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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Sorry, Your Holiness,
You are Dangerously Wrong
Jonathan Tobin
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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The Company Clinton Keeps 
If one of the marks of a good leader is the ability to choose and then keep good advisers, then let Hilly Clinton be known for the company whose advice she seeks.
Longtime Clinton lackey Sidney Blumenthal made The New York Times this week when the paper reported on leaked information that the House Select Committee on Benghazi may issue a subpoena for his role in the events surrounding the attack on the Benghazi consulate Sept. 11, 2012. Indeed, the House followed up that leak by issuing the subpoena that day. Blumenthal will appear before the committee June 3.
We don't know who leaked the information and supporting emails to the Times. The ranking Democrat on the committee, Elijah Cummings, was quick to pin blame on Republicans for an illegal witch-hunt. "[T]he latest abuses by the Committee are just one more example of a partisan, taxpayer-funded attack against Secretary Clinton and her bid for president,” he said in a grammatically challenged statement. But it's hard to see how Republicans would gain by leaking news of their own subpoena.
Still, Cummings is defending a die hard Clinton loyalist, nay, hatchet man. Denied a position in the nObama State Department in 2009, Blumenthal scored a job at the Clinton Foundation. It was from there that he advised then-Secretary of State Clinton on the deteriorating situation in Libya, all the while working with a group of business partners who wanted to build schools, hospitals and shelters in the war-torn North African nation. Say, what's that definition for "conflict of interest" again? -The Patriot Post
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HILLY HUSH AS DOMESTIC SPYING VOTE NEARS
As she seeks to curry favor with her base, the question is: Will Democratic activists let Hilly Clinton get away with supporting an overhaul of the NSA’s bulk data collection program that still allows for the continued collection of private phone records? Like trade, the war on terror is an issue that puts both Clinton and President nObama at odds with the party’s liberal left wing. NSA’s current program, exposed by former agency subcontractor Edward Snowden, expires June 1stwithout action by Congress. Clinton tweeted her support earlier this month of the House-passed USA Freedom Act, which allows the NSA to keep collecting phone records while housing the data with private companies. With pressure from the left ramping up and a Senate vote likely this week, Clinton has otherwise kept a low profile. -Fox News
As she seeks to curry favor with her base, the question is: Will Democratic activists let Hilly Clinton get away with supporting an overhaul of the NSA’s bulk data collection program that still allows for the continued collection of private phone records? Like trade, the war on terror is an issue that puts both Clinton and President nObama at odds with the party’s liberal left wing. NSA’s current program, exposed by former agency subcontractor Edward Snowden, expires June 1stwithout action by Congress. Clinton tweeted her support earlier this month of the House-passed USA Freedom Act, which allows the NSA to keep collecting phone records while housing the data with private companies. With pressure from the left ramping up and a Senate vote likely this week, Clinton has otherwise kept a low profile. -Fox News
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Senate NSA vote expected this week - The Hill: “Sen. Mitch McCon-nell on Tuesday said he would allow a vote on legislation overhauling the nation’s surveillance programs, which could give him more leverage in the fight over the National Security Agency’s future. … McCon-nell is opposed by [Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah] and presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who have pledged to oppose any bill that renews the Patriot Act without changes, even for a short period of time. A filibuster threat also looms from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), another presidential candidate who could have a lot to gain by staging a high-profile floor fight against the Patriot Act.”
