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Jeff Sessions Is Right About New York
by Seth Barron
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This Iran Deal's Getting Worse All the Time
During the campaign, Donald Trump trashed Barack liar-nObama's nuclear deal with Iran as the "worst deal ever negotiated," and rightfully so. It was, after all, the sum of all lies. So when the Trump administration announced a review of the deal and that Iran was currently in compliance with it, leftists smugly responded, "We told you so." As if that proved the genius of the deal.
National Review's Jonathan Tobin explains, "Those who focus on Iranian compliance are missing the big picture about both the consequences of the nuclear deal and the chances for reversing the colossal mistake liar-nObama made with Iran. As Trump and his foreign-policy team are realizing, the issue isn't so much whether the letter of a deal that will expire within a decade is observed as it is what role Iran is playing in the region while its economy recovers and its nuclear program remains a long-term problem. The threatening talk from Washington isn't a flimsy cover for a flip-flop. It's a recognition that the Iranian threat was actually exacerbated by liar-nObama's gambit."
How so? Well, for starters, Iran got to keep its nuclear infrastructure, including the ability to continue enriching uranium, all while inspecting itself at its primary weaponization facility. That's right — Iran can advance its program while still "complying" with the deal. Eight years from now, Iran is free to finish its development of nuclear weapons effectively with the stamp of approval from the West. And as long as Iran is in "compliance," Trump is going to find it difficult to justify rescinding the deal. Besides, North Korea already has the bomb, meaning our allies are less interested in revisiting the Iran agreement than dealing with the crazy guy firing missiles every other week.
Moreover, liar-nObama paid the mullahs $1.7 billion in clandestinely delivered cash in a hostage deal — in which he also released Iranian spies. Flush with that money and some sanctions relief, Iran has no reason to rush, and every reason not to. Iran is gaining regional hegemony, including propping up Syria's Bashar al-Assad, which the deal did not address at all. Iran thus has practically everything it wanted. Trump's challenge is figuring out how to renew pressure on Iran and advance U.S. national security interests in the region. Simple enough, right?
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Freedom Caucus supports
liar-nObamacare repeal deal while centrists waver
by Robert King
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ In a major win for GOP leadership, the leadership of the House Freedom Caucus said Wednesday that it supports a new deal to repeal liar-nObamacare. But support from centrist Republicans is lagging... "While the revised version still does not fully repeal liar-nObamacare, we are prepared to support it to keep our promise to the American people to lower healthcare costs," Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the House Freedom Caucus chairman, said in a statement. Meadows did not indicate whether all of the approximately three dozen members of the group would vote for the bill. The Freedom Caucus typically supports legislation only when 80 percent of its membership is behind it...
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Trump’s Enemies GOP Leaders On Capitol Hill –
Fight, Obstruct, Ridicule Him
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Laura Ingraham joins Sean Hannity for a discussion that reveals the level of betrayal and establishment arrogance that still exists within the Republican leadership... towards the Trump agenda that we, the people, support and elected him to fulfill. Hannity leads with the decision by President Trump to remove the funding of the border wall as an obstruction, a move that has the potential to backfire and play right into Democrat hands, with the assistance of corrupt Republicans. It is already being regarded as a surrender and a victory for the left by many. Ingraham responds, “One thing that I know for sure, Sean, is that we have way too many people on Capitol Hill who aren’t on the President’s side on this issue. And I’m talking Republicans. So I have no doubt in my mind that Donald Trump wants this wall to be built. Congress has to appropriate the money...http://rickwells.us/ingraham-trumps-enemies-gop-leaders-capitol-hill-fight-obstruct-ridicule/
.PC Pentagon Caves To CAIR, Agrees
to 'Review' Anti-Terror Training Program
by Paul Sperry
{frontpagemag.com} ~ The Pentagon has agreed to formally review an anti-terror training program taught to special forces by a private contractor for material deemed offensive to Islam and Muslims... even though the Muslim group that lodged a complaint against the allegedly “Islamophobic” program has been accused by the Justice Department of supporting terrorism and is currently banned from outreach activities by the FBI. The instructor hired to teach the program says he fears his class might not get a fair hearing, because military brass have assigned the review to a Muslim military chaplain who graduated from a radical Saudi-funded Islamic school raided by federal agents after 9/11 on suspicion of terrorist activities. He is their second choice for conducting the review. They had originally picked a more radical military chaplain to inspect the training materials before learning he has ties to an imam with a history of ministering to Muslims later convicted of terrorism...What the heck are they doing. Haven't they learned yet? http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266509/pc-pentagon-caves-cair-agrees-review-anti-terror-paul-sperry
.Leadership, Not Art Of The Deal, GOP Has All
3 Branches Of Govt – Build The Damn Wall
