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The world learns: Socialism sucks
by Erik Rush
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liar-nObama Lackey Blocks Trump ...or Does He?
Just when you think judicial activism can't get any more bizarre, in comes U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick. Yesterday, Judge Orrick — who, by the way, targeted the noble work of the pro-life group Center for Medical Progress and also helped funnel almost a quarter-million dollars to Barack liar-nObama and his lemmings — issued a provisional injunction against defunding so-called sanctuary cities. For now, the ruling protects the nine lawless jurisdictions that are being threatened with imminent Justice Department sanctions. But the details of the case and the court's reasoning are almost surreal.
The injunction pertains to a January executive order (and this is the key). According to Judge Orrick, "The President has called it 'a weapon' to use against jurisdictions that disagree with his preferred policies of immigration enforcement, and his press secretary has reiterated that the President intends to ensure that 'counties and other institutions that remain sanctuary cites don't get federal government funding in compliance with the executive order.' The Attorney General has warned that jurisdictions that do not comply with Section 1373 would suffer 'withholding grants, termination of grants, and disbarment or ineligibility for future grants,' and the 'claw back' of any funds previously awarded."
But then Judge Orrick goes on to argue, "That said, this injunction does nothing more than implement the effect of the Government's flawed interpretation of the Order. It does not affect the ability of the Attorney General or the Secretary to enforce existing conditions of federal grants or 8 U.S.C. 1373, nor does it impact the Secretary's ability to develop regulations or other guidance defining what a sanctuary jurisdiction is or designating a jurisdiction as such. It does prohibit the Government from exercising 9(a) in a way that violates the Constitution."
So the executive order is void, but Sessions is also being allowed to carry on. Huh? In essence, the judge wrongly contends that Trump intended to completely defund sanctuary cities. Legally, the defunding measures are relegated to three grants. So the question is: What was the administration's motive? For the answer, let's look at what Trump's original executive order actually said: "[T]he Attorney General and the Secretary, in their discretion and to the extent consistent with law, shall ensure that jurisdictions that willfully refuse to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373 (sanctuary jurisdictions) are not eligible to receive Federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes by the Attorney General or the Secretary." Notice the phrase "consistent with law." The judge is inaccurately surmising things from Trump's admittedly lose mouth despite what the text actually says.
To be fair, the executive order was unnecessary legally. Why executively execute something that's already legal? The message it sent, on the other hand, was needed. On the flip side, the courts hijacked the order by pretending it's something it's clearly not. Politico called it "another high-profile blow to Trump's efforts to use executive orders to carry out major policy moves." Except it's not. The Leftmedia is sensationalizing yesterday's news even though it literally changes nothing. As David French put it, "Trump isn't blocked from enforcing existing law. He's only blocked from engaging in illegal acts that the DOJ promised the court that it wasn't considering. In other words, move along. There's not much to see here."
Unfortunately, extreme judicial activism and Leftmedia hyperbole will be the modus operandi for the next four years. On the positive side, it's impossible to overstate just how important it was to get Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. Because that's ultimately where sanity will (we hope) prevail.
