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Slide Over MSNBC. Make Room For Fox

Wow. Had the thin skinned Donald Trump been challenged w/ this level of hostility and rudeness his bloomers woulda bunched up big time!

Hannity tried to depict Ted Cruz as "angry". But, listening to his tone, it is very clear that it was Hannity that was ANGRY!

Because of this I now say: Slide over, MSNBC.

He's come out of the closet and is feeling the shiver go up his thigh. Sean Hannity has fundamentally transformed into the "Chris Matthews" of Fox News.

Mark Levin was right to describe the (ahem) "Fair And Balanced" news network as a Trump "super pac".

We're not hearing Ted Cruz bichn and screaming all over the country about now "unfair" and "mean" Hannity was to him - the way the thin skinned Trump had w/ Megyn Kelly for MONTHS, are we!

Luis

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Wednesday ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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nObama's Nuclear Contrition
Caroline Glick
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 Aren't Rigged Systems Supposed to be slump-Trump's  Thing?  There is more than a little irony in a candidate who brags about exploiting corrupt systems complaining so bitterly about systematic corruption. But 2016 being what it is, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised.
          Donald slump-Trump wanted to make clear on Sunday to reporters on Staten Island that he was not encouraging violence at the Republican National Convention when he had warned the day before of a “rough July” for his adopted party if he was denied its presidential nomination.
          “I hope it doesn’t involve violence. I hope it doesn’t. I’m not suggesting that,” slump-Trump
reportedly said. “I hope it doesn’t involve violence, and I don’t think it will. But I will say this, it’s a rigged system, it’s a crooked system. It’s 100 percent corrupt.”
          slump-Trump’s focus on the corruption of the process is a good excuse to his supporters for why he is not doing better than he is in the delegate hunt. It is also a powerful message for those who believe that the entirety of the system, not just the nominating process, is rigged against them. And it’s tacit acknowledgement that slump-Trump understands that he faces longish odds of capturing the nomination outright.
          The campaign’s focus on the process also cuts the other way, though. It has given his main rival, Sen. Ted Cruz, the chance to mock slump-Trump for whining. Certainly, a person who once said that Americans would win so much under a President slump-Trump that they would get “bored with winning” doesn’t sound good rationalizing losses.
          slump-Trump’s critics have long pointed out the incongruity of slump-Trump’s organizational failures with his frequent boasts that his solutions to most of the nation’s ills involve, at least in part, “hiring the best people.” And that’s a fair criticism. If managerial prowess is a candidate’s central selling point, a process that is both knowable and relatively weak should be no problem.  -Fox News
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 slump-Trump offers sweeteners for Nevada delegates -  WashEx’s David Drucker reports: “Donald slump-Trump’s campaign is going all out to win delegates in Nevada, offering to cover transportation and lodging costs for Nevada supporters who travel to Reno in mid-May to participate in delegate elections. slump-Trump’s Nevada activities contradict his claim that he has deliberately declined to invest resources in the election of delegates to the Republican nominating convention in Cleveland because the process is ‘corrupt.’”  -Fox News
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 Major fight brewing at RNC rules meeting this week -   AP: “In an extraordinary display of internal discord, the chairman of the Republican Party’s rules committee accused top GOP officials Saturday of ‘a breach of our trust’ by improperly trying to impede a proposed change in bylaws that would make it harder for party leaders to nominate a fresh candidate for president. Bruce Ash, RNC committeeman from Arizona, wrote the harshly worded email to the other 55 members of the GOP rules committee that he chairs. The confidential email, obtained by The Associated Press, was written days before party officials gather in Hollywood, Florida, for preliminary discussions about what rules the GOP will use at its presidential nominating convention this July…Ash said he has ‘become troubled’ during discussions with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and other party officials that by not making the proposed change, GOP officials ‘could use their power to attempt to achieve a political result’ at the nominating convention.”  -Fox News
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Senate Committee Subpoenas EPA Over
Gold King Mine Disaster
Barbara Hollingsworth
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Senate Indian Affairs Chairman John Barrasso (R,-Wyo.) and Vice Chairman John Tester (D.-Mont.) agreed Wednesday to subpoena Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy... or a top aide to appear at an upcoming oversight field hearing on the Gold King Mine disaster scheduled for April 22nd in Phoenix. The subpoena - the first issued by the committee since its investigation into the activities of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff in 2004 – included Assistant EPA Administrator Mathy Stanislaus. The committee said Stanislaus was “invited to testify at the field hearing, but the EPA declined to send him.”...     http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/senate-committee-issues-first-subpoena-abramoff-epa-chief-over
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  Supreme Court looks split on nObama's
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Sean Higgins
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The eight Supreme Court justices appeared evenly split during Monday's oral arguments in the case over President nObama's 2014 policy to not deport an estimated four million immigrants illegally living in the U.S. ... That is likely a bad sign for the administration because a 4-4 split in U.S. v. Texas would mean that lower court rulings halting the policy would stand. The court's conservative block repeatedly grilled U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli over the administration's position that the 26 states challenging the policy lacked standing to bring their case. The liberal justices challenged the states' representative, Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller, over his argument that the administration had overstepped its authority...
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Russian Jet Threatened U.S. Recon Aircraft
Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ A Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft on Thursday in the latest military provocation by Moscow over the Baltic Sea, the U.S. European Command said Saturday... “On April 14, a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft flying a routine route in international airspace over the Baltic Sea was intercepted by a Russian Su-27 in an unsafe and unprofessional manner,” said Navy Capt. Danny Hernandez. “This intercept comes shortly after the unsafe Russian encounters with USS Donald Cook,” he added. “There have been repeated incidents over the last year where Russian military aircraft have come close enough to other air and sea traffic to raise serious safety concerns, and we are very concerned with any such behavior.”...    http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-jet-threatened-u-s-recon-aircraft/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7d187e4d5d-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_18_164_17_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7d187e4d5d-45611665
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Israel Refuses to Relinquish Golan Heights
in Face of ISIS Threat
Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised on Sunday that the Golan Heights territory in northern Israel would “forever remain in Israeli hands,”... prompting an immediate endorsement from Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz, according to comments offered to the Free Beacon. Netanyahu on Sunday held an honorary meeting of his cabinet in the Golan Heights, contested territory that Israel annexed from Syria in 1981. During a speech at the site on Sunday, he said that Israel would never relinquish its right to the territory in the face of an encroaching threat from Islamic State terrorists and other forces as Syria continues to struggle with a sectarian war that has attracted jihadis...     http://freebeacon.com/politics/israel-refuses-relinquish-golan-heights-face-isis-threat/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7d187e4d5d-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_18_164_17_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7d187e4d5d-45611665
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Review of “Vaxxed” deleted From Huffington Post
Sharyl Attkisson
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ “Vaxxed” is a new documentary that recounts a story the news media will not tell and Congress will not hold hearings on. A current CDC senior scientist, Dr. William Thompson, has confessed to taking part in a long term effort to mask the link between vaccines and autism... He has described in some detail allegations of how he and his CDC senior colleagues quite literally pulled out a trash can and threw away data that proved damaging to the conclusion they wanted the study to form. The broad propaganda campaign to try to stop people from seeing the film is understandable from the standpoint of the vaccine industry, government and medical establishment actors who have long pushed a single narrative in lockstep: Don’t question vaccine safety. It’s understandable they prefer to keep the film unseen, because Dr. Thompson makes a compelling witness against himself and his colleagues. He has no apparent motivation to lie about taking part in what many consider scientific fraud. Quite the contrary, he talks about his conscience and disbelief that “they did what they did.”...
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False Moral Equivalence as a Tool
to Demonize Israel
Manfred Gerstenfeld and Jamie Berk
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Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Among the many tools mobilized for the demonization of Israel, one frequently used is a mode of argument known as false moral equivalence. The term "moral equivalence," originates from a 1906 address by American philosopher William James... It is the claim that there is no difference between two actions of greatly varying character. It is frequently used to emphasize similarities between two otherwise dissimilar acts. False moral equivalence undermines norms and values in a society, blurring the lines between good and evil also right and wrong. False moral equivalence comparing Israel's actions to those of the Nazis was used by several prominent social-democratic politicians, including French President François Mitterrand, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. When two dissimilar realities are linked such as Israel and Nazism, use of one side of the equivalence will eventually automatically bring to mind the other – however distorted the comparison may be. Subsequent repetition results in an acceptance, where the false moral equivalence is no longer countered or questioned...
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NYPD Blues
 Myron Magnet
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{city-journal.org} ~ With crazy homeless people randomly smashing, slashing, and stabbing passersby, graffiti spreading across the city with no one bothering to clean it, racial tensions stoked by race hustlers in Gracie Mansion... welfare rolls mushrooming, a reborn pay-to-play political culture, school discipline so dead that public education fails more than ever, police demoralized by a mayor who not only doesn’t have their back but publicly slanders them, while the city council weakens the quality-of-life policing tools that brought New York back to life under Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg, you have to wonder if any element that created the urban dystopia of Mayors John Lindsay, Abe Beame, and David Dinkins is still missing. And sure enough, now even police corruption is back. With five top cops recently demoted, and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton telling the New York Post that investigations by his Internal Affairs Bureau and the FBI are turning up evidence that stinks as foully as that uncovered by the 1970s Knapp Commission investigation into corrupt cops, but that he can’t talk about it while the probe continues, you can only imagine what’s about to hit the fan. All we need now is a brush with municipal bankruptcy and a president who responds by telling New York to drop dead, as the Daily News’s famous 1975 headline put it, and the recurring nightmare will be complete...     http://city-journal.org/html/nypd-blues-14400.html
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Weaponized Horror and the Constraints of Conscience
David P. Goldman
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Alan Kurdi, 3, drowned last year in a failed attempt to sail from
Turkey to the Greek island of Kos
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{meforum.org} ~ Just after the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, I warned that radical Islam would horrify the West into submission. In Europe, it has taken a giant step towards success... Europe's horror at the prospect of human suffering has made it supine. Sadly, the more the Europeans indulge in their humanitarian impulses, the more Muslims will suffer. To be kind is to be cruel. The 240ft Monica had been spotted in international waters during the night. When Italian coastguard boats drew alongside, the crews were shocked to see men and women on board begin dangling the infants over the side. The refugees – mostly Kurds and many said to be heading for Britain – calmed down only when they were assured they would not be turned away from Italy. What kind of people threaten to murder their own babies? What kind of people threaten to murder their own babies? The normal response would be to arrest them and put them in prison for endangering children. The Monica incident is multiplied ten thousand-fold at the diplomatic level. Turkey's president and de facto dictator, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, last October threatened European officials with 10,000 to 15,000 drowned migrants, according to minutes leaked to a Greek news site and widely reported by European mainstream media–with no official denial. Erdogan demanded 6 billion Euros up front and 3 billion Euros a year to stop the refugee flow, telling European officials...This is very sad.
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British Forces Wipe Out 25,000
Muslim Terrorists
Theodore Shoebat
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{shoebat.com} ~ More than 25,000 members of the Islamic State terror group have been killed in the relentless war fought by Britain and its allies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal... The campaign has halved the number of jihadi fighters in IS-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq in just 20 months and eliminated scores of the group’s leaders, with bombing raids and missile strikes by the RAF playing a crucial role. The revelations of how IS has been dealt a series of devastating blows emerged in an exclusive interview with Colonel Steve Warren, the US military spokesman for the US-led global coalition against Islamic State...     http://shoebat.com/2016/04/17/british-forces-wipe-out-25000-muslim-terrorists/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+shoebat+%28Walid+Shoebat%29
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American Forces Kill Major ISIS Leader
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{shoebat.com} ~ A senior ISIS fighter was killed in a helicopter raid in Iraq on Monday, according to the Kurdish regional security council... The joint attack was carried out by US forces alongside Kurdish counter-terrorism forces to the south of the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. A statement identified one of the dead as Suleiman Abd Shabib al-Jabouri, also known as Abu Saif. Al-Jabouri was killed with two of his assistants, said the statement. He is said to be part of the jihadist group’s war council and as such a senior member. It seems the attack was a deliberate targeted at Al-Jabouri...     http://shoebat.com/2016/04/18/american-forces-kill-major-isis-leader/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+shoebat+%28Walid+Shoebat%29
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nObama's Nuclear Contrition
Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ On Monday, US Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry visited Hiroshima. While there meeting with this G-7 counterparts, hanoi-Kerry strongly hinted that his visit was a precursor to a visit to the site of the first nuclear bombing by President Barack nObama next month.

The irony of course is that for all his professed commitment to ridding the world of nuclear weapons, nObama is responsible for drastically increasing the chance of nuclear war. Indeed, nObama’s own actions lend easily to the conclusion that he wishes to do penance for America’s decision to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, and so end World War II with far fewer dead than a land invasion of Japan would have required, by enabling America’s enemies to target the US and its allies with nuclear weapons.

nObama views his nuclear deal with Iran – the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – as his greatest foreign policy achievement.

Unfortunately for his legacy building and for global security, for the past several weeks news stories have made clear that critics of nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran – who claimed that far from preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the deal would enable Iran to develop them in broad daylight, and encourage Iran to step up its support for terror and regional aggression – were entirely correct.

All of the warnings sounded by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other leaders have been borne out. All of the warnings sounded by the leaders of the Persian Gulf kingdoms were correct.

Every major commitment nObama made to Congress and to US allies in the wake of the deal have been shown in retrospect to have been false.

nObama told Congress that while the deal did require the US to drop its nuclear sanctions against Iran, the non-nuclear sanctions would remain in place. In recent weeks, media reports have made clear that the administration’s commitment to maintain non-nuclear sanctions on Iran has collapsed.

This collapse is most immediately apparent in the administration’s helpless response to Iran’s recent tests of ballistic missiles.

When nObama and his advisers sold the nuclear deal to Congress last summer, they promised that the binding UN Security Council resolution that Ambassador Samantha Power rushed to pass to anchor the nuclear deal maintained the previous UN ban on Iranian ballistic missile development.

This, it works out, was a lie. The resolution significantly waters down the language. Given the weak language, today the Russians convincingly argue that Iran’s recent tests of ballistic missiles did not violate the UN resolution.

Then and now, nObama and his advisers argued that ballistic missiles are not part of the mullahs’ nuclear project. This claim, which made little sense at the time, makes no sense whatsoever today.

Ballistic missiles of course are the Iranians’ delivery systems of choice for their nuclear warheads.

This fact was driven home last week when the Iranian media reported the opening of a high explosives factory in Tehran. Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehgan participated in the opening ceremony.

According to nuclear experts, HMX or octogen high explosives are suitable for building nuclear triggers. In other words, Tehran just built, in a very public manner, a new facility for its military nuclear program. As Iran’s Tasnim news service explained, HMX is a “high explosive used almost exclusively in military applications, including as a solid rocket propellant.”

Last week at his nuclear conference, nObama said that Iran has been abiding by the letter, but not the spirit of the nuclear deal. But this is another lie. Last summer nObama insisted that the deal would prevent Iran from developing and building nuclear weapons by imposing an intrusive, unlimited inspections regime on all of Iran’s nuclear sites.

But this was a lie. As Eli Lake noted in Bloomberg News last week, in contravention of nObama’s explicit commitments to Congress, Iran is refusing to permit UN nuclear inspectors access to its military nuclear sites.

Not only were UN inspectors barred last fall from visiting the Parchin nuclear military site where the Iranians are suspected of developing nuclear warheads. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency admitted recently that far from expanding its access to Iran’s nuclear sites, the deal severely limited it. Out of fear that Iran will walk away from the deal, the US is allowing Iran to block IAEA inspectors.

So while the US gave up its right to unlimited inspection of Iran’s nuclear installations, and consequently has little way of knowing what is happening inside them, the US stands back and allows Iran to develop the means to deliver nuclear warheads which the US cannot know whether or not Iran possesses because it cannot access Iran’s nuclear facilities.

But for nObama, none of this is a reason to stop canceling the sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program. Indeed, as nObama sees things, Iran’s non-compliance with the letter of the deal seems to be a reason to cancel the non-nuclear sanctions as well.

Take the dollarization of the Iranian economy.

nObama administration officials pledged to Congress that in the aftermath of the deal, Iran would remain barred from using US financial institutions and so barred from trading in the dollar.

Yet, in what Omri Ceren from the Israeli Project refers to as a “one-hop, two-hops” process, the administration is allowing Iran to use foreign banks to gain access to the US dollar and dollarize is transactions.

Following his visit to Hiroshima, hanoi-Kerry traveled to the Persian Gulf where the US’s spurned Arab allies and commanders of the US navy’s Fifth Fleet demonstrated to him how Iran has been emboldened by the deal.

Since it was concluded, they noted, Iran has stepped up its support for terrorism and its regional aggression. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and other states told hanoi-Kerry that since the deal was concluded Iran’s support for terrorism and insurgencies has expanded in Yemen and Syria. Naval commanders reported on the four shipments of illicit Iranian arms the navy commandeered en route to Yemen.

Although slightly embarrassed, hanoi-Kerry was unmoved. He merely maintained nObama’s line that Iran is keeping the letter of the agreement if ignoring its spirit. He insisted that there are moderates in the regime that support the deal – although they have no power.

Then, as The New York Times reported, hanoi-Kerry said the US would “continue to lift the economic sanctions against Iran that it agreed to as part of the nuclear accord, even while imposing new ones to counter Tehran’s missile launches, an effort now underway at the UN Security Council.”

But again, Russia has blocked further sanctions against Iran. Moreover Russia is doubling down on its deal to sell advanced SU-30 fighters to the Iranian air force. With the S-30, Iran will be able to end Israel’s air superiority and threaten all of its neighbors in the Persian Gulf.

As to air forces, Iran’s Hezbollah proxy have inherited a US-trained one.

According to testimony Middle East expert Tony Badran gave before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week, the Lebanese Military Forces, generously supported by the US, is now a junior partner to Hezbollah.

As Badran put it, “The partnership between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and Hezbollah has grown to such an extent that it is now meaningful to speak of the LAF as an auxiliary force in Hezbollah’s war effort.”

At Hiroshima Monday, hanoi-Kerry and his fellow foreign ministers signed a declaration reaffirming their “commitment to seeking a safer world for all and to creating the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons.”

They went on to pat themselves on the back for their nuclear deal with Iran, which they insisted showed that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty – which the Iran deal effectively gutted – remains “the cornerstone of the international non-proliferation architecture.”

Several commentators have urged nObama not to visit Hiroshima. But really, what would it matter? nObama’s lies about his nuclear deal launched the world on a course where the worst regimes now know that all they need to do to get immunity for their aggression is to develop nuclear weapons while the nObama administration hectors US allies to deplete their own nuclear arsenals.

Visiting Hiroshima and symbolically apologizing for the US strikes that ended World War II would be far less devastating to the cause of international peace than the war nObama ensured by permitting the world’s most prolific sponsor of terrorism to acquire a nuclear arsenal.
 
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By Craig Andresen Right Side Patriots http://www.americanpbn.com/

Yesterday, in “Cruz IS Eligible – The Facts…Part 1 of 2,” I began to provide indisputable eli-13.jpg?width=196facts regarding the Constitutional eligibility of Ted Cruz while also exposing the falsehoods of Trump’s followers and birthers.

Allow me to continue presenting those facts and further exposing the birther lies, because there is now an article out there being spread by low-info birthers which states, “NATURAL BORN CITIZENAs the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent.” (The Natural Law as understood by the Founders in Article II of the US Constitution)”

First of all…Article II never mentions “natural law,” and second…the fact of natural law, as understood by the Founders and Framers would have been vastly different than what the birthers claim it was, because they hope that nobody does the proper research.  Blackstone wrote of natural born both as it pertained to England and to the American colonies, and in his writings, Blackstone is quite clear, in that “natural born,” whether they be from England or the American colonies included all those born “in” the lands under British sovereignty.

