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Schumer, who voted for the border wall in 2006, now threatens a government shutdown over funding it. (The Daily Signal)
GOP senators say House health bill won't pass without changes. (The Wall Street Journal)
White House seeks to cut billions in funding for United Nations. (Foreign Policy)
Trump to ease liar-nObama-era rule on auto fuel economy standards. (The Washington Times)
Congress demands investigation into liar-nObama administration meddling in foreign elections. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Senate Judiciary Committee demands all records on FBI plan to pay British ex-spy who made "Russia dossier" on Trump. (CNS News)
Study debunks oft-cited research alleging voter ID laws are racist. (LifeZette)
Tennessee sues federal government over "refugee" resettlement, citing violation of the Tenth Amendment. (CNS News)
Student loan defaults are surging, study finds. (Associated Press)
Congress passes legislation to undo liar-nObama restrictions on drug tests for unemployed. (Washington Examiner)
Humpday Humor: Disrespect our flag? Here's a challenge for you! (Video)
Policy: How the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is trying to kill the Second Amendment. (America's 1st Freedom)
Policy: America's way ahead in Syria. (Critical Threats)
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US ‘Outraged’ by UN Report That Accuses Israel
of Establishing ‘Apartheid Regime’...
by Barney Breen-Portnoy
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley
{algemeiner.com} ~ The United States expressed outrage on Wednesday over a report published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) that accused Israel of establishing an “apartheid regime”... that “dominates the Palestinian people as a whole.” “That such anti-Israel propaganda would come from a body whose membership nearly universally does not recognize Israel is unsurprising,” American UN Envoy Nikki Haley said in a statement. “That it was drafted by Richard Falk, a man who has repeatedly made biased and deeply offensive comments about Israel and espoused ridiculous conspiracy theories, including about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is equally unsurprising.” “The United Nations Secretariat was right to distance itself from this report, but it must go further and withdraw the report altogether,” Haley went on to say. “The United States stands with our ally Israel and will continue to oppose biased and anti-Israel actions across the UN system and around the world.”... https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/03/15/us-outraged-by-un-report-that-accuses-israel-of-establishing-apartheid-regime-that-dominates-the-palestinian-people/
Michael Savage left bloodied,
shaken in public assault
by wnd.com
{wnd.com} ~ On the day he launched his new book about the fierce, sometimes violent, opposition to Donald Trump, radio talk-show host Michael Savage was assaulted by a stranger at a San Francisco Bay Area restaurant... Savage, with his dog, Teddy, was finishing up dinner Tuesday night at Servino Restaurant in Tiburon, California, north of San Francisco, when the unnamed assailant charged up to Savage and began yelling, reported local media blogger Rich Lieberman. The attacker kicked the poodle out of the way, grabbed Savage and threw him to the ground, according to an eyewitness. Savage was not seriously hurt, but the incident left him bloodied and shaken, Lieberman said... http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/talk-radio-superstar-left-bloodied-shaken-in-public-assault/
.Mark Levin Furious At Judicial Tyranny Of Soros,
ACLU Black Robe Subversives
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin is furious as are many of the rest of us. President Trump modified his Terrorist Travel Ban Executive Order in order to accommodate the anti-American activists in black robes... Still, after meeting the conditions they established, another criminal bench activist defied the Constitution and ruled that he doesn’t have the authority. That “so-called” judge is one piece of excrement versus the Constitution, but the intent on the left appears to be to lure Trump into defying the ACLU “so-called” judge’s ruling, baiting him into an excuse to argue for impeachment. First, President Trump needs to lower the refugee cap to whatever number has been imported as of today, that will stop any more terrorists from coming in through that route and the judges can hardly argue that he doesn’t have that authority since liar-nObama was steadily increasing it throughout his tenure and Trump has already dropped it once. But back to Levin, he declares, “We have, ladies and gentlemen, rogue District Court judges now, rogue courts, rogue, r-o-g-u-e, rogue. We have judicial anarchy taking place right now, ladies and gentlemen. Where judges are seizing plenary authority from the President of the United States to keep this nation safe, to control our borders and to determine the nature of our immigration into this country.”... http://rickwells.us/mark-levin-furious-judicial-tyranny-soros-aclu-black-robe-subversives/
.liar-nObama Used British Spy to Watch Donald Trump
by Thomas N | Featured Commentator
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ On Fox News’ Fox & Friends, we have a bombshell claim into President Donald J. Trump’s reports that former president Barack liar-nObama wiretapped and monitored the Republican’s presidential campaign... The House Intelligence Committee has been tasked to look into the matter, but now we’re learning that liar-nObama may have found a shocking way to cover his tracks: use a British spy! As Judge Andrew Napolitano explains, even if liar- nObama really did spy on Trump, there may be no actual way to prove it. He explained that there are laws which give the president sweeping authority to conduct surveillance in the United States even without warrant or suspicion... http://thepoliticalinsider.com/fox-and-friends-bombshell-barack-obama-spy-on-trump-used-british-agent/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Fox-News-Drops-BOMBSHELL-This-is-Who-Obama-Used-to&utm_campaign=TPI_031617_Newsletter&source=CI
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Congress Considers Bill to “Stop Arming Terrorists”
by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ A bipartisan bill to prohibit U.S. taxpayer funding and arming of terrorist groups and their associates is making progress in Congress, most recently having a companion bill introduced in the Senate by popular liberty-minded U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.)... The legislation, originally sponsored in the House by Democrat Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, takes aim at lawless U.S. government “regime change” schemes overseas that often involve providing money, weapons, training, and other support to savage terror organizations. High-profile voices on both sides of the aisle have joined forces to get the bill passed into law. Of course, aiding designated terror groups is already a serious crime, but for whatever reasons, the laws have not been enforced against federal officials. In particular, the new legislation, known as H.R. 608 in the House, bans the provision of any assistance by the federal government to al-Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and the Islamic State, sometimes known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh...This should of been done years ago. https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/25588-stop-arming-terrorists-act-would-end-u-s-funding-for-terror?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm_content=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines+Mar+15+17
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Is the U.S. Considering a
Military Attack on North Korea?
