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Memorial Day 2016: Remembering Afghanistan
by Susan Stamper Brown
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. State Department Censored Video to Further Iran Deception In an effort to dupe the American people and Congress regarding talks with Iran, the nObama administration went so far as to censor an eight-minute section of a press briefing in 2013. When originally asked, the State Department insisted the segment, which was replaced with a flash of white light on the video posted to YouTube, somehow experienced a "technical glitch." Kinda like how another video started a "glitch" that was the deadly attack on the Benghazi consulate, if you believe the nObama administration's YouTube tall tales.
The deleted section featured then-spokeswoman Jen Psaki seemingly admitting that the nObama administration had been talking with Iran in secret. "There are times where diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress," Psaki said. "This is a good example of that."
On Wednesday, State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted, "A specific request was made to excise that portion of the briefing." While the department claims not to know who ordered the eight minutes of footage erased — memory is foggy at Foggy Bottom, though the order came from somewhere in the Public Affairs Bureau — there's no law against censoring, so State isn't investigating the incident with anything approaching vigor. But Kirby made it a point to stress that his department has a "commitment to transparency and public accountability," yada yada yada, Most Transparent Administration in History™.
Psaki now swears she "had no knowledge of nor would I have approved any form of editing or cutting my briefing transcript on any subject."
Despite claims of transparency, the nObama administration was in the midst of a full court press of deception, trying to sell the Iran deal by any means necessary. Now, it appears the administration is seemingly paying ransoms and otherwise capitulating to the state sponsor of terrorism. It's no wonder nObama's legacy is already being edited. -The Patriot Post
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nObama's Economic Fables
Lots of things can be considered "shovel-ready." Manure, for instance. And that's pretty much what we got with nObama's speech Wednesday in Elkhart, Indiana, touting the "success" of his $800 billion stimulus package and overall economic policy.
Just weeks after taking office in 2009, nObama visited Elkhart to urge Congress to pass his massive spending plan. At about that time, Elkhart's unemployment rate had skyrocketed to approximately 20%. Indeed, nObama had found the perfect stage to recite his regular mantra that he "inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression." To fix it, he offered the holy grail of statist solutions a bigger, more intrusive, more controlling, more burdensome government.
This week, he returned to Elkhart to claim victory: "We ... wouldn't have come this far” Elkhart would not have come this far” if we hadn't made a series of smart decisions” my administration, a cooperative Congress” decisions we made together early on in my administration."
To hear nObama tell it, thanks to his policies unemployment has dropped to 4%, industry has revived and businesses are hiring. According to the White House, not only has manufacturing returned to Elkhart, but fewer Indiana homeowners have seriously delinquent mortgages and more kids than ever are graduating high school. We hear the ozone layer directly above Elkhart has also shown improvement!
Of course, as is typically the case with nObama's claims, they're high on flourish, low on facts. For example, Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) noted credit goes to "the pro-growth policies pursued by the state of Indiana, which have made our state one of the nation's economic success stories."
Indeed, Indiana has repeatedly lowered its corporate tax rate to make the state more attractive to businesses. In 2012, the rate stood at 8.5%; now, it's 6.5%. By 2022, it will be just 4.9% thanks to reforms passed by Republican state lawmakers and signed by GOP Governor Mike Pence. The personal income tax is going down, too.
And as for the graduation rate, it might just be tied to the education reforms of Republican Governors Pence and his predecessor Mitch Daniels, including dropping out of nObama's "Race to the Top Bottom" education indoctrination program.
What's more, when nObama came to town in 2009, Elkhart's primary industry ”the RV industry, which provides more than half the area's jobs” was in a massive slump. nObama's solution? Give $39 million in federal stimulus dollars to Navistar International to develop an electric car industry. Navistar predicted it would produce thousands of electric trucks per year and create hundreds of jobs. But as Elkhart's Mayor Tim Neese (R) diplomatically put it, "That was not nearly as successful as we had hoped."
