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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
Don't Fight Without It
Tom McLaughlin
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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Did Foreign Governments Buy Influence With Hilly?
Hilly Clinton may be too mired in international connections to be an unbiased president -- or hold any other public office for that matter. While the Clintons couldn't accept donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation while Hilly was secretary of state, it didn't stop politicians in high positions in the Ukrainian, Chinese and Saudi Arabian governments from giving millions. The Wall Street Journal reports, "All told, more than a dozen foreign individuals and their foundations and companies were large donors to the Clinton Foundation in the years after Mrs. Clinton became secretary of state in 2009, collectively giving between $34 million and $68 million, foundation records show. Some donors also provided funding directly to charitable projects sponsored by the foundation, valued by the organization at $60 million." While every donor WSJ spoke with claimed they were only giving to a charity they believed in, they also had the potential to buy Clinton's attention. The Clintons certainly know how to play this shadowy political game, as Hilly just happened to stall on disclosing the donors to her charity.
-The Patriot Post
U.S. Negotiations Give Iran Just Enough to Make the Bomb
Because of U.S. negotiations, Iran will reduce the number of its centrifuges whirling up useable radioactive material to 6,000 machines, according to the Associated Press. In turn, the U.S. would agree to ease sanctions. This is a bum deal for Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry if he wants to prevent Iran from getting the bomb. In February, former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell said a safer negotiation route would have been to not focus on the number of centrifuges Iran possesses. "If you are going to have a nuclear weapons program, 5,000 is pretty much the number you need," Morell said. "If you have a power program, you need a lot more. By limiting them to a small number of centrifuges, we are limiting them to the number you need for a weapon." In other words, Hanoi Kerry and Co. just stymied the ability for Iran to fuel its nuclear energy program, but left it just enough hardware to mix up a nuclear bomb. Let's hope all the details of this deal are not yet disclosed. Did Iran open itself up to monitoring and scrutiny? Or are they given a bunch of tools for nuclear enrichment and some space? The Associated Press continued, reporting that the vast majority of lawmakers in the House sent a letter to Barack nObama saying they will decide if the U.S. will ease sanctions against Iran. It's a good check on nObama's power. More...
-The Patriot Post
Islamic State Hits Tunisia
The Islamic State claimed credit Thursday for an attack on a Tunisian museum leaving 23 dead. The Associated Press reports, "Tunisian security forces ... arrested nine people, the president's office said, adding that five of them were directly connected to Wednesday's attack on the Bardo by two gunmen who were later slain by police. The other four suspects who were arrested in central Tunisia were part of a cell supporting those involved in the attack, the statement said." A significant number of Tunisians have joined ISIL, and Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi promised a "merciless war on terrorism," as well as that the they would fight "savage minorities ... to our last breath." The North African nation has already been dealing with radical Islamists for some time, rejecting an Islamist government that arose early in the so-called "Arab Spring." To make matters worse, it is bordered to the east and south by Libya, which descended into chaos following Barack nObama's "leading from behind" strategy to oust Moammar Gadhafi. Tunisian officials say the attacking jihadis trained in Libya. It won't be easy for Tunisia to resist the growing unrest in the region. -The Patriot Post
Twenty Blacks Victimized in Shootings
You've probably heard about the 20 black victims in numerous shootings between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. The violence helped propagate the "hands up, don't shoot" narrative and further riled Barack nObama, Eric Holder and their co-conspirators in the Leftmedia, all of whom raised alarm over the recent deaths of blacks involving white police officers. Well, the first part is true anyway -- though you'd be forgiven for having no idea what we're talking about. The shootings, all of which took place during a 24-hour period, bloodied the streets of Chicago but were largely absent from the headlines. nObama hasn't said a word about these deaths, probably because it was black-on-black crime, which doesn't translate into political constituency race-bait like a good cop killing a street thug does. Here's what we know about Chicago murder rates from the latest year of data: The black murder rate was approximately 34 per 100,000, the Hispanic rate was 11 per 100,000, and the white rate 3 per 100,000. Translation: This isn't a "gun problem"; it's a young black male problem. And it's a cultural epidemic the mainstream media largely ignores. Of course, if this recent black-on-black bloodletting had instead been white-on-black crime, Al Sharpton and Co. would be there faster than you can say "Racist!" More... -The Patriot Post
