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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Free Judge Napolitano!
by Cliff Kincaid
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Intelligence reports reveal improper political surveillance of Trump, transition team. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Kushner to lead new WH office focused on using business ideas to fix gov't bureaucracy. (Fox News)
 
We don't have to choose between Vladimir Putin and George Soros. (The Daily Signal)
 
Kentucky becomes second state to add police to hate crimes law. (Reason)
 
Democrat Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pays women $12,000 less than men. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
North Dakota legalizes constitutional carry. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Seattle gun tax fails to generate projected revenue, succeeds in burdening rights. (NRA-ILA)
 
Palestinian terrorist who led women's march will be stripped of citizenship. (Hot Air)
 
In 24 states, 50% or more of babies born on Medicaid; New Mexico leads nation with 72%. (CNS News)
 
College "diversity council" posts fake racist flyers. (Campus Reform)
 
Policy: The consequences of immigration for America's public schools. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: House GOP has three options on health care. (Bloomberg View)  ~The Patriot Post
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Stop Chairman Nunes Before He Discovers
What Dems Have Been Up To
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Congressman and pencil-necked partisan hack Adam “Shifty” Schiff made a propaganda presentation on “Face The Nation” Sunday, continuing his mission to beat the speculative smear drum and fabricate collusion where none exists in order to discredit and damage the President... The Democrat worm contends that there are perfectly appropriate instances to unmask the names of people. He says it’s done quite often, presenting it as much ado about nothing, provided it was done appropriately. He doesn’t bother delving into how appropriately is defined, the quantity of names unmasked or the widespread dissemination of those conversations by the liar-nObama regime. There are multiple indicators that significant portions of the surveillance was conducted in an inappropriate manner. Instead Schiff goes immediately into his whiny Democrat mode, saying none of us have seen what the Chairman is talking about...  http://rickwells.us/shifty-schiff-stop-chairman-nunes-discovers-dems/
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Intelligence Committee Democrats
Launch Civil War Against Trump
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by George Rasley
{conservativehq.com} ~ Last Monday the House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) conducted a rare open Committee hearing and for those few Americans who were paying attention it opened a truly astonishing window into the Democrats’ war on President Trump... At the hearing, there were some useful exchanges between Republican members and FBI Director Comey on the seriousness of recent leaks of intelligence as well as the unmasking and illegal disclosure of General Michael Flynn’s name from NSA reports, noted our friend Fred Fleitz, a former CIA officer and HPSCI staff member. This is a big deal, says Fleitz, because the names of American citizens incidentally collected by U.S. intelligence agencies are supposed to be blacked out and are not supposed to be revealed unless there is a compelling national security reason. However, these discussions about the intersection of constitutional protections and intelligence collection were overshadowed by the Democrats who were much more aggressive in pushing their Trump-Russia conspiracy theories...  http://www.conservativehq.com/node/25351
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South Tel Aviv Overtaken by Illegal Immigrants
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by Gilad Zwick
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Last week, a 29 year old illegal immigrant from Eritrea was charged with the attempted rape of an 80 year old woman in South Tel Aviv. The victim, in describing the attack, said “he beat me and dragged me across the floor.”... Later in the week, a 40 year old woman was brutally raped near the Old Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv. The perpetrator is still on the loose. Over the past few years, urban neighborhoods throughout Europe have been overtaken by refugees and illegal immigrant populations. Crime has risen, local populations have lost their sense of security, and areas have become no-go zones for police. South Tel Aviv is on the precipice of becoming like these European cities. Yet the media remains silent, and the ruling class are oblivious to the situation. Last week’s violent acts in South Tel Aviv are not sporadic instances, but tragically have become the norm. Last week, during a protest involving illegal immigrant groups, residents of South Tel Aviv and local police were ridiculed and berated by illegal immigrants who screamed ‘the police are ISIS’, ‘this is not your country’, ‘your country is sh-t’, ‘you are not a Jew’...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266225/south-tel-aviv-overtaken-illegal-immigrants-gilad-zwick
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The Left's Shifting Overton Window
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by Benny Huang
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is prepared to go to the mat to prevent the construction of a wall on our southern border. The senator from New York is threatening to use all available options,... including a government shut-down, to forestall three key provisions in the new budget: a deportation force, a border wall, and the defunding of Planned Parenthood.  Well, it’s good to know where Schumer draws his line in the sand. Anything that impedes the endless flow of undocumented Democrats he considers to be an act of war. But I’m old enough to remember when Chuck Schumer supported at least one of these budget items. In 2006, he and 25 other Democratic senators voted for the Secure Fence Act which would have built a double-layered fence on the US-Mexico border. The bill passed, by the way, and President Bush signed it into law. It wasn’t a close vote because it wasn’t particularly controversial...This shows you Schumer is a liar and a hypocrite.   http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266234/lefts-shifting-overton-window-benny-huang
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On Muslims' agenda: Fight U.S.
proposals to ban Sharia law
 
{onenewsnow.com} ~ Muslims complain they're frivolous bills meant to spread fears and sow suspicion of their religion in a nation divided. But supporters of state proposals to prevent Islamic code from being used in American courts... argue they aren't overtly anti-Muslim and are needed to safeguard constitutional rights for average Americans. The bills, variations of which have been around for years, don't specifically seek to ban Islamic law, known as Sharia, even though some lawmakers concede that's their intent. Instead, the proposals broadly call for banning the application of any foreign law, legal code or legal system that doesn't grant the same rights and privileges as the state or U.S. constitutions...Sharia law has no business in our court system, period.  https://www.onenewsnow.com/ap/legal/on-muslims-agenda-fight-us-proposals-to-ban-sharia-law?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16786708&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=28818

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Free Judge Napolitano!
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by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ BuzzFeed, described by Wikipedia as “a liberal American internet media company based in New York City,” is in the “donor spotlight” at the national news museum in Washington, D.C., known as the Newseum. The “honor” demonstrates how the media have changed and how low they have sunk.

A virtual property of Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal, BuzzFeed has been a cog in the anti-Trump media machine.

The “donor spotlight” designation is strangely appropriate, since BuzzFeed disclosed the so-called “Trump Dossier” used by the intelligence community to smear President Trump. “The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors,” the social media site acknowledged while spreading the dubious claims.

By contrast, the John Peter Zenger exhibit located in the Newseum highlights a printer whose publication used the weapon of truth. The Newseum tells us, “German immigrant John Peter Zenger became a free-press hero before there was a First Amendment. On Nov. 17, 1734, the newspaper publisher was jailed for printing truthful articles in his New-York Weekly Journal accusing British Colonial governor William Cosby of being corrupt.”

The “Trump Dossier” released by BuzzFeed was concocted by a former British intelligence agent, and turned over to James Comey’s FBI. Around that time, in July of 2016, notes columnist Lawrence Sellin, the FBI launched its investigation of the unproven connections between the Trump campaign and the Russians. Comey told Congress that the Bureau has been actively investigating possible links between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin since “late July” of 2016.

“What a coincidence,” writes Sellin, a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the U.S. Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. This means that “the FBI investigation was based on highly questionable evidence” for which former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele reportedly “paid intermediaries who in turn paid sources for the information he used in the report.” In other words, he says, they were third-hand rumors from unidentified individuals. Sellin adds, “Remarkably, along with Trump’s political opponents, the liar-nObama-Comey FBI planned to pay Steele to continue his work.”

The British link is significant. While Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano has been suspended for suggesting that the British NSA, known as GCHQ, had access to the surveillance information used against Trump, the two organizations do in fact have a history of working closely together.

This is shaping up as an example of how the Deep State operates, writes Sellin. In this case, intelligence arrangements are made “that open the possibility for government officials to skirt inconvenient national laws in order to surveil citizens and then use the products of that surveillance for political purposes.”

For raising necessary questions about this arrangement, Napolitano was reportedly banned from Fox News. He is the modern-day John Peter Zenger. However, his March 16 column, “Did liar-nObama Spy on Trump?” is still on his website and looks increasingly relevant every day that passes.

This has been a major black mark for Fox News. Still, Fox News personalities like Sean Hannity are trying to cover the deepening scandal involving liar-nObama administration surveillance of Trump and his associates.

The role that has been played by Comcast and its properties in the anti-Trump campaign is a teachable moment that allows us to reflect on the meaning of the First Amendment and how modern media have left behind the legacy of John Peter Zenger.

In contrast to Zenger, who used the weapon of truth against public officials, BuzzFeed used lies that were apparently devised for partisan political purposes by a foreign operative.

Referring to Comcast and others, Trump adviser Peter Navarro said during the campaign, “Donald Trump will break up the new media conglomerate oligopolies that have gained enormous control over our information, intrude into our personal lives, and in this election, are attempting to unduly influence America’s political process.”

BuzzFeed has been forced to apologize to one of those named in the Trump Dossier, in preparation for a suit filed against them.

By contrast, Zenger was found not guilty of seditious libel after his attorney, Alexander Hamilton, said, “It is not the cause of one poor printer, but the cause of liberty.”

Rather than being given a distinction as a valued donor, perhaps an exhibit in the Newseum should highlight BuzzFeed as an example of the politically-correct corporate media that today makes a mockery of First Amendment values.

At the same time, the Newseum should consider embracing the cause of freeing Judge Napolitano.

There’s no money in doing so. It would just be the right thing to do. It would be a reaffirmation of First Amendment values.
 
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
High Anxiety Over Health-Care Reform
by Peggy Noonan
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NSA/CIA Whistleblower Have
Hard Evidence liar-nObama Spied...
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by MIchael DePinto
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ The dishonest media may be continuing to ignore and deride liar-nObamagate, but this is one scandal that they won’t be able to cover up with their 24/7 news cycle... More and more evidence continues to validate the wiretapping claim, and the latest revelation shows that Trump was far from the only prominent one being monitored; the latest list by a former NSA and CIA contractor shows that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 156 judges, and other prominent individuals were also on the list. In the following video, Right Wing News looks at the Orwellian state that we have allowed our country to fall into, all in the name of national security. The Deep State’s co-opting of our national security apparatus has allowed them to exert illegal and unconstitutional influence over the executive, legislative, and judiciary.  http://freedomoutpost.com/nsacia-whistleblower-claims-to-have-hard-evidence-obama-spied-on-156-judges-businessmen/
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Washington’s Little Known Spy Agency
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ US spying is institutionalized – on anyone, anywhere for any reason or none at all. Invented national security threats, targeting dissent and whistleblowers, along with challenging press freedom undermine fundamental rights... In Palko v. Connecticut (1937), the Supreme Court called “freedom of thought the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” In Texas v. Johnson (1989), Justice William Brennan, writing for the majority, said “if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.”... Our people are guaranteed the right to express any thought, free from government censorship” – along with having all other constitutional protections... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/washingtons-little-known-spy-agency/
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Freedom Caucus Members:
Health Care Debate ‘Isn’t Over’
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by Kelsey Harkness
{dailysignal.com} ~ In the aftermath of the House GOP’s health care bill being pulled from a vote Friday, conservatives vowed to continue working with the fractured Republican conference toward health care reform... “This is not the end of the debate,” Mark Meadows, a Republican from North Carolina and chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said on ABC’s “This Week.” President Donald Trump, he added, “will deliver” on health care reform. Republicans had scheduled a long-awaited vote Friday on the American Health Care Act, a bill that would have partially repealed liar-nObamacare. But after failing to win the support of members of the Freedom Caucus, along with some centrist Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the bill...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/26/freedom-caucus-members-health-care-debate-isnt-over/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRVMk16bGxOekUyT1RoaiIsInQiOiJxUFJqV0NkVWlaZkw5WXpMXC94eXlwMWVhTkRHR2VkRktMNUYwVmM0eXN6enRQdXJcL3JqSUR6QnFFdlNqc0NyMDVkdVAyeXFvQVlhendyYW9teEZCNjhySmVVZHMyNTF4cVR2RWIzUnNZdlwvdFpLOFFiYjBEU1NHZVJcL2tSMkVsNjQifQ%3D%3D     
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When the Law Opposes
the Truth Rather Than Protects It
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by Douglas Murray
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The Canadian government suffers from many things. Among them is bad timing. On Thursday of last week, the Canadian Parliament voted through a blasphemy law specifically designed to protect Islam... As Al-Jazeera was happy to report on Friday, the previous day's vote condemned "Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination." The non-binding motion that the Parliament passed also requested that a Parliamentary committee should launch a study to look at how to "develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination, including Islamophobia". The motion passed by 201 votes to 91. It is just as well for those 201 Canadian legislators that they were debating all this in their distinguished national Parliament rather than the mother of all Parliaments. For had these legislators been in the House of Commons in Westminster, their thoughts may have taken on a sharper focus...
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Nebraska Stacking Electoral Deck with Voter
Registration Forms in Refugee Welcome Kits
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by ANDREW WEST
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ While Europe continues to cope with an influx of violent and often sexual crimes, occurring proportionally higher in locales whose populations have been affected by massive refugee resettlements... former President Barack liar-nObama foolishly encouraged American cities to openly accept these dangerous immigrants during the last few months of his lame duck term. Now, with Donald Trump and the republicans working to curb the inflow of possibly nefarious characters during these resettlements, democratic operatives in Nebraska are fighting back with a sneaky plan to bolster their voting numbers... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/nebraska-stacking-electoral-deck-with-voter-registration-forms-in-refugee-welcome-kits?f=must_reads
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High Anxiety Over Health-Care Reform
by Peggy Noonan
{patriotpost.us} ~What politicians, those hardy folk, don’t understand about health care is how anxious it makes their constituents. Not suspicious, not obstinate, but anxious. Because unlike such policy questions as tax reform, health care can be an immediate life-or-death issue for you. It has to do with whether, when, and where you can get the chemo if you’re sick, and how long they’ll let you stay in the hospital when you have nobody, or nobody reliable and nearby, to care for you. To make it worse, the issue is all hopelessly complicated and complex and pits you as an individual against huge institutions — the insurance company that doesn’t answer the phone, the hospital that says “I’m afraid that’s not covered” — and you have to make the right decisions.

It’s all on you.

