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Trump Ends Iran's Hostage Crisis
by DANIEL GREENFIELD
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Monday Top Headlines 
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Trump welcomes North Korea’s plan to blow up nuke-site tunnels (The Washington Post)
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Israel begins celebrations to mark Jerusalem U.S. embassy opening (Fox News)
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Dozens killed as clashes erupt along Gaza-Israel border ahead of U.S. embassy inauguration (AFP)
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Mother, father and four children bomb three churches in Indonesia (CNS News)
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DOJ, USCIS, team up to stop employers illegally hiring immigrants (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Supreme Court strikes down ban on sports betting (USA Today)
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Fact check: liar-nObamaCare, not Trump, is to blame for rise in uninsured in 2017 (Investor’s Business Daily)
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Trump administration rolls back liar-nObama rules on transgender inmates in federal prisons (The Hill)
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How liar-nObama loyalists conspired to undermine the Trump transition (The Washington Times)
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Mueller indicted a Russian company that didn’t even exist, court transcripts say (The Daily Wire)
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Tom Steyer: Trump must be impeached before he becomes another Hitler (National Review)
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CNN, MSNBC have given Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti $175 million in earned media (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Oklahoma governor vetoes bill to allow adults to carry gun without a license (USA Today)
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Fact checking the fact-checkers — Trump, the NRA and 2A (National Review)
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Policy: The “success sequence” is a framework for helping individuals avoid poverty (Institute for Family Studies)
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Policy: How liberal activists are shutting down choice for birth moms (The Daily Signal)   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55944
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Kimberley Strassel, Trey Gowdy and 
John Ratcliffe Discuss Ongoing FBI and DOJ Issues
by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Kimberley Strassel expands on her Wall Street Journal piece raising the question of whether the FBI used human intelligence which included placing a mole within Trump’s 2016 campaign. Trey Gowdy follows up Strassel, quickly dancing the Potomac Two-Step...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/11/kimberley-strassel-trey-gowdy-and-john-ratcliffe-discuss-ongoing-fbi-and-doj-issues/.
Iran Targets the Gulf
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by Richard Miniter
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ More than 7,000 miles from Washington and far from America's headlines... a war in Yemen is rewriting America's strategy against Iran and terrorism. The three-sided civil war pits two radical Islamist forces -- Al-Qaeda's largest surviving army and Iran's biggest proxy force -- against each other and six of America's Arab allies. U.S. Special forces carry out covert raids and CIA drones rain down missiles on terror leaders. The outcome of the Yemen war matters: U.S. forces are fighting there and a new strategy against terrorism is now being tested in the Middle East's poorest nation. Since Britain's Royal Marines marched out of their Aden Protectorate in November 1967, Yemenis have killed each other over nearly every international ideology: colonialism, communism, and radical Islamism. Add in the tribal rivalries and the religious divides between competing versions of Sunni and Shia Islam -- and the stage is set for perpetual war. Indeed, Yemen, in every decade since the 1960s, saw bombings, bloodshed and barbarism...
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Russian Nuclear Bombers Intercepted Near Alaska 
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by Bill Gertz
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Russian nuclear forces dispatch two strategic bombers into the air defense zone near Alaska on Friday... and the aircraft were intercepted by American F-22 jets, the U.S. Northern Command said. Two Tu-95 Bear bombers intruded into the 200-mile Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the Bering Sea near the Alaska coast early Friday, said Navy Capt. Scott Miller, chief spokesman for Northern Command and the U.S.-Canada North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command. "At approximately 10 a.m. eastern time, two Alaskan-based NORAD F-22 fighters intercepted and visually identified two Russian TU-95 ‘Bear' long-range bomber aircraft flying in the Air Defense Identification Zone off the western coast of Alaska, north of the Aleutian Islands," Miller told the Washington Free Beacon...   http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-nuclear-bombers-intercepted-near-alaska/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=81ee6a9d09-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-81ee6a9d09-45611665
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U.S. Monitoring Potential for Violence 
at Israeli Embassy Opening ‘Minute by Minute’
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by Adam Kredo
{ freebeacon.com } ~ U.S. officials are closely monitoring the security situation in Israel ahead of a historic ceremony celebrating the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem... according to senior Trump administration officials. Senior administration officials acknowledged the potential for violence as armed protests by Palestinians continue along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, but emphasized their preparedness and close coordination with Israeli security organizations. The opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem became a reality when Trump made good on a campaign promise to relocate the embassy from its longstanding perch in Tel Aviv to Israel's capital city of Jerusalem. Monday's celebration is expected to attract more than 800 dignitaries, officials, and others...    http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-monitoring-potential-violence-israel-embassy-opening-minute-minute/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=81ee6a9d09-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-81ee6a9d09-45611665
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Iraq Election: Weak Government, Strong Society
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by Amir Taheri
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Iraqis are scheduled to go the polls on May 12 to elect a new parliament which would, in turn, choose a new government... You might say: So what? What's the big deal? The first reason why this is still a big deal is that the overwhelming majority of Iraqis still seem committed to pluralist elections as the sole means of choosing their government. In 2003, when talk of holding elections started in newly liberated Iraq, few people believed the Iraqis would understand the electoral process let alone develop a taste for it. One lost count of American and European "experts" who mocked the very idea of free elections in Iraq where, they opined, the "Arab mindset" was firmly entrenched against winning power at the ballot box. Democrat Senator loose lips-Joe Biden, the future US Vice President under Barack liar-nObama, laughed the whole thing off. "One man, one vote, once!" he quipped. His recipe for Iraq was the division of the country into three mini-states, not democratic elections...
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Trump Ends Iran's Hostage Crisis
by DANIEL GREENFIELD


