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Patricia Smith targets Hillary

 

Two speeches at the opening night of the GOP Convention stood in stark contrast in both their content and their treatment by the lamestream media. The chattering class on the left focused on Melania Trump’s alleged plagiarism of Michelle Obama’s speech in 2008. They have largely ignored Patricia Smith, mother of Benghazi casualty Sean Smith, and her documentation of Hillary’s lies to the parents of the Benghazi dead in front of their son’s caskets.

Melania may have paraphrased too close to the edge, but borrowing clichés about hard work and family does not plagiarism make and, even so, plagiarism is not perjury, as serial liar Hillary Clinton arguably committed in testimony under oath before Congress, Neither did she show Hillary’s callous disregard for the families of the Benghazi dead that Patricia Smith focused on in her riveting convention speech....

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Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications. 

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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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On the Brink of National Race Wars,
Now Is Not the Time to Mince Words
by Michael Brown
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 Ginsburg Can't Put Toothpaste Back in Tube 
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Regrets, she's had a few. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is now sorry for speaking her mind about Donald Trump so unrestrainedly in the last few days. "On reflection," she now says, "my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them. Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect." Circumspection was at least on display from her fellow justice, Stephen Breyer, who wisely dodged, "If I had an opinion [on her comments], I wouldn't express it."
          We suspect Ginsburg's regret is influenced at least in part from backlash even from fellow leftist travelers. "Washington is more than partisan enough without the spectacle of a Supreme Court justice flinging herself into the mosh pit," The New York Times editorialized.
          The question now is whether she'll have the decency to resign or at minimum recuse herself in future cases involving either Trump or liar-Hillary Clinton. Her ability to be impartial is permanently suspect — as if it wasn't already. And being "more circumspect" in the future doesn't mean her mind is changed. The problem with a resignation, however, is that any successor either Barack nObama or liar-Clinton might nominate would be at least as leftist and without the public relations problems. So as we've said so many times we've lost count, the principle issue in this election might just be the Supreme Court. And on that, Trump is vastly superior-The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
David Limbaugh: "You would think that at a funeral of fallen cops — ones murdered by a self-avowed hater of cops and whites — nObama would keep his powder dry. He could have just been neutral — silent on the matter. Instead, he launched into a diatribe about the allegedly unequal treatment of blacks in the criminal justice system. Let me ask you: If you were the parent of an individual slain at the hands of a certain hater, would you want the eulogizer to shift into criminal defense mode for the killer? Would you expect him to categorically denounce the criminal justice system and law enforcement as racially tainted, to whatever degree? Would you expect him to stump for gun control? To align himself with the Black Lives Matter agenda? ... I pray and pray that one day, a significant percentage of all minorities in this nation will come to realize that one political party is exploiting and damaging them, and it's not the party they think it is."   -The Patriot Post
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PA Honors Another Terrorist Amid U.S.
Foreign Aid Re-Evaluation
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Instead of promoting peaceful coexistence, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to honor yet another Palestinian terrorist who killed numerous Israeli civilians... The PA unveiled a statue Sunday of terrorist Ahmad Jabarah Abu Sukkar who orchestrated a deadly bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 and injured over 60 Israelis in 1976, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reports. Abu Sukkar was released after serving 28 years of a life sentence as part of an Israeli goodwill gesture to the PA in 2003. Senior Palestinian officials – including the director of the PA's Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Karake, and the governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh, Laila Ghannam, – participated in the terrorists' commemoration...
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123,000 Venezuelans Cross Border
into Columbia Looking for Food
by Sarah Fisher
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Starving Venezuelans continued their search for food this weekend when more than 100,000 crossed into Columbia seeking food and medicine... It was the second weekend in a row that Venezuela's socialist government opened the long-closed border with Colombia, and by 6 a.m. Sunday, a line of would-be shoppers snaked through the entire town of San Antonio del Tachira. Some had traveled in chartered buses from cities 10 hours away. Venezuela's government closed all crossings a year ago to crack down on smuggling along the 1,378-mile (2,219 kilometer) border. It complained that speculators were causing shortages by buying up subsidized food and gasoline in Venezuela and taking them to Colombia, where they could be sold for far higher prices...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/123000-venezuelans-cross-border-columbia-looking-food
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Israel is the Floodgate
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ The following anonymous set of cartoons forwarded to TruthRevolt emphasizes in one simple series the strategic importance of Israel to our Islamic enemies and to the United States... As its closing caption notes, "the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel."...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/israel-floodgate
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The Coming Russian and Chinese
Invasion of America...
by Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ After the completion of martial law, World War III will be upon us. We are being set up to be conquered!... Under the blue-helmeted soldiers of the UN, we will be put upon by Russians and Chinese troops. When they come to our towns, they will not be coming to take prisoners. They want your material possessions and they want to take your life. The following interview with Steve Quayle, Dave Hodges, and Doug Hagmann is a classic!  This is a can’t missing interview about what it coming. Once you start to listen to this interview, you will not be able to stop listening... http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/07/18/coming-invasion-america-quayle-hodges-hagmann/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coming-invasion-america-quayle-hodges-hagmann
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South China Sea Update
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ China has been busy. In addition to the continued building up of artificial islands and reefs in contested areas, the country has added assets to other islands... The PLA has set up radar and airstrips on the Spratly Islands. This is problematic since these could be used for military purposes although China claims it's for civilian use. A more troubling development is on the Paracels where it is believed they now have surface-to-air capabilities on Woody Island. In recent weeks Chinese ships entered Japanese territorial waters as Japan was holding military drills with India and the US. In addition, last week saw China protest over Japan's scrambled jet response to its fighter jet patrols of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. Why so much activity? Sign point to a position-bolstering show of force before an upcoming court case. Possibly as early as this week the permanent court of arbitration (PCA) in The Hague will hand down its ruling about the dispute over territorial waters between the Philippines and China. This suit was possible because both countries are signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Although the ruling does not address sovereignty, it could impact how Economic Exclusive Zones (EEZ) are determined when it comes to artificial islands like the ones China has been reclaiming for years...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/south-china-sea-update?f=must_reads
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Nice, Baton Rouge, Milwaukee: They Win, We Lose
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ As I have been saying for quite a while, the terrorists are in a hurry. They know that their free run at their enemies will not last much longer, and so they are eager to grab whatever they can as fast as they can... They expect things will get tougher when the next president takes over in January. For the moment they expect the nObama administration to make nice to Iran and Russia, Cuba and China, and the other members of the global alliance arrayed against us. There will be more, and I will be surprised if there are not more attacks here in the United States. It's not as if they are not trying;  we keep arresting would-be jihadis and sometimes they succeed. Orlando, for example. And today, as I write, Baton Rouge. And then Milwaukee. We are still not fighting to win the war. We are on defense, which is a sucker's game... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/nice-baton-rouge-milwaukee-they-win-we-lose?f=must_reads
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First anniversary of Iran nuclear deal
marred by massive cheating
by FRED FLEITZ
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Expect the nObama administration to take more victory laps this week by claiming Iran has complied with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal that reached its first anniversary on July 14... However, recent press reports paint a very different picture, one that confirms its critics' worst fears: massive Iranian violations of the agreement. In an annual security report issued this month, German intelligence said Iran made a clandestine effort last year to acquire illicit nuclear technology and equipment from German companies at a "quantitatively high level," and that "it is safe to expect that Iran will continue its intensive procurement activities in Germany using clandestine methods to achieve its objectives." A German intelligence agency reported 141 clandestine Iranian attempts to acquire nuclear and missile technology in 2015 versus 83 in 2013. According to a July 7 memo from the Institute for Science and International Security, Iran recently tried, unsuccessfully, to covertly purchase tons of high-strength carbon fiber, which it uses to make rotors for uranium enrichment centrifuges. Under the JCPOA, Iran is required to seek approval for such purchases from a JCPOA procurement working group. The Institute said the JCPOA group probably would not have approved this sale, since Iran has enough carbon fiber to replace the rotors of centrifuges it is permitted to operate under the agreement... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/first-anniversary-of-iran-nuclear-deal-marred-by-massive-cheating?f=must_reads
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Murdochs to Remove Fox News Chief
Roger Ailes: NY Magazine
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{newsmax.com} ~ 21st Century Fox Inc. plans to remove Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive officer of Fox News who has been accused of sexual harassment by former anchor Gretchen Carlson, according to New York Magazine... Fox Co-Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch and his sons James and Lachlan have agreed that Ailes should depart, though they haven’t settled on the timing or terms of his exit, the magazine reported, citing people it didn’t identify. Ailes’s firing would be a stunning fall for one of the most successful media consultants and TV executives of the last half-century. The former adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan teamed with then-CEO Rupert Murdoch to found the Fox News Channel in 1996, and built it into one of the most profitable properties in all of media...
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Hezbollah’s Massive Arms Build-up
in Lebanese Civilian Areas
by Joseph Klein
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Every calendar quarter the United Nations Security Council holds an extensive debate on the Israeli-Palestinian “situation.” The Israeli and Palestinian UN representatives make speeches following the Secretary General’s report on the current status... which are normally predictable restatements of their respective positions. This time, however, Israel’s ambassador Danny Danon, addressing the Security Council at its July 12th meeting, presented new graphic evidence of Hezbollah’s alarming arsenal of rockets and missiles located in civilian areas of southern Lebanon. Ten years ago, when Security Council Resolution 1701 was adopted, ending the war that had broken out between Israel and Hezbollah, the terrorist group was estimated to have had about 7000 rockets. The resolution called for Hezbollah and other armed groups not officially a part of the Lebanese government’s armed forces to relinquish their weapons. Instead, precisely the opposite has happened. Hezbollah never stopped its arms build-up, which has been funded and supplied principally from the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, Iran. Hezbollah now has approximately 120,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israeli civilian population centers.  By way of comparison, Ambassador Danon said that “more missiles are hidden underground in 10,000 square kilometers of Lebanon than the above-ground 4 million square kilometers” of the European North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263507/hezbollahs-massive-arms-build-lebanese-civilian-joseph-klein
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Immigration and the Terrorist Threat 
by Michael Cutler
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ The most recent horrific terror attack, this time in Nice, France on Bastille Day, is the latest of a string of attacks overseas as well as inside the United States... It has shaken people around the world, causing them to question what their governments need to do to protect them. Our leaders are forever reacting to the latest attack, placing us on an elevated defensive posture, whenever and wherever it may occur. Often news reports are aired that show video clips of heavily armed police officers patrolling our airports and other venues in response to the latest attack no matter where the attack was carried out, to create the illusion of protecting us. This perspective can most generously be called folly. The terror threats we face do not go up and down like the stock market. While it makes sense to marshal snow plow drivers and those that drive the trucks that spread salt on highways when a blizzard is forecast for the region, in preparation for the impending storm to quickly clear the roads, terrorism presents a constant threat...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263544/immigration-and-terrorist-threat%C2%A0-michael-cutler
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On the Brink of National Race Wars,
Now Is Not the Time to Mince Words
by Michael Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ As America stands at the precipice of deadly, coast-to-coast, race wars, this is not the time to mince words. I would rather speak the truth in love, even if it means offending some, than avoid confrontation out of fear of offense. In return, I expect others to be just as candid with me.

I also recognize that, if racial tensions escalate in our nation and more blood is shed, the ones who are likely to suffer the most and perhaps the longest are Black Americans. And so, I write this column because I do believe that Black Lives Matter.

Prof. George Yancey, himself an African American, has also urged for open, candid conversations, writing, “Maybe now with people on all sides of the political and racial arguments feeling such pain, we can begin taking the necessary steps to move towards real racial reconciliation.”

It is in that spirit that I write this column, fully aware that I’m not addressing the concerns of Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, or other minorities in our midst, but that is the nature of this article. I trust all readers will understand.

Although I am a White American more specifically, a White male, identifying more specifically as a Jewish believer in Jesus, I’m not speaking of “us” and “them” in this column. Rather, I’m addressing all of us together, letting the chips fall where they may.

Shall we proceed?

1) White Americans sometimes do not see racism when it is there; Black Americans sometimes see racism when it is not there. If we will take the time to hear one another out, filling in each other’s blind spots, we can move from perception to reality.

2) There is a real reason for Black frustration and anger. When Whites minimize the pain of Blacks or, worse still, claim that they are just being pawns of the media or political leaders, they deeply insult their Black brothers and sisters. Most Whites really do not understand what it is like to grow up as a minority culture, and they cannot relate to the historic suffering of Blacks in America, a history which is not as far in the distant past we would all like it to be.

3) All Black lives matters, not just the lives of Blacks who die at the hands of White cops. White critics have rightly asked, “Where are the rallies and protests when a three-year-old Black child dies from random, inner-city gun fire? And what about the disproportionate number of Black babies killed in the womb, not to mention Blacks killed by other Blacks?” A Black man named Richard wrote on Facebook, “We cannot pick and choose when we decide to make a stand. We're either all in (we must address black on black crime in addition to the murder of innocent blacks) or we're not in at all. We can't let these race baiting politicians further divide us; if you haven't noticed they want a race war. We must stand up and unite, both black and white and whatever other ethnicity and re-claim our freedom.”

4) All rhetoric that leads to violence, let alone that calls for violence, must be categorically renounced and repudiated. Not a few leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement need to do some serious soul searching in light of the intentional, targeted shooting of cops in several states this past week. Yancey characterizes Black Lives Matter as “a group that pushes its own racialized agenda and expects compliance instead of communication.” Their irresponsible rhetoric can easily lead to bloodshed.

5) Everyone must work together to address injustice and inequality wherever it raises its head, be it in the courts or on the streets. Blacks would be greatly encouraged if they saw their White colleagues standing up for their cause rather than always taking a defensive posture. Do Whites automatically give the benefit of the doubt to other Whites, assuming Black claims of injustice are illegitimate?

6) It is social suicide to launch a war against our law enforcement agents. The police do a good, important, often thankless, frequently life-threatening job, and without their sacrificial service, our nation would descend into chaos. The few bad cops who are out there are the exception to the rule and they must be held accountable. Law and order is a good thing, not a bad thing, and as one black caller to my radio show noted (he was a career cop), when the bullets started flying in Dallas last week, the crowds ran from the shots; the police ran towards them to try to take out the killers.

7) It is important today to state that All Lives Matter. I understand that if a black man is bleeding to death on the side of the road, having been shot without cause by an irresponsible White cop, it is insulting to say, “Yes, he’s dying, but let’s remember that All Lives Matter.” But when White policemen lay dying in the streets it is insensitive not to say All Lives Matter.

8) There is no comparison between a policeman overreacting and killing someone and another person intentionally targeting policemen for death. I do not believe for a second that white cops get up in the morning and say to themselves, “I hope I can kill a black person today!” Sadly, a black man decided last week that he would murder as many cops as he could. There’s no true comparison between the two, whatever the skin color of the victims or perpetrators. An actual parallel to the evil the black Michael Xavier Johnson reportedly committed in Dallas on Thursday is the mass murder last summer that the white Dylann Storm Roof confessed to committing at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina. In each case, an apparently evil, twisted, racist young man targeted innocent people of another race and murdered them in a cold, deliberate, premeditated fashion.

9) The elephant in the room is the breakdown of the Black American family. This was stressed to me by another black caller to my show. The disastrous, generational effects of fatherlessness are well-documented, and with illegitimacy in Black America at an almost unimaginable high of 74 percent, this is not simply a Black crisis; it is a national crisis. We got into this situation together, and we can only get out of it together.

10) There is far more that unites than divides us. We are, after all, one race, with each of us equally created in God’s image and equally loved by our Creator. And all of us as Americans have the same right to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is the devil who wants to divide and destroy us and the Lord who wants to unite and strengthen us. Let us work with the Lord, not against Him.