Politicians don’t understand all this, in part because they and their families are well-covered on a government insurance policy, and they have staff to put in the claim and argue with the insurance company, which, when it’s a congressman calling, answers the phone in one quick hurry. They don’t know it’s not easy for everyone else. Or rather they know on some abstract level but forget in the day-to-day, as one does with abstractions.

But I want to speak of how it’s all on you: You don’t want to be seen — by others, by yourself — as someone who couldn’t make the right decisions for yourself and your family. “She didn’t know she needed Part B.” “She got the supplement that says she can’t be treated in Jersey.” You don’t want to be humiliated. “What a dope.” “What fatal lack of sophistication.”

And then these jokers in Congress come along. Seven years ago it’s Democrats: “Wow, we’re so supercompetent, we’ll make it better!” And suddenly you lose your doctor or your coverage, or your premiums spike, and it’s a mess. They can’t even make the website work. And you’re anxious, and you have to renavigate an entire opaque empire of rules and passive-aggressive clerks. It’s a shadow on your life.

And then it settles down, as things do after seven years. You hate the system, but it is what it is and you’re used to it. And now these new jokers come along and say, “We’ll make it nice, trust us!” And it’s all big and complicated — so complicated the president negotiating it appears to have no idea what he’s saying yes or no to. But the effects and implications of his decisions will all be left on you. And you watch from the corner of your eye as you pass the TV, and suddenly your blood pressure’s spiking again. For you it’s all more anxiety and dishevelment and confusion, but in a new package, this time delivered by Republicans.

When all you want is the card in the wallet so when you’re strapped to the gurney in the emergency room, they’ll see it and they’ll say the word you want to hear: “Covered.” Then you can happily pass out.

People need simplicity and clarity. They deserve it. They’ll pay for it as best they can, a lot if they have to. But they need not to be jerked around anymore.

And that is what Congress doesn’t know.

We go now to the failure of the liar-nObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill.

Politically it’s all obvious. For the new administration it is a loss and a significant one. It has damaged the new president’s prestige. Every president until he fails has the aura of unused power. Boy, when I use it, you’re gonna see muscle. He used it. No muscle. Fatal? No. Damaging and diminishing? Yes. It is an embarrassment too for Speaker Paul Ryan. Together they could not get a win on the board after they threw everything they have into it. This does not speak well for everything they have.

They picked the wrong issue at the wrong time and pursued it in the wrong way. “Constituent, should we focus on a better tax system or on health care?” “Um, if you go with health care can it include suicide coverage?”

The failure of the bill demonstrated something no president, especially a new one, ever wants made public. That is that Republicans in the House do not really fear him.

When members of your party fear you, they are fearing one thing: your popularity. You can harness it to hurt them if they’re uncooperative. But Mr. Trump doesn’t have that much popularity, as they know. He’s at 40% or thereabouts in his approval numbers. And on this bill he couldn’t tell his supporters to go out and cream congressmen who would vote against him, because his own supporters don’t much like the bill.

The central dynamic behind the bill’s difficulties is that the Republican conference in the House is divided between institutionalists, who support the leadership; conservatives, who found the bill too soft; and moderates, who found it too hard. By putting forward the bill, they allowed this division — which was wholly predictable and may be irreconcilable — to play out as a public breakdown rather than an impasse.

The president made a political mistake in throwing his lot with the leadership, and then conservatives, not Republican moderates, and then Democrats.

A mere poll probably contributed to the collapse of support. That would be the Quinnipiac survey published Thursday, just hours before the delay in the vote. It found the repeal-and-replace bill highly unpopular. Only 17% of respondents approved of the bill, with 56% opposed and 26% undecided. Bloomberg’s Sahil Kapur, reading the cross tabs, noted on Twitter that the bill was 26 points underwater among noncollege whites, and an astounding 46 points underwater among voters 50 to 64. “This is Trump’s base,” Mr. Kapur noted.

When your own base doesn’t like the bill on which you’ve staked your early legislative prestige, you have made a political error of the first order.

Seven years ago, when liar-nObamaCare was on its way to passing with not a single Republican vote, I called it a catastrophic victory. It wouldn’t work; the government would not be able to execute; it was a Rube Goldberg machine. It was a bill created not by visionaries or political masters but by technocrats — and the worst kind of technocrat, the one who sees himself as a secret visionary. On top of that the Democrats would always own it, and when the program failed, Republicans would have no motivation to help them save it.

That is what RyanCare or TrumpCare would have been if it had passed: a catastrophic victory. No Democratic support, an opaque and impossible-to-understand bill, one that is complex and complicated, one that would be unpopular back home. And created by technocrats who think themselves visionaries.

Mr. Trump warned House Republicans they would lose their seats next year if they vote “no.” They judged they’d lose their seats in 2018 if they voted “yes.”

When Mr. Trump wins, he wins big, and when he flops, he flops big. He just did.

A proper White House reaction? Not anger, bluff and bluster, not finger-pointing or defensiveness but modesty and calm. And this: Offer to work with Democrats and moderate Republicans to create legislation that will help and can pass.
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By Oscar Y. Harward

It was June, 2014 at the Virginia State Convention when  conservatives ousted House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor from his US House GOP leadership.  There was a message delivered; however, most Capitol Hill leaders failed to catch on and continued to ignore it.

At that time, and even today, moderate GOP Washington leaders continue to reject ‘We the People’ on critical issues including stopping ‘illegal’ immigration, repeal ObamaCare, stop the ‘out-of-control’ deficit spending, and others.

Social Security recipients continue with near -$0- inflationary incomes for seniors’ while Capitol Hill legislators collect inflated incomes.

Republican Party Senators and Representatives make campaign promises to get their votes; then forget their promises after the elections.

‘We the People’ are becoming angry at those on Capitol Hill who are ignoring or forgetting promises as committed.

Capitol Hill Republican leaders are operating on the American Health Care Act Health Care, just like Democrat leaders did in year 2009 on ObamaCare, as they fail to provide details on the AHCA legislation before the votes are casts.

After faithful campaign promises to repeal ObamaCare, an overwhelming majority of Capitol Hill Republican legislators continue to follow Capitol Hill GOP leaders. These GOP leaders refuse to permit a vote on a cleaner and better AHCA legislation plan as offered by conservatives.

Capitol Hill GOP leaders continue to reject ‘We the Peoples’ ideas while supporting their own personal political agendas.

Would Rep. Paul Ryan set-up President Trump on the American Health Care Act?  Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX-1) says the proposed legislation is a lie.  “I think the President’s being set up for failure,” added Gohmert, “and I know people are anxious just to get this bill passed.”

Gohmert told TheBlaze., “I would love it if Democrats recognized that Obamacare was a problem and it caused them the loss of a majority and it caused them losses in statehouses all over the place. I would love for them to recognize that so we could repeal it in a bipartisan manner.”

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH-4) says, “Our job is to … do what we told the American people we were going to do when they gave us the privilege to serve, and this bill doesn’t do that. This bill doesn’t repeal Obamacare, and that fundamentally is why we’re opposed to it. And unless it changes I do not see the votes there to pass this legislation.

Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) of the Heritage Foundation says, “As a broad spectrum of conservative policy experts have been explaining for weeks, the House health care bill was a perfect marriage of bad policy, bad process and bad politics. Since the day it was introduced, this was presented as a false choice of this bill or nothing, and that strategy was proven very wrong.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) are conservatives, among others, who are offering alternate Health Care plans. 

Sen. Ted Cruz offers new legislation to repeal ObamaCare and pass a ‘TRUE’ conservative version of the ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’ for ‘We the People’.

Another idea is to merge the Veterans Administration Health Care into the Medicare Health Care system.  This would provide immediate, professional, and local services to our earned veterans.

Republicans must consider electing new fresh and honorable conservatives and their ideas representing ‘We the People’ and America in 2018.  2018 Primary Elections may be the year when Republicans clamp down on candidates who make promises; only in returning to Washington and ‘continue as the usual’.

It is imperative for Capitol Hill Republicans to become resolute in repealing ObamaCare and starting over with a new Health Care plan; perhaps, replace our Health Care System similar to the former Medicare and Medicaid Health Care system in protecting our citizens.

Capitol Hill majority leaders must invite conservatives in showing respect to ‘We the People’; who symbolize the conduit of the Republican Party.

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The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Two Modest Health-Insurance Suggestions . . .
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 Let's Not Miss the Health Care Forest for the Trees 
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This week could mark a historic turning point for health care reform. Or maybe not. The outcome is contingent on how House conservatives decide to cast their votes on the American Health Care Act. For his part, President Donald Trump is rallying the troops. In Louisville, Trump declared, "This is our long-awaited chance to finally get rid of liar-nObamaCare." He reminded Americans that "the alternative is what you have, [and] what you have is nothing." Emphasizing the magnitude of this undertaking, he reportedly also told the bill's fiercest opponents, "I honestly think many of you will lose your seats in 2018 if you don't get this done."
          Earlier this week, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said support was meager at best: "Currently there are not enough votes to pass the legislation." Which is why House Speaker Paul Ryan and Trump are working so tirelessly to persuade naysayers like Sen. Rand Paul, whom Trump even offered an olive branch, saying, "I look forward to working with him so we can get this bill passed — in some form." Certainly it's a critical issue, and the reasons for apprehension are understandable. As Hot Air blogger Allahpundit argues, "Given how hugely unpopular the bill is across the political spectrum, it may also be true that House Republicans will lose seats if the bill does pass." Fair point.
          We should note that the bill likely has the necessary support, at least in the House, and that what's left before Thursday's vote is backroom dealing over who gets what in return for their vote.
          But the harsh reality is laid out in the words of a Wall Street Journal editorial: "If conservatives fumble this repeal and replace moment, they won't get another chance. And they'll have squandered their best opening in a generation to control the size and scope of the federal Leviathan." Columnist Cal Thomas adds, "Failure to at least take the first step in replacing a deeply flawed, government-mandated insurance program will leave a stain on the Republican Party that even the strongest and purest 'detergent' will not be able to remove." Though it can be extremely difficult, sometimes you have to take victories where you can find them, as underwhelming as they may be. That's the nature of compromise. Let's tackle what we can now and move forward with other things later. Otherwise, as Trump articulated, we're left with nothing.  ~The Patriot Post
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Fox News Reports The NSA Has “Smoking Gun”
Proving liar-nObama Spied on Trump
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by Onan Coca and Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Fasten your seatbelt and get the big bag of popcorn–this is getting interesting.  According to Fox News’ James Rosen there is a  “potential smoking gun” coming soon that PROVES that liar-nObama spied on Trump... well actually the liar-nObama administration spied on the Trump team and perhaps even the President-elect himself. The information will supposedly prove that when the liar- nObama Administration spied on Trump they made it seem as it was an incidental collection. For those of you thinking, “Didn’t Fox News say that Britain was liar-nObama’s tool for spying on Trump and that was withdrawn?” The answer was yes, but that was Judge Napolitano, a good guy but a commentator, not a reporter.  James Rosen is an “old school” reporter, in that he relies on proof not conjecture. The possibility of a “smoking gun” should set the media ablaze tonight and into tomorrow. There is already enough circumstantial evidence for us to surmise that the government did at least monitor some of the communications going on inside the Trump team, but to finally have definitive proof that the liar-nObama administration misused our intelligence assets would be a game-changer...  http://lidblog.com/fox-news-smoking-gun-proving-obama-spied-on-trump/
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China Positions 1,500 Missiles
Aimed at US military Bases
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{endtimeheadlines.org} ~ Tensions are increasing and War Drums are pounding louder as now reports are indicating that China has positioned an arsenal of missiles within strike range of US army bases... as its war chiefs ready “military hard power” for total conflict. Sources indicate that Military leaders from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are aiming these missiles at Taiwan as part of an escalating military threat to the island. This is of great concern considering, US military bases in Okinawa are within range of the DF-16 ballistic missiles – which can strike targets with “pinpoint precision” from 1,500km away. The Chinese defense minister Feng Shih-kuan reportedly has issued the shock announcement as tensions over the disputed South China Sea territory threaten to spill over into war. These comments follow Taiwan’s revealing of it having missiles capable of reaching Chinese shores last week.  http://endtimeheadlines.org/2017/03/war-drums-china-positions-1500-missiles-aimed-us-military-bases/
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liar-nObama Was Almost Certainly
Illegally Spying on Team Trump
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by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Former President Barack Hussein liar-nObama and some of his top officials may be in serious trouble, analysts suggested, as it appears increasingly likely that they played a key role in illegal surveillance of Donald Trump and his team for the apparent purpose of sabotaging his presidency... But despite Democrat efforts to muddy the waters, the explosive scandal may be just getting started. Various players in the saga continuing to throw out fresh allegations, some of which, if true, could potentially land prominent current and former officials in hot water or even behind bars. And now, despite the FBI refusing to cooperate on the investigation, reports suggest there is “smoking gun” evidence proving that the liar-nObama administration illegally spied on team Trump...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/25685-obama-was-almost-certainly-illegally-spying-on-team-trump?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm
 
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Christians Urged to
Pull Children From Public Schools
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by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The warning was clear: Christian parents should pull their children out of public schools, now, to protect them from spiritual damage, extreme indoctrination, and other serious problems... Pastors and churches should work to encourage that “exodus,” helping and encouraging families to put their kids in homeschools or private Christian schools as quickly as possible. The alternative will be the continued decline of the church in America and an acceleration of the nation's decline. That was the explosive message of an evangelical ministry leader speaking as a guest this week on one of America's top Christian radio programs.  Dr. James Dobson, one of the nation's most influential Christian leaders and a former public-school teacher, hosted the discussion on his national radio program focusing on the spiritual danger of allowing children to sit in secular or even anti-God public schools for over a dozen formative years...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/25675-christians-urged-to-pull-children-from-public-schools?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm
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Hawaii Jihadi Judge Derrick Watson
Receiving Death Threats...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The odds of it being anything more than an opportunity for some Federal Marshals to get out of the cold for a few weeks or however long it takes and into Hawaii are slim... If those making threats had been serious about carrying them out, they would likely have done so without running their mouths and providing warning ahead of time. Still, government criminals must be protected, and, as the official notes in the opening “It’s a federal crime to make a threat against a judicial officer.” The law allows for no distinction or deviation in the case of anti-American, usurping globalist tools acting at the behest of the shadow government of Hussein liar-nObama. The “so-called” judge is the scum of the earth, but he’s still going to be protected. liar-nObama still gets his Secret Service protection despite his laundry list of offenses against this nation. That’s how they get away with their crimes and offenses against the Constitution. The victims pay and provide the mechanisms and personnel which protect the perpetrators from justice...  http://rickwells.us/hawaii-jihadi-judge-derrick-watson-receiving-death-threats-targeting-americans/
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Two Modest Health-Insurance Suggestions . . .
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by Myron Magnet
{city-journal.org} ~ The unintended consequence of a World War II policy mistake distorted the U.S. health-insurance system, and reformers have been trying patchwork solutions to solve those unanticipated problems up until liar-nObamacare dumped yet another layer of misguided policy onto what was already a mess. The tangle is now so perplexing that perhaps, once Congress takes the necessary first step of passing the House health-insurance reform bill tomorrow, legislators might consider further reforms that erase the original error instead of merely papering it over.

