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    A 'Lost' Generation?
Cal Thomas
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Special Prosecutors
by GEOFF SHEPARD
spectator.org } ~ Special prosecutors are dangerous animals under any circumstances, but their handiwork uncovered this past week should shock everyone who believes in Equal Justice Under Law... the promise engraved in the West Pediment of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. I grant you that it concerns a president who resigned in disgrace over four decades ago, but the same deliberate misrepresentations could be being made today. I opposed the 2011 effort to unseal Richard Nixon’s 1975 grand jury testimony, taken some 11 months after he had resigned as president. I suspected it was a bald-faced attempt by Watergate’s special prosecutors, bitter about the pardon granted by President Ford, to trap Nixon into making false statements about his involvement in the scandal, thus enabling them to bring new charges of perjury, in spite of that previous pardon. I also argued that, if his grand jury testimony was to be unsealed, then so also should be grand jury materials involving other Watergate matters — particularly the infamous “Road Map” that transmitted grand jury information under seal to the House Judiciary Committee (HJC). My effort failed and Nixon’s testimony was unsealed by judicial order on November 10, 2011. There were no bombshells. It proved to be a non-event and was quickly forgotten. My separate effort to unseal the Road Map, however, lay dormant for seven long years, until October 18, 2018, when Chief Judge Beryl Howell ordered its unsealing. I was so confident that this also was a non-event and that I already knew everything worth knowing about Watergate that I didn’t get around to reviewing it until last week — and was astonished at what I found. A little background is in order to appreciate the significance of what is revealed within the Road Map’s contents. Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) prosecutors learned, in January 1974, that the final “hush money” payment to Howard Hunt’s lawyer, William Bittman, had been made at 10 p.m. on Wednesday evening, March 21, 1973 — a mere 10 hours after John Dean had first informed President Nixon of Hunt’s blackmail demands. Prosecutors concluded, entirely on this circumstantial evidence, that Nixon himself must have ordered that payment — which would constitute an open-and-shut obstruction of justice and be clear grounds for Nixon’s impeachment. In order to perfect their case against Nixon, three things had to have happened in that 10-hour time period...  https://spectator.org/lies-damn-lies-and-special-prosecutors/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=0edde13764-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_02_04_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-0edde13764-104608113  
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Judge Jeanine Pirro: 
‘There’s A Plot To Remake America’
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by STEPHANIE HAMILL
dailycaller.com } ~ Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro believes there’s a “plot to remake America,” which is the theme of her new book “Radical, Resistance and Revenge.”.. Pirro told the Daily Caller’s Stephanie Hamill that she’s very concerned about the direction that America is going.“You can see everything is upside down: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, law and order, respect for authority,” said Pirro. She went on to say that she’s worried about the “anger” coming from the left and what she sees as an effort to silence conservatives.I love a two party system, I love that we can debate, and that we can differ, but this is different. They want to shut us down, they hate our president. When you think about all the times they’ve talked about blowing up the White House, killing the president — this is lunacy.  https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/01/judge-pirro-plot-to-remake-america/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9885  
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Erdoğan's Elections: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
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by Burak Bekdil
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ No one in the saner parts of the world has ever claimed that Turkey's Islamist President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is a liberal democrat who never in the slightest rigged election results... But he was, at least, known to respect the ballot box. No longer. Erdoğan has taken to ridiculing even further whatever little remains of Turkey's democratic culture. Claiming vote-rigging, he pressured Turkey's supreme election board for a recount of ballots cast on March 31 in Istanbul, Turkey biggest city, which boasts more than 10 million registered voters. His Justice and Development Party (AKP) had lost municipal elections in Istanbul by a small margin of 13,000 votes. This was the first time Erdoğan's party had lost elections in Istanbul since 1994. The man who is notorious for saying "who wins Istanbul, wins Turkey" immediately ordered a rerun. His cries of irregularities and fraud brought shy smiles to the faces of most foreign observers and Turks. "Sometimes you get the best detectives from the ranks of best thieves," joked a European diplomat who asked not to be named, in a private conversation with Gatestone on April 4. Although the Supreme Election Board did not find any vote-rigging in favor of the opposition, it ruled for a rerun on June 23. Grudgingly, voters changed their travel plans, and cancelled and remade their flight and hotel bookings to be present at the ballot box on June 23. Erdoğan promised party fans a clear election victory in Istanbul -- but lost, this time, by a margin of more than 800,000 votes, compared to only 13,000 in the original race. The Islamist strongman had bitterly to admit defeat: 800,000 votes were just too many to hijack. He simply said there would not be other elections for four and a half years, when Turkey will hold presidential and parliamentary elections. In the original March 31 local elections, along with Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, Turkey's three biggest cities, his AKP party also lost other large provinces -- including Antalya, Mersin, Adana, Hatay and Bolu -- that typically had voted for it in previous polls. Erdoğan, apparently, did not care much if he adhered to the rules as long as he won power...
