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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
DAPL Resistance: The Real Story
by Katie Kieffer
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Top Headlines
Senate confirms Carson to lead HUD. (The Hill)
White House eyes plan to cut EPA staff by one-fifth, eliminating key programs. (The Washington Post)
Cornyn introduces national concealed carry reciprocity bill to Senate. (Washington Free Beacon)
House Democrats fire Muslim IT staffers under investigation by Capitol Hill police. (Hot Air)
Nearly 40 leaks of classified information reported in 2016. (Washington Free Beacon)
Thousands of non-citizens lurking on Virginia's voter rolls. (The Washington Times)
The Congressional Black Caucus PAC (CBC PAC) spends lavishly on upscale resorts and hotels, catering at exclusive restaurants, and on fundraising. (Washington Free Beacon)
Harvard Law administrators accused of stealing money meant for students with disabilities. (CBS Boston)
Trump administration has found only $20 million in existing funds for the border wall. (Reuters)
NY Teamsters' pension fund goes belly up. (Washington Free Beacon)
Al-Qaida deputy Abu al-Khayr al-Masri killed in CIA drone strike. (CBS News)
All in the family — loose lips-Biden widow breaks up brother's marriage. (Fox News)
Amazon cloud sputters for hours, and a boatload of websites go offline. (ArsTechnica)
Policy: Trump's 5 health care principles, explained. (The Daily Signal)
Policy: To unleash prosperity, Dodd-Frank must go. (The Heritage Foundation) ~The Patriot Post
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Chicago Exposes The Moral Bankruptcy
of the Democrat Party
by Warner Todd Huston
{lidblog.com} ~ Two separate incidents concerning memorial street signs in Chicago encapsulates perfectly how warped, truly immoral, and evil the Democrat Party in the U.S.A. has become... The City of Chicago is one of the most dangerous cities in America, there is simply no doubt. Last year there were a shocking 4,379 citizens shot and 716 shot and killed — and another 84 murdered by other means — in the city run by former liar-nObama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Upon its conclusion, it was found that 2016 was the city’s bloodiest year in 60 years. If that wasn’t bad enough, 2017 is already shaping up to be worse than last year. In the first two months of the year the city has already seen 512 total shootings with 98 killed plus an additional 5 murdered by other means...
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GOP wants to eliminate shadowy DOJ slush fund bankrolling leftist groups
by Melissa Jacobs
{foxnews.com} ~ The liar-nObama administration funneled billions of dollars to activist organizations through a Department of Justice slush fund scheme, according to congressional investigators... “It’s clear partisan politics played a role in the illicit actions that were made,” Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, told Fox News. “The DOJ is the last place this should have occurred.” Findings spearheaded by the House Judiciary Committee point to a process shrouded in secrecy whereby monies were distributed to a labyrinth of nonprofit organizations involved with grass-roots activism... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/01/gop-wants-to-eliminate-shadowy-doj-slush-fund-bankrolling-leftist-groups.html
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The Islamic Society of North America’s Destructive Agenda
by John Perazzo
{frontpagemag.com} ~ A number of major Democrats have cultivated highly significant ties to the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). For example... Congressman Keith Ellison (Minnesota), who narrowly lost in his bid to become DNC chairman a few days ago, has spoken at ISNA’s massive national conferences on a number of occasions. Congressman Andre Carson (Indiana) has received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from ISNA-affiliated donors, as have Keith Ellison, liar-Hillary Clinton, and Barack liar-nObama. And ISNA president Mohamed Magid was a key figure in Barack liar-nObama’s Department of Homeland Security, where he was authorized to train and advise personnel affiliated with the FBI and other federal agencies. Yet most Americans are entirely unaware of just how subversive and anti-American the Islamic Society of North America is...
New DNC Deputy Keith Ellison's
Islamic Agenda for Congress
by Paul Sperry
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the new deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the first Muslim elected to Congress, has a plan to recruit additional Muslim lawmakers like him... including possible candidates sponsored by a terror-tied Islamist group for which he helped raise millions of dollars, according to a source who once prayed alongside him in the basement of the Capitol. Ellison has held Friday, or jummah, prayers with other Muslims, including staffers from the Congressional Muslim Staff Association and officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in a prayer room, or musallah, in the lower level of the Capitol building. CAIR has been declared a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and was named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terrorist-funding operation...Why can't this government understand that?
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Trump Has Total Confidence in Sessions
by Katie Pavlich
{townhall.com} ~ President Donald Trump is backing Attorney General Jeff Sessions as Democrats on Capitol Hill demand his resignation and a criminal investigation into a routine meeting with the Russian ambassador last year... According to the White House pool report from Norfolk, where Trump spoke to Navy sailors Thursday, when asked about his confidence level in Sessions the President responded with "total." "There's nothing, he's been 100 percent straight. The testimony and question he was asked is whether he was aware of Trump campaign officials doing something in their capacity of campaign officials and information they got in the past. That answer is consistently no," Spicer said. "He made a statement that was 100 percent accurate and he stands by that."... https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/03/02/white-house-no-sessions-shoudnt-recuse-himself-n2293110?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=
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DAPL Resistance: The Real Story
by Katie Kieffer
{townhall.com} ~ Be wary of those who only destroy. Smoldering embers of emotional environmental extremists can re-emerge as a wildfire.