As World War II raged and competition for scarce labor grew fierce, what with so many able-bodied men in the military, legislators, worried about possible runaway inflation, imposed wage controls in 1942. In response, employers began enticing workers by offering rich benefits in lieu of increased wages, and, as these benefits were not income, they were exempt from income and payroll taxes, a subsidy to workers and employers alike. Chief among these benefits was health insurance, whose cost was originally modest.

But as the cost of health care rose in the 1950s, retirees and the poor found insurance unaffordable, and President Lyndon Johnson, who never saw a problem he didn’t think big government could solve effortlessly, injected Medicare and Medicaid into the health-insurance business. Prices continued to rise, in part because of spectacular advances in medicine, such as the development of coronary bypass surgery in the late 1960s, and by 1980, corporations found their medical-insurance costs increasingly burdensome. They tried all sorts of schemes to bring those costs under control, from health-maintenance organizations, which added in layers of administrative costs, to employee wellness programs, which turned out to keep workers living long enough to develop the diseases of aging, with the result that employer costs went up instead of down. Corporate-financed gyms disappeared from the scene. It saved corporations money to have employees die before their health problems could become financially burdensome.

Aside from all this lay a great inequity. People with corporate jobs got relatively affordable group insurance, subsidized by the two tax exemptions. People without such jobs had to buy unsubsidized and therefore more expensive individual insurance. So future reforms ought to get employers out of the health-care business entirely, since they are there by accident and add nothing of value to the health of the nation. Either remove the tax-deductibility from employer-provided health insurance, or else give everybody who buys health insurance an equivalent tax deduction. Insurance companies will prove intelligent enough to promote the formation of groups of those who buy their own insurance, so as to give them the benefit of the group-insurance discount. And as every commentator has observed, the freedom to sell insurance across state lines and to design a multiplicity of plans would spur a cost-controlling competition.

A second worthwhile reform would be to encourage the rebirth of the mutual health-insurance company, such as Blue Cross-Blue Shield used to be. Like the Victorian Friendly Societies, early American health insurers were just vehicles for pooling risk, with people knowing that they were all subject to serious illness, but not knowing whether or not it would ever afflict them, so it made sense, behind this veil of ignorance of the future, to pool their money to pay the expenses of those among them unfortunate enough to contract one of the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. In the forties and fifties, the owners of these insurance companies were the policyholders, and their employees were just administrators who calculated the risks, collected the premiums, and paid out the benefits. Blue Cross and Blue Shield were in the insurance business, not the investment business, and they needed no high-paid top executives to make investment decisions to enrich non-policy owning shareholders, because there were none. No insurance company presumed to tell a doctor how to treat his patient, because profit erosion through higher costs was not a baseline concern. The demutualizing of these companies was a huge policy mistake, vastly increasing the cost of health insurance in order to reward public shareholders and executives, not policyholders. Now the tail wags the dog.

I’ve said nothing about healthcare for the poor. I’d only point out that in mid-century America, nobody went untreated. There were always doctors who wouldn’t charge patients who couldn’t pay, always charity hospitals staffed by the same doctors who staffed the fancy hospitals, always union clinics and company doctors, always emergency rooms that would treat first and ask about ability to pay later. And all these delivery systems provided better care than Medicaid.

The ruling concept in America’s technology companies is continuous improvement. Health-insurance reformers, starting now, ought to make it their motto as well.
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It Took a Freshman GOP Congresswoman To Pull The Mask From FBI Director Comey…

FBI Director James Comey unmasked as a Deep State Black Hat Operative.

Representative Elise M. Stefanik is a young, freshman republican congresswoman from the Albany New York area.  And using a probative questioning timeline, she single-handily pulled the mask from FBI Director James Comey, yet no-one seemed to notice.

Obviously Ms. Stefanik has not been in the swamp long enough to lose her common sense.

In the segment of the questioning below Rep. Stefanik begins by asking director Comey what are the typical protocols, broad standards and procedures for notifying the Director of National Intelligence, the White House and senior congressional leadership (aka the intelligence Gang of Eight), when the FBI has opened a counter-intelligence investigation.

The parseltongue response from Comey is a generalized reply (with uncomfortable body language) that notification of counter-intel investigations are discussed with the White House, and other pertinent officials, on a calendar basis, ie. “quarterly”.

With the statement that such counter-intel notifications happen “generally quarterly”, and against the backdrop that Comey stated in July of 2016 a counter-intel investigation began, Stefanik asks:

…”when did you notify the White House, the DNI and congressional leadership”?

BOOM!  Watch an extremely uncomfortable Director James Comey outright LIE… by claiming there was no active DNI -which is entirely false- James Clapper was Obama’s DNI.

.Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXXZQgh72Y

Watch it again.

Watch that first 3:00 minutes again.  Ending with:

…”Because of the sensitivity of the matter”  ~ James Comey

Director Comey intentionally obfuscates knowledge of the question from Rep Stefanik; using parseltongue verbiage to get himself away from the sunlit timeline.

The counter-intel investigation, by his own admission, began in July 2016.  Congress was not notified until March 2017.  That’s an eight month period – Obviously obfuscating the quarterly claim moments earlier.

The uncomfortable aspect to this line of inquiry is Comey’s transparent knowledge of the politicized Office of the DNI James Clapper by President Obama.  Clapper was used rather extensively by the Obama Administration as an intelligence shield, a firewall or useful idiot, on several occasions.

Anyone who followed the Obama White House intel policy outcomes will have a lengthy frame of reference for DNI Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan as the two primary political operatives.   Brennan admitted investigating, and spying on, the Senate Intelligence Committee as they held oversight responsibility for the CIA itself.

The first and second questions from Stefanik were clear.  Comey’s understanding of the questions was clear.  However, Comey directly evaded truthful response to the second question.   When you watch the video, you can see Comey quickly connecting the dots on where this inquiry was going.

There is only one reasonable explanation for FBI Director James Comey to be launching a counter-intel investigation in July 2016, notifying the White House and Clapper, and keeping it under wraps from congress.    Comey was a participant in the intelligence gathering for political purposes – wittingly, or unwittingly.

As a direct consequence of this mid-thought-stream Comey obfuscation, it is now clear -at least to me- that Director Comey was using his office as a facilitating conduit for the political purposes of the Obama White House.

Unfortunately, a slightly nervous Stefanik, never forced Comey to go back to the non-answered question and respond by saying:

No, Mr. Comey, there WAS a DNI in place in 2016, please answer the question of when did you notify him (Clapper) and the White House?

….. then it would get a little ugly:

Why did you notify Clapper and the White House but delay congressional notification?

With all the banter about these hearings, and against this slight moment of clarity of purpose, it bears repeating:

There is only ONE KNOWN Factual and CRIMINAL activity currently identified: the unmasking and leaking of Mike Flynn’s name to the media.

FBI Director Comey states his organization is “investigating”.  Fair enough, however – not a single congresscritter asked HIM if he is the source of the unmasking or leaks.

♦ How can a congressional committee conduct an investigation if they don’t know if the primary witness, the lead investigator, is the source of the leaks?

♦ Wouldn’t the very first step, the actual basis of the foundation for the investigation itself, be to ensure the person conducting the investigation did not participate in the illegality of the conduct being investigated?

Think.

Avoid the shiny things.

Why wouldn’t congress ask this simple question?

Admiral Mike Rogers answers that approximately 10-20 people within his NSA organization had the potential to unmask and/or leak to the media.  Fair enough.

♦ Wouldn’t the first question as follow-up be to ask Admiral Mike Rogers if he is one of those numbered possibilities?

♦ Wouldn’t the second follow-up question, in an authentic inquiry, be to ask Mike Rogers: if he is one of the possibilities with access to that information, then was he actually the person who unmasked or leaked?

If Mike Rogers and James Comey admit they are in charge of two of the possible source organizations for leak activity (expressly known illegal behavior)… then what affirmative confidence has either person expressed to congress to ensure the inquiring body that they personally were not the originating source?

And why didn’t congress ask them?

Think.

There is NO PEA in this shell game of distraction.

Why didn’t congress ask them?

Occam’s Razor – Because the question(s), the brutally obvious question(s), then lead to the follow-up:  If the only criminal activity is the sourcing of the leak, and the two people giving testimony are potential suspects in that criminal activity, then: A)  How can we trust their testimony, and B) Why are we even having this hearing”? (with two people who are suspects in an ongoing investigation)…

The answers reveal the current intention of the intelligence committee is not to actually investigate, but rather to give the outward illusion of investigation.

If they were not merely giving an illusion….  Congress would be pointing out that FBI Director James Comey has a direct and specific conflict of interest that is so glaringly obvious it’s unfathomable no-one see it.

Director Comey, and to a lesser extent Rogers, would have been in direct contact with the prior administration individuals, and entities acting on their behalf, who were politicizing the information being gathered and lying about (ie. leaking to the media) the content therein.

“Because of the sensitivity of the matter”  ~ James Comey

Didn’t Comey further claim in this hearing that lying about the content of (or even the existence of) a counter-intelligence investigation was not itself a criminal act?    Hello?

That said, James Comey has an expressed interest in claiming an ongoing investigation exists (even if it doesn’t) just to ensure the prior administration contact and behavior was shielded behind the wall of “an ongoing investigation”.  Comey says: “Because of the sensitivity of the matter”..  Where “the matter” is the politicized and entirely false information from the White House.

FBI Director James Comey has singularity of knowledge and has cleverly placed himself in a position where there is no “oversight” of his claims.

…”Because of the sensitivity of the matter”  ~ James Comey

See how that works?

At one point in his political life Comey may have been a White Hat, but there’s no doubt his behavior is exactly what a black hat operative would be doing to shield his connection to the black hat activity of the prior administration.

Summary:  Hillary Clinton political operatives manufactured the illusion of a computer connection between Russian entities (financial banks) and the Trump campaign/organization.  Those manufactured points of evidence were then passed along to White House entities who used the political intel community (Clapper to Comey) to open an investigation of nothingness – to nowhere.  The mere existence of that investigation was then used as the originating point for a series of media intel leaks (the narrative) intended to cloud and damage the Trump campaign/organization. FBI Director James Comey, as head of one of the investigative agencies, became part of that political apparatus.  Now, usefulness exhausted and with the media engaged, it’s CYA time all around for the originating entities.

“Because of the sensitivity of the matter”  ~ James Comey

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Jordan pressures Trump to scrap listing Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist group

Source: Muslim Brotherhood listing as terror group delayed by Donald Trump – Washington Times

President Trump has — for the time being — put on the back burner an executive order designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, according to U.S. officials close to a heated debate inside the administration over the status of the global Islamist movement.

While the White House has declined to comment publicly, officials speaking on condition of anonymity say the administration backed down from a plan to designate the Brotherhood last month after an internal State Department memo advised against it because of the movement’s loose-knit structure and far-flung political ties across the Middle East.

The Brotherhood has prominent political factions engaged — at least perfunctorily — in democracy in Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and several other Muslim-majority nations, and the State Department memo coincided with high-level pressure placed on the Trump administration from at least one of them.

Senior diplomats from Jordan — a close U.S. ally — are believed to have weighed in heavily against the idea of adding the Brotherhood to the State Department’s foreign terrorist organizations list, said the official, because the movement’s political arm in Amman currently holds 16 Jordanian parliament seats.

But debate over the Brotherhood’s status remains biting in Washington, where hard-liners in the fight against radical Islamic terrorism say former President Barack Obama erred for years by failing to target the organization’s promotion of extremist ideology, and that President Trump is now badly fumbling a chance to rectify the situation.


A former terrorism finance analyst at the US Department of the Treasury recently wrote, it doesn’t have to be all or nothing.

Source: The careful way to go after Muslim Brotherhood radicals

The Trump Administration is mulling an order designed to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. The best approach would be a piecemeal one: Some Brotherhood branches belong on that list, some don’t — and making the distinction will help President Trump more effectively fight the war on terror.

It’s no secret why the Muslim Brotherhood is in the crosshairs. Its hateful and anti-Western worldview has long served as an ideological gateway to jihadi terrorist groups. Famously, Osama bin Laden’s partner in founding al Qaeda was a Muslim Brother named Abdullah Azzam. And while al Qaeda has broken with the Muslim Brotherhood on a range of political issues, Brotherhood thinkers have undeniably shaped al Qaeda’s ideology over the years — and the ideology of other jihadist groups, too.

The Brotherhood has evolved quite a bit since its founding in Egypt in 1928. For one, the group now operates worldwide. Over time, the political and military pressure from host governments in the Middle East also forced the Brotherhood to dial back on its overt extremist positions. Under the threat of annihilation, these groups had little choice to but to lay down their weapons and embrace politics.

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Once some Brotherhood branches are designated, it may become easier to target others. When certain branches or even leaders of the Brotherhood are caught providing financial, technical or material support to listed entities, they immediately become candidates for designation.

Meanwhile, there will be opportunities to take further action at home. According to an official Treasury report submitted in December, “The US has not designated a domestic US-based charity since . . . 2009.” In other words, it appears that the Obama administration placed an unknown number of terrorist financing cases on hold at the Department of Justice over the last eight years.