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California Testing Boundaries Of Anarchy,
Corruption Everywhere You Turn
>by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts “on the all but perfect laboratory for left-wing ideological experimentation and deep-state subversion... The fertile venue to watch what happens when government works against its residents, its citizens, when local and state governments battle the Trump administration and our nation’s federal laws.” Dobbs alleviates the low level suspense with an admission of, “Of course, I’m talking about California.” Dobbs reassures his audience, saying, “No, California hasn’t yet seceded, but many Californians are acting as if it had left the union.” Dobbs notes, “They want California to become the nation’s first sanctuary state if they can’t secede and the California legislature has even hired former Attorney General Eric Holder to be their point man for legal battles with the Trump administration. And of course, San Francisco is the home of the 9th Circuit, the left-most appellate court in the country, the most reversed court in all the land.”...http://rickwells.us/dobbs-california-testing-boundaries-of-anarchy-corruption-everywhere-you-turn/
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East Asia Nuclear Roulette
by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ The UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) warned about possible nuclear war, by design or accident, calling the risk highest since the end of the Cold War... Nine nations have nukes: America, Russia, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. Given heightened world tensions, especially in East Asia, the Middle East, and US hostility toward multiple countries, possible nuclear war may be inevitable, perhaps just a matter of time. In 1982 testimony before Congress, founder of America’s nuclear navy Admiral Hyman Rickover said “the lesson of history is when a war starts, every nation will ultimately use whatever weapons it has available.”...http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/east-asia-nuclear-roulette/
.Why This Judge’s Ruling Won’t Block
Federal Action on Sanctuary Cities
by Hans von Spakovsky
{dailysignal.com} ~ Media sources are all breathlessly reporting that the Trump administration’s proposed termination of federal funding to sanctuary cities has been enjoined by a federal judge... But that is misleading, and the media is misinterpreting the injunction order in the same way the federal judge misinterpreted President Donald Trump’s executive order. At issue in the lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court by Santa Clara County and San Francisco was Section 9 of Executive Order 13768, “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States.” If you read all of the news accounts, as well as the order of Judge William Orrick (an liar-nObama appointee), you would think that Trump ordered the cutoff of all federal funding to sanctuary cities, from basic federal entitlement payments like Medicaid to discretionary grants... http://dailysignal.com/2017/04/26/why-this-judges-ruling-wont-block-federal-action-on-sanctuary-cities/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURNMU0yRTJPRE01T0RObSIsInQiOiJiY1FzeEZ6Y2R0elJWTVZGXC8xampMTmNYc0w3QWJwbllVTStVN3hCTHVtVWxkbEdHbzhsbUJCd2h2VTFRR2g2XC9mMHZQajJRcEFYU0ZqMDdyeW1uM21Ea2I0MFwvcmhocHFxbFFMNmhvbWdwU053Mko3YmJcL1owUzVPQUdic2Z0YysifQ%3D%3D
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Only 2 House Dems Have Examined
Those Susan Rice ‘Unmasking’ Docs
by Richard Pollock
{dailycaller.com} ~ The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned. The apparent lack of interest among the remaining seven Democrats on the intelligence panel is in striking contrast to their earlier vocal demands that they see the documents after committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes disclosed he had read them at the White House complex. According to a source with knowledge of congressional visits to the National Security Agency, the classified documents have been available to committee members for three weeks, but Himes and Schiff are the lone Democrats to review them...All those dems need to be replaced, even Schiff. http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/26/exclusive-only-2-house-dems-have-examined-those-susan-rice-unmasking-docs/
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Palestinians: This is How We Intimidate Journalists
Palestinian Authority police assault journalists at a protest in Ramallah
by Bassam Tawil
Palestinian Authority police assault journalists at a protest in Ramallah
by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Seven Palestinian journalists are the latest victims of the Palestinian Authority's (PA) continued crackdown on the media... The repressive measures are aimed at silencing critical voices among the journalists and deterring others from reporting stories that reflect negatively on the Palestinian leadership in particular and Palestinians in general. In the view of President Mahmoud Abbas and his PA, Palestinian journalists exist to write stories slamming Israel or praising PA leaders. Media, for them, is defined as a mouthpiece for Abbas, the PA leadership and the Palestinian cause. Any journalist who dares to think outside this checkpoint is subject to severe punishment. Under Abbas and the PA, there is no room for an independent media... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10116/palestinians-journalists-intimidation
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by Erik Rush
The world learns: Socialism sucks
by Erik Rush
{wnd.com} ~ Recently, I heard popular host Glenn Beck state that he had eliminated the word “evil” from his vocabulary, the rationale being that he believed it would thwart efforts for conservatives to “come together” with their political opponents to solve the problems facing our nation.