Speaking now as a White American to my Black American brothers and sisters, I say from the heart: America cannot be great unless you are thriving, and my own life will not be full if your lives are not full.
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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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The Palestinian incentive program
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 The Progressively Bloody Price of 
 nObama/liar-Clinton Appeasement 
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Mark Alexander: In Chattanooga, Tennessee, we are preparing solemn observances for the five military personnel murdered by an Islamic terrorist on July 16th of last year.
          Barack nObama waited five long days before ordering flags to half staff in their honor. His administration waited five long months before declaring the attack terrorism, and finally issuing Purple Hearts to those killed and wounded at the Naval Reserve center here. The Chattanooga attack was followed by increasingly violent attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando.
          Notably, my friend, CDR Tim White, was the only armed person at the Navy facility — and he returned fire to provide cover for his people. As I wrote after the Jihad attack at Ft. Hood attack, military personnel are prohibited from having firearms on military bases gun free, but The Patriot Post and military support groups objected to prosecution of White and the Navy filed no charges. In fact, today the Navy officially announced it will require armed personnel at Naval centers nationwide, no longer leaving them exposed as "gun-free zones."
          Last night, two Americans, Sean Copeland and his 11-year-old son Brodie from Austin, Texas, were among more than 85 men, women and children murdered, and many more injured, after Islamist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, yelling "Allahu Akbar," plowed his deadly 25-ton "assault weapon" into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France. This was the bloodiest attack on French soil since last November's Paris attack by another "JV team" member, as nObama calls them.
          There were also French Muslims among the infidels slaughtered by their fellow Muslim on the Promenade of Angels. Hamza Charrihi, whose mother was among the dead, told L'Express: "She wore the veil of Islam and practiced a true and balanced religion ... a real Islam. Not the one of the terrorists."
          The assailant had "assault rifles and grenades," all of which were later determined to be inert. But his assault truck was anything but.
          Bouhlel and his truck were on the closed street hours before the celebration. He had been questioned several times by French police. Though he had been investigated by police for a violent crime in the last year, they did not ask him to move his truck — most likely avoiding any charges of profiling. So, let's quickly review.
          After 9/11, George Bush declared a global "War on Terror," prosecuting al-Qa'ida terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere — and keeping the battle on their soil rather than ours.
          Shortly after his 2008 election, nObama declared an end to the War on Terror and vowed to retreat from the region.
          As we noted in 2011, nObama's foreign policy appeasement, particularly his ill-advised re-election campaign retreat from Iraq, created a meltdown in Middle East, and the resulting power vacuum was quickly filled by the Islamic State.
          Consequently, hundreds of thousands of Christians and Muslims have been slaughtered in the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, and growing numbers of civilians in Europe and the United States are being murdered. Their blood is, irrevocably, on nObama's hands, and by extension, that of his inept former secretary of state and heir-apparent, liar-Hillary Clinton.
          For her part, when asked about the latest Islamic attack, liar-Clinton reasserted her ineptitude. "They would love to draw the United States into a ground war," she said. "I would be very focused on the intelligence surge." Asked about the Islamic ideology behind the attacks, she said, "It's not so important what we call these people as what we do about them."
          Memo to liar-Clinton: We are in a ground war right now, and it is, with increasing frequency and lethality, on western ground. As for an "intelligence surge," she has not experienced one of those since partnering with Bill liar-Clinton back in 1975. On "what we do about them," liar-Clinton, like nObama, has no idea.
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Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, nObama's former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, repeated what he has also been warning about the War on Terror since nObama ordered the withdrawal from Iraq: We're "losing the war." He added, "The enemy has more than doubled in capacity and capability and geographical footprint around the world. We've lost the strategic initiative in this war. And the enemy has the strategic initiative."
          Flynn asserts, "Good intelligence has to start with properly and clearly defining this enemy. Within the government, within the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, [nObama] has eliminated any training or any use of the term 'radical Islam.' That's what we're facing. The president says, 'What difference does it make what you call the enemy.' Are you kidding me?"
          Yesterday, political observer Charles Krauthammer declared, "nObama is certainly responsible for the resurgence. ... Al-Qa'ida in Iraq, the progenitor of ISIS, was defeated, humiliated in 2008 by the [Bush administration]. We had the boot on the neck of ISIS and al-Qa'ida in Iraq and released it. nObama thought if we could run away, if we could withdraw, if we get out of the region, we could show the Muslims, as he said in the Cairo speech, that we are their friends and everything would be fine. Of course the opposite happened — he's been in denial."
         With equal clarity, Newt Gingrich responded, "Let me be as blunt and direct as I can be. Western civilization is in a war. We should frankly test every person here who is of a Muslim background, and if they believe in Sharia, they should be deported. Sharia is incompatible with Western civilization. Modern Muslims who have given up Sharia, glad to have them as citizens. Perfectly happy to have them next door. We need to be fairly relentless about defining who our enemies are. Anybody who goes on a website favoring ISIS or al-Qa'ida or other terrorist groups, that should be a felony, and they should go to jail."
          Following each attack on American soil, nObama has politically pivoted to "gun control" as the solution. But nether "gun control" nor "truck control" will resolve this metastasizing threat. As for all the media "terrorism experts," two key points.
          First, some have suggested that because ISIL is claimed to be losing ground in Iraq, that assaults in the West are increasing.
          That claim is absurd. As I have warned, Jihadistan, the worldwide caliphate that Islamist extremists are seeking to establish, is not about geographic territory. It is about ideological territory.
          Second, they are trotting out the "lone wolf" profile, but that claim is equally absurd. All Jihad Terrorists are directly tied to worldwide Jihad by way of the Qur'an, the foundational fabric linking all of Islamist violence. Describing Islamist assailants as "lone wolf" actors or "radicalized" constitutes a lethal misunderstanding of the Jihadi threat.
          Finally, as I warned in "Islamic Jihad — Target USA," "The most likely near-term form of attack against civilians on our turf will be modeled after the conventional Islamist assaults in the Middle East — vehicle bombs, suicide bombs and mass shootings, as we have now seen in across Western Europe and increasingly in the U.S."
          But as I noted previously, Islamists have proposed using vehicles as assault weapons since 9/11. Recall that Mohammed Taheri-azar drove his SUV into a crowd of students at the University of North Carolina. And Omeed Aziz Popal drove his SUV in a crowd at a Jewish community center in San Francisco. A new easily accessible weapon of mass murder has emerged.  -The Patriot Post
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 Trump-Pence 2016 
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It's official: Donald Trump has chosen Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. Trump delayed the news conference in light of the attack in France, but Pence had to either opt in or out today because Indiana law prohibits him from simultaneously running for governor and vice president.
          Clearly, Pence is a strategically safe and smart pick. What he brings to the ticket is a solid record built on socially and fiscally conservative principles. He is a genuinely nice guy and a traditional values family man. Pence describes himself as, "a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order." He's a former host of a conservative talk radio program who was elected to congress in 2000, and who then won election as governor of Indiana in 2012. He's good friends with House Speaker Paul Ryan, which would help advance Trump's agenda.
          He has been a favorite of the Tea Party movement. While a congressman, he willingly broke with George W. Bush, voting against "No Child Left Behind" and Medicare drug expansion. While governor of Indiana, he cut tax rates helping to spark an economic recovery. He's also a big proponent of free trade, having supported of recent Pacific and European trade initiatives.
          From Trump's perspective, having Pence as his running mate communicates that he is serious about standing for conservative principles. While Pence won't be the aggressive attack dog that Newt Gingrich or Chris Christie would be, passing over Gingrich or Christie doesn't mean both won't continue to be effective surrogates. As a seasoned politician, Pence knows how to handle the pressures of public office and the media. Now the pair have the weekend to make a splash before next week's convention.  -The Patriot Post
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{aei.org} ~ On Friday, as Turks were out and about to mark the start of the evening, elements of the Turkish military sought to stage a coup. There was reason to see such violence coming... Last March, we speculated here at AEIdeas about the possibility that a coup might be brewing. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s president and strongman, has only grown increasingly dictatorial and erratic since. What really happened, though, remains unclear, and conspiracies swirl. Below are five questions to consider as Turkey teeters on the precipice:...
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Is America Losing Its Manhood?
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Witnessing the myriad problems facing America, the shock and confusion as to what's happening to this great nation is overwhelming. From San Bernadino to Orlando, we have experienced multiple "lone wolf" Jihadist attacks by Americans against Americans on our home soil... Overseas, we are experiencing many foreign policy and national security challenges, including a resurgent Russia, barbarism by ISIS, and a defiant North Korea. We are facing possible economic meltdown in the U.S. with the debt surging beyond $19-trillion and the continued loss of American economic power to overseas competitors. Finally, we are seeing American police officers being targeted for assassination as they are demeaned by many attempting to cause racial strife. America previously appeared so strong and secure, and yet we now wonder why we face so many internal issues and loss of respect overseas. What I propose as the answer is provocative, but I believe the facts will show many of our problems directly and indirectly resulting from the marginalization of the ideal of manhood... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/is-america-losing-its-manhood?f=must_reads
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Exploiting Dead Cops to Promote Their Killers
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In Dallas, nObama mentioned the name of dead sex offender Alton Sterling more times than those of the murdered police officers whom he was pretending to memorialize... After quickly dispensing with the formalities of eulogizing the slain officers, nObama demanded that "even those who dislike the phrase ‘black lives matter'" should "be able to hear the pain of Alton Sterling's family". Alton Sterling was a convicted sex offender, burglar and violent criminal who was shot while reaching for a gun. His family may mourn him, just as every criminal's family mourns their own, but it was obscene to class him together with five police officers who were murdered by a violent racist while doing their duty. It is even more obscene when nObama's favorite sex offender displaces the murdered police officers...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/exploiting-dead-cops-to-promote-their-killers?f=must_reads
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Where Are the Peaceful Muslims?
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Once again, Islamic terrorists attack, yet another Western city. This time, Nice, France.  A truck crashed into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, on July 14, 2016... In my opinion, Islam is the problem because there are Muslims who take its scripture, as gospel and carry out its divisive and deadly provisions. The barbarity and variety of actions of Islamic extremists are seen daily around the globe, committed under the banner of Islam, and have become so commonplace that the world has come to view them as part and parcel of a troubled humanity. And from time to time, the world is shocked into a passing and momentary realization of the evil deeds these Islamist robots commit...and quickly gets over it and does nothing to seriously address this affliction of humanity. The Islamic State - also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh, have taken credit for the unconscionable brutal attacks since it emerged into existence. ISIS has actually killed more Muslims than certainly members of any other religion," noted Democracy Now, by Amy Goodman after the Paris Attacks. Muslims are the victims of "Between 82 and 97% of Terrorism-Related Fatalities": According to the US Government.  Based on the above premises, Muslims must be on the frontline fighting ISIS...
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An nObama Legacy of Accountability Avoidance:
Islam and Race
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Barack n Obama has promoted two major lies during his presidency (There's a lot more). The first is his absolute refusal to call domestic terrorism by its real name... He labels as "violent extremism" what really is "Islamic extremism" in an effort to hide who should be held accountable for such acts. The second is his refusal to focus on the real cause of racial tensions currently plaguing the country. While deaths have occurred during the course of white-on-black police arrests, he again chooses to hide who really should be held accountable. In the aftermath of the June 12 Orlando shooting, nObama said of the killer, Omar Mateen, a Muslim, while "we have no definitive assessment on the motivation, we know he was a person filled with hate."... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/an-obama-legacy-of-accountability-avoidance-islam-and-race?f=must_reads
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Islam at War with a Delusional, Suicidal West
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{lidblog.com} ~ As I beheld across my social media feeds Thursday night, the horrific, blood-bathed images of 84-plus slaughtered innocents on the streets of Nice, France at the hands of yet another Muslim named Mohamed... I was reminded of a quote by the great Winston Churchill: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.” I was also reminded of a statement by liar-Hillary Clinton: “Let’s be clear: Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.” At best, this woman is an appeaser. Apart from Barack nObama, she has proven chief chum-chucking chump to the crocs of the caliphate. This level of willful self-delusion requires suspension of disbelief stimulated by strong medicine indeed. That medicine is multiculturalism – the global “progressive” left’s pet project, save cultural Marxism, in a disastrously failed globalist public policy. While liar-Hillary is an appeaser, an apologist for Islam or “dhimmi”, President nObama, I fear, is something far worse...  http://lidblog.com/islam-at-war-with-a-delusional-suicidal-west/#
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Bill Nye Calls Ark Encounter ‘Disturbing,’...
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{christianpost.com} ~ Bill Nye "The Science Guy" has reflected on his recent visit to Kentucky's Ark Encounter, the life-sized Noah's ark theme park built by Young Earth Creationist Ken Ham, by calling it "disturbing,"... arguing that on the Ark's third deck, every single one of the science exhibits is "absolutely wrong." Nye, who has debated Ham on the topics of evolution and creationism in the past, visited the Ark Encounter on July 8, and was given a tour of the biblical attraction by the Answers in Genesis and Creation Museum president. Nye told NBC News in a report on Saturday that he was very alarmed by what he saw. He said the Ark Encounter was an "eye-catching attraction" but then described the experience as "much more troubling or disturbing than I thought it would be."...  http://www.christianpost.com/news/bill-nye-calls-ark-encounter-disturbing-argues-every-single-science-exhibit-absolutely-wrong-after-visit-166624/
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House Dem Indicted for Charity Scam
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{rightwise.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton may have skated out of an indictment related to her mishandling of State Department emails, but one of her fellow Democrats was not so lucky... Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) was indicted in connection with a Virginia charity that turned out to be a scam. Apparently, of the more than $150,000 raised by the sham education charity, One Door for Education, approximately none of the donations went to benefit anyone except the House Democrat. Brown allegedly used the funds to travel back and forth to political events, for hotels, and travel...  http://rightwise.com/news/house-dem-indicted-charity-scam/
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Radicals seek 'blacks-only' nation in South
by Cheryl Chumley
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{wnd.com} ~ A black professor who teaches at Michigan has publicly called for the segregation of five states, saying the separation of blacks from whites and other races in select spots would be “fairly easy” to accomplish... “There are large sections of the United States that have nothing but black people in them already,” said University of Michigan political science professor Christian Davenport, in an interview with the Atlanta Black Star. “There are cults and militias as well as private corporations that do whatever they want behind their closed doors.” Davenport also said that “in New York and Chicago … organizations like the Nation of Islam occupy decent-size areas in American cities,” the Daily Caller reported...This is not a bright idea. It doesn't solve the problems at all between blacks and whites.  http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/radicals-seek-blacks-only-nation-in-south/#!
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Why is Virginia a Haven for Would-be Jihadists?
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ What is it about Virginia? Already this year, six men from the "Cavalier State" have been arrested on terror-related charges – two of them in July alone... Another man has joined the Islamic State in Syria. Two of those charged were stopped from making a similar trip. These most recent arrests, one on July 3, the other on July 8, were based on charges of planning to provide material support to ISIS. Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the National Guard who was arrested July 3, allegedly discussed planning an attack against U.S. military in the homeland inspired by fellow Virginian Nidal Hasan's 2009 shooting at Fort Hood. According to court documents, Jalloh quit the Guard and later attempted to obtain funds and weapons for a domestic attack after being inspired by Anwar al Awlaki's videos on YouTube...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5512/why-is-virginia-a-haven-for-would-be-jihadists#
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The Palestinian incentive program
for killing Jews
by Eli Lake
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Whoever said crime doesn't pay hasn't talked to the family of a Palestinian terrorist. For the Palestine Liberation Organization and the related Palestinian Authority, the killers of Jewish Israelis are considered "martyrs." And as such, their families are paid for the service these murderers have done for the Palestinian cause.

This has come to light after a Palestinian, Mohammed Tarayra, stabbed Hallel Yaffa Ariel, a 13-year-old Israeli girl, as she was sleeping in her bed. The stabbing was part of a wave of attacks by Palestinians who have for nearly eight months been shooting, stabbing and running down Jews with the encouragement of social media and popular songs.

According to the latest report of the Russian, European, U.S. and U.N. group known as the Quartet, there have been 250 of these kinds of attacks since October. It says, "These terrorist attacks, which have been carried out mostly by young, unaffiliated individuals, contribute to the sense among Israelis of living under constant threat."

But this misses important context. The Quartet's report, which is even-handed to a fault, makes no mention of the "martyr's fund," through which the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization pay the families of all Palestinian prisoners and the families of martyrs. So while there is no evidence that the Palestinian government plans these killing sprees, it encourages them as a legitimate act of resistance.

As Commentary's Evelyn Gordon writes, the prisoners and the families of the prisoners themselves are actually paid a higher wage than what most Palestinians earn for nonviolent work.

The origins of these payments goes back a long way. Before the Palestinian Authority was established in the 1990s through the Oslo peace process, the Palestine Liberation Organization paid the families of "martyrs" and prisoners detained by Israel. That practice became standardized during the Second Intifadah of 2000 to 2005. The Israelis even found documents in the late Yasser Arafat's compound that showed payments to families of suicide bombers.

For years the Israelis and the Americans didn't do much on this issue. The Israel Defense Forces work closely with Palestinian security services to keep the peace in the West Bank. Meanwhile, the Bush and nObama administrations have pressed both sides to restart negotiations over a final status.

This is starting to change. Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that he would begin withholding part of the tax revenue that Israel sends to the Palestinian Authority -- equal to the amount paid to "martyrs."

Frank Lowenstein, the U.S. special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, told me the U.S. government has recently started withholding funding for the same reason. "We have robustly complied with legislation passed in 2014 that requires us to deduct from development assistance to the Palestinian Authority for Palestinian payments to individuals imprisoned for acts of terrorism," he said. The amount of development assistance that has been withheld is classified.

The Palestinian Authority seems to be aware of this and has figured out ways to hide these payments to the families of murderers, by creating new accounts. Sen. Dan Coates, a Republican from Indiana, has introduced new legislation aimed at closing this loophole.

One problem is that the payments to terrorists' families are exceedingly popular these days. Ziad Asali, the president and founder of the American Task Force on Palestine, told me that in recent years the media and politicians have elevated these payments to something "sacred in Palestinian politics."

Asali said the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, and others are too weak to stop it. "This is where we find ourselves now. The vast majority understand there has to be an end to violence; it's not serving the Palestinians in any way," Asali said. "But I think nobody really has the stature and clout to confront these issues publicly."