Trump should instruct the DOJ to reopen them. When these cases meet criteria, they should be prosecuted. And if they involve Muslim Brotherhood activists, that nexus should be made clear.

Finally, the Trump administration has one last crucial point of leverage to undermine the financing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar and Turkey, two countries typically viewed as US allies, are the top financial and logistical supporters of the Brotherhood worldwide. They also serve as financiers and headquarters to the Brotherhood’s most violent branch: Hamas.

The administration should call upon Qatar and Turkey to end support for Hamas. They should also be warned about their support for Brotherhood branches that appear to be engaged in violent activity or even simply spreading extremist rhetoric.

The administration has a number of options at its disposal shy of a blanket terrorist designation. Because going after the “mother ship” may not ultimately hold up under legal scrutiny, an incremental approach may have a higher likelihood of success. That may also ultimately lead to a broader campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood that enjoys the backing of foreign partners and American skeptics alike.


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Nikki Haley to the UN: “The days of Israel bashing are over”

About time. Now can the Trump administration this focus and decisiveness in its other endeavors? Or are we to be sentenced to four years of drift and confusion, followed by the final victory of the global internationalist establishment elites? “Nikki Haley to the UN: ‘The Days of Israel Bashing Are Over,’” by Cameron Cawthorne, Washington […]

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the watchman on the wall sounding the ALARM

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How Jeff Sessions Plans to Fight Back Against Sanctuary Cities

The Justice Department will start enforcing federal immigration laws by discontinuing the funding of sanctuary cities, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Monday while speaking at the White House.

If carried out, this new policy will result in the loss of federal money for cities that permit residents to be illegal immigrants, as Sessions stated that the Justice Department will avoid using its $4.1 billion in grant money to fund sanctuary cities. The attorney general added that the DOJ will even “claw back” funds from jurisdictions that refuse to comply with federal immigration laws.

“The Department of Justice will require that jurisdictions seeking or applying for DOJ grants to certify compliance with [U.S. Code 1373] as a condition of receiving those awards,” Sessions said.


U.S. Code 1373 is a law stating that localities cannot prevent the federal government from enforcing the nation’s laws on immigration. The law also regulates communications between local agencies and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“Countless Americans would be alive today … if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended,” Sessions said.

Sessions said following this policy was simply enforcing policies put in place by the Obama White House a year ago, as the previous administration made similar threats to sanctuary cities but did not act on the threats in the way Sessions is proposing.

“I strongly urge our nation’s states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm they are doing to our citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws, and to rethink these policies,” Sessions said. “When cities and states refuse to enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.”

“We have simply got to end this policy,” Sessions said.

The DOJ’s targeting of sanctuary cities follows a January executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at improving border security and enforcing immigration laws.

Hans von Spakovsky, an immigration law expert at The Heritage Foundation, views this sanctuary city policy as a step in the right direction.

“This is a long-needed move by the Justice Department. The federal government’s chief law enforcement agency should not be giving any funds to cities or states that are obstructing federal enforcement of our immigration laws through sanctuary policies,” von Spakovsky said. (For more from the author of “How Jeff Sessions Plans to Fight Back Against Sanctuary Cities” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/03/jeff-sessions-plans-fight-back-sanctuary-cities/

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Will Trump Take Advantage of This New Lawsuit to Hold Hillary Clinton Accountable?

Several unanswered questions remain In the Hillary Clinton State Department email scandal. For instance, there was never an official government report detailing if and how her illegal email practices damaged national security.

Now, Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit to find an answer to that question.

“In the critical matter of Hillary Clinton’s illegal email practices, the Director of National Intelligence simply ignored a directive requiring a damage assessment and a report,” Judicial Watch said in a statement.


As such, they have filed a lawsuit in federal court to force the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Department of State to comply with the law.

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, cites the requirement in Intelligence Community Directive (“ICD”) 732, issued on June 27, 2014, that a damage assessment be conducted whenever there is “an actual or suspected unauthorized disclosure or compromise of classified national intelligence that may cause damage to U.S. national security” ICD 732(D)(2) (Judicial Watch v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence et al. (No. 1:17-cv-00508)).

Since the election is over, and because President Trump has declined to prosecute the case against Clinton’s mishandling of classified information, the story has fallen out of the news. It is important to remember that Clinton’s actions weren’t scandalous merely because she was a presidential candidate, but because her actions might have enabled America’s enemies to access classified State Department intelligence.

With all the suspicion over suspected Russian hacking, one would assume there would be bipartisan support for determining how Hillary Clinton may have compromised America’s security. If nothing else, there should be interest in preventing such gross negligence from happening again.

Judicial Watch says this new lawsuit presents the Trump administration with the opportunity to hold Clinton and others responsible for compromising national security to account. (For more from the author of “Will Trump Take Advantage of This New Lawsuit to Hold Hillary Clinton Accountable” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/03/will-trump-take-advantage-new-lawsuit-hold-hillary-clinton-accountabl

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3 Questions Ryan Needs to Answer Before Running to the LEFT on RINOcare

A new refrain echoing through the Washington, D.C., swamp, is the need to find Democrats to play along with GOP leadership, simply because the House Freedom Caucus didn’t jump at its beckoning during last week’s RINOcare debacle.

To paraphrase Sterling Archer, do you want single-payer healthcare? Because this is how you get single-payer healthcare – in the long run, at least.

(In case anyone needs a recap of the last few weeks, here’s a succinct one.)

Now failed GOP presidential candidate John Kasich, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro have all joined the call to disregard conservatives and run to the left to score support from the other side of the aisle.

This new impulse raises three questions that will have to be answered first:

1. Which Democrats do they plan on working with?

Yes, there are some Democrat members in states where the president won whose positions are precarious, but the Blue Dog Coalition is now a storied legend of a bygone era at this point. And Jim Webb’s 2016 campaign (and statements following) have provided more than enough insight as to what happens to those on the Left who don’t keep to the party’s line in the sand.

2. What will Trump trade to get “bipartisan consensus”?

Even if Paul Ryan can find some folks to break away, a bill that would gain Ryan enough consensus on the Left would almost certainly lose him critical support on the Right, all the while dragging the Republican Party even further from its repeal promises. Any sort of reform would have to be a real sweetheart of a deal for enough votes to break away from Minority Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, especially since Dems have every political incentive to allow the system to collapse under Republican governance.

3. Is it worth it?

Even in a best-case scenario, such an effort would only wreck the market slightly less than the current scenario, which is an easy way to slap the old “bipartisan” sticker on a bill while putting the country closer to an elephant-brand collapse (for which the inevitable answer will be a single-payer system). How IS Venezuela doing, by the way? I haven’t checked in a while.

Such a proposal would obviously run outside of the pale for the House Freedom Caucus, but what about those in the Republican Study Committee who weren’t sold on the RINOcare beta version to begin with?

And we mustn’t forget that the president himself cannot introduce legislation, nor can he bring it to the floor. For all the flaws in the original health care design, one would only hope that the speaker’s conservative leanings would lead him to put his foot down at some point … lest he put his name on anything that would taint the GOP’s “Better Way” agenda with a health care law that would be, at best, a slight reform of Obama’s signature boondoggle.

Meanwhile, Freedom Caucus leadership has made it clear that obstruction is not its goal — a real repeal of the law is. HFC Chair Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Vice Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, have iterated and reiterated their willingness to work with House Leadership and the Oval Office to draft a bill that better repeals more of Obamacare.

Rather than perform an act of ideological and political contortion to create an even more lukewarm bill with Democrat consensus, it would appear that Republican leadership would simply have to try something it failed to do on the first attempt: adequately include free-market reformers in the process, rather than handing them a do-or-die ultimatum.

This is not a situation where the conservative approach has been tried and found wanting, but one where the Republican approach has been found difficult and left untried.

Indeed, the temptation to take one’s ball and go home can be quite tempting, especially when you’re down a few runs in the second inning. But, in this case, it makes far less sense than going back to the dugout, tweaking your game plan, and finding a winning strategy that plays to your whole bench. There’s still time to win this one. (For more from the author of “3 Questions Ryan Needs to Answer Before Running to the LEFT on RINOcare” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/03/3-questions-ryan-needs-answer-running-left-rinocare/

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It’s Official: The Post-RINOcare War on Conservatives Has Begun

Seven years of campaign promises to repeal Obamacare were broken when the Republican Party rolled out the American Health Care Act. But somehow, the Freedom Caucus is now taking the brunt of the abuse for the bill’s failure to launch.

Everyone but House leadership seemed to recognize the bill was bad. The chief complaint of conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus was the bill’s failure to repeal mandated essential health benefits – those insurance regulations responsible for increasing premiums and high deductibles. Still, moderates thought the bill went too far and sought to protect Medicaid expansion in their states. Voters across the political spectrum were unhappy, with the AHCA polling at only 17 percent public approval.

When those concerns were brought to the president from the Freedom Caucus, he reportedly told them to “forget about the little shit.” What the president failed to understand was that the “little shit” would break this bill. House Conservatives were on the cusp of supporting the legislation if Speaker Paul Ryan and leadership agreed to repeal the fundamental insurance regulation problems. Moderates in the party balked at that proposition and the Speaker Ryan pulled the bill Friday.

Now the spin has begun. Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., declared it was Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., who “betrayed” the American people.

The media has latched on to that narrative. The Wall Street Journal lambasted the Freedom Caucus as “the Obamacare Republicans.” Politico published a hit piece over the weekend detailing insider frustrations with the “far-right” members who sunk the bill, insisting that if fulfill seven years of campaign promises.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is running around insisting that the Freedom Caucus just saved Obamacare, and pledging to work with Democrats to overcome conservative opposition to future legislation.

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., is one of the moderates, with a 29 percent Liberty Score©. He is the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, and the news that he wouldn’t support the bill opened the floodgates to more moderate defections.

According to one report, Speaker Ryan was pleading on one knee with Rep. Don Young of Alaska for support on the bill. Young, with an “F” Liberty Score©, is hardly one of the conservative “purists” who supposedly defeated this bill. Yet Paul Ryan was begging for his support? If it was the moderates who were pulling out on the GOP health care plan, how is it the conservatives’ fault it all fell apart?

Regardless, on Sunday morning, the president chose a side.

On Friday, President Trump blamed the Democrats for Obamacare’s failures. In the same remarks, he said he would be “totally open” to working with Democrats after Obamacare “explodes.”

Really, the whole of the weekend’s news can be summed up in one succinct Ben Shapiro tweet.

As the Republican Party moves on to tax reform, conservatives should be prepared to be boxed out of negotiations, again. (For more from the author of “3 Questions Ryan Needs to Answer Before Running to the LEFT on RINOcare” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/03/its-official-the-post-rinocare-war-on-conservatives-has-begun/

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Just perused Sanford's HR 1072 and Rand Paul's S 222.

Almost identical bills in House and Senate, they totally repeal Obamacare.

They introduce:
HSA Health Savings Accounts

Small business associations for the purpose of obtaining healthcare group rates

Medicaid would be administered by the states

Some amendments should be added at last minute for women's issues like the Ryan plan

Freedom Caucus, the Republican conservative group who didn't like Ryan's bill, likes these. If Ryan's ego doesn't interfere, they are better plans. SPEAKER RYAN MUST IMMEDIATELY SCHEDULE THESE BILLS FOR VOTE. IF HE DOESN'T, THEN TRUMP HAS GIVEN HIM ENOUGH ROPE TO HANG HIMSELF.


Didn't see anything about defunding Planned Parenthood but Diane Black's HR 354 with 139 co-sponsors still has to be voted on.

