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Wednesday, December 12th, 2018
Why have the Democrats changed 180 degrees on Illegal immigration?
This is an enlightening quick overview on the changing landscape in American politics. We used to all be together on this matter of border security but the Democrats have changed their tune – why? Click below to understand the change
VIDEO – TUCKER CARLSON
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Illegal Immigration It’s About Power
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Friday, December 7th, 2018
For additional information about the allies and enemies of World War II, the book “Warlords” is an extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. The authors are Simon Berthon and Joanna Potts and the book was published in 2006. A fascinating read ! Nancy
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Unsavory Allies, From Stalin to the Saudis
FDR cooperated with one of history’s most murderous dictators.
Turkish forensic officers look for clues about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, Yalova, Turkey, Nov. 26. PHOTO: ERDEM SAHIN/EPA-EFE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The president’s critics must be a bit short on American history. During World War II, the U.S. and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were in bed comfortably with one of the most murderous dictators in history. Joseph Stalin didn’t kill one citizen of the Soviet Union. He killed millions, before and during the war. He was quoted saying: “The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic.” Maybe, frighteningly, he was right.
The media, Democrats and even some Republicans have been full of moral indignation over the Trump administration’s failure to punish Saudi Arabia for killing writer Jamal Khashoggi. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia says “the president’s failure to hold Saudi Arabia responsible in any meaningful way” is an “example of this White House’s retreat from America’s leadership on human rights and protecting the free press.”
President Trump has balked at all of this, noting that the Saudis are valuable allies against Iran. The “Death to America”-chanting fanatics who make up the Iranian regime are the world’s foremost sponsors of terrorism, and they are committed to building nuclear weapons that could reach not only Israel but also Europe and the U.S.
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Posted in Big Government, Demographics, Diversity, Elitism, England, EU ( European Union), Europe, Foreign Policy, Free Speech, Globalists, Globalization, Legal Issues, Liberalism, Media, National Defense, One World Government, Open Borders, Political Correctness, Progressive Movement, Radical Left, Social Justice, Socialism, Sovereignty, U.N., Videos | No Comments »
Sunday, December 2nd, 2018
AMERICAN THINKER
December 1, 2018
Palin Was Right: ‘Drill, Baby, Drill!’
Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.
Like the rooster that takes credit for the sunrise, President Barack “You Didn’t Build That” Obama woke up the other day and decided to take credit for another thing he had nothing to do with. The president who said that companies like Solyndra were the hallmark of a future in which workers drove Chevy Volts, predicted that manufacturing jobs of the past could not be brought back, not only took credit for an economy he didn’t build, but also for the energy boom he opposed which is fueling it.
Back in 2012, geologist Barack Obama, poster child for the “peak oil” crowd, told us that calling for increased production as Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin did. by increased drilling – “drill, baby, drill,” she called it — was not a plan, but rather “a bumper sticker.” Obama assured us, “You know, we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices,”
Well we have, just as those manufacturing jobs that weren’t coming back have come back. So now Obama would have us forget what he said about the fuels of the past, as he massaged his ego one more time:
Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday took credit for booming U.S. oil and gas production, telling investors to “say thank you” to him.
Obama spoke in Houston at an event hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute, where he praised his administration’s commitment to the Paris climate agreement before taking credit for the United States being the biggest producer of oil and gas during his administration.
“I was extraordinarily proud of the Paris accords because — you know, I know we’re in oil country and we need American energy, and by the way, American energy production,” Obama said.
“You wouldn’t always know it, but it went up every year I was president. That whole, suddenly America’s like the biggest oil producer and the biggest gas — that was me, people.”
