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Posted by William M. Finley on March 16, 2015 at 9:56am

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Mar. 16, 2015

THE FOUNDATION

“[I]t is a maxim, founded upon the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.” –George Washington, Letter to Henry Laurens, 1778

TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS

Ferguson Man Busted for Shooting Two Cops

When he was arrested Saturday and charged with one count of discharging a weapon inside a vehicle, two counts of first degree assault and three counts of armed criminal action, Jeffrey Williams admitted to shooting two police officers outside the Ferguson Police Department headquarters March 12. But his story doesn’t add up. Williams said he had a dispute with someone and the cops were collateral damage; he never meant to shoot officers. But the physical evidence suggests something else. Williams fired his .40-caliber handgun about 120 yards away from inside a vehicle and managed to hit two police officers standing next to each other. Aim small, miss small. Furthermore, there’s disagreement as to who Williams is in the drama unfolding in Ferguson. On Sunday, Ferguson police said they saw Williams amid the protesters. But protesters deny Williams' participation in their movement. Of course they’d deny him; he’s messing up the Left’s narrative.

DHS Arrests Four in ‘Pay to Stay’ Student Visa Scam

Give the government credit for actually trying to enforce immigration law. The Department of Homeland Security arrested the operators of four Los Angeles Schools for running a scam that allowed immigrants to stay in the U.S. on a student visa without actually going to school. When the DHS stopped in unannounced at one school, they discovered only three foreign students attending an English class – even though the school said 900 foreign students attended regularly. In a statement, Acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie Yonekura said, “Officials at several schools allegedly abused their responsibility to ensure that only legitimate foreign students were allowed to stay in the country. This type of fraud against the United States will be thoroughly examined to bring those responsible to justice and to protect the integrity of our immigration system.” Such examples of abuse upend the Obama administration’s rhetoric that immigrants only want to come here for better lives and we shouldn’t fault them if they cheat the system. Ryan Lovelace reports at National Review that 36 terrorists entered the United States on student visas in the past. A lawless administration isn’t helping. More…

Carville: Hillary Just Didn’t Want Congressional Oversight

Clintonista James Carville is one of the few rushing to defend Hillary Clinton over her secret email servers. But after his most recent comments she may not want his “help” any more. “At the end of the day,” Carville said, “the Republicans can’t pass a budget, alright, [so] we got another investigation, just like we had the Whitewater, just like you go through the file-gate, you go through travel-gate, you go through seven or eight different congressional committees. And you wonder why the public is not following this? Because they know what it is.” In other words, Carville says it’s a political distraction contrived by Republicans – a standard talking point. But he wasn’t finished, adding, “I suspect she didn’t want Louie Gohmert rifling through her emails, which seems to me to be a kind of reasonable position for someone to take. It amounts to … nothing but a bunch of people flapping their jaws about nothing.” Oops. Hillary Clinton just wanted to avoid congressional oversight. How inconvenient to have Congress “rifling through her emails.” Who’d want that? Of course, that oversight is precisely the point, but the Clintons have always played by their own rules.

Kerry: The Climate Debate Is Settled … Because Gravity!

In remarks to the Atlantic Council, which bills itself as “an essential forum for navigating the dramatic economic and political changes defining the twenty-first century,” State Secretary John Kerry presented skeptics of man-made global warming a lesson on science. “When an apple falls from a tree,” he explained, “it will drop toward the ground. We know that because of the basic laws of physics. Science tells us that gravity exists, and no one disputes that.” He continued, “Science also tells us that when the water temperature drops below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it turns to ice. No one disputes that. So when science tells us that our climate is changing and human beings are largely causing that change, by what right do people stand up and just say, ‘Well, I dispute that, or I deny that elementary truth’?” For starters, science once pontificated earth was flat. And earth was the center of the universe. And high-cholesterol diets ensured heart disease. And socio-economic collapse resulting from global warming should already have happened. And… You get the picture. What Kerry won’t admit is that there is no “scientific consensus” on the issue, and even if there was it wouldn’t make one iota of difference. Climate change is well documented through the ages. So while Kerry disses “climate deniers,” as they like to call us, he’s only illuminating his complete ignorance of history.

‘A Radical Change in Climate Conditions’

Report from the AP.

Now that meteorological winter 2014-2015 is in the books (though the season isn’t formally recognized as ended until the Spring Equinox on March 20), anti-fossil fuel gurus are warning that, despite frigid cold spells over the Eastern United States, overall it was the 19th warmest on record. “Averaged together,” weather.com reported, “temperatures across the country this winter were 2.1 Fahrenheit degrees above the 20th-century mean, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center.” Moreover, based on measurements from the National Snow & Ice Data Center, seasonal ice buildup in the Arctic is on pace to set a new record low. So it’s officially time to freak out, right? Well, no. Before you start preparing for The Great Climate Apocalypse, consider this:

“The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.
"Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.
"Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.”

That sounds awfully familiar because that’s exactly what alarmists are clamoring about today. Only the excerpt is from an article published by the Associated Press on Nov. 2 … 1922. Nearly a century later, it still appears the climate is, well, repetitious. As are propagandists on a mission.

For more, visit Right Hooks.

RIGHT ANALYSIS

How One Man Turned Americans Against Government

Gallup conducted a poll of 1,025 Americans March 5-8 that captured the nation’s growing disgust with the federal government. But the Leftmedia stopped one question short of finding the real reason for this discontent.

“Dissatisfaction with government” now beats out concerns of the economy, terrorism, illegal immigration and unemployment, despite the direct influence of these pocketbook and kitchen-table issues. Don’t underappreciate these rankings. Survey participants most frequently respond to questions through the prism of, “I’m concerned because this issue impacts me directly.”

So why, Mr. or Mrs. American, do you have this increasing dissatisfaction with government?

It boils down to one word, and, no, it’s not racism. It’s “Obama.”

When Barack Obama declared with glee that we are “days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” most voters failed to fully realize the magnitude of his plans. Few understood that a community organizer raised on the milk of anger, hate and socialist indoctrination would so quickly shred the Constitution. But our Founders warned of such tyranny.

How many Democrats or even Republicans back in 2008 imagined Obama would so egregiously overstep the jurisdiction of the executive branch through ObamaCare’s implementation and effective amnesty? Or that today he would be on the verge of a nuclear agreement with Iran, giving the world’s leading terrorist sponsor much of what it wants?

Have you ever dined at a restaurant described as some delightful experience or marketed to fulfill your culinary dreams only to leave with an excessive tab, disastrous service and a meal you could’ve cooked better at home?

Obama marketed himself with promises of transparency, a government that serves all Americans, and all-around, feel-good “Hope ‘n’ Change™.

Yet after six years, the American people have endured lie after lie. To name but a few:

"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
“I didn’t set a red line on Syria.”
“I didn’t call the Islamic State a ‘JV team.’”
“Republicans have filibustered 500 pieces of legislation.”
“The sequester is not something I’ve proposed.”
“Here’s what happened [at Benghazi]. … You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character who – who made an extremely offensive video directed at – at Muhammad and Islam.”

And then there was, for example, the political targeting by the IRS and the politicization of the Department of Justice by his criminal co-conspirator, Attorney General Eric Holder.

The distrust that has been sown, watered, fertilized and is now at full harvest is a testament to Obama’s successful “transformation” of America. He has left Americans with buyer’s remorse of monumental proportions. Voters didn’t bargain for this mess – even if some of us tried to warn them.

Democrats were walloped in two straight midterm elections, which served notice to everyone but a petulant Obama that his policies, his tactics and his results were rejected. Those Democrats who remain in elected office either have to distance themselves from the radical in the White House, or they represent districts where voters embrace Obama’s radical policies.

The Obama approach to elections has been to place each voter in some interest group – black, homosexual, pro-abortion, illegal immigrant, etc. – and win by mobilizing those groups nationally. Identity politics worked for Obama but failed most Americans.

If there’s a silver lining, it’s that Chief Radical Obama’s failed policies have resulted in a weak bench of leftist extremists down the ballot. The Republican wave was so thoroughly successful that it wiped out vast numbers of state and local Democrats around the nation, from whom the next generation of the party’s leaders will come. It is by no means a permanent defeat, but it’s most certainly a real setback.

Americans are fed up by government because Obama overpromised and under-delivered. His solution to everything is a government program, and, increasingly, Americans are seeing that as the wrong approach.

Now, imagine a nation led by those who say what they mean, mean what they say, and follow through on principled policy. Americans want that type of government leadership and are waiting, impatiently.

Oklahoma’s Campus Totalitarians

A video showing Oklahoma University Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity members chanting racial slurs and singing about lynching has put the spotlight on the inherent conflict between First Amendment-protected speech and college speech codes begetting “zero tolerance” policies. These policies have mistakenly enshrined the “right” not to be offended.

There is little question the chant was offensive. “There will never be a n—– at SAE. There will never be a n—– at SAE. You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me. There will never be a n—– at SAE,” belted out students on one of five buses chartered to take them to a Founder’s Day party at a country club in Oklahoma City two Saturdays ago.

The fraternity’s national organization conducted its own investigation and announced it was shutting down the OU chapter. “We apologize for the unacceptable and racist behavior of the individuals in the video, and we are disgusted that any member would act in such a way,” their statement reads. “Furthermore, we are embarrassed by this video and offer our empathy not only to anyone outside the organization who is offended but also to our brothers who come from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities.”

All well and good, but then University President David Boren crossed the line. He expelled two students identified as leaders of the chant, using the dubious rationale that has usurped the Constitution on far too many college campuses. It is the idea that offensive speech creates a hostile learning environment, and, as night follows day, such an environment engenders a “zero tolerance” policy. “I have emphasized that there is zero tolerance for this kind of threatening racist behavior at the University of Oklahoma,” said Boren. “I hope that the entire nation will join us in having zero tolerance of such racism when it raises its ugly head in other situations across our country.”

Barbara Arnwine, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, claims Bowen and OU “would’ve been compelled to do something” or the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division would have gotten involved via Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Title VI “prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.”

Several legal scholars weighed in on the issue, and most believe the university trampled the Constitution.

“The courts are very clear that hateful, racist speech is protected by the First Amendment,” saidErwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional scholar and dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine. UCLA constitutional expert Eugene Volokh agrees, explaining there is no constitutional exception for speech that creates the aforementioned hostile environment, nor speech that simply refers to violence absent a direct threat to an individual.

Geoffrey Stone, a professor of law at the University of Chicago, addressed the Title VI argument, noting that it is intended to combat literal discrimination, and statements by students in a private environment aren’t close to violating it. “The statements were made in the innocuous setting of a bus,” he explained, “and any disruption came from the showing of the video, not from the students' speech.”

Volokh also tackled the burden of proof issue, explaining the university might be able to discipline students involved in the frat’s admissions decisions if they can be shown to “have denied membership to people based on race, or intentionally tried to communicate to potential members that they would deny them membership that way.” And while SAE may insist that those who depart from its principles no longer use its name, and students who have engaged in the chant may pay a social and economic price for their actions in the court of public opinion, Volokh insists the government or University of Oklahoma “generally cannot add to this price, whether the offensive speech is racist, religiously bigoted, pro-revolutionary, or expressive of any other viewpoint, however repugnant it might be.”

On the other hand, the university might pay a price for expelling those students based solely on what they said. A board representing OU’s disbanded SAE chapter hired lawyer Stephen Jones, who served as Timothy McVeigh’s lead defense attorney during the Oklahoma City bombing trial, “to assist them in evaluating” their legal position, Jones revealed. He further explained he was retained “to protect the due process rights, the First Amendment rights, and the Fourteenth Amendment rights” of the fraternity’s members. The board is primarily concerned about their “physical safety,” Jones said, adding that some of them “have frankly been afraid to go to class.”

Jones outlined the parameters of a possible lawsuit, insisting the university’s response to the video was a “premature rush to judgment” that implicitly painted all fraternity members “with a tar brush” identifying them as bigots or racists.

For far too long, university campuses have been strangled by political correctness that actively promotes a stultifying conformity at best, and outright totalitarianism at worst. In his book “Unlearning Liberty,” Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) president Greg Lukianoff chronicles hundreds of examples of campuses where the need for “intellectual comfort,” an obsession to punish those who “offend,” the emergence of “free speech zones,” and student demands for “trigger warnings” for “sensitive” course materials have rendered the free and open exchange of ideas completely obsolete. Even worse, students who fail to abide by such restrictions face mandatory sensitivity training, kangaroo student courts where they are presumed guilty until proven otherwise – or, as this case and many others like it indicate, expulsion for constitutionally protected speech.

America has long abided the immortal words attributed to Voltaire: “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” That is the essence of the First Amendment, and it doesn’t evaporate once one steps onto a college campus – no matter who gets offended by something as “uncomfortable” as Freedom of Speech.

For more, visit Right Analysis.

TOP 5 RIGHT OPINION COLUMNS

Tony Perkins: Stop and Go Trafficking
Burt Prelutsky: America’s Suicide Note
Jeff Jacoby: Campaign Contributions and Double Standards
Peggy Noonan: Hillary Seems Tired, Not Hungry
Larry Kudlow: King Dollar Naysayer Nonsense

For more, visit Right Opinion.

OPINION IN BRIEF

The Gipper: “The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.”

FRC president Tony Perkins: “Senate Democrats would rather yield to human trafficking than put a stop to taxpayer-funded abortion! … Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) party didn’t pass the bill to find out what’s in it – but they got close. Obviously, a number of Democrats still think reading legislation is overrated, even at a manageable 68 pages. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who like a growing number of leaders, wants to end one of the greatest human rights crises of our time, was stunned earlier [last] week when his colleagues on the other side of the aisle suddenly – and vehemently – objected to the proposal’s text. Like most spending bills, Cornyn’s Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act included routine language that bans taxpayer-funded abortions. For almost four decades, it’s been standard U.S. policy, through the Hyde Amendment, that taxpayer dollars not be used to kill innocent unborn children. That must be news to Democrats, who exploded in outrage a full two weeks after they voted the bill out of committee. … In the Judiciary Committee, they tried to amend the same pages the Hyde Amendment was on! … A measure that was supposed to free women from bondage is itself being taken hostage by a party too obsessed with abortion to care about the hurting.”

Columnist Burt Prelutsky: “It seems to me that when the President or members of Congress question the constitutionality of an executive edict or a piece of legislation, it should be fast-tracked to the Supreme Court. Why should it have to go through lower courts when everyone knows the final decision is inevitably going to rest with the Supremes? It’s obviously far more important to decide whether Obama had the authority to change the Affordable Care Act a dozen times or grant executive amnesty to five million illegal aliens than whether the justices give their blessing to same-sex marriages. And just maybe if the justices didn’t take four month vacations, they’d have time to do both.”

Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest: “Barack & Michelle took separate jumbo jets to Hollywood on the same day. I’m sure the combined 32 tires were inflated properly to save fuel.”

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!

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Monday Moring - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 16, 2015 at 1:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

nObamacare’s 1095-A Nightmare

Michelle Malkin

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

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She’s making a list, checking it twice - Now, Democrats and the establishment press have to decide whether there is another viable Democratic candidate or if they really and truly are stuck with the woman who dressed them down on Tuesday. She’s probably right, but with an answer that basically added up to, “Yeah, and what are you going to do about it?” Democrats, at least, may be wondering if there isn’t another way to do this. The thought that Clinton had changed this time around has been replaced with a new understanding that she is more herself than ever. And the idea that she might go away under her own steam was permanently exploded. Only a candidate would hold that event. And when you’re dealing with people who maintain their lists of enemies on spreadsheets so as to forget no grievance, you’d better choose carefully.
“I think there’s a little bit of arrogance that ‘Some of these laws apply to some lower people, but not to me, I’m Hilly Clinton.’ And I think the law nobody should be above the law in our land.” – Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on “The Kelly File” Watch here. -Fox News

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IRAN LETTER PART OF BROADENING POWER STRUGGLE
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., explains the open letter he and 46 other Republican Senators sent to the government of Iran in a USA Today op-ed: “The critical role of Congress in the adoption of international agreements was clearly laid out by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution. And it's a principle upon which Democrats and Republicans have largely agreed. … The Senate must approve any deal President nObama negotiates with Iran by a two-thirds majority vote. Anything less will not be considered a binding agreement when President nObama’s term expires in two years. This is true of any agreement, but in particular with the nuclear deal President nObama intends to strike with Iran.

Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, the nObama administration has so far completely bypassed Congress in its negotiations with Iran. The administration cares little about what will win congressional approval - only complete nuclear disarmament - and more about just reaching some sort of deal.” -Fox News

Dems keep nObama war authorization on ice - Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey face questions today from a Senate panel on President nObama’s proposed Authorized Use of Military Force to defeat ISIS. A proposal that Reuters reports is stalled, chiefly due to opposition from the president’s own party. -Fox News

LEAVING THEIR MARK ON THE WORLD
It’s been a long, snowy winter for Northeasterners, especially for one Massachusetts couple that no doubt would have liked to have seen spring begun a little sooner. AP reports: “The imprint of a license plate in a snowbank proved to be the undoing of a couple suspected of a series of burglaries in Massachusetts. A Lakeville police officer investigating a home break-in traced the imprint to a pickup truck that matched the description of a vehicle seen at other burglaries. Chief Frank Alvilhiera told The Enterprise of Brockton on Monday that the truck was traced to a Dartmouth hotel. A search of a hotel room uncovered more than 300 stolen items, including jewelry, watches, wallets, laptops and cameras. Alvilhiera estimates the goods are worth at least $10,000. Meanwhile, Robert Beaucaire and Amy Peters face charges including breaking and entering and larceny.” -Fox News

AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES…
“I think what is going to happen on [Hilly’s] part is this: She has decided that stonewalling works. [President nObama] has shown it works on a lot of stuff. A lot of their scandals have been stonewalled and they go away…Her calculation is, ‘Yes, I will be damaged a bit with the press because of the stonewalling but infinitely less than I would be if anybody, an objective observer were to go through and look at the e-mails.’” – Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Watch here. -Fox News

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South Florida Jihadist Now On ICE

(investigativeproject.org) - His prison sentence complete, a Pakistani man who plotted a series of prospective terrorist attacks in South Florida has been moved from a federal penitentiary to the custody of U.S. immigration officials pending deportation from the United States...Imran Mandhai lived in Broward County Florida from the late 1990s into the early 2000s. He attended the Darul Uloom Institute mosque in Pembroke Pines, the same mosque where al-Qaida notable and Mandhai associate Adnan el-Shukrijumah sought spiritual solace. Mandhai and codefendant Shueyb Mosaa Jokhan were investigated by the Miami Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). The two men conspired to commit jihad in South Florida by blowing up power stations, synagogues and a National Guard armory. The JTTF introduced an undercover informant to the two wannabe jihadis and foiled their plans. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4798/south-florida-jihadist-now-on-ice

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2nd-Amend. Supporters Confront Feds; Feds Back Down

(Selwyn Duke) - While eyes were focused on the Selma golden jubilee celebrating bygone battles, a current-day civil-rights battle was being waged — and ignored by the mainstream media...It took place at the Spokane, Washington, federal courthouse, where armed Second Amendment supporters confronted federal officials. And the feds backed down. The March 6 rally, organized by a group calling itself “Liberty for All” (LFA), was a response to the arrest of military veteran and former Yakima County sheriff candidate Anthony Bosworth. A staunch constitutionalist, open-carry advocate, and LFA leader, Bosworth was participating in the “Our State, Our Rights” rally near Spokane’s federal courthouse February 25 with an unloaded rifle slung over his shoulder. This didn’t sit well with federal agents, who approached Bosworth, asked for identification, and accused him of breaking the law. But Bosworth and his supporters say the feds are the lawbreakers. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/20383-spokane-armed-2nd-amend-supporters-confront-feds-feds-back-down?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=4c5666e113-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-4c5666e113-289778381

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John Kerry Preaches on “Immorality” of Doubting “Climate Change”

Hanoi Kerry Preaches “Immorality” of Doubting “Climate Change”

(William F. Jasper) - Donning the robes of High Priest of Science, Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry delivered a rousing sermon on March 12 that presumed to speak for both Science and Religion...on the supposed existential threat of anthropogenic (manmade) global warming, AGW. Warning that we face “utter catastrophe” and the end of “life as we know it on Earth” if we “do nothing” to stop global warming, Hanoi Kerry said failing to act “is beyond reckless. It is just plain immoral.” Secretary Hanoi Kerry delivered his AGW jeremiad before the Atlantic Council, as part of the globalist organization’s “The Road to Paris” Climate Series, which is aimed at stirring support for the upcoming United Nations Climate Summit in Paris, France. However, before putting on his preacher’s robe to condemn the unbelievers, Rev. Hanoi Kerry first got into his scientist’s robe to establish with dogmatic certainty the inerrancy of the AGW gospel. Is this Viet Nam all over again? http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/20398-john-kerry-preaches-on-immorality-of-doubting-climate-change?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=4c5666e113-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-4c5666e113-289778381

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Regime's Iran Deal Can Reshape World

(rushlimbaugh.com) - We have to talk about this Iranian nuclear deal. I know it's not sexy and I know that it's kind of over there. But we need to bring it back here, 'cause it's not good. It's like everything else happening with this Regime. It just isn't good...We're not just transforming America, we are transforming the world, and we are reordering America's position in the world. We are a country that has been placed into a state of decline on purpose. The main objective of this Regime is to manage that decline while trying to convince a bunch of low-information clowns that we're not in decline, and they are succeeding. But first the Iranian nuclear deal. Now, where this deal stands, the basics of the deal are that we're gonna permit the Iranians -- if they'll just be patient -- to have nuclear bomb in 10 years. I mean, if you want to boil this down to its essence, that's the nObama nuclear deal with Iran. They can do whatever they want these next 10 the years. They can acquire, they can experiment, they can research, they can develop, but they can't build. But after ten years go by, they can, with the blessing of the United States, the blessing of the world. Now, Hanoi John Kerry -- the haughty Hanoi John Kerry, current secretary of state (who, by the way, served in Vietnam) -- said yesterday that the deal that's being negotiated would not be legally binding. And I saw that, and I asked myself, "Well, what's the point, if it isn't legally binding?" That takes us to the letter the 47 Republicans signed written by Tom Cotton, sent to the ayatollahs and the mullahs in Iran. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/03/12/regime_s_iran_deal_can_reshape_world

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Judge Orders State Dept To Comply With Records Request - Hilly

(theconservativetreehouse.com) - A federal judge on Friday ruled on behalf of Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group, in its lawsuit against the State Department for documents related to Hilly Rodham Clinton’s tenure there...Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the State Department to produce passenger manifests from 47 overseas trips that Mrs. Clinton made as secretary of state. Citizens United requested the manifests last July through a Freedom of Information Act Request. The State Department, the judge wrote, must release the first batch of records by April 3, with more being released every two weeks; all the documents must be given to the group no later than Aug. 1. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/03/13/judge-orders-state-dept-to-comply-with-records-request/

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Senators Demanding Answers On Social Security For Illegals

(rickwells.us) - With Hussein nObama it is never a question of whether or not he’s broken the law. The questions are in what way, to what extent and what are and will be the consequences. Lawbreaking itself is now understood to be their preferred method of operations...When it comes to the issue of how many Social Security Numbers have been issued in violation of the law and our United States Constitution, two Senators, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Ben Sasse of Nebraska, both obviously Republicans, want some answers. On Thursday the two lawmakers sent a letter to Social Security Administration Commissioner Carolyn Colvin asking for “current information” as to the number of illegals who have been issued or who have applied for Social Security Numbers under the supposed “authority” of the nObama DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) amnesty. They seek up to date information and totals from June of 2012 until now. Why not go after the heart of this problem - nObama. http://www.rickwells.us/senators-jeff-sessions-ben-sasse-demanding-answers-on-social-security-for-illegals-just-how-bad-is-it/

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Congressman – Confident nObama Will Lose Amnesty Appeal

(rickwells.us) - Strictly from a legal standpoint, Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX), a former judge, is confident that the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will rule against the regime in its effort to have Judge Andrew Hanen’s injunction against the implementation of his illegal amnesty overturned...The law is not always the deciding factor in cases dealing with the occupier of the White House, as we learned early on in issues with his false identity. Whether through offers they can’t refuse or by other means, the regime has a way of persuading people to come around to their point of view. Based strictly upon the law, Congressman Poe makes some valid arguments as to why Americans who value the Constitution, our system of government, our sovereignty and the rule of law have reason to be optimistic that the citizens may prevail over the illegals and the associated criminal actions of our illegitimate leadership.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EViSXYp_t8

http://www.rickwells.us/congressman-ted-poe-confident-obama-will-lose-amnesty-appeal-in-5th-circuit-and-the-reasons-why/

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“Islam should not be protected under the First Amendment”

(gopthedailydose.com) - Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin. Boykin has said that “Islam should not be protected under the First Amendment,” that there should be “no mosques in America,” that Islam is a “totalitarian way of life,”...and that there can be no interfaith dialogue or cooperation between Muslims and Christians. He said, “Walk down the street in Dearborn, MI and you would think you are in Damascus or Beirut.” Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America is a 2009 book by U.S. State Department-trained Arabic linguist and former U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations special agent Paul David Gaubatz, and investigative journalist and Hoover Institute fellow Paul Sperry. It proves the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to be a subversive organization allied with international terrorists. The book is based on a six-month undercover investigation of the Washington-based CAIR by Chris Gaubatz — son of co-author Paul David Gaubatz — who posed as a convert to Islam. The book uses documents Chris Gaubatz obtained as a CAIR intern to prove the book's assertions that CAIR is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood, and that CAIR supports international jihad against the U.S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqyNk-6x5d4

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nObama Wants to Cut Congress Out of Iranian Negotiations

(rickwells.us) - nObama doesn’t need Congress. He’s got the support of his fellow communists in Russia and China and he will get his deal to arm his Iranian brethren...Charles Krauthammer predicts that once nObama circumvents Congress and takes his deal to the United Nations, the Europeans and others who are currently committed to sanctions will be crawling all over Tehran making deals to take advantage. He notes that many deals have already been written in anticipation of nObama’s actions. He notes that once that happens, it won’t matter what the United States does, there will be no sanctions and we will have lost any negotiated ability to monitor or inspect the Iranian facilities as well as the political and economic leverage we had before nObama acted. What is Congress waiting for, impeach him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8LcYSVguyw

http://www.rickwells.us/krauthammer-obama-has-already-defeated-congress-allied-with-chinese-and-russians-to-end-iran-sanctions/

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nObama Admin: “U.S. Exaggerates Islamic State Casualties”

(Robert Spencer) - Never since the invention of the airplane has any territory been conquered solely from the air. Hanoi Kerry and Allen have a vested interest in making the U.S. airstrikes look good...but in reality they’re just a cosmetic exercise to make it look as if the U.S. is doing something about the Islamic State. The war against the Islamic State has killed thousands of fighters and even some mid-level battlefield commanders, but the organization’s senior leadership and nerve center remain largely untouched, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/03/obama-administration-officials-claim-to-have-taken-out-half-of-islamic-states-senior-leadership-is-false?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=b34d00582a-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-b34d00582a-123451509

nObamacare’s 1095-A Nightmare

Michelle Malkin

(freedomsback.com) - Tax season is stressful enough. But if you are like countless miserable Americans trapped in the nObamacare 1095-A abyss, it’s hell on stilts on a Segway teetering over the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

The screw-ups, incompetence and bureaucratic blame avoidance over the health insurance exchange tax forms make the healthcare.gov website fiasco look like a flawless product launch. How do I know? My family inexplicably got ensnared in the 1095-A paperwork pit. It’s a government roach motel: Taxpayers check in, but they can never check out.

In 2013, our private high-deductible PPO from Anthem Blue Cross got canceled because of “changes from health care reform (also called the Affordable Care Act or ACA).” Millions of others like us in the individual market for health insurance — including self-employed people, small-business owners, writers, artists and home-based entrepreneurs — suffered the same fate.

