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LAS VEGAS — Outside campaign rallies and early voting sites, you get the sense many Nevada Democrats have made up their minds about their first choice for president. Second choice? Some voters have strategies for that. Third choice? Fewer voters know which candidate to write on that line, and by the time it comes for […] Read More…
OPINION — All we have really learned so far in 2020 is that Bernie Sanders is not going to quietly fade away. What leading Democrats do with this unavoidable reality is a choice that will reverberate for years. Read More…
MAGA rapper pledges allegiance to President Donald Trump
Bryson Gray’s “MAGA Ain’t Got No Color” is half an hour of beats and rhymes dedicated to praising President Donald Trump and insisting that the rapper is special and brave for doing so. With track titles like “45 ” and “Black Not Democrat, ” Gray makes it clear that he’s not a fan of subtle. Read More…
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Maine Senate candidate has big overhaul plan for Big Tech
Although recent elections have ushered in a handful of tech-savvy lawmakers, rarely have candidates made technology policy a keystone of their campaigns. But Ross LaJeunesse, a disenchanted former Google executive and one of the Democrats vying for the chance to unseat Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, is seeking to change that. Read More…
Inhofe to announce reelection decision in March
Senate Armed Services Chairman James M. Inhofe said he will announce March 6 whether he will seek a fifth term. Candidates in Oklahoma have until April 10 to register to seek public office. Read More…
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From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann FIRST READ: How did Sanders become the big Dem frontrunner? Here are six reasons Our new NBC News/Marist poll of South Carolina captures all of the different ingredients that COULD result in Bernie Sanders wrapping up the Democratic nomination in just a month.  Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images One, you have the winner of Iowa and close second-place finisher of New Hampshire (Pete Buttigieg) sitting at just 4 percent among likely African American Dem primary voters. Call it the Reverse Obama — the Iowa winner unable to play in the South and with African American voters.
Two, you have the slight Dem leader in South Carolina (Joe Biden) at just 27 percent among all likely South Carolina Dem primary voters after his fourth place in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire – much lower than Hillary Clinton’s 74 percent that carried this state in 2016.
Three, you have one billionaire without a single delegate so far (Tom Steyer) at 15 percent and peeling away support from Biden – after spending some $20 million over the South Carolina airwaves.
Four, you have another billionaire who’s not even on the ballot in South Carolina (Michael Bloomberg) who continues to suck up oxygen in the race and who will make his second debate appearance tonight.
Five, you have candidates mired in single digits in South Carolina (Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar) who aren’t leaving this Dem race anytime soon with Super Tuesday just a week away,
And six, you have Sanders trailing Biden by only 4 points in South Carolina and improving demographically across the board from 2016 – he’s at 20 percent among African Americans in South Carolina after getting 51 percent of the Latino vote in Nevada.
Add them all up, and you see not only why Sanders is the Dem frontrunner and why he could put away the Dem race on Super Tuesday.
You also see how he might even win in South Carolina, a state he lost by nearly 50 points in 2016.
As far as tonight’s debate goes (more on that below), if a “Stop Bernie” effort doesn’t work, then it’s either fast consolidation or a slow coronation for Sanders.
Breaking down our South Carolina poll One important point from our NBC News/Marist poll of South Carolina: It was conducted Feb. 18-21 – so all before the Nevada caucuses, which Sanders won by more than a 2-to-1 margin.
Here are the overall numbers among likely Democratic primary voters: Biden 27 percent, Sanders 24 percent, Steyer 15 percent, Buttigieg 9 percent, Warren 8 percent and Klobuchar 5 percent.
Among likely African-American Democratic primary voters: Biden 35 percent, Sanders 20 percent, Steyer 19 percent, Warren 7 percent, Buttigieg 4 percent, Klobuchar 2 percent.
Among likely white Democratic primary voters: Sanders 26 percent, Biden 18 percent, Buttigieg 17 percent, Steyer 10 percent, Warren 9 percent and Klobuchar 9 percent.
Also in the poll: 72 percent of Sanders backers say they strongly support the Vermont senator, versus 61 percent for Biden’s supporters and 60 percent for Steyer’s.
Bloomberg’s damage-control TV ad on women Here’s Mike Bloomberg’s newest TV ad featuring testimonials from women who have worked with him.
Female employee: Working with Mike Bloomberg was one of the most empowering experiences that I’ve had. Another female: It’s important to talk to the people who know him personally. Another: I worked for him for eight years in City Hall. I’ve been working for Bloomberg for 27 years. 25 years. Almost 30 years. There’s nobody that I respect more and felt more respected by. Mike believes excellence is not defined by gender. Mike built a culture that advances women. First woman ever appointed to be counsel to the mayor He expects excellence out of everyone. But he also provides the kind of support that allows you to be that person. Mike called to tell me you should be proud of what you’ve done and your name should be on that project. He has faith in you. He believes in you was about always showing up in doing your best. I always knew that he had my back. He was raised by an extraordinary woman. She supported him all along the way, and that’s very much a part of who he is. Mike supports women. He promotes women and he respects women.
2020 VISION: Ready for Debate No. 10? On the campaign trail today: Seven Democratic candidates – Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer – have qualified to participate in tonight’s debate from Charleston, S.C.
The debate airs on CBS News beginning at 8:00 pm ET, and it’s co-hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and Twitter.
Dispatches from NBC’s campaign embeds: Priscilla Thompson reports that Pete Buttigieg is changing up his stump speech to lean into a humility message: “’Campaigning is about humbling yourself,’ he told the crowd of roughly 100 people. ‘It is especially humbling to be asking for the trust of African-American voters,’ Buttigieg said, outlining the significance of a vote ‘that was hard won through blood and sweat.” All this led him to say, “I know that when I ask for your vote, I’m asking you to trust your life and your family’s future to me.’ The former mayor went on to discuss, in overarching terms, his record in South Bend — again emphasizing humility. ‘I can talk about all the things that we did together that we’re proud of, but being mayor too is an exercise, not only in hope but in humility, he said. ‘I was humbled, again and again by the challenge, and by the intractability of some of the issues that we faced, knowing that we have so much more work to do to confront the impact of institutional racism.’”
TWEET OF THE DAY: We bet this is a debate topic tonight 
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … 1,031.61 (or 3.56 percent) 1,031.61 points (or 3.56 percent).
That’s how far down the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped yesterday at close after more coronavirus cases outside of China prompted worry about a global economic slowdown.
It was the worst day for the Dow in two years as investors dumped stocks in favor of assets like gold.
At publication time, U.S. futures did point to a potential rebound when markets open Tuesday morning.
THE LID: Stand by me Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we delved into the state of the endorsement primary — as Joe Biden is poised to pick up a big backer in South Carolina.
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss Hosni Mubarak has died.
South Carolina’s The State newspaper has endorsed Pete Buttigieg. (He’s also going up with ads in Super Tuesday states.)
Yes, some Democrats are wringing their hands about the idea of a Sanders nod, but some in the Senate think he’s well equipped to take on Trump.
Catholic support for Trump is up, but as a whole, American Catholics still favor Democrats in 2020, according to a new survey.
Some are calling for Democrats not named Sanders or Biden to drop out. Their response: Why would I do that?
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“If I don’t win you’re going to see a crash like you’ve never seen before.”
“The Trump administration continues to take the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Disease very seriously.”
“Pete often talks about how in the military you get to work with people of very different backgrounds.”
Planned Parenthood left the program last August rather than comply with the rule.
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POLITICO Playbook: The real reason D.C. is afraid of Bernie
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DRIVING THE DAY
WHY D.C. IS NERVOUS ABOUT BERNIE: Historically, many presidential candidates have given us clues about how they’d govern. JOE BIDEN has cut numerous deals with Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL. MITT ROMNEY was a governor and a businessman. BARACK OBAMA spent time in the Senate, but had a clearly articulated worldview that wasn’t hard to transpose into a governing philosophy.
Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) — much like President DONALD TRUMP — has an agenda that would be difficult to pass even if his party had large majorities in both houses of Congress.
LOTS OF ATTENTION HAS BEEN PAID to the nervousness among moderate Democrats about the prospect of a SANDERS nomination. But the fear among corporate America, nonprofits and other D.C. entities is quite real.
NO ONE HAS ANY IDEA how SANDERS would govern, if given the opportunity, or whether his agenda would stand a chance in an all-Democratic Washington. There’s fear that SANDERS would follow TRUMP’S lead and use executive orders to short-circuit Congress where he couldn’t build consensus — a notoriously difficult thing to plan for. (Ironically, many companies we’ve spoken to feel as if they spent months mapping out an ELIZABETH WARREN presidency, and now they are being forced to confront what SANDERS will do in office.)
KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED: In the next 30 days, super PACs seeking to keep the Senate Republican and flip the House will take in BIG money.
HAPPENING TONIGHT … THE CBS DEBATE in Charleston, S.C. … FIVE QUESTIONERS: moderators Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King, with Margaret Brennan, Major Garrett and Bill Whitaker.
— SALLY GOLDENBERG: “Bloomberg’s debate strategy: Nuke Sanders”: “Hunkered down at the Four Seasons hotel in Florida’s Disney World, [Mike Bloomberg] prepared for a mission to salvage his half-billion dollar investment in the presidential race with a debate performance designed to quiet the critics and stall frontrunner Bernie Sanders’ momentum.”
… TO WIT: CHRIS CADELAGO and LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ: “Bloomberg internal poll claims Bernie would sink downballot Dems”
— NYT: “Sanders Says He’ll Attract a Wave of New Voters. It Hasn’t Happened,” by Sydney Ember in Charleston and Nate Cohn: “The results so far show that Mr. Sanders has prevailed by broadening his appeal among traditional Democratic voters, not by fundamentally transforming the electorate.”
— WAPO’S GRIFF WITTE: “In Cold War travels, Bernie Sanders found much to admire behind enemy lines. Now that’s a problem for his campaign.”
WHAT YOU’LL BE HEARING A LOT FROM SANDERS IN THE NEAR FUTURE, from CNN’s town hall Monday night — CHERYL STOCKFORD: “We’re so glad you’re here. Bernie, could you please share how you will allay the fears of those who see your political ideology as too extreme? How do you respond to Americans who believe we need to beat Trump more than we need extreme political policies?”
SANDERS: “Thank you very much for that question. And you’re quite right. I think not only virtually all Democrats, a whole lot of independents and some Republicans understand that it is absolutely imperative that we defeat this extremely dangerous president. So I’m happy to tell you, for a start, that if you look at the polling out there, polls go up and polls go down, but almost all of the polls nationally have me defeating Trump.
“If you look at just polls that came out a few days ago, on Sunday, I think it was CBS, I’m beating Trump in Michigan, I’m beating Trump in Pennsylvania, beating Trump in Wisconsin, I think we’re tied in Florida. …
“The last point that I want to make. You know, I know if you look at the media, they say, Bernie’s ideas are radical and they’re extreme, they’re out of the mainstream. Let me just tell you, I don’t think that that’s true. Is raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour a radical idea? … Is making sure that all of our kids have the opportunity to get a higher education regardless of their income because we’re going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free, is that a radical idea?”
— BERNIE IS NOT BACKING AWAY FROM HIS CASTRO REMARKS: “Now, if you want to disagree with me, if somebody wants to say that — and by the way, all of those congresspeople that you mentioned just so happen to be supporting other candidates, just accidentally, no doubt, coincidentally. But, you know, the truth is the truth. And that’s what happened in the first years of the Castro regime.”
GUESS WHO’S NOT FREAKING OUT? SENATE DEMS … BURGESS EVERETT and MARIANNE LEVINE: “Why Senate Dems aren’t freaking out about Bernie”: “Senate Democrats respect the durable political movement that he’s built over the past five years that threatened to topple Hillary Clinton and a populist streak that could be wielded against Trump to win back some of his voters.
“‘I do believe he can beat President Trump,’ said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who sought the presidential nomination earlier this cycle. ‘What Bernie has shown up until now is that he has a very broad base of very, very passionate followers. That is the first thing you need for a campaign on any level. Especially in a red or purple district.’
“‘He’s running even with [Trump] in the national polls and … his win in Nevada shows that he won over all the demographics. So I think he’s looking really strong,’ agreed Democratic Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico, a state that Trump wants to flip in November. ‘It looks like he’s the leader right now and he’s doing very well.’”
BUTTIGIEG GOES NATIONAL … ELENA SCHNEIDER: “Buttigieg launching Super Tuesday TV ads”: “[Pete] Buttigieg’s campaign will start airing TV spots on Tuesday and Wednesday in 12 of the 14 March 3 primary states, part of a seven-figure ad buy on cable and broadcast stations, shared first with POLITICO. The campaign will also go up with a second, seven-figure digital ad program in those states.
“Buttigieg’s late start in TV advertising is another sign that he’s feeling the financial pressure of his better-funded presidential rivals. Bernie Sanders, who raised $25 million in January, and Mike Bloomberg, who is self-funding his bid, have already poured millions into spending on TV ads in these states. Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren also started airing TV ads earlier this week. Joe Biden, notably, also hasn’t started airing TV ads in Super Tuesday states.”
— ENDORSEMENT WATCH — “The State endorses Pete Buttigieg in the South Carolina Democratic Party primary”
EYES OPEN EMOJI … BIDEN at a fundraiser in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on Monday night, per Jamie Lovegrove of the Post and Courier: “Biden said he spent time with U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn on Sunday night and Clyburn noted similarities between Delaware and South Carolina. Clyburn, the most influential Democrat in South Carolina, is widely expected to endorse Biden on Wednesday, though he told The Post and Courier he would be talking to 2-3 candidates on Sunday night and was still making up his mind.”
— BIDEN UP BY 4 IN NEW MARIST POLL: “In the South Carolina presidential primary for the Democratic nomination, Joe Biden (27%) narrowly bests Bernie Sanders (23%) among likely Democratic primary voters including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate or who have already voted. Tom Steyer receives 15% of the likely Democratic electorate. No other candidate in the field achieves double-digit support. 27% of likely Democratic primary voters remain persuadable, that is those who are undecided or who may change their minds prior to the primary.”
ANOTHER BERNIE VEEP CANDIDATE, as emailed to us Monday afternoon: Sen. CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO (D-Nev.). If both parties are trying to put Nevada in play, that’s a good pick.
Good Tuesday morning.
SNEAK PEEK … JAY KHOSLA, chief economic policy counsel to MCCONNELL, is leaving Capitol Hill. KHOSLA has been involved with most every domestic policy initiative in recent years. Most notably, as staff director for Senate Finance, he was one of the chief authors and negotiators of the 2017 rewrite of the tax code. (There’s a book about that, if you care to know more.) MCCONNELL will talk from the floor about KHOSLA’S departure this morning at 10 a.m.
NEW: Patients for Affordable Drugs Now is launching a more than $2 million TV, radio and digital ad campaign urging the Senate to pass the Trump-backed drug pricing bill. The effort is expected to ramp up into at least a dozen states and run until late May. The group is also planning to fly patients to Washington. The first two ads feature patients hurt by rising drug prices. Watch the ads: “Gail” and “Jackie”
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN … PROPUBLICA’S @derekwillis: “Spotted on the GOP’s 2020 convention committee’s spending report starting in December: $6,250 payments to production firms of Sadoux Kim, co-exec producer of ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ & Charlie LaBella, a producer on ‘The Apprentice’.”
