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NATO Isn't for Defending Montenegro
by Marc A. Thiessen  

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This Case Presents Perfect Opportunity

for Courts to Push Back on Federal Agencies

by Anthony Caso

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Does an administrative agency have the power to rewrite an act of Congress?... The answer to that question in the headline ought to be a resounding no. Yet, by deferring to administrative agencies over the meaning of federal law, the federal courts have for decades empowered the executive branch do exactly this. Agencies now rewrite the law with regularity. The problem is so-called Chevron deference—a doctrine that was meant to keep courts out of the detailed implementation of federal law. Courts decided to defer to administrative agencies when the law called on them to apply their specialized expertise—especially scientific expertise—to set various standards. Unfortunately, this practice has gotten out of hand. The courts have allowed agencies to dictate the meaning of federal law and even allowed agencies to change their mind about what a federal law means. An example is the case of the Federal Communications Commission’s regulation of the internet at issue in Berninger v. Federal Communications Commission, which is currently pending before the Supreme Court on a petition for writ of certiorari. This is a case of an agency saying the law means one thing on one day, and the complete opposite thing on another day...   https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/08/01/this-case-presents-perfect-opportunity-for-courts-to-push-back-on-federal-agencies/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRsbE9XSmhNakl3WkdGbCIsInQiOiJUOXlPb2FSOEtCZTlBNDJlYjgxKzliMXB3Tk1LS1JtTENVQTZKK0VJVGZxbWdGMUVKRktqR0R6Z0dKUHRVVHJzWFViNVhGb3FmRjNkc2M5d3luVXQ3VXVJMm5MeVREeWliaHZ4S1loUTg4V3BabW9sS2VcL2F0c1dkdThoK1FMNHcifQ%3D%3D 

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Mitch McConnell Makes Surprise Announcement on Border Wall!

by Andrew West

{ constitution.com } From the very onset of this, the Trump Era, there has been one expectation of the American populace that has yet to make the adequate progress toward reality... That, of course, is the “big, beautiful” wall on the southern border between the United States and the great nation of Mexico. You see, it’s not about keeping our Mexican neighbors from visiting or integrating into America, it’s about keeping our more nefarious elements neighbors from crossing over into Texas, Arizona, and the like in order to exploit our American populace in their criminal quest. Unfortunately, this wall has been stalled more times than a 16 year old on a hill in has dad’s old, manual transmission truck. Today, however, those of us who have been awaiting good news on walls had our ears perk up and our interest piqued by none other than Mitch McConnell, the house majority leader who has often found himself at odds with our President. “I support what the president is trying to do on the wall,” Mitch McConnell told  reporters Tuesday. “Most of my members do as well.” Both McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan want to avoid the border wall issue as best as possible until after November’s midterm elections...

https://constitution.com/mitch-mcconnell-makes-surprise-announcement-on-border-wall/

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Mueller’s Trump Questions Leak, ENORMOUS Topics On The Table

by Andrew West

{ constitution.com } ~ The nation is ready for Robert Mueller to begin getting to the point of his lengthy, secretive, and almost certainly tainted investigation into possible “collusion” between the Trump team and nefarious Russian forces... For two years now we’ve waited, while numerous other probes have been completed, exonerating the President of any such treason. Mueller, however, pushes forward, with little else to show for his efforts than a few process charges on some loose acquaintances of the leader of the free world. Amid the numerous controversies wrapped up within the Mueller debacle is the idea that the President himself will be interviewed by Mueller himself…the details of which will need to be ironed out well ahead of time. A kink in the plan has emerged, however, after Mueller’s probable line of questioning toward the President leaked. Let’s just say, it isn’t pretty. Mueller could very well be testing the waters of the President’s anxiety level by laying this leak as a trap, awaiting the response from the White House.  Now, whether or not that will be an official response by Sarah Sanders tomorrow afternoon, or a late night tweet storm from the President himself has yet to be seen. What are you waiting for Session?

https://constitution.com/muellers-trump-questions-leak-enormous-topics-on-the-table/

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Tucker Carlson slams immigrant lawyer as 'citizen

of a country controlled by conquistadors'

by BRETT SAMUELS

{ thehill.com } ~ Fox News host Tucker Carlson dismissed on Monday an immigration attorney’s argument that all American residents should be given the right to vote... saying he was from a country “controlled by conquistadors.” Cesar Vargas, who came to the U.S. from Mexico illegally when he was a child, appeared on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," where he argued that the right to vote should be expanded to include anyone who lives in America. "I think it goes to the concept of citizenship. As a nation, we have matured from only free, land-owner, white people — to now women and African Americans," said Vargas, who is able to remain in the U.S. because he has a green card. "Don’t hit me with the race crap," Carlson interjected. "As a citizen of a country controlled by conquistadors, don’t lecture me about this stuff." "I believe that we should open the franchise, the right to vote, to everyone," Vargas asserted. Carlson broke out into a fit of laughter at that suggestion...   http://thehill.com/homenews/media/399616-tucker-carlson-slams-immigrant-lawyer-as-citizen-of-country-controlled-by

