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The GOP's Fear Factor 
by Cal Thomas 
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The FISA Court Grants The Authority, Not The Ability
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ There is a meeting scheduled tomorrow between key congressional oversight committee heads Nunes, Gowdy etc. and leadership... of the FBI Director Wray, DOJ Edward O’Callaghan and ODNI Dan Coats. The meeting was set up by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, and the purpose of the meeting is to come to some agreement on access to documents being withheld by the DOJ, DOJ-NSD and FBI. However, amid the ongoing debate over spies and informants used by the CIA and FBI to conduct political surveillance, there’s an aspect of the ongoing investigation that seems to be entirely overlooked. On January 7th, 2016 the Inspector General of the National Security Agency, George Ellard, submitted a mandatory compliance report outlining the status of the NSA’s ability to monitor the access of users within the NSA database...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/23/part-i-the-fisa-court-grants-the-authority-not-the-ability/
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Islamizing the Schools: The Case of West Virginia
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by Pamela Geller
{ americanthinker.com } ~ This is an outrage, but it is common nationwide: the Daily Caller News Foundation reports that Mountain Ridge Middle School in West Virginia... is "instructing junior high students to write the Islamic profession of faith ostensibly to practice calligraphy."  Students are made to write out the Shahada, which states: "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." This is exactly what I warned about in my book, Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance, in the chapter "The Mosqueing of the Public Schools." In order to convert to Islam, one says the shahada. Saying the shahada makes you a Muslim. The shahada is what is on the black flag of jihad. No non-Muslim student should be forced to write or say the shahada without the qualifier "Muslims believe that..." This is because it is a statement of faith. If the school exercise is requiring students to write it, it should be clear from the wording of the exercise that this is Islamic faith, not the student's faith. That distinction has been glossed over in many, many school textbook presentations...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/islamizing_the_schools_the_case_of_west_virginia.html 
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Gowdy Issues Warning To Dems Who Want To Meet With Trump
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by JULIA NISTA
{ dailycaller.com } ~ South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy issued a warning Wednesday to Democrats who wish to attend a Thursday meeting with President Trump... and the House Intelligence Committee. House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer sent a letter requesting that a meeting between Trump and the House Intelligence Committee be bipartisan. Gowdy said he doesn’t care who attends the meeting, but the only thing he would ask is “if you’re going to show up, show up with an open mind and closed lips.” “In other words, don’t leak like a sieve when we get through with the meeting,” Gowdy continued...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/23/gowdy-dems-meet-trump-house-intel/?utm_medium=email.
The American Mainstream Media’s Pro-Terrorist Anti-Israel Bias
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by Jeff Dunetz
{ lidblog.com } ~ The American mainstream media has been anti-Israel for decades... The coverage of last week’s Hamas attack on Israel was a prime example of their pro-terrorist/ anti-Israel bias. Horribly while the celebration of the American embassy move was happening on April 14th, a long-promised violent Hamas protest was also occurring. Israeli pre-protest warnings not to rush the border fence area were ignored, and IDF soldiers were forced to protect their country, especially the communities on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. The American media was quick to lie about the violent Hamas-led attack on Israel. Inventing a narrative, the mainstream media blamed the violence on the embassy move,  the Trump administration or an Israeli sense of entitlement...   https://lidblog.com/msm-pro-terrorist-anti-israel-bias/ 
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Dems Yesterday: Trump’s Claim of Embedded Spy Is Nonsense…
Dems Today: The Use of Embedded Spy is a Vital Technique 
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by Jim Hoft 
{ thegatewaypundit.com } ~ This sure moved fast…Democrats Yesterday... Rep. scum-Adam Shiff tweeted this on Sunday: Trump’s claim of an embedded “spy” is nonsense. Democrats Today– Rep. Ted Lieu: The use of informants is vital for counterintelligence. Former DNI Chief James Clapper: Embedding spies is “a standard investigative practice.”...   http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/05/democrats-yesterday-trumps-claim-of-embedded-spy-is-nonsense-democrats-today-the-use-of-embedded-spy-is-a-vital-technique/
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The GOP's Fear Factor 
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by Cal Thomas
{ townhall.com } ~ When President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he could not have foreseen today's Republican Party.

A bill authored by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) that would require the federal government to balance the budget each year was soundly defeated last week in the Senate. Even Paul admitted he thought the bill had no chance, but he told the Washington Post his purpose was to point out Republican hypocrisy. Paul accused his Republican colleagues of engaging in an "unholy alliance" with Democrats to keep increasing spending, thereby adding to the deficit and national debt, which now exceeds $21 trillion with no end in sight.

In the House, Republicans pushed back against President Trump's proposal to cut a measly $15 billion from several programs. For Congress, $15 billion is pocket change, but even this small amount is too much for the GOP, which fears Democrat campaign commercials accusing Republicans of not caring about children and wanting to evict grandma from her home.

Rep. Ryan Costello (R-Pa.) exposed Republican fears in a comment quoted by the Post: "I worry about the messaging the Democrats will be able to do off it. Those ads write themselves."

This scenario happens with regularity. Are Republicans so stupid that they can't see it coming? Are they so inept that they can't devise a strategy to overcome the left's predictable tactics and put them on the defensive for their failed, expensive and unnecessary programs, along with their refusal to reform entitlements, the real driver of debt?

If the only motivation for Republicans is the next election, and the one after that, ad infinitum, why have any Republicans in Congress at all? Why have a Republican Party, which once was supposedly the party of small government, low taxes and individual responsibility? Now it seems the GOP has joined the other side and has become part of the problem rather than the solution.

It's not that Republicans -- and Democrats for that matter -- don't know how to balance the budget. The bipartisan Balanced Budget Act of 1997 would have balanced the budget by 2002. Unfortunately, the law had a short lifespan. By 1999 and 2000, new legislation was introduced and passed that effectively obliterated the previous attempt at fiscal discipline.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump rightly criticized President Obama for "...almost doubling our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and forty-three million Americans are on food stamps."

Even some Democrats get it right sometimes, though when spending push comes to election shove they usually vote with the big spenders. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA.) has said, "Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have."

Well, maybe not obviously to many Republicans.

Republicans need to stop fearing the fear factor and start winning arguments. They can start by asking Americans if they want their money to continue to be spent on failed and unnecessary programs. They should then propose alternative programs that do work and promote the power of the individual, which once was paramount before government became our "keeper."

Fear is not a policy for Republicans. It is surrender. As John F. Kennedy said in another context, "We can do better."

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  • Bonnie

    they tend to forget if it happens to be the other way around but not ok on the other side.The same in braking the law.

  • amazing how somehow spying on campaigns is now ok then y none in Hillarys i guess just some not all right.......................

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