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The crazy fat kid with nuclear weapons
by Wesley Pruden
by Wesley Pruden
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Top Headlines
Senate begins debate on Gorsuch; McConnell says he has majority vote if needed. (The Washington Times)
Border apprehensions hit 17-year low in March. (Washington Examiner)
Illegal immigration down 67% under Trump. (The Washington Times)
California pulls the trigger on "sanctuary state" status. (Hot Air)
Yeah, Chicago's this bad: Bullet-proof vests suggested for children on South, West Sides. (CBS Chicago)
Russian subway bomber ID'd as ... radical Islamist. (Reuters)
Assad uses chemical weapons on civilians. Again. (The Daily Beast)
Young Americans are killing marriage. (Bloomberg)
Poll: Fewer Democrats than ever say they're proud to be an American. (Washington Examiner)
Hump Day Humor: liar-nObama was definitely better than Trump ... as a gun salesman. (Hot Air)
Policy: Have worker wages really gone nowhere for 40 years? (American Enterprise Institute)
Policy: Here's how Congress can use its opportunity to restore the military. (The Daily Signal) ~The Patriot Post
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Rice On Multitude Of Felonies,
liar-nObama Likely Involved
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro compliments Sean Hannity on the way he laid out the case against Susan Rice, but notes that he left out one consideration that she would have included... She says, “Whenever any witness takes the stand, and that witness has a history of being a liar, as Susan Rice has been with respect to Benghazi, with respect to Bowe Bergdahl serving with honor and distinction, then a jury is entitled to take anything she says with less than a grain of salt.” She says the questions that we have to ask are, “Who put her up to it, why did she do it, did liar-nObama know about it, who did she share it with, is she the one who gave it to the Washington Post? And this woman has to be put under oath. We’ve got to get to the bottom of this, because if they can do it to the President or a president-elect, they’re doing it to us all the time.” Jeh Sekulow calls Susan Rice the liar-in-chief, saying she’s told so many stories she could pass a lie detector test simply because she can’t tell one from another... http://rickwells.us/sekulow-judge-jeanine-rice-multitude-felonies-obama-likely-involved/
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Republicans go ‘nuclear,’ bust through
Democratic filibuster on Gorsuch
by Judson Berger
{foxnews.com} ~ Senate Republicans deployed the so-called “nuclear option” Thursday in their drive to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, dramatically changing the way the Senate does business in order to overcome a Democratic filibuster... In a fast-paced chain of events that clears the way for Gorsuch to be confirmed by Friday evening, majority Republicans changed Senate precedent so that a high court nominee can advance to a final vote with a simple majority of 51 senators, as opposed to 60. By Senate standards, this was ground-shaking. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declared he did so to “restore norms” and get past what he called an “unprecedented” Democratic filibuster...
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“How many more children have
to die before Russia cares?”
by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
{noisyroom.net} ~ Nikki Haley surprised the heck out of me when she called Russia on the carpet at the United Nations over a monstrous chemical weapons attack allegedly carried out by Assad in Syria... “How many more children have to die before Russia cares?” Haley asked, her eyes locked on the Russian ambassador. And that is the rub of the matter. Of course, Russia claims it was the rebels fault… that they stockpiled the weapons and when Assad blew up their warehouse, they were dispersed. You can’t trust anything the Russians say and I believe that is a monstrous lie. We are very, very close to war now on multiple fronts. I actually think that we either need to have a trained Black Ops team take out that troll in North Korea, or we need to preemptively strike the Hermit Kingdom. We are now out of options. As for Syria, if we decide to go to war there, realize that we will not just be at war with Assad. We will be at war with Russia, China and Iran as well. Hello World War III. I have warned about this for years and we have finally arrived at the Eve of Destruction...
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Countering North Korea’s nukes
by Retired Adm. James A. Lyons
{aim.org} ~ There is no question about North Korea’s drive to achieve intercontinental ballistic missile capability. The objective is clear: to be capable of launching a pre-emptive nuclear attack against the United States... Of course, with Pyongyang’s multiple ballistic missile launches into the Sea of Japan, it was not only a signal to Japan but to the United States as well. Clearly, such actions are destabilizing. However, what is more destabilizing is our failure over the past two decades to address this threat in any concrete manner. Further, we should never forget that North Korea is the “off-site laboratory” for Iran’s nuclear weapons program. For more than 25 years, we have tried to negotiate with one of the world’s leading state sponsors of terrorism and our reward is a nuclear missile-armed North Korea. Economic sanctions have been a complete failure primarily due to the support provided North Korea by China, Russia and Iran...
