[PJ] Judge Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News judicial analyst, issued a warning for President Trump after retired General Michael Flynn "took one for the team" earlier this week and stepped down.
Napolitano pointed out that the phone calls Flynn made to the Russian ambassador are not a "big deal," but the fact that they were leaked is.
"There are obviously elements in the United States government, in the intelligence community, that want to frustrate Donald Trump," Judge Nap said. "They want to frustrate his presidency because he is a threat to their power center." The judge explained that "the way they struck back was to rid him of a very valuable weapon called General Flynn."
"This should be a warning to the president," Napolitano cautioned. "There are elements in the government -- the executive branch of the government that works for you, Mr. President -- that you need to get rid of."
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John Dean singlehandedly caused the ultimate destruction of the Nixon Presidency. Be very careful how you deal with finding the leakers. My bet, Obama appointees who burrowed in at Justice or the Agency, and they will play the race card if possible. Plan on investigators who can offset that option.
[American Thinker] Make no mistake: we have just witnessed an operation by members of the CIA to take out a high official of our own government. An agency widely believed to have brought down democratically elected governments overseas is now practicing the same dark arts in domestic American politics. Almost certainly, its new head, Mike Pompeo, was not consulted.
Senator Chuck Schumer, of all people, laid out on January 2 what was going to happen to the Trump administration if it dared take on the deep state ‐ the permanent bureaucracy that has contempt for the will of the voters and feels entitled to run the government for its own benefit:
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Actually, as this was starting up, I thought about Sherlock Holmes and dogs not barking.
Who liasons between sources? Who in the 'inner circle' hasn't the media been stomping on?
The name I come up with is Riebus Prince.
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CIA breaking the law? Naw, that wouldn't happen, it would be criminal and un-American. There were controversial allegations they were flying dope into Mena, Arkansas during the Clinton governorship too.
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ed in texas, Riebus Prince hasn't actually done anything to be blasted about yet as far as the world knows. Also he's generally standing between Trump and Bannon so the left can't even see him when stands in plane site.
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It is interesting that the phone call in question was in December.
So Obama had to have gone to FAISA to get permission to monitor Flynn's phone. Of course they were monitoring the Russian but what good does that do when they know we are listening.
Sound like a final attempt to get Flynn.
They were after him when he was head of NSA and they went nuts when he starting advising Trump.
Of course Flynn can still have a desk at the WH and advise Trump, he just isn't on the Security Council...how about making him Deputy Director of the Klingons so Pompeo can have a wing man in that fever swamp.
[FreeKorea] The kindest way to remember Kim Jong-nam may be as a man who was never cut out to be a tyrant. This must have been obvious from the circumstances of his fall from primogeniture — he was caught entering Japan on a fake passport on his way to Tokyo Disneyland. Maybe he never wanted the job, and maybe it was his downfall that caused him to reflect on the circumstances of his countrymen. He was neither a hero nor a martyr, although he later wrote a book criticizing the rule of his half-brother (whom he claimed he never met). Although there were rumors of a previous attempt to assassinate him by staging a car accident, Kim Jong-nam never really seemed interested enough in politics to call a dissident, either. He seemed interested in being happy. And any man who abstains from the opportunity to enslave others ought to be remembered fondly for that alone.
Considerably more at the link. Recommended.
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Times: This is why your North Korea reporting stinks FIFY
[Daily Caller] Sounding like a voice from the President Donald Trump’s administration, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that he was impressed with Trump during their meeting this week in Washington.
"What I saw from the American president was a focus on getting things done for the people who supported him and who believe in him, while demonstrating that good relations with one’s neighbors is a great way of getting things done," said Trudeau.
Trudeau was speaking at a news conference in Strasbourg, France along with the president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani. Tajani echoed Trudeau’s message of reassurance and suggested that Canada can play a special intermediary role between the U.S. and Europe because Monday’s Washington summit had "paved the way for better relations between European Union and the United States of America," Tajani said.
"We want to work with the Americans. Over the next years, the Canadian work is very good for relations between us and America. It’s easier for the Canadians to speak to the Americans."