ESPN Host: Blacks Should Vote Republican
ESPN host Stephen A. Smith is known for making controversial statements. When Smith visited Vanderbilt University Tuesday, he once again made headlines by saying blacks should vote Republican because they misunderstand history. "What I dream is that for one election, just one, every black person in America vote Republican," Smith said. "Because from what I've read, and I'm open to correction, but from what I've read, Barry Goldwater is going against Lyndon B. Johnson. He's your Republican candidate. He is completely against the civil rights movement. Lyndon B. Johnson was in favor of it. What happens is, he wins office, Barry Goldwater loses office, but there was a Senate, a Republican Senate, that pushed the votes to the president's desk. It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation. So because President Lyndon B. Johnson was a Democrat, black America assumed the Democrats were for it." Instead, Johnson instituted the "Great Society," which only mired blacks in decades of poverty and violence. If blacks were more open to voting for the GOP, they would not only inject more competition into the political process, they might find their situation improved. More... -The Patriot Post
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Needed: "Islamist Apartheid Week"
(Uzay Bulut) - Grave human rights violations against religious and ethnic minorities have become increasingly commonplace in the Muslim world. Not only Jews are targeted, but, as the world has seen...Christians, Hindus, Baha'i, Alevis, Shi'as, Sunnis -- and anyone who does not conform to some self-appointed person's vision of Islam. Muslims are burned alive, Christians' heads are cut off on a beach, a Christian couple in Pakistan is thrown alive onto a burning kiln, churches and Bibles are not allowed in Saudi Arabia, and there are sign-posted roads and turn-offs for anyone not Muslim. It is hard to get more "apartheid" than that. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5425/apartheid-week
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Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II (1842-1918) was obsessed with silencing his critics and championed pan-Islamism. Sound familiar?
Delusions and Dissent in Turkey: Then and Now
(Burak Bekdil) - There seems to be an epidemic in Turkey. Dozens of ordinary citizens -- old, young, famous, unknown, even minors -- are being detained for allegedly insulting Turkey's President (and former Prime Minister), Recep Tayyip Erdogan...The 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Abdulhamid (or Abdul Hamid) II (1842-1918), was a deeply paranoid man who rarely travelled, out of fear of assassination. Known in the West as the "Red Sultan," due to atrocities against non-Muslim minorities during the fall of the empire, Abdulhamid II ran a network of spies to crush every crumb of dissent against his iron-fisted rule. The press was heavily censored. Ideologically, he had illusions of Pan-Islamism, and loved to appear in public as the champion of Islam against a supposedly aggressive Christendom. Sound familiar? http://www.meforum.org/5130/turkey-delusions-dissent
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The number of students graduating with STEM degrees already far exceeds the number of STEM jobs available but powerful interests in the business community are pushing Congress to allow more foreign skilled workers into the country.
New wave of Islamic immigration planned for U.S.
(Leo Hohmann) - Congress is considering new immigration laws that would flood the U.S. with “guest workers” from the Middle East and Asia, a plan some are calling an open invitation for jihadists to walk right through America’s front door...Critics say lawmakers – including top Republican leaders – are playing with fire and could jeopardize national security with the proposals to double or even triple the number of H1B work visas. The legislation’s potential impact on the American worker has been widely debated on Capitol Hill, with experts warning lawmakers at a Senate subcommittee hearing last week that the plan would eliminate certain technology and IT jobs for Americans. But, so far, little has been said about the risks to national security. What is going on with American lawmakers? At a time when illegals are pouring across the border, now they have a plan some are calling an open invitation for jihadists. http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/new-wave-of-islamic-immigration-planned-for-u-s/
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Iran Nuke Talks debated on Fox News Sunday
(Steve Laboe) - Laura Ingraham, Judy Woodruff, Liz Cheney, and Bob Woodward join Chris Wallace on the Fox News Sunday Panel to weigh in with their take on Iran Nuclear Talks, and ISIS and the Middle East... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZpmwu--K6I
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Krauthammer on Clinton Email Scandal: “She Burned the Tapes!”
