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The Values Underlying Independence Day 
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Patriot Prayer Rally Interrupted by Antifa 
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{ patrioticviralnews.com } ~ Here’s one for you. The left is now trying to deny that Antifa even exists... Seriously. First, they tried to condone the group by emphasizing their anti-fascist ideology and by saying it’s ok to punch Nazis. That stance emboldened Antifa, and now there’s countless video evidence of these thugs starting violence where there otherwise would be none. The group’s true colors have long since been revealed. Since the left largely endorsed them, their only choice now is to pretend like the group itself is a hoax. So, never mind what you’ve seen. All of those videos of riots and violence are faked. Steven Crowder didn’t really infiltrate the group and receive illegal weapons from them. And, he and his staff definitely aren’t helping the FBI investigate the group. It’s all false. Like the moon landing. Move along. There’s nothing to see here. The sweet irony of it all is that the left is right — sort of. They do need to distance themselves from Antifa or else risk getting slaughtered in November. This video talks about how Americans view Antifa and other radicals. It covers the stakes and makes it clear why this is an extremely important issue for the left...
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Qatar: End Gaza riots by letting Gazans work in Israel 
{ israelnationalnews.com } ~ The Gulf Arab state of Qatar has called on Israel to issue thousands of entry permits to Gazans living in the Hamas-ruled Strip... allowing them to work in Israel, arguing that such a move would reduce tensions and end the ongoing wave of “kite terrorism” and balloon bomb attacks. Since March 30th, tens of thousands of Gaza rioters have gathered on the Israel border, clashing with IDF forces and attempting to breach the security fence. In recent weeks, however, the rioters have shifted from direct attacks on the border to the use of improvised explosive or incendiary devices, attached to balloons and kites, then flown over the border into Israeli territory. The resulting fires have caused millions of dollars in property damage. Israeli forces have responded by targeting the terrorist cells responsible for launching the ‘balloon bombs’ and terror kites...This offer will not work for they hate Israelis.
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Top Iranian general: Forces in Syria 
‘awaiting orders’ to destroy Israel 
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ In a recent speech, the deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) boasted that the “Islamic army in Syria” in the Golan Heights... was awaiting orders to eradicate the “evil regime” of Israel. He also said the Tehran-backed Hezbollah terror group had 100,000 missiles aimed at Israel. “We are creating might in Lebanon because we want to fight our enemy from there with all our strength,” he stated. “Hezbollah today has tremendous might on the ground that can on its own break the Zionist regime. The Zionist regime has no strategic-defensive depth.” “Today an international Islamic army has been formed in Syria, and the voices of the Muslims are heard near the Golan,” he said. “Orders are awaited, so that… the eradication of the evil regime Israel will land and the life of this regime will be ended for good. The life of the Zionist regime was never in danger as it is now.”...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-iranian-general-forces-in-syria-lebanon-awaiting-orders-to-destroy-israel/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=ba7bedf2e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_09_11_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-ba7bedf2e4-54638825
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McConnell Destroys dummycrats-Democratic Opposition
To Potential SCOTUS Nominee: ‘The Apocalypse Hasn’t Come Yet’
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke on the Senate floor Monday attacking... dummycrats-Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump’s future Supreme Court nominee, citing dummycrats- Democrats’ historical panic at conservative SCOTUS nominees. “Back in 1975, they assailed the  nomination of John Paul Stephens. They said he lacked impartiality and opposed women’s rights … So these far left groups have been at the same scare tactics for over 40 years,” McConnell said. “This far left rhetoric comes out every single time. The apocalypse never comes.” “No matter their qualifications, no matter their record, no matter their reputation, it’s the same hyperbole, the same accusations, the same old story,” McConnell said. McConnell also cited the nomination of David Souter, who turned out to be a fairly liberal justice under former President George H. W. Bush...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/09/mcconnell-democratic-opposition-scotus/?utm_medium=email
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So, You Think You're Tolerant?
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{ prageru.com } ~ Are you tolerant? You probably think so... But who is tolerant in America today? Is it those on the left, or those on the right? In this video, Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report analyzes this question and shares his experience.
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The Values Underlying Independence Day 
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano

{ townhall.com } ~ The Declaration of Independence - which was signed on July 3, 1776, for public release on July 4 - was Thomas Jefferson's masterpiece. Jefferson himself wrote much about the declaration in the 50 years that followed.

