[THEMILITANT] Claiming to be fighting fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... , anarchist groups in the U.S. have carried out numerous actions in recent weeks that pose a deadly danger to the working class -- from sucker punching rightist Richard Spencer as he was speaking to a news hound, to assaulting workers who express support for President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , to disrupting and shutting down campus speeches by individuals they disagree with.
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That's because it's the trust fund parasites who have most to lose from trump and these are the types most likely to feel entitled enough to do these sorts of disgraceful acts.
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But the result is their actions close down political space, hand the government and its police agencies a golden opportunity to clamp down on political freedoms, and become a hotbed for provocateurs.
[NYT] When his convoy was ambushed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, First Lt. Brian Chontosh ordered his Humvee driver to head straight into the oncoming machine gun fire. They punched through, landing in a trench full of heavily armed Iraqi soldiers. Lieutenant Chontosh and his Marines leapt out and he ran down the trench firing away, dropping one enemy soldier after another. First his rifle jammed, then he ran out of ammunition, so he switched to his pistol. He shot it dry, reloaded, and shot it dry again. So he picked up an AK-47 from a dead Iraqi, fired that dry, picked up another AK, fired that dry, picked up a rocket-propelled grenade, fired it, and led the group back to the Humvee, their attack having almost completely cleared the trench. Almost.
One Iraqi was playing dead, fiddling with the pin of a grenade. Lieutenant Chontosh had no ammo, but on the ground were a couple of M-16 rounds from when his rifle had jammed. He grabbed one, loaded, and before the Iraqi could pull the pin, Lieutenant Chontosh locked eyes with him and shot him dead. All told, according to the journalist Phil Zabriskie’s account of the ambush in "The Kill Switch," Lieutenant Chontosh had killed about two dozen people that day.
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So President Trump, charitably speaking, mischaracterizes the facts and then goes on to make false allegations about the media. Then a news organization (also charitably speaking) calls out the the WH on said falsehoods. And right que the Trump propaganda sites come out swinging calling it fake news. The days of "Journalist" lives on people. Just with a different team.
How come no-one is accusing NSA Director Michael Flynn of taking bribes from Turkey's dictator Recep Erdogan? Not long ago, they did. Last November 18, Commentary Magazine's Noah Rothman called Flynn a "dubious choice" for the National Security Council because his consulting company had a Turkish client, adding that Flynn’s views on Turkey raised a "conflict of interest." Flynn had published an article in The Hill on Nov. 8 warning that America's dalliance with the messianic Turkish Islamist and alleged coup plotter Fetullah Guelen might undermine the country's relationship with NATO, at a time when Russia was giving Turkey the full court press.
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Author Spengler nailed it, dead on. Flynn refused to be a Klingon surrogate at DIA like his lap-dog predecessors. There were other issues at DIA as well (not found in this article) dealing with DIA's clandestine collection capabilities. Klingon turf issues as it were. The new Director Mike Pompeo has his hands full.
BLUF from the article: "Flynn is the one senior US intelligence officer with the guts to blow the whistle on a series of catastrophic intelligence and operational failures. The available facts point to the conclusion that elements of the humiliated (and perhaps soon-to-be-unemployed) intelligence community is trying to exact vengeance against a principled and patriotic officer. When the Turkish smear against Flynn came out in November, I smelled a rat. The present affair stinks like a dumpster full of dead rats."
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If any of this is true, it's long past calling in the Marine from Quantico and shutting the place down. Seeking to undermine the legitimate elected government of the US is too much to allow in these times. Once was enough with doing it to Bush.
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Nope, their budget is completely reportable to OMB and the Prez. If Trump keeps Flynn, then they will identify and delete these problems in the next budget.
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Well it is sad that he lied. Very bad choice. He was promising. Enjoy your retirement, sir.
I hope his replacement can keep tabs on the National-Intel Complex. That their leaks of his conversations brought him down is testimony to how much they are ahead of themselves.
[Townhall] Read the judicial rules for radicals issued by the United States Court Of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in affirmation of the ban on The Ban.
It follows the Executive Order issued by President Donald Trump, with the imprimatur of 62 million voters, to protect the nation from foreign terrorists entering into the United States. Two states objected to the president's undeniably badly written Order, which, while upholding negative rights--and neither denying natural rights nor minting positive ones--was nevertheless replete with administrative errors.
