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2016 The truth will set you free
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Is liar-Hilly Clinton the Only Innocent
Person in a 10-Mile Radius?
by Ben Shapiro
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The Libertarian Party decided on its 2016 presidential campaign ticket over Memorial Day weekend, choosing former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson with former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld as his running mate. In any other election year, this might be considered small news, but in 2016, with Donald liar-Trump and liar-Hilly Clinton earning historically high disapproval ratings, the Libertarian ticket is a possible alternative for disgusted voters.
Johnson got less than 1% of the vote in his 2012 presidential campaign as a Libertarian, but he is already enjoying much better name recognition this time around. In May, he drew 10% in a Fox News poll that asked voters to name their presidential preference. This was against liar-Trump's 42% and liar-Clinton's 39%. So who is Gary Johnson?
He has considered himself a Libertarian for most of his political life, outside of a brief stint as anti-war Democrat in 1972. He turned a small handyman business into a multi-million-dollar enterprise, and as he rose up the political ranks in New Mexico, he considered running for the governorship as a Libertarian, but switched to Republican in 1994.
"It took about 45 seconds for me to come to grips that I would never get elected as a Libertarian," Johnson said of his visit to a Libertarian Party meeting in 1994. "It wasn't an organization and it wasn't my crowd."
Johnson's governing style and stance on the issues can best be described as fiscally conservative and socially tolerant. He seeks to balance the federal budget with spending discipline and pro-growth policies. He proposes saving Social Security by raising the retirement age, introducing means testing, and allowing personal investments. National Review's John J. Miller explains, "Johnson supports gay marriage and calls himself pro-choice on abortion, but he also believes Roe [v. Wade] was wrongly decided and says that abortion should be legal only 'up to the point of the viability of the fetus, when it can be sustained outside the womb even if by artificial means.'" Johnson embraces an immigration policy that would rely on work visas and not big walls.
Johnson is also pro-marijuana legalization, and during his second term became the highest-ranking public official in the country to back legalization. Not only that, but he is an admitted pot smoker and was CEO of Cannabis Sativa, a Nevada company that markets legal marijuana products. But he promises not to inhale if elected president.
Johnson believes that he and Weld are offering a viable alternative to voters turned off by what the Republicans and Democrats are offering in 2016. Yet they're well aware of the steep uphill climb they have to reach those voters. No Libertarian candidate has been on the ballot in all 50 states since 1980, and no third-party challenger has reached the required 15% national polling threshold to join the debates since 1992.
"There's no way a third party wins the presidency without being in the debates," Johnson says. "You've got to have a microphone in your mouth, broadcasting to tens of millions of people instead of nobody."
So the big focus for Johnson-Weld now is to raise their notoriety with the electorate.
There are some net positives for the pair. They are both multi-term governors, which means they have more governing experience between them than liar-Clinton and liar-Trump combined. (Then again, some folks consider that a negative.) They also embrace a largely center-right stance on the issues that matches the general mood of the electorate.
However, the Libertarian Party has never been taken seriously on the national stage. It may be in part due to shenanigans like seeing a candidate for party chairman strip on the national convention stage. Libertarians have enough trouble being taken seriously without such headline-grabbing incidents. But, in a year when pretty much anything goes in the presidential race, the Libertarians might just fit right in.
