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A Long Way From the Arsenal of Democracy
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by Peggy Noonan  
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Constitutional Scholar Mark Levin Says 
There is NO ‘Birthright Citizenship’
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by WARNER TODD HUSTON 
{godfatherpolitics.com} ~ Talk radio star and Constitutional scholar Mark Levin slammed Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for saying that the 14th Amendment bestows “birthright citizenship” on anyone born inside our borders... Levin says there is no such constitutional rule. Levin addressed the issue on his October 30 broadcast  where he lit into Ryan for his absurd characterization of the law. “There’s been no law passed that conveys birthright citizenship onto illegal aliens. There’s been no Supreme Court decision that definitively confers birthright citizenship onto illegal alien children,” Levin began. “Nobody’s a hundred percent certain how this came to be. But everybody seems to be a hundred percent certain that the president can’t fix it. … Well, does the Constitution confer birthright citizenship on the children of illegal aliens? Of course it doesn’t!”Levin then played a previous audio clip where he explained how those who crafted the original amendment felt about what they were doing with the 14th Amendment: “‘This will not of course include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens … but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship.’ … Is it not plain English? Is he not as clear as can be that it does not include aliens, it does not include foreigners. … The republican basis for citizenship is consent! Consent of the country! You can’t self-immigrate. You can’t claim jurisdiction because you happen to walk into the United States.” “What is the bottom line here? Let’s number this: They wanted to make certain that former slaves would be treated as citizens of the United States, because certain states were still resistant. … They exempted Indians, because Indians still, certainly back then, were often considered citizens of particular tribes. But these actually were very forward-looking individuals. They specifically excluded aliens and foreigners.” Levin told Hannity that the 14th Amendment does not give citizenship to children of illegal immigrants who are born in the US.“Of course Trump is right and Cruz is right and Sessions is right. They’re all right,” Levin said of those claiming then that birthright citizenship does not exist...
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Former Fox News Host Reportedly 
Offered Job of UN Ambassador
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{mediaite.com} ~ What was rumored earlier today now appears to be a done deal: Former Fox News host and current State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert... has reportedly been offered the job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The report about the former Fox News host was broken by a current Fox News-er, White House correspondent  John Roberts, on Twitter: Nauert would replace Nikki Haley in the role, whose decision to step down after two years stunned the Trump administration. The president has considered several current officials for the job of U.N. ambassador, and as of Thursday morning Nauert was reportedly his top pick.  Nauert’s appointment would be subject to Senate confirmation, and it’s safe to assume dummycrats-Democrats will grill the former Fox & Friends host on her dearth of qualifications for the role.
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dinky-Warren First Learns About Ethics Complaint 
Against Her During Debate - Thats a Lie
by Mikhael Smits  

{freebeacon.com} ~ Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D., Mass.) claimed she was unaware of the ethics complaint against her during a U.S. Senate debate in Massachusetts Tuesday... During the debate, Republican challenger Geoff Diehl pointed out dinky-Warren is alleged to have fundraised off Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, asking for donations in exchange for her vote against the nominee. "Senator dinky-Warren was fundraising illegally using the vote on Justice Kavanaugh, the confirmation vote, to try to raise money for her campaigns," Diehl said. Diehl was referencing a complaint sent Monday to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) sent the complaint to Sens. Johnny Isakson (R., Ga.) and Chris Coons (D., Del.), the respective committee chairman and vice chairman...  https://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-first-learns-ethics-complaint-debate/
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Author of 14th Amendment: ‘Removes All Doubt 
as to What Persons Are or Are Not Citizens’
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Today, debate is raging in Congress over whether or not the 14th Amendment grants automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens born on U.S. soil... but, the author of the amendment said its intent couldn’t be clearer. On May 30, 1866, Sen. Jacob Howard (R-Michigan), the author of the amendment's language, gave a speech on the Senate floor explaining its meaning and declaring that that the amendment “settles the great question” and “removes all doubt” about citizenship: “It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States.” Sen. Howard even went so far as to say that the amendment’s intent had been so thoroughly discussed that he shouldn’t even have to clarify it: “I do not propose to say anything on that subject except that the question of citizenship has been so fully discussed in this body as not to need any further elucidation, in my opinion.” As for birthright citizenship, Sen. Howard said “foreigners” and “aliens” born on U.S. soil are, “of course,” not citizens: “This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”...
NeverTrump Pundit: “America Has a Fox News Problem”

