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  Corps Values
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Charles Paige
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Lindsey Graham Forcibly Passes Asylum Bill 
After Democrats Stall For Seven Weeks
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by STONE WASHINGTON
dailycaller.com } ~ In one of the last days leading up the August recess, the Senate Judiciary Committee got into a heated clash over a controversial asylum bill... Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, refused to delay the bill any longer, after accusing Democrats of withholding a vote for 7-weeks. The bill, known as the Secure and Protect Act, requires that asylum seekers from Central America apply for asylum outside of the United States before applying here. Graham’s bill also extended the time that migrant families must be kept in detention centers from 20 days to 100 days, in order to help avoid immigration fraud. The bill will ensure that unaccompanied children migrating from Central America be sent back to their home country after a screening, following the procedure for children entering from Canada and Mexico. The Judiciary Committee eventually narrowly approved the bill by a 12-10 margin. The panel was short two Democrats in a vote on the bill last week leading Democrats to accused Graham of breaking the rules. “Why even have rules?” Ranking Member Dianne Fein-stein asked rhetorically. Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy reinforced this sentiment saying “if the majority is willing to break any rule in order to report this bill today, there are no rules.” Graham defended the bill’s passing, claiming he did not violate Senate rules. Graham accused Democrats of intentionally refusing to show up to a hearing on the bill last week, and having delaying its passing for seven weeks.  “Here’s the way I take what you did last week, your saying I really can’t be chairman. After seven weeks of holding my own bill, under this scenario I can’t even pass a bill that I introduced as chairman because two of you won’t show up,” Graham said. “I will work with you as long as I can in good faith, but you are not going to take my job away from me! I take this very personally. I tried my best.”...
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Judge Blocks New York From Turning Over 
Trump Tax Returns To Congress
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by AUDREY CONKLIN
dailycaller.com } ~ A federal judge blocked New York state from turning over President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress Thursday... The order from Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, came in agreement to a proposal from the state that would allow it to challenge Nichols’ jurisdiction over the issue, Politico  reported Thursday. The order will block any House Ways and Means Committee requests for the tax returns via the New York law until the jurisdictional dispute is resolved. The Trump administration filed a lawsuit July 23 arguing New York violated the president’s constitutional rights when it passed a law earlier in July that would give the majority Democrat House Ways and Means Committee access to the president’s state tax returns, according to Reuters.  Nichols said during a D.C. court hearing Wednesday that “Mr. Trump cannot suffer any harm” until the issue is resolved, the Washington Examiner reported. “I continue to expect that while I have this under advisement actions won’t be taken to moot this,” the judge continued. New York attorney Andrew Amer told Nichols on Wednesday that his clients think the D.C. court does not have authority over the case and he would try to move it elsewhere or have it dismissed entirely. The order to block New York from turning over the president’s records is an alternative way around a different proposal from Trump that would require the majority Democratic House Ways and Means committee, a defendant in the lawsuit from the administration, to notify the court when making a request for the president’s records...
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Corey Lewandowski strongly considering 
run for Senate in New Hampshire
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By Brooke Singman and John Roberts  
foxnews.com } ~ Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told Fox News on Thursday that he is strongly considering running for Senate in New Hampshire in 2020... Lewandowski said he is “looking at” running against incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen “very hard.” “The president needs a strong supporter of his on the ticket in New Hampshire,” Lewandowski said. “New Hampshire is a state he lost by 2,700 votes, but having a strong, unified ticket in the state will help him be successful in 2020.” Trump narrowly lost New Hampshire to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, though he won the state’s first-in-the-nation primary that February. Lewandowski served as campaign manager for Trump’s 2016 presidential bid from January 2015 to June 2016, when Paul Manafort took over as campaign chairman. This wouldn't be his first foray into running for office himself. Lewandowski, while studying at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, in 1994, ran for Massachusetts state representative, but lost to a Democratic opponent. Lewandowski later moved to Washington to work on Capitol Hill. He then worked for Americans for Prosperity, and again ran for office—this time for town treasurer in Windham, N.H. Lewandowski did not win. But Republicans see Shaheen's seat as a potential pick-up as they play defense elsewhere in 2020 seeking to hold their 53-47 majority in the chamber. Shaheen announced in January that she would seek a third term. New Hampshire is viewed as a key battleground state and saw competitive Senate races in both the 2014 and 2016 cycles...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/corey-lewandowski-is-strongly-considering-running-for-senate-in-new-hampshire  
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Liberal Watchdog Group That Targeted Google 
And Devin Nunes Paid Fusion 
GPS $140K For Research
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by CHUCK ROSS
dailycaller.com } ~ A liberal watchdog group that has investigated the Trump administration, Republican lawmakers like California Rep. Devin Nunes and Google paid Fusion GPS nearly $140,000 last year... according to tax documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service.  The payment, by Campaign for Accountability (CfA), was for research on an unknown project. Fusion GPS is best known for its work with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored a dossier alleging a vast conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian government. Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign and DNC, paid Fusion GPS more than $1 million for the project. Fusion also conducts research and provides media outreach on behalf of corporate clients, law firms and activist groups such as Planned Parenthood.  CfA was formed in 2015 by several former employees of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), another liberal watchdog group. The group describes itself as a “nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog organization that uses research, litigation, and aggressive communications to expose misconduct and malfeasance in public life.” CfA’s $138,684 payment to Fusion GPS was for work as an independent contractor, according to CfA’s Form 990 filing. The document does not reveal the date of payment, and CfA’s donors are not disclosed. CfA filed numerous ethics complaints and lawsuits last year, while publishing reports criticizing Google  and BlackRock, the largest investment firm in the U.S. CfA has two offshoot groups dedicated to researching the two companies: the Google Transparency Project and the BlackRock Transparency Project...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/01/liberal-watchdog-fusion-gps-trump/  
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Illegal immigrant children are sick and dying at 
the border, and it's not Border Patrol's fault
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by Eddie Scarry
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ It really is as if the people attacking immigration law enforcement live in a vacuum where time and space don’t exist and where cause and effect have never been heard of... A group of armchair expert doctors from Harvard and Johns Hopkins sent a letter to Congress this week warning that “poor conditions” at migrant detention centers may be contributing to the spread of disease among detainees, children in particular, putting their lives at risk. The doctors further wrote that they “suspect that the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Health and Human Services may not be following best practices with respect to screening, treatment, isolation, and prevention of” illnesses like the flu. I suspect that many doctors overprescribe antibiotics, opioids, and other unnecessary drugs but I’m not a physician so maybe I’ll just leave that to the people who do the work. Likewise, anyone who says that the spread of disease and the deaths of children in migrant detention centers at the southern border is manageable might want to leave it to the agents tasked with feeding and housing 10,000 people per week. Oh, and those 10,000 people aren’t a random sample of Floridians. They’re Latin America’s most destitute, having crawled 2,000 miles or more through extreme heat. They’re often starved and dehydrated to the point of near-collapse, and many others are raped or abused by human smugglers. The obscene numbers of Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Salvadorans showing up at the border and throwing themselves in to the care of U.S. Border Patrol are often showing up sick, including children, tens of thousands of which are often unaccompanied by a parent. That’s hundreds and hundreds of Central Americans by the hour that the struggling immigration system has to screen for identities and health issues. They all then need to be fed, hydrated, cleaned, and clothed while they're processed through a strained legal system...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/illegal-immigrant-children-are-sick-and-dying-at-the-border-and-its-not-border-patrols-fault?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_08/02/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
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Corps Values
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Although the numbers represent a tiny fraction of our overall military population and don’t reflect the honorable service of the vast majority of today’s Patriots in uniform, they are significant enough and the incidents frequent enough to raise concern about how deep the rot goes and whether it’s a leading or lagging indicator for our broader society. Fortunately, military leadership, like the Marine Corps’ new Commandant, General David Berger, are emphasizing tighter standards and accountability in their formations.