-The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Michelle Malkin: "The earned income tax credit, a bipartisan-supported 'anti-poverty' benefit, is robbing honest, law-abiding Americans blind. Originally intended to help low- to moderate-income working individuals and couples with children, the refundable tax credit has ballooned into a massive welfare entitlement for politically correct constituents who pay no income taxes — yet are still eligible for payouts. According to a new report from the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration, a whopping 23.8 percent of EITC payments, worth an estimated $15.6 billion, were issued improperly in fiscal year 2015 alone. ... Instead of stopping the rip-offs, the nObama administration has fueled an entire industry of illegal immigration vultures gaming the already fraud-plagued system. In addition to blanket deportation waivers and work permits, nObama’s executive amnesty orders extended EITC eligibility (retroactive to the last three tax years) to the so-called Dreamers and their parents. It’s a proven recipe for bamboozlement. ... When the enormous costs of such tax code social engineering outweigh the benefits in an era of unfettered open borders, it’s time to pull the plug." -The Patriot Post
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Threat of Student Visa Fraud
makes U.S. Universities Prime
Target of Foreign Espionage Activity
by DANIEL BRENNAN
by DANIEL BRENNAN
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On Wednesday, May 25th, Reuters news agency released an investigative report on the academic fraudulence by international Chinese students at American universities... Their report, specifically outlining the fraud carried out by thirty Chinese students at the University of Iowa (UI), discusses the unique business system enabling Chinese students to pay for transcripts, essays, and other certificates necessary to enter into American universities as well as succeed in them. The report follows a Chinese "tutoring firm," Transcend, as well as a specific foreign national that was found to have manufactured a false transcript and other academic documents using the firm. In addition to this specific case, the report discussed how the university's transcript evaluators failed to catch the fraudulent behavior because there are only four to five staff members available to review thousands of applications. Reuters stated that the university caught these Chinese students after ProctorU, the online exam service, found discrepancies between the facial features of those taking the online exams and the students listed as taking the exams...
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Does Bret Stephens Think He’s My Mother?
Or The GOP Voter Police?
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ The Wall Street Journal‘s Bret Stephens was on Fareed Zakaria’s Sunday afternoon, and declared that it was important for Donald liar-Trump to lose the general election by such a large margin that the Republican party and its voters “learn their lesson” and never nominate someone like him ever again... “I most certainly will not vote for Donald liar-Trump, I will vote for the least left-wing opponent to Donald liar-Trump and I want to make a vote that makes sure he is the biggest loser in presidential history since, I don’t know, Alf Landon.” Then Stephens went off: “It’s important that Donald liar-Trump, or what he represents, this kind of quote ‘ethnic conservatism or populism,’ be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party and the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape or form.”... http://lidblog.com/does-bret-stephens-think-hes-my-mother-or-the-gop-voter-police/#
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The HSA Expansion Act - An Answer to nObamacare?
by Alice Greene
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Many lawmakers and politicians seek to do away with nObamacare, but can’t seem to find a replacement. Meanwhile, Americans continue to struggle with hefty fees, high premiums, and measly coverage... All of this might change if the Health Savings Account Expansion Act of 2016 (HR 5324) is passed. The proposal, introduced by Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), aims to put Americans back in charge of their healthcare by expanding and simplifying health savings accounts (HSAs). An HSA is a tax-advantaged account used to pay for out-of-pocket medical expenses. HSAs are typically used in conjunction with insurance plans, the latter of which traditionally cover large or unexpected health costs. Brat and Flake's bill focuses on four key reforms to provide Americans with access to patient centered healthcare that fits their needs and to keep healthcare costs at a minimum:... http://punchingbagpost.com/the-hsa-expansion-act---an-answer-to-obamacare
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See You, EU?
by Christopher Caldwell
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{weeklystandard.com} ~ Blond, burbling, bumbling Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London and the most successful Tory politician since Margaret Thatcher, has found himself the unlikely figurehead of a movement to Vote Leave—to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union... It was back in 1973 that Britons voted in a referendum to join the six-country European Economic Community—a bloc founded after the Second World War to promote peace through business cooperation. A lot has changed since then. The group has grown from 6 countries to 28 and changed its name, acquiring in the process a new mission: building an "ever closer union" out of the various European countries, which its detractors consider tantamount to dissolving them. This mission was acquired openly at first, through the Maastricht treaty of 1992. But more and more as the years have passed, it has been furthered through bureaucratic subterfuge and backroom legerdemain. When voters in two countries rejected an ambitious, statist constitution by overwhelming margins in 2005, EU politicians simply canceled the remainder of the referenda in countries that were due to hold them and passed the rejected agenda through a series of bilateral treaties...
