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War in Syria? Where Is Speaker Ryan?
Pat Buchanan
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Multi-gender bathrooms stall in Texas - Fox News: “An ordinance that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people in Houston failed to win approval from voters on Tuesday. The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance was rejected after a nearly 18-month battle that spawned rallies, legal fights and accusations of both religious intolerance and demonization of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.”
[The Ohio school superintendent whose district is being ordered by the Department of Education to allow a transgendered student access to the women’s locker room appeared on “The Kelly File.” Watch here.]
[The Ohio school superintendent whose district is being ordered by the Department of Education to allow a transgendered student access to the women’s locker room appeared on “The Kelly File.” Watch here.]
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HILLY MOVES LEFT AGAIN ON GUNS, MINIMUM WAGE What’s up with Hilly Clinton? The latest national poll out today from Quinnipiac University puts her up 18 points over Bernie Sanders. The same poll says 54 percent of Democrats supporting Clinton made up their minds and only 8 percent say they would definitely not support her. And she has overtaken Sanders in the latest polls in both Iowa and New Hampshire. But despite the apparent lock on the nomination she’s digging a deeper hole with the general electorate.
Tuesday saw Clinton aggressively pushing stricter gun control measures, which she wants to make a “voting issue.” That may please the left now but could prove costly in the general, especially in swing states where tighter restrictions on gun rights strike a nerve. And if that wasn’t enough for one day, Clinton says she wants the federal minimum wage boosted to $12 per hour, an increase of almost 70 percent and a move that could cost jobs. Clinton may be bringing the hammer down on Sanders, but at what cost? -Fox News
Tuesday saw Clinton aggressively pushing stricter gun control measures, which she wants to make a “voting issue.” That may please the left now but could prove costly in the general, especially in swing states where tighter restrictions on gun rights strike a nerve. And if that wasn’t enough for one day, Clinton says she wants the federal minimum wage boosted to $12 per hour, an increase of almost 70 percent and a move that could cost jobs. Clinton may be bringing the hammer down on Sanders, but at what cost? -Fox News
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Why moderates matter so much in the conservative party’s primary - FiveThirtyEight: “In reality, the GOP nominating contest will be decided by an intricate, state-by-state slog for the 2,472 delegates at stake between February and June. And thanks to the Republican National Committee’s allocation rules, the votes of “Blue Zone” Republicans — the more moderate GOP primary voters who live in Democratic-leaning states and congressional districts — could weigh more than those of more conservative voters who live in deeply red zones. Put another way: The Republican voters who will have little to no sway in the general election could have some of the most sway in the primary.” -Fox News
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Cruz’s path - NYT’s Nate Cohn says that despite initial nay-saying at Ted Cruz’s run for the presidency the Texas senator now has a path forward through Iowa: “He doesn’t lead [in Iowa] now, but the caucus is still three months off, and he has a large and untapped war chest. Mr. Trump and Mr. Carson might fade, which could help if a disproportionate share of their anti-establishment support goes his way. If Mr. Cruz finishes well in Iowa, it won’t be hard to envision a serious run for the nomination…Soon after come the predominantly Southern states on SuperTuesday, where very conservative voters represent a larger share of the primary electorate than any other region of the country.”
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Hilly And The Funding Of Al-Qaeda Terrorists In Libya And Syria
{Brandon Turbeville} ~ Picking up where the Benghazi scandal left off, it cannot be stated often enough that Hilly Clinton, in her tenure as Secretary of State, was instrumental in helping to fund, organize, train, and direct al-Qaeda terrorist forces in Libya and Syria... In regards to Libya, it was well known and even criticized by Libyan officials that Clinton’s State Department was actively funneling weaponry to “rebels” with “ties to al-Qaeda.” Of course, the “rebels” actually were al-Qaeda as the Libyan “rebellion” itself was nothing more than the use of proxy forces by the United States and NATO whose ranks were made up of terrorists, jihadists, and mercenaries. As the Washington Times reported in February, 2015. In fact, even after it became clear to the world that the fighters known to the general public as “rebels” were actually terrorists and jihadists, she continued to publicly lobby to support them, even criticizing nObama for not doing enough to train, fund, arm, and direct them..
Sen Ted Cruz Blasts dinky Harry Reid’s Pro-Illegal Murderer...
{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Ted Cruz once again took to the floor of the Senate to expose the serious shortcomings of one of those in Senate leadership... This time the vile anti-American hack targeted was Democrat Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid (D-NV). dinky Reid had just completed making comments stating, as Cruz quoted him, “That incarcerating aggravated felons, murderers and rapists who illegally reenter this country is somehow a slight to immigrants.” Senator Cruz responds in a somewhat agitated tone, saying, “Well Mr. President, I am the son of an immigrant who came legally from Cuba. There is no one in this chamber who will stand and fight harder for legal immigrants than I will.” He goes on to say, “And for the Democratic leader to cynically suggest that somehow immigrants should be lumped into the same bucket with murderers and rapists demonstrates the cynicism of the modern democratic party, demonstrates just how out of touch the modern democratic party is.” http://rickwells.us/archives/21863.
