“America's Moral Character Crisis”
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Sanders and slump-Trump: Magic Sells
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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Identity Politics and Demo Damnation
For millennia, humankind has searched for the secret to salvation. At long last, the mystery is revealed — for women, at least. To escape hellfire and brimstone, one must simply vote for Hilly Clinton.
Welcome to the gospel according to former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, who recently implied of female Bernie Sanders supporters, "There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other!"
This is truly ironic. Whereas once women battled discrimination due to lack of certain equipage in the nether regions, today's feminists demand preference on grounds of the same absence. Whereas once women fought to be judged by their minds and not their bodies, today's "progressives" demand females reject the matter between their ears and vote according to what's between their legs. Whereas once women sought to show the world they could think for themselves, today's leftists require blind adherence to their ideology.
Talk about a "war on women."
Make no mistake, for anyone not deemed an heir to "white male privilege," anything less than absolute submission to the leftist cause is unacceptable.
But it's not just Democrat women who are expected to kowtow to the party as a condition of their existence (or of their eternal souls). Leftists have elevated identity politics to a religion.
Consider, for example, the recent story by University of Southern California Professor Roberto Suro. Reporting on Ted Cruz's and Marco Rubio's respective showings at the Iowa Caucuses, Suro explained why their achievements were not recognized as historic Latino wins. "The answer is not that complicated: Neither Mr. Cruz nor Mr. Rubio meets conventional expectations of how Latino politicians are supposed to behave." -The Patriot Post
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Two Parties in One?
"We saved the economy from a depression," Barack nObama recently boasted. "We helped our businesses create 14 million new jobs over the past six years. We cut the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.9%. We covered nearly 18 million more Americans with health insurance. ... There's no doubt America is better off today than when I took office." He also crowed, "The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world." nObama followed that with a typical dig: "I know that's still inconvenient for Republican stump speeches as their doom and despair tour plays in New Hampshire. I guess you cannot please everybody."
That's quite a tale of making America great again, but you wouldn't know it listening to the presidential candidates from his own party. That's right: It's not just Republicans bemoaning the nObama "recovery."During Thursday night's Democrat debate, Hilly Clinton took a cue from her husband to feel our pain. "I know a lot of Americans are angry about the economy," she said. "And for good cause. Americans haven't had a raise in 15 years. There aren't enough good-paying jobs, especially for young people. And yes, the economy is rigged in favor of those at the top." Thanks nObama.
Bernie Sanders, the Socialist who's no different than any other Democrat, demanded to know, "Who in America denies that we have an infrastructure that is crumbling? ... Who denies that real unemployment today, including those who have given up looking for work and are working part-time, is close to 10%? Who denies that African-American youth unemployment, real, is over 50%?" Thanks nObama.
The man concerned with his own legacy can brag all he wants, but the stock market is down 14.5% since last May, stoking fears of another recession. nObama's economy has never been good, and candidates of both parties — and the American people — know the score.
-The Patriot Post
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Hilly Runs From Militant Feminism
In an effort to mitigate the rising voices advocating for militant feminism surrounding her campaign, Hilly Clinton said in Thursday night's debate that she's "not asking people to support me because I'm a woman." Recently, feminist icon Gloria Steinem went on television to say all the women who are supporting Bernie Sanders were only supporting him because "the boys are with Bernie." More infamously, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told supporters at a Clinton rally — with Clinton standing to her right — "there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other."
At the PBS Democrat debate in Milwaukee, debate moderator Judy Woodruff challenged Clinton on Albright's statement. Clinton merely changed the subject and repeated her tired platform. "Well, look, I think she's been saying that for as long as I've known her, which is about 25 years," Clinton said dismissively. "But it doesn't change my view that we need to empower everyone — women and men — to make the best decisions in their minds that they can make."
As a woman who decidedly did not support other women who accused her husband of rape, Clinton's having a hard time with this line of questioning. According to feminist Camille Paglia, Clinton spent upwards of 25 years hobnobbing with fascist feminists with their "contemptuous bitterness" toward men. And yet Clinton is now an advocate for everybody? Women on the Left can see through Clinton's ideological façade. -The Patriot Post
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Judge Napolitano – Clinton Aides Committed Multiple Felonies - Deal To Talk Likely
Rick Wells.
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nObama Quotes Muhammad’s Speech Endorsing
the Caliphate and Beheading
Jamie Glazov
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MS-13 Murderers – Unvetted Gang Members Part Of 60,000 “Refugee Children” nObama Imports
Rick Wells.
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Pentagon: North Korea Nuclear,
Missile Threat Increasing
Bill Gertz.
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nObama and hanoi-Kerry’s Deception of Islam Leaves Us Fighting Windmills, Not Dragons
Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.)
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Hilly Clinton’s Campaign Desecrated the American
Flag and it’s Angering Millions
Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon any flag of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both... Apparently the Hilly Clinton campaign for President didn’t get the memo, because while in New Hampshire, they were caught treating the American flag with disrespect. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has been observing the Democrat Party over the last few years. The Party has shifted so far to the left that any semblance of patriotism, or even the barest expression of respect for our history and tradition, has become anathema to their base. This disregard for their nation has led us to the disturbing depths that we currently find ourselves mired in. Take heart, though, because while the mainstream media ignored Clinton’s disrespect for our flag – the American people are taking note.
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DNC makes 'sweeping' changes
to save Hilly
DOUGLAS ERNST.
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We Got Sanders Because We Let 'Hippies From
the 60s' Become Teachers
Tiffany Gabbay
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Expanding America’s Petroleum
Power In the Third Oil Era
Mark Mills
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{insideronline.org} ~ The majority of world petroleum trade remains dominated by nation-state companies, often directed by authoritarian regimes that wield energy riches as weapons of influence or intimidation... There has never been a more opportune time for America to capture the geopolitical “soft power” benefits from greater oil production and exports. If, in the next decade, the U.S. were to replicate the shale production growth of this past decade, the nation would reap not only a second shale boom but also a tectonic shift in the geopolitical status quo. How can America expand its petroleum power in a new Third Oil Era, especially in the face of fierce global price manipulation and competition? Congress should pursue four steps to help American oil firms compete in a low-cost environment that would also benefit consumers with sustained low prices and, not least, also expand U.S. geopolitical petroleum power. These steps include cutting the red tape (reversing overregulation), cutting corporate taxes, drilling more on federal lands, and repurposing the strategic petroleum reserve..
Mr.Two Corinthians Doubts Cruz's Faith
and Threatens a Birther Suit
Jeff Dunetz
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Sanders and slump-Trump: Magic Sells
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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Yes, you hear constant denunciations of institutions, parties, leaders, donors, lobbyists, influence peddlers. But the starting point of the bipartisan critique is the social, economic and geopolitical wreckage all around us. Bernie Sanders is careful never to blame nObama directly, but his description of the America nObama leaves behind is devastating — a wasteland of stagnant wages, rising inequality, a sinking middle class, young people crushed by debt, the American Dream dying.
Yes, you hear constant denunciations of institutions, parties, leaders, donors, lobbyists, influence peddlers. But the starting point of the bipartisan critique is the social, economic and geopolitical wreckage all around us. Bernie Sanders is careful never to blame nObama directly, but his description of the America nObama leaves behind is devastating — a wasteland of stagnant wages, rising inequality, a sinking middle class, young people crushed by debt, the American Dream dying.
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Take away the Brooklyn accent and the Larry David mannerisms and you would have thought you were listening to a Republican candidate. After all, who’s been in charge for the last seven years?
Take away the Brooklyn accent and the Larry David mannerisms and you would have thought you were listening to a Republican candidate. After all, who’s been in charge for the last seven years?
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Donald slump-Trump is even more colorful in describing the current “mess” and more direct in attributing it to the country’s leadership — most pungently, its stupidity and incompetence. Both candidates are not just anti-establishment but anti-status quo. The revolt is as much about the nObama legacy as it is about institutions.
Donald slump-Trump is even more colorful in describing the current “mess” and more direct in attributing it to the country’s leadership — most pungently, its stupidity and incompetence. Both candidates are not just anti-establishment but anti-status quo. The revolt is as much about the nObama legacy as it is about institutions.
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Look at New Hampshire. Hilly Clinton had made a strategic decision, as highlighted in the debates, to wrap herself in the mantle of the nObama presidency. Big mistake. She lost New Hampshire by three touchdowns.
Look at New Hampshire. Hilly Clinton had made a strategic decision, as highlighted in the debates, to wrap herself in the mantle of the nObama presidency. Big mistake. She lost New Hampshire by three touchdowns.
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Beyond railing against the wreckage, the other commonality between the two big New Hampshire winners is in the nature of the cure they offer. Let the others propose carefully budgeted five-point plans. Sanders and slump-Trump offer magic.
Beyond railing against the wreckage, the other commonality between the two big New Hampshire winners is in the nature of the cure they offer. Let the others propose carefully budgeted five-point plans. Sanders and slump-Trump offer magic.
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Take Sanders’ New Hampshire victory speech. It promised the moon: college education, free; universal health care, free; world peace, also free because we won’t be “the policeman of the world” mythical Sunni armies will presumably be doing that for us. Plus a guaranteed $15 minimum wage. All to be achieved by taxing the rich. Who can be against a “speculation” tax whatever that means?
Take Sanders’ New Hampshire victory speech. It promised the moon: college education, free; universal health care, free; world peace, also free because we won’t be “the policeman of the world” mythical Sunni armies will presumably be doing that for us. Plus a guaranteed $15 minimum wage. All to be achieved by taxing the rich. Who can be against a “speculation” tax whatever that means?
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So with slump-Trump. Leave it to him. Jobs will flow back in a rush from China, from Japan, from Mexico, from everywhere. Universal health care, with nObamacare replaced by “something terrific.” Veterans finally taken care of. Drugs stopped cold at the border. Indeed, an end to drug addiction itself. Victory upon victory of every kind.
So with slump-Trump. Leave it to him. Jobs will flow back in a rush from China, from Japan, from Mexico, from everywhere. Universal health care, with nObamacare replaced by “something terrific.” Veterans finally taken care of. Drugs stopped cold at the border. Indeed, an end to drug addiction itself. Victory upon victory of every kind.
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How? That question never comes up anymore. No one expects an answer. His will be done, on earth if not yet in heaven. Yes, people love slump-Trump’s contempt for the “establishment” — which as far as I can tell means anything not slump-Trump — but what is truly thrilling is the promise of a near-biblical restoration. As painless as Sanders’.
How? That question never comes up anymore. No one expects an answer. His will be done, on earth if not yet in heaven. Yes, people love slump-Trump’s contempt for the “establishment” — which as far as I can tell means anything not slump-Trump — but what is truly thrilling is the promise of a near-biblical restoration. As painless as Sanders’.
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In truth, slump-Trump and Sanders are soaring not just by defying the establishment, but by defying logic and history. Sanders’ magic potion is socialism; slump-Trump’s is slump-Trump.
In truth, slump-Trump and Sanders are soaring not just by defying the establishment, but by defying logic and history. Sanders’ magic potion is socialism; slump-Trump’s is slump-Trump.
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The young Democrats swooning for Sanders appear unfamiliar with socialism’s century-long career, a dismal tale of ruination from Russia to Cuba to Venezuela. Indeed, are they even aware that China’s greatest reduction in poverty in human history correlates precisely with the degree to which it has given up socialism?
The young Democrats swooning for Sanders appear unfamiliar with socialism’s century-long career, a dismal tale of ruination from Russia to Cuba to Venezuela. Indeed, are they even aware that China’s greatest reduction in poverty in human history correlates precisely with the degree to which it has given up socialism?
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slump-Trump’s magic is toughness — toughness in a world of losers. The power and will of the caudillo will make everything right.
slump-Trump’s magic is toughness — toughness in a world of losers. The power and will of the caudillo will make everything right.
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Apart from the fact that strongman rule contradicts the American constitutional tradition of limited and constrained government, caudillo populism simply doesn’t work. It accounts in a large part for the relative backwardness of Africa and Latin America. In 1900, Argentina had a per capita income fully 70 percent of ours. After a 20th century wallowing in Peronism and its imitators, Argentina is a basket case, its per capita income now 23 percent of ours.
Apart from the fact that strongman rule contradicts the American constitutional tradition of limited and constrained government, caudillo populism simply doesn’t work. It accounts in a large part for the relative backwardness of Africa and Latin America. In 1900, Argentina had a per capita income fully 70 percent of ours. After a 20th century wallowing in Peronism and its imitators, Argentina is a basket case, its per capita income now 23 percent of ours.
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There certainly is a crisis of confidence in the country’s institutions. But that’s hardly new. The current run of endemic distrust began with Vietnam and Watergate. Yet not in our lifetimes have the left and right populism of the Sanders and slump-Trump variety enjoyed such massive support.
There certainly is a crisis of confidence in the country’s institutions. But that’s hardly new. The current run of endemic distrust began with Vietnam and Watergate. Yet not in our lifetimes have the left and right populism of the Sanders and slump-Trump variety enjoyed such massive support.
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The added factor is the nObama effect, the depressed and anxious mood of a nation experiencing its worst economic recovery since World War II and watching its power and influence abroad decline amid a willed global retreat.
The added factor is the nObama effect, the depressed and anxious mood of a nation experiencing its worst economic recovery since World War II and watching its power and influence abroad decline amid a willed global retreat.
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The result is a politics of high fantasy. Things can’t get any worse, we hear, so why not shake things up to their foundation? Anyone who thinks things can’t get any worse knows nothing. And risks everything.
The result is a politics of high fantasy. Things can’t get any worse, we hear, so why not shake things up to their foundation? Anyone who thinks things can’t get any worse knows nothing. And risks everything.
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The Attorney General and Supreme Court should be voted in by the people because they get paid by and are supposed to work for the people. Are things going to be worse than they are now? I doubt it. Furthermore, if things don't go well the only ones the people have to blame are themselves.
