<p>
	It's not just Biden. American companies spend all of their time trying to appease a murderous Communist dictatorship over claims that it has the right to take over another country.</p>

<p>
	First up, <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/apple_warns_suppliers_in_taiwan/">obviously Apple</a>, a company that relies on Chinese contractors to produce garbage products that are then oversold at vastly inflated prices&nbsp;to Americans.</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		Apple, which celebrates its self-professed commitment to free expression and human rights, has reportedly told its suppliers in Taiwan to label their components so they describe Taiwan as a province of the People's Republic of China (PRC).</p>

	<p>
		According to Japanese financial publication Nikkei, Apple on Friday&nbsp;warned its suppliers&nbsp;that China has ramped up enforcement of a long-standing import rule "that Taiwanese-made parts and components must be labeled as being made either in 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei.'"</p>

	<p>
		The Register&nbsp;asked Apple to comment on this report and the iGiant used its free expression to say nothing. Were Apple to respond, it would presumably say something like, "We follow the law in countries where we do business," or "we were only following orders."</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	And then Warren Buffett's <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/snickers-maker-apologises-advert-suggesting-121850682.html">candy corp</a>.</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		Mars Wrigley, maker of the Snickers candy bar, apologised on Friday for a Snickers product launch which Chinese social media users said suggested that Taiwan was a country.</p>

	<p>
		Videos and pictures showing a Snickers website promoting a limited edition Snickers bar and saying the product was only available in the "countries" of South Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan triggered an outpour of anger on Chinese microblogging platform Weibo on Friday.</p>

	<p>
		Mars Wrigley later published an apology on its Snickers China Weibo account and said the relevant content had been amended.</p>

	<p>
		"Mars Wrigley respects China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity and conducts its business operations in strict compliance with local Chinese laws and regulations," Mars Wrigley added.</p>

	<p>
		However, the social media backlash did not abate as many users were irate that the U.S. company's statement did not say Taiwan was a part of China, a cornerstone of Chinese foreign policy.</p>

	<p>
		"Say it: Taiwan is an inseparable part of China's territory!" read one comment underneath the post on Snickers China Weibo account that received 8,000 likes.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	You will kowtow. And then we'll rip you off anyway.</p>

<p>
	But at least Mars is <a href="https://www.mars.com/news-and-stories/press-releases/mars-accelerates-work-racial-equity">accelerating</a> work on "racial equity" while it's appeasing a murderous dictatorship bent on invading and conquering another nation.</p>

<p>
	&nbsp;</p>


US Companies<b> Can't Stop Appeasing Communist China</b>

It's not just Biden. American companies spend all of their time trying to appease a murderous Communist dictatorship over claims that it has the right to take

US Companies Can't Stop Appeasing Communist China

<p>
	Florida State Attorney Andrew Warren made a written pledge that he wouldn't enforce state laws transgender child sex mutilation and abortion.</p>

<p>
	Gov. DeSantis suspended him. Now the Soros DA is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fired-florida-attorney-being-punished-laws-not-on-books-yet-2022-8">complaining</a> about the "Orwellian thought police".</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		Former Florida State Attorney Andrew Warren who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis last week said he's being punished for laws that are not even on the books yet.&nbsp;</p>

	<p>
		"This is Orwellian Thought Police, where I'm being punished for not enforcing laws that are not even on the books yet," Warren told&nbsp;MSNBC's Katie Phang&nbsp;during a Saturday interview.&nbsp;</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	Warren wrote down his "thoughts". That means they're not thoughts anymore, they're formal pledges by an official to disregard the law.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	The Soros DA doesn't actually seem to have read Orwell, which was about a lefty political machine terrorizing everyone, or understand that an official making a formal pledge to do something is not simply a stray thought.</p>

<p>
	But Warren doesn't seem to be clear on<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/desantis-ousted-da-andrew-warren-insists-hes-still-working-despite-suspension/"> how anything works</a>.</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		&nbsp;The Florida state attorney suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis insisted Friday that he still has a job — but the Republican governor’s office said he can’t even get into his old office.</p>

	<p>
		Andrew Warren, who served as Hillsborough County’s top prosecutor until DeSantis&nbsp;announced his ouster Thursday,&nbsp;insisted to CBS that he was still on the job.</p>

	<p>
		“He does not have the authority to suspend me,”&nbsp;he told the network,&nbsp;adding that “the people elected me to serve in this position and I am going to continue doing it to keep our neighborhoods safe.”</p>

	<p>
		Warren asserted that the move was “unconstitutional” and that he refused to recognize its legitimacy.</p>

	<p>
		Those comments drew a Twitter rebuke from DeSantis spokesperson Christina Pushaw Friday, who said Warren was being “delusional.”</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	It's okay. Warren identifies as still being on the job. As long as he thinks so, it's still okay.</p>


Soros DA, Who Refused to Enforce Laws, <b>Accuses Gov. DeSantis of Policing His "Thoughts"</b>

Florida State Attorney Andrew Warren made a written pledge that he wouldn't enforce state laws transgender child sex mutilation and abortion.


	Gov.

Soros DA, Who Refused to Enforce Laws, Accuses Gov. DeSantis of Policing His "Thoughts"

<p>
	How did De Blasio stay in office for so long? The media covers up the clownish incompetence and lies of elected officials on their side of the aisle until the whole thing hits a critical mass.</p>

<p>
	Take this<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/07/eric-adams-texas-migrants-new-york-00050235"> Politico article </a>which describes, with a straight face, Mayor Eric Adams' clowning.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	The background is that Adams falsely accused Gov. Abbott of Texas of sending buses of illegal aliens to New York City. That wasn't actually happening. But in response to the libel, Abbott decided to send a bus to New York City.</p>

<p>
	And Adams showed up to grandstand.</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		"Mayor Eric Adams condemned Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday for sending buses of asylum seekers to New York City — some of them against their will.</p>

	<p>
		“This is horrific, when you think about what the governor is doing,” Adams said in an early morning visit to the Port Authority bus terminal, where he greeted a bus transporting arriving migrants.</p>

	<p>
		Adams said migrants were being forced onto buses — even if they wanted to go to destinations other than New York. Some were falsely told they would be taken to their desired destination, only to find themselves bound for New York, he said.</p>

	<p>
		“Some of the families are on the bus that wanted to go to other locations, and they were not allowed to do so. They were forced on the bus,” Adams said. “Our goal is to immediately find out each family’s needs and give them the assistance they want.”</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	Here's Politico, casually mentioning in its own story, that Adams is once again lying, and that his staged reception for the illegal aliens was a farce, without coming out and saying it.</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		"Fourteen people were dropped off at the bus station Sunday morning, after three days of travel. Adams said officials expected 40 people to be on the bus, but others appear to have gotten off at other stops along the route."</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	Those illegals who were "forced" on the bus to go "where they don't want to" just got off along the way where they wanted to.</p>

<p>
	Since we're in New York City, that reminds me of this Seinfeld scene.</p>

<iframe width="541" height="451" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5s7mF3KM5zQ" title="Kramer - people kept ringing the bell!!" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		Cosmo Kramer&nbsp;:&nbsp;The bus is outta control. So I grab him by the collar, I take him out of the seat, I get behind the wheel, and now I'm driving the bus.</p>

	<p>
		Jerry&nbsp;:&nbsp;Wow.</p>

	<p>
		George Costanza&nbsp;:&nbsp;You're Batman.</p>

	<p>
		Kramer&nbsp;:&nbsp;Yeah, yeah, I am Batman. Then the mugger, he comes to and he starts choking me. So I'm fighting him off with one hand and I kept driving the bus with the other, ya know. Then I managed to open up the door and I kicked him out the door, ya know, with my foot, ya know, at the next stop.</p>

	<p>
		Jerry&nbsp;:&nbsp;You kept making all the stops?</p>

	<p>
		Kramer&nbsp;:&nbsp;Well, people kept ringing the bell!</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	Unimaginable!</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		“It is unimaginable what the governor of Texas has done, when you think about this country, a country that has always been open to those who were fleeing persecution,” Adams said. “We’ve always welcomed them. And this governor is not doing that in Texas. But we are going to set the right tone of being here for these families.”</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	This whole thing started when Adams demanded Biden intervene because of all the illegals showing up in New York City. Adams has only doubled down on his lies while claiming that he now welcomes illegals.</p>


NYC Mayor Claims Texas Forcing Illegals To Go To New York, <b>Only to Find Illegals Got Off At Other Stops</b>

How did De Blasio stay in office for so long? The media covers up the clownish incompetence and lies of elected officials on their side of the aisle until the

NYC Mayor Claims Texas Forcing Illegals To Go To New York, Only to Find Illegals Got Off At Other Stops

<p>
	Like a psycho stalker ex, the media has been churning out a series of whiny articles complaining that they've been blocked by Republicans on social media.</p>

<p>
	The latest <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/08/07/1115949410/republicans-have-long-feuded-with-the-mainstream-media-now-many-are-shutting-the">comes from</a> NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben, "Republicans have long feuded with the mainstream media. Now many are shutting them out".</p>

<p>
	Also, earlier by Danielle, "Republicans confront (or sidestep) abuse accusations against midterm candidates".</p>

