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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Two Scandals on Hold as Presidential Primaries Unfold
Roger Aronoff
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AG Lynch Dodges Questions About 
Clinton Prosecution
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Attorney General Loretta Lynch dodged questions Wednesday over whether the Justice Department will pursue prosecution of former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton for her use of a private email server to send classified documents... Speaking during a House Appropriations Committee hearing, Lynch would only say: This will be conducted as every other case and we will review all the facts and all the evidence and come to an independent conclusion as to how to best handle it. Lynch offered very little to Rep. John Carter (R-TX) who raised a concern shared among his colleagues who are worried that politics have affected the investigation, when he asked, "If the FBI makes the case that Hilly Clinton mishandled classified information and put America's security at risk, will you prosecute the case? Do you know of any efforts underway to undermine the FBI investigation?"        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ag-lynch-dodges-questions-about-clinton-prosecution
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Billions in nObamacare Subsidies
Probably Fraudulent
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Democrats love to tout how nObamacare is working, but according to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO)... there could be billions of dollars that have been paid out to applicants who are ineligible to receive the promised federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act offers. In its study, GAO found that there was no system put in place that could reconcile all of the information gathered from various government sources in order to spot any inconsistency with applications. The federal watchdog submitted its report Congress and explained why they did the study: "The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost of subsidies and related spending under PPACA at $37 billion for fiscal year 2015. GAO was asked to examine the enrollment process and verification controls of the federal Marketplace."        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/billions-obamacare-subsidies-probably-fraudulent
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ISIS in Buffalo, NY: KILL LIST of...
Pamela Geller
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Yassin
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{pamelageller.com} ~ More news the media won’t cover, even though this jihadist called for the beheading of one media personality... Buffalo Muslim Yassin posted a list of towns of residence and phone numbers of approximately 150 U.S. Air Force personnel, with the following quote: “Rejoice, O supporters of the Caliphate State, with the dissemination of the information to be delivered to lone wolves … Allah said: ‘And slay them wherever you may come upon them.’” Remember that when mullah nObama says, “the Islamic State is not Islamic.” In the affidavit, Lane stated that on Aug. 24, 2015, Yassin tweeted a link containing photographs, addresses, other contact information and even credit-card information of United States service men and women and State Department employees. She also allegedly said that a media personality “would be better off without her head.” http://pamelageller.com/2016/02/isis-in-buffalo-ny-kill-list-of-air-force-fbi-govt-officials-military-slay-them-wherever-you-find-them.html/
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2017 Budget Request Supports Priorities Despite
DoD-Imposed Changes
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A Raytheon SM-6 launched from an Aegis guided missile destroyer
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{news.usni.org} ~ The Navy fared well during late-in-the-game Fiscal Year 2017 budget negotiations with the Defense Department, despite a widespread initial concern about cuts to the Littoral Combat Ship/Frigate program, Navy leadership told USNI News... After a budgetary argument between Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus became public in December, many in the Navy and industry became worried about the direction the Navy was being pushed in, particularly after being told to cut 12 ships in a time when the service is trying to build the fleet back up to more than 300 ships. But Vice Adm. Joseph Mulloy, deputy chief of naval operations for integration of capabilities and resources, told USNI News that, despite the shipbuilding challenges the Navy still faces, the Navy actually came out better over the five-year Future Years Defense Plan than previously thought.        http://news.usni.org/2016/02/24/navy-2017-budget-request-supports-priorities-despite-dod-imposed-changes?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=3fae6fdd6c-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-3fae6fdd6c-231491269&mc_cid=3fae6fdd6c&mc_eid=3999f18767
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The closing of the military mind?
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{aei.org} ~ George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army on December 23, 1783, ending a career that spanned more of his adult life than his combined years in the Continental Congress and as president... Today, just two days after his birthday, I wonder what Washington would think about the role education plays in the development of our military, particularly given our long season of war. On one hand, Washington would be pleased to know that men and women of the armed forces are among the best and brightest of their generation. According to data from George Washington University, in 2010, 82% of military officers held at least a bachelor’s degree. Ninety-three percent of enlisted soldiers had a high school diploma. Yet while recruiting America’s brightest for the armed forces remains a national priority, there has also been an alarming rise in the number of men and women ineligible for military service in recent years. In 2010, for example, a group of retired military leaders commissioned a report titled Too Fat to Fight. The report found that 75% of Americans age 17 to 24 are unable to join the military because they “failed to graduate high school, have criminal records, or are physically unfit.” In fact, the Army’s Accessions Command has estimated that 9 million men and women could not join the military if they wanted to because they are unable to pass the fitness test.       https://www.aei.org/publication/the-closing-of-the-military-mind/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=022516
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slump-Trump Heading to Trial Over
slump-Trump University Fraud Charges
Kemberlee Kaye
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Hilly Clinton is not the only presidential contender muddling through legal battles this election season. An upcoming trial scheduled for May 6 could pull Donald slump-Trump off the campaign trail... Listed as a witness by both sides of the bench, slump-Trump will likely be required to testify in a trial over the now defunct slump-Trump University which has been accused of fraud. Here’s a part of the political calendar that nobody in the Republican Party seems to have noticed: This spring, just as the GOP nomination battle enters its final phase, frontrunner Donald slump-Trump could be forced to take time out for some unwanted personal business: He’s due to take the witness stand in a federal courtroom in San Diego, where he is being accused of running a financial fraud.        http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/02/trump-heading-to-trial-over-trump-university-fraud-charges/?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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US Presidential Candidates Slam Palestinian Authority
 Israel Today Staff
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{israeltoday.co.il} ~ With Super Tuesday, the biggest day in the US presidential primaries, fast approaching (March 1), candidates on the Republican side are looking to bolster their pro-Israel credentials and win the Evangelical Christian vote... Earlier this month, frontrunner Donald slump-Trump suggested he’d be “neutral” in his dealing with Israel and the Palestinians. One of his top challengers, Senator Marco Rubio (Florida), said at a rally in Houston on Wednesday that he’d take the exact opposite approach. Senator Ted Cruz (Texas), said he view on the topic went far beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: “I am not neutral between murderers and the innocent citizens murderers are targeting. I am not neutral at home or abroad between radical Islamic terrorists and the targets of their terror.”  http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/28403/Default.aspx
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World Council of Churches Starts Seven Weeks of Brainwashing
Malcolm Lowe
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Israel spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the last few years to build water desalination plants on its Mediterranean coast, so that now Israel has an abundance of water. At the same time, Palestinian propagandists constantly disseminate false accusations that Israel steals Palestinian water. Pictured above, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro tours the Hadera Desalination Plant on July 26, 2012. 
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ February 12, 2016, was a day of fresh hope for the suffering Christians of the Middle East. Pope Francis of Rome and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow met in Havana, Cuba, to issue a joint message to the world... After pledging themselves to change the history of schism between Eastern and Western Christianity, they placed the contemporary merciless persecution of Christians at the top of their agenda: "Our gaze must firstly turn to those regions of the world where Christians are victims of persecution. In many countries of the Middle East and North Africa whole families, villages and cities of our brothers and sisters in Christ are being completely exterminated. Their churches are being barbarously ravaged and looted, their sacred objects profaned, their monuments destroyed..." These were not empty words. The Moscow Patriarchate has collected large sums of money from its faithful to help the persecuted Christians of Syria. Likewise, the Roman Catholic Church, and specifically the Franciscan Order, is working at its own peril on the ground in Syria to relieve the suffering.   http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7487/seven-weeks-of-water
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Charlie Rangel Retiring: He’s Perhaps The Most
Corrupt Man In Congress
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Perhaps the most corrupt person in Congress Rep. Charlie Rangel  (D-N.Y.) confirmed on Wednesday that he is not running for reelection and will retire at the end of the year... Rangel claimed he wants to leave office at the same time as the first black president. However, based on his Congressional tenure the most likely reason for Charlie Rangel to retire is thanks to nObama the economy is so bad there’s no graft money left for him to make. Charlie Rangel has a more “impressive” list of ethics violations than anyone else in Congress. Perhaps his most famous act of illegality during his congressional tenure was in regards to a rental income Mr. Rangel purchased in 1987 at the Punta Cana Yacht Club in the Dominican Republic. In 2009 the National Legal and Policy Center looked at Mr. Rangel’s House financial disclosure forms in August, it noted that his reported income looked suspiciously low. In 2004 and 2005, he reported no more than $5,000, and in 2006 and 2007 no income at all from the property.    http://lidblog.com/charlie-rangel-retiring-hes-perhaps-the-most-corrupt-man-in-congress/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=31f439afc7-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-31f439afc7-291705165
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Romney claims ‘bombshell’ in slump-Trump taxes – 
here’s slump-Trump’s blunt response
 Michael Dorstewitz
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{bizpacreview.com} ~ The real estate developer and GOP frontrunner didn’t take the accusation well. The 2012 Republican presidential nominee told Fox News’ “Your World” host Neil Cavuto that he’s holding off supporting any one candidate until he sees “their positions on issues in some detail” … as well as their back taxes... “Donald slump-Trump and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have” yet to reveal their taxes from previous years. “And this was an issue in my campaign,” he said. “Frankly, we have good reason to believe that there is a bombshell in Donald slump-Trump’s taxes,” Romney said. When asked to explain further, Romney said it could be that slump-Trump’s not as wealthy as he claims, that he’s not paying the amount of taxes others would expect, or that his donations to veterans groups were lacking in previous years.        http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/02/25/romney-claims-bombshell-in-trump-taxes-heres-trumps-blunt-response-309847
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Two Scandals on Hold as Presidential Primaries Unfold
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ It appears that, with only one week left until Super Tuesday, the mainstream media are content with the slow pace of the various investigations into Hilly Clinton’s malfeasance. Come March 15, over half of the states will have voted for their favorite primary candidates. Yet the FBI investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email server and her handling of classified material, along with the House Select Committee’s Benghazi investigation, may be going nowhere.
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“Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy [SC] has said he hopes to wrap up interviews with witnesses in February,” reported Sarah Westwood for The Washington Examiner on February 18. “His committee will then release a highly-anticipated report on its findings.”
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But that report may not effectively tell the story of Benghazi if, as Gowdy says, he is going to allow his audience to draw their own conclusions. “It’s not my job to tell you what happened,” said Gowdy on the Don Smith radio show. “It’s my job to tell you what the witnesses say. I wasn’t there.”
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Gowdy also said that he was “pleased and frankly proud” of the effort his committee had made that revealed to the public that Clinton was using a private server for all of her emails.
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However, the Select Committee wasn’t established so that its report would be issued by a stenographer. It was established to get to the truth of what happened, even if reporters and broadcasters alike dismiss the search for the truth as a “phony scandal.” So far, the committee does not appear to have interviewed outside experts—authoritative figures who could shine some light on the testimony of bureaucrats with ulterior motives.
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This committee also has a greater responsibility than to simply report what the witnesses said; it must also connect the dots, and draw conclusions. Then the Democratic minority on the committee can include a minority report.
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Similarly, it is the FBI’s job to compile evidence that could lead to an indictment of Hilly Clinton—not to let the evidence speak for itself, but to be woven into a convincing narrative outlining the case for legal action. If there is no such evidence, then Mrs. Clinton deserves that the government lift that cloud of suspicion while primary voters consider their options.
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It remains important that the Select Committee tell a true and convincing story about the events in Benghazi without getting bogged down in the unnecessary search for additional smoking guns.
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The Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) laid out the big picture of what happened in Benghazi—and the period leading up to it—nearly two years ago in its April 2014 interim report, and additional evidence has since validated our findings. It has been made abundantly clear that both Hilly Clinton and Barack nObama deceived the public by blaming the attacks on a YouTube video while knowing these attacks were perpetrated by terrorists; it is also readily apparent that the United States failed to send available military forces to aid those in Libya. And that is just scratching the surface.
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We understand that the nObama administration has stonewalled and slow-walked the Select Committee’s investigation. But at some point the Select Committee must go with what they’ve got. When will Congressman Gowdy release his committee’s report? Will it be after more than half of the United States loses the opportunity to cast an educated vote?
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Worse still is the nObama administration’s ongoing interference into the FBI investigation of Clinton’s email server and possible corruption. Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reported in January that the FBI and Justice Department became “super pissed off” when the White House made public comments about Clinton not being a target of the investigation.
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“What I know that some officials over there have said is that she is not a target of the investigation, so that an indictment does not seem to be the direction that it’s trending,” announced Press Secretary Josh Earnest at the time. “But I’m certainly not going to weigh in on a decision or in that process in any way. That is a decision to be made solely by independent prosecutors but again, based on what we know from the Department of Justice, it does not seem to be headed in that direction.”
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This isn’t the first time that the nObama administration has improperly prejudged an ongoing investigation. The Associated Press (AP) has previously compared nObama to former President Richard Nixon, citing examples of both of them speaking out and declaring defendants guilty of murder. In Nixon’s case it was Charles Manson; in nObama’s it was Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
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President nObama has also come very close to endorsing Mrs. Clinton. “She is my friend. She would make an excellent president,” said President nObama last year,according to The Washington Post. In his February 16 remarks, the President referred to former Secretary Clinton as “an outstanding secretary of state” without making a similar compliment about socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Just last month the White House had insisted it wasn’t going to endorse a Democratic primary candidate.
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That Post article fails to mention the gravity of a president nearly endorsing a candidate who may face criminal charges.
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This comes at a time when, as the Los Angeles Times is reporting, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is struggling financially, writing, “Clinton finds herself under financial stress.” Maybe the Clinton Foundation could loan the campaign a billion dollars, thus cutting its size in half. Or the campaign could draw on the other billion the Clintons have collected, as reported by The Washington Post, for “the Clintons’ political races and legal defense fund.” The Post article is titled, “Two Clintons. 41 Years. $3 Billion.”
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Some on the left are starting to panic that Mrs. Clinton will win the nomination and take the Democratic Party down to defeat. Salon, one of the far-left’s favorite websites, argued in a piece this past weekend titled “Hilly Clinton Just Can’t Win,” that “Bernie Sanders is the only Democratic candidate capable of winning the White House in 2016. Please name the last person to win the presidency alongside an ongoing FBI investigation, negative favorability ratings, questions about character linked to continual flip-flops, a dubious money trail of donors, and the genuine contempt of the rival political party. In reality, Clinton is a liability to Democrats, and certainly not the person capable of ensuring liberal Supreme Court nominees and President nObama’s legacy.”
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With 150 agents working on one of the FBI’s cases against Mrs. Clinton, it seems incumbent upon the Bureau to push the Justice Department to indict Hilly Clinton if it finds the corruption it is searching for. And, given recent evidence, it seems unlikely that the agency could do anything but charge her with mishandling classified information.
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Mrs. Clinton’s main defense has been that the information from her emails now deemed classified wasn’t marked as classified at the time. However, in 2011 Secretary of State Clinton instructed an aide, Jake Sullivan, to remove the classified markings before sending information to her private, unsecured email. Besides, it doesn’t matter legally whether this information was marked classified or not. That is a smokescreen. It is her professional obligation to recognize classified material.
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Yet President nObama has already put his finger on the scale of justice, asserting that Clinton’s email server “is not a situation in which America’s national security was endangered.”
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FBI Director James Comey faces a politically untenable choice—to pursue a case against the President’s wishes or to tarnish the impartiality of the law. Comey has a reputation as a straight-shooter to the extent that if he makes a criminal referral to the Department of Justice and they don’t act on it, he might well go public, or resign. Time will tell.
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These two investigations—along with the State Department’s probe into potential conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and Mrs. Clinton’s actions as secretary of state—should have been done by the end of last year, well before we got this far down the road of the presidential primaries. In both cases these investigations reflect upon the nObama administration as well as on Mrs. Clinton. Yet as each entity—the Select Committee and the FBI—wait to issue their reports, the findings in both cases will be seen by large segments of the population as primarily political. That is, unless Hilly is somehow exonerated. Then the mainstream media will assure us that they knew all along that these investigations were nothing but politics from the start.
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MOB FAMILIES MEET AT THE PASS

Two mob families come together/Trump and Christi, and a third, the Clinton Syndicate. All of them will aim to control the IRS; BLM; EPA; THE PHARMACEUTICALS; OIL INDUSTRY; AND TECHNOLOGICAL INDUSTRIES, AND  ALLTHE COURTS; DOJ ETC., AND FINALLY ALL MEDIA.  Fascism is not dead but just wait; all challengers will be however.   Our Republic is finished!!!  A new phase awaits ahead of us.

The police state will be magnified and fear will be the new norm.  We have not learned from history.  Yep, no one has read it in many moons. And the crowds cheer in Al Capone, his rebirth; alias Mussolini. JUST THE BEGINNING!!!  Brown Shirt protesters in the waiting. Gang buster rule.

Hitler must be hysterical in Hell; just loving his understudies. He too used the peoples' anger; emotional and blind. ALL THEIR FOLLOWERS WILL REGRET IT.  The Evangenicals , not unlike  the Vatican who aligned with Hitler, are aligning with these fascists. Guess who the losers are?     

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Those Who Ignore History…

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

ts-1.jpg?width=209In attempting to understand the whole Pied Piper of blind sheep phenomenon that is Donald Trump, I have reached some conclusions which, in turn, have led to more questions than answers.

People are angry. I get that because I’m angry too. We’re angry that after turning the House red…nothing happened the way we were hoping it would happen. After turning the Senate red too…still nothing.

We have a majority in both houses of congress and yet those we elected to put a stop to Obama and his socialistic crap have done exactly nothing to put a stop to Obama’s socialistic crap. We elected them to stop government waste. We have MORE government waste. We elected them to strengthen the military and help our Veterans. We still have a military in decline and our Veterans aren’t being helped.

We elected them to not make deals with the ilk of Iran. We have a deal with Iran.

Yeah, I’m plenty mad so I get it.

We elected these people to the House and to the Senate to stop Obama’s pro-Islam, anti-America agenda and to stop him in his tracks on everything from Obamacare to GITMO…from Benghazi to Black Lives Matter and from unconstitutional Executive orders to blanket amnesty and what have we got for our election efforts?

