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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
2017 Can't Come Soon Enough
Burt Prelutsky
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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Rubio signs tax pledge again - Tampa Bay Times: “Now Marco Rubio, presidential candidate, has signed Grover Norquist’s ‘Pledge’ again… During the 2012 presidential election every Republican candidate signed the pledge, except Jon Huntsman. Norquist can count on at least one candidate refusing to sign it this time, Jeb Bush. ‘If Governor Bush decides to move forward, he will not sign any pledges circulated by lobbying groups,’ spokeswoman Kristy Campbell said earlier this year. ‘His record on tax cuts is clear. He didn’t raise taxes.’”
[Rubio participates in Town Hall Los Angeles today, an event organized by the non-profit group to help educate community members on current issues both local and national.] -Fox News
[Rubio participates in Town Hall Los Angeles today, an event organized by the non-profit group to help educate community members on current issues both local and national.] -Fox News
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Walker focused on avoiding Perry’s fate - NYT: “Advisers said Mr. Walker, conceding that he has no hope of raising more than Mr. Bush this spring and summer, is devoting considerable time instead to addressing a weakness that could derail him with a single gaffe no matter how much some donors love him: his lack of depth on issues facing a president, especially national security. He is attending near daily policy briefings and working on Wisconsin’s next state budget, while his team is quietly recruiting volunteer fund-raisers, known as bundlers. They now number about 50 in 30 states - a shadow corps ready to compete with Mr. Bush as soon as Mr. Walker officially announces his candidacy, which is likely to be in June.” -Fox News
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REPORT: backstabber BOEHNER PANS SENATE PLAN TO HEM nOBAMA ON IRAN Eli Lake writes: “The top ranking Republican in Congress privately acknowledged this weekend that his party doesn't have enough votes to overcome a veto of any resolution disapproving the nuclear-weapons deal President Barack nObama hopes to reach with Iran. Speaking at an off-the-record event Saturday at the Republican Jewish Coalition's meeting in Las Vegas, House Speaker backstabber John Boehner told the audience that he didn't expect that more than two-thirds of Congress would vote to overturn a veto from nObama if Congress voted against a nuclear deal, according to four people who were inside the room for the private talk….backstabber Boehner's comments this weekend confirm their suspicions that [Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker's] bill is too weak to stop nObama from implementing a bad Iran deal.” -Fox News
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DEMS HAMPER nOBAMA ON TRADE TALKS WITH JAPANESE P.M.
WSJ: “Mr. nObama and his negotiators are working to finish the Trans-Pacific Partnership… while also fighting to win “fast track” negotiating authority from Congress to expedite approval of the deal later this year. The trade agreement will be a topic of conversation between Mr. nObama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe…Mr. nObama has expressed annoyance and, on occasion, flashes of anger over the sometimes harsh criticism of the Asian trade agreement from his usual allies on his party’s left wing.” -Fox News
WSJ: “Mr. nObama and his negotiators are working to finish the Trans-Pacific Partnership… while also fighting to win “fast track” negotiating authority from Congress to expedite approval of the deal later this year. The trade agreement will be a topic of conversation between Mr. nObama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe…Mr. nObama has expressed annoyance and, on occasion, flashes of anger over the sometimes harsh criticism of the Asian trade agreement from his usual allies on his party’s left wing.” -Fox News
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nObama tries to put words in Hilly’s mouth on trade - “I think she said what she should be saying, which is that she is going to want to see a trade agreement that is strong on labor, strong on the environment, helps U.S. workers, helps the U.S. economy. That’s my standard as well, and I’m confident that standard can be met.” – President nObama to The Wall Street Journal on Hilly Clinton’s failure to take a stance on the TPP -Fox News
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Clinton Praised Controversial GM Plant After Massive Donation
(Bill McMorris) - The Clinton Foundation failed to disclose a contribution valued at $685,000 from the General Motors Foundation made one year before Secretary of State Hilly Clinton visited and praised one of its most controversial operations, according to aWashington Free Beacon analysis...The foundation has ties to the bailed-out automaker dating back to 2007. Clinton Foundation records show that General Motors has contributed between $50,001 and $100,000 to the nonprofit. The GM Foundation, which is funded entirely through company support, gave the Clintons 30 GMC pick-up trucks valued at nearly $685,000 in 2010 for Haitian earthquake relief at a time when the company was lobbying the State Department. http://freebeacon.com/issues/clinton-praised-controversial-gm-plant-one-year-after-massive-donation/
