“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.”
~ St. Paul, 1st century
Philippians 4:8 ~
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in
heavenly places.”
~ Ephesians 6:12 ~
"Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. This is why it is said: 'Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.'"
~ Ephesians 5:11-14 ~
"Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust, and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."
~ Psalm 40:4 ~
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables."
Ocasio-Cortez voters may have flunked history – or at least missed the chapters on the epic failures of socialism in the 20th century – but they might want to catch up on current events before they elect the Democratic Socialist to Congress next fall.
The sudden rise to fame of young Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who just ousted a 10-term House of Representatives’ incumbent in the New York primary, is evidence of the sorry state of public education in America today. Students apparently graduate with no understanding of American or world history, much less civics and current events.
The 28 year-old former Bernie Sanders campaign worker stands for open borders (an end to national sovereignty?), promises free college tuition for all, thinks housing is a “human right,” seems to have anti-Semitic leanings and believes the bigger the government the better.
Although Ocasio-Cortez appears to be of Hispanic heritage, she clearly lacks any perspective on recent developments in the socialist paradise of Venezuela ~
The inflation rate in Venezuela has exploded over the last year as the socialist nation grapples with extreme levels of poverty and food shortages — even worse, a new report suggests that the inflation rate could increase ten-fold in the coming months.
According to The Week, five million Venezuelan Bolivars is equivalent to $1.45 in United States dollars, which is approximately the same amount that a minimum-wage worker earns in an entire month in Venezuela.
As inflation in Venezuela soars out of control, embattled President Nicolas Maduro has deployed the army to markets to enforce government-set food prices […]
Soldiers were sent to almost 100 food markets across the country, according to the BBC. Maduro’s critics say his economic policies, and those of his predecessor Hugo Chávez, have wrecked Venezuela’s oil-rich economy.
Socialism always appeals to that naive, idealistic sense of “justice” so many young people possess. Unfortunately they lack not only a minimal knowledge of history – the results of that “justice” destroys the lives of millions – but an understanding of basic human nature. When reality catches up with the effects of socialism, a country’s wealth has either been squandered or is in the hands of tyrants, corruption runs rampant, and the population has been demoralized, oppressed and impoverished.
It’s too late for Venezuela. And probably New York’s 14th District. But hopefully not for the rest of America.
Just a few months ago, Cortez worked as a bartender in Greenwich Village. Blind-sided political journalists are now scrambling to see where she came from, and why she won.
I have a theory:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the frozen embryo love-child of Hugo Chavez and Evita Peron.
In case you haven’t seen it yet here’s an excellent new ad from the RNC showcasing the reckless rhetoric and irresponsible antics that have come to personify so many on the radical Left. Republicans’ unspoken message to voters is clearly “Is this the future you want for America?” ~
First, SCOTUS upheld President Trump’s travel ban (deliberately mischaracterized by the Left as a Muslim ban) on immigrants from countries hostile to the U.S. and/or those with ties to terrorism ~
The Court’s language was strong, with Roberts noting that the president “lawfully exercised the broad discretion granted to him under Section 1182(f) to suspend the entry of aliens into the United States.”
The Court also noted that the president’s interest in preserving national security, particularly in light of terrorism concerns, overrides concerns pertaining to the free exercise of religion as codified in the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Opponents of the ban had tried to make the case that, because the ban affected several Muslim countries, the religion itself was targeted.
Then, in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, they found that the California law which forced pregnancy centers to steer women to abortionists “unduly burdens protected speech.”Attorney General Jeff Sessions lauded the decision ~
“Speakers should not be forced by their government to promote a message with which they disagree, and pro-life pregnancy centers in California should not be forced to advertise abortion and undermine the very reason they exist.”
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that nonunion government workers can’t be forced to pay dues or other fees to support a union, further diminishing the power of organized labor and setting up what right-to-work proponents called the “hard work” of protecting free speech rights for the nation’s government employees […]
In their decision in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the justices said “agency shop” laws requiring nonunion government workers to pay union fees violate the First Amendment rights of workers who object to the political agenda of public employee unions.
“Compelling individuals to mouth support for views they find objectionable violates that cardinal constitutional command, and in most contexts, any such effort would be universally condemned,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito, author of the court’s opinion.
