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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
What The Hell Are We Doing?
photo.jpg Tom Mclaughlin
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 HILLY SLIDES IN BATTLEGROUND POLL ON SYRIA,  FBI PROBE 
The pro-GOP group American Crossroads’ monthly battleground state poll, conducted by Vox Populi, shows a five-point dive in support for Hilly Clinton against a generic Republican opponent since last month’s poll. Clinton’s stance on accepting Syrian refugees, and her ongoing FBI investigation made over half of respondents less likely to vote for her. In a head-to-head faceoff, Clinton sits at 35 percent to her Republican challenger’s 54 percent, a 19-point deficit compared to a 12-point deficit in the November matchup. The poll also saw a 2-point uptick in Clinton’s unfavorable rating, which now sits at 57-percent. See the full results here.
          [Hilly Clinton’s campaign talked up her aggressive ad in favor of gun control. But the NYT reports that the campaign barely aired the spot in Iowa and New Hampshire, which also happen to be swing states with loads of gun owners.]  -Fox News
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 Will Hilly return donation from controversial Muslim  cleric? -  Free Beacon: “An Islamic Turkish religious leader whose followers have donated up to $1 million dollars to the Clinton Foundation is being taken to court on charges that he is using U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund a reclusive cult that is indoctrinating U.S. children and silencing critics by force, according to a copy of the legal complaint filed Wednesday in a U.S. District Court. Fethullah Gülen, a Muslim cleric whose movement has been described by critics as cult-like, stands accused of using hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds to establish more than 120 charter schools in the United States that are used to proselytize and indoctrinate American youths.”   -Fox News
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 MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH  
Lawmakers wrangling for a long-term funding deal under threat of a government shutdown at midnight are giving themselves more rope. A five-day extension of current spending levels passed the Senate Thursdayand is expected to pass the House today. While horse trading continues on the $1.1 trillion tax and spending legislation a new political wrinkle is in play as Democrats push for changes in gun policy.
          WashEx:  “Democrats added a demand to the spending bill talksThursday when they suddenly insisted that an agreement must include lifting a federal law preventing the Centers for Disease Control from studying the impact of gun violence…The current law that Democrats oppose…prevents the CDC from spending federal funds ‘to advocate or promote gun control.’…a string of mass shootings has emboldened Democrats to push Republicans to lift the ban, and it has suddenly become one of the main sticking points in the omnibus negotiations.”  
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 YOU EXPECTED BIBI TO HAVE A LAP DOG?  
BBC: “A dog recently adopted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuKaiya, bit two visitors, one a lawmaker, during a religious event. The incident happened during a candle-lighting ceremony to mark the Jewish festival of Hannukah at Mr Netanyahu’s residence. MPSharren Haskel and the husband of Tzipi Hotovely, the deputy foreign minister, were not seriously hurt. Mr Netanyahu’s son took the dog in from a rescue home earlier this year. Prime Minister Netanyahu tweeted a picture of himself with the 10-year-old mixed breed in August. ‘If you want a canine, find an adult dog to rescue. You won't regret it,’ he wrote. Kaiya has met several high profile visitors including US Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry.”  
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 Security Lapses Let Islamic Killer into America 
{fixthisnation.com} ~ While we’ve known for some time that the nObama administration is doing very little to destroy the Islamic State, the shootings in San Bernardino have made it clear that his presidency has overseen a weakening of our nation’s natural security system as well... There’s simply so excuse for the amount of intelligence our national security agencies missed in granting a fiancé visa to killer Tashfeen Malik. According to new reports, U.S. law enforcement officials missed Malik’s jihadist social media postings despite a rigorous screening process when they were putting her through the visa process. According to officials, Malik was able to pass at least three background checks because no one bothered to see what kind of anti-American crap she was posting on the internet. Immigration officials, according to the New York Times, don’t usually look at social media when putting an applicant through their security screenings. This, despite the fact that Pakistan shares very little information with our intelligence agencies, making traditional background checks useless.
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 IDF strikes two Hamas military targets in response to Gaza rocket fire 
{YAAKOV LAPPIN} ~ The Israel Air Force struck two Hamas terrorist sites overnight between Sunday and Monday, hitting targets in central and northern Gaza... following a Gazan rocket attack on Southern Israel  that occurred on Sunday night. There were no injuries reported in the rocket strike. The IDF Spokesman Unit said the airstrikes were a response to the rocket attack a few hours earlier. On Sunday night, a projectile fired from Gaza exploded in an open area in the Sha'ar Hanegev Council, triggering warning sirens in Sderot and in the surrounding areas. There were no injuries or damage in the attack.        http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/IDF-strikes-two-Hamas-military-targets-in-response-to-Gaza-rocket-fire-437236
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 One Christian Slaughtered Every Five Minutes  
{Raymond Ibrahim} ~ Throughout September, as more Christians were slaughtered and persecuted for their religion -- not just by the Islamic State but by "everyday" Muslims from all around the world --  increasing numbers of people and organizations called for action... Meanwhile, those best placed to respond -- chief among them U.S. President Barack nObama and Pope Francis -- did nothing. "Why, we ask the western world, why not raise one's voice over so much ferocity and injustice?"asked Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian Bishops Conference. Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III said: "I do not understand why the world does not raise its voice against such acts of brutality." As one report put it: "Human rights activists see it. Foreign leaders see it. And more than 80 members of the U.S. Congress see it. Together, they are pressuring the leader of the free world President nObama to declare there is a Christian genocide going on in the Middle East."
