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Emergency Declaration: Demo States 

File Obstructionist Lawsuit

by Thomas Gallatin  

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Andrew McCabe: Decision To Investigate Trump 

As A Russian Agent Was Based On Public Information, Not Secret Intel  

by Chuck Ross

{dailycaller.com} ~ Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe acknowledged Tuesday night that the FBI’s decision to open a counterintelligence investigation against President Trump.. is based on information that is already publicly known rather than previously undisclosed information tying the Republican to Russia. “Are there other things that haven’t been made public at this point that contributed to the opening of the investigation of the president?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked McCabe in an interview. “I’m not so sure that there are things that haven’t been made public,” replied McCabe, who was fired from the FBI on March 16, 2018. McCabe’s comments help settle speculation about whether the FBI had secret information linking Trump to Russia. The  New York Times first reported on Jan. 11 that the FBI had opened the investigation alongside a separate obstruction of justice inquiry against Trump...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/19/andrew-mccabe-trump-counterintelligence/?utm_medium=email

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5JBDB4MC9U

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Karl Was Not as Amusing as Groucho

by Michael Curtis

{americanthinker.com} ~ He sits and daydreams, he’s got daydreams galore. He may look like he’s obsessed and talk like he’s obsessed, but don’t let that fool you, he really is  obsessed... Now that commie-Bernie Sanders announced on February 19, 2019 that he is a candidate for president of the U.S., it is appropriate to examine the unacknowledged ideology propelling him as well as his own practical impact. In 2016, commie-Sanders did gain more than 13 million votes in the Democratic primaries, to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s 17 million, and won 22 states. The self-described Democratic Socialist now informs the country that “we began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign and now it’s time to move that revolution forward, to implement the vision for which we fought.” commie-Sanders differs from the great Marxist Groucho, whose revolutionary program was, “These are my principles and if you don’t like them, well, I have others.” commie-Sanders’ call for revolution is consistent, but it comes at a time when the memory of another Marxist, Karl Marx, the 19th-century founder of revolutionary action to end capitalism, and founder of the communist movement, is less esteemed. A few years this was different. In September, 1999, the BBC News Online Poll on the question, “Who was the greatest thinker of the millennium,” reported that Marx was in first place, way ahead of ten others led by Einstein and Newton. How have the mighty fallen! It is unlikely a Marx victory would be the outcome of a present poll, as the desecration of his grave in London in February 2019 suggested. The memorial to Karl Marx, who was born in Trier, Germany, on May 5, 1818, and who lived in London from 1849 until his death aged 64 on March 14, 1883, is located in Highgate cemetery in North London. His tomb was unveiled in 1956 by a group led by the general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. It has a tombstone that contains a large bust of Marx set on a marble pedestal. On it are two quotations from Marx: "Workers of all lands unite," the final words of The Communist Manifesto that he cowrote with Friedrich Engels in 1848, and "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways: the point is to change it," the final line from Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach, written in 1845. Marx’s resting place, listed as a Grade-I monument, as are Kensington Palace and St. Paul’s Cathedral, is thus one of the most important structures in the country, visited by thousands of people every year, and fresh flowers are always at the grave... Why do people still believe in this con-person.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/karl_was_not_as_amusing_as_groucho.html

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Arizona Trying to Become First in 

U.S. to Require Citizen DNA

by Jason Erickson

{activistpost.com} ~ Apparently emboldened by President Trump’s recent signing of the Rapid DNA Act, Arizona could be the first to make DNA collection mandatory... for a wide range of reasons under a proposed bill. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead has expertly detailed, the thought of the government accessing DNA after an arrest, but before a conviction, is horrific enough: Get ready, folks, because the government— helped along by Congress which adopted legislation allowing police to collect and test DNA immediately following arrests, President Trump who signed the Rapid DNA Act into law, the courts which have ruled that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime, and local police agencies which are chomping at the bit to acquire this new crime-fighting gadget—is embarking on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database. In addition to the police scenarios outlined above, Arizona’s plan reaches much further than that. Anyone who is a state employee or even licensed in some way by the state, or come into the hands of the state, could fall under its mandatory program — and people who have their DNA solicited might be asked to pay $250 on top of the violation...   https://www.activistpost.com/2019/02/arizona-trying-to-become-first-in-u-s-to-require-citizen-dna.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9f453a2016-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-9f453a2016-387888649