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Freddie Was Trying To Injure Himself – 2nd Inmate Gives Statement
(rickwells.us) - New information has surfaced which indicates that Baltimore thug-turned police “victim” Freddie Gray might have been exhibiting some self-destructive behavior during his ride in the police paddy wagon during which he is believed to have been fatally injured...A fellow prisoner who was riding in the same vehicle with Gray has come forward with a statement that from the commotion he heard Gray making, which included him “banging against the walls” of the vehicle, he believed at the time that Gray “was intentionally trying to injure himself.” It was recently learned that Gray had previously suffered spinal injuries as the result of a car accident and had received a significant insurance settlement. It now appears that Gray may have been attempting to re-injure himself in order to place the blame upon police,avoid jail and rack up another significant pay day in the process. If that was Gray’s intent, he was risking his life and health in doing so, but it may have been a gamble he was willing to take. Not every gamble pays off with a jackpot, losers are more plentiful than winners. http://www.rickwells.us/freddie-gray-was-trying-to-injure-himself-inside-police-van-2nd-inmate-in-van-gives-statement/
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nObama's Flying robots of Death
(Judge Andrew Napolitano) - Thomas Cromwell was the principal behind-the-scenes fixer for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the interrogations, convictions and executions of many whom Henry needed out of the way...including his two predecessors as fixer and even the king’s second wife, Queen Anne. When Cromwell’s son, Gregory, who became sickened as he watched his father devolving from counselor to monster, learned that an executioner for the queen had been sent for from France a week before her conviction, he asked his father what the purpose of her trial was if the king had preordained the queen’s guilt and prepaid the executioner. Cromwell replied that the king needed a jury to give legitimacy to her conviction and prevent the public perception of “the tyranny of one man’s opinion.” In America, we have a Constitution not only to prevent the perception but also to prevent the reality of the tyranny of one man’s opinion. The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment makes clear that if the government wants life, liberty or property, it cannot take it by legislation or executive command; it can do so only by due process – a fair jury trial and all its constitutional protections. http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/obamas-flying-robots-of-death/
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Can the Democrats Get Rid of Hilly?
(Daniel Greenfield) - The worst Clinton marriage isn’t the one between Hilly and Bill. It’s between Hilly Clinton and the Democratic Party. The Democrats don’t want Hilly, but they’re stuck with her anyway...Since her last loss, the Clintons have made it clear that 2016 will be Hilly’s year. Making her the inevitable candidate, scared off other candidates and their donors. Hilly camped out on the Democratic ticket the way that Jeb tried and failed to do on the Republican ticket. Hilly has the Democratic Party where she wants it. By scaring off every serious candidate, the party has no choice but to get behind her. And the more it gets behind her, the more it’s stuck with her. It’s a bad marriage that the Democrats can’t seem to escape. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/can-the-democrats-get-rid-of-hillary/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7c29ff32b3-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-7c29ff32b3-156509103
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Muhammad Bin Nayef, the Saudi groundhog
(Michael Rubin) - Every winter, Punxsutawney Phil emerges from his burrow in central Pennsylvania. If he sees his shadow and returns to his hole, that means there will be six more weeks of winter...Skeptics might roll their eyes at the accuracy of a groundhog’s predictions, but when it comes to the new Saudi Crown Prince, Muhammad Bin Nayyef, predictions are much clearer. Whether or not the Saudi groundhog sees his shadow, he will plant the seeds for decades more sectarian hatred and push sectarian warfare to the forefront of Saudi foreign policy. When King Abdullah died and Crown Prince Salman took over the Saudi throne, I wrote that there were dark clouds on the horizon with the appointment of the 55-year-old Muhammad bin Nayef as deputy crown prince. The problem was that Bin Nayef is a sectarian hardliner and pretty reactionary when it comes to reforms such as allowing women to drive. Earlier today, 79-year-old King Salman, frail and in poor health, issued a series of decrees shaking up the Saudi government. Long story short, Bin Nayef is now crown prince, his succession to the top spot in the kingdom virtually assured. http://www.aei.org/publication/muhammad-bin-nayef-the-saudi-groundhog/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=043015