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Will Trump ease US import restrictions on Canadian oil, Durham wheat, and lumber? US Green and protectionist business interest have been screwing with Canada for decades.
[Center For Immigration Studies] The findings of this analysis show that if a border wall stopped a small fraction of the illegal immigrants who are expected to come in the next decade, the fiscal savings from having fewer illegal immigrants in the country would be sufficient to cover the costs of the wall. This analysis takes the likely education level of illegal border-crossers and applies fiscal estimates developed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) for immigrants by education level. NAS calculates the future fiscal balance immigrants create -- taxes paid minus costs. NAS reports fiscal balances as "net present values", which places a lower value on future expenditures than on current expenditures.
Based on the NAS data, illegal border-crossers create an average fiscal burden of approximately $74,722 during their lifetimes, excluding any costs for their U.S.-born children. If a border wall stopped between 160,000 and 200,000 illegal crossers -- 9 to 12 percent of those expected to successfully cross in the next decade -- the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall.
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p.s. An idea. Suppose Trump announces that the funds saved in this way will be applied toward defraying college debt? I know, I know, but "the Art of war is the art of deception" - and it is war.
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So, the meme that Obama was deporting illegal aliens at high levels was a myth. In fact, he was a busy lad with recruiting new Democrat voters during his administration. Build the wall, it will pay for itself.
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If we build a wall and illegal immigration plunges (without some work visa program) Mexico must reform their corrupt economy or face a revolution.
Assuming the politicians in Mexico like living they will reform. If they reform Mexico has a chance of fighting their way up to the first world in a decade or two.
If that happens I'm sure Obama will get the credit and we'll hear "despite the wall" in most reporting.
[DAWN] SLOWLY but stubbornly, and mostly out of view of the public, a debate on the revival of military courts for civilians appears to be edging towards a decision to reactivate the courts. A draft law by the government that appears to have been shared with parliamentary leaders proposes, according to news reports, a three-year extension for military courts. The last time this debate was held, shock and horror at the Army Public School attack in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. overwhelmed broader constitutional and rule-of-law concerns. The country had been deeply maimed and a chaotic politicianship was unable to resist a determined military leadership’s demands for symbolic new powers in the name of fighting terrorism. And while the Supreme Court did eventually uphold the hastily passed 21st Amendment, it was apparent that a conflicted court only envisaged military courts as a temporary aberration. Yet, a door to the normalisation of military courts had been opened -- and sure enough, more than two years on, the military wants to keep its powers to try terrorism suspects in secrecy and with a minimum of due process.
What is deeply troubling about the push for the revival of military courts is that the PML-N government appears to have become a thoroughly willing accomplice in the further distortion of the Constitution. A government sworn to protect and uphold the Constitution appears blithely unaware, or perhaps deliberately ignorant, of its democratic responsibilities, opting to align itself with a militarised view of safety and security inside the country. Perhaps the federal government is calculating that reviving military courts will create goodwill with the military leadership while causing minimal political damage, especially since a terrorism-weary public is supportive of extreme steps taken against terrorism suspects. But expediency and populism do not make the government right. Indeed, it is possible to make a case that the government, having no interest or appetite for judicial reforms, sees military courts as an easy cover for its legislative and administrative failings. Instead of having to explain why justice system reforms have not featured on its agenda, the government is simply turning to military courts to plug the gaping hole in its record.
As the government works to assemble the coalition necessary to amend the Constitution once again, now is the time for conscientious and right-thinking parliamentarians to speak out and push back against the government’s plans. Once an amendment bill is tabled in parliament, the individual will of parliamentarians will not matter; they will be required to vote in line with their parliamentary party leaders’ orders. Certainly, even in the government ranks, there will be unease at what is being attempted. Military courts for civilians are a distortion of bedrock constitutional and democratic principles -- and distortions, once introduced, have a way of growing in unpredictable ways. The fight against militancy will be a long one; it must be fought and won honourably.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The pertinence of Hezbollah’s agenda can be viewed through its flexibility to continuously identify with the Iranian project countering Israeli interests. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... this agenda was not always nor exclusively anti-Israel.
