages, investigated the questions they raised and was never able to find sufficient evidence to support them." But others, like Sen. Richard Blumenthal, say the allegations should not be taken lightly: "While the pages do not reach a conclusion regarding Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks, they provide more than enough evidence to raise serious concerns."
Indeed. As Paul Sperry writes, "[T]he Saudi government's ties to the hijackers and other al Qaeda suspects were so extensive that the FBI's Washington field office created a special squad to investigate the Saudi angle. But this special focus on Saudi Arabia occurred belatedly, only after the 9/11 attacks, 'due to Saudi Arabia's status as an American "ally."' Astoundingly, investigative resources were not dedicated to Saudi involvement in financing and supporting terrorism prior to 9/11." Sperry summarily believes, "Yes, the Saudi government helped the 9/11 terrorists." Saudi Arabia — erroneously, it would appear — claims it didn't. About the only conclusion we can glean from Friday's release is that this issue is nowhere near over. -The Patriot Post
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nObama: U.N.can defeat global terror
by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ President nObama addressed diplomats at a reception Friday, the day after a jihadist killed 84 people in France, and said the United Nations’ plan for sustainable development and global unity is all that’s needed to defeat the terrorists... nObama called for “a new sustainable development set of goals to end extreme poverty and promote health and education and equality for all people, including women.” That was a direct reference to the U.N.’s new “2030 Agenda,” in which the new sustainable development goals or SDGs are being promoted as the answer to all of mankind’s problems — including the eradication of poverty and saving the planet from climate change... http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/obama-u-n-can-defeat-global-terror/?AID=7236
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This State Might Just Pass A Bill For Sharia Law
{teapartypolitics.com} ~ Most of the time when someone mentions the idea of Islamic Sharia law gaining influence in America, the notion is met with groans, eye rolls, and calls for the tin foil hats to come out of hiding... However, if you take a look at what’s going on in Illinois right now, it might not actually be that crazy a thought after all. Apparently Illinois might become the first state in our country to give Muslims an official voice and role in government...Wake up Chicago, don't be stupid. http://teapartypolitics.com/state-might-just-pass-sharia-law/
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UN Human Rights Bodies Silent on
Turkey’s Massive Crackdown
by Patrick Goodenough
{cnsnews.com} ~ A crackdown following the Turkish coup attempt has seen thousands detained or suspended, but the United Nations’ human rights apparatus remains silent even as the nObama administration continues to voice its public support for Turkey’s “democratically elected government.”... According to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, more than 7,500 members of the military and judiciary have been detained, including Supreme Court judges, prosecutors, and senior military officers, including dozens of generals. Meanwhile the Interior Ministry has suspended almost 9,000 officials, including 30 provincial and 47 district governors, almost 8,000 police officers, and more than 600 officers in the gendarmerie (soldiers carrying out policing duties), the Anadolu Agency state news agency reported...
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liar-Clinton VP contender Castro faces investigation
over 'prohibited political activity'
by Sarah Westwood
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Julian Castro, a leading contender to join liar-Hillary Clinton's ticket, is facing a formal complaint from the Office of Special Counsel for alleged overlap between his political advocacy and his official duties as head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development... Castro criticized Donald Trump's immigration positions during an April interview with Katie Couric, during which he also praised liar-Hillary Clinton's candidacy. Doing so apparently violated the Hatch Act, a federal law meant to create a firewall between government work and political activity for most administration officials. "Secretary Castro's statements during the interview impermissibly mixed his personal political views with official agency business despite his efforts to clarify that some answers were being given in his personal capacity," Carolyn Lerner, head of the OSC, wrote in a letter to President nObama informing him of the "investigative findings" of the office's probe...
