Saturday Afternoon ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Barack “Climate Change” nObama
Alan Caruba
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 EPA Expands Authority Over America's Waterways  
More than a year after initially proposing it, and despite efforts by congressional Republicans to block such a move, the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Crops of Engineers, citing authority under the Clean Water Act, enacted a new rule that gives the federal government additional control over waterways. "The nObama administration issued a rule on Wednesday putting more small bodies of water and wetlands under federal protection to ensure clean drinking supplies," The Wall Street Journal reports, a power grab that "is estimated to put about 3% more waterways throughout the U.S. under new federal jurisdiction." nObama officials say they're simply maximizing existing legal authority. According to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, "This rule is about clarification, and in fact, we're adding exclusions for features like artificial lakes and ponds, water-filled depressions from constructions and grass swales." However, the Journal adds, "The rule seeks to require those kinds of permits for only those waterways that have physical features of flowing water."
          And that's exactly the concern, explains Hot Air's Jazz Shaw: "The physical feature of flowing water? Depending on the conditions, the slope of the land and how much it rains on any given day, that could apply to pretty much anything." Moreover, "People who own property adjacent to or including swampy areas with poor drainage can (and already have) run afoul of the feds if they want to improve the drainage to dry out a section for construction or just a better looking lawn." As Mark Alexander wrote last month, Democrats, led by the powerful EPA, leverage environmental concerns to conceal their real agenda — the constriction of free enterprise. Their objective is to incrementally implement centralized economic control through regulatory requirements justified by ever-expanding "mandates." In implementing its newest rule — "one of nearly 10 that the EPA is slated to complete in coming months," the Journal notes — the agency is essentially saying, "Trust us." That's a dangerous thing to oblige when Liberty is at stake.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Krauthammer: How Amnesty Smackdown Hurts Republicans  
Fox News political analyst Charles Krauthammer offered his two cents on Tuesday's decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to keep a temporary injunction in place blocking executive amnesty. According to Krauthammer, "For the Republicans, it's a problem." Here's why: "It's like the case going forward on nObamaCare and the thing about the exchanges and the subsidies. The problem is what happens if you win? Because if you win then the issue gets thrown back into the political arena." He argues, "If somehow this would be completely tossed out, then the question will be, 'what's your plan on immigration reform,' if anything. I think up until now, you can say, 'well it's in the hands of the courts.' But at a certain point it's not going to be and you're going to have to answer." Like or not, he's right. Immigration is a sour topic, but taking Barack nObama's diktats to court isn't enough. Lest they want to commit political suicide, conservatives will eventually have to rally around viable solutions to the illegal immigration problem and present them in an articulate manner.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Santorum Announces Second Attempt at Presidency  
Rick Santorum, the former senator from Pennsylvania who appealed to conservative evangelical voters during the 2012 presidential election, announced Wednesday he will once again seek the GOP nomination for the White House. Traditionally known for his value-voter stance on same-sex marriage and abortion, Santorum may try to broaden his appeal this time around. On May 21, Santorum told the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, "We are not going be successful unless we have a message that talks to the people who are struggling to rise." But while he came second place to Mitt Romney four years ago, he faces longer odds this time around. Statistics blog FiveThirtyEight says Santorum is running in a more crowded field this time around. This places him around 10th place in the popularity polls, right around the cutoff of the number of candidates Fox News and CNN says they will invite to preliminary presidential debates. In other words, Santorum does not only have to fight about issues, he's running an underdog fight that may be felled by the arbitrary rules created by a media company. More...  -The Patriot Post 
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 Your Viewing Guide to Sunday's Showdown Over the Patriot Act  
In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, passing the Patriot Act seemed the inarguably patriotic thing to do. Nearly 14 years later, however, the lines of patriotism are less clearly drawn. Up for reauthorization, the act is facing staunch opposition — and creating strange bedfellows — in the wake of increasing concerns over government spying on the American people.
          Last week, the House, by a vote of 338-88, passed not a reauthorization of the full Patriot Act but the equally patriotic sounding USA Freedom Act, which would continue the Patriot Act's surveillance powers but end specific practices including the NSA's data collection program (recently deemed illegal by a federal court), roving wiretaps and so-called lone-wolf surveillance tactics. Among other things, the USA Freedom Act would move the storage of telephone data from the federal government to telecommunications companies.
