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| Good morning from Washington, 115 miles northeast of Charlottesville, Virginia, where city officials debate whether a 100-year-old statue of a famous Native American depicts her appropriately. Fred Lucas explores the story. Speaking of which, Jarrett Stepman joins the podcast to talk about his new book “The War on History.” Plus: Nicole Russell on what’s wrong with gender-neutral dolls, Kevin Daley on three federal court rulings against Trump’s enforcement of immigration law, and Walter Williams on the scourge of victimhood. One hundred years ago today, President Woodrow Wilson suffers a near-fatal stroke after cutting short a national tour promoting the League of Nations. |
| News Charlottesville to Hear From Native Americans in Dispute Over Statue of Sacagawea How the celebrated Native American scout is depicted in a statue that has stood for 100 years creates yet another stir in the hometown of Thomas Jefferson. More Analysis How the War on History Is Rewriting America’s Past “They saw it as an imperative for them not just to win the arguments and debates with those who they disagree with, but to simply wipe them out and destroy,” says Jarrett Stepman, author of “The War on History.” More News 3 Obama Judges Deliver String of Losses to Trump Agenda on Illegal Immigration In one day, three federal judges appointed by President Barack Obama rule against President Donald Trump’s initiatives to stem illegal immigration, dealing blows to the administration’s effort to resolve the border crisis. More Commentary No, Mattel: Kids Don’t Want Your Gender-Neutral Dolls The toy company cites new “research” finding that kids “don’t want their toys dictated by gender norms.” More News Trump Jilts Google in Copyright Dispute at Supreme Court The Trump administration urges the Supreme Court to stay out of a long-running copyright dispute between Google and Oracle Corp., dealing a considerable blow to the tech giant’s efforts to avoid a damages award in the billions. More Commentary The Victim Trap That Keeps People Down Black politicians, civil rights leaders, and white liberals have peddled victimhood to black people, teaching them that racism is pervasive and no amount of individual effort can overcome racist barriers. More | ||
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| Sign up for this newsletter Read online The morning’s most important stories, curated by Post editors. (Jabin Botsford/The Post) ‘A presidency of one’: Key federal agencies increasingly compelled to benefit Trump The president’s personal concerns have become priorities of departments that traditionally have operated with some degree of political independence from the White House — and their leaders are engaging their boss’s obsessions. By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa ● Read more » Impeachment inquiry erupts into battle between executive, legislative branches As the scope broadened, congressional Democrats and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traded threats and President Trump questioned whether a leader of the probe should be arrested. By Karen DeYoung, Josh Dawsey, Karoun Demirjian and John Hudson ● Read more » Johnson & Johnson reaches $20.4 million settlement in huge opioid case The health-care giant would pay two Ohio counties $10 million, reimburse $5 million in legal fees and direct $5.4 million to nonprofits for opioid-related programs. By Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz and Lenny Bernstein ● Read more » Acting DHS chief isolated — even as he delivers what Trump wants at the border In an era of polarized immigration politics, Kevin McAleenan navigates the lonely center as he runs the Department of Homeland Security in an acting role, with no nomination in sight. EXCLUSIVE ● By Nick Miroff ● Read more » Farm-state fury creates pressure for Trump as trade, energy pain collide The trade war has cost farmers potential Chinese orders for ethanol as well as for a byproduct that is used as animal feed. Now, oil refinery exemptions are compounding the financial pain — and threatening political consequences for the president. By David Lynch ● Read more » ADVERTISEMENT Opinions A missing voice, a growing chorus By Global Opinions Staff ● Read more » Let the world hear Jamal Khashoggi’s last words in Arabic By Karen Attiah ● Read more » Trump betrayed U.S. moral leadership. So Congress was forced to act. By Robert Menendez ● Read more » More News ADVERTISEMENT Biden gun plan calls for new assault weapons ban, voluntary buyback program The former vice president has touted past victories over the National Rifle Association, but his current plan stops short of steps advocated by gun control groups. Campaign 2020 ● By Matt Viser and Felicia Sonmez ● Read more » Netanyahu indictment could follow as Israel begins hearing to review corruption case The Israeli attorney general is expected to pursue a prosecution of the prime minister on allegations of fraud, bribery and breach of trust. By Steve Hendrix ● Read more » Jamal Khashoggi is dead, but his political vision lives on The Saudi dissident was killed after entering his nation’s consulate in Istanbul a year ago. His quest for political freedoms and reforms, though, has not ended. Today’s WorldView | Analysis ● By Ishaan Tharoor ● Read more » Prince Harry and Meghan sue British tabloid for publishing private letter In a statement referencing his late mother, Princess Diana, Harry said: “Now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces” of tabloid media. By Karla Adam ● Read more » Nationals storm back to defeat the Brewers, set up showdown with the Dodgers Washington’s season rebound — from an abysmal 19-31 start to Tuesday’s home playoff game — took another step forward with the victory. By Jesse Dougherty and Scott Allen ● Read more » We think you’ll like this newsletter Check out By The Way for tips and guides that will help you travel better and make you feel like a local wherever you go. Delivered every Thursday. Sign up » |
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Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day. At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day. You can listen live here. More Dirt is Coming I know Democrats are livid at me for saying so, but this is absolutely coordinated. That doesn’t mean there isn’t stuff that could bring down the President, but the drip, drip, drip is not coincidental. First the rumors of the call, then the transcript and rumors of the whistleblower, then the focus on the secure […] The post More Dirt is Coming appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Georgia GOP Voters Reject GOP House Speaker in Big Election Upset Are Republicans in Georgia paying attention? This is a huge political upset. In Georgia House District 71, voters went to the polls yesterday in a special election to replace former State Representative David Stover. The front runner was the daughter of the popular former Congressmen. She herself was a great retail politician and was well […] The post Georgia GOP Voters Reject GOP House Speaker in Big Election Upset appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Former Senator Flake wants Trump impeached In a Washington Post op-ed, Flake argues Republicans shouldn’t support a Trump re-election bid, and that Trump should be impeached. I think we all regrettably remember former Arizona Senate “Republican” Jeff Flake and his bold conservatism. Flake retired from the Senate last year but that hasn’t kept him from continuing to criticize the current administration, […] The post Former Senator Flake wants Trump impeached appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » NSSF: The Firearms Trade Association Promoting True Gun Safety Up on my podcast District of Conservation today, I spoke with Mark Oliva—the Director of Public Relations of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). NSSF is the firearms trade association often confused for the NRA, Gun Owners Association, or similar advocacy groups. While the organization strongly believes in the Second Amendment, it’s not an advocacy […] The post NSSF: The Firearms Trade Association Promoting True Gun Safety appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The Chicken, The Egg, And The Intelligence Community President Trump and the intelligence community have engaged in a vicious cycle of suspicion and paranoia. The post The Chicken, The Egg, And The Intelligence Community appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Hold Your Horses: No Need to Have Beef with Red Meat Per a new peer-reviewed study, scientists found that cutting back on red meat consumption wouldn’t have a huge impact on one’s health. A study jointly released by McMaster and Dalhousie universities, out in Science Daily yesterday, found that international scientists have “systematically reviewed the evidence” and “have recommended that most adults should continue to eat their […] The post Hold Your Horses: No Need to Have Beef with Red Meat appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » How the Ukraine Scandal Could Put Elizabeth Warren In the White House If Elizabeth Warren becomes president, Donald Trump’s decision to ask Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden will have played a pivotal role. The post How the Ukraine Scandal Could Put Elizabeth Warren In the White House appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Mr. President, Your Tweets Suck On the day when Chinese security shot an 18-year-old man in Hong Kong, with live ammunition, who was protesting for democracy, President Trump was greasing up his flattering pole for President Xi Jinping. Trump tweeted a congratulations on 70 years of crushing China’s citizens under the boot of Communism. This is grotesque. Does anyone need […] The post Mr. President, Your Tweets Suck appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » LIVE: The Erick Erickson Show – Coordination, Australia, and More Bad News For Biden Thanks for joining us! Here’s the plan for today: Hour 1 Coordination Benghazi Drip, Drip, Drip Australia Complaint Doesn’t mean won’t find impeachable material Christian School in VA Hunter Biden The China Problem The ongoing Democrat denial Weariness of Biden Grows Elizabeth Warren going up in polls Going to come into spotlight Will have media […] The post LIVE: The Erick Erickson Show – Coordination, Australia, and More Bad News For Biden appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Democrats Leftward Drift Is Going to Bite Them This is not going to turn out well for Democrats. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren endorsed a Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) policy proposal that includes taxpayer-funded welfare benefits for illegal immigrants. Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal, dubbed “A Just Society,” calls for nationwide rent control and bans the federal government from denying welfare benefits based on an […] The post Democrats Leftward Drift Is Going to Bite Them appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Recent Items: Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences |
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Impeachment Inquiry Continues “Democrats on Monday subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer who was at the heart of Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden’s family.” AP News See our prior coverage of impeachment here. The Flip Side From the Left The left supports impeachment, but is divided as to whether it should be narrowly focused on Ukraine or involve broader misconduct by Trump. Many argue that “a key to winning any trial is to tell the simple story and force the other side to tell a more complicated one… The news Monday afternoon that Trump asked the Australian prime minister for help with the Justice Department’s review of the origins of the Russia investigation, and that Attorney General William Barr traveled overseas to ask foreign leaders for similar aid, will undoubtedly lead to discussion of widening the impeachment inquiry. That would be unwise, because those episodes are problematic for different reasons than the Ukraine episode… “The question House Democrats should aim to answer is whether Trump’s actions |
[with Ukraine]
are a type of abuse of power that our nation’s founders
intended to address via impeachment. While it is self-evident that
Trump’s scheme is highly problematic, Democrats’ impeachment inquiry
will fail unless they can convince the public that it warrants removal
from office. Moving forward, Democrats need to make that case to the
American people without letting distractions or roadblocks created by
Trump and his team distract them or pull them off course.”
Renato Mariotti, Politico
“All
of the defects Trump’s critics see in the president’s character — his
venal transactionalism, his mob-esque worldview, his lack of concern for
the national interest, his own pseudo-authoritarian instincts — are on
display in the Ukraine call, and it paints a damning indictment of a man
unfit for the country’s highest office… despite the new developments… the scandal remains straightforward.”
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Others,
however, argue that “To limit the impeachment process to the most
blatant presidential misdeed yet discovered would leave in the dust — unresolved for history, setting dangerous precedents
— the possibility of holding accountable a president who routinely
enriches himself at the expense of the taxpayers and flouts the
Constitution’s emoluments clause, lies so persistently that we’re far
from the democratic concept of transparent government, usurps the role
of Congress by unilaterally holding up funds or using them for other
purposes than it has approved, bullies private businesses by threatening
a tax increase or a significant raise in postal rates…
“For
months this year we were told that ‘the public isn’t interested.’ This
assumption doesn’t allow for new developments or for individuals to see
things in a different light. Within three days in the past tumultuous
week, public opinion as measured in a Morning Consult poll [went up by
seven points] in favor of an impeachment process… If the articles of
impeachment are carefully and thoughtfully drawn, if they indicate the
comprehensiveness of Mr. Trump’s disregard for the Constitution, it
would be unwise to rule out anything.”
Elizabeth Drew, New York Times
Regarding the White House’s efforts to limit the inquiry, it’s worth noting that “The term executive
privilege, meaning the privilege to shield certain testimony and
documents from disclosure to courts or congressional investigators, did
not come into use until the Eisenhower administration; Richard Nixon was
the first and so far only president to assert such a privilege against a
formal impeachment inquiry. That attempt, as we all know, ended badly
in 1974… The Trump administration will likely continue fighting to
preserve its privileges, real and imagined… If [Congress] needs
testimony or documents, it should go to the high court immediately to enforce its demands.”
Garrett Epps, The Atlantic
“[Pompeo]
is casting Democrats’ request to talk to the people with potential
knowledge of the Ukraine allegations as bullying. That fits neatly with
Trump’s assessment that the entire impeachment inquiry is designed to
target him. It also fits in Trump’s broader plan to blow off Congress at
every opportunity. The U.S. attorney general, Trump’s former White
House counsel and now the secretary of state are among the top officials
who have refused to talk to Congress, even when subpoenaed. This isn’t
normal, and that’s to Congress’s detriment… The checks and balances are
set up to work if both sides respect the governing norms. The founders
just didn’t put tools in the Constitution for this… We know of one tool Congress still has, and it’s pretty blunt: inherent contempt…
“The
fact that a centuries-old, somewhat crude enforcement tool is even being
considered at the highest levels of Congress in 2019 underscores just
how much the Trump administration’s disregard for the democratic process
has kneecapped Congress’s ability to do anything to oversee the
executive branch. They’re out of options except to create their own jail
of sorts… And it’s safe to say Pompeo knows it.”
Amber Phillips, Washington Post
“In
his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, what reason would
Trump have for raising a discredited fever swamp conspiracy theory about
Crowdstrike and the DNC server being stashed somewhere in Ukraine
unless he actually believed this [to] be true and worth pursuing? He had
every reason to think this was a private call; he wasn’t shaping public
opinion, rallying his base, tossing a new shiny object in front of
reporters to chase…
“It is not just President Trump’s lying that has set a whole new precedent. The ‘truths’ he tells frighten me more.
These are the things he clearly believes to be true despite all
evidence to the contrary, whether it is who actually pays the price for
tariffs, or whether a given public servant deserves to be prosecuted for
treason… What Donald Trump ‘knows’ derives from the seamy worlds of
real estate, casinos and reality TV, and it is his infected worldview,
paired with his distant acquaintance with actual truth, that is now the
most frightening characteristic of this presidency.”
Nancy Gibbs, Time
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From the Right
The
right is opposed to impeachment, arguing that Trump’s actions do not
merit removal and that it would be unnecessarily divisive.
“Democrats
have had an impeachment itch that they’ve been desperate to scratch
ever since Donald Trump took office. For them, Ukraine is equal parts a
genuine outrage and an excuse, the release valve for nearly three years of fear and loathing… “Presidential-level diplomacy always involves horse-trading, and this, surely, is not the first time a president has prodded an ally to do him a favor in his political interest. The risk of Trump’s heavy-handed request — an aid package to Ukraine was being held up at the time — was that the Ukrainians would have felt compelled to manufacture damaging information on the Bidens. That didn’t happen, and the aid, thanks to congressional pressure, was released in short order… “Ukraine lacks the hallmarks of other presidential scandals. There’s been no cover-up. Trying to keep a transcript of a presidential call from leaking in the absence of any congressional or criminal investigation doesn’t qualify. And once the controversy became public, the White House rapidly released key documents. Nor is there any violation of law. Trump’s ask of Zelenskiy wasn’t extortion or a campaign-finance violation under any rational interpretation of our statutes. If it was, practically every president in our history would have had criminal exposure.” Rich Lowry, National Review “Now that House Democrats might — might! — finally have sufficient predicate to pursue impeachment, Pelosi faces another challenge: to convince the American people that this iteration of Trump hysteria is the genuine article… “Both Pelosi and the American electorate know that even if this Ukrainian phone call serves as an adequate predicate to impeach a duly elected president, that impeachment — whether it’s because Trump is a boor, because he’s trying to ‘take away health care,’ because he’s a serial philanderer, because he allegedly slept with a porn star, because he has a ‘mental illness,’ because he lost the popular vote, because he is ignorant on most matters of domestic and foreign affairs, whatever — has been the stated goal of much of Pelosi’s caucus from the day Trump was elected… Perhaps the seventh time will be the charm.” John Hirschauer, National Review Many argue that “While Trump’s conduct towards the Ukrainian President was unbecoming and evinces poor judgment, Democrats should not be so quick to make this an excuse for reversing an election. It’s quite simple: Trump was legitimately elected. Absent damning evidence of clear wrongdoing, his impeachment will inherently undercut our democracy. It will put the whims of politicians before the lawful choice of voters… “To impeach Trump now would be to tell those who voted for him that their popular choice no longer matters. It’s a grave action — an act of last resort. Democrats should remember that impeachment isn’t, ultimately, a legal act. Instead, to adapt from Clausewitz, it is the continuation of politics by other means. And in America, political power belongs to the people. Wherever compatible with the nation’s interests, impeachment should be avoided in favor of elections. And there just happens to be one coming up next fall.” Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner “If the situation were reversed, and if a corrupt Republican ex-vice president were running for president, no Democrat would ever hesitate to ask every foreign government in the world for help in investigating that person. Nor do Democrats hesitate to ask for foreign help in investigating sitting Republican presidents. The 2018 letter to Ukraine (!) by Senate Democrats asking for an investigation of Trump is illustrative… This is not about substance. This is about Pelosi losing control of her caucus should she continue to resist impeachment, and Pelosi sensing a looming electoral disaster of monumental proportions should impeachment be launched outside the parameters she defines.” George S. Bardmesser, The Federalist Some argue that Trump’s “best response is to dismiss this attempt to delegitimize his presidency and go on governing. That means understanding that the real referendum on Trump’s tenure in the White House comes next year at the ballot box… Trump can still counterpunch the Democrats on impeachment. But he should also start thinking of winning over the suburban moms who can preserve the Electoral College majority that sent his opponents into a delusional funk… Expanding background checks and red-flag laws are no guarantee against more mass shootings. But they will close some loopholes that might keep a few guns out of the wrong hands and do so in a manner that will be no threat to Second Amendment rights or Trump’s popularity among GOPers.” Jonathan S. Tobin, New York Post “Trump’s presidency was bound to put America’s institutions under a stress test. The intelligence community, the bureaucracy, Congress, the courts, and the media were going to be tempted by this man who didn’t follow the standard rules of politics. Would these institutions respond by doing their jobs, or would they respond by breaking norms?… “Unfortunately, many supposed guardians of our democracy responded to Trump’s election by smashing norms themselves. Sally Yates, acting as attorney general, flatly refused to enforce the law because merely she thought it unwise and unjust. James Comey, the FBI director, appears to have laid subtle threats and traps for the president. Many of our colleagues in the press utterly abandoned their sobriety when faced with Trump. And then some in the intelligence community took to using their access to the president’s phone calls as a way to leak information that simply made him look bad… Our politics has come to feature a vicious circle of ever-escalating norm-breaking.” Editorial Board, Washington Examiner |
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A Libertarian’s Take “Democrats, you should impeach only if you genuinely want to remove the president from office, not just to position yourselves for 2020. And because you’ll need 20 Republican senators to accomplish that, you should make it as easy as possible for conservatives to join the effort. Don’t shower invective on conservatives; if anyone must be denounced, let it be Trump and Trump alone. Greet each new convert to Team Impeachment with a warm ‘Welcome, brothers and sisters!’ rather than a grudging ‘What took you so long?’… “You should do these things because if Trump is truly an existential threat to the nation, your sole priority should be his expeditious removal. Also because it’s hard to slam partisan Republicans for cravenly supporting Trump if you yourself remain more interested in your prior political goals, and lingering grievances, than building a coalition to get him out. But mostly you should do these things because a victory gained without Republican support is likely to be hollow, and certain to be bad for the country.” Megan McArdle, Washington Post On the bright side… This Self-Driving Garbage Can Remembers to Take the Trash to the Curb For You. Gizmodo Our volunteer team spends hours each night scanning the news, fact-checking, and debating one another, so your 5 minutes each morning can be well spent. If you’ve found value in our work, we welcome you to help sustain our efforts and expand our reach. Any support you can provide is greatly appreciated! |
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POLITICO PLAYBOOK
POLITICO Playbook: What Republicans are saying privately about impeachment
By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN
10/02/2019 05:47 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
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SIREN … REPUBLICAN CONCERN RISING WITH TRUMP’S REACTION TO IMPEACHMENT …
ON TUESDAY NIGHT, a very seasoned and well-known GOP operative sent us this stunning note, underscoring GOP alarm with how the Trump administration is handling impeachment:
— “GOP lawmakers and operatives are concerned at what appears to be a lack of urgency from the Trump administration in forming an organized, unified response engine to the Democratic impeachment threat. There is either a failure to fully appreciate the gravity of the situation; or an inability to protect the president like they did his Supreme Court nominees with a centralized war room that has credibility with stakeholders across the party.
