[FoxNews] "From this day forward, it’s going to be only America First."
I was in Paris when President Trump spoke those words in his inaugural address, alongside former Congressman Michael Flanagan, Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely (Ret.), and Trump historian Frank Mitchell.
Conservative French parliament members had invited us to a black-tie inaugural gala to celebrate the peaceful passage of power from one American administration to the next.
Before the event, as we gathered outside the ornate banquet hall of the Hotel Orleans to watch the president’s inaugural address with dozens of members of the French parliament and high-ranking French military officers, something surrealistic happened when those words "America First" rolled from the new president’s lips.
The room burst into enthusiastic applause.
Frenchmen?
Let that sink in for a moment.
Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, Army Green Beret Matt Golsteyn, and 82nd Airborne Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance all have this in common: All were charged or convicted (in Lorance’s case) of killing the enemy in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher is being prosecuted for “murdering an ISIS operative.” That’s the same ISIS, by the way, that murdered 250 children in a dough kneader, that beheads Coptic Christians on the shores of Libya, displaced millions of Christians in the Middle East, burns men alive in cages and decapitated American journalist James Foley? And we prosecute a Navy SEAL for “murdering” one of these animals?
Back at the AOB, they had been informed Gallagher was being sent back but were not informed why at that time. A second Special Forces member assigned to the AOB reported that when Gallagher arrived at Camp Bastion, he was boasting about having shot the farmer. At the AOB, the Special Forces common area and the operations center were in close proximity, and the walls were quite thin. That day, the AOB commander overheard Gallagher bragging about the killing, pulled him aside for a private conversation, and Gallagher was quickly put on a plane and sent away.
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Funny how sometimes it's "the fog of war," and other times every rumor or second hand account is gospel.
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How bout an "Alien" remake with current US ROE? How would that turn out?
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Fighting two issues here. The world see's our SOF forces as hired killer elites. They think it all goes down like World of Warcraft. This translates into the political, both US and global, as the US SOF are killers. SOF has to hold a tight leash on this, as it can spin out of control so fast, see Fallujah Marines and Blackwater. The armed enemy is only half the fight. The media can spread a lie faster than the truth and having some comment slip like he did is dangerous. This is no justification of his trial, it is the rest of the facts on the ground. Too bad a very large portion of our nation do not support the efforts of our service members...
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Trump tweeted about the conditions of Chief Gallagher's confinement in March, and Chief Gallagher was transferred from a brig to a military hospital. The president's interest in the case has helped to ensure that Chief Gallagher has a high profile, access to well-connected lawyers like Marc Mukasey, who works for the Trump Organization. Trump has said if the jury finds him guilty, a pardon awaits. I prayed for this man, that God helps him and delivers him out of the hands of unreasonable men and vindictive vultures.
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Too bad a very large portion of our nation do not support the efforts of our service members...
Passing the physical trials and getting the badge does not an elite soldier make. Like the rest of our society they also have been infiltrated by the weak-minded bereft of the love of country and comrade. Sadly we'll only see more of it Pan.
[American Thinker] The Chicago Tribune chronicles an astonishing list of academics who have received huge payouts from Illinois state-owned institutions of higher education or remained collecting six-figure salaries after losing their jobs. Many of them failed in their jobs but made threats of litigation, so they were bought off with taxpayers' money. That's a lot easier than airing dirty laundry. You wouldn't want those hiring decisions to come under scrutiny, now, would you?
Everybody wins...except the chumps that pay taxes.
[VictoryGirlsBlog] The Left has a major Antifa problem. Antifa groups are supposedly against fascism. Yet, their actions show the complete opposite. Their brutal attacks on innocent bystanders and journalist Andy Ngo this weekend in Portland are prime examples. What does the left and 95% of the media do in response? Put the blame on Andy Ngo and work overtime to offer excuses for the violence.
As Kim wrote here, Andy Ngo was attacked for filming the protests. At last report, he is in the hospital while the doctors work to heal him and deal with a brain bleed.
The sheer number of journalists and blue check marks on Twitter who crawled out from under their rocks to blame Andy is astounding and unconscionable.
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It is not the Left's problem, it is a valuable tool of the Left, and it is doing exactly what they want it to. The intifadAntifa is supported by the DNC, those smug fuckers in the House. The people wearing masks and attacking American citizens are their voter base.
The Antifa are the bastards you saw crying and beating their chests when Clinton lost. They elected the Democrats to save their 'revolution', to help bring in this anarchy. And anarchy is what the left wants, so it can replace it with a police state.
How can anybody expect the democrats to stop them, or even condemn their acts ? It is up to conservatives alone to mount a counter-offensive in defense of their cities and institutions, and the President to declare Antifa a terrorist organization. Complacence and blind trust in institutions has always led to bitter destruction. All the enemy has to do, is infiltrate your institutions of authority and you're his.