(Onan Coca) - As the State Department continues to writhe and wriggle in an effort to squirm away from having to incriminate Hilly Clinton in any wrong doing, everyone else is still talking about Hilly’s email scandal...At Fox News, the conservative icon Charles Krauthammer went so far as to compare her to President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, saying that it’s obvious that Clinton did “burn the tapes.” Charles Krauthammer: This is really an elaborate scheme, very obvious, not done for convenience, but done to conceal, and that’s what this is all about. George is right, she burned the tapes. And obviously, as her defender James Carville said, you don’t want Louie Gohmert, meaning a Republican member of Congress, going through her emails. That’s the point. Not convenience. It was to prevent the Republicans or really the government, the Freedom of Information Act, the public from looking at her emails, which is required by State Department regulation, a departing official, I’ll read you, must ensure that all record material that they possess is incorporated in the department’s official files. And if you don’t, if you willfully remove or destroy the records, the penalty can be fines, imprisonment, or both. http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/03/charles-krauthammer-on-clinton-email-scandal-she-burned-the-tapes/
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Unconditional surrender is what the United States should demand whenever we go to war with anyone. Soldiers we send to fight and die deserve nothing less. We do them a disservice if we send them to fight and die without a clear sense that it’s absolutely right to declare war, and with the commitment to see that war through to a victorious end. Otherwise, we shouldn’t go to war at all.
We shouldn’t fight without a declaration by congress either. That last time that happened was 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor. We’ve fought in dozens of places and circumstances since - large and small, short and long - and how has it worked out? Korea is still divided; North Korea is still hostile, threatening the US with nuclear weapons they developed while we were “negotiating” with them. Vietnam is reunited, but under communist rule. That development went against the Truman Doctrine of containing communism rather than defeating it outright as General George Patton wanted to do after the Nazis surrendered in May, 1945. President nObama claimed to end the war in Iraq, but did he? Looks like it’s still raging, and we’re going back in. 
How Many Energy Hits Will The EPA, nObama Regime Deliver
(.rickwells.us) - Many average American citizens don’t understand that the tighter and more draconian EPA regulations and the incessant suicidal assault on our energy capabilities have nothing to do with the environment other than it being the tool of choice...They believe that with the fall of the Soviet Union, excluding a few terrorists here and there, all the governments of the world now exist in a state of UN-structured harmony. The television tells them it’s so therefore it must be true. Just because today’s enemy is less obvious doesn’t mean that they have disappeared into thin air. They’re still out there, or in here, depending upon your perspective. America and our way of life is under attack and our economy is the prime target. Our enemies know that without a vibrant, robust economic engine, everything that it supports, including our national defense, will sputter and eventually cease to function. The fronts in this war are almost innumerable and America’s enemies are engaged on all of them. http://www.rickwells.us/the-noose-tightens-how-many-energy-hits-will-the-epa-obama-regime-deliver-before-they-take-us-down/
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Where Are ISIS Supporters Tweeting From?
(David Wood) - The Independent has compiled some statistics on where ISIS supporters are tweeting from. Saudi Arabia ranks first with the most ISIS-supporting tweeters...The United States ranks fourth. This means that there are many Muslims who support ISIS right here in the U.S. Yet we still can't have a discussion about Islam without being called "racists," "bigots," and "Islamophobes."
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nObama’s Climate Change Adviser – And Discredited IPCC “Science”
(rickwells.us) - A point need to be made before addressing the comments of this dishonest political hack directly. Being a member of the nObama regime in no way supports the credibility of one’s position or arguments...It is, in fact, a strong indicator that whatever positions are taken is anti-American and will in some way or perhaps many ways negatively impact our nation. The speaker, Alice Hill, is nObama’s Senior Director for Resilience Policy, National Security Council. “Resilience” is a code word for the United Nations blueprint for international control, Agenda 21. Climate alarmism is a tool for the imposition of those stifling restrictions on every facet of the lives of every human on the planet and she is a spokesperson for that UN global tyranny. The information on the United Nations Agenda 21 program, already incorporated into our political landscape through a Clinton executive order, is easy to find for anyone who is interested enough to take a few minutes to enter it into a search engine. It is every bit as threatening as advertised and cannot coexist with a free and independent United States of America. http://www.rickwells.us/obamas-climate-change-alarmist-adviser-no-specifics-just-vague-generalities-and-discredited-ipcc-science/
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Lack Of Effective Leadership And Sources, Yemen Intel Discontinued
(rickwells.us) - House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-TX) had a surprising response when asked for the latest intelligence on the situation in Yemen. He replied that there is none...He describes it as one of the most dangerous spots in the world and notes that the local al-Qaeda organization, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is the largest external operation force within that terror group and reads some of the more infamous entries from their terrorist resume. Rep McCaul notes that now that as a result of the Iranian takeover of that nation and the subsequent closure of our embassy and the withdrawal of our Special Operations Forces, we have no intelligence footprint to utilize in an intelligence gathering effort. He says that without that good intelligence information it is difficult to stop plots against the homeland and it is that reality that he is most concerned with. http://www.rickwells.us/due-to-lack-of-effective-leadership-and-sources-yemen-intelligence-gathering-has-been-discontinued/
Don't Fight Without It
Tom McLaughlin
(tommclaughlin.blogspot.com) - President Truman was right to demand unconditional surrender from Japan. After we destroyed their navy and were bombing them daily, they sought negotiations. Truman refused, and warned them he had a fearsome new weapon he would use against them if they didn’t surrender unconditionally. Teaching US History again to a group of ten high-school aged home schoolers, I’m showing them “Hiroshima.” It’s a wonderfully produced historical film depicting events, both in Japan and in the United States from FDR’s death in April, 1945 to the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August.