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Builders flood Congress to block nObama’s EPA rules for creeks
(Alan Bierga & Mark Drajem) - President Barack nObama’s plan to expand protections for waterways is in jeopardy as builders and farmers have won the support of even some Democrats in Congress to block it...The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to put under federal oversight any pond or stream that has a “significant nexus” to a navigable waterway, even if the smaller body of water flows just a few weeks a year. Opponents fear it could mean permission would be needed to even dig a small ditch or build a road. The dispute over what is a “water of the U.S.” is becoming one of this year’s most pitched environmental battles, drawing bipartisan condemnation. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Minnesota Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson have both sponsored measures to derail it. The full House on Thursday is set to consider a bill to block the rule. http://linkis.com/personalliberty.com/sxLs8
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Not Indicting Hilly is Racist and Displays Gaudy White Privilege
(iotwreport.com) - Why is Hilly a major contender for the white house and not up on charges? Many pundits will ask, “what do you think would happen to Hilly if she was a conservative?”...Wrong question, my learned colleagues. The question we should be asking is, “what would happen to Hilly if she was a minority?” Blacks and minorities, it seems, have not been afforded the white privilege Hilly enjoys. Leftists deplore white privilege, yet, Hilly remains unfettered by any charges of obvious corruption. What up, progressives? http://iotwreport.com/?p=284055
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State Depart allowing Clinton Foundation to approve emails release
(Sarah Westwood) - State Department officials began allowing the Clinton Foundation to review emails the government planned to release to Congress and Freedom of Information Act requesters in January 2014...prompting a process that has delayed the publication of agency records for months, according to the group pursuing the records. Many of the emails Clinton Foundation officials were permitted to review discussed the charity's work, as well as the hundreds of ethics reviews that former President Clinton faced as a result of his paid-speaking engagements around the world while his wife, Hilly Clinton, was secretary of state. "On top of the obstruction that is in no small measure criminal in nature — with the hiding, removal and destruction of records by Mrs. Clinton — they are sending these records out to the foundation that are the very subject of these public controversies," said Tom Fitton. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-department-allowing-clinton-foundation-to-approve-emails-for-release/article/2563806?utm_campaign=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205&utm_source=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205%20-%2004/30/15&utm_medium=email
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(Richard A. Viguerie) - Republicans haven’t laid a glove on Hilly Clinton yet, because, to paraphrase James Carville, Mrs. Clinton’s longtime chief apologist, "It’s not about Hilly’s scandals: It’s her ideas stupid!"...To defeat Hilly Clinton Republicans should be challenging and campaigning against her policies – yet they remain fixated on attacking her at what may be her strongest point – the ability to weather a crisis. Yes, the mindboggling revelations about the venality, conflicts of interest and prima facie illegal conduct by Hilly Clinton while she was Secretary of State set forth in Peter Schweizer’s new book “Clinton Cash” would have driven any Republican from the presidential race and straight into an interview room at their local U.S. Attorney’s office. http://www.conservativehq.com/article/20207-it%E2%80%99s-not-about-hillary%E2%80%99s-scandals-it%E2%80%99s-her-ideas-stupid
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nObama’s Chief Attorney Makes Chilling Admission During SCOTUS
(Tony Perkins) - The biggest news from Tuesday’s Supreme Court arguments isn’t news at all to conservatives: Same-sex “marriage” is a threat to religious freedom. For once, that revelation didn’t come from one of the lawyers on our side but from the nObama administration’s own attorney...In a rare moment of candor, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli sent a clear signal on where this debate is headed, and it isn’t to the marriage altar. As the President’s chief attorney made stunningly clear, redefining marriage is not — and has never been — the end goal of homosexuals. Silencing dissent is. And you can’t silence dissent without punishing speech and belief — which is apparently what the government has in mind if the Court rules in the Left’s favor. http://barbwire.com/2015/04/30/0800-obamas-chief-attorney-makes-chilling-admission-during-scotus-marriage-arguments/
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(burtprelutsky.com) - Like everyone else who can’t wait for the nObamas to vacate the White House, I want to tell 2017 not to dawdle. No stopping to smell the roses while the rest of us are sniffing the swamp gas emanating from what has come to be known over the past six years as the Offal Office.
