Before the midterms I said we should have a recall on all the old dogs. But that was pass over because every one through if we win both house then we will final be above to have Obama stop. Well how, is that working out now, not so good. The house is voting on a clean bill that we was told would never happen. I really think it is time to have the recall now, lets put those in office who will do as we say not wait they want. We will have them sign a letter starting that if they do not they will leave,lits get it sign in front on a judge. Again it is time we must show them we have really had it. lets do not wait until 2016.
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“If two laws conflict with each other, the Courts must decide on the operation of each. … If, then, the Courts are to regard the Constitution, and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the Legislature, the Constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the case to which they both apply.” –John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS
Hillary Clinton Broke Law Using Private Email Account
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) isn’t done leading the committee investigating the Benghazi attack, and already he’s dredged up a bombshell that previous investigative committees missed. During her time as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton never used a government email account – a move that violates federal record keeping law. Former Director of Litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration Jason Baron told The New York Times, “It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario – short of nuclear winter – where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business.” At this point, Clinton’s defenders may chime in: What difference does it make? Well, for one thing, if Obama’s administration is the “most transparent in history,” what would this mean for another Clinton administration? One clue: Clinton used a domain registered the day of her Senate confirmation hearings. Clearly, she had a plan from the start to obfuscate and hide her wheeling and dealing. It’s time she was put under oath again to defend this. Preferably before she announces her presidential candidacy. More…
Lawmakers Write ATF to Object to Ammo Ban
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recently announced it is considering aban on M855 ammunition, which is popular among AR-15 owners for target shooting. The “rationale,” if it can be called that, is the ammo could be considered “armor piercing,” and, with the advent of AR-15 pistols, will become dangerous to police (never mind that zero police officers have been killed with it). Several lawmakers called out the ATF on its backdoor gun control in aletter. The ATF’s framework, the lawmakers say, “establishes an unduly restrictive standard, does not comport with the letter or spirit of the law, and will interfere with Second Amendment rights by disrupting the market for ammunition that law abiding Americans use for sporting and other legitimate purposes.” Of course, the Second Amendment isn’t primarily for “sporting purposes,” but they’re right about the infringement. Not that it matters to Barack Obama’s administration. Spokesman Josh Earnest explained, “I’d put this in the category of common-sense steps our government can take.” Ah, yes, “common sense” – who could possibly opposethat?
Netanyahu to Address Congress, Obama Calls It ‘Distraction’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address Congress today to warn of the threat of Iran’s nuclear program. Advance details of his speech are limited, but one thing is clear: Barack Obama is really perturbed that Netanyahu is here. Administration officials have previously promised “there will be a price” for this “departure from … protocol” – despite Netanyahu having waited for Obama to be notified before accepting the invitation. (The New York Times finally got around to acknowledging this in a correction.) On Monday, Obama called Netanyahu’s speech a “mistake,” again pointing to Israel’s upcoming elections. “It makes it look like we are taking sides,” he complained, “It is a distraction from what should be our focus.” In this case, even Obama said the focus should be preventing Iran, the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism, from obtaining nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, he’s also lost this focus, recently indicating we just need to “reduce the possibility of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon,” and, if it happens anyway in 10 years, what’s that to Obama?
IRS Says It Can Dump Gobs of Money on Amnestied Illegals
The Internal Revenue Service is digging in and standing by its claim that illegal immigrants areeligible for back tax credits if they get Social Security numbers. Under Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, four million illegal immigrants can apply for Social Security numbers. An unknown number of them will be able to claim back tax credits – even though Obama’s “law” doesn’t require them to pay back taxes. In a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen wrote, “Section 32 of the Internal Revenue Code requires an SSN on the return, but a taxpayer claiming the [Earned Income Tax Credit] EITC is not required to have an SSN before the close of the year for which the EITC is claimed.” Gee, remember a time when was the IRS this friendly to U.S. citizens? More…
Obama Lies About Keystone
Barack Obama earned the infamous “Four Pinocchio” rating from The Washington Post’s Fact Checker blog for his recent comments defending his veto of the Keystone XL pipeline. Obama’s argument wasn’t that Congress infringed on the executive branch’s responsibilities. No, he claimed to be doing what was good for the American people. “I’ve already said I’m happy to look at how we can increase pipeline production for U.S. oil, but Keystone is for Canadian oil to send that down to the Gulf,” Obama told a North Dakota reporter. “It bypasses the United States and is estimated to create a little over 250, maybe 300 permanent jobs. We should be focusing more broadly on American infrastructure for American jobs and American producers, and that’s something that we very much support.” But, as the Post points out, the oil that would flow through Keystone would also come from the North Dakota oil fields. And while construction wouldn’t keep any permanent jobs – few construction projects ever do – it would keep Louisiana refineries busy. Instead, Obama repeated an untruth to stick with his environmentalist dogma. More…
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DOJ’s Racial Witch Hunt Isn’t Over
The Justice Department will soon release its final investigative report on the Ferguson Police Department, and chatter suggests the report will accuse Ferguson police of engaging in sustained discriminatory practices against the black population. Surprise! The report will allegedly also claim these practices led to years of racial animosity in the city, culminating in last summer’s shooting of Michael Brown and months of racial unrest.
According to recent data from the Missouri attorney general, blacks accounted for 86% of traffic stops in 2013, but make up 63% of the population. Black drivers were twice as likely to be searched during a stop, yet searches were more likely to turn up contraband with white drivers.
The fines collected from such traffic stops are Ferguson’s second largest source of revenue. The Justice Department report goes so far as to suggest that the city uses disproportionate traffic stops against blacks to meet municipal budget shortfalls.
The final report will likely include a list of recommended changes Ferguson will need to implement. Otherwise, the city could face a federal lawsuit to force compliance – just like the four open lawsuits against cities that have not rolled over. Most cities facing such actions comply with the Justice Department’s demands. During Eric Holder’s time as attorney general, the DOJ has gone after more than 50 police departments for some form of discrimination or another, often at the behest of the NAACP or the ACLU.
“This is about expanding federal power in the police departments,” former DOJ attorney Hans von Spakovsky told The Wall Street Journal. “The lawyers at Justice believe they are the ones who should be promulgating national standards of how cops should behave. And police departments are so afraid of bad publicity that they agree to settle the case with all kinds of rules that Justice wants to impose.”
It is within the responsibility of the Justice Department to investigate matters in which discrimination may be taking place, but, when the AG is someone who sees everything through a racial prism like Holder, the potential for trouble escalates. For example, Holder is so motivated by his own racial grievances that he resolutely refuses to address the outrageous number of murders of blacks by other blacks.
FBI statistics from 2012 show that 2,614 whites were killed by other whites that year, and 2,412 blacks were killed by other blacks. If Holder were as concerned about proportionality as he demonstrates when comparing white and blacks, then one would think he would have been troubled by these numbers. As a portion of the population, black-on-black murder remains substantially higher than white-on-white murder. And the FBI numbers for 2012 combined white and Hispanic murder rates, making the disparity even greater than at first glance.
Yet, throughout his tenure at Justice, Holder has maintained his focus on race, letting himself get mixed up with professional race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. He has followed their pattern by continually blaming racism and discrimination for the plight of the black community. The actions of his Justice Department confirm Holder’s view that blacks are targeted for their skin color, not because of their behavior.
Perhaps that’s why Sharpton says, “No other U.S. attorney general has a civil rights record equal to Holder’s.”
Amy Wax, a former DOJ official teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, wrote, “Contrary to frequently voiced accusations and despite a voluminous literature intent upon demonstrating discrimination at every turn, there is almost no reliable evidence of racial bias in the criminal justice system’s handling of ordinary violent and non-violent offenses. Rather, the facts overwhelmingly show that blacks go to prison more often because blacks commit more crimes.”
The Justice Department’s months of investigating did not bring up enough evidence to charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson with civil rights violations in the death of Michael Brown. Similarly, they were not able to pin such charges on George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin.
In fact, for all of Holder’s posturing, all Justice has really been able to accomplish is perpetuating the same problem they claim to be addressing. The pattern of racial indignation set by Sharpton and Co. that has been picked up by Holder’s Justice Department has only served to make police less likely to engage in minority neighborhoods. This won’t make inner cities less violent, and it won’t make lives better for blacks.
Shortly after taking office, Holder accused America of being a nation of “cowards” for not engaging in a frank discussion about race. As he prepares to step down in a few weeks, Holder still has not engaged in that discussion, either. He’d rather place blame and wag his finger because that’s what makes headlines and turns out the aggrieved vote. As for the real work that it will take to reduce black-on-black crime and make minority neighborhoods safer, well, apparently that’s just not worth his time.
Next Executive Overreach: Taxes
For someone who claims to be a constitutional scholar, Barack Obama sure doesn’t understand or respect the limits on the federal government the Founders put in place. Obama has ignored the limits placed on the executive branch, abusing his power in order to accomplish his agenda.
When Congress did not pass immigration reform in accordance with Obama’s wishes, he acted unilaterally. Obama’s executive order provided for more than four million illegal immigrants to receive some form of legal status – work permits, Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses. Instead of securing our borders, he wants to secure votes for Democrats.
Surely, Obama shouldn’t get away with this egregious overreach, but who’s stopping him? Worse, his immigration actions only established a pattern.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest indicated there are possibly more executive orders coming our way. Earnest confirmed Monday that Obama is “very interested” in taking unilateral executive action to raise taxes. He explained, “The president certainly has not indicated any reticence in using his executive authority to try and advance an agenda that benefits middle-class Americans.”
Earnest continued, “Now, I don’t want to leave you with an impression that there is some imminent announcement – there is not, at least not that I know of. But the president has asked his team to examine the array of executive authorities that are available to him to try to make progress on his goals. … [T]he president is very interested in this avenue generally.”
Obama is so bent on “fairness” that he’s willing to “examine” the possibility of taxing Americans without Congress. Obama declared in his State of the Union address that Congress needed to act to close the loopholes in taxes among corporations. So perhaps he will ask Congress to pass corporate tax hikes, and, when Congress inevitably says no, Obama may simply turn to the IRS to implement the taxation. The IRS already has a track record of helping him politically – Lois Lerner was no “lone wolf.”
Since there isn’t enough revenue to pay for Obama’s $4 trillion boondoggle budget, he can claim now is the time to act; now is the time to raise taxes on those who need to “pay their fair share.”
Progressives in general erroneously claim America’s debt problem is a lack of revenue, while they continue to spend ever more money on failed programs and policies. A recentCongressional Budget Office report shows that “compared to historical averages, from 1965 to 2014, spending is rising much faster than revenues.” Not that it takes a CBO report to see that the debt is growing.
It so happens the greatest increase in spending and debt has occurred during Obama’s administration. Further, the gap between spending and revenue is projected to widen, therefore increasing our debt.
Clearly, Obama doesn’t believe we have a problem with spending or debt, even though during his six years in office the national debt has risen nearly $8 trillion to a whopping $18.1 trillion.
With Obama’s executive actions on immigration and his potential maneuver on raising taxes, the question to ponder is when will he stop? The tragic reality is he likely won’t. The only limit on his power he seems to acknowledge is whatever he deems unnecessary.
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TOP 5 RIGHT OPINION COLUMNS
- Tony Perkins: Prime Time: Netanyahu Pitches Congress on Iran
- Ed Feulner: Standing With Israel
- Dennis Prager: Why Obama So Dislikes Netanyahu
- Arnold Ahlert: A Democratic Republic Is a Terrible Thing to Lose
- Thomas Sowell: The Honesty Gap
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Augustine of Hippo (354-430): “Put no faith in salvation through the political order.”
Columnist Dennis Prager: “Appeasers hate those who confront evil. Given that this president is the least likely of any president in American history to confront evil – or even identify it – while Benjamin Netanyahu is particularly vocal and eloquent about both identifying and confronting evil, it is inevitable that the former will resent the latter. … [T]hose who refused to characterize the Soviet Union as evil loathed Ronald Reagan and other anti-communists for doing so; and those who objected to the ‘Axis of Evil’ label placed on North Korea, Iran, and Iraq loathed George W. Bush and his supporters. The loathing of Benjamin Netanyahu is simply the latest example of the rule that those who will not confront evil will instead confront those who do. (It’s much safer, after all.) Since the end of World War II, there has been a name for the people who refuse to confront evil and who resent those who do: leftists.”
Columnist Ed Feulner: “This is no time to make more concessions. It’s a time to stand up against Iran’s nuclear program, which threatens not only the security of the Middle East, but the U.S. as well. As the 2015 Index of Military Strength shows, Iran’s missile threat is growing at an alarming rate. Its longest-range current missile can reach as far west as Egypt, and as far east as China – and it’s working to go much farther. ‘Iran could develop and test an ICBM capable of reaching the United States by 2015,’ the Pentagon reports. As in this year. It’s crucial that we stand with Israel, a staunch ally fighting on the front lines, at this critical time. The safety of millions depends on us doing the right thing. Will we?”
Comedian Jimmy Fallon: “There’s this picture of a dress that someone took, and people online are fighting over what color it is. Some people say it’s black and blue. Some say it’s white and gold. I think someone should ask Obama, our country’s first gold president.”
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A.G. nominee to advance today - The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to endorse today the confirmation of President nObama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder as attorney general. Former U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch is likely to receive some bipartisan support from the committee, but her embrace of nObama’s executive amnesty for illegal immigrants will set up a contentious vote in the full Senate. -Fox News 
HOUSE GOP TO CHALLENGE ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS ON nOBAMACARE BACKUP PLAN
Health Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell will face tough questions today about her claim that the administration has no plan to deal with a federal lawsuit that could eviscerate the nObamaCare. In a letter earlier this week, Burwell said her agency had no backup plan if the Supreme Court strikes down nObamaCare subsidies in states that did not establish exchanges. But according to a preview provided to Fox News by House Republicans, Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on health, has reason to believe those claims may not be true. -Fox News
Health Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell will face tough questions today about her claim that the administration has no plan to deal with a federal lawsuit that could eviscerate the nObamaCare. In a letter earlier this week, Burwell said her agency had no backup plan if the Supreme Court strikes down nObamaCare subsidies in states that did not establish exchanges. But according to a preview provided to Fox News by House Republicans, Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on health, has reason to believe those claims may not be true. -Fox News
Sasse offers plan to use ‘Cobra’ coverage - “First, in the event that the court strikes down the subsidies as illegal, Congress must be prepared to offer immediate, targeted protection to those hurt by this administration’s reckless disregard for the rule of law. nObamaCare took these patients hostage. Conservatives have a duty to save them. So within a week I will introduce legislation that uses the 1985 ‘Cobra’ law as a temporary model to protect those harmed by nObamaCare…Second, Republicans need to unify around a specific set of constructive, longer-term solutions, and then turn the 2016 presidential election into a referendum on two competing visions of health care. Simply opposing nObamaCare isn’t enough. Republicans must address this country’s health-care crises, cost and uninsurance, both of which have been exacerbated chiefly by excessive federal meddling.” --Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., in WSJ op-ed. -Fox News
VETS GROUP RELEASES REPORT ON HEALTH CARE TODAY
Concerned Veterans for America is releasing today its report and recommendations for improving veterans’ health care. The group previewed the findings in this online video. The group is also hosting a summit today in Washington. Expected participants include Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. and House Veterans Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla. -Fox News
Concerned Veterans for America is releasing today its report and recommendations for improving veterans’ health care. The group previewed the findings in this online video. The group is also hosting a summit today in Washington. Expected participants include Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. and House Veterans Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla. -Fox News
HIGH DRAMA AS nOBAMA INTERNET REGS DEBUT
Fox News: “The Federal Communications Commission is driving toward a landmark vote Thursday on a sweeping plan that critics warn would impose a new era of regulation for how Americans use and do business on the Internet, even as eleventh-hour appeals inject added drama behind the scenes. The so-called net neutrality proposal has been the subject of fierce debate, in part because the 332-page plan is being kept from public eyes. President nObama’s vocal push for aggressive Internet rules also has raised questions on Capitol Hill over undue influence by the White House -- but House Republicans who had planned a hearing on that very subject said Wednesday they would postpone after Chairman Tom Wheeler allegedly refused to testify.” -Fox News
Fox News: “The Federal Communications Commission is driving toward a landmark vote Thursday on a sweeping plan that critics warn would impose a new era of regulation for how Americans use and do business on the Internet, even as eleventh-hour appeals inject added drama behind the scenes. The so-called net neutrality proposal has been the subject of fierce debate, in part because the 332-page plan is being kept from public eyes. President nObama’s vocal push for aggressive Internet rules also has raised questions on Capitol Hill over undue influence by the White House -- but House Republicans who had planned a hearing on that very subject said Wednesday they would postpone after Chairman Tom Wheeler allegedly refused to testify.” -Fox News
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IMF Seeks to Bypass U.S. Veto in Bid to Empower Self, Tyrants
(Alex Newman) - Right now, the International Monetary Fund is trying to forward controversial “reforms,” changes that are strongly supported by the nObama administration and most IMF member regimes, that would massively expand the institution’s power and the burden it imposes on taxpayers...particularly American taxpayers — by doubling IMF resources. The scheme would also diminish U.S. influence in IMF decisions while boosting the voice of the communist dictatorship ruling mainland China, Putin’s Kremlin, the pro-Castro Brazilian government, and various other regimes that the UN refers to as “emerging markets.” As it stands, however, the U.S. government has veto power because it controls more than 15 percent of the voting shares, and 85 percent approval is required to adopt the reforms. And the International Monetary Fund is facing a U.S. Congress that has refused to do its bidding — so far at least. http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/20223-imf-seeks-to-bypass-u-s-veto-in-bid-to-empower-self-tyrants?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=4d136d5238-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-4d136d5238-289778381
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DHS Fails to Cite Any Law Authorizing nObama to Give SS Numbers
(Lauretta Brown) - When asked to do so at a Thursday press briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson failed to cite any law that authorized President Barack nObama to give Social Security Numbers to illegal aliens...CNSNews.com asked Johnson: “A federal court in Texas v. United States has said giving an illegal alien a Social Security Number is not an act of prosecutorial discretion. What specific law gives the president the authority to give a Social Security Number to a foreign national in the country illegally?” Rather than answer the question, Johnson instead noted that the administration has appealed the court’s injunction against the administration’s unilateral action on immigration. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/dhs-secretary-fails-cite-any-law-authorizing-obama-give-social-security
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Netanyahu Knows A Secret, About What nObama Is Doing With Iran
(rickwells.us) - Information revealed by an aid travelling with Prime Minister Netanyahu upon his arrival in the United States is shedding light on what may be the actual reason upturned nObama nose seemed excessively bent out of shape by the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit...It seems nObama’s got a secret. He’s “negotiating” a bad deal with his BFF pen pals in Tehran, and he doesn’t want Netanyahu to mess things up for him by letting the word slip out to Congress. The “Times of Israel” reported that a senior Israeli official traveling with the Israeli Prime Minister confirmed that Netanyahu will be revealing, to a limited degree, information about a nuclear deal which is yet unknown to the American lawmakers in his Tuesday speech. http://www.rickwells.us/netanyahu-knows-a-secret-its-about-what-obama-is-doing-with-iran-and-hes-going-to-tell-congress/
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Hatred as an Article of Faith
(Mark Durie) - The Islamic State sent me a letter this week, in the form of a short film produced by ISIS's Al-Hayat Media centre. This was not addressed to me personally, but to all Christians everywhere. Its title was A Message Signed with BLOOD to the Nation of the Cross...This was a video of the ritual slaughter of the 21 Egyptian Christians. Their blood flowing in the ocean waves was the 'signature' at the end of the video. As I write this it is Ash Wednesday. This is the start of forty days of Lent, a period of fasting and contemplation for Christians all over the world. For many centuries it has been a custom of Christians to receive a mark of the cross in ash upon the forehead as a sign of repentance. As I received this mark of the cross today I was thinking of the 21 Egyptian Christian martyrs. Copts permanently bear the sign of the cross, tattooed on their wrists, as a sign that they will refuse to renounce their beliefs. http://www.meforum.org/5060/hatred-as-an-article-of-faith
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Texas Report Shows Terrorists, Cartels Using Mexican Border
(rickwells.us) - The Texas Department of Public Safety has no reason to sugar-coat the border situation for the Marxists in the White House. As a source for the real situation on the border...we can choose to either believe a report by those who are engaged on their own soil in the fight against foreign invaders or the empty proclamations of the distant regime which is enabling it. A recently leaked report headed Border Surge Report and marked Unclassified/Law Enforcement Sensitive tells the story. The report notes successes that Texas has seen as a result of their increased State-funded operations which fill the vacuum left as a result of DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson’s refusal to allow effective federal border security operations. The report, which reveals much about the border situation, recommends as the “Foremost Priority” the security of the Texas-Mexico border, zone by zone, beginning with the areas of greatest cartel traffic. They recommend a mixture of technology and personnel to accomplish the objective. http://www.rickwells.us/texas-report-shows-terrorists-cartels-and-gangs-using-mexican-border-as-a-high-speed-super-highway-into-u-s/
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Trey Gowdy Introduces States’ Rights, Immigration Enforcement Bill
(rickwells.us) - Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has a solution for the current problem America faces with a lawless “president” who bends the law and rewrites it to his own political ends, at least to the extent that White House criminality is applied in the circumvention of immigration law...He’s authored a bill that contains specific language which prevents the very methods through which the law is currently being violated by the Obama regime. It also allows states the rights which should already be theirs under the Constitution, to defend their own sovereignty and enforce immigration law in the absence of or as a supplement to federal enforcement. The bill, “The Michael Davis, Jr. in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act,” is named after the brave Placer County California Sheriff Deputy Michael Davis, Jr, who was killed in October of last year by a twice deported illegal alien who had returned across the wide-open southern border with Mexico. Oddly, Deputy Davis’ father was a police officer who was also killed in the line of duty, on the same date, exactly 26 years before. http://www.rickwells.us/trey-gowdy-introduces-states-rights-undo-obama-destruction-and-liberal-idiocy-immigration-enforcement-bill/
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Arabs: Why is nObama Siding with Supporters of Terrorism?
