well I watched most of the Republican debate and my views about some candidates have changed some for the better some for the worst. first I always liked Rubio he seems solid and genuine with good ideas and a good moral background he was my favorite out of the debate he just stood his ground without trying to come across as over eager to put down other candidates unlike Ran Paul who seemed like he was trying to win a foot race by tripping the other runners. I did not like when Trump raced his hand about running on a third party which is how Clinton won his first turn against George bush when Ross Perot had done the same thing dividing the votes and then endorsing Clinton,
I wanted to like Trump but I think he has his own agendas in mind and is just telling us what he thinks we want to hear to get what he wants in an over the top manner.
I think Christie is to shaky, I think Bush is to undecided, I did not like Huckabee's answers when it came to faith. however I did come out liking Ted Cruz better with his answers and actually claiming Jesus as his savior. I did come out liking Carson somewhat more than before. one thing is for sure if the Republican party does not mess up this election one on them will be president. Obama has messed his party up for a while and the democrat have no one that can even come close to winning because they are to close to the current president but one thing is for sure we need to keep praying and definitely vote because this could be the most important election America has ever faced-the end.
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Featuring:
Senate Fiddles, Infanticide Continues
Chris Skates
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Dies in Senate 
The Senate's vote to defund Planned Parenthood seemed to be more about political optics than actually casting votes for the right thing. A bill that would have halted $500 million in annual federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood died when a procedural vote that required 60 votes fell short by seven. This raises questions: How serious are the Senate Republicans in protecting the lives of the unborn? Some GOP senators see this vote as testing the waters, possibly for a political cage fight come fall if the GOP gets enough backbone to attach a PP defunding measure to a spending bill and risk another government shutdown. Commentators like Leon H. Wolf see this vote as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell cowing to the slightest political pressure. By allowing the bill cosponsored by 45 Republicans to die on a procedure vote, McCon-nell allowed the status quo to remain and a handful of lawmakers were able to vote in a way that would please their constituencies. Meanwhile, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal canceled the contract between Planned Parenthood and Louisiana. Yes, changing the nation's policy takes time — and the Center for Medical Progress has many more videos to prompt debate — but when the time comes for political courage, will McConnell's Senate rise to the occasion?
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Bad Leadership Sours DHS Immigration Program
At the beginning of July, the nObama administration started its Priority Enforcement Program, a new approach to how the administration enforces the immigration laws, but it's soured by DHS's past immigration enforcement track record. It's a failure in leadership: Local law enforcement and even groups that would have supported nObama's immigration policies don't trust his new enforcement effort. The supervising attorney for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Angie Junck, told The Washington Post, "We see this as DHS kind of rebranding to rebuild the trust they lost with a lot of local law enforcement agencies. We are very concerned that it will repeat the mistakes of the past." Does anybody gladly work with nObama on anything any more? He's lost so much trust. No wonder so many cities decided to go it alone and declare themselves sanctuary cities. Home rule is better than rule from a capricious federal government that is rewriting immigration law on the fly by "prioritizing" certain types of deportations. The nObama administration has exacerbated the problems with immigration by destroying the cooperation and trust between levels of government. -The Patriot Post
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Seattle CEO Experiences Fallout of $70K Minimum Wage
A Seattle CEO is learning firsthand the predictable outcomes that accompany minimum wage hikes. Dan Price, who heads Gravity Payments, a credit card processing firm, became an instant celebrity when he announced earlier this year that none of his 120 employees would earn less than $70,000 a year. In fact, he slashed his own salary of $1 million down to $70,000 to level the playing field. It was a kindhearted move, to be sure, but the ensuing months demonstrated the reality that such a minimum wage has far-reaching repercussions. According to former Gravity Financial Manager Maisey McMaster, Price "gave raises to people who have the least skills and are the least equipped to do the job, and the ones who were taking on the most didn't get much of a bump." The result? Two prominent-turned-disgruntled employees, including McMaster, called it quits. The other one, Grant Moran, intoned a similar frustration: "Now the people who were just clocking in and out were making the same as me. It shackles high performers to less motivated team members." On top of that, The New York Times reports, "[A] few customers, dismayed by what they viewed as a political statement, withdrew their business. Others, anticipating a fee increase — despite repeated assurances to the contrary — also left." And while Gravity Payments won the hearts of other business owners, "those accounts will not start paying off for at least another year," the Times added. "To handle the flood, [Price] has already had to hire a dozen additional employees — now at a significantly higher cost — and is struggling to figure out whether more are needed without knowing for certain how long the bonanza will last."
But the drama doesn't end there. Gravity Payments co-founder Lucas Price, the brother of Dan, is suing the company, which is adding substantial legal costs. Hot Air's Jazz Shaw put it best: "I'm sure Mr. Price is a very nice man and he clearly cares about people in general. But his move to push his generous nature into his business model is returning precisely the sort of results which the free market predicts." The lesson here? Good intentions don't always make for good policy. -The Patriot Post
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nObama's Clean Power Plan Is Costly Political Theater On Monday, Barack nObama announced new rules for his long-dreaded Clean Power Plan. This past spring, we warned that nObama's agenda to combat global warming would be finalized during the hottest days of summer. As with almost every other agenda under nObama, it’s even worse than expected — and all to prevent warming of 0.01 degrees Celsius.
Winston Churchill once said, "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." And make no mistake: nObama's plan has little or nothing to do with climate and everything to do with his social justice worldview, in which he wants to handicap the U.S. ostensibly to the benefit of the rest of the world.
nObama was originally set to unveil his new rules outside of the White House. However, due to the sweltering heat, he chose to move the announcement inside. Naturally, Leftmedia talkingheads couldn’t pass on the opportunity to blubber that “Mother Nature … was making his point for him.” But newsflash: It’s always hot in August. Clearly, the central planners were aiming for a bit of theatrics. -The Patriot Post
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As Syrian regime teeters, nObama lacks a plan
{Peter Brookes} ~ Tired of the bantering about the deeply-flawed Iran nuclear deal? No worries, there are plenty of other scary scenarios to mull over during your morning coffee beyond the ayatollahs splitting atoms... For instance, what’s our plan for when the regime of Syria’s Bashar Assad falls? Yes, I said “falls.” If you haven’t noticed, things are looking pretty darned bleak for Bashar & the Boys. Assad even admitted on Sunday that his army is suffering from a “lack of human resources,” according to news reports. “A lack of human resources”? I guess that’s?one way to put it.
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Falling Star Power? nObama’s Hollywood Base Choosing Israel Over...
{Irickwells.us} ~ t’s not surprising that it happened but it’s very surprising that it took as long as it did, particularly given the large Jewish population in Hollywood. One would have expected that they would have come to the reality that nObama is the enemy closer to the time the rest of us figured it out, seven or eight years ago... The important thing is that 190 Hollywood celebrities, including some big names, have finally come to their senses and signed a letter of support for Israel and in opposition to Hamas. Included in signatories are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Kelsey Grammer, Bill Maher, Seth Rogan, Jon Lovitz and David Zucker. The letter, which was posted originally at Creative Community For Peace, the sponsoring organization, is below, followed by a complete list of the stars who signed it. The Hollywood stars adding their names to the list of those in support of Israel are:
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nObama’s Climate Change “Death To America” Proclamation...
{rickwells.us} ~ The lies start immediately and they never stop coming in this nObama video of his roll out of the newest crippling assault on the American economy and his draconian global government solution to the non-existent problem that he and his minions are fabricating... For most rational people it is at best a chore and at worst torturous to listen to Hussein nObama spew his anti-American rhetoric, so I’ve cut this down, eliminating his lip-biting Clintonesque pauses, his phony moments of “wise reflective consideration” and all but one example of the trained seals applauding our destruction. That one instance is a standing ovation which was painfully long in unfolding. It features nObama’s staff eugenicist and climate Nazi John Holdren right and center. Due to the natural physical repulsion which will be experienced by most attempting to listen to the entire video, I will offer it in shorter, easier to digest segments in the near future. This offering is intended for those who are, for whatever reason, capable of tolerating the mental and physical abuse.
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FBI Investigating Security Of Hilly's Email Server...
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ The Washington Post and confirmed by Fox News is that the FBI has begun investigating the security of Hilly Clinton's private e-mail server... The inquiry comes days after inspectors general from the State Department and the intelligence community sent a letter to the Justice Department requesting an inquest into whether classified material was improperly shared or stored on Hilly's private e-mail account. There is no evidence that the FBI has actually examined the server as of yet, the reports are they contacted the Denver-based technology firm that helped manage the email system. Per the Washington Post, "the FBI contacted Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, with questions about the security of a thumb drive in his possession that contains copies of work e-mails Clinton sent during her time as secretary of state. Kendall confirmed the contact, saying: “The government is seeking assurance about the storage of those materials. We are actively cooperating.” I wonder if the FBI will tell the truth or cover up for Hilly?
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Iran: Inspectors Will Not Be Allowed into Iranian Military Sites
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ hanoi John Kerry says over and over that the nuclear deal with Iran depends on verification, not trust. Iran's version of verification is different than the nObama administration's... Ali Akar Velayati, a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, appeared on Al-Jazeera on July 31 and was asked about U.N. inspections of Iran’s military sites. “Regardless of how the P5+1 countries interpret the nuclear agreement, their entry into our military sites is absolutely forbidden. The entry of any foreigner, including IAEA inspectors or any other inspector, to the sensitive military sites of the Islamic Republic is forbidden, no matter what.” So which is it? Because if the military sites are off limits guess where Iran is going to do their nuclear work?
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And When We Are Faced with a Nuclear Iran?
{Peter Huessy} ~ Iran says its nuclear technology program is totally peaceful. In 31 other countries with peaceful nuclear programs, there are 438 nuclear power plants in operation, and in another 16 countries, 67 plants under construction... Under the terms of the 1969 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, any nation adopting nuclear energy has to comply with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rules. Every one of these nearly 50 countries does. Iran does not. For over two decades, in fact, Iran has flouted, bamboozled and cheated the IAEA. What, then, does this pattern of behavior bode for the emerging nuclear deal with Iran? http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6296/nuclear-iran
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Revelation From White House Insider Could Cripple Clinton For Good
{teapartyupdate.com} ~ You probably remember Linda Tripp, she was the White House aide who blew the entire Clinton-Lewinsky scandal wide open Tripp had direct access to Mrs. Clinton, even sharing an office in Mrs. Clinton’s “power center.”... And Tripp is coming forward with a new allegation… that Mrs. Clinton purposefully used the Lewinsky scandal to make herself look better and to get her approval ratings to riseThe allegations don’t stop there as Tripp said Mrs. Clinton is a power hungry braggart who should simply not be president as she has nothing but contempt for the public. Western Journalism fills us in on more.
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Terror Victims' Lawsuit Seeks to Block Iran Deal's Sanctions Relief
investigativeproject.org} ~ A deal to provide Iran with as much as $150 billion in sanctions relief over its nuclear weapons program should be blocked until the Islamic Republic pays court-awarded damages to American victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism... a lawsuit filedWednesday in New York federal court said. The plaintiffs, victims of attacks by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have judgments worth $152 million that they have been unable to collect. Similar lawsuits in U.S. courts have generated billions of dollars more in damages. Iran, the lawsuit said, should not see a dime of sanctions relief until those victims are compensated. By law, the lawsuit said, Iran should not be granted any relief until there is "a certification by the President that Iran is no longer a financier and sponsor of terror. That terrorism condition has not been satisfied."
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Breakdown of Where Bill and Hilly Clinton’s “Charitable” Donations
{Doug Ross} ~ According to their tax returns, it turns out that essentially all of the Clinton family’s “charitable donations” were directed back to their own “charities”... As TaxProf notes, the family’s charitable giving from 2007 onward has been a case study in moving money around. Since 2007, the Clintons “made $15 million (10.8 percent of their AGI) of charitable contributions, $14.9 million of which went to the Clinton Family Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.” That leaves $100,000 for charitable uses that don’t directly involve the Clinton family and their globalist friends. As a reminder, in April I created a chart illustrating where the Clinton Global Graft Initiative’s various expenditures went. It’s equally amusing. http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/08/funniest-chart-o-the-day-breakdown-of-where-bill-and-hillary-clintons-charitable-donations-went/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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Senate Fiddles, Infanticide Continues
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{chrisskates.com} ~ Yesterday the United States Senate failed in its attempt to protect babies from being “crushed here and crushed there” as Dr. Nucatola casually described in the first undercover video of Planned Parenthood’s macabre tactics. It boggles the mind why Democrats employed the so called “nuclear option” in order to pass nObamacare with a simple majority vote, but Republican leadership didn’t feel the health crisis of infanticide was of adequate importance to do so in this instance. At the very least, could the measure to defund not have been attached to a bill that Democrats were strongly in favor of so that it might pass? Likewise we are told that after their summer break, Republicans will try some procedural maneuvers to stop federal funding to this repugnant organization. At least Republican leaders can salve their conscience secure in the knowledge that they “played fair” and that Senate order has been restored. It is emotionally devastating to consider how many tiny innocent skulls will be crushed in the interim. Never before has the impotence of this Congress been more starkly evident.
{chrisskates.com} ~ Yesterday the United States Senate failed in its attempt to protect babies from being “crushed here and crushed there” as Dr. Nucatola casually described in the first undercover video of Planned Parenthood’s macabre tactics. It boggles the mind why Democrats employed the so called “nuclear option” in order to pass nObamacare with a simple majority vote, but Republican leadership didn’t feel the health crisis of infanticide was of adequate importance to do so in this instance. At the very least, could the measure to defund not have been attached to a bill that Democrats were strongly in favor of so that it might pass? Likewise we are told that after their summer break, Republicans will try some procedural maneuvers to stop federal funding to this repugnant organization. At least Republican leaders can salve their conscience secure in the knowledge that they “played fair” and that Senate order has been restored. It is emotionally devastating to consider how many tiny innocent skulls will be crushed in the interim. Never before has the impotence of this Congress been more starkly evident.
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“It is our obligation to protect our wives, our sisters, our daughters and our grand-daughters from the absurd policies of a Republican Party that has lost its moral compass.”
“It is our obligation to protect our wives, our sisters, our daughters and our grand-daughters from the absurd policies of a Republican Party that has lost its moral compass.”
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Those were the words of Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid last evening as Republicans attempted to defund Planned Parenthood. So are we to accept that the mutilation of a baby in the womb is now the moral high ground? What type of moral compass is required for a politician to engage in such a perverse twisting of the meaning of words and the logical application of language? Nancy Pulosi meanwhile called outrage over the videos a “manufactured crisis”. Huh? If altering the morally sketchy late term abortion procedures in order to “harvest” body parts desired by the market is not a crisis, what is? If we cannot agree that what has been seen in these videos is immoral, one must wonder, what can we agree on as a nation? And regarding current Democrat party leadership, do words like “crisis” or “morals” even hold anything resembling their actual meaning anymore?
Those were the words of Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid last evening as Republicans attempted to defund Planned Parenthood. So are we to accept that the mutilation of a baby in the womb is now the moral high ground? What type of moral compass is required for a politician to engage in such a perverse twisting of the meaning of words and the logical application of language? Nancy Pulosi meanwhile called outrage over the videos a “manufactured crisis”. Huh? If altering the morally sketchy late term abortion procedures in order to “harvest” body parts desired by the market is not a crisis, what is? If we cannot agree that what has been seen in these videos is immoral, one must wonder, what can we agree on as a nation? And regarding current Democrat party leadership, do words like “crisis” or “morals” even hold anything resembling their actual meaning anymore?
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The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Evil in Camouflage
Tom McLaughlin
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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GOP DEBATE BUZZER BEATER IN CLEVELAND?
CLEVELAND — With just hours to go before the first presidential debate of the 2016 cycle a spate of new polls have shown up just ahead of the deadline.
Invitations to the Fox News/Facebook/Ohio Republican Party debate will be based on the most recent, methodologically sound polling of national Republican primary voters. In addition to a fresh poll from Fox News, pollsters for CBS News, and Bloomberg have dropped surveys ahead of the final tabulations.
The polls all agree that Donald Trump is a center-stage participant in the9 p.m. ET debate for the top ten. And for perennial top-flight candidates like Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz,Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul, knocking them off that stage would take a statistical cataclysm.
But for three candidates — Chris Christie, John Kasich, and Rick Perry— they can’t yet be sure whether they will be on at 9 p.m. or with the rest of the herd at a 5 p.m.
Will there be more data today? The clock is ticking. -Fox News
CLEVELAND — With just hours to go before the first presidential debate of the 2016 cycle a spate of new polls have shown up just ahead of the deadline.
Invitations to the Fox News/Facebook/Ohio Republican Party debate will be based on the most recent, methodologically sound polling of national Republican primary voters. In addition to a fresh poll from Fox News, pollsters for CBS News, and Bloomberg have dropped surveys ahead of the final tabulations.
The polls all agree that Donald Trump is a center-stage participant in the9 p.m. ET debate for the top ten. And for perennial top-flight candidates like Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz,Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul, knocking them off that stage would take a statistical cataclysm.
But for three candidates — Chris Christie, John Kasich, and Rick Perry— they can’t yet be sure whether they will be on at 9 p.m. or with the rest of the herd at a 5 p.m.
Will there be more data today? The clock is ticking. -Fox News
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WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
NPR: “…Military needs have driven food-preservation experiments for centuries. Canning, or bottling, was invented at the turn of the 19th century, when the French army offered a reward for someone who could invent a way to keep foods longer…But as author Anastacia Marx de Salcedo writes, the U.S. Army has taken this research to a whole other level. She says many food innovations trace back to the Natick Soldier Systems Center, a U.S. Army research complex in Natick, Mass. The federal laboratory investigates how to make soldiers’ rations taste good and last longer. She says its initiatives have led to the processed cheese that’s now found in goldfish crackers and Cheetos. The center is also behind longer-lasting loaves of bread and the energy bar, which was originally created to give worn-out soldiers a boost, she says.” -Fox News
NPR: “…Military needs have driven food-preservation experiments for centuries. Canning, or bottling, was invented at the turn of the 19th century, when the French army offered a reward for someone who could invent a way to keep foods longer…But as author Anastacia Marx de Salcedo writes, the U.S. Army has taken this research to a whole other level. She says many food innovations trace back to the Natick Soldier Systems Center, a U.S. Army research complex in Natick, Mass. The federal laboratory investigates how to make soldiers’ rations taste good and last longer. She says its initiatives have led to the processed cheese that’s now found in goldfish crackers and Cheetos. The center is also behind longer-lasting loaves of bread and the energy bar, which was originally created to give worn-out soldiers a boost, she says.” -Fox News
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DISTURBED NO MORE: HILLY ALL IN FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD Hilly Clinton previously said she found undercover videos detailing the harvesting of unborn babies’ organs by Planned Parenthood to be “disturbing,” but no more. Clinton released a web video in defense of her longtime political backer and America’s leading abortion provider. Clinton attacked Republicans attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, name-checking Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., and former Govs. Rick Perry, R-Texas, and Jeb Bush, R-Fla, accusing Republicans of mounting a “full-on assault on women’s health.”
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GRACE ALONE
WKMG: “[Melbourne, Fla.] police arrested a man who they say tried to rob churchgoers during a sermon, but was tackled by the church pastor.John Grace was arrested and charged with armed robbery and 20 additional charges in the Sunday morning incident at The Door Christian Fellowship Church on East Melbourne Avenue. Pastor Les Snodgrasstells Local 6 Grace had attended his church services before but was hardly a regular. During his sermon on ‘The Value of Life,’ he said Grace stood up and showed a gun…‘I just pushed against the wall with all my might,’ [Snodgrass said]. ‘I had him by the shoulders, and as soon as I did that, my son leapt from the platform into the air and pounced on him. He punched him twice in the head.’ Snodgrass said his wife held a stun gun to Grace until Melbourne police officers arrived and arrested him.” -Fox News
WKMG: “[Melbourne, Fla.] police arrested a man who they say tried to rob churchgoers during a sermon, but was tackled by the church pastor.John Grace was arrested and charged with armed robbery and 20 additional charges in the Sunday morning incident at The Door Christian Fellowship Church on East Melbourne Avenue. Pastor Les Snodgrasstells Local 6 Grace had attended his church services before but was hardly a regular. During his sermon on ‘The Value of Life,’ he said Grace stood up and showed a gun…‘I just pushed against the wall with all my might,’ [Snodgrass said]. ‘I had him by the shoulders, and as soon as I did that, my son leapt from the platform into the air and pounced on him. He punched him twice in the head.’ Snodgrass said his wife held a stun gun to Grace until Melbourne police officers arrived and arrested him.” -Fox News
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FOX News First EXTRA
The stage is set for the first presidential debate of the 2016 cycle, hosted by Fox News, Facebook and the Ohio Republican Party at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
The results are based on an average of the five most recent methodologically sound public polls. The top 10 in the polling average will be asked to participate in a debate Thursday, August 6th, starting at 9 p.m. ET hosted by Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace.
The invitees:
Businessman Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, retired physician Ben Carson, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Kentucky Gov. Rand Paul, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Those candidates who meet the criteria other than polling but whose names have been routinely offered by national pollsters will be asked to participate in a debate Thursday, August 6th at 5 p.m. ET hosted by Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum.
The invitees: Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, former New York Gov. George Pataki, former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore.