NATASHA BERTRAND: “Assange fight draws in Trump’s new intel chief: Lawyers for the WikiLeaks founder plan to use newly obtained recordings and screenshots to argue that Assange’s prosecution is political in nature.” POLITICO
— WAPO: “Richard Grenell’s paid consulting included work for U.S. nonprofit funded mostly by Hungary,” by Emma Brown, Beth Reinhard and Dalton Bennett
THE NEXT BATTLE — “Trump sending coronavirus budget request to Congress,” by Nancy Cook and Caitlin Emma: “The Trump administration sent to Capitol Hill on Monday night its $2.5 billion supplemental budget request for additional money to fight the coronavirus, but House Democrats immediately labeled it as insufficient, indicating a battle ahead in Congress over the emergency aid.
“The administration’s request would require enhanced authority to move around federal funds—a non-starter with Democrats, who are already livid over White House moves to reshuffle existing federal funds toward the border wall.
“The package proposes using untouched money, including hundreds of millions of dollars in fiscal 2020 cash to fight Ebola, as well as new money, totaling over $2 billion, the Office of Management and Budget said.” POLITICO
— “Trump faces ‘black swan’ threat to the economy and reelection,” by Dan Diamond and Nancy Cook
WHAT MITCH IS UP TO — “McConnell, Looking to Energize Social Conservatives, Forces Votes on Abortion,” by NYT’s Sheryl Gay Stolberg: “Senator Mitch McConnell is about to plunge the Senate into the nation’s culture wars with votes on bills to sharply restrict access to late-term abortions and threaten some doctors who perform them with criminal penalties, signaling that Republicans plan to make curbing a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy a central theme of their re-election campaigns this year.
“After months of shunning legislative activity in favor of confirming President Trump’s judicial nominees — and a brief detour for the president’s impeachment trial — Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, is expected to bring the bills up for votes on Tuesday. Both lack the necessary 60-vote supermajority to advance, and the Senate has voted previously to reject them.
“But by putting them on the floor again, Mr. McConnell hopes to energize the social conservatives who helped elect Mr. Trump and whose enthusiasm will be needed to help Republicans hold on to the Senate this year, while forcing vulnerable Democrats to take uncomfortable votes on bills that frame abortion as infanticide.”
TRUMP IN INDIA — “In India, Trump hails no trade deal as a win,” by Anita Kumar in New Delhi
— MEANWHILE … NYT’S JEFFREY GETTLEMAN: “Black smoke coiled up to the sky on Tuesday as Hindus and Muslims battled in a poor neighborhood of India’s capital, leaving seven people dead so far as communal violence unfolded as President Trump was visiting the city.
“In other parts of New Delhi, Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried on with sightseeing and meetings, seemingly unaffected as the tension and protests that have roiled the capital over Mr. Modi’s Hindu-first policies exploded into rioting and gang fighting.
“Mobs of Hindu men, many of their foreheads marked by a saffron stripe, angrily patrolled the streets carrying sticks, iron bars and baseball bats, threatening to beat up journalists or any outsiders.” NYT
THE PRESIDENT’S TUESDAY — The president will travel to the U.S. ambassador’s residence in New Delhi at 2:50 p.m. local time. He will participate in a business roundtable and meet and greet at the embassy. Trump will hold a press availability at 5 p.m. He and first lady Melania Trump will leave for the presidential palace at 7:10 p.m.
They will participate in a courtesy call with Indian President Ram Nath Kovind at 7:30 p.m. Afterward, they will participate in a state banquet welcome ceremony and banquet. They will leave the presidential palace at 9:25 p.m., traveling to Palam Air Force Airport and then Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
PLAYBOOK READS
JOHN HARRIS COLUMN: “Confessions of a slow learner: American politics really is sexist”
NYT, A1 … MEGAN TWOHEY and JODI KANTOR on HARVEY WEINSTEIN’S conviction: “The criminal case against Harvey Weinstein was a long shot. Many of his accusers were bracing for an acquittal. Fellow prosecutors across the country were quietly questioning whether the New York district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., had made a mistake by bringing charges.
“But by pushing the boundaries of sex-crimes prosecutions, the Manhattan prosecutors delivered what many people declared a victory for the global movement against sexual misconduct that Mr. Weinstein’s actions had helped ignite.”
— L.A. TIMES: “Harvey Weinstein verdict in New York makes a conviction in L.A. more likely, experts say,” by Laura Newberry and Maura Dolan
READ THE WHOLE THING … NYT’S ANNIE KARNI in Wichita Falls, Texas: “Trump’s Doctor Thought He Had a Ticket to Congress. It Hasn’t Been So Easy.”
WHAT THE HUAWEI FIGHT IS ALL ABOUT — “Welcome to the 5G Future (Someday),” by Stephen Heuser and Maura Reynolds: “Over the course of the past year, in one American city after another, a new network has invisibly winked into existence. Odds are you can’t actually use 5G wireless as you read this—either your city doesn’t have it, or your phone can’t receive it, or you’re not standing in the right spot. And even if you could, it will be years before it’s pervasive and fast enough to feel like a true leap forward.
“But that leap is coming. The spread of 5G is expected to reshape the landscape of business, entertainment and even civic life dramatically, washing us (and our cars, and our homes) in an intensity and immediacy of data that will make old cellphones look like a dial-up connection.
“[A] funny thing happened on the way to this particular future: It’s become a global argument. With the diplomatic battle over standards and competition heating up, and American 5G networks taking tottering steps forward, POLITICO is offering a deep look at the policy and technical battles shaping this generation of communications. How did America get on the back foot with China, playing catch-up to a new powerhouse player? Why is the White House talking about 5G, but in seeming total disarray over its actual policy? And if I’m seeing 5G ads during the Super Bowl, why does my phone still say 4G on the home screen?” The Agenda’s 5G package
PLAYBOOKERS
Send tips to Eli Okun and Garrett Ross at politicoplaybook@politico.com.
TRANSITIONS — Ed Silverman is joining Better Markets as a senior fellow. He most recently worked at TD Bank as a consultant, SVP and head of government relations, and previously was majority staff director for the Senate Banking Committee during the creation of Dodd-Frank. … The Raben Group is adding Obama alumni Brandi Colander and Jessica McCall as principals. Colander was deputy assistant Interior secretary and deputy general counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. McCall worked in the White House and HHS.
WEEKEND WEDDING — Justin Williams, VP for communications at the National Ocean Industries Association, and Catherine Dillingham, creative director at the Glen Echo Group, got married Saturday in Raleigh, N.C. Pic
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Tyler Houlton, deputy chief of staff at DHS. A fun fact people might not know about him: “My family founded Houlton, Maine, over 200 years ago, and it’s best known as the northern terminus of I-95 at the Canadian border.” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) is 66 … Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) is 42 … Mona Charen … CNN’s Hadas Gold … Tom Nides, managing director and vice chairman of Morgan Stanley (h/ts Ben Chang) … Bob Schieffer is 83 … Andy Rosenthal is 64 … Andrew Burk, senior digital marketing director at the U.S. Chamber … Barbara Levin, VP of comms at CNN … Lauren Kapp … Jessica Yellin … Dan Riordan … POLITICO’s Matt Dixon is 35 … Jeremy Tunis is 42 … Steve Gutow … Greg Crist, chief advocacy officer and head of external affairs at Advamed … Gina Kolata …
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- Did Kim Klacik spark a miraculous cleanup of a Baltimore neighborhood with a Tweet?
- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has died
- The untimely death of DHS whistleblower Philip Haney: Lessons learned
- Why SEC charges against Mark MacArthur, son of pastor John MacArthur, matter to the church
- CNN accidentally writes a Trump campaign ad ahead of India visit
- Sheriff’s office says Philip Haney’s death NOT ruled a suicide
- Devin Nunes: ‘We’re going to be making criminal referrals on the Mueller dossier team’
- Bernie’s Jewish complex
- Powerful Democrats are quietly asking candidates to drop out before Super Tuesday: Rumor
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| Did Kim Klacik spark a miraculous cleanup of a Baltimore neighborhood with a Tweet?
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 05:29 AM PST Republican candidate for Congress Kim Klacik made a statement on social media on Friday. She was walking through the area of Mosher and N. Mount in Baltimore where trash was everywhere. Her voiceover in the video said so much with few words, “I don’t know about you, but it seems like the people over at the Department of Public Works, you know, the ‘top dogs,’ are getting paid way too much.”
But something happened. After passing what seemed like months or even years of accumulated garbage and debris, the area looked completely different by Monday. In her followup video, Klacik said, “Never underestimate the power of my social media.”
It’s the type of miracle the GOP needs in order to win such a solidly blue seat. But it’s not impossible, especially when we look closer at the race itself. She’s running against Kweisi Mfume, the former Congressman who left this seat to become the President and CEO of the NAACP. He’s a political giant in the area with calls for him to run for mayor in the past. He was easily able to defeat Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the widow of MD-07’s previous Congressman, Elijah Cummings. Now, he’ll face Klacik in the special election on April 28. In a district that is heavily Democratic, how could Klacik have a chance? For one thing, she has youth and enthusiasm to take on business-as-usual Mfume. But that type of energy alone may not be enough to flip the seat. She’ll need a major infusion of financial support to get it done, but arguably her best chances will be in highlighting Mfume’s biggest weakness. Many in the district seem to have forgiven or forgotten, but the truth is clear: Mfume has a problem with women that dates back at least to his days with the NAACP. In fact, the reason he left his exalted job was over an internal investigation into sexual misconduct, though he denies that’s the reason.
Any other time, including 16-years-ago when he was ousted, this probably wouldn’t be enough of an issue to derail his ambitions to take back his old seat. But in a time when people like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby have brought more of a spotlight to sexual misconduct by men in power, it’s time for Mfume to answer questions honestly. His special election primary opponents didn’t bring it up. The GOP should, especially considering his feeble response last month:
Residents of MD-07 need to ask themselves two questions. If Kim Klacik can accomplish so much with a single Tweet, what can she do for Baltimore with a Congressional seat? Will they embrace the old, failed policies of the past or look to a brighter future? American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has died
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:03 AM PST Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian ruler who was ousted following 18 days of demonstrations during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, has died. He was reportedly admitted to the ICU last week. He was 91. Mubarak succeeded Anwar Sadat following his assassination and ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years from 1981 to 2011. He was a commander in the Egyptian Air Force from 1972-1975 before getting into politics. But after decades as a close ally of the United States, the Obama administration did not back him, allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to lead a revolt that removed him from power.
He was jailed shortly after his ouster, but acquitted of all charges and released in 2017. News of his death comes on the heels of his two sons, Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, along with seven other people being acquitted of illicit share trading.
The cause of death has not been released, but the 91-year-old has been in the intensive care unit since late last week. His death will bring mixed reactions in the region. Some will mourn. Others who considered him a dictator will not. This story is breaking and will be updated as more information comes available. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| The untimely death of DHS whistleblower Philip Haney: Lessons learned
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 12:58 AM PST EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe Amador County Sheriff / Coroner Office in scenic Northern California about an hour east of Sacramento has released a statement on February 24th about the discovery of the body of Philip Haney in their jurisdiction. Mr. Haney was a renowned DHS Whistleblower during the Obama Administration. Earlier reports of a self-inflicted gunshot wound were premature. An ongoing investigation will determine the actual cause of death. THE FOCUS OF THIS ARTICLEWe are not going to speculate what caused the untimely demise of Phil Haney. Much background about his testimony before the United States Congress and appearances on national television can be easily found on YouTube and via Google query. Rather my purpose here is to look at the long-term intelligence posture of the late, great U.S. Customs Service as a U.S. Treasury Department agency and its successor, U.S. Customs and Border Protection as part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. AGENCY BACKGROUNDU.S. Customs was established in 1789, concurrent with the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and endured until 2003, when in the wake of 9/11/2001, the administration of President George W. Bush made a decision to merge Customs and Immigration missions into combined agencies under the new Department of Homeland Security. The inspectional side of the house became U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Many employees—I do NOT claim to speak for all—who made the transition still consider this an ill-advised shotgun wedding of agencies with entirely distinct missions. I have previously written about that subject, but today we’ll focus on the role of intelligence and targeting and the impact of the merger. AUTHOR’S BACKGROUNDAfter serving in the United States Air Force back during the Vietnam era, getting my Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978, I was hired by the U.S. Customs Service here in Honolulu in 1979 as a Customs Inspector. As I have previously written, I also served in assignments in Los Angeles and Washington DC. I was a Supervisory Customs Inspector at the time of the merger in 2003. I served as a Supervisory CBP Officer until 2006, at which time I did a lateral transfer to become a Field Analysis Specialist focusing upon intelligence and targeting, which had been an important collateral duty up until that time. I continued in that capacity until my retirement with 42 years Federal service in 2015. This marks my 110th article for NOQ Report since February 25, 2019. MEMORANDUM OF INFORMATION RECEIVED [MOIR]My intended audience here is primarily those who are familiar with the work that Philip Haney did in Atlanta utilizing this intelligence format. That would include both those within the government and those who have read Phil Haney’s book “See Something, Do Nothing”. Customs was always more highly automated than Immigration. While we had our computer here in Honolulu—Treasury Enforcement Communications System [TECS]—many of our counterparts were still utilizing the old INS Subject Look Out Book [SLOB]. Many times we walked people back to them that they had missed when they popped up in our computer when we were functioning as totally separate agencies. Actually, even then, we were designated to admit U.S. citizens with a stamp bypassing the immigration inspectors upstairs, but all non-citizens had to clear with them first. Other Ports of Entry had varying systems. When I worked at LAX in 1986, even as separate agencies in different departments, Customs Inspectors were cross-trained and cross-designated to do Immigration primary functions, referring to Immigration secondary those who needed additional processing. MOIRs were developed to document information obtained during inspectional processing, clearance of commercial cargo and other official duties. The ones I did during the early 1980s, were all input on a typewriter using multi-copy carbon sets. They were written, approved and disseminated manually. Computer records however were still input and generated even during that MS-DOS era. In 1987, while I was working at Los Angeles / Long Beach Harbor as a member of the Contraband Enforcement Team, the TECS II system came online. I volunteered to take the complete online tutorial and help train my fellow officers in its use. MOIRs for the first time were automated and linked to subject lookout records. It’s not my purpose here to go into the details or mechanics of how this worked. The point is just that it provided a procedure to get information to those who could use it for both strategic and tactical targeting purposes of suspects, including persons, businesses, organizations, vehicles, vessels and aircraft. Different from Reports of Investigation done by Customs agents, inspectional MOIRS were just what they said, information as a resource. That information was used by agents as well as inspectors, however, to perform their respective missions. MOIRs and subject lookout records were available to U.S government personnel worldwide, primarily Customs, but also other law enforcement personnel under appropriate information sharing regulations. I did several hundred MOIRs during my long Customs career. What I want to do now is look at how this system was designed and how things changed after the creation of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under Department of Homeland Security. A DIFFERENT MENTALITY UNDER CBPThings were not perfect in the U.S. Customs Service intelligence system, but it was recognized that every Customs Inspector was responsible to fully document any information that did not require delaying inspectional processing, but which was of official concern for later analysis. That was the purpose of the MOIR in a nutshell. I was recognized for preparing a terror-related MOIR prior to the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics while I was assigned here in Honolulu, analyzing documents obtained by one of my colleagues regarding a passenger from the Middle East. However, there was a brief time later when regional inspectors were given points for their performance reviews based upon how many intel reports they prepared. The emphasis on quantity rather than quality led to a standing joke about MOIRs entitled “General Smuggling ~ Alleged”. That policy was rethought and rescinded. When I returned to Honolulu from U.S. Customs HQ in Washington DC at the end of 1991, I used this intelligence system extensively. I will spare the details because that isn’t the thrust of this article. Rather, what I’m concerned about is how things changed on March 1, 2003 when the U.S. Customs Service ceased to exist and U.S. Customs and Border Protection came into existence. It is that environment in which Phil Haney did all his superb analysis and targeting. I cannot overemphasize how various Customs Ports of Entry operate in different environments. There are, of course, seaports and land border ports, but here we are concentrating on international airports. Phil was in Atlanta, one of the busiest airports in the entire world, a very target-rich environment for identifying terror suspects and organizations. He was the perfect officer for that context. Here in Hawaii, we had to make the most of documenting the smaller number of suspects who passed through this port, primarily from Asia or via Asia from the Middle East, whereas Atlanta had numerous non-stop flights from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Phil Haney was an entomologist by training who originally became a CBP Agricultural Specialist, but his expertise in Arabic and Islamic culture provided the opportunity for him to greatly enhance and advance American national security under CBP. Frankly, the problem, as I perceive it, was that his chain of command did not share his expertise nor did they fully comprehend the significance and importance of what he was doing. Twice over the years, there were attempts by mutual colleagues outside the agency to put me in contact with him but somehow we never quite touched bases. I truly wish that could have happened as I would have loved to talk to him and compare notes. You can read his book for yourself if you want to understand all the details of what he went through trying to identify terror suspects and organizations, going against the grain in an agency obsessed by reducing processing times for the traveling public. Those are the things that managers are rated on rather than their intelligence posture. Sad, but a fact of life. A lot of people are going to read these words and relate to them without wanting to go on record, but they understand how the bureaucracy perpetuates itself. DID PHIL HANEY BUCK THE SYSTEM?Of course he did, as he frankly stipulated, but with a sense of urgency for national security which he understood so much better than did his bosses. Whether you work for the government or private industry, knowing more than your bosses does not make for a good work environment and/or enhance your career unless you suck up and bury your God-given talents. I’m not going to do a deep dive into the Obama Administration which Phil Haney was apparently in the process of preparing another book about. I will just say that early into his first term, our 44th president and his minions, most prominently and visibly John Brennan, began to censor the underlying ideology of Islamic Jihad, with Countering Violent Extremism becoming the euphemism. Political correctness became the order of the day, the year, year after year. If you really want to understand the threat, and are willing to spend time reading a 700+ page treatise relying heavily upon Islamic sources themselves, you can order from Amazon a book authored by censored National Security expert Stephen Coughlin in 2015, entitled Catastrophic Failure ~ Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad. I read it 5 years ago but it still rings true today. Nor will I delve into what changes may or may not have occurred under President Donald Trump as I was already retired when he came into office. I will just say that POTUS 45’s National Security Advisors have had very different levels of comprehension of the threat. AWAITING A DETERMINATION OF THE CAUSE OF PHIL HANEY’S TRAGIC DEATHThe local authorities in Northern California have wisely chosen to call in the FBI and take seriously the interest in this case and its significance nationwide. I won’t go into the many reasons that those who followed the dedicated career of Phil Haney do not expect this to be ruled as a suicide. He had much to live for, loved our country, recognized that his abilities came from Almighty God, not from mortals. He made many enemies from many sides. Not only those intending to commit terror and do harm in the name of Islamic Jihad, but perhaps those who felt he was a threat in other ways to their own personal career ambitions. THE BOTTOM LINEThe Amador County Sheriff / Coroner with FBI assistance can determine how Phil Haney died and hopefully who did it, but the buck must NOT stop there: WHO ALL wanted him dead and WHY? American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. 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| Why SEC charges against Mark MacArthur, son of pastor John MacArthur, matter to the church
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 12:36 AM PST Mark MacArthur, son of famed pastor John MacArthur, has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for Failure to Disclose Financial Conflicts of Interest to their clients. According to the SEC filing, MacArthur and his former partner, Robert Gravette, advised their clients to invest in private real estate investment funds that were paying the advisers at the time. Their former company, Criterion Wealth Management Insurance Services, Inc., allegedly had a relationship with the investment fund that benefited from their recommendations.