[Nunya business - Paul posted a tweet this morning featuring a video opposing the NSA program. “I say the your phone records are yours,” Paul says. “I say the phones records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business” the video concludes.] -Fox News
[Nunya business - Paul posted a tweet this morning featuring a video opposing the NSA program. “I say the your phone records are yours,” Paul says. “I say the phones records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business” the video concludes.] -Fox News
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Bolton runs ad campaign backing NSA extension - Former U.N. AmbassadorJohn Bolton is out of the running for president, but his Foundation for American Security and Freedom is running a five figure ad campaign supporting the extension of the NSA’s bulk data collection program. The ads are playing in the Washington, D.C. metro market and targeting policy makers to support the data collection provision. “Terrorists oversees are certainly trying to recruit people in America,” Bolton Said. “Section 215 of the Patriot Act provides a critical element in the war on terror, and keeping America safe at home while securing our interests abroad. I strongly encourage members of Congress to back NSA efforts that support America’s interests in the digital world; without such we are inherently vulnerable.” -Fox News
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Uhhhh - Iowa Democrats taking part in a focus group sponsored by Bloomberg were all about Hilly Clinton, believing her to be their party’s only chance to retain the White House and as someone who can “get things done.” Get what done? Well, that proved tougher as the assembled group could not name any accomplishment of hers. -Fox News
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The Stunning Negligence That Led To Chris Stevens’ Death
(AmyElzabeth) - Two smoking guns hit the news streams this week: The U.S. indeed had a gun-running program pipelining Libyan weapons to Syrian rebels through a port in Benghazi... and at least some “intelligence” on action in Libya passed through not one, but at least two of Hilly Clinton’s “homebrew” email addresses. It’s Clinton’s reliance on her civilian email servers for seemingly classified communications (indeed, all Department of State communications), coupled with the real nature of the mission in Benghazi, that lay bare the negligence leading up to the attack that took the lives of four Americans, including Amb. Chris Stevens and two former Navy SEALs. In the November following the attack, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. mission in Benghazi was “at it’s heart, a CIA operation.” It turns out the CIA Annex that had its cover blown during the attack was more than likely the central hub of an international gun running operation. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/05/20/the-stunning-negligence-that-led-up-to-chris-stevens-death-in-benghazi/
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Boehner, Blame nObama for Irresponsible Approach to ISIS
(Rusty Weiss) - This past weekend saw an ISIS takeover of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, a strategic victory for the terrorist group despite what the administration might have you believe...Over 75 American soldiers and Marines were killed trying to secure Ramadi in 2006, a city that was referred to as the center of the insurgency in Iraq. Now, again, the city rests in the hands of Islamic State radicals. House Speaker backstabber John Boehner reminded everyone that President nObama is to blame, saying that when people voted on the sole basis of ‘hope and change’ in 2008 and 2012, they were voting for empty promises and failed foreign policy strategies. http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/boehner-blasts-obama-for-irresponsible-approach-to-isis/
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U.S. to Spend $2 Mil on Attorneys for Illegal Alien Minors
(judicialwatch.org) - As if it weren’t infuriating enough that American taxpayers are being forced to house, feed, medically treat and educate the never-ending influx of illegal immigrant minors, the nObama administration is also doling out millions of dollars to provide them with free legal representation... Unlike the criminal justice system, in immigration court the government doesn’t offer free lawyers to those who can’t afford them. This means that illegal aliens who don’t have the money to pay for one must represent themselves in legal proceedings or rely on volunteer attorneys or paralegals provided by immigrant rights groups. This leaves many illegal aliens in removal proceedings without adequate legal representation and that’s simply not acceptable to the president. So the administration is spending our tax dollars to hire attorneys for the tens of thousands of illegal immigrant minors, mostly from Central America, that have entered the U.S. through Mexico in the last few months. http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/05/u-s-to-spend-2-mil-on-attorneys-for-illegal-alien-minors/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Judicial%20Watch%20Tipsheet%20(10)&utm_content=
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Defense Sec. Bob Gates Throws nObama And Hilly Under The Bus
(Jeff Dunetz) - CNN's Jake Tapper hosted Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates on "The Lead" Tuesday, and the Defense Secretary in the Bush #43 and nObama administrations was not kind to President nObama and his Secretary of State Hilly Clinton... He criticized nObama for not trying harder to leave a residual force in Iraq and Ms. Clinton for pushing the president to get involved in Libya. Tapper asked Gates the a version of the question reporters are asking GOP candidates, "Knowing what we know now..." Except Tapper didn't ask about going into Iraq he asked about coming out (a question reporters should ask Hilly). Gates wrote in his book 'Duty' that the only big disagreement he had with Hilly Clinton was over Libya. He wanted the U.S. to leave Libya alone, Hilly wanted a U.S. intervention. On Tuesday he said looking at it in hindsight he was right and Hilly's position was incorrect. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/05/fomer-defense-sec-bob-gates-throws.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=423aec2790-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-423aec2790-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-423aec2790-291705165
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http://www9.heritage.org/rs/heritagefoundation/images/Obama501262.jpg" width="409" height="214" /> It’s Time for Congress to Put an nObamacare Repeal Bill on...
