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THE DAILY SIGNAL

Oct 09, 2019

Good morning from Washington, where House Democrats step up their drumbeat for impeachment. The process so far is hardly fair, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus writes. Heritage Foundation legal experts Hans von Spakovsky and Tom Jipping also take issue with the nature of the inquiry. On the podcast, Jim Carafano explains what’s going on with U.S. involvement in Syria. Plus: Fred Lucas on election fraud in Michigan, and Elizabeth Slattery on why the Supreme Court is talking about sex. It’s Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Correction: The Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957; Morning Bell got the year wrong Friday and regrets the error.

News How a Michigan Democrat’s Voter Fraud Was Caught “The Justice Department needs to carefully scrutinize what votes were canceled and why she would have improperly discarded those 193

[votes]

,” says J. Christian Adams of the Public Interest Legal Foundation. More

Commentary

The Unfairness of the Left’s Impeachment Push Against Trump

Liberals have spent the past three years chasing their dream of impeaching the president, which is an American nightmare of divisiveness. They stated no charge. They have flitted around like moths drawn to the light, writes Rep. Andy Biggs.

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Commentary

What Supreme Court Justices Said, Asked During Transgender, Discrimination Arguments

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg brought up the fact that when Congress passed Title VII as part of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, it couldn’t have been in Congress’ mind that discrimination “because of sex” meant discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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Analysis

What You Need to Know About Trump’s Move in Syria

Will President Trump’s Syria decision lead to new strength for ISIS? Are we abandoning our allies, the Kurds? And what effect could this have on the Middle East? The Heritage Foundation’s Jim Carafano, a foreign policy expert, explains what’s going on.

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Commentary

Pelosi Hasn’t Really Started the Impeachment Process

Pelosi’s claim that there is no “House precedent that the whole House vote before proceeding with an impeachment inquiry” is simply false.

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Commentary

Idiotic Environmental Predictions

In 2000, David Viner, a scientist at University of East Anglia’s climate research unit, predicted that in a few years winter snowfall would become “a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”

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THE RESURGENT

The Resurgent’s Morning Briefing for October 9,2019 View this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward 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.   AOC Call For ‘Prison Abolition’ May Have Potential A 1981 sci-fi film could be the basis for “decarceration.” The post AOC Call For ‘Prison Abolition’ May Have Potential appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » New Lying Scandal Hits Warren As She Rises In Polls In any other election, Warren’s fact-challenged biography might be a bigger problem, but in 2020 the other two frontrunners also have serious problems with the truth. The post New Lying Scandal Hits Warren As She Rises In Polls appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » State Dept. Nixes Sondland Testimony The ambassador to the EU took part in text messages obtained from Ukraine Envoy Volker. The post State Dept. Nixes Sondland Testimony appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » U.S. Blacklist of Chinese Companies Balances Human Rights Concerns with the Ongoing Trade War As China continues to crack down on Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region of the country, the United States has added 28 companies to a blacklist of Chinese companies who may have a role in the crackdown against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other minorities in China. China maintains that the camps that it has placed Muslim […] The post U.S. Blacklist of Chinese Companies Balances Human Rights Concerns with the Ongoing Trade War appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » CNN: Biden Avoiding Interviews Because He Doesn’t Want To Be Asked About Hunter Biden The post CNN: Biden Avoiding Interviews Because He Doesn’t Want To Be Asked About Hunter Biden appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Vote Ralph Abraham If you live in Louisiana, please consider voting for Congressman Ralph Abraham against Jon Bel Edwards. Abraham is a solid public servant, a good man, and he would make an excellent government. Louisiana can do better than Edwards. Louisiana should have a man like Abraham as governor. The election is coming up an every vote […] The post Vote Ralph Abraham appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Women Want Fewer Tax Burdens, Job Flexibility, And More During National Women’s Small Business Month October is in full swing. It means the return of hunting season, the omnipresence of pumpkin spice everything, fewer humid days, and National Women’s Small Business Month. The Small Business Administration annually puts on National Women’s Small Business Month to celebrate female job creators and entrepreneurs. This perfectly coincides with record unemployment numbers out on Friday, […] The post Women Want Fewer Tax Burdens, Job Flexibility, And More During National Women’s Small Business Month appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Thank You, Ellen Ellen DeGeneres struck a chord that will certainly resonate in the heart and heartland of America. Let me sum it up: “We don’t need to agree, to be friends. We just need to agree to be friends.” The post Thank You, Ellen appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser »   Recent Items: Why Trump’s Right on Syria Sorting Through the Mess of Reactions to Brandt Jean’s Proclamation of the Gospel to Amber Guyger 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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Sign up for this newsletter Read online The morning’s most important stories, curated by Post editors.       (AP) White House says it will defy impeachment inquiry, escalating standoff with an unbowed Congress The White House letter highlights the limitations of Democrats’ ability to exercise their oversight authority in the face of an administration that appears unfazed by flouting subpoenas. By Karoun Demirjian, Josh Dawsey, Shane Harris and John Wagner  ●  Read more » Former national security officials fight back as Trump attacks impeachment as ‘deep state’ conspiracy Those who have come forward said they are determined to make clear that the president’s conduct falls well outside the institutional boundaries of the presidency. By David Nakamura  ●  Read more » Furor over Syria began with troubling Trump phone call and White House statement The results have been rapid and remain unpredictable — and, in the view of critics, amount to the abandonment of the U.S.’s Syrian Kurdish allies to a massive Turkish military assault. By Karen DeYoung and Kareem Fahim  ●  Read more » Pentagon won’t take over Islamic State prisons if U.S.-allied Kurdish forces withdraw, officials say The U.S. military does not have the forces or mandate to guard militant prisons in Syria if a Turkish offensive creates a security gap, they said. By Missy Ryan and Liz Sly  ●  Read more » Western businesses see China’s slap at the NBA as a warning China has long controlled what it allows businesses and its own citizens to say or do at home. With Hong Kong in its fourth month of protests, China is increasingly imposing the same strictures on what’s said about it beyond its borders. By Jeanne Whalen, Ben Golliver and Steven Zeitchik  ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Arsonists are torching the Amazon. This elite team of firefighters stands in their way. In one corner of the rainforest, the Alliance Brigade is attacking the flames and teaching ranchers how to help. Some describe the team, known locally as the “fire warriors,” as a potential model for the rest of the Amazon. By Terrence McCoy  ●  Read more »   Opinions Joe Biden is a hypocrite on Ukraine By Marc Thiessen  ●  Read more » Trump’s dam might be about to burst By Karen Tumulty  ●  Read more » Trump is betraying his oath of office. If Republicans don’t step up, they will too. By Editorial Board  ●  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT We can learn something from this year’s Nobel Prizes: Humility By David Von Drehle  ●  Read more » Will Gorsuch abandon his judicial philosophy to get what he wants? By Dana Milbank  ●  Read more » Trump is ignoring arms control. It’s a dangerous mistake. By David Ignatius  ●  Read more »   More News For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year The average effective tax rate paid by the richest 400 families was 23 percent, a full percentage point lower than the 24.2 percent rate paid by the bottom half of American households, a new book-length study found. By Christopher Ingraham  ●  Read more » After heart attack, Bernie Sanders says he was ‘dumb’ to ignore his symptoms The senator and presidential candidate said he was foolish to discount signs of physical strain. He also admitted that he will have to reduce the number of campaign events he holds a day because of his health. Campaign 2020  ●  By Chelsea Janes  ●  Read more »   California cuts power to more than 500,000 as high winds raise wildfire threat The intentional shut-off encompasses more than half of the state’s 58 counties and spans much of Northern California, where two of the deadliest fires in state history have occurred in the past two years. By Scott Wilson  ●  Read more » Minneapolis arena backs off on rally security costs after Trump campaign cries extortion, threatens to sue The Target Center had planned to pass along a $530,000 security to the Trump campaign. By Colby Itkowitz  ●  Read more » Police name suspects, deny wrongdoing in death of Amber Guyger witness Joshua Brown Police emphatically denied rumors that Brown was slain for his role in the trial of Amber Guyger, the white former officer convicted of murder for killing Botham Jean, her unarmed black neighbor. By Brittany Shammas and Reis Thebault  ●  Read more »   We think you’ll like this newsletter Check out The Trailer for news and insight on political campaigns around the country, from David Weigel. 435 districts. 50 states. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings. Sign up »

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THE FLIP SIDE

View this email in your browser Wednesday, October 9, 2019 NBA Kowtows to China “An increasing number of U.S. lawmakers voiced anger on Monday over the NBA’s response to a Houston Rockets official’s tweet backing Hong Kong democracy protests… The National Basketball Association, which has built a huge following and burgeoning business in China, said in a statement it regretted the remarks by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey. A Chinese-language version seemed to go further, with the league saying it was ‘extremely disappointed’ in Morey’s ‘inappropriate’ remarks.” Reuters Both sides are critical of the NBA: “The NBA is well within its rights to take advantage of its privilege as a member of the greatest and freest nation in human history to criticize our president and use capitalism to show support or disdain for other states policies. But to bend the knee to China’s dictatorship, while protesters in Hong Kong brandish the American flag in their last stand for freedom, is beyond embarrassing. It’s disgraceful and disgusting and pathetic…  “As you read this from the comfort of your capitalist country, China holds millions of its Muslim and minority citizens in concentration camps, subjecting its prisoners to organ harvesting, forced abortions, effective slavery, systemic violence, torture, and even murder. The nation forcibly seizes the biometric data of its own citizens and executes thousands every year — at least officially speaking. In the minute you’ve taken to read this article thus far, Chinese have aborted three unborn baby girls thanks to the dictatorship’s gendered social policing. And of course, all of this ignores the utter and complete absence of civil liberties enjoyed by China’s 1.4 billion people.” Tiana Lowe, Washington Examiner “Of course, a lot of money is at stake… But that’s the point. China is attempting to enforce its version of the truth all around the world — bullying Chinese-language newspapers in Canada and the United States, patrolling the speech of its students abroad, demanding that foreign airlines and hotel chains wipe Taiwan off their maps. Some of its targets don’t have the wherewithal to stand up to this assault — which is why the NBA’s cravenness is so damaging. With all its financial muscle, its enormous popularity and its moral preening, if the NBA can cave so easily, who will resist the censorship of the Communist dictators?” Editorial Board, Washington Post Both sides also accuse the NBA of hypocrisy: “You might assume that the wokest professional sports league — this is a business, after all, that pulled its all-star game out of Charlotte, N.C., in 2017 because of that state’s anti-transgender bathroom bill — would see human rights, representative democracy and freedom of conscience as core virtues. But you would be wrong…  “Is the issue of gender-neutral bathrooms really as morally urgent as a country that is, as Pete Buttigieg sharply put it, ‘using technology for the perfection of dictatorship?’ This is a worldview that encourages companies to take cost-free stands on the progressive cause of the moment and do absolutely nothing to uphold fundamental progressive values when doing so requires more sacrifice than the time it takes to write up a news release. A worldview that fails to force companies like the N.B.A., Apple, Google and Disney to account for the fact that they are serving as handmaidens to totalitarians is not one worth taking seriously.” Bari Weiss, New York Times “The NBA did not issue an apology when LeBron James said President Trump ‘doesn’t give a f—’ about Americans or when San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich called Trump a ‘soulless coward’… Warriors head coach Steve Kerr was not reprimanded for wearing a pro gun-control shirt to the arena last season reading ‘vote for our lives’… But expressing support for Hong Kong was a step too far, apparently. Opposing a country with forced abortions, organ harvesting, sweatshop labor, 1 million Muslims in concentration camps, a ‘social credit score’ tracking all of its citizens and no democratic elections for president is what makes the NBA queasy.” Tom Joyce, Washington Examiner Finally, many are calling for coordinated responses to push back against Chinese government demands: “Public shaming of organizations such as the NBA helps raise the cost in the United States for its ignominy in China… The next step requires American businesses to coordinate responses to protect an organization when one of its affiliates voices an opinion that displeases Beijing. What’s bad for the NBA in China is bad for Google, too. The Trump administration has the political will — in May 2018, it called Beijing’s ordering U.S. airlines to change how they refer to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as ‘Orwellian nonsense’ — but lacks the discipline, attention and integrity… It falls to an American chamber of commerce or another nonprofit to teach the American business community that when an individual company doesn’t yield, it will afford them all more space to maneuver.” Isaac Stone Fish, Washington Post “This event is starkly clarifying. And it should give conservatives and progressives pause, because China’s model of imposing Xi Jinping thought is a direct and equal threat to us. If Chinese authoritarianism is able to spread into American life through corporate power, because corporations are set up to serve shareholders and have trouble thinking ethically beyond that, then perhaps it is the duty of the state to interrupt the exchange mechanism through which this corruption proceeds. If China is forcing American corporations to impose Xi Jinping thought, maybe it’s time to choose. No more basketball camps in the shadow of concentration camps… To hell with Chairman Xi, and to hell with every business venture that makes others too afraid to say likewise.” Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review Other opinions below. From the Left “The owner of the Rockets, Tilman Fertitta, raced for the traditional refuge of international capitalists — the insistence that business can be segregated from political considerations… “But it should be perfectly clear that playing basketball in China is political. Last year, the N.B.A. staged a game in South Africa for the explicit purpose of celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela. When the N.B.A. goes to China, that’s a statement, too. It means that the N.B.A. has weighed China’s human rights abuses against China’s potential as a source of revenue, and it has decided that it can live with state policies like the detention of hundreds of thousands of Chinese Muslims in the northwestern province of Xinjiang.” Editorial Board, New York Times “Globalization is exporting Chinese authoritarianism rather than American democracy… First, simply on a technical level, it turns out that utopian globalization proponents were massively understating the feasibility of building a censored version of the internet. Second, they underrated the extent to which the entirety of the modern technology industry would end up looking like a massive surveillance machine… the same mechanisms that let internet ad brokers know I’ve been considering buying a new wallet and planning a family beach vacation in Mexico this coming winter can (and are) used by authoritarian regimes for political purposes… this isn’t how globalization was supposed to play out.” Matthew Yglesias, Vox “The NBA should leave China… If Hong Kong is nonnegotiable, there’s nothing to discuss. The subject will become more sensitive, not less, if the Hong Kong police move from tear gas and rubber bullets to the routine use of live ammunition, or if the People’s Liberation Army moves in. Would the NBA muzzle its employees then?… Why not take the stand before it gets to that?… China may have 1.4 billion people and $4 billion worth of a basketball market, but only the NBA has NBA basketball. That is nonnegotiable in its own way, if the league is willing to stand up for itself.” Tom Scocca, Slate From the Right “When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came to the U.S. after years of captivity in the USSR, he professed amazement at how U.S. journalists who had exhibited cowardice when in the Soviet Union were posing as courageous lions of the press in the more congenial setting of the United States. I get the same feeling about the National Basketball Association… There’s a difference, though, between the journalists Solzhenitsyn held in contempt and the NBA executives. The journalists feared for their physical well being in the Soviet Union (we can’t all be Solzhenitsyn). The NBA execs are fearful only of losing money.” Paul Mirengoff, Power Line Blog “The list of corporations willing to toe the Chinese line is quite long… Marriott has fired staff who expressed support for Tibet. Delta apologized to China last year after listing Taiwan and Tibet as separate countries on its website. Versace apologized to China last month over a T-shirt that suggested Hong Kong and Macau aren’t part of China. (Versace not only stopped making the shirt, it destroyed all the ones it hadn’t sold.) Hollywood dares not make a big-budget film these days without clearing it with Chinese censors. Indeed, groveling before China has become commonplace in the corporate world… “Given that reality, we need to rethink the relationship between economic power and national security, and consider adjusting national economic policy and corporate regulations accordingly.” John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist “It’s easy for the NBA to be all sanctimonious about speech when it means a star player calling an unpopular American president a ‘bum.’ But when it comes to a general manager having the temerity to tweet ‘Fight for Freedom,’ suddenly [commissioner Adam] Silver cowers and a U.S. sports league has to impose totalitarian China’s censorship rules on one of its executives. Since, clearly the NBA only values money, above all else, if you care about freedom and are incensed by this decision, then there is only one way to send a message to them — by denying them any of yours.” Philip Klein, Washington Examiner On the bright side… Goat rams through sliding glass door, naps inside bathroom. AP News 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! Share Tweet Forward Sign Up Here Copyright © 2019 The Flip Side, All rights reserved. You can unsubscribe from this list here.

POLITICO PLAYBOOK

POLITICO Playbook: The GOP’s impeachment strategy gets sharper

By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMER 

10/09/2019 05:50 AM EDT

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OK, SO NOW we see for sure what the White House strategy is. It’s not only to refuse to cooperate in the impeachment probe, but it’s also practically to deny that Congress has any legitimate right to impeach President DONALD TRUMP — period. This shouldn’t be surprising. We’ve been headed in this direction for a while now. It basically ensures the president will be impeached for interfering with the work of Congress.

KYLE CHENEY and ANDREW DESIDERIO write that this will set up a “constitutional clash with Congress.”

“In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the three committee chairs leading the impeachment probe, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone all but declared that the Trump administration will refuse to engage with a process it considers to be constitutionally invalid. ‘Given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections, the executive branch cannot be expected to participate in it,’ Cipollone wrote.

“The eight-page letter reads more like a political document than a legal one, echoing many of President Donald Trump’s claims about the House Democrats who are investigating him. It also calls on Democrats to dismantle the process they set up to impeach Trump over allegations that he abused his power by pressuring Ukrainian leaders to help discredit his political rivals.” POLITICO … The letter

— AP’S JONATHAN LEMIRE, JIM MUSTIAN and MIKE BALSAMO: “The White House document, for its part, lacked much in the way of legal arguments, seemingly citing cable news appearances as often as case law. And legal experts cast doubt upon its effectiveness.” AP

… AND HERE IS HOW HOUSE REPUBLICANS plan to handle it. They are saying that House Intelligence Chairman ADAM SCHIFF and Speaker NANCY PELOSI — a pair of California Democrats the GOP believes is unpopular with their base — are trying to railroad a duly elected president just before an election. They are saying that Democrats are ignoring decades of precedent — somewhat true, somewhat false — to slag Trump. They won’t even hold a vote to start the process of throwing him out, Republicans say — even though it’s not necessary.

OF COURSE, this does not deal squarely with the substance: whether it is appropriate to invite foreign interference in American elections, and whether the president has done that. Nor does it deal with Trump turning the machinery of the U.S. government against JOE BIDEN, his main rival.

BUT THIS IS THE GOP STRATEGY, and here is what you’ll be hearing a lot of in the coming days. …

… HOUSE MINORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY told us this Tuesday: “If you’re going to undo the 2016 election, hold a vote for the American people to see. It’s what Congress did for Nixon and Clinton. If Democrats rush an unfair process, we’ll hit them every step of the way. They’ve gone everything against what has been done in the past.”

NEW YORK GOP REP. LEE ZELDIN — a close Trump ally who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee — caught the eye of many in Trump’s orbit Tuesday when he defended the president in front of the cameras in the Capitol. He told us this: “If there is going to be an impeachment inquiry, it should start with a vote by the full House, not by a press statement without a vote or any formal process. There should be minority subpoena power. The president should be allowed to have his counsel present at these depositions, to ask questions, present evidence, etc.

“ALSO, THE SELECTIVE CHERRY-PICKING of information to leak, deliberately withholding numerous massively important facts, is disgusting. The Volker transcript should be released. It destroys Schiff’s quid pro quo claim that President Trump issued a quid pro quo to President Zelensky that U.S. aid to Ukraine was linked to opening a corruption investigation against the Bidens. The Volker transcript blows a massive hole in the middle of that bogus charge.”

— WSJ ED BOARD: “Impeachment in Secret: Closed hearings and selective leaks won’t persuade the public.”

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HOW SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI IS RESPONDING: “For a while, the president has tried to normalize lawlessness. Now, he is trying to make lawlessness a virtue. The American people have already heard the president’s own words – ‘do us a favor, though.’

“The president’s actions threaten our national security, violate our Constitution and undermine the integrity of our elections. The White House letter is only the latest attempt to cover up his betrayal of our democracy, and to insist that the president is above the law.” More from John Bresnahan, Heather Caygle and Sarah Ferris on Dems’ strategy

SHOT … SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.): “If Turkey moves into northern Syria, sanctions from hell – by Congress – will follow. Wide, deep, and devastating sanctions. … To the Turkish Government: You do NOT have a green light to enter into northern Syria. There is massive bipartisan opposition in Congress, which you should see as a red line you should not cross.”

CHASER … FAHRETTIN ALTUN, Turkey’s communications director, in WAPO: “During a phone call with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, President Trump agreed to transfer the leadership of the counter-Islamic State campaign to Turkey. The Turkish military, together with the Free Syrian Army, will cross the Turkish-Syrian border shortly.” WaPo

— “Kurds mobilize in Syria as Turkey poised for imminent attack,” by AP’s Bassem Mroue in Beirut

NEW … “Poll: Half support impeaching and removing Trump,” by Steven Shepard: “Half of voters support the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday, shows that 50 percent of registered voters surveyed would support the Senate’s removing Trump from office, while 43 percent oppose the president’s removal. Seven percent of voters were undecided.

“The 50 percent who support Trump’s removal is identical to the percentage who approve of the intensifying impeachment inquiry into the president, and who would support the House’s voting to impeach Trump. Similarly, 44 percent of voters oppose the inquiry, and 43 percent would oppose the House’s impeaching the president.” POLITICO

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IMPEACHMENT CLIP PACKET …

— “Trump told Perry and State Department officials as early as May to talk to Giuliani about Ukraine,” by CNN’s Katelyn Polantz, Gloria Borger and Kylie Atwood: “President Donald Trump directed Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and two top State Department officials to deal with his private attorney Rudy Giuliani when the Ukrainian President sought to meet Trump, in a clear circumvention of official channels, according to two sources familiar with the conversation.

“Trump believed Ukraine was still rampantly corrupt and said that if President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to meet with him, Giuliani would have to be convinced first, one source said. ‘If they can satisfy Rudy, they can satisfy the President,’ a person familiar with the meeting said.” CNN

— “Trump’s Ukraine Call Was ‘Crazy’ and ‘Frightening,’ Official Told Whistle-Blower,” by NYT’s Nicholas Fandos: “A White House official who listened to President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s leader described it as ‘crazy,’ ‘frightening’ and ‘completely lacking in substance related to national security,’ according to a memo written by the whistle-blower at the center of the Ukraine scandal, a C.I.A. officer who spoke to the White House official.

“The official was ‘visibly shaken by what had transpired,’ the C.I.A. officer wrote in his memo, one day after Mr. Trump pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in a July 25 phone call to open investigations that would benefit him politically. A palpable sense of concern had already taken hold among at least some in the White House that the call had veered well outside the bounds of traditional diplomacy, the officer wrote.” NYT

— “Former national security officials fight back as Trump attacks impeachment as ‘deep state’ conspiracy,” by WaPo’s David Nakamura

WHERE’S MICK? — “The shelter-in-place strategy to survive Trump’s impeachment,” by Nancy Cook and Gabby Orr: “Mick Mulvaney has gone noticeably quiet over the past week, just as the president’s impeachment fight picks up. The White House’s acting chief of staff has not appeared on any major TV shows to defend President Donald Trump, nor has he had any success in setting up an internal White House war room to respond to Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.