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Some Republicans Want The Supreme
Court To Punish scumbag-Comey
There’s One Problem
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by KEVIN DALEY
dailycaller.com } ~ President Donald Trump favorably quoted a Fox News contributor who urged the Supreme Court to punish former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey in a pair of Sunday morning tweets... The contributor, former GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, said Chief Justice John Roberts should hold scumbag-Comey in contempt for alleged abuses of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), though Roberts has no such power. It’s not clear whether a live broadcast or a news report prompted the president’s tweets, but Chaffetz pushed for the chief justice’s intervention as recently as Friday. “The chief justice of the Supreme Court — once the inspector general does the FISA report — they could very well hold people in contempt,” Chaffetz said during a Fox News broadcast Thursday. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is investigating alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) relating to the Trump campaign. scumbag-Comey might be entangled in that ongoing probe, since he signed FISA warrants targeting former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. But neither the chief justice nor the Supreme Court has freestanding power to hold individuals in contempt. Though the chief justice appoints the 11 judges who sit on the FISC, he has no authority to supervise the panel, direct its work, or remove its members. The Supreme Court could review a FISC matter that came before them through ordinary legal procedure, but it cannot take any action against FISC or scumbag-Comey on its own...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/01/supreme-court-james-comey/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9885   
Grand Jury Secrecy and
scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler
by GEOFF SHEPARD
spectator.org } ~ So, Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (HJC), fresh off his committee’s disastrous session with Robert Mueller... has announced his intent to obtain access to the secret grand jury testimony taken during the Mueller investigation. It matters not that Mueller concluded there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against President Trump; he and his entire two-year investigation are now being disowned by ardent Democrats dead set on impeaching the president. scumbag liar-Nadler’s hope is to uncover some testimony, however remote, that he can claim as the basis for an impeachment initiative. It is settled law, at least within the District of Columbia circuit, that grand jury testimony is to forever remain secret — and cannot be unsealed even by order of a federal judge. D.C. circuit judges made this abundantly clear in the recently decided McKeever case. Their rationale is clear: grand jury testimony is taken without the opportunity for cross-examination or any refutation whatsoever. It is taken in complete secrecy, untested and unchallenged by anyone outside the confines of the grand jury room and under the promise that it will never be made public except under limited circumstances not relevant to our discussion. One way around this problem, of course, is to do what Woodward and Bernstein did during a lull in their Watergate stories. Supposedly, Woodward sweet-talked the Clerk of Court out of the names and addresses of Watergate grand jurors, and then he and Bernstein sought them out for interviews. As the story goes, one of the grand jurors complained to prosecutors and Washington Post counsel Edward Bennett Williams was dispatched to make a personal call on Judge John Sirica to set things right. The task was made easier because Williams was Sirica’s career mentor and Williams and his wife were godparents to Sirica’s daughter. Williams assured Sirica that the duo had not been successful in gaining any interviews. So there things sat until 2012, when an article by Jeff Himmelman in New York magazine, “The Red Flag in the Flowerpot,” revealed that Post editor Ben Bradlee’s files contained seven pages of typed notes from one of Bernstein’s grand juror interviews. Even though they had lied about this for 40 years, falsely claiming information received from that grand juror had actually come from a campaign secretary labeled “Z,” Bernstein was unrepentant, saying such aggression was appropriate under Watergate’s unique circumstances. Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler knows much of this, so he’s either engaged in pure theater, knowing that his demands cannot be met under existing law, or he believes that Trump is not owed any benefit of allegiance to the rule of law. scumbag liar-Nadler and his supporters cite Watergate as the precedent for the transmittal of grand jury information to the House Judiciary Committee — for the specific purpose of helping the Committee to decide whether to recommend a president’s impeachment...
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A 'Lost' Generation?

