Thursday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
A Vote for Trade Promotion Authority
Is Not a Vote for nObama
George Will
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 RUBIO NICKS WALKER, PERRY UP, KASICH KRUMBLES 
Scott Walker still has the clear advantage in polling, but give Marco Rubio the edge this week for the political jujitsu move of the month. Rubio made the most of an error in a NYT piece pummeling him for dicey financial moves as a younger man – that described his fishing boat as a “luxury speed boat.”
          Now, an $80,000 pleasure boat is not exactly a cocker spaniel, but Rubio’s jack hammering of the Times has a bit of Richard Nixon’s “Checkers” speech to it. Reporters who want to take issue with Rubio’s finances will have to make it about way more than watercraft from here on in. That no doubt helped Rubio as he was auditioning for Romney’s money men in Utah at Camp Mitt this weekend. These are people who spend $80,000 on boat storage, not boats.
          The only other candidate or crypto-candidate who right now meets the credibility threshold to beat Bush would be Ohio Gov. John Kasich. But with Kasich’s choice of a campaign team that specializes in double-dog-daring primary voters to back their candidates, he seems unlikely to seek broad-based appeal. Kasich seems instead to be picking a trajectory in which he and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be battling coffee-shop-by-coffee-shop for a Huntsmanian third-place finish in New Hampshire.
          Rick Perry, despite having the worst-ever campaign song in the history of recorded music, is showing that in addition to a new found humility he is also packing a superior campaign organization this time around. Perry’s focus on the military and foreign policy will also serve him well on the trail.  -Fox News 
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 Walker budget deadline looms with razor thin margin -  Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “Gov. Scott Walker’s budget hangs by a gossamer thread in the GOP-controlled state Senate, where ‘no’ votes from just three lawmakers within his own party would be enough to derail his spending plan. Already, two conservative Republican senators have made clear they will be extremely difficult — perhaps impossible…to win over without knocking moderate senators from their party out of the yes column in the process.”  -Fox News 
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 Rand says Snowden helped change NSA -  [San Diego] Union-Tribune: “Sen. Rand Paul said Saturday that former national security contractor Edward Snowden changed the political climate and helped open doors to government surveillance reform. The GOP presidential candidate stopped short of saying whether Snowden should be prosecuted for leaking documents about secret government mass surveillance programs.”
          [Paul is Lexington, S.C., hosting a “Stand with Rand’ meet and greet at a VFW post. Paul’s wife, Kelley Paul, is also in South Carolina meeting with Berkeley County Republicans, and giving an address at a rotary club in Charleston.]  
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE 
Next time you categorize something as a failure don’t be so quick to write it off. Sometimes it just takes a couple of centuries…The Magna Carta, arguably one of the most important documents in history, was very nearly lost to history. In 1215,King John needed a means to regain support after many of the barons rebelled against him, and he faced a growing threat of invasion from France. To ensure support at home the king drafted a charter called the Magna Carta, a peace treaty protecting barons from monarchical abuse, in addition to other rights listed. Within a month, King John broke the treaty, however, and the Magna Carta was considered a failure. But in 1642 when civil war broke out in England, Chief Justice Sir Edward Corke used the document as proof of limiting monarchy power, leading to his dismissal from the bench and charges of treason. Leap ahead another 100 years or so and the Magna Carta was once again used in the American Revolutionary War.  
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 House Resolution introduced condemning academic boycott of Israel  
(William A. Jacovbson) ~ No university in the U.S. is considering a boycott, as far as I know, and in many ways ties are expanding. The American Studies Association and a handful of much smaller faculty professional organizations have adopted the boycott... but even ASA had to back down from its key provision excluding most Israeli academics from its annual meeting. There have been, and undoubtedly will be more, attempts to get larger faculty organizations to adopt the boycott, but so far that has not happened. There are complaints from some Israelis also of an undeclared boycott of them personally in the humanities, with some American professors refusing to interact. But beyond the actual results, there is no doubt that the academic boycott movement is a malicious attack not just on Israel, but also on our entire academic system. It is led by some of the most outrageous campus characters, the rhetoric often is abusive, and the environmenthostile and threatening.        http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/06/house-resolution-introduced-condemning-academic-boycott-of-israel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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 Boston Partners With The Feds To Market Citizenship To Illegals  
(Rachel Stoltzfoos) ~ Boston joined five other cities Tuesday to partner with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to market citizenship to legal and illegal immigrants in their cities... For the next three years, Boston will encourage legal and illegal residents to pursue citizenship by providing them with tools and education. Boston Public Library branches will establish “Citizenship Corners” to ensure easy access to citizenship preparation materials, and USCIS will provide training about the naturalization process to librarians and city officials, so they can help immigrants in search of information. Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta and New York City have also partnered with USCIS to promote citizenship.       http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/16/boston-partners-with-the-feds-to-market-citizenship-to-illegals/
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 House Passes Resolution To Release Imprisoned Americans In Iran  
(Sumner Park) ~ The House unanimously passed a resolution on a 391-0 vote Monday that calls for the immediate release of the three Americans being held imprisoned in Iran and any information of disappeared U.S. citizens within its borders... As President nObama negotiates a nuclear deal with the Islamic republic, the legislature has been pushing Iran to release the Americans, according to the Military Times. “I hope the government of Iran will heed of the message sent by the House and free Pastor Saeed and other Americans,” Labrador told Clearwater Tribune, who represents one of the families of Americans detained in Iran.       http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/16/house-passes-resolution-to-release-imprisoned-americans-in-iran/
