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Now we know: AIPAC and the Dems
who supported Iran deal
Eli Lake
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What's NOAA Hiding? Agency Leaves Congress in the Dark 
First there was ClimateGate, the scandal that broke in 2009 when a hacker exposed extensive data belonging to the UK's University of East Anglia. That data, which unveiled scandalous email correspondence and a fallacious methodology dubbed the "fudge factor," revealed a concerted effort by some of the world's most influential climate scientists to keep evidence of global cooling in a shroud of secrecy. As we noted at the time, it was the biggest scandal to rock the scientific world in quite some time. After all, environmental policy is based on what the measurements depict — that's the claim, at least — but those measurements were manipulated and exploited by the purveyors of climate alarmism. That malfeasance, however, appears to be just the tip of the iceberg.
Skeptical scientists have long rejected climate hyperbole. One reason is that satellite temperature measurements continue to depict a warming hiatus, which now stands at 18 years 8 months. Faced with growing pressure to address the chatter, a group of warmists tried to quash those claims in a study published in June. According to the authors, NOAA's own findings "do not support the notion of a 'slowdown' in the increase of global surface temperature." The researchers even rejected the IPCC's recent conclusion that a slowdown indeed did happen. Fine, so let's see all the evidence. Oh, wait, we can't, because the authors would rather keep some of it a secret.
According to the journal Nature, "Representative Lamar Smith, the Texas Republican who leads the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, asked NOAA in July for the data used in the study and for any internal communications related to it. NOAA has provided the committee with the publicly available data and has briefed committee staff on the research, but the agency has not turned over the communications." Nor does it plan to. "Although NOAA's latest response to the committee skirted the issue, the agency suggests in a 27 October statement to Nature that it has no intention of handing over documents that reveal its internal deliberations." Nothing to see here, right?
Smith contends, "NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration's extreme climate change agenda." The Investor's Business Daily editorial board observed, "What's strange is that major temperature revisions by NOAA and others in recent years have always been up — never down — a clear sign of possible bias." The agency can put these allegations to rest with a little transparency. But it won't, which leads us to just one conclusion: The ClimateGate fraud is bigger and more malicious than anyone realizes. -The Patriot Post
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Dems' Biggest Super PAC Defends Clinton Again
Sen. Marco Rubio has the answer to why Hilly Clinton is not damaged by her blatant deception surrounding the deadly 2012 attack on the Benghazi consulate. "You know the Democrats have the ultimate super PAC," Rubio said at the Republican presidential debate Wednesday. "It's called the mainstream media."
That super PAC turned on Rubio over his claim that Clinton lied when Rubio appeared on CBS Thursday morning. "You're saying, Senator, that Hilly Clinton lied to help Barack nObama in his re-election campaign," journalist Charlie Rose said. "That's a serious charge!"
Rubio seemed flabbergasted by Rose's statement. "Yes!" Rubio replied. "It's the truth. That's not only why she did it. That's why everyone in the administration did it. The narrative of their campaign at the time, Charlie, was that al-Qaida was 'on the run' and had been defeated. That was their narrative. And this countered that narrative. They did not want that out there."
Journalism's ideal is to give information that allows Americans to self-govern. But if the press only fixates on he-said she-said clickbait, then the public isn't served. Instead of simply chasing soundbites, the media should pursue facts and go where they lead. Fact: Clinton emailed her daughter saying that a group similar to al-Qaida attacked the consulate. Fact: Days later, Clinton told the family of slain Navy SEAL Ty Woods that their son died over a YouTube video. Rubio's articulation of these facts during the Rose interview shows that he is capable of going up against Clinton and giving her such a trouncing that it'd be almost sad to watch. -The Patriot Post
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Who Drops Out Next?
There were obvious winners in Wednesday night's debate, and there were also clear losers. So which candidate(s) will drop out next? Several are struggling to gain traction and may not have a path forward. For starters, the entire slate of "undercard" debate participants have little rationale to continue. Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum and George Pataki aren't going to launch out of the bottom tier by remaining stuck in the Happy Hour debates. But there are also some on the prime time stage who should probably pack it in. Mike Huckabee is a swell guy you'd love to chat with over barbecue at the church potluck, but he spends far too much debate time on folksy metaphors like that one and just doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Rand Paul seems to have missed his moment. In 2012, the GOP was perhaps ready for a commander in chief as cautious as Paul on foreign policy, but not in 2015 as the nObama/Clinton model of appeasement diplomacy and "smart power" has the world on fire (and not from global warming). Paul is a major asset in the Senate, too, and he can serve the nation well by staying put. John Kasich is stagnant, and his angry-man shtick isn't going to help. Other than the fact (which he repeatedly made clear Wednesday night) that he's from Ohio, there's not much keeping a moralizing moderate like him afloat.
