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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
liar-Hillary Sharpens, Trump Softens.
He’s Rising, She’s Falling
by Charles Krauthammer
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 Why Are Taxpayers on the Hook for Student Loans? 
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We recently relayed the story of Barack nObama's efforts to pick winners and losers in the for-profit college market. nObama yanked federal aid from ITT Tech, leading to the entire operation shutting down — leaving 40,000 students and 8,000 teachers out in the cold. Our aim was primarily to note that nObama attacks the private sector at every opportunity, but that isn't the only angle. The Washington Post reports, "Former students at ITT Technical Institutes are refusing to repay their federal student loans in a protest designed to pressure the government into canceling the debt of everyone who alleges they were defrauded by the now-defunct for-profit chain." The Post quoted one 39-year-old graduate with $80,000 in student loans who said, “We’re not irresponsible brats whining about our loans. ITT lied to us. It’s fraud.”
          Simply being a for-profit company doesn't make a business the good guy, and if the accusers are correct, then the college network didn't deserve to survive. The Post reports that "ITT spent years battling allegations of fraud, deceptive marketing and steering students into predatory loans." Indeed, by the accounts of many former students, ITT provided a terrible education, handed out a worthless piece of paper, and charged ridiculous rates for it. ITT is hardly alone either. Corinthian Colleges went out of business in 2014 after evidently running a similar scam, and last year nObama agreed to forgive millions in student debt for that institution. We warned last week that the government may end up forgiving as much as $500 million in federal student loans to ITT students. ITT has about $90 million on hand to cover loan forgiveness. Who will be stuck with the bill for the remaining $410 million? Got a mirror handy?
          Indeed, that's just it. The larger problem is guaranteed access to federal money for education, which puts taxpayers on the hook. Guaranteed access means every education entity public or private is going to do whatever's necessary to get a slice of the pie. Nowhere does the Constitution enumerate such a federal power or individual right to the fruits of someone else's labor. Americans now owe $1.3 trillion in student debt, of which $1 trillion is held by the federal government. The policy consequences of the federal government's massive role could be a greater fraud than anything ITT or Corinthian ever dreamed of.  ~The Patriot Post
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 Air Force Birthday 
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Relentlessly committed to the defense of liberty, the United States Air Force celebrated its 69th birthday yesterday, Sept. 18.
          The Air Force began life as the Army Air Corps but became a separate Armed Services Branch when the Department of the Air Force was created by the National Security Act of 1947. As the U.S. Air Force continues its critical mission "to fly, fight and win ... in air, space and cyberspace," we ask that you pray for these brave Patriots prosecuting "The Long War" against Jihadistan, and for their families awaiting their safe return.
          And a brief reminder of an important victory at the Air Force Academy, where the words "So Help Me God" have now been rightfully restored to the USAFA Cadet Handbook oaths. Keep up the good fight! Finally, don't miss Mark Alexander's recounting of his son's graduation from the Air Force Academy in May.  ~The Patriot Post
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Iran threatens to 'turn Tel Aviv and
Haifa to dust' if Israel missteps
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{jpost.com} ~ In an attempt to tout its military prowess on Wednesday, Iran threatened to "turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust" during a parade of the Islamic Republic's armed forces in Tehran... Iran marked the anniversary of its 1980 invasion by Iraq by parading its latest ships and missiles and telling the United States not to meddle in the Gulf. At a parade in Tehran, shown on state TV, the military displayed a wide array of long-range missiles, tanks, and the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system...  http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Iran-threatens-to-turn-Tel-Aviv-and-Haifa-to-dust-if-Israeli-missteps-468303
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GOP: nObama 'tolerating our enemies'
by working against Syria bill
by Susan Crabtree
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., accused the nObama administration of "tolerating our enemies" by reportedly working with House Democrats to delay a vote on legislation imposing new sanctions against Syrian leader Bashar Assad for war crimes against civilians..."Reports of the nObama administration working to delay a vote on a bipartisan bill to sanction the Assad regime follow the now-familiar pattern of the president tolerating our enemies and neglecting our allies," McCarthy said in a statement issued Tuesday afternoon. House Republican and Democratic leaders were planning to bring up the measure this week, and it was expected to sail through passage with broad support, including from several liberal Democrats. But late last week, the Democratic leadership bowed to pressure from the White House and yanked their support for the bill, according to a report in the Washington Post...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-obama-helping-our-enemies-by-working-against-syria-bill/article/2602370
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U.N. Encouraging Islamic Invasion
by Alice Greene
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ The word invasion can be defined as “the incoming or spread of something usually hurtful” (Merriam-Webster)... Yesterday, at the first ever UN meeting focused on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants, leaders proposed forcing member states to absorb 10% of the world’s refugee population. According to estimates, the current population of displaced individuals is over 65 million, 21.3 million of which are refugees. Members were quick to strike down this dangerous proposal, and the summit’s final declaration is a vague document without concrete commitments...  http://punchingbagpost.com/un-encouraging-islamic-invasion
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Mass immigration costs govt. $296 billion a year
by Stephen Dinan
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{washingtontimes.com} ~ Immigration is a massive drain on the government, with immigrants taking as much as $296 billion more in benefits than they pay in taxes, according to a new authoritative study by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, which found the record level of newcomers is straining the country...The report suggests that migrants depress wages for Americans, at least in the beginning, and particularly hit workers who have to compete for jobs. And the new arrivals aren’t assimilating as well as past waves of immigrants, struggling to learn English and to raise their wages as quickly as previous migrants, the academy said in a final draft of the report, which The Washington Times obtained...  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/21/mass-immigration-costs-govt-296-billion-year-natio/
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nObama, liar-Clinton, et al. blamed for