{themadpatriots.com} ~ One of the last conservatives on the NeverTrump bandwagon, Weekly Standard founder Bill Kristol has spent the majority of the last three years endlessly criticizing the president and his administration... While Kristol has not completely abandoned the conservative ship in the way, say, Jennifer Rubin and Ana Navarro have or Steve Schmidt or Nicolle Wallace, etc…, he’s a rabid anti-Trumper who refuses to take even the slightest pleasure in watching this president push stoically through an unprecedented conservative agenda. To hell with two outstanding Supreme Court picks. To hell with massive deregulations. As far as Kristol is concerned, we’d be better off with a polite dummycrats-Democrat in the White House than a rough-around-the-edges Republican. We won’t pretend we understand, but hey, everyone’s entitled to their opinion. In any event, Kristol is now expanding his ire at President Trump to include Fox News. When NBC’s John Harwood tweeted: “The United States of America has a Lou Dobbs problem,” Kristol responded by saying, “The United States of America has a Fox News problem.” In reference to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, Kristol said on CNN this weekend that Trump “helped create an environment that made this possible.” “Fox News and parts of the right-wing media has made this much more acceptable,” Kristol said. “Their coverage of the caravan and the dangers of these immigrants.” Kristol said that the right-wing media was “obsessed” with scumbag-George Soros, the billionaire leftist who happens to be Jewish. “It’s the Jews, the evil Jews, occupying the U.S. government and bringing in alien invaders in this country,” Kristol said. “I’m blaming the management of Fox and the investors in Fox and some of the other talent, who are decent people, at Fox for saying nothing.”... Kristol has lost his mind. I use to listen to Kristol but now I don't care.  http://www.themadpatriots.com/politics/nevertrump-pundit-america-has-a-fox-news-problem/ 
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A Long Way From the Arsenal of Democracy
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by Peggy Noonan

{peggynoonan.com} ~ This may seem small, but I don’t think it is. I know it will seem old-fashioned. It has to do with a great nation’s sense of its own stature on the world stage.

In the days after the apparent murder of the Saudi activist and writer Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump was repeatedly pressed about the potential U.S. response if it turned out, as seemed likely, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the killing. Mr. Trump made it clear his first consideration was what he thought of as a practical one: He didn’t want to cancel lucrative arms deals with the Saudi government. “I don’t like the concept of stopping an investment of $110 billion into the United States,” he said. That number was inflated, but Saudi Arabia is the largest purchaser of U.S. weapons.

Mr. Trump told Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes”: “I don’t want to hurt jobs. I don’t want to lose an order like that.” Later in the week he told reporters that Saudi Arabia is a “tremendous purchaser” of U.S. military equipment, and this must be factored in.

It was startling. We talk like this now? In public? I guess it’s supposed to look tough and bottom-line. But we declare now that U.S. foreign policy is quite so transactional?

We used to be ashamed, or at least embarrassed, to be seen as arms merchant to the world. It didn’t quite sit with our vision of ourselves. And American presidents, as representatives of a nation with a certain moral stature, didn’t use to declare that our world stands are heavily influenced by arms contracts.

We used to play it a little more high-minded. Because we didn’t want the world to see us as crude and mercenary. And even if our discretion was hypocritical, it was at least the tribute vice pays to virtue.

All this made me think of George Bernard Shaw’s “Major Barbara,” in which Andrew Undershaft, the contentedly amoral manufacturer of cannons, guns, torpedoes and aerial gunships, shares the “true faith” of the munitions maker: “To give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles.”