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READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist -  www.represent.us
Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties. We must seek the truth and let the people know.
2016 is the years of the U.S political revolution.
America it is not for sale. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/05/the-hundred-rich-people-who-run-america.html
American politicians are owned by a handful of oligarchs
http://www.sott.net/article/298989-American-politicians-are-owned-by-a-handful-of-oligarchs
The making of political puppets through bribes- http://maplight.org/content/73373
Fellow Americans, we the people are the hope of America’s future and our freedom. 2016 is the years of political revolution, Democrats and Republicans are fed up with Washington corrupt politicians, puppets of the oligarchs.  We only have one candidate that will change the path of America’s self-destruction; he is Bernie Sanders.   We must become activist and stand for America. 2016 is mean to be the year of reclamation and the turning point to reclaim our Constitution, our country’s principles, values and social responsibility;  and most important our God given rights to freedom, Liberty and the rule of law.  Our country has serious issues; we have become a country with a large corrupt powerful government that is controlled by the oligarchs; the oligarchs own and control this system of crony capitalism and monopolist predator corporatism. Wall Street and the oligarchs of this country made and control the many puppets in our government that by deception and lies passed free trade legislations that have destroyed our economic and the means for the American worker to earn living wages, sufficient to meet their basic needs to support their families and to provide discretionary income and the means to finance the education of their children’s.  To be more precise, Americans want their dignity back and Living Wages, free of any handouts, social service or welfare assistant, we want our dignity and freedom back.
Democrats and Republicans must become one voice and vote for America; we believe that before anything, we are Americans and the foundation of our country is our US Constitution. We will not allow the use of any political ideology to destroy our constitution, our country nor our economic and welfare.
This is the truth, it all started with Ronald Reagan and George H.W Bush and continue with Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; since Ronald Reagan most Democrats and Republicans become puppets of the oligarchs and their multinational corporations, they supported and promote free trade, globalization and the one world order system of government control by the multinational corporations and the IMF. The puppets that are in our government are the ones responsible for the destruction of millions of Americans jobs and the demise of our economic freedom.  The enslavers of the American people is our own government they are the ones that promoted globalization and slave wages, the oligarchs got richer at the expenses of the American working class and use their money to control our economic and our government. We must show the oligarchs and the puppets in our government, that all the money in the world, will not be enough to demise our God given freedom nor control the destiny of the American people. The people of these United States believe that ours is a Christian nation and soon, God almighty will give us the light to enable us to see through the dark, the path of evil control by the devil and the path of God’s law and the love for humanity and peace.  The choice is ours; salvation and follow God’s law or follow the devil and a life of greed for money, power, wars and destruction of humanity. In God I trust, that we will see the right path and united as a nation reform our country ones again as a Christian nation and restore in the people of this great country our moral principles and values and stand as one protecting our nation, our U.S. Constitution and our God given rights to freedom and Liberty for all Americans. We must never forget that our nation is a nation governs by the people and for the people.
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The Democrat National committee undermines Bernie Sanders campaign.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/sanders-campaign-threatens-to-sue-dnc-216942
American politicians are owned by a handful of oligarchs
http://www.sott.net/article/298989-American-politicians-are-owned-by-a-handful-of-oligarchs
Income Inequality is destroying America’s Middle Class.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2014/12/18/101790/as-income-inequality-rises-americas-middle-class-shrinks/
Wealthy corporations will replace American workers with low-wage foreign workers.
http://www.naturalnews.com/052365_Omnibus_spending_bill_GOP_betrayal_financial_suicide.html
Our freedom and economic future.
http://grandfather-economic-report.com/
Things They Didn’t Tell You in History Class
http://www.oftwominds.com/journal08/christoffersen8-08.htm

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Tuesday ~ TheFrontPageCover

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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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slump-Trump Uses the Wall Street Journal to Prove
He Is One Truly Stupid Person
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 HBO's 'Confirmation' Ignores Facts to Push Leftist Agenda  HBO is attempting to recast history with its dramatization of the nomination hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Twenty-five years ago, Thomas was in the midst of a defamatory confirmation hearing that makes Barack nObama's spat with the Senate over his SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland look boringly tame by comparison. Anita Hill, a black attorney who previously worked with Thomas, accused the would-be justice of sexual harassment. The trailer to HBO's movie, titled "Confirmation," implies that Hill's accusations were a courageous stand against sexual harassment in the workplace. "It only takes one voice," one frame of the trailer reads.
          But that's not how the hearings played out, notes Stuart Taylor Jr., who covered the hearings back in 1991 and now works as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Hill's accusation almost destroyed Thomas' chances of confirmation. A Democrat-majority Senate eventually confirmed him because even they couldn't ignore that Hill's account often changed and she contradicted what she said under oath. Meanwhile, woman after woman told the Senate committee investigating the allegations that Thomas treated them with utmost respect. Hill's account was contrary to how Thomas was known to act.
          "It is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves," Thomas famously thundered at the hearing chaired by then-Senator Joe loose lips-Biden. "It is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree." Unfortunately, "Confirmation" is yet another attempt by the Left to continue Democrats' work to sully Thomas' name, to sympathize with an accuser, any accuser, even if the facts get in the way of the story.  -The Patriot Post
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 America's Young Socialists Simply Need Life Experience  The Millennial generation overwhelmingly supports Bernie Sanders and his promises of free college education and universal health care. They protest to make college campuses "safe spaces" for their tender feelings while calling on college administration and police to go after anyone who challenges their views. Just last week, some students at Ohio University demanded police investigate an incident where the campus' College Republicans wrote, "Trigger Warning: There are no safe spaces in real life. You can't wall off the First Amendment" on the university's graffiti wall — a designated place for speech. The College Republicans sent the message after the campus administration apologized when someone scrawled "Trump 2016" on the same wall. In response, Ohio University police held an open discussion with the campus' LGBT Center.
          While it may sound like America will soon become the land of the taxed and home of the emotionally coddled, the college students and Sanders supporters just need a little life experience, a bit of time to get on their feet and see how the world actually works. Vox, a leftwing publication, reported on a poll that found most Sanders supporters like his ideas of free stuff, but about 66% of the socialist's supporters said they wouldn't want to pay more than $1,000 in additional taxes for universal health care. Meanwhile, a household making $50,000 a year would have to pay $5,000 in additional taxes a year to fund Sanders' ideas. That's quite the bern.
          A recent study found that once Millennials start making over $40,000, the majority of them change their views to oppose income redistribution. Give it time. There's hope yet.   -The Patriot Post
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 nObama Hands Down Rules for Offshore Drlling 
In another attempt to "fundamentally transform" the energy industry, Barack nObama's Interior Department handed down a rule last week that "comprehensively" addresses safety on offshore oil rigs. In the words of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, "Through this rule, we're requiring more stringent design requirements and stricter operating procedures for critical equipment used in offshore energy development." This critical equipment includes blowout preventers, for example, and the rules are designed to avert another incident like the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010. At least a portion of the oil industry, however, warns that the rules will actually increase danger on rigs and will cost American drilling jobs. It's part of nObama's legacy trying to make an American energy future powered by sunshine and unicorns.
          Meanwhile, the coal industry is crumbling under nObama's energy rules. Another coal giant, Peabody Energy Corp., has filed bankruptcy, following a handful of other monoliths working in the American mountains. It's a travesty because coal could otherwise continue to be a key player in the American economy because innovation has reduced its emissions so it's cleaner than ever before. "America is the Saudi Arabia of coal," Investor's Business Daily notes. "We have an estimated 500 years supply of that energy source. Our coal is cleaner and our environmental laws are much stricter than in other nations. So for economic and ecological reasons, we should want American coal to dominate the world market." Hopefully, the next administration recognizes the benefits of sending the blue-collared miners back to work. Our energy and economic security depends on it.   -The Patriot Post
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The Citadel considers first-ever uniform exception:
allowing a Muslim hijab
Susan Svrluga
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{washingtonpost.com} ~ The Citadel is considering a request from an admitted student that she be allowed to wear a hijab in keeping with her Muslim faith... a move that would be an unprecedented exception to the school’s longstanding uniform requirements. If the request for the traditional Muslim hair covering is granted, it apparently would be the first exception made to the Citadel’s uniform, which all cadets at the storied public military college in South Carolina are required to wear at nearly all times. At beaches, for example, college rules stipulate that, “Cadets will change into appropriate swimwear upon arrival and change back into uniform when departing.” A spokeswoman said that to her knowledge, in its nearly 175-year history, the school has never granted a religious, or other, accommodation that resulted in a change to the uniform...      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/14/the-citadel-considers-first-ever-uniform-exception-allowing-a-muslim-hijab/
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nObama Just Named Navy Warship Something –
A Big Slap In The Face To Military
Warner Todd Huston
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ In a move that ignores both tradition and the rules in order to push a far left agenda, the nObama administration is breaking protocol by naming a U.S. warship after a left-wing politician and liberal activist... Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced they will name the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer after liberal politician Carl Levin, a Michigan senator who recently retired from politics after a 31-year career. Nearly 200 Navy and Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients were overlooked in favor of Sen. Levin who never served in the military, thus ignoring naval guidelines and tradition...     http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-just-named-navy-warship-something-that-infuriated-many-a-big-slap-in-the-face-to-military/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CampaignMonitor&utm_campaign=ConservativeBrief&utm_content=2016-04-16
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Court Delivers MASSIVE Second Amendment Ruling…
This Is VERY Bad
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ A court in Connecticut ruled Wednesday that a suit against the company that manufactured the gun used in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting could go forward despite a 2005 federal law prohibiting such suits... According to the Washington Examiner, the families of the victims filed suit against the manufacturer of the gun, Remington Arms Co., over the Bushmaster AR-15 used by Adam Lanza in the shootings, claiming that such a weapon should have never been made available to buyers. Remington pointed to a 2005 federal law that disallows firearms manufacturers from being sued in such cases. However, the Connecticut Superior Court rejected that argument...This ruling is thrown out the Federal Law and the U.S. Constitution.     http://conservativetribune.com/court-massive-second-amendment/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CampaignMonitor&utm_campaign=ConservativeBrief&utm_content=2016-04-16
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UK: What British Muslims Really Think
Soeren Kern
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Many British Muslims do not share the values of their non-Muslim compatriots, and say they want to lead separate lives under Islamic Sharia law, according to the findings of a new survey... The poll — which shows that a significant part of the British Muslim community is becoming a separate "nation within a nation" — has reignited the long-running debate about the failure of 30 years of British multiculturalism and the need for stronger measures to promote Muslim integration. The survey was conducted by ICM Research for the Channel 4 documentary, "What British Muslims Really Think," which aired on April 13. The 615-page survey found that more than 100,000 British Muslims sympathize with suicide bombers and people who commit other terrorist acts. Moreover, only one in three British Muslims (34%) would contact the police if they believed that somebody close to them had become involved with jihadists...     http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7861/british-muslims-survey
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US Transfers Nine Yemenis from
Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia
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{newsmax.com} ~ Nine Yemeni inmates have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said on Saturday, bringing the controversial military prison's remaining population down to 80... It is the largest transfer from the facility since 10 Yemenis were sent to Oman in January and the first time Saudi Arabia has taken any Guantanamo inmates. The men's release, just ahead of President Barack nObama's visit to Saudia Arabia next week, is the result of years of negotiations with the Saudi government and they will all participate in a Saudi rehabilitation and de-radicalization program...     http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-attacks-Guantanamo/2016/04/16/id/724291/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1664150_04172016&s=al&dkt_nbr=xskzo8wg
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$16,000,000 project to vet Muslim
migrants is complete failure
Robert Spencer
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ If Canadian authorities had approached this problem realistically, they never would have spent $16,000,000. They would have known from the outset that this program would never work, and that there is no way to distinguish jihadis from peaceful Muslim migrants... A $16-million RCMP project to help keep dangerous refugees out of Canada has turned out to be an expensive security flop. An internal evaluation says the screening project delivered information too late, strayed beyond its mandate, and in the end did almost nothing to catch refugees who might be linked to criminal or terrorist groups. Meanwhile, 30 Mounties were tied up for four years on duties that did little to enhance Canada’s security...     https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/canada-16000000-project-to-vet-muslim-migrants-is-complete-failure
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THIS Country Just Showed The World How
To Deal With Muslim Terrorists
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{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Guess what they do with Muslim terrorists over in Somalia? Let’s just say they don’t turn them loose, with a pat on the back, and a see ya’ later, like President nObama... In the case of two al-Shabaab terrorists who killed a journalist, a wife and mother of seven children, they sentenced them to life in prison. The two terrorists appealed the court’s sentence of life imprisonment. They stood before the court and stated their case. The judge considered all that they had to say, rolled it around in his brain, and decided that he agreed with them—life in prison was not fair. It was not fair to the public, that is. So, instead of denying their appeal, he altered their sentence. They were bungee cord tied to some stakes on a beach and killed by firing squad. That’s justice. Something the world of radical Muslim appeasement does not have enough of right now...     http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/04/17/country-just-showed-world-deal-muslim-terrorists/
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Other Than Mexicans Just Walk
Across Our Border Unimpeded…
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{independentsentinel.com} ~ The fresh video below which comes via secure border intel shows smuggling activity on trails near the border, west of Nogales, Arizona... This is in an area where there is no fence of any type, and where Border Patrol agents are not seen on camera. In other words, Border Patrol ground agents are not working these trails. Physical reconnaissance of the area also shows an increase of pre-positioned food and water caches, including on trails used by drug groups. The size of groups on the trails shown has increased over the past few months, as well. Notice that 100% of these groups both human and drug are now dressed in camo. If you go to 2:40 on the video, you will see Other Than Mexicans, possibly Africans or Cubans. They are streaming across our borders...     http://www.independentsentinel.com/watch-drug-dealers-pour-over-our-border/
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Eric Holder participated in coordinated effort
to obstruct Congress on Fast and Furious
Ed Morrissey
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{hotair.com} ~ After years of litigation between Congress and the Department of Justice over Operation Fast & Furious and a claim of executive privilege on related communications, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee finally has most of the relevant documents... Oversight chair Jason Chaffetz argues in a release today that the picture painted in these documents show a deliberate effort to obstruct the proper oversight role of Congress, and that DoJ officials all the way up to then-Attorney General Eric Holder took part in the effort to shield the ATF from exposure of its fatal incompetence: More than previously understood, the documents show the lengths to which senior Department officials went to keep information from Congress. Further, the documents reveal how senior Justice Department officials—including Attorney General Eric Holder—intensely followed and managed an effort to carefully limit and obstruct the information produced to Congress. Justice Department officials in Washington impeded the congressional investigation in several ways...     http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/15/chaffetz-holder-participated-in-a-coordinated-effort-to-obstruct-congress-on-fast-furious/
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Weeks After Fox News Hosts Smeared Cruz, Voters
Are Still Buying Into Their Lies
Rob Knowles
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{constitution.com} ~ A few weeks ago, I wrote about the disinformation many Fox News pundits were spreading about Donald slump-Trump’s feud with Ted Cruz... When an anti-slump-Trump Super PAC released an ad featuring a nude photo of Melania slump-Trump, the billionaire went ballistic, claiming Cruz knew all about it, and threatening to “spill the beans” on Cruz’s wife Heidi. He then retaliated by retweeting a badly screen-grabbed image of Heidi Cruz next to a beautiful photo of his wife Melania. It was a disgusting new low for slump-Trump. Additionally, he had no evidence that Cruz had any involvement with the anti-slump-Trump PAC such a thing would be illegal, and there were no “beans” to spill about Heidi Cruz. It was all bluster...
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slump-Trump Uses the Wall Street Journal to Prove
He Is One Truly Stupid Person
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(redstate.com} ~ Donald slump-Trump is a monumental incompetent. There is no kinder way of putting it. His name, in business is associated with an excess of hype followed by abject failure and bankruptcy. He is the poster child for the small-handed rich kid, who, being born on third base, trips over his own shoelaces, does a faceplant, and then demands to be given credit for a home run because he really could have done it if things had gone the way he wanted.

His campaign is in crisis. He has divided his campaign staff into warring tribes that spend more time fighting each other for butt-kissing festivals with slump-Trump than they do trying to run a national primary campaign. He is at the point where he needs a run of amazing luck to win the nomination on the first ballot and he has proved singularly inept a wrangling delegates to achieve that goal.

So Donald slump-Trump does what he does best. He whines. He mewls. He snivels. He befouls himself and rubs it in his hair in rage. You really need to read this op-ed to appreciate what kind of a sniveling, cringing coward Donald slump-Trump becomes in the face of adversity.

On Saturday, April 9, Colorado had an “election” without voters. Delegates were chosen on behalf of a presidential nominee, yet the people of Colorado were not able to cast their ballots to say which nominee they preferred.

A planned vote had been canceled. And one million Republicans in Colorado were sidelined.

This is a lie that would have made Goebbels blush. Colorado Republicans were afforded the opportunity to vote on a candidate. They just couldn’t do it in the way that Donald slump-Trump prefers. Nominating the GOP candidate is something that GOP voters are supposed to do. slump-Trump brings in what can only be called carpetbaggers, that is, Democrats and independents, to vote in what is supposed to be a GOP event. The only people denied the opportunity to vote for the GOP nominees where people who were not Republicans and Republicans who had so little interest in the process that they couldn’t be bothered to participate. In other words, the quintessential slump-Trump voter. As my colleague, Sara Gonzalez, points out, these rules were established last year and were, or should have been, well known to any serious candidate. Which is why Donald slump-Trump was blissfully unaware of them.

I, for one, am not interested in defending a system that for decades has served the interest of political parties at the expense of the people. Members of the club—the consultants, the pollsters, the politicians, the pundits and the special interests—grow rich and powerful while the American people grow poorer and more isolated.

No one forced anyone to cancel the vote in Colorado. Political insiders made a choice to cancel it. And it was the wrong choice.

Responsible leaders should be shocked by the idea that party officials can simply cancel elections in America if they don’t like what the voters may decide.

This system that Donald slump-Trump is not interested in defending is one in which political parties are able to establish their own rules. No one forced Donald slump-Trump to run as a Republican. In fact, his candidacy as a Republican is an exercise in the lowest kind of fraud… rather like the slump-Trump University of voter registrations.

No one cancelled an election. The state party decided to go from a primary (I got this so wrong, see the comments for the correct version) to a convention system. Anyone in favor of a less intrusive federal government and the concept of federalism should applaud it. The fact that slump-Trump criticizes it is hardly surprising. slump-Trump’s entire life has a been a landmark to the use of government to expand his own business interests, destroy competitors, and seek a monopoly wherever possible.

Then he goes on to attack Ted Cruz for Gasp. Clutch pearls. Look for fainting couch knowing the rules and playing by them.

Likewise, Mr. Cruz loudly boasts every time party insiders disenfranchise voters in a congressional district by appointing delegates who will vote the opposite of the expressed will of the people who live in that district.

That’s because Mr. Cruz has no democratic path to the nomination. He has been mathematically eliminated by the voters.

slump-Trump has the same problem. He will arrive at Cleveland without enough delegates to win. Therefore, he, too, is mathematically eliminated. Following slump-Trump’s juvenile logic, there can’t be a GOP nominee because each succeeding ballot would have to be the same as the previous. Will of the people, don’t you know. slump-Trump will be getting exactly what he won: votes on the first ballot. The fact that his campaign was too lazy, too stupid, and too disorganized to actually care about delegate selection reflects upon the slovenly and unprofessional way slump-Trump has run his campaign — rather similar to the way he’s run his business and personal life, when you get right down to it — not on some nefarious scheme by the GOP establishment, which supports slump-Trump, or Ted Cruz to rob voters of their right to vote.

slump-Trump is just being slump-Trump here. He knows he’s losing and the only way he salvages his self-image as a winner perhaps self-delusion is a better word.

Life is hard, they say. It is even harder when you are stupid.

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/04/15/donald-trump-uses-wall-street-journal-prove-one-truly-stupid-person/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

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By Craig Andresen Right Side Patriots http://www.americanpbn.com/

Once again, now as their candidate, Donald Trump, faces not gathering enough delegates eli-1.jpg?width=155to secure the nomination on the 1st ballot at the convention, Trump’s low-information followers are screaming more birther propaganda

“Cruz is FINISHED,” they say…”HE’S NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN,” they post…”HE’S INELIGIBLE…THE CONSTITUTION…THE CONSTITUTION!!!”

I’m not trying to change the minds of Trump’s blind followers here. There is little point in that as their minds are made up with little to no care for the end result. In that way, they’re like lemmings…blindly following their chosen leader over a cliff. No…this article is for those whose eyes are still open, and have yet to make their 2016 choice who might be influenced by Trump’s low-information voter propaganda.

In order to not be fooled by Trump’s fools…real information is needed so…here it is.

Ted Cruz is eligible to run for, and hold the nation’s highest office, and he is a natural born citizen.

Without research and proof…those words would mean nothing more than the words of Trump’s blind followers harping and hawking the Cruz is ineligible propaganda so…allow me to give you the proof that he is eligible and a natural born citizen.