My husband reluctantly contacted Colorado’s state health insurance exchange, “Connect for Health Colorado,” just to see what our options were. Months later, we settled on purchasing a new non-nObamacare plan directly from a different private insurer, Rocky Mountain Health. The provider network is much narrower than the Anthem plan we had before the feds intervened. Our two kids’ dental care is no longer covered, and we’ve had our insurance turned down at an urgent care clinic — something that had never happened before.

Better off? Bullcrap. But wait, it gets worse.

Somewhere along the way, the worker bees at Connect for Health Colorado dragooned us into an nObamacare exchange plan offered by Rocky Mountain Health without our knowledge or consent. (How else has the White House inflated nObamacare enrollment figures? Things that make you go “hmm.”) Last month, we received an IRS 1095-A form, which, much to our shock and chagrin, indicated that we had paid nObamacare premiums every month during 2014.

It took hours of time on the phone and Internet to receive an explanation from Connect for Health Colorado on how exactly this happened. Here was the government’s response, word for incomprehensible word:

“We apologize for the delay in responding to your email. After checking your account we are showing you might have had coverage from October 2014 to June 2014. Please call the number below to speak with a Customer Service Representative if this information is incorrect.”

“Might” have had coverage? From “October 2014 to June 2014″?

The saga continues. We were finally able to un-enroll after being auto-enrolled in the nObamacare plan. Then, after being bounced around by the state government health exchange to various voicemail dead ends and back, with hours of migraine-inducing, on-hold music in between, we were told there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the 1095-A form — which shows payment of premiums we didn’t pay to an nObamacare plan we never enrolled in and didn’t want in the first place!

This is just one little horror story. In Minnesota, thousands are still waiting for 1095-A forms that were supposed to arrive on Jan. 31. In California, at least 800,000 taxpayers received screwed-up 1095-As. As a result, some 50,000 people filed the wrong form. Another 750,000 are being told they’ll get corrected forms this month. Hah. Good luck with that.

The costs in time, money and anxiety to hardworking families dealing with this paperwork perdition are enormous. Unknown numbers of people are still waiting for their forms as the April 15 tax-filing deadline looms. More face the added expense and aggravation of filing amended returns through no fault of their own.

Where’s the rest of the media — most of whom have been insulated from these problems because they get their health insurance through their employers?

At least one other journalist smacked head first into reality. Laura Krantz, a former NPR staffer, is now a Scripps Fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Earlier this month, she found out that Connect for Health Colorado had mysteriously canceled her health and dental insurance. After four days and eight hours in nObamacare Phone Hell (OPH), she learned she had lost her insurance coverage and her tax credit — and had to redo all of her paperwork.

Poor Krantz still believes the ultimate solution is “single payer.” But another liberal who encountered 1095-A hell has seen the light. San Francisco resident and former nObama supporter Melissa Klein exposed her ordeal with Covered California last week. The state exchange botched her 1095-A and then insisted she had never enrolled despite invoices she showed them documenting her premium payments. After hours in OPH, her case remains unresolved, and she can’t file her taxes. How is it, she wondered, that “Amazon can ship something to NYC in an hour,” but the White House and Covered California “can’t create a health care system that functions”?

Klein concluded, better late than never: “I no longer believe that the government should mandate health care. … A great idea is just an idea if you can’t execute. And the government has proved time and time again, it can’t execute.

Feelin’ your pain, sister. Is D.C. listening?

http://freedomsback.com/michelle-malkin/obamacares-1095-a-nightmare/?utm_source=bh&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4798018

We need to remind all 75 REP Congressman who voted to fund the DHS they can ALL be RECALLED!

Posted by Cecelia McCarty on March 15, 2015 at 2:36pm

I could use your help in advising these 75 Republican House Members that their vote to fund DHS was a vote to support Obama's and DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson's ILLEGAL MEMORANDUM (NOT SIGNED Executive Order) authorizing and FUNDING ALL ILLEGALS in America!

They appear to have NOT read anything about US District Judge Andrew S. Hanen's

findings for why he issued a stay against this ILLEGAL Memorandum, and how the

very act of issuing this ILLEGAL Memorandum thwarted Congresses Constitutional

Powers!

I want top remind them ALL that We the People have a very powerful tool that we

can use when our Representatives choose to violate their Sworn Oath of Office,

and we are NOT AFRAID to use that tool and any and all other means necessary

to either get them to uphold their sworn duty and campaign promises or REMOVE

them from office!

Cecelia Mc Carty

JIHAD WATCH

Posted by William M. Finley on March 15, 2015 at 8:42am

US Embassy in Saudi Arabia halts operations amid “heightened security concerns”

MARCH 14, 2015 9:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER4 COMMENTS

“The message did not cite a specific security concern or threat…” Right-wing extremists, no doubt. “US Embassy in Saudi Arabia halts operations amid ‘heightened security concerns,’” FoxNews.com, March 14, 2015: U.S. officials said Sunday they will halt operations at the embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia for the next couple of days, in response to […]

Bosnia: Five Muslims arrested for plotting jihad attack in Scandinavia

MARCH 14, 2015 8:47 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER22 COMMENTS

“These persons are suspected to have produced an explosive device in Bosnia with the intention of delivering it in a Scandinavian country.” But…but…we’re constantly told that all the Muslims in Bosnia are Western-oriented, secular, America-loving moderates, and that anyone who believes otherwise is a greasy Islamophobe. Surely mainstream analysts wouldn’t mislead us, would they? “Bosnia […]

Sunday Extra - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 15, 2015 at 5:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

