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All This 'True Conservative'
Talk About 'Principles' Is Just Another Lie
by Kurt Schlichter
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Wednesday Top Headlines
To end DACA, follow the Constitution (National Review)
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DACA backlash shows Democrats don’t really think their policies should be subject to elections (The Federalist)
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North Korea nuclear test furthers EMP bomb (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Texas churches sue FEMA for relief funds (World)
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Appeals court reinstates strict Texas voter ID law (The Washington Times)
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Gowdy says FBI, Justice Department not cooperating on Trump dossier: “We got nothing” (The Washington Times)
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Corruption trial for Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez starts today; New York Times forgot to mention his party (Hot Air)
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Justice Department drops defense of liar-nObama OT rule (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Law professors celebrate “bourgeois norms,” attacked as racists (The Federalist)
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Charlottesville Part 2? Council votes to remove “Stonewall” Jackson statue (Fox News)
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Why U.S. colleges are the world’s best and way too expensive (Washington Examiner)
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Silicon Valley conservatives report being too afraid to use the industry’s products for political expression (Washington Examiner)
Good News? Robots will take only 9% of jobs, not 38% says new study (Reason)
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Policy: A fair DACA deal. (National Review)
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Policy: Technology is outsmarting net neutrality. (American Enterprise Institute) ~The Patriot Post
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Iran Launches Battle To Complete
Land Bridge Across Syria To Mediterranean Sea
by J.E. Dyer
{lidblog.com} ~ As reported last week Iran wants to gain control of Deir ez-Zor (in Syria), because doing so will complete her land bridge across Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean... This move must be blocked if there is to be any hope of stabilizing the Middle East and keeping it peaceful enough to be habitable for its peoples. If they are to have the opportunity for, prosperity, commerce, consensualism in politics, two-way access to other peoples and cultures, and lives that are not trapped between extremism, state corruption, and incessant infighting, radical-Islamic Iran must not be allowed to dominate the region... http://lidblog.com/iran-battle-complete-land-bridge/.
The Islamic Future of Europe
"Anti-fascists" beat a man who they claimed
"Anti-fascists" beat a man who they claimed
is a "right-wing sympathizer" at Las Ramblas, Barcelona
by Guy Millière
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The terrorist attack in Barcelona received the same reaction as all the large-scale terrorist attacks in Europe: tears, prayers, flowers, candles, teddy bears, and protestations that "Islam means peace "... When people gathered to demand tougher measures against the rising influence of Islamism across the continent, they were confronted by an "anti-fascist" rally. Muslims organized a demonstration to defend Islam; they claimed that Muslims living in Spain are the "main victims" of terrorism. The president of the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Societies, Mounir Benjelloun El Andaloussi, spoke of a "conspiracy against Islam" and said that terrorists were "instruments" of Islamophobic hatred. The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, cried in front of the cameras and said that her city would remain an "open city" for all immigrants. Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, a conservative, was the only one who dared to call jihadist terrorism by its name. Almost all European journalists said Rajoy's words were too harsh... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10940/europe-islamic-futureby Guy Millière
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Russia probes kick into high gear
by AUSTIN WRIGHT and ALI WATKINS
{politico.com} ~ The congressional Russia investigations are entering a new and more serious phase as lawmakers return from the August recess amid fresh revelations about contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia... In the coming weeks, both intelligence committees are expected to conduct closed-door interviews with high-ranking members of the Trump campaign, and potential witnesses could include Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort and Donald Trump Jr. The two panels are also looking at possibly holding public hearings this fall... http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/04/trump-russia-investigations-congress-242256
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NORTH KOREA’S ULTIMATUM TO AMERICA
by Caroline Glick
{frontpagemag.com} ~ The nuclear confrontation between the US and North Korea entered a critical phase Sunday with North Korea’s conduct of an underground test of a thermonuclear bomb... If the previous round of this confrontation earlier this summer revolved around Pyongyang’s threat to attack the US territory of Guam, Sunday’s test, together with North Korea’s recent tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the continental US, was a direct threat to US cities. In other words, the current confrontation isn’t about US superpower status in Asia, and the credibility of US deterrence or the capabilities of US military forces in the Pacific. The confrontation is now about the US’s ability to protect the lives of its citizens. The distinction tells us a number of important things. All of them are alarming... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267787/north-koreas-ultimatum-america-caroline-glick.