Memories God's Golden Gift
Whisps of thought that perish not, mirages of images... long forgot. Childhood days of true delight, those happy images of days and night ... Let us recall them all, in our somber years. That night may give way to a brighter day, the gift of memory, God's hidden treasure so bright.. too light the way...
That, our joy may be full and our lives affirmed... with merry remembrances, all in turn... Filled with stories, often embellished, but never forgotten... nor so thoughtfully relished... when needed, so cherished and prized... let our eyes see once more, the sated prize; the smiling faces of girls and boys... The happy embrace, of friends with joy.
Can there be a more glorious regale, than to remember one's youthful tale... Too, look with the magic and wizardry of our soul... to, see what is better, than silver and gold... The envy of childhood pirates, and earthly booty... bold. For there, neither mouth nor worm may invade our hope... Where, we with pleasure, rejoice and glory in God's grace.
And, so it is with man... whose hope is forever renewed... to see at once the adventure of his youth... at peace, knowing God ordered it all... for the great and small, the rich and poor, our lives in order... secure where time no longer resides, where our memories never die.
By: Ronald A. Nelson
COL. US Army (ret.)
Golden Memories are truly the gift of God... a treasure no man may steal... that never fade nor fail to reveal... God's Promise to us all, of better days and peaceful ways, of heavens gates and God's Grace... God's gift to Man that he may never FORGET or find himself alone...
We have lost a stanch defender of the constitution. Was there any word on Justice Scalia being in poor health. NO !
My fiends it is common knowledge that communists will resort to political MURDER to further their ends. I know I'm going to get called paranoid. But with what has transpired over the last going on eight years ? I believe I have every right to be paranoid.
My friends there is so much at stake here. The liberal communists know this. They see as we do that it's very serious. Barry Soetoro and his entire political agenda will be gone. Sanders has a snowballs chance in hell of winning. If Blumberg runs as an independent ? Just put a fork in the democrats. He wont pull any conservative votes in a general election.
Waddle the Hutt is sinking so fast people can't just ship fast enough. So the communists are desperate. That is why I truly believe that like other strange deaths in the last going on eight years this one really is questionable. The timing is too good for the communists.
What say you people. Are we seeing a setup ?
Congrats to Ted Cruz, who stunned pundits who said a conservative could not score high in New Hampshire, for finishing strong in the primary.
Okay, folks, here is why Ted Cruz is eligible to be president according to the Constitution. First, I wish to give a shout-out to my dear friend, Mike "Mr. Constitution" Holler, author of The Constitution Made Easy. Mike explained and confirmed Cruz's eligibility.
In a nutshell, the first immigration law passed by Congress and signed by George Washington says, "And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens[.]" An additional qualification is that the father of such children must have lived at some time in the U.S. There you have it, folks.
The Congressional Research Service published a paper on this question.
Considering the history of the constitutional provision, the clause's apparent intent, the English common law expressly applicable in the American colonies and in all of the original states, the common use and meaning of the phrase "natural born" subject in England and the American colonies in the 1700s, and the subsequent action of the first Congress in enacting the Naturalization Act of 1790 (expressly defining the term "natural born citizen" to include those born abroad to U.S. citizens), it appears that the most logical inferences would indicate that the phrase "natural born Citizen" would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "by birth" or "at birth." Such interpretation, as evidenced by over a century of American case law, would include as natural born citizens those born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction regardless of the citizenship status of one's parents, or those born abroad of one or more parents who are U.S. citizens (as recognized by statute), as opposed to a person who is not a citizen by birth and is thus an "alien" required to go through the legal process of naturalization to become U.S. Citizen.
While some question Cruz's eligibility out of respect for the Constitution, I suspect that others have ulterior motives.
GOP establishment elites are exploiting ignorance regarding Cruz's eligibility because they despise Cruz. Who does this guy think he is, bucking the system, standing up for The People against the Washington Cartel, getting into the face of GOP Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell? By the way, McConnell announced that the GOP will not oppose Obama in any way this year, fearful it would anger voters and hurt the GOP's chances of winning the WH.
McConnell's surrender gifted Obama free rein to continue regarding the U.S. Constitution as little more than toilet paper. Thus, our outlaw president will fast-track implementing as many anti-American and anti-God leftist dream initiatives as possible in his remaining time in office.
Ted Cruz has been and continues to be a rare voice sounding the alarm and pushing back against Obama repealing our God-given freedom and liberty.
Then there are those who simply do not believe that a true conservative can win the general election. They are using the bogus issue of Cruz's eligibility as cover for not supporting a fellow Christian and stand-up guy.
Voters who do not believe that a true conservative can win the presidency are, in essence, saying they believe we have lost our country. Righteousness, morals, and traditional values no longer rule the day. Thus, Cruz is too goody-two-shoes for the masses.
Well, I do not believe that, folks. I believe that if we rally behind Ted Cruz, a good man can still win the presidency in America.
Proverbs 29:2: "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."
Let's put the "righteous in authority," folks. Ted Cruz.
LLOYD MARCUS, The Unhyphenated American
CHAIRMAN, The Conservative Campaign Committee
I have always considered conservatism to be the political philosophy of the thinking man. We don’t vote on a whim. We research the issues and vet our candidates. Most of us are people who hold ourselves to high moral principles, and we expect the same from our elected representatives. That’s what makes the popularity of Donald Trump so ironic. I understand that Conservatives are tired of the Washington status quo. Tired of Republican politicians who talk a good line and promise what ever to get elected and then don’t deliver. We are disgusted with the disingenuousness of political correctness and long for someone with enough chutzpa to stand up and speak the truth. Donald Trump is not that man.
We’ve all known that the left has its low information voters, people who are not motivated to delve into a candidate’s record, or history. Uncomfortable with the concept of personal responsibility, wallowing in perpetual victimhood, this constituency will vote for the candidate who seems most capable of providing a life free from worry or want. The progressive movement depends on these suckling lambs and leads them, like a herd, to the polls every election. Unfortunately Conservatism also has its useful idiots. People who vote based on emotion. They’ll choose the candidate who says what they want to hear, no mater his background. Trump appeals to these people. A consummate entertainer, Trump knows how to work an audience for maximum response. An inveterate attention whore, he thrives on working an audience into a frenzy. Trump paints himself as a Washington outsider, but from the ham-fisted attempt at quoting scripture at Liberty University, his way of pandering to whatever crowd he encounters, to his passive aggressive style of attacking his opponents, The Donald has proven that he is a very skilled politician. What he is not, is a statesman. Arrogant and petulant, he has at times behaved like a spoiled toddler or a playground bully. While many praise his outspokenness, there is a difference between being politically incorrect and being crass and vulgar. Trump does not know this difference; he says the first thing that pops into his mind however outlandish. No world leader would take him seriously.
Conservatives want a President who understands basic economics. One who will press for a balanced budget and get our fiscal house in order. But is Trump really the type of businessman for the job? Unlike businessmen like Herman Cain or Mitt Romney, who have a history of taking failing businesses, making the tough cuts and restoring them to solvency, Trump is a real-estate speculator. He takes investors money, or takes out loans, then sinks that money into risky ventures. Many times it has paid off big, making him millions, but it has also landed him in bankruptcy four times. Is this really the kind of businessman we want in charge of our tax dollars?
As for his Conservative credentials, Trump is hard to pin down. He has a history of donating to whatever candidate he could get the most use out of whether they were Liberal or Conservative. He donated to Hillary Clinton and Rahm Emanual to name a few. He didn’t make these donations because he believed in these politicians, no, he donated for favors. This is exactly the kind of cronyism that makes our representatives so unresponsive to the needs of the people who elect them. Trump has used the very system that is the biggest problem in Washington. He has supported then unsupported an assault weapon ban, and a single payer health care system. While it might be possible that he has had a change of heart about these issues, the fact that many of the changes are recent, leads one to question whether this is genuine, or just pandering for the Conservative vote.
We slam Ted Cruz because of a couple of campaign faux pas; we don’t trust Marco Rubio because he was part of the Gang of Eight. We scrutinize every facet of the other candidates. But just like Obama, for whom none of his numerous offenses seem to stick, we have simply chosen to overlook all the vast and varied reasons why Donald Trump is the wrong person to be the Republican nominee.
We have let this circus go on far too long. The stakes are far too high. The very future of our once great nation and our way of life are at stake. So confident of his chance of winning, the Donald will most assuredly run as an Independent if he doesn’t get the Republican nomination. This will fracture the Conservative vote, and hand the White House over to a Liberal Crone or a died in the wool Socialist. True Conservatives hoped we would be able to have a real leader, someone we could whole-heartedly support, instead of voting for the lesser of two evils. Looks like we will be disappointed again
“It’s illegal to offend people,” said the UT-Austin police officer to a Christian evangelist. The officer then proceeded to write the evangelist a citation. Yes, that actually happened in America. Thankfully, the citation was later voided and the officer received re-training.
The event occurred just off campus where two evangelists were preaching against homosexuality. According to the police officer, a student complained that he was being “verbally harassed” which in fact he was not. The whiney student, if he exists at all, was simply being exposed to words and ideas that offended him. The accusation of “verbal harassment” is the authoritarian censor’s primary weapon against our constitutional rights.
Three officers responded to the call (three!) and together the five of them then proceeded to have a conversation that was cordial but nonetheless alarming. Most of the conversation occurred between an evangelist named Joshua Borchert and a certain Officer Wormsley, who proceeded to inform Borchert that he had a duty to enforce the law; and the law, according to Wormsley, is that any speech that offends anyone is illegal. He’s apparently never heard of this other law called the US Constitution.
“We had somebody that was offended by the gestures that you were making,” said Wormsley. “And that’s our job is to make sure that that doesn’t happen because these are students that’s walking in this mall right here. I know you’re not on campus. But you’re right off campus offending students on the campus. So the job here is to write you up as a citation, disorderly conduct, for offending someone.”
Officer Wormsley later conferred with another officer, saying: “He indicates that it’s [his] first amendment, he can say what he wants, freedom of speech, but that’s not what the law says. The law says, I mean, if you offend somebody, if they want to press charges, you can’t do that.”
Perhaps the most terrifying part in the video is when Borchert asked the three police officers if they have ever issued citations for the “crime” of causing offense. “Yes,” said one cop. “Oh yes,” said another. When Borchert asked what fine the judge might impose the officer replied: “We write so many, I can’t answer that question for you.” That alone should tell you that this is not an isolated incident.
Nor is it confined to UT-Austin. Across the fruited plain, on campuses both public and private, universities strictly regulate student speech. The first amendment watchdog group Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) annually rates colleges on their free speech policies using a color-coded system. A green rating means that a college adheres to constitutional free speech protections, a yellow light means that a school has at least one ambiguous policy that encourages abuse and arbitrary application, and a red light means that a school blatantly violates its students’ rights. UT-Austin received a red rating in FIRE’s most recent report, as did 49.3 percent of the 440 campuses studied. Only 5 percent got a green rating.
I wish I could say that I’m shocked by this but I’m not. College campuses are hostile environments for all of our first amendment rights but especially to our right to free speech. It wasn’t that long ago when I was studying at a large public university where I witnessed with my own eyes an utter disregard for freedom of speech. Within my first few weeks at the University of Massachusetts I was stunned to see a list of banned words hanging in a dormitory. This isn’t Communist China, I thought; public universities can’t just ban words. Oh but they do.
The list was composed entirely of “homophobic” slurs, including one which I hadn’t previously known to be “homophobic” at all. That word was “buttmunch,” which I had never before associated with homosexuals. I have since learned that munching butt is a common practice among male homosexuals which explains why they suffer from so many intestinal parasites. They eat a lot of feces, you know? So I learned something new that day—I’m not allowed to say “buttmunch” because it offends people who munch butt.
But really, who are they to tell me what words I may use? “Homophobic” slurs are absolutely covered by the first amendment, full stop. The whole purpose of the first amendment is to protect offensive speech. But alas, UMass received a red rating from FIRE and for good reason; it’s basically a gulag on a picturesque New England campus.
It’s important to note however that the campus authoritarians are not just cops and administrators. The students are cool with being told what to say and they won’t hesitate to rat you out for thought crimes. Censorship is accepted practice and no one bats an eyelash. A McLaughlin & Associates survey of college students completed in 2015 found that 51 percent of students favored campus speech codes while a mere 36 percent dissented. Thirty-five percent said that the Constitution does not protect “hate speech,” an imprecise term that basically means whatever liberals hate hearing. Among self-described liberals 30 percent said that the first amendment was “outdated.”
Free speech is all too often perceived as a shield for bigots to hide behind—which it is, of course, though I don’t mean to imply that everyone accused of bigotry by the campus authoritarians is guilty as charged. “Bigotry” is an all-purpose word used to describe Orwellian thought crimes, most of which are not bigoted at all. It nonetheless protects authentic bigotry too. There’s absolutely no need to parse out the difference between genuine bigoted speech and non-bigoted speech because both are constitutionally protected. Yet campus authoritarians don’t want anyone to have a shield to protect themselves so they attempt to delegitimize first amendment protections as somehow cowardly; as if standing against majority opinion doesn’t take guts. “Quit hiding behind the first amendment!” they shout. Why the heck shouldn’t someone hide behind the first amendment? That’s what it’s for—protection.
Part of the reason that censorship is so rampant on college campuses is that people are by nature selfish. They want protection for themselves but won’t extend it to others. The average campus liberal doesn’t appreciate the value of free speech because it never occurs to him that he might someday be the purveyor of an unpopular idea. In all likelihood, he never will need constitutional protections because, by the standards of his campus, he is in fact a very conventional thinker. He is a member of the “in group” who feels entitled to gag the “out group.”
He reasons, not incorrectly, that censorship only affects the other guy. But he errs in assuming that it only affects bad people with very wrong ideas. In this regard he shares a lot in common with the seventeenth century Catholic theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, a very intolerant member of the French aristocracy who once said: “I have the right to persecute you because I am right and you are wrong.”