Surveys included in the average were conducted for Fox News, Bloomberg, CBS News, Monmouth University and Quinnipiac University. -Fox News
The results are based on an average of the five most recent methodologically sound public polls. The top 10 in the polling average will be asked to participate in a debate Thursday, August 6th, starting at 9 p.m. ET hosted by Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace.
The invitees:
Businessman Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, retired physician Ben Carson, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Kentucky Gov. Rand Paul, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Those candidates who meet the criteria other than polling but whose names have been routinely offered by national pollsters will be asked to participate in a debate Thursday, August 6th at 5 p.m. ET hosted by Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum.
The invitees: Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, former New York Gov. George Pataki, former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore.
Surveys included in the average were conducted for Fox News, Bloomberg, CBS News, Monmouth University and Quinnipiac University. -Fox News
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Why Empower Iran?
{Alexander H. Joffe} ~ Unless the US Congress votes in opposition, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) deal with Iran with go through. What really happened and why did it happen the way it did?... What happened is gradually becoming clear. It is revealed daily just how horrendous the deal really is. On every point — enrichment, centrifuges, stocks of fissile material, inspections, sanctions on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members and businesses, "snapback," etc. — the Obama administration caved completely. Concessions on ballistic missiles and arms sales were thrown in at the last minute; the administration lied about it all, while Iran touted its victories and American capitulation. All this went on amidst a background of Iranian chants of "death to Israel" and "death to America," which entered not at all into American calculations. http://www.meforum.org/5417/why-empower-iran
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TV Producer Norman Lear: I'm A Social Conservative
{Sarah Fisher} ~ Hollywood producer Normal Lear held a press conference on Saturday in Beverly Hills and told the attendees he is a conservative. Lear is best known for producing the 70s hit sitcoms Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, All in the Family and Maude... The famous producer told Entertainment Weekly, “Everybody knows me to be a progressive or a liberal or lefty or whatever. I think of myself as a bleeding-heart conservative. You will not mess with my Bill of Rights, my Constitution, my guarantees of political justice for all.” Though the producer described himself as a "bleeding heart" on certain issues like "those who need help and aren’t getting the justice that the country promises them and the equal opportunity the country promises," he said he's still a conservative when it comes to social issues. "I'm a bleeding heart, but I think myself to be a total social conservative," said the producer.
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'Medical Meltdown:' nObamacare Ushers in Doctor Shortages
{Trey Sanchez} ~ This past weekend, one hundred medical professionals met in California for the 33rd Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting and they all warned that healthcare as we have known it is over, thanks to increasing federal regulations and taxes... And as nObamacare rolls across the land, it is leaving in its wake a shortage of doctors and surgeons. According to a Breitbart report, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Lee Hieb told the conference, "What do I mean by medical meltdown? Well, sadly, I’m here to tell you that the medical care you’ve enjoyed in the past in your life is simply not going to be there in the future.” Here's why: http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/medical-meltdown-obamacare-ushers-doctor-shortages
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{Brooke Singman} ~ The nObama administration has signaled it may intervene next week in a civil lawsuit in which 11 American families won a potential billion-dollar judgment from the Palestinian leadership over a series of bombings and shootings that killed or wounded dozens of U.S. citizens... a move that critics say would find the government siding with terrorists over its own citizens. The families won a $218.5 million judgment in February after a seven-week trial in Manhattan Federal Court in which a jury found the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority were responsible for a string of attacks from 2001 to 2004 that killed 33 and injured hundreds. A 1992 law that requires damages in such cases to be tripled, as well as interest on the award, would push it to as much as $1.1 billion. The judgment, which the Palestinians are appealing, would equal nearly a third of the Palestinian Authority’s annual operating budget. Late last month, the Department of Justice, which had previously not been involved in the 11-year-old case, informed the court it was considering filing a “statement of interest” in the case by Aug. 10, but officials would not elaborate. A source said the Department of Justice was working with the State Department on the matter. http://americanactionnews.com/articles/will-obama-actually-side-with-terrorists-over-americans
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Senators blast State Dept. for playing politics...
{Susan Crabtree} ~ Senators are preparing to grill State Department officials over a new report that accuses top agency brass of playing politics with its human trafficking upgrades of Cuba and Malaysia over career analysts' recommendations... "Alarming and unacceptable if true," Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tweeted Monday. "We must get to the bottom of this @ hearing on Thursday." Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said there is no doubt in his mind that the rankings were politicized and slammed the administration for allowing a "bunch of political hacks" to taint the State Department's report on human slavery and forced prostitution.
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Planned Parenthood Caught Selling INTACT Aborted Babies AT...
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ The Center for Medical Progress released their fifth video today of their investigation of Planned Parenthood... In the video the Director of Research for Planned Parenthood, Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, is caught selling fully intact aborted babies. Once again, the Planned Parenthood official discusses selling human baby organs over lunch. What evil people.
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After Iran Promises To “Annihilate” Israel, They Suffer..."
{Dom the Conservative} ~ Christians, Jews, and anyone with common sense and an ear to listen knows that when Iran threatens “death to Israel” and “death to America,” they mean exactly that, althoughJohn Kerry wishes to assure us that the hostile chants don’t mean that they want war... However, on the same weekend that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneipublished a new book that vows to “annihilate” Israel, a freak occurrence seems to be plaguing the Islamic country like never before. The Middle East is currently trapped under a life-threatening “heat dome” which experts fear is possibly the worst recorded wave in history, according to Fox News. For more than a week, Iran and Iraq have suffered from extreme temperatures so high that cities are calling off all outdoor activity to prevent death. Iran has made headlines when the heat index reached an excruciating 164 degrees on Friday.
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Louis Farrakhan, “We Must Rise Up & Kill Those Who Kill Us”
{noisyroom.net} ~ Louis Farrakhan is at it again… calling for civil unrest and the murder of all whites. No matter how many times he screams for violence from the pulpit, the media just yawns and he is mostly ignored... Except for the 50,000 or so who follow the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan. They are listening very closely and preparing – for war. Late last month, Farrakhan called for blacks to “rise up” and “kill those who kill us” if the federal government fails to “intercede in our affairs.” In other words, if Obama doesn’t step up moving forward towards a race war, the Nation of Islam will do it for him. Farrakhan delivered his calls for an uprising on July 30th in a speech given at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Miami. Shame on the Baptists for letting this vile race monger preach evil from their church. “The Koran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says, retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain. Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breaths of those whose children have been slain,” Farrakhan intoned. “So if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling,” he thundered.
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Senator catches nObama Red-Handed violating the Law he Signed
{Randy DeSoto} ~ Freshman Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., found that President Barack nObama is already in direct violation of a law he just signed in late May regarding the Iran nuclear deal... The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act specifically provides that Congress must receive “all nuclear agreement documents, including any related to agreements ‘entered into or made between Iran and any other parties.’ It expressly includes ‘side agreements.’ This requirement is not strictly limited to agreements to which the U.S. is a signatory,” Sen. Cotton and Rep. Mike Pompeo wrote in a joint op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week. Cotton and Pompeo recount that they traveled to Vienna a few weeks ago to meet with officials of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). There, they learned “that certain elements of this deal are—and will remain—secret.” They further discovered that those involved with the talks, including the nObama administration, specially allowed the IAEA and Iran to have two side deals. "That is one of the most mind-blowingly stupid things I can ever remember." http://www.westernjournalism.com/wow-senator-catches-obama-red-handed-violating-the-law-he-just-signed/
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Netanyahu: Iran Nuke Deal ‘Will Bring War’
{Adam Kredo} ~ Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rallied more than 10,000 Jewish leaders and activists to reject a recently inked nuclear accord with Iran that the Israeli leader believes “will bring war” to the region... and provide the Islamic Republic with a nuclear weapon within 10 to 15 years. Netanyahu, who spoke Tuesday afternoon on a conference call organized by the Jewish Federation of North America (JFNA), urged those on the call to do all they can to defeat the deal and stop the nObama administration from enacting it.
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Clearly it’s not just a “lump of cells.” It’s got a heart, a lung, and a liver because it’s a baby..
White House press secretary Josh Earnest insisted last week that the videos were “entirely inaccurate,” then admitted he hadn’t seen them and he was repeating Planned Parenthood’s own talking points. Earnest said they were “selectively edited.” If you’re inclined to believe that, watch one yourself.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest insisted last week that the videos were “entirely inaccurate,” then admitted he hadn’t seen them and he was repeating Planned Parenthood’s own talking points. Earnest said they were “selectively edited.” If you’re inclined to believe that, watch one yourself.
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Stopping the Clean Power Plan Will Save $2.5 Trillion
After more than a year of waiting, Barack Obama this week unveiled the final iteration of the Clean Power Plan, the EPA’s biggest environmental regulation issued to date. According to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the estimated annual cost by 2030 will be $8.4 billion. But as with all government estimates, that number largely omits a comprehensive examination of the economic toll. When it comes to Obama’s agenda, we’re usually talking figures in the trillions of dollars, and this particular regulation is no different. A Heritage Foundation study published last month found that, by 2030, the Clean Power Plan will result in “[a] loss of more than $2.5 trillion (inflation-adjusted) in aggregate gross domestic product (GDP).” On the one hand, you have McCarthy advertising $8.4 billion in annual costs — a relatively minor expense all things considered — while on the other hand, an independent study puts that figure at $2.5 trillion over the next 15 years. The disparity is huge, and it can’t be blamed on a rounding error. Nor is it right-wing think-tank conspiracy. Take ObamaCare, for instance. What was originally calculated by the Congressional Budget Office to cost American taxpayers less than $1 trillion over a decade ballooned to more than $2 trillion, according to new CBO figures. You’ll discover a familiar trend with any government program. That’s why the most important thing Republicans can do is put a stop to the Clean Power Plan before it truly gets started.
Vacation Shows Obama Cocky in Iran Deal
The clock is winding down until Congress will vote in September to either approve or reject the nuclear deal the Obama administration struck with Iran. But despite nearly everyone in Washington taking vacation a month before the vote, the horse race must go on, and the speculation on how each lawmaker will vote is running rampant. House Republicans say they have enough votes to defeat the deal. Meanwhile, the Senate may be a handful of votes away from having a veto-proof consensus against the deal. The decision may come down to the heir to Democrat Senate leadership and supporter of Israel Chuck Schumer. As for Barack Obama, he’s confident that his foreign policy legacy is in the bag — at least for now. He will read a speech from a teleprompter at American University later today advocating the deal — echoing a speech John F. Kennedy made in 1963 — and then jet off to Martha’s Vineyard for a two-week vacation. In doing so, Obama is overestimating his oratorical chops and underestimating the opposition to the deal. Obama wants everyone to believe that if Congress rejects the deal war will come — illustrated by the fact that those who supported the Iraq war want this “peace” deal squashed. But Obama sits thousands of miles away from the situation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran would return to the negotiation table if this deal is rejected “because they need this deal.”
Hate Group Calls for Racial Violence — Where’s Obama?
The Nation of Islam was founded in 1930, and is now a wealthy and well-known black organization. But just how far out in left field is the group? They’re drunk and in the bleachers. Even the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center, which specializes in identifying so-called hate groups — most of which just happen to be conservative, or at least neo-Nazi so they can pin it on conservatives — lists the Nation of Islam as a hate group. SPLC says, “[I]ts bizarre theology of innate black superiority over whites — a belief system vehemently and consistently rejected by mainstream Muslims — and the deeply racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay rhetoric of its leaders, including top minister Louis Farrakhan, have earned the NOI a prominent position in the ranks of organized hate.”
In the latest quote for the file, Farrakhan recently told a crowd at Miami’s Mt. Zion Baptist Church, “I’m looking for 10,000 in the midst of a million. Ten thousand fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny. Death is sweeter than continuing to live and bury our children while the white folks give our killers hamburgers. Death is sweeter than watching us slaughter each other to the joy of a 400-year-old enemy. Death is sweeter. The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain. Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breasts of those whose children have been slain. So if the federal government won’t intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us; stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling!”
He’s talking about the deaths of a few black men at the hands of white police officers. And it sure sounds like he’s inciting violence. Will the Justice Department of Barack Obama, himself a disciple of hate, look into this?
FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
CMP Continues to Turn Up the Heat on Planned Parenthood
By Nate Jackson
While Planned Parenthood’s $500 million in annual taxpayer funding survived a Senate vote Monday, there was a silver lining. In 2007, eight Republicans supported funding PP; Monday, just one did — Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois. And there are still seven unreleased videos from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) to turn up the political pressure. The fifth one dropped Tuesday.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge William Orrick, who raised $230,000 for Barack Obama, extended a temporary restraining order against the release of some video material until the end of the month. National Abortion Federation and its members claim they will suffer harassment and possibly violence due to their part in the videos, and a hearing will take place Aug. 27 on a possible permanent injunction.
According to The Hill, “A lawyer representing The Center for Medical Progress said it would abide by Orrick’s order, noting the materials barred from release in the ruling represented ‘a small percentage’ of its overall collection.” The delay also happens to ensure the videos stay in the news even longer.
In related news, federal Judge B. Lynn Winmill threw out an Idaho law prohibiting undercover video of agricultural facilities by animal-rights activists on the grounds that “food and worker safety are matters of public concern.” Is that any less true of the hundreds of thousands of babies aborted each year by an organization hauling in half a billion in taxpayer dollars?
And, so, the fifth video (GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING).
It begins with PP President Cecile Richards insisting, “Planned Parenthood makes zero profit on any fetal tissue donations.”
But Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, explains that harvesting provides a good “revenue stream” for PP, which “contributes so much to our bottom line.” She notes, “If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are ‘this,’ and splitting the specimens into different shipments is ‘this.’ It’s all just a matter of line items.”
In fact, she admitted, “[W]e deviate from our standard in order to” obtain intact specimens. Furthermore, “Some of our doctors in the past have projects and they’re collecting the specimens, so they do it in a way that they get the best specimens, so I know it can happen.”
Doesn’t sound like mere expense reimbursement, does it?
According to CMP, “The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2). Federal law also requires that no alteration in the timing or method of abortion be done for the purposes of fetal tissue collection (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).”
It certainly seems clear from the video evidence that Planned Parenthood and other companies are engaged in illegal harvesting. Democrats in Congress will continue to look the other way and insist this is all about “women’s health,” but the truth is plain to see.
Finally, the video turns to the lab, where the undercover reporters ask for “fresh specimens” to determine their quality. A lab worker laughs, and says, “We had a really long day, and they’re all mixed up together in a bag.” She does manage to produce one of a set of 20-week-old twins (pulled from the freezer), and the technicians sort through lungs, intestines and limbs, while talking about how “organs come out really, really well — almost intact.”
If you aren’t appalled, you aren’t paying attention.
Project Lead David Daleiden elaborates on the significance: “This is now the fifth member of Planned Parenthood leadership discussing payments for aborted baby parts without any connection to actual costs of so-called tissue ‘donation.’ Planned Parenthood’s system-wide conspiracy to evade the law and make money off of aborted fetal tissue is now undeniable.” Daleiden continues, “Anyone who watches these videos knows that Planned Parenthood is engaged in barbaric practices and human rights abuses that must end. There is no reason for an organization that uses illegal abortion methods to sell baby parts and commit such atrocities against humanity to still receive over $500 million each year from taxpayers.”
Indeed, the videos reveal the banality of evil in a visceral way that the Left’s euphemisms deliberately attempt to obscure. It’s obvious that the Planned Parenthood workers know they’re dealing with something that’s at a minimum uncomfortable, because each videoed subject is at great pains to choose words carefully. And yet the technicians are calloused souls, who can laugh about body parts in a bag. There are seven more videos to go, and, if the pattern holds, they might be even worse.
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Walter Williams: “The uninformed assumption made by judges, lawyers and academics is that but for the fact of racial and sex discrimination, we all would be distributed across occupations, educational backgrounds and other socio-economic characteristics according to our percentages in the population. Such a vision is absolute nonsense. … According to a recent study conducted by Bond University in Australia, sharks are nine times likelier to attack and kill men than they are women. Such a disproportionality leads to only one conclusion: Sharks are sexist. Another disturbing sex disparity is that despite the fact that men are 50 percent of the population and so are women, men are struck by lightning six times as often as women. Of those killed by lightning, 82 percent are men. I wonder what whoever is in charge of lightning has against men. Differences are seen by many as signs of inequality. Nobel laureate Milton Friedman put it best: ‘A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.’ Equality in conjunction with the general rules of law is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty that can be secured without destroying liberty.”
SHORT CUTS
Insight: “Most Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.” —columnist Joseph Sobran (1946-2010)
Desperate to reframe the debate: “It’s a war on women’s health, it’s not about abortion. Planned Parenthood spends 97% of its dollars on non-abortion related services. … They serve 2.7 million people in America every year, 500,000 of those happen to be Hispanic. It is a very important health care organization, and this attack started from the day Planned Parenthood was founded in 1916, when the founder of Planned Parenthood was arrested for trying to distribute birth control to poor women. So it’s a constant battle here. I can’t believe in this century we are still battling against women’s health.” —Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) (Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenicist — hardly someone to look up to.)
Alpha Jackass: “It’s our responsibility in the Senate to assure that American women have access to care. It’s our obligation to protect our wives, our sisters, our daughters, our granddaughters — protect them from the absurd policies of a Republican Party that’s lost its moral compass.” —Harry Reid on the GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood
Demo-gogues: “I will defend Planned Parenthood. I think a lot of this attack, to be honest with you, comes from people who simply do not believe that a woman should have a right to control her own body. That’s the motive.” —Bernie Sanders, who added, “I have not seen the videos.” (The videos don’t exactly show a “woman’s body” being dissected in a petri dish and sold for spare parts, do they?)
And last… “Joe Biden was reported Friday seriously considering entering the race for the Democratic Party nomination for president. He doesn’t really need the job. After his term of office as vice president is over Joe Biden has a standing offer in Hollywood to play the villain in all the pepper spray commercials.” —Argus Hamilton
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Mali: Islamic jihadists kill ten soldiers
August 5, 2015 9:30 am By Robert Spencer 1 Comment
Islamic jihadists took control of a large portion of Mali several years ago and established a Sharia state, but the French drove them out. They have, however, not given up. Ansar Dine means Helpers of the Religion. Not that this has anything to do with Islam. “10 soldiers killed in attack on Mali camp: military,” […]
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Kerry: Rejecting deal would be “screwing” the ayatollah
August 5, 2015 8:13 am By Robert Spencer 3 Comments
Kerry asserts here that the deal makes it “physically impossible” for Iran to make a nuclear bomb. If everything Kerry says in this interview were true, it is hard to see why the Israelis or the Republicans would have the slightest objection to the deal. Their reading of the agreement with Iran differs sharply from […]
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Al-Qaeda praises Garland, Chattanooga jihadis, calls for more “lone jihad” attacks
August 5, 2015 4:42 am By Robert Spencer 6 Comments
If and when lone jihadis murder more Americans, law enforcement and government officials will once again gather around and scratch their heads, saying they have no earthly idea what the killer’s motive could possibly have been. “Al Qaeda branch calls for new attacks against United States,” by Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd, CNN, August 4, […]
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Huffington Post launches Arabic Edition headed by Muslim Brotherhood partners
August 4, 2015 3:37 pm By Ralph Sidway 14 Comments
“[Anas] Fouda, previously an executive producer at Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA), is managing the [new HuffPo Arabic] website in partnership with his old boss, former AJA director general Wadah Khanfar… Khanfar is the man who made Al Jazeera the Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece that it is today.” Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist forces continue spreading their tentacles […]
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Malaysian mufti: “Islam is based on faith…Don’t make any remarks based on the intellect or logic”
August 4, 2015 10:52 am By Robert Spencer 85 Comments
All religions are based on faith, but Islam is more actively opposed to the intellect and reason than the others. Contrast, for example, these two statements, the first from Christianity’s holy book, and the second from Islam’s: “Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope […]
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UK jihad preacher Anjem Choudary charged with “inviting support” for Islamic State
August 5, 2015 8:27 am By Robert Spencer 15 Comments
Anjem Choudary has been preaching jihad openly for years, while the British authorities have been too busy hounding counter-jihadists (and banning foreign ones from the country) to do anything about it. They’re arresting him now? Has the heat gotten too much for David Cameron and Theresa May over their disgracefully supine response to Islamic jihad […]
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Jerusalem: Islamic jihadists injure 2 in Molotov cocktail attack
August 5, 2015 7:44 am By Robert Spencer 4 Comments
There will be much more of this in the coming days, as Muslim leaders in “Palestinian” areas are issuing increasingly frenzied calls for jihad. “Two injured in Molotov cocktail attack in Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Post, August 3, 2015: Two people were injured on Monday night in a firebomb attack near the Beit Hanina intersection in Jerusalem. […]
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Ethiopia jails 18 Muslims for plotting to create an Islamic state in the country
August 5, 2015 3:51 am By Robert Spencer 5 Comments
The Muslims who have been convicted are claiming that it was all unjust, a “kangaroo court,” that the government was railroading them for decrying its interference in religious matters. In other words, they are claiming victim status. What a new, bold, original strategy. “Ethiopia jails 18 Muslims over alleged terror,” Associated Press, August 3, 2015: […]
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CAIR-linked Hamas demands jihad suicide attacks against Jews
August 4, 2015 3:26 pm By Robert Spencer 12 Comments
This call follows the same pattern that jihadis always follow: point to an atrocity (real or wildly exaggerated or fabricated outright) and claim that jihad is needed so as to exact revenge. The poor jihadis never start a fight with anyone, you see, because of the absence of the caliphate: only the caliph, according to […]
My 87 year old black Dad called to say he wanted to congratulate me for my perseverance. “You finally have me and all your siblings (4) agreeing with you.”