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'Vital national security interest':
Trump orders attack on Syrian airfield
by Sarah Westwood & Travis J. Tritten
by Sarah Westwood & Travis J. Tritten
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump ordered the first major military action of his young presidency Thursday evening, authorizing the bombing of a Syria airfield where the government of President Bashar Assad launched a chemical attack on civilians this week... "It is in this vital national security interest of the U.S. to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons," Trump said. "There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons violated its obligation under the chemical weapons convention and ignored the urging of the United Nations Security Council." "Years of previous attempts at changing Assad's behavior have all failed and failed very dramatically," Trump said. "As a result the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize."... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/us-navy-reportedly-fires-50-missiles-into-syria/article/2619610?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News%20-%2004/06/17&utm_medium=email
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The crazy fat kid with nuclear weapons
by Wesley Pruden
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Kim Jong-un may be "a crazy fat kid" with a goofy haircut, but he is doing what his father and his grandfather never could. With nuclear weapons to play with, he frightens the West enough to make it start thinking about doing something about the most dangerous crazy fat kid on earth.
By some reliable intelligence estimates North Korea now has eight nuclear weapons, but no way to deliver them farther than the Sea of Japan, but they're working on it. They have to get the size of the bomb down to manageable weight and girth before an intercontinental missile could reach the California coast with it.
What seemed absurd only a few years ago is thought to be soon in the crazy fat kid's box of toys. The failure of the early missiles was easy to mock, like the purple prose of the propaganda artists in Pyongyang. But Kim and his scientists, believed to be working with the help of Iran and the nuclear-weapons program saved by Barack liar-nObama, are moving steadily to full membership in the club of nations with "the bomb."
Kim has the family DNA and the brutal Marxist ambitions of his father and grandfather, but little of their appreciation of the rational. A recent defector from North Korea, Thae Young Ho, the deputy North Korean ambassador to London, says "Kim Jong-un is a man who will do anything beyond the normal imagination." He ordered an uncle and his half-brother "terminated with extreme prejudice" - as in, dead - because he reckoned them threats to his own life. He knows that when the regime goes, he goes with it. That's the way it works in a satrap like North Korea. Terror is the constant companion to the dictator who lives by the whip and the gun.
Kim lives a life of sumptuous ease in Pyongyang, surrounded by sycophants and the pleasures of the table, adding to his girth with a rich diet of imported groceries while millions of his countrymen live close to starvation. He is particularly vain for a fat man, and Sen. John McCain's recent description of him as "a crazy fat kid" stirred him to rage.
Mr. McCain had told an interviewer at MSNBC, the cable-TV channel, that "the crazy fat kid running North Korea is far worse than some of history's worst dictators. He's not rational. We're not dealing with someone like Joseph Stalin, who had a certain rationality to his barbarity." The Korean Central News Agency, the mouthpiece of the Kim regime, accused Mr. McCain of "hurting the dignity of the country and the supreme leadership of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," i.e., North Korea. When Sen. Ted Cruz joined other conservatives to file legislation to put North Korea on the list of state sponsors of terrorism again, he was denounced as a dignity-damager, too, and promised all manner of punishment.
The senators, said the news agency, "will have to bitterly experience the disastrous consequences to be entailed by their reckless tongue-lashing and then any regret for it will come too late. The revolutionary forces of North Korea with its nuclear force as its pivot will fulfill its sacred mission of devotedly defending its supreme leadership representing the destiny and life of its people by dealing with merciless sledgehammer blows at those daring to hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership."
All that merciless work with a sledgehammer seems a little wasteful of resources to punish two mere senators, worthy as those gents may be but the example of sledgehammer rhetoric might be instructive to the pundits in the West who have done their darnedest to take down Donald Trump and still haven't managed to put their rhetoric in the killer shade of purple.
Nevertheless, a genuine threat lies beneath the entertaining bluster and braggadocio. Adm. Scott Swift, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, tells NBC News that American officials are particularly wary of Kim Jong-un's latest threats to hit an American city with a nuclear bomb.