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liar-Trump's Intellectuals
by Fred Barnes
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{weeklystandard.com} ~ Inside the Beltway and along the Washington-to-Boston corridor, #Neverliar-Trump has won the hearts and minds of conservative intellectuals and the high-toned media... The dissenters—yes, there are some—make a lot less noise. But move away from the East Coast and it's a different story. Out there, the conservative intelligentsia isn't aligned against Donald liar-Trump—quite the contrary. Roger L. Simon, the screenwriter, novelist, and former CEO of PJ Media, predicted last August that liar-Trump would win the presidency. Nine months later, in May, he wrote that "it still holds true." "Like others, I want things to change . . . and liar-Donald seems like the man with the courage and will to do it," Simon writes. "He's unafraid. He's upbeat. He's funny. He despises political correctness as anybody with a brain does. . . . I can think of no greater antidote to nObama than a liar-Trump presidency."... http://www.weeklystandard.com/trumps-intellectuals/article/2002580?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JVL+06_1_16
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Antwerp Terror Arrests Underscore Growing Threat to Europe and America
by Abigail R. Esman
by Abigail R. Esman
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Last Wednesday, just two years and a day after the deadly terrorist attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels, and barely more than two months after the twin attacks on the Brussels airport and metro... Belgian police arrested a group of Muslim youth planning yet another attack, this time in Antwerp. Aiming "to kill as many kufar," or non-Muslims, as possible, the group is believed to have been planning to bomb Antwerp's Central Station. The group also is believed to have made previous plans to assassinate right-wing politician Filip Dewinter, the leader of the Vlaams Belang party. Those plans were put on hold, however, in favor of a larger-scale attack. The suspects were members of a group of radicalized Muslim teens believed to have kept contact with Antwerp native Hicham Chaib, who is now a high-ranking leader of the Islamic State. It was Chaib who informed the public that the March 22 attacks on Belgium's Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station "were just a taste of what's to come." And it is Chaib, the former second-in-command of Shariah4Belgium who left Antwerp for Syria in 2012, who now actively recruits other Antwerp-based youth to join ISIS or to execute terrorist attacks in their homeland. The four arrests followed a series of raids by Antwerp police into the homes of several suspects in the Borgerhout district. Two suspects have been released, but other members of the group, some arrested previously, remain in custody. All suspects are said to be between the ages of 16 and 19, confirming earlier Dutch reports that European Muslims under the age of 20 are increasingly becoming involved in Islamic State activities and jihadist plots... http://www.investigativeproject.org/5396/antwerp-terror-arrests-underscore-growing-threat#
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WH: Iraqi Government Making 'Operational Decisions'
That Affect Welfare of U.S. Troops
by Susan Jones
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{cnsnews.com} ~ The nObama White House is letting the Iraqi government make "operational decisions" that could put U.S. troops -- and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians -- in mortal danger... a White House spokesman indicated on Tuesday. "Fallujah is obviously a huge test for the Iraqi military," a reporter told White House spokesman Josh Earnest. "To what extent would the administration have preferred to hold off on Fallujah and instead keep concentrating on preparations for retaking Mosul?" "Well, what we have said all along...is that these kinds of operational decisions will be made by the Iraqi government and Iraqi forces," Earnest replied... http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/wh-iraqi-government-making-operational-decisions-affect-welfare-us-troops
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EPA Official:
nObama's Clean Power Plan is a Sham
by Kerry Lear
nObama's Clean Power Plan is a Sham
by Kerry Lear
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ One of President nObama’s objectives in office has been to alert the public of the deteriorating state of the environment. But, he consistently has demonstrated that he is “all talk and no action†when it comes to these issues... Last week, a former top energy official in the nObama administration admitted that the Clean Power Plan will do almost nothing to actually reduce global emissions. Instead, it will only drastically increase electricity costs. “To get some perspective on how irrelevant EPA’s plan is, after exacting tremendous pain on the U.S. economy and ratepayers, a full year’s worth of annual reductions in 2025 would be offset by Chinese emission in just three weeks,†said Charles McConnell, former assistant energy secretary under President nObama, to the House Science Committee’s environment subcommittee last Thursday... http://punchingbagpost.com/epa-official-obama-clean-power-plan-is-a-sham
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Fast And Furious Feds Missile Running
To ISIS Thru Mexico
