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The American Experiment in self-governance was an inspiration to the entire world when it began in the late 18th century. A republic founded on democratic principles and the rule of law was felt to be too difficult to manage and to susceptible to corruption to be feasible.  The world looked on as the Great Experiment began to determine if a citizen government could be sustained.  The framers of the Constitution had faith a people that valued liberty and believed in self-reliance could, in fact, manage their own affairs if sufficient restraint was placed upon government to preclude the ambitious and avaricious from usurping the God Given Rights of the individual.

The American Republic has devolved over the years from its original design as a collection of individual states working together for common purpose, assisted by a federal system that standardized methods, promoted commerce, provide for national defense and preserve equality among the larger states and the small, into an oppressive monstrosity serving only to serve the interests of the powerful.  The domination of political parties has destroyed the republican ideals of the Founders and established ruling elite that barter away the rights of the individual to the gain the support of the special interests.

Of the many consequences the Civil War one of the most significant was the identity of the nation changed from a collection of individual states united for shared purpose to that of a single nation, comprised of individual districts, fused into a collective subservient to the national interest.  The country was no longer considered the United STATES of America, but became the United States of AMERICA. 

This ascendency of the federal government brought about a radical change to politics in America, as well.  No longer did the special interests have to seek influence with the various state legislatures and executives; rather it could focus its blandishments on the federal agencies and Congress thereby achieving their ends at significantly lower cost and effort.  As the powers of the federal government expanded, the more populous states asserted dominance over the smaller via this concentration of power.  

In 1913, the fatal blow to states’ rights came in the form of the 17th amendment, providing for the direct election of members of the Senate by popular vote.  Senators were originally selected by the legislatures of the individual states.  This was to ensure that the state legislatures were equally represented and that Senators owed allegiance to the deliberative bodies that appointed them, rather than the factions or parties to which they subscribed.

The Founding Fathers carefully devised the Constitution to maintain a balance between the rights of the states and the power of the federal government.  The House of Representatives was established as the democratic body of Congress, members apportioned based on regional populations, capable of reflecting the current opinions of the voters and local interests.  The Senate was designed as a body representative of the individual states, with each state given equal representation to prevent the domination of the more populous states over the smaller.  This was a critical distinction, established to quell the concerns of the smaller states during the Constitutional Convention.  The Great Compromise, as it was known, was essential to gaining support of the smaller states for ratification.

By adopting the 17th Amendment, the power of the states was effectively transferred to the political parties. 

In Federalist X, James Madison wrote that political factions were the natural result of democracy.  Men are selfish and corruptible, and will invariably unite into classes and factions.  It is by these factions that a majority will always act to suppress the rights and levy the property of the minority.  Madison explains that the only viable solution to the threat of an oppressive majority is the establishment of a republican form of government where the representatives are chosen to represent the best interests of society as a whole, and not the partisan interests of the majority.  The 17th Amendment acted to eliminate the republican nature of the Senate, eliminating the check on a capricious House of Representatives.  It eliminated the protections provided to the smaller states and empowered the majority party with the tools to control government and suppress the rights of the minority.

We see, today, that many of our elected officials are willing to compromise the values and interests of their constituencies to maintain the good graces of the party power brokers.  The Senate, originally intended to overcome the corruption of party politics, has instead become the source from which it flows.  The power of the established parties has been engrained into our system of government.

We plainly see today that our representatives to Congress and government in general, no longer fear the wraith of their constituents.  Candidates unwilling to subordinate the interests to their state, and those of their constituents, to those of the national party have no chance of receiving the funding or exposure necessary to win a popular election.

The Senate was intended to be a mature and independent body comprised of honorable and respected individuals, appointed by locally elected officials, acting in the best interests of the states and the nation as a whole.  The act of making the election of these senior lawmakers dependent upon factional interests has corrupted our politics to beyond even that of which Madison warned.  Even the judicial branch of our government, supposedly immune from partisanship, has become infected with the corruption of political parties.

As of this writing, twenty seven states have signed a petition to call a Constitutional Convention.  The purpose of this convention is explained to be for the purpose of creating a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.  The act of calling a convention has become necessary because politicians bound by their party’s wishes will not consider passing such a resolution through Congress.  The states are therefore obligated to use the power granted by Article V. of the Constitution to force change upon the federal government.

I would propose that in addition to a balanced budget amendment, repeal of the 17th Amendment also be considered at such a convention.  This would force delegates to the convention to choose between the interests of the party and the interests of their state.  Should they choose the party over the state, we can say that the Republic created by the Founding Fathers has ceased to exist and thereby be forced to admit the Great Experiment, that of a government by the people, protecting all the people by the rule of law, has failed.

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Thursday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Arab nations' donations to Clinton Foundation: Curing world's ills or currying favor?
Greg Gordon
 
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 DEM PLUTOCRATS TARGET STATEHOUSE TAKEOVERS 
WaPo: “A cadre of wealthy liberal donors aims to pour tens of millions of dollars into rebuilding the left’s political might in the states, racing to catch up with a decades-old conservative effort that has reshaped statehouses across the country. The plan embraced by the Democracy Alliance, an organization that advises some of the Democrats’ top contributors, puts an urgent new focus on financing groups that can help the party regain influence in time for the next congressional redistricting process, after the 2020 elections. … The five-year initiative, called 2020 Vision, will be discussed this week at a private conference being held at a San Francisco hotel for donors who participate in the Democracy Alliance.”  -Fox News

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 ‘REV THE VOTE’ IS A RED STATE ANSWER TO ‘ROCK THE VOTE’ 
Wash Times: “A new nonprofit is hoping to rev up motor sports fans to participate in campaigns and elections, seeking partnerships with racing giants like NASCAR and support from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in an effort that political strategists say could increase GOP voter turnout. The campaign, called ‘Rev the Vote,’ originally launched during the 2014 election cycle as a nonpartisan campaign to engage a passionate racing fan base in the political arena. The campaign, modeled after MTV’s hugely successful ‘Rock the Vote’ effort, partnered with the Chamber to connect race fans with easy-to-use voter tools in their home states. Although the campaign never made it across the finish line in the last cycle, organizers are gearing up for an even bigger launch this year and have already recruited two former congressmen - Reps. Connie Mack of Florida, a Republican, and Democrat Heath Shuler of North Carolina - for the board of directors.”  -Fox News

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 CONGRESS STARTS SIX-WEEK GRIND 
PBS: “Racing the calendar, Senate leaders are pushing toward congressional approval of a bipartisan compromise that reshapes how Medicare pays physicians as lawmakers return from a spring break tangled up in domestic and foreign policy disputes. Republican and Democratic senators are trying to influence an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, and there’s a fight over abortion. Also, President Barack nObama is awaiting Senate action on his long-delayed nomination of federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to become attorney general. For Senate Democrats, the two-week break proved tumultuous. Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced he will not run for re-election in 2016. dinky Reid anointed Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to succeed him, creating uncertainty over the rest of their leadership posts.”  -Fox News

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 Dems sounding iffy on Iran deal -   The Hill: “Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), a Democratic co-sponsor of a bill to review any deal with Iran, said Sunday a framework agreement dealing with Iran's nuclear program lacks specificity on key issues. ‘The more we see of it, the less there seems to be agreement on,’ Blumenthal said in an interview with John Catsimatidis on his show ‘The Cats Roundtable’ in New York. While President nObama has suggested sanctions on Iran won't be lifted until new limits on Tehran's nuclear program are in place for some time, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has demanded sanctions be immediately lifted, the lawmaker noted.”   -Fox News

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 THAT SINKING FEELING 
Burlington (Vt.) Free Press: “Two men who were practicing landing and taking off from the ice on Lake Champlain escaped injury Saturday afternoon when their small aircraft began to sink through the surface between Milton and South Hero, a Vermont aeronautics official said. … The plane, a four-seat Cessna 172 based at Burlington International Airport, landed about three-quarters of a mile offshore from the Department of Fish and Wildlife's Van Everest fishing access in Milton. ‘Apparently, they were unable to depart the ice after they landed,’ said Guy Rouelle, aeronautics administrator with Vermont Aviation, a division of the Agency of Transportation. The pilot and passenger had to traverse melting ice, at times trudging through 3 to 4 feet of water, to reach solid ground, where rescue crews met them, [Milton Fire Chief Don Turner] said. A strong wind was whipping off the frozen lake from west to east, cooling the air considerably even in the warm spring sun.”   -Fox News

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 Is War The Real Alternative?  
(Herbert London) - Coruscating through the bloodstream of American history are wars that devastated the young and plunged the nation into despair. In World War II millions lost their lives across the globe...Recently thousands were casualties of the attenuated war in Afghanistan and the conflict in Iraq. Bodies were broken, minds impaired, suggesting yet again that war is hell. So moved by conditions in the recent past, the West will do whatever it can to avoid war. Appeasement is in the diplomatic air. Verbal arabesques are employed to avoid saying the obvious. Yet despite all the efforts at avoidance, war is encroaching. As Trotsky noted, you may not want war, but war may want you. Alas, war wants us. It is axiomatic to contend that if you are unwilling to sacrifice in order to defend liberty, the enemy will sacrifice to tyrannize you. The choice we face is not war or peace or even war or conciliation. The real choice, the one we want to reject, is war or enslavement.       http://www.aim.org/guest-column/is-war-the-real-alternative/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email041515&utm_medium=email
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) (L) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speak at a news conference about the U.S. debt ceiling crisis at the U.S. Capitol in Washington July 30, 2011. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
 Senate Rejects Paying For ‘Doc Fix,’ Overwhelmingly Passes Medicare  
(Sarah Hurtubise) - The Senate passed a bill with a price tag of $141 billion to reform Medicare payments to physicians, rejecting a series of amendments, including one that would make the bill budget-neutral...The bill, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, passed the Senate overwhelmingly on a vote of 92-8, a coup for Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell and House Speaker backstabber John Boehner. It was just hours before the midnight deadline on Apr. 15, when a temporary fix to up doctors’ payments for Medicare patients would have run out. Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee had introduced a potential amendment to the bill that would have subjected the bill to spending rules known as pay-as-you-go, which would have required the cost of the bill to be fully offset by spending cuts or tax increases. Lee’s amendment, which required 51 votes to pass, fell short at 42-58.       http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/14/senate-rejects-paying-for-doc-fix-overwhelmingly-passes-141-billion-medicare-bill/?advD=1248%2C48782&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJjNTliYzIxYy1kM2ZhLTQ5MWMtYjhmZC02M2M2MjhjYzNjZjMifQ%3D%3D
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A North Korean rocket in a military parade (file)
 nObama Hid North Korea Rocket Component Transfer to Iran  
(Ari Yashar) - US intelligence officials revealed that during the ongoing Iran nuclear negotiations, North Korea has provided several shipments of advanced missile components to the Islamic regime in violation of UN sanctions - and the US hid the violations from the UN...The officials, who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday on condition of anonymity, said more than two shipments of missile parts since last September have been monitored by the US going from North Korea to Iran. One official detailed that the components included large diameter engines, which could be used to build a long-range missile system, potentially capable of bearing a nuclear warhead.       http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/194088#.VS7bmpt02vE
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 Trey Gowdy: "Huge gaps" in Clinton's Libya-related emails  
(youtube.com) - Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, criticizes Hilly Clinton's lack of transparency over Benghazi emails...       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD3XIsKDZ_k
5.
Senators Won’t Force Obama To Certify Iran Has Refrained From Terrorist Acts
 Senators Won’t Force nObama To Certify Iran Refrained...  
(Alex Swoyer) - An amendment requiring President nObama to guarantee Iran hasn’t committed terrorist acts against the U.S. or U.S. citizens was voted down before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed an agreement to require Congressional approval of any Iran nuclear deal...The bipartisan bill passed unanimously with a 19-0 vote out of committee, and now moves on for a full Senate vote. But Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) had offered an amendment – to no avail – which would have restored the terrorism certification provision, previously offered by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), from the original bill.        http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/14/senators-wont-force-obama-to-certify-iran-has-refrained-from-terrorist-acts/
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 nObama Voter Sick Of Wage Gap 'Guilt Trip'  
(Trey Sanchez) - A female nObama voter says she is sick of the guilt trip by the president and feminists who rely on fear-mongering and propaganda instead of logic and facts when it comes to the so-called gender wage gap...In a video posted Tuesday, the day Twitter set aside as #EqualPayDay, the woman strikes out against the myths of the wage gap on her YouTube channel ShoeOnHead. Donning a wig and playing the part of a "feminist on Twitter," the woman shows just how resistant those social media users are to facts.       http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/obama-voter-sick-wage-gap-guilt-trip
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Atlanta School Cheating Scandal Is Just Tip of the Iceberg
 Atlanta School Cheating Scandal Is Just Tip of the Iceberg  
(Alex Newman) - A massive conspiracy among government-education officials in Atlanta to inflate student test scores by cheating resulted this week in seven-year prison sentences for some of the conspirators...convicted by a jury recently of racketeering, conspiracy, and other crimes. But while a handful of public school employees in Georgia may be facing the brunt of public outrage — though some are attempting to justify it — the scandal in Atlanta represents just the tip of a giant scandalous iceberg, according to experts. In fact, just in recent months, more cheating schemes to fraudulently boost student test scores have been discovered in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Mexico, and other states. The true magnitude of the problem has yet to be discovered — and the cheating scandal pales in comparison to other, far more serious abuses and crimes going on in the government school system.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/20667-atlanta-school-cheating-scandal-is-just-tip-of-the-iceberg?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=880a960fdf-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-880a960fdf-289778381
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 Trey Gowdy To DEA Head On Cartel Prostitute Parties  
(rickwells.us) - It must have been one of the more sought-after jobs in government. DEA agents working undercover, both figuratively and literally, in Columbia, with favors provided by the very drug cartels they were supposed to be investigating...Now the dream jobs are going away and some accountability is attempting to be inserted by Congress into yet another agency that has run amok. Rep Trey Gowdy describes himself as being stunned as he learns in testimony provided Tuesday by DEA Administrator, Michele Leonhart, after being informed that regulations prevent her from having any input into disciplinary actions against her agents. A problem, which is known to extend back as far as 2001, involves compromising interactions between Drug Enforcement Administration agents and drug cartels members which included prostitutes and sex parties.       http://www.rickwells.us/trey-gowdy-to-dea-head-on-cartel-prostitute-parties-you-cant-discipline-agents-what-can-you-do/
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A rocket is fired by Islamic State militants on November 6, 2014 from the Syrian city of Kobane, near Turkey.

 Syrian Scud Unveils Turk Vulnerabilities  
(Burak Bekdil) - On the morning of March 25, a Russian-made Syrian scud missile estimated to have been fired from a range of 180 kilometers exploded near the Reyhanli district in Turkey's southernmost city of Hatay, neighboring Syria...The projectile left a 15-meter-wide crater in a stream bed, broke the windows of the surrounding houses, caused the roof of a building in the nearby military unit to collapse, damaged two military vehicles and inflicted minor injuries on five Turkish civilians. The Syrian scud luckily did not cause any casualties on Turkish soil but left behind pressing questions: Why did the NATO Patriot systems stationed in southern Turkey not intercept the Syrian missile? How vulnerable is Turkey to tactical missile threats from its unstable neighbors to the south?       http://www.meforum.org/5180/syrian-scud-turk-vulnerability
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 Christian Pastor Asks Pro-Sodomy Bakery for Cake – Bakery Refuses  
(Onan Coca) - Josh Feuerstein is a popular YouTube and social media personality who was troubled by things he saw going on in our modern culture. Specifically, he was bothered by the double standard that Christians in America seem to be suffering under when it comes to serving same-sex “wedding” ceremonies...So Feuerstein decided to run a little test of his own by calling a vocally sodomy friendly bakery (Cut the Cake Bakery) in central Florida and asking them to bake a cake that said “We Do Not Support Gay Marriage.” The pro-sodomy bakery refused. Feuerstein then posted the video showing the entire exchange online, proving our point that a definite double standard does exist. At least Christians have a deeply held religious belief that they are pointing to when they refuse service for same-sex “weddings”; these pro-sodomy bakeries (there have been many other recent examples of similar situation) have no such closely held religious belief to point to.       http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2015/04/christian-pastor-asks-pro-sodomy-cut-the-cake-bakery-for-cake-bakery-refuses-calls-cops-seeks-legal-action/
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Arab nations' donations to Clinton Foundation: Curing world's ills or currying favor?
Greg Gordon
Arab nations' donations to Clinton Foundation: Curing world's ills or currying favor?

     (jewishworldreview.com) - Four oil-rich Arab nations, all with histories of philanthropy to United Nations and Middle Eastern causes, have donated vastly more money to the Clinton Foundation than they have to most other large private charities involved in the kinds of global work championed by the Clinton family.

     Since 2001, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates gave as much as $40 million to the Clinton Foundation. In contrast, six similar non-governmental global charities collected no money from those same four Middle Eastern countries; the International Committee of the Red Cross was given $6.82 million. Since 2001, these global foundations have raised a staggering $40 billion to $50 billion to fund their humanitarian work.

     The existence of foreign donors to the Clinton Foundation has been well-documented in the media. What hasn't been revealed, however, is the disparity in donations by these four nations, all of which have been criticized by the State Department over the years for a spate of issues ranging from the mistreatment of women to stoking ethnic discord in the flammable Middle East.