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White House asks Supreme Court
to rehear immigration case
by Anna Giaritelli
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The White House has asked the Supreme Court to rehear an immigration case that has the potential to protect nearly 4 million immigrants in the country illegally from deportation, Reuters reported late afternoon Monday... The nObama administration made the request after the deadlocked high court ruled 4-4 last month, keeping the plan from being implemented. In the filing, the Justice Department asked the court to reconsider the case after a justice has been named to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly in February. President nObama nominated D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland earlier this year, but the Senate has refused to hold hearings on his nomination, saying the president's time in office is nearly over and nObama's successor should pick the next justice... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2596852
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The 28 Pages that Damn Saudi Arabia
by A.J. Caschetta
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ After keeping them secret for 14 years, the White House has finally released the 28 pages that were removed from the 2002 Congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks and withheld from the final 9/11 Commission Report... More puzzling than the elusive pages is why nObama released them, and specifically, why now. The administration claims that the 28 pages clear the Saudis because they provide no conclusive evidence of their involvement in 9/11. The media echo chamber followed the administration's lead: Time, Al Arabiya, NBC, the Associated Press and many others reported that the pages contained "no smoking guns." But there are smoking guns. Those smoking guns expose the Saudi government as a sponsor of terrorism, and, by proxy, improve Iran's standing in the Middle East. Author Paul Sperry writes that the 28 pages "show the hijackers got help from Saudi diplomats and spies." And while the evidence might not meet the threshold that the current Department of Justice requires for an indictment, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) described it as "a chilling description of Saudi ties to terrorists, Saudi payments to terrorists, and Saudi obstruction of U.S. antiterrorism investigations" and found "more than enough evidence to raise serious concerns."...
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Texas Makes Huge Move Against
Black Lives Matter
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Lone Star State lawmakers are cracking down after recent recent attacks carried out against police officers... Abbott on Monday announced the Police Protection Act, which
aims to strengthen penalties for crimes committed against police officers. “At a time when law enforcement officers increasingly come under assault simply because of the job they hold, Texas must send a resolute message that the state will stand by the men and women who serve and protect our communities,” Abbott said in a news release, according to KTBC... http://conservativetribune.com/texas-move-black-lives-matter/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=ConservativeBrief&utm_content=2016-07-19
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Rand Paul Calls for "Prison Sentence"
for liar-Hillary Clinton
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Despite the seeming diverting of all the power of the federal government in order to remove any responsibility from liar-Hillary Clinton for actions that were admittedly criminal, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is on a mission to fight that power... As a part of his overall question to “Hold liar-Hillary Accountable,” Senator Paul made a comment to reporters, calling on the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee to be subjected to the full range of legal ramifications for her actions, which threatened the national security of the United States. In response to a question about FBI Director James Comey’s call for liar-Clinton to be set scot free, unpunished for her use of personal e-mail servers to transmit classified documents — an act in violation of federal law — Paul said, “I think an indictment would be a good idea, followed by a prison sentence.”... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/23661-rand-paul-calls-for-prison-sentence-for-hillary-Clinton
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liar-Clinton Foundation Was Set Up To Be Corrupt
by Richard Pollock
{conservativebyte.com} ~ liar-Clinton Foundation officials have ignored virtually all of the “best practices” urged by good governance organizations for public charities, according to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation... Most glaringly, for example, the foundation’s insular board of directors is unusually small, ranging from only two to no more than five members, all of whom are among President Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton’s closest and richest friends. The “good governance” movement in the nonprofit field has been gathering strength for two decades, but it clearly has yet to reach the liar-Clinton Foundation. Most foundation boards have on average 15 members, according to a 2015 survey by Boardsource, a national organization working to strengthen nonprofit board leadership...
