Monday ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Good Riddance!
THOMAS SOWELL
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Rubio dares Dems on Planned Parenthood funding -  NPR: “I don’t prefer to see it shut down. In fact, I think that if it does shut down it will be because the Democrats and the President have shut it down because they insist that one organization receive federal funding. I don’t think there is any single organization in the country that’s worth shutting the government down over, and that’s what the President is threatening to do. But here’s the bigger problem among the base and the conservatives in the Republican Party, it’s that they never even tried.”   -Fox News  
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE  
Many have mused over how history would have been different if someone had killedAdolf Hitler before World War II began. But one man lived the final 40 years of his live believing he had the chance to do it, and chose not to. On this day in 1918 British Pvt. Henry Tandey most certainly did not shoot injured German Cpl. Hitler at the fifth Battle of Ypres. Twenty years later, Hitler would credit Tandey, a highly decorated soldier, with sparing his life. And Tandrey seemed to have believed it, saying after his own home was bombed by Hitler’s Luftwaffe in 1940, "When I saw all the people and women and children he had killed and wounded I was sorry to God I let him go." But BBC has the story that seems to prove that Hitler was, as often, lying to enhance his own cult of personality.  -Fox News  
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 HILLY SHIFTS BACK TO BLAME SHIFTING  
To what do we attribute Hilly Clinton’s reversal from her defiance and taking of responsibility for her email debacle of mid-August to Sunday’s cringy, legalistic evasion? Evidence that badly uncut her prior claims for one thing and for another, she now knows that there’s a pretty decent chance that the emails she ordered destroyed may be recovered.
          USA Today: “Asked [on NBC News] about her written statement under oath that she had turned over all of her work-related State Department emails, only to have some turn up that were sent to then-commander of the U.S. Central Command David Petraeus, Clinton insisted that a ‘very thorough review process’  had been conducted by her lawyers. When asked about the ‘discrepancy’ between her statement that her email system began in March 2009 and the existence of emails between her and Petraeus from January of that year, Clinton said ‘there was a transition period’ and added that she wasn’t ‘focused’ on her email account. ‘I can’t control the technical aspects of it,’ she said. ‘I’m not by any means a technical expert. I relied on people who were.’  -Fox News  
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 State staff shared classified info with family foundation -  Free Beacon: “A member of Hilly Clinton’s staff at the Department of State emailed classified information about the government in Congo to a staffer at the Clinton Foundation in 2012, according to a copy of the correspondence obtained by the Washington Free BeaconCheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, sent the email to the Clinton Foundation’s foreign policy director, Amitabh Desai, on July 12, 2012. The message, which was originally obtained by the group Citizens United through a public records request, is partially redacted because it includes ‘foreign government information’ that has been classified as ‘Confidential’ by the State Department. Although the information was not marked classified by the State Department until this past summer, intelligence sources tell the Free Beacon that it would have been classified at the time Mills sent it because ‘foreign government information’ is considered classified from inception.”  -Fox News  
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 Mitch McCon-nell Calls for the Destruction of the Republican Party  
{George Rasley} ~ In the wake of establishment Republican backstabber John Boehner’s forced resignation as Speaker of the House many conservatives have called for establishment Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell to step down as well... The Conservative indictment of the “leadership” of backstabber Boehner and McCon-nell has been that they have regularly failed to stand for conservative policy and have all too readily caved-in to nObama on matters such as funding Planned Parenthood, nObama’s illegal executive amnesty, spending, the deficit and raising the national debt ceiling. So what is Mitch McCon-nell’s response to conservative calls for his resignation? He called for another deal with nObama, this time on a two year spending plan.  http://www.conservativehq.com/article/21239-mitch-mcconnell-calls-destruction-republican-party
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 Ted Cruz: The Real Story of What Is Happening in Washington  
{conservativehq.com} ~ Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) yesterday delivered a powerful speech on the Senate floor highlighting the many examples of Republican leadership surrendering to President nObama’s demands... including funding Planned Parenthood and the catastrophic Iran nuclear deal and reminding the Republican Party’s Capitol Hill leadership to keep their promises to the American people. Senator Cruz’s speech followed his attempt to obtain a vote on his amendment to end taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and the Iranian nuclear deal. His colleagues refused to allow him the courtesy of a roll-call vote on his motion, which would have allowed for consideration of his amendment. Senator Cruz’s floor speech was so powerful we’ve decided to present it in its entirety below: The text of Senator Cruz’s amendment can be found here,  video of the speech can be viewed through this link. 