     Moreover, the level of Arab support for the Clinton Foundation, which occurred during the time Hilly Clinton was a U.S. senator, was seeking the Democratic nomination for president against Barack nObama and was serving as secretary of state, fuels questions about the reasons for the donations. Were they solely to support the foundation's causes, or were they designed to curry favor with the ex-president and with a potential future president?

     "The fundamental issue here is that you've got foreign businesses and foreign governments giving money to the Clinton Foundation partly because of the foundation's work, but also because of the access to the upper echelons of power in America," said Lawrence Jacobs, a professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs and a prize-winning author of numerous books on politics. "I think the people who know something about politics understand the wink and a nod that's going on here: Give to Bill and become a friend of Hilly. … There's kind of a political shakedown going on here."

     Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Hilly Clinton, said that "it's simply wrong to assert or even suggest" that donations to the foundation have influenced her foreign policy positions.

     Former President Bill Clinton has defended his organization's receipt of foreign donations as doing "a lot more good than harm."

     Hilly Clinton's quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, which just months ago seemed like a walk in the park, is under siege from many quarters. Republicans in Congress are investigating her use of a private email server to conduct State Department business and the subsequent "unilateral" destruction of her emails. Even some Democrats are now urging the party to find another candidate over Clinton.

     Clinton Foundation spokesman Craig Minassian said: "Like many global charities, the Clinton Foundation receives support from individuals, private sector organizations, non-governmental organizations and governments around the world because our programs are improving the lives of people around the world. Among the more than 300,000 contributors to the Clinton Foundation are countries that have also given billions of dollars in humanitarian aid and support to other charities."

     To be sure, wealthy Arab nations have given billions of dollars to United Nations and World Health Organization programs to aid victims of poverty, wars and calamities from earthquakes to deadly epidemics. According to the United Nations' Financial Tracking Service, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have donated more than $5 billion to humanitarian causes, including tens of millions of dollars to Middle East chapters of the Red Crescent Society, since 2001.

     With a few exceptions, most notably foundations run by ex-presidents, the other four Arab governments gave far less money to eight of the largest Western charities doing work similar work to that of the Clinton Foundation, whose expanded agenda now includes fighting AIDS in Africa, climate change and obesity, as well as rebuilding earthquake-ravaged Haiti. One huge foundation that aggressively secures pledges from governments worldwide, the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has received $62 million from Saudi Arabia and $3.5 million from the United Arab Emirates since 2001.

     The U.S. Embassies of the four Middle Eastern countries declined to respond to inquiries from McClatchy.

     Charities aren't required to publicly identify their donors, and their disclosure is spotty. Few disclose more than their top donors and most list only a dollar threshold that the donation exceeds. Others disclose nothing.

     On its website, the Clinton Foundation goes further, providing a list of more than 282,000 donors, itemized in dollar ranges, such as $10,001-$25,000. Like most charities, the Clinton group does not say which individual donors are related to which companies, countries or institutions, so it would be a vexing job to determine the full extent of the interests they represent.

     The foundation says that Saudi Arabia has donated $10 million to $25 million between 2001 and 2014, while Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates each gave $1 million to $5 million. In addition, former longtime UAE President Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the driving force behind his country's formation, and Nasser Al-Rashid, an adviser to the Saudi royal family, each has donated $1 million to $5 million.

     Nonetheless, a McClatchy review of available annual reports and contacts with several charities showed that:

  • The contributions from the four Arab countries — between $15 million and $40 million — to the Clinton Foundation was much as five times what they donated to the much larger International Committee for the Red Cross between 2004 and 2013.

  • The Washington-based Habitat for Humanity and England-based Save the Children International and Oxfam International reported no donations from the Persian Gulf governments, according to financial reports and spokespersons for the charities.

  • Washington state-based World Vision International, the Georgia-based Task Force for Global Health and Virginia-based Project Hope have not sought nor received donations from Middle Eastern nations, according to their spokespersons.

  • An eighth charity, Paris-based Doctors Without Borders, whose physicians have put their lives in peril to treat Ebola victims in West Africa, has raised $9.2 billion since 2003 but didn't list any of the Middle Eastern countries among its top donors during that span.

     Some charities have strict vetting processes. Oxfam International, for example, puts all donations through an "ethical screening process," including an assessment of "whether acceptance of a donation might pose a risk to the independence of our voice and action," said Andrew Barton, the organization's associate director for international income development.

      Clinton Foundation spokesman Minassian said the family organization "has strong donor integrity and transparency practices that go well beyond what is required of U.S. charities."

     "Should Secretary Clinton decide to run for office, we will continue to ensure the foundation's policies and practices regarding support from international partners are appropriate, just as we did when she served as secretary of state," he said.

     However, no such precautions were in place during Hilly Clinton's first run for the presidency in the first five months of 2008. A Clinton Foundation official who was not authorized to speak on the record said that Oman donated to one of its major programs, the Clinton Global Initiative, during that period but did not disclose the amount.

     When a former president is involved, donations from the Arab countries seem to flow more freely.

     Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait each gave more than $1 million to help launch the Bush Center, honoring former President George W. Bush, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and are its only foreign donors, said Hannah Abney, a center spokeswoman. The names of all three nations are etched in a wall at the center.

     The Carter Center honoring former President Jimmy Carter, who brokered a historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, listed Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the sultan of Oman as each donating more than $1 million by 1999, the earliest annual report posted on its website. Each of those nations has since donated hundreds of thousands of dollars more.

     In defending his foundation's receipt of foreign donation during a March 7 event at the University of Miami, former President Clinton pointed to money accepted from the United Arab Emirates.

     "Do we agree with everything they do? No. But they're helping us fight ISIS," he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.

     "Do I agree with all of the foreign policy of Saudi Arabia?" he said. "No. … You've got to decide when you do this work whether it will do more good than harm if someone helps you from another country."

     It's unclear how much Hilly Clinton was informed about the foundation's donors before 2013, when the foundation was reconstituted as the Bill, Hilly and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, adding hers and the Clintons' daughter to its name. However, she could have found out with a couple of clicks of a computer mouse on the foundation's website.

     Before Hilly Clinton became secretary of state, nObama's transition team and the foundation agreed to limit potential conflicts of interest by prohibiting foreign governments from donating "materially" more money than they did in previous years.

     The Washington Post reported recently that, among seven countries that donated during those years, was a new donor, Algeria, whose $500,000 contribution put the foundation in violation of the agreement. Algeria was lobbying the State Department at the time amid rising concerns that its government had engaged in human rights abuses, including restricting women's rights.

     Minassian said that Algeria's embassy in Washington sent an unsolicited check to the Clinton Foundation Haiti Relief Fund days after the island nation was rocked by an earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010. While the money was distributed as "direct aid to Haiti," he said, "the State Department should have been informed once the foundation became more aware of Algeria's contribution."

     Foundation officials did not seek preapproval from the nObama administration "because of the urgency of Haiti's needs," he said.

     Longtime observers of the Clintons express little surprise that one of the nation's most powerful couples is again engulfed in controversy.

     Patrick Griffin, who headed the White House's congressional liaison office during Bill Clinton's first term, said the foreign donations are far less troubling than dealings that put money directly into the pockets of some former presidents.

     Griffin, who now works at American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, cited Ronald Reagan's acceptance of $1 million each from a Japanese communications firm and the Tokyo government for two speeches during a trip to Japan months after he left office. Bill Clinton has raised over $100 million in fees from giving speeches since he left office in 2001.

     Griffin conceded that some foreign governments may be "trying to have some cachet" with former President Clinton and his wife.

     "Knowing her to some extent," he said, "I find it not credible to believe that she would be influenced by a donation to the foundation in the past about a decision that would affect American interests going forward."

     The Humphrey Institute's Jacobs called it puzzling that, after President Clinton was embroiled in controversy over foreign campaign donations and other controversies in the 1990s, the Clintons would once again skirt the lines of propriety.

      "Most people, once they've gotten singed, they would say, 'Hey, we're going back to the public arena. Let's just play this above board.'" he said. "The Clintons instead take a formalistic reading of it, knowing full well that they're going to face another barrage of criticism. … I think, frankly, there's an arrogance of power here."

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OPEN LETTER TO ALL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist  -  texusa2016@gmail.com

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

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

Open letter to: the presidential candidates

Dear candidates, “WE THE PEOPLE” Want to work and elect the next president of our country. It is time for us to select and place in office a man that we trust and have at hearth the true interest of the American people.

Mr. Candidate, we Americans main interest is to take our country back and re-store our freedom and our economy and welfare of the American working class.

The following are the issues of important to the American people.

Unemployment – Corruption- Budget deficits- The welfare system- Corporate business- Bank business- National security- Police militarization- education- Tax reform- Natural resources. And our ill foreign policies.

DOMESTIC POLICY.

1-     Unemployment- A- Create jobs for Americans by revising all free trade agreements. Trade deficits must end. B- Focus on an economy development through the financing of small business in all 50 states of the union.

2-     Corruption –Prosecute all government personnel that were engage in corruption during the Bush and Obama administration. We must demise corruption and set a path for moral leadership in government.

3-     Budget deficits- Reduce federal budget deficits by implementing a system of accountability and auditing that justified expenses and eliminate waste in all areas of government programs. Taxpayer’s money should be expended wisely to benefit the general public not especial interest.

4-     Welfare system- A- End the free welfare system; we must help the people in need of economy assistance to re-store their dignity by working for the money they get as assistance while they go through an economy hardship. B- No American should be homeless and hungry in America, we must form cooperatives, funded by the State and Federal government to develop self-supported business for the homeless and become a productive class.

5-     Corporate Business- A- monopoly and oligopolies must end.  The control of more than eighty per cent of the market by one or two corporations it is not in the best interest of the US consumers. B- Predator corporatism and the demise of small business by big corporations by monopolism should end and declare to be against commerce business etiquette.

6-     Bank Business- A- All State banks and credit Union should be register under state laws and do business in support of state financial needs. All interstates Banks should register with the states to support the needs of multinational corporations and interstate corporations, but they should not be in operation to compete with local state banks.

7-     National security- A – the NSA should be responsible for implementation of a system that is in agreement of our constitution and the rule of law, all agents must follow our constitution and the law, not one in a position of government is above the law. B- Border security, is a must to ensure that only people friendly to the US and with a legitimate need or to do business in our country are allowed to enter our country. B- Spying on any American citizen is a violation of the law and any one that is in violation of the law must be prosecuted and punished by the law. Impunity for crimes committed against the people and in violation of our constitution must end.

8-     Police Militarization- We must end the police state system and the militarization of the police forces must end. The duty of police officers is to protect the people not kill any one; any killing done by police officers must be investigated by an agency that is not connected to the police to demise the cover-up and corruption in the police force.

9-     Education- A- An education reform is the most important issue to get our country on the path of prosperity. The federal government key function is to set the goals of the country on education and the financing of education.  B- Delegate to each state of this union the complete duty and responsibly of the education of the citizens of their state. C- Education Foreign students that are illegals in our country, should be the responsibility of each state, but the federal government should compensate the state for the cost of educating this segment of the student population.

10-  Taxes- A- A tax reform should be implemented to stop the concentration of wealth by the few at the expenses of the working class. B- US Corporation should be tax for the exportation of capital and equipment to foreign countries to be use in the production of goods to the US market for the purpose to compete with products made in the USA. C- Importation of goods by us corporations in competition with goods made in the USA should be tax, to protect US business.

11-  Natural Resources- Our natural resources should be protect and use in the best interest of the people’s future and generations to come.

FOREIGN POLICY.

1-     Wars and military intervention-End all military interventions and non-declare wars. Congress must follow our constitution regarding a declaration of war.

2-     Investigate and prosecute-Americans have the right to know the truth, the next president must promise the American people; that will be a true investigation of the events that lead us to the wars in the Middle East. The truth will set our country free, and not soldier should be send to war and die for our country under the pretense that they are fighting for our security and Democracy.

3-     Set new strategy on foreign policy- Change our foreign policy, we want to be the world’s leader and be trust by the world community. All our dealings with foreign countries must be done under the concept of fairness integrity and of benefit to both parties.

4-     Close military post-Close all the military post. US military presence has expanded dramatically worldwide for the control of humanity’s economic, social and political activities under the helm of US corporate and military power. Underlying this process are various schemes of direct and indirect military intervention. These US sponsored strategies ultimately consist in a process of global subordination. We have become the world’s bully and the oppressor of the world community. This strategy of world control is creating enemies “The so call terrorist”.

5-     Stop spying on our friends-Stop the wiretapping of countries that we call allies or friends of the USA.

6-     Stop the overthrowing of foreign governments- Stop the undermining of foreign countries political elected governments by bribery, coercion, corruption, assassination or military interventions.

7-     Re-store our moral leadership in our government-Re-store our moral leadership in our government and work for world peace and prosperity. Wars are of not benefit to any one; it creates chaos poverty and hate.

Mr. Candidate, we the people will choose our next president, we will choose our candidate; support our candidate and all the money that we contribute will go to our candidate, not to the party.  We know that the best investment that we can make on this election is being part of the promotion of our candidate; we will become an activist for the man we want in Washington. May God give us the wisdom, determination and courage to place in office the man that will change this path of corruption and set our country on the path of moral principles and prosperity.

We the people.

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JIHAD WATCH

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Canada: Muslim teens in custody until Monday for fear they’ll wage jihad

But what if they wage jihad on Tuesday? “Montreal Teens Arrested Over Terrorism Fears,” by Peter Rakobowchuk, The Canadian Press, April 15, 2015: MONTREAL – Two 18-year-olds will remain in custody until at least next Monday because authorities fear they will commit a terrorism-related offence. No charges have been filed against the man and woman, […]

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UK: Muslim politician’s son arrested for trying to join the Islamic State

No doubt everyone assumed that Waheed Ahmed was moderate and rejected all that. Shakil Ahmed is “shocked,” so everyone still believes that he didn’t learn at home a smidgen, not a jot or a tittle, of the beliefs and assumptions that led him to try to join the Islamic State. And that may well be […]

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Lawyer: Accused jihadist only claimed to support Islamic State to seduce women

So says his defense attorney, anyway. What is noteworthy about this story is that Mohamed B. and his lawyer seem to take for granted that Muslim women will find an Islamic State jihadist exciting. Why wouldn’t these niqabbed women that Mohamed was trying to seduce rise up and denounce him for being a member of […]

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UK Prison Service allowing jihadi book to be distributed to inmates

Syed Abul Ala Maududi does indeed reflect the same ideology as that of the Islamic State, but he is also completely mainstream. Go into any Islamic bookstore in the UK or the US and you will see books by Maududi. That ought to tell authorities something, but it doesn’t, because they don’t want to know. […]

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Danish queen: “It is vital that we give Islam opposition”

In a book written by journalist Annelise Bistruphave, published in April 2005, the Danish Queen Margrethe II said: We are challenged in these years by Islam, both globally and locally, and it is a challenge we have to take seriously. … There is something impressive about people for whom religion permeates life from morning to night, […]

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Wisconsin: Public school students must “pretend you’re a Muslim”

Once they’re pretending they’re Muslim, students must describe the “struggles” they face. When will Union Grove High School have students pretend that they’re Nigerian Christians, and the struggles they face when Muslims of Boko Haram come to their village, burn down their church, and take their female children captive as sex slaves? When will Union […]

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Eastern Michigan U: Muslims disrupt “American Sniper” showing, force cancellation

In the early 1930s, both before and just after the National Socialists came to power, National Socialist brownshirts would go to universities and disrupt the lectures of anti-Nazi professors, shouting them down and physically menacing them. These students are the new brownshirts, fascists who are determined to shout down and silence anyone and everyone who […]

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Afghan Colonel was paid $250,000 to kill US personnel, Pentagon coverup ensued

Speaking of the Pentagon being not quite forthright about inconvenient matters: “BOMBSHELL: Afghan Colonel Was Paid $250,000 to Kill US Air Force Personnel, Pentagon Cover-Up Ensued,” by Patrick Poole, PJ Media, April 15, 2015: A bombshell revelation has emerged in the incident responsible for the greatest US Air Force loss of life during the War […]

First women convicted in France for wearing Islamic face veil

France: more women than men leaving for jihad in the Islamic State

For a Muslim woman who believes in jihad, that’s where the real men are. “France: more women than men leaving for jihad,” ANSAmed, April 15, 2015 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – PARIS – For the first time in March the number of French young women leaving to fight the jihad has exceeded that of men. […]

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“Many streets in European cities have become hunting grounds for Jews”

“They have been put under humiliation wherever they are overtaken, except for a covenant from Allah and a rope from the Muslims. And they have drawn upon themselves anger from Allah and have been put under destitution. That is because they disbelieved in the verses of Allah and killed the prophets without right. That is […]

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Writing to create some solid foundations for what I find of validity, having some basis of fact, and to synthesize what is known as comparative to our current scenario, is this not what all – all who love, who bleed Red, White, and Blue – should not also be doing? Should not we, as the citizens of this nation, not reflect on the wonderment of our genesis, this nation’s wonder, not only created, but the reduction of trials and errors of mankind – civilized mankind – since the know history of not only society, but more specific our society?

Addressing this current situation, what sample set do we know that can be used, small enough to make a comparative, that a comparative with others in the same situation can be made? The reality of fact, men make up the majority of the political catastrophe the world is now experiencing, so if we use the smaller sub-set, women, can we make some analysis of this nation, with others? The answer is obvious. History has given us some women with such remarkable ability, and proven track record of political achievement they can more easily be measured against what this nation offers.