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Communism Still Persists. We Must Remember
Nations Where People Are Not Free
by Lee Edwards
{dailysignal.com} ~ Communism is a cancer that must be removed lest it spread. That historical lesson led President Ronald Reagan, after four decades of containment and accommodation... to lay down a new policy to end the Cold War: “We win and they lose.” Under Reagan, the United States initiated a multipronged anti-communist strategy that was part military (launching the Strategic Defense Initiative), part economic (undercutting the price of Soviet gas and oil), and part political (supporting Poland’s Solidarity movement). As a result, Moscow found itself falling far behind in an ever accelerating arms race and conceded defeat... http://dailysignal.com/2016/07/18/communism-still-persists-we-must-remember-nations-where-people-are-not-free/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRNNU0yRmxNakpoTkRGaSIsInQiOiJwNWxlbTZDQWRjdmp3Smlab0M2aHNjazJvMTVkMlwvdWhEXC9mRnorb0Y4bE1Hdjl1RnduNEJ6RE5ZVHIycTFaTVJJVnlkR0JHUjZ3S3M2UkdyeXJ5bkh6TEt2OFNER3d0VStOK1BLa2FZaURNPSJ9
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Is the Party Over for Bushism?
by Pat Buchanan
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Neither George W. Bush, the Republican Party nominee in 2000 and 2004, nor Jeb, the dethroned Prince of Wales, will be in Cleveland. Nor will John McCain or Mitt Romney, the last two nominees.
These former leaders would like it thought that high principle keeps them away from a GOP convention that would nominate Donald Trump. Petulance, however, must surely play a part. Bush Republicans feel unappreciated, and understandably so.
For Trump’s nomination represents not only a rejection of their legacy but a repudiation of much of post-Cold War party dogma.
America crossed a historic divide and entered a new era. Even should Trump lose, there is likely no going back.
Trump has attacked NAFTA, MFN for China and the South Korea trade deal as badly negotiated. But the problem lies not just in the treaties but in the economic philosophy upon which they were based.
Free-trade globalism was a crucial component of the New World Order, whose creation George H. W. Bush called the new great goal of U.S. foreign policy at the United Nations in October of 1991.
Bush II and Jeb are also free-trade zealots.
But when the American people discovered that the export of their factories and jobs to low-wage countries, and sinking salaries, were the going price of globalism, they rebelled, turned to Trump, and voted for him to put America first again.
Does anyone think that if Trump loses, we are going back to Davos-Dubai ideology, and Barack nObama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership is our future? Even liar-Hillary Clinton has gotten the message and dumped TPP.
Economic nationalism is the future.
The only remaining question is how many trade deficits shall America endure, and how many defeats shall the Republican Party suffer, before it formally renounces the free-trade fanaticism that has held it in thrall.
The Bush idea of remaking America into a more ethnically, culturally, diverse nation through mass immigration, rooted in an egalitarian ideology, also appears to be yesterday’s enthusiasm.
With Republicans backing Trump’s call, after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, for a moratorium on Muslim immigration, and the massacres in Paris, Nice and the Pulse Club in Orlando, Florida, diversity seems to be less celebrated.
Here, the Europeans are ahead of us. Border posts are being re-established across the continent. Behind the British decision to quit the EU, was resistance to more immigration from the Islamic world and Eastern Europe.
On Sunday, French President Francois Hollande was booed at memorial services in Nice for the hundreds massacred and maimed by a madman whose family roots were in the old French colony of Tunisia.
Marine Le Pen of the National Front, who wants to halt immigration and quit the EU, is running far ahead of Hollande in the polls for next year’s elections.
As for the foreign policies associated with the Bushes, the New World Order of Bush I and the crusade for global democracy of Bush II “to end tyranny in our world” are seen as utopian.
Most Republicans ask: How have all these interventions and wars improved our lives or our world?
With 6,000 U.S. dead, 40,000 wounded, and trillions of dollars sunk, the Taliban is not defeated in Afghanistan. Al-Qaida and ISIS have outposts in a dozen countries. Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen are bleeding and disintegrating. Turkey appears headed for an Islamist and dictatorial future. The Middle East appears consumed in flames. (Thanks to nObama)
Yet, despite Trump’s renunciation of Bush war policies, and broad support to talk to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the neocons, who engineered many of the disasters in the Middle East, and their hawkish allies, seem to be getting their way for a new Cold War.
