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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
You Know You're A Progressive When...
Tom Mclughlin
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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TAKE FIVE: TOUGH BATTLES, NORTH AND SOUTH In the latest edition of “Power Play with Chris Stirewalt” Republican strategist Sean Noble shares his picks of the top five GOP-held seats Democrats are trying to turn blue and win control of the Senate. Illinois and Wisconsin top Noble’s list, followed by Florida, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Wisconsin’s Republican Sen. Ron Johnson faces a tough climb given the state’s presidential year voting trends, but Noble says don’t surrender the cheese yet: the problem for Democrats he says is that Russ Feingold has lost before. And ranking Florida high in his list, Noble forecasts a tight, high-dollar race in which the Republican candidate might get a boost if Marco Rubio is the GOP’s national nominee. WATCH HERE.
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Portman gets an ad boost - AP: “A conservative nonprofit linked to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell has bought $850,000 in television ads across Ohio favoring a jobs bills sponsored by Republican Sen. Rob Portman. The One Nation spots will air for 10 days startingWednesday on broadcast and cable stations in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo and Youngstown and on cable only in Lima and in Wheeling and Charleston, West Virginia.” -Fox News
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THE JUDGE’S RULING: HILLY’S LIBYA LIE Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano looks at Hilly Clinton’s Benghazi testimony about her role in Libya and notes, “Every four years, we entrust awesome power to a person who swears to protect the Constitution. How could we give that power to a consistent public liar who, for personal political gain, midwifed terror and chaos in a country that was our ally and whose words and behavior have continually demonstrated that she is utterly unworthy of belief?” Read more. -Fox News
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House Moves to Impeach IRS Chief The House Oversight Committee introduced a resolution Tuesday seeking the impeachment of IRS chief John Koskinen. But given how the rest of the Republicans' attempts at checking the nObama administration's waste and corruption turned out, don't expect much from this resolution. The impeachment attempt comes after the Department of Justice declined to prosecute IRS official Lois Lerner for her hand in the targeting of conservative nonprofits before the 2012 elections. It also comes after the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to Barack nObama asking him to fire his IRS commissioner in July.
All throughout Congress' investigation into the allegations that the IRS targeted conservative groups, Koskinen stonewalled and mislead during hearings. Under his watch, Lerner's hard drive was destroyed two weeks after Congress issued a preservation order. Koskinen said his agency expended time and energy looking for the documents but "no emails could be retrieved." The IRS' inspector general found backups 15 days after his office started looking for them. "Commissioner Koskinen violated the public trust," said Jason Chaffetz, the oversight committee's chairman. "[Impeachment] will demonstrate to the American people that the IRS is under repair, and signal that Executive Branch officials who violate the public trust will be held accountable."
"If the intent is, as Chaffetz says, to restore confidence in the IRS, you know how you do that?" commentator Charles Krauthammer asked. "You win the White House, you appoint a new IRS commissioner and then you get an uncompromised DOJ to go in and to prosecute Lois Lerner."
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nObama cancels oil and natural-gas lease sales in the Arctic...
{PAMELA GELLER} ~ This story is related to this eye-opening piece about how Moscow is using nObama’s disastrous post-American foreign policy to batter American credibility abroad... nObama has presided over a decline in American power and prestige that could not have been anything but deliberate. I warned that this was coming in my book about nObama, The Post-American Presidency: The nObama Administration’s War On America: nObama subscribes to the far-left idea that the problem with the world is America as a superpower, and that if America were weakened politically, militarily, and economically, the world would be at peace. He has pursued that vision throughout his presidency. We will be paying for it for generations to come. Last Friday, President nObama’s Interior Department announced it was canceling plans for offshore oil and natural-gas lease sales in the Arctic it had scheduled to hold in 2016 and 2017, and denied requests from two oil companies (Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil) to retain their drilling rights there, which begin to expire in 2017. In making its decision, the Interior Department cited low oil prices and a lack of company interest, despite the phenomenal amount ($2.1 billion) that Shell paid for its lease in 2008 and the $7-plus billion it has invested in the area. http://pamelageller.com/2015/10/obama-cancels-oil-and-natural-gas-lease-sales-in-the-arctic-cedes-arctic-to-putin.html/.