“Nobody wants to look like [Kevin] McCarthy did on ‘60 Minutes’ and right now they’ll duck and cover until they’re on firmer footing. The Trump administration has blazed their own communications path up to this point, but there is deep skepticism that the late-night Fox lineup will have any credibility with rank-and-file Republicans that are necessary to prosecute this argument against House Democrats.
“The case needs to be made that today’s Democratic Party and their allies in the media have planned this since Election Day 2016 and they would be moving to impeach any Republican president under any circumstances. A hesitation to confront this threat with full force is forever waving a white flag. Unlike the Mueller probe, this is a political battle — not a legal one. They need rapid response and credible, respected Republican voices, and they needed both yesterday.”
EXAMPLES OF TWO TYPES OF REACTION THAT ALARM REPUBLICANS …
— THE PRESIDENT’S TWEET, around 7:40 p.m.: “As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the……..People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!”
— THE ATLANTIC’S ELAINA PLOTT (@efplott): “Rudy Giuliani says he is looking to sue The Swamp.” Rudy’s text message, saying he’s going to sue “the swamp” in federal court
NEW … POLITICO/MORNING CONSULT POLL: “Support for impeaching Trump hits new high,” by Steven Shepard: “A batch of recent polling confirms the Democratic impeachment push is gaining steam — including a new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey that shows for the first time that more voters support than oppose proceedings to remove Trump from office. The uptick is primarily among Democrats, as Republican voters surveyed continue to have Trump’s back.
“In the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, 46 percent of voters said Congress should begin impeachment proceedings vs. 43 percent who said they should not. Eleven percent had no opinion. That support represented a 3-point bump from last week, when voters were evenly split.” POLITICO
HAPPENING THIS A.M.: Speaker NANCY PELOSI will hold a press conference at 10:45 a.m., along with House Intel Chairman ADAM SCHIFF (D-Calif.). … HAPPENING THURSDAY: Kurt Volker will testify in front of House Intel, Foreign Affairs and Oversight. NBC
HMM … ABC: “State Dept inspector general requests ‘urgent’ Ukraine briefing on Capitol Hill,” by Conor Finnegan and Katherine Faulders:“The State Department’s inspector general is expected to give an ‘urgent’ briefing to staffers from several House and Senate committees on Wednesday afternoon about documents obtained from the department’s Office of the Legal Adviser related to the State Department and Ukraine, sources familiar with the planned briefing told ABC News.” ABC
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… TRUMP’S DHS SECRETARY POPS OFF — WAPO’S NICK MIROFF: “Acting homeland security chief frustrated and isolated — even as he delivers what Trump wants at the border”: “Nearly six months after taking over the Department of Homeland Security as acting secretary, Kevin McAleenan has guided the United States out of a crisis at the southern border, but he also says he has lost command of the public messaging from his department and lacks some of the authority he was promised when he took the job.
“Increasingly isolated within the administration and overshadowed by others who are more effusive in their praise for President Trump, McAleenan said he retains ‘operational’ control of DHS — mainly the ability to coordinate work at the border among U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and Citizenship and Immigration Services.
“But he acknowledged that he is losing the battle to keep DHS, which he views as a neutral law enforcement agency, from being used as a powerful tool for a partisan immigration agenda. ‘What I don’t have control over is the tone, the message, the public face and approach of the department in an increasingly polarized time,’ he said in an interview with The Washington Post. ‘That’s uncomfortable, as the accountable, senior figure.’” WaPo
… TEXAS INFIGHTING — TEXAS TRIBUNE: “Pete Sessions surfaces as potential candidate for open Bill Flores seat,” by Patrick Svitek and Abby Livingston: “Former Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions may be considering a comeback attempt — but not in his old Dallas-based district.
“Sessions, who lost reelection last year, has emerged as a potential candidate for the seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, R-Bryan. Flores has been meeting with potential candidates and sought feedback Tuesday from district activists on a potential Sessions run, according to an email obtained by The Texas Tribune Flores’ 17th District includes Waco and is about 80 miles south of Sessions’ old 32nd District. The 17th District is a much safer Republican district as well.
“‘A former Texas congressman and someone who I consider a friend (Pete Sessions), has been asked by some Republican donors to consider running in TX17 district,’ Flores wrote. The incumbent added that ‘while Pete has not called to ask for my thoughts,’ he wanted to get feedback on Sessions’ interest in the race.
“Flores emailed the Tribune on Tuesday night that the feedback ‘has not been positive.’ ‘Pete is a friend of mine, but I wish he’d called me first,’ he said. ‘I could have provided some valuable feedback to him.’ ‘The conservative leaders and community leaders in the district who are aware of Pete’s intentions have told me they would prefer someone who currently lives, works, and serves in our communities,’ he added. ‘They strongly believe that we have ample talent here to serve as their next congressman or congresswoman.’” Texas Tribune
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BIG PICTURE — WAPO’S PHIL RUCKER and BOB COSTA: “‘A presidency of one’: Key federal agencies increasingly compelled to benefit Trump”: “As the impeachment drama has unfolded over the past week, a series of disclosures has illuminated President Trump’s command over key federal agencies, revealing how he has compelled them to pursue his personal and political goals, investigate his enemies and lend legitimacy to his theories about the 2016 election.
“The Justice Department has prioritized a probe that the president hopes will discredit a finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help him win. As part of that effort, Attorney General William P. Barr has met overseas with foreign intelligence officials to enlist their aid in ‘investigating the investigators,’ as the right’s rallying cry goes, and dig into the president’s suspicions.
“The State Department, meanwhile, has been investigating the email records of as many as 130 current and former department officials who sent messages to the private email account of Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and Trump’s 2016 opponent. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defied Congress on Tuesday by attempting to block the depositions of five department employees called to testify in the impeachment inquiry.” WaPo
IMPEACHMENT CLIP PACKET …
— BACKSTORY … WSJ: “Tense Relationship Between Barr and Giuliani Complicates Trump Impeachment Defense”
— NYT’S CARL HULSE pens an “On Washington” piece: “Impeachment Rules Say Senate Must Act, but Its Act Might Be a Swift Dismissal”: “Senator Mitch McConnell’s comment this week that the Senate would be forced to ‘take up’ articles of impeachment from the House had the capital in a swirl, bracing for a full-blown Senate trial of President Trump. But as things now stand, any trial would likely be swift, ending in dismissal of the accusations.
“While the focus was on the statement by Mr. McConnell, the majority leader, that the Senate would have ‘no choice’ but to begin an impeachment proceeding, it was his next line that might have been more telling: ‘How long you are on it is a whole different matter.’
“The fusty rules of the Senate make clear that Republicans could not unilaterally stonewall articles of impeachment of Mr. Trump as they did the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick B. Garland. But Mr. McConnell’s declaration suggests the Republican-controlled Senate could move expeditiously to toss them out if Republicans conclude the House impeachment is meritless, or a strictly partisan affair.
“‘I don’t think they could just duck it,’ said Donald A. Ritchie, historian emeritus of the Senate. ‘It is a constitutional responsibility. When you look at the weight of history, I think they would feel they have to do something. They would have to decide how abbreviated they wanted to make it.’” NYT
PERRY GETS SOME ATTENTION … “Democrats turn eye to Rick Perry in Ukrainian probe,” by Anthony Adragna and Ben Lefebvre: “Democrats investigating a whistleblower’s allegations against President Donald Trump pressed Rick Perry on Tuesday for information about his May travels to Ukraine, opening a rare window into the energy secretary’s role as an emissary for some of the administration’s most sensitive international missions.
“Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey posed the questions in a letter to Perry as House Democrats push forward with their impeachment inquiry into whether Trump used a July 25 phone to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rival former Vice President Joe Biden. It comes as a widening array of administration officials face questions about their potential role in the affair, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr.” POLITICO
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— “Trump and RNC raised massive $125 million in third quarter,” by Maggie Severns and Alex Isenstadt: “President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee raised a combined $125 million over the last three months, Trump’s campaign announced Tuesday — a massive total highlighting Trump’s head start in the 2020 election while Democrats compete in a slow-moving, expensive primary.
“The two committees ended September with more than $156 million cash on hand, they announced. They did not disclose individual totals for the Trump campaign or the Republican National Committee, which will be reported later this month.” POLITICO
— CNN’S REBECCA BERG: “Cory Booker risked his presidential campaign on a 10-day fundraising push. Here’s how it played out”
TRUMP’S WEDNESDAY — The president will participate in the arrival of Finnish President Sauli Niinistö at noon. The two will meet followed by an expanded working lunch at 12:45 p.m. in the Cabinet Room. Trump will participate in a joint press conference at 2 p.m. in the East Room.
PLAYBOOK READS
ICYMI, SOMEHOW — “Shoot Them in the Legs, Trump Suggested: Inside His Border War,” by NYT’s Michael Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis: “Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.”
— TRUMP TO JARED: “All you care about is your friends in Mexico.”
DANIEL LIPPMAN and NATASHA BERTRAND: “White House ordered top-secret system upgraded to prevent leaks”: “The Trump White House upgraded the security of the National Security Council’s top-secret codeword system in the spring of 2018, according to two former Trump White House officials familiar with the matter, as part of an effort to ferret out and deter leaks.
“That highly classified system is being newly scrutinized in light of a whistleblower complaint alleging that national security officials used the system—meant for storing information classified at the highest level—to conceal politically embarrassing conversations, including a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25 in which President Donald Trump urged Zelensky to investigate his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.” POLITICO
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DEEP DIVE — “The story of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and how the world looked the other way,” by Evan Ratliff for Insider
FOR YOUR RADAR — “North Korea fires missile days before resuming U.S. talks,” by AP’s Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea: “North Korea fired a ballistic missile from the sea on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, a suggestion that it may have tested an underwater-launched missile for the first time in three years ahead of a resumption of nuclear talks with the United States this weekend.” AP
HONG KONG LATEST — “Anger Grows in Hong Kong Over Shooting of Teenage Protester,” by NYT’s Mike Ives and Elaine Yu: “The question now is whether the shooting will further incite a protest movement that was already seething with grievances, and which has been driven by young people who see the city’s pro-Beijing leaders as illegitimate.” NYT
ACROSS THE POND — “U.K. to set out ‘final offer’ Brexit plans,” by Charlie Cooper: “Boris Johnson will tell Conservative party conference his new proposal is a ‘fair and reasonable compromise.’” POLITICO Europe … London Playbook
WOWZA — “DeVos’ security detail cost $6.24M during the past year,” by Nicole Gaudiano and Caitlin Emma: “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ security detail is projected to cost $7.87 million from now through the end of September 2020, a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service told POLITICO today.
“The Marshals Service said the final cost of protecting DeVos in fiscal 2019, which ended Monday, was $6.24 million. That’s down from $6.79 million in fiscal 2018 and less than the service’s projection last year — $7.74 million — for fiscal 2019.” POLITICO
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MEGATREND — “The Seven-Year Auto Loan: America’s Middle Class Can’t Afford Its Cars,” by WSJ’s Ben Eisen and Adrienne Roberts: “Incomes have risen at a sluggish pace in the past decade, but car prices have grown rapidly. New technological and safety features, such as larger and more sophisticated multimedia displays, have made even the most basic cars more expensive. U.S. consumers have also veered toward pricier rides such as sport-utility vehicles that tend to dominate auto showrooms. The result is that consumers are seeking bigger loans than ever to purchase a car.
“A lending machine has revved up in response, making it possible for more Americans to procure a vehicle by spreading the debt over longer periods. Wall Street investors snap up these loans, which are bundled into bonds. Dealers now make more money on the loans their customers take than on the cars they sell.” WSJ
HILLARY SPEAKS … TO NOWTHISNEWS: “It’s a witch hunt, and it’s a real one, unlike the kind of things that Trump talks about … This is crazy, but it’s crazy like a fox, because, you know, if the Republicans and Trump and his supporters in the media can muddy the waters and raise all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories, then maybe people won’t pay attention to the danger he poses to our country.” NowThis … WaPo on the revived State Dept. probe of her emails
STAT DU JOUR: “Just over 6-in-10 Americans (62%) believe it is likely that Trump mentioned the possibility of an investigation into Biden during his call with Zelenskiy, while 15% say he probably did not do this and 23% are unsure. …
“Among all Republicans, though, just 40% believe that Trump mentioned the investigation during the call. This number goes up only to 50% among Republicans who have heard a lot about the call. Nearly 3-in-10 of all Republicans (29%) as well as the subset of Republicans who have heard a lot about the call (29%) say the investigation into Biden was probably not mentioned by Trump.” Monmouth poll
MEDIAWATCH — Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is suing Hearst Magazines and reporter Ryan Lizza (now at POLITICO) for this September 2018 Esquire story, “Devin Nunes’ Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret.”
Via the Fresno Bee: “The complaint filed in an Iowa federal court is Nunes’ fifth lawsuit this year. It’s the fourth in which he alleges that groups conspired to damage his chances at re-election last year, and his second complaint against a news organization. … The complaint does not contest any facts in Lizza’s story, and it is not clear what act Nunes considers to be unlawful.”
— QUOTE DU JOUR: Geraldo Rivera to Sean Hannity: “You know, if it wasn’t [for] your show, Sean, they would destroy him absolutely. You are the difference between Donald J. Trump and Richard Nixon.” Media Matters
— Dave Levinthal is now editor-at-large for The Center for Public Integrity. He previously was a federal politics editor and senior reporter.
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SPOTTED at Tuesday night’s Nationals game against the Milwaukee Brewers: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Don Baer, George Will, Parker Poling, David Gregory, Al Hunt, Jerry Seib, Luke Russert, Julius Genachowski, Richard Strauss, Paul Strauss, Paul Kane, Nu Wexler, Alex Moe Flowers, Jack Deschauer, Adam Connor, Scott Mulhauser, Reid Epstein, Jonathan Allen, Bob Davis, Peter Rubin, Nate Tamarin, Mona Mohib, John Scofield, Josh Alkin, Anna Weinstein, C.R. Wooters, Stacy Kerr and Matthew and Brendan Daly.
TRANSITIONS — Rob Chamberlin, Jeff Markey and Sam Whitehorn are launching Elevate Government Affairs. They previously were managing directors at Signal Group. … James Manning will be executive director of the Presidents Forum. He previously was at the Penn Hill Group and is an Education Department alum.
— “Robert Mueller Rejoins Law Firm to Conduct Corporate Investigations,” by NYT’s Noah Weiland: “On his first day back, Mr. Mueller had a somewhat simpler puzzle than determining whether a presidential campaign engaged in a sprawling criminal conspiracy with a foreign power.