Let’s start with the most recent and work our way back.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Campaign lies
Thomas Sowell
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 Democrat Debate: The Dodgers Return to Brooklyn 
The Dodgers baseball team left New York City for Los Angeles after the 1957 season, but the Dodgers — a.k.a. the Democrat politicos old enough to play on the original team — returned to Brooklyn Thursday night for a night of exaggeration, weaseling and lies.
          In the ninth Democrat debate, the rhetoric between Hilly Clinton and Bernie Sanders grew sharper as each candidate covered the bases to prove their liberal bonafides. The two candidates bunted on the question on gun control — situational rhetoric to appeal to the crowd. Clinton denied that she blamed guns sold in Vermont for NYC's crime rate after moderator Wolf Blitzer fact-checked her to say only 1.2% of guns recovered in NYC originated from Vermont. Meanwhile, Sanders reversed his original call on the field regarding whether the families of the Sandy Hook victims have the right to sue gun manufacturers. Previously, he said they had no such right. But after a judge granted the ability for the suit to proceed, the socialist batted from the other side of the plate.
          Sanders came out and swung hard at Clinton's connections and donations from Wall Street, accusing her of having bad judgment. The grizzled socialist was trying to make up for the embarrassment of the New York Daily News endorsing his rival days before. "Subjected to meaningful scrutiny for the first time, the senator from Vermont proved utterly unprepared for the Oval Office while confirming that the central thrusts of his campaign are politically impossible," the Daily News wrote. Clinton used that endorsement as another grounder to highlight her pragmatic experience.
          After such a bitter game, sports announcers political commentators like James Taranto wondered if the smack talk in the Democrat dugout has gotten so contentious that the party will split between veteran Clinton supports and young socialists. Sanders' wife, Jane Sanders, said the couple will vote for Clinton if she advances to the playoffs. But Sanders' supporters — who were looking for the political revolution Sanders keeps dreaming about — may take their ball and go home.  -The Patriot Post
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 Mental Health Misfire? 
One of the more daunting issues facing Congress is how to reform mental health care without abrogating one's constitutional rights. Both sides are more or less unified on the issue of better mental health care, but while the Left believes the Constitution can be circumvented, Republicans want to make sure no one's rights are unjustly trampled. After it initially appeared that a compromise was in the works, it may not work out after all.
          According to The Hill, "Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is in talks with leaders of the Senate health committee to combine his mental health bill with one that passed the committee last month. But Democrats object to certain sections of Cornyn's bill that they say would make it easier for mentally ill people to acquire guns, and the controversial provisions could shatter Democratic support for the bill. Those provisions would require a full judicial hearing to ban someone from buying a gun due to mental illness and would allow people previously committed for mental illness to purchase a gun as soon as a judge's commitment order expires."
          Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) complained, "Obviously I can't support a bill on the floor that has those provisions in it." Cornyn is "open to discussing it" but insists "this whole idea that we're not going to have a fulsome discussion about mental health and [the] problems it creates with the criminal justice system, housing and the health care field seems kind of unrealistic to me."
          In too many cases, a person's right to bear arms has been taken away without due process. For example, as Hot Air notes, "[T]here are tens of thousands of people in New York who might argue the point after Andrew Cuomo placed countless residents on the No Guns For You list without a single medical professional weighing in on their competence under the provisions of the NY SAFE Act."
          Republicans are at least trying to reach across the isle with a rational compromise. But despite how often they talk about common sense, Democrats want none of it. All that's important to them is restricting guns from those who exhibit any type of "mental illness." And as we've already seen, that could literally be anybody.   -The Patriot Post
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 Dodd-Frank Act Is Too Big and Failing 
It's been six years since Barack nObama signed the Dodd-Frank Act — one of the most monstrous attempts at "reform" ever imposed on Wall Street. "These reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history," nObama said at the time he signed it. "And these protections will be enforced by a new consumer watchdog with just one job: looking out for people." Well, certain people — namely Democrat constituents. But recently, this nObama legacy seems to be falling apart, and up and down, left and right, Americans are now ready to fix that onerous legislation.
          The watchdog agency nObama created, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is one of the least accountable bureaucracies in Washington. And it's in federal appeals court this week, where a judge appears to think the whole bureau is unconstitutional. The CFPB was designed to be a fast-acting agency that can lay down regulation and demand compliance with rapid speed. It's headed by a lone director who is not beholden to Congress because the bureau gets its money from the Federal Reserve. No accountability? Massively concentrated power? What could go wrong?
          The House Financial Services committee passed two bills Wednesday that would place the responsibility to disperse CFPB's budget in Congress' hands. But that's not the only part of the act that's falling apart. This week, federal regulators declared five of the eight big banks were still too big to fail. They didn't have adequate plans in place to declare bankruptcy and bring the U.S. economy down with them. Remember: Dodd-Frank was, in part, supposed to prevent the American public from bailing out the big banks again.
          "Dodd-Frank's failure on its own terms virtually guarantees that someone will reform it," wrote the Wall Street Journal editorial board. "The question is whether it will be the judicial or legislative branch. Republicans have been criticizing Dodd-Frank since it was on the drafting table. More significant is that both Democratic presidential candidates are now also talking reform. Obviously a Bernie Sanders rewrite of financial rules would look very different from a Ted Cruz version. But outside of the White House, the status quo has almost no constituency. And with Barack nObama due to vacate the premises in just nine months, Dodd-Frank's flaws are becoming impossible to ignore."    -The Patriot Post
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State Department Belatedly Releases New Clinton Benghazi Documents
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{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch announced today it has obtained new documents from the Department of State containing the telephone transcripts from the evening of September 11, 2012... in which then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton informs then-Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil that the deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi “had nothing to do with the film.”  The documents include previously unreleased telephone transcripts with world leaders about the Benghazi attack. Clinton’s admission to Kandil was first produced to the Select Committee on Benghazi on October 13, 2015 and publicized on the day of Mrs. Clinton’s testimony, October 22, but court filings in Judicial Watch litigation show that the record was only produced after two federal court judges ordered the State Department to produce more Benghazi-related records to Judicial Watch. Similarly, Judicial Watch litigation also forced the release of the September 11, 2012 email in which Secretary of State Hilly Clinton informed her daughter by email that the attack had been staged by an “Al Qaeda-like group,” rather than as the result of “inflammatory material posted on the Internet,” as Mrs. Clinton had claimed in her official public statement one hour earlier...     http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/state-department-belatedly-releases-new-clinton-benghazi-documents/
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Look what happened to a U.S. corporation that
DARED speak out against nObama policy
Allen West
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{allenbwest.com} ~ Just yesterday we shared the story about the end of the coal industry in America with the bankruptcy filing by Peabody Coal. We asked the rhetorical question, what kind of American president would intentionally seek to destroy an American industry?... I think it was an easy to answer question and of course we know what kind that is. I find it utterly hilarious to hear these misguided little millennial progressive socialists regurgitate talking points about corporate welfare and crony capitalism — they only need to examine the nObama administration for that – but perhaps they NEVER heard of Solyndra. And of course we know nObama does favors for those whom he embraces, and uses…ask JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon. Now before I share this story, I must say in full disclosure I wear Asics. As reported by The Boston Globe, “New Balance is renewing its opposition to the far-reaching Pacific Rim trade deal, saying the nObama administration reneged on a promise to give the sneaker maker a fair shot at military business if it stopped bad-mouthing the agreement. After several years of resistance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a pact aimed at making it easier to conduct trade among the United States and 11 other countries, the Boston company had gone quiet last year. New Balance officials say one big reason is that they were told the Department of Defense would give them serious consideration for a contract to outfit recruits with athletic shoes...     http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/look-what-happened-to-a-u-s-corporation-that-dared-speak-out-against-obama-policy 
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US, Israel Missed Major Opportunities to Take
Out Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities
Les Speyer
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Amb. John Bolton

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{algemeiner.com} ~ The US and Israel “missed a huge range of opportunities over the last 10 years” to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities, a former US Ambassador to the UN told The Algemeiner Thursday evening... Speaking on the relationship between the US and Israel during a forum sponsored by the Israel Air Force Center Foundation in New York alongside Israel Air Force Brig. Gen. Yaron Rosen, diplomat John Bolton said, “The two countries sort of look at each other and say, ‘Well, why don’t you do it first.’ The fact is a US strike could be more effective because we’ve got better capabilities.” Bolton — who also serves as chairman of the conservative think-tank the Gatestone Institute — told The Algemeiner that the situation with Iran is becoming increasingly perilous. “I didn’t have any trouble before advocating a strike because I view this nuclear threat as extremely grave,” he said. He went on to explain that the next president of the US will face a “very dangerous” period wherein they must “do the analysis that’s required to come to a decision to use force.”...     http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/15/amb-john-bolton-us-israel-missed-major-opportunities-to-take-out-irans-nuclear-capabilities/
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Morgan Freeman Posts
Photo from 'Jerusalem, Israel,"...
Mark Tapson
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ In Israel filming for his new Nat Geo series The Story of God, actor Morgan Freeman made the heinous error of posting a photo of himself on Facebook captioned, "Jerusalem, Israel."... As Fox News Insider reports, this simple act of recognizing the fiercely-contested Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state of Israel sent social media into a feeding frenzy. The Facebook post has drawn over 9,000 comments as of this writing, thousands of which consisted of arguments as to whether the city belongs to Israel or "Palestine." “It’s Palestine you fool,” wrote one commenter. Another asserted that Jerusalem is "the eternal and Struggling capital of the state of Palestine." "Jerusalem is the most beautiful place in Israel... Have been and will allways belong to the Jewish state ISRAEL.. No doubt on this!!!" wrote another person... These people don't know history or the Bible, that's a fact.     http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/morgan-freeman-posts-photo-jerusalem-israel-facebook-commenters-attack
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slump-Trump Uses the Wall Street Journal to Prove
He Is One Truly Stupid Person
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{redstate.com} ~ Donald slump-Trump is a monumental incompetent. There is no kinder way of putting it. His name, in business is associated with an excess of hype followed by abject failure and bankruptcy... He is the poster child for the small-handed rich kid, who, being born on third base, trips over his own shoelaces, does a faceplant, and then demands to be given credit for a home run because he really could have done it if things had gone the way he wanted. His campaign is in crisis. He has divided his campaign staff into warring tribes that spend more time fighting each other for butt-kissing festivals with slump-Trump than they do trying to run a national primary campaign. He is at the point where he needs a run of amazing luck to win the nomination on the first ballot and he has proved singularly inept a wrangling delegates to achieve that goal. So Donald slump-Trump does what he does best. He whines. He mewls. He snivels. He befouls himself and rubs it in his hair in rage. You really need to read this op-ed to appreciate what kind of a sniveling, cringing coward Donald slump-Trump becomes in the face of adversity...
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Cruz’s Wonkish CNBC Economy Interview...
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{redstate.com} ~ Cruz just had a very interesting hour-long interview on CNBC this morning with Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin on the Squawkbox financial program... The CNBC gang hit Cruz with everything from Japanese and German basis points, to negative global interest rates, to bank bailout policies, tax reform, economic effects of climate change proposals, opposition to various kinds of VAT taxing, instability of commodity prices, Fed monetary policy, etc. Cruz just absolutely kills this interview, and spends the entire hour talking off the cuff about numbers and financial and monetary policy, and the exact devices to get the economy to rebound. This is a much more in-depth discussion than the stump speech snippets we’ve all heard many times. No one who sits through this 46 minute video will be able to walk away with any opinion but that Ted Cruz is the only competent, qualified adult running for President today from either party...
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nObama and Yellen Are Planning to Implement
Debtor Prisons/FEMA Camps
Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ We are living in a time when nearly every important banker and senior finance minister will/has been meeting in Washington, D.C., this week. The Federal Reserve in is an absolute state of panic... I have just found out that the Federal Reserve met secretly with nObama at the Pentagon and members of the Joint Chiefs. Vice-President loose lips-Biden was in attendance as well. This speaks to the gravity of the situation, because the President and the Vice-President almost never attend the same meetings for security reasons. Also, it is highly unusual for the President to ever meet with the Federal Reserve. The Federal tells the President what to do. So, one has to ask themselves, what does the Federal Reserve need, from the President, that they cannot supply for themselves? Answer: They need the use of the President’s military assets...     http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/04/15/obama-and-yellen-are-planning-to-implement-debtor-prisonsfema-camps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-and-yellen-are-planning-to-implement-debtor-prisonsfema-camps
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Europe: Suicide by Jihad
Guy Millière
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The March 22 jihadist attacks in Brussels were predictable. What is surprising is that they did not take place sooner. What is also surprising is that more people were not killed... It seems that the authors of the attacks had larger projects in mind; they wanted to attack a nuclear power plant. Others may succeed in doing just that. In the last two decades, Belgium has become the hub of jihad in Europe. The district of Molenbeek in Brussels is now a foreign Islamist territory in the heart of Belgium. It is not, however, a lawless zone: sharia law has effectively replaced Belgian law. Almost all the women wear veils or burqas; those who do not take risks. Drug trafficking and radical mosques are everyplace. The police stay outside and intervene only in cases of extreme emergency, using military-like commando operations. Other areas of Belgium, such as Shaerbeek and Anderlecht have the same status as Molenbeek. The Belgian authorities have allowed the situation to deteriorate. The situation in the country now is virtually equivalent to a surrender...Do we want this to happen in the USA?    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7826/europe-suicide-jihad
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Insurers Say They’ll Exit nObamacare Without
HUGE Premium Increases
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Heath insurance companies participating in the nObamacare exchanges are losing money hand-over-foot and many are warning that without major fee increases they will stop offering nObamacare plans... In November, United Healthcare started the ball rolling by announcing that they were considering  exiting the exchange marketplace because they lost almost a half a billion dollars selling nObamacare plans. A month later another insurer HealthSpan went further, they announced  they were indeed getting out of the nObamacare exchange marketplace. Now even more companies are warning they may drop their exchange plans...     http://lidblog.com/insurers-say-theyll-exit-obamacare-without-huge-premium-increases/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=268e2ba0db-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-268e2ba0db-291705165
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Bill Nye Is Not A Real “Science Guy”...
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Bill Nye, who goes by the nom de plume, “the science guy,” said in an interview with Climate Depot’s Marc Morano, that he doesn’t mind the the idea of jailing people who are skeptical of the man-made global warming  hypothesis... Nye’s attack on the First Amendment would be an extreme one for anybody. But, when one considers that the children’s TV entertainer is not a scientist and has, at times, even been ridiculed by climate experts, his comment are even more outrageous. During the interview Morano asked Nye about Robert F. Kennedy’s call to jail climate skeptics for treason and lock them up at The Hague. Nye who has been a vocal supporter of the climate change hypothesis isn’t more qualified to speak about climate science than any other non-scientist. He has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, and worked at Boeing in the mechanical engineering department...These scientist have no rights whatsoever or non-scientist.     http://lidblog.com/bill-nye-is-not-now-nor-has-he-ever-been-a-real-science-guy/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=268e2ba0db-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-268e2ba0db-291705165
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Campaign lies
Thomas Sowell
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{onenewsnow.com} ~ The success of campaign lies depends ultimately on two things: how conscientious the media are ... and how gullible the voters are.

If you took all the lies out of political rhetoric, how much would be left? Apparently even less than usual this year.

The latest, and perhaps biggest, lie -- thus far -- is that Donald slump-Trump was cheated out of delegates in Colorado because the voters did not select the delegates.

Two very different questions have gotten confused with each other. One question is whether this is the best way to choose delegates. Most of us would say "No," but most of us don't live in Colorado, and each state is allowed great leeway in how it chooses to pick its delegates.

The more fundamental question is whether this was some trick cooked up to deprive Donald slump-Trump of the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination. That is of course how Donald slump-Trump and his followers automatically depict anything that doesn't work out to his advantage.

But the Colorado rules were written and known to all before anybody cast a single vote in the primary elections, anywhere in the country.

If the people who ran the slump-Trump campaign were not aware of what the rules in Colorado were, and Ted Cruz's people were, that is what happens when you hire people who are not up to the challenges of their job. The fact that one of those people has been fired and replaced has gotten much less media attention than slump-Trump's loudly repeated charges that he was robbed.

With so many primary election rules that vary from one state to another, some of these rules are bound to work out to one candidate's advantage and another candidate's disadvantage.

When slump-Trump, for example, wins less than a majority of a state's votes and yet gets 100 percent of its delegates, you don't hear other candidates yelling or whining that they have been robbed. But the cold fact is that slump-Trump's percentage of the delegates is still higher than his percentage of the people who actually voted for him.

Apparently it all depends on whose ox is gored -- and who yells the loudest, with the most irresponsible charges. It also depends on how conscientious the media are and how gullible the voters are.

Other political campaign lies have been repeated so often, over so many years, that they have become part of a tradition that is almost never questioned. Demands for "equal pay" for women, for example, proceed without even a definition of what that means.

Some years ago, I was shocked when my research turned up the fact that young male physicians earned substantially more than young female physicians. But, when my research also turned up the fact that young male physicians work hundreds of hours more per year than young female physicians, it was not shocking any more.

Other researchers, many of them female, have found the same pattern in other fields where there are income differences between the sexes. Women work fewer hours annually than men, and do not work full-time and continuously over the years as often as men do.

Among college graduates, women receive more than three-quarters of the degrees in education, while men receive more than three-quarters of the degrees in engineering. When engineers are paid more than teachers -- partly because engineers work year round, while teachers work nine months -- do not be surprised by sex differences in earnings among college graduates.

None of this is news for people who have checked out the facts. Researchers -- including female researchers -- have repeatedly turned up such facts for decades. But the politicians, and much of the media, prefer a moral melodrama, starring themselves on the side of the angels against the forces of evil.

That wins votes, helps TV ratings and lets lots of people feel good about themselves. But this also requires a gullible public.

A very similar game can be played with racial statistics. What if I said that basketball officials call fouls on black players out of all proportion to the share of blacks in the general population? You might well say, "Wait a minute! The proportion of black players is far higher in the NBA than in the population."

Yet that simple difference between the proportion of blacks in the general population and blacks involved in whatever activity is being measured statistically is repeatedly ignored, both by politicians and the media.

The success of campaign lies depends ultimately on how willing the public is to be stampeded without bothering to stop and think.
 
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By Oscar Y. Harward 

Donald Trump and many of his followers seem to be distributing misinformation on TV  and other Medias across America that appears to be based on faulty messages from his/her/their own dishonesty, or their political ignorance to the structure of the Republican Party and its Plan of Organization’s process of electing Delegates and Alternates; leading to the election of a GOP Presidential nominee.  

The GOP election of Delegates and Alternates in the Plan of Organization process leading to the GOP nomination of a POTUS, is as normal, open, free, and healthy as the voting process on election days.

 

At the Precinct, based on the Republican Party’s Plan of Organization, ‘ANY’ registered Republican in their own precinct, or equivalent, can/may attend and participate in their own Republican Party voting precinct, or equivalent, and offer themselves or be nominated and elected to become a Delegate or Alternate to their own County’s Convention as the numbers permitted by the Republican Party Plan of Organization. 

  

At the County Convention, the earlier elected Delegates or Alternates to the County Convention may or will, among other actions: 

  1. 1.    Choose to offer himself/herself or to be nominated to become and elected as a Delegate or Alternate to the individual(s) Congressional District Convention as the numbers permitted by the Republican Party Plan of Organization.

 

At the Congressional District Convention, the earlier elected Delegates or Alternates will, among other actions: 

  1. 1.    Elect 3 Delegates and/or their stand-in Alternates to the RNC National Convention; this year in Cleveland, Ohio.
  2. 2.    Elect Delegates and/or their stand-in Alternates to the State Convention as the numbers permitted by the Republican Party Plan of Organization.

 

At the State Convention, earlier elected Delegates or Alternates will, among other actions: 

  1. 1.    Elect additional Delegates and/or their stand-in Alternates to the RNC National Convention as the numbers permitted by the Republican Party Plan of Organization.

  

At the Republican National Committee (RNC) National Convention, earlier elected Delegates or their stand-in Alternates will, among other actions: 

  1. 1.    Authorize and Certify the elected total Delegates and/or their stand-in Alternates all over America, and its territorial nations’ to vote for, among other actions, ELECT one Republican Party nominee for POTUS and Vice-POTUS.

  

America, it is just this simple.  Donald Trump and some of his followers should stop attacking, directing, and leading others to confuse by fabrications; and those who are attempting to mislead and/or anger members of the Republican Party and others. 

Republican Party’s Presidential nominee must not be an evil conniving individual who continues to condemn, verbally abuse, and attack all others who may question the political ideas and/or issues of a candidate so as to misinform and confuse other honorable Republicans. 

The Republican Party Plan of Organization or its election of Presidential nominees is a normal, free, open, and healthy plan.  It is not broken or in need of repair or replacement.