Muslim Blood and Al-Aqsa
{Bassam Tawil} ~ According to a hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.A.S), "One drop of faithful Muslim blood is more valuable than the entire Kaaba."... However, as far as the Palestinian national religious leadership is concerned, the words are meaningless. In their unclean hands and with their perverted agenda, Muslim blood has become a political pawn in the game of "attack the Jews." The recent bloodshed in the Palestinian territory and inside Israel, particularly Jerusalem, based on the claim that "Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger" -- and the fatal stabbings of Jews by knife-wielding Palestinians -- are cruel examples of how Hamas and the Islamic Movement's clerics distort the words of Allah (S.W.A.T.) and the Prophet, and present Islam as a hideous religion bent on murder and paganism. They seem to care more about the stones of Al-Aqsa mosque than about the lives of faithful Muslims. Under cover of the slogan "Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger," the Palestinian Authority (PA), Hamas and PLO leaders, as well as Israeli Arab Knesset members and the Islamic Movement in Israel, send innocent young Palestinians to murder Jews at a time when we all know perfectly well that Al-Aqsa mosque is not danger. Ironically -- I am ashamed to admit it -- thanks to the Israel Police, Al-Aqsa is the safest mosque in the Middle East. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6756/muslim-blood-aqsa
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Debunking the Media lies about Hilly's Benghazi Video Lie
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ In one of best moments during the Wednesday debate Marco Rubio criticized the mainstream media for declaring former Secretary of State Clinton totally debunked the “charges” against her about Benghazi... despite the fact that Ms. Clinton was shown to have lied about the lousy YouTube video supposedly being the cause of the attack. But the Media is pushing back. According to the MSM it doesn’t matter that in the immediate aftermath of the attack Clinton told the leaders of Libya and Egypt, along with her daughter that the event in Benghazi was a terror attack while she told the U.S. voters and more importantly the families of the four people who were killed that it was a spontaneous riot because of a blasphemous anti-Muslim video. They contend that there was much confusion at the time and Hilly’s Benghazi lies were what she actually believed at the time. Allow me to suggest that if any of those reporters, columnist removed their heads from the former First Lady’s pooper and research the available information they would be agreeing that a liar like Ms. Clinton has forfeited any chance if moving back to the White House..
FBI Director Comey Doesn’t Cave To nObama Pressure...
{rickwells.us} ~ FBI Director Jim Comey was supposed to cower, to himself become a tool in the nObama war on cops, to allow himself to be intimidated into betraying who he is as so many others willingly do in the interest of advancing their careers and positions... Comey isn’t like that; nObama may have misjudged him and in doing so made a critical error. He placed a man of character into a leadership position and now he’s having a difficult time pulling the reins in the direction of the anti-cops agenda. To make matter worse, Comey’s also not wearing his nObamablinders. He’s interacting with law enforcement, firsthand. As the Washington Post reported, when Hussein nObama nominated Comey as FBI Director, he commented, “To know Jim Comey is also to know his fierce independence and his deep integrity.” Unfortunately for the usurper in the White House, those were not the usual empty claims. http://rickwells.us/archives/21555.
Judge Jeanie Pirro On nObama’s Reversal In Syria...
{rickwells.us} ~ In her open Judge Pirro details the long list of dithering failures by Hussein nObama in the Middle East with a focus on Syria... leading off with a clip of him assuring the American people two years ago that there would be no American boots on the ground, that any action would be limited in both time and scope. In the interest of and out of a respect for reporting the truth, Judge Pirro then declares, “Mr. ‘president,’ you don’t know what you’re doing.” At a minimum he’s an idiot, she’s right, but it’s completely plausible that he knows exactly what he’s doing, that his intentions are to create as much chaos, turmoil, loss of life and respect for America in the Middle East as possible. Sort of an Arab version of what he’s done her inside the country..
US to allocate $100 million more to “moderate” Syrian opposition
{Robert Spencer} ~ This moderate Syrian opposition is made up of Islamic jihadists. Former Defense Intelligence Agency director Michael Flynn recently confirmed that the nObama Administration knowingly decided to support al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, and directly enabled the rise of the Islamic State... The rebels are not by any stretch of the imagination “moderates”: they’re pro-Sharia Islamic jihad terrorists. Remember, the nObama Administration spent $500 million to find and train “moderates” in Syria, and could only come up with fifty trainees. Thats our tax money, folks. We are paying them to kill us. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/us-to-allocate-100-million-more-to-moderate-syrian-opposition.
Latest Version of the F-16 Takes Flight
{Stephen Gutowski} ~ The latest update to the F-16 Fighting Falcon took to the skies earlier this month in a successful test flight... The F-16V “Viper” features a brand new radar system and the ability to detect stealth aircraft, Popular Mechanics reports. The new iteration employs Northrop Grumman’s Scalable Agile Beam Radar which provides increased threat detection and situational awareness. The 4th generation F-16V will also carry a SNIPER pod which will improve its air-to-ground and air-to-air targeting capabilities. Northrop Grumman produced an instructional video on how to swap out the radar systems as well as shoot down multiple Russian SU-27s..
