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3 Republicans including Sen. McCain vote ‘no’, defeating
effort to repeal Obamacare.
“Senator John McCain waited two years to get his revenge
against Donald Trump for saying that McCain is not a war hero.”
Earlier in the week, seven Republican senators joined
Democrats to defeat a proposal that would have repealed major portions of
Obamacare.
Republicans are in full control of government — but losing
control of their party
The seven senators, all of whom voted for “clean repeal”
when Obama’s inevitable veto made it safe and politically expedient to do so,
voted against a virtually identical bill today…”
The quest to prove Russia collusion is crumbling
Media doesn’t seem interested in this new story: FBI Seizes Smashed Hard Drives From Pakistani
aide to former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Then the aide was arrested while trying to flee the
country. He had $12,000 cash on him and
had just wired $300,000 to Pakistan.
The aide and his brothers linked to
the Muslim Brotherhood?
“When U.S. Capitol Police, the FBI, and Customs and Border
Protection teamed up to arrest Imran Awan, an IT staffer for Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and other congressional Democrats, Americans began
to realize just how broken and corrupt the Democratic Party has become. Indeed,
such scandals beg the question of whether the Trump-Russia hype has not been a
desperate attempt to distract the country from a long train of scandals on the
Left.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz “Absolute Wreck–Barely Able to
Function” Since Imran Awan Arrest Rumors fly that he was more than "just
a friend."
“The Rift Between President Trump and AG Sessions is Very
Real and Very Valid…”
President Trump spoke to the Boy Scout National Jamboree in
West Virginia. The massive crowd of tens of thousands of boy scouts cheered the
president, chanting “we love Trump”.
That was too much for liberals who likened the Boy Scout
event to a “Hitler Youth rally”.
America great again:
Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn to build $10B plant in Wisconsin
employing 13,000
Stuart Varney added the amount of money the Trump Bump added
to the value of stocks in America and came up with a cool $4 trillion gain
since 62 million Americans shocked the world and elected Donald John Trump
president. Compare that to how the market tanked once voters elected Barack
Hussein Obama on November 4, 2008. Stocks fell 9 percent by July 20, 2009 --
the same point that they rose 21 percent under The Donald.
President Trump announced on Wednesday that the United
States will no longer “accept or allow” transgender people in the United States
military, saying American forces “must be focused on decisive and overwhelming
victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption
that transgender in the military would entail”.
Liberals are predictably outraged.
Refuted: 6 Ridiculous
Arguments In Favor Of Transgender Soldiers
Rep. Vicky Hartzler: “By recruiting and allowing transgender
individuals to serve in our military we are subjecting taxpayers to high
medical costs including up to $130,000 per transition surgery, lifetime hormone
treatments, and additional surgeries to address the high percentage of
individuals who experience complications,”
She noted surgeries alone could cost $1.35 billion over the next 10
years. “This policy is costly and a threat to our readiness. The deployability
of individuals going through the sex transition process is highly problematic,
requiring 210 to 238 work days where a soldier is non-deployable after surgery.
This recovery time equates to 1.4 million manpower days where transgender
personnel cannot deploy and fight our nation’s wars, therefore relying on an
already stressed force to pick up the burden. It makes no sense to purposely
recruit individuals who cannot serve.”
Nearly a million undocumented drivers could be licensed in
California by the end of the year.
Socialized medicine in crisis: Doctors in the UK have warned that plans for
"brutal " National Health Service cuts are shrouded in secrecy and
will cause uproar once revealed.
The IRS doled out more than $24 billion in potentially bogus
refunds claimed under several controversial tax credits in 2016, according to a
new audit that said $118 million was even paid to people who weren’t authorized
to work in the U.S. in the first place.
As the debate over President Donald Trump’s voter fraud
commission intensifies, a new study has found 8,471 instances of double voting
during the 2016 elections occurring in 21 states.
Rockstar Kid Rock set off a political firestorm after
teasing his Twitter followers about a potential Senate run in Michigan. News
broke this weekend that Kid Rock is LEADING challenger, Democrat Debbie Stabenow
in a new poll 30% to 26%.
A 92-year-old World War II veteran who was assaulted while
trying to protect his American and Marine Corps flags outside his Texas home
was surprised Sunday with an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Investors Business Daily
If recent reports are true, Special Counsel Robert Mueller
has veered sharply off course to investigate matters that have nothing to do
with Russia's tampering with our 2016 election. He either has to be reeled in
to do the job he was hired to do, or fired.
This isn't supposed to happen under American law, where a
person can be given the task of an open investigation on someone with the
end-goal of finding something, anything, that he or she has ever done that is
illegal. That's the kind of thing that was routinely done in places like the
Soviet Union, in which laws meant nothing and ideology and politics everything.
America has always been different. We have defined our nation as a nation
guided by the rule of law — "a nation of laws and not men," as
our Founders liked to say.
When Mueller was first named to look into allegations that
the Trump campaign had colluded with Russian officials to tilt the election, we
thought it was a bad idea driven by the Democrats' rage, not by any real
concerns about Russian collusion. After all, when the book on
U.S.-Russian/Soviet diplomacy is finally written, it will show collusion was
basically a pillar of Democratic foreign policy from the 1970s on — from Teddy
Kennedy and Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Now, with his investigation linking the Trump campaign to
any kind of actual collusion with the Russian government apparently going
nowhere, Mueller has decided to broaden the investigation, according to news
reports. If so, it's beyond his brief as a Special Counsel and he should be
told to stick to what he's supposed to do. This isn't a political talking
point; it's a legal necessity.
