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Muddy Maxine Waters: What a Riot
by Michelle Malkin
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Top Headlines
Trump foreign policy and national security policy in 100 Days. (The Daily Signal)
Administration to propose large increase in deductions Americans can claim on their taxes. (The Washington Post)
Married people pay most of the nation's income tax. (Washington Examiner)
Your taxes at work: Government employee salaries outpace private-sector salaries by double digits for similar work. (The Washington Free Beacon)
While Congress stalls, conservatives are scoring big wins at the state level. (Washington Examiner)
Anticipating a shift to the right in the courts, the NRA begins its attack on gun controls in California. (Los Angeles Times)
ATF reverses controversial stance on shouldering AR-15 pistols. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Most homicides in U.S. occurred in 5% of counties. (The Washington Times)
Heritage Foundation flooded with protesters: "groups connected to George Soros." (The Washington Times)
Hump Day Humor: Merriam-Webster updates definition of "fascism" to "anything one disagrees with." (The Babylon Bee)
Policy: The liar-nObama administration's Iran-deal duplicity. (National Review)
Policy: North Korea is a problem, but China and Pakistan are just as harmful. (The Hill) ~The Patriot Post
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.Trump Unveils New Tax Plan:
Here's What's Inside
by Hannity.com Staff
{hannity.com} ~ The Trump administration unveiled its dramatic new tax plan on Wednesday, hoping to pass the new legislation by August. If successful, this would be the first major adjustment in federal tax policy since 1986... Speaking with reporters at the White House briefing room, White House economic advisor Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin outlined key details from the new proposal. “We have a once in a generation opportunity to do something big and important on taxes,” said Cohn. According to the Trump administration, the new tax plan will:
- Cut corporate tax rates from 35% to 15%.
- Reduce the number of income tax brackets from seven to three: 35%, 25%, and 10%.
- Eliminate most tax deductions.
- Repeal the estate or 'death' tax.
- Permit a one time 'tax holiday' for overseas entities that wish to repatriate money back to the United States.
- Repeal the 'liar-nobamacare' tax and the alternative minimum tax.
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TUCKER: Battles Dem over legitimacy of judge's decision to block Trump's EO withholding funds from “Sanctuary Cities”
VIDEO: http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5411264148001
Who Is The Democratic Party's Leader? Don't Ask Them Because They Don't Know
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gmzXuN70Ac
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gmzXuN70Ac
CSP Executive Vice President Jim Hanson grades President Trump on his first 100 Days
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4TLpRJPms
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4TLpRJPms
NYT Reporter Says Press Conferences are More 'Democratic' Under Trump Than liar-nObama
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhKLzOgU3M
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhKLzOgU3M
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by AMBASSADOR HENRY F. COOPER
"Deep in the Heart of Texas!"
by AMBASSADOR HENRY F. COOPER
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ A year ago, I joined a number of "Secure the Grid" colleagues at an Austin, Texas conference to discuss the existential threat to America posed by possible physical, cyber and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks on the nation's electric power grid... or by a natural EMP event, a massive solar storm, that will one day certainly occur. The Texas Tribune report on that conference intended to inform Senator Bob Hall's efforts to gain support for his resolution in the Texas legislature to protect the "Texas Interconnect" of electric power grid against those threats. And May 3, 2016 discussion of that effort among others on the same trip, including Indiana, Louisiana and Alabama, to encourage a "bottom's up" effort to protect the electric power grid. Senator Hall's resolution failed to pass out of committee last year - lost by a single vote; and he is trying again, supported last week by many of the same colleagues, though I had conflicts in South Carolina and was not able to join them this year. I am told his proposed legislation will pass out of committee overwhelmingly this time... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/deep-in-the-heart-of-texas?f=must_reads
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Why is the Trump Administration Continuing
the Fight Against Nuns and Baptists?
