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Lonely Maine Winter
by Tom McLaughlin
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Joe diGenova Discusses McCabe 
60 Minutes Interview
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Joe diGenova calls in to WMAL radio to discuss Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein and the Sixty Minutes interview.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/18/joe-digenova-discusses-mccabe-60-minutes-interview/
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5-Million-Strong Wave Of Illegals Plans 
To Storm The Border This Year
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by uspoliticsandnews.com:  The CEO of Gallup has issued an ambitious poll of 450 million Latin Americans in 33 countries, and the results should be a staggering wake-up call to the American people. According to the results... 27% of all adults south of our southern border want to move to a new country, permanently. The vast majority of them want to move to the United States; they are watching, according to Gallup, for the best time and method to move to America. The most shocking finding of all was the 5 million Latin Americans plan to head into the United States as illegal aliens within the next 12 months. If that is not a crisis – and according to the mainstream media, it is not – then what would a real crisis look like? What would be the effect of a rapid influx of 5 million low-wage peasants on America? What would we do with them? Where would they live? Less than one percent of them speak English, and only a tiny portion have attained a high school-level education. Are schools already overcrowded in your area? Guess what happens next! A handful of adults in the media have tried to convey the seriousness of this problem, but even they do not really do the subject justice. Adam Corolla and Tucker Carlson have both talked on their respective programs about how illegal immigration has dramatically changed California...
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Jim Jordan on Border Emergency: ‘How 
Many Caravans Do We Need – 6, 7 or 
Just an Endless Caravan?’
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by Craig Bannister  
{cnsnews.com} ~ How many caravans of illegal aliens does it take to constitute an emergency at the U.S. southern border, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Sunday... Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Jordan responded to host Martha Raddatz quoting Republicans in Congress who oppose President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration. The caravans assaulting our borders, and the drug smuggling putting millions of American lives at risk, comprise an emergency, Jordan argued. What’s more, the Republicans who are now opposing the emergency declaration are the same ones who refused to fight to secure the border back when Republicans held both the House and Senate, Rep. Jordan said: “Martha, this is an emergency. I mean, what are we on now, the fifth caravan? Probably, just ask those senators: how many caravans do we need - six, seven, or just an endless caravan, one that never stops? “What did we have just a few weeks ago? A drug bust that was enough fentanyl to kill 57 million Americans? What do we need, 58 million, 59 million Americans, enough fentanyl to kill that many? So, you tell me. “I think it’s an emergency. What I also think is interesting is those Republicans who are criticizing the president for wanting to do this executive order are the same kind of Republicans who just a year ago didn’t want us to debate and push for the wall funding when we had the majority in both the House and the Senate. “In fact, after Chuck scumbag-Schumer had shut down the government, because he said amnesty was more important than funding the government and we had that big omnibus spending bill, that’s when we should have done this. “So, I think that it’s kind of interesting. Those same Republicans who were against fighting for it back then are the same ones who are criticizing the president now for his executive order.”...  https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/jim-jordan-border-emergency-how-many-caravans-do-we-need-6-7-or-just-endless?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTldRellqRXhOelZoTkdJeSIsInQiOiJYWXlybkczK0ZuM3NSREp4Sm5Ra0hGWk9YOHRKTmJMY3NacGEwRWxwQnQ1eWZIbkErV2NtTmJtZHJzc1lmRFRUZDBVcGdZRE4wN0dmd3JFbTdXcXVvNDBJTWVnTUh1Zk50dGR3bjk1UG1aU2NBVjlWdDNIQlRHZHJMdFlvcHdybCJ9
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North Carolina starts hearing on ballot fraud allegation in contested House race
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by Elizabeth Llorente  
{foxnews.com} ~ North Carolina elections officials are conducting a hearing Monday focused on allegations that a political operative tampered with mail-in ballots in a contested November congressional race... At stake is the 9th Congressional District seat that includes Charlotte. The State Board of Elections has not certified unofficial results that showed Republican Mark Harris narrowly beating Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes. The board could decide a winner or call for a new election at the end of the hearing, which is expected to last a minimum of two days. The political operative, Leslie McCrae Dowless, Jr., was hired by Harris’ campaign consultants. The state has twice refused to declare Harris the winner, after  hearing reports of irregularities just before the election in rural Bladen County, where Dowless lives. One of the methods participants said Dowless used was to hire workers to collect absentee ballots from voters who received them, and then turn them over to him, according to an elections board investigation...
Rep. Kevin McCarthy questions objectivity 
of Democrat scumbag-Adam Schiff 
in Trump-Russia probe
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by Ben Marquis
{dailychristiannews.com} ~ Writing in a blog post to his congressional website, McCarthy noted the recent revelation that scumbag-Schiff — who has long claimed to have “evidence” of Trump-Russia collusion, though he has never shown it... met with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson in July 2018 at the Aspen Security Forum.  scumbag-Schiff also made a big deal out of then-Republican committee chair Devin Nunes having quiet meetings with the White House, which prompted scumbag-Schiff to demand that Nunes recuse himself from any investigations related to Trump, citing a pro-Trump bias and lack of objectivity. With all of that in mind, McCarthy laid out a series of six questions for scumbag-Schiff that the chairman should answer prior to going any further in his multi-lateral investigations of Trump. First, he asked how many times scumbag-Schiff and Simpson met over the past three years, including the meeting at the Aspen Security Forum and also inquired about what the two men discussed during such meetings. He also asked why scumbag-Schiff had gone to such lengths to try and conceal the role of Fusion GPS in creating the anti-Trump dossier — including trying to block it in court — as well as why scumbag-Schiff seemingly sought investigatory guidance from Simpson during his testimony before the committee.McCarthy also asked why, if scumbag-Schiff was so concerned about “false and misleading testimony to Congress,” he didn’t begin by questioning Simpson’s own false and misleading testimony. Finally, McCarthy also asked why scumbag-Schiff has not recused himself from the investigations, as he had demanded Nunes and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions do over their connections and lack of objectivity...
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Lonely Maine Winter
by Tom McLaughlin
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Lovell after freezing rain  
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Maine can be dreary in February and March, especially for women. Ladies’ Delight Hill in Lovell, Maine “was not named for the view. Nor because it made a delightful walk for ladies to take on a Sunday afternoon or because it was covered with wonderful blueberries . . . It was named in sarcasm because women who tried to live in two houses built there could not endure the loneliness and isolation.” So says a history of Lovell called Blueberries and Pusley Weed.  
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View from my office  
 
