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NavSec Firing Should End Gallagher Saga
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Harold Hutchison  
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Trump Rally Gets Off To A Wild Start As Crowd Chants ‘Bulls**t!’ As He Talks Impeachment
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by VIRGINIA KRUTA
{ dailycaller.com } ~ President Donald Trump’s homecoming rally in Sunrise, Florida started off with a bang Tuesday when the crowd responded to impeachment talk with a rousing — if a bit profane — chant... “The radical left Democrats are trying to rip our nation apart,” Trump began to a raucous chorus of boos from the crowd.  “First, it was the Russia hoax,” the president continued. “Total hoax. It was a failed overthrow attempt and the biggest fraud in the history of our country. Then the Mueller deal. You remember that mess. They had nothing. Two years. They spent $45 million and the real cost is many times that number.”  Then Trump turned the topic to impeachment, adding, “Now the same maniacs are pushing the deranged impeachment. Think of this. Impeachment. A witch hunt. The same as before. They’re pushing that impeachment witch hunt. A lot of bad things are happening to them. You see what’s happening in the polls? Everybody said, that’s really bulls**t.” Chants immediately began to ring out as the crowd responded by shouting, “Bulls**t! Bulls**t! Bulls**t! Bulls**t!”  Trump referred to Tuesday’s rally as his “homecoming” rally because it was the first one he held in Florida after giving up his permanent residence in New York City.
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Democrats Release More Transcripts 
Just As Thanksgiving Holiday Begins
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by HENRY RODGERS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ House Democrats on Tuesday released a number of the remaining witness transcripts from their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump just before the Thanksgiving holiday... The House committees released interviews with the acting assistant secretary of state in charge of European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker and senior Office of Management and Budget official Mark Sandy. The committees also released several short transcripts of people who did not comply with subpoenas, including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.  This comes as House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler set the next impeachment hearing for Dec. 4, making it the first hearing for the committee in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against Trump.  scumbag liar-Nadler has continued to investigate Trump, requesting a number of documents from the White House on March 4 and sending letters seeking information from people and organizations close to the president.  In March, scumbag liar-Nadler sent  requests to 81 groups, people and organizations, searching for constitutional abuses and corruption by Trump. The New York representative said in March the requests for documents are to “begin investigations, to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, about corruption and abuse of power.” Meanwhile, Senate Republicans do not appear to be concerned about House Democrats’ ongoing efforts to impeach Trump, with many saying even if the House were to move forward with impeachment, that there is no way the Senate would vote to impeach the president. The Daily Caller spoke with over ten GOP senators in mid-October, who all shared their views about House Democrats’ efforts to impeach the President. Not one senator was concerned about the impeachment process, saying they are most concerned about the Democrats‘ attempt to impeach Trump based on no hard evidence.
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Trump and Netanyahu: Both Being 
Investigated for Made-Up Crimes
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by Alan M. Dershowitz
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ There are striking similarities, as well as important differences, between the investigations being conducted against American President Donald J. Trump by the US Congress, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was just indicted... The most striking similarity is that both are being investigated for actions that their legislatures have not explicitly made criminal. Moreover, no legislature in any country governed by the rule of law would ever enact a general statute criminalizing such conduct. The investigations of these two controversial leaders are based on using general laws that have never previously been deemed to apply to the conduct at issue and stretching them to target specific political figures. Netanyahu has been indicted for bribery on the ground that he allegedly agreed to help a media company in exchange for more positive coverage and/or less negative coverage. There are disputes about the facts, but even if they are viewed in the light least favorable to Netanyahu, they do not constitute the crime of bribery. Nor would the Knesset ever enact a statute making it a crime for a member of Knesset to cast a vote in order to get good media coverage. If such a law was ever passed, the entire Knesset would be in prison. Politicians always seek good coverage and many vote with that in mind. Some even negotiate good coverage in advance of voting. That is why they have press secretaries and media consultants. Nor could a reasonable statute be drafted that covered Netanyahu's alleged conduct, but not that of other Knesset members who bartered their votes for good coverage. That is why no legislature in a country governed by the rule of law has ever made positive media coverage the "quid" or "quo" necessary for a bribery conviction, and that is why the bribery indictment of Netanyahu should not be upheld by the courts. Upholding a conviction based on positive media coverage would endanger both the freedom of the press and democratic processes of governance. Prosecutors should stay out of the interactions between politicians and the media unless specifically defined crimes, as distinguished from arguable political sins, are committed, and no one should ever be prosecuted for actions that were never made criminal, and would never be made criminal, by the legislature...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15217/trump-netanyahu-impeachment-indictment 