{hosted.ap.org} ~ Japan is debating whether to develop a limited pre-emptive strike capability and buy cruise missiles - ideas that were anathema in the pacifist country before the North Korea missile threat... With revisions to Japan's defense plans underway, ruling party hawks are accelerating the moves, and some defense experts say Japan should at least consider them. Japan has a two-step missile defense system, including interceptors on destroyers in the Sea of Japan that would shoot down projectiles mid-flight and if that fails, surface-to-air PAC-3s on and... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_NKOREA_PREEMPTIVE_STRIKE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-09-01-23-30-16
NKorea missile fear sets
pre-emptive strike debate in Japan
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by Kurt Schlichter
{townhall.com} ~ After two years of lectures about “principles” and “the Rule of law” by the establishment-loving hacks furious that normal Americans rejected them and elected Donald Trump, their performance last week demonstrated that their high-minded dedication to conservatism is all a fraud. It’s not about “principles” or “the Rule of Law.” It’s only about holding on to power – theirs.
All This 'True Conservative'
Talk About 'Principles' Is Just Another Lie
{townhall.com} ~ After two years of lectures about “principles” and “the Rule of law” by the establishment-loving hacks furious that normal Americans rejected them and elected Donald Trump, their performance last week demonstrated that their high-minded dedication to conservatism is all a fraud. It’s not about “principles” or “the Rule of Law.” It’s only about holding on to power – theirs.
Let’s take the latest in a seemingly endless series of #fails from that smarmy dope Paul Ryan, King of the Fredocons. First, he rushed to help out the liberals with their ridiculous narrative about how Donald Trump is a “Nazi” Wait, I thought the narrative memo had him being a Russian fifth columnist – damn, our president sure is versatile! You couldn’t keep Ryan from eagerly jumping in with his usual more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger-about-Trump thing to help the left push its latest meme. Antifa though? Not so fast! Ryan, the poodle that he is, obediently waited until Nancy Pulosi led the way and offered some tepid words about these commie blackshirts and their thirst for blood before Brave Sir Ryan ran out and offered some tepid words about these commie blackshirts and their thirst for blood.
Paul Ryan is a guy who can’t even take his own side in a fight – or, more to the point, our side in a fight. Now, a quick quiz: When Donald Trump proposed to keep his promise to the Republican voters who elected him and end the unconstitutional DACA program that the liar-nObama administration enacted to ignore duly-enacted immigration laws, what did Passive Paul do?
A. Ryan immediately offered his support for the president undoing this Rule of Law abomination that Ryan expressly called “unconstitutional” on Fox back in October 2014.B. Ryan immediately demanded the president not undo this Rule of Law abomination that Ryan expressly called “unconstitutional” on Fox back in October 2014.C. Ryan immediately asked someone to explain what the phrase “keep his promise to the Republican voters who elected him” means.D. B and C
So, for the benefit of us suckers, basically Ryan was against DACA when it couldn’t be undone, but is now panicking when it can be undone because it might actually be undone – unless President Trump lets Ryan roll him, in which case he deserves to be laughed at in exactly the way his Never Trump enemies will laugh at him.
Gosh, this DACA two-step kind of reminds me of liar-nObamacare and how gung-ho the True Conservatives were to repeal it when they couldn’t repeal it and how suddenly they turned ungung-ho when they actually could. Weird. If I was cynical, I’d say that it seems like the establishment GOP has been lying to our faces for years and years, but that couldn’t be true because our establishment betters have principles and stuff.
Of course, it’s not just the Wisconsin Wimp shifting into conservagimp mode. Soon-to-be-former Senator RINO-Jeff Flake, that braying doofus, naturally joined the cave-in chorus. Ben Sasse, RINO-Flake’s braying doofus doppelgänger, probably joined in, but I refuse to spend valuable time looking at his tedious Twitter feed to find out. And since it involved betraying Republicans, you have got to assume RINO-John “Blue Falcon” McCain is in on it too.
Yeah, because “principles” and stuff. Because enforcing the law is the most important thing there is, except for doing what the rich guys who fund the establishment want. That’s really the most important thing.