Asali is getting at one of the many tragedies today for the Palestinians. Abbas came to power initially after he condemned suicide bombing and terrorism during the Second Intifadah. His bravery at the time to confront Arafat earned him a reputation as a peacemaker and is one reason President Barack nObama has never publicly criticized him with the same ferocity he reserves for Netanyahu.

But today Abbas is in the 11th year of a four-year term as president. He has made some vague statements opposing the recent wave of violence. But he never condemns the murderers by name. Meanwhile, his own Fatah Party glorified Tarayra on its official Facebook page.

No wonder the killer's family is so proud of him. His mother told a local news outlet: "My son is a hero. He made me proud. My son died as a martyr defending Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque," according to a translation from Palestinian Media Watch.

Israel's alleged peace partner appears to agree. If the past is precedent, she will receive a steady check to honor her son's murder of a 13-year-old Jewish girl in her sleep.
 
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Chaos In Cleveland

I remember having posted a thread on a now defunct tp site covering the 2012 RNC Convention in Tampa.  It was lively. Most of the site's members were [more] on the same page (the States' sovereignty and the USC) than we are today.  It's no mystery why so many so called "tp" or "conservative" sites have either become ghost towns, or have shutdown all together.  Consttutional principles are out the window. The present only merits a mere comment on a forum board.

My summation of the RNC's first night at Cleveland is that the DC machine is still up to its old tricks. In 2012 it shutdown the voices / delegates that OPPOSE their stronghold on future election rules.  The most notable...and perhaps a lethal...difference there was that it was totally DISorganized.  And, except for a few speakers, like Rudy Giuliani and Navy SEAL (ret) Marcus Lutrell, and including the announcement of the ACQUITTAL of the last Baltimore police officer that had been brought up on charges, for instance, the first night was lackluster and  insubstantial at best.

To add salt to injury, I'll give Fox News and the RNC Convention the following "blackeyes":

1.  To The Oreilly Factor - for having interrupted the broadcast when the mother of a Benghazi victim took the stage and gave a heart wrenching speech - to take a live call by Trump.. It should've went uninterrupted. 

2.  The obviously plagiarized portions of the speech given by Mellania Trump. It is now the lead story at ALL the media outlets; and has completely overshadowed the little "good" there was during the Convention's first night; which I shall include the annnoucement of . ..

3.  Then there's FNC's drama queen, Shepard Smith who was on the phone w/ fmr LA governor Bobby Jimdal responding to the murders of yet THREE MORE police officers in Baton Rouge.

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Jindal said:

“…Shepard I will say this, look, it, it is time for folks across party lines, across ideological lines to con–to condemn this violence, to condemn this insanity. We gotta come together. We’ve got to say that all lives matter. It doesn’t matter what color you are: Black, white, brown, red, it doesn’t matter. All lives matter. We’ve got to protect and value our belief…”

Smith cuts in:  “Governor, you know, you know that that phrase you just used is is one that’s seen by many as, as derogatory, right? I, I just wonder why it is that you use that phrase when there’s a certain segment of the population that believes it’s a real dig on ’em.”

Why does Fox News continue to follow the GOP machine's constant bending over to the far left's political correctness game?   It's this PC that had lost the last two prez elections; had triggered the nation to literally kill each other; that our economy is at the verge of collapse; and the total destruction of our Constitution...our very individual Liberty...is at hand.
We're not simply "losing" America.  We're giving it away!
Luis

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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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 Resurrecting nObamaCare's 'Public Option' 
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Allyne Caan: Remember the early days of the nObamaCare debate, when many of us warned the Democrats' health care overhaul was the first step toward a single-payer system? Just as we predicted, leftists, including presumptive Democrat presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton, once again have taken up the banner of the so-called "public option," which is little more than a Trojan horse for single-payer health care. As predictable as each sunrise, Democrats always aim to expand government.
          The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published an article bylined Barack nObama, in which he revives the call for a public option: "[B]ased on experience with the ACA, I think Congress should revisit a public plan to compete alongside private insurers in areas of the country where competition is limited. Adding a public plan in such areas would strengthen the Marketplace approach, giving consumers more affordable options while also creating savings for the federal government."
          Clearly, JAMA's peer-review standards have plummeted, as this statement was obviously written by either a professional prevaricator or a stand-up comedian.
          For starters, nObama all but admits his signature health care law is a flop, as "based on experience" he now claims we need a public option. As Reason's Peter Suderman notes, "[T]he article ... serves as a tacit admission that the law is not working as intended. ... Naturally, it proposes further government intervention in the health care sector."
          Point taken, though we'd argue the law is working exactly as intended. Democrats just lied about their intentions.
          Another howler is nObama's punchline about how the public option would "compete alongside" private insurance, as if the government is just another capitalist enterprise in a free market. "Consumers do better when there is choice and competition," nObama sagaciously explained. "That's how the market works." As if he's the greatest free-market economist since Milton Freidman.
          One of nObamaCare's many lies was that it would improve competition in the individual insurance market. To sell this point, nObama pointed to the 34 states in which "75% of the insurance market is controlled by five or fewer companies."
          Insurance exchanges were supposed to be the grand savior of competition. They proved quite the opposite, as insurers have continued to pull out of exchanges. Suderman explains, "What this means is that in many rural areas, nObamacare's exchanges will be served by one and only one insurer." Wasn't this one of the problems nObama promised to solve?
          But never fear, statists have a plan to fix their failed government program. Another government program! If only we had a public option, nObama opines, it could "compete alongside private insurers" in places where competition is limited.
          Of course, the government already tried a quasi-public option that, predictably, flopped. When the full-scale public option was rejected during the original nObamaCare debates, lawmakers set up pilot-program public options, or "co-ops." These co-ops received billions of federal tax dollars and were supposed to operate just like regular insurance companies, compete alongside private insurers, and become self-sufficient. Yet of the 23 co-ops created, 16 have closed. As Americans for Tax Reform explains, "Co-ops across the country have struggled to operate in nObamacare exchanges, losing millions despite receiving enormous government subsidies."
          This makes even more ludicrous nObama's claim that a public option would "create savings for the federal government." Again, as Suderman notes, given the co-ops failures, "[t]here is little reason to believe that a full-fledged public option, entirely run by the government, would fare any better." Instead, he correctly argues, it would be "much harder to shut down, and much more likely to be propped up by additional federal funding if it failed to completely cover its expenses on its own."
          And as for competition, even pretending that's a goal is absurd. As The Wall Street Journal observes, "Mr. nObama is re-endorsing what he had hoped in 2010 would be a way station for government-run single payer that would gradually wipe out anything resembling private insurance. Insurers can't outbid a 'free' program that is open to all or most and has the unlimited access to the Treasury that Medicare enjoys. A market exodus would be inevitable."
          A single-payer system was the goal all along. nObamaCare was never about health care; it was always about control. And nObama's obsession with fundamentally transforming America won't be satisfied as long as any semblance of Liberty or constitutionally limited government remains.  -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Victor Davis Hanson: "As in the case of Islamic terrorism, America seems to have no answers to racial tensions. Half the country believes African-Americans are inordinately targeted by police and that inner-city violence can be attributed to a long history of racism, national neglect and economic stagnation. The other half blame disastrous social-welfare and big-government policies for creating dangerous dependencies and a dearth of jobs in America's inner cities, as well as a popular culture that glorifies rather than discourages the excesses of many young black males. One America believes that the nObama administration genuinely tried, but so far has failed, to resolve the tensions. between inner-city residents and police. The other America thinks nObama sought to leverage those tensions for political reasons. Either way, most of America privately thinks that Islamic terrorist acts and racial tensions are going to get far worse — a perception that is probably shared overseas as well. ... To be blunt, America's vulnerable postwar global order may already seem to those abroad to be bloated carrion ready to be picked apart by opportunistic vultures."  -The Patriot Post
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Investigators Fool U.S. Nuke Agency Into
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Undercover inspectors working for the U.S. Government Accountability Office were able to fool the United States’ top nuclear regulator into granting it licenses to acquire material necessary to build a “dirty bomb,” or crude nuclear device, according to a new oversight report... The GAO concluded in a new oversight report on the Nuclear Regulatory Committee, or NRC, that it had improved security measures, but still has “not taken some measures to better control some dangerous quantities of radioactive material.” As part of a covert GAO test, the accountability agency established several dummy corporations and attempted to procure licenses needed to purchase dangerous radioactive materials, including those needed to build a crude nuclear explosive device...
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Muslims FURIOUS at This Texas Mayor After
She STOPPED Their ‘Sharia Court’
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Mayor Beth Van Duyne
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{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Dozens of Muslims in Irving are upset after the city council passed a resolution in support of a new state house bill some Muslims believe targets their faith... Council members voted Thursday night on a resolution that support Texas HB 562, which forbids the use of foreign law and codifies the supremacy of U.S. and state law. “I think it’s the most disgraceful day in the city of Irving,” said Omar Suleiman, an Irving resident who is Muslim. “The elephant in the room is that it’s the anti-Shariah bill.” Some Muslims in Irving believe the resolution is in reaction to a new Islamic Tribunal that is operating in the city...To bad Muslims you are living in America, not your country.
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Turkey's last hope dies
by Ralph Peters    
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{foxnews.com} ~ Friday night’s failed coup was Turkey’s last hope to stop the Islamization of its government and the degradation of its society...  Reflexively, Western leaders rushed to condemn a coup attempt they refused to understand. Their reward will be a toxic Islamist regime at the gates of Europe. Our leaders no longer do their basic homework. The media relies on experts-by-Wikipedia. Except for PC platitudes, our schools ignore the world beyond our shores. Deluged with unreliable information, citizens succumb to the new superstitions of the digital age. So a great country is destroyed by Islamist hardliners before our eyes—and our president praises its “democracy.”...  
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Judicial Watch Proves liar-Clinton Turned
Her Back on the Benghazi Four
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{grassfire.com} ~ The watchdog organization Judicial Watch has just released a bombshell report proving once and for all that despite her fraudulent claims, former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton knowingly turn her back on U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty on September 11th, 2012... This sickening new report confirms that not only has liar-Clinton repeatedly lied to the American public and Congress on the matter, but she willfully left the four American citizens for dead when U.S. Military forces were prepared to respond to the developing threat in Libya. According to the report, liar-Clinton and her staff were fully aware of the serious threat posed to the CIA Annex (AKA: U.S. Special Mission Compound) in Benghazi and she was provided with the option to send in military forces to defend the annex following the first attack...  http://members.grassfire.com/left-for-dead-judicial-watch-proves-clinton-turned-her-back-on-the-benghazi-four-releases-d-o-d-email-stating-u-s-forces-were-prepared-to-respond/
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TREY GOWDY: PIN DROP SPEECH
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{youtube.com} ~ We are publishing this video as a source of Unity, Hope, Spreading the Message of Liberty, and Selflessness. This is an edited version of the full speech which can be found at the above link... NOTE: NOTHING IN THIS VIDEO OR ANY VIDEO ON THIS CHANNEL SHOULD EVER BE CONSTRUED BY ANYONE THAT I, OR ANY VIEWER OF THIS CHANNEL, CONDONES UNLAWFUL ACTS OR VIOLENCE. All grievances, should be settled in a humane, legal and ethical manner. As in the past, I must remind those who comment, that hate speech and/or speech that entices unlawful acts or violence is not welcomed. All other comments, including those that disagree with the content of this video, or my commentary, ARE WELCOMED. Free speech is appreciated; hate speech / enticing violence, is not. Thank you for supporting this channel...
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Critical Infrastructure Being
Guarded by Muslim Immigrants
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ We know that Omar Mateen, the Orlando shooter, was employed by G4S Plc, a British security firm whose clients in more than 100 countries include the U.S. government (e.g. DHS)... It is also known that his firm was part of a larger organization that participated in the catch and release of OTM’s (other than Mexicans) at the southern border. The OTM’s consisted of people from other Central American countries as well as Muslims from the Middle East. Once these OTM’s were caught, they were released into the deep interior of the country without being screened and without supervision. Mateen’s firm is technically operating under the direction of DHS on this matter. The catch and release of Muslims at the southern border violates our nation’s immigration laws. However, as we witnessed last week with the FBI giving liar-Clinton a get out of jail card for self-admitted criminal activity, our federal government is playing by its own rules that they are making up as they go along. The catch and release of these Muslims technically falls under the auspices of the United Nations. Before I get into my personal revelation on this matter which gravely threatens national security, let’s review what is happening to the United States at the behest of the United Nations...
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“Careless” is Not the Word For What liar-Clinton Did
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{fixthisnation.com} ~ Knowing he couldn’t describe liar-Hillary Clinton’s actions as “negligent” without running into a discrepancy between the law and his recommendations, FBI Director James Comey chose to characterize her email choices as “extremely careless.”... A concern for voters? Perhaps. But not a concern for the Justice Department. The American people are left to conclude that, as long as an individual does not specifically intend to sell national security secrets to our enemies, they can treat classified information however they want. Leave top secret missives in the break room. Post sensitive intelligence to your blog. As long as you didn’t “intentionally” sabotage national security, you’re fine. Well, that’s not actually the standard, and anyone other than the presumptive Democratic nominee would be held accountable for what liar-Hillary Clinton did. We all know that...  http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/careless-is-not-the-word-for-what-clinton-did/
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Fake CIA Agent and FOX News “Terror Expert”
Sentenced to Prison for Lying...
by Matt Agorist
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{activistpost.com} ~ A man who falsely claimed for decades to be a CIA agent and worked as the FOX News “Terror Expert” has now been sentenced to 33 months in prison, according to prosecutors, as cited by Reuters... According to a U.S. District Attorney’s Office statement, Wayne Shelby Simmons of Annapolis, Maryland, was sentenced in a U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. “Wayne Simmons is a fraud,” U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Maryland, Dana Boente, flatly stated. “Simmons has no military or intelligence background, or any skills relevant to the positions he attained through his fraud.”... http://www.activistpost.com/2016/07/fake-cia-agent-fox-news-terror-expert-sentenced-prison-lying-public-years.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e9bdec610b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-e9bdec610b-387888649
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Access Blocked, Power Cut to Turkish
Base Holding 80 US Nukes...
by Claire Bernish
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{activistpost.com} ~ Despite the Pentagon’s assertion NATO’s Incirlik Air Base remained unaffected by the attempted military coup in Turkey, the base has now been locked down — and power shut off... Incirlik serves as a base of operations for the West’s fight against Daesh (ISIS, ISIL, the Islamic State), which have now been effectively halted as “local military authorities” appear to have forced the lockdown. But a more ominous fact about the base must be noted: NATO houses the U.S.’ tactical nuclear weapons at Incirlik — as many as 80 nuclear bombs, though the total is considered classified information. An emergency message posted online by the United States Consulate reads:...
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Social Security under fire for plan to disarm seniors
by Bob Unruh
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{wnd.com} ~ A legal team already fighting the Veterans Administration over bureaucratic procedures that arbitrarily deprive veterans of their Second Amendment rights now is warning the Social Security Administration, which is proposing the same process, that it still isn’t constitutional... “As is the case with the VA’s so-called ‘adjudication process’ the proposed SSA regulations contain confusing and ambiguous definitions of who constitutes a ‘representative payee,’ the criteria for appointing such a payee, and why the appointment of such a payee automatically classifies a Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiary as mentally defective for the purpose of NICS,” said a comment letter submitted to the SSA. It comes from Michael Connelly of the United States Justice Foundation...  http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/social-security-under-fire-for-plan-to-disarm-seniors/#!
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No More
by Buce Bawer
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{city-journal.org} ~ No more flags of foreign countries posted on Facebook in a spirit of solidarity. No more empathic Twitter hashtags. No more empty statements by heads of government declaring that “the terrorists have failed in their effort to turn us against one another.” No more equally empty statements by other heads of government expressing their own country’s support for “our ally in its time of grief.” No more calls for love in the face of hate, or candlelight processions as a response to murder. No more clicking of tongues and shaking of heads over the horrible loss of life—as if people had died in a one-off natural disaster, a hurricane or tornado or tsunami—followed, after a few days, by a return to normal. Until the next time, of course.

No more attempts to psychologically analyze every new jihadist—to probe his troubled family or professional life in an attempt to figure out what “turned him to violence and extremism.” No more reflexive reassurances that “this has nothing to do with Islam,” that a handful of bad guys have “hijacked” a “peaceful” faith, and that “the great majority of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims are, of course, peace-loving people who utterly reject this kind of action.” No more slick pivoting to the subject of gun control, or American homophobia, or whatever other diversion seems useful under the specific circumstances. No more blaming of Europeans’ supposed failure to accept or embrace or integrate or employ Muslims, or of Muslims’ alleged poverty or hopelessness or frustration or alienation.

No more hand-wringing by journalists, as they stand mere yards from the bodies of the dead, about the possible “backlash” against Muslims which never really materializes. No more declarations by U.S. officials that the mere mention of Islam in connection with Islamic terrorism is “dangerous” and “counterproductive” because it “alienates” the Muslim allies and Muslim communities whose help we need in fighting this problem that we dare not properly name. No more respectful TV interviews with representatives of “Muslim civil-rights organizations” that have been proven over and over again to be fronts for terrorism.