(Khaled Abu Toameh) - Many Arabs and Muslims see the meeting between nObama and Qatar's al-Thani as a gift to Qatar for its continued support of Islamic radical groups across the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip...On the eve of nObama's meeting, Egyptian sources revealed that Qatar was providing weapons and ammunition to members of the Islamic State in Libya. The sources said that 35 Qatari aircraft were involved in transferring munitions. Arab political analysts are also concerned about nObama's ongoing attempts to appease Iran, which continues to expand its presence in Arab countries such as Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon -- as well as in Syria, where it is deeply involved in backing Hezbollah and operating along the border with Israel. A Reuters report revealed that Iran also has hundreds of advisors in Iraq. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5269/terrorism-supporters-Obama
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Democrat Senator Saw The Incriminating Question Coming
(rickwells.us) - It seems awfully obvious. The word has gone out among Democrats to use the decision by Judge Hanen to issue an injunction against the lawbreaking of their party and its top leadership as protective cover to hide behind and avoid answering even the most simple questions...The horrific condition of what still is referred to as our government, which is bordering on our overlords, is something that must be addressed. The current situation, in which the supposed representatives of the people have become nothing more than pillaging parasites, pilfering and exploiting their way to personal enrichment and power at the expense of the nation, cannot continue. The Democrats know what they are doing is illegal, in violation of the Constitution and a violation of their oaths of office, otherwise they wouldn’t be trying to conceal their actions. Were they private citizens, the common variety of white collar criminal, they would have already been targeted by the FBI for RICO violations. In this case, the Attorney General is part of the cabal leadership, they their mob criminality continues. http://www.rickwells.us/she-wasnt-injured-democrat-senator-saw-the-incriminating-question-coming-ducked-just-in-time/
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Documents: Relationship between bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Iran
(shoebat.com) - In a stunning development, some of the documents recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound by Navy SEALS were introduced by federal prosecutors as evidence in the trial of a terrorism suspect...The documents reveal and confirm an actual working relationship between Iran and al-Qaeda. That same memo reveals that Abu Anas al-Libi, a terrorist wanted in connection with the 1998 Kenya / Tanzania bombings who was apprehended by U.S. officials in Libya in 2013, traveled to Pakistan from Iran. While the documents introduced into evidence by the prosecutors don’t indicate collaboration between al-Qaeda and Iran relative to the 9/11 attacks, this new development does indeed bolster the case that there was a relationship. http://shoebat.com/2015/02/27/explosive-revelation-documents-show-working-relationship-between-osama-bin-laden-al-qaeda-and-iran/
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Republicans Who Defied backstabber Boehner to Defund nObama
(conservativetribune.com) - Barack nObama is about to have a very bad day. Over 50 House Republicans just voted to KILL the bill to fund nObama’s DHS because his amnesty plan is illegal and they refuse to sign their names to his unconstitutional acts...This is the stand off we’ve been waiting for. The GOP controls the House AND the Senate, so the idea they should immediately cave and refuse to even negotiate with the president is not only hideous strategy, but is also a rejection of the original purpose of the three branches. Here are the 52 congressmen and congresswomen who have defied both backstabber Boehner and nObama by doing their jobs: http://conservativetribune.com/house-defies-dhs/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
Growing Up in California
Burt Prelutsky
(burtprelutsky.com) - Shortly after I turned six, my family left Chicago and moved to L.A. Because even at that age, the smell of wet woolens hanging in the kindergarten cloakroom was already a stench I found as unappealing as my mother’s Friday night special, barley soup, I was happy to move to the land of eternal sunshine.
In those days, California was the state that was to be the model for America’s future. Its schools were the best, industry was booming, the San Joaquin Valley produced most of the nation’s fruits and vegetables, Hollywood was still a magnet for the most talented people in the world and Republicans were winning most of the statewide elections.
Over the decades, all of that changed, but it is still a template for much of the nation. The problem now is that the schools are indoctrination centers for the Left; there is no industry; thanks to the environmentalists, the San Joaquin Valley is now the San Joaquin Desert because the water has been cut off from the farmers for the sake of a two-inch inedible fish known as the delta smelt; Hollywood has become a magnet for zombies spewing left-wing talking points; and no Republican can even come close to winning a statewide election.
On top of all that, we now have about 40 million people, many of them here illegally, tying up traffic, overcrowding schools and jails, and pushing up tax rates.
The state legislators, 70% of whom are Democrats, naturally believe that feeding and clothing illegal aliens is more important than jailing criminals and has adopted the fishing technique known as catch-and-release. Only instead of releasing fish too small to catch legally, they’re releasing car thieves, drug dealers and child molesters, by simply declaring certain felonies to be misdemeanors.
In their endless search for ways to decrease the prison population, one fully expects that the next logical step will be to simply decriminalize bank robberies, rapes and homicides.
• When you see how casually nObama and Hanoi Kerry are carrying on negotiations with Iran, refusing to even threaten increased sanctions as a means to apply pressure, one might assume they don’t see any reason to fear a nuclear Islamic theocracy. Pushed for an explanation, they might argue that nuclear bombs have been with us for a long time and so far nobody has dropped one in anger. And when you realize that among the nations that have nuclear bombs – the U.S., the U.K., Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea – four are vile and one, North Korea, is pathological, they might seem to have a point.
However, the reason that none of the nine, however sorely tempted, has done so is out of fear. No matter how Kim Jong-un may feel about South Korea, he’s not about to drop the bomb because he doesn’t want to risk having one dropped on his head. In diplomatic circles, it’s called the nuclear deterrent.
But Iran is a whole different can of worms. Its leaders are as crazy as Kim Jong-un, but it’s a different sort of crazy. Kim Jong-un wants to continue living, if only to keep having Dennis Rodman over to talk basketball. But as we’ve seen after decades of suicide bombings, including 9/11, Islam is not a religion whose practitioners place a great deal of value on life -- their own or anyone else’s.
Perhaps because nObama and Hanoi Kerry never had reason to learn that you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight, they don’t understand that you never let the guy who doesn’t mind dying for his religion, get his hands on a nuclear bomb. As policy, the rule in such a case is that you nuke him first and send a condolence card later.
• Because Scott Walker not only stood up to the unions in Wisconsin, but has sprinted to the lead in a great many polls, the Democrats have already begun attacking him. But if the attacks are going to gain any traction with most Americans, they’ll have to do better than point out, as they recently did, that he dropped out of Marquette University before graduating and that his worst subject was French. For some of us, those are two additional reasons to vote for the guy.
• Sometimes even I am taken aback at the stupidity of liberals. For instance, how is it that so many of them continue to promote socialism as a way of life? I mean, if it was merely a theory, I can see how it might appeal to some. However, we have not only seen how it inevitably morphs into communism, but we have seen the ugly results in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cambodia and Cuba. Even in places that started out with socialism, such as China and Israel, the leaders eventually saw the error of their ways and converted to capitalism.
But, then, leftists simply aren’t very bright. Otherwise, they would have asked themselves just how was it possible to provide health care for 40 million uninsured Americans and still manage to save the average family $2,500.
• Because I take baseball more seriously than I take a great many other things, I was disgusted when I found out that the Little League baseball team from Chicago had cheated its way to the national title by using out of the district ringers on the team. Furthermore, the fact that the team was named after the great and courageous Jackie Robinson made it even more shameful.
But, as often happens when politicians and the media get involved with any story, it only got worse. I was hearing TV news people and Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel spinning the story as only they can. The conclusion they came to was that the coaches should have been punished, but it was wrong to take the title away from the kids because they had done nothing wrong.
Of course they had. They had stolen the thrill of honest victory from the teams they had defeated. I can assure you that every single kid was aware of the fact there were players on their team who had no business being there. They knew they had cheated in order to win, and they were just fine with it.
Then, compounding the problem, instead of being chastised for cheating, the grown-ups, including their parents, essentially told them that their only mistake was getting caught. But, then, that’s the same message that San Francisco Giants fans sent Barry Bonds when they cheered him for breaking home records they knew were tainted, and just as fans of the Cubs, Cardinals and Yankees, did when they rooted for Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Alex Rodriguez.
• Finally, when I heard that without warning, Jon Stewart suddenly announced he was leaving his show, my initial thought was that the man who had been born Jonathan Leibowitz had belatedly come to his senses, and decided that he could no longer, in good conscience, spend his life ridiculing conservatives.
But after thinking about it, I realized that he would be leaving his show at Comedy Central at just about the same time that Brian Williams would be ending his six month suspension at NBC. Wouldn’t it make sense that Williams, who regards himself as a born comedian, and Stewart, who takes himself very seriously as a political pundit, would simply swap jobs?
In those days, California was the state that was to be the model for America’s future. Its schools were the best, industry was booming, the San Joaquin Valley produced most of the nation’s fruits and vegetables, Hollywood was still a magnet for the most talented people in the world and Republicans were winning most of the statewide elections.
Over the decades, all of that changed, but it is still a template for much of the nation. The problem now is that the schools are indoctrination centers for the Left; there is no industry; thanks to the environmentalists, the San Joaquin Valley is now the San Joaquin Desert because the water has been cut off from the farmers for the sake of a two-inch inedible fish known as the delta smelt; Hollywood has become a magnet for zombies spewing left-wing talking points; and no Republican can even come close to winning a statewide election.
On top of all that, we now have about 40 million people, many of them here illegally, tying up traffic, overcrowding schools and jails, and pushing up tax rates.
The state legislators, 70% of whom are Democrats, naturally believe that feeding and clothing illegal aliens is more important than jailing criminals and has adopted the fishing technique known as catch-and-release. Only instead of releasing fish too small to catch legally, they’re releasing car thieves, drug dealers and child molesters, by simply declaring certain felonies to be misdemeanors.
In their endless search for ways to decrease the prison population, one fully expects that the next logical step will be to simply decriminalize bank robberies, rapes and homicides.
• When you see how casually nObama and Hanoi Kerry are carrying on negotiations with Iran, refusing to even threaten increased sanctions as a means to apply pressure, one might assume they don’t see any reason to fear a nuclear Islamic theocracy. Pushed for an explanation, they might argue that nuclear bombs have been with us for a long time and so far nobody has dropped one in anger. And when you realize that among the nations that have nuclear bombs – the U.S., the U.K., Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea – four are vile and one, North Korea, is pathological, they might seem to have a point.
However, the reason that none of the nine, however sorely tempted, has done so is out of fear. No matter how Kim Jong-un may feel about South Korea, he’s not about to drop the bomb because he doesn’t want to risk having one dropped on his head. In diplomatic circles, it’s called the nuclear deterrent.
But Iran is a whole different can of worms. Its leaders are as crazy as Kim Jong-un, but it’s a different sort of crazy. Kim Jong-un wants to continue living, if only to keep having Dennis Rodman over to talk basketball. But as we’ve seen after decades of suicide bombings, including 9/11, Islam is not a religion whose practitioners place a great deal of value on life -- their own or anyone else’s.
Perhaps because nObama and Hanoi Kerry never had reason to learn that you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight, they don’t understand that you never let the guy who doesn’t mind dying for his religion, get his hands on a nuclear bomb. As policy, the rule in such a case is that you nuke him first and send a condolence card later.
• Because Scott Walker not only stood up to the unions in Wisconsin, but has sprinted to the lead in a great many polls, the Democrats have already begun attacking him. But if the attacks are going to gain any traction with most Americans, they’ll have to do better than point out, as they recently did, that he dropped out of Marquette University before graduating and that his worst subject was French. For some of us, those are two additional reasons to vote for the guy.
• Sometimes even I am taken aback at the stupidity of liberals. For instance, how is it that so many of them continue to promote socialism as a way of life? I mean, if it was merely a theory, I can see how it might appeal to some. However, we have not only seen how it inevitably morphs into communism, but we have seen the ugly results in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cambodia and Cuba. Even in places that started out with socialism, such as China and Israel, the leaders eventually saw the error of their ways and converted to capitalism.
But, then, leftists simply aren’t very bright. Otherwise, they would have asked themselves just how was it possible to provide health care for 40 million uninsured Americans and still manage to save the average family $2,500.
• Because I take baseball more seriously than I take a great many other things, I was disgusted when I found out that the Little League baseball team from Chicago had cheated its way to the national title by using out of the district ringers on the team. Furthermore, the fact that the team was named after the great and courageous Jackie Robinson made it even more shameful.
But, as often happens when politicians and the media get involved with any story, it only got worse. I was hearing TV news people and Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel spinning the story as only they can. The conclusion they came to was that the coaches should have been punished, but it was wrong to take the title away from the kids because they had done nothing wrong.
Of course they had. They had stolen the thrill of honest victory from the teams they had defeated. I can assure you that every single kid was aware of the fact there were players on their team who had no business being there. They knew they had cheated in order to win, and they were just fine with it.
Then, compounding the problem, instead of being chastised for cheating, the grown-ups, including their parents, essentially told them that their only mistake was getting caught. But, then, that’s the same message that San Francisco Giants fans sent Barry Bonds when they cheered him for breaking home records they knew were tainted, and just as fans of the Cubs, Cardinals and Yankees, did when they rooted for Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Alex Rodriguez.
• Finally, when I heard that without warning, Jon Stewart suddenly announced he was leaving his show, my initial thought was that the man who had been born Jonathan Leibowitz had belatedly come to his senses, and decided that he could no longer, in good conscience, spend his life ridiculing conservatives.
But after thinking about it, I realized that he would be leaving his show at Comedy Central at just about the same time that Brian Williams would be ending his six month suspension at NBC. Wouldn’t it make sense that Williams, who regards himself as a born comedian, and Stewart, who takes himself very seriously as a political pundit, would simply swap jobs?
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Remembering Malcolm X Fifty Years Later
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"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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backstabber Boehner Bids for Time in Immigration Fight With nObama
There are only hours left until the clock strikes midnight and the Department of Homeland Security runs out of funding. While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell seemingly kissed up to the filibustering Democrat minority, passing a clean DHS funding bill that gives the department money to fund Barack nObama's immigration executive actions, House Speaker backstabber John Boehner is not so compromising. When a reporter asked Thursday if backstabber Boehner would propose a clean DHS funding bill, he blew defiant kisses in reply. At the same press conference, backstabber Boehner said, "We passed a bill to fund the department six weeks ago. Six weeks ago! It's time for the Senate to act. How many times do I have to say it?" So as a counteroffer, backstabber Boehner introduced a continuing resolution that would simply fund DHS for three weeks. While it buys the GOP more time, a defiant president waits at the end of the legislative process. nObama recently said if congressional Republicans "want to have a vote on whether what I'm doing is legal or not, they can have that vote. I will veto that vote." Lawmakers, he says, don't have the power to make laws. -The Patriot Post
Here Comes 'Net Neutrality'
As expected, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved so-called net neutrality rules. Fox News reports, "[T]he rules, more broadly, would put the Internet in the same regulatory camp as the telephone by classifying it like a public utility, meaning providers like Comcast or Verizon would have to act in the 'public interest' when providing [an Internet] connection to your home or phone. Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai, who delivered some of the most scathing criticism of the plan Thursday, warned the policy represents a 'monumental shift' to 'government control of the Internet.'" Pai also criticized FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler for his secrecy and the length of the "332-page Internet regulation plan." According to FCC counsel Gigi Sohn, however, only eight of those pages contain actual regulation -- the rest is supporting documentation. Clearly this is not a black-and-white subject, and the jury is still out on whether the FCC's ruling will do more good than harm, but that's mostly because it doesn't go to the crux of the problem, which is lack of competition. The FCC's action won't create more of it. Indeed, it's not at all clear it will usher in a neutral net. What is clear, however, is that the greatest invention since Gutenberg's printing press will now be regulated by a bureaucracy that still struggles to build a functioning website. More... -The Patriot Post
And the GOP Presidential Primaries Begin
It's CPAC time, baby! Yesterday, the Republican Party's presidential hopefuls addressed the 10,000 grassroots conservatives gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference, hoping to drum up support in what The Wall Street Journal calls one of the most populated primary contests in recent history. After eight years of Barack nObama, the GOP needs to decide how the party will grow. Some highlights: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker told the audience, "In America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it." Sen. Ted Cruz warned establishment Republicans are "cutting a deal" with the Left on Immigration. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal blasted the constitution-breaking president, saying, "It is time for our Republican leaders in Congress to grow a spine" to confront him. It's all tough talk aimed at tickling the ears of the defenders of Liberty who live far-removed from the Beltway. But in the end, when the temporary tattoos wash away, the NRA rifle is raffled off and everybody goes home, what matters is how these politicians did or did not defend Liberty in the positions they now occupy. More... -The Patriot Post
Walker Doesn't Care What the Media Thinks
In an op-ed for USA Today, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker responded indirectly to the grilling he received over Rudy Giuliani's recent comments about Barack nObama's patriotism. "Americans believe our nation is facing some substantial challenges," Walker wrote. "Government spending is out of control. Terrorists seek to destroy our way of life. Our economic recovery has been slow. Our borders aren't secure. The federal government has usurped powers that rightly belong to our states." In other words, these issues are the serious ones. He concluded, "There has been much discussion about a media double standard where Republicans are covered differently than Democrats, asked to weigh in on issues the Democrats don't face. As a result, when we refuse to take the media's bait, we suffer. I felt it this week when I was asked to weigh in on what other people said and did and what others' beliefs are. If you are looking for answers to those questions, ask those people. I will always choose to focus on what matters to the American people, not what matters to the media." That approach is just one reason why Ronald Reagan was so successful. -The Patriot Post
Emily Miller Only One of 16 DC Residents Okayed for a Gun Permit Journalist Emily Miller's journey to navigate the snarls of the District of Columbia's gun laws began in 2011, when she inadvertently came face-to-face with a criminal while armed with only her cell phone. Her quest for a handgun in the nation's most anti-gun city is nearing its conclusion as she was recently approved for a permit to carry in the city. But even after the Heller decision, the process is insurmountably high for citizens to exercise their right to bear arms because citizens have to demonstrate they have a reason (the Constitution evidently isn't sufficient) to convince the police to okay their firearm permit. "I got the police reports from two different threats against me, as well as an FBI warning that a terror group is targeting journalists," Miller wrote. "I turned in my application at the end of November. … I didn't hear anything until early February. … Keep in mind, any American can apply for a D.C. gun permit. But so far, only 76 have done so. Thirty-one were denied. Five cancelled their own applications. And 16 were approved." This is what the Second Amendment looks like under a mayor who declared she hates guns. While she swore to "protect the Constitution and what the courts say," she promises to do the opposite: "I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible." -The Patriot Post
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Hilly Caught Abusing Taxpayer Dollars in Massive Act of Corruption
(conservativetribune.com) - Hilly Clinton may have just been caught with her hand in the cookie jar. Watchdog organizations are raising red flags over lucrative deals that Bill Clinton made while his wife Hilly was secretary of state...There is strong evidence that the former president made significant money from speaking appearances and donations while Hilly used her influence to “green light” the engagements. Under an ethics agreement that the Clintons made with the nObama administration, certain paid speeches made by former President Clinton had to be reviewed to ensure that there was no conflict of interest. Without exception, however, those speaking engagements were immediately approved by Hilly’s State Department without a second glance. http://conservativetribune.com/hillary-massive-corruption-2/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
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Supreme Court ruling could increase nObamacare premiums 700%
( Robert King) - If the government loses in a major nObamacare challenge before the Supreme Court, it will result in premium increases of up to 700 percent for nearly 8 million people, a new analysis claims...The analysis from think tank Avalere Health was released Thursday as the nObama administration continues to take heat from Congress for having no backup plan in case the Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell doesn't go their way. Oral arguments are set to start on Wednesday for the case, which has the potential to cripple the healthcare law. The case challenges the government's authority to dole out subsidies to the 37 states with federal-run exchanges. Plaintiffs say the Affordable Care Act specifically only allows for states that set up their own exchanges to receive subsidies, while the government says the plaintiffs are misinterpreting the law. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/court-ruling-could-raise-obamacare-costs-700/article/2560828
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Early Muslim Extremists In American History
(youtube.com) - Early Muslim Extremists In American History presented by Glenn Beck & David Barton.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlT1IXSv830&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
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A Deeper Healing (Joni Eareckson Tada) Strange Fire Conference
(Grace To You) - Strange Fire, part of Grace to You's Truth Matters conference series, evaluates the doctrines, claims, and practices of the modern charismatic movement, and affirms the true Person and ministry of the Holy Spirit... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI22o5u32z0
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On The Kurdish Front Line In The Fight Against ISIS
(Journeyman Picture) - In the disputed area on the edges of IS-controlled territory are the last outposts of Kurdish resistance to IS. With incredible access this report meets the hardened fighters and embittered refugees among them...Since the start of the Syrian war, nearly 13.6 million people have been displaced, crossing bridges and passing through checkpoints at great peril to escape the violence. Mosul is one of the towns to recently fall under IS control. "IS controls everyone's daily routine. Everything you hear about them is true", says a man who fled the town. He has made it to Erbil, recently recaptured by Kurd forces, who are waging a bloody war with Islamic State to protect their land. Gunfights, car bombs and aerial attacks are a daily reality for the soldiers and the displaced who occupy this zone, mere kilometres from the waving flags of the Islamic State. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00s8h3DIKEs&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
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An Ottoman Relic—and Turkish Ambitions in Syria—are Re-laid to Rest
(Burak Bekdil) - Turkey's dramatic miscalculation over Syria is pushing it into weird acts. The latest was the forced relocation of a pre-Ottoman Turkish commander's tomb from its spot in Syria to another spot in Syria, this time a stone's throw away from the Turkish border...Relocating the tomb seems to have been prompted by the fear of an attack from radical Islamists -- who, ironically, Turkey wanted discreetly to support. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who in 2001 authored the 600-page book, "Strategic Depth," hoped at the start of the Arab Spring, when he served as Foreign Minister, that a belt of (Sunni) Muslim Brotherhood-ruled regimes would proliferate in Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Libya, and be subservient to an emerging Turkish empire. To start with Syria, therefore, the Nusayri strongman of the country, President Bashar al-Assad, had to go. http://www.meforum.org/5061/turkish-relics
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CPAC 2015 - PolitiBrew.com
Scott Walker...