<p>
	The good news is that Republicans are going Amish on the media. It's belated, but Republicans are discovering that there's absolutely no value to cooperating with media outlets that their own voters are shutting out and that exist for no purpose except elevating the Left and attacking conservatives.</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		"Long story short: I heard back from the Democrats but not the Republicans. Phone calls, emails, Facebook messages – I didn't hear back from anyone. The top Republican governor candidates posted no events, though their social media showed they were out, talking to voters.</p>

	<p>
		And so, when I happened to catch the top two GOP governor candidates walking in an Oconomowoc Fourth of July parade, I ran to the end of the route to catch them.</p>

	<p>
		I found former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch greeting supporters. A staffer who then stepped between us told me they knew I had been reaching out and that I should contact a communications staffer, to whom I had already reached out. He would get back to me, she assured me.</p>

	<p>
		He did not. And a day later, at a publicly-advertised meet-and-greet for governor candidate Kevin Nicholson, a staffer told me I wouldn't be allowed to even get tape of Nicholson greeting attendees.</p>

	<p>
		The phenomenon is impossible to quantify, but many Republican candidates are showing that they don't want – or need – to get their messages out via legacy media outlets. "</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	They can't, for the most part, "get out their message" via the media.</p>

<p>
	The media sets its agenda items that it wants to ask questions about and these are usually...</p>

<p>
	1. Lefty agenda items, racism, global warming, inequity,&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	2. Attacks on the Republican candidates, e.g. have you stopped beating your wife</p>

<p>
	Republican candidates have to navigate all that and hope they can get in two seconds with their agenda item, e.g. I'm going to cut taxes</p>

<p>
	Many are realizing that it's a pointless waste of their time and that collaborating with the media gets you nowhere and is actually more damaging than ignoring it.</p>

<p>
	Whose fault is it?&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	The media loudly denies that it's biased, but if so, why is it Republicans who are the ones blocking access, not Democrats? If the media is evenhanded, why would one party, not the other, want to exit the game?</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		"You can't trust those venues" is a long-standing argument from the Republican side — that legacy media has a liberal bias.</p>

	<p>
		Trust numbers reflect this belief — just 11% of Republicans trust the mass media, compared to nearly 7 in 10 Democrats,&nbsp;according to Gallup.</p>

	<p>
		The question of liberal bias isn't something we can settle in a small section of one article, and coming from a legacy media outlet, a claim that we aim to be unbiased would inevitably come off to some as...well...biased.</p>

	<p>
		But it is also nevertheless true that claims of liberal bias are themselves a political tactic.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	So is the bias itself and so is dismissing the bias as a political tactic.</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>
		All of this may come off as a lament that some GOP candidates are making reporters' lives harder. That is certainly the read of people like Ron DeSantis' spokesperson when she tells reporters to "cry about it."</p>

	<p>
		But as more candidates have ostensibly public events and don't allow people to tell the public what is said at those events, it raises concerns about accountability.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
	Accountability means the media as a referee. Nobody elected the media to that&nbsp;position and nobody would trust a referee who spends 90% of her time cheering for the Yankees, makes biased calls at every game, and then says that refusing to let her call the game reflects opposition to accountability.</p>

<p>
	Elected officials are accountable to voters. If the media wants to claim that it represents the voters, it had better represent the spectrum of voters rather than just the 11% of leftists.</p>

<p>
	The media chose to represent a leftist fringe. Those are the only candidates it should expect reliable access to.</p>


<b>Media Not Sure How to Handle</b> Being Shut Out by Republicans

Like a psycho stalker ex, the media has been churning out a series of whiny articles complaining that they've been blocked by Republicans on social media

Media Not Sure How to Handle Being Shut Out by Republicans

<p>
	In a triumph for the Senate Dems, who remained unified, the Senate passed a massive package to tax and audit the middle class, hugely expanding the IRS and killing domestic manufacturing... to subsidize Tesla owners.</p>

<p>
	Electric cars are apparently not subsidized enough and so, with the collaboration of Manchin and Sinema, who managed to carve out exemptions and special privileges for their donors, the massive plan to tax and audit the middle class went through.</p>

<p>
	The media spun this plan to tax and audit the middle class as "finally doing something about the climate".</p>

<p>
	If taxing the middle class and increasing inflation more can't save the planet... I don't know what will.&nbsp;</p>


Kamala, Senate Dems Pass<b> Middle Class Tax Hike to Subsidize Tesla Owners</b>

In a triumph for the Senate Dems, who remained unified, the Senate passed a massive package to tax and audit the middle class, hugely expanding the IRS and

Kamala, Senate Dems Pass Middle Class Tax Hike to Subsidize Tesla Owners

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	There is little doubt this presidential campaign season is unique, at least in one respect: for the first time in a long time, the despicable nature of the mainstream media's double-standard is as much in focus as the candidates themselves. And perhaps nothing screams double-standard more than the calculated lack of attention on Hillary Clinton’s&nbsp;<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2015/12/08/escalation-hillary-contradicts-benghazi-families-denies-blaming-attacks-on-video-at-private-meeting/" target="_blank">latest assertion</a>&nbsp;that she never told the families grieving over the loss of their loved ones in Benghazi that an anti-Muslim video was to blame for the attacks.</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	We begin with where that assertion was made. Clinton floated this latest insult to those families and the American public within the friendly confines of ABC News’&nbsp;<em>This Week,&nbsp;</em>hosted by pseudo-journalist and former Clinton toady George Stephanopoulos. The would be the same George Stephanopoulos that still passes muster in the corporate suites at ABC, despite&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/george-stephanopoulos-discloses-75-000-contribution-to-clinton-foundation-207120" target="_blank">having made</a>&nbsp;three separate donations of $25,000 apiece to the Clinton Foundation in 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively. Those donations remained under the radar, even when Stephanopoulos engaged in a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stephanopoulos-challenges-clinton-cash-author-is-there-a-smoking-gun/" target="_blank">contentious interview</a>&nbsp;with “Clinton Cash” author Peter&nbsp;Schweizer, during which he rose to the Clinton’s defense. After being outed, Stephanopoulos apologized for the oversight, insisting he thought his contributions were "a matter of public record.” “However, in hindsight, I should have taken the extra step of personally disclosing my donations to my employer and to the viewers on air during the recent news stories about the Foundation,” Stephanopoulos confessed.</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	ABC couldn’t have cared less. "As George has said, he made charitable donations to the Foundation to support a cause he cares about deeply and believed his contributions were a matter of public record," the network's statement read. "He should have taken the extra step to notify us and our viewers during the recent news reports about the Foundation. He’s admitted to an honest mistake and apologized for that omission. We stand behind him."</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	To his credit, Stephanopoulos did ask Clinton if she told the families the attack was about the video. She said no, just before “clarifying” what really happened. "You know, look I understand the continuing grief at the loss that parents experienced with the loss of these four brave Americans,” she said. "And I did testify, as you know, for 11 hours. And I answered all of these questions. Now, I can’t — I can’t help it the people think there has to be something else there. I said very clearly there had been a terrorist group, uh, that had taken responsibility on Facebook, um, between the time that, uh, I – you know, when I talked to my daughter, that was the latest information; we were, uh, giving it credibility. And then we learned the next day it wasn’t true. In fact, they retracted it. This was a fast-moving series of events in the fog of war and I think most Americans understand that.”</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	The implications here are astounding. Clinton expects the American public to believe that&nbsp;<em>several</em>&nbsp;family members of the victims all “misremembered” what Clinton said in virtually the same way. People like Navy SEAL Glen Doherty’s sister Kate Quigly. “She knows that she knew what happened that day and she wasn’t truthful,” Quigly said said on Boston Herald Radio’s&nbsp;<em>Morning Meeting</em>.&nbsp;“This is a woman that will do and say anything to get what she wants. I have very little respect for her. I know what she said to me and she can say all day long that she didn’t say it. That’s her cross to bear.”</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	Quigly’s assertion was&nbsp;<a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/11/04/video-relatives-of-benghazi-victims-say-hillary-blamed-attack-on-online-video-n2075389" target="_blank">corroborated</a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;Tyrone Woods’ father Charles Woods.&nbsp;"I gave Hillary a hug and shook her hand. And she said we are going to have the film maker arrested who was responsible for the death of my son...'She said -- the filmmaker who was responsible for the death of your son'…"&nbsp;Sean Smith's mother, Patricia Smith, agreed. "She's absolutely lying. She told me something entirely different at the casket ceremony. She said it was because of the video.”&nbsp;Sean Smith's uncle&nbsp;Michael Ingmire,&nbsp;who had&nbsp;<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/23/benghazi-victims-family-members-blast-clinton-after-hearing-video/" target="_blank">previously slammed</a>&nbsp;Hillary as "a serial liar,” following her Benghazi testimony, remained resolute following her latest effort. "Mrs. Clinton really has a problem embracing the truth.”</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	So are&nbsp;<em>all of them&nbsp;</em>lying? Stephanopoulos never bother to follow up. Yet if they are, how does Clinton explain the State Department release&nbsp;made on the night of the attack, following a phone call Clinton made to President Obama? One the White House&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/14/white-house-no-phone-calls-benghazi/" target="_blank">initially denied</a>&nbsp;took place before the&nbsp;<a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wh-obama-called-hillary-night-benghazi-attack-more-six-hours-after-it-started" target="_blank">truth</a>&nbsp;came out? After that call this is what was released. “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation.”&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	That assertion was hardly an anomaly. During a Sept 12, 2012 State Department briefing, Clinton also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2012/09/197654.htm" target="_blank">blamed</a>&nbsp;the attack on an “inflammatory video,” and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2012/09/197711.htm" target="_blank">did it</a>&nbsp;<em>again</em>&nbsp;on Sept 13, during a meeting with Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad-Eddine Al-Othmani. She and Obama also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/09/21/obama_clinton_appear_in_pakistani_tv_ad_condemning_anti-islam_film.html" target="_blank">spent</a>&nbsp;$70,000 on a public service video broadcast in Pakistan, condemning the “anti-Islam” film that precipitated the attack. On Sept. 14 Clinton appeared at Joint Base Andrews&nbsp;<a href="http://patriotpost.us/opinion/38497" target="_blank">during</a>&nbsp;the ceremonial return of Smith, Doherty, Woods and Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. She spoke with Charles Woods privately before asserting the following for public consumption: “We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with,” she declared.&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	Couple these assertions with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s equally odious&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/11/16/flashback-what-susan-rice-said-about-benghazi/" target="_blank">TV tour</a>&nbsp;aimed at keeping this despicable disinformation campaign in high gear, and the notion that the victims’ families got Clinton’s message wrong is an insult to any sentient American. Or, as the&nbsp;<em>New York Post</em>&nbsp;so aptly&nbsp;<a href="http://nypost.com/2015/12/09/hillary-clintons-most-repugnant-lie/" target="_blank">put it</a>,&nbsp;Clinton’s efforts to promote this lie and comfort the grieving families with it "has to count as her lowest-down, dirtiest lie of all.”</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	Maybe, maybe not. As we also learned this week, assets that could have been sent to Benghazi&nbsp;<em>were</em>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-benghazi-email-shows-dod-offered-state-department-forces-that-could-move-to-benghazi-immediately-specifics-blacked-out-in-new-document/" target="_blank">available</a>&nbsp;while the attack was ongoing. An email sent by Jeremy Bash, the former Pentagon chief of staff, to&nbsp;Clinton’s then-deputy chief of staff Jacob Sullivan, Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, and Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Thomas Nides&nbsp;stated the following:&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	"State colleagues: I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton]. After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak. They include a [REDACTED]. Assuming Principals agree to deploy these elements, we will ask State to procure the approval from host nation. Please advise how you wish to convey that approval to us [REDACTED]. Jeremy.”</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	Can we believe Clinton was unaware of this email, one sent to four of her staffers&nbsp;<em>during the attack</em>? Doesn’t it behoove the same media that have plumbed the depths of every GOP presidential candidate, to be equally curious about a potential game-changing revelation, one that implies leaving Americans in harm’s way was a&nbsp;<em>political</em>&nbsp;calculation,&nbsp;<em>not</em>&nbsp;a military choice? If Clinton was in the loop, doesn’t the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka0_nz53CcM" target="_blank">assertion</a>, “what difference at this point does it make" she made at the 2013 Benghazi hearing assume truly monstrous proportions? And isn’t it about time Americans asked themselves how a woman who could&nbsp;run a personal contest for "lowest-down, dirtiest lie of all” remains a viable Democratic candidate for president of there United States?</div>