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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
slump-Trump, Sanders and 
the American Rebellion
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 Debunking the Latest Sea Level Scare  
Well, so much for sleeping a little easier knowing the earth naturally curbs rising ocean levels by soaking up water like a sponge. Yet another new study says that man-made global warming is causing oceans to rise at an unprecedented rate. As summarized in USA Today, "Global sea levels stayed fairly steady for about 3,000 years. Then, with the Industrial Revolution, global sea levels began to rise, the study said. Scientists say the seas rose 5.5 inches from 1900 to 2000, a significant increase, especially for low-lying coastal areas." That combined with projections of even swifter ocean level rise has alarmists very concerned that our coastal cities will soon be submerged.
          But before you begin work on an ark, read the response meteorologist Joe Bastardi had in an email to The Patriot Post: "When I moved to New Jersey in 1965, after the '62 storm, there was fear the barrier islands would be gone by 2000. Well, they aren't. There is constant shifting going on and a 4-8 inch rise in a century is well within natural bounds. Greenland and Antarctica are fine overall." The more important question, he posits, is how were sea levels being measured 50 years ago? Were the same methods used then as they are today? "The PDO/AMO shift coming will retard" the sea level rise, Bastardi says. "When they are warm, as they are now, sea levels are higher." In other words, just like the earth sponge study showed, it's all part of earth's design. 
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 Barack nObama: Another Castro Brother 
Barack nObama has always gravitated toward the worst of humanity, being an apologist and a cheerleader for them, accommodating them and seeking to expand their influence. His upcoming trip to Cuba is par for the course.
          He got his political start in the home of radial leftist domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn. Frank Marshall Davis, a devout communist (and likely pedophile), was a father figure to him. His mother, father and stepfather all hated America. In his autobiography "Dreams From My Father," nObama spoke of how, as a college student, he gravitated toward Marxist professors and leftist radicals.
          Before he ran for president, he spent two decades in the church of the racist, hate-spewing Jeremiah "G-D America" Wright. After being elected president, nObama canceled a missile defense system with our Eastern European allies that would have protected them from Russian aggression. When Iranians took to the streets in peaceful protest following the rigged election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nObama was virtually silent as Iranian police and the Basij (paramilitary) clubbed, kicked, beat, and shot the demonstrators.
          Deeply embedded in his ideological DNA, nObama has followed this pattern throughout his presidency. So it was disgusting, but not all surprising, when nObama in 2014 announced that he was reversing decades of U.S. policy regarding the murderous, communist Castro regime, and re-opening the U.S. embassy in Havana as part of a resumption of diplomatic relations. This week, nObama announced that he would be the first U.S. president to visit Cuba since President Calvin Coolidge in 1928 — though that was under far different circumstances.  -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Walter Williams: "The first law of thermodynamics, translated into plain English, states that 'there is no such thing as a free lunch.' Conservation of energy is a basic law of physics that cannot be violated. ... Tyrants do not trust free markets and what they imply, voluntary exchange, because people acting voluntarily might not do what the tyrant thinks they should do. That is why they favor compulsion in the forms of tariffs and quotas to stifle peaceable, voluntary exchange with foreigners. By the way, some of the political obfuscation about foreign trade is lifted when we recognize that it is not really nations trading with one another. In other words, the U.S. Congress does not trade with the federal government of Mexico, England's or France's parliaments or Japan's Diet. It's individual Americans who, through private intermediaries, trade with: Mexican Ford manufacturers, English clothing manufacturers, French wine producers and Japanese automakers. Too many Americans believe in the possibility of a free lunch. Politicians exploit that gullibility. The unpleasant task of a good economist is to teach that fundamental principle: One cannot get something for nothing."   -The Patriot Post
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Rubio Part Of OUTLAW Govt Violating 
Our Laws, Constitution
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs starts off by asking Senator Sessions about one of the countless instances in which this country under the criminal nObama administration is not following the law in their handling of illegal aliens... the dumping of 90,000 dangerous criminal illegals back onto our streets. Senator  Sessions describes it as unbelievable and shocking what has been happening to our country, saying “This administration has devastated law enforcement.” He points out that “The Ice Officers, the federal law officers, sued their supervisors and the administration, in effect saying, ‘You have caused us to violate our oaths to enforce the law.’ They are being told by policies and regulations and executive orders throughout this entire system that makes it virtually impossible to create a lawful system of immigration.” Dobbs brings up the dispute between Chris Crane and Senator Marco Rubio. Crane was snubbed during the gang of eight push by Rubio, who has since attempted to discredit him and deny the facts once the public became aware of Rubio’s duplicity.        http://rickwells.us/archives/26477
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Libya disaster: Have Western 
leaders learned anything?
Pete Hoekstra
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{aim.org} ~ That the U.S. has launched airstrikes against ISIS in Libya should demonstrate once and for all the total disaster of the NATO-led adventure to overthrow Muammar al-Qaddafi in 2011... Libya devolved into a failed state when NATO assisted Qaddafi’s radical jihadist opponents in killing him and then promptly abandoned the country. Left in the wake were two rival governments competing for power, which created space for Islamists to turn Libya into a cesspool of extremism. Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton continues to call the debacle American “smart power at its best.” Other presidential candidates still argue that it was the right thing to do. How will the West ever learn anything if it can’t identify its most obvious failures?     http://www.aim.org/guest-column/libya-disaster-have-western-leaders-learned-anything/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022416&utm_medium=email
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White Folks Gonna Have To Give Up Stuff,
Sacrifice – For Black Lives Matter
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{rickwells.us} ~ With arguments consistent with those of the race-baiters Hussein nObama and Eric Holder, Black Lives Matter co-founder Marissa Johnson blames white people for everything that’s wrong with her life... When she can’t deal with reality it’s because her reality is too hard. There are lots of white people going hungry; her life seems to be much easier than theirs. She doesn’t want a real reality, she wants a separate, on demand, “more fair reality,” crafted for her by a redistributive Marxist government. She claims that it is white people who are to blame for creating the conditions that “require” a phrase like black lives matter. It’s not because the phrase “I’m getting up off my whiny, lazy butt and gonna stop feeling sorry for myself” was already taken, it’s because they want something for nothing. Work involves eh…work. The over-acting agitator asks, “Do you know what I’d give to live in a world where I didn’t have to say black lives matter? Do you know how horrific it is to grow up as a child in a world that so hates you that you have to literally say to other people, ‘my life matters?’” She mocks a response of the “white people” saying that every life matters and then complains that blacks are being shot in the streets or being rounded up and mass incarcerated.        http://rickwells.us/archives/26486
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SCOTUS Justice Smacks nObama 
HARD With Inconvenient Truth 
About Scalia Vacancy
V Saxena
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ Speaking at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., this Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito explained exactly what the vacancy spawned by late Justice Antonin Scalia’s death meant for the court.... “We will deal with it,” he bluntly told an audience of  law students, according to Associated Press. He added that the court has in the past functioned just fine with a reduced number of members and that the Constitution does not mandate that the court maintain a certain size.        http://conservativetribune.com/scotus-justice-smacks-obama/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=MailChimp&utm_content=featured-stories&utm_campaign=DailyEmail02.24.16&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Conservative%20Tribune%20-%20Daily%20Newsletter%202242016&utm_content=Conservative%20Tribune%20-%20Daily%20Newsletter%202242016+CID_0234b8b5af9569b55a1548cb3ad8424c&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=SCOTUS%20Justice%20Smacks%20Obama%20HARD%20With%20Inconvenient%20Truth%20About%20Scalia%20Vacancy
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Gitmo Propaganda Is A Myth nObama Is
Using For Political Advantage
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{rickwells.us} ~ General Jack Keane gives Hussein nObama the benefit of the doubt that he’s only misguided or misinformed in his drive to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility... That’s pretty generous of the General, given that nObama has access to the most up to the minute intelligence. Even better than that, he can have it specially written for him when the truth doesn’t fit his needs. The chances that he’s simply mistaken aren’t very good. Keane says of nObama, “Well certainly he has very strong feelings about closing it and he did back in 2007 when he first mentioned it. But the reality is the assumptions upon which he’s making that judgment; the world has changed so dramatically.” He notes, “Radical Islam is morphing into a global jihad; it’s on the rise. We have to have someplace to put people who are in this very special category as terrorists, who don’t qualify as POWs because they’re not representing a nation state and yet cannot fulfill all the requirements of evidence to enter into the judicial system.        http://rickwells.us/archives/26501
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slump-Trump Tells YUGE Lie
About Position On Federal Land
Renee Nal
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ The unconstitutional land grab predominantly in the west by the federal government goes against everything that the founding fathers wanted to achieve with the American experiment... An effort from the 1970’s and 80’s to return the land to the states called the Sagebrush Rebellion was very much justified and Ronald Reagan  even claimed himself to be a rebel. Last year, in an article titled “The Republican war on parks,” MSNBC slammed Ted Cruz for his amendment “that would cap federal land ownership, and transfer any excess land to state taxpayers.” Donald slump-Trump, who has taken fire for his own abuse of land in the form of unconstitutional use of eminent domain, does not trust the states to be stewards of their own land, as revealed at The Right Scoop. Here is the relevant portion of an interview from Field & Stream from just last month:   http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/02/watch-trump-tells-yuge-lie-about-position-on-federal-land-video/
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Sessions Exposes DHS’ – 97% Stay –
“Just Don’t Show Up At Court” Policy
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{rickwells.us} ~ During hearings in which the DHS policies towards children  are being examined, Senator Jeff Sessions sliced beyond the baloney that every member of DHS that testifies seems to have been coached in the exact same manner to serve up... They don’t admit to failing to do anything, they claim to be doing everything, and they provide evidence of virtually nothing. Senator Sessions states for the record that dealing with children is a sensitive issue, one in which we need to ensure that we are doing the right thing in “how we handle this subset of illegal immigration.” He says, “Most immigration, illegal, is adults but we’re focusing on this particular area. He continues, “And particularly, this dramatic alteration of the immigration flow from Central America where large numbers of unaccompanied children are arriving in our country.”        http://rickwells.us/archives/26509 
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Atheists Might Convert In Droves After They See
What Was Found In Israel
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{teapartyupdate.com} ~ Unlike agnostics, who say they’re not Christians because they’re just not sure about the whole believing in God thing, Atheists refuse to believe because of a lack of proof... While extra proof of Jesus’ existence isn’t necessary to validate the deity of God or the nature of Christianity, archaeological discoveries always add more to the historicity of the Bible. Some of those finds? The tomb of Jesus’ brother, James, which was found in 2002, and the ossuary of Caiaphas, which was discovered in 1990.  There’s a preponderance of evidence out there to help convince any atheist into belief. Perhaps you’ve heard of the book, A Case For Christ, written by Lee Strobel. http://teapartyupdate.com/atheists-might-convert-in-droves-after-they-see-what-was-found-in-israel/
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Clinton Spox Says Judge’s Decision on Email Scandal Is Part of Right-Wing Conspiracy — Then...
Jon Street
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{theblaze.com} ~ Hilly Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said a federal judge’s ruling that Clinton and her top aides should be questioned under oath about the candidate’s private email server is part of the ring wing’s effort to hurt her chances of becoming president... he was then confronted with an inconvenient fact. Asked by CNN anchor Jake Tapper about the latest development in the months-long email scandal, Mook tried to dismiss the judge’s ruling as a “right-wing” group’s attempt to hurt Clinton’s chances of becoming president. Tapper was quick to point out that Judge Emmett Sullivan, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was appointed by Clinton’s own husband, Bill Clinton. Right-Wing conspiracy - BALONEY!http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/02/23/clinton-spox-says-judges-decision-on-email-scandal-is-part-of-right-wing-conspiracy-then-news-anchor-drops-inconvenient-fact/
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House Committee Approves Bill Demanding
MB Terror Designation
John Rossomando
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{investigativeproject.org/} ~ The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill Wednesday calling on the State Department to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group by a 17-10 party-line vote... The GOP leadership under Speaker Paul Ryano supports the legislation, a high-ranking Republican source told the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) on background. This makes floor passage more likely. The bill states that it is the "sense of Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria for classification as a foreign terrorist organization."        http://www.investigativeproject.org/5172/house-committee-approves-bill-demanding-mb-terror
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slump-Trump, Sanders and 
the American Rebellion
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{peggynoonan.com} ~ What is happening in American politics?
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We’re in the midst of a rebellion. The bottom and middle are pushing against the top. It’s a throwing off of old claims and it’s been going on for a while, but we’re seeing it more sharply after New Hampshire. This is not politics as usual, which by its nature is full of surprise. There’s something deep, suggestive, even epochal about what’s happening now.
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I have thought for some time that there’s a kind of soft French Revolution going on in America, with the angry and blocked beginning to push hard against an oblivious elite. It is not only political. Yes, it is about the Democratic National Committee, that house of hacks, and about a Republican establishment owned by the donor class. But establishment journalism, which for eight months has been simultaneously at Donald slump-Trump’s feet “Of course you can call us on your cell from the bathtub for your Sunday show interview!” and at his throat “slump-Trump supporters, many of whom are nativists and nationalists . . .” is being rebelled against too. Their old standing as guides and gatekeepers? Gone, and not only because of multiplying platforms. Gloria Steinem thought she owned feminism, thought she was feminism. She doesn’t and isn’t. The Clintons thought they owned the party—they don’t. Hedge-funders thought they owned the GOP. Too bad they forgot to buy the base!
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All this goes hand in hand with the general decline of America’s faith in its institutions. We feel less respect for almost all of them—the church, the professions, the presidency, the Supreme Court. The only formal national institution that continues to score high in terms of public respect 72% in the most recent Gallup poll is the military.
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A few years ago I gave a lecture to a class at West Point, the text of which was: You are entering the only U.S. institution left standing. Your prime responsibility throughout your careers will be to keep it respected. I then told them about the Dreyfus case. They had not heard of it. I explained how that scandal rocked public faith in a previously exalted institution, the French army, doing it and France lasting damage. And so your personal integrity is of the utmost importance, I said, as day by day that integrity creates the integrity of the military. The cadets actually listened to that part.
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I mention this to say we are in a precarious position in the U.S. with so many of our institutions going down. Many of those pushing against the system have no idea how precarious it is or what they will be destroying. Those defending it don’t know how precarious its position is or even what they’re defending, or why. But people lose respect for a reason.
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To New Hampshire: The rejection of the establishment’s preferred candidates in both major parties is a big moment. It is also understandable, the result of 15 years of failed presidencies. It is a gesture of rebuke toward the political class—move aside.
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It’s said this is the year of anger but there’s a kind of grim practicality to slump-Trump and Sanders supporters. They’re thinking: Let’s take a chance. Washington is incapable of reform or progress; it’s time to reach outside. Let’s take a chance on an old Brooklyn socialist. Let’s take a chance on the casino developer who talks on TV.
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In doing so, they accept a decline in traditional political standards. You don’t have to have a history of political effectiveness anymore; you don’t even have to have run for office! “You’re so weirdly outside the system, you may be what the system needs.”
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They are pouring their hope into uncertain vessels, and surely know it. Bernie Sanders is an actual radical: He would fundamentally change an economic system that imperfectly but for two centuries made America the wealthiest country in the history of the world. In the young his support is understandable: They have never been taught anything good about capitalism and in their lifetimes have seen it do nothing—nothing—to protect its own reputation.
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It is middle-aged Sanders supporters who are more interesting. They know what they’re turning their backs on. They know they’re throwing in the towel. My guess is they’re thinking something like: Don’t aim for great now, aim for safe. Terrorism, a world turning upside down, my kids won’t have it better—let’s just try to be safe, more communal.
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A shrewdness in Sanders and slump-Trump backers: They share one faith in Washington, and that is in its ability to wear anything down. They think it will moderate Bernie, take the edges off slump-Trump. For thus reason they don’t see their choices as so radical.
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As for Mr. slump-Trump, it is not without meaning that his supporters have had eight months to measure the cost of satisfying their anger by voting for him. In New Hampshire, 35% of the electorate decided that for all his drama and uncertainty they would back him.
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The mainstream journalistic mantra is that the GOP is succumbing to nativism, nationalism and the culture of celebrity. That allows them to avoid taking seriously Mr. slump-Trump’s issues: illegal immigration and Washington’s 15-year, bipartisan refusal to stop it; political correctness and how it is strangling a free people; and trade policies that have left the American working class displaced, adrift and denigrated. Mr. slump-Trump’s popularity is propelled by those issues and enabled by his celebrity.
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In winning, Donald slump-Trump threw over the GOP donor class. Political professionals don’t fully appreciate that, but normal Americans see it. They get that the guy with money just slapped silly the guys with money. Every hedge-fund billionaire donor should be blinking in pain. Some investment!
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This leads me to Citizens United. Conservatives applauded that Supreme Court decision because it allowed Republicans to counter the effect of union money that goes to Democrats. But Citizens United gave the rich too much sway in the GOP. The party was better off when it relied on Main Street. It meant they had to talk to Main Street.
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Mr. slump-Trump is a clever man with his finger on the pulse, but his political future depends on two big questions. The first is: Is he at all a good man? Underneath the foul mouthed flamboyance is he in it for America? The second: Is he fully stable? He acts like a nut, calling people bimbos, flying off the handle with grievances. Is he mature, reliable? Is he at all a steady hand?
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Political professionals think these are side questions. “Let’s accuse him of not being conservative!” But they are the issue. Because America doesn’t deliberately elect people it thinks base, not to mention crazy.
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Anyway, we are in some kind of moment. Congratulations to the establishments of both parties for getting us here. They are the authors of the rebellion; they are a prime thing being rebelled against.
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Connected to that, something I’ve noticed. In Washington there used to be a widespread cliché: “God protects drunks, children and the United States of America.” I’m in Washington a lot, and I’ve noticed no one says that anymore. They stopped 10 or 15 years ago. I wonder what that means.
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Have you ever watched television and yelled at the TV? I used to do that when I watched a hockey, football or a baseball game. I couldn't help myself. When watching sports it becomes natural for me. Now, I find myself screaming at FOX News. When analyzing my actions, I fear I've lost it.

 

Think about what crosses my mind. I watch Trump, a self-funding man, winning elections. It looks to me that he is the front-runner. I like winners, so, I'm checking out how he relates to issues that are important to me as an American.

TRUMP ON THE ISSUES

The way I see it, Trump thinks as close to me as I'd feel comfortable with. I will vote for him in the primary in my state. Have you ever heard a Politician say he loves us? Trump tells us he loves us all the time.

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Back to the television. I watch a lot of FOX News. I tend to eat dinner around 7:00 P.M. and I eat while watching and a little before, to relax. I don't seem to relax much these days. I hear FOX commentators plotting on how to get Trump out of the race. What? They're talking about if other candidates consolidated, would that get more voters for one candidate and be enough to stop Trump?

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Why would any political commentators want to destroy one of their own? Why are they not backing the front-runner instead? That would be the logical thing to do. I, for one, am doing the logical thing and backing the man who could possibly sweep the country.

 

If you bothered to look at the link I provided, you would see that Trump loves America and has his motivation for love of country to help us get out of the giant mess we are in. Some of Americans have shown the love for Trump. That is why he is winning.

 

Trump loves his family. He will want to leave a legacy that his children and grandchildren will be proud of.

 

Republicans have a tendency to be caught up too much in religion. The religious make-up of a president has no bearing on how he can run a country. Others get hung up in the establishment.

 

I believe that Obama is a Muslim and sides with Muslims far too often. He has almost destroyed America with is ideologies. His time is limited but he can still do much harm.

 

We need a strong leader. Trump is that man.

 

I don't like to say mean things about other candidates but some have far too much going against them than for them. With the questions about eligibility and lying, that is 'baggage'.

 

I know, I know, Trump is not perfect but either is anyone else. No man or woman, who is running for the GOP or for the Democrats, is without flaw. There are some with worse imperfections than others but we are all human.

 

Why when given an opportunity that comes once in a life-time, a non-Politician who is self-funding and winning are we not all 'gong-ho' behind him?

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The establishment has worries. That is oblivious. Trump will mess up their way of making money through lobbyists. He will destroy corruption in Washington. They will not be able to control Trump like a puppet.

 

When the sitting president comes on television with a sole purpose to destroy Trump, you have to know the democrats are feeling fear. We, as Republicans or Conservatives should not feel that fear. 'We the people' should be happy that Trump is on our side.

 

I'd like to reach out to America and say, you have a friend in Trump. He will not take your money. He will help re-build America and bring back Capitalism. You will make money because Trump will create jobs.

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We are sitting in a country that has decimated our military. We have no respect in foreign countries because our leader is weak. Our Veterans are not even being treated decently or fairly. Trump has said he will change all of this. He has said he will donate his salary as president to Veterans.  

 

We have a lot to lose in this up-coming election. We may lose our freedom and our lives as we know. We are so far in debt, it is a disgrace. Only a strong businessman can change this.

 

I'm tired of the Politian's and lawyers running the lives of common people.

 

America, pull together. Vote Trump and let's let him do what he does best. Let him re-build our nation. We can't do worse than we have now. You may be surprised at what he can do to make America great again; this time, even better.