Unconditional surrender is what the United States should demand whenever we go to war with anyone. Soldiers we send to fight and die deserve nothing less. We do them a disservice if we send them to fight and die without a clear sense that it’s absolutely right to declare war, and with the commitment to see that war through to a victorious end. Otherwise, we shouldn’t go to war at all.
We shouldn’t fight without a declaration by congress either. That last time that happened was 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor. We’ve fought in dozens of places and circumstances since - large and small, short and long - and how has it worked out? Korea is still divided; North Korea is still hostile, threatening the US with nuclear weapons they developed while we were “negotiating” with them. Vietnam is reunited, but under communist rule. That development went against the Truman Doctrine of containing communism rather than defeating it outright as General George Patton wanted to do after the Nazis surrendered in May, 1945. President nObama claimed to end the war in Iraq, but did he? Looks like it’s still raging, and we’re going back in. We went into Afghanistan after the September 11th attacks to get Osama Bin Laden, who planned the attacks from there. Americans supported that effort wholeheartedly, but Bin Laden escaped across the border into Pakistan. President Bush decided not to pursue him there. Big mistake. Bush should have said to Pakistan: “Give him over or we’re coming in after him,” but he didn’t.
Instead, we continued the “war” in Afghanistan that was really nation-building. Could we realistically expect to build a democratic nation in a region ruled for millennia by tribal warlords? Could we expect to even hold Afghanistan after the British experience there? The Russian experience? Another big mistake. We were after Bin Laden and we took our eye off the ball. War is war. It’s what we do when negotiations fail. It’s brutal. People get killed and things get wrecked. Often, it’s innocent civilians who are killed. War is hell, as General Sherman observed and that’s no less true today than it was when he said it. That’s why we shouldn’t conduct it unless congress declares it. When we do go to war, we should go all-out until it’s over — and it’s only over when the other side gives up unconditionally. Absent that, it’s just going to flare up again like a smoldering ember.
We’re not capable of nation-building anywhere else but right here. Only the people who live in a place are capable of creating a nation there. That’s how ours was built. Have we forgotten that? I think we have. We should have searched out al Qaida and destroyed it — wherever it went to hide. If things got wrecked and people were killed? Well, that’s war. Don’t start if it you’re not willing to finish it. It’s not our obligation to clean up afterward either. It’s the job of the people who live there. They’ll be more careful of who they let in next time.
Teaching again, I’m reminded of how idealistic young people are. As we study each of America’s wars, I say: “Now that you understand what caused the war, how it was fought, and how it turned out, imagine you were an 18-year-old male when it started. Would you volunteer to fight?” The only way to decide is to ask themselves if they were willing to risk their lives in pursuit of whatever the goal was. If it was ill-defined, the answer was usually no. Defining the goal is the job of our elder statesmen and women. If they can’t do it in simple terms, it’s not worth dying for.
Surviving relatives should be able to say something more than “He was killed in WWII.” Rather, they can say: “He died to defeat Nazism.” Veterans can say: “I lost my leg fighting the Japanese who attacked us.” What can the last soldier maimed by an IED just before the scheduled nObama pullout from Afghanistan say? Our soldiers shouldn’t have to think more than a second about why they’re fighting, but today our president refuses to even mention our enemy by name.
Harry S. Truman was an ordinary American thrust by circumstances into a position where he had to make a momentous decision in only a few weeks: whether to use an awesome new weapon on our declared enemy — and thereby bring the most destructive war in history to an end, decisively, with no smoldering embers. Truman said he never lost a minute’s sleep after making it, and today, Japan is one of our closest allies.
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