{libertyplanet.com} ~ For years, the Hermit Kingdom of North Korea has been a thorn in the side of the United States, South Korea, Japan and even to an extent North Korea’s main enabler, China. The highly unpredictable and rash actions by North Korea’s enigmatic dynasty of authoritarian dictators have at times rattled, distressed, and shocked the leadership of Western powers for decades.
But with its latest moves, the world’s most possibly isolated and extreme regime may have pushed a bit too far and angered President Trump, South Korea or both enough to make the case for military action.
Although it’s acknowledged that North Korea has an active nuclear weapons program and has had several successful nuclear weapons tests, it’s estimated that the country possesses a dozen or so working nuclear warheads.
North Korea has bragged that it’s working on long-range missiles that will one day be able to carry a nuclear warhead to the East Coast of the United States. This is not the case at the current moment, and there’s even some debate about whether North Korea’s nuclear bombs will fit into the nose cone of its existing missiles, despite photos that the Kingdom has claimed show North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un posing with a nuclear weapon small enough to do just that.
Besides its nuclear tests and its medium-range missile tests, four of which landed unarmed missiles in the sea uncomfortably close to the main island of Japan recently, the Hermit Kingdom in 2016 managed the launch of a satellite. This, Western analysts say, was a cover for the development and testing of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technology, a violation of UN Security Council resolutions that President Trump has said he will not allow.
“It won’t happen!” tweeted the president recently in reference to North Korea’s pronouncements that the country is in the final stage of development of such weapons. Trump, who considers North Korea the U.S.’s “greatest immediate threat,” has had limited conversations with China’s leaders, in which he reportedly told them, “You gotta work on North Korea.”
For some time, China has been the key to getting North Korea to ease up on its provocative rhetoric and actions. China has long been a buyer of North Korean coal and other exports from the rogue nation, as well as providing it food and energy aid.
China has traditionally always feared the collapse of its smaller neighbor, which could lead to a disastrous tide of Korean refugees fleeing into the Chinese state and even worse, a unified Korea that would be allied with the United States.
China has protested the upcoming deployment of an American Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in South Korea which could potentially shoot down North Korean ICBMs.
But on the other hand, China has been getting the sharp end of the stick from the Kim Jong-Un government via North Korea’s recent missile tests, which took place during the Chinese government’s annual People’s Congress and angered Chinese leaders.
Making matters worse all around is the recent assassination, almost assuredly attributable to North Korea of Kim Jong-Un’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia. Security camera footage shows two women at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport smearing a poisonous substance on Nam’s face, causing him to collapse and die just hours later.
This seemingly unprovoked attack comes on the heels of reported executions of a number of North Korea’s top government officials including other relatives of Kim Jong-Un in what some veteran North Korea watchers have termed a “consolidation of power.”
Allegedly, many of the execution methods in these cases were brutal, including the use of wild dogs and anti-aircraft weapons to murder the offenders, some of whom were accused only of falling asleep at meetings led by Kim or embarrassing him for his lack of intimate knowledge about military affairs.
For countries such as China and the U.S., the Malaysian assassination may be the last straw as far as patience with the North Korea’s international antics. Some sources have speculated that Kim Jong Nam may have been a potential new “leader-in-waiting” to assure a smooth continuation of government for North Korea if a “decapitation strike” were to be launched.
It’s been reported in the Wall Street Journal that several weeks ago Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland called a meeting of U.S. defense officials to ask for new proposals to present to President Trump regarding what should be done about the world’s most unpredictable nation.
McFarland reportedly asked for plans and concepts that were significantly “outside the mainstream,” which could indicate that active plans for a military strike may be being drawn up. Said the Journal, “U.S. officials have underscored the possible military dimensions of their emerging strategy in recent discussions with allies, according to people familiar with the talks.”
Whether the U.S. is merely rattling its saber or is serious about dealing with Kim Jong-Un in a way that is final and irrevocable is an open question. But as always, the capacity for North Korea to commit national suicide — say, via an atomic strike on Seoul — should not be underestimated.
For the U.S., China, Japan and other Asian nations, this is the “between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place” quandary that has always made the use of military force too risky to actually consider.