In man’s past history there are women who stand out. Queen Elisabeth, and the reign of her monarch of the World Wide Empire of Britain is remarkable. Facts are facts, she had a very powerful reign, but she also had the clout, the force to enforce that clout, and a nation striving to advance civilization during her reign. More was available for her success; then there were to oppose her limited dynasty.

In the modern era, no woman comes even close to the leadership of Golda Meir of Israel. When one studies the absolute catastrophe of leading a nation surrounded by political entities that not only are barbaric, but under their theocracy of insanity, the dementia of psychopathic sociopathic idolatry of islam, preserved and defeated the combined efforts of the coalition of these surrounding forced. The Yon Kippur War is today, and will remain throughout man’s history – if man’s history continues, and the darkest of dark ages is not initiated – as a shining example of the highest virtue, that man … or woman … can reach.  

Though Golda Meir is being used as an example, of the differences of women leadership in other nations and this nation. A point has to be injected about this scenario of dealing with the psychosis of sociopathic cult ideology of the theocracy of islam. This cult, this extension of government, indoctrinates their citizens where even the natural rights of man are dismissed. Those who are inundated in this societal perversion can only be compared to leprosy. Leprosy is a disease caused by bacteria. Spread among others by association of society, and the population.

The dementia of islam, has been identifies by Winston Churchill that is so to concise and to the point no other is required. His observation, ‘it is a fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, for there is indoctrinated into those effected a fearful fatalistic apathy.’

In the Middle East, Israel is surrounded by countries where this anti-civilized social disease is prominent. Spread by those with the disease, spreading their sociological distortion to other – mostly by the sword – as, unless one had mental distortions, cannot be accepted as logical reality. The most dangerous ideology, akin to communism, known in the history of civilized mankind.

Today, our president is breaking the laws of this nation, and using the purse of this nation’s wealth, to bring those with this social disease into this nation. There is no precedent to this insanity, nor is there any example in the history of mankind where any leader – by his own ideology of nihilism and intent to ‘fundamentally change this nation’ or shall we say, initiate genocide of an nation’s ethnicity, its culture, and everything else that is that nation – that is known. All with the intent and purpose to achieve only one result, which is to advance that very nation’s destruction.

Think of the difference, Meir preserved her nation from the forces of barbarianism. Our president is maliciously and with premediated rancor advocating, and applying his illegal actions with the objective of this nation’s demise. One in Gola Meir, a leader with understanding of what it is a leader does. The other, an absolute nincompoop, with mental retardation of his mind, the ideology of both islamic leaning, and communist thievery – as inversely dedicated to this nation preservation – the antithesis in his objective.  

History has another woman, who as long as civilized mankind exists will always be revered and remembered as what she was – the iron lady. Margaret Thatcher’s leadership during some insane times for her nation is so exemplar of remarkable, there is no comparative. During her watch, there was as attacks on – not the national sovereignty – but on the protection of British citizens. The Falklands invasion by Argentina was against British Citizens. The only reaction of a civilized nation's government – react for the citizen’s protection – to preserve the integrity of the ‘property’ of those citizens using force is necessary.

To make this a comparative is obvious. Today our national direction, by the current president, is amplified representing some of the most drastic destructive measures ever known in any society of man, every known. Our administration is leading the charge, not to protect the property of rights of man, but to destroy the rights of even man’s visions and reason. The destruction of property rights, in every way possible – one example is aimed at the intellectual rights of man, in the patent world – are being destroyed by government intervention. All Americans should be following this communist central planning fiasco being generated by central planning, under the fantasy of patent trolls – an imaginary term, that will only exist under the new legislation of this administration, for the ‘FIRST TO PERFORM’ the concept it must work – as there is no proof what you propose is possible. This is, and can only lead to the destruction of the wonder of this nation, occurring in the shadows while the citizens are oblivious. As our president is living proof, affirmative action will never work; this travesty is proof that Americans are oblivious of the facts of reality. Most appropriately, a British renegade television presenter, Jeremy Clarkson made this evaluation of Americans stated: ‘most Americans, barely have the brains to walk on their back legs.’ When one listens to the man in the street interviews conducted by so many, is it not confirmable that this reality exists? To say Americans are naïve in knowledge of their nation and the political environment, in which they live, is kind. For most Americans are so oblivious to the society of which they are part, and the history, the why, it is, is as if it is unknown.

Margaret Thatcher also admired this nation, this miracle of the united STATES of America. Perhaps the greatest evaluation of why, we, this nation is do different was her observation. ‘Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.’ When one understands that meaning, it amplifies those words of wonder Jefferson used in our Declaration of Independence explaining our nation’s philosophical intent.

What does this nation, in the current political genre offer for woman? Whom shall we review? As Hillary Clinton is running to lead this nation, we’ll look at her record. That was darn easy wasn’t it? A career where the highlight of her decision making was to turn down the opportunity to be a disciple of the cultural communist ideology – using the expansion and destruction of this nation with welfare overload – of Saul Alinsky. Easily understandable as she was an expert on such destruction of this nation, as she had written her dissertation on this psychotic dementia, of Saul Alinsky. The only fact of facts known for her ever to have made – refusing the appointment as a disciple – and commenting, I can cause more change from within, than outside the government. This is the format, the template of communist design since, long before even Marx and Hegel.

Another entity of the female persuasion we know – I’m from a foreign planet – Elizabeth Warren. History will always preserve idiotic rhetoric with such distasteful reservation, even if this nation is destroyed, will live on in infamy. ‘You didn’t build that!’

Where can anyone even make such irrational absolute confirmable fallacy as a statement is beyond understanding? Her irrational reasoning is that you didn’t build the roads that support the transportation your company uses. You didn’t build the schools that taught the workers your company employs, and other equally nauseating statements of such absolute illusion, it is difficult to even comprehend this insanity. Should not the first question be asked; then who did build these things? Who built these roads, these schools, taught these workers? Her contention, her fantasy of presentation, government built that!

Should not the challenge be, show me one dollar that the government generated – without first taking that dollar from the taxpayers, under their direction of how it is spent – that has built anything in this nation!

There is nothing. The simple reality is government builds nothing. Government is but a manager, taking from the wealth of this nation, and then – without consideration too often of the very citizens paying the bill, doing what they … not the constituents, or the citizens of this nation … desire. Long ago, the evaluation of what communism is was so eloquently identified by Antonia Gramsci, in the 20’s of what communism really is. His observation, ‘communism is not an ideology in which one believes; it is a criminal endeavor in which one enlists.’ Can anyone disagree that this observation is also not the same iconic reality of what government – all government everywhere – is? 

When we, as citizens of this nation make a review of what government has created, there is only one thing and one thing only. Our government has only one shining example of something they – and they alone – have created. It is so obvious that it can be measured, verified, and confirmed. The question is, why did not any journalist, why did not any politician, why did not anyone challenge this reality and ask the obvious – is not the only thing government has ever built for this nation is – what government creates; is ‘DEBT?’

To borrow in the name of the credit on behalf of the taxpayers who are responsible for these future obligations payments, the interest, and the taxation on the earnings they will make to pay this obligation are then identified as building something. Is there any more ludicrous statement possible? There is an evaluation measurement which states, a willing suspension of disbelief. As such, what is obvious to disbelieve, is removed from your consideration. You accept that, which no rational person, with the intellect of seeing the obvious would reject. In the understanding of mankind, there has been, and still is, the question of what is it that causes man to make the decisions he makes. That is a crude statement of the obvious, but in this nation the why, the reason the concept of philosophy even began? Is not the question that so many or more real, so few, desiring to achieve? In our modern society of mankind, why man does what man does is so convoluted, so criminal in reasoning, the why is often forgotten. The shining example is the congress of this nation. There is not anyone, who is cognitive enough to see what is obvious occurring in this nation today, who can possibly comprehend the why of their actions. In the acknowledgement of philosophical evaluation, one Immanuel Kant argued that man is driven by fundamental concepts. One reality that is, or should be, the obvious that anything one evaluates is measured by the cause – the why of why anything is done – and the effect, the results of doing whatever is done creates. Is it not incomprehensible that anyone would initiate any action, when the result – the ultimate result – of that action has a known result that cannot be changed? Stealing today, in some illusion that tomorrow will be better – ignoring the obligation of what that theft had done to society – is more than incomprehensible; it is beyond the reasoning or the rationale of anyone who would qualify for the identification of Homo sapient, a thinking man. Those actions, when the results, the effect, are known, advancing is beyond idiotic, the only measurement is the premeditated advancement of confirmable – malicious – insanity.

There once was an axiom that existed in society, unknown today. Once upon a time, in a universe far, far, away, where reason resides, there were certain ideals of society that had no variance. Some call them deal breakers, that last point, that – as Travis at the Alamo stated, the line, the final decision – no one can ignore, and not take a position, and keep that decision. Many have heard it stated as ‘them’s fighting words,’ statements made that were rejected absolutely. Our world today has no such deal breakers, those things that society, and individuals, by their choice of standards of their own chose, there mores, their morals, and their culture. Such principles, foundations, and confirmations are unknown in our society today.

Our nation today, has many patriots we often know, but don’t acknowledge. Who cannot be in awe of those such as Judson Phillips sponsoring, and auditing Tea Party Nation? This is not a singular media presentation, many, who realize that the gargantuan journalist effort of what has many monikers. We know media as, the drive by media, the mass media service, or whatever identifier you wish or recognize. It has, and provides too many, the only knowledge, and influence on this nation’s political understanding, and economic illiteracy, historical fallacy, and the list goes on and on. To say as Jeremy Clarkson shared, it is a wonder Americans can walk on their back legs, perhaps is appropriate. Though perhaps an entertaining cliché it is not accurate. What is more apropos is the reality that a nation once leading in the development of civilization, has now decided to reverse course and retreat to the barbarianism, mimic, the rest of the world.

In this reality of the reality of the society in which we, by our very existence, participate, those who take the time to evaluate, learn, and attempt to understand the cause and effect of what is happening in this nation, and the world, is so small it is damn near insignificant. When one measures the media that reaches our society, is in itself represents a very scary scenario. The most enlightened, who has that ability, the same as Kant identifies – to see the obvious and state such – is Rush Limbaugh. He reaches on a weekly basis according to the Nielsen … the most recognized gauge of radio listening … of 13.25 million people. Think of the reality of this measurement. Those who listen to Rush, listen to Rush regularly. So by interpretation, this measurement, this 13.25 million, can be accepted as the number of individual reached daily. Now consider the comparatives.

In the media of radio, the second most listened too is the National Propaganda Radio, of the government. They reach on average, 13 million, and as the Rush measurement, can be on a daily basis. Is it not obvious, for every individual who is exposed to the reality of what is happening, there is another individual who is being indoctrinated in some mantra of dogmatic rhetoric, that is so far from reality, that they wouldn’t know reality if it came up and introduced itself.

Compounding that irrational advancement of learning ignorance –as if the catastrophe of our academic indoctrination of social engineering, instead of learning our ‘federally’ control public academia is doing – is not all. The Collegiate level indoctrination, the media of local TV, and the printed news service in this nation, are for the highest majority, not for the preservation of America, but complicit in ‘the fundamental transformation.’

Thank you, all who take the time, the effort, and the engagement of thinking to evaluate – learning, and thinking about – the danger this nation is facing.

The answer is, as it has always been, the composite knowledge, the intellect of our society making decisions of reason, not emotion. It is, and has always been our salvation. Encourage all you know to remember that. If not the dark ages this nation is accelerating towards, will make the darkness of man’s mistakes in the past, be but irrelevant.

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Upon hearing Hillary's ad announcing that she is running for president, I thought, these despicable people (Democrats) have no shame. The substance of Hillary's ad is same old, same old; standard Democrat low rent campaign tactics; class envy and victimhoodism.

In her ad, Hillary says, “...the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.” Her message is vote for me and I'll stop those SOBs from hogging and stealing your share of the American pie.

Hillary's ad also mentioned that Americans have gone through challenging economic times and the importance of family. Well, the truth of the matter is the greatest enemy of business and families is the Democratic party. Democrats continuously exhibit hostility towards business, implementing anti-business policies, intrusive and job killing government regulations.

Democrats continue to make it easier and even encourage more Americans to forget working for a living and simple rely on government handouts. One can only conclude that this is Democrats' insidious strategy to win new voters. Who is going to bite (vote out of office) the hand feeding them? Folks, we are talkin' over 92 million Americans unemployed, but still have cellphones, flat screen TVs and not missing meals.

As for the American family, Democrat policies which enable and even nurture bad behavior contributes to the destruction of families. As an American who happens to be black, I have experienced in my family the devastating effects of Democrats' low expectations of blacks; numerous cousins addicted to government welfare which birthed serial out-of-wedlock births, crime, drug abuse, incarceration and early deaths.

Whenever Conservatives and Republicans compassionately address the havoc in the black community left in the wake of the Democrats' failed policies, Democrats flock to their mainstream media buddy's microphones to proclaim these good Samaritan Conservatives and Republicans white-insensitive-racists.

So, when Hillary and her fellow Democrats pretend to champion families, I want to say, “You got to be kidding me. Gag me!”

Here we go again. Hillary comes out promising to be a champion of the suffering and down trodden which she and her party created. Hillary's campaign is standard Democratic Party bait and switch; a continuation of their screwing of America. These people are disgusting. Have they no shame?

Hillary's game plan to win the White House is to continue the Great Democratic Party Deception: pretend to be an advocate for the common man while being the source of their problems; keeping them stuck in just barely getting-by-mode, enslaved to government and making it extremely challenging to rise to higher economic levels. Hillary is banking on a complicit mainstream media to help her pull it off, duping clueless voters.

I pray that our GOP presidential wannabes will have the courage and wisdom to speak out against Hillary's deceptive, disgusting and arrogant I-think-voters-are-idiots standard Democrat campaign strategy.