<b>Hillary </b>vs. the <b>Benghazi Families</b>

There is little doubt this presidential campaign season is unique, at least in one respect: for the first time in a long time, the despicable nature of the

Hillary vs. the Benghazi Families

<div>
	In a move that reeks of political correctness, Defense Secretary Ash Carter&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/defense-secretary-says-u-s-opening-all-military-combat-roles-to-women-1449165140" target="_blank">announced</a>&nbsp;Thursday that all combat positions in the U.S. military will now be open to women, with no exceptions. "They’ll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat,” Carter declared. "They’ll be able to serve as Army rangers and green berets, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps infantry, Air Force parajumpers and everything else that was previously open only to men.”&nbsp;</div>

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	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	As the Center for Military Readiness (CMR)<a href="http://www.cmrlink.org/content/home/37726/obama_administration_ignores_sound_military_advice_on_women_in_direct_ground_combat" target="_blank">&nbsp;explains</a>, Carter could only make the change by overruling the best professional advice of the U.S. Marine Corps “in matters involving life, death, and national security,” and “by breaking his own promise” to base his decision on the quality of scientific research behind the military services’ recommendations. The Marine Corps had requested some exceptions to the policy, but Carter declined to honor them. “The important factor in making my decision was to have access to every American who could add strength to the joint force,” he insisted, further stating the decision to do so&nbsp;<em>was</em>&nbsp;based on empirical analysis of the data following a three-year review by all armed services branches.</div>

<div>
	&nbsp;</div>

<div>
	CMR president Elaine Donnelly disputes that assertion, noting that Carter promised to base his decision on&nbsp;"the analytic underpinnings and the data supporting them.”&nbsp;On that basis, Donnelly added,&nbsp;“Secretary Carter must assign greater weight to Marine Corps empirical evidence than he does to wishful thinking, unsupported speculations, and ‘mitigation myths.’” CMR further&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cmrlink.org/content/home/37725/cmr_releases_new_interim_special_report_part_ii" target="_blank">explains</a>&nbsp;Task Force&nbsp;tests were created to&nbsp;test the hypothesis that “an integrated unit under gender-neutral standards will perform equally as well as a gender-restricted unit.”&nbsp;</div>

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	Not exactly. The Marine Corps Test and Evaluation Activity (MCOTEA) report, a&nbsp;33-page memo with attached documents, was&nbsp;signed by Brig. Gen. George W. Smith, Jr., Director of the Marine Corps Force Innovation Office. It&nbsp;was designed to analyze the&nbsp;<em>collective</em>&nbsp;performances of units because Marines operate as such. Moreover the analysis emphasized the&nbsp;unwavering focus&nbsp;considered the&nbsp;benchmark of achieving the most combat effective force.</div>

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	Integrated units were&nbsp;<a href="http://cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/InterimCMRSpecialReport-PartII_SectionA.pdf" target="_blank">found</a>&nbsp;lacking in three areas.&nbsp;Female Marines demonstrated they were capable of performing physically demanding tasks, but not at levels commensurate with their male counterparts, measured in terms of performance, fatigue, workload, or cohesion. With very few exceptions gender-integrated units also performed at lower levels with respect to time taken to complete tasks, move under loads and achieve timely efforts on targets, when compared with male counterparts. And finally, it was determined that the greater the gender integration, the more these shortfalls were “magnified.”&nbsp;</div>

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	In terms of Combat Performance Readiness, all male units out-performed integrated units in 69 percent of ground combat tasks with the greatest physical discrepancies occurring in&nbsp;“specialties that carried the assault load plus the additional weight of crew-served weapons and ammunition.” Cumulative&nbsp;Impact of Injuries categories revealed&nbsp;women’s&nbsp;disadvantage in upper and lower body strength resulted in higher fatigue levels and greater&nbsp;incidents of over-use injuries, such as&nbsp;stress fractures.</div>

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	Yet&nbsp;perhaps the one stat the reveals the political nature of this&nbsp;exercise was an Army Survey taken in 2013 of the service’s nearly 170,000 women:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/us-army-women-combat-jobs-survey" target="_blank">less than</a>&nbsp;8 percent who responded to that survey wanted a combat job. Moreover, that survey was&nbsp;followed up with a series of&nbsp;questionnaires sent to women on active duty, in the reserves and to Army National Guard members. Again, only 7.5 percent of the 30,000 women who responded indicated their desire to obtain jobs in infantry, armor, artillery and combat engineering.</div>

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	Regardless, the Obama administration is moving forward with the program, getting mixed reviews in the process. “This is a unilateral decision by the secretary of defense for purely political reasons,” said Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA),&nbsp;a member of the Armed Services Committee who served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. "What is it going to do to our ability to be lethal at the small-unit level? It degrades that ability,” he added. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D-NY), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee disagreed. “This will strengthen our armed forces, and it builds on a history of honorable and courageous service by women throughout the military,” she countered.&nbsp;Judy Patterson, CEO of the Service Women’s Action Network was thrilled with Carter’s “momentous decision.” “We salute his leadership on this issue, and look forward to working with him and the service branches to create full combat integration in 2016,” she said.</div>

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	Republican House and Senate leaders remain skeptical of the decision, and promised they would vigorously oversee the program’s implementation. Former Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford was also believed to be disdainful of the decision. Despite his current position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,&nbsp;he did not appear by Carter’s side when the decision was announced. More than likely that’s because in his prior position as Marine Corps’ commandant, he was the one who requested the exception to placing women in certain Marine roles last September, based on the aforementioned study analyses. Unfortunately Dunford’s supervisor at that time was&nbsp;Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who expressed his support for gender integration, while trashing the study results as biased. “It started out with a fairly large component of the men thinking this is not a good idea and women will never be able to do this,” Mabus&nbsp;<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260315/navy-secretary-dismisses-risks-women-combat-arnold-ahlert" target="_blank">told</a>&nbsp;NPR’s David Greene. “When you start out with that mindset you're almost presupposing the outcome.”</div>

