Saturday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
The U.S. is Now a Mobocracy
Burt Prelutsky
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 PAUL-IBUSTER SHOWS RAND STANDS WITH HIS BASE  
After more than 10 hours holding the Senate floor Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., made at least one thing clear: he hasn’t forgotten where he came from. Since his presidential campaign began, Paul has spent much of his time trying to ingratiate himself with mainstream GOP voters – and seeming to shift stances on key issues. For example, Paul said on “Fox and Friends” last month that “there is a valuable use for drones” and added an amendment to the budget this year that would have increased Defense spending by $76.5 million.
          But getting in the mainstream flow means losing some of his own loyal supporters. Those supporters want the guy who filibustered CIA Director John Brennan’s nomination over Brennan’s support of the drone program, and proposed a budget that eliminated four federal agencies and slashed military spending. This filibuster is a nod to his supporters that he is still their guy. 
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 The Judge’s Ruling -   Pondering government erosion of Constitutional limits and prohibitions written to uphold the rights of the citizenry, Fox Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano asks: “What if those who love power defeat those who love liberty in a government election? What if there is no one left to enforce the Constitution against those in power? What if all this is happening right under our noses? What do we do about it?” Read here.  -Fox News 
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 MASTER CRANE STRIKES  
The situation looked dire for a red-crowned crane that fell into a tiger enclosure at a Chinese zoo, UPI reports. “Witnesses at the Fuyang Wildlife Park in Hangzhou said the crane was carried into the enclosure by strong winds Saturday and appeared to be in danger of becoming a meal for the zoo’s three tigers.” But as Sun Tzu said, “He who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven.” With the cats circling, the crane employed a fighting technique that would make any kung fu master proud, chasing his attackers around the cage at times. To the delight of onlookers the crane was eventually rescued by zookeepers and treated for minor injuries.  
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 Huckabee tips cap -   “We’ve got three options when it comes to the Patriot Act, restore it like it is, completely repeal it, or we can revise it. Put me down us someone who thinks it needs to be revised, not just immediately restored because I think that the senator has made some valid points.” – Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., on “Fox and Friends”   -Fox News 
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 STRAW POLL SUCKING WIND  
Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., will not participate in the Iowa Republican Straw Poll and will instead focus on the caucus. Huckabee explains his decision in a Des Moines Register op-ed out today, “…to win in 2016, it’s important to learn from the mistakes of the last few election cycles…One of the decisions each Republican candidate for president will have to make leading up to the caucuses is whether to invest the resources to participate in this year’s August straw poll…I have decided to forgo taking part in the Iowa straw poll — or any other straw poll — and will instead focus our campaign's attention and resources on the Iowa caucuses.”  
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 Manchin: ‘We Never Acknowledge We’ve Made a Mistake’  
(Nicholas Ballasy) - Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), who was elected to the Senate in 2010, said he is still struggling to learn the “new math” used in Washington that leads to deficits rather than balanced budgets... “The first day I came to the Senate I said, ‘What’s our revenue?’ Well, I was told immediately we’re going to spend about $3.5 to $3.7 trillion and I said, ‘OK, how much money will we have?’ ‘Well, we’ve looked every way possible and we don’t think we can cut much out of the $3.5 or $3.7,’” Manchin, a former governor of West Virginia, said at a Brookings Institution event on governing from the middle. “How much do you think we have to pay? ‘Oh, we have about $2.2 trillion to pay.’ I said, ‘We’re not high-end mathematicians at home but we can add and subtract. We figure you’re about $1.5 trillion short.’” Manchin said balanced budgets apparently do not apply to the federal government.        http://pjmedia.com/blog/manchin-on-congress-we-never-acknowledge-weve-made-a-mistake/
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 McCon-nell Scrambling To Let nObama Keep Failed Snooping Powers 
(Julian Hatterm & Maggie Ybarra) - Yesterday, just after Sen. Rand Paul ended his “minibuster” against renewal of the Patriot Act’s controversial Section 215 bulk data collection program... our friend Maggie Ybarra of The Washington Times reported that Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz of the Justice Department said in a newly released report that, between 2004 and 2009, the FBI tripled its use of bulk collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. But, said Horowitz, FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the snooping powers in the Patriot Act, which allows government agents to compel businesses to turn over records and documents, and increasingly scoops up records of Americans who had no ties to official terrorism investigations. The FBI has finally come up with procedures to try to minimize the information it gathers on nontargets, but it took far too long, Mr. Horowitz admitted in the report.       http://www.conservativehq.com/article/20333-mitch-mcconnell-scrambling-let-obama-keep-failed-snooping-powers
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Boehner Kisses Pelosi
 Pulosi? How About Stopping backstabber Boehner & McCon-nell?  