Meanwhile, Elkhart's recovery has far more to do with good state and local policies coupled with a rebound in the RV industry than with nObama's stimulus dollars funding a government-picked project that proved to be an abject failure. (Almost all of those nObama Bucks went to Democrat-connected cronies, anyway.) As one local manager in the RV industry said, "If the RV industry hadn't come back like it did, I wouldn't have the opportunity I have now. ... There's no direct correlation to anything [nObama has] done to help us. We're not excited about anything he's done. There's nothing he's done to help this industry around here."
If you really want to see the impact of nObama's economic policies, Elkhart isn't the place to look. Instead, look at the crushing federal regulations that amount to $4 trillion in added costs to Americans. Or look at the labor force participation rate that at 62.8% is close to the lowest level since the 1970s. Or look at the sluggish economy that delivers anemic growth as the "new normal." (While the U.S. economy grew at an average rate of 3.5% from World War II to 2005, since then, it hasn't hit 3% in a single year.) Or look at the demise of the coal industry, exacerbated by nObama's environmental regulations. Or look at the $19 trillion national debt, which has doubled since nObama took office. Or...The list goes on, and on.
To see nObama's economic legacy, look at those things, not to Elkhart. nObama has pointed to Elkhart as the "story of America's recovery." Thanks to solid state policy and local hard work and perseverance, it may be an American story of recovery, but it's certainly not nObama's doing.
In fact, nObama's legacy may be better defined by his own answer Wednesday to a Carrier employee about why the company's jobs are moving to Mexico: Some jobs "are just not going to come back." -The Patriot Post
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Harvard Hires Iranian Regime Supporter
Who Warned of ‘Jewish Threat’
by Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Harvard University is currently employing as a “visiting scholar” an Iranian hardline regime supporter who has warned against the “Jewish threat” and has been critical of Judaism and Israel, according to multiple sources... Ali Akbar Alikhani, an associate professor at the University of Tehran, is currently serving as a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, where he is on a project centered on “peace and peaceful coexistence in Islam.” Alikhani is a member of Tehran University’s Faculty of World Studies, which is closely tied to the Iranian ruling regime and has supported scholars who espouse the regime’s hardline ideology... http://freebeacon.com/issues/harvard-hires-iranian-regime-supporter-warned-jewish-threat/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2a652d422b-WFB_Morning_Beacon_06_02_166_1_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2a652d422b-45611665
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Forbes: nObama’s Ambassador for
Global Entrepreneurship Now Worth Zero Dollars
by Brent Scher
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who in the past year was named one of President nObama’s Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship and was placed atop the Forbes list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, has had her estimated net worth lowered from $4.5 billion to zero... Forbes announced on Wednesday that it was removing Holmes from all of its wealth lists following news that Theranos’ blood testing technology, once considered revolutionary, was actually a failure. Theranos announced last month that it had to void blood test results for thousands of patients taken over the course of two years because its Edison device, touted for its ability to function with tiny blood samples, was producing inaccurate results. “Last year, Elizabeth Holmes topped the FORBES list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women with a net worth of $4.5 billion,” wrote Matthew Herper, a senior editor for Forbes. “Today, FORBES is lowering our estimate of her net worth to nothing.”... http://freebeacon.com/politics/forbes-obamas-ambassador-global-entrepreneurship-now-worth-zero-dollars/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2a652d422b-WFB_Morning_Beacon_06_02_166_1_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2a652d422b-45611665
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nObama Administration Goes After Salt
by Elizabeth Harrington
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration is setting sodium limits for nearly every food imaginable, the latest in a series of efforts to change how Americans eat... The voluntary standards are meant to nudge restaurants and the food industry into reducing the amount of sodium in foods they serve. And the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is offering its preferred salt amounts for everything from Gouda cheese to fish jerky...He has no business in lives or how we eat. http://freebeacon.com/issues/obama-administration-goes-salt/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2a652d422b-WFB_Morning_Beacon_06_02_166_1_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2a652d422b-45611665
{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration is setting sodium limits for nearly every food imaginable, the latest in a series of efforts to change how Americans eat... The voluntary standards are meant to nudge restaurants and the food industry into reducing the amount of sodium in foods they serve. And the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is offering its preferred salt amounts for everything from Gouda cheese to fish jerky...He has no business in lives or how we eat. http://freebeacon.com/issues/obama-administration-goes-salt/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2a652d422b-WFB_Morning_Beacon_06_02_166_1_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2a652d422b-45611665
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liar-Hilly Clinton’s Campaign Admits She LIED about Email During Her U.N. Press Conference!
by Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ I’m sure that liar-Hilly Clinton’s campaign chairman Paul Podesta had no intention of revealing the fact that his boss was an inveterate liar to the rest of the world, but that’s exactly what he did... Ever since the Inspector General released his report last week that liar-Hilly Clinton knowingly violated government rules on handling classified information, the liar-Clinton campaign and their partners in the liberal media have been in full spin mode trying to extricate liar-Hilly from mess she’s made. Over the weekend liar-Clinton’s campaign chair joined the effort by releasing a memo defending his corrupt boss from criticism. In the memo he goosesteps through the campaign talking points that liar-Hilly’s people have been parroting for over a year now, adding new spin to the parts that have already been debunked. But then Podesta makes a mistake and accidentally reveals a huge hole in the liar-Clinton story... http://eaglerising.com/33904/hillary-clintons-campaign-admits-she-lied-about-email-during-her-u-n-press-conference/
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The New Wedge Issue for 2016: LGBT Rights
by nicedeb
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{nicedeb.wordpress.com} ~ Some of the most spectacular failures in the Leftist-Progressive playbook of dirty tricks of how to win sympathetic media support – and ultimately elections, are now being exposed as nothing more than exaggerated lies... Worse yet, they no longer work on the masses. Largely due to the internet, truth bombs have exploded all over the Left’s coveted wedge issues. The War On Women has been thoroughly debunked. Global Warming has been outed as the hoax it always was. Wall Street versus Main Street has now been co-opted by Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders groupies, and of course their clueless accomplices in the Libertarian Party...
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How Islamic terrorists infiltrate U.S. airport security
by Leo Hohmann
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{wnd.com} ~ The fact that a Somali Muslim war criminal booted from Canada could somehow land a job at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., appears shocking on its face... but at least six dozen other employees with suspected terror links have been caught working at U.S. airports. A CNN investigation found that Yusuf Abdi Ali, who is accused of committing atrocities while he was a military commander during Somalia’s civil war, has been living a quiet suburban life in posh Alexandria, Virginia, for about 20 years, CNN reported. He was deported from Canada after that country found out about his past. But he found refuge in the U.S., which gave him a visa based on his marriage to a Somali-American woman who claimed to be a refugee fleeing war in Somalia. But even that claim turned out to be bogus, as the woman had falsified her refugee application. Still, nothing has been done to remove either Ali or his wife from the U.S. ... http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/how-islamic-terrorists-infiltrate-u-s-airport-security/
VIDEO: at the site
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More Victims of liar-Hilly Clinton Wash Ashore In Libya
by Joe Cunningham
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{redstate.com} ~ liar-Hilly Clinton’s tenure at the State Department is marred by scandal and incompetence so devastating that it makes John hanoi-Kerry look like a master diplomat by comparison... Her policies and the poor execution of Barack nObama’s already terrible policies have made the world more unbalanced than her general election opponent. The Middle East in particular has seen a lot of innocent lives lost as many are killed in the violence there or die trying to flee it. Today, it’s being reported that another 85 bodies have washed ashore in Libya, having no attempted to cross the Mediterranean and get to Europe. From Al Jazeera:... http://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2016/06/02/victims-hillary-clinton-wash-ashore-libya/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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ROSCOE BARTLETT: American Hero
by DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
by DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Few Americans have heard of Roscoe Bartlett--but all Americans may someday owe him their lives... The former congressman from Maryland's 6th District, who on June 3rd celebrated his 90th birthday, is the modern Paul Revere of electromagnetic pulse (EMP). It is a safe bet that most or all readers of Family Security Matters now know about the EMP threat. Indeed, more Americans may know about EMP than about Paul Revere, a situation Roscoe would certainly disapprove! Roscoe Bartlett took EMP out of the classified shadows. There its potentially paralyzing effects on military forces and civilian critical infrastructures were deeply understood only by a small number of nuclear strategists and specialists. The American people now know about the existential threat that is EMP because of Roscoe Bartlett... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/roscoe-bartlett-american-hero?f=must_reads
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"A Complete Way of Death"
by EDWARD CLINE