They are cheering the deployment of four battalions of NATO troops to the Baltic states and Poland, calling for bringing Sweden and Finland into NATO, pushing for sending weapons to Ukraine, and urging a buildup on the Black Sea as well as the Baltic Sea.
They want to scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal and have the U.S. Navy confront China to support the rival claims of Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia to rocks and reefs in the South China Sea, some of which are under water at high tide.
Who represents the future of the GOP?
On trade and immigration, the returns are in. Should the GOP go back to globalism, amnesty or open borders, it will sunder itself and have no future.
And if the party is perceived as offering America endless wars in the Middle East and constant confrontations with the great nuclear powers, Russia and China, over specks of land or islets having nothing to do with the vital interests of the United States, then it will see its anti-interventionist wing sheared off.
At issue in the battle between the Party of Bush and Party of Trump: Will we make America safe again, and great again? Or are globalism, amnesty, and endless interventions our future?
Do we put the world first, or America First?
These former leaders would like it thought that high principle keeps them away from a GOP convention that would nominate Donald Trump. Petulance, however, must surely play a part. Bush Republicans feel unappreciated, and understandably so.
For Trump’s nomination represents not only a rejection of their legacy but a repudiation of much of post-Cold War party dogma.
America crossed a historic divide and entered a new era. Even should Trump lose, there is likely no going back.
Trump has attacked NAFTA, MFN for China and the South Korea trade deal as badly negotiated. But the problem lies not just in the treaties but in the economic philosophy upon which they were based.
Free-trade globalism was a crucial component of the New World Order, whose creation George H. W. Bush called the new great goal of U.S. foreign policy at the United Nations in October of 1991.
Bush II and Jeb are also free-trade zealots.
But when the American people discovered that the export of their factories and jobs to low-wage countries, and sinking salaries, were the going price of globalism, they rebelled, turned to Trump, and voted for him to put America first again.
Does anyone think that if Trump loses, we are going back to Davos-Dubai ideology, and Barack nObama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership is our future? Even liar-Hillary Clinton has gotten the message and dumped TPP.
Economic nationalism is the future.
The only remaining question is how many trade deficits shall America endure, and how many defeats shall the Republican Party suffer, before it formally renounces the free-trade fanaticism that has held it in thrall.
The Bush idea of remaking America into a more ethnically, culturally, diverse nation through mass immigration, rooted in an egalitarian ideology, also appears to be yesterday’s enthusiasm.
With Republicans backing Trump’s call, after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, for a moratorium on Muslim immigration, and the massacres in Paris, Nice and the Pulse Club in Orlando, Florida, diversity seems to be less celebrated.
Here, the Europeans are ahead of us. Border posts are being re-established across the continent. Behind the British decision to quit the EU, was resistance to more immigration from the Islamic world and Eastern Europe.
On Sunday, French President Francois Hollande was booed at memorial services in Nice for the hundreds massacred and maimed by a madman whose family roots were in the old French colony of Tunisia.
Marine Le Pen of the National Front, who wants to halt immigration and quit the EU, is running far ahead of Hollande in the polls for next year’s elections.
As for the foreign policies associated with the Bushes, the New World Order of Bush I and the crusade for global democracy of Bush II “to end tyranny in our world” are seen as utopian.
Most Republicans ask: How have all these interventions and wars improved our lives or our world?
With 6,000 U.S. dead, 40,000 wounded, and trillions of dollars sunk, the Taliban is not defeated in Afghanistan. Al-Qaida and ISIS have outposts in a dozen countries. Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen are bleeding and disintegrating. Turkey appears headed for an Islamist and dictatorial future. The Middle East appears consumed in flames. (Thanks to nObama)
Yet, despite Trump’s renunciation of Bush war policies, and broad support to talk to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the neocons, who engineered many of the disasters in the Middle East, and their hawkish allies, seem to be getting their way for a new Cold War.