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee

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Thursday Morning - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
FOREIGN POLICY NEWSLETTER
KT McFarland
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Ease With Marxism Behind Diplomatic Thaw With Cuba  
On one hand, Barack nObama's face-to-face meeting with Cuban leader Raul Castro, which culminated in a handshake, was a failure. Before the meeting, nObama didn't re-establish a U.S. embassy in Cuba, nor did he scrub the Pearl of the Antilles from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. But in his handshake with Castro, nObama extended goodwill towards Marxism. Furthermore, the two talked by phone ahead of their meeting and the State Department officially released its recommendation to no longer recognize Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism. Cuba was the only country on the short list that supported Marxist terror groups (the rest were countries like Iran that feed Islamic terrorism), which shows that some regard Marxism as no longer a threat. As we wrote back in December when the nObama administration first announced these deals with Cuba, "[T]he U.S. was in prime position to negotiate for human rights improvements in Cuba. Instead, nObama just offered Cuba a huge influx of dollars for nothing in return." More...  -The Patriot Post  
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 SCOOBY DOO OR SCOOBY DON’T? HILLY TRIES FOR   AUTHENTICITY 
You know, Bill had always seemed to be the Clinton who would be more likely to have a van. But it’s Hilly who’s rolling out the official phase of her 2016 run from a passenger seat in a minivan bound for Iowa. The question is whether voters will see humility or pandering. What if you knew she plotted her campaign strategy at the beachfront estate of Oscar de la Renta in the Dominican Republic? Yeah… Media outlets are trying to find “Scooby,” Clinton’s purported nickname for the vehicle that started out on I-80 bound for a Tuesday afternoon event in Iowa. (Hint: It’s the one traveling in a Secret Service convoy.) One supposes that if reporters haven’t found the vehicle by then, the campaign will have to send up flares or tow a blimp just to make sure. Whatever it takes to get the helicopter shot of her and the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit as it rolls across the Mississippi.
          In 2008, Clinton tried to create terror in her rivals by choppering in for big rallies, which reinforced what people already knew about her: She’s rich, she’s powerful and she plays to win. Always. This time, she’s going for an aura of humility and “putting you first.” She’s very much following the Madison Avenue playbook of the moment. If it hadn’t been Clinton who had popped up after 90 seconds in her video, it might have been the CEO of Bank of America of Google selling a new product. It’s not by accident that big businesses have mastered such demographically targeted, slickly earthy spots and spend millions to make them. Those kinds of warm and fuzzy videos are designed to soften the image of corporate leviathans. But sometimes artificial folksiness backfires.
          The logistics of getting one of the world’s most famous and powerful people across a 1,000-mile road trip and looking camera-ready for a campaign event must be no mean feat. One would suppose that wherever Clinton overnights this evening, she will be met by her staff for full preparations. A 19-month drive to the presidency can’t start with bed head and gaffes. And having acknowledged that she cannot be herself and win, how will Clinton respond when herself splurps through the cracks in the folksy veneer? Unlike big corporations that can almost completely control their public interactions, Clinton will have to face dozens of interviews, some press conferences and near-daily commentaries on current events. Rather than yet another reinvention, Clinton may end up wishing she opted to be herself or at least a version not so painful to maintain.  -Fox News  
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 Team nObama -   Taking up a central theme of the newly announced Hilly Clinton campaign, President nObama will hit the road Tuesday to mark Equal Pay Day. Laying out what the White House calls “stark” differences with Republicans, the president will push Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which the administration says would significantly strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and give women additional tools to fight pay discrimination.   -Fox News  
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 Poll: Dems and indies don’t want a Hilly coronation -   About three quarters of Democrats and independents don’t like the idea of a Clinton coronation, according to a Bloomberg poll.  Asked if Hilly Clinton should face serious competition for the nomination, 72 percent said it would be a good thing for the Democratic Party. Overall, the national poll gave Clinton a 48 percent favorable rating versus 44 percent unfavorable. Asked if they would vote for Clinton if she were the nominee 39 percent of respondents, a plurality, said they would definitely not vote for here, as opposed to 18 percent who said they would definitely vote for her.   -Fox News  
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 BONING UP: WALKER ON WEEKLONG EURO TRIP 
Sheboygan Press: “Gov. Scott Walker is becoming something of a globe-trotter as world affairs loom large in the 2016 Republican presidential race and attention has been drawn to his early foreign policy stumbles. He began a weeklong visit to Germany, France and Spain on Friday, and in May plans to go to Israel, a touchstone for many U.S. politicians with presidential aspirations. Meantime his political group, Our American Revival, has bulked up on staffers to coach Walker on foreign policy, a gap in his resume as he considers entering the GOP presidential contest.” 
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 Islamic State assaults Baiji oil refinery  
(Bill Roggio & Caleb Weiss) - The Islamic State has launched a new assault on the Baiji oil refinery in Iraq’s Salahaddin province. The Iraqi military claimed it has repelled the attack...In photos released on April 11, the Islamic State showed its forces attacking the refinery and penetrating the perimeter of the complex. Several images detail the use of US-made Humvees and home-made rocket launchers cobbled together from civilian vehicles. Other pictures show the use of camouflaged howitzers and tanks. Two photos highlight the deployment of a suicide bomber by the name of Abu Ma’awiya al Khorasani; the moniker “Khorasani” implies the bomber was from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.       http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/04/islamic-state-assaults-baiji-oil-refinery.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29
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 UN Pushes Common Core-style Global Education Regime  
(Alex Newman) - About one third of the world’s governments and dictatorships are on track to meet United Nations education targets aiming to change the values of humanity as part of its “Education for All” initiative...according to a report released last week by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). With Common Core and related schemes, the nObama administration has been at the forefront of that effort. To deal with those that have not yet met UN schooling goals, UNESCO bureaucrats are seeking more than $22 billion per year in taxpayer funding to provide what the self-styled global education agency refers to as “quality education” for all children. Going forward, as a component of the broader UN “post-2015 agenda,” the UN outfit outlined even more extreme plans to impose its “quality education” scheming on all of humanity. What a scam, the state can do just as well if lift alone and they won't need billions from taxpayers.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/20657-un-pushes-common-core-style-global-education-regime?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=91a67ebddf-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-91a67ebddf-289778381
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 nObama’s Gun-Grabbing, ‘Absolutely Unconstitutional’  
(AmyElizabeth) - There are growing claims that guns are being seized and destroyed illegally by police nationwide...Michael Roberts surrendered 21 firearms that were cherished family heirlooms to the Torrance Police Department in 2010, after his doctor filed a restraining order against him. The court order was the result of a dispute Roberts had with a member of the doctor’s staff and, after Roberts pleaded no contest, the matter was resolved. Yet, even though he filed the proper Law Enforcement Gun Release paperwork on four separate occasions, obtained clearance from the California Department of Justice and had two court orders commanding the return of his guns, police refused to hand them over. With the backing of the National Rifle Association and California Rifle and Pistol Association, Roberts filed a federal lawsuit in May 2014, over the $15,500 worth of firearms. In the end he got the money, but not the guns. The police had had them destroyed.       http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/13/watch-judge-napolitano-obamas-gun-grabbing-is-absolutely-profoundly-unconstitutional/
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 EPA, Endangered Species Act Used To Target American Citizens 
(rickwells.us) - California Republican Assemblywoman Shannon Grove represents a portion of Kern County, the second largest agricultural sector in the country. She’s been sounding the alarm over the suicidal water policies and restrictions imposed by the federal government...which are destroying much of California’s agricultural capacity, taking with it a large portion of the American food supply. It’s not that California doesn’t or didn’t have enough water. They did. The valuable water is simply being wasted, flushed out to sea the name of preserving a three-inch long fish, the Delta Smelt. She created a video highlighting the problem, to get the message out to America that this is more than just a drought. It’s a totally unnecessary and preventable threat to our national food supply which continues to this very moment, in spite of the critical nature of the situation.       http://www.rickwells.us/epa-endangered-species-act-used-to-target-american-citizens-create-drought-crisis-to-control-food-supply/
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 The Middle East Turmoil and Israel's Security  
(Efraim Inbar) - The Middle East is in great turmoil. The statist order that underpinned the region for a century has collapsed. Several states have lost their monopoly over the use of force and are no longer able to provide law and order....This is especially true of Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, and Syria. Even Egypt, the only historic Arab state, has had difficulties effectively enforcing its sovereignty over its territory. Many of the militias challenging these state entities have a radical Islamist ideology, reflecting the rise in appeal of political Islam in the Arab world. In contrast to the leaders of these states, who are inefficient and corrupt, the Islamists actually deliver services to the people and have a reputation for being brutal but honest. However, the likes of Al Qaida in Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) or the so called Islamic State (IS) are hardly the proper agents for modernizing their environments and their popularity dooms the Arab world to continuous ignorance and poverty. For this and other reasons, Israel will need to remain vigilant in the years ahead.          http://www.meforum.org/5174/israel-middle-east-security 
 
 
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 nObama Claims Americans Would Panic If We Were Told The Truth  
(rickwells.us) - Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson validated what most Americans already know about the Democrat level of commitment to the concept of political transparency and informing the American people...They are completely opposed to acknowledging their actions or our situation, and defend their obscurity by professing that we simply “can’t handle the truth.” Johnson references two campaign pledges he says he has kept, that he would always tell the truth to the best of his ability and also to never vote or conduct himself during a reelection period any differently than he did when his seat wasn’t in contention.       http://www.rickwells.us/sen-ron-johnson-obama-claims-americans-would-panic-if-we-were-told-the-truth-wants-us-ignorant/
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 Checking in on the Jayvee Team  
(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - With so much of the world’s attention in recent weeks being on Iran, ISIS must be feeling a little neglected — because they appear to be acting out even more than usual... “Hey, we’re an existential threat too,” they seem to be saying as they post pictures of themselves playing soccer with human heads.” “Hey, we may not have nukes – yet – but we sure can make pretty decent cartoons of your president being decapitated.” “Make no mistake – we really are the meanest kids on the block.” No joke – they really are the meanest and most demented kids on the block. They remind me of the evil inbred freaks in the Texas Chainsaw massacre. Only those freaks actually retained an ounce of humanity. They need to be stopped cold by a military willing to unleash overwhelming force on them.  https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/checking-in-on-the-jay-vee-team/
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 ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm  
(judicialwatch.org) - ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector...The exact location where the terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S. border in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm. During the course of a joint operation last week, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.    http://linkis.com/judicialwatch.org/kZnMO
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 Rouhani Dismisses White House Compromise With Congress on Deal  
(THOMAS ERDBRINK and RICK GLADSTONE) - Iran’s president on Wednesday dismissed the compromise worked out between the nObama administration and Congress over an impending nuclear agreement as internal American politics...saying the Iranians were negotiating with six countries, not just the United States. The president, Hassan Rouhani, also reiterated Iran’s position that onerous economic sanctions that have been imposed on the country for years by the United Nations, United States and European Union must be lifted with the signing of any final agreement. The remarks by Mr. Rouhani, a prime architect of a framework nuclear agreement reached April 2 with the so-called P5-plus-1 group of powers, amounted to the first official Iranian reaction to a compromise reached on Tuesday between the White House and the Senate over the nuclear negotiations.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/rouhani-dismisses-white-house-compromise-with-congress-on-iran-nuclear-deal/
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 Hamas Rebuilding War Machine as Gaza Deteriorates  
(investigativeproject.org) - The Hamas leadership in Gaza has been unable to rebuild any of the homes destroyed in last summer's war with Israel, but the terrorist group has had little trouble using heavy machinery to restore its vast tunnel networks that can be used in future attacks...Reconstruction of Gaza has "barely begun," the Associated Press reports. At least the above-ground kind. Underground, small bulldozers are busy restoring damaged tunnels, using "whatever cement [Hamas] can get its hands on," the Times of Israel reports. Hamas has been diverting cement and construction material intended for civilian rebuilding efforts.       http://www.investigativeproject.org/4823/hamas-rebuilding-war-machine-as-gaza-deteriorates
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     (kt@ktmcfarland.com) - The nuclear deal being negotiated between Iran and the nObama administration dominated headlines this month. The President wants a deal, even a temporary deal, even a bad deal, as his crowning, foreign policy legacy.

      The whole point of an agreement with Iran was to “roll back” Iran’s nuclear program and prevent a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.  This deal does neither and still rewards Iran by lifting economic sanctions.  Iran is now poised to become the dominant economic, military, political, and possibly nuclear power in the region while its leaders continue to chant death to America, promise to annihilate Israel, and support terrorism worldwide.

      In Yemen, a proxy war between Sunnis and Shiites for hegemony in the Middle East rages on. The U.S.’s intelligence capability is handicapped in Yemen by the escalating chaos, which is bad news as Yemen is home to one of the largest Al Qaeda affiliates in the world. Moreover, if the fighting spills over the border into neighboring Saudi Arabia, it will threaten the stability of one of the world’s largest oil suppliers.

      We could be seeing the beginning of a thirty years’ fight to the finish religious war in the region.  If Iran introduces nuclear weapons into the region, it increases the likelihood weapons of mass destruction will be used.

      Farther east, Chinese expansion into the South China Sea is worrying neighboring Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines. In a recent conversation I had with Dr. Michael Pillsbury, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, we discussed Pillsbury’s contention that China is bent on a long range, secret plan to replace the U.S. as the world’s global power.

      At home, the Hilly Clinton email scandal is raising larger questions about transparency and accountability during her tenure as Secretary of State. By using her personal email account to do government business, and then unilaterally deciding which emails to delete, Clinton robbed the American people of a historical record and violated legal precedents. More importantly, Clinton’s account invites the possibility that sensitive information could have been hacked. This is disconcerting news as cyber security is an increasing national security problem for the United States.

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      Despite the escalating proxy wars between Sunnis and Shiites, the nObama administration is determined to reach a deal that will only accelerate a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Any agreement that does not permanently dismantle Iran’s nuclear program will make the region even more volatile and dangerous than it already is. In trying to justify the deal, the administration is advertising a false choice, claiming it’s this or war. NeoConservatives seem to agree, and see bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities as the only way to stop it from acquiring the bomb.

Both are wrong.

      There is a third way, and it is a proven tactic from Reagan’s Cold War playbook—encourage the Iranian people to demand regime change.  The US could push the Iranian economy to the brink of collapse, foster pro-democracy movements, and tear down the Iranian regime’s cyber-wall.  We’ve seen the Arab Spring topple dictatorships throughout the region, why not in Iran?

YEMEN
      Most people can’t find Yemen on a map, but it is important because it is a multi-party civil war that could spill over into Saudi Arabia, and destabilize one of the world’s largest oil suppliers.

      Ultimately, the Yemen civil war is a proxy war within the larger, existential struggle between Sunni Arabs and Shiite Persians for hegemony over the Middle East. Add an Iranian nuclear ability to that equation and the situation will get much worse.
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I suggest you ask yourself why the Walmart stores are telling their workers that plumbing problems are why they are immediately closing 5 stores which happen to not have any citations and have no permits pulled to do any work?

They told the workers there were plumbing issues. Closing stores immediately with no notice to workers or community

Interesting that the stores are all in the areas that the government is doing the jade helm drills for our military.

Suggest you learn:  http://www.infowars.com/think-jade-helms-bad-wait-till-you-hear-about-this-police-force/

 

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Islamic State camp a few miles from Texas

Combine this with Obama’s open borders policy, and America faces a bright and secure future of hope and change. “ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm, Judicial Watch, April 14, 2015 (thanks to Adrienne): ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources […]

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Egypt: Christian arrested for offending Muslims, witch-hunt for 5 others

Last week, security agents arrested Gad Yusif Yunan, a 22-year-old Coptic Christian man who works as an English teacher in Nasriya village, Upper Egypt, on the charge of “contempt of religions.”  He is accused of posting a 30-second video on his personal Facebook page that deals with Muslim prayers and is apparently insulting. Once local Muslims discovered it, […]

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Hamas-linked CAIR demands Brooklyn College drop Pamela Geller talk

The Hamas-linked terror organization (so designated by the United Arab Emirates) known as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is enraged that Pamela Geller has been invited to speak at Brooklyn College next week. Note the sneer of cold command with which Hamas-linked CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper addresses Brooklyn College officials in these leaked emails: he […]

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New Jersey: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” throws lit firecrackers at synagogue

You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews…” — Qur’an 5:82 Generally in the real world that verse and other antisemitic verses in the Qur’an have the effect of making the most intense of the people in animosity toward the Jews to be the […]

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UAE: Indian man charged with insulting Islam on Facebook

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” — Barack Obama, September 25, 2012 “Indian charged in UAE with ‘insulting Islam,’” IANS, April 14, 2015: Dubai, April 14 (IANS): An Indian man has been charged in a UAE court for allegedly posting on a social networking site comments that insult […]

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Raymond Ibrahim: Obama’s Christianity — A Political Tool to Silence Christians

Here in the United States, where Americans are used to hearing their president always invoke Christianity in a manner that silences Christians, United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent Easter message was moderately refreshing. Among other things, Cameron made it a point to say “that we should feel proud to say, ‘This is a Christian […]

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Egypt: Bombs explode near two churches on Easter Sunday

On April 12, Easter Sunday according to the Orthodox calendar, the churches of Egypt’s Christian minorities—Coptic Orthodox and Protestants—were, as usual, under attack.  According to Egyptian media, three explosions took place in Zagazig vicinity on Sunday to coincide with Easter celebrations.  Two targeted churches. The first explosion—which was placed under a parked car—took place near […]

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Egypt: Muslims prevent Christians from praying in Coptic home

It is not enough that Muslims in Egypt prevent Christians from building or even renovating churches, but, as in other Muslim majority nations, when Christians merely meet in one of their homes, Muslims still attack and prevent them. After Muslims in Egypt rioted and engaged in anti-Christian violence at the proposition that a church be […]

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THE PATRIOT POST

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“Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.” —Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, 1784

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Congress Scores Political Victory Over Obama in Iran Deal

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee forced Barack Obama to back away from his one-man approach to negotiations with Iran. Under Sen. Bob Corker’s leadership, the committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would require Congress review Obama’s deal with Iran before lifting sanctions against the country. The bill passed 19-0 and is expected to pass both cambers withveto-proof majorities. Before the bill broke out of committee, Obama lobbied Congress to stay out of his dealings with Iran and its nuclear program. Now, Obama’s saying he may sign the legislation, cowing to the rightful demands of Congress. But Corker’s bill is far from perfect. Conservative commentator Noah Pollack tweeted, “The way Corker & Graham wrote their bill, Obama will win Congressional approval of Iran deal with only 34 votes. Ponder that.” In other words, a decision not to approve Obama’s bill faces the challenge of herding all the cats of Congress in the same direction. The Wall Street Journal argues the ideal role of Congress is to pass a treaty because nuclear deals should not be sealed with talk and a handshake. Corker’s bill is a victory, but merely a political one. More…

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Hillary’s Income Inequality Platform Problem

While Hillary Clinton established her campaign on reducing income inequality, she has not practiced what she preached. “Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,” Clinton said in the video announcing her presidential campaign “Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.” Sure, Clinton can talk all she wants, but her platform places her between the idealistic Left and her salary. Progressives are beginning to say a $15-an-hour wage is the only wage they will support, probably to the chagrin of Seattle small businesses that have to close because of the city’s $15-an-hour wage experiment. And Hillary has acted precisely like the CEOs and one-percenters she lambasts. Her $200,000-an-hour speaking gigs place her firmly in the filthy rich category. Furthermore, she directs all her salary through her foundation, so she avoids paying taxes. The income deck is, indeed, stacked in her favor. More…

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Meanwhile, she also wants “unaccountable money” out of politics. After she raises $2.5 billion, of course.

Tennessee’s New Pro-Gun Law Gets It Right

The Tennessee governor’s mansion is occupied by a Republican, and the GOP owns supermajorities in both the House and Senate. The result has been a wave of pro-gun measures, including a “Guns in Parking Lots” law approved in 2013 that gives employees the legal right to store a firearm inside personal vehicles even if it’s against an employer’s inclinations. The move was a good one; the problem is that “an attorney general’s opinion later found that while the law decriminalized the actions of those who ignored posted gun bans on private property, employers could still terminate workers for violating company firearms policies,” explains WTVC News Channel 9. Last week, the legislature passed and Gov. Bill Haslam signed a fix that allows fired persons the ability to take legal action. Now, even some Republicans contend the new law infringes on employers' rights. But that’s misguided — businesses still have the right to ban firearms, but vehicles don’t belong to the employer. As Hot Air blogger Jazz Shaw concludes, “This law seems to me to have been a good compromise. The employer can bar carrying weapons in the workplace, but the employee’s car is not the workplace. And punishing them for such storage is an unreasonable burden on their constitutional rights.” Tennessee hit the bull’s-eye on this one. More…

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Cruz Says Polls Don’t Matter; The Bill of Rights Does

Ted Cruz was right on target when asked about his views on the Second Amendment: “When it comes to constitutional rights, what matters is what the Bill of Rights says. It doesn’t matter what might be popular at the moment. We’ve seen regimes across the face of the earth come and take away people’s guns, strip away their rights to defend themselves, and sometimes it’s been very popular. And yet it is an inevitable prelude to tyranny. Our country was founded on a radical proposition, which is that our rights don’t come from government; they come from God. … The entire reason for the Second Amendment is not for hunting; it’s not for target shooting. … The Second Amendment is there so that you and I can protect our homes and our families and our children and our lives. And it’s also there as a fundamental check on government tyranny. And that, ultimately, is not subject to public opinion polls, it’s subject to the express protections of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.” Cruz really nailed it.