These are currently only charges and MacArthur is due his day in court. But if these charges stand, it says a lot about both the younger MacArthur and his pastor father. No human is perfect. We all stray regularly and fall short of the glory of God. But this is not a case of someone speaking harshly to a store clerk or cutting in front of someone in traffic. These are serious financial crimes that cost other people money. According to the complaint, MacArthur was essentially “double-dipping” by accepting money from a company in exchange for recommending that company to clients who were also paying them. But the elder MacArthur has proven to be like Teflon over the years. He is extremely popular among his congregation at Grace to You and is respected as one of the most prominent pastors in America. He’s a living legend among Calvinistic Baptists. For these and other reasons, any time his theology, sermons, or associations are called into question, his defenders quickly pounce to quash the objections. We experienced this “strong arm of the church” when we published an article accusing John MacArthur of lying about the events surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Comments on social media and directly towards the author of the article were nothing short of heinous, and I personally received two phone calls from members of MacArthur’s group that were cordial but aggressively pressing for me to take down the article. We did not. The sins of the son do not bring punishment to the father in this world, but there must be questions asked of a man charged to lead a congregation towards the light if his own son is accused of dwelling in darkness. The severity of the charges must not be overlooked. $16 million dollars is not chump change and the accusations point to willfully misleading people to receive lesser gains while the company and the partners made greater gains. It isn’t just dishonest. It’s harmful. The church is already under attack in America and abroad. Scandals that attach to one church are fodder for militant anti-Christian groups to attack all churches. In our post-truth society, the last thing the faithful need is another reason for our religious leaders to labeled as hypocrites. The lies against us are bad enough. When there’s truth to the wrongdoings of religious leaders and their seeds, it works against our calling to spread the Gospel. According to Christian Post, the people involved had another connection to John MacArthur:
We must all hold to a higher standards as citizens of this world and future citizens of the next. It is incumbent on John MacArthur to address this issue regarding his son. Perhaps that time can wait until after Mark MacArthur is either convicted or exonerated, but it must come at some point. Silence and deflection are not acceptable in this instance. As Christians, we must expect the highest levels of integrity from not only our church leaders, but also their family. There are plenty of false accusations made against Christian leaders. We do not need real accusations to muddy the waters further. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| CNN accidentally writes a Trump campaign ad ahead of India visit
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 10:39 PM PST CNN often pivots from fake news to fake drama, but the latest goof from pravda media is quite the meaty one. In an attempt to perpetuate the false image of Trump being this morbidly obese tyrant, CNN instead makes him more likable. Prior to President Trump’s arrival to India, CNN published this lovely piece to foreshadow a dismal visit the the world’s largest democracy. Only it did not work. Not only has Trump’s visit to India, thus far gone smoothly, the propaganda CNN is pushing is surprisingly great for Trump’s image. Who is more relatable: Joaquin Phoenix lecturing Americans about the depravity of milking a cow or Trump’s alleged all beef diet? As someone whose daily dinners once mostly consisted of burgers and cheesesteaks, Trump’s meatloaf, burger, and steak diet does not seem far removed from where I was at one point, and Meat Eater is currently my favorite reality show. Moreover, Trump’s diet is also down to earth unlike veganism. Meatloaf was a staple suburban meal when Trump was a child, burgers are a food that transcends time and space, and steak is a luxury that never places someone beyond the reach of a fellow American. And while CNN would probably like to make an environmental point about cow farts, (don’t know I’m not clicking that bait) while also portraying Trump as a pig American, one cannot help but laugh at the irony of a beef eating American going to India. It’s a laughable struggle that makes Trump more likable. I say this as someone who eats Indian food regularly and doesn’t know what I’m eating, so the culture shock is something I empathize with. CNN wanted to make Trump seem culturally inept, but ends up making him seem like an all around American. Nothing says America First like eating beef every night knowing you have a trip to India coming up. Trump’s alleged all-beef diet is among what makes America great along with the underlying Christian influence that allows us to eat all animals… except dogs. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| Sheriff’s office says Philip Haney’s death NOT ruled a suicide
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 07:08 PM PST When reports started coming out surrounding Philip Haney’s death, people ranging from conspiracy theorists to members of the United States House of Representatives cried foul. Friends of Haney said there’s no way he would have killed himself, and the fact his body was found on the side of the road with a “self-inflicted” gunshot wound to the chest had plenty of people scratching their heads.
Now, the Amador County Sheriff’s Office is walking back claims which initially came from them that Haney’s death was ruled a suicide.
This new development turns the question from whether or not it was a suicide to who could have murdered him. As a public, controversial figure, there are many potential enemies who could have wanted him dead. Haney was reportedly about to release a new book with accusations against the Obama administration. His previous book, “See Something, Say Nothing,” detailed allegations that Muslim-Americans were having connections to known terrorist organizations wiped clean by the Obama administration. After leaving the Department of Homeland Security in 2015, Haney investigated several prominent Americans with alleged connections to radical Islamic terrorist groups, including Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. He stated his most recent project would blow the lid of “socialism in America.” Now that law enforcement has reported what many of us already knew, that Philip Haney didn’t kill himself, the focus now turns to finding his murderer(s). One thing to watch for: If they say it was a random shooting, be very skeptical of a cover-up. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| Devin Nunes: ‘We’re going to be making criminal referrals on the Mueller dossier team’
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 05:54 PM PST There’s a reason one should start getting their news from outlets like NOQ Report, One America News, and Just The News. True bombshells that go unreported by mainstream media have real world consequences, yet the “big guys” in the press wait until the last possible moment to report on them, and only if forced. Such is the case with a revelation by ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes that he will be making criminal referrals to the Department of Justice over discrepancies he is finding in the Mueller investigation. “We’re now going through these 302s, and we’re going to be making criminal referrals on the Mueller dossier team, the people that put this Mueller report together,” Nunes said during an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast set to air on Tuesday. In short, they’re comparing notes from the Mueller team as well as 302s—witness reports that show what investigators were told during interviews—with the actual report delivered to the Department of Justice, Congress, and the public. What Nunes and his team are finding point to intentionally misleading aspects of the report, aspects that were intended to sway judgment against the Trump campaign while hiding information that demonstrated no collusion or obstruction. Of particular interest to Nunes were declassified FBI memos regarding George Papadopoulos. The former Trump campaign adviser assisted the FBI in locating Joseph Mifsud, a central figure in the whole Spygate fiasco, but the Mueller team tried to paint Papadopoulos as obstructing their efforts. Nunes is hopeful his referrals will lead to U.S. Attorney John Durham giving attention to the Mueller investigation and not just the activities leading up to the investigation. Durham has been assigned by Attorney General William Barr to “investigate the investigators” and find if there was wrongdoing worthy of charges committed by current and former members of the FBI as well as other agencies. But Nunes believes the wrongdoing didn’t just happen in the prelude to the Mueller probe. He wants Durham to look at the probe itself. Patriots have been given very little reason to hope for justice in the “investigation of the investigators” as many of the key players seem to continue to be protected. But with Nunes making a push, perhaps we will see more out of the DoJ soon. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| Bernie’s Jewish complex
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 04:32 PM PST With Senator Bernie Sanders leaping ahead of the pack in the Democratic Party, chances have greatly increased that he will become the first Jewish nominee to reach the general election for POTUS. Both Barack Obama as the first black nominee, and Hillary Clinton as the first female nominee, wore their groundbreaking distinctions as a badge of pride in their respective quests for White House. Bernie, on the other hand, has been quite different, usually only referring to his Jewishness if he has an opportunity to slander Israel as “racist” or to accuse Trump of being “anti-Semitic”. In 2016, Sanders avoided any mention of his Jewishness. This time around he’s been less elusive and even came out with a “Proud to Be Jewish” campaign video, in which he talks about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and concludes that President Trump is responsible for the rise in anti-Semitic attacks in recent years, even though the most shocking rise in anti-Semitism has come from Bernie’s supporters like Rep. Ilhan Omar or Linda Sarsour on the far Left, or in movements such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa. The absurdity of exploiting the Holocaust and anti-Semitism for political purposes, however inaccurately used, demands a response. Firstly, we need to understand that real Jewish pride doesn’t come from being a people that has suffered from slavery and mass persecution, even though we certainly have suffered more than most. In short, our Jewish identity is not dependent on what bad people do to us. A Jew who is really in touch with his heritage is proud to be a member of the people who provided the moral basis for Western Civilization in the form of the Ten Commandments and the Hebrew Bible. The concepts of honoring parents, of humility, of the Sabbath as a day of rest and family bonding—those are the foundations for the same eternal values that many of the founders of the United States so deeply admired. Noteworthy is the rebirth of Israel as a sovereign nation again after two-thousand years of exile from its homeland. These are all symbols of real Jewish pride. Yes, it’s important to know about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, but it’s not a badge of pride for Jews, rather it’s a badge of shame for those who allowed such atrocities to happen. As for Bernie’s charge that Donald Trump has fomented anti-Semitism, the truth is just the opposite. Unlike Bernie Sanders, President Trump’s actions have enabled genuine Jewish pride, not as campaign spin to get votes, but as a sincere show of love for the Jewish people. This has included his bold recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, followed by the important recognition of the strategic Golan Heights as part of sovereign Israel, as well as halting support for the Palestinian Authority until it stops funding terrorism, and finally, leading the fight against a nuclear Iran. All of these were courageous actions taken by Trump in close coordination with the Israeli government and were supported by most Israelis from Right to Left. That being the case, why is it that a majority of Jewish Americans would support Senator Sanders, who says that most of Israel’s leaders are racist, against President Trump, who has made such strong efforts to strengthen ties between the United States and the Jewish State of Israel? The sad truth is that those liberal/Socialist Jews in America are as disconnected from their Judaism as is Bernie Sanders! We Jews in Israel, as well as the minority of religiously connected Jews in America, care deeply about Jewish survival and the future of our people. Our high marriage rate and large Jewish families reflect that. Bernie has done nothing in his personal or public life that would indicate to us that he shares those concerns. There actually is a very sad, but relevant joke about the Jewishness of Bernie Sanders: What is the difference between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump? The answer? Donald Trump has Jewish grandchildren! Sure, it’s just a joke, but it’s true. All of the research cited in my book, “Trump and the Jews”, indicates that among those American Jews who strongly identify as Jews, a clear majority strongly approve of President Trump’s job performance. The pattern is clear. The more positive the Jewish identity, the stronger the support for President Trump. Let us be clear, the religion of secular Socialism, as promulgated by Bernie Sanders, has nothing to do with Judaism, and Jewish identity is much more substantial than inaccurate slogans blaming Trump for anti-Semitism. Jews who care about their Judaism, as well as Gentiles who care about Israel would be wise to examine the facts on the ground. If Sanders continues his surge and, indeed, becomes the nominee, his Jewishness will certainly not be a reason to vote for him. Bio: David Rubin, former Mayor of Shiloh Israel, is the author of the book, “Trump and the Jews” and five other books. Rubin is the founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund, established after he and his then three-year-old son were wounded in a terror attack. He can be found at www.DavidRubinIsrael.com or at www.ShilohIsraelChildren.org American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. 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| Powerful Democrats are quietly asking candidates to drop out before Super Tuesday: Rumor
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 04:01 PM PST Mum’s the word on the street, or at least in campaign headquarters of Democratic candidates for president, regarding a report circulating in the underbelly of American politics: the rumor mill in Washington DC. It is less of a report as much as it is tacit knowledge that powerful Democrats connected to both the DNC and progressive PACs like Tom Perez, Eric Holder, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and even Hillary Clinton are privately reaching out to certain candidates. They’re allegedly asking them to drop out of the race immediately following the South Carolina primary. Or, to be more specific, to drop out before Super Tuesday a few days later. President Obama was also allegedly asked to reach out specifically to Joe Biden. The source who originally reported it to me has suddenly “ghosted” me after four years as a source. Those who could confirm or deny the rumor are neither confirming nor denying it. In journalism, this is known as plugging a leak. In politics, it’s called business as usual. For the past several days, I’ve reached out to others to check with their sources. Nothing. Under normal circumstances, I would assume the original source was mistaken. But this particular rumor isn’t getting the standard replies. Nobody’s saying “of course not” or “that’s ludicrous” or “absolutely not.” I’m getting the tried and true non-denials of “if so then I’m unaware” or “I haven’t heard that specifically” or “I’m not involved with that.” One response was very telling: “who leaked that to you?” “Leaked.” Of note is also the fact that none of the campaigns we reached out to have denied it. Standard operating procedure dictates political campaigns are supposed to deny any rumors that can harm their campaigns, and we’ve had plenty of those from campaign staffers in the past. But this time, it’s radio-silence. No denials. No canned responses. Not even a smidgen of indignation. Nothing. My source, who worked for two previous Democratic presidential campaigns and has never been wrong before, said powerful Democrats are reaching out to Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, and Pete Buttigieg. We know that Mike Bloomberg’s campaign reached out to at least three of these campaigns the day of the last Democratic debate asking them to stand down so he could prevent Bernie Sanders from becoming the nominee. We also know talks of a brokered convention have been circulating for months, but they have ramped up considerably since Sanders became the unambiguous frontrunner. The path for Sanders to prevent a brokered convention is clear. He must win the nomination outright. To do that, he needs to keep the other candidates from getting delegates on Super Tuesday. If everyone currently in the race stays in, there’s a decent chance Sanders can sweep delegates in some of the states, including California, because it’s possible nobody else breaks the 15% threshold necessary to get delegates. If Sanders takes all of California’s and a couple of other states’ delegates, his path to the nomination is essentially set. Verified reports of the DNC putting their thumb on the scale throughout the 2016 nomination process gives precedence to this rumor. But the notion that they’re employing the services of powerful Democrats is either new or under-reported in the past. Perhaps they didn’t think it was necessary since Sander was merely a threat to prolonging the nomination process and not really considered someone who could challenge Clinton for the 2016 nomination. This time, he’s more than a threat. He’s in the driver’s seat and nobody else seems capable of stopping him. The DNC has been using its proxies in mainstream media to trash Sanders, but it doesn’t seem to be working. The American people, even Democrats, have grown skeptical of media reports, especially as they pertain to popular figures like Sanders or President Trump. If the DNC’s main source of control over their base is no longer influential enough to tip the scales, they’re stuck leaning directly on powerful Democrats coaxing many of the candidates into abandoning their campaigns. It would make zero sense for anyone to drop out of the race after the South Carolina primary but before Super Tuesday three days later. If they do, know this: The DNC and Mike Bloomberg pushed them to for the sake of stopping Bernie Sanders. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| Coronavirus proves an America-First trade and manufacturing policy is necessary
