Saturday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

[Rudy Tirre]

 The Front Page Cover 

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

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Featuring:

nObama's Make-Believe Life

Alan Caruba 

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"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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 IT WAS THE SHIRTS, WASN’T IT? 
TIME: “In an attempt to show her support of the Chicago Pride Parade on Sunday, Lady Gaga instead championed the world of mariachi performers. Gaga shared a photo on Instagram Sunday from the balcony of her Chicago apartment overlooking what appears to be a huge gathering of people down below. ‘Watching over Chicago Pride from my apartment and smiling so big,’ the ‘Born This Way’ singer, 29, wrote. ‘So many happy people. Happy pride!’ In the image, Gaga goes shirtless, instead bearing the words “Gay Pride” across her chest and stomach. The issue? The singer wasn’t anywhere near the city’s pride parade. The gathering was in fact the Chicago Mariachi and Folklórico Festival. The event, honoring the Mexican folk music, was held at the recognizable Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park.”  -Fox News

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 Man Who's Never Had a Real Job Makes Rules for Businesses 

With a wave of his magic wand, Barack nObama just gave five million workers a raise — or so he'd like you to believe. In an op-ed explaining his new regulations on overtime pay for salaried workers, nObama wrote, "We've got to keep making sure hard work is rewarded. Right now, too many Americans are working long days for less pay than they deserve. That's partly because we've failed to update overtime regulations for years — and an exemption meant for highly paid, white collar employees now leaves out workers making as little as $23,660 a year — no matter how many hours they work. ... [M]y plan [is] to extend overtime protections to nearly 5 million workers in 2016, covering all salaried workers making up to about $50,400 next year." And who doesn't want a raise? Naturally, his proposal will be popular with those who think they stand to benefit, as well as those in need of an Economics 101 refresher. The real-world results will be that employers hire fewer workers, pay lower base wages, cut hours and nix benefits like work-from-home scenarios for employees who now have to scrupulously track their hours. Just mandating higher wages doesn't mean businesses can afford to pay them. The conservative approach is to actually grow the economy — which, notably, nObama has not done. As John F. Kennedy once said, "A rising tide lifts all boats." Not just the ones nObama points to with his wand.  -The Patriot Post  

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 State Dragging Its Feet During Clinton Email Release 

Last night, the State Department released 3,000 pages of Hilly Clinton's email from when she served as secretary of state. This is the first batch of emails it released in response to a judge ordering the department to place Clinton's emails in the public record on a rolling basis. Americans will get an email dump every month until the Democrat primary in January. Cue a Hilly headache. Nate Jones, expert in the Freedom of Information Act at the National Security Archive housed at George Washington University, said he would be watching how much information the State Department redacts. "The emails were unclassified, so it will be eyebrow-raising if any more content is retroactively classified by State," Jones said. "It will be extremely troubling if State wastes its resources to unnecessarily censor 'deliberative process' emails which Clinton herself stated she wants released." Sure enough, the State Department redacted 25 emails because it deemed them classified. It also went ahead and struck the name of a man whose birthday Clinton's office was celebrating. Last week, the House Select Committee on Benghazi discovered through interviewing Clinton lackey Sidney Blumenthal that Clinton's staff sanitized the emails before dumping them on State. For all the platitudes, the effort to get the Clinton docs in the public record is all but sincere.  -The Patriot Post  

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 Justices to Rule on Forced Union Dues 

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to add to next term's docket Friderichs v. California Teachers Association, a lawsuit that could significantly loosen teachers unions grip over California and 19 other states. Because those states abide by the "closed shop" rule, collective bargaining requires that public teachers, even non-unionized ones, turn over portions of their paychecks to Democrat activists masquerading as unions. That's not a bargain at all, which is why lead plaintiff Rebecca Friedrichs, a frustrated teacher veteran, filed a lawsuit two years ago to abolish the arbitrary system. Terry Pell, president of the Center for Individual Rights, the firm representing the plaintiffs, said in 2013, "We are going to get this case to the Supreme Court and win, and if we do, we will eliminate the close shop rules." He was right about the first part, but we won't know about the second for another year. But Reason's Robby Soave believes that SCOTUS will get this one right. "The conservative 5-4 majority in 2012's Knox v. SEIU essentially invited such a challenge, and the decision today by the Court to hear the case is a very good sign," he writes. Furthermore, "A big win for Friedrichs could have massive consequences. California is just one of 20 'closed-shop' states that require non-members to pay union dues. Compulsory unionization could be ruled unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds nationwide." Recent rulings — namely on nObamaCare — caution us against high expectations, but unions have been put on high alert either way. Even an unfavorable ruling won't silence the growing, vocal opposition to union contortions. 