The big one, however, is Jeb Bush. The establishment favorite has never managed to convince a growing number of voters that a third Bush White House, or a second Clinton vs. Bush race, is in the nation's best interest. Besides, "I've got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them," he complained recently. "That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that." And after his spectacular failure of an attack on Marco Rubio at the debate, there's a growing sense that maybe Bush ought to find some of those other "really cool things" to do.
The first debate's casualty was Rick Perry; Scott Walker exited after the second. We're willing to bet one or more of the aforementioned candidates won't be on stage for the next one. -The Patriot Post
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The Fraudable Care Act nObamaCare is not healthy. Saddled with side effects from fraud to canceled plans, the sickening reality is that government-driven health care delivers higher costs, more uncertainty and the potential to put insurance plans in a death spiral.
Undercover investigators from the Government Accountability Office created 18 false identities and successfully received subsidized coverage or Medicaid for all but one of them. This, despite the use of nonexistent Social Security numbers, fake birth certificates and other false documentation. Seto Bagdoyan, director of forensic audits at GAO, reported that “eligibility determination and enrollment process remains vulnerable to fraud.” One fictitious applicant not only received subsidized coverage from the federal marketplace, but also two state exchanges at the same time. Officials told Bagdoyan “there is no current process to identify individuals with multiple enrollments through different marketplaces.” What’s especially troubling is that the GAO discovered similar vulnerabilities to fraud during its 2013-14 investigation.
Duplicate coverage drives up the cost, as some people received subsidies for private insurance while enrolled in Medicaid. In addition, states incorrectly qualified some people for Medicaid despite their income exceeding the required income levels.
While one of the GAO’s fictitious applicants received three insurance policies, other real-life Americans are in round three of enrolling after losing their health insurance plans not once, but twice. Nine out of 23 co-ops set up to enroll people in nObamaCare have died and 11 more are on life support, causing families to switch plans again. National Review reports: -The Patriot Post
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Benghazi committee gets classified White House records
{SARAH WESTWOOD} ~ White House officials delivered a batch of new documents to the House Select Committee on Benghazi Wednesday in response to a request the committee had filed almost a year ago... The documents, which were classified at varying levels, dealt with the military's response to the 2012 terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi. "The Select Committee on Benghazi is writing the final, definitive accounting on the terrorist attacks that left four of our fellow Americans dead," said Jamal Ware, spokesman for committee Republicans. "This production of new documents will help inform this effort, as the committee compiles the most comprehensive set of facts related to the attacks — a process that has been slowed by the administration's delays and ongoing failure to comply with outstanding requests." http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/benghazi-committee-gets-classified-white-house-records/article/2575177.
Cruz accuses McCon-nell of working for Dems
{SUSAN FERRECHIO} ~ Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican presidential candidate, conducted a 90-minute takedown late Thursday of his own Majority Leader, Mitch McCon-nell... who he characterized by name as a weak leader unwilling to fight for conservative causes. Cruz, a Tea Party conservative, frequently bucks Senate GOP leaders and has on at least one other occasion criticized McCon-nell in a Senate floor speech. But late Thursday, he took on McCon-nell with renewed antipathy, using pie charts to demonstrate that the Kentucky Republican has bolstered the Democratic agenda rather than conservative goals during his ten-month tenure..
One Member of the Media Ready to Call ‘Migrant Crisis’...
{patriotsandpolitics.com} ~ Fox News contributor Monica Crowley recently traveled to Europe to visit some of the sites in Vienna, Salzburg, and Berlin where “refugees” are gathering... She shared her experience with the host of The O’Reilly Factor. What she discovered going on in Europe disturbed her so deeply that she came away from the experience ready to finally stand with those in the minority who are unafraid to name this “migrant crisis” precisely what it is: an invasion..
nObama’s Attack On Alaska And American Energy...
{rickwells.us} ~ The ultimate objective and the purpose for the placement of the anti-American foreigner Hussein nObama into the White House is the destruction of the United States... Energy is the life blood of our nation, so it naturally follows that a major component of nObama’s targeting of the United States will and has involved the goal to “degrade and ultimately destroy” our ability to produce energy. America is wealthy beyond imagination, with all of the resources we need to once again be the envy of the world. Instead of being allowed to prosper, we’re being told to accept our demise, to become comfortable with our new third world standard of living, and to develop a taste for the bitter hemlock that is now served where we used to enjoy milk and honey. Unfortunately, many AINOs,”Americans in Name Only,” for lack of a better term, those cursed with the mental disorder of liberalism, totally embrace their newly dictated and wholly unnecessary fate. We are facing a multi-front attack by the criminal nObama Syndicate, with two primary prongs on energy which play complimentary roles in our destruction. We are forced onto expensive, subsidized and impractical false energy, the supposed green energy fraud that is not a viable source of power for our nation on the one hand, while our plentiful, low cost available energy is restricted from development. http://rickwells.us/archives/21603.
