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 The Ethanol Boondoggle Will Continue 
by Lewis Morris
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 Last Conservative No Longer Standing 
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In March, conservative comedian Tim Allen stirred trouble when he told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that it's tough being conservative in Hollywood. "You've got to be real careful around here," Allen said. "You get beat up if [you] don't believe what everybody believes. This is like '30s Germany. I don't know what happened. If you're not part of the group — [They say,] 'You know, what we believe is right' — I go, 'Well, I might have a problem with that.'" Allen has also been vocally supportive of Donald Trump from time to time.
          Lo and behold, the next contract renewals come up for his hit sitcom, "Last Man Standing," and ABC axes its third highest-rated scripted show.
          ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey just said in December that the network wanted to make a concerted effort to reach Trump voters. "With our dramas, we have a lot of shows that feature very well-to-do, well-educated people, who are driving very nice cars and living in extremely nice places," Dungey said. "But in recent history we haven't paid enough attention to some of the true realities of what life is like for everyday Americans in our dramas." So much for that.
          Deadline Hollywood reports the cancellation was due to contract haggling between ABC and Fox's production studios: "The Tim Allen-starring multi-camera sitcom often had gone down to the wire on renewals, with ABC and producing studio 20th Century Fox TV wrangling over the series' license fee. ABC is supposed to cover the cost of the show at this point in its run, and LMS is on the higher end for a multi-camera sitcom because of the marquee salary Allen commands, but 20th TV had agreed to license fee reductions in the past and reportedly were open to another one. This time, there was no negotiating or bargaining, with ABC simply deciding against another season."
          Come on, we're supposed to believe that it's licensing fees and not politics? This can't be coincidence, can it? 
~The Patriot Post
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Schiff Repeats Clapper Talking Points In
Orchestrated Attack On Trump
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Shifty Adam Schiff (D-CA) is the kind of sleazy politician that taints all of Congress just by his mere existence. He’s the kind of kid that anti-bullying regulations were created to protect... hiding behind the skirt of a teacher or the threat of sanctions against the many who surely must have detested him throughout his school years. Clearly in that regard little has changed for the California Democrat. The dishonest with the helium balloon head went on Face the Nation Sunday, spewing his vitriol immediately with the first question, one in which he’s asked, “There’s a lot happened this week, so for you, what’s the most important thing?” Schiff responds, “Well the most important thing to me is that the President fired the FBI Director all because of the Russia investigation. That first justification given, again, the White House misleading the country about a major action the administration was taking.” He goes on to call the President unethical and maybe beyond unethical Shifty repeats the same talking points that his comrade James Clapper had spewed earlier in the day on another program...I don't understand why Americans have not woke up to these idiots. http://rickwells.us/schiff-repeats-clapper-talking-points-orchestrated-attack-trump/
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The 10 College Administrations Most Friendly
to Terrorists and Hostile to the First Amendment
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by Sara Dogan
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Over the past two weeks, the David Horowitz Freedom Center has named 10 prestigious college and university campuses to its list of the “Top 10 College Administrations Most Friendly to Terrorists and Hostile to the First Amendment.”... These campuses provide financial and institutional support to terrorist-linked campus organizations such as the Hamas-funded hate-group Students for Justice in Palestine while actively suppressing speech exposing the truth about Israel’s terrorist adversaries and their allies in the United States. The Freedom Center placed posters exposing the links between the terrorist group Hamas and SJP on each of these ten campuses, both to inform students about the allies to terror in their midst and to challenge these campus administrations to do what they so far have refused to do—to uphold the First Amendment and promote free expression even when doing so means facing down radical students and faculty who demand otherwise... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266703/top-10-college-administrations-most-friendly-sara-dogan
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Liberal Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand RIPS INTO
Marine Corps General Neller…
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Liberal Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-NY lost control of her bodily functions—primarily her mouth—while questioning Marine Corps Commandant, General Neller... The scandal involves the posting of nude photographs of female Marines on various social media platforms with the “Marines United” Facebook Group being the central hub. General Neller responds to Senator Gillibrand in the most unusual way, a way which they are not too familiar with in Washington, D.C.,…  The response is EPIC!...http://rickwells.us/liberal-senator-kirsten-e-gillibrand-rips-marine-corps-general-neller-response-epic/
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President Trump Makes Remarks at the Liberty University Commencement - tells audience that future belongs to dreamers, not critics - 2017
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions: "Shake the Hand of a Police Officer and Say, Thank You for Your Service"