-The Patriot Post  

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 Making Patriots  

(Karlyn Bowman) ~ Samuel Johnson once called patriotism “the last refuge of scoundrels.” Was he right? Recent events, such as the bombing of federal buildings and the formations of threatening militias in the name of patriotism, suggest that he may have been on to something... But the United States has also seen its share of heroes: patriots who, over the course of history, have willingly put their lives at risk for this country and, especially, for its principles. This is even more remarkable given that the United States is founded on the concepts of equality and democracy–tenets that encourage individuality and autonomy far more readily than public spiritedness and self-sacrifice. Walter Berns’ “Making Patriots”is a stirring and provocative essay on precisely this paradox. How is patriotism inculcated in a system that, some argue, is founded on self-interest? Expertly and intelligibly guiding the reader through the history and philosophy of patriotism in a republic, from the ancient Greeks through contemporary life, Berns considers the unique nature of patriotism in the United States and its precarious position as we enter the 21st century. He argues that while both public education and the influence of religion once helped to foster a public-minded citizenry, the very idea of patriotism is currently under attack.        http://www.aei.org/publication/making-patriots-2/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=070315

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 Who Is Damaging Relations Between Arabs and Jews?  

(Khaled Abu Toameh) ~ Once again, it is time to remind the representatives of the Arab citizens of Israel in the Knesset (parliament) who their real constituents are... It is time to remind these representatives that they were elected by Arab citizens of Israel, and not by Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The reason why the Arab Knesset members need to be reminded of who their real constituents are is because some of them seem to have forgotten that the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have their own leaders, spokesmen and representatives. In recent years, some of the Arab Knesset members have devoted much of their time and efforts to helping the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, at the expense of their own constituents in Israel.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6082/arabs-jews-relations

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 WHAT HILLY IS HIDING  

(Kenneth R. Timmerman) ~ The left-wing media establishment is turning against Hilly Clinton. It’s happening long after the rest of us understood that Mrs. Clinton bore a unique responsibility for the tragic and avoidable disaster in Benghazi that cost the lives of four brave Americans, so please: there is no need for applause... After all, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS Sixty Minutes, and NBC News are just doing their jobs. Finally. Well, almost doing their jobs. For most of these, the Clinton “story” is all about process. As more emails turn up that Hilly “overlooked” when she scoured her personal server, the New York Times wonders if any serious discrepancy will emerge, and gives Hilly’s spokesperson’s effort to bury the story far more credit than he deserves. Here is Hilly’s problem: not only did she conduct official business on a private server, apparently with the blessing of a key lackey, Undersecretary for Management, Patrick Kennedy; but as copies of those emails surface, key elements of the story she has tried to suppress from Day One are emerging.     http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259320/what-hillary-hiding-kenneth-r-timmerman

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 Five Lies About Hilly's Secret Emails  

(Guy Benson) ~ Let's review a handful of false statements and claims offered by Hilly Clinton, her lawyers, and her supporters, pertaining to the secret email scandal that continues to unfold:

(1) CLAIM:...        http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/07/02/five-lies-about-hillarys-secret-emails-n2020062?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

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 Your Honor! More Americans Want States to Ignore Federal Courts  

(Selwyn Duke) ~ While dissenting from the recent Supreme Court decision rubber-stamping same-sex “marriage,” Justice Antonin Scalia warned his colleagues that with “each decision... unabashedly based not on law” the Court moves “one step closer to being reminded of its impotence.” And a new poll shows that another such step has in fact been taken, with more Americans supporting the idea that states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings. Writes Rasmussen Reports, “A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% of Likely U.S. Voters now believe that states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings if their elected officials disagree with them. That’s up nine points from 24% when we first asked this question in February. Just over half (52%) disagree, down from 58% in the earlier survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.” This shift is clearly influenced not just by Obergefell v. Hodges (the marriage ruling), but also a late June nObamaCare decision so contrary to the “Affordable Care Act’s” text that Justice Scalia lamented to the Court, “Words no longer have meaning.” Not surprisingly, there was an ideological divide among poll respondents.        http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/21190-pound-sand-your-honor-more-americans-want-states-to-ignore-federal-courts?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=89a8ab1a52-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-89a8ab1a52-289778381

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 The enemy within is now setting the narrative  