My deep desire is to alert my son, daughter and other non-political hard working Americans of the moral, spiritual and cultural evil threatening to overtake our great nation. No longer are we simply engaged in a battle of ideas – republican vs democrat – liberal vs conservative. America's choice of governing has become far more daunting – light vs darkness – good vs evil. “Choose ye this day, whom you will serve.”
Despite Leftist merchants of evil using big words and arrogant condescension to convince us that morality is relative, we instinctively know some things are good and some things are bad. Equally annoying is Leftists' air of superiority – claiming to care more than us commoners about equality, saving the planet and all life; their evil intentions hidden beneath a shroud of faux compassion.
Leftists have what I call their no-pictures-please policy. They get fuming mad whenever anyone accurately describes, visualizes or shows pictures of procedures and behaviors the Left has demanded that Americans embrace. For example: Leftists want women to freely kill their babies all the way up to moments before birth. The last thing they want the public to see is video of the partial birth abortion procedure.
Yes, I am unequivocally saying liberals/Democrats (Leftists) are forcing their evil agenda down America's throat. “Forcing” is exactly what the Left is doing. Americans typically vote against Leftists' desire to make abhorrent behavior mainstream and transforming America into a welfare state. Leftists send in their activist judges to overturn the will of We the People. After verbally slapping us around calling us racist, sexist and homophobic, Leftist judges make what the people voted against into law.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, …, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” As I lay out the facts, you judge for yourself.
Videos exposing Planned Parenthood's inhuman thriving baby-body-parts-are-us business have horrified the nation. Americans are demanding that government stop giving PP $500 million a year of taxpayers' money.
Well, guess where the majority of PP chop shops are located? Black neighborhoods. PP founder Margaret Sanger pulled no punches. PP was started to deal with “the negro problem.” Sanger believed blacks were inferior and bred too often. Black abortions are disproportionately higher than whites.
Blacks who have not been seduced by the dark side are sounding the alarm letting blacks know they are aborting themselves into extinction. www.blackgenocide.org A billboard in a black neighborhood read, “The Most Dangerous Place for An African-American Is in the Womb.” Guess who was outraged and demanded the billboard be taken down? Al Sharpton and other assorted Leftists who claim to be advocates for blacks.
Sharpton is leading the charge in the hate inspired “Black Lives Matter” movement; founded on the lie that white cops routinely murder blacks. I guess black baby lives do not matter to Sharpton when they are killed by his Leftists homeys at PP.
Here's another thing that causes one to scratch their head. Leftists are fanatical about protecting the rain-forest. They say it may hold a cure for AIDS. And yet, most Leftists are obsessed with killing babies. Even after a baby survives a failed abortion, Leftists demand that medical staff let the baby die. Amazingly, a law had to be passed to end this barbaric practice. Why haven't Leftists considered the possibility that the doctor or researcher with a cure for cancer, AIDS and other diseases may have been among the 55 million babies aborted in America since 1973.
Leftists are defending PP black marketing baby body parts. And yet, these same Leftists are tearfully outraged over the death of a furry animal and fight to their death to protect trees and imprisoned cop killers. There is something seriously wrong in people who possess such a mindset.
Good morning Ma'am. We appreciate your patronage over the years. However, our religious conscience prevents us from baking a wedding cake for your marriage to a woman. I imagine this is pretty much how the conversation went. Well, all heck broke loose. Christian bakers Aaron and Melisa Klein had to close down their shop and state ordered to pay a lesbian couple $135,000 in absurd damages.
Check this out folks. America rallied behind the Kleins and started a donations account. When the account reached $100,000, homosexuals pressured Go-Fund-Me into shutting down the account – claiming Go-Fund-Me was supporting hate.
Okay, so first homosexual activists fined the Kleins $135k. Then, they attempted to block efforts to pay the fine. So, the fine is not about paying the lesbian couple, it is about destroying the Kleins. In essence, Leftists want to hang the Kleins' economically bloody carcass in the public square as a warning to Christians who refuse to betray their faith. Can you say an assault on Christians' constitutional “free exercise of religion”, boys and girls?
Scripture says “no weapon formed against us shall prosper” and “what they meant for evil, God meant for good.” The Kleins' account has reached $372,000, thus far. Praise God!
The Kleins have five kids with whom they planned to leave their business. Leftists have other plans for the Klein family.
Dad calling me about his and my siblings' conversion was really cool. However, I am constantly thinking and praying for wisdom to awaken fellow blacks and other Americans continuously played by Leftists. I rest in the knowledge that surrendering to evil is the only way we fail.
Interviewers have asked on numerous occasions, “How do you endure the name calling and hate you receive as a black conservative Republican?” I reply, “It is easy because I know I am on the right side....God's.”
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In this day and age, laws change quickly…what is law today may not be so tomorrow and what isn’t law today could well become law by tomorrow morning but some laws, on the books for nearly a century, remain as pointed and relevant now as they were then.
Case in point…the Espionage Act of 1917.
In that act, it clearly states that…“gross negligence” as per the handling of any information regarding our national defense national is a punishable offense…a crime…and as such, should national defense information be removed from or not stored properly. If such information is not stored in its “proper place of custody,” the responsible government official would face a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment.
Hello Hillary Clinton.
While one certainly knows that in 1917, the “proper place of custody” was a file cabinet or a safe and that those who wrote and enacted the Act never in their wildest dreams considered the advent of email…government servers, not one’s private servers located in one’s home in Chappaqua N.Y. are the “proper places of custody” today and in that regard…Hillary Clinton and her use of private email addresses and said servers is in breach of the 1917 Act.
Just a few weeks ago…
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The Banality of Evil 
The "banality of evil” became part of the cultural lexicon following the publication of German-born author Hannah Arendt's 1963 book "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil." The book recounted the trial of Nazi Adolph Eichmann, who was chief of operations for the Gestapo-run Department for Jewish Affairs, and responsible for the deportation of three million Jews to extermination camps. Arendt hypothesized that people who carry out such barbarous crimes may not be inherently evil, but instead fairly ordinary individuals who simply accept the premises under which they operate.
For the last two weeks, our nation has been rocked by a series of videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) revealing that Planned Parenthood (PP) has been involved in the harvesting and selling of fetal organs. CMP has released four of what they say is a series of 12 undercover videos, and each one has been more disturbing than its predecessor. In a bombshell claim, CMP founder David Daleiden revealed to CNN that one of those videos depicts a meeting with top leaders from organ recipient company StemExpress, admitting "they sometimes get fully intact fetuses shipped to their laboratory from the abortion clinics they work with, and that could be prima facie evidence of born-alive infants. And so that’s why they’re trying to suppress that videotape and they’re very scared of it.”
Indeed, StemExpress sued to keep the video from going public, and they secured a temporary stay from Judge William Orrick, a California federal judge who raised $230,000 for Barack nObama. And, by the way, PP President Cecile Richards has visited the White House 39 times since 2009 — just to be clear how much nObama supports the abortion industry.
None of what the public has seen so far could be described as banal. Yet for the pro-abortionists and their supporters in government and the media, who ultimately convinced the Supreme Court to decide the entire nation must accept the premise of abortion on demand is an integral part of the auspices under which the nation must now operate, the act that has precipitated every bit of this descent into organ-harvesting darkness has become the essence of banality. -The Patriot Post
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Vice President loose lips Joe Biden seems to be getting serious. On the heels of a NYT report Saturday that said Biden was seriously considering another presidential run, a former aide to loose lips Biden’s late son Beau Biden announced Sunday he is set to join the Draft Biden super PAC. Josh Alcorn is described by the AP as the younger loose lips Biden’s “top political and fundraising” aide from Delaware. Alcorn’s move, coupled by the revealing write from NYT’s Maureen Dowd on Beau’s urgent dying wish for his father, signals the serious tip the vice president may actually take the plunge into the race. From MoDo: “Beau was losing his nouns and the right side of his face was partially paralyzed. But he had a mission: He tried to make his father promise to run, arguing that the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with loose lips Biden values.” -Fox News
Vice President loose lips Joe Biden seems to be getting serious. On the heels of a NYT report Saturday that said Biden was seriously considering another presidential run, a former aide to loose lips Biden’s late son Beau Biden announced Sunday he is set to join the Draft Biden super PAC. Josh Alcorn is described by the AP as the younger loose lips Biden’s “top political and fundraising” aide from Delaware. Alcorn’s move, coupled by the revealing write from NYT’s Maureen Dowd on Beau’s urgent dying wish for his father, signals the serious tip the vice president may actually take the plunge into the race. From MoDo: “Beau was losing his nouns and the right side of his face was partially paralyzed. But he had a mission: He tried to make his father promise to run, arguing that the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with loose lips Biden values.” -Fox News
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Hilly starts spending - Clinton, who is up 28 points in Iowa, and 15 points in New Hampshire, put out her first television ads late Sunday night in the early states. Both ads center on her mother, Dorothy, who was abandoned as a child and sent to live with relatives, Clinton says her mother’s story inspired her to run for office. It is a familiar narrative for Clinton who talked a lot about her mother in her 2008 run as well. The videos signal that despite reassurances from the Clinton camp that they are not worried about Vice President loose lips Biden’s run they are also not taking any chances. -Fox News
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nOBAMA TO ORDER BIG CUTS IN PLANT EMISSIONS
Once again wielding his pen in an attempt to cement his legacy, President nObama will finalize an EPA rule today that imposes deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions from the country’s power plants. Despite political opposition and the virtual certainty of legal challenges from states and industry, the president is upping the ante by announcing steeper reductions – almost a third of 2005 level carbon emissions – than previously floated. Reaction from Republican 2016 candidates to the rule was swift, with several accusing the president of pandering to Democratic “environmentalist billionaires.” -Fox News
Once again wielding his pen in an attempt to cement his legacy, President nObama will finalize an EPA rule today that imposes deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions from the country’s power plants. Despite political opposition and the virtual certainty of legal challenges from states and industry, the president is upping the ante by announcing steeper reductions – almost a third of 2005 level carbon emissions – than previously floated. Reaction from Republican 2016 candidates to the rule was swift, with several accusing the president of pandering to Democratic “environmentalist billionaires.” -Fox News
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Confirms, backstabber Boehner DOES NOT Have The Votes...
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot Radio spoke to Florida Republican Congressman Ted S. Yoho, a serious voice for conservatives who believe in limited government, fiscal conservatism, personal responsibility, and free enterprise... Speaking to Breitbart’s senior investigative political reporter Matthew Boyle, Yoho explained why he signed on as a co-sponsor to Rep. Mark Meadows bid to unseat Speaker of the House Rep. backstabber John Boehner. Yoho said that backstabber Boehner spends too much time retaliating against conservatives and has let nObama basically get whatever he wants. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/08/03/gop-congressman-confirms-john-boehner-does-not-have-the-votes-to-remain-speaker/
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Is nObama taking Hilly out?
{Monica Crowley} ~ Hilly Clinton is not going to be the Democratic nominee for president... Yes, the conventional wisdom is that she is still the prohibitive favorite, armed with big money, big connections, and the Big Dog, Bill. But the so-called “wisdom” is “conventional” for a reason. As a result of endless sordid scandals and predictably Clintonian evasions, her poll numbers on everything from favorability to trustworthiness are in a nosedive. A battery of new polls in key swing states such as Colorado and Iowa show her losing to a number of GOP challengers http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/29/monica-crowley-obama-a-threat-to-hillary-clinton/?page=all#pagebreak
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Senate fails to advance Planned Parenthood defund effort
{foxnews.com} ~ The Senate failed Monday to advance a Republican-led measure to halt federal aid to Planned Parenthood... but leaders of the GOP-controlled chamber appear ready to continue the fight, galvanized by a series of unsettling videos about the group. The vote to bring debate on the bill was 53 against to 46 in favor. The measure had not been expected to get the 60 votes needed to move it toward a final vote because Republicans needed several “yeas” from Democrats, who largely support Planned Parenthood.
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US Will Give Out More Green Cards Than Combined Populations of...
{Terresa Monroe-Hamilton} ~ This is sheer national suicidal insanity. We are bringing in legally over 1 million new immigrants a year into the US. A country that is on the verge of bankruptcy and whose job market is so bad... that millions have not worked in years. Instead, we bring in low skilled, cheap, slave labor and deprive ever more Americans of even the lowliest of jobs so they can support themselves. Once Americans run out of unemployment benefits, they are forced onto the welfare rolls. Eventually, the whole entitlement system will overload and implode. Cloward and Piven would be proud. No one is addressing this in the US currently except Senator Jeff Sessions who has warned about this emergency forever and who has received nothing but derision for his efforts to save America. In ten years, we will issue more green cards than the combined populations of South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa. If we last ten years, that is.
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IRAN DEAL: nO'S FOREIGN POLICY nOBAMACARE
{David Limbaugh} ~ President nObama’s sordid Iran nuke deal is looking more and more like the foreign policy version of nObamacare. It’s duplicitous, secretive, destructive and legacy-driven, and he’s going to have to go full community organizer to get it passed... This deal was born in hell. It is the culmination of nObama’s dangerously flawed philosophy that you enhance national security through appeasement. If we can secure a deal with Satan’s stepchild, after all, we can remake the globe into the peaceful utopia progressives romantically envision. Never mind that this terrorist theocracy, by its own admission, is immune to rehabilitation. “Death to America, death to Israel.” Even in the midst of negotiations with the nObama regime, the mullahs didn’t bother to pretend they had goodwill toward us.
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nOBAMA DETAINS 27 CHRISTIAN ASYLUM SEEKERS
{Leo Hohmann} ~ More than two dozen Iraqi Chaldean Christians forced from their homes by ISIS have been detained at an ICE detention center in California for six months after crossing the border from Mexico... The San Diego Union reported July 31 that 20 of the 27 Chaldeans at the Otay Detention Center in Otay Mesa, California, have American family members living in Southern California who are willing to sponsor them. Family members have been holding weekly vigils and rallies to draw attention to the detentions. Large U.S. Chaldean Catholic communities reside in San Diego and Detroit. The family members say they’ve been given few details on why they’ve been detained for so long, despite being refugees from Middle East terror. Barack nObama has been letting countless illegal aliens, not to mention Muslim refugees, storm into America. But apparently he's got a serious problem with some two dozen CHRISTIANS fleeing for their lives from ISIS ...
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Left Building an Army of Elizabeth Warrens
{Aleister} ~ If you thought the faith progressives have in Elizabeth Warren was over the top, you ain’t seen nothing yet... So strong is the left’s love of all things Warren, they’re now trying to create an army of political candidates just like her to run for public office. Topics covered in the conference included everything from the basics of campaigning to fundraising and using the internet for outreach. During her personal appearance at the event, Warren offered encouragement to her cult-like horde of devotees:
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Americans Oppose Iran Deal By Two To One Margin
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ A Quinnipiac University Poll released Monday morning shows that American voters oppose the Iran deal by a two to one. 57 - 28% margin... Republicans oppose the deal by a huge 86-3% margin. Independents also oppose the deal by a strong 36%, 55-29% margin with Democrats supporting the deal by a strong 52-32% which may be an indication that the Democratic support for the deal has more to do with the president is from their party than a believe the agreement is good for the country. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/08/quinnipiac-university-poll-americans.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=916e1d996f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-916e1d996f-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-916e1d996f-291705165
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The Iran deal’s dangerous precedent
{John R. Bolton} ~ Had anyone believed President nObama’s mantra that “all options are on the table” to deal with Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the Vienna agreement might have emerged less advantageously for Tehran... But no one took Mr. nObama’s threat of military force seriously — a credibility gap that Israel still fears and Iran still exploits. Even so, Vice President loose lips Joseph R. Biden Jr. is still trying to reassure nervous Democrats in Congress that the Vienna agreement does not preclude America’s use of force. Despite its blasé confidence in the agreement, however, the nObama administration understands the near-certainty that Iran will break its word. Tehran’s potential violations were not merely one of many difficult issues for negotiators; they were the essence of the talks. The deal’s entire structure turns on the issue of how to detect and handle breaches. If Iran is caught transgressing, Mr. nObama’s plan is not to use force, but to apply “snapback sanctions.” His administration has argued repeatedly that such sanctions (or even new sanctions) will deter or punish violations, keeping the deal on track and Iran clear of nuclear weapons. This rationale conforms to the underlying logic for the talks themselves: If sanctions brought Iran to the table, then sanctions will keep the deal viable once implementation begins.
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Palestinians: The Difference between Us and Them
{Bassam Tawil} ~ I cannot count the number of times that I heard from Israeli Jews the phrases "I'm ashamed" and "I'm sorry" in response to the horrific crime that claimed the life of Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsha in the West Bank village of Duma last week... The strong response of the Israeli public and leaders to the arson attack is, truthfully, somewhat comforting. The wall-to-wall Israeli condemnation of this crime has left me and other Palestinians not only ashamed, but also embarrassed -- because this is not how we Palestinians have been reacting to terror attacks against Jews -- even the despicable murder of Jewish children. Our response has, in fact, brought feelings of disgrace and dishonor. While the Israeli prime minister, president and other officials were quick strongly to condemn the murder of Dawabsha, our leaders rarely denounce terror attacks against Jews. And when a Palestinian leader such as Mahmoud Abbas does issue a condemnation, it is often vague and equivocal.
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Land of the Freeloaders
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{burtprelutsky.com} ~ If Rip Van Winkle slept for a few decades and awoke today, he wouldn’t know where he was. No longer the land of the free and the home of the brave, America has morphed into a place that is part insane asylum, part soup kitchen and part sewer.
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Think what Mr. Van Winkle would make of traditional marriage. When he pulled the blankets under his chin, the Left was announcing that the institution was outdated and bourgeois, to boot, ensuring that the young and hip, including those who were busy having kids or abortions, would give it a wide berth. Then, suddenly, homosexuals, who would have us believe that they are the youngest and the hippest, decided it was only passé because they weren’t being allowed to partake. Overnight, the Left decided marriage was sacred, and to deny guys the right to marry other guys, and gals the right to marry other gals, was an affront to everything America allegedly holds dear.
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♦ The latest examples of people walking around in public without their brains was presidential candidate Martin O’Malley apologizing to an audience of boorish blacks for insisting that all lives matter when by this time every liberal understands that only black lives matter. If he at least had some guts to make up for his lack of brains, he might have said, “If black lives matter so much, why don’t you do something about all those young black thugs killing blacks in your neighborhood, instead of wasting everyone’s time whining about cops and white people?”
♦ The latest examples of people walking around in public without their brains was presidential candidate Martin O’Malley apologizing to an audience of boorish blacks for insisting that all lives matter when by this time every liberal understands that only black lives matter. If he at least had some guts to make up for his lack of brains, he might have said, “If black lives matter so much, why don’t you do something about all those young black thugs killing blacks in your neighborhood, instead of wasting everyone’s time whining about cops and white people?”
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♦ Proving that he’s every bit the bonehead ex-Gov. O’Malley is, Seattle’s Mayor Ed Murray, having been told that according to Sharia law, Muslims aren’t allowed to pay interest on loans, wishes to offer Muslims in his hometown interest-free home loans, leaving it to Seattle’s suckers to pony up the difference.
♦ Proving that he’s every bit the bonehead ex-Gov. O’Malley is, Seattle’s Mayor Ed Murray, having been told that according to Sharia law, Muslims aren’t allowed to pay interest on loans, wishes to offer Muslims in his hometown interest-free home loans, leaving it to Seattle’s suckers to pony up the difference.
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Frankly, I suspect he’s got it wrong. I expect that Muslims, as it is with orthodox Jews, who aren’t supposed to charge their fellow Jews interest, Muslims are allowed to pay interest on home loans and are just hoping that nobody sets Mayor Murray straight.
Frankly, I suspect he’s got it wrong. I expect that Muslims, as it is with orthodox Jews, who aren’t supposed to charge their fellow Jews interest, Muslims are allowed to pay interest on home loans and are just hoping that nobody sets Mayor Murray straight.
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♦ Speaking of Muslims, isn’t it time that when someone named Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez opens fire on a Marine recruiting office, we accept that it’s an Islamic act of terrorism without having to wait for a psychological profile to confirm what we all already know?
♦ Speaking of Muslims, isn’t it time that when someone named Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez opens fire on a Marine recruiting office, we accept that it’s an Islamic act of terrorism without having to wait for a psychological profile to confirm what we all already know?
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♦ In the meantime, the Great Satan who resides in the White House, who saw fit to bathe the place with colored lights in celebration of the Supreme Court’s latest brain freeze, waited five days before caving in to public pressure and ordering that flags be lowered in honor of the sailor and the four Marines murdered by young Abdulazeez.
♦ In the meantime, the Great Satan who resides in the White House, who saw fit to bathe the place with colored lights in celebration of the Supreme Court’s latest brain freeze, waited five days before caving in to public pressure and ordering that flags be lowered in honor of the sailor and the four Marines murdered by young Abdulazeez.