The Trump administration last week extinguished Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protesters when they proved only willing to torch and trash the earth; culture; children and animals they claimed to be defending.
Pounding drums and donning feathered headdresses, they claimed to be “indigenous.” Shouting “Water is Life!” they professed to be guarding natural resources for “the children.” Holding “Protect the Sacred” banners, they declared themselves defenders of Native American cultural sites. It was all a show.
Four hundred and eighty-plus mounded dumpsters full of trash, including tents; food stores; personal items; and building materials are now being hauled off the federal land where protesters camped for five months. The earth the protesters claimed to cherish was so ravaged that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers enlisted a professional cleaning crew from Florida.
Eight pet dogs (minimum) were abandoned by protesters. A local pet rescue crew continues to visit the camp in search of animals. Funds are being raised by Furry Friends Rockin Rescue for vet bills to help the dogs regain health.
Two children were burned so severely that they were rushed to a Bismarck hospital when their negligent guardians set fires in protest of the federal order to leave. And one hazardous and toxic waste crew has been tasked with examining the area that has been tarnished by protesters.
A Protest’s Shady Beginnings
The 1,172-mile DAPL was 90 percent complete when President Trump took office, having been put on hold by the liar-nObama administration’s decision to bow to environmental protesters. The project is costing the owner—Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners—$4 billion. Two years ago, in December of 2014—with nary a peep from a protester, Energy Transfer Partners applied for federal approval to build the pipeline and commenced construction.
Mysterious political forces emerged in the form of a well-organized protest two years later, in October of 2016, when rioters gathered near the unfinished portion of pipeline that is nearest to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on the North Dakota border.
At no point does the DAPL cross the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Indeed, the Corps found DAPL to pose no environmental threat and the state’s lead archeologist declared that there were neither cultural sites nor sacred burial grounds in the pipeline’s path.
Oddly, even CNN confirmed that very few of the protesters were “indigenous” Standing Rock tribe members. Most of the protesters were non-Indian out-of-towners from states like California and Arizona—and from countries as far away as Australia, Japan, Serbia and Russia.
“Not even close” to the majority of Standing Rock tribe members opposed the pipeline, CNN reported. Most according to a CNN investigation, did oppose the protesters who were blocking their local bridge and Highway 1806 as well as initiating violent attacks in their tribe’s name. Protesters fired gunshots; homemade bottle explosives; and rocks at police guarding the private property owned by Energy Transfer Partners.
When Standing Rock tribe members voted on whether to welcome protesters onto their reservation, build permanent structures, and stay through the winter—the tribal community voted with a loud “No.” 88 members voted: 66 votes were “no;” the majority of the remaining votes were undecided; and less than 10 votes were “yes.”
World leaders like Pope Francis jumped to take verbal swipes at DAPL: “indigenous communities are a part of the population to be appreciated and consulted, and whose full participation should be promoted at the local and national level.”
If only the Pope had done his research before opening his mouth. The Corps met with 55 tribes 389 times and exclusively with the Standing Rock Sioux a dozen times for input! Most global leaders who condemned DAPL incorrectly assumed the oil pipeline endangered the environment or hurt ancestral lands of indigenous peoples.
Like the anti-Trump Women’s March, the DAPL protest was hardly organic. Thousands of people from all over the world don’t normally rush to a cold, uninhabited, deserted landscape like the Dakotas without a sinister hand orchestrating their movements. The liar-nObama administration bent over backwards to cater to the protesters—shutting down the project and using taxpayer funds to proffer the pouters with water and supplies.
Smoldering Sparks
Pipelines, as I've previously written, are proven to be the safest and lowest-emission method to transport crude oil. Plus, President Trump proposes to use the DAPL and Keystone XL projects, which he moved forward by executive order in late January, to reinvigorate the U.S. economy by asking the pipeline developers to use American-made steel. Pipelines are a clear win for the environment as well as for humans.
Skulking away from the campsite—after first torching it—DAPL protesters vowed to keep digging; and keep destroying. According the Associated Press, “Many protesters moved into other camps on the reservation.” Camp leader Phyllis Young told CBS: “the camps will continue.”
A protester known as Chase Iron Eyes told CBS that the Trump administration was engaging in an “ethnic cleansing” by asking protesters to leave land they don’t own. Chase Iron Eyes may know what to say to sound like a victim, but he needs to face the facts: DAPL protesters are destroying that which they claim to defend.
Smoldering sparks like Chase Iron Eyes won’t just go away peacefully, especially when the Democrat Party is like a breeze that carries sparks to collide with a highly flammable substance.
“Diversity is our greatest strength,” new Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez said yesterday. But when Democrats say “diversity,” they really mean victimhood. Perez went on to tweet a warning shot at President Trump: “Democrats united across the country will be your worst nightmare.”