(Bradless Dean) ~ America has now been warned by the Department of Homeland Security that there are potential Islamic terror attacks planned for the Fourth of July... The DHS and FBI recently posted a map where they would set up command posts within the United States so you can report things you may find suspicious. Or do they mean so those willing to come forward to be informants can find them? Apparently, there are those among us who are more than willing to be useful to their own demise. What, will the enemies not see this post? How ridiculously obvious can this get before America awakens to who her real enemies are? Keep in mind that DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson stated that it was his job to “give voice to the plight of the Muslims.” It’s the same department to which Barack Hussein nObama has appointed Muslims with terrorist ties to oversee the American people (Deuteronomy 28:36; Jeremiah 5:6). This administration has been involved in funding, training, supplying and even in the entertaining of America’s sworn enemies in the people’s White House.       http://www.wnd.com/author/bdean/

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 hanoi Kerry's invite to boss of Vietnam Communist Party  

(Daniel Greenfield) ~ Maybe that headline should be rewritten as, "Head of American Communist Party to host head of Vietnam Communist Party."... Sure that sounds a little over the top, but Hillary's main opponent is an open Socialist and we've got Bill Moyers lecturing us on how Americans invented Socialism, FDR was a Socialist and Socialism is really awesome. How long until we're told that Communism is really All-American? So why not open an embassy in Havana before there is one in Jerusalem and throw open the doors for the head of the Vietnam Communist Party, the ideology which so many Americans died fighting against. http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/259343/kerrys-invite-boss-vietnam-communist-party-daniel-greenfield

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 New Revelations From Hilly Clinton’s Latest Emails  

(Doug Ross) ~ I’m working my way through the latest Clinton email dump and there are several observations that stick out... Hilly and her crew thought Barack nObama was a clueless amateur; “Journalist” David Broder of the Washington Post apparently allows Clinton ghost writers to pen his columns; disgraced, unindicted criminal Sandy Berger (of the shredded Top Secret Bill Clinton/Bin Laden memos) was a key adviser to Clinton; and, based upon the dozens and dozens of pages of fully redacted material, Granny Catlady was definitely sending and receiving tons of classified information through her compromised email server (which gives the feds the right to seize that box).        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/07/new-revelations-from-hillary-clintons-latest-emails/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29

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 Israel goes on the alert on her Sinai border  

(israeltoday.co.il) ~ The Islamic State (ISIS) organization launched an offensive against Egyptian security forces on Wednesday killing dozens. The fighting which is now in the third day is the largest battles that have taken place in the Sinai peninsula since the 1973 Yom Kippur war... The IS caught the Egyptian forces in north-western Sinai off guard with their surprise attack carrying out a well coordinated simultaneous attack on 15 posts and centers of the Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai. Egypt quickly received clearance from Israel to move additional weapons, including tanks armored personnel carriers, Apache helicopters and F-16 fighter jets, into the Sinai. The battles taking place between the Egyptian army and the ISIS fighters could also develop into rocket and mortar fire towards Israel, and the Central Command is preparing for that too. In the meantime, it seems that the IS fighters are busy battling the Egyptian army, which is attacking them from the air and from the ground, but the heightened state of alert on the Israeli side will likely continue for a few more days, as experience shows that ISIS will try to create provocations on the border with Israel in a bid to cause a friction between the IDF and the Egyptian army and affect the relationship between Egypt and Israel.   http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/26921/Default.aspx

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 Why are Jewish groups “scampering” to save Muslim refugees?  

(Ann Corcoran) ~ Good question isn’t it!  It is a question I’ve wondered about for 8 years, ever since I first heard of HIAS and Muslim refugees... But, now that I know more, it is not too complicated to answer—they are doing it because they are politically-correct hard Leftists working to change America, and they are doing it for the money they receive from the US taxpayer to resettle Muslims in America. I’m speaking specifically here of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), one of the groups mentioned in this editorial in the Jewish Voice entitled: HIAS & ADL Spend Jewish $ to Bring Muslims to the US?       https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/why-are-jewish-groups-scampering-to-save-muslim-refugees/

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nObama's Make-Believe Life

Alan Caruba 

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     (factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) ~ I have this theory about Barack nObama. I think he’s led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.

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     In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? “Dreams From My Father” was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The “Audacity of Hope” followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a “communist with a small ‘c’” was the real author.
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley’s formidable political machine at his disposal. 

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     He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated hanoi John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?

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     He outmaneuvered Hilly Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed “cool” in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.

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     And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984’s Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.

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     The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.

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     Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.

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     Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to “wish away” some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.

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     The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign “world tour” were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.

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     Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party’s hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues. 

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     nObama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Cambridge, Massachusetts police officer who arrested an “obstreperous” Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against “jumping to conclusions” about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted “Allahu Akbar.” The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber “an isolated extremist” only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot. 

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     He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his  Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.

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     The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth. 

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     Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack nObama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual’s life. 

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     When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.

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We laugh at the ventriloquist’s dummy, but what do you do 

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http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/