          Between the House and president, however, the Senate stands. With 60 votes needed, the upper chamber came up short of passing the USA Freedom Act, producing just 57 votes before heading home for Memorial Day. At issue are competing views of liberty within the Senate.  -The Patriot Post 
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​ AIM Editor Talks About Stephanopoulos and Media Corruption  
(aim.org) - AIM Editor Roger Aronoff was a guest last week on the Philadelphia, PA Conservative Commandos radio show with Rick Trader to talk about Aronoff’s recent column “Stephanopoulos Fiasco is Par for the Course.”... ABC’s host George Stephanopoulos interviewed Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer on April 26, in a confrontational broadcast designed to cast the author as a partisan out to tar the reputation of the Clinton family. As Aronoff pointed out on Trader’s show, Stephanopoulos “proceeded to do an interrogation more than a question-and-answer where you’re really trying to learn information from the author and what he has in the book.” This is par for the course for the mainstream media, argues Aronoff. The incestuous relationships between media and the administration are so extensive that disclaimers are necessary to alert viewers. Yet, where would that end? It would be a constant refrain, if the media were to be diligent in announcing all of their conflicts of interest.       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/aim-editor-talks-about-stephanopoulos-and-media-corruption/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email052915&utm_medium=email
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​ Video Proves Mainstream Media Hates Conservative Free Speech  
(fromtheright.com) - It really is remarkable that people who make their living based on the principle that we have free speech rights really don’t give a crap if they’re taken away from others... I’m talking of course, about the news media and how happily they jump to shut down free speech – when it’s used by conservatives of course. t’s getting kinda scary out there – I would have guessed that more people would have jumped in to defend our right to free speech once ISIS-inspired maggots started attacking Americans on our own soil. But liberals hate us so much, they’d rather shut up conservatives than oppose Islamists. Amazing isn’t it? http://fromtheright.com/latest/this-video-proves-mainstream-media-hates-conservative-free-speech/
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​ House Panel Meets the Press In Probe of FOIA Woes  
(Ben Geman) - An unusual House hearing next week will feature reporters testifying before a congressional committee hearing instead of covering it... The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's probe of barriers to receiving federal documents under the Freedom of Information Act features three journalists and New York Times assistant general counsel David McCraw among the witnesses on June 2. One journalist is Sharyl Attkisson, a former CBS investigative reporter and author ofStonewalled, a 2014 book celebrated by conservatives that targets nObama administration "efforts to monitor journalists, intimidate and harass opposition groups, and spy on private citizens." Vice News investigative reporter Jason Leopold and Newsweek investigative reporter Leah McGrath Goodman will also testify, according to the committee.        http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/house-panel-meets-the-press-in-probe-of-foia-woes-20150528
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​ Frustrated Pilots Speak Out Against nObama’s Fubar Air War  
(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - Within the U.S. Air Force, there’s mounting frustration that the air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq is moving far more slowly than expected... Instead of a fast-moving operation with hundreds of sorties flown in a single day—the kind favored by many in the air service—American warplanes are hitting small numbers of targets after a painstaking and cumbersome process. The single biggest problem, current and former Air Force officers say, is the so-called kill-chain of properly identifying and making sure the right target is being attacked. At the moment, that process is very complicated and painfully slow. “The kill-chain is very convoluted,” one combat-experienced Air Force A-10 Warthog pilot told The Daily Beast. “Nobody really has the control in the tactical environment.”       https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/frustrated-pilots-speak-out-against-obamas-fubar-air-war-against-isis/
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 Iraq No Longer Exists  
(rickwells.us) - Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense underPresident Ronald Reagan, K T McFarland, has a much less rosy view of the situation in the war against ISIS” than that which is being served up by the nObama regime through its spokesperson Josh Earnest... She says that what we’re doing isn’t working and asks “How many times are you going to try before you find something new to try because it’s not succeeding?” McFarland points to a UN assessment of the alarming ISIS growth and strength, which she says is probably a conservative, “low ball” number. Bill Hemmer notes that Josh Earnest “did not say we’re winning.” Winning is a claim that the nObama operatives seldom expressed as being desirable outcome. McFarland asks how many times we need to refight this fight, or essentially, how long are we going to continue to kid ourselves? She notes how on two separate occasions, in Mosul and in Ramadi, the Iraqi forces should have easily been victorious, facing an outnumbered and outgunned opponent. In both instances they chose instead to turn tail and run away.        http://rickwells.us/k-t-mcfarland-iraq-no-longer-exists-that-might-be-enough-to-label-obamas-strategy-as-failed/