“This is the biggest victory for workers’ rights in a generation. The First Amendment guarantees each of us, as individuals, the right to choose which groups we will and won’t support with our money. Today the Supreme Court recognized that no one should be forced to give up that right just to be allowed to work in government. The Court recognized that unions have the right to organize and to advocate for the policies they believe in – but they don’t have a special right to force people to pay for their lobbying. They have to play by the same rules as everyone else.”
As Illinois governor Bruce Rauner told The Daily Signal in an earlier phone interview ~
“This case is also about the battle against conflicts of interest and corruption.”
“Unions are making campaign contributions to elected officials, getting them into office and then they are negotiating their contracts with these same officials. In the private sector, you would go to jail for this kind of activity.”
The Janus ruling affects about 5 million government employees in 22 states who no longer will be required either to join a union or pay related fees as a condition of employment.
In the reality-free zone that leftists inhabit, once they decree something is so, no pushback can be tolerated. Their pet issues (Union’s progressive activism, open borders, abortion, national healthcare, LGBTQ “rights”) have already been settled, no further discussion allowed. That’s why they become unhinged when challenged on any of their anti-American positions.
Remember decades ago when “intolerance” was the worst sin progressives could pin on you? Every time we conservatives tried to push back against their radical social agenda they demanded to know “Who are you to judge? You bigot!” Well, once they started down that road – misapplying Scripture and bastardizing the English language – it was inevitable: the Left has turned into the very scourge they accused the Right of being: INTOLERANT.
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Here is just the latest example of their illiberal ideology…
Considering their totalitarian behavior last weekend, the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, VA must have named itself after the red color typically associated with communism. Such intolerance for any opinion other than the radical leftist party line is reminiscent of Lenin, Marx and Stalin ~ Restaurant Owner Kicks Out Sarah Sanders ~
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia by the owner because of her work for President Donald Trump, she confirmed to The Daily Caller.
Incredibly, the smug, little fascist would proudly do it again ~
“I would have done the same thing again,” Stephanie Wilkerson, co-owner of the Red Hen, said. “We just felt there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions. This appeared to be one.”
Wilkerson added, “I have a business, and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.”
Unfortunately, Wilkerson is part of a growing movement of thuggish thought police; absolutely intolerant of any view but their own ~
On Monday, The New York Times ran an op-ed from Bryan W. Van Norden, professor of philosophy at Wuhan University, Yale-NUS College and Vassar College, calling for de-platforming of all conservative dissenters. Why? Because those opinions are bad, of course.
“If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” Waters said.
If these neo-Totalitarians ever heard of the Golden Rule they long ago rejected it, apparently believing they’re justified in treating their fellow citizens like crap in the name of the Resistance. This offensive, sophomoric, uncivil behavior has no place in America. Are there any adults left in the Democrat party with the courage to stand up to these unhinged bigots?
(I)f any conservative had called for mobs to badger Democrats when they’re at the supermarket, the nation would be thrust into a national dialogue about the growing and perilous incivility on the Right. There would be a flood of anxious op-ed pieces and cable news roundtables featuring chin-stroking hypocrites contemplating the future of discourse in America. No one would be spared. Every Republican politician on Earth would be asked to condemn these comments.
Why am I speculating? This is exactly what happened during the peaceful Tea Party protests […]
To some extent, Trump invites this sort of reaction. Then again, to some extent, political Trump exists because of the decades of hyperbolic attacks on Republicans. Fact is, Democrats make little distinction between soft-spoken moderates like Paul Ryan or crude sometimes-conservatives like Trump. Democrats have been comparing Republicans to Nazis since the 1960s.
Lost in all the ginned-up hysteria over illegal aliens, amid the baseless outrage over Trump (most of the malcontents can’t even stammer out a coherent response if you ask what specifically the president has done to upset them), this happened last week ➡ Trump Administration Pulls US Out of UN Human Rights Council.
Conflating this story with the heart-wrenching coverage of illegal immigrant families torn apart at the border, some in the media did cover the story, but only as a means to further characterize the president as a callous brute, indifferent to all human suffering. Of course the facts don’t support that image.
The reality is, the UN Human Rights Council has been a complete farce since it was formed in 2006. Considering that it has condemned the state of Israel 78 times in the last 12 years (more than the rest of the world combined), it should more accurately be named the Anti-Israel Council. This anti-Semitic stance led the George W. Bush administration to boycott the Council for three years.
