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Winning in the Courts for Generations to Come
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by Robin Smith  
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Ratchliffe: FBI Has Evidence That Directly 
Refutes Premise of Trump-Russia Probe
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ Republican lawmakers have hinted for months that the FBI failed to provide federal judges on the surveillance court with information... that undercut the government’s premise for opening the Trump-Russia probe in 2016. Republicans have suggested in interviews that the information related to George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser whose conversation with an Australian diplomat prompted the FBI to open its investigation into the Trump campaign. Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe provided Sunday the clearest picture to date of what the FBI allegedly withheld from the surveillance court. Ratcliffe suggested that the FBI failed to include evidence regarding former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, in an interview with Fox News...
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Facebook accused of stealing $315,000 from triple-amputee vet
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by wnd.com  
{wnd.com} ~ Could it be it’s not the Russians tampering with U.S. elections, but Facebook and Google?... Maybe the whole Russian thing is just a façade – a cover for a political coup by the two monoliths of social media and search? Those are the questions being asked around the nation today as Facebook may have reached a bridge too far in what many in independent media circles assert is blacklisting, censorship, the creation of enemies’ lists. But the biggest mistake Facebook may have made over the weekend was in going after a warrior – one who nearly lost his life in combat and did lose both legs and his right hand. That would be Brian Kolfage who is a U.S. Air Force vet, severely wounded in Iraq. “I’m the most severely wounded U.S. airman to survive,” says Kolfage. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is being accused of stealing $315,000 from the vet. “I took over managing the page when John Hawkins decided to step aside to pursue other endeavors,” wrote Kolfage. “We had a coveted, verified blue check mark 3.5 million fans, and I invested over $300,000 in ads at Facebook’s own request, nearly begging us to spend, spend, spend just to reach our fans … whom they kept making more difficult to reach with every passing year. Facebook lied, they shut down my page because it was conservative, powerful, and the elections are in two weeks.”...
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Sears files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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by Ken Martin
{foxbusiness.com} ~ IRC Wealth CEO David Ragland on Sears' decision to file for bankruptcy and the outlook for oil...  Sears Holdings made it official early Monday morning, announcing the retailer has filed for Chapter 11  bankruptcy protection. Banks have agreed to provide Sears with a bankruptcy loan. Sears says that Eddie Lampert’s hedge fund will provide $300 million in bankruptcy financing. Lampert will also step down as CEO, but remain Chairman. Under the bankruptcy plan, Lampert's executive role will be replaced by a three-person committee, though he will remain as chairman of the board. Mohsin Meghji, a managing director of the M-III Partners corporate advisory firm, was appointed chief restructuring officer...
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Rising interest rates could add to budget woes
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by James C. Capretta
{aei.org} ~ As the federal government closed its books on fiscal year 2018 at the end of September, interest rates were rising to levels not seen in a decade... signaling the possibility of further deterioration in the budget outlook for 2019 and beyond.  The past year has been very positive for the U.S. economy but a step in the wrong direction for fiscal policy. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the deficit for fiscal year 2018 was $782 billion, or 3.8 percent of GDP, up from $666 billion, or 3.5 percent of GDP, in 2017. In 2015, the deficit was 2.4 percent of GDP. From 1968 to 2017, the federal government ran an average deficit of 3.0 percent of GDP. The deficit would have been $862 billion in 2018 if not for the movement of some expenditures out of 2018 and into 2017 the shifts occur when certain monthly payments get moved forward because the fiscal year ends on a weekend. After controlling for the timing shifts, federal spending increased 4.4 percent in 2018. The gap between revenue and spending widened in 2018 mainly because federal tax receipts were essentially flat, growing by just $13 billion, or 0.4 percent. With the economy growing strongly, federal revenue should have increased by a much larger amount, and would have had it not been for the tax cuts enacted in December 2017. In particular, the new tax law reduced the tax rate for corporations and allowed an immediate deduction for equipment purchases. As a result, corporate tax receipts fell by 31 percent in 2018. Trump administration officials have argued that the tax cut will pay for itself with a growth-induced surge in tax receipts, but the evidence so far suggests otherwise...
Turkey's Revolution Looks like Iran's - but in Slow Motion
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by A.J. CASCHETTA
{meforum.org} ~ Watching Turkey's transformation into an authoritarian Islamist nation over the last 16 years has been eerily like watching Iran's rapid fall in 1979 -- but in slow motion... Whereas Iran went from a secularist American ally to an implacable Islamist foe in a matter of months, Turkey has been on a similar path but led by a more cautious Islamist, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has moved at a much slower rate. The Pahlavi Shah of Iran exiled Ruhollah Khomeini to Turkey, coincidentally in 1964. When he returned to Iran on February 1, 1979, Khomeini seized absolute power almost immediately. With the Shah out of the country seeking treatment for his cancer, there was little to stop Khomeini and his clerical allies. He quickly created  the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) which would soon surpass the Shah's SAVAK secret police in putting down internal enemies. The SAVAK's infamous Evin prison, which once held as many as 5,000 of the Shah's political enemies, soon held over 15,000 of Khomeini's. Within weeks, Khomeini presided over a reign of terror that Robespierre himself might admire. Turkey's fall into Islamism, on the other hand, has been much slower, guided deliberately and incrementally by Recep Tayyip Erdogan through a series of elections. Perhaps he learned to go slowly from his misstep in 1998 when, as Mayor of Istanbul, he rallied his supporters by pronouncing, "the mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers." As a result, Erdogan was convicted of inciting hatred, given a 10-month jail sentence and banned from holding public office...
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Winning in the Courts for Generations to Come
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by Robin Smith:  Eighty-four judges have been confirmed by the U.S. Senate after nomination by President Donald Trump in his tenure of less than two years. Two successful appointments to the Supreme Court have been the center of public attention, yet these other federal appointments will serve to protect the Constitution’s role in the American justice system. These originalist judges will stem the tide of legislating from the bench as practiced by leftists when their radical candidates or policies are unsuccessful at the ballot box.