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♦ Proving that the folks at the Department of Defense are as dense as bricks, but not nearly as useful, the solution they came up with to prevent future carnage at military recruitment centers is that Marines wear civvies on the job. Apparently Washington bureaucrats think that Muslims are as stupid as they are. Do they really believe that when the next jihadists show up at the mall, they’ll simply drive by and then go home, fooled by the fact that the folks sitting at the desks inside aren’t wearing their uniforms?
♦ Proving that the folks at the Department of Defense are as dense as bricks, but not nearly as useful, the solution they came up with to prevent future carnage at military recruitment centers is that Marines wear civvies on the job. Apparently Washington bureaucrats think that Muslims are as stupid as they are. Do they really believe that when the next jihadists show up at the mall, they’ll simply drive by and then go home, fooled by the fact that the folks sitting at the desks inside aren’t wearing their uniforms?
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♦ America doesn’t need a he-man like Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office. We don’t need a bare-chested hunter of bears, a man who swims in icy waters or a guy who rips Moscow telephone books in half. We do need a president who thinks all American lives matter, not just those of blacks, Hispanics and Muslims. We need a person who is more concerned with America’s future than with his legacy, more concerned with our best interests than with Cuba’s and Iran’s.
♦ America doesn’t need a he-man like Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office. We don’t need a bare-chested hunter of bears, a man who swims in icy waters or a guy who rips Moscow telephone books in half. We do need a president who thinks all American lives matter, not just those of blacks, Hispanics and Muslims. We need a person who is more concerned with America’s future than with his legacy, more concerned with our best interests than with Cuba’s and Iran’s.
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What we have in Barack nObama is an underachieving fruitcake who came into office believing, mistakenly, that America required a radical transformation. What we require of the next president is that he’ll understand that eight years later, America will desperately need to be radically transformed back to the way it used to be.
What we have in Barack nObama is an underachieving fruitcake who came into office believing, mistakenly, that America required a radical transformation. What we require of the next president is that he’ll understand that eight years later, America will desperately need to be radically transformed back to the way it used to be.
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♦ I doubt that any of my readers are dumb enough to take the bet, but I am giving odds that next year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be shared by hanoi John Kerry and Mohammad Javad Zarif. (Are all of those schmucks named Mohammad?)
♦ I doubt that any of my readers are dumb enough to take the bet, but I am giving odds that next year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be shared by hanoi John Kerry and Mohammad Javad Zarif. (Are all of those schmucks named Mohammad?)
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♦ I had my own problems with George W. Bush. Mainly, they revolved around the way he conducted the Iraq War, not that he waged it. I objected to the fact that he forced the military to fight with one arm tied behind its collective back. I refer to the fact that he wouldn’t allow mosques to be bombed even though we knew Saddam Hussein was using them as armories and barracks, forcing our soldiers to fight pitched battles in the streets. And let us not forget that, according to Bush’s book of wartime etiquette, we were required to re-build every damn building almost as soon as we knocked it down.
♦ I had my own problems with George W. Bush. Mainly, they revolved around the way he conducted the Iraq War, not that he waged it. I objected to the fact that he forced the military to fight with one arm tied behind its collective back. I refer to the fact that he wouldn’t allow mosques to be bombed even though we knew Saddam Hussein was using them as armories and barracks, forcing our soldiers to fight pitched battles in the streets. And let us not forget that, according to Bush’s book of wartime etiquette, we were required to re-build every damn building almost as soon as we knocked it down.
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I was willing to give him points for his highly publicized greetings of returning vets at the Dallas airport and his visits to military hospitals and even his annual bike rides with wounded vets, although I never lost sight of the fact that if he’d conducted a different kind of war maybe so many of them wouldn’t have been wounded, or worse, in the first place.
I was willing to give him points for his highly publicized greetings of returning vets at the Dallas airport and his visits to military hospitals and even his annual bike rides with wounded vets, although I never lost sight of the fact that if he’d conducted a different kind of war maybe so many of them wouldn’t have been wounded, or worse, in the first place.
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It didn’t help that he was also the jackass who seemed to devote every waking hour to telling us that Islam was a religion of peace.
It didn’t help that he was also the jackass who seemed to devote every waking hour to telling us that Islam was a religion of peace.
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But ever since the AP reported that in 2012, he gave a speech on behalf of a Texas-based military charity called Helping a Hero, charging them $100,000, and an additional $20,000 for the private jet ferrying him to and fro, I have begun to understand why he and Bill (ka-ching) Clinton seem to get along so well.
But ever since the AP reported that in 2012, he gave a speech on behalf of a Texas-based military charity called Helping a Hero, charging them $100,000, and an additional $20,000 for the private jet ferrying him to and fro, I have begun to understand why he and Bill (ka-ching) Clinton seem to get along so well.
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Lest you think he is really hard up financially, it seems that since leaving office in 2009, Bush has given at least 200 other speeches, earning him in excess of $30 million. That’s not counting the book deals.
Lest you think he is really hard up financially, it seems that since leaving office in 2009, Bush has given at least 200 other speeches, earning him in excess of $30 million. That’s not counting the book deals.
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♦ But that is the sort of nation we have become. Our ex-presidents, and some of their wives, seem to think they should be as rich as Midas.
♦ But that is the sort of nation we have become. Our ex-presidents, and some of their wives, seem to think they should be as rich as Midas.
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But perhaps we shouldn’t expect anything better. After all, if you take a long hard look at America, you’ll find that we have a website dedicated solely to adulterers looking to link up. The garbage pail known as the Internet is full of pedophiles buying and selling child pornography. And just about every day some outfit is sending me email promising to enhance my ------.
But perhaps we shouldn’t expect anything better. After all, if you take a long hard look at America, you’ll find that we have a website dedicated solely to adulterers looking to link up. The garbage pail known as the Internet is full of pedophiles buying and selling child pornography. And just about every day some outfit is sending me email promising to enhance my ------.
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We have devolved from a once-great nation to an open sewer without borders, a functioning military, and a Constitution that’s treated like toilet paper by the president and five members of the Supreme Court.
We have devolved from a once-great nation to an open sewer without borders, a functioning military, and a Constitution that’s treated like toilet paper by the president and five members of the Supreme Court.
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Sometimes, I swear, it’s only the hope of one day having an enhanced ----- that keeps me going.
Sometimes, I swear, it’s only the hope of one day having an enhanced ----- that keeps me going.
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By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist - texusa2016@gmail.com
Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
The truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties.
Seek the truth and expose the criminals that made America the enemy of humanity.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/04/13/washington-humanitys-worst-enemy-paul-craig-roberts/
Fellow Americans, our world can be at peace, if we respect the rights of our fellow Americans and others countries; we cannot continue being the world’s pirates who are motivated by greed and power to rob other countries of their natural resources and enslave Americans and humanity.
America has become the world’s bully, the Pirates that in partnership with the elite of the western world are waging a private warfare, a campaign of piracy and pillage against the world and the American people; they are criminals that plan and destroy any nation for economic gain. The world community must regard them as "hostis humani generis", the enemies of humanity. The head of these countries that are engage on the undermining of any legitimate elected government, or form or orchestrate any acts to gain the public support of the people of their country to invade or make wars with another country; must be arrest and prosecute as criminals against humanity.
Today and for the last decade, people are dying in the Middle East. Thousands more will die before the year is out; it doesn't matter that some are Palestinians, Israelis, Iraqis or Americans. It doesn't matter that some are soldiers or civilians; all are ordinary people who want to live their lives in peace, but all are victims of leaders such as George Bush, Obama, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, David Cameron, Chancellor Angela Merkel and many others who are puppets of a sinister force that uses war to murder and enslave mankind.
All wars are against humanity. For example, almost 60 million people died in the Second World War. The "leaders" on both sides were groomed and armed by the same sinister force. This force consists of the shareholders of the Federal Reserve and the European Central Banks, dynastic families that include the Warburgs, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Loebs, Lehmans, Morgans, Schiffs, Schroders, Harrimans and members of the European aristocracy. These people control much of the world's wealth but they want it all. The human race is one family. All wars are against humanity. The enemies were not Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden. It is the international financial elite, and their political puppets and news media “the propaganda machinery of the oligarchs war monger” that want control through the making of the one world order and the world’s economic blocks to control the world’s economic.
Let’s remind our political puppets and the media actors that we know they are reading from a fascist NW0 script and let's learn from other countries to respect our culture, religion and ideologies and most important the sovereignty of all countries of the world. Peace and prosperity will come to the world community by eliminating wars and replace it by economic cooperation and love for humanity. Wars are evil, all wars are designed to advance the financial interests of the elite and to control and enslave the civilian population. The human race is one family. All wars are against humanity. The enemy was not Saddam Hussein, Moammar Kadafi, Bashar al-Assad or Osama bin Laden. It is the international financial elite, and their political and media corrupt puppets.
George W. Bush and Tony L. Blair are war criminals.
It is a crime in the US to tell the truth.
US history of crimes against Humanity.
http://www.the-philosopher.co.uk/whocares/popups/warcrimes.htm
US President and their crimes against Humanity.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16590_6-great-us-presidents-their-crimes-against-humanity.html
Prosecute US criminals against humanity
http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com/
The Fall of America and the Western World
https://archive.org/details/TheFallOfAmericaAndTheWesternWorld-UnderstandingAndSurvivingThe
The American Testimony
This site obviously supports a black named carson and probably includes a lot of leftists who supported a black named obama. They do not represent the white majority in America and are part of the "republican party" that works as a stooge of the democrats. Look at such phonies as "republican" orin hatch and the two Tenneesse senators. This is a cultural war and every group such as "tea Party Command Center" must be investigated to see if they are agent provocateurs.
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“The instrument by which [the government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!” —Alexander Hamilton, Tully, No. 3, 1794
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Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Dies in Senate
The Senate’s vote to defund Planned Parenthood seemed to be more about political optics than actually casting votes for the right thing. A bill that would have halted $500 million in annual federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood died when a procedural vote that required 60 votes fell short by seven. This raises questions: How serious are the Senate Republicans in protecting the lives of the unborn? Some GOP senators see this vote as testing the waters, possibly for a political cage fight come fall if the GOP gets enough backbone to attach a PP defunding measure to a spending bill and risk another government shutdown. Commentators like Leon H. Wolf see this vote as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cowing to the slightest political pressure. By allowing the bill cosponsored by 45 Republicans to die on a procedure vote, McConnell allowed the status quo to remain and a handful of lawmakers were able to vote in a way that would please their constituencies. Meanwhile, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal canceled the contract between Planned Parenthood and Louisiana. Yes, changing the nation’s policy takes time — and the Center for Medical Progress has many more videos to prompt debate — but when the time comes for political courage, will McConnell’s Senate rise to the occasion?
CORRECTION: In Monday’s Digest we inadvertently posted unedited notes in a Hook, rather than the finished analysis. The corrected content is here: Allen West: Navy to Prosecute White.
Bad Leadership Sours DHS Immigration Program
At the beginning of July, the Obama administration started its Priority Enforcement Program, a new approach to how the administration enforces the immigration laws, but it’s soured by DHS’s past immigration enforcement track record. It’s a failure in leadership: Local law enforcement and even groups that would have supported Obama’s immigration policies don’t trust his new enforcement effort. The supervising attorney for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Angie Junck, told The Washington Post, “We see this as DHS kind of rebranding to rebuild the trust they lost with a lot of local law enforcement agencies. We are very concerned that it will repeat the mistakes of the past.” Does anybody gladly work with Obama on anything any more? He’s lost so much trust. No wonder so many cities decided to go it alone and declare themselves sanctuary cities. Home rule is better than rule from a capricious federal government that is rewriting immigration law on the fly by “prioritizing” certain types of deportations. The Obama administration has exacerbated the problems with immigration by destroying the cooperation and trust between levels of government.
Seattle CEO Experiences Fallout of $70K Minimum Wage
A Seattle CEO is learning firsthand the predictable outcomes that accompany minimum wage hikes. Dan Price, who heads Gravity Payments, a credit card processing firm, became an instant celebrity when he announced earlier this year that none of his 120 employees would earn less than $70,000 a year. In fact, he slashed his own salary of $1 million down to $70,000 to level the playing field. It was a kindhearted move, to be sure, but the ensuing months demonstrated the reality that such a minimum wage has far-reaching repercussions. According to former Gravity Financial Manager Maisey McMaster, Price “gave raises to people who have the least skills and are the least equipped to do the job, and the ones who were taking on the most didn’t get much of a bump.” The result? Two prominent-turned-disgruntled employees, including McMaster, called it quits. The other one, Grant Moran, intoned a similar frustration: “Now the people who were just clocking in and out were making the same as me. It shackles high performers to less motivated team members.” On top of that, The New York Times reports, “[A] few customers, dismayed by what they viewed as a political statement, withdrew their business. Others, anticipating a fee increase — despite repeated assurances to the contrary — also left.” And while Gravity Payments won the hearts of other business owners, “those accounts will not start paying off for at least another year,” the Times added. “To handle the flood, [Price] has already had to hire a dozen additional employees — now at a significantly higher cost — and is struggling to figure out whether more are needed without knowing for certain how long the bonanza will last.”
But the drama doesn’t end there. Gravity Payments co-founder Lucas Price, the brother of Dan, is suing the company, which is adding substantial legal costs. Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw put it best: “I’m sure Mr. Price is a very nice man and he clearly cares about people in general. But his move to push his generous nature into his business model is returning precisely the sort of results which the free market predicts.” The lesson here? Good intentions don’t always make for good policy.
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Obama’s Clean Power Plan Is Costly Political Theater
By Paul Albaugh
On Monday, Barack Obama announced new rules for his long-dreaded Clean Power Plan. This past spring, we warned that Obama’s agenda to combat global warming would be finalized during the hottest days of summer. As with almost every other agenda under Obama, it’s even worse than expected — and all to prevent warming of 0.01 degrees Celsius.
Winston Churchill once said, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” And make no mistake: Obama’s plan has little or nothing to do with climate and everything to do with his social justice worldview, in which he wants to handicap the U.S. ostensibly to the benefit of the rest of the world.
Obama was originally set to unveil his new rules outside of the White House. However, due to the sweltering heat, he chose to move the announcement inside. Naturally, Leftmedia talkingheads couldn’t pass on the opportunity to blubber that “Mother Nature … was making his point for him.” But newsflash: It’s always hot in August. Clearly, the central planners were aiming for a bit of theatrics.
As for the details, according to The Wall Street Journal, the new rule “would require a 32% cut in power-plant carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 from 2005 levels, an increase from the 30% target proposed last year.” According to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the estimated annual cost by 2030 will be $8.4 billion. But keep in mind that government estimates are always low.
The new regulations will require states to create a plan to reduce power-plant emissions in order to reach the nationwide carbon reduction target. The state compliance plans are supposed to be completed by 2018, and states should reach their first targets for reduction by 2022. If a state doesn’t comply, then it will be forced by the EPA to adopt a federal plan.
The Journal further notes, “The final rule calls for the nation to get 28% of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030, versus roughly 13% last year. Industry experts say cutting carbon emissions 32% by 2030 will require billions of dollars in investments for new transmission lines that accommodate more solar and wind power and new pipelines to feed natural-gas-fired power plants, as coal becomes less important as a fuel.”
However, new pipelines for natural gas won’t be necessary. Obama has called natural gas a “bridge fuel” and has hailed its use as a way for the nation to move away from coal in the quest toward renewable energy. But the final version of Obama’s plan does not increase the use of natural gas; it maintains current levels. So he’s slamming the door shut on coal, and, while he’s at it, stopping the expansion of the use of natural gas. Obama’s leaving no room for more jobs to be created in the private sector.
But hey, since there will be new regulations to enforce, the EPA will need more manpower. Indeed, Obama’s EPA announced that it will hire an additional 800 new regulators. Obviously, 15,000 EPA workers aren’t enough to enforce the proposed regulations. It just shows how much Obama cares about creating jobs, right? Washington jobs, that is, which by the way will assist in putting private sector companies out of business for not complying with EPA demands. This is not quite what we would call the American Dream.
Neither is the cost of complying with the EPA’s proposal. Obama once admitted that, under his plan, energy prices would necessarily skyrocket. A study by the Energy Information Administration confirms that’s exactly what’s happening. If Obama’s plan is implemented, electricity prices will rise on average 4%, though some higher estimates predict increases of 12%-17%. Regardless, Americans will pay more, which doesn’t bode well for those struggling to make ends meet.
Yet the issue of climate change is more important to Obama than those struggling today. He wants it to be part of his legacy of fundamentally transforming America. Ahead of the climate change summit in Paris later this year, he wants to be seen as leading the way on combating emissions. He wants to be seen as the leader who saved the planet from capitalism. In addition, as with all issues, he wants environmental stewardship to be a divisive political game.
Why is it that liberal elites in the Democratic Party are portrayed as the authorities on all things environment? Why is it that conservatives and members of the Republican Party are portrayed as anti-science deniers, as haters of the environment, as if we delight in destroying the planet?
The short answer is that it gives an additional platform for Democrats. It provides an agenda for more control over how we live our lives. It becomes a wedge issue to drive votes in elections. And it pits state sovereignty against federal authority.
Fortunately, at least for now, many state governments have resisted the EPA power plan and Obama’s climate change agenda. Many state governments have insisted they will not comply, as it will ruin their economies. The issue will likely make it to the courts, and we hope the Supreme Court will rebuke the EPA once again, as it did in Michigan v. EPA. Liberty depends on reigning in the EPA, not emissions.
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Thomas Sowell: “Many Republican voters are so disgusted with their party, especially over its repeated betrayals of them, and of the country, especially when it comes to immigration, that they are immediately attracted to anyone who voices the outrage they feel. Donald Trump has turned this opening phase of the 2016 primaries into The Donald Trump Show. All of this might be very entertaining, if this were not a crucial juncture in the history of the country and of the world. But, while all this political theater is going on, the world’s leading promoter of international terrorism — Iran — has gotten a ‘deal’ that all but guarantees that they will have nuclear bombs and, not just incidentally, intercontinental missiles to deliver them. … We can only hope that, somewhere among the many Republican candidates, there is someone who can, as president, make the hard decisions and take the hard steps required to undo the utter disaster that looms ahead, as a result of Barack Obama’s feckless foreign policies. If ever there was a time to carefully sift through all the aspiring Republican candidates, in hopes of finding just one who might be up to the superhuman task ahead, in order to head off a nuclear catastrophe, this is surely the time to look for a solid, wise and steadfast leader. A shoot-from-the-hip, bombastic show-off is the last thing we need or can afford.”
SHORT CUTS
Insight: “Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve … a budget surplus.” —John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Upright: “[A] deep-rooted culture of incompetence and corruption has made it virtually impossible for government to function fairly and efficiently. And because most government employees are shielded by layers of protection, they couldn’t care less. Never before in the history of this nation has there been a greater divide between a self-serving federal leviathan and millions of Americans… ‘Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,’ Ronald Reagan reminded us during his inaugural address in 1981. Nothing’s changed since then, with one exception: It’s gotten far worse.” —Arnold Ahlert
Demo-gogues: “We only get one home. We only get one planet. There is no plan B. I don’t want my grandkids to not be able to swim in Hawaii, or not to be able to climb a mountain and see a glacier, because we didn’t do something about it.” —Barack Obama
Non Compos Mentis: “The Koran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says, retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain. Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breaths of those whose children have been slain. So if the federal government will not intercede in [the] affairs [of black Americans], then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.” —Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan
The BIG lie: “This was a three-year effort by this fake group [Center for Medical Progress] to try to entrap doctors, and then splice and edit videos to make it look like they were doing something wrong, which they were not. … I think it’s really important to understand that [Congress' effort to defund Planned Parenthood] is about denying women access to health care in this country.” —Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards (Leave it to Ms. Richards to accuse CMP of splicing…)
And last… “Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer provoked world outrage for luring the popular Cecil the Lion off his African game preserve with a dead animal and then shooting him dead and beheading him. The entire world was horrified. It’s got ISIS seriously re-thinking their decision to take on white people.” —Argus Hamilton
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Featuring:
Desperate Dems Recycle
Planned Parenthood's Mammogram Lie
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"Know who you are standing with"
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Lessons From the 50th of Medicare and Medicaid 
Massive unfunded debt is not what the progressive politicians who created Medicare and Medicaid 50 years ago this week told the country their programs would bring. The "Great Society" was supposed to banish poverty from the land while providing care for the elderly and disabled. Today, over a third of the U.S. population is on Medicare and Medicaid, and federal spending has a tendency to be sucked into the programs' gaping maws. Today, more than quarter of every dollar the federal government spends goes to the two programs. They are also the biggest expense for state governments. But for all that spending, the programs' trust fund is on track to run out of money in 15 years. Meanwhile, the Baby Boomer generation is signing up in droves, and $60 billion is lost every year to waste and fraud. This is not what the programs' architects wanted Americans to think would happen. Fifty years ago, they estimated the programs would cost $12 billion in 1990, but it actually cost the government $90 billion. Another government program, now five years old, also promised to trim health care costs through more government intrusion and regulation. Just wait until nObamaCare turns 10, much less 50.
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Clickbait Crap on the Chattanooga Attack
Dear Allen West, stop the viral clickbait crap! In our commentary regarding the Islamist assault in Chattanooga on July 16, which cost four Marines and one Navy Petty Officer their lives, we noted that our sources advised there were at least two personal weapons belonging to military personnel recovered at the Reserve Center.