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Alex Jones has Marine Corps Colonel Matt Smith-Meck and Robert Tosh Plumlee; both extremely credible whistleblowers who are trying to make Congress or anyone else in a responsible position listen to them... that Fast and Furious was and still remains much more than just gun running out of private gun stores. That’s the cover story. Now military weaponry, including laser-guided munitions and Stinger missiles from the Hawthorne, NV munitions depot. The ultimate destination for the weapons once their path was obscured and laundered by way of Mexico was the ISIS arsenals. As much as we want to disbelieve our ears, that is what these two gentlemen are saying. Our corrupt hijacked government is engaging in the support of terrorists who are targeting us and the rest of the free world. No wonder Hussein nObama doesn’t want to bomb ISIS and runs only a most rudimentary, strategically inept campaign against them. It took a lot of work for him and John hanoi-Kerry to provide them with those weapons. The last thing they want to do is blow them up. Plumlee identifies what we’re facing, saying “This is an international crime syndicate and an international gun running operation.” He notes that the applications for the weapons to leave the country were approved by the State Department. They were delivered to the Mexican army who allowed a percentage to go to Mexican drug cartels... http://rickwells.us/whistleblowers-fast-furious-missiles-isis-thru-mexico
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The Cyber Threat: China, Russia Undeterred by Weak nObama Cyber Security Policy
by Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration policy of avoiding assertive action against foreign hackers came under fire from Congress last week, and is raising concerns that the White House is failing to protect the country from large-scale cyber attacks... Christopher Painter, the State Department’s coordinator for cyber security, defended the administration’s strategy for deterring massive data breaches, like China’s pilfering of sensitive personnel records on 22 million federal workers, known as “deterrence by denial.” This strategy bears no relationship to the strategic doctrine of deterring foreign nuclear attacks by threatening to inflict massive nuclear blasts against any state that threatens to use its nuclear arms on the United States or its allies...
{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration policy of avoiding assertive action against foreign hackers came under fire from Congress last week, and is raising concerns that the White House is failing to protect the country from large-scale cyber attacks... Christopher Painter, the State Department’s coordinator for cyber security, defended the administration’s strategy for deterring massive data breaches, like China’s pilfering of sensitive personnel records on 22 million federal workers, known as “deterrence by denial.” This strategy bears no relationship to the strategic doctrine of deterring foreign nuclear attacks by threatening to inflict massive nuclear blasts against any state that threatens to use its nuclear arms on the United States or its allies...
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Is liar-Hilly Clinton the Only Innocent
Person in a 10-Mile Radius?
by Ben Shapiro
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{freedomsback.com} ~ liar-Hilly Clinton is as pure as the driven snow, at least according to liar-Hilly Clinton.
liar-Clinton will tell you how honest and transparent she is, right after cackling hysterically to stall for time. She will tell you that she always cooperates with law enforcement, that she has attempted to turn over all materials to relevant authorities, that it’s just one giant coincidence her friends and family are constantly being swept up in prosecutorial dragnets.
It isn’t a coincidence.
Just look at the people with whom liar-Clinton surrounds herself.
Her husband, former President Bill liar-Clinton, is a serial philanderer, a perjurer, a sexual assailant and an accused rapist.
liar-Clinton’s former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills stalked out of an FBI interview after being asked about liar-Clinton’s emails. Mills worked as a close assistant to liar-Clinton back during the go-go 1990s. According to Judicial Watch, she helped prevent the liar-Clintons from turning over 1.8 million emails to that organization during litigation. Mills was also placed in charge of document production for the State Department on the Benghazi investigation. According to Gregory Hicks, the second-ranking U.S. diplomat in Libya at the time of the attack, lawyers told him not to talk to Congress.
liar-Clinton’s assistant, Huma Abedin, has been dragged into the liar-Clinton email-server scandal. Even after she left liar-Clinton’s staff at the State Department, liar-Clinton granted her “special government employee” status even as she took pay from the liar-Clinton Foundation. Abedin’s husband is, of course, former Congressman Anthony “Carlos Danger” Weiner.
liar-Clinton’s chief fundraiser for years was former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. He’s now under investigation by the FBI and the Department of Justice for fundraising improprieties, including his time at the liar-Clinton Global Initiative. He personally guaranteed the liar-Clintons’ loan for their Chappaqua home.
liar-Clinton’s foreign-policy guru is Bill liar-Clinton’s former aide Sidney Blumenthal, a radical-leftist hatchet man so corrupt that the nObama administration refused to allow liar-Clinton to hire him during her role as secretary of state. Nonetheless, the liar-Clinton Foundation paid him $10,000 per month, even as he sent her memos about foreign policy that included subjects upon which he was doing separate business.