America's Suicide Note

Burt Prelutsky

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

~~~lll~~~

Hilly: 'I [Fill in the Blank] for Convenience'

Hilly Clinton finally addressed the brouhaha over her majesty's secret servers at a press conference Tuesday, but beginning with the first seemingly planted question it amounted to partying like it was 1999. Last week, Clinton handed over 55,000 pages of emails from her private clintonemails.com email accounts. It's a fair guess that hardly covers her entire tenure as secretary of state. So where's the rest? What's she hiding? Since the account is hers, she has sole access and control over it (well, besides potential hackers), and she's refusing to turn over everything. She reiterated Tuesday that she would not turn over the actual emails or the servers, which "will remain private." She claims 30,000 emails were personal -- including messages with husband Bill, who claims to have sent all of two emails, ever -- and she admitted to deleting many of them because she "didn't see any reason to keep them." That's nice, but as a high-ranking public official it's not for her to decide which emails are personal and which are official, or what's relevant for keeping. -The Patriot Post

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Iran Letter Went to the Wrong Recipient

Forty-seven Senate Republicans sent a letter to Iran's leadership earlier this week making clear that the nuclear deal currently being negotiated does not meet the standards of a binding treaty, and that a future U.S. president could nullify it at any time. In other words, stating the obvious. The reaction was swift and furious -- from the Democrats, that is. Every leftist from presumptive presidential candidate Hilly Clinton to Smiling loose lips Joe Biden piled on, calling the letter "dangerous" and "out of step with the best traditions of American leadership" (rimshot!), while claiming it was motivated by a "rush to war" by Republican "traitors." If anyone is a traitor, it's the guy negotiating the deal -- Hanoi John Kerry. All that said, it would have been better if the Republican senators had not sent this letter to Iran. In addition to being a poor method of conducting diplomacy, it's bad politics. It will be spun by the Democrats and their sycophants in the media as just another example of personal animus and racism toward Barack nObama. And it will probably end up being a self-inflicted political wound that could have been avoided. Those who defend it on the basis that Democrats have done it before miss the mark. Since when has imitating Democrats been good practice? A better approach would have been to address the letter to nObama himself and the American public, and publish it in The Washington Post and other newspapers. -The Patriot Post

HILLY TELLS DEMS, PRESS TO SUCK IT UP
Hilly Clinton had a pretty straightforward message for Democrats and the media: Suck it up. She’s all they’ve got. There’s no viable alternative to her other than a Republican president. So they will have to choose whether they will side with her or with the GOP. Clinton even said that she would much rather have been there making partisan attacks on Senate Republicans, but noooooooo… she had to speak about her emails. All of those in the media and in Congress who had cautiously suggested that Clinton should show she was innocent of wrongdoing by coming clean got a big, wet raspberry from the Democratic frontrunner. The woman who has had attendants by her side since the 1980s offered one flimsy excuse – convenience – for having operated a secret email server for government business every day of her tenure as secretary of state. And after that, it was just plain dismissive.
“I’m like two steps short of a hoarder. So, I have an iPad, a mini-iPad, and iPhone, and a blackberry.” –Hillary Clinton courting donors in Silicon Valley last month. -Fox News

Audacity of ‘nope’ - Clinton said she has already destroyed – or, in Clintonian terms, “chose not to keep” – the evidence that would corroborate her claim of transparency. And she will not allow any outside access to the servers. Poof. Hard delete, indeed. Where Richard Nixon claimed the missing minutes from his audio tapes were accidentally erased, Clinton simply said she destroyed the stuff. A tactically better choice than Nixon’s, perhaps, but it’s beyond audacious. Now Republicans can choose whether or not to subpoena the servers, which were designed to leave no traces of deleted items. But she’s not taking any chances. Investigators can now decide whether a lengthy legal fight with the Clintons, possessed of limitless resources and huge influence, is worth it for something the candidate says is already gone. -Fox News

Personal hygiene - The press conference would have been an unmitigated disaster if it were solely about making a defense to the general voting public or making the candidate more appealing. But that’s not why everyone was gathered there on the brown carpet that looked like it had been lifted right out of a motel conference room. Clinton succeeded in the most important area. The Democratic frontrunner told her party and the members of the press who crave access that they could either choose her – “trust me,” she said – or the other side, Republicans. There’s no Barack nObama walking through the door to get them off the hook this time. She’s not changing, she’s not disclosing and she’s not sorry. Clinton’s defiance won praise from some expected precincts and more will cautiously declare themselves convinced by her claim that she is a worthy investigator of herself. And the logic does sort of hold together in an odd way: If you are willing to trust her with the enormous power and privilege of the presidency, why wouldn’t you trust her to redact her own emails? If you think she had latitude to operate in secret as a cabinet secretary, imagine her in the White House. If you’re ready for Hilly, you’re ready to say she did a great job at transparency.
[“The 1990s tactics don’t work in an age where you can’t possibly spin and intimidate 300 million people.” – National Journal columnist Ron Fournier in an interview with the Daily Beast.] -Fox News

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The Mountain Behind Hilly’s Email Molehill

(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - After watching Clinton’s “trainwreck” of a press conference earlier today, he remarked, “I just had this horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that we’ve been here before, and Oh my God, here we go again...Not only did she not answer – she raised a lot more questions.” An AP fact-check found Clinton’s explanations to be less than exculpatory. “This is a big hill,” he continued. “It’s not a molehill. This is a big hill – this email – and the mountain standing behind it are all those contributions from foreign governments and corporations – 26 of whom tried to get work from the State Department.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UfTKVi-Xmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE3K4TtGLto

https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/the-mountain-behind-hillarys-email-molehill-and-a-prescient-2008-prediction-by-christopher-hitchens-video/

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Senator nObama’s '08 Message to Iran Undermines GOP Letter

(Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.) - President nObama set his Vice Presidential attack dog on the forty-seven GOP senators who dared send their March 9th letter to Iran’s leadership warning them any deal signed with Team nObama may be short-lived when a new president comes to office...But loose lips Biden, like his boss, fails to do his homework before making outlandish statements or else chooses conveniently to overlook the facts. According to Pajamas Media columnist Michael Ledeen, in 2008, a Democratic senator sent a personal emissary to Tehran encouraging the mullahs not to sign an agreement with the outgoing Bush Administration as negotiations would take on a much friendlier tone following President Bush’s departure from office. That senator was a presidential candidate at the time. His name was Barack nObama. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/senator-obamas-2008-message-to-iran-undermines-condemnation-of-gop-letter/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email031315&utm_medium=email

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Hilly’s Crime: Section 1001

(J. Christian Adams) - Shannen Coffin, former counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, told Fox’s Megyn Kelly on Wednesday night that there is “no doubt” that former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton committed a felony when she didn’t turn over her email records as she left the State Department...if she signed the usual exit form given to all exiting employees. The State Department’s “Separation Statement,” Form OF-109, can be seen here. It requires the outgoing State Department employee to certify that all “classified or administratively controlled documents and material” have been “surrendered to responsible officials.” But it doesn’t just require the return of classified materials. It also requires the employee to certify that she has “surrendered to responsible officials all unclassified documents and papers relating to the official business of the Government acquired by me while in the employ of the Department.” http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/03/12/hillarys-crime-1001/

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New House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Massive search ahead for documents withheld by Hilly Clinton

(Byron York) - Here's what Republican lawmakers are thinking after news that Hilly Clinton deleted 30,000-plus emails she deemed beyond the range of congressional inquiries...1) During Clinton's four years as secretary of state and after, Congress sent dozens, perhaps hundreds, of document requests, subpoenas and other inquiries to the State Department. 2) Many of those requests, probably the majority of them, covered the secretary of state's office. 3) Congress never received Clinton's emails as part of the Department's response to those requests. 4) Clinton destroyed at least half of her total emails at a time when those requests from Congress — including subpoenas — were fully in effect. 5) Congress wants to know what was withheld. "It's not just Benghazi," says Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "Part of what we need to do is take an inventory of congressional requests, including subpoenas. It appears on the surface that none of the State Department's responses was complete. We're going to go back and ask them again." http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-massive-search-ahead-for-documents-withheld-by-hillary-clinton/article/2561401?utm_campaign=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205&utm_source=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205%20-%2003/12/15&utm_medium=email

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Rasmieh Odeh Sentenced to 18 Months In Prison, Then Deported (investigativeproject.org) - Rasmieh Odeh, a Palestinian woman who conceived of and led a deadly 1969 Jerusalem bombing plot that killed two civilians, has had her citizenship revoked and will serve 18 months in an American prison for naturalization fraud...Prosecutors had asked for her to serve five to seven years. Her defense maintains even her 18-month sentence in prison is "unjust." At Thursday's sentencing hearing, both the courtroom and media overflow rooms were filled to capacity with over a hundred supporters from the larger Arab American community attending the hearing. Her support base anxiously tweeted a rolling commentary on the verbatim transcript of court proceedings being relayed to them online. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4797/rasmieh-odeh-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison

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Hilly’s Damage Control Isn’t Working

(Matthew Vadum) - Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s efforts to douse the growing furor over her possibly illegal private email system are not going well. The nObama White House, which claims the president knew nothing about Clinton’s surreptitious email system, unceremoniously threw the former cabinet member under the bus this week...Hilly, as Americans have come to know, is a shameless, prolific, pathological liar, probably even more than her impeached husband. But who would have thought that after so long in the public eye doing damage control, spending so long cleaning up after Bill Clinton’s seemingly unending “bimbo eruptions,” she would be so inept at handling what might otherwise not be a career-ending scandal? It now seems the email imbroglio could very well be the straw that broke the camel’s back. At the press event Mrs. Clinton continued to deceive and misdirect. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/hillarys-damage-control-isnt-working/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ba5af0a89f-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-ba5af0a89f-156509103

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Lt. Col. Geoffrey Barnes, Detachment 1 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Attack Squadron commander, performs a pre-flight inspection of an MQ-1B Predator unmanned drone aircraft in this file image from September 3, 2008. In the rugged mountains of western Pakistan, missiles launched by unmanned Predator or Reaper drones have become so commonplace that some U.S counterterrorism officials liken them to "cannon fire." (REUTERS/Christopher Griffin/Handout/Files)

America’s Drone War Could Be In MAJOR Trouble

(Casey Harper) - New reports indicate that America’s reliance on drone warfare in the Middle East could be in jeopardy, but not for legal reasons...It’s not politics or ethical investigations that are the latest threat, but the simple fact that drone operators are calling it quits in record numbers. Plagued by the trauma of civilian deaths and a heavy workload, drone operators are quitting faster than they can be replaced, and the Air Force is at a loss on what to do, TomDispatch reports. Currently, about 1,000 drone pilots work in the program, but the Air Force would ideally like to have 1,700. This goal has proven difficult to accomplish, though, since for every 180 pilots that graduate from training annually, 240 quit. http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/10/endangered-nintendo-warriors-americas-drone-war-could-be-in-major-trouble/?utm_campaign=547f4d2f01958a5001000e49&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJjNTliYzIxYy1kM2ZhLTQ5MWMtYjhmZC02M2M2MjhjYzNjZjMifQ%3D%3D

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Now it’s a full-blown Hilly document destruction scandal

(Kemberlee Kaye) - It’s no longer just about using a personal email account and server. Whew, boy. It is not looking pretty. There are several developments on both fronts...the email scandal, and the Clinton Foundation foreign government sugar daddy scandal. But we’ll start with the email.

1. No one read Hilly’s emails before they were presumably destroyed
2. Hilly won’t confirm she signed mandatory form indicating she’d turned over all classified documents (including emails) to the State Department
3. Questions surrounding the digital security of Hilly’s emails mount as Jen Psaki confirms Clinton never used a State Department issued Blackberry
4. Hilly gets a good glimpse of the White House Bus’s undercarriage
5. Last night, we covered a new government report that discovered the State Department only kept 61,156 emails out of over one billion in 2011
6. Could Hilly really do her job without sending classified information?
7. Clinton Foundation staff were paid with taxpayer dollars

And there you have it. Another day in the life of the Clinton family.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/03/now-its-a-full-blown-hillary-document-destruction-scandal/?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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Preparing for the Next Debt Fight

(Doug Bandow) - While the nObama administration lectures Europe about the latter’s fiscal policies, Washington continues to run deficits. The problem is bipartisan. When George W. Bush took office the national debt was $5.8 trillion...hen Barack nObama took over it was $11.9 trillion. Now it is $18.2 trillion. And these numbers will look like the “good ol’ days” when the entitlement tsunami hits in coming years. Interest alone ran $431 billion last year. As interest rates rise to more normal levels, debt payments will be one of the big spending boulders, alongside Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and military. Worse, economist Laurence Kotlikoff figures total unfunded liabilities today run about $200 trillion. But who’s counting? Certainly not the president! http://www.theacru.org/preparing-for-the-next-debt-fight/

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The Founders Didn’t Fail—We Are Failing The Founders

(Benjamin Weingarten) - Conservatives are understandably depressed in the wake of Speaker backstabber Boehner and the Republican-controlled Congress’ predictable caving on executive amnesty...Let me stop right there by emphasizing that I only said conservatives. Were our republic healthy, every single American would be depressed that President nObama’s amnesty—which on dozens of occasions he said he did not have the authority to enforce—will continue apace to the benefit of lawbreakers at the expense of American citizens. Americans would be further demoralized at the notion that our president politicized the sovereignty of our nation represented by failing to protect its borders, all in a transparent attempt to win a permanent Democratic majority—which the shortsighted Republican establishment seem perfectly fine with, since they want immigration and the idea of “those racist Republicans” to become non-issues. Some are lamenting the cowardice of our representatives, and to that I quote a former NFL Coach: “They are who we thought they were!” http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/03/13/the-founders-didnt-fail-we-are-failing-the-founders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29

America's Suicide Note

Burt Prelutsky

       (burtprelutsky.com) - Anyone who’s lived a while has had friends and relatives die, and knows the grief that can overwhelm the survivors. It’s further compounded when the death is a suicide. At such times, you can’t help thinking about what you might have said or done that could have prevented it. That’s how I now feel about America.

     I suppose each of us must determine for himself if the crime taking place is suicide by means of a slow-acting poison or murder that can be laid at the feet of homicidal liberals, but I don’t think there can be any question that America is not long for this world.

     America’s most precious possession, the Constitution, has been dragged through the mud by those whose egotism is so great that they seem to believe that their whims -- whether motivated by honest conviction or for strictly partisan reasons -- trumps what a bunch of divinely-inspired, long dead white guys, came up with a couple of hundred years ago.

     And unlike what passes for leadership these days -- a bunch of braying donkeys and preening peacocks -- who never give a thought to anything beyond their next election, these were men who pledged their sacred honor and meant it, and, moreover, had sacred honor to pledge.

     One can easily imagine America gazing into her mirror, tears running down her cheeks, thinking that even Alzheimer’s might be a blessing. That way the reflection looking back would remind her how grotesque she has become, but she would at least be spared remembering the beauty that she once possessed.

     • In the meantime, I think it is criminal that the Supreme Court justices get to take off for so many months. I realize that several of them are getting on in years, but they’re not doing manual labor. In fact, they barely do any mental labor. All the grunt work is done by their staff. Those are the eager beavers whose job it is to hunt down precedence and write up briefs, and then get to brag for the next 50 years that they worked for a judge who owed his judicial career to some political hack.

     It seems to me that when the President or members of Congress question the constitutionality of an executive edict or a piece of legislation, it should be fast-tracked to the Supreme Court. Why should it have to go through lower courts when everyone knows the final decision is inevitably going to rest with the Supremes? It’s obviously far more important to decide whether nObama had the authority to change the Affordable Care Act a dozen times or grant executive amnesty to five million illegal aliens than whether the justices give their blessing to same-sex marriages.

     And just maybe if the justices didn’t take four month vacations, they’d have time to do both.

     • I used to think that there should be a way to prevent everyone named Kennedy from seeking political office. I have now come to add the names of Bush and Clinton to that short list. With over 300 million people in the country, I’m sure we can do better.

     • Speaking of people named Clinton, in spite of having signed a pledge not to accept bribes -- I mean, contributions -- from foreign nations while Hilly was serving as Secretary of State, it now appears that the Clinton Foundation was raking in all they could grab from Algeria, Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Australia and Oman, between 2009 and 2013.

     What is it about that particular job that it keeps getting filled by people from the bottom of the barrel? As bad as Mrs. Clinton was, we now have Hanoi John Kerry, who is in the process of giving the store away to Iran, the country that has done more to support Islamic terrorism than even Saudi Arabia, just so nObama can brag that he got a nuclear deal signed with the mullahs. The big question about Hanoi Kerry is how anyone who slandered American soldiers in the 1970s, and lied about his own military service, can wind up running the State Department in 2015.

     The ugly truth is that Hanoi Kerry has said far viler things about his fellow Americans than he ever has about those currently beheading and frying Christians.

     Someone once suggested that people get the government they deserve. If true, imagine what that says about us.

     • In other news, when Stephen Hawking recently decided to boycott an Israeli conference as a way to display his sympathies with the so-called Palestinians, some people wondered how such a brilliant fellow can also be a Jew-hater. How, they muse, can such a brainy chap align himself not only with those who elected Hamas to govern them, but to spit on those who invented the miraculous microchip that allows him to speak?

     The answer is that brilliance in one area -- outer space in this case -- doesn’t mean that one can’t be a nincompoop in every other area. Brilliance is a nice gift, but it’s really no substitute for wisdom and commonsense.

     Hawking’s decision also highlights the fact that the two places where you can’t swing a cat without hitting an anti-Semite are the Middle East and among the English intelligentsia.

     What I find most startling about this state of affairs isn’t that the likes of Hawking, Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, to name but a few, hate Jews. In England, as in most of the European nations, hating Jews is what passes for tradition. Sometimes, I even suspect it’s the only exercise they get. The real mystery is that in doing so, they feel the need to identify themselves with the backward savages who subjugate women and homosexuals, do everything in their power to stifle free speech and religious freedom, and, with rather delicious irony, happen to openly despise science, arts and entertainment, and those who are so engaged.

     • Finally, I am passing along something that has gone viral, but you may have missed it. It is rumored that Pete Carroll, the coach of the Seattle Seahawks, is apparently ready to sign on as a special consultant to Pope Francis.

     It seems the Pope wishes to recruit Carroll to be an envoy for the Vatican because he is the first man in history who, on Sunday, February 1st, 2015, caused 100 million people to jump up and yell “Jesus Christ!” in unison.

http://www.burtprelutsky.com/2015/03/americas-suicide-note.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burtprelutsky%2FSQlQ+%28BurtPrelutsky.com%29

Birthright Citizenship: Politics vs Rule of Law

Posted by Jim Delaney on March 14, 2015 at 3:19pm

In 2010, and after much research, I wrote two posts regarding birthright citizenship, a subject which has again taken on considerable importance in the Senate. GIven Sen. Vitter's introduction of the "Birthright Citizenship Act" which would end the practice, I honestly believe this post would be especially useful to clear-eyed readers among us. (Caution: If you're an open-border and birthright citizenship advocate, you'd best keep your blinders on. The facts may be too painful for you to bear.) Here is the post:

We’ve all heard the stats: currently, only the United States grants birthright citizenship to illegal aliens and 8% of babies born in the US are so-called “anchor babies” born of illegal aliens. In and of itself, this doesn’t constitute a crisis, but, for many of us, it does illustrate how far we’ve strayed from the Constitution.

Like all babies, “anchor babies” too are sweet and cuddly, and deserving of mother’s love and society’s protection. But automatically conferring citizenship on babies of illegal aliens is an ideologically-motivated perversion not only of internationally accepted legal norms, but, much more importantly, of both the Constitution and the 14th Amendment as well.

By nimbly mischaracterizing the motives of birthright citizenship opponents, many in the media and blogosphere—to include attorneys who should know better-- have irresponsibly misrepresented the framers’ intent and have reduced the level of discourse on this legitimate constitutional issue to that of ad hominem, race-baiting, specious legal citations, contrived legal justifications, and mindless pandering. Shamelessly seeking ideological and political supremacy, to these people the Constitution and the rule of law mean absolutely nothing. And for a nation which once prided itself as being a “nation of laws”, that is inexcusable.

That said, for my own edification I decided to take the time to review the actual words of the 14th’s framers, pertinent case law and the opinions of jurists and legal scholars on both sides of the question to determine the truth in this matter.

Here, in choppy-brief form, are my findings and conclusions:

First, while researching pertinent materials, I soon discovered that understanding the clear intent and meaning of the 14th Amendment was much simpler than anticipated. In fact, the meaning of the 14th was surprisingly straightforward. Lesson learned: if one simply abandons one’s ideological blinders for a moment and commit to an honest effort to objectively review a constitutional issue, clarity is nearly always one’s reward.

It also became apparent that from a strictly Constitutional standpoint, and despite Lindsey Graham’s initial assertion that a constitutional amendment is needed to outlaw anchor babies, aka birthright (jus soli) citizenship, I was unable to find convincing constitutional evidence that so-called anchor babies can legitimately and automatically acquire U.S citizenship. Thus, a simple act of congress--and most certainly NOT an amendment to the Constitution—in order to clarify the original intent and meaning of the 14th Amendment is all that is really needed.

To wit, introduced on April 2nd, 2009, and co-sponsored by 93 congressmen, inclusive of one lonely Democratic supporter, Mississippi’s Gene Taylor, HR 1868 (Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009) amends section 301 of the Immigration & Nationality Act to provide that a person born in the US is “subject to the jurisdiction” of the US for citizenship purposes if the person is born in the US of parents, one of whom is: 1) a US citizen or national; 2) a lawful permanent resident alien who resides in the US; or 3) an alien performing military service in the US Armed Forces.” And if one simply reviews the original meaning of the 14th Amendment one can easily see that there is absolutely nothing at all earth-shattering, divergent or revolutionary in that language.

Intended to protect the rights of emancipated Negroes, the 14th Amendment specifically provided that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.”

And as I very quickly learned, of central importance in this statement is the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”, something birthright citizenship proponents have consistently and very conveniently ignored.

To begin, Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan, a co-author of the 14th Amendment, expressly asserted that “this will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.” And it is this rough grammatical construction which, to birthright proponents, provides convenient ambiguity and cover. Did Howard mean foreigners/aliens who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers, or did he mean foreigners AND aliens who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers? A fair question which was soon clarified by him and other co-framers.
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Under Section 1992 of the US Revised Statutes, the same Congress which adopted the 14th Amendment confirmed that “all persons born in the United States who are not aliens, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States.”

In 1873, the US Atty Gen ruled the word “jurisdiction” under the Fourteenth Amendment to mean “the absolute and complete jurisdiction. Aliens, among whom are persons born here and naturalized abroad, dwelling or being in this country, are subject to the jurisdiction of the US but only to a limited extent. Political and military rights do not pertain to them.”

Sen. Trumbell noted during the drafting of the 14th Amendment that it was the Amendment’s goal to “make citizens of everybody born in the US who owe allegiance to the US,” and if “the negro or white man belonged to a foreign government he would not be a citizen.”

On March 1, 1866, Rep. James Wilson of Iowa, House Judiciary Committee, added that “we must depend on the general law relating to subjects and citizens recognized by all nations for a definition, and that must lead us to conclude that every person born in the US is a natural-born citizen of such States, except that of children born on our soil (jus soli) to temporary sojourners or representatives of foreign governments.” This seems to have nicely clarified Sen. Howard’s somewhat ambiguous construction above.

John Bingham, framer of the 14th Amendment’s first section, stated that Sec. 1992 of the Revised Statutes meant “every human being born within the jurisdiction of the US of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of the Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”

And if we reach way back to our founders in search of a definition of citizens of a foreign power, Thomas Jefferson said “Aliens are the subjects of a foreign power.”

To a man, among the framers the premise behind “within the jurisdiction thereof” was that all children born to parents who owed no foreign allegiance were to be citizens of the US; thus, not only must a child be born on US soil (jus soli) but born within the complete allegiance of the US politically and not merely under its laws.

Subsequently, Sen. Howard further explained that “only thru expatriation, which could be accomplished thru law alone, and not thru any immigrant acting on his own outside the law—and certainly not by any act of birth alone—could an alien become a citizen.” This, of course, would mean that the alien/sojourner would need to affirmatively renounce his allegiance to his/her country of origin before s/he could be considered completely within the jurisdiction of the US.

Sen. Howard also stated the following: “…the word 'jurisdiction', as here employed, ought to be construed so as to imply a full and complete jurisdiction on the part of the US, coextensive in all respects with the constitutional power of the US, whether exercised by Congress, the executive, or the judiciary; that is to say, the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the US now.” In effect, he was saying that an alien may, by treaty arrangements with his country of origin, avail himself of the protection of the US, much as sojourning US citizens in the alien’s country of origin would avail themselves of that country’s protection.

The rationale behind not granting automatic citizenship is based upon the fact that Indians could not be subject to the jurisdiction of the US because the US dealt with them through treaties. By logical extension, aliens sojourning in the US are extended privileges and protections by virtue of treaties in force with their countries of origin, much as American citizens are granted similar rights and privileges—but not citizenship--when sojourning in those countries. Logically, therefore, only if an alien voluntarily and affirmatively renounces his citizenship and expresses an intent to swear allegiance to the US may the alien, through operation of law (a formal naturalization process) be granted US citizenship. Thus, in a nutshell, since neither children of tourists/sojourners nor of diplomats born in the US can be US citizens, by what stretch can children of illegals be automatically granted that privilege?

In 1867, George Yeaman, American Minister to Denmark, in his highly respected treatise on allegiance and citizenship and for whom the framers seemed to have great respect, asserted that “the idea of a double allegiance and citizenship united in the same person, and having reference to two separate, independent, and sovereign nations or governments, is simply an impossibility.” Thus, dual citizenship was also a no-no. (Take note, BHO.)

To wit, P. A. Madison, a modern day master of constitutional analysis, points out that “since illegal aliens are unlawfully in the US, their native country has a proper and primary claim of allegiance on the child. Thus, the completeness of their allegiance to the US is impaired, which therefore precludes automatic citizenship.” Slam dunk obvious, I’d say.

Also, Rep. Aaron Sargent, a representative from California during the Naturalization Act of 1870 debates, said the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause was not a de-facto right for aliens to obtain citizenship. Significantly, none of his contemporaries raised any objection, or otherwise disputed that assertion.

Adding to this mix, here is a little case law since the 14th’s ratification.

In the Slaughterhouse Cases(1873), the Supreme Court observed that the 14th Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by making all persons born within the United States and subject to its jurisdiction, citizens of the US; the ruling went on to point out “that [the 14th Amendment’s] main purpose was to establish the citizenship of the Negro” and that “the phrase ‘subject to its jurisdiction’ was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, AND citizens or subjects of foreign states born within the United States.” Thus, another clarification of Sen. Howard’s somewhat ambiguous construction above. So, since they cannot be subject to US jurisdiction, children of citizens of foreign sovereignties and children of foreign ministers/consuls/ambassadors cannot be considered US Citizens. Makes perfect sense.

Then, in Elk v Wilkins (1884), the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment did not even confer citizenship on Indians—because they were subject to tribal jurisdiction, not U.S. jurisdiction. In effect, the court essentially stated that the status of the parents determines the citizenship of the child, and not merely the fortuitous birth of that child on American soil. (Note: not until the Citizens Act of 1924 was U S citizenship granted to Indians. As with many whimsical court rulings over the years, I was unable to understand the legal grounding for this reversal. Thus, it would seem that arbitrariness is not an affliction peculiar to modern day American courts alone.

In US v Wong Kim Ark (1889), the courts held that children born in the US of parents of foreign descent who, at the time of the child’s birth are subjects of a foreign power but who have a permanent domicile and residence in the US and are carrying on business in the US, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under a foreign power, and are not members of foreign forces in hostile occupation of US territory, become a citizen of the US at the time of birth. As expressed in the minority opinion, the decision violated the 14th Amendment. But, in any case, how many new illegal aliens have permanent domiciles in the US and how many of them are carrying on business in the US? (A lawful business, that is.) I suspect precious few. But note that in this case the parents were, unlike illegal entrants, legally present.

In Steel v Citizens for a Better Environment (1998), the court stated that “jurisdiction is a word of many, too many, meanings.” However, Sen. Trumbell and, yes, Sen. Howard, 14th Amendment authors, had long before provided a definition by declaring that “the provision is, that all persons born in the United States, and ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’’, are citizens. That means ‘subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof. What do we mean by ‘complete jurisdiction thereof? Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means.” From the horses’ mouths. Clearly, jurists in the Steel v Citizens court didn’t bother to research the framers’ intent and meaning.

But, despite the foregoing, we fast forward to the somewhat enigmatic ruling in US ex rel. Hintopoulis v Shaughnessy (1982), which some bloggers have used to justify birthright citizenship. In that case, and out of whole cloth, somewhere in the ruling it asserted, almost in passing, that although a child born in the US to two illegal aliens was a US Citizen (????) that, nonetheless, “suspending the alien parents’ deportation based upon “the accident of birth in the US of their son would be to deprive others, who are patiently awaiting visas…” Thus, since the passing allusion to the legality of birthright citizenship, though gratuitous—and erroneous—was woven into this suspension of deportation decision, birthright proponents often blithely cite this case to substantiate the incontestable legality of birthright citizenship. Don’t ask.

Then, true to activist form, in Plyler v Doe (1982) the court, somehow without ready access to the framers’ erudition and written words, mysteriously ruled 5-4 that there is “no plausible distinction” with respect to “jurisdiction” between resident aliens who entered the country lawfully and those resident aliens who entered unlawfully. Wow. Again, don’t ask. Clearly a yawning divergence from the framers’ clear meaning and intent. Seems judicial activism was as alive and well in 1982 as it is today.

To me, these two rulings which capriciously and arrogantly turned Thomas Jefferson and the framers of the 14th on their heads are clearly unlawful at worst, convenient contrivances at best.

When I explained all this on-line to an attorney who is also a strong proponent of birth right citizenship, this was her reply: “I disagree with your interpretation of the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof'. The first rule of statutory construction is that we don’t look to the drafters’ intent if the words are plain and unambiguous…If the drafters meant to include some allegiance test, they would have. They didn’t.” That sort of revisionism, willful ignorance and dishonesty is, folks, what this country is up against. My rejoinder was civil, but to the point: “It wasn’t MY lowly interpretation. It was the framers’ interpretation. But, ignore original intent and meaning? A living constitution is like having no constitution at all. We can merely make it up as we go along and continue to hand-off an increasingly irrelevant document to the next generation. While I sincerely hope this isn’t what you have in mind, at this juncture I can see there’s really nothing more to discuss with you on this or any other constitutional issues. How very sad.”

Finally, in my humble opinion, and based upon what I understand to have been the 14th framers’ clear intent and meaning, passage of Louisiana Senator Vitter's "Birthright Citizenship Act" which would virtually eliminate this unlawful practice, would finally restore clear intent and meaning of the 14th Amendment—surely a tall order with so many activists and social engineers infesting our courts these days.

Saturday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 14, 2015 at 10:18am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

The ayatollah in winter

Clifford D. May

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

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Is the Threat of an Ammo Ban Past

A bit of good news out of The Swamp for a change. The ATF says it's scrapping plans to ban a popular round of ammunition after loads of negative public feedback. The Associated Press reports, "The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says the agency received more than 80,000 public comments on the proposal to outlaw some types of 5.56 mm rounds, or .223 caliber. The agency says the comments were overwhelmingly critical of the proposal." The ban was (supposedly) motivated by the "discovery" that "pistols" can now shoot armor-piercing ammo, but perhaps the ATF feared a successful court challenge to the National Firearms Act's definition of "pistol." Certainly, Second Amendment defenders think the NFA is in many ways incompatible with the Supreme Court's Heller ruling. But is this really good news, or just a tactical retreat? According to the ATF, "Although ATF endeavored to create a proposal that reflected a good faith interpretation of the law and balanced the interests of law enforcement, industry, and sportsmen, the vast majority of the comments received to date are critical of the framework, and include issues that deserve further study. Accordingly, ATF will not at this time seek to issue a final framework [emphasis added]. After the close of the comment period, ATF will process the comments received, further evaluate the issues raised therein, and provide additional open and transparent process (for example, through additional proposals and opportunities for comment) before proceeding with any framework." So it really isn't over. Stay tuned for Mark Alexander's analysis of the situation later today. -The Patriot Post

Social Security Records Show Existence of 6.5M Zombies

It's strike two against the Social Security Administration. First, the agency wrote to Sen. Ron Johnson, telling him it was still implementing Barack nObama's executive actions granting legal status to millions of illegal immigrants. Now, an investigation showed the agency did not prosecute illegal immigrants it found committing fraud with Social Security numbers belonging to citizens who died. According to a report by the agency's Inspector General, "In three cases, [the Office of Investigators] confirmed that illegal aliens were using deceased numberholders' names and SSNs to work, but U.S. Attorneys in Arizona, Florida, and South Carolina declined prosecution." The report goes on to say there are 6.5 million Social-Security-card-carrying citizens who are over the age 112. Right. But then there's this example: In 2008, a man whose Social Security number indicated he was 122 applied for a job in Arizona, even though the SSA's payment records show it stopped paying him benefits in 1965. Either there was a zombie collecting a salary in Arizona, or the SSA's shoddy record keeping has allowed fraud to fester. More...

-The Patriot Post

Walker and nObama Tussle Over Right-to-Work

After Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed right-to-work legislation Monday, Barack nObama bashed the Republican presidential hopeful. "Wisconsin is a state built by labor, with a proud pro-worker past," nObama said. "So even as its governor claims victory over working Americans, I'd encourage him to try and score a victory for working Americans -- by taking meaningful action to raise their wages and offer them the security of paid leave. That's how you give hardworking middle-class families a fair shot in the new economy -- not by stripping their rights in the workplace, but by offering them all the tools they need to get ahead." Walker quickly fired back. "On the heels of vetoing Keystone Pipeline legislation, which would have paved the way to create thousands of quality, middle-class jobs, the President should be looking to states, like Wisconsin, as an example for how to grow our economy," Walker replied in a statement. "Despite a stagnant national economy and a lack of leadership in Washington, since we took office, Wisconsin's unemployment rate is down to 5.0 percent, and more than 100,000 jobs and 30,000 businesses have been created." nObama has spent more than six years undermining working Americans all while claiming to be in their corner -- his magic "middle-class economics." But higher taxes based on class warfare aren't going to grow the economy. Encouraging work will. -The Patriot Post

It Takes No Fewer Than 170 Days to Fire Federal Workers

Government employment usually entails good job security. Consider the EPA, where spending up to six hours per day looking at x-rated websites isn't enough to get employees fired -- even a year after the story broke. No matter which federal department or agency you represent, existing rules ensure that accountability is difficult to enforce, particularly when it comes to veteran workers. Based on a Government Accountability Office report published Monday, "A minimum of 170 days is required to fire a federal employee for poor performance, if a government agency properly follows the required dismissal process," The Washington Free Beacon reveals. Administrators who follow chapter 43 of the United States Code allow misbehaving employees upwards of 110 days to make amends. And if that doesn't work? "After dismissal, the employee is then given the opportunity to appeal, which itself takes an average of 243 days to complete," the Beacon adds. "Alternatively, agencies can use chapter 75, which is 'largely similar to chapter 43.' Chapter 75 is generally faster since it does not require time to allow the employee to improve, but the 'burden of proof for sustaining a dismissal' is higher." The infamous EPA porn-watcher by his own admission downloaded and viewed more than 7,000 files. What more "burden of proof" does the government need? More... -The Patriot Post

University Violated Speech Rights of Racist Frat Boys

University of Oklahoma violated the First Amendment rights of two frat boys when it expelled them after they were videotaped leading a racist chant. Over the weekend, the school's student newspaper published a story after it obtained video footage of a group of Sigma Alpha Epsilon frat boys chanting that "there will never be a n----- at SAE." But the university's discipline of the students may have just elevated the students to free speech martyrdom. Legal scholar Eugene Volokh writes, "First, racist speech is constitutionally protected, just as is expression of other contemptible ideas; and universities may not discipline students based on their speech. That has been the unanimous view of courts that have considered campus speech codes and other campus speech restrictions. ... The same, of course, is true for fraternity speech, racist or otherwise." But in the nanny-state that is often called higher education, administration officials simply see students as children, whose rights they can violate at will. A better discipline would have been to call out the perpetrators -- by name -- in the square of public ideas. More...

-The Patriot Post

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Border Union Chief on Terrorist Threat: “…It Will Be Worse

(Sara Noble) - A border union chief believes without doubt that we are facing terrorist attacks worse than 9/11 because of the president’s liberal programs which allow people to come into the United States without proper vetting...National Citizenship and Immigration Service union president, Kenneth Palinkas, said deportations are “extremely down”. The deportation program is “catch and release”, Palinkas explained. Unless the detainee is convicted of a heinous crime and the person is an aggravated felon, they are detained for about 9 months and..” The administration gets to decide the disposition of the case. They can no longer bring the case before a judge. As adjudicating officers, they [agents] did have the authority to bring them before an immigration judge. They can no longer do that.

http://www.independentsentinel.com/border-union-chief-on-terrorist-threat-i-guarantee-it-will-be-worse-than-911/

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Fed Inspector General Reopens Leak Investigation

(Jake Bernstein) - The Federal Reserve Board’s inspector general has reopened an investigation into a two-year-old leak of confidential monetary information amid rising Congressional scrutiny into how the Fed has handled the matter, ProPublica has learned...Sources told ProPublica that the IG’s action came March 4 and was based on new information. Investigators had closed the leak inquiry last December after initiating it in March 2013. Congressional attention to the leak has grown in recent weeks. On Wednesday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, joined those demanding more details about how the leak investigation was handled. http://www.propublica.org/article/fed-inspector-general-reopens-leak-investigation?utm_source=et&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&utm_content

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'Muslim Brotherhood princess' used Clinton email server

(wnd.com) - At least three of Hilly Clinton’s top aides – including one with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood – used emails hosted on Clinton’s private server while she was secretary of state, according to several reports...At a news conference Tuesday at the U.N., Clinton directly addressed media about the revelation that she conducted her business as secretary of state using a private email account instead of the secure and archived government system. She acknowledged she deleted thousands of personal emails and said she turned over hard copies of messages to the State Department that she deemed to be work related. But Clinton apparently wasn’t the only one at the State Department using private email. http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/muslim-brotherhood-princess-used-clinton-email-server/

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FCC Net Neutrality “nObamaNet” Rules Finally Released

(theconservativetreehouse.com) - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just released the full text of their net neutrality rules. The rules were approved two weeks ago amid much controversy...The exhaustive document they have released includes statements from the five FCC commissioners. The rules are 313 pages, and were approved on a 3-2 vote. The FCC essentially has reclassified broadband Internet as a telecommunications service in order to regulate. Internet service providers are now regulated – they may not block, slow or prioritize any part of Internet traffic above another. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/03/12/fcc-net-neutrality-obamanet-rules-finally-released-313-page-pdf/

To see the document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/258495851/FCC-Net-Neutrality-Order

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Sharia at University of New Mexico: “Resolution 6S” passes

(pamelageller.com) - This is what sharia law looks like in America. Sheep to slaughter. Muslim anti-semitism on college campuses is rampant, but you never see resolutions, newspaper articles, prohibitions on that nazism...One of the students wrote me, “I think you would be interested to know that Islamophobia is now officially at my school, the University of New Mexico. The same place where Nonie Darwish was harassed in 2012. Apparently a few days ago, a “Resolution 6S” was passed. Now anyone who opposes Islam is an ‘islamophobe’ at UNM.” It speaks volumes that this resolution comes in the wake of the North Carolina parking dispute. A nasty neighbor’s rage over use of his parking space becomes “islamophobia,” even though the shooter said more than once that he preferred Muslims to Christians. And it didn’t take place on a college campus, either. It had nothing to do with Islam. http://pamelageller.com/2015/03/sharia-enforcement-at-university-of-new-mexico-resolution-6s-passes.html/

6.

Navy SEAL On Hilly Clinton: Lies, Lies, Lies

(Dylan) - Brian Williams has been all over the news lately. And while he’s getting the shaming he deserves, don’t think for a second that there aren’t thousands of other people out there selling you lies every single day...And I want to make sure you don’t lose sight of another liar who thinks she can use the heroism of our nation’s armed forces to promote herself as the next commander in chief. Hilly was willing to lie in order to take advantage of that feeling of gratitude and awe Americans have for those who serve: ‘Oh, I was under sniper fire, and I know what it feels like to be in war.’ When she was called out for lying in that speech, she tried to make excuses saying she misspoke or her memory was hazy and she’s only human. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/03/12/watch-navy-seal-on-hillary-clinton-lies-lies-lies-and-her-fake-sniper-story/

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Hilly’s Neighbor Put Up ‘For Sale’ Sign that Perfectly Sums Up...

(Joseph Perticone) - One of the Clintons’ neighbors is doing some serious trolling. First spotted by the NY Daily News, a resident of Chappaqua, New York, put up a sign advertising a “used email server,”...in an effort to zing the scandal-embroiled politico. The Clintons maintain a permanent residence in Chappaqua, where Gary Murphy placed his sign (along with an old computer hard drive). The hard drive does not belong to the Clintons, but was staged as a practical joke to make a political statement. Murphy explained why he pulled the stunt: “I guess I wasn’t satisfied with the answers she gave.” http://www.ijreview.com/2015/03/268983-hillary-clintons-neighbor-unconventional-yard-sale/

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Quit Lying And Answer The Question

(rickwells.us) - State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki works hard at her job of misleading the American people and what’s left of a free press in America. She doesn’t take kindly to being pinned down and forced to answer a question that she has tried mightily to wiggle her way around...Psaki was asked in a most reasonable and professional manner by a reporter whether or not the constitutional requirement that the Senate advise and consent on treaties had played a role in the regime’s decision to go with a non-binding agreement rather than a full-blown treaty. Since the Senate has put the White House on notice that they will not simply rubber-stamp whatever deal the regime is attempting to craft with Iran regardless of the contents, it seems that the content might indeed be found objectionable. In typical dictatorial fashion, the decision was made to opt for a unilateral arrangement that doesn’t require and circumvents Senatorial involvement. http://www.rickwells.us/quit-lying-and-answer-the-question-snippy-state-dept-spokeswoman-yes-or-no-response-circumventing-congress/