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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Banging It Out
by Tom McLaughlin
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As a Muslim, I am Shocked
by Liberals and Leftists
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by Majid Rafizadeh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ If you had grown up, as I did, between two authoritarian governments -- the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria -- under the leadership of people such as Hafez al Assad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... you would have seen your youth influenced by two major denominations of Islam in the Muslim world: the Shia and the Sunni. I studied both, and at one point was even a devout Muslim. My parents, who still live in Iran and Syria, come from two different ethnic Muslim groups: Arab and Persian. You also would have seen how the religion of Islam intertwines with politics, and how radical Islam rules a society through its religious laws, sharia. You would have witnessed how radical Islam can dominate and scrutinize people's day-to-day choices: in eating, clothing, socializing, entertainment, everything. You would have seen the tentacles of its control close over every aspect of your life. You would have seen the way, wielded by fundamentalists, radical Islam can be a powerful tool for unbridled violence. It is the fear of this violence, torture, and death, wielded by extremist Muslims, that keeps every person desperate to obey...This is not a free society.
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Trump Authorizes Keystone Pipeline
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by Kerry Lear
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ On Friday, the Trump administration officially gave TransCanada permission to build the Keystone XL Pipeline... The State Department said that Tom Shannon, the undersecretary for political affairs, issued the permit citing that building Keystone is in best interest of the U.S. The Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recused himself due to his previous experience with Exxon Mobil. “In making his determination that issuance of this permit would serve the national interest, the under-secretary considered a range of factors, including but not limited to foreign policy; energy security; environmental, cultural, and economic impacts; and compliance with applicable law and policy,” said the State Department...  http://punchingbagpost.com/trump-authorizes-keystone-pipeline
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The Democratic Party’s Derangement,
Subversion, Sedition, Treason...
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{ipatriot.com} ~ The decision to use the words, “derangement”, “subversion, “sedition”, and “treason” to describe Democrats’ and the Democratic Party’s actions in America today was not a decision I made easily... If you really look at the actions of the people who claim to be Democrats today and the people and groups who support them, it is inarguable that those four words are the exact description of their actions and objectives. The Democratic Party has “evolved” into a party that can best be described as a coalition of individuals and groups who are obsessed with destroying America and ultimately replacing it with a “One World Order” government. One of the most visible “groups” that is obsessively supporting the Democrat’s “final push” to “fundamentally change America” is the “Main Stream Media.” (MSM).  A brief, objective look at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, or NBC news, the front page and editorial page of the New York Times, and internet sites like Huffington Post or VOX will confirm this. Anytime I see anything from these, or dozens of other Liberal media, I cannot help but wonder how these people do what they do? You literally have to “suspend reality” to believe what they are saying...  http://ipatriot.com/democratic-partys-derangement-subversion-sedition-treason-media-love/
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Leftist Media Ignore Trump Vindication –
Big Revelations Ahead
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{rickwells.us} ~ Christopher Farrell of Judicial Watch joined Lou Dobbs for a discussion of the critical and dynamic situation with the revelations by House  Intelligence Committee chairman Rep Devin Nunes... Dobbs opens the discussion saying, “To hear the House Intel Chair tell it, I mean these are blockbuster statements that are being made. He effectively vindicated President Trump with what he revealed to the President, to the press.” Dobbs says, “And it’s interesting, I watched the national left-wing media and they don’t even mention the fact that ‘President vindicated,’ that he was right, that, you know, because some had mocked him that, I mean it’s newspaper after newspaper, their editorial boards even weighing in on ‘what a foolish thought the President had.'” Farrell says, “I can tell you that when President Trump said that liar-nObama wiretapped me, that’s sort of Queens shorthand, right? The President is still a guy from Queens, New York. And when he said, ‘Look, liar-nObama wiretapped me,’ and what that means in Washington language is that ‘Administration officials out of the liar-nObama White House unlawfully obtained intelligence information and again unlawfully shared that with their allies in the media.’ That’s the long Washington answer to President Trump saying ‘liar-nObama wiretapped me.'”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-judicial-watch-leftist-media-ignore-trump-vindication-big-revelations-ahead/
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Carlson : Whistle blower says Trump
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{youtube.com} ~ NSA whistle-blower Bill Binney worked at the NSA for more than 30 years. He was a highly regarded employee there but resigned in 2001 saying the agency was building illegal mass surveillance networks... He says President Trump almost certainly has been spied on by the government, was being spied on and probably for a long time. Bill Binney says President Trump's allegations are an indication of how easy it is for the government to spy on all Americans.
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Banging It Out
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ People occasionally ask how I’ve been able to come up with something to write about every week for twenty-five years. Actually there’s too much to choose from. Even if I were to write a column a day, there would still be too much. Listening to news while driving or working on the house, a column plays out in my head more than once a day. Sometimes it will stay in mind until I have my laptop open and I can bang out a few lines that will remind me of the rest. Then Saturday or Sunday I start to flesh it out. I edit it on Monday and send it to one venue, then edit some more Tuesday and send it to another. Wednesdays I post it online and send links to other websites, and to people who want them.
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About a hundred twenty have asked for links over the years, but the “contacts” application on my MacBook Pro lost that folder a few months ago. I had to reconstruct the list but couldn’t remember the names of about ninety people who were on it. We’d never met, and my only contact with them was online. They’d read the column somewhere and emailed me to say they liked it. I’d write back thanking them and ask if they’d like links each week. If they responded affirmatively I put them on the list. Going over the 1100+ people on my total contacts list didn’t jog my memory either. Not wanting to abandon my fan base, I included the emails of everyone whose name was unfamiliar and ended up with a new list of two hundred twenty — a hundred more than there were on the original.
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Some people started getting the link for the first time and thanked me for sending it along. Since they were obviously happy about it, I left them on. Three people emailed back and asked me to drop them, which I did immediately. One woman made the request with CAPITAL LETTERS and lots of exclamation points!!! I figured she was a leftist whose email address somehow made it into my contacts. For others, I got those kickback messages indicating email addresses were not longer operational. After a couple of weeks everything was back to normal.
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Stream of Consciousness
Sometimes I’ll start writing about something, but as paragraphs multiply and I approach the 800-word limit, I see that I’ve gone off in an entirely different direction and ask myself, “Where did that come from?” Other times, I’ll write an opening, then be unable to string together coherent sentences in anything like a logical sequence that will result in a paragraph. Frustrated at first, I’m forced to conclude the original thought was only a muse, more suited for poetry than an opinion column.
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Twenty-five years of weekly columns adds up to over 1200. Nearly half are archived on my blog which I started in January, 2006. The rest — about 650 — were clipped from newspapers and put in a briefcase along with some letters to the editor they generated. When I read over some of the old ones, it seems as if someone else wrote them. It was someone else in a sense, because I’m not the forty-year-old Tom anymore and sometimes I ask myself, “Who was that guy?”
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I’m not the twenty-year-old Tom either and I certainly don’t look like him. I should probably update whatever picture you see where you’re reading this because the newest one out there is eight years old. I have less hair now. I have few pictures of myself, however, since I'm the family photographer. I'm always looking out the lens and seldom into it.
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Speaking of the effects of aging, my social security checks start in May. However, I won’t get as much as the Social Security Administration said I would in those letters they’ve been sending me every year. It will be forty percent less than that because the school district where I taught didn’t take FICA (social security) out of my paychecks. They deducted Maine State Retirement only.
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I always worked other jobs while teaching, however, and paid into social security for all of them. I still pay into it every year in the form of self-employment tax. Will that be cut by forty percent now too? Heck, I’d be satisfied if they just gave me back what I’ve paid in since 1967 because those monthly checks won’t add up to what they took unless I live a lot longer than I expect to.
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Come to think of it, I’d be better off without most of the “help” government gives me. So would the rest of the working people in this country, but we’re all beholden to those who vote for a living rather than work for it. Think about that on tax day. It’s coming right up again you know. Are you going to write a check or get one?
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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 33)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 26, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-33

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that a ‘civil war has begun’ and that this civil war is very different than the last one because there are no cannons or cavalry charges and that the ‘left doesn’t want to secede, it wants to rule,’ along with revealing that political conflicts become civil wars when ‘one side refuses to accept the existing authority’ and that the left has allegedly rejected all forms of authority that ‘it doesn’t control.’

It also revealed that the left has rejected the outcome of the 'last two presidential elections won by Republicans,' along with rejecting the ‘judicial authority of the ‘Supreme Court’ when it decisions don’t accord with its agenda, rejects the ‘legislative authority of Congress’ when it is not dominated by the left and rejected the ‘Constitution so long ago that it hardly bears mentioning.’ Surprised?-You Decide: 

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The Civil War is Here: ‘The left doesn’t want to secede. It wants to rule’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On March 27, 2017:

A civil war has begun.

This civil war is very different than the last one. There are no cannons or cavalry charges. The left doesn’t want to secede. It wants to rule. Political conflicts become civil wars when one side refuses to accept the existing authority. The left has rejected all forms of authority that it doesn’t control.

The left has rejected the outcome of the last two presidential elections won by Republicans. It has rejected the judicial authority of the Supreme Court when it decisions don’t accord with its agenda. It rejects the legislative authority of Congress when it is not dominated by the left.

It rejected the Constitution so long ago that it hardly bears mentioning.  

It was for total unilateral executive authority under Obama. And now it’s for states unilaterally deciding what laws they will follow. (As long as that involves defying immigration laws under Trump, not following them under Obama.) It was for the sacrosanct authority of the Senate when it held the majority. Then it decried the Senate as an outmoded institution when the Republicans took it over.

It was for Obama defying the orders of Federal judges, no matter how well grounded in existing law, and it is for Federal judges overriding any order by Trump on any grounds whatsoever. It was for Obama penalizing whistleblowers, but now undermining the government from within has become “patriotic”.

There is no form of legal authority that the left accepts as a permanent institution. It only utilizes forms of authority selectively when it controls them. But when government officials refuse the orders of the duly elected government because their allegiance is to an ideology whose agenda is in conflict with the President and Congress, that’s not activism, protest, politics or civil disobedience; it’s treason.

After losing Congress, the left consolidated its authority in the White House. After losing the White House, the left shifted its center of authority to Federal judges and unelected government officials. Each defeat led the radicalized Democrats to relocate from more democratic to less democratic institutions.

This isn’t just hypocrisy. That’s a common political sin. Hypocrites maneuver within the system. The left has no allegiance to the system. It accepts no laws other than those dictated by its ideology.

Democrats have become radicalized by the left. This doesn’t just mean that they pursue all sorts of bad policies. It means that their first and foremost allegiance is to an ideology, not the Constitution, not our country or our system of government. All of those are only to be used as vehicles for their ideology.

 That’s why compromise has become impossible.

Our system of government was designed to allow different groups to negotiate their differences. But those differences were supposed to be based around finding shared interests. The most profound of these shared interests was that of a common country based around certain civilizational values. The left has replaced these Founding ideas with radically different notions and principles. It has rejected the primary importance of the country. As a result it shares little in the way of interests or values.

Instead it has retreated to cultural urban and suburban enclaves where it has centralized tremendous amounts of power while disregarding the interests and values of most of the country. If it considers them at all, it is convinced that they will shortly disappear to be replaced by compliant immigrants and college indoctrinated leftists who will form a permanent demographic majority for its agenda.

But it couldn’t wait that long because it is animated by the conviction that enforcing its ideas is urgent and inevitable. And so it turned what had been a hidden transition into an open break.

In the hidden transition, its authority figures had hijacked the law and every political office they held to pursue their ideological agenda. The left had used its vast cultural power to manufacture a consensus that was slowly transitioning the country from American values to its values and agendas. The right had proven largely impotent in the face of a program which corrupted and subverted from within.

The left was enormously successful in this regard. It was so successful that it lost all sense of proportion and decided to be open about its views and to launch a political power struggle after losing an election.

The Democrats were no longer being slowly injected with leftist ideology. Instead the left openly took over and demanded allegiance to open borders, identity politics and environmental fanaticism. The exodus of voters wiped out the Democrats across much of what the left deemed flyover country.

The left responded to democratic defeats by retreating deeper into undemocratic institutions, whether it was the bureaucracy or the corporate media, while doubling down on its political radicalism. It is now openly defying the outcome of a national election using a coalition of bureaucrats, corporations, unelected officials, celebrities and reporters that are based out of its cultural and political enclaves.

It has responded to a lost election by constructing sanctuary cities and states thereby turning a cultural and ideological secession into a legal secession. But while secessionists want to be left alone authoritarians want everyone to follow their laws. The left is an authoritarian movement that wants total compliance with its dictates with severe punishments for those who disobey.

The left describes its actions as principled. But more accurately they are ideological. Officials at various levels of government have rejected the authority of the President of the United States, of Congress and of the Constitution because those are at odds with their radical ideology. Judges have cloaked this rejection in law. Mayors and governors are not even pretending that their actions are lawful.

The choices of this civil war are painfully clear.

We can have a system of government based around the Constitution with democratically elected representatives. Or we can have one based on the ideological principles of the left in which all laws and processes, including elections and the Constitution, are fig leaves for enforcing social justice.

But we cannot have both.

Some civil wars happen when a political conflict can’t be resolved at the political level. The really bad ones happen when an irresolvable political conflict combines with an irresolvable cultural conflict.

That is what we have now.

The left has made it clear that it will not accept the lawful authority of our system of government. It will not accept the outcome of elections. It will not accept these things because they are at odds with its ideology and because they represent the will of large portions of the country whom they despise.

The question is what comes next.

The last time around growing tensions began to explode in violent confrontations between extremists on both sides. These extremists were lauded by moderates who mainstreamed their views. The first Republican president was elected and rejected. The political tensions led to conflict and then civil war.

The left doesn’t believe in secession. It’s an authoritarian political movement that has lost democratic authority. There is now a political power struggle underway between the democratically elected officials and the undemocratic machinery of government aided by a handful of judges and local elected officials.

What this really means is that there are two competing governments; the legal government and a treasonous anti-government of the left. If this political conflict progresses, agencies and individuals at every level of government will be asked to demonstrate their allegiance to these two competing governments. And that can swiftly and explosively transform into an actual civil war.

There is no sign that the left understands or is troubled by the implications of the conflict it has initiated. And there are few signs that Democrats properly understand the dangerous road that the radical left is drawing them toward. The left assumes that the winners of a democratic election will back down rather than stand on their authority. It is unprepared for the possibility that democracy won’t die in darkness.

Civil wars end when one side is forced to accept the authority of the other. The left expects everyone to accept its ideological authority. Conservatives expect the left to accept Constitutional authority. The conflict is still political and cultural. It’s being fought in the media and within the government. But if neither side backs down, then it will go beyond words as both sides give contradictory orders.

The left is a treasonous movement. The Democrats became a treasonous organization when they fell under the sway of a movement that rejects our system of government, its laws and its elections. Now their treason is coming to a head. They are engaged in a struggle for power against the government. That’s not protest. It’s not activism. The old treason of the sixties has come of age. A civil war has begun.

This is a primal conflict between a totalitarian system and a democratic system. Its outcome will determine whether we will be a free nation or a nation of slaves.