“Instead, the president’s top aide has found his influence dwindling inside the West Wing as Trump faces the greatest threat to his presidency to date. It’s the same place where Reince Priebus and Gen. John Kelly found themselves, despite each having a wildly different management style and philosophical approache to the chief of staff job. Trump sidelined all three of them, even after Mulvaney made nice with his family and adopted his ‘let Trump be Trump’ ethos.” POLITICO

COURT WATCH — “Judge signals Dems may get to see Mueller’s secrets,” by Darren Samuelsohn: “A federal judge signaled Tuesday that she might give House Democrats access to some of Robert Mueller’s remaining secrets.

“During a two-hour hearing, Beryl Howell, chief judge for the U.S. District Court, challenged the Justice Department to explain its ‘extraordinary position’ of trying to block lawmakers from seeing the special counsel’s grand jury materials, which include testimony and evidence that has been kept private since the Mueller probe ended in March. Grand jury material is protected by law, but judges can release information under special circumstances.

“If Howell rules in Democrats’ favor, it would represent a major legal victory for them and could help expand Congress’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. While the probe started earlier this year with a broader focus on Mueller’s findings, the Democrats in recent weeks have homed in on the president’s alleged attempt to pressure Ukraine into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.” POLITICO

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— “The Washington Post and MSNBC to co-host Democratic primary debate in November,” by WaPo’s Sonia Rao

— MARC CAPUTO: “‘There’s nothing discernible to show Biden’s been punched in the nose’: “Joe Biden has been under sustained assault from President Trump for more than two weeks. But there’s little evidence that Biden has been significantly bloodied, according to a raft of new polls.

“ In more than a dozen state and national Democratic primary polls since Trump launched his near-daily fusillade of attacks accusing Biden and his son, Hunter, of corrupt business dealings in Ukraine, Biden’s standing has remained largely static.” POLITICO

— “Sanders Says He Will ‘Change the Nature’ of His Campaign After Heart Attack,” by NYT’s Sydney Ember and Jonathan Martin in Burlington, Vt.: “Senator Bernie Sanders, in a striking concession for a leading presidential candidate, said on Tuesday that he planned to slow down his pace on the campaign trail after suffering a heart attack a week ago, and acknowledged that voters would likely consider his health when deciding whether to support him.

“‘I think we’re going to change the nature of the campaign a bit,’ Mr. Sanders told reporters after a visit with a local cardiologist. ‘Make sure that I have the strength to do what I have to do.’

“Mr. Sanders’s remarks stood in sharp contrast with comments in recent days from his campaign advisers, who have insisted that the Vermont senator was neither changing course nor easing his trademark intensity as a result of the heart attack.

“Given Mr. Sanders’s influential role in the Democratic race, not only as a top candidate but also as a driving force in policy debates, his decision to pull back campaigning injects new uncertainty into the contest — both for the future of Mr. Sanders’s candidacy and the possible ramifications for other contenders.” NYT

THE JUICE …

— FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: PLANNED PARENTHOOD is ramping up its political activity ahead of the 2020 election. Planned Parenthood Votes will announce later today an initial $45 million investment for a battleground program that will fund grassroots organizing, digital, TV, radio and mail programs.

Their target states include: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The group expects “broader investments” will happen moving forward. It is a significant uptick in spending for the group, which spent a total of $30 million during the 2018 cycle.

— SCOOP: “‘Render to God and Trump’: Ralph Reed calls for 2020 obedience to Trump,” by Gabby Orr: “One of Donald Trump’s most prominent Christian supporters will argue in a book due out before the 2020 general election that American evangelicals ‘have a moral obligation to enthusiastically back’ the president.”

TRUMP’S WEDNESDAY — The president will sign executive orders on transparency in federal guidance and enforcement at 3:15 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room.

PLAYBOOK READS

NEW … ANNA sat down with SUSAN RICE in the latest WOMEN RULE podcast to talk about her new book, “Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For” ($23.70 on Amazon). The former national security adviser to President Barack Obama touched on the impact the Clinton impeachment had on foreign affairs, the current standing of the U.S. in the world and much more. Listen to the podcast … Story by Zack Stanton

— ON THE CLINTON IMPEACHMENT: “Because the Clinton White House was so deliberate about keeping the impeachment effort, counter-impeachment effort, in a very tight and isolated circle, and preserving our ability to continue to govern on everything else, it didn’t get into our national security bloodstream the way it is today. … And it is today, because one, it’s a national security issue that’s led to the inquiry, but also because the president seems to be taking this all on himself, and all of the public communication from him these days is about impeachment or some threat related to impeachment.”

— ON U.S. STANDING IN THE WORLD IN THE TRUMP ERA: “We are denigrating our allies; we’re starting trade wars and other conflicts with our allies; we’re embracing our opponents like Putin, like Kim Jong Un, and heralding them as great leaders and friends when they are anything but,” said Rice. “Right now, up is down and down is up. …

“Countries around the world have long started to question our interests, our purpose, and I think in particular they question the president’s interests. Is he acting in our national interest? I would say the evidence is no.”

BREXIT UPDATE: “After a turbulent day, the already-remote chances of a deal before next week’s European Council summit seemed closer to nil, though London and Brussels gave sharply differing accounts of why that appeared to be the case.

“At least this much everyone agreed on: The day started with a tough phone call between U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel that highlighted just how far apart the two sides still are. But from there, the accounts diverged wildly.” More from David Herszenhorn in Brussels

LETTER FROM JERUSALEM — “Israelis Watch U.S. Abandon Kurds, and Worry: Who’s Next?” by NYT’s David Halbfinger

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GAME THEORY — “NBA vs. China: The Power Struggle Behind the Standoff,” by WSJ’s James Areddy in Shanghai and Ben Cohen: “It isn’t much of a question for most of the foreign companies that play by China’s rules and find themselves balancing their commitment to democratic civil liberties against their pursuit of the market’s billions of dollars. In almost every case of an international business enterprise stoking the authoritarian regime’s ire, the company bowed to Chinese pressure, quickly apologizing in fear of losing access to a powerful economy of 1.4 billion people.

“But the NBA may be more strongly positioned to push back than other U.S. businesses that have run afoul of the Chinese government. It’s the most powerful sports league in the country and plays such an outsize role in local sporting culture that China without the NBA is increasingly unimaginable. Shortly before he became president, in fact, Xi Jinping went to a Lakers game in Los Angeles.

“It was a useful reminder of how much both sides of this dispute rely on each other: China is a huge market for any enterprise, but there’s only one NBA. There are other hotels, airlines and clothing brands. NBA basketball is irreplaceable.” WSJ

HEADS UP — “China plans to restrict visas for U.S. visitors with ‘anti-China’ links,” by Reuters’ Keith Zhai in Singapore: “China’s Ministry of Public Security has for months been working on rules to limit the ability of anyone employed, or sponsored, by U.S. intelligence services and human rights groups to travel to China. The proposed changes follow the introduction by the United States of tighter rules for visas for Chinese scholars in May.” Reuters

BEYOND THE BELTWAY — “Steven Reed makes history as Montgomery’s first black mayor,” by WFSA12

VALLEY TALK — “Facebook’s Hands-Off Approach to Political Speech Gets Impeachment Test,” by NYT’s Cecilia Kang: “The 30-second video ad released by the Trump campaign last week is grainy, and the narrator’s voice is foreboding. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., it says, offered Ukraine $1 billion in aid if the country pushed out the man investigating a company tied to Mr. Biden’s son.

“Saying it made false accusations, CNN immediately refused to air the advertisement.

“But Facebook did not, and on Tuesday, the social network rejected a request from Mr. Biden’s presidential campaign to take it down, foreshadowing a continuing fight over misinformation on the service during the 2020 election as well as the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.” NYT

BOOK WATCH — PBS NEWSHOUR’S @AliRogin: “It’s #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth so I thought I’d take a moment to share some big news: I’m writing a book! It’s about successful and influential women who have battled breast cancer and/or taken steps to reduce their genetic risk. It’s called The Comeback and will be out next fall. I was driven to write this book, featuring 30+ amazing women, because of my own experience dealing with the ‘breast cancer gene,’ BRCA1.”

MEDIAWATCH — Sara Kehaulani Goo is joining Axios as executive editor, focusing on audience and audio. She previously was managing editor at NPR. Business Insider

— Nate Jones has been been hired as FOIA director for WaPo, based in its investigative unit. He previously was at the National Security Archive, where he’ll remain a fellow.

— TV TONIGHT: NBC’s Harry Smith interviews Bernie Sanders, in his first sitdown since his heart attack. Sanders also suffered a family tragedy this week: His daughter-in-law, Raine Riggs, died of cancer. AP

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SPOTTED at a launch party for David Carden’s new book, “Mapping ASEAN” ($35 on Amazon), at Jones Day on Monday evening: Singaporean Ambassador Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Vietamese Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc, Bruneian Ambassador Serbini Ali, Thai Ambassador Thani Thongphakdi, Malaysian Ambassador Dato’ Azmil Mohd Zabidi, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kurt Albaugh, Bill Allison, Robert Blake, Raelyn Campbell, Piper Campbell, Josh Cartin, Patrick Chuasoto, Jacob Corfman, Caroline Cunningham …

… Elizabeth Dugan, Alexander Feldman, Puan Murni Abdul Hamid, Alden Hartopo, Tra Hoang, Matthew Jacobs, Dylan Kean, Stuart Kerr, Peter Lavoy, Danny Li, Satu Limaye, Daniel Lippman, Mushegh Manukyan, Leo Mathers, Michael Myers, Anthony Nelson, Mela Louise Norman, Clare Orvis, Rebecca Riley, Schuyler Schouten, Jennifer Schuch-Page, Jonathan Shen Jie Seng, Daniel Shields, Riley Smith, John Subritzky, Paween Thanarat, Aree Tomes, Stephanie Wan, Nicholas Weir and Nora Weir.

TRANSITIONS — John Weber is joining the DNC as a battleground press secretary. He previously was press secretary at the AFL-CIO. … John Wilson will be legislative director for Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.). He currently is senior legislative assistant for Heritage Action for America.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Elizabeth Ellis, outreach director for JPMorgan Chase Institute and a CFPB alum, and Brendan English, director of product design at Fishbowl Marketing, welcomed James Devin English on Sept. 28.

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Amy Dacey, executive director of the Sine Institute at American University. How she got her start: “When I was 8, my dad ran for the local school board and told me matter-of-factly that all kids are expected to volunteer. So I went door to door and attended party meetings to help him get elected. After the election, I found out not all kids did, but by that time I was hooked. Years later, dad ran for the county legislature but lost by five votes. That second campaign taught me that every vote matters — a lesson I’ve never forgotten.” Playbook Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Justin Barasky, senior adviser at the DSCC …Shailagh Murray … Tom Petrillo … Lenny Speiller … Monica Hinojos (hat tips: Teresa Vilmain) … Aaron Blake, senior political reporter at WaPo’s The Fix … Juana Summers, national political reporter at the AP … Jason Kaplan, VP at SKDKnickerbocker … former British PM David Cameron is 53 … Rachel Pearson … Clare Doody … Virginia Hume (h/t Jon Haber) … former Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.) is 45 … C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb is 78 … Ryan Ramsey … Vivek Kundra … Gabriel Snyder … Chris Kofinis, CEO of Park Street Strategies … Peter Billerbeck of House Foreign Affairs … Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, is 48 … Jodie Kelley, CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association (h/t Laura Hubbard) …

… Miles Taylor, head of national security relations at Google (h/t Blain Rethmeier) … Russell Dye, communications counsel for House Oversight Republicans (h/t Darius Namazi) … David Bibo,FEMA associate administrator for response and recovery … NBC News PR’s Jordan Littlejohn … Facebook’s Carrie Adams … Arianna Skibell … Valerie Berg … Michael Marcialis … ABC News’ Justin Fishel is 4-0 … Kat Skiles, senior adviser for digital content for Beto O’Rourke’s campaign … Rob Caruso … Ben Rush … Julia Schechter, director at SKDK … Tarresha Poindexter … Annastacia Langthorn … Michael Tubman … Elizabeth Shappell Lattanner … David Cohen, Obama WH alum and NYU Law grad … Zack Hale … Leah Fabel Young … Becki Donatelli … Michael Smith, CEO and founder of MDSA Strategic Communications … Dana Wolfe

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✡️ It’s Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.

You’re invited … In D.C. on Friday at 8 a.m., Margaret Talev will moderate an Axios News Shapers event with Ambassador Susan Rice, EU ambassador to the U.S. Stavros Lambrinidis and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).

• RSVP here.

⚡ Situational awareness: “Dianne Feinstein officially backs Joe Biden for president over her fellow California senator, Kamala Harris.” (L.A. Times)

1 big thing: Trump’s burn-down-the-House plan

President Trump, while nervous about the historic stain of impeachment, is throwing everything he has into this fight: refusing all cooperation, running ads to profit politically, and torching every person who stands in opposition to him. 

• When it all boils down, Trump really only trusts his own instincts, Axios’ Jonathan Swan reports.
• And his instincts here are the same as they were with the Mueller investigation: Fight like hell.
• No nuance or apology — not a hint of it.
• Turn the leader of the investigation (in this case, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff) into a conservative media villain, and condemn Trump enemies in the most incendiary and exaggerated language possible (treason, traitors, coup, etc.).

Why it matters: Compared to the Mueller investigation, the Ukraine phone call appears to have more resonance with the general public.

• Republicans close to leadership and the White House tell Swan they’re concerned by trend lines in a Washington Post poll showing 49% of Americans think Trump should be removed from office.
• Top Republicans don’t believe the numbers in the Post poll, which found support for an impeachment inquiry rising among Republicans by 21 points since July.
• Trump’s abrupt announcement that he would withdraw from Syria and clear the way for the Turks to charge in (and perhaps massacre the Kurds) has added to this anxiety about Trump weakening the support he needs among Republican lawmakers.

The bottom line: None of these are helpful signals for Trump.

2. Trump spends $700,000 on impeachment ads in one week

Data: Bully Pulpit Interactive. Table: Axios Visuals

President Trump’s campaign has poured millions of ad dollars into issues that resonate with his base. Immigration was the driver. Now, it’s impeachment, Axios media trends expert Sara Fischer reports.

• Why it matters: This is a stark reflection of Trump’s fight-like-hell gambit.

And it’s not just Trump — this is a party-wide effort to cash in:

• The House and Senate Republican committees are also putting the majority of their digital ad dollars behind impeachment.
• In ads targeted to his home state of Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who’s up for re-election next year, is running ads that say impeachment will fail “with me as majority leader.”

3. Lindsey Graham on Trump: “He’s putting the nation at risk”

Turkish soldiers drive armored vehicles towards the border with Syria yesterday. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

In an interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan last night, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) condemned President Trump in his harshest language yet for deciding to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria, suggesting Trump is violating his oath of office by allowing Turkey to move in and attack the Kurds.

• Graham said Trump is making the biggest mistake of his presidency, against the advice of his national security team, and putting his presidency in peril.
• “I think he’s putting the nation at risk, and I think he’s putting his presidency at risk,” Graham said. “And I hope he will adjust his policies like he did before. That would actually be a sign of real leadership.”

“If I hear the president say one more time, ‘I made a campaign promise to get out of Syria,’ I’m going to throw up,” Graham continued.

• “The president is not ending the war. He’s creating a bigger war if he does not change course.”

Behind the scenes: Graham said that as far as he’s aware, none of Trump’s key national security advisers or Cabinet officials supported the announced withdrawal from northern Syria. 

• “The president’s doing this completely against everybody else’s advice.”
• Graham said he first learned of the decision in a 6 a.m. call Monday from someone who told him, “You won’t believe what just happened.”
• Graham said he’s not spoken to Trump since: “He knows how I feel.”

📞 On a conference call with reporters yesterday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) defended Trump against what he called “the lunacy of the war caucus, yelling and screaming over moving 50 soldiers.”

• Paul said he learned about Trump’s Syria announcement from media reports.

4. Pic du jour

Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Thousands of life jackets and rubber boats, abandoned by migrants who have crossed from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos, are dumped in Greece.

• The mass of life preservers has been dubbed “The Life Jacket Graveyard” — and these are the refugees who made it.

5. ⚖️ Impeachment state of play

There’s a lot of debate inside the White House about how to run against impeachment, who to bring inside, who to recruit as an outside helper, or even whether outside help is needed, Axios’ Alayna Treene and Margaret Talev report.

• Trump has asked former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy to assist him with legal advice from outside the White House and Gowdy has agreed, though details are yet to be finalized, according to people familiar with the situation.
• Gowdy is expected to appear on TV to advocate on behalf of the president.
• Gowdy’s experience as the fiery chair of the House’s Benghazi committee is seen as an asset, according to a person familiar with the situation.

6. For tech, it’s all hard problems now

The tech industry spent the last two decades connecting the world and getting computers into every home and hand — but that’s turning out to have been the easy part.

• Now, every problem tech companies face is fiendishly hard, Axios managing editor Scott Rosenberg writes.
• Everywhere you look, far beyond the loudest headlines about hate speech and partisan bias online, tech companies face conflicting imperatives from their customers, governments, stakeholders and critics.

Our thought bubble: The tech industry still commands such a reserve of money and talent that it might find a path through this maze.

• Facebook’s careful, creative effort to create a “Supreme Court”-like appeals board for content moderation decisions is one promising example.

7. China censors “South Park”

In less than 48 hours, three American companies in the business of mass entertainment have found themselves at the center of a political storm about China’s aggressive censorship, Axios’ Kia Kokalitcheva reports.

• Why it matters: Media and entertainment have long acted as extensions of free speech with a mass reach, making them both vehicles for public expressions of controversial views and targets of government censorship.

Simultaneously with the NBA fracas, the Chinese government banned “South Park” (and virtually scrubbed the show from its domestic internet) after its latest episode criticized the country’s censorship.

• The video game company Activision Blizzard, which is partly owned by Chinese company Tencent, censored a professional player and rescinded his competition prize money after he expressed support for the Hong Kong protesters.

What’s next: Some are calling for U.S. regulators to reconsider TikTok parent company Bytedance’s acquisition of Musical.ly, the American short-video app it acquired in 2017, because of growing fears it will censor American users.

8. The cost of Trump’s tariffs

Data: U.S. Census Bureau via Tariffs Hurt the Heartland. (Lists 1-3 refers to USTR designation of Chinese imports subject to tariffs.) Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios

President Trump’s tariffs have cost U.S. corporations $34 billion, according to data, provided first to Axios’ Courtenay Brown, that was compiled by Tariffs Hurt the Heartland, a coalition of businesses and trade groups that oppose the tariffs.

• Go deeper.

9. New “Trump-skeptical” voice on the right

Courtesy The Dispatch

Two of the biggest names in conservative journalism — Steve Hayes, formerly of the now-defunct Weekly Standard, and Jonah Goldberg, a longtime National Review star — yesterday launched The Dispatch.

• Why it matters: The Dispatch, citing “worrisome” trends in journalism on the right, is plunging into a tough space — conservative, but not a President Trump booster.

Hayes and Goldberg — along with their senior editor, former National Review senior editor David French — are longtime Trump critics.

• Hayes said The Dispatch will be “Trump-skeptical”: “We think of it as more ‘beyond Trump’ than ‘anti-Trump.'”

10. 🎵 1 fun thing

The Eagles are planning massive performances of “Hotel California” during a 2020 tour that kicks off Feb. 7 in Atlanta and ends April 18 in L.A.:

• Performances of the 1976 album will include a 46-piece orchestra and 22-voice choir.
• 77 musicians will be onstage while Eagles perform hits from the album, including “New Kid in Town” and “Life in the Fast Lane.” (AP)

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The impeachment inquiry battle kicked into overdrive on Tuesday as the White House declared it will not cooperate with the ongoing investigation by House Democrats, who responded by warning the White House that its lack of cooperation will be considered an act of obstruction as lawmakers move toward impeachment.  In a letter to House Democratic leaders and investigators, the White House counsel argued that the ongoing inquiry violated the president’s due process rights and that the executive branch will not provide any testimony or documents for the investigation. Although the White House largely cooperated with the special counsel’s Russia probe, with the exception of granting an interview with Trump, the eight-page letter sent on Tuesday contends that the House investigation violates the Constitution and “every past precedent.”  “Your unprecedented actions have left the president with no choice,” said Pat Cipollone, the top lawyer for the president and the presidency and the lone signatory of the letter. “In order to fulfill his duties to the American people, the Constitution, the Executive Branch, and all future occupants of the Office of the presidency, President Trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances,” Cipollone wrote (The Hill). Hours later, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) fired back in a statement of her own, panning Trump for “trying to make lawlessness a virtue,” adding that he “will be held accountable.” The New York Times: White House declares war on impeachment inquiry, alleging effort to undo Trump’s election. Politico: The shelter-in-place strategy to survive Trump’s impeachment. The new standoff came after the State Department blocked Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, from testifying before House investigators earlier in the day shortly before he was expected to do so (The Hill).  The move by State forced the hand of House Democrats, who responded in kind by issuing a subpoena for Sondland’s testimony. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told reporters on Tuesday that the EU ambassador had messages on a personal device that the State Department is withholding from Congress, with Schiff issuing a formal subpoena on Tuesday evening. The last-minute block of Sondland’s testimony caught Republican lawmakers off guard, with some going over to the White House to share their frustration over the lack of communication in advance (Bloomberg).  While lawmakers made the push, the White House attempted to beef up its impeachment legal team, including a push to bring former House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on board. Reports were conflicted as of Tuesday evening about whether he officially accepted a role after meeting with Mick Mulvaney, acting White House chief of staff, on Tuesday, but some expect him to ultimately join the team in some fashion.  Elsewhere, more layers of the original whistleblower’s call were peeled back on Tuesday. According to ABC News, a White House official who listened in on the president’s infamous July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described it as “crazy” and “frightening,” and was “visibly shaken” by the call’s contents,  according to notes taken by the whistleblower after speaking with the official and others.  The notes were part of a two-page memo the whistleblower wrote a day after the call, during which Trump pressed Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.  The Hill: China rejects Trump call to investigate Bidens. The Hill: McConnell blasts House Democrats over handling of impeachment inquiry. In the Senate, Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) invited Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, to appear before the committee to testify about Ukraine, specifically pointing to the “corruption and other improprieties” that have taken place there.  Giuliani indicated he is “very interested” in doing so but may bow to a claim of executive privilege (Bloomberg). He added that he will not take part in Schiff’s investigation on the House side (The Washington Post). Bottom line: Giuliani’s sworn testimony about his role as one of Trump’s personal lawyers is highly unlikely. On the political side, polls are showing troubling signs for the president as the impeachment inquiry picks up steam and only 13 months stand between him and Election Day. As Jonathan Easley reports, new surveys show that independents and a growing share of Republicans warming to the inquiry  While early shifts in support of impeachment appeared to be driven by Democrats, a Washington Post-Schar School poll released on Tuesday rocked Washington, finding that nearly 30 percent of Republicans said they support the investigation, while nearly 20 percent said they would support a Senate vote to remove the president if he is impeached in the House.  According to FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls, support for impeachment among Republicans has increased from 8 percent last month to 16.2 percent presently, while support among independents has leaped from 33.9 percent to 44.4 percent.  The New York Times: What Joe Biden learned at the last two impeachments. Politico: Trump’s Hill cheerleaders take center stage in impeachment defense.