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nObama Admin May Take Iran Deal To United Nation - The Kelly File

(rickwells.us) - If anyone was naïve enough to still harbor doubts about the true nature of the beast residing in the citizens’ White House, his latest actions should be enough to convince them to accept the ugly truth...That truth is that nObama is a globalist, a proponent of world government who does not value nor does he so much as recognize the legitimate sovereignty of the United States. He views our nation as being subordinate to the United Nations as the rightful world government body. nObama’s a notorious liar whose words mean nothing. His actions speak loudly and his decision to involve the United Nations Security Council, which includes the Communist Nations of Russia and China, as a replacement for the United States Congress exposes his nature in no uncertain terms. nObama is working to install UN dominion over our nation. Whether this current reported plan to go to the United Nations is part of an effort to elevate them in stature and function or simply is indicative of his true beliefs, the reality is unmistakable. nObama is a serious threat to United States sovereignty. He’s once again attempting to circumvent the Constitution. He cares nothing about our laws, our traditions, our founding documents or our future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wf3LPptZVE

http://www.rickwells.us/obama-exposes-globalist-beliefs-in-circumventing-congress-taking-iran-deal-to-world-government-of-united-nations/#prettyPhoto

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One Of nObama’s New Preferred “Citizens”

(rickwells.us) - One of the new replacement “citizens” that Hussein nObama and Jeh Johnson are working feverishly to import into the United States is a recent arrival within the last four weeks...His name is Ramiro Ajualip, an illegal alien who is now facing charges of rape and sodomy upon a ten year old girl. The incident took place in Russellville, AL on February 27th. Police say Ajualip has admitted both to the being an illegal alien as well as the sexual assault of the young girl. The girl has endured a brutal attack at the hands of a friend of the family and in no way bears any blame or responsibility for what happened to her. Her parents on the other hand, who invited the criminal into their home and sheltered him illegally in violation of our immigration laws, deserve no sympathy for creating a situation in which the attack took place. They can live with the reality of the role they played in the rape of their daughter for the rest of their lives. http://www.rickwells.us/one-of-obamas-new-preferred-citizens-just-here-to-support-his-family-and-rape-sodomize-little-girls/

The ayatollah in winter

Clifford D. May

(jewishworldreview.com) - The Lord works in mysterious ways. That sentence does not appear in the Koran. Nor, actually, is it found in the Bible. But in recent days it has probably occurred to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader.

On the one hand, he is reportedly suffering from cancer, an advanced stage. On the other hand, he is tantalizing close to winning battles he has been fighting for more than a quarter-century, since he assumed the mantle of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, charismatic leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Most significant: His negotiators appear to be on the brink of concluding a deal with President nObama, who will suspend economic sanctions without congressional input (although the most onerous sanctions can be terminated only by Congress) and, in effect, guarantee Iran the right to possess nuclear weapons in the not-too-distant future.

In exchange, he is not being required to dismantle his illicit nuclear weapons program or stop sponsoring terrorism. He is only being asked to slow-walk the program. What if he agrees and then violates the agreement and the Americans find out? I doubt that worries him.

"I am not a diplomat. I am a revolutionary," the supreme leader said two years ago. Paradoxically, that may be among the reasons Iranian diplomacy has been so effective. He drew red lines and wouldn't move them. By contrast, his American and European enemies - he does not view them as "negotiating partners" - displayed flexibility in pursuit of "conflict resolution." You might call this asymmetric diplomacy.

It has been obvious that Mr. nObama - who began writing letters to him in 2009 - was more eager than he to conclude a deal; more fearful of what might follow should the talks collapse. Over time, the American president's definition of success grew modest: It would suffice to end up with a piece of paper that the naive could believe guarantees peace for our time - our time being roughly 10 years, when a "sunset" clause in the pending agreement kicks in and most restrictions on Iran's nuclear program vanish.

During the course of the negotiations, Ayatollah Khamenei must have been encouraged - if not surprised - to find that nothing he and his deputies did provoked the Americans. For example, last year Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif placed a wreath on the grave of Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah leader believed responsible for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut that together killed 268 Americans, as well as attacks in the 1990s on the Israeli embassy and a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 114.

This past weekend, Iran announced a new surface-to-surface cruise missile system, an important addition to its arsenal of long-range rockets. Research continues on intercontinental ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads to American targets. And earlier this month, Iranian forces destroyed a replica U.S. aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world's petroleum passes. A general in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the exercise was intended to send a "message."

Mr. nObama's messages have been rather different. He has been instructing Congress not to pass legislation mandating additional sanctions in the event Iranian intransigence continues. Last week, Robert Menendez, the Democratic senator most adamant about stopping the Islamic republic from obtaining nuclear weapons, was accused of corruption by Mr. nObama's Justice Department.

I suspect the supreme leader is clever enough to appreciate how lucky he has been to have America as his enemy. President George W. Bush took on the task of deposing Iran's nemesis, Saddam Hussein. That achieved, Iraq might have been transformed into a U.S. ally, providing the Americans with a permanent military base right next door and in the heart of the Arab Middle East.

Mr. nObama chose instead to withdraw U.S. troops - essentially inviting the supreme leader to step in, which he did, supporting Iraq's Shiites and the suppression of Iraq's Sunnis. One consequence: the growth of the Islamic State, a Sunni jihadi movement and rival to the Islamic republic. The United States is helping confront the Islamic State - which means the U.S. is assisting Iranian-backed Shiite militias similar to the ones that a few years ago were killing American troops in Iraq.

Thanks to the supreme leader's bold policies, Iran is now the dominant power in four Arab capitals: Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Sana'a. Hamas, which rules Gaza, maintains close ties to Tehran, which sends weapons when it can. For example, in March 2014 the Israeli navy stopped a commercial ship called the Klos-C, which was filled with Syrian long-range rockets.

Israel, along with America's Arab allies in the region, e.g., Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, worry that Mr. nObama means to form a de facto alliance with Iran - one that could be maintained only at their expense. That may bring a smile to the lips of the supreme leader.

Perhaps the smile fades, though, as he ponders this irony: He has given his life to what Saeed Ghasseminejad, an Iranian dissident in exile and a colleague of mine at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, calls "a holy mission." Like Moses, he has led his followers to the Promised Land - a land not of milk and honey but of power and glory. Also like Moses, he may not be able to accompany them on the final journey. Western intelligence sources quoted by the French newspaper Le Figaro estimate the 75-year-old cleric has no more than "two years left to live."

Yes, the Lord works in mysterious ways. But a man of faith accepts that, counts his blessings, and submits to the Divine Will.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0315/may031115.php3

JIHAD WATCH

Posted by William M. Finley on March 14, 2015 at 8:32am

Spanish police arrest eight Muslims suspected of planning attacks in Spain and recruiting for Islamic State

MARCH 13, 2015 11:32 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER17 COMMENTS

Muslims? How odd. Everyone knows that the Islamic State has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. So many misunderstanders of Islam are out there today — what programs do mosques and Islamic schools have in place to prevent all this misunderstanding of Islam? What? None? Now, why is that? “Spain arrests eight suspected Islamist militants […]

France: Muslims assault, rob Jewish teens outside synagogue, screaming “dirty Jews, we will exterminate all of you”

MARCH 13, 2015 6:03 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER15 COMMENTS

Behold the future of France, and of all of Europe. “Jewish Teens Assaulted, Robbed Outside French Synagogue,” by Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva, March 12, 2015: The French National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) reported that two Jewish teens were assaulted and robbed while leaving a synagogue in Marseille, and as a result of the […]

Australia: Muslim cleric quotes Qur’an to incite Muslims against Jews, “strongest people in enmity towards the believers”

MARCH 13, 2015 1:16 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER21 COMMENTS

“You shall find the strongest people in enmity towards the believers to the Jews and the polytheists.” That’s Qur’an 5:82. “Fight them until there is no fitna [‘strife’], and religion belongs to Allah alone.” That’s Qur’an 8:39. “Fitna is worse than killing.” That’s Qur’an 2:191 and 2:217. Will some moderate Muslim leader please explain how […]

Saturday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 14, 2015 at 3:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

What the White House

Might Not See about Iran

Denis MacEoin

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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McCon-nell Promises to Raise Debt Ceiling

Raise the debt ceiling? No problem, says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell. "I made it very clear after the November election that we're certainly not going to shut down the government or default on the national debt," McCon-nell said Sunday. "We will figure some way to handle that. And, hopefully, it might carry some other important legislation that we can agree on in connection with it." At issue is, yet again, the legal limit on the nation's debt. Last year, lawmakers opted for a "debt ceiling holiday" instead of a specific statutory limit increase, but the holiday ends March 15. The national debt stands at nearly $18.2 trillion, up from $10.6 trillion at Barack nObama's inauguration, but it's still not enough. Instead of putting up a fight after gaining control of both chambers of Congress, McCon-nell said the GOP would rather just play nice. It's not that shutting down the government is the desirable strategy every time Republicans disagree with nObama, but they have repeatedly shown deathly fear of the very idea. nObama knows that, which only strengthens his resolve and makes each of these fights more of a farce. Republicans gained exactly nothing last time, and now they appear to be chickening out in advance. -The Patriot Post

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SCOTUS Upholds Religious Liberty in nObamaCare Case

Before the Hobby Lobby case, the court system told the University of Notre Dame it had to comply with nObamaCare's contraception mandate -- even if doing so violated the Catholic university's collective conscience. But in a ruling by the Supreme Court Monday, the case was sent back to the lower court with instructions that the court must decide the case based on the Hobby Lobby ruling. Mark Rienzi, senior counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said, "This is a major blow to the federal government's contraception mandate. For the past year, the Notre Dame decision has been the centerpiece of the government's effort to force religious ministries to violate their beliefs or pay fines to the IRS. As with the Supreme Court's decisions in Little Sisters of the Poor and Hobby Lobby, this is a strong signal that the Supreme Court will ultimately reject the government's narrow view of religious liberty." The court is willing to buck the nObama administration on nObamaCare for the sake of religious Liberty. Hopefully, it will, in a similar manner, decide to buck politics in its King v. Burwell ruling. More... -The Patriot Post

Under NV Law, Gun Carrying Homes Can't Give Foster Care

Brian and Valerie Wilson are at the forefront of the effort to change foster care policies in Nevada. The couple -- who started carrying handguns after an attempted home invasion -- wanted to become foster care parents, but they were denied because Nevada rejects applications from couples if they have gun permits. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who cosponsored a bill changing the foster care polices, said, "I don't know if some of my peers have toured Child Haven or have been in Child Haven, but we have children in need of great foster care, and we have had people that are law-abiding citizens that have gotten their background checks, that have their CCWs, literally denied to foster a child because they have a concealed-weapons permit." It's an unjust policy. Couples like the Wilsons are law-abiding citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights, yet the foster care system rules that gun ownership is somehow less lawful. -The Patriot Post

Does the Ethanol Mandate Include Singing Its Praises?

A number of potential Republican presidential candidates descended on the Iowa Ag Summit this past weekend to shore up their bona fides with the state's agricultural industry. Unfortunately, when it came to the subject of ethanol and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), most of the White House hopefuls resorted to pandering to voters rather than speaking truth about failed policy. The hard-charging environmental lobby rallies around corn-based ethanol as a fuel alternative because ecofascists have great faith that it's better for the environment (spoiler alert: it's not). Farmers, particularly those in Iowa, embrace the policy mandating ethanol as a fuel additive because it raises demand for corn and puts more money in their pockets. The environmental and agricultural lobbies have been strong enough to keep the RFS alive even after a number of scientists and economists have disproven the effectiveness and benefits of ethanol. -The Patriot Post

Little Support for nObama's 'Strategy' Against ISIL

Problems continue to abound for Barack nObama in dealing with the Islamic State and other jihadists in the Middle East. He claims he wants congressional support, and he boasts there is a united front to combat the Islamic State, but, given the current situation in the Middle East and nObama's record of failed foreign policy, few are lining up to follow his lead. Early last month, nObama submitted to Congress his request for an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) to fight the Islamic State. As we noted then, his request prohibits any enduring offensive combat operations and sets a timetable for three years, which in his warped view will show the world our resolve in countering the Islamic State. In reality, the 2001 AUMF against al-Qaida and the 2002 AUMF for military operations in Iraq allow nObama to pursue the Islamic State. But those AUMFs were during the Bush administration, and since nObama doesn't want to commit to a ground campaign, or for that matter have any part of Bush's war strategy, he wants his own AUMF. -The Patriot Post

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The federal laws Hilly violated

(Judge Andrew Napolitano) - During that time, Hilly enjoyed a security clearance identical to that of the president, the secretary of defense, the director of the CIA and others – it is the highest level of clearance the government makes available...She had that classified clearance so that she could do her job, which involved knowing and working with military, diplomatic and sensitive national security secrets. The government guards those secrets by requiring high-ranking government officials to keep the documents and emails that reflect them in a secure government-approved venue and to return any retained records when leaving office. I have not seen Clinton’s signature on any documents, but standard government procedure is for her to have signed an agreement under oath when she began her work at the State Department requiring her to safeguard classified records, and another agreement under oath when she ended her work that she had returned all records to the government. She violated both agreements, and she violated numerous federal laws. And she said she didn't break any laws, what a lie. http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/the-federal-laws-hillary-violated/

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Hilly's email scandal could cost taxpayers millions

Hilly Clinton: Costing You Money Since 1993

(Logan Albright) - She hasn’t been in the White House for over a decade, and hasn’t been Secretary of State for more than two years, but that doesn’t stop her from continuing to soak the taxpayers...Bloomberg is reporting that the task of sorting through the 55,000 emails that Hilly Clinton turned over to the State Department could cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Of course, this cost need not have been incurred if the former Secretary of State had simply followed the rules and conducted government business on a government email account, but then again, rules have never really stood in the way of the Clintons doing whatever they want to do. http://www.freedomworks.org/content/hillary-clinton-costing-you-money-1993

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Catholic Church Captured by “Progressive Forces”

(Cliff Kincaid) - Armando Valladares, Castro’s political prisoner for 22 years, said his Catholic faith was strengthened behind bars by hearing young Catholics shouting “Viva Cristo Rey,” for “Long Live Christ the King,” and “down with communism!” as they faced the firing squad...It has been his hope that Cuba would one day be free of communism. But he is far less hopeful now that Pope Francis has taken measures that he says “objectively favor the political and ecclesiastical left in Latin America” and could undermine the “Christian future of the Americas.” Meanwhile, Marxist writer Richard Greeman has written an extraordinary article, “Catholicism: The New Communism?,” arguing that “progressive forces” have “captured” the Vatican, and that Francis is conducting a “purge” of traditional elements, such as those loyal to anti-communist Pope John Paul II. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/catholic-church-captured-by-progressive-forces/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email031215&utm_medium=email

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Why Did nObama Tolerate Hilly’s Use of Secret E-mail?

(Andrew McCarthy) - Politico is reporting that President nObama knowingly corresponded with then–Secretary of State Hilly Clinton via the latter’s private e-mail address...That does not necessarily mean nObama knew Clinton was systematically flouting administration rules and federal record-keeping law. It does, however, mean he and administration officials had to know she was conducting official business over non-secure, non-government e-mail — even in communicating with the president of the United States; even though the White House claims nObama, as his top aide Valerie Jarrett puts it, “has a very firm policy that e-mails should be kept on government systems”; and even though the president and the State Department forced the resignation of nObama’s ambassador to Kenya, in part over his use of private e-mail to conduct government business. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/why-did-obama-tolerate-hillarys-use-of-secret-e-mail/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email031215&utm_medium=email

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference at the United Nations in New York March 10, 2015. Reuters

The world fails to follow Hilly’s careful script

(Jonah Goldberg) - In the wake of Hilly Rodham Clinton’s fairly disastrous press conference at the United Nations on Tuesday, there’s only one conclusion shared by all parties...This was not how it was supposed to go...This was supposed to be the month Clinton led with her chief selling point: her gender. She had put together a whole “I Am Woman, Hear Me Bore” speaking tour in which women’s issues — particularly the women’s issues that poll well among women who care a lot about women’s issues — would be the main subject. The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation unveiled a big foofaraw over Hilly’s “No Ceilings” campaign. What a wonderfully convenient theme for Mrs. Clinton’s massive and mysterious foundation, given that smashing the “highest glass ceiling” — i.e., the presidency — is the central rationale of her planned presidential bid. It was just a coincidence that the tax-exempt foundation with her name on it happened to be rolling out a big light show on that very subject during the rollout of her presidential campaign. http://www.aei.org/publication/the-world-fails-to-follow-hillarys-careful-script/?utm_source=today&utm_medium=paramount&utm_campaign=AEIToday031215

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nObama’s Surrender to Iran

(Dr. Mark Christian) - It is becoming increasingly clear that nObama’s agenda in the Middle East is to help the Islamists regain the land they once controlled but lost in 1924 with the fall of the Ottoman Empire...The Arab Spring was not a movement to replace ruthless dictators with democratic governments. It was an Islamic movement to replace secular governments with Islamic ones. Step by step, this administration is helping to establish the Islamists’ dream of a revived caliphate, or “Pan Arabic Islamic Union” as it has been called by Islamist leaders recently. There is a mistaken school of thought that believes such an Islamic Union would function like an Arabic European Union, growing their economies and enabling them to take their place among the other nations of the world as equals. This school neglects to answer the most salient question: How do you contain a movement that recognizes no borders but its own and is compelled by dint of faith to dominate the rest of the world or die in the effort? http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dr-mark-christian/obamas-surrender-to-iran-2/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cc8027c667-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-cc8027c667-156509103

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Ben Shapiro: Hilly Clinton Lies… A Lot

(TruthRevoltOriginals) - Hilly Clinton is the most transparent woman she knows. She said so in 2008: I think I’m probably the most transparent person in public life…I feel you know a lot more about me than you know about anyone else. Much of it untrue, but nevertheless, it’s all out there. Unfortunately, Hilly is a liar. When news emerged this week that Hilly had set up a private email server the day before her nomination as Secretary of State, and had used her private email address for her entire tenure as Secretary of State so that there were no government records of those emails, and that her aides also used private email addresses, and that her server had the capacity to fully delete emails, and that hackers could have hacked her emails…no one should have been surprised. Of course she did. Let’s take a trip in the wayback machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpPrhkmV_rA

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/truthrevolt-org/ben-shapiro-hillary-clinton-lies-a-lot/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cc8027c667-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-cc8027c667-156509103

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What Extremist Islam Thrives On

(Bassam Tawil) - The claim of the Muslim Brotherhood, that men should be ruled not by men but by Allah, is a fraud and a lie, because what mortal can claim the right to rule in Allah's name...the various backward Sunni sheikhs such as ISIS's "Caliph," Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or the power-mad Shi'ite Ayatollahs in Iran? Promoting such a fraud not only allows the extremist proselytizers of Islam to acquire both dominance and exclusivity among Muslims, as bearing the "true" message of Islam. Above all, it prevents their power and leadership from being challenged. Getting nuclear arms is meant to enable the extremist Muslims to market Islam to the masses by force, and hide their failures in technological, societal and economic development. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5345/extremist-islam-thrives

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., and House Speaker backstabber John Boehner, R-Ohio

'GOP double-cross ensures a Dem prez in 2016'
(Garth Kant) - The next president likely will be a Democrat and she, or he, can thank GOP leadership for that, according to Michele Bachmann...The former congresswoman told WND that will be the result of top Republicans allowing the bill funding nObama’s amnesty for five million illegal immigrants to pass, immediately following the speech to Congress last week by Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Practically, that bill ensures a Democrat likely will be elected president in 2016 with the Congress willing to double cross the taxpayers by paying for five million illegal work permits, driver’s licenses, Social Security numbers, Medicare, Medicaid and ultimately fraudulently directed efforts to get illegal aliens to the 2016 voting booth.” She said GOP leaders “betrayed our trust with a real bait-and-switch because no one was running in favor of amnesty in November, and then we get this.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/gop-double-cross-ensures-a-dem-prez-in-2016/

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First arrest should be for Hanoi John pictured here when he was betraying the U.S. and her military.

Moonbats Hope to Charge 47 Senators Under The Logan Act

(Sara Noble) - The moon bats have once again shown their lack of knowledge about the Constitution and, within hours, they met their 100,000 name threshold on a petition to charge 47 senators with a violation under The Logan act...The White House has to respond because the threshold has been met. I can’t wait for his response. These loons probably know that the letter does not fall under the category of “treason” nor does it fall under The Logan Act. The Logan Act is a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. It was intended to prohibit unauthorized United States citizens from interfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments. The Congress is authorized and they are allowed to send the letter. The letter didn’t negotiate anything. No one has been successfully convicted under The Logan Act and it’s never used. http://www.independentsentinel.com/moonbats-hope-to-charge-47-republican-senators-under-the-logan-act/

What the White House

Might Not See about Iran

Denis MacEoin

Since "moderate" Hassan Rouhani (right) became the president of Iran, the surge in executions has given Iran the world's highest death penalty rate per capita.

(gatestoneinstitute.org) -

Given Iran's tendency to enrich uranium in secret, it may achieve nuclear breakout capability well before ten years from now.
Nor should we forget that current polls place Mahmoud Ahmadinejad close behind Hassan Rouhani for the 2017 presidential election.
An exhaustive list of genocidal threats by major Iranian politicians between 2009 and 2012 has been compiled by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The latest threat was made on March 1 of this year.
The Islamic State and other terrorists do not represent an idealized version of normative Islam, and a number of Muslims may not even support them. But their scriptural and historical roots frankly have plenty of precedent, and far from minimal support.
Shi'i Islam is a very different belief system from Sunni Islam. Iran today resembles a medieval European state.

When Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke from the podium of the U.S. Congress to warn of the dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran, the clock was already ticking towards March 31. That is the deadline for a final agreement between the P5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) and the Iranian regime on limits to Iran's nuclear program, in return for the lifting of sanctions currently imposed on Iran.

By now, everyone has read page upon page of commentary on what the likely consequences of such a deal may be, with a preponderance of analysts agreeing that President Barack nObama's drive to secure a resolution is likely to put Iran on a clear course to nuclear weapons capability after about ten years. Given Iran's tendency to enrich uranium in secret, they may achieve nuclear breakout capability well before ten years from now.

Netanyahu's mission was to warn Congress about the possible ramifications of these negotiations not only for Israel, but for the entire free world. nObama's vehement opposition to Netanyahu's speech was a desperate sign of how far his political advantage now takes precedence over any concern for the danger that Iranian nuclear weapons will pose to Israel, the Middle East, Europe and even America.

Over the years, Iran's threats to destroy Israel, to "wipe it" from the pages of history or to flatten Tel Aviv and Haifa, have been direct and unambiguous. This last threat was made on March 1 of this year. Joshua Teitelbaum and Michael Segall, at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, have compiled an exhaustive list of genocidal threats by major Iranian politicians between 2009 and 2012. It is highly unlikely that Barack nObama, Hanoi John Kerry, or anyone else in the U.S. Administration or the State Department have ever read it, or, if they have read it, that they care.

What is worrying more than anything is that the U.S. president and his allies seem not to understand, even a little, the country now working to build nuclear weapons: its culture, its religion, and its apocalyptic obsessions.

nObama seems to think the Iranian leadership is made up of pragmatic politicians who favor an almost areligious approach to world affairs. This calculation seems based on a wished-for interpretation, which is almost secularist, of a religiously-defined and faith-inspired culture.

Let us start with a recent statement by President nObama, made during a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on February 9, 2015. nObama argued that a nuclear deal with Iran was possible because "according to their Supreme Leader, it would be contrary to their faith to obtain a nuclear weapon." Sadly, this comment reveals that he is as ignorant of Islamic scripture as he is of Islamic history.

nObama has gone out of his way to say that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. He insisted, at a White House summit later in February, that "We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam." But he failed to explain how reams of accurate quotes from centuries of theory and practice of the Qur'an, the hadith (traditions) and works of Islamic jurisprudence, could constitute "perversion."

The Islamic State and other terrorists do not represent an idealized vision of normative Islam, and the majority of Muslims may not even support them. But its scriptural and historical roots frankly have plenty of precedent, and far from minimal support.

If we speak about the faith of the Iranian people, we are ignoring a few small minorities. Shi'i Islam is a very different belief system from Sunni Islam. Regrettably, it seems that neither nObama nor his advisors knows a thing about the theology, history, rituals and mechanisms of Shi'ism, its clerical system, its seminaries, its sects, or its modern manifestations. Many of these matters are very relevant to the question of whether Iran would use nuclear weapons once it had them.

Even if it is unreasonable to expect that the American president embark on a study of the intricate metaphysics of Ishraqi philosophy, Babi apocalypticism, or Usuli ejtehad, at least he has at his disposal universities full of scholars, who could bring him up to speed on the most basic elements in modern post-revolutionary Iranian beliefs. The problem is that he seems not to want to listen to people who might tell him what he does not know, in case he might disagree with it. This wilful blindness calls into question the wisdom of enabling Iran to be a nuclear-armed country -- ever. Unfortunately, a nuclear-armed Iran is something nObama and his supporters apparently intend to make a reality.

Professor Bernard Lewis, in 2009, said on the question of Iran's nuclear weapon, "For most of the Iranian leadership MAD would work as a deterrent, but for Ahmadinejad and his group with their apocalyptic mindset, mutually assured destruction is not a deterrent, it's an inducement."

True, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is no longer the Iranian president, and the current president, Hassan Rouhani is often deemed by the west a pragmatist and a reformer, but the apocalyptic mindset is not something unique to Ahmadinejad and his followers. It has deep roots in Shi'ite belief. That -- plus raw superstition, a large measure of religious fanaticism, and a cult of martyrdom -- makes Iran the most dangerous country on the planet today.

Put another way, if someone boasts of uncontrollable urges to slaughter everyone he considers his enemy, is it really advisable to buy him an assault rifle and a few of boxes of bullets? Imagine what he could do with a batch of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

According to Jane's Defence Weekly, Iran's longest-range rockets, while "theoretically capable of ICBM ranges," cannot be classified as ICBMs. But the United States Institute of Peace believes Iran already has the largest and most diverse ICBM arsenal in the region, built from foreign imports, notably from North Korea. In the meantime, the regime has long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads to Israeli cities. On 8 March 2015, at a ceremony in Tehran, Iran unveiled its new Soumar long-range cruise missile. Their Qadr and Qiam missiles can already reach Israel.

The expectation of the coming of a messianic figure called the Mahdi, peripheral in Sunni Islam, has always been a key feature of Shi'ism. In this belief, the war that will bring on the "End of Days" or the Apocalypse, will bring to earth the Mahdi, the "Hidden Imam," a descendent of Mohammad. Then there will be universal peace.

The promise of mankind's liberation through a semi-divine saviour has been at the heart of the Shi'ite faith -- the faith that nObama thinks will not contemplate the use of nuclear arms. The Shi'a identify the Mahdi as the last of their twelve holy Imams, a young boy who disappeared from human sight in the year 260 (872 C.E.), lives in a state of occultation as the Hidden Imam in the celestial cities of Hurqalya and Jabulsa, and will return to earth with a sword to fight a last battle against the forces of unbelief. The form of Shi'ism that is dominant in Iran is the majority Twelver sect, which means that the living presence of the last Imam, and the promise of his return to establish a world of peace and justice, runs through the veins of all believers.

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and especially during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005 to 2013), apocalyptic notions and supernatural influence on political decisions have challenged those who seek a rational and pragmatic approach to state affairs. Perhaps the leading scholar of this trend is Dr. Mehdi Khalaji, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Khalaji trained in Islamic theology and philosophy for fourteen years in the seminaries in Qom, then in Tehran and Paris. He is now an American citizen who understands the Iranian regime as an insider. His study, "Apocalyptic Politics: On the Rationality of Iranian Policy," should be compulsory reading for anyone who thinks Iran can be approached and negotiated with as a rational partner. Although he was writing about the Ahmadinejad period, his monograph shows substantial evidence that irrationality was not and is not restricted to one man's delusions. According to Ali Rahnema, "... the president's Ahmadinejad's behaviour and utterance and those of his proponents were neither exceptional nor isolated cases in historical terms."

"The Islamic government of Iran," Khalaji writes, "has turned to an apocalyptic vision that brings hope to the oppressed and portrays itself as an antidote to immoral and irreligious behaviour." (p. vii) Perhaps this is merely religious superstition that has no impact on political behaviour. But Khalaji stresses several times that Ahmadinejad was reputed to belong to a secret society that believes in the imminent return of the Hidden Imam. He informs us that "It is very difficult to know precisely what this secret society believes, but some rumours suggest it is eager to control the country's nuclear program." Later, Khalaji points out that the president "juxtaposes the preparation for the return of the Hidden Imam with the collapse of the state of Israel", and chillingly adds that "Ahmadinejad has stated that the Iranian nuclear program is running under the control of the Hidden Imam". Even if the former president is a crank, millions upon millions of Iranian Shi'is have an intense belief in the power of the Mahdi over human affairs.

Between 1997 and 2005, the president of Iran was Mohammad Khatami, since considered as a key figure in the reform movement that sought to replace clerical rule with a more secular system. Although a cleric himself, Khatami opposed Khomeini's theory of rule by religious guardians (velayat-e faqih). Yet even in the years of his second term, 2001-2005, an enhanced yearning for the return of the Twelfth Imam was advocated through selective mosque networks and Islamic associations. That this happened under a genuine reformist, who wanted to bring about a true democracy in Iran, is of considerable importance in any analysis of what may happen under Iran's current president, Hassan Rouhani.

Rouhani has been widely interpreted as a reformer, but the increase in hangings, strictures on veiling, and mistreatment of the Baha'i community under his presidency suggest he is a very different man from Khatami or to those belonging to the suppressed "Green Movement". Khamenei's support for Rouhani is itself indicative of his adherence to traditional norms. There is no sign of a let-up in superstition or the apocalyptic vision under his presidency.

An important sign of the continuing appeal of extreme religious thought and behavior may be found in the growth of a major cult based around what is now a huge mosque complex on the outskirts of Qom, where the more rationalist seminary is located.

Modern Iranian messianism is no longer the passive style of centuries past, but activist, and can lead to military action.

Religiosity and superstition played an equally important part in the Iranian military response to Iraq during the 1980-1988 war between the two countries, during which some 750,000 Iranians died and tens of thousands more were badly wounded.

Throughout the war, religious themes predominated, from calls to jihad, to imitating the events of Karbala, when the Imam Husayn was martyred ("Every day is Ashura, every land is Karbala"). All dead soldiers were lauded as martyrs; even children were sent into battle carrying plastic silver "keys to paradise." The idea was that by fighting the Iraqi army in a war between truth and falsehood, Iranians would hasten the return of the Hidden Imam.

With this sort of thinking -- the willingness to sacrifice, whatever the cost -- it is critical to remember the words of former "reformist" president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in 2000:

"If one day, a very important day, of course, the Islamic World will also be equipped with the weapons available to Israel now, the imperialist strategy will reach an impasse, because the employment of even one atomic bomb inside Israel will wipe it off the face of the earth, but such a bomb would only do damage to the Islamic World. It is not unreasonable to consider this possibility."

Militant messianism is as dangerous as ever today. Expectation of the Hidden Imam and the activist struggle to bring about his advent are not only matters of pious belief. According to Mehdi Khalaji, the former Iranian cleric, apocalyptic ideas have a strong following within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij militia. He points out that Ahmadinejad's followers, who believe in the coming apocalypse, "are linked to an influential group of the IRGC that has responsibility over Iran's nuclear program." There is no reason to suppose that this group within the IRGC has abandoned its apocalyptic beliefs, or the link between them and control of nuclear arms.

Iran today resembles a medieval European state more than a modern secularized democracy. The Muharram processions, when men march through city streets naked to the waist while whipping themselves with chains and razor blades, bring to mind the ritual marches of medieval Flagellants. Like the Flagellants, the Shi'a of Iran expect the imminent end of the world.

In a country sunk in economic misery, subject to a harsh system of government and justice, where young people are desperate to flee abroad to seek normal lives, where nothing works, where corruption is rife at all levels, not least among the "spiritual," it is not surprising that so many seek escape through superstition, pilgrimage, writing letters to a man who died centuries ago, and connecting their Saviour's return to military might and the conquest of the world.

The Iranian regime is changeable, with frequent shifts in direction and personnel. President nObama treats the current Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, as a pragmatist with whom he can do a deal. But Rouhani (who remains a hardliner) is not the most powerful man in the country. Greater power resides in the hands of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Even that may be about to change, long before Rouhani comes to the end of his term. On the March 5, the Jerusalem Post reported that Khamenei may be close to death. There have been rumours about his cancer for several years, but now it seems he does not have long to live. We do not know what sort of man will replace him, but it is unlikely to be an entirely rational figure, and it could turn out to be a cleric who espouses at least some of the superstitious beliefs outlined above. Nor should we forget that current polls place Mahmoud Ahmadinejad close behind Hassan Rouhani for the 2017 presidential elections. If Iran has nuclear weapons during a third Ahmadinejad term, the risks for humanity will be immense.

Can the world afford to give the green light for building nuclear weapons to a country that is so unstable and so close to justifying the use of such weapons by believing in the nearness of The Last Day?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5359/iran-nuclear-theology

Weekend Edition: Our Flag OFFENDS You? TOUGH!!!

Posted by Craig Andresen on March 14, 2015 at 2:45am

By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

Just A couple of weeks ago, on March 3rd, the University of California Irvine student government voted. The tally was 6-4-2 in favor of banning the American flag from a lobby on campus all in the name of “cultural inclusivity.”

These students, in an asylum of higher indoctrination claimed it was offensive to illegal aliens.

“The American flag has been flown in instances of colonialism and imperialism. There were people who were like, ‘the flag triggers me’ – that was their exact wording, too.”

The Executive Leadership of that student government body vetoed the ban but that wasn’t the last word on the topic.

According to the Chancellor of U.C. Irvine…Howard Gillma…“Regardless of your opinion on the display of the American flag, we must be united in protecting the people who make this university a premier institution of higher learning.”

And what of those who are paid by taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate tomorrow’s leaders today? What did the professors, steeped in liberal/socialism for generations have to say regarding this matter???

How did the professors at U.C. Irvine respond to those who voted to BAN our American flag from that campus lobby???

Oh my…

READ THE FULL WEEKEND EDITION HERE!!!

Friday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 13, 2015 at 10:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

The Wrong “America Works”

Andrew Klavan

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

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nOBAMACARE DOOMSDAY PREPPERS
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., joins Power Play host Chris Stirewalt to share a Republican remedy that he hopes will help bridge the gap to a permanent replacement if the Supreme Court upends nObamaCare subsidies for millions of beneficiaries. WATCH HERE. -Fox News

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nObama doubles down on Iran nuke deal - Fox News: “Democrats and Republicans sparred Sunday over congressional involvement in the Iran nuclear agreement, as President nObama attempted to assure critics that the U.S. won’t accept a bad deal… nObama told CBS’ ‘Sunday Morning’ that the U.S. would ‘walk away’ from nuclear talks with Iran if there’s no acceptable deal and that any agreement must allow Western powers to verify that Tehran isn't going to obtain an atomic weapon. ‘If we don’t have that kind of deal, then we're not going to take it,’ he said. nObama also said the U.S. and others still would have ‘enough time to take action,’ if Iran ‘cheated’… ‘The Iranian parliament will get to say yes or no on this deal,’ Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told ‘Fox News Sunday.’ ‘I think the United States Congress should have that exact same input into the process.’ Johnson said a bill cosponsored by Illinois GOP Sen. Mark Kirk and New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez addresses that issue and that the Senate is scheduled to begin working on the legislation in the coming days.” -Fox News

MORNING PEOPLE PUNISHED POINTLESSLY
Feeling a bit groggy today? Did you commute to work in the dark again? Not surprising since the government mandated that you wake up an hour earlier this morning (and every day until Nov. 1). The rationale for the creation and expansion of Daylight Savings Time was to save energy. The original idea was said to be Ben Franklin’s, but it became part of the mainstream American experience under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Wilson famously tried to keep the regime in place after the war, but Congress overruled him, even overriding his veto. The practice returned during World War II and was maintained by some local governments after the war. The time-shifters fought and won a long battle, eventually pushing through legislation in 1966 that required states to adopt uniform standards and gave the federal government authority over starting and stopping Daylight Savings Time. Today, every state except Arizona and Hawaii obeys. But does it work? Nope. WaPo passes along a study from time-zone-crazy Indiana that revealed that the shift wastes energy. Why? Because whatever electricity people are saving by having more sunlight in the evening is outstripped by the energy used for heating in the chillier, earlier mornings and cooling in the evening. -Fox News

Hilly Email Scandal Catches nObama in Transparency Untruth

Hilly Clinton has addressed her private email scandal so far only with a lone tweet, although she reportedly plans to publicly address the issue today. But Barack nObama has already taken plenty of flak on the subject. Over the weekend, CBS News asked nObama when he learned of Clinton's private account. "The same time everybody else learned it -- through news reports," nObama replied. "The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived." But that little untruth was undermined by nObama's spokesman, Josh Earnest, who admitted Monday that nObama emailed Hilly at her private account. Earnest told reporters, "The president, as I think many people expected, did over the course of his first several years in office trade emails with his secretary of state. I would not describe the number of emails as large, but they did have the occasion to email each other." Unlike Technology subcommittee member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), nObama knows how to use email; his oft-repeated story of incompetence can't help him in this instance. -The Patriot Post

Social Security Continuing to Implement Amnesty Actions

It was the logical next step. If illegal immigrants are getting Social Security numbers, then they are going to collect benefits. Stephen Goss, chief actuary for the Social Security Administration, wrote a letter to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) claiming that by 2017 some 16,000 illegal immigrants amnestied by Barack nObama's executive action would start receiving Social Security benefits. Furthermore, Goss admitted the agency is ignoring the injunction blocking the implementation of nObama's executive decrees. In the letter, Goss wrote, "Based on the best advice and counsel we have gotten, we're working on the assumption that these [mass amnesty actions] will persist. Most indications we seem to get are that it's likely that this will get back on track, with some delay." This is the administration that has 6.5 million active Social Security numbers for people 112 years old or older. Put another way, the administration is rife with bad record keeping, fraud and a host of illegal immigrants who are using stolen numbers to stay in the country. More...

-The Patriot Post

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AP Sues State Department, Seeking Access To Clinton Records

(STEVE PEOPLES, AP) - The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hilly Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state...The legal action comes after repeated requests filed under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act have gone unfulfilled. They include one request AP made five years ago and others pending since the summer of 2013. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes a day after Clinton broke her silence about her use of a private email account while secretary of state. The FOIA requests and lawsuit seek materials related to her public and private calendars, correspondence involving longtime aides likely to play key roles in her expected campaign for president, and Clinton-related emails about the Osama bin Laden raid and National Security Agency surveillance practices. http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/03/11/ap-sues-state-department-seeking-access-clinton-records?cmpid=NL_foxnation

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Samira Yerou was arrested March 7 at Barcelona's airport, on suspicion of running a jihadist recruiting network.

Spain: "The Mediterranean Corridor of Jihadism"

(Soeren Kern) - Spanish police have arrested a Moroccan woman on suspicion of running a jihadist recruiting network for the Islamic State...Samira Yerou, 32, was arrested at Barcelona's El Prat airport on March 7 upon her arrival on a flight from Turkey, where authorities had detained her for trying illegally to enter Syria with her three-year-old son, a Spanish citizen. Police say Yerou, who lives in Rubí, a Catalan town situated 15 kilometers north of Barcelona, disappeared in December 2014, while her son's father, a Moroccan-Spaniard, was away on a trip to Morocco. Spanish authorities issued an international warrant for Yerou's arrest. (Under the new law, anyone convicted of carrying out a terrorist attack will be subject to a life sentence (35 years) without the possibility of parole. The law also calls for 20-year sentences for anyone convicted of supplying weapons to terrorists, or ten-year sentences for funding terror networks.) http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5368/spain-mediterranean-jihadism

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Watcher’s Council Nominations – ‘Delete To The Beat’ Edition

(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - Hilly Clinton is one of those people who should have resolved a long time ago never to lie. She's absolutely awful at it. Aside from violating the Federal Records Act, there's also the question of National Security...Unless Mrs. Clinton spent a great deal of money encrypting her private server to government standards, her illegal account was an open invitation to foreign governments or even private hackers to gain access to her account and spy on what she insists were 'mostly private e-mails' that had nothing to do with government affairs, something I think we all pretty much know is horse manure. No matter how you slice it, this is a gross violation of federal law, something Hilly Clinton had full knowledge of when she did it. Me, I still want to know what happened to that $6 billion in State Department funding that mysteriously 'disappeared' while she was Secretary of State, and about those mysterious donations from foreign countries like Algeria to the Clinton Foundation. https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/watchers-council-nominations-delete-to-the-beat-edition/

4.

A No Punch Pulled Commentary From Ed Berliner About Hilly

(politibrew.com) - This was refreshing. A guy sitting there in a suit giving us commentary like it ought be given. Painted with smooth strokes and true colors about the "bovine excrement" politicians expect us to be stupid enough to nod our heads to before swallowing...It's about politicians in general and Hilly Clinton specifically. It begins with scenes of Warren Beatty in Bulworth, then moves on to Hilly clips and clops as it trots along transitioning into a canter. This is Ed Berliner from Newsmax. I think you'll like it. Giddy yap! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pGZNbudy04

http://politibrew.com/politics/2017-a-no-punches-pulled-commentary-from-ed-berliner-about-Hillary

5.

Dept Of Energy: In Green Propaganda, Research, Debt, Grants

