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Trump’s Foreign Policy Revolution
by Charles Krauthammer
 
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 Trump Puts Sanctuary Cities on Notice 
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As we've noted already this week, President Donald Trump has taken the issue of immigration head on. First it was the border wall. Then came Trump's executive order on interior enforcement, which includes pulling funding from so-called sanctuary cities. According to The Washington Times, the order "calls on Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly and the new attorney general to cut off all federal funding they control under existing federal laws." Anything further will require congressional action. Trump also ordered DHS to create a "name and shame" list of sanctuary cities, including publicizing the names of aliens who've been released and the crimes they've committed.
          "Cities" is an understatement. California, Colorado, Connecticut and New Mexico do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities, as is the case with cities and counties in 25 other states and DC. Yes, that's right, the seat of the federal government is a "sanctuary city." Leftists in these jurisdictions like to frame their actions as simply not cooperating — as in police not checking immigration status when making arrests or traffic stops. But it's far more insidious. These cities often actively resist when federal authorities come looking for specific illegal aliens.
          The horrific results are clear, as illustrated by the widely reported murder of Kate Steinle by a five-time-deported illegal alien felon two years ago in San Francisco. But that's just one case. The liar-nObama administration released thousands upon thousands of illegal alien criminals. Over a two-year period, more than 66,000 illegal alien criminals were set free — and there were 166,000 convictions among them, including 11,000 rapes and 395 homicides. Thousands of them were rearrested after committing further crimes.
          Yet leftists insist they're the compassionate ones. It's important to note that Trump isn't making law here. Everything he's called for is already the law — the wall, deportation, all of it. Enforce the law and you solve most of the problem. He's off to a good start.  ~The Patriot Post
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 Just How Much Voting Fraud Does Exist? 
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Early this week Donald Trump leveled the claim that three to five million illegal votes were cast during this past election, and he has called for an investigation into voter fraud. That stunning accusation — stunning only for the high numbers claimed — predictably brought howls of outrage from the Leftmedia, which lambasted Trump for yet more fake news and baseless claims. Hypocritically, the Leftmedia offered no evidence to prove that Trump's accusation was "baseless."
          And it's not as if there are no facts supporting at least the need for a greater investigation into voter fraud, as several recent lawsuits brought by the Public Interest Legal Foundation demonstrate. In fact, why did the government see fit to pass the National Voting Registration Act of 1993 if it wasn't intended to combat potential voting fraud? In other words, it would be ridiculous to assert that voter fraud didn't happen. The real question is just how bad of a problem it is. If no comprehensive investigations are done, then the argument merely continues to be the spitting contest it currently has become.
          It's rather dubious for the Leftmedia to call out Trump as a liar and yet argue against investigating his claims. The truth is, the Leftmedia isn't interested in knowing the actual number of illegal immigrants who voted or how many votes dead people cast or how many individuals voted multiply times. So long as official data is unavailable, leftists can continue to claim voter fraud is really not a problem — that it's simply the boogie man conservatives like to drag up as a political scare tactic designed to disenfranchise minority voters. The Leftmedia's stance essentially cheapens the unique privilege of American citizenship.  ~The Patriot Post
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'An Enemy Within' – Keith Ellison exposed
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Ellison as pictured in a communist publication in 1989
{wnd.com} ~ He was put into office by dedicated communists. He supported the dissolution of the United States to create an ethnostate only for blacks. He’s been the biggest defender of the Muslim Brotherhood in Congress... And, now, he’s poised to take over one of America’s two major political parties. He’s Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota. And he’s one of “The Enemies Within” profiled in Trevor Loudon’s explosive new documentary of that name. Loudon, who has researched communism and leftist movements for decades, says Ellison has a long partnership with anti-American movements, dating back to when he was as student...
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Triggering: A Sharia State of Mind
by EDWARD CLINE
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ This column can be deemed Trigger Warning-worthy because it t mocks trigger warning addicts and others dependent on post-adolescence pacifiers... Short of declaring reality off-limits, the number of things being declared persona non grata by college students seems to be multiplying. However, is it my imagination or are today's college students establishing a kind of secular Sharia, sans a mystical deity, without possessing an inkling of knowledge of Islamic law? It could go under another name most college students would be horrified by but unable to refute: Fascism. Historically, Fascism as a collectivist movement, relied on physical force to propagate and impose its various statist agendas, from Hitler's racist supremacism, to the Perons' class warfare against the upper and middle classes...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/triggering-a-sharia-state-of-mind?f=must_reads
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CAIR's MUBARAK &
SHIBLY - What Are You Trying To Hide?
by ALAN KORNMAN
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Council  on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL), a  self proclaimed civil rights  group,  is discriminating against non-Muslims at one of their advertised "open to the public" events at the Rosen Center Hotel, Orlando, FL 407-996-9840... The CAIR January 28, 2017 event is titled, "Media Training-How to Interact & Engage with the Media."  The problem is many people who had RSVP'd and were approved for tickets, later had their ticket registrations denied without cause or reason. My question to you Ms. Rahaman, Rasha Mubarak, and  Hassan Shibly - What are you trying to hide from the public? The Council on American Islamic relations should welcome non-Muslims from the community with open arms of friendship and coexistence, not rejection, secrecy, and intimidation... http://www.http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/cairs-mubarak-shibly-what-are-you-trying-to-hide?f=must_reads/publications/detail/cairs-mubarak-shibly-what-are-you-trying-to-hide?f=must_reads
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California Voter Fraud System
Guarantees Rampant Illegal Voting
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Since California government is largely enemy territory for patriotic Americans and those who believe in the Constitution and the rule of law, it can be extremely difficult to get meaningful action against voter fraud, regardless of the amount of proof one has... The very people to whom it would be reported and the supposed enforcement responsibility falls to are the perpetrators – Democrats. Tim Donnelly, a California freedom fighter and former State Assemblyman knows their scheme and it’s players. He’s locked horns with them repeatedly over their successful attempts to install the mechanisms of abuse and fraud into the system. His predictions, like the revelations of voter fraud by Mr. Trump, were dismissed as absurd, an overreaction and racism. The ingredients of the leftist aggression against our nation rarely change, although the mixture is often tweaked “to taste.” The fact that California has been morphed into a “law-free” and liberty endangered zone by the Marxist Democrats makes it an ideal location for the implementation and testing of the methods by which to defeat the will of the people nationally and impose that of our enemies with a minimum of interference...
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Feds Reinvestigating Syrian Refugees
Not Thoroughly Vetted
by Warren Mass
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Federal agents are reinvestigating dozens of Syrian refuges who were admitted into the United States without being thoroughly vetted. Some of these refugees had potentially negative information in their files... that was not discovered prior to their admission, two unnamed U.S. law-enforcement officials told the Los Angeles Times. Immigration authorities are reviewing the cases of some refugees, including one who failed a polygraph test when he applied for employment at an overseas U.S. military installation. Another refugee being reinvestigated may have been in communication with an Islamic State (ISIS) leader, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter. The Times reported that immigration agents have not concluded that any of the refugees being reinvestigated should have been rejected for entry, but the flaw in the vetting process — which was discovered in late 2015 and corrected last year — prevented U.S. officials who conducted background checks on the refugees from learning possible “derogatory” information about them... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/25246-feds-reinvestigating-syrian-refugees-not-thoroughly-vetted?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Revolution
by Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ The flurry of bold executive orders and of highly provocative Cabinet nominations such as a secretary of education who actually believes in school choice has been encouraging to conservative skeptics of Donald Trump. But it shouldn’t erase the troubling memory of one major element of Trump’s inaugural address.