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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
The Lie of Pro-Palestinian Activism
Caroline Glick
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 KNOWING WHERE THE BODIES AREN’T  BURIED   Nevada is a sparsely populated state filled with stories and legends of the Old West. One such legend involved the state’s prized accomplishment: Hoover Dam. Las Vegas Review-Journal brings us the story: “Southern Nevada legend has it that during the five years of Hoover Dam construction, some workers were killed on the job and accidentally buried in the dam’s cement structure. Ninety-six construction workers died constructing the historic dam from 1931 to 1936, according to a report from the United States Bureau of Reclamation. Over 100 additional dam workers died off the job from causes including pneumonia, meningitis and typhoid fever. But none of them could have been buried in the Hoover Dam itself, said Dennis McBride, director of the Nevada State Museum who once worked for the Bureau of Reclamation at the dam… ‘The forms were big enough that the concrete, that pore, would only come up maybe to about a worker’s ankles,’ McBride explained. ‘So there couldn’t have possibly been anyone buried.’” - Fox News
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 slump-Trump's Royal Flush 
Alternate headline: "Casino mogul wins gambling capital." Donald slump-Trump is on cruise control (or, if you prefer, Cruz control) and headed for the Republican nomination. His decisive 20-point win in Nevada is just the latest marker along that road. "Now we're winning, winning, winning the country," slump-Trump said in his victory speech, "and soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning." That is the draw for gamblers, isn't it?
          True, Nevada is an outlier (that will lose its No. 4 position in the primaries in 2020), but slump-Trump barely even had to try to win the state where the tallest residential building bears his name. It almost goes without saying that slump-Trump's New York values play well in a state made famous by Sin City. While Marco Rubio (second place) and Ted Cruz (third) spent time and money in the Silver State, slump-Trump held two rallies. Two. And he won across pretty much every demographic and interest. He ran the table.
          One might say that's easier to do when your supporters are the poll workers. The odds are always in favor of the house, after all. But voter fraud isn't why slump-Trump won. No, this election cycle is, again, a perfect storm of anger, populist rhetoric and media adulation that slump-Trump has exploited expertly.
          Finally, after Tuesday, the theory that many, including us, have espoused — that slump-Trump can be stopped by unified opposition — is looking less certain. In short, that's because infighting has taken its toll. Cruz voters don't think Rubio is conservative (which is laughable), and Rubio voters don't think Cruz is honest or electable. Uniting the clans would be a herculean, if not impossible, task, and it's getting tougher every day to see a viable path for any non-slump-Trump.
          Now we move on to the 11 states voting on Super Tuesday, March 1. slump-Trump leads in every state but Texas.  -The Patriot Post
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 Senate GOP: We Won't Consider Any nObama  Nominee  In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee said they will ignore any person Barack nObama nominates to fill the vacancy in the Supreme Court. "Because our decision is based on constitutional principle and born of a necessity to protect the will of the American people, this committee will not hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until after our next president is sworn in on Jan.20, 2017," the 11 senators wrote.
          Republicans are winning nObama's political battle over constitutional powers by opting not to play. As Sen. Orrin Hatch said, by cracking the door through signaling the judiciary committee might hold a hearing for an nObama nominee, it would only create more political posturing instead of answering a constitutional question. The principled stand comes with risk, though. A Pew poll found only 38% of Americans think the Senate should suspend the judge search until after a new administration comes into the White House, and 10% of those Americans could change their mind based on who nObama nominates. With many GOP seats on the line in November, the Senate could flip to Democrats.
          In making this decision, the senators pointed to the precedent that no SCOTUS judge was appointed during the final months of a lame duck presidency since 1932. They also threw the hypocritical words Democrats  made in the past arguing for the blockage of Republican nominees back into their faces. The letter cited the words Sen. Harry dinky-Reid said in 2005: "The duties of the Senate are set forth in the U.S. Constitution. Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give the presidential nominees a vote." Goose, meet gander. 
What the left is leaving out of the 
'free college' debate
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{aei.org} ~ It’s now an article of faith among progressives that public college should be free. Their logic is simple: Tuition is increasingly expensive, and high prices keep high school graduates from enrolling at all... cause some that do enroll to drop-out before earning a degree, and force students and families to take on student loan debt. Free college proponents argue that the only way out of this mess is via brute financial force: spend billions in federal and state money to lower tuition to zero. One of their favorite rhetorical tools in this and other social policy debates is to compare America, land of high tuition, to other countries that have publicly-funded free tuition. In a Washington Post op-ed from October of last year, for instance, 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders argued: “In Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Mexico, public colleges and universities remain tuition-free. They’re free throughout Germany, too. … The short answer is, it’s a mixed bag. But in general it doesn’t appear that free college countries are far ahead of those who charge tuition; and some free college countries lag behind. First, a caveat: Countries obviously differ dramatically in terms of the politics, public policies and culture, so isolating the effect of one policy isn’t possible. But if the relationship between free college and educational outcomes doesn’t run in the predicted direction, it at least encourages us to ask why.  https://www.aei.org/publication/dont-believe-in-free-college-as-a-panacea/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=022416
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What John Oliver Got Wrong 
About Abortion Laws
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{dailysignal.com} ~ On Sunday, late night comedian John Oliver spent 16 minutes of his HBO show cracking jokes about abortion in a crass attempt to satirize reasonable state laws requiring abortion clinics to follow minimum health and safety standards... The brunt of Oliver’s mocking attack was aimed at a 2013 Texas law that iscurrently being reviewed by the Supreme Court. The law, known as H.B. 2, in part requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and abortion clinics to meet the same basic safety and cleanliness standards as other facilities that perform invasive outpatient procedures. Regulations like H.B. 2 are common sense and much-needed policy measures. The dangerous, unsanitary conditions of Philadelphia late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s “house of horrors” shocked the nation when they came to light during his 2013 murder trial.       http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/23/what-john-oliver-got-wrong-about-abortion-laws/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zNdO%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjPLHYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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Republicans on Judiciary Committee Slam Door
on Any nObama Supreme Court Nominee
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{dailysignal.com} ~ All Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee promised Tuesday to block any candidate nominated by President Barack nObama to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia... In an open letter to Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, the 11 Republican senators said they plan “to exercise our constitutional authority to withhold consent on any nominee to the Supreme Court submitted by this president.”  Under the leadership of Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the group effectively has barred any nObama nominee to succeed Scalia from advancing to the Senate floor through the regular process.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/23/republicans-on-judiciary-committee-slam-door-on-any-obama-supreme-court-nominee/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zNdO%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjPLHYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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Hilly conspiracy to evade FOIA through server?
Judicial Watch gets to find out
William A. Jacobson
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ In a ruling sure to keep the Hilly Clinton email scandal alive through the summer, if not longer... a federal just has granted Judicial Watch the right to take discovery as to whether Hilly’s home server was part of an effort to evade the Freedom of Information (FOIA) law by shifting federal records off-site and into the sole control of Hilly, her attorney’s and consultants. We have been following Judicial Watch’s federal lawsuit seeking State Department records regarding Huma Abedin’s outside employment. The FOIA request giving rise to the suit also has given rise to much obfuscation by State, which even resulted in the Court ordering Hilly Clinton to provide a declaration under oath as to records. Given the difficulty of obtaining records, particularly in light of the destruction of at least some records maintained on Hilly’s home server, let Judicial Watch to seek discovery, including depositions of key officials. Such discovery is not routine in FOIA cases, and good cause needs to be shown to obtain discovery.        http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/02/hillary-conspiracy-to-evade-foia-through-server-judicial-watch-gets-to-find-out/
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Newly Released Documents Show
A Pattern Of Clinton Deception
Micah Morrison
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Aficionados of complex financial crime will want a look at a new, never-before-seen document obtained by Judicial Watch... Last month, Judicial Watch released 246 pages of previously undisclosed Office of Independent Counsel (OIC) internal memos on criminal charges against Hilly Clinton in the Whitewater investigation. On February 9, this reporter provided  more details on the case, based on a newly obtained confidential document. The document included a description of the case against Mrs. Clinton “in the legal terms of an indictment.” The new document, disclosed today by Judicial Watch, goes further. A thirty-two page OIC memo titled “HRC Order of Proof,” it spells out in great detail the evidence that would have been presented at Mrs. Clinton’s trial.        http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/22/why-whitewater-matters-newly-released-emails-show-a-pattern-of-clinton-deception/
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Iran Celebrates nObama Billions W/New
Bounty on Salman Rushdie
Daniel Greenfield
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Everyone knew that Iran was going to put nObama's billions to use financing terrorism, but I don't think anyone expected them to bring back that terror classic... But there's nothing like Muslims when it comes to grudges. The Sunnis and Shiites are still mad at each other over a thousand year grudge. So don't expect them to forget about Salman Rushdie anytime soon. Forty state-run Iranian media outlets have jointly offered a new $600,000 bounty for the death of British Indian author Salman Rushdie, according to the state-run Fars News Agency. Fars News Agency, which is closely affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was among the largest contributors. Next time anyone quotes Fars, here's a little reminder, it's an actual terrorist organization. So is the entire regime. The one nObama decided to pump billions into while Iran continues pursuing its nuclear weapons program.        http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261939/iran-celebrates-obama-billions-wnew-bounty-salman-daniel-greenfield
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War is Over, Prison Camp Closes
nObama’s closing Guantanamo shows again that he doesn’t even believe we’re in a war
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Barack nObama announced Tuesday that he was finally fulfilling one of his foremost campaign promises and closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center... Usually the closing of a prison camp for enemy combatants signals the end of the war, and since nObama has never acknowledged that the U.S.’s defense against the global jihad is a war at all, it is fitting that he should end his presidency by closing the camp that so notoriously demonstrated otherwise. And besides, the jihadi leadership ranks need replenishing. Certainly nObama has replenished them a great deal already. With as many as thirty percent of prisoners freed from Gitmo returning to the jihad, one would think that the nObama administration would pause and consider their plan very carefully before releasing more or transferring them to far less secure prisons inside the United States. That is, administration officials would pause and consider if they had any genuine concern for national security, but it is increasingly clear that they do not. After all, in January, al-Qaeda bomb expert Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al-Sawah was released from Guantanamo. What could possibly go wrong? What benefit could jihad terrorists possibly get from a bomb expert? And just last week, Fox News reported: “When Ibrahim al Qosi was released from Guantanamo Bay in 2012, a lawyer for the former Usama bin Laden aide said he looked forward to living a life of peace in his native Sudan. Three years later, Qosi has emerged as a prominent voice of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, appearing in a number of AQAP propaganda videos — including a 50-minute lecture calling for the takeover of Saudi Arabia.” http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261933/war-over-prison-camp-closes-robert-spencer
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Speaker Ryano: 'We Are Making Legal
Preparations if the President 
Tries to Break the Law'
Susan Jones
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{cnsnews.com} ~ President nObama "can try" to go around Congress in his attempt to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, House Speaker Paul Ryano told news conference on Wednesday. "He has no authority to do so," Ryano added... Ryan reminded reporters that Congress voted overwhelmingly for the National Defense Authorization Act, which contains a provision saying the president may not move Guantanamo inmates to U.S. soil. "We are making legal preparations if the president tries to break the law," Ryano said. "And what boggles my mind, is that the president is contemplating directing the military to knowingly break the law. "Our law is really clear, and by the way, Democrats wrote this law when they were in the majority, when they ran Congress, which is, these detainees cannnot come to American soil. Open your eyes Ryano, he is doing it. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/speaker-ryan-we-are-making-legal-preparations-case-obama-tries-break-law
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With GOP nomination looming,
slump-Trump is slated to take
witness stand in fraud trial
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{yahoo.com} ~ Here’s a part of the political calendar that nobody in the Republican Party seems to have noticed... This spring, just as the GOP nomination battle enters its final phase, frontrunner Donald slump-Trump could be forced to take time out for some unwanted personal business: He’s due to take the witness stand in a federal courtroom in San Diego, where he is being accused of running a financial fraud. In court filings last Friday, lawyers for both sides in a long-running civil lawsuit over the now defunct slump-Trump University named slump-Trump on their witness lists. That makes it all but certain that the reality-show star and international businessman will be forced to be grilled under oath over allegations in the lawsuit that he engaged in deceptive trade practices and scammed thousands of students who enrolled in his “university” courses in response to promises he would make them rich in the real estate market. Although the case has been winding its way through the courts for the past five years — and slump-Trump has denied all wrongdoing — the final pretrial conference is now slated for May 6, according to the latest pleadings in the case. No trial date has been set, but the judge has indicated his interest in moving the case forward, the pleadings show.       https://www.yahoo.com/politics/with-gop-nomination-looming-trump-slated-to-take-191550876.html?nhp=1
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U.S. general: nObama 'aiding 
and abetting the enemy'
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U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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{wnd.com} ~ President nObama is urging Congress to approve the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, allow for the transfer of remaining detainees to the U.S. and try them in U.S. courts... In calling for the policy change, nObama said the move would save taxpayers money without compromising security. In fact, nObama argues that America is less safe because of the facility. “For many years, it’s been clear that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security. It undermines it,” said nObama Tuesday. “This is not just my opinion. This is the opinion of many in our military. It’s counterproductive to our fight against terrorists because they use it as propaganda in their efforts to recruit.” Retired three-star U.S. Air Force Gen. Tom McInerney isn’t buying it.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/u-s-general-obama-aiding-and-abetting-the-enemy/
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The Lie of Pro-Palestinian Activism
Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Last Thursday, yet again, we learned that pro-Palestinian activists couldn’t care less about Palestinians.
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For them, the Palestinians whose rights they claim to champion are nothing more than means to another end.
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Our latest lesson came from the University of Chicago.
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Last week, Palestinian human rights activist Bassam Eid was abused and threatened by supposedly pro-Palestinian and pro-peace activists as he tried to inform his audience about the state of Palestinian human rights today.
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Bassam Eid has dedicated his life to defending the human rights of the Palestinians. From 1967 through 1994, Israel administered the population centers of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. From 1994, with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority until today, the Palestinians have been ruled by the PLO and Hamas.
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As a human rights activist, until 1994, Eid directed most of his criticisms against Israel. Since then, Eid has defended Palestinian human rights from abuse at the hands of the PLO and Hamas.
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Until 1994, Eid’s human rights activism made him the darling of the far Left. He was a co-director of B’tselem. He was invited to prestigious anti-Israel forums worldwide and given platforms where he presented his accusations against Israel to international acclaim.
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But since the PA was formed, those who once upheld him as a hero have turned their backs on him. In so doing, they have shown their true colors.
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During his talk at the University of Chicago, those colors came shining through.
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Eid talked about the human rights abuses and repression of Palestinians not at the hands of Israel, but at the hands of the PA and Hamas. In other words, Eid held the Palestinian leadership accountable for its failure to respect the rights of the Palestinians it claims to speak for.
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This, it turns out, is a big no-no.
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Eid was attacked by two distinct groups for daring to hold the Palestinian leadership accountable for its abuses of Palestinian human rights. In their collusion, we see the truth about those who proclaim their commitment to “justice for the Palestinians” on the one hand, and those who proclaim their devotion to “peace” on the other hand.
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The first group to attack him was Students for Justice in Palestine. In leading the assault on Eid, SJP members interrupted him, threatened him and demonized him.
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“You must never again speak about the Palestinians!,” some yelled in English at a man who has devoted his life to defending Palestinian rights.
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In the meantime, other SJP members reportedly threatened Eid in Arabic with physical violence.
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While revolting, the SJP activists’ behavior was not in the least surprising. Indeed, it was eminently predictable.
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All the SJP goons did was implement their hate group’s official tactics and strategy guidelines.
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In October 2014, the Amcha Initiative, which documents anti-Jewish campaigns on US university campuses, published an internal SJP document from SUNY Binghamton. The document, titled, “Declaration of Principles and Strategies of Binghamton University Students for Justice in Palestine,” laid out SJP’s goals and tactics and strategies for action.
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SJP’s goal is to demonize Israel and anyone who dares to stand up for Israel or support the Jewish state even tangentially.
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SJP accomplishes this goal by among other things pushing for a boycott of Israel and blackballing all groups that support Israel. Indeed, not only does SJP rule out cooperating with pro-Israel groups, it rejects cooperation with campus groups that cooperate with pro-Israel groups. That is, anyone who accepts that students have a right to support Israel is himself illegitimate.
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To make it impossible to defend Israel on campuses, SJP seeks to make any student who in any way supports Israel socially toxic for his fellow students.
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In other words, SJP’s goal is to treat Israel’s campus supporters as subhuman.
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As to its direct actions against pro-Israel speakers – or in Eid’s case, speakers that do not direct their attacks solely against Israel – the SJP SUNY Binghamton document instructs SJP members to disrupt and shut down such events on campus. Among other things, this goal is to be achieved through “political theater to protest the event,” as well as acts of “disruption.”
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SJP members at the University of Chicago, like their comrades who rioted and shut down former Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon’s speech at King’s College in London last month, and those that rioted in Chicago last month against a Shabbat reception held by an American Jewish-Israeli gay rights group at the National LGBTQ Task Force’ annual convention showed through their actions that they couldn’t care less about the Palestinians as people.
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And again, this apathy is inherent to their movement.
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The internal document from SUNY Binghamton makes clear that SJP doesn’t have a vision for Palestinian freedom. Rather, SJP will “support any and all visions of Palestinian liberation.”
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In other words, if “Palestine” is ultimately a liberal democracy or an Islamic theocracy is none of their business. Whether Palestinians end up with no rights, or full civil rights, is completely irrelevant.
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SJP is about one thing only – demonizing Israel and booting its supporters out of the public square.
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This then brings us their Jewish collaborators.
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Eid’s speech was abruptly adjourned after he was threatened by an SJP member during the question and answer session. But before it was adjourned, two self-identified Jews, one of whom introduced herself as a member of J Street Chicago – the University of Chicago branch of J Street – contributed to the hostile atmosphere by asking Eid the same question.
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Emma from J Street put it this way, “I hear from you... a lot of disappointment in your own leadership.
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I’m wondering what are you doing bringing this message to a room full of Americans, many of us Jews?” Emma from J Street continued, “Why do you think it is an important message to bring to us in particular...without sort of talking about the issues that the Americans need to base decision on like the occupation and settlements?” Got that? For J Street, Eid committed a crime by teaching the American public – and first and foremost, the American Jewish community – that the absence of peace isn’t entirely Israel’s fault.
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As Emma – and her Jewish comrade – see things this is completely unacceptable.
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There is a narrative. That narrative places all the blame for the absence of peace and Palestinian suffering on “the occupation and settlements.” Any deviation from this narrative is a crime against peace.
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Eid explained that for 68 years, the Palestinians have blamed Israel for all their suffering. He insisted that the time has come for the Palestinians to take responsibility for their actions and stop shirking that responsibility by blaming Israel for their own crimes.
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For forcing her to hear this calumny, Emma from J Street had no choice but to condemn him for the crime of deviating from the narrative.
