Wednesday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

[Rudy Tirre]

 The Front Page Cover 

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

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Featuring:

The FBI, the Holocaust and Us

Suzanne Fields

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"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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 BIG GAY MARRIAGE HURRICANE ABOUT TO HIT GOP  
WaPo: “Republican presidential hopefuls are struggling with how to position themselves on same-sex marriage, an issue that is bedeviling a party hoping to avoid social controversies as the 2016 election approaches. Rapidly changing public opinion has forced much of the field to recalibrate their pitches. Early front-runners have sought balance between the GOP base and the broader electorate - saying that they have no problem with gay people but oppose a national right to gay marriage and favor strong legal protections for business owners who do not want to serve same-sex ceremonies. It is a difficult task, with the perils on stark display last month in Indiana. Republican state lawmakers encountered criticism when they tried to strengthen religious-liberties laws in the face of legal same-sex marriage in that state. With support for same-sex marriage hovering around 60% percent nationally, opponents also risk being labeled bigots.” -Fox News  

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 Cruz’s dinner host apologizes for hospitality -   NYT: “Ian Reisner, one of the two gay hoteliers facing boycott calls for hosting an event for Senator Ted Cruz, [R-Texas] who is adamantly opposed to gay marriage, apologized to the gay community for showing ‘poor judgment.’ Mr. Reisner put the apology on Facebook, where a page calling for a boycott of his properties, the gay-friendly OUT NYC hotel and his Fire Island Pines holdings, had gotten more than 8,200 ‘likes’ by Sunday evening... ‘I was ignorant, naive and much too quick in accepting a request to co-host a dinner with Cruz at my home without taking the time to completely understand all of his positions on gay rights,’ Mr. Reisner said.”  -Fox News  

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 Rubio: no constitutional right to gay marriage -  CBN News: “In a one-on-one interview with The Brody File in Des Moines Iowa this weekend, GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio says there is NO constitutional right to gay marriage. ‘It doesn’t exist. There is no federal constitutional right to same sex marriage. There isn’t such a right. You have to have a ridiculous reading of the U.S. constitution to reach the conclusion that people have a right to marry someone of the same sex.’”  -Fox News  

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 CLINTON FOUNDATION: OH, YOU MEAN THAT $31  MILLION 
Fox News: “The Clinton Foundation acknowledged Sunday that the nonprofit group ‘made mistakes’ in IRS filings and defended its disclosure of controversial contributions from a Canadian financier, following days of intense public scrutiny about foundation finances. ‘We made mistakes, as many organizations of our size do, but we are acting quickly to remedy them,’ foundation executive Maura Pally wrote on the foundation website. ‘And [we] have taken steps to ensure they don't happen in the future.’ The donations were called into question last week by Peter Schweizer, author of the soon-to-be-released book ‘Clinton Cash.’ Schweizer found Canadian financier Frank Giustra gave $31.1 million to the foundation after a 2005 uranium-mine deal he made in Kazakhstan, with former President Clinton at his side. The deal eventually led to one that gave Russia access to U.S. uranium deposits.”  -Fox News  

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 Top charity watchdog puts Clinton’s on ‘watch list’ -   NY Post: “Charity Navigator put the foundation on its “watch list,” which warns potential donors about investing in problematic charities. The 23 charities on the list include the Rev. Al Sharpton’s troubled National Action Network, which is cited for failing to pay payroll taxes for several years. Other nonprofit experts are asking hard questions about the Clinton Foundation’s tax filings in the wake of recent reports that the Clintons traded influence for donations. ‘It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons,’ said Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group once run by leading progressive Democrat and Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout.”
          CW sours on Hilly - “Imagine if an assistant Secretary of State had done what Hilly Clinton – we know that she did.  They'd be out of the State Department.”  – Mark Halperin on ABC’s “This Week”  -Fox News  

 

 

 

 

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 Churches Targeted By EPA As Indoctrination Centers  