Source Link:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266197/civil-war-here-daniel-greenfield

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that ‘Jon Voight, Larry Elder and Sheriff David Clarke’ were recently honored as ‘American heroes’ during a Freedom Dinner, along with revealing that to appreciate why they are heroes one has to understand the ‘civil war that has now overtaken the political life of our country’-You Decide:

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Heroes in the Civil War That Is Now Upon Us: ‘David Horowitz introduces Sheriff David Clarke at the Freedom Dinner’!-Posted on Frontpagemag.com-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266222/heroes-civil-war-now-upon-us-frontpagemagcom

The following recent article revealed that a 'former assistant FBI director during the President Bill Clinton administration' recently lashed out on the felonious intelligence community leaks, saying it is a ‘disgusting’ and ‘disgraceful’ ‘fifth column’ ‘embedded working against President Donald Trump.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

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Ex-Asst FBI Director: 'Fifth Column Marching Strong' Against Trump!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Eric Mack-On March 26, 2017:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/james-kall/2017/03/26/id/780812/

The following recent video from the recent past revealed that ‘Rep. Maxine Waters admitted that Obama wiretapped President Trump and his team.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

Video: Maxine Waters Admits Obama Wiretapped Trump!-Posted on YouTube.com-By THElNFOWARRlOR-On March 9, 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJu14POL3w

The following recent article revealed that 'Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton' appeared on “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel to discuss President Trump’s surveillance claims-You Decide: 

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Video: David Bossie, Tom Fitton react to Nunes surveillance claims w/Sean Hannity!-Posted on FoxNews.com-On March 24, 2017:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5372172557001/?playlist_id=930909813001#sp=show-clips

The following recent article revealed that last Thursday the ‘Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat,’ told CNN's ‘New Day’ that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes should be ‘investigated for his actions involving a probe into President Trump's campaign team and its ties with Russia,’ by stating, ‘What he has done is scuttled, and put a cloud over, his own investigation, and he has become the subject — basically, he should be — of an investigation. It's a real problem,’ Surprised?-You Decide:

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Rep. Elijah Cummings: Nunes 'Scuttled' Trump-Russia Probe!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Joe Crowe-On March 23, 2017:

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Elijah-Cummings-Devin-Nunes-Scuttled-Trump/2017/03/23/id/780372/

The following recent article revealed that ‘Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.),’ while on CBS's ‘Face The Nation’ on Sunday ‘defended House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) after Nunes bypassed his own committee to brief the president’ on information related to U.S. surveillance of his transition team, by stating, ‘My understanding is Chairman Nunes briefed the commander in chief on matters unrelated to the Russian investigation’-You Decide:

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Gowdy: Nunes briefed president on matters 'unrelated' to Russia probe!-Posted on The Hill-By Sandy Fitzgerald-On March 26, 2017:

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/trey-gowdy-nunes-trump-brief/2017/03/26/id/780820/

The following recent article revealed that, according to CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem, ‘Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's recent silence’ on talk of President Donald Trump's campaign alleged collusion with Russia might signal ‘a deal with the FBI.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

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Report: Flynn's Silence a Signal of Immunity 'Deal With FBI'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Eric Mack-On March 26, 2017:

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/silence-mike-flynn-may-signal-immunity/2017/03/26/id/780810/

The following recent video revealed that ‘President Trump met with Comey last Friday’ in light of Devin Nunes, Larry Klayman and Dennis Montgomery, which may lead to and/or expose a 'huge political scandal coming in the very near future.' Surprised?-You Decide:

Video: Trump meets with Comey- HUGE POLITICAL SCANDAL ERUPTING? "THE HAMMER"!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Random Rants of Ryan-On March 24, 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTRIBJQ_QiQ

The following recent video revealed that there are ‘three individuals that are volunteering to testify against FBI Director Comey’-You Decide:

Video: Donald Trump - Willing To Testify Against “James Comey" Wiretapping  Russia (Manafort, Stone, Page)!-Posted on YouTube.com-By JESSICA SKY-On March 24, 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VUr32X7jDM

The following recent article revealed that the democrats are still in denial over the presidency of Donald Trump, after nearly 5 months of soul searching and the blame game because they are somehow still convinced that ‘Vladimir Putin and the Russians stole the election from Hillary Clinton, despite the fact that revelations as to the nature of Clinton’s true corruption were paramount in the effort to defeat her,’ with Wikileaks putting the final nail in the coffin in late October.

It also revealed that now, ‘one of the men closest to Hillary Clinton’ has regurgitated these outdated and debunked talking points during a Twitter hissy fit in which he also called for ‘Trump to be removed as President to be replaced by, you guessed it, Hillary Clinton.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

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Clinton Confidante Advocates Hostile Trump Takedown, Hillary Presidency!-Posted on Constitution.com-By Andrew West-On March 27, 2017:

http://constitution.com/clinton-confidante-advocates-hostile-trump-takedown-hillary-presidency/

The following recent article revealed that Democrats will not reject any attempt to undermine the President, including the claim that he should be ‘impeached’ over ‘Trump Hotel,’ but, according to the U.S. General Services Administration, ‘the Trump Hotel in Washington does not violate conflict of interest rules barring elected officials such as President Trump from taking part in a lease of federal property.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

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Dems, and the Plot to Impeach Trump Over…His Hotel?-Posted on Minutemen-By Rusty Weiss-On March 27, 2017:

http://minutemennews.com/dems-plot-impeach-trump-hotel/

The following recent video revealed that an attempt was made on President Reagan's life only two months into his first term, and so far with all the security breaches. along with the celebrities selling the idea it's ‘cool’ to kill President Trump, so ‘are we seeing history repeat itself?’ Surprised?-You Decide:

Video: Emergency Alert: Elites Trying to Kill Trump?-Posted on YouTube.com-By Resistance News!-On March 25, 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMzeYtLfSAw

The following recent article revealed that ‘Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’ is prepared to go to the mat to prevent the construction of a wall on our southern border, along with revealing that the senator from New York is ‘threatening to use all available options,’ including a 'government shut-down,' to forestall three key provisions in the new budget: ‘a deportation force, a border wall, and the defunding of Planned Parenthood.’ 

It also revealed that it’s good to know where Schumer draws his line in the sand, which is allegedly anything that impedes the ‘endless flow of undocumented Democrats he considers to be an act of war.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

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The Left's Shifting Overton Window: ‘How the Left turns the unthinkable into the uncontroversial’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Benny Huang-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266234/lefts-shifting-overton-window-benny-huang

The following recent article revealed that ‘Guatemalan national accused of raping a minor has disappeared after being allowed to post bail’-You Decide:

Immigrant Accused of Child Rape Disappears after Posting Bond!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By John Binder-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/03/27/immigrant-accused-child-rape-disappears-posting-bond/

The following recent article revealed that an ‘illegal alien tied up a woman and attempted to kidnap her and steal her car after she gave him food and water for three days’-You Decide:

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Texas Woman Bound, Kidnapped After Helping Illegal Immigrant!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Bob Price-On March 26, 2017:

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/03/26/texas-woman-bound-kidnapped-helping-illegal-immigrant/

The following recent article revealed that Federal law enforcement authorities busted a trio allegedly involved in a ‘Mexico-based drug trafficking organization moving large quantities of heroin from Texas to New York’ and that officers seized more than ‘$4.1 million in cash and three kilos of heroin’-You Decide:

Mexico-based Texas to New York Heroin Ring Busted, Millions in Cartel Cash Seized!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Bob Price-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/03/27/texas-new-york-drug-ring-busted-4-1-million-cash-3-kilos-heroin-seized/

The following recent article revealed that the New York Times has recently seconded an assessment by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and others at Fox that the ‘mainstream media failed to sufficiently cover the alleged rape of a 14-year-old Maryland girl by two male students,’ at least one of whom was in the country ‘illegally.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

NYT Report Confirms Media Silence On Rape Case Involving Illegal Immigrant!-Posted on Western Jounralism-By Jack Davis-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/nyt-report-confirms-media-silence-on-rape-case-involving-illegal-immigrant/

The following recent article revealed that the teenage illegal immigrants charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in the bathroom of a Maryland public high school last week entered the United States under an ‘Obama program that’s accommodated tens of thousands of Central American youths who crossed the Mexican border,’ along with revealing that the administration coined them ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and portrayed them as innocent, desperate kids fleeing violence and famine in their homeland’ and that most are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala and the influx has ‘overwhelmed border agents, government health agencies and military bases that serve as shelters not to mention public schools nationwide.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

High School Rapists Entered U.S. as Unaccompanied Alien Children, Lived in Sanctuary County!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On March 24, 2017:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/03/high-school-rapists-entered-u-s-unaccompanied-alien-children-lived-sanctuary-county/

The following recent article revealed that, while the Trump administration focuses on securing the southern border, ‘most illegal immigrants enter the United States legally and stay after their visa expires,’ according to a new study, along with revealing that this is because, incredibly, the ‘U.S. doesn’t have an adequate system to assure the foreigners leave when they’re supposed to.’

It also revealed that this has been a serious problem for years and in fact some of the ‘9/11 hijackers overstayed their visa to plan the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil’ and that more than a decade and a half later little has changed, along with stating that securing the famously porous southern border is ‘essential to national security,’ but so is a ‘reliable system that cracks down on visa overstays.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

Focus on Border Wall as Visa Overstays Create Illegal Immigrant Crisis!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On March 21, 2017:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/03/focus-border-wall-visa-overstays-create-illegal-immigrant-crisis/

The following recent article revealed that, according to a report from CNN, ‘sanctuary cities are going to be feeling the heat as federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials step up enforcement operations in communities where local officials have vowed not to cooperate with federal immigration officials,’ along with revealing that Sanctuary cities are ‘jurisdictions with policies limiting cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration agents and include cities such as New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Austin, Texas.’-You Decide:

New Report: ICE Steps Up Activity In Sanctuary Cities!-Posted on Western Journalism-By Jack Davis-On March 24, 2017:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/new-report-ice-steps-activity-sanctuary-cities/

The following recent article revealed that a group of ‘criminal aliens’ showed up to a Tarrant County, Texas, work release program and were surprised they were getting ‘arrested’ instead of getting a job and that when they arrived at the county facility, ‘immigration officers took the allegedly undocumented criminal immigrants into custody’-You Decide:

ICE Arrests Alien Parolees at Texas Community Service Event!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Bob Price-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/03/27/ice-arrests-alien-parolees-texas-community-service-event/

The following recent article revealed that ‘Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday that he’ll begin punishing sanctuary cities by withholding potentially billions of dollars in federal money’ and even clawing back funds that had been doled out in the past.

It also revealed that while speaking at the White House, Mr. Sessions said that his department is preparing to dole out more than $4 billion in funds this year, but will try to prevent any of it from going to sanctuaries by stating, ‘Countless Americans would be alive today … if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended.’-You Decide:

AG Sessions says he’ll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer, The Washington Times-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/27/jeff-sessions-says-hell-punish-sanctuaries-cities/

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that a historical ‘S.B. No. 2097 (Act) was recently introduced by the Texas Legislature,’ along with revealing that the purpose of the S.B./Act is to recognize the state’s constitutional duty, power, and right under Section 10, Article I, United States Constitution, and the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution to ‘make gold and silver legal tender in the payment of debt and to secure the right of citizens of the state under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the United States Constitution to tender gold and silver in the payment of debt.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

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Texas Legislature: Historic Bill Now Introduced!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On March 27, 2017:

https://newswithviews.com/texas-legislature-historic-bill-now-introduced/

The following recent article asked the American public to please pay close attention to the spin which will be given to this story by the liberal media, after ‘Boris Epshteyn, a key White House communications staffer,’ is reportedly ‘abruptly’ leaving his job. Surprised?-You Decide:

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Key White House communications staffer OUT; media makes STUNNING claim…!-Posted on Allen B. West-By Michele Hickford, Editor-in-Chief-On March 26, 2017:

http://www.allenbwest.com/michele/key-white-house-communications-staffer-media-makes-stunning-claim

The following recent article revealed that the ‘Harvard University Library based site,’ which is allegedly the latest broadside against so-called ‘fake news,’ such as ‘independent and alternative news and commentary sites online,’ along with revealing that Dr. Melissa Zimdars (Harvard site’s author) who, it turns out, is not at Harvard but at a place called ‘Merrimack College, where she is an assistant professor of communications and media (Ph.D., 2015).’

It also revealed that apparently she relied on the idea that, if you’ve launched such a project and can affiliate it with Harvard, you have instant credibility and that Zimdars’s page contains a lengthy list of ‘alternative’ news and commentary sites of all sorts on the Internet, along with a classification guide of categories, or tags, apparently borrowed from elsewhere and that the list itself, one learns from the main page, was allegedly ‘compiled by students (members of Generation Snowflake) for a class taught by Melissa Zimdars at Merrimack College.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

Guess What? We’re “Fake News”!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Steven Yates-On March 27, 2017:

https://newswithviews.com/guess-what-were-fake-news/

The following recent article revealed that the ‘mother of London terrorist Khalid Masood,’ who killed four people and injured dozens last week after ramming a vehicle into a crowd on Westminster Bridge, has ‘condemned her estranged son’s actions’-You Decide:

Mother Of London Attacker Speaks Out Against Him!-Posted on Western Journalism-By Jack Davis-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/mother-london-attacker-speaks/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=WJDailyEmail&utm_content=2017-03-27

The following recent article revealed that ‘Pamela Geller, a free-speech activist and harsh critic of Islamic supremacism,’ has recently charged that the ‘FBI, under Barack Obama, likely wanted her dead,’ along with revealed that Geller, the author of ‘Stop the Islamization of America,’ said in a radio interview that she based her assessment on a new report that the FBI apparently knew of the planned terrorist attack on the conference she held in Garland, Texas, in 2015, but it did nothing to stop it.

It also revealed that on WABC New York’s “Bernie and Sid Show,” she also stated: ‘This is egregious. I submit to you the FBI, under the Obama administration, wanted us dead,’ along with, ‘I want to know why there was not a(n) (FBI) SWAT team there. I want to know why there was no one there, to repel this attack. It is shocking.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

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Pamela Geller: Obama's FBI 'wanted us dead': ‘'I want to know why there was no one there, to repel this attack. It is shocking'!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/pamela-geller-obamas-fbi-wanted-us-dead/#YcXhBO2fw13vmemH.99

The following recent video revealed that Mick Mulvaney, the Trump administration's Office of Management and Budget director (and a former staunch member of the House Freedom Caucus), recently stated that their failure to get Trump's signature healthcare bill passed is a ‘testament to how awful D.C. actually is’ by stating, ‘Folks are paying attention to the wrong things. They're still paying attention to the special interests and being re-elected.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

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Video Trump OMB Director: Washington's 'A Lot More Rotten Than We Thought It Was'!-Posted on PJ Video-On March 26, 2017:

https://pjmedia.com/video/trump-omb-director-washington-a-lot-more-rotten-than-we-thought-it-was/

The following recent article revealed that President Trump is allegedly forming a ‘SWAT team’ to transform government,’ and is giving its reins to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

It also revealed that, on Monday, Trump will formally roll out the White House Office of American Innovation, which will build upon meetings Kushner has been holding for the past two months and that President Trump recently told The Washington Post, ‘All Americans, regardless of their political views, can recognize that government stagnation has hindered our ability to properly function, often creating widespread congestion and leading to cost overruns and delays.’ Surprised?-You Decide:

Trump Announcing ‘SWAT Team’ To Overhaul How Government Operates!-Posted on Western Journalism-By Jack Davis-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/trump-announcing-swat-team-overhaul-government-operates/

The following recent article revealed that ‘President Trump handed a bill to German Chancellor Angela Merkel for about $400 billion,’ money he claims Germany owes NATO, during their White House meeting earlier this month, according to a British newspaper-You Decide:

March 17, 2017: President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Trump handed Merkel $374B NATO bill during talks – report!-Posted on FoxNews.com-On March 27, 2017:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/27/trump-handed-merkel-374b-nato-bill-during-talks-report.html

Please Read Part 35:

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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 35)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 29, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-35

I believe that the above articles and videos relate to and/or further support my following blogs-You Decide:

Nazi Collaborator Soros Continues Multi-pronged War on Trump, Calls Him “Would-be Dictator”!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 5, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/nazi-collaborator-soros-...

