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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
While nObama fiddles …
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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 Who Speaks for Us? 
If there's one thing the current election cycle has made clear, it's the reality that millions of Americans feel utterly disenfranchised. Their anger and frustration are driven by the daunting realization that neither political party represents their interests. This despicable status quo begs the simplest question, one every candidate running for elective office in 2016 should be forced to answer: Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where there is a clear understanding of right and wrong, not one dominated by the "anything goes" cultural sewage churned out on a regular basis by Hollywood and the mainstream media. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation that puts Americans first — one with definable, enforceable borders and one where Rule of Law is paramount — not one that gratifies the desires of millions of illegals and their cadre of elitist supporters aiming to fundamentally transform our national character, using cheap votes and cheap labor to do so. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where we no longer cater to the lowest common denominator of human behavior to accommodate "root causes," the "soft bigotry of low expectations," or a multiculturalist mishmash that excuses misogyny, anti-Semitism, and racism under the rubric of "celebrating our differences." Who speaks for us?
          We want to live a nation with an educational system that teaches children how to think, not what to think. A system where ideological indoctrination social promotion, grade inflation, worthless diplomas, "creative" math, and the generalized dumbing-down of vulnerable children is tossed on the ash heap of history. Who speaks for us?  
          We want to live in a nation where merit and excellence matter, not one where millions of "snowflakes" have been cushioned by trigger warnings, micro-aggressions, speech codes and helicopter parents who believe everyone should get a trophy just for showing up. A nation where the content of one's character is far more important than the color of one's skin, one's gender, one's sexual orientation, or one's membership in a particular grievance group. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where the Constitution is defended for what it actually says, not what some people would like it to mean because a "living" interpretation of the document accommodates their agenda, political correctness or the latest trend. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where we don't burden our children and grandchildren with unconscionable levels of debt that will destroy their standard of living, one where able-bodied people are expected to work for a living, and one where the free-market capitalism that rewards ambition, risk-taking and talent isn't subsumed by a government-controlled crony-capitalist oligarchy that stifles competition and picks winners and losers. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation with the strongest military in the world, not one debased by social engineering. A military that only sends men and women into harm's way when our national security is threatened, and one that utterly rejects such nonsense as "winning hearts and minds," restrictive and dangerous Rules of Engagement, and politically correct warfare that elevates concerns for collateral damage above the lives of American soldiers. A military with only one objective in mind when it becomes necessary to put the nation's blood and treasure at risk: unambiguous victory. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where states' rights are once again paramount, where 50 separate constituencies would be given maximum freedom to innovate, to compete, and do anything else to improve the lives of their citizens without the interfering heavy hand of the District of Columbia. A nation where people intuitively understand government operates best from the local level outwards, not the federal level inward. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where we treat our allies like the friends they are, and our enemies with the suspicion they have earned. A nation where foreign policy is grounded in reality, not faculty-lounge-inspired wishful thinking. A nation that will no longer send foreign aid to people who hate us, based on the dubious assertion we can buy their loyalty and admiration. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where we celebrate our exceptionalism, not identify only by our shortcomings. Those who insist otherwise should be asked to explain why people all over the world are beating a path to our shores. Who speaks for us?
          As the opening of the Constitution states, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
          "We the people" is us, not a bunch of self-interested politicians and their well connected benefactors. A "more perfect" union is an aspiration. We must not allow our pursuit of that perfection to be the enemy of our goodness. Same goes for establishing justice and insuring domestic tranquility.
          As for the next two items, it's important to note the critical distinction between providing for the commence defense and promoting the general welfare. It is the government's constitutionally mandated duty to provide protection for the nation. It is not the government's duty to provide for the peoples' welfare, but rather to promote the conditions that allow a free people to provide for their own welfare, that of their families and those Americans who are truly in need.
          As for the blessings of Liberty, the implication is clear: There is a higher power from which those blessings are secured and it does not emanate from Washington, state legislatures or local governments. As Thomas Jefferson so eloquently explained in the Declaration of Independence, all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." There are millions of Americans who cherish that wisdom, even as they still understand it is the ultimate foundation of the greatest nation ever devised by man.  -The Patriot Post
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Vince Foster 'suicide' shocker: 
2nd wound documented
LEO HOHMANN
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Hilly Clinton and Vincent Foster were friends and business associates at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas, and Foster followed the Clintons to the White House soon after
Bill Clinton’s election as president.