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LEADING THE DAY

INTERNATIONAL: Syria/Turkey: Turkish forces and Syrian rebel allies will push into Syria “shortly,” a Turkish official said today. The targets — the Kurdish-led authority in northern Syria — declared a state of “general mobilization” across north and east Syria in light of the anticipated attack by Ankara (Reuters). On Tuesday, Trump switched gears from his Monday threat to obliterate Turkey’s economy if it invades Syria to inviting its president to visit the White House on Nov. 13, a get-together Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan first mentioned after speaking with Trump by phone on Sunday. Such a meeting had been under negotiation for some time (The Associated Press). Trump’s praise for Turkey as a NATO ally added to criticism of the president’s awkward posture toward Erdoğan as the anticipated offensive in northeastern Syria loomed. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley participated in the Sunday call between the two leaders, officials said (Reuters). Trump and Erdoğan this week both publicly raised the F-35 stealth fighter aircraft, made by Lockheed Martin, as important to both countries and a subject for discussion at their meeting next month. Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Turkey is “a big trading partner.” Trump continued to defend his decision to relocate all 50 to 100 U.S. troops from the Kurdish-held territory ahead of Turkey’s offensive into Syria. Since 2014, the United States has treated Kurdish fighters as allies in the battle against ISIS. The Hill: Trump faces growing GOP revolt on Syria.

© Getty Images  > Brexit: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s representatives are pessimistic a divorce agreement with the European Union will happen by Oct. 31 following Johnson’s discussion Tuesday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Unless Great Britain agrees to let Northern Ireland continue to follow EU customs rules in order to maintain an open border with EU member Ireland, a deal is “overwhelmingly unlikely,” Merkel told the prime minister (The Associated Press). Talks between the U.K. and the EU continue today. > China: Hopes for a breakthrough in trade talks with China scheduled for Thursday and Friday dimmed after the administration added 28 Chinese organizations to a blacklist tied to human rights violations. Chinese officials signaled they are open only to a narrow trade deal, and markets dipped on the news (The Hill). The administration began on Monday by placing eight Chinese tech companies on the blacklist (Bloomberg). … Separately, Trump has been silent about a showdown between China and the NBA, which began with a tweet supportive of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters, written (and then deleted) by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey (CNN). U.S. basketball is hugely popular in China and lucrative for the U.S. sports world, but Beijing’s heavy-handed reaction may impact trade relations as well as basketball’s suddenly controversial “kowtowing” to China (CNBC). …An NBA Cares event to benefit the Special Olympics and involving the Los Angeles Lakers was canceled today in Shanghai hours before it was set to begin. The NBA said it was not its decision (ESPN).

IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES

POLITICS: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) opened up some more on Tuesday about his recent heart attack, telling reporters that he was “dumb” to ignore warning signs that preceded it as he kept up his breakneck campaign schedule since launching his bid in February.  “I must confess that I was dumb,” Sanders told reporters camped out in front of his Burlington, Vt., home, where he’s been recovering in recent days after leaving a Las Vegas hospital. “I, in the last month or two, just was more fatigued than I usually have been, and I should have listened to those symptoms” (Reuters). Video HERE. While the 78-year-old said that he will maintain an active schedule, he admitted that he’ll have to make some adjustments to how he proceeds and may have to dial back the intensity of his day-to-day activity.  “I certainly intend to be actively campaigning,” he said, noting that he was participating “in five or six meetings a day, three or four rallies and town meetings and meeting with groups of people” ahead of last Tuesday. “I think we can change the nature of the campaign a bit, make sure that I have the strength to do what I have to do” (The Hill). Sanders, who has remained off the campaign trail for a full week, is expected to make his first appearance since his heart procedure in next Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate, the fourth of the campaign season, alongside 11 other competitors in Westerville, Ohio. The Associated Press: Sanders’s daughter-in-law dies at 46 after cancer diagnosis. As Sanders and others look ahead to Tuesday, the Democratic National Committee announced plans for the fifth debate in November, which will take place in Georgia on Nov. 20. MSNBC will play host to the evening’s affairs, with the deadline for qualification via polling and fundraising set for the Nov. 13.  Andrew Yang announced on Tuesday that he qualified for the November debate after hitting 3 percent support in a new Quinnipiac University poll released earlier in the day. He is the eighth Democrat to qualify, with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tom Steyer having done so over the weekend by netting 3 percent and 4 percent, respectively, in a Fox News poll in South Carolina (CNN).

© Getty Images  > Small-dollar donors: Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) have reshaped the traditional model for financing presidential campaigns, using vast networks of small donors to propel themselves to the top ranks of Democratic fundraisers, as Max Greenwood reports. That reality became clear in recent days after the two leading progressive candidates announced third-quarter fundraising hauls that trounced those of their top rivals. The two top-tier candidates have eschewed the high-dollar fundraising circuit since early-on in their campaigns, a bet once considered risky given the outsize influence wealthy donors and bundlers have long held in presidential politics, but one that appears to have paid off. The Hill: 2020 Democrats embrace aggressive step on drug prices. The Hill: Louisiana GOP bring in big names to block Democratic governor.

OPINION

The tiger that didn’t purr: For Xi Jinping, it’s not personal, it’s just business, by Joseph Bosco, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2p1AaSA   The Contract with America turns 25, by Sheila Weinberg, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2oquAcq

WHERE AND WHEN

Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features Michael Doran, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, on the president’s move in Syria; Rachel Bovard, senior director of policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute, and former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) to discuss their new book, “Conservative: Knowing What to Keep”; Tim Black, host of “The Tim Black Show,” to chat about the 2020 race; and David Daley, journalist for The Intercept, to talk about gerrymandering. Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House is expected to return on Oct. 15 for votes. The Senate convenes on Friday at 2:15 p.m. for a pro forma session. The president signs executive orders dealing with federal guidance and enforcement at 3:15 p.m.  Vice President Pence will travel today to visit Manning Agriculture in Waukee, Iowa, to deliver a speech advocating ratification of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Later today, he will headline a reelection event for Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and then return to Washington.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets this morning with Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo and then gives a joint news conference with his counterpart at 9:30 a.m. at the State Department. The secretary will meet at 2 p.m. with Saudi Vice Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is in Kansas City, Mo., where he will deliver opening remarks at 11 a.m. during “Fed Listens: A Community Listening Session.” Washington’s Humane Rescue Alliance is preparing for its 32nd annual “Bark Ball” fundraiser on Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. at the Washington Hilton. Up first: Charitably minded online bidding opened on Monday to all comers for more than 200 donated items. Find ticket info for the black-tie ball (canine guests welcome), plus event details HERE.

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➔ State Watch: California’s PG&E began shutting off power to nearly 800,000 customers across Northern and Central California starting just after midnight Wednesday in an effort to prevent and suppress wildfires in high wind conditions. The bay area is expected to be affected after noon. Michael Lewis, senior vice president for PG&E’s electric operations, apologized on Tuesday for the utility’s unusual decision, which had been publicly discussed for months as a fire-season option (San Francisco Chronicle).   ➔ Red ink: The fiscal 2019 federal budget deficit — borrowed money spent in excess of revenue — is close to $1 trillion, a sum once considered by budget hawks to be politically and fiscally perilous (The Hill). At $984 billion, the deficit has climbed 50 percent since Trump’s inauguration and is the highest it has been in seven years. The Congressional Budget Office report is HERE.  ➔ Health & sex: U.S. infections from three sexually transmitted diseases — chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis — rose for the fifth consecutive year. More than 1.7 million cases of chlamydia were reported last year, an increase in the infection rate of 3 percent from 2017 and a record for a single year. The rise may be the result of increased testing. About 580,000 gonorrhea cases were reported in 2018, the most since 1991. Scientists worry that antibiotic resistance may be a factor in the 5 percent hike in confirmed cases. And the syphilis rate rose 15 percent. About 35,000 cases of the most contagious forms of the disease were reported, the most since 1991 (The Associated Press). ➔ Social media: 8chan, known widely as a breeding ground for white supremacists, has been offline since it was implicated in the El Paso, Texas, shooting in August. The platform’s removal from the mainstream internet sparked heated debate about reckoning with online communities known for inciting violence. However, researchers have found that another social media platform, Berlin-based Telegram, which has layers of anti-surveillance features, is filling in where 8chan left off. House lawmakers say they are concerned (The Hill).

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And finally … The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 and 2019 will be announced on Thursday and the recipient of the famed Nobel Peace Prize will be unveiled on Friday.  In the interim, bravo to the Nobel winners already announced for their discoveries that help explain how the world works, from the vastness of space to the intricacies of human cells. This morning, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry are John Goodenough of the United States, Stanley Whittingham of Great Britain and Akira Yoshino of Japan for the development of lithium-ion batteries (The Associated Press). On Tuesday, cosmologist James Peebles shared the prize with two astronomers, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, for work that “transformed our ideas about the cosmos,” according to the judges. Peebles, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, claimed the prize — and half the prize money of $918,000 — for his theories that help unpack 13.8 billion years of cosmological history, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced. He shared the award with scientists who discovered a planet circling a distant sun-like star. They are Mayor, a retired astrophysicist and professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of Geneva, and Queloz, a professor of physics at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, and at the University of Geneva (The New York Times). On Monday, the Nobel Prize in Medicine went to William G. Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for discoveries about how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. Their research explains how cells function and may help treat diseases in which oxygen is in short supply — including anemia, heart attacks and strokes — as well as cancers. Kaelin, a professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School, said, “Like any scientist, I like solving puzzles.” Ratcliffe is the director of clinical research at the Francis Crick Institute in London and director of the Target Discovery Institute at Oxford, and Semenza is professor of genetic medicine at Johns Hopkins (The New York Times).

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View In Browser October 9, 2019 chicagotribune.com Daywatch 1.) One of the biggest deals in the cannabis industry just fell apart. Here’s what it could mean for marijuana in Illinois. WEDNESDAY, OCT 9 When MedMen Enterprises agreed to buy Chicago-based PharmaCann last year, the $682 million deal was one of the biggest in the history of legal weed. Now, it’s one of the biggest deals in the industry to fall apart. But MedMen still has its eyes on Illinois, where recreational marijuana becomes legal on Jan. 1. In exchange for forgiveness of certain debt, PharmaCann will transfer ownership of one marijuana grow facility, one retail facility, and a license to open another retail facility in Illinois to MedMen. 2.) White House vows to stop cooperating with impeachment probe WEDNESDAY, OCT 9 In a blunt letter to House leaders, the White House declared it will halt any and all cooperation with what it termed the “illegitimate” impeachment probe by House Democrats, sharpening the constitutional clash between President Donald Trump and Congress. The letter marks the beginning of a new strategy to counter the impeachment threat to Trump: Stall. Obfuscate. Attack. Repeat. Trump aides have been honing their approach after two weeks of what allies have described as a listless and unfocused response to the impeachment probe.Read the full letter for yourself here. As much as he favors the Trump impeachment inquiry, Joe Walsh says it’s sucking the air out of the 2020 campaign season right now. In other Washington news, Illinois GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger joined a growing chorus of Republicans in criticizing Trump’s call for U.S. forces to exit northeast Syria.   3.) 2 Chicago gang officers used police powers ‘to lie, cheat and steal,’ prosecutors allege as trial starts in earnest WEDNESDAY, OCT 9 A Chicago police sergeant and an officer on his gang team “used their police powers to lie, cheat and steal” by obtaining bogus search warrants to routinely rob drug dealers of cash and narcotics, federal prosecutors said as the officers’ federal corruption trial got underway in earnest Tuesday. The two-week trial promises to put a rare spotlight on the arcane process that Chicago police officers use to obtain John Doe search warrants that don’t require the sworn testimony of an informant for a judge to approve.Also in court Tuesday, federal prosecutors turned over more than 40,000 pages and 100 discs of evidence in the Ald. Edward Burke case. And they’re not done yet. 4.) Finding parking at a sports event can be a headache. A city watchdog says some Chicago cops found an illegal solution. WEDNESDAY, OCT 9 Chicago police officers improperly used department-issued placards to park illegally with their personal vehicles in police station parking lots so they or their friends and relatives could attend Cubs and Bears games, an investigation by the city’s government watchdog found. The watchdog’s report chided CPD leaders for not reminding officers during roll calls about a February 2018 directive prohibiting such preferential parking. The 2018 directive was passed after a separate probe found CPD employees provided illegal, free parking to off-duty cops, their friends and family outside the United Center to attend Blackhawks games.   5.) Here’s why your Metra commute could get faster WEDNESDAY, OCT 9 Metra expects to spend close to $2.6 billion in the next five years on locomotives, rail cars, bridges, stations and other improvements that could potentially speed the daily commutes of Chicago area residents. More than half of the funding for the planned purchases will come from the capital program passed by the state legislature earlier this year. Metra officials have been pushing for years for a new state capital program, noting that the transit agency is still using rail cars from the Eisenhower era. 6.) It’s official: The Chicago Fire will return to Soldier Field in 2020 WEDNESDAY, OCT 9 At a news conference at the iconic stadium, the Chicago Fire announced an agreement to play at the home of the Bears starting in 2020, ending a 14-season stint in Bridgeview and returning to the 61,500-seat venue in the South Loop. Financial terms of the deal, which runs through the 2022 season with extension options for eight more years, were not disclosed. The return has been a long time coming. Fire owner and Chairman Joe Mansueto in September told the Tribune he had been working for about a year to move Fire home matches back to the city. Of all the changes that await the Chicago Fire, this is one of the biggest: Bastian Schweinsteiger is retiring from soccer.   7.) Hurried Chicagoans hate it when the river bridges open. The Chicago River Museum sells tickets. WEDNESDAY, OCT 9 Usually when Chicagoans encounter the bridges over the city’s namesake river in a temporarily vertical posture, it is a source of annoyance: We all have to wait here so that the swells who own sailboats can pass through below? But the Chicago River Museum, a charming paean to the backward-flowing waterway in a corner bridgehouse of Michigan Avenue’s DuSable Bridge, turns this seasonal rite of nautical passage into an object not of irritation but of intrigue. Architecture tours with a side of fireworks and sometimes a box cutter: The women of First Lady Cruises explain what it takes to run a Chicago architecture tour. 8.) ‘The homes are so big it’s ridiculous’: Complaints resurface in Arlington Heights over sprawling homes WEDNESDAY, OCT 9 Jim Elgas is so fed up with big houses going up in his neighborhood that he recently complained about it to the Arlington Heights Village Board. “The tear downs, it’s happening in our neighborhood. The homes are so big it’s ridiculous how they look in comparison with the homes that are there. They are 4,200 square feet and most of the homes in the neighborhood are 1,100 square feet,” he said, calling the home dimension differences “a form of gentrification” and asked the board to consider changing the building codes. However, the mayor of Arlington Heights, village manager and director of planning and community development said this issue had been addressed in the past. 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Impeachment Fight Escalates “President Donald Trump intensified his fight with Congress Tuesday over the Democrats’ impeachment investigation, as the administration blocked a U.S. diplomat from testifying behind closed doors about the president’s dealings with Ukraine. House committee chairmen said they would subpoena the envoy to force him to appear.   Gordon Sondland, the U.S. European Union ambassador, was barred from appearing in a closed-door session with three House panels investigating Trump’s entreaties to Ukraine. Text messages released last week revealed conversations between Sondland and two other U.S. diplomats who were acting as intermediaries as the president urged Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden’s family and the 2016 U.S. election.”   More from the AP here.   President Trump responded in two tweets, as is his preference.   “I would love to send Ambassador Sondland, a really good man and great American, to testify, but unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republican’s rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public….   ….to see. Importantly, Ambassador Sondland’s tweet, which few report, stated, ‘I believe you are incorrect about President Trump’s intentions. The President has been crystal clear: no quid pro quo’s [sic] of any kind.’ That says it ALL!”   The White House also released this letter laying out the how they believe the hearings, as currently constituted, are unfair and deny administration officials due process.    All Sides of Political Spectrum Decry Chinese Influence There are so many great pieces on this issue, I thought I’d include a small roundup: What do Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio, Chuck Schumer, and Matt Yglesias all have in common? They all think this story is evidence of a huge problem. From BRIGHT Friday editor Ellie Bufkin. (The Federalist) On the NBA’s shameful hypocrisy. (Daily Signal) The NBA is the tip of the iceberg in terms of US companies willing to toe the line laid down by Chinese censors. (The Federalist)  Bari Weiss blasts “world’s wokest sports league” bowing to China. (New York Times) South Park has more guts than the NBA. (Spectator USA) Related: videogame maker is in hot water with players for banning a player from a tournament after he voiced support for Hong Kong. (The Verge)   The Swamp Fights Back My 10,000 foot take on the real takeaways from the Russian collusion and Ukraine stories:   “When President Trump claims to be an outsider in his own administration, in a very real sense, he’s not wrong. Say what you want about Trump (and I’ve said plenty) he represents a real challenge to the post-war liberal order, both foreign and domestic, of the last 70 years.   Many of what are really just political heresies are instead labeled dangerous or insane by a ruling class that has mistaken its consensus of the last few decades for the foundational pillars of democracy. Instead of meeting the Trumpian challenge within the boundaries of the normal political process, too many of the unelected bureaucrats who staff the alphabet soup agencies seem to feel entitled to circumvent the will of the American people when it conflicts with their priors….   If it was ever viable, the Wilsonian experiment of rule by politically detached experts is over. In its place are high-ranking bureaucrats who are displacing the people’s judgement on policy and politics with their own. If we cannot get rid of the administrative state, we must at least tame it by empowering those who actually have to stand before the American people for their blessing…”   Fashion Moment of the Week This week I thought I’d share a few budget fall pieces I’ve either purchased or have my eye on:   This cozy cashmere sweater with bell sleeves that comes in great fall colors like brass and rust. (Everlane, $120)  This fantastic green blazer coat that is long enough to be worn as a party dress in the holiday season with a bit of fashion tape. (Zara, $89) This incredible steal of a blazer that I’ve worn several times a week for the last month with skinny jeans and boots. (H&M, $49.99) This vegan suede cropped top and skirt set that will look amazing over a turtleneck and tights. (Banana Republic, $69.50 and $98.50 respectively)  I can’t get enough of this marigold yellow color this season. This subtle leopard-print blouse will pair perfectly with browns and camel-colored neutrals now, and will be a great pop of color with gray in the winter. (Banana Republic, $79.50) There has never been a better time to dress modestly and be tres chic in my lifetime. This long-sleeved satiny shirt dress with a cool asymmetrical belt detail is your new LBD – long black dress. (Zara, $69.90)   Wednesday Links SCOTUS hears arguments in an important case regarding rights of employers and employees with respect to sexual orientation and transgender identity. (Washington Examiner)   Trump hires Trey Gowdy in anticipation of impeachment fight. (Bloomberg)   Congress can either take back its Constitutional powers or stop complaining about Trump (hopefully the former). (The Federalist)   Federal deficits are the highest they’ve been in seven years, and no one seems to care. (The Hill)   A clip of new Federalist show The Fray, discussing what the new Jokermovie has to say about our politics and times. (Sirius XM)   Trump hits back after Minneapolis mayor demands money for rally security. (Daily Wire)   A lot of Republicans seem to be afraid to touch the culture wars but voters are signaling their importance with an 8-point Kentucky poll swing over an ad featuring transgenderism. 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CDN’s Daily News Blast delivers the day’s news first! View this email in your browser CDN Daily News Blast 10/09/2019 Excerpts: In A Blistering Letter, White House Tells Democrats There Will Be No Cooperation With ‘Illegitimate’ Impeachment Inquiry By Chuck Ross – The White House said in a blistering letter sent Tuesday to top House Democrats that officials in the executive branch will not cooperate with House Democrats’ “constitutionally illegitimate” impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. In the letter, White House counsel Pat Cipollone accused Democrats of attempting to both overturn the … In A Blistering Letter, White House Tells Democrats There Will Be No Cooperation With ‘Illegitimate’ Impeachment Inquiry 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 » The War Helmet – Grrr Graphics – Ben Garrison Cartoon By Ben Garrison – I salute the president for removing troops from Syria. We have no business being the world’s policeman and the Middle East has suffered war and conquest for countless centuries. We don’t belong there in the middle of it. We no longer need their oil. It’s time to let those countries … The War Helmet – Grrr Graphics – Ben Garrison Cartoon 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 » NBA’s Surrender To China Shows Money Still Talks Louder Than ‘Social Justice’ By Terry Schilling – Over the weekend, Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey sent out what would seem to the average person to be a pretty innocuous tweet: “Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong.” Morey was voicing support for the ongoing pro-democracy protests taking place in the city. He certainly wasn’t expressing an … NBA’s Surrender To China Shows Money Still Talks Louder Than ‘Social Justice’ 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 » Report: House Democrats Weigh Masking Whistleblower’s Identity, Disguising Voice During Interviews By Chuck Ross – California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and other Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are considering masking the identity of the Trump whistleblower during any potential interview out of what they say are concerns that Republicans will leak the identity of the individual. 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The Morning Dispatch: October 9, 2019 Syria On The Brink Oct 9 Public post Good morning, and welcome to the maiden voyage of the Morning Dispatch. If you haven’t had a chance to read yesterday’s explanation of who we are and what we hope to accomplish, you can check it out here. The team of Jonah Goldberg, Toby Stock, and Steve Hayes will be adding many more newsletters and podcasts in the coming weeks. Lots to cover today, so we’ll get right to it. “This is Going to All Be Directly Laid at the President’s Doorstep” Just two days after the Trump administration shocked the world by announcing that the United States would pull back from its position supporting the Kurdish military in northeastern Syria, the situation is deteriorating with astonishing speed.Two events that unfolded after hours last night: First, the neighboring nation of Turkey, which hopes to capture a wide swath of Syrian territory to resettle refugees from the Syrian civil war, announced that it was on the verge of launching an attack on Kurdish forces in northern Syria. Turkish official Fahrettin Altun announced that the country’s military “will cross the Turkish-Syrian border shortly” in an op-ed for the Washington Post, in which he argued that the Turkish military should be seen as America’s true ally in the fight against ISIS. Meanwhile, Post columnist David Ignatius reported that America has learned such attack is indeed imminent, with U.S. officials informing the Kurds that a Turkish attack on the northern cities of Tal Abyad and Ras al Ayn will likely take place within 24 hours. As Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces moved north in anticipation of the assault, a senior U.S. official sounded the alarm to Foreign Policy that few SDF troops were left in reserve to carry out critical tasks like guarding prisons holding ISIS fighters and defending against further ISIS insurgency.Within hours, that warning apparently proved prescient: Late Tuesday night, the SDF claimed that several ISIS-affiliated suicide attacks had been carried out in Raqqa, the city the Islamic State proclaimed the nucleus of its so-called caliphate between 2014 until Kurdish forces recaptured the city in October 2017.  How Did We Get Here? The events in Syria are not only moving at light speed, they are exactly the outcome that critics of President Trump’s Syria lurch feared. Eric Edelman, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey under President George W. Bush, told The Dispatch that the small outfit of American military officials who remained in Kurdish territory until this week had provided the SDF with invaluable logistical and intelligence capabilities. But they also served a larger function: “The presence of those American forces were a big disincentive to Erdogan to actually move into northeastern Syria unilaterally.” For Edelman, Trump’s move provokes a sense of deja vu from the last time Trump suddenly decided it was time to pull up stakes in Syria: “I think what we’ve seen in the last 48 hours is in some sense a bit of a replay of another phone conversation between President Erdogan and President Trump that took place almost a year ago in December.” But, while Trump’s rash pronouncement 10 months ago prompted Defense Secretary James Mattis to resign, the president didn’t end up following through on his pledge to remove all American troops from the region, and 100 to 150 military officials remained in northern Syria to support the SDF. But now those troops are gone, and the Kurds—who helped us take down ISIS—are in danger of being overrun.Trump is gambling that he can stave off a Turkish invasion of Syria with economic threats alone. Edelman isn’t so sure. The president placed tariffs on Turkish steel and other products last year that led to a “fairly rapid acceleration of an already ongoing depreciation of the Turkish lira,” a result that may have given him an unfounded “sense of omnipotence.” If Tuesday night’s news out of Syria is any indication, Erdogan is prepared to risk it. The potential consequences are dire. Edelman told us that Turkish resettlement of Syrian refugees could create a “humanitarian disaster,” as people who fled from every corner of Syria are bundled forcibly into a narrow slice of Kurdish territory. “It’s going to feed the already existing intra-communal and ethnic tensions that already afflict this region far too greatly as it is,” he said. And if Turkey does invade and ISIS does begin to reconstitute itself, metastasizing beyond Syria and leading to attacks in Europe or the United States? “This is going to all be directly laid at the president’s doorstep.” GOP Senator: ‘Abandon Our Allies’ Makes A Crummy Bumper Sticker The whole boondoggle has created an uproar on Capitol Hill. Senators across the political spectrum—from Mitt Romney to Tim Kaine, from Lindsey Graham to Mazie Hirono—have condemned the “abandonment” of our Kurdish allies. And Republicans reluctant to criticize Trump publicly have found their voices. We asked one Republican senator why the GOP response to the Trump administration’s recent moves in Syria has been so overwhelming. “We just spent eight years fighting a cut-and-run foreign policy but this Syria decision is exactly what Obama did in Iraq. With the exception of one twerp, there’s not a single Republican senator who ran on isolationism. You can campaign on not being the world’s policeman all you want, but ‘abandon our allies’ makes a crummy bumper sticker and an even worse foreign policy because the fight against radical Islam isn’t over, and some ISIS-type group will come back. “We can confirm the senator we talked to isn’t also an ophthalmologist. No More Mr. Nice Guys The Trump White House’s handling of the Mueller investigation is memorable both for President Trump’s frequent erratic tweets (“13 angry Democrats!” “witch hunt!”) and his allies’ wild conspiracy-mongering. It’s easy to forget that, in subtler ways, the Trump administration actually cooperated with the Mueller probe early on, such as by making staffers available for extensive questioning. When it comes to the House’s nascent impeachment effort, however, that playbook has been burned and the ashes tossed. Instead, Trump and his allies are writing the whole thing off as an illegitimate enterprise that the White House need not dignify with the slightest accommodation. Three data points, in rapid succession: On Tuesday morning, the State Department blocked Gordon Sondland, a Trump ally turned ambassador to the European Union who is caught up in the Ukraine scandal, from testifying before Congress minutes before that testimony was supposed to begin. Hours later, Rudy Giuliani told the Washington Post that he and other Trumpworld figures would let Congress hold them in contempt before they’d testify in the impeachment inquiry. Finally, White House counsel Pat Cipollone confirmed it in a scathing, bombastic letter to House leadership, in which he blasted House Democrats for designing their investigation “in a manner that violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process.” “Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the American people of the President they have freely chosen,” Cipollone wrote. “Your highly partisan and unconstitutional effort threatens grave and lasting damage to our democratic institutions, to our system of free elections, and to the American people.” It’s too early to say whether the laugh-it-off strategy will work, but many House Republicans are skeptical. “Members recognize this is different than Russia/Mueller probe. President’s actions here are deeply concerning and members are taking it very seriously.”Among the unconvinced: Gregg Nunziata, former general counsel to Sen. Marco Rubio, who tells The Dispatch that the White House letter “reads like a press release from a political campaign”: It tries to indict the whole process of an impeachment inquiry because the motivations are political. They are. But the Founders deliberately chose to put this process in the hands of the political branches—not the courts—for a reason. It’s supposed to be political.The letter also demands all sorts of procedural rights that are, of course, expected in judicial proceedings. This is not a judicial proceeding. Any lawyer who has practiced in this area is well aware that familiar protections for defendants in judicial proceedings do not apply in the context of congressional investigations. Even attorney-client privilege is not a thing Congress accepts. And a Word From David French “On behalf of lawyers everywhere, I’d like to apologize for the dumpster fire (legal war crime, really) of a letter from counsel to POTUS to Democratic leadership. It’s a Hannity segment on letterhead. It would be comedic if it wasn’t so consequential.” My Kingdom For a Decent Lawyer! So here’s a Trump hire we sure didn’t see coming: former Rep. Trey Gowdy is coming aboard the president’s outside legal team as he gears up for an impeachment fight. The president’s lawyers usually come in two flavors: the bookish types who stay more or less behind the scenes and the brash yakkers who pull double duty as PR guys on cable news. We’re told Gowdy figures to be latter. The news comes as a surprise: During Gowdy’s last turn in the public eye, he was an occasional Trump critic and, initially, one of the House’s most outspoken Republican defenders of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. He said when he called it quits in Congress last year he would return to the justice system, stating that “Whatever skills I may have are better utilized in a courtroom than in Congress.” Gowdy is well-respected among his former colleagues in the House, in part because he hasn’t been a Trump toady. His decision to join Team Trump could help convince wobbly Republicans to stick with the President. Does Elizabeth Warren Have a Truth Problem? In an early morning tweet, Sen. Elizabeth Warren doubled down on her claim that she was fired from a teaching job at 22 after her employers learned she was pregnant.  Elizabeth Warren@ewarrenAfter I became visibly pregnant, I was told that the job I’d been promised for next year would go to someone else. Pregnancy discrimination is real, and it still happens today—but telling our stories is one way we can fight back. Here are some of your stories that I heard today. October 9th 20191,983 Retweets10,601 Likes The spot comes as Warren is facing increased scrutiny over the claim. That scrutiny began after it was discovered that Warren, the ostensible 2020 Democratic frontrunner, had apparently told a different story about her career change during an interview in 2007. In that interview, first noted on Twitter by Jacobin Magazine writer Meagan Day and then spread more widely in a post by our friend Jeryl Bier, Warren gives Harvard law professor Leo Gottlieb a very different explanation: “I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, ‘I don’t think this is going to work out for me.’”Records from the school board in question procured by the Washington Free Beacon seem to corroborate this latter telling of the tale as well: Minutes of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend Warren a “2nd year” contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job. That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching. Minutes from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren’s resignation was “accepted with regret.”Warren persisted (nevertheless) in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, saying “it doesn’t matter much what the term is, but let’s be clear: I was six months pregnant, it was my first job, I was 22 years old, and the job that was mine, that I’d been hired for for the next year, was taken away when they knew I was pregnant.”This is not to say gender discrimination in the workplace—particularly in the 1970s—didn’t exist. It surely did. Nor is it to say Elizabeth Warren herself has never experienced such discrimination! But the question at hand is whether or not Warren was fired from Riverdale Elementary School in 1971. And the evidence available fails to prove that she was. Combined with her overblown claims of Native American ancestry, as well as this video claiming an unnamed “they” told her a woman couldn’t win a Senate seat in 2012 (there were 16 female senators in the 112th Congress immediately preceding her election), this episode seems to illustrate Elizabeth Warren’s knack for exaggerating the societal barriers she’s had to overcome to reach her current perch. Given the centrality of “fighting” to her political rise (the word is included twice in just the title of her book), her tendency to construct opponents even where none exist makes sense. But that doesn’t make it right. That being said, if her opponent is this guy—she won’t have to work too hard to win the “cares about trustworthiness” vote. What Else We’re Reading Over at The Week, dependably curmudgeonly friend of the show Matthew Walther has a great piece on why Hillary Clinton challenging Donald Trump to a rematch, as she (probably!) jokingly suggested she might Tuesday, is exactly the spectacle America doesn’t know it wants yet, but totally, totally does. You can always count on the folks at The Atlantic for brisk, engaging reads on how technology is actually a terrible curse that’s ruining all our lives. (Probably they’re just cranky because they’re still trying to make print happen.) This piece from Bianca Bosker, on how accelerating progress in tech is creating a noise pollution epidemic, certainly qualifies. EHHNNNNNNNN. Something Fun Cameras caught unlikely duo watching the Green Bay Packers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 34-24 in Dallas on Sunday afternoon, with President George W. Bush and Ellen DeGeneres sat together in a box at AT&T Stadium. Matt Gorman@mattsgormanIncredible duo watching the Cowboys game: W and @TheEllenShow October 6th 2019557 Retweets4,979 Likes Because so much of social media has become a garbage pit, a Twitter mob immediately descended upon the comedian and talk show host for even associating with someone of the opposite political persuasion. But unlike this 55-gallon steel drum or the NBA, Ellen didn’t cave to the pressure, opting instead on Tuesday to share a more uplifting message of unity. Give it a watch. Toeing The Company Line The Remnant has officially come ashore under The Dispatch banner, and Steve joined Jonah yesterday to discuss the launch of the venture, how we got our name, and what we hope this thing becomes. They also talked impeachment and recent develops in Syria. Give it a listen here.If you are so inclined, you can check out writeups of The Dispatch in Axios, Politico, NiemanLab, and Mediaite.  Let Us Know Which daytime talk show host/U.S. president pair would make for the best buddy cop movie? 1.) Judge Judy and Richard Nixon 2.) Steve Harvey and Millard Fillmore 3.) Jerry Springer and Bill Clinton 4.) Oprah and Woodrow Wilson 5.) Dr. Phil and Calvin Coolidge Got a tip? Comment? Compliment? Suggestion? As always, send it to HayesGoldberg2019@gmail.com. We’ll see you Friday.You’re on the free list for The Dispatch. For the full experience, become a paying subscriber.Subscribe© 2019 The Dispatch Unsubscribe PO Box 720263, San Francisco, CA 94172