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Saturday ~ TheFrontPageCover

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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Affirmative Action for Thugs
Katie Kieffer
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 Fairy Tales About Guns 
Earlier this year, the National Rifle Association illustrated how different some stories can be if a victim has a gun. Using Grimm's Fairy Tales to make the point, author Amelia Hamilton retold stories like Little Red Riding Hood (Has a Gun) and Hansel and Gretel (Have Guns) to show not only that we don't have to be defenseless victims, but sometimes "happily ever after" takes some securing.
          Naturally, however, leftists had a conniption. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which should really be named Campaign to Take Away Your Guns, responded with a fairy tale of their own featuring Alice in Wonderland ... shooting herself in the face. "Over one-third of all American households have a gun," a narrator says just as Alice pulls the trigger of a gun she's discovered. "Ask your neighbor: Is there a gun where they play? Asking saves kids."
          In so far as this reminds all gun owners that safety is paramount, or that all parents of any stripe should cover the subject with their kids, this is all fine and good. But the vast majority of gun owners are safety conscious, despite what the Brady Campaign implies. For example, an experiment in February revealed that kids whose parents own guns do know what to do with them — don't touch them and tell an adult — while kids in gun-free households didn't fare so well. Of course, the Brady ad specifically aims to rebut the NRA, but had "Alice" been through the NRA's Eddie Eagle Gun Safe Program, she would have known what to do when she found a gun.
          As for Hamilton, she responded via Twitter, "Me: what if fairy tale characters were safe? Brady campaign: what if they shot themselves in the face?" That's par for the course when it comes to the scaremongering Left.  -The Patriot Post
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 USAF Senior MSGT Ejected for Reference to 'God' 
There has been yet another recent example of Barack nObama's top-down effort to eradicate any reference to faith by military personnel. MSGT Chuck Roberson invited retired Senior MSGT Oscar Rodriguez Jr. to conduct a traditional flag retirement as part of Roberson's own retirement ceremony. But when Rodriguez arrived at Travis Air Force Base for his friend's small retirement gathering of family and friends, he was met by security personnel. Those personnel had been ordered by the base commander to warn Rodriguez that he had to stick to a script that did not reference "God."
          Rodriguez didn't make the rank of Senior MSGT because he was a pushover. He stood for his part in the ceremony — in civilian clothing we note — and began his flag recitation, ignoring the warning. He was immediately seized by security personnel (as seen in this video), and forcibly removed from the ceremony — to the alarm of the guests gathered there to honor MSGT Roberson.
          According to Lt. Col. Robert Couse-Baker at Travis AFB, the Air Force "respects and defends the right to free speech and religious expression." But Couse-Baker added, "Rodriguez ignored numerous requests to respect the Air Force prescribed ceremony and unfortunately was forcibly removed. We will continue to investigate the situation fully." Fact is, Rodriguez was removed for exercising his First Amendment rights at a voluntary retirement ceremony. He is now a civilian, and his remarks were delivered in that capacity.
          The USAF has modified regulation AFI 34-1201 to ensure there will be no reference to faith in the flag-folding portion of a retirement ceremony. The blame for ejecting the Senior MSGT doesn't rest with the security personnel who were ordered to remove him, but with their commander in chief, whose personal creed has been shaped by hatred. Despite nObama's best efforts, the majority of personnel in our military service branches are people of faith, much to the chagrin of the Left's atheist agitators.
          In response to his removal, Rodriguez told a military watchdog group, "This speech means so much to so many, and I hope you help in letting all the nation listen to its words. It may not be for everybody, this I understand, but every time I say these words I think about those that touched the hand of God, the sacrifices of so many and to keep the dreams of all Americans alive so they can find their happiness." We invite you to view the uninterrupted recitation at a previous ceremony.  -The Patriot Post
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 Task Force Report Puts Chicago Cops in the Crosshairs 
The task force Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel assembled
in response to the Laquan McDonald video released its findings Wednesday — surprise! — accusing the Chicago Police Department of racist policing policies. After crunching CPD data, the task force wrote it "gives validity to the widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color." In the 404 CPD officer-involved shootings from 2008 to 2015, the report found 74% of the incidents involved a black suspect. Maybe that's because blacks disproportionately commit violent crimes, including attacking police.

This report is both informed by and will only exacerbate the race-bait rhetoric about cops perpetuated by Emanuel's old boss, Barack nObama. The Left will use this report to pile more regulations on law enforcement, handcuffing them from keeping the peace. Granted, police are not immune from the need to reform. While police officers in the Windy City stopped and searched black and Hispanic drivers in 2013 four times as often as white drivers, police were two times as likely to discover contraband on white motorists. But this report will only make things worse in Chicago. Ever since the McDonald video was released, Chicago police have been reluctant to engage in proactive policing and arrests have dropped. As a result, the homicide rate in the city spiked, with the city on track to exceed 500 homicides by year-end. It fits the Left's agenda to say the Chicago PD is engaging in some kind of protest in response to the criticism by the mayor's office, but this isn't entirely the case. Instead, according to FiveThirtyEight, police officers who have to fill out more paperwork thanks to Emanuel's "reforms" have less time to investigate crime. That said, cops no doubt think twice before stepping into an incident that might end up on YouTube. Welcome to "The Ferguson Effect," where policing decreases over fears that criticism will ruin the officer's career, or worse, that an officer will be killed for the "crime" of being white. The relationship between Chicago police and the people they serve is broken, and the Left's rhetoric is only making it worse.  -The Patriot Post
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ISIS Fighters in Sheer Panic After These Notorious
ISIS-Killers Find Them
Ben Marquis
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ We have shared numerous stories in the past about the incredible tenacity of the Kurdish people in their existential fight against the Islamic State group, whether it be the Peshmerga in Iraq or the YPG units in Syria and Turkey... With minimal international assistance, often underequipped and outnumbered, the Kurds nevertheless have held their own and even won many victories against the militant Islamists. Recently a YPG unit in northern Syria captured an Islamic State group squad coming across the border from Turkey to attack them, with the aftermath of the event filmed and posted online...     http://conservativetribune.com/isis-fighters-sheer-panic/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CampaignMonitor&utm_content=top-story&utm_campaign=DailyEmail04.14.16
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Soros Fears Collapse of EU Due to Refugee Crisis
Steve Byas
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ What does billionaire leftist George Soros fear? Not the hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees pouring into Europe and the possibility that included within could be hundreds or maybe thousands of terrorists... He expresses no worry about the cultural problems or security concerns that Middle Eastern immigrants have already brought to the European continent. No, Soros fears the “real threat” of collapse of the Schengen system, in which the 26 European Union member nations have abolished any real border control at their internal borders — leading ultimately to the collapse of the European Union itself. Certainly the threat of Great Britain leaving the EU could be just the first, followed by other nations that could leave the super-national EU behind. In Britain, as in many other nations, the open-borders policy imposed upon member nations by the EU is a major reason for the possible break-up. The pointed criticism of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban by Soros himself Hungarian-born for his management of the European migrant crisis in 2015 sums up his feelings: "His plan," said Soros of Orban, "treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle. Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle.”...
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nObama Ratchets Up War on Private Sector
R Williams
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{newsmax.com} ~ President Barack nObama is making sure that his administration spends its last days in power by piling on more rules and regulations on private industry, and Republicans have failed to push back... That’s the message from publisher Steve Forbes in a magazine editorial published on its website. “The nObama Administration has let it be known that the White House and the regulatory agencies will be issuing a blizzard of new rules and decrees in the waning months of his miserable regime,” Forbes writes. “These will affect overtime, unionization, the environment and finance, among other areas, thereby hobbling enterprise even more.”...        http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/Steve-Forbes-Obama-regulation-big-government/2016/04/14/id/723954/?AID=7236
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BIZARRE: The Pentagon and CIA Are
Arming Opposing Sides in Syria
Tim Brown
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{constitution.com} ~ The U.S. government has been playing both sides in Syria by arming Islamic jihadists. Now it’s being reported that CIA-armed militias in Syria are shooting Pentagon-armed militias... Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old civil war. The fighting has intensified over the last two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other while maneuvering through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed...     http://constitution.com/us-government-arming-sides-islamic-jihadists/
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nObama Plots His Revenge on Israel
Pamela Geller
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{pamelageller.com} ~ During his final year in the White House, US President Barack nObama is preparing a metaphorical roadside IED for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... It cannot be that the tainted relations between the two leaders will not end with nObama exacting some sweet revenge.” Variations of the above statement have been uttered for a while now by senior American and Israeli officials since Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress last year during his campaign against nObama and his nuclear agreement with Iran. This week, the New York Times brought the fraught nObama-Netanyahu relationship back into the headlines when the paper expounded on the US president’s possible future revenge against the Israeli leader that will be served up cold in the form of a UN Security Council resolution on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Several officials have said that nObama has grown so frustrated with trying to revive Middle East peace talks that he may lay down his own outline for an Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution, in the form of a resolution in the United Nations Security Council, the Times reported...He has no authority and neither does the UN.      http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/obama-plots-his-revenge-on-israel.html/
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Marines May Protect Tanks With Active and
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Megan Eckstein
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{news.usni.org} ~ As anti-tank threats are growing increasingly sophisticated, the Marine Corps is looking at protecting its ground vehicles with active protection and electronic warfare systems to fend off incoming rounds the same way ships and planes do today... Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, deputy commandant for combat development and integration, said at a Senate Armed Services seapower subcommittee hearing on Wednesday that as technology proliferates, the anti-tank threat is rapidly evolving. The Navy is investing in protecting its ships and aircraft from similar threats, and Walsh said it’s time for the Marine Corps to take the same approach for its ground vehicles. “When we start getting threats on our aircraft, our helicopters, our fixed wing aircraft, from infrared missiles, we quickly put out a capability to defeat those types of missiles,” he said. “Now we’re seeing the threat on the ground changing, becoming a much more sophisticated threat on the ground...
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Palestinians: We Will Not Accept a Jewish Israel
Khaled Abu Toameh
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Israel as a Jewish state remains anathema to the Palestinian community. This is a top-down attitude, communicated on a constant basis by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas... The Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is based on the argument that such a move would mean giving up the "right of return" for millions of "refugees" into Israel. This refusal is also based on the continued denial of any historic Jewish connection to the land. In recent weeks, the PA president has once again reiterated his strong opposition to recognizing Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is one of the main obstacles to peace between Israel and the Palestinians...
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New Fast & Furious documents show nObama
admin efforts to mislead Congress
Sharyl Attkisson
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ It’s hard to believe, but five years after Fast and Furious, Congress is still in a pitched battle with the nObama administration over subpoenaed documents... What does the latest production of material under a federal judge’s order reveal? Justice Department emails formerly withheld under the President’s assertion of executive privilege containing quotes. It’s information that, if revealed at the time, would have proven the falsity of many nObama administration assertions in the gunwalking case. It also would have been extremely damaging to the President’s re-election campaign. As the documents are reluctantly turned over years later, it’s clear that the goal of delaying their release until the story was long past–has been accomplished...
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Illegal Alien Kills Woman, Is Released
By nObama & Disappears
Onan Coca
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{lidblog.com} ~ This is another example of the march of injustice in nObama’s America today. In January 19-year old Edwin Mejia killed 21-year old Sarah Root in a drunk driving accident. Root had graduated from college just hours before the fatal accident... Mejia was arrested and appeared before a judge, where he was identified as an illegal alien. The Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency (ICE) admits that the Douglas County Police Department asked them numerous times about placing a detainer keeping him in jail on Mejia, who had skipped a court hearing another time on charges of drunk driving and had a warrant for his arrest. But ICE rejected the requests. As in all such cases, immigration authorities had the option of having Mejia held because of his illegal status but chose not to because they believed he “did not meet Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) enforcement priorities” as laid out by the nObama administration. So, instead, Mejia agreed to a court mandated twice-a-day appointment to submit to a breathalyzer test and was released on his own recognizance. He hasn’t been seen since and is now on ICE’s “Most Wanted List.”...     http://lidblog.com/illegal-alien-kills-woman-is-released-by-obama-disappears/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=55e282b75a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-55e282b75a-291705165
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nObama, Bloomberg, Soros &  Globalist Cabal Target ND For Huge “Refugee” Invasion
Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The folks around Fargo, ND, are a lot like Americans everywhere. They don’t want to see their neighborhood, city or country turned into a clone of Somalia, Pakistan or Afghanistan... They don’t want to have the “call to prayer” five times a day like they were living in some kind of crappy George Clooney movie and they don’t want to be forced to make accommodations to pushy, non-assimilating, foreigners intent on changing America into something they don’t recognize. They like the US as the US. Although almost 60% of Fargo residents indicated in a recent survey that they oppose “refugee” or terrorist intern relocation to their communities, the globalists have targeted their city for invasion anyway. The first step is the propaganda campaign, being waged jointly by the anti-American Marxist movement and the anti-American elements of the federal government under communist Hussein nObama. Make no mistake, when it’s gotten to the point that the anchor details, the decision has already been made. The hordes are coming. The mechanism for this specific phase of the takeover is called “The Partnership for a New American Economy.” The description is accurate, as Marixism is new to us, relatively speaking, as is total economic collapse. This organization is working to deliver both. They choose Orwellian language to announce the targeting of Fargo, describing it as winning a grant based upon their supposed “welcoming attitude towards immigrants and ‘new Americans.’” Maybe that’s the welcoming attitude of the 28% who support the invasion, not the majority in opposition that they are referencing...     http://rickwells.us/archives/28471
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Affirmative Action for Thugs
Katie Kieffer
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{townhall.com} ~ “Between capitalists and communists or socialists… for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works!” President nObama told a room full of Millennials in Argentina last month.

It’s hard to take nObama seriously after watching him jet to Cuba in March and pose before a mural—dedicated to militant Marxist Che Guevara—and do “The Wave” at a baseball game with current Cuban dictator Raúl Castro.

While our President partied with a despot on a Caribbean island, ISIS terrorists blew up Brussels. Good thing Attorney General Loretta Lynch was holding down the fort back home in America. After all, post-San Bernardino, she did a stellar job of bringing ISIS to justice by promising to “prosecute” anyone she felt was using “anti-Muslim rhetoric.”

Isn’t it interesting that the “next generation” our president encourages to embrace political relativism has been hurt the most by political relativism?

Nearly 13 percent of Millennials are unemployed. Others scrape by with odd “gigs” from apps like Uber and TaskRabbit, and by racking up debt. In 2015, the middle class fell out of the majority, meaning that when Millennials do find employment they struggle to earn over $42,000 annually. Which is why young people say they are delaying home ownership and childbirth. The average American woman is 26 years old before she becomes a mother, a new high.

Pew Research reports that more young women are living with their parents today than in 1940—when my grandmother was 20 years old and even most women thought their “place” was in the home.

Redistributive policies are directly to blame for a trend I call “the new shacking up.” Seven years after nObama’s so-called recovery—roughly 1 in 3 Millennials is unable to live independently—grudgingly “shacking up” with relatives or roommates well into their early thirties.

Where do nObama’s loyalties lie? Why is he telling Millennials to “pick and choose” from capitalism, socialism and communism—as if doing so were as inconsequential as picking between roses, sunflowers and carnations at a farmer’s market?

You decide.

Racist Real Estate

“The fact that you were arrested shouldn’t keep you from getting a job and it shouldn’t keep you from renting a home,” U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro said a few days after nObama essentially declared communism equal to a free market system.

In other words, nObama’s HUD told landlords to stop discriminating—against crime.

HUD further specified that if you’re a criminal, you “ought to have” a “second chance at life,” and “criminal history-based restrictions on access to housing” are likely to be racially discriminatory against “African-Americans and Hispanics”—and “likely to lack a legally sufficient justification landlords could be sued for turning away tenants with a criminal past.”

HUD’s new policy is inherently racially discriminatory. It is evenhanded to proffer justice to criminals—by denying them the privileges of law-abiding citizens. It is discriminatory to presume that African-Americans and Hispanics are more predisposed to corruption than Asians, Arabs, whites and American Indians.

nObama himself is biracial. Given that each successive generation of Americans is growing more blended, why does he persist in pretending that we live in a black vs. white world? Why not draw us together, and encourage us to be self-sufficient entrepreneurs as 70 percent of Millennials say they aspire?

Affirmative Action for Thugs

Shelter—a roof over your head when you sleep at night and a place to safely stow your belongings during the day—is essential to life. A free and moral society is one that rewards an industrious and upright man or woman by respecting their independent ownership or stewardship (rental) of a personal shelter (home or an apartment). Furthermore, a free society punishes criminals by removing their right to dwell independently.

HUD’s new guidelines are a great example of the damage done to law-abiding Americans, especially Millennials who lack a nest egg, by a president who arbitrarily “chooses” to put communism and socialism on par with the free market.

A young woman who can’t afford to buy a home—but can rent a small apartment—could now be compelled to live in a complex where her next-door neighbor is her future burglar, murderer, or rapist. Because bad people deserve subsidized second chances.

This sort of preferential treatment for thugs is jaw-droppingly unprecedented. It’s also immoral.

Hill No, Hilly Won’t Go To Prison

Hilly Clinton could be convicted of obstructing justice or violating federal law due to sending what are now classified as top state secrets via a personal email address and storing these confidences on a personal server in an obscure Colorado lavatory.

If indicted, Clinton could lose the right to live independently in her $1.7 million Chappaqua, NY mansion or $2.85 Washington, D.C. Embassy Row mansion.

Her new home could be a locked commune full of women wearing the same orange jumpsuit; eating off the same menu; and sleeping on the same cot. For the first time in her life—she could genuinely say she was “dead broke.”

But that won’t happen to her under nObama’s new HUD rules. Because criminals—including white ones—can’t be discriminated against.

Preferential treatment for thugs isn’t right. This fall, we can’t afford to elect nObama 2.0—Clinton. We also can’t risk electing a repeat Clinton donor. We must elect a man committed to sweeping the cobwebs from Washington.
 
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Who Are These People?

These days I’m finding it hard to recognize my fellow conservatives. Conservatism used to be about free markets, a strong national defense, secure borders, a low tax burden, and limiting governmental control of our daily lives. We believed that The Constitution was the law of the land and was to be taken literally. It was not a “living document” to be interpreted at whim by the situational ethics of the day. We recognized that government was necessary and its purpose was to preserve the natural rights endowed upon all mankind, and enumerated in The Bill of Rights.

After suffering though the years of national degradation that Progressivism had burdened us with, we finally had a chance to step into the light. Out of all the potential presidential candidates, one knew the Constitution inside out, was well versed in foreign affairs, was articulate, inspiring, and an accomplished debater. His values were conservative values, and he had the courage to stand up for them. It seemed that Conservatism finally had a bold leader and the choice for President was clear. Then came Donald Trump.

I get the anger and frustration over Washington’s indifference to the will of the voters. I completely understand how Conservatives feel betrayed by the GOP. It seems that the majority of our representatives from all levels of government are only working for their own self-interests. What I don’t get is how any true Conservative can think that Donald Trump is the answer. He is a crony capitalist who has supported whatever politician he can get the most use out of, Democrat or Republican. His business ethics are questionable. His ventures have met with bankruptcy four times. His supporters know these undisputable facts, and have publicly stated, “they don’t care”. Trump is arrogant and petulant. His supporters know this, and still “they don’t care”. When asked why they support Trump, his followers almost always say, “he’s not afraid to say what he thinks”. That is certainly true. Trump has shot his mouth off and had to walk back his comments time and again, and still his supporters don’t care. As if unrestrained outspokenness is the only qualification for the leader of the free world. Trump’s supporters believe any explanation for his statements and behavior, no matter how embarrassing that behavior, or how well documented. These same people also believe any negative about Ted Cruz, no matter how obscure or questionable the website from where it originated. They consider the tabloids to be a trusted news source. They defend Trump with the fervent, mindless, zeal of cult followers. The belligerent reactions, to hecklers and protesters at Trump rallies, seems more in place at an Occupy Protest, than a Tea Party rally. Conservatives used to have more class than that.

Progressivism, Socialism and their big brother Communism, used to be the enemies of Conservatism. Now, thanks to the “Trump Train”, the only enemy of Conservatism seems to be the Republican Establishment. And to those who believe in Trump, anyone who isn’t a Trump supporter or a Democrat is an Establishment Republican. As much as I hate to say it, I agree with Hillary, “America has always been great, what it needs is to be made whole again”. Of course Hillary or (G-d forbid) Bernie are not the people to restore our nation, but true Conservatives cannot do it either, if they are being encouraged by the Trump Campaign to fight among themselves, and split into two parties.

For me, and many other Conservatives “dump Trump” isn’t about preserving the Republican Party. I couldn’t care a flying fig what happens to the GOP. “Dump Trump” is about preserving our nation. Those of you, who are still on the fence, trying to decide between Trump and Cruz, ask yourself why you are still on the fence. You probably want to support Trump, after all it seems a majority of  Conservatives do, but that little voice deep down inside says that something about this guy just doesn’t add up. Listen to that voice, the fate of our country might very well depend on it.