(rickwells.us) - Most Americans would agree that a department dedicated to energy production would be a wonderful thing, particularly in a time when we rely heavily upon imports...Many of us believe we already have such a department. That’s how it was sold to the American people back in 1977. That’s the year President Jimmy Carter, a CFR and Trilateral Commission member, ushered through the Congress a bill creating the Department of Energy, which he signed on August 4th. In his remarks at the signing, Carter said, “I want to point out that the Department can now, I think, begin to deal in a much more aggressive and effective way not only with the needs of suppliers to increase the production of oil, gas, coal, solar, nuclear powers, but also to make sure that consumers of our country are treated fairly, that prices are adequate and not excessive. Many of us look back on the oil crises as our first experience with a federal government that made declarations which didn’t quite pass the smell test. The overnight discovery that we had a dinosaur shortage and the resulting corrections made “on our behalf” didn’t add up at the time. We still haven’t run out of oil in spite of claims government propaganda to the contrary for the last forty plus years. http://www.rickwells.us/picking-our-pockets-dept-of-energy-specializes-in-green-propaganda-research-debt-grants-energy-what-energy/

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Hilly Email: It Was Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills Executing The Plan

(theconservativetreehouse.com) - Earlier today Steve Hayes reported that Hilly aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills also used the “clintonmail” personal email scheme to communicate and avoid disclosure...Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Huma and Cheryl were key players in the original plan to set up the communication network. A private server had obvious advantages. It would give Mrs. Clinton more control over her email, people familiar with her team’s reasoning said. Privately, aides of the former president worried that adding her account would make the system a target for hackers. They also weren’t aware she would use it for all her official correspondence. That decision has now invited the kind of relentless public scrutiny it was designed to avoid, while also maximizing Mrs. Clinton’s control over sensitive email correspondence that that she might not want to get out. Is this passing the buck or kicking the can down the road? http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/03/11/report-on-hillary-email-apparently-it-was-huma-abedin-and-cheryl-mills-executing-the-plan/

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Judge Hanen Orders Imperial “Pres” To Explain Why DOJ Lied

(rickwells.us) - Judge Andrew Hanen apparently isn’t impressed by an illegal alien “president” who has declared himself to be above the law and above the Congress in defiance of the Constitution...Rather than finding an excuse to acquiesce, as every one of his predecessors has done in cases involving our would-be king, Judge Hanen wants answers related to new lawbreaking on behalf of the executive branch and he’s giving them a week to come up with some. On Monday Judge Hanen ordered lawyers for the federal government to appear in his courtroom in Brownsville, TX on March 19th to explain why the Department of Homeland “Security” had extended the period of their illegal deportation reprieve and work permit process under DACA from two years to three. http://www.rickwells.us/hanen-out-justice-judge-andrew-hanen-orders-imperial-president-to-explain-why-doj-lied-to-him/

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A Set Up? – Clinton Insider Claims Leaked Email

(rickwells.us) - Ed Klein is the author of the book “Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The nObamas,” a descriptive account of the genuine hard feelings between the Clintons and the nObamas...He details insider information which reveals the belief on the part of both of the Clintons that Hussein nObama and Valerie Jarrett are behind her current email problems which threaten to completely derail her hopes of becoming president. Ed Klein quotes his sources as reporting that Bill Clinton as believing that the White House is the source of problematic leaks, not only about Hilly, but about him as well and “what she did while she was in the State Department.” Here comes the spin and blaming others for breaking the law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYRx3RB2KDw

http://www.rickwells.us/a-set-up-clinton-insider-claims-bill-hillary-convinced-obama-and-jarrett-behind-leaked-email-info-scandal/

9.

Gowdy: Hilly Hasn’t Provided Emails From Her Flight To Libya

(gopthedailydose.com) - Republican lawmaker and overall conservative pitbull Trey Gowdy has been unwilling to simply nod along with the lies that emanate so routinely from this administration...Now, according to a report from Western Journalism, Gowdy is claiming that there are huge gaps remaining in the emails he has seen concerning Hilly Clinton’s time during her trip to Libya in the aftermath of the Benghazi terrorist attacks. On Face the Nation this past Sunday, Trey Gowdy, who chairs the House Select Committee on Benghazi, announced that no emails from Hillary were provided from the day she flew to Libya to discuss the situation as Secretary of State. “This defies credulity,” said Gowdy. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/03/11/watch-trey-gowdy-says-hillary-hasnt-provided-any-emails-from-the-day-of-her-flight-to-libya-2/#

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Mitch McCon-nell says he will fight really, really hard this time

(redstate.com) - First and foremost, given the answers provided by Loretta Lynch during her confirmation hearing, it is a travesty that she was voted out of committee. She is clearly not a big fan of the rule of law or the rights of Americans in general rather that enhanced rights for every racial/ethnic/sexual minority with an axe to grind...Every day she is not confirmed is a day that America is safer. That her vote should even be offered as a concession is just offensive. There is precious little evidence that this drama, the children’s matinee at Failure Theater, is anything more than McCon-nell trying to show conservatives how super tough he is. If McCon-nell was really going to use the Lynch nomination as a bargaining chip he should have used it when it mattered: on the DHS bill. But he didn’t. He forfeited a chance to refuse to fund nObama’s amnesty, a position that had wide national support and he could have done so by inflicting a little temporary pain on a very unpopular and superfluous agency headquarters. Now he is now holding up a bill that most Americans support — one that allegedly will have an impact on human trafficking — for the sake of an unrelated amendment that will be used to beat the GOP. In fact, the whole story smells like something cooked up by dinky Reid and McCon-nell to give McCon-nell a little breathing room to further betray conservatives: http://www.redstate.com/2015/03/11/mitch-mcconnell-says-will-fight-really-really-hard-time/

The Wrong “America Works”

Andrew Klavan

Kevin Spacey

(city-journal.org) - Most Hollywood fictions can be relied upon to rewrite conservative truth into left-wing fantasy. In real life, the staunch Cold Warrior president John F. Kennedy is assassinated by a Communist for the sake of Communism. At the movies, Oliver Stone turns Kennedy into a peacenik killed by a vast right-wing conspiracy. In real life, a married Democratic president faces credible charges of philandering and mistreatment of women. Onscreen, Michael Douglas magically transforms him into an unmarried man of integrity excoriated by the puritanical right for falling deeply in love with an accomplished woman his own age. In real life, leftists in the news media attempt to discredit a Republican president by creating a nonsensical scandal out of the Valerie Plame kerfuffle. At the multiplex, the scandal becomes deadly real and Vice President Dick Cheney (who had nothing to do with any of it) is somehow behind it all.

We’ve all become so accustomed to this leftward rejiggering of history that watching Netflix’s TV series House of Cards can be a weird and confusing experience. On the one hand, by dramatizing the rise of a corrupt, soulless Democratic pol willing to break any law, betray any principle, and literally throw his opponents under trains to acquire power—and by showing a Republican opposition too bumbling and cowardly to oppose his ruthless machinations—the series hews so close to the facts that it can hardly be called fiction at all. But when it comes to portraying the actual nuts and bolts of day-to-day policy making, the show sometimes seems to take place in an unidentifiable political Wonderland.

In the first season, House majority whip Frank Underwood—the soulless Democrat in question, played by the wonderful Kevin Spacey—seeks serious entitlement reform in spite of opposition from Republicans. He also stands up to the teachers’ unions in hopes of improving education. One can be forgiven for wondering on which planet this is taking place.

Then, in the present third season, Underwood, now risen to the White House, seeks to reform Social Security and other entitlement programs that are “sucking this country dry,” in order to fund a program that will get people off the welfare rolls and put them to work. When I heard those ideas come out of the mouth of a Democrat, I thought for a moment I had accidentally switched to the SyFy network.

But to add to the confusion, the name of Underwood’s $500 billion job proposal is America Works. Only it’s not at all like the real America Works, which actually works, but much more like nObamanomics, which hardly works at all.

Underwood’s America Works—as Jon Hartley notes in Forbes—looks a lot like nObama’s $787 billion America Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was supposed to create 7 million new jobs and bring the unemployment rate down below 7 percent by 2010. None of that happened. In fact, the drop in the unemployment rate didn’t really get started until Republicans finally found the guts to put an end to unemployment benefits in 2013. This they managed to do despite the fact that Democrats like nObama and Nancy Pulosi kept claiming that unemployment insurance was actually creating jobs itself. By that logic we would have reached full employment once everyone was out of work!

The real-life America Works, however, was formed in 1984 as a response to the abject failure of government attempts to end poverty. In an Autumn 2012 City Journal piece, America Works founder Peter Cove described how his experience as “a foot soldier in America’s War on Poverty,” led him to create the initiative:

We know for certain that income transfers, the preferred tactic of generations of liberals, have utterly failed to end poverty . . . . I learned that if we helped welfare clients get jobs, even entry-level jobs, they would then attend to their other needs. By contrast, if the government gave them money and other benefits, they were likely to remain dependent.

The reasons should have been obvious all along. Work maximizes a person’s capacity to achieve economic self-reliance. Work socializes people and instills a sense of personal responsibility in them. Work connects behavior and consequences. And it permits people, especially men, to obtain the admiration and respect of their spouses and children by supporting them.

America Works set itself up as a job agency for state and local welfare agencies. It took payment only when it placed clients in jobs, and the clients held those jobs for at least four months. It claims to have taken more than 300,000 people off the welfare rolls and to have inspired the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. And still, Cove reports, the initiative is viewed with suspicion by those people whose ideology—and power—requires dependency and the big government that encourages it.

I suppose it’s realistic enough that the soulless Democrat Underwood would ignore a private America Works that works in order to propose a government America Works that doesn’t work. But it would have been nice if he hadn’t further muddied the show’s muddy politics by putting a good name to bad policy.

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0309ak.html

JIHAD WATCH

Posted by William M. Finley on March 13, 2015 at 9:18am

Spanish police arrest eight Muslims suspected of planning attacks in Spain and recruiting for Islamic State

MARCH 13, 2015 11:32 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER2 COMMENTS

Muslims? How odd. Everyone knows that the Islamic State has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. So many misunderstanders of Islam are out there today — what programs do mosques and Islamic schools have in place to prevent all this misunderstanding of Islam? What? None? Now, why is that? “Spain arrests eight suspected Islamist militants […]

Middle East Studies Profs Distort, Dissemble about Paris Attacks

MARCH 13, 2015 6:40 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER10 COMMENTS

Middle East Studies Profs Distort, Dissemble about Paris Attacks by Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene Only in academe can a panel discussion on Islamic terrorism turn into an exercise in obfuscation and denial. Titled “Shooting Rampage in Paris: Free Speech, Anti-Semitism, Freedom of Religion, Islamophobia,” the recent University of California, Berkeley panel—which promised to “start […]

THE PATRIOT POST

Posted by William M. Finley on March 13, 2015 at 8:58am

Daily Digest

Mar. 13, 2015

THE FOUNDATION

“When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions if they are so to be called, will be the same.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 50, 1788

TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS

Democrats Reload on Ammo Ban

After 90,000 comments and condemnation from congressional Republicans, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives backed away from its proposal to ban the 5.56 M855 “green tip” ammunition. But congressional Democrats have taken the idea, expanded the breadth of the proposed ammo ban, and run with it. In a letter to the ATF, Democrats encourage the bureau to move fast and use its “existing authority” to limit any rifle cartridge that can be fired from a handgun. Democrats wrote, “We hope that the Bureau will swiftly review comments on the proposed framework and issue a revised proposal that will address the danger posed by handguns that fire 5.56mm and other rifle ammunition.” They have introduced legislation in the House to ban the green-tipped rounds, and Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) said she would introduced a broader bill to ban even more forms of armor-piercing ammunition. Because cops wear light body armor and there are some unique pistols out there (Thompson Contender pistol chambered in 30-30, anybody?), Democrats are opening the door for potentially banning all center-fire rounds. And the ATF welcomes this lobbying. Its director, B. Todd Jones, said “any 5.56 round” threatens the safety of police officers – a distorted fear if ever there was one.

Also note that Barack Obama’s spokesman Josh Earnest promised, “The president’s commitment to putting in place common-sense rules that will protect Second Amendment rights, but also prevent those who shouldn’t have firearms from getting them, is as strong as ever. I think the president’s own personal conviction on this matter has been pretty evident to those who have watched his public comments.”

Nobody Even Read Hillary’s Deleted Emails

Hillary Clinton deleted her “personal” emails wholesale – without so much as reading them first. Fox News' Chris Stirewalt writes, “How did Hillary Clinton know that the tens of thousands of emails from her time in office she ordered destroyed were personal? Did she or even her staff scroll through her sent items scanning emails about ‘yoga routines’ or ‘family vacations’ before deleting them? Nope. No one looked at them. The Clinton campaign said those emails that did not crop up in a keyword search performed by her team were automatically deleted. No eyes. No one to be subpoenaed. Just highlight all and press delete. That method seems better for missing emails than to finding them. And it would sound reckless and haphazard coming from another politician. In this case, though, it sounds like a woman covering her tracks in preparation for a long and bloody legal fight over subpoenas to come.” The story isn’t going to go away just because Clinton hit the delete key. More…

Did Hillary Commit a Felony?

Hillary Clinton’s email scandal continues to yield serious questions. According to The Washington Examiner, “Clinton, like all departing federal employees, was required to fill out and sign a separation statement [Form OF-109] affirming that she had turned over all classified and other government documents, including all emails dealing with official business.” Did Clinton sign the form? The State Department refuses to say just yet. If not, why not? And if so, did she commit a felony? “There’s no question” she did, says Shannen Coffin, former counsel to Dick Cheney. “There’s no doubt … that wherever the secretary had those records – if she had them in her Chappaqua home, if she had them in her office, if she had them somewhere else – she’s got to bring all of the records to the table, and turn over any official records at the time of her departure,” Coffin said. “Not – most definitely not – two years later.” He added, “The form itself says, ‘Hey, before you sign this, understand that you are certifying something that we can prosecute you for. Making a false statement in this context, knowingly and willfully’ – which, I can’t imagine anything more knowing and willful than knowing you have 55,000 records sitting in your home – ‘if you do that, it is a felony.’” Clinton’s flippant dismissal of questions at her Tuesday press conference left many things unanswered. And she’s looking worse all the time.

Don’t Mess Up the Ferguson Narrative

Barack Obama swapped jokes with ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel last night, laughing it up at the expense of a few million bucks in taxpayer-funded security. But he also turned to a serious note, speaking about the two police officers shot in Ferguson. He extended brief condolences to the wounded officers and their families before launching into predictable race-bait. “[W]hat had been happening in Ferguson was oppressive and objectionable and was worthy of protest,” Obama asserted. “But there was no excuse for criminal acts. And whoever fired those shots shouldn’t detract from the issue. They’re criminals, they need to be arrested.” He later added, “[T]here was a whole structure there, according to the Justice Department report, that indicated both racism and just a disregard for what law enforcement’s supposed to do. As I’ve said before … it is not unique, but it’s also not the norm.” Obama isn’t directly responsible for the actions of the criminal who fired on police, but he isn’t helping the situation either. It is not appropriate for the leader of this country to repeatedly tell angry rioters and looters they have perfectly legitimate grievances against racist cops. But that’s why you don’t put a community organizer in the White House.

Holder Says Ferguson Shooter Was a ‘Damn Punk’

Attorney General Eric Holder responded quickly to news that two Ferguson police officers were shot Wednesday night during a round of protests. “What happened last night was a pure ambush,” Holder said. “This was not someone trying to bring healing to Ferguson. This was a damn punk – a punk – who was trying to sow discord in an area that is trying to get its act together, and trying to bring together a community that has been fractured for too long.” He continued, “This really disgusting and cowardly attack might’ve been intended to unravel any sense of progress that exists, but I hope that that does not happen.” He’s right about a punk not trying to bring healing. But Holder’s Justice Department just released a report finding generally racist practices in the Ferguson Police Department, and Holder has spent the better part of a year blasting racist police. Forgive us for thinking he – like his boss – sounds a bit more concerned about damage to the narrative than the lives of the officers.

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RIGHT ANALYSIS

$16 Million Bill

The Clintons have done quite well for themselves since January 2001, when they grabbed $190,000 worth of china, flatware, furniture and rugs on their way out the White House doors – thank you very much. No, really, thank you, the American taxpayer.

Multimillion-dollar book deals, lucrative speaking engagements and whatever it is they do at the Clinton Foundation account for the bulk of the Clintons' vast wealth. These, though, are not the only reasons that Bill and Hillary are so well off. Thanks to the Former Presidents Act, taxpayers will have given Bill a collective $16 million by Election Day next year for a variety of expenses about which, predictably, no one really knows too much.

A recent analysis by Politico revealed that the former president has received more money through the Act than any other ex-president. The total accumulation of his pension through 2016 amounts to $3.1 million, including $218,000 this year and $221,000 allocated for next year.

The General Services Administration, which disburses the money, also allocates money for personnel salaries, accounting for nearly $3 million of the $16 million Bill has received since 2001. The GSA doesn’t dictate how that money is to be spent, so there is little information on who’s received how much, other than that most post-presidential employees receive compensation from additional sources. Politico notes that Laura Graham, one of the top Clinton Foundation officials, has seen her salary more than double since 2005. Tina Flournoy, Bill’s chief of staff, is also believed to be on the GSA payroll, having come from Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Another GSA payment includes $947,000 for communications-related costs and equipment. This vague category can include furniture or even technological hardware and software. Like an email server, perhaps.

The Clinton Foundation insists that Bill paid out of his own pocket for the secret server Hillary used during her time at the State Department. But since a big chunk of his money comes from taxpayers, and his money-making entertainment value is wholly derived from his time as president, it’s difficult for him to claim he bought the hardware using the fruits of his own labor.

Incidentally, that server, which the Clintons claim resides at the Clintons' home base in Chappaqua, New York, is protected, like the rest of the residence, by a full-time Secret Service detail. Presidents and their immediate family members receive lifetime protection paid for by taxpayers separately from the Former Presidents Act.

This new information puts the lie to Hillary’s inane statement about the Clintons being “not only dead broke, but in debt” when they left the White House. At no time were they ever even remotely close to poverty. Hillary’s claim, meant to paint her and her husband as working-class heroes, was widely and rightly ridiculed. Since the day Bill left office, the Clintons have been part of the One Percent – make that the 0.001 Percent – and they are likely to remain there for the rest of their days, thanks in part to taxpayers.

Furthermore, Politico’s story raises once again the question of whether the Former Presidents Act has outlived its usefulness, or if at the very least it should be revisited. Enacted in 1958 to “preserve the dignity of the office,” the Act was inspired by Harry Truman’s post-presidency dire financial straits. Never good with personal finances, Truman was close to losing it all before Congress stepped in to offer a pension that could preserve a certain level of comfort for him and all future ex-presidents.

These days, however, presidents leave office with multiple tracks to financial prosperity. They receive lucrative book deals, scores of six-figure speaking opportunities, invitations to join corporate boards, consulting contracts, you name it.

Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) have led a move to cap former presidents' benefits at $400,000 per year, with deductions equal to any private-sector compensation they receive beyond that number. As Chaffetz said in 2012, “There’s little reason why American taxpayers should be subsidizing these former presidents when they’re doing fine on their own.”

Clearly, Bill is doing more than fine, and by extension so is Hillary. As a (probable) presidential candidate, she benefits from a political existence based entirely on the fact that her husband was president. Her time as a carpet-bagging senator from New York and as secretary of state were offshoots of Bill’s presidency. She received name recognition, public attention and unwavering media adoration that couldn’t be bought or crafted by the country’s sharpest PR firms. She’s not a very good politician in her own right, and it’s laughable to imagine, say, a Hillary Rodham Smith making it this far.

Countering Iran’s Newfound Influence

Despite the stirring words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a joint session of Congress and the letter signed by 47 Republican Senators reminding Iran that any nuclear deal with the Obama administration is non-binding unless Congress approves it, nations around the Middle East are now acting as if a nuclear Iran is a fait accompli.

Moreover, where the United States once acted as a counterbalance in the region by our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re now forced to admit Iran’s lead role in fighting ISIL in Iraq is, as Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey put it, “a positive thing.” In fact, it’s the consequence of Barack Obama’s unwillingness to again put “boots on the ground” in Iraq.

Iran is having a far easier time virtually taking over Iraq now than it did in an unsuccessful war during the 1980s. As The Wall Street Journal notes, Iran’s latest military excursion into fighting ISIL in Iraq could eventually win them a “Shiite arc of power” stretching from Tehran to the Mediterranean through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

Worried that a nuclear Iran will soon come to pass and concerned about Tehran’s influence in a recent coup in neighboring Yemen, Saudi Arabia found its own nuclear sponsor by recently signing a memorandum of understanding with South Korea for a feasibility study of building two nuclear reactors in the kingdom. Seeing that the Saudis are awash with oil and knowing they have vowed to “match the nuclear capabilities Iran is allowed to maintain as part of any final agreement reached with world powers,” it’s crystal clear to all but those unwilling to see that the Iranian deal opens the door to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, just as Netanyahu warned earlier this month.

We’ve heard statements that the deal with Iran is non-binding, or that the mullahs are much more moderate than in the past. But in that region of the world, talk is cheap and actions speak most clearly. The lack of leadership and willingness to throw away our hard-won advantages gained over the last decade told the Saudis all they needed to know about where America stands these days.

President George W. Bush assigned Iran to the “axis of evil,” but Obama believes Iran can negotiate in good faith. Perhaps we can self-correct this line of thought in the next election, but it’s plain the Saudis don’t want to take that chance.

For more, visit Right Analysis.

TOP 5 RIGHT OPINION COLUMNS

Linda Chavez: A Legacy of Racial Grievance
Charles Krauthammer: Early Onset Clinton Fatigue
Michael Barone: Obama’s Policies Leave Democrats Weak Candidates
Mona Charen: It’s Not Just Iran You Can’t Trust
Tony Perkins: School Rejects Censorship as a Matter of Principal

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OPINION IN BRIEF

Japanese Proverb: “The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.”

Columnist Linda Chavez: “There is no doubt that the Ferguson Police Department has major problems and needs reform. … [Its] policy encourages police to make more traffic stops, conduct more searches, issue more tickets and make more arrests and the courts to issue more warrants and fines to drive up revenues. It’s a lousy policy – but one not unique to Ferguson. If the Justice Department were truly serious about changing the abuses more broadly, it would have conducted a larger study that looked at similar patterns in other localities – including largely white tourist towns, where traffic tickets are often a huge source of revenue. But Holder isn’t interested in the insatiable appetite of government for more revenues. He came to Ferguson in search of racism – and of course, he found it. … In every study of racial attitudes among Americans, whites are no likelier to harbor prejudices against people of other races than are blacks, Hispanics or Asians. Eric Holder will leave office as early as next week if the Senate confirms Loretta Lynch to be his successor. It will be none too soon. A man who could have done much to improve race relations will instead leave behind a sorry legacy of inflaming racial tensions when the nation most needed a healer.”

Columnist Charles Krauthammer: “Mrs. Clinton’s other major declaration was that the server containing the emails – owned, controlled and housed by her – ‘will remain private.’ Meaning: No one will get near them. This she learned not from Watergate but from Whitewater. Her husband acquiesced to the appointment of a Whitewater special prosecutor. Hillary objected strenuously. Her fear was that once someone is empowered to search, the searcher can roam freely. In the Clintons' case, it led to impeachment because when the Lewinsky scandal broke, the special prosecutor added that to his portfolio. Hillary was determined never to permit another open-ended investigation. Which is why she decided even before being confirmed as secretary of state that only she would control her email. … The point of regulations is to ensure government transparency. The point of owning the server is to ensure opacity. … What you’re feeling now is Early Onset Clinton Fatigue. The CDC is recommending elaborate precautions. Forget it. The only known cure is Elizabeth Warren.”

Comedian Argus Hamilton: “Harrison Ford was reported in good shape in an L.A. hospital after he successfully crash-landed is private plane at the Penmar Golf Club in L.A. It made worldwide news. Fifteen minutes after the plane crash, Obama called the pro shop to make sure the golf course would pull through.”

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Ferguson's REAL Racists Take Aim at Cops

Posted by Craig Andresen on March 13, 2015 at 3:38am

By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots oncprworldwidemedia.net

In the early morning hours on Thursday, in Ferguson Missouri, two cops were shot. One in the shoulder the other in the face.

It was revenge for what happened on an August afternoon.

That’s when Mike Brown and his weasel, Dorian Johnson, strode into a convenience store and took what wasn’t theirs to take. Brown roughed up the store owner who dared to stand in his way before walking out into the street.

Officer Darren Wilson attempted to get the two thugs out of the street and onto the sidewalk and that is when Brown attacked the cop…tried to take the cop’s weapon and then started to walk away. Upon being told to stop and surrender, Brown then charged right at the cop who opened fire and moments later, the thief and thug…Mike Brown…was dead.

The community of Al Sharpton…the community of Jesse Jackson…of Eric Holder, the New Black Panthers and the community of Barack Hussein Obama first sought their revenge by burning and looting the businesses of Ferguson Missouri but when the weather turned cold and the fires died down, the thugs and thieves of the Sharpton, Jackson, Holder, Panther and Obama community put their collective liberal/socialist hands in the air and crawled back under their rocks.

Hands Up…Don’t Shoot…

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Friday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 13, 2015 at 3:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

America Needs A Shrink

Burt Prelutsky

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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CLINTON CLAIM: NO WORK EMAILS FROM THE DAY OF FAMOUS BLACKBERRY PHOTO

The Hill: “Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House select committee investigating Benghazi, said that there is a period of missing Hilly Clinton emails from her time as secretary of State spanning several months. ‘There are gaps of months, and months and months,’ Gowdy said Sunday on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation.’ ‘If you think to that iconic picture of her on a C-17 flying to Libya – she has sunglasses on and she has her handheld device in her hand – we have no emails from that day. In fact, we have no emails from that trip,’ Gowdy said…”
On your own, Hill - "If they screwed up on the emails, if we find out they skipped over her emails . . . then that will be a problem for them, it’ll be a scandal. But it’s not one that we’ll own." – “a senior administration official” speaking to the WSJ. -Fox News

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JEB NEEDS CONSERVATIVE CRACKUP; KASICH RISING; CARSON FADES
His first Iowa foray behind him, Jeb Bush has further solidified his position as the party’s establishment choice and the frontrunner for 2016. Jeb’s tougher push and the biggest threat to his overall nomination remains winning over the social conservative and libertarian wing of the party. A point that stretches beyond Iowa’s corn fields and is underlined in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which found a divide among conservative GOP primary voters with “48% saying that could see themselves backing Mr. Bush and 45% saying they couldn’t.” But the biggest concern for Bush remains the durability (so far) of conservative support for Gov. Scott Walker. To win, Bush needs conservatives divided in their loyalties and for his potential top rivals to keep pulling each other down the ladder.
[Des Moines Register: “Bush did six events plus several one-on-one meetings in two markets — Des Moines and Cedar Rapids — in 24 hours. He turned some heads on Friday and Saturday, describing himself as the most successful conservative governor in Florida history and saying his record of accomplishment ‘is what's necessary right now for our country to get back on track’”] -Fox News

Cruz and Perry resist pandering on corporate welfare - [Fort Worth] Star-Telegram: “Texas Sen. [Ted Cruz’s] and former Gov. [Rick Perry’s]… messages at the Iowa Ag Summit were occasionally at odds with what some members of the audience wanted to hear… Cruz, a Republican, was the most blunt when [Iowa ethanol mogul Bruce Rastetter] asked him about the Renewable Fuel Standard, which sets a minimum amount of biofuels that must be blended into the gasoline supply. ‘The answer you’d like to me to give is I’m for the RFS,’ Cruz told Rastetter. ‘That’d be a pretty easy thing to do.’ But Cruz, who has called for phasing out the RFS program over five years, said Americans are fed up with ‘career politicians’ who pander to voters, especially in places like Iowa, with its outsized role in the presidential nominating process. Perry was equally unapologetic for his opposition to the RFS, saying he has no regrets about unsuccessfully seeking a federal waiver from the mandate as governor during a corn-sapping drought a few years ago in Texas.” -Fox News

MCCON-NELL VOWS NO SHUTDOWN AS DEBT LIMIT FIGHT NEARS
Fox News: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell said Sunday that the Republican-controlled Congress won’t allow the government to default as the Treasury Department quickly approaches its so-called ‘debt ceiling.’ ‘I made it clear after November that we won’t shut down the government or default on debt,” the Kentucky Republican told CBS’ ‘Face the Nation.’ McCon-nell’s promise came two days after Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told Capitol Hill that the government loses its authority after March 15 to borrow money to cover approved congressional spending and that his agency would have to resort to ‘extraordinary measures’ as a short-term solution.” -Fox News

WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE…
Call it Daedalus’ revenge. Early this morning, Solar Impulse lifted off from Abu Dhabi, attempting to become the first plane to trek around the globe without using fuel. AP: “The lightweight Solar Impulse 2, a larger version of a single-seat prototype that first flew five years ago, is made of carbon fiber and has 17,248 solar cells built into the wing that supply the plane with renewable energy. The solar cells recharge four lithium polymer batteries. The company says the plane has a 72-meter (236-foot) wingspan, larger than that of the Boeing 747, but weighs about as much as a car at around [5,070 pounds]… The round-the-world trip is expected to end in late July or even August.” You can follow Solar Impulse on its journey and watch live video from the cockpit here. -Fox News

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U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen

Amnesty judge gets tough with defiant nObama
(Bob Unruh) - The federal judge who ordered a halt to President nObama’s amnesty-for-millions plan now is telling federal attorneys to come to his courtroom in Brownsville, Texas, and explain why someone issued three-year deportation exemptions and work authorizations to 100,000 people before the program was scheduled to begin...U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen issued an order Monday for the lawyers to be at a hearing in his courtroom March 19, the Herald newspaper in Brownsville reported. Hanen’s preliminary injunction stopped nObama’s executive actions on amnesty before the government was to begin accepting applications from qualified illegal aliens Feb. 18. http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/amnesty-judge-gets-tough-with-defiant-obama/?AID=7236

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Hilly’s Emailgate Explained

(Bethany Stotts) - Clinton’s 2016 presidential chances undoubtedly have been harmed by the revelation that she exclusively used a private email address while serving as Secretary of State...But while the media remain mired in calculations about whether Mrs. Clinton can survive this latest crisis, and who the villains are in this unfolding story, additional questions call out for answers. Mrs. Clinton made many claims at her press conference on Tuesday. The media shouldn’t simply regurgitate them wholesale, as the AP has done, but rather they should approach them with due skepticism. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/hillarys-emailgate-explained/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email031115&utm_medium=email

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Why was Sid Blumenthal advising Hilly Clinton on Libya?

(Kenneth R. Timmerman) - Until Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) revealed last week that his Benghazi Select Committee was investigating Hilly Clinton’s use of a private email server for her official State Department communications...no one had a good explanation for why none of the Congressional committees that had previously investigated Benghazi had ever cited a single Hilly Clinton email in their reports. Congressional Democrats had been pooh-poohing Gowdy’s investigation, claiming that all the important questions about Benghazi had been “asked and answered” by previous committees. Now the best that Gowdy’s counterpart, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), can do is object to subpoenas (especially when they are issued to Hilly Clinton in person, through Counsel), and to huff and puff about the investigation becoming a “surrogate” for the “Republican National Committee.” http://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-was-sid-blumenthal-advising-hillary-clinton-on-libya/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email031115&utm_medium=email

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Clinton: Delete? Hard Drive Destroyed?

(AMY CHOZICK and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT) - Mrs. Clinton said that the server that housed her email address had been set up on property guarded by the Secret Service, and that there had been no security breaches...She said she had never emailed classified material to anyone. It is unclear if the emails were deleted irretrievably, and a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton declined to elaborate on how she had erased the correspondence. “If the emails were on a server in her house and she deleted them, there’s a chance the emails could still be on the server’s hard drive if you forensically examine it,” said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at the computer security firm Sophos. “To make sure the emails are really destroyed, you would have to physically destroy the hard drive, which many companies and places like the Defense Department often do.” Mr. Wisniewski said that if the emails were kept on a third-party provider, they were less likely to be recoverable. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/us/hillary-clinton-email.html?_r=1

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Factions Pick Over Syria's Bones

(Jonathan Spyer) - In the latest blow to supporters of the "moderate" elements among the Syrian rebels, the Harakat Hazm "Movement of Determination" last week announced that it was disbanding...Hazm was never a large group. It never possessed more than around 5,000 fighters and was active only in northwest Syria. But for a period of time, it was held up by those who supported arming the Sunni Arab rebels as the kind of militia that the U.S. and the west could get behind. It had ties neither to the Salafi jihadists nor to the Muslim Brotherhood. Nor was it given to the kind of open and florid corruption favored by some of the other "secular" groupings in Syria's north. http://www.meforum.org/5097/four-rival-factions-pick-over-syria-bones

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Al-Aqsa Mosque Address: May the Muslims Wage War on America

(pamelageller.com) - These are the people nObama is pressing the Israelis to make concessions with in order to establish “peace.” nObama knows what he is about. Six years into his presidency, there is no doubt about that...Speaking at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian Arab researcher calls on Muslims to pray that Allah will enable them to wage war on America. The researcher, Ahmad Al-Khatwani, also known as “Abu Hamza”, declared that Muslims should pray that Allah will enable them to wage war on America and vanquish it. Abu Hamza also expressed his desire that the Muslims “raid America on its own land.” The address was given on February 18, 2015, and was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Ng732IYuU

http://pamelageller.com/2015/03/al-aqsa-mosque-address-may-the-muslims-wage-war-on-america.html/

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Defiant Hilly - NOT letting anyone near her private server

(pamelageller.com) - No laws for liberals. It’s astonishing. She should be facing charges like Petraeus; instead, she is the left’s leading candidate. It shouldn’t be up to her — her server should be seized, but under nObama’s autocracy, laws mean nothing...A defiant Hilly Clinton on Tuesday finally addressed the simmering controversy surrounding her use of a private email account and private server while she served as secretary of state.But she said a whole lot of nothing. Then she gave one of the worst explanations possible for using a private server. http://pamelageller.com/2015/03/defiant-hillary-at-news-conference-says-shes-not-letting-anyone-near-her-private-server.html/

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House Dems Send Letter to U.S. Adversary Opposition to the Pres

(Erick Erickson) - Coming on the heels of the revelation that 47 Republican Senators sent a letter to Iran undermining President nObama’s ambitions in the country...I can now report to you that a number of Democrats, including the former Speaker, have engaged in the same behavior. They sent a letter to one of our clear adversaries and declared their opposition to the President’s foreign policy in the country and their opposition to American military action. Further, the Democrats sought assurances from the regime separate from the assurances and demands of the President’s Administration. I an utterly dumbfounded the media has refused to report on this. It might be because history did not begin until the Obama Administration for most reporters these days and this was actually from March 20, 1984. That is the day the Democratic Leader of the House and soon to be Speaker, Jim Wright, and a number of his congressional colleagues, sent a letter to communist leader “Commandante” Daniel Ortega. The press then too gave the “Dear Commandante” letter writers a pass in a way they refuse to give Republicans a pass. It is worth pointing out that the Speaker at the time of this letter was Tip O’Neil whose chief of staff was Chris Matthews. Matthews is now calling on the 47 Republicans to be prosecuted under the Logan Act. Neither he nor his boss objected to the “Dear Commandante” letter. http://www.redstate.com/2015/03/11/breaking-house-democrats-send-letter-to-u-s-adversary-pledging-opposition-to-the-president/

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Image Credit: Gage Skidmore, Flickr (CC-BY-2.0)

The Cotton letter and Iran

(Danielle Pletka) - Let’s step back a moment and ask ourselves why 47 US Senators would send a letter to the Supreme Leader about a possible deal between the United States and Iran...Could it be because they do not know the contents of that deal? Possibly, are they not being briefed about the terms? Is it at all conceivable they are not being updated on the nature of the negotiations? Does anyone think the Department of State has shared its legal opinion as to how sanctions can be relieved without congressional action? Has the administration made concessions that allow Iran to have a nuclear capability despite violating its safeguards agreements? Is it the administration’s position that so-called possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s program are the business of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), not the United States? Are the administration’s negotiations consistent with the spirit and intent of US law vis-a-vis the Iranian nuclear program? Are the negotiations consistent with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty? If Barack nObama is so concerned about making a workable deal with his Tehran counterparts, he might first have directed his staff to keep members of Congress updated fully about the nature, progress and goals of his deal-making with Tehran. http://www.aei.org/publication/the-cotton-letter-and-iran/?utm_source=today&utm_medium=paramount&utm_campaign=AEIToday031115

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Why Hilly’s Talking Points Don’t Add Up

(Joseph Klein) - Using the United Nations as a backdrop to theatrically remind people of her foreign policy gravitas, Hilly Clinton held what the UN referred to as a press “encounter” outside of the UN Security Council chamber on March 10th...First of all, there were archive regulations in effect in 2009, which required federal employees — including Hilly while she was Secretary of State — to preserve her work-related e-mails. The “every-one did it” defense holds no water because Hilly’s use of her own private server, set up in her New York residence, was reportedly unprecedented. Hilly rejected the suggestion that an independent third party examine her server including its hard drive, which raises the inevitable question of whether she is trying to hide something. Her privacy rationale is bogus, considering her decision to blend personal and work-related e-mails on the same personal account hosted by the same home-installed server in the first place. All Hilly could say was that the server “will remain private.” Hilly’s defense that it is up to each federal employee to decide individually which of his or her e-mails are personal and which are work-related does not mean that such decision cannot be examined by the government and remedied if necessary. In Hilly’s case, that is impossible due to her refusal to turn over the server sitting in her residence to an independent examiner. We have to take her word that she turned over all e-mails that were even “possibly” work-related which, given her track record, is not very reliable.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/joseph-klein/why-hillarys-talking-points-dont-add-up/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=964fa726ae-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-964fa726ae-156509103

America Needs A Shrink

Burt Prelutsky

     (burtprelutsky.com) - BARACK nOBAMA insists we can’t identify the enemy because if we utter the word “Islamic,” even if we modify it with “extremists,” “jihadists” or “fundamentalists,” every Muslim will assume we’re at war with them. Not only is that absurd and condescending, but it doesn’t come close to passing the smell test.

     There are factions of Muslims who are constantly at war with one another, so why would Muslims assume that if we attack, say, ISIL or Boko Haram, but not Jordan or Egypt, we can’t distinguish between our friends and our enemies? Instead, it’s nObama, with his constant attacks on Bibi Netanyahu, who seems unable to make that particular distinction.

     Besides, nObama never tires of telling us that the barbarians who are slitting throats and bar-be-cuing Christians, Jews and their fellow Muslims, have nothing whatever to do with Islam, so why his reluctance to wage war on them?

♦ In related news, the ISIL beheader has been identified as Mohammad Emwazi of London. It seems he is from a well-to-do family and has graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. So I guess he didn’t become a throat-slitting jihadist, as nObama and Marie Harf recently suggested, because he couldn’t get a job flipping burgers at McDonald’s.

♦ Meanwhile, in Denver -- formerly known as the Mile High City, but now, thanks to the legalization of marijuana, more of a Ten Mile High City – a black thug called a black police officer a nigger. In response, rather than bounce a billy club off the punk’s noggin, he said, “I am not a nigger.” As a result, the loons running Denver have reprimanded the cop for saying the n-word,” ignoring the context, thus ruining his future chances for promotion.

     I’m reminded that Marco Rubio observed: “Every day loose lips Joe Biden says something that would end my career if I said it."

♦ I heard someone on the radio the other day claim that one of the worst things George W. Bush ever did was come up with the term “compassionate conservative,” and to an extent I agree. The term, after all, distinguishes between those compassionate ones and all the rest of us, as if conservatism is as nasty and diabolical as liberals insist it is.

     But inasmuch as Bush also approved of amnesty without building a fence at the border; promoted No Child Left Behind, a precursor to Common Core; and banned incandescent light bulbs, I would say that the schmuck was about as conservative as his kid brother.

♦ For some years now, one public official after another has lied about his military service. It probably started with Hanoi John Kerry, who came back from Vietnam and managed to forge a political career out of slandering his fellow soldiers as sadists and baby-killers, and lying about his alleged injuries in order to cop a couple of Purple Hearts.

     The latest offender is, not too surprisingly, the Secretary of Veteran Affairs, Bob McDonald, who claimed to have been a member of Special Forces. With such despicable creeps at the top, is it any wonder that wounded warriors continue to die while under the so-called care of the V.A.?

♦ It seems that in 2014, there were 16,900 federal employees who were paid over $200,000. Keep in mind that was only counting base salary, and didn’t take into account overtime and bonuses. Most of them were working at – you guessed it! – the V.A. For the record, more than 1,600 federal employees made in excess of $300,000.

     Lest you think those bonuses were the kind – say a week’s salary -- you might get if your company did really well, Lois Lerner, late of the IRS, collected $110,000 in bonuses during her last three years on the job. As you see, her efforts to target Tea Party groups between 2010 and 2012 were greatly appreciated.

♦ As you may or may not have noticed, as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch, Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham, carried through on their promise to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next Attorney General. That is akin to re-confirming Eric Holder to another two years on the job. If the voters in Utah, Arizona and South Carolina, don’t at least attempt to recall these three idiots, they should be denied the right to complain about Ms. Lynch in the future.

♦ I often listen to Dennis Prager when I’m in the car, which is the only time I listen to the radio. He is another of my fellow Jewish conservatives and I often agree with his take on topics. However, he has one belief that he brings up on a regular basis, with the intention of setting straight those who deign to disagree with him.

     The moral question he poses is this: If your pet dog or cat and a stranger are both drowning, and you can only rescue one of them, which would it be?

     To Prager, the obvious answer is the stranger. His reason is that only human beings have souls and are created in the image of God. I have heard this from him for a great many years and each time I hear it, steam spews out of my ears.

     Now I’m willing to grant that if the stranger is a baby or a child, I would, with a heavy heart, allow my pet to drown.

     But, assuming we’re talking about an adult, I am willing to take on Prager and deny him the moral high ground. For one thing, I don’t believe that every human being is created in the image of God. Was Hitler? Was Stalin? Was Pol Pot or Saddam Hussein or Idi Amin? Anyone wish to argue that Mohammad Emwazi, aka "Jihadi John," was created in God’s image or even that he has what most of us regard as a soul?

     But even if the person drowning isn’t a notorious villain, we all draw conclusions when we see a fellow human being. If the guy going down for the third time fits my notion of a meth dealer or a tattooed thug, why would I rescue him and allow my dog Angel to die? My wife and I have, after all, accepted responsibility for Angel’s well-being, and we take that responsibility seriously.

♦ Speaking of people of questionable worth, hardly a day goes by when we don’t hear about some idiot trying to outrace a train. In spite of lights, bells and closing gates, some people simply refuse to be warned off. In certain quarters, I believe this phenomenon is commonly referred to as a thinning of the herd.

     God forbid I should rescue one of those morons and allow our beloved dog to drown.

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"More Immigration Fraud In America, Chinese Anchor Babies"

Posted by Rev. Paul P Waldmiller on March 12, 2015 at 1:13pm

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Thursday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 12, 2015 at 11:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Life under the US umbrella

Caroline B. Glick

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