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	Dunford released his own statement last Thursday. "My responsibility is to ensure (Carter’s) decision is properly implemented,” he said. “Moving forward my focus is to lead the full integration of women in a manner that maintains our joint war-fighting capability, ensures the health and welfare of our people, and optimizes how we leverage talent across the Joint Force.”</div>

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	The military had been given a Dec. 31 deadline to implement the changes, or request a waiver backed by data showing why women would not be capable of performing certain tasks. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, promised Congress would use the time remaining to review the &nbsp;decision.&nbsp;"Secretary Carter's decision to open all combat positions to women will have a consequential impact on our service members and our military's war fighting capabilities," he&nbsp;stated. "The Congress has an essential constitutional role to make rules for the government and regulation of our nation's armed forces.”</div>

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	Sen Jack Reed (D-RI), the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee,&nbsp;stood squarely behind the decision.&nbsp;"Change will not happen overnight," he said in a statement. "It will likely take some time before women are assigned to certain combat occupations. But going forward, the combat effectiveness of our forces will increase as integrated units are able to take advantage of the very best talent available for military service, without restriction.”</div>

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	Perhaps, but it is far more likely the same incrementalist progressive mindset that had former&nbsp;Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey&nbsp;<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/242644/disaster-gender-norming-ground-combat-arnold-ahlert" target="_blank">suggesting</a>&nbsp;that "standards too high for women should be questioned” and calling for a “critical mass” of women in Direct Ground Combat (DGC) units, coupled with the&nbsp;Obama administration's promotion of&nbsp;“gender diversity metrics” (read: "quotas") that could lead to higher-performing personnel being replaced by those meeting minimum standards characterized as “lower but equal,” will ultimately prevail.&nbsp;</div>

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	Medal of Honor winner&nbsp;Dakota Meyer, who served with honor and distinction in Afghanistan to earn the highest award for bravery in the military, was also concerned with the decision.&nbsp;“In my opinion that decision was based on a political push and not a realistic thought-out study,” Meyer said. He noted many women served successfully in Iraq and Afghanistan, but maintained politicians like Carter "aren’t listening to their counterparts in the military,” referring to Carter’s decision to reject the Marines’ request for a waiver.</div>

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	Only time will tell if this policy is successful, but if there is a defining characteristic of the Obama administration that stands out above all the rest, an utter lack of credibility is number one with a bullet. "ISIL will not pose an existential threat to us,” Obama&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/03/politics/barack-obama-isis/" target="_blank">said</a>&nbsp;in CBS interview--taped the&nbsp;<em>same day</em>&nbsp;the atrocity in San Bernardino was unfolding. "They are a dangerous organization like al Qaeda was, but we have hardened our defenses. The American people should feel confident that, you know, we are going to be able to defend ourselves and make sure that, you know, we have a good holiday and go about our lives.”&nbsp;</div>

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	Such denialism goes hand in hand with progressive attitudes regarding gender integration. The Obama administration pursues diversity while ISIS pursues the destruction of our nation&nbsp;and Iran pursues a nuclear weapon. And once again, the administration’s timing is impeccable: one day after the deadliest terror attack since 9/11, the president chose to advance his social engineering agenda and degrade the nation's military preparedness. That’s because progressives would rather protect multiculturalism, diversity and political correctness than the lives of their fellow Americans.&nbsp;</div>


Putting Military <b>Women's Lives on the Line</b>

In a move that reeks of political correctness, Defense Secretary Ash Carter&nbsp;announced&nbsp;Thursday that all combat positions in the U.S. military will

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	Leading from behind, or more accurately, failing to lead at all, has its consequences. Turkish jets&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-rescue-helicopter-shot-down-6891003" target="_blank">shot down</a>&nbsp;a Russian Su-24 fighter jet Turkey claimed was over its airspace, and both pilots were reportedly killed. In addition, American-backed Syrian rebels shot down a Russian rescue helicopter, killing one crew member. Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva will now be&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/323329-russia-suspend-military-turkey/" target="_blank">deployed</a>&nbsp;off the Syrian coast, with Lieutenant General Sergey Rudskoi warning that "every target posing a potential threat will be destroyed,” and all military&nbsp;contacts with Turkey "will be suspended.” As PJ Media’s Richard Fernandez deftly&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/11/24/some-damned-fool" target="_blank">explains</a>,&nbsp;the latest turn of events is "a clear sign of how dangerous&nbsp;Obama's Syria policy has become. The vacuum left by his policy has not only engendered a chaos which has destroyed whole countries, but it has drawn in great powers whose armed forces are operating in dangerously close proximity.” In short, this is how wars begin.</div>

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	Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Turkey there will be "significant consequences” for what he&nbsp;<a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1593241/putin-downing-of-jet-a-stab-in-the-back" target="_blank">characterized</a>&nbsp;as a "stab in the back" committed by "accomplices of terrorists.” The Turkish military insists that two jets approached their border and were warned “10 times” before one of the planes was shot down. Putin&nbsp;<a href="http://tass.ru/en/politics/838825" target="_blank">disagreed</a>. "The Russian bomber was shot down over Syria by an air-to-air surface fired from a Turkish F-16 plane when the bomber was at an altitude of 6,000 meters at a distance of 1 km from the Turkish bomber,” he stated.</div>

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	Army Col. Steve Warren, the top military spokesman in Baghdad,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/24/pentagon-backs-turkeys-version-accuses-russian-fig/" target="_blank">backed</a>&nbsp;Turkey’s version of the event, but hedged in the process of doing so.&nbsp;“The incident happened at the border,” Warren said. “These things are not as clean as they are in the movies.” He further explained command was studying radio chatter, radar images and other data before making a definitive conclusion. Later, however, a U.S. official reported to Reuters that the Russian jet did appear to have been&nbsp;shot down over Syrian airspace after briefly entering into Turkey.&nbsp;</div>

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	Putin is hardly blameless. He has spent considerable effort testing&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/27/world/us-russia-bombers-intentions/" target="_blank">American</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11606045/RAF-jets-scrambled-to-intercept-Russian-bomber.html" target="_blank">British</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/why-putins-warplanes-are-penetrating-european-airspace-317255" target="_blank"><wbr />other</a>&nbsp;NATO nations’ airspace in recent years. Unfortunately for the Russians, Turkish&nbsp;President&nbsp;Recep Tayyip Erdogan was less accommodating than Obama and Cameron. Erdogan&nbsp;<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b27e9efac9ee404385e5d45cafb76489/latest-rebel-video-purports-show-russian-pilot" target="_blank">insisted</a>&nbsp;level-<wbr />headedness had prevented even graver incidents at the border, and that the fighter was shot down in line with Turkey's rules of engagement.&nbsp;</div>

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	Erdogen further maintained he bore no "enmity" toward Russia or any other nation, but criticized Moscow for its incursion in the Turkmen regions where there were no ISIS fighters. He also indicated he would continue to support the Turkmen community in Syria. Thus, we have a confrontation between a megalomaniac with dreams of restoring the Ottoman empire versus an ex-KGB thug who dreams of a Soviet Union revival. And because Turkey is a member of NATO, whose members are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm?" target="_blank">bound to defend</a>&nbsp;each other, the risk of escalation, while improbable, cannot be ignored.</div>

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	President Obama, no doubt sensing an opportunity to tweak his foremost adversary,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/24/obama-points-finger-at-russia-over-jet-shoot-down-by-turkey.html?intcmp=hpbt1" target="_blank">insisted</a>&nbsp;the incident might not have occurred if the Russians were more interested in targeting ISIS than the so-called Syrian moderates who opposed President Bashar Assad. “I do think that this points to an ongoing problem with the Russian operations,” Obama said. “In the sense that they are operating very close to a Turkish border, and they are going after moderate opposition that are supported by not only Turkey but a wide range of countries.” He further insisted “some of those conflicts, or potentials for mistakes or escalation, are less likely to occur” if Russia focuses on ISIS, and that Turkey “has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.”</div>

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	Obama made his remarks while standing next to French President Francois Hollande, who was in Washington. Ironically Hollande was there in part to urge Obama to work with Russia towards building a coalition to fight ISIS. Apparently the French President is insufficiently impressed by what Obama referred to as a “robust” coalition of 65 countries fighting against ISIS, up from 62 in 2014.&nbsp;</div>

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	Yet as Foreign Policy Magazine revealed last year “robust’ is a slippery term. "Although many countries have pledged military or humanitarian support, the State Department indicates that simply 'exposing ISIL’s true nature' can qualify a nation for the coalition,” it&nbsp;<a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/11/12/who-has-contributed-what-in-the-coalition-against-the-islamic-state/" target="_blank">stated</a>.&nbsp;</div>