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By Jim Mullen

The American electoral process, especially on the federal level, has always been something less than genteel. From the earliest days of our founding, political office seekers attacked each other unmercifully, and acted more like unruly, spiteful children than educated, brilliant men who had just formulated the greatest concept in government ever conceived by man.

Likewise, the news media of the day, newspapers and periodic magazines, chose sides and muckraked politicians and disparaged their families. They used their newborn constitutional freedom to guarantee only the fiercest, thick-skinned individuals survived the ordeal.

In this year’s Democrat primaries, voters are not flocking to the polls as they did in the last two presidential elections. The voters who are voting are split because Hillary Clinton is not radical enough or redistributionist enough. The far-left, after seven years of encouragement by Obama, feels they have a mandate to go for the full Monty, flat-out communism.

Hillary Clinton and her Marxist supporters are deathly afraid Barack Obama’s absence from the ticket will mean blacks will fail to make extraordinary efforts to vote in the fall election. They equally fear that women will get the “I’ve had it up to here” blues and avoid the polls.

What this means is, they must go after the black, and women vote with a vengeance. The country must be ready for an all-out assault on Middle America. Every value and principle, on which this Republic was founded, will be laid low by these two deeply flawed, radical Marxists and their lemming-like supporters.

The Communist indoctrination Sanders and Clinton supporters received in the classrooms of schools and American colleges and universities, will compel them to demonize evil capitalism and demand total control by the federal government. These useful idiots have no concept of the real world or what the country would be under a system they so mindlessly crave and pursue with such zeal.

It’s an understatement to say the left doesn’t play nicely with the truth. Indeed, the two are at war. Leftists use every weapon at their disposal to kill the truth. Marxism depends upon lies, misinformation, indoctrination, intimidation, and finally violence on its path to tyranny.

 “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”  - Joseph Goebbels

From now until Election Day, Goebbel's indoctrination philosophy will be prominent on the national political stage by the party of racism; the Democrat Party. Because they are the party of racism, they incessantly call others racist to deflect from their own history.

For example, they have a history of Jim Crow, the Klan, segregation, Woodrow Wilson, and Hillary Clinton’s favorite, one of the most wicked, immoral racists in history, Margaret Sanger. Founder of Planned Parenthood, she advocated the extermination of blacks, the poor, and any people with infirmities.

They frantically run from their sordid past, but cannot hide when faced with the truth. They rewrite history books, but cannot change history. For years, the Democrat Party has fashioned a public image of working to help the poor and middle class while hiding the reality that it targets the vulnerable.

Liberal progressives tell any lie, use every dirty trick known to man, and then utilize street riots, and civil disobedience to viciously defend their lies. Mischief and mayhem will be standard fare on every left-wing menu until the November election.

They will, of course, be led and abetted by the uber-liberal Main Stream-Media and Hollywood. Using their own version of justifying the unjustifiable, and defending the indefensible, they will shamelessly divide the nation by race, gender, religion, class, and any other possibilities of creating friction.

Being historically racist, the Democrat Party must persist in repeating the big lie that Democrats are the ones that help blacks. What they have done successfully, with help from some liberal Republicans, is placing millions on the Democrat welfare plantation where their policies lay waste to millions of lives. Drug and crime infested ghettos fed by a culture of dependency and a corrupt education system, capture and securely hold generation after generation. By keeping them uneducated, poor, and dependent, Democrats wall off minorities and poor whites keeping them enslaved on government-run plantations and reservations.

The New Socialist Democrat Party has several automatic reset buttons when facts and events connive to reveal the truth about their past. When this happens, their blatant, illusions and lies stand starkly against clear, blue reality. That’s when they desperately reach for the buttons of racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, class warfare, and religious division. Liberals use the fear of being called these names to chill speech. Let the epithets begin!

Truth will never fill the gullet of congenital or ideological liars. Likewise, it falls much too harshly on delicate liberal ears. Therefore, liberals result to pretense, lies, and pettifoggery combined with street riots, physicality, and thuggery to control thought and speech. Angry mobs shouting down truth don’t change the truth. Neither do the media, Hollywood, and Marxist ideologues’ change truth when they attempt to indoctrinate the masses. However, they use extraordinary means to bury it beneath an avalanche of fascist nonsense. 

From now until November, our streets and airways will exhibit the anti-American left fire every fraudulent, deceitful bullet from their big guns. Likewise, we will be regaled with every nonsensical, irrational notion dribbling from the little minds of the useful idiots.

In the next seven months, Democrats must convince minorities and women that Republicans hate them, while making everybody forget the sordid history Democrats have with blacks. Not to mention, Clinton and all the leftists must lie about the Marxist policies that keep most women and minorities poor and under the heel of government. As extraordinarily twisted as it sounds, Hillary and Company must repeatedly convince those on the plantations and those struggling low-income earners that they are lucky to have such caring Marxists on their side.

Yes, that’s correct. Hillary needs the votes of those she helped put on the plantations, so she can continue the policies to keep them there.

Turn on your truth meter, brace yourself, and hold on tight! With Clinton and Obama electioneering, your meter and your head just might explode.

Jim Mullen

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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Ted Cruz’s Surge Is No Accident — It’s By Design
George Will
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 Study Finds Unemployed Support Legalized Theft  
A "startling" new study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes a deeper look into how employment status impacts people's views on wealth redistribution. Shockingly (okay, we kid), it finds that people who work for a living prefer to keep more of the money that they've earned. In related articles, the science journal discovers other "startling" facts, such as water is wet, and fire is hot.
          The only thing startling about these findings is that anyone would be startled by these findings. Human nature, despite the often absurd claims of the intellectual class, has not changed since Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden.
          In the study, participants were invited to play anonymously in a "redistributive justice" game in which each player is allocated a different sum of money, and each player knows how much the other players have received. Prior to the start of the game, players had to engage in a specific task for which they were rewarded, with the best outcomes producing the higher rewards. Reason's Ronald Bailey outlines the rules as follows:
          Once the play was over, each participant was given a tray divided into four sections. One section belongs to him or her and the other three sections belong to fellow participants. In two-thirds of the cases how the money is divided up in the trays is related to how much work each participant did and in the remaining cases the amounts are allocated more or less randomly. Each participant can decide how to divvy up the money between himself or herself and the other three players. Once all of the participants have made their allocation decisions, the decisions of one, randomly selected, determine the final payoffs.
          The goal of the experiment was to see how the employment status of participants who affect how they would choose to divvy up the funds.
          What were the results? Players tended to be less likely to redistribute the money if they knew that the money had been earned by those possessing it, but more likely to redistribute the wealth if they thought the wealth had been acquired by luck.
          More interesting, and enlightening, were the results when the same players were invited back to play again a year later. Of the 151 European young adults in the control group, 85 were employed and 66 were full-time students during the first "game." A year later, 59 were still employed, 26 unemployed, 51 were still full-time students, and 15 were former students who were now unemployed. The question now: What impact, if any, did the employment status have on their redistributionist tendencies?
          According to researcher Luis Miller, generally speaking, participants who were employed or full-time students tended to believe that people should be able to keep more of what they earn (and that higher productivity should be rewarded with greater earnings). "When people become unemployed, our study indicates that they let go of this belief," Miller said. "They put a higher value on the redistribution of money, which, in social terms, would mean higher taxes on those earning more in order to fund increased public spending."
          In other words, people who work tend to believe they have a right keep the money they earned, while the unemployed are less likely to agree. Those who live off the work of others not only are significantly more likely to support forced income redistribution, but over time they come to feel entitled to the earnings of others, and to believe that they have a "right" to be supported by the state.
          In his book "Economic Sophisms," French economist Frederic Bastiat explained nearly two centuries ago the underlying truths this study has confirmed. Wrote Bastiat, "Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain — and since labor is pain in itself — it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it."
          On a larger scale, then, maybe it should be no surprise that the American political party most associated with business and hard work, the Republican Party, advocates policies that allow the worker to keep more of his or her earnings. Nor should it be surprising that the Democrat Party, which advocates ever-growing spending on social welfare programs, and which blames income inequality on a corrupt system rather than on disparities in outcome driven by disparities in educational achievement, work ethic and entrepreneurialism, supports ever greater levels of income redistribution.
          Think about these things the next time you hear a politician complaining about "giving" money to the "rich" in the form of tax cuts — an idea that can only be true if one believes the fruit of a man's labor belongs to government. If this is true, then men are slaves, and government the master. That's certainly not Liberty; it's tyranny.  -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Thomas Sowell: "The latest, and perhaps biggest, lie — thus far — is that Donald slump-Trump was cheated out of delegates in Colorado because the voters did not select the delegates. Two very different questions have gotten confused with each other. One question is whether this is the best way to choose delegates. Most of us would say 'No,' but most of us don't live in Colorado, and each state is allowed great leeway in how it chooses to pick its delegates. The more fundamental question is whether this was some trick cooked up to deprive Donald slump-Trump of the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination. That is of course how Donald slump-Trump and his followers automatically depict anything that doesn't work out to his advantage. But the Colorado rules were written and known to all before anybody cast a single vote in the primary elections, anywhere in the country. If the people who ran the slump-Trump campaign were not aware of what the rules in Colorado were, and Ted Cruz's people were, that is what happens when you hire people who are not up to the challenges of their job. The fact that one of those people has been fired and replaced has gotten much less media attention than slump-Trump's loudly repeated charges that he was robbed."  -The Patriot Post
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      ‘Islamophobia’ Is Still Not the Problem:  
         In Kansas, Another Case Study    
Andrew McCarthy

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{aim.org} ~ In March, the Islamic Society of Wichita rescinded an invitation to Monzer Taleb, a longtime sympathizer of Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and a formally designated terrorist organization under American law... Taleb was to speak at a fundraiser, but the Islamic Society canceled his appearance when community members protested and Representative Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) publicly raised questions about the matter. The Wichita Eagle covered the controversy. In my opinion, the paper’s reporting stressed the allegations of “Islamophobia” posited by Islamist sympathizers in reaction to the protests. The paper also  focused on what it described as “a trend by anti-government militias of targeting Muslims.” The impropriety of a prominent Islamic organization’s decision to give a platform to an apologist for a terrorist organization seemed of, at best, secondary importance. Consequently, last Thursday (April 7), I submitted a proposed op-ed to the Wichita Eagle. This weekend, a member of the paper’s editorial board informed me that the paper believed it had adequately covered the matter and therefore had decided to decline my op-ed. I have reproduced it, below. As a federal prosecutor in 1993, when I led the investigation and trial of a jihadist cell that had bombed the World Trade Center and plotted an even more ambitious attack on New York City landmarks, the first Muslims I encountered were not terrorists. They were anti-terrorists: patriots who embraced America and Western liberty. They helped us infiltrate the cell, thwart the jihadist plots including the planned attacks in Manhattan, and convict the terrorists...
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Panama Papers Expose Massive Hypocrisy
of US Tax Enforcement
Patrick Vermeister
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{constitution.com} ~ Everywhere in the world, but especially in the United States, a great deal of scrutiny has been directed to the existence of international bank accounts (IBC) and the intentions of those maintaining those accounts... In April 2016, various non-U.S. media outlets, led by Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung, began releasing 11.5 million leaked documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca revealing the names of certain government bigwigs Hilly Clinton, their family members, and other influential people who maintained offshore bank accounts. The media was quick to paint anyone who owns such accounts as crooks and tax cheats. The subhead on the German story reads, “The secrets of dirty money.” In the body of the story, a sentence refers to such dealings “that can only exist in the shadows.”...        http://constitution.com/panama-papers-revelation-exposes-massive-hypocrisy-tax-avoidance-legislation/
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Clinton Campaign: Muslim Leader Who Blamed Israel 
for 9/11 Attacks, Supports Terrorist Groups
Tiffany Gabbay
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Hilly Clinton's associations are more than alarming. Just last month the Democrat presidential contender hosted a panel that included a controversial Muslim figure... who openly supported Hezbollah in its 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut and who blamed the 9/11 attacks on Israel. Salam al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), has long circulated Democrats' orbit. In fact, four years ago I included Marayati in a list of dubious figures tied to the nObama administration: Marayati is an Iraqi immigrant who drew national attention over a decade ago when then-House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt nominated him to serve on the National Commission on Terrorism. Backlash over al-Marayati’s defense of Hezbollah and other Islamic groups prompted a withdrawal of the nomination. The Center for Security Policy reports that MPAC was formed in 1986 as the Political Action Committee for the Islamic Center for Southern California, one of the largest Wahhabi mosques in the country. While MPAC later fractioned-off, one of the founders of the Islamic Center, Hassan Hathout, was a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood who also spent time in Egyptian prison...Old habits die hard.   http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/clinton-campaign-panel-includes-muslim-leader-who-blamed-israel-911-attacks-supports-terrorist
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Invasion: Hundreds of Muslim ‘Refugees’
FLOOD into U.S. Per Week
Pamela Geller
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{pamelageller.com} ~ Despite everything we know and have seen in the wake of the Muslim “refugee” invasion of Europe, President nObama is expediting the importation of these invaders into the United States... How is the US government going to distinguish between jihadis and peaceful Muslims when Islam and jihad have been scrubbed from the vetting process? The Islamic State is printing passports; how will the US government detect Muslim attackers like those in the Brussels and Paris, who posed as “Syrian refugees”? This isn’t madness, it’s evil. The Lebanese education minister said there were 20000 active jihadists among the refugees in his country, and the Islamic State said in February 2015 that they would be sending 400,000 refugees into Europe, so this is indeed coming to us via the refugees...     http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/invasion-hundreds-of-muslim-refugees-flood-into-u-s-per-week.html/
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Russian Fighters Buzz
USS Donald Cook in Baltic Sea
Sam LaGrone
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{news.usni.org} ~ “On April 11, Donald Cook was conducting deck landing drills with an Allied military helicopter when two Russian SU-24 jets made numerous, close-range and low altitude passes at approximately 3 p.m. local,” read a release from U.S. European Command provided to USNI News... “One of the passes, which occurred while the allied helicopter was refueling on the deck of Donald Cook, was deemed unsafe by the ship’s commanding officer. As a safety precaution, flight operations were suspended until the SU-24s departed the area.”...         https://news.usni.org/2016/04/13/video-russian-fighters-buzz-uss-donald-cook-in-baltic-sea?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=e0f9912f66-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-e0f9912f66-231491269&ct=t(USNI_NEWS_DAILY)&mc_cid=e0f9912f66&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Iran is muscling up. We should push back
Frederick W. Kagan & John W. Miller
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{aei.org} ~ Reports are swirling that Russia is finally delivering an advanced S-300 air defense system to Iran, although they may be premature again. The implications of that and the other items on Iran’s military shopping list need our attention fast... An Iranian military hardware spree can quickly fuel a Middle East arms race, drive U.S. allies to seek more advanced weapons, and, in the case of Israel, spur development of their own. More importantly it can force the West to change the way it thinks about possible military confrontation with Iran and even about how it can operate—if at all–in the Persian Gulf...        http://www.aei.org/publication/iran-is-muscling-up-we-should-push-back/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=041416
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NASA’s “QueSST” to Recreate
the Supersonic Jet
Tim Maverick
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{wallstreetdaily.com} ~ A new age in aviation is on the horizon. Aircrafts will be cleaner, quieter, and faster than ever before. If all goes according to plan, that is... NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Agency) recently put forth a 10-year strategy, which will research a number of avenues – reducing fuel use, lowering emissions, and eliminating as much noise as possible from air travel. Over the next decade, NASA will design, build, and fly a number of different aircraft, or “X-planes.” This type of innovation is nothing new for NASA. After all, it funded the Bell X-1 aircraft, in which Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier about 70 years ago... http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2016/04/14/nasa-quesst-x-planes/
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Why the BDS Movement is
Destroying a Future Palestinian State
Fred Maroun
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ From the moment Israel declared its independence, one of the main Arab tactics has been to exploit the Jews' Achilles heel – their highly developed culture, which respects and values life, and their support for human rights... Of Arab origin, I have long known about the Arab stereotype of the West and Israel -- that they are weak because they care about the lives of their own people and they are eager to respect the human rights of their enemies. Golda Meir is reported to have said, "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children." Until now, Israel has conformed to that Arab stereotype -- such as with "knocks on the roof" in Gaza to warn residents to leave buildings being used for military purposes before they are targeted -- but in conversations with Zionists, it seems that this attitude is changing. While Jews will always value life, their determination to minimize enemy casualties and to respect their human rights at almost all costs might be unraveling, and it is the Palestinians who are likely to pay the price...
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ISIS’ Recruitment/Mobilization In America I
s WORSE Than We’re Being Told
Bethany Blankley and Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com| ~ In February 2008 Robert Mueller, then the FBI director gave testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence  which contained a warning... “Over time, the greatest threat to the U.S. homeland came to be posed not so much by groups operating overseas although a number of plots conceived by al Qaeda and its affiliates have been thwarted over the last decade, but from “self-radicalized, homegrown extremists in the United States.” George Washington University’s Program on Extremism produced a report that outlined the threat Mueller warned about. Called ISIS In America, From Retweets to Raqqa the report details information about ISIS suspects that should make all Americans worried. ISIS represents a much larger danger to our collective well-being than we are being told about by this Administration...        http://lidblog.com/isis-recruitmentmobilization-in-america-is-worse-than/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=a1f6d43fce-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-a1f6d43fce-291705165
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nObama Breaks the Coal Industry
Steve Milloy
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{breitbart.com} ~ President nObama’s war on coal has bagged its biggest trophy to date: the bankruptcy filing by the largest U.S. coal company, Peabody Energy... Make no mistake about it, though, Peabody’s management and that of the rest of coal industry bears much of the blame for its own demise. It ought to serve as a lesson for everyone else targeted by take-no-prisoners progressives. Peabody’s bankruptcy filing follows that of other major coal companies including, Alpha Natural Resources, Arch Coal, and Patriot Coal. The irony is that coal is actually the world’s fastest growing source of energy, according to the International Energy Agency. So what happened?...        http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/04/13/promise-kept-barack-obama-breaks-coal-industry/
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Ted Cruz’s Surge Is No Accident — It’s By Design
George Will
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"It’s not the will to win that matters. … It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
— Paul “Bear” Bryant


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investors.com} ~ People here at Ted Cruz’s campaign headquarters are meticulously preparing to win a contested convention, if there is one. Because Donald slump-Trump is a low-energy fellow, Cruz will be positioned to trounce him in Cleveland, where slump-Trump’s slide toward earned oblivion would accelerate during a second ballot.

Wisconsin has propelled slump-Trump, a virtuoso of contempt, toward joining those he most despises: “losers.” In the 1992 general election, Ross Perot, a slump-Trump precursor, won 21.5% of Wisconsin’s vote, above the 18.9% he won nationally. Wisconsin’s populist tradition is persistent and indiscriminate enough to encompass Robert La Follette and Joseph McCarthy. And evangelical Christians are less important in Wisconsin than in contiguous Iowa. Nevertheless, temperate Wisconsin rejected slump-Trump, partly for the reason that one of his weakest performances so far was in the reddest state, Utah, where conservative Mormons flinched from his luridness. His act — ignorance slathered with a congealed gravy of arrogance — has become stale.

If, as seemed probable a month ago, slump-Trump had won Wisconsin, he would have been well-positioned to win a first-ballot convention victory. Now he is up against things to which he is averse: facts. For months Cruz’s national operation has been courting all convention delegates, including slump-Trump’s. Cruz aims to make a third ballot decisive, or unnecessary.

On the eve of Wisconsin’s primary, the analytics people here knew how many undecided voters were choosing between Cruz and slump-Trump (32,000) and how many between Cruz and John Kasich (72,000), and where they lived. Walls here are covered with notes outlining every step of each state’s multistage delegate selection process. Cruz’s campaign was active in Michigan when the process of selecting persons eligible to be delegates began in August 2014. Cruz’s campaign is nurturing relationships with delegates now committed to slump-Trump and others. In Louisiana’s primary, 58.6% of voters favored someone other than slump-Trump; Cruz’s campaign knows which issues are particularly important to which slump-Trump delegates, and Cruz people with similar values are talking to them.

slump-Trump, whose scant regard for other people’s property rights is writ large in his adoration of eminent domain abuses, mutters darkly about people “stealing” delegates that are his property. But most are only contingently his, until one or more ballots are completed.