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 THE MUSHROOM CLOUD ISIS HAS IN STORE FOR US  
{Matthew Vadum} ~ The totalitarian mass murderers of Islamic State are hellbent on acquiring nuclear weapons and using them against their enemies in the West, a reporter who was embedded with the Salafi jihadist fighters in occupied Syria is warning... German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer, who spent 10 anxious days living in Islamic State-held Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor in Syria with the jihadists, wants the world to know that the terrorist group is deadly serious about unleashing a "nuclear tsunami" on those who oppose its efforts to create an Islamic caliphate. "This is the largest religious cleansing strategy that has ever been planned in human history," he said. The West has "no concept of the threat it faces" from Islamic State and "dramatically"  underestimates the threat posed by the group, said the former German politician who was allowed to embed with the group because of his high-profile criticism of U.S. involvement in the Middle East.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260284/mushroom-cloud-isis-has-store-us-matthew-vadum
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 Argentine President says nObama Pushed for Nuclear Fuel to Iran  
{Jason Howerton} ~ Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner claimed during the U.N. General Assembly on Monday that a former nObama administration official attempted to convince Argentina to “provide the Islamic Republic of Iran with nuclear fuel.”... The claim was seemingly overshadowed by President Barack nObama’s high-stakes dealings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The official at the center of Kirchner’s claims confirmed his trip to Argentina in a statement to TheBlaze, but also provided vital context behind his objective and a proposed fuel swap deal that he said ultimately fell apart.  Kirchner revealed Gary Samore, former White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, visited Argentina and suggested the nation provide Iran with nuclear fuel in 2010, two years into nObama’s presidency.Who are you going to believe when nObama denies this?
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 Valerie Jarrett’s Suspicious Defense Of Hilly Clinton Leads To...  
{rickwells.us} ~ The message from nObama operative Valerie Jarrett is to just ignore Hilly Clinton’s criminal violations as Secretary of State, which leads to the obvious next question of why... and the logical conclusion that the White House is covering not only the Clinton wrong-doing but the role they played and their own similar transgressions. Andrea Mitchell interviewed Valerie Jarrett Wednesday at the “Washington Ideas Forum,” not necessarily the source of good ideas or honest ones. She carefully phrased a question regarding the political disaster of the criminal Clinton email scandal, saying, “One of the main reasons why Hilly Clinton has been suffering in the polls is this email controversy. She has said repeatedly it was allowed, it was permitted, it wasn’t the right thing to do, I made a mistake but it was allowed.” Of course federal law disputes those claims, but for the sake of the question and Valerie Jarrett’s defense of her illegitimate “president,” they’re overlooking that aspect.
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 US Marines Send a Warning to Muslim Jihadists in America  
{Tim Brown} ~ While the Islamic State provides increasing threats and Hollywood style video executions (you have to wonder who is really behind these jihadists) in which they threaten America... the United States Marines simply provide a warning to the "Jihad Johnnys" of the world. Their message is simple, "It's God's job to judge the terrorists… It's our mission to arrange the meeting!" There's no need to go into detailed video production. In fact, the US Marines have been known throughout history as those who are known From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli."     http://eaglerising.com/24491/us-marines-send-a-warning-to-muslim-jihadists-in-america/
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 Blindness In the Rationalist Tradition  
{Herbert London} ~ President nObama and Secretary of State hanoi Kerry have conceded that some portion of the money released to Iran through the lifting of sanctions will result in “bad behavior,” a euphemism for terrorism... The supposition of the president’s team is that despite the bad behavior, Iran, unconstrained by sanctions, will in time join the community of responsible nations. In other words our concessions will yield a positive response from the Supreme Leader Khamenei and his acolytes. What is in evidence in these negotiations is the implicit Western belief in rationalism, a stance that suggests our enemies, with the appropriate incentives, will act just as we would. “Trust but verify” is the qualifier President Reagan used in his negotiations with the Soviets. President nObama, on the other hand, has resorted to trust and have faith in rational expectations. What happens when the adversary is irrational remains unclear. A theological belief system and acceptance of taqiyya or a religious lie to promote the interests of Islam, challenge assumptions of rationality.
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 Israel Will Stop Iran From Getting Nukes, Expert Says  
{Tyler O'Neil} ~ Despite the Iran deal, the Islamic Republic in Tehran will not complete its nuclear arsenal because Israel will attack and defeat them, predicted Jewish spokesman Tom Rose at the Family Research Council’s 10th annual Values Voter Summit on Saturday... “Can I tell you a secret? Iran is not going nuclear — it won’t happen. Israel will not allow it to happen,” Rose, an XM Satellite Radio host and former CEO of the Jerusalem Post, predicted. “War is coming. There’s no doubt about that.” Rose joined Mona Charen, a syndicated columnist and senior fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center, to discuss the irreconcilable differences between Israel and Iran. Both attacked the Iran deal, and both presented the Islamic Republic as a dire threat to the Jewish state and the United States of America.
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 US AG, US Cities, Join UN To Create Global Police Force Intiative  
{Terresa Monroe-Hamilton} ~ Yesterday, Loretta Lynch announced before the United Nations that the Attorney General’s Office... in collaboration with several US Cities will for a global law enforcement initiative called the Strong Cities Network. This is the implementation of UN rules and laws on US soil bypassing Congress and circumventing the Constitution.