Hilly Calls for Exxon Probe After Co Cuts Off Foundation Funding
{Alana Goodman} ~ Hilly Clinton is calling for a federal investigation of ExxonMobil’s climate change activities just months after the company neglected to renew its sponsorship of the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting... ExxonMobil, which is being accused by global warming activists of misleading the public about climate change, has given between $ 1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation and sponsored the CGI annual meeting in 2014. But this year, the oil giant was one of six major corporations that stopped sponsoring the event, according to USA Today. Clinton said last week that the Department of Justice should investigate ExxonMobil for allegedly withholding data related to climate change, saying that there is “a lot of evidence they misled people.” But despite Clinton’s comments, the Democratic presidential frontrunner has seemed willing to work with the oil giant until very recently, the International Business Times reports. And there is no indication that she’s planning to cut her financial ties with the company: http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-calls-for-exxon-probe-after-company-cuts-off-foundation-funding/.
Report: Israel Bombs Syrian Missile Base
{Morgan Chalfant} ~ Israel reportedly bombed a missile base used by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria near the country’s border with Lebanon on Sunday, destroying multiple missile warehouses... “Israeli planes breached Lebanese and Syrian airspace and bombed the Syrian regime’s 155th Brigade [base] in the Qutayfa area, destroying a number of missile warehouses,” sources told a pro-rebel news outlet, NOW Syria reported. A Syrian activist also told the news outlet that Israeli planes “entered Syrian territory from Lebanon at 9:30 p.m. Sunday and bombed Scud missile warehouses belonging to the regime.”.
Revealed Hilly Clinton’s Agreement Expose America’s Secrets...
{rickwells.us} ~ As it turns out, the same type of non-disclosure document required of all State Department employees was in fact also required for their former Secretary of State, Hilly Clinton... Her record keeping and communication system was unique but the requirement for the security of information was not. The State Department has resisted producing the document as part of their continuing pattern of obfuscation and obstruction, but a freedom of information act request forced its production. It was obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and forwarded to The Washington Free Beacon. It was on her second day as Secretary of State that Clinton signed the document, a Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement, which laid out criminal penalties for “any unauthorized disclosure” of classified information. Included in the language of the document was the statement, “I have been advised that the unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention, or negligent handling of SCI by me could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation.” http://rickwells.us/archives/21877.
De-Funding Planned Parenthood won't stop its government funding
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ Many concerned Americans are following the battle in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood, spurred by videos released over the summer by the Center for Medical Progress allegedly showing the organization selling the pieces of aborted babies... However, even if the abortion organization loses its funding from the federal budget, many tax payers will still be supporting it with their hard-earned dollars. Because along with the money they get from the from the federal budget, Planned Parenthood receives money from Obamacare and from state coffers. A General Accounting Office Study requested by pro-life members of Congress and released at the end of March reported that six abortion advocacy organizations (Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Population Council, International Planned Parenthood Federation of America (IPPF), Guttmacher Institute, Advocates for Youth, and Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) get taxpayer funding from several government sources:.
Germany: Migration Crisis Becomes Public Health Crisis
{Soeren Kern} ~ The influx of more than one million asylum seekers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East is placing unprecedented strain on Germany's healthcare system... Hospitals, clinics and emergency rooms across Germany are being filled to capacity with migrants suffering maladies of all kinds, and medical personnel, including thousands of volunteers, are increasingly complaining of burnout. Diseases are also reappearing that have not been seen in Germany for years. German public health officials are now on the lookout for Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, diphtheria, Ebola, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, malaria, measles, meningitis, mumps, polio, scabies, tetanus, tuberculosis, typhus and whooping cough. As refugee shelters fill to overflowing, doctors are also on high alert for mass outbreaks of influenza and Norovirus. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6838/germany-migration-health-crisis.
The AFSC office in Gaza
The Quaker War on Israel
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nObama’s Order To Close Gitmo – Congress (Won’t) Stop Him
Rep Michael McCaul (R-TX), the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is asked by host Chris Wallace about the increasing likelihood that Hussein nObama will issue another of his dictates... this one being an order to unilaterally close the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and to transfer the terrorists to prisons within the United States. He notes that nObama will apparently first attempt to do it the right or constitutional way by going through Congress, but that if they refuse to be bullied into compliance, he’ll just issue an executive order, which is effectively a dictatorial decree. McCaul predicts the American people will rise up in rebellion if that happens, and acknowledges that there is little Congress can or is willing to do to stop nObama from doing anything he has his mind set on doing. http://rickwells.us/archives/21931.
nObama’s Nuclear Message To China And Russia...