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View this email in your browser Recent Articles For Trump It’s About Corruption, Not Politics Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am It’s about corruption. The Democrats are making it about politics. Read More… Elizabeth Warren: Leading Liar in the Party of Liars Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Warren has surpassed Joe Biden in more than the polls. She has also eclipsed his role as the race’s most shameless prevaricator. Read More… The Green ‘New’ Deal is the Old Agenda 21 Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am The globalists are hammering out an agenda that will determine not only how many people there will be, but where they will live, how they will live, and what governments will permit them to do. Read More… CAIR and the Rabbis Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Why are Massachusetts rabbis cooperating with the American branch of Hamas?  Read More… Being ‘Woke’ has a Price Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Do you ever wonder what happens to someone after they self-destruct on national television or social media?  Read More… Shotgun Joe Biden: Incompetent, Dishonest, or Both Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Joe once again proves his unfitness for the presidency. Read More…   Recent Blog Posts Hillary Clinton back at it, delusionally declaring she can beat Trump ‘again’ Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am And it’s pathetic….  Read more… The Cowboy and the President Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Two New York icons on a fine fall day.  Read more… The witch unmasked Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Another Obama alumnus under the spotlight.  Read more… Mitt Romney, Mr. Unreliable Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Willard has some nerve, calling President Trump’s America an “unreliable ally.”  Read more… Seems James Clapper just admitted Obama ordered him to ignore 2016 Russian election interference Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Essentially, we had a huge number of people on the public payroll working for Hillary instead of we the people as they were supposed to.  Read more… Why Joe Biden? Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Mitt Romney wonders why Donald Trump would go after Joe Biden for corruption. There’s an easy answer.  Read more… ‘Gift to climate alarmists’ exposes global warming junk science in 12 minutes Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Tony Heller ‘cuts right to the heart of the matter’ in a new video.  Read more… ‘No New Jails NYC’ demands release of Rikers Island prisoners Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am No New Jails NYC is committed to totally abolishing the city’s jail system by “disrupting every level of power,” and demands that de Blasio “responsibly release” the 1,000 or so prisoners at Rikers.  Read more… How DC bureaucrats want to jack up the cost of booze Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Some swamp creatures have taken it upon themselves to interfere in the country’s alcohol markets.  Read more… Bob Costas, won’t you please go home? Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Costas is just one example of announcers ruining baseball.  Read more… Speaking of ‘moral decay’… Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am Here’s a compost heap of real moral decay the Pecksniffs lecturing us about Trump can get a whiff of.  Read more… Is the NBA afraid of China? Oct 09, 2019 01:00 am The NBA opts for money over decency.  Read more… Waiting for the headline: ‘Strong Trump economy yields record revenues’ Oct 08, 2019 01:00 am Far from costing “money,” tax cuts are bringing greater economic growth and more money to the government’s coffers.  Read more… James Comey wants to be ‘forgotten,’ … which is why he’s got this TV show Oct 08, 2019 01:00 am Still lying and grandstanding after all these years….  Read more… Deep state FBI spokesman bribed with baseball tickets? Oct 08, 2019 01:00 am More interesting would be some high-level sanction of James Comey…  Read more… View this email in your browser American Thinker is a daily internet publication devoted to the thoughtful exploration of issues of importance to Americans.

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Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray October 9, 2019 How Illinois Schools Teach Preschoolers To Celebrate Transgenderism By Joy Pullmann To get a sense of what all Illinois public schools must begin teaching children starting next year, one can look at LGBT curriculum developed this summer in a wealthy Chicago suburb, as well as Advanced Placement history classes. Full article The Syria Crisis Highlights Precisely What’s Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy By John Allen Gay The affair highlights the challenges facing an aging alliance that was built for a different strategic context, and the inadequacy of old foreign policy structures for a new world. Full article The Border Crisis Isn’t Over, And Mexico Isn’t Going To Fix It By John Daniel Davidson Migrant apprehensions are down but overall numbers are higher than they’ve been since 2007, and thanks to Congress the United States has no long-term solution to the border crisis. Full article Trump Gave Turkey A Choice on Syria: Cooperate With the U.S. Productively Or Risk Catastrophe By Erielle Davidson The brewing conflict along the Syrian-Turkish border, which reentered the news cycle this week as Turkish President Recep Erdoğan threatened to invade Syria, is rooted in Obama policies that were always destined to erupt in chaos. Full article ‘Top Military Officers’ Misfire In Atlantic Hit On Trump Foreign Policy By Matt Beebe An Atlantic hit piece on President Trump disguised as military leadership critique misses the bigger point. Full article Anti-Trump Whistleblower Attorney Worked Directly For James Clapper By Tristan Justice One of the attorneys representing the anonymous ‘whistleblowers’ used to report directly to former DNI director James Clapper. Full article 8 Ways Women Can Help Resurrect A Healthy Dating Culture By Suzanne Venker Too many women waste years of their lives hoping they can talk a boyfriend into marriage. Women who master the eight dating rules don’t have to. Full article Nearly 80 Years After Its Writing, Holocaust Victim Renia Spiegel’s Diary Is Published By Cheryl Magness The personal recordings of 15-year-old Renia Spiegel give readers a contemporaneous account, through poetry and prose, of a youth living through the Holocaust, complete with her insecurities, joys, and deepest fears. Full article On My Anniversary Of Earning U.S. Citizenship, The Statue Of Liberty Kept Her Promises By Helen Raleigh Immigrants like me who have lived in places with neither economic nor political freedom can attest that this is the greatest nation on earth, and we are so glad to be part of it. Full article U.K. Court Decision Affirms Transgenderism Is A Religion Of Complete Self-Worship By Nathanael Blake The mystical doctrines of transgenderism exemplify modern self-worship, in which the human replaces the divine dictates of revealed religion as the source of meaning. Full article ESPN Bans Staff From Discussing Hong Kong Angle Of NBA-China Controversy By Tristan Justice ESPN has instructed staff to avoid discussing Chinese politics when covering Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet supporting Hong Kong. Full article Kamala Harris Laughs At Marijuana Use Despite Putting 1,560 People Away For It By Chrissy Clark Video footage shows Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) laughing at the use of marijuana after a woman standing nearby said, ‘good vibes, smells like yoga.’ Full article Grassley Asks FBI, DOJ For Updates On Criminal Referrals For False Kavanaugh Accusers By Tristan Justice Sen. Chuck Grassley has formally requested updates from the DOJ and the FBI on four criminal referrals submitted to the agencies last year. Full article White House Tells Pelosi: Your Fake Impeachment Subpoenas Have No Real Legal Authority By Tristan Justice In the letter, the Trump administration says Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats are ‘seeking to overturn the results of the 2016 election.’ Full article In 2019 Fiscal Year, 980,000 Migrants Apprehended At U.S.-Mexico Border By Chrissy Clark During fiscal year 2019, the U.S. Border Patrol arrested nearly 980,000, according to recent data from the acting commissioner and available data. Full article Devin Nunes’ Lawsuit Against Twitter Could Turn Into The Company’s Worst Nightmare By Sean Davis A Virginia judge has allowed a landmark negligence lawsuit against Twitter to proceed to trial, including discovery, which could become a nightmare for the tech giant. Full article Americans Could Learn From Ellen DeGeneres And George W. Bush By Tristan Justice “Just because I don’t agree with someone on everything, doesn’t mean that I’m not going to be friends with them,” DeGeneres said. Full article Bashing The NBA For Supporting Communist China Is Bringing Liberals And Conservatives Together By Ellie Bufkin In a time when it looks like political parties couldn’t be more divided in the United States, the NBA’s deeply defective relationship with China is providing some common ground. Full article SOUTH PARK HAS MORE COURAGE THAN THE NBA Steve Kerr’s comments are just the latest to show the wokest people in the NBA desperately trying to bend the knee to China. http://vlt.tc/3s2a But China isn’t buying it. http://vlt.tc/3s30 Even Commissioner Adam Silver’s mild defense of the Houston GM’s right of free expression was too much for them. http://vlt.tc/3s27 “We are strongly dissatisfied and we oppose Silver’s claim to support Morey’s right of free expression. We believe that any speech that challenges national sovereignty and social stability is not within the scope of freedom of speech,” CCTV said in its statement in Chinese, which was translated by CNBC. Read more of The Transom by signing up for a free trial today.  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2019 The Federalist, All rights reserved.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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Wondering what upcoming government investigations into major Tech companies might mean for Tech sector stocks? Click here to read more of this message, brought to you by Fisher Investments.  10/09/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Fisher Investments Presents: Ky. Governor’s Race; Mini-Deal With China? Money Man Good morning, it’s Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. By the time you read this newsletter, I hope to be on an airplane to California. Why am I going there? If I were a politician holding a fundraiser, the smart-alecky answer would be to paraphrase notorious mid-20th century bank robber Willie Sutton: because that’s where the money is. I’m not a bank robber, however, or a politician. I’m a Washington Nationals fan whose youngest kid lives in Los Angeles. I’m going to Southern California because that’s where the baseball is — at least for one more night. The aforementioned child and I are going to Chavez Ravine, along with my godson and my daughter’s boyfriend. Go, Nats! But enough about me. I’ll have more on Willie Sutton — and California as a political fundraising mecca — 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: * * * Trump Impeachment May Be on the Ballot in Ky. Governor’s Race. Phil Wegmann reports on Matt Bevin’s reelection strategy. Impeachment Inquiry Could Spur China Trade “Mini-Deal.” Susan Crabtree has the story. This CAT Is a Dangerous Creature. In RealClearPolicy, Hester Peirce raises a red flag about the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail, which records all investor trades, ostensibly to study market turbulence. Big Business Should Crunch the Numbers on Medicare for All. In RealClearMarkets, Sally Pipes warns that few employers realize what the transition to the health care system would entail. House Drug Pricing Plan Puts Political Gamesmanship Ahead of Solutions. In RealClearHealth, Joel White sees fatal flaws in the latest proposal. * * * There’s a lot of money in Southern California, but even so, it was eye-opening to see that freshman House member Katie Porter raised more than $1 million in the third quarter this year. It was, as Ally Mutnick of Politico noted, “a massive haul for a vulnerablefreshman member in an off year and her second consecutive seven-figure quarter.” Porter, a Democrat from Orange County, now has nearly $2 million in cash on hand. Even more impressive is how she raised the money. A protégé of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Porter does not accept corporate PAC money; her strength is small donors. She received contributions from some 16,000 individuals, with anaverage contribution of $35. Something is definitely happening in the progressive grassroots, and it’s bigger than Warren or Joe Biden — or even Donald Trump. That said, I’ve always been amazed at the bonanza politicians reap in my native state. Five years ago today, Barack Obama took his 21st trip to Orange County and Los Angeles as president. In 18 of them, his itinerary included fundraising events. The one on this date in 2014 was held at the Brentwood home of actress Gwyneth Paltrow. For a cool $1,000, supporters could attend a pre-dinner reception. Eating dinner with the stars and having a picture taken with the president later in the evening was a pricier proposition: $32,400, to be precise. If that was a bit too steep for your blood, a Democratic National Committee roundtable discussion the following morning at the home of restaurant chain owner Michael Chow only set Democratic donors back $15,000. Yes, it’s expensive, but the DNC had no trouble with that price point, either. All this activity is an illustration of Sutton’s Law. The inspiration for that dictum was a comment supposedly made by career criminal Willie Sutton. He made the FBI’s Most Wanted list in 1950 and served two decades in prison for bank robbery and various escape attempts before being paroled in 1969. A story in a California newspaper in the early 1950s reported that when Sutton was asked why he robbed banks he replied pithily, “That’s where the money is.” This line definitely sounds like Willie Sutton. He was an erudite fellow who robbed banks politely and with great élan. But Sutton insisted in his autobiography (he penned two books in prison) that the words weren’t his. “The credit belongs to some enterprising reporter who apparently felt a need to fill out his copy,” he wrote. “I can’t even remember where I first read it. It just seemed to appear one day, and then it was everywhere.” But if Sutton was immortalized for a quip he never made, it prompts one question: Why did he commit all those bank jobs? “Why did I rob banks?” he asked rhetorically. “Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I’d be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that’s all.”  Carl M. Cannon   Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com For years, many pundits and politicians have claimed Internet behemoths are too powerful and monopolistic. Then, in June, the House announced they would launch a probe into several tech giants. Despite many possible outcomes, we don’t view these possibilities as a reason to avoid Tech now. 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From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann

FIRST READ: Trump starts the impeachment battle with a solid 53 percent of the country against him

There’s a frequent number in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, and it’s not a good one for President Trump – 53 percent.

Fifty-three percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job.

Fifty-three percent hold a negative personal view of the president.

Fifty-three percent don’t believe the president has been honest and trustworthy when it comes to his actions regarding Ukraine.

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

And 53 percent is the average between the 51 percent who say the allegations against Trump are serious and should be fully investigated, and the combined 55 percent who want Trump either impeached/removed right now or who want an impeachment inquiry. 

Oh, and if 53 percent sounds familiar, remember that 54 percent of the country voted for someone else in the 2016 presidential election

So two things can be true.

One, Americans have been pretty much locked in their partisan corners since November 2016.

“What’s powerful about this poll is what has NOT changed,” said Bill McInturff, the Republican pollster who co-conducts the NBC/WSJ survey.

And two, Trump STARTS this impeachment battle – and looks ahead to re-election next year – with 53 percent of the country already against him.

“This is one poll at the beginning,” said Peter Hart, the Democratic half of the NBC/WSJ poll. “And it’s a different starting point than either [Richard] Nixon or [Bill] Clinton had” during their own impeachments.

Indeed, Bill Clinton had a 68 percent job rating in the NBC/WSJ poll when the GOP-led House began its impeachment inquiry against him in October 1998.

And Richard Nixon’s was at 25 percent when the House started its impeachment inquiry against him in May 1974, per Gallup.

So Trump is smack-dab in the middle – at 43 percent approval.

Independents’ Day

Given these numbers on Trump, it’s not surprising to see that independents, by and large, side with Democrats in the NBC/WSJ poll.

But there’s one exception – on whether to impeach and remove Trump.

Based on what they know today, 43 percent of all Americans say that Congress should impeach and remove the president from office, while 49 percent say that he shouldn’t be impeached and should remain in office.