So, is liar-Clinton’s association with a number of suspicious characters just a giant coincidence? Or, perhaps, is it a sign that liar-Clinton herself is corrupt and surrounds herself with other corrupt individuals willing to protect her?
It’s hard to believe the former, given that liar-Clinton sticks by her corrupt friends for decades. Corruption surrounds her like the cloud of dust that always seems to follow Pig-Pen. That won’t change if she’s placed in the White House — it will get worse. Power always makes corruption worse. liar-Clinton should know: She’s the only first lady ever fingerprinted by the FBI, and she’ll presumably be the first secretary of state interviewed by the FBI. As president, she’d make her husband’s deeply corrupt administration pale in comparison.
So no, liar-Clinton can’t be trusted. There’s a reason polls show that even fewer Americans trust her than the narcissistic pathological liar-Donald Trump. All of which means that this election cycle now pits the two most dishonest people in the history of American electoral politics against each other.
liar-Clinton will tell you how honest and transparent she is, right after cackling hysterically to stall for time. She will tell you that she always cooperates with law enforcement, that she has attempted to turn over all materials to relevant authorities, that it’s just one giant coincidence her friends and family are constantly being swept up in prosecutorial dragnets.
It isn’t a coincidence.
Just look at the people with whom liar-Clinton surrounds herself.
Her husband, former President Bill liar-Clinton, is a serial philanderer, a perjurer, a sexual assailant and an accused rapist.
liar-Clinton’s former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills stalked out of an FBI interview after being asked about liar-Clinton’s emails. Mills worked as a close assistant to liar-Clinton back during the go-go 1990s. According to Judicial Watch, she helped prevent the liar-Clintons from turning over 1.8 million emails to that organization during litigation. Mills was also placed in charge of document production for the State Department on the Benghazi investigation. According to Gregory Hicks, the second-ranking U.S. diplomat in Libya at the time of the attack, lawyers told him not to talk to Congress.
liar-Clinton’s assistant, Huma Abedin, has been dragged into the liar-Clinton email-server scandal. Even after she left liar-Clinton’s staff at the State Department, liar-Clinton granted her “special government employee” status even as she took pay from the liar-Clinton Foundation. Abedin’s husband is, of course, former Congressman Anthony “Carlos Danger” Weiner.
liar-Clinton’s chief fundraiser for years was former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. He’s now under investigation by the FBI and the Department of Justice for fundraising improprieties, including his time at the liar-Clinton Global Initiative. He personally guaranteed the liar-Clintons’ loan for their Chappaqua home.
liar-Clinton’s foreign-policy guru is Bill liar-Clinton’s former aide Sidney Blumenthal, a radical-leftist hatchet man so corrupt that the nObama administration refused to allow liar-Clinton to hire him during her role as secretary of state. Nonetheless, the liar-Clinton Foundation paid him $10,000 per month, even as he sent her memos about foreign policy that included subjects upon which he was doing separate business.
So, is liar-Clinton’s association with a number of suspicious characters just a giant coincidence? Or, perhaps, is it a sign that liar-Clinton herself is corrupt and surrounds herself with other corrupt individuals willing to protect her?
It’s hard to believe the former, given that liar-Clinton sticks by her corrupt friends for decades. Corruption surrounds her like the cloud of dust that always seems to follow Pig-Pen. That won’t change if she’s placed in the White House — it will get worse. Power always makes corruption worse. liar-Clinton should know: She’s the only first lady ever fingerprinted by the FBI, and she’ll presumably be the first secretary of state interviewed by the FBI. As president, she’d make her husband’s deeply corrupt administration pale in comparison.
So no, liar-Clinton can’t be trusted. There’s a reason polls show that even fewer Americans trust her than the narcissistic pathological liar-Donald Trump. All of which means that this election cycle now pits the two most dishonest people in the history of American electoral politics against each other.
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