Of course Barack Obama – no doubt approving of the group’s strange definition of “human rights abuses” – promptly joined when he became president. He apparently saw no irony in the fact that countries like China, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Venezuela, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan are all members of the council. But in reality, the idea that these nations – each guilty of numerous human rights violations themselves – presume to sit in judgement of western democracies (most especially Israel), is preposterous.
Though I don’t agree with every position Ambassador Nikki Haley takes, she is definitely to be congratulated on this move ~
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States announced Tuesday it was leaving the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it “an organization that is not worthy of its name.”
Haley, Trump’s envoy to the U.N., said the U.S. had given the human rights body “opportunity after opportunity” to make changes. She lambasted the council for “its chronic bias against Israel” […]
“We take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights,” Haley said.
“When a so-called Human Rights Council cannot bring itself to address the massive abuses in Venezuela and Iran, and it welcomes the Democratic Republic of Congo as a new member,” she continued, “the council ceases to be worthy of its name.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, appearing alongside Haley at the State Department, said there was no doubt that the council once had a “noble vision.”
But today we need to be honest,” Pompeo said. “The Human Rights Council is a poor defender of human rights.”
Haley cited longstanding U.S. complaints that the 47-member council is biased against Israel. She had been threatening the pull-out since last year unless the council made changes advocated by the U.S. “Regrettably, it is now clear that our call for reform was not heeded,” Haley said.
Haley indicated that the US was willing to consider rejoining the council if reformed were enacted to address her criticisms.
“We have used America’s voice and vote to defend human rights at the UN every day,” she concluded, “and we will continue to do so.”
After eight long years of the O’Ministration cozying up to dictators and alienating our allies, it’s reassuring to see the adults are back in charge of international affairs.
The Council voted to condemn Israel on June 13 for excessive force against Palestinians protesting on the Gaza Strip, but the General Assembly’s text failed to mention Hamas.
“The nature of this resolution clearly demonstrates that politics is driving the day. It is totally one-sided. It makes not one mention of the Hamas terrorists who routinely initiate the violence in Gaza,” Haley told the Council.
Ahead of the final UN vote condemning US recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley was unequivocal in her condemnation of the organization’s thuggish behavior.
Mr. Saipov said that the judgments made in the courtroom were “not important” to him because they were “not Allah’s judgments.”
He also said that the Islamic State, in order to “impose Sharia on earth, is leading a war.” The Islamic State was not fighting for land or for oil, he continued. “They’re fighting to impose Sharia on earth.”
Believing that wind and solar can power your economy means sacrificing our good friends, logic and reason. It also demands ignorance of the most basic of facts: eg, sunset and calm weather.
And yet the climate alarmists don’t let a little thing like reality stop them from considering Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona Amendment which would require 50 percent of the electricity generated in the state to come from renewable sources (including Unicorn farts 🙂 ) by 2030 ~
If the measure passes it would necessitate the closure of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station west of Phoenix, which currently provides about 35 percent of the state’s electricity, even though it produces no carbon emissions […]
Being green is a state of mind. Just never let the facts get in the way.
Following a formal handoff ceremony at Lockheed Martin’s F-35 facility in Fort Worth, Texas, the defense giant will ferry the aircraft to Luke Air Force Base in Arizona where Turkish pilots will begin training alongside U.S. airmen […]
However, both House and Senate versions of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act contain restrictions on Turkey’s participation in the F-35 program due to Ankara’s plan to buy Russia’s advanced S-400 air defense system.
On Tuesday, the Senate voted 85 to 10 to block the sale, citing the deal with the Russians as well as Turkey’s continued detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was accused of spying and attempting to overthrow the government in 2016. He has denied all charges.
On Aug. 9, 2017, CBS correspondent Steve Dorsey broke the story that U.S. diplomats in Havana had been sickened by a mysterious illness, the cause of which no one could put their finger on. At the time no one had any answers about what happened. Doctors determined they were likely suffering from some kind of ultrasonic device. But since then other possibilities have arisen. Chris Simmons, a retired supervisory counterintelligence officer from the Defense Intelligence Agency with deep experience related to Cuba, has a theory and supporting evidence that makes perfect sense and is very plausible.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the far-left presidential candidate in Mexico and former mayor of Mexico City, has called for mass migration to the U.S., saying it is a “human right” for Mexican citizens to enter the United States.