No more outrageous lies by government and media that, almost fifteen years after 9/11, keep so many Americans so outrageously in the dark about the world in which we live now. No more of the despicable day-to-day efforts by the same actors to keep those Americans who do get it in line, to instill in them an unholy fear that, if they dare to address the problem honestly, they’ll be thrust forever out into the dark—beyond the realm of decent society, unacceptable, unemployable, unfriendable. No more societal tyranny by those who because they’re cowardly, or feel powerless, or have no sense of responsibility to preserve the precious gift of freedom that their own forebears fought and died for and have bequeathed them, or are, inconceivably, unconcerned about the world their own children and grandchildren will inhabit treat as enemies not those who seek to destroy them but those who dare to speak the truth about it.

No more ignorance. A couple of weeks ago, Adam Carolla recorded his podcast—one of the most popular on the Internet—before an Amsterdam audience. Carolla, an Angeleno, asked locals about life in the Netherlands. They painted a thoroughly rosy picture. He asked about religion. They depicted a near-utopian secular country free of reactionary faith. Poof! Down the memory hole went Pim Fortuyn, Theo Van Gogh, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Geert Wilders. And Carolla didn’t challenge any of it. Then, just the other day, in an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast which is even bigger than Carolla’s, gay conservative Milo Yiannopoulos served up some basic facts that everybody in the U.S. would know by now if the mainstream media were doing its job—facts about the levels of Muslim rape in Sweden, about the scale of antigay animus in Muslim communities, and about the systematic efforts by European governments to obscure these and other ticklish matters. Rogan, who is no fool, and who has interviewed hundreds of people in an effort to educate himself about the world, was shocked by all of it. (“Wow! Wow! Wow!”)

In the years after 9/11, major acts of Islamic terrorism in the West seemed to come along every year or so, leaving plenty of time in between to go back to pretending that everything was fine and to resume mouthing benign platitudes. Now they’re happening so often, one right on top of the other, that we can hardly keep track of them. The only upside is that it’s getting harder and harder to maintain that pretense.

The time for shock is over. The time for heaping up flowers and candles and stuffed animals at the sites of atrocities is over. The lies and ignorance and cravenness must end, and the simple facts must be faced. The free, civilized West has, for years now, been the target of a war of conquest—a war waged in many forms of which terrorism is only one by Islamist adherents preaching submission, intolerance, and brutality, and our leaders and media, with few exceptions, continue to play a game whose fatuity, fecklessness, and pusillanimity have become increasingly clear. After Nice, no more.
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Ted Cruz I am Dissapointed in you.

I have been a big supporter and believer in Ted Cruz, but his behavior against Trump is unacceptable. He an Trump both signed a loyalty agreement to the Republican party. He lost and is still attempting to derail Trump. This is a direct violation of the agreement. I have never been so disappointed in a person that I'd had so much respect for. I was first disappointed in how he sabotaged Mr. Carson's campaign, but actually believed it was a mistake. Now I see that it wasn't and that is just how Ted Cruz is. What a shame, because if he had played fair he could have very possibly been Trumps VP and practically been handed the Presidency after Trump was done with the almost impossible task of rebuilding our great nation. Trump is only running because he knows, that he is the only person with a chance to beat Crooked Hillary Clinton and her socialist chronies. He is gaining nothing but grief by running for president, not to mention putting his very life in jeopardy. Mr. Trump is a true Patriot for selflessly giving up so much in order to try to save America and the Constitution on which it is founded from the devistation caused by the current tyrannical socialist regime. I have nothing but respect for Mr. Trump now and have lost almost all respect for Ted Cruz for being a sore loser and not honoring his loyalty agreement to the Republican party. Ted Cruz is causing a divide in the party that we cannot afford at this crucial time. Mr. Cruz you should be ashamed of yourself of your actions because all you're doing is hurting yourself and this party with your inappropriate attitude toward our legally chosen candidate. I never understood before why so many Republican Congressmen didn't like you, but now it's clear to me. If you don't get your way you throw a tantrum and that is NOT what we need or want in our President. Mr.Trump may not have the political experience you think he needs, but he has surrounded himself with an All Star administration to aide him in any areas he lacks experience. He has laid out a great plan complete with the best people to the job that is required of him. He knows exactly what is needed to salvage our economy and bring jobs back to America. I ask that Ted Cruz please do what's right for America. Tomorrow during your address at the RNC, support the people's chosen candidate, Mr. Trump our next President of the United States.
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Baton Rouge Latest Battle in Obama's War on Cops

 

Before someone says President Obama did no such thing and that Baton Rouge, like Dallas, cannot be laid at his doorstep, let us consider his own statement that “words have consequences”. From Ferguson to Baltimore and beyond President Obama’s words have been the equivalent of yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre. He has encouraged a false narrative of racist cops and racist police departments whose officers are guilty until proven innocent, or buried, whichever comes first.

If there is a Pearl Harbor in this war on cops, it was Ferguson, Missouri, where President Obama’s Justice Department sent 40 FBI agents to prove Officer Darren Wilson was a racist murderer of an innocent black teen. He has made the race-baiting Al Sharpton, who helped create the myth of “hands up, don’t shoot”, a key adviser on race matters and Ferguson.....

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Gingrich is right: Sharia is incompatible with US values

 

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a political bull often on the lookout for a politically correct china shop, has rattled the orthodoxy of political correctness once again, saying that those who follow Sharia law can’t also be loyal to the U.S., Constitution and the Western values it represents and either shouldn’t be allowed to enter the U.S. or should be deported from it. This didn’t sit well with President Barack Hussein Obama. As the Daily Caller reports:

On Friday, Barack Obama called Newt Gingrich’s plan to deport sharia-adhering Muslims in America “repugnant and an affront to everything that we stand for as Americans.”

In the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Nice, France, Gingrich said, “We should, frankly, test every person here who is of a Muslim background, and if they believe in Sharia, they should be deported. Sharia is incompatible with Western civilization.”....


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Open Letter to America

OpenLettertoAmerica.docx

While serving my country for over 20 years, I held my opinions close. My goal was to always present both sides of every argument equally so as not to influence my subordinates or to appear I held a political bias, no matter my personal opinion. I have retired… that time is over. It is time I speak my voice. I welcome your opinions and discussion of the attached document.

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Monday ~TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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liar-Hillary: Guilty as Not Charged
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 Vindictive liar-Hillary Warns of Presidential Abuse 
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liar-Hillary Clinton has a serious warning about Donald Trump: "Imagine if he had not just Twitter and cable news to go after his critics and opponents, but also the IRS, or for that matter our entire military. Given what we have seen and heard, do any of us think he'd be restrained?
          Funny she should mention those things. What, indeed, would it be like to have a president who used the vast might of Washington against private citizens? Why, it might look like the last eight years.
          Barack nObama used the IRS to target Tea Party conservatives for years leading up to the 2012 election, and it may never be known how much that boosted his re-election effort. Of course, he won't ever be implicated, having skillfully covered his tracks so the only people ever to be blamed were obscure bureaucrats. This targeting also wasn't known until May 2013, after nObama was safely ensconced in the Oval Office for his second term. And it was only last month that the total enemies list was revealed. The Leftmedia, of course, has been largely mum about the scandal, leaving liar-Hillary free to issue such warnings about Trump with little challenge or comparison beyond media outlets like ours.
          Or take the military. While once again nObama's fingerprints would never be found, the U.S. Army once prepped for Tea Party "terrorists" — a scandal we broke. Or there was the DHS effort to train for and combat right-wing extremists, as if American Patriots and not the radical Islamic terrorists nObama refuses to name are the real threat. Did we mention liar-Hillary Clinton keeps an actual enemies list?
          So yes, Americans should fear a power-hungry and vindictive president. But that's not some theoretical warning for liar-Clinton to bandy about — it's the outrageous reality of the man she seeks to succeed and emulate.  -The Patriot Post
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 The Toll of Transgendered Suicide 
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Just last week, we noted the unfortunate number of veterans who take their own lives. But veterans aren't the only people disproportionately represented in this terrible statistic. Transgendered people are far more likely to commit (or at least attempt) suicide than any other demographic. A recent example: Bradley Manning, the transgendered soldier who now calls himself "Chelsea" after winning a lawsuit against the Army last year to beginning hormone therapy on the taxpayers' dime, attempted suicide in his Fort Leavenworth prison cell, where he is serving a 35-year sentence for, er, mishandling classified information. Manning made the attempt just days after Barack nObama lifted the ban on transgendered service members.
          Using feminine pronouns to describe him, Anne Hendershott, director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, writes, "In her suicide attempt, Manning joins the more than 41 percent of those identifying as 'transgender' or gender nonconforming who have attempted suicide, compared with 4.6 percent of the overall U.S. population who report a lifetime suicide attempt. It is also higher than the 10-20 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults who report ever attempting suicide."
          The reason is simple, profound and anathema to the Left's agenda: People were created in God's image, male and female. Gender-disorientation pathology is one manifestation of the fact we're all marred and broken by sin. People suffering from gender dysphoria have deep issues that are difficult to sort out, but we live in a post-sexual revolution culture that tells them they ought to celebrate and flaunt what's actually very wrong. Thus, many are left seeing no way out. They need help, not a month-long "pride" fest.  -The Patriot Post
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Here’s Why There Was a Coup Attempt in Turkey
by Neil Stevens
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{redstate.com} ~ With photos going around the Internet of tanks moving in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, it's easy to imagine a coup is in progress to oust the ruling Justice and Development party, and its President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Modern Turkey, founded in the ashes of the Ottoman Empire by Kemal Ataturk, has been designed from the ground up to be a western, democratic state. In fact his name had been Mustafa Kemal, but he was named father of the Turks, much in the way we call George Washington the father of our country. Kemalism, the set of reforms he promoted, included secularism. He was a revolutionary and sought to break the ties with the old order. He did not want Turkey to be bound up in Islamism or anything that would hold the country back from modern progress, going so far as to ban the wearing of a Fez... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2016/07/15/theres-coup-going-turkey-heres-why./?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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State doubles down,
wants to define what's religious
by Bob Unruh
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{wnd.com} ~ A church sued over Iowa’s state transgender policy when officials asserted they had authority to control the content of pastor’s sermons... Now the church has filed a request for an immediate protective order in response to the state’s claim of authority to define what is religious. The case is over the aggressive actions by the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, which has published guidelines for handling transgender issues in church gatherings that are “open to the public.” The lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Fort Des Moines Church of Christ aims “to stop the commissioners and the executive director of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, the Iowa attorney general, and the city of Des Moines from compelling an Iowa church to communicate government messages to which it objects and from forcing the church to use its building in violation of its religious beliefs.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/state-doubles-down-wants-to-define-whats-religious/#!
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UN Backed MS-13 to Carry Out
Assassinations of American Police Officers
by Dave Hodges
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Several times arrested, they have been let loose on America
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ On Thursday, July 14, 2016, Steve Quayle sent me an article, published by the Associated Press which detailed how the United Nations would be used to enforce martial law inside of the United States... Steve asked me to look into this further. I was in the process of returning from vacation when I received Steve’s message. However, I did reach out to several sources while on the road and what I learned was similar to what I learned from an active DEA agent and two Border Patrol personnel in July of 2014. I was not able to reach the DEA agent, however, I did speak to two Border Patrol agents who were eager to share updated information. In July of 2014, I wrote the following account, provided from two Border Patrol personnel regarding who is in charge of running the American/Mexico border: “Last night, this same Border Patrol Agent called me at the number on my business card. He stated that he had been reading my articles and that he felt that I was expressing a deep understating the problem. However, he unequivocally stated my knowledge of UN involvement on the border was significantly outdated and understated.  He stated “the UN is already here and he has seen clear evidence that they are calling the shots on the border”...  http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/07/15/un-backed-ms-13-carry-assassinations-american-police-officers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=un-backed-ms-13-carry-assassinations-american-police-officers
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On the Nice attacks and terrorism
by Danielle Pletka
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{aei.org} ~ We all say we’re shocked when terrorists spill the blood of men, women and children. And so the ink after Nice will flow generously across the front pages of the world, as it did after Orlando, Brussels, Paris, Dhaka, Istanbul, San Bernardino and on and on and on... But we’re not shocked, really. Rather, these attacks have become an almost rote exercise in identity and issue politics. Twitterati will embrace a trite hashtag and feel warm compassion; political candidates will blame Muslims or guns or nObama or Trump. There will be more stern calls to honestly label the terrorism “Islamic”, as if there is some doubt, and more sanctimonious screeds about loving our Muslim brothers. It’s not that these reactions are wrong — at least not all of them; it’s that as terrorism becomes a regular feature of our lives, we’ve become inured to the horror and indifferent about the solution. Terrorism has become just another reason to reach for whatever particular button leaders would have reached for on that day, whether an attack had happened or not. The truth is that Middle East rooted terrorism has been a growing scourge for decades. Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, ISIS and the many other variants of these Islamist extremists have been killing Americans, Europeans, and thousands and thousands of Muslims for too long. It’s not just Syria that is a hotbed that has catapulted the likes of ISIS to the fore; the Islamic Republic of Iran employs terrorism every day as a regular tool of its foreign policy...  http://www.aei.org/publication/on-the-nice-attacks-and-terrorism/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITHISWEEK&utm_campaign=Weekly071616
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Suppressed News Of Gruesome
ISIS Torture at Bataclan Concert Hall
by Bethany Blankley
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{lidblog.com} ~ A new report about what really happened at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris, when Islamic terrorists pummeled innocent un-armed concert goers with rounds of bullets last November, has now been made public... after the gruesome torture by the “Islamic State” terrorists were suppressed by the French Govt. The chief witness a police investigator told the story of how he first learned of the torture, “‘After the assault, we were with colleagues at the passage Saint-Pierre Amelot when I saw weeping from one of our colleagues who came outside to vomit. He told us what he had seen. He then confirmed that his colleague had seen ‘acts of torture’ on the second floor of the Bataclan. Mensch explained that a French government committee heard testimony about what really happened at the Bataclan Club. The committee chair, Georges Fenech, complained during the inquiry that accounts of the torture have been kept out of the press by government officials...  http://lidblog.com/france-suppressed-news-of-gruesome-isis-torture-at-bataclan-concert-hall/
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Lawmakers renew push for investigation
of liar-Clinton Foundation
by Sarah Westwood
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Republican lawmakers are pushing the IRS, the Federal Trade Commission and the FBI to investigate the liar-Clinton Foundation for potential criminal activity... Led by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., more than a half-dozen lawmakers have already signed onto a letter that is expected to generate much deeper interest before it is sent to the three enforcement agencies this week. The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Examiner, highlights for IRS Commissioner John Koskinen a contradiction between the mission laid out in the original nonprofit filings of the foundation and the international and political activities it carries out today...
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liar-Clinton in email controversy
by Sarah Westwood
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton may soon face a second FBI investigation related to her private email use thanks to a criminal referral from congressional Republicans based on misstatements the former secretary of state made under oath... Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, vowed to make such a referral to the FBI Thursday after its director, James Comey, said liar-Clinton's sworn testimony last year before the House Select Committee on Benghazi was not considered as evidence by investigators because his agency did not receive a referral. Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Benghazi committee, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, are set to lead the filing of a joint referral alongside Chaffetz, a committee source told the Washington Examiner. The referral will likely take the form of a letter Friday highlighting discrepancies between Comey's words and liar-Clinton's...She is a boldface liar. She won't get away with it this time.  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/perjury-probe-ahead-for-clinton-in-email-controversy/article/2595936?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Watchdog&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Watchdog%20-%2007/15/16&utm_medium=email
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France: The Coming Civil War
by Yves Mamou
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ "We are on the verge of a civil war." That quote did not come from a fanatic or a lunatic. No, it came from head of France's homeland security, the DGSI (Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure), Patrick Calvar... He has, in fact, spoken of the risk of a civil war many times. On July 12th, he warned a commission of members of parliament, in charge of a survey about the terrorist attacks of 2015, about it. In May 2016, he delivered almost the same message to another commission of members of parliament, this tme in charge of national defense. "Europe," he said, "is in danger. Extremism is on the rise everywhere, and we are now turning our attention to some far-right movements who are preparing a confrontation". What kind of confrontation? "Intercommunity confrontations," he said -- polite for "a war against Muslims." "One or two more terrorist attacks," he added, "and we may well see a civil war."...  http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8489/france-the-coming-civil-war
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Cruz, Cornyn, Tillis Introduce Back the Blue Act
by Ted Cruz
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{cruz.senate.gov} ~ U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) today introduced the Back the Blue Act, a bill that would increase penalties against violent criminals who intentionally target law enforcement officers... provide new tools to help law enforcement protect themselves, and open up grant funding to strengthen relationships between law enforcement and their communities. “The sacrifice and bravery of law enforcement officers in the face of danger are part of the basic fabric that keeps our society together,” Sen. Cruz said. “This bill better protects our nation’s finest by providing stronger tools for the prosecution of those who would harm law enforcement. We must stand in solidarity with our police officers, firefighters, first responders, and federal officers who selflessly run into harm’s way to protect our families and our communities. This should not be a partisan issue. This should be an issue that brings us together, united as Americans. I’m proud to stand with the men and women of American law enforcement and urge all of my Senate colleagues to do the same.”...  https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2736
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Judge Jeanine – Terror Attacks Expose
nObama’s One Word Legacy
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine recalls June of 2014, when she was first learning of ISIS and her recommendation to bomb the daylights out of them. She describes herself as an amateur, but still she was able to recognize what needed to be done... If nObama had taken her advice then, while they were still the JV team, this problem wouldn’t exist today. Frustrated, Judge Jeanine says, “If this ‘president’ would stop apologizing for what we do, what we are, and stop saying, ‘you Christians, it’s your turn,’ as he did at a prayer breakfast, then maybe America would be united in a way where we understand that they’re coming, they’re here, we’re next.” Judge Pirro insists on viewing nObama from the American perspective, which is a mistake. nObama doesn’t want us to understand what he’s doing or to be united. He’s worked hard to divide us. If the American people knew what he was up to, he’d be in prison. Judge Jeanine expresses her anger, saying, “If we’ve got people standing in the blood of innocent victims when they go for an innocent celebration, then we’ve got to recognize that we’ve got a problem at the top in this country...  http://rickwells.us/jeanine-terror-attacks-obamas-legacy/
VIDEO: at the site
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liar-Hillary: Guilty as Not Charged
by David Limbaugh
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{townhall.com} ~ It's no mere academic question: Do we believe in the rule of law anymore? Are we a nation of laws or of men?