(conservativehq.com) - Recently, one of our colleagues received a solicitation from Rob Simms, Executive Director of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) ringing the alarm that funds were needed to “stop Nancy Pelosi's momentum following their surprise victory in the Mississippi Special Election last week.”... Setting aside the fact that there was no Democratic “victory” in the Mississippi Special Election of May 12 – in a field of 13 candidates running in a “jungle primary’ the one lone Democrat got a few tenths of a point more than the leading Republican, meaning something like 83% of voters voted for a Republican versus the 17% that voted for the Democrat. This sets-up a June 2 run-off where the Democrat will be vaporized in a district Mitt Romney won by 25 points, unless the NRCC moves in and snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, but Simms’ email did get us thinking. Who is the greatest threat to liberty and American exceptionalism? http://www.conservativehq.com/node/20325
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 How the Media Got Into Bed with the Clintons  
(Cliff Kincaid) - Republican operative Karl Rove writes in The Wall Street Journal that “few demonstrate as much contempt for journalists as do Barack nObama and Hilly Clinton.” That may be true for nObama, but Mrs. Clinton has taken a different approach... Her platforms, the Clinton Foundation and its project, the Clinton Global Initiative, have given the appearance of humanitarian work, drawing many big names from the media into her network of influence. No wonder they treat her with deference and respect. The media have been compromised. “Until late Tuesday afternoon,” reports USA Today, “the Clinton Foundation website listed CNN anchor Jake Tapper as a ‘speaker’ at a Clinton Global Initiative event scheduled for June 8-10 in Denver. After USA TODAY asked CNN about the event, Tapper’s name was swiftly removed from the Clinton Foundation website.” It appears that Tapper will still participate in the meeting, but not as a speaker. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/how-the-media-got-into-bed-with-the-clintons/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email052215&utm_medium=email
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 nObama's trade bill narrowly clears a key Senate hurdle  
(David Espo & Charles Babington) - In a triumph for President Barack nObama, sweeping legislation to strengthen the administration's hand in global trade talks advanced toward Senate passage Thursday after a showdown vote that remained in doubt until the final moment... The 62-38 vote, two more than the 60 needed, came from a solid phalanx of Republicans and more than a dozen Democrats. But the decisive thumbs-up came — literally, and long past the allotted time — from Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington after she and a few others seized the moment as leverage to demand a vote next month on legislation to renew the Export-Import Bank. "It was a nice victory. We're going to continue and finish up the bill this week," Majority leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., and nObama's most important Senate ally on the trade bill, said after sealing the agreement that Cantwell, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and others had sought.     http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150522/us--congress_rdp-95d5f0f787.html
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 “Why Are Importing Terrorists Into America” Dear Jeh Johnson?  