That type of thinking was common in Europe before the Enlightenment but it’s anathema to the ideals that America was founded upon. Granted, America has often failed to live up to those ideals, from Comstockery to official censorship during the Civil War and both world wars, if only because ideals are things we strive for even when they are not perfectly achieved.
But we aren’t even striving for that ideal anymore; at least not on college campuses. The very notion that people can just speak their minds is considered dangerous in and of itself. It’s a thought too scary for a generation raised in safe zones to contemplate. Ideas must be controlled!
My only hope is that the Constitution will protect us and someday this will all be straightened out, perhaps by some watershed court decision. But I doubt it. Our constitutional rights are only as good as the public officials who interpret and enforce them. I have little faith that tomorrow’s judges, cops, and college administrators will allow the first amendment to be anything more than dead words on a page, hypocritically maintained in theory while endlessly violated in practice. After all, the students who clamor for “safe spaces” today will someday be the public officials whose job it is to safeguard our freedoms. This is truly the first authoritarian generation reared on American soil. Should they fail to mature in their appreciation for the first amendment our freedom will be lost.
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'We don't have the gear':
How the Pentagon is struggling
with electronic warfare
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Former nObama Defense Intel Chief Says
Hilly Should ‘Step Down’
RICHARD POLLOCK .
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Hilly Clinton Is Now Tied To At Least
Four Investigations By Federal Agencies
Chuck Ross.
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'Top secret' Clinton emails
shared by dozens of people
SARAH WESTWOOD.
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Ferguson Won’t Submit – So Lynch’s Federal Boots Stomping Down Hard
Rick Wells.
{constitutionrising.com} ~ Everything that has gone on in Ferguson has been a deliberate, orchestrated effort to federalize the police, to eliminate their independence through strong armed “consent” and to send a message to other police departments around the country... that the same thing can and will happen to them if they don’t submit to federalization. This is the creation of the nObama “civilian national security force” that he called for in July of 2008. nObama and Eric Holder selected the target of Ferguson and created the racism wedge, and now it is their handpicked henchman, Loretta Lynch, who is following through with the browbeating and DOJ “civil rights” hammer. Last March Holder unveiled a plan which utilized six cities as test locations, called “pilot cities,” for federalization. More will be coming and for those who resist, the model of Ferguson is intended to prove that resistance is futile. http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25941
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BDS Undermines the Very
Values of American Universities
Alexandra Markus.
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One-pager | Jabhat al Nusra and ISIS:
Sources of strength
Katherine Zimmerman.
{aei.org} ~ American strategy toward ISIS has misidentified the group’s center of gravity and is inadvertently strengthening Syrian al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al Nusra... The US approach presumes that regaining Mosul in Iraq and ar Raqqa in Syria will cause ISIS to collapse, and it is not operating against Jabhat al Nusra in any meaningful way. It underestimates the resilience of both groups and the need to pressure both simultaneously to prevent Jabhat al Nusra from benefiting from ISIS losses. AEI’s Critical Threats Project and the Institute for the Study of War engaged in a planning effort to develop and evaluate possible courses of action that the United States could pursue to defeat the threat from ISIS and al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The findings are part of a series of reports; the third report, “Jabhat al Nusra and ISIS: Sources of Strength,” assesses the capabilities of global Salafi-jihadi groups operating in Syria and Iraq and serves as a basis for developing a strategy to defeat them..
Guess Where Iran's Uranium is
Stored-go Ahead Take a Guess
Jeff Dunetz
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The Myth of slump-Trump the Winner
(How He Treats Those He's Hurt)
Jeff Dunetz
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Donald slump-Trump the Candidate:
Fact-Checking Supporter
and Media Misinformation
JODI GIDDINGS
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Tantaros erupts over Iran’s
mockery of US soldiers
Frieda Powers
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Andrea Tantaros
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{bizpacreview.com} ~ Fox News’ Andrea Tantaros is apparently asking the question no one else in the media will. When discussing why Iran continues to mock the U.S. with behavior that seems aimed at provoking a response... Tantaros asked why American sailors so readily gave up their weapons and surrendered to Iranians last month. “We were not outgunned. They left their weapons and they surrendered on their knees,” she said. “Somebody had to give a stand-down order. This is the question everyone in the media should be asking and no one’s asking it. Who gave the order to abandon their weapons?” Members of the military, Tantaros noted, have said “someone in authority” would have to have given an order to surrender. However, she questioned whether there was a motive to use the incident for propaganda by the Iranians. http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/02/12/tantaros-erupts-over-irans-mockery-of-us-soldiers-this-is-the-question-no-ones-asking-305038
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'We don't have the gear':
How the Pentagon is struggling
with electronic warfare
Thomas Gibbons-Neff
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This realm of fighting is called electronic warfare, and since the 9/11 attacks it's been relegated to a lower priority than fighting insurgent groups with precision guided munitions and drones. Now, defense officials say they're worried that the U.S. military's ability to counter and wage electronic warfare has atrophied and is lagging behind countries such as Russia and China.
This realm of fighting is called electronic warfare, and since the 9/11 attacks it's been relegated to a lower priority than fighting insurgent groups with precision guided munitions and drones. Now, defense officials say they're worried that the U.S. military's ability to counter and wage electronic warfare has atrophied and is lagging behind countries such as Russia and China.
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"We don't have the gear," Col. Jeffrey Church, the head of the Army's electronic warfare division, said in a recent interview. "We're working on getting it, but we're talking years down the road, when our adversaries are doing this right now."
"We don't have the gear," Col. Jeffrey Church, the head of the Army's electronic warfare division, said in a recent interview. "We're working on getting it, but we're talking years down the road, when our adversaries are doing this right now."
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One place where the United States' adversaries have displayed their proficiency in electronic warfare is in east Ukraine, where the Pentagon has watched Russian forces there with a wary eye, gleaning what they can from the country's reinvigorated military.
One place where the United States' adversaries have displayed their proficiency in electronic warfare is in east Ukraine, where the Pentagon has watched Russian forces there with a wary eye, gleaning what they can from the country's reinvigorated military.
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"The Russians have worked hard in recent years" in electronic warfare, Gen. Ben Hodges, the commanding general for the Army's forces in Europe, said during a recent interview. "What they've done in east Ukraine and in Crimea has allowed us to study the challenge."
"The Russians have worked hard in recent years" in electronic warfare, Gen. Ben Hodges, the commanding general for the Army's forces in Europe, said during a recent interview. "What they've done in east Ukraine and in Crimea has allowed us to study the challenge."
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One Ukrainian special-forces colonel fighting outside of the war-torn city of Donetsk said his men were targeted by an artillery strike after Russian-backed forces located his troops solely by his radio transmissions. The colonel, who for security reasons would identify himself only by his first name, Andrei, said in a recent interview that the radio they had was an American-brand Harris radio.
One Ukrainian special-forces colonel fighting outside of the war-torn city of Donetsk said his men were targeted by an artillery strike after Russian-backed forces located his troops solely by his radio transmissions. The colonel, who for security reasons would identify himself only by his first name, Andrei, said in a recent interview that the radio they had was an American-brand Harris radio.
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The radio was capable of encrypted communication, but since its output was so much more powerful than the smaller handheld radios the regular Ukrainian troops often carry, the Russian-backed separatists were able to locate the American radio and attack its broadcast site with artillery.
The radio was capable of encrypted communication, but since its output was so much more powerful than the smaller handheld radios the regular Ukrainian troops often carry, the Russian-backed separatists were able to locate the American radio and attack its broadcast site with artillery.
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The U.S. Army has a potential tool that would counter the Russians' techniques, according to Church. Called the Integrated Electronic Warfare system, the three-piece program is meant to be a sort of one-stop shop for the Army's electronic warfare division. The system is essentially a collection of software, sensors and devices that can be mounted to ground vehicles and drones and carried in troops' rucksacks and will be able to jam, detect and identify enemy interference. The catch? It isn't completely funded and has no set year when it will be completely ready, though one component of the system is slotted to be fielded by the end of 2016, with another due in 2023.
The U.S. Army has a potential tool that would counter the Russians' techniques, according to Church. Called the Integrated Electronic Warfare system, the three-piece program is meant to be a sort of one-stop shop for the Army's electronic warfare division. The system is essentially a collection of software, sensors and devices that can be mounted to ground vehicles and drones and carried in troops' rucksacks and will be able to jam, detect and identify enemy interference. The catch? It isn't completely funded and has no set year when it will be completely ready, though one component of the system is slotted to be fielded by the end of 2016, with another due in 2023.
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"We've been talking about this since 2005," Church said, referring to one component of the Integrated Electronic Warfare system that was supposed to be ready in 2009 but won't be in the field until later this year. "There's these guys that have been looking at really neat pictures of really neat capabilities for years and we still don't have it."
"We've been talking about this since 2005," Church said, referring to one component of the Integrated Electronic Warfare system that was supposed to be ready in 2009 but won't be in the field until later this year. "There's these guys that have been looking at really neat pictures of really neat capabilities for years and we still don't have it."
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During the Cold War, with the Soviet Union as the United States' biggest threat, Army units trained knowing that their enemy would attack them with some element of electronic warfare. But once the Cold War ended, the Army shuttered its units that focused solely on electronic combat.
During the Cold War, with the Soviet Union as the United States' biggest threat, Army units trained knowing that their enemy would attack them with some element of electronic warfare. But once the Cold War ended, the Army shuttered its units that focused solely on electronic combat.
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The Army and Marine Corps renewed their interest in the area around 2005, when they needed something to combat remote-controlled roadside bombs, which were killing and wounding troops by the dozens. Even then, however, U.S. forces had almost no concern about adversaries jamming their navigation equipment or radios and focused solely on countering the threat at hand.
The Army and Marine Corps renewed their interest in the area around 2005, when they needed something to combat remote-controlled roadside bombs, which were killing and wounding troops by the dozens. Even then, however, U.S. forces had almost no concern about adversaries jamming their navigation equipment or radios and focused solely on countering the threat at hand.
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Now, Church is fighting for funding and the prioritization of the Army's electronic warfare in the Pentagon's upcoming budget. To do this, he has to lobby the Pentagon's new electronic warfare committee.
Now, Church is fighting for funding and the prioritization of the Army's electronic warfare in the Pentagon's upcoming budget. To do this, he has to lobby the Pentagon's new electronic warfare committee.
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"What I haven't been able to just drive home is something I can't demonstrate," Church said. "We can see an artillery round explode. . . . We can see the effect that those combat arms guys have. . . . I can't see any of that in the electromagnetic spectrum."
"What I haven't been able to just drive home is something I can't demonstrate," Church said. "We can see an artillery round explode. . . . We can see the effect that those combat arms guys have. . . . I can't see any of that in the electromagnetic spectrum."
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"It's hard to prove this stuff works," he added.
"It's hard to prove this stuff works," he added.
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Church says the Pentagon brass has acknowledged to him that ideally there would be 3,200 electronic-warfare soldiers spread throughout the Army. Instead, he has 800.
Church says the Pentagon brass has acknowledged to him that ideally there would be 3,200 electronic-warfare soldiers spread throughout the Army. Instead, he has 800.
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"The joke in the field is that EW electronic warfare stands for extra workers," Church said. "Because they have no gear, we have hardly any equipment to do our job."
"The joke in the field is that EW electronic warfare stands for extra workers," Church said. "Because they have no gear, we have hardly any equipment to do our job."
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In the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, conventional electronic warfare has been mostly relegated to certain aircraft with the purpose of jamming and defeating enemy air defenses and radar along with gathering signals intelligence. The Navy has the EA-18G Growler, while the Marines last year retired their aging EA-6B Prowler, a jet specifically designed for electronic warfare. With the Prowler gone, the Marines, in the past two years, have been using a system of pods that can be mounted to various aircraft and will soon be able to be attached to ground vehicles and carried by individual Marines - the same capability the Army is seeking.
In the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, conventional electronic warfare has been mostly relegated to certain aircraft with the purpose of jamming and defeating enemy air defenses and radar along with gathering signals intelligence. The Navy has the EA-18G Growler, while the Marines last year retired their aging EA-6B Prowler, a jet specifically designed for electronic warfare. With the Prowler gone, the Marines, in the past two years, have been using a system of pods that can be mounted to various aircraft and will soon be able to be attached to ground vehicles and carried by individual Marines - the same capability the Army is seeking.
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"This is significant for the Marine Corps, and we've moved out in front of everyone else," said Col. Gregory Breazile, director of the Marines' Cyber and Electronic Warfare Integration Division.
"This is significant for the Marine Corps, and we've moved out in front of everyone else," said Col. Gregory Breazile, director of the Marines' Cyber and Electronic Warfare Integration Division.
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Yet, despite various advancements by certain branches, the U.S. military is at a critical point in determining which priorities to fund and how it will wage its future wars.
Yet, despite various advancements by certain branches, the U.S. military is at a critical point in determining which priorities to fund and how it will wage its future wars.
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"The battle of the electromagnetic spectrum could very well determine a win or loss in a future war," said Peter Singer, a Senior Fellow and Strategist at New America who focuses on future conflicts. "The worry for the United States in electronic warfare is that we're seeing nations like Russia and China invest deeply in the hope that it will nullify our advantages in other realms."
"The battle of the electromagnetic spectrum could very well determine a win or loss in a future war," said Peter Singer, a Senior Fellow and Strategist at New America who focuses on future conflicts. "The worry for the United States in electronic warfare is that we're seeing nations like Russia and China invest deeply in the hope that it will nullify our advantages in other realms."
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With the rollout of the 2017 defense budget Tuesday, it is unclear how many resources will be devoted to electronic warfare, though Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter stressed its importance in an address to the Economic Club in Washington during an early preview of the upcoming request last week.
With the rollout of the 2017 defense budget Tuesday, it is unclear how many resources will be devoted to electronic warfare, though Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter stressed its importance in an address to the Economic Club in Washington during an early preview of the upcoming request last week.