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​ Pastor spills secret on kids summoning 'demons'   (wnd.com) - Young people around the world are trying to summon a demon in the latest trend sweeping social media – but a well-known pastor and Christian author believes those who participated in the “Charlie Charlie challenge” are fooling themselves about the realities of the spiritual realm... Pastor and bestselling Christian author Carl Gallups told WND: “The ‘Charlie Charlie’ trick is just that – a trick. In fact, it’s an old bar room parlor trick that originally involved putting two cigarettes on top of each other, only now it’s two pencils. It’s very easy to manipulate and make it look like something is happening by itself when actually it’s just someone breathing on the pencils, usually the person filming the ‘challenge.’ So these kids are not actually summoning demons or anything like that.” In the “Charlie Charlie Challenge,” participants align two pencils in the shape of a cross and ask, “Charlie, Charlie are you here?” Supposedly, the pencils then move to indicate the entity’s presence. On YouTube, videos of participants filming themselves doing the “challenge” are racking up tens of thousands of views.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/pastor-spills-secret-on-kids-summoning-demons/   Video:  http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/pastor-spills-secret-on-kids-summoning-demons/#ooid=w1djZkdTrqMN2a6q7aLHnejGxEx3Aku2
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​ Judge Blasts Admin Lawyer In Congress' Separation Of Powers 
(Jeff Dunetz) - Today was the first day in court for House of Representatives v. Burwell, et al., the often criticized lawsuit brought by the House against President nObama's overreached use of executive power... in changing elements of the nObamacare bill without a congressional vote. Specifically the actions being contested include authorizing Treasury payments to healthcare insurers without the funding being agreed by Congress and delaying implementation of the law's employer mandate, which required employers with more than 50 employees to provide healthcare coverage. The Administration of course began by trying to have the judge toss the lawsuit. They argued  the House lacks standing to sue, citing a section of U.S. law that means the House would have to prove it has been directly harmed.       http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/05/judge-blasts-administration-lawyer-in.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a2cb67d20c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-a2cb67d20c-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-a2cb67d20c-291705165
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​ Shameless Liar: The Strange Dishonest World of David K. Shipler  
(Daniel Greenfield) - David K. Shipler’s new book Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword isn’t about freedom of speech. It’s about varieties of speech that Shipler likes and doesn’t like... The book is less of the searching look at freedom of speech that it claims to be and more of a grab bag of dishonest political attacks on people and things that its author, a former New York Timesian notorious for his sympathy for terrorists, hates. Shipler suggests that Muslim terrorists don’t have the same freedom to advocate violence as Republicans. “What a right-wing politician can approvingly say about armed revolution cannot be spoken with impunity by a Muslim preacher,” he complains.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/shameless-liar-the-strange-dishonest-world-of-david-k-shipler/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=942f636ffc-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-942f636ffc-156509103
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 Iran doubles down in the fight for the Middle East  
(J. Matthew Mcinnis) - The Deputy Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force, Brigadier General Esmail Ghani, finally admitted on May 23 that Tehran has been training the Houthi rebels in Yemen... For those watching the situation closely, the Quds Force’s (and certainly Lebanese Hezbollah’s as well) direct role in the Yemeni conflict was expected, but Ghani’s public confirmation was not. We are unlikely to see another heroic publicity campaign with Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani rallying and guiding Houthi forces—as we did with Iran’s Shia proxies in Iraq after the fall of Mosul to ISIS last year. Ghani’s announcement signals, though, a new willingness for Iran to deepen its military involvement in Yemen, even as Tehran voices support for negotiations. Nor was this Iran’s only move in the past two weeks to show how far it will—or must—go in its multi-front regional contest with ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States.       http://www.aei.org/publication/iran-doubles-down-in-the-fight-for-the-middle-east/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=052915
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 Cuba removed from US terror sponsor list  
(foxnews.com) - The U.S. has taken Cuba off its list of state sponsors of terrorism... Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry has signed an order removing Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist as part of the process of normalizing relations between the Cold War foes. hanoi Kerry acted 45 days after the nObama administration informed Congress of its intent to do so. Lawmakers had that much time to weigh in and try to block the move, but did not do so.       http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/29/cuba-removed-from-us-terror-sponsor-list/
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Barack “Climate Change” nObama
Alan Caruba
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“Woe to the land that’s governed by a child.” 