Acting as coequal partners in the administrative tyranny the president is trying to break, the two states issued a temporary restraining order against "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States." (I can already hear the election midterm ads.)
In the corner for the Deplorables was a government lawyer. August Flentje Esq. had "argued" (if you can call it that) for an emergency stay of the Washington State district court’s temporary restraining order against the president. The three Ninth Circuit jurists who heard the case said no.
CAREER GOVERNMENT LAWYERS
If you’re good at what you do, you look to make it in the private sector (as our president did, before he did us a favor). If not, you seek sheltered employment (as President Trump’s predecessor did). Clearly, clerking for the Supreme Court, as August Flentje had done, doesn’t mean a whole lot.
[Detroit News] Liberals are so determined to vanquish all things Trump that they risk losing the one friend they may have in this new White House.
Ivanka Trump, the new president’s oldest daughter and most trusted personal adviser, is as stylish a first family member as the country has seen in a while. She turned her fashion sense into a clothing line that is sold in many of the nation’s top stores, including Nordstrom.
Or at least it was. The sight of Ivanka Trump’s name on the garments’ labels so triggered the derangement of her father’s haters that they demanded the upscale retailer rid the clothing from its racks, or face boycott.
Boycotts are the favorite weapon of the resistance movement. Anyone who suggests affinity for Donald Trump or cooperates with his administration or fails to speak out against him on command (see Tom Brady) faces being ostracized or having their livelihoods threatened and their names smeared.
The left’s demand for conformity in loathing Trump is creating a blacklist to rival that of Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare.
[DailyHeadlines] Liberals and illegal aliens as well as jihadists are cheering the ruling from the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals. This is not surprising considering the fact that liberals never anticipate the consequences of their actions. This one could bite them in the ass.
In order to stop President Trump’s travel ban, the court had to rule that the president does not have the power to decide on who can and can’t get into the country and who can and cannot stay. They ruled that Trump does not have that power. But if Trump doesn’t have that power, neither did Barack Obama, meaning all of his various amnesty Executive Orders are null and void. Say, for instance DACA for the so called Dreamers.
Obama had the Dreamers register which is convenient because they will be easy to find and deport and if they are still living with their parents, the parents can be deported, too. The work permits given to other illegal aliens will also become vulnerable and there is a database on them also. All it would take is an EO from President Trump to that effect.
The more likely scenario if Trump and his administration were to go that way would be for the Supreme Court to agree to an emergency hearing based on the fact that the actions allowed by the 9th would be irreversible. At that point, one of two things would happen. Either the liberal justices would have to reverse their positions on votes they took during the Obama caliphate that gave him sole responsibility in making immigration decisions or they would have to uphold their previous rulings, effectively killing the 9th Circuit’s ruling.
The thing that may shock you if you haven’t followed SCOTUS decisions closely is that while Ginsberg and Sotomayor would have no problem disregarding the law, the swing vote that could lead to a 5-3 ruling in the court is the Obama appointee, Elena Kagan, who has ruled against Obama in some cases. She votes liberal but seems to resist voting that way when it’s a direct violation of the law.
Look for Trump to do two things. He will dump the justice department lawyers who (intentionally?) blew the case before the 9th Circus Court by not giving the judges the 24 names of terrorists who came from the 7 countries under the travel ban. Secondly, he will have them petition SCOTUS to lift the stay imposed by the 9th.
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Another possibility is Ginsburg having to recuse herself because of statements she made during the campaign that showed her disdain for President Trump.
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Legal Insurrection says "This legal dispute no longer is just about the Executive Order. Democrats have made clear that they will fight in court over almost everything the Trump administration does. The 9th Circuit has opened the door to this tactic on an issue that goes to the core of presidential authority."
If the Courts are to designate themselves the functional directors of the Department of Homeland Security, then such mandate must come from the Supreme Court, not the 9th Circuit.
Better install Gorsuch ASAP and even at that SCOTUS decisions are iffy--Alito and Thomas are about the only votes you can count on to follow the Constitution.
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Here is an Instapundit post that was personally revelatory: in the fourth paragraph that Glenn excerpted is the line "the shoe-on-the-other-foot argument may not count for much anymore."
These people are simply sociopaths: our Christian-morality-derived society created a petri dish perfect to fuel the growth of these ungrateful selfish haters, and the above statement helped me see it.
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