by Anika Smith
{stream.org} ~ The Trump administration appears to be continuing liar-nObama’s losing fight on the contraception mandate, and religious liberty advocates aren’t sure why... This week Trump’s DOJ asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for a 60-day stay in the case with East Texas Baptist University and other religious nonprofits who object to the HHS mandate. This means trouble for those who have sought exemption from the onerous mandate, including Little Sisters of the Poor. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty represents the Little Sisters and East Texas Baptist University. According to Becket, the stay is unnecessary...https://stream.org/trump-administration-continuing-fight-nuns-baptists/?utm_source=The+Stream&utm_campaign=04013d61e6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8da00e4cb4-04013d61e6-371883569
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"Auntie Maxine" is stoking the resistance, inspiring millennials, combating hate, crusading against corruption and invoking the counterinsurgent cry to "stay woke!"
I do not have enough guffaws to give.
This new spokesmodel for civility and clean government has stoked division and exploited taxpayers for decades.
Change agent? She has served on the Democratic National Committee since 1980 -- when the Atari 2600 was cutting-edge, Kim Kardashian was a newborn, and Al Franken was hamming it up on "Saturday Night Live."
Waters has spent 37 years in office -- many of those years as head of the Congressional Black Caucus -- promising to make life better for constituents in economically ravaged South Central Los Angeles.
What do the denizens of her district have to show for it? Staggering levels of persistent unemployment, poverty and gang violence as the 25th anniversary of the L.A. riots looms this coming weekend.
What does Rep. Waters have to show for it?
She's earned a lifetime of left-wing adoration for whitewashing the deadly riots as a "rebellion," excusing the week-long shooting, looting and arson orgy as "a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration," and coddling Crips and Bloods gang members -- with whom she performed the Electric Slide as part of her "fearless support and understanding of young people and their efforts at self-expression."
I covered Waters in the early 1990s as an editorial writer and columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News. Her federally funded Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center was a gang-infested boondoggle.
She embraced Damian Williams, the infamous thug who hurled a chunk of concrete at white truck driver Reginald Denny and performed a victory dance over the bloodied innocent bystander.
And she and her family personally profited from her rise to racially demagogic power.
She owns a tony mansion in predominantly white Hancock Park, several miles outside her congressional district.
She secured an ambassadorship to the Bahamas for her husband, a former pro football player and car salesman whose main qualification was having traveled to the island for a vacation.
Her daughter, Karen, has scooped up nearly $650,000 in payments from Mama Waters' slate mailer operation for her federal campaign committee since 2006, the Washington Free Beacon reported this week. And Mama Waters owes her well-heeled daughter an additional $108,000.
Waters also mau-maued the House Veterans Committee into hiring two black staffers.
And she walked away with a slap on the wrist from the toothless House Ethics Committee in 2012 after being charged with multiple ethics violations related to her meddling in minority-owned OneUnited Bank.
Reminder for all the new fangirls and fanboys suffering from Maxi-mnesia: Her husband, Sidney, was an investor in one of the banks that merged into OneUnited. As stockholders, they profited handsomely from their relationship with the bank.
It was a mutually beneficial relationship. After Waters' office personally intervened and lobbied the Treasury Department in 2008, OneUnited received $12 million in federal TARP bailout money -- despite another government agency concluding that the bank operated "without effective underwriting standards" and engaged "in speculative investment practices." After the federal bailout of Fannie/Freddie, OneUnited's stock in the government-sponsored enterprises plunged to a value estimated at less than $5 million. Only through Waters' intervention was OneUnited able to secure an emergency meeting with the Treasury and then-Secretary Henry Paulson.
Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president, reported that Waters' friend and fellow California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren helped delay her scheduled 2010 House ethics trial on the matter by stalling subpoenas and improperly firing two attorneys working on the investigation. Six of 10 House Ethics panel members quit the case in 2012 over questions about their partiality. An outside investigator absolved Waters of any wrongdoing.
The newfound Maxine Waters Fan Club might want to know that Waters' government cronyism and self-dealing earned her a "Most Corrupt member of Congress" designation from the left-wing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington five times -- in 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2017.
Now, Muddy Maxine is leading the charge to drain the swamp that sustains her. What a riot.