Among independents, it’s 39 percent impeach/remove, versus 45 percent don’t impeach/remain.

Compare that with how independents break on the OTHER questions in the poll:

• On Trump’s job performance: 37 percent approve, 56 percent disapprove

• On whether Trump has been honest and trustworthy: 28 percent yes, 58 percent no

• On whether the allegations are serious and should be investigated: 51 percent yes, 42 percent no.

So independents are pretty much aligned with Democrats on every question regarding the Ukraine/whistleblower story, with the exception being a big one: Whether to impeach and remove the president right now.

But also note that the overall impeach/remove number has the potential to grow. See below…

DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … 12 percent.

12 percent. 

That’s the share of adults in the latest NBC/WSJ poll who both DISAPPROVE of the job the president is doing but DO NOT SUPPORT his impeachment and removal from office based on what they know now.

According to the pollsters, this group is demographically more likely to lean Democratic, describe themselves as moderate, and have a college degree.

A majority of them say that the allegations against Trump are serious and that they are following the news about impeachment closely.

Three-quarters say they think the charges should be fully investigated and that Trump has not been honest and truthful about the process.

2020 VISION: Biden’s numbers have barely budged

As for Joe Biden, the NBC/WSJ poll finds that his numbers have barely moved since the Ukraine story became news (and since he and his son have gotten caught up in it – without any evidence of wrongdoing).

Thirty-three percent of Americans say they have a positive view of the former vice president, while 34 percent have a negative view (-1).

In August’s NBC/WSJ poll, Biden’s fav/unfav rating was 34 percent positive, 38 percent negative (-4).

Oh, and by way of comparison, Trump’s fav/unfav rating in the new NBC/WSJ poll is 38 percent positive, 53 percent negative (-15).

Yesterday’s national Quinnipiac poll also showed little movement in Biden’s numbers: In a hypothetical matchup, he leads Trump by 11 points, while Elizabeth Warren leads by 8 points and Bernie Sanders by 7 points.

REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo

On the campaign trail today: Joe Biden, in New Hampshire, holds town halls in Rochester and Manchester… Elizabeth Warren, in South Carolina, holds a town hall on student with Rep. James Clyburn… Kamala Harris and Cory Booker are in Iowa… And Michael Bennet is in the Granite State.

Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: After recovering from a heart attack, Bernie Sanders is going to “change the nature” of his campaign, NBC’s Gary Grumbach reports: “When asked by NBC News what he meant by ‘change the nature,’ Sanders said he plans to slow down his pace of campaigning. ‘Probably not doing four rallies a day. I’m not quite sure, I could be wrong on this, I don’t know if there is anybody who did more rallies than we have done all over the states and I, you know, probably not do three or four rallies a day, do two or do other things as well.’”

Cory Booker met with the Des Moines Register Editorial Board while in Iowa where, per NBC’s Priscilla Thompson, he wasn’t asked about “his history with charter schools or engagement with pharmaceutical companies, something he seems to get asked about often on the trail.” Booker did express concern about the judicial branch, and said President Trump has “surrendered his appointment power to right wing extremist groups that then made every judge that had federal aspirations try to go to the margins as far as they could to try out for them.” When the editorial board asked how he’d work to change the court, Thompson reports, “Booker said he had ideas that he would not foreshadow now because they’ll be part of negotiations.”

TWEET OF THE DAY: Montgomery elects its first African-American mayor 

THE LID: Poll position

Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we summed up the NBC/WSJ poll results in 4 minutes.

ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss 

Grave warnings are coming from the Turkish-Syrian border.

Get ready for a constitutional clash over impeachment.

The Supreme Court appears to be divided over an LGBTQ discrimination case. (And Neil Gorsuch could be the swing vote!)

Mark your calendar: MSNBC and the Washington Post will co-host the November presidential debate.

Bernie Sanders says he was “dumb” to ignore symptoms that led to his heart attack.

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We love hearing from our readers, so shoot us a line here with your comments and suggestions.

Thanks, 

Chuck, Mark, and Carrie

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View this email in your browser Today’s newsletter is sponsored by GSI Exchange. GSI helps investors convert their savings into Gold or Silver and rollover IRA or 401(k) into physical precious metals, tax-free and penalty free. “A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.” WILLIAM BLAKE Good morning,  The White House sent a letter to top House Democrats on Tuesday saying it won’t participate in the impeachment inquiry. “President Trump and his Administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in the letter.  Read the full article here   FBI Violated Americans’ Rights by Improperly Searching Surveillance Database, Court Finds Whistleblower Had Working Relationship With Current 2020 Democratic Candidate: Reports Trump Presents Medal of Freedom to Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese Chinese Organizers Cancel NBA Fan Event Over Pro-Hong Kong Tweet   Republican President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign said a Minnesota venue has “backed off” after threatening to cancel a Trump rally slated to take place there on Oct. 10. Read more Former White House strategist Steve Bannon blasted the NBA for “kowtowing” to the Chinese Communist regime, after the league disavowed a tweet by the Houston Rockets’ manager expressing support for the Hong Kong protests. Read more An attorney for Ambassador Gordon Sondland said the U.S. State Department directed Sondland not to appear for his scheduled interview before a joint House committee taking depositions in the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump. Read more Almost 1 million illegal or inadmissible immigrants were apprehended by border agents along the southern border during fiscal 2019, according to Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. Read more Health care and the economy ranked as the two most important issues facing the United States, ahead of abortion and protecting religious freedom, in a new national survey of evangelicals that has some conservative political and religious leaders worried. Read more Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev ordered an investigation into former senior officials who initiated a struggling $1.5 billion Chinese-led project to build a light rail network in the capital. Read more   See More Top Stories Attention: If you Currently Own or are Considering Buying Physical Precious Metals for your portfolio, please read carefully. On Sept. 26th, 2016, under the Obama Administration, the American Bankers Association and the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures [CUSIP] announced it started tracking a list of Fungible Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium bars and coins. Simply put: when the failing banking system NEEDS to calculate YOUR ASSETS outside of their financial system, THEY CAN EASILY DO SO! Contact GSI Exchange to acquire the secret documented list of fungible precious metals that are now being tracked by the big banks. Call 833-474-4653 now to speak with a GSI Exchange representative about this new tracking trend. Click here to claim your complimentary copy of our exclusive Bank Failure Survival Guide while supplies last   A War on the Wealthy Isn’t the Solution to Student Debt Crisis By Darlene Casella The magnitude of student loan debt is second only to mortgage debt, which is the highest consumer debt in our country. According to Investopedia, President Bill Clinton’s administration began granting student loans; the government had been guaranteeing, but not granting, such loans since 1965. At the end of… Read more The Flowers of Evil By Manfred Von Pentz While many countries ponder legalizing cannabis, and pot smokers the world over rejoice, even the most dedicated marijuana user should sit back for a moment and wonder if the cherished habit is really a road to bliss and spiritual liberation, or a slow and hardly perceptible descent into apathy, destitution, and mental disorder. Read more   See More Opinions Understanding the Real Model for Capitalism By Valentin Schmid (June 12, 2016) Capitalism for most people means people and corporations make the most money they can and accumulate as much wealth as they can. This is wrong, at least according to the Austrian school of economics taught and practiced at the beginning of the last century by Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises in Vienna, Austria—hence… Read more The impeachment craze is in full force. House Democrats are in full-court-press mode and are determined to impeach President Donald Trump. The grounds for impeachment are sketchy, to say the least, and revolve around the word of a whistleblower whose allegations were based on secondhand information (hearsay) and who is allegedly against the president. What If the House Impeaches Trump? Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account.

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• Anti-Trump Psychodrama 10.0?
• Syria’s Tree of Liberty in Danger
• Trump Keeps His Promises, Playing Hardball, China Censors The NBA, Day Of Atonement
• Who Cares About You?
• What the Presidential Candidates Are Missing: Economic Growth
• Is Trump At Last Ending Our ‘Endless Wars’?
• The Battle of Lepanto: a Military and ‘Moral Victory’ Over Islam
• Capitalism is the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs. Don’t Kill It.
• Religious Persecution
• The Angry “Cancel Culture” Mob Is Hijacking Banks for Their Agenda
• Wizards of Sleaze . . .
• Witches Hunting . . .
• Democrats Threaten Supreme Court Justices With Court Packing If They Hear Gun Law Challenge
• The 79¢ Lie
• Studies Reveal Unexpected Profiles Of Hill Staff Pay, Demographics
• The President Is Right: We Must Clean Up America’s Cities
• Will Capitalists Fight Elizabeth Warren, Or Sell Her The Rope She’ll Hang Them With?
• Federal Court Entertains Bizarre Legal Theories That Threaten Gun Owners, Rule of Law
• Dick’s Sporting Goods Destroys $5 million Worth of ‘Guns’ After Ban
• Adam Schiff’s Own Ukraine ‘Scandal’ Comes To Light
• Financial Report Tough On State of Illinois

Anti-Trump Psychodrama 10.0? Posted: 08 Oct 2019 08:00 PM PDT House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff speaks during a news conference about impeachment proceedings in Washington, D.C., September 25, 2019. by Dr. Victor Davis Hanson: Groundbreaking’ disclosures fall apart, hoaxes are exposed, the media are discredited, over and over and over again. What do the Kavanaugh hearings, Jussie Smollett, the Covington kids, the Mueller investigation, and now the Trump phone call all have in common? Staged melodrama, media collusion hysteria, progressive demands that justice be served immediately, promises of walls-are-closing-in blockbuster revelations from new witnesses, supposed surprise revelatory documents, fusions between Democratic politicians and Washington bureaucrats — and then bust, nada, and teeth-gnashing as the truth catches up to various rumor-mongers. The disgraced purveyors of lies — a Christine Blasey Ford, Michael Avenatti, Nathan Phillips, Jussie Smollet, Adam Schiff — for a time go mute, content with progressives’ praise that they lied for a moral cause and almost pulled it off. The particular narrative is not all that important, at least compared with a general overriding theme: We are in a virtual civil war, and the Left believes that it can win over the hearts and minds of 20 to 30 percent of the swing voters in the United States with therapeutic tales of racism, sexism, unearned white privilege, and right-wing greed and selfishness, and also by destroying the elected president. Particular events in the news are warped and twisted, to the degree that they can be, to serve that narrative — on the principle that the superior moral end of ensuring a radical equality of result more than justifies the often tawdry and dishonest means to achieve it. Christine Blasey Ford’s recovered-memory accusations that a teenaged Brett Kavanaugh, nearly 40 years ago, had assaulted her were not corroborated by any firsthand witnesses, and Ford provided no reliable information on the place or date of the alleged assault. The investigation did turn up plenty of contradictory evidence, including denials from her closest friends and from people she herself named as witnesses to the alleged attack. Just this September, Kavanaugh 2.0 played out, when two New York Times reporters wished to revise the psychodrama on its first anniversary by publishing new lurid assault charges that someone had “pushed” Kavanaugh’s dangling phallus into the hands of an innocent woman. That macabre tale imploded within hours after we learned that the supposed victim had no memory of the assault and that the single secondhand hearsay source was a left-wing politico who chose to remain quiet about his former charges. About ten months ago, we witnessed another progressive morality farce, between stereotypical evil white Christian kids wearing MAGA hats and a saintly Native American, Vietnam veteran Nathan Phillips, who was threatened by the punk kids and yet spoke truth to power when he resisted their slurs by beating a drum. Phillips, we were told, had served in battle on behalf of spoiled white kids who repaid with insults and racism befitting their privileged airs. When it was revealed that the activist Nathan Phillips had never been to Vietnam, that he was a chronic liar, that he was the one who had first walked over to the teenagers and initiated the stand-off by banging a drum in their faces, and that the kids were being mocked by a group of African-American cult activists, the Left shrugged, went quiet for a bit, and then assumed that facts were not very important because a greater truth had been revealed in yet another pushback against the white male Christian hierarchy. Shortly after the Covington caper, an apparent opportunist has-been actor Jussie Smollett, of half African-American ancestry, gave America his own concocted fable about being attacked by two white supremacists in MAGA hats, who were apparently (while carrying bleach and rope) randomly prowling the liberal streets of Chicago — in the early-morning hours in subfreezing weather — hoping just maybe to lynch any young, gay African-American actor like Smollett on his way to buy a sandwich at 2 a.m. In his retelling of the epic battle with the two racist monsters, the doused and noosed Smollett managed to beat them back, hold on to his cellphone and sandwich, and make his wounded way home, with the rope still around his neck. Smollett was crushed that his attackers not only used the N-word and gay slurs but also went so far as deride his television show Empire — an African-American cable-television series that was apparently a big hit with the white-supremacist community. The Left, of course, went ballistic. Politicians and stars virtue-signaled their outrage at yet further proof of Trump’s racist America. When it was revealed that two black Nigerians admitted that Smollett had hired them to stage the mock assault, and had them dress up with the suitable masks and red-hat props, the story fell apart. Nonetheless, the felony charges against Smollett (for disorderly conduct and filing a false report) were quickly dropped, and embarrassed leftists have rarely mentioned the caper, despite the cost and harm it did to the nation. In May 2017, Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to investigate Trump’s alleged “collusion” with the Russians and “obstruction” in seeking to impede Mueller’s “all-stars” and “dream team” of mostly progressive lawyers, some who had a history of close association with Clinton interests and many who had been donors to the Clinton campaign. For the next 22 months of the $32 million investigation, the media weekly leaked supposedly sensational disclosures leaked by “unnamed sources” and “high-ranking officials who prefer to remain anonymous.” Adam Schiff was periodically wheeled out to grimace and say he was disturbed at the shocking crimes of Donald Trump that he had seen in secret. When a befuddled Mueller was finished, he had found no collusion and no grounds to indict Trump for impeding his investigation of the crime that he had just concluded did not exist. When Mueller rambled before Congress, he was unable to remember basic facts of his own inquiry and for the most part appear muddled and confused. The only salient fact about the collusion investigation was Mueller’s own embarrassing lack of knowledge of Christopher Steele’s fabricated dossier, gleaned largely from Russian plants and sources. The fake-news document had been paid for by candidate Hillary Clinton to undermine the Trump campaign, and it later became a source for lurid stories about Trump that were peddled by Obama-era officials in the FBI, DOJ, and CIA to undermine the Trump transition and presidency. Not only were there no apologies; there also was no embarrassment that zealots for 22 months and $32 million of wasted money had lied about Trump’s imminent indictment and disgrace. If anyone could have found an iota of wrongdoing on Trump’s part, it was the dream team that hated Trump’s guts, though in the end, they found no collusion at all. Now on schedule we are on to yet another progressive psychodrama. This time we were told that a blockbuster transcript of Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president would prove Trump’s collusion with a foreign power to hurt his presidential rival Joe Biden. Then the transcript was released, and it showed no quid pro quo. As with the projection of the Mueller case, Trump’s domestic foes in the Ukraine imbroglio were accusing Trump of what they themselves had done. The only explicit threats to cut off Ukrainian aid were made not by Trump but by Joe Biden himself, who boasted, on camera at a public event, that he had forced the firing of a prosecutor — a prosecutor who was looking into his own son’s profiteering in Ukraine — by threatening to cut $1 billion in Obama-administration aid to Ukraine. Over the next few days, in the manner of these earlier concocted tales, a number of contradictory facts arose that destroyed the narrative. Three Democratic U.S. senators had earlier written the Ukrainian government and, in far more explicit language than Trump used, warned them to investigate in a fashion that the senators preferred. The Ukrainian government did not, as alleged, substantiate the charges against Trump but in fact asserted that Trump had not pressured them for dirt on Biden in exchange for aid — the sort of gambit that Biden himself had earlier bragged about employing. Almost daily, pieces of the Ukrainian hoax fell apart. Senator Chris Murphy — who had charged out to issue a statement that Ukrainians on an earlier visit had complained directly to him about Trump interference — now recalibrated his tale, perhaps fearing that Ukraine would release contradictory evidence. The complaint file itself hardly seemed the work of a whistleblower. Instead, in the style of the Steele dossier and the Mueller investigation, it footnoted liberal media sources as verification, cited past legal rulings and cases, and seemed the work of progressive attorneys. Oddly, whistleblower forms had been mysteriously changed retroactively to legitimize the complainant’s charges on the basis of hearsay without the need for a single firsthand example of direct knowledge of wrongdoing. Adam Schiff, to heighten the drama of the caper, opened a congressional hearing by reading from the transcript of the Trump call to the Ukrainian president. Only he didn’t. Instead he ad-libbed and recited a fantasy version that contradicted the actual transcript in several places — much as the whistleblower complaint also erred in key ways. When caught, he pled that he was offering a “parody” for effect. Schiff’s staff, it may well turn out, hand-in-glove coached the “whistleblower” well before he went public. We have learned nothing and forgotten nothing in all these instances. There is an eerie sameness about all of them. The media go berserk with rumors of a “groundbreaking” disclosure. Talking points are issued, which liberal news readers regurgitate ad nauseam. Democratic would-be presidential candidates rush to social media with the grimmest predications and loudest condemnations. Sober and judicious — and terrified — Republican politicians and pundits virtue-signal their own wide distance from the MAGA operatives and Trump himself. No one waits for all the evidence. Instead, they endlessly replay the Ox-Bow Incident over the electronic airwaves. When it is all over, there are no apologies and no contriteness, just a shrug. After all, if it wasn’t true, it could have been, or it reflected a higher moral truth, and lying for noble ends justifies the means. In fact, those who call out the rumor-mongers, sanctimonious scolds, and political hacks are usually themselves damned as racists, homophobes, Stalinists, Trump robots, conspiracy theorists, or any such slur deemed useful in projectionist fashion to deflect their own culpability. So here we are, on the eve of impeaching a president on the basis of disgruntled White House staffers, whose rumors in secondhand and thirdhand fashion were passed on to a “whistleblower” who worked hand in hand with partisan lawyers and Adam Schiff to circumvent the normal whistleblower protocols and smear a president. And we will all shrug and grow quiet — at least until the next Blasey Ford, Michael Avenatti, Jussie Smollett, Nathan Philipps, dream-team, all-star star chamber, James Comey, or “anonymous” crusading “whistleblower” comes forth to seek notoriety and do his yeoman’s work to rid the country of Trump and all his odious henchmen. Meanwhile, they have no idea of the wreckage they have inflicted on the intelligence agencies, the media, the Democratic party, themselves, and the country — or much less why a growing number of Americans are sick of them all. ————- 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, Anti-Trump Psychodrama, 10.0? To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks!

Syria’s Tree of Liberty in Danger Posted: 08 Oct 2019 07:44 PM PDT by Tony Perkins: A virtual “tree of liberty” in the Middle East in Syria is in danger today, as the Trump administration prepares to pull out of a region at the border of Turkey and northeast Syria that is both friendly to U.S. interests and respectful of genuine religious freedom. As we have previously discussed, “It is an oft-overlooked story that in the wake of ISIS’s genocide, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces established a semi-autonomous area in northeast Syria in which religious freedom flourished and religious minorities were protected. Pluralism thrived and democracy began to gain a foothold.” And in that oasis of freedom, Christians and other people of faith found refuge, but now they face possible annihilation as U.S. forces prepare to leave, and Turkey plans to invade. This announced withdrawal of the U.S. forces in the area has drawn wide-spread opposition and concern. Politico reports that Senate GOP leaders are urging the president to reconsider, noting “(i)n February, 70 senators supported a nonbinding amendment backing U.S. operations in both Syria and Afghanistan.” On Monday’s Washington Watch I spoke with Chris Mitchell, Middle East bureau chief for CBN News in Jerusalem, who reported that Kurds in that region, who have protected Christians, “are feeling terrified that they’re going to be the victims, especially of these jihadist groups that are allied with the Turkish army. I’ve been hearing that they’re amassing on the borders even right now.” When Turkey was last in the region in March of 2018, the Turkish army and their allies “burned churches, they killed Christians, they hunted down Christians. And they ethnically cleansed that city of Kurds, hundreds of thousands of Kurds,” noted Mitchell. Faced with such a threat, the regional government may be forced to make a dangerous alliance. Mitchell noted that the relatively free region may feel forced to make an alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rather than face the wrath of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is known to hate the Kurds. But the alliance with Assad would most likely bring Russian and Iranian forces into Northeast Syria. “(G)eopolitically, it could be a catastrophe if Turkey comes in and this whole area may be given back to the Assad regime,” Mitchell reported. Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, who also joined Washington Watch yesterday, agreed with Mitchell’s assessment and added that such a change also puts another key ally in the region at risk — Israel. Those moving into the region with Turkey want to “destroy Israel, to wipe Israel off the map,” Boykin said. And if they can take that area “that’s the land bridge” Iran needs to reach to the Mediterranean Sea and ultimately Israel. “This is a bad situation emerging here, and what I am really afraid of is that you’re going to see such a shift in the balance of power in that whole part of the world as a result of this, because you bring Russia, Iran and the government of Bashar al-Assad together there and the country of Syria. And what does that portend for the future? It portends a huge threat to Israel, but it is also potentially a huge threat to the rest of the Middle East,” the general observed. Also joining me on the radio show, Travis Weber, FRC’s Director of the Center for Religious Liberty and Vice President of Policy, explained why this Middle East conflict affects Americans here at home. “The reason we’re interested in it is the same reason we ultimately care about religious freedom here at home,” he said. “We want to advocate for the right of every person to …live out their faith free, without fear of repercussion, by the government, (or) by social forces in society.” The people in the Middle East, facing Turkey’s military might are “not asking for us to do this for them,” to fight their battle or win their war, said Weber, “They’re just saying, can you support us? And I’m looking at them thinking these are natural allies for the United States.” Please join us in praying for President Trump to make the right decisions, and for the Christians and others in the region. ————– 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, Syria, Tree of Liberty, in Danger To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks!