Sorry, Barack, but the man who blocked the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines doesn’t get to take credit for the oil that soon 
will be running through both. Nor is the president who opposed two technologies developed by private industry, fracking and horizontal drilling, get to take credit for the abundance They have produced,
Obama tried to kill off fracking with a rule designed to burden the oil industry with excessive reporting requirements which would allow the EPA to delay and derail new exploration and drilling. It was designed to kill fracking, a key part of America’s energy resurgence, based on unfounded environmentalist fears, namely that fracking poisons drinking water, accelerates climate change, and causes earthquakes. As Investor’s Business Daily commented on the Obama fracking rule enacted in 2015:
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Posted in American History, Democrats, Energy, Environmental Issues, Environmental Protection Agency-, Foreign Policy, Fracking, Liberalism, Middle East, National Defense, Obama, Obama Administraiton and Policy, Oil Industry, Progressive Movement, Sarah Palin, Technology, U.S. Presidents | No Comments »
Saturday, December 1st, 2018
Our country needs to be self-sufficient in the mining and production of rare earth minerals that are critical to high-tech applications, including military equipment. We only have one rare earth mine in this country and it is crucial to keep this mine in operation. If ever there was a good reason to subsidize an industry, this is it ! China controls the needed rare earth minerals and could use them as a bargaining chip if tensions continue to escalate between our countries. It has been said that a country is as strong as its weakest link and rare earth minerals is definitely one of our weak links ! Nancy
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
PRIZED ‘RARE EARTH’ MINERALS FEEL SCORCH OF TARIFFS
Friday, November 30, 2018
Two Trump-administration policies have put a “rare earth” minerals mine in California between a rock and a hard place.
Six months after a hedge fund controlled by 40-year-old financier James Litinsky became majority owner of the Mountain Pass mine and brought it out of bankruptcy, President Trump announced an executive order that would seem like its golden ticket: The U.S. should stop buying key minerals overseas, and instead promote domestic supplies, as a matter of national security.
Mountain Pass is the only current U.S. source of rare earths—critical to high-tech applications, including military equipment. Mr. Litinsky’s mine stood to benefit from any resulting increase in demand from the new U.S. policy, announced in December 2017.
James Litinsky, head of JHL Capital Group, which has a majority stake in MP Materials, the business running the U.S.’s only rare-earth mining facility, in Mountain Pass, Calif.
Posted in California, China, Donald Trump, Environmental Issues, Foreign Policy, Government Regulation, Military, National Defense, Regulations, Technology | No Comments »
Saturday, December 1st, 2018
THE DAILY CALLER
EXCLUSIVE: FBI RAIDS HOME OF WHISTLEBLOWER ON CLINTON FOUNDATION, LAWYER SAYS
11/29/2018 | INVESTIGATIVE GROUP
Richard Pollock | Reporter
- The FBI raided the home of a whistleblower who was in possession of documents regarding the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, according to the whistleblower’s lawyer, Michael Socarras.
- The whistleblower, Dennis Nathan Cain, had turned the documents over to the Department of Justice’s inspector general and both the House and Senate Intelligence committees, according to the lawyer.
- The FBI rummaged through Cain’s home for six hours, even after the whistleblower handed over the documents, according to Socarras.
FBI agents raided the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower who privately delivered documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One to a government watchdog, according to the whistleblower’s attorney.
The Justice Department’s inspector general was informed that the documents show that federal officials failed to investigate potential criminal activity regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Rosatom, the Russian company that purchased Uranium One, a document reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation alleges.
The delivered documents also show that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct pertaining to Rosatom and to other Russian government entities attached to Uranium One, the document reviewed by TheDCNF alleges. Mueller is now the special counsel investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
“The bureau raided my client to seize what he legally gave Congress about the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One,” the whistleblower’s lawyer, Michael Socarras, told TheDCNF, noting that he considered the FBI’s raid to be an “outrageous disregard” of whistleblower protections. (RELATED: FBI Takes Aim At The Clinton Foundation)
Sixteen agents arrived at the home of Dennis Nathan Cain, a former FBI contractor, on the morning of Nov. 19 and raided his Union Bridge, Maryland, home, Socarras told TheDCNF.
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Posted in Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Corruption/Crime, Deep State, Democrats, Election 2016, FBI, FBI Director, Foreign Policy, Justice Department, Legal Issues, Mueller, National Defense, Nuclear Energy/Weapons, Obama Administraiton and Policy, Police/law enforcement, Political Corruption, Politics, Russia, State Department, Technology, Women Candidates | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Tear gas used once a month at border under Obama
DHS data shows deployments dating back years
The same tear gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during some years under President Obama, according to Homeland Security data.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, or CS, since 2010, and deployed it 26 times in 2012 and 27 times in 2013. The use dropped after that, but was still deployed three times in 2016, Mr. Obama’s final full year in office.
Use of CS rose again in 2017, which was split between Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump, and reached 29 deployments in fiscal year 2018, which ended two months ago, according to CBP data seen by The Washington Times.
Border authorities also use another agent, pepper spray, frequently — including a decade-high record of 151 instances in 2013, also under Mr. Obama. Pepper spray, officially known as Pava Capsaicin, was used 43 times in fiscal year 2018, according to the CBP numbers.