Muddy Maxine Waters: What a Riot
by Michelle Malkin
{townhall.com} ~ Are you freaking kidding me? Thirteen-term Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Beltway barnacle permanently affixed to USS Government, is now the fresh-faced "rock star" of the Democratic Party.
{townhall.com} ~ Are you freaking kidding me? Thirteen-term Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Beltway barnacle permanently affixed to USS Government, is now the fresh-faced "rock star" of the Democratic Party.
"Auntie Maxine" is stoking the resistance, inspiring millennials, combating hate, crusading against corruption and invoking the counterinsurgent cry to "stay woke!"
I do not have enough guffaws to give.
This new spokesmodel for civility and clean government has stoked division and exploited taxpayers for decades.
Change agent? She has served on the Democratic National Committee since 1980 -- when the Atari 2600 was cutting-edge, Kim Kardashian was a newborn, and Al Franken was hamming it up on "Saturday Night Live."
Waters has spent 37 years in office -- many of those years as head of the Congressional Black Caucus -- promising to make life better for constituents in economically ravaged South Central Los Angeles.
What do the denizens of her district have to show for it? Staggering levels of persistent unemployment, poverty and gang violence as the 25th anniversary of the L.A. riots looms this coming weekend.
What does Rep. Waters have to show for it?
She's earned a lifetime of left-wing adoration for whitewashing the deadly riots as a "rebellion," excusing the week-long shooting, looting and arson orgy as "a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration," and coddling Crips and Bloods gang members -- with whom she performed the Electric Slide as part of her "fearless support and understanding of young people and their efforts at self-expression."
I covered Waters in the early 1990s as an editorial writer and columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News. Her federally funded Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center was a gang-infested boondoggle.
She embraced Damian Williams, the infamous thug who hurled a chunk of concrete at white truck driver Reginald Denny and performed a victory dance over the bloodied innocent bystander.
And she and her family personally profited from her rise to racially demagogic power.
She owns a tony mansion in predominantly white Hancock Park, several miles outside her congressional district.
She secured an ambassadorship to the Bahamas for her husband, a former pro football player and car salesman whose main qualification was having traveled to the island for a vacation.
Her daughter, Karen, has scooped up nearly $650,000 in payments from Mama Waters' slate mailer operation for her federal campaign committee since 2006, the Washington Free Beacon reported this week. And Mama Waters owes her well-heeled daughter an additional $108,000.
Waters also mau-maued the House Veterans Committee into hiring two black staffers.
And she walked away with a slap on the wrist from the toothless House Ethics Committee in 2012 after being charged with multiple ethics violations related to her meddling in minority-owned OneUnited Bank.
Reminder for all the new fangirls and fanboys suffering from Maxi-mnesia: Her husband, Sidney, was an investor in one of the banks that merged into OneUnited. As stockholders, they profited handsomely from their relationship with the bank.
It was a mutually beneficial relationship. After Waters' office personally intervened and lobbied the Treasury Department in 2008, OneUnited received $12 million in federal TARP bailout money -- despite another government agency concluding that the bank operated "without effective underwriting standards" and engaged "in speculative investment practices." After the federal bailout of Fannie/Freddie, OneUnited's stock in the government-sponsored enterprises plunged to a value estimated at less than $5 million. Only through Waters' intervention was OneUnited able to secure an emergency meeting with the Treasury and then-Secretary Henry Paulson.
Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president, reported that Waters' friend and fellow California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren helped delay her scheduled 2010 House ethics trial on the matter by stalling subpoenas and improperly firing two attorneys working on the investigation. Six of 10 House Ethics panel members quit the case in 2012 over questions about their partiality. An outside investigator absolved Waters of any wrongdoing.
The newfound Maxine Waters Fan Club might want to know that Waters' government cronyism and self-dealing earned her a "Most Corrupt member of Congress" designation from the left-wing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington five times -- in 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2017.
Now, Muddy Maxine is leading the charge to drain the swamp that sustains her. What a riot.
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