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The final questioner, or protesters, as the case may be, failed to cite his affiliation. But he brought the two sides together.
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He demanded that Eid justify his decision to speak publicly about the Palestinians despite the fact that his speech “wasn’t sponsored by any Palestinian clubs on campus.”
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Both Arab and Jewish “pro-Palestinian” activists cheered him for his statement.
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Indeed, how dare he teach people who claim to care about the Palestinians about the Palestinians? How dare he say that Palestinians are people, and are not driven only by their collective hatred of Israel and rejection of its right to exist? How dare he mention that Palestinians have the right to work wherever they want and that Jews in Judea and Samaria aren’t inherently evil and actually provide livelihoods for thousands of Palestinians who work with them? How dare Eid come to University of Chicago and mention that neither Fatah nor Hamas have built governing institutions built on the notion that Palestinians have the right to freedom, but rather they have built institution geared toward forcing the Palestinians to seek Israel’s destruction, while trampling their human rights? How dare he not bow and scrape before SJP and accept its positions as a condition for speaking on campus? And so, once again, last Thursday we learned the big lie at the heart of the supposedly pro-Palestinian movement. None of its members – whether from SJP, J Street, or any of their comrades – care about the Palestinians or their rights.
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All they care about is attacking Israel.
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None of this is new information. It’s been obvious for several years now that the pro-Palestinian movement is merely a means to demonize Israel and its supporters. The only real question at this point is what is it going to take for US law enforcement bodies, legislatures and university administrations to finally take action against these hate groups, to the benefit of Palestinians, Israel and the cause of human rights?
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The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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The Lure of Socialism
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 FBI Had a Way to Circumvent Farook's  Passcode  Amidst the FBI's demands that Apple create software to break the security the tech company engineered into the iPhone, the under reported fact is that the government bungled its initial attempts to access the cell phone the San Bernardino County Health Department gave to eventual terrorist Syed Farook. The first mistake was the county didn't set up the phone so that it had administrative access over the device. If it had taken that preemptive step, investigators could have easily gathered everything the phone could provide.
          The second mistake was hours after the shooting when San Bernardino, working with the FBI, reset the phone's iCloud password, allowing investigators to see the data the phone was automatically backing up to a remote location on Apple's servers. Problem was, the last time the phone updated to iCloud was on Oct. 19 — weeks before the Dec. 2 shooting. There was information still on the phone. Investigators [could have teased that information from the phone by turning on the phone's automatic updates, going to a location frequented by Farook and the device would have automatically sent information to iCloud. Voilà! With the recent information in the cloud, then investigators could have reset Farook's iCloud password. Instead, the government is trying to force Apple to destroy the security protocols it has built into its current devices because a series of government mistakes.
          "Do we have freedom of speech, or freedom to speak only what law-enforcement can monitor?" wrote National Review's Andrew McCarthy. "Does the Fourth Amendment guarantee freedom from unreasonable searches, or afford only whatever expectation of privacy the government, not the society, decides is reasonable — and cabined by what the government is technologically capable of searching?" What the FBI misses is that our rights are given by the Creator, not an incompetent mid-level bureaucrat.  -The Patriot Post
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 Who Loses VA Musical Chairs? Vets Do 
Instead of firing misbehaving administrators, the Department of Veterans Affairs simply shuffled the bureaucrats off to another VA hospital in another state. After crunching the data, the Daily Caller found that almost 100 VA administrators worked in at least three states over the last eight years — often at the cost of pay bumps and hefty relocation fees. When it comes to doctors or pharmacists, some of whom ran afoul with disciplinary or licensing issues, the VA simply played bureaucratic musical chairs, shuffling about 600 VA employees across the country. "Whatever the reasons," wrote Luke Rosiak, investigative journalist for The Caller, "Secretary Bob McDonald, who promised a transformation of the VA when he took over in 2014, is trying to fix past mistakes by moving around the same people who oversaw them, not bringing in new leaders." Recently, the Deputy Secretary for the VA Sloan Gibson said he stood by his decision to fire a VA medical center director in Albany, despite the decision being reversed by the department's Merit Systems Protection Board. The bureaucracy in the state-run health care system is entrenched, protecting its own at the expense of those it is supposed to serve — veterans.   -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Stephen Moore: "When I was a smart-aleck college student, I had a sign on my dorm-room door that read: 'Reality is for those who can't handle drugs.' Maybe the 2016 version should go like this: 'Bernie Sanders and socialism are for those who can't handle reality.' Socialism's comeback is mystifying to most clear-thinking people. Do people who support Sanders and socialism walk around with shutters over their eyes so they don't have to observe the reality of what is happening in the world around them? The remarkable thing about the rise of Bernie Sanders is that his popularity runs in the counter-direction to how socialism is actually working. ... Economic freedom is, of course, the opposite of socialism. Nations that are economically free have freer trade, smaller welfare states, lower taxes, a lighter hand with regulation, private ownership of the means of production and the rule of law. Countries that are economically free have five times the per capita average annual income ($55,000) of countries that are the least free ($9,000). Not only that, economic freedom is also highly correlated with better education, improved health and a cleaner environment. The poor do better in nations that are economically free and worse in Bernie Sanders land. In short, countries that are economically free are healthy, wealthy and wise. This reality seems to be lost on those high on the drug of socialism."   -The Patriot Post
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IDF Racing to Restructure Itself for 
New Middle East Warfare
Yaakov Lappin
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is in a race against time, and it is a race that is relevant to how other Western powers will also deal with the rise of radical, armed, Islamic groups proliferating across the Middle East... As the IDF's commanders look around the region, they see heavily armed, hybrid, Islamic sub-state foes that are replacing states. The traditional threat of hierarchical armies is fading quickly away, into obscurity. The Sunni and Shi'ite jihadist entities on Israel's borders – Hamas, Hizballah, ISIS-affiliated groups in Syria, Jabhat Al-Nusra, as well as elements of Iran's IRGC forces – are all building their power and preparing for a future unknown point in time when they will clash with Israel. The IDF is preparing, too, but it is not only counting how many soldiers, tanks, fighter planes, and artillery cannons it can call up in the next round. The IDF is in a race to adapt to 21st century Middle Eastern warfare, which bears no resemblance to how wars were fought in the 20th century. http://www.investigativeproject.org/5169/idf-racing-to-restructure-itself-for-new-middle
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nObama and Juan Williams Need a Lesson on the Constitution and the Facts 
on Judicial Nominations
Hans von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery
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{theacru.org} ~ Someone should remind President nObama and Juan Williams what the Constitution actually says about confirming nominees. They seem unaware of how the process works... They also appear ignorant of the facts regarding the many judicial nominees the president has had confirmed over the past seven years. First of all, the claim by Juan Williams that race “has something to do” with Republicans’ supposedly not moving on President nObama’s appointments is completely false —- and the numbers prove it. The U.S. Senate has confirmed 321 individuals nominated to the federal bench during nObama’s presidency: 264 district court judges, 55 appeals-court judges, and two Supreme Court justices. That represents more than one third of the entire federal judiciary. At the same point in the term of President George W. Bush, only 296 federal judges had been confirmed. That included two Supreme Court justices, the same number as nObama has placed on the Court. When nObama took office, ten of the 13 federal circuit courts of appeals had a majority of judges appointed by Republican presidents; today, nine are majority Democratic.        http://www.theacru.org/obama-and-juan-williams-need-a-lesson-on-the-constitution-and-the-facts-on-judicial-nominations/
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The nObama Administration Wants to
Make Sure Non-Citizens Vote 
in the Upcoming Election
Hans von Spakovsky
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{theacru.org} ~ Several well-funded organizations —- including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP —- are fighting efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting illegally in the upcoming presidential election... And the United States Department of Justice, under the direction of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, is helping them. On February 12, these groups filed a lawsuit in D.C. federal court seeking to reverse a recent decision by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The Commission’s decision allows Kansas and other states, including Arizona and Georgia, to enforce state laws ensuring that only citizens register to vote when they use a federally designed registration form. An initial hearing in the case is set for Monday afternoon, February 22. Under federal law, the EAC is responsible for designing the federal voter-registration form required by the National Voter Registration Act, or Motor Voter, as it is commonly called. While states must register voters who use the federal form, states can ask the EAC to include instructions with the federal form about additional state registration requirements. Some states are now requiring satisfactory proof of citizenship to ensure that only citizens register to vote. Under Article I, Secion 2 and the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, states have the power to set the “Qualification requisite for electors.” As with many issues, the Left disdains the balance the Framers adopted in the Constitution and objects to this delegation of power to the states. They prefer to see power over elector eligibility centralized in Washington, D.C.       http://www.theacru.org/the-obama-administration-wants-to-make-sure-non-citizens-vote-in-the-upcoming-election/
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Republicans on nObama's Gitmo Plan: 
'It Is Against the Law'
Sandy Fitzgerald
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{newsmax.com} ~ Republicans Tuesday struck out at President Barack nObama's long-promised plan to close the United States' detention center at Guantanamo Bay... with several insisting that his plan to transfer detainees to American soil is against the law. "After seven years, President nObama has yet to convince the American people that moving Guantanamo terrorists to our homeland is smart or safe," House Speaker Paul Ryan said shortly after nObama's announcement, and he doesn't seem interested in continuing to try." Further, said Ryan, nObama's extensive proposal "fails to provide critical details required by law, including the exact cost and location of an alternate detention facility. Congress has left no room for confusion. It is against the law — and it will stay against the law — to transfer terrorist detainees to American soil. We will not jeopardize our national security over a campaign promise." http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/republicans-obama-gitmo-plan/2016/02/23/id/715693/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1656555_02232016&s=al&dkt_nbr=wt7y9exg
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Stop China Buyout of Chicago Stock Exchange: Congressmen to nObama
 William F. Jasper
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ When the board of directors of the Chicago Stock Exchange announced on February 5 that it had “entered into a definitive agreement” to be purchased by a Chinese company, the statement received rather ho-hum treatment by the American mainstream media... most pointing out that the Chicago Stock Exchange is a bit player in the grand scheme of things, as compared to the volume of stock sales at the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange. Bloomberg News, for instance, reported that the 134-year-old Chicago Stock Exchange “only handles about 0.5 percent of U.S. stock trading.” On a recent trading day, the Bloomberg  story noted, the NYSE “handled 31 times more trading volume” than its little brother bourse in Chicago, which “is a far less vital part of global finance.” However, not everyone is so nonchalant regarding the pending sale. “It is outrageous that a communist Chinese company — a front for the communist Chinese government — will be given access to trillions of dollars in the struggling US economy and secure information about US businesses,” says Congressman Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican. “I strongly urge the nObama administration to investigate this firm and stop this purchase,” Rep. Jones said in a press statement released last week. Acquisition of the Chicago Stock Exchange by the Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group (CCEG) of China means, says Jones, that “a firm with ties to the communist Chinese government will have access to trillions of dollars in the US economy.  This access raises financial, economic, and cyber-security concerns.”        http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/22609-stop-china-buyout-of-chicago-stock-exchange-congressmen-to-obama
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Russia Wants to Fly Over the U.S. Using
Its Latest Spy Technology
 Bob Adelmann
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ According to the Associated Press, Russia is about to ask permission of the Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) in Vienna, Austria, to fly its latest reconnaissance aircraft, the Tu-214ON (shown), over the United States... The airplane will have the latest in spy technology, including video, optical panoramic and framing cameras for daylight photography; infrared line scanners, giving it day/night capabilities; synthetic aperture radar, providing it day/night/all-weather capabilities, along with its “digital electro-optical sensor." Image quality, thanks to the latest digital technologies, will allow Russian analysts the ability to distinguish between a military tank and an 18-wheeler from miles above U.S. territory. It’s making U.S. military officials nervous. Admiral Cecil Haney, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, wrote: “The Treaty on Open Skies has become a critical component of Russia’s intelligence collection capability directed at the United States," adding: In addition to overflying military installations, Russian Open Skies flights can overfly and collect on Department of Defense and national security … critical infrastructure. The vulnerability exposed by exploitation of this data and the costs of mitigation of such exploitation are increasingly difficult to characterize.   http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/22599-russia-wants-to-fly-over-the-u-s-using-its-latest-spy-technology
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Watch Idiocy in Action on Behalf 
of the Government
S. Noble 
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{independentsentinel.com} ~ In New York City, the City Council is planning to allow public spitting and urinating on the city streets but if you dare to display foods more than four feet from your storefront, they will take your goods and destroy them... The pointless law is being ruthlessly enforced. What can you expect from a commie mayor and his commie sidekicks. Provided by Gary Schlesinger, CEO of ParCare Health & Medical Center, the raw footage shows New York City sanitation workers taking boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables and throwing them into a waiting garbage truck. Big Brother is alive and well in the Orwellian city of New York where the people once were free until they decided to vote their rights away and elect a communist to the highest office in the city. Thats why its so important in voting for the right person to be our leaders.         http://www.independentsentinel.com/watch-idiocy-in-action-on-behalf-of-the-government/
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PACOM Needs More Subs, Long-Range Missiles
To Counter Chinese Threats
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 Airstrip construction on the Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea is pictured in this April 2, 2015
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{news.usni.org} ~ China’s recent actions to militarize the South China Sea have changed the operational landscape, and the U.S. Pacific Command needs more attack submarines and long-range surface missiles to keep up with the evolving threat... PACOM commander Adm. Harry Harris told the Senate Armed Services Committee today. China’s 10,000-foot runway in the Spratly Islands, as well as the addition of surface-to-air missiles and high-frequency radar systems on the islands over the past week, are pushing regional partners closer to the U.S. military but also forcing PACOM to look at addressing the region differently. “I think China’s… surface-to-air missiles, on Woody Island; its radars, new radars on Cuarteron Reef over here; the runway, the 10,000-foot runway… on Fiery Cross Reef and other places; these are actions that are changing, in my opinion, the operational landscape in the South China Sea,” Harris told the senators. “The DF-21 ballistic missile, which they have, and the DF-26, which they are developing, could pose a threat to our carriers. I think, though, our carriers are resilient and we have the capability to do what has to be done”       http://news.usni.org/2016/02/23/harris-pacom-needs-more-subs-long-range-missiles-to-counter-chinese-threats?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=39fe9c0837-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-39fe9c0837-231491269&mc_cid=39fe9c0837&mc_eid=3999f18767
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A Vote for Donald slump-Trump, 
Is a Vote for This….
Dave Hodges
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Is he for real? Will he survive his challenge to the autonomy and power of the globalists?
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ I am sorry, but I have to step off of the Fool’s Gold Express. slump-Trump cannot save this country, only God can... But please tell me, what has America done to deserve redemption in the eyes of God? Assuming we have an election in November, I am checking the box next to slump-Trumps name. However, I hold no illusion that my vote and our collective vote is going to change a thing. I am merely casting a symbolic vote. There is no question that Donald slump-Trump is saying some of the magic words that have been missing from the American lexicon for quite some time, like, “Let’s Make America Great Again”. In reality, if you think any candidate is going to accomplish this magic feat, you may as well save your campaign contributions and vote for Santa Claus.       http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/02/23/a-vote-for-donald-trump-is-a-vote-for-this/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-vote-for-donald-trump-is-a-vote-for-this
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How to tell which candidates understood
the financial crisis
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{aei.org} ~ Echoes of the 2008 financial crisis continue to reverberate through election year politics, regulatory policy discussions, and even Hollywood films like The Big Short... Below are five questions about the crisis that are currently receiving attention, and that presidential candidates should be equipped to answer, together with my own answers. The simplest way to think about the financial crisis is that the largest investment banks and commercial banks got into financial trouble by acquiring and holding risky mortgages or mortgage backed securities based on these risky loans. This was permitted for both of them before Glass-Steagall was “repealed,” and it was permitted afterward. In other words, if Glass-Steagall had never been touched by Congress in any way, the financial crisis would have unfolded exactly as it did in 2008. Calls to reinstate Glass-Steagall are disingenuous; many of those in Congress and elsewhere who back this idea know that it is a meaningless proposal, but also that their case for tighter regulation of the financial system is helped if they can claim some connection between reduced regulation and the financial crisis.        https://www.aei.org/publication/5-questions-every-presidential-candidate-should-answer-on-politics-and-the-financial-crisis/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=022416
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The Lure of Socialism
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{townhall.com} ~ Many people of mature years are amazed at how many young people have voted for Senator Bernie Sanders, and are enthusiastic about the socialism he preaches.
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Many of those older people have lived long enough to have seen socialism fail, time and again, in countries around the world. Venezuela, with all its rich oil resources, is currently on the verge of economic collapse, after its heady fling with socialism.
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But, most of the young have missed all that, and their dumbed-down education is far more likely to present the inspiring rhetoric of socialism than to present its dismal track record.
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Socialism is in fact a wonderful vision -- a world of the imagination far better than any place anywhere in the real world, at any time over the thousands of years of recorded history. Even many conservatives would probably prefer to live in such a world, if they thought it was possible.
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Who would not want to live in a world where college was free, along with many other things, and where government protected us from the shocks of life and guaranteed our happiness? It would be Disneyland for adults!
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Free college of course has an appeal to the young, especially those who have never studied economics. But college cannot possibly be free. It would not be free even if there was no such thing as money.
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Consider the costs of just one professor teaching just one course. He or she has probably spent more than 20 years being educated, from kindergarten to the Ph.D., before ending up standing in front of a class and trying to convey some of the knowledge picked up in all those years. That means being fed, clothed and housed all those years, along with other expenses.
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All the people who grew the food, manufactured the clothing and built the housing used by this one professor, for at least two decades, had to be compensated for their efforts, or those efforts would not continue. And of course someone has to produce food, clothing and shelter for all the students in this one course, as well as books, computers and other requirements or amenities.
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Add up all these costs -- and multiply by a hundred or so -- and you have a rough idea of what going to college costs. Whether these costs are paid by using money in a capitalist economy or by some other mechanism in a feudal economy, a socialist economy, or whatever, there are heavy costs to pay.
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Moreover, under any economic system, those costs are either going to be paid or there are not going to be any colleges. Money is just an artificial device for getting real things done.
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Those young people who understand this, whether clearly or vaguely, are not likely to be deterred from wanting socialism. Because what they really want is for somebody else to pay for their decision to go to college.
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A market economy is one in which whoever makes a decision is the one who pays for that decision. It forces people to be sure that what they want to do is really worth what it is going to cost.
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Even the existing subsidies of college have led many people to go to college who have very little interest in, or benefit from, going to college, except for enjoying the social scene while postponing adult responsibilities for a few years.
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Whether judging by test results, by number of hours per week devoted to studying or by on-campus interviews, it is clear that today's college students learn a lot less than college students once did. If college becomes "free," even more people can attend college without bothering to become educated and without acquiring any economically meaningful skills.
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More fundamentally, making all sorts of other things "free" means more of those things being wasted as well. Even worse, it means putting more and more of the decisions that shape our lives into the hands of politicians and bureaucrats who control the purse strings.
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nObamacare has given us a foretaste of what that means in reality, despite how wonderful it may sound in political rhetoric.
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Worst of all, government giveaways polarize society into segments, each trying to get what it wants at somebody else's expense, creating mutual bitterness that can tear a society apart. Some seem to blithely assume that "the rich" can be taxed to pay for what they want -- as if "the rich" don't see what is coming and take their wealth elsewhere.
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Godfather Trump Now Threatens Cub Oeners