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 02:58 PM PST Since before President Reagan made it popular, I’ve been a free trade proponent. I was not a fan of tariffs, and to some extent I still believe they should only be used as a last resort. But I’ve come to realize over the last year that there are valid reasons to promote an America-First “fair trade” policy, and that was before the coronavirus exposed the risks of “diverse” sourcing. The reality is this: Too much power is given to China by the United States and other countries to control our product and resource distribution models. One needs only look to Apple, who has cut their output expectations by over 15%, to realize when you put all of your resource and production eggs in one basket, no matter how large, you run the risk of exposure if that basket gets tainted. Right now, China is tainted. The world economic markets are going to shake and shimmy for as long as the coronavirus remains a huge problem in China. If it gets worse, many markets may collapse. But as it spreads to other countries, the economic toll is only going to worsen. The toll on human life is rightly getting most of the attention, but we should not ignore how this will affect billions of people who rely too heavily on China for products imported from there, including the vast majority of ingredients used by the healthcare industries to produce drugs, equipment, and even seemingly mundane products like surgical masks. Today, masks are no longer mundane and nearly all of them are produced in China. The United States must continue to return to self-reliance. That’s not to say we need to shut out the rest of the world, but we must not allow ourselves to be beholden to any other nation, even China. Especially China. This enlightening and oftentimes terrifying interview by Jan Jekielek with American Thought Leaders for The Epoch Times of Curtis Ellis from America First Policies is a must-watch. There are lessons DC and American businesses must learn from the coronavirus. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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- Judge Hits Intolerance Out Of The Park
- Key Religious Liberty Case To Be Heard
- Trump Visits India, Bernie’s Blowout, Comrade Sanders, Bashing Israel, Left Attacks Iconic USA Team, Virus Outbreak
- ‘Here We Go Again’: 4 Things to Know About New Russia-Trump Election Meddling Narrative
- American Bar Association Expands Promotion of Gun Control
- 1 in 3 People Starving in Socialist Country Praised by Bernie Sanders
- Sanders Says He Does Not Have a Price Tag for All of His ‘Free’ Plans
- Leftmedia, Not Russians, Biggest Threat to U.S. Elections
- Whistleblower in Obama’s DHS Allegedly Shoots Self
- Liberal Bias ‘Accelerating Wedge In Our Society,’ Began With ‘Love Affair’ for Obama
- Divided Government
- Senate Set To Vote On Infanticide
- Two-Armed Bandits . . .
- Beautiful Colors, Ugly Terms
- Hating Trump Can’t Unite the Democrats
- Booker T. Washington: A Legacy of Enterprise and Education
- Americans Boycotting Greyhound After Co. Bans ICE from Boarding Buses
- Bernie Sanders Says Illegals ‘Entitled’ To Same Government Benefits As Citizens
| Judge Hits Intolerance Out Of The Park
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 08:02 PM PST  by Tony Perkins: When people ask Jeremy Chong about his Friday night plans, they don’t get the typical college sophomore response. He and his friends usually head to downtown Chicago. But the point isn’t to party — it’s to evangelize. And thanks to federal judge, the group of Wheaton students can finally resume that without harassment. For months, students like Jeremy and Matthew Swart would pass out gospel tracts at Millennium Park. They were just simple three-fold pamphlets telling people about faith in Jesus Christ. “[We were] passing those out to anyone who would take [them] and having conversations when we were approached.” Simple enough, right? Wrong. The park’s security team saw what was happening and stopped them — not once, but again and again. By the fifth time, the students had enough. They connected with a religious freedom law firm called Mauck & Baker and started knocking on the doors of park management. “We went back and forth with the city for a while, asking them to change their rules,” Matt explained. Well, they changed their rules all right. They decided, in an absurd new policy, to divide the park into 11 imaginary rooms. And, give Chicago points for creativity — only one of those “rooms” allowed open conversations about faith. “It’s a public park!” Matt’s attorney John Mauck said incredulously. “… Not rooms.” After weeks of meetings and letters, they all agreed there was no resolving the matter amicably, as they hoped. So, they took the city to court. Six months later, their persistence paid off. U.S. District Judge John Blakey — a Barack Obama appointee, no less — decided that while the park may want “protect [its] aesthetic integrity… the city’s restrictions prohibit reasonable forms of expression in large areas of the park.” The students, he agreed, had a First Amendment right to evangelize and hand out Christian material — and then ticked off several reasons why. Blakey also took a shot at the city’s internal intolerance, pointing out that “[Scott] Stewart, [the executive director of the Millennium Park Foundation] conceded that ‘almost no one lodged complaints about their inability to enjoy the art’ in the Park, even before the current Park restrictions became effective.” In the end, it was such a thorough judicial rebuke, Mauck said happily, that it would be difficult for the city to “circumvent the opinion with a quick rule change” as it had before. That’s good news for students like Chong, who feel the stakes could not be higher. “[This is about] getting the gospel to people because we love them,” he insisted. And salvation, he argues, is a life or death matter. “If somebody believes that the Willis Tower is going to collapse in an hour, it doesn’t matter what they believe,” explaining that he feels it is a calling to “run into the building and warn people that it’s going to collapse.” Congratulations to the courageous team at Wheaton, who God is using to do great things for his kingdom! Hear the passion behind this effort from last year’s Values Voter Summit, where Matt joined a special panel of college students called “No Fear: Real Stories from a Generation Standing for Truth.” Tags: Tony Perkins, Family Research Center, FRC, Family Research Council, U.S. District Judge John Blakey, Hits Intolerance, Out Of The Park To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Key Religious Liberty Case To Be Heard
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 07:48 PM PST  by Bill Donohue: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an important Religious Liberty case. We may not know the outcome until the spring of 2021, but it looms as one of the most important cases pitting gay rights against religious liberty that the U.S. Supreme Court has ever agreed to hear. Two years ago, a federal district court turned down Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in its bid not to be forced to place children for foster care with parents of the same sex. The city of Philadelphia brooked no religious exemption. Last year, it lost again in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. Those on the side of the Catholic Church include the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty. Those on the other side include the Hindu American Foundation, Muslim Advocates, Sikh Coalition, Unitarian Universalist Association, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the Union for Reform Judaism. Catholic social service agencies do not recognize homosexual parents as suitable to be foster parents. They believe that children are entitled to a mother and a father, the only two people who can naturally create a family. Love is not dispositive: Children need to be loved by those who provide role models for them based on the two sexes. Gender is not the issue. That term refers to socially learned roles that are appropriate for boys and girls, the cues of which are taken from nature. Religious liberty cannot exist without extending to religious individuals and institutions the kinds of exemptions they have traditionally been afforded. Tags: Key Religious Liberty Case, To Be Heard, Supreme court, SCOTUS To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Trump Visits India, Bernie’s Blowout, Comrade Sanders, Bashing Israel, Left Attacks Iconic USA Team, Virus Outbreak
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 07:32 PM PST
by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Trump Visits India More than 100,000 Indians packed the world’s largest cricket stadium to hear remarks by President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The president announced a $3 billion defense deal with India, and added that the two nations are working toward a major trade deal. Referring to mutual defense interests, President Trump said: “Together, we will defend our sovereignty, security, and protect a free and open Indo-Pacific region for our children and for many, many generations to come. . . The United States and India are also firmly united in our ironclad resolve to defend our citizens from the threat of radical Islamic terrorism.”
I know many readers are also concerned about religious liberty issues in India, and the White House has made it clear that the president will address that issue in private meetings with Modi. Bernie’s Blowout The Democrat establishment is in total meltdown because Sanders is revealing the real agenda of the party’s left-wing base. Today’s Democrat Party is increasingly divided between those who favor open socialism and those who believe hidden socialism is easier to sell. Most Americans aren’t on board with the socialist agenda, and Democrats are scrambling to stop Sanders at all costs. Many party leaders had hoped that Michael Bloomberg could be “Plan B” if Biden faltered, but that strategy has been called into question since last week’s disastrous debate performance. Bloomberg will have an opportunity to redeem himself at tomorrow night’s debate in Charleston, South Carolina. He will be under enormous pressure to prove he’s not a worse debater than Joe Biden. But he’s not on South Carolina’s primary ballot. Meanwhile, Sanders has smashed Biden’s Palmetto State firewall, and Super Tuesday continues to look like it will be a very good day for Sanders. Comrade Sanders Reflecting the liberal establishment’s anxiety, “60 Minutes” host Anderson Cooper confronted Sanders with some of his past praise for communist dictator Fidel Castro. Sanders told Cooper: “We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad. You know? When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing?” In response to Sanders’s callous comment, Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted, “It really makes a difference when those you murder at the firing squad can read & write.” If Sanders wins the nomination, Democrats can kiss Florida goodbye. The state is full of immigrants who fled Castro’s communism and other socialist regimes throughout Latin America. Bashing Israel Too The attack on AIPAC may seem odd at first glance, as Sanders is Jewish. But I think there is a simple explanation. Sanders is anti-Israel. He has key people on his staff who despise Israel, and he has been endorsed by anti-Semites like Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. But Sanders understands the base of the Democrat Party. Polling shows that while Americans are generally pro-Israel (Christians and Republicans especially so), the base of the Democrat Party – millennials and progressives – are increasingly anti-Israel. Polling shows the Democrat Party is evenly divided between support for Israel and the Palestinians. All the other candidates in the primary are trying to be even-handed in their approach to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, dividing up the half of the Democrat vote that still supports Israel. And while they are splitting up the pro-Israel vote, Sanders has consolidated the half that hates Israel. The Left Attacks Iconic USA Team It was a fitting tribute to the team and to the American spirit they represent as the rally occurred on the eve of the 40th anniversary of their historic win over the Soviet Union. Needless to say, the crowd loved it, and erupted in chants of “USA! USA! USA!” But the Internet nearly crashed as enraged leftists went ballistic. Of course, the team released a statement, which read: “To us, this is not about politics or choosing sides. This is about proudly representing the United States of America. Whether your beliefs are Democratic, Republican, Independent, etc. we support that and are proud to represent the USA. It is an honor and privilege!” And there’s the rub. The progressive left that increasingly calls the shots would never invite them! It would never occur to them that the U.S. victory over U.S.S.R. carried more significance than a simply hockey game. But more than that, the players’ presence would send too much of a mixed message to their radical base. Think I’m being overly critical? Check out this headline from the progressive media outlet The Nation: “Mask Off: The 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team Has Long Been a Symbol of Reaction.” Sadly, there’s probably only one sports figure who could get such a wild reaction at a Democrat rally – Colin Kaepernick! Virus Outbreak There is a potential crisis within this crisis. We first mentioned it to you four weeks ago when we brought up the dependence of the United States on medical supplies from China. In recent decades, China has decided that it was going to dominate the world’s pharmaceutical industry. It started selling ingredients essential to medicines on the world market below market costs to drive many suppliers out of business. Big multinational drug companies started moving facilities to China so they could have ready access to cheaper ingredients. The last U.S. company manufacturing penicillin shut down in 2004. The result is that approximately 80% of essential medications now rely on the Chinese supply line. It’s not just medicines. China is one of the main suppliers of surgical masks. Beijing banned the export of those masks. Doctors everywhere are now scrambling. There were warnings. Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson covered it extensively. Yet the political establishment before Trump convinced itself that we should be a global marketplace, and free marketeers insisted that everything should be made wherever it is cheapest. But a great nation must be able to make certain things, even if it costs more, if it wants to be safe. I know the Trump Administration is working 24/7 to find solutions. Whatever happens, just remember that it was the sleepwalking of the DC swamp for decades before Trump that got us into this mess. Tags: Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, Trump Visits India, Bernie’s Blowout, Comrade Sanders, Bashing Israel, Left Attacks Iconic USA Team, Virus Outbreak To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| ‘Here We Go Again’: 4 Things to Know About New Russia-Trump Election Meddling Narrative
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 06:52 PM PST
by Fred Lucas: Democrats are raising a ruckus about a news report that Russia plans to meddle in the 2020 presidential campaign to help reelect President Donald Trump. But further Russian election interference was expected, as special counsel Robert Mueller told Congress last year after his report about Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 campaign. Here’s what to know about the newest reports about what Russia is up to. 1. What’s Different About Russia’s Plans to Interfere? The Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee and paid more than $100,000 for Facebook ads. After an investigation lasting nearly two years, Mueller concluded in a 448-page report that “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” The Times report said the Russians are “undeterred by American efforts to thwart them,” and have made “more creative use of Facebook and other social media.” The Times story, online Thursday and in the newspaper Friday, does not allege any collusion or conspiracy between Trump or his 2020 campaign and the Russians. “Russian operatives are working to get Americans to repeat disinformation, the officials said,” the Times story says, referring to unnamed sources. “That strategy gets around social media companies’ rules that prohibit ‘inauthentic speech.’” The Times also reported that Russian hackers “infiltrated Iran’s cyberwarfare unit” to target the U.S. and make it appear the action came from Iran. 2. What Did Trump Have to Say About It? “By the way, I think they are starting another one,” he said. “Did you see that? I see these phonies, the do-nothing Democrats. They said today that Putin wants to be sure that Trump gets reelected. Here we go again. Here we go again. Did you see it?” The crowd booed over the reference to the news report. Trump noted that Clinton, his vanquished 2016 rival, recently described both Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, and the Green Party’s 2016 presidential candidate, Jill Stein, as Russian agents. Of the new Russia allegation, Trump said, “That’s Pencil Neck again,” his nickname for House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led Democrats’ effort to impeach Trump in the House. The Senate voted against removing Trump from office after a trial. “I was told a week ago, you know, they’re trying to start a rumor,” Trump said at the rally. “It’s disinformation. That’s the only thing they’re good at. They get nothing done. … These people are crazy. They don’t think about the country. They don’t think about jobs. They don’t think about lowering your drug costs. Infrastructure. These people are crazy.” 3. What Does New Information Say About Intelligence Community’s Politics? The Times reported that Trump was angry at his outgoing acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, for allowing the briefing to take place. Trump has replaced Maguire with Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany. Schiff tweeted that this move backs up his point about Trump being untrustworthy because he welcomes foreign interference in U.S. elections.