The hill isn’t far from me as I type this. In summer I can hear loons crying on Lower Bay of Kezar Lake on which Ladies’ Delight Hill borders, but in winter there’s not much happening over there. The road is plowed and some of the waterfront cottages are used year-’round. Caretakers go in and shovel roofs during snowy winters like this one.
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I remember shoveling one over there forty years ago. Park on the road, climb over the snowbank, trudge through deep snow lugging a ladder and a shovel, and get on the roof. It was so quiet the only sound was the “whoomp!” of a big cube of snow I carved out dropping into deep snow on the ground below. I would think of those lonely ladies who lived here generations ago. Women need the company of others more than men do. They need to talk and have someone listen. Lovell Village wasn’t far away but there was no bridge over the Narrows back then. One had to take a ferry in summer or walk over ice in winter to get there.
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Stone wall behind my house in Lovell  
 
A hundred fifty years ago this part of Maine wasn’t “Vacationland.” There were no summer cottages on the lakes and ponds or on the hillsides either. There weren’t many trees because farmers had cleared them off, pulled the stumps, and rolled stones to the borders of their property to make the now-gray stone walls around which trees have grown up again in most places. Old timers told me you could travel up Route 5 all the way through town and see Kezar Lake constantly in view because it was treeless clear to the New Hampshire border in the west.  
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Maple Ridge Road in Harrison last weekend  
 
Though Lovell is nearly all forested again, parts of western Maine still look like they did back then. Last Sunday I drove to Harrison along the Maple Ridge Road. It goes for over a mile with long fields on both sides. It starts just off Route 117 just beyond Crystal Lake and rises through woods to the height of land where it opens up. Fields slope off from the road but not steeply. Big old wooden farmhouses still stand along the road, but the snowbanks were so high I couldn’t easily see over them from my car and I wished I’d taken my pickup instead.  
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Maple Ridge Road looking west  
 
Those big homes would have been built in the early 1800s, a generation or two after the first settlers cleared their tillable land, sold crops for cash, and their children or grandchildren became prosperous enough to build them. A couple are now horse farms which may bring in a little money here and there, but are probably hobbies for the most part. There was so much snow on the ground I couldn’t tell what the other farms were used for but it was nice to see long fields with unbroken snow cover surrounding them.   
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Maple Ridge Road Schoolhouse  
 
Some areas had become overgrown since I was there about thirty years ago. The old wooden schoolhouse was still standing but it’ll need work if it’s going to last another thirty years. I’d liked to have looked in the windows but didn’t want to trudge through deep snow to go up to them. Across the street I could see an old windmill still standing in what had been a field but is now overtaken by new growth. There were the faint outlines of old building further back in the bare trees. I would like to have explored that but the deep snow prevented.  
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Separate doors for boys and girls  
 
I can only imagine what it took two centuries ago to travel any distance during a winter like this one. It would have been an all-day affair: feed and water the livestock first; hook up the horse to the sleigh; break the runners out of the ice; head to the store or to a neighbor’s farm across town all bundled up and shivering on the seat. Then head home again; unhitch the horse; wipe it down; put it back in its stall; feed and water the livestock again; then go into the house and stoke up the stoves to warm things up — all that just so you could pick up some necessary items and the wives could visit.  
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