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Louisiana Timidly Considers Religious Liberty Legislation

Just like Indiana and Arkansas, Louisiana started to consider its own version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but it seems the threat of pushback may dissuade state lawmakers. The president of Louisiana’s Senate, Republican John Alario, said, “As it was originally introduced, I’m not in favor of it. It would put Louisiana in such a bad light, we don’t want any part of it.” Whatever happened to trading short-term discomfort for long-term benefit? The state’s governor, Bobby Jindal, said he would fight for legislation like the RFRA “that seeks to preserve our most fundamental freedoms.” The opposition to state-level RFRAs could be nothing more than a heckler’s veto. According to a poll conducted by WPA Opinion Research on behalf of the Family Research Council, 81% of those polled “agree that government should leave people free to follow their beliefs about marriage as they live their daily lives at work and in the way they run their businesses.” But Louisiana lawmakers are scared of the shrill 19% who want government to tell small businesses to bake the cake, to serve the hypothetical pizzas, regardless of the business owner’s most deeply held beliefs. More…

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Go File Those Taxes — It’s Income Redistribution Day

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Today is that most mirthless of days, April 15, tax filing day, or as we in our humble shop have long dubbed it, “Income Redistribution Day.” It’s the day each year when government confiscates money from about half the nation’s citizens and gives a lot of it to the other half. (That’s an over-generalization, but you get the idea.) At least they didn’t choose April 19 – Patriots' Day – for tax filing. In honor of today, here are a few things to remember about taxes and the IRS.

It will take Americans 114 days this year to fully pay for the burden of all the levels of government — three more days than last year. In other words, when you pay your taxes today you’ll still have to work another nine days just to actually pay them off.

Then again, not everyone pays income taxes. The top 20% of earners bring in 51.3% of all income and yet pay 83.9% of all federal income taxes. By contrast, the bottom 20% of earners actually receive money from Washington those in higher brackets. What was that about a “fair share” again?

Americans of all tax brackets spend 6.1 billion hours filing individual and business taxes — hours that could otherwise be spent producing wealth rather than redistributing it. The Mercatus Centerestimates the cost of filing to be anywhere from $215 billion per year to nearly $1 trillion. Perhaps that’s because there are nearly 75,000 pages in the tax code.

Where did your tax money go? Just shy of half of all federal tax revenue goes to major entitlements — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other health care programs. (Before we move on, to be crystal clear, some government benefits are “earned,” like Social Security or military benefits. These stand in contrast to “unearned” benefits of welfare, food stamps and the like.) Another 20% goes to various wealth transfer programs like unemployment benefits and food stamps. That’s more than two-thirds of the federal budget that goes from your pocket to someone else’s. See why we call it “Income Redistribution Day”?

Finally, we’d be remiss if we didn’t note that ObamaCare subsidies factored into millions of returns for the first time this year. And that’s going to mean a lot of, er, adjustments. According toInvestor’s Business Daily’s Betsy McCaughey, “If you enrolled in ObamaCare in 2014 and got a subsidy to pay for it, you’re at risk of losing your refund. Surprise: You may even owe Uncle Sam money. Only 4% of people who signed up for ObamaCare got the correct subsidy, so a whopping 96% will see their tax bill adjusted, some up and others down. Who would design a system that’s right only 4% of the time?” Democrats, that’s who.

Oh, and some 800,000 Healthcare.gov customers got the wrong tax form, and some may have to wait months to sort out their tax returns.

All the while, the IRS is essentially rewriting ObamaCare provisions regarding tax credit eligibility. The Supreme Court will settle part of that problem in June (subsidies on federal vs. state exchanges), but the IRS is rewriting other provisions, too. Remember: You can trust the IRS!

Today is a day to take stock of how a government that provides everything for its citizens can become a massive burden. It’s not just financial, either; it’s an issue of trust, power and the future of our great nation.

We close with the immortal words of Will Rogers: “The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don’t know when it’s through if you are a crook or a martyr.”

Post script: Today, April 15th, Barack Obama has decreed that all flags are to be flown at half mast “as a Day of Remembrance for President Abraham Lincoln,” who was assassinated 150 years ago yesterday. We can think of other reasons to fly them at half mast, like the fact today is “Forced Income Redistribution Day,” or that Barack Obama is president.

Editor’s Note: It is no small irony that in the same week we observe Patriots' Day — the opening salvos at Lexington and Concord to establish American Liberty — working Americans also endure the April 15th deadline to forcibly surrender a growing portion of our earned income to a gravely bloated central government, which redistributes much of that income to ensure constituent support for its malignant growth. Mark Alexander addresses oppressive taxation in his Wednesday column this afternoon, “Taxing Patriots.”

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The Negotiator Strikes Again

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Once again, Barack Obama has demonstrated his brand of “diplomacy,” which can only be described as “on my knees” statesmanship. He makes Neville Chamberlain look like Muhammad Ali.

After meeting with Raul Castro and other Latin American leaders over the weekend, our fearless leader announced he would be removing Cuba from the list of states supporting terrorists — his first move toward normalizing relations with Cuba. This comes on the heels of 18 months' worth of secret meetings between Obama’s and Castro’s negotiators. Considering what came of the negotiations, we can’t understand why it took 18 month, or even 18 days.

Obama reassured Congress that Cuba “has not provided any support for international terrorism” for at least the last six months, and, furthermore, “has provided assurances it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.” And if you believe that we have some beautiful property in the Whitewater development at rock bottom prices.

As Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen observes, “There will be no mention from the White House of terrorists being protected and supported by the Castro regime, such as Joanne Chesimard — who murdered a New Jersey state trooper and was named in 2013 by Obama’s own FBI as one of its Most Wanted Terrorists. There will be no mention of the 70 other U.S. fugitives that Obama’s own State Department reports ‘The Cuban government continued to harbor’ while providing ‘support such as housing, food ration books, and medical care’ — or of the Spanish and Colombian terrorists receiving similar support from the Castro brothers.”

Obama’s move puts him at odds with the previous 10 presidents — both Democrat and Republican — who have all recognized that Cuba’s anti-American, despotic communist government terrorizes its formerly prosperous, hard-working people, keeps them in poverty, and locks up political dissenters who often languish for years in Cuban prison holes.

The ignorance of the American public is Obama’s best hope. Leftmedia newsreaders cheer Obama’s “courageous” move to finally recognize our island neighbor, which they say has suffered under the U.S. embargo and its other unjust policies. At first, a majority of low-information Americans agree that Obama is doing the right thing. But when told that Cuba is harboring Russian ships in its ports, opposition for normalization rises to 58%. And, Thiessen notes, when told that Cuba “attempts to smuggle 240 tons of weaponry to North Korea, opposition jumps to 63 percent and support plummets to 26 percent. When … told that Cuba is harboring a cop-killer and terrorists, opposition jumps to 63 percent and support plummets to 23 percent … and when asked whether Cuba’s designation as a supporter of terrorism should be maintained because it harbors terrorists, respondents agreed 68 percent to 16 percent.”

Americans aren’t quite as dumb as you think, Señior Obama.

Being the consummate negotiator he is, as demonstrated with the Iranians, Obama displays his brilliant “give all, take nothing” diplomacy as he moves toward the goal of normalization. Castro refuses to complete the deal until the U.S. pulls out of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, and, of course, our president would gladly oblige if that pesky Congress weren’t in the way. The military also sees Gitmo as essential to our national defense.

There also remains the small issue of congressional approval on the way to his lifting the trade embargo and later recognizing Cuba. But Obama doesn’t often concern himself with the niceties of constitutionality, so he could very well decide to recognize Cuba without Congress. Sadly, Congress will probably blather about it but do nothing else.

Obama has angered many Americans, including politicians on both sides of the aisle, with his apologizing to dictators for America’s offenses and now with his kissing up to the Castro regime.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), whose parents came to America from Cuba just before his birth,said, “President Obama’s actions have vindicated the brutal behavior of the Cuban government.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), also born of Cuban immigrants, likewise slammed Obama’s actions. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Rubio wrote that Obama’s giving Castro’s regime diplomatic legitimacy “isn’t just bad for the oppressed Cuban people or for the millions who live in exile and lost everything at the hands of the dictatorship. Mr. Obama’s new Cuba policy is a victory for oppressive governments the world over and will have real, negative consequences for the American people.”

We have to say that all this comes as no surprise. Obama did promise to fundamentally transform the country, and his communist mentoring means he must lean in that direction. Actually, many people have suggested that’s where he stands. As Red State’s Erick Ericksonwrites, Obama’s “mentor, communist Frank Marshall Davis, would be proud of him.”

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Plato (429-347 BC): “Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.”

Arnold Ahlert: “In a rare Democratic rebuke of President Obama, the bipartisan Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to advance the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, sponsored by Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). The bill would grant Congress the ability to review the deal currently being crafted by the Obama administration and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program. President Obama, sensing rebellion from within his own party, stated for the first time publicly that he would be willing to sign the bill. Thus, the lobbying effort undertaken by the Obama administration fell flat. … For the moment, Congress has asserted itself. However, the true test will come when the accord with Iran is finalized in a few short months. It remains to be seen whether lawmakers, including those in Obama’s own party, will hold the president accountable for his reckless deal-making. So far prospects are promising, but far from certain.”

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Terence Jeffrey: “Married couples with children under 18 years of age, according to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (Table HINC-04), made an average household income of $107,054 in 2013 and a median household income of $85,087. … [M]arried couples with no children under 18 had an average household income of $91,870 in 2013 and a median household income of $70,995. … Unmarried couples with children under 18 had an average household income of $65,337 and a median of $50,031. … Unmarried couples with no children did only a little bit better, with average household incomes of $76,609 and median household incomes of $62,126. … Why do married couples with kids have higher household incomes? Perhaps it is because they are not primarily driven by greed but something quite the opposite: a willingness to make sacrifices so their children may live better lives. It is telling that married couples with children tend to end up with higher incomes than people who only need to maintain a household for themselves. And it is a telling irony that some politicians would like to redistribute wealth from the former type of household to the latter while making fewer people dependent on themselves and their families and more dependent on government.”

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Humorist Frank Fleming: “Hillary Clinton is going to run for president again? Cool. Last time, a charismatic empty suit dashed her dreams, but she’s not deterred.”

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sink-1.jpg?width=247Look…we ALL know of Hillary Clinton’s sordid past…her scandals past and present and we all know of her tirades some of which are still coming to light regarding how she used to throw things at and pummel Bill during the White House years.

A new book by Kate Andersen Brower, entitled “The Residence: Inside the World of the White House, reveals how, during Bill’s antics regarding his affair with Monica Lewinski, Hillary took a book to his head leaving blood on the bad and Bill needing stitches.

We know…

And so too does the DNC.

This puts the DNC is something of a quandary.

In 2008, Hillary, the narcissist, felt the nomination was hers…all wrapped up and that the DNC would, along with the liberal media, propel her to the White House. It wasn’t to be. The DNC found a much more engaging candidate in Barack Hussein Obama and given their choice between two socialists, they backed Obama because, quite frankly, he wasn’t as abrasive as Hillary.

First Black president vs the first woman president…it didn’t matter…first is first and with Obama’s past safely hidden away and with his much more charismatic persona…Obama it was.

Hillary got the Secretary of State job, as a make-good for not being the nominee and that was supposed to have been that but again…

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Tuesday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 WHO NEEDS A PAC? STRICKLAND’S GOT A PENSION 
National Journal: “If Ted Strickland wins a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2016, he would, at age 75, be the oldest freshman ever elected to the chamber by popular vote. The Ohio Democrat would also arrive in Washington with something else unusual for a freshman senator: He’s already collecting a congressional pension. The pension is a benefit accrued during two separate stints in the U.S. House of Representatives… If elected, Strickland would apparently not be able to simultaneously draw both a $174,000 Senate salary and his House pension, according to federal retirement rules. Presumably, he would collect the larger salary. ‘Although the congressional retirement checks stop coming when an ex-lawmaker reenters the House or Senate, the benefits will only be sweeter when he or she retires again,’ noted Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union, which tracks congressional pensions.”  -Fox News 
 
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 nObama Revises His 2008 Messianic Message on Economy  
During his visit to Jamaica, Barack nObama diverted attention away from his failed fiscal policies by further demonizing Wall Street and Big Business. When asked what advice he'd give to himself in 2008, nObama said he would dial back on his "Yes we can" rah rah rah: "I would have probably advised was that I might have needed to warn the American people and paint a picture for them that was more accurate about the fact that it would take some time to dig ourselves out of a very big hole. ... I think I would have advised myself to do a better job spending more time not just getting the policy right, but also describing it in ways that people understood, that gave them confidence in their own future." Translation: He would further temper his messianic save-the-economy rhetoric with even more blaming George W. Bush. There's something noble about a leader who can only promise, as Winston Churchill did, "blood, toil, tears and sweat." But that kind politician advocates for personal responsibility — something nObama's never heard of. More...  -The Patriot Post 
 
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 Mass Exodus From ME Welfare Program as State Requires Work  
Let's say you live in the great state of Maine, down on your luck and needing some kind of social safety net to get you through. Would you say that spending at least 20 hours volunteering, working or participating in a work-training program is a fair trade-off for getting on the state's food stamp program? Even if you spend all your time playing "Call of Duty," surely you could carve out some time on the weekends to volunteer at the local animal shelter. But that requirement was too tough for 9,000 Mainiacs. Some 12,000 people were on Maine's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program before Jan. 1. After the government started enforcing the 20-hour rule, however, only 2,680 people stayed. Maine's Department of Health and Human Service's Commissioner, Mary Mayhew, told the Associated Press, "If you're on these programs it means you are living in poverty and so the more that we can help incentive people on that pathway to employment and self-sufficiency the better off they're going to be." While states like Georgia dabbled with drug testing welfare recipients (which had spotty results), it seems like the best way to help "the least of these" and prevent welfare fraud is to require a bit of honest work. More...  -The Patriot Post 
 
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 Jihadi Bomb Plot Foiled in Kansas  
On the day Fort Hood victims received their Purple Hearts, CBS News reports on the latest attempted jihad against the U.S. military on American soil: "A 20-year-old man has been charged with planning a suicide bomb attack against the Fort Riley military base in Kansas, in an alleged plot to support the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), federal prosecutors said Friday. John T. Booker, of Topeka, was arrested Friday morning while trying to arm what he thought what a 1,000-pound bomb inside a van near the base, according to court documents." Booker also goes by the name Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, which might give a clue as to his motive. He didn't exactly keep it a secret, though, posting on Facebook last year, "I will soon be leaving you forever so goodbye! I'm going to wage jihad and hopes that i [sic] die." He's also merely one in a series of would-be ISIL jihadis foiled in their attempts to attack America. More...   -The Patriot Post 
 
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 Indiana Pizza Parlor Reopens Without Fanfare 
The Left, incensed that owners of Memories Pizza would decline to cater
a same-sex wedding because of religious objections, tried to protest the pizza parlor serving a one traffic-light Indiana town out of existence. Due to the threats, Kevin O'Connor closed his shop for eight days. But he reopened April 9 to a full restaurant and not a protester in sight, according to the Associated Press. "I'd do the same thing again," O'Connor told the AP. "It's my belief. It's our belief. It's what we grew up on. I'm just sorry it comes to this because neither one of us dislike any of those people. I don't hold any grudges." During the time his business was shuttered, a producer from The Blaze created a fund for the pizza shop that collected over $800,000 in donations. So are the owners rolling in the dough? ('Scuse the pun.) "It was really making us uncomfortable," O'Connor said. After spending a bit on his pizza parlor, he'll donate some of it to charity. So much for the Left's conspiratorial explanation of the donations as some kind of guerrilla marketing campaign. The Left couldn't sustain its rage. What's left is an operating pizza parlor and the disturbing realization that the Left trivializes religious liberty. More...  -The Patriot Post 
 
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1.
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 Feds Investigating Southern United Neighborhoods (ACORN)  
(Steven Ahle) - An inquiry and a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the watchdog group, Cause of Action (CoA) reveals a federal investigation into misuse of nObamacare funds used to help recruit for United Labor Unions Local 100 (ULU) which is associated with the SEIU...The money had been granted to Southern United Neighborhoods (SUN) aka (ACORN).  After their request under the FOIA was reviewed. What I think the investigation should be focusing on is why is the federal government handing out grants to SUN and NeighborWorks America.  These are actually ACORN, who happens to be banned from receiving federal grants.  Maybe they have a friend in high places, like the oval office?       http://redstatements.co/feds-investigating-southern-united-neighborhoods-acorn-for-misuse-of-public-funds-2/
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 Who’s afraid of Khamenei’s redlines? 
(J. Matthew McInnis) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei appeared to double down yesterday on his redline that Tehran must receive immediate—rather than phased—relief from all sanctions if a comprehensive nuclear agreement is finally signed between the P5+1 and Iran in June...If Khamenei is serious, the deal outlined last week by President nObama and Secretary Hanoi Kerry could be dead already. But should we take Khamenei at his word? On April 9, in his first public speech since the framework was announced, Khamenei expressed general ambivalence about the potential agreement. Since nothing is written and signed yet, he mused, why should he have an opinion? Instead, Khamenei reiterated his requirements for a final nuclear deal. In addition to immediate sanctions removal, he maintained that significant nuclear research and development capacity must be allowed (which he will get), that Iran’s defensive capabilities such as ballistic missiles are non-negotiable (which he will also get), and that international inspections of military sites are forbidden (which he should not get, but more about that below).       http://www.aei.org/publication/whos-afraid-of-khameneis-redlines/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=041315
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 Murderers’ Row at Columbia  
(Matthew Vadum) - Weather Underground terrorist and convicted cop killer Kathy Boudin is now surrounded by fellow felons on the staff of the Columbia University School of Social Work where she crusades against the supposedly systemic racism of the justice system...The septuagenarian Boudin is assistant adjunct professor and director of the school’s “Criminal Justice Initiative: Supporting Children, Families and Communities” (CJI), which appears to be focused on keeping criminals like her out of prison by abolishing imprisonment as a punishment. As her official bio states, the initiative, which she co-founded, “is dedicated to ending society’s reliance on incarceration and retribution and advancing solutions.”       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/murderers-row-at-columbia/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fe45ed2de5-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-fe45ed2de5-156509103
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Egyptian soldiers prepare to blow up a large smuggling tunnel they discovered along Sinai's border with Gaza, September 2014.