"They have the nuclear capability," the admiral says. "They've demonstrated that. Where they're going with the miniaturization of that, whether they can actually weaponize a missile, that's what's driving the current concern."
President Trump told London's Financial Times on Monday that "something has to be done about North Korea." Secretary of Defense James Mattis, once called "Mad Dog Mattis," says North Korea "has got to be stopped." Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says a military response is "on the table."
President Trump entertains Chinese President Xi Jinping this week at Mar-A-Lago, and he'll have a lot to tell him. But if President Xi can't make Kim behave, somebody else will have to do it, and soon. Scary to think about. It's even scarier to think about not doing anything.
By some reliable intelligence estimates North Korea now has eight nuclear weapons, but no way to deliver them farther than the Sea of Japan, but they're working on it. They have to get the size of the bomb down to manageable weight and girth before an intercontinental missile could reach the California coast with it.
What seemed absurd only a few years ago is thought to be soon in the crazy fat kid's box of toys. The failure of the early missiles was easy to mock, like the purple prose of the propaganda artists in Pyongyang. But Kim and his scientists, believed to be working with the help of Iran and the nuclear-weapons program saved by Barack liar-nObama, are moving steadily to full membership in the club of nations with "the bomb."
Kim has the family DNA and the brutal Marxist ambitions of his father and grandfather, but little of their appreciation of the rational. A recent defector from North Korea, Thae Young Ho, the deputy North Korean ambassador to London, says "Kim Jong-un is a man who will do anything beyond the normal imagination." He ordered an uncle and his half-brother "terminated with extreme prejudice" - as in, dead - because he reckoned them threats to his own life. He knows that when the regime goes, he goes with it. That's the way it works in a satrap like North Korea. Terror is the constant companion to the dictator who lives by the whip and the gun.
Kim lives a life of sumptuous ease in Pyongyang, surrounded by sycophants and the pleasures of the table, adding to his girth with a rich diet of imported groceries while millions of his countrymen live close to starvation. He is particularly vain for a fat man, and Sen. John McCain's recent description of him as "a crazy fat kid" stirred him to rage.
Mr. McCain had told an interviewer at MSNBC, the cable-TV channel, that "the crazy fat kid running North Korea is far worse than some of history's worst dictators. He's not rational. We're not dealing with someone like Joseph Stalin, who had a certain rationality to his barbarity." The Korean Central News Agency, the mouthpiece of the Kim regime, accused Mr. McCain of "hurting the dignity of the country and the supreme leadership of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," i.e., North Korea. When Sen. Ted Cruz joined other conservatives to file legislation to put North Korea on the list of state sponsors of terrorism again, he was denounced as a dignity-damager, too, and promised all manner of punishment.
The senators, said the news agency, "will have to bitterly experience the disastrous consequences to be entailed by their reckless tongue-lashing and then any regret for it will come too late. The revolutionary forces of North Korea with its nuclear force as its pivot will fulfill its sacred mission of devotedly defending its supreme leadership representing the destiny and life of its people by dealing with merciless sledgehammer blows at those daring to hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership."
All that merciless work with a sledgehammer seems a little wasteful of resources to punish two mere senators, worthy as those gents may be but the example of sledgehammer rhetoric might be instructive to the pundits in the West who have done their darnedest to take down Donald Trump and still haven't managed to put their rhetoric in the killer shade of purple.
Nevertheless, a genuine threat lies beneath the entertaining bluster and braggadocio. Adm. Scott Swift, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, tells NBC News that American officials are particularly wary of Kim Jong-un's latest threats to hit an American city with a nuclear bomb.
"They have the nuclear capability," the admiral says. "They've demonstrated that. Where they're going with the miniaturization of that, whether they can actually weaponize a missile, that's what's driving the current concern."
President Trump told London's Financial Times on Monday that "something has to be done about North Korea." Secretary of Defense James Mattis, once called "Mad Dog Mattis," says North Korea "has got to be stopped." Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says a military response is "on the table."
President Trump entertains Chinese President Xi Jinping this week at Mar-A-Lago, and he'll have a lot to tell him. But if President Xi can't make Kim behave, somebody else will have to do it, and soon. Scary to think about. It's even scarier to think about not doing anything.
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