They present a specter of alt-right elements and Nazis out to kill diversity and spread hatred and hurt, right ? So why can't people get together, coordinate a guerilla campaign that shows them what that would be really like ? Give them something to really cry about. Remember Clément Meríc and Pavlos Fyssas ? The elected executive and conservative lawyers and judges should provide extra-legal support to vigilantes.
The conservative must understand that intifad, antifa, spring, rebellion is all the same thing. And consider how other societies deal with it. The Israeli duvdevan squads, hindu right wing militias, the Buddhist extremists in Thailand, Myanmar, Austria's street gang vigilantes... Americans need to get their hands dirty to clean house.
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I believe someone in LE (FBI, DoJ, ATF, or DHS) should look at these "milkshakes" being tossed around by the Antifa people. From the description of their contents, I suspect they might easily qualify as chemical weapons.
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The left doe NOT have an ANTIFA problem. The left has a Fascist wing of their party that they support. They need to stop supporting fascism and the ANTIFA brown shirts will go away.
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It's not a problem for them until it costs them.
So far it's gained them more than it's cost them.
This has the whiff of the standard Conservative Commentariat "Let's appeal to the better angels of the left's nature/sweet reason/or at least their self interest" routine.
Has stuff like this ever worked?
When lefties en masse suffer long prison terms (or worse) then they'll rethink things and not before.
[Jpost] Thursday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal and their exposure of financial loopholes exploited by blacklisted terror suspects shows that when it comes to acting tough on combating extremism, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... ’s money is not where its mouth is. The links between Qatar and top-level blacklisted gunnies have been exposed once more, in revelations that are shocking but not at all surprising.
The Gulf emirate has long been criticized for allowing terror financing to flourish within its borders, as well as for assisting terrorist groups abroad. Beyond al-Qaeda, Qatari citizens have been flagged for suspicious financing of Islamic State
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[Townhall] If you watched either or both of the two Democratic Party presidential candidate debates, and if you are a liberal, a conservative or a centrist, you had to have been depressed.
The intellectual shallowness, the demagoguery and the alienation from reality were probably unprecedented in American political history. Only a leftist, a socialist or a communist could have gone to bed a happy person on either night.
If you think this is a baseless generalization, here are a few of myriad examples from the first night:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: "(The economy is not doing great) for the African Americans and Latinx whose families are torn apart, whose lives are destroyed and whose communities are ruined."
Two things stand out: First is Warren's morally reprehensible and false description of the economy. She never explains how the American economy is tearing families apart, destroying lives or ruining communities. Aside from being baseless, it is another left-wing libel against America.
She went on to explain economic inequality in America: "Corruption, pure and simple. We need to call it out." It is difficult to overstate the contempt she and the rest of the left have for America.
[Townhall] While speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference on Friday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson told the audience that his decision to enter politics was based on "knowing who has all the power" and guidance from God which "is where real courage comes from." While he maintained that he is is "not a politician" and hopes "to God to never become one," he did point out that leftists often denigrate him for his affiliation with the Republican party and also compared the fight to end abortion to abolitionists fighting to end slavery.
"In our society, for some people on the other side, the only thing worse than Satan is a black conservative," Sec. Carson said with a chuckle.
"Blacks are supposed to think a certain way," he continued. "If you do not think that way, you are an Uncle Tom. To me, know what that sounds like? Racism."
"I knew I would be attacked. I will go from being a hero to the goat," he said of his decision to enter the 2016 presidential primary race.
"I knew I would take a big cut in income. All of these things would happen," he explained. "I started thinking, what if all the other people who preceded me helped make this into a great country had taken that attitude. Where we would be? Some of us does have to go out there and we have to just ask God, what would you have me do and for the wisdom to do it. Do not worry about the consequences. God will take care of the consequences."
[The Hill] Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) moved past former Vice President Joe Biden in the early race for 2020 endorsements from Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members after her strong performance in the first primary debate earned her the support of two new lawmakers.
CBC endorsements, a vital commodity in a Democratic primary, have taken on special significance this presidential cycle, as President Trump has injected issues of race into the election in unprecedented fashion and as a crowded Democratic field fights to nail down the support of black voters, who will be crucial in early primary states such as South Carolina.
Most lawmakers in the 55-member CBC have opted to stay on the sidelines in the early stages of the primary.
But Harris, herself a member of the group, unveiled two new CBC endorsements Monday, when Reps. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) rallied to her side. The additions bring Harris’s CBC endorsements to a total of six, compared to Biden's five.