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{wnd.com} ~ It’s been 23 years since Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster was found dead in a Virginia park, setting off one of the biggest controversies of the Clinton administration... Foster, a boyhood friend of Bill Clinton and partner of Hilly Clinton at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, was discovered on July 20, 1993, lying in Fort Marcy Park with a fatal gunshot wound. Two independent investigations, the first led by Robert Fiske and the second by Kenneth Starr, concluded Foster suffered a single, self-inflicted wound. A simple suicide. Case closed. But newly discovered evidence unearthed from boxes stored deep in the National Archives lend credence to theories about foul play and cover-up that have been hinted at by at least three books and countless articles.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/vince-foster-suicide-shocker-2nd-wound-documented/

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The United Nations, Immigration 
and Gun Control
DAVID RISSELADA
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{sonsoflibertymedia.com} ~ Since the elections in 2014 we have watched the Republican majority sellout to the nObama agenda on one issue after the other. First it was the budget due to fears of being blamed for a potential government shutdown... then it was the Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty, and finally, it was the Iran deal. Under the U.S. Constitution, treaties require two thirds vote of all senators present in order to be ratified. The Iran deal changed that with the passage of the so called Corker Bill. Under this new law the Iran deal would require two thirds vote to stop it from being implemented. What we have witnessed is a gradual conditioning process where lawmakers are incrementally implementing an international agenda in order to surrender U.S. sovereignty to the United Nations and the next item on the chopping block is your right to keep and bear arms, in case you haven’t noticed. One thing the Republican controlled Senate seems to have done right is refuse to ratify the U.N. Small Arms Treaty. Signed by John hanoi-Kerry, the nObama administration seems intent in ensuring its ratification by passing gun control laws that push towards the treaties ultimate end; gun confiscation. While the Republicans may have taken a bold and brave stand against nObama by refusing to ratify, it doesn’t change the fact that they have caved on every other issue, and as of today, have done little to stop nObama’s executive actions against the second amendment. Could this be part of the conditioning process? Sadly the answer to that would have to be yes.       http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2016/02/the-united-nations-immigration-and-gun-control/
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House intel committee blasts 
Pentagon over ISIS files
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{cnn.com} ~ The Republican-led House intelligence committee wants the Pentagon to provide what it believes are illegally deleted intelligence files pertaining to the U.S. military campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq... Committee Chairman Devin Nunes of California blasted the Pentagon, citing the allegations that classified intelligence files and emails about the war on ISIS were deleted. "We have been made aware that both files and emails have been deleted by personnel at CENTCOM, and we expect that the Department of Defense will provide these and all other relevant documents to the committee," Nunes said at a hearing Thursday on worldwide threats.     http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/politics/house-intel-committee-pentagon-isis-files/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool&iref=obnetwork
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Iran Expert: Election Results Signify
Victory of ‘Bad Over Worse’ 
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{algemeiner.com} ~ Because the Iranian elections were engineered prior to the day when they actually took place, the choice for voters was extremely limited, an expert on the subject told The Algemeiner on Sunday... Pooya Dayanim, the California-based president of the Iranian Jewish Public Affairs Committee (IJPAC), was responding to the results of Friday’s elections for the Majlis (parliament) and Assembly of Experts, which are being touted in Western media outlets as a “victory for the reformists.” The final thing Dayanim asserted was that most people outside of Iran, other than those actually studying it and who are aware of its internal workings, “do not grasp that only one third of the Iranian regime is run by elected officials – and even those are pre-screened by the revolutionary Council of Guardians – and the rest is run by shadowy figures.” “The supreme leader still pulls the strings,” he concluded. “And when he dies, in spite of the outcome of these elections, the Assembly of Experts is going to pick someone just like him.” http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/02/28/iran-expert-election-results-signify-victory-of-bad-over-worse-interview/
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How Oregon’s $14.50 Minimum Wage Will Hurt
Those It’s Supposed to Help
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Good intentions can produce terrible results. Recently the Oregon legislature passed an unprecedented minimum wage hike in effort to help workers within their state, but the legislation will hurt the workers it’s supposed to help... By 2022, the state’s minimum wage will rise to $14.50/hour in the Portland area, $12.50/hour in rural areas, and $13.25/hour elsewhere. In six years, even rural Oregon will have the highest minimum wage in the country. Economists examining the 2007-2009 federal minimum wage hike found that affected workers’ weekly earnings dropped by an average of $150 month. This is because while some workers got higher pay, others lost their jobs—or could not find work to begin with.       http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/25/how-oregons-14-50-minimum-wage-will-hurt-those-its-supposed-to-help/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu63Kd%2B%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdhNbrYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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North Korea's Nuclear Missile Threat: 
Very Bad News
Peter Pry and Peter Huessy
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Kim Jong Un, the "Supreme Leader" of North Korea, supervises the April 22 test-launch
of a missile from a submerged platform.