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Europe: Trying to Legitimize Iran's Regime

by Giulio Meotti

{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ "In looking to the future, Ayatollah Khomeini has spoken of his hopes to show the world what a genuine Islamic government can do on behalf of its people"... wrote Princeton University professor Richard Falk at the dawn of the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979. He was one of the many Western intellectuals who, in a mix of misconception and naiveté, supported Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime. These deaf Western secularists succumbed to the charm of the Iranian clerics who have just celebrated the 40th anniversary of their regime. It is useful to remind the public that Khomeini orchestrated his Islamic revolution from Neauphle-le-Château, a village 20 miles outside Paris. "It is perhaps the first great insurrection against global systems", the French philosopher Michel Foucault remarked at the time about the Iranian revolutionaries who brought down Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Many American officials and academics also fell into this Iranian Revolution trap. Andrew Young, the US ambassador to the United Nations under the Carter Administration, said that Khomeini was a "saint" and compared his revolution in the name of Islam to the US civil rights movement. The American ambassador to Tehran, William Sullivan, compared the new Iranian ruler to Gandhi, while President Carter's advisor, James Bill, wrote admirably that Khomeini was a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty". The result, as US President Donald Trump tweeted  recently, has been "40 years of corruption. 40 years of repression. 40 years of terror. The regime in Iran has produced only #40YearsofFailure". We are now witnessing, again, "The West's betrayal of Iranian dissidents". Iran last year arrested  more than 7,000 people in a crackdown on dissidents, protesters, students, journalists, lawyers, women's rights activists and unionists, according to Amnesty International. The human rights group called the crackdown "a shameless campaign of repression". According to new documents leaked to the media monitoring group Reporters Without Borders, the Iranian regime imprisoned or executed at least 860 journalists in the three decades between the Islamic revolution in 1979 and 2009...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13762/europe-iran-legitimacy

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Alabama Woman Who Moved To Syria 

To Join ISIS Wants To Come Home 

by Nick Sherman

{dailycaller.com} ~ An Alabama woman who joined ISIS now wants to come home as US-backed forces are seizing the group’s last-held territory in Syria... Hoda Muthana was captured as she fled ISIS-controlled territory, according to an exclusive interview in  The Guardian. Once captured, she claimed she “deeply regrets” joining the Islamic State and pleaded to go home. The Guardian described 24-year-old Muthana as “one of ISIS’s most prominent online agitators,” where she often called for American blood to be spilled. Leaving home four years ago to join the terror group, she first lived in Raqqa, the capital of the so-called caliphate. Some of her tweets were published in a Buzzfeed story, in which Muthana gave them exclusive access...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/19/alabama-woman-isis-come-home/?utm_medium=email

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Emergency Declaration: Demo States File

Obstructionist Lawsuit

by Thomas Gallatin:  As President Donald Trump predicted when he announced his decision to declare a national emergency over securing the border, 16 states filed a lawsuit on Monday with the leftist Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump has “veered the country toward a constitutional crisis of his own making,” the states allege. California fronts the list, which includes Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Virginia. Notably and not surprisingly, all of these states have Democrat attorneys general and all but one have Democrat governors.

But conservatives have been divided over Trump’s decision as well, with many raising objections over questions surrounding the constitutionality of his action. Others have questioned whether the long-running illegal-immigration and border-enforcement problem is in fact a national emergency.

The National Emergencies Act of 1976 does not define by what parameters a “national emergency” may be determined; rather it grants that authority to the president. What the law does limit is what the president can do once an emergency has been declared. So, to reiterate, the declaration of a national emergency is entirely up to the president’s discretion, but once an emergency has been declared, the actions the president is authorized to take have been limited by Congress. The Federalist’s Sean Davis does a nice job highlighting the two most important statutes related to questions of the president’s authority regarding national emergencies: “one authorizing the president to declare national emergencies (50 U.S.C 1601 et. seq.) and the other authorizing the president to reprogram existing federal appropriations in response to an emergency declaration (10 U.S.C. 2808).”

In our view, Trump has thus far operated fully within the narrow bounds of established federal law. Debating if he should or should not have declared a national emergency is a legitimate argument to have, though conflating “should” with “can” serves only to confuse the matter. Whether his decision will have positive or negative political consequences is another matter entirely from questions of constitutionality or statutory authority.

The better argument to have is over the constitutionality of the law Congress passed in 1976. National emergencies have been invoked 59 times by presidents since, and a total of 18 times by George W. Bush and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama over their terms. As the legal challenge works its way through the courts, we hope the Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of the law itself. Until then, blaming Trump for taking advantage of the authority the law grants him is misplaced outrage.  

~The Patriot Post

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