Hilly’s newest e-mail problem
{Jennifer Rubin} ~ Hilly Clinton would like the final word on Benghazi and her e-mail scandal to be the House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing where her fortitude and Republicans’ ineptitude were on full display. It will not be... We know that it is legally irrelevant whether the e-mails were marked classified. If they contained classified material which she did not handle properly she could be in legal jeopardy. That is why the FBI will actually have the last word on the e-mails. There is more fodder for Clinton’s critics in this latest tranche of e-mails. More damning is what the e-mails reveal again. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2015/10/30/hillarys-newest-e-mail-problem/.
Gingrich: ‘One To Three’ Odds Hilly Clinton Will Be Indicted
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has never been one to mince words, and what he recently predicted about former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton... during an interview on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” sent a strong signal to moderate and independent voters. While Clinton’s hardcore fan base praised her for making it through the grueling, 11-hour hearing at the hands of the bipartisan House Select Committee on Benghazi, it didn’t take long for an intelligent person to realize that Clinton denied hundreds of requests for extra security from the murdered ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. “I think there are two phases here, Hilly Clinton will be the nominee unless she’s indicted,” Gingrich said. “The odds are about one to three she’ll be indicted, at which point there’ll be an enormous vacuum in the Democratic Party.” Gingrich explained that it wouldn’t take much of a chain reaction to scare moderate and independent voters away from voting for Clinton come Election Day. http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/29/gingrich-one-to-three-odds-hillary-clinton-will-be-indicted/.
Will Iran Walk Away from Nuclear Deal?
{Lawrence A. Franklin} ~ The world powers are now experienc
ing what it means to negotiate with Persian theocrats. All is negotiable; nothing is ever finally decided. Words never commit one to action... Changing circumstances vitiate the substance of any prior commitment, leaving the door open to additional demands. Although the Islamic Republic insists that it be recognized as a normal member of the international community, it will continue to behave as if it is not bound by global norms. Despite Iran's apparent acceptance of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA}, known as the "Iran Deal," after the document's submission to the relevant state bureaucracies, these institutions have agreed to it only on a conditional basis. The JCPOA was approved by Iran's Consultative Assembly (Majlis), the Council of Guardians, the Supreme National Security Council and by the Office of the Leader. These seeming approvals can tempt those who desire the implementation of the nuclear deal to assume falsely that the bellicose rhetoric of Iran's leaders and the continued opposition to the JCPOA are just face-saving turns of phrase. This same shallow mode of thinking assumes that last week's launch of an experimental ballistic missile by Iran was a bone thrown in the direction of hardliners who oppose the nuclear deal. Iran's leaders seem to have calculated that the missile test would not invite a reassessment by the P5+1 signatories, despite the fact that the launch was a clear violation of the JCPOA. Iran's leaders were proven correct: both Russia and China refused to condemn the missile test at the United Nations..
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You Know You're A Progressive When...
Tom Mclughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ To be a good progressive these days, you must learn to live in a constant state of cognitive dissonance, which dictionary.com defines as: “anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes or beliefs.”.
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You have to believe that Hilly triumphed over the House Committee on Benghazi even if they proved she lied to the families of four dead Americans and to the nation. You must believe that pretending to answer questions is more important than telling the truth. You have to believe that even though 54% of American voters don’t think Hilly is honest or trustworthy and you cannot think of anything she accomplished as a senator or secretary of state, you must support her because “It’s time we had a woman president.”
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You have to believe nObamanomics has reduced our unemployment rate to only 5.5% even though there are 95 million Americans out of work who have given up looking for a job, and there are only 318 million Americans.
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You have to believe that anyone who objects to allowing tens of millions of illegal aliens into America and paying for their food, clothing, housing, education, and health care is also racist. However, groups like La Raza (translated “The Race”) and its affiliate MEChA, who claim Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California, Nevada and Colorado were stolen by evil white people are not.
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You have to believe that abortion is not dismembering an unborn baby in its mother’s womb, but “women’s health care.” You have to be willing to declare that anyone who suggests there may be a moral problem with killing babies and selling them for parts is waging a “war on women.”
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You have to believe that homosexuality is natural, but sex roles are artificial. You must declare that homosexuals are born that way, but men and women are not. Counseling for homosexuals who wish to overcome attraction to others of the same sex must be made illegal everywhere, not just in California, Oregon and New Jersey, but taxpayers must pay for surgery and hormone treatments in attempts to turn men into women and women into men.
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If you’re able to do all this, congratulations. You can call yourself a good progressive.
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