Godfather Trump now Threatens Cub Owners

The media obsession with “dirty tricks” by Sen. Ted Cruz stands in stark contrast to the benign neglect of the slash and burn tactics of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. The media seems to be treating Trump’s slanders and threats the way they coddled Vice President Joe Biden, with the chattering class seemingly uttering in unison, “Oh, that’s just The Donald.”

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/godfather_trump_now_threatens_cub_owners.html#ixzz417HVe3NP
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Trump in the General Election

Whatever you think of him it now appears that Donald Trump is going to win the nomination especially after last night's resounding victory in Nevada. This is just to iterate that the - always fair and never hypocritical left -  is already digging up whatever they can on his financial dealings and personal life that may include an illegitimate child. Without knowing how true or untrue the info the left has may be - that we'll have to judge for ourselves - I believe that we should really buckle our seat belts especially just from what we have seen from the primaries because this is going to be a very long and vitriolic several months until the General Election.

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Patriots, Meet Chris

Ted Cruz Nevada Carson City Rally CHRIS

Several young people were standing in line waiting to get into the Ted Cruz rally in Carson City, Nevada. I approached one of them. “Excuse me. Sanders attracts millennials. What made you choose Cruz?” Chris said he really likes Cruz's respect for the Constitution. Chris went on to say he disagrees with Sanders' free tuition proposal. Chris said he works and does not want government taking huge chunks of his money to pay for people who neither want or deserve to go to college. Chris has plans for college. He also said he is not looking for free stuff from the government.

Folks, talk about refreshing. My mind was filled with questions. How did Chris escape liberal indoctrination? Where was he educated? What does his parents do for a living? However, the line began moving as people filed into the hall.

Allowing liberal indoctrination to dominate public education and our culture has really infected the thinking of many Americans. According to a recent poll, almost 60% of Democrats think Socialism would be great for America. Socialism is horse hockey folks; mediocrity spread equally. Real fairness, prosperity, individual liberty and true compassion resides in Capitalism.

This is yet another reason why America desperately needs Ted Cruz; a bold true believer and outspoken advocate of Conservatism.

Chris is a breath of fresh air; hope for our country's future.

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American
Chairman: The Conservative Campaign Committee
LloydMarcus.com

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The Establishment

A prominent Liberal Democrat recently described just who  the "Establishment" is.

They are:

Major corporations and their top execs.

Washington lobbyists

Trade Assns,  (unions)

Big Wall st. banks & top people.

Traders

Hedge Fund & private Equity mgrs.

Billionaires.

Political leaders of both parties.

Political operatives

Fundraisers.

And all those supporting the above list.

The common thread among them all seems to be MONEY.

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Wednesday ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Clinton Email Scandal Gets Worse
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 Stumbling Toward War 
A spate of stories published last week all point in one troubling direction: America's adversaries have taken the measure of our commander in chief — and found him seriously wanting.
          We begin with the news that Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Iran Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan regarding the purchase of the S-300 air defense system and offensive weapons that include Moscow's most sophisticated T-90 tanks and Su-30 Flanker fighter jets. Thus one of the key provisions of the Iran nuclear deal, a.k.a. UN Resolution 2231 — requiring Tehran to get UN permission before acquiring "battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large calibre artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems" — is on the verge of being ignored. Adding insult to injury, Gen. Dehqan is believed to be the architect of the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed 241 American service members.
          Iran is also expected to thumb its nose at the same resolution this month when they test a Simorgh space launch vehicle characterized by U.S. officials as the basis of their covert program to develop long-range nuclear missiles. An unnamed State Department official who spoke with The Washington Free Beacon epitomized the administration's flaccid response to the prospect, declining to speculate as to whether such a launch would violate the agreement, but promising to address any Iranian actions "inconsistent with any relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions ... through the appropriate channels." Iran insists the space launch vehicle's 220 pound payload is too small to carry a first-generation nuclear warhead. The Beacon's Bill Gertz reveals otherwise: "Space launch technology is identical to long-range missile technology."
          And from whom is Iran getting the technological expertise for such an effort? An April exposé by Gertzreveals that while the nuclear negotiations with Iran were proceeding, North Korea supplied the mullahs with "several shipments of missile components" that also "appear to violate UN sanctions on both countries." That would be the very same North Korea that South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) asserts is planning a terrorist attack orchestrated by Kim Jong Un. The same North Korea that launched a long-range rocket of its own this month — following January's test of hydrogen bomb components. 
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Peggy Noonan: "The closest you can come to public peace in resolving the question of Scalia's replacement is to take a step wholly unusual, even unprecedented, and let the American people make the decision themselves, this year, with their 2016 presidential vote. ... That they made the decision will allow people to accept the outcome more easily — either a real change in the ideological makeup of the court, or a court whose rough and not always predictable balance has been preserved. We take a swerve or stay where we are. But it will be the people who swerved or stayed. For President nObama to leave the Scalia replacement to the next president would be an act of prudence and democratic courtesy. ... There is something increasingly unappeasable in the left. This is something conservatives and others have come to fear, that progressives now accept no limits. We can't just have court-ordered legalized abortion across the land, we have to have it up to the point of birth, and taxpayers have to pay for it. It's not enough to win same-sex marriage, you've got to personally approve of it and if you publicly resist you'll be ruined. It's not enough that we have publicly funded contraceptives, the nuns have to provide them. This unappeasable spirit always turns to the courts to have its way."   -The Patriot Post
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 Democrat Double Standards 
To paraphrase William Shakespeare, the villany Democrats teach, Republicans will execute, and it shall go hard but they will better the instruction. It wasn't so long ago that the power was flipped in the Senate.
          George W. Bush controlled the White House and Democrats controlled the upper chamber from 2001 to 2003. Bush nominated 32 judges during that time. Not one of them even made it to the Judiciary Committee for a hearing. In 2005, Democrats — including Barack nObama, Joe loose lips-Biden, John hanoi-Kerry, Harry dinky-Reid and Hilly Clinton — filibustered the nomination of Samuel Alito. That same quintet is now leading the chorus calling for the Republican-controlled Senate to do its "constitutional duties" and rubber stamp whomever nObama nominates.
          When Bush had a year and six months left in his last term, Sen. Chuck Schumer said unless something extraordinary happened, the Senate shouldn't approve any Bush nominee. Going back to the last few weeks of George H.W Bush's administration, loose lips-Biden said Bush shouldn't nominate anyone until after the 1992 presidential election was completed — the same thing Republicans are saying to nObama. But now that he's co-captain in the Oval Office, loose lips-Biden conveniently insists that "lengthy speech on the Senate floor about a hypothetical vacancy on the Supreme Court" ... "is not an accurate description of my views on the subject."
          When members of the current administration occupied seats in the Senate, its views on the Senate's role in the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice was robust. After all, the Senate offers its consent and advice, per the Constitution. But the Democrats' interpretation of the Constitution changes with the political winds.
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FLASHBACK: Sen. loose lips-Biden Staunchly Advised Against Filling SCOTUS Vacancy During Election Year
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ In the hours and days after the death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Democrats quickly raised their voices to condemn any Republican plan to block them from rushing to fill that most crucial vacancy... When Republicans suggested waiting until after the election, Democrats scoffed at them. But back in 1992 when Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden was a Delaware senator and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee under President George H.W. Bush, he made a rather vociferous plea for President Bush to hold off on naming a nominee, if and when a vacancy arose, as a "majority of his predecessors" did. At the time of loose lips-Biden's remarks, there was no empty court seat. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/flashback-sen-biden-staunchly-advised-against-filling-scotus-vacancy-during-election-year
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Here’s Why Insurance Premiums Are ‘High and Rising’
for Obamacare Enrollees
Mariana Barillas
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Rising health insurance premiums under nObamacare will continue to hit Americans this year, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office... “High and rising premiums for private health insurance are a matter of concern for nObamacare enrollees. They also affect the federal budget, because the federal government subsidizes most premiums—directly or indirectly—at a cost of roughly $300 billion in fiscal year 2016,” the CBO said. The nonpartisan agency and the staff of Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation projected that in 2016, “the average premium for an employment-based insurance plan will be about $6,400 for single coverage and about $15,500 for family coverage.”        http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/16/heres-why-insurance-premiums-are-high-and-rising-for-obamacare-enrollees/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zKe%2B%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjPLvYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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New Poll Confirms Democrats 
Okay With Socialism
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ The term ‘socialist’ once was used as an epithet in American politics. Perhaps no more... In a year in which Bernie Sanders, a self-described ‘Democratic Socialist,’ is running a competitive primary campaign for the White House, a new survey finds that a healthy portion of Democratic primary voters are favorably inclined toward socialism. Nearly six-in-ten Democratic primary voters believe socialism has a ‘positive impact on society,’ according to polling conducted this month for the right-leaning issue advocacy group American Action Network and provided to POLITICO.
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World Council of Churches 
Demonizes Israel - Again
Thomas Smith
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The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem, Israel
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ It was an impressive group of seasoned activists for Palestine who gathered for a ten-page prefabricated liturgy during an hour-long church service... The few people in the pews were to be sensitized about an alleged injustice to the Palestinian people: the supposed deprivation of rightful quantities of water by supposedly evil Israelis. In order to bring some action into this otherwise flow of distorted information, each participant got a cross of ash on his forehead -- possibly one of the few remnants of the Christian custom of Lent. In regular Lenten services, for seven weeks until Easter, solemn memories of divine mercy on the sinners of the world take center stage for Christians. But not in this liturgy. Center stage was instead given solemnly to committing a sin of evil speech: launching a lie about an Israeli-made water shortage suffered by Palestinians, a sin that all present were invited to commit daily for the next seven weeks; a sin in which all the member churches of the WCC are invited to participate. Those leaders of the Protestant churches, turned into political propagandists without even any hindrance, used the pulpit of Jerusalem unjustly to call upon the Protestant faithful worldwide to listen to Palestinian water libels against the State of Israel. This liturgy abused the biblical readings as a means of invigorating the equally false Kairos Palestine message, that Israel takes the Land of Palestine and has no right to be where it is.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7460/world-council-churches-israel
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Black Lives Matter Slams ‘Racist’ Library For Not
Barring Whites From Meetings
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ For months, the Nashville chapter of Black Lives Matter had been meeting at the North Branch Library in Nashville, Tennessee at the exclusion of white people... Library officials had assumed during that time that their meetings had been made open to the public, until one library customer alerted officials of a meeting advertisement indicating that white people were not invited. Library officials then notified the Black Lives Matter group of the public library’s policy about meetings, namely that they are to be open to the public and the news media, and the group may not exclude anyone. This news outraged the Black Lives Matter activists, and they decided to relocate to a Methodist church nearby where they reiterated that only “black or non-black people of color” were allowed to participate. They attributed the public library’s policy to “white supremacy in our local government.” http://lidblog.com/black-lives-matter-slams-racist-library-for-not-barring-whites-from-meetings/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=429be428f0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-429be428f0-291705165
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Almost 90,000 dangerous illegal immigrants go free
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Nearly 60 percent of illegal immigrants identified by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as criminal threats are not deported and are eventually released... the latest example of the nObama administration's failed immigration policy. Internal ICE figures show that in fiscal 2015, the agency encountered 152,393 illegal immigrants labeled a criminal threat, mostly in jails, but charged 64,116. About another 88,000 were not processed for deportation, according to the Center for Immigration Studies' Jessica Vaughan. The numbers are even worse for those who ICE asks local police and sheriffs to detain but never collect. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/almost-90000-dangerous-illegal-immigrants-go-free/article/2583597
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nObama Makes Last-Ditch Effort 
to Close Gitmo
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{newsmax.com} ~ President Barack nObama released his long- awaited plan for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... saying transferring as many as 60 of the detainees captured during the war on terrorism would eliminate a recruiting tool for extremists and save the U.S. money. “For many years it’s been clear that our detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our fight against terrorism,” nObama said in a statement at the White House. The continued existence of the prison “doesn’t not advance our national security, it undermines it,’’ he said. The proposal, demanded by lawmakers who have resisted nObama’s attempts to close the facility, calls for spending up to $475 million to transfer 30 to 60 of the detainees to facilities in the U.S. There are 13 potential sites that could be used for the prisoners, but the plan outlined by the Pentagon doesn’t identify a specific location. nObama is undermining our national security.        http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-attacks-prison-justice/2016/02/23/id/715627/
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EPA Spends $15,000 to Give 
‘TrashWalls’ to the Poor
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The Environmental Protection Agency is investing nearly $15,000 to provide walls made out of trash to the poor to heat their homes and reduce their carbon footprints... The project is being financed through an EPA student design competition for “Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet.” The program provides funding for college students to test green energy ideas. Past projects include a device to monitor how long hotel guests spend in the shower. Students at Washington State University came up with “TrashWalls.” The university received $14,798 in taxpayer funding to build insulation made from solid waste to combat what it calls the “perverse incentives” of renters having to pay utility bills.      http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-spends-15000-to-give-trashwalls-to-the-poor/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=b28bc8549e-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_23_162_22_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-b28bc8549e-45611665
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Hilly Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight
Bethany Blankley
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{constitution.com} ~ Youtube extraordinaire Michael Armstrong compiled thirteen minutes worth of flip-flops, contradictions, “mis-statements,” backtracking, and/or “lying” on a plethora of issues about which she supported, later didn’t and vise-versa, or might have or might not have opposed...        http://constitution.com/must-watch-video-13-minutes-of-hillary-contradicting-herself/
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Radical Canadian Imam: 
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ A radical Canadian imam called for Muslims to "look forward" as "Rome will be conquered," in a Friday sermon posted on the Internet on Feb. 16 and translated by the Middle East Monitoring Research Institute (MEMRI)... "The prophecies of the Prophet Muhammad came true. But some prophecies have not come true yet. Look forward to it, because the Prophet Muhammad said that Rome would be conquered! It will be conquered," preached Imam Shaban Sherif Mady. Mady, based in Edmonton, also spoke of restoring the "rightly-guided" Islamic Caliphate. His reference to conquering Rome mirrors a similar call by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.        http://www.investigativeproject.org/5168/radical-canadian-imam-rome-will-be-conquered
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Clinton Email Scandal Gets Worse
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{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch does more than almost anyone else in DC to educate the public about the duplicity of high ranking government officials.  I have another extraordinary example of this in the Clinton email scandal.
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JW just recently obtained State Department records showing that the nObama agency asked Hilly Clinton to return emails in July 2014. This contradicts statements made in court that State only requested via a November 2014 letter a version of which was sent to several former secretaries of state that Mrs. Clinton return records to the State Department. Other new emails show the State Department has separate policies for handling the documents of State Department senior officials “and the rest of the department.”
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The emails are found in a batch of 189 pages of documents produced under court order in a major Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit specifically seeking all of Clinton’s emails and records about her email practices.
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An astonishing email from Cheryl Mills, Hilly Clinton’s former counselor and chief of staff, to David E. Wade, then-chief of staff to Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry, shows that the State Department asked for the Clinton emails in July 2014.
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Judicial Watch filed this new email with U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan, who is now considering whether to grant discovery in another JW lawsuit seeking information on the “special government employee” status of Huma Abedin. The court specifically asked the State Department about how and when it requested that Mrs. Clinton return records. In our latest court filing, Judicial Watch states:
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This Mills email indisputably shows that the State Department first asked Mrs. Clinton to return records as late as July 2014, not November 2014 as the State Department would have this Court and Judicial Watch believe.
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Hilly Clinton also misled the American people, as she suggested during her infamous March 2015 United Nations press statement that she turned over the emails only after a request in October 2014 and responded “right away.” In fact, these new emails show it took at least five months for her to turn over only half of the emails in question.
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Another email, on the heels of the initial Clinton email story in the New York Times, details how a top State Department official tried to allay the concerns of National Archivist Paul Wester about the Clinton email issue. Margaret Grafeld, deputy assistant secretary of global information systems, recounts to other top State Department officials a March 3, 2015, call with National Archives:
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I just had a very cordial 45 minute conversation with Paul Wester regarding the press coverage of the HRC email personal account and State records, focusing on State actions and those NARA will take today.
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I explained to Paul the environment in which State operates and the bifurcated management of records for principals vs the rest of the Department, as well as steps that M and others have initiated to ensure that we are compliant with laws and regulations.
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In short, we can expect a letter from Paul to me later today covering the alienation a legal term of art of the former Secretary’s records [Redacted] requesting an explanation both of what happened and what we are doing to remedy the situation. I requested that he cc M on the letter as the Senior Agency Official for Records Management, which shall be done.
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I will share the letter with you all as soon as I receive it.
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Don’t you love the phrase “bifurcated management of records for principals vs. the rest of the Department”!  That phrase is Orwellian bureaucratese for: “We treated Hilly Clinton as if she were above the law.”
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The special treatment of Hilly Clinton continued after she left the State Department. Another email suggests the State Department provided Mrs. Clinton’s lawyers with a “two drawer safe” in which to store classified emails from the Clinton email server. The documents also show that a report was to be prepared regarding security issues with the Clinton emails, which included a security inspection made of the Clinton lawyers’ offices. One related email states:
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Please ask the appropriate DS subject matter experts to contact Clinton lawyer Kathleen Turner to arrange for appointment to do a thorough security review to include physical security of area/safe in which document/electronic versions are being kept, who has access to the area/safe, do those individuals have appropriate clearances, when the electronic version is uploaded on a computer is it a stand-alone computer, when the disk/thumb drive is removed is any residual information deleted from the computer and any other appropriate questions. This review/inspection needs to be carried out as soon as possible.
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The records also show that, as of December 2, 2014, the Select Committee on Benghazi was still in the dark about the separate Clinton email system. Mrs. Clinton would return some of the requested emails to the State Department on December 5, 2014, but the Select Committee was not informed of this transaction until March 2015. In fact, a December 29, 2014, letter from Mr. Kendall responding to the December 2 request for documents simply refers to the Committee’s request to the State Department with no mention of the Clinton email transfer that took place over three weeks earlier.
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Last week, this same lawsuit produced records that included a State Department letter to Hilly Clinton’s lawyers that includes a list of classified records to be either deleted or returned to the State Department. In September 2015, Judicial Watch released State Department documents showing a nearly five-month gap in the emails that Clinton chose to return to the State Department. Shortly afterward, Judicial Watch released correspondence from Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick F. Kennedy asking Hilly Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, to destroy or return all copies of a classified email “forwarded by Jacob Sullivan to Secretary Clinton … Subject: Fw: FYI – Report of arrests – possible Benghazi connection.” Kendall rejected the request, as Congress and other investigators had demanded electronic records be preserved.  The correspondence also shows Hilly Clinton ignored a demand to turn over all electronic copies of the approximately 55,000 pages of emails she previously returned in paper form.
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The State Department and Mrs. Clinton have been misleading the American people, the Congress, and the courts about when the State Department asked her for the government emails she took with her when she left State. The new emails show that Hilly Clinton was specifically and separately asked for her government emails months earlier than what the State Department represented to the courts and what Clinton told the American people. These new documents ought to be of keen interest to the FBI and federal prosecutors investigating Hilly Clinton and her colleagues in the nObama administration.  Were the White House and John hanoi-Kerry in on this deception?
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You can see how the Clinton email controversy is only worsening. So as America waits for the FBI and a compromised Justice Department to act – and as Congress is completely AWOL – your JW is doing the work of getting to the truth about this truly historic scandal.
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Have you ever noticed that whenever liberals say that something won’t happen, it happens? Yeah, I’ve noticed that too. Just weeks after Washington State implemented a new nondiscrimination law that protects “gender identity” a man walked into a women’s locker room at a public pool in Seattle, a possibility that liberals had pooh-poohed when passing the bill.

Other women were shocked because the man evidenced no outwardly feminine characteristics. This was not a dude carrying a purse and wearing a miniskirt; this was a dude who looked like a dude. He calmly began to undress in front of the women who quickly reported him to staff. When he was asked to leave he reportedly said, “The law has changed and I have a right to be here.” He later returned at a time when several young girls were changing for swim practice.

The police were not called and the unidentified man was therefore not arrested. No surprise there; what would they have charged him with? The law, which opponents claim enables voyeurism, would have been on his side. All he would have had to say is that he feels himself a woman in his heart of hearts. If he had been arrested he would have been able to sue the police for wrongful detention.