We’ve heard a lot about the problem of inequality in America over recent years. But most of that talk has ignored one of the very worst pockets of inequality in American society. I speak, of course, of the American university system and its treatment of adjunct professors and graduate students.
Academics seem to think that the business world is a feudal environment characterized by huge status differentials and abusive treatment of underlings. They think that because, to be honest, that’s a pretty good characterization of . . . the modern university, where serfs in the form of adjunct professors toil in the vineyards.
As a recent piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports: "Tenured faculty represent only 17% of college instructors. Part-time adjuncts are now the majority of the professoriate and its fastest-growing segment. From 1975 to 2011, the number of part-time adjuncts quadrupled. And the so-called part-time designation is misleading because most of them are piecing together teaching jobs at multiple institutions simultaneously. A 2014 congressional report suggests that 89% of adjuncts work at more than one institution; 13% work at four or more. The need for several appointments becomes obvious when we realize how little any one of them pays. In 2013, The Chronicle began collecting data on salary and benefits from adjuncts across the country. An English- department adjunct at Berkeley, for example, received $6,500 to teach a full-semester course. It’s easy to lose sight of all the people struggling beneath the data points. $7,000 at Duke. $6,000 at Columbia. $5,950 at the University of Iowa."
...Today universities have a two-tier class system: Tenured professors and administrators on top, with generous pay and benefits and job security, while many (in some places most) required courses are being taught by the equivalent of serfs, with low pay, no job security, and little in the way of status. Of course, if you leave the academia entirely, it's even worse.
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I know someone who has a Masters in puppetry!. Can't understand why he can't get a 6 figure income job. "I have a Masters!"
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Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
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If someone has a double doctorate in medieval history and complains they cannot get an adequate job, I do not feel sorry for them.
I think you missed the point. You have part-time adjuncts doing most of the teaching while tenured professors are over paid and do virtually nothing.
Add to that the lopsided administration/faculty situation and the administrators making obscene money to boot. MAKE the Left eat their own dog food. Alinsky the crap out of these hypocrites.
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I've seen similar arguments made about charitable giving. The Lefties say it must be done by government, because otherwise no one would do it voluntarily. The numbers belie this claim. What's happening is that liberals are confessing something about themselves.
Which makes me wonder when the Left says that without gun control, we'd all be shooting each other all the time.
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Supposedly, the tenured professors are doing important research. Now, how important that research really is I'm not prepared to say.
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I had an administrative position at UCI back in the day. I knew for a fact that many of the tenured professors were not even on campus for months on end. UCI had a Nobel Laureate who didn't even do his research on campus.
They use these big name professors to pimp a class to students and then some GA teaches it and the professor doesn't even do office hours.
I knew of some chemistry classes taught in the Medical Sciences Department that were taught by UNDERGRADUATES...yep, the GAs were too busy doing research so they had juniors and seniors teaching freshman chemistry.
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Here's my research. Jobs have been going overseas while people have been pouring in feeding off of a US Public deficit that had double on only 8 years. Do the math.
h/t Instapundit
[IntellectualTakeout] Today, those who most frequently invoke the virtue of "tolerance" would have you believe that it is actually Christianity that requires slavish obedience to dogmatic formulas.
However, as professor Anthony Esolen argues in his popular, recently-published book--Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture--the "tolerant society" is much more dogmatic. The citizen of the modern West is forced to pay homage to a growing list of dogmas that far outnumber those of most religions: And you can go along, or give up on any idea of being in white collar profession let alone academia.
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Tolerance is a lie. When a Christian (or Muslim) baker doesn't want to make a gay wedding cake the gay couple could 'tolerate' that choice, or the baker could 'tolerate' the gays. In fact, the issue has nothing whatsoever to do with tolerance. It is simply one of compulsion.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] Judge Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News judicial analyst, issued a warning for President Trump after retired General Michael Flynn "took one for the team" earlier this week and stepped down.
[Daily Caller] Sounding like a voice from the President Donald Trump’s administration, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that he was impressed with Trump during their meeting this week in Washington.
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