anti-police violence
by Steve Jordahl
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{onenewsnow.com} ~ A Dallas police officer and a former federal prosecutor are suing the people they believe are responsible for the racial tensions that have led to the deaths of multiple police officers around the country and an increased danger to the rest... The class-action lawsuit (Pennie et. al v. Farrkahan et. al) was filed Friday in a federal court in Texas by Sgt. Demetrick Pennie and Larry Klayman. It accuses Barack nObama, liar-Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, the Black Lives Matter movement, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and others of causing "threats, severe bodily injury and/or deaths, future deaths, emotional harm, and imminent fears of death and/or serious bodily harm" to police officers around the country. Abraham Hamilton III, an attorney and a spokesman for the American Family Association, says they may have a case...  http://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2016/09/21/obama-clinton-et-al-blamed-for-anti-police-violence?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16784983&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=26373
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Charlotte Police Shooting Leads to BLM Riots
by C. Mitchell Shaw
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ An officer-involved fatal shooting of a black man in Charlotte, North Carolina, has led to rioting and looting, which has resulted in damage and destruction of property and injuries to at least 12 police officers...Almost as soon as the shooting was reported, social media posts went viral with claims of police — again — targeting an unarmed black man and killing him simply for being black. That narrative — although false — has fueled the flames of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) fire that is raging through America’s cities, leaving destruction in its aftermath. The recent trouble in Charlotte began Tuesday just before 4:00 p.m. Charlotte police officers were searching for a suspect with an outstanding warrant at an apartment complex known as The Village at College Downs when they noticed Keith Lamont Scott exit a vehicle in the parking lot of the apartments. Scott — who was not the suspect with the outstanding warrant — was carrying a handgun when he exited the vehicle. When he saw the officers, he returned to the vehicle and got back inside. As the officers approached, he got out of the vehicle armed with the handgun, and the officers said he refused to obey multiple orders to put the gun down. The officers said Scott “posed an imminent deadly threat” to the officers, and so an officer, Brentley Vinson, fired his weapon. The officers immediately performed CPR and called for medics, but were unable to save Scott’s life...What's wrong with these black people?
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Brotherhood Members Gather in D.C.
to Blast Egyptian Government
by John Rossomando
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Roughly two dozen Egyptians opposed to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, some with Muslim Brotherhood connections, signed a declaration last week in Washington endorsing a civil constitution that separates mosque and state...Three of the declaration's points involve prosecuting current Egyptian officials. Sisi, a former general, assumed power in July 2013 after his military forces ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who led the Muslim Brotherhood's political party. Sisi was elected president with an overwhelming 96 percent of the vote in 2014. He has cracked down on dissent, especially by the Muslim Brotherhood, imprisoning 29,000 Brotherhood members, mainly on terrorism charges...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5656/brotherhood-members-gather-in-dc-to-blast
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Sen Sessions Upset nObama Regime
Blows Off Congress To Attend UN Globalism Rally
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ On Tuesday, September 20th, Senator Jeff Sessions responded to a deliberate snub by the executive branch in their refusal to attend hearings into the Islamic terrorist importation program the regime labels as a refugee program... More facts have emerged that the Department of Homeland Security places little importance on the vetting of those it grants citizenship to, with over 1,800 aliens from terrorist nations who had orders of deportation issued against them now having been granted citizenship by the regime. Rather than attend the hearings which were scheduled the regime has once again opted for a substitute approval, that of the United Nations, usurping the Constitution, as usual, and bypassing the representatives of the people in Congress. The UN was holding what amounts to a huge pro-globalism, pro-invasion, pro-Islamification rally that our self-proclaimed dictator and his underlings saw as more important than Congressional hearings...  http://rickwells.us/sessions-obama-regime-congress-un-globalism/
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U.S. Embassy Under Fire for ‘Boycotting’ Israeli Goods
by Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration is coming under fire for supporting boycotts of Israel after issuing an apology for sending its “key contacts” a gift basket that included Israeli-made wine produced in an area deemed a settlement... according to information obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv recently sent its “key contacts and partners” a gift basket to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Included in this gift basket was a bottle of wine made in an Israeli settlement. Supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS—which aims to wage economic warfare on the Jewish state—criticized the embassy for purchasing this product, prompting an official apology from U.S. officials...
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Pete Hoekstra to Testify on White House Embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood
by Steve Emerson
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Investigative Project on Terrorism Shillman Senior Fellow Pete Hoekstra will testify before a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on the causes and results of the administration's partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood... Hoekstra - who previously served as Chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee - will outline documentation behind why White House officials reversed 40 years of bipartisan foreign policy and how it changed the threat map in the Middle East and North Africa. WHO: Investigative Project on Terrorism Shillman Senior Fellow and former Chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee Pete Hoekstra. WHAT: Hearing on 'Identifying the Enemy: Radical Islamist Terror' held by the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/pete-hoekstra-to-testify-on-white-house-embrace-of-the-muslim-brotherhood?f=must_reads
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liar-Hillary Sharpens, Trump Softens.
He’s Rising, She’s Falling
by Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ If you are the status quo candidate in a change election in which the national mood is sour and two-thirds of the electorate think the country is on the wrong track, what do you do? Attack. Relentlessly. Paint your opponent as extremist, volatile, clueless, unfit, dangerous. Indeed, liar-Hillary Clinton’s latest national ad, featuring major Republican politicians echoing that indictment of Donald Trump, ends thus: “Unfit. Dangerous. Even for Republicans.”