Bobby Jindal...
Rich Perry...
Marco Rubio...
Ted Cruz...
Dr. Ben Carson...
Carly Fiorina...
Rand Paul...
Mark Levin...
Newt Gingrich...
Sara Palin...
Phil Roberson (Duck Dynasty)...
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Laura Ingraham...
Brent Bozell...
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Allen West: Who I Am Backing For President
(AllenBWest.com) - I had to tell one interviewer that I don’t cheerlead any person but rather rally to my country. As well it’s far too early to start fawning over any one person. But what I told most interviewers was that I am not focused on the individual but rather I am looking through a certain prism...I want find the person who can be seated in a room with very dangerous dictators, despots, autocrats, and theocrats and stare them down. I’m looking for that leader who can sit across from Vladimir Putin and non-verbally send a message. I’m looking for the leader that can send a message of strength, exceptionalism, and resolve without uttering a word — a commanding presence. http://libertyalliance.com/allen-west-who-i-am-backing-for-president/#
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Education Depart Floods Schools With New Rules And Regulations
(LibertyUnyielding.com) -Recently, a task force of college presidents chronicled massive regulatory overreaching by the U.S. Department of Education, which, on a daily basis, floods America’s schools with new rules and obligations...that Congress never intended. Most of these rules are not even listed in the Code of Federal Regulations, and have never gone through the formal rulemaking process, much less been adequately vetted. “The Report of the Task Force on Federal Regulation of Higher Education: Recalibrating Regulation of Colleges and Universities” correctly notes that: http://libertyalliance.com/education-department-floods-schools-with-new-rules-and-regulations/
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Charting nObama’s Crackdown on National Security Leaks
(Cora Currier) - Despite promises to strengthen protections for whistleblowers, the nObama administration has launched an aggressive crackdown on government employees who have leaked national security information to the press...With charges filed against NSA leaker Edward Snowden this June, the administration has brought a total of seven cases under the Espionage Act, which dates from World War I and criminalizes disclosing information “relating to the national defense.” Prior to the current administration, there had been only three known casesresulting in indictments in which the Espionage Act was used to prosecute government officials for leaks. The administration has also targeted journalists. In May, it was revealed that the Department of Justice had secretly seized AP reporters’ phone recordswhile investigating a potential CIA leak, and targeteda Fox News reporter as part of a criminal leak case (outlined below). No journalist has been chargedwith a crime. But the news prompted an outcry that nObama’s hard line on leaks could have a "chilling effect" on investigative reporting that depends on inside sources. (In response, the Justice Department issued new guidelines limiting when journalists’ records can be sought.) http://www.propublica.org/special/sealing-loose-lips-charting-obamas-crackdown-on-national-security-leaks
Remembering Malcolm X Fifty Years Later
Daniel Pipes
(danielpipes.org/blog) - On this date fifty years ago, the man best known as Malcolm X was killed by a Nation of Islam (NoI) hit squad while speaking on in Harlem, New York.
Born Malcolm Little in Omaha on May 19, 1925, to a Baptist minister father and West Indian mother, both politically involved, he lived on the streets of various eastern U.S. cities until he was jailed in February 1946, where, a year later, he began his self-education program. He first learned about the NoI from his brother in about April 1948 and joined it later that year. Three weeks after his release from jail in 1952, he met Elijah Muhammad, the NoI leader, and commemorated his new identity by throwing off his "slave name" in favor of Malcolm X.
From 1953 on, he devoted himself full time to building the Nation. In an eye-opening experience, he traveled to the Middle East in 1959, after which he began to adopt normative Islamic practices and become more critical of NoI, eventually changing his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and then breaking with the NoI in March 1964, when he started a new movement, the Muslim Mosque, Inc. He went on the hajj to Mecca a month later, followed by other Middle Eastern and African travels. Outraged by what he perceived as Malcolm X's treachery, Elijah Muhammad had him murdered on February 21, 1965, apparently under the supervision of Louis Farrakhan. Were he still alive, Malcolm X would be approaching his 90th birthday.
 http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/1372.jpg" border="0" />A 1999 postage stamps in his honor symbolizes the establishment's acceptance of Malcolm X (1925-65). |
What to make of the Malcolm X legacy on this 50th anniversary? He was a quick study, a natural politician, and a powerful orator, as well as a highly original political figure, He played a major role both in the large-scale conversion of African-Americans to Islam in both its NoI and normative variants (his Autobiography continues to be cited as a major inspiration for becoming Muslim), and to the development of black nationalism, a milder form of his preferred solution that blacks withdraw from the United States and form their own country.
His presence remains alive; and thanks to Spike Lee's movie about him, a U.S. postal stamp in his honor, and other signs of mainstream acceptance, he has become a somewhat anodyne figure. Here's how NBC News characterized him today, on the anniversary: "By the time he died, the Muslim leader had moderated his militant message of black separatism and pride but was still very much a passionate advocate of black unity, self-respect and self-reliance."
 http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/3076.jpg" border="0" />Spike Lee's movie built the Malcolm X myth. |
But Malcolm X was anything but mainstream and the passage of a half century should not soften attitudes toward him. To the end, he remained a radical, polarizing, bigoted figure, Martin Luther King's evil Doppelgänger. To support this description, recall two notorious statements. The first dates from Dec. 1, 1963, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, when Malcolm X responded with the comment that, "Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad."
The second came in the course of a meeting with the Ku Klux Klan (itself a insight into his extremism) intended to win white racist support for the NoI black separatism project. According to a FBI report, Malcolm X assured the Klansmen that Jews were behind the integration movement they both despised. Joshua Muravchik concludes from this incident that Malcolm X "was a vociferous anti-Semite in both public and in private."
Malcolm X should accurately be remembered as the extremist he was. (February 21, 2015)
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GOP Rends Over Immigration Fight
Congressional Republicans tried to defund Barack Obama’s unconstitutional immigration actions through a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but instead they suffered a political defeat that leaves the party uncertainly plotting the next move. As the Friday deadline loomed, Republicans taking a hard line on the immigration fight helped defeat House Speaker John Boehner’s bill to fund the department for three weeks. It was Nancy Pelosi who saved the night,telling Democrats to support a bill funding DHS for a meager seven days. Now, there are rumblings that some Republicans will try to force Boehner from his speaker position. And House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggests the Senate should simply press the red button anddeploy the nuclear option. That’s the wrong answer. A Wall Street Journal editorial concludes, “Republicans need to do some soul searching about the purpose of a congressional majority, including whether they even want it. If they really think Mr. Boehner is the problem, then find someone else to do his thankless job. If not, then start to impose some order and discipline and advance the conservative cause rather than self-defeating rebellion.” This weekend showed Republicans have leadership issues, which Obama continues to exploit. More…
Left Changes Tone as Netanyahu Arrives in Washington
Just a few weeks ago, the White House threatened there would be consequences for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Congress. This Sunday, Netanyahu touched down in Washington to talk about the U.S.’s deal with Iran, and everybody has put on their politician smiles. Secretary of State John Kerry essentially denied the Obama administration was plotting to undermine both the event and Netanyahu’s administration. “The prime minister is welcome in the United States at any time,” Kerry told ABC. “We have an unparalleled close security relationship with Israel, and we will continue to. I talk to the prime minister regularly, including yesterday. We don’t want to see this turned into some great political football. Obviously, it was odd, if not unique, that we learned of it from the speaker of the House and that an administration was not included in this process. But the administration is not seeking to politicize this.” Politicize this? Democrat legislators have issued sound bite after sound bite saying Netanyahu doesn’t speak for them, or that they’ll boycott the speech. And that’s not to mention Obama’s political shenanigans. No, the Left has already succeeded in making a foreign policy speech by one of America’s closest allies into a partisan brouhaha. More…
Lerner’s Email Cover-Up ‘Potential Criminal Activity’
Timothy Camus, Treasury deputy inspector general, told the House Oversight Committee “there is potential criminal activity” in how the IRS refused to give Congress Lois Lerner’s emails when it was investigating the agency’s political targeting of conservative groups. The Daily Caller reports, “Treasury Department inspectors general testified Thursday that they cannot provide any relevant information related to their search for Lois Lerner’s missing emails. But at least three bits of information came out: the investigation is on hold over software issues, there is potential criminal wrongdoing, and nobody at the IRS even asked for Lerner’s backup email tapes from the people in New Martinsville, West Virginia, who had them.” The IRS told Congress Lerner’s emails were destroyed and irretrievable. But the IG got the emails after two weeks of searching, and that may warrant a criminal investigation. It’s perhaps confirmed one thing that Americans have long suspected, though: The IRS is run by criminals. Oh, and by the way, one of Lerner’s emails to a colleague was this gem: “No one will believe your hard drive and mine crashed within a week.” No, no one will believe that. More…
Durbin: Constitution Was ‘Fatally Flawed’
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) defended Barack Obama’s executive amnesty in the Senate by declaring Obama was just doing what was necessary to save the Constitution from itself. “Before any of us can serve in the United States Senate, we stand in the well of the Senate chamber and publicly take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Durbin said. “I know we all take that seriously, as we should.” (Pause for laughter.) He continued, “This is not just another government document. It is really the inspiration of this government and it still governs our actions to this day. Yet, if we view this document with honesty, we know that it was fatally flawed from the start. It got the issue of slavery wrong, in addition to some other issues. It got the issue of race wrong. And since the days when the document was drafted and signed, we have struggled as a nation to right that wrong. It has taken a long, long time.” There’s no question that the Constitution, as a human document, has its flaws. That’s why our Founders set up an amendment process. But Durbin and his fellow Democrats think they are more enlightened than the Founders and, therefore, can do whatever they want with the Constitution – abandoning the legitimate amendment process altogether. And then they have the gall to claim they take theiroaths seriously.
Who Vets Fox News ‘Experts’?
STUPID, particularly when it comes to the Second Amendment, is almost exclusive to the Left, but occasionally it slips under the wire on the Right. That is certainly the case with this analysis from Tucker Carlson’s Fox News “2A expert” Regis Giles. Commenting on the absurd ATF ban of 5.56 M855 AR-15 rifle cartridges, Giles' remarks were so profoundly ignorant that FNC should have preceded her segment with one of their ubiquitous “FOX NEWS ALERT!” graphics.
According to Giles, “To say that this [5.56 M855 round] is going to pierce through the armor of cops is ridiculous because it’s a tiny bullet like this big [demonstrating the size with her fingers]. And to say that the cop’s Kevlar isn’t tough enough to handle that ammunition is ridiculous. And, like the FBI said, no one has used this in a handgun to shoot a cop.”
Who vets Fox News guests? Giles must have been smoking “green tips.”
Now, for the record, according to the ATF and FBI, there IS NO RECORD of a police officer being murdered with a 5.56 M855 round – and, of course, the ATF ammo ban really has nothing to do with “protecting police” and everything to do with Obama’s incremental encroachment on the Second Amendment. But come on Carlson – giving a platform to Giles did nothing to help 2A rights.
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RIGHT ANALYSIS
Hillary Lied, Four Americans Died
Judicial Watch confirmed Thursday what many Americans already knew: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s attempt to blame the attacks in Benghazi on an “offensive video” was abald-faced lie. As the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department, Judicial Watch obtained a series of critical emails that not only reveal State Department officials knew immediately the American compound in Benghazi was under attack but that the attack was perpetrated by assailants tied to a terrorist group. And despite the infamous exasperated question from the Democrats' likely presidential nominee, the truth doesmake a big difference at this point.
The first email was sent Sept. 11, 2012, at 4:07 p.m. It was forwarded by former Clinton Special Assistant Maria Sand to Clinton’s former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Jacob Sullivan, former Executive Assistant Joseph McManus, and a host of other Special Assistants in Clinton’s office. It read as follows:
“The Regional Security Officer reports the diplomatic mission is under attack. Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM [Chief of Mission] personnel are in the compound safe haven. The 17th of February militia is providing security support.”
Another email arrived at 4:38 p.m. It was sent by the former director of the Diplomatic Security Service, Scott Bultrowicz, who was fired following the report issued by the Advisory Review Board (ARB) citing “systematic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus of the State Department” responsible for security in Benghazi. That would be the same ARB that refused to interview Hillary Clinton as part of its investigation. State Department Foreign Officer Lawrence Randolph forwarded Mills, Sullivan and McManus the email from Bultrowicz with the subject line “Attack on Benghazi 90112012”:
“DSCC received a phone call from [REDACTED] in Benghazi, Libya initially stating that 15 armed individuals were attacking the compound and trying to gain entrance. The Ambassador is present in Benghazi and currently is barricaded within the compound. There are no injuries at this time and it is unknown what the intent of the attackers is. At approximately 1600 DSCC received word from Benghazi that individuals had entered the compound. At 1614 RSO advised the Libyans had set fire to various buildings in the area, possibly the building that houses the Ambassador [REDACTED] is responding and taking fire.”
At 12:04 a.m. Randolph updated Mills, Sullivan and McManus with another email with the subject line “FW: Update 3: Benghazi Shelter Location Also Under Attack”:
“I just called Ops and they said the DS command center is reporting that the compound is under attack again. I am about to reach out to the DS Command Center.”
Contained in that email is a series of equally damning updates:
4:54 p.m.: “Embassy Tripoli reports the firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared. A response team is on site to locate COM personnel.”
6:06 p.m.: “Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack (SBU): (SBU) Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and call for an attack on Embassy Tripoli.”
11:57 p.m.: “(SBU) DS Command reports the current shelter location for COM personnel in Benghazi is under mortar fire. There are reports of injuries to COM staff.”
And finally, at 3:22 a.m., Sept. 12, Senior Watch Officer Andrew Veprek forwarded an email to numerous State Department officials, later forwarded to Mills and McManus. The subject line? “Death of Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi”:
“Embassy Tripoli confirms the death of Ambassador John C. (Chris) Stevens in Benghazi. His body has been recovered and is at the airport in Benghazi.”
Two hours later, McManus forwarded the news of Stevens' death to the State Department Legislative Affairs office – with instructions not to “forward to anyone at this point.”
Hillary Clinton’s response? An official statement calling the attack “a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.”
As for her other, earlier response, blatantly ignored by the mainstream media? A 10 p.m. phone call between Clinton and Obama, completely contradicting the previous assertion by the White House that Obama made no phone calls the night of the attack. As National Review’s Andrew McCarthy sarcastically asked, “Gee, what do you suppose Obama and Clinton talked about in that 10 p.m. call?”
The rest of the orchestrated disinformation campaign – sending former UN ambassador, current National Security Advisor and reliable propagandist Susan Rice on network news shows to maintain the despicable lie, Obama’s assertion of same on the David Letterman Show and at the UN, the spending of $70,000 for a Pakistani ad campaign showing Obama and Clinton denouncing the anti-Islamic video, and a host of other insults to the public’s intelligence – can no longer be obscured.
America twice elected an inveterate liar as commander in chief. And the very same corrupt media that ran interference for Obama’s lies are gearing up to do the same thing for an equally inveterate liar. And make no mistake: All of Clinton’s critics will be characterized as perpetrating a war on women whenever the subject of her horrendous track record of prevarication arises – one that included another blatant lie about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire.
And that’s if those questions arise at all. Here are two separate Google Searches related to the revelations presented by Judicial Watch. Note that not a single mainstream media source has even filed a report, much less made this the kind of headline story, followed by a relentless series of updates, that would have attended any Republican caught doing exactly the same thing. An equal amount of calculated disinterest attends the scandalous conflict of interest surrounding the Clinton Foundation, which received millions of dollars from foreign governments while Clinton was secretary of state. Foreign governments and individuals are prohibited from giving money to a U.S. political candidate. Funneling those contributions through the Clinton Foundation allows Hillary to skirt such restrictions.
On Benghazi, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton gets it exactly right: “These emails leave no doubt that Hillary Clinton’s closest advisers knew the truth about the Benghazi attack from almost the moment it happened. And it is inescapable that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knowingly lied when she planted the false story about ‘inflammatory material being posted on the Internet.’ The contempt for the public’s right to know is evidenced not only in these documents but also in the fact that we had to file a lawsuit in federal court to obtain them. The Obama gang’s cover-up continues to unravel, despite its unlawful secrecy and continued slow-rolling of information. Congress, if it ever decides to do its job, cannot act soon enough to put Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, and every other official in these emails under oath.”
Whether Congress is up to the job or not, one thing is crystal clear: Hillary Clinton is manifestly unfit to lead this nation. Her election to the Oval Office would be a continuation of the lawlessness and lying this nation has endured for the past six years. Judicial Watch has produced the smoking gun. The voting public ignores it at the nation’s peril.
The CPAC Sizzler: Red Meat for Primaries
The Republican presidential primary virtually began this past weekend right outside the Washington Beltway. The event is also known as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
The gathering of thousands of activists was treated to candidates and experts engaged in extensive and serious policy discussions. There were no doubts where participants of CPAC stand regarding America’s exceptionalism, Liberty and the Constitution.
Some highlights:
In the face of growing threats in the world (and no, we don’t mean the climate), potential presidential contenders emphasized national security and foreign policy. The Islamic State was clearly identified as Islamic and named as a necessary target for destruction to end its evil and medieval barbarism.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio jumped from the obvious problem of ISIL and the cauldron of toil and trouble of the Middle East to pledging to reverse Obama’s cancellation of the missile defense installations in Europe to appease and pacify the angry Bear of Russia. Rubio pegged the KGB-raised Vladimir Putin as a danger in need of countering, arguing for an expansion of missile defense into Eastern Europe beyond Poland and the Czech Republic.
Rubio assessed Obama’s “JV” foreign policy, characterizing the commander in chief’s frame of reference thusly: “America, and American engagement, is more often the source of our problems than the source of our solutions.” Rubio slammed this view as wrong and dangerous.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal hammered the administration’s “jobs for Jihadistan” approach: “We don’t need a war on international poverty, we need a war on the evil radical Islamic terrorism.” Furthermore, Jindal asserted, Obama’s administration has incompetently failed at formulating and executing a realistic plan aimed at “degrading and destroying ISIS.” Therefore, Jindal concluded, Obama “has shown himself incapable of being our commander in chief.”
On immigration policy, most all of the CPAC featured speakers were in unison in supporting a secured southern border and enforcement of existing laws to encourage and reward legal immigration.
Rubio – of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” fame – said he’s learned his lesson: “[Y]ou can’t even have a conversation about [illegal immigrants already in the country] until people believe and know – not just believe, but it’s proven to them – that future illegal immigration is brought under control.” He’s absolutely right, despite what many conservatives view as his blemished track record.
On the other hand – and this is no surprise – Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and wannabe-GOP-nominee with big donors on his side, was honest enough not to pander in his proclamation, “Yes, I support a path to legalization” for illegal immigrants currently in our nation. (He also began his tack Left on same-sex marriage, perhaps signaling he won’t even bother trying to convince voters a la Mitt Romney that he really is “severely conservative.”)
The CPAC speaker with the most election wins (three) over the last four years, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, clearly articulated the most basic spirit of America: “Up there in Washington, we have a president who measures success by how many people are dependent on the government. There’s a reason we celebrate the Fourth of July and not April 15, because in America we celebrate our independence from the government and not our dependence on it.”
And former Texas Governor Rick Perry offered up downright Reaganesque optimism: “I’ve never been more certain than I am today that America’s best days remain in front of us. The weakness and incompetence of our government shouldn’t be confused with the strength, the ingenuity and the idealism of the American people.” Perry listed the nation’s painful sufferings through the War Between the States, two world wars and the Carter administration before assuring CPACers, “We will survive the Obama years too.”