 Gaza: Egypt Responsible For Weapons Shortage  
(Khaled Abu Toameh) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's uncompromising war on terrorism, especially along the border with the Gaza Strip, seems to be bearing fruit...It is a war that is being waged away from the spotlight and with almost no reaction from the international community. This situation is a perfect example of how the international community and the United Nations do not care about the "plight" of the Palestinians as long as Israel is not involved. Sisi's war on terrorism has thus far failed to spark the same uproar, if any, that is often triggered by Israeli military operations against Hamas and its smuggling tunnels. But it is not only the isolation that worries Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip. Rather, it is that Egypt's tough security measures --which include the destruction of more than 1700 tunnels and the creation of a security zone along its border with the Gaza Strip -- have brought the smuggling of weapons to a near halt.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5545/gaza-egypt-weapons
5.
 nObama's Darlings: The Israeli Left Are Bashing His Iran Deal  
(Jeff Dunetz) - Boy oh boy some politicians have no sense of loyalty. Benjamin Netanyahu's major opposition who received support and advice from some of President nObama's campaign people (and some State Dept. dDollars) during the recent Israeli election, announced their Iran plan Sunday...It was was more "hawkish" than anything Netanyahu has said: In a position paper released Sunday, the Zionist Union's leaders demand the United States to "give legitimization ahead of time to any action Israel will need to take to protect its safety". (…)The crux of Herzog and Livni's plan is a call on the American administration to commit in advance to approve an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities if Iran violates the framework agreement signed a week and a half ago by trying to produce nuclear weapons.        http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/04/obamas-darlings-israeli-left-are.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=08f6200297-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-08f6200297-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-08f6200297-291705165
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Rand Paul and Marco Rubio at Freedom Partners forum
 dinky Harry Reid’s obstructionism used against GOP candidates  
(Fuzzy Slippers) - On both sides of the aisle, there are a lot of questions and concern as people wonder what these first-termers have accomplished. This is, of course, a fair question to ask...but to be equally fair, we should take note of dinky Harry Reid’s lockdown of the Senate for the past six years. Not only were Republican senators unable to accomplish much in dinky Reid’s Senate, but neither were Democrat senators (some of whom lost their seats as a result, at least in part). We all watched as frustrated politicians on both sides of the aisle complained that there were more than 300 bills “sitting on dinky Harry Reid’s desk,” so it seems less than reasonable to focus on legislative accomplishments by first-term GOP senators who were apparently very busily working on legislation that then ended up mired down by dinky Reid.  Even House Dems were urging dinky Reid to pass their bills in the Senate. To no avail. At the time, we all thought it was unreasonable of dinky Reid to refuse to pass even those bills that would surely pass with bipartisan support:       http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/04/harry-reids-obstructionism-used-against-gop-candidates/?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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 nObama Wants to Send U.S. Tax Dollars to Central America  
(Sara Noble) - Barack nObama wants more redistribution of U.S. wealth to foreign dictators. Two days ago he said he requested a billion dollars in aid to be handed over to Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala for their prosperity. What about our prosperity?...Never mind that the governments of at least two of them are extremely corrupt. El Salvador’s president is a narco-president. nObama offered $20 million to the Caribbean nations for clean energy – that’s supposed to compete with Venezuela’s oil and another $50 million for jobs in those countries.. He’s very generous with our money. He’s using climate change as an excuse to redistribute our wealth.       http://www.independentsentinel.com/obama-wants-to-send-u-s-tax-dollars-to-central-america-for-clean-energy/
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 Countdown to Israel Attack: Russia Lifts Ban on Missile Sales to Iran  
(AmyElizabeth) - Russia announced Monday that it will sell Iran advanced S-300 surface-to-air missiles. The decision, which ends an embargo dating back to 2010, shows that President Barack nObama is rapidly losing control of the international consensus on Iran...It also sets Israel a deadline to attack Iran–since Israel has treated the S-300 system as a “red line,” and has attacked Syria several times recently to prevent advanced Russian air defense and anti-ship missile systems from becoming operational. Some Israeli analysts have recently suggested that Israel will only attack Iran if the regime’s nuclear program poses a direct and imminent threat–if the “sword is at the throat.”       http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/13/countdown-to-israel-attack-russia-lifts-ban-on-missile-sales-to-iran/
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 nObama Leaves U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati Behind In Iran 
(news.investors.com) - A Marine veteran has been held captive in Iran since August 2011, when he was taken prisoner while visiting family and charged with spying. Does President nObama hear his plea for unconditional freedom?...With the exception of deserters like Bowe Bergdahl, those who put on a uniform and serve their country seem like afterthoughts to this administration, if they're thought of at all. Just ask Andrew Tahmooressi, the Marine sergeant allowed to languish 214 days in a Mexican jail for the crime of missing a highway exit. Or now, Amir Hekmati of Flagstaff, Ariz., a Marine vet who sits in an Iranian jail, having made the mistake of trying to visit his Iranian family.       http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/040715-746803-marine-amir-hekmati-jailed-in-iran.htm?p=full
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, left, holds a press conference before leaving to United States at Baghdad airport, Iraq, April 13, 2015.
 Iraqi PM to Seek Military Aid During US Visit  
(voanews.com) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is headed to the United States, where he is expected to ask President Barack nObama to provide his country with more air support and billions of dollars in new arms shipments to fight Islamic State militants...Abadi said Monday the United States has already increased its support of Iraq, "but we want to see more," as Baghdad's forces attempt to recapture vast reaches of their country that have been seized by the insurgents in the last year. ''We, in Iraq, are fighting terrorists on the ground. Terrorism is not only threatening Iraq, it threatens the region and the world alike," Abadi said as he left Baghdad. "We are in need of international support for curbing terrorism. The militants are now smuggling oil and antiquities in order to get money. Thus we are in need of an international effort to halt all criminal attempts by terrorists who aim to continue the bloodletting in Iraq.''        http://www.voanews.com/content/iraqi-pm-to-seek-military-aid-during-us-visit/2717147.html
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Avoiding Hilly Misery
Alan Caruba
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     (factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - While we endure the daily lies of President nObama, do we really want to have another four to eight years more of Hilly Clinton’s? It’s not like we don’t have ample evidence of her indifference to the truth and that is not what America wants in a President, now or ever.
 
     The office has already been degraded to a point where neither our allies nor our enemies trusts anything nObama says. Do we really want to continue a process that could utterly destroy our nation?
 
     Hilly Clinton’s announcement that she intends to run for President is predicated not on any achievements in her life beyond having married Bill Clinton. Instead, her message is that America needs a woman as President. Having already elected an abject failure because he was black, one can only hope and pray that enough voters will conclude that America needs to avoid race or gender to be the determining factor.
 
     In 1974 the 27-year old Hilly was fired from a committee related to the Watergate investigation. Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised her and when the investigation was over, he fired her and refused to give her a letter of recommendation. When asked why, he said, “Because she was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee, and the rules of confidentiality.”
 
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     She has not changed. Writing about her emails, Ronald D. Rotunda, a professor at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, said her admitted destruction of more than 30,000 emails “sure looks like an obstruction of justice—a serious violation of the criminal law. The law says that no one has to us email, but it is a crime (18 U.S.C. section 1519) to destroy even one message to prevent it from being subpoenaed.” The law, said Rotunda, punishes this with up to 20 years imprisonment.
 
     Instead, Hilly is asking voters to give her at least four years in the highest office in the land.
 
     Even pundits like The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, writing in mid-March responded to Hilly saying “None of what you said made any sense. Keeping a single account mingling business and personal with your own server wasn’t about ‘convenience.’ It was about expedience. You became judge and jury on what’s relevant because you didn’t want to leave digital fingerprints for others to retrace.”
 
     “You assume that if it’s good for the Clintons, it’s good for the world, you’re always tangling up government policy with your own needs, desires, deceptions, marital bargains, and gremlins.”
 
     Around the same time as Dowd’s rebuke, I wrote that I thought that the revelations about the emails and the millions the Clinton foundation received from nations with whom she was dealing as Secretary of State would be sufficient for those in charge of the Democratic Party to convince her not to run. I was wrong. I was wrong because I profoundly underestimated Hilly’s deep well of ambition and indifference to the laws everyone else must obey. I was wrong because the Democratic Party is totally corrupt.
 
     It is not as if anyone paying any attention would not know that she is politically to the far Left, a politician who does not believe that the powers of our government are derived from “the consent of the governed.” Throughout her life she has let us know that with quotes such as:
 
“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
 
     “(We) can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”
 
     “I certainly think the free-market has failed.” These quotes are the personification of Communism.
 
     In March, the political pundit, Peggy Noonan, writing in The Wall Street Journal, said “We are defining political deviancy down.” Referring to the email scandal, she asked “Is it too much to imagine that Mrs. Clinton wanted to conceal the record of her communications as America’s top diplomat…?”  That was the reason she ignored the government’s rules regarding such communications. Rarely mentioned is the very strong likelihood that her email account had been hacked by our nation’s enemies and thus everything she was doing, officially and privately, was known to them.
 
     “The story,” said Noonan “is that this is what she does and always has. The rules apply to others, not her.” That is, simply said, a criminal mentality. “Why doesn’t the legacy press swarm her on this?” asked Noonan. “Because she is political royalty.”
 
     We fought a Revolution to free America from the British royalty. This was so ingrained in the thinking of the Founding Fathers that section 9 of Article One of the Constitution says “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States. And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of Congress, accept any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” That’s what the foundation did.
 
     Noonan had earlier written a book about Hilly. “As I researched I remembered why, four years into the Clinton administration, the New York Times columnist William Safire called Hilly ‘a congenital liar…compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.’”
 
     “Do we have to go through all that again?” asked Noonan. “A generation or two ago, a person so encrusted in a reputation for scandal would not be considered a possible presidential contender. She would be ineligible. Now she is inevitable.”
 
     Well, maybe not inevitable. We have a long time to go until the primaries arrive and then the election. We have enough time to ask ourselves if we live in a republic where merit, integrity, and honesty are still the standards by which we select our President.
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JIHAD WATCH

Ashraf Ghani

Afghan president admits he’s losing troops to Islamic State

The worldwide appeal of the concept of the caliphate is demonstrated once again. “Afghan president admits he’s losing troops to ISIS,” Associated Press, March 21, 2015: KABUL, Afghanistan — President Ashraf Ghani publicly acknowledged for the first time Saturday that the Islamic State is gaining influence in Afghanistan as he prepared to leave for the […]

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Muslim from Jamaica detained in Suriname, was trying to join Islamic State

Muslims from all over the world are trying to join the Islamic State. Many are succeeding. Yet our non-Muslim leaders unanimously assure us that it has nothing to do with Islam. Will they explain how this misunderstanding of Islam became so widespread? “Would-be extremist recruit from Jamaica detained in Suriname,” PTI, April 13, 2015 (thanks […]

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Kenya: Imam charged with recruiting youths to jihad mass murder group

An imam? How did he miss all the Qur’an’s peaceful passages? How did he so spectacularly misunderstand the Religion of Peace he has given his life to understanding and teaching properly? “Kenya: Imam in Court for Allegedly Recruiting Youths to Al Shabaab,” The Star via AllAfrica.com, April 11, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): […]

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New Islamic State video calls for attacks in US, promises another 9/11

Warning: the video is graphic. It shows beheadings. For the Islamic State, that is not repulsive — it is a recruitment tool. It signals to Muslims that they are heeding the Qur’anic injunction: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4). “New Islamic State Video Calls for Attacks on the American Homeland, Promises Another […]

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UK Pro-jihad Muslim group boasts: “negotiating with Tory & Labour leadership”

Both Tory and Labour leadership. As in the U.S., the collapse and capitulation of politicians is across the political spectrum. Why not just make Sufyan Ismail Prime Minister and be done with it? “Muslim group with links to extremists boasts of influencing election,” by Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph, April 4, 2015: A front group for Muslim […]

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Pentagon says Islamic State has lost 25% of its territory

This is welcome news, but we have heard this song before, as the Pentagon wants to play up the success of the Obama airstrikes, and the media wants to prop up Obama. So this is what we have been hearing: Has ISIS peaked? Terror group suffers setbacks in Iraq, CNN, November 14, 2014 ISIS Is […]

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Islamic State cartoon shows Obama beheaded by Jihadi John

They don’t know who their friends are. Obama talks tough rhetoric against the Islamic State, but he forecloses on honest discussion of its ideology, motives and goals — which only ensures that that ideology will continue to advance unchallenged. And his weakness and incoherence regarding Iraq and Syria enabled the Islamic State to rise in […]

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42% of Muslims in Canada think Islam and West “irreconcilable”

Then why are they in Canada? To emigrate in the cause of Allah, as Muhammad did from Mecca to Medina, in order to bring Islam to a new land. They came to Canada to bring Sharia there. “42% of Canadian Muslims Admit Islam and West ‘Irreconcilable,’”by Dalit Halevy and Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva, April 13, […]

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Islamic State beheads “blasphemer” with meat cleaver

“Whoever curses a Prophet, kill him. Whoever curses my Companions, beat him.” — Muhammad Muhammad asked: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” One of the Muslims, Muhammad bin Maslama, answered, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” When Muhammad said that he would, […]

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Why is the FBI whitewashing the Saudi connection to 9/11?

And on whose orders? And to what end? And why is no one in either party willing to raise a voice against this coverup? “How the FBI is whitewashing the Saudi connection to 9/11,” by Paul Sperry, New York Post, April 12, 2015: Just 15 days before the 9/11 attacks, a well-connected Saudi family suddenly […]

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DECLARATION OF INTENT

DECLRATION OF INTENT

TO: All U. S. Federal Government and State officials, elected, appointed or employed.

I am a loyal, law-abiding, legal American citizen of the United States of America. I am duty bound to the highest law of the United States, the United States Constitution. It is my duty to honor the Constitution and it is my responsibility to protect it and the Freedoms and Rights it guarantees. I will resist any and all attempts to limit those freedoms and rights by any person, association, organization, government, agency or any other entity regardless of whether they are appointed, employed, or elected. Those Freedoms and Rights include, but are not limited to, the right of religion, the right of free speech, the right of assembly, the right to own and bear arms and all rights afforded by the Constitution. These, along with all rights and freedoms, guaranteed by the Constitution, are not subject to conditions or considerations of a government which seeks to dole them out as it sees fit, they belong to the American people, as does the government. I will, also, resist any attempt made to manipulate, alter, or amend these God given Rights and Freedoms in such a way as to lessen their degree or restrict their accessibility, in any way, by legal, law abiding American citizens, regardless of how or who is attempting to do so. It is my duty as a legal, loyal, law- abiding citizen of the United States of America to insist on and demand the preservation, protection and adherence to the United States Constitution, in letter and spirit intended by our founding fathers, by all my fellow citizens, elected officials, and courts regardless of their position, rank, or authority. This must be so if we are to survive as a nation.
It is with grave sincerity, great Honor and great respect for my Country and its Constitution that I join with my brother and sister Americans by signing this notice.
May God bless our great nation!