Liz Cheney on Troops Going to Syria: ‘It’s No Longer News’...
{freebeacon.com} ~ Fox News contributor Liz Cheney said Sunday it should come as no surprise that President nObama had gone against earlier pledges by sending American troops to Syria, saying “it’s no longer news” when he contradicts himself... The announcement came Friday that the U.S. would deploy special operations forces to Syria to help in the fight against the Islamic State terrorist group, after nObama had promised repeatedly that he would never put boots on the ground in the war-torn nation. “It’s no longer news that the president has done something that directly contradicts statements he made previously,” Cheney said. “It happens on such a regular basis. The bottom line here is we’ve got a militant Islamic terrorist organization that has established a caliphate in the heart of the Middle East. It is a clear and direct threat to the United States of America. They have to be defeated, and they’ve got to be defeated by force.” http://freebeacon.com/national-security/liz-cheney-on-troops-going-to-syria-its-no-longer-news-when-obama-contradicts-himself/.
Hilly and nObama’s Lies on Benghazi — Too Many to Count...
{Deroy Murdock} ~ People died. Hillary lied. nObama lied, too. They lied early. They lied often. They lied deliberately. They lied about the slaughter of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, at the hands of al-Qaeda-tied terrorists... They lied, but not to protect vital national secrets or flummox America’s enemies. They lied to get reelected. And they lied directly, knowingly, and repeatedly to the American people. Hilly and nObama buried the truth beneath an Oriental rug of lies. It covered up painful facts, lest they contradict the comforting campaign theme that nObama unveiled at the Democrat National Convention just five days before Benghazi: “al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.” And it worked! The truth about Benghazi, what Hilly and nObama knew, and when they knew it, remained obscured until last week. This helped nObama win the White House in November 2012, and put Hilly in a comfortable position from which to run as his successor. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/hillary-clinton-and-obamas-lies-on-benghazi-too-many-to-count-but-lets-try/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email110215&utm_medium=email.
Feds Fail to Deport 179,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens
{Rick Moran} ~ A report by the Department of Homeland Security says that more than 179,000 criminal illegal aliens eligible to be deported are still in the U.S. and immigration officials admit they don’t know where they are... The report was delivered to the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration. As it turns out, there are nearly a million illegals who have been issued deportation orders who have not been sent home. The level of criminal behavior by immigrants — both legal and illegal — has become a key part of the current political debate over immigration, border fencing and birthright citizenship. But the federal government does not have any way of tracking the overall criminal behavior of immigrants, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that detains and deports illegal immigrants, admitted in the information provided to the Senate
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It’s mad to forgo missile defense
{Frederick W. Kagan} ~ American thinking about missile defense has been incoherent from the very beginning. The issue is superficially simple: the Soviet Union threatened the American people with nuclear missiles, so the U.S. should naturally have tried to defend them against those missiles... Missile defense is among the most unequivocally defensive military systems one can imagine. It cannot be used for attack. Yet the U.S. signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviets and has refrained from serious efforts to build and deploy large-scale missile defense ever since. This policy never made sense and now makes even less. The proliferation of long-range precision missiles that can strike the U.S. and our allies with either nuclear or conventional warheads requires that America develop and field effective missile defense against all likely foes. Objections to missile defense have always been based on the belief that it would be de-stabilizing. The U.S. persuaded itself that the most effective way to prevent nuclear war with the U.S.S.R. was through “mutual assured destruction” or MAD, under which stability in a nuclear world required the nuclear states to know that all would be destroyed if any started a war. The Soviets, interestingly, did not accept this view and strove instead to achieve nuclear predominance. They feared that American technological advantages would allow the U.S. to field an effective defensive system, however, that would nullify their growing lead in missiles and warheads. So they lent their propaganda resources eagerly to the fight against the Strategic Defense Initiative pursued by Ronald Reagan, with a large measure of success. http://www.aei.org/publication/its-mad-to-forgo-missile-defense/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=110215.
Monica Crowley on Today's Totalitarian Left
{Mark Tapson} ~ On the Fox show Outnumbered Thursday, Newt Gingrich referred to liberals as “the totalitarian Left.” That same day, on Fox Business’s Varney & Co, political commentator Monica Crowley remarked that the Democrats of today, seeking a fundamental transformation of America, are not the classical liberals of the past... Gingrich’s description of the Left’s totalitarianism dovetails directly into Crowley’s, since that fundamental transformation is a total one that necessarily must be coerced. Both their comments echo what the Horowitz Freedom Center has been declaring for twenty years: that “inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out.” With a few exceptions, such as Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and House members like Louis Gohmert, most Republicans simply don't understand what they’re up against. They don't understand – or they don't want to understand – that the Democrats of today are not the Democrats of the past. .