“‘He’s just being refreshed on how to use the computers,’ [Robert T. Novick, a WilmerHale managing partner,] said. ‘If he’s doing any more than that, I’d be really impressed. I doubt it’s a highly revenue-generating day.’” NYT
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Lauren Belive, director of federal government relations at Lyft. What she’s been reading: “When the laptop finally closes and I take a break from emails, I like to read with my daughter, Zuzu. We are currently reading ‘Anne of Green Gables,’ one of my all-time favorite classics. It shows that a big imagination can change the world and help you see the true beauty in it.” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is 65 … Doug Andres, press secretary for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is 35 … Cathy Isaacson … Barry Bennett, CEO and partner at Avenue Strategies … Dave Walker, former comptroller general of the U.S. and head of the GAO, is 68 … Courtney Hazlett … Ed Cox is 73 … POLITICO’s Shannon Young and Thomas Zhang … Lindsey Mertz … John Donnelly, COS for Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) … Marlena Baldacci … Alex Fullman … Bloomberg’s Lisa Fleisher … NYT’s Lynsea Garrison … former Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Mich.), now VP at Winning Connections, is 58 (hat tip: Lindsay O’Keefe) … Mike Corbelle … Charles Savarin, president of Dominica … POLITICO Europe’s Eddy Wax …
… David Gura, anchor and correspondent for MSNBC and NBC News… AP auto writer Tom Krisher is 62 … Taylor Berlin, ANC 3D07 commissioner (h/t sister Carley) … Greg Scanlon … Ryan Stitzlein, deputy political director at NARAL (h/t Alex Floyd) … Danita Ng … Annie Keating … Wells Fargo’s Emerson Eichler … Joey Kalmin … NYPIRG leader Blair Horner … Edelman alum Kristen Van Dusen … Ken Bazinet … GOP fundraiser Mackenzie Smith … Deanna Ballard … Lauren Pfeifle Willis … Minhas Majeed Khan … Jacklin Rhoads, deputy comms director for Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) … Scott Hochberg … Andrew Weinstein is 5-0 … Annie Leibovitz is 7-0 … Julie Burton, Women’s Media Center president (h/t Jon Haber) … David Wilhelm is 63 … Eric Cuoto … Emmett Beliveau (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)
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| Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and House Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry into President Trump waged a war of words on Tuesday. Pompeo objected to demands from three House committees to State Department diplomats to give depositions this week. The secretary, who is traveling in Italy, wrote to House Democrats to say the demands were “an act of intimidation” and did not allow enough time for the department to prepare and for diplomats to get legal counsel. Pompeo tweeted that the department will officially respond to a subpoena on Friday. The committee chairmen shot back that Pompeo was intimidating the department’s employees “in order to protect himself and the president.” They added that blocking State employees from giving depositions to Congress would “constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry” (The Hill). “In response, Congress may infer from this obstruction that any withheld documents and testimony would reveal information that corroborates the whistle-blower complaint,” wrote Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). The back-and-forth was the latest sign that the administration and congressional Democrats will draw public relations battle lines over impeachment. Despite Pompeo’s suggestion that no one is prepared to appear, multiple former diplomats are expected to do so, headlined on Thursday by Kurt Volker, former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, who resigned his post last week after his name appeared in a whistleblower complaint sent to the intelligence community’s watchdog. The State Department’s inspector general has requested an “urgent” briefing this afternoon with staffers from House and Senate committees about documents obtained from the department’s Office of the Legal Adviser and involving Ukraine, according to ABC News. Volker’s appearance will take place behind closed doors and it is unknown whether a transcript of the deposition will be released to the public (The Washington Post). Meanwhile, as the State Department responds, Trump’s allies are growing increasingly uneasy about Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, and his role at the heart of the Ukraine controversy, Morgan Chalfant and Brett Samuels report. Giuliani’s involvement has implicated the State Department, frustrated former administration officials and GOP lawmakers, and placed the former New York mayor, the president and Attorney General William Barr in jeopardy. However, Giuliani, who now has his own lawyer, is defiant that his strategy is the right one. “If they don’t like my strategy, I really don’t give a damn. They didn’t like my strategy when I was defending him against [former special counsel Robert] Mueller,” Giuliani told The Hill in an interview. “When it’s over, the same thing will happen. If I go into the White House when this is over, they’ll clap for me like they did last time.” The Wall Street Journal: Tense relationship between Barr, Giuliani complicates Trump impeachment defense. The New York Times: Impeachment rules say Senate must act, but its act might be a swift dismissal. Elsewhere, Democrats are fuming at the president’s attempt to reveal and discredit the unidentified whistleblower at the heart of the impeachment probe. As Mike Lillis and Scott Wong report, Democrats, who are arranging to gain information or testimony from the intelligence official, say they will do everything possible to protect his or her identity. They have criticized Republicans and Trump, who publicly denigrates the whistleblower, arguing he wants to face his accusers. However, Democrats are joined by at least one high-profile Republican defender of whistleblowers: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Grassley defended the official who filed the complaint in August and said the government employee is covered by the Whistleblower Protection Act, regardless of whether the official’s information was firsthand. “This person appears to have followed the whistleblower protection laws and ought to be heard out and protected. We should always work to respect whistleblowers’ requests for confidentiality,” Grassley said in a statement. “No one should be making judgments or pronouncements without hearing from the whistleblower first and carefully following up on the facts.” When it comes to public opinion and the unknowns lurking ahead in the impeachment inquiry, the GOP is staring at multiple warning signs. As Niall Stanage writes in his latest memo: “President Trump is in new and dangerous territory this week, as some Republicans and administration veterans express unease about his actions, and polls show rising support for impeachment. Voices that are normally supportive of the president have fallen silent, partly out of fear that new revelations could be around the corner.” The Hill: Impeachment threatens to drown out everything. The Daily podcast, The New York Times: The impeachment dilemma for Republicans. |
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| CONGRESS: A two-week legislative break and Washington’s preoccupation with the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry put many policy debates on hold as the end of the year fast approaches. A pending bipartisan push in the House to pass specific gun proposals in the wake of mass shootings this summer lost momentum, especially after Trump expressed his misgivings and heard private warnings from Republicans that his endorsement of any restrictions on guns would cost the party next year. An analysis by The Hill found that a third of all House members represent districts where a mass shooting occurred this year, underscoring the geographic expanse of the killings and public awareness of the problem. About two-thirds of those shootings in 2019 took place in areas represented by Democrats. Many of those lawmakers represent cities ravaged by gun violence, while a third occurred in Republican-held districts, including suburbs and rural communities. Cannabis & Congress: A bill to give the financial sector legal cover to provide services to cannabis businesses may be the rare overhaul with a chance to clear Congress. An unusual coalition of financial sector lobbyists, progressives, federal government skeptics and law enforcement officials back a bill that could be headed to Trump’s desk (The Hill). |
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| POLITICS: Given the chance to show off its campaign strength, the president’s reelection team did just that on Tuesday evening by revealing an eye-popping $125 million raised in the third fundraising quarter, giving Trump as many resources as he likely needs for his reelection fight next year. The total is the joint amount raised by Trump’s 2020 reelection team and the Republican National Committee, with the sister operations sitting on $156 million in cash on hand combined — twice the amount held by former President Obama’s reelection team and the Democratic National Committee in the 2012 cycle (The Associated Press). The reelection team did not reveal how much each operation raised. The president’s fundraising efforts received a major boost last week after House Democrats formally launched their impeachment inquiry, having raised $8.5 million in the two days immediately following the announcement. On the Democratic side, four 2020 candidates wasted no time and announced their third quarter fundraising figures on Tuesday shortly after the end of the quarter. The Biden campaign, however, offered no early indication of donor support from July through September. The former vice president, who officially entered the race in late April, reported contributions of $22 million in the second quarter. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced their third-quarter hauls of $25.3 million and $19.1 million, respectively, before the sun rose on the East Coast on Tuesday. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who has seen her polling numbers fall substantially in recent months, continued to keep pace with her fundraising from the first six months, taking in $11.6 million between July and September as she figures out if she can climb back into the top tier of the nomination race. Politico reported on Monday that Harris’s team is shaking up the upper management of her campaign (The Hill). Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) was the only other 2020 candidate to release a third-quarter total, posting a $6 million haul, his highest total in any quarter, after he warned in recent weeks that his campaign would be in peril if he didn’t reach certain fundraising benchmarks. Despite being able to qualify for all of the debates, Booker has been unable to breakthrough in the 2020 race and remains mired in the low-single digits (The Hill). > Keeping the faith: In an exclusive interview with The Hill’s Reid Wilson, Buttigieg opened up regarding his continued discussion about faith on the campaign trail, which he sees as a key way to speak to voters who have leaned in the GOP’s direction for cycles consistently. Buttigieg, a practicing Episcopalian, says Democrats have a chance to win over religious voters who have formed the core of the Republican base in recent decades, if only his party would make the case to those voters that President Trump’s policies run counter to their own Christian faith. “What I see right now is a lot of religious voters who are looking for options, because what’s happening in Washington and especially in this White House is an affront to any number of religious traditions, including somewhat conservative ones,” Buttigieg said during a campaign swing through Nevada. “There’s just so many people in America who are sitting in the pews thinking, wait a minute, am I supposed to be on board with family separation, with policies that benefit the wealthiest only, with the behavior of a president like this one, and wondering who’s going to speak to them and let them know that they have a choice and that they are welcome in the coalition we’re trying to build,” he said. > Lewandowski a no-go?: Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for the president, indicated on Tuesday that he may not launch a Senate bid in New Hampshire after all, telling a local radio host that “it’s fair” to say he is reconsidering that option, citing the need to defend the president from impeachment and help secure his reelection. “As much as I think I would be a great fighter for the people of New Hampshire, and one U.S. senator can make a difference, it is my priority to make sure the president of United States is reelected,” Lewandowski said. “That’s a top priority” (Politico). The Texas Tribune: Pete Sessions expected to announce a run for open Bill Flores seat. > Trump’s obsession: There is no more potent political issue in Trump’s mind than stopping migrants from entering the United States. In a detailed article drawn from a new book by reporters with The New York Times, the president is described as agitating in March to take a harder line on legal and illegal immigration with orders to officials and senior staff to shut the entire U.S. southern border. Trump shouted, “You are making me look like an idiot!” adding a profanity. “I ran on this. It’s my issue.” The president also suggested shooting migrants in the legs, stocking water trenches with alligators and electrifying the border wall, according to the book to be released Tuesday. … In a related interview, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan tells The Washington Post he maintains “operational” leadership at the department, but “what I don’t have control over is the tone, the message, the public face and approach of the department in an increasingly polarized time.” He calls the situation “uncomfortable.” |
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© Getty Images **** INTERNATIONAL: Prime Minister Boris Johnson today plans to unveil his final Brexit offer to the European Union and make clear that if Brussels does not engage with the proposal, Britain will not negotiate and will depart on Oct. 31. With less than a month until Britain is due to leave the EU, the future of the country’s biggest trade and foreign policy shift in more than 40 years is uncertain. Britain could leave with a deal, without one or not exit at all (Reuters). According to The Telegraph, Johnson’s plan proposes to leave Northern Ireland in a special relationship with the EU until 2025 (Reuters).North Korea: Pyongyang and the Trump administration agreed to resume working-level nuclear negotiations on Friday and Saturday following months of jockeying over international economic sanctions still in place as well as North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs (The Associated Press). Trump and Kim Jong Un last met in June (Reuters). In advance of talks, North Korea today fired a ballistic missile, possibly from a submarine. If confirmed, it would be the most provocative test by North Korea since it started the talks with the United States in 2018 (Reuters and NKNews). The State Department called on North Korea to “refrain from provocations.” Hong Kong: Hong Kong office workers and high-school students turned out under a sweltering midday sun today to denounce a policeman for shooting and wounding a teenager on Tuesday during the most violent clashes in nearly four months of unrest (Reuters). During clashes, police shot a teenage protester in the chest at close range, leaving the 18-year-old in stable condition today and sending more than 70 other people to the hospital. Twenty-five police were wounded (The Associated Press and AFP). |
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| Donald Trump’s Fifth Avenue moment, by Maria Cardona, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2nA0jYb After 70 years, Chinese Communism threatens the world more than ever, by Joseph Bosco, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2nC9zLh |
| WHERE AND WHEN |
| Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), to delve deep into how Democrats can keep the House in 2020; Jimmy Dore, host of “The Jimmy Dore Show,” to talk about Sanders’s need to push his authenticity in the 2020 race; and Neri Zilber, journalist and adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, for the latest on the Israeli election. Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House anticipates its next roll call votes will take place on Oct. 15 at 6:30 p.m. The Senate convenes on Friday at 4:30 p.m. for a pro forma session. The president welcomes President Sauli Niinistö of Finland at noon for meetings, a working lunch and a joint news conference at 2 p.m. Vice President Pence is in Arizona today to headline a political fundraising reception for Republican Sen. Martha McSally in Phoenix at 6:30 p.m. Pompeo is traveling in Rome, where he will visit the Vatican with U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Callista Gingrich for a religious freedom event. Pompeo will also venture to the Abruzzo region, where his ancestors originated, to meet with local leaders, according to the department. His itinerary through Thursday also includes stops in Montenegro, North Macedonia and Greece. |
| ELSEWHERE |
| ➔ Higher education: Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian Americans in its admissions process, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit that reignited a national debate over affirmative action (The Associated Press). ➔ Opioid settlements: Johnson & Johnson late Tuesday announced a $20.4 million settlement involving two Ohio counties to resolve claims about the company’s role in creating the nation’s opioid crisis. The company would pay Cuyahoga and Summit counties $10 million, reimburse their legal fees, contribute to opioid recovery programs at non-profits and admit no liability (The Hill). ➔ Net neutrality: A federal appeals court on Tuesday let stand the repeal of net neutrality ordered by the Federal Communications Commission in 2017, but the court struck down a key provision that blocked states from implementing their own open internet rules (The Hill). ➔ MLB playoffs: The Major League Baseball playoffs kicked off last night on Tuesday night in grand fashion as the Washington Nationals pulled off a come-from-behind, 4-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Wild Card playoff. After the Nats struggled much of the night, Juan Soto came through in the 8th inning with a bases loaded hit that squirted by the right fielder, clearing the bases and handing Washington the game and a ticket to the National League Divisional Series. The playoffs continue on Wednesday night with the American League Wild Card playoff between the Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays. ➔ News Media: It’s been one year since the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a writer with The Washington Post who disappeared inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul (The Washington Post). PBS’s “Frontline” presented a new documentary, “The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,” on Tuesday (clip is HERE). Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, during a CBS News interview broadcast on Sunday, again denied he ordered Khashoggi’s murder. The writer’s remains have not been recovered. |
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| And finally … Jimmy Carter celebrated his 95th birthday quietly at home on Tuesday, setting the record for the longest-living former U.S. president while preparing with former first lady Rosalynn Carter, 92, to head to Nashville in a few days for their 35th annual participation in building homes with Habitat for Humanity. It’s now called the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project. The 39th president, who lives in Plains, Ga., recovered from a broken hip in May and survived treatment for melanoma in 2015. “There’s nothing more devastating to a human being than to have one life to live on this Earth and not be able to expend that life or use that life in a productive way to serve oneself, to serve one’s family, to serve one’s community, and, indeed, to serve one’s nation,” Carter said in 1980. |
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1 big thing: Michigan’s fragile economy could drive 2020
The UAW strike against GM is now in Week 3, and the longer it lasts, the worse Michigan’s fragile economy becomes — with huge potential consequences for the 2020 presidential race, Axios’ Joann Muller reports from Detroit.
- Why it matters: Michigan, which voted twice for President Obama then narrowly flipped to President Trump in 2016, will be a key battleground. A loss in Michigan would raise the stakes for Pennsylvania or Wisconsin.
- “If the strike goes on, the economic ripples will threaten Trump’s presidency,” says Anderson Economic Group CEO Patrick Anderson, who has been studying the effect of local pocketbook issues on national elections since 2004.
Where it stands: The GM strike is now 17 days old, and the pain is starting to spread across Michigan — home to about half the 46,000 striking auto workers — and beyond.
- Workers faced their first payday without a check last Friday, but $250 in weekly strike benefits kicked in this week.
- Employees at some supplier companies as well as GM plants in Canada and Mexico have been laid off due to parts shortages.
- GM is losing an estimated $25 million a day, and $113 million in profits to date.
2. “Urgent” impeachment briefing today for eight Hill committees
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The State Department’s inspector general will hold an “urgent” briefing “with senior congressional staff members in a secure location today, after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed back on House Democratic demands to turn over documents related to Ukraine,” CNN reports.
⚡ The president’s men …
- “In letters to Vice President Pence and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, demanded answers by Friday to questions about what they knew, when they knew it and their roles in Trump’s actions regarding Ukraine,” the WashPost reports.
3. Trump’s border ideas: Snakes, alligators, shoot ’em in the legs
President Trump speaks Monday in the Oval Office during the ceremonial swearing-in for Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia. Photo: Leah Millis/AP
President Trump has talked privately about fortifying the border “with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate,” the N.Y. Times’ Mike Shear and Julie Davis report in an adaptation of their book, “Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration,” out Tuesday:
He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.
“The president was frustrated and I think he took that moment to hit the reset button,” said Thomas D. Homan, who had served as Mr. Trump’s acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, recalling [a week this past March, when a fuming Trump ordered astonished advisers to shut down the entire 2,000-mile border with Mexico — by noon the next day]. “The president wanted it to be fixed quickly.”
4. How we really see success
We think society measures success by fame, but we feel parenthood is the top contributor to our own success, according to a Gallup/Populace survey of more than 5,000 Americans, reported here first by Axios’ Stef Kight.
- “Being famous,” the top answer for what respondents thought mattered to society, was the last answer for what individuals felt was important to achieve to be successful in their own lives.
5. Fearsome escalation in Hong Kong violence
Photo: Lampson Yip/Clicks Images/Getty Images
Above, a Chinese national flag lies torched in a Hong Kong street, while Beijing celebrated the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule with a military parade.
- An 18-year-old pro-democracy demonstrator was shot at close range in the chest by a Hong Kong riot officer, becoming the first known victim of police gunfire since the protests began in June. He was listed as stable. (AP)
Below, participants cheer beneath a massive portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping during a parade for the 70th anniversary of People’s Republic of China.
6. Maddow’s moment
Photograph by Christopher Griffith for The New York Times
Rachel Maddow’s persona expanded beyond the confines of her 9 p.m. ET hour on MSNBC, as she has become a hero of the #resistance, Amanda Hess writes in the forthcoming New York Times Magazine cover story:
Appealing to those viewers means flattering their sense of intellectualism. Maddow’s is the rare television news show that requires an active listener. It feels participatory. When Robert Mueller submitted his special-counsel report on the Russia investigation in March, she said that “our job tonight as a country” is “trying to figure out what it means.” After Mueller testified before Congress, she gestured at “the paths that we next follow to try to get to the bottom of this still-open scandal.” She lends her viewers a cozy sense of mastery over a political situation that feels unmanageable. If today’s dominant political recreational metaphor is that of the three-dimensional chess game, Maddow is hunched over in the corner of the rec room, methodically putting together a jigsaw puzzle.
Over the past three years, Maddow had used her hour on television to spin out Russiagate into its own extended universe, and a fandom assembled to step into that world every night. On her program, silent or inscrutable figures — Manafort, Mueller, Trump — were imbued with a kind of interiority. With the help of her storytelling, heavily redacted court documents read more like a novel narrated in the close third person. Ever-more-stunning revelations always seemed to be waiting just on the next page.
📚 Maddow is out this week with her second book, “Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth.”
7. “Middle East Is More Combustible Than Ever”
From Iran to Israel to Saudi Arabia, “the conditions for an all-out war in the Middle East are riper than at any time in recent memory,” writes International Crisis Group President and CEO Robert Malley in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs.
- The big picture: The sprawling network of alliances and grudges in the region allows any development to “trigger a region-wide chain reaction,” meaning that “narrowly containing a crisis is fast becoming an exercise in futility.”
8. MBS’ bet on getting away with murder
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One year ago today, journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He was then beaten, tortured, murdered, and dismembered.
Why it matters: For most of corporate America, nothing has really changed in the last year — despite initial promises and action, writes Axios’ Dan Primack.
- Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is once again hosting his prized “Davos in the Desert,” which saw a rush of cancellations last year, and he wouldn’t have risked a repeat embarrassment.
- Most big companies never stopped doing business with the Saudis. Or, in the case of Wall Street, trying to get Saudi business. That’s particularly true when it comes to deals like the upcoming Aramco IPO, which could be the largest global float of all time.
The bottom line: MBS bet that CEOs didn’t care enough. He was right.
9. Biden gun plan out today
Joe Biden is out today with an 11-page gun proposal that would be funded “by making sure the super wealthy and corporations pay their fair share,” a senior Biden campaign official tells Axios’ Alexi McCammond.
- His plan doesn’t call for a mandatory assault weapons buyback program, like Beto O’Rourke has proposed. Those who own such guns would have two choices: Sell the weapons to the government or register them under the National Firearms Act.
Go deeper: Read the full plan.
10. 1 sports shocker
Nike CEO Mark Parker and other top company officials allegedly received multiple briefings from banned running coach Alberto Salazar on his work to use performance-enhancing drugs on track and field athletes, reports the Wall Street Journal (subscription) in a sports-world shocker.
- The reports from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that contain the allegations “delivered respective four-year bans for Mr. Salazar and a Nike-sponsored doctor, Jeffrey S. Brown.”