Art Phillips (Elevengun)

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THE PATRIOT POST

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Apr. 13, 2015
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THE FOUNDATION

“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.” –Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

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Obama Revises His 2008 Messianic Message on Economy

During his visit to Jamaica, Barack Obama diverted attention away from his failed fiscal policies by further demonizing Wall Street and Big Business. When asked what advice he’d give to himself in 2008, Obama said he would dial back on his “Yes we can” rah rah rah: “I would have probably advised was that I might have needed to warn the American people and paint a picture for them that was more accurate about the fact that it would take some time to dig ourselves out of a very big hole. … I think I would have advised myself to do a better job spending more time not just getting the policy right, but also describing it in ways that people understood, that gave them confidence in their own future.” Translation: He would further temper his messianic save-the-economy rhetoric with even more blaming George W. Bush. There’s something noble about a leader who can only promise, as Winston Churchill did, “blood, toil, tears and sweat.” But that kind politician advocates for personal responsibility — something Obama’s never heard of.More…

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Mass Exodus From ME Welfare Program as State Requires Work

Let’s say you live in the great state of Maine, down on your luck and needing some kind of social safety net to get you through. Would you say that spending at least 20 hours volunteering, working or participating in a work-training program is a fair trade-off for getting on the state’s food stamp program? Even if you spend all your time playing “Call of Duty,” surely you could carve out some time on the weekends to volunteer at the local animal shelter. But that requirement was too tough for 9,000 Mainiacs. Some 12,000 people were on Maine’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program before Jan. 1. After the government started enforcing the 20-hour rule, however, only 2,680 people stayed. Maine’s Department of Health and Human Service’s Commissioner, Mary Mayhew, told the Associated Press, “If you’re on these programs it means you are living in poverty and so the more that we can help incentive people on that pathway to employment and self-sufficiency the better off they’re going to be.” While states like Georgiadabbled with drug testing welfare recipients (which had spotty results), it seems like the best way to help “the least of these” and prevent welfare fraud is to require a bit of honest work. More…

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Jihadi Bomb Plot Foiled in Kansas

On the day Fort Hood victims received their Purple Hearts, CBS News reports on the latest attempted jihad against the U.S. military on American soil: “A 20-year-old man has been charged with planning a suicide bomb attack against the Fort Riley military base in Kansas, in an alleged plot to support the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), federal prosecutors said Friday. John T. Booker, of Topeka, was arrested Friday morning while trying to arm what he thought what a 1,000-pound bomb inside a van near the base, according to court documents.” Booker also goes by the name Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, which might give a clue as to his motive. He didn’t exactly keep it a secret, though, posting on Facebook last year, “I will soon be leaving you forever so goodbye! I’m going to wage jihad and hopes that i [sic] die.” He’s also merely one in a series of would-be ISIL jihadis foiled in their attempts to attack America. More…

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Indiana Pizza Parlor Reopens Without Fanfare

The Left, incensed that owners of Memories Pizza would decline to cater a same-sex wedding because of religious objections, tried to protest the pizza parlor serving a one traffic-light Indiana town out of existence. Due to the threats, Kevin O'Connor closed his shop for eight days. But he reopened April 9 to a full restaurant and not a protester in sight, according to the Associated Press. “I’d do the same thing again,” O'Connor told the AP. “It’s my belief. It’s our belief. It’s what we grew up on. I’m just sorry it comes to this because neither one of us dislike any of those people. I don’t hold any grudges.” During the time his business was shuttered, a producer from The Blaze created a fund for the pizza shop that collected over $800,000 in donations. So are the owners rolling in the dough? (‘Scuse the pun.) “It was really making us uncomfortable,” O'Connor said. After spending a bit on his pizza parlor, he’ll donate some of it to charity. So much for the Left’s conspiratorial explanation of the donations as some kind of guerrilla marketing campaign. The Left couldn’t sustain its rage. What’s left is an operating pizza parlor and the disturbing realization that the Left trivializes religious liberty. More…

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Ease With Marxism Behind Diplomatic Thaw With Cuba

On one hand, Barack Obama’s face-to-face meeting with Cuban leader Raul Castro, which culminated in a handshake, was a failure. Before the meeting, Obama didn’t re-establish a U.S. embassy in Cuba, nor did he scrub the Pearl of the Antilles from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. But in his handshake with Castro, Obama extended goodwill towards Marxism. Furthermore, the two talked by phone ahead of their meeting and the State Department officially released its recommendation to no longer recognize Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism. Cuba was the only country on the short list that supported Marxist terror groups (the rest were countries like Iran that feed Islamic terrorism), which shows that some regard Marxism as no longer a threat. As we wrote back in December when the Obama administration first announced these deals with Cuba, “[T]he U.S. was in prime position to negotiate for human rights improvements in Cuba. Instead, Obama just offered Cuba a huge influx of dollars for nothing in return.” More…

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Is Anybody 'Ready for Hillary’?

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In perhaps the least surprising presidential campaign announcement of all time, Hillary Clinton declared her second bid for a second stint in the White House. It could be, however, that the only one “Ready for Hillary” is Hillary. Because it’s really her turn this time. Don’t screw it up, America.

Her quandary is simple: What do you do when you need to promote the notion that an individual is a “champion of the middle class” when that individual is the poster child of the celebrity governing elite?

You build a marketing campaign around the mirage with a tightly controlled, choreographed public-relations script. And you delete a few thousand emails along the way.

Hillary’s Sunday afternoon video announcement was characteristic of a weak candidate with enough unclaimed baggage to open an outlet store. After all, Hillary’s known for three things, none of which are her personal achievements: Her marriage to Bill, her corrupt influence peddling and her personal email server.

To adequately manage expectations of a hyped Clinton candidate who possesses none of the charisma and friendly persona of her husband, Team Hillary will have to be run very much like Sunday’s rollout — heavily scripted with surrogates on attack against any who dare challenge the machine.

But let’s face it: Hillary isn’t exactly facing stiff competition. Apologies to Martin O'Malley and Lincoln Chafee, two white guys in a party running away from white guys.

In vivid contrast to the announcements of Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, which featured exuberant crowds, upbeat music and soaring vision, the Clinton campaign was a sterile marketed message, plain and simple.

Through a 140-character social media platform, Twitter, and a two-minute video production, the message was, “Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.” She followed with vignettes of “everyday Americans” who could do with a little help from Clinton.

One couple spoke of their move to access a better school. But that serves only to remind voters that Hillary is of the party opposed to school choice. If you can’t move, you’re stuck in a failing school.

In another shot of “everyday Americans,” two men strolling hand-in-hand down a street were said to have upcoming wedding nuptials. There was no mention, however, whether Christian bakeries, photographers or wedding planners would be coerced into service for the wedding arrangements.

Hillary’s voiceover proclaimed that “when America’s families are strong, America is strong.” Yet her party has done so much to dismantle and undermine the family through redefining marriage and 50 years of destructive “Great Society” wealth redistribution. Her party ensures single moms receive their government check and cheaper ObamaCare insurance while married couples are left paying a tax penalty.

But, remember, when you can’t package your authentic stances in a positive manner, you market an image with the help of a supporting cast of characters known as the presstitutes to parrot your hypocritical and deceptive talking points. Hillary is both being marketed and protected by the presstitutes who ably provided cover for Barack Obama through the years. After all, this gaggle serves as the unpaid communications staff to all things DNC.

Hillary Clinton has been first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state. Yet her campaign website looks more like a cross between a Lady’s Home Journal and an HGTV landing page — nice pictures with places to sign up and engage, but not a single issue stance.

Expect more of Sunday’s same for the next year and a half, as Hillary Clinton becomes the nominee for the intellectually bankrupt Democrat Party — a marketed mirage speaking to vacuous generalities.

Hillary will appear to be everywhere and accessible to all. In reality, she’ll be accessible only to her own champions and hiding from the unscripted world. But hey, if she wins, maybe she’ll return the silverware she stole when she left “dead broke” last time.

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Yeah, About That Nuclear Deal…

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Congressional Democrats began a coordinated attack last week against the effort to give Congress a say in the nuclear deal with Iran. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) has proposed legislation that would make Congress, not the president, the deciding authority on whether or not to relieve sanctions against Iran, since those sanctions were put in place by Congress. Some Democrats are on board with Corker’s plan, but will they hold the line?

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Colleges or Nursery Schools?

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The University of Michigan is the latest American campus determined to prove that the central premise of higher education — the free and open exchange of competing ideas — is a cruel hoax. Last Tuesday, in a spasm of oh-so familiar political correctness, UM initially canceled a scheduled showing of “American Sniper” after 300 students and others whined about the “negative and misleading stereotypes” of Muslims portrayed in the film. As pathetic as that outburst was, the Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) that oversees student activities managed to top it, saying, “While our intent was to show a film, the impact of the content was harmful, and made students feel unsafe and unwelcome at our program.”

But wait, it actually got even more absurd.

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OPINION IN BRIEF

The Gipper: “Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases.”

Columnist Burt Prelutsky: “[M]ost Republican voters aren’t even sure at this point whether they favor Walker or Bush, Cruz or Paul, Rubio or Fiorina. The party is still more than a year away from selecting a nominee, but I can assure you that once that’s been decided, Hillary Clinton is unlikely to lead in the polls. For one thing, Obama will leave the White House under a far darker cloud than did George W. Bush. That means Hillary will have to run against his policies, which will turn off Obama’s greatest admirers, especially among blacks. On the other hand, if she adopts his anti-Israel policies, she will turn off a sizable number of wealthy Jews. If she veers in the opposite direction, she will antagonize an even larger number of liberal Jews. As a woman pushing 70, she will hardly be attractive to young voters. As someone who has already spent eight years in the White House, she won’t have the advantage of running as either a newcomer or a Washington outsider. And with all of that, she will also be toting more baggage than a team of bellhops.”

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Columnist Larry Kudlow: “Gen. Jack Keane believes President Obama has had a grand-bargain vision for Iran since 2009. The nuclear deal is just one part of it. That’s why Obama gave no help to the million Iranian reformers who marched in protest of the phony 2009 elections. That’s why Obama didn’t help the Syrian rebels, why he’s had such a cold relationship with Israel, why he gave speeches blaming America for Arab unrest and why until very recently he didn’t give any help to Egyptian president al-Sisi. Obama believes in detente with Iran as a pathway to U.S. disengagement from the region. But Iran is our enemy, whether the president believes it or not. And if we cut deals that allow Iran to continue its terrorist and hegemonic activities, the Obama administration will have created an unbelievable Middle East powder keg, setting the stage for a conflict that could possibly dwarf any we’ve seen before. This is the worst U.S. foreign policy of my lifetime. It may be the worst in American history.”

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Comedian Jimmy Fallon: “In a new interview, the president discussed the upcoming election. He said that Hillary Clinton is going to do great as a presidential candidate. When asked how Biden would do, Obama said, ‘Hillary’s going to do great.’”

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Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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CHRISTIAN LOVE

President Obama shows great respect for Muslims and their holy days and even lectures us to do the same. And yet, a few days after another slaughter of Christians which Obama refused to acknowledge, Obama cavalierly chose the Christian high holy day of Easter to take yet another of his signature shots at Christians. Obama displays a hypersensitive respect for Islam while displaying little sensitivity or respect for Christians while claiming to be a Christian. The Bible says by their fruits ye shall know them.

At the Easter Prayer Breakfast, Obama accused Christians of not acting in love.

This Leftist trick (tactic) has worked on too many Christians for far too long.

Candidly, I found myself in church rolling my eyes listening to a sermon in which the pastor chided his congregation. His rebuke is the LGBT community does not like Christians because we are not loving enough to them. Most Christians I know are extremely tolerant and loving to homosexuals. I sat there thinking, “Brother, that's not what this is about. Obviously, you have not yet realized the Left's War on Christianity.” This “ain't” about homosexuals seeking acceptance. The Left's mission hidden in plain sight is to force their secular, liberal and anti-biblical agenda down our throats. Some say the Left has already won over a generation of our kids; hiBlackjacking their thinking starting in kindergarten with books like “Heather Has Two Mommies.”

Whenever Christians catch wind of the Left's stealthily orchestrated war on Christians and push back, the Left employs their you're-not-acting-in-love according to the teachings of Jesus tactic. Insidious and repulsive. These people who despise Jesus dare to reference His teachings to manipulate Christians.

The Left's narrative is love equals accepting someone just the way they are.

My brother said, “Love does not mean we should co-sign sin.” If your child is a thief, love does not require you to support their illegal behavior. Quite the opposite. Whom the Lord loves He chastens.

As I stated, far too many Christians are manipulated by the Left's love guilt-trip tactic. In the name of love, duped Christians are ignoring God's Word to adopt an anything goes mindset. The Bible says hate the sin, but love the sinner. The Left are highly enraged by this biblical command to Christians.

The Left demands that Christians enthusiastically rubber stamp anti-biblical behavior or risk being made an example of; humiliated in the mainstream media, sued and forced out of business. Hello, the Catholic nuns of Little Sisters of the Poor, Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, Arlene's Flowers and Gifts, Elane Photography, Mozilla CEO, the Benham brothers who lost their show on HGTV and Memories Pizza to name a few.

The Left's message is alarmingly loud and clear. To all who do not embrace our mission to kill babies and paint the mark of the homosexual rainbow over the door of your business, we will figuratively bury you.

Loyal to Obama, some black pastors now embrace same sex marriage. I heard a black minister scold his congregation. He preached that Obama is correct in embracing same sex marriage because he is president, not a Christian evangelist. A supposed man of God praising the president for siding against God's Word.

A black Christian minister friend strongly opposed same sex marriage. Desperate to make Obama good and his Christian opposition wrong, my friend changed. His excuse is you can not legislate behavior. He said his faith does not permit him to attend a homosexual wedding ceremony, but he would attend the homosexual wedding reception. I thought, “What do you say chatting with guests? Wasn't Harry a beautiful bride?“

Praise God! A coalition of over 3,700 black Christian ministers are pushing back against Obama and the Left's anti-biblical agenda.

Folks, please listen to this compelling interview on the Joe Miller radio show with John Zmirak. John articulates what the Left has been scheming under the radar of most Christians. Note that John once supported same sex marriage, but has come to realize that it is only the tip of the iceberg of the Left's scary anti-Christian agenda.

Bottom line, Christian's strategy of appeasing the Left is in essence allowing the fox to run rampant in the hen house; corrupting the minds of our kids via public schools, Hollywood and the media.

In His love, it is time for Christians to stand up and be salt and light in our culture.

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee

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Tuesday Morning - The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Debunking the News
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Going whole quahog: Chaffee hammers Hilly -   WaPo
: “Lincoln Chafee, a former U.S. senator and governor from Rhode Island, announced Thursday that he is exploring a run for the Democratic presidential nomination. And unlike other potential Clinton challengers, Chafee appears to be spoiling for a fight. …Chafee did not mince words when he said Clinton's 2002 Senate vote to authorize military action in Iraq should disqualify her from becoming commander in chief. ‘I don't think anybody should be president of the United States that made that mistake,’ Chafee said. ‘It's a huge mistake and we live with broad, broad ramifications today — of instability not only in the Middle East but far beyond and the loss of American credibility. There were no weapons of mass destruction.’ Chafee, who was a Republican at the time, was the only senator from his party to vote against the Iraq war authorization.” 
-Fox News 
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 Wounded pride -   Former President Bill Clinton is pushing back on a NYT report that described him thusly: “…his hearing has faded. With his head of white hair and frail frame, he looks older than his 68 years.” An attendee of a recent private fundraiser for the Clinton Foundation delivered the talking points to Politico, in which Bubba called the piece “creative writing.” The NYT report says that while Hilly insiders will grant the former president considerable access, a senior aide will serve as his minder.  -Fox News 
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE 
London’s big dig, a $23 billion underground commuter line called Crossrail, has become something of a ghoulish party for archeologists. Thus far, tunnel excavation has yielded a section of a medieval barge, a Bronze Age wooden walkway and the remains of a Mesolithic campfire. New Yorker contributor Sam Knight describes the fascinating and spooky layers of history being unearthed at the dig’s largest site, the Bedlam burial ground. Archeologists are literally working the graveyard shift on the acre of land in the heart of the financial district as they unearth thousands of bodies. The dig contains victims of the bubonic plague of 1655, a volcanic eruption in 1258 and the remains of a Roman cemetery that contained 5,000 skeletons. “There is a lot of death here in Liverpool Street,” Jay Carver, Crossrail’s lead archeologist, said “It is a reservoir of information.”   -Fox News 
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 Ryan: Walker has a ‘really good chance’ to win nomination -   During an interview Thursday with a Milwaukee television station, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., had kind words to offer for his fellow Wisconsinite, Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis. “I think he’s got a really good chance and I look forward to seeing how it goes for him,” Ryan said. The 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate added, “I think … people are taking great interest in his candidacy.”
          [Evolution of a candidacy - Fox Business: “Gov. Scott Walker heads to Europe [this weekend] on a trade mission featuring private meetings with business and government representatives in Germany, France and Spain…”]  -Fox News 
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 SENATORS FACE HEAT OVER IRAN BILL 
A group founded by former Sens. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., Norm Coleman, R-Minn., Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Saxby Chambliss R-Ga., is putting $650,000 towards hitting current members of the Senate who have not pledged their support of a bill that would give Congress a say over the Iranian nuclear deal. The ad shows a white van weaving through traffic as warnings from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu play. In the close of the ad, the van explodes atop a parking garage. From the ad against Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., “Tell Senator Shaheen: No Iran nuclear deal without congressional approval. Before it’s too late.” The American Security Initiative is set to launch a similar ad today against Sen. Chris Coons D-Del. The group is also set to air ads thanking Senators who have pledged their support of Sen. Bob Corker’s, R-Tenn., bill.

          Dissension in the Dem ranks - Chief Congressional Correspondent Mike Emanuel examines how the recent swipes Democrats have taken at each other could be sign of further friction in the blue team’s ranks.  -Fox News 
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 First of thousands of Syrians Resettled in ….. North Texas  
(pamelageller.com) - The FBI admits that they cannot properly screen the Syrians, while the US State Department is telling the media that 10,000 Syrians will be here soon. Syria, home of the Islamic State...Al hijrah, jihad by immigration. And while the genocide of Christians is ongoing in Syria, over 90% of the Syrians who are being brought to America are Muslims. It’s a catastrophe. The top five states targeted for Syrian Muslim resettlement are California, Illinois, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas. Meanwhile, dozens of American jihadis who fought in the war in Iraq and Syria have returned to the United States, equipped with the training they used fighting either for or against ISIS, according to one federal official. Maybe the State Department can reunite these two very similar Muslim groups.       http://pamelageller.com/2015/04/first-of-thousands-of-syrians-resettled-in-north-texas.html/
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In 1799, as Napoleon Bonaparte's army was besieging the city of Acre, Napoleon issued a letter, offering the Palestine as a homeland to the Jews, referring to them as "Rightful heirs of Palestine." Above, a painting depicting the siege of Acre.