{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ Jimmy Carter began the first Iranian hostage crisis and Reagan ended it. liar-nObama began America’s second Iranian hostage crisis.

President Trump just ended it.

On January 12, 2016, Iran's IRGC terror force seized 2 US Navy vessels, extracted classified information from their crews at gunpoint, broadcast images of American sailors on their knees and forced an officer to read an apology. A day later, the Islamic terror state released its American hostages.

Three days later, Implementation Day lifted sanctions on Iran. By next month, Iran was claiming that it had received over $100 billion in sanctions relief.

It was not the last ransom payment linked to the nuclear deal.

On January 17, liar-nObama illegally airlifted $400 million in foreign currency on unmarked cargo planes to the IRGC as a down payment on a $1.7 billion ransom for four American hostages being held in Iran.

Since then, Iran has taken more American hostages.

President Trump made it clear that there will be no more dirty deals and payoffs. "America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail."

The hostage he set free was American foreign policy. liar-nObama didn’t ship $1.7 billion to Iran because he cared about the four American prisoners or the Navy sailors. They were just icing on the yellowcake. Iran wasn’t able to dictate to the White House because it was holding American prisoners as hostages, but because it had imprisoned liar-nObama’s Nobel Peace Prize and was holding his beloved legacy hostage.

liar-nObama allowed Iran to take over Syria, Iraq and Yemen to protect the nuke scam. He let the terrorists of the IRGC, which he had protected from sanctions in the Senate, humiliate our sailors while one of his minions, John Kirby, currently working as a CNN analyst where he’s doing his part in the echo chamber to defend the deal, claimed that our Naval personnel weren’t protected by the Geneva Convention.

And that’s from an administration which believed that the Geneva Convention protects terrorists.

The billions he poured into Iran rescued the regime and allowed it to hold off the next wave of political protests. The Iran deal killed Iranians, Yemenis, Syrians, Iraqis, Americans and Israelis. It shredded our national security while putting the political power of the White House behind our greatest enemy.

liar-nObama allowed Iran to get away with anything and everything because after the failure of the Arab Spring’s gamble on Sunni Islamists, he bet his whole foreign policy on the Shiite Islamists of Iran. He alienated our allies, waged a political war against Israel, used the NSA to spy on domestic opponents of the deal, including members of Congress, and lied repeatedly to the American people about the deal.