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	Nonetheless both presidents agreed to carry on with Obama, stating the U.S. and France “stand united,” and that ISIS “cannot be tolerated” and “must be destroyed.” In the meantime, Hollande intends to admit 30,000 Syrian “refugees" into France, while Obama remains&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-to-meet-frances-hollande-to-discuss-terror-fight-1448351457?alg=y" target="_blank">committed</a>&nbsp;to taking in 10,000, despite the&nbsp;House&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/before-house-vote-republican-lawmakers-assail-refugee-system-1447955993" target="_blank">passing</a>&nbsp;a bill aimed as halting the settling of Syrian and Iraqi refugees, and overhauling a screening process. Forty-seven Democrats joined their GOP colleagues in favor of the measure.&nbsp;</div>

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	Regardless, Obama remained defiant. “Nobody who sets foot in America goes through more screening than refugees,” he insisted. If that sounds familiar, maybe it’s because Hollande also&nbsp;<a href="https://euobserver.com/migration/131175" target="_blank">insisted</a>&nbsp;France will continue to "do the necessary checking before accepting refugees on [its] territory,” five days after the&nbsp;<em>second</em>&nbsp;terror attack against his nation this year. He also doubled-down on the same maddening denial of reality that afflicts Obama. "Some want to establish a link between the influx of refugees coming from the Middle East and the terrorist threat,” he stated.&nbsp;</div>

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	Apparently the reality that a link&nbsp;<em>was</em>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/20/france-pm-says-paris-attacks-ringleader-used-migrant-crisis-to-get-into-country/" target="_blank">established</a>&nbsp;is irrelevant.</div>

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	As for Obama, it would appear his administration is&nbsp;<em>dedicated</em>&nbsp;to denying reality. In a bombshell admission made Monday, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), one of the ranking Democrats on the House Intelligence&nbsp;Committee, said it was likely administration officials doctored the intel on ISIS to make it seem as if more progress was being made than had actually occurred. While she believes the intelligence community has provided more accurate assessments recently, “CENTCOM, which is the area that is responsible for the Middle East...&nbsp;has dumbed down the intelligence, has sweetened it, has made it seem like we are&nbsp;being more successful there than we are …&nbsp;”</div>

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	​Add the power vacuum engendered in the Middle East by our see-no-Islamic-evil president, and the lack of anything resembling a coherent strategy is a recipe for disaster. Putin is a small enough man that he will likely exact revenge from the Turks, and Erdogan might just well be willing to return the favor. All while Obama dithers and promises us--yet again—that he will degrade and destroy ISIS with a strategy that includes&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-u.s.-ran-out-of-ammo-in-attack-on-isis-trucks/article/2576958" target="_blank">dropping leaflets</a>&nbsp;on Syrian drivers before bombing ISIS oil tanker trucks "to kind of shoo people away without harming them,” according to Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Steve Warren. "We have not struck these trucks before," Warren revealed. "We assessed that these trucks, while although they are being used for operations that support ISIL, the truck drivers, themselves, [are] probably not members of ISIL; they're probably just civilians. So we had to figure out a way around that. We're not in this business to kill civilians, we're in this business to stop ISIL — to defeat ISIL."</div>

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	"History teaches that wars frequently start by accident,” Fernandez warns. "Otto von Bismarck who understood that accidental discharge can kill a man just as surely as an aimed shot, observed more than a century ago that 'Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal …’"&nbsp;</div>

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	Obama is just such a “leader,” a man who actually&nbsp;<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/11/24/obama-says-paris-climate-conference-a-powerful-rebuke-to-isis/" target="_blank">declared</a>&nbsp;that the&nbsp;climate change summit in Paris beginning next week would constitute a “powerful rebuke” to terrorists, "when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.” The American public must understand there is no cure for ideologically-inspired insanity. It must be voted out of office—or there may be no future for our children at all.</div>

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Leading from behind, or more accurately, failing to lead at all, has its consequences. Turkish jets&nbsp;shot down&nbsp;a Russian Su-24 fighter jet Turkey

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	The fecklessness of the Obama administration’s despicable&nbsp;“refugee” agenda can be personified. Last August a federal jury&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/12/uzbek-refugee-fazliddin-kurbanov-convicted-of-3-terrorism-charges-in-idaho/" target="_blank">convicted</a>&nbsp;Uzbek refugee Fazliddin Kurbanov of three terror-related charges that included working to support a terrorist organization, and amassing explosive materials in his apartment in Boise, ID.</div>

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	Kurbanov’s trial in Idaho lasted 20 days with a jury convicting him of three terror-related counts and acquitting him of two others. He faces 10 years in prison for the explosive device conviction and as much 15 years in jail for the other two. In addition, he faces another charge in Utah for distributing information related to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction, arising from his efforts to teach another individual how to&nbsp;<a href="http://fox13now.com/2015/08/13/utah-gears-up-to-prosecute-man-on-terrorism-related-charges/" target="_blank">build</a>&nbsp;an explosive device. "He taught another person in Utah to build a bomb with the intent to use the bomb,” explained U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber. If he is convicted in that case,&nbsp;Kurbanov faces an additional 40 years in prison.</div>

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	Writing for&nbsp;<a href="http://ktvb.com/" target="_blank">KTVB.com</a>,&nbsp;anchor and reporter Kim Fields reminds Americans that&nbsp;Kurbanov "would have gone through the federal screening process,” and that court testimony indicates&nbsp;no red flags would have been raised "because there is no indication Kurbanov was involved in terrorism when he first arrived in the U.S.”&nbsp;</div>

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	That would be the same vetting process Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was sent out to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/obama-admin-lied-about-vetting-syrian-refugees/" target="_blank">promote</a>&nbsp;with regard to Syrian refugees. "There’s a very careful vetting process that includes our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security, he told “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd.</div>

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	Apparently, FBI Director James Comey&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/18/no-good-answers-allegedly-exhaustive-syrian-refugee-vetting-process/" target="_blank">didn't get</a>&nbsp;the proverbial memo. “We can only query against that which we have collected,” explained the man whose agency is now&nbsp;<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/11/fbi-has-nearly-1000-active-isis-probes-inside-u-s/" target="_blank">conducting</a>&nbsp;nearly 1,000 domestic investigations against ISIS. "And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.”&nbsp;U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS)&nbsp;associate director for the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate Matthew Emrich was equally "ill-informed,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/10/another-dhs-official-confirms-no-way-to-vet-syrian-refugees/" target="_blank">asserting</a>&nbsp;the administration checked&nbsp;“everything that we are aware of” before falling back on the pathetic excuse that “in many countries of the world from which we have traditionally accepted refugees over the years the United States government did not have extensive data holdings.” The same goes for FBI Assistant Director Michael Steinbach who also admitted that in a "failed state" like Syria, “all of the data sets — the police, the intel services — that normally you would go to seek information don’t exist.”</div>

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	This is hardly a new problem. In 2013, ABC News&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/18/no-good-answers-allegedly-exhaustive-syrian-refugee-vetting-process/" target="_blank">reported</a>&nbsp;<em>several dozen</em>&nbsp;suspected terrorists were allowed to move to the United States after they claimed “refugee” status, including two Iraqi al-Qaeda terrorists living in Kentucky who had attacked American troops. The administration’s solution to that problem? The State Department suspended processing Iraqi refugees for all of six months.</div>

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	Yet Kurbanov’s case speaks to other issues as well. Even an air-tight vetting process is completely useless when the filter of political correctness cherished by progressives is added to the mix. The FBI received&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/23/brothers-suspected-marathon-bombing-may-have-planned-nyc-next/f2d9nPf1TIGmvo6eW5aAnN/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw" target="_blank">multiple</a>&nbsp;warnings from Russia about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, resulting in a single interview of the Boston Marathon bomber in 2011, after which they concluded he posed no threat. The same Obama administration&nbsp;<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/201451/banished-proof-jihad-hasan-trial-arnold-ahlert" target="_blank">ignored</a>&nbsp;<wbr />numerous red flags regarding the increasing radicalization of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, and even after the atrocity referred to the incident as “workplace violence.” Another terrorist attack virtually swept under the media rug was perpetrated by Kuwati&nbsp;Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez who&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-police-officer-shot-near-tennessee-army-recruiting-center/" target="_blank">killed</a>&nbsp;four Marines and wounded two other service members and a police officer during two separate attacks at Tennessee military facilities last July. The FBI told CBS News Abdulazeez was “not on their radar” and that it remained “unclear" whether he was a citizen. Follow up stories&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/chattanooga-shooter-mohammod-youssuf-abdulazeez-had-history-depression-drug-alcohol-2015268" target="_blank">attributed</a>&nbsp;his killing spree to depression as well as alcohol and drug abuse, according to his family--despite the fact he targeted military facilities.</div>

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	Even more ominously, Kurbanov’s conviction speaks to the Obama administration’s disastrous foreign policy. Despite the president’s utterly absurd assertions both before&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;after the attack in Paris that ISIS is “contained,” there is no denying the terror group is a recruiting machine. A U.N. report released in April&nbsp;<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cec52a0dbfab4c00b89bc543badf6c20/un-report-more-25000-foreigners-fight-terrorists" target="_blank">revealed</a>&nbsp;the number of recruits leaving their more than 100 different countries to join ISIS had skyrocketed to more than 25,000. Moreover their latest propaganda video&nbsp;<a href="http://nypost.com/2015/11/18/isis-threatens-nyc-in-new-propaganda-video/" target="_blank">shows</a>&nbsp;images of New York City spliced between clips of suicide bombers preparing for attacks. A message flashing across the screen warns Americans that what’s coming "will be far worse and more bitter” than the Paris atrocity.</div>