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I have long believed that you could get a pretty good handle on a person if you knew his friends and his enemies. In nObama’s case, his friends, those folks for whom he doesn’t mind going that extra mile, seem to consist of Vladimir Putin, the Ayatollah Khamenei and the Castros, which explains why Raul Castro recently declared that “Barack nObama is a decent man.” As commendations go, that’s rather like having Hitler calling you a nice guy.
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On the other hand, Obama’s enemy list includes Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, Egypt’s President el-Sisi, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Christians, America’s conservatives, law-abiding gun owners and, of course, Fox News.
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It is also telling that nObama and his stooges always manage to come up with tax dollars for illegal aliens, Planned Parenthood’s abortion mills and urban blacks, but rarely for our wounded military veterans.
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♦ Speaking of welfare, in Maine, a three-month limit has been established on food stamps for able-bodied adults without minor dependents (ABAWDS) unless they work 20 hours a week, attend job-training courses or volunteer for six hours a week. I think you’d agree that’s not too demanding. And yet the mere notion of doing volunteer work for about an hour-a-day was enough to decrease the number of these clodhoppers receiving food stamps by 80%!
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I suspect that if Maine added mandatory drug-testing to the requirements, it could eliminate that last 20%.
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♦ In case you’re unaware of it, the Rolling Stone, the uber left-wing rag, recently ran a story about a gang rape that allegedly took place at a University of Virginia fraternity house. It turned out that Jackie, the “victim” had made it up out of whole cloth, which, unfortunately, is the case far too often when it comes to campus assaults. But what made this case worthy of attention was that nobody insisted that the reporter speak to the alleged rapists, to the woman’s friends or even to the local police.
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Even when the Stone’s owner and editors fessed up, the apology sounded a lot like, “Okay, we were mistaken this one time (okay, twice, if you insist on bringing up the Duke Lacrosse team), but the fact is that young southerners enjoy nothing better than raping coeds unless it’s lynching black men.”
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For those on the Left who pooh-pooh conservatives when they accuse the mainstream media of having an agenda, whether it involves cases such as these or endemic racism among white cops, this is what we’re talking about.
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♦ Speaking of cops, some of the stupidest people in America, and that certainly includes Al Sharpton and the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, are those who compare cops to Klansmen. However, some of the other stoopnagels are cops. I mean ever since Rodney King, if a police officer so much as coughs without covering his mouth, it’s captured on video. So how is it that some of them still seem to believe that donning the uniform makes them invisible?
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♦ Speaking of stupid, how is it that so many so-called journalists haven’t caught on that if they’re going to devote their lives to shilling for the Democrats, they shouldn’t be working for newspapers and earning peanuts? What they should do is call themselves political strategists like James Carville, Joe Trippi, Mark Hannah and Lanny Davis. They’d not only make a fortune, but force millions of us to fast-forward through any Fox show on which they happened to appear.