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin believes there’s no excuse for what the Republican Congress is doing. He says, “There’s no excuse for what Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell are doing or not doing... There’s no excuse for the fact that the President doesn’t yank them into the Oval Office and read them the riot act. Levin says he’s talking about the priorities the President ran on and the priorities that matter to us.“ Levin points out that, “Chuck clown-Schumer, Nancy Pulosi, their predecessors and their successors, do not have permanent control over the treasury of the United States, to reward their favorite constituent groups and donors and to redistribute wealth. And the only way to address this is the way that it was addressed during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan. He continues, “And yes, be prepared to have a showdown. Be prepared to have a showdown and the competency in the articulation as the Republican Party that controls all the damn elected branches in Washington DC, to make the case to the American people, that it is the despicable snake oil salesman, Chuck clown-Schumer, and the despicable failure, Nancy Pulosi, who are destroying this economy, who are driving up the debt and that we have a President who wants to do something about both.”...http://rickwells.us/levin-leadership-not-art-deal-gop-3-branches-govt-build-damn-wall/
.Canada’s top imam: “Jihad will continue
until the Day of Judgment”
by Christine Williams
{jihadwatch.org} ~ Dr. Iqbal Al-Nadvi (Mohammad Iqbal Masood Al-Nadvi) is the Chairperson of Canadian Council of Imams (Canada’s top imam) and the Amir (President) of Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Canada... a nation-wide Islamic organization that is striving “to build an Exemplary Canadian Muslim Community” by “total submission to Him [Allah] and through the propagation of true and universal message of Islam.” He also serves as the Muslim Chaplain of the Canadian army. In a panel discussion in Toronto on the “Finality of Prophethood”, Nadvi called Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam a “false prophet” who abrogated the jihad in contradiction to an explicit hadith by Mohammad who said the jihad will continue to the end of time...Canada is for a rude awaking. https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/canadas-top-imam-jihad-will-continue-until-the-day-of-judgment
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Jeff Sessions Is Right About New York
by Seth Barron
{city-journal.org} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a statement last week to nine self-described sanctuary cities, ordering them to certify compliance with federal immigration law. Sessions in particular cited gang-related crime in these cities, and, in reference to New York, remarked, “New York City continues to see gang murder after gang murder, the predictable consequence of the city's ‘soft on crime’ stance.”
Those words prompted outrage from New York mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD commissioner James O’Neill. The mayor called Sessions’s statement “outrageous” and “an insult” to law enforcement. “Month after month crime has gone down,” de Blasio said. “That seems to have reached everywhere but Washington, D.C.” Commissioner O’Neill said that his “blood began to boil” when he heard the attorney general’s claims. “To say we’re soft on crime is absolutely ludicrous.” Other elected officials took to Twitter to denounce Sessions. City council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who is planning a massive legislative effort to block municipal cooperation with federal authorities on immigration enforcement, called Sessions’s remarks “Ridiculous & surely illegal.” Some reporters chimed in on the mayor’s behalf, editorializing, for instance, that “# are unequivocally on BDB’s side.”
But Sessions didn’t claim that crime is rising in New York City, as it is in Chicago and other major cities. He said that New York is plagued by gang-related homicide, and that the city has gone “soft” on enforcement. Are these statements true?
So far in 2017, New York City has had 64 homicides, with arrests made in 38 cases. The NYPD describes 16 of these homicides as gang-related. That means that at least 25 percent of the city’s killings this year have been “gang murders.”
The real number is probably much higher. Twenty-six murders remain unsolved, and these tend to be nighttime shootings in which suspects slip away, a characteristic of gangland killings. In recent years, approximately half of all New York City homicides have been gang-related. With two-fifths of this year’s murder cases still open, it’s likely that at least some of them will turn out to be gang-related.
Sessions is right that New York City has seen “gang murder after gang murder,” on the order of at least one per week, and maybe two. That’s not much compared with Chicago today or with New York in the 1980s, but it indicates that violent gangs operate with some regularity. Hundreds of gang-related, nonlethal shooting incidents occur, too. The NYPD has taken down lots of gangs—100 in 2016, according to Commissioner O’Neill—but more work clearly remains to be done.
Is Sessions right that the city is “soft on crime”? Crime is, after all, at historic lows across New York, even as it spikes nationwide. The NYPD deserves enormous credit for that.
But it’s not all good news: the city’s political class wants to lower crime figures largely by defining crime out of existence. The de Blasio administration has reduced the penalties for public consumption of alcohol, possession of marijuana, and public urination. The recent Lippmann Report, which urges the closure of the municipal jail on Rikers Island, encourages the city to decriminalize prostitution, turnstile jumping, and the possession of gravity knives. If there are no laws, there can be no crime, and hence no criminals. QED.