The cherished idea of the rule of law in our system is about everyone's being subject to the law in equal measure. The law, including criminal law, applies even to our political leaders.

Both members of the American power couple known as the liar-Clintons have escaped accountability all of their adult lives, so it comes as no shock that liar-Hillary Clinton is once again being allowed to skate, even though the head of the very body tasked with investigating her -- the FBI -- has detailed precisely how liar-Clinton did in fact break the law.

FBI Director James Comey laid out, with specificity, how liar-Clinton violated our national security laws, but then he proceeded to explain that he was nevertheless declining to refer liar-Clinton for federal prosecution.

Comey acknowledged that the federal criminal statute in question, by its terms, requires "gross negligence" -- and not specific intent -- and that liar-Clinton's behavior was "extremely careless." We can split hairs all we want, but there is little, if any, difference, factually or legally, between gross negligence and extreme carelessness. Comey, despite his refusal to equate the two, is essentially saying it's a moot point because he finds no precedent for anyone's ever having been prosecuted under the statute in question (Title 18, Section 793(f) of U.S. Code) for gross negligence. It would be "unfair," he says, to make this a case of first impression.

So are we to conclude that statutory language of Congress has a "sell by" date? That if no one is prosecuted under the clear words of a statute, the meaning of those words changes over time? Or does it change only if the acts of a special public official are involved?

Ask yourself: Would law enforcement officials conferring about whether to bring charges against a nonpublic figure or nonpublic official tie themselves in pretzels to avoid bringing criminal charges? That has not been my experience as an attorney.

Should the overriding concern here be fairness to liar-Clinton or respect for our national security secrets? Surely, in a matter of such grave magnitude, it would be fair to hold liar-Clinton accountable for knowingly commingling private and public and classified emails. Other subparagraphs of this very statute, e.g., Section 793(a), require specific intent for criminal liability, which means that Congress had to have deliberately set the standard lower in 793(f) -- the section that applies to liar-Clinton here. Why would Congress do that? Well, because the stakes are so high in these situations. Our national security is so important that a person entrusted with secret or classified information should know, whether she does in fact know, how dangerous it is to engage in the grossly reckless conduct liar-Clinton engaged in.

Moreover, having consciously declined to follow the clear language of the statute, Comey also decided that liar-Clinton did not have specific intent, because that standard, in his view, requires that a person knowingly broke the law. When I studied criminal law, specific intent didn't usually require proof that a person knew her acts violated the law, only that she specifically intended to commit the acts that were unlawful.

When a prosecutor brings a criminal case against a defendant, say, for bank robbery, does any reasonable person believe that the prosecutor has the burden of proving the defendant was conversant with the statute forbidding bank robbery? No, he just must prove the person intended to rob the bank -- an act forbidden by the law.

But even if we accept Comey's bizarre redefinition of specific intent, is it conceivable that liar-Clinton, with all her vast experience with classified material, was unaware that what she was doing was criminally wrong? No, liar-Clinton specifically intended to commingle her emails -- personal, private, public, classified -- knowing it would put national security at grave risk.

In addition, reportedly, liar-Clinton's lawyers permanently deleted 30,000 emails. Would any reasonable person believe that liar-Clinton was unaware they were going to do this? Would they have had any reason to allegedly obstruct justice in this way if these emails hadn't been damning for liar-Clinton? Would law enforcement give any other person the benefit of the doubt in this situation?

Regardless of what you assume about Comey's integrity or whether you agree with his decision not to refer any charges for prosecution, how could he possibly say, with a straight face, that no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute on the facts of this case -- facts that demonstrate liar-Clinton violated the plain language of the statute?

Democrats keep saying Republicans are engaging in a partisan witch hunt -- as if Republicans aren't rightly outraged that Comey virtually admitted liar-Clinton violated the clear language of the statute yet decided not to prosecute.

liar-Clinton put our national security at risk. She put us all at risk while entrusted with the high and solemn duty of safeguarding our national security, and she is closer to being rewarded for it than she is to being punished. Is it any wonder that people have wholly given up on the system?

Given his record and his reputation for integrity, I will not jump to the conclusion that Comey is intentionally playing politics here, but I do believe it is plausible that he and his team are succumbing to a strong desire not to be accused of partisanship and therefore bent over backward to avoid prosecuting her. Call it the Justice Roberts effect.

It is a sad day for the rule of law and for the state of our national security because Comey's decision takes the teeth out of the law and strongly weakens any deterrent force of the statute.

Comey may have succeeded in convincing himself that he is ensuring that liar-Hillary Clinton is not subject to a different standard than the ordinary citizen, but through his explanations alone, he has convinced us of the exact opposite.
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Open letter to all Christians

By Juan Reynoso –texusa2016@gmail.com

Open letter to all Christians.

https://www.freetranslation.com/en/translate-english-spanish

The purpose of this letter it’s not to criticize, judge or expose any one, but to think and to reflect  about our own stand on this issue of being a true Christian or just a religious person.

Today in our country there are many organizations that call themselves “Christians”: we have Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Mormon, and Independent. There are Churches of Christ, Churches of God, Episcopalians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Unitarians. There are Amish, Mennonites, and Quakers. There are Pentecostals, Presbyterians, and Spiritualists; that all claiming to be “Christian. Many people think that if we are religious, then we must be a “real Christian.” At the same time many feel a deep pain inside, a hollow, empty, unsatisfied craving for love. Many sense something is miss­ing, because they are seeing hypocrisy in the churches and the confusion of contradictory doctrinal teaching, the Prosperity theology and the secular expression of Christianity.  Today in America many Christians are confuse and throw their hands up in despair; they recognize there is a fundamental difference between just “being religious” and being a “real Christian”

I believe that God has placed in our hands a very precious gift, the gift of self-love.  To love ourselves is not just a self-esteem boosting piece of advice.  It is the prerequisite to truly loving others. The Golden Rule tells us to "love your neighbor as you love yourself", because we can only give that which we have; this is obvious because we cannot give something that we do not possess.  To give love, you must first have love. To have love, love yourself. Only then will you be able to truly love others for the pure joy of loving them. Give the love you wish to experience to yourself and you will find all your relationships transforming in miraculous ways.   Most of us spend our lives looking for love, peace and joy only to realize that, we have this treasure,  this gift from God to show humanity that all this surpassing power is from God and not from us.

Loving Yourself.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/loving_yourself

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Impeach Obama Now

Obama has broken his oath of office, defiled our Constitution, committed treason and the list goes on and no action has been taken. The closer he gets to losing his power the more dangerous he will become. I'm truly afraid of what he is going to do especially after his executive order he released 3-July-2016 hoping no one would pay attention. This gave him power far beyond that of any other President. He could declare Marshall Law to avoid the term limits. He is purposely causing a division of race and inciting violence. He refuses to call a terrorist a terrorist by refusing to acknowledge that ISIS and Radical Islam are true terrorists. Something has to be done before he can destroy what's left of the Great Nation we so love. Besides all that he shouldn't get to keep taking tax payer money in the form of a pension and secret service protection for the rest of his life. He should be charged with his crimes, but if that can't happen for some unimaginable reason then the least we can do is make sure he has no more access to our government and it's secrets, and does not get the honor of remaining a former President of this great nation. The fact that he broke his sacred Oath of Office too many times to count is enough for impeachment by itself and that is just one of hundreds maybe thousands of other impeachable offenses and crimes. The fact he purchased a house close to the White House says he's not going anywhere and with all the testimony of ex-secret service agents I have no idea how he is still in office and not prison. Please lets act and make sure he doesn't get to continue leaching of tax payer money for the rest of his life. I know one thing for sure, we true Americans love our Constitution and the United States of America and as Mr. Obama said himself on an open microphone he thinks Americans are stupid and should just obey him. That is not someone worthy of being a former President of our great free nation under God. Please join me in one last push to try to remove him from office if not before the election then at least after it. He can still be imprached after his presidency is over, but I sincerely pray that it can be done before. He can not be allowed to Pardon all the people we know he's going to and do all the damage he can before leaving the office. Mr. Obama has lied, betrayed and stole from America and it's great people far to long! Now it's America's time to show Mr. Obama and his chronies that nobody is above the law! That his tyrannical reign has failed and is over! That America will no longer be subjected to his illegal unconstitutional ways, his disrespectful hate mongering, his false rhetoric and above all his complete blatant disregard for our Constitution that has made, and will continue to make our America the Greatest nation in the world! God Bless the United States of America and all its American citizens and legal Immigrants. Together we can impeach and remove Mr. Obama from our White House and God willing put him in the "Big House" where he belongs!
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What's Up With Mike Pence?

I've been hearing a lot about Mike Pence lately and seemingly out of the blue. So, when I stumbled across this post from The National Interest about Mr. Pence, I was intrigued to learn more.

Link -> http://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-man-win-movement-conservatives-trump-17002

Even after reading this article, I'm still not sure what I think about Mike Pence. I won't judge before I know, so now it's just a matter of waiting to see what this, Mike Pence, fellow actually DOES for We The People.

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Black Pride

Pride in accomplishments and family is one thing.   There is no pride in receiving hand-outs from the government.

Politicians found out a long time ago that by giving hand-outs to Blacks they could actually control their actions...at the voting booth, without changing the social order.  The Democrats could have their cake and eat it too.  And ever so more today with Latinos added to the basket.   It  has all been done for the sake of building a vote-gathering political party.  Get enough of these voters and you cannot loose an election.  It is called Socialism.

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Wars Against Constitutions

Wars Against Constitutions

On November 29, 2009, then Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, was voted OUT of office. Losing to the conservative leaning Porfirio Lobos by a 17% landslide victory.  

Zelaya, who represented the nation's Liberal Party, which is associated w/ the far leftist Liberal IInternational [1], initially refused leave office. Backed by their Constitution, and the,nation's Supreme Court, the Honduran military had formed a coup. Successfully removing Manuel Zelaya who lives in exile today. .  

"In a separate cable from May 2008 released on the WikiLeaks website, a U.S. official said Chavez ally and then-President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had links to organized crime. Zelaya was ousted in a military-backed coup in 2009.

"There ... exists a sinister Zelaya, surrounded by a few close advisors with ties to both Venezuela and Cuba and organized crime," the outgoing U.S. ambassador said in a cable to his successor before Zelaya was pushed out of office.

The cable also described the Central American leader as a "rebellious teenager" who never graduated from high school." [2]

WHAT WAS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S RESPONSE

"An agreement signed in Colombia this week allowing the ousted former Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, to return home and resume political activity without fear of prosecution marks “a great day” for the Honduran people, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“Hugo Chavez’s handprints are all over this deal,” Ros-Lehtinen said in a statement. “He can’t wait to have Zelaya back in Honduras so he can begin pulling the strings again and undermine that nation’s democracy.

Clinton, by contrast, said on Monday that the U.S. “commends” the Chavez regime for its role in securing the agreement." [3]

President Obama had called the coup that ousted Manuel Zelaya as president of Honduras “not legal” and joined with the voices of leaders across the Americas in demanding that democracy be respected. “It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition, rather than democratic elections,” Mr. Obama said...  [4]

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Wait a sec!  The Honduran people had their LEGAL election; where they elected Lobos in a 17% landslide, remember?

NOW the Obama admn is siding w/ the Turkish President Erdoğan - whp has been slowly but steadily moving Turkey away from its secular Constitution and towards a Shariah Islamic theocracy.  Can you SEE the pattern of behavior going on here?  If you don't, you're either on board; or your simply a MORON!

Luis  



[1]  http://www.liberal-international.org/site/

[2]  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Venezuela-Gets-Missiles-Russia/2010/12/12/id/379696/

[3]  httphttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-wrong-side-honduras-dispute-gop-lawmaker-warns://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-wrong-side-honduras-dispute-gop-lawmaker-warns

[4] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/30/obama-wants-president-reinstated/?feat=home_headlines

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Wars Against Constitutions

Wars Against Constitutions

On November 29, 2009, then Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, was voted OUT of office. Losing to the conservative leaning Porfirio Lobos by a 17% landslide victory.  

Zelaya, who represented the nation's Liberal Party, which is associated w/ the far leftist Liberal IInternational [1], initially refused leave office. Backed by their Constitution, and the,nation's Supreme Court, the Honduran military had formed a coup. Successfully removing Manuel Zelaya who lives in exile today. .  

"In a separate cable from May 2008 released on the WikiLeaks website, a U.S. official said Chavez ally and then-President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had links to organized crime. Zelaya was ousted in a military-backed coup in 2009.

"There ... exists a sinister Zelaya, surrounded by a few close advisors with ties to both Venezuela and Cuba and organized crime," the outgoing U.S. ambassador said in a cable to his successor before Zelaya was pushed out of office.

The cable also described the Central American leader as a "rebellious teenager" who never graduated from high school." [2]

WHAT WAS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S RESPONSE

"An agreement signed in Colombia this week allowing the ousted former Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, to return home and resume political activity without fear of prosecution marks “a great day” for the Honduran people, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“Hugo Chavez’s handprints are all over this deal,” Ros-Lehtinen said in a statement. “He can’t wait to have Zelaya back in Honduras so he can begin pulling the strings again and undermine that nation’s democracy.

Clinton, by contrast, said on Monday that the U.S. “commends” the Chavez regime for its role in securing the agreement." [3]

President Obama had called the coup that ousted Manuel Zelaya as president of Honduras “not legal” and joined with the voices of leaders across the Americas in demanding that democracy be respected. “It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition, rather than democratic elections,” Mr. Obama said...  [4]

???!!!

Wait a sec!  The Honduran people had their LEGAL election; where they elected Lobos in a 17% landslide, remember?

NOW the Obama admn is siding w/ the Turkish President Erdoğan - whp has been slowly but steadily moving Turkey away from its secular Constitution and towards a Shariah Islamic theocracy.  Can you SEE the pattern of behavior going on here?  If you don't, you're either on board; or your simply a MORON!

