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Trump: America For The Americans!
by Patrick Buchanan
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Top Headlines
Dow tops record 20,000 — the Trump return for American pension plans! (Market Watch)
Trump Supreme Court justice pick narrows to two names, TBA next week. (CBS News)
U.S. Senate confirms Haley as UN ambassador. (Reuters)
Trump administration institutes media blackout for EPA, suspends social media activity. (Fox News)
Comey asked to stay on as FBI director. (ABC News)
Law Enforcement: Project Veritas infiltration may have stopped plans to shut down DC Metro. (Hot Air)
Senior Secret Service agent suggests she wouldn't take "a bullet" for Trump. (Washington Examiner)
Texas Christian University to send students to mosque for "religious experience." (The College Fix)
Contrary to CEO claims, Planned Parenthood caught denying women prenatal care. (Life News)
Athlete completes 3,000-mile run across America in honor of military veterans. (Fox News)
Policy: How Trump's regulatory reform could boost U.S. He wants to slash regulations by 75%. (The Daily Signal)
Policy: Trump clears the way for energy development. (National Review) ~The Patriot Post
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Information Warfare
by Cliff Kincaid
{americasurvival.org} ~ Bill Gertz, author of iWar, discusses Donald J.Trump’s challenges in the field of information warfare; FBI Director Comey; liar-nObama CIA Director Brennan; and his replacement Mike Pompeo. http://americasurvival.org/#axzz4Wj01tfW6
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For Those Scoffing at Russian
Penetration into American Democracy
by Denise Simon
{founderscode.com} ~ This site has posted often on General Gerasimov and his doctrine. The games and propaganda that the Kremlin applies is still not taken seriously by the American people as they continue to scoff at Russian intrusions into our culture... Russia is playing a double game and it is time to set aside manufactured notions and seek the expertise of countless Russian scholars as well as what the Pentagon and intelligence communities are publishing. Using the sources that Russian officials use themselves is a valuable tool as noted here:.. http://founderscode.com/scoffing-russian-penetration-american-democracy/
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Trump’s Picture Put Up in GITMO Letting Prisoners
Know Major Changes Are Coming Their Way
{conservativetribune.com} ~ President Donald Trump has only been in office for a few days, but you can already feel, and see, the changes that have taken place now that President Barack liar-nObama is out of office... Trump has met with business leaders and labor leaders. He has signed executive orders fulfilling campaign promises, and he has vowed to continue the war on the Islamic State terror group until it is eradicated. While this is a standard change, it also is something that should strike fear into the heart of every terrorist out there. Trump has promised to keep Gitmo open and to fill it with more terrorists... http://conservativetribune.com/gitmo-gift-trump-middle-east/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=ConservativeBrief&utm_content=2017-01-25
.Dem Stalling, Wasteful Game
of Financial Dereliction And Security Risk
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts on “the head clown and the Dems who have eagerly put their petty politics and pique ahead of national security, putting our nation at risk by delaying confirmations for President Trump’s cabinet nominees... The dilatory Democrats today delayed another vote, this on Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. Another hearing set for the Senator a week from today.” Dobbs continues, “Committee votes also originally scheduled for Betsy Devos, Rick Perry, and Ryan Zinke today, all delayed, all victims of the Dems’ unprincipled campaign to hobble the Trump nominees. The full Senate did manage to confirm Nikki Haley as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Good going and thanks,” Dobbs said with a hint of sarcasm, “but Haley is only the fourth of Mr. Trump’s cabinet nominees to be confirmed over the first five days, compared to seven confirmations for ‘president’ liar-nObama on his first day.” “The Dems are delivering,” says Dobbs, “on their threats to obstruct the confirmation process for this President, but Senate Republicans aren’t helping themselves. Tomorrow Republicans set to leave for a scheduled retreat in Philadelphia, retreating not just from Capitol Hill but from work to confirm those Trump nominees.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-dem-stalling-wasteful-game-financial-dereliction-security-risk/
.Gutfeld Mercilessly Destroys
Chicago Dem Hypocrite Mayor Rahm Emanuel
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s always gratifying when a self-righteous, arrogant and corrupt blow hard gets annihilated. Greg Gutfeld had a few observations about the conduct of the hypocrite Democrat Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel... who has been quite vocal in his criticism of our new President. Maybe Emanuel subscribes to the line of thought that the best defense is a strong offense, but in this case in most, Rahm’s just offensive. Gutfeld notes how odd it was that Emanuel found time to knock President Trump over questions of the crowd size at his inauguration. He plays a clip of the dishonest Democrat speaking to Mr. Trump, who was not in attendance at the news conference, ‘saying, “You got elected to make sure that people have a job, the economy continues to grow, people have security as it relates to their kids’ education, etc, and it wasn’t about your crowd size. It was about their jobs and their lives.” He fails to note that all of those things were destroyed during the last eight years of liar-nObama for the nation as a whole, and for Chicago in particular under the tag team efforts of Emanuel and his former boss. The best way for the people of Chicago to secure those ideals for themselves is to move out of the city, maybe out of the state... http://rickwells.us/gutfeld-mercilessly-destroys-chicago-dem-hypocrite-mayor-rahm-emanuel/
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Trump: America For The Americans!
by Patrick Buchanan
{freedomsback.com} ~ As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples.
Though bracing, President Trump’s inaugural address was rooted in cold truths, as he dispensed with the customary idealism of inaugurals that are forgotten within a fortnight of the president being sworn in.
Trump’s inaugural was Jacksonian.