“We count on the intelligence community to inform Congress of any threat of foreign interference in our elections,” Schiff tweeted. “If reports are true and the President is interfering with that, he is again jeopardizing our efforts to stop foreign meddling. Exactly as we warned he would do.” Trump long has publicly suspected that powerful members of the intelligence community have a political bias. CNN anchor Jake Tapper, not known for fairly covering Trump, reported Friday that his sources challenged much of the narrative pushed by the Times story about Russia trying to reelect Trump. “A national security official I know and trust pushes back on the way the briefing/ODNI story is being told, and others with firsthand knowledge agree with his assessment,” Tapper says in a series of eight tweets, referring to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. “What’s been articulated in the news is that the intelligence community has concluded that the Russians are trying to help Trump again. But the intelligence doesn’t say that, the official says … ”
The factual questions indicate a real problem, said Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group. “This shows that the president is still faced with people in the bureaucracy that want to impede and destroy his presidency. It also shows how intelligence is being politicized,” Flaherty said. “Intelligence should bear some resemblance to reality. It would seem the Kremlin would want Democrats to win.” “Someone in the bureaucracy seems to be coordinating with Schiff,” Flaherty said. “But they are not offering specifics. If they have specifics, make them public.” 4. How Long Has Russia Meddled in U.S. Campaigns? “This is what Russia always does. It’s not surprising, and it’s not going to stop,” Adams told The Daily Signal. “The Times and the left ignored interference in campaigns from Moscow from 1932 to 2017. The Democratic Party completely ignored it in the 1980s, and suddenly they are interested.” What Russia did in 2016—particularly with social media—is largely a more high-tech means of doing what it previously has done, Adams said. “Social media trolling is just propaganda that Russia has used since 1932,” Adams said. “Hacking is a cybercrime. When Russians hacked the DNC [Democratic National Committee] and John Podesta’s emails, it was a way to [mine] political intelligence, but it didn’t affect the election process.” Podesta, former chief of staff for President Bill Clinton and counselor to President Barack Obama, was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Past instances of Russian interference in American elections include 1948, when the Soviet Union backed the Progressive Party, whose candidate for president was Henry Wallace. Wallace, who served as vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt, split with the Democratic Party over President Harry Truman’s hawkish stance during the Cold War. Truman fired Wallace as secretary of commerce. The Wallace campaign included several Soviet operatives. “If it had not been for the Communists,” journalist I.F. Stone wrote at the time, “there would be no Progressive party.” But Wallace got just 2% of the popular vote and no electoral votes, coming in fourth place behind incumbent Truman, Republican Thomas Dewey, and States Rights “Dixiecrat” Party candidate Strom Thurmond. In another instance, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., covertly reached out to Soviet leaders during two election cycles, while he was a presidential candidate in 1980 and ahead of the 1984 election, when President Ronald Reagan won his second term. In 1980, Kennedy challenged President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination. According to Soviet archives, Kennedy sent former Sen. John Tunney, the California Democrat defeated for reelection in 1976, as a liaison to Soviet officials in March 1980. As documented in Paul Kengor’s book, “Dupes,” Tunney informed the Soviets that Kennedy supported the policies of then-Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and was concerned about an “atmosphere of tensions” in the Cold War “fueled by Carter.” The KGB archives describe Kennedy’s words as “acceptable to us.” Carter beat Kennedy for the nomination, but lost in a landslide to Reagan in November. Kennedy again made overtures to the Soviets in 1983, seeking to prevent Reagan’s reelection. Related correspondence first was reported Feb. 2, 1992, in the Times of London under the headline “Teddy, the KGB and the Top Secret File.” Kengor revealed the entire file in his 2006 book “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.” In a letter addressed to then-Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dated May 14, 1983, KGB head Viktor Chebrikov explained that Kennedy was eager to “counter the militaristic policies” of Reagan and undermine the president’s reelection chances. Kennedy reportedly suggested doing so by helping the Soviet leader set up interviews with American TV news anchors Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters, among others. Andropov died later that year, and didn’t get a chance to act on Kennedy’s advice with regard to the 1984 election. Kennedy’s outreach and Tunney’s trips are documented in the Mitrokhin papers filed with the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. The papers are named for Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB agent who defected to Britain from the Soviet Union in 1992. Tags: Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal, 4 Things to Know, About New Russia-Trump, Election Meddling Narrative To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| American Bar Association Expands Promotion of Gun Control
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 06:08 PM PST  by NRA-ILA: The American Bar Association (ABA) has long supported restrictions on the rights of gun owners. While it has defended the due process rights of some very unpopular groups, including, enemy combatants, terror suspects, and convicts on death row, in 2017 the ABA decided that gun owners should not be afforded similar due process protections. This year, the ABA decided it should increase its assault on the Second Amendment, and perhaps other constitutional protections. Under the guise of “gun safety regulations,” the ABA adopted three resolutions that should call into question the group’s claim that it seeks to “[e]liminate bias in…the justice system.” It seems that “bias” against gun owners is OK. The first resolution takes on the most recent anti-gun bogeyman; “ghost guns.” This term was invented by anti-gun California State Senator Kevin de Leon (D), originally to describe homemade plastic firearms manufactured with the use of a 3-D printer. Following efforts by gun control activists and the mainstream media to provoke the public, “ghost guns” has become an umbrella term for all unserialized firearms. Gun control proponents have shown particular interest in regulating unserialized homemade firearms made through the use of a 3-D printer and those constructed from an unfinished frame or receiver. Apparently, the ABA has abandoned the plastic firearms aspect, as its release does not mention them, and appears focused on “any unfinished firearm frame or receiver.” Under 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(3) the definition of a firearm includes “(A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; [or] (B) the frame or receiver of any such weapon…” As is made clear by federal law, the frame or receiver of a firearm is the only part that is legally considered a “firearm.” Gun control advocates contend that this system permits those who would otherwise be prohibited from possessing firearms to make their own firearms, circumventing the background check provisions of the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act. Anti-gun activists also contend that unserialized firearms inhibit law enforcement’s ability to trace firearms back to their initial point of sale through the ATF’s National Tracing Center. But any attempt to require serialization in this context would have no impact on criminals. In Haynes v. U.S., the United States Supreme Court ruled that a convicted felon could not be convicted for his failure to comply with the registration provisions of the National Firearms Act, as doing so would implicate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Any requirement that a gun owner alert the federal government to the manufacture of a firearm, such as supplying proof of serialization, could not be enforced against those prohibited from possessing firearms. In reality, as with most anti-gun proposals, the ABA is really targeting law-biding gun owners. Making and customizing your own firearms is an American tradition, which is why the provisions of the Gun Control Act do not prohibit individuals from making firearms for non-commercial purposes. If the federal government were tasked with determining what constitutes “manufacturing” in the non-commercial context, it could implicate the ordinary behavior of millions of gun owners. In the commercial context, ATF has already set a low bar for “manufacturing” that has forced some gun dealers to refrain from assisting customers with simple gunsmithing tasks. For instance, ATF has concluded that a gun dealer who adds some aftermarket accessories or finishes to firearms in inventory before resale is manufacturing firearms and must be licensed as a manufacturer. Anti-gun Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) has taken this issue to heart, and recently issued a tortured opinion that would appear to support the ABA’s resolution. The other egregious positions the ABA has taken are requiring law-abiding citizens to seek permission from the government before they can acquire a firearm, and then require those law-abiding gun owners who have received permission to obtain a firearm to store them in a government-approved fashion. Seriously, does the ABA need a refresher course on our right to keep and bear arms? With regard to permission to acquire a firearm, this anti-gun association “urges authorities to require people to apply for a permit from a designated law enforcement or public safety agency before they are given a permit to purchase a firearm.” The ABA’s resolution is unclear as to whether one would be required to apply for such a permit every time one wants to purchase a firearm, or if the initial application approval would result in something akin to a license being issued. The ABA does want applicants to be fingerprinted and run through a background check at the time of applying for permission to exercise a constitutionally protected right. Of course, anyone who purchases a firearm from a licensed gun dealer is already subject to what would presumably be the same background check, so this really sounds like a licensing scheme for gun owners. Perhaps the ABA feels that a “permit” sounds less authoritarian than a “license.” This “permit/licensing” scheme would apply to ALL firearm transfers, so what the ABA is ultimately getting at is promoting so-called “universal” background checks, which are at the top of virtually every anti-gun organization’s wish-list. And, as we were told by President Obama’s Justice Department, “universal” background checks are unenforceable without a comprehensive national registry of firearms. Requiring a “permit/license” to exercise a constitutionally protected right should be considered anathema to an organization that purports to be committed to “defending liberty.” As for the ABA’s storage requirement, this creates the potential for even more constitutional violations. The resolution calls for all levels of government to “define the requirements of safe storage of a firearm” and “require firearm owners to meet those requirements.” What this proposal overlooks is the fact that gun safety and storage is a matter of personal responsibility, and every person’s situation is different. It is unreasonable for the government to impose a one-size-fits-all solution. More importantly, mandatory storage laws invade people’s homes and force them to render their firearms useless in a self-defense situation by locking them up. Furthermore, while the ABA refers to its proposal addressing “gun safety,” fatal accidents due to unauthorized access to firearms are exceptionally rare, especially when compared to other accidental fatalities. But the big question is, after the government dictates the requirements as to how firearms in your home are to be stored, how will it ensure you “meet those requirements”? Is the ABA suggesting periodic spot-checks? How would that comport with the Fourth Amendment’s assurance that American citizens “be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures….”? Or is their idea for “gun safety” to prosecute someone after the fact, when an unauthorized or prohibited person gains access to a firearm that is not stored in a manner approved by the government? If a single woman, living on her own, has her home broken into, and a handgun she kept stored in her nightstand is stolen and used in a crime, is she to be held responsible if that type of storage doesn’t meet government standards? If that’s the case, then it would seem the ABA now supports crimes for being…crime victims. These resolutions from the ABA are simply continuations of the association’s objection to lawful gun ownership. Whatever “bias” they wish to eliminate from the justice system clearly does not apply to their own bias against law-abiding gun owners. Tags: NRA-ILA, American Bar Association, Expands Promotion, Gun Control To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| 1 in 3 People Starving in Socialist Country Praised by Bernie Sanders
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 05:49 PM PST  by Daniel Greenfield: It’s 2020. Venezuela is a miserable socialist hellhole. But the Bernie Sanders site still proudly boasts the op-ed with the closing comments, “These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who’s the banana republic now?” Here’s what the Bernie Dream is like in Venezuela. The survey found that 74% of families have adopted “food-related coping strategies,” such as reducing the variety and quality of food they eat. Sixty percent of households reported cutting portion sizes in meals, 33% said they had accepted food as payment for work and 20% reported selling family assets to cover basic needs.This is what Bernie’s speechwriter and advisor called an “economic miracle”. Who’s the banana republic? I guess we’ll find out in 2020. Tags: Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish, 1 in 3 People Starving, in Socialist Country, Praised by Bernie Sanders To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Sanders Says He Does Not Have a Price Tag for All of His ‘Free’ Plans
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 05:33 PM PST
by Susan Jones: Free health care, free college education, cancellation of student debt and now free, universal child care: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that his ideas, once described as “radical,” are now “mainstream.” And I believe that has got to happen.Sanders conceded that he is advocating “expensive propositions.” His Medicare for All plan would cost $30 trillion, but what about all the other programs on top of that? “Do you have a price tag for all of these things?” host Anderson Cooper asked Sanders: “No, I don’t,” Sanders said. “You mentioned making public colleges and universities tuition-free and cancelling all student debt. That’s correct. That’s what I want to do. We pay for that through a modest tax on Wall Street speculation.” “But you say you don’t know what the total price is, but you know how it’s going to be paid for. How do you know it’s going to be paid for if you don’t know how much the price is?” Cooper asked the candidate. “Well, you know, I can’t rattle off to you every nickel and every dime. But we have accounted for it. You talked about Medicare for All. We have options out there that will pay for it.” Sanders would raise taxes primarily on the wealthy and corporations, but his plan also includes a middle-class tax hike to finance Medicare for All. At the end of his interview with Anderson Cooper, Sanders unveiled a new plan that would guarantee free child care and pre-kindergarten to every child in the country from infancy to age 4. “What we are calling for is universal child care,” Sanders said. “How are you going to pay for this?” Anderson Cooper asked him. “We have a tax on wealth to pay for that,” Sander said. “It’s taxes on billionaires,” he said. “You know, I get a little bit tired of hearing my opponents saying, gee, how are you going to pay for a program that impacts and helps children or working-class families or middle-class families. How are you going to pay for that? “And yet, where are people saying, how are you going to pay for over $750 billion on military spending? How are you going to pay for a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the one percent, the large corporations, which is what Trump did. “When you help the billionaires and you help Wall Street — hey, of course we can pay for it. That’s what America’s supposed to be about. Well, I disagree,” Sanders said. Tags: Susan Jones, CNSNews, Bernie Sanders, Says He Does Not Have, a Price Tag, for All of His ‘Free’ Plans To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Leftmedia, Not Russians, Biggest Threat to U.S. Elections