Luis  



[1]  http://www.liberal-international.org/site/

[2]  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Venezuela-Gets-Missiles-Russia/2010/12/12/id/379696/

[3]  httphttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-wrong-side-honduras-dispute-gop-lawmaker-warns://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-wrong-side-honduras-dispute-gop-lawmaker-warns

[4] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/30/obama-wants-president-reinstated/?feat=home_headlines

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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
The Glory of a Warrior
by Matthew Hennessey
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Star Parker: "Capriciously applied law has always been a disturbance for blacks. The civil rights movement was supposed to be about the country recognizing and remedying that, in a nation under God, there were citizens not receiving equal treatment under the law. Unfortunately, the civil rights movement came in the midst of the liberal wave of the 1960s. So instead of focusing on equal application of existing laws of tradition, we turned law over to men to make up new rules that were supposedly going to fix everything. But man-made law produces what we have just seen in a politically motivated FBI director rationalizing that a secretary of state ... somehow couldn't figure out that she was breaking the law and compromising our national security. When we don't take law seriously at the highest levels of power in the nation, the message reverberates throughout the land."  -The Patriot Post
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 Just How 'Far Right' Is the GOP Platform? 
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Both The New York Times and NBC News have recently run stories on the GOP's preparation for its upcoming national convention in Cleveland next week. In their "reporting" on the Republican platform and its field of speakers, two telling words were invoked — "far" and "extreme" — buzz words that the Left often uses in seeking to dissuade anyone from taking conservative ideas seriously.
          "Rudy Giuliani ... the far-right former mayor of New York City will also speak [at the GOP national convention]," reported NBC News. That was later redacted and replaced with the description that Giuliani is "extremely conservative on national security issues." Giuliani is strong on national defense, but he's also pro-gun control and pro-abortion. Hardly "far right."
          Meanwhile, The New York Times headlined, "Emerging Republican Platform Goes Far to the Right." What are these "far" right and "extreme" conservative issues that make up the Republican Party platform? Four of the major planks of the party's platform to be highlighted at the convention are: 1. a strong immigration policy, 2. support for traditional marriage and opposition to forced assimilation into the Barack nObama's transgender bathroom directive, 3. support for a strong national defense, and 4. an "America First" policy when it comes to international trade agreements.
          There is nothing novel about these Republican ideals — and most certainly no movement to the "far right." In fact, was it not nObama who stated in October 2010, "I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understanding of the traditional definitions of marriage"? In other words, until just a few years ago, the Republican platform was what nearly all Americans believed. So exactly which party should more accurately be described as being "far" and "extreme"? Where Leftmedia outlets are concerned, if you're not moving their direction, then you are the "extremist."  -The Patriot Post
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{foxnews.com} ~ The U.S. government on Friday released a once-classified chapter from a congressional report on the 9/11 attacks that some lawmakers suggested raise questions of Saudi involvement... The documents were posted Friday by the House intelligence committee. Former President George W. Bush originally classified the chapter to protect intelligence sources and methods and perhaps to avoid upsetting Saudi Arabia, a close U.S. ally. President nObama later ordered a declassification review of the chapter, which Congress released on Friday...http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/15/us-government-released-secret-chapter-from-911-report.htmlclassification
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Jihadi Terrorism: You Think It's
Just the Jews? Think Again.
by Giulio Meotti
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Last night, at least 84 people were murdered in the French city of Nice by a Tunisian-born Islamist terrorist, with dozens more victims wounded... The attacker drove a 19-ton truck into a large crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day, France's national holiday, running down men, women and children over a 2km stretch of road and sidewalk. On July 2, nine Italian citizens were butchered by Islamists in the assault at a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh. They were tortured and killed with "very sharp blades" wielded by smiling terrorists who spared the life of those who knew the Quran. For almost a year already, poor Bangladeshis have been experiencing similar shocking massacres. But hose victims were not wealthy non-Muslim foreigners -- they were anonymous Muslim bloggers, accused of "blasphemy" and murdered out with "sharp blades" -- five victims in 2015 and a law student in 2016, as well as a Hindu priest hacked to death. The same cycle took place in Syria and Iraq, where the beheaders of the Islamic State first targeted many Western journalists, then expelled and killed Christians in Mosul, and then landed in Paris to exterminate Western civilians... http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8409/jihadi-terrorism
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The Iran Deal’s Fatal Flaws
After One Year: Emboldened Iran
and Diminished American Deterrence
by Mark Dubowitz, Annie Fixler
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ As we mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), it is worth recalling why this deal is fatally flawed... The JCPOA provides Iran with a patient pathway to nuclear weapons capability by placing limited, temporary, and reversible constraints on Iran’s nuclear activities. These nuclear “sunset provisions,” which begin to expire in eight years and mostly disappear over a period of ten to fifteen years, leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power with an industrial-size, uranium enrichment and plutonium program; near-zero nuclear breakout capacity; an advanced centrifuge-powered clandestine sneakout capability; advanced ballistic missile and ICBM programs; access to advanced heavy weaponry; greater regional hegemony; and a more powerful economy that could be immune to Western sanctions. Even as Iran temporarily scaled back some of its nuclear activities under the JCPOA, the regime’s illicit effort to obtain proliferation-related technology continues while its other non-nuclear malign activities are expanding...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/content/uploads/documents/Dubowitz_Fixler_Fatal_Flaws_After_One_Year.pdf
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Top Intel Official:
Al Qaeda Worked on WMD in Iran
by Thomas Joscelyn, Stephen F. Hayes
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{weeklystandard.com} ~ Al Qaeda operatives based in Iran worked on chemical and biological weapons, according to a letter written to Osama bin Laden that is described in a new book by a top former U.S. intelligence official... The letter was captured by a U.S. military sensitive site exploitation team during the raid on bin Laden's Abbottabad headquarters in May 2011. It is described in Field of Fight, out Tuesday from Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Michael Ledeen of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran," Flynn writes. Flynn's claim, if true, significantly advances what we know about al Qaeda's activity in Iran. The book was cleared by the intelligence community's classification review process. And U.S. intelligence sources familiar with the bin Laden documents tell us the disclosure on al Qaeda's WMD work is accurate...  http://www.weeklystandard.com/top-intel-official-al-qaeda-worked-on-wmd-in-iran/article/2003264
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nObama surprises offshore drillers
with costly changes
by John Siciliano
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Interior Department issued new rules Thursday that will make it harder for the oil and gas industry to drill offshore... The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a notice to all federal permit holders announcing it will be changing the financial rules of the road. It will be requiring more upfront capital to cover the risks posed by each oil and gas lessee not fulfilling its permit obligations and decommissioning wells...Congress do something to stop this jerk.  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-surprises-offshore-drillers-with-costly-changes/article/2596551
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An Award-Winning Documentary About
Islamic Terrorists Becomes Hate Speech
by Steven Emerson
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ At what point over the past 20 years did citing statements and literature by Islamic terrorists become banned "hate speech?"... A documentary that I produced in 1994 for PBS concerning civilizational jihad won numerous awards, yet YouTube in recent days removed a video posted by CounterJihad that covered the very same topic in much more limited scope. Both my film, "Terrorists Among Us: Jihad in America," and CounterJihad's "Killing for a Cause: Sharia Law & Civilizational Jihad" expose the Islamification of the West waged by the Muslim Brotherhood and its front organizations in the U.S. The Brotherhood, born in Egypt in 1928, is the fountainhead of nearly every deadly Islamist organization on the planet today...
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These Environmentalist Pay The Price
For Believing Their Own Lies
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Eric Schniederman
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{teapartyupdate.com} ~ The absurd attempt by several progressive attorney’s general to criminalize speech skeptical of climate change is one of the most under-reported assault’s on the first amendment in our history... Climate change Mullah, N.Y. Attorney General Eric Schniederman, takes his climate religion so seriously that he thinks he can sue Exxon-Mobile for donating money to groups skeptical of climate change and confiscate communications between skeptical groups. As the NY Post reports, reality is starting to rain on the progressive climate change parade:...  http://teapartyupdate.com/these-environmentalist-pay-the-price-for-believing-their-own-lies/
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The Islam Infiltration: Illinois Law Spells Trouble
by shawn
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{totalconservative.com} ~ Americans, in huge majority numbers, understand that much of Islam is incompatible with our country’s norms and values... We may have varying opinions on just how incompatible, and we may all want American Muslims to enjoy the same religious rights as anyone else, but very few of us want Islam to begin influencing our laws. Sadly, that’s exactly where we’re headed. Organizations like CAIR operate under the pretense of protecting Muslims from unfair persecution. They’ve earned a seat at the table by pretending to be full-throated supporters of the Constitution. They don’t want special rights for Muslims. They just want to represent the voices of the unheard. That’s all. But that’s not all. These organizations can all be traced back to their radical origins. And once you peer behind the curtain, you can see that they have goals that go well beyond discouraging people from using the term “radical Islamic terrorism.” Goals that go well beyond protecting the civil rights of Muslims. They want to change America’s laws, slowly but surely, to make them closer to the Sharia laws that govern Islamic countries like Iran...  http://totalconservative.com/islam-infiltration-illinois-law-spells-trouble/
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 Is liar-Hillary Guilty?
by Bill Whittle
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Bill Whittle is back with another Firewall video commentary. It takes Bill only 93 seconds to show liar-Hillary Clinton guilty of violating three separate Federal Statutes... It takes him another three minutes to explain why she and nObama simply DO NOT CARE. Let’s start by getting one thing out of the way right at the top: there is no question that liar-Hillary Clinton committed multiple violations of federal law...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittles-firewall-hillary-guilty
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Pentagon Approves U.N.
Use Of Force Against American Civilians
by MIchael DePinto
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{freedomoutpost.com} ~ But… But… the folks at the “fact checking sites” said these were all being shipped overseas…. Then again, they never did have an answer for why there were guys with helmets and construction gear in lots of the trucks… but who knows, maybe their sources told them the soldiers were stowaways…All kidding aside… with all the credible threats from Black Lives Matter… and with the information contained in the documents linked to below… the same ones no one reads before they say, “BS!" Here’s an idea… since our country is on the line… and slipping away fast… how about everyone take a little extra effort to help one another be better informed… myself included. I welcome all the emails I’ve been getting! The federal government have announced their support for a set of principles that allow U.N. troops to police and use force in order to “protect citizens” in the event of an armed conflict...We don't need no stinking UN.  http://freedomoutpost.com/pentagon-approves-u-n-use-of-force-against-american-civilians/
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The Glory of a Warrior
by Matthew Hennessey
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{city-journal.org} ~ Kevin Lacz was a Mohawked, 19-year-old recreational rugby player with a 0.7 GPA at Virginia’s James Madison University when al-Qaida terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. Days filled with weightlifting, heavy metal, and beer pong suddenly held no appeal to the Middlefield, Connecticut, native. Stunned by the death of a family friend who worked at the Twin Towers, Lacz did what many young Americans considered doing, but didn’t—he dropped out and joined the Navy SEALs. “I wanted to kill the men who planned the mass murder of nearly three thousand Americans,” Lacz writes in The Last Punisher, his just-published account of the Battle of Ramadi. “It was the first real risk I had taken—the moment I decided to step up and be a man.”

Five years and lots of specialized military training later, Lacz found himself a man transformed. The “unfuckwithable” kid who had quit Little League, Boy Scouts, and the high school golf team was now a BTF—a Big Tough Frogman—on a six-month deployment as a platoon sniper and medic in the white-hot war in Iraq’s Anbar Province. He and his fellow SEAL Team Three BTFs were wisecracking hard-men all. Sporting spotty mustaches and cinematic nicknames like Pepper, Doc, Biff, Spaz, and Biggles, their charge was to rain lethal violence down upon Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s brutal Sunni insurgency. The SEALs of Charlie Platoon wanted nothing more than to take the fight directly to the enemy’s front parlor. Some, including Chris Kyle of American Sniper fame—nicknamed Legend—had been at it for a while. Lacz was dubbed Dauber for his resemblance to the big, blond lug on the 1990s sitcom Coach.  

Two weeks into his deployment, Lacz developed an itchy trigger finger. Eager to meet the enemy, he volunteered to work the stone guard tower at Camp Corregidor, an Army installation on Ramadi’s outskirts. It was, he says with scorn for the politically correct sensitivities of Americans who have never been to war, “a good place to smoke some muj.” Packing a fresh load of ever-present Copenhagen tobacco into his lower lip, Lacz settled in to wait for the muezzin’s amplified voice sounding the call to afternoon Islamic prayer. That would be when the city’s deserted streets and alleyways sprang to life. Among the suddenly numerous women, children, and goatherders, Lacz knew, would be young men looking to ambush American troops with small-arms fire and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). With tobacco spit pooling on the floor between his feet, he kept stock-still, staring down the 20-inch barrel of his MK11 sniper rifle at a man periodically glancing up at the guard tower. His behavior indicated that he was a “muj”—short for mujahedeen—and Lacz had a clear shot, but the American military’s rules of engagement prevented him from firing absent hostile action or hostile intent. “Looking shady wasn’t enough.”

Dressed in the insurgent’s uniform of t-shirt, track pants, and flip-flops, the man scooted across an alleyway and ducked behind a wall. Lacz focused on keeping his breathing steady. The muj reappeared seconds later cradling an AK-47 rifle. His fate was sealed. Lacz calmly put a 7.62 millimeter round through his upper torso. The muj hit the dirt. It was the first of Lacz’s dozens of confirmed kills.

That night, back in his rack, Lacz took inventory of his emotions. He hadn’t minded taking a life, he decided. “If you volunteer yourself to do the business of doing bad things to bad people, you have to be prepared for the eventuality of being required to do it.” During training, Lacz and his fellow SEALs sat for a lecture by retired army lieutenant colonel Dave Grossman, author of On Killing, a study of the psychological effects of combat. Grossman’s theory is that 2 percent of the male population is capable of killing without remorse. These “levelheaded” warriors are drawn to military special operations units like the SEALs. They get missions guaranteed to end with someone—the enemy, preferably—in a body bag. Lacz no longer wondered whether he was one of Grossman’s “2 percenters.” He settled into an easy sleep.

The Last Punisher is an unapologetic tribute to the habits and attitudes of the professional warriors of SEAL Team Three. Lacz and his dehydrated co-belligerents storm enemy positions, clear courtyards, and fight their way out of ambushes in 120-degree heat. “Ramadi in the summer was a perpetual state of full-body swamp ass.” They convoy on the bomb-cratered thoroughfare known as Route Michigan, where, in the summer of 2006, you had as good a chance of being blown sky high by an IED as you did of getting sunburn. Lacz patrols with an American flag folded neatly and tucked between the plates of his body armor. He is ready to give all, at any minute, for his teammates. Preparing to break out of a fortified position under heavy fire, the thought occurs to him that he “wouldn’t want to be anywhere else than next to these bad motherfuckers.” Two of the BTFs of SEAL Team Three—Marc Lee and Medal of Honor winner Mike Monsoor—ultimately gave their lives in Ramadi. It stung; beneath the macho swagger, Lacz and his BTF buddies are still human. But they live, as few of us do, by the warrior ethos. “Pain is temporary. Death is fleeting,” Lacz writes. “The glory of a warrior lasts forever.”  

The Last Punisher—the title refers to the Marvel Comics vigilante hero, whose death’s-head logo Lacz and his cohorts adopt—is a late but worthy arrival to the Navy SEAL memoir genre. Marcus Lutrell’s Lone Survivor (2007), Eric Greitens’s The Heart and the Fist (2011), Brandon Webb’s The Red Circle (2012), and Kyle’s American Sniper (2012)—among others—have already peeled back some of the desert camouflage on this mysterious fighting fraternity. The increased exposure has ruffled some feathers. Not all BTFs want their stories told. When two SEAL Team Six operators wrote competing and contradictory tales of the Top Secret 2011 mission to kill Osama bin Laden, the brass at Naval Special Warfare Command weren’t pleased. “A critical tenet of our Ethos is ‘I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my action,’” wrote Rear Admiral Brian Losey and SEAL Force master chief M.L. Magaraci, in a “dear teammates” letter.