(Ben Howe) - Five years ago, Congress used a budget process known as reconciliation to pass the Affordable Care Act with a simple majority. It allowed Democrats to avoid a filibuster in the Senate and deliver the bill to President nObama’s desk... Now, with Republicans in control of the House and Senate, lawmakers have once again set the stage to use reconciliation—only this time they want to use the maneuver to repeal nObamacare. Congress already took the first step by approving a budget resolution this month. Their next move should be passing repeal legislation. That would uphold their promise to voters and send a repeal bill to nObama’s desk for the first time. http://dailysignal.com/2015/05/20/its-time-for-congress-to-put-an-obamacare-repeal-bill-on-the-presidents-desk/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojs6TBZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4JSMJiI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
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The Benghazi-Syria Weapons Connection
(Arnold Ahlert) - The shameless lying that has formed the heart of the nObama administration’s Benghazi narrative took another turn yesterday... Documents obtained by Fox News reveal that U.S. intelligence agencies were “fully aware” weapons were being moved from Benghazi to Syria before the attack on Sept. 11, 2012 that claimed the lives of ambassador Christopher Stevens, Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, and diplomat Sean Smith, The documents also put the lie to President nObama’s assertion that the rise of ISIS caught the administration “by surprise.” In addition to sources named by Herridge, the memo was also copied to then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nObama White House National Security Council. A second document from Oct. 2012 is the first official confirmation the nObama administration knew weapons were being shipped to Syrian rebels “from the port of Benghazi, Libya to the Port of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam, Syria,” an effort made easier by “uncertainty” directly attributable to the downfall of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/arnold-ahlert/the-benghazi-syria-weapons-connection/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=c9cdb70ebd-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-c9cdb70ebd-156509103
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Hilly Email Claim Proves False
(Bradford Thomas) - Team Clinton has just been caught in another potentially damaging falsehood concerning the ongoing email scandal. Yet again, the latest email deception was exposed by the New York Times... in a series of emails published Monday, the 2016 hopeful clearly uses more than one private email address, which directly contradicts Clinton and her representatives' repeated claims that she used only one email address during her time as Secretary of State. The emails indicate that Clinton used the email address hrod17@clintonemail.com, multiple times from 2011 to 2012. As TheBlaze points out, this contradicts statements by Clinton's attorney David Kendall, who assured Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) that the "hrod17" address had not "existed during Secretary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State." In a statement on the issue, the Clinton camp insisted that she "used one email account" during her tenure with the State Department from Jan. 2009 to Feb. 2013: http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/hrod17-hillary-email-claim-proves-false
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For US allies, paradigm shift in intelligence collection
(dailywitness.com) - Fearful of an expanding extremist threat, countries that for years have relied heavily on U.S. intelligence are quickly building up their own capabilities with new technology, new laws and — in at least one case... a searing debate on how much the American government should be allowed to spy on their own citizens. Responding to a jihadi movement that is successfully recruiting people from around the world, France and Canada are both passing laws that would dramatically ramp up their intelligence apparatus. In France, lawmakers are on the verge of approving a bill that would let the government install “black boxes” to collect metadata from every major phone and Internet company. Canada’s measures were rushed through after a two separate attacks in October 2014 on Canadian soldiers — including one that ended when the gunman stormed Parliament and was shot to death by guards and police. France’s law went into high gear after the January terror attacks on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket that left 20 dead, including the gunmen. http://dailywitness.com/for-us-allies-paradigm-shift-in-intelligence-collection/.
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House panel subpoenas Hilly Clinton confidant
(dailywitness.com) - A longtime confidant of Hilly Rodham Clinton has been subpoenaed to testify before a special House panel investigating the deaths of four Americans at the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi,Libya, according to an official familiar with the probe... This official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the subpoena was issued by the panel headed by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. The official declined to be identified publicly because he wasn’t authorized to discuss by name an investigation still in progress. The panel has “a number of questions” for Blumenthal, the official said, including whether he had any business arrangements that led him to send emails to Clinton and other officials concerning Libya while Clinton was secretary of state. Blumenthal was not an employee of the State Department at the time. http://dailywitness.com/ap-source-house-panel-subpoenas-hillary-clinton-confidant/
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Scandal Rap Sheet: 48 Reaons to Distrust & Despise the Media
(John Molte) - The American mainstream media is filled to the brim with liars, frauds, partisans, cheats, plagiarists, and those who tolerate, defend and enable all of them... There is no American institution — not the NFL, not the tobacco companies, not any corporation or enterprise regularly targeted by the media — that engages in anywhere near the amount of fraud and dishonesty that serially oozes from Our Media Overlords. Forget bias for a moment. Forget mistakes and misstatements and stupid or nasty things said during live telecasts. There isn’t enough Internet to begin to list the countless instances of left-wing bias and politicking and idiocy the media engage in. What I’ve accumulated below is the scripted, planned and intentional. Although I’m sure that more than a few examples have been overlooked (let me know which ones in the comments), this list is still a mind-blowing reminder of just how shamelessly corrupt the American media is. For these are the intentional lies, the intentional violations of ethics, the intentional manipulations, the intentional attempts to hurt the political right by employing the kind of tactics used by Third World propagandists. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/05/19/scandal-rap-sheet-48-excellent-reasons-to-distrust-despise-the-media/Sorry, Your Holiness,
You are Dangerously Wrong
Jonathan Tobin
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(jewishworldreview.com) - Those who forget that the Vatican is a city-state and not just the home office of the Catholic Church got a reminder this past week of just how its sovereignty works.