Usually, more than 40% of delegates to Republican conventions are seasoned activists who have attended prior conventions. A large majority of all delegates are officeholders — county commissioners, city council members, sheriffs, etc. — and state party officials. They tend to favor presidential aspirants who have been Republicans for longer than since last Friday.

slump-Trump is a world-class complainer he is never being treated “fairly” but a bush league preparer. A nomination contest poses policy and process tests, and he is flunking both.

Regarding policy, he is flummoxed by predictable abortion questions because he has been pro-life for only 15 minutes, and because he has lived almost seven decades without giving a scintilla of thought to any serious policy question. Regarding process, slump-Trump, who recently took a week-long vacation from campaigning, has surfed a wave of free media to the mistaken conclusion that winning a nomination involves no more forethought than he gives to policy. He thinks he can fly in, stroke a crowd’s ideological erogenous zones, then fly away. He knows nothing about the art of the political deal.

The nomination process, says Jeff Roe, Cruz’s campaign manager, “is a multilevel Rubik’s Cube. slump-Trump thought it was a golf ball — you just had to whack it.” Roe says the Cruz campaign’s engagement with the granular details of delegate maintenance is producing a situation where “the guy who is trying to hijack the party runs into a guy with a machine gun.”

slump-Trump, the perpetually whining “winner,” last won something on March 22, in Arizona. slump-Trump, says Roe, is now “bound by his brand rather than propelled by his brand.” If slump-Trump comes to Cleveland, say, 38 delegates short of 1,237, he will lose. Cruz probably will be proportionally closer to slump-Trump than Lincoln (102 delegates) was to William Seward (173.5) who was 60 delegates short of victory on the first of three ballots at the 1860 convention.

Cruz’s detractors say he has been lucky in this campaign’s unpredictable political caroms that thinned the competition. But as Branch Rickey — like Coach Bryant, a sportsman-aphorist — said: “Luck is the residue of design.”
 
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On April 14th 2016, Barry Donadio endorsed Nicolee Ambrose for RNC Maryland National Committeewoman.

Barry Donadio commented by saying, “The positivity and professionalism that Nicolee Ambrose has brought to the Republican Party is unprecedented. She is a person who constantly works to improve party policies and relationships. Her devotion and ability to mentor other Republicans is another one of her many wonderful traits. Thank you for all you do Nicolee!”

In 2014, Barry Donadio was elected to the Queen Anne's County Republican Central Committee in Maryland.  He is currently a rising star in the Maryland Republican Party. Prior to becoming an Elected Official, he led a long and honorable career serving the public. He relocated to Maryland from New York after taking a position at the White House in the U.S. Secret Service. 

Later, he formed his private security and investigation firm "Public Security LLC".  He also released a book in 2013 named "TWA Flight 800 First Responder Witness Account".  He remains the only person to write a book about the crash of TWA Flight 800 that was actually at the scene of the rescue on the night the plane crashed, July 17th 1996. 4064238931?profile=original

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STAND FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER

By Juan Reynoso – texusa2016@gmail.com

https://www.youtube.com/user/UnitedRepublicVideo

www.represent.us

Bernie Sanders stand with Verizon workers.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2016/0413/Bernie-Sanders-to-Verizon-workers-I-can-hear-you-now

Stop the outsourcing of Americans jobs. http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/12/verizon-faces-strike-of-40k-unionized-workers/

Verizon will kill thousands of Americans jobs for profit. Out sourcing Americans jobs by greedy corporations must stop. Placing money before the American workers is a betrayal, The American workers are the ones that made these corporations, but their greedy CEOS want more money and the only way to do it is by exploiting the foreign cheap labor. Greed is destroying our country’s middle class and making millions of Americans economic slaves.

Fellow Americans, we have the power to stop the entire greedy corporation that outsource our jobs to increase their profits at the expenses of the American workers.  Stop using and cancel any service from Verizon; we must show them the power of the people and stop the NEOLIBERALIS that is destroying our country. Reaganomics killed America's middle class and made millions of Americans economic salves. http://www.salon.com/2014/04/19/reaganomics_killed_americas_middle_class_partner/

Verizon reward their CEOS,  for destroying Americans families by exploitation and the killing of their jobs.  Verizon Communications Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lowell McAdam received $18.3 million in total compensation last year, a 16 percent increase, from the year before.

McAdam’s base salary was $1.58 million, $100,000 more than in 2013, his cash bonus fell to $3.8 million from $4.13 million, and his stock award jumped 28 percent to $12 million, the company said Monday in a regulatory filing.

Join the communications Workers of America and fight for economic and social justice

Stand for the American worker and the future of America. Stop the greedy corporations.

http://www.jwj.org/five-reasons-to-care-about-verizon-contract-negotiations

This is what they project to be, but they fail to inform the people that they will destroy Americans job for profit. http://www.verizon.com/about/responsibility/

Verizon raises salaries of CEO

http://www.reuters.com/article/verizon-ceocompensation-idUSL3N0LG4AS20140211

Please pass this on,  let the people know; knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties.

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Thursday ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
American Workers Matter:
A Chicago Wake and Wake-Up Call
Michelle Malkin
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 Climate Change and the Electrical Grid 
The United States of America, perhaps more so than any other nation in the world, is protected in many ways from existential threats to our nation's security. Our geographical location, our military, our infrastructure and our technological advancements all contribute to this, and these among other feats are what set us apart from the rest of the world.
          On September 11, 2001, terrorists exploited a vulnerability that in the minds of most Americans was unimaginable. In response, there have been numerous changes made with security surrounding air travel — for better and worse.
          For the past seven years, the threats to our nation's security have become far more evident and complex, exacerbated by Barack nObama's alienating friends, cozying up to enemies, apologizing for America's past mistakes and outright refusing to even recognize many of these threats. Our existential threats are numerous and include nation states such as Iran, North Korea, Russia and China. The Islamic State and many other radical Islamic terrorist groups pose a security threat compounded by porous borders and nObama's complete lack of enforcement of immigration law.
          We have noted on numerous occasions that nObama, rather than fight the real threats with the full might of our military and strong diplomacy, has made it his number one priority to battle the theory of climate change. While this may sound absurd, it's the reality in which we live. Further, this endeavor to fight climate change as set forth by nObama and the ecofascists within his administration already has been costly. Unfortunately, that cost is going to continue to soar if the current policies are not soon reversed.
          Excessive regulations on the energy sector, the war on coal, costly fuel standards, electrical efficiency standards, mandates for increases in ethanol use, and government subsidies for wind and solar are just some of the areas in which this administration has focused on fighting climate change.
          By diverting so much of our finances and human resources to combatting a theory, this administration has created an additional vulnerability, and this one, if left unattended, could very well result in the deaths of millions of Americans. We are talking about our electrical grid, though it's something that has been pushed to the bottom of the to-do list for most policymakers in Washington.
          Of all the aforementioned dangers, the threat of an attack on our nation's electrical grid poses some of the more devastating consequences. And it's somewhat vulnerable. For example, there are 300 large transformers in our electrical grid. They are not surge protected, and there are no spares. Each weighs as much as 100 tons and building one takes up to two years. Our way of life is completely reliant upon the functionality of our electrical grid, and our grid is heavily dependent on these 300 large transformers.
          Lights, computer systems, banking, food storage and processing, heating, cooling, transportation and even the water we drink are all tied to the electrical grid. The most devastating attack on the grid would be from an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack. This would come from a nuclear device which, if detonated in the atmosphere would cause unimaginable damage to every modern electronic device.
          While the probability of such an attack is low, the stakes are incredibly high. Despite these high stakes, it's not enough for nObama to scrap his bad deal with Iran; the lunatic dictator in North Korea continues to test long range missiles at will. While an outright attack from either of these nations is unlikely, and while our defense capabilities likely would be able to intercept an attack, there is still a possibility.
          A more probable scenario in which our electrical grid could come under fire is from a cyber-attack. Fortunately, we have many brilliant minds within the defense industry that combat these threats on a daily basis. But the threat of a cyber-attack is increasing, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI began a nationwide campaign on March 31 to discuss security measures for electrical power infrastructure companies and others involved with security.
          Their briefings include the findings in the aftermath of the cyber-attack that occurred against the Ukrainian power infrastructure this past December. Cyber espionage is also a major concern, and Russia and China are capable of carrying out such acts of warfare.
          Admiral Mike Rogers, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, recently warned that a major cyber-attack by another nation against critical infrastructure poses a serious security threat: "It is only a matter of the 'when' — not the 'if' — we're going to see a nation-state, group or actor engage in destructive behavior against critical infrastructure in the United States."
          This is another of the real threats to America's security. But if the past lack of action on behalf of the nObama administration is an indicator of what will be done, then it's probable that this threat will be ignored as well. Even though we haven't experienced a major cyber-attack, it doesn't mean it won't or can't happen. But until we have a commander in chief who takes real threats seriously, we are not overly optimistic that much will be done in the near future to bolster our cyber security.  -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Stephen Moore: "The U.S. Department of Energy published data last week with some amazing revelations — so amazing that most Americans will find them hard to believe. As a nation, the United States reduced its carbon emissions by 2 percent from last year. Over the past 14 years, our carbon emissions are down more than 10 percent. On a per-unit-of-GDP basis, U.S. carbon emissions are down by closer to 20 percent. Even more stunning: We've reduced our carbon emissions more than virtually any other nation in the world, including most of Europe. How can this be? ... Thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling technologies, we are producing more natural gas than ever before. Natural gas is a wonder fuel: It is cheap. It is abundant. America has more of it than anyone else — enough to last several hundred years. And it is clean-burning. Even Nancy Pulosi inadvertently admitted this several years ago before someone had to whisper in her ear that, um, natural gas is a fossil fuel. Meanwhile, the left has declared war on a technology that has done more to reduce carbon emissions and real pollution emissions than all the green programs ever invented. Maybe the reason is that they aren't so much against pollution as they are against progress." -The Patriot Post
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Watergate Reporter
Weighs in on Hilly’s Email Scandal
Onan Coca
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{barbwire.com} ~ Famed Watergate investigator Bob Woodward appeared on Fox News Sunday to weigh in on Hilly Clinton’s email scandal... Of course, the staunchly liberal and almost always biased Woodward chose to side with Hilly Clinton in the email scandal and with President nObama on his decision to comment about the case. However, even with Woodward’s bootlicking response on both subjects, we did get some interesting insight into what was really going on here. Namely, that Hilly Clinton most certainly did do something wrong, and secondly that President nObama has decided to do his best to save Clinton from herself...        http://barbwire.com/2016/04/12/famed-watergate-reporter-says-obama-made-clinton-email-scandal-political-issue/
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How Is the IRS Auditing
Churches? Group Demands Answers
Mariana Barillas
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{dailysignal.com} ~ A nonprofit legal organization that advocates freedom of religion is demanding the Internal Revenue Service explain how it audits churches... “The freedom of religion is too important to … allow an administrative agency with enormous power like the IRS to just do as it pleases, with no accountability,” Erik Stanley, Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel, told The Daily Signal in an interview. Alliance Defending Freedom filed a motion with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on April 8, alleging the IRS has failed to fully comply with a legal obligation to release documents related to the federal agency’s internal policies and procedures...        http://dailysignal.com/2016/04/11/how-is-the-irs-auditing-churches-group-demands-answers/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpCa1pqTTRZakUzTURCaiIsInQiOiJXQTdSRUY1R0xzNm9CN2N1a1lHVndiYU91SWNnODVrWTFudkJNWGE3Z1pJcktHRHc2UCtVTlR3UzBqU2F4U3QyaDV4YnB1T2hpa0JsaGYwME9CVU9RZFZVaEpqdFN3bWpoZFJORHVST3lKcz0ifQ%3D%3D
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slump-Trump Aide Admitted ‘Influence-Peddling’
to Secure Federal Subsidies
Lachlan Markay
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Donald slump-Trump’s newest campaign surrogate previously came under congressional scrutiny for extracting large sums from lobbying clients through arrangements that he admitted amounted to “influence-peddling.”... Veteran Republican consultant Paul Manafort, who appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday in his new role as a top slump-Trump campaign adviser, came under scrutiny in the late 1980s for securing federal housing subsidies for clients that paid his firm hundreds of thousands of dollars. While the episode took place more than a quarter-century ago, it underscores the rhetorical challenge for slump-Trump—whose campaign is in large measure a backlash against entrenched “beltway” interests—in elevating to a senior campaign role a long-time lobbyist and political insider...        http://freebeacon.com/politics/trump-aide-admitted-influence-peddling-secure-federal-subsidies/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=f2217ea1c5-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_12_164_11_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-f2217ea1c5-45611665
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FRIGHTENING: Is ISIS
In Your State? They’re in 26 Already
Bethany Blankley
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{constitution.com} ~ As part of the University’s Program on Extremism, the researchers reviewed more than 7,000 pages of legal documents detailing ISIS-related legal proceedings... These included “criminal complaints, indictments, affidavits, and courtroom transcripts. Supplemented by original research and interviews with prosecutors, reporters, and, in some select cases, families of the charged individuals, the Program developed a snapshot of the 84 individuals who have been charged for various ISIS-related activities.” The GW report, one of the largest online collections of legal records of ISIS radicalization and recruitment in the United States, is well worth the read. It reveals the extent to which nObama and others have allowed a steady infiltration of Islamists into the country, who present a clear and present danger to national security...        http://constitution.com/frightening-isis-state-theyre-26-states/
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What happens when a
nuclear power plant is shut down?
Mark J. Perry
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{aei.org} ~ Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of coal in electricity production. But besides a few high profile scuffles over the transition to cleaner energy, political leaders have ignored nuclear power as a necessary component of an effective climate strategy... Within the past two years, nuclear plants have been shut down in six states, and there are a number of other states — including Michigan — which have nuclear plants that are at high risk of premature retirement. A recent study indicates that closing a nuclear plant has substantial energy-replacement costs and significant, if usually unacknowledged, environmental consequences. The twin-unit San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California was shut down in 2012. According to a study by two economists, Lucas Davis of the University of California-Berkeley and Catherine Hausman of the University of Michigan, electricity generating costs rose by $350 million during the year following San Onofre’s closing...        http://www.aei.org/publication/what-happens-when-a-nuclear-power-plant-is-shut-down/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=041316
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Top slump-Trump Crony Paul Manafort Lobbied
for Saudis – and Specifically AGAINST Israel
Moe Lane
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{redstate.com} ~ The basic issue is this: Israel considers Jerusalem to be its capital. Most of the ‘international community’ opposes honoring this, largely because a large hunk of the ‘international community’ doesn’t want to offend unduly the somewhat smaller hunk of the ‘international community’... that wants to murder every Israeli Jew it can reach and drive the rest into the Mediterranean Sea.  The US Congress chimed in on this issue in the 1990s by passing the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which mandates that we build well, an embassy in, well, Jerusalem*. In an AIPAC speech last month Donald slump-Trump flip-flopped from a previous position to assure the attendees that he now supported the moving of our embassy to Jerusalem. OK, better late than never, right? And then slump-Trump hired Paul Manafort. Turns out that in the 1980s Manafort drank deep from the Saudi’s bottomless well of funding: “The promise of moving the American embassy to Jerusalem has been a mainstay of political appeals to the pro-Israel community for many years. But in 1984 Manafort lobbied on behalf of the Saudis against House and Senate legislation that would have pressed the U.S. government to make this move, according to a Foreign Agents Registration Act disclosure, which requires that lobbyists working for foreign governments publicize their work.” Two hundred grand for six months’ work: nice amount of change even today. In 1984 it’d be even better...        http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2016/04/13/top-trump-crony-paul-manafort-lobbied-saudis-specifically-israel/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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slump-Trump has it All Wrong, it’s Lying Don
Dan Spencer
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{redstate.com} ~ The next time you hear Donald slump-Trump refer to Sen. Ted Cruz as “lying Ted,” think about that old saying that when you point your finger at someone, you point three fingers back at yourself... That saying is a yuuuge understatement when it comes the multitude of outrageous misstatements, falsehoods, prevarications and outright lies the slump-Donald has used in his attempt to obtain the Republican presidential nomination. You don’t have to take my word for this, consider what the fact checkers have said about the slump-Donald’s veracity. PolitiFact designated the many campaign misstatements of slump-Trump as the 2015 Lie of the Year. What a great designation to share with President nObama. PoliFact has rated 76 of 77 statements checked as Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire... Do we really need another big fat liar in the White House?   http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2016/04/12/trump-wrong-lying-don/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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What I saw at San Diego’s Ted Cruz Rally
Leslie Eastman
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ So many Republicans in the southern California area headed to various rallies yesterday to see aspirant Senator Ted Cruz. I joined two of our local Tea Party bloggers (W.C. Varones and Left Coast Rebel) and 2000 other interested voters at his San Diego event yesterday... Both of my Tea Party compatriots are unhappy with the thought of Donald slump-Trump’s nomination. However, they had reservations about the Cruz style of speaking, and whether he could put a “human touch” on his policy proposals. Both were pleasantly surprised by the Texas Senator’s speech, rich in humor and insights on his platform of “Jobs, Freedom, Security.” I must admit, my favorite portion of the speech was when he talked about dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency. However, the proposal to go to a flat tax and jettison the Internal Revenue Service was a very close second...    http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/what-i-saw-at-san-diegos-ted-cruz-rally/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Appropriate This!
Aleister
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Bill Whittle’s new Firewall video is inspired by a recent incident at San Francisco State University which we also wrote about... As usual, Whittle does an outstanding job of dismantling the left and exposing them for the hypocrites they are. Well, “Cultural Appropriation” is the latest form of combat used by Social Justice Warriors: a term used by crybullies to describe themselves as fighters against prejudice and privilege. They are the first warriors in history to burst into tears and require weeks of therapy at the mere sight of an actual weapon...        http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/appropriate-this/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Amid Syria War, Iran arms Hezbollah
for a deadly conflict with Israel...
Vijeta Uniyal
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Terrorist group Hezbollah is using the conflict in Syria to prepare for a war with Israel, reveals a report published by the UK-based research group BICOM. In 2015, Iran funnelled a billion dollars to the Lebanon-based terrorist group... According to a strategic analysis released by Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre (BICOM) on Monday, Iran-backed Hezbollah’s missile stockpile is now estimated to be around 100,000-150,000, with large portion of it hidden among Lebanon’s civilian population. Hezbollah entered the Syrian civil war 5 years ago to fight on behalf of Iran-backed dictator Bashar Al Assad. Since then 5,000 of its 20,000-strong fighting force is pinned down in Syria. The terrorist militia now controls territory within Syria, creating a base for Iran — a fallback option in case Assad regime were to collapse. The nObama-hanoi-Kerry Nuclear Deal gave Iran a signing bonus of  $150 billion. Flushed with fresh cash, regime in Tehran is making up for the past cuts it had to make in funding its proxy terrorist group across the Middle East including Hezbollah...        http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/amid-syria-war-iran-arms-hezbollah-for-a-deadly-conflict-with-israel-uk-based-research-group/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Europe: Sharia-Compliant Fashion Goes Mainstream
Soeren Kern
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The decision by a British department store to include Sharia-compliant bathing suits in its summer swimwear collection has ignited a debate over the "mainstreaming" of Islamic fashion in Europe... Marks & Spencer (M&S), the iconic British retail chain, is now marketing the burkini, a full-length swimsuit ostensibly designed to protect the modesty of Muslim women. Supporters of the move say it "liberates" Muslim women in Europe by giving them the choice to wear whatever they want. Detractors argue the exact opposite: they say the burkini "enslaves" Muslim women, many of whom are facing mounting pressure to submit to Islamic dress codes, even though they are citizens of secular European states...         http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7833/sharia-fashion
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American Workers Matter:
A Chicago Wake and Wake-Up Call
Michelle Malkin

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{freedomsback.com} ~ Circle this date on your calendar: April 22. I’ll be in Chicago that day attending what may be a very significant milestone in American politics and domestic policy. It’s going to be a wake and a wake-up call, part memorial and part protest.

If you are a so-called American “STEM worker” in science, technology, engineering or math, if you have college-age children studying in the STEM fields, or if you have younger children who aspire to work in STEM industries and you are concerned for their future, you should do everything you can to join us.

April 22 is the last day of work for nearly 200 American workers at Abbott Laboratories, the pharmaceutical giant founded by Chicago doctor Wallace C. Abbott in 1888. The company sacked some of its most high-skilled workers in February to make way for H-1B and L-1 visa replacements from Indian offshore outsourcing firm Wipro.

One Abbott worker, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, told me: “We were given an agreement which basically says that in order to get compensation you must sign away your rights to sue or disparage the company. I have 3 small children and a wife to provide for — I have nowhere to go because of the H1-B visa loopholes” that “every major company” is exploiting.