USMCA Rumblings – After Letter from Mexico 
to Pelosi, USTR Lighthizer, FM Seade 
and FM Freeland Meet in DC
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Something is shaping up in the political background around the USMCA. Yesterday Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador (AMLO) sent a second letter to House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi urging USMCA ratification... Team Trump and Team AMLO are working together against Team liar-Pelosi & AFL-CIO Richard Trumka.  Essentially AMLO has been saying the labor provisions within the USMCA trade pact are already being put in place by Mexico, and liar-Pelosi should quit trying to hide behind labor concerns to avoid ratification. Tomorrow, on the eve of Thanksgiving at the request of the Trump administration, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Mexican Foreign Minister Jesus Seade and Canadian Deputy Minister Chrystia Freeland are holding a meeting to discuss the AFL-CIO/liar-Pelosi issues within the USMCA labor provisions. The three trade ministers from the United States, Canada and Mexico are set to meet in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the deal to replace NAFTA, seven people familiar with the plans told POLITICO. The meeting involving U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Deputy Canadian Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Mexican Undersecretary for North America Jesús Seade comes as the Trump administration is nearing a compromise with House Democrats to make changes to the USMCA. Lighthizer has been negotiating with a group of nine House Democrats to address four main concerns involving the pact’s labor, environmental, enforcement and drug pricing provisions. Any changes to the text would have to be approved by Canada and Mexico before the Trump administration can finalize the agreement and send it to Congress for a vote. Canada is expected to accept changes to the text without issue. In her effort to stall the growth of the North American economy, Speaker liar-Pelosi has been trying to block the USMCA by demanding falsely and with cover by Trumka AFL-CIO) that Mexico start a national Social Security program for all Mexican workers...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/26/usmca-rumblings-after-letter-from-mexico-to-pelosi-ustr-lighthizer-fm-seade-and-fm-freeland-meet-in-dc/   
DOJ Requests Delay in Flynn Case 
Until After Publication of IG Report
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ A curiously interesting development in the DOJ case against Michael Flynn. Judge Emmet Sullivan is weighing the merits of the Flynn defense Motion to Compel (MTC)... which requests a significant amount of information on DOJ/FBI conduct in the lead-up to Flynn’s prosecution. A decision and court briefing was anticipated soon. However, today the DOJ files a joint motion with the defense asking Judge Sullivan to suspend scheduled briefing dates and sentencing deadlines until after the DOJ inspector general report is published on December 9th.   The implication is that some of the “Brady” material at issue; or tangential issues that touch upon the material; may be outlined in the upcoming IG report...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/26/interesting-development-doj-requests-delay-in-flynn-case-until-after-publication-of-ig-report/   
The Surprising Economics of Surprise Medical Bills
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By JOHN C. GOODMAN
{ forbes.com } ~ Surprise medical bills arise when hospital patients discover that certain fees are not covered by their health insurance... The reason for the surprise is that the patient’s insurance company and the hospital itself list the hospital as “in network.” Then, when the bill is presented, the patient discovers that certain doctors or certain services were “out of network.” As I wrote previously, in a free health insurance market this would rarely happen. Do you know of any other insurance market where this is a problem? I don’t. Because of unwise regulations, however, health insurers have perverse incentives to attract the healthy and avoid the sick. Absent these regulations, health insurers would either pay the “surprise bills” or they would negotiate a settlement with doctors and hospitals. But in today’s highly regulated market, insurers can lower their costs by letting enrollees who use hospital services get stuck with the extra fees. This allows them to keep premiums lower than otherwise for healthy enrollees who aren’t using hospital services. The risk is that enrollees who are surprised will become irritated and switch to another insurer. But insurers are more than happy to see that happen. After all, people who use a lot of hospital services are likely to be unprofitable customers anyway. Both at the state and the federal level there has been pressure to do something about this problem. Some solutions would push costs on to the doctors and hospitals by forcing the providers to accept in-network fees. Other solutions would push most of the costs on to the insurance companies by forcing them to pay whatever fees the providers are charging. And some solutions are pretty much down the middle. All solutions aim to protect the patients. What difference do these legislative changes make?...   https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/11/04/the-surprising-economics-of-surprise-medical-bills/#7c96b685366f   
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Be Thankful for America
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Thomas Gallatin:  President Donald Trump promised yesterday at a rally in Florida that he won’t allow the “radical Left” to change the name of that uniquely American holiday, Thanksgiving. “People have different ideas why it shouldn’t be call Thanksgiving,” Trump observed. “But everybody in this room, I know, loves the name Thanksgiving. And we’re not changing [it],” he stated to a round of cheers.