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The mainstream media and their stable of "experts" consistently underestimate North Korea's missile and nuclear weapon capabilities... The gap between how the media report on the North Korean nuclear missile threat and the reality of the threat has become so wide as to be dangerous. In the aftermath of North Korea's latest nuclear test on January 6, 2016, for instance, and its launch of a mock satellite on February 7, 2016, the American people were told that North Korea has not miniaturized a nuclear warhead for delivery by missile nor could the missile strike the U.S. with any accuracy. Mirren Gidda, for example, writing in Newsweek, inexplicably claims "International experts doubt that North Korea has manufactured nuclear weapons small enough to fit on a missile." Yet this commonplace assertion that North Korea does not have nuclear-armed missiles is simply untrue.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7512/north-korea-nuclear-missiles
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Ted Cruz is Correct, Donald slump-Trump Does
Have Organized Crime Ties
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ On ABC’s This Week, Texas Senator Ted Cruz brought up Donald slump-Trump’s alleged mafia ties... Was Cruz making up those ties, was he simply slandering slump-Trump out of desperation? No Cruz wasn’t making anything up. There is ample evidence of slump-Trump’s ties to organized crime well beyond the Mafia. Something that was research and laid out by Dana Loesch earlier this month:        http://lidblog.com/is-cruz-correct-does-donald-trump-have-organized-crime-ties/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=176f021c75-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-176f021c75-291705165#
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Senators Introduce Bill to ‘Ensure Prompt Return of Unaccompanied Alien Children’
Barbara Hollingsworth
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Unaccompanied alien children at a Border Patrol holding center in Arizona
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) introduced a bill that would “ensure a prompt return of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who illegally cross the southern border”... after their numbers more than doubled during the first four months of the current fiscal year. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, there was a 102 percent increase in the number of unaccompanied alien children (20,455) who were apprehended at the southwest border between Oct. 1, 2015 and Jan. 31, 2016 compared to 10,105 apprehended during the same time period in FY2015. However, less than four percent (4,680) of the 127,193 UACs who have been caught illegally entering the U.S. over the past two and a half years have been sent back home because the vast majority do not show up for their deportation hearings, Sessions noted during a Judiciary Committee hearing held earlier this week.        http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/gop-senators-introduce-bill-ensure-prompt-return-unaccompanied
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Nine U.S. Pregnant Women 
Diagnosed With Zika
Natalie Myers
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Nine pregnant women in the United States have been diagnosed with the Zika virus, including one woman who recently gave birth to a child with rare birth defects... On Friday, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated officials are currently looking into 10 other reports of pregnant women who are believed to have contracted the virus as well. The CDC issued a warning to those who are planning to attend the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro this summer, saying that Zika is a major risk in this area.        http://punchingbagpost.com/nine-us-pregnant-women-diagnosed-with-zika
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Hizballah Leader Brags About Capabilities That
Could Kill Thousands of Israelis
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah is boasting about his terrorist organization's ability to kill tens of thousands of Israelis with Iranian-supplied precision-guided missiles... reports the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. Speaking during a ceremony on Feb. 16, Nasrallah threatened that Hizballah could kill scores of Israelis if he chooses to attack "ammonia tanks" in Haifa that, according to the terrorist leader, hold over 15,000 tons of gas. "Today Nasrallah has an atomic bomb...the combination of Hizballah's missiles and the ammonia barrels in Haifa equal and atomic bomb," brags Nasrallah, amid laughing at the prospect of ordering an unprecedented mass-casualty terrorist attack. Nasrallah has made similar taunts about mass casualty attacks against Israel. http://www.investigativeproject.org/5179/hizballah-leader-brags-about-capabilities-that
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While nObama fiddles …
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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{freedomsback.com} ~ State of the world, Year Eight of Barack nObama:
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(1) In the South China Sea, on a speck of land of disputed sovereignty far from its borders, China has just installed anti-aircraft batteries and stationed fighter jets. This after China landed planes on an artificial island it created on another disputed island chain the Spratlys, claimed by the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam. These facilities now function as forward bases for Beijing to challenge seven decades of American naval dominance of the Pacific Rim.