Not the least of what he wrote offered his view that the declaration and the values that it articulated were truly radical - meaning they reflected 180-degree changes at the very core of societal attitudes in America. The idea that farmers and merchants and lawyers could secede from a kingdom and fight and win a war against the king's army was the end result of the multigenerational movement that was articulated in the declaration.

The two central values of the declaration are the origins of human liberty and the legitimacy of popular government.

When Jefferson wrote that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, he was referring to the natural law. The natural law teaches that right and wrong can be discerned and truth discovered by the exercise of human reason, independent of any commands from the government. The natural law also teaches that our rights come from our humanity -- not from the government -- and our humanity is a gift from our Creator.

Even those who question or reject the existence of the Creator -- was Jefferson himself among them? -- can embrace natural rights, because they can accept that our exercise of human reason leads us all to make similar claims. These claims -- free speech, free association, free exercise or non-exercise of religion, self-defense, privacy, and fairness, to name a few -- are rights that we all exercise without giving a second thought to the fact that they are natural and come from within us.

The view of the individual as the repository of natural rights was not accepted by any governments in 1776. In fact, all rejected it and used violence to suppress it. To the minds of those in government in the mid-18th century, the king was divine and could do no wrong, and parliament existed not as the people's representatives but to help the king raise money and to give him a read on the pulse of landowners and nobility.

Jefferson and his colleagues had no difficulty breaking from this type of ancient regime. Unlike the French, who destroyed their monarchy, the American colonists seceded from theirs -- and they did so embracing natural rights. Regrettably, they did not recognize natural rights for African slaves or for women. We all know and profoundly lament the sorry history of those errors.

The idea that each human being possesses inherent natural rights by virtue of one's humanity is not just an academic argument. It has real-life consequences, which Jefferson recognized. Those consequences are implicated when government seeks to curtail rights for what it claims is the protection of another's individual rights, the common good or the good of the government itself.

Jefferson recognized that you can consent to the curtailment of your rights but you cannot consent to the curtailment of mine. To Jefferson, government can take away your rights without your consent only if you have violated someone else's rights.

Surrendering rights is also implicated in the second radical idea that underscores the Declaration of Independence. It is the concept that no government is valid unless it enjoys the consent of the governed. This, too, was unheard of in 1776, because British kings did not claim consent of the governed as the basis for legitimacy.

Yet consent of the governed is perfectly consistent with natural law. Under natural law, what is yours is yours and what is mine is mine. If I attempt to take your land or car or cellphone, you can stop me, either directly or through the government we have both consented to. If one of us has not consented to the government's existence, it can still enforce natural rights as the agent of the person whose rights are being violated -- just as it does for bank depositors when it captures a bank robber.

This idea of consent of the governed was a serious issue in the days and years following July 4, 1776, because about one-third of the adults living in the United States in the last quarter of the 18th century remained loyal to the king of England after the Revolution, and they did not consent to the new popular form of government that took the British government's place. The new government was thrust upon them without their consent.

The last letter Jefferson wrote was to his enemy-turned-friend John Adams, in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the declaration - a day on which both Jefferson and Adams would die. In that letter, Jefferson argued that the greatest achievement of the declaration was its arousing men to burst free from the chains imposed upon them by superstition and myth by bringing about a recognition of their individual rights and an embrace of self-government.

Today the Jeffersonian ideals of individual natural rights and government's legitimacy's being conditioned upon the individual consent of the governed have themselves become myths.

In Jefferson's day, the voters knew all that the government did, and it knew nothing about them. Today government operates largely in secrecy, and it knows our every move and captures our every communication.

In Jefferson's day, the government needed the people's permission to tax and regulate them. Today the people need the government's permission to do nearly everything.

Do you know anyone who has consented to the government? Do you know anyone who could avoid the government by not giving consent? Do you consent to the government by voting? Do you consent to the government if it is run by those you voted against? Did you consent to a government that steals liberty and property and prosperity and gives them away?

Happy Fourth of July.

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