(rickwells.us) - Anytime is a great time for the Environmental Protection Agency to attempt to manipulate public opinion and no place is safe from their intrusive Marxist scheming...That includes the very churches that will be outlawed once they have achieved their objectives. In what is a naked effort to purchase legitimacy by pairing their false message with that of the Bible, the The EPA has awarded an $84,000 grant to a student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to study how churches can be used to manipulate their members into accepting the fraud of man-caused climate change. When they say fighting climate change, they are actually meaning an assault upon civilization. The climate Nazis are seeking the forced de-industrialization of the West on the way to global Marxism. Of course, with Marxism comes atheism, so what they are ultimately doing is enlisting foolish or greedy church leaders to take part in their own demise. It’s not unlike the American people funding the economy crippling, sovereignty destroying regulations. They have achieved a fair amount of bureaucratic inaccessibility and with it authoritarian autonomy. Stopping them is very difficult. The Pres or congress can stop them and the support from the American people.     http://www.rickwells.us/churches-targeted-by-epa-as-indoctrination-centers-mixing-real-religion-with-earth-worship/

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 Republicans Pulling Back The EPA Curtain Of Deception  

(rickwells.us) - Transparency and the truth are Kryptonite to the false religion of anthropogenic, man-caused climate change...The UN’s IPCC and the EPA root their tyrannical ambitions in large part on fabricated “science” based upon secret, inaccurate and invalid climate models and “man is evil” guesswork that is peer-reviewed only by those within the UN’s incestuous agenda-driven community. It cannot stand in the light of public scrutiny and Democrats, deliberate and willing accomplices in the crippling criminal fraud that is being committed against the United States, understand that fact all too well. It is the reason they are fighting so fiercely to prevent the public from knowing what is used as the basis for the draconian EPA regulations. If the people knew that our economy was being targeted by Democrats and some turncoat Republicans, that our standard of living was deliberately being lowered in pursuit of their Marxist expansion towards the end of our Republic, they would find themselves in very untenable positions at best. A change of residence to a local penitentiary would for many be in the not too distant future. Aware of the threat, Democrats are pulling out all the stops to keep the criminal EPA a distant, unaccountable and untouchable bureaucratic monster, beyond the reach of its American victims.     http://www.rickwells.us/republicans-pulling-back-the-epa-curtain-of-deception-what-are-democrats-so-desperate-to-hide/

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 U.S. top court throws out nObamacare contraception ruling  

(Lawrence Hurley) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived religious objections by Catholic groups in Michigan and Tennessee to the nObamacare requirement for contraception coverage, throwing out a lower court decision favoring President Barack nObama's administration...The justices asked the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision that backed the nObama administration in light of the Supreme Court's June 2014 ruling that allowed certain privately owned corporations to seek exemptions from the provision. nObama's healthcare law, known as nObamacare, requires employers to provide health insurance policies that cover preventive services for women including access to contraception and sterilization.     http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/27/us-usa-court-obamacare-idUSKBN0NI1I920150427

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 DHS is Scrambling to “Naturalize” 9 Million Immigrants   

(Shae Weatherall) - In spite of the majority opposition of American citizens, the nObama administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is making a full-scale effort to naturalize 9 million immigrants before the 2016 presidential election...In doing so, they have solidified allegations that the Democrats’ immigration reform and amnesty plans were in fact centered around creating hordes of new Democrat voters. Inside sources from the DHS told PJ Media that the department’s “Task Force on New Americans” has reallocated a large amount of funding from their computer based “Electronic Immigration System,” in order to use those resources for sending correspondence to all 9 million green-card holders in the U.S., urging them to naturalize before the 2016 election. Also, according to the article by J. Christian Adams, he was given a more candid insight of the policy by a dissenter who is currently employed at the DHS. This effort is totally illegal and unconstitutional.      http://madworldnews.com/dhs-scrambling-naturalize-9-million-immigrants-2016-election/

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 Leftist Tyranny: Punish Dissenters, Squelch Liberty  

(David Limbaugh) - Forget for a moment the ever-failing economy, the implosion of our foreign policy coherence and our virtually unilateral withdrawal in the war on terror under Barack nObama’s presidency...If liberty lovers don’t start fighting back soon, we’ll forfeit our freedom of thought and religious expression under the assault of fascist leftist activists in our culture. Let’s just look at two of the many recent events that should have us very concerned. As you may have guessed, they revolve around the controversial matter of same-sex marriage. At the outset, let me say that this issue is no longer about same-sex marriage or gay rights; it is about our basic liberties.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/leftist-tyranny-punish-dissenters-squelch-liberty/

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 Take Cuba off the State Sponsors of Terrorism List?  