• Respects our national sovereignty and the rule of law.
• Keeps families together.
• Lets our bishops go back to attending George Soros’ conferences. And
• Most important of all, heals Laura Bush’s broken heart. Hasn’t that woman suffered enough?
The Department of Labor, pursuant to President Donald Trump’s October 2017 executive order, has just published a final rule to enable small businesses to more easily join together and form association health plans. The new rule would apply to sole proprietors, the self-employed, or persons owning their own businesses, allowing them to take advantage of these plan offerings […]
When Trump ordered the Department of Labor to develop the new rules last year, he wanted to give small employers and employees who work in the same kind of business, such as plumbers or electricians, the right to form these associations.
Germany’s Migrant Policy: Why Trump was Right ~ On June 18th, the president tweeted “Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!” ~
According to Germany’s 2017 crime statistics, more than 1,100 foreigners were charged with murder or manslaughter, as opposed to around 1,500 suspects holding German passports. Given that Germany was home to roughly 10 million foreigners as opposed to 70 million German nationals, these are staggering numbers.
Politics in Europe is changing rapidly. A big win for the Swedish Democrats could rock Brussels to the core. Where Brexit Britain leads, others will follow!
Seniors in the Netherlands who do not have a terminal illness are eligible for euthanasia. That is the clear message of a new code of practice for euthanasia, which is being sent to every general practitioner in the Netherlands […]
Last year, lawmakers in the Netherlands proposed the “Completed Life Bill” that would make any person age 75 or over eligible for euthanasia. The person could be perfectly healthy.
(A seminal 2016 study of coastal U.S. mosquito populations in the journal Nature Communications) found that growth in mosquito populations did not correspond with rising temperatures but with decreased DDT. It is important to note that this study only reveals associations, which do not prove causation. Other factors may be at play. Also, statistical methods used to perform such analyses are prone to pitfalls. However, this study is far more telling than conclusions drawn from imprecise, erratic associations between temperatures and disease-carrying insects.
Apparently the six million Jews massacred during the Second World War, not to mention the other tens of millions of casualties, do not measure up to the overarching evils of climate change—at least in the minds of the Berkeley City Council […]
Climate change “has been linked to the Syrian War, the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria, as well as the famines, water shortages, and resulting conflict in Yemen, Somalia, and South Sudan,” the document pronounces.
Delegates at the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Jerusalem, which was attended by 1,950 representatives from 50 countries, made a passionate call this week to go to the ends of the earth to proclaim Jesus Christ to all nations.
They also agreed on a letter to the churches in the Anglican communion which calls for the Archbishop of Canterbury as its leader, to reaffirm the clear teaching of the Bible in line with historical Anglican orthodoxy.
This week Time Magazine altered reality to promote their progressive open borders agenda. Some astute Photoshop artist fixed it for them ~
Contrast Time’s shameless deceit with the dearth of coverage the president received after signing “Right to Try” into law (allowing terminally ill patients to seek experimental treatments not approved by the Food and Drug Administration) last month ~
Censorship on the internet – especially with major search engines (and social media) – is so egregious that you can’t even find this picture ↑ (or any other photos of the event!) if you search “Trump signs Right to Try bill.” Seriously, try it yourself. I had to pull this screen shot off a video.
Sadly for America, these Leftists are turning into the real fascists. They simply do not want people to know the truth.
Our nation is right now on the verge of making an existential decision. Will we have borders and enforce our laws? Or will we invite all 147 million would-be immigrants who told Gallup they want to move here to grab the nearest child, and sneak across our borders? Will we eliminate ICE, as NY governor’s candidate Cynthia Nixon is demanding?
Will we follow the Congressional Democrats, who’ve written a bill that would let any criminal within 150 miles of the border or port of entry stay with his family? Will we obey bishops and pastors who are de facto demanding open borders, despite the vast human death toll that a wave of children marching through the desert will suffer?
The choice is ours. If we passively let the media and other elites make it for us, then in the post-sovereign chaos that engulfs what was once America, the facts will no longer matter.