– Shakespeare, Richard III
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     (aim.org) - I have been wrestling for some kind of explanation why the President of the United States, Barack nObama, would continue to talk about climate change and urge the global transition from fossil fuels to wind, solar and bio-energy. I have concluded that he thinks everyone, not just Americans, are idiots. 
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     We know he lies about everything, but these two topics are clearly near and dear to his heart. 
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     My friend, Paul Driessen, is a policy analyst for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a free market think tank. Among the pundit class he’s ranked very high by his colleagues. Here’s what he has to say about climate change: 
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     “Earth climate always has changed, is always changing, and always will change—but not from fossil-fuel use. Solar fluctuations, deep ocean circulation patterns, and other powerful natural forces have driven climate change and weather events throughout Earth’s history and will continue to do so.”
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     “President nObama’s hubris is breathtaking. He now thinks an army of regulators can control our planet’s temperature and climate by tweaking emissions of plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide, a mere 0.04% of the atmosphere.”
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     “America’s communities do not need to be protected from climate change. They need to be protected from the excesses of authoritarian presidents and bureaucrats.”
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     Driessen and I look at and listen to nObama and wonder if others too see and hear someone uttering some of the most absurd claims about the climate. Then we worry that this someone is the President of the United States with the power to turn his ignorance into national policy.
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     At this point we have suffered his initial failure to respond to the recession he inherited from the 2008 financial crisis. More than six years later the economy has barely moved toward a normal rate of growth. Then we were gifted with nObamaCare and the disruption of what was widely regarded as the best health system in the world. And, for good measure, he imposed Common Core on an already weakened educational system. It is being repealed and opposed in many states. For good measure, his foreign policy, if he has one, is widely regarded as a total failure.
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     How is it a former “community organizer” possesses a seemingly vast understanding of meteorology? Did they also teach that at the Harvard Law School? “Climate change,” said nObama, addressing a graduating class of the Coast Guard Academy, “constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and make no mistake; it will impact how our military defends our country.”
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     “Our military and our combatant commanders,” the President told the Academy graduates, “our services—including the Coast Guard—will need to factor climate change into plans and operations, because you need to be ready.” For what? For a rainstorm? For snow? Wind?
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     This is the same President who sees no threat to our national security from Iran whose leaders shout “Death to America” every day when they aren’t also shouting “Death to Israel.” He has zealously been pursuing a deal that would enable Iran, the leading supporter of terrorism, to have nuclear weapons. Meanwhile Islamic State (ISIS) is taking over more territory in northern Iraq and into Syria. nObama might as well be dropping bags of marshmallows on them.
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     He blamed climate change in the form of “severe droughts” for the rise of Islamism in the Middle East and Africa. Someone needs to tell nObama that there have always been severe droughts somewhere on the planet, and floods, and forest fires, and blizzards, and hurricanes. Even so, in the last eighteen years, there have actually been LESS of these natural events, along with the flatlining of the planet’s overall or average temperature—there has been no warming!
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     Not content to blame climate change for the rise of terrorism, the White House issued a report that was described as “a doomsday scenario of health, security, economic and political issues.” The thing about climate is that it measured incenturies, not years. As for the weather, while records are maintained, it is usually reported as today’s news with a forecast of the coming week.
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     So you shouldn’t be surprised that the report blamed “asthma attacks” on climate change!
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     Suffice to say there isn’t a glimmer of hard evidence to support anything the President is saying these days about climate change.
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     And this is the same President that wants the U.S. and the rest of the world to give up the use of fossil fuels—coal, oil and natural gas—to “stop climate change.”
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     IF nObama’s climate change idiocy is just a way to distract Americans from the real problems we have encountered thanks to his failure to address them, then it is purely cynical and political.
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IF nObama really believes this stuff, he is unfit to be President.
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