(George Phillips) - As Sonia Alvarez Campillo was leaving Catholic Mass on July 14, 2013 with fellow members of Ladies in White, her pro-democracy organization, she was assaulted by Raul Castro's agents...These "security" agents broke Alvarez Campillo's wrist as well as her husband's ribs in their attack on her and other members of her group. Sunday after Sunday in Cuba, the Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco) -- members of a movement started in 2003 by wives and other female relatives of jailed dissidents in Cuba -- have peacefully demonstrated for freedom and human rights in cities across Cuba. They have continually been harassed, beaten, and imprisoned in Raul Castro's Cuba. In an attack just two months ago, Lady in White member Digna Rodriquez Ibañez was pelted with tar by agents of the regime.     http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5639/cuba-terrorism-state

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 Iran Forces Seize U.S. Cargo Ship With 34 People On Board  

(Tyler Durden) - Iran’s Farsnews confirms the Arabiya report, stating that “a US cargo ship with 34 crew was stopped and seized by Iranian Navy warships on Tuesday. The Iranian Navy has confiscated the American trade vessel with all its 34 crew for trespassing on Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf.”...An Iranian warship is now taking the American vessel to Iran’s Southern port city of Bandar Abbas in the Persian Gulf. There has been no official confirmation of the seizure yet. It is unclear why Iran would do this and if this is merely yet another Saudi provocation (expect a full denial by Iran), but the US kneejerk reaction may not only scuttle, so to say, any ongoing Iran nuclear negotiations, but led to a far more violent retaliation, which may explain the move in crude if not the move lower in stocks.     http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-28/iran-forces-seize-us-cargo-ship-34-people-board-al-arabiya-reports

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 When Partisan Lying by the Press Damages a Nation  

(Cliff Kincaid) - The Founders counted on an adversarial press to keep America’s politicians honest and accountable. If our media won’t investigate the backgrounds of our candidates on a bipartisan basis, our entire constitutional system is in jeopardy...Remember how in 2012 The Washington Post dug into the past of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and reported that during his high school years he helped pin a boy down and cut his hair off.  Their intent was to suggest that Romney had a history of intimidating and harassing people less fortunate than himself. Reporter Chris Cillizza followed up by asking, “Was Mitt Romney a bully? Does it matter?” On the other hand, Barack nObama’s relationship with a member of the Communist Party who may have been a Soviet espionage agent was not newsworthy when he ran in 2008. Was nObama influenced by a Marxist? Yes. Does it matter? Yes. But the Post still can’t bring itself to admit the truth.       http://www.aim.org/special-report/when-partisan-lying-by-the-press-damages-a-nation/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email042815&utm_medium=email

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 Iran: nObama Reaping What he has Sown   

Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.) - nObama may be unfamiliar with the verse, “As you sow, so shall you reap,” since it originates in the Bible and not the Quran...The verse tells us everything one does has repercussions. Therefore, the inability to escape the consequences of our actions should motivate us to take positive actions, even when difficult to do so, and thus avoid negative consequences. In one word, we are talking about karma. nObama’s actions vis-à-vis Iran have generated a lot of karma-and it has not been of the good kind. That should be most telling about his foreign policy towards Iran. nObama has failed to heed the advice of seasoned experts who understand that which he clearly does not-the mullahs’ mindset. nObama takes the narcissistic approach that he alone can deal with the mullahs. It existed even before he was elected president, blinding him to the counsel of others.       http://www.aim.org/guest-column/iran-obama-reaping-what-he-has-sown/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email042815&utm_medium=email

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 More Pentagon Corruption: $1.3 Billion Missing  