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Its decision to formally recognize "Palestine" as an independent nation was not a theological position but one in keeping with the policies of the rest of Europe which has chosen to promote the Palestinian Authority's ambitions despite its repeated refusal to make peace and its lack of control of much of the territory it claims.
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The announcement of the planned treaty was timed to coincide with the canonization of two 19th century Arab nuns who lived in Ottoman-ruled Palestine. Yet despite that religious gloss on an otherwise real politik move the nuns were upstaged when Pope Francis embraced PA leader Mahmoud Abbas on his visit to Rome and pronounced him "an angel of peace."
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Such hyperbole may be par for the course in exchanges between heads of state but for the pope to say something that is so patently false damages his credibility in a way that does the church more harm than might have occurred than had it decided not to join in the rush to recognize the Palestinians.
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Abbas may be many things but he is no angel as well as not being a champion of peace.
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The decisions being taken by the Vatican and other European states won't advance peace. To the contrary, such moves only encourage Abbas to continue to refuse to negotiate with Israel.
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The only path forward for a two state solution to the conflict is for the Palestinians to be given statehood only after they have made peace with Israel and not before. Abbas and his predecessor, Yasir Arafat, have repeatedly refused Israeli offers of peace and statehood.
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To this day, he refuses to sign any deal that recognizes the legitimacy of a Jewish state no matter where its borders are drawn.
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That alone should be enough to deny Abbas the title of "angel of peace." But that isn't the only reason.
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Abbas was a longtime deputy to arch-terrorist Arafat and played a role in organizing and financing many acts of brutal terrorism. But unlike other world leaders who might have employed violence in his youth and then became a statesman, Abbas has never really changed. He is the same man who wrote a doctoral thesis that centered on Holocaust denial at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University that was published in 1984. He continues to embrace and honor terrorists, such as the murderers with the blood of innocent civilians on their hands that were released by Israel in order to ransom Gilad Shalit from his Hamas captors.
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Just as important, though he occasionally makes statements about wanting peace when speaking to Western audiences or the international media, his official PA media incites hatred against Jews and Israel on a regular basis.
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Let's concede that part of the Vatican's motivation for all the love being shown the Palestinians is a desire to position the church to protect Middle East Christians at a time when they are under siege from radical Islam in the region. That ISIS is slaughtering Christians with impunity is well known. Less talked about is the every day pressure that Christian communities are under throughout the region. The result is that ancient Christian communities are disappearing as its members flee for safety in the West rather than face increasing marginalization and discrimination if not violence.
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That Christian institutions like the Church would choose to ingratiate themselves with the Muslim world by attacking Israel in this manner is not altogether surprising. Arab Christians have long sought to gain acceptance from Muslims by being in the forefront of the struggle against Zionism. It hasn't worked as Arab Christians continue to be attacked no matter how ardently they demonstrate their antipathy for Israel and Jews. Religious minorities in the Muslim have a natural ally in Israel but Arab Christians and some of their Western supporters continue to cling to the myth that they can win acceptance from Muslims by joining in attacks on the Jews.
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That Western Christians also adopt such attitudes is equally foolish. But it can also be explained by anti-Semitic attitudes that persist in Europe despite the heroic efforts of Pope Francis' predecessors, Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II to eradicate the vestiges of the Church's past errors.
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The pope might be forgiven for this flight of fancy if he were to give an equally egregious title to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during a meeting with him. But given the animosity that Europeans direct toward the democratically elected leader of the Jewish state such a similar papal embrace is highly unlikely.
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Pope Francis's statement about Abbas can be dismissed as mere window dressing to the Vatican's diplomatic initiative. But the damage the pope does when he says things that are so blatantly false goes beyond the assault on the truth that so often occurs when world leaders are polite to each other. . The power of the papacy remains great. During the last decade of the Cold War, Pope John Paul II proved that Stalin was wrong when he mocked a previous pope by asking how many divisions he controlled. But that power must rest in truth if it is to be more than just talk. .
The pope is a good man whose intentions should not be questioned. But just as the Vatican should refrain from acts that harm peace such as its recognition of Palestine, so, too, should the pope not utter falsehoods. .
That Pope Francis must meet with Abbas is to be expected but when he says something so obviously untrue about him, it hurts the papacy and undermines good relations between the church and the Jewish people more than it helps the corrupt, tyrannical and undemocratic leader of a Palestinian kleptocracy.
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