The economy, education, tax reform, God, guns and family were other key areas where speakers strummed the heartstrings of this constitutionally conservative crowd. Speeches are one thing, but the most important question left unanswered is this: Can the GOP win the White House in 2016? Or will the GOP lose in the same way it lost in 2012 – with lots of highly paid consultants, an embarrassing ground game and a timid approach to a vision for a great America? Based solely on the roster of CPAC speeches, we’re hopeful that history won’t repeat itself. But we’ll find out soon enough.
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TOP 5 RIGHT OPINION COLUMNS
- Jeff Jacoby: The Squabble Over Bibi’s Speech
- Star Parker: Why Does Obama So Oppose Netanyahu’s Speech?
- Stephen Moore: It’s Time to Kill This Tax (Entirely)
- Peggy Noonan: Sorry, Jeb, the Race Is Wide Open
- George Will: Two Reading Lessons From the Supreme Court
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OPINION IN BRIEF
The Gipper: “A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
Columnist Jeff Jacoby: “[B]y reacting so poisonously to Netanyahu’s scheduled appearance, the White House has only fueled more interest in what he has to say. Obama may have guaranteed that Israel’s leader will give the speech of his career to a once-in-a-lifetime audience. Only at a superficial level is this about partisan or political loyalties. Immensely more important is the lethal threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. Even without the bomb, Iran is the world’s most dangerous regime – apocalyptic incubator of terrorism and jihad, ruthless suppressor of human rights, unflagging zealot for wiping Israel ‘off the map,’ and fanatic about bringing ‘Death to America.’ Like any democratic politician, Netanyahu can be maddening or fickle. But there is no issue on which he has been so consistent, for so long, as preventing Tehran from acquiring the nuclear capability that would empower it to fulfill its genocidal goals. The fuss over protocol and personalities is interesting. It won’t keep Americans from giving their ally’s leader a respectful hearing.”
Columnist Star Parker: “The President has a bully pulpit waiting for him whenever he wants to use it to explain to the American people why he doesn’t want Benjamin Netanyahu to give this speech. Instead of shooting straight with us, the president is sending out his foot soldiers, his proxies, Democrats in Congress, including the black Caucus, to do his business for him, with flimsy explanations. What’s up with our President? And what’s up with the press? Why aren’t they asking penetrating questions? All of us recall as students reading about the tragedies in history and asking how they could have happened, why they weren’t prevented. We should hear the Israeli Prime Minster’s concerns. And our president, himself, should tell the American people why he so opposes this very sensible speech.”
Comedian Seth Meyers: “Obama’s former press secretary, Jay Carney, will reportedly become a senior vice president at Amazon. Carney says he’s excited to work for someone who doesn’t take six years to deliver.”
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform – Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen – standing in harm’s way in defense of Liberty, and for their families.
Islamic State: Children study Qur’an, get weapons training
They study the Qur’an? Do they skip over all of its peaceful passages upon which Barack Obama, David Cameron and the rest place such hope? Or are those leaders engaging in wishful thinking on a massive scale when they insist that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam? “Isis pays parents for children […]
Muslim cleric: Those who don’t respect Muslims have “no right to live”
Watch the video. He keeps saying that it is not he who is saying these things, but that they’re Islamic teachings. Will some Muslim spokesmen in the West who claims to abhor what Mullah Krekar is saying kindly explain how he is wrong on Islamic grounds? Of course not. And no one in the mainstream […]
Islamic State: Pro-Palestinians in Europe actually sleeper Islamic State cells
“There were small armies of the Islamic State within every country of Europe by late 2014, and the intelligence agencies didn’t even know about it!” Inconceivable! Everyone knows that European intelligence agencies are 100% on top of jihad activity! They can’t name it as what it is, and they refuse to acknowledge what it is […]
New York: Muslim suing Costco for religious discrimination
“He tells Eyewitness News exclusively that when he refused to work with pork, the major retailer sent him outside to gather carts. ‘Just because you have a different belief, that doesn’t give anybody the right to treat you different,’ said Jean Camara, suing Costco.” Note the paradox: he is claiming that he was subjected to […]
UK Muslim cleric under fire for views on gays: “Views I hold have been held by Muslims for hundreds of years”
“It had been reported that Dr al-Haddad’s talk could still go ahead.” Of course. The limiting of the freedom of speech in Britain is all in the direction of shutting down critics of jihad terror, not those who justify and enable it. Haitham al-Haddad is the voice of Britain’s future. “Cleric: ‘Banning legitimate debate will […]
Iran behind cyber-attack on Adelson’s Sands Corp.
Adelson is “a leading U.S. supporter of Israel and of Republican political candidates.” Since Obama is relentlessly courting Iran and making concession after concession to the mullahs, this is unlikely to be taken in the highest circles in Washington as a belligerent act. After all, they hate Adelson, too. “Iran Behind Cyber-Attack on Adelson’s Sands […]
Islamic Republic of Iran: Authorities raid Christian homes, ask them to leave country
“Irani, a convert from Islam, had originally been charged with ‘Mofsed-fel-arz’ or ‘spreading corruption on Earth,’ which carries the death penalty.” “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be […]
“Moderate” Palestinian Authority: Israel worse than Islamic State
“Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas…” — Barack Obama, March 21, 2013 “PA and Fatah demonization: Israel worse than Islamic State […]
UK department store bans “Christ” in flower messages, but “jihad” is OK
Supporters of jihad can now use Marks and Spencer to order flowers to celebrate their victories — if they sent flowers. In any case, this is just another sign of Britain’s gallop toward ruin: its own traditions are derided and forbidden. Meanwhile, no accommodation of Islam is too extravagant for British authorities. “M&S bans customers […]
Report: Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli strike on Iran
Given that Brzezinski called for this years ago, and given that Brzezinski and Obama have been close, even if Zbig hasn’t had an official position, there is nothing implausible about this. “Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike,” by Mark Langfan, Arutz Sheva, March 1, 2015 (thanks to Marc): The Bethlehem-based news agency […]
By Oscar Y. Harward
Republican legislators are broadly departing on ‘divisional’ issues. Americans are witnessing giant separation votes.
Republican Party candidates are only required to have an ‘R’ attached to their name in receiving (re)election contributions from the RNC and/or its political subsidiaries; regardless of the candidates’ political viewpoints, their personal and/or political records, their values, and/or their support of the GOP Platform.
The GOP Platform begins with “We the People”. Many GOP officials lack the courage in supporting Constitutional issues based on our GOP Platform, and/or our Christian values. Our GOP Platform is a blueprint; a resolve of political convictions with character. file:///C:/Users/Oscar/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/JTQM7ERK/2012GOPPlatform.pdf
Many Republican Party legislators, after little to no background research, appoint and/or confirm individuals to offices, including SCOTUS nominees, even when the candidate(s) support(s) bigger government and fewer individual freedoms.
During the 2014 election year season, Washington based Republican Party leaders raised enormous amounts of GOP associated money, and while rejecting Conservative Republican Party candidates in GOP ‘primaries’, distributed GOP funds to more ‘left-of-center’ candidates who mildly support President Obama’s and the Democrat Party’s ‘leftist’ issues.
GOP candidates receiving ‘RNC and all other GOP subsidiary associated monies’ must/should be required to support a minimum of 80% of our GOP Platform issues on ‘divisional issue’ decrees.
GOP leaders must reject all Democrat’s left-wing philosophies. Republican Party leaders must discard their own failures; then restart, restore, and/or replace our political leaders by building an honorable, responsible, and Conservative Republican Party.
To: My Tea Party Christian brothers.
Brothers, true happiness, is knowing that God loves us, our country was founded under Christian principles and as Americans we acknowledge that we are God’s creation. Today Americans are hungry for a personal change and ready to deal with adversity, poverty and hunger is rampant and it is raising a question "If God love us, why he is forsaking us and led millions die of hunger”.
This is the truth, God's creation is for the benefit of humanity, but man's greed deprive millions of food, created poverty and enslaver others. Brothers God give us free will, it is us that commit sins against our brothers, the soul of many are corrupt by evil and are in complete denial about the existence of God the creator of all things; each-one of us will account for our sins, that is the law. We must practice God's law "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself." We must practice and learn to love each other.
I love my self-unconditionally, I know that the Lord is with me helping me to be an advocate of his purpose, I can do nothing by myself , the spirit of God within me does the work and the spirit is being everything now. My only responsibility is to share his word with everyone because the Lord Jesus made as a family to love and to share our knowledge and all things that will make others to be the best they can be, so in turn they be able to do the same.
Jesus Christ is God's gift to all men kind and through Jesus; our father is given to us the gift of eternal life. There is only one way to receive God's gift of eternal life and that is through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let's pray. Lord, give us the wisdom to work with others in harmony to spread your word and the glory of your kingdom. This I ask in the name of your beloved son Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:16 ESV
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:13 ESV
Also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.
Luke 4:18-19 ESV
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
Ephesians 6:8-10 ESV
Knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him. Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Proverbs 22:16 ESV
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Luke 6:31 ESV
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Leviticus 22:11 ESV
But if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.
John 8:34 ESV
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.
Proverbs 14:31 ESV
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Revelation 13:16 ESV
Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
Ephesians 6:6-8 ESV
Not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
Galatians 2:4 ESV
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—
Matthew 11:28 ESV
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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There Will Always Be War
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THREAT MATRIX…
“When Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry decided to try to put the threat from ISIS into perspective in congressional testimony, he raised some eyebrows in the intelligence community. Hanoi Kerry told lawmakers, ‘Our citizens, our world today, is actually, despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally; less deaths, less violent deaths today, than through the last century.’
That prompted a quick response from lawmakers and from inside the intelligence community. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President nObama told Fox News, ‘Secretary Hanoi Kerry is out of touch with reality, he clearly is not listening to the entire U.S. intelligence community, he is not reading any of the intelligence or other things that have been written over the last few weeks, months, years. …[ F]or him to make those statements is totally irresponsible and he should be challenged by anyone who cares about the future of this country.’ Hanoi Kerry’s comments appear to be part of a pattern. The president, for example, recently told Vox that he believed the media was hyping the threat from terrorists.
But we have a reminder today about the relentless enemy we face. It was on this day 22 years ago that terrorists detonated a truck bomb in the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. It killed six Americans and injuring hundreds more, but it didn't have the intended effect of bringing down the tower. Eight years later, though, the terrorists would not only accomplish that goal, but bring down both towers in the most audacious attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor.
The administration’s assurances would be comforting if true. But the people we talk to in and around the intelligence community – the people who actually analyze the data – see things very differently. They see a threat matrix exponentially more deadly than it was 22 years ago today.” – Bret Baier. -Fox News
“When Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry decided to try to put the threat from ISIS into perspective in congressional testimony, he raised some eyebrows in the intelligence community. Hanoi Kerry told lawmakers, ‘Our citizens, our world today, is actually, despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally; less deaths, less violent deaths today, than through the last century.’
That prompted a quick response from lawmakers and from inside the intelligence community. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President nObama told Fox News, ‘Secretary Hanoi Kerry is out of touch with reality, he clearly is not listening to the entire U.S. intelligence community, he is not reading any of the intelligence or other things that have been written over the last few weeks, months, years. …[ F]or him to make those statements is totally irresponsible and he should be challenged by anyone who cares about the future of this country.’ Hanoi Kerry’s comments appear to be part of a pattern. The president, for example, recently told Vox that he believed the media was hyping the threat from terrorists.
But we have a reminder today about the relentless enemy we face. It was on this day 22 years ago that terrorists detonated a truck bomb in the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. It killed six Americans and injuring hundreds more, but it didn't have the intended effect of bringing down the tower. Eight years later, though, the terrorists would not only accomplish that goal, but bring down both towers in the most audacious attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor.
The administration’s assurances would be comforting if true. But the people we talk to in and around the intelligence community – the people who actually analyze the data – see things very differently. They see a threat matrix exponentially more deadly than it was 22 years ago today.” – Bret Baier. -Fox News
The Judge’s Ruling - Citing challenges to the protection against unreasonable search and seizure provided by the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano ponders the notion of a government fearful of freedom: “What if invading our freedoms keeps us less safe? What if the president has failed to keep our freedoms safe? What if the government doesn’t like freedoms? What if the government is afraid we will exercise them?” -Fox News
nOBAMA VOWS ‘AGGRESSIVE’ RESPONSE ON COURT DEFEAT FOR AMNESTY: ‘THIS IS JUST ONE JUDGE’
The Hill: “Participating in a town hall-style immigration forum in Miami, [President nObama] said a recent ruling against his new immigration policies by a federal judge in Texas was wrongly decided and promised to use all his legal options to ensure the new programs are ultimately adopted. ‘This is just one federal judge. We have appealed it very aggressively. We’re going to be as aggressive as we can,’ nObama said during the event at Florida International University, hosted by MSNBC and Telemundo, the Spanish-language media giant. ‘I’m using all of the legal power vested in me in order to solve this problem.’” -Fox News
The Hill: “Participating in a town hall-style immigration forum in Miami, [President nObama] said a recent ruling against his new immigration policies by a federal judge in Texas was wrongly decided and promised to use all his legal options to ensure the new programs are ultimately adopted. ‘This is just one federal judge. We have appealed it very aggressively. We’re going to be as aggressive as we can,’ nObama said during the event at Florida International University, hosted by MSNBC and Telemundo, the Spanish-language media giant. ‘I’m using all of the legal power vested in me in order to solve this problem.’” -Fox News
Denied using immigration for a political advantage - Rejecting accusations that he failed to push through immigration reform when Democrats controlled Congress, President nObama blamed Republicans, then and now, and seemed a perturbed when asked if both parties are playing “political ping pong” with immigration. “That’s just not true,” nObama said. “Democrats have consistently stood on the side of comprehensive immigration reform.” “You do a disservice when you suggest that, Ah, nobody was focused on this," the president added. “Because then you don't know who's fighting for you and who's fighting against you.” -Fox News
Homeland funding fight will return to House - WaPo: “The Senate voted Wednesday to move ahead with a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security after Democratic leaders dropped an earlier pledge to block it unless they get assurances from House Republican leaders that it would pass their chamber. The bill advanced on a procedural vote by a 98-2 margin. The only dissenters were Republican Sens. James Inhofe (Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (Ala.) Final passage could come before Friday when current funding will run out at DHS. ‘We're going to do everything we can to make sure it passes by an overwhelming vote,’ Senate Minority Leader dinky Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters. He said he looked forward to working with Republicans "in the next 24 hours" to get this done. Even if the bill clears the Senate, it's unclear how the House will respond.” -Fox News
REID AGREES TO MEET WITH BIBI
The Hill: “Senate leaders from both parties will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Washington, D.C., next week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will meet with Netanyahu on Tuesday afternoon, after his address to a joint session of Congress on the Iranian nuclear threat. On Wednesday, Netanyahu declined an invitation to meet only with Senate Democrats, fearing it would ‘compound the misperception of partisanship’ surrounding his visit. The bipartisan invite comes amid rising tension between the nObama administration and Netanyahu.”
The Hill: “Senate leaders from both parties will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Washington, D.C., next week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will meet with Netanyahu on Tuesday afternoon, after his address to a joint session of Congress on the Iranian nuclear threat. On Wednesday, Netanyahu declined an invitation to meet only with Senate Democrats, fearing it would ‘compound the misperception of partisanship’ surrounding his visit. The bipartisan invite comes amid rising tension between the nObama administration and Netanyahu.”
-Fox News
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Megyn Kelly Played This Video from George W. Bush
(Matthew Burke) - On FOX News’ The Kelly File on Thursday, host Megyn Kelly played an eerily prophetic, timely, and applicable video from George W. Bush in 2007 warning about the consequences of pulling out of Iraq too early (WATCH VIDEO BELOW)...Bush was roundly criticized for the comments at the time, but considering the horrific events in the Middle East excalating while nObama works on lowering his golf handicap, Bush’s words have even deeper impact. http://www.tpnn.com/2014/09/05/megyn-kelly-played-this-video-from-george-w-bush-and-liberal-heads-are-exploding/
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MAJOR U.S. Company Bows to Shariah Law
(tpnn.com) - The United Stated is in a moment of crisis. While we have a longstanding history of religious tolerance and allowing for the free and open worship of all faiths, it would be less-than-truthful to claim that the United States is not engulfed in a cultural war surrounding religion...As the nObama Administration cracks-down on Christian institutions and principles while citing the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment as their supposed justification, the nObama Administration conspicuously coddles the religion of Islam in order to display a sort of tolerance to Muslims strictly denied to Christians. http://www.tpnn.com/2014/11/01/major-u-s-company-bows-to-shariah-law/
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Taliban Suicide Bomber Strikes NATO Diplomatic Convoy in Kabul
(Bill Roggio) - The Taliban suicide bomber rammed his car into the NATO convoy as it traveled in the Wazir Akbar Khan area, a neighborhood in the Afghan capital which hosts foreign embassies, a NATO base, and other sensitive installations...The attack took place “shortly after 8:00 am, not far from the Iranian embassy,” a senior Afghan interior ministry official told Ariana News. Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, NATO’s new command in the country, confirmed that one “service member died as a result of an attack in Kabul today.” But “the NATO Senior Civilian Representative,” who previously was Turkey’s ambassador to Afghanistan, “was not involved and is unharmed.” http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/bill-roggio-taliban-suicide-bomber-strikes-nato-diplomatic-convoy-in-kabul/
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Famous PC Maker Exposed in Shocking Scandal
(Greg Miller) - Another day… another appalling spying scandal. One that would even shock infamous whistleblowers, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. But we’re not talking about the government skimming through a few emails or phone records, or snapping your photo with a surveillance camera and adding you to a database...This was an egregious act of corporate larceny perpetrated by one of the world’s biggest companies. Think of Lenovo (LNVGY), and you probably picture a company renowned for designing and manufacturing personal computers. And you’d be absolutely right. The Chinese firm is the biggest PC manufacturer in the world. But there’s a dark side to the company, too. http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2015/02/27/lenovo-superfish/
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Fines Remain Rare Even As Health Data Breaches Multiply
(Charles Ornstein) - In a string of meetings and press releases, the federal government’s health watchdogs have delivered a stern message: They are cracking down on insurers, hospitals and doctors offices that don’t adequately protect the security and privacy of medical records... “We’ve now moved into an area of more assertive enforcement,” Leon Rodriguez, then-director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, warned at a privacy and security forum in December 2012. But as breaches of patient records proliferate – just this month, insurer Anthem revealed a hack that exposed information for nearly 80 million people – federal overseers have seldom penalized the health care organizations responsible for safeguarding this data, a ProPublica review shows.
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Kurdish Fighters Seize Key Islamic State Stronghold in Syria
(voanews.com) - Kurdish fighters say they have "liberated" a northeastern Syrian town that has been a key stronghold of Islamic State militants...A spokesperson for the People's Protection Units, or YPG, confirmed to VOA that the Kurdish fighters had seized the city of Tal Hamis, in Hassakeh province. “This victory is a huge blow for IS terrorists because they orchestrated their attacks against Qamishli and other Kurdish cities in Syria and Sinjar region in Iraq from this city," he told VOA's Kurdish service. "In this operation a significant number of local Arab forces also helped them because people came to realize that there is no future under this terrorist organization." http://www.voanews.com/content/kurdish-fighters-seize-key-islamic-state-stronghold/2661793.html
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Empowering Jihad: The Deadly Myth of a 'Root Cause'
(Phyllis Chesler) - Reports that "Jihadi John," the British-accented narrator of ISIS snuff videos, is Mohammed Emwazi — an educated young man from a middle-class background — ought to put the final stake in the pretense that poverty and a lack of education and opportunity fuel Islamist hate. This mistaken idea seems to be nObama administration policy...Marie Harf, the US Department of State deputy spokesperson, recently said: "We cannot win this war by killing jihadists. We need to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it is lack of opportunity for jobs. . . We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance. We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people." Of course, the news about "Jihadi John" is only the latest evidence to the contrary. These terrorists are often well educated and even wealthy. Osama bin Laden certainly was. http://www.meforum.org/5059/jihad-root-cause-myth
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In Plain Sight: A National Security “Smoking Gun”
(Terresa Monroe-Hamilton) - The first article of the Betrayal Papers asserted that the Muslim Brotherhood was not only influential in the United States government, but in fact dominated the administration of President Barack Hussein nObama...This article will name several key people who were or are in the nObama administration and who have various, documented associations with organizations which are directly tied to and/or funded by the Muslim Brotherhood and the State of Qatar (home to Brotherhood’s Spiritual Leader, Yusuf al-Qaradawi). These individuals have helped dictate national security policies that have crippled counterterrorism efforts at home and abroad. http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/02/betrayal-papers-part-2-in-plain-sight-a-national-security-smoking-gun/
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Stopgap DHS funding bill fails in House
(foxnews.com) - A stopgap bill to keep money flowing to the Homeland Security Department past a midnight deadline failed in the House late Friday, in a surprise turn of events that again raises the possibility of a partial agency shutdown...The vote was 224-203 against the measure, as 52 Republicans defected and joined Democrats in opposing the leadership-backed legislation. The first group was upset because the legislation had been stripped of changes to President nObama's immigration policy, and the second because it lacked full-year funding for the sprawling department. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/27/congress-prepares-to-punt-amid-impasse-on-dhs-funding/
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During his lifetime, Ali, Mohammad’s son-in-law, was the leader of the Arab forces. As noted in Samuel Willard Crompton’s ‘The Handy Military History Answer Book’, by the time the Arabs fought the Byzantines and the Persians they had also initiated the great split that remains today between the Sunnis and the Shiites.” Shiite means “follower of Ali.” The Sunnis wanted to elect their own caliph. 