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	In other words, ISIS remains an incredibly viable and attractive entity, not only to sleeper agents that would undoubtedly be some percentage of the people this administration wants to bring into America, but to the disaffected people who are&nbsp;<em>already here.&nbsp;</em>Disaffected people exactly like Fazliddin Kurbanov and countless others who view the administration’s flaccidly nonsensical approach to ISIS as proof that the terror group is the stronger horse. Add the progressive insanity that asserts anyone resisting Syrian immigration is a bigot, xenophobe or Islamophobe to the mix, and it becomes clear this administration and its adherents are willing to abide an "acceptable level” of domestic terror to preserve political correctness.</div>

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	On Thursday, it was revealed that two U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials alleged to Breitbart News that eight Syrian illegals were arrested after they tried to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/18/report-8-syrians-caught-at-texas-border-in-laredo/" target="_blank">enter</a>&nbsp;Texas from Mexico. Another six Syrian men with stolen Greek passports were&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/11/sixth-syrian-with-fake-passport-captured-in-honduras-on-way-to-us/" target="_blank">detained</a>&nbsp;in Honduras. They too were on their way to the United States. President Obama has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/18/politics/white-house-issues-veto-threat-over-refugee-bill/index.html" target="_blank">threatened</a>&nbsp;to veto a GOP-sponsored bill that would suspend Syrian and Iraqi refugee emigration into the U.S. until key national security agencies can certify they pose no security risk.&nbsp;</div>

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	Former President George W. Bush once stated that "those who want to do harm only have to be right one time, and we have to be right 100 percent of the time.” Given the nation’s porous borders, coupled with the president’s stance on Syrian refugees and his obdurate refusal to confront ISIS in any meaningful way, it is time to ask the Obama administration why they are so willing to tip the odds&nbsp;<em>even further</em>&nbsp;in ISIS’s favor.</div>


Fazliddin Kurbanov: <b>Terrorist 'Refugee'</b>

The fecklessness of the Obama administration’s despicable&nbsp;“refugee” agenda can be personified. Last August a federal jury&nbsp;convicted&nbsp;Uzbek

Fazliddin Kurbanov: Terrorist 'Refugee'

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	In a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/29/cannot-allow-hillary-clinton-midwife-to-chaos-and-public-liar-to-be-our-next-president.print.html">scathing</a>&nbsp;column Fox News contributor&nbsp;Andrew Napolitano makes the&nbsp;convincing case that Hillary Clinton sold weapons to Libya in a direction violation of the U.N. arms embargo, and then lied about it under oath during her&nbsp;testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi Oct. 22.</p>

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	"To pursue her goal of a ‘democratic' government there, Clinton, along with Obama and a dozen or so members of Congress from both houses and both political parties, decided she should break the law by permitting U.S. arms dealers to violate the U.N. arms embargo and arm Libyan rebels whom she hoped would one day run the new government,” Napolitano explains. "So she exercised her authority as secretary of state to authorize the shipment of American-made arms to Qatar, a country beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood and friendly to the Libyan rebels and a country the U.S. had no business arming—unless the purpose of doing so was for the arms to be transferred to the rebels.”</p>

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	Memos recovered from the incinerated compound in Benghazi give great weight to the assertion. The documents were&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/20/hillary-clinton-state-department-approved-us-weapo/?page=all">obtained</a>&nbsp;by the <em>Washington Times</em>&nbsp;and they reveal the American diplomats stationed there were keeping track of numerous potential U.S.-sanctioned weapons shipments aimed at arming our allies, "one or more of which were destined for the Transitional National Council, the Libyan movement that was seeking to oust Gadhafi and form a new government,” the paper reports.</p>

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	A file marked “arms deal” reveals that one of those shipments was supposed to be sent by Dolarian Capital Inc. of Fresno, CA, one of many arms sellers that work with U.S. intelligence. The file contained an end use certificate from the State Department’s office of defense trade controls licensing, and Dolarian confirmed one of the licensing requests the State Department initially approved in 2011 was an authorization to send weapons to Libya via Kuwait. The certificate was inexplicably revoked before Dolarian could ship rocket and grenade launchers, 7,000 machine guns and 8 million rounds of ammunition originally manufactured by former Soviet-bloc nations in Eastern Europe.</p>

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	“Dolarian Capital submitted the end user certificate in question to the U.S. Department of State for review and issuance of a license to transfer the arms and ammunition to Libya,” one of the company's attorneys said in a statement issued to the<em> Times</em>. "The U.S. Department of State responded with a approval, which was revoked shortly thereafter. As a result no arms or ammunition was shipped or delivered to&nbsp;Libya&nbsp;under the end user certificate.”</p>

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	Nonetheless, federal court documents obtained by Fox News&nbsp;<a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2015/06/27/exclusive-arming-benghazi/">reveal</a>&nbsp;arms sales to Libyan rebels that occurred during Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State <em>were</em> ultimately transacted. "It was then, and remains now, my opinion that the United States did participate, directly or indirectly, in the supply of weapons to the Libyan Transitional National Council,” stated career CIA officer David Manners in a sworn declaration to the District Court of Arizona on May 5, 2015.</p>

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	Manners' testimony was part of a grand jury investigation into American defense contractor Marc Turi and his company Turi Defense Group, another entity licensed by State to sell and transport weapons worldwide. The investigation was focused on both the source and user of weapons defined in court documents as "end user" or "end use”&nbsp; that were entering Libya in 2011 while Qaddafi's regime was collapsing--but <em>before</em> any Libyan opposition groups were formally recognized by the United States.</p>

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	Turi illuminated what occurred in the midst of that chaos, including the reality that poor oversight of the operation allowed America’s enemies to obtain weapons. "When this equipment landed in Libya, half went one way, and the half went the other way,"&nbsp; Turi said. "The half that went the other way is the half that ended up in Syria.”</p>

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	Turi admitted to Fox he had criminal past that included stealing a computer, his roommate's car, and writing several bad checks including one for $100,000 dollars. They verified his arrest, conviction and a stint in an Arizona jail, all of which seemingly conflict with what Fox characterizes as the "painstaking compliance” required to get the "necessary approvals set by strict US government regulations” to become a licensed arms contractor.</p>

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	Turi was one cog in a rather large machine of State Department-licensed contractors awarded a record number of contract during Clinton’s tenure. "More than 86-thousand licenses with a value of $44.3 billion dollars were granted in 2011... a surge of more than $10 billion dollars from the previous year,” the news site reports.</p>

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	Turi, who provided documents to Fox revealing exchanges with officials inside and outside the government, including high level members of Congress, the military, and State Department employees, explains he was part of a “zero footprint” supply chain whereby one Arab nation would supply another. "If you want to&nbsp; limit the exposure to the US government, what you simply do is outsource it to your allies," Turi explained. "The partners-the Qataris, and the Emiratis did exactly what they were contracted to do.” Turi claims he never sent weapons to Qatar and that such transactions are handled by the government and the State Department's Bureau of Political and Military Affairs headed by Clinton aide Andrew Shapiro, who oversaw State’s export control process.</p>

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	On March 14, 2011, Clinton and Ambassador Chris Stevens met with&nbsp;Mustafa Jibril in Paris. Jibril was a senior member of Libya's&nbsp;Transitional National Council (TNC). This occurred while a $267 million contract with Turi was working its way through channels. He insists Clinton was provided a copy of the application a day later when she and aide Huma Abedin were in Cairo, meeting with Egypt's new foreign minister Nabil el Arabi. The information was given to the TNC, who subsequently gave it to Clinton. "That's what was told to me...and emailed, “ Turi insists. Turi also alerted Stevens in an email, and received a reply from the ambassador thanking him and stating, "I'll keep it in mind and share it with my colleagues in Washington.</p>

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	A day later, a heavily redacted email provided to the Benghazi Committee revealed Clinton’s “newfound” interest in supplying weapons to rebels via contractors. "FYI. The idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered," Clinton wrote. In May, Turi got State Department approval for supplying Qatar. Two months later, federal agents raided his home.</p>

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	The feds are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/2251045/">alleging</a>&nbsp;Turi tried to arm Libyans directly by submitting false documents for weapons shipments to Qatar as a cover up. Turi insists the feds are prosecuting an innocent man to cover for Clinton.</p>

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	Prior to her testimony on Oct. 22, Clinton only had to address the subject on one previous occasion, during an exchange with Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) in 2013. "Well, Senator you’ll have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex,” Clinton&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/05/breaking-rand-paul-was-right-obama-admin-was-running-guns-to-syria-hillary-lied-under-oath/">answered</a>&nbsp;at the time, apparently alluding to the CIA. "And, I will see what information was available.</p>