Trump Keeps His Promises, Playing Hardball, China Censors The NBA, Day Of Atonement Posted: 08 Oct 2019 07:21 PM PDT Michael Glassner, Chief Operating Officer of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., issued the following statement. “With honor and respect, we at Team Trump join all people of Jewish faith this evening and tomorrow in reverent observance of the High Holy Day of Yom Kippur. This day gives us all the opportunity to turn to our Creator in prayer and reflection in search of atonement and repentance and to show thanks for our many blessings. We unite with all our Jewish friends today as we also pray for peace and prosperity for our families for generations to come. May God bless you and may God bless the United States of America.” by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Trump Keeps His Promises I know it’s unusual for a politician to keep his promises. That rare trait distinguishes leaders from the rest the pack. But late Sunday President Trump announced that he is pulling back U.S. forces in Syria, keeping his promise to get us out of endless wars. The president is getting a lot of pushback for his decision, and I understand the concerns. I and the other commissioners on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom have privately shared those concerns with the president. Sadly, a convincing argument can be made that our previous intervention in the Middle East has been a disaster. I know President Trump believes that. Iraq is broken and is now dominated by Iran. After eight years of weakness, Iran, Russia and Turkey are all in Syria along with multiple terrorist groups. Well before Trump came into office, Europe and the entire world looked the other way while religious minorities, especially Christians, were brutally persecuted. Under President Trump’s leadership, Vice President Mike Pence has directed USAID to ensure that Christians receive the resources they need and can return to their ancestral homes. But for obvious reasons, many are not inclined to do so. The president is putting pressure on Iran like never before, and also on the ayatollah’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah. The ISIS caliphate, which grew under Obama, has been wiped off the map by Donald Trump. Trump Plays Hardball Congressional Democrats are considering allowing the Deep State operative who triggered the latest impeachment drama to testify at an undisclosed location and with his identity fully masked. Democrats don’t want to follow the rules. They refuse to let the GOP issue subpoenas in the president’s defense. They won’t release transcripts of witness testimony. And now they want to take testimony from witnesses who we can’t see and don’t even know. This morning, the administration announced that it would not permit Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, to testify today. Good! There is no reason for the administration to cooperate with this fake inquiry. It is a fishing expedition, not an impeachment process. Trump tweeted this morning: “I would love to send Ambassador Sondland . . . to testify, but unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republicans’ rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public to see.” Until this process is conducted fairly, the White House should get on with the business of making America great again and do nothing to lend credibility to this charade. If the president is so bad, shouldn’t Democrats be more confident that the American people will embrace their nominee and vote him out next November? Apparently Democrats not only don’t trust Trump, but they also don’t trust American voters either. The Left’s War On Speech As we have noted many times, the totalitarian left has a problem with free speech. The latest example comes from Minneapolis where Mayor Jacob Frey is using rhetoric against the president that could easily result in violence when the president holds a rally there later this week. In addition, the leftist mayor has directed the police chief to issue an order banning police officers from appearing at the rally in uniform. According to the Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, when Obama was president police officers were ordered to show up and stand behind Obama in uniform as he was delivering remarks. The police are so outraged that they have started selling T-shirts reading “Cops For Trump.” But people all over Minnesota are ordering the shirts. President Trump mentioned the shirts this morning and the website crashed when it received an avalanche of orders. The final outrage is that the mayor is attempting to charge the Trump campaign more than $500,000 for security issues — which the mayor’s rhetoric has contributed to by suggesting the president and his supporters are bigots, white supremacists, etc. China Censors The NBA Yesterday, we reported on the growing international controversy between the NBA and China. It was triggered by a simple message of support for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong by Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets. After initially appearing to scold Morey, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver attempted to reassure American basketball fans that the NBA still believes in free speech. “The NBA will not put itself in a position of regulating what players, employees and team owners say or will not say on these issues. We simply could not operate that way,” Silver said. Well, the Chinese communist government does operate that way, and it announced that it will not televise the NBA’s preseason games in China. What the NBA and other companies will eventually come to realize is that if and when tanks roll into Hong Kong, China will not be satisfied unless the NBA and American companies applaud while the slaughter is taking place. At the end of the day, this is not about the Chinese communists. It’s about us. The world has always had bad actors. The difference is how we respond. We want their money and they want our souls. Sadly, there are plenty of people willing to make that bargain. Long-time followers of my work know that I have been warning about communist China since the 1990s. Thankfully, we have a president who is willing to stand up to Beijing. In addition to pushing back on China’s unfair trade practices, the Trump Administration has been aggressively checking China’s national security threats and holding it accountable for human rights abuses. Yesterday, the administration put eight Chinese companies on a blacklist for their role in the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology to persecute religious minorities, including Christians. Congratulations, Ed! President Trump today is honoring former Attorney General Ed Meese with the Medal of Freedom, one of the nation’s highest civilian honors. There is no one more deserving. Ed Meese is a close friend. I worked with Ed throughout my years in the Reagan Administration, both at the White House and when I was under secretary of Education. He assigned me the task of producing a major report on welfare reform. Most importantly, Ed was a leader of the “Let Reagan Be Reagan” movement. Ed Meese has dedicated his life to the conservative cause, and he still plays an active role at the Heritage Foundation, where he was instrumental in guiding the confirmation battle of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And I don’t mind saying that every time I see General Meese, the first thing he says is, “Gary, the best thing put out in Washington from a conservative perspective is your daily report!” Day Of Atonement Jews throughout the world will begin observing Yom Kippur at sunset today. This is the holiest day of the Jewish year and it is a solemn day. It is known as the Day of Atonement because it marks God’s forgiveness of His chosen people for the sin of the golden calf. Many Israelis remember the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Arab armies took advantage of the holiday to launch a surprise attack against Israel. After intense fighting throughout the month of October, Israel ultimately prevailed. On this solemn day, please join Carol and me in praying for the peace of Jerusalem and for a peaceful Yom Kippur for our Jewish friends. ——————- 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, Trump Keeps His Promises, Playing Hardball, China Censors The NBA, Day Of Atonement To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks!

Who Cares About You? Posted: 08 Oct 2019 06:35 PM PDT Dr. Walter E. Williamsby Dr. Walter E. Williams: During my student days at a UCLA economics department faculty/graduate student coffee hour in the 1960s, I was chatting with Professor Armen Alchian, probably the greatest microeconomic theory economist of the 20th century. I was trying to impress Alchian with my knowledge of statistical type I and type II errors. I explained that unlike my wife, who assumed that everyone was her friend until they prove differently, my assumption was everyone was an enemy until they proved otherwise. The result: My wife’s vision maximized the number of her friends but maximized her chances of betrayal. My vision minimized my chances of betrayal at a cost of minimizing the number of my friends. Alchian, donning a mischievous smile asked, “Williams, have you considered a third alternative, namely, that people don’t give a damn about you one way or another?” Initially, I felt a bit insulted, and our conversation didn’t go much further, but that was typical of Alchian — saying something profound, perhaps controversial, without much comment and letting you think it out. Years later, I gave Alchian’s third alternative considerable thought and concluded that he was right. The most reliable assumption, in terms of the conduct of one’s life, is to assume that people don’t care about you one way or another. It’s an error to generalize that people are friends or enemies, or that people are out to either help you or hurt you. To put it more crudely, as Alchian did, people don’t give a damn about you one way or another. Let’s apply this argument to issues of race. Listening to some people, one might think that white people are engaged in an ongoing secret conspiracy to undermine the achievement and well-being of black people. Their evidence is low black academic achievement and high rates of black poverty, unemployment and incarceration. For some, racism is the root cause of most black problems including the unprecedentedly high black illegitimacy rate and family breakdown. Are white people obsessed with and engaged in a conspiracy against black people? Here’s an experiment. Walk up to the average white person and ask, “How many minutes today have you been thinking about black people?” If the person isn’t a Klansman or a gushing do-gooder liberal, his answer would probably be zero minutes. If you asked him whether he’s a part of a conspiracy to undermine the achievement and well-being of black people, he’d probably look at you as if you were crazy. By the same token, if a person asked me: “Williams, how many minutes today have you been thinking about white people?” My answer would probably be, “Not even a nanosecond.” Because people don’t care about you one way or another doesn’t mean they wish you good will, ill will or no will. They just don’t give a damn. What are the implications of the people-don’t-care vision of how the world works? A major implication is that one’s destiny, for the most part, is in one’s hands. How you make it in this world depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you. 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. Peddling victimhood is not new. Booker T. Washington said: “There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” In an 1865 speech to the Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, abolitionist Frederick Douglass said that people ask: “‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!” Or as Patrick Moynihan urged a century later in a 1970 memo to President Richard Nixon, “The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of ‘benign neglect.’” ————– Dr. Walter Williams (@WE_Williams) is an American economist, social commentator, and author of over 150 publications. He has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the UCLA and B.A. in economics from California State University. He also holds a Doctor of Humane Letters from Virginia Union University and Grove City College, Doctor of Laws from Washington and Jefferson College. He has served on the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, since 1980. Visit his website: WalterEWilliams.com and view a list of other articles and works. Tags: Walter Williams, commentary, Who Cares About You? To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks!

What the Presidential Candidates Are Missing: Economic Growth Posted: 08 Oct 2019 06:22 PM PDT by Stephen Moore: While running for president in 1960, John F. Kennedy campaigned against the moderate growth economy (2.5% annual GDP rise) in the last years of the Eisenhower administration. He appealed to Americans’ highest aspirations by saying in his typical Boston drawl: “We can do bettah.” JFK promised 4% and 5% rates of annual economic progress for the nation — and he delivered. Those were the days. What a contrast to the proposals and rhetoric from today’s presidential candidates. I’ve watched many hours of Democratic presidential debates and have yet to hear an impassioned plea for faster growth. Many of the candidates — including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders — seem far more designed to reduce “inequality” or hand out free things to voters rather than expanding the economy. The policy ideas would divide the pie differently, rather than expand the size of the pie for everyone. So much for the JFK idea of a “rising tide lifting all boats.” The new economic message of progressivism is grounded more in envy and giveaways than prosperity and opportunity. Sometimes liberals seem so obsessed with income inequality they seem contemptuous of growth because it makes the rich, richer. The Democratic national platform failed to even mention of the term “economic growth,” and don’t be surprised if that goal is absent from the 2020 party platform. Economic growth should be a universal and undisputed goal, regardless of political party or ideology. This call for socking it to the rich may hold some political sway. Polls show that raising taxes on the millionaires and billionaires is popular with voters. But is this any way to make Americans more prosperous? It rarely works. Milton Friedman once famously warned, “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither.” The green movement only reinforces the left’s retreat from growth because higher living standards are seen as an obstacle to environmental salvation. The latest darling of the left, 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg, gained worldwide applause when she told the United Nations that our obsession with growth is “destroying the planet” and leading to “mass extinction.” Evidently, the cure to what ails the planet is fewer people, less consumption and an end to capitalism. All of this is disturbingly misguided. In almost every way, growth is critical to a better future for America. Faster growth of 3% to 4% makes solving so many other social and economic ills much easier — whether it is homelessness, lousy schools, unemployment, pollution, hunger, health care coverage, climate change or the national debt. The attached figure shows, for example, how the U.S. national debt is expected to explode in the next three decades to 150% or even 200% of our annual economy. But with growth above 3% and not the 1.9% federal officials are forecasting, the debt not only stabilizes, it falls as a burden each year. With spending discipline, we can and will grow our way out of the debt crisis. We see in the United States in recent years that higher growth rates are now leading to higher wages for middle-class workers, very low unemployment, low interest rates for Americans who want to take out a mortgage to buy a home. The benefits of growth are widely distributed. High growth has corresponded with gains in middle-income household incomes and a 50% rise in the stock market — benefiting not just the rich but also the tens of millions of American families with retirement accounts and stock ownership. Most surprising is that economic growth is highly correlated with environmental improvement. My Heritage Foundation colleagues have found that citizens of nations that are rich and economically free have nearly 25-year-longer life expectancies than those living in nations that are poor with strict economic controls. The Heritage Index of Economic Freedom also shows that wealthy nations have much cleaner air and cleaner water than poor nations. Socialism is no way to stop pollution. The Beatles sang that “money can’t buy me love,” and they were right. But it buys a lot of human improvement and makes life on earth for the poorest people better. History proves it time and again. Someone please tell this to aspiring income-redistributor in chief, Elizabeth Warren. ————————— 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. 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Is Trump At Last Ending Our ‘Endless Wars’? Posted: 08 Oct 2019 06:11 PM PDT by Patrick Buchanan: Among those objecting most loudly to an American withdrawal from the forever wars of the Middle East are those who were the most enthusiastic about plunging us in. The backstage struggle between the Bush interventionists and the America-firsters who first backed Donald Trump for president just exploded into open warfare, which could sunder the Republican Party. At issue is Trump’s decision to let the Turkish army enter Northern Syria, to create a corridor between Syrian Kurds and the Turkish Kurds of the PKK, which the U.S. and Turkey regard as a terrorist organization. “A disaster in the making,” says Lindsey Graham. “To abandon the Kurds” would be a “stain on America’s honor.” “A catastrophic mistake,” said Rep. Liz Cheney. “If reports about US retreat in Syria are accurate,” tweeted Marco Rubio, Trump will have “made a grave mistake.” “The Kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against ISIS in Syria. Leaving them to die is a big mistake,” said ex-U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, “we must always have the backs of our allies. ” But of our NATO ally of almost 70 years, Haley said, “Turkey is not our friend.” Sen. Mitt Romney called it a “betrayal”: “The President’s decision to abandon our Kurd allies in the face of an assault by Turkey is a betrayal. It says that America is an unreliable ally; it facilitates ISIS resurgence; and it presages another humanitarian disaster.” Trump tweeted this defense of his order to U.S. forces not to resist Turkish intervention and the creation of a Turkish corridor in Syria from the eastern bank of the Euphrates to Iraq: “The Kurds fought with us, but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so. They have been fighting Turkey for decades. … I held off this fight for … almost 3 years, but it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home.” When, in December, Trump considered ordering all U.S. troops home from Syria, Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned in protest. Behind this decision is Trump’s exasperation at our NATO allies’ refusal to take back for trial their own citizens whom we and the Kurds captured fighting for ISIS. The U.S. has “pressed France, Germany, and other European nations, from which many captured ISIS fighters came, to take them back, but they … refused,” said a Sunday White House statement. “The United States will not hold them for what could be many years and great cost. … Turkey will now be responsible for all ISIS fighters in the area captured over the past two years.” What are the arguments interventionists are using to insist that U.S. forces remain in Syria indefinitely? If we pull out, says Graham, the Kurds will be forced, for survival, to ally themselves with Bashar Assad. True, but the Kurds now occupy a fourth of Syria, and this is not sustainable. We have to consider reality. Assad, the Russians, Iranians and Hezbollah have won the war against the Sunni rebels we and our Arab friends armed and equipped. We are told that the Kurds will be massacred by Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan, who sees them as terrorist allies of the PKK. But the Turks occupied the Syrian border west of the Euphrates and the Kurds withdrew without massacres. And how long must we stay in Syria to defend the Kurds against the Turks? Forever? If we depart, ISIS will come back, says Cheney: “Terrorists thousands of miles away can and will use their safe-havens to launch attacks against America.” But al-Qaida and ISIS are in many more places today than they were when we intervened in the Middle East. Must we fight forever over there — to be secure over here? Why cannot Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States deal with ISIS and al-Qaida in their own backyard? Why are ISIS and al-Qaida over there our problem over here? “This will throw the region into further chaos,” says Graham. But if Trump’s decision risks throwing the region into “further chaos,” what, if not wholesale U.S. intervention, created the “present chaos”? Consider. Today, the Taliban conduct more attacks and control much more territory than they did in all the years since we first intervened in 2001. Sixteen years after we marched to Baghdad, protests against the Iraqi regime took hundreds of lives last week, and a spreading revolt threatens the regime. Saudi Arabia is tied down and arguably losing the war it launched against the Houthi rebels in 2015. Iran or its surrogates, with a handful of cruise missiles and drones, just shut down half of the Saudi oil production. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is awakening to his nation’s vulnerability and may be looking to negotiate with Tehran. Among those objecting most loudly to an American withdrawal from the forever wars of the Middle East are those who were the most enthusiastic about plunging us in. And, yes, there is a price to be paid for letting go of an empire, but it is almost always less than the price of holding on. ——————– 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, Is Trump, At Last, Ending, Endless Wars To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. 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The Battle of Lepanto: a Military and ‘Moral Victory’ Over Islam Posted: 08 Oct 2019 06:01 PM PDT . . . A brief and relevant “today in history” moment. Excerpt by Raymond Ibrahim: Today in history witnessed one of the most cataclysmic clashes between Islam and the West—one where the latter for once crushed and humiliated the former. In 1570, Muslim Turks—in the guise of the Ottoman Empire—invaded the island of Cyprus, prompting the Pope Pius V to call for and form a “Holy League” of maritime Catholic nation-states, spearheaded by the Spanish Empire, in 1571. Before they could reach and relieve Cyprus, its last stronghold at Famagusta was taken through treachery. After promising the defenders safe passage if they surrendered, Ottoman commander Ali Pasha—known as Müezzinzade (“son of a muezzin”) due to his pious background—had reneged and launched a wholesale slaughter. He ordered the nose and ears of Marco Antonio Bragadin, the fort commander, hacked off. Ali then invited the mutilated infidel to Islam and life: “I am a Christian and thus I want to live and die,” Bragadin responded. “My body is yours. Torture it as you will.” So Bragadin was tied to a chair, repeatedly hoisted up the mast of a galley and dropped into the sea, to taunts: “Look if you can see your fleet, great Christian, if you can see succor coming to Famagusta!” The mutilated and half-drowned man was then carried near to St. Nicholas Church—by now a mosque—and tied to a column, where he was slowly flayed alive. The skin was afterward stuffed with straw, sown back into a macabre effigy of the dead commander, and paraded in mockery before the jeering Muslim conquerors. News of this and other ongoing atrocities and desecrations of churches in Cyprus and Corfu enraged the Holy League as it sailed east. A bloodbath followed when the two opposing fleets—carrying a combined total of 600 ships and 140,000 men, more of both on the Ottoman side—finally met and clashed on October 7, 1571, off the western coast of Greece, near Lepanto. According to one contemporary: The greater fury of the battle lasted for four hours and was so bloody and horrendous that the sea and the fire seemed as one, many Turkish galleys burning down to the water, and the surface of the sea, red with blood, was covered with Moorish coats, turbans, quivers, arrows, bows, shields, oars, boxes, cases, and other spoils of war, and above all many human bodies, Christians as well as Turkish, some dead, some wounded, some torn apart, and some not yet resigned to their fate struggling in their death agony, their strength ebbing away with the blood flowing from their wounds in such quantity that the sea was entirely coloured by it, but despite all this misery our men were not moved to pity for the enemy. . . . Although they begged for mercy they received instead arquebus shots and pike thrusts.The pivotal point came when the flagships of the opposing fleets, the Ottoman Sultana and the Christian Real, crashed into and were boarded by one another. Chaos ensued as men everywhere grappled; even the grand admirals were seen in the fray, Ali Pasha firing arrows and Don Juan swinging broadsword and battle-axe, one in each hand. In the end, “there was an infinite number of dead” on the Real, whereas “an enormous quantity of large turbans, which seemed to be as numerous as the enemy had been, [were seen in the Sultana] rolling on the deck with the heads inside them.” The don emerged alive but the pasha did not. When the central Turkish fleets saw Ali’s head on a pike in the Sultana and a crucifix where the flag of Islam once fluttered, mass demoralization set in and the waterborne melee was soon over. The Holy League lost twelve galleys and ten thousand men, but the Ottomans lost 230 galleys—117 of which were captured by the Europeans—and thirty thousand men. It was a victory of the first order, and all of Christendom—Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant—rejoiced. Practically speaking, however, little changed. Cyprus was not even liberated by the Holy League. “In wrestling Cyprus from you we have cut off an arm,” the Ottomans painfully reminded the Venetian ambassador a year later. “In defeating our fleet

[at Lepanto]

you have shaved our beard. An arm once cut off will not grow again, but a shorn beard grows back all the better for the razor.”

Even so, this victory proved that the relentless Turks, who in previous decades and centuries had conquered much of eastern Europe, could be stopped. Lepanto suggested that the Turks could be defeated in a head-on clash—at least by sea, which of late had been the Islamic powers’ latest hunting grounds. As Miguel Cervantes, who was at the battle, has the colorful Don Quixote say: “That day . . . was so happy for Christendom, because all the world learned how mistaken it had been in believing that the Turks were invincible by sea.”

Modern historians affirm this position. According to military historian Paul K. Davis, “More than a military victory, Lepanto was a moral one. For decades, the Ottoman Turks had terrified Europe, and the victories of Suleiman the Magnificent caused Christian Europe serious concern…. Christians rejoiced at this setback for the Ottomans. The mystique of Ottoman power was tarnished significantly by this battle, and Christian Europe was heartened.”

No matter how spectacular, however, defeat at sea could not shake what was first and foremost a land power—so that more than a century later, in 1683, some 200,000 armed Ottomans had penetrated as far as and besieged Vienna.

But that—and what came after unto today—is another story.
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Raymond Ibrahim writes for the FrontPage Mag. Note: The above account was excerpted from Raymond Ibrahim and Victor Davis Hanson book – Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West — a book that CAIR did everything it could to prevent the U.S. Army War College from learning about.

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Capitalism is the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs. Don’t Kill It.

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 05:34 PM PDT

The Capitalist League: Capitalism is the goose that lays the golden eggs. All too often the opponents of full capitalism for everyone want to kill that goose out of ignorance, greed or jealousy.

Anti-capitalists are unclear on how true capitalism helps everyone or don’t want you to enjoy the benefits because it is difficult to control people who are self-sufficient!

The battle to advance full capitalism for everyone and achieve universal opulence is not only a battle against socialism. It is a battle royale against all forms of feudalism.

This includes the kind of feudalism we call cronyism. That’s a variety of feudalism practiced by some who might even presume to call themselves capitalists.

The association of greed with capitalism has further confused matters. But there is an old saying some may be familiar with that really does apply:

He (or she) that is the greatest among you will be servant to all.

Greed is not a virtue, It never was. To take from others beyond your due is not profit, To profit is to gain by the merit of your investment, which is only fair.

In all of its many guises the new feudalism is at war against human dignity. Greed — exploitation of others an affront to human dignity. It is not capitalism.

Whether socialism or cronyism, the many new forms of feudalism cannot offer what capitalism promises and delivers.

Capitalism delivers universal abundance of prosperity and affluence, what Adam Smith referred to as universal opulence to the lowest ranks of the people.

Neofeudalism, motivated by jealousy and greed, seeks to kill the golden goose, capitalism.

The Capitalist League’s mission is to advance full capitalism for all people in order to improve the general welfare while and protecting human dignity and world ecology.
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Blog by Bill Collier on The Capitalist League.

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Religious Persecution

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 05:18 PM PDT

Egypt Church Bombed Persecuted

by Kerby Anderson, Contributing Author: So many Christians around the world are facing religious persecution. That’s why I was encouraged by President Trump’s speech at a UN meeting on religious freedom. Vice President Mike Pence introduced the president. That gives you some indication of how seriously the current administration takes this issue.

A week ago, I interviewed Gary Bauer about the speech on my radio program. You can find out more at his American Values website. Here are just a few of the significant comments by the president. [Editor Note: You can also see Bauer’s daily articles on the ARRA News Service.

“The United States is founded on the principle that our rights do not come from government, they come from God.” The president added, “Our founders understood that no right is more fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous and virtuous society than the right to follow one’s religious convictions.”

He declared “with one clear voice the United States of America calls upon the nations of the world to end religious persecution.” He also added that protecting religious freedom was one of his highest priorities since it is “estimated that eleven Christians are killed every day for following the teachings of Christ.”

He explained that the US was forming a coalition of U.S. businesses for the protection of religious freedom. And he ended by asking every nation to join “in this urgent moral duty.” He added, “We ask the governments of the world to honor the eternal right of every person to follow their conscience, live by their faith and give glory to God. The United States has a vital role in this critical mission.”

Perhaps you can see why I thought this was an important speech that was nearly ignored by the mainstream media. In fact, one CNN headline dismissed the speech by pointing out that his speech kept him from attending the UN Climate Summit that day.

We must pray for the persecuted church, and we should support any leader that focuses our attention on the plight of Christians around the world.
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The Angry “Cancel Culture” Mob Is Hijacking Banks for Their Agenda

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 04:56 PM PDT

Ken Blackwell

by Ken Blackwell, Contributing Author: With 2020 Democratic presidential candidates looking ready to lose to President Trump and with recent conservative victories, this is a bad time to be a liberal activist.

No longer able to win elections and enact laws, the left has resorted to pressuring private companies into severing ties with industries they don’t agree with. Their creative and unsavory tactics are beyond anything Saul Alsinky ever dreamed of.

The heavy-handed boycott campaigns had small victories at first. By pressuring companies to fit their liberal agenda, some of the world’s biggest brands – such as Nike and Gillette – suddenly embraced far left-marketing. Sadly, with endorsements from Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, these efforts have evolved into highly aggressive campaigns that turn banks and financial institutions into political weapons.