Such is the insanity of these transgender “rights” laws which completely abandon the idea that maleness and femaleness are objective realities. Those are just social constructs, they argue, and they can be altered with surgery, hormone therapy, or even just a personal decision to be “true” to one’s self. In order to muddy the waters they speak of gender rather than sex, two words that were once synonymous but have recently diverged. Even transgender activists acknowledge sex as being determined by biology though they afford it little importance. It’s gender that concerns them because gender is entirely self-determined.

Nor is gender binary—an “either/or” decision between male and female. Facebook, a company always on the forefront of deviancy, allows its US-based users 51 options for defining gender including “androgynous” and “genderqueer.” Said Facebook on its “diversity” page: “When you come to Facebook to connect with the people, causes, and organizations you care about, we want you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self. An important part of this is the expression of gender, especially when it extends beyond the definitions of just ‘male’ or ‘female.’ So today, we’re proud to offer a new custom gender option to help you better express your own identity on Facebook.”

In short, the transgender movement’s Big Idea is that no one can tell anyone else what his/her/zir gender is because it’s a personal choice. Though completely bonkers, I can see how this idea would appeal to the Left because it rejects the concept of objective reality and fetishizes self-determination.

I’ve often wondered just how far the Left will extend this principle. There must be a bridge too far but where is it?

Perhaps that bridge can be found in Ontario, Canada, where transgender “rights” have been the law of the land since 2012. Almost as soon as the law took effect, a man named Christopher Hambrook checked himself into two women’s shelters. He had to claim to “identify” as a woman in order to gain entrance but that was easy. He called himself “Jessica” and swore that he was every bit as female as the other residents. The shelters were legally obliged to agree with him. Hambrook proceeded to sexually assault several women which is exactly the scenario that opponents of these types of laws warned of.

Surely the law will be repealed now, right? There’s no indication that it will be so I guess that even the Hambrook case isn’t a bridge too far for liberals. It’s just the price we pay for “equal rights.”

Now I don’t really believe that the Left intends these laws to facilitate voyeurism or sexual assault even though that’s been the effect. What they want is for men who genuinely feel they are women to be treated as women. (And women who feel like men, of course.) They essentially want everyone to engage in a mass delusion because it makes delusional people feel better. They’re still wrong about this. Even if we could filter out the pedophiles and peeping toms from the truly gender dysphoric I’d still be against it because I’d rather not lie to myself. But as a matter of fact we can’t filter them out. If each person has full autonomy to decide whether he is male, female, or something else, then each person’s stated gender identity is sacrosanct and non-debatable. Guys like Christopher Hambrook can of course be arrested and jailed after they assault women but they can’t be preemptively barred from women’s shelters as a precautionary measure. Which is utter madness, plain and simple. I can only conclude that in their minds, protecting the delicate feelings of the mentally ill is more important than protecting women and children from pervs.

But what can we do about it? My solution is simple: stop using the transgender activists’ terms. They’re far too subjective and malleable to mean anything at all in a legal sense. I don’t care at all what “gender” you “identify” as. I care about your sex. Sex is meaningful because it is an inalterable reality written into our DNA.

Might the Left, in deference to the principle of self-determination, be willing to allow us to “identify” as anything we want? Well, almost anything. In 2015, a self-identified biracial woman named Rachel Dolezal was discovered to be entirely white which sparked a nationwide debate about racial identity and whether it’s actually fixed at birth. The incident was particularly embarrassing because Dolezal was president of her local NAACP chapter and a world-class race-baiter. Writing in Time magazine, liberal pundit and retired NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar concluded that yes, Rachel Dolezal can be black if she wants to be. Race is complex and illusory, he posits, therefore the race we “identify” with is much more important than the race we’re actually born into. It’s an exact analogue of the transgender argument transposed onto the racial issue. The only difference here is that the transgender movement differentiates between sex and gender, while race is still a solitary, unified concept.

One gets the idea from his article that Abdul-Jabbar will allow Dolezal her blackness because she’s been, in his words, a “fierce and unrelenting champion” for black people. I think he means that she’s been a racial agitator, which is the same thing in his mind. Dolezal has created or imaged no fewer than nine fake “hate crimes” against herself, the usual modus operandi of black supremacists. But would Abdul-Jabbar be so tolerant of a white kid who claimed to be black on his college application just to take advantage of the lower standards black students are required to meet? I think not, though that sounds like an excellent way to bring the racist affirmative action system crashing down. That “bridge too far” has been identified: it’s okay to feign blackness unless you plan to claim the privileges that blacks jealously guard for themselves.

Other people who “identify” as disabled are actually doing real harm to themselves. They’re called “transabled” and they feel like frauds in their fully functioning bodies. They sometimes cut off arms and legs in order to be true to themselves. Even most leftists, I think, would reject self-mutilation because it’s obviously bizarre; but is it really so different than what transgender people do to themselves in order to achieve fulfillment? It’s a different body part they’re chopping off but mutilation all the same.

Can we determine our own age? Don’t laugh, at least one gender dysphoric man from Toronto has decided that he is in fact female and six years old. “Stephonknee” (an adopted name) Wolschtt left his wife and seven kids so that he could be himself—or “herself” as media reports tag him. He has been adopted by an elderly couple who treat him exactly as they would treat any six year old girl. He spends his days coloring and wearing dresses. “I’m allowed to be exactly who I am and I don’t have to apologize or make excuses because I’m different,” said Wolschtt.

Of course, neither his maleness nor his age are subjective entities open to interpretation. They are facts. But how could someone who considers “gender” to be a personal decision draw the line at age?

Gender may be a complex issue, but it’s also meaningless if each individual can determine it for himself (or herself, zerself). It’s best then not to draft legislation that contains such useless terminology. The path back to sanity requires us to resurrect the idea of sex, an objective reality not open to interpretation. Should we fail to do this we will only slide further into madness.4064209665?profile=original