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 hanoi John Kerry Announces Another Nuclear Concession To Iran  
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ One of the key demands the U.S and the P5+ partners made of Iran is that the rogue nation come clean about all the elements of their nuclear program prior to the agreement.  On Tuesday Secretary of State hanoi Kerry walked away from that requirement... The reason that demand is important is the international community cannot confirm that Iran has halted its pursuit of nuclear weapons unless Tehran comes clean on all past and continuing nuclear weapons-related activities. Iran agreed in November 2013 to resolve with the IAEA a list of possible military-related nuclear activities in 12 areas. As of June 2015, Iran has only resolved questions in one of these areas and has claimed the other areas are based on forgeries and fabrications. A real deal with Iran requires answers to those questions to establish a baseline for verification. The United States cab not agree to a nuclear deal with Iran unless the baseline issue is resolved  satisfactorily.        http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/john-kerry-announces-another-nuclear.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01818ff2f5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-01818ff2f5-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-01818ff2f5-291705165
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 Britain: Bid to Crack Down on Islamic Extremism Faces Resistance  
(Soeren Kern) ~ Britain is facing an "unprecedented" threat from hundreds of battle-hardened jihadists who have been trained in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, according to MI5, the domestic counter-intelligence and security agency... It warns that are now more Britons trained in terrorism than at any point in recent memory. More than 700 Britons are believed to have travelled to Syria and Iraq, according to British authorities. Over half of these Britons are thought to have since returned home, where they pose a significant threat to national security. Britain's terrorism threat alert is at the second-highest level of "severe," meaning an attack is "highly likely."        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5989/britain-counter-extremism
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 Would-Be Islamic State Terrorist Charged in New York  
(investigativeproject.org) ~ A 20-year-old Queens, N.Y. man is charged with planning an attack in the name of the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS)... Munther Omar Saleh was arrested on Saturdaywith two others after charging a police cruiser. One of his co-conspirators had a knife in the waistband of his pants. Investigators believe Saleh was trying to make a bomb to blow up somewhere in New York in ISIS' name. When the FBI had a confidential source pose as a radical Islamist and reach out to him, Saleh wrote that he was "in NY and trying to do an Op." He quickly cut off contact with the FBI source, saying he was ordered by ISIS to do so. Saleh first appeared on law enforcement radar in March after a Port Authority officer saw him walking across the George Washington Bridge with a lantern. Saleh asked the officer for a ride across the bridge; the officer refused and directed him toward a bus depot on the New Jersey side of the bridge. The same officer saw Saleh on the bridge the next day. The officer escorted Saleh to the New Jersey Port Authority office, where he was questioned and denied any familiarity with ISIS.        http://www.investigativeproject.org/4885/would-be-islamic-state-terrorist-charged-in-new
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 Liberals Make Big Comeback in 2015, Poll Analysis Finds  
(Janet Hook) ~ There are signs that liberals are making a comeback — and not just because a socialist is running for president, gay marriage is spreading like wildfire and pot legalization is gaining acceptance... A new analysis of Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll data finds a marked  increase in the share of registered voters identifying themselves as liberals, and an even bigger drop in the share saying they are conservatives. In three national polls conducted so far in 2015, the analysis found that 26% of registered voters identified themselves as liberals — up from 23% in 2014. At the same time, the share of voters identifying as conservatives dropped to 33% from 37% in 2014.        http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/06/07/liberals-make-big-comeback-in-2015-poll-analysis-finds/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JVL+06_17_2015
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 These are documents Clinton's State Dept. didn't want you to read  
(Sarah Westwood) ~ State Department officials cut out embarrassing passages of a report before publishing it during Hilly Clinton’s last days as secretary of state... Earlier drafts of the final document reveal details about the “undue influence” that is mentioned only briefly in the published version released to the public the month Clinton left office, February of 2013. The Washington Examiner obtained a dozen drafts of the report that revealed officials under Harold Geisel, the temporary inspector general during Clinton’s four-year tenure, let sections be edited out in late 2012. The deleted information gave details of several investigations stymied by high-level staff in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/these-are-documents-clintons-state-dept.-didnt-want-you-to-read/article/2566403
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 Former D.C. Government Official Sentenced for Fraud  
(fbi.gov) ~ Neil S. Rodgers, a former District of Columbia government official, was sentenced today to a period of incarceration and ordered to pay full restitution on a charge stemming from his role in channeling $110,000 in youth and drug prevention grant funds that were used to pay for an inaugural ball... The sentencing was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Vincent H. Cohen, Jr., Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Thomas Jankowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation. Rodgers was found guilty in March 2015, by a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, of first-degree fraud. The Honorable Senior Judge John D. Bates sentenced Rodgers to 36 days of incarceration, to be served over 12 weekends. He also ordered him to pay $110,000 in restitution. Rodgers also will be placed on two years of probation. https://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2015/former-d.c.-government-official-sentenced-for-fraud-involving-110-000-grant-that-funded-a-2009-inaugural-ball