Obviously, there’s no legitimate reason to change Thanksgiving’s name, as we Americans have much to be thankful for. This year marks the 398th year since those first Pilgrims came together with their Native American neighbors to feast and offer thanks to God for blessing and sustaining them through to their first harvest in the New World. How much more do we, living in this free, beautiful, strong, and most prosperous nation in the world, have reason to give thanks?

Take the opportunity this Thanksgiving to turn away from the rampant and unending cavalcade of negative news and look with fresh eyes on the mind-boggling abundance and blessings we all enjoy living in America. Honestly embrace the reality; it’s a great time to be alive.

Economically speaking, unemployment is at its lowest level since 1969. Hourly wages are up across the board by 5.6% since 2009, and full-time workers are earning 3% more this year than last. Poverty is down to the lowest rate since 2001, with the real poverty rate at 2.8%. These are all things to be thankful for.

And with all this abundance, Americans continue to lead the world in generosity. Last year, $427 billion was donated to charity, while 63 million Americans volunteered their time in helping others, totaling over eight billion hours of service.

While it might not appear to be so with all the media coverage, the rate of violent crime continues to decline and is down 51% since 1993. And less crime equates to fewer numbers of people in prison. The number of those incarcerated has decreased by 100,000 from 10 years ago.

Americans, believe it or not, are also healthier than ever. Since 2000, the number of those dying from cancer has decreased from 168 per 100,000 to 146 per 100,000. The number of Americans smoking is at its lowest level since 1965, and the infant mortality rate has dropped by 14% since 2007.

Finally, that taboo subject not to bring up while passing the mashed potatoes to your Uncle Lou: politics. Watching the news, one gets the sense that politics is all that matters, but the reality is that of the 327 million people living in the U.S. today, 99% of them didn’t bother watching the news yesterday. That’s a lot of people who realize there is much more to life than concerning themselves with the circus of Washington. We can all be thankful for that.

We here at The Patriot Post wish all our readers a Happy Thanksgiving!  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67044?mailing_id=4693&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4693&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

NavSec Firing Should End Gallagher Saga
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Harold Hutchison:  Sunday night, news broke that Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer was fired by Defense Secretary Mark Esper over a “lack of candor” involving a reported private proposal involving the case of Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher. We previously  covered the Gallagher case, including disturbing questions about misconduct by those investigating not just Gallagher but also Major Mat Golsteyn.

Don’t get us wrong, the allegations against Gallagher were very disturbing, but it should be noted that he was acquitted of all of the charges except one, in which he posed for a selfie with the corpse of an ISIS scumbag. Given what we know of ISIS atrocities, the conduct Gallagher was proven to have engaged in via the military justice system seems like spitting on the sidewalk.

As a result of being convicted on the single charge, Chief Gallagher was sentenced to some time in prison and to be reduced in rank. President Donald Trump reversed the reduction in rank, and Gallagher was freed with only time served in pre-court-martial confinement. Then, the Navy opened administrative proceedings against Gallagher in the form of a review board.

In essence, it appears that the Navy was trying to take another shot at punishing him for the allegations that prosecutors could not prove in a court-martial. President Trump, though, took to Twitter on Thursday, and said in a tweet that Gallagher would not lose his Trident Pin.

Whether you agree with that sort of decision or not (and there is a case to be made given the seriousness of the allegations against Gallagher), if you believe that the president, as commander-in-chief, has the right to make these sorts of calls, then that should have been the end of it. Especially given the legitimate questions about the integrity of the process — no thanks to Navy prosecutors trying to spy on not just Gallagher’s attorneys but the Navy Times as well.

Yet Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer and some admirals seemed to resist following Trump’s directive, and reportedly made his private proposal. After about 72 hours of controversy that built up (to include reports that Spencer and Rear Admiral Collin Green, the top SEAL in the Navy, had considered resigning, the secretary of the Navy was fired by Defense Secretary Esper — and rightly so.

We are aware of reports of problems in the Naval Special Warfare community. However, given that special operations forces have had to shoulder the bulk of the burden in the Global War on Terror, we have to wonder how much is because of 18 years of war and constant deployments.

That said, some of the concern about President Trump’s involvement ring hollow to us, particularly in light of actions President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama took during his time in office. scumbag/liar-nObama’s actions in the Bradley Manning and Bowe Bergdahl cases, while they drew controversy, faced nowhere near the level of public defiance that we’ve seen on the Gallagher case, and such defiance would have been far more warranted, given that the individuals involved were a traitor and a deserter, respectively.

scumbag/liar-nObama also removed then-General James Mattis as commander of United States Central Command  for far less than what we’ve seen in the Gallagher case. Again, Mattis’s actions then were nowhere near the level we’ve seen directed at President Trump.

As we noted earlier this month, Mattis was not the only case in American history where a removal of a general with a distinguished combat record from a military position was deemed necessary. Yet somehow, even if defiance of scumbag/liar-nObama over policy had emerged, whether over Bergdahl and/or Manning, or other foreign policy moves we regarded as blunders (withdrawing from Iraq, the Iran nuclear deal, the Russia “reset”), we suspect it would not get the same level of deference from the media as what we’ve seen in the Gallagher case.

What Gallagher was accused of was troubling. But so are the very real questions about the integrity of the process that emerged from the conduct of the Navy prosecutors and the reported actions of Secretary Spencer. Those concerned about protecting integrity seem to miss two key points: President Trump didn’t send malware-ridden emails to defense attorneys and the press; Navy prosecutors did. President Trump didn’t steal valor; one of those investigating Major Golsteyn did.

The phrase “lack of candor” has turned up elsewhere in connection with investigations where investigators have engaged in questionable conduct. America needs accountability from Navy leadership in the wake of this case, just as it is needed in other cases.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66980?mailing_id=4687&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4687&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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