~~~lll~~~

Paying to Pray?

A funny thing happened in the South Florida city of Lake Worth. It appears the local government has given churches the idea they must pay a fee to exercise their constitutionally protected right to worship as they please. In fact, in a move that smacks of totalitarianism, one particular church was singled out for "observation" by a hoodie-wearing code enforcement officer who compiled an official Case Narrative that reads like a bad detective novel. In the city's crosshairs is a Southern Baptist institution known as the Common Ground Church. The church owns and operates a coffee house in the downtown area, and for the last three months it has used it to hold weekly worship services. Previously the congregation rented space at other facilities in the area. Common Ground Pastor Mike Olive spoke with Fox News' Todd Starnes and told him problems began arising last month following an encounter with City Commissioner Andy Amoroso. "After we opened up the coffee bar and started doing services, I heard that he told people we were anti-gay," Olive told Starnes. "So I went to his shop to ask him about that." Despite Olive's insistence that his church is all about loving God and loving people, and that his message to the gay community "is the same as it is to the straight community," Amoroso remained unconvinced, warning the pastor that he'd "better not have a church down there." -The Patriot Post

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Right-to-Work Comes to Wisconsin

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Monday signed right-to-work legislation, making "America's Dairyland" the 25th state with laws preventing mandatory union membership and payment of dues. It's both good for Wisconsin's economy and is a feather in Walker's presidential cap. Through a section of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, states were permitted to enact legislation that allowed contracts to be signed between unions and businesses requiring workers at the particular company to pay labor fees, and legally binding those companies to fire workers who refused to join the union. Section 14B of this Act specifically noted that a right-to-work law would prevent such extortion. Union members make up about 8% of Wisconsin's current labor force. Just 30 years ago that number was 22%. Indeed, nationwide, labor unions are losing the muscle that once made them mighty -- because their numbers have dwindled for the last three decades.

-The Patriot Post

INTRODUCING THE DEMOCRATIC 2016 POWER INDEX
Fox News First has been ranking the Republican presidential contenders in our Power Index since January, but left the Democrats out of the mix. Why waste our time and yours on what was shaping up as a coronation? But the ongoing and far-from-finished scandal around Hilly Clinton’s use of a secret home email server as secretary of state casts things in a new light. We have much more on the scandal below, but the political takeaway is fairly straightforward: her cloak of inevitability is torn. Whether as an actual rival or as a life raft for their party’s presidential hopes should Clinton sink herself, Democrats increasingly want and need alternatives. And so, we give you our inaugural Democratic 2016 Power Index.
          1) HILLY CLINTON - Today is a perfect encapsulation of Clinton’s campaign: big resources that bring big troubles. Clinton’s controversial family foundation will be acting as an extension of her campaign as it celebrates a speech Clinton gave 20 years ago in China on women’s rights with a dense report, public events and speeches by the candidate. Of course, since the foundation funds its work partly through gifts from countries that repress women as part of official policy, it does get a little icky. She will again be appearing in public but again failing to address the email scandal beyond an impossibly Clintonian tweet on the topic. So she gets a huge boost on visibility on her central campaign theme – that it’s time for a female president – but the means by which she paid for the platform create controversy of their own.
          [“What I would like, is for her to come forward and say just what the situation is because she is the preeminent political figure right now. I think from this point on the silence is going to hurt her.” – Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”]
          2) loose lips JOE BIDEN - The vice president is kind of a hot mess. He boldly makes untrue statements. He nape-nuzzles other men’s wives in public. He’s 72, but lacks any of the campaign discipline that decades in public life ought to have brought him. And yet, he’s the single biggest threat to Hilly Clinton and the automatic frontrunner if he decides to run. Aside from having Air Force Two and near-universal name recognition, he can make the best claim to Democrats for protecting and defending President nObama’s legacy. And plus, the press loves loose lips Biden, a negative since his every gaffe would be amplified but a positive since he would have the best platform to call Clinton out. The two were consistently at odds during their time in the administration, and he would surely make a potent prosecutor of her claims of foreign policy expertise.
          [The Atlantic: “There’s only one prominent Democratic contender who has traveled to all three early presidential primary states so far in 2015. It’s not Hilly Clinton. Nor is it Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or even Martin O’Malley.”]
          3) ELIZABETH WARREN - The freshman senator from Massachusetts says she’s not running for president, but she and thousands of her supporters say they just want Hilly Clinton to move to the left and be a “progressive warrior.” But that’s an empty threat without the means to punish Clinton if she doesn’t oblige. Warren, who has had an audience with the frontrunner, has shown a reticence to run beyond coyness in recent weeks. It is helpful to appear not overly ambitious, but too much resistance will cause supporters to look elsewhere. Warren boasts the advantage of a campaign in waiting, but time is running out for her to make a long-shot run. While she might do well in Iowa and New Hampshire, to avoid being road-kill under the Clinton machine in the rest of the primaries, Warren needs to get busy. If she can get rolling, though, her zeal and authenticity could make her the Democratic heartthrob in a flash. Unlike loose lips Biden, Warren would also be a history-making nominee.
              [Union label - Warren and loose lips Biden both address the International Association of Firefighters today in Washington.]
          4) MARTIN O’MALLEY - You can’t win the game if you don’t suit up and show up, and therein lies former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s cardinal advantage as a candidate. Unlike the others, he is actually on the trail and looking for donors and support. O’Malley is little known and isn’t broadly identified with any particular message, but as the very liberal former governor of a very liberal state, he has many policy points to please Democrats unhappy about the idea of veering from nObama’s domestic doctrine. Campaigning in New Hampshire this weekend, O’Malley demurred when questioned about Clinton’s sketchy email account. If O’Malley wants to be more than a running-mate in waiting, he will have to draw deeper distinctions with the frontrunner to show he’s serious.
          5) JIM WEBB - Candidates who are running against their parties don’t usually fare well, and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb looks to be no exception. Webb’s cry is that Democrats have to restore faith with the blue-collar white voters who once were the party’s backbone. And while he has a point to make about economic populism, and the deep embrace by Clinton of Wall Street, on the rest of the party’s issue set, he is a man out of time. Whether it is abortion or gun rights, Democrats made their collective choice against the party’s former base decades ago and won’t be coming back. -Fox News

Over the horizon - Suppose Hilly Clinton actually imploded and dropped out of the race. Who else might consider a run and could reasonably get a campaign together on the double. Some names to watch would include Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Gov. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y. -Fox News

1.