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	During her Oct. 22 testimony she was equally duplicitous, stating, “I think the answer is no” when asked a direct question about supplying Libyan rebels, insisting that arming private militias may have been considered, but not "seriously considered,” and ultimately answering “no” when asked if she was aware the U.S. was shipping weapons Libyan rebels directly or indirectly.</p>

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	Napolitano shreds those assertions. "How could she answer ‘no’?” he writes. "She not only knew about the sending of arms to rebels but also personally authored and authorized it…The FBI and CIA advised her —in documents that are now public—that U.S. arms were making their way to known al-Qaida operatives.”</p>

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	The documents to which Napolitano refers were&nbsp;<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-defense-state-department-documents-reveal-obama-administration-knew-that-al-qaeda-terrorists-had-planned-benghazi-attack-10-days-in-advance/">obtained</a>&nbsp;by Judicial Watch (JW) via court order last May. They were "the first official confirmation that shows the U.S. government was aware of arms shipments from Benghazi to Syria,” JW revealed. "Once this plot was hatched, Clinton and her fellow conspirators realized that some of these rebel groups were manned by al-Qaida operatives; and selling or providing arms to them is a felony -- hence the reason for months' worth of missing and destroyed Clinton emails,” Napolitano explains.</p>

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	Based on this additional evidence, which comes on top of the FBI investigation into Clinton’s failure to secure classified information—that now includes an&nbsp;<a href="https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_OctWeb/SS6/DOC_0C05759255/C05759255.pdf">email</a>&nbsp;released Oct. 30 by the State Department demonstrating irrefutable proof she&nbsp;<em>sent</em>&nbsp;classified information—her obstruction of justice arising from the wiping of her server, and her perjured&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/09/politics/hillary-clinton-email-certified-court/">testimony</a>&nbsp;before U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan last August, when she insisted she had turned over all of her work-related emails to the State Department, Napolitano&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/4/andrew-napolitano-hillary-clintons-new-benghazi-li/">believes</a>&nbsp;an FBI indictment is a virtual certainty. "When those recommendations are made known, no ballot will bear her name,” he concludes.</p>

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	Perhaps. Yet nagging developments suggest otherwise. The endemic corruption of the FBI and the Justice Department, most recently manifested in the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/23/politics/lois-lerner-no-charges-doj-tea-party/"><u>dropping</u></a>&nbsp;of a criminal investigation against the IRS—despite documents&nbsp;<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-documents-reveal-doj-irs-and-fbi-plan-to-seek-criminal-charges-of-obama-opponents/"><u>obtained</u></a>&nbsp;by Judicial Watch showing both entities were involved in the scandal itself—is extremely troublesome. So is the reality that two-term Vice President Joe Biden&nbsp;<u>announced</u>&nbsp;his intention not to run for president the day&nbsp;<em>before</em>&nbsp;Hillary’s testimony, suggesting he might have already known Democrats weren’t about to be saddled with the terminally-addled Bernie Sanders as their only presidential candidate. There is also the Benghazi Committee’s incomprehensible decision not to ask Clinton about a story that appeared in the&nbsp;<em>Daily Mail</em>&nbsp;on Oct. 17,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3277402/Smoking-gun-emails-reveal-Blair-s-deal-blood-George-Bush-Iraq-war-forged-YEAR-invasion-started.html"><u>revealing</u></a>&nbsp;her unsecured server contained a 2002 email written by former Secretary of State Colin Powell to George W. Bush, marked “Secret/NoForn” as in confidential and not for foreign eyes. At the very least this demonstrates Clinton was&nbsp;<em>extracting</em>&nbsp;secure information from the State Department server. For what purpose, and why didn’t a single American mainstream media source pick up the story?</p>

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	Clinton&nbsp;remains a virtual lock for the Democratic presidential nomination. As the National Journal’s Ron Fournier&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/91987/when-clinton-scandals-boil-away?mref=scroll"><u>explains</u></a>,&nbsp;"Demo­crats are eager to for­give Clin­ton’s lapses in judg­ment and honesty,” and despite the fact that Americans find her inherently&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/91987/when-clinton-scandals-boil-away?mref=home"><u>untrustworthy</u></a>&nbsp;(an NBC/<em>WSJ</em>&nbsp;poll re­veals that 53 per­cent of re­gistered voters don’t believe she is “be­ing hon­est and straight­for­ward,” while just 27 percent do), it is likely nothing short of a criminal indictment will derail her presidential ambitions. Sadly, that says as much about the American public as it does about Clinton herself.</p>


Hillary Clinton, <b>Arms Dealer</b>

In a scathing&nbsp;column Fox News contributor&nbsp;Andrew Napolitano makes the&nbsp;convincing case that Hillary Clinton sold weapons to Libya in a direction

Hillary Clinton, Arms Dealer

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	A newly-leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reveals the Obama administration is seeking to&nbsp;<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/the-administration/258689-leaked-dhs-memo-shows-obama-might-circumvent-dapa" target="_blank">sidestep</a>&nbsp;a federal court injunction that suspended portions of the president’s amnesty-based initiatives known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). In short, Obama is determined to impose his transformational agenda on the nation by any means necessary.</div>

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	According to the Hill, the&nbsp;<a href="http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/forum16-iv-agenda-and-legislative-updates/3096564-uscis-internal-memo-about-ead-for-i140-from-june-2015-a.html" target="_blank">document</a>&nbsp;outlining the administration’s attempt to thumb its nose at the rule of law was prepared at a DHS “Regulations Retreat” last June, four months after a preliminary injunction was initially imposed by Texas Judge Andrew Hanen and subsequently&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/us/fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals-rules-on-obama-immigration-plan.html" target="_blank">left in place</a>&nbsp;by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Fifth Circuit's final ruling on that injunction, either confirming or reversing it, is expected to occur in a matter of days.</div>

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	Apparently the Obama administration couldn’t care less. The retreat was convened to discuss options regarding work permits for illegals, statutorily known as Employment Authorization Documents (EADs). The memo recording those discussions reveals the administration had no intention of waiting while the court determined the constitutionality of Obama’s effort to nullify immigration law. Rather, they have been preparing to roll out one or more of four separate plans aimed at providing EADs to millions of illegal aliens.&nbsp;</div>

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	The memo states that Option 1 would grants EADs to “all individuals living in the United States,” a group that includes illegal aliens, visa-overstayers, and H-1B guest-workers. Option 4 provides EADs&nbsp;to individuals on certain unexpired non-immigrant visas, the Hill reports. Both options directly violate the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.uscis.gov/iframe/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/act.html" target="_blank">Immigration and Nationality Act</a>&nbsp;that ostensibly&nbsp;<a href="http://cis.org/Obama-Deferred-Action-Amnest-Executive-Action-Unconstitutional" target="_blank">protects</a>&nbsp;American wages and job security from excessive immigration, and completely subverts the nation’s current visa system.</div>

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	The number of individuals benefiting from these initiatives is infuriating. Option 1 would “address the needs of some of the intended deferred action population,” meaning anyone physically present in the nation who has been prohibited from obtaining an EAD until now. That definition applies to 4.3 million people covered by DAPA and the Expanded DACA programs, despite the reality the benefits accruing from those programs were supposed to have been stopped by the Hanen decision. In addition, the DHS plan would provide EADs to individuals with temporary non-immigrant visas, such as H-1B visas holders whose work authorizations are tied to their employers—along with an additional&nbsp;5-6 million illegal aliens yet to be included in any part of Obama's deferred action amnesty agenda. The DHS is contending it can&nbsp;<em>unilaterally</em>&nbsp;separate the work authorization requirements contained in the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act from the rest of U.S. visa statutes. And while it can’t ignore legal requirements with regard to&nbsp;<em>issuing</em>&nbsp;visas, the Obama administration insists it has discretionary powers that should shock any American who believes in the rule of law.</div>

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	In short, Obama and his minions contend they have the power to grant anyone currently residing in the United States, regardless of status, a work permit.</div>

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	Ironically, the authors of the memo concede the beneficiaries of the Obama administration’s offensive against the rule of law will still “face difficulties in pursuing permanent residence due to ineligibility or being subject to unlawful presence inadmissibility for which a waiver is required.” This is a reference to the reality that an EAD is not the equivalent of a green card, and an EAD holder will ultimately have to apply to “adjust their status,” an undertaking that cannot be accomplished absent evidence of lawful status to begin with.</div>

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	Unsurprisingly, the memo’s authors envision a solution for that dilemma, noting the DHS’s “macro-level policy goal” is aimed at helping illegals remain in the United States “until they are ready and able to become immigrants.” In other words, the DHS envisions itself&nbsp;<em>abetting</em>&nbsp;lawbreaking.</div>