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
A very realistic look at the possibility of a European Army. Europe’s dilemma is to continue the feeding of the socialistic beast (cradle to grave entitlements) or to increase its military so it can defend itself. I highlighted the author’s description of President Trump’s behavior towards the Europeans regarding their military spending (“his diplomacy of rudeness” and his “insolence”). Perhaps the Europeans would prefer that their dependency on the U.S. for military protection not be so rudely and openly discussed. Other presidents have complained (privately) and it got them nowhere with the Europeans. Everyone politely ignored the elephant in the room but not Trump ! He says it like it is !!! Nancy
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
A ‘TRUE EUROPEAN ARMY’? DREAM ON
Military autonomy is unworkable. There are better ways to improve the Continent’s defenses.
French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump in Paris, Nov. 10.PHOTO: SAUL LOEB/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
‘We must protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia, and even the United States,” French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier this month, calling for European strategic autonomy from the U.S. That autonomy would, in Mr. Macron’s words, include a “true European army.” A few days later, German chancellor Angela Merkel echoed the call for a European force. The vision is gaining momentum, propelled in part by Donald Trump’s diplomacy of rudeness against America’s European allies.
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Posted in Defense Budget, Donald Trump, Entitlements, EU ( European Union), Europe, Foreign Policy, Globalists, Liberalism, Military, National Defense, Political Correctness, Socialism, Spending, Technology | No Comments »
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
VIDEO – TRUMP INTERVIEW AT AGE 34 WITH RONA BARRETT IN 1980
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
TRUMP FORGED TRADE IDEAS IN 1980’S – AND NEVER DEVIATED
His stance dates to the rise of Japan as a global economic power
Nov. 15, 2018 12:55 p.m. ET
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Mr. Trump articulated the core principles that frame his trade agenda from his first national TV interview—an October 1980 discussion with talk show host Rona Barrett at the height of the Iran hostage crisis. Mr. Trump decried America as a country where “we just sit back and take everybody’s abuse.”
He touted business executives as smarter than politicians, arguing the most capable leaders don’t run for office. “They head major corporations.”
Three decades before President Trump’s trade agenda jolted the world, he laid out his vision in full-page newspaper advertisements foreshadowing what was to come.
“Japan and other nations have been taking advantage of the United States” for years, wrote the New York real-estate developer, in the typewritten letter addressed “To The American People,” his signature affixed to the bottom.
“ ‘Tax’ these wealthy nations, not America. End our huge deficits, reduce our taxes…” the September 1987 ads demanded. “Let’s not let our great country be laughed at anymore.”
Trade has been a defining issue for the Trump administration during its turbulent first two years, providing the basis for an economic and diplomatic approach that has shaken up the post-World War II global order. The administration has imposed tariffs on half the $500 billion in Chinese goods imported annually, and on steel and aluminum from around the world, while threatening to do the same on cars. Mr. Trump has strong-armed Japan, Europe, Canada and Mexico to the negotiating table.
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Posted in Big Business, Donald Trump, Economy, Foreign Policy, Globalists, Globalization, International Affairs, Iran, Trade Agreements, U.S. Presidents, Videos | No Comments »
Friday, November 16th, 2018
AMERICAN THINKER
November 13, 2018
Trump’s a Nationalist. That’s What All Presidents Should Be!
Thomas Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner with a distinguished career as columnist, reporter, author and TV host. I have admired him and his work for as long as he has been visible. I’ve never met him but our careers overlapped in London and we both spent time in Beirut.
Recently he wrote a column called, “George Washington for President.” The subtitle was, “Patriots put love of their own people first, while nationalists put hate for other people first.” This came right after President Trump proclaimed himself to be a nationalist.
Friedman really teed off on the president, calling him a
…disturbed man whose job description – to be a healer of the country in times of great national hurt and to pull us together to do big hard things that can only be done together – conflicts with his political strategy, which is to divide us and mobilize his base with anger and fear.
Thomas Friedman, World Economic Forum, 2013 (photo credit World Economic Forum)
With that, my admiration for Friedman took a deep dive. I had to ask myself: is this the comment of a rational or even sane person? Here’s my problem with Mr. Friedman. He managed to avoid the real situation and in fact spun diametrically away from the real story of Donald Trump and those who would destroy him.
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