Republican Senators Send Letter to Iran

(Warren Mass) - An open letter sent by 47 Republican senators to the “Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran” on March 9 — which provided Iran’s leaders with a brief lesson on the U.S. Constitution’s grant of powers regarding foreign policy...has generated a critical response from White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, Vice President loose lips Joe Biden, and Senate Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid (D-Nev.)Speaking for the letter’s intended recipients, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, said the letter lacks “legal validity” and shows that the signatories of the letter are “ignorant of international law.” “In our view this letter has no legal validity and is just a propaganda scheme,” Zarif asserted. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/20333-republican-senators-send-letters-to-iran-prompting-white-house-reaction?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=c427f1dd5c-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-c427f1dd5c-289778381

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McConnell Betrays Conservatives by Promising to Raise Debt Ceiling

McCon-nell Betrays Conservatives to Raise Debt Ceiling

(Raven Clabough) - According to the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. government will reach its borrowing limit in October or November, after exhausting emergency measures to keep the debt below the limit as long as possible...Without the emergency measures, the growing federal debt would hit the ceiling by the middle of this month. But Republicans who had hoped to use the debt ceiling debate as leverage to pass spending cuts were disappointed to learn that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell has already assured the Dems that the GOP would not threaten a default or government shutdown. Never mind that neither a default nor a shutdown would be necessary if the federal governent were simply to slash spending and start living within its means. "The debt ceiling will be handled over a period of months," McCon-nell said his appearance on CBS' Face the Nation Sunday. "I made it very clear after the November election we're certainly not going to shut down the government or default on the national debt." He is acting like a Democratic. Or is he one? http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/20329-mcconnell-betrays-conservatives-by-promising-to-raise-debt-ceiling?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=c427f1dd5c-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-c427f1dd5c-289778381

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Attack Dog Hilly Clinton Unleashed And Unhinged

(rickwells.us) - The great and wise Hilly Clinton, the beacon of freedom and honesty to a troubled world, took a moment before attempting to defend her secret email server and seizure and sequestration of government records to deflect some attention by attacking Republicans...She did so against a United Nations backdrop, symbolic of the organization that she truly works to advance, regardless of any position she might happen to hold within the U.S. government. It’s the epitome of hypocrisy that the duplicitous Clinton would attempt to sit in judgment of Republicans or anyone else. As the former Secretary of State who is presently engaged in a feverish cover up of her involvement in the events of Benghazi and God knows what else, she is hardly one to claim the moral or any other high ground. The Clintons have always relied upon a strong offense as their best defense. A wild swing or two was to be expected in the opening rounds of her public defense. http://www.rickwells.us/rabid-attack-dog-hillary-clinton-unleashed-and-unhinged-republicans-are-allies-of-nuclear-iran-can-race-card-be-far-behind/

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Trey Gowdy – Even More Questions After Clinton Statement

(rickwells.us) - It’s hard to imagine that Hilly Clinton actually expected her official denial of wrongdoing in her email scandal to have quieted things down...Her typical claims of “honest Democrat ignorance,” this time as it relates to all those “confusing techie gadget things” doesn’t seem to have done much to convince many people that she just made an innocent, unfortunate decision; unfortunate definitely, innocent, not so much. She somehow tries to blame an inability or a lack of knowledge of how to operate two email accounts simultaneously on the same device as the reason she hid government records and stole away the paper trail from her time in the State Department inside her home. Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is doesn’t believe that Clinton is just suffering from a lack of technical knowhow, acknowledging that nObama, the busiest man in the country is able to successfully use one phone for his communications and that his archives are, as far as we know, complete. http://www.rickwells.us/benghazi-chairman-trey-gowdy-even-more-questions-after-clinton-statement-than-he-had-before/

5.

Republican Liberty Caucus announces Wayne Allyn Root as chairman

(personalliberty.com) - The National Board of the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) has voted to name Wayne Allyn Root as chairman of its National Campaign Committee, as well as chairman of the RLC Advisory Board...Root, now back to his lifelong Republican roots, was the Libertarian vice presidential nominee in 2008, as well as an elected board member of the Libertarian National Committee and chairman of the Libertarian National Campaign Committee. One of America’s most vocal critics of the nObama administration, Root is a frequent radio and TV guest, political commentator, political columnist and the author of the national bestselling books “The Ultimate nObama Survival Guide” and “The Murder of the Middle Class.” On Thursdays, his video commentary and accompanying transcript run on Personal Liberty Digest™. http://personalliberty.com/republican-liberty-caucus-announces-wayne-allyn-root-chairman-national-campaign-committee/

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Hilly Clinton Stonewalling From Here Until Election Day

(rickwells.us) - Referencing the Clinton email scandal, Charles Krauthammer describes it as “the nineties all over again.” He sees the key statement that the former Secretary of State made as being her contention that “the server is private and I’m hanging on to it and no one’s going to have a look at it...She was asked, ‘would you have an impartial outside observer go in and decide which ones are private,’ she said no, basically. We own it.” Krauthammer believes her determined obstructionism dates back to the Whitewater investigation, when she acquiesced to her husband’s decision to cooperate with investigators and agree to a special prosecutor. Krauthammer says Hilly Clinton views that decision as a catastrophic mistake, one he thinks she has vowed to never repeat. http://www.rickwells.us/charles-krauthammer-white-water-the-sequel-hillary-clinton-stonewalling-from-here-until-election-day/

7.

Another Reason To Bail On UN

(rickwells.us) - Two key questions need to be asked in view of the report issued by the UN Commission on the Status of Women, but more accurately, in regards to the United Nations as a whole...What is the United Nations doing in the U.S. and what is the United States doing in the UN? Since most of their so-called humanitarian aid and health efforts are directed towards third world nations and the continent of Africa, why is their headquarters not there, where they could more closely monitor the “good deeds” they are doing and all of the lives that their eugenics programs are “saving?” Is it because the globalist bankers who enrich themselves through the United Nations have their management operations in New York City, not in Niger or Chad? What benefit does the United States derive from UN membership? We are placed into a position of equal stature or less with backward, often much more primitive nations who see us only in terms of the volume of dollars their corrupt leadership can siphon off in their direction. http://www.rickwells.us/another-reason-to-bail-on-un-politically-correct-report-paid-for-by-americans-cites-abuse-of-women-wont-use-the-i-word/

8.

He Might Be A Hilly – Holder Had Secret Email Identities As Well

(rickwells.us) - Obstruction of justice and secret email accounts aren’t just the dominion of Hilly Clinton. With the revelation that Eric Holder has also been using anonymous emails...the extent to which the White House has a policy of lying, hiding, diverting attention and covering up information related to their conduct of the people’s business is further exposed. Attorney General Eric Holder not only used alternate email accounts, but he did so under aliases, an obvious effort to disguise his identity. One has to wonder just how prevalent this practice is in the “least transparent regime” in history. On Tuesday the Huffington Post reported that Holder has used three different false identities for his email accounts during his tenure at the Justice Department, among them the now retired ID of “Henry Yearwood.” http://www.rickwells.us/hes-no-clark-kent-but-he-might-be-a-hillary-clinton-eric-holder-had-secret-email-identities-as-well/

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19 Times the Govt Withheld Documents It Didn’t Want You to See

(Sharyl Attkisson) - Lost and missing government records are not isolated to one administration or political party...The list below includes 19 examples of public files that went missing, were withheld or lost and then found. It includes the most recent example of former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Maxwell’s account of Benghazi documents, which The Daily Signal revealed last month. http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/15/19-times-documents-went-missing-government-didnt-want-know/

10.

Hilly Concedes She Deleted Nearly 30K ‘Private’ Emails

(Tony Lee) - On Tuesday, former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton conceded that she deleted nearly 30,000 emails that she deemed were “private” and not “work-related.”...Finally addressing the email scandal that has engulfed her for more than a week, Clinton said that she turned over nearly 30,000 emails and 55,000 pages of documents to the State Department. Her answer will surely raise more questions about whether she alone should have determined what emails should have been turned over to the government, especially after, as Breitbart News noted, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who chairs the House Select Benghazi Committee, said there were huge gaps in the emails his committee has received. Gowdy even “mentioned that his committee has not received any emails regarding Clinton’s trip to Libya even though the iconic picture of Clinton from that day shows her on a mobile device.” http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/10/hillary-concedes-she-deleted-nearly-30k-private-emails/?AID=7236

Life under the US umbrella

Caroline B. Glick

     (jewishworldreview.com) - South Korea lives under a US security umbrella. Both on a conventional and nuclear level, South Koreans are dependent on the US to deter North Korea from attacking them and overrunning their country.

     Last Friday, US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman scolded South Koreans for being too nationalist. In her words, “Nationalist feelings can still be exploited, and it’s not hard for a political leader anywhere to earn cheap applause by vilifying a former enemy.”

     The South Koreans interpreted her remarks as criticism of their President Park Geun-hye for her refusal to reinstate reunification talks with North Korea due to Pyongyang’s refusal to discuss the dismantlement of its nuclear program.

     Sherman negotiated the US’s nuclear pact with North Korea in the 1990s. The North Koreans used the deal as a smokescreen behind which they developed nuclear weapons while receiving financial assistance from the US which paid off the regime for signing the deal.

     Once Pyongyang was ready to come out as a nuclear power, it threw out the nuclear inspectors, opened the sealed nuclear sites, vacated its signature on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and began testing nuclear bombs.

Sherman is now the US’s chief negotiator in the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran.

     This week President Park traveled to Saudi Arabia, where she signed a deal to build two nuclear reactors for the oil giant.

     The truth is that the North Koreans didn’t need nuclear weapons to deter South Korea from attacking it. Pyongyang possesses one of the largest, most powerful artillery arsenals in the world and it has enough artillery pieces pointed at Seoul to bomb the South Korean capital into the Stone Age.

     North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is not directed primarily against Seoul. It is directed against Washington. And, as the US’s timidity in its defense of South Korea, and its constant attempts to placate Pyongyang indicate, Washington has been deterred.

     The day after Saudi King Salman signed his nuclear deal with Park, US Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry arrived in Riyadh to meet with him and with the foreign ministers of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council – Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman.

     According to news reports, Hanoi Kerry offered the Arab leaders to place them under the US nuclear umbrella to protect them from Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

     There can be no doubt that in his conversations with the South Korean leader, King Salman discussed what life is like under an American security guarantee. And it is hard to see that he considers it a good bargain.

     It is not merely that the US is deterred by North Korea, and therefore is willing to humiliate and endanger South Korea to avoid having to contend with Pyongyang. It is that US President Barack nObama has destroyed the credibility of US security guarantees by repeatedly failing to stand by them.

     During the Cold War, West Germany and the rest of Western Europe were able to function under the US’s nuclear umbrella because the Soviet Union was deterred from invading Germany by the US’s nuclear threat. Moscow believed the US was serious when it promised to bomb the Soviet Union with nuclear warheads if it sent tanks into West Berlin.

     nObama wouldn’t even undertake limited air strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad after he crossed nObama’s declared redline and attacked his opponents with chemical weapons.

     nObama failed to live up to his own redline because he didn’t want to upset Assad’s protectors in Tehran. To build up the credibility of his intentions to appease Tehran, nObama betrayed the Syrian people and his own pledge to defend them against chemical strikes. So even without nuclear weapons, Tehran is deterring nObama.

     Beyond that, just as Pyongyang doesn’t require nuclear weapons to destroy South Korea, Iran doesn’t need to attack Persian Gulf states with nuclear weapons in order to dominate them and cause their collapse.

     Iran can subjugate and destroy these regimes simply by using its proxies against them and threatening their economies with its control over both the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Aden. Iran can bring the Saudis to their knees without getting anywhere near a nuclear tripwire.

     And like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Arab leaders are convinced that as she did in 1999 with Pyongyang, Sherman and her boss, Hanoi Kerry, are now paving the way for Iran to develop nuclear weapons.

     If the Arabs scoff at the US offer of a nuclear umbrella, Israelis don’t even have the luxury of snorting at the offer because there is no reason to believe that even a credible nuclear umbrella would deter Iran from attacking Israel with nuclear weapons.

     In Israel’s case there are any number of scenarios under which Iran will see an advantage to attacking Israel with nuclear weapons, either directly or through one of its proxies that now encircle Israel along three borders.

     And so we are left with the question of how to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

     As Netanyahu explained in his address before the joint houses of Congress on Tuesday, the deal that nObama is now offering Iran “doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb; it paves Iran’s path to the bomb.”

     By leaving Iran’s nuclear infrastructure intact, and pledging to end the limitations on Iran’s nuclear program within a decade, nObama is enabling Iran to acquire nuclear arms both by cheating its way there as the North Koreans did, or by waiting out the deal and emerging immediately after as a nuclear power.

     Either way, the deal as presently constituted empowers the regime. It enriches the ayatollahs and legitimizes their regime and their hegemonic actions and aspirations.

     The problem with seeking to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is that according to arms control expert Graham Allison from Harvard University, and others, Iran passed the point of no return in terms of nuclear know-how in 2008. It has mastered the technology and the science and therefore has where withal to develop nuclear weapons, and rebuild nuclear infrastructures that may be destroyed or damaged in aerial and other attacks.

     Given this dismal state of affairs there are three ways to approach the problem.

     The first path is similar to Israel’s counterterror strategy of “mowing the lawn.” In counterterror parlance “mowing the lawn” involves destroying as much of the terrorist infrastructure that the terrorist foe possesses in as short a period as possible, and then repeating the process after the terror group reconstitutes its capabilities.

     In the case of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, a “mowing the lawn” approach would involve using force to destroy as many Iranian nuclear installations as possible in as short a campaign as possible in order to set Iran’s production schedule back for as long as possible, and then repeating the process, when Iran reconstitutes its capabilities.

     The second path to block Iran’s nuclear advance is to use coercive diplomacy including harsh economic sanctions and other punitive means to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear installations and couple that coercive diplomacy with an intrusive inspections regime to ensure long term compliance.

     The third means of curtailing Iran’s nuclear ambitions involves overthrowing the regime by providing active support – including organizational support and arms to regime opponents.

     When Netanyahu spoke to the joint houses of Congress on Tuesday, he directly advanced the first two paths toward preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and indirectly advanced the third.

     Netanyahu provided a sober-minded, carefully constructed argument for preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. He then demonstrated why nObama’s nuclear negotiating strategy enables Iran to become a nuclear power. In so doing, Netanyahu built sufficient bipartisan Congressional support for an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear weapons to protect Israel from the nObama administration.

     Whether Netanyahu will order such a strike, or when such a strike could be most effective, is impossible to judge. But he did secure Congressional support for it.

     Netanyahu also created an opening for lawmakers who are frightened by the deal nObama is now negotiating to prevent him from completing it. Whether or when they will use the opportunity is still unclear. nObama has tremendous power and leverage over Democratic lawmakers and he has no compunction about using it to get his way.

     On the other hand, buoyed by Netanyahu, Republicans also have power. If they use it judiciously, they will be able to secure 67 votes in favor of legislation that would require nObama to receive Senate approval for his nuclear deal, and would place harsh economic sanctions on Iran if it doesn’t meet the behavioral benchmarks of ending its sponsorship of terrorism, ending its meddling in the internal affairs of other states, and ending its threats to annihilate Israel that Netanyahu laid out.

     Beyond that, by making clear that it is pure folly to assume that Iran will magically transform itself into a responsible actor on the international stage after securing the deal, Netanyahu provided the rationale for a strategy of regime change. Whether a future administration will adopt this option or not is unclear, but it is now evident that given the fact that Iran has the technological and scientific capacity to develop nuclear weapons, the only way in the long term to prevent that from happening is to overthrow the regime.

     nObama and his advisers argue that there are only two options – their agreement, that enables Iran to build a nuclear arsenal in the coming years, or war. What Netanyahu made clear is that this is a false choice. The US is stronger than Iran. It has more leverage than Iran. All it needs to get a better agreement is a massively diminished desire to conclude one.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0315/glick030915.php3

THE PATRIOT POST

Posted by William M. Finley on March 12, 2015 at 8:52am

Daily Digest

Mar. 12, 2015

THE FOUNDATION

“The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.” –Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Charles Hammond, 1821

TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS

Ferguson Police Chief Resigns, Two Cops Shot

The Department of Justice made its accusation: The Ferguson Police Department practiced systematic racism. The DOJ named names and so the city’s town manager and municipal judge resigned. Then Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson announced his resignation. In hisresignation letter, Jackson wrote, “My resignation will be effective March 19, 2015 to provide for an orderly transition of command. … I will continue to assist the city in any way I can in my capacity as private citizen.” But Wednesday night, the streets around the police department were anything but orderly. As protesters gathered into the early morning, four shots rang out and two officers fell, seriously injured. The Obama administration was going to come after Ferguson officials if they didn’t resign, but did they take into account an emboldened hostility to the peacekeeping force in the city? The department needs reform and leadership has left, but someone tried to kill two cops. Clearly, this isn’t over. More…

Sen. Cotton’s Letter to Iran Is Firmly Constitutional

After the Senate sent its letter to Iran explaining whatever deal John Kerry is currently negotiating would not be a lawful treaty, the Left and its “constitutional scholars” think the 47 senators should be tried for treason. In a White House petition, over 200,000 people said, “United States Senators committed a treasonous offense when they decided to violate the Logan Act, a 1799 law which forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments.” And they actually think this petition will get legal legs. Let’s start with the Constitution, which says in Article II Section 2 that the president “shall have Power by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur [emphasis added].” John Yoo writes at National Review that Obama could make some kind of agreement with Iran, namely a sole executive agreement, which would only be binding with the Obama administration itself. He continues, “But as a matter of constitutional law, the Cotton letter should be no more controversial than a letter that simply enclosed a copy of the U.S. Constitution (without President Obama’s editing).” No, it is the Obama administration that is circumventing the Constitution, as even Kerry admitted that “we’re not negotiating a legally binding plan.” More…

Kerry’s Hypocritical Indignation

Secretary of State John Kerry really wasn’t happy with the 47 Senate Republicans who wrote a letter to Iran warning of the temporary nature of any deal with the Obama administration. Testifying before Congress Wednesday, Kerry said his reaction to the letter was “utter disbelief” because it “ignores more than two centuries of precedent in the conduct of American foreign policy.” He added, “During my 29 years here in the Senate, I never heard of – nor even heard of it being proposed – anything comparable to this. … This risks undermining the confidence that foreign governments, in thousands of important agreements, commit to between the United States and other countries.” Funny that he’s “never even heard of it” because an open letter to Iran restating the obvious hardly compares to Kerry’s own record of going it alone on foreign policy. While he was in the Senate, he traveled to Nicaragua to meet with the communist Sandinistas and then returned home to shill on their behalf. And let’s not forget his most infamous moment: meeting with the North Vietnamese in 1970 and 1971 while still a Navy reserve officer. Few are now willing to bring up this treasonous behavior, but it’s unbelievable hypocrisy for Kerry to attack this letter now.

Here We Go Again: Online Sales Tax Resurrected

An online sales tax bill passed the Senate (with 27 mostly Republicans voting “no”) in 2013 but flamed out in the House. Its sponsors, however, are undeterred. The Hill reports, “Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) rolled out the Marketplace Fairness Act on Tuesday, which would give states more power to collect sales taxes from businesses that don’t have a physical location within their borders.” As Mark Alexander explained two years ago, the MFA is designed to force states to collect taxes for the states in which a purchaser resides, and this amounts to taxation without representation. Clearly, politicians want this bill passed to raise new tax revenue for broken state governments facing budget shortfalls. Mitch McConnell opposed the bill as Senate minority leader. Now that he’s majority leader, we’ll see if he holds true.

Leftists Hail Flawed Gun Ownership Survey

Anti-gun advocates hailed the findings of a new study released this week that claims firearm ownership in America is fading. NBC News writes, “According to the latest General Social Survey, 32 percent of Americans either own a firearm themselves or live with someone who does, which ties a record low set in 2010. That’s a significant decline since the late 1970s and early 1980s, when about half of Americans told researchers there was a gun in their household.” If that sounds strikingly odd considering gun purchases remain near historic highs, that’s because it is. Steve Sanetti, president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, says, “GSS isn’t actually counting the number of firearms in each household. Rather it is counting the number of individuals willing to disclose to a stranger at their front door how many firearms they own.” That’s important because “it is far more likely that the political climate is driving down self-reporting.” By comparison, Gallup, which relies on anonymous phone surveys, puts gun ownership at 42%, a percentage that’s more or less remained constant over the last decade. The Left is attempting to twist this survey as proof today’s America just isn’t that into guns. The last few election cycles suggest otherwise. More…

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RIGHT ANALYSIS

‘I Did Not Exchange Classified Information With That Woman’

As news continues to unfold about Hillary Clinton’s secret email servers, which she vowed resulted in “no security breaches” (evoking memories of her finger-wagging husband denying sex allegations with “that woman”), a lesser-reported story broke. The FBI continues to investigate what officials are calling the “worst ever” cyberattack against several federal agencies – including the State Department.

On Tuesday, CNN reported that “suspected Russian hackers have bedeviled State Department’s email system for much of the past year and continue to pose problems for technicians trying to eradicate the intrusion.” Additionally, the same hackers who compromised the State Department’s email system are suspected of being same hackers who penetrated the systems of the White House and other federal agencies.

While the State Department may not be as secure as it should have been, and the hack appears to have occurred after Clinton departed State, the convenient timing of the story suggests a subtle attempt to soften the blow against the former secretary. Perhaps we’re supposed to believe her violation of federal regulations and consequent placing of our national security at risk were somehow less terrible since the State Department’s email system was hacked, too.

In truth, even the cyberattack against the State Department underscores the seriousness of Clinton’s blatant disregard for federal regulations. At least the hack against State was identified. Clinton, however, wants us to simply take her word for it that her “personal” email system was never compromised.

At her now-infamous press conference Tuesday, she claimed her personal email system “had numerous safeguards” and suffered “no security breaches.” But without analyzing the emails and email data, there is simply no way to know whether the system was breached. And it’s especially troubling that during the early months of her tenure – while she was negotiating the “reset” with Russia – her email servers had very little protection.

Political analyst Sean Davis notes that we already know the email account of Sid Blumenthal, a longtime Hillary confidant, was breached by the famed hacker “Guccifer,” and among the emails exposed were “numerous sensitive work-related e-mails that Blumenthal sent to Hillary” while she was secretary. Of course, as Clinton kept no government email account, these hacked emails would have been sent to her private email account – presumably the one with those “numerous safeguards.”

Amid it all, Hillary’s attempts to reassure the nation fall somewhere between laughable and outrageous. A reporter asked her, “Were you ever specifically briefed on the security implications of using your own email server and using your personal address to email with the president?” Clinton served up a meticulously crafted non-answer: “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”

As Davis points out, Clinton’s reply is fraught with problems. For one thing, the question had nothing to do with classified information but specifically with the threat of hacking. Why the prepackaged answer?

Additionally, while Clinton insisted she never sent classified material, she also clearly did not say she never received classified material. And while she claimed there “is” no classified material, as we’ve all come to learn from the Clintons' history, “is” can be a nebulous word. Perhaps “is” should have been “was,” which then begs the question of what happened to any classified material that “was” but no longer “is” – especially after she deleted thousands of emails. Furthermore, “classified” and “sensitive” are two different things, and Hillary notably did not address sending or receiving “sensitive” information.

One unnamed official wondered, “Was every single email of the secretary of state completely unclassified? Maybe, but it’s hard to imagine.” Indeed it is.

Obama’s spokesman Josh Earnest conveyed he is “not particularly interested in” talking about Clinton’s email. And Clinton herself is obviously hoping Americans adopt her classic “what difference does it make?” approach to the scandal. Yet far beyond a violation of protocol, Clinton’s actions represent a willful and arrogant breach of America’s national security. And that, indeed, does make a difference.

In Putin’s World, the Globe Is Cooling

The Russian Black Sea fleet

Great. Russia has said it. Russian official Mikhail Ulyanov claimed the Great Bear has the right to place nuclear weapons in Crimea – the land it took from Ukraine.

“I don’t know if there are nuclear weapons there now,” Ulyanov said. “I don’t know about any plans, but in principle Russia can do it.”

The old enemy’s rhetoric has gone nuclear, and it could portend perilous times, as talk leads to action. And that’s an action the world cannot stand.

Russia has been talking about its right to place nuclear weapons in Crimea since December, when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, “Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn’t possess nuclear arms. Now Crimea has become part of a state which possesses such weapons in accordance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.” He continued, “In accordance with international law. Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal … to suit its interests and international legal obligations.”

But Ulyanov’s comments are especially worrisome because he’s the director for Russia’s department of nuclear non-proliferation and arms control. He’s the man who is supposed to deescalate tension over nuclear stockpiles. He’s supposed to be the advocate for peace. Instead, it’s like someone switched out John Kerry’s talking points for Gen. Martin Dempsey’s.

Just last year, Ulyanov was at the UN saying things like, “An efficient nuclear non-proliferation regime plays a key role in maintaining the international peace and stability as well as moving towards a world free of nuclear weapons.”

What gives?

The way Russia is talking about nuclear arms signals it is hell-bent on returning to feared superpower status. With near-identical quotes, Lavrov and his director claim Crimea was once Ukraine’s but is now Russia’s. Nobody is going to take that strip of land from Russia without a major fight because it cares too much about its territorial gains.

Ukraine foreign ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis condemned the Russian statements, saying, “This is another fact to confirm the absolute unpredictability of Russia, as was the case with Russia’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces. This arbitrary deployment of nuclear weapons not only violates all international agreements that control nuclear weaponry, Russia plans – if these statements are true – to deploy nuclear weapons in the territory of another state, as Crimea is the territory of Ukraine.”

Many people have been trying to understand the motivations of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Of course, he wants Ukraine, possibly for his own glory and certainly for that of Russia. AndAndrew Weiss contends Putin is more nihilistic than most commentators would like to admit. He’s not playing a calculated game of chess, Weiss writes, but “Mr. Putin has largely been improvising his way though the current crisis.”

Putin has isolated himself, surrounding himself with advisers whose only requirement is that they be loyal. A few weeks ago, “Mr. Putin agreed to a new cease-fire framework that was widely seen as advantageous to Moscow,” Weiss writes. “But instead of declaring victory, Mr. Putin chose once again to escalate the conflict.”

While Putin only makes short-term strategies, the stakes in the Ukrainian conflict are too high for Russia to lose.

Commodore Philip Thicknesse, a British veteran of the Falklands War, says Russia has few major seaports – something which it solves with the takeover of Crimea. “A Russia that prefers to believe that it is surrounded by enemies is one thing,” Thicknesse writes. “A Russia denied what it believes to be its birthright – unfettered oceanic access and secure land borders – is another.”

Russia continues nuclear arms rattling, flying bombers up the English Channel and generally playing war. NATO and the U.S. need to respond in two ways. First, the West needs a long-term strategy of choking the Russian economy and stifling its pugnacious “diplomacy.” Second, both the U.S. and NATO should quietly build military capability, but without escalating just yet. It’s diplomacy 101: Speak softly and carry a big stick.

For more, visit Right Analysis.

TOP 5 RIGHT OPINION COLUMNS

Larry Elder: The Farcical Ferguson Report
Stephen Moore: Freedom Not to Choose
Ann Coulter: Barack Obama: A Man for the Ages!
Victor Davis Hanson: E-gate Epidemics
George Will: The Export-Import Bank’s Grip

For more, visit Right Opinion.

OPINION IN BRIEF

British novelist C. S. Lewis (1898-1963): “I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.”

Columnist Larry Elder: “The NBA consists of 76 percent black players. But blacks are just 13 percent of the country. Clearly, the league engages in racial discrimination against whites. Silly, right? Well, this is exactly what the sleight-of-hand Department of Justice pulled off to find that the Ferguson Police Department engages in ‘implicit and explicit racial bias’! … New York City is 25 percent black. However, of the traffic stops, blacks comprise 55 percent. The statistical ‘gap’ is 30 points. In Ferguson … the black population is 67 percent, but 85 percent of the traffic stops. The statistical ‘gap’ is 18 points – far smaller than New York’s 30-point ‘gap.’ Why aren’t Messrs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Eric Holder marching on Times Square? … Richmond, Virginia, is a city of 214,000, with a black population of 50 percent. Eighty-six percent of black Richmond families are headed by a single parent. Of Ferguson’s 67 percent black population, how many kids grew up in fatherless homes? Whatever the answer, isn’t this a far more relevant statistic?”