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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
What a former head of the Mossad revealed 
that left me troubled but enlightened
Caroline B. Glick
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 Justice Scalia Laid to Rest 
The politics were subdued Saturday as the Scalia family laid their patriarch, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to rest. Yes, Liberty lost an articulate and bold defender and the political scrabble surrounding his replacement's nomination will be one for the history books, but the ceremony at the largest Catholic church in the country, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, focused on a great man and a higher truth.
          "We are gathered here because of one man," eulogized Rev. Paul Scalia, the son of the justice. "A man known personally to many of us, known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many, scorned by others. A man known for great controversy, and for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth. It is He whom we proclaim. Jesus Christ, son of the father, born of the Virgin Mary, crucified, buried, risen, seated at the right hand of the Father. It is because of him. because of his life, death and resurrection that we do not mourn as those who have no hope, but in confidence we commend Antonin Scalia to the mercy of God."
          Washington elites such as AG Loretta Lynch, Joe loose lips-Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts filled the pews. But one man was noticeably absent: Barack nObama. He released a photo of himself carrying a thick binder with what he said were potential Supreme Court nominees that he would go through over the weekend. That was Friday. On Sunday, rain interrupted his golf game. Nothing better than scoring political points.  -The Patriot Post
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 The GOP Race and the nObama Effect 
The results from South Carolina are in with few surprises, unless perhaps it would be Marco Rubio's second-place finish after coming in a dismal fifth in New Hampshire. Ted Cruz came in third (though only about 1,000 votes behind Rubio) in a state that should have been tailor-made for him. Donald slump-Trump performed strongly despite praising nObamaCare and essentially calling the last Republican president a war criminal. Perhaps he can, as he recently boasted, "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and [not] lose any voters."
          The slump-Trump Train remains impossible to derail until the field is down to two. Yes, Jeb Bush dropped out, but John Kasich and Ben Carson remain in the race, diluting the not-slump-Trump vote. As Rubio put it, "[O]ver 70% of Republicans nationally have basically said we're not voting for Donald slump-Trump. And as long as that 70% is being divided up ... of course he's the frontrunner." That's assuming slump-Trump has reached his ceiling. He's defied all conventional wisdom so far, but it does seem that 30-35% is his plateau in the primary. Until Rubio or Cruz bows out, slump-Trump has the clearest path to the nomination — followed by what at present appears to be a significant loss to Hilly Clinton.
          The trouble is that neither Rubio nor Cruz has any reason to leave the race yet. They virtually tied in South Carolina, and are polling neck-and-neck in Nevada (which votes Tuesday). Most unfortunately, they've spent most of their time in recent weeks attacking each other, which has made both of them less appealing.
          As we have said before, slump-Trump's card is the ace of anger affirmation — he's tapping into an entirely justified swell of frustration among voters. And for that, we can thank Barack nObama and the failure of the GOP establishment to effectively stop him. If slump-Trump wins the nomination, it may simply be the Republican establishment reaping what it sowed. That's all well and good, but we think it will ultimately lead to Clinton carrying on nObama's legacy from the White House. What will that have accomplished?  -The Patriot Post
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 Jeb! Loses All Energy to Continue Campaign 
With the results of the South Carolina primary placing him in fourth, Jeb!™ Bush dropped out of the GOP presidential primary, saying, "The presidency is bigger than any one person." Winning South Carolina was key to Bush's campaign. It was where his brother and father picked up their support in their races. But the possibility of a Bush family dynasty and the crass rhetoric of Donald slump-Trump doomed the former Florida governor's efforts.
          "I have had a front row seat to this office for much of my adult life," Bush said in the speech announcing the end of his campaign. "I have seen fallible men rise up to the challenges of our time, with humility, and clarity of purpose ... to make our nation safer, stronger, and freer. I firmly believe the American people must entrust this office to someone who understands that whoever holds it is the servant, not the master. Someone who will commit to that service with honor and decency."
          And with those comments, Bush demonstrated his respect for voters, the office and the process. As conservative blogger Rod Dreher wrote, it was Bush's good character that prevented him from stooping to slump-Trump's level. It was what made him, in part, appear "low energy." If it wasn't for the toxic name of "Bush," Jeb could have been one of the front runners in this primary. And despite not being the ideal candidate for 2016, his dropping out means there's one less man of character in the race.   -The Patriot Post
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U.S. Scrambles to Contain 
Growing ISIS Threat in Libya
ERIC SCHMITT
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Senegalese commandos during a recent United States-led training exercise in Senegal
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{mobile.nytimes.com} ~ The Islamic State’s branch in Libya is deepening its reach across a wide area of Africa, attracting new recruits from countries like Senegal that had been largely immune to the jihadist propaganda... and forcing the African authorities and their Western allies to increase efforts to combat the fast-moving threat. The American airstrikes in northwestern Libya on Friday, which demolished an Islamic State training camp and were aimed at a top Tunisian operative, underscore the problem, Western officials said. The more than three dozen suspected Islamic State fighters killed in the bombing were recruited from Tunisia and other African countries, officials said, and were believed to be rehearsing an attack against Western targets. Even as American intelligence agencies say the number of Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria has dropped to about 25,000 from a high of about 31,500, partly because of the United States-led air campaign there, the group’s ranks in Libya have roughly doubled in the same period, to about 6,500 fighters. More than a dozen American and allied officials spoke of their growing concern about the militant organization’s expanding reach from Libya and across Africa on rules of anonymity because the discussions involved intelligence and military planning.  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/world/africa/us-scrambles-to-contain-growing-isis-threat-in-libya.html?referer=http://www.drudgereport.com/&_r=1
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White House slashed NYC terror funding to punish Schumer, former top cop says
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There's a certain amount vindictiveness on the part of Washington aimed at Sen. Chuck Schumer," Ray Kelly, New York City's police commissioner under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ New York City's former top cop said Sunday that the nObama administration cut funding to fight terrorism in the city to retaliate against Sen. Chuck Schumer for opposing a nuclear deal with Iran... "There's a certain amount vindictiveness on the part of Washington aimed at Sen. Chuck Schumer," Ray Kelly, New York City's police commissioner under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said in an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York. "Apparently they remember very well that Sen. Schumer did not support their Iran deal," Kelly said, arguing the proposed cut "was aimed at getting a reaction from Sen. Schumer." http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2583819
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Cruz: We Cannot Let This Guy Get Away
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ My wife Mary and I are in Nevada with our Conservative Campaign Committee team campaigning for Ted Cruz. We awoke this morning to snow. Mary asked me to walk several blocks from our hotel to Walgreen’s to pick up a few things... With my headset plugged into my smart phone, I listened to Ted Cruz’s press conference during my trek. Wow! Cruz’s brilliant bold performance at that press conference showcased why America desperately needs Ted Cruz in the White House. The MSM (Democrat operatives) tried to use nObama’s talking points to pressure Cruz and the GOP into allowing nObama to appoint a flaming liberal to the Supreme Court in his remaining months. Cruz did not fall for it. He firmly said no; not happening. Cruz went on to say: “And I believe we should make 2016 a referendum on the US Supreme Court. If the Democrats want to jam in a liberal judicial activist to undermine the First Amendment, to undermine the Second Amendment, to take away our religious liberty, we should make that an issue for the American people.”        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/02/cruz-we-cannot-let-this-guy-get-away/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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America’s second-worst charity 
agrees to shut down
Tampa Bay Times staff
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{revealnews.org} ~ Remember Cancer Fund of America? It came in at No. 2 on the list of America’s Worst Charities in 2013, when the Tampa Bay Times, The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN teamed up to find the most wasteful charities in the country... Back then, here’s what we said about the charity: While Cancer Fund provides care packages that contain shampoo and toothbrushes, the people in charge have personally made millions of dollars and used donations as venture capital to build a charity empire. Less than 2 cents of every dollar raised has gone to direct cash aid for patients or families, records show. For years, Cancer Fund founder James T. Reynolds Sr. and his family have obscured that fact with accounting tricks, deceptive marketing campaigns and lies.        https://www.revealnews.org/blog/americas-second-worst-charity-agrees-to-shut-down/?utm_source=Reveal%20Newsletters&utm_campaign=3e5c69bbb0-The_Weekly_Reveal_02_15_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c38de7c444-3e5c69bbb0-229916753
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Here’s how California could be missing
pesticides’ cancer risk
Andrew Donohue
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{revealnews.org} ~ California’s pesticide police could be missing a serious health concern for residents and farm workers by failing to monitor what happens when pesticides get mixed together... As a new report from UCLA highlighted today, California studies only how each individual pesticide affects human health. Often, however, workers and residents are exposed to a number of pesticides at the same time. That can happen when pesticides get mixed together before they’re applied to fields or when different pesticides are used in the same field on the same day. A growing body of science is showing that the chemical cocktails could create greater health risks than each pesticide does on its own.       https://www.revealnews.org/blog/heres-how-california-could-be-missing-pesticides-cancer-risk/?utm_source=Reveal%20Newsletters&utm_campaign=3e5c69bbb0-The_Weekly_Reveal_02_15_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c38de7c444-3e5c69bbb0-229916753
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Trigger Warnings in Annapolis
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Midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The immediate subject of Joanna Williams’s depressing but compellingly written chronicle of the threats to Anglo-American academia over the last several decades is the concerted attack... first by the professors themselves and now by students, against the academic freedom of the title. Academic freedom is the ability of the professorate to express, explore, and teach even those ideas that don’t happen to be cut to this decade’s fashions. Thus academic freedom and its enemies may seem initially to be a narrow issue, of interest to few outside the now dwindling number of tenured professors who thought they were free to follow truth, and who discover instead that they can be shouted down by colleagues or students who feel that what the professor is saying “supports oppression.” Even worse, in Williams’s view, are those who self-censor to get their writing published and gain advancement while avoiding disapproval. However, the issues Williams addresses are of far wider importance than the professional interests of academics. First of all, most of the people reading a review like this will have been students at such institutions, and now may well have children going to them or hoping to do so. Indeed many readers may themselves be associated with such institutions—so central to our national economic health that President nObama suggests that virtually all young people should, for their own benefit and that of the country, go to college. Universities matter to the nation.        http://freebeacon.com/culture/trigger-warnings-in-annapolis/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=465d68d2a1-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_22_162_21_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-465d68d2a1-45611665
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Congress Moves to Boost Investment 
in Israeli Technology
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An Iron Dome missile interceptor overlooking Haifa, Israel 
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Congress is seeking to boost U.S. investment in Israeli security technologies and other sectors in response to efforts by international anti-Israel groups to promote economic boycotts of the Jewish state... according to a copy of a measure obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. As lawmakers pave the way for U.S. states to divest taxpayer funds from anti-Israel companies, another group of legislators is pushing a measure that would encourage the nObama administration to invest in new Israeli technologies, including those that could prevent cyber security attacks and other national security threats. The latest measure comes in response to efforts by anti-Israel supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, to convince U.S. companies to stop operating in the Jewish state. http://freebeacon.com/issues/congress-moves-to-boost-economic-investment-in-israel/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=465d68d2a1-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_22_162_21_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-465d68d2a1-45611665
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Gowdy – Cummings Can’t Complain, He And
Dems Delayed Benghazi Hearings
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{rickwells.us} ~ Wolf Blitzer asks Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to comment on remarks made by the ranking Democrat on his Benghazi  committee, Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD)...  Blitzer asked Cummings the previous day’s broadcast, “Are you learning new information that’s going to be useful to the American public?” Cummings replied, “No, it’s the same rehashing of information we already know, period. I think the Republicans are trying to draw this out into the election. I think they’ll try to go probably until August or November if they can. But this has been dragged out too long, again, six million dollars we’ve spent already and counting. So it needs to be shut down and we need to move on.” Blitzer asks Gowdy, “Are you trying to drag it out until November as he suggests?” Gowdy replies, “No Wolf, we’d like to get it done as quickly as possible. If he would help just a little bit; he spent more time talking to you than he has the agencies trying to get us the documents we’re entitled to.”        http://rickwells.us/archives/26415
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Phone Fight with the Government Shows
How Apple Misled the Public
Fred Fleitz
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{aim.org} ~ The conflict that arose this week when Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company will resist a court order to provide the FBI with “reasonable technical assistance”... to break into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists stunned many observers, because Apple was saying just a few months ago that the encryption on its latest smartphones was so secure that even Apple could not break it. But it turns out the FBI thought of a way to break into iPhones by having Apple disable a feature that destroys information on a phone if too many incorrect passcodes are entered. This reportedly would be done by Apple using its “master key” to update the phone’s operating-system software to disable this feature. Getting the information on this phone is crucial to U.S. national security. Its user, Syed Farook, likely was working with others in addition to his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in amassing what law enforcement called a bomb factory in their home. Farook and Malik both swore allegiance to ISIS. Questions need to be resolved as to whether the couple were involved in a broader terrorist conspiracy and whether they were in contact with ISIS members in Syria and Iraq.     http://www.aim.org/guest-column/phone-fight-with-the-government-shows-how-apple-misled-the-public/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022216&utm_medium=email
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What a former head of the Mossad revealed 
that left me troubled but enlightened
Caroline B. Glick
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Recently I found myself in a chance conversation with a former head of the Mossad’s Directorate of Operations. The former master spy, whom I had never met before, knew that I am a journalist.
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He was aware of my political views.
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Directing his remarks at a friend of mine, he declared that 99 percent of Mossad and Shin Bet officers are leftists. He then added triumphantly that according to a former commander of the air force whose name he cited, 99% of the air force’s pilots are similarly leftists.
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Initially, I dismissed his comments as obnoxious chest-beating by a man who felt like irritating a group of right-wingers.
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But given the source, it is impossible to simply brush off what he said. And to be clear, far more troubling than the prospect that Israel’s security establishment is uniformly leftist is the notion that there is any intellectual or ideological uniformity of any kind in the ranks of our defense community.
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But given our defense community’s record in recent years, there is ample reason to believe that there is more than a grain of salt in the spy chief’s boast.
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Consider Israel’s handling of Gaza.
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According to a number of senior officers, at the end of Operation Protective Edge in 2014, the IDF’s senior commanders convened in Tel Aviv to determine how to handle the Hamas regime going forward.
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During Protective Edge, Israel learned a few things about Hamas and about the strategic balance of power between Israel and Hamas in the region and the world.
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On the ground Israel learned that Hamas bases its offensive capabilities on civilian infrastructure.
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Hamas placed its missiles, its communications centers and its operational commands inside civilian buildings including private homes, hospitals, clinics, schools, mosques and UN offices.
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As far as the strategic balance and resources of both sides, during the war Hamas enjoyed the de facto backing of the nObama administration.
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Throughout the war, the administration pressured Israel to accept Hamas’s cease-fire terms as dictated by its state sponsors Qatar and Turkey.
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On the other hand, Israel was able to avoid bowing to the US’s pro-Hamas demands because throughout the conflict we enjoyed the open support of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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In other words, during the war, Israel discovered that Hamas’s military strategy was based entirely on an implicit alliance with the West, which attacked Israel for targeting Hamas’s military infrastructure, which, again, was all based in civilian structures.
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It might have been assumed that the IDF senior commanders would have based their post-war deliberations on these lessons. But according to senior IDF sources, that didn’t happen.
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At the outset of that postwar meeting, IDF commanders were told that Israel’s best option was to assist in the reconstruction of Gaza – that is, the reconstruction of Hamas’s civilian-based military machine.
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The discussion then moved to the question of how best to achieve that goal.
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The notion that Israel is best off when Gazans are not living in the streets is certainly a legitimate one.
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Perhaps it would have withstood scrutiny if it had been subjected to scrutiny. But it wasn’t.
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And in hindsight, it is obvious that it should have been.
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In keeping with the decision to support the reconstruction of Gaza, according to the Foreign Ministry, over the past year and a half Israel has permitted 3.4 million tons of building materials to be imported into Gaza. And yet, according to a recent report by the UN, 74% of the civilian buildings that were destroyed in Protective Edge have yet to be rebuilt.
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In the meantime, Hamas has replenished its missile stores and rebuilt its military infrastructure, including its subterranean attack tunnels that traverse the border into Israel.
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Both the continued suffering of the Gazans, and the sounds of drilling under the homes of Israelis living along the border with Gaza, indicate that at a minimum, the security establishment’s immediate post-war determination that Israel must permit building materials to enter Gaza was a bit hasty.
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Then there is Iran.
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Iran’s illicit nuclear program was first exposed in 2003. At the time, it probably made sense for Israel to follow the US’s lead in blocking Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But then, the Americans’ continued stumbles in Iraq made clear from as early as 2004 that perhaps the Bush administration wouldn’t be up to the challenge of blocking Iran’s path to the bomb.
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The early suspicions that then-president George W. Bush would not block Iran’s nuclear ambitions became an all-but certainty in the wake of the publication of the 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate.
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The NIE made the dubious claim that Iran had abandoned its military nuclear program in 2003.
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Despite the fact that the claim was contradicted by the report itself, in light of Bush’s political weakness at the end of his second term, the NIE rendered it politically impossible for Bush to order a military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations. It also made it politically possible for President Barack nObama to initiate his pro-Iranian Middle East policy a year later.
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As for nObama, despite his oft-stated claim that “all option remain on the table” for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program, any thought that he might be serious became patently absurd after he sided with the regime during the 2009 Green Revolution that followed its falsification of the results of the presidential elections.
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None of this, however, made an impression on the security brass. Led by the Mossad, for more than a decade our senior commanders insisted that Israel could trust the US on Iran.
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Last week Russia announced that it will sell Sukhoi Su-30 combat fighters to Iran. According to former senior Pentagon official Stephen Bryen, the sale will tip the strategic balance in the Persian Gulf in Iran’s favor and over time, give Iran “an answer to Israel’s air power.”
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Iran’s acquisition of the Su-30s is but one of a panoply of weapons deals the regime has signed with suppliers since the sanctions regime was canceled last month. These sales, together with Iran’s clear path to nuclear capabilities mean that Iran’s rise to the position of regional hegemon is unimpeded.
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This then brings us to Israel’s options, moving forward. Amazingly, it would seem that Israel continues to take its signals on Iran from the Americans.
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After all, at least on the surface, Israel’s security establishment and our political leaders seem most concerned today with concluding a deal for supplemental US military assistance in the wake of nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
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Perhaps a reassessment is overdue.
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If Iran’s empowerment is now more or less a done deal, then the nature of the regime becomes the central variable that it may still be possible to change.
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In the years that preceded the 2009 Green Revolution in Iran, a small group of former Mossad officers joined forces with a small group of American Iran experts in beseeching the government – and first and foremost the Mossad – to support the Iranian opposition in its bid to overthrow the regime. These calls were ratcheted up throughout the months of the Green Revolution in 2009 and early 2010.
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These Iran experts argued that all Israel needed to do was provide secure communications to the opposition to enable its members to organize effectively, and to broadcast their messages to the public in Iran through radio, television and Internet servers maintained abroad.
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Arming Iran’s many disaffected groups, including the Azeris, Baluchis, Kurds, Ahwaz Arabs, unions and women, wouldn’t be necessary, they said, although it certainly would be helpful. They argued further that from Israel’s perspective, helping the opposition made sense even if the opposition failed to overthrow the regime. After all, the more time the regime was forced to devote to fending off challenges from home, the less time it would have to wage its campaigns against Israel directly and through its terrorist proxies.
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These calls were dismissed out of hand by the security establishment. Our intelligence services in particular insisted that Israel could trust Washington to deal with Iran. Moreover, they maintained, Israel didn’t have a real dog in the fight over who leads Iran. This despite the fact that Israel is surprisingly popular among Iran’s citizenry, over a million of whom regularly listened to Voice of Israel Farsi broadcasts.
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Six years on, there is no doubt that regime opponents are weaker than they were on the eve of the Green Revolution. But even today in the wake of the nuclear deal, they are far from a spent force.
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The regime continues to fear the Iranian people – which continues to hate it – more than it fears anything else. This is why the regime rejected some 90% of the candidates running in the national elections later this month. This is why the regime outlawed every direct and indirect reference to Valentine’s Day this week.
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This is why politically driven arrests and executions have increased massively since the supposedly reformist president Hassan Rouhani came to power in 2013.
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THE NEED FOR the IDF to open itself up to unorthodox views manifested itself in a seemingly unrelated incident this week.
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On Sunday Channel 2 broadcast footage of IDF Chief Rabbi Brig.-Gen. Rafi Peretz dancing at a wedding with a rabbi identified with the far Right.
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Following the report, the IDF Spokesman’s Office announced that Rabbi Peretz had been summoned to the office of OC Manpower Maj.-Gen. Hagai Topolanski for clarifications.
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The IDF’s response is alarming for the message it sends the officer corps and through it, to the security community as a whole. That message is that it is unacceptable for officers to have any contacts – let along an intellectual exchanges – with people who stand beyond a narrow spectrum of views.
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This is bad enough for the elitist social message it sends. But given the threat environment Israel faces, narrowly defining the boundaries of permitted social and intellectual contacts is dangerous.
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Today Israel is facing complex, multifaceted security challenges that exist and grow in an equally complex, multifaceted diplomatic environment. To develop the means of dealing with the challenges, our security establishment needs to cultivate a permissive intellectual climate among our commanders that rewards free thinking and promotes free thinkers.
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Perhaps that retired Mossad commander was just a blowhard. Perhaps he was giving an accurate accounting of the intellectual climate in the senior ranks of Israel’s national security establishment. In all likelihood, the truth lays somewhere in the middle.
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But what is clear enough is that the time has come to air out the ranks of our national defense establishment.
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Our senior commanders need to reassess their operational assumptions in order to develop plans going forward that are based on a broad spectrum of ideas.
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The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Hilly's Manservants, Exposed
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Great Power Realignment - To Russia?
Shoshana Bryen
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U.S. President Barack nObama, perhaps sensing futility, called Russian
President Vladimir Putin last weekend. The Kremlin's report of the 
phone call posits the U.S. and Russia getting closer -- 
although, it appears, on Russia's terms. 
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The shelling of Syrian soldiers by the Turkish military is one more step back into Great Power politics -- historic Turkish-Russian enmity played out over Kurds and Syrians... The U.S. appears to believe 21st century wars cannot be won by military force and that battling parties can be induced to set aside their national and religious aims for a negotiated "peace." Meanwhile, the parties to the conflict are using their armies to pursue victory. Last week, Turkey attacked Kurdish fighters who were struggling to connect Kurdish territory in northern Iraq with a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria along the Turkish border. The Kurds, backed by Russian air power, want to oust Turkish-backed Syrian rebels from the Azaz region, in order to create contiguous territory from northern Iraq to Syrian Kurdistan, and prevent the Syrian rebels from being resupplied by Turkey. The net effect is to boost Kurdish-Russian cooperation; to provide relief for Assad's army in the north; to increase Turkey's hostility toward Russia; and possibly to put Turkey on a collision course with the U.S. -- if Ankara believes its position in NATO will protect it from Russian fallout. It should be noted that although Turkish troops attacked Syrians, they stayed clear of threatening Russia directly. The U.S. has urged both Turkey and the Kurds to decrease hostilities, but Turkey dismissed U.S. calls for a ceasefire. Attacks on the Kurds continued as Turkey began to fire on Syrian forces, and Turkey's President Tayyip Recep Erdogan did not rule out a ground attack inside Syria.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7453/us-russia-syria-realignment
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Cuba's Dissident Crackdown Peaks Ahead of
nObama's Historic Visit
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{bloomberg.com} ~ Even some supporters of President Barack nObama’s moves to strengthen relations with Cuba are questioning the timing of his planned visit to the Communist island next month... after arrests of dissidents by Raul Castro’s government reached a five-year high. nObama vowed Thursday that he’ll promote human rights during his historic visit, the first by a sitting American president since 1928. But more than a year of warming relations between the nations, separated by just 90 miles, have so far failed to slow the Cuban government’s crackdown on political dissidents. The Madrid-based Cuban Observatory on Human Rights said 1,474 people, including 512 women, were “arbitrarily” detained in January. The arrests have been climbing since the December 2014 announcement that the two governments would improve ties.        http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-18/cuba-s-dissident-crackdown-peaks-ahead-of-obama-s-historic-visit
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This Government Agency Offends the Constitution
and Needs to Be Eliminated
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{dailysignal.com} ~ A little-known federal government agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, imposes enormous costs on consumers and financial service providers through costly and unwarranted command-and-control regulation... What’s more, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau runs afoul of the constitutionally mandated separation of powers. Thus, both economic and constitutional concerns indicate that it is time for Congress to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and reallocate those of its functions that merit being retained to other existing federal regulatory agencies.  Creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was a key feature of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which, as Heritage scholars have explained, represents a failed attempt to address the causes of the 2008 financial crisis in fact, it makes future financial crises and bailouts more likely.       http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/16/this-government-agency-offends-the-constitution-and-needs-to-be-eliminated/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saturday&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zLcO%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjMrnYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDH3rhbLOWYxceLV9yOhlovnyjDE%3D
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nObama the Obstructionist
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{dailysignal.com} ~ What a shock. Now that he’s at the White House—and facing GOP opposition to appointing a new Supreme Court justice in the mere months before a new president is elected... President Barack nObama seems to have changed his tune a decade after serving as a U.S. senator. As we detail in the below video, nObama used to think it was appropriate for senators including himself to block judicial nominees. In fact, he filibustered Justice Samuel Alito’s confirmation to the Supreme Court along with circuit court nominees Janice Rogers Brown, William Pryor, and Leslie Southwick. But White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday that nObama sees things a little differently now. Speaking about filibustering Alito’s nomination, Earnest said, per The Hill, “That is an approach the president regrets.” Thats a lie.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/18/obama-the-obstructionist/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saturday&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zLcO%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjMrnYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDH3rhbLOWYxceLV9yOhlovnyjDE%3D
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slump-Trump Accused Of 
Financially Threatening Woman 
Suing slump-Trump University
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Court papers reveal that Donald slump-Trump is accused of threatening to financially ruin a former student of slump-Trump University who is suing the Billionaire Bloviator for fraud... In 2005, slump-Trump opened slump-Trump University, a for-profit but non-accredited school where he would bestow his industry expertise upon the masses — aka anyone who forked over up to $60,000. That same year, he licensed his name to an affiliate program called the slump-Trump Institute. slump-Trump University wasn’t a real school it a series of real estate workshops in hotel ballrooms around the country. In 2010, four students sued the “university” for “offering classes that amounted to extended ‘infomercials,’ ‘selling non-accredited products,’ and ‘taking advantage of these troubled economic times to prey on consumer’s fears.’” 2011 saw the enterprise go belly up and in 2013, the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued slump-Trump and slump-Trump University for allegedly defrauding students. In three pending lawsuits, including one in which the New York attorney general is seeking $40 million in restitution, former students allege that the enterprise bilked them out of their money with misleading advertisements. http://lidblog.com/trump-accused-of-financially-threatening-woman-suing-trump-university/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=0f13eff3a0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-0f13eff3a0-291705165
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Americans Oppose Invasion 
– Why Can’t We Stop It?
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{rickwells.us} ~ The South Carolina GOP primary provided a chance to harvest information aside from simply which candidate the Republican voters prefer... The American people are watching as their country is being destroyed, our sovereignty eroded and our borders erased under the regime of Hussein nObama and his henchmen, Jeh Johnson at DHS and John hanoi-Kerry at the State Department. The record turnout provided an unprecedented opportunity to poll the average South Carolinian to get a feel for where they stand on several issues, two of them relating to foreigners entering and remaining in our country. On the issue of illegal aliens, individuals who have no right to be in the United States and do so in violation of our federal immigration laws, over forty percent of the voters favored deportation. As for a temporary pause on the immigration of people from Muslim countries, the sentiment is strongly in favor of such an action, with 73 percent indicating support for such a freeze and only 24 percent against the idea. The numbers in New Hampshire were similar, with 65 percent favoring a pause.       http://rickwells.us/archives/26377
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Chilling Details: Hamas Plot to
Assassinate Netanyahu in Terror Attack
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{algemeiner.com} ~ Details of a thwarted Hamas-hatched plan to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were revealed for the first time on Sunday, after a two-month interrogation of the suspects involved, the Hebrew news site Walla reported... According to the report, the plot was made public with the Attorney General’s indictment last month of two of the terrorists, including the head of the cell, a 25-year-old from Kfar Yassuf in the West Bank who had rented an apartment in the Abu Dis neighborhood of east Jerusalem. Ahmed Azzam was in the advanced stages of establishing Hamas infrastructure in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, with funding and direction from Hamas in Gaza, the indictment said. To this end, he had purchased chemical materials and rented the apartment in east Jerusalem, where he set up an explosives lab. Also, according to the indictment, Azzam recruited the terrorist who was tasked with transporting the bombs beyond the Green Line.        http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/02/21/chilling-details-emerge-from-thwarted-east-jerusalem-hamas-plot-to-assassinate-netanyahu-in-public-terror-attack/
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Palestinians: hanoi-Kerry and 
the Game of Obfuscation
Khaled Abu Toameh
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Palestinian Authority leaders, official television, schools and media outlets often display maps showing Palestine stretching from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea. The maps do not show the existence of Israel.
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ U.S. Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry is back in town. This time he is meeting with Jordanian and Palestinian leaders about "ongoing security issues in the region and continued tensions between Israel and the Palestinians."... For those not involved in political newspeak, here is a translation: "Ongoing security issues" = the Islamic State terror group (ISIS). "Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians" = the ongoing wave of Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks that began October 2015. Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA) fighting ISIS? Now that's an idea! Jordanian King Abdullah and PA President Mahmoud Abbas ending "tensions" between Israel and the Palestinians? Let's think about that.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7480/palestinians-john-kerry
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The Growing Threat of ISIS Unleashing a
Weapon of Mass Destruction
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The apocalyptic ideology that propels the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is by now well known. Much less widely known are the use of chemical weapons by ISIS in Iraq and Syria... and the disappearance of radioactive materials in Iraq that could be used in a “dirty bomb,” a radiological weapon of mass destruction (WMD). Reuters reported the disappearance of 10 grams of a “highly dangerous” radioactive isotope used to test oil and gas pipelines in southern Iraq, which Iraqi authorities fear may have fallen into the hands of ISIS. The Iridium-192 material, classified as a Category 2 radioactive source, could permanently injure people exposed to it for only a few hours, or kill people exposed to it longer. The radioactive isotope was stolen in November from a storage facility in the southern city of al-Zubair, which is more than 300 miles away from ISIS-controlled territory. But ISIS has launched attacks nearby.    http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/19/the-growing-threat-of-isis-unleashing-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zLe%2B%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjMrzYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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Expert: U.S. military could topple 
like Jenga blocks
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{wnd.com} ~ An expert on military preparedness says the United States armed forces could topple like a Jenga block tower if President nObama’s social agenda is allowed to continue... “If the nObama administration continues to remove resources from the Jenga block tower’s base, while loading burdens of social engineering on the top, the structure will become increasingly unstable and eventually fall,” contends a new report from the Center for Military Readiness, referring to the block-stacking game. CMR is run by Elaine Donnelly, who was appointed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. Later, President George H.W. Bush appointed her to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. She also the author of “Constructing the Co-Ed Military” and wrote a chapter called “Defending the Culture of the Military,” published by the Air Force University Press in 2010 in the book “Attitudes Are Not Free – Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces.”        http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/02/expert-u-s-military-could-topple-like-jenga-blocks/?cat_orig=politics
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Hilly's Manservants, Exposed
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{townhall.com} ~ Liberals who remember "Doonesbury" surely recall the joke about George H. W. Bush pledging to "put his manhood in a blind trust" so he could be Ronald Reagan's vice president. But when it comes to covering Hilly Clinton, reporters now have been exposed putting their own manhood in a blind trust. It turns out they submit to orders made by her longtime publicist, Philippe Reines.
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They have tossed aside all vestiges of objective journalism -- in fact, journalism itself -- to please the boss.
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It's an ugly set of transactions, conducted in secret. To try and gain access to the very inaccessible Clinton, flattery is one method, but press dictated by the campaign is the real coin of the realm.
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Gawker used the Freedom of Information Act to get to the exchanges between reporters and Reines, the Hilly Clinton gatekeeper. Their new find is Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic, who has worked in the political-news departments at ABC and CBS. The headline: "This Is How Hilly Clinton Gets the Coverage She Wants."
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In July 2009, Hilly was delivering a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ambinder wanted an advance copy of the speech, a normal request, sometimes granted, sometimes not. Reines had a novel response. He insisted on conditions. "You must describe her tone as 'muscular,' and you must note that her most prominent underlings at the State Department George Mitchell, Richard Holbrooke would be seated in front of her to convey her command of the staff."
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"Got it," Ambinder shot back. Later that day, he published a story doing Clinton's bidding right at the top, touting a "muscular speech" Clinton would deliver that day in front of her rival "power centers" in the State Department.
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Mike Allen at Politico and Mark Landler at The New York Times also used copy that showed Reines was orchestrating Clinton's press clips with them as well. Both reporters used the adjective "muscular" and both cited the other envoys in front of her. They needed to stay on Team Hilly.
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Ambinder never stopped being a lap dog. Days later, he emailed Reines to coo over a "Meet the Press" appearance: "She kicked A on MTP." A 2010 email from Ambinder to Reines on a press conference covering the WikiLeaks outrages oozed: "This is an awesome presser. ... She is PITCH f#$*& PERFECT on this stuff."
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When contacted by Gawker, Ambinder pleaded that this was an "incomplete" record:
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"The exchange is probably at best an incomplete record of what went down. That said, the transactional nature of such interactions always gave me the willies. ... At no point at The Atlantic did I ever feel the pressure to make transactional journalism the norm."
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The Atlantic added this lame note on their website above Ambinder's 2009 piece: "On February 9, 2016, Gawker called the reporting of this post into question. It is The Atlantic's policy never to cede to sources editorial control of the content of our stories."
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No it's not. That answer is about as honest as The Atlantic's reporting.
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Last November, Gawker exposed Mike Allen at Politico emailing Reines offering to host Chelsea Clinton at a very cozy Politico brunch: "No one besides me would ask her a question, and you and I would agree on them precisely in advance. ... The interview would be "no-surprises'."
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Real Facts vs Transparent Diversions

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

Well, we knew this was going to become the latest attack mode to be employed by Donald tb-1.jpg?width=192Trump and we knew as well, that his substance-free appraisal would be echoed, far and wide, by the blind sheep who follow and support him.

