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A Law to Enforce the Law?

by Robin Smith

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Opinion in Brief

Cal Thomas: “Having abandoned what might be labeled a spiritual GPS for guiding us through this life and offering instructions on how to attain a better reward in the next, we are witnessing what unrestrained men (and they are mostly men) are capable of doing. The ‘scandal’ word is used in a way that suggests a standard for measuring what is scandalous. Why is anything a scandal in 2017? If truth is personal and relative, why judge anyone else’s behavior if it makes them feel good? ‘It can’t be wrong when it feels so right’ sang Debbie Boone in what could now serve as an anthem for our time. What we are seeing is an ugly reflection of ourselves. If we don’t like the image we see in the mirror we should ask how we arrived at this place and what can be done to reverse it. I recall evangelist Billy Graham once saying that America is not at a crossroads but a long way down the wrong road and needs to come back to the crossroads and take the right road. That was four decades ago. Things have gotten worse since then. Past spiritual revivals that have touched America (and England) came from repentance and prayer. Who has faith in politicians to fix this when growing numbers of them are having difficulty adhering to a moral code themselves?”  ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52532

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Lois Lerner Wants Depositions Sealed –

Fears Deadly Violence By Retaliating Americans

by rickwells.us

{rickwells.us} ~ Lois Lerner is the personification of elitism, corruption and arrogance... Naturally she’s a Democrat and it’s equally natural that she abused her position of trust with the IRS in the pursuit of political objectives, one being the election of Democrats, including Hussein liar-nObama.  She arrogantly refused to testify before Congress and destroyed evidence, in addition to her crimes committed in the misconduct of her position, and has yet to be held accountable for anything. The US taxpayers picked up the tab for lawsuits brought because of her malfeasance. She’s just collecting her retirement and living large and she and her partner in crime, Holly Paz, want to keep it that way. Lerner told a federal court last week that members of her family, including “young children,” were having death threats made against them and they risked physical harm if her statements about her crimes against innocent Americans became public knowledge... https://rickwells.us/lerner-depositions-sealed-retaliation/

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BENGHAZI OR BUST

by Lloyd Billingsley

{frontpagemag.com} ~ Sgt. LaDavid Johnson, one of the four American victims of the October 4 terrorist attack in Niger... first enlisted in the Army as a Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic but rose through the ranks to the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), qualified as a marksman and sharpshooter, and earned the Global War on Terrorism Medal. More than a month after his body was found, it emerged that the ISIS forces had captured Johnson and executed him by bashing in his head. The damage was so severe that the Army would not let Johnson’s wife Myeisha see the body. Also killed in the attack were U.S. Army Sgts. Bryan Black, Jeremiah Johnson and Dustin Wright. That did not prevent Rep. Frederica Wilson, Florida Democrat, from proclaiming that the attack was Trump’s Benghazi, or as other critics of the president put it, “Benghazi on steroids.” To say the least, the parallel is a stretch. In Niger, terrorists attacked uniformed soldiers in the field, and the Army acknowledged a group linked to ISIS. President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made no claim that the attack was about a video...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268468/benghazi-or-bust-lloyd-billingsley

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The Biggest Lie About Roy Moore Just 

Blew Up In Chuck clown-Schumer’s Face

by greatamericandaily.com

{greatamericandaily.com} ~ Chuck clown-Schumer is pinning his hopes on winning back the Senate with defeating Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race... Liberals and their allies in the media are smearing Judge Moore with ugly accusations in order to scare away voters. But they just got caught telling one massive lie and it blew up in Chuck clown-Schumer’s face...  http://greatamericandaily.com/the-biggest-lie-about-roy-moore-just-blew-up-in-chuck-schumers-face/

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Watch liar-Hillary Clinton Almost Get Lit On

Fire During Interview, Take the Lord’s Name in Vain

by BENNY JOHNSON

{dailycaller.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton and liar-Bill Clinton are under recurring scrutiny in the wake of rampant sexual assault allegations that have been ripping through the American political fabric... Some of the most high-profile candidates and politicians in the country, from both sides of the aisle, have been accused  of sexual misconduct. The heat of the accusations have brought heavy scrutiny down upon the liar-Clintons again for their role in various episodes of sexual misconduct while liae-Bill was governor of Arkansas and President. liar-Clinton became the first president to be impeached in modern history after lying under oath about an inappropriate sexual relationship with a White House intern...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/20/watch-hillary-clinton-almost-get-lit-on-fire-during-intehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvxNmkrUZN0rview-take-the-lords-name-in-vain/?utm_medium=email