Recent examples involve using small groups of corporate shareholders to pass liberal resolutions in board rooms, pressuring state governments to divest pensions from industries they don’t like, and forcing banks to stop financing industries that are not supported by the left.

Banking discrimination is a very serious threat to our Constitutional liberties and consumer choice. For example, instead of repealing the 2nd Amendment, liberal activists are trying to ensure gun manufacturers can’t have access to financing. This same nefarious strategy is being applied in the energy, small-dollar lending, and private prison sectors, where lawful companies are being severely limited by regulatory policy dictated by angry mobs.

This type of discrimination started with an Obama-era plot known as Operation Choke Point. In 2013, the Obama’s Department of Justice conspired with the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other government agencies to cut off financial services for small businesses and industries that they deemed to be undesirable or political enemies.

Thankfully, the Trump administration put a stop to Operation Choke Point. But liberal special interest groups do not take “no” for an answer, which is why activists built upon the former program to organize sweeping pressure campaigns to achieve the same objectives. With the help of celebrities such as Alyssa Milano, Amy Schumer, and Gloria Steinem, a coalition known as “Real Money Moves” was started to take direct aim at companies they do not approve of.

Thus far, the success of Real Money Moves has already been terrifying. They have successfully pressured large banks – including Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase – into cutting ties with the private corrections industry and are targeting banks that work with traditional fossil fuel energy companies. These well-funded activists were able to be successful in forcing the hand of banks, despite banking discrimination being expressly forbidden by federal law.

The threat of liberal activists taking over banks is large. For example, gun owners may have increasingly limited options to arm themselves as gun companies are being forced out of business. In addition, our chaotic Southern border could lose the ability to detain illegal aliens if private facilities have to close. Also, how affordable will your energy prices be if the companies which build oil and gas pipelines are put out of business? This activity affects our economy as people’s livelihoods have been put in the crosshairs for political reasons.

This shameful discrimination and hijacking of the free-market should not be tolerated. Left-wing activists are now emboldened after seeing how easy it has been to harass banks into doing their bidding, which means their list of targeted industries will expand. It is up to our government officials and elected leaders to put an end to this harassment before it is too late.
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Ken Blackwell (@kenblackwell) is a former ambassador to the U.N., an advisor to the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. He serves on the advisory board of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., and former Ohio State Treasurer and mayor of Cincinnati who currently serves on the boards of numerous conservative policy organizations. He is a contributing author to the ARRA News Service

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Wizards of Sleaze . . .

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 04:47 PM PDT. . .The only reason the Democrats are impeaching President Trump is that he’s exposing Corruption and draining the swamp.

Editorial Cartoon by AF “Tony” Branco

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Witches Hunting . . .

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 02:55 PM PDT. . . Schumer said the intelligence community has six ways from Sunday to get President Trump and we are seeing it in action, another coup.

Editorial Cartoon by AF “Tony” Branco

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Democrats Threaten Supreme Court Justices With Court Packing If They Hear Gun Law Challenge

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 02:47 PM PDT

GOPUSA | Washington Times reports: The Supreme Court Monday declined to dismiss a Second Amendment challenge to a firearm regulation in New York City after Democrats threatened the justices with court packing, fearing a divided ruling.

The case involves a New York City system that set up two types of licenses for handgun possession: one that allowed carry outside the home, and the other that only authorized possession at a home or business.

The city had an ordinance that prevented those with the home-only license from transporting their weapons to second homes or shooting ranges outside the city.

Gun rights groups challenged the ordinance, but lower courts sided with the city.

The gun rights groups have asked the Supreme Court to hear the case, and it is scheduled to be argued Dec. 2.

New York, though, fearing a loss that could turn into a major pro-gun precedent, scrambled to undo its ordinance. The city, along with Democratic lawmakers, has petitioned the court to refuse to hear the case, arguing the change in law has made the conflict moot.

“The respondents’ suggestion of mootness is denied. The question of mootness will be subject to further consideration at oral argument, and the parties should be prepared to discuss it,” the court noted in its orders.

Democrats fear a 5-4 ruling would expand on the last 12 years of pro-gun rulings.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse argued in a brief, joined by other Senate Democrats, that a series of similar rulings with “bare partisan majorities” has damaged the public trust in the federal judiciary.

The Rhode Island Democrat said in his filing that the GOP-majority on the court is too tainted to deliver a valid ruling, reminding the court it could be restructured in the future.

He pointed to a Quinnipiac poll from May, which found 55% of Americans said the court was “mainly motivated by politics.”

Mr. Whitehouse did not elaborate on what the public pressure for a “restructured” court might look like.

But several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have suggested they would propose expanding the high court to as many as 15 justices if they win the White House, then fill those seats with liberal members to counter the GOP’s current 5-4 majority in appointments.

The idea of packing the court was rejected by its most senior Democratic appointee, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, last month.

“Nine seems to be a good number, and it’s been that way for a long time,” Justice Ginsburg said in an interview with NPR.

Mr. Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that vets federal judges, pointed out in his brief that Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, confirmed to the court last year, was backed by the National Rifle Association during his confirmation process.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, rejected Mr. Whitehouse’s arguments on Twitter, saying the high court is just fine.

“The Supreme Court is well. The American political system is the sick patient (Kavanaugh hearings). The Court is moving center-right and getting out of the left ditch. That’s exactly where the country is headed!” Mr. Graham posted on Twitter.
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The 79¢ Lie

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 02:35 PM PDT

by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: Sen. Kamala Harris successfully bears aloft the banner of Barack Obama.

As “a person of color”? Yeah, sure — but mainly by pandering to ignorant ideologues.

“Look, women are still not paid equal for equal work in America,” she said recently at a campaign stop.

The Daily Wire notes that a few months ago she dug herself deeper:

“The law says that men and women should be paid equally for equal work, but what we know is that in America today, women on average are paid 80 cents on the dollar of what men are paid for the same work. African American women, 61 cents on the dollar, Latinas 53 cents on the dollar. And these are actually not debatable points.”

Well, these points are not debatable . . . in the sense that they have no merit, and everyone who has studied this objectively knows this. Politifact titles its article covering her statement: “On Colbert, Kamala Harris flubs wage gap statistic.”

“Flubs” puts it lightly.

Lies is more like it.

Former President Obama surely fibbed, too, when, in 2016, he said, “[t]oday, the typical woman who works full-time earns 79 cents for every dollar that a typical man makes.”

He knew that he was misusing statistics. He has been made aware of the debunkings of the 79¢ myth. And he understood; he’s no dummy.

The stat is not about “equal pay for equal work.” It aggregates incomes. There is no job-for-job equality and no consideration of real wages (with benefits, for instance). It is just that women-as-a-class take home less pay than men-as-a-class, per capita.

“It is known,” as was said on Game of Thrones.

The lie continues because of America’s “game of thrones.”

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Studies Reveal Unexpected Profiles Of Hill Staff Pay, Demographics

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 02:22 PM PDTby Mark Tapscott: When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi released the results of her July survey of Congressional Compensation and Diversity on September 26, it prompted Casey Burgat, senior fellow for the R Street Institute’s Governance Project, to run a comparison with data on Hill staff he uses in his analyses.

Casey Burgat

Pelosi’s results were based on responses from more than 5,000 respondents to a survey that was sent to 10,000 Hill employees. Burgat uses data obtained from Legistorm, the widely used compiler of official congressional information about salaries, staff backgrounds, employment histories and much, much more, as of March 2019.

For the most part, the Pelosi and Legistorm data are close, but Burgat found some significant differences, especially with regard to issues like salary and gender distributions by position.

That’s not a criticism of either the Pelosi survey nor Burgat’s use of Legistorm data. The two sources are similar but not identical. For example, Burgat explains:

“The Speaker’s report found that 54% of House staff are female (again, generalized from the 51% response rate. My data shows a 50.5%/49.5% gender split, favoring females. This isn’t too far off, and seemingly equitable in terms of gender,” Burgat said.

“But, here’s what the Speaker’s report won’t tell you. The gender split by position is far less equitable. Higher level positions trend male (especially Chiefs of Staff and Legislative Directors), while administrative-related titles are female dominated,” Burgat continued.

“This mirrors what I’ve found in previous congresses, and extends to what policy portfolios are given to males versus females (hint: they are not even close to the same),” he said.

That’s a dramatic difference: Roughly a third of chief of staff positions are held by women, compared to approximately 90 percent of office manager jobs.

On the issue of salaries, there is little surprise in the fact personal staff tend to be paid less than committee staff, but the range from top to bottom in terms of dollars paid may surprise some.

The median salary (i.e. half are paid more, half are paid less) for House chiefs of staff is nearly $154,000, compared to $36,000 for legislative assistants, according to Burgat.

The median House staff salary overall is just under $63,000. The median U.S. household income in 2018 was $63,179, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Burgat also spotlights the division of educational attainment between personal and committee staffs. On the personal staffs, nearly 60 percent of the employees’ highest level of graduation is a bachelor degree, compared to a bit more than a third on the committees.

But on the committees overall, the majority of staff members (28.83 percent) have masters degrees, versus less than 18 percent on the personal staffs. There are also a lot of lawyers on the committee staffs but far fewer on the personal staffs.

Perhaps the most significant data point from the Speaker’s survey is one that likely won’t get much attention in the media, if any at all: “Employees are more satisfied with their benefits (73.6%) than their pay (35.8%), and almost half (44.7%) have considered other employment elsewhere.”

That disparity between satisfaction with benefits compared to pay almost certainly explains in part why close to half of those surveyed by Pelosi are thinking about jobs off the Hill.

Notably missing from the Pelosi data are breakdowns by party identification. She does note, however, in releasing her data that the House Democratic Caucus is moving to adopt a “Rooney Rule” for hiring staff.

The Rooney Rule is essentially a quota system for job interviewing for top positions on National Football League franchises like head coaches and general managers.
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Mark Tapscott (@mtapscott) is HillFaith Founding Editor, Congressional Correspondent for The Epoch Times, and writes for numerous publication.

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The President Is Right: We Must Clean Up America’s Cities

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 02:00 PM PDT

“We can’t let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves by allowing what’s happening,” President Trump said recently.  Pictured: James Faulkner, who is homeless, plays his guitar while sitting near his shopping cart in San Francisco. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Armstrong Williams: The liberal media is once again taking off at breakneck pace to condemn President Donald Trump. The fake issue for their bogus outrage? Speaking the truth about how Los Angeles and San Francisco are harmed by their deterioration into squalor caused by rampant homelessness.

As the mainstream media is much more interested in hyperbole than fact, let’s instead look at exactly what the president said. He stated that the “prestige” of premier cities in California is reduced by having homeless people littering the streets.

“We can’t let Los Angeles, San Francisco, and numerous other cities destroy themselves by allowing what’s happening,” the president said.

He also spoke of “hundreds and hundreds of tents and people living at the entrance to their office building.”

What’s objectionable is that this is 100% true, not that Trump stated the facts.

Anyone who has recently visited the largest cities in California can see precisely what the president is talking about. The decay is on full display. The homeless have literally taken over blocks of streets, creating a filthy and dangerous environment where drug use is rampant and city blocks are treated as open-air latrines. It’s truly disgusting and a bona fide health hazard.

In recent months, I traveled to San Francisco. I spent hours walking through the city. But it was not the heavily romanticized locale previously lauded as one of America’s most beautiful places.

A decade ago, you could ask someone what they pictured when they thought of the Golden Gate City: the Golden Gate Bridge, of course, as well as beautiful Victorian row houses cloaked in fog, clanging trolleys, a bohemian vibe, a city that took pride in the legendary football team of Super Bowl champions Joe Montana and Jerry Rice, the thunderous power of San Francisco Giants home run slugger Barry Bonds.

Those were certainly the associations I had as I disembarked at the airport and began a brief business trip in the city. What I discovered shocked the conscience and literally left me sick to my stomach.

I walked the streets near the corporate headquarters of Twitter and Uber. These two tech giants are examples of how San Francisco has transformed itself into a hub of technology and innovation. Scurrying along near the building and gliding past on skateboards were young and optimistic men and women dressed casually as they reported for work. A nearby gym was packed with tattooed exercisers pumping iron as electronic dance music thumped from the speakers.

But just blocks away from this oasis of upwardly mobile millennials, the scene was entirely different. It felt like something out of a Hollywood movie depicting a post-apocalyptic society in the aftermath of a total breakdown of social norms.

I literally saw no fewer than 10 people shamelessly shooting heroin into their veins. They did this openly, in the street, utilizing the free needles that the city has distributed in order to discourage drug abusers from spreading AIDS by sharing dirty needles. Dozens of discarded needles could be seen on the sidewalks.

I looked on in disbelief as a man held his shirt aside as a woman with matted hair shoved a syringe into his neck, plunging illegal narcotics into his veins. Around the corner, an encampment of homeless people milled about next to a half-dozen tents that had been set up on the sidewalk right next to the entrance of an office building.

A barefoot man with open sores oozing blood and pus wandered aimlessly in the street, his eyes glazed over and his mouth opening to emit sounds somewhere between howls and moans. Crack pipes were passed among filthy people squatting on the sidewalk.

I could only stare and shake my head as a man pulled down his pants and defecated in a tree box next to a busy road as people walked past and cars whizzed by.

Shocked by what I had witnessed in the districts known as the Tenderloin and SoMa, I asked a friend who has called San Francisco his home for decades what it was like to live there.

“Please don’t judge the entire city by what’s taking place in some neighborhoods,” he said. He also opined that the city was growing increasingly unlivable, as the local government has made the homeless problem worse by refusing to take strong action to get people off the streets and clean up the city.

“We need our own [Rudy] Giuliani to come and clean San Francisco up,” he told me. Surprising sentiments from an unabashed far-left liberal who backed Barack Obama and today supports Bernie Sanders.

Trump is 100% right. We harm the prestige of these formerly beautiful cities and damage the reputation of the whole country by permitting this situation to persist. We must wake up, admit we have a serious problem, and undertake the hard work of literally cleaning up America’s cities.

Failure to do so harms the prestige of this entire country.
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Will Capitalists Fight Elizabeth Warren, Or Sell Her The Rope She’ll Hang Them With?

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 01:08 PM PDT

by Thomas McArdle, I & I Editorial Board:: With President Trump facing a high-risk impeachment, and far-left Democrat Elizabeth Warren now beating Joe Biden in national polls — including the latest IBD/TIPP poll — anyone on the productive side of the economy should be deeply worried, and ready to do anything to prevent Warren from getting the keys to the White House.

Instead, some are already trying to make peace with the prospect of a Warren presidency.

The chief of U.S. equity strategy for Canada’s RBC Capital Markets signaled on Monday that maybe an Elizabeth Warren administration won’t really be that bad. “Any pain from a Warren win is likely to be temporary,” Lori Calvasina reassured investors in a report that included a survey showing that many of the firm’s industry analysts at least partially agreed.

“Most of the sectors at high risk under a Warren presidency from a policy perspective (Financials, Energy, Health Care, Industrials) are already deeply undervalued versus the broader market,” she added.

There’s the silver lining of potential market winners too, such as small caps, according to the RBC report. And besides, a Warren presidency could be “supportive of the already growing popularity of ESG as an investment approach,” according to Calvasina, referring to using the criterion of “environmental, social and corporate governance” or so-called “socially responsible” investing.

Plus Warren breaking up, say, Amazon might be good for brick-and-mortar retailers. (You know, the way Ford Motor Co. going bankrupt in the 1900s would have been good for stagecoach makers.)

“The stock market tends to go up over time, regardless of who occupies the White House,” Calvasina wrote. “Ultimately we think corporate America and U.S. equity investors would learn to adapt to new political leadership, as they always do.”

Maybe the citizens of Hong Kong ought to start thinking this way. Just lie down and let the Communist Party of China come on in and take over completely; capitalism is resilient enough to survive any kind of beating that intrusive Big Government can think up.

As opposed to this, some big Wall Street players have been found expressing concern in hushed tones. And some figures in big business who traditionally give to Democrats recognize the Warren threat and warn that they will act accordingly — again, speaking privately.

No Silver Linings For Business Under Warren
There’s no mystery motivation here. People in the business of making money want to be able to play ball with whoever occupies the Oval Office. But more soldiers have saved their own lives in the face of the enemy with artillery than with wishful thinking, and business and finance shouldn’t kid themselves: Sens. Warren, Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the like are their mortal enemies.

What they should be fearful of is not identifying and fighting the adversaries of the market, but of taking a hand in fulfilling Lenin’s prophesy that “the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

Not to say the left in America has immediate plans to hang capitalists to death. As the Wall Street Journal’s Bill McGurn, appearing on Fox News last week, said of post-Mao Beijing’s hard-line policy toward staunchly capitalist Hong Kong’s aspirations for freedom, “It’s always been more about Lenin in power than Marx in economics. They might want to get rich but they want control.”

The left in this country might not wave little red books with quotations from the Chairman , but it wants to control as much of the American economy as it can. Warren’s schemes, for instance, include a $3 trillion “wealth tax” on those who possess $50 million or more, and the requirement that larger U.S. corporations “obtain a federal charter from a newly formed Office of United States Corporations” in which groups of people with no ownership stake would be making corporate decisions. Her promises of a Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free college, and vast multiplication of regulation would more than double the size of government, and spread corruption in society and state more akin to that of Beijing or other totalitarian regimes.

On Monday she even proposed banning judges from owning stocks.

There’s an alternative to the sorry spectacle of the seemingly endless supply of self-loathing, guilt-ridden, pusillanimous capitalists. From Wall Street to Main Street, leaders of business and finance should explicitly warn of the Warren threat, and they should unashamedly explain the goodness of the free market, the moral superiority of a system that has lifted countless millions of proletarians — who never invested a dime — out of destitution. Don’t know how? Search YouTube for “Milton Friedman.”

Or ask J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who did a pretty good job earlier this year in his annual letter to shareholders. “Socialism inevitably produces stagnation, corruption and often worse — such as authoritarian government officials who often have an increasing ability to interfere with both the economy and individual lives — which they frequently do to maintain power,” Dimon warned. “This would be as much a disaster for our country as it has been in the other places it’s been tried.”

Thanks to the vast majority of young Americans being products of government-run schools, there is a woeful deficiency in understanding economics and appreciating a free market society. They need a dose of truth from the mouths of leaders in the private sector.

Instead of slipping anonymous quotations to reporters and looking on the non-existent bright side of what would be a very dark future under the rule of haters of capitalism, its time for more capitalists to buy themselves a backbone and stop selling the free market short.
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Federal Court Entertains Bizarre Legal Theories That Threaten Gun Owners, Rule of Law

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 12:46 PM PDT

by NRA-ILA: Frustrated by the lack of political progress on the gun control agenda, the legal wing of the anti-gun movement continues to pursue ever-more radical and confused legal strategies. In the 1990s, trial lawyers and their allies in government sought to bankrupt the gun industry by holding them accountable for the criminal actions of third parties – a theory that would have overturned hundreds of years of established tort law.

After failing to stop campus carry legislation in Texas in 2015, a group of professors filed a suit claiming that the state’s recognition of the Right-to-Carry in the classroom unlawfully infringed on their “First Amendment rights to academic freedom.”

In October 2018, a group of individuals representing minors in Chicago filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division against the state of Illinois and the Department of State Police (ISP). The plaintiffs contended that Chicago’s pervasive violence is causing children, including the plaintiffs, to become psychologically disabled and unable to perform adequately in school.

\Therefore – the plaintiffs contended – under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Illinois officials are required to enact an itemized list of severe new gun control regulations in order to accommodate these individuals so that they may do better in school and partake in “federally assisted law enforcement programs designed to protect the people of the State.”

On September 30, Bill Clinton-appointed Judge Joan B. Gottschall denied part of the state of Illinois’ motion to dismiss, allowing the case to go forward.

It is difficult to overstate the bizarre nature of the case. As Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul explained in a memorandum of law in support of the state’s motion to dismiss, the plaintiffs did not even have standing to bring the case. Raoul noted, “Standing is the ‘irreducible constitutional minimum’ required to bring a case in federal court.”

Summarizing standing doctrine, the AG went on to explain,

To have standing, a plaintiff must have sustained (1) an injury in fact that is (2) fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant and not the result of the independent action of some third party not before the court; and (3) it must be likely, rather than speculative, that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision.

Walking the court through how the standing doctrine should be applied to the facts of the case, Raoul explained that alleged harms did not meet the traceability requirement,

The allegations of this complaint fall well outside the proper boundaries of legitimate standing… the complaint falls far short of alleging injuries fairly traceable to the State, the Governor, and ISP and its Director. The real harm to children is caused by third parties not before the Court, whom no injunction could reach to truly remedy the problem.

Addressing the question of whether the court had the ability to grant the relief sought, the AG pointed out,

The final part of the standing inquiry–that a favorable ruling from the court will likely redress the alleged wrong–is just as impossible to achieve… no injunction from this Court directed at the State, the Governor, or ISP could reasonably be expected to redress an entire state’s crime problem in order to accommodate disabilities resulting from that crime problem.

Beyond the obvious lack of standing, the plaintiffs’ theory is a wild abuse of the ADA. As Raoul noted, the ADA is there to ensure that reasonable accommodations are made so that persons with disabilities are not excluded from the use of public programs or services. An example of such accommodations might be a wheelchair ramp at a polling place, or a handicap stall in a bathroom at a public school.

The plaintiffs in this case have not been excluded from school or the general law enforcement functions of the state. Making this point clear to the court, Raoul explained,

The decisions by a law enforcement agency, like ISP, regarding how to allocate its resources to protect public safety–e.g., to what extent it should address drug interdiction, domestic violence, Internet fraud, or gun violence–are not “programs, activities, or services” which a “qualified individual with a disability” would be “excluded from” or “denied the benefits of.”… There is no claim the public schools are denying the plaintiffs any services or discriminating against them in any way, and certainly not at the behest of the state defendants…. The problem of gun violence in Chicago is pervasive and cannot be attributed to any action or inaction of the state defendants taken “by reason of” someone’s disability.

The abandonment of long-established standing doctrine and failure to reign in a wildly expansive interpretation of a federal statute never intended to encompass firearms policy will prompt some gun owners to question whether the politically charged nature of the firearms issue played a role in the decision not to dismiss the case outright.

Toleration for this sort of legal creativity will only embolden gun control activists to test increasingly inventive theories that weaponize disparate statutes and questionable plaintiffs against law-abiding gun owners.
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Destroys $5 million Worth of ‘Guns’ After Ban

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 12:25 PM PDT

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by Ryan Morgan: After Dick’s Sporting Goods adopted the decision to no longer sell certain types of semi-automatic firearms, the company determined it had destroyed $5 million in inventory to fulfill their gun-control policy.

After Dick’s Sporting Goods adopted the decision to no longer sell certain types of semi-automatic firearms, the company determined it had destroyed $5 million in inventory to fulfill their gun-control policy.

Dick’s Sporting Goods adopted new policies to ban the sale of any “assault style” firearms at any of its stores within weeks of a 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla. where 17 people were killed. Rather than sell off their remaining inventory Dick’s Sporting Goods instead turned all the guns to scrap, CEO Ed Stack told CBS News during an interview Sunday.

Stack also told CBS his company lost “a quarter billion dollars” in sales. On top of those losses, the store destroyed an additional $5 million in inventoried firearms.

“I said, ‘You know what? If we really think these things should be off the street, we need to destroy them,’” Stack said.

It was not clear how much the company additionally paid to destroy those specified firearms.