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| View In Browser October 2, 2019 chicagotribune.com Daywatch 1.) Three Chicago labor groups, including CPS teachers, could walk off the job together in coming days as city braces for ‘extraordinarily disruptive moment’ WEDNESDAY, OCT 2 Employees for Chicago’s school and park districts delivered to City Hall on Tuesday notices of their intent to strike.“The city of Chicago could face three strikes … in the month of October,” said Dian Palmer, president of the Service Employees International Union Local 73, which represents the Chicago Park District employees and about 7,000 aides, custodians and security guards who work for CPS. Combined with the CTU members, that could position close to 35,000 public employees in Chicago on picket lines at the same time. CTU member turned Mayor Lori Lightfoot ally in ‘a weird position’ as union weighs strike 2.) Lightfoot tells Northwest Side alderman who opposed her hiring his predecessor to a $123,996-a-year job to worry about ‘what matters to his ward’ WEDNESDAY, OCT 2 Mayor Lori Lightfoot had a message for the new alderman who opposed her decision to hire the man he beat to a $123,996-per-year city job: Focus on your ward, because you don’t get a say in City Hall hiring decisions. Former Ald. John Arena started work this week as a senior adviser in the Department of Planning and Development. Lightfoot acknowledged Ald. James Gardiner, 45th, who defeated Arena in February, was not happy about it, but said that doesn’t matter. Also, told of Gardiner’s intention to stop The Point complex, a planned 10-story, 248-unit building at the Six Corners shopping district, Lightfoot replied, “I think Ald. Gardiner overstates his abilities.” Mayor Lightfoot wants to spend $2.7 million to convince Chicagoans to take part in the upcoming U.S. census by casting it as the “ultimate form of protest” against President Trump. 3.) Documents show feds were after evidence of bribery and theft from federally funded program in raid of state Sen. Martin Sandoval’s office WEDNESDAY, OCT 2 Federal agents who raided the state Capitol office of Sen. Martin Sandoval last week were looking for information related to concrete and construction businesses, lobbyists, and public officials, and “items related to any official action taken in exchange for a benefit,” according to documents released by the Illinois Senate. Agents seized computers, cellphones, hard drives, invoices and a spreadsheet from Sandoval’s campaign fund, according to a heavily redacted search warrant and related documents obtained by the Tribune. The documents reference 19 individuals. 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The video was shared by thousands of people — including the president. WEDNESDAY, OCT 2 It took a seemingly possessed beverage cart with a stuck accelerator hitting the runway at O’Hare to get President Donald Trump to tweet something positive about Chicago. A now-viral video shows a catering cart reversing wildly in backward loops that bring it ever-closer to an airplane parked nearby. About 25 seconds into the 33-second clip, a worker on another piece of machinery thrusts it between the runaway cart and the plane, staving off a potentially costly collision.The video had been viewed 15 million times, liked more than 200,000 times and shared another 51,000 or so by about 9 p.m. Tuesday. One of those shares came from Trump. 7.) Cubs roster outlook for 2020: Who will return and who will be gone? WEDNESDAY, OCT 2 The Cubs will have a new manager in 2020 after missing the playoffs for the first time in five seasons and parting ways with Joe Maddon. 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And So It Begins – Democrats and Republicans Shake Hands And Come Out Fighting
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Fox Business host Lou Dobbs took aim at Democrats over their
impeachment inquiry into President Trump, saying they were acting as an
“enemy of the state.” “They are absolutely willing to subvert the
president of the United States. They are lawless, they are reckless, and
then they want to pretend — Nancy Pelosi …
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Read on » The Dems’ Hate And Fear Of Trump Prove His Value To America By Dave King – If the Democrats simply despised and disliked President Trump for beating their gal in 2016, one could understand their thinking, because that’s exactly what patriotic conservatives did with the Obama administration for eight years, as he sought to “Fundamentally Transform America”. Conservatives learned to live with an Obama administration because … The Dems’ Hate And Fear Of Trump Prove His Value To America is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » President Donald Trump’s Schedule for Wednesday, October 2, 2019 By R. Mitchell – President Donald Trump will meet with and participate in a press conference with the President of Finland. Keep up with Trump on Our President’s Schedule Page. 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From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
FIRST READ: Here are five important stories the impeachment news has overshadowed
For nearly two weeks now, the Trump-Ukraine-impeachment story has sucked up all the political oxygen in Washington – and deservedly so.
But it’s also overshadowed news that would ordinarily get a lot more attention, and that could end up playing a role in next year’s election.
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Here are five of those stories just in the last 24 hours:
- New manufacturing data
showed that “U.S. factory activity contracted for a second consecutive
month,” representing “growing evidence of a global manufacturing
slowdown,”
the Wall Street Journal writes.
- Speaking in Wisconsin yesterday, Trump Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the small dairy farmer might not be able to survive in today’s economy: “In
America, the big get bigger and the small go out,” he said,
per the AP. “I don’t think in America we, for any small business, we have a guaranteed income or guaranteed profitability.”
- North Korea
fired a ballistic missile from the sea – ahead of resumed nuclear talks with the United States.
- New York Times reporters Michael Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis
detail that President Trump had talked to advisers about fortifying the U.S.-Mexico border with snakes, alligators and spikes. And he had even suggested that soldiers could shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down.
- And the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee announced they raised a combined $125 million in the third fundraising quarter, a staggering figure compared with the money that Democrats are raising (especially at the party level).
The divide within Trump’s administration
Speaking of that New York Times story on Trump’s border ideas – combined with Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan airing his frustrations to the Washington Post – we’re seeing a drip-drip of negative stories from inside his government that Trump should fear.
Remember, whistleblowers can be contagious.
And it sets up a divide inside the government – between those using their offices to benefit Trump (see Mike Pompeo and Bill Barr), and those who are speaking out, either publicly, to the press or to an inspector general.
Oh, and speaking of an inspector general, this story has piqued our interest…
The State Department’s Office of Inspector General has reached out to a group of congressional committees with what they describe as an “urgent request” to brief committee staff about documents related to the State Department and Ukraine, multiple congressional sources tell NBC’s Frank Thorp.
TWEET OF THE DAY: Confirming the call
Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and their 2013 trip to China
And be sure to read the piece by NBC’s Josh Lederman on when Joe and Hunter Biden went to China.
“In 2013, I was one of four reporters who traveled aboard Air Force Two with Biden and his son to China, a visit that was sandwiched between stops in Japan and South Korea.”
“What wasn’t known then was that as he accompanied his father to China, Hunter Biden was forming a Chinese private equity fund that associates said at the time was planning to raise big money, including from China. Hunter Biden has acknowledged meeting with Jonathan Li, a Chinese banker and his partner in the fund during the trip, although his spokesman says it was a social visit.”
More: “Seeking to expand his corruption accusations beyond Ukraine, Trump has accused Hunter Biden of using his trip on Air Force Two to procure $1.5 billion from China for his fund, calling it ‘a horrible thing.’ Despite Trump’s accusations, there have been no allegations of corruption or impropriety on the part of the former vice president.”
“Hunter
Biden’s spokesman, George Mesires, told NBC News that Hunter Biden
wasn’t initially an ‘owner’ of the company and has never gotten paid for
serving on the
board. He said Hunter Biden didn’t acquire an equity interest in the
fund until 2017, after his father had left office.”
2020 VISION:Sizing up the third-quarter money race
So far, four Democratic presidential campaigns have released their fundraising totals for the third fundraising quarter. Here are the numbers (compared with their fundraising in the second quarter):
- Sanders: $25.3 million (up from $18 million in the 2nd Q)
- Buttigieg: $19.1 million (down from $24.9 million)
- Harris: $11.6 million (down from $11.8 million)
- Booker: $6.0 million (up from $4.5 million)
Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images
On the campaign trail today: Ten candidates participate in the March for Our Lives/Gabby Giffords/MSNBC town hall in Las Vegas beginning at 1:00 pm ET. The speaking order – Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang and Kamala Harris… Tom Steyer remains in Iowa… And Tulsi Gabbard is in New Hampshire.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: Tom Steyer has focused his presidential run mainly on impeachment and climate change, but while discussing climate change with Iowa voters, he ran into a topic he wasn’t familiar with, per NBC’s Maura Barrett reports.
Barrett’s dispatch: “The standout was a question asking for Steyer’s thoughts ‘on the ethanol situation,’ referencing the waivers that are ‘turning it all upside down and the different ethanol plants that are closing now – ‘Steyer interrupted him to ask ‘What are the oil waivers? I’m not familiar. What exactly does that refer to?’”
More: “From your Iowa embed, where the ethanol waivers are a huge issue (and across the Midwest as refineries are closing), this was surprising. Nearly every candidate I’ve covered has addressed the waivers and has the understanding that the waivers are another speed bump for farmers looking for places to sell their crops, especially with the trade war, and following the excessive bad weather this season.”
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … 36 points.
36 points.
That’s the advantage Joe Biden has with Democratic African American voters in South Carolina, according to a new Winthrop University poll. Biden has the support of 46 percent of black voters in the state, while the next best performing candidate, Elizabeth Warren, has 10 percent.
While the support from black Democrats makes Biden the overall frontrunner in the state by double digits,
Warren is the leader among white Democrats.
Here’s the breakdown:
Among all Democratic registered voters
Biden 37%
Warren 17%
Sanders 8%
Harris 7%
Buttigieg 4%
Booker 3%
No one else gets more than 2%
Among African American Democratic voters
Biden 46%
Harris 10%
Warren 9%
Sanders 8%
Booker 4%
Buttigieg 0%
Among white Democratic registered voters
Warren 29%
Biden 22%
Buttigieg 10%
Sanders 7%
Harris 5%
THE LID: This could be the end…
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- A Libertarian and a Conservative walk into a bar and discuss social media censorship
- January 20, 1993 was the beginning of the end of America as we once knew it!
- Creeping dystopia: How NYC’s nanny state policies are testing a future Orwellian nightmare
- Bill Kristol’s Twitter poll gets red pilled just before finishing
- President Trump: ‘What is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP’
- Louisiana needs Governor Eddie Rispone
- As Flores races through courts, children are still being used as tickets for entry
- Actor Randy Quaid to run against Rep. Adam Schiff
- Glenn Beck: ‘We have to remember who we are’
| A Libertarian and a Conservative walk into a bar and discuss social media censorship Posted: 02 Oct 2019 12:29 AM PDT Okay, so it wasn’t a bar, it was John Stossel’s ReasonTV studio. But when he had conservative show host Glenn Beck on to discuss social media censorship, I’ll admit I expected some fireworks. What ended up happening was far more enjoyable as both agreed there’s a problem and government isn’t the solution. There we go. […] The post A Libertarian and a Conservative walk into a bar and discuss social media censorship appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| January 20, 1993 was the beginning of the end of America as we once knew it! Posted: 01 Oct 2019 10:46 PM PDT FROM GEORGE TO GEORGE Those who were around back then may remember this slogan when George HW Bush became our 41st president. Hopefully every school child still remembers that our first president was George Washington. The first 200 years of the American presidency was distinctly different from the last 30 years. We will never have […] The post January 20, 1993 was the beginning of the end of America as we once knew it! appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Creeping dystopia: How NYC’s nanny state policies are testing a future Orwellian nightmare Posted: 01 Oct 2019 10:19 PM PDT States are the laboratories of Democracy. That’s the standard federalist philosophy in which states should be allowed to test innovative solutions to problems for other states to copy, avoid, or change for their own needs. It’s what makes America’s form of government the most vibrant the world has ever known and is quickly being accepted […] The post Creeping dystopia: How NYC’s nanny state policies are testing a future Orwellian nightmare appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Bill Kristol’s Twitter poll gets red pilled just before finishing Posted: 01 Oct 2019 08:10 PM PDT When Republican outcast and NeverTrump activist Bill Kristol decided to do a Twitter poll, he did so with the hope that it would demonstrate the power of his following and that his followers were against President Trump. And it almost worked until Trump-supporters caught wind with around three hours left in the 24-hour poll. That’s […] The post Bill Kristol’s Twitter poll gets red pilled just before finishing appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| President Trump: ‘What is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP’ Posted: 01 Oct 2019 04:55 PM PDT When the President is right, he’s right. And as he continues to fight the Democrats and the Deep State for control of government, he’s faced with attacks on every front. Media. Our education system. Lobbyists. Foreign influence. Betrayal from within his own White House. It seems as if everyone who isn’t a Trump supporter is […] The post President Trump: ‘What is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Louisiana needs Governor Eddie Rispone Posted: 01 Oct 2019 04:28 PM PDT The standard reply from Republicans when considering whether to support Congressman Ralph Abraham or businessman Eddie Rispone for Louisiana governor is, “Yes.” Most don’t care who gets second place in the upcoming election as long as Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards doesn’t hit the magic 50% mark. As long as there’s no candidate with a […] The post Louisiana needs Governor Eddie Rispone appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| As Flores races through courts, children are still being used as tickets for entry Posted: 01 Oct 2019 03:44 PM PDT The Flores Agreement was intended to protect migrant children from long incarcerations at the border and to ensure their well-being while in custody. But in recent months, it has been used as a loophole by migrants to allow them to be released to the interior instead of waiting in detention for their asylum hearings. This […] The post As Flores races through courts, children are still being used as tickets for entry appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Actor Randy Quaid to run against Rep. Adam Schiff Posted: 01 Oct 2019 03:07 PM PDT Randy Quaid is crazy. Some say he’s crazy like a fox. Others say he’s just plain nuts. But however you feel about the actor is irrelevant to him. He does what he wants and has the videos to prove it. And as of today, he wants to remove Representative Adam Schiff from office. To do […] The post Actor Randy Quaid to run against Rep. Adam Schiff appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Glenn Beck: ‘We have to remember who we are’ Posted: 01 Oct 2019 02:36 PM PDT It’s easy to become disenfranchised with government. Their continuous attempts to insert their influence over the various aspects of our personal lives is discouraging. Then, as we see the insanity of socialism rising in popularity, people cheering as the nanny state exerts more control, and deliberate attempts by the media to tell us we’re incapable […] The post Glenn Beck: ‘We have to remember who we are’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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| 10/02/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Education Falls Short; Impeachment Politics; Marshall Law By Carl M. Cannon on Oct 02, 2019 08:50 am Good morning, it’s Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. Last night, the Washington Nationals (or the Washington “Internationals,” as Tom Boswell dubbed them) pulled off a win so thrilling that baseball fans in this area will be talking about it for years. On paper, the Nats are better than the Milwaukee Brewers, especially when the visiting team was without its best player. But baseball is funny that way: The best teams only win six out of 10 times they take the field, meaning that a one-game playoff is almost by definition a crap shoot. Down 3-1 in the 8th inning, the Nationals needed a few baserunners and a big hit — and they got them. The timely hit was the least surprising part of the sequence, coming as it did from a 20-year-old Dominican slugger hitting in the cleanup spot. That budding young star had, to that point, struck out twice and misplayed a ball in left field. Even this morning, the box score has him at one hit in four at-bats in his postseason career, for a modest .250 batting average. Which hardly tells the story. Fifty-two years ago today, a man with a much higher success rate was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice. Thurgood Marshall had been appointed by John F. Kennedy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1961. Four years later, Lyndon B. Johnson made him solicitor general. “Marshall is already in the front ranks of the great lawyers of this generation,” said LBJ. “He has argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court; he has won 29 of them. And that is a batting average of .900.” Later, Johnson nominated Marshall to the nation’s highest court. He was confirmed on Aug. 30, 1967 and sworn in on Oct. 2. I’ll have more on this justice, whom I’ve written about before in this space, in a moment. First, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * ** Poll: K-12 Education Falls Short, and Hope for Gains Lags. I report on the findings in a RealClear Opinion Research survey, which paint a discouraging picture of a topic receiving scant attention from 2020 presidential candidates. Five Observations on the Politics of Impeachment. Sean Trende has this assessment. Pelosi’s Sidestep on Impeachment Vote Cuts Both Ways. Susan Crabtree examines GOP complaints about the lack of a level legal playing field. Dems Have Been Impeaching President Trump Since Day One. Liz Harrington argues that the Ukraine uproar is only the latest iteration of efforts to undo the results of 2016. What Is the FISA Court and Why Are People Bashing It? In RealClearInvestigations, Tim Cavanaugh unpacks the opaque workings of the spy court — the focus of a highly anticipated Justice Department inspector general’s report. What the Saudi Attacks Tell Us About the Future of Conflict. In RealClearDefense, Eliot Pence discusses the impact of new technologies on asymmetrical warfare. Let Seniors Use Health Security Accounts to Buy Better Care. Peter Roff explains in RealClearHealth. Was the Parkland Shooting Avoidable? In RealClearBooks, Kate Hardiman reviews “When Meadow Died.” * * * By the time Thurgood Marshall took the oath of office as the first African American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, he was well-known in legal circles as an NAACP lawyer whose career had been dedicated to persuading the high court to start reversing a century’s worth of ill-considered jurisprudence that enabled the official edifices of racism and segregation. In other words, 52 years ago today Thurgood Marshall swore fealty to a Constitution he’d already been trying to shape and improve. This work, which would now continue with him on the bench, was no small task — as he knew better than most. “I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it,” he quipped. “I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.” Like every African American reformer of his generation, Thurgood Marshall drew on lessons from his personal experience. He was the son of a Baltimore railroad porter who later worked at a Maryland country club open only to whites. His mother was a schoolteacher at a segregated school. When Marshall graduated from college in 1930, he was denied access to the University of Maryland law school because of his race. He was accepted at Howard University’s law school — his mother pawned her wedding and engagement rings to help pay the tuition — graduating first in his class in 1933. When Thurgood Marshall argued as an advocate against the ills of “separate but equal” education before a court he would join a decade later, he knew what he was talking about. He didn’t die while serving on the court as a very old man, and he didn’t live to be 110. This was unlikely for someone who eschewed any exercise more strenuous, he joked, than lifting a poker chip. In any event, on June 27, 1991, he wrote a letter to President George H.W. Bush announcing his retirement. Justice Marshall left behind a generation’s worth of jurisprudence on a wide-ranging set of issues. He was, for one thing, a staunch defender of the First Amendment. Here, courtesy of legal scholar David L. Hudson Jr., are Marshall quotes from five free-speech cases. — “If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.” (Stanley v. Georgia, 1969) — “But, above all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content.” (Police Department of City of Chicago v. Mosley, 1972) — “The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit — a spirit that demands self-expression. Such expression is an integral part of the development of ideas and a sense of identity.” (Procunier v. Martinez, 1974) — “Vigilance is necessary to ensure that public employers do not use authority over employees to silence discourse, not because it hampers public functions but simply because superiors disagree with the content of employees’ speech.” (Rankin v. McPherson, 1987) — “The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.” (Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products, 1983). Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com |
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- Parents Fight Back: Sex and Kindergarten in America
- Mukasey Op-ed Should Strike Fear in Democrats
- What Conservatives Must Understand About Black Americans
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Parents Fight Back: Sex and Kindergarten in America
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 07:08 PM PDT