The military has long been seen as a sort of kiln for American society — a place where individuals were tested, hardened, and provided with the skills and experience to serve in leadership roles in the private sector and government. The Marine Corps in particular has traditionally seen its role in transforming ordinary young men and women into contributing citizens as one of its primary tasks.

Legendary Lieutenant General Victor “Brute” Krulak put it this way: “The third thing they believe about the Marines is that our Corps is downright good for … our country; that the Marines are masters of a form of unfailing alchemy which converts un-oriented youths into proud, self-reliant stable citizens — citizens into whose hands the nation’s affairs may safely be entrusted.”

His son, General Charles Krulak, the 31st Commandant, echoed this sentiment nearly four decades later, stating, “For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.”

Last week’s headlines suggest that Marine leaders have their work cut out for them if they aspire to maintain those ideals. General Berger’s Commandant’s Planning Guidance, which was released earlier this month, addresses it head on: “Demanding superior performance and enforcing high standards should not be viewed as draconian, but rather, should be expected by professionals. We will not accept mediocrity within the force and, above all, must seek to remove those from within our ranks who are adversely impacting the overall readiness of our force.”

The Camp Pendleton Marines were arrested in conjunction with a battalion formation, where the alleged offenders were called up front by their sergeant major and hauled off by NCIS — a move that undoubtedly had visibility well up the chain of command and that sends a clear signal that commanders are ready and willing to put Berger’s guidance into action.

That guidance is in sharp contrast to commentators, both military and civilian, who reflexively defend or discount the disciplinary and moral failures by service members and label any effort to hold perpetrators accountable as political correctness or careerism. While the military has its share of self-interested individuals and the military justice system occasionally gets things wrong (much like its civilian counterpart), those instances are the exception rather than the norm. Those commentators make their own contribution to the decline in good order and discipline and do a disservice to those who serve honorably when they make excuses for actions like those we have seen recently.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64627?mailing_id=4451&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4451&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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