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 Witnesses Say CAIR's Hamas/MB Links Cemented From Start  
{investigativeproject.org} ~ Like a good politician, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) repeatedly proves adept at inserting itself into national debates... When presidential candidate Ben Carson said he could not support a Muslim president, CAIR gathered reporters to express outrage and call on Carson to drop out of the race. When a 14-year-old Texas boy was detained for bringing what he said was a homemade clock to school that a teacher feared might be a bomb, a CAIR official expressed outrage and sat by the boy's side during news conferences and interviews. And in the immediate aftermath of the Dec. 2 mass killings in San Bernardino by a radicalized Muslim man and his wife, CAIR called a news conference where its top Los Angeles official "unequivocally" condemned the killings. CAIR's aggressive approach, and a combination of media ignorance or laziness, generates uncritical television and newspaper stories throughout the country. This helps the organization reinforce its self-anointed and incorrect reputation as the voice for America's roughly 2 million Muslims. CAIR is presented as a responsible, moderate organization.
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 Judge orders U.S. landlord to learn Islam
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And a higher court has been asked to look into the actions by Judge Paul Yee Jr., of the Massachusetts court system. It happened at the sentencing for Daisy Obi, who is a landlord, for a physical altercation in which tenant Gihan Suliman was knocked down a flight of stairs, suffering a bruise, cuts on her lip and a ligament injury. Obi was convicted of the altercation, even though she denied it. She also denied allegations she berated Suliman over Islam. And when you find out the landlord's side of the story, you just may pop a gasket.
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 hanoi-Kerry Admits Cutting Carbon Emissions Wouldn’t do Anything 
{Philip Hodges} ~ John hanoi-Kerry admitted that even if the U.S. were to totally revamp its energy system, and every American were careful to live exactly the way climate alarmists want them to live, it wouldn’t do anything, because the real problem is the developing world... According to hanoi-Kerry, they’re the ones who are responsible for 65% of global emissions. At the COP-21 climate conference in Paris, he stated: “… The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what – that still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world. What a bunch a fools our leaders are.        http://lastresistance.com/15179/video-john-kerry-admits-cutting-u-s-carbon-emissions-wouldnt-do-anything/
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 E.P.A. Broke Law With Social Media Push for Water Rule  
{ERIC LIPTON and MICHAEL D. SHEAR} ~ The Environmental Protection Agency engaged in “covert propaganda” and violated federal law when it blitzed social media to urge the public to back an nObama administration rule... intended to better protect the nation’s streams and surface waters, congressional auditors have concluded. The ruling by the Government Accountability Office, which opened its investigation after a report on the agency’s practices in The New York Times, drew a bright line for federal agencies experimenting with social media about the perils of going too far to push a cause. Federal laws prohibit agencies from engaging in lobbying and propaganda. “I can guarantee you that general counsels across the federal government are reading this report,” said Michael Eric Hertz, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York who has written on social media and the government
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 Major San Bernardino cover up revealed  
{ANDREW SPALDING} ~ The attacks in San Bernardino, Calif. shocked the nation. Immediately following the attacks, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest repeatedly called the terrorist attacks “gun violence.”... Earnest then used the attack to reiterate President nObama’s determination to change gun laws and promote his administration’s anti-gun agenda. Western Journalism has reported on the nObama administration’s attempts to downplay the incident and their initial refusal to call the shooting a terrorist attack. On Thursday, a whistleblower came forward. Phillip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security investigator, says he could have likely prevented the attacks in San Bernardino if the government had let him do his job. Three years ago, Haney had developed surveillance that revealed a global network of jihadists had infiltrated the United States. Haney’s claim that he was prohibited from investigating the mosque that the terrorists attended is now being followed up with accusations that nObama issued a directive to downplay the terrorist attacks. Unnamed sources have come forward and reported that the White House tried to spin the attack by putting pressure on officials to downplay what happened as terror, presumably in favor of the term “gun violence.” Jack Murphey of SOFREP wrote that a confidential source revealed, “nObama held a meeting in the Oval Office with his National Security Council, the attorney general, and the directors of the DHS, FBI, and NSA, in which a directive was given to downplay the terrorism angle.” This changes EVERYTHING!
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 Adm Ace Lyons Speaks At Security Summit On nObama’s Religion... 
{constitutionrising.com} ~ At today’s “Nevada Security Action Summit,” in Las Vegas, Retired Admiral James “Ace” Lyons had a few words to say about the situation our country faces in the wake of seven years of non-stop assault by the anti-American subversive in the White House... The first video below is a question from an attendee as to “Why no one is gutsy enough to call a Muslim a Muslim in our White House, it’s pretty obvious that he is.” Admiral Lyons responds, “Well, all I can say is, he certainly acts the part, doesn’t he.” The second video is a clip of the Admiral’s prepared remarks, the kind of direct talk we’ve heard from him before. He opens with the statement, “When the ‘president’ of the United States is not interested in America leading, or American winning, then you understand that the greatest threat to our national security resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.”