We’ve been warned. The resistance has been extinguished. But not entirely. Stay alert.
The Trump administration last week extinguished Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protesters when they proved only willing to torch and trash the earth; culture; children and animals they claimed to be defending.
Pounding drums and donning feathered headdresses, they claimed to be “indigenous.” Shouting “Water is Life!” they professed to be guarding natural resources for “the children.” Holding “Protect the Sacred” banners, they declared themselves defenders of Native American cultural sites. It was all a show.
Four hundred and eighty-plus mounded dumpsters full of trash, including tents; food stores; personal items; and building materials are now being hauled off the federal land where protesters camped for five months. The earth the protesters claimed to cherish was so ravaged that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers enlisted a professional cleaning crew from Florida.
Eight pet dogs (minimum) were abandoned by protesters. A local pet rescue crew continues to visit the camp in search of animals. Funds are being raised by Furry Friends Rockin Rescue for vet bills to help the dogs regain health.
Two children were burned so severely that they were rushed to a Bismarck hospital when their negligent guardians set fires in protest of the federal order to leave. And one hazardous and toxic waste crew has been tasked with examining the area that has been tarnished by protesters.
A Protest’s Shady Beginnings
The 1,172-mile DAPL was 90 percent complete when President Trump took office, having been put on hold by the liar-nObama administration’s decision to bow to environmental protesters. The project is costing the owner—Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners—$4 billion. Two years ago, in December of 2014—with nary a peep from a protester, Energy Transfer Partners applied for federal approval to build the pipeline and commenced construction.
Mysterious political forces emerged in the form of a well-organized protest two years later, in October of 2016, when rioters gathered near the unfinished portion of pipeline that is nearest to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on the North Dakota border.
At no point does the DAPL cross the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Indeed, the Corps found DAPL to pose no environmental threat and the state’s lead archeologist declared that there were neither cultural sites nor sacred burial grounds in the pipeline’s path.
Oddly, even CNN confirmed that very few of the protesters were “indigenous” Standing Rock tribe members. Most of the protesters were non-Indian out-of-towners from states like California and Arizona—and from countries as far away as Australia, Japan, Serbia and Russia.
“Not even close” to the majority of Standing Rock tribe members opposed the pipeline, CNN reported. Most according to a CNN investigation, did oppose the protesters who were blocking their local bridge and Highway 1806 as well as initiating violent attacks in their tribe’s name. Protesters fired gunshots; homemade bottle explosives; and rocks at police guarding the private property owned by Energy Transfer Partners.
When Standing Rock tribe members voted on whether to welcome protesters onto their reservation, build permanent structures, and stay through the winter—the tribal community voted with a loud “No.” 88 members voted: 66 votes were “no;” the majority of the remaining votes were undecided; and less than 10 votes were “yes.”
World leaders like Pope Francis jumped to take verbal swipes at DAPL: “indigenous communities are a part of the population to be appreciated and consulted, and whose full participation should be promoted at the local and national level.”
If only the Pope had done his research before opening his mouth. The Corps met with 55 tribes 389 times and exclusively with the Standing Rock Sioux a dozen times for input! Most global leaders who condemned DAPL incorrectly assumed the oil pipeline endangered the environment or hurt ancestral lands of indigenous peoples.
Like the anti-Trump Women’s March, the DAPL protest was hardly organic. Thousands of people from all over the world don’t normally rush to a cold, uninhabited, deserted landscape like the Dakotas without a sinister hand orchestrating their movements. The liar-nObama administration bent over backwards to cater to the protesters—shutting down the project and using taxpayer funds to proffer the pouters with water and supplies.
Smoldering Sparks
Pipelines, as I've previously written, are proven to be the safest and lowest-emission method to transport crude oil. Plus, President Trump proposes to use the DAPL and Keystone XL projects, which he moved forward by executive order in late January, to reinvigorate the U.S. economy by asking the pipeline developers to use American-made steel. Pipelines are a clear win for the environment as well as for humans.
Skulking away from the campsite—after first torching it—DAPL protesters vowed to keep digging; and keep destroying. According the Associated Press, “Many protesters moved into other camps on the reservation.” Camp leader Phyllis Young told CBS: “the camps will continue.”
A protester known as Chase Iron Eyes told CBS that the Trump administration was engaging in an “ethnic cleansing” by asking protesters to leave land they don’t own. Chase Iron Eyes may know what to say to sound like a victim, but he needs to face the facts: DAPL protesters are destroying that which they claim to defend.
Smoldering sparks like Chase Iron Eyes won’t just go away peacefully, especially when the Democrat Party is like a breeze that carries sparks to collide with a highly flammable substance.
“Diversity is our greatest strength,” new Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez said yesterday. But when Democrats say “diversity,” they really mean victimhood. Perez went on to tweet a warning shot at President Trump: “Democrats united across the country will be your worst nightmare.”
We’ve been warned. The resistance has been extinguished. But not entirely. Stay alert.
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