Islamist Terrorists Are In America, Mexico Partially Responsible
(rickwells.us) - Neil Cavuto references a sixty-eight page report which was just issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety which states that not only are illegal aliens with terrorist ties currently crossing into the United States unchecked, they have been doing so for quite a long time...Lt Col Tony Shaffer agrees with the report and notes that this is information known to the federal government as well. He also notes that al-Shabaab, the terrorist organization that has threatened the Mall of America has conducted a similar operation in Kenya, adding credibility to their threats. Shaffer points out that FBI director James Comey has already stated that we are tracking about 200 suspected terrorists, with suspects in every state of the Union. He asks, “What about the 1,000 to 2,000 we’re not tracking who have come through the border?” He reiterates his point, “We know they’re coming through. We know we’re not detecting them.” http://www.rickwells.us/islamist-terrorists-are-in-america-mexico-partially-responsible-is-military-action-against-mexico-part-of-the-solution/
There Will Always Be War
Alan Caruba
(factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - We begin with the reality that the United States and many other nations are at war with militant Islamists. They are a growing army of religious zealots murdering Christians, Jews, others who are not Muslim, and even other Muslims.
In my youth America knew how to win wars. In Europe it bombed Germany into submission, leading its allies in an invasion that left Germany divided for decades until the Soviet Union collapsed. In Asia Truman dropped two atomic bombs on Japan because they didn’t get the message when Hiroshima was destroyed on August 6, 1945. It took a second bomb on Nagasaki on August 9 to bring about Japan’s surrender.
Millions died in World War II but the alternative would have been the loss of freedom for millions worldwide.
If one spends any time learning history, the primary lesson is that war has been a constant factor from the beginning of what we call civilization about five thousand years ago.
The Bronze Age introduced new weapons that gave the residents of the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East a distinct advantage over invading nomadic people, but the invaders introduced chariots and it took the Egyptians and Babylonians a while to catch up. War has always been about new, more lethal weaponry.
Why would we be surprised to learn that the Assyrians who originated in what is now northern Iraq or the Islamic State (ISIS) were the most violent and bloodthirsty of the ancient world’s peoples? Known to all their neighbors by 1300 B.C.E., their army become a source of terror for the Middle East during the ninth century. They destroyed the Kingdom of Israel around 732 B.C.E., but the southern part of the Kingdom of Judah survived. In time the Babylonians would defeat the Assyrians.
Not all wars involved religion. The Greeks fought each other and then fought the Persians. Alexander the Great, a Macedonian, loved waging war and was very successful. The constant factor, however, was war and, of course, Rome would become the greatest empire of its time, beginning around 509 B.C.E., fighting three Punic wars with Carthage, but losing an estimated 400,000 in the first war and 150,000 in the second.
Eventually, Rome was so powerful it imposed a “Pax Romana” on the entire Mediterranean area it controlled. In time, Rome would be destroyed by the “barbarians”, Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoth’s, and Burgundians. By 476 C.E., the Roman Empire was history.
After establishing a group of followers in the Arabian Peninsula as the “last prophet”, proclaiming Islam as the one, true faith, Muhammad died in 632 C.E. Within ten years, the Arabs had conquered Jerusalem and were taking aim at Damascus and Cairo. Baghdad and the Libyan Desert were the next to be conquered. They moved on to Spain and Central Asia.
During his lifetime, Ali, Mohammad’s son-in-law, was the leader of the Arab forces. As noted in Samuel Willard Crompton’s ‘The Handy Military History Answer Book’, by the time the Arabs fought the Byzantines and the Persians they had also initiated the great split that remains today between the Sunnis and the Shiites.” Shiite means “follower of Ali.” The Sunnis wanted to elect their own caliph. After taking the southern half of Spain, the Muslim army was poised to take all of Europe, but their 732 C.E. defeat in the Battle of Tours put an end to further expansion. Their momentum in Asia was stopped in 751 C.E. with a defeat in the Battle of Talas. As Crompton notes, “in the century that followed the Prophet’s death, the Arabs took over ninety percent of all the urban centers in the Western world, and their conquests equaled those of ancient Rome.”
The Crusades
Which brings us to the first Crusade; it began when Pope Urban II in 1095 told a gathering of 10,000, mostly French and German knights, that a “new accursed group”, the Muslims, had taken control of the holy land were preventing pilgrims from visiting holy sites. The knights responded to his call to liberate Jerusalem by chanting “Deus Volt! Deus Volt!”—God wills it.
They were joined by a “Peasants Crusade” between 1095 and 1096. By June 1099 the knights arrived outside Jerusalem and what followed was a wholesale murder of everyone there. In 1185, Saladin, the emir of Cairo and Lord of Damascus, proclaimed a jihad—a holy war—against the Christians in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The knights defending it were defeated.
A Second Crusade followed in 1147 C.E. but accomplished little and the Third Crusade had the same result. A Fourth Crusade resulted in the Europeans taking control of Constantinople in August 1204 C.E. They would rule it for the next fifty years. Years later, in 1489, a war drove the Muslims from Spain.
The spokeswoman from our Department of State who said that the present generation of Muslim holy warriors can’t all be killed doesn’t know that this is the way wars are won. You kill the enemy until the enemy decides that dying for their cause is not worth it.
If ISIS is insane enough to bring the war to our homeland (and even if it doesn’t), a war of total destruction will be the only way to end the present conflict. Currently, the Jordanians and the Egyptians are doing what they can to resist ISIS, but recent polls confirm that Americans are beginning to conclude that our active boots-on-the-ground participation is the only way this will end.
nObama is merely going through the motions of conducting a war against ISIS, but retired generals and diplomats have told Congress that only full-scale war will end the threat they represent.
Meanwhile, ISIS is committing genocide against the Christians of the Middle East while Boko Haram is doing the same in Africa. Hezbollah would do the same against Israel if it could. Given nuclear arms, Iran will assert control over all of the Muslim warriors, threatening both Israel and the U.S.
Our next President will have to commit to destroying ISIS. There is no alternative. That is history’s primary lesson.
The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
A rallying call for our nation’s defense
Jim Talent, Eric Edelman
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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SHOW TIME: CPAC KICKS OFF NEXT PHASE OF GOP CAMPAIGN
Every major player for the Republican presidential nomination knows where to be this week: the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington. It’s always a big deal, but CPAC takes on new significance this year as Republicans try to sort through a bumper crop of presidential contenders. And they will all, with the exception of Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, make the trip to Prince George’s County, Md. to audition for the party’s activist base. Think of it this way: There a two concurrent contests going on in the GOP. One is a fundraising drag race in the first eight months of the year. We’ll see the results as quarterly filing come in. But the other fight is for the hearts and minds of issue-driven activists – social, fiscal, libertarian, national security and even more niche concerns –who propel the party. We’ll know by Saturday who’s in the lead for that prize. -Fox News
Every major player for the Republican presidential nomination knows where to be this week: the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington. It’s always a big deal, but CPAC takes on new significance this year as Republicans try to sort through a bumper crop of presidential contenders. And they will all, with the exception of Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, make the trip to Prince George’s County, Md. to audition for the party’s activist base. Think of it this way: There a two concurrent contests going on in the GOP. One is a fundraising drag race in the first eight months of the year. We’ll see the results as quarterly filing come in. But the other fight is for the hearts and minds of issue-driven activists – social, fiscal, libertarian, national security and even more niche concerns –who propel the party. We’ll know by Saturday who’s in the lead for that prize. -Fox News
Schlapp-ed - The American Conservative Union, under the leadership of new Chairman Matt Schlapp has rebooted the event, which had in recent years come to cater to the party’s libertarian wing, in favor of the more broad-spectrum Reaganite conservatism that animated the organization at its outset. The response has been dramatic. Moderates (Jeb Bush), social conservatives (Rick Santorum), libertarian leaners (Rand Paul) and defense hawks (Marco Rubio) will all be making their case to attendees and competing in the event’s annual presidential straw poll. And rather than just canned speeches, candidates are consenting to be questioned by conservative opinion-makers like Laura Ingraham, who will be sautéing Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., today. -Fox News
Fearless forecast - Walker has the most to gain or lose as he is arriving amid a rapid ascent to frontrunner status. Here’s the Fox News First fearless forecast: Several candidates will get a boost out of the weekend but at least one will start to see the window close on his or her presidential hopes. In a field this crowded, the same rule applies as to college admissions and suspensions: “Easy in, easy out.” -Fox News
CLINTON CASH VIOLATED ETHICS RULES
WaPo: “The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hilly Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the nObama administration, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday. Most of the contributions were possible because of exceptions written into the foundation’s 2008 agreement, which included limits on foreign-government donations. The agreement, reached before Clinton’s nomination amid concerns that countries could use foundation donations to gain favor with a Clinton-led State Department, allowed governments that had previously donated money to continue making contributions at similar levels. The new disclosures, provided in response to questions from The Washington Post, make clear that the 2008 agreement did not prohibit foreign countries with interests before the U.S. government from giving money to the charity closely linked to the secretary of state.”
[Clinton’s fundraising flap has not hurt her with Iowa Democrats. Quinnipiac University’s first poll of potential Iowa Democratic caucus shows Clinton leads with 61 percent, followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at 19 percent, and Vice President loose lips Joe Biden at 7 percent. All other contenders were at 5 percent or below.] -Fox News
WaPo: “The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hilly Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the nObama administration, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday. Most of the contributions were possible because of exceptions written into the foundation’s 2008 agreement, which included limits on foreign-government donations. The agreement, reached before Clinton’s nomination amid concerns that countries could use foundation donations to gain favor with a Clinton-led State Department, allowed governments that had previously donated money to continue making contributions at similar levels. The new disclosures, provided in response to questions from The Washington Post, make clear that the 2008 agreement did not prohibit foreign countries with interests before the U.S. government from giving money to the charity closely linked to the secretary of state.”
[Clinton’s fundraising flap has not hurt her with Iowa Democrats. Quinnipiac University’s first poll of potential Iowa Democratic caucus shows Clinton leads with 61 percent, followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at 19 percent, and Vice President loose lips Joe Biden at 7 percent. All other contenders were at 5 percent or below.] -Fox News
#TBT - The Atlantic looks at the Democratic candidates seeking to retake the Senate in 2016, including Ohio’s Ted Strickland, Wisconsin’s Russ Feingold, North Carolina’s Kay Hagan and Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak, and what they have in common with their party’s presumptive presidential nominee. They’re all aging baby boomers who have lost before. “Clinton isn’t that old—she'll be 69 on Election Day 2016—but all this talk of age has some Democrats worried about the graying of the party’s pool of candidates, and the shallow bench of youngsters behind them. Many in the party are worried about the age of party leaders in Congress. But one of the clearest demonstrations of the age gap is in races for the U.S. Senate, where Democrats hope to recover control in 2016.” -Fox News
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More Smoking Guns Confirm Benghazi Cover-up
(Roger Aronoff) - We have repeatedly exposed how the mainstream media consistently ignore the “phony scandal” of the multiple terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, and the unnecessary deaths of four brave Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens...Indeed, the mainstream media shy away from covering this scandal or, alternatively, dismiss efforts to expose the ongoing government cover-up as an attack on Hilly Clinton’s presidential chances. But the media should be furious because they—alongside of the American public—were sold a lie by the nObama administration. And the media became one of the tools through which that lie was disseminated. The latest disclosures have come to light thanks to the ongoing efforts of Judicial Watch. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/more-smoking-guns-confirm-benghazi-cover-up/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022715&utm_medium=email
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Erdoğan's Western Enablers
(Burak Bekdil) - The question of who lost Turkey is no doubt too late and futile to ask. A quick, but realistic answer, is probably "the Turks themselves," or, related to this, "it was destined to get lost."...After all, how Turkey is being governed today is a perfect reflection of what constitutes the predominant cultural, sociological and political values/norms in the country – each with economic derivatives of same or similar variables. We are all accountable by how rightly or wrongly we assessed the political phenomena; journalists by what accuracy their archives dating back to 10 or so years ago would produce, and politicians by their statements in the same retrospect. Any randomly selected opinion in this column since 2002 would too boringly portray the gloomy country we live in today, often with a note that "wished to be wrong." http://www.meforum.org/5057/erdogan-western-enablers
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Iran Working as Strategic Partner with Hezbollah Against Israel
(Jonathan Spyer and Benjamin Weinthal) - All is not quiet on the northern front between Israel and Syria/Lebanon. The recent Hezbollah attack on an Israel Defense Forces convoy in the Har Dov area close to Israel’s border with Lebanon...in which two Israeli soldiers were killed, was the latest move in a dangerous and high stakes game that is now underway on Israel’s northern frontier. Israel and Hezbollah are not the only players. The Islamic Republic of Iran, which the U.S. defines as the leading state-sponsor of terrorism, is also a key presence as Hezbollah’s strategic partner. The attack at Har Dov was the second move by Iran/Hezbollah in response to the Israeli operation on the Syrian Golan Heights on January 18th. In the Israeli operation, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer, Mohammed Allahdadi, was killed, as was Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of a famous Hezbollah commander. http://pjmedia.com/blog/iran-hezbollah/
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Ben Shapiro: First They Came for the Jews
(TruthRevoltOriginals) - President nObama does not stand up for Christians murdered by Islamic Terrorists. Is there anyone President nObama will stand up for?...Ben Shapiro explains why the answer is probably 'no.'I know that by posting this video, I can expect more than a few comments by Jew haters. So be it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQqvttVTBb0
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Jihadis hack to death noted American writer, Avijit Roy, wife injured
(pamelageller.com) - It’s not just France and Denmark and Europe, it’s anywhere Muslims live and practice sharia. This savage war is on freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of and from religion, and freedom of speech...In other words, imposing Islamic law by any means possible. These are dark days, my friends, and growing ever darker. The eminent blogger and his wife were returning from a book fair……Eminent Blogger and writer Avijit Roy has been killed and his wife, blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonna, severely injured when unidentified miscreants hacked them at TSC of Dhaka University on Thursday night. Avijit, son of former DU teacher Dr Ajay Roy and also the founder of Mukto-mona Blog, and his wife have been admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition immediately after the attack. http://pamelageller.com/2015/02/jihadis-hack-to-death-noted-writer-scientist-and-thinker-avijit-roy-wife-injured.html/
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The New Israel Fund Are Extremists and Anti-Israel
(pamelageller.com) - Democratic political strategist Hank Sheinkopf noted in The Observer, “Those who stand with New Israel Fund are standing against Israel. To suggest otherwise is a lie...I urge anyone affiliated with the NIF to stop supporting this organization financially. The New Israel Fund must be ostracized by the Jewish community.” The New Israel Fund thinks suicide bombings are bad. How about throwing rocks? How about shooting rockets? Notice, Sfard did not deny testifying for the PLO – nor did the New Israel Fund deny that they support BDS, or that they collaborate with Palestinian enemies of Israel at the United Nations and worldwide. Clearly, this campaign to shame donors and expose the New Israel Fund must continue. Sfard’s friends at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority were held liable for real acts of terror this week. And we will continue to shame NIF donors. When most American Jews think of Jewish agencies, they think of social services, senior care, childcare, food and educational programs, or they think of support groups for various Israel causes. The New Israel Fund is none of that. http://pamelageller.com/2015/02/the-new-israel-fund-are-extremists-and-anti-israel-read-our-reply-to-their-statement-ujafedny.html/
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Retracing the legislative history behind King v. Burwell - ACA
(Thomas P. Miller) - Remember the case of the dog that did not bark in the night? If you want to count the “digital” and “paper” versions of trees that have been killed in trying to argue about the upcoming Supreme Court review of the legal challenge to an IRS rules...that tried to authorize tax credit subsidies for insurance coverage in federal-established health exchange under the Affordable Care Act, go ahead. I’ve lost count and given up, and that’s just looking at the official briefs filed on both sides. However, another astute Washington, DC-based attorney recently pointed out to several critics of the ACA, including me, how that isn’t the end of this legal story, which shows that the actual law passed by Congress never authorized tax credits for federal exchanges: http://www.aei.org/publication/retracing-legislative-history-behind-king-v-burwell/?utm_source=today&utm_medium=paramount&utm_campaign=AEIToday022715
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The New Shiite Crescent
(Majid Rafizadeh) - While the nObama administration’s agenda and policies with regard to fighting the Islamic State have been counter-productive, the administration is ignoring other larger threats in the region...The profusion of Iran-trained Shiite militias in the region (particularly in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen) is unprecedented and represents the height of Iran’s support to militia groups. The incentives to recruit Shiite fighters can be either driven by financial means or religious/sectarian motives. The emergence of this new Shiite Crescent has unintended consequences for regional and global powers. Currently, an estimate of 120,000 Shiite militants are fighting in Iraq and Syria including fighters from Abo Al-Fadl Al-Abbasbrigade, Al-Imam AlHossein brigade, Tho Al-Faqar brigade, Kafil Zainab brigade, Asaib Ahl Alhaq, Ammar Bin Yasser brigade, Hezbollah Al-Nujaba’ movement, to name a few. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/majid-rafizadeh/the-new-shiite-crescent/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a744fa4868-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-a744fa4868-156509103
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Students For Justice in Palestine Hides True Intentions
(Ross Beroff) - Next week, our campus will be hosting Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), a series of events hosted by Students For Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters across the country...It is time that this event and this group are exposed for what they truly are. SJP does not stand for justice, instead they are a hate group and a more fitting definition of the acronym would be, “Students for Jewish Persecution.” Let’s start with the naming of IAW. The use of the word “apartheid” in conjunction with Israel is not only false, but an insult to those who actually experienced true apartheid in South Africa. Most simply stated, there is no country in the Middle East that gives Arabs or other minorities more freedom than Israel does. Arabs can own land, vote, practice their chosen religion and speak their minds. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/ross-beroff/students-for-justice-in-palestine-hides-true-intentions/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a744fa4868-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-a744fa4868-156509103
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At UCLA, the Power of Negative Emotions
(David Suissa) - For several years now, a nasty anti-Israel group called Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has bludgeoned Israel’s image on college campuses. They take no prisoners. They have little interest in polite and civil debate...They are lethal at manipulating the college bureaucracy to win Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) votes against Israel. They invite speakers linked to terrorists groups. They don’t even hide the fact that their beef with Israel goes much deeper than Israel’s disputed occupation of the West Bank. It’s all of Israel they have a problem with. When SJP talks about justice for Palestinians, they don’t mean justice for the millions of Palestinians living in misery in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon. They’re only interested in Palestinians that are connected to Israel– those living in the West Bank and Gaza—because only those Palestinians can accommodate SJP’s agenda to bash the Zionist enemy. Their contempt for Israel knows no bound. I challenge anyone to visit their Web sites, attend their demonstrations or read their literature and find one genuine gesture of recognition for Israel’s side of the story. UCLA was one of the campus that I was thinking of attending at a young age. The UCLA administration has gone to far and letting this group operate on campus. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/david-suissa/at-ucla-the-power-of-negative-emotions/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a744fa4868-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-a744fa4868-156509103
A rallying call for our nation’s defense
Jim Talent, Eric Edelman
(aei.org) - Last week, the government confirmed that Kayla Mueller had died while in the custody of ISIS. In the weeks prior, we learned about the brutal murders of three innocent people — the beheading of two Japanese citizens and the immolation of a Jordanian pilot. That followed news that Russia was stepping up its aggression in Ukraine, which followed the overthrow of the Yemeni government by an Iranian proxy, which followed the Charlie Hebdo killings, which followed the North Korean cyber attack on an American company. The Pentagon has announced more troop deployments to the Middle East. Boko Haram is still kidnapping people in Nigeria, tensions are still high in the South and East China Seas, and Iran is still positioned to develop a nuclear bomb. China continues its massive military build-up, which is shifting the balance of power in its favor in the Western Pacific.
What more needs to happen before our leaders begin to take the defense budget seriously?
The nObama Administration has sent its FY 2016 defense budget to Congress. It contains a modest increase, but only when measured against the current baseline, and that baseline is almost $100 billion less than the amount that the Administration said, only four years ago, it would need to spend on defense in FY 2016.
That’s because since 2011, the government has — with full knowledge of the consequences — funded defense at a level that it knows is far less than needed to protect the vital interests of the United States.
In the spring of 2011, then-Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, after two years of paring back Pentagon spending, offered a ten-year budget with modest annual increases for his department. The increases didn’t even keep up with inflation, but they would at least have allowed the Defense Department to maintain its end strength, begin building up the Navy, and start to recapitalize its inventories after ten years of hard fighting.
Within a few months, President nObama proposed in a speech to cut $400 billion dollars from his own recently submitted budget. Later in the same year, he signed the Budget Control Act and sequester, which together imposed caps on defense spending that cut a trillion dollars from the Gates’s budget. There was no pretense that these cuts were warranted or even tolerable; in fact, at the same time as Congress and the President were enacting the cuts, the new secretary of defense Leon Panetta said that they would be “devastating”, and General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said that they were “like shooting ourselves in the head.”