(Mark Horne) - Pentagon corruption has cost us trillions in the past, and the money continues to bleed. I have seen other headlines about other instances of missing money. A few hundred million here, a billion there… no one seems to care...Here’s one story I wrote about a measly couple of million dollars being unaccounted for. Whenever anyone suggests mildly restricting the unending flow of money from debt and taxes, we hear screams of outrage as if they actually spent more than a fraction of all their loot on national “defense”—a phrase they have taught us to apply to many aggressions as well as national defense. As I’ve pointed out repeatedly, the Pentagon is incapable of passing a legal audit (the Department of Homeland Security has recently joined them in that “honor”). “Losing” money is a tradition now. The day before 9-11-2001, the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Defense budget had lost $2.3 trillion. He called it “a matter of life and death,” but no one saw it that way the next day. The problem seemed to only get worse through the following years.     http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/04/more-pentagon-corruption-1-3-billion-missing/

 

 

  

The FBI, the Holocaust and Us

Suzanne Fields

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     (jewishworldreview.com) - James B. Comey, the director of the FBI, at 6-foot-8, is the tallest man in the nObama administration. Despite his height and position, he emerged in sharp relief in the public eye only this week for a remarkable speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington about why he requires every new special agent and intelligence analyst to visit the museum.

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     "Naturally, I want them to learn about abuse of authority on a breathtaking scale," he said. "But I want them to confront something more painful and more dangerous: I want them to see humanity and what we are capable of."

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     Unfortunately, the message about the importance of understanding the nature of state-sponsored evil, and the way it spreads and enables men and women to surrender moral authority, was overtaken in controversy over the degree that the Poles were responsible for the deaths of Jews in the Holocaust. Some were clearly responsible, and many risked their lives to save Jews.

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     The speech, given in the Week of Remembrance, was framed to focus on something else, what the Holocaust means today, that no matter where we come from, whether liberal or conservative, Jewish, Christian or unbeliever, we all have an obligation "to refuse to let evil hold the field." Any of us might say this, but it has a different kind of importance coming from the director of the FBI. He makes the point that it was the Nazis of Germany who led Jews to the slaughter, but there were killers and accomplices among the "good people" of society, "who loved their families, took soup to a sick neighbor, went to church and gave to charity." These ordinary people believed they were doing the right thing.

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     Group mentality— a soft way of saying "the mob" — when turned against any minority paves the path to action, whether on behalf of a cult, a distorted religion, a bad government or an institution acting on behalf of a government. Mr. Comey keeps a copy of the order from a predecessor to tap the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s telephone framed on his desk "to ensure that we remember our mistakes and that we learn from them."

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     We're watching a similar evil at work in a Middle East on fire, perplexing and confusing on a grand scale. We see young people from our own country trying to join terrorists of the Islamic State, or ISIS. Careful work by Mr. Comey's FBI caught six young men of Minnesota, several still in their teens, only the other day, on their way to Islamic State territory in Iraq.

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     What are we to make of these active home growns who are so responsive to the evil that Islamists peddle? How do we explain it, and what can we do to stop it?

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     The difficulty of dealing with the radicalizing of the Muslim young in America is revealed in the controversy over attempts by the White House to "reach out" to Muslim communities with a program called Countering Violent Extremism. Some Muslims are suspicious. It is drawing ambivalent attitudes among Muslims, The Wall Street Journal reports, because they perceive the program as one to gather intelligence and to identify extremists while trying to instill pride in their native land. The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, an umbrella group, says the program seeks only to single out Muslims for surveillance. Other Muslims defend it as enhancing social services.

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     Perhaps it's naive, and maybe too late, to rescue some of our young. Some, nevertheless, want to try. Bobby Jindal, the son of Indian immigrants who is the governor of Louisiana, urges a return to the melting pot, "assimilation by new Americans to strengthen our country, and not balkanize it." Such assimilation once led to heartfelt sentiments of pride of place, pride in government and love of country.

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     Mr. Comey, an Irish Catholic who looks at the Holocaust from the perspective of evil, thinks that after a visit to the Holocaust Museum his G-men will understand and appreciate that we live in a country where such evil cannot take root. "I want them to walk out of that great museum," he says, "treasuring the constraint and oversight of divided government, the restriction of the rule of law, the binding of a free and vibrant press. I want them to understand that all of this is necessary as a check on us, because of the way we are. We must build it, we must know it, and we must nurture it now, so that it can save us later. That is the only path to the responsible exercise of power."

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     It's a lesson the Nazis didn't get, and so far, the Islamists — and their American followers — don't get. That's scary.

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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/fields042415.php3

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