As Bloomberg reports, "The U.S. special counsel
investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia in
last year's election is examining a broad range of transactions involving
Trump's businesses as well as those of his associates, according to a person
familiar with the probe." If this
is true, it marks a significant departure from the agreed-upon limits of the
original investigation. One of the things Mueller's apparently looking at is
Russian purchases of Trump apartments, Trump's involvement in a New York
development with Russian partners, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and
the sale of Trump's Florida mansion to a Russian billionaire all the way back
in 2008.
Again, Bloomberg: "Agents are also interested in
dealings with the Bank of Cyprus, where Wilbur Ross served as vice chairman before
he became commerce secretary. In addition, they are examining the efforts of
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior aide, to secure financing
for some of his family's real-estate properties."
Bloomberg notes that "The roots of Mueller's
follow-the-money investigation lie partly in a wide-ranging money laundering
probe launched by then-Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara last year,"
according to a source. (Note: Trump fired Bharara this year after he refused
the Justice Department's entirely legal, and politically routine, order to
request resignations from 46 Obama-era lawyers in Bharara's office.)
Mueller's limited investigation has now turned into a
free-for-all investigation in which he is looking to find a crime, any crime,
that he can even remotely attach to Donald Trump's past activities —
whether related to the Russia-collusion scandal or not. That will give the
Democrats what they wanted all along: An all-purpose reason to pursue
impeachment charges against Trump. We see it as little more than an attempt at
a legal coup, an attempt to overturn the results of a lawful election………Mueller
isn't empowered to do this extraordinarily wide-ranging investigation into all
things Trump. Predictably, Democrats are in a feeding frenzy over this, with
Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut warning on "Morning
Joe" that if Trump fires Mueller, it will set off an "absolute
firestorm."
That may be true. But the firestorm could burn both ways,
especially after people discover that at least seven of Mueller's hires for his
investigative team have contributed a total of $60,787.77 to Democratic candidates
for office, including Hillary Clinton. What started out as a limited
investigation into fairly restricted set of allegations has now morphed into a
wide-ranging inquisition, with the president as its ultimate target — and both
justice and the sanctity of our electoral system the victims.
There are remedies for Mueller's overreach. "The
special counsel may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal
action of the attorney general," according to the Code of Federal
Regulation. "The attorney general may remove a special counsel for
misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other
good cause, including violation of departmental policies. The attorney general
shall inform the special counsel in writing of the specific reason for his or
her removal."
Since Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions has recused himself from
the case, the job falls to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to officially
admonish Mueller that he is now operating out of bounds. If Mueller doesn't contain
his investigation to its legally defined bounds, Rosenstein has not only the
clear authority to fire him, he has the duty to do so.
Note: Some have speculated that with
Gen Kelley moving to Chief of Staff, Jeff Sessions may be moved to head of Homeland
Security, opening up AG position.
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OTHER COLUMNS
“Even if Republicans find a way to give Obamacare a haircut
… it will more closely resemble past free-market corrections of liberalism’s
excesses than a serious constitutional conservative challenge to liberalism.
That doesn’t bode well for the Tea Party project of rolling back major liberal
initiatives. The point of voting Republican will remain to make the inexorable
growth of the welfare state as slow and painful as possible, a political
posture that may be attractive to neither libertarian-leaning conservatives nor
the populists drawn to Trump in the last presidential election. The Tea Party
came to repeal and replace Obamacare. They ended up getting repealed and
replaced themselves.”
-W. James
Antle III
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LEFTIST WATCH
Former CIA Director Calls For Coup against Trump If Mueller Fired...
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) denounced President Trump as a
“major criminal” who must be peacefully “eliminated” and brought to his knees
after Democrats take back the House of Representatives and begin the
impeachment process.
Evergreen State College may soon face a $3.8-million lawsuit
in connection with its handling of the the 2017 “Day of Absence” protests
against biology professor Bret Weinstein. Students at the Olympia, Washington
institution who wanted a day without white people on Evergreen State College’s
campus in May went wild over Mr. Weinstein’s refusal to take part.
Princeton’s new ‘men’s engagement manager’ will combat
“aggressive masculinity” on campus….The program also fights “toxic
masculinity,” according to numerous Facebook posts, and subscribes to the
feminist theory of “fragile masculinity,” which denigrates men for subscribing
to traditional gender norms.
The Minnesota Department of Education advisory council voted
to implement an LGBT “toolkit” for public and charter schools in the state. These
guidelines are not just intended for older students. Instead, they were created
for children as young as those entering kindergarten. The toolkit says the
language surrounding gender identity issues is “evolving”.
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ISLAM
Young Muslim woman reportedly kidnapped, raped and murdered
in a suspected “honour killing” in London, “for being involved in a
relationship with a man whom her parents did not approve of.”
FBI Probe Into Female Genital Mutilation Expands Beyond
Michigan to New York, California and Illinois
California Islamic Center Under Fire Over Sermon Calling For
Annihilation Of Jews...
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GLOBALONEY
“Global warming hoax, best documentary ever.”
Climate Change Hypocrisy Goes Mainstream
Not so hot: Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ meets with
skepticism even from left
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ARTICLES
VDH: Between 2008 and
2016, the media were unapologetic about their adoration of President Barack
Obama. Now, they are energized by their thorough loathing of President Donald
Trump. In tragic fashion, the hubris of deifying Obama has now come full circle
to the nemesis of demonizing Trump. The common denominator of the two extremes
is the abandonment of disinterested reporting.
“Mommy, What Does Congress Actually Do?”
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WISE WORDS
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a
republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the
heart of its laws and constitution.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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