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What Is America's Cause in the World Today? 
by Pat Buchanan
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 Jarrett - Mr Magoo Sessions Recused 
Under Wrong Law, US Figuring Mueller Out
{ rickwells.us } ~ Lou Dobbs and Gregg Jarrett almost don’t know where to begin in tackling the embracing by the left of criminality... hypocrisy and abuse of power as the new normal. Jarrett observes, “Well, the New York Times is desperate but Robert Mueller must really be desperate if he thinks that scolding the Attorney General over his wrongful recusal is somehow obstruction of justice.” Jarrett educates Mueller or, at a minimum, lets him know he’s not getting away with his latest deception, saying, “Under the law obstruction requires a corrupt purpose and as Victoria Toensing pointed out, a lie, threat, bribe, destruction of evidence or altering of documents. Scolding your AG because he was dumb in relying on the wrong regulation in his recusal is not obstruction of justice.” Jarrett continues, “And so this just underscores what a colossal waste of taxpayer money Mueller has cost us.” He says, “Americans now are beginning to realize the President is the victim, not the villain, here, that there was never any evidence of a crime to justify a criminal investigation, no legitimate intelligence to justify a counterintelligence investigation. And Americans are turning against Robert Mueller and James Comey.”...   https://rickwells.us/jarrett-magoo-sessions-recused/
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Pruitt: ‘We’re Going to Be 
Energy Dominant and Energy Independent’ 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said America would soon be "energy dominant and energy independent,"... a year after President Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord. Pruitt called leaving the agreement "historic" and addressed controversy over his leadership at the agency, saying the president fully supports him, in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon. "The president a year ago this Friday said he's going to put America first," Pruitt said. "We weren't as a country going to be apologetic about how we do business, with respect to these environmental issues."...   http://freebeacon.com/issues/pruitt-going-energy-dominant-energy-independent/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d387592c8b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_30_10_03_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d387592c8b-45611665
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Diplomats: EU Wrestling with Iran Nuclear Deal After American Exit
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{ news.usni.org } ~ The Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal leaves the European Union with the difficult choice of continuing to trade with Iran... to keep up its end of the accord but also faces the loss of doing business in the United States, the EU ambassador to Washington said Wednesday. “I think Europe will live up to their commitment in the agreement,” as long as Iran does not resume its work on nuclear weapons. Daniel O’Sullivan said speaking at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He noted that the United Kingdom, France and Germany, for now, all part of the 28-member union, were signatories to the deal, along with Russia and China. Lady Catherine Ashton, former vice president of the European Commission, said the agreement was unique because for the first time it brought all these nations working together on resolving a major international issue. With Trump’s decision, Russia, China, Germany, France and the United Kingdom “lose an incredibly important and vital partner” in keeping Iran from moving ahead with a nuclear weapons program to match its missile programs...   https://news.usni.org/2018/05/30/diplomats-eu-wrestling-iran-deal-american-exit?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=341239f88f-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-341239f88f-231491269&mc_cid=341239f88f&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Democrat Obstruction in the Senate Is Hurting Our Courts
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ Our federal courts are facing a vacancy crisis like never before... The number of judicial vacancies across the federal bench has averaged 142 so far this year. The only year that came close to this was 1991, which had an average of 138 vacancies—but that was shortly after Congress created 85 new judicial positions. More than half of the current vacancies are designated as “judicial emergencies” by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts because those seats have been open so long and they significantly impact the caseloads of other judges. This is a real vacancy crisis. As of May 30, 39 nominees to the U.S. district courts and U.S. courts of appeal were pending before the full Senate after being approved by the Judiciary Committee. More than half of these nominees are slated to fill judicial emergency vacancies...   https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/05/30/democrat-obstruction-in-the-senate-is-hurting-our-courts/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdKbFkySmxNMk5qWm1FeCIsInQiOiJudzZuVGVtaXNcL2w5VWk4MVgzRjVteUJmSHp0UHhGMWZJZTdTT05GeFY4K3ZxNWVFZ09YOVpocXJGWWxSWFMzK2ZQem1MNForSk5MR0NIdklFd1VMMUltN01nQTl3ejRTYVFVeFNsWU9aZHJLTFh3N0hzMVR1ZDhhRlMySVNXUmMifQ%3D%3D 
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Benghazi's Kris Paronto Calls 
Out Sissy-Boy Hogg for Anti-American Tweet
{ rickwells.us } ~ Freakish girly-boy David Hogg is the poster boy for how terrorists see Americans... He’s got a sense of entitlement, he’s weak, frail, virtually gender neutral, and soft. He cries when something doesn’t go his way like a two-year old, only he’s got big money behind him so his impact is much more than that of a child in Wal-Mart who’s mother won’t get him the Skittles. Instead of stomping his feet and screaming at the checkout aisle, the carnival freak show with a megaphone and no body, Hogg, recently threw a tantrum by lying on the floor of a Publix Market in Florida. He and a spattering of his cult followers attempted to manipulate the retailer by motivating shoppers to go elsewhere, to extort compliant behavior under the threat of economic consequences. It was their leftist confiscation cabal’s punishment for supporting a pro-NRA candidate for governor. While David Hogg might be every terrorist’s dream date for man-boy Thursdays, another public figure, a real man who fights terrorists and kills them, had a noteworthy response to this mouthy little twerp. Kris Paronto became famous for Benghazi, who ran towards the shooting to rescue his fellow Americans and doesn’t mince his words when it comes to traitors attacking his right to bear arms and our Constitution as the left’s gun confiscation mouthpiece...Have not heared from girly-boy Hogg's parents. Why?
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What Is America's Cause in the World Today? 
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by Pat Buchanan
{ townhall.com } ~ After being sworn in for a fourth term, Vladimir Putin departed the Kremlin for Annunciation Cathedral to receive the televised blessing of Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The patriarch and his priests in sacred vestments surrounded Putin, who, standing alone, made the sign of the cross.