I acknowledge the fact that Beck has done a lot over the years toward educating his audience concerning the machinations of global socialists, first on Fox News television and later through his online network, The Blaze. However, as I’ve indicated previously, sometimes the host goes too far in his self-styled Mormon flower-child modality with regard to the reality of dealing with said political opponents, their ruthlessness, lack of ethics and intractability.
Even though it has not always been a pervasive belief among Western Christians, as a Christian, I can certainly concur with Beck’s belief that love is the highest ideal a person can have. That said, notions of brotherly love and “coming together” are naïve at best when it comes to political opponents who are wholly dedicated to eradicating an opponent’s system of belief, governance or population, whether by attrition or by the sword.
Typically, this sort of political opponent is referred to as an “enemy.”
The half-billion people murdered, maimed and enslaved by socialists of varied stripes during the last century ought to be sufficient proof of their ruthlessness, lack of ethics and intractability. Likewise, Islam’s 1,400 years of blind zealotry, as well as the murder and mayhem perpetrated by Islamists during that time to say nothing of the same perpetrated by Islamists over the last couple of decades alone ought to be sufficient proof of their inability to come to accords with their opponents.
Over the last couple of years, we have seen key indicators that citizens of Western nations who’ve had socialism and its attendant social engineering devices rammed down their throats over the last 50 years have had enough.
With regard to immigration, for example: Europe is obviously further along than America with respect to the machinations of international socialist politicos. Now, we are seeing a strong response to the doctrine of European leaders having welcomed millions of individuals from culturally bankrupt nations over the last 50 years. Those who have refused to assimilate and treat the largesse of Europeans as their birthright have become a poisonous, indigestible mass in the European body politic.
This isn’t an instance of Westerners being bigoted, creepy Christian dogmatists, particularly in the case of Europeans. Europe accounted for 66.3 percent of the world’s Christian population in 1910. Today, it represents 25.9 percent. The proportion of European Christians has dropped from 94.5 percent of the population to 76.2 percent in 100 years.
Over time, Westerners, whether Europeans, Canadians or Americans, have begun to find the insidious aspects of socialism that were dramatically misrepresented to them by politicians, akin to having ingested spoiled food. One doesn’t get sick right away, but when it sets in, it’s something one never forgets.
These people are not ideological conservatives either, nor have they identified socialism as the name of their pain – yet. They just know that their paychecks don’t go nearly as far as they used to, they’re far less safe, their entertainment media has become shameless left-wing propaganda, and their children are being indoctrinated in school rather than educated.
Other than the election of Donald Trump to the presidency the most notable byproduct of this phenomenon, there are myriad examples of plain folk expressing their disgust with socialist encroachment. Brexit, the United Kingdom’s effort to extricate itself from the European Union is certainly one of these. Citizens’ expulsion of their government in Iceland a few years ago is another.
In the corporate world, the shrinking coffers of the NFL and ESPN followed those companies’ tolerance of anti-American expression among certain pro football players and sportscasters, respectively. Big-box giant Target is currently hemorrhaging top executives and cash, the result of that organization becoming a corporate activist for the homosexual agenda.
It was one thing for Westerners to view from afar the desolation of Soviet Russia, Cuba and other nations that went socialist during the last century, or to muse over oil-rich Venezuela being flat broke due to hard-line socialist policies – but the foregoing declines have struck too close to home for comfort.
With regard to the opening paragraphs and concepts of evil and enmity: Most people can recognize evil when they see it; obviously, this holds true even among societies in which leftist moral relativism abounds. There is a danger to the excising and modification of language in that it smacks of the Orwellian – the politically correct moral relativism, social engineering and borderline mind control so often employed by socialists. They’ve even gone so far as to modify or negate such terms as “good” and “evil” to advance amorality and secure political gains.
Increasing numbers of those who have known liberty under Western constitutions and democratic republics are coming to realize that a chief consequence of this strategy has been an erosion of their liberties and a decline in their quality of life – which I suppose breathes new life into the axiom referencing not being able to fool all of the people all of the time.