Last night’s reported launch of a Trident Missile from the submarine USS Kentucky is an uncomfortable reminder of the fact that a very unstable individual... at least from the perspective of the continuation of America in its present form, has his hand on the our nuclear button. It’s clear that the decision to launch this supposed “test firing” at the time of day and location in which it would be most visible was intended to send a message to somebody and that any declarations that it was just a normal test firing by the government are simply more obfuscation, more lies and more treatment of us as little children who have no right to know what their “government” is doing in their name. More importantly, we have no way of knowing what they might actually be doing to us. Mike Adams offers his thoughts on who the somebody being sent a message was, Russia and China in particular, and the reasons behind it. He points a disconcerted eye towards an escalating potential for conflict, one which risks a potential for World War 3. http://rickwells.us/archives/21939.
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War in Syria? Where Is Speaker Ryan?
Pat Buchanan
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Despite repeated pledges not to put “boots on the ground” in Syria, President nObama is inserting 50 U.S. special ops troops into that country, with more to follow.
Despite repeated pledges not to put “boots on the ground” in Syria, President nObama is inserting 50 U.S. special ops troops into that country, with more to follow.
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U.S. A-10 “warthog” attack planes have been moved into Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, close to Syria.
U.S. A-10 “warthog” attack planes have been moved into Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, close to Syria.
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Hilly Clinton, who has called for arming Syrian rebels to bring down Bashar Assad, is urging nObama to establish a no-fly zone inside Syria.
Hilly Clinton, who has called for arming Syrian rebels to bring down Bashar Assad, is urging nObama to establish a no-fly zone inside Syria.
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Citing Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus, John McCain is calling for a no-fly zone and a safe zone in Syria, to be policed by U.S. air power.
Citing Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus, John McCain is calling for a no-fly zone and a safe zone in Syria, to be policed by U.S. air power.
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“How many men, women and children,” McCain asks, “are we willing to watch being slaughtered by the Russians and Bashar al-Assad?”
“How many men, women and children,” McCain asks, “are we willing to watch being slaughtered by the Russians and Bashar al-Assad?”
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Yet, if we put U.S. forces onto sovereign Syrian territory, against the will and resistance of that government, that is an act of war.
Yet, if we put U.S. forces onto sovereign Syrian territory, against the will and resistance of that government, that is an act of war.
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Would we tolerate Mexican troops in Texas to protect their citizens inside our country? Would we, in the Cold War, have tolerated Russians in Cuba telling us they were establishing a no-fly zone for all U.S. warplanes over the Florida Strait and Florida Keys?
Would we tolerate Mexican troops in Texas to protect their citizens inside our country? Would we, in the Cold War, have tolerated Russians in Cuba telling us they were establishing a no-fly zone for all U.S. warplanes over the Florida Strait and Florida Keys?
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nObama has begun an escalation into Syria’s civil war, and not only against ISIS and the al-Nusra Front, but against Syria’s armed forces.
nObama has begun an escalation into Syria’s civil war, and not only against ISIS and the al-Nusra Front, but against Syria’s armed forces.
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Mission creep has begun. The tripwire is being put down. Yet, who authorized nObama to take us into this war? The Russians and Iranians are in Syria at the invitation of the government. But nObama has no authorization from Congress to put combat troops into Syria.
Mission creep has begun. The tripwire is being put down. Yet, who authorized nObama to take us into this war? The Russians and Iranians are in Syria at the invitation of the government. But nObama has no authorization from Congress to put combat troops into Syria.
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Neither the al-Nusra Front nor ISIS has an air force. Against whom, then, is this Clinton-McCain no fly-zone directed, if not Syrian and Russian warplanes and helicopters?
Neither the al-Nusra Front nor ISIS has an air force. Against whom, then, is this Clinton-McCain no fly-zone directed, if not Syrian and Russian warplanes and helicopters?
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Is America really prepared to order the shooting down of Russian warplanes and the killing of Russian pilots operating inside Syria with the approval of the Syrian government?
Is America really prepared to order the shooting down of Russian warplanes and the killing of Russian pilots operating inside Syria with the approval of the Syrian government?
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In deepening America’s involvement and risking a clash with Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces, nObama is contemptuously ignoring a Congress that has never authorized the use of military force against the Damascus regime.
In deepening America’s involvement and risking a clash with Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces, nObama is contemptuously ignoring a Congress that has never authorized the use of military force against the Damascus regime.