Meanwhile, sacred vestments from the Sistine Chapel were being transported by the Vatican to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to adorn half-clad models in a sexy show billed as "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination." One model sported a papal tiara.

The show proved a sensation in secular media.

In Minsk, Belarus, on May 17, to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Britain's embassy raised the rainbow flag. Belarus's Ministry of Internal Affairs was not amused:

"Same-sex relationships are a fake. And the essence of fake is always the same -- the devaluation of truth. The LGBT community and all this struggle for 'their rights,' and the day of the community itself, are just a fake!"

Belarus is declaring moral truth -- to Great Britain.

What is going on? A scholarly study sums it up: "The statistical trends in religion show two separate Europes: the West is undergoing a process of secularization while the post-socialist East, de-secularization."

One Europe is turning back to God; the other is turning its back on God. And when Vladimir Putin and Belarus' Alexander Lukashenko are standing up for traditional values against Western cultural elites, the East-West struggle has lost its moral clarity.

And, so, what do we Americans stand for now? What is our cause in the world today?

In World War II, Americans had no doubt they were in the right against Nazism and a militaristic Japan that had attacked us at Pearl Harbor.

In the Cold War, we believed America was on God's side against the evil ideology of Marxism-Leninism, which declared the Communist state supreme and that there was no such thing as God-given rights.

With the moral clarity of the Cold War gone, how do we rally Americans to fight on the other side of the world in places most of them can't find on a map?

A weekend article in The Washington Post discusses the strategic difficulty of our even prevailing, should we become involved in wars with both Iran and North Korea.

"You would expect the U.S. and its allies to prevail but at a human and material cost that would be almost incalculable, particularly in the case of the Korean example," said Rand researcher David Ochmanek,

Added John Hopkins professor Mara Karlin, "If you want to ensure the Pentagon can actually plan and prepare and resource for a potential conflict with China or Russia, then getting into conflict with Iran or North Korea is the exact wrong thing to do."

One wonders: How many of these potential wars -- with North Korea, Iran, Russia, China -- could we fight without having America bled and bankrupted. What conceivable benefit could we derive from these wars, especially with a China or Russia, to justify the cost?

Looking back, only one great power survived the last century as a world power. The German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires did not survive World War I. World War II brought to an end the British, French, Italian and Japanese empires.

The Soviet Union and the United States were the only great surviving powers of World War II, and the USSR itself collapsed between 1989 and 1991.

Then, in 1991, we Americans started down the well-traveled road of empire, smashing Iraq to rescue Kuwait. Heady with that martial triumph, we plunged into Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen.

Though still embroiled, we are now talking war with North Korea or Iran, or even Russia or China, the former over its annexation of Crimea, the latter over its annexation of the South China Sea.

Donald Trump is president today because he told the people he would "Make America Great Again" and put "America First."

Which bring us back to the question: What is America's cause today?

Defeating Nazism and fascism was a cause. Defending the West against Communism was a cause. But what cause now unites Americans?

It is certainly not Christianizing the world as it was in centuries long ago, or imposing Western rule on mankind as it was in the age of empires from the 17th to the 20th century.

Democracy crusading is out of style as the free elections we have demanded have produced Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq, and nationalists, populists and autocrats from Asia to the Middle East to Europe.

Perhaps our mission is to defend and protect what is vital to us, to stay out of foreign wars where our critical interests are not imperiled, and to reunite our divided and disputatious republic -- if we are not too far beyond that.
 
https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2018/05/29/what-is-americas-cause-in-the-world-today-n2485114?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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  • Bonnie

    Just as long as we have a president who's aim is having the USA number one we will always been in the right side of things. And finally we have a college who is sighting conservative teachers.

  • kris paranto is no david hogg hitler for sure u r spot on on that one.   the schools today are a waste and our kids need us to teach them

    as for our role in the world just what u said

    Perhaps our mission is to defend and protect what is vital to us, to stay out of foreign wars where our critical interests are not imperiled, and to reunite our divided and disputatious republic -- if we are not too far beyond that.

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