Will our leaders understand that it's Morning in America for jihadists?
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Now we know: AIPAC and the Dems
who supported Iran deal
Eli Lake
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The early signs from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, are that most of them won't. Last week, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, who supported the Iran deal despite being heavily courted by AIPAC to oppose it, was a featured speaker at a luncheon organized by AIPAC members in the real-estate industry.
The early signs from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, are that most of them won't. Last week, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, who supported the Iran deal despite being heavily courted by AIPAC to oppose it, was a featured speaker at a luncheon organized by AIPAC members in the real-estate industry.
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A spokesman for Coons confirmed the senator attended the AIPAC event. "I think even those who disagree with his decision on the nuclear agreement recognize that he remains a strong friend of Israel and the pro-Israel community," the spokesman, Sean Coit, said.
A spokesman for Coons confirmed the senator attended the AIPAC event. "I think even those who disagree with his decision on the nuclear agreement recognize that he remains a strong friend of Israel and the pro-Israel community," the spokesman, Sean Coit, said.
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Luncheons like those Coons attended in New York are one of the perks for pro-Israel lawmakers. The AIPAC members who attend these affairs have deep pockets and often contribute to both parties. The fact that Coons was featured as a speaker signals that in some cases AIPAC is willing to forget the Iran vote and focus on keeping its friends inside the Democratic party instead of going to war with them.
Luncheons like those Coons attended in New York are one of the perks for pro-Israel lawmakers. The AIPAC members who attend these affairs have deep pockets and often contribute to both parties. The fact that Coons was featured as a speaker signals that in some cases AIPAC is willing to forget the Iran vote and focus on keeping its friends inside the Democratic party instead of going to war with them.
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Steve Rabinowitz, a Democratic political operative and former Clinton White House staffer, told me he was pleased AIPAC invited Coons to speak.
Steve Rabinowitz, a Democratic political operative and former Clinton White House staffer, told me he was pleased AIPAC invited Coons to speak.
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"We're all waiting to see what the dynamics are going to be since the Iran deal vote and where AIPAC, congressional Republicans and the Israeli foreign ministry are each going to come down. I think this is great sign from AIPAC," he said.
"We're all waiting to see what the dynamics are going to be since the Iran deal vote and where AIPAC, congressional Republicans and the Israeli foreign ministry are each going to come down. I think this is great sign from AIPAC," he said.
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Following AIPAC's defeat last month in the fight over the Iran deal, the organization has internally debated how and whether its members will restore deterrence in Congress, according to sources familiar with these discussions who asked to be anonymous. 42 Democrats ended up opposing AIPAC in the Senate, enough to block a vote on a resolution to disapprove the Iran nuclear deal. Thus far AIPAC has not yet signaled the political repercussions for them. One Jewish community leader told me there may be one or two Democrats who are targeted to send a message, but most Democrats who voted for the deal will be welcomed back into the pro-Israel fold.
Following AIPAC's defeat last month in the fight over the Iran deal, the organization has internally debated how and whether its members will restore deterrence in Congress, according to sources familiar with these discussions who asked to be anonymous. 42 Democrats ended up opposing AIPAC in the Senate, enough to block a vote on a resolution to disapprove the Iran nuclear deal. Thus far AIPAC has not yet signaled the political repercussions for them. One Jewish community leader told me there may be one or two Democrats who are targeted to send a message, but most Democrats who voted for the deal will be welcomed back into the pro-Israel fold.
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Steve Rosen, a former foreign policy director for AIPAC, told me his former organization will be inclined to work with Democrats rather than turn them into enemies. "There is no question AIPAC lay leaders will in the future be holding fundraisers for Democrats who voted for the Iran deal," he said, adding it was not practical for AIPAC to boycott the 42 Democratic senators who supported the president's Iran deal.
Steve Rosen, a former foreign policy director for AIPAC, told me his former organization will be inclined to work with Democrats rather than turn them into enemies. "There is no question AIPAC lay leaders will in the future be holding fundraisers for Democrats who voted for the Iran deal," he said, adding it was not practical for AIPAC to boycott the 42 Democratic senators who supported the president's Iran deal.
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"When you have guys like Coons with a long pro-Israel voting record, AIPAC will continue to work with them," Rosen said.
"When you have guys like Coons with a long pro-Israel voting record, AIPAC will continue to work with them," Rosen said.
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But there is another reason AIPAC cannot afford to punish too many Democrats for their Iran votes. The lobby's core mission is to protect and enhance the U.S.-Israel relationship. You can't do that if all your friends in Washington belong to one political party, particularly when the president belongs to the other one.
But there is another reason AIPAC cannot afford to punish too many Democrats for their Iran votes. The lobby's core mission is to protect and enhance the U.S.-Israel relationship. You can't do that if all your friends in Washington belong to one political party, particularly when the president belongs to the other one.
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