But he was not precisely the good guy of the drama. America has always thought it is, and its reality should never veer far from its sense of itself. Trouble always happens when it does.

There are reasons to make arms, and not only economic but technological and strategic reasons to want America, not China or Russia, making them. But the fact that the defense industry is so big, and that people-blower-uppers is one of our major exports, ought to bring a certain and regular human discomfort and self-reflection. Arms industry profits shouldn’t be—and should never be announced as—a primary consideration in our foreign-policy decisions. How does that make us look better to any other people? Or even to ourselves?

The context for all this is the election, which is possibly why the president reverted so quickly and crudely to jobs.

The common wisdom a year ago leaned on history: The president’s party loses in an off-year, the only question is how much. It then became “Trump is so divisive and his approval numbers so underwater, a blue wave is coming.” Recently it was “Not so fast—the dummycrats-Democrats are confused as to their meaning and method. They could blow this thing.”

Then Brett Kavanaugh. After the onslaught he faced, Republicans were energized, especially in red-leaning states, where a rough wisdom took hold: Even a guy you don’t especially like can get railroaded. And this guy was being railroaded. It gave a boost to Republicans in U.S. Senate races that may or may not diminish.

Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics sees the 
dummycrats-Democrats close to winning the House but not there yet. They need to gain 23 seats. At the moment Mr. Sabato says they look to be in the mid to high teens.

There are 2½ weeks to go, which is plenty of time for the gates of hell to burst open. Both parties are focused and on fire. Each is being reminded of at least one big issue.

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dummycrats-Democrats it is a part of scumbag/liar-nObamaCare that people like, mandated coverage for pre-existing conditions. A Wall Street Journal analysis noted about 130 million nonelderly people in the U.S. suffer from an existing medical condition, and included a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation that found 75% of voters consider it “very important” that the provision guaranteeing their coverage remain. For Republicans a longtime issue may well reassert itself, illegal immigration, and what Reuters calls “a caravan of several thousand” currently coming north from Central America.

dummycrats-  Democrats also have the unpopularity of the president working in their favor, and Republicans have warnings of the return of a liberal House led by sick-Nancy Pulosi. Republicans have, too, the rising spleen of the left, which is scarifying to the peaceful and will likely bring a backlash.

Both parties are spending record amounts, with  
dummycrats-Democrats running for the House and Senate raising over $1 billion through September, and the Republicans around $700 million, according to the Washington Post.

But in the end it’s about Mr. Trump, isn’t it? He is the living context and the constant question: For or against? He has had significant achievements—unemployment down, economy up, the courts, an imperfect tax bill that nonetheless got passed and was slightly better than what it replaced. No one seems to mention it, but America right now is enjoying prosperity and peace—or, if you prefer, growth and no new wars. It is a continuing amazement that with this the president can’t get himself to 50% approval, or his party in a better position.

Yet of course it’s no mystery. He obscures his victories with his crazy. And so in the weeks before the election he rants around about “Horseface,” and compares MBS to Justice Kavanaugh, the victim of unproved allegations. He continues to rag on Attorney General Jeff Sessions: “I could fire him whenever I want to fire him, but I haven’t said that I was going to.”

It is political malpractice on an epic scale and cannot be helped because he lacks self-command and is vain. He thinks nobody communicates like him. Nobody does. He thinks nobody breaks through like him. Nobody does!

In the first 18 months of his administration, those who pointed out that he’d made a good decision, or failed to castigate him enough, were sometimes accused of “normalizing” Mr. Trump. But normalizing him wasn’t within their power. Only Mr. Trump could normalize Mr. Trump, by enacting normality and self-possession. He could have opted for a certain stature—the presidential stage, with its flags and salutes, almost leads you by the hand to stature. But he hasn’t.

His supporters, especially Republican candidates, would love it if he’d put his arguments in the foreground, not his drama and weirdness. It is remarkable that he hasn’t cared about them enough to do this, to give them that kind of cover. He’s lucky the mainstream media hate him so much, and in showing that hatred stiffen his supporters’ loyalty.
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