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 Hilly Lackey was Working to Craft Coverage of Benghazi Scandal  
{Onan Coca} ~ Yet another reason for conservatives to distrust the mainstream media has been uncovered this week. Mark Hemingway of the Weekly Standard reported earlier this week that they had discovered that one of Hilly Clinton’s lackeys had been helping to shape CBS News’ coverage of the Benghazi scandal back in 2013... The lackey, one Tyler Drumheller, was a member of Clinton’s “secret spy network”. (Yes, I know how that sounds but it is true – both Pro-Publica and Gawker have reported on the Sidney Blumenthal run network.) Drumheller is a former high-ranking CIA official who the Weekly Standard says played an important role in deciding how CBS would handle the Benghazi coverage. According to WEEKLY STANDARD sources, Drumheller was active in shaping the network’s Benghazi coverage. His role at the network raises questions about what went wrong with the retracted 60 Minutes report on Benghazi that aired in October 2013. Despite his former life as a high ranking CIA official, Drumheller was laden with political baggage, making him a curious choice to be consulting with a major news operation—especially so given that he was working directly with Sidney Blumenthal, whose primary occupation appears to be manipulating media coverage on behalf of the Clintons.
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Good Riddance!
THOMAS SOWELL
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     {freedomsback.com} ~ The impending departure of Speaker of the House backstabber Boehner gives the House Republicans a real opportunity to accomplish something. But an opportunity is not a guarantee. It is a little like a football team being first down and goal at the ten-yard line.
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     You have a good chance of scoring a touchdown from there — if you can get your act together. But you could also find yourself having to settle for a field goal. Or for a missed field goal.
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     And of course you can also fumble the ball and have the other team grab it — and run it all the way back across the field to score a touchdown against you. With Republicans, it would be chancy to make a bet as to which of these scenarios is most likely.
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     baclstabber Speaker Boehner had a tough hand to play, given the internal splits among House Republicans. But backstabber Boehner’s biggest problem was backstabber Boehner. And it is a recurring Republican problem.
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     Nothing epitomized backstabber Boehner’s wrong-headedness like an occasion when he emerged from the White House, after a conference with President nObama and others, to face a vast battery of microphones and television cameras.
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     Here was a golden opportunity for Speaker backstabber Boehner to make his case directly to the American people, unfiltered by the media. Instead, he just walked over to the microphones and cameras, briefly expressed his disgust with the conference he had just come from, and then walked on away.
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     Surely backstabber Boehner knew, going into this White House conference, that it could fail. And, surely, he knew that there would be an opportunity immediately afterwards to present his case to the public. But, like so many Republican leaders over the years, he seemed to have no sense of the importance of doing so — or for the time and efforts needed to prepare for such an opportunity beforehand.
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     Whoever the next Speaker of the House is, someone should have a plaque made up to put on his desk — a plaque reading: TALK, DAMMIT!
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     If the political situation in Washington is such that many of the expectations of Republican voters cannot be met, then at least take the time and trouble to spell that out in plain language to the public.
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     Maybe the smug consultants in Washington don’t think the public can understand. But Ronald Reagan won two landslide elections by doing what subsequent Republican leaders disdained to do.
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     In between, he accomplished what was called “the Reagan revolution” without ever having a majority in both Houses of Congress. He could go over the heads of Congressional Democrats and explain to the public why certain legislation was needed — and once he won over the voters, Democrats in Congress were not about to jeopardize their reelection chances by going against them.
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     One of the secrets of Reagan’s political success was a segment of the population that was called “Reagan Democrats.” These were voters who traditionally voted for Democrats but who had been won over to Reagan’s agenda.
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     Contrary to the thinking — or lack of thinking — among today’s Republican leaders, Reagan did not go to these Democratic voters and pander to them by offering them a watered-down version of what the Democrats were offering. He took his case to them and talked — yes, TALKED — to let them know what his own agenda offered to them and to the country.
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     Today’s Republicans who proclaim a need to “reach out” to a wider constituency almost invariably mean pandering to those groups’ current beliefs, not showing them how your agenda and your principles — if you have any — apply to their situation and to the good of the country.
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     You won’t swing a whole constituency of Democrats your way, and neither did Ronald Reagan. But he swung enough of them to win elections and to force Congressional Democrats to respect the “Reagan Democrats” he had won over.
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     There are issues on which Republicans can appeal to blacks — school choice being just one obvious and important issue. And it is unlikely that all Hispanic voters want open borders, through which criminals can come in and settle in their communities.
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     But unspoken words will never tap these sources of votes, nor perhaps even convince Congressional Republicans. And if the quarterback is unsure what to do, being first and goal on the ten-yard line may not mean much.
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