We also berated the restrictions against such weapons at thousands of similar facilities and recruiting stations, where there are no security personnel. However, we also noted that if any military personnel were in possession of personal weapons, that would be a UCMJ violation and by law, Navy JAG will be obligated to review this case. JAG should not be condemned for doing just that.
Indeed, Lt. Cmdr. Tim White confirmed that he was in possession of a personal weapon and did return fire — either suppression cover fire to allow his personnel to take cover, or perhaps he fired directly at the assailant.
Again, by law, this would be subject to review — and that has been understood from the moment personal weapons were recovered, despite the fact they were used for self-defense. In the absence of those weapons, there may have been many more casualties. There are a number of ways White can be absolved — clearly many bases were on elevated security status at the time of the attack, and maybe he can be credited with taking personal initiative in this case. Perhaps he has a legal carry permit in Tennessee and JAG can dismiss further action on that basis.
Unfortunately, my colleague Allen West has taken it upon himself to short circuit that review — knowing full well the review will have to take place. West has trumpeted what we all already knew! Obviously there is a constitutional obligation to review this case. West distributed an email claiming insider information that the Navy was going to prosecute White — typical of the viral clickbait claims too often circulated among some conservative quarters. In fact, West's sensationalist claim could create more problems for White than it solves.
Contrary to West's assertions, the Navy has released a statement indicating that they have not charged White, have not prepared charges against White, and are a long way from making any such determination about this tragedy. -The Patriot Post
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Did Garland Jihadist Get a Gun Through Fast and Furious?
When Nadir Soofi attacked the Muhammad art show in Garland, Texas, he may have used a gun the federal government allowed to walk into his hands as part of the infamous Fast and Furious sting. Eric Holder's Justice Department let American guns float into the hands of Mexican cartels in hopes of tracking the guns through their serial numbers. Instead of an effective crackdown on organized crime, however, the DOJ has the blood of hundreds of Mexicans and at least two American agents on its hands. In 2010, the Islamic terrorist bought a 9mm handgun at Lone Wolf Trading Co. (ironic name, no?), one of the businesses where the ATF was running the sting. While Soofi said he wanted the gun to protect his pizza restaurant, he had a previous criminal record. The Feds placed Soofi's purchase on a seven-day hold, but mysteriously the hold was cleared after 24-hours. The FBI has not released the serial numbers of the weapons Soofi used. In July, Barack nObama told an interviewer, "One area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws." Here's a common-sense idea: Uphold the laws that, when enforced, keeps guns out of the hands of criminals and terrorists. Meanwhile, to date, no one has been held to account for Fast and Furious.
-The Patriot Post
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What's the Difference Between a Democrat and a Socialist?
It may only happen once in a blue moon, but MSNBC's Chris Matthews asked a good question. Speaking with DNC Chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Matthews wanted to know if Bernie Sanders, a self-declared Socialist, would get a prime speaking slot at the Democrat Convention when he loses the nomination to Hilly Clinton. Schultz said he would, which surprised Matthews. "What's the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist?" he asked. "I used to think there was a big difference. What do you think it is?" All Wasserman Schultz could do is spin it to the question she wanted to answer — the difference between Democrats and Republicans. (And even that boiled down to "Democrats love everyone, but Republicans hate everything.") She couldn't answer because there is no difference between Democrats and Socialists. As American author Upton Sinclair wrote in 1951 to perennial Socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas, "The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label." That's why Democrats have adopted the platform but not the name, and it's why the question left Wasserman Schultz stammering. -The Patriot Post
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The bold, untold way to fix Washington 'monstrosity'
{Bob Unruh} ~ The Washington elite in recent weeks have destroyed traditional marriage across America, have redefined English words to save nObamacare, have proposed regulations... that could put your backyard under inspections by the EPA, have pulled off a deal critics say will grant the rogue Islamists in Iran nuclear weapons and more. Too much more even to list. How would you like to see a process to reverse those decisions? To TELL Washington what i’s actually going to do. Think that’s an impossible dream? Just check out Article 5. Officials with Convention of States, a project of the Citizens for Self-Government, say the U.S. Constitution already provides a solution that gives citizens of the U.S. a way to bypass Congress, decide what direction the nation to go and then announce marching orders.
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Who Is Destroying the Palestinian Dream?
{Khaled Abu Toameh} ~ The Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, which Palestinians hope will one day become part of a future Palestinian state, is quickly sliding toward anarchy and chaos... Since its violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007, Hamas has maintained a tight grip on the area, home to some 1.7 million Palestinians. But now Hamas's totalitarian rule over the Gaza Strip seems to be nearing its end, as the Islamist movement faces increased challenges from various militias and groups in the area. Some of Hamas's rivals belong to more radical terror groups such as the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda-affiliated militias created by salafi-jihadis inside the Gaza Strip. Others belong to the secular Fatah faction, whose members continue to dream of the day when they will be able to topple the Hamas regime and regain control over the Gaza Strip. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6214/palestinian-dream
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How We Got Into Such a Bad Nuclear Deal with Iran
{Lt. Col. James G. Zumwalt} ~ Last week, Congress kicked off hearings for its 60-day review of President Barack nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Despite Administration assurances-given even before the agreement was concluded-Congress would have this review time... nObama rushed the deal to judgment at the U.N. to bind the U.S. internationally before congressional review could be undertaken. The chief negotiator of an agreement that abandons America’s seven decade-long policy of non-proliferation and violates nObama’s numerous promises to block a nuclear-armed Iran is Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry. In addition to playing the U.N. card, hanoi Kerry is playing the war card with Congress. Both cards seek to hide the real deal. Congressional review needs to include examining the historical context of how we got into negotiating such a bad one. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/how-we-got-into-such-a-bad-nuclear-deal-with-iran/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email073115&utm_medium=email
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Hilly Clinton’s Lawyer has her Classified Emails on a Thumb Drive
{Frank Camp} ~ On Friday, the Clinton campaign released a cache of tax records going back to 2007, as well as a letter from Hilly Clinton’s doctor, saying she’s perfectly healthy. Almost simultaneously, yet another round of Clinton emails were released by the State Department... Fox News reports that 37 of the emails were at least partially redacted in the interest of national security. “Under 18 USC 1924 the unlawful removal and storage of classified information is described as when a person ‘knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location.’ The law sets punishment of a fine or prison term of ‘not more than one year.'” Is the thumb drive in violation of the law? Clinton defenders are saying that Clinton’s attorney has a security clearance, and has been briefed in the proper methods of handling classified material. Detractors are crying foul, and calling the backup copy comparable to Petraeus’ black notebooks. Why didn't Hilly give all of her email to the State Depart rather securty issues to her attorney. Something smells fishy here. http://www.ijreview.com/2015/08/382740-hillary-clinton-prosecuted-simple-thumb-drive/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=morning-newsletter
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Hilly’s Transparency Problem
{David Freddoso} ~ Arguably the most famous story about Winston Churchill’s wit pertains to an exchange he had with an outspoken Labour MP named Bessie Braddock... She berated him for being intoxicated: “Winston, you are drunk,” she said. “And what’s more, you are disgustingly drunk.” Churchill’s immortal reply: “My dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be disgustingly ugly.” here is some controversy as to whether this exchange actually occurred as described here, but either way it is now one of Churchill’s most famous quotations. It also describes the state of the two parties in U.S. politics at this moment.
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Climate Models Fail to Predict Actual Climate
{Leslie Eastman} ~ Environmental activists have relied heavily on computer models to predict climate patterns confirming their notion that mankind is toxic... However, recent studies have shown models have failed to consider real world conditions in their calculations. The new desert study concludes that more study is needed…of course. Many of the comments in the desert piece focus on the replacement of the technical name “carbon dioxide” with the word “carbon”. This switch is misleading, as the former co-founder of Greenpeace and climate scare-science skeptic, Dr. Patrick Moore, discusses in the following Prager University video: Moore derides climate models in an wonderful article for Heartland, and he asserts that human emissions have been beneficial: http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/08/climate-models-fail-to-predict-actual-climate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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nObama's effort to polish climate legacy faces battle from GOP
{Zack Colman} ~ President nObama wants his signature climate change regulation to be a hallmark of his White House legacy. But whether the rule, which will be finalized Monday, will remain intact won't be decided until after his presidency as Republicans and the energy industry try to kill it through legislation and the courts... For now, the emissions rules for power plants that nObama will announce at a Rose Garden ceremony Monday afternoon represents a high point for his presidency's environmental credentials. Environmental allies, who challenged nObama early in his presidency to act on the climate after a sweeping cap-and-trade bill collapsed in the Senate, quickly praised the effort, though some contended the regulation didn't go far enough considering the United States has met nearly half the final rule's goal of slashing electricity emissions nationwide 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The rest of the roughly 17 percent of emissions the U.S. power sector must cut to meet the mark will be met largely by imposing limits that will shift the power sector away from coal, which provides about 39 percent of the nation's electricity, and toward renewable energy and natural gas. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-effort-to-polish-climate-legacy-faces-battle-from-gop/article/2569443?custom_click=rss
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U.S. Banned Knowing Details of Iran Nuclear Inspection Agreement
{Adam Kredo} ~ Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the nuclear inspection organization is barred from revealing to the United States any details of deals... it has inked with Tehran to inspect its contested nuclear program going forward, according to regional reports. Recent disclosures by Iran indicate that the recently inked nuclear accord includes a series of side deals on critical inspections regimes that are neither public nor subject to review by the United States. Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador and permanent envoy to the IAEA, stated over the weekend that no country is permitted to know the details of future inspections conducted by the IAEA. In addition, no U.S. inspectors will be permitted to enter Iran’s nuclear sites. This is and one reason to vote against this deal with Iran. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-u-s-banned-from-knowing-details-of-iran-nuke-agreement/
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Disinfo Prep For Next Step In Invasion –“Refugee Release”
{rickwells.us} ~ Fidel Castro’s nephew, Jose “The Cyclops” Diaz-Balart, somehow just happened to land a position with the major Spanish Language network Telemundo as well as the nObama mouthpiece MSBNC... Those things don’t just happen. Recognizing the high probability that forces behind Castro, Mexico and nObama share common interests, the conversation that takes place in this interview can be viewed in better context. The presentation is not a news person interviewing an actual Congressman. This is a situation where two political operatives who are engaged in promoting the same agenda conduct a pretend interview as the means of presenting their propaganda in advance of the next stage of the invasion. Gutierrez represents illegals, not the people of Illinois, and Balart is an agitator for the Latino invasion. The goal appears to be to set the stage for more DHS illegality under the perpetual false pretense of humanitarian needs, this time the release of illegals being detained while they await phony refugee hearings. Gutierrez is supposedly lobbying the regime and has already visited a facility, arranging for the release of hundreds of invaders.
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Adm Ace Lyons: Reject Iran Deal then Impeach hanoi Kerry &nObama
{rickwells.us} ~ Retired Admiral Ace Lyons addressed the thousands in attendance at the “Stop Iran Now” Rally on July 22nd in New York City. Lyons delivered a no nonsense assessment of what has taken place in the nObama regime’s dealings with Iran... and offers some equally direct suggestions as to what now needs to happen. Lyons opens by saying, “Never in my lifetime did I believe I would witness this great country of ours being taken down and withdrawn from our world leadership by our own administration; unbelievable. And when it comes to Iran, I’ve been chasing those guys for over thirty-five years.” He goes on to describe the many times he “had the planes loaded” to wipe them out, but each time, regardless of whether there was a Republican or Democrat in the White House, they all failed. Lyons said, “They failed because we were sabotaged from within.” He includes the current Iran agreement in that number, saying, “This agreement is another example of sabotage from within. It is a total sellout. Of course, that doesn’t bother the likes of Secretary hanoi Kerry because this is the second time he’s sold out his country.”
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Desperate Dems Recycle
Planned Parenthood's Mammogram Lie
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As more graphic, money-grubbing undercover videos of Planned Parenthood's for-profit aborted baby parts racket emerge thanks to the investigative work of the Center for Medical Progress, desperate Democrats are in full deflection mode. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell defended federal funding for Planned Parenthood this week by invoking the women's health shield. "What I think is important is that our HHS funding is focused on issues of preventative care for women, things like mammograms," Burwell told the House Education and Workforce Committee.
As more graphic, money-grubbing undercover videos of Planned Parenthood's for-profit aborted baby parts racket emerge thanks to the investigative work of the Center for Medical Progress, desperate Democrats are in full deflection mode. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell defended federal funding for Planned Parenthood this week by invoking the women's health shield. "What I think is important is that our HHS funding is focused on issues of preventative care for women, things like mammograms," Burwell told the House Education and Workforce Committee.
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Just one teeny, tiny problem with this defense: It's a completely calculated fabrication.
Just one teeny, tiny problem with this defense: It's a completely calculated fabrication.
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The breast-cancer screening charade casts Planned Parenthood as a life-saving provider of vital health services unavailable anywhere else. You may recall that during the 2012 presidential cycle, nObama himself falsely claimed during a debate that the abortion provider administers mammograms to "millions" of women -- and liberal CNN moderator Candy Crowley let him get away with it.
The breast-cancer screening charade casts Planned Parenthood as a life-saving provider of vital health services unavailable anywhere else. You may recall that during the 2012 presidential cycle, nObama himself falsely claimed during a debate that the abortion provider administers mammograms to "millions" of women -- and liberal CNN moderator Candy Crowley let him get away with it.
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On cue, Hollywood activists Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington all attacked the GOP ticket for wanting to "end" funding for "cancer screenings" by cutting off government subsidies for Planned Parenthood's bloody billion-dollar abortion business. _The celebrities in the White House and Tinseltown took their script straight from Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services, who purported to speak for countless women for whom Planned Parenthood is "the only way" they can gain access to mammograms. __(If the name sounds familiar, Nucatola is the same wine-swishing Josephine Mengele who was exposed on tape by the Center for Medical Progress two weeks ago lolling through a business lunch negotiating payments for aborted baby parts.)
On cue, Hollywood activists Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington all attacked the GOP ticket for wanting to "end" funding for "cancer screenings" by cutting off government subsidies for Planned Parenthood's bloody billion-dollar abortion business. _The celebrities in the White House and Tinseltown took their script straight from Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services, who purported to speak for countless women for whom Planned Parenthood is "the only way" they can gain access to mammograms. __(If the name sounds familiar, Nucatola is the same wine-swishing Josephine Mengele who was exposed on tape by the Center for Medical Progress two weeks ago lolling through a business lunch negotiating payments for aborted baby parts.)
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Once again, it was undercover pro-life journalists who unmasked the truth.
Once again, it was undercover pro-life journalists who unmasked the truth.
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An investigation of 30 Planned Parenthood clinics in 27 different states, conducted by pro-life group Live Action, confirmed that the abortion provider does not perform breast-cancer screenings. "We don't provide those services whatsoever," a staffer at Planned Parenthood of Arizona confessed on tape.
An investigation of 30 Planned Parenthood clinics in 27 different states, conducted by pro-life group Live Action, confirmed that the abortion provider does not perform breast-cancer screenings. "We don't provide those services whatsoever," a staffer at Planned Parenthood of Arizona confessed on tape.
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Planned Parenthood's Comprehensive Health Center clinic in Overland Park, Kan., admitted: "We actually don't have a, um, mammogram machine at our clinics."
Planned Parenthood's Comprehensive Health Center clinic in Overland Park, Kan., admitted: "We actually don't have a, um, mammogram machine at our clinics."
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Even the liberal Washington Post doled out a three (out of four) Pinocchio rating for the White House's mammogram lies. "The problem here is that Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms or even possess the necessary equipment to do so," the paper's resident fact-checker reported. "As such, the organization certainly does not 'provide' mammograms in the strict sense. Instead, its clinics provide referrals and direct low-income women toward resources to help pay for the procedure. These services are by no means unique to Planned Parenthood. In fact, the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the American Cancer Society provide them, as well."
Even the liberal Washington Post doled out a three (out of four) Pinocchio rating for the White House's mammogram lies. "The problem here is that Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms or even possess the necessary equipment to do so," the paper's resident fact-checker reported. "As such, the organization certainly does not 'provide' mammograms in the strict sense. Instead, its clinics provide referrals and direct low-income women toward resources to help pay for the procedure. These services are by no means unique to Planned Parenthood. In fact, the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the American Cancer Society provide them, as well."
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As I've pointed out previously, Planned Parenthood's purported "referral services" to outside mammogram facilities are negligible -- especially given the widespread availability of these and other free and low-cost breast and cervical cancer screening services across the country supported by both private and public grants.
As I've pointed out previously, Planned Parenthood's purported "referral services" to outside mammogram facilities are negligible -- especially given the widespread availability of these and other free and low-cost breast and cervical cancer screening services across the country supported by both private and public grants.
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Reluctant to do its job and just call out the president as an outright liar, The Washington Post fell short of giving nObama the full four-Pinocchio treatment for his Planned Parenthood mammogram propagandizing, but acknowledged that he has repeated the lies "too many times in one form or another for this to be considered just playing with words to generate a misleading impression."
Reluctant to do its job and just call out the president as an outright liar, The Washington Post fell short of giving nObama the full four-Pinocchio treatment for his Planned Parenthood mammogram propagandizing, but acknowledged that he has repeated the lies "too many times in one form or another for this to be considered just playing with words to generate a misleading impression."
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The nObama HHS apparently needs to be reminded of its own review exposing the mammography deception. In June 2012, the agency responded to a request for information about how many Planned Parenthood clinics were certified to operate mammogram facilities. "Our search did not find any documents pertinent to your request," HHS told the Alliance Defense Fund.
The nObama HHS apparently needs to be reminded of its own review exposing the mammography deception. In June 2012, the agency responded to a request for information about how many Planned Parenthood clinics were certified to operate mammogram facilities. "Our search did not find any documents pertinent to your request," HHS told the Alliance Defense Fund.
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Zip. Zilch. None. Nada.
Zip. Zilch. None. Nada.
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Pro-life investigative journalist Lila Rose of Live Action has it right: "It is an alarming dereliction of duty that the Secretary of Health and Human Services refuses to view investigative reports that clearly demonstrate that Planned Parenthood, who receives close to half a million taxpayer dollars a year from the federal government, is engaged in the selling and trafficking of aborted baby body parts for profit," she said this week. "Ms. Burwell should be investigating Planned Parenthood, not covering for them."
Pro-life investigative journalist Lila Rose of Live Action has it right: "It is an alarming dereliction of duty that the Secretary of Health and Human Services refuses to view investigative reports that clearly demonstrate that Planned Parenthood, who receives close to half a million taxpayer dollars a year from the federal government, is engaged in the selling and trafficking of aborted baby body parts for profit," she said this week. "Ms. Burwell should be investigating Planned Parenthood, not covering for them."
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Ladies, open your eyes and hearts. Watch the videos for yourselves. Get the facts. Unmask the lies. The cackling profiteers of Planned Parenthood don't care about your breasts. They're too busy putting price tags on the baby hearts, livers, lungs and limbs swirling around in bloody pie plates, stacked in their "research" labs, subsidized with your tax dollars and sold to the highest bidders. For "preventative care," of course.
Ladies, open your eyes and hearts. Watch the videos for yourselves. Get the facts. Unmask the lies. The cackling profiteers of Planned Parenthood don't care about your breasts. They're too busy putting price tags on the baby hearts, livers, lungs and limbs swirling around in bloody pie plates, stacked in their "research" labs, subsidized with your tax dollars and sold to the highest bidders. For "preventative care," of course.