Both lawmakers alluded to Harris’s debate showing in praising her presidential chops.
"Before the debate, Kamala Harris's viability as a candidate had been extremely underestimated, in part because voters are still getting to know her," Wilson told The Hill.
Wilson also praised Harris for the manner in which she challenged Biden when she directly confronted the former Delaware senator over his opposition to federal efforts to bus students across school districts in the 1970s.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] The Foreign Office has rejected the report by US Commission on International Religious Freedom for being biased. It went on to say that Pakistain was a multicultural pluralistic country where people of various faiths lived together in peace and harmony. Frankly I could care less about the USCIRF’s report but I am very disappointed in our blanket bald denial of what is a fact in Pakistain.
Before I outline the continuous denial of fundamental rights of religious minorities in Pakistain, let me state clearly for everyone: I am a proud Pak citizen who believes in the idea of Pakistain. Everything I have written in this newspaper and elsewhere has been with this objective: a progressive democratic and inclusive Pakistain as envisaged by Mr Jinnah, who in my opinion was the most extraordinary 20th century leader and is unquestionably my greatest hero and idol. It is because I endeavour to follow Jinnah, I cannot lie about the facts on the ground in Pakistain for honesty was the essence of the man. Pakistain today is one of the most horrible places on earth when it comes to religious freedom. When one points out this simple fact, one is confronted by the many failures of India. I am sure India is extremely horrible but we separated from India because we wanted to be better than them. The pont that India too is bad is neither here nor there. India is a badly majoritarian and caste-ist society and as such no model for us to follow or aspire to. It may have a secular constitution more or less but it is not a secular country by any stretch of imagination. So shall we please stop citing India’s examples and failings?
Discrimination against religious minorities is built into the very structure of the Constitution. Enough has been written on the fact that offices of the president and the prime minister are reserved for Moslems alone. This is a negation of the principle of equality of citizenship. Saying that the Queen of United Kingdom has to be a Protestant is not a good answer because the President of Pakistain is not the head of the Islamic Church. Yet this discrimination is only the tip of the iceberg. Discrimination permeates through our constitution and the legal system. Non-Moslems are not just second class citizens but most of them are just a level above the sub-human status. Then there are the Ahmadis, who had so valiantly supported the Pakistain Movement and suffered at the hands of religious parties because of it and who are not even given the right to profess or practise their faith in accordance with their conscience in Pakistain today. An Ahmadi in Pakistain can be locked away
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] The storming of the Bahraini Embassy in al-Mansour in Baghdad, which is supposed to be one of the most guarded and secure neighborhoods in the city, is of great concern.
The concern, in reality, is not for the Embassy of Bahrain or its interests, but rather for Baghdad and Iraq, and its illusory sovereignty ‐ both present and future.
[Babylon Bee] PORTLAND, OR‐A member of Antifa, Dustin Day, injured himself over the weekend while attempting to punch a nazi he spotted.
"So I had my mask on and was ready to fight any nazis that came to Portland -- because I guess the city is full of them -- and then I saw one," explained Day. "You could tell from just one look at the guy that he was a crazed sociopath looking for any excuse to get violent." That’s when Day said he ran up and attempted to punch the nazi, but instead his fist hit some sort of "invisible shield." He then screamed, "Advanced nazi technology!" and ran away.
Further investigation of where Day says he encountered the nazi revealed only a broken mirror hanging on the wall.
This all comes on the heels of three Antifa members looking down into a lake, saying they saw three nazis in the water, and promptly drowning in the confrontation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[VictoryGirlsBlog] The Left has a major Antifa problem. Antifa groups are supposedly against fascism. Yet, their actions show the complete opposite. Their brutal attacks on innocent bystanders and journalist Andy Ngo this weekend in Portland are prime examples. What does the left and 95% of the media do in response? Put the blame on Andy Ngo and work overtime to offer excuses for the violence.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
[Townhall] While speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference on Friday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson told the audience that his decision to enter politics was based on "knowing who has all the power" and guidance from God which "is where real courage comes from." While he maintained that he is is "not a politician" and hopes "to God to never become one," he did point out that leftists often denigrate him for his affiliation with the Republican party and also compared the fight to end abortion to abolitionists fighting to end slavery. 
[DAILYTIMES.PK] The Foreign Office has rejected the report by US Commission on International Religious Freedom for being biased. It went on to say that Pakistain was a multicultural pluralistic country where people of various faiths lived together in peace and harmony. Frankly I could care less about the USCIRF’s report but I am very disappointed in our blanket bald denial of what is a fact in Pakistain.
[Babylon Bee] PORTLAND, OR‐A member of Antifa, Dustin Day, injured himself over the weekend while attempting to punch a nazi he spotted.