Now that Marco Rubio has emerged as a serious contender to Trump’s coronation as Dictator in Chief…Trump is calling into question Rubio’s eligibility, and social media is abuzz with Trumpers sharing his latest blather.

Oh, you can scream “CONSTITUTION” and “NATURAL BORN” together in the same sentence all you care to but it doesn’t change one simple fact…that nowhere in the Constitution exists a definition OF Natural Born Citizen. It doesn’t. That’s a fact. Like it or not.

And you can scream that everybody back then knew what it meant and it meant that to be a Natural Born Citizen, one had to have TWO parents who were BOTH citizens but there is yet another nagging fact regarding that misguided assessment…

It isn’t true. More on that shortly.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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It’s a Supreme Court plot line that would be worthy of the upcoming season of House of Cards, the Netflix show that often pits a power-driven president against an obstinate Congress.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has declared he has no intention of moving any Obama appointee to a floor vote until we have a White Christian President. President Obama might contemplate making an emergency executive order and having his choice take office immediately, to serve a term that, under the War Powers Act, could last almost two years (until the end of the next session of Congress in late 2017). There would no doubt be challenges to such an unconstitutional move, but the White House has made it clear that it doesn't care.

Fox News​ asked Senator Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, whether he would recommend that the president make an executive order. Leahy evaded the issue by answering. “I don’t know.Maybe.I'll have to check the polls.We just don't like making the Republicans mad and stuff.”

Well, actually he might be. It’s in dispute, but several legal scholars say that President Obama has the power to do whatever he wants thanks to the Patriot Act.

Both sides are now clearly divided on ideological lines and their base voters will probably punish anyone inclined to compromise.Republicans attempting to hold out for a patriotic justice and Democrats wanting a socialist Muslim.

Voters want the Republican-led Congress and President Obama to work together, and they're far more likely to blame Atheists than the Christians for preventing that from happening.

“This is turning a page,” said Robert Gibbs, a former White House press secretary and longtime Obama adviser. “I think it’s a realization that, regardless of the outcome of the election, Republicans still aren’t in a position to stop the President from doing what ever he wants. It wasn’t like the loser loses. We already had an election, and nothing really changed.”

The White House has not said who it will appoint but that the decision will be made this week.

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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Win One For Nino
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 Counterterrorism Logjam: Apple vs. FBI 
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." —Benjamin Franklin
          The attempt to find balance between Liberty and security is the primary challenge facing our efforts to fight terrorism in modern America. That debate is now playing out between the FBI and Apple over the iPhone that belonged to San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook.
          U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym gave tech giant Apple until Feb. 26 to decide whether to help unlock Farook's iPhone (bypass the 10-attempt limit on the passcode) so that investigators can look for evidence of connections with other terrorists. "Despite ... a warrant authorizing the search," said prosecutors, "the government has been unable to complete the search because it cannot access the iPhone's encrypted content. Apple has the exclusive technical means which would assist the government in completing its search, but has declined to provide that assistance voluntarily."
          When a warrant is served, a locked door shouldn't stand in the way. The national security arguments for actually being able to serve this of all warrants are obvious. No one wants terrorists to succeed in killing innocents, and if the information contained on the phone could thwart future attacks, lives could be saved. And Apple notes it has already "worked hard to support the government's efforts to solve this crime." Apple provided all of Farook's data in its possession and had its own engineers advise the FBI.
          But Apple has refused to create a way to unlock this phone. Why? It has, on 70 prior occasions since 2008, helped investigators access other iPhones. Why, as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) put it, has "Apple chose[n] to protect a dead ISIS terrorist's privacy over the security of the American people"?  -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Charles Krauthammer: "Appointing a Supreme Court justice is a two-key operation. The president proposes, the Senate disposes. There is no reason McCon-nell cannot hold the line. And he must. The stakes here — a radical generation-long reversal of direction of the Supreme Court — are the highest this Senate will ever face. If McCon-nell succeeds, he will have resoundingly answered the 'what did we get for 2014?' question. Imagine if the Senate were now in Democratic hands. What we got in 2014 was the power to hold on to Scalia's seat and to the court's conservative majority. But only for now. Blocking an nObama nominee buys just a year. The final outcome depends on November 2016. If the GOP nominates an unelectable or unconservative candidate, a McCon-nell victory will be nothing more than a stay of execution. In 2012, Scalia averred that he would not retire until there was a more ideologically congenial president in the White House. 'I would not like to be replaced,' he explained, 'by someone who immediately sets about undoing everything that I've tried to do for 25 years.' Scalia never got to choose the timing of his leaving office. Those who value the legacy of those now-30 years will determine whether his last wish will be vindicated. Let McCon-nell do his thing. Then in November it's for us to win one for Nino." 
 -The Patriot Post
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE  Warren Throckmorton, professor at Grove City College, explains  why  Thomas Jefferson edited his own copy of the Bible stripped of the supernatural and miraculous works of Jesus, and how he came up with the idea: “In 1804 and around 1820, Thomas Jefferson took two copies of the New Testament and cut out verses that he believed truly came from Jesus. In several letters to friends, Jefferson described the process of assembling the philosophy of Jesus as being as simple as plucking diamonds from a dunghill. Jefferson had a lot of confidence that he could tell the difference between Jesus’ actual teaching and teaching added later by his followers. A copy of the 1804 abridgement of the Gospels has not survived.”  -Fox News
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nObamacare Will Bankrupt the U.S.
Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ One topic of conversation in the Republican race for the White House has been whether President nObama has been incompetent, or actually knows what he’s doing... On the matter of nObama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and nObamacare, self-declared socialist Professor Gerald Friedman seems to agree with conservatives that it can’t and won’t work. Friedman, a supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) “Medicare for All” single-payer plan, says that nObama and his advisers knew that the ACA was a “bad idea” that would not control costs, and that a total federal takeover of the health care system was inevitable. The problem with a federal takeover of health care is that it would bankrupt the U.S., leading to left-wing demands for even more federal control. This is how socialism is coming to America.        http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamacare-will-bankrupt-the-u-s/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email021916&utm_medium=email
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China Cash and Movie Moguls — The Disturbing New Hollywood-Beijing Axis
William F. Jasper
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ It's “Leftward, Ho!” for Chollywood (yes, even though you thought the denizens of Tinseltown had no further Left to go), as the big film studios hop into bed with the corporate fronts of China’s Communist Party... First there was the buyout/takeover of AMC Theaters in 2012 by China’s Dalian Wanda Group led by Wang Jianlin, usually referred to now as “China’s richest billionaire.” More recently, Wang “force of nature” Jianlin has gobbled up Legendary Entertainment, the film studio behind such blockbusters as Jurassic World, 300, the Batman/Dark Knight trilogy, Pacific Rim, Godzilla, and Man of Steel. Wang paid $3.5 billion for that acquisition — and is hungry for more. The $2.5 billion purchase of AMC, the second-largest theater chain in the U.S., catapulted Wanda Group to the status of world’s largest cinema operator, with more than 5,000 screens at nearly 400 locations in six countries. In addition, AMC’s more than 26,000 employees in the United States and Canada also have given Wang Jianlin, a top functionary in the Communist Party of China (CPC) a growing toehold for leverage over American workers dependent on foreign companies for their paychecks. But the AMC acquisition was only an opening wedge in Wang’s strategy for transforming Hollywood’s global reach into a propaganda vehicle and revenue stream for the communist regime in Beijing.  http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22579-china-cash-and-movie-moguls-the-disturbing-new-hollywood-beijing-axis
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Libya disaster: Have Western 
leaders learned anything?
Pete Hoekstra
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ That the U.S. has launched airstrikes against ISIS in Libya should demonstrate once and for all the total disaster of the NATO-led adventure to overthrow Muammar al-Qaddafi in 2011... Libya devolved into a failed state when NATO assisted Qaddafi's radical jihadist opponents in killing him and then promptly abandoned the country. Left in the wake were two rival governments competing for power, which created space for Islamists to turn Libya into a cesspool of extremism. Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton continues to call the debacle American "smart power at its best." Other presidential candidates still argue that it was the right thing to do. How will the West ever learn anything if it can't identify its most obvious failures?       http://www.investigativeproject.org/5165/libya-disaster-have-western-leaders-learned
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Hilly Railed Against GOP Senators Over Scalia Replcaement, Then...
Kevin Whitson
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{patriotupdate.com} ~ The fight to replace recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is heating up, with both Democrats and Republicans weighing in on the matter... Hilly Clinton tweeted out what MSNBC called a “firestorm” of tweets, charging the Senate with the task of swiftly confirming a nomination for the vacant SCOTUS seat. However, as even MSNBC noted, moving swiftly to confirm a SCOTUS nomination wasn’t something Clinton tried to do when George W. Bush was president in 2005. Clinton’s recent tweets telling the Senate to quickly approve a Scalia replacement when nObama presents a nominee are in complete contrast with Clinton’s full and active participation in the delay of a Supreme Court nominee while she was a senator, an apparent hypocrisy which MSNBC noted on Tuesday.        http://patriotupdate.com/hillary-railed-gop-senators-scalia-replacement-video-surfaced/       Video:  http://patriotupdate.com/hillary-railed-gop-senators-scalia-replacement-video-surfaced/
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nObama’s Phony Geraldine Accent Makes
A White House Appearance
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{rickwells.us} ~ nObama held an “it’s all about me and my skin color” event at the White House on Thursday following a planning session with black race-baiters and agitators... While addressing the attendees, nObama included his observation of how we can tell that it’s Black History Month. He says it’s “When you hear somebody say, ‘Hey Michelle,’” as he impersonates one of the more vocal attendees who was basking in the royal couple’s presence. That may be how he can tell, but many of the rest of us who haven’t been blessed with a sufficient amount of pigment to be given our own history month, which were born evil and with privilege can recognize through another telling sign. nObama is utilizing that “neighborhood street corner accent on-demand” that he saves for when he’s in with the right group of black people, so that he fits in, so they identify with him and repeat the mistake of believing he’s truly “one of them.” It’s a diction that he generally reserves for the funerals of black people, addresses to black colleges or “civil rights” special preference holidays. Black History Month isn’t a holiday, but it does last considerably longer. In some ways it’s become a year round celebration of anti-whiteness. One that even some of the privileged seem to have infiltrated, providing that “token diversity,” though not from the front rows.       http://rickwells.us/archives/26360     
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Clinton Teams Up With Pro-Tehran 
Lobby For Fundraiser
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Democratic presidential candidate Hilly Clinton is scheduled to host a fundraiser this weekend with key members of a pro-Tehran lobbying outfit that is working to kill new anti-terrorism laws that would prevent Iranians from travelling to the United States without first obtaining a visa permit... Clinton is scheduled to travel to Silicon Valley this weekend for three fundraisers with wealthy tech moguls, many of which have expressed skepticism about the candidate. Clinton will participate in a Menlo Park fundraiser on Sunday hosted by Twitter executive Omid Kordestani and his wife Gisel Hiscock, as well as National Iranian American Council (NIAC) board member Lily Sarafan and Noosheen Hashemi, who serves on the board of the pro-Iran advocacy group Ploughshares, a major funder of pro-Iran efforts.
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Homeland “Security” Is Our Vulnerability
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ If DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson weren’t so preoccupied with diluting the American citizen’s influence, representation and ownership of our own country and weakening our defenses, he might actually have time to engage in some homeland security... The inclusion of the word “security” in the title at DHS is merely a deceptive misdirection under this regime. Insecurity, vulnerability and a full blown invasion are what Johnson brings us; it is what he works toward every day. As testament to the Johnson and nObama malfeasance, a report by the Homeland Security Inspector General details the most basic security measures are being left lacking. Rudimentary security items such as routine maintenance, operating security cameras and the shutting of gates are deficiencies left unaddressed in this current administration. The IG report identifies four bases near the Mexico border which have non-functioning security cameras. Whether those were random breakdowns or deliberately sabotaged to allow for safe passage of criminal elements is not known, but the failure to repair them for this length of time indicates that someone within the upper levels of the organization is pleased to have them offline. http://constitutionrising.com/archives/26334
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EPIC Beatdown as Conservative Pundit Destroys #BlackLivesMatter Defender!
Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ AM 770 KTTH is a lone conservative voice in the wilderness of the liberal Northwest. The radio station broadcasts in Seattle, Washington and the surrounding area and has worked hard to reach out to their community with the truths of conservatism... This past year the station hosted a debate between two liberal #BlackLivesMatter activists and two conservative activists -- the brilliant Ben Shapiro being one of those conservatives. What followed was an hour and a half long debate drubbing that even seemed to turn the tide of opinion in the audience. Here are the highlights for you to enjoy – 5 minutes of awesome.        http://eaglerising.com/30548/epic-beatdown-as-conservative-pundit-destroys-blacklivesmatter-defender/
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nObama Propped Up, Armed ISIS
– Putin Deserves Nobel Prize
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{constitutionrising.com/} ~ With what he graciously calls an incompetent moron droning away in the background, Michael Savage soon has had enough and has him shut off in order to take a moment to “set the record straight.”... He notes how nObama has completely upset the whole world order and that Putin should get a Nobel Prize for taking on ISIS and putting them on the run. Savage says of nObama, “This guy propped up ISIS and did nothing for three years. He let ISIS metastasize into a rape machine, a kidnap machine, a murder machine. It was nObama who fed ISIS the weapons. He continues, saying, “Everybody who’s studied this knows that. It was Putin who stepped in as the hero of the world and he hates Putin because he knows Putin’s a better man than he.” He reminds us that “Hussein may not be on the side that you think he’s on. Never ever forget that his loyalties are questionable. Look back, he won’t even say Islamic terrorism, look back at every event that’s occurred he’s swept it under the rug.” http://constitutionrising.com/archives/26347
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EPA Stalling on Underground Fire
Near Nuclear Waste Dump
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Near  the St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton, there is one of two massive landfills filled with radioactive waste... Below it, according to The Washington Post -- some 60 to 200 feet down -- is rapidly decomposing waste that is smoldering in a "sub-surface burning event." "The underground burn is only a few thousand feet from a Superfund site filled with waste from the World War II-era Manhattan Project," the report goes on to say. Managing the Superfund site is none other than the Environmental Protection Agency, which has not been doing a great job of protecting much of anything lately. And when it comes to this site, the report states, the EPA "has done little to stop the burn from reaching the radioactive waste." Concerned neighbors and state officials have taken notice and are wondering what is going on. One mother featured in the Post's story is worried that living only a mile away from the site has caused her six-year-old son's hair to fall out. He suffers from the autoimmune disease alopecia areata, which causes extreme hair loss. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/epa-stalling-underground-fire-near-nuclear-waste-dump
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Win One For Nino
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Let’s understand something about the fight to fill the Supreme Court seat of Antonin (“Nino”) Scalia. This is about nothing but raw power. Any appeal you hear to high principle is phony — brazenly, embarrassingly so.
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In Year Seven of the George W. Bush administration, Sen. Chuck Schumer publicly opposed filling any Supreme Court vacancy until Bush left office. “Except in extraordinary circumstances.” None such arose. Surprise! Today he piously denounces Republicans for doing exactly the same for a vacancy created in Year Eight of Barack nObama.
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Republicans, say the Democrats, owe the president deference. Elections have consequences and nObama won re-election in 2012.
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Yes. And the Republicans won the Senate in 2014 — if anything, a more proximal assertion of popular will. And both have equal standing in appointing a Supreme Court justice.
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It’s hard to swallow demands for deference from a party that for seven years has cheered nObama’s serial constitutional depredations: His rewriting the immigration laws by executive order stayed by the courts; his reordering the energy economy by regulation stayed by the courts; his enacting the nuclear deal with Iran, the most important treaty of this generation, without the required two-thirds of the Senate by declaring it an executive agreement.
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Minority Leader Harry dinky-Reid complains about the Senate violating precedent if it refuses a lame-duck nominee. This is rich. It is dinky-Reid who just two years ago overthrew all precedent by abolishing the filibuster for most judicial and high executive appointments. In the name of what grand constitutional principle did dinky-Reid resort to a parliamentary maneuver so precedent-shattering that it was called the nuclear option? None. He did it in order to pack the U. S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia with liberals who would reliably deflect challenges to nObamacare.
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On Tuesday, nObama loftily called upon Congress to rise above ideology and partisanship in approving his nominee. When asked how he could square that with his 2006 support of a filibuster to stop the appointment of Samuel Alito, nObama replied with a four-minute word salad signifying nothing. There is no answer. It was situational constitutional principle, i.e., transparent hypocrisy.
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As I said, this is all about raw power. When the Democrats had it, they used it. The Republicans are today wholly justified in saying they will not allow this outgoing president to overturn the balance of the Supreme Court. The matter should be decided by the coming election. Does anyone doubt that Democrats would be saying exactly that if the circumstances were reversed?
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Which makes this Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell’s moment. He and his cohorts have taken a lot of abuse from “anti-establishment” candidates and media for not using their congressional majorities to repeal nObamacare, defund Planned Parenthood, block executive orders, etc.
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What was the 2014 election about, they say? We won and got nothing. We were lied to and betrayed by a corrupt leadership beholden to the “Washington cartel.”
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As it happens, under our Madisonian Constitution, the opposition party cannot govern without the acquiescence of the president, which it will not get, or a two-thirds majority of the Congress, which it does not have.
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But no matter. Things are different now. Appointing a Supreme Court justice is a two-key operation. The president proposes, the Senate disposes. There is no reason McCon-nell cannot hold the line. And he must. The stakes here — a radical generation-long reversal of direction of the Supreme Court — are the highest this Senate will ever face.
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If McCon-nell succeeds, he will have resoundingly answered the “what did we get for 2014?” question. Imagine if the Senate were now in Democratic hands. What we got in 2014 was the power to hold on to Scalia’s seat and to the court’s conservative majority.
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But only for now. Blocking an nObama nominee buys just a year. The final outcome depends on November 2016. If the GOP nominates an unelectable or unconservative candidate, a McCon-nell victory will be nothing more than a stay of execution.
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In 2012, Scalia averred that he would not retire until there was a more ideologically congenial president in the White House. “I would not like to be replaced,” he explained, “by someone who immediately sets about undoing everything that I’ve tried to do for 25 years.”
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Scalia never got to choose the timing of his leaving office. Those who value the legacy of those now-30 years will determine whether his last wish will be vindicated. Let McCon-nell do his thing. Then in November it’s for us to win one for Nino.
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