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Malaysian mufti: “Islam is based on faith…Don’t make any remarks based on the intellect or logic”
August 4, 2015 10:52 am By Robert Spencer 21 Comments
All religions are based on faith, but Islam is more actively opposed to the intellect and reason than the others. Contrast, for example, these two statements, the first from Christianity’s holy book, and the second from Islam’s: “Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope […]
Cecil the Lion
“I Will Always Remember Where I Was When Cecil The Lion Was Killed”
August 4, 2015 10:17 am By Robert Spencer 13 Comments
This is the state of the world today. “I Will Always Remember Where I Was When Cecil The Lion Was Killed,” Duffel Blog, August 3, 2015 (thanks to David): The following is an op-ed written by “Mohammed,” a Syrian War Refugee. I am sorry it is taking me so long to post my outrage over […]
Khaled al-Mughrabi
Muslim cleric: Jews paid doctors to “create and spread diseases”
August 4, 2015 9:33 am By Robert Spencer 10 Comments
The idea that the Jews would scheme in this way is founded upon the Qur’an: “And they (the disbelievers) schemed, and Allah schemed (against them): and Allah is the best of schemers.” (3:54) “Jews paid doctors to ‘create and spread diseases’ according to Islamic lesson in Al-Aqsa Mosque,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, August […]
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Islam: Fastest Shrinking Religion in the World (Part 3)
August 4, 2015 5:43 am By Ibn Warraq 3 Comments
PART THREE: APOSTASY IN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES. The very notion of apostasy has vanished from the West, where one would talk of being a lapsed Catholic or non-practising Christian rather than an apostate. There are certainly no penal sanctions for converting from Christianity to any other religion. In Islamic countries, on the other hand, the issue […]
Afsor Ali
UK: Jihadi sentenced to 2 1/2 years released after 11 months
August 3, 2015 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer 18 Comments
“Sentencing, Judge Charles Wide QC told Ali he had made a ‘really determined attempt’ to evade justice. He said: ‘It is absolutely clear you are an extremist and you do support terrorism.’” Good thing he was released early. Maybe he can get a job in the Cameron government. “Extremist released: 31 months jail for terror […]
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Khamenei adviser: Inspectors’ “entry into our military sites is absolutely forbidden”
August 4, 2015 10:25 am By Robert Spencer 5 Comments
The Iran deal is an unmitigated disaster. Not only does it allow Iran to proceed with its nuclear program, but by the removal of economic sanctions, it finances that program. Obama has betrayed and endangered the entire free world. That is and will remain his true legacy. Note also Velayati’s threat to Israel, that key […]
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DHS warns: Jihadis could target airports, sensitive sites with drones
August 4, 2015 10:04 am By Robert Spencer 6 Comments
Not that the DHS called them “jihadis,” of course. The DHS appears to be very up on this threat from drones, but about who is operating them and why, and what their motives and goals are, they are completely in the dark, and willfully so. Consequently they will never be able to come up with […]
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Sweden: 30 grenade attacks in 6 months in Muslim-dominated Malmö
August 4, 2015 8:52 am By Nicolai Sennels 5 Comments
While the Swedish elite celebrates itself by calling the former Viking land a “humanitarian superpower” for letting in hundreds of thousands of Muslims within a handful of years, the country is falling apart. Recently there were four grenade explosions in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city and famous for its high percentage of Muslim citizens, in […]
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DHS chief: Don’t call it “Islamic extremism,” it has nothing to do with Islam
August 4, 2015 5:18 am By Robert Spencer 20 Comments
Johnson has said this before, on more than one occasion. And despite manifesting an abysmal ignorance of the contents of the Qur’an, Johnson claims to have read it, and that it reminds him of quintessential American values. More proof that he hasn’t really read it. Graham’s point is excellent: “Even more disturbing (and once again, […]
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No Jihad in Gaza, Says George Washington U’s Nathan Brown
August 3, 2015 3:22 pm By Andrew Harrod 15 Comments
Current Middle East Studies Association (MESA) president and George Washington University political science professor Nathan Brown downplayed Hamas’s long history of terrorism on July 23 at the anti-Israel Jerusalem Fund think tank in Washington, DC. He and others on a panel titled “Gaza in Context: Broader Implications in the Palestinian Plight” claimed that the Islamic supremacism of Hamas and, increasingly, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is […]
By Oscar Y. Harward
President Obama, Sec. of State, John Kerry, and their USA negotiating team may be allowing the most terrorist nation in the entire world, the State of Iran, to develop with the ability to use 'NUCLEAR’ bombs against any of their other enemy nations.
Each American ‘MUST’ understand what President Obama, Sec. of State, John Kerry, and every Senator on Capitol Hill who votes ‘AYE’ in approving the USA – Iran Nuclear bomb agreement.
President Obama, Secretary John Kerry, and Iranian officials within the State of Iran are attempting to deny, even our American leaders, from knowing some of the incidentals, ‘maybe deadly’ to the State of Israel, other American allies, and/or the USA itself, within this Agreement.
By: Craig Andresen and Diane Sori / Right Side Patriots on CPR Worldwide Media / www.cprworldwidemedia,net
“As long as we’ve got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we’ve got to fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you’ve also got a president who’s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way…Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.” – Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s 2013 words said during a speech at one of their events
Abortion is legal in this country with the right of a woman to have an abortion being upheld by the courts on the local, state, and federal levels. And that must be kept in mind by those on both sides of the abortion issue for while this is not an article on the moral or religious rights and wrongs of abortion, it is an article about how what should have remained a states issue now has become a federal issue as our taxpayer dollars are being used…and have been used since 1970…to aid Planned Parenthood in their performing of almost half a million abortions a year…of performing one-third of all U.S. abortions.
Planned Parenthood…America’s premier abortion mill…and the very group that actively lobbies against abstinence-only education in our nations public schools…has always had a somewhat dubious reputation as its founder, Margret Sanger, believed that blacks and the poor were “unfit” to reproduce…and basically founded it as a way to ‘eliminate’…if you will…the black race in America. Now bringing the word ‘dubious’ to a new level, Planned Parenthood is under the microscope…they claim…for just trying to help women who want to ‘donate’ fetal tissue for legitimate medical research. But nothing could be further from the truth as Planned Parenthood is being paid monies for the organs it takes from aborted babies…directly contradicting the very word they use…’donated’…meaning given for free.
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Banking on her - Fox News: “Donations to the Clinton Foundation by Swiss bank UBS increased tenfold after Hilly Clinton intervened to settle a dispute with the IRS early in her tenure as secretary of state… According to the Wall Street Journal, total donations by UBS to the foundation grew from less than $60,000 at the end of 2008 to approximately $600,000 by the end of 2014. The Journal reports that the bank also lent $32 million through entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs it launched in association with the foundation, while paying former President Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of corporate question-and-answer sessions with UBS Chief Executive Bob McCann.”
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Hilly handler turns in some emails - Politico: “Long-time Hilly Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines handed the State Department 20 boxes of work-related emails taken in part from a personal email account, State officials said Wednesday, calling into question the extent to which top aides to the former secretary of state also engaged in controversial email practices. State Department top document official John Hackett, who heads Freedom of Information Act requests for the agency, told a federal judge in a court hearing…Reines sent over the document boxes with a cover letter, suggesting they contained a hodgepodge of work related items also mixed with personal messages.”
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The Judge’s Ruling: Getaway plan gone awry - Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano brings down his gavel on Hilly Clinton’s claim she did not send or receive classified data using her personal email account to task. “Why did she lie about all this? Because she thinks she can get away with it.” -Fox News
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nObama 'Recovery' Even Worse Than Thought
The status quo remains unchanged. Newly released figures from the Commerce Department show that in the second quarter — encompassing the months of April, May and June — the U.S. economy grew by just 2.3%, while first quarter growth was adjusted to 0.6%. No matter how you spin it, this isn't progress. In fact, GDP so far in 2015 trails 2014, a year that continued the trend of underperformance. But there was another interesting aspect to the report that is being largely ignored. "The second-quarter report is the first to include new methodology meant to make GDP more accurate," explains MarketWatch. "Over the past several years GDP has slightly underestimated growth in the first quarter and sharply overestimated growth in the third quarter, leading to big swings that confused Wall Street and Washington." After taking into account the new methodology, the results are even less stellar: "Under the new approach, the government has found that the U.S. economy grew somewhat slower from 2012 to 2014: An average of 2% a year instead of 2.3%. That means the slowest recovery since the end of World War II is even weaker than previously believed." The nObama "Recovery" was never as robust as this administration has consistently claimed, as further underscored by new government figures. Maybe that's why so many Millennials are living at home. -The Patriot Post
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By Popular Demand: Worthwhile Revisions to AP History Exam
Finally, some good news for a change. The College Board, the nonprofit organization that administers AP exams to high school students, has announced yet another revision to its history framework. But this time it's for the better. Previously, the College Board painted American history in far too negative a light, emphasizing our nation's sins while ignoring or minimizing its uniqueness and greatness. Some Founders, such as Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson and Constitution writer James Madison, were mentioned; that's it — mentioned. But they were taught as examples of Western class, gender and racial evil. And while teachers could choose to teach the Constitution as it's written, they would disadvantage their students by doing so because the real Constitution wasn't on the test. After numerous scholars objected in an open letter, however, the College Board worked to make revisions. Neglected Founders are back, and there's even a new section on the concept of "American exceptionalism." A College Board official insisted they meant no harm, and that American exceptionalism was previously omitted because they assumed they didn't need to spell it out. We don't buy it, and the changes don't go nearly far enough, but perhaps the episode proves that strong, principled voices on the Right can make a difference. -The Patriot Post
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Shocking Proof As To Why We Can No Longer Trust “Science”
{teapartybulletin.com} ~ The mainstream media has a problem with a lack of perspective. They only see their own one-sided, leftist, pie-in-the-sky, denial-of-reality view of the world... and this comes through in their “news” (if you can call it that) reporting. What many people don’t realize is that 90% of the news outlets are owned by a total of six corporations. That’s not a typo: six corporations. And you wonder why you hear the same stupid, mindless, unthinking schlock from them.
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Watergate architect: Hilly scandals 'much larger' than Nixon's
{wnd.com} ~ The chief operative of the infamous Plumbers unit inside the Nixon White House – the man who orchestrated the Watergate building break-in – says that Hilly Clinton’s many scandals are “much larger” that anything of which Richard Nixon was accused... “Bear in mind that nobody even caught a cold at the Watergate office building. But four devoted American citizens, including an ambassador, were left to die in Benghazi,” stated G. Gordon Liddy, the retired radio host, actor and bestselling author who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping for his role directing and organizing the Watergate break-in. The man at the center of the Watergate controversy, a political event whose namesake would go on to define future scandals for decades, Liddy sounded off on a myriad of alleged Clinton misdeeds, including her role in Benghazi as well as the latest events surrounding “email-gate.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/watergate-architect-hillary-scandals-much-larger-than-nixons/
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MSNBC Guest: Hilly ‘Will Die A Death Of A Thousand Cuts’
{Christian Datoc} ~ Former SC Democratic party chair Dick Harpootlian told MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki Sunday Vice President loose lips Joe Biden’s consideration of a presidential run actually gives Democrats the best chance of retaining the White House in 2016... Harpootlian said Hilly Clinton’s track record will cause her and the Democrats to “die a death of a thousand cuts,” yet loose lips Biden is “an inspirational figure” that voters can rally around.
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Majority of House Backs Resolution to Kill Iran Deal
{Adam Kredo} ~ A majority of House lawmakers now support a resolution to reject the recently signed nuclear agreement with Iran... marking another blow to the White House’s aggressive push to convince Congress to back the deal, according to sources on Capitol Hill. At least 218 Republican lawmakers have signed on to support a resolution expressing “firm disapproval” of the nuclear deal, which would provide Iran with billions of dollars in sanctions relief while enabling it to continue work on ballistic missiles and other nuclear research. The measure, which is being led by Rep. Peter Roskam (R., Ill) and was first reported by theWashington Free Beacon, comes as Congress takes 60 days to review the deal before voting on it. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/majority-of-house-backs-resolution-to-kill-iran-deal/
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‘No Meaningful Degradation’ In Islamic State Force...
{Morgan Chalfant} ~ The Associated Press reported: The military campaign has prevented Iraq’s collapse and put the Islamic State under increasing pressure in northern Syria, particularly squeezing its self-proclaimed capital in Raqqa... But intelligence analysts see the overall situation as a strategic stalemate: The Islamic State remains a well-funded extremist army able to replenish its ranks with foreign jihadis as quickly as the U.S. can eliminate them. Meanwhile, the group has expanded to other countries, including Libya, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Afghanistan. An unnamed defense official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, admitted that U.S. intelligence has “seen no meaningful degradation in their numbers.” http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-defense-official-no-meaningful-degradation-in-islamic-state-force-from-obama-bomb-campaign/
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Calif. Bill Will Ban Business Hierarchy – All “Just Comrades”...
{rickwells.us} ~ There is no limit to the idiocy of the majority of Californians, those identified as Democrats and their legislative representatives. Their unbridled Marxism may have finally reached the tipping point... that of chaos ruling the day and the complete and total destruction of the systems which are critical to the operation of an economic sector. The time may have arrived in which California now chooses to surrender to the inevitable, to get it over with, to go ahead and embrace their unavoidable self-destruction. According to an article at Townhall.com, the treatment-deprived mental patients of the California Legislature are debating a bill which has already passed through committee mandating the elimination of the critical hierarchy within companies of ten or more persons. Far from being the next step in equal rights, this bill will be the next step in relocation for most businesses which understand that chaos is not a workable business structure. It is fortunate for most Americans that we don’t live in their Marxist hellhole, which will soon become the unemployment capital of the United States. The unfortunate reality is that this anti-worker bill will create a mass exodus of Californians into the states where normal people reside, bringing their inevitable contamination with them.
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Retired General: Some in Military Want to 'Take Out the President'
{Alex Seitz-Wald} ~ A former top general and current executive at the Family Research Council says members of the military have considered staging a coup d’état against president, but will not because of civilian control of the military... “People I’ve spoken to would like to see the military ‘fulfill their constitutional duty and take out the president,’ ” retired Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin told World Net Daily, a website best known for pushing Obama “birther” conspiracy theories. “Our Constitution puts a civilian in charge of the military and as a result a coup would not be constitutional. You’re not going to see a coup in the military.” “I talk to a lot of folks who don’t support where Obama is taking the military, but in the military they can’t say anything,” Boykin said. http://www.govexec.com/defense/2013/11/retired-general-some-military-want-take-out-president/73133/
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nObama to Unveil Biggest Step Ever' in Climate Fight
{news.discovery.com} ~ President Barack nObama will Monday unveil what he called the “biggest, most important step we’ve ever taken” to fight climate change, a sensitive issue central to his legacy... The White House will release the final version of America’s Clean Power Plan, a set of environmental rules and regulations that will home in on the pollution from the nation’s power plants, setting limits on power-plant carbon emissions. Laying out how climate change was a threat to the health, well being and security of millions of Americans, and adding that time was of the essence, nObama said in a video released early Sunday: “Climate change is not a problem for another generation. Not anymore.”
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nOBAMA GIVES ILLEGALS MASSIVE HEALTH-CARE PLAN
{Steve Peacock} ~ The level of health-care services provided to illegal aliens is about to get a huge boost from the nObama administration, which is hiring contractors to provide the equivalent of 5.5 million additional labor hours of treatment to detainees... U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, of the Department of Homeland Security did not provide an estimated cost of these support services over five years. It is leaving it up to vendors to propose how much it will cost. According to a solicitation for bids that WND discovered through routine database research, the purpose of this initiative is “to provide on-site medical staffing services to provide a continuum of health care services to ICE residents/detainees 24 hours a day, seven (7) days per week, and 365 calendar days per year” at various clinic sites. All of the treatment will come from workers who are screened to be politically correct. Where is Congress on this? Defund it.
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Democrat debates vanish: 6 scheduled, none in works
{wnd.com} ~ Is the Democratic National Committee dodging debates between its candidates this year?... In May, the DNC announced its plans to hold six primary debates which would be in “the fall of 2015.” Yet as the Republican candidates prepare to square off, there is pointed silence from the Democrats. “We’ve always believed that we would have a competitive primary process, and that debates would be an important part of that process,” said DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said during the springtime announcement of the half-dozen debates. “Our debate schedule will not only give Democratic voters multiple opportunities to size up the candidates for the nomination side-by-side, but will give all Americans a chance to see a unified Democratic vision of economic opportunity and progress – no matter whom our nominee may be.” In a lead story on the Drudge Report Sunday night, her promise has vanished as Democrats dodge a candidate showdown.
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nObama’s first hope was to reach a deal with his Iranian friends that would leave the Assad regime in place. But the Iranians blew him off.
nObama’s first hope was to reach a deal with his Iranian friends that would leave the Assad regime in place. But the Iranians blew him off.
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They know they don’t need a deal with nObama to secure their interests. nObama will continue to help them to maintain their power base in Syria though Hezbollah and the remains of the Assad regime without a deal.
They know they don’t need a deal with nObama to secure their interests. nObama will continue to help them to maintain their power base in Syria though Hezbollah and the remains of the Assad regime without a deal.
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Iran’s cold shoulder didn’t stop nObama. He moved on to his Sunni friend Turkish President Recep Erdogan.
Iran’s cold shoulder didn’t stop nObama. He moved on to his Sunni friend Turkish President Recep Erdogan.
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Like the Iranians, since the war broke out, Erdogan has played a central role in transforming what started out as a local uprising into a regional conflict between Sunni and Shiite jihadists.
Like the Iranians, since the war broke out, Erdogan has played a central role in transforming what started out as a local uprising into a regional conflict between Sunni and Shiite jihadists.
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With nObama’s full support, by late 2012 Erdogan had built an opposition dominated by his totalitarian allies in the Muslim Brotherhood.
With nObama’s full support, by late 2012 Erdogan had built an opposition dominated by his totalitarian allies in the Muslim Brotherhood.
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By mid-2013, Erdogan’s Muslim Brotherhood- led coalition was eclipsed by al-Qaida spinoffs. They also enjoyed Turkish support.
By mid-2013, Erdogan’s Muslim Brotherhood- led coalition was eclipsed by al-Qaida spinoffs. They also enjoyed Turkish support.
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And when last summer ISIS supplanted al-Qaida as the dominant Sunni jihadist force in Syria, it did so with Erdogan’s full backing. For the past 18 months, Turkey has been ISIS’s logistical, political and economic base.
And when last summer ISIS supplanted al-Qaida as the dominant Sunni jihadist force in Syria, it did so with Erdogan’s full backing. For the past 18 months, Turkey has been ISIS’s logistical, political and economic base.
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According to Brett McGurk, the State Department’s point man on ISIS, about 25,000 foreign fighters have joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq. All of them transited through Turkey.
According to Brett McGurk, the State Department’s point man on ISIS, about 25,000 foreign fighters have joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq. All of them transited through Turkey.
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Most of the antiquities that ISIS plunders in Iraq and Syria make their way to the world market through Turkey. So, too, most of the oil that ISIS produces in Syria and Iraq is smuggled out through Turkey. According to the US Treasury, ISIS has made $1 million-$4m. a day from oil revenue.
Most of the antiquities that ISIS plunders in Iraq and Syria make their way to the world market through Turkey. So, too, most of the oil that ISIS produces in Syria and Iraq is smuggled out through Turkey. According to the US Treasury, ISIS has made $1 million-$4m. a day from oil revenue.
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In May, US commandos in Syria assassinated Abu Sayyaf, ISIS’s chief money manager, and arrested his wife and seized numerous computers and flash drives from his home. According to a report in The Guardian published last week, the drives provided hard evidence of official Turkish economic collusion with ISIS.
In May, US commandos in Syria assassinated Abu Sayyaf, ISIS’s chief money manager, and arrested his wife and seized numerous computers and flash drives from his home. According to a report in The Guardian published last week, the drives provided hard evidence of official Turkish economic collusion with ISIS.
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Due to Turkish support, ISIS has become a self-financing terrorist group. With its revenue stream it is able to maintain a welfare state regime, attracting recruits from abroad and securing the loyalty of local Sunni militias and former Ba’athist forces.
Due to Turkish support, ISIS has become a self-financing terrorist group. With its revenue stream it is able to maintain a welfare state regime, attracting recruits from abroad and securing the loyalty of local Sunni militias and former Ba’athist forces.
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Some Western officials believed that after finding hard evidence of Turkish regime support for ISIS, NATO would finally change its relationship with Turkey. To a degree they were correct.
Some Western officials believed that after finding hard evidence of Turkish regime support for ISIS, NATO would finally change its relationship with Turkey. To a degree they were correct.
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Last week, nObama cut a deal with Erdogan that changes the West’s relationship with Erdogan.
Last week, nObama cut a deal with Erdogan that changes the West’s relationship with Erdogan.
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Instead of maintaining its current practice of balancing its support for Turkey with its support for the Kurds, under the agreement, the West ditches its support for the Kurds and transfers its support to Turkey exclusively.
Instead of maintaining its current practice of balancing its support for Turkey with its support for the Kurds, under the agreement, the West ditches its support for the Kurds and transfers its support to Turkey exclusively.
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The Kurdish peshmerga militias operating today in Iraq and Syria are the only military outfits making sustained progress in the war against ISIS. Since last October, the Kurds in Syria have liberated ISIS-controlled and -threatened areas along the Turkish border.
The Kurdish peshmerga militias operating today in Iraq and Syria are the only military outfits making sustained progress in the war against ISIS. Since last October, the Kurds in Syria have liberated ISIS-controlled and -threatened areas along the Turkish border.
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The YPG, the peshmerga militia in Syria, won its first major victory in January, when after a protracted, bloody battle, with US air support, it freed the Kurdish border town of Kobani from ISIS’s assault.
The YPG, the peshmerga militia in Syria, won its first major victory in January, when after a protracted, bloody battle, with US air support, it freed the Kurdish border town of Kobani from ISIS’s assault.
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In June, the YPG scored a strategic victory against ISIS by taking control of Tal Abyad. Tal Abyad controls the road connecting ISIS’s capital of Raqqa with Turkey. By capturing Tal Abyad, the Kurds cut Raqqa’s supply lines.
In June, the YPG scored a strategic victory against ISIS by taking control of Tal Abyad. Tal Abyad controls the road connecting ISIS’s capital of Raqqa with Turkey. By capturing Tal Abyad, the Kurds cut Raqqa’s supply lines.
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Last month, Time magazine reported that the Turks reacted with hysteria to Tal Abyad’s capture.
Last month, Time magazine reported that the Turks reacted with hysteria to Tal Abyad’s capture.
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Not only did the operation endanger Raqqa, it gave the Kurds territorial contiguity in Syria.
Not only did the operation endanger Raqqa, it gave the Kurds territorial contiguity in Syria.
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The YPG’s victories enhanced the Kurds’ standing among Western nations. Indeed, some British and American officials were quoted openly discussing the possibility of removing the PKK, the YPG’s Iraqi counterpart, from their official lists of terrorist organizations.