CBS went on to interview Dianna Muller, a 22-year Tulsa Police Department veteran and gun rights advocate, Muller said, “If they don’t want guns, that’s their right. It feels really anti-American to start creating public policy through corporate policy.”

Muller supported the civilian use and ownership of AR-15s like those now banned by Dick’s Sporting Goods.

“This rifle, and any other rifle, kills fewer people than hammers and blunt objects every year, according to FBI statistics,” Muller said.

In 2012, Dick’s Sporting Goods had adopted a previous ban on “assault style” rifles after a school shooting in Connecticut, but Stack said he was affected again by the Parkland shooting. After learning that Dick’s Sporting Goods had sold the suspect a shotgun, Stack said: “We’re done.”

“Even though it wasn’t the gun he used, it could have been,” Stack told CBS.

Despite the prior sales ban at Dick’s Sporting Goods stores, its new firearms policies called for the same “assault style” firearms to be removed from its subsidiary Field and Stream stores. The 2018 policies also banned the sale of high capacity magazines and called for universal background checks and a purchase database for all firearms sales. Additionally, the policies raised the minimum age of firearms sales to 21, barring those between the ages of 18 and 21 from making firearms purchases despite having a legal right to make such purchases.

In March 2019, the retailer went further on to discontinue the sale of firearms at 125 stores where hunting sections were underperforming.

Other companies, such as Walmart, have also adopted in-store gun-control measures.

In the wake of shooting events in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, 145 companies also signed on to a letter calling for “red flag” laws that would allow police agencies to confiscate guns from those who have not committed any crimes but may appear to be at risk of harming themselves or others.
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Adam Schiff’s Own Ukraine ‘Scandal’ Comes To Light

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 09:33 AM PDT

Rep. Adam Schiff: hypocrite and a liar.

by Jim Kouri: Despite the mainstream news media covering up the connections between the corrupt country of the Ukraine and the sanctimonious Democratic lawmakers and officeholders, the true journalists and investigators have found a steady stream of evidence that is beginning to point to Ukraine as the U.S. Democrats’ cash-cow for fundraising.

The House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who is playing the lead role in the bogus investigation of a Trump-Ukraine scandal, has begun to endure questions regarding his personal connection to a Soviet-born businessman who has raised money for “Shifty Schiff’s” election campaign and whose lucrative business has received defense contracts from the Ukraine’s government, according to Fox News Channel’s superstar Laura Ingraham on Thursday.

According to Ingraham, an attorney who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Rep. Schiff, D-California, struck up a friendship with Igor Pasternak, the founder and CEO of Worldwide Aeros Corporation, which manufactures blimps for the military and for private sector customers. His business is also involved in weapons manufacturing.

Recently, Aeros worked with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to produce a Ukrainian version of the M4 and M16 rifles – which are really assault rifles and fully-automatic — according to several reports. In 2013, Pasternak hosted a fundraiser in Washington, D.C. for Schiff, who later came to embrace a strong stance in support of the United States sending military aid to Ukraine during its conflict with Russia.

In 2013, Pasternak hosted a fundraiser in Washington, D.C. for Schiff, who later came to embrace a strong stance in support of the United States sending military aid to Ukraine during its conflict with Russia.

“Before this time, Schiff rarely, if ever, mentioned Ukraine,” Fox News’ Laura Ingraham said on her show Thursday night, after detailing Schiff’s connection to Pasternak.

“But after the fundraiser, he used multiple television appearances to basically demand that we send money and arms to them,” the talk host and author Ingraham noted.

“Why isn’t anyone asking more questions about Schiff’s place at the center of the left’s new Ukraine hysteria?”

Although there is apparently nothing illegal about Pasternak holding fundraisers or bankrolling Schiff’s political campaigns, factoring in Schiff’s apparent change of heart once he received the Pasternak money, has the smell of “stink” on it and appears be a “Clinton Money-Grubbing Operation” and another pay-to-play scheme involving the corrupt Ukrainian government and the equally corrupt members of the Democratic Party.

“Ukrainian collusion, which was large, significant and proven. With Hillary Clinton. With the Democratic National Committee. With Chalupa. With the ambassador. With an FBI agent who has now been hired by George Soros who has been funding a lot of this,” said President Trump’s legal counsel Rudy Giuliani who traveled to the Ukraine to investigate the allegations against his boss.

“The new prosecutor dropped the case not just on Biden’s kid and the crooked company he worked for Burisma… He also dropped the case on George Soros’ company … where there’s documentary evidence that they were producing false information about Trump, about Biden, Fusion GPS was there…” Giuliani added.

“… Nellie Ohr says that there was a lot of contact between Democrats and Ukraine…”

“We are unsure of the true nature of this situation, that being said, you have to admit, it does not look great for Mr. Schiff. However, he, just like every American, is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law,” said Laura Ingraham.
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Financial Report Tough On State of Illinois

Posted: 08 Oct 2019 09:02 AM PDT

The News Gazette (Illinois) Editorial Board: Illinois is a real contender when it comes to a race to the fiscal bottom.

When it comes to its finances, the state of Illinois has gone from bad to worse. The good news, if one can call it that, is it’s not yet the worst.

Truth in Accounting, a financial watchdog group, recently released its 10th annual report on the “Fiscal State of the States.”

Illinois ranked No. 48 last year and fell to No. 49 this year in terms of its financial distress.

“We’re the second-worst in the nation. New Jersey is the only one that’s ahead of us on that score, and it’s not a pretty picture. The deterioration happened in a year when the overall — or 50-state average — improved last year. Illinois did not improve. It continued to deteriorate,” said Bill Bergman, the organization’s research director.

Remember that the next time a state public official contends that the state is pulling itself out of a self-made financial mess. The governor and Legislature cannot continue to spend more money than the state takes in and expect real improvement in our effectively bankrupt state.

The top five states in terms of fiscal health, according to Truth in Accounting, are Alaska, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho.

The bottom five are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois and New Jersey.

Illinois, of course, is hardly alone in terms of fiscal profligacy. The study found that “40 states do not have enough money to pay all of their bills and in total the states have racked up $1.5 trillion in unfunded state debt.”

Here are a few grim facts about Illinois finances that were cited by Truth in Accounting.

It noted that “Illinois’ elected officials have made repeated financial decisions that have left the state with a debt burden of $223.9 billion.” That breaks down to a “burden of $52,600 per taxpayer.”

On the assets and liabilities scale, Illinois has $28.9 billion available to pay $252.8 billion in bills.

Of course, the state doesn’t have to meet all of its obligations at once, so the assets/liabilities measure is not as terrifying as it appears. But, make no mistake about it, Illinois’ financial situation is desperate.

The state is overwhelmed by unpaid bills, public pension obligations and legislators’ insistence on continuing to spend more and more money the state doesn’t have. There is a reason, after all, why Illinois dropped from No. 48 to No. 49.

Thank God for New Jersey, the only state keeping Illinois from coming in dead last.

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• Kurds mobilize in Syria as Turkey poised for imminent attack
• Reports: IG had hard time explaining timeline of whistleblower complaint
• First two weeks of New Jersey’s red flag gun statute: State went after one person per day
• Socialists control the airwaves and school books, and it’s starting to show
• Did Robert Mueller lie under oath saying he wasn’t pursuing FBI director job?
• Revealed: The whistleblower worked for one of the Democratic presidential candidates
• Scathing letter from President’s counsel shows how unconstitutional this ‘impeachment’ is
• WATCH: Former Chinese prisoner explains the evils of socialism and communism

It’s time to stop pretending Turkey is an ally Posted: 09 Oct 2019 04:53 AM PDT Recep Tayyip Erdogan hates America. His government hates America. His willingness to occasionally play nice, whether with President Obama or President Trump, always comes with a heavy price. We may be on the verge of witnessing the heaviest price paid yet in the form of reinvigorated war in Syria and tens of thousands killed. If […] The post It’s time to stop pretending Turkey is an ally appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Kurds mobilize in Syria as Turkey poised for imminent attack Posted: 09 Oct 2019 04:34 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Warning of a “humanitarian catastrophe,” Syrian Kurdish forces who are allied with the United States issued a “general mobilization” call on Wednesday in northeastern Syria, along the border with Turkey, as Ankara threatened an imminent invasion of the area. The Turkish operation would ignite new fighting in the war-ravaged country’s eight-year-old war, […] The post Kurds mobilize in Syria as Turkey poised for imminent attack appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Reports: IG had hard time explaining timeline of whistleblower complaint Posted: 08 Oct 2019 09:06 PM PDT As Democrats attempt to ramp up their pseudo-impeachment, discrepancies continue to pop up in both the validity of the whistleblower’s complaint and the handling of it all by Inspector General Michael Atkinson. Two things are clearly contradictory to the proper whistleblower process and lawmakers are starting to ask questions. First, there’s the 18-day gap between the […] The post Reports: IG had hard time explaining timeline of whistleblower complaint appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

First two weeks of New Jersey’s red flag gun statute: State went after one person per day Posted: 08 Oct 2019 08:04 PM PDT A new video from MRCTV details the danger to liberty posed by ‘red flag’ gun confiscation SWATing In a video report from MRCTV P. Gardner Goldsmith, explains the Orwellian disdain New Jersey Leftists have for our inalienable human rights. In his video report, Mr. Goldsmith noted the constitutional amendments violated by these measures: A towering […] The post First two weeks of New Jersey’s red flag gun statute: State went after one person per day appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Socialists control the airwaves and school books, and it’s starting to show Posted: 08 Oct 2019 04:59 PM PDT Socialism is growing in popularity in America. If you’re a regular reader of NOQ Report, chances are you’re a conservative who scratches your head any time you hear statistics pointing to the rise of Marxist principles as acceptable to Americans, particularly the youth in our country. But we need only look to the two most […] The post Socialists control the airwaves and school books, and it’s starting to show appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Did Robert Mueller lie under oath saying he wasn’t pursuing FBI director job? Posted: 08 Oct 2019 04:32 PM PDT When former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress, he was asked if he had pursued the job to replace James Comey as FBI Director. He said he did not. Now, reports from White House sources indicate he met with the President to pursue the position. In other words, he may have committed perjury before […] The post Did Robert Mueller lie under oath saying he wasn’t pursuing FBI director job? appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Revealed: The whistleblower worked for one of the Democratic presidential candidates Posted: 08 Oct 2019 04:02 PM PDT Democrats cried foul when Republicans noted there was a perceived bias noted by Intelligence Community’s inspector general Michael Atkinson in the initial whistleblower report. They said that this only indicated he was a registered Democrat, and attempts by conservative media to call this out was silly. As it turns out, there was quite a bit more to […] The post Revealed: The whistleblower worked for one of the Democratic presidential candidates appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Scathing letter from President’s counsel shows how unconstitutional this ‘impeachment’ is Posted: 08 Oct 2019 03:31 PM PDT Impeachment has always been an avenue through which the House and the Senate can represent the best interests of the people by holding government officials accountable for high crimes and misdemeanors perpetrated while in office. It’s a protection that allows for the swift removal of criminals from government power. It was never intended to be […] The post Scathing letter from President’s counsel shows how unconstitutional this ‘impeachment’ is appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

WATCH: Former Chinese prisoner explains the evils of socialism and communism Posted: 08 Oct 2019 02:37 PM PDT A video to kick off abolish socialistic slavery month, from a woman who experienced it’s abject horrors. It’s the start of abolish socialistic slavery month. With the dire situation in Hong Kong and Communist China in the news, we present this video from MRCTV with a woman who has directly experienced the horrors of ‘socialism […] The post WATCH: Former Chinese prisoner explains the evils of socialism and communism appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

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Bernie changes “nature of campaign” after heart attack 10/9/2019 11:01:38 AM  Karen Townsend Bernie Sanders is no spring chicken and he is now ready to admit it. Tuesday he announced to reporters that he will be making some concessions in campaigning after his recent heart attack. Sanders returned to his home in Burlington, Vermont after his release from the hospital following his heart … More… Castro “escorts” asylum seekers over border. It doesn’t end well 10/9/2019 10:31:02 AM  Jazz Shaw You almost have to give Julian Castro credit. In a crowded field of presidential candidates, the guy just keeps on going like the Energizer bunny and doesn’t let his almost nonexistent presence in the polls slow him down. His latest stunt to draw media attention came in the form of … More… New Farrow book: Lauer raped a colleague — and NBC News did nothing 10/9/2019 10:01:56 AM  Ed Morrissey Looks like the Matt Lauer Comeback Story will be delayed — indefinitely. Ronan Farrow’s new book about his groundbreaking investigative work on Harvey Weinstein, Catch and Kill, includes a shocking new twist on Lauer’s abrupt firing from NBC News and the Today show. Farrow reveals that the Weinstein story forced NBC to deal … More… “You’re trying to change the meaning of sex” 10/9/2019 9:21:11 AM  Jazz Shaw The oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the case of Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC and two other cases involving LGBT employment issues seem to indicate that we’re heading toward yet another set of close decisions split along partisan lines. If you’ve been following our ongoing coverage of the … More… Beto to NPR: Damn the judicial torpedoes, full speed ahead on mandatory buybacks 10/9/2019 8:41:42 AM  Ed Morrissey Gun owners and Second Amendment activists often complain, and for very good reason, that media outlets cover the debate over firearms from a position of complete ignorance. Unfortunately for Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, he happened to run into one NPR show that featured someone who does know what he’s talking about. Ruben … More… It begins. Turkish troops crossing into Syria 10/9/2019 8:01:59 AM  Jazz Shaw We can’t say they didn’t warn us. On Sunday, Donald Trump had a phone call with the Tyrant of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which Erdogan threatened to move his army into northern Syria and go after our Kurdish allies. The President responded by announcing that he would move our … More… Report: Romney refusing requests to primary Trump — but could try to bring him down via impeachment 10/8/2019 10:41:45 PM  Allahpundit Superb clickbait from Gabriel Sherman, although not for a moment do I believe there’s a war chest out there of half a billion dollars which establishment Republicans are prepared to immolate in the futile hope of successfully primarying Trump. Especially with Romney as the anti-Trump alternative. He’s beloved in Utah … More… Yao Ming is the man in the middle – what’s he going to do? 10/8/2019 10:01:34 PM  Karen Townsend NBA Commissioner Adam Silver would like to have a conversation with Yao Ming. Silver’s office has reached out and he hopes a meeting can be set up, perhaps in Shanghai Wednesday. The Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets are scheduled to play an exhibition game in Shanghai Thursday and then … More… Michael Avenatti’s lawyer claims he is a victim of ‘vindictive’ prosecution arranged by President Trump 10/8/2019 9:21:12 PM  John Sexton Michael Avenatti’s attorney told a judge in New York today that President Trump was ultimately responsible for all of his legal troubles. The judge in his case did not appear to be impressed: Avenatti has now formally blamed his opposition to Trump for separate indictments in California and New York, where … More… White House lawyer sends letter to Dems: We cannot cooperate with your very unfair impeachment probe 10/8/2019 8:41:22 PM  Allahpundit You already know what this is about. Trump previewed it in his tweets this morning defending his decision to block Gordon Sondland from testifying. The White House has decided that it’s done cooperating with the House’s impeachment probe — and not for any traditional legal reason, really, like executive privilege, … More… Johnson: No-deal Brexit will be Merkel’s fault 10/8/2019 8:01:06 PM  Ed Morrissey To be fair, blame the Germans has proven to be a solid political strategy regarding European affairs for quite a while, and not for no reason. It’s nearly as popular in the UK, historically speaking, as blame the French. And Leo Varadkar might be happy that Boris Johnson isn’t blaming Ireland for … More… ESPN warns staff: Don’t go into specifics about China and Hong Kong when discussing Daryl Morey’s tweet 10/8/2019 7:31:41 PM  Allahpundit Remember that ESPN is owned by Disney, and that China is willing and able to punish a parent organization for criticism by its subsidiary. It’s not just Houston Rockets games that have been banned from Chinese airwaves over Daryl Morey’s pro-Hong-Kong tweet, after all. It’s the entire NBA preseason. So imagine … More… Police identify suspects in the killing of a key witness in the Amber Guyger trial 10/8/2019 7:01:04 PM  John Sexton Joshua Brown was considered a key witness in the shooting death of Botham Jean. Brown lived across the hall from Jean and testified at the trial of former police officer Amber Guyger that he never heard her tell anyone to put their hands up as she claimed during the trial. … More… Wait… the Tyrant of Turkey is *still* getting invited to the White House? 10/8/2019 6:31:51 PM  Jazz Shaw Just this morning we were talking about the unfolding disaster in Syria near the Turkish border. This decision to start pulling our troops out rests on the President’s shoulders, but it was hastened by the fact that our supposed “ally,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was planning to move his … More… Report: Ukraine whistleblower had a professional tie to a Democratic presidential candidate 10/8/2019 6:01:14 PM  Allahpundit An intriguing scoop, although the fact that this vague clue to the guy’s identity is being leaked by Republicans to Byron York helps explain why Dems are convinced the whistleblower will be outed in a nanosecond after he testifies unless his identity is concealed somehow. Now, however, there is word of … More… Corruption, cont’d: Comey spox got gifts from CNN and NYT, lied to investigators 10/8/2019 5:31:33 PM  Ed Morrissey Alert Jeff Daniels! James Comey’s FBI apparently suffered an epidemic lack of candor, as well as unreported media contacts. An earlier inspector general report got Comey’s deputy Andrew McCabe fired for both issues, and potentially prosecuted for obstructing an investigation into leaks. Comey himself has been spinning the truth at … More… California gaming company bans player for supporting Hong Kong protesters (Boycott Blizzard?) 10/8/2019 5:01:51 PM  John Sexton The NBA isn’t the only organization eager to punish anyone who dares to defy communist China. An American esports company called Blizzard Entertainment, creators of World of Warcraft, cracked down on a winning player yesterday after he offered his support to Hong Kong protesters. Inven Global reported that after his match in … More… Guess which state has the most entries on the “most miserable cities” list 10/8/2019 4:31:53 PM  Jazz Shaw Business Insider recently compiled a list ranking the most and least “miserable” cities in the United States. (Somebody apparently had a lot of free time on their hands.) So how do you suppose the various states did? There was one clear winner in the losers’ column and that was… (drumroll … More… “Batsh*t crazy”: Time for a lecture on effective Syria policy from … Susan Rice 10/8/2019 4:01:05 PM  Allahpundit There’s a reason you don’t hear much from Barack Obama these days, even as the news cycles get crazier and Trump’s troubles deepen. And it’s not because the “fraternity of presidents” requires O to maintain the same sort of respectful silence towards his successor as George W. Bush maintained for … More… Today’s hot #TEMS topics: China whirl, Warren’s new twirl, impeachment swirl, Hollywood’s churl, St Paul PD arrests girl, and more! 10/8/2019 3:46:20 PM  Ed Morrissey Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we welcome: Andrew Malcolm … More… Warren takes the bait: No really, I was fired from my teaching job for being pregnant 10/8/2019 3:31:13 PM  Ed Morrissey Will Elizabeth Warren take a DNA test to prove she got fired from her teaching job over a pregnancy? The top-tier Democratic presidential hopeful got forced into responding to a debunking of her oft-told talk of gender victimhood after documentary evidence emerged to challenge it. Warren told CBS News late … More… Bernie Sanders’ heart attack makes his age a legitimate issue 10/8/2019 3:01:36 PM  John Sexton Last Tuesday, Bernie Sanders was suddenly was hospitalized and underwent a heart procedure. For three days, his campaign wouldn’t confirm one crucial detail about the incident: Did Sanders have a heart attack? Finally, last Friday as Sanders was being released from the hospital, his doctors revealed the truth. From the … More… Want to live longer? Get a dog 10/8/2019 2:31:03 PM  Jazz Shaw Somebody should forward this information to Bernie Sanders. He could probably use it. I don’t think this will come as all that much of a surprise, but two separate medical studies released this week have concluded that people who own dogs are less likely to die early. The phenomenon is particularly … More… Team Trump: We’ll sue Minneapolis over $530,000 shakedown by liberal mayor 10/8/2019 2:01:19 PM  Ed Morrissey As of now, Donald Trump is scheduled to appear at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Thursday, part of his plan to flip Minnesota to the GOP in 2020. The city wants to make sure he pays for the privilege — through the nose, apparently. The city sent a $530,000 … More… Woke NBA coach Steve Kerr: Lemme get back to you on this whole “China violating human rights” thing 10/8/2019 1:31:51 PM  Allahpundit It is passing strange that this outspoken figure, normally so willing and able to comment on injustices in the United States, has no thoughts whatsoever on Hong Kong’s uprising. He was asked for comment last night and … total blank: https://twitter.com/loganmmurdock/status/1181411502739214337 It’s not as if Kerr doesn’t keep up on current events, … More… LA Times: Mental illness, substance abuse far more common among homeless than claimed 10/8/2019 1:01:06 PM  John Sexton If you’ve followed the issue of homelessness up and down the west coast, from Seattle to Los Angeles, one of the most fundamental disagreements between ordinary people and activists is over the issues of drug abuse and mental illness. Typically, activists arguing for more housing for the homeless are quick … More… SCOTUS looking at requiring unanimous juries 10/8/2019 12:31:12 PM  Jazz Shaw The Supreme Court has another interesting (and potentially chaotic) case on their hands and they’re hearing arguments this week. In Ramos v. Louisiana, Evangelisto Ramos was previously convicted of second-degree murder in Louisiana. But the jury that convicted him reached a 10-2 decision rather than a unanimous one. His attorneys … More… Graham to Giuliani: It’s time you tell the Senate about Ukraine; Giuliani: We’ll see 10/8/2019 12:01:33 PM  Ed Morrissey Backfire potential: Yuuuuge. As Senate Judiciary Committee chair, Lindsey Graham has played it safe on the Democrats’ push for impeachment, preferring to criticize their efforts while carefully calculating his criticisms of Donald Trump. Today, however, Graham appears to want to roll the dice on perhaps the loosest cannon of Ukraine-Gate by … More… Schiff: Preventing Sondland from testifying is strong evidence of obstruction; Update: Dems to subpoena Sondland 10/8/2019 11:31:40 AM  Allahpundit Ed is exactly right about Trump’s strategy in holding Sondland back, I think. He’s going to boycott the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry on grounds of procedural unfairness — namely, there hasn’t been a formal House vote to open the inquiry, which would have given Republican members more power over the proceedings, … More… The Hill GOP adopts slow-down strategy to stifle inquiry NYT Warren says she won’t hold big-money fundraisers if she’s the nominee MSNBC Oops Matthew Walther Do it, Hillary WaPo Joe diGenova: These Democrats are committing “regicide” Nancy Pelosi “Mr. President, you are not above the law. You will be held accountable.” NBC Majority support impeachment probe but split on removal, poll finds NBC Kurds ask Trump for no-fly zone to protect them from Turkey CNBC U.S. puts visa restrictions on Chinese officials over abuses of Muslims in Xinjiang Variety Ronan Farrow book alleges Matt Lauer raped NBC News colleague Fox News Officials: Mueller was pursuing FBI director job when he met with Trump in 2017 Mediaite Trey Gowdy reportedly joining Trump legal team Politico Trump critics on the right join the media wars NYT Bernie Sanders says he’ll “change the nature” of his campaign after heart attack David Harsanyi Hey, Congress: Take back your war powers, or shut up about Syria Pew In their own words: Behind Americans’ views of “socialism” and “capitalism” Politico Inside Trump’s obsession with polygraphs James Antle Are Senate Republicans turning on Trump? Jeff Spross The NBA’s surrender to China shows free trade threatens more than jobs Charles Cooke Once again, Congress is content to remain impotent

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