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♦ Some of you may have noticed that I have cooled slightly on Scott Walker. It’s nothing that he’s done or even anything he said. In fact, it was his response to the English reporter who asked him what he thought of the Theory of Evolution. Instead of saying he believed in it or that he didn’t, he blinked and said something along the lines of “I wouldn’t touch that question with a 10-foot pole.”
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While it’s true that there was no reason to pose the question, and we all know that the same reporter would not ask it of Barack nObama or Hilly Clinton, I don’t want a Republican presidential candidate to ask himself how an answer to any question is going to play in Iowa or New Hampshire, Ohio or Texas.
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Frankly, I don’t care what Walker or any of the GOP contenders thinks about Charles Darwin. As president, nothing Walker says or does is going to involve evolution. But if you’re not savvy enough to say, “Darwin had his theories and I have my own when it comes to simplifying the tax code, building up our military, closing the southern border, shutting down the EPA, defending Israel, standing up to Iran and killing Islamic terrorists wherever they raise their ugly heads,” I’m not sure you’re ready for primetime.
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♦ After viewing Hilly’s video announcing her candidacy, showing her posed in front of a white picket fence, which didn’t even slightly resemble the Clinton mansion in Chappaqua, NY, a friend told me he expected some kid to come by and ask her if the Beav could come out and play. For my part, I was surprised not to see one of Ma Clinton’s famous hot apple pies cooling on the window sill.
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♦ When I recently wrote that Rand Paul was too short to be elected president, a couple of Sen. Paul’s fans reminded me that James Madison was a mere 5-foot-4. But I pointed out that was 200 years ago when the average height of American men wasn’t what it is today. Besides, without TV, most Americans had no idea how tall Madison was or how he measured up against George Clinton, Charles Pinckney or Rufus King. Moreover, people were a lot smarter back then, and welfare recipients, not to mention illegal aliens, weren’t being encouraged to vote.
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♦ Finally, I recently read that Olivia de Havilland, a contract player at Warner Brothers, begged Jack Warner to loan her out to MGM so she could take the role of Melanie in “Gone with the Wind.” Although it was commonplace and profitable for studios to rent out their stars, Jack Warner was reluctant because he always felt that when they came back to his no frills factory, they tended to be malcontents.
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So after being turned down by Jack, Olivia invited Mrs. Warner to have lunch at the Brown Derby. She presented her case, Jack’s wife interceded on her behalf and before you could say, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” Olivia de Havilland had the role and an Oscar nomination.
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The reason I mention this is because it relates to something in my own life. Many years ago when I was in my 20s, living in Los Angeles, I received an assignment from the Sundaysupplement in the Chicago Tribune to write a piece about the upcoming TV season. They told me they wanted me to interview the producers of the many new one-hour dramas that would debut in September. They specifically told me they weren’t interested in the financial impact it would have on the networks when most of their half-hour sit coms were displaced.
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I watched the pilot episodes, interviewed the producers and mailed the article off to Chicago. The next thing I knew, the editor of the Sunday supplement let me know he was dissatisfied. Where, he wanted to know, were all the financial details? I reminded him that he had told me to ignore all that boring stuff.
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When he held fast, I wrote to his boss, the managing editor, who wrote back to say he gave his subordinate editors absolute autonomy to do as they pleased.
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Fortunately, I still had relatives living in Chicago and both editors had distinctive names. So I wrote to a cousin and asked him to find out their home addresses. As soon as I had them, I addressed letters to their wives, explained the situation and asked them how they’d feel if they had a son living 1,800 miles away who was being jerked around this way. . I never heard back from either of the women, but within a week, I received a check from the Tribune.
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At the time, I realized that nearly every man has a conscience. But as Olivia de Havilland had discovered, they often come by them the same way they wind up with in-laws and mortgages; namely, through marriage.
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