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 04:09 PM PST . . . The news media only reinforces Russia’s disinformation efforts by pushing its false narrative.  by Thomas Gallatin: The Russians are at it again, seeking to interfere in U.S. elections. We’re shocked — shocked. The Russians have been playing this game for generations now. That this is considered pressing headline news only serves to highlight the gross bias prevalent within the mainstream media. Case in point: Following last week’s intelligence briefing before the House Intelligence Committee, in which lawmakers were notified of Moscow’s continuing efforts to interfere in our nation’s electoral process, the mainstream media’s headlines declared that Russia favors President Donald Trump in 2020. “It’s 2016 all over again,” declared leftist political pundits and Democrats as they dusted off the false narrative that Trump’s victory was due to Russian interference. Once again, there is no evidence that our nation’s actual election process was compromised, rigged, or manipulated by the Russians or anyone else. The interference being breathlessly reported is largely that of a disinformation campaign waged mostly online via social media. While serious, it only becomes problematic when Americans lose trust in those ostensibly tasked with objectively reporting the news. On Friday, a new headline hit declaring that the Russians are working to boost Bernie Sanders’s campaign. The news was based on the leak of a classified briefing Sanders received a month ago in which he was notified by U.S. intelligence officials that Russians were actively engaged in an effort to support his campaign, evidently in a similar fashion to that of Trump’s. There is little doubt that the Russians are doing exactly that, especially given that, ideologically, they have much more in common with Bolshevik Bernie’s policy platform than Trump’s. The problem, however, is the obviously timed leak to the media. Responding to the news, Sanders alluded to this, stating, “I’ll let you guess, about one day before the Nevada caucuses, why do you think it came out?” In any case, Sanders disavowed any Russian help, insisting, “I don’t care, frankly, who [Vladimir] Putin wants to be president. My message to Putin is clear: ‘Stay out of American elections, and as president I will make sure that you do.’” Trump also blasted the media report, declaring, “MSDNC (Comcast Slime), CNN and others of the Fake Media, have now added Crazy Bernie to the list of Russian Sympathizers, along with Tulsi Gabbard & Jill Stein (of the Green Party), both agents of Russia, they say. But now they report President Putin wants Bernie (or me) to win.” He then observed, “The reason for this is that the Do Nothing Democrats, using disinformation Hoax number 7, don’t want Bernie Sanders to get the Democrat Nomination, and they figure this would be very bad for his chances. It’s all rigged, again, against Crazy Bernie Sanders!” The problem is not the MSM reporting on Russian efforts to interfere; it’s that the MSM plays along with Moscow’s false narrative suggesting that the Russians’ objective is seeing a certain individual win the election, i.e. Trump or Sanders. The real objective of Russia’s disinformation campaign is to sow distrust in America’s electoral system, with the aim of further dividing our nation and weakening our government. Would Putin prefer a feckless Democrat such as Sanders to Trump? Most definitely, but his greater and longer-term goal is permanently disabling Americans’ trust in our electoral system. Tags: Thomas Gallatin, The Patriot Post, Leftmedia, Not Russians, Biggest Threat to U.S. Elections To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Whistleblower in Obama’s DHS Allegedly Shoots Self
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 03:41 PM PST
by Free Press International News Service: A former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official, who had said that “one or more” terror attacks in the U.S. could have been prevented if not for the Obama administration’s prioritizing political correctness over safety, was found dead Friday from a gunshot wound, reports say. Philip Haney, as a whistleblower, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June 2016 that DHS ordered him to delete hundreds of files of people with ties to Islamist terrorist groups, arguing terrorist attacks against people in the United States could have been prevented if certain files had not been scrubbed, the Washington Examiner noted in a Feb. 22 report. “It is very plausible that one or more of the subsequent terror attacks on the homeland could have been prevented if more subject matter experts in the Department of Homeland Security had been allowed to do our jobs back in late 2009,” Haney wrote in an opinion piece for The Hill in February 2016. “It is demoralizing — and infuriating — that today, those elusive dots are even harder to find, and harder to connect, than they were during the winter of 2009.” The Amador County Sheriff’s office said that deputies and detectives responded to reports Friday morning at 10:12 a.m. of a male subject with a gunshot wound on the ground in the area of Highway 124 and Highway 16 in Plymouth, California. “Upon their arrival, they located and identified 66-year-old Philip Haney, who was deceased and appeared to have suffered a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound. A firearm was located next to Haney and his vehicle. This investigation is active and ongoing. No further details will be released at this time,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. Red State and Heavy reported that Haney had been missing since Wednesday, and that the gunshot wound was found in his chest. Several reports cited friends of Haney as saying they found it difficult to believe that Haney had taken his own life. The Examiner, citing sources close to Haney as saying he was recently in contact with top officials about returning to work for the DHS. Additionally, Haney was engaged to be married. Speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, a friend who’s known Haney for 40 years told CCN.com: “Knowing his strong Christian faith, his dogged pursuit of truth and his love for America, and his upcoming marriage, it seems highly unlikely that he committed suicide. He was on a mission to wake up America, and I strongly doubt he took his own life.” In a 2016 interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Haney explained that on two occasions his carefully prepared files had been “purged.” He also believed that, if the Obama administration had maintained this database, several mass shootings, including the December 2015 Orlando, Florida nightclub massacre and the June 2016 San Bernardino, California mass shooting could have been prevented. In an interview with then-Fox News host Megyn Kelly, Haney said that about a year into an investigation that had led his team to one of the mosques that San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook had attended, officials from the State Department and the Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties showed up at his office to pull the plug. In his 2016 article for The Hill, Haney claimed President Barack Obama had thrown the U.S. intelligence community “under the bus” for failing to “connect the dots” after a Nigerian Muslim terror suspect was linked to a failed terror plot on Christmas Day in 2009. “Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused,” Haney wrote, referring to Obama. “His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material — the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.” Haney also called out the Obama administration for prioritizing “political correctness” over safety. “I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness — and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack.” The Washington Examiner received a text message from Haney on Nov. 11 which mentioned plans to write a sequel to his first book, “See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad”, which described his experience at DHS. “Odd (surreal reality) that I was a highly visible whistleblower … that virtually no one listened to, while this guy remains invisible, but is treated like an anointed oracle from above,” Haney said in the Nov. 11 text, referring to alleged Ukraine whistleblower Eric Ciaramella. “However, my story is still live, i.e., there’s still more to come. It’ll be called ‘National Security Meltdown.’ ” Haney added, “I have a severely hyper-organized archive of everything that’s happened since See Something, Say Nothing (SSSN) was published in May of 2016. The National Security Meltdown sequel will pick up right where SSSN left off. My intention is to have it ready by early-to mid-Spring of 2020 (just before the political sound wave hits), then ride that wave all the way to the Nov. elections.” Tags: Free Press International, News Service, Free Pressers, Philip Haney, Whistleblower, in Obama’s DHS, Allegedly Shoots Self To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Liberal Bias ‘Accelerating Wedge In Our Society,’ Began With ‘Love Affair’ for Obama
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 03:23 PM PST  by Brent Baker: At a forum in California recently aired by C-SPAN, two news media veterans admitted – what all too many of their colleagues still deny – that liberal bias and overt hostility to Donald Trump is hurting the country and threatening to destroy the relevance of journalism. “I think a liberal bias is increasingly embedded in the journalism as a result of the Trump experience and it’s accelerating and deepening the wedge in our society between the left and the right,” declared Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News for two stints in the 1980s. He blamed universities for the lack of an ideological mix in newsrooms: “Our colleges, which are dominated by liberals, liberal professors, are churning out these students who never hear another opinion.” Sauter, the first president of Fox News, warned that even after Trump leaves office journalists may be too “comfortable with opinionated reportage,” which would “be very detrimental.” He urged editors and producers to address the issue, warning that otherwise conservatives will be “lost” and “we need journalism, which is so clear and conscientious that the left and the right can find a credible place to believe they’re getting the straight story. If you don’t have that, it’s over.” Dan Abrams, chief legal analyst for an ABC News and owner of Mediaite, echoed Sauter, asserting journalists must acknowledge the problem: “I think that the first thing that would help…is to admit exactly what Van is saying which is that the media and the people in the media are left of center.” Recognizing what is so obvious but also so often denied, Abrams noted “so many people out there don’t believe us and don’t take what we’re saying seriously because they view us as an arm of the left.” He observed “the beginning of that descent happened with the media’s love affair with Barack Obama in 2008.” Four noteworthy quotes I culled from the forum, held January 30 at the Rancho Mirage library, and re-run on C-SPAN2 on February 18 (C-SPAN.org video of entire session): Sauter: “Our colleges, which are dominated by liberals, liberal professors, are churning out these students who never hear another opinion unless I’m their grandfather and they cannot get out of my way. And I think the journalistic population which is made up of really well motivated, delightful, articulate, erudite engaging people, they never got the message. We tried at CBS, to the degree that we tried, because the feeling 35 years ago was really just below the surface and you couldn’t go to them and begin to say, ‘hey, I don’t like the tone of your stories.’ And it would provoke, excuse the French, a true shit storm that no one had the time to cope with. “And I think at some point the editors, the producers, are going to have to deal with this because if we go in the next year or the next five years with the circumstances we’re in today, the conservatives – and believe me Fox is a very thin sliver of the conservative audience out there – they’re going to be lost. And we need journalism, which is so clear and conscientious that the left and the right can find a credible place to believe they’re getting the straight story. If you don’t have that, it’s over.” Abrams: “That’s the thing journalists take most seriously, is being the fact-checkers and the problem is that so many people out there don’t believe us and don’t take what we’re saying seriously because they view us as an arm of the left or as an arm of whatever it is. And, by the way, I think the beginning of that descent happened with the media’s love affair with Barack Obama in 2008, particularly in the campaign, even if you look at the primary with Hillary Clinton, it was this, you know, he was treated differently than any other candidates and when I say the media I don’t mean a particular entity. I mean the whole, and there’s a danger in talking about the media as a whole, but I remember thinking all the time that the media’s love for Barack Obama in the 2008 election I think was part of the reason we’re at the point where we are, particularly with people on the right and in the middle.”——————– Tags: Brent Baker, Media Research Center, MRC, Dan Abrams, Liberal Bias, ‘Accelerating Wedge In Our Society,’ Began With, ‘Love Affair’ for Obama To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Divided Government
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 03:01 PM PST  by Kerby Anderson: At this point in the election season, it is difficult to predict what will happen once the votes are counted in November. The president could be reelected or defeated. Republicans might win back the House and keep the Senate. Or the opposite could occur. It is likely that we will once again have a divided government like what we currently have. That will mean very little will get done legislatively. But it is worth explaining to the younger generation, that was not always the case. Scott Morefield reminds us that President Richard Nixon appointed four somewhat conservative Supreme Court justices and 231 federal judges even though his party did not control either the House or Senate. President Ronald Reagan was able to get his signature Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 passed both by the Senate and a Democratic House controlled by Speaker Tip O’Neill. In fact, the two worked on other bipartisan bills. Bipartisanship also worked the other way. Democrat President Bill Clinton reformed the welfare system with Republican help in the House. President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama each got two Supreme Court justices confirmed with bipartisan support and only a little opposition. And President Obama worked with Republicans to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. By now, you must be thinking “how things have changed.” President Trump was able to get a bill on criminal justice reform passed, and Congress reluctantly decided to pass a trade bill, after voting articles of impeachment. The recent votes illustrate how things have changed. No House Republicans voted for impeachment. Every Senate Democrat voted to remove the president from office. In the past, even when we had a divided government, we still had some bipartisan votes. Those days seem long gone, and that is not good for the republic. Tags: Kerby Anderson, Viewpoints, Point of View, Divided Government To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Senate Set To Vote On Infanticide
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 02:52 PM PST  by Bill Donohue: On February 25, the U.S. Senate will vote on a bill by Sen. Ben Sasse, the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” The Act was passed in 2002 but it did not provide specific sanctions for abortionists who intentionally allowed innocent babies to die if they survived a botched abortion. This bill would hold all healthcare practitioners accountable. In February 2019, this bill was blocked by Senate Democrats. Presidential candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders, Amy Klochubar and Elizabeth Warren voted to stop the bill from being considered. Filibuster tactics killed the bill. This bill is not about abortion—it is about infanticide. Some reporter, perhaps during the February 25th debate, needs to ask these three candidates why they do not want punish those who are complicit in infanticide. Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, and Tom Steyer also need to be asked about this issue. The governors of New York and Virginia have said they are opposed to any law that would sanction doctors for not attending to a baby who survives abortion. We need to know if they speak for all Democrats. President Trump supports the bill by Sen. Sasse. All of the Democrats, and the one socialist, who voted to kill this bill last year are big promoters of social justice. It would be instructive to learn how they can explain their stance given their professed commitment to the least among us. Moreover, Biden has a chance to distance himself from these three senators by drawing a line in the sand. Now that he is once again flexing his Catholic credentials, the timing is perfect. Tags: Bill Donohue, Catholic League, U.S. Senate, Set To Vote, On Infanticide To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Two-Armed Bandits . . .
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 02:40 PM PST . . . And the Winner of Democrat Nevada Caucus is Communism disguised as socialism, Bernie Sanders.