They were correct. When the Pentagon is squeezed for money, it will typically cut first force structure and then modernization budgets; the last thing it cuts is day-to-day readiness, the ability of the current force to carry out its current missions. When the 2011 cuts fully hit, the Defense Department was forced to take the money from readiness. All of the services cut training and maintenance. The process created a backlog which still exists today. Since then, the Department has been cutting modernization programs and end strength. The Army, for example, is scheduled to shrink to pre-WWII levels.
The monstrous irony of the cuts is that they will end up costing money. At some point, the government will have to begin repairing the damage to the armed forces. That will take years and will certainly cost more than if the reductions had not occurred, just as the Reagan buildup in the 1980s cost more than it should have because the military was hollowed out during the Carter years. So the effect of the cuts is this: They have masked the size of the short term deficit — taking some of the pressure off Congress to address the real budgetary challenges — while increasing the longer term fiscal shortfall, unraveling American power, and compromising the credibility and security of the United States.
Irresponsibility of this magnitude is unprecedented, even in Washington. Senator John McCain was right when, in his speech to the Munich Security Conference, he referred to the “collective insanity of sequestration—arbitrary defense cuts that all of our military leaders testified to Congress two weeks ago are putting American and allied lives at risk.”
Last year, Congress created a bipartisan Independent Panel to review the condition and future plans of the Department of Defense. The panel was co-chaired by former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and retired General John Abizaid. To no one’s surprise, the panel unanimously condemned both the cuts and the process by which they were enacted, finding that “today the Department is facing major readiness shortfalls that will, absent a decisive reversal of course, create the possibility of a hollow force that loses its best people, underfunds procurement, and shortchanges innovation. The fact that each service is experiencing degradations in so many areas at once is especially troubling at a time of growing security challenges.”
Such reports are usually quite careful in their language and guarded in their recommendations. This one wasn’t. In the Introduction to the report, the panel stated that. “in fact—and this bears emphasis—we believe that unless recommendations of the kind we make in this Report are adopted, the Armed Forces of the United States will in the near future be at high risk of not being able to accomplish the National Defense Strategy.”
The panel recommended that 1) funds be appropriated to restore near term readiness, 2) the Department develop a plan based on realistic budgets for the future, and 3) in the meantime Congress return to at least the budget baseline which Secretary Gates proposed in 2011, which was the last time the Department was allowed to engage in anything approaching real defense planning.
In sum, it was a stunning rebuke of the defense policies of the last four years. For a more thorough discussion, see here.
Until recently, Congress had at least a political excuse for not removing the caps on defense. The House and Senate were controlled by different parties, making common action on anything quite difficult, and national security was not a priority issue in the minds of the public.
But the environment has changed. The Republicans now have complete control of Congress, and the events of the last year have awakened the American people to the risks that are accumulating around the world. National security will be a major issue in the next presidential election. Candidates of both parties are quite likely to attack the defense policy of the last four years, for two reasons. First, that policy is a poster child for exactly the kind of bipartisan Washington dysfunction that voters hate. Second, no one who contemplates exercising the responsibilities of the presidency, and who is not named Barack nObama, wants to try to defend American security with a military which, in the panel’s words, will be at “high risk of not being able to execute the national defense strategy.”
Senator Marco Rubio and Governor Bobby Jindal have already given strong speeches condemning the defense cuts; other likely Republican candidates will almost certainly follow suit; and the signs are that Hilly Clinton will also support returning to the Gates’ baseline. Former undersecretary of defense Michele Flournoy, who heads the list of likely defense secretaries in a Hilly Clinton administration, was a member of the panel, supported its report, and has testified and spoken out strongly in favor of its recommendations.
Anyone who reads the Constitution will see right away that “providing for the common defense” is the priority responsibility of the federal government. In fact, it is the government’s only mandatory function; all of the other powers granted to Congress in Article I are permissive in nature, but Article IV of the Constitution states that the government “shall protect the each of them (the States) from invasion.” Neither the states, nor the people in them, are being sufficiently protected now, and the time is drawing near when there will be a political accounting for what has happened.
The Congressional Republicans now have a chance – probably their final chance – to take a leadership role on behalf of a strong national defense. They can pass a defense appropriations bill for FY 2016 at substantially above the president’s request, and they can pass a ten year budget which returns defense spending to the Gates’ baseline while at the same time retaining the sequester levels for non-defense spending.
In other words, the Republicans could fund what the Constitution deems important and otherwise hold the line in the name of fiscal restraint. That would be a conservative budget. More important, it would be the single most consequential act this Congress could take to protect American security during the two years that remain of the nObama Administration.
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U.S. State Department spokesbimbo has no idea why an anti-Islamic extremism American blogger was hacked to death in the streets of Bangladesh
“Nope, we haven’t got a clue.”
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Australia: Threat to behead senator unless she helps introduce Sharia
Whatever the derivation of this particular threat, watch for a great deal more of this sort of thing in Western countries in the coming years. “Terrorists threaten Senator Jacquie Lambie with beheading unless she helps introduce sharia law,” by Samantha Maiden and Ken McGregor, Sunday Mail, March 1, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): […]
To Hell With Silence
“Not every truth is the better for showing it face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.” -Pindar 518-438 B.C. My first inclination that something was disconcertingly portentous about Islam were my discoveries of all the grandiloquent anti-Jewish texts in the Quran, how they sounded so much like something […]
Video: Devout Muslims of the Islamic State destroy priceless artifacts with sledgehammers at Mosul museum
Besides removing supposed temptations to idolatry, Islamic jihadists want to ruin the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam, as the Qur’an suggests that ruins are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth: Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: […]
UK’s first anti-Islamization rally dwarfed by counter-demo
Britain is finished. When defenders of free society against Islamization are dismissed as “right-wing nutters” and “fascists,” and the counter-demo is over five times larger, and when the government routinely allows foreign jihadis to enter the country but bans counter-jihadis solely for the crime of speaking the truth about Islam and jihad, Britain as a […]
Muslim group after murder of Islamocritical writer: “Target Down here in Bangladesh.”
Islamic jihadists apparently believe that they can move violently against critics of jihad terror with no fear of adverse consequences; the people who should be defending the freedom of speech are everywhere in retreat. The jihadis have nothing to fear. “American writer hacked to death in Bangladesh spoke out against extremists,” CNN, February 28, 2015: […]
UK: “Jihadi John” linked to 2005 London jihad bomb plot
“Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State extremist known as ‘Jihadi John’, was able to flee Britain and the scrutiny of the security services, despite being a member of a terror cell that was known to have links to the failed 21/7 attacks on London in 2005, the Observer can reveal.” Would it have been “Islamophobic” for […]
Former Pakistan Army Chief: America is “a superpower that has made the world a dangerous land”
Friend and ally indeed. “Former Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Aslam Beg: ‘America Is Not Just Any Other Country, But It Is A Superpower That Has Made The World A Dangerous Land,’” MEMRI, March 1, 2015: In a recent article, former Pakistan army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg examined the geostrategic scenario emerging in Asia as […]
Hundreds of jihadists have been able to slip out of UK to join the Islamic State because they “weren’t properly monitored”
Their being able to slip out to join the Islamic State is not an immediate problem for Hopeless Britannia, except insofar as it highlights the absolute unwillingness and/or inability of British authorities to face the jihad threat realistically and do what has to be done to stop the jihadist advance. No doubt monitoring these young […]
Ohio: Million-dollar bond set for Muslim charged with aiding jihad terror group
“Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien…had asked Common Pleas Magistrate Elizabeth Watters for a bond of $2.5 million, calling Mohamud a public-safety threat and a flight risk. She set a bond of $1 million.” A public-safety threat: was he plotting a jihad mass murder attack in Ohio? “West Side man in terrorism case made Middle East […]
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If An ICE Agent Crosses nObama on Immigration...
Let's suppose there's an enterprising Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent who doesn't follow the "prioritized deportation" policies handed down by a lawmaking president, but instead, follows the letter of the law. MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart asked Barack nObama, "How do you ensure that ICE and Border Patrol won't be deporting people like this. What are the consequences?" And mObama answered that agent would have trouble. "The bottom line is that if somebody's working for ICE," nObama said, "and there's a policy, and they don't follow the policy, there's going to be consequences to it. So I can't speak to a specific problem. What I can talk about is what's true in the government generally. In the U.S. military, when you get an order, you're expected to follow it." In effect, nObama is saying his executive action on immigration -- although unconstitutional and stayed by a federal judge -- has the force of law and his authority as commander in chief behind it. Beware any lowly law enforcement official who doesn't fall into line. More... -The Patriot Post
Senate Funds DHS, Will Consider Immigration Separately
After weeks of impasse over blocking Barack nObama's executive amnesty, the Senate finally moved. "The stalemate over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was broken Wednesday as the Senate voted 98-2 to proceed to legislation that would prevent a partial government shutdown," The Hill reports. "Democrats agreed to support the DHS bill after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) agreed to strip out provisions inserted by the House that would reverse President nObama's executive actions on immigration. The only votes against proceeding to the bill came from Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)." Now the legislation will move back to the House, where Republicans have steadfastly rejected doing anything less than blocking nObama. We appreciate the sentiment, but the battle has become House vs. Senate and Republican vs. Republican rather than the GOP Congress against nObama. That's not going to win much. -The Patriot Post
Aspiring Terrorists in Brooklyn Are No 'Lone Wolves'
The nObama administration says ISIL isn't a domestic threat. All these terror attacks you hear about around the globe, they claim, are just demonstrations by "lone wolves" who can't find jobs or something. And, hey, nObama's economy is swell, so what's the worry? Well, this, courtesy of NBC 4 New York: "Three Brooklyn men who allegedly plotted to travel to Syria to join ISIS and posted online messages about planting a bomb on Coney Island and shooting police officers were taken into custody during FBI and NYPD terror raids Wednesday. ... The men, 24- and 30-year-old Uzbekistan citizens and a 19-year-old Kazakhstan citizen who all lived in Brooklyn, allegedly planned to return to New York to commit a domestic act of terror if they failed to join the group overseas, law enforcement officials said." Does that sound like "lone-wolf terrorism"? Whether it's an attack carried out by Islamists in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Syria, Iraq or Australia, the common denominator is a twisted ideology that calls for slaying the infidel in service to Jihadistan. And while aspiring terrorists in the U.S. have for the most part kept underground, they have found new inspiration in ISIL, which is indirectly recruiting through the power of propaganda. More... -The Patriot Post
Hanoi Kerry Blasts Netanyahu for Iraq War Support
We get it. The nObama administration really doesn't like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry made that clear again Wednesday in testimony before Congress, saying we can't trust Netanyahu because he supported invading Iraq. "The prime minister was profoundly forward-leaning and outspoken about the importance of invading Iraq under George W. Bush. We all know what happened with that decision," Hanoi Kerry lectured. Indeed, it was the impetus for his infamous "botched joke" about uneducated people getting "stuck in Iraq." There's also the small detail of Hanoi Kerry having voted for the war. We know he was for it before it was against it, but come on, Mr. Secretary. Have a little self-awareness. -The Patriot Post
loose lips Biden Wants to Emancipate the Wealth of the One Percent
loose lips Joe Biden's comments commemorating Black History Month careened right past the struggle for civil rights and mired into full-on socialism. On Monday, Creepy Ol' Joe hosted a Black History Month event where he said, "A lot of wealthy white and black people aren't bad, but they control 1% of the economy and this cannot stand. It's not fair because the business experts are saying that concentration of wealth is stunting growth. So let's do something that's worthy of emancipation." loose lips Biden continued, explaining Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: "What happened is not only did we move toward freeing black Americans but also the conscience of white Americans." Per loose lips Biden's usual rhetorical "style," these comments are filled with muddled metaphors and thoughtless arguments. Is he saying "emancipating" the wealth belonging to the Scrooge McDucks of the nation would be good for their souls? If wealthy white and black people are the problem, how is this in any way connected to the civil rights struggle of the '60s? Finally, why is he equating today's dollars with enslaved, antebellum blacks? While nothing is officially announced, loose lips Biden may be starting his campaign for president -- by signaling he'll continue Barack nObama's socialist engineering of America. More... -The Patriot Post
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Rep Steve King To Sellout Republican Senators
(Rick Wells) - Congressman Steve King (R-IA) is not impressed with the actions of the sellouts in the Senate, those who are wringing their delicate little hands from underneath their desks, fearful that someone in the regime or Pravda-USA might have something bad to say about them...he disgusted statesman and defender of the American people said in a Thursday Breitbart interview, “I’ve listened to some senators over there, Republican senators, whine about being blamed [for defunding DHS].” King said, “This is a constitutional issue and they all took the same oath to the Constitution that we did. And there is no clause in that oath that says ‘support and defend the Constitution, unless you might get blamed for inconveniencing some people.’” http://www.rickwells.us/rep-steve-king-to-sellout-republican-senators-if-youre-afraid-to-defend-the-constitution-go-home/
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Soros, Ford Foundation shovel $196 million to 'net neutrality' groups
(Paul Bedard) - Liberal philanthropist George Soros and the Ford Foundation have lavished groups supporting the administration’s “net neutrality” agenda, donating $196 million and landing proponents on the White House staff, according to a new report...And now, as the Federal Communications Commission nears approving a type of government control over the Internet, the groups are poised to declare victory in the years-long fight, according to the report from MRC Business, an arm of the conservative media watchdog, the Media Research Center. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/soros-ford-shovel-196-million-to-net-neutrality-groups-staff-to-white-house/article/2560702
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Cuccinelli rips Republicans: 'They don't have any backbone!'
(Greg Corombos) - Senate Conservatives Fund President Ken Cuccinelli calls Senate Republicans’ decision to push Homeland Security funding that includes money for President nObama’s amnesty a “total surrender” that proves GOP leaders “really don’t have any backbone.”...Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., decided earlier in the week to stop pushing a Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, appropriations bill that strictly forbids funding for nObama administration executive action on immigration in 2012 and 2014. With Democrats blocking debate, McCon-nell agreed to bring a “clean” bill forward in exchange for Democrat promises to vote on a separate bill to defund nObama’s unilateral November action to legalize five million people in the country illegally. The latter bill has virtually no chance of passing.So is this an example of Republicans letting nObama get away with an unconstitutional act, or was it the only realistic way to keep Homeland Security efforts funded? http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/cuccinelli-rips-republicans-they-dont-have-any-backbone/
(Greg Corombos) - Senate Conservatives Fund President Ken Cuccinelli calls Senate Republicans’ decision to push Homeland Security funding that includes money for President nObama’s amnesty a “total surrender” that proves GOP leaders “really don’t have any backbone.”...Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., decided earlier in the week to stop pushing a Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, appropriations bill that strictly forbids funding for nObama administration executive action on immigration in 2012 and 2014. With Democrats blocking debate, McCon-nell agreed to bring a “clean” bill forward in exchange for Democrat promises to vote on a separate bill to defund nObama’s unilateral November action to legalize five million people in the country illegally. The latter bill has virtually no chance of passing.So is this an example of Republicans letting nObama get away with an unconstitutional act, or was it the only realistic way to keep Homeland Security efforts funded? http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/cuccinelli-rips-republicans-they-dont-have-any-backbone/
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Christian Genocide, America Needs Leadership In Fight Against ISIS
(Rick Wells) - Greta Van Susteren addresses the expansion of ISIS, noting their current Christian abduction campaign, saying that there is no denying their steady expansion...Allen West asks the rhetorical question if the U.S. has already surrendered to ISIS, and explains. He notes how our military is in the process of being decimated and that we cannot fight at previous levels. He notes that because of that we are unable to address the threats in multiple combat theaters. He also speaks to the paralysis in Washington DC. He talks about how he keeps hearing that America is war-weary, but notes there are only about two percent who have been out there serving in uniform and that they are still more than willing to go and fight this enemy.” http://www.rickwells.us/col-allen-west-christian-genocide-america-needs-leadership-in-fight-against-isis-obama-is-clearly-obstructing/
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Oliver North - Shameful, To An Enemy nObama Refuses To Identify
(Rick Wells) - Retired Lt Col Oliver North spoke at CPAC on behalf of America’s military, addressing the sacrifices they and their families make in the name of protecting the American people...Col North said, “I’m talking about the 2.5 million young Americans who have deployed to difficult and dangerous places in support of operation Enduring Freedom and operation Iraqi Freedom. Many of them have served seven, eight, nine, even ten or more deployments. That kind of “optempo,” as it’s called, has strained and often broken family relationships.” He says, “Some 6,849 Americans lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, to an enemy this administration cannot even identify. Tens of thousands more have returned home wounded, but every American who served in those theaters of combat and their families have been impacted. Each of them has left a piece of their body or a part of their soul on those battlefields.” http://www.rickwells.us/lt-col-oliver-north-shameful-6849-u-s-dead-in-iraq-to-an-enemy-obama-regime-refuses-to-even-identify/
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Rep Jim Jordan – Mysterious Vanishing IRS Email Records Found
(Rick Wells) - In House Oversight Committee hearings held on Thursday, Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) questions Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Timothy Camus regarding missing IRS emails...the Inspector General’s successful efforts to obtain them and the apparent lack of effort on the part of the IRS to find the supposedly missing records. The attempts to retrieve the elusive documents were simple matters of making a phone call and driving over to the location where they were stored. Inspector General Camus simply phoned the record depository, determined that the records were there, got into his car and drove over to that location, and taking possession of 744 tapes. Rep Jordan asks Mr. Camus if he had inquired of the record keepers as to whether the IRS had made an effort to gain the records they were supposedly looking for. Camus said he did ask and that the IRS had not already been there, according to the people he talked to. http://www.rickwells.us/rep-jim-jordan-mysterious-vanishing-irs-email-records-found-potential-criminal-activity-indicated/
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Australia: Muslims outraged at PM’s “aggressive rhetoric”
(Robert Spencer) - What was his “aggressive rhetoric against Muslims”? What were his “incredibly reckless” remarks? He said: “I’ve often heard Western leaders describe Islam as a religion of peace…I wish more Muslim leaders would say that more often and mean it.” And: “The Islamist death-cult has declared war on the world.” In response, instead of declaring their loyalty to Australia and showing themselves to be on his side against the terrorists, Muslim leaders in Australia are claiming victim status. How unfortunately predictable. Muslim community leaders have voiced their anger at Prime Minister Tony Abbott over his national security speech on Monday, saying it did nothing but inflame tensions and belittle the efforts of Muslims leaders working to decrease community antagonism. Sorry, but I stand with PM Tony Abbott. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iib89Zy_8rM
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Can We Impeach Now? - Can We? We Should!!
(Erick Erickson) - First Barack nObama decided to overreach and extend amnesty by executive order. One judge in Texas has told him no and Republicans are hanging their hat on that judge’s order...Then the FCC decided to declare internet a public utility. They overreached, rushed it through, and committed to as little transparency as possible to make it happen. Congress did nothing on this front and the FCC decided to replace the Congress on the matter. Now there are reports that Barack nObama, by executive order and agency regulation, will curtail the manufacture of certain ammunition. Again and again and again the President of the United States has met the boundaries of his powers and stepped across them. The Senate is now on the verge of confirming his Attorney General appointee who sees no limits to the power of Octavius nObama. Given Barack nObama’s continuous overreaching of power, I must now ask if it is time to consider impeachment proceedings. Is it even possible? http://www.redstate.com/2015/02/27/can-we-impeach-now/
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Hanoi John Kerry: disingenuous blowhard
(streiff) - Yesterday, our alleged Secretary of State, Sen, Hanoi John Kerry, accused Israeli Prime Minister of doing something akin to cheerleading America into war with Iran...This is the kind of blood-libel-lite the left uses. Just as conservative Jews are accused of having “mixed loyalties,” Israeli officials who are trying to prevent their nation from being destroyed as part of a liberal Democrat undergraduate seminar in international relations regularly get accused of tying to involve America in wars. From the always slavishly stenographic TPM: http://www.redstate.com/2015/02/26/john-kerry-disingenuous-blowhard/
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nObama Dares GOP: ‘Vote on Whether What I’m Doing Is Legal
(Craig Bannister) - Pres. nObama is daring Republicans to vote on whether or not his executive actions are legal...Discussing opposition to his executive amnesty orders at an immigration town hall Wednesday, nObama said he would veto the vote because his actions are “the right thing to do”: “So in the short term, if Mr. McCon-nell, the leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House, backstabber John Boehner, want to have a vote on whether what I’m doing is legal or not, they can have that vote. I will veto that vote, because I’m absolutely confident that what we’re doing is the right thing to do.” Congress take up his dare and show him he is in the wrong. Then impeach him. http://www.mrctv.org/blog/obama-go-ahead-have-vote-whether-what-i-m-doing-legal-i-will-veto
The End of Freedom in America
Alan Caruba
(aim.org/guest-column) - The America that has existed from the days of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, when its sovereignty was acknowledged by a treaty with England 1783, and its founding in 1788 with the ratification of the Constitution is no more. The America for which thousands fought and gave their lives is no more.
That America ends on February 26 when the Federal Communications Commission, under intense pressure from the nObama White House and with the votes of its Democratic Party commissioners asserts government control over the Internet with a 332-page set of regulations, dubbed “Net Neutrality.”
Writing in the Feb 22nd Wall Street Journal, columnist L. Gordon Crovitz summed up what will occur saying “nObamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn’t broken…The permissionless Internet which allows anyone to introduce a website, app, or device without government review, ends this week.”