Intimidation. Layoffs. “Dig your own grave” severance agreements contingent on training foreign replacements before getting the boot on 60 days’ notice. Promises from Washington to “end H-1B abuse” that is entirely legal because it was baked into the gargantuan immigration law cake crafted by self-serving lobbyists for Big Business working on both sides of the political aisle.

Sara Blackwell, a Florida lawyer and mom of three, knows this pattern well. She’s representing American tech workers at Disney who suffered the same fate and are fighting back with a lawsuit against the entertainment conglomerate and its Indian offshore outsourcing conspirators, HCL and Cognizant. It was Blackwell’s brilliant idea to hold a memorial for the terminated Abbott workers.

She’s inviting the pink-slipped Abbott casualties’ colleagues, families, friends, supporters, other compatriots “affected by the outsourcing or offshoring of American jobs,” and, Blackwell urges, anyone else across the country “who cares about the American worker and the future of America.”

The gathering will take place at Flanagan’s Bar and Grill in North Chicago, Illinois at 5:30 p.m. on April 22, right after work lets out at Abbott Labs.  Because of the stiff sanctions many American high-skilled employees have faced in the past for challenging the H-1B racket including death threats, bullying and legal threats, Blackwell will be handing out “dark veils” to “conceal mourners’ identities.”

My friend and co-author of “Sold Out,” programmer-turned-lawyer-John Miano, and I will be there to pay our respects not only to the Abbott workers, but also to pay tribute to the thousands of best and brightest IT workers and engineers whose identical plights we spotlighted in our book — along with the many brave whistleblowers John has represented as founder of the Programmers Guild and attorney for tech workers suing over bipartisan executive expansions of sovereignty-undermining guest worker visa programs.

For decades now, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Silicon Valley lobbyists have dominated Capitol Hill and public debate with their fraudulent claims that there’s a U.S. tech worker shortage and that wage-suppressing H-1B visas “create jobs.” I dare Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Eric Schmidt to come to Chicago and tell it to our faces.

The good news: A long-brewing perfect storm — created in part by the rise of Donald slump-Trump, the fall of Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, high-profile layoffs at Disney, Southern California Edison and Abbott, and transcendent disgust with the immigration expansionist gravy train — has changed the equation for U.S. workers.

Ignored by Washington, fed-up citizens like Sara Blackwell and John Miano are representing the invisible victims of H-1B and the rest of the cheap labor pipeline in court. Even better, they’re entering the political arena themselves. Blackwell last week launched a bold congressional bid in Florida’s House District 72. And you can bet there will be many more like her, inspired to do the job that too many American politicians refuse to do:

Protect American workers and put America first.
 
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Trump – Unfit to Serve…Part 2 of 2

By Craig Andresen Right Side Patriots http://www.americanpbn.com/

Yesterday, in “Trump – Unfit to Serve…Part 1 of 2” I outlined several recent events and dic-1.jpg?width=200Donald Trump’s reactions to them while also touching upon Trump’s more generally known characteristics of being narcissistic, arrogant and demeaning.

But to really, truly grasp the inner workings of Donald Trump’s mindset, we most look at other character traits he possesses.

While Trump’s followers applaud these traits, and excuse them as being not politically correct, others don’t care for his behavioral traits, are annoyed by them, or are repulsed by them. It has been well-known for some time that Trump’s unfavorable ratings were quite high but just a couple of days ago, new polling suggests that his unfavorable ratings have now reached 70% which is historically, a record high since this data has been compiled dating back to 1992.

Before I provide some of Trump’s more basic characteristics, it should also be noted that although Trump is currently the front runner in the 2016 Republican race, his numbers are the lowest since 1980 which, as you will soon see, plays a vital role in his behavior.

Everybody, it seems, has an opinion of Donald Trump, and like him or dislike him…his basic traits are the linchpin which guides all of our feelings toward him.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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Wednesday ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Iran's Missiles and the nObama Doctrine
Clifford Smith
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 Sign of Things to come? Kasich Helps slump-Trump Block  Cruz  Ted Cruz is all in on the effort to block Donald slump-Trump from winning the Republican nomination. John Kasich isn’t.
          Over the weekend, Kasich’s campaign
teamed up with slump-Trump’s operation in Michigan to help slump-Trump delegates gobble up convention committee posts that would otherwise have gone to Cruz. While the effects of the Michigan deal may be marginal, it was the best evidence yet that Team Kasich is more comfortable with a slump-Trump nomination than a Cruz one.
          The Kasich campaign
defended aiding slump-Trump on the grounds that Cruz deserved it as a punishment for trying to scoop up too many delegates. But whether it was bad blood, pique or part of a larger strategy, Kasich’s part in any anti-slump-Trump strategy is increasingly in doubt.
          From Kasich’s point of view, it’s understandable. We all know that the Ohio governor doesn’t have a path to win outright, or even on the first or second ballots in a contested Republican National Convention in July. But at the moment, Kasich doesn’t seem to have much of a path to win many more delegates in the remaining 16 states.
          The sweet spot on the calendar for Kasich, a moderate establishmentarian who touts his record of bipartisanship, is the last two weeks of April, when a bevy of liberal Northeastern states hold their primaries. 
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 slump-Trump touts charitable giving, but there’s a catch -  WaPo: “Since the first day of his presidential campaign, Donald slump-Trump has said that he gave more than $102 million to charity in the past five years. To back up that claim, slump-Trump’s campaign compiled a list of his contributions — 4,844 of them, filling 93 pages. But, in that massive list, one thing was missing. Not a single one of those donations was actually a personal gift of slump-Trump’s own money. Instead, according to a Washington Post analysis, many of the gifts that slump-Trump cited to prove his generosity were free rounds of golf, given away by his courses for charity auctions and raffles.”  -Fox News
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 nObama helps Hilly by taking blame on Libya  aftermath -   Bloomberg: “A failure to adequately plan for the aid and governing of Libya after the U.S.-led NATO attacks in 2011 ‘probably’ was his biggest error in office, President Barack nObama said in an interview on ‘Fox News Sunday.’ Asked by host Chris Wallace about the ‘worst mistake’ of his soon-to-end White House years, nObama listed the aftermath of the ouster and death of Moammar Qaddafi, even as he defended the intervention. ‘Probably failing to plan for the day after,’ nObama said in the session, which was taped at the University of Chicago on April 7. He added that intervening in Libya ‘was the right thing to do.’”
          [Did you miss Mr. Sunday’s big exclusive? Well, never fear. You can watch it
here.]   -Fox News
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Free Speech on Trial:
What Message Is Being Sent?
George Igler
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The spread of jihad is irreparably undermining Europe's post-War reputation as a continent of security and peace... In addition, free speech seems increasingly regarded by mainstream politicians as dangerous and archaic. Diversity of opinion often appears seen as an obstacle to multiculturalism, the objective of which, ironically, is diversity. These dual trends are set to come to a head in the Netherlands next year, in elections set to follow the conclusion of the trial of Dutch MP Geert Wilders this November. Wilders is the leader the Netherlands' Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, or PVV), which currently tops the country's polls. He faces imprisonment on a charge of hate speech, for saying that the Netherlands could use "fewer Moroccans." As Wilders outlined in his opening statement to the court on March 18, the politically-motivated bias against him of one of the judges is a matter of public record. Moreover, despite ample demonstration by Wilders's defense of the forgery of a group of the criminal complaints that initiated his prosecution, his trial nevertheless continues...
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Paul Manafort Is Either An
Idiot Or Has Never Read About The Gestapo
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Paul Manafort , Donald slump-Trump’s new main campaign guy appeared on Meet The Press on Sunday and was quick to say idiotic things about Ted Cruz’s effort to grab delegates... which continues to leave the slump-Trump campaign flat footed. In his effort to whitewash to slump-Trump campaign’s poor performance he accused the Cruz team of using Gestapo tactics: Well, he’s threatening, you go to these county conventions, and you see the tactics, Gestapo tactics, the scorched-earth tactics-Gestapo Tactics? Paul Manafort wouldn’t know Gestapo tactics if they did a back-flip and kissed him on his idiotic lips. I am sick and tired of politicians, pundits and and protesters making inappropriate Shoah references (Shoah is the word Jews use for the Holocaust it’s Hebrew for disaster). They are cheapening the memory of the Holocaust horrors...        http://lidblog.com/paul-manafort-is-either-an-idiot-or-has-never-read-about-the-gestapo/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=6f24296420-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-6f24296420-291705165
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nObama Equivocated
In Defense Of Clinton Emails
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ According to liberal news sites such as the Huffington Post, President nObama firmly backed up Hilly Clinton when discussing the email scandal with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday... That headline works if you take nObama’s statement out of context, nObama began his answer by equivocating and avoiding Chris Wallace’s question about the Clinton emails, then tried to explaining it away by saying, ‘there’s classified and then there’s classified,” and ended it by saying she was careless. It seemed as if the president said she mishandled classified information but it wasn’t that bad, or that it really didn’t matter...        http://lidblog.com/obama-equivocated-in-defense-of-clinton-emails/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=6f24296420-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-6f24296420-291705165
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The Secret Movement to
Draft General James Mattis for President
Tim Mak
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{thedailybeast.com} ~ Gen. James Mattis doesn’t necessarily want to be president—but that’s not stopping a group of billionaire donors from hatching a plan to get him there... An anonymous group of conservative billionaires is ready to place their bets on a man dubbed “Mad Dog,” hoping to draft him into the presidential race to confront Donald slump-Trump. Think of it as a Plan B should slump-Trump be nominated by the Republican Party in Cleveland: swing behind retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis and press him into service yet again as a third-party candidate...Is this another Ike?        http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/08/the-secret-movement-to-draft-general-james-mattis-for-president.html
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Romanian Hacker Extradited
to US Amid Clinton Email Investigation
Alice Greene
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Iran’s FM to hanoi-Kerry:
We Won’t Negotiate Over Our Missiles
Patrick Goodenough
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Foreign Minister Javad Zarif
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif hit back Sunday at his erstwhile nuclear negotiation partner Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry for suggesting that Iran may consider negotiating an end to its ballistic missile program... “Secretary hanoi-Kerry and the U.S. State Department know well that Iran’s missile and defense capabilities are not open to negotiation,” state media quoted Zarif as saying during a joint press conference with his visiting Estonian counterpart – the latest in a series of European government representatives to visit Tehran after the lifting of sanctions under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal. “There will be no JCPOA for defense issues,” Zarif declared...Whats the purpose of negotiation if its doesn't include missile defense. 
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slump-Trump cries foul
over process as he presses campaign forward
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{onenewsnow.com} ~  Republican presidential candidate Donald slump-Trump is blasting the way the country chooses presidential party nominees as "corrupt" and "crooked" as he grapples with the potential of a contested convention that he risks losing... Speaking to thousands packed in a frigid airport hangar in western New York on Sunday, slump-Trump ripped the byzantine fight over delegates at the heart of his party's nominating process. He argued anew that the person who wins the most votes in the primary process should automatically be the GOP nominee. "What they're trying to do is subvert the movement with crooked shenanigans," said slump-Trump, comparing his woes to those of Bernie Sanders, who is winning states but still far behind Democratic front-runner Hilly Clinton in the race for delegates that decide party nominations...slump-Trump has no idea how it has been for years in selecting a nominate. He is stirring up wrong facts.
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The Social Justice
Warrior Dividers Are Multiplying
Stephen Crawford
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{savingourfuture.com} ~ Dr. Christina H. Sommers has this great series on various aspects of feminism and modern culture. I find her Factual Feminist videos to be very helpful in understanding modern feminism. She was first brought to my attention by the great PowerLine blog... Dr. Sommers intrigued me recently with a foray into something called “Intersectional Feminism.” Though it sounds esoteric, intersectional feminism turns out to just be feminists intersecting with other types of social-justice warriors – leftist victim-mongers railing against “privilege.” Clearly, feminism has become just another cause to jump the shark into the uncharted waters of Leftism. If feminism was ever really about equality, it is now about domination and control...
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The List: Political
Retaliation in the Age of nObama
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{nicedeb.wordpress.com} ~ nObama wasn’t in office very long before his hyper-partisan administration was using brute political force to punish his political foes... It began almost immediately with the firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin who ran afoul of nObama when his investigation identified misuse of AmeriCorps funds by a prominent nObama supporter. As the nObama administration winds to a close, it seems as though the retaliations have accelerated. In fact, we’ve seen four glaring examples of leftists using the levers of power to attack conservatives in just the past WEEK alone. For the sake of posterity, I’ve compiled a list of  the many times nObama and/or his allies retaliated against his political foes from 2009 to the present...
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This Delaware Address Is Home to
200,000 Shell Companies—Including Hilly Clinton’s
Alana Goodman
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The address “1209 North Orange Street” in Wilmington, Del., has become known in recent years as the epicenter of U.S. corporate secrecy... The squat, split-level building is the official address of over 285,000 companies, many of which are looking to take advantage of Delaware’s Panama-like secrecy rules, tax incentives, and business-friendly case law. In the wake of the recent “Panama Papers” scandal, this unassuming brick office has received renewed scrutiny from the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Telegraph, and advocates for corporate tax reform. But one of its tenants may come as a surprise—a company owned by Democratic presidential frontrunner Hilly Clinton. Hilly and Bill Clinton quietly set up two shell companies listed at “1209 North Orange Street” in 2008 and 2013, the Washington Free Beacon has found. The names of the companies, but not their location, were first made public in tax filings released by Hilly Clinton last year...
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Iran's Missiles and the nObama Doctrine
Clifford Smith
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{meforum.org} ~ The United States is facing a humiliation of the first order resulting from almost comically provocative Iranian test launches of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles earlier this month and the lack of any real response from Washington, save for largely symbolic sanctions. For the nObama Administration, a recent interview suggests it sees this humiliation and loss of credibility not as a serious problem, but as a successful application of the "nObama Doctrine."

Iran's missile launches violated the spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which lifted international sanctions on Iran when it agreed to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) regulating its nuclear program. This suggests that the Ayatollahs in Iran have no intention of getting "right with the world" as nObama once suggested, and intend to continue their revolutionary goals. Lest anyone fail to grasp that point, the missiles were inscribed with the words "Israel must be wiped off the Earth," in Hebrew.

Yet the Russians are blocking any attempt to invoke 2231 to sanction Iran on the grounds that its language does not explicitly forbid this behavior. They're right. Paragraph 3 of Annex A of 2231 states, "Iran is called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology" for a period of up to eight years after the JCPOA goes into effect. Resolution 1929, a previous Iran sanctions resolution, did explicitly forbid it, stating, "Iran shall not undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons."

Oddly, when confronted with this discrepancy during a congressional hearing last July, Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry suggested that the language was indistinguishable. A skilled lawyer and a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary hanoi-Kerry must have understood that the new language was non-binding. But he may well have considered the practical impact of the language change to be negligible. In the imagination of hanoi-Kerry and nObama, the Islamic Republic was heeding their invitation to become a "very successful regional power" and be "reintegrated into the international community." Thus, they may not have anticipated Iran's willingness to push the limits of what it could do. Worse, they may not consider it a serious problem.

"To a remarkable degree," Jeffery Goldberg writes in the Atlantic, "nObama is willing to question why America's enemies are its enemies, or why some of its friends are its friends." Goldberg explains how President nObama disdains traditional Sunni allies in the region, saying he is "clearly irritated" that he must "treat Saudi Arabia as an ally." As nObama and hanoi-Kerry see it, Iran is a rising power, while Israel and the Sunni states are not.

Thus, allowing Iran to freely develop ballistic missiles can be seen as an intentional strategic shift that disentangles the U.S. from potential conflict with Iran. hanoi-Kerry's statements to the contrary are merely acknowledgements of domestic political realities. The outcome of this incident concerning Iran's test launches, far from a humiliation, is an anticipated result of the nObama Doctrine.

Goldberg also notes that nObama is "very proud" of his widely criticized decision to allow an Iranian proxy, Syria's Bashar al-Assad, to violate nObama's own "red line" on chemical weapons use. Likening potential involvement in Syria to protect our credibility to getting sucked into Vietnam, he cites this as the moment that he was finally able to break out of the "Washington playbook," which would require following through on his threat. "Dropping bombs on someone to prove that you're willing to drop bombs on someone is just about the worst reason to use force."

What can be gleaned from the entirety of "The nObama Doctrine" is that in nObama's eyes, America's credibility is inherent in its strength alone, not in its application; the greater risk is of entanglement, not disengagement; and enemies can be placated at the expense of our allies.

Yet this doctrine is quite dangerous. American credibility is undermined when we let rivals grow and provoke us without response. The risk of imprudent action is serious, but the risk stemming from a lack of credibility is worse. This is particularly true when dealing with radical ideologies that believe they have a divinely inspired mission. The Iranian Mullahs will see America's weakness not as a strategic realignment that could benefit their interests if they moderate and draw closer to the U.S., but as proof that they are following divine will in their struggle to dominate the Middle East and eventually beyond. This will not lead to American disentanglement, but to deeper entanglement, and under worse circumstances.

And once lost, America's credibility will be much more difficult to regain.
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Trump – Unfit to Serve…Part 1 of 2

By Craig Andresen Right Side Patriots http://www.americanpbn.com/

I believe that Donald Trump is on the cusp of losing the Republican nomination and I psy-1.jpg?width=180believe he knows it which is why he has turned the blame factor up to full blast but who is really to blame?

Nobody but Donald J. Trump.

Trump’s narcissistic ego disallows any acceptance of self-blame, and his bombast flows over to his followers who have become so emotionally invested in Trump that they simply can’t handle or accept simple facts.

And there are plenty of facts.

Let’s take Colorado as an example…Trump’s followers are all over social media blaming Ted Cruz for Trump’s zero delegates, and they’re acting like this was something concocted BY Cruz at the last minute and that Cruz behaved unethically in winning all 34 of Colorado’s delegates.