Caution: Do not leave article available or children! by Tony Perkins: “I dare you… Hold up the textbook in front of the camera and show them a picture of what 10-year-olds are going to be asked to see.” That was Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers’s (R) challenge to reporters, when they asked him about his fierce response to the radical Left’s sex ed. He pointed to a book, called It’s Perfectly Normal, that isn’t normal at all — unless you’re one of those rare individuals who think teaching anal sex to five-year-olds is a good idea. Arizona State Superintendent Kathy Hoffman’s (D), Twitter profile shows a picture of the new officeholder carrying a sign that says, “#IAmPublicEducation.” And after hearing her vision for sexualizing kids, that’s exactly what parents are afraid of. “I couldn’t even read the manual to you over the radio,” State Senator Sylvia Allen (R-Ariz.) told me on “Washington Watch” Monday. “When [they] talk about comprehensive sex education,” she warned, “that’s exactly what they mean. It’s very comprehensive, very detailed—they leave nothing out. And when you read the material, you can only come to the conclusion that if they’re going to give [kindergarteners] on up different types of information, the only reason for that is because you are… giving them information to help sexualize them.” Bowers, who is fighting alongside Allen, agreed. The dad of seven has been on a one-man mission to keep the curriculum changes the state derailed in June off track. “I don’t need to sexualize children and tell them how to masturbate,” he said. “It’s way beyond where we need to be.” Hoffman’s office fired back that his fears had no basis in reality. Bowers is not alone in his concern. When activists tried to overturn 40 years of conservative sex ed messaging and replace it with graphic, pro-LGBT propaganda, the crowd was so large at the state board of education that officials had to open three overflow rooms! Outside groups like Planned Parenthood and GLSEN were trying to strip the state’s ban on “abnormal, deviate, or unusual sexual acts and practices” — and parents on both sides were furious. “Instead of creating more Planned Parenthood customers, let’s put our energy into improving the reading ability of our children,” one mom railed. Another held up the same book Bowers did and pointed to the nude pictures. It’s completely unnecessary, Bowers argues. The board agreed, deciding to table the changes — for now. But the battle isn’t over. Not by a long shot. Extremists are still finding ways to slip the indoctrination into districts where parents aren’t watching. At an event in September, Bowers took his warning on the road, asking people to think about these consequences. When we sexualize kids, he argued, what are the results? “Sexually transmitted diseases, which we treat for money. Abortion, which we do for money. Even the heinous selling of body parts, which we do for money. And the treatment of AIDS across the world, which we do for money.” These activists, including the ones at the highest levels of state government, are counting on parents’ ignorance to push this agenda through. “That’s my reason for being very involved in this,” Sylvia told me, “because I believe that these programs are going against the vast majority of parents—and what parents want taught to their children about this subject… In Arizona, we have local control over curriculum. So that means parents have got to be active in their school district to see what their school district might want to propose on this subject.” Of course, when we talk about sex ed, there’s probably a tendency for a lot of moms and dads to think back to when they were in school and the lessons were a lot more subdued. This is not your grandmother’s sex education. This isn’t even your mom’s. This is explicit. But the Left is overreaching — and in school after school, we’re seeing a monumental pushback from parents of both parties. As Sylvia said, this isn’t a partisan issue. No one wants to leave this crucial part of a child’s development to the activists in their district. They don’t want to be in a race to beat their schools to this conversation. In Arizona, leaders like Allen are trying to overhaul the system to create an opt-in type permission system where the schools will have to obtain the parents’ consent before teaching these subjects. Right now, they’re hoping other states are paying attention to what’s happening in their districts and learning from it. Do you know if your local sex ed is an opt-in or opt-out program? Have you looked at the curriculum? If they update the materials, do they tell you? These are the questions our friends at the Center for Arizona Policy are asking their parents. Take a look at their post, “What is the state teaching your kids about sex?” and apply it to your community. The best parent is an informed parent. Join the movement to Take Back Our Schools! ——————– Tony Perkins (@tperkins) is President of the Family Research Council . This article was on Tony Perkin’s Washington Update and written with the aid of FRC senior writers. Tags: Tony Perkins, Family Research Center, FRC, Family Research Council, Parents Fight Back, Sex and Kindergarten, in America 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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Mukasey Op-ed Should Strike Fear in Democrats
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 06:50 PM PDT
U.S. Atty John H. Durhamby Roger L. Simon:
If I were a Democrat, I would be afraid, I would be very afraid, after
reading former Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s Monday WSJ oped: “John Durham’s Ukrainian Leads.” The subtitle is “What the prosecutor has found may be quite different from what the Democrats are looking for.” Mukasey begins:Americans often boast that we are a nation of laws, but for the moment laws appear to play a decidedly secondary role in the drama we are living in and—hopefully—through.True enough, but the nub of the article, which returns us to the rule of law, comes further on:True, much media and political effort has gone into sometimes close and often willful parsing of President Trump’s July 25 conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky —ironic when you consider Mr. Trump’s well-known linguistic promiscuity—not to mention the celebrated whistleblower complaint, which contains no firsthand information. Little notice has been given, however, to another document lying in plain sight: a Justice Department press release issued the day the conversation transcript became public. That Justice Department statement makes explicit that the president never spoke with Attorney General William Barr “about having Ukraine investigate anything relating to former Vice President Biden or his son” or asked him to contact Ukraine “on this or any other matter,” and that the attorney general has not communicated at all with Ukraine. It also contains the following morsel: “A Department of Justice team led by U.S. Attorney John Durham is separately exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. While the Attorney General has yet to contact Ukraine in connection with this investigation, certain Ukrainians who are not members of the government have volunteered information to Mr. Durham, which he is evaluating.”The number of countries includes the U.K. and Italy, the latter of which was just visited by one William Barr. So what’s going on? More from Mukasey:The definitive answer to the obvious question—what’s that about?—is known only to Mr. Durham and his colleagues. But publicly available reports, including by Andrew McCarthy in his new book, “Ball of Collusion,” suggest that during the 2016 campaign the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to get evidence from Ukrainian government officials against Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to pressure him into cooperating against Mr. Trump. When you grope through the miasma of Slavic names and follow the daisy chain of related people and entities, it appears that Ukrainian officials who backed the Clinton campaign provided information that generated the investigation of Mr. Manafort—acts that one Ukrainian court has said violated Ukrainian law and “led to interference in the electoral processes of the United States in 2016 and harmed the interests of Ukraine as a state.”Sorry to quote so extensively, but the WSJ is behind a paywall and I thought everyone should see as much of Mukasey’s writing as possible. Reading not so far between the lines here, it’s clear that the biggest story of 2019 or maybe 2020 is yet to come — and it won’t be impeachment. The Russia Probe is being turned on its head. —————– Roger L. Simon (@rogerlsimon) is co-founder and CEO Emeritus of PJ Media – he has a new novel The GOAT available on Amazon. Tags: Roger L. Simon, PJ Media, U.S. Atty John H. Durham, Mukasey Op-ed. Should Strike. Fear in 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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What Conservatives Must Understand About Black Americans
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 06:14 PM PDT
“The few blacks whom conservative surround themselves with tend not to have any connection to the black community,” writes Raynard Jackson. by Raynard Jackson: Over the years, many prominent conservatives have asked me why blacks are not more involved in the Republican Party and the conservative movement. The answer is very simple: Conservatives have shown no demonstrable indication to the black community that we are welcomed by the party or the conservative movement. As a matter of fact, conservatives force “real” blacks to make a false choice: to be black or conservative, as though we can’t be both. Most blacks are conservative by nature and by upbringing. “Real” blacks don’t check their blackness at the door when they join a conservative group. We still know and experience racism whenever we leave our homes. We still sometimes hear and experience racial insensitivities when we go to meetings of conservatives. Is this done on purpose? Of course not, but it happens because the few blacks whom conservative surround themselves with tend not to have any connection to the black community. They tend to be blacks who will go out in public and say things that a white person can only dream of being able to say and get away with it. These are the blacks who claim they see no color; they claim racism doesn’t exist. They never miss an opportunity to criticize Al Sharpton. But they always seem to get a sudden case of laryngitis when a conservative says something negative or inappropriate about the black community. Conservatives tend to surround themselves with blacks who make them feel comfortable, as opposed to blacks who can help them move the conservative agenda forward. But before we can move the conservative agenda forward, we must first rehabilitate the meaning and brand of the word “conservatism.” When blacks hear the word conservatism, we hear Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, segregationist senators from South Carolina and North Carolina, respectively. In their later years, they actually became quite supportive of several issues of particular concern to the black community, such as historically black colleges and universities. The brands of the Republican Party and the conservative movement are so damaged that blacks can’t hear a damn thing they are saying, even though on issue after issue we are on the same page. Blacks don’t support homosexuality, amnesty for illegal aliens, or the radical transgender agenda. If conservatives really believe conservative ideas can and will solve the problems in Baltimore, Ferguson, St. Louis, and Los Angeles, when will they take their solutions to the marketplace of ideas within the black community? I graduated from Oral Roberts University and Oral would always tell me: “Go into every man’s world and meet them at the point of their need.” Blacks don’t need to be persuaded; we are the most conservative group in the U.S. We don’t need to be convinced; blacks are already convinced that liberalism has destroyed the black community. We need only be invited to become part of the team. Conservatives tend to surround themselves with blacks who make them feel comfortable, as opposed to blacks who can help them move the conservative agenda forward. But before we can move the conservative agenda forward, we must first rehabilitate the meaning and brand of the word “conservatism.” When blacks hear the word conservatism, we hear Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, segregationist senators from South Carolina and North Carolina, respectively. In their later years, they actually became quite supportive of several issues of particular concern to the black community, such as historically black colleges and universities. The brands of the Republican Party and the conservative movement are so damaged that blacks can’t hear a damn thing they are saying, even though on issue after issue we are on the same page. Blacks don’t support homosexuality, amnesty for illegal aliens, or the radical transgender agenda. If conservatives really believe conservative ideas can and will solve the problems in Baltimore, Ferguson, St. Louis, and Los Angeles, when will they take their solutions to the marketplace of ideas within the black community? I graduated from Oral Roberts University and Oral would always tell me: “Go into every man’s world and meet them at the point of their need.” Blacks don’t need to be persuaded; we are the most conservative group in the U.S. We don’t need to be convinced; blacks are already convinced that liberalism has destroyed the black community. We need only be invited to become part of the team. This invitation must come with no strings attached. Conservatives must be willing to open their minds to a new perspective. They must be willing to try to understand why my heart starts racing when a police car pulls up behind me at a stop light. They must understand why I have resigned from several campaigns because white staffers thought they knew more about the black community than me. Several friends of mine in Congress understand these issues and are working with me in tangible ways to move the conservative needle forward in the black community. As a quote sometimes attributed to the poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson goes, “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” In my writing, I hope to stretch the minds of the conservative community into understanding that the black community is begging them for a reason to formally join the conservative cause. In so doing, conservatism will never be the same, the black community will never be the same, and America will never be the same. ————————– Raynard Jackson (@Raynard1223) is president and CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC, a political consulting, government affairs, and public relations firm based in Washington, D.C. H/T The Daily Signal. Tags: Raynard Jackson, The Daily Signal, What Conservatives, Must Understand ,About Black Americans 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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The Fake Impeachment Continues, More Deception, Communist China’s Celebration
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 05:52 PM PDT
Gary Bauerby Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: The Fake Impeachment Continues Yesterday the New York Times and the Washington Post broke stories that they treated as huge developments but they were nothing. The Times reported that Attorney General William Barr had communicated with the prime minister of Australia. The Post reported that Barr had communicated with other foreign intelligence officials. The conservations concerned foreign involvement in our 2016 election by Trump’s enemies. The papers are intentionally morphing two separate issues. They are confusing the effort to investigate the former vice president and his son, which we are told was nefarious, illegal and impeachable, with Barr’s efforts to investigate the Deep State’s meddling in the 2016 elections. The latter investigation is what the media and Democrats say they want — to prevent foreign influence in the election. But to them, it’s a one-way street — only Trump is guilty of conspiring with foreign governments, when in fact the exact opposite appears to be true. Attorney General Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham are investigating how the Russia collusion hoax got started in the first place. We know that elements of foreign intelligence agencies were working with our intelligence agencies to smear Donald Trump during the 2016 elections to ensure his defeat. The Times and Post acted like they were divulging something about Barr’s activities that no one knew anything about. But speaking to reporters on the White House lawn on May 24th, President Trump said this in response to a question about Barr’s investigation of the Deep State: “I hope he looks at the U.K., and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country. . . It’s the greatest hoax, probably, in the history of our country. And somebody has to get to the bottom of it.” In other words, the president announced months ago what the Post and Times presented yesterday as big “breaking” news. And note the president’s specific reference to Ukraine two months before the alleged “inappropriate” phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Again, it’s a pretty poor cover-up when the president is talking about it so publicly! As I have explained before, international investigations — especially ones involving foreign intelligence agencies — often require the president to initiate contact with foreign leaders so everyone is on the same page and working together. This is not inappropriate. In fact, as Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett notes, we have a treaty with Ukraine specifically about cooperation in international investigations. It was signed, ironically enough, by Bill Clinton. For nearly three years, the left and its media allies were obsessed with Russia, Russia, Russia. Yet Robert Mueller found no Trump collusion with Russia. But there was plenty of other collusion. The FBI spied on the Trump campaign. DNC operatives were in Ukraine digging up dirt on Trump. Hillary’s campaign colluded with foreign spies and Russians. And foreign intelligence operatives were likely in on it. That is the scandal of 2016, and it is imperative that we get to the bottom of it. It would be dereliction of duty on the part of the president and attorney general to not expose the political weaponization of the intelligence communities in Washington and in other countries. But don’t be fooled by the corrupt media’s deliberate spin. It is not inappropriate or illegal or an impeachable offense if administration officials communicate with foreign governments. Attorney General Barr is doing his job, and that has Democrats and their media allies terrified. More Deception At last month’s Iowa state fair, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy pressed former Vice President Joe Biden about his son’s high-priced contract with a Ukrainian natural gas company. Biden insisted, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” Well, there are plenty of reasons to question Biden’s statement. Investigative reporter John Solomon has uncovered numerous memos that conflict with Biden’s unequivocal declaration of ignorance. But as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Yesterday, a photo emerged of Joe and Hunter Biden golfing with Devon Archer. The photo was taken four months after Hunter and Devon joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company. Are we supposed to believe that the people at the center of this storm never discussed “business” during their time on the golf course? It has been suggested that these dealings were investigated and no evidence of wrongdoing was found. But Hunter Biden’s hiring IS the wrongdoing. A foreign company hired the son of the vice president even though he had no experience in energy or Ukraine. That’s influence peddling. That’s corruption. Just imagine if any Trump family member made a similar deal. Every Democrat would say it was evidence of widespread corruption within the Trump family and every media outlet would repeat the story. And the subpoenas would be flying. No doubt Mitt Romney would jump in against Trump too. Communist China’s Celebration Today is the 70th anniversary of the communist takeover of China. It’s not China’s “National Day” because many Chinese are being held in national servitude. It’s the Chinese Communist Party’s national day. The same media that hyperventilated over Trump’s desire to have a tank and armored personnel carrier on the National Mall during the July 4th celebration were very impressed with China’s huge military parade that marched through Beijing today, including 15,000 troops, scores of tanks and a number of new missiles, including one capable of striking any American city within minutes. On CNBC this morning, the streaming headline declared, “President Xi Promises China Will Stay On Peaceful Path To Development.” That must have been very soothing to all the corporate chieftains who want to keep making billions in communist China while ignoring China’s goals. CNBC must have missed the other sentence in Xi’s speech, “No force can ever shake the status of China, or stop the Chinese people and nation from marching forward.” Whatever happens in this country over the next few years, I can say this with certainty: The great struggle engulfing the world now and in the decades ahead will be the confrontation between China’s communist leaders and our constitutional republic. Other nations will have to decide which model they want to follow. The communist have to worry about what they are seeing in the streets of Hong Kong. We should be worried about how many Americans have already been bought off by the Chinese communists. ——————- Gary Bauer (@GaryLBauer) is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families Tags: Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, The Fake Impeachment Continues, More Deception, Communist China’s Celebration 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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Keep It Steady and Cool with Iran, America
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 05:28 PM PDT
by Dr. Victor Davis Hanson: And keep pumping that American oil and gas. Expect more desperate Iranian efforts to prompt a U.S. military response in the Persian Gulf. Trump’s sanctions have cut off 90 percent of Iran’s oil revenues. Soon Tehran’s shattered economy will be followed by more pent-up domestic unrest of the sort that Barack Obama ignored in 2009, when he felt that the continued viability of the murderous theocracy fed his bizarre dreams of enhancing a new Shiite, Persian hegemony to counterbalance the Sunni Arabs. In contrast, America’s newfound role as the largest gas and oil producer in the world has not only lessened the importance of imported oil, whether from enemies such as Iran and Venezuela, or purported friends like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies. In a weird way, it has also turned the last half-century of oil politics upside down. Tensions in the Gulf now help as much as hurt the United States. America is soon slated also to become the world’s largest exporter of gas and oil. Any increased costs for importing overseas oil will be offset by greater profits from American exports. There are five general principles that should guide Trump in isolating Iran. First, Iran desperately needs a military confrontation of some sort — preferably short of an all-out war. Their rationale behind missile and drone attacks is to get Trump out of office by 2021, to unite a factionalizing Iranian public around heroic resistance to the Great Satan or a lesser Satan in Tel Aviv, and to create enough chaos that some outside party might step in to save Iran from what otherwise would probably be an inevitable death spiral. They yearn for a return of Kerry-ism, or the chance that America’s naïve coastal elites will return to power and virtue-signal away whatever Tehran wants. In sum, for one of the rare times in modern memory, a Middle East exporting power wants a disruptive war in the oil lanes of the Middle East, given that the current “peace” is destroying its economy, while its usually interventionist Western enemy prefers to let others enter that quagmire. Time and money are on President Trump’s side. Second, the current status quo will only improve the position of the United States, given that the American economy is booming, it can survive increased oil prices, and Iran is getting weaker day by day. The key for the Trump administration is to keep steady and ignore the bait of Iran’s desperate provocations, to ratchet up the sanctions, and to remind both domestic and foreign zealots for military invention that the current maximum pressure by the U.S. is doing more damage to Iran than any “precision” air strike. Even European appeasers are now joining the U.S., not because they’ve recovered lost principles, but because they wish to join the winning side and they fear losing America’s military support in case of chaos in the Persian Gulf. The Iranian public will remember how this impoverishing showdown with the U.S. started — not just with the America’s walking away from the Iran deal but earlier, with its own government’s foolish decision to waste Iranian natural treasure on a nuclear program while entering a disastrous Syrian quagmire and subsidizing a cash-hungry Hezbollah. The current ostracism and isolation of Iran are more or less on schedule. In contrast, the atmospherics and politics of getting into a shooting war with Iran and its terrorist appendages are not so predictable. Sanctions can hurt the theocracy more than military strikes can. Third, all third parties are in a weirdly ironic position. Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11, is desperate to see America take up its cause by attacking Iran. Usually Saudi Arabia, in its traditional Sphinx-like role, plays hard to get as American envoys fly to Riyadh to beg Saudi to keep pumping oil and to obtain a tacit blessing for some sort of U.S. intervention in Iraq, Syria, or Libya. America has usually feared that getting of the wrong side of the House of Saud would mean higher gas prices at home, and, mirabile dictu, an uptick in Sunni-inspired terrorism in the West. China is the now the main importer of Middle Eastern oil and the largest commercial profiteer in the region. Remember, we are currently in a trade war with a mercantilist Beijing and in theory should care less whether oil tankers make it to China, and container ships laden with Chinese electronics arrive back in the Gulf. No one wishes a world economic collapse due to the destruction of the commercial sea lanes, but Iran has no such power. Rather it is a nuisance whose pyrotechnics will hurt China far more than the U.S. As for Europe and our NATO allies, of course we wish to see prompt oil deliveries to the West. But again, irony abounds. The U.S. is recently damned by Europe as being anti-green, pilloried for fracking in a way unimaginable in Europe, shorted by stingy NATO partners who refused to meet their promised military contributions, and still caricatured as a bellicose reactionary superpower. The new truth is that our oil-damning allies need oil from the Middle East far more than we do, and they should hardly expect a vilified American military to ensure that trillions of dollars of carbon-based fuels safely reach European shores. And so now Germany and France are finally making the necessary political adjustments. The restraint of the U.S. bothers third parties more than America’s prior readiness to use force. The common denominator is that whatever we are for, our envious friends and enemies are usually against. Fourth, we should remember the fate of the last major U.S. intervention into the Middle East. When Saddam Hussein’s statue fell, 70 percent of America deified George W. Bush for apparently doing to the hated genocidal Baathists what he had just done to the murderous Taliban — destroying such monsters in a matter of weeks. What followed, however, was not just years of unrest and spiraling costs in blood and treasure, but a strange attitude from many of those who had been the most pro-war, some dating back to the 1990s and the founding of the Project for the New American Century, which had called for a preemptive removal of Saddam Hussein during the Clinton administration. Summed up best, the Iraq 2.0 take was “my brilliant victory, your screwed-up occupation” — best seen in the 2006 Vanity Fair article “Neo Culpa,” in which many of the architects of the preemptive war blamed the very administration they had once lobbied to go to war. Critics of the “occupation” forgot that the U.S. Congress, in bipartisan fashion, had voted to authorize the war on 23 writs, few of them having anything to do with WMD, and that thousands of American soldiers were abroad at war while its promoters were blame-gaming one another at home. Nor did the critics see that an impending surge, undertaken against much of their advice, would eventually restore stability to Iraq. I supported the war to remove Saddam Hussein and went to Iraq twice in 2006 and 2007 to write about U.S. deployments. And what was apparent was that those in the thick of it wanted support back home, not pronouncements from its promoters that all was lost and futile. Apparently, most of those who were fighting thought that the only thing worse than a bad war was losing it. The idea that Trump is weak and blustering for not bombing Iran is nuts. He took a courageous step in canceling an asymmetrical Iran deal that guaranteed a bellicose enemy would receive billions in cash now and, later, a nuclear weapon. That he does not wish to abort such progress is a sign of strength, not timidity. A strapped Iran hates the sanctions far more than it would hate losing an air base or a refinery as the price of destroying the Trump presidency. In short, Americans should expect that half of those now calling for a preemptive war would not support the military asked to carry it out, if causalities and costs mounted. Certainly, we can defeat Iran militarily or at least reduce its commerce and industry to premodern levels. But we cannot predict what will happen in Lebanon, Syria, or the wider Middle East from our use of military force, or which current allies will soon be enemies, or which loud advocates will soon become louder critics. It is insane to abandon what is currently working for what may not work at all. Fifth, Trump ran on four main issues: stopping illegal immigration, restoring the hollowed-out American interior, reckoning with China for its 40 years of commercial banditry — and avoiding optional military engagements that are not in the direct interest of the U.S. The advice to let Iran stew applies equally well to North Korea, where time is also on our side as sanctions will slowly persuade it to return to negotiations. Currently Trump can convince his base on illegal immigration that he went so far as to shut down the government, redistributed federal funds for a wall, and fought a flurry of lawsuits, all to secure the border. And lately he has made progress in reducing illegal border crossings. Trump can also claim nearly record-low peacetime unemployment and improved workers’ wages, which support his campaign promises to the Midwest. Trump certainly in high-stakes fashion risked his presidency to call China to account. But if Trump chooses to get into a war with Iran, it will be hard to convince his base that he had no other options at a time when Iran is going bankrupt, its population is fragmenting, and its military ability to hurt the U.S. is almost nonexistent. The best thing that America can do for the world is to ratchet up the sanctions; reply only if directly attacked by Iran; sit back and remain patient; and allow aggrieved allies, friends, and neutrals to go ahead and respond to Iran if they wish — and to pump as much gas and oil as it can. ——————- Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) is a senior fellow, classicist and historian at the and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution where many of his articles are found; his focus is classics and military history. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. H/T national Review. Tags: Victor Davis Hanson, Keep It Steady, Cool with, Iran, America 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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Airline Ground Crews Are an Under-Monitored Terror Threat
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 05:11 PM PDT
by Charles “Sam” Faddis:
The recent arrest of an American Airlines mechanic has highlighted
again the danger posed by insider threat to airlines and the difficulty
of detecting individuals who have access to aircraft and secure areas at
airports who may pose a threat. Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani was charged earlier this month with willfully damaging an aircraft by gluing a piece of Styrofoam inside the nose of the aircraft, which effectively disabled a component pilots depend on to gauge such things as airspeed, the pitch of the plane, and so forth. Initially, the case was described as being related to a labor grievance. Recent information suggests there may be a much darker angle. Prosecutors said at a detention hearing that Alani has ties to Islamic extremism. According to prosecutors, Alani has a brother in Iraq who may be a member of ISIS, has a history of making extremist statements and was found to possess videos on his cell phone depicting mass murders by ISIS. Alani traveled to Iraq in March of this year and shortly before his arrest sent a wire transfer to someone in Iraq. Based these allegations, U.S. Magistrate Judge Chris McAliley ordered pretrial detention for Alani. “You may be very sympathetic to terrorists,” Judge McAliley told Alani at the hearing. “That’s very disconcerting.” The possibility of an open “back door” to airport and airline security has been established for some time. We have, since 9/11, done a great deal to prevent individual passengers from making it on board a commercial aircraft with a weapon or dangerous substance of any kind. It is not at all clear that we have spent nearly as much time effectively addressing the possibility that individuals employed at the nation’s airports may do harm. In fact, the closer you look at the problem the more evident it is that we have not. Insider threat security measures in place at airports rest on two main pillars: access controls and background checks. Access control systems, if employed correctly, are an effective means of controlling who can go where and do what. The issuance of a badge to someone who then has to run it through a badge scanner or reader of some kind, however, does not address the fundamental question: How do you decide who receives what badge? Which brings us to background checks. Background checks as generally employed at the nation’s airports today are flawed in at least two respects. First, they are, as the name suggests, checks on what a person has already done. They are a snapshot in time. They tell you, to the extent the information checked allows, what a person has done prior to their employment. They tell you nothing about what happens to or with that individual after their employment begins. More fundamentally, however, background investigations are ineffectual for the purposes of detecting individuals involved in terrorist activity, because they look for the wrong things. They are superficial checks of criminal records and employment history and the like, and they do not begin to delve into the kind of ideological and psychological considerations that are crucial in detecting what is, in effect, a spy within an organization. The security background check systems used across the country were built by individuals and organizations based on experience in preventing shoplifting, embezzlement, smuggling and other criminal activity by employees. Finding individuals involved in such activities within airlines and at airports is no doubt important. It does not follow, however, that the same approaches that help you uncover the guy stealing from the stockroom will help you catch the individual getting ready to put a bomb into the food cart being loaded onto an international flight carrying hundreds of passengers. To do that, you are going to have to start by appreciating the sophistication of your adversary. Kim Philby is one of the most famous spies in history. He was recruited by the Russians as a young man based on his involvement in Communist Party activities in Britain and contacts with other known Communists. The first thing his Soviet handlers told him after he was recruited was to stop going to Communist Party meetings, stay away from other Communists and stop mouthing off about workers and their rights. They wanted him to be trusted and to work his way up in the British government. Philby listened. He was accepted into the British Secret Service. Before he was uncovered, decades later, he was on the short list to become the head of that service, and he had compromised countless operations. The Philby case is an old one, but its principles hold today. Recently, the FBI arrested a Hezbollah operative on U.S. soil, Alexei Saab, a 42-year-old native of Lebanon. Saab is accused of scouting targets for attacks in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., over a period of years. Saab is not a lost soul with Islamist leanings. He was recruited by Hezbollah before he ever came to the United States. Everything he has done since then, including becoming a U.S. citizen, has been at the direction of his Hezbollah masters and designed to provide cover for his activities. He was highly trained, and the reports officials say he prepared for Hezbollah were extremely thorough and detailed. Every terrorist organization on Earth is going to follow the same basic methodology to the extent they can. Whether they recruit an individual prior to his employment at an airport or with an airline or afterward, they are going to focus on keeping that individual from attracting attention or inviting scrutiny. In short, they are going to coach him and guide him in how to avoid detection in the same way an intelligence service coaches and guides a spy within another intelligence service. Detecting that kind of operation by focusing on superficial background information is unlikely. Hoping that the individual directed to take a job with an airline here in the United States has somehow ended up on a terrorist watch list is just as unlikely. Any group with any savvy will choose someone who is known in the trade as a “clean skin,” i.e. someone who has not been compromised and has no operational history. To detect and defeat such a threat means employing measures of the kind routinely used by intelligence services and government agencies. Delineation of a such a program in detail is beyond the scope of this article, but it would include: Background – Who is the individual? Where are they from? What are their ideological leanings? With whom are they in contact? What does their social media say about them? If the individual is here as a refugee from Syria, is he a Christian fleeing persecution or a Sunni Muslim from an area known to be a hotbed of support for ISIS? This is not intended to suggest that religious affiliation alone should become some sort of litmus test. A great many Syrian Sunni Muslims detest ISIS and everything it stands for. It is meant to suggest that when we are concerned with countering threats in what amounts to an ongoing war with Muslim extremists, it is relevant to know where the job candidate for a sensitive position stands ideologically. Monitoring – Once the individual is on board, they must be monitored in the same fashion that government agencies with access to sensitive data monitor their employees. This does not just mean a look at alcohol use and interpersonal behavior on the job, although those are likely important for other reasons. It means monitoring travel outside the country, monitoring contacts with foreign nationals and keeping tabs on who is paying the employee’s bills. It also means monitoring the employee’s actions in the workplace and training other workers in what to look for. Is the employee affording access to controlled spaces to individuals who should not have access? Is the employee himself accessing areas he should not? Is the employee asking for information on sensitive matters unrelated to his direct job responsibilities? Is the employee working unusual hours particularly if he is alone or unsupervised? Designing an effective system to counter insider threat at airports across the United States will not be easy. We should bear in mind, however, that the stakes are high and the threat real. In 2015, a Russian airliner flying from Egypt to Russia was blown out of the sky and everyone on board killed. The subsequent investigation determined a bomb, placed on board by a mechanic at the direction of ISIS, was the cause. —————— Charles S. (Sam) Faddis, Senior Partner – Artemis, LLC is a former CIA operations officer with thirty years of experience in the conduct of intelligence operations in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe. Article on Homeland Security Today US. Tags: Charles S. 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‘Stop Scaring the Children’
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 03:03 PM PDT
Stephen Moore, Economistby Stephen Moore:
A friend of mine’s third grade daughter came home from school a few
weeks ago with tears streaming down her cheeks. “My teacher says we only
have 10 years before the oceans rise and we are underwater,” she
moaned. “Are we all going to die?” That’s a heavy burden to place on the shoulders of a 9-year-old. Gloomy stories of the coming apocalypse have become commonplace in schools, textbooks, churches, movies and even children’s bedtime stories. The Wicked Witch of the West and Darth Vader have been replaced by the oil corporations and auto company CEOs. This over-the-top campaign of doom is clearly affecting the psyches of the young. We saw an example just last week when Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish girl, gained international publicity by passionately telling a United Nations panel: “Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.” She says we have only 8 1/2 years left. This poor girl, whom some are saying triumphantly is the voice of her generation, sounded terribly frightened. Who filled her head with these morose beliefs that the end is near? Then there is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, the 29-year-old voice of the millennials in Congress, whose message is that the baby boomers have ruined the planet for her generation. She says we have 10 years left to head off planetary destruction. We have apparently returned full circle to the early days of humankind when life on Earth was described by Hobbes as “nasty, brutish, and short.” The only difference is that even the Neanderthals had more than 8 1/2 years of survival in front of them. Of course, there are major challenges for the younger generations, as there have been in every age since man appeared on the planet. My parents had to overcome polio, the Great Depression and Nazi Germany. When I was a kid, we had to practice bomb drills in school because of fear of Soviets dropping nuclear bombs that would wipe out whole cities. But to fill the young with false fears of “mass extinction” and so on is to ignore the true state of the planet. It isn’t dying. The young should be celebrating what every objective measure shows: They are living at the greatest moment in the history of the globe. For those under the age of 30, listen up: You will live longer, healthier lives with more material wealth than any previous generation. You will inherit a world with less poverty, less disease, more leisure time, less pollution, less discrimination and more opportunity to achieve your dreams and aspirations than any other generation — except for your children’s and grandchildren’s. You are not inheriting a severely injured planet but one in which a storehouse of thousands of years of accumulated human knowledge makes you capable of combatting almost any conceivable problem or catastrophe. The whole history of modern times is for human ingenuity, innovation and technological know-how to combat the challenges that mankind confronts. If you think global warming is a challenge, thank God you don’t have to deal with smallpox, typhoid, tuberculosis, polio or the plague. The black death in Europe killed about 1 of every 4 residents. Now, that is an apocalypse. What the young lack today is perspective. AOC thinks she has problems? It wasn’t so long ago that as many as 1 in 10 women died while giving birth. I always marvel that the “woe is me” refrain from the young today is often recited as they tap on their $600 iPhones (charged with the electric power they want to do away with) and they carry around their caramel lattes from Starbucks. I tell my kids that without fossil fuels, they may not have power for their computer games. That gives them pause. As for the trends on toxic air pollution, as recently as a century ago, cities from London to Pittsburgh to Mexico City to Los Angeles were filled with dark and dangerous clouds of smog that choked people’s lungs and prevented the sun from shining. These pollution levels have fallen by 50%, 70% and even 90%. Children are now taught that cars are evil polluters and that the combustible engine needs to be abolished. Really? When Henry Ford started rolling his Model T’s off the assembly lines 100 years ago, he was heralded as the greatest environmental savior in the history of the planet. Why? Because cars replaced horses — which dropped many tons of toxic manure into the city streets. Imagine the deplorable conditions of Los Angeles today if you had 3 million people riding around on horses. It is sadly ironic that the greens who want to save the planet are also the ones that turn to the intellectual dead end of socialism and statism to fix things. The young like to cite the “scientific consensus” that climate change will be catastrophic. Maybe. But 30 years ago, scientists warned of overpopulation, food shortages, energy scarcity and even mass starvation. All of these scares were combatted through innovation and progress. Bad things happen. Sometime in the coming centuries, an asteroid could plunge into the planet, some new version of the plague could afflict us, or the big earthquake could devastate California, causing millions of deaths. Who knows? What we do know is that as we grow richer and wiser, we will be better equipped with the resources and the brainpower to deal with catastrophes than any previous generation since the dawn of time. Our responsibility as parents, teachers, clergy and lawmakers is to teach the children how to solve problems effectively, not to preach the end of the world. America’s millennials will inherit from my generation some $100 trillion of wealth — a bigger treasure chest of knowledge and resources than all other preceding generations’, combined. How about some gratitude? If the planet continues to warm and the oceans rise, you have the creativity, the brainpower and the tool chest to figure out the solution. I don’t know what that will be, but I do know that the solution isn’t moving us backward in time to the pre-industrial and pre-energy age — when life was pretty rotten. I’m an optimist and a realist. This next generation will figure it out. They will save the planet from extinction. And the really good news is there’s a lot more than 8 1/2 years to come up with the right solutions. ———————— Stephen Moore, (@StephenMoore) is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with Freedom Works. He is the co-author of “Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy.” Moore encouraged the ARRA News Service editor at SamSphere Chicago 2008 to blog his articles. His article was in Rasmussen Reports. Tags: Stephen Moore, Steve Moore, Rasmussen Reports, ‘Stop Scaring the Children’ 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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‘Heartbroken’ Pelosi Fast-Tracks Impeachment
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 02:51 PM PDT
Nancy Pelosiby Patrick Buchanan: For
three years, the media-deep state axis has sought to overturn the
election of 2016 and bring down Trump, starting with Russia-gate. Now it
appears to have tailored and weaponized the impeachment process… This
is what the deep state does to outsiders Middle America sends to