The YPG’s victories enhanced the Kurds’ standing among Western nations. Indeed, some British and American officials were quoted openly discussing the possibility of removing the PKK, the YPG’s Iraqi counterpart, from their official lists of terrorist organizations.
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The YPG’s victories similarly enhanced the Kurds’ standing inside Turkey itself. In the June elections to the Turkish parliament, the Kurdish HDP party won 12 percent of the vote nationally, and so blocked Erdogan’s AKP party from winning a parliamentary majority.
The YPG’s victories similarly enhanced the Kurds’ standing inside Turkey itself. In the June elections to the Turkish parliament, the Kurdish HDP party won 12 percent of the vote nationally, and so blocked Erdogan’s AKP party from winning a parliamentary majority.
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Without that majority Erdogan’s plan of reforming the constitution to transform Turkey into a presidential republic and secure his dictatorship for the long run has been jeopardized.
Without that majority Erdogan’s plan of reforming the constitution to transform Turkey into a presidential republic and secure his dictatorship for the long run has been jeopardized.
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As far as Erdogan was concerned, by the middle of July the Kurdish threat to his power had reached unacceptable levels.
As far as Erdogan was concerned, by the middle of July the Kurdish threat to his power had reached unacceptable levels.
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Then two weeks ago the deck was miraculously reshuffled.
Then two weeks ago the deck was miraculously reshuffled.
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On July 20, young Kurdish activists convened in Suduc, a Kurdish town on the Turkish side of the border, 6 kilometers from Kobani. A suicide bomber walked up to them, and detonated, massacring 32 people.
On July 20, young Kurdish activists convened in Suduc, a Kurdish town on the Turkish side of the border, 6 kilometers from Kobani. A suicide bomber walked up to them, and detonated, massacring 32 people.
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Turkish officials claim that the bomber was a Turkish Kurd, and a member of ISIS. But the Kurds didn’t buy that line. Last week, HDP lawmakers accused the regime of complicity with the bomber. And two days after the attack, militants from the PKK killed two Turkish policemen in a neighboring village, claiming that they collaborated with ISIS.
Turkish officials claim that the bomber was a Turkish Kurd, and a member of ISIS. But the Kurds didn’t buy that line. Last week, HDP lawmakers accused the regime of complicity with the bomber. And two days after the attack, militants from the PKK killed two Turkish policemen in a neighboring village, claiming that they collaborated with ISIS.
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At that point, Erdogan sprang into action.
At that point, Erdogan sprang into action.
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After refusing for months to work with NATO forces in their anti-ISIS operations, Erdogan announced he was entering the fray. He would begin targeting “terrorists” and allow the US air force to use two Turkish air bases for its anti-ISIS operations. In exchange, the US agreed to set up a “safe zone” in Syria along the Turkish border.
After refusing for months to work with NATO forces in their anti-ISIS operations, Erdogan announced he was entering the fray. He would begin targeting “terrorists” and allow the US air force to use two Turkish air bases for its anti-ISIS operations. In exchange, the US agreed to set up a “safe zone” in Syria along the Turkish border.
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Turkish officials were quick to explain that in targeting “terrorists,” the Turks would not distinguish between Kurdish terrorists and ISIS terrorists just because the former are fighting ISIS. Both, they insisted, are legitimate targets.
Turkish officials were quick to explain that in targeting “terrorists,” the Turks would not distinguish between Kurdish terrorists and ISIS terrorists just because the former are fighting ISIS. Both, they insisted, are legitimate targets.
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Erdogan closed his deal in a telephone call with nObama. And he immediately went into action.
Erdogan closed his deal in a telephone call with nObama. And he immediately went into action.
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Turkish forces began bombing terrorist targets and rounding up terrorist suspects. Although a few of the Turkish bombing runs have been directly against ISIS, the vast majority have targeted Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria.
Turkish forces began bombing terrorist targets and rounding up terrorist suspects. Although a few of the Turkish bombing runs have been directly against ISIS, the vast majority have targeted Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria.
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Moreover, for every suspected ISIS terrorist arrested by Turkish security forces, at least eight Kurds have been taken into custody.
Moreover, for every suspected ISIS terrorist arrested by Turkish security forces, at least eight Kurds have been taken into custody.
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Then, too, Erdogan has called on AKP lawmakers to begin criminalizing their counterparts from the HDP. Kurdish lawmakers, he urged them, must be stripped of their parliamentary immunity to enable their arrests.
Then, too, Erdogan has called on AKP lawmakers to begin criminalizing their counterparts from the HDP. Kurdish lawmakers, he urged them, must be stripped of their parliamentary immunity to enable their arrests.
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As Erdogan apparently sees things, by going to war against the Kurds, he will be able to reestablish the AKP’s parliamentary majority. Within a few weeks, if the AKP fails to form a governing coalition – and it will – then new elections will be held. The nationalists, who abandoned the AKP in June, will return to the party to reward Erdogan for fighting the Kurds.
As Erdogan apparently sees things, by going to war against the Kurds, he will be able to reestablish the AKP’s parliamentary majority. Within a few weeks, if the AKP fails to form a governing coalition – and it will – then new elections will be held. The nationalists, who abandoned the AKP in June, will return to the party to reward Erdogan for fighting the Kurds.
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As for that “safe area” in northern Syria, as the Kurds see it, Erdogan will use it to destroy Kurdish autonomy. He will flood the zone with Syrian Arab refugees who fled to Turkey, to dilute the Kurdish majority. And he will secure coalition support for the Sunni Arab militias – including those still affiliated with al-Qaida – which will be permitted by NATO to operate openly in the safe area.
As for that “safe area” in northern Syria, as the Kurds see it, Erdogan will use it to destroy Kurdish autonomy. He will flood the zone with Syrian Arab refugees who fled to Turkey, to dilute the Kurdish majority. And he will secure coalition support for the Sunni Arab militias – including those still affiliated with al-Qaida – which will be permitted by NATO to operate openly in the safe area.
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Already the Kurds are reporting that the US has stopped providing air support for their forces fighting ISIS in the border town of Jarablus. Those forces were bombed this week by Turkish F-16s.
Already the Kurds are reporting that the US has stopped providing air support for their forces fighting ISIS in the border town of Jarablus. Those forces were bombed this week by Turkish F-16s.
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For their part, despite Erdogan’s pledge to fight ISIS, his forces seem remarkable uninterested in rolling back ISIS achievements. The Turks have no plan for removing ISIS from its strongholds in Raqqa or Haskiyah.
For their part, despite Erdogan’s pledge to fight ISIS, his forces seem remarkable uninterested in rolling back ISIS achievements. The Turks have no plan for removing ISIS from its strongholds in Raqqa or Haskiyah.
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The nObama administration is presenting the deal with Turkey as yet another great achievement.
The nObama administration is presenting the deal with Turkey as yet another great achievement.
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In an interview with Charlie Rose on Tuesday, McGurk explained that the deal was a long time in the making. It began with a phone conversation between nObama and Erdogan last October and it ended with their phone call last week.
In an interview with Charlie Rose on Tuesday, McGurk explained that the deal was a long time in the making. It began with a phone conversation between nObama and Erdogan last October and it ended with their phone call last week.
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In October, nObama convinced Erdogan not to oppose US air support for the Kurds in Kobani and to enable the US to resupply YPG fighters in Kobani through Turkey. In the second, nObama agreed not to oppose Erdogan’s offensive against the Kurds.
In October, nObama convinced Erdogan not to oppose US air support for the Kurds in Kobani and to enable the US to resupply YPG fighters in Kobani through Turkey. In the second, nObama agreed not to oppose Erdogan’s offensive against the Kurds.
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Two years ago, in August 2013, the world held its breath awaiting US action in Syria. That month, after prolonged equivocation amidst mountains of evidence, the nObama administration was forced to acknowledge that Iran’s Syrian puppet Bashar Assad had crossed nObama’s self-declared redline and used chemical weapons against regime opponents, including civilians.
Two years ago, in August 2013, the world held its breath awaiting US action in Syria. That month, after prolonged equivocation amidst mountains of evidence, the nObama administration was forced to acknowledge that Iran’s Syrian puppet Bashar Assad had crossed nObama’s self-declared redline and used chemical weapons against regime opponents, including civilians.
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US forces assembled for battle. Everything looked ready to go, until just hours before US jets were scheduled to begin bombing regime targets, nObama canceled the operation. In so doing, he lost all deterrent power against Iran. He also lost all strategic credibility among America’s regional allies.
US forces assembled for battle. Everything looked ready to go, until just hours before US jets were scheduled to begin bombing regime targets, nObama canceled the operation. In so doing, he lost all deterrent power against Iran. He also lost all strategic credibility among America’s regional allies.
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To save face, nObama agreed to a Russian proposal to have international monitors remove Syria’s chemical weapons from the country.
To save face, nObama agreed to a Russian proposal to have international monitors remove Syria’s chemical weapons from the country.
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Last summer, the administration proudly announced that the mission had been completed.
Last summer, the administration proudly announced that the mission had been completed.
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UN chemical weapons monitors had removed Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal from the country, they proclaimed. It didn’t matter to either nObama or Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry that by that point Assad had resumed chemical assaults with chlorine-based bombs. Chlorine bombs weren’t chemical weapons, the Americans idiotically proclaimed.
UN chemical weapons monitors had removed Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal from the country, they proclaimed. It didn’t matter to either nObama or Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry that by that point Assad had resumed chemical assaults with chlorine-based bombs. Chlorine bombs weren’t chemical weapons, the Americans idiotically proclaimed.
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Then last week, the lie fell apart. The Wall Street Journal reported that according to US intelligence agencies, Assad not surrendered his chemical arsenal.
Then last week, the lie fell apart. The Wall Street Journal reported that according to US intelligence agencies, Assad not surrendered his chemical arsenal.
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Rather, he hid much of his chemical weaponry from the UN inspectors. He had even managed to retain the capacity to make chemical weapons – like chlorine-based bombs – after agreeing to part with his chemical arsenal.
Rather, he hid much of his chemical weaponry from the UN inspectors. He had even managed to retain the capacity to make chemical weapons – like chlorine-based bombs – after agreeing to part with his chemical arsenal.
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Assad was able to cheat, because just as the administration’s nuclear deal with the Iranians gives Iran control over which nuclear sites will be open to UN inspectors, and which will be off limits, so the chemical deal gave Assad control over what the inspectors would and would not be allowed to see. So, they saw only what he showed them.
Assad was able to cheat, because just as the administration’s nuclear deal with the Iranians gives Iran control over which nuclear sites will be open to UN inspectors, and which will be off limits, so the chemical deal gave Assad control over what the inspectors would and would not be allowed to see. So, they saw only what he showed them.
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nObama has gone full circle in concluding his deal with Erdogan. Since entering office, nObama has sought to cut deals with both the Sunni jihadists of the Muslim Brotherhood ilk and the Shi’ite jihadists of the Iranian ilk.
nObama has gone full circle in concluding his deal with Erdogan. Since entering office, nObama has sought to cut deals with both the Sunni jihadists of the Muslim Brotherhood ilk and the Shi’ite jihadists of the Iranian ilk.
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His chemical deal with Assad and his nuclear deal with the ayatollahs accomplished the latter goal, and did so at the expense of America’s Sunni Arab allies and Israel.
His chemical deal with Assad and his nuclear deal with the ayatollahs accomplished the latter goal, and did so at the expense of America’s Sunni Arab allies and Israel.
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His deal last week with Erdogan accomplishes the former goal, to the benefit of ISIS, and on the backs of America’s Kurdish allies.
His deal last week with Erdogan accomplishes the former goal, to the benefit of ISIS, and on the backs of America’s Kurdish allies.
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So that takes care of the Middle East. With 17 months left to go till nObama leave office, the time has apparently come for the British to begin to worry.
So that takes care of the Middle East. With 17 months left to go till nObama leave office, the time has apparently come for the British to begin to worry.
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The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Defeating the mortal enemies
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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Cincinnati Cop Caught Killing on Camera 
A Lesson in Picking Winnable Fights
University of Cincinnati police officer Raymond Tensing, 25, faces 15 years to life in prison for the murder of Samuel Dubose on July 19. His body camera caught the entire traffic stop on film. When Tensing ordered Dubose out of the car, Dubose instead started the car and began pulling away. Tensing yelled "Stop!" and drew his gun, firing a single round into the back of Dubose's head. Tensing later claimed he was being dragged by the car and he feared for his life. But Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters said, “He wasn’t dealing with someone who was wanted for murder. He was dealing with someone who didn’t have a front license plate. This was, in the vernacular, a pretty chicken-crap stop. ... I’m treating him like a murderer.”
There are undoubtedly cops who make terrible errors in judgment and abuse their power. Tensing appears to fall in this category, and we're glad he was wearing a body camera to prove it. That practice should become more common. The one caution we'd add is that even this video doesn't tell the whole story. Dubose had a lengthy record, though nothing violent, and he was not acting aggressively in this case. More important, every time a white officer kills a black man, leftists attempt to paint the entire law enforcement community with the same racist brush. Finally, on any given day in the U.S., there are 40 murders committed, frequently black on black. Who can name one? -The Patriot Post
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Intraparty disagreements are hardly unusual in Congress, but when bickering moves from behind closed doors to the House floor, news is made. And Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) captured headlines this week by filing a motion to “vacate” the speaker’s chair — occupied, of course, by bakcstabberJohn Boehner.
In the motion, Meadows says backstabber Boehner has attempted to “consolidate power and centralize decision-making, bypassing the majority of the 435 members of Congress and the people they represent.” In an interview with radio host Mark Levin, Meadows added that he hopes his “colleagues will see that there’s something inherently wrong with the leadership that we have and it’s time for a change."
It’s no secret backstabber Boehner doesn’t claim the title of conservative darling. This past January, House Republicans staged the largest defection from a sitting speaker in at least a century, with 25 members, including Meadows, voting for someone other than backstabber Boehner. And last month, 34 Republicans bucked backstabber Boehner by opposing the rule to bring Barack nObama’s trade bill to the floor. In retaliation, three of those members were kicked off the House whip team, and Meadows was given the option of resigning his subcommittee chairmanship or being demoted.
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IT’S A BLING THING: TRUMP AND HILLY TWO OF A KIND
They’re both mega-rich New Yorkers with famous hairdos and big baggage, but Donald Trump and Hilly Clinton have much more in common than that. They are both clear frontrunners for the political parties’ presidential nominations who are in the dumps with the general electorate.
A new national poll from Quinnipiac University says that Clinton’s lead among Democrats is smaller than in the spring, but she still trounces her closest competitor, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., by a stout 38 points. Her biggest worry for the primary run is the sudden bump in backing for Vice President loose lips Joe Biden, who is weighing a late-summer launch.
But compared to Trump’s perilous perch, Clinton is as solid as the octopus carpaccio at the 21 Club.
The Republican frontrunner continues to gobble up vote share from every candidate other than establishment fave Jeb Bush, who held steady from May with 10 percent, and Scott Walker, who actually managed to gain 3 points amid the Trumptation of the GOP to 13 percent and second place. The only other significant gain was Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who muscled his way into the pack at 5 percent.
And a closer look at Trump’s support tells us why his 7 point lead is so flimsy. While he is tops among self-described “very conservative” respondents, he is also number one with self-described “somewhat conservative” voters as well as moderates and liberals.
The good news for Trump is that he draws support from multiple channels, as opposed to a candidate like Walker who lags with liberals and moderates. Trump even draws responses from potential voters who otherwise wouldn’t take part in a GOP primary poll.
Quinnipiac doesn’t say if the ideological proportions shifted post-Trump, so we don’t know how much his arrival has changed the composition of the electorate The favorites among moderates and liberals prior to Trump’s name being added to the list were Marco Rubio and Chris Christie, who are now specks in the rearview mirror of Trump’s limo. So, some of Trump’s support among the middling-minded is no doubt at the expense of others.
But – and this is just a guess – Trump’s fame and bombast is bringing in people who normally wouldn’t vote in a Republican primary or identify themselves as primary voters to a telephone pollster. And history tells us that such voters are an unreliable bet come Election Day.
Clinton’s primary support, by comparison, is anything but unsettled. It’s downright stodgy. Democrats are coming to terms with Clinton, and she shows no signs of bringing new voters into the process. That’s bad in many ways, but good for predictable primary polling.
But those same polls tell us something very dangerous for Clinton: voters neither like nor trust her. And that’s where she and Trump go together like Cristal and a Hamptons clambake. She is seen by voters as neither honest nor trustworthy by 57 percent of voters while Trump cards an equally abysmal 56 percent.
By way of further comparison, Clinton trails loose lips Biden on honesty and trustworthiness among all voters by 21 points and by 11 points among Democrats. Woof.
Clinton’s unfavorability rating is only 8 points better than Trump’s 59 percent, but she does have stronger core support, which explains why the poll shows her beating him badly – 12 points – in a hypothetical general election matchup.
But, for the aforementioned reasons, Trump isn’t going to the big dance. So how does Clinton do against the contenders? She’s essentially tied with both Bush and Walker. That’s a particularly bad sign as it relates to Walker, given how much better known she is than the Wisconsin governor.
And here’s the kicker for Clinton: loose lips Biden does as well against Walker and Bush as Clinton. When Sheriff Joe sees those numbers, he might decide to saddle up after all. -Fox News
They’re both mega-rich New Yorkers with famous hairdos and big baggage, but Donald Trump and Hilly Clinton have much more in common than that. They are both clear frontrunners for the political parties’ presidential nominations who are in the dumps with the general electorate.
A new national poll from Quinnipiac University says that Clinton’s lead among Democrats is smaller than in the spring, but she still trounces her closest competitor, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., by a stout 38 points. Her biggest worry for the primary run is the sudden bump in backing for Vice President loose lips Joe Biden, who is weighing a late-summer launch.
But compared to Trump’s perilous perch, Clinton is as solid as the octopus carpaccio at the 21 Club.
The Republican frontrunner continues to gobble up vote share from every candidate other than establishment fave Jeb Bush, who held steady from May with 10 percent, and Scott Walker, who actually managed to gain 3 points amid the Trumptation of the GOP to 13 percent and second place. The only other significant gain was Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who muscled his way into the pack at 5 percent.
And a closer look at Trump’s support tells us why his 7 point lead is so flimsy. While he is tops among self-described “very conservative” respondents, he is also number one with self-described “somewhat conservative” voters as well as moderates and liberals.
The good news for Trump is that he draws support from multiple channels, as opposed to a candidate like Walker who lags with liberals and moderates. Trump even draws responses from potential voters who otherwise wouldn’t take part in a GOP primary poll.
Quinnipiac doesn’t say if the ideological proportions shifted post-Trump, so we don’t know how much his arrival has changed the composition of the electorate The favorites among moderates and liberals prior to Trump’s name being added to the list were Marco Rubio and Chris Christie, who are now specks in the rearview mirror of Trump’s limo. So, some of Trump’s support among the middling-minded is no doubt at the expense of others.
But – and this is just a guess – Trump’s fame and bombast is bringing in people who normally wouldn’t vote in a Republican primary or identify themselves as primary voters to a telephone pollster. And history tells us that such voters are an unreliable bet come Election Day.
Clinton’s primary support, by comparison, is anything but unsettled. It’s downright stodgy. Democrats are coming to terms with Clinton, and she shows no signs of bringing new voters into the process. That’s bad in many ways, but good for predictable primary polling.
But those same polls tell us something very dangerous for Clinton: voters neither like nor trust her. And that’s where she and Trump go together like Cristal and a Hamptons clambake. She is seen by voters as neither honest nor trustworthy by 57 percent of voters while Trump cards an equally abysmal 56 percent.
By way of further comparison, Clinton trails loose lips Biden on honesty and trustworthiness among all voters by 21 points and by 11 points among Democrats. Woof.
Clinton’s unfavorability rating is only 8 points better than Trump’s 59 percent, but she does have stronger core support, which explains why the poll shows her beating him badly – 12 points – in a hypothetical general election matchup.
But, for the aforementioned reasons, Trump isn’t going to the big dance. So how does Clinton do against the contenders? She’s essentially tied with both Bush and Walker. That’s a particularly bad sign as it relates to Walker, given how much better known she is than the Wisconsin governor.
And here’s the kicker for Clinton: loose lips Biden does as well against Walker and Bush as Clinton. When Sheriff Joe sees those numbers, he might decide to saddle up after all. -Fox News
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Intelligence Fears Hundreds Of U.S. Secrets Leaked In Hilly’s Emails
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ Hilly Clinton says that she did not have any classified information on her servers, but then intelligence inspectors general examined forty Hilly emails and found that four of them had info that was classified before she sent the... Now The U.S. intelligence community worried that former Secretary of State Hilly Rodham Clinton’s private email account contains hundreds of revelations of classified information from spy agencies and is taking steps to contain any damage to national security, according to documents and interviews reported by the Washington Times. A U.S. official directly familiar with the the case, who spoke to the Washington Times only on the condition of anonymity, said the notification of possibly hundreds of additional emails with classified secrets came from the State Department Freedom of Information Act office to the Office of Inspector General for the Director of National Intelligence.
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Russian War Plans to Nuke America
{Cliff Kincaid} ~ “The Russians have been preparing for a nuclear world war against the United States for a half a century or more,” geopolitical analyst Jeff Nyquist says... During an appearance on America’s Survival TV, Nyquist praised our top generals, including Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for publicly describing Russia as an “existential threat.” These warnings go against the official position of the nObama Administration. Nyquist also noted that Adm. William Gortney, who leads U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, had warned the Senate that the Russians are in the process of deploying long-range cruise missiles that can threaten our early warning radars and our ABM defenses in Alaska.