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| Beautiful Colors, Ugly Terms
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 02:29 PM PST  by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: “My friends were asking for the ‘skin-color’ crayon,” explains 9-year-old Bellen Woodard. She realized the request was for the peach-colored crayon but, being the only black kid in her third grade Loudoun County, Virginia, classroom, she also knew her skin wasn’t peach-colored. As her mother told Washington Post columnist Theresa Vargas, it made her daughter feel “uncomfortable.” Bellen used the term “dis-included.” She and her mom discussed what to do and her mom proposed, “Just hand them the brown one instead.” But Bellen had an even better idea: “I think I just want to ask them what color they want because it could be any number of beautiful colors.” Indeed. “So that’s what she did,” wrote Vargas. “She started saying those words. She then heard her teacher say them, too. And soon, her entire class was talking about skin color in a way that went beyond peach.” The third-grader also designed a kit called “More Than Peach” featuring not just peach-colored crayons but also colors such as “apricot,” “burnt sienna” and “mahogany.” In no time, her kits have been requested across the nation and now the Virginia Museum of History & Culture is adding one to their collection. People come in so many wonderful hues and colors. It is something to celebrate — just as young Bellen Woodard has done. Which reminds me of my distaste for the term “persons of color.” This term of art has become ubiquitous. Unlike Bellen’s efforts offering inclusion and understanding, “persons of color” serves to separate us. Because I’m labeled “white” . . . I’m “dis-included.” But I’m not white (a color) or translucent; I’m peachy — perhaps tan sometimes or bright red when sunburned. We are all persons of color. Beautiful colors. This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob. Tags: Paul Jacob, Common Sense, Beautiful Colors, Ugly Terms To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Hating Trump Can’t Unite the Democrats
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 02:20 PM PST  by Daniel Greenfield: The Democrat presidential primaries have been a long politically correct apology tour. Joe Biden was forced to apologize for opposing crime and busing. Bernie Sanders had to offer up mea culpas for ever being on good terms with the NRA and for questioning open borders, Kamala Harris had to apologize for enforcing whatever passes for the law in California, as did Amy Klobuchar, who also had to apologize for having once supported border fencing and English as the country’s national language. After jumping into the race, Michael Bloomberg launched his own apology tour for trying to stop gang violence with ‘stop and frisk’, for criticizing Obamacare, and the easy loans that wrecked the economy. No candidate, no matter how lefty, is ever truly pure enough for the party of the perpetually woke. Any politician old enough to run for the White House also has a history of believing in things like borders, language, biology, math, law and order, free speech, and any other realities that offend the Wokeratti. Only a candidate who has done nothing except chastely spout radical nonsense can pass the purity test. That’s why Bernie Sanders, a hack from a minor state who, until being excavated by some Obama campaign people who hadn’t gotten a gig with the Clinton campaign, was an obscure nobody who had done nothing except rename post offices, is leading the Democrat death march to political oblivion. There may be 48 years worth of difference between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders, but they both have the same amount of experience getting anything done in Washington D.C. The only thing they’ve ever done in his long and her short career is lay out imaginary visions of socialist utopias without having the life skills to change a flat tire, catch a bus, or make their own breakfast. The Democrats have become a party divided between the moderates, obsessed with destroying Trump, and the socialists, obsessed with destroying the Democrats. The emerging representative of the former is Bloomberg: a billionaire willing to blow through 1.5% of his net worth to stop President Trump. And Bernie represents the vanguard of the oppressed proletariat of Burlington, San Francisco, and Aspen, who are slightly to the right of Castro, but, like their leader, have no clue how to get anything done. Bloomberg represents the core Dems who don’t care about anything except beating Trump, while Bernie represents the radicals who care less about beating Trump than about beating the Bloombergs. The average Democrat outside the DNC doesn’t understand this distinction. That’s why Bernie is leading. In the party’s current electability obsession, any candidate who does well is electable and can beat Trump. That includes Bernie Sanders, a talking horse, and Amy Klobuchar. Biden maintained the lead for so long because he seemed electable. Details like what he actually believed and whether he was playing with a full deck were deemed irrelevant. Those same details also don’t matter when it comes to Bernie. But that just meant that the Democrats outsourced policy to the radical fringe that cares about issues. That’s why the 2020 primaries have seen Democrats endorse gun confiscation (Beto O’Rourke), letting the Boston Marathon bomber vote from prison (Bernie Sanders), eliminating private health insurance (Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren), eliminating free speech on the internet (Warren), and taking away the tax exempt status of churches and synagogues that don’t back gay marriage (O’Rourke). These are not winning issues. Most Democrats claim they want electable candidates, but they’re going into 2020 with unelectable policy proposals hanging around their necks that will alienate the average voters they need to win. House Democrats could have changed that, instead they were sucked into the impeachment black hole. And no matter how much Speaker Pelosi resisted, the one part of elected government that the Democrats control is best known for an obsession with Trump and a disinterest in everything else. Hating Trump isn’t a winning strategy. The post-impeachment polls showed that all too clearly. But it’s either that or nationalizing health care, confiscating guns, banning churches and letting terrorists vote from prison. And those are even worse platforms to run on than Trump Derangement Syndrome. The Democrats are now on track to have a nominee who once said, “I don’t mind people coming up and calling me a communist” because they didn’t care about anything else except destroying Trump. And, instead, they’re destroying themselves. The Democrats have locked their party into only one possible strategy and that’s turning out as much of their base as possible. But turnout signals from the primaries have been mixed and large-scale national events like the Impeachment Eve rallies and the Women’s March fizzled badly with few attendees. The white suburbanites whose cultural hostility fueled the “resistance” appear to be fading. Despite their hatred of Trump, they’re wary of socialism. And a Sanders win would depress their turnout. But a win by anyone except Sanders will depress turnout by his base of Marxist profs and unemployed vloggers. None of the leading candidates summon much enthusiasm from black voters. Massive turnout requires a united party. And that was a lot easier when they were uniting against something. 2018 saw great turnout because the Democrats rallied around their common front of hating Trump. But uniting against Trump is very different than uniting behind Bernie, Bloomberg, or any other candidate. Hatred is a powerful force. But it’s no substitute for leadership. Republican primaries have seen massive turnout because of support for President Trump. A united party is set to face off against a divided party. And that is very bad news for the subdivided Democrats. Hatred doesn’t unite political movements. It divides them. Any political movement that depends on division is inherently fractured. The deeper the divisions become; the harder Democrats hate their common enemy. But underneath that common hatred are a thousand festering hatreds, rivalries and resentments, waiting to break out into internecine warfare. The Democrats are now at risk of winding up with a brokered conviction because hate divided them. In the Trump Derangement Syndrome era, the Democrats no longer really stand for anything and are willing to fall for anything, from radical ideologies to billionaires and socialists buying the nomination. Hatred has hollowed out the Democrats leaving behind nothing but a great empty void. The primaries are the dark night of the Democrat soul. The party’s soul has fed on poisonous hatred. Morning has come to America. But morning may never come to the Democrats divided in darkness. Tags: Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish, Hating Trump, Can’t Unite the Democrats To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Booker T. Washington: A Legacy of Enterprise and Education
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 02:02 PM PST
by Rob Bluey: Author and educator Booker T. Washington played a critical role in the promotion of education and free market enterprise among black Americans at the turn of the century. Alabama businessman and political consultant Richard Finley joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss what the legacy of Washington, who died in 1915, means to him and others in the African American community. Listen to today’s podcast episode or read the lightly edited transcript below. Rob Bluey: We are joined on The Daily Signal Podcast today by Richard Finley, who’s head of the Finley Group, a business and political consulting firm in Birmingham, Alabama. Richard, thanks so much for joining us. Richard Finley: Thank you for having me. Bluey: You are somebody who’s served on the Republican Party State Executive Committee there in Alabama, and very much have lived through the civil rights movement and history, and you’ve seen it before your own eyes. And throughout the month of February, Black History Month, we’re featuring some of the stories of American heroes. Maybe some of those who are listeners can learn a little bit more about, so we appreciate you taking the time to share with us about Booker T. Washington specifically and some of your own experiences. Finley: I appreciate the opportunity. I just feel that Washington was probably the most significant black figure in American history. And I know that’s arguable, but the things that he was able to do at Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, and the economic strategy he had for lifting up a people out of slavery was extremely significant and extremely valuable. And I dislike the fact that it is being downplayed in modern public schools’ telling of black history. When I initially decided to become politically active in Birmingham, I went to the established black leadership and I told them, I said, “Well, I am going to become politically active, and I’m going to become politically active as a Republican.” I explained to them that when I was in high school and college here as a young man, being an activist, our fight was with the yellow dog Democrats of Alabama in the South. And I didn’t quite understand returning to Birmingham and finding all of the black leadership now in bed with the yellow dog Democrats who were the oppressors. Democrats controlled Alabama from Reconstruction up through the 1970s. So they had a long run and all of the segregation efforts, the laws that were put in place to segregate and oppress the black citizens were put in place by the yellow dog Democrats of Alabama. I didn’t quite understand why our leadership had chosen to get in bed with these people. But I said that if you’re going to be politically active, then you have to have options. If you don’t have an option, then you really don’t matter in the overall equation. They can write you in, and then go pursue those folk who might be exercising their options. And I felt that black people needed to hear both sides of the story. They needed to be able to get the information, and then make a conscious decision as to which way they wanted to go. Rather than being locked into the party of the same people who had been oppressing us for the [300] or 400 years leading up to the Civil War. Bluey: Thank you for sharing that. We appreciate your leadership and speaking out. I think it’s so critically important that people do have an open mind and understand history. Because I think, too often, as you’ve indicated to me, sometimes we only look at the recent history and not necessarily look back at the figures who had a transformative impact on our country. And Booker T. Washington is, certainly, one of them. He was born in 1856, died in 1915. He was, obviously, an educator. You mentioned his role at Tuskegee University. He was a leading Republican, at the time. He was somebody who was among that last generation of black Americans who were born into slavery, and then became a leading voice. So tell us more about him and why you consider him to be such a profound figure in American history, and an influence on your own life. Finley: I was conscious of him all through elementary school when we were taught black history as part of the Jefferson County, Alabama, colored school system. In the colored school we had all black teachers who had a sensitivity, or a consciousness to making sure that young black kids understood the contributions that we, as a people, have made to America. My two heroes were Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. And I tell folk that I believed, as Frederick Douglass did, in free people and, as Booker T. Washington did, in free enterprise. So, free people and free enterprise was sort of my driving motto. But Washington had a unique plan and strategy for lifting newly freed Africans who had been purposely blocked from learning to read, or being taught the way the system worked in this country. Ignorance was being brutally enforced upon Africans who were in slavery. And once they were free, Washington had sort of a manifesto of here are the things that you need to first do in order to lift yourself up out of the poverty that you were left in. In 1866, they set you free, but there was no budget with that. And so, newly freed Africans had a major challenge. But having lived in such close quarters, just through observation, they understood how the system worked. And Booker T. Washington and his team at Tuskegee Institute, working with some Northern philanthropists, started to establish schools so that the newly freed Africans could immediately began to learn to read. I think if you check the history in that period between 1866 and, say, 1930, illiteracy was reduced within the black community pretty close to 60%, 65%. So it was a major achievement in establishing a school network. And there was an eagerness, or a hunger, from the newly freed Africans to learn to read and write the language—from being in proximity with the plantation owners—and how they operated the business they had picked up, pretty much, how the system was working. If you look during that period, there was substantial economic gain made within the African or black community. They rapidly acquired what, ultimately, wound up being at the height about 15 million acres of land, went into various business pursuits. And Tuskegee was sort of the training ground, or the breeding ground, for this entrepreneurial effort. Tuskegee Institute, if you read the stories, they talk about how they took straw and made bricks, and built the buildings on the campus at Tuskegee Institute. Well, not only were they making bricks and masonry products, they were doing lumber. And they became one of the largest, if not the largest, supplier of building materials in the South. And with that business acumen, Dr. Washington then set about on a plan that was to be called the Tuskegee Industrial Complex. He established organizations all over the country under the title of the National Negro Business League. He had in his employ, at Tuskegee Institute, Dr. George Washington Carver, and several other botanists, and chemists, and scientists who were putting together a lot of the products that we use today. It was his plan to turn Tuskegee into an industrial complex to create these various common need products, the deodorants, the soaps, the hair creams, all of these things were things that were being made from plants in Dr. Carver’s laboratory. So Washington’s plan was to begin to manufacture all of these products there at Tuskegee, and distribute them across the country through the National Negro Business League. He also, as I said earlier, had the capability for the building materials and so forth. He was building out of this industrial complex concept what would today be a multibillion-dollar American corporation. A lot of this stuff that Proctor & Gamble was doing, a lot of that stuff that Kellogg was doing, and Rockefeller, and Firestone. All of these industrial giants were constant visitors at Tuskegee and with Dr. Carver. To this day, some of their institutions still contribute to Tuskegee’s well-being, but they also became very wealthy corporations off of the formulas that Dr. Carver had put together. Dr. Carver was the first to create synthetic nylon that was crucial to the American war effort. When they started developing automobile tires, Firestone was the beneficiary of what they were doing at Tuskegee in terms of creating rubber and synthetic nylon from the products that Carver was growing there on the Tuskegee properties. Bluey: It’s really fascinating to hear you share those examples. Clearly, Booker T. Washington had a passion not only to educate, but also an entrepreneurial spirit as well, as you indicated there. … We were at an event together in Washington, D.C., in February, it was put on by Black Americans for a Better Future, and you shared with me Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition speech. And it’s really fascinating in the impact that it had. I wanted you to share a bit about that particular address and how it really set the course in motion, some of the things that he was able to accomplish. Finley: It was a plan, a roadmap, if you will, that was put before the American white community, the business community. The left wing, or the socialist elements of the time, headed up by W.E.B. Du Bois, labeled it a compromise speech. And I just assumed that they didn’t understand what Washington was putting forward. He was putting forward a plan for economic growth and development here in the South. And his position with the Southern white businessmen were OK, if we are allowed uninterrupted to acquire land, to farm that land to build our churches, our schools, and our homes. And, in fact, own that property uninterrupted by whatever government the South was putting in place at the time then we, as newly freed Africans, we as newly freed participants in the American economy would want to establish, basically, a parallel relationship, or a parallel economy where we would bring our excess produce to the market, and we would live as neighbors. All being Americans. Washington was a nationalist. He believed in America, he believed in the American concept, and he wanted the newly freed Africans to be able to establish a parallel system, as well as a parallel economy. He said to the assembled people, anything social, that’s your preference. We can be as separate as the fingers on the hand, but should we be attacked by an outset aggressor, then be assured that we as citizens of the country will come together with you to defend America against any enemy, foreign or domestic. He made that statement to the established audience there. But he then went on to talk about our sojourn up to that point here in America and the challenges that we were facing now as free American citizens. If you remember, during that time frame, the great American railroad experiment was beginning, and the Chinese were the immigrants of the day, and they were taking jobs that the newly freed Africans were applying for, or wanting to do. And Washington addressed that position in his speech as well, the immigration problem. Again, he went on to assure them that, hey, we’ve been here living in close proximity for [300] or 400 years, we’ve never, to any real extent, had a major uprising. We’ve been in situations where you’ve got [200] or 300 slaves on a plantation with maybe 10, 12 white people on the plantation. So, if there was any ill intent, it would’ve shown itself a long time ago. So, he was saying that you could be comfortable with the black citizens. All we wanted was an opportunity to be productive and to generate and own property of our own, to be able to educate our children, to be able to establish and conduct our church and religious life as free citizens here in America. And, again, as a parallel to what was existing within the white communities at that time. Bluey: Certainly. Finley: So it was the first presentation of separate and equal. And it was, I think, well, you can read the other stuff that was in there, but it was the first actual deal or arrangement put on the table for blacks and whites to coexist in America. Bluey: And we will make sure that we link to it for our listeners or our readers on The Daily Signal so they can see. Richard, one final question for you. You spoke about the importance of educating today’s Americans and young people about our history. What are some steps that you’re taking, or what advice do you have for our audience who want to do a better job of making sure that young people understand those American heroes who came before us? Finley: The thing that’s most personal to me now is, at my age, to have time to sit down and talk with young people. I think we need to encourage the storytelling. And, especially, within the black community, we are losing generations to poor public education. And now, with the advent of social media and the electronic communications, they’re getting stories that are coming at them so fast that they don’t have time to put them in perspective, and to understand what it is that they’re getting in all this information that’s flowing. … I’m 70 years old, so I’m at the point where, as I told my children, I said, “I was there when the colored sign came down and I’m not sure it was the best thing to do for us.” I said, we had, at that time, operating in Alabama, five nationally-established black insurance companies that were employing thousands of black people across the country. We had three banks here in Birmingham. We had a community that consisted of doctors and dentists and all of the various medical capabilities. We had a black-established and -run hospital within our community and we had the pharmacist in our community. All these businesses were going. When Martin Luther King [Jr.] arrived in Birmingham, he had to have a serious conversation with A.G. Gaston who, at that time, was one of the leading black businessmen in the country. But he was stationed here in Birmingham and owned major buildings and property in, what is now, downtown Birmingham proper. He cautioned King and his followers that they need to give serious thought to what would happen after the colored sign came down, and how would we be positioned financially or economically to compete in the broader market with the much more financially established white entities in a downtown area. So we had a lot of questions that were going on that don’t get told in the stories of history today. It was a significant debate about the economic cost of integration to the black community. And people need to understand that there was not a whole lot of problem with the concept of separate and equal. The problem was we never could get the equal worked out. Bluey: That’s right. Finley: And the public tax revenue didn’t come into our community, but we had successful black businesses going on. We had successful black churches, black contractors were building houses. We had what by most standards would be a pretty comfortable working-class or middle-class existence in Birmingham. And that was lost once the colored sign came down. And we have not been able to reestablish. I hear black businesses crying, “Well, we don’t have capital to do this, that, and the other.” I’m saying, I’m old enough to remember when we had all of these things, and whatever capital was needed we were able to put it together to do what needed to be done. So understanding that history, and what we built, and how we built it, the drop in the link of communications has interrupted our ability to build on those successes. The Johnson Publishing companies, the 300 black-owned radio stations, the 15 million acres of land, all of that is lost. And I feel that … the misdirection of the public education system and the breakdown in the family communications within our community have cost us tremendously. And that history, that story needs to be told. When I talked to you about T.M. Alexander, the Rosa Parks story is a great human interest story, but this was the Montgomery bus boycott, [which] was an organized quasi business entity that was going on here. And the people didn’t stop going to work, they just stopped riding the bus. In creating a car pool to be able to deliver these people to their jobs, they needed to have a blanket insurance. So we had a millionaire black insurance executive insurance company owner out of Atlanta who stepped up and provided a $2 million blanket policy to cover the bus boycott. Now, Rosa’s courage is not to be diminished, but there was a business end to this, and the black conservative businessmen who, for the most part, were all Republicans, provided the financial strength necessary. They did this up until the point that the movement itself became integrated, and groups with other objectives got involved. And then, I think, the black community sort of got lost in the shuffle. Bluey: Richard, I want to thank you for the work that you’re doing and coming on The Daily Signal to share these stories with us. It’s incredibly important to all of us that here at The Heritage Foundation and The Daily Signal we keep this history alive and continue to tell these stories. It’s so powerful to hear about them, and to have somebody like yourself who cares so passionately do it is a real treat for us. So I want to thank you, again, for joining us on The Daily Signal Podcast and [I] hope to have a future conversation with you and continue talking about this. Finley: Well, I want to thank you. I appreciate what you’re doing and I hope you do continue to do this service for our community. Bluey: Thank you. Finley: Thank you. Tags: Rob Bluey, The Daily Signal, Booker T. 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| Americans Boycotting Greyhound After Co. Bans ICE from Boarding Buses
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 12:05 PM PST
by Warner Todd Huston: Thousands of Americans have organized to join a boycott of Greyhound Bus after the company made the surprise announcement that it would ban U.S. immigration officers from boarding buses to look for lawbreaking illegals. The effort was led by Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli who called for the boycott of Greyhound after last week’s announcement that it would stop cooperating with federal immigration officials. “Our primary concern is the safety of our customers and team members, and we are confident these changes will lead to an improved experience for all parties involved,” the bus company said in an announcement last week. Greyhound was apparently reacting to demands made by the American Civil Liberties Union and other activists for criminal illegals. Cuccinelli slammed the company for bowing to the will of the anti-American activists and on Saturday told Fox News, “It’s a sad day to see something like this, and hopefully #BoycottGreyhound will pick up.” “This is not something they talked to us about before they made their public comment. So for us, it’s ultimately about how we can all work together and the effectiveness of our law enforcement efforts,” Cuccinelli said. Cuccinelli added that the DHS would engage in discussions with Greyhound about the policy change. He also noted that Greyhound did not speak to the Dept. of Homeland Security before making its decision. “It’s very sad to see the politicization of law enforcement,” Cuccinelli said of the left’s success in demonizing U.S. immigration policies. Meanwhile, #BoycottGreyhound gained ground by trending on Twitter. Tags: Warner Todd Huston, Americans Boycotting Greyhound, After Co. Bans ICE, from Boarding Buses To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Bernie Sanders Says Illegals ‘Entitled’ To Same Government Benefits As Citizens
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 12:05 PM PST . . . It’s Open Borders Season In Bernie-Land  by Jeff Dunetz : Bernie Sanders has said it often during his campaign to get the Democratic Primary, ‘No one is above the law.” Apparently, he had at least one exception—Illegal Aliens. Bernie’s campaign encourages open borders because his promise to hand out free stuff includes giving those freebies to illegals. Bernie Sanders open borders” Today we got 500,000 people sleeping out on the streets of America. Today we have 18 million families paying 50% of their limited incomes for housing. Today we have hundreds of thousands of bright young people who cannot afford to get a higher education. Today we have 45 million paying a student debt that many of them cannot afford to pay. So, what our campaign is about and what our administration will be about is rethinking America, understanding that all of our people – when I say “all,” I also mean the undocumented in this country – that all of our people are entitled to basic human rights.