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“China is clearly militarizing the South China Sea,” the commander of the U.S. Pacific Command told Congress on Tuesday. Its goal? “Hegemony in East Asia.”
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(2) Syria. Russian intervention has turned the tide of war. Having rescued the Bashar al-Assad regime from collapse, relentless Russian bombing is destroying the rebel stronghold of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, creating a massive new wave of refugees and demonstrating to the entire Middle East what a Great Power can achieve when it acts seriously.
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The U.S. response? Repeated pathetic attempts by Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry to propitiate Russia and its ally, Iran in one collapsed peace conference after another. On Sunday, he stepped out to announce yet another “provisional agreement in principle” on “a cessation of hostilities” that the CIA director, the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs deem little more than a ruse.
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(3) Ukraine. Having swallowed Crimea so thoroughly that no one even talks about it anymore, Russia continues to trample with impunity on the Minsk cease-fire agreements. Vladimir Putin is now again stirring the pot, intensifying the fighting, advancing his remorseless campaign to fracture and subordinate the Ukrainian state. Meanwhile, nObama still refuses to send the Ukrainians even defensive weapons.
(4) Iran. Last Thursday, Iran received its first shipment of S-300 anti-aircraft batteries from Russia, a major advance in developing immunity to any attack on its nuclear facilities. And it is negotiating an $8 billion arms deal with Russia that includes sophisticated combat aircraft. Like its ballistic missile tests, this conventional weapons shopping spree is a blatant violation of U.N. Security Council prohibitions. It was also a predictable — and predicted — consequence of the Iran nuclear deal that granted Iran $100 billion and normalized its relations with the world.
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The U.S. response? Words.
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Unlike gravitational waves, today’s strategic situation is not hard to discern. Three major have-not powers are seeking to overturn the post-Cold War status quo: Russia in Eastern Europe, China in East Asia, Iran in the Middle East. All are on the march.
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To say nothing of the Islamic State, now extending its reach from Afghanistan to West Africa. The international order built over decades by the United States is crumbling.
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In the face of which, what does nObama do? Go to Cuba.
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Yes, Cuba. A supreme strategic irrelevance so dear to nObama’s anti-anti-communist heart.
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Is he at least going to celebrate progress in human rights and democracy — which nObama established last year as a precondition for any presidential visit? Of course not. When has nObama ever held to a red line? Indeed, since nObama began his “historic” normalization with Cuba, the repression has gotten worse. Last month, the regime arrested 1,414 political dissidents, the second-most ever recorded.
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No matter. Amid global disarray and American decline, nObama sticks to his cherished concerns: Cuba, Guantanamo about which he gave a rare televised address this week and, of course, climate change.
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nObama could not bestir himself to go to Paris in response to the various jihadi atrocities — sending hanoi-Kerry instead “to share a big hug with Paris” as hanoi-Kerry explained with James Taylor singing “You’ve Got a Friend” — but he did make an ostentatious three-day visit there for climate change.
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So why not go to Havana? Sure, the barbarians are at the gates and pushing hard knowing they will enjoy but 11 more months of minimal American resistance. But our passive president genuinely believes that such advances don’t really matter — that these disruptors are so on the wrong side of history, that their reaches for territory, power, victory are so 20th century.
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Of course, it mattered greatly to the quarter-million slaughtered in Syria and the millions more exiled. It feels all quite real to a dissolving Europe, an expanding China, a rising Iran, a metastasizing jihadism.
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Not to the visionary nObama, however. He sees far beyond such ephemera. He knows what really matters: climate change, Gitmo and Cuba.
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With time running out, he wants these to be his legacy. Indeed, they will be.
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