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Two days later, Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., introduced a bill that would allow the Pentagon to fund electronic warfare programs more quickly, in hopes of keeping pace with advancing technology and the United States' adversaries.
Two days later, Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., introduced a bill that would allow the Pentagon to fund electronic warfare programs more quickly, in hopes of keeping pace with advancing technology and the United States' adversaries.
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"It is critical our military dominate the offensive and defensive ends of electronic warfare," Kirk, a former naval intelligence officer, said in a statement. "The need for enhanced electronic capabilities is even more pronounced on today's battlefield."
"It is critical our military dominate the offensive and defensive ends of electronic warfare," Kirk, a former naval intelligence officer, said in a statement. "The need for enhanced electronic capabilities is even more pronounced on today's battlefield."
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By Craig Andresen and Diane Sori Right Side Patriots on http://www.americanpbn.com/
I would like to take a little time to address liberals. Specifically those liberals who are drooling over Bernie Sanders.
You know who you are.
You are the ones who pee yourselves every time Grumpy mentions free crap. He’s going to give you this for free, that for free, other things for free, EVERYTHING for free. Free healthcare. Free college tuition.
Free childcare…which goes along nicely with his proposals to expand the welfare system by which women can have as many babies as they want, by as many different men as they can roll around with and then have all their child care paid for…for FREE and if those welfare moms want to send their little welfare rug rats off to pre-school…
WELL THAT’S GONNA BE FREE TOO!!!
Yep…a vote for Bernie is a vote for FREE crap for the rest of your life and, if you’re a good little socialist…you’ll get a free pony.
Ol’ Bernie sure is the generous sort, isn’t he?
The Front Page Cover
2016 The turth is the gold of today
Featuring:
TSA: Total Security Abyss
MICHELLE MALKIN
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There's Nothing Democratic About Democrat Primaries Hilly Clinton is winning handily against Bernie Sanders. Oh sure, the Democratic Socialist, with his message pledging a "political revolution" against Wall Street, tied in Iowa and cleaned up in the New Hampshire primary. But Clinton campaigned where it matters: to the Democrat Party's superdelegates — lawmakers and key players in the party that can vote for whomever they want at the convention. Leaving New Hampshire, Sanders had the support of 42 delegates. Clinton? 394. The eventual Democrat candidate for president needs 2,382 delegates to win the party's nomination.
For all their talk about dark money polluting the political system, Democrats sure do operate an unequal system. National Review's Jim Geraghty wrote that 10,000 young Democrat primary voters feelin' the Bern are equal to one superdelegate voting how they please, and those superdelegates are rallying to protect the establishment's favorite politician in a pantsuit.
It's false advertising to call the Democrat Party democratic. Why does the party even care about voter ID laws, or even participatory politics with a system tilted with superdelegates? So much for the principle of one person, one vote. The New Democrat Party is one where "Democrats" and Socialists is a distinction without a difference. -The Patriot Post
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Ferguson: Rally the Black Vote
As the nation's news junkies focused their attention on the New Hampshire primary returns, the City Council of Ferguson, Missouri, took another twist related to the 2014 justified shooting death of Michael Brown. The six-member council voted unanimously to approve the Justice Department's settlement to reform the city's unjust policing practices — but "subject to certain conditions." The DOJ responded to the city's request by filing a lawsuit against Ferguson, just in time to agitate the black vote in the southern primaries.
The city council wants to amend the section of the 131-page consent decree that stipulates a pay increase for its police officers. If you recall, the city was balancing its budget through aggressive policing practices and a court system that collected fines from city residents hand over fist. With the reform already in place, Ferguson is running a $2.8 million deficit, and the DOJ's plan would increase expenditures $3.7 million in the first year. Perhaps DOJ didn't understand that unlike the federal government, local governments have to operate on a balanced budget.
"So just to make it clear," Reason's Scott Shackford explained, "the city stands accused of having an abusive law enforcement agency that violates the rights of its citizenry in order to fund itself and its court employees, and the correction being imposed by the Department of Justice is to force the city to have to find sources of even more money to fork over to the very officers that have been abusing residents." What's Ferguson to do? Raise taxes on its poor residents?
Make no mistake: Timing is everything. The DOJ's actions will benefit Hilly Clinton throughout the southern primaries, as blacks are reminded once again of injustice. Never mind that Ferguson (and every other city in which Black Lives Matter is fomenting discord) is run by Democrats. "Residents of Ferguson have suffered the deprivation of their constitutional rights — the rights guaranteed to all Americans — for decades," said Attorney General Loretta Lynch. "They have waited decades for justice. They should not be forced to wait any longer." As long as Democrats run the show, they will have to wait longer.
-The Patriot Post
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Presstitutes and the Clintons Who Pimp Them
For at least two prominent Beltway journalists, trading independence for fleeting scoops is all part of the media churn. A recent batch of emails released by the State Department thanks to a FOIA requests contained a 2009 exchange between former Atlantic contributing editor Marc Ambinder and Hilly Clinton mouthpiece Philippe Reines that demonstrated a clear example of transactional journalism. Clinton was a few months into her appointment as secretary of state when she gave a July 15 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations — a speech that The Washington Post's Erik Wemple notes nobody remembers anymore. Ambinder contacted the Clinton machine to ask for an advance transcript of the speech. In the reply email, Reines said he would hand over the transcript, provided Ambinder complied with three conditions.
"Got it," Ambinder replied. And sure enough, in the journalist's finished piece, all three of Clinton's demands were met in the first paragraph. Fellow Beltway scribbler Mike Allen of Politico also used the adjective "muscular" to describe Clinton's speech, implying that he too followed directions from Clinton's spin machine.The two journalists violated a key tenet of the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics: To act independently because "[t]he highest and primary obligation of ethical journalism is to serve the public." People may debate whether or not Clinton generally receives favorable media coverage, but it seems evident that some reporters are content to become Clinton's presstitutes. And then they wonder why nobody trusts the Leftmedia. -The Patriot Post1) You in your own voice describe them as "muscular"
2) You note that a look at the CFR seating plan shows that all the envoys — from Holbrooke to Mitchell to Ross — will be arrayed in front of her, which in your own clever way you can say certainly not a coincidence and meant to convey something
3) You don't say you were blackmailed!
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Justice Department Sues Ferguson
Over Unconstitutional Policing
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch
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Former Spokesliar Carney –
nObama Prefers An Unindicted Clinton
Rick Wells.
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Union Slams nObama for Catering to Environmentalists
Bill McMorris
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How Iran Took Obama Hostage
Daniel Greenfield
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The Times’ David Brooks Misses nObama
—and a Few Facts
Roger Aronoff
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David Brooks
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{aim.org} ~ David Brooks, The New York Times’ resident “conservative,” has once again gone all out to support President nObama, claiming that the misconduct of the current presidential campaigns has already made him “miss” the President’s “superior integrity” and poise... Brooks’ “strange sensation” that he is feeling seems reminiscent of the thrill up his leg for the President that MSNBC’s Chris Matthews once spoke of experiencing. Brooks has been with the Times for over 12 years, and is also a political analyst for PBS. That would be more than enough left-wing influence to severely cloud anyone’s judgment, and clearly Brooks has not been immune. The mainstream media refuse to throw away their rose-colored glasses when judging nObama because the reality of this President’s corruption and dishonesty contradicts the liberal narrative. To the contrary, if Brooks were to be believed, President nObama has demonstrated “basic care and respect for the dignity of others,” sound decision-making, “grace under pressure,” and “optimism.” And yes, just like former senior nObama advisor David Axelrod, Brooks argues that President nObama has been “remarkably scandal-free” when compared with prior presidencies. This David guy is really sick. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-times-david-brooks-misses-obama-and-a-few-facts/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email021116&utm_medium=email.
The Latest In Nuclear Cheating,
From Iran To North Korea
Benny Avni
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Liberals Blaming Republicans
for Islamic Terrorists
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{totalconservative.com} ~ Not satisfied with merely smearing Republicans as racist, xenophobic, and sexist, liberals both inside and outside the world of politics have decided that Donald slimp-Trump and other security-conscious conservatives are actually turning moderate Muslims into radical terrorists... Despite lacking even the slightest shred of proof for this accusation, they are repeatedly and shamelessly trying to convince Americans that strong rhetoric against Islamic terrorism is enabling the enemy. At a Women’s Equality event called the Night of Comedy, “Hanoi” Jane Fonda took to the stage to accuse slump-Trump of preying upon people’s “anxieties and racism.” “Even if he doesn’t make it which I don’t think he will, the fact that he’s said the things he’s said about Muslims for example, the damage has been done,” hanoi-Fonda said. “All those young Muslims now can say, ‘Yeah I guess they really are waging a war against us.’ It will draw them closer to the terrorists. I think it’s really, really dangerous.”.
slump-Trump Lets Slip
'We're Going to Keep' Common Core
Tyler O'Neil.
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A Disaster Worse Than Libya
Cliff Kincaid
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France to Shut Down 100 to 160 Mosques; War-grade Weapons Found in Some
Selwyn Duke
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TSA: Total Security Abyss
MICHELLE MALKIN
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Intelligence officials released video footage of airport employees in Mogadishu handing a laptop to a jihadist suspect before he boarded Daallo Airlines Airbus Flight D3159 last week. The device allegedly contained a bomb that exploded on the plane, which created a massive hole out of which the bomber was fatally sucked. Two other passengers were injured in the blast before the pilot successfully made an emergency landing.
Intelligence officials released video footage of airport employees in Mogadishu handing a laptop to a jihadist suspect before he boarded Daallo Airlines Airbus Flight D3159 last week. The device allegedly contained a bomb that exploded on the plane, which created a massive hole out of which the bomber was fatally sucked. Two other passengers were injured in the blast before the pilot successfully made an emergency landing.
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Several airport workers have now been arrested and the FBI is in Africa assisting the investigation.
Several airport workers have now been arrested and the FBI is in Africa assisting the investigation.
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The Somalia incident is not the only suspected in-flight inside job of late. Investigators believe a ramp worker at Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh airport was recruited by ISIS to plant a bomb on the Russian airliner that crashed last fall in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula. All 224 passengers and crew members aboard Metrojet Flight 9268 perished.
The Somalia incident is not the only suspected in-flight inside job of late. Investigators believe a ramp worker at Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh airport was recruited by ISIS to plant a bomb on the Russian airliner that crashed last fall in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula. All 224 passengers and crew members aboard Metrojet Flight 9268 perished.
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America can rest easy knowing that TSA aggressively tackled my harmless chignon like the Denver Broncos on Super Bowl Sunday.
America can rest easy knowing that TSA aggressively tackled my harmless chignon like the Denver Broncos on Super Bowl Sunday.
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But as the TSA carries out its multibillion-dollar charade of homeland security on babies’ bottles of breast milk, veterans’ prosthetic devices and suburban moms’ updos, who is screening the screeners?
But as the TSA carries out its multibillion-dollar charade of homeland security on babies’ bottles of breast milk, veterans’ prosthetic devices and suburban moms’ updos, who is screening the screeners?
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Last summer, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general raised the alarm on the TSA’s faulty aviation worker vetting process. The IG’s testing showed “that TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes because TSA is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related information under current interagency watchlisting policy.” Nor does the transportation bureaucracy have effective controls in place for ensuring that its employees “had not committed crimes that would disqualify them from having unescorted access to secure airports areas” and “had lawful status and were authorized to work in the United States.”
Last summer, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general raised the alarm on the TSA’s faulty aviation worker vetting process. The IG’s testing showed “that TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes because TSA is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related information under current interagency watchlisting policy.” Nor does the transportation bureaucracy have effective controls in place for ensuring that its employees “had not committed crimes that would disqualify them from having unescorted access to secure airports areas” and “had lawful status and were authorized to work in the United States.”
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On top of that, “thousands of records used for vetting workers contained potentially incomplete or inaccurate data, such as an initial for a first name and missing social security numbers,” investigators found. “TSA did not have appropriate edit checks in place to reject such records from vetting.”
On top of that, “thousands of records used for vetting workers contained potentially incomplete or inaccurate data, such as an initial for a first name and missing social security numbers,” investigators found. “TSA did not have appropriate edit checks in place to reject such records from vetting.”
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Stunningly, the IG disclosed that TSA has had to “deny credentials to 4,800 individuals that the airports had previously cleared for work in the United States because it could not verify lawful status for those individuals.” The report does not specify when exactly these 4,800 potential illegal immigrants from around the world finally had their badges yanked.
Stunningly, the IG disclosed that TSA has had to “deny credentials to 4,800 individuals that the airports had previously cleared for work in the United States because it could not verify lawful status for those individuals.” The report does not specify when exactly these 4,800 potential illegal immigrants from around the world finally had their badges yanked.
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Eight months after this disclosure, the IG reported this week, “as few as one percent of all aviation workers applications” at larger airports are subjected to the inspections process to screen out aliens here illegally, visa overstayers and individuals convicted of disqualifying crimes.
Eight months after this disclosure, the IG reported this week, “as few as one percent of all aviation workers applications” at larger airports are subjected to the inspections process to screen out aliens here illegally, visa overstayers and individuals convicted of disqualifying crimes.
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Only in the last year has the nObama administration cracked down on airport and airline employees’ unfettered access to sensitive areas and ability to bypass security checkpoints.
Only in the last year has the nObama administration cracked down on airport and airline employees’ unfettered access to sensitive areas and ability to bypass security checkpoints.
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Only in the last week has the federal government finally changed its policies to allow TSA to access counterterrorism databases.
Only in the last week has the federal government finally changed its policies to allow TSA to access counterterrorism databases.
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Actually, it’s not clear from the DHS inspector general John Roth’s follow-up testimony on Capitol Hill this whether and when exactly this will happen. “TSA now or will soon have access to this information,” he told Congress. Hmm.
Actually, it’s not clear from the DHS inspector general John Roth’s follow-up testimony on Capitol Hill this whether and when exactly this will happen. “TSA now or will soon have access to this information,” he told Congress. Hmm.