Lacz opts not to give a day-by-day, challenge-by-challenge account of SEAL life, such as the grueling Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training that makes sailors into SEALS. Others have provided those accounts. Nor does Lacz opine on the politics of the Iraq War. Instead, Lacz devotes The Last Punisher to filling in gaps in the story of the Battle of Ramadi and memorializing the sacrifices of BTFs like Lee and Monsoor. His pungent, plain-spoken account has lots of butt-kicking and some tears, and serves to remind civilian readers again that war is another world.
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The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Comey: A Theory
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 Coal on the Fast Track to Elimination 
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The nObama administration's end goal is the complete elimination of coal. And if new data is to be believed, the administration is well ahead of schedule. According to U.S. Energy Information Administration calculations, "Coal-fired generating capacity in the United States dropped from 299 gigawatts (GW) at the end of 2014 to 276 GW as of April 2016." Moreover, "Coal-fired generation's share of total electricity generation fell from 39% in 2014 to 28% in the first four months of 2016."
          That's a steep decline. And it's nowhere near what the EPA unrealistically projected in its December 2011 "Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards." In that report, the agency estimated, "A small amount of coal-fired capacity, about 4.7 GW (less than 2 percent of all coal-fired capacity in 2015), is projected to be come uneconomic to maintain by 2015 [emphasis added]."
          Coal, by design, is on the fast track to elimination. And if it's phased out quicker than expected? Well, tough luck. What's bad news for the coal industry and the overall economy is good news for the EPA and its Democrat operatives. The Democratic Platform Committee just endorsed a provision "calling on the Department of Justice to investigate alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change." Too bad the committee won't endorse an investigation into the fraudulent projections government officials cling to whenever they seek to implement devious and onerous regulations.  -The Patriot Post
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 Ginsburg Crosses the Line 
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Louis DeBroux: We suppose we can finally abandon any pretense that the judiciary is still a neutral body rendering opinions based on an impartial interpretation of the Constitution as written. Rather, the judiciary, and especially the Supreme Court, has become a supra-legislative oligarchy of nine (or eight, for the time being) that imposes its own version of morality and "social justice" upon the roughly 315 million Americans who are expected to abide by its diktats.
          One particular recent example tells us all we need to know in this regard — the recent political-stump utterance of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. This isn't entirely new ground for Ginsburg, though. She is known affectionately to her legions of leftist lemmings as "the Notorious RBG" (a take-off on the moniker of slain rapper The Notorious BIG), for her unrestrained tendency to speak openly about her personal feelings regarding matters involving the Court.
          But this time, she has exceeded all previous boundaries of decorum and propriety.
          Speaking in an interview with the New York Times, the official daily newspaper of the Democrat Party, Ginsberg, asked about the possibility of a Trump presidency, said, "I can't imagine what this place would be — I can't imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president. For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don't even want to contemplate that." She then chuckled at the thought of what her late husband would have said: "Now it's time for us to move to New Zealand."
          Questioned about this later, she went back to the well. "At first I thought it was funny," she said of Trump's candidacy. "To think that there's a possibility that he could be president..." she trailed off.
          Such remarks are well beyond inappropriate for a sitting justice. Edward Whelan III, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, called her comments indefensible, stating, "I think this exceeds the others in terms of her indiscretions. ... I am not aware of any justice ever expressing views on the merits or demerits of a presidential candidate in the midst of the campaign. ... [T]he soundness or unsoundness of her concerns about Donald Trump has no bearing on whether it was proper for her to say what she said."
          According to Stetson University law professor Louis J. Virelli, there could be serious consequences for such outbursts. "[P]ublic comments like the ones that Justice Ginsburg made could be seen as grounds for her to recuse herself from cases involving a future Trump administration," Virelli mused. "I don't necessarily think she would be required to do that, and I certainly don't believe that she would in every instance, but it could invite challenges to her impartiality based on her public comments."
          Not that Ginsburg or the other members of the Court's leftist bloc would have the decency to recuse themselves in such cases. Both Justice Ginsburg (a former lawyer for the ACLU) and Justice Elena Kagan refused to recuse themselves in the same-sex "marriage" cases that came before the Court in the last few years, despite having already performed multiple same-sex wedding ceremonies when such were still a violation of federal law. In fact, Ginsburg was so arrogant and shameless that she performed one of these ceremonies in the chambers of the Supreme Court itself.
          There is a major double-standard when it comes to such statements by members of the Court. During nObama's 2010 State of the Union Address, cameras caught Justice Samuel Alito mouthing the words "not true" in response to nObama's unseemly and unprecedented attacks on the Court's decision in the Citizens United case. Liberals called Alito "nasty" and "churlish" for this supposed breach of decorum, but these same liberals are positively giddy when leftist justices offer up far more blatant political commentary, as has Ginsburg.
          These realities again underscore the urgency of denying another leftist Democrat the opportunity to shape the direction of the Court for the next 30 years or more. With the death of stalwart originalist Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the most brilliant, effective and honorable justices in the history of the Supreme Court, the next president will be able to name his successor (if the GOP Senate holds the line against Barack nObama's nominee, Merrick Garland). Add to that the fact that Justice Ginsburg (83), Justice Kennedy (79), Justice Breyer (77) and Justice Thomas (68) are closer to the end of their tenure than their beginning, and the next president may be able to appoint as many as five new justices to the Court.
          Such an opportunity could strengthen the Court's conservative/originalist wing, or permanently cement the leftist vision of a malleable, "living" constitution, with constitutional protections of individual liberty, and the tempering effect of a separation of powers between the branches, forever lost. No pressure ... right?  -The Patriot Post
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The First Iran War
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ July 12, 2006 was the first day of what has become known as the Second Lebanon War. The name of the war, like most of the lessons taken from it, is off... The war Israel fought in the summer of 2006 against Hezbollah was not the same as the war Israel fought against the PLO in 1982. The war of 2006 was not a Lebanese war. It was an Iranian war. It was the first Iran war. Hezbollah, acting as Iran’s foreign legion, initiated the war with a massive mortar and rocket assault on communities in northern Israel. Under mortar cover, a Hezbollah unit crossed the border and attacked an IDF convoy traveling close to Kibbutz Zarit...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-first-iran-war
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What is the FBI Hiding About liar-Hillary Clinton?
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{foxnews.com} ~ One would think that if everything were on the up and up, you would not have to tell everyone to keep their mouth shut. If there was nothing to tell, why gag those who know?... This is the question all Americans should be asking in the wake of recent discoveries. The FBI has confirmed to a senior Republican senator that agents were sworn to secrecy -- and subject to lie detector tests -- in the liar-Hillary Clinton email probe, an extensive measure one former agent said could have a "chilling effect." A July 1 letter sent by a senior deputy to FBI Director James Comey to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, detailed the restrictions on agents. The letter, reviewed by Fox News, confirmed agents signed a "Case Briefing Acknowledgement" which says the disclosure of information is "strictly prohibited" without prior approval, and those who sign are subject to lie detector tests.reviewed by Fox News, confirmed agents signed a “Case Briefing Acknowledgement” which says the disclosure of information is “strictly prohibited” without prior approval, and those who sign are subject to lie detector tests...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/14/gag-order-fbi-confirms-special-secrecy-agreements-for-agents-in-clinton-email-probe.html
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Senate Democrats Block Funding
for U.S. Troops, Veterans
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked legislation funding U.S. troops and prevented a vote on a bill containing funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs... Senate Democrats blocked a vote on the fiscal year 2017 defense appropriations bill on Thursday for the second time this month, drawing ire from Republican lawmakers. The bill would appropriate funds for the U.S. armed forces, including funding that goes toward paying American service members. “I am disappointed that Senate Democrats are irresponsibly blocking the defense appropriations bill. Delaying consideration of this bill jeopardizes our national security and military readiness,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement...
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Military Warns Against Nuclear Policy Change
by Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ White House plans for a radical shift in U.S. nuclear policy came under fire from the military leaders who voiced concerns to Congress on Thursday about adopting a so-called no-first-use weapons policy... Strategic Command chief Adm. Cecil Haney warned that the policy shift could undermine global stability in deterring growing nuclear threats posed by Russia, China, and North Korea. President nObama is considering adopting the no-first-use nuclear policy along with several other disarmament measures in his final months in office...nObama has no idea what he is doing.
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The non-religious are now the US's largest
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ More American voters than ever say they are not religious, making the religiously unaffiliated the nation's biggest voting bloc by faith for the first time in a presidential election year... This marks a dramatic shift from just eight years ago, when the non-religious were roundly outnumbered by Catholics, white mainline Protestants, and white evangelical Protestants. These numbers come from a new Pew Research Center survey, which finds that "religious 'nones,' who have been growing rapidly as a share of the U.S. population, now constitute one-fifth of all registered voters and more than a quarter of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters." That represents a 50 percent increase in the proportion of non-religious voters compared to eight years ago, when they made up just 14 percent of the overall electorate. "In 2008, religious 'nones' were outnumbered or at parity with white mainline Protestants and white Catholics," the survey's lead researcher, Greg Smith, said in an interview. "Today, 'nones' outnumber both of those groups."...The end times a-coming.  http://jewishworldreview.com/0716/ingraham071516.php3
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GOP platform encourages teaching about
the Bible in public schools
by Emma Brown
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Members of the GOP this week debated and ultimately embraced an addition to the party's platform that encourages public high schools to teach elective courses about the Bible... one of several moves that contributed to Republicans' broad shift to the right. Several GOP delegates said that they aren't seeking to inculcate schools with Christianity, but they are trying to make sure that young people are acquainted with a document that has played a significant role in shaping Western culture. "This is not designed to teach religion in the schools as a means of proselytizing," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative advocacy group, and a GOP delegate from Louisiana who supported the Bible-in-schools provision. "You can't really fully understand the American form of government and society without some understanding of the Bible."... http://jewishworldreview.com/0716/GOP_bible_school.php3
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“Hope and Change” Becomes
“Death and Destruction”
by Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ President Barack nObama laid the groundwork for the Black Lives Matter movement in his first term when he said that the Cambridge, Massachusetts police “acted stupidly” after an African-American professor was arrested in his own home... It turned out the white policeman was protecting the home from what he thought was a burglary. Although the policeman had an impeccable record and there was no evidence of racial bias, nObama found him guilty of racism and “stupidity.” nObama was trained by his mentor, Communist Frank Marshall Davis, to consider white people guilty of racism. Davis told a young Barack that black people had “reason to hate.” On virtually every occasion involving a police confrontation with black people—except in Dallas when five police officers were shot and killed by a racist black—nObama has sided with the rioters and the mob against law enforcement...  http://www.aim.org/special-report/hope-change-death-destruction-black-lives-matter/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email071516&utm_medium=email
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CCB Press Conference on Benghazi
Proves Dereliction of Duty
by Roger Aronoff
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The Citizens' Commission on Benghazi [1] (CCB) recently held a press conference and issued a report [2] uncovering new details about the events leading up to and during the September 11, 2012 attacks in Libya that took the lives of four Americans... However, the press has done what it usually does when a story threatens the narrative or reputation of the administration of President Barack nObama and former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton-they have, for the most part, ignored or misrepresented [3] the CCB's findings. The speakers at our June 29 event at the National Press Club in Washington exposed, once again, how the U.S. facilitated the provision of arms to al-Qaeda-linked rebels, and demonstrated that there were many warnings leading up to the attack on the Special Mission Compound, warnings that the administration ignored. In addition, the administration was derelict in its duty to send forces to aid those under attack in Benghazi. I said that "There's a media theme, or meme, out there that keeps saying-and you see this at the New York Times, CNN, everywhere, saying, ‘No new evidence of any wrongdoing by liar-Hillary Clinton.' That seems to be the conclusion of most of the media in response to yesterday's House Select Committee report. And we see a field of smoking guns."...The media is just as guilty as nObama and liar-Hillary. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/ccb-press-conference-on-benghazi-proves-dereliction-of-duty?f=must_reads
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Israel Tries Area-Based Response to
Palestinian Terror Wave
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ New Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman had the briefest of honeymoon periods after taking up his position at the end of May... Within a couple of weeks of his appointment, a new surge in Palestinian terrorist attacks began targeting Israeli civilians, placing Liberman, and the defense establishment he heads, under a new test. The greater Hebron region in the West Bank quickly emerged as the epicenter from which most of the attacks originate, and Liberman has begun implementing his security policy, which calls for distinguishing between Palestinian areas. Under Liberman's policy, Israel deploys very firm security measures in areas that generate much terrorism, while easing conditions for Palestinians in areas that do not...
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Comey: A Theory
by Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Why did he do it? FBI director James Comey spent 14 minutes laying out an unassailable case for prosecuting liar-Hillary Clinton for the mishandling of classified material. Then at literally the last minute, he recommended against prosecution.

This is baffling. Under the statute (18 U.S.C. section 793(f)), it’s a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or “through gross negligence.” The evidence, as outlined by Comey, is overwhelming.

liar-Clinton either sent or received 110 emails in 52 chains containing material that was classified at the time. Eight of these chains contained information that was top secret. A few of the classified emails were so marked, contrary to liar-Clinton’s assertion that there were none.

These were stored on a home server that was even less secure than a normal Gmail account. Her communications were quite possibly compromised by hostile powers, thus jeopardizing American national security.

“An unclassified system was no place for that conversation,” said Comey of the classified emails. A rather kind euphemism, using the passive voice. In plainer, more direct language: It is imprudent, improper and indeed illegal to be conducting such business on an unsecured private server.

Comey summed up liar-Clinton’s behavior as “extremely careless.” How is that not gross negligence?

Yet Comey let her off the hook, citing lack of intent. But negligence doesn’t require intent. Compromising national secrets is such a grave offense that it requires either intent or negligence.

Lack of intent is, therefore, no defense. But one can question that claim as well. Yes, it is safe to assume that there was no malicious intent to injure the nation. But liar-Clinton clearly intended to set up an unsecured private server. She clearly intended to send those classified emails. She clearly received warnings from her own department about the dangers of using a private email account.

She meant to do what she did. And she did it. Intentionally.

That’s two grounds for prosecution, one requiring no intent whatsoever. Yet Comey claims that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Nor has one ever been brought.

Not so. Just last year, the Justice Department successfully prosecuted naval reservist Bryan Nishimura, who improperly downloaded classified material to his personal, unclassified electronic devices.

The government admitted that there was no evidence that Nishimura intended to distribute the material to others. Nonetheless, he was sentenced to two years of probation, fined and forever prohibited from seeking a security clearance, which effectively kills any chance of working in national security.

So why not liar-Hillary Clinton? The usual answer is that the liar-Clintons are treated by a different standard. Only little people pay. They are too well connected, too well protected to be treated like everybody else.

Alternatively, the explanation lies with Comey: He gave in to implicit political pressure, the desire to please those in power.

Certainly plausible, but given Comey’s reputation for probity and given that he holds a 10-year appointment, I’d suggest a third line of reasoning.

When Chief Justice John Roberts used a tortured, logic-defying argument to uphold nObamacare, he was subjected to similar accusations of bad faith. My view was that, as guardian of the Supreme Court’s public standing, he thought the issue too momentous — and the implications for the country too large — to hinge on a decision of the court. Especially after Bush v. Gore, Roberts wanted to keep the court from overturning the political branches on so monumental a piece of social legislation.

I would suggest that Comey’s thinking, whether conscious or not, was similar: He did not want the FBI director to end up as the arbiter of the 2016 presidential election. If liar-Clinton were not a presumptive presidential nominee but simply a retired secretary of state, he might well have made a different recommendation.

Prosecuting under current circumstances would have upended and redirected an already year-long presidential selection process. In my view, Comey didn’t want to be remembered as the man who irreversibly altered the course of American political history.

And with no guarantee that the prosecution would succeed, moreover. Imagine that scenario: You knock out of the race the most likely next president — and she ultimately gets acquitted! Imagine how Comey goes down in history under those circumstances.

I admit I’m giving Comey the benefit of the doubt. But the best way I can reconcile his reputation for integrity with the grating illogic of his liar-Clinton decision is by presuming that he didn’t want to make history.

I don’t endorse his decision. (Nor did I Roberts’.) But I think I understand it.
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It IS About Islam!

87 Dead In Nice by the hand of Islamists.  Witnesses say he yelled

ALLAHU AKBAR!!!  ALLAHU AKBAR!!! 

Snd familiar?

So, is there another "video" that Obama and Hillary can blame it on?  Or will John Kerry blame it on - "climate change"?

Will Obama tell the people of Nice what he told the fifty families of the victims of Orlando, as well as the survivors, that they should "change the way they THINK"?  (WTH does that even mean?!

What about you, Loretta Lynch?  Will you once again say that what these Islamists need is "compassion", "unity" and "love"?

Will the democrats perform another sit in in Congress calling for a bill that would further restrict access to, or the purchase of, TRUCKS?

Will Obama call for more "sensitivity training" for our local police as well as our military forces?

And will they use this latest tragedy for more FUNDRAISING?

Why not?  It is exactly what they have been doing up till now!