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 John hanoi-Kerry – Don’t Slow The Islamic Flow...  
{constitutionrising.com} ~ John hanoi-Kerry would almost have you believe he’s got a part time or maybe even a full-time second job as an Imam the way he advocates for Islam and for the blind importation of Islamists into America... Of course the Islamists have penetrated every federal agency and department in the nObama regime, by design. Their cover organizations and front groups, such as CAIR, figure prominently in the speaking engagements and policy decisions of those who occupy positions which are supposed to be in the interest of the American people and our nation. The terrorism enabler and lifelong America-hater John hanoi-Kerry was politicking for his favorite preferential group, Islamists, as a guest of Meet the Press on Sunday. He said, “And so I think that you’ve got to be very careful, just by categorizing people by being Muslim, that is discrimination and it is contrary, I think, to the fundamental values of our country.”  He’s right, it’s discriminatory, and it’s smart. It’s called recognizing a threat and reacting appropriately.
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What The Hell Are We Doing?
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ If America would ask its young men — and now women — to fight a war, the rest of us must be willing to go all-out to win it. If we’re not, it’s immoral to send them. Soldiers and citizens must understand what’s at stake andhave confidence in 
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our commander-in-chief to defeat the enemy. Half-measures won’t suffice. War is all hell, as General Sherman said, and when you’re going through hell, don’t stop until you come out the other side. Go all-out or don’t go.
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So, are we going to defeat ISIS or not? It’s not clear. President nObama promised to degrade and destroy ISIS more than a year ago, but admits he doesn’t have a strategy. He’s been bombing ISIS for a year, but not most of the oil trucks carrying oil from ISIS-controlled oil fields, and then only after he drops leaflets first giving them a 45-minute warning! After the ISIS attack on Paris, France bombed hundreds of these trucks and that left Americans wondering. If we’ve been bombing ISIS for a year, why are there so many trucks left for the French? Where are those oil trucks making deliveries? There are only a few possibilities given that they are, after all, trucks.
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When ISIS set off a bomb aboard a Russian passenger jet, and Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane, Russia accused Turkey of buying oil from ISIS. Could that be true? Turkey is allied to the United States. It belongs to NATO. The nObama Administration insisted Turkey is not buying ISIS oil, but ISIS makes $4 million per day selling it and there are only so many places a truck can go, right? Turkey is right next door.
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Last month, the UK Guardian reported that: “Turkish businessmen struck lucrative deals with ISIS oil smugglers, adding at least $10m (£6.6m) per week to the terror group’s coffers.” The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick reports that: “For nearly two years, we have known that Turkey is Islamic State’s major arms supplier. And for six months we have known that they are their partners in oil exports.” The Daily Beast reports that fifty US intelligence agents filed a formal complaint with US Central Command that intelligence reports were being doctored by senior intelligence officials in the nObama Administration for political reasons. When America  special forces killed an ISIS finance guy, they seized his computer with information on ISIS oil sales to Turkey.
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                                 Monroe Mann
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Monroe Mann, one of my former students, returned from northern Iraq where he’d been a US Army intelligence officer working with the Kurds. He delivered a presentation to all five of my US History classes and his esteem for Kurdish soldiers as allies of the United States was enormous. After nObama was elected, he pulled all US forces out of Iraq and the Kurds were on their own. Today, most analysts recognize them as the only effective opposition to ISIS on the ground — but nObama won’t send them military aid. Why? Because Turkey doesn’t want him to. Historical Kurdistan overlaps Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey — and Turkey is afraid of a Kurdish independence movement. So are the other countries.
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Confused yet? It gets worse. After nObama allowed Bashar Assad to overstep his red line on chemical weapons, Russia moved in to support Assad. Iran supports him too. nObama has walked on eggshells negotiating his ill-advised nuclear treaty with Iran and didn’t want to upset the mullahs by undermining their ally Assad. Even though nObama declares over and over that Assad has to go, he has no strategy to accomplish that either. Meanwhile he’s overseeing feeble military efforts against both Assad and ISIS while Russia and Iran openly support Assad and Turkey secretly supports ISIS. Should we be sending any US soldiers into a conflict in which we’re not sure who we’re fighting for or against? When we don’t know who our enemies are or who our friends are?
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“War is the locomotive of history,” said Bolshevik commander Leon Trotsky. Teaching US History, my approach was to analyze each war’s causes, major battles, and most of all — its effects, after which students were tasked to consider whether it was worth fighting. Then I’d tell them to imagine themselves as 18-year-old males during each war and ask themselves if they would have volunteered to fight in it. I also taught current events and we followed Desert Storm, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War as they happened. Like Monroe Mann, many went on to fight. Some still are.
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They’d ask me what I’d have done, but I’d defer until each had taken a position and defended it. If I were teaching about the situation in Syria and Iraq today, I’d have to tell them I would stay home until we figure out what the hell we’re doing.
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