Cal Thomas
 

There are people in every generation who believe the generation following theirs is either going to the dogs or will ruin the country.

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll lends credence to that way of thinking, especially where Generation Z/millennials (those born in the mid-1990s to mid-2000s) and Generation X (those born in the early-to-mid 1960s to the early 1980s) are concerned.

The poll of 1,000 adults earlier this month found that “younger generations rate patriotism, religion and having children as less important to them than did young people two decades ago.”

The poll contrasts with a similar survey conducted by the Journal 21 years ago. When asked then which values were most important, respondents sounded like their parents and grandparents, saying “hard work, patriotism, commitment to religion and the goal of having children.”

Not only will these current findings likely impact next year’s election (most of those running for president with more than single-digit polling numbers are much older men and women and thus represent a generation gap), they could also have serious implications for the future of the country.

The Founders and subsequent generations — perhaps excepting the Gilded Age and the horrors of slavery — mostly believed in the virtues younger people either now reject or approach with indifference.

How can this be? What has happened between the World War II generation, which gave so much so their children and grandchildren might enjoy the blessings of liberty, and the current generation, which seems cool to what once seemed to matter most?

Generalizations are always problematic, but I have lived long enough and witnessed the general decline to make some.

Prosperity is one explanation. People who make more money than previous generations and possess a lot of stuff seem less inclined to participate in community (how many of us know our neighbors, who are here today and move tomorrow?). Stuff and the personal satisfaction of achievement lead to a decline in one’s need for God — too much money, too little purpose.

Politicians become a god-substitute and politics their religion. Creeping secularism has affected theological truth to the point where people can believe whatever they want — or nothing at all — and escape correction. Heresy, even apostasy, has infiltrated many churches.

Then there is culture. Younger people are exposed to what we collectively call “media” more than any previous generation. Most of what constitutes culture proceeds from a singular worldview that denigrates, or does not promote, patriotism, belief in God and values previous generations not only took for granted, but instilled in their children.

Unrestricted abortion has cheapened how many young people view the value of human life. For growing numbers of the young, marriage has become passe as children witness the pain of their parents’ divorce and decide that living together without a formal, legal, or spiritual commitment is better than risking the cost and pain of ending a marriage. For some, children are viewed as a financial burden and an intrusion on adult lifestyles.

Sociologists and historians will tell us these things are cyclical, like weather. That has been true in the past when spiritual revivals often followed a fallow period of faithlessness and a focus on self. I’m not sure that cycle will repeat with younger people, given what they are taught at public schools and in liberal universities.

The values that shaped and sustained America through economic downturns and wars had to be taught and instilled in the next generation. Today’s younger people, as reflected in the poll, seem intent on making their own rules (if they can be called rules) and creating their own gods.

They will eventually learn the impossibility of it all as their substitutions will fail them. The question is can America survive when our moral, spiritual, and patriotic foundations are destroyed? If you don’t love your country, what’s the point of having one?  ~The Patriot Post

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