He was speaking to and for the forgotten Americans whose hopes he embodies, pledging to be their champion against those who abandon them in pursuit of higher, grander, nobler causes. Declared Trump:
“For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the factories closed.”
Is this not true? American wages have stagnated as scores of thousands of factories were shut down or shipped abroad. Five of the six wealthiest counties in the U.S. today, measured by median household income, are the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Inaugurals should lift us up, wailed the media, this was “dark.”
And Trump did paint a grim picture — of “mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash but which leaves our … students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime and the gangs and the drugs…”
But is this not also a reality of America 2017?
Indeed, it carries echoes of FDR’s second inaugural: “I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. … The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
Some of the recoil to Trump’s speech is surely traceable to an awareness by those covering and commenting upon it — that this was a searing indictment of them and their own ruling class.
With America’s political elite sitting behind him, Trump accused them of enriching “foreign industry,” not ours, of subsidizing other countries’ armies but neglecting our own, of defending other nation’s borders while leaving America’s borders unprotected.
Then, in the line that will give his address its name in history, he declared: “From this day forward it’s going to be only America First.”
Prediction: Trump’s “America First” inaugural will be recalled as the most controversial, but will be among the most remembered.
What did Trump mean by “America First”?
“Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.”
What does it mean for the world?
“We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of other nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.”
Denounced as isolationism, this is in an old and great tradition.
Ronald Reagan talked of America being a “shining city on a hill” for other nations to emulate.
John Quincy Adams declared:
“Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled there will America’s hearts, her benedictions, and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher of the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”
When the Hungarian patriot Louis Kossuth came to America seeking aid for the revolution of 1848, Henry Clay told him:
“Far better is it for ourselves, for Hungary, and for the cause of liberty, that … avoiding the distant wars of Europe, we should keep our lamp burning brightly on the western shore, as a light to all nations, than to hazard its utter extinction among the ruins of fallen or falling republics in Europe.”
The charge of “isolationist” was thrown in the face of Clay. But he prevailed, and America stayed out of Europe’s wars until 1917 when Woodrow Wilson, fatefully, plunged us in.
In 1936, FDR said, “We shun political commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars. … We are not isolationists except insofar as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. … I hate war.”
What Trump was saying in his inaugural is that we will offer our free and independent republic as an example to other nations, but it is not our providential mission to reshape the world in our own image.
“We will reinforce old alliances” that are in our interests, Trump declared. But we are approaching the end of an era where we fought other nations’ wars and paid other nations’ bills.
We will no longer bleed and bankrupt our country for the benefit of others. Henceforth, America will be of, by, and for Americans.
Is that not what the nation voted for?
Though bracing, President Trump’s inaugural address was rooted in cold truths, as he dispensed with the customary idealism of inaugurals that are forgotten within a fortnight of the president being sworn in.
Trump’s inaugural was Jacksonian.
He was speaking to and for the forgotten Americans whose hopes he embodies, pledging to be their champion against those who abandon them in pursuit of higher, grander, nobler causes. Declared Trump:
“For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the factories closed.”
Is this not true? American wages have stagnated as scores of thousands of factories were shut down or shipped abroad. Five of the six wealthiest counties in the U.S. today, measured by median household income, are the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Inaugurals should lift us up, wailed the media, this was “dark.”
And Trump did paint a grim picture — of “mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash but which leaves our … students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime and the gangs and the drugs…”
But is this not also a reality of America 2017?
Indeed, it carries echoes of FDR’s second inaugural: “I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. … The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
Some of the recoil to Trump’s speech is surely traceable to an awareness by those covering and commenting upon it — that this was a searing indictment of them and their own ruling class.
With America’s political elite sitting behind him, Trump accused them of enriching “foreign industry,” not ours, of subsidizing other countries’ armies but neglecting our own, of defending other nation’s borders while leaving America’s borders unprotected.
Then, in the line that will give his address its name in history, he declared: “From this day forward it’s going to be only America First.”
Prediction: Trump’s “America First” inaugural will be recalled as the most controversial, but will be among the most remembered.
What did Trump mean by “America First”?
“Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.”
What does it mean for the world?
“We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of other nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.”
Denounced as isolationism, this is in an old and great tradition.
Ronald Reagan talked of America being a “shining city on a hill” for other nations to emulate.
John Quincy Adams declared:
“Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled there will America’s hearts, her benedictions, and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher of the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”
When the Hungarian patriot Louis Kossuth came to America seeking aid for the revolution of 1848, Henry Clay told him:
“Far better is it for ourselves, for Hungary, and for the cause of liberty, that … avoiding the distant wars of Europe, we should keep our lamp burning brightly on the western shore, as a light to all nations, than to hazard its utter extinction among the ruins of fallen or falling republics in Europe.”
The charge of “isolationist” was thrown in the face of Clay. But he prevailed, and America stayed out of Europe’s wars until 1917 when Woodrow Wilson, fatefully, plunged us in.
In 1936, FDR said, “We shun political commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars. … We are not isolationists except insofar as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. … I hate war.”
What Trump was saying in his inaugural is that we will offer our free and independent republic as an example to other nations, but it is not our providential mission to reshape the world in our own image.
“We will reinforce old alliances” that are in our interests, Trump declared. But we are approaching the end of an era where we fought other nations’ wars and paid other nations’ bills.
We will no longer bleed and bankrupt our country for the benefit of others. Henceforth, America will be of, by, and for Americans.
Is that not what the nation voted for?
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