 A British Conference on Israel's Right to Exist: Really?  
(George Phillips) - Iran has violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty time after time, often undetected; it also continues to violate Article 2, clause 4, of the United Nations Charter... "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state..." During the British Mandate, the entire area was known as Palestine. The official listing for "Place of Birth" on all passports at the time -- for everyone, including Jews -- was Palestine. One can only hope that what clearly seems such a fatally dangerous deal -- that threatens the existence of not only Israel, the Middle East and Europe, but, with Iran's intercontinental ballistic missile program, also the United States -- will not be allowed to happen.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5534/israel-right-to-exist-conference
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 Hanoi Kerry: Congress Vote Cannot Interfere With Iran Deal  
(totalconservative.com) - Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry is perfectly fine with Congress having a vote on the nuclear deal he put together with Iran…just as long as that vote doesn’t actually have any effect on what he accomplished...Speaking with PBS’ NewsHour, Hanoi Kerry said that any bill that Congress came up with must not “assault presidential authority and the Constitution.” Hearing this administration talk about presidential authority and the Constitution is enough to angry up the blood, but let’s see what else Hanoi Kerry has to say about these concepts. “Congress is going to vote,” he said. “Congress can vote any day it wants to. You know, the majority leader has the right to bring something to the floor and have a vote. So this is really, I think, a little bit excessive. The truth is, also, Congress will have to vote to lift, ultimately, some of the sanctions which are congressionally mandated. So we all understand the process here and I just think we need to be serious in a way that does not interfere with the president’s ability to pursue the foreign policy interests of our nation.” Ah. Suddenly this administration is worried about the separation of powers. How droll.       http://totalconservative.com/kerry-congress-vote-cannot-interfere-with-iran-deal/
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 nObama Strangles the Monroe Doctrine and Embraces Communists  
(Terresa Monroe-Hamilton) - I wrote some time ago on how Hanoi John Kerry went to Latin America and declared the Monroe Doctrine dead. nObama just finalized it in Cuba...The Monroe Doctrine has been in place since 1823 and has long warned America’s enemies to not even THINK about using South America as a back door to bring Communism and aggression to our doorstep. Well, nObama has thrown that proverbial door wide open to South America and has invited in every enemy we have. Hell, he’s thrown our door at the borders open inviting them into the US as well. He wants America at war and brought to her knees and he’s really going for it now. As Doug Ross pointed out, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 brought us to the very brink of nuclear war. The Monroe Doctrine stopped that apocalyptic nightmare from becoming a reality. Kennedy “cited the Monroe Doctrine as a basis for America’s ‘eyeball-to-eyeball’ confrontation with the Soviet Union that had embarked on a campaign to install ballistic missiles on Cuban soil.” That was before the Democrats went full blown Marxist and decided to destroy America from within her own shores. nObama has now stated for the world that the US will no longer act to resist overseas influence in the Western Hemisphere.       http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/04/12/obama-strangles-the-monroe-doctrine-and-embraces-latin-dictatorships-communists-and-fascists/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29
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 Judge Jeanine Destroys Hilly’s Sham of Caring  
(youtube.com) - Judge Jeanine Pirro eviscerated former and expected presidential candidate Hilly Clinton during her “Opening Statement” Saturday, saying that although she’d welcome a woman president, Clinton clearly isn’t that woman... “I want someone who says what she means, and means what she says,” she said. “I want someone who understands and respects the Judeo-Christian ethics upon which this country was founded. I want someone who cares about us, who cares about the American people,” she said, emphasizing “American.” “Hilly Clinton is not that person.”       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee93Kpd6mds
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 Ideological Brothers nObama And Castro Overlooking “U.S. Mistakes”  
(rickwells.us) - More fundamental change is being imposed by nObama on behalf of his enablers. We would be wrong to believe that this shift nObama is referring to is one away from the tyranny of the Cuban model...It is our nation, flooded by the populations of those countries whose leaders he sits among, that will be shifting further away from free representative government. After taking time to blast the U.S. for opposing his nation’s tyrannical regime in the past, the communist from Cuba expressed his great admiration for the lifelong communist who has seized control of America saying, “In my opinion ‘president’ nObama is an honest man.” That’s a hasty opinion to announce to the world based solely upon skimming the two official autobiographical fairy tales this “honest man” had other America-haters write for him. That deception alone, discounting the cover to cover fraudulence, should disqualify him from the Cuban’s overly generous characterization. nObama was raised and mentored by communists sworn to the destruction of America and he continues his work today as he cozies up to the Cuban communists. What is there for his comrade not to like? If Raul had a son, he’d act like nObama.     http://www.rickwells.us/cozy-communist-comrades-ideological-brothers-obama-and-castro-overlooking-u-s-mistakes-of-the-past/
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 nObama’s Communist Road Show  
(.rickwells.us) - The signs are unmistakable. nObama is actively engaged in the communist redistribution of our wealth around the world, with his focus currently on the founding of a regional “Americas” government in the Western Hemisphere...We are borrowing the money that he is throwing away to the other nations of “the Americas,” massively elevating our debt while lowering our standard of living and only marginally raising theirs. It’s a critical component in the acceptance by the American people of a world government, reducing the level of resistance once the former identities and financial disincentives are sufficiently diluted. nObama uses Cuba and Raul Castro as the poster child for our new direction towards communism, a move he initiated months ago in preparation for this event. Telling points in his address include his statement in which he admits to a realignment and more of his destructive fundamental change, saying, “Alongside our shift towards Cuba,” and then goes on to describe the other handouts that he has prepared for the rest of the nations represented.       http://www.rickwells.us/obamas-communist-road-show-alongside-our-shift-towards-cuba-redistributing-u-s-wealth-to-the-americas/
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 The United Nations Controls Calif – At Mercy Of Hijacked State Govt  
(rickwells.us) - There are those who feel that California is somehow deserving of their current water wars and drought, that they have brought it upon themselves through their reckless environmental activism and the accompanying socialist policies...That is true if in fact the elections are representative of the will of the people. But what if they aren’t? What if that state’s government is a victim of the same hijacking that has taken place on a national scale? What if the United Nations has chosen California as the trigger point location for their takeover of the United States through economic and social collapse? While weaponized weather has long been suspected as one of the goals of the government’s spraying of chemtrails, with huge expenditures of the people’s resources wasted in the process, they have gotten away with pretending it simply isn’t happening.       http://www.rickwells.us/the-united-nations-controls-california-powerless-citizens-at-mercy-of-hijacked-state-govt-drought-agenda-21-water-policies/
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 nObama Warns Parents: Your Kids Are Mine  
(Cliff Kincaid) - President Barack nObama has issued a declaration on human sexuality and what constitutes moral and mental health for the nation. He is warning Christian parents that the federal government wants their kids...This is not how the story is being reported, however. For example, a story in Politico carries the headline, “Barack nObama denounces ‘conversion therapies’ for gays,” with the words “conversion therapies” in quotes, as if to suggest there’s some doubt that homosexuals can return to being straight. This is all too typical of the mentality that grips the major media and is designed to suggest that homosexuality is somehow natural and cannot be changed. But honest journalism, which is virtually non-existent when covering homosexuality, would take a different approach to the topic.       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obama-warns-parents-your-kids-are-mine/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email041315&utm_medium=email
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 The Greatest Threat to Our National Security  
(Retired Adm. James A. Lyons) - When President-elect nObama declared that he was going to “fundamentally transform” America, not many Americans understood what that meant. They certainly did not understand that he did not believe in America’s exceptionalism and greatness...They were also unaware of his past Marxist indoctrination, blaming America for many of the world’s problems. Therefore, anything that undercuts and withdraws America’s power and influence is seen as being objectively progressive. This is fundamental to understanding why President nObama shows empathy with American’s enemies, e.g., Iran, Cuba, Russia, and China. It is also key to understanding our precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, as well as the loss of our influence in the region with the rise of Islam. President nObama apparently shares the view that the colonial powers unjustifiably suppressed Islam for the better part of two centuries. Therefore, the best way to rectify that situation is to withdraw the U.S. and let Islam rise again. Of course, this actually started under the Carter administration with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism when the Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979.       http://www.aim.org/guest-column/the-greatest-threat-to-our-national-security/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email041315&utm_medium=email
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Debunking the News
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     (burtprelutsky.com) - When State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked if the administration still believes the trade of five high-ranking jihadists for one Army deserter was a good deal, her blithe response was that we are still able to monitor their activities. When a follow-up question mentioned that three of the five have already attempted to rejoin their fellow terrorists in order to kill Americans, she actually said that proved that our attempts to monitor their activities have been successful. It was at that point my head exploded.

     But she is the least of our worries when you realize that even after our ambassador had to beat a hasty retreat out of Yemen and our Marines had to make good their last second getaway on civilian transport, after leaving their weapons behind, nObama continued to call Yemen one of his more notable successes. I suppose it qualifies if one also considers the Titanic, the Hindenburg and nObamaCare, success stories.

     ♦ Generally, when Democrats brag that they’re the ones with a sense of humor, pointing with pride to the likes of David Letterman, Bill Maher, Joy Behar and Jon Stewart, they only sound foolish. Unless you’re a registered Democrat, meaning that you are ready to laugh at any insult, no matter how lame, directed at Republicans, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything they say even slightly amusing.

     On the other hand, their politicians, and not just loose lip Joe Biden, are always cracking me up. Just recently, dinky Harry Reid, 75, announced that he won’t be running for re-election in 2016. We all know that the only reason that dinky Harry is retiring is because after being the majority leader of the Senate, the second most powerful man in Washington, it’s no fun at all being just another nObama sock puppet. But, proving that he hasn’t lost his fabulous sense of whimsy, dinky Reid announced that the reason he won’t be seeking a sixth term is because “I want to be able to go out at the top of my game.” I haven’t stopped laughing since.

     ♦ Speaking of 2016, Hilly Clinton’s staff has informed the media that they should refrain from using the following words and terms in referring to her campaign: “polarizing,” “calculating,” “disingenuous,” “insincere,” “ambitious,” “inevitable,” “entitled,” “over-confident,” “secretive,” “will do anything to win,” “representing the past” and “out of touch.”

     Because I try to be as chivalrous as the next guy – assuming the next guy isn’t Bill Clinton – I was wondering what words I could possibly still use in writing about her. But, then, I realized that they hadn’t banned “devious,” “cunning,” “cut-throat,” “nasty,” “Borgia-like,” “abusive,” “corrupt,” “vindictive,” “arrogant,” “snide,” “power-mad” and “reptilian,” and I realized I’d still be able to cover her campaign while abiding by her dictatorial edicts.

     ♦ On the subject of campaigns, we hear that a lot of women would vote for Republicans except they’re concerned that it would hasten the day that Roe v. Wade was over-turned. What they never explain is why after decades of sex education classes and a cornucopia of contraceptive pills and devices, abortions are still taking place in this country, and why that single issue should take precedence over national security, the economy, education, energy independence, a strong military and an abiding faith in the Constitution.

     ♦ For his part, Rand Paul seems to have based his entire campaign on the notion that only he can bring young voters into the GOP tent, but inasmuch as the singular attraction of a Paul presidency seems to be his willingness to legalize marijuana, they wouldn’t really be Republicans, they’d be stoners.

     ♦ On other fronts, the Justice Department’s "Operation Choke Point" is trying to put gun and ammo shops out of business by getting banks to shut down their accounts and refusing them business loans. By lumping those who legally sell firearms with telemarketers, home-based charities and loan sharks, Eric Holder’s storm troopers are pretending they’re only looking to go after those who engage in money laundering. And, naturally, we are being told that nObama, who has spent six years waging war on the Second Amendment, had nothing to do with it. It’s always just a providential coincidence with nObama, whether it involves Lois Lerner targeting the Tea Party or using Bowe Bergdahl to help him empty out Gitmo.

     ♦ When liberals bad-mouth America while praising left-wing sewers like Russia and Cuba, do they ever stop and ask themselves why so many people risk their lives trying to escape from paradise and so few, aside from fugitives like Edward Snowden and Assata Shakur (born JoAnne Byron), ever flee in the opposite direction?

     Another question they would do well to ask themselves is if it were the Palestinians, whom they seem to adore, as opposed to Israel’s Jews, whom they openly despise, that possessed a nuclear bomb, would they be equally reluctant to exterminate the enemy?

     ♦ As of this moment, I am still hearing a number of reasons being floated as the possible motive behind Andreas Lubitz’s crashing the jetliner in the French Alps.

     The two most popular seem to be a recurring depression that apparently failed to register with his employers at Lufthansa (which will be known as Losthansa once the lawsuits are finally paid off) and a possible breakup with an anonymous girlfriend. By this time, though, having seen numerous photos of Mr. Lubitz, my own theory is that he was a homosexual who either suffered from conflicted feelings about his orientation or, perhaps, had recently been dumped by a gay lover and been thrown into an emotional tailspin by feelings of heartbreak and abandonment.

     All I know is that the last time I saw anyone who was so obviously effete, it was convicted Army spy Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Manning).

     Whatever Lubitz’s motive may ultimately turn out to be, his murdering 149 innocent men, women and children, is the reason that I find myself more often hoping there’s a Hell than a Heaven.

     The way I see it, good people often get to experience a great deal of heaven right here on earth, but far too many villains seem to evade their just deserts, and one can only hope they will eventually pay the ultimate price.
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By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

Over the weekend, the wife of Monica Lewinski’s former boyfriend announced her bid to hill-1.jpg?width=283become the next Muslim Brotherhood connected, gender neutral, heir apparent to the White House….a move that if successful, would make Bill the SECOND first spouse with a winky in his pants…possibly the third as we’ve never been completely sure of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Hillary Clinton has thrown her pant suit into the ring.

She’s a walking, stumbling, falling down scandal wrapped in deceit and treason.

Hillary was FIRED from the Watergate investigation of RICHARD NIXON for UNETHICAL behavior and LYING. In other words…HER actions were as bad or worse than NIXON’S were.

HILLARY CLINTON engineered the nuclear ‘deal’ with North Diarrhea and we all know how that worked out. She pressed the RESET button with Russia and Putin hasn’t been a problem since has he? Hillary was the overseer of the Benghazi disaster but…”At this point, what difference does it make???” And she says we need to EMPATHIZE with our ENEMIES to gain a better understanding of their positions.

I don’t know about you but I don’t WANT to understand why 7th century barbarians cut off people’s heads or burn them alive and I certainly don’t think showing EMPATHY for their acts in inhuman behavior is going to make things all better.

But…

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THE TRUTH WILL SET OUR COUNTRY FREE

By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist  -  voteforamerica@gmail.com

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

Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties. http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-treasonous-bush-family  -  https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=891872217525906&fref=nf

Fellow Americans, the truth will set our country free. Our duty as Americans is; to seek the truth and stand for truth, justice, the rule of law and our US Constitution.  The truth is that our government is corrupt, most are selected and chosen by the oligarchs to work for them; they are sycophants without conscience or morals, they committed crimes against humanity and they should pay for their crimes. We the people have the power to get justice for the ones that died by the Deeds of the criminals that use their government position to commit these crimes and deceive the American people to gain their support.  The killings done by these criminals tinted our hands with the blood of the innocent; only the devil will be able to commit this genocide. George H.W. Bush was the architect of the CIA and FBI drug trafficking and distribution in our country that made millions of Blacks and Latinos drug addicts and the destruction of thousands of Black and Latino families and all this was done to get the money for the funding of the Nicaraguan insurgents;  The US government viewed the leftist Sandinistas as a threat to the economic interests of American corporations in Nicaragua and to protect the US corporations Bush orchestrated these criminal acts that cost the lives of thousands and the addiction to drugs of millions of Americans. His son George w. Bush, was the architect of the 9/11 control demolition of the tween towers in New York and the Pentagon in DC. This is an act of treason done by the devil himself; killing over three thousands Americans to get the support to invade Iraq and Afghanistan can only be done by the devil himself. The wars was planned and executed by the Bush administration and our military for the sole purpose of controlling the rich oil resources of the Middle East, this war cost the lives of thousands of Americans and over one million Arabians. The wars continue by deceiving the American people and making they believe that our soldiers are fighting terrorism in protection of our security and freedom, which is a complete lie; the wars are for control of the oil and nothing else.

Fellow Americans, no question about it, we have a bunch of sycophants in control of our country. Millions know that this is a fact; our courts fail to prosecute them, they are granted impunity for their crimes and are being reward for these crimes against Americans and the world community. Are we Americans lost our morality and trashed our real responsibility to seek justice and enforce our laws?,  or we are going to stand united as one to seek justice and re-store our morality and principles?. The question is simple; who is worse, the criminals that committed the crimes or we the ones that know that crimes are committed and do nothing to punish the criminals and become part of this genocide and deception done in the name of Democracy, freedom and our national security.

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The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm 

http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=irancontraaffair&irancontraaffair_key_figures=irancontraaffair_george_h__w__bush 

http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_28.htm

Former CIA agent Exposes the 911 Cover up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAawF22QUMs

Over 2200 Architects And Engineers Demolish The ‘Official’ 9/11 Commission Report

http://www.storyleak.com/over-2200-architects-and-engineers-destroy-the-official-911-commission-report/

The treasonous Bush family
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-treasonous-bush-family

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