Washington to challenge or dispossess it. “This is a very sad time for our country. There is no joy in this,” said Nancy Pelosi Saturday. “We must be somber. We must be prayerful. … I’m heartbroken about it.” Thus did the speaker profess her anguish — just four days after announcing that her Democratic House would conduct an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. But is this how it really went down? Is this how Pelosi came to authorize an impeachment inquiry before she read the transcript of the conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky? Another explanation, based on the actual events, suggests itself. By late September, Pelosi was under constant fire from the House “resistance” that wanted Trump impeached and whose numbers were slowly growing. What was the speaker to do? The judiciary committee is the body historically authorized by a vote of the full House to conduct impeachment inquiries. But to Pelosi this was looking like a loser, a dead end, a formula for failure followed by a backlash against House Democrats and her own removal as speaker in January 2021, if not before. How so? Her judiciary committee chairman, Jerrold Nadler, in his investigation of Trump, had presided over a debacle of a hearing where Trump ally Corey Lewandowski mocked the members. House Budget Committee Chair John Yarmuth called the hearing a “fiasco.” Thus, when news broke of a July 25 conversation between Trump and the president of Ukraine, during which Trump allegedly urged Zelensky “eight times” to investigate Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden’s connections to corrupt oligarchs, Pelosi seized upon it to solve all her problems. To satisfy the red-hots in her Democratic caucus, she announced an impeachment inquiry on her own. To spare her moderates the pain of having to vote for or against an inquiry, she skipped the floor vote. To ensure the investigation was done swiftly, she took the franchise from Nadler and his judiciary committee and handed it to Adam Schiff and the intelligence committee. Now she is urging a narrowing of the articles of impeachment to just one — Trump’s request of Ukraine’s president to look into the Bidens. Pelosi’s hope: Have one House vote on a single article of impeachment by year end; then send it on to the Senate for trial and be done with it. This is Nancy Pelosi’s fast track to impeachment of Trump and ruination of his presidency. But, to be sure, she is “heartbroken” about all this. For three years, the media-deep state axis has sought to overturn the election of 2016 and bring down Trump, starting with Russia-gate. Now it appears to have tailored and weaponized the impeachment process. That is what this is all about. It always is. Then-editor Ben Bradlee of The Washington Post, when it looked like the Iran-Contra matter might break Ronald Reagan’s presidency, after his 49-state landslide, chortled, “We haven’t had this much fun since Watergate.” This is what the deep state does to outsiders Middle America sends to Washington to challenge or dispossess it. How should the Republican Party and Trump’s base respond? Recognize reality. Whether or not Trump was ill-advised to suggest to the president of Ukraine that passing on the fruits of the investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden, the end game is bringing down Trump, democracy’s equivalent of regicide. While the “whistleblower,” whose memo is the basis of these impeachment hearings, is well on his way to Beltway beatification, no campaign to depose the president can be allowed to cloak itself in anonymity indefinitely, for one man’s whistleblower is another man’s seditionist. Whom did the whistleblower collaborate with to produce his memo? What is his background? What are his biases? The people have a right to know. And democracy dies in darkness, does it not? Not until 30 years after Watergate did we learn the “whistleblower” known as “Deep Throat” was a corrupt FBI veteran agent who leaked grand jury secrets to The Washington Post to discredit acting Director Pat Gray and thereby become FBI director himself. His identity was sheltered for three decades. For whose benefit? Republicans should not allow Democrats to fast-track this process but should give their troops time to recognize the stakes involved, organize a defense and repel this latest establishment attempt to overthrow a president elected to come to the capital to corral that establishment. Force all the Democratic candidates for president to take a stand on removing Trump for high crimes — over a nebulous phone call to Kiev. And the U.S. Senate should refuse to take up and should return to the House any bill of impeachment done in a short-circuited and savagely partisan manner, as this one is being done. There should be no rush to judgment. If the election of 2020 is going to be about President Trump, tell the nation that the people will decide his political fate in November 2020, and that of Joe Biden if Democrats believe he is as pure as the driven snow and choose to nominate him. ——————– Patrick Buchanan (@PatrickBuchanan) is currently a blogger, conservative columnist, political analyst, chairman of The American Cause foundation and an editor of The American Conservative. He has been a senior adviser to three Presidents, a two-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and was the presidential nominee of the Reform Party in 2000. Tags: Patrick Buchanan, conservative, commentary, ‘Heartbroken’ Pelosi, Fast-Tracks Impeachment To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. 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Trump’s Big Wins for Farmers, Manufacturers, Workers vs. Dems’ Impeachment Squad
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 02:41 PM PDT
Peter Navarroby Peter Navarro: USMCA is the most important thing for this hemisphere. The radical Democrats’ impeachment squad and much of the American media are missing a great presidency. Just last week, in a single day, President Trump signed a historic Japanese trade deal in New York as a White House-led team negotiated a radical reform of the Universal Postal Union in Geneva. Together, these two quintessentially Trump deals will net American farmers, manufacturers and workers billions of dollars and create thousands of jobs. Yet last week’s news cycle was dominated by another politically motivated witchhunt circus. Regarding the Japan deal, on his first business day in office, the president stopped the U.S. from joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Since that historic day, Trump has been criticized by the globalist elite for opting out of a multilateral deal with 11 other partners that, in truth, would have been the death knell for America’s auto industry. Yet the just consummated Japan deal represents the best evidence to date the TPP withdrawal was a stroke of bilateral negotiating genius. Consider this multilateral math: Of the 11 countries in the TPP, the U.S. already has free-trade agreements with six. Of the other five, Japan represents virtually all of their combined gross domestic products. Access to Japan – particularly for agriculture – is what really mattered from a trade perspective. By entering into the Japan bilateral deal, the U.S. will have virtually the same access to the Japanese agricultural market as those that joined the new TPP but is paying substantially less for that access than it would have in TPP. For example, autos and auto parts are not part of the Japan deal. That’s a BIG win for America. Regarding the radical reform of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), this should be the deal heard round the world. It aptly demonstrates that President Trump will no longer tolerate multinational organizations like the UPU and World Trade Organization treating America like a piggy bank – even as the historic deal underscores America’s diplomatic willingness to work within the framework of international organizations when we and our friends and allies are treated with fairness and respect. Under the UPU’s antiquated “terminal dues” system, the U.S. Postal Service was being forced to subsidize a flood of small parcels, primarily from China, to the tune of half a billion dollars a year. This not only harmed the Postal Service, but also gave China an unfair competitive advantage against American manufacturers and workers. Incredibly, under UPU rules, it was cheaper to send a package from Shanghai to New York than from Chicago or Los Angeles to New York. To fix this insanity, a White House-led interagency team worked in Trump time – which is to say as quickly as possible – to get the best deal for the American people. In Step One, President Trump ordered a withdrawal from the UPU within one year, the earliest by the terms of the treaty. In Step Two, our team worked with the UPU leadership and our allies on a solution that would allow the U.S. to immediately self-declare our own rates at a level high enough to recover our costs and end the economic distortion — our core demands. Step Three was to hold an Extraordinary Congress that would allow the UPU’s 192 members to vote on a reform package that would keep the U.S. inside the organization. As our team arrived last week in Geneva for that congress, skeptics said a deal couldn’t be done while alarmists warned that a hard break from the UPU would be catastrophic for the international mail system. Yet the Trump team stuck to its guns, secure in the knowledge that we had prepared for a seamless transition if necessary and that other members of the UPU needed the U.S. far more than the U.S. needed the UPU. (Roughly 40 percent of all international mail travels to or from the United States.) Over the course of four days in Geneva, we worked hard on a package that would provide relief not just to the U.S. but to other disadvantaged countries that have been hit just as hard by the Chinese flood of cheap counterfeit goods and illicit substances via e-commerce. To that end, we insisted on some reforms that neither helped nor hurt the U.S. but nonetheless helped our friends and allies. For example, even as the U.S. would get immediate self-declared rates, we insisted on a relatively rapid phase-in schedule of self-declared rates for countries like Brazil, Canada, Japan and Norway. We also had the backs of smaller and less developed countries in the UPU, by supporting an innovative proposal from the South African delegation that exempted low-mail-tonnage countries. Predictably, China, the primary beneficiary of the terminal dues system, did everything it could to block the U.S. coalition. To that end, and as part of its “one belt, one road” new brand of colonialism, Chinese negotiators tried to quietly bully recipients of its checkbook diplomacy, particularly in Africa and Southeast Asia, to vote against the reform. Yet in the end, the congress adopted the final proposal by unanimous acclamation – a clear validation of the strong leadership of Donald J. Trump. Viewed from a strategic perspective, this was a quintessential example of new and innovative Trumpian diplomacy. Set the terms of the negotiation rather than let an international organization drag us into the trap of “further studies.” Make clear asks and define what success looks like. Have the backs of our friends and allies. Stay strong even when the swamp lobbyists are up in arms and the odds are moving against a deal. Stay firm on our negotiating positions and ALWAYS be willing to walk. Of course, instead of featuring this historic UPU event – along with the Japanese deal – cable news airwaves were clogged by a bevy of self-righteous and sanctimonious commentators attempting to drag America into yet another witchhunt. What we are witnessing writ large is the simultaneous devolution of America politics and journalism at the sacrifice of important opportunities to improve the lives of Americans. What we are missing in the endless witchhunt news cycle is a fair and accurate accounting of what history will surely judge to be one of the greatest presidencies in modern times. ———————- Peter Navarro is assistant to the president for manufacturing and trade policy and director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. He shared this article in FoxNews. 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Coup Number Two . . .
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 02:23 PM PDT
. . . It is suspected that the whistleblower is actually a CIA leaker deep-state operative out to destroy President Trump. Editorial Cartoon by AF “Tony” Branco Tags: Editorial Cartoon, AF Branco, Coup Number Two, suspected, whistleblower, is actually a CIA leaker, deep-state operative, out to destroy, President Trump 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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Mayor Pete’s Bible
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 02:18 PM PDT
by Kerby Anderson, Contributing Author:
Mayor Pete Buttigieg spends a significant amount of his time on the
campaign trail referring to his religious faith. In just the last few
months, Mayor Pete has used his version of the Bible to support his
political views on abortion, poverty, economic policy, environmental
policy, and same-sex marriage. It is fair to say that he believes that political liberalism correlates better with the Bible than conservative values. Before we go on, let me say that he is free to express his views on any contemporary issue and also free to argue how he believes those views fit with the Bible. But let’s at least admit that his perspective on the Bible is hardly orthodox and appears to be an attempt to justify the various policy positions of the Democrat party. For example, he tries to dismiss all the concerns of millions of pro-life Christians by merely arguing that “lots of parts of the Bible that talk about how life begins with breath.” This becomes a justification for abortion right up to birth, when the first breath is taken. This ignores the many verses (such as Psalm 139:13-16, Jeremiah 1:4-5, Isaiah 49:1) that show God’s care extends to the child in the womb. Instead, he reminds us that Jesus said nothing about abortion but quite a bit about the poor. Perhaps that is because it would be almost unthinkable for a Jew or a Christian in the first century to abort a child. And Jesus did say quite a bit about the poor. But it is a huge leap from Jesus calling for us to feed and clothe the poor and then support a massive welfare state that is less effective on meeting those needs than numerous faith-based organizations. Perhaps the greatest concern is the fact that Mayor Pete has received support for his biblically altered sermonettes. Most pastors have not addressed these cultural issues from the pulpit. They need to teach discernment and help Christians know how to apply sound biblical perspectives. —————- Kerby Anderson (@kerbyanderson) is a radio talk show host heard on numerous stations via the Point of View Network (@PointofViewRTS) and is endorsed by Dr. Bill Smith, Editor, ARRA News Service. Tags: Kerby Anderson, Viewpoints, Point of View, Mayor Pete’s Bible 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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Are You a Conspiracy Theorist?
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 02:06 PM PDT
by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: Politicians are all over the vaping issue, like packrats on pet food. The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, C-SPAN explains, held a hearing on the relationship between e-cigarettes and an outbreak in lung disease. Government experts spoke. There was only one empaneled pro-vaping witness, Vicki Porter, who said that vaping was “a health miracle to me,” since it got her off of smoking tobacco. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz (D–Fla.) insisted that the record show that she was not to be trusted, since she merely expressed her own opinion as to the superiority of vaping over smoking, noting that Ms. Porter “is not a public health expert.” But it was Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D–Mich.) who really came out swinging for the interventionist government. Her main concern, writes Robby Soave at Reason, appeared to be Porter’s direct challenging of “the tortured logic of the Oversight and Reform Subcommittee hearing.” Rep. Tlaib said she “wanted to know more about you,” to Ms. Porter. “You call yourself a ‘converted conservative,’” Tlaib stuttered, “and a reformed Marxist. “Are you a conspiracy theorist?” Wh-what? Ms. Porter answered reasonably. Then Tlaib questioned her regarding why she had winked at one of her colleagues. Porter said they knew each other. In the 1960s, the CIA pushed the phrase “conspiracy theorist” as a way to publicly marginalize anyone who questioned official pronouncements on the JFK assassinations and even trickier subjects, like UFOs. Rep. Tlaib is either one of those who bought into the CIA line, or is part of some less-than-transparent agenda. So, are you a conspiracy theorist? My answer might have been, not until right about now. This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob. —————— Paul Jacob (@Common_Sense_PJ ) is author of Common Sense which provides daily commentary about the issues impacting America and about the citizens who are doing something about them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge Foundation. Jacob is a contributing author on the ARRA News Service. Tags: Paul Jacob, Common Sense, Are You a Conspiracy Theorist? 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’s How Andrew Jackson Stood Up to Unaccountable ‘Elites’
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 01:53 PM PDT
Bronze statue of President Andrew Jackson in the U.S. Capitol. by Jarrett Stepman: What Andrew Jackson and his followers of the 1820s and 1830s left us was the “democratic” creed in the American bloodstream. It was populist but principled, as oxymoronic as that may sound. Jackson had surrounded himself with thinking men—like Martin Van Buren, Francis Preston Blair, Amos Kendall, a few eccentric “Locofocos” (precursors to modern libertarians), and other leading lights of his day—who gave political and policy form to his Jeffersonian instincts. Jackson embraced the Jeffersonian notion that the government needed to get out of people’s way, but he abandoned Thomas Jefferson’s more utopian ideas. Jackson once said of Jefferson that he was “the best Republican in theory and the worst in practice.” While Jackson was not the political theorist and wordsmith that Jefferson was, he did offer a coherent worldview to the American people. And in many ways, he was a far greater leader of men. The basic outline of the Jacksonian creed was simple, but it had a lasting impact on the course of the nation. The first plank of Jackson’s political philosophy was that entrenched interests in places of power can become dangerous to the liberties of the American people. This was something Jackson stressed when he ran for president, and it remained an important theme throughout his two terms in office. In modern times, people think of issues like term limits—which Jackson would have certainly been amenable to—for members of Congress. But Jackson took it a bit further. As small as the federal bureaucracy was at the time, Jackson believed that civil servants, who tended to see their office as their own private property, had wiggled their way into comfy positions in Washington, D.C., and had become slothful, incompetent, and in many cases corrupt. He intended to drain the swamp. In his first annual message to Congress, Jackson explained his philosophy: “In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense.” During Jackson’s presidency, there was actually a law on the books that limited a civil servant’s time in office to four years, after which he had to apply for the position again. Though many have blamed Jackson for instituting the “spoils system”—by which political parties reward their political friends with jobs and punish their enemies by booting them out—Jackson’s role in perpetuating this problem has been vastly overstated. So has its pernicious effect on our politics. That system had marked advantages over the modern one in which, of the nearly 3 million federal government employees today, virtually none can lose their jobs for any reason, including criminal activity. And the disadvantages of the “spoils system” pale in comparison to the dangers of “the Deep State”—a massive and powerful unelected bureaucracy whose staff appears to feel justified in interfering in our elections. Jackson would have been horrified at the total lack of democratic accountability over these bureaucrats, and we should be too. The second major plank of Jacksonianism was an intense opposition to crony capitalism, the symbiotic relationship between big government and big business, in which the government interferes with the free market to pick winners and losers. The forgotten men under this system are the average Americans without influence in the halls of power, those who work hard and play by the rules. Jackson’s solution was not to give away handouts nor to have the government control business—which he would have seen as economic folly and un-American—but instead to sever the corrupt ties between business and government whenever possible. Jackson gave one of his most eloquent denunciations of crony capitalism in his message to the nation on his veto of the Second Bank of the United States Charter. Though the national bank did provide financial stability for the economy, Jackson worried that it had become too powerful and unaccountable. Indeed, many politicians were on the bank’s payroll. It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purpose. … When the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions … the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.The third essential plank of the Jacksonian agenda was an aggressive military and foreign posture in the world—something that differentiated Jackson from earlier members of his Jeffersonian Democrat party. It’s important not to overstate Jefferson’s rejection of military force as an essential element of American foreign policy. He did launch a major naval attack against North African pirates, after all, and signed legislation creating West Point, America’s premier military school. But Jackson relied even more heavily on the concept of “peace through strength,” to quote a favorite phrase of Ronald Reagan’s. Jackson invested heavily in the Navy as a prime weapon for preventing the abuse of American citizens around the globe and called for a major naval buildup in his farewell address, in which he paraphrased an ancient Latin saying that expresses a similar sentiment: “We shall more certainly preserve the peace when it is well understood that we are prepared for war.” His foreign policy maxim was, “Ask nothing but what is right, permit nothing that is wrong.” Jackson was willing to threaten to unleash American military force, even against superior foes, in order to get diplomatic concessions out of other countries that he felt were treating the United States unfairly. For example, when France failed to pay America the agreed upon spoliation claims from the undeclared “Quasi War” at the end of the 18th century, Jackson’s brinksmanship ultimately convinced the French to pay up. As powerful as France was compared with the United States of the time, Jackson’s threats and unwillingness to apologize for them had a powerful result. “The effect of Jackson’s attitude was not lost upon European governments,” wrote early 20th-century political scientist John Fiske. “At home the hurrahs for Old Hickory were louder than ever. The days when foreign powers could safely insult us were evidently gone by.” Jackson’s militant persona allowed America to punch above its weight in foreign policy and to establish its claims as more than an afterthought in European power struggles. Jacksonian militancy in demanding respect for the rights of American citizens and asserting America’s national interests abroad was effective in persuading foreign powers not to molest America and to respond favorably to America’s demands in trade and other deals. Despite Jackson’s belligerence—more likely because of it—the United States was not embroiled in any major wars during Jackson’s presidency, and the country secured more trade agreements than under any previous administration. The man America’s political establishment had called a reckless incompetent was getting things done, and his supporters cheered him on. Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of Jackson’s presidency was among the most important issues for the future of the United States: the delicate balance between state power and federal union, which was in jeopardy from Jackson’s time until after the Civil War. Jackson was a nationalist, but he was also a federalist: he thought that most policies should be left to the states and individuals but that the union itself was necessary and indivisible. For America to be strong, the federal government had to be circumscribed to important but limited functions such as foreign policy and projects of truly national scope. Jackson vetoed state-level infrastructure projects as a waste of federal dollars—and more properly the responsibility of the states. He loathed the idea of federal funds being used as a slush fund for local interests and politicians. Jackson issued what was at the time a record number of vetoes, many of which were used to stop these sort of schemes. The Jacksonian creed was, as emblazoned on the letterhead of a popular newspaper, “The World is governed too much.” This cussed independence has been a part of the American soul since the beginning, but it was solidified in the Age of Jackson, the age of the self-made man. And from time to time, it surges back to life in a wave of populist, anti-elite discontent. In the 1820s, it brought Jackson to power; in 1980, it put Reagan in the White House; in the 2010s, it fueled the tea party movement, which took to the streets motivated by the notion that the American taxpayer should not bail out major banks that had acted irresponsibly in the financial crisis, nor should they have to pay for their neighbor’s house. Like the Jacksonians of earlier times, the tea party feared that the government was working against the average American who had acted responsibly—and was now being punished for it. In a campaign promise that would have undoubtedly thrilled tea party supporters, Jackson promised to pay off the national debt, which he thought was a “national curse.” Remarkably, his administration did just that in 1835—the only time in history that an advanced modern nation has pulled off such a feat. Men like Jackson and Daniel Webster, his occasional political opponent, united in the 1830s to save the nation from immolation. Eventually, Congress hashed out a compromise on the tariff and the controversy subsided. But the deep divisions between the North and South survived to fracture the Union a mere three decades later. While Jackson was dead by the time the Civil War broke out, its successful conclusion and the salvation of the Union can fairly be said to be in part his legacy. Though Abraham Lincoln had been a Whig for most of his life and had often opposed Jackson’s party on domestic matters, he embraced Jackson’s defense of the Union in the run-up to the Civil War, citing Jackson’s nullification proclamation in his arguments against secession. Lincoln rallied many Jacksonians to the banner of his new Republican Party, including some of Jackson’s closest advisers. Jackson adviser Francis Preston Blair, for example, one of the founders of the Democratic Party, ended up also being among the founders of the Republican Party decades later. Lincoln, like President Donald Trump today, kept a portrait of Jackson at his office in the White House, a fitting homage from one great American president to another. But Lincoln’s view is no longer good enough for Jackson’s modern detractors, who think his faults outweigh his contributions and wish to see him stripped from our currency, his statues brought down, and his name cursed and maligned in our classrooms. This is an insult to a man who helped America get to its feet in a savage world. The Founders created the American Republic. But the second generation of Americans left a powerful impression of its own, an indelible cultural mark on the country for the generations that followed. “Populism” is a bit of a loaded term. It conjures up images of an unthinking rabble egged on by self-interested demagogues, or worse, of French Revolution-style mobs murdering innocents. Undoubtedly, going back to ancient times, many populist revolutions have ended badly. The Founders understood this, which is why they placed brakes on pure democracy when they created our constitutional system of government. Yet they also opened the door for genuine democracy to play a serious role in our system. The Jacksonians of the early 19th century represented a distinct kind of American populism. At its best, Jacksonian democracy was a genuine and principled restoration movement that drew upon the best influences of the founding to rein in a corrupt ruling class. Both Jackson and the movement he represented were ultimately more conservative than radical. America has never since matched the elite talent of the founding generation, never again produced men like Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and so many other great leaders, thinkers, and statesman at once. But fortunately, America’s greatness does not stem only from its great men; it also comes from the timeless greatness of the system they created. That system of self-governance relies on the often unheralded “middling men,” the generally unknown common folk of America, who may not be as learned as the great elite that once guided the country in its infancy but who nevertheless maintained and improved the Republic created by those who came before. Jackson always believed unwaveringly in such men, and that faith is the key to his enduring legacy, which resonates through the generations. Jacksonian populism did not destroy America; it reinvigorated it. While Jackson had his contemporary detractors, the country was stronger when he left the presidency than it had been before his ascent to the office. It had achieved enormous successes. And perhaps just as important, he staved off worrying trends that endangered the Republic. Jackson was no crooked gangster masquerading as president, gleefully committing genocide against vulnerable people. He was an honest, dedicated son of the founding who used his presidency to restore what he saw as the original republican vision for the country, while acting as the great protector from both internal and external threats to the Union. The Jacksonian creed, which resides in the American political bloodstream still, serves as a vital counterweight to the long progressive trend of the last century, whereby America’s sovereign power has been transferred from We the People to unaccountable “experts” in Washington, D.C. It is the often unacknowledged and generally maligned Jacksonian instinct that still stands in direct opposition to the centralization of power in the hands of unelected elites. In an age when a bloated government, an unbridled administrative state staffed by an arrogant bureaucracy, and a corrupt—and increasingly anti-American—elite hold enormous power, the lessons of the Jacksonian era are more relevant than ever. We have every reason to want another Jackson, or series of Jacksons, to step in, drain the swamp, and restore the Republic. ————————— Jarrett Stepman (@JarrettStepman) is an editor of The Daily Signal. Tags: Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal, Andrew Jackson, Stood Up to Unaccountable ‘Elites’ 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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Sloppy Joe
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 01:39 PM PDT
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. . Democrats and the media falsely accuse Trump of what Joe Biden and
the Democrats actually did and that threatens Ukrain with quid pro quo. Editorial Cartoon by AF “Tony” BrancoTags: Editorial Cartoon, AF Branco, Sloppy Joe, Democrats, media, falsely accuse, Trump, what Joe Biden, Democrats actually did, threatens Ukrain, with quid pro quo 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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Almost All ‘Research’ ‘Studies’ – Forcefully Draw Liquids Through Straws
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 01:31 PM PDT
by Seton Motley, Contributing Author: One of the largest, ongoing, rolling government scams? Using taxpayer money to fund “research” – so as to generate “studies.” And governments spend a LOT of our money – on “research” to generate “studies.” Who Pays for Science?: “Today, we all do. Most scientific research is funded by government grants….” And he who pays the piper – calls the tune. Because human nature. Governments nigh always get for what they pay. Because if governments don’t get for what they pay – they stop paying. Those getting paid – certainly know the score. Even when the bought-off “researchers” do “research” with non-government money – they know not to anger with their “studies” their far-and-away-largest paymasters. So NIGH EVERY SINGLE “study” – toes the government line. The government line is, of course: The results of ALL your “research” and ALL your “studies” – must call for more government. And for whatever else government is calling. We have based large swaths of our lives, tons of government policy and tens of trillions of our dollars – on this one-sided, biased, outcome-driven nonsense. The quintessential example of this? Of course – it is the inanity that is Cataclysmic-Man-Made-Climate-Change. Governments the world over have over the last half-century-plus spent multiple trillions of dollars of our money – on “research” for climate “studies.” Guess how many of those multiple trillions of our dollars have gone to those skeptical of Cataclysmic-Man-Made-Climate-Change? It’s as metaphysically close to zero as you’re ever going to get. Cataclysmic-Man-Made-Climate-Change – is the Greatest Scam on Earth. When the “research” doesn’t turn out the way government wants it – and it nigh always does, because Cataclysmic-Man-Made-Climate-Change is a giant scam – everyone starts faking the data. The government certainly does. World Leaders Duped by Manipulated Global Warming Data Though I’m not entirely sure they weren’t in on the scam…. NOAA Got Caught Faking Global Warming Temperature Data NASA Gets Caught Faking Climate Change Data-AGAIN! And certainly the bought-off “researchers” fake the data. Climate Change: This Is the Worst Scientific Scandal of Our Generation IPCC Researchers Admit Global Warming Fraud: “The messages were pirated from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA) and reveal correspondence between British and American researchers engaged in fraudulent reporting of data to favor their own climate change agenda…. “The e-mails implicate scores of researchers, most of whom are associated with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organization many skeptics believe was created exclusively to provide evidence of anthropogenic global warming (AGW).” Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock the Global Warming Debate: “Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: “(1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; “(2) these scientists view global warming as a political “cause” rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and “(3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.” Why this world-wide, multi-decade, massive scam? Because the alleged “solution” to the “problem” of Cataclysmic-Man-Made-Climate-Change – is MUCH more government. Natch. TGreen New Deal Would Cost Up to $93 Trillion Well…that’s a lot. The Green New Deal: Less About Climate, More About Control No kidding. Even it’s likely author cops to the scam…. AOC’s Chief of Staff Admits the Green New Deal Is Not about Climate Change: “Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti admitted recently that the true motivation behind introducing the Green New Deal is to overhaul the ‘entire economy.’… “The Green New Deal,…would transition the U.S. economy entirely away from fossil fuels within ten years while simultaneously providing a federal jobs and healthcare guarantee. “It would also, according to its proponents, advance ‘social, economic, racial, regional and gender-based justice and equality and cooperative and public ownership.’” That doesn’t sound very government-expanding at all. Why are we less government types so skeptical of so much? Because so much government – has polluted so much. So when the following raft of headlines came this weekend across the transom – we were more than a mite dubious…. Massive Study Proves Once And For All That No, Net Neutrality Did Not Hurt Broadband Investment Study Proves The FCC’s Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False New Study Finds Net Neutrality Rules Didn’t Harm Investment Gee…who did this groundbreaking “study”…? You have to search for yourself – because none of these “news” outlets tell you…. Meet Dr. Christopher Hooton: “Dr. Christopher Hooton is the founding Chief Economist & Head of Research at Internet Association where he leads the organization’s economic analysis and research on the internet sector.” Gee…what is the Internet Association…?: “Internet Association is the only trade association that exclusively represents leading global internet companies on matters of public policy.” Which companies? Amongst many others: Microsoft (Market Cap: $1.1 trillion) Amazon (Market Cap: $854 billion) Google (Market Cap: $843 billion) Facebook (Market Cap: $506 billion) Twitter (Market Cap: $32 billion) Hooton did his “research” for his “study” – under the auspices of George Washington University. Because we know college isn’t a bastion for corrupt “research” and “studies.” See: East Anglia University. And just about every college and university in the United States…. And what is the Internet Association’s longstanding position on Net Neutrality? Vociferously for it, natch. Net Neutrality Repeal Challenged by Internet Association in New Lawsuit It’s almost hard to believe the Internet Association’s founding Chief Economist & Head of Research – has penned a “study” in defense of Net Neutrality. Is this the Internet Association’s first foray into dubious Net Neutrality “research?” Heavens no. From 2017 – when the Donald Trump Administration was teeing up its right, righteous Net Neutrality un-doing: Net Neutrality Investment Study Used ‘Corrupted, Made Up Data,’ Economist Says: “The study was done by the Internet Association that represents pro-net neutrality companies like Amazon, Google and the like…. “A study showing zero impact on internet provider investment by net neutrality rules relied on ‘corrupted’ and ‘made up data,’ according to one economist…. “‘Dr. Hooton fabricates (via interpolation) three-fourths of the data he analyzes…for cable industry broadband investment,’ (economist George Ford said).” And guess who did this “corrupted” study with “made up data”…. Why…it’s again our old friend Hooton. The Internet Association’s founding Chief Economist & Head of Research. And does imposition of Net Neutrality result in less government – or more government? Just as with the Green New Deal, Net Neutrality results in much, MUCH more government. Net Neutrality Is About Government Control of the Internet Indeed it is. One of its biggest proponents – gleefully admits it: “At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.” How very Venezuela. And for the members of the Internet Association – Net Neutrality is a HUGE government-cronyism gift. Net Neutrality a Sweet Deal for ‘Bandwidth Hogs’: “Net Neutrality – in which all Internet traffic flows at one speed without preference for any content provider – is a hit with companies such as Google and Netflix that hope to dodge paying for the huge amount of online bandwidth they actually use….” Oh – and did Net Neutrality cause a drop in Internet investment? Of course it did. Because more government – always means less private sector. Because human nature. So Net Neutrality is a magical, harmonic convergence. Of government expansion – and government cronyism. And oozing from this nexus of DC Swamp-titude – is this latest, ridiculous “study.” “Researched” by – the founding Chief Economist & Head of Research of the Internet Association. Whose members benefit HUGE from government’s imposition of Net Neutrality. How very DC of…everyone. —————————— Seton Motley is the President of Less Government and he contributes to ARRA News Service. Please feel free to follow him him on Twitter / Facebook. Tags: Seton Motley, Less Government, Almost All. Research, Studies, Forcefully Draw Liquids Through Straws 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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University Officials Held ‘Personally Liable’ For Discrimination Against Christian Student Group
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 12:54 PM PDT
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship students.by Caleb Parke:
A federal court ruled University of Iowa officials must pay out of
their own pockets for discriminating against a prominent Christian
student group, calling the university’s conduct “ludicrous” and
“incredibly baffling” during a hearing last week. Judge Stephanie M. Rose of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa ruled Friday that the University of Iowa and its officers violated constitutional law when they kicked InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and other religious groups, off the campus in June 2018 for requiring leaders to uphold Christian beliefs — but giving a pass to secular student groups that also have leadership requirements. The university limited the Christian group’s access to campus after being there for over 25 years, froze its bank account, shut down its website and advertised that it was “defunct” for lack of student interest, according to court documents. This violated the Christian group’s free speech and free exercise rights, the court ruled. “It’s rare for a federal judge to call out a public university for ‘ludicrous’ and ‘incredibly baffling’ violations of the First Amendment,” Daniel Blomberg, senior counsel at Becket, who represented InterVarsity and BLinC, told Fox News. “But it was necessary here. The court already told the University of Iowa to stop picking on one Christian student group. The University responded by doubling down and kicking out Christian, Muslim and Sikh groups. That was obviously wrong. And it’s even more clearly wrong once you consider, as the court did, that it was also unfair.” He explains the university makes room for Greek groups and sports clubs, for the College Democrats and Republicans, for the environmental groups and the pro-life groups, but singled out religious groups. “We must have leaders who share our faith,” Greg Jao, director of external relations at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, said in a statement. “No group — religious or secular — could survive with leaders who reject its values. We’re grateful the court has stopped the University’s religious discrimination, and we look forward to continuing our ministry on campus for years to come.” This was the second lawsuit brought against the university after Business Leaders in Christ (BLinC) won their case earlier this year. A BLinC member claimed he was denied a leadership position for being openly gay. The group argued the member was rejected because “he expressly stated that he rejected BLinC’s religious beliefs and would not follow them.” The court stated it “would never have expected the university to respond to that order by homing in on religious groups” like InterVarsity, while “carving out explicit exemptions for other groups. But here we are.” The court did “not know how a reasonable person could have concluded this was acceptable,” since it “plainly” doubled down on the exact same conduct the court had already held unlawful. “It’s too bad it took twice for the University to learn its lesson,” Blomberg added. “There was no excuse the first time for squashing students’ First Amendment rights. University officials nationwide should now take note that religious discrimination will hit them in the pocketbook.” The university did not immediately respond to a Fox News request for comment. ——————- Caleb Parke @calebparke is an associate editor for FoxNews.com. H/T Fair Use Doctrine! Tags: University of Iowa, its officers, violated constitutional law, when they kicked, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, other religious groups, off the campus 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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Arkansas Republican Committee Speaks Out: Will Politicians Listen?
Posted: 01 Oct 2019 12:31 PM PDT
by Conduit for Action:
The policies of the Arkansas Republican Party are debated and adopted
at the state convention. Representatives of each county committee are
sent to the convention and participate in the debate and adoption of the
platform. For many it is the only time they will speak out on party
policy. In some counties there are growing frustrations over some politicians who run as Republicans but ignore the principles of the party. As a result, a few county committees have begun to speak out on some issues. What is the response of Republican politicians? It has been mixed. Jackson County Republican Committee – Second Amendment Rights The Jackson County Republican Committee passed a resolution demanding Republican officeholders protect our Second Amendment rights to own and bear arms. The Jackson County resolution of September 24, 2019 tells Republican officeholders to “take every available action to stop all attempts to impose any infringements on our natural right to keep and bear arms”. The resolution includes a list of specific types of legislation the committee expects officeholders to oppose: 1. Gun confiscation (a.k.a. Red Flag Laws/Extreme Risk Protection Orders); 2. Ban of semi-automatic and “assault style” weapons; 3. Any restriction of high capacity magazines or ammunition; 4. Universal Background Checks; and 5. Gun Buyback Programs Why did the Jackson County Committee think it necessary to pass such a resolution when one of the Arkansas Republican Party principles is “THE PERSONAL RIGHT TO OWN AND BEAR ARMS”? The reality is some Republican politicians ignore much of the Republican platform and principles. But will Republican politicians listen to their county committee? Let’s look at the experience of two other Republican county committees. Why did the Jackson County Committee think it necessary to pass such a resolution when one of the Arkansas Republican Party principles is “THE PERSONAL RIGHT TO OWN AND BEAR ARMS”? The reality is some Republican politicians ignore much of the Republican platform and principles. But will Republican politicians listen to their county committee? Let’s look at the experience of two other Republican county committees. Washington County Republican Committee – Taxes February 21, 2017 the Washington County Republican Committee passed a resolution against an internet sales tax. (An internet sales tax is a tax you pay when you order an item from an out-of-state seller that has no physical connection with Arkansas.) You might think a resolution on the subject should not be necessary since the party platform includes the principle, “LOWER TAXES TO PRODUCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.” But again, some ignore the principles. How did Republican legislators whose districts include some part of Washington County vote on the tax? The results were mixed. In 2017, two of the six Republican Representatives voted for the tax and two of the five Republican Senators voted for the tax. The tax failed in the House of Representatives. In 2019, the earlier resolution was largely ignored by the legislators of Washington County. All five Republican Senators rejected the committee’s plea and voted “For” the tax and two of the six Republican Representatives voted “For” the tax. Several of the Senators were sponsors of the tax bill. See details of the 2017 and 2019 votes in the notes below.[i] The 2019 tax bill was passed by the Republican majority legislature and Governor Asa Hutchinson quickly signed it. Craighead County Republican Committee – Republican Principles The Craighead County Republican Committee was concerned because some elected Republicans were voting with the Democrats and against Republican principles. On May 28, 2019 the Craighead County committee passed a resolution affirming the principles in the Republican Party platform which are: The power of faith in God;The sanctity of life;Individual responsibility and initiative;Individual freedom and liberty secured by a limited government;Private property;Lower taxes to produce economic growth;Strong national defense;The personal right to own and bear arms;The equal and just enforcement of the law; andSeparate and equal branches of government.The non-binding resolution also instructed the state Senators and state House Members representing the county “to do everything within their delegated authority to uphold these principles.” Why such a resolution? One committee member noted the committee sends money to candidates who do not follow the party platform and said one Republican official has voted 90% of the time with the Democrats. She said if they are not going to vote with the platform at least a majority of the time, why have a platform. Another member noted she and others work their tails off raising money for the party and candidates and there is nothing in the platform that any conservative would object to. The resolution passed but one state Senator objected strenuously to the resolution. Senator John Cooper claimed the resolution is “subversive” in its very nature and referred to George Washington who cautioned about the dangers of political parties. That is a very strange thing to say when you are a member of a political party and are at a political party committee meeting. Senator Cooper compared the resolution to the system of the communist Soviet Union where the Party instructed leaders on what actions to take. That is another strange thing to say in our country where joining a political party of like-minded individuals is purely voluntary and where you don’t have to belong to any political party to be elected to office. Despite Cooper’s opposition to the resolution (and apparently to the party platform having any guidance on his votes) there has been no indication he would want to run as an independent and drop the benefit of being Republican …. benefits without responsibility. Cooper may be the only one of the Craighead delegation to object to the resolution, but how would the Republican legislators representing your area respond? Honeymoon Over?Since becoming the majority party, the Republican county committees seem to have given elected Republican officials a pass when voting contrary to the party principles. Were they just excited about being on the winning side and didn’t want to rock the boat? Is the honeymoon over? Or, have the three county resolutions merely been rare exceptions where a county committee thinks it should be more than mere cheerleaders and should have a role in defending the party platform and principles? Only time will tell. Are you a member of a political party county committee? If so, please tell us what you think your role is as a member. Fundraiser? Recruiter? Cheerleader for anyone wearing the label? Defender of party principles? Policymaker? ———————– Conduit For Action is not a Republican organization but as a conservative organization CFA values the principles listed in the Arkansas Republican Party Platform. [i] In 2017, two of the six Republican Representative voted for the tax and two of the five Republican Senators voted for the tax. The tax failed in the House. Representatives Bruce Coleman and Charlene Fite ignored the resolution and voted for SB140 to tax you on your internet purchases from out-of-state sellers. Two of the five Senators voted for the tax. They were Senators Cecile Bledsoe and Jim Hendren. The tax was proposed again in 2019 as SB 576 and the tax passed in the Republican majority legislature. All five Republican Senators whose districts include part of Washington County voted “For” the tax. They are: Senators Bob Ballinger, Cecile Bledsoe, Lance Eads, Jim Hendren, and Bart Hester. Hester was the lead sponsor of the bill and the cosponsors of the bill included Senators Hendren, Ballinger and Eads. The committee did better in the House of Representatives. Only two of the six Representatives voted for the tax: Representatives Bruce Coleman, and Grant Hodges. ————————- Tags: Conduit for Action, Arkansas Republican Committee, Speaks Out, Will Politicians Listen 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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