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvxNmkrUZN0

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Justice Department sues 

to block AT&T-Time Warner merger

by Kelly Cohen

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Monday to block the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner... According to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the suit was filed over fears that the combined company would use its new control over Time Warner’s networks — including TBS, TNT, CNN and HBO — to “hinder its rivals by forcing them to pay hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for the right to distribute” them. The Justice Department also argued the combined company would harm competition and cause less innovative offerings and higher bills...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/justice-department-sues-to-block-att-time-warner-merger/article/2641287?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2011/20/17&utm_medium=email

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A Law to Enforce the Law?

by Robin Smith:  What does the U.S. government do when laws on the books are not being enforced? Pass another law, of course. After two failed attempts to improve enforcement of laws pertaining to the legal possession and purchase of a firearm, Congress may consider a third law.

          Last week, the “Fix NICS Act” was introduced, sponsored by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris Coon (D-CT), to urge agencies to fully and promptly report critical information and updates to the National Instant Criminal Background Check database. You see, the government can supposedly force individuals to purchase ever-more overpriced health insurance but it can’t pass a law with any enforcement mechanism to ensure a national computer database will be accurate in real time to make sure weapons are not sold to criminals or the mentally ill.
          The NICS, or the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, was launched in 1998 by the FBI as a result of the 1993 Brady Law. That law was named for Ronald Reagan’s White House Press Secretary, James Brady, who was shot and permanently disabled during the assassination attempt by John Hinkley. This aggregate database, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics website, is supposed to provide information from three separate databases maintained by the FBI: The Interstate Identification Index (III), a database of criminal history record information; the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), which includes information on persons subject to civil protection orders and arrest warrants; and the NICS Index, which includes the information contributed by federal and state agencies identifying persons prohibited from possessing firearms who are not included in the III or NCIC, such as persons with a prohibiting mental health history or who are illegal or unlawful aliens.
          Despite the hysteria and abject lies that the National Rifle Association somehow “owns” all Republicans, there have been two bipartisan attempts over the last two decades to provide a database for the purpose of informed weapons sales to individuals with neither a criminal background nor a mental health issue that would make these purchases, and therefore possessions, illegal.
          Since 1995, two legislative efforts have already garnered enough votes to pass and become law, but the information placed into those databases is either incomplete, erroneous or underutilized.
          With a Republican Congress and a Democrat president in the mid 1990s, the National Criminal History Improvement Act was, according to the program’s website, made law to “improve the nations safety and security by enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record information and by ensuring the nationwide implementation of criminal justice and noncriminal justice background check systems.”
          The decades-old initiative uses grants, training and technological assistance in a carrot-only approach with no stick should states not participate fully to provide results.
          Next, the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 appropriated millions of dollars to include pertinent mental health information that would impact a legal firearms sale or transfer of possession. This bill was successful with a Democrat congressional majority and a Republican president following the Virginia Tech campus shooting at the hands of a student with a mental health diagnosis and under current treatment at the time.
          So, despite leftist fearmongering and lies, the NRA’s position remains consistent on this third attempt to encourage lawful and responsible sales and possessions of weapons. Speaking to NBC News, “The National Rifle Association has long supported the inclusion of all appropriate records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.”
          Even the bill’s sponsor on Thursday noted this is no silver bullet. Cornyn stated, “For years agencies and states haven’t complied with the law, failing to upload these critical records without consequence.” He referenced financial incentives that will drive compliance but did include comment directed at penalizing federal agencies “that do a bad job” of providing current data to make the NICS operational.
          Specifically, according to Reason’s Christian Britschgi, the third iteration of the law “would require every federal agency, within a year, to create a plan to do better job of handing over records to the federal background check system.” For those agencies failing to meet this legislative goal, “the bill would deny bonuses to these agencies’ political appointees.” Further, grants will be made available to states who produce similar plans for implementation.
          Will this proposal produce the desired results of a functional database? Well, in addition to the grant funding that will be available as an incentive, the dramatic culture change within the Trump administration — which isn’t fixated on paying for sex change surgeries in the military or boys being able to use the girls bathrooms — maybe the U.S. Armed Forces and our Department of Justice will be able to do work that sees critical information reach the right hands in the transaction of gun sales and purchases.  
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52506