Brooklyn’s acting district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, wants to reduce criminal charges for illegal immigrants to make it less likely that they will be deported. He promises to seek “immigration-neutral disposition” of criminal cases. This policy will require all prosecutors to coordinate with defense attorneys to discuss the potential consequences of guilty pleas on the defendant’s immigration status. “If someone confronts a guilty plea that would automatically subject them to a harsh immigration penalty,” explained Gonzalez, “and there’s another possible plea that would hold them accountable and ensure public safety, justice demands they be given the one that doesn’t have immigration consequences.” The district attorneys for Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx will likely join him in this new cause.
De Blasio and the rest of the city’s leadership insist that sanctuary policies somehow make New York safer. Following this logic, then, protection of the “undocumented” should be the ultimate goal of public policy, since we’ll just get safer and safer the more illegal residents we harbor. Unlike the last eight years, however, an attorney general in Washington doesn’t see it that way.
{city-journal.org} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a statement last week to nine self-described sanctuary cities, ordering them to certify compliance with federal immigration law. Sessions in particular cited gang-related crime in these cities, and, in reference to New York, remarked, “New York City continues to see gang murder after gang murder, the predictable consequence of the city's ‘soft on crime’ stance.”
Those words prompted outrage from New York mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD commissioner James O’Neill. The mayor called Sessions’s statement “outrageous” and “an insult” to law enforcement. “Month after month crime has gone down,” de Blasio said. “That seems to have reached everywhere but Washington, D.C.” Commissioner O’Neill said that his “blood began to boil” when he heard the attorney general’s claims. “To say we’re soft on crime is absolutely ludicrous.” Other elected officials took to Twitter to denounce Sessions. City council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who is planning a massive legislative effort to block municipal cooperation with federal authorities on immigration enforcement, called Sessions’s remarks “Ridiculous & surely illegal.” Some reporters chimed in on the mayor’s behalf, editorializing, for instance, that “# are unequivocally on BDB’s side.”
But Sessions didn’t claim that crime is rising in New York City, as it is in Chicago and other major cities. He said that New York is plagued by gang-related homicide, and that the city has gone “soft” on enforcement. Are these statements true?
So far in 2017, New York City has had 64 homicides, with arrests made in 38 cases. The NYPD describes 16 of these homicides as gang-related. That means that at least 25 percent of the city’s killings this year have been “gang murders.”
The real number is probably much higher. Twenty-six murders remain unsolved, and these tend to be nighttime shootings in which suspects slip away, a characteristic of gangland killings. In recent years, approximately half of all New York City homicides have been gang-related. With two-fifths of this year’s murder cases still open, it’s likely that at least some of them will turn out to be gang-related.
Sessions is right that New York City has seen “gang murder after gang murder,” on the order of at least one per week, and maybe two. That’s not much compared with Chicago today or with New York in the 1980s, but it indicates that violent gangs operate with some regularity. Hundreds of gang-related, nonlethal shooting incidents occur, too. The NYPD has taken down lots of gangs—100 in 2016, according to Commissioner O’Neill—but more work clearly remains to be done.
Is Sessions right that the city is “soft on crime”? Crime is, after all, at historic lows across New York, even as it spikes nationwide. The NYPD deserves enormous credit for that.
But it’s not all good news: the city’s political class wants to lower crime figures largely by defining crime out of existence. The de Blasio administration has reduced the penalties for public consumption of alcohol, possession of marijuana, and public urination. The recent Lippmann Report, which urges the closure of the municipal jail on Rikers Island, encourages the city to decriminalize prostitution, turnstile jumping, and the possession of gravity knives. If there are no laws, there can be no crime, and hence no criminals. QED.
Brooklyn’s acting district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, wants to reduce criminal charges for illegal immigrants to make it less likely that they will be deported. He promises to seek “immigration-neutral disposition” of criminal cases. This policy will require all prosecutors to coordinate with defense attorneys to discuss the potential consequences of guilty pleas on the defendant’s immigration status. “If someone confronts a guilty plea that would automatically subject them to a harsh immigration penalty,” explained Gonzalez, “and there’s another possible plea that would hold them accountable and ensure public safety, justice demands they be given the one that doesn’t have immigration consequences.” The district attorneys for Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx will likely join him in this new cause.
De Blasio and the rest of the city’s leadership insist that sanctuary policies somehow make New York safer. Following this logic, then, protection of the “undocumented” should be the ultimate goal of public policy, since we’ll just get safer and safer the more illegal residents we harbor. Unlike the last eight years, however, an attorney general in Washington doesn’t see it that way.
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