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 Imported Muslims arriving now in these U.S. cities  
(Leo Hohmann) ~ A few congressmen are fighting to block the planned importation of thousands of Syrian refugees into American cities and towns, arguing that they present a grave security risk because many Syrians have ties to the Sunni rebel groups ISIS and al-Nusra Front... But the fact is, as President nObama ignores the concerns of U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and others on the House Homeland Security Committee, the Syrians have already started to arrive stateside. Since January, more than 70 U.S. cities have been on the receiving end of a Syrian visitation.        http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/syrian-muslims-arriving-now-in-these-u-s-cities/
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A Vote for Trade Promotion Authority
Is Not a Vote for nObama
George Will
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     (nationalreview.com) ~ Before presidential politics — the game of getting to 270 electoral votes — completely eclipses governing, there is the urgent task of getting to 217 votes in the House of Representatives to pass Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). This would guarantee a vote without amendments on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. Without TPA, any trade agreement will be nibbled to death in Congress by persons eager to do organized labor’s bidding. So, Republicans who oppose TPA are collaborating with those who oppose increasing the velocity and rationality of economic life.
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     TPA touches two challenging problems: one economic, one constitutional. Regarding both, conservatives have special responsibilities. 
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     The economic challenge is to generate economic growth sufficient to restore vigor and upward mobility to an underemployed America, sustaining national security and entitlements as, every day, another 10,000 baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. The constitutional problem is how to restore institutional equilibrium by bringing the presidency back within the restraints the Founders devised with the separation of powers. 
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     Only conservatives can turn economic policy away from the self-defeating aim of redistribution, and toward growth. This goal would be advanced by the trade agreement among the twelve nations who together account for 37 percent of the world’s GDP and one-third of world trade. Defeating TPA, and thus the agreement, is a service most House Democrats will perform for a reactionary faction, organized labor. Defeat would, however, make economic dynamism even more elusive, punishing the nation without meaningfully disciplining the president. 
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     This vote comes in the turgid wake of a first quarter in which the economy shrank 0.7 percent — the third quarterly contraction during the anemic recovery that is slouching into its seventh year. The aging recovery began in June 2009; another recession may arrive without there having been a real recovery from the previous one. For Democrats devoted to policies of redistribution, economic growth is an afterthought. Only Republicans can make possible the freer trade that can combat the lingering stagnation that is Barack nObama’s painful legacy. 
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     This month, Republicans can extinguish the Export-Import Bank, a deplorable instrument for government intervention in economic transactions, simply by not reauthorizing it. How perverse it would be to do so while also opposing TPA and (hence, in effect) freer trade, which would make economic activity less subject to distortions by governments.
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     In the 19th century, Republicans embraced a braided duet of vices — big government and crony capitalism. Adept at using tariffs to purchase the loyalty of particular constituencies, Republicans opposed free trade. Twenty-first century Democrats generally want government rather than markets to regulate commerce and allocate opportunity, so they recoil from any enlargement of the sphere of economic freedom. The fact that TPA would make possible the ratification of an agreement that is an imperfect enlargement is no reason for Republicans to help Democrats protect the power of governments to further politicize economic life. 
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     Some Republicans are understandably reluctant to give any satisfaction to nObama, who disdains them as much as he does constitutional limits on presidential power. But a stopped clock is right twice a day and he rightly favors freer trade. 
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     Some Republicans resist granting fast-track authority, a traditional presidential prerogative, to a president who has so arrogantly disregarded limits on executive discretion. It is, however, unnecessary to defeat fast-track authority (thereby defeating freer trade) in order to restrain this rogue president. The 22nd Amendment guarantees his departure in 19 months. His lawlessness has prompted congressional resistance on multiplying fronts. The judiciary, too, has repeatedly rebuked him for illegal executive overreaches. So, it is neither necessary nor statesmanlike to injure the nation’s future in order to protest nObama’s past. 
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     Representative Paul Ryan campaigned hard to prevent a second nObama term, but he strongly favors TPA. He notes that if nObama’s negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program were being conducted under guarantees of congressional involvement similar to those contained in TPA, Congress would enjoy statutorily required briefings on the negotiations and access to the negotiating documents. Furthermore, any agreement with Iran would have to be made public for examination at least 60 days before nObama signed it, after which the agreement could not take effect unless Congress approves it.
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     nObama has all the friends in Congress he has earned and deserves, so even among Democrats this cohort is vanishingly small. By passing TPA, House Republicans can achieve a fine trifecta, demonstrating their ability to rise above their justifiable resentments, underscoring his dependence on them and on Congress, and illustrating his party’s dependence on factions inimical to economic vitality.
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