“The big politicization came when President nObama in November demanded that the supposedly independent FCC apply agency’s most extreme regulation to the Internet.” Of course nObama wants the Internet regulated and of course the Democratic Party will support this move to control who gets to put up a website or blog and, more importantly, who gets to say anything critical of the President.
The Democratic Party has been in everything but name the Communist Party in the United States for several decades. nObama was raised and mentored to be a Marxist. What we are witnessing is nothing less than tyranny replacing democracy.
Crovitz warned that “This week Mr. nObama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block nObamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it.”
Earlier this week, as reported by Giuseppe Macri in The Daily Caller the FCC’s two Republican commissioners, Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly, asked Chairman Tom Wheeler “to delay the vote and release his proposal to the public. ‘We respectfully request that FCC leadership immediately release the 332-page Internet regulation plan publicly and allow the American people a reasonable period of not less than 30 days to carefully study it.'”
There is some evil at work here because, as the Republican commissioners point out, “the plan in front of us right now is so drastically different than the proposal the FCC adopted and put out for public comment last May.”
Shades of nObamaCare! Even the Democrats who voted that monstrosity into law had not read it. Now neither Congress, nor the rest of America is being permitted to see regulations that will determine what can and cannot be posted to the Internet, the greatest instrument of free speech ever invented since the printing press.
Commissioner Pai says that the FCC is “adopting a solution that won’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist using legal authority we don’t have.” He estimates that the regulations will add up to $11 billion in new taxes on Internet access.
In a commentary, “Neutralize nObama’s Hijacking of the Internet”, Judi McLeod, the editor of CanadaFreePress.com, said “Forget NSA, the FBI, the CIA, and all warnings sent by Edward Snowden. They’ve got nothing on how Net Neutrality will silence you.”
“Someday in the near future when you type in the words “Islamic terrorists” in an Internet post, you will be knocked off the Net and find it all but impossible to climb back on again.”
Do I think the Congress will exercise its oversight responsibilities and stop this tyrannical power grab? No. Do I think our court system will do anything other than bow to precedent set by earlier FCC regulations? Yes.
As a nation founded on and devoted to freedom of speech, I think February 26, 2015 will go down in the history books as the day when that freedom came to an end in America.
Thanks to a National Security Agency we no longer have any privacy regarding anything we say using telephones, the Internet or any other form of communication.
If the Democrat-controlled FCC has its way, the Internet will slow your access and could eliminate access countless sites that provide news and express opinions the federal government finds offensive. That’s what tyrannies do.
It would be nice if only Tax paying people had the option to vote, instead of all the entitilist, and illeagles, this seems to be an option for our govn. Any input welcome.
Barbara Jordan was a lawyer and educator who was a congresswoman from 1972 to 1978—the first African-American congresswoman to come from the Deep South and the first woman ever elected to the Texas Senate (1966). She captured the attention of President Lyndon Johnson, who invited her to the White House for a preview of his 1967 civil rights message. She was a prominent public figure, civil rights advocate, and leading presence in the Democratic Party politics for four decades. One of her last works of public service was to head the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (she acted as chair from December 14, 1993 till the time of her death on January 17, 1996 ). The conclusions and recommendations of this commission are quite enlightening and more relevant than ever today. She said, “for immigration to continue to serve our national interest, it must be lawful. There are people who argue that some illegal aliens contribute to our community because they may work, pay taxes, send their children to our schools, and in all respects except one, obey the law. Let me be clear: that is not enough”. Jordan also said, “Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave”.
FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform estimated that in 2010 the total cost of education, welfare and healthcare for illegal immigrants to American taxpayers was almost $80 billion. Those numbers do not include the billions in tax dollars that has been spent on the incarceration and legal fees for the illegal immigrant criminals. According to data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2010 the U.S. was spending at least $18.6 Million per day to incarcerate between 300,000 to 450,000 illegal aliens; which equates to another $6.8 billion a year excluding legal fees. The number of 450,000 incarcerated criminal aliens was 20 percent of the entire inmate population of the U.S. at that time. That sets the total cost of illegal immigrants to American taxpayers at nearly $90 billion per year plus legal fees.
Jordan’s recommendations and conclusions concerning immigration in America was a model for the future and were embraced by both Democrats and Republicans alike. Had her conclusions and recommendations been implemented fully by our Government perhaps we may not have so many of the costly problems we now have with illegal immigration.
Unfortunately, the Democrats and the establishment ruling Republicans of today have decided to destroy Jordan’s template completely and ignore her recommendations in exchange for future political gain. Why do they both want amnesty so badly? Informed American voters know that it has nothing to do with their concern for the welfare of these immigrants nor does it have anything to with compassion and the goodness of their hearts. It has everything to do with politics and their vying for a predominately uneducated, poor constituency of future voters by buying their favor with all “Free stuff” they can implement or steal at the expense of the American Taxpayer.
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FCC BOSS DITCHES NET REGULATION HEARING
The Hill: “The House Oversight Committee has postponed a hearing to explore whether the White House had undue influence on the Federal Communications Commission’s development of net neutrality rules. The announcement came after FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler declined to testify at Wednesday’s hearing, which would have come just a day ahead of the commission’s vote on the new regulations. Wheeler has agreed to testify at a later date, according to the FCC. House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said they were ‘deeply disappointed’ in Wheeler’s decision but promised that their probe would continue. ‘So long as the chairman continues to insist on secrecy, we will continue calling for more transparency and accountability at the commission,’ they said. ‘Chairman Wheeler and the FCC are not above Congress. This fight continues as the future of the Internet is at stake.’”
[WaPo: “Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) isn’t giving up on net neutrality legislation. In fact, he’s still interested in finding alternatives to what the Federal Communications Commission has proposed as the strongest rules on Internet providers the country has ever seen. Contradicting a report by the New York Times Tuesday that Thune had ‘all but surrendered’ to Democrats and the FCC days ahead of an agency vote on net neutrality, a committee spokesperson said that the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is still committed to finding a legislative solution…”] -Fox News
The Hill: “The House Oversight Committee has postponed a hearing to explore whether the White House had undue influence on the Federal Communications Commission’s development of net neutrality rules. The announcement came after FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler declined to testify at Wednesday’s hearing, which would have come just a day ahead of the commission’s vote on the new regulations. Wheeler has agreed to testify at a later date, according to the FCC. House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said they were ‘deeply disappointed’ in Wheeler’s decision but promised that their probe would continue. ‘So long as the chairman continues to insist on secrecy, we will continue calling for more transparency and accountability at the commission,’ they said. ‘Chairman Wheeler and the FCC are not above Congress. This fight continues as the future of the Internet is at stake.’”
[WaPo: “Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) isn’t giving up on net neutrality legislation. In fact, he’s still interested in finding alternatives to what the Federal Communications Commission has proposed as the strongest rules on Internet providers the country has ever seen. Contradicting a report by the New York Times Tuesday that Thune had ‘all but surrendered’ to Democrats and the FCC days ahead of an agency vote on net neutrality, a committee spokesperson said that the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is still committed to finding a legislative solution…”] -Fox News
Why should you care? - Aside from the philosophical question of whether the government can or should have the power to regulate the internet, the regulations themselves could cause your binge-watching habits to be slightly more frustrating. With the new FCC rules, no Internet provider would be allowed to buy faster lines than another provider. So whether you have Comcast’s Xfinity or Time Warner, Frank Underwood’s diabolic takeover will take the same time to load. -Fox News
IMMIGRATION STANDOFF LIKELY TO END WITH A WHIMPER, NOT A BANG
WaPo: “The Senate moved closer Tuesday to a deal to avert a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, but the proposal faced an uncertain future in the House…Under [Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell’s] proposal, the Senate would vote first on the funding measure and then hold a separate vote on a bill to undo nObama’s new immigration initiatives. McCon-nell hopes to assuage conservatives who are determined to confront the president on what they see as abuse of his executive authority…. But House Speaker backstabber John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) did not immediately warm to the proposal, and it was not clear whether he could marshal enough backing in his chamber to complete the deal to keep DHS open beyond Friday, when its spending authority expires. House Republicans will huddle behind closed doors Wednesday morning.” -Fox News
WaPo: “The Senate moved closer Tuesday to a deal to avert a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, but the proposal faced an uncertain future in the House…Under [Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell’s] proposal, the Senate would vote first on the funding measure and then hold a separate vote on a bill to undo nObama’s new immigration initiatives. McCon-nell hopes to assuage conservatives who are determined to confront the president on what they see as abuse of his executive authority…. But House Speaker backstabber John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) did not immediately warm to the proposal, and it was not clear whether he could marshal enough backing in his chamber to complete the deal to keep DHS open beyond Friday, when its spending authority expires. House Republicans will huddle behind closed doors Wednesday morning.” -Fox News
AEI nabs big names for Georgia forum - Bloomberg: “Held at the remote, luxury Sea Island resort in Georgia, the 2015 American Enterprise Institute World Forum will bring together several potential GOP candidates and members of the business and media…Among the scheduled speakers at the exclusive event, which will be held from March 5-8, are Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, former Texas Governor Rick Perry, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, all of whom have been contemplating entering the 2016 presidential race.” -Fox News
ACT NOW, AND HE’LL THROW IN HIS DIRTY DISHES
Boston Globe reports Kyle Waring of Massachusetts decided to sell the snow over the internet. Waring charges 89 dollars for six pounds of snow, which he ships in an insulated container to prevent melting. He sold four boxes of snow in 24 hours, and expects the trend to continue. “At this rate, it’s going to be July until the snow melts,” he said. “But I’ve thought about taking this idea and running with it for other seasonal items. Maybe I’ll ship some fall foliage.” -Fox News
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nObama Has Decimated Our Military
(Rowan Scarborough) - The U.S. military is shedding so many troops and weapons it is only “marginally able” to defend the nation and falls short of the nObama administration’s national security...strategy, according to a new report by The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “The U.S. military itself is aging. It’s shrinking in size,” said Dakota Wood, a Heritage analyst. “And it’s quickly becoming problematic in terms of being able to address more than one major conflict.” http://clashdaily.com/2015/02/shocking-stats-obama-has-decimated-our-military-while-islamic-state-recruits-globally/#
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Syria's Civil War Could Stabilize Its Region
(Daniel Pipes) - Population shifts resulting from Syria's four-year long civil war have profoundly changed Syria and its three Arabic-speaking neighbors: Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan. (Turkey and Israel have changed too, but less so.)... Ironically, amid tragedy and horror, as populations adapt to the brutal imperatives of modern nationalism, all four countries are becoming a bit more stable. That's because the fighting has pushed peoples to move from ethnic minority status to ethnic majority status, encouraging like to live with like. Before looking at each country, some background: http://www.danielpipes.org/15552/syria-war-demographics
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Whose Idea Was This Amnesty Defunding Mess Anyway?
(CHQ Staff) - The Capitol Hill Republican establishment leadership is now on the verge of caving-in to the Senate Democrats on defunding nObama’s unconstitutional “executive amnesty,” so it is fair to ask how, in the face of the overwhelming victory Republicans won in the 2014 midterms...they find themselves in the middle of this mess. The answer is they put themselves there, because back in December they wouldn’t fight for conservative principles and instead chose to worm their way out of the immediate crisis of passing the hated “CRomnibus” to fund the government, get off to their Christmas and holiday vacations, and avoid a potential government wide “shutdown” that fighting nObama’s amnesty then would have entailed. The answer to worm their way out of that crisis was to split DHS funding off, pass the CRomnibus and promise they would fight nObama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty when they had majorities in both Houses of Congress. http://www.conservativehq.com/article/19775-whose-idea-was-amnesty-defunding-mess-anyway
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Target Practice? Iran blows up “U.S. aircraft carrier”
(pamelageller.com) - Iran has warned that US carriers will be targeted. nObama legitimized these savages and turned over billions of dollars...In addition to the carrier attack, the drill included the Guard shooting down a drone and planting mines at sea. nObama’s response it to has been to aggressively go after Israel. Like all thugs and autocrats, he targets the victim. No matter how much Iran publicly humiliates and mocks nObama (and by proxy us, of course), nObama is on a jihad to broker a nuclear deal with these savages. What does he expect will happen when Iran gets nukes? http://pamelageller.com/2015/02/watch-video-target-practice-iran-blows-up-u-s-aircraft-carrier-in-explosive-tv-spectacle.html/
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Saudis Ready to Help Israel Attack Iran
(Israel Today Staff) - European officials say that Saudi Arabia is just as concerned as Israel over the details of the nuclear agreement the nObama Administration is currently negotiating with Iran...and is even prepared to facilitate an Israeli airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, should it come to that. “The Saudis have declared their readiness for the Israeli Air Force to overfly Saudi air space en route to attack Iran if an attack is necessary,” an unnamed senior European diplomat was cited as saying by Israel’s Channel 2 News. The source added that Saudi Arabia is “completely coordinated with Israel on all matters related to Iran.” http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/26134/Default.aspx?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=No-sidebar-news-1&utm_content=1621
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New Secret Iranian Nuclear Facility Revealed
(Ryan Mauro) - An Iranian opposition group has disclosed the existence of a secret uranium enrichment site in Iran that has been operating since 2008...The revelation comes as the U.S. and Iran come close to an "historic compromise" on its nuclear program ahead of a March 31 deadline for a deal. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a controversial opposition group, is known for its expansive intelligence network inside Iran that regularly delivers detailed information about the regime’s secret activities. In 2002, NCRI exposed that Iran had a secret uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and was building a heavy water reactor at Arak suitable for making plutonium-based nuclear weapons. The Iranian regime was forced to admit their existence and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has inspected the sites. http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/new-secret-iranian-nuclear-facility-revealed
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HHS Terminates nObamacare Coverage for 90,000
(JERYL BIER) - The nObama administration in recent weeks has been trumpeting the number of signups for health insurance through the nObamacare marketplaces for 2015, but at least 90,000 consumers who had coverage last year are losing it...In this week's Affordable Care Act open enrollment report, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that processing has been completed for most accounts with "citizenship and immigration data matching issues," and those unable to provide appropriate documentation have had their coverage terminated. A relevant portion of the item posted on the HHS blog is below. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hhs-terminates-obamacare-coverage-90000-lack-citizenship-immigration-documents_866947.html?utm_campaign=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest&utm_source=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest%20-%2002%2F26%2F15&utm_medium=email
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Smoking gun: Hilly's Benghazi lie blown out of the water
(Jerome R. Corsi) - State Department emails released through a lawsuit by Judicial Watch show then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton knew while the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi was under way that it was being carried out by terrorists...Clinton blamed the attack on “rage and violence over an awful Internet video” when she spoke at a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base on Sept. 14, 2014, as the remains of the four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were returned to the United States. The emails were made public Thursday by the Washington, D.C., legal watchdog group. “These emails leave no doubt that Hilly Clinton’s closest advisers knew the truth about the Benghazi attack from almost the moment it happened,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/hillary-knew-emails-during-benghazi-attack-reported-terrorism/
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Judge Denies DOJ's Request to Lift Ban on Immigration Action
(Bradford Thomas) - U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen has denied the Justice Department's request to stay his injunction against nObama's executive action on immigration...The nObama administration submitted a request Monday for Judge Hanen to lift his temporary ban on the executive amnesty program by Wednesday, hoping that Hanen would allow the program to go forward while the case worked its way through court. Hanen, however, denied the request, explaining that he has given those challenging the administration's actions until Monday to respond to the Justice Department. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/judge-denies-dojs-request-lift-ban-immigration-action
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nObama to ban bullets by executive action
(Paul Bedard) - It’s starting. As promised, President nObama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic...with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56 mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president. nObama is overstepping his bounds and is creating an ugly mess. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2560750
Why the Fake Story About the Mossad
Contradicting Netanyahu?
Jonathan Tobin
(.jewishworldreview.com) - The headlines in the Guardian and Al Jazeera trumpeted what seemed like a very juicy story.
According to leaked South African intelligence cables obtained by Al Jazeera and shared with the Guardian, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad had come to conclusions that "contradicted" Prime Minister Netanyahu's assertions about Iran's nuclear program in his 2012 speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
The charge was repeated in a story published by the New York Times. If true, then Netanyahu's speech, best remembered for the cartoon bomb illustration he brandished, would be exposed as political hyperbole.
But a closer look at the speech and the leaked cable shows that the headlines aren't justified. In fact, they are downright false. That leads us to ask the question why major media outlets are seeking to discredit Netanyahu with misleading stories just at the moment when details about President nObama's latest nuclear offer to Iran has become public.
The answer reveals a great deal about both the bias of the press and the stakes in the Iran nuclear debate.
Unpacking the assertions in the Al Jazeera/Guardian story isn't difficult. As Mitch Ginsburg points out in the Times of Israel, the crux of that story is that the leaked documents say that in 2012, the Mossad told its South African counterparts that, "Iran at this time is not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons." That led both papers (dutifully echoed by the Times a day later) to claim that Netanyahu's "inflammatory rhetoric" and "alarmist tone" about the prospect of an Iranian bomb was not only unjustified but a lie made out of whole cloth.
That is damning stuff indeed. But what exactly did Netanyahu say in September 2012 while brandishing a picture of a Wile E. Coyote-style bomb?
By next spring, at most by next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and moved on to the final stage. From there, it's only a few months, possibly a few weeks, before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.
Let's be clear about this. Netanyahu did not say that Iran would have a bomb in a few months. He just said they were enriching enough uranium to create a bomb. That is not a minor distinction. And on that point, there was no disagreement between the Mossad and the prime minister. Which is to say this big story is no story at all. But the much-ballyhooed "contradiction" which was not actually a contradiction is still being reported throughout the world and on cable news networks as a flaw in Netanyahu's arguments and a blow to his credibility.
It is true that the heads of Israel's intelligence agencies have at times clashed with Netanyahu. That was particularly true in 2012 when rumors were rife that the prime minister and his former rival and then coalition partner Ehud Barak, serving as defense minister at that time, were thinking seriously about ordering a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The spooks were worried that such a plan couldn't work, would alienate the United States and, more to the point, might be rendered unnecessary by covert activities such as cyber attacks on the Iranian program and assassinations of scientists.
As it turns out, the spy agency and its American counterparts overestimated the damage that their Stuxnet attack on the Iranian computer systems could do. Though Tehran experienced a setback, all indications are that covert action conclusively failed to halt the Iranian program.
But the decision to go big with a story undermining Netanyahu this week is no accident. We learned that Israel's warnings that the U.S. was offering massive concessions to Iran in the nuclear talks were entirely true. The administration told the press that it was presenting the Iranians with a proposal that would not only allow them to keep most of their existing nuclear infrastructure and lift sanctions but that all they were asking them to do was to freeze their development for ten years after which restrictions would be lifted.
Combined with the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that showed the Iranians were continuing to stonewall efforts to inspect sites that would allow the UN body to discover how much progress had been made toward weaponization, and what you get is a picture of a negotiating process whose only aim is to foster détente between the U.S. and Iran, not one whose purpose is to spike their nuclear ambitions.
The weaponization aspect of that report is significant particularly in light of the attention given the Mossad's 2012 conclusions. At that time it wasn't clear whether the Iranians were close to a bomb.
Neither the U.S. nor Israel knows the answer to that question today either. But what we do know is that Netanyahu's predictions about Iran's capabilities were not only vindicated but may well become accepted by the West in the wake of President nObama's proposal. Thus at this moment, damaging Netanyahu's credibility, even if it means shading the truth or inventing a contradiction when there is none, has become vital for those who believe confronting Iran over its nuclear program is a mistake.
No matter how many brickbats are hurled at him by the media or how many tactical mistakes he and his staff may make as they are being outmaneuvered in Washington by the White House, the fact remains that Iran's nuclear ambitions are a deadly threat to the security of the West and the moderate Arab nations as well as an existential challenge to Israel's existence.
But the president's apologists will have to do better than a misleading Mossad story if they are to succeed in silencing the critics of nObama's Iran appeasement.
Muslim group after murder of Islamocritical writer: “Target Down here in Bangladesh.”