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Obama: Submit to Globalism or Face War, Death, Destruction!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 17, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/obama-submit-to-globalism-...

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The Left's Coming Counter-Attack!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 8, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-left-s-coming-counte...

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CIA Assessment Concludes Putin Was Trying to Help Trump Win White House!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 10, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cia-assessment-concludes...

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Russian Election Intervention Is Nothing New: ‘The Kremlin’s history of backing the losers’!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 14, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-election-interve...

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

Not Since JFK, Has a President Spit Into the Face of the Globalists, Until Now!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 21, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/not-since-jfk-has-a-pres...

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Trump Will Declare the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 16, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/trump-will-declare-the-m...

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Saudi Arabia Implicated In Bankrolling of Extremist Terrorist Movements Around The World!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 16, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/saudi-arabia-implicated-...

New Report Exposes Rockefeller Dynasty's Role in 'Climate Scam'!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 5, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-report-exposes-rocke...

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Why Democrats Don’t Want To Make America Great Again!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/why-democrats-don-t-want...

Retired Head of the FBI Tells All about Illuminati, Satanism, Pedophile Rings in U.S. Government!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 23, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/retired-head-of-the-fbi-...

Attention Obama: Ft. Leavenworth is Calling You For Treason!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 10, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/attention-obama-ft-leave...

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Vote Fraud – What They Aren’t Telling You!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 7, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4301673%3ABlogPos...

4063566197?profile=originalBrainwashing in America: ‘WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY'! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 21, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

4063566197?profile=originalBrainwashing in America: ‘WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY'! (Part 3)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 7, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

Faith of Our Forefathers!-Posted on WordPress.com-On May 9, 2010:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/faith-of-our-forefathers/

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Brainwashing in America: ‘WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY'! (Part 4)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 22, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

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Letter to our NM U.S. Senator Tom Udall (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 30, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-sen...

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Response from and to NM U.S. Senator Tom Udall (Re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 7, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/response-from-and-to-nm-...

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Letter to our NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 8, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-sen...

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Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 13, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-rep...

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Letter to our NM Governor Martinez (re: The Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 8, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-governo...

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The MSM conglomerates are the most prolific and insidious "fake news" propagators in the marketplace of ideas!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-msm-conglomerates-ar...

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

4063590393?profile=originalA Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

4063360053?profile=originalThe Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc

4063359977?profile=originalWhen Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzd_vRFpms

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog and/or videos, please copy website link and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial by this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide: 

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/what-happened-to-free-speech/

“Food For Thought”

4063359991?profile=originalHello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Before The Lights Go Out?-God Bless America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

God Bless Our Country/Republic.
Semper Fi!
Jake
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Princeton Seminary
Disses Pastor Timothy Keller
by David Limbaugh
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 Shutting Off Spigot Won't Clean Up liar-nObamaCare 
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As the House is set to vote Thursday on the GOP's American Health Care Act, its replacement for liar-nObamaCare, much attention has been focused on the options available for Senate Republicans to engage in repealing and replacing the law. Due to Senate reconciliation rules, full repeal of a law requires a 60-vote super majority, and with the Republicans majority sitting at 52 seats and Democrats united in their opposition to repeal, it may appear an impossible task. But that's not entirely accurate.
          Ironically, the Supreme Court's 2012 ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act mandate — in which John Roberts rewrote the law so as to make the mandate a tax — may also prove to be the Achilles heel which Republicans can exploit. Since the Supreme Court found all the regulations of the ACA to be an "intertwined," "interlocking" system designed to function together and not separately, and that these regulations "would not work" without each other, if one aspect of the mechanism were to be compromised the whole thing would essentially shut down. And one of the critical elements to the functionality of liar-nObamaCare is federal spending.
          In other words, Republicans could vote to end funding of federal subsidies for health insurance, thereby essentially turning off the "power switch." The vote being one on eliminating spending, and not repealing the law, would only require a simple majority to pass. It technically is not a repeal of liar-nObamaCare, but a shutting down of the program, thus avoiding any concerns over Senate reconciliation rules.
          However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, along with a majority of Senate Republicans, recognize that simply repealing ACA alone doesn't solve the problem. liar-nObamaCare created a Demo time bomb that isn't diffused easily. The big problem is that a free market health care system hasn't existed since 2009. liar-nObamaCare effectively killed it. And a new fair and properly regulated health insurance market won't simply pop into existence overnight. This is why Republicans have struggled so mightily in working toward a replacement plan.
          The House Republicans' AHCA wasn't hastily cobbled together in the dark of the night. In reality, it reflects the work Republicans have been engaged in for years as they have fought to both repeal and replace liar-nObamaCare. The aim of the legislation is to develop a federalist-based, free-market and patient-centered system as opposed to liar-nObamaCare's centralized, bureaucrat-oriented, authoritarian, free-market-killing, socialized program.
          Will the GOP plan be perfect? By no means, but it certainly stops and works to reverse the liar-nObamaCare-created death spiral into which America's health care system is collapsing. 
~The Patriot Post
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Trump Health Care Comments
Outstanding, Playing Long Ball
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin continues his apparently sincere transformation into a supporter of President Trump with some glowing comments after the House failed to pass Paul Ryan’s liar-nObamacare-lite... He described the President’s remarks as being “outstanding, and he showed enormous humility.” Noting that Trump doesn’t give up and understands that they live to fight another day, Levin said, “In essence he said, events are going to reach a point where this is going to have to be addressed and resolved. And when it reaches that point, I’m here.” Levin plays a clip in which President Trump notes he had no Democrat support and it was a very tight margin. Trump stated in the clip, “I’ve been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we could do, politically speaking, is let liar-nObamacare explode, it is exploding right now. Many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems.” Levin faults the point man, Gary Cohn for the bill being something that conservatives couldn’t support, as well as Reince Priebus, Ryan and the liberal Democrats teaming up in ways they shouldn’t. He says, “I think Trump handled himself, in this speech, exceptionally well.”...  http://rickwells.us/levin-president-trump-health-care-comments-outstanding-playing-long-ball/
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Feinstein caught in her own 'gotcha' question
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a liberal Californian whose opposition to virtually everything President Trump is trying to accomplish is well known, was caught this week in her own “gotcha” question... to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch appeared this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will decide whether to put his nomination before a full vote of the Senate. The details on Feinstein’s backfire come from the Second Amendment Foundation, or SAF, the oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the right to bear arms...
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Comey To The White House, Nunes Bringing
Comey, Rogers Back For Classified Intel Hearing
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The events are happening quickly as the scandalous spying by Hussein liar-nObama on the Trump campaign and nascent presidency become more apparent... undeniable and consequential to those involved. Martha MacCallum reports that three Trump insiders who have been smeared by the Democrats have now come forward in an attempt to clear their names and in support of the President. Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Carter Page have all offered to testify before the House Intelligence Committee looking into matters of the phantom pretend Russia-Trump collusion and the very real liar-nObama spying on Trump and other American civilians. Catherine Herridge reports that there was a surprise mid-afternoon visit to the White House by FBI Director Comey that lasted for just over an hour. Herridge states that the official reason given for his visit was that Comey came in for a routine interagency meeting. She sounds skeptical, quoting a source that is a 25 year FBI veteran who said, ‘Only the highest profile issues would call for the Director to personally travel to the White House.”...
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Former Intel committee chief:
Comey needs to tell rest of story
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by Greg Corombos
{wnd.com} ~ The former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence says it would be highly unusual for any raw intelligence transcripts to reach the White House... and he says if any “incidental” surveillance that did go to political operatives, then lawmakers should actively encourage and protect whistleblowers who may come forward. This week, the current chairman of the committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told President Trump and the media that he has seen evidence suggesting Trump associates and possibly even Trump himself were picked up by U.S. surveillance. But former Chairman Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., says the idea of transcripts from incidental surveillance ending up at the White House is stunning. “My sources and what I gleaned from what Chairman Nunes said on Wednesday, it appears there was raw intelligence, actual transcripts of this incidental collection at the White House,” said Hoekstra, who notes that more corroboration needs to come forward to back up the claims from Nunes...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/former-intel-committee-chief-comey-needs-to-tell-rest-of-story/
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Trump – Not Necessarily Bad That
liar-nObamacare Bill Failed, An Opportunity
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump responded to the House not being able to pass an liar-nObamacare replacement bill with a statement read from the Oval Office. The President said in part... Thank you very much. We were very close, it was a very, very tight margin. We had no Democrat support. We had no votes from the Democrats. They weren’t going to give us a single vote, so it’s a very difficult thing to do. I’ve been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let liar-nObamacare explode. It is exploding right now. It’s, many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. I was in Tennessee the other day and they’ve lost half of their state in terms of an insurer. They have no insurer. And that’s happening to many other places. I was in Kentucky the other day and similar things are happening...Maybe it was a good thing it didn't pass. Now congress can work in improving it better.  http://rickwells.us/president-trump-not-necessarily-bad-obamacare-bill-failed-opportunity/
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Princeton Seminary
Disses Pastor Timothy Keller
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by David Limbaugh
{townhall.com} ~ Can we all agree that modern leftists tend to politicize everything they can get their hands on -- in every venue? Even the sacred isn't sacred.

Princeton Theological Seminary reversed its decision to bestow the annual Abraham Kuyper Prize to New York City pastor Timothy Keller -- for essentially political reasons.

Keller leads an enormously popular Reformed church in the heart of New York City. Before you challenge popularity as a meaningful yardstick for evaluating a pastor, know that his popularity is not based on straying from Scripture or Christian principles, but on being faithful to them.

Yes, even in New York City there is obviously a deep spiritual hunger for the truth and that is what Keller and his church provide, in spades.

I am familiar with Keller and his preaching, as I own several of his books and his entire sermon archive, which I purchased through Logos Bible Software -- an amazing resource that I've used to research my Christian-themed books. I have visited Keller's church, and though he wasn't preaching that day, the pastor who was delivered a biblical, Christ-centered message without a hint of politics.

Neither in Keller's writings nor his sermons have I detected the slightest inclination toward the political. He preaches the Gospel and the entire Bible with clarity and inspiration. His insights are invaluable and routinely profound. He is truly gifted and seems to practice the Christlike humility he preaches, not seeking to make himself a celebrity or otherwise leverage his talents to redirect the focus from Scripture to himself.

His disqualifying sin was not that he joined the now defunct Moral Majority or publicly endorsed some evil Republican politician. Nor was it that he rejected any of the church's doctrinal tenets. It was not that his teachings might lead people away from the church's mission to spread the Gospel. Rather, it was apparently his refusal to deviate from Scripture and conform his teachings to the current liberal political line on certain hot-button issues.

Certain people raised Cain about Keller's "conservative positions" and the seminary decided it better renege on offering the award. Keller is a leader in the Presbyterian Church in America, which, according to Princeton Theological Seminary President Craig Barnes, "prevents women and LGBTQ+ persons from full participation in the ordained Ministry of Word and Sacrament." The Seminary is part of a different denomination -- the Presbyterian Church (USA), whose position on this issue conflicts with Keller and the PCA.

"Many regard awarding the Kuyper Prize as affirmation of Reverend Keller's belief that women and LGBTQ+ persons should not be ordained. This conflicts with the stance of the Presbyterian Church (USA). And it is an important issue among the divided Reformed communions."

The Kuyper Prize is "awarded each year to a scholar or community leader whose outstanding contribution to their chosen sphere reflects the ideas and values characteristic of the Neo-Calvinist vision of religious engagement in matters of social, political and cultural significance in one or more of the spheres of society."

Keller apparently satisfied the criteria when he was chosen, but the ubiquitous forces of political correctness and social justice would have none of it. So Keller got the axe.

Keller won't get the award, but not to worry -- he'll still get the consolation prize of being allowed to speak at the school's annual conference in April.

Ah, liberal tolerance -- it's everywhere.

Keller is especially worthy of such an honor and the school's action is disgraceful. "If you can't give an Abraham Kuyper award to Tim Keller," asked Southern Baptist leader Daniel Darling, "who can you give it to?"

Even in the church and church-affiliated institutions, those who subscribe to biblical views on marriage, even universally respected Christian leaders, must be scorned. The Bible and those entrusted with teaching it must yield to the moral strictures of the culture.

People sometimes ask what Christians and conservatives can do to reverse the relentless advance of secularism, progressivism and moral relativism in our culture. Well, they can start by waking up to the reality of the ongoing attacks on biblical and traditional values and the vilification of those who openly embrace them. They can quit ignoring these assaults because they prefer to avoid controversy. The truth is often controversial and should not take a back seat to pseudo concerns for harmony articulated by those who daily sew seeds of discord unless you unquestionably submit to their views.

The Bible should be our guide, not the shifting currents of political correctness and the bullying demands of leftist malcontents. Pastor Timothy Keller will not be harmed by this rejection. This good and faithful servant has already received an infinitely higher award.
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RINO McCain

Arizona senator John McCain has worked tirelessly to thwart President Trump and the rule of law in our country. In these past two months McCain has denigrated Trump overseas in a fashion that even surpasses the Democrats innuendo and lies about our President. Claiming that even Congress is not to be trusted  in investigating the supposed Russian meddling, which has been debunked by the past administration and members of the intelligence community, he has thrown the members of the Congress under the bus. The senator is now standing with those who would impeach President Trump or at the very least create an atmosphere of agitation and chaos to make it as difficult as possible for President Trump to govern. A vocal opponent to Candidate and then President Trump McCain has stated that “The NEW WORLD ORDER is under enormous strain” and in a struggle with radicalism. Not explain what he thought of as radicalism, it is clear to see that populism and nationalism, both given a bad name by the media and progressive/socialists was the main focus of his rant.