             In the United States, there are 94 federal judicial districts that span the nation and its territories — districts that were created by the first Congress, not by the Constitution, which established the Supreme Court of the United States in Article III. In addition to these federal districts, circuit or appellate courts exist for the purpose of appeals within the 12 regional circuits and one U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit with national jurisdiction.
               As one would imagine, the number of judgeships to serve in these courts is quite large. Including all the various jurisdictions and levels, there are over 800 positions within the federal judiciary that receive appointments. President Trump walked into his role as the 45th president with 88 district and 17 court of appeals vacancies. To date, Trump has appointed two Supreme Court justices, 29 Circuit Court judges and 53 District Court judges, even as more openings occur with normal churn. In less than two years, Trump has made about a fourth of the number of federal appointments as his immediate predecessor, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, throughout his eight-year tenure.
               Just like so many other of Trump’s promises made on the campaign trail, he is keeping his word to appoint originalists. So?
               Americans have been overwhelmed with the wall-to-wall coverage of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process-turned-clown show. Unquestionably, the Supreme Court is powerful and does serve as the final point of remedy and decision for landmark rulings that are culturally critical, like abortion and same-sex marriage. But there are about 7,000 petitions set to appear before America’s High Court annually, and the number to receive hearings ranges from 100 to 150. Obviously, the decisions of the lower federal courts are, by the clear math, most likely to stand. That gives inherent value to the approach to the bench by this mass of judges. Either they employ judicial activism or judicial restraint while viewing the Constitution as either “living” as dummycrats-Democrats demand or as constructed to be interpreted.
               President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have had their frustrations in dealing with Senate rules and procedures, namely the filibuster, to pass key legislation. dummycrats-Democrats, however, paved the way for federal judicial appointments by changing the rules in 2013 to confirmation by a simple majority for all but Supreme Court nominations, under the wrong assumption that they would hold the Senate majority throughout the remainder of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s tenure. They were also eyeing the possible retirements of Supreme Court justices, namely Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the elder of the court at 85 years of age. But the dummycrats-Democrat move backfired when they attempted to filibuster Neil Gorsuch and McConnell finished the job by eliminating the filibuster for judicial nominations entirely.
               The unlikely team of Trump and McConnell, neither pillars of the conservative movement, are working in tandem to leave an indelible mark on the federal court system by appointing younger originalists who will aid in returning the judiciary to its role of justice, not legislation.
               The very evening that Justice Kavanaugh and his family participated in the ceremonial swearing-in administered by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy in primetime following a presidential apology for the personal attacks and ambush-style tactics of Senate dummycrats-Democrats, Trump announced another wave of judicial nominees that included two for the Second Circuit (which includes New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire) and three for the Ninth Circuit without the customary input from the region’s sitting senators, namely Dianne Fein-stein (D-CA), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary.
               The supposed Blue Wave of political upheaval that was predicted to return the Senate to a dummycrats-Democrat majority appeared to evaporate after the storm of misbehavior confirming Kavanaugh. If Trump maintains this pace of confirmations, coupled with his reelection, he will leave, as part of his presidential legacy, a correction to the courts.

~The Patriot Post  

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