by EDWARD CLINE
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On May 26, Family Security Matters reprinted an article, co-authored by Clare Lopez and Retired Admiral James A. Lyons, which originally appeared on Accuracy in Media. "Misrepresenting the Threat of Islam" largely a critique of retired General David Petreaus's article in the Washington Post (May 15)... Lopez and Lyons score Petreaus on his politically correct verbal soft-shoe about Islam, pointing out that he overlooks or chooses to ignore the fact of the Global Jihadist Movement (GJM), and that Islam is fundamentally not "religion of peace" that was "hijacked" by "extremists." Jihadists, they write...are carrying out the core principles of Islam as specified in the Quran, Shariah and the hadiths. Anyone who has bothered to peruse the Koran, Sharia law, and the hadiths, will acknowledge that this is a true statement. I maintain a folder devoted exclusively to violent Koranic verses; there are over two hundred of them I could easily cite here. The core principles reside in those verses and they are taken literally by jihadists of the Sunni and Shi'ite branches of Islam - as they were meant to be taken and which do not leave any room for subtextual interpretation. Those verses do not represent a guide to becoming flower children, but rather to becoming conquerors and killers...
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.Memorial Day 2016: Remembering Afghanistan
by Susan Stamper Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ I had to shut down my computer the other day after reading about all the brave soldiers who've joined the ranks of the "forever young" in Afghanistan. It's been a long 15 years.War is not for the fainthearted, or the impatient. I am guilty on both counts, but I am not alone in my feelings as I come to understand the cost of war extends far beyond America's diminishing treasure. With scant media reports about the positive impacts of our presence in Afghanistan and a Commander-in-Chief who checked out before he took office, it's easy to mistake Afghanistan as a total loss. A cursory glance projects a dysfunctional nation infested with godless, faceless, soulless lunatics who will stop at nothing to "kill all infidels."
And it is also easy to politicize a war. Those who encouraged us to "cut and run" revealed their own cowardice and will forever bear the guilt associated with the loss of untold innocent lives. But those who invested their blood and treasure can take credit for the good. You gave Afghanis hope, before Democrats took it away.
As reported in The American Interest, "the Democratic Party solidly opposed the surge and supported the deadline. In September 2009, 62 percent of Democrats opposed nObama's impending surge decision, and 63 percent of Republicans supported it...The war in Afghanistan was never as politically unpopular as the war in Iraq...until the President started to telegraph his disbelief in the mission."
In February 2009, 70 percent believed Afghanistan would fall to the Taliban if the U.S. military withdrew. The public was right, Democrats were wrong and Afghanis will pay the price.
Reuters reports that senior Red Cross official, Jean-Nicolas Marti, begs that the world not forget Afghanistan. "The international community must keep their attention on Afghanistan," said Marti, "it's far from being over. It's not time to switch off." He anticipates the already deteriorated security situation and violence will only get worse.
I had to search far and wide for good news regarding our military presence in Afghanistan, but here goes: Amnesty International reports that thanks to our military, females in Afghanistan are the benefactors of increased life expectancy; seats on the Afghan National Assembly and provincial councils; increased enrollment in all tiers of formal education and equal rights are enshrined in the Afghan Constitution.
Our military should be proud their service also contributed to Afghan life expectancy increasing from 44 years to 60 in ten years and access to basic health care services went from 9 percent in 2001 to 60 percent. It's important not to forget that Afghanistan is now a democracy, though corrupt. And let's not forget that the beverage industry in Afghanistan is growing. PepsiCo opened its first plant there in 2014, creating hundreds of jobs.
Before we pulled out, the International Council on Security and Development did a survey finding that our military achievements were "unquestionable," with the majority believing that NATO and the Afghan government were "winning the war." Enjoying a cold Pepsi in Kabul or a woman graduating from college cannot make up for the loss of a single soldier's life, but these events remind us that we were there to save a people from the grip of the savages who'd checked out of humanity a long time ago. And for that, the sacrifice is not in vain. Getting lost in the fog of war has a tendency to overshadow its purpose, and sometimes we need to be reminded of the good. In his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, author J.R.R. Tolkien explained "why," when his character, Sam, encouraged his buddy Frodo to continue in the fight. Tolkien wrote, "By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. .it is only a passing thing, this shadow...a new day will come... there's some good in this world...and it's worth fighting for."