The foreign policy section has received far less attention than so revolutionary a declaration deserved. It radically redefined the American national interest as understood since World War II.

Trump outlined a world in which foreign relations are collapsed into a zero-sum game. They gain, we lose. As in: “For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries” while depleting our own.

And most provocatively this: “The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world.” Bernie Sanders believes that a corrupt establishment has ripped off the middle class to give to the rich. Trump believes those miscreants have given away our patrimony to undeserving, ungrateful foreigners as well.

JFK’s inaugural pledged to support any friend and oppose any foe to assure the success of liberty. Note that Trump makes no distinction between friend and foe and no reference to liberty. They’re all out to use, exploit and surpass us.

No more, declared Trump: “From this day forward, it’s going to be only America First.”

Imagine how this resonates abroad. “America First” was the name of the organization led by Charles Lindbergh that bitterly fought FDR before U.S. entry into World War II — right through the Battle of Britain — to keep America neutral between Churchill’s Britain and Hitler’s Reich. Then came Pearl Harbor. Within a week, America First dissolved itself in shame.

Not that Trump was consciously imitating Lindbergh. I doubt he was even aware of the reference. He just liked the phrase. But I can assure you that in London and in every world capital they are aware of the antecedent and the intimations of a new American isolationism. Trump gave them good reason to think so, going on to note “the right of all nations to put their own interests first.” America included.

Some claim that putting America first is a reassertion of American exceptionalism. On the contrary, it is the antithesis. It makes America no different from all the other countries that define themselves by a particularist blood-and-soil nationalism. What made America exceptional, unique in the world, was defining its own national interest beyond its narrow economic and security needs to encompass the safety and prosperity of a vast array of allies. A free world marked by open trade and mutual defense was President Truman’s vision, shared by every president since.

Until now.

Some have argued that Trump is just dangling a bargaining chip to negotiate better terms of trade or alliance. Or that Trump’s views are so changeable and unstable — telling European newspapers two weeks ago that NATO is obsolete and then saying “NATO is very important to me” — that this is just another unmoored entry on a ledger of confusion.

But both claims are demonstrably wrong. An inaugural address is no off-the-cuff riff. These words are the product of at least three weeks of deliberate crafting for an address that Trump’s spokesman said was intended to express his philosophy. Moreover, to remove any ambiguity, Trump prefaced his “America First” proclamation with: “From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.”

Trump’s vision misunderstands the logic underlying the far larger, far-reaching view of Truman. The Marshall Plan surely took wealth away from the American middle class and distributed it abroad. But for a reason. Altruism, in part. But mostly to stabilize Western Europe as a bulwark against an existential global enemy.

We carried many free riders throughout the Cold War. The burden was heavy. But this was not a mindless act of charity; it was an exercise in enlightened self-interest. After all, it was indeed better to subsidize foreign armies — German, South Korean, Turkish and dozens of others — and have them stand with us, rather than stationing even more American troops everywhere around the world at greater risk of both blood and treasure.

We are embarking upon insularity and smallness. Nor is this just theory. Trump’s long-promised but nonetheless abrupt withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the momentous first fruit of his foreign policy doctrine. Last year the prime minister of Singapore told John McCain that if we pulled out of the TPP “you’ll be finished in Asia.” He knows the region.

For 70 years, we sustained an international system of open commerce and democratic alliances that has enabled America and the West to grow and thrive. Global leadership is what made America great. We abandon it at our peril.

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