Luis

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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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AIPAC's moment of decision
by Caroline B. Glick
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 Another Coffin-Top Lecture 
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It started off well enough. Barack nObama's speech at the memorial for the five slain Dallas police officers began with appropriate solemnity and sorrow, complete with Scripture references and gratitude for the work law enforcement officers do all over the country. He told personal stories about each of the five officers.
          But then, as he always does, he got to himself (45 first-person mentions) and his political agenda. After proclaiming "we are not as divided as we seem," he proceeded to divide everyone by their tribal grievances. He again accused police departments of racism. And he ticked off a few of his agenda items:
          "As a society, we choose to underinvest in decent schools." Actually, we spend more on education per capita than any other nation. But spending does not automatically equal success.
          "We allow poverty to fester so that entire neighborhoods offer no prospect for gainful employment." Those are the cities run for decades by leftist policies that we call Democrat urban poverty plantations.
          "We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book." What foolish nonsense. But at the same time, nObama said nothing about the thousands of people shot this year — mostly blacks by other blacks — on the aforementioned poverty planation in Chicago.
          In any case, this was an inappropriate venue for a stump speech. As Charles C.W. Cooke observed, "This, remember, was a funeral — a funeral for one of the police officers who was murdered last Thursday. It wasn't a rally. It wasn't a White House press conference. It wasn't a public statement, hastily arranged on the airport tarmac. It was a funeral." Unfortunately, nObama has a repugnant habit of standing on coffins to give his moralizing lectures.  -The Patriot Post
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 U.S. Military Combat Readiness Crisis 
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China has been steadily developing and expanding its military capabilities. Its coast guard fleet is now bigger than those of Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines combined, and it has continued to expand, having increasing by over 25% since 2012. China's focus is not merely on protecting its own territorial waters, but on expanding the capacity of its navy to meet strategic objectives on a global scale. If China's aggressive naval expansion isn't concerning enough, its building of man-made islands in an attempt to claim exclusive territorial rights across much of the South China Sea should be. On Tuesday, an international court ruled that Chinese actions were in violation of established international maritime law; China's response? It considered the ruling "null and void" with no "binding force."
          With the NATO summit this past week, one of the primary concerns being discussed was continued Russian aggression. Not since the end of the Cold War have European nations become this alarmed at the steadily growing threat Russia. It has been two years since Russia annexed Crimea and backed the separatist revolt in eastern Ukraine, with little done to counter Russia's actions.
          At this time of growing threats from two of the world's most developed and potent militaries, the U.S. finds its own military combat readiness in a state of crisis — largely thanks to Barack nObama. Recently, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry stated that this lack of combat readiness is primarily the result of "budget cuts coupled with deployment, at a pace and a number that have not really declined very much." Thornberry mentioned several disconcerting statistics regarding the lack of combat readiness and one in particular that helped to puts this crisis into perspective. He stated, "Less than half of the Air Force combat forces are ready to face a peer competitor such as China and Russia." The other branches don't fare much better. Each one faces severe budget, personnel and equipment challenges to overall readiness. But at least the transgendered few can serve openly.  -The Patriot Post
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State Dept. to release deleted
liar-Clinton emails uncovered by FBI
by Sarah Westwood
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ State Department officials plan to publish all work-related emails discovered on liar-Hillary Clinton's private servers by the FBI once agents turn over the records liar-Clinton withheld from the government... "Just as we processed the material turned over to the department by former Secretary liar-Clinton, we will appropriately and with due diligence process any additional material that we receive from the FBI to identify work-related records and make them available to the public," agency spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday. liar-Clinton had previously stated her legal team provided everything that could possibly considered related to her State Department work to the agency in late 2014...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-dept.-to-release-deleted-clinton-emails-uncovered-by-fbi/article/2596392
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liar-Hillary aides, allies took nearly $2 million
in 'blood money' from South Sudan
by Paul Bedard
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ South Sudan, accused of killing thousands in a civil war and starving more because it claims to be broke, doled out nearly $2 million to Washington, D.C. public relations and lobbying firms with ties to liar-Hillary Clinton to keep the spigot of taxpayer aid open at full blast, according to a new report... The Center for Public Integrity on Thursday said that some of the money went to a firm owned by the brother of liar-Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta and a former top State Department aid. Other money went to a firm tied to Senate Minority Leader Harry dinky-Reid that created the "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" campaign. And to cover its bases, the murderous government hired a Washington firm headed by a former top House GOP leadership official...
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Lynch Got Nailed – Refuses To Rule Out
Job As liar-Clinton AG
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The House members from Texas haven’t been shy about challenging Attorney General Lynch to answer questions or expressing their displeasure at the evasiveness of her responses... Rep John Ratcliffe (R-TX) does whittle the restrictive non-testimony of the Attorney General down to expose her obvious attempts to cover up her own wrongdoing as well as shielding liar-Clinton from prosecution. Rep Ratcliffe prefaces his opening question by reminding the Attorney General that she acknowledge the appearance of impropriety in her meeting with Bill liar-Clinton at the Phoenix airport. He then notes how the regime mouthpiece, the New York Times, published information that liar-Clinton had stated her willingness to retain Lynch as Attorney General if she were to win reelection.” He asks if the timing prompted her to give any consideration to recusal, her response was that she felt she could explain it away and retain her position of control. Ratcliffe says he doesn’t want to impugn her integrity by asking the obvious question of whether or not she was bought off by a job offer in a future liar-Clinton administration, but now that the decision has been made, asks if she’s willing to rule out working for the woman she just set free. Lynch once again babbles on, talking about her current focus rather than answering the question. Ratcliffe takes that as a “no.”...  http://rickwells.us/lynch-refuses-rule-job-clinton-ag/
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A final footnote on Gadhafi
by Pete Hoekstra
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{aim.org} ~ The report from the House Benghazi Committee discloses a previously unknown but incredibly instructive footnote to the story of the nObama administration’s disastrous foreign policy toward Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi... It was Gadhafi loyalists who rescued the Americans who bravely fought for their lives through the night of Sept. 11, 2012 against the Islamist onslaught on the Benghazi Mission compound. The Salafi-jihadist Muslim Brotherhood-inspired groups – whom the U.S. trained, equipped and supported in overthrowing and assassinating Gadhafi – actively participated in the assault and murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans...
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The Power of Lawlessness
by Robert Knight
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{theacru.org} ~ Moral anarchy takes many forms. It can percolate upward, when petty crimes are ignored by the authorities... This used to happen routinely under progressive leadership in New York City, where litter, graffiti and boorish public behavior signaled the real and present danger of more serious crimes like muggings, murders and rapes. Beginning with policing minor violations, crime-busting U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani restored order while serving as New York’s mayor from 1994 to 2001. Ask any resident or New York visitor about the city’s atmosphere pre- and post-Giuliani...  http://www.theacru.org/the-power-of-lawlessness/
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Director Comey’s Disgraceful Punt
by Col. Kenneth Allard US Army ret.
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{aim.org} ~ My July Fourth optimism about America’s future lasted less than twelve hours, from colorful fireworks splashed across a South Texas sky to Tuesday morning’s whitewash of liar-Hillary Clinton... But maybe that’s just me because, for the best part of a 25-year military career, I was a special agent in the Army equivalent of the FBI. Most of my experience took place during the Cold War but even today, it is impossible to read the espionage laws without recalling that Congress remains deadly serious about protecting our secrets. Just look at Title 18, Section 793 (f): “Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book … or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust … Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.” Bottom Line: If you are in government, protecting our secrets is what you do...  http://www.aim.org/guest-column/director-comeys-disgraceful-punt/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email070816&utm_medium=email
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The Department of Political Justice
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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{townhall.com} ~ Is it worth impairing the reputation of the FBI and the Department of Justice to save liar-Hillary Clinton from a deserved criminal prosecution by playing word games?... What has become of the rule of law -- no one is beneath its protections or above its requirements -- when the American public can witness a game of political musical chairs orchestrated by Bill liar-Clinton at an airport in a bizarre ruse to remove the criminal investigation of his wife from those legally responsible for making decisions about it? How hairsplitting can the FBI be in acknowledging "extreme recklessness" while denying "gross negligence" about the same events, at the same time, and in the same respect?...  http://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2016/07/08/the-department-of-political-justice-n2188815?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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nObama’s Biggest Failure
by Steven Malanga
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 {city-journal.org} ~ When the country elected Barack nObama president in 2008, those of us who disagreed with many of his policy ideas were nonetheless consoled by the fact that his victory illustrated that America had moved well beyond institutional racism... Certainly the fact that nObama had succeeded in both a hard-fought Democratic primary and a general election meant that the country was ready to move past the intense focus on race in our national politics. Boy, were we wrong! Rather than seeing his own victory as a significant advance in American social life, nObama and those he appointed to his administration vigorously put forward the idea that America remains a deeply racist country, and they have redefined racism in the broadest terms possible. It’s not a coincidence, then, that more than seven years into the administration of the nation’s first black president, Americans are more deeply divided on race then they have been in decades. Their own president has fostered the divide. Several nObama administration initiatives have distorted the national conversation on race. In 2010, for instance, the administration’s education and justice departments launched investigations against school districts around the country for disciplining black students more often, proportionately, than students of other races. A Department of Education study observed that black students were three and a half times more likely to be disciplined. The study alleged that, “everyday educational experience for many students of color violates the principle of equity.” In making its charges, the department ignored compelling data showing that black students were more likely to misbehave in and around school—including crime statistics revealing that blacks were 25 times more likely than their white counterparts to be arrested at schools for serious offenses like battery...  http://www.city-journal.org/html/obamas-biggest-failure-14638.html
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nObama's Divisive Double Standards
by David Limbaugh
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{townhall.com} ~ President nObama's knee-jerk reaction to the Dallas shootings brings into clear relief his biases and double standards on racially or religiously motivated violence... Have we ever had a president as blinded by his ideology and as oblivious or dismissive about his own biases and the double standards he invokes? If blacks or Muslims commit acts of violence, nObama calls for unity and demands we not rush to judgment. He bends over backward to deny the racial or religious motives of the actors. In countless acts of Islamic terrorism, before he has even expressed outrage or sorrow over the victims' deaths, nObama lectures us on the immorality of blaming actors of a single religion, tells us how wonderful and peaceful the religion is, and admonishes us against drawing inferences based on indisputable facts. If, on the other hand, blacks or Muslims are even arguably the victims of racial or religious violence, he immediately rushes to judgment and attributes racial or religious motives to the actors...
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The War on Cops
by Thomas Sowell
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{townhall.com} ~ There was never a more appropriately named book than "The War on Cops" by Heather Mac Donald, published a few weeks ago, on the eve of the greatest escalation of that war by the ambush murders of five policemen in Dallas... Nor is this war against the police confined to Dallas. It is occurring across the country. Who is to blame? There is a ton of blame, more than enough to go around to the wide range of people and institutions that have contributed to these disasters. In addition to the murderers who have killed people they don't even know, there are those who created the atmosphere of blind hatred in which such killers flourish. Chief among those who generate this poisonous atmosphere are career race hustlers like Al Sharpton and racist institutions like the "Black Lives Matter" movement. All such demagogues need is a situation where there has been a confrontation where someone was white and someone else was black. The facts don't matter to them...  http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/07/12/the-war-on-cops-n2191290?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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AIPAC's moment of decision
by Caroline B. Glick
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Later this month the Republicans and Democrats will hold their respective conventions. Donald Trump and liar-Hillary Clinton will officially become the presidential nominees.

Ahead of the conventions, both parties selected delegates to draft their platforms. The Democratic platform committee convened late last month.

As soon as the delegates to the Democratic platform committee were named, it was clear that the party’s support for Israel would come under assault.

After liar-Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination with her primary victories, she decided to allow her defeated opponent, socialist senator Bernie Sanders, to appoint a third of the committee’s membership.

Three of Sanders’s representatives are outspoken opponents of the US alliance with Israel. Rep. Keith Ellison, Prof. Cornell West and James Zogby have all distinguished themselves as rabid critics of Israel and apologists for Palestinian terrorism.

Although commentators downplayed the significance of their appointments, noting that liar-Clinton’s representatives were, by and large, supportive of Israel, the fact is that liar-Clinton was under no obligation to give Sanders’s supporters a seat at the table. That she did so shows that she wanted to showcase growing Democratic opposition to Israel and tip her hat to the growing power of anti-Israel forces in the party.

As expected, Sanders’s representatives submitted a draft platform that called for an “end to the occupation and the illegal settlements.”

In the end, the committee reached a compromise.

While the Zogby/West/Ellison wording was rejected, the draft platform makes explicit mention of Palestinian grievances for the first time calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state that will ensure “the independence, sovereignty and dignity” of the Palestinians.

Watching the drama unfold, the Republicans, reasonably, sought to play up the growing disparity between the GOP’s support for Israel and the Democrats’ growing hostility. After Ellison, West and Zogby were appointed – again, with liar-Clinton’s consent – the Republican Party released an ad attacking the Democrats for abandoning their traditional support for the Jewish state.

The numbers speak for themselves. According to a Pew Research Center survey released in May, since 2014, support for Palestinians among liberal Democrats – that is, hard-line nObama supporters – has skyrocketed from 21 percent to 40%. Support for Israel among the group during the same period decreased from 39% to 33%.

The result marks the first time that support for Palestinians exceeded support for Israel among any major US political demographic. On the other hand, among conservative Republicans, support for Israel stands at 79% while support for Palestinians is almost negligible – 4%. The situation among moderate to liberal Republicans is not much different.

Sixty-five percent support Israel, 13% support the Palestinians. On the other hand, support for Israel versus Palestinians among moderate Democrats stands at 53% to 19%.

To date, the Republicans’ efforts to capitalize on their support for Israel have been stymied by the American Jewish leadership. The desire of Jewish leaders to sweep the growing partisan distinctions under the rug is understandable. They fear that noting the disparity will anger the anti-Israel forces in the Democratic Party, who are led by the president.

Such an event, they fear, will further diminish their capacity to influence nObama’s policy on Israel.

Moreover, it could endanger their support among American Jews.

Since most American Jews are Democrats – and indeed, most American Jewish leaders are Democrats – there is little appetite for a fight with the Democratic Party. Admitting that Republican support for Israel is far stronger than Democratic support would require them to act. Either they will have to switch parties, or they will have to wage an ugly fight with the increasingly powerful – and White House-backed – anti-Israel voices in the party. Not only would such a fight risk losing the party, it would risk losing the Jews who, if forced to choose between their Jewish and liberal sympathies, would, without hesitation, opt to remain in the liberal camp.

The desire to pretend away the problem was on full display late last month. Following the Democrats’ platform meeting, the Anti-Defamation League released a statement calling for the Republicans to effectively replicate the Democrats’ Israel section in the GOP’s platform. ADL’s national chairman Marvin Nathan said, “The platform committee rightfully affirmed the Democrats’ and America’s longstanding commitment to Israel’s security and to Israel’s fundamental rights and enshrined key principles of its quest for peace with the Palestinians through a directly negotiated two-state solution.”

The ADL called on the GOP to approve “similarly strong and unifying language” in its platform “so that both platforms reflect America’s strong bipartisan support for Israel.”

J Street was a central force in the Democratic committee’s deliberation. The far-left Jewish group, which claims to be pro-Israel and pro-peace but has not supported any pro-Israel initiative since it was founded in 2008, supported all the members of Congress who were delegates on the committee.

The rise of J Street as a major force among Democrats is emblematic of the nObama administration’s hostility to Israel and its Jewish American supporters.

The main casualty of J Street’s rise has been AIPAC. J Street was founded to challenge AIPAC’s claim to represent the Jewish community as a whole by claiming that it doesn’t speak for Jews on the Left.

In so has served as a means for enabling Democrats from far-left districts to effectively abandon Israel while using J Street to hide the fact that they have done so. In this way, J Street’s very presence on the political scene has diminished AIPA C’s influence over the party.

J Street supports all manner of anti-Israel measures in the interests of “peace” with the Palestinians.

Indeed, it supported the Sanders delegates’ platform proposal. And throughout nObama’s long courtship of Iran at Israel’s expense, J Street has been an ardent opponent of anti-Iran sanctions and an advocate for whatever deal nObama came up with.

nObama’s use of J Street is just one of the ways has worked to emasculate AIPAC. He has also deliberately hung AIPAC out to dry, repeatedly, in order to humiliate it and weaken its influence over lawmakers.

The most glaring example of that practice was nObama’s insistence that AIPAC lobby Congress in favor of his plan to bomb regime targets in Syria in 2013. Israel had no particular stake in the issue, so AIPAC had no particular reason to get involved.

Moreover, nObama’s plan was unpopular among Democrats and Republicans alike. Democrats opposed his proposed missile strikes because they oppose all US involvement in Middle Eastern wars.

Republicans opposed it, because his plan made no strategic sense. And yet, in the hopes of winning sympathy, and through it, perhaps, influence over its Israel policies, AIPAC dutifully sent its lobbyists to the Hill to push nObama’s plan.

In the end, of course, AIPAC was humiliated, when at the last moment, nObama decided to scrap the strikes.

Then of course, there was nObama’s extraordinary assault of AIPAC over its opposition to his nuclear appeasement of Iran. Throughout the years leading up to his nuclear capitulation to the mullahs last summer, Republicans and pro-Israel Democrats worked together to pass Iran sanctions laws. To appease the administration, AIPAC went out of its way to water down the bills. But the administration was unimpressed.

Last summer, during the fight over Senate Democratic support for the deal, the administration painted AIPAC as a treacherous organization that was working against the US interest for Israel’s benefit.

Anti-Semitic language was deftly deployed by administration surrogates against AIPAC to rally support.

While AIPAC had no choice but to oppose nObama’s embrace of Iran, it has given the administration no fight over its support for the Palestinians against Israel. Indeed, not only has it gone along with the administration’s hostile positions against Israel on the Palestinian issue, it works out that AIPAC has lobbied Republicans to support the Palestinians.

Last week, Republican activists sent me a video recording of the 2012 Republican platform committee’s deliberations regarding the party’s position on Israel. In 2008, the Republican platform included an unequivocal endorsement of unified Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In its words, “We support Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel and moving the American embassy to that undivided capital of Israel.”

In the video recordings, Sue Lynch, a delegate from Wisconsin, is seen introducing an amendment calling for the GOP to strike mention of “unified Jerusalem” from its platform. According to the activists, Lynch was acting as a surrogate for AIPAC in submitting the amendment. And in the event, the 2012 Republican platform sufficed with a mention of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Later in the same recording, a committee member submitted an amendment that would have deleted all mention of a Palestinian state from the platform.

She argued that there was no reason for the US to take a position on the matter, since it has to be determined by Israel. From the response the amendment received, it was difficult to discern any controversy over the effort.

That is, until Brad Gordon, AIPAC director of policy and government relations, took the floor. Gordon repeatedly argued that by not committing the GOP to supporting a Palestinian state, the Republicans risked harming Israel.

“We do not want to do anything that would embarrass the Israeli government,” he said.

And since nObama coerced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into endorsing a Palestinian state, Gordon argued that it would be embarrass Netanyahu to leave it out of the platform. In testament to its power, AIPAC got what it wanted. The amendment deleting mention of the Palestinians was defeated.

In other words, acting through a surrogate and directly, AIPAC weakened Republican support for Israel.

Next week, Republican delegates will convene to write their platform, ahead of their convention, which will begin on July 18. Donald Trump has already expressed reservations about supporting Palestinians statehood and supports moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Moreover, the Israeli government’s guidelines make no mention of Palestinians statehood.

As understandable as the US Jewish leadership’s attempts to hide the growing disparity between Republican and Democratic support have been, the fact is they have failed to bring any positive result.

Now, as the anti-Israel voices among the Democrats have grown so powerful that liar-Clinton has enabled them to influence the party’s position on Israel, AIPAC’s moment of decision has arrived.

Does AIPAC intend to remain a pro-Israel organization? Or will it opt to become a softer version of J Street and work to hollow out Republican support for Israel just as J Street has hollowed out Democratic support for the Jewish state?
 
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