The FBI has apparently been so very busy chasing Russian white rabbits that they simply haven’t been able to address credible threats to out national security. Oddly enough they seem to have little interest in Imran Awan and his shady clan of Pakistani Muslims.
Awan, an information technology (IT) administrator worked for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) for more than 12 years and was given unrestricted access to DNC computers and data systems. He was employed by dozens of other Democrats in the same capacity – with the same lax security.
Last summer Awan was charged with bank fraud in connection with wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to his native Pakistan. But it’s his suspected hijacking of sensitive data that should be cause for real concern. As Andrew C. McCarthy reported last August ~
Awan and his family cabal of fraudsters (a couple brothers and their wives) had access for years to the e-mails and other electronic files of members of the House’s Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees. It turns out they were accessing members’ computers without their knowledge, transferring files to remote servers, and stealing computer equipment — including hard drives that Awan & Co. smashed to bits of bytes before making tracks.
The House Office of Inspector General claimed in late 2016 that the Awan family logged into members’ servers they had no business accessing, in some cases after they’d been fired. Prosecutors allege the family also ordered equipment – sometimes shipped to their residence – using invoices falsified to make it easier for equipment to disappear, and took measures to cover their tracks.
The FBI began surveilling them, but prosecutors contend in court papers that the Awans likely “knew they were under investigation,” and they wired $300,000 to Pakistan. Federal agents arrested Imran at the airport in July trying to fly to Pakistan, and charged Imran and his wife with bank fraud involving money they wired overseas.
However, months later, authorities have not charged the couple with the more serious “unauthorized access” described in the IG’s investigation and backed up by server logs. Capitol Hill officials involved in oversight of the case say the reason is that Democratic employers are acting like “hostile victims” and are refusing to press charges.
Why wouldn’t Democrats cooperate in the investigation (other than the fact that they’re obstructionists by nature)? Well, considering the multiple allegations of fraud, intimidation and other threatening behavior – even physical abuse (and polygamy 😯 ) – against Imran and his entire gang, that the Daily Caller News Foundation uncovered, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that they’ve engaged in extortion as well ~
Given Democrats’ keen attention to political cyber breaches in the wake of the hack of the Democratic National Committee and other high-profile incidents, fellow IT aides and Republicans have offered theories to explain their uncharacteristic silence in this case: Blackmail or fear of retaliation by the Awans, who could read all the emails and files of 1 in 5 House Democrats, in the form of releasing that data or other information if they dare speak out against them.
That theory is strengthened by a yearlong investigation by TheDCNF (the Daily Caller News Foundation): Court filings and interviews show Imran has been accused of allegedly invoking his congressional position to intimidate immigrants, summoning political favors to make criminal charges go away, ordering witnesses not to cooperate with police, and enlisting police resources to bully people.
The most egregious incident of possible obstruction came after the IG determined that the House Democratic Caucus server was the epicenter of the suspected cybersecurity breach. There were indications the server might have been secretly collecting data from numerous offices, and it was uploading data offsite, an IG presentation said. Soon after, that entire server-turned-evidence was physically stolen, according to three government officials.
Imran’s entire family, plus a couple associates, were on the House payroll ostensibly working as IT administrators until they were banned from the House network on Feb. 2, 2017. The group collected a total of $7 million in salary even though some did not have any background in IT, and there are indications some were no-show workers, or “ghost employees.” Democrats have refused to say whether they ever saw some of the crew, such as Rao Abbas, whose most recent job experience was at McDonald’s. Abbas appeared on the payroll of numerous House Democrats soon after the Awans owed him money in a potential lawsuit, according to court documents.
(W)hen a House Office of Inspector General cybersecurity investigation found that Awan made “unauthorized access” to House servers, including the House Democratic Caucus’ shortly before the election, Wasserman Schultz became “frantic, not normal,” “making the rounds” to House officials in an attempt to kill the investigation, one House employee told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
[Even better, Wasserman Schultz’s brother is a federal prosecutor in the same office handling the Awan case and has tweeted about it. 😯 ]
One way to keep someone silent is to make sure you find them a job you can control. An old trick in the Clinton political and crony playbook.
Imran Awan is currently employed by the same firm that is trying to keep him and his wife from serving time in federal prison.
Welcome to The Swamp.