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Even if and when TSA officials gain access to terrorism data, however, the question is whether that information is worth anything at all. DHS whistleblower Philip Haney, a 15-year veteran of the bureaucracy, reported last week on politically correct purges of counter terrorism databases ordered by his superiors. He says he was forced to “delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System.”
Even if and when TSA officials gain access to terrorism data, however, the question is whether that information is worth anything at all. DHS whistleblower Philip Haney, a 15-year veteran of the bureaucracy, reported last week on politically correct purges of counter terrorism databases ordered by his superiors. He says he was forced to “delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System.”
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It gets worse. “Going forward,” Haney recounted, “my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database.” Whitewash in, whitewash out.
It gets worse. “Going forward,” Haney recounted, “my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database.” Whitewash in, whitewash out.
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A budget of $7 billion. A workforce of 55,000. Useless explosives-screening “puffing” machines. Unreliable full-body scanners. Thousands of lost and stolen badges and weapons. Unknown numbers of criminals, illegal aliens, imposters and terror operatives with security clearance to do as they please on ramps and runways across America.
A budget of $7 billion. A workforce of 55,000. Useless explosives-screening “puffing” machines. Unreliable full-body scanners. Thousands of lost and stolen badges and weapons. Unknown numbers of criminals, illegal aliens, imposters and terror operatives with security clearance to do as they please on ramps and runways across America.
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Welcome to TSA: The Total Security Abyss.
Welcome to TSA: The Total Security Abyss.
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The Front Page Cover
2016 The turth is the gold of today
Featuring:
Fear Not, My Secular Friends
David Limbaugh.
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Heritage Panel Warns of Lingering
Iran Nuclear Threat
John Grady
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The Three Phases of FEMA Camp Mass
Arrests Under UWEX 16
Dave Hodges
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President nObama’s budgetary deceptions
James C. Capretta.
{aei.org} ~ President nObama released the final budget plan of his presidency today, and we can all be grateful that it’s his last. It is a plan that will be, and should be, ignored in Congress because of its deceptions and implausibility....
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Legit Investment… or a Ponzi Scheme?
Martin Hutchinson.
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Tunisian MB Leader's 'Time' Column Glosses
Over Tunisia's Jihadi Problem
John Rossomando
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Hilly Frights to Keep
Wall Street Speeches Secret
Matthew Vadum
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261784/hillary-fights-keep-wall-street-speeches-secret-matthew-vadum
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Dems Abandon A Crooked Hilly
Judge Andrew Napolitano.
{wnd.com} ~ This has not been a good week for Hilly Clinton. She prevailed over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses by less than four-tenths of 1 percent of all votes cast, after having led him in polls in Iowa at one time by 40 percentage points... In her statement to supporters, standing in front of her gaunt and listless-looking husband, she was not able to mouth the word “victory” or any of its standard variants. She could barely hide her contempt for the Iowa Democrats who deserted her. Sanders isn’t even a Democrat. According to official Senate records, he is an “Independent Socialist” who votes to organize the Senate with the Democrats and sits on the Senate floor with them. Clinton, of course, is the heiress to the mightiest Democratic political apparatus in the land. Hence the question: What do the Iowa Democrats know that caused thousands of them to flee from her? They know she is a crook..
Where's Rep. Joe Wilson
when we need him?
Erik Rush.
{wnd.com} ~ On several occasions since January 2009, I commented on my surprise at the speed with which Barack Hussein nObama began implementing his radical political agenda... By late 2009, it was evident to the astute that this nObama fellow was going to be really bad news – even worse than our 39th president, Jimmy Carter, to whom some quickly drew comparisons. Thus, it wasn’t only unsurprising but gratifying to many when, on Sept. 9, 2009, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouted “You lie!” during a speech before a joint session of Congress while Obama attempted to assuage the concerns of those who believed that White House health-care reform proposals would insure illegal immigrants. Wilson was right, of course; as he would occur on innumerable occasions in the future, nObama was being willfully deceptive..
They fall down, go boom! nObama
economy killing businesses
BOB UNRUH.
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DHS Still Wasting – $5.7 Billion On Useless
Cyber-Security System
Rick Wells.
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Fear Not, My Secular Friends
David Limbaugh.
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When I wrote the book "Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity," secularists panned the notion that Christians, being in the majority, could be the subjects of systematic discrimination. I found that an odd argument, especially from people who routinely argued that women are victims of gender discrimination.
When I wrote the book "Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity," secularists panned the notion that Christians, being in the majority, could be the subjects of systematic discrimination. I found that an odd argument, especially from people who routinely argued that women are victims of gender discrimination.
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Their argument may have a superficial attraction, but it does not square with the evidence. I marshaled 400 pages of proof to substantiate my case. Since the time the book was published in 2005 this pattern of discrimination and mistreatment of Christians has continued unabated. I could write an update with twice as many pages.
Their argument may have a superficial attraction, but it does not square with the evidence. I marshaled 400 pages of proof to substantiate my case. Since the time the book was published in 2005 this pattern of discrimination and mistreatment of Christians has continued unabated. I could write an update with twice as many pages.
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Our universities are teeming with atheist professors, many of whom express their antipathy toward Christianity as anti-science, superstitious, bigoted,and Neanderthal. The same message permeates our culture, from Hollywood to popular music to the mainstream liberal media.
Our universities are teeming with atheist professors, many of whom express their antipathy toward Christianity as anti-science, superstitious, bigoted,and Neanderthal. The same message permeates our culture, from Hollywood to popular music to the mainstream liberal media.
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President Barack nObama himself, while touting his authentic Christianity, doesn't miss an opportunity to ridicule Christians as Bible-toting bitter-clingers whose Scripture contains many horrific divine commands and whose ancestors during the Crusades were every bit as evil as modern Islamic jihadists. He has also gone out of his way to promote the very secular cause of abortion-on-demand and to trample the conscience rights of faith-based institutions.
President Barack nObama himself, while touting his authentic Christianity, doesn't miss an opportunity to ridicule Christians as Bible-toting bitter-clingers whose Scripture contains many horrific divine commands and whose ancestors during the Crusades were every bit as evil as modern Islamic jihadists. He has also gone out of his way to promote the very secular cause of abortion-on-demand and to trample the conscience rights of faith-based institutions.
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Yet with all this "progress," the appetite of militant secularists cannot be satiated. The most recent example is an editorial by Susan Jacoby in The New York Times, "Sick and Tired of 'God Bless America.'" Contrary to the liberal criticism of my book, Jacoby argues "the population of nonreligious Americans -- including atheists, agnostics and those who call themselves 'nothing in particular' -- stands at an all-time high this election year." She cites a Pew poll showing that the numbers of nonreligious Americans have exploded since 2008. It's hard to deny that the secular culture's bombardment of Christianity is having an effect.
Yet with all this "progress," the appetite of militant secularists cannot be satiated. The most recent example is an editorial by Susan Jacoby in The New York Times, "Sick and Tired of 'God Bless America.'" Contrary to the liberal criticism of my book, Jacoby argues "the population of nonreligious Americans -- including atheists, agnostics and those who call themselves 'nothing in particular' -- stands at an all-time high this election year." She cites a Pew poll showing that the numbers of nonreligious Americans have exploded since 2008. It's hard to deny that the secular culture's bombardment of Christianity is having an effect.
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Jacoby is particularly annoyed that despite the supposed cultural shift away from Christianity, presidential candidates still campaign "as if all potential voters were among the faithful." Even Democrats, she says, "are only a trifle more secular in their appeals." Well, if you say so.
Jacoby is particularly annoyed that despite the supposed cultural shift away from Christianity, presidential candidates still campaign "as if all potential voters were among the faithful." Even Democrats, she says, "are only a trifle more secular in their appeals." Well, if you say so.
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Jacoby doesn't criticize nonreligious Americans who vote for these candidates, because no candidate "who full-throatedly endorses nonreligious humanism" is on the ballot. But she's not happy that the "candidates themselves ignore the growing group of secular voters."
Jacoby doesn't criticize nonreligious Americans who vote for these candidates, because no candidate "who full-throatedly endorses nonreligious humanism" is on the ballot. But she's not happy that the "candidates themselves ignore the growing group of secular voters."
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She admits -- shockingly -- that "America is still predominantly a Christian nation," but that's not, in her view, why Christians are more powerful. Christians, she argues, are no more homogenous or monolithic in their views than secularists. Indeed, only evangelicals, as a group, are larger than those Americans "who don't belong to any church." The "unchurched," she says, at 22.8 percent, "make up a larger group than Catholics, any single Protestant denomination and small minorities of Jews, Muslims, and Hindus."
She admits -- shockingly -- that "America is still predominantly a Christian nation," but that's not, in her view, why Christians are more powerful. Christians, she argues, are no more homogenous or monolithic in their views than secularists. Indeed, only evangelicals, as a group, are larger than those Americans "who don't belong to any church." The "unchurched," she says, at 22.8 percent, "make up a larger group than Catholics, any single Protestant denomination and small minorities of Jews, Muslims, and Hindus."
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Instead, she thinks secularists are politically weak partly because they are not "joiners" and they reject labels. Many of the religiously unaffiliated would rather not identify with any group than label themselves as atheists or agnostics. Without joiners, she says, you can't create a lobby.
Instead, she thinks secularists are politically weak partly because they are not "joiners" and they reject labels. Many of the religiously unaffiliated would rather not identify with any group than label themselves as atheists or agnostics. Without joiners, she says, you can't create a lobby.
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This is all rather bizarre, though, when you consider the inroads secularists have made in our society. In the first place, let's not forget that the Democratic Party booed God at its last convention. And though its presidential candidates may be unwilling to overtly appeal to secularists, they clearly pay homage to goddess Gaia in their quasi-pious adherence to the catechism of climate change. They bow to abortion rights as if abortion were a sacred ritual mandated by a pagan god of child sacrifice.
This is all rather bizarre, though, when you consider the inroads secularists have made in our society. In the first place, let's not forget that the Democratic Party booed God at its last convention. And though its presidential candidates may be unwilling to overtly appeal to secularists, they clearly pay homage to goddess Gaia in their quasi-pious adherence to the catechism of climate change. They bow to abortion rights as if abortion were a sacred ritual mandated by a pagan god of child sacrifice.
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More important, secular values are in the ascendancy in this nation, not just in our university and culture, but also in the outworking of our laws. Almost overnight, militant secularists have imposed same-sex marriage on society through the super-legislature formally known as the United States Supreme Court. Tyrannical liberal policy makers and judges have forced the federal funding of abortifacients. Formerly free private bakers can't refuse to sell their product for a ceremony that violates their religious beliefs. Secularists own the curriculum in our public schools and universities. They expel prayer and symbols of Christianity from the public square, our schools and our military institutions. Don't dare be caught voluntarily praying to the God of the Bible in your private time in school, but the school will teach you how to practice the Five Pillars of Islam. Secularists are infringing, selectively, on the freedom of association of Christian groups on campuses. And much more.
More important, secular values are in the ascendancy in this nation, not just in our university and culture, but also in the outworking of our laws. Almost overnight, militant secularists have imposed same-sex marriage on society through the super-legislature formally known as the United States Supreme Court. Tyrannical liberal policy makers and judges have forced the federal funding of abortifacients. Formerly free private bakers can't refuse to sell their product for a ceremony that violates their religious beliefs. Secularists own the curriculum in our public schools and universities. They expel prayer and symbols of Christianity from the public square, our schools and our military institutions. Don't dare be caught voluntarily praying to the God of the Bible in your private time in school, but the school will teach you how to practice the Five Pillars of Islam. Secularists are infringing, selectively, on the freedom of association of Christian groups on campuses. And much more.
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Don't misunderstand. I do not seek to portray Christians as victims, but for all her concern, Jacoby has nothing to fear from Christians, who would not suppress secularists' liberties. On the other hand, it is undeniable that militant secularists command that society extend tolerance toward everyone except Christians. As hard-nosed secularists have been caught admitting, they simply refuse to tolerate ideas they find intolerable. They have no interest in applying their adage "live and let live" to those odious Christians.
Don't misunderstand. I do not seek to portray Christians as victims, but for all her concern, Jacoby has nothing to fear from Christians, who would not suppress secularists' liberties. On the other hand, it is undeniable that militant secularists command that society extend tolerance toward everyone except Christians. As hard-nosed secularists have been caught admitting, they simply refuse to tolerate ideas they find intolerable. They have no interest in applying their adage "live and let live" to those odious Christians.
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Jacoby is sick of hearing "God bless America" at the end of every major political speech, and longs to hear Thomas Paine's observation that "the most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason."
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With all respect to Thomas Paine, I'm not as worried about errors as encroachments on our liberties. And I'd far rather trust one's commitment to the Constitution and rule of law than abstract reason. Christians embrace reason as much as secularists, but as jealous adherents to constitutional liberties, we are much better guardians of liberty for all.
With all respect to Thomas Paine, I'm not as worried about errors as encroachments on our liberties. And I'd far rather trust one's commitment to the Constitution and rule of law than abstract reason. Christians embrace reason as much as secularists, but as jealous adherents to constitutional liberties, we are much better guardians of liberty for all.
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By Craig Andresen and Diane Sori Right Side Patriots on http://www.americanpbn.com/
In Part 1 of this two part report, we, the Right Side Patriots, laid the groundwork for the further melding together of what were two independent investigations…one into Hillary’s emails and one into Benghazi.
In Part 1, we centered in on a key email, one out of many sent between Hillary Clinton and a former Ambassador to Israel, one which outlined a proposal to engage in covert activity to force “protests” within Gaza that would lead to escalating violence and even more Israeli deaths in order to blackmail, for lack of a better word, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into ceding even more land and security to Hamas.