Islamic jihadists apparently believe that they can move violently against critics of jihad terror with no fear of adverse consequences; the people who should be defending the freedom of speech are everywhere in retreat. The jihadis have nothing to fear. “American writer hacked to death in Bangladesh spoke out against extremists,” CNN, February 28, 2015: […]
Iran: Muslim cleric vows to “raise flag of Islam on White House”
As Obama continues to show weakness, the bellicose rhetoric from those who consider themselves to be at war with the United States continues to heat up. How long will pretending that we are not at war work as a war strategy? “Iran cleric vows to ‘raise flag of Islam on White House’ to avenge Israeli […]
“Jihadi John” became “more observant of his religion”
How did a “polite west London pupil become bloodthirsty Jihadi John”? He “became more observant of his religion and began wearing more traditional Islamic dress.” But since that cannot be admitted, British authorities will look high and low for some other explanation. “EXCLUSIVE: First picture of the face of the angelic schoolboy who turned into […]
Islamic State murders 15 Christian hostages, beheads woman; 35 Christian villages now entirely uninhabited
“One source has said that a mass execution is being planned for Friday, February 27, in the mosque of Bab Alfaraj, a Sunni village in the area..” Will the Islamophobia never end? “ISIS kills 15 Christian hostages in Syria, beheads woman,” ANSAmed, February 26, 2015 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – ROME – The Islamic State […]
Muslim prof in The Atlantic hits “the phony Islam” of the Islamic State
I’ve noted several times lately that the Western intelligentsia is deeply concerned that you have a positive view of Islam — hence the steady barrage of articles explaining that those masked men brandishing Qur’ans and screaming “Allahu akbar” as they saw off Infidel heads don’t really have anything, anything at all, to do with the […]
Nigeria: Islamic jihadists murder 35 people in wave of jihad-martyrdom suicide attacks
“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) “Wave of suicide attacks leaves 35 dead in Nigeria,” AGI, February 26, 2015 (thanks to C. Cantoni): (AGI) Kano, Feb 26 […]
Islamic State throws another gay man off a building, crowd stones him
Woe to you — from the gay community — if you dare to point out Sharia persecution of gays. When Pamela Geller and I ran ads highlighting the mistreatment of gays in Islamic law, the San Francisco City Council issued a resolution condemning not that mistreatment, but our ads. Gay advocates such as Theresa Sparks […]
Paris jihadi asked hostage his origin; when he said “Jewish,” he killed him
“You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews…” Qur’an 5:82 In practice that usually works out to Muslims being the most intense of the people in animosity toward the Jews. “Paris attacks: Coulibaly siege video transcript emerges,” BBC, February 26, 2015 (thanks to Pamela […]
US Muslim gave Islamic State jihadis US military uniforms, combat boots, tactical gear, firearms accessories, and thousands in cash
Nihad Rosic is “originally from Bosnia, and moved to the United States where he’s worked as a truck driver.” Oh dear, this in inconvenient for the mainstream analysts, who have been telling us for years that all (all!) the Muslims in Bosnia are America-loving Western-oriented moderates. What’s more, it appears that Nihad Rosic had…a job. […]
New Jersey Muslim guilty of murder that was initially blamed on “Islamophobia”
When this murder initially happened, I received this Tweet from a certain Jawad Rasul. It said: Thank You @pamelageller and @jihadwatchRS, If you have any humanity, you might ponder over this! nyp.st/phBJuX via @newyorkpost The link went to a story about a murder in New Jersey. Why were Pamela Geller and I being blamed for […]
"ISIS Killing Christians, The U.S and State Government's Killing US Christians In The USA" READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT THIS LINK... http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.com/2015/02/isis-killing-christians-us-and-state.html
By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots oncprworldwidemedia.net
I have to tell you that there are just some things I don’t give a rat’s ass about. Not in the least…not at all…because in the grand scheme of things and with the world in the shape it’s in right now…certain things just don’t really matter.
For instance…
I don’t give a crap who wore what to the Oscars. For that matter, I don’t give a crap who DIDN’T wear what to the Oscars and if you think there is some overwhelming reason to continue to post and share photos of Neil Patrick Harris in his tighty-whiteys…you are sadly mistaken.
I don’t care who sang what during halftime and I don’t care how Madonna’s dancers were dressed at a Brit Awards show. When people launch into that line of ‘THE WORLD IS ENDING…ILLUMINATI…SIGNS OF THE APOCOLYPSE AND THE DEVIL’S MUSIC’ crap…it makes reasonable people think you’re on the verge of organizing a book burning party on an overpass to prove that you are somehow more virtuous than the rest of humanity.
I don’t care who’s sleeping with whom or who is getting married to whom. If you don’t think that people of the same sex should sleep with each other or get married to one another than by all means…don’t sleep with or marry someone with the same parts as your own.
Problem solved.
Colorado and Washington made it legal to smoke pot for fun. Okay…since I don’t smoke pot or live in Washington or Colorado…why should I care. They both voted on it at the state level…it passed in both states…big deal.
Abortion?
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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Hanoi Kerry defends Iran nuclear talks as dissidents claim proof of Tehran deception
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Even Holder Can't Pin Civil Rights Violations on Zimmerman
Nearly three years to the day since George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin in what was ruled self-defense, the nObama Justice Department finally admitted its investigation found "insufficient evidence" to charge Zimmerman with violating Martin's civil rights. Attorney General Eric Holder grudgingly conceded the evidence didn't meet the "high standard for a federal hate crime prosecution," though he insisted we "continue the dialogue" about racial tension. Holder, Barack nObama and the usual suspects of professional racial grievance immediately seized on Martin's death as a platform for their brand of "social justice." That included nObama's infamous pronouncement, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." But attempting to make him a poster boy for "hate crimes" diverts attention from a terribly inconvenient truth: A grossly disproportionate number of murder victims in any year are black men, women and children -- about 9,000 annually. And most of these victims are murdered by other blacks -- with only a handful of cases that might be associated with racism. More... -The Patriot Post
The Welcome Mat for Muslims
Barack nObama's Summit on Countering Violent Extremism went over about as well as one might expect from an administration determined to deny the truth regarding that extremism's origins. But the problem is much worse than just semantics. Paul Sperry writes at Investor's Business Daily, "Between 2010 and 2013, the nObama administration imported almost 300,000 new immigrants from Muslim nations -- more immigrants than the U.S. let in from Central America and Mexico combined over that period. ... Many of the recent Muslim immigrants are from terrorist hot spots like Iraq, where the Islamic State operates. From 2010-2013, nObama ushered in 41,094 Iraqi nationals from there. Now the State Department says it will quadruple the number of refugees brought here from Syria, where IS is headquartered." Perhaps many or most of these people are truly refugees. But maybe some are jihadis looking for an American gun-free zone to attack. It's clear that combining nObama's immigration policies with his views on national security is dangerous, and it could have dire implications for our nation. More... -The Patriot Post
A Stupid Deal With Iran
Barack nObama once claimed his foreign policy was based on the principle, "Don't do stupid s---." Well, here is one of the most egregiously stupid ideas in recent memory: The U.S. is reportedly considering accepting a deal with Iran that would simply kick the can down the road by a decade or so, allowing Iran to continue its nuclear developments in the meantime and even allowing for reduced restrictions toward the end of the agreement period. (Hanoi John Kerry, of course, denies the report.) Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, displaying a keen mastery of the obvious, said any such deal would require highly intrusive inspections to verify Iran was meeting the deal's terms. Perhaps fellow State Department deep thinker Marie Harf could explain to him that we are in this mess precisely because Iran has refused to live up to its previous intrusive inspection requirements under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. After 12 years of lying, cheating, hiding facilities, hindering inspectors, etc., now we're supposed to believe Iran will agree to a new deal's inspection terms? Despite all the technical arguments and political dynamics, the problem is a very simple one. Iran is obligated under the Non-Proliferation Treaty to give the International Atomic Energy Agency full, unrestricted access to inspect and verify Iran's peaceful use of nuclear energy. Iran has refused to do so for more than a decade, openly dismissing the IAEA's authority and even more openly mocking the UN's ability to force Iran to comply. Pretending the previous 12 years never happened and accepting Iran's word that this time it really, truly means it when it pledges to accept intrusive inspections is the very definition of "doing stupid s---." -The Patriot Post
Cue the GOP Immigration Disaster
It's been less than 100 days since the Republican Party won Congress in the midterm elections. And in that time, it has garnered Barack nObama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline and a fight over immigration that could gridlock Congress for the rest of the legislative session. On Feb. 27, the Department of Homeland Security will run out of money and partially shut down if Congress doesn't reauthorize its budget. But Senate Democrats are blocking the vote because Republicans tied the issue to funding DHS, the department tasked with discharging nObama's unconstitutional executive actions legalizing five million illegals -- or as the administration now calls them, "Americans-in-waiting." Three times Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell brought forward a bill to fund DHS but defund nObama's immigration policies. Three times Senate Democrats covered for their president, blocking even the consideration of the bill, in order to show how the GOP is frozen with infighting. If DHS is funded fully as Democrats want, then nObama continues his executive reign unchecked. If the GOP stands its ground, Democrats will score a political victory, as DHS would shut down and the Leftmedia talkingheads would skewer the GOP for it. nObama's plan was shrewd. -The Patriot Post
HILLY STATE DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZED BUBBA’S SKETCHY CHINA SPEECH
Politico: “Less than a year after Hilly Clinton became secretary of state, former President Bill Clinton asked the State Department to approve a paid, videotaped speech he was asked to make at a gala in Shanghai, sponsored by a Chinese sports foundation. Wealthy hedge fund manager Kai Jiang wanted to pay the former president an undisclosed amount through a charity fund set up by his wife, Crystal Huang, a Chinese TV and film star who regularly serves as fodder for the Chinese tabloids. But unlike hundreds of big-dollar Bill Clinton speeches that sailed through a State Department ethics approval process while Hilly Clinton served as America’s top diplomat, this one raised a note of caution that the Chinese government might actually be funding the speech or planning to profit from it.”
Early warning - Bubba’s overseas buckraking raised eyebrows last summer, as reported by WashEx: “A joint investigation by the Washington Examiner and the nonprofit watchdog group Judicial Watch found that former President Clinton gave 215 speeches and earned $48 million while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy, raising questions about whether the Clintons fulfilled ethics agreements related to the Clinton Foundation during Hilly Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. …State Department officials charged with reviewing Bill Clinton's proposed speeches did not object to a single one.”
Politico: “Less than a year after Hilly Clinton became secretary of state, former President Bill Clinton asked the State Department to approve a paid, videotaped speech he was asked to make at a gala in Shanghai, sponsored by a Chinese sports foundation. Wealthy hedge fund manager Kai Jiang wanted to pay the former president an undisclosed amount through a charity fund set up by his wife, Crystal Huang, a Chinese TV and film star who regularly serves as fodder for the Chinese tabloids. But unlike hundreds of big-dollar Bill Clinton speeches that sailed through a State Department ethics approval process while Hilly Clinton served as America’s top diplomat, this one raised a note of caution that the Chinese government might actually be funding the speech or planning to profit from it.”
Early warning - Bubba’s overseas buckraking raised eyebrows last summer, as reported by WashEx: “A joint investigation by the Washington Examiner and the nonprofit watchdog group Judicial Watch found that former President Clinton gave 215 speeches and earned $48 million while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy, raising questions about whether the Clintons fulfilled ethics agreements related to the Clinton Foundation during Hilly Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. …State Department officials charged with reviewing Bill Clinton's proposed speeches did not object to a single one.”
Famed Chinese dissident contradicts Hilly’s claimed heroism - The Telegraph: “Hilly Clinton’s account of one of her crowning moments as secretary of state has been flatly contradicted by a leading Chinese activist. Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer who escaped house arrest and caused an diplomatic crisis between China and the US by taking refuge in the American embassy in Beijing in 2012, accused the nObama administration and Hilly Clinton of “giving in” to Chinese negotiators.” -Fox News
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MoD assess threat of Ebola used by ISIS or Al-Qaeda
(Sara Malm) - Ministry of Defence scientists have been exploring the possible use of Ebola as a biochemical weapon, newly released documents confirm...Staff at the MoD’s research centre at Porton Down, Wiltshire, have been assessing the risk of the virus being used by terrorists such as ISIS or Al-Qaeda to attack the UK. The documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that scientists have been looking into at least three potential scenarios. https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/uk-mod-assess-threat-of-ebola-used-by-isis-or-al-qaeda-to-attack-britain/
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Breaking stalemate, Senate votes 98-2 to debate ‘clean’ DHS bill
(Jordain Carney) - Democrats agreed to support the DHS bill after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) stripped out provisions inserted by the House that would reverse President nObama’s executive actions on immigration...The only votes against proceeding to the bill came from Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). “Democrats will support getting on the House Homeland Security funding bill. In exchange, the leader will provide the only amendment, it will be a clean Homeland Security funding substitute,” Senate Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/233836-senate-advances-clean-dhs-bill-in-98-2-vote3.
Trey Gowdy’s Warning to Dems on Immigration
(Pete Kasperowicz) - Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Wednesday warned Democrats and others that their support for President Barack nObama’s executive action on immigration will only undermine the rule of law, potentially in ways they’ll regret years from now... “You may benefit from the president’s failure to enforce the law today,” Gowdy said at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on nObama’s action. "But I’ll make you this promise,” he warned. “There will come a day where you will cry out for the enforcement of the law. There will come a day when you long for the law to be the foundation of this republic.” “So you be careful what you do with the law today, because if you weaken it today, you weaken it forever,” he concluded. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/25/watch-trey-gowdys-warning-to-dems-on-immigration-be-careful-what-you-do/
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Posing for the Cameras While the Islamic Threat Grows
(Cliff Kincaid) - Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says the danger is great that the thousands of Syrian refugees coming into the United States will include terrorists who want to kill Americans...So what is he doing about it? He told Sean Hannity of Fox News the other night that he has sent a letter! He said, “I sent a letter to National Security Advisor Susan Rice asking her to explain why she’s doing this, and to try to stop this from happening. My job as chairman of Homeland Security is to protect the American people. I believe this will put Americans at risk.” “Keep up the good work,” said Hannity. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/posing-for-the-cameras-while-the-islamic-threat-grows/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022615&utm_medium=email
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Black Ministers Defy CBC, Will Welcome Netanyahu
(Peter Malcolm) - Defying leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus who are boycotting Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on March 3, claiming...that the invitation from Speaker of the House backstabber John Boehner bypassed and showed disrespect to their leader, President nObama, some black ministers, along with Star Parker, the founder and president of The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), a public policy think tank, plan to welcome Netanyahu to Congress. Parker blasted the CBC on CURE‘s website, asserting: “While the Congressional Black Caucus claims it has 'consistently been the voice for people of color,' it seems this brazenly political move couldn’t be further from the voice of black Christians in America.” http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/black-ministers-defy-cbc-will-welcome-Netanyahu
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Republicans Fear Net Neutrality Could Lead to UN Internet Powers
(Brendan Sasso) - The U.S. government's plan to enact strong net neutrality regulations could embolden authoritarian regimes like China and Russia to seize more power over the Internet through the United Nations, a key Senate Republican warned Wednesday...Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune of South Dakota argued that by claiming more authority over Internet access for net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission will undermine the ability of the U.S. to push back against international plots to control the Internet and censor content. http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/the-future-of-broadband/republicans-fear-net-neutrality-plan-could-lead-to-un-internet-powers-20150225
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Senate panel OK's nObama attorney general pick
(Associated Press) - The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Loretta Lynch's nomination to be attorney general, sending it to the full Senate...The vote was 12 to 8, with three Republicans joining all committee Democrats in voting in favor of Lynch. She is also expected to win approval by the full Senate, though the timing is uncertain. The 55 -year-old Lynch now serves as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She would replace Eric Holder and become the first black woman to hold the nation's top law enforcement job. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/26/senate-panel-ok-obama-attorney-general-pick/?intcmp=latestnews
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Clinton DID Take Money While Secretary of State (theconservativetreehouse.com) - The defenders of Hilly Clinton have stated that during her tenure as Secretary of State the Clinton foundation (Clinton Global Initiative, or CGI) did not take money from foreign governments...You might have heard that ‘talking point’ repeated frequently over the past two weeks whenever the issue was raised. However, recent inquiry and admissions by the Clinton Team now indicate that talking point is not true. Not even close to being true. As the Washington Post points out, the Clinton Foundation DID TAKE money from the governments Hilly was visiting and dealing with while she was Secretary of State. The only thing that changed during her tenure was that no NEW governments were allowed to participate. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/02/26/clinton-did-take-money-while-secretary-of-state-hillary-has-a-serious-conflict-of-interest-problem/
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Al Sharpton to get the bullet
(dailymail.co.uk) - MSNBC is set to pull the plug on contentious Reverend Al Sharpton in a last ditch attempt to revive dwindling audience numbers...The liberal anchor's nightly Politics Nation show is to be shelved by broadcasting bosses as they make drastic changes in the hope of clawing back viewers. Company President Phil Griffin is believed to be placing his faith in a swing from the left in their Congress coverage - insisting that the station's Republican bashing glory days are now firmly in the past. Its about time. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2970133/Al-Sharpton-bullet-MSNBC-bins-left-wing-programming.html
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What if the government fears freedom?
(Judge Andrew Napolitano) - What if the current massive spying on Americans began with an innocent secret executive order signed by President Reagan in 1986? What if Reagan contemplated that he was only authorizing American spies to spy on foreign spies unlawfully present in the U.S.?...What if Reagan knew and respected the history of the Fourth Amendment? What if the essence of that history is the colonial revulsion at the British use of general warrants? What if general warrants were issued by a secret court in London and authorized British agents in America to search wherever they wished and to seize whatever they found? What if the revulsion at this British government practice was so overwhelming that it led to the Revolutionary War against the king? http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/what-if-the-government-fears-freedom/
Hanoi Kerry defends Iran nuclear talks as dissidents claim proof of Tehran deception
Guy Taylor
(jewishworldreview.com) - Secretary of State Hanoi John F. Kerry defended the nObama administration's pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran in the face of mounting bipartisan scrutiny from lawmakers Tuesday - even as an Iranian dissident group claimed to have fresh proof that Tehran has lied to world powers about its drive to obtain a nuclear weapon.
With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heading to Capitol Hill next week to argue against the deal, Mr. Hanoi Kerry told lawmakers not to judge the deal until it is completed.
"I caution people to wait and see what these negotiations produce," Mr. Hanoi Kerry said in response to news reports suggesting that the administration is close to a deal in which Iran would be allowed to increase its nuclear activities after a 10-year period of restrictions and inspection from outside powers.
"Anybody running around right now, jumping in to say, 'Well, we don't like the deal' doesn't know what the deal is. There is no deal yet," Mr. Hanoi Kerry told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday morning during the first of two State Department budget hearings.
He told a subsequent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that the administration's policy is still to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon but to do so diplomatically, in a way that avoids a military confrontation.
Mr. Hanoi Kerry's plea seemed to have little effect on critics, including some Democrats.
Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, told Mr. Hanoi Kerry that he was concerned about news "leaking from the negotiations" that Iran will be left with "a vast majority of its nuclear infrastructure" under the proposed deal.
Any deal that relieves Iran of Western sanctions while allowing it to "go from being a threshold to an actual nuclear weapons state is no deal at all," Mr. Menendez said.
Noting that the nObama administration suggested a 20-year pact with Tehran, Mr. Menendez said, "Now we're talking about a 10-year time frame - if it's true - and with relief in the five latter years of the 10 years. That's problematic."
Mr. Hanoi Kerry insisted that the administration and its negotiating partners - Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China - want a long-term deal under which Iran's pathways to a bomb are "closed off." Specifically, he said, inspections would prevent any weapons development activity at Iran's Natanz, Arak and Fordow nuclear facilities.
"Covert, of course, is the hardest," Mr. Hanoi Kerry said. "You need to have verification and intrusive inspection to be able to find covert" facilities.
Cheating accusations
While Mr. Hanoi Kerry spoke, an Iranian dissident group that exposed past Iranian nuclear deceptions was arguing that the problems with inspection and verification would remain - that Tehran hasn't come clean about its nuclear programs.
That Iran's government has been lying for years to United Nations nuclear inspectors, the National Coalition of Resistance of Iran asserted that scientists in the Islamic Republic have been running a secret uranium enrichment operation at a facility buried deep beneath the ground in the northeastern suburbs of Tehran since 2008.
The facility, known as "Lavizan-3," has been used for clandestine nuclear program research and development, as well as for enrichment with advanced IR-2m and IR-4 centrifuge machines, according to the resistance coalition.
Its claim was not immediately verifiable, and the dissident group has a controversial history in Washington. However, the group is thought to have deep sources inside Iran's nuclear community, and its members are credited with making game-changing revelations about Tehran's activities in the past.
The group said its latest claims were the result of a 10-year "detailed, risky and complex" intelligence gathering effort by members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq. The "MEK" is a main component of the coalition of resistance but has long drawn scrutiny in Washington because the State Department had listed it as a terrorist organization until 2012.
Although the MEK appears to be virulently opposed to the regime in Tehran, U.S. officials have said the group's terrorist listing was related to attacks its members carried out against U.S. interests in the Middle East decades ago.
The National Coalition of Resistance of Iran said Tuesday that MEK operatives have "highly placed sources within the Iranian regime as well as those involved in the nuclear weapons projects."
Iranian officials have long argued that their nuclear program is for purely peaceful and civilian purposes. The U.S. and its allies say Tehran has secretly tried to build a bomb in violation of orders from the U.N. Security Council, and Western powers for years have leveled economic sanctions and pursued a global embargo on Iranian oil.
The resistance coalition's accusations did not come up at either of Mr. Hanoi Kerry's congressional hearings Tuesday.
Apart from Iran, the hearings covered a range of issues facing the nObama administration's foreign policy, including the Islamic State, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba and the president's $50.3 billion budget request for the State Department and USAID through next year.
One key difference from the last fiscal year budget request is a $3.5 billion line item for State Department efforts - separate from those of the Pentagon - to counter the Islamic State.
Mr. Hanoi Kerry took issue Tuesday with lawmakers who raised questions about the seriousness of the nObama administration's commitment to defeating the extremist group. "The president's goal is to degrade and destroy" the Islamic State forces, he said.
He defended comments from department spokeswoman Marie Harf citing the need for economic development and jobs for young people in the Middle East as part of the effort to combat terrorism.
"She never set out to say the solution is give them jobs," Mr. Hanoi Kerry said. "She talked about a much broader array of things we have to do. And if we can't have a serious conversation about this, without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble."
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0215/kerry_defends_Iran_deal.php3