Is Awan handling his own case files and evidence, as well as fielding calls from the U.S. Attorney’s office about his case? This is preposterous.
It is preposterous – but that word seems to apply to most of the FBI’s clown show antics these days, thanks in no small part the agency’s former director.
The FBI wastes time, money and resources chasing phony Russian collusion while surreptitiously enabling cyber-spying by Pakistani Islamists. Why? Their reluctance to prosecute any sort of suspected subterfuge by Muslims started at the top – under the illustrious, now special counsel, Robert Mueller. What a coincidence eh?
In May of last year Judicial Watch featured a very interesting look back at Mueller’s devious role in hamstringing our national security ~
As FBI director, Mueller bent over backwards to please radical Islamist groups and caved into their demands. The agency eliminated the valuable anti-terrorism training material and curricula after Mueller met with various Islamist organizations, including those with documented ties too terrorism […]
The records obtained as part of Judicial Watch’s lawsuit show that Mueller, who served 12 years as FBI chief, met with the Islamist organizations on February 8, 2012 to hear their demands. Shortly later the director assured the Muslim groups that he had ordered the removal of presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices nationwide. The purge was part of a broader Islamist operation designed to influence the opinions and actions of persons, institutions, governments and the public at-large.
And this same Robert Mueller has the audacity to investigate Donald Trump for Russian collusion?! He deliberately ignores the obvious threat from organizations like CAIR, Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim Brotherhood and Pakistani Islamists, and pretends Moscow is the real menace.
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It’s a small comfort, but at least one member of Congress is looking out for the interests of we-the-people and trying to get to the bottom of this subterfuge. Two weeks ago Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) addressed the House of Representatives with regard to the handling egregious mishandling of the Awan case ~
As Gomert points out, Awan worked for 40-50 different Congressional Democrats (Daily Caller has a handy list HERE), none of whom – oddly enough – ever bothered with a background check. And none apparently thought it strange that he would spend 3-9 months every year in Pakistan.
While Gohmert sticks up for the honest people still working in the FBI – who actually take their oaths seriously – he notes that unfortunately there are now two kinds of justice on the Hill. Exactly right. One for the Swamp creatures and one for the rest of us.
“We need someone assigned to the Awan case that will protect congress from further breaches and from the Awan crime family… for heavens sake, we need someone in the FBI to step up and do their job!”
This is just one of many shoes waiting to drop from the Democrat’s centipede of corruption. Crimes were committed here, possibly including Wasserman Schultz and leading Democrats. Yet a cover-up could be in the works. Let’s not take our eyes off this corner of the swamp.
Mueller’s Messed Up Mine Field ~ Because the defendants are pleading “not guilty,” Mueller now has to show his evidence for more than a dozen indictments of Russian nationals and three Russian internet marketing companies (in connection with the Russian collusion farce)… but it appears he has none!
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”
~ John Adams
Remember the drowned Syrian boy story? The one the European progressive media used as agit-prop to guilt western Europeans into effectively committing nationcide by opening their borders to ever-growing hoards of third-world immigrants? It actually turned out to be one of the original examples of Fake News. The Daily Caller helped expose the charade in this Sept. 2015 story ~
Details about the Syrian family of the three-year old boy, who drowned as they made their way to Europe from Turkey on a small dingy, began to emerge recently and some things do not add up.
Originally described as desperate refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war, it turns out the boy and his family had lived in Turkey for a year or more ~
According to The Wall Street Journal, Abdullah Kurdi, the little boy’s father, was living in a relatively safe area in a Turkish town for three years while working on construction sites for 50 Turkish lira (roughly $17) a day.
However, Kurdi told a Syrian radio station it was not enough to support himself and his family and he relied on his sister Tima Kurdi, who is a 20-year resident of Canada, to assist in paying the rent.
According to the sister, Kurdi’s father advised his son to leave Turkey and go to Europe and have his teeth fixed. Once he reached Europe, he was told to find a way to bring his entire family over from Turkey.
So much for the gut-wrenching refugees-fleeing-for-their-lives narrative.
In the same way that the open borders-promoting media saturated their news coverage with that story and the iconic picture, the mainstreams today are obsessing over illegal immigrants’ children. They’re peddling the same brand of deceitful propaganda. (The original photos they tried to shock us with were four years old.)