We also reported that while the attacks in Benghazi were ongoing, Obama held a long phone conversation with Netanyahu (confirmed by the White House and others), and our belief, is that at least a portion of that call, revolved around Obama’s attempt to try and pass off Ambassador Stevens as a scapegoat, making Steven’s the ‘bad guy’ who masterminded the gun running operation between Libyan ‘so-called’ rebels and Syrian ‘so-called’ rebels, a ploy Netanyahu of course did not buy into. And why…because of knowledge already passed on to Netanyahu by his own intel community…as in the Mossad operatives already embedded in Benghazi.
But now is the time to name names and put the pieces of the puzzle together.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The turth is the gold of today
Featuring:
Toxic Words
Thomas Sowell.
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nObama's Real Power Plan
Any way you cut it, Barack nObama wins. The Supreme Court on Tuesday placed a stay on a key portion of the chief executive's Clean Power Plan. At the request of 27 states and coal industry monoliths, the court in a 5-4 decision signaled that it had serious concerns about nObama's plan to limit carbon emissions by legislating through regulating. The move was somewhat unusual because SCOTUS didn't wait for a ruling by a lower court. nObama's spokesman Josh Earnest responded to the temporary stay saying the EPA regulations are grounded in the nation's other environmental laws and the administration will continue to implement the regs without directly defying the court. "Even while the litigation proceeds, EPA has indicated it will work with states that choose to continue plan development and will prepare the tools those states will need," Earnest said. "At the same time, the administration will continue to take aggressive steps to make forward progress to reduce carbon emissions." Under nObama's plan, the carbon emission regulations wouldn't go into effect until 2020, but states needed to submit plans on how they were going to comply with the regs relatively soon.
nObama had to have gambled the courts would check his Clean Power Plan, but he still gets political credit on the Left for trying to implement it. Heading into the presidential election year, nObama is showing his fellow ecofascists how important it is for them to elect Democrats so they can seat leftists on courts. It's the same play as with immigration and nObama's other executive actions. -The Patriot Post
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Threat Assessment: ISIL Coming to U.S.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before the Senate Armed Services CommitteeTuesday, with an annual assessment of threats to U.S. vital interests and national security. Clapper noted that "homegrown violent extremists" will pose "the most significant Sunni terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland in 2016." He estimated this would be terrorists who are inspired by foreign terror groups, not under the direct control of those groups, similar to the Chattanooga and San Bernardino attacks in 2015. Clapper described the Islamic State as "the pre-eminent global terrorist threat," and said their "estimated strength worldwide exceeds that of al-Qaida." He noted, "In 2014, the FBI arrested nine ISIL supporters — in 2015, that number increased over five-fold." Ominously, he warned that ISIL has succeeded in making and using chemical weapons — the first terrorists group to use "chemical warfare agent in an attack since Aum Shinrikyo used sarin in Japan in 1995."
When asked by Arizona Sen. John McCain about whether he'd ever seen such diverse challenges to security, Clapper replied, "In my 50-plus years in the intelligence business, I cannot recall a more diverse array of challenges and crises that we confront as we do today." Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart also provided testimony and warned that ISIL would likely be capable of striking the continental U.S. within the year. "ISIL will probably attempt to conduct additional attacks in Europe, and attempt to direct attacks on the U.S. homeland in 2016."
Despite Barack nObama's assurances that "we've contained them," apparently that's not the case. -The Patriot Post
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Will Lynch Rig the Clinton Investigation?
The FBI has officially announced that it is, in fact, investigating Hilly Clinton's email subterfuge. Obviously, this creates more pressure on Clinton, just as voters head to the polls in New Hampshire. But it's also causing the pressure to mount on Attorney General Loretta Lynch to recuse herself. Lynch's Justice Department will be the arbiter of whether an FBI investigation yields an indictment, and anyone who doesn't think Lynch is a partisan hack isn't paying attention. A few months back, Barack nObama declared Hilly's whole email kerfuffle was no big deal, saying, "I can tell you that this is not a situation in which America's national security was endangered." That's a blatant lie given that a couple dozen of Clinton's 1,500 classified emails can't be released even in redacted form because the top secret information contained therein would be too damaging if made public. But given nObama's declaration, will his attorney general effectively disagree and countenance an indictment? Many Republicans don't think so and are calling for a special prosecutor. Part of the reason is Lynch's own partisan history. She gave $10,700 to Democrats between 2004 and 2008, including $4,600 to nObama's 2008 presidential campaign. And she might have a continued job in a future Clinton administration. The bottom line is, never underestimate the willingness of Democrats to circle the wagons. -The Patriot Post
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nObama's Offense is Treason,
Not 'Political Correctness'
> DR. ALAN KEYES.
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nObama's DOJ Threatens Elected Ferguson Officials
Daniel Greenfield
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San Diego Now Banishes
'Founding Fathers'
BOB UNRUH.
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FBI unable to crack San Bernardino
killers’ cell phone
Robert Spencer
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FBI Director James Comey
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Clinton Share – $130 Million For Russian
Control Of US Uranium?
Rick Wells.
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IRS Kept $4.75 Billion in Overpayments That
Taxpayers Can No Longer Claim Back
Ali Meyer.
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nObama Pushes FDA to Allow Scientists to
Create Three-Parent Embryos
MICAIAH BILGER
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Armed Social Security Recipients are
Now Targeted by nObama
Tim Brown
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Intel chief: 'We might use smart-home
devices to spy on you'
LEO HOHMANN.
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{wnd.com} ~ The nation’s top intelligence officer admitted Tuesday that the government may use information transmitted to the Internet from your washing machine, your thermostat, your television, your refrigerator or your favorite video game against you... Almost every home appliance and electronic gadget sold today is outfitted with a computer chip, constantly feeding information about their owners back to utilities, manufacturers and other data networks. James Clapper, director of national intelligence, in his annual assessment of threats given before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, said the government considers this information fair game against people it suspects of terrorism or other crimes..
Bill & Hilly 'DecimatedBlack America'
Trey Sanchez
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Toxic Words
Thomas Sowell,
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One of these words is "entitlement." To hear some politicians tell it, we are all entitled to all sorts of things, ranging from "affordable housing" to "a living wage."
One of these words is "entitlement." To hear some politicians tell it, we are all entitled to all sorts of things, ranging from "affordable housing" to "a living wage."
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But the reality is that the human race is not entitled to anything, not even the food we need to stay alive. If we don't produce food, we are just going to starve. If we don't build housing, then we are not going to have housing, "affordable" or otherwise.
But the reality is that the human race is not entitled to anything, not even the food we need to stay alive. If we don't produce food, we are just going to starve. If we don't build housing, then we are not going to have housing, "affordable" or otherwise.
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Particular individuals or groups can be given many things, to which politicians say they are "entitled," only if other people are forced by the government to provide those things to people who don't need to lift a finger to earn them. All the fancy talk about "entitlement" means simply forcing some people to work to produce things for other people, who have no obligation to work.
Particular individuals or groups can be given many things, to which politicians say they are "entitled," only if other people are forced by the government to provide those things to people who don't need to lift a finger to earn them. All the fancy talk about "entitlement" means simply forcing some people to work to produce things for other people, who have no obligation to work.
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It gets worse. If we are all "entitled" to things, irrespective of whether we produce anything ourselves, then the question becomes: Why are some people getting so much more than others?
It gets worse. If we are all "entitled" to things, irrespective of whether we produce anything ourselves, then the question becomes: Why are some people getting so much more than others?
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People who are producing nothing can feel a sense of grievance against those who are producing much, and being rewarded for it, if our basis for receiving economic benefits is supposed to be what we are all "entitled" to, rather than what we have worked to earn.
People who are producing nothing can feel a sense of grievance against those who are producing much, and being rewarded for it, if our basis for receiving economic benefits is supposed to be what we are all "entitled" to, rather than what we have worked to earn.
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One of the most misleading uses of the notion of entitlement is to say that people who paid into Social Security for years are now entitled to the pensions they receive.
One of the most misleading uses of the notion of entitlement is to say that people who paid into Social Security for years are now entitled to the pensions they receive.
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Really? It so happens that I have put money into the same bank account for more than 20 years. But if I were to write a check for a million dollars today, it would bounce! The question is not how long you have been putting money in, but how much money you put in.
Really? It so happens that I have put money into the same bank account for more than 20 years. But if I were to write a check for a million dollars today, it would bounce! The question is not how long you have been putting money in, but how much money you put in.
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If what you have been putting into Social Security over the years is enough to pay you a $1,500 a month pension, but you were promised a $3,000 a month pension, how much are you entitled to? On what basis?
If what you have been putting into Social Security over the years is enough to pay you a $1,500 a month pension, but you were promised a $3,000 a month pension, how much are you entitled to? On what basis?
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Social Security was created back in the 1930s, during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the shrewdest politicians who ever sat in the White House.
Social Security was created back in the 1930s, during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the shrewdest politicians who ever sat in the White House.
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President Roosevelt understood that, if you could convince people that they were entitled to a pension under Social Security, it could become politically impossible to ever put an end to that system.
President Roosevelt understood that, if you could convince people that they were entitled to a pension under Social Security, it could become politically impossible to ever put an end to that system.
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The pensions promised exceeded what could actually be paid from the money that was put in by the recipients. But the first generation to enter Social Security would have their pensions paid by money received from the second generation, as well as its own money. The second generation would be paid with money that included what was paid in by the third generation, and so on.
The pensions promised exceeded what could actually be paid from the money that was put in by the recipients. But the first generation to enter Social Security would have their pensions paid by money received from the second generation, as well as its own money. The second generation would be paid with money that included what was paid in by the third generation, and so on.
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This is the principle behind a "pyramid" scheme, in which the first investors can get a big return on their money by simply paying them money received from subsequent investors. But it is only a matter of time before reality catches up with us, since the pyramid scheme is not actually investing any money or saving any money.
This is the principle behind a "pyramid" scheme, in which the first investors can get a big return on their money by simply paying them money received from subsequent investors. But it is only a matter of time before reality catches up with us, since the pyramid scheme is not actually investing any money or saving any money.
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That is why a private insurance company that sold annuities based on a pyramid scheme would be prosecuted for fraud, and its officials put in prison. But you can't put Congress in prison, even when that is what it deserves.
That is why a private insurance company that sold annuities based on a pyramid scheme would be prosecuted for fraud, and its officials put in prison. But you can't put Congress in prison, even when that is what it deserves.
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With the money running out in the so-called trust fund for Social Security, reality is beginning to break through the fantasies, and is closing in on us.
With the money running out in the so-called trust fund for Social Security, reality is beginning to break through the fantasies, and is closing in on us.
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No one wants to pull the rug out from under people already retired and dependent on Social Security, or on people nearing retirement age, and expecting a pension that is just not going to be there.
No one wants to pull the rug out from under people already retired and dependent on Social Security, or on people nearing retirement age, and expecting a pension that is just not going to be there.
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We can be both realistic enough, and decent enough, to rescue older people who have been victimized by political fantasies. We can pay higher taxes temporarily to rescue them. But, there is no reason to bankrupt the country by keeping the fraud going forever.
We can be both realistic enough, and decent enough, to rescue older people who have been victimized by political fantasies. We can pay higher taxes temporarily to rescue them. But, there is no reason to bankrupt the country by keeping the fraud going forever.
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Younger people can be allowed to opt out and arrange their own pension plans in the private sector, where the kind of irresponsible pyramid schemes that politicians set up are illegal.
Younger people can be allowed to opt out and arrange their own pension plans in the private sector, where the kind of irresponsible pyramid schemes that politicians set up are illegal.
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But we don't need to ruin the whole economy,
But we don't need to ruin the whole economy,
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2016 GOP Presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz is asking for your prayers and your votes in serving you as President of the United States.
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Vote Ted Cruz for President of the United States!
Oscar Y. Harward
The Front Page Cover
2016 The turth is the gold of today
Featuring:
Jailed jihadi freed, becomes FBI informant
Matt Zapotosky
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nObama Ordered Cleansing of DHS Terrorist Connections In 2009, an Islamist planned to kill 290 civilians on a Christmas Day flight from Europe to Detroit. Fortunately, the bomb material concealed in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underwear failed to detonate after alert passengers subdued and detained him. At that time, nObama condemned the intelligence community, declaring, "This was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had." In the latest report from DHS whistleblower Philip Haney, just before the "underwear bomber" incident, he was "ordered by my superiors at the Department of Homeland Security to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). These types of records are the basis for any ability to 'connect dots'. ... Even worse, going forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database. ... [T]he type of information that the nObama administration ordered removed from travel and national security databases was the kind of information that, if properly assessed, could have prevented subsequent domestic Islamist attacks like the ones committed by Faisal Shahzad (May 2010), Detroit 'honor killing' perpetrator Rahim A. Alfetlawi (2011); Amine El Khalifi, who plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol (2012); Dzhokhar or Tamerlan Tsarnaev who conducted the Boston Marathon bombing (2013); Oklahoma beheading suspect Alton Nolen (2014); or the Muhammed Yusuf Abdulazeez attack (2015) killing five military personnel in Chattanooga Tennessee."
nObama Climate And Economy Lies... Haney also notes the 2015 San Bernardino attack, killing 14 and severely wounding 22 others, could have been thwarted had intelligence not been scrubbed.
This politically correct "cleansing" of references to Islamic terrorist ties from critical national security databases is not only reckless, but is reminiscent of the last Democrat president's obsession with keeping up PC appearances. In 1998, almost three years prior to the devastating 9/11 attack on our nation, then-Demo chief Bill Clinton, who had already declined to capture Osama bin Laden twice — and kill him twice — also refused an FBI field agent's efforts to open a case file on Arab nationals who were, curiously, training to fly commercial aircraft, but not training for takeoffs or landings. The stated reason for the case file denial was to avoid the appearance of any presumption of religious bias against Muslims.
-The Patriot Post
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A Chance to Defeat the 'Assault Weapon' Deception Despite Barack nObama and the Left's continued assault on the Second Amendment, gun rights advocates (a.k.a. those who cling to their guns) received some welcome news. And it's the kind of news that is certain to put many Democrats and those who hate the freedom to defend all other freedoms into panic mode.