(rickwells.us) - If Jeh Johnson were truly performing effectively and in the national interest of the United States and our citizens, would he have to be told how to do his job by four Congressmen... particularly in regards to a window of potential terrorist abuse of great magnitude? The answer is clearly “No” and Johnson is equally clearly not interested in America’s security. He’s a tool of the Marxists who are working to overthrow our government and, rather than hold him accountable through impeachment, our representatives are sending him a letter. It’s better than nothing, but not much.        http://rickwells.us/congress-sends-why-are-importing-terrorists-into-america-dear-jeh-letter-to-dhs-subversive-johnson/
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 Charities spending $187 million in donations on dating sites, trips  
(Priya Anand) - Federal regulators accused four cancer charities Tuesday of spending more than $187 million in donations not to help patients, but on cars, luxury cruises and trips, jet ski outings, sport and concert tickets, dating site memberships and college tuition for family and friends... The four sham charities — Cancer Fund of America, Inc., Cancer Support Services Inc., Children’s Cancer Fund of America, Inc. and The Breast Cancer Society Inc. — “operated as personal fiefdoms characterized by rampant nepotism, flagrant conflicts of interest and excessive insider compensation,” according to a federal complaint filed in the District Court of Arizona. The defendants collectively spent less than 3% of the donated funds on cancer patients, according to the complaint. All 50 states and D.C. joined the Federal Trade Commission in filing the charge — one of the largest charity fraud cases to date, according to the FTC.        http://www.marketwatch.com/story/4-cancer-charities-charged-for-187-million-scam-2015-05-19?rss=1
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 Sessions – 5 Questions He Asked nObama On TPP – Still Waiting  
(rickwells.us) - In a posting on his official Senate website, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) posted the text of his address to the Senate, a passionate plea for protection of the rights of the American people, our economy and our sovereignty. Portions are excerpted below, the full text is available here... Senator Sessions stated the serious and grave threat this abdication of Congressional duty represents to our nation and the effective imposition of dictatorial, unrepresentative and potentially foreign-controlled government which will result from this Congressional treason. He also noted that the dictatorial powers granted extend for six years and are an open-ended, unalterable submission by Congress to the executive branch, and a violation of our Constitution, the same one that Mitch McCon-nell, John Cornyn and Orrin Hatch are betraying.        http://rickwells.us/sen-jeff-sessions-5-questions-he-asked-obama-on-anti-american-tpp-still-waiting-for-an-answer/
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 Hilly Supporters to Name Her Accomplishments As Secretary of State 
(Ken Shepherd) - U.S. News & World Report's Susan Milligan wildly spun for Democratic presidential frontrunner Hilly Clinton on the May 20 edition of Hardball when she insisted that the fact that her supporters in a recent focus-group survey by Bloomberg TV cannot name a single accomplishment of hers as Secretary of State is, well, "unfair."... Indeed, Milligan insisted, the job of Secretary of State is essentially to make sure nothing major goes wrong on his or her watch. Clearly Susan has never heard of the fiasco that is post-Qadhafi Libya or the ongoing civil war in Syria or the abject failure of the Russia "reset."  For his part, Matthews agreed with Milligan by recalling that "nObama didn't have a big accomplishment before he got elected." Do these people ever listen to themselves?!       http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2015/05/20/milligan-unfair-expect-hillary-clinton-supporters-name-hillarys?hootPostID=f219e74fb2ee2f4f72b42590f336bed1
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 Hilly: Leadership/Ownership/Stewardship of Libya, Start to Finish’  
(Terence P. Jeffrey) - Secretary of State Hilly Clinton had “leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country’s Libya policy from start to finish,” says an email written by one of Clinton’s top aides... and forwarded to Clinton herself--as the Libyan rebellion that sought the overthrow of Muammar Qadhafi appeared to be nearing a triumphant moment. The email is one of those the State Department has thus far given to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. It is among 349 pages of those emails that were obtained by the New York Times and that the Times has posted online in a PDF. This email about Clinton’s “ownership” of U.S. Libya policy was sent—on the East Coast of the United States--at 7:40 p.m. on Sunday, August 21, 2011. By then, in Tripoli, Libya, it was already 1:40 a.m. on the morning of Monday, August 22. The Sunday night email from Jake Sullivan explained how Hilly Clinton deserved credit as the American official most responsible for what was happening in Libya.       http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/top-aides-pre-benghazi-email-hillary-clinton-had


 
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The U.S. is Now a Mobocracy
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     (burtprelutsky.com) - In spite of all the attention we have recently paid to Baltimore, it’s nothing new. We’ve had race riots on a regular basis for nearly 50 years. I’m not referring to events like Selma, which were peaceful demonstrations that were turned into riots by the racist cops. But even the assassination of Martin Luther King was merely an excuse for black people to run amok, making asses of themselves by burning, breaking and looting. What a great way to pay tribute to the man who preached passive resistance to racial injustice!
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     Ever since then, this has been an urban form of entertainment in every major city in America. Sometimes the fuse is lit by the local team’s winning or losing a championship game. More often, the trigger, so to speak, is some good-for-nothing being shot during a police pursuit.
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     Out here in L.A., we experienced a major riot simply because four cops were acquitted for beating on Rodney King, a career thug who had just led the cops on a 100-mph car chase and then resisted being cuffed, probably because he was high on PCP.