He wants to partner with nonprofits as an alternative to detention centers. Many of his signature proposals, including Medicare for All and College for All, would additionally apply to immigrants, regardless of status. He would create a $14 billion federal grant program for public defenders and open it to people regardless of immigration status.Immigration officials say Sanders’ proposals would create an irresistible magnet for millions of the Earth’s migrants who will flood this country. His policies are basically a call for open borders. His push to allow Illegals to get the same benefits as citizens and legal residents leading to an even higher influx of illegals that the U.S. is already facing did generate some objections on Twitter.
There is one more American who objects to Bernie’s stance–Bernie Sanders. In 2015 Bernie said America should be fighting against open borders for Illegals saying, That’s a Koch brothers proposal.” Bernie won the caucuses in Nevada, a strong union and a strong Latino state. His comments after winning the state about allowing illegals to receive government benefits seem to be pandering when comparing it to his 2015 position. —————– Jeff Dunetz blogs at The Lid. Tags: Jeff Dunetz, The Lid, Bernie Sanders, Says, Illegals ‘Entitled,’ To Same Government Benefit,s As Citizens To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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⚜ Today is Mardi Gras!
- 🥞 Happy Fat Tuesday — or, for Jon Meacham, Shrove Tuesday.
- Today’s Smart Brevity™ count: 1,194 words … 4½ minutes.
🇪🇬 Breaking: Hosni Mubarak — the Egyptian strongman who had been likened to a modern-day pharaoh, then was deposed in 2011 by the popular unrest known as the Arab Spring — died today at 91. (N.Y. Times)
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
Bernie Sanders would be the first Jewish nominee of a major American political party — but that milestone is being overshadowed by his conflicts with America’s Jewish leaders and Israel’s leadership, Axios’ David Nather writes.
- That’s partly because we’re all focusing on the implications of Democrats nominating a self-described democratic socialist. It’s also because a candidate’s religion no longer seems to matter as much to voters or the media, making the potential milestone of a Jewish nominee more of a non-event.
The intrigue: Sanders’ policies toward Israel — and now his fight with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — are causing his critics on the right to argue that the potential first Jewish nominee might not be sufficiently pro-Israel.
- The source of conflict is Sanders’ determination to condition aid to Israel on better treatment of Palestinians. “What U.S. foreign policy must be about is not just being pro-Israel. We must be pro-Palestinian, as well,” he said during the December Democratic debate.
- That would be a major break from past U.S. policy, one that Sanders would probably have a hard time getting through Congress.
- He’s also a fierce critic of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he’s called a “racist.”
- But he told the liberal Jewish group J Street in October that his Judaism might be “helpful” if Republicans try to go after him for being anti-Israel or even anti-Semitic: “It’s going to be very hard for anybody to call me, whose father’s family was wiped out by Hitler, who spent time in Israel, an anti-Semite.”
🗞️ The (Columbia) State, South Carolina’s second-biggest paper, endorses Pete Buttigieg, citing his “aspirational yet realistic plans.” (Go deeper.)
The coronavirus spread is being matched, or even outrun, by the spread on social media of both unintentional misinformation and malicious disinformation, Axios’ Eileen Drage O’Reilly writes.
- Why it matters: The bad information is undermining trust in governments, global health organizations, nonprofits and scientists — the very institutions organizing the global response to what may be turning into a pandemic.
What’s new: This is one of the first times the public has been able to see an epidemic unfold in real time.
Three main actors are driving misinformation:
- People trying to inform friends and family without vetting the info.
- Entities aiming to harm China’s government.
- “Longer-term actors in the disinformation space that find this an extremely useful vehicle … to undermine trust in governments, NGOs and fact-based media,” University of Washington professor Carl Bergstrom says. These include Russian and other trolls or bots that rile up anger and confusion.
Platforms’ response: Twitter and Facebook say they try to place authoritative information up top. But it’s still pretty easy to go down conspiracy rabbit holes.
Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the N.Y. Times reporters who helped ignite the #MeToo movement in 2017 with the first Harvey Weinstein exposé, write that his conviction for two felony sex crimes “delivered what many people declared a victory for the global movement against sexual misconduct.”
- “It’s a perfect test case of what happens when a culture begins to shift,” said Deborah Tuerkheimer, a law professor at Northwestern.
- “Weinstein’s more than 90 accusers … reacted to the verdict with relief, tears and gratitude that the law had spoken for them.”
Corps of women covered Weinstein trial … Much of what the world has seen and heard about Weinstein’s rape trial came from women journalists — the regulars at the Manhattan courthouse who would be there reporting regardless of whether a celebrity was involved, AP’s Mary Altaffer writes.
- They’ve put their natural journalistic competitiveness aside to go through their notes to ensure they’re accurately quoting testimony, despite the courtroom’s shoddy sound system and the constant wail of sirens outside.
- Keep reading.
President Trump said in New Delhi today “that India will buy $3 billion worth of military equipment, including attack helicopters, as the two countries deepen defense and commercial ties in an attempt to balance the weight of China in the region,” Reuters reports.
- Trump said India and the U.S. are making “tremendous progress” on a big trade deal.
- More than 100,000 people filled the world’s largest cricket stadium yesterday for a “Namaste Trump” rally.
Below, Trump offers floral respects at Raj Ghat, the Mahatma Gandhi memorial:
The backlash against Big Tech has flourished among pundits and policymakers, but a new survey suggests it’s beginning to show up in global popular opinion as well, Axios chief tech correspondent Ina Fried writes from S.F.
- New data from Edelman, the global communications firm, finds a global decline in trust in tech companies — plus a gap between how people feel about the industry as a whole and how they feel about cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence.
Edelman’s 2020 Trust Barometer, which surveyed 34,000+ people in 28 countries, found that tech is still one of the most trusted industry sectors.
- Far more people trust the tech industry broadly than AI specifically.
- Similarly, more trust the food-and-beverage industry overall than cell-cultured meats and gene editing.
Photo: Rodrigo Jana/AP
Eagle Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, lost “about 20 percent of the seasonal snow accumulation in the region” during a heat wave this month, the Washington Post’s Andrew Freedman reports.
- Why it matters: Temperatures on the peninsula, “one of the fastest-warming parts of the globe,” topped 69 degrees on Feb. 9, “which if verified would be the ice-covered continent’s hottest temperature on record.”
⛽ JPMorgan Chase said yesterday that it won’t directly finance new oil and gas development in the Arctic and will significantly curtail its financing of the extraction and burning of coal, writes Axios’ Amy Harder.
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
Drug overdoses kill tens of thousands of Americans a year, but addiction treatment is often inaccessible, Axios’ Caitlin Owens writes.
- Only 15% of patients in residential drug treatment centers received medication-assisted treatment in 2015, although it’s widely agreed that anti-addiction medicines are the most effective treatment for opioid abuse.
- Fraud has also been a problem. For example, in Florida, “sober homes” for people in recovery have been caught scamming insurance companies time and again.
- Insurance companies are required to cover mental health on par with their physical health coverage, but have often ignored those rules. That can result in families paying huge out-of-pocket costs for treatment, or people suffering from addiction simply going untreated.
The bottom line: Providers, insurers and regulators all need to do a lot more if we’re going to have a functioning addiction treatment system.
Netflix, always tight-lipped about the popularity of its shows, is taking a step toward transparency with country-by-country top 10 lists, Bloomberg reports.
- Netflix announced: “In addition to the overall top 10 list, you’ll also be able to see the top 10 most popular series and top 10 films when you click on the movies and TV shows tabs.”
For two decades, Kobe Bryant owned the Staples Center court with courage under pressure. For 20 minutes Monday morning, Vanessa Bryant did the same.
— L.A. Times sports columnist Bill PlaschkeKeep reading.
- Watch: Kobe and Gianna Bryant eulogized by Vanessa Bryant and Michael Jordan.
Megan Dority poses for a photo with the so-called Leaning Tower of Dallas yesterday as a crew works to topple the 11-story building, which found a second life online after surviving a demolition attempt.
- The building was compared to Italy’s Leaning Tower of Pisa after a Feb. 16 implosion failed to bring down its core. Some explosives didn’t go off. (AP)
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Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories
- Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of sexual assault and rape, although he was acquitted of the charges of predatory sexual assault that would have potentially landed him a life sentence.
- Markets plunged on Monday amid fears of the long-term impacts of the coronavirus outbreak, which has slowed China’s economy to a crawl and sparked worries of market doldrums around the world.
- The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Philadelphia case that may determine whether faith-based adoption agencies can be excluded from public social services if they refuse to place children with same-sex couples.
- Yet another Democratic debate takes place tonight in South Carolina. Mike Bloomberg will be there—as will Tom Steyer, who was absent in Nevada.
Coronavirus Gets the White House’s Attention
“Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” President Trump tweeted 42 minutes after markets closed on the worst day of trading in two years.
“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” he added, just hours before his administration formally asked Congress for $1.8 billion in emergency funding to combat the pathogen’s spread.
The two are not unrelated. The Dow dropped just over 3.5 percent on Monday as the reality of COVID-19—the virus that causes flu-like symptoms—began to fully settle in. There are now more than 80,000 confirmed cases of the virus worldwide—about 78,000 of them in China—and 2,700 people have died after contracting it.
What Does Bernie Sanders Stand For?
In the wake of the Nevada caucuses, it’s beginning to dawn on the Bernie-skeptical wing of the Democratic party that his message is the one that’s resonating with their primary voters. So, we’re now embarking on a new stage of the primary: where candidates shift subtly from arguing in favor of themselves to arguing that Sanders can’t beat Trump.
The basic line from (comparatively) centrist Dems, not to mention gloating Republicans, is simple: Bernie is a socialist, and a socialist can’t win an Electoral College majority in America. In general, capitalism remains far more popular than socialism in the U.S.: 60 percent of Americans view capitalism favorably, compared to only 39 percent for socialism, according to the latest Gallup poll. To nominate Sanders, many Democrats fear, would play right into the hands of President Trump, whose bid for re-election hinges on trumpeting the prosperity that has taken place under his watch and asking whether America really wants to elect a president who intends to burn the system down.
Worth Your Time
- Two years after a deluge of allegations against him helped spark the #MeToo movement, Harvey Weinstein was convicted of sexual assault and rape. It’s worth looking back now on the single piece of reporting that, more than any other, brought down the Weinstein empire: Ronan Farrow’s harrowing New Yorker feature that published the stories of 13 of Weinstein’s accusers. Give it a read again and marvel at how much the world has changed since then.
- This piece is one of the wilder things we’ve linked to in this space, but it’s every inch as worth your time as anything else we’ve shared. It’s former NBA star Ben Gordon’s story, told in his own words, of how retirement from the league—and the loss of structure and pressure and direction it had given him—almost cost him his life, and how therapy helped him find his way back to himself. It’s a completely enthralling read, coming to you from The Players’ Tribune. (The piece contains some NSFW language.)
- Katherine Johnson was an unassuming titan behind the Apollo program—one of NASA’s brain trust of math whizzes who crunched the numbers that made America’s improbable moonshot possible. Her life was immortalized in the 2017 movie Hidden Figures. Johnson died on Monday, age 101; read her obituary in the New York Times here. “They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them,” Margalit Fox begins.
- The Staples Center in Los Angeles played home to a public memorial for Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna yesterday. It was a star-studded event—as you might expect—but Michael Jordan shone the brightest. His eulogy is well worth your time.
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Toeing the Company Line
- Enough about the race for the White House. What’s going on in the Senate? Sarah looks at whether the Democrats could take control, pointing to races in North Carolina, Georgia, and Kansas that feature vulnerable Republicans.
- Jeryl Biers wonders why a letter Bernie Sanders sent to a constituent in 1985 hasn’t gotten more attention. The constituent was unhappy that Sanders had praised the Ortega regime in Nicaragua and designated Puerto Cabezas as a sister city. Sanders doubled down, calling Ortega’s human rights abuses, a “temporary suspension of certain civil liberties,” and compared it to the U.S. government disallowing American Nazis to “advocate the murder of American soldiers” during World War II.
Reporting by Declan Garvey (@declanpgarvey), Andrew Egger (@EggerDC), Sarah Isgur (@whignewtons), and Steve Hayes (@stephenfhayes).
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