I acknowledge the fact that Beck has done a lot over the years toward educating his audience concerning the machinations of global socialists, first on Fox News television and later through his online network, The Blaze. However, as I’ve indicated previously, sometimes the host goes too far in his self-styled Mormon flower-child modality with regard to the reality of dealing with said political opponents, their ruthlessness, lack of ethics and intractability.
Even though it has not always been a pervasive belief among Western Christians, as a Christian, I can certainly concur with Beck’s belief that love is the highest ideal a person can have. That said, notions of brotherly love and “coming together” are naïve at best when it comes to political opponents who are wholly dedicated to eradicating an opponent’s system of belief, governance or population, whether by attrition or by the sword.
Typically, this sort of political opponent is referred to as an “enemy.”
The half-billion people murdered, maimed and enslaved by socialists of varied stripes during the last century ought to be sufficient proof of their ruthlessness, lack of ethics and intractability. Likewise, Islam’s 1,400 years of blind zealotry, as well as the murder and mayhem perpetrated by Islamists during that time to say nothing of the same perpetrated by Islamists over the last couple of decades alone ought to be sufficient proof of their inability to come to accords with their opponents.
Over the last couple of years, we have seen key indicators that citizens of Western nations who’ve had socialism and its attendant social engineering devices rammed down their throats over the last 50 years have had enough.
With regard to immigration, for example: Europe is obviously further along than America with respect to the machinations of international socialist politicos. Now, we are seeing a strong response to the doctrine of European leaders having welcomed millions of individuals from culturally bankrupt nations over the last 50 years. Those who have refused to assimilate and treat the largesse of Europeans as their birthright have become a poisonous, indigestible mass in the European body politic.
This isn’t an instance of Westerners being bigoted, creepy Christian dogmatists, particularly in the case of Europeans. Europe accounted for 66.3 percent of the world’s Christian population in 1910. Today, it represents 25.9 percent. The proportion of European Christians has dropped from 94.5 percent of the population to 76.2 percent in 100 years.
Over time, Westerners, whether Europeans, Canadians or Americans, have begun to find the insidious aspects of socialism that were dramatically misrepresented to them by politicians, akin to having ingested spoiled food. One doesn’t get sick right away, but when it sets in, it’s something one never forgets.
These people are not ideological conservatives either, nor have they identified socialism as the name of their pain – yet. They just know that their paychecks don’t go nearly as far as they used to, they’re far less safe, their entertainment media has become shameless left-wing propaganda, and their children are being indoctrinated in school rather than educated.
Other than the election of Donald Trump to the presidency the most notable byproduct of this phenomenon, there are myriad examples of plain folk expressing their disgust with socialist encroachment. Brexit, the United Kingdom’s effort to extricate itself from the European Union is certainly one of these. Citizens’ expulsion of their government in Iceland a few years ago is another.
In the corporate world, the shrinking coffers of the NFL and ESPN followed those companies’ tolerance of anti-American expression among certain pro football players and sportscasters, respectively. Big-box giant Target is currently hemorrhaging top executives and cash, the result of that organization becoming a corporate activist for the homosexual agenda.
It was one thing for Westerners to view from afar the desolation of Soviet Russia, Cuba and other nations that went socialist during the last century, or to muse over oil-rich Venezuela being flat broke due to hard-line socialist policies – but the foregoing declines have struck too close to home for comfort.
With regard to the opening paragraphs and concepts of evil and enmity: Most people can recognize evil when they see it; obviously, this holds true even among societies in which leftist moral relativism abounds. There is a danger to the excising and modification of language in that it smacks of the Orwellian – the politically correct moral relativism, social engineering and borderline mind control so often employed by socialists. They’ve even gone so far as to modify or negate such terms as “good” and “evil” to advance amorality and secure political gains.
Increasing numbers of those who have known liberty under Western constitutions and democratic republics are coming to realize that a chief consequence of this strategy has been an erosion of their liberties and a decline in their quality of life – which I suppose breathes new life into the axiom referencing not being able to fool all of the people all of the time.
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