We previously noted that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the state of Maryland's "assault weapons" ban, which had in effect prohibited some semiautomatic rifles and so-called high-capacity (read: standard-capacity) magazines. Following a 2-1 decision, the Appeals Court sent the case back to the U.S. District Court with instructions to apply "strict scrutiny."
If the U.S. District Court follows those instructions, then it will almost certainly have to delve into the meaning of the term "assault weapon" and what constitutes a firearm being in "common use," per previous Supreme Court rulings. This is what has anti-gun groups in a state of fear; that the truth about assault weapons may be exposed.
For starters, the term "assault weapon" is often confused with the term "assault rifle." Prior to 1989, the term "assault weapon" was unheard of, but anti-gun publicists started using the term to expand the category of "assault rifles." For the most part, they succeeded in lying to the American public in order to scare them. Who would need an "assault weapon," after all?
An assault rifle is a firearm that has the capability of firing fully automatic, or in other words by holding the trigger, it will continue to fire. Machine guns and the military's M4A1 carbine (which can fire a three-round "burst") fall into this category and are severely limited for being sold to the public — as in next to no one owns them. So-called "assault weapons" are not fully automatic; they are semiautomatic. That means only one round can be fired each time the trigger is pulled. The AR-15, pistols, revolvers and most hunting and sport rifles fall into this category, and all are popular among the public. -The Patriot Post
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WHICH WAY TO ALEXANDRIA?
NH.GOV: “Early historians record that in 1623, under the authority of an English land-grant, Captain John Mason, in conjunction with several others, sent David Thomson, a Scotsman, and Edward and Thomas Hilton, fish-merchants of London, with a number of other people in two divisions to establish a fishing colony in what is now New Hampshire, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River…Thus the settlement of New Hampshire did not happen because those who came here were persecuted out of England. The occasion, which is one of the great events in the annals of the English people, was one planned with much care and earnestness by the English crown and the English parliament. Here James the first began a colonization project which not only provided ships and provisions, but free land bestowed with but one important condition, that it remain always subject to English sovereignty. So it remained until the ‘War of the Revolution.’ Smith first named it ‘North Virginia’ but King James later revised this into ‘New England.’” -Fox News
NH.GOV: “Early historians record that in 1623, under the authority of an English land-grant, Captain John Mason, in conjunction with several others, sent David Thomson, a Scotsman, and Edward and Thomas Hilton, fish-merchants of London, with a number of other people in two divisions to establish a fishing colony in what is now New Hampshire, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River…Thus the settlement of New Hampshire did not happen because those who came here were persecuted out of England. The occasion, which is one of the great events in the annals of the English people, was one planned with much care and earnestness by the English crown and the English parliament. Here James the first began a colonization project which not only provided ships and provisions, but free land bestowed with but one important condition, that it remain always subject to English sovereignty. So it remained until the ‘War of the Revolution.’ Smith first named it ‘North Virginia’ but King James later revised this into ‘New England.’” -Fox News
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Rick Wells.
{constitutionrising.com} ~ nObama starts out this week’s attempt to coerce us into obedience with a compliment on America’s passion for innovation. A passion is a dangerous thing to have identified by this guy because it means he’s chosen it as a means of manipulation... He adds a few more flowery words about a “spirit of discovery” and entrepreneurship that “helps us meet any challenge and the table is set. He says, “One of the greatest challenges of our time is climate change.” Actually, one of the greatest challenges is preventing lying communist agitators from using the fraud of climate change as a tool to destroy our nation.” nObama brags, “Over the past seven years we’ve made historic investments” investments are taxpayer funded subsidies to green energy shill companies to raid the treasury. Any claim as to the price of their “clean” energy should include the cost of those subsidies. They never do; it’s a huge negative that nObama leaves out for obvious reasons. http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25824
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Hilly’s Gender is Irrelevant;
Her Stance on Israel Is Not
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
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Judge Won’t Stop nObama Reckless Refugee Scheme
Rick Wells.
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Health care hikes for retirees in
Pentagon budget proposal
Patricia Kime
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M1 Abrams tank makes cameo in
Iranian-backed terror group's video
Edmund DeMarche
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Illegals Benefited From $750 Million
in nObamaCare Subsidies
Tiffany Gabbay
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Three billion dollars won’t fix leadership
failures on cybersecurity
Jeffrey Eisenach.
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Our next president’s challenge:
The unaccountable bureaucracy
John Yoo and Dean Reuter.
{aei.org} ~ As frontrunners in the Republican presidential primary campaign, Ted Cruz, Donald slump-Trump, and Marco Rubio will have the opportunity to explain how they will reignite the economy and protect our security while remaining true to constitutional principles... One area where they should agree is on blocking the growth of the federal government, designed by the Founders to exercise only limited, enumerated powers. It will not be simple to reverse the century-long evolution toward the large and unaccountable form of government that we call the administrative state. President Woodrow Wilson established its broad outlines to introduce more expertise and expel politics from lawmaking. According to the federal government itself, Washington, D.C. does not even have an authoritative list of all of its agencies. Nevertheless, they continue to put out thousands of new regulations a year, culminating in an administrative code that is 80,000 pages long with even more informal guidelines – far longer than the laws passed by Congress. http://www.aei.org/publication/our-next-presidents-challenge-the-unaccountable-bureaucracy/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=021016
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New Proof slump-Trump Lied About Political consultant Begging Him for Job
Jeff Dunetz
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New Emails Show Hilly Clinton and Aides Had Classified Information on Non-Government Email Accounts
Judicial Watch
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{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch today released nearly 70 pages of State Department records that show that former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton and her top aides, Deputy Chiefs of Staff Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan, received and sent classified information on their non-state.gov email accounts... The documents, also available on the State Department website, were obtained in response to a court order from a May 5, 2015, lawsuit filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) after it failed to respond to a March 18 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking: All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-“state.gov” email address. The new documents show that Hilly Clinton used the clintonemail.com system to ask Huma Abedin also on a non-state.gov email account to print two March 2011 emails, which were sent from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair using the moniker “aclb” to Jake Sullivan on Sullivan’s non-state.gov email account. The nObama State Department redacted the Blair emails under Exemption (b)(1) which allows the withholding of classified material. The material is marked as being classified as “Foreign government information” and “foreign relations or foreign activities of the US, including confidential sources.” http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-emails-show-hillary-clinton-and-aides-had-classified-information-on-non-government-email-accounts/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Judicial%20Watch%20Tipsheet%20-%20Template%202%20(8)&utm_con.
Supreme Court puts nObama's
power plant regs on hold
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{foxnews.com} ~ A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday abruptly halted President nObama's controversial new power plant regulations... dealing a blow to the administration's sweeping plan to address global warming. In a 5-4 decision, the court halted enforcement of the plan until after legal challenges are resolved. The surprising move is a victory for the coalition of 27 mostly Republican-led states and industry opponents that call the regulations "an unprecedented power grab." By temporarily freezing the rule the high court's order signals that opponents have made a strong argument against the plan. A federal appeals court last month refused to put it on hold. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/09/supreme-court-puts-obamas-clean-power-plan-on-hold.html
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Jailed jihadi freed, becomes FBI informant
Matt Zapotosky
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"Morton not only endangered the lives of innocent people," prosecutors wrote, "but he also contributed to the destruction of the very freedoms on which our society is based."
"Morton not only endangered the lives of innocent people," prosecutors wrote, "but he also contributed to the destruction of the very freedoms on which our society is based."
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A federal judge in 2012 agreed that Morton deserved a harsh punishment, sentencing him to 11 1/2 years in prison. But less than three years later, the 37-year-old is out and being paid by the FBI, according to government records and an attorney who says Morton helped federal officials build a case against a client accused of trying to join the Islamic State.
A federal judge in 2012 agreed that Morton deserved a harsh punishment, sentencing him to 11 1/2 years in prison. But less than three years later, the 37-year-old is out and being paid by the FBI, according to government records and an attorney who says Morton helped federal officials build a case against a client accused of trying to join the Islamic State.
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Though police cooperators receiving sentencing breaks is hardly a novel practice, Morton's release is unusual in that, at least when he pleaded guilty, federal authorities billed him as particularly malevolent.
Though police cooperators receiving sentencing breaks is hardly a novel practice, Morton's release is unusual in that, at least when he pleaded guilty, federal authorities billed him as particularly malevolent.
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"We may never know all of those who were inspired to engage in terrorism because of Revolution Muslim, but the string of recent terrorism cases with ties to Morton's organization demonstrates the threat it posed to our national security," then-U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said in a statement at the time.
"We may never know all of those who were inspired to engage in terrorism because of Revolution Muslim, but the string of recent terrorism cases with ties to Morton's organization demonstrates the threat it posed to our national security," then-U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said in a statement at the time.
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The exact details of Morton's release remain murky. A person familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss court matters that largely remain secret, said prosecutors sought to reduce his sentence because they believed he had been reformed and he had cooperated fully with investigators.
The exact details of Morton's release remain murky. A person familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss court matters that largely remain secret, said prosecutors sought to reduce his sentence because they believed he had been reformed and he had cooperated fully with investigators.
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MacBride, who stepped down as U.S. attorney in late 2013 for a job in the private sector, said in a statement that he wasn't aware that the government had pushed for Morton's early release.
MacBride, who stepped down as U.S. attorney in late 2013 for a job in the private sector, said in a statement that he wasn't aware that the government had pushed for Morton's early release.
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"I presume that they only did it because he offered substantial assistance to the FBI in other investigations," MacBride said. He said that although reductions in such cases were uncommon, they had happened in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia in 2006 for three defendants who attended terrorist training camps, then helped in other cases.
"I presume that they only did it because he offered substantial assistance to the FBI in other investigations," MacBride said. He said that although reductions in such cases were uncommon, they had happened in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia in 2006 for three defendants who attended terrorist training camps, then helped in other cases.
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Muslim leaders have long criticized the FBI's use of informants and its sometimes aggressive approach to keeping tabs on Islamic communities. Four U.S. Muslims alleged in a recent lawsuit that their names were put on the no-fly list as part of a heavy-handed effort to coerce them to work on the FBI's behalf. (That suit was dismissed late last year, but the men were taken off the no-fly list). The New York City Police Department agreed this year to settle lawsuits that alleged that Muslims were investigated and targeted for surveillance without good reason - agreeing to pay $2 million in attorney fees while admitting no wrongdoing.
Muslim leaders have long criticized the FBI's use of informants and its sometimes aggressive approach to keeping tabs on Islamic communities. Four U.S. Muslims alleged in a recent lawsuit that their names were put on the no-fly list as part of a heavy-handed effort to coerce them to work on the FBI's behalf. (That suit was dismissed late last year, but the men were taken off the no-fly list). The New York City Police Department agreed this year to settle lawsuits that alleged that Muslims were investigated and targeted for surveillance without good reason - agreeing to pay $2 million in attorney fees while admitting no wrongdoing.
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Information about Morton's release and work as an informant spilled into public view Jan. 27, when he was identified by an alias in open court by an attorney for a man in Woodbridge, Virginia, who was charged last month with helping a friend try to join the Islamic State.
Information about Morton's release and work as an informant spilled into public view Jan. 27, when he was identified by an alias in open court by an attorney for a man in Woodbridge, Virginia, who was charged last month with helping a friend try to join the Islamic State.
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The attorney, Ashraf Nubani, said a man named Younus Abdullah, who had ties to the Revolution Muslim website, was a government informant in the case against his client, Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, 25. "Younus Abdullah" or "Younus Abdullah Muhammad" are aliases that Morton has long used.
The attorney, Ashraf Nubani, said a man named Younus Abdullah, who had ties to the Revolution Muslim website, was a government informant in the case against his client, Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, 25. "Younus Abdullah" or "Younus Abdullah Muhammad" are aliases that Morton has long used.
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Efforts to locate Morton, a father of two who has a master's degree from Columbia University, were unsuccessful. The Bureau of Prisons website indicates that he was released in February 2015, and he appears to have announced it on the website islampolicy.com.
Efforts to locate Morton, a father of two who has a master's degree from Columbia University, were unsuccessful. The Bureau of Prisons website indicates that he was released in February 2015, and he appears to have announced it on the website islampolicy.com.
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"While I am no doubt bewildered by the prospects of facing the currents of American society, labeled American al-Qaida, I do want to remain cognizant that this opportunity to be a freeman, a husband, a father, and citizen comes from Allah alone," the islampolicy.com statement said.
"While I am no doubt bewildered by the prospects of facing the currents of American society, labeled American al-Qaida, I do want to remain cognizant that this opportunity to be a freeman, a husband, a father, and citizen comes from Allah alone," the islampolicy.com statement said.
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Morton did not return email and Facebook messages seeking comment. His father declined to comment, and his attorney and other family members did not respond to phone messages. The person familiar with the case noted that his release from prison was not tied directly to Elhassan's case.
Morton did not return email and Facebook messages seeking comment. His father declined to comment, and his attorney and other family members did not respond to phone messages. The person familiar with the case noted that his release from prison was not tied directly to Elhassan's case.
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Morton pleaded guilty in 2012 to conspiring to solicit murder, making threatening communications and using the Internet to place others in fear. In announcing his plea, federal authorities said his website helped radicalize people across the world, and he had contact with some who had specific, violent plots in mind. For example, he worked with Zachary Chesser - an Oakton High School graduate who tried to join an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group in Somalia - to promote attacks on the writers of "South Park," according to his plea. He also was in touch with Rezwan Ferdaus, who admitted to plotting to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, and with Jose Pimentel, who was arrested in a plot to kill members of the U.S. military returning from active duty in Afghanistan.
Morton pleaded guilty in 2012 to conspiring to solicit murder, making threatening communications and using the Internet to place others in fear. In announcing his plea, federal authorities said his website helped radicalize people across the world, and he had contact with some who had specific, violent plots in mind. For example, he worked with Zachary Chesser - an Oakton High School graduate who tried to join an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group in Somalia - to promote attacks on the writers of "South Park," according to his plea. He also was in touch with Rezwan Ferdaus, who admitted to plotting to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, and with Jose Pimentel, who was arrested in a plot to kill members of the U.S. military returning from active duty in Afghanistan.