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Congress’ meek acquiescence in being stripped of its war powers is astonishing. Weren’t these the Republicans who were going to Washington to “stand up to nObama”?
Congress’ meek acquiescence in being stripped of its war powers is astonishing. Weren’t these the Republicans who were going to Washington to “stand up to nObama”?
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Coming after Congress voted for “fast track,” i.e., to surrender its constitutional right to amend trade treaties, the capitulations of 2015 rank as milestones in the long decline into irrelevance of the U.S. Congress. Yet in the Constitution, Congress is still the first branch of the U.S. government.
Coming after Congress voted for “fast track,” i.e., to surrender its constitutional right to amend trade treaties, the capitulations of 2015 rank as milestones in the long decline into irrelevance of the U.S. Congress. Yet in the Constitution, Congress is still the first branch of the U.S. government.
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Has anyone thought through to where this U.S. intervention can lead?
Has anyone thought through to where this U.S. intervention can lead?
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This weekend, the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regained full control of the parliament in a “khaki election” it called after renewing its war on the Kurdish PKK in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
This weekend, the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regained full control of the parliament in a “khaki election” it called after renewing its war on the Kurdish PKK in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
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Erdogan regards the PKK as a terror group. As do we. But Erdogan also considers Syria’s Kurdish fighters, the YPG, to be terrorists. And Ankara has warned that if the YPG occupies more territory along the Syrian-Turkish border, west of the Euphrates, Turkey will attack.
Erdogan regards the PKK as a terror group. As do we. But Erdogan also considers Syria’s Kurdish fighters, the YPG, to be terrorists. And Ankara has warned that if the YPG occupies more territory along the Syrian-Turkish border, west of the Euphrates, Turkey will attack.
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Why should this concern us?
Why should this concern us?
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Not only do we not regard the YPG as terrorists, they are the fighting allies we assisted in the recapture of Kobani. And the U.S. hopes Syria’s Kurds will serve as the spear point of the campaign to retake Raqqa, the ISIS capital in Syria, which is only a few dozen miles south of YPG lines.
Not only do we not regard the YPG as terrorists, they are the fighting allies we assisted in the recapture of Kobani. And the U.S. hopes Syria’s Kurds will serve as the spear point of the campaign to retake Raqqa, the ISIS capital in Syria, which is only a few dozen miles south of YPG lines.
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Should the YPG help to defeat ISIS and become the dominant power in northern Syria, the more dangerous they will appear to Erdogan, and the more problems that will create between the Turkish president and his NATO ally, the United States.
Should the YPG help to defeat ISIS and become the dominant power in northern Syria, the more dangerous they will appear to Erdogan, and the more problems that will create between the Turkish president and his NATO ally, the United States.
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Not only does a Congressional debate on an authorization to use military force appear constitutionally mandated before we intervene in Syria, but the debate itself on an AUMF might induce a measure of caution before we plunge into yet another Middle East quagmire.
Not only does a Congressional debate on an authorization to use military force appear constitutionally mandated before we intervene in Syria, but the debate itself on an AUMF might induce a measure of caution before we plunge into yet another Middle East quagmire.
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When Saddam fell, we got civil war, ISIS in Anbar, and a fractured and failed state with hundreds dying every week.
When Saddam fell, we got civil war, ISIS in Anbar, and a fractured and failed state with hundreds dying every week.
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And, as of today, no one knows with certitude who rises if Assad falls.
And, as of today, no one knows with certitude who rises if Assad falls.
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The leading candidates are Jabhat al-Nusra, the front for an al-Qaida that brought down the twin towers, and the butchers of ISIS, who captured another town on the Damascus road this weekend.
The leading candidates are Jabhat al-Nusra, the front for an al-Qaida that brought down the twin towers, and the butchers of ISIS, who captured another town on the Damascus road this weekend.
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Monday, The Wall Street Journal wrote that Erdogan’s regrettable victory is “a reminder of what happens when America’s refusal to act to stop chaos in places like Syria frightens allies into making unpalatable choices.”
Monday, The Wall Street Journal wrote that Erdogan’s regrettable victory is “a reminder of what happens when America’s refusal to act to stop chaos in places like Syria frightens allies into making unpalatable choices.”
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Now there’s an argument for America’s plunging into Syria: Send our troops to fight and die in multisided civil war that has cost 250,000 lives, so Turks will feel reassured enough they won’t vote for “strongmen” like Erdogan.
Now there’s an argument for America’s plunging into Syria: Send our troops to fight and die in multisided civil war that has cost 250,000 lives, so Turks will feel reassured enough they won’t vote for “strongmen” like Erdogan.
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America needs an America First movement.
America needs an America First movement.
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