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

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IAF strikes kill 7 ISIS militants 200 meters from Golan border 

by ANNA AHRONHEIM

{ jpost.com } ~ Israel struck seven ISIS militants who were 200 meters from the Israeli border in an air strike on the Syrian-held Golan Heights overnight Wednesday... the army confirmed on Thursday. At 10:30 p.m. IAF jets hit seven armed terrorists who belonged to the Islamic State group’s Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade who had crossed the Alpha line  in the Syria-Jordan-Israel border triangle area and were approaching the border fence. The militants had been tracked by Israel for several kilometers and were hit before they infiltrated into Israel, preventing what the army said could have been a “grave incident.”  The next morning troops from the Nahal Brigade searched the area and found the terrorists’ bodies as well as five AK-47 assault rifles, bullet-proof vests, grenades and what looked to be suicide belts. While the army “cannot unequivocally” say what the cell planned to do, it is believed that they were planning an attack against Israel. Nonetheless, the army stressed that there had been no threat to Israeli communities or troops in the area during the incident...   https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/IAF-killed-7-militans-in-overnight-strikes-in-Syrian-Golan-Heights-564016?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2-8-2018&utm_content=iaf-killed-7-militans-in-overnight-strikes-in-syrian-golan-heights-564016

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NATO Isn't for Defending Montenegro

by Marc A. Thiessen 

 

Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently asked President Trump, “Why should my son go to Montenegro to defend it from attack?” It is a fair question — one that many Americans were asking following Trump’s performance at the NATO summit — and it deserved a better answer than the president’s musing on the “aggressive” nature of Montenegrins.
               Instead, Trump should have recalled the words he spoke last year in Poland praising the heroes of the Warsaw Uprising, the 74th anniversary of which is being marked on Wednesday. In one of the most powerful speeches of his presidency, Trump recalled the terrible price that millions paid for the West’s failure to deter Nazi and Soviet aggression. “Under a double occupation, the Polish people endured evils beyond description,” Trump recalled: “the Katyn forest massacre, the occupations, the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the destruction of this beautiful capital city and the deaths of nearly 1 in 5 Polish people. A vibrant Jewish population — the largest in Europe — was reduced to almost nothing after the Nazis systematically murdered millions of Poland’s Jewish citizens.”
               The reason NATO was created out of the ashes of World War II was precisely to make certain such destruction never happens again. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain famously dismissed Germany’s threats to Czechoslovakia, declaring that Britain should not get drawn into war “because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.” The result was 50 million people dead, a continent in flames and the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
               The lesson we learned from that experience is that weakness is provocative. When adversaries believe you are weak, they are emboldened to act — and prone to miscalculate. When they believe you are strong and determined, however, they are far less likely to test you and start cataclysmic wars.
               Trump believes in peace through strength. But to have peace requires not just military strength. As Trump said in Warsaw, “Our defense is not just a commitment of money, it is a commitment of will.” President Ronald Reagan used the military far less than any of those who succeeded him in office not just because he rebuilt America’s military strength but also because America’s adversaries did not doubt his willingness to use it.
               Why did Russian President Vladimir Putin believe he could invade Ukraine and annex Crimea without consequence? It was no mere coincidence that Russia’s intervention happened just six months after President Barack liar-nObama failed to enforce his red line in Syria. Putin saw that liar-nObama imposed no costs on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s defiance, unwilling to launch strikes that a U.S. official said would be “just muscular enough not to get mocked.” At that moment, he knew there would be no real costs for his intervention in Ukraine.
                liar-nObama projected weakness. On taking office, Trump rectified that situation by enforcing liar-nObama’s Syria red line, not once but twice — sending a message of strength that was heard not just in Damascus but in Moscow as well.
               There is a reason Putin despises the NATO alliance so much — and has fought to prevent further integration of the countries of Eastern Europe into it. He knows he may be able to bully his unallied neighbors, but he can’t bully a NATO ally — because that ally is backed up by 28 others, bonded by a mutual commitment to each other’s security and led by an American president who, while seeking friendship with all, is unafraid to flex U.S. military muscle.
               That is why Putin opposed the admission of Montenegro into the NATO alliance, reportedly even backing a plot to assassinate Montenegro’s prime minister in an effort to stop it. That is why Putin wants Trump to fail in his effort to get the NATO allies to meet their commitments and spend 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense. He understands that a weak NATO cannot deter him but a strong NATO can.
               As Trump said in Warsaw, “As long as we know our history, we will know how to build our future. Americans know that a strong alliance of free, sovereign and independent nations is the best defense for our freedoms and for our interests.” The whole point of NATO is not to defend Montenegro; it is to make sure we never have to defend Montenegro — or Warsaw, or Paris, or London again.

~The Patriot Post
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