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     But the mob must be accommodated, so when the cops were acquitted, the feds stepped in and, pretending that the Fifth Amendment doesn’t prohibit double jeopardy, used the all-encompassing charge of denial of civil rights to try them all over again.
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     Every single time one of these riots takes place, we hear the same old claptrap about the cops not showing proper respect to the black community. What we don’t hear about is black parents instilling a respect for the police in their children. But, then, with black men reducing their own responsibility to that of sperm donors, the only male role models the kids have are other kids. 
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     We were all heartened to see the woman in Baltimore knock her teenage son around when she spotted him behind the hood and the mask, but she was the only parent we saw who wasn’t raising havoc in the streets.
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     What we haven’t seen in Baltimore or L.A., Detroit or New York City, were blacks demonstrating in support of the cops. So it is always a one-way street. The blacks get to show their contempt for those sworn to protect the innocent, but we never see the slightest expression of gratitude for those who police the mean streets of America.
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     In Ferguson, all the early “witnesses” testified that they had seen Officer Darren Wilson shoot Michael Brown in the back. When forensics proved that to be a false narrative, the witnesses, suddenly facing perjury charges, all admitted they had lied, because they feared reprisal from their thuggish neighbors.
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     These are dark times, due in good part to dark people. We all know that most black people are not thugs, but, more and more often, it seems that most thugs are black people.
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     Another lie we keep hearing from the Democrats running these civic cesspools is that not enough money is being spent on inner city public schools. They are, of course, merely parroting the propaganda of the teachers unions. Whether it’s Chicago, where the teachers went on strike even though they were being paid upwards of $75,000-a-year, or Baltimore, which spends the third most dough of any city on its schools, lack of funds is not the problem.
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     Kids growing up in homes where the mother is either lying around collecting welfare or out working two or three jobs because there’s no husband-father in the home, is part of the problem. And stupid kids who denounce other kids who are trying to get an education by saying they’re “acting white,” are part of the problem.
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     Politicians, both black and white, who refuse to talk about the real cause of illiteracy and crime in the black community, are also part of the problem; as are those, such as nObama, who insist that drug laws shouldn’t be enforced because that way a lot of black men wouldn’t go to jail, although, as Jason Riley pointed out in his book, only a tiny percentage of black men are incarcerated on drug charges.
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     Of course another solution would be to remove rape, robbery and assault, from the books. Then we wouldn’t need jails at all.
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     Instead of straight talk, though, we have an ambitious young prosecutor named Marilyn Mosby who, hearing the voices of the mob, swore to give them justice, a statement which proved she didn’t even know the meaning of the word. Actually, when she announced, after studying the forensic evidence for all of two minutes, that six Baltimore cops would be indicted -- one of them for first degree murder -- the only voice she heard was the one in her head addressing her as “Mayor Mosby.”
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     ♦ Moving on, when I see what the Clintons have been up to, I am reminded that the most addictive drug in the world isn’t heroin or cocaine, it’s greed.
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      When asked if the Clinton Foundation would continue collecting contributions (aka bribes) while Hilly was campaigning, he said, “Oh sure, I have to keep paying our bills.” Inasmuch as neither of them has had to pay for airfare, meals, hotels or even security for the past 14 years, I’m not sure what bills he has in mind, unless, of course, with Monica Lewinsky no longer on call, he’s now actually having to pay hookers.
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     Clinton said he had checked with Hilly about any possible improprieties, and she had assured him that everything was on the up-and-up. That certainly put my suspicions to rest.
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     Clinton also explained that there was nothing unseemly about foreign countries, companies and individuals, paying him upwards of $500,000 for a speech because, after all, he often has to devote as much as two hours to research. The fact that nobody really believes he writes his own material is beside the point. That he would utter such claptrap proves just how out of touch this schmuck is with reality.
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     You would have thought that the amount of ridicule that rained down on Hilly when she claimed they were flat broke in 2001, somehow overlooking the $20 million in book deals waiting for them to turn off the lights in the Lincoln bedroom, would have given him pause. I realize it verges on heresy, but just maybe these two are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Or perhaps they simply share Jonathan Gruber’s contempt for the American voter, a contempt, I hasten to add, that is much deserved, considering that twice in the past seven years the lunkheads elected the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
     ♦ In related news, hanoi John Kerry told Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif that he wished the United States had a leader like the Ayatollah Khamenei. Funny, but I thought we already had one.
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