Of course, just one nuclear bomb would not destroy all of Seoul, no more than it would New York City. But surely, it would change the world in ways that we probably cannot anticipate and could create the risk of military confrontation or escalation elsewhere in the world that we would not wish to invite.
At the end of the day, diplomacy is surely the more favored option; fortunately, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to visit Japan, China and South Korea in the coming days. But the tortured history of diplomacy with two-faced North Korea has proven that up until now, U.S. leaders have been taken for a ride by North Korea’s three successive Kims time and time again.
We can only hope that without taking too much risk, President Trump can end this streak of mediative weakness once and for all.
But with its latest moves, the world’s most possibly isolated and extreme regime may have pushed a bit too far and angered President Trump, South Korea or both enough to make the case for military action.
Although it’s acknowledged that North Korea has an active nuclear weapons program and has had several successful nuclear weapons tests, it’s estimated that the country possesses a dozen or so working nuclear warheads.
North Korea has bragged that it’s working on long-range missiles that will one day be able to carry a nuclear warhead to the East Coast of the United States. This is not the case at the current moment, and there’s even some debate about whether North Korea’s nuclear bombs will fit into the nose cone of its existing missiles, despite photos that the Kingdom has claimed show North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un posing with a nuclear weapon small enough to do just that.
Besides its nuclear tests and its medium-range missile tests, four of which landed unarmed missiles in the sea uncomfortably close to the main island of Japan recently, the Hermit Kingdom in 2016 managed the launch of a satellite. This, Western analysts say, was a cover for the development and testing of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technology, a violation of UN Security Council resolutions that President Trump has said he will not allow.
“It won’t happen!” tweeted the president recently in reference to North Korea’s pronouncements that the country is in the final stage of development of such weapons. Trump, who considers North Korea the U.S.’s “greatest immediate threat,” has had limited conversations with China’s leaders, in which he reportedly told them, “You gotta work on North Korea.”
For some time, China has been the key to getting North Korea to ease up on its provocative rhetoric and actions. China has long been a buyer of North Korean coal and other exports from the rogue nation, as well as providing it food and energy aid.
China has traditionally always feared the collapse of its smaller neighbor, which could lead to a disastrous tide of Korean refugees fleeing into the Chinese state and even worse, a unified Korea that would be allied with the United States.
China has protested the upcoming deployment of an American Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in South Korea which could potentially shoot down North Korean ICBMs.
But on the other hand, China has been getting the sharp end of the stick from the Kim Jong-Un government via North Korea’s recent missile tests, which took place during the Chinese government’s annual People’s Congress and angered Chinese leaders.
Making matters worse all around is the recent assassination, almost assuredly attributable to North Korea of Kim Jong-Un’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia. Security camera footage shows two women at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport smearing a poisonous substance on Nam’s face, causing him to collapse and die just hours later.
This seemingly unprovoked attack comes on the heels of reported executions of a number of North Korea’s top government officials including other relatives of Kim Jong-Un in what some veteran North Korea watchers have termed a “consolidation of power.”
Allegedly, many of the execution methods in these cases were brutal, including the use of wild dogs and anti-aircraft weapons to murder the offenders, some of whom were accused only of falling asleep at meetings led by Kim or embarrassing him for his lack of intimate knowledge about military affairs.
For countries such as China and the U.S., the Malaysian assassination may be the last straw as far as patience with the North Korea’s international antics. Some sources have speculated that Kim Jong Nam may have been a potential new “leader-in-waiting” to assure a smooth continuation of government for North Korea if a “decapitation strike” were to be launched.
It’s been reported in the Wall Street Journal that several weeks ago Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland called a meeting of U.S. defense officials to ask for new proposals to present to President Trump regarding what should be done about the world’s most unpredictable nation.
McFarland reportedly asked for plans and concepts that were significantly “outside the mainstream,” which could indicate that active plans for a military strike may be being drawn up. Said the Journal, “U.S. officials have underscored the possible military dimensions of their emerging strategy in recent discussions with allies, according to people familiar with the talks.”
Whether the U.S. is merely rattling its saber or is serious about dealing with Kim Jong-Un in a way that is final and irrevocable is an open question. But as always, the capacity for North Korea to commit national suicide — say, via an atomic strike on Seoul — should not be underestimated.
For the U.S., China, Japan and other Asian nations, this is the “between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place” quandary that has always made the use of military force too risky to actually consider.
Of course, just one nuclear bomb would not destroy all of Seoul, no more than it would New York City. But surely, it would change the world in ways that we probably cannot anticipate and could create the risk of military confrontation or escalation elsewhere in the world that we would not wish to invite.
At the end of the day, diplomacy is surely the more favored option; fortunately, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to visit Japan, China and South Korea in the coming days. But the tortured history of diplomacy with two-faced North Korea has proven that up until now, U.S. leaders have been taken for a ride by North Korea’s three successive Kims time and time again.
We can only hope that without taking too much risk, President Trump can end this streak of mediative weakness once and for all.
http://www.libertyplanet.com/articles/is-the-u-s-considering-a-military-attack-on-north-korea/
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