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Morton's attorney at the time asserted that many of Morton's postings, while potentially offensive, were not threatening or illegal. For his part, Morton apologized and noted that he could be "an asset in promoting peace once I am free."
Morton's attorney at the time asserted that many of Morton's postings, while potentially offensive, were not threatening or illegal. For his part, Morton apologized and noted that he could be "an asset in promoting peace once I am free."
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"I continue to participate enthusiastically and honestly during the debriefing process, and I can honestly tell you that I have reformed and that were you to let me go today, I would work diligently and with similar passion to correct the mistakes I have made," he said, according to a transcript of his June 2012 sentencing hearing.
"I continue to participate enthusiastically and honestly during the debriefing process, and I can honestly tell you that I have reformed and that were you to let me go today, I would work diligently and with similar passion to correct the mistakes I have made," he said, according to a transcript of his June 2012 sentencing hearing.
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U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady ultimately sentenced him to 11 1/2 years in prison. A sealed document appears in the case in June 2013, according to the court's docket, but there was more activity - including a secret hearing - the following year.
U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady ultimately sentenced him to 11 1/2 years in prison. A sealed document appears in the case in June 2013, according to the court's docket, but there was more activity - including a secret hearing - the following year.
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Officials with the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia declined to comment.
Officials with the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia declined to comment.
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Federal agents arrested Elhassan and another man, Joseph Hassan Farrokh, 28, last month, charging Farrokh with trying to provide material support to terrorists and Elhassan with aiding that plot. They alleged that Farrokh intended to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State; he was arrested at Richmond International Airport, where his journey allegedly was supposed to begin.
Federal agents arrested Elhassan and another man, Joseph Hassan Farrokh, 28, last month, charging Farrokh with trying to provide material support to terrorists and Elhassan with aiding that plot. They alleged that Farrokh intended to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State; he was arrested at Richmond International Airport, where his journey allegedly was supposed to begin.
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Elhassan, federal authorities alleged, knew of Farrokh's plot, gave him a ride to Richmond and lied to FBI agents who questioned him after Farrokh's arrest. According to an affidavit in the case, federal agents knew about the men's whereabouts because they were unknowingly working with three government informants to help facilitate the plot.
Elhassan, federal authorities alleged, knew of Farrokh's plot, gave him a ride to Richmond and lied to FBI agents who questioned him after Farrokh's arrest. According to an affidavit in the case, federal agents knew about the men's whereabouts because they were unknowingly working with three government informants to help facilitate the plot.
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Farrokh, a U.S. citizen born in Pennsylvania, was recently married and has a baby on the way, authorities have said. Elhassan, who came to the United States from Sudan and has a green card, was attending Northern Virginia Community College and working intermittently as a cab driver before his arrest, family members and friends have said.
Farrokh, a U.S. citizen born in Pennsylvania, was recently married and has a baby on the way, authorities have said. Elhassan, who came to the United States from Sudan and has a green card, was attending Northern Virginia Community College and working intermittently as a cab driver before his arrest, family members and friends have said.
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Morton, or Younus Abdullah, is described in the affidavit only as "CHS #3," someone who had been convicted of criminal offenses and received a sentence reduction for his cooperation. He was paid more than $10,000 by the FBI, according to the affidavit.
Morton, or Younus Abdullah, is described in the affidavit only as "CHS #3," someone who had been convicted of criminal offenses and received a sentence reduction for his cooperation. He was paid more than $10,000 by the FBI, according to the affidavit.
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When Nubani, Elhassan's attorney, first invoked the name "Younus Abdullah" in federal court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis Fitzpatrick quickly objected, saying Nubani's assertion was "total speculation." A judge struck the name from the record. Later in the hearing, Nubani referenced the Revolution Muslim site.
When Nubani, Elhassan's attorney, first invoked the name "Younus Abdullah" in federal court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis Fitzpatrick quickly objected, saying Nubani's assertion was "total speculation." A judge struck the name from the record. Later in the hearing, Nubani referenced the Revolution Muslim site.
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In a conversation later with a reporter, Nubani said his client was able to identify Morton, whom he knew as Younus Abdullah, as "CHS #3" because the law enforcement affidavit details their interactions.
In a conversation later with a reporter, Nubani said his client was able to identify Morton, whom he knew as Younus Abdullah, as "CHS #3" because the law enforcement affidavit details their interactions.
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The affidavit alleges Elhassan introduced Farrokh to CHS #3, a man whom Elhassan believed to be someone who maintained connections with "individuals engaged in jihad outside the United States." It alleges that Farrokh asked for help getting to Syria, and Farrokh was soon set up with two other government informants, one of whom he believed to be an Islamic State facilitator.
The affidavit alleges Elhassan introduced Farrokh to CHS #3, a man whom Elhassan believed to be someone who maintained connections with "individuals engaged in jihad outside the United States." It alleges that Farrokh asked for help getting to Syria, and Farrokh was soon set up with two other government informants, one of whom he believed to be an Islamic State facilitator.
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Joe Flood, an attorney for Farrokh, declined to comment.
Joe Flood, an attorney for Farrokh, declined to comment.
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Nubani said Elhassan knew Morton as someone who had been "oppressed by the government" and that is why he introduced him to Farrokh. He said he did not know the specifics of how Elhassan and Morton met. Nubani said Elhassan, like many other Muslims in the country, was caught up in a government-manufactured plot meant to convince the U.S. public that the FBI was working to keep them safe.
Nubani said Elhassan knew Morton as someone who had been "oppressed by the government" and that is why he introduced him to Farrokh. He said he did not know the specifics of how Elhassan and Morton met. Nubani said Elhassan, like many other Muslims in the country, was caught up in a government-manufactured plot meant to convince the U.S. public that the FBI was working to keep them safe.
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In reality, Nubani said, the government's informants "controlled every aspect" of the purported plot involving Elhassan and Farrokh.
In reality, Nubani said, the government's informants "controlled every aspect" of the purported plot involving Elhassan and Farrokh.
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"There was no danger to anyone, at any time," he said.
"There was no danger to anyone, at any time," he said.
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By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist - www.represent.us
Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
Seek the truth and let the people know. Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties.
Globalization making world poverty
The making of Poverty is the worse crime against humanity. The .01% commits Crimes against Humanity through intentional policy to create poverty and the murder of children.
The oligarchs, that control, The IMF, The World Bank, The WTO and the US multinational corporations deceive us. Their agenda of free trade and globalization to eradicate world poverty is a farce, the truth is that free trade and globalization created more poverty in the world and made the 1% richer and more powerful, that now they control the US and many countries in the world.
2016 must be the year of "Economic Justice for All" and stop the murdering of millions of people including innocent children. The choices to kill by deception and lies, began with George W. Bush and Obama unlawful wars, and the IMF and world Bank ensnare the world in this escalating and unpayable debt and then allow the debt-burdened and war victims to die by the hundreds of millions with ongoing lies by government officials and the corporate media sycophants criminals that committed these crimes against Humanity.
The Nature of Poverty - Poverty is not merely the lack of adequate financial resources. It entails a more profound kind of deprivation, a denial of full participation in the economic, social, and political life of society and an inability to influence decisions that affect one's life. It means being powerless in a way that assaults not only one's pocketbook but also one's fundamental human dignity. This means that the poor are, by definition powerlessness, marginalized and oppressed by the 1%, the oligarchs that control our country.
The question we must ask is: what is our purpose and commitment of being an American, what are our principles? The US Declaration of Independence is honored for asserting unalienable rights of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” for each and every human being. The cruelest violation of these cherished ideals is, that by intentional sadistic policies over 22,000 children die every day from preventable poverty and hunger, while we are engaging in unlawful wars, piling our country with debt made with money out of thin air.
The US spends over $600 billion per year on the military to support their military war mongers. The .01% oligarchs “legally” hide $20 to $30 trillion in offshore tax havens product of this rigged economy designed to make them richer and peak inequality. This .01% parasitic loot is twenty to thirty times the amount to end global poverty forever since the total amount to end poverty is $100 billion Dollars. Ending poverty and promoting education will reduce population growth rates increase productivity, reduces strains on resources, and will end global terrorism.
We are the solution, we must end government corruption and stop the oligarchs from controlling our government, we must not let money buy the White House and place as President another of their puppet. We need in the White House a statesman that will defend our US Constitution and represent the people not the oligarchs, we must end crony capitalism, monopolies and military interventions, only congress must call for war in defense of our country and end the protection of corrupt corporations predators of the world community.
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“Neo-imperialist” seeking to control the destiny of humanity
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-neo-imperialist-corporatist-order-and-the-men-behind-the-curtain/5358572
Globalization is the main cause World Poverty. http://members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/globalisation.htm
Why globalization is not reducing inequality
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21613280-why-globalisation-not-reducing-inequality-within-developing-countries-revisiting
Predator corporatism, takeover of ours country
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/predator-corporatism-takeover-of-ours-country
Free Trade destroyed one century of American's job protection and broadly share prosperity.
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/free-trade-the-killer-of-american-s-jobs
Corporatism means globalization of corruptions and organized crime
http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Political_skeptic/Globalization/index.shtml
GLOBALIZATION - NEOLIBERALISM – CORPORATISM
http://www.skeptically.org/wto/id27.html
By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist - www.represent.us
THE U.S. ELITE, THE RULERS OF OUR COUNTRY, ACT CULTURED AND REFINED, BUT THEIR POLICIES ARE SAVAGE AND UNCIVILIZED. THEY ARE PSYCHOPATHS, SOCIOPATHS, NARCISTS, EXPLOITERS, PLUNDERERS, WARMONGERS AND MASS MURDERERS, THEIR GREED, ARROGANCE AND CRUELTY HAVE CAUSED THE DEMISE OF MANY COUNTRIES AND THE SLAVERY OF THE WORKING CLASS.
The World Trade Center Demolition and the So-Called War on Terrorism.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/WTCDEMO/wtc.html
Greed, deception, fraud, dishonesty, and arrogance: these are the words that best describe the ideology of the Washington puppets.
We can no longer tolerate a corrupt political system that has been rigged by the oligarchs and Wall Street to benefit the wealthiest Americans in this country at the expense of everyone else.
Fellow Americans, it is our duty and responsibility to expose the traitors that started the Middle East wars and demand their prosecution for all the crimes committed against the American people and humanity. The fact is that these criminals are responsible for sending our soldiers to war and die for the control of the oil reserve own by the Middle East countries that we demise by war and occupation.
We know that the Bush Administration planned and started the wars under the pretense of defending the American people from terrorism and our national security; this was a lie and a deception because we were not under any foreign threat. We know that the 9/11 demise of the world trade center and building # 7 was an inside job done by Bush and his cronies to use as a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. We cannot continue being in complete denial of the truth, our hands are tinted with the blood of millions of innocent people that we call terrorists; they are not terrorist they are doing what you or I will do if we are being destroy by our enemy. Let’s face it, we are the criminals, the warmongers that invade these countries and killed millions and we have the nerve to call them terrorist because they are defending their land and their life. We are a country without a shame, we must re-store our principles and our Christian values, the truth will set us free. Seek the truth, do not let the MSM brainwash you with their lies and misinformation, the alternative news media report the truth, get inform and take action to re-store our values and character, we are not a country of warmongers criminals.
Neoconservatism: A Treacherous Guild of Jewish Imperialists
https://mastersofdeception.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/masters-of-deception-chapter-fourteen/
U.S. War On Terror Has Killed over 4 Million Muslims including women and children
The Iraq war was planned in 2001. http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/new-documents-show-bush-administration-plan
January 23, 2001. Outlining the "Origins of the Iraq Regime Change Policy". This was requested by Vice President-elect Dick Cheney before taking office, presumably as a way to justify policy formation around aggressive US efforts for "regime change" in Iraq.
Newly-Released Memo by Donald Rumsfeld Proves Iraq War Started On False Pretenses
HOUSTON -- Two years before the September 11 attacks, presidential candidate George W. Bush was already talking privately about the political benefits of attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer, who held many conversations with then-Texas Governor Bush in preparation for a planned autobiography - http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1028-01.htm
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By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on americanpbn.com
As the candidates now focus on South Carolina and Nevada in preparation for Super Tuesday, what have we learned from New Hampshire?
Plenty.
And what we have learned is far more than just who won, who lost and who placed where. There is a whole lot more to the lessons of New Hampshire than that and to fully understand the landscape of the race for the White House, we need to do a dissection of what transpired in New Hampshire.
Trump won. We all pretty much knew that before the first votes were cast at midnight Tuesday morning. It came as no surprise even to those of us who are nauseated by Trump and his total lack of substance or any viable, articulated plan.
Bernie Sanders, the avowed socialist came in first on the liberal/socialist side of the primary and that too was a foregone conclusion as he was a light year ahead of Hillary in New Hampshire throughout the run up to Tuesday’s primary.
Is Mr. Trump a Conservative through and through, who knows but him. I do know that after all these miserable heartbreaking years with Obama, living out his Marxist dreams, this country needs a strong man at the helm, a man beholding to nobody. We need a man that can look in the face of the terrorists and spit in their eye. We need a man that recognizes how desperately weak this country has become and knows what to do to rectify it. I like how he brings up Gen. Patton, one of the greatest Generals ever and says that’s what we need, not the milksops we hear and see now. I like what he wants to do for the veterans, how he is going to finally have the southern wall built and Mexico pay for it. I like how he plans to bring our manufacturing businesses back, I like how finally there is a man that believes in America first. He is pro 2nd. Amendment. What the hell are we looking for in a President if not someone especially like Mr. Trump? Is he a Conservative? He is the man we need so great feats can be accomplished and we have a country again. My hope is for BHO to be impeached and indicted along with Hillary, no two have ever deserved it more.