They are cheering the deployment of four battalions of NATO troops to the Baltic states and Poland, calling for bringing Sweden and Finland into NATO, pushing for sending weapons to Ukraine, and urging a buildup on the Black Sea as well as the Baltic Sea.
They want to scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal and have the U.S. Navy confront China to support the rival claims of Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia to rocks and reefs in the South China Sea, some of which are under water at high tide.
Who represents the future of the GOP?
On trade and immigration, the returns are in. Should the GOP go back to globalism, amnesty or open borders, it will sunder itself and have no future.
And if the party is perceived as offering America endless wars in the Middle East and constant confrontations with the great nuclear powers, Russia and China, over specks of land or islets having nothing to do with the vital interests of the United States, then it will see its anti-interventionist wing sheared off.
At issue in the battle between the Party of Bush and Party of Trump: Will we make America safe again, and great again? Or are globalism, amnesty, and endless interventions our future?
Do we put the world first, or America First?
Today in America, we can’t even go a day without hearing a story about the IRS abusing its power and unjustly harassing American taxpayers. Perhaps the most famous case in recent memory is the IRS’s targeted campaign against Tea Party members. The IRS’s unjust and discriminatory actions led Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) to write successful pieces of legislation that curtailed the agency’s power, all of which were signed into law by President Obama.
In a further attempt to rein in the IRS’s misuse and misappropriation of power, Sen. Portman has again stepped up to the plate and introduced a new bill, S.2809. This new bill seeks to constrain the agency's aggressive litigation tactics and prevent the outsourcing of audits to private law firms. This is good news, because the IRS has been known to outsource audits to liberal law firms for both political and financial gain.
The agency's audit of Microsoft is the greatest evidence of the need to pass Portman's new bill. Microsoft’s audit began nearly a decade ago and has still not been closed out. Year after year, the IRS has dragged Microsoft through one investigation after another in a desperate attempt to find the elusive smoking gun. Their never-ending request for Microsoft computer files and employee interviews has not been successful, and yet the IRS refuses to close the audit. They have also denied Microsoft’s request to have a hearing before the impartial and independent IRS Appeals Office. Microsoft has even politely asked that the IRS simply give them a dollar amount that they think is owed to the government so that the company can move on with its business.
Rather than working with Microsoft to find a resolution to the audit process, the IRS made the unlawful decision to bring in two private law firms to continue the audit investigation. The first is Quinn Emanuel, a liberal-leaning law firm that does not even list tax law as one of its 33 areas of practice. The other is David Boies’ law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner. David Boies’ name may sound familiar -- he was the Department of Justice lawyer assigned to break up Microsoft under the Clinton Administration.
Through the use of private law firms, the IRS is able to illegally sidestep many of the laws and principles our government was founded upon. Quinn Emanuel and Boies, Schiller & Flexner have been authorized to conduct examinations and take sworn testimony, and yet federal law states that only the Treasury Secretary and his limited delegates may perform such activities. As Senator Hatch stated:
"Unlike private contractors, Treasury Department officials are required to swear an oath to the Constitution and are subject to rules of conduct and federal law regulating their interactions with taxpayers.”
This action sets a dangerous precedent. By outsourcing their authority, the IRS is able to conduct investigations beyond the limits of the law and without any requirements for accountability.
Sen. Portman’s bill will place restrictions on the various tactics that the IRS employs in order to keep an audit going on infinitude. Taxpayers will now have a path to resolution that does not include going to court. Portman's bill will also put an end to the IRS’s ability to hire private law firms, all while ensuring that taxpayers have the right to an appeal with access to the independent IRS appeals office.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was correct when he stated that "Taxpayers need to be confident that they will be treated fairly, no matter what their background or affiliations." The Republican-controlled Congress should make the commissioner's vision a reality and pass the Portman Bill immediately. The American taxpayers are counting on the body to do so.