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U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley: The Russians Have "Always Been Full of Themselves"
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TUCKER: "Why Do You Lock Your Doors?": Tucker Battles Jorge Ramos On 'Racist' Border
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Watchdogs Push for Full Recovery of liar-Clinton’s ‘Unlawfully Removed’ Emails
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by Joe Schoffstall
{freebeacon.com} ~ Watchdog groups are pushing back against the U.S. government's motion to dismiss a case brought against former secretary of state liar-Hillary Clinton and the U.S. archivist in hopes of recovering all of liar-Clinton's email records that were "unlawfully removed."... Cause of Action Institute and Judicial Watch, both D.C.-based government watchdog groups, filed its opposition against the motion to dismiss on Friday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Cause of Action said that the government's motion to dismiss revealed that the FBI had issued grand jury subpoenas related to liar-Clinton's Blackberry accounts during its investigation. "The subpoenas confirm that the FBI investigation of Secretary liar-Clinton was criminal in nature, but details about the scope of the subpoenas remains unknown," Cause of Action said... http://freebeacon.com/issues/watchdogs-push-full-recovery-clintons-unlawfully-removed-emails/
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 The Ethanol Boondoggle Will Continue 
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By Lewis Morris: Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue informed reporters this past weekend that one promise Donald Trump intends to keep is his support for ethanol. At a farming event in Iowa with Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Rep. Steve King, Perdue said, "Ethanol is here to stay, and we're going to work for new technologies to be more efficient."
          Unfortunately, this is one Trump campaign promise that would have been good to break. The Renewable Fuel Standard — known as the ethanol mandate — is a classic example of what happens when the government interferes in the marketplace, with an agenda to boot. Through presidential administrations both Republican and Democrat, the government has heavily subsidized the production and distribution of ethanol, as well as required a certain amount of its use, in the hopes of making renewable fuels the next great thing. That hope hasn't been realized.
          The EPA, which last November called for 19.28 billion gallons of ethanol to be blended into the nation's gasoline supply, has maintained for years that ethanol is just what the environment needs. As the legend goes, ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline, which is good for the air, and it relieves our dependency on oil, which is good for the Earth.
          So, when corn prices are forced higher because 40% of the crop is grown specifically for ethanol production, we shouldn't mind. Nor should we care that this starts a chain reaction of price fluctuations that lead to more expensive food. And we shouldn't trouble ourselves that gasoline is comparatively more expensive per gallon with ethanol or that the biofuel harms automobile engines. We're doing a good thing for the environment. Except we're not.
          Farmers are so eager to plant corn to sell to ethanol producers, they are foregoing planting other crops that have real value in the nation's food supply (and the world's, for that matter). Too much planting of any one crop on the same land will eventually lead to nutrient-poor soil, which saps the land of its ability to produce good crops.
          Soil depletion and erosion are just one part of it. Billions of gallons of water that could be used for other purposes are diverted to produce ethanol. The additional fertilizers used to produce more corn are polluting the water table at a greater rate than would otherwise take place.
          All this abuse to the land and to taxpayer's pocket books has not yielded any positive change to the environment. There is no substantive proof that ethanol consumption is leading to lower CO2 levels, or that it is having any effect on the global surface temperature, which has remained relatively unchanged for 19 years.
          Knowing all these things, why is Trump backing ethanol so vigorously? One would think that the man who campaigned on "draining the swamp" and getting the engine of American commerce running again would look at the ethanol mandate and consider it a relic of a bygone "progressive" era. Surely he sees that it's exactly the kind of cronyist graft that typifies the swamp.
          Well, Trump made a promise to farmers when he was on the campaign trail in Iowa in 2015. Like virtually every other presidential hopeful, with the notable exception of Ted Cruz, Trump praised ethanol, and promised to support its mandated use as president.
          Farmer and grain futures trader Jerry Gulke put it as plain as can be: "The farm states put Trump over the top," Gulke told CNBC. "You could say Trump owes us something."
          Trump recognized the sway that the farming community had on his victory last month when he made an about-face on dumping NAFTA. Perdue and other members of his administration told him it would be a terrible political mistake, pointing out that his rural, blue-collar base would be hardest hit in a post-NAFTA America.
          "It shows that I do have a very big farmer base, which is good," Trump said. "They like Trump, but I like them, and I'm going to help them."
          As far as ethanol is concerned, what this shows is Washington, DC, at its worst, churning along on cronyism and wealth-redistributing political favors despite all the signs pointing to bad decisions being made worse by reaffirmation of a failed policy. Evidently there are some parts of the swamp that will never be drained.  ~The Patriot Post
 
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