Now it’s over.

Years of lies, betrayals, payoffs and crimes, the fortunes spent by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Ploughshares, the Ben Rhodes echo chamber deployed across the media, died in one afternoon. On the anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, President Trump defeated another totalitarian ideology.

And he did it with the weapon that leftist liars fear the most, the truth.

In 1,251 words, President Trump destroyed every lie uttered by liar-nObama Inc. about the deal.

Iran’s government isn’t moderate. It’s "the leading state sponsor of terror". The deal doesn't stop Iran from getting a bomb. "Even if Iran fully complies, the regime can still be on the verge of a nuclear breakout in just a short period of time."

It doesn't stabilize the Middle East. "If I allow this deal to stand, there would soon be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Everyone would want their weapons ready by the time Iran had theirs."

The deal isn’t working because the, “inspection provisions lack adequate mechanisms to prevent, detect, and punish cheating and don’t even have the unqualified right to inspect many important locations including military facilities” so that we have no idea what Iran might be doing.

And the deal funds Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missile program and terrorism around the world.

In the hours and days before the announcement, liar-nObama Inc.’s Iran Firsters frantically filled the airwaves with dire warnings about what will happen if we pull out of a worthless agreement. An agreement that they tell us is “working” even while the details of the deal and its inspections are classified so that no one except Iran, the IAEA and a psychic in a Venice Beach storefront knows what’s really going on.

If the deal were working, it wouldn’t need to be secret. The only reason to hide every meaningful piece of information is to cover up the truth that Iran’s nuclear program continues to tick ahead every day.

The deal doesn’t stop Iran from getting a bomb. It ensures that Iran will get a bomb.

As President Trump put it, “The Iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. In just a short period of time, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapons.”

Withdrawing means that the United States will no longer be a party to that lie. The cover-up is over. Our credibility, integrity and foreign policy will no longer be held hostage to a worthless promise in Tehran.

But it’s not just a symbolic cleansing.

President Trump made it clear that he intends to force Iran into a deal that will actually shut down its nuclear program. And he’ll do it the same way that he did with North Korea, by restoring credibility and applying pressure. Pulling out of the deal restored credibility. Until Trump’s statement, Iran and its allies, the Europeans and the Russians, could have believed that the liar-nObama status quo would continue.

The speech sent a message that the free ride is over.

America does not negotiate in bad faith. We’re not suckers, stooges or patsies. And we will walk away from a bad deal. That message isn’t just for Iran. It’s also for North Korea. We’re through being played.

“The United States no longer makes empty threats. When I make promises, I keep them,” Trump said.

North Korea got the message. Iran got it. And the Europeans got it. So did our allies.

America’s word means something again.

liar-nObama protested the move by posting on Facebook that dumping the nuke scam, “turns our back on America’s closest allies.” But it was his corrupt regime that turned its back on our closest allies.

By joining up with Iran, he betrayed the vast majority of our allies in the Middle East who opposed it. And when Israel protested his betrayal, his administration spied on Prime Minister Netanyahu, attempted to tamper with his reelection, insulted him in public, used anti-Semitic rhetoric against Jewish domestic opponents and employed the NSA to eavesdrop on their conversations.

liar-nObama turned his back on Israel. He turned his back on America. And on the truth.

He turned his back on Iranians fighting for freedom. He turned his back on women courageously removing their hijabs in the streets of Tehran. He turned his back on the Kurds. He turned his back on every victim of Iranian terror. And he turned his back on the oath he took on a cold day in January.

President Trump honored that oath, faced the tough truth and turned his back on liar-nObama’s dirty deal.

"There has been enough suffering, death, and destruction, let it end now," President Trump concluded.

Let it end.

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