Economist Stephen Moore: “[I]n a non-right-to-work state, if employees do not pay union dues or fees, they can lose their jobs. So to work at a unionized facility in non-RTW states, you must, in effect, join the union by paying up to 100 percent of the dues and living under the collective bargaining agreement. No payment to the union means no job. If that isn’t coercion, what is? When a robber sticks a knife in your face and says your money or your life, do you really think you have a choice? … Forced-unionism advocates … can argue till the cows come home about how beneficial unions are for workers. But the problem isn’t that they can’t convince me. It’s that they can’t persuade the very blue-collar workers who they claim benefit from the union. … [I]f unions are such a winner for workers, why must they impose laws to force people to join and pay dues? There is no good answer to that one, which is why Wisconsin and a handful of other states are likely to switch to right-to-work and give American workers what liberals used to say they were in favor of: the right to choose.”

Comedian Argus Hamilton: “Hillary Clinton is under fire for creating private e-mail accounts she used as secretary of state so that she could erase any conversations that might incriminate her or embarrass her. Life is a circle. You start out your career by investigating Richard Nixon and you end it by channeling Richard Nixon.”

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!

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JIHAD WATCH

Posted by William M. Finley on March 12, 2015 at 8:34am

Kuwaiti Muslim preacher, Islamic State call for demolition of Sphinx, pyramids

MARCH 11, 2015 2:42 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER19 COMMENTS

“Attacks on the Sphinx date back centuries. Despite many legends surrounding the monument’s missing nose – with harm from Napoleon’s cannon being among the most popular myths – historians believe it was actually destroyed by Sufi Muslim Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr in the 14th century, after he learned that some peasants worshipped the Sphinx.” Many of […]

Nigeria: Some politicians think opposing child marriage “would be synonymous with taking a stand against the Muslim faith”

MARCH 11, 2015 1:15 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER17 COMMENTS

Maryam Uwais says: “The religion has been misinterpreted to convey that child marriage is encouraged in Islam, whereas contextual interpretations would suggest the opposite.” In reality, few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her […]

Thursday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 12, 2015 at 2:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Why Progressives Mislead

John O. McGinnis

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

~~~lll~~~

It's Too Easy to Get Guns, nObama Grumbles

Barack nObama thinks it's way too easy to buy a gun, and he wants to "fix" that. "As long as you can go in some neighborhoods and it is easier for you to buy a firearm than it is for you to buy a book -- there are neighborhoods where it is easier for you to buy a handgun and clips than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable -- as long as that's the case, we're going to continue to see unnecessary violence," nObama warned at a town hall meeting at Benedict College. Clearly frustrated with Congress for not fully exploiting the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 to pass gun control, nObama complained, "I thought ... what happened at Sandy Hook would make us think about it. You would have thought that's got to be enough of a motivator. But we couldn't get it done." Without Congress, he said, "It is difficult to reduce the availability of guns." That is his goal, after all. However, he added, "We've tried to get as much done administratively" as possible.

Indeed he has. The ATF is considering a ban on M855 ammunition, which is widely used in AR-15s. And "considering" is probably not strong enough a word, as the ATF recently published the new regulation in its 2014 Regulation Guide, released in January. When Townhall's Katie Pavlich called them out, the ATF backtracked and claimed it was a "publishing mistake" -- that the regulation was not finalized. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean the ban won't take effect, just that the ATF announced prematurely. nObama has 700 days, a phone and a pen. He won't stop with green-tip ammo. -The Patriot Post

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In Selma, nObama Slams 'Voter Suppression' Laws

Speaking in Selma Saturday for the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march there, Barack nObama told marchers that today's voter ID laws are commensurate with what plagued blacks 50 years ago. "Right now, in 2015, 50 years after Selma, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote," nObama complained. "As we speak, more of such laws are being proposed. Meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act -- the culmination of so much blood, so much sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence -- the Voting Rights Act stands weakened, its future subject to political rancor. How can that be? The Voting Rights Act was one of the crowning achievements of our democracy, the result of Republican and Democratic efforts. President [Ronald] Reagan signed its renewal when he was in office. President George W. Bush signed its renewal when he was in office. One hundred members of Congress have come here today to honor people who were willing to die for the right to protect it. If we want to honor this day, let that hundred go back to Washington and gather four hundred more, and together pledge to make it their mission to restore that law this year. That's how we honor those on this bridge." Requiring that voting citizens prove who they are -- just as if they were buying alcohol -- is not "suppressing the vote." That's especially true in a nation in which nObama has just legalized nearly five million illegals. He's misrepresenting history for political gain. More... -The Patriot Post

NY Times Lets nObama Set Agenda for Selma Remembrance

Read the headline and examine the picture of The New York Times' front cover after political leaders commemorated the 50-year anniversary of the march at Selma, and you'd think the whole event was all about Barack nObama. The Times highlighted his quote, "We know the march is not yet over," in the headline, and the photo of the event featured a white-shirted nObama linking arms with Rep. John Lewis, who was at the original march. nObama's speech linked what happened 50 years ago to the recent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Yet the Times' coverage all but ignored the GOP presence at the march. George W. Bush was in the front line of marchers, but The Times cropped him out of the picture. The media lambasted GOP leaders for skipping the march, though Bush and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy were there. One notable absence was Hilly Clinton, who decided it was more important to attend a Clinton Global Initiative event in Florida than commemorate a seminal moment in the civil rights movement. The Left tried to co-opt the event for two purposes: First, to smear Republicans who stayed home. Second, to mold the civil rights narrative for political ends. And, as always, the New York Times helped them do it. More... -The Patriot Post

Holder Warns Police: We're Coming After You

In the wake of the Justice Department's predictable findings of racist police in Ferguson, Attorney General Eric Holder fired a shot across the bow. "We are prepared to use all the powers that we have, all the power that we have, to ensure that the situation changes there," Holder said Friday. "That means everything from working with them to coming up with an entirely new structure." In other words, the Ferguson Police Department is on notice. But not just Ferguson. "I hope [police departments around the nation are] listening to these comments, and understand the intensity with which the feelings are felt at the federal government level to ensure that we use all the tools that we can to make sure that what happened in Ferguson is uncovered and simply does not happen in any other part of the country," Holder added. "But I also want to make people understand, there are 18,000 police departments in this country, and I think what we saw in Ferguson was an anomaly." We'd say that's a pretty clear sign of what will be on incoming AG Loretta Lynch's agenda. -The Patriot Post

Hilly Clinton Has Always Avoided a Paper Trail

Hilly Clinton borders on paranoia when it comes to documenting her work, as if she considers transparency and oversight the enemy. In 1994, she said she didn't even keep a diary. "It could get subpoenaed! I don't write anything down," she said. Recently, a video surfaced of a 2001 ABC report that shows Clinton saying she didn't use email: "As much as I've been investigated and all of that, you know, why would I -- I don't even want -- why would I ever want to do email?" But now, it turns out that crafty grandma was running her own email server -- which can permanently delete emails. Head of the House committee investigating the attack on the Benghazi consulate in 2012, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), said Clinton has kept emails from his committee's investigation. "There are gaps of months of months of months," he said. "If you think to that iconic picture of her on a C-17 flying to Libya … we have no emails from that day. In fact we have no emails from that trip." Unlike Lois Lerner's emails, Clinton's may be gone for good. As "clueless" as ever, Barack nObama distanced himself from the former secretary of state, trotting out his tired old excuse that he learned about the scandal "through news reports." Sure thing.

-The Patriot Post

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What Did They Know, and When Did They Know It?

(Roger Aronoff) - The latest revelations about Hilly Clinton’s use of private emails while Secretary of State for the nObama administration have proven “politically problematic,” and invited discomfort by some of her fellow Democrats...possibly encouraging other ambitious Democratic hopefuls to contend for the presidential primary, according to some in the media. By defining the problem as just “political,” these reporters can cast the issue as one dividing political parties to distract from the pressing issues of the day. This media frenzy works in the nObama administration’s favor. “…why did Hilly Clinton become the nObama administration’s bête noire this very week…? questions Lee Smith writing for Tablet Magazine. Perhaps because Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent speech before Congress reflected badly on the administration’s plan for an Iran deal. “This week’s tarring of Hilly Clinton is part of the White House’s political campaign to shut off debate about its hoped-for deal,” he asserts. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obama-and-hillary-what-did-they-know-and-when-did-they-know-it/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email031015&utm_medium=email

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Hilly Clinton – Trust You Cannot Verify

The U.N. – Venue Selected For Heavy Clinton Control…

(theconservativetreehouse.com) - Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton is expected to give a “press conference” (as it is described) TODAY at 2:20pm at the United Nations in New York...The format of how she will address the controversy is still sketchy and seems highly “Clintonian”. It is obvious that Hilly Clinton is trying to avoid the crushing full court media scrutiny who are heavily interested in getting answers to the myriad of controversial questions. Control seems to be the operative word. However, this level of avoidance could backfire given the justifiable interest in the scandal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ap9FPu5dk

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/03/10/breaking-hillary-clinton-will-give-press-conference-about-email-scandal-220pm-at-the-u-n-venue-selected-for-heavy-clinton-control/

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Is nObama really as clueless as he claims?
(David Limbaugh) - I don’t know which is more maddening, President nObama’s repeatedly claiming he finds out about important matters only after reading the newspapers, his expectation that we’ll swallow that..the even scarier prospect that it could be true, or that the media continue to give him a pass on it. nObama told CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante that he learned of Hilly Clinton’s use of her private email address for official State Department business after a New York Times report. With no apparent self-consciousness or embarrassment, nObama said he learned about it at “the same time everybody else learned it through news reports.” Then he followed with the equally preposterous and oft-repeated assurance, “The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/is-obama-really-as-clueless-as-he-claims/

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Supporters of Deal Are Strengthening Iran's Negotiating Position

(Alan M. Dershowitz) - Despite repeating the mantra that "no deal is better than a bad deal" with Iran, the United States seems to be negotiating on the basis of a belief that the worst possible outcome of the current negotiations is no deal...Many supporters of the deal that is now apparently on the table are arguing that there is no realistic alternative to this deal. That sort of thinking out loud empowers the Iranian negotiators to demand more and compromise less, because they believe -- and have been told by American supporters of the deal -- that the United States has no alternative but to agree to a deal that is acceptable to the Iranians. A perfect example of this mindset was Fareed Zakaria on his CNN show this past Sunday. He had a loaded panel of two experts and a journalist favoring the deal, and one journalist opposed. This followed Zakaria's opening essay in favor of the deal. All those in favor made the same point: that this deal is better than no deal, and that any new proposal -- for example, to condition the sunset provision on Iran stopping the export of terrorism and threatening to destroy Israel -- is likely to be rejected by Iran, and is therefore, by definition, "irrational" or "unproductive," because it would result in no deal. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5367/iran-negotiating-position

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America Has Been Warned – Now What Will She Do?
(Tim Brown) - Men and women of God are the faithful towards God and men because they love God and love mankind. These are those who warn the people of the danger ahead because they have not listened to the commandments of God...Last week on The Sons of Liberty radio show, host Bradlee Dean pointed to the Scriptures and, indeed, raised his voice again to warn the people of more judgment from God because they have failed to repent before a just and holy God. Dean pointed to the text of Ezekiel 33:1-19, which reads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmy2t-Pp6A

http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2015/03/america-has-been-warned-now-what-will-she-do/

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According to non-Muslim politicians these Taliban members have nothing to do with Islam.

Why Politicians Pretend Islam Has No Role in Violence

(Daniel Pipes) - Prominent non-Muslim political figures have embarrassed themselves by denying the self-evident connection of Islam to the Islamic State (ISIS) and to Islamist violence in Paris and Copenhagen, even claiming these are contrary to Islam... What do they hope to achieve through these falsehoods and what is their significance? First, a sampling of the double talk: President Barack nObama tells the world that ISIS "is not Islamic" because its "actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith." He holds "we are not at war with Islam but with people who have perverted Islam." Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry echoes him: ISIS consists of "coldblooded killers masquerading as a religious movement" who promote a "hateful ideology has nothing do with Islam." His spokesperson, Jen Psaki, goes further: the terrorists "are enemies of Islam." Jeh Johnson, the U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, assents: "ISIL is not Islamic." My favorite: Howard Dean, the former Democrat governor of Vermont, says of the Charlie Hebdo attackers, "They're about as Muslim as I am." http://www.danielpipes.org/15618/islam-violence

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks to Fox News

(pamelageller.com) - Asked how el-Sisi and America’s other Arab allies view American nObama’s leadership in the region now, it’s what he didn’t say that spoke volumes...In what is perhaps the deepest sigh, and the most pregnant of pauses, watch Egyptian President el-Sisi: He said the suspension of U.S. equipment and arms to his country has sent a “negative indication to the public opinion that the United States is not standing by the Egyptians.” Nervous deep breath followed by a large gulp. He struggled to be … diplomatic and avoided answering entirely, trying to decide how to phrase the truth without being overly critical and offending the priggish president. Volumes communicated in one very short clip. - See more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwU_gHbTfe8

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The Danger of Negotiating with Iran

(Michael Rubin) - Although the nObama administration considers its negotiations with Iran a bold new strategy of engagement, every presidential administration since Jimmy Carter has had its own diplomatic initiative with the Islamic Republic...and these have consistently failed. Perhaps, write Michael Rubin, something should be learned from prior experience: Too many American diplomats . . . are committed to the belief that talking is a cost-free, risk-free strategy. . . . But [this is] to project American values onto others. Americans may not see willingness to talk as weakness, but other cultures do. . . . http://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2015/03/how-not-to-conduct-diplomacy-with-iran/

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Has nObamacare fixed US health care inflation?

(Christopher J. Conover) - Here we go again. What is it about nObamacare that inspires its fiercest supporters the cherry-pick evidence as proof it is “working”?...The latest entrant in this never-ending contest is Matt Phillips, who trumpets the news “nObamacare fixed U.S. healthcare inflation.” If true, this would be no mean feat since as we’ll see, medical inflation has outpaced general inflation rather regularly over the past half century, sometimes by as much as 6 percentage points in a single year. But as we’ll also see, giving nObamacare credit for the recent slowdown in health prices is quite a stretch for two reasons: first, it fails to account for the fact that this downward trend was clearly visible years before President nObama was even elected president; and second, it fails to account for what was happening to the general economy and general inflation during the same time period. http://www.aei.org/publication/obamacare-fixed-us-health-care-inflation/?utm_source=today&utm_medium=paramount&utm_campaign=AEIToday031015

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Hamas Apologist Appointed to High Mideast National Security Post

(Joseph Klein) - In yet another crass attempt to register its anger at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s courageous and truthful speech on Iran to a joint session of Congress last week...the nObama administration promoted an Israel basher to serve as the Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region. His name is Robert Malley, who most recently has been serving as National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf States. Effective April 6, 2015, he will, in his new position, have responsibility for an area encompassing Israel, Palestinian territories, North Africa and the Persian Gulf. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/joseph-klein/hamas-apologist-appointed-to-high-mideast-national-security-post/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b81c881bc8-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-b81c881bc8-156509103

Why Progressives Mislead

John O. McGinnis

(city-journal.org) - Barack nObama’s supporters and detractors don’t agree on much, but as the president enters his final two years in office, they have voiced a common complaint: the president lacks competence. They cite multiple management breakdowns, such as the disastrous rollout of the nObamacare health-insurance website, which have eroded public support; his lack of engagement with Congress, which has impeded his legislative agenda; and his chronic inability to address serious problems before they become full-blown crises, undermining Americans’ confidence in his leadership.

There is no doubt considerable truth to these charges. But nObama’s fundamental problems stem less from incompetence than from his philosophy of governance. In his first presidential campaign, nObama took pains to distinguish his approach from the incrementalism of Bill Clinton and modeled himself instead on the transformational leadership of Franklin Roosevelt and of Ronald Reagan. During the race, and increasingly after the election, it became clear that nObama embraced a theory of dramatic political change—that of progressivism, which dates its American origins to an early-twentieth-century era of social and political reform. And he has adhered to it, despite some of the worst midterm election defeats faced by any two-term president.

Progressivism’s vision of the role of the state conflicts with the system of government envisioned by America’s Founders. The Founders wanted citizens to be free to pursue their affairs individually and in voluntary association; the powers of the federal state were to be tightly constrained. In contrast, the greatest political theorist of American progressivism, Herbert Croly, said that the nation’s “democracy should be focused on an equal sharing of wealth and responsibilities”—an enterprise that demands a larger and more intrusive federal state to enforce. nObama spoke from this tradition on the campaign trail in 2008—most famously, when he told Joe the Plumber that it was “good to spread the wealth around.”

But nObama and his supporters face a more challenging political landscape than did their progressive forebears. In the early twentieth century, progressives introduced new entitlements against the backdrop of low federal spending and a much smaller federal government. At the beginning of the Progressive Era, federal government spending represented only about 4 percent of GDP; it reached 11 percent when FDR introduced Social Security. (Even that figure was artificially high because the Depression had dramatically reduced GDP.) And progressivism in its early years enjoyed support among the legions of poor, who had little to lose from the rearrangement of rights by government programs.

Today, the federal government spends more than five times as much, as a percentage of GDP, than it did at the beginning of the last century, and twice as much as when Social Security was introduced. That amount will continue to grow, driven by the rising cost of entitlements for an aging population. The future consequences of past decisions thus constrain the present capacity of the state, even as progressivism’s reach becomes more ambitious: reorganizing health care, as the nObama administration has begun to do with the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, better known as nObamacare, touches everyone’s life in ways that, say, the regulation of railroads did not. Such massive programs are more likely to be complex and to generate popular resistance, as nObamacare has done.

On top of these structural difficulties, the progressive coalition has also become harder to maintain. Over the course of the twentieth century, free-market capitalism created unprecedented mass affluence. The average income of Americans grew by more than four times in the last century, making the United States the wealthiest nation of any substantial size. Citizens now have more to lose from interventions in the free market, because they are better off. It’s hard to imagine that a progressive party could maintain control of both the House and Senate for 20 consecutive years and the House for 40 years, as did the Democrats earlier in the twentieth century.

Faced with these constraints, today’s progressives must resort to more misleading and sometimes coercive measures, as they seek to bring about equality through collective responsibility; they must rally support by looking beyond economics, to cultural and social identifications, in a bid to maintain the support of voters with little need for government intervention. They also want to limit the voices of citizens at election time, and thereby magnify the influence of the press and academia, which lean sharply in the progressive direction.

Nothing shows the progressive dependence on subterfuge more starkly than nObamacare, which, by imposing a personal mandate to buy insurance in an effort to bring health care to all, will restructure one-sixth of the American economy. Single-payer government health insurance has been a dream on the left for decades, but it was never a politically realistic option. This was true even while Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, as they did during the first two years of nObama’s first term. The American public wouldn’t tolerate the level of government funding that a single-payer system would require, so the best that the administration could do was to impose a regulatory structure, while accepting a private-insurance model. In crafting the Affordable Care Act, the administration intentionally avoided describing the individual mandate as a tax—a tacit admission that doing so could have sunk the bill. After the bill became law, however, the administration turned around and argued before the Supreme Court that the mandate was, in fact, a tax. The Court upheld the mandate as an exercise of an enumerated government power to levy taxes. Even then, the administration concealed nObamacare’s taxes on the wealthy, which were not added to the income-tax tables. The recently publicized comments of MIT professor Jonathan Gruber about the deception involved in promoting the Affordable Care Act demonstrate that such chicanery has become intrinsic to modern progressivism.

American affluence also proved a political obstacle for the law’s drafters. Most Americans already had health insurance and a doctor with whom they felt comfortable. To secure support for the ACA, therefore, nObama had to promise repeatedly that those happy with their current health plans (and doctors) could keep them. But ACA requirements resulted in the cancellation of many insurance plans, causing patients to lose access to their doctors. This proved the most damaging blow to nObama’s credibility.

Some have labeled the president’s economy with the truth a personal failing, but it’s more like a professional necessity. Modern progressivism’s business model requires obscuring the reality that new programs have winners and losers—and the losers are spread throughout the general population, not confined to members of the so-called 1 percent. As the Affordable Care Act goes fully into effect, the losers will become more visible. If people had known the truth about nObamacare in 2010, the bill would almost certainly have been defeated. If they had known it in 2012, nObama would likely have lost his reelection bid.

The architects of nObamacare needed these deceptions, in part, because more people are becoming aware of the financial burden of unfunded liabilities. As a result, it is not as easy to slough off costs on future generations. nObamacare’s ill-fated CLASS (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports) provision, a long-term-care insurance program for the elderly, is a case in point. A voluntary program, CLASS was required by law to be financially self-sustaining, meaning that it would need large numbers of young and healthy people to sign up for it—a dubious prospect. The revenues expected in CLASS’s first years made nObamacare seem more fiscally responsible in the short term than it really was, though the Medicare actuary warned that this was a mirage. “Thirty-six years of actuarial experience,” he wrote in an internal e-mail, “lead me to believe that this program would collapse in short order and require significant federal subsidies to continue.” Less than two years later, HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius concluded that the program could not be self-sustaining and terminated it.

Even before nObamacare’s false promises were revealed, the law was not popular with middle-class voters, who felt that nObama was less interested in restarting the stagnant economy than in creating a new welfare program. Riding a wave of dissatisfaction with the new law, Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2010. Four years later, with the ACA even more disliked, the Republicans took the Senate, too. Since nObamacare never had bipartisan support, the Democrats would have been hard-pressed to pass amendments to improve it under the best circumstances; their legislative losses made the question academic. This difficulty underscores a key problem with central planning: the world is unpredictable. Just as no military plan survives contact with the enemy, no program of government benefits, and certainly not one as ambitious as nObamacare, can anticipate the changing circumstances in which it will operate.

Struggling with problems of implementation and public resistance, the administration has held off enforcing inconvenient parts of the law, such as the one requiring businesses to offer health-care insurance to their employees by 2013. That provision was delayed by one year. The law also required uninsured individuals to purchase health plans, but the administration exempted those who would “face hardship.” Since following the law’s required timeline would have had adverse political consequences, the administration claimed the authority to delay and amend these provisions. But the law’s statutory deadlines were clear.

The Supreme Court will soon determine the legality of yet another nObama administrative action that appears to contradict the plain language of the Affordable Care Act. The statute provides taxpayer subsidies for insurance policies bought on “exchanges established by the states.” But almost half the states have declined to establish such exchanges. When states don’t set up exchanges, the ACA then requires the federal government to do so but provides no parallel authorization for subsidies. Nevertheless, the Treasury Department has adopted regulations offering such subsidies, arguing that they advance the overall purpose of the ACA. Authorizing subsidies for federal exchanges is vital to the future of nObamacare, particularly because sign-up numbers have been disappointing. Should the Supreme Court rule that the administration lacks this authority, though, any attempt to provide authority through legislation will lead to wholesale revision of nObamacare in the Republican Congress.

Progressivism has long valued executive discretion in domestic affairs because presidents need to make fewer compromises than do legislatures. Not surprisingly, nObama-era progressives argue for maximizing the scope of that discretion. The Democratic Senate’s decision to do away with the filibuster on judicial nominations, for instance, was principally designed to eliminate any roadblocks to confirming nObama’s nominees to the District of Columbia Circuit. That court oversees the exercise of administrative discretion in many important government programs—including nObamacare.

But today’s progressivism needs more than wide-ranging discretion to adapt its laws to new circumstances when its coalition no longer controls Congress. The examples above suggest that President nObama is exercising unilateral power to decline to enforce laws or even to rewrite them. Such power exceeds the traditional norms of prosecutorial discretion. Indeed, it comes perilously close to the “dispensing power” of the Stuart monarchs, who claimed the authority to disregard laws. The British rejected that power during the Glorious Revolution, and the Founders rejected it, too, by inserting language into the American Constitution requiring that the president “take Care that the law be faithfully executed.”

Progressives also want to transform the rights provisions of the Constitution to improve their chances of political success. The president was so concerned about the Supreme Court’s protection of free speech in political campaigns that he attacked its Citizens United campaign-finance decision, which abolished restrictions on independent political expenditures by nonprofit groups. In a State of the Union address, nObama claimed that the ruling “reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign companies—to spend without limitation.” nObama’s comment about foreign corporations was no truer than his claims about the Affordable Care Act. It was instead an attempt to use xenophobia in support of the suppression of political speech. And the principal beneficiaries of Citizens United, in fact, aren’t for-profit corporations, which don’t want to offend their consumers by taking political positions, but nonprofit corporations that allow citizens to band together to deliver political messages for various causes.

The freedom of citizens to pay for political messages poses a threat to progressives because it endangers the control over political and social discourse that the Left otherwise enjoys. The media lean overwhelmingly Democratic, with some studies estimating the imbalance between Democrats and Republicans at more than four to one. Academia is even more lopsidedly left-wing. In the Ivy League, which remains the most powerful educational megaphone for social ideas, nObama attracted 20 times as many contributors as Mitt Romney. This ideological imbalance provides progressivism with one of its most powerful weapons. And here the attack on Citizens United becomes especially practical: restricting independent campaign expenditures will allow the press and the academic world to control the agenda, as they already do for periods between elections.

It’s worth noting in this light that the single constitutional amendment that nObama has endorsed in office is one overruling Citizens United. Last year, Senate Democrats brought to the floor an even broader amendment that would have permitted Congress to regulate both campaign expenditures and contributions. The amendment would have exempted the press from regulation, suggesting that the political objective is indeed agenda control.

nObama’s exercise of executive discretion extends further still. Most recently, in a move decried by conservative constitutionalists, he signed an executive order deferring the deportation of some 4 million illegal immigrants, allowing them to work legally in the United States. While his stroke of the pen cannot grant citizenship, it can create a new political reality, making it harder to resist the main political prize for progressives: guaranteeing a path to voting citizenship. These and other moves represent an attempt to create a new political order in which progressivism is more likely to thrive.

This goal also explains why the new progressivism must enlarge its agenda to include social issues, engaging in the wars of culture as well as class. While the old progressivism focused almost exclusively on economics, the new progressivism seeks a panoply of new entitlements, from on-demand contraception to same-sex marriage. Today’s progressive enthusiasm for creating new constitutional rights out of the latest social cause expands progressivism’s appeal to more affluent, secular voters, for whom bending the arc of history gives meaning to life. To succeed, then, modern progressivism must reconstitute the nature of politics, not merely change the content of policies.

In response to the progressive agenda, conservatives and libertarians must also focus on the structure of politics. Where the new progressivism would burst the bounds of law to pursue its goals, today’s conservatives must strengthen the rule of law. For instance, the response to modern progressivism’s desire for a dispensing power should be statutory requirements that expressly forbid the president from modifying laws with which he disagrees, together with statutes that widen the ability of citizens to challenge such executive illegality. Moreover, the new Republican Congress should enact amendments to the Administrative Procedure Act that require congressional approval for major exercises of executive discretion. The Right became more enamored of executive discretion when Republicans seemed to have a lock on the presidency. But for reasons of both principle and tactical necessity, conservatives should re-embrace a notion of limited government based in congressional, not presidential, power.

Countering the progressive drive to reduce the speech rights of those outside the symbolic class, conservatives should emphasize the principle of equality before the law. No class should be given particular privileges to speak about politics. The answer to complaints about the undue influence of campaign money at election time can be found in the principle of neutrality. Congress should commit itself to operate by evenhanded rules of appropriate generality and thus ban earmarks, targeted regulatory relief, and other favors often used to reward political support.

Devotion to the rule of law can also contain corrosive culture wars. By decentralizing decision making and diffusing debate in this context, federalism lowers the temperature of national politics and allows the national government to focus on defense and other issues to which it is uniquely suited. And decreasing the payoff to victory in the culture wars lessens progressives’ motivation to use social appeals to rally a coalition that might otherwise fracture.

From its inception, progressivism has posed a threat to constitutional government. It has sought to replace limited and decentralized governance with dynamic, centralized authority in order to force some arrangement of equality on the nation. Because the world has a way of upsetting abstract designs, progressivism depends on empowering administrators to impose its frameworks while disempowering citizens from resisting these coercions. The nObama administration’s push for unilateral presidential authority to disregard the law is thus the logical extension of the progressive program. Opposition to this program requires nothing less than a rededication to our Founding ideals: our nation must be governed by the rule of law, not the rule of an elected monarch or of a legally privileged aristocracy.

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