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nObama’s Disastrous Iran Deal
{Richard A. Epstein} ~ The deal struck between Iran and various world powers is more than just bad policy; it is a disaster waiting to happen... It will lead to the end of the Pax Americana by showing the United States' allies that we are not serious about guaranteeing their security. These allies, deprived of American leadership, will increasingly turn away from us and towards nations like China and Russia to better serve their own interests. On top of this, the agreement virtually guarantees that Iran will be able to produce a nuclear warhead and the ballistic missiles necessary to deliver such a payload to American shores.
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Texas Congressman introduces bill to suspend Refugee Resettlement
{Pamela Geller} ~ nObama has been importing hundreds of thousands of Muslims under the Refugee Resettlement Program. Despite the spike in jihad plots and attacks in the US and the genocide of non-Muslims under sharia, nObama remains unmoved... Under nObama, it’s a world where arrogance rules. It’s always a shock to people when they first find out how Refugee Resettlement works. Instead of giving refuge to the religious minorities that are persecuted, oppressed and subjugated under the sharia, we are opening the floodgates to Islamic supremacists and jihadists. And what most folks don’t know is, it’s the OIC-driven UN that decides who gets refugee status. The mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) determines which of the world’s “huddled masses” comes to the US as humanitarian refugees.
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nObama's TPP trade deal hits the wall
{Cyrtus Elllis} ~ President nObama’s hopes for a globalist pact integrating economies on four continents ran aground in Hawaii on Friday... TPP would be the largest-ever economic regulatory treaty, encompassing more than 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. Secretary of State John Kerry said the pact will merge the U.S. economy with Mexico and ten others nations, including Canada, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Islamic Sultanate of Brunei. The latest round of talks in Hawaii had been expected to yield an agreement to conclude the TPP. The president pressed Congress to surrender its ability to amend the pact, saying that would enable him to quickly wrap up the negotiations. The House and Senate agreed, and gave President nObama the enhanced power, known as trade promotion authority, after a series of controversial votes in June. But the president’s promises proved false.
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Iran publishes book on how to outwit US and destroy Israel
{Robert Spencer} ~ While Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry and President nObama do their best to paper over the brutality of the Iranian regime and force through a nuclear agreement, Iran’s religious leader has another issue on his mind... The destruction of Israel. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has published a new book called “Palestine,” a 416-page screed against the Jewish state. A blurb on the back cover credits Khamenei as “The flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem.” nObama administration officials likely hope that no American even hears about it. ‘Reclaiming Muslim lands’ Khamenei makes his position clear from the start: Israel has no right to exist as a state.
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Allen West: Navy to prosecute Chattanooga hero
{Jay Baggett} ~ According to former congressman and retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Allen West, the U.S. Navy has decided to bring charges against the naval officer who fired his personal weapon at Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez... during the ISIS supporter’s July 16 attack on the Chattanooga U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center. Abdulazeez, armed with a handgun and an assault rifle, killed four Marines and one sailor. In the posting on his website Saturday, West wrote: “Ladies and gents, resulting from the text message I received yesterday, I can confirm that the United States Navy is bringing charges against Lt. Cmdr. Timothy White for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property. It can't possibly be that a commanding officer who fires his own personal weapon at a terrorist, armed with an assault rifle and intent on killing the servicemen and servicewomen under him, would be punished for his act of bravery.
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Huma Abedin Facing Criminal Conduct Investigation...
{allenwestrepublic.com} ~ The swirling vortex of Hilly Clinton’s scandal-ridden past may sink one of her top aides for illegally dipping into the public trough, despite investigators being thwarted by Clinton’s missing emails... Investigators found Huma Abedin, vice chairwoman of Clinton’s presidential campaign, was overpaid by nearly $10,000 because of violations of rules governing vacation and sick time while she served as an official in the State Department, according to a Friday Washington Post story. The finding emerged publicly after Sen. Chuck Grassley–chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee–sent letters, which were obtained by the newspaper, to Secretary of State John Kerry and others about an investigation into possible “criminal” conduct by Abedin.
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Here comes loose lips Joe?
{Amy Chozick} ~ Vice President loose lips Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his associates have begun to actively explore a possible presidential campaign... which would upend the Democratic field and deliver a direct threat to Hilly Rodham Clinton, several people who have spoken to Mr. loose lips Biden or his closest advisers say. Mr. loose lips Biden’s advisers have started to reach out to Democratic leaders and donors who have not yet committed to Mrs. Clinton or who have grown concerned about what they see as her increasingly visible vulnerabilities as a candidate. The conversations, often fielded by Mr. loose lips Biden’s chief of staff, Steve Ricchetti, have taken place through hushed phone calls and quiet lunches. In most cases, they have grown out of an outpouring of sympathy for Mr. loose lips Biden since the death of his son Beau, 46, in May. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/politics/joe-biden-white-house-2016-presidential-campaign.html?_r=1
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IS recruitment document seeks to provoke 'end of the world'
{Sara A. Carter} ~ An apparent Islamic State recruitment document found in Pakistan’s lawless tribal lands reveals that the extremist group has grand ambitions of building a new terrorist army in Afghanistan and Pakistan... and triggering a war in India to provoke an Armageddon-like “end of the world.” The 32-page Urdu-language document obtained by American Media Institute (AMI) and reviewed by USA TODAY details a plot to attack U.S. soldiers as they withdraw from Afghanistan and target American diplomats and Pakistani officials. AMI obtained the document from a Pakistani citizen with connections inside the Pakistani Taliban and had it independently translated from Urdu by Harvard researcher and translator Mustafa Samdani. The Pakistani's identity was shared with USA TODAY, which has agreed not to identify him publicly because of concerns for his safety. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/07/28/ami-isil-document-pakistan-threatens-india/30674099/
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Defeating the mortal enemies
Clifford D. May
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No one has studied that evidence more thoroughly than Bernard Lewis, at 99 the greatest living historian of the Middle East. "The Roman Empire and the medieval Islamic Empire were not conquered by more civilized peoples," he has noted. "They were conquered by less civilized but more vigorous peoples. But in both cases what made the conquest, with the Barbarians in Rome and the Mongols in Iraq, what made it possible was things were going badly wrong within the society so that it was no longer able to offer effective resistance."
No one has studied that evidence more thoroughly than Bernard Lewis, at 99 the greatest living historian of the Middle East. "The Roman Empire and the medieval Islamic Empire were not conquered by more civilized peoples," he has noted. "They were conquered by less civilized but more vigorous peoples. But in both cases what made the conquest, with the Barbarians in Rome and the Mongols in Iraq, what made it possible was things were going badly wrong within the society so that it was no longer able to offer effective resistance."
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Would anyone argue that things are going well in America and Europe today? Would anyone argue that Western societies are as "vigorous" as those waging what they call a jihad against us? Would anyone argue that the West is offering "effective resistance" to the barbarians Mr. Carter has in mind: the head-choppers and slavers of the Islamic State who now occupy large swaths of what once were Syria and Iraq?
Would anyone argue that things are going well in America and Europe today? Would anyone argue that Western societies are as "vigorous" as those waging what they call a jihad against us? Would anyone argue that the West is offering "effective resistance" to the barbarians Mr. Carter has in mind: the head-choppers and slavers of the Islamic State who now occupy large swaths of what once were Syria and Iraq?
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Nor are those our only barbarian enemies. Spokesmen for the Islamic State cover their faces and wield long knives. Spokesmen for the Islamic Republic of Iran display their smiling faces for the cameras and know which forks to use at elegant Viennese restaurants. But is slitting infidel throats any less barbaric than hanging Iranian men for having the wrong sexual orientation, or stoning Iranian women, or persecuting religious and ethnic minorities, or holding innocents hostage or threatening neighbors with genocide? Really?
Nor are those our only barbarian enemies. Spokesmen for the Islamic State cover their faces and wield long knives. Spokesmen for the Islamic Republic of Iran display their smiling faces for the cameras and know which forks to use at elegant Viennese restaurants. But is slitting infidel throats any less barbaric than hanging Iranian men for having the wrong sexual orientation, or stoning Iranian women, or persecuting religious and ethnic minorities, or holding innocents hostage or threatening neighbors with genocide? Really?
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Iran's Islamic Revolution erupted in the winter of 1979. In the autumn of that year, the U.S. embassy in Tehran, sovereign American territory, was seized by a group that came to be known as "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line" - the "Imam" being Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. For 444 days, they held hostage American diplomats who under international law were entitled to the Iranian government's protection. They were treated like animals - and tortured.
Iran's Islamic Revolution erupted in the winter of 1979. In the autumn of that year, the U.S. embassy in Tehran, sovereign American territory, was seized by a group that came to be known as "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line" - the "Imam" being Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. For 444 days, they held hostage American diplomats who under international law were entitled to the Iranian government's protection. They were treated like animals - and tortured.
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A few years ago we understood that this episode represented "the first battle in America's war with militant Islam" - the subtitle of Mark Bowden's bestselling 2007 book, "Guests of the Ayatollah." When did we stop understanding that?
A few years ago we understood that this episode represented "the first battle in America's war with militant Islam" - the subtitle of Mark Bowden's bestselling 2007 book, "Guests of the Ayatollah." When did we stop understanding that?
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Today, militant Islamic forces are engaged in battles across the Middle East, North Africa and beyond. Of late, a potentially pivotal diplomatic battle has been fought and, in my estimation, decisively won by Iran's rulers. Its outcome is an agreement guaranteed to greatly enrich those rulers and, within a relatively short span of time, allow them to acquire more and better weapons, not excluding nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to targets anywhere in the world. Those targets will be within what Iranian theocrats call the "House of Unbelief" which, in their theology/ideology, is synonymous with the "House of War."
Today, militant Islamic forces are engaged in battles across the Middle East, North Africa and beyond. Of late, a potentially pivotal diplomatic battle has been fought and, in my estimation, decisively won by Iran's rulers. Its outcome is an agreement guaranteed to greatly enrich those rulers and, within a relatively short span of time, allow them to acquire more and better weapons, not excluding nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to targets anywhere in the world. Those targets will be within what Iranian theocrats call the "House of Unbelief" which, in their theology/ideology, is synonymous with the "House of War."
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As Iran increases its military capabilities, and as the Islamic State, al Qaeda, Boko Haram and similar groups expand their powers, American leaders continue to shrink the armed forces Secretary Carter oversees. The American Enterprise Institute's Mackenzie Eaglen has pointed out that the U.S. military is today "smaller than it was before 9/11 at the nadir of the Clinton 'peace dividend' drawdown." At the same time, those same American leaders repeatedly proclaim that America has become "war-weary." That can only be music to the ears of all those who declare America an "enemy of God" and who, on that basis, proclaim themselves enemies of America.
As Iran increases its military capabilities, and as the Islamic State, al Qaeda, Boko Haram and similar groups expand their powers, American leaders continue to shrink the armed forces Secretary Carter oversees. The American Enterprise Institute's Mackenzie Eaglen has pointed out that the U.S. military is today "smaller than it was before 9/11 at the nadir of the Clinton 'peace dividend' drawdown." At the same time, those same American leaders repeatedly proclaim that America has become "war-weary." That can only be music to the ears of all those who declare America an "enemy of God" and who, on that basis, proclaim themselves enemies of America.
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Does Mr. Carter seriously believe the road we're now on leads to the defeat of these enemies? If so, his belief is based on faith or wishful thinking - not fact, experience or precedent.
Does Mr. Carter seriously believe the road we're now on leads to the defeat of these enemies? If so, his belief is based on faith or wishful thinking - not fact, experience or precedent.
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Let me leave you with one more thought from Bernard Lewis who, I should point out, has for years been reviled by Islamists and those in the West who sympathize with them. In 1990, a decade before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and a decade after the revolution in Iran, he wrote:
Let me leave you with one more thought from Bernard Lewis who, I should point out, has for years been reviled by Islamists and those in the West who sympathize with them. In 1990, a decade before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and a decade after the revolution in Iran, he wrote:
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"Islam has brought comfort and peace of mind to countless millions of men and women. It has given dignity and meaning to drab and impoverished lives. It has taught people of different races to live in brotherhood and people of different creeds to live side by side in reasonable tolerance. It inspired a great civilization in which others besides Muslims lived creative and useful lives and which, by its achievement, enriched the whole world. But Islam, like other religions, has also known periods when it inspired in some of its followers a mood of hatred and violence. It is our misfortune that part, though by no means all or even most, of the Muslim world is now going through such a period, and that much, though again not all, of that hatred is directed against us."
"Islam has brought comfort and peace of mind to countless millions of men and women. It has given dignity and meaning to drab and impoverished lives. It has taught people of different races to live in brotherhood and people of different creeds to live side by side in reasonable tolerance. It inspired a great civilization in which others besides Muslims lived creative and useful lives and which, by its achievement, enriched the whole world. But Islam, like other religions, has also known periods when it inspired in some of its followers a mood of hatred and violence. It is our misfortune that part, though by no means all or even most, of the Muslim world is now going through such a period, and that much, though again not all, of that hatred is directed against us."
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If policymakers, legislators, academics and journalists had listened to Mr. Lewis a quarter century ago and formulated a strategic response, the world might be a very different place today. But they did not. And today, for many of the most powerful people in America and Europe, self-delusion retains its appeal. That can change. It's why we have elections. A big one is coming up fairly soon and no issue should be seen as more important than this one.
If policymakers, legislators, academics and journalists had listened to Mr. Lewis a quarter century ago and formulated a strategic response, the world might be a very different place today. But they did not. And today, for many of the most powerful people in America and Europe, self-delusion retains its appeal. That can change. It's why we have elections. A big one is coming up fairly soon and no issue should be seen as more important than this one.
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By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net
“Squabbling and sanctimony may be tolerated in other venues and perhaps on the campaign trail, but they h
ave no place among colleagues in the United States Senate. The Senate floor has even become a place where senators have singled out colleagues by name to attack them in personal terms, to impugn their character, in blatant disregard for Senate rules.”
Those were the words of Senator Orin Hatch, spoken on the floor of the Senate last Sunday in response to Senator Ted Cruz’s truth to power speech last week regarding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
In that speech, Cruz pointedly made the case that McConnell had lied to each and every member of the Republican Senate when he looked them in the eye and made the promise that there would be no further votes regarding the reviving of the federal Export-Import Bank.
In the words of Senator Cruz…
http://visiontoamerica.com/23266/judge-who-blocked-planned-parenthood-videos-raised-230k-for-obama/#m4i3Y3Hyyl3TZtke.01
“A federal judge late Friday granted a temporary restraining orderagainst the release of recordings made at an annual meeting of abortion providers. The injunction is against the Center for Medical Progress, the group that has unveiled Planned Parenthood’s participation in the sale of organs harvested from aborted children.”
“This US District Judge Orrick was nominated to his position by hardline abortion supporter President Barack Obama. He was also a major donor to and bundler for President Obama’s presidential campaign. He raised at least $200,000 for Obama and donated $30,800 to committees supporting him, according to Public Citizen.”
As expected, you can usually always count on Senators, Susan Collins (R-ME), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to vote for almost all Democrat Party appointments and/or legislation.
Never mind these Senators voting for President Obama and the Democrat Party. When it comes to passing out Republican Party money, the Republican National Committee (RNC), the Republican National Senate Committee (RNSC) and Sen. Mitch McConnell’s own ‘McConnell PAC’ always passes out the Republican Party money to these ‘left-wing’ voting RINO Republicans.
In the 2014 GOP Primary Election season, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s own ‘McConnell PAC’ passed out Republican Party money is support of RINO Republican Party candidates and opposing highly qualified Conservative Republican Party candidates.
“On January 3, 2013, he was renominated to the same office. His nomination was reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 28, 2013, by a vote of 11 ayes to 7 nays, mostly along party lines, except that Republican Senator Jeff Flake voted aye.”
“The U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination on May 15, 2013, by a vote of 56 ayes to 41 nays.[7] He received his commission on May 16, 2013.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Orrick_III
See how GOP Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted to ‘confirm’ this left-wing Obama nominee to the US Judiciary. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00125
U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress - 1st Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Vote Summary
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation William H. Orrick, III, of the District of Columbia, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California ) | |||
Vote Number: | 125 | Vote Date: | May 15, 2013, 04:38 PM |
Required For Majority: | 1/2 | Vote Result: | Nomination Confirmed |
Nomination Number: | |||
Nomination Description: | William H. Orrick, III, of the District of Columbia, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California | ||
Vote Counts: | YEAs | 56 |
NAYs | 41 | |
Not Voting | 3 |
Alphabetical by Senator Name
Alexander (R-TN), Nay | Franken (D-MN), Yea | Murkowski (R-AK), Yea |
Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---56 | ||
Baldwin (D-WI) | Hagan (D-NC) | Murray (D-WA) |
NAYs ---41 | ||
Alexander (R-TN) | Fischer (R-NE) | Moran (R-KS) |
Not Voting - 3 | ||
Casey (D-PA) | Corker (R-TN) | Lautenberg (D-NJ) |
Grouped by Home State
Alabama: | Sessions (R-AL), Nay | Shelby (R-AL), Nay |
Alaska: | Begich (D-AK), Yea | Murkowski (R-AK), Yea |
Arizona: | Flake (R-AZ), Yea | McCain (R-AZ), Nay |
Arkansas: | Boozman (R-AR), Nay | Pryor (D-AR), Yea |
California: | Boxer (D-CA), Yea | Feinstein (D-CA), Yea |
Colorado: | Bennet (D-CO), Yea | Udall (D-CO), Yea |
Connecticut: | Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea | Murphy (D-CT), Yea |
Delaware: | Carper (D-DE), Yea | Coons (D-DE), Yea |
Florida: | Nelson (D-FL), Yea | Rubio (R-FL), Nay |
Georgia: | Chambliss (R-GA), Nay | Isakson (R-GA), Nay |
Hawaii: | Hirono (D-HI), Yea | Schatz (D-HI), Yea |
Idaho: | Crapo (R-ID), Nay | Risch (R-ID), Nay |
Illinois: | Durbin (D-IL), Yea | Kirk (R-IL), Nay |
Indiana: | Coats (R-IN), Nay | Donnelly (D-IN), Yea |
Iowa: | Grassley (R-IA), Nay | Harkin (D-IA), Yea |
Kansas: | Moran (R-KS), Nay | Roberts (R-KS), Nay |
Kentucky: | McConnell (R-KY), Nay | Paul (R-KY), Nay |
Louisiana: | Landrieu (D-LA), Yea | Vitter (R-LA), Nay |
Maine: | Collins (R-ME), Yea | King (I-ME), Yea |
Maryland: | Cardin (D-MD), Yea | Mikulski (D-MD), Yea |
Massachusetts: | Cowan (D-MA), Yea | Warren (D-MA), Yea |
Michigan: | Levin (D-MI), Yea | Stabenow (D-MI), Yea |
Minnesota: | Franken (D-MN), Yea | Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea |
Mississippi: | Cochran (R-MS), Nay | Wicker (R-MS), Nay |
Missouri: | Blunt (R-MO), Nay | McCaskill (D-MO), Yea |
Montana: | Baucus (D-MT), Yea | Tester (D-MT), Yea |
Nebraska: | Fischer (R-NE), Nay | Johanns (R-NE), Nay |
Nevada: | Heller (R-NV), Nay | Reid (D-NV), Yea |
New Hampshire: | Ayotte (R-NH), Nay | Shaheen (D-NH), Yea |
New Jersey: | Lautenberg (D-NJ), Not Voting | Menendez (D-NJ), Yea |
New Mexico: | Heinrich (D-NM), Yea | Udall (D-NM), Yea |
New York: | Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea | Schumer (D-NY), Yea |
North Carolina: | Burr (R-NC), Nay | Hagan (D-NC), Yea |
North Dakota: | Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea | Hoeven (R-ND), Nay |
Ohio: | Brown (D-OH), Yea | Portman (R-OH), Nay |
Oklahoma: | Coburn (R-OK), Nay | Inhofe (R-OK), Nay |
Oregon: | Merkley (D-OR), Yea | Wyden (D-OR), Yea |
Pennsylvania: | Casey (D-PA), Not Voting | Toomey (R-PA), Nay |
Rhode Island: | Reed (D-RI), Yea | Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea |
South Carolina: | Graham (R-SC), Nay | Scott (R-SC), Nay |
South Dakota: | Johnson (D-SD), Yea | Thune (R-SD), Nay |
Tennessee: | Alexander (R-TN), Nay | Corker (R-TN), Not Voting |
Texas: | Cornyn (R-TX), Nay | Cruz (R-TX), Nay |
Utah: | Hatch (R-UT), Nay | Lee (R-UT), Nay |
Vermont: | Leahy (D-VT), Yea | Sanders (I-VT), Yea |
Virginia: | Kaine (D-VA), Yea | Warner (D-VA), Yea |
Washington: | Cantwell (D-WA), Yea | Murray (D-WA), Yea |
West Virginia: | Manchin (D-WV), Yea | Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea |
Wisconsin: | Baldwin (D-WI), Yea | Johnson (R-WI), Nay |
Wyoming: | Barrasso (R-WY), Nay | Enzi (R-WY), Nay |