Here are the facts…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Inconvenient Genocide
Caroline Glick
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 nObamaCare Cost Curve Hits The Patriot Post Again  
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is working toward euthanizing health savings accounts (HSAs). Democrats have barely attempted to hide their preference for a single-payer health insurance system, so it only stands to reason they'd work to pull the plug on the most attractive market option standing in the way.
          Democrats have always hated HSAs because they put patients in charge of their own health spending (to a point — in some ways, HSA users are still swimming upstream against the health system's lack of price transparency.) But the market-driven approach has become increasingly popular in the last decade.
          "In the past seven years, [HSA] enrollment has climbed 18% a year on average," notes Investor's Business Daily. "Today, there are almost 20 million enrollees who have more than $24 billion in their HSA accounts. Even the number crunchers in the Health and Human Services Department admit that these 'consumer-directed' health plans are helping to hold down costs." Imagine where we'd be without them.
          Back in March, just in time for nObamaCare's six-year anniversary, HHS issued new rules that will effectively end HSAs. Roy J. Ramthun, an expert on the subject often known as "Mr. HSA" — president and founder of HSA Consulting after having led the U.S. Treasury Department's implementation of HSAs upon enactment in 2003 — explains the impact of the rule changes:
          1) Plans must apply specific deductibles and out-of-pocket limits that are outside the requirements for HSA-qualified plans.
          2) Plans must cover services below the deductible that are not considered "preventive care."
          In other words, HSAs will still be legal, but ever fewer plans will meet the requirements. Ramthun writes, "[I]t is only a matter of time before the HSA-qualified plans completely disappear. That could happen as early as 2017 even though the standard benefit designs are optional. By 2018, when the designs likely become mandatory, HSAs will cease to exist in the marketplace."
          So we weren't the least bit surprised to find out this week that we face a major rate increase this summer for renewing our small business health insurance plan. Here's a peek into the window of the internal operations of our humble shop:
          Our full-time employees range in age from about 25 to 60 — the median age is 37. All of us are married, and some of our families include children (as in younger than 26 years of age). We're all of reasonable health and don't unduly burden the health care system with claims. Our plan is a high-deductible HSA, and it doesn't include eye or dental insurance.
          One would reason, therefore, that our premiums would be low. And one would be dead wrong. That used to be true, but that was before nObamaCare. For last several years, our premiums have gone up by double digits annually, and this year's 33% increase is among the highest so far. On top of that, our deductibles also rose last year. Since the "Affordable" Care Act came along, we now pay nearly four times as much — for less coverage.
          Another note: Our plan doesn't actually qualify under nObamaCare's requirements, but it's "grandmothered" for the time being. Changing anything will only make either the price go up or the coverage go down — or both.
          It would be one thing if our experience were an outlier, but it's not; it's the norm. Health insurance premiums around the country are going up by double-digit percentages every year, and some by 50% or more. What ever happened to "bending the cost curve down" as Barack nObama and his fellow Democrats regularly promised? "We'll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year," he guaranteed. Reality is just the opposite. How is that in any way "affordable"?
          Or how about being able to keep one's doctor or one's plan? While millions of patients have been told to look for other doctors, millions of insurance plans have been canceled in recent years. Indeed, a large portion of the people signing up for coverage under nObamaCare had coverage they liked but lost. This is all just part of the nObamaCare web of lies.
          In 1785, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "[H]e who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." And that above all else defines nObama's pathetic legacy — not just on health care, either.
           If there's a silver lining, it's this: With increasing frequency, Americans of every political stripe who have any issue with health care, whether a hangnail or heart transplant, a delay in a doctor's office or in critical care for a loved one, will tie blame for their discontent like a noose around the necks of nObama and his fellow Democrats, who are solely responsible for forcing this abomination upon the American people. -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
David Limbaugh: "We will not recapture America's greatness through powerful determination alone. We must discipline ourselves to work within the constitutional framework, or we will forfeit the system that has made us unique in history. Some may dispute that slump-Trump supporters care only about certain core issues and are willing to employ extraordinary measures to address them. Well, a new Quinnipiac poll reveals that 53 percent of slump-Trump supporters agree with this statement: 'What we need is a leader who is willing to say or do anything to solve America's problems.' This is consistent with what I hear from far too many slump-Trump supporters. Frankly, I would hate to be so pessimistic about our ability to overcome our problems that I'd be willing to compromise the rule of law and constitutional order to do so. ... You don't have to be a policy wonk to be a good president, but I would hope that you would have at least given serious consideration to important issues beyond the few that brought you to prominence. You must have at least rudimentary knowledge on issues before you can make proper decisions, even with the best advisers available."   -The Patriot Post
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NEW REPORT could
DESTROY Democrats’ bid for White House…
Allen West
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{allenbwest.com} ~ This is the kind of stuff that doesn’t make for the dramatic stories the media loves to glom onto, but it’s certainly a dramatic impact to every American — and should be very disconcerting to anyone who’s paying attention... That infamous date is coming next week: April 15th, tax day — well, that is if you didn’t get an extension. You must be asking, where are my tax dollars going in America? When we continue to experience this massive debt and growing deficits — the deficits are set to hit trillion dollars again by 2020 — what are we getting for these “investments?” I truly find it humorous that the progressive socialist left would hijack language and try to make us believe government invests — it spends. It government invests, then please, send me a statement that shows my ROI, my return on investment. My girls are educated in private schools — that we pay for out of our pockets directly. The military is being decimated. The best roads around here in the Dallas-Ft Worth metroplex are the toll roads, which I gladly pay for. Well, here’s an answer, as reported by the Washington Examiner — and if Americans are paying attention, it should give even the Democrat electorate serious pause before voting in the likes of Hilly Clinton or Bernie Sanders, who are only going to exacerbate the situation...
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Navy Charges Maritime Recon
Officer with Espionage in Rare ‘National Security Case’
Sam LaGrone
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The interior of the Naval Consolidated Brig Chesapeake, Va
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{news.usni.org} ~ The Navy has charged an active-duty maritime reconnaissance officer with passing U.S. military secrets to a foreign government, service officials told USNI News... On Friday, the service outlined several charges – espionage being the most serious — against an unidentified lieutenant commander during an Article 32 hearing in Norfolk. Typically, as part of the military Article 32 charging process, an accused service member is identified in court-martial documents. But the service is not releasing the information in this instance because “this has been designated a ‘National Security Case’,” a Navy official told USNI News on Friday...        https://news.usni.org/2016/04/08/navy-charges-maritime-recon-officer-with-espionage-in-rare-national-security-case?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=ab4087fdc5-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-ab4087fdc5-231491269&mc_cid=ab4087fdc5&mc_eid=3999f18767
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The UAE's Fragile Good Life
Daniel Pipes
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{danielpipes.org} ~ In a region of civil war Syria, Yemen, Libya, hardening dictatorship Turkey, Egypt, nuclear build up Iran, and potential water calamity Iraq, where in the Middle East outside Israel can one find the good life?... Surprisingly perhaps, in the United Arab Emirates, a country in the Persian Gulf... Despite the country's many challenges – proximity to Iran and Iraq, almost no natural fresh water, oil prices tanking, 8/9ths of the population foreign, violent Islamists lurking – its 10 million inhabitants live well. Two basic facts set the scene. First, the UAE has the near-unique distinction of being along with Switzerland, a country ruled by committee, a unique one: the seven rulers of the seven individual emirates. Further, those rulers are embedded in extended and influential families. This combination makes it difficult for one individual to dominate the country or to rule as a narcissist. At the same time, each sovereign notably, the emir of Dubai enjoys wide latitude within his own domain, giving each emirate a distinct character...
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How American Jews Have
Detached Themselves from Jewish Memory
Daniel Gordis
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{mosaicmagazine.com} ~ Elliott Abrams is clearly correct in asserting both that American Jews are moving away from support of Israel and that this tectonic shift is traceable much less to Israel’s policies than to the manner in which American Jews now constitute their worldview and their Jewish identities... As it happens, I am somewhat more critical than Abrams of the policies or lack of policies pursued by the Netanyahu government. Admittedly, there are few if any good moves that Israel can make on the international chessboard these days; but the optics have been significantly worse than they could have been. Still, nothing one might say on this point diminishes the rightness, or the importance, of Abrams’ thesis: the root cause of the growing gulf between the world’s two largest Jewish communities lies in the way that most American Jews now conceive of themselves and their Jewishness. The nature of the phenomenon is complex, but Abrams points to one significant dimension...        http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2016/04/how-american-jews-have-detached-themselves-from-jewish-memory/
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The FCC’s copy-paste job on privacy
Roslyn Layton
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler (R) and
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai testify at a House Appropriations Financial Services
and General Government Subcommittee hearing in Washington
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{techpolicydaily.com} ~ There is so much regulation on the books today that federal agencies can essentially copy-paste content from one commission to another, making duplicate regulatory regimes for different industries... But excessive imitation is the mark of an amateur, as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) showed with its recent, mind-numbing, 147-page-long notice of proposed rulemaking (0) (NPRM) on broadband consumer privacy. Not only does the FCC demonstrate a lack of understanding of the technologies and business models it thinks need to be regulated, it does not protect privacy. Instead, by copy-pasting the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) privacy regulations and applying them in an asymmetrical, ex ante fashion to a single actor, the FCC effectively insulates established Internet companies from competition (1) by creating new barriers to entry in concentrated advertising markets. Furthermore, as is par for the course with this FCC (2), the commission failed to provide evidence of consumer complaints and did not conduct an investigation to see whether abuse is actually occurring...        http://www.techpolicydaily.com/internet/the-fccs-copy-paste-job-on-privacy/
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Honesty on pension debt: It’s now or never
Andrew G. Biggs
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Members of the Committee of retired Teachers of Puerto Rico’s
Teachers Federation protest against the underfunding of their pension system in San Juan
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{aei.org} ~ Governments don’t go bankrupt for one reason alone. But every financially troubled government in recent years has had a poorly managed pension plan in the background... Detroit’s public-employee pensions were essentially looted via bonus benefit payments. The city borrowed to fill the gap, then defaulted on the borrowing. Similarly, the bankrupt California cities of Stockton and San Bernardino granted massive, retroactive pension-benefit increases during the stock-market bubble of the late 1990s. Emanuel’s Chicago is itself in the midst of a pension crisis. Despite layoffs, unpaid furloughs, and budget cuts, Chicago’s public schools recently instructed principals to stop spending money to help fund a large pension contribution due June 30. Just last week, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned a Hail Mary Chicago law to reduce pension benefits and raise employee contributions. As for Puerto Rico, its government-employee plans are practically broke, through a combination of insufficient contributions, excessive investment risk, and sweetheart deals for participants. Indeed, one of the plans’ main “assets” today is low-interest loans made to public employees to take overseas vacations...        http://www.aei.org/publication/honesty-on-pension-debt-its-now-or-never/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=041116
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How slump-Trump’s Dimwitted
Outrage Peddlers are Fomenting Violence
Leon H. Wolf
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{redstate.com} ~ I don’t think I’m going out on much of a limb here when I say that the average Donald slump-Trump supporter does not really understand the delegate allocation process... And, really, who can blame them when it’s clear that Donald slump-Trump himself does not understand the delegate allocation process. Nothing whatsoever has transpired thus far that is not completely within the rules, and yet slump-Trump has convinced his followers that the election is somehow being “stolen” from them. See, the handful of people on team slump-Trump who have two brain cells to rub together know that intimidation of GOP delegates is the last play they have, and they know that the best way to do that is to whip a bunch of angry, loud, profane people who will unironically be waving signs proclaiming themselves the “silent” majority into a frenzy. So every time slump-Trump loses delegates under the rules because his campaign sucks and is run by incompetents which were hired by the Incompetent-in-chief himself, Donald slump-Trump, they ratchet up the rhetoric even further...        http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/04/10/trumps-dimwitted-outrage-peddlers-fomenting-violence/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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America’s Trade Debate
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{wallstreetdaily.com} ~ Trade is proving to be a major flashpoint for voters on the left and right. And, it’s not something that can be examined in isolation because it’s intrinsically related to investment, capital, currencies, influence, and wealth – not to mention national and economic security... America’s role as the world’s leading player in trade is closely connected to the dollar being the world’s reserve currency. The U.S. dollar is on one side of 90% of all global trade transactions. It’s also the reason why we have deep and liquid financial markets enabling us to finance our budget deficits without interest rates rising. Nevertheless, let’s dig into the rather dry 2015 trade numbers...
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Competitive Enterprise Institute
Targeted by “AGs United For Clean Power”
Leslie Eastman     
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Last week, I noted that a coalition of 17 state attorney generals had formed, which intended to promote the climate change agenda by targeting the fossil fuel industry... The first victim of the Climate Change purge is the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a wonderful non-profit organization dedicated to protecting free enterprise from being undermined by progressive activists of all stripes. Attorney General Claude E. Walker of the U.S. Virgin Islands has issued a subpoena in an attempt uncover the content of CEI’s comprehensive work on climate change policy. “CEI will vigorously fight to quash this subpoena. It is an affront to our First Amendment rights of free speech and association for Attorney General Walker to bring such intimidating demands against a nonprofit group,” said CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman. “If Walker and his allies succeed, the real victims will be all Americans, whose access to affordable energy will be hit by one costly regulation after another, while scientific and policy debates are wiped out one subpoena at a time.”...        http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/competitive-enterprise-institute-targeted-by-ags-united-for-clean-power/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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In Indiana, McCon-nell Allies Move to
Block “Another Cruz”
Fuzzy Slippers
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Rep. Marlin Stutzman is a member of the anti-leadership House Freedom Caucus, a conservative in the mold of Ted Cruz and a three-term Indiana congressman who voted against John backstabber-Boehner as speaker... Now, he wants a promotion to the Senate — and Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell and his allies want to stop that. Privately, McCon-nell has made clear to his confidantes that he wants to bolster the candidacy of Stutzman’s chief GOP rival, Rep. Todd Young, and push him over-the-top in the May 3 primary, according to sources familiar with the conversations...        http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/in-indiana-mcconnell-allies-move-to-block-another-cruz/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Inconvenient Genocide
Caroline Glick
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ The Christian communities of Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are well on the way to joining their Jewish cousins. The Jewish communities of these states predated Islam by a millennium, and were vibrant until the 20th century. But the Arab world’s war on the Jewish state, and more generally on Jews, wiped out the Jewish populations several decades ago.

And now the Christian communities, which like the Jews, predate Islam, are being targeted for eradication.

The ongoing genocide of Middle Eastern Christians at the hands of Sunni jihadists is a moral outrage. Does it also affect Israeli national interests? What do we learn from the indifference of Western governments – led by the nObama administration – to their annihilation? True, after years of deliberately playing down the issue and denying the problem, the nObama administration is finally admitting it exists.

Embarrassed by the US House of Representatives’ unanimous adoption of a resolution last month recognizing that Middle Eastern Christians are being targeted for genocide, the State Department finally acknowledged the obvious on March 25, when Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry stated that Islamic State is conducting a “genocide of Christians, Yazidis and Shi’ites.”

hanoi-Kerry’s belated move, which State Department lawyers were quick to insist has no operational significance, raises two questions.

First, what took the nObama administration so long? Persecution of Christians in Iraq began immediately after the US-led coalition brought down Saddam Hussein in 2003. With the rise of Islamic State in 2012, the process of destroying the Christian community went into high gear. And now these ancient communities are on the brink of extinction.

In Iraq, Christians comprised 8 percent of the population in 2003. Today less than 1% of Iraqis are Christians. In Syria, the Christian community has lost between half and two-thirds of its members in the past five years.

One of the appalling aspects of ISIS’s deliberate, open targeting of Christians for destruction is how little resistance it has received from local Sunni populations. As Raymond Ibrahim from the David Horowitz Freedom Center has scrupulously documented, the local Sunnis have not stood up for their Christian neighbors, who have lived side-by-side with them for hundreds of years. Rather, in areas that have been conquered by ISIS, the local Sunnis have collaborated with their genocidal masters in raping and murdering Christian neighbors, plundering their property, destroying their churches, and driving them from their ancestral homes.

Although precise data is hard to come by, it is clear that thousands of Christians have been slaughtered. Thousands of Christian women and girls have been sold as sex slaves in ISIS slave markets, subjected to continuous, violent rape and beatings. Nuns and priests have been enslaved, crucified, mutilated, kidnapped and held for ransom, as have lay members of Christian communities. Christians have been burned alive.

For years, the administration said that the persecution doesn’t amount to genocide because according to ISIS’s propaganda, Christians are allowed to remain in their homes if they agree to live as dhimmis – that is, without any human rights, and subjected to confiscatory taxation.

But as Nina Shea from the Hudson Institute has reported, these claims were shown to be false in Mosul, Nineveh and other places where ISIS has claimed that such practices were instituted.

The jihadist genocide of Christians isn’t limited to Iraq and Syria. Boko Haram – ISIS’s affiliate in Nigeria – is undertaking a systematic campaign to annihilate Christianity in Africa. ISIS’s affiliates in Sinai and Libya have similarly targeted Christians, staging mass beheadings and other monstrous acts.

And of course, a region needn’t be under direct ISIS control for Christians to be targeted for destruction. The Easter massacre in Pakistan was further evidence that wherever radical Islamists gain power, they use it to murder Christians.

And as Larry Franklin from the Gatestone Institute noted in a recent article, the exodus of Christians from the Palestinian Authority is the direct consequence of deliberate persecution of Christians by the PA.

Given the prevalence of Christian persecution, why is the West – which is overwhelmingly Christian – so reticent about mentioning it? And why are Western leaders loathe to do anything to stop it? There are two ways to end genocide. First, you can defeat those conducting it on the battlefield.

If you destroy the forces conducting the genocide, then the genocide ends.

The second way you can stop genocide is by evacuating the targeted population and providing its members with refuge.

After stipulating that ISIS is carrying out a genocide, hanoi-Kerry made clear that the US will not defeat ISIS to end it. Instead, hanoi-Kerry said, “We must bear in mind... that the best response to genocide is a reaffirmation of the fundamental right to survive of every group targeted for destruction. What Daesh [ISIS] wants to erase, we must preserve. That requires defeating Daesh, but it also requires the rejection of discrimination and bigotry.”

hanoi-Kerry then explained that the US’s plan is to cultivate the formation of a multicultural society in Syria. Given the brutal nature of the war, hanoi-Kerry’s plan is tantamount to saying the US intends to defeat ISIS and rescue those it is currently exterminating by bringing unicorns and leprechauns to the slave markets of Raqqa. Substantively, hanoi-Kerry’s plan is to deny Christians refuge, and to abandon them to the mercy of their murderers.

While delusional, hanoi-Kerry’s statement was in line with the nObama administration’s timid, feckless military campaign against ISIS. Everyone knows that the US military could take down ISIS in a matter of weeks if nObama ordered it to do so.

But rather than act decisively, the US has limited its operations to timorous aerial bombing.

By conducting a barely there campaign, nObama tells the world that although he will be happy to take credit for any defeat ISIS suffers, he will not allow the US to lead the fight against the jihadist death machine.

As for providing refuge to the populations targeted with genocide, the raw data make clear that nObama does just the opposite. He is providing refuge for Sunni Muslims, who are not being targeted for genocide, which is being conducted by Sunni Muslims.

As Ibrahim has documented, although Christians made up 10% of the Syrian population in 2011, they comprise a mere 2.7% of the Syrian refugees the nObama administration has allowed into the US. And when presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz called for the US to provide refuge to Christians, who pose no security threat and are targeted with genocide and persecution while banning Muslim immigration, nObama accused him of bigotry.

Despite the fact that FBI Director James Comey told Congress that the US lacked the capacity to effectively screen Muslims from Syria for ties to jihadist groups, nObama said that a policy of saving those marked for extinction over those who come from the population conducting the genocide is “shameful,” and “not American.”

Beyond refusing to take the necessary steps to ensure that persecuted Christians are rescued from annihilation, the State Department has been rejecting visa requests from Christian activists and leaders from persecuted communities to visit the US to share information about their suffering with the American public. This, at the same time that the administration has welcomed Muslim jihad sympathizers, including Muslim Brotherhood members, to Washington.

For instance, last May, the State Department denied a visa to Sister Diana Momeka, an Iraqi nun and ISIS survivor. Momeka was the only Christian member of a delegation of persecuted minorities. Representatives of every other group received visas. It took a public outcry to force the State Department to reverse its decision.

Also last year, the State Department gave visas to all Muslim regional governors in northern Nigeria to participate in a conference sponsored by the US Institute of Peace. They denied a visa to the region’s only Christian governor, Jonah David Jang. Christian activists alleged that Jang was denied a visa because he spoke up to US officials about anti-Christian persecution in 12 states in northern Nigeria that have instituted Sharia law.

What accounts for this behavior? The answer is not ignorance, but ideologically- motivated bigotry. The Aid to the Church in Need organization explained in its 2015 report on Christian persecution, “Christians have been targeted because... Christianity is seen as a foreign ‘colonial’ import. Christians are seen as linked to the West, which is perceived as corrupt and exploitative.”

In another report, the group explained that the Western media has avoided covering the story of the Islamic genocide of Middle East Christians because of “misplaced embarrassment about the 19th-century colonial powers evangelizing ‘the natives’ in far flung places.”

In other words, Middle Eastern Christians, whose communities predate Islam, are targeted because they are perceived as Western implants.

And the West ignores their suffering, because the Left in the West perceives them as Western implants.

In both cases, prejudices, rooted on the one hand in jihadist Islam, and on the other hand in Western self-hatred and post-colonialism, reach the same bigoted conclusion: the only “authentic” people in the Middle East are Muslims.

Everybody else is a colonial implant. And as such, they deserve what they get.

This then brings us back to Israel, and the Jews.

The same ideological prejudice that refuses to recognize that the Islamic State is Islamic, refuses to recognize that jihad is unique to Islam, refuses to recognize that Christians as religious minorities are being targeted for annihilation, and refuses to recognize that the Christians of the Middle East are ancient peoples who have lived in their communities since the dawn of Christianity, also refuse to recognize the rights of the Jewish people as the indigenous people of the land of Israel.

This is the reason that Western governments, led by the nObama administration, are unwilling to defeat ISIS. This is why they are giving preference to Muslim asylum-seekers, who they are incapable of screening, over Christians, who it is unnecessary to screen.

This is the reason that the same governments are far more willing to attack Jews for living beyond the 1949 armistice lines, in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria – the cradle of Jewish civilization and the heartland of the land of Israel, than they are willing to end their support for the PA which sponsors and celebrates terrorism. This is why the same governments eagerly embrace every allegation of Israeli racism, real or imagined, while they ignore, or even fund racist Palestinian efforts to deny Jewish history, a history which leads to the inevitable conclusion that the Jews are the indigenous people of the land of Israel.

The reason nObama refuses to protect Middle East Christians from extinction is because he cannot rescue them – either on the ground or by ensuring they can flee to safety – without abandoning his ideological faith that the only “natives” of the Middle East are the Muslims.
 
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Trump's Corrupt and Liberal New York Values

In a Fox News debate, Donald Trump attacked Sen. Ted Cruz’s critical reference to “New York values” with a passionate reference to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. As Real Clear Politics reported his remarks:

I’ve had more calls on that statement that Ted made, that New York is a great place, it’s got great people, it’s got loving people, wonderful people. When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York.



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