Speaking overseas to bash our President is McCain’s favorite locale. Where before the waters edge was a line that politicians would not cross to speak ill of one another, McCain has taken top bashing our President at every turn while outside the country. McCain is a globalist, and has spoken of the New World Order with admiration. At the German Marshall Fund Forum in Brussels this eminent RINO spoke of not meeting with Trump since he took office. At the forum he spoke of President Trump and the government of “pissant citizens.”

In order to make himself more relevant he speaks daily to the National Seurity Advisor and Defense Secretary. His opinion of himself is that he thinks he can commandeer the National Security and Defense departments from the President, he is trying to run the defense policy for the country and ignore the President. Does making our President look small while on foreign soil do anything for the real power in the government?

At the Joint Session of Congress for Trumps speech McCain felt it was beneath him to talk to the President according to accounts in open sources. McCain also called for an independent committee to investigate the “involvement” and “collusion” of the Trump campaign with the Russians. The media has already convinced the people of this country that the leaks were from the Russians to Wikileaks without ANY proof. That Obama DNI and NSA has already said there is not evidence, and yet, John McCain in concert with the Democrats, the media and the globalists who donate to him refuse to let it go. Of course, McCain will hand pick who would be on the committee, and it would be expected that it would filled with deep state loyalists like McCain and Lindsey Graham. No finding would be made but it would wind up bashing President Trump and whitewashing Obamas involvement. It would also keep the controversy, such as it is, ongoing.

McCain feels that a senior statesman and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee there is nothing wrong with his meeting overseas with anyone he wants, including Al-Qaeda and ISIS who he rebranded as moderates and freedom fighters in relation to Syria.

In 2011 McCain attended the US-Islamic Forum cosponsored by Qatar and the United States held for the first time in the U.S. McCain attended the forum and stated that the “Arab Spring” was a “seismic event” he was thrilled to be a part of.  His part has been shown to have been in Bengahzi when 800 rifles were sent from Benghazi to Misrata. It was at this same time, on the same day that the rifles were being transported when McCain told  Al-Jazeera that the Libyan rebels, an integral part of the Muslim Brotherhood were his “heroes”. A little more than a year later it was John McCain denounced Michelle Bachmann for being concerned about the Muslim Brotherhood connections of Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s closest advisor.

In Egypt McCain has fomented anger by making misleading and totally false statements. From the head of the Egyptian Judge Club to the leader of the youth movement for democracy commonly called Tamarod to the media have called for McCain and his compatriots that are part of the Muslim Brotherhood to stay out of Egyptian affairs and let the people of Egypt to decide their own fate.

 Both McCain and his partner Lindsey Graham have felt the need to interfere in Egyptian politics by calling for the release of all Muslim Brotherhood prisoners. These prisoners that McCain wants released  are guilty of terrorism, murdereing fellow Egyptians and cinsiracy against their government with foreign powers including the American government and John McCain. McCain called the June 30 revolution a “military coup” ignoring the millions of people in the street protesting against a Muslim Brotherhood President. Thirty million people took to the streets to oust the Muslim Brotherhood and take their country back.

McCain has also spent time with Khairat al-Shatter the deputy chief of the Muslim Brotherhood before Al-Sahtte was arrested on treason and terrorism charges.

Closer to home, It was McCain during the Hillarycare debacle that forced retired military veterans to start paying for health benefits. In 1995, Hillary Clinton was put in charge of a disastrous health care policy. The program itself was turned down by Congress, but certain parts were allowed to slip through. One part that caused great damage to veterans was the limiting of health care.


One of the lawyers that was working on this was a gentlemen by the name of Phillip Earl Jones from San Antonio. Along with his partner Sean Campbell took the case to the Federal Court. Mr. Jones also discussed the challenge of trying to revive the health care that veterans were promised with Tom Brokaw on the “Fleecing of America in January of 2001. The case (Bothard,et.al vs DOD and DOJ) was scheduled to arrive at the D.C. Court of Appeals when Mr. Jones and Campbell were approached by a few senators who wanted to discuss with them “Tricare for Life”.


“ Tricare for life” was to be a program that continued to make sure the veterans received the benefits that they deserve. In a handshake deal, the case was dismissed among all involved. What was not discussed was that to obtain “Tricare for Life” veterans were required to purchase Medicare Part B at a cost of $216.00 a month. So it still costs more money that many veterans, including myself ,can afford to pay.

It was in 1994 that Congress, with John McCain a leading proponent, established Tricare and cancelled all health care for retirees over 65, forcing them to spend money many of them do not have on Medicare


Major Commands, recruiters, Unit Commands and from the Secretary of Defense on down all made promises that they have broken to veterans that have given a major portion of their lives to the country. The promise of never having to worry about health care costs for a lifetime was a selling point for reenlistments and career choices. Today, there is a deep resentment of this government by veterans to those who have spent years lying to those who protect our country. The low wages that active duty were paid was dismissed as something they must endure to get the free health care they were promised, a promise that those who have never served broke for budget purposes without thinking of the damage done to the veterans involved.

 

McCain’s Reform Institute is also a question with limited answers, but accepting donations from anyone such as:

Although McCain claims to oppose abortion his institute accepts money from The Tides Foundation, a liberal organization finance by Teresa Heinz Kerry.

 The Educational Foundation of America also supports abortion as well as euthanasia and assisted suicide which McCain supposedly opposes.

The Proteus Fund which opposes the nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain, supports gay marriage

The Open Society Institute funded by Nazi collaborator George Soros.

American for  Gun Safety who looks to regulate guns and abolish the 2nd Amendment

 

Why is McCain taking money from organizations that he is vehemently opposed to. Why does the general counsel od the Reform Institute Trevor Potter work as President and General Counsel for the Campaign Legal Center which makes him directly working for George Soros.

McCain has always told his constituents that bog money was hurting politics, and then set up the Reform Institute as a back alley way to fundraise. Since 2001 McCain has been funded and associated with such people as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry. McCain has used the Reform Institute to support him in furthering his agenda in global warming and “comprehensive immigration reform” in opposition to his party’s agenda. Ariana Huffington, a far left liberal has sat on the advisory board of the Reform Institute since it was started.

John McCain has been aptly called a RINO many times, and his actions prove that he may be establishment Republican but he is no conservative. A believer in the New World Order, he has been selling conservatism down the drain since time immemorial. McCain has called for a new “Global Order of Peace” dedicated to the defense and global advancement of democratic principles. This sprung from a  theory first called the “Democracy Coalition Project” started in June 2002 and run by the political left including Clinton sycophants with financing from the Open Society Institute of George Soros. Even when campaigning for President, Ariana Huffington who sits on the board of the Reform Institute set up “shadow conventions for fundraising with the financing once again through George Soros

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Senator John McCain is a compromised politician whose corruption is legendary. Labeling himself as the “cleaner” and “wiser” politician who was noble enough to pass legislation that gave Soros and other progressive/socialist the opportunity to infiltrate the wishes of the American people by using vast sums of money to lie to the American people.

From Vietnam to the Refugee crisis, John McCain has turned his back on the American people. Only the media can continue to save him until the American people see this man for who he is. From the radio broadcasts in Vietnam to turning his back on POW’s still in Vietnam, to lying to American veterans about healthcare, to doing his part for George Soros to turn this country into a third world hellhole of refugees John McCain is no maverick but another politician willing to say anything.

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Mon/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
What House GOP Leadership Should Do
Now on liar-nObamacare Repeal
by Edmund Haislmaier
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 Dems to Filibuster Gorsuch 
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Despite Judge Neil Gorsuch's stellar performance at this week's confirmation hearings, anxious Democrat obstructionists are pulling out all the stops in a futile effort to spoil his confirmation. Part of the reason revolves around bitterness over Merrick Garland (Barack liar-nObama's flunked nominee). But the biggest reason has to do with Gorsuch's originalist jurisprudence, which is antithetical to the ideology espoused by "living constitutionalists" on the Left.
          No one has worked harder to politicize the hearings than Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a career judicial saboteur whom the Washington Examiner correctly opines is "the best reminder that we need more judges like Gorsuch." Schumer announced that he will lead a filibuster of Gorsuch, because he "was unable to sufficiently convince me that he'd be an independent check" on Donald Trump. That's after Schumer floated the idea of ensnaring Gorsuch in the Left's "Russia hacked the election" narrative. According to Schumer, "It is unseemly to be moving forward so fast on confirming a Supreme Court justice with a lifetime appointment while this big gray cloud of an FBI investigation hangs over the presidency."
          Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren is echoing this ploy: "Neil Gorsuch is up for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court from a President whose campaign is under FBI investigation." Yet you have to wonder who's really calling the shots. Democrat leaders are taking orders — or at least taking cues — from radical organizations like NARAL Pro-Choice America, whose president, Ilyse Hogue, is urging that lawmakers "delay hearings on Neil Gorsuch's nomination while the president is under an active FBI investigation. Short of that, Senate Democrats must filibuster this nomination." The organization previously joined 54 others in cosigning a March 14 Senate letter that states, "We implore senators to do everything necessary to block this nomination."
          Memo to Republicans: Don't fall for it. Don't even think about delaying the confirmation vote. Democrats will play politics with whomever is nominated. Don't let abortion advocates dictate who will replace Justice Antonin Scalia. This week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein lectured Gorsuch by absurdly asserting Roe v. Wade established a "super precedent." The only super precedent is the Constitution. And as for Russia, Democrats are using that narrative to delegitimize Donald Trump. Meanwhile, perhaps most of those who voted for Trump did so because of the Supreme Court. So don't miss the irony of the two things converging here. 
~The Patriot Post
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Speaker Ryan Should Resign After
Healthcare Leadership Failure
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro adds her voice to the increasing chorus of those asking that the disloyal, dysfunctional and disruptive Paul Ryan step down from his position as Speaker of the House... None of us every really liked Ryan and most of us have been very critical of him much of the time. He has no accumulated good will among virtually any segment of the Conservative or Republican base that might help to counter his current vulnerability. His background of subterfuge and opportunistic assaults on the American people and our leaders in service to those who are working to destroy our nation and enslave is catching up with him. Hit the road, Ryan, and don’t cha come back no more. Judge Jeanine says it clear and straightforward, “Paul Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House. The reason? He failed to deliver the votes on his healthcare bill. The one trumpeted to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare. The one that he had seven years to work on. The one he hid under lock and key in the basement of Congress. The one that had to be pulled to prevent the embarrassment of not having enough votes to pass.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-speaker-ryan-resign-healthcare-leadership-failure/
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Susan Rice is the Wrong Person to
Attack Trump’s Credibility
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by Roger Aronoff
{aim.org} ~ In a recent opinion column for The Washington Post, former United Nations ambassador and national security advisor to Barack liar-nObama, Susan Rice, had the temerity to lecture President Donald Trump... about telling the truth. She writes that “our friends must be able to trust the word of the U.S. president.” This extends far beyond hypocrisy coming from a person who visited five Sunday talk shows to peddle administration falsehoods about the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya. In addition, she served in those positions during a period of other disastrous foreign policy decisions—deceptively sold to the American people—such as the Iran nuclear deal and the entire Libyan debacle...
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Like Your liar-nObamacare, Keep Your liar-nObamacare Lewis Wasn’t Careful What He Wished For
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The most important component to bear in mind as the lying racially exploitative political hack, Rep John Lewis, engages in his hypocritical partisan political rant is that he’s railing against the existing bill, liar-nObamacare... that he and his commie comrades forced down America’s throats. He, along with Nancy Pulosi, Steny Hoyer, Harry dinky-Reid, Elijah Cummings, Chuck Schumer, Luis Gutierrez and all of the other “pass it first, read it later” partisan Democrat communists, inflicted upon us the very bill that he now demands the people be protected from. He does so as he represents the now failed Ryancare that would have bailed their sorry butts out as being insufficient. Thankfully, the Freedom Caucus and others stood strong against Ryancare and the Republicans slipped off the hook.  Okay, Mr. Civil Rights Icon, you got your wish, the GOP bill was pulled. You fix your own mess...  http://rickwells.us/like-obamacare-keep-obamacare-lewis-careful-wished/
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Freedom Caucus member Ted Poe leaves
group after healthcare bill debacle
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Shaffer: Trump Wiretap Case
'Worse Than Watergate'
{foxnews.com} ~ Former CIA officer Col. Tony Shaffer said the basics of President Trump's claim to have been "wiretapped" are likely true, and that the incident is "worse than Watergate."... Noting it has been exactly two weeks since Trump tweeted that President liar-nObama wiretapped his namesake tower, Shaffer said the "basic fundamental idea and claim is true." He said that Trump was not physically wiretapped, with a wire into his phone, and it may not have physically been Trump Tower, but his campaign apparatus instead... http://insider.foxnews.com/amp/article/55045
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What House GOP Leadership Should Do
Now on liar-nObamacare Repeal
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by Edmund Haislmaier
{dailysignal.com} ~ This afternoon, the House canceled a scheduled vote on the American Health Care Act—the House leadership bill to partially repeal liar-nObamacare—once it became clear that there were not the votes for passage.

While the bill contained a number of provisions that were good conservative policies, a major reason it fell short was that too many members were concerned the bill did not go far enough in dismantling liar-nObamacare’s regulatory architecture.

Indeed, the key to the case for repealing liar-nObamacare is the need to undo the law’s regulatory takeover of private insurance and reverse its cost-increasing effects. That is not only a policy objective, but also a political imperative.

Voters elected candidates who pledged to repeal liar-nObamacare because they understood that pledge to mean, first and foremost, a commitment to undo the cost-increasing mandates and regulations that liar-nObamacare imposed on their private health insurance.

The best course now would be for House leadership to draft a new bill that takes as its starting point the repeal of those liar-nObamacare provisions that dictate the benefits and design of private insurance plans, and which have driven up coverage costs.

Doing that would be a case of good policymaking for good politics.

“liar-nObamacare caused premiums to rise for various reasons, chief among them being the vast new regulations the law imposed on insurance markets. A new analysis from Milliman backs this up. The study provided estimates of the average impact that various liar-nObamacare regulations had on premiums. These estimates are reflected in the chart below.”
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