Yeah, so after nearly two years of tiresome finger-wagging about “the Rule of Law” and how we need to put our “principles” above our desire for “winning,” the whole sordid scam we always knew it always was is revealed for the world to see. They can’t hide it anymore and they aren’t even trying. Their glorious “conservative principles” aren’t principles at all but a skeevy ploy designed to tie our hands and keep us from pursuing policy goals our establishment coalition partners disfavor. They want open borders. They want illegals. They want cheap foreign labor that doesn’t get uppity to man their donors’ corporations so the Captains of Crony Capitalism don’t have to fuss with American workers who won’t tolerate being treated like chattel. Yeah, “we’re better than that” all right – if you mean that we are better than enforcing the laws the American people passed through a constitutional process if the ruling class decides it doesn’t like them.
“The Rule of Law” is for us, not for them. “The Rule of Law” was supposed to be a shield to protect us from the ravages of the powerful, but our Truer-Than-You Cons use it as a sword to cut our legs out from under us and keep us from defending our own interests.
Oh, you can’t possibly exercise the power against our leftist enemies that they always exercise against you. Because principles.
Oh, you can’t possibly be uncouth and actually fight back against our enemies. Because principles.
Oh, a principle is getting in the way of something the establishment wants? What’s a principle?
So now, suddenly, Congress is moving to try and keep DACA alive through – gasp! – legislation, though that’s probably not going to happen since most GOP legislators understand that amnesty is ballot box poison. See, that’s why they loved DACA – they can’t pass it as a law, so they simply feigned outrage for the benefit of us rubes when liar-nObama did exactly what they wanted with his pen.
And in the most Congressional GOP move of all possible Congressional GOP moves, they now want to try to pass a proposed DACA fix using Democrat votes and so their proposed deal to the Democrats – who really, really want 800,000 future voters – is to trade it for…wait for it…still waiting…nothing. The GOP isn’t asking for anything. No new limits on immigrants, no reform of chain immigration, certainly no wall. Nothing. I hope the dealer tries out this innovative new negotiation strategy on me the next time I bargain to lease a fine German sports sedan.
Actually, the GOP does get something – shafted, as usual. Yeah, their deal is we give you Democrats what you want and, in exchange, you call us racists when Elizabeth dinky-Warren proposes to declare all these middle-aged Dreamer kids US citizens. Because, you know, they had dreams and stuff.
Pathetic. You know, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that the real reason the Republicans don’t want to end the filibuster to allow them to pass legislation is that they would then be expected to pass legislation that their voters want and the GOP establishment doesn’t.
Here’s the thing. There are two parties in America, one to the right and one to the left. The left/right spectrum used to be the only axis that mattered, and the coalitions within the parties fit pretty well, if not perfectly. But the bipartisan establishment, the meritless meritocracy that rules us, grew more arrogant even as it grew more inept. It ignored problems and troubling trends even as it cashed-in for itself over the decades. I remember working in Congress back in Washington in 1986, and the region was not rich and it was not fancy. But now it’s fantastically rich and fantastically fancy. But the establishment ignored the normals out in America as it gorged on the fruits of the normals’ labor, and that’s why a second axis arose and intersected with the American politician spectrum. This new axis measures pro- or con- regarding the status quo and the ruling class. So now there are really four political parties stuffed into two political party infrastructures:
1. Right, pro-establishment (The RINOs)2. Right, anti-establishment (The Trump voters)3. Left, pro-establishment (liar-Hillary’s snobby urban corporatist jerk corps)4. Left, anti-establishment (The Bernie/dinky-Warren/Stalin Axis of Venezuela)
This explains why we see the DC establishment unifying to protect its power and privilege – and holding us normals in utter contempt. Most Democrat senators and Republican senators have much more in common with each other than with us – to the GOP establishment, Trump’s clearly the bigger threat than a counterpart across the aisle. It also explains why you hear about Bernie supporters who went for Trump instead of Felonia von Pantsuit. That’s the fault line – the desire to keep or destroy this monstrous status quo. This new axis will reshape the political parties as their uncomfortable coalitions jockey for control of their respective party’s infrastructure Yeah, the Dems have big problems too. Hell, it may reshape – violently – our whole country if we aren’t careful.
The fact is that the establishment doesn’t care about “the Rule of Law” or “principles” – it cares about its own power and maintaining the status quo. So keep that in mind the next time you hear some establishment snob lecturing you on how you are morally obligated not to do anything to advance you own interests because of “principles.”
It’s all just another lie.
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