Multiple stories about those family detention centers written during the Obama era–just not by the mainstream media. In particular, dozens of stories about the Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Arizona particular were written by journalists at Shadowproof, a reader-supported media outlet, alone. Journalists for Shadowproof also frequently reported on the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas. Most media declined to investigate these facilities until fairly recently.
Second, the leftist autocrats and their media puppets are completely misrepresenting the situation on the border. Families who arrive at an official border crossing requesting asylum are not separated. It’s only those who are apprehended while entering illegally that are faced with that outcome.
Rich Lowry explained the situation quite clearly in this article at National Review ~
The Trump administration isn’t changing the rules that pertain to separating an adult from the child. Those remain the same. Separation happens only if officials find that the adult is falsely claiming to be the child’s parent, or is a threat to the child, or is put into criminal proceedings.
It’s the last that is operative here. The past practice had been to give a free pass to an adult who is part of a family unit. The new Trump policy is to prosecute all adults. The idea is to send a signal that we are serious about our laws and to create a deterrent against re-entry. (Illegal entry is a misdemeanor, illegal re-entry a felony.)
Imagine that. Trump (and everyone who voted for him no doubt) actually think that breaking our immigration laws should have consequences.
When a migrant is prosecuted for illegal entry, he or she is taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals. In no circumstance anywhere in the U.S. do the marshals care for the children of people they take into custody. The child is taken into the custody of HHS, who cares for them at temporary shelters.
Lowry make several important points about this contentious situation ~
1) Family units can go home quickly.
The option that both honors our laws and keeps family units together is a swift return home after prosecution. But immigrant advocates hate it because they want the migrants to stay in the United States.
2) There’s a better way to claim asylum.
if a migrant does have a credible fear of persecution, there is a legitimate way to pursue that claim, and it does not involve entering the United States illegally. First, such people should make their asylum claim in the first country where they feel safe, i.e., Mexico or some other country they are traversing to get here. Second, if for some reason they are threatened everywhere but the United States, they should show up at a port of entry and make their claim there rather than crossing the border illegally.
3) There is a significant moral cost to not enforcing the border.
(U)nder current policy and with the current resources, the only practical alternative is letting family units who show up at the border live in the country for the duration. Not only does this make a mockery of our laws, it creates an incentive for people to keep bringing children with them.
Needless to say, children should not be making this journey that is fraught with peril. But there is now a premium on bringing children because of how we have handled these cases. They are considered chits.
4) Congress can fix this.
Congress can change the rules so the Flores consent decree (which essentially say minors in family units must be held separately) will no longer apply, and it can appropriate more money for family shelters at the border. This is an obvious thing to do that would eliminate the tension between enforcing our laws and keeping family units together.
The Trump administration is throwing as many resources as it can at the border to expedite the process, and it desperately wants the Flores consent decree reversed. Despite some mixed messages, if the administration had its druthers, family units would be kept together and their cases settled quickly.
Of course the mainstreams have no interest in actually having an intelligent conversation about any of these specific issues. They’ve got an open-borders agenda to push. Can’t let a good crisis go to waste – even a totally phony one.
Let’s start with the fact that Democrats are desperate. Republican economic policies, pursued by the Trump administration and enacted by the Republican Congress, have our economy humming along at a historic rate. Overseas, the Trump administration has moved to advance America’s trade interests and to neutralize some of the principal threats against us, including that from North Korea.
What is a loyal Democrat to do? Change the subject. Hence the obsession, which has blown up over the past few days, with the alleged separation of parents from their children at the country’s Southern border.
The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers, a Senate investigation has found.
Fox’s Tucker Carlson exposed the glaring hypocrisy of the mainstreams and other progressives when it comes to their latest outrage du jour –children of illegal alien parents – with a couple tweets today. This also ties in with my point about the denigration of fathers and the Left’s deliberate attack on the nuclear family in yesterday’s post ~
That’s why they’re always lecturing you about the patriarchy and the evil of the nuclear family. Millions and millions of American kids are growing up with one parent at home thanks to their policies. That’s fine with them.
The sudden rise to fame of young Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who just ousted a 10-term House of Representatives’ incumbent in the New York primary, is evidence of the sorry state of public education in America today. Students apparently graduate with no understanding of American or world history, much less civics and current events.
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”