{townhall.com} ~ I had to shut down my computer the other day after reading about all the brave soldiers who've joined the ranks of the "forever young" in Afghanistan. It's been a long 15 years.War is not for the fainthearted, or the impatient. I am guilty on both counts, but I am not alone in my feelings as I come to understand the cost of war extends far beyond America's diminishing treasure. With scant media reports about the positive impacts of our presence in Afghanistan and a Commander-in-Chief who checked out before he took office, it's easy to mistake Afghanistan as a total loss. A cursory glance projects a dysfunctional nation infested with godless, faceless, soulless lunatics who will stop at nothing to "kill all infidels."
And it is also easy to politicize a war. Those who encouraged us to "cut and run" revealed their own cowardice and will forever bear the guilt associated with the loss of untold innocent lives. But those who invested their blood and treasure can take credit for the good. You gave Afghanis hope, before Democrats took it away.
As reported in The American Interest, "the Democratic Party solidly opposed the surge and supported the deadline. In September 2009, 62 percent of Democrats opposed nObama's impending surge decision, and 63 percent of Republicans supported it...The war in Afghanistan was never as politically unpopular as the war in Iraq...until the President started to telegraph his disbelief in the mission."
In February 2009, 70 percent believed Afghanistan would fall to the Taliban if the U.S. military withdrew. The public was right, Democrats were wrong and Afghanis will pay the price.
Reuters reports that senior Red Cross official, Jean-Nicolas Marti, begs that the world not forget Afghanistan. "The international community must keep their attention on Afghanistan," said Marti, "it's far from being over. It's not time to switch off." He anticipates the already deteriorated security situation and violence will only get worse.
I had to search far and wide for good news regarding our military presence in Afghanistan, but here goes: Amnesty International reports that thanks to our military, females in Afghanistan are the benefactors of increased life expectancy; seats on the Afghan National Assembly and provincial councils; increased enrollment in all tiers of formal education and equal rights are enshrined in the Afghan Constitution.
Our military should be proud their service also contributed to Afghan life expectancy increasing from 44 years to 60 in ten years and access to basic health care services went from 9 percent in 2001 to 60 percent. It's important not to forget that Afghanistan is now a democracy, though corrupt. And let's not forget that the beverage industry in Afghanistan is growing. PepsiCo opened its first plant there in 2014, creating hundreds of jobs.
Before we pulled out, the International Council on Security and Development did a survey finding that our military achievements were "unquestionable," with the majority believing that NATO and the Afghan government were "winning the war." Enjoying a cold Pepsi in Kabul or a woman graduating from college cannot make up for the loss of a single soldier's life, but these events remind us that we were there to save a people from the grip of the savages who'd checked out of humanity a long time ago. And for that, the sacrifice is not in vain. Getting lost in the fog of war has a tendency to overshadow its purpose, and sometimes we need to be reminded of the good. In his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, author J.R.R. Tolkien explained "why," when his character, Sam, encouraged his buddy Frodo to continue in the fight. Tolkien wrote, "By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. .it is only a passing thing, this shadow...a new day will come... there's some good in this world...and it's worth fighting for."
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Robert
Theres no doubt what you have mention. But it sounds like liar-Trump is at it again by knocking down the judge which he thinks is against him. And now his supporters are agreeing with his miserable thinking.
In OB's last year in office, it doesn't surprise me his sick chickens have come out to roost. Now obvious Hillary and supporters flock to support his lies, he continues to tell us how well our economy is doing in search of a legacy that will pull him from the ashes he has created. Trump should win the general election despite it all as Hillary's promises sound much like those OB made in 2007. If anyone doubts what Latino organizers are up to, FOX News caught a Telemundo News photo/journalist with egg on his face as he staged a video (didn't air) at an anti-Trump rally. In response, the word "THUGS" was used a lot describing the protesters as Trump tours California. Vote!