That was the theme of liar-Clinton’s famous open “alt-right” speech and of much of her $100 million worth of ads.

Problem is, it’s not working.

Over the last month, Trump’s new team, led by Kellyanne Conway, has worked single-mindedly to blunt that line of attack on the theory that if he can just cross the threshold of acceptability, he wins. In an act of brazen rebranding, they set out to endow him with stature and empathy.

Stature was acquired in Mexico whose president inexplicably gave Trump the opportunity to stand on the world stage with a national leader and more than hold his own. It’s the same stature booster Sen. Barack nObama pulled off when he stood with the French president at a news conference in Paris in 2008.

That was part one: Trump the statesman. Part two: the kinder gentler Trump.

Nervy. Can you really repackage the boasting, bullying, bombastic, insulting, insensitive Trump into a mellow and caring version? With two months to go? In a digital age in which every past outrage is preserved on imperishable video?

Turns out, yes. How? Deflect and deny — and pretend it never happened. Where are they now — the birtherism, the deportation force, the scorn for teleprompters, the mocking of candidates who take outside money? Down the memory hole.

Orwell was wrong. You don’t need repression. You need only the sensory overload of an age of numbingly ephemeral social media. In this surreal election season, there is no past.

liar-Clinton ads keep showing actual Trump sound bites meant to shock. Yet her numbers are dropping, his rising.

How? Trump never goes on the defensive. He merely creates new Trumps. Hence:

(1) The African-American blitz. It’s a new pose and the novelty shows. Trump is not very familiar with the language. He occasionally slips, for example, into referring to “the blacks.” And his argument that African-Americans inhabit a living hell and therefore have nothing to lose by voting for him hovers somewhere between condescension and insult.

But, as every living commentator has noted, the foray into African-American precincts was not aimed at winning black votes but at countering Trump’s general image as the bigoted candidate of white people.

Result? A curious dynamic in which liar-Clinton keeps upping the accusatory ante just as Trump keeps softening his tone — until she finds herself way over the top, landing in a basket of deplorables, a phrase that will haunt her until Election Day. (Politics 101: Never attack the voter.)

(2) The immigration wobble. A week of nonstop word salad about illegal immigration left everyone confused about what Trump really believes. Genius. The only message to emerge from the rhetorical fog is that he is done talking about deportation and/or legalization. The very discussion is off the table until years down the road.

Case closed. Toxic issue detoxified.

Again, that’s not going to win him the Hispanic vote. But that wasn’t the point. The point was to soften his image in the Philadelphia suburbs, pundit shorthand for white college-educated women that Republicans have to win and where Trump trails Romney 2012 by 10 points. Which brings us to:

(3) The blockbuster childcare proposal. Unveiled Tuesday, it is liberalism at its best, Big Government at its biggest: tax deductions, tax rebates (i.e. cash), and a federal mandate of six weeks of paid maternity leave. The biggest entitlement since, well, nObamacare.

But wait. Didn’t Trump’s acolytes assure us that he spoke for those betrayed by the sold-out, elitist, GOP establishment that for years refused to stand up to nObama’s overweening mandates, Big Government profligacy and budget-busting entitlements?

No matter. That was yesterday. There is no past. Nor a future — at least for Ivanka-care. It would never get through the GOP House.

Nor is it meant to. It is meant to signal what George H. W. Bush once memorably read off a cue card. “Message: I care.”

And where do you think Trump gave this dish-the-Whigs cradle-to-college entitlement speech? Why, the Philadelphia suburbs!

Can’t get more transparent than that. Or shameless. Or brilliant.

And it’s working.

http://freedomsback.com/charles-krauthammer/hillary-sharpens-trump-softens-hes-rising-shes-falling/

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