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	If these initiatives are successful, the impact on American workers would&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/02/obamas-secret-migration-plan-work-permits-millions-foreign-professionals/" target="_blank">border</a>&nbsp;on catastrophic, especially for college graduates. American universities churn out approximately 800,000 graduates per year with degrees in medicine and business, as well as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). These graduates are already having trouble finding jobs in their respective fields, and Obama’s agenda would add the insult to injury, forcing them to compete with foreign workers willing to accept lower wages. A scathing&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/07/exclusive-displaced-cast-member-how-disney-replaced-me-other-americans-with-cheap-foreigners-on-h1b-visas/" target="_blank">column</a>&nbsp;written by a former Disney IT worker recounts the company’s despicable effort in that regard. Disney forced their American workers to train their foreign counterparts prior to being laid off as a condition for receiving their severance pay. A number of other companies, including&nbsp;Microsoft, Facebook, Google,&nbsp;Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Intel and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/aug/17/Qualcomm-broadcom-nokia-layoffs-foreign-workers/" target="_blank">Qualcomm</a>&nbsp;have all&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html" target="_blank">clamored</a>&nbsp;for increased numbers of H-1B &nbsp;visas, even as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/07/intel-advocates-h1b-visa-lays-off/" target="_blank">many</a>&nbsp;of them have&nbsp;<a href="http://yellowhammernews.com/politics-2/sessions-outraged-this-tech-company-lays-off-americans-while-demanding-more-immigrant-labor/" target="_blank">laid off</a>&nbsp;American workers.</div>

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	Ian Smith, a lawyer with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, puts the administration’s latest agenda in perspective.&nbsp;“The President’s ruthless politicization of our immigration laws seems to be getting more extreme as his final day in office nears,” said Smith. "Each of the plans contemplated in this memo would be a complete subversion of our visa system and is 100 percent illegal… [and] will be a direct slap in the face of Congress.”</div>

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	Not exactly. Virtually every Democrat is behind the president’s plans, as are many Chamber of Commerce-beholden Republicans who are on board with increasing the number of H-1B visas. They include&nbsp;Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) who, along with co-sponsors Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), proposed a reincarnation of the 2013 “I-Squared” bill called the “<a href="http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/eeb5aaa5-fb8d-4d29-ba4a-a6652f4f2d58/I-Squared%20Act%20of%202015.pdf" target="_blank">Immigration Innovation Act of 2015</a>.” The latest version would increase the number of H-1B visas from the current level of 65,000 a year (plus 20,000 for holders of U.S. graduate degrees), to 115,000, “with the possibility of the cap rising as high as 195,000 depending on economic conditions,” Hatch&nbsp;<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865626443/Sen-Hatchs-I-Squared-bill-could-more-than-double-cap-on-high-skill-visas.html?pg=all" target="_blank">stated</a>&nbsp;last April. This despite the reality that since 2000, the entire net gain in the number of people holding a job went to immigrants, both legal and illegal, according to a 2014 report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).</div>

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	Furthermore, no one should expect any help from the GOP’s newly-elected House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). Ryan has repeatedly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/17/paul-ryans-open-borders-push-luis-gutierrez-exposed-2013-video/" target="_blank">aligned</a>&nbsp;himself with Obama and the pro-amnesty left, insisting in 2013 that any public displeasure with “waves of immigration” arises from "some ignorance…some resistance.”</div>

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	In a searing&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/memo_to_gop_curb_immigration_or_quit_commentary-244263-1.html?zkPrintable=true" target="_blank">column</a>&nbsp;for Roll Call, &nbsp;Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) reveal the utter fraud behind Ryan’s assertion, explaining the Census Bureau "projects that the foreign-born share of the U.S. population will soon eclipse the highest levels ever documented, and will continue surging to new record highs each year to come.” They further note that "activists and politicians who support unprecedented levels of immigration are never asked to explain how they believe such a policy will affect social stability, community cohesion or political assimilation.”</div>

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	&nbsp;Both men mince no words with regard to the real agenda in play here. "This is not immigration reform,” they state. "This is the dissolution of the nation state, of the principle that a government exists to serve its own people.”</div>

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	And make no mistake: the Obama administration is leading the charge, along with the entire Democrat Party and a number of Republicans, whose contempt for national sovereignty is only surpassed by their efforts to label those who resist the fundamental transformation of America as bigoted, nativist and/or xenophobic. It behooves the 26 plaintiff states that have challenged Obama’s agenda to make sure the Fifth Circuit court of Appeals is fully informed with regard to the DHS memo and the administration’s attempt to subvert the law. Sad to say, either they, or ultimately the Supreme Court, may be the last line of defense against a cabal of politicians and well-connected corporate oligarchs, and their supra-nationalist ambitions. It is not just America, but the concept of the nation-state itself, that hangs in the balance.</div>


Obama's <b>Secret Destruction</b> of Our Immigration System

A newly-leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reveals the Obama administration is seeking to&nbsp;sidestep&nbsp;a federal court injunction

Obama's Secret Destruction of Our Immigration System

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	The story of Texas ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed, made famous by his homemade “clock” that resembled a suitcase bomb, has taken a&nbsp;<a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/10/07/clock-kid-ahmed-mohameds-dad-pushes-911-conspiracy-theories-online">curious</a>&nbsp;turn. His father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed has parlayed&nbsp;accusations of Islamophobia with regard to the school’s caution into a political attack against the United States for its complicity in the 9/11 atrocity--in all its “Truther” glory.</p>

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	This is Mohamed’s second foray into one of the radical left’s favorite fever swamps. Last month, one day after the fourteenth commemoration of 9/11, Mohammed&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/10/08/clock-boy-ahmeds-dad-shares-911-truther-posts-facebook/">posted</a>&nbsp;a Sept. 12 Facebook photo of the burning towers, using his&nbsp;Sudanese National Reform Party page. The page, which has since been taken down, asserted that 9/11 was an inside job. Here is a&nbsp;<a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleshideler/2015/10/06/ahmeds-dad-pushes-911-conspiracy-posts-videos-on-arabic-facebook-page-n2061903/page/full">translation</a> of&nbsp;a statement included with the photo written by Asad al-Barari:</p>

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		<em>The Events of September 11th:</em></p>

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		<em>There is a saying, “The hater writes them; the fool publishes them; and the idiot believes them.” This applies to the rumors that people both spread and believe; it describes the creation of rumors in all their stages.</em></p>

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		<em>Yesterday [Friday, September 11, 2015] was the anniversary observed in the United States of America on what is called “September 11th.” This was the miracle that came to America in the form of terrorism—which offered her the invasion of Islamic countries (headed by Afghanistan and Iraq), which she saw as a great threat—on a golden plate. The first had an Islamic government, while the second was a mighty Arab state in the Middle East.</em></p>

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		<em>Without any doubt, the events of September 11th claimed thousands of innocent lives, and violated the basic belief of religions, that civilians should not be harmed in any war. Yet, for its sake, millions of blameless souls have perished—though one state has been spared. One state that exists only on the map.</em></p>

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		<em>The events of the Arab Spring, or the despicable chaos that is its true name, were a part of this “September [11th] Strategy,” that the U.S. pursued in sending her armies into Afghanistan and Iraq. The American army destroyed their regular armies, but found that it could not destroy their irregular forces. This is what drove her to foment that reprehensible chaos—an ancient plan to destroy states completely—which was carried out to the letter in all the lands of the Arab Spring. The result was not only thousands of refugees and deaths in every part of the world, but also the huge humiliations that have become the fundamental malaise of the Arabs in everything they do.</em></p>

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		<em>Thus [the events of September 11th] are but an American media creation, no matter how some may try to label them as“Islamic terrorism.” They were indeed terrorism, but terrorism American style—terrorism that sweeps away and annihilates whole countries, and not those few buildings in the midst of New York City.</em></p>
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	That screed was followed by another posting on Mohamed’s National Reform Party Facebook page Sept. 28 that contained a 15 minute, English language video containing&nbsp;a raft of Truther allegations including the now-familiar assertions that the "10 seconds" it took for the remaining tower to collapse demonstrates 9/11 was an "inside job,” with the video’s original poster&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/nwabliyaaa/videos/1416561711891350/">insisting</a>&nbsp;the attack is “all a lie.” Moreover the collapse of Trade Towers’ Building 7 is “suspicious” because it was never hit by a jet, but its collapse nonetheless mimics the demolitions of a building “brought down by explosives.”</p>

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	That footage is followed by a shot of a Manhattan street covered in debris and an image of George W. Bush. “There is a tremendous amount of evidence that the government was involved in the September 11 attack,” the video asserts, adding that while proof of a conspiracy is “speculation,” the rest is “scientific fact.” It further insists an American mainstream media controlled by a “small group of people” replete with Western journalists intent on “manipulating emotions,” demonstrated by broadcasted photos of Osama bin Laden, “creates anger towards Arabs and fools people into thinking the Arabs are responsible for the attack.”</p>

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	Before it was, Breitbart News&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/15/clock-boy-ahmeds-dads-arabic-post-incident-will-spread-islam-america/">captured</a>&nbsp;what appears to be an Arabic language National Reform post written by Mohamed himself. Breitbart got Raymond Stock, Middle Eastern political and cultural affairs expert, and former Guggenheim Fellow with a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania to translate the page. Stock revealed that the same Truther “inside job" nonsense had been reiterated, stating "the war against terror is nothing more than an illusion made in America—as al-Qa`ida was made in America, as well as what is happening now in the Arab East at the hands of the West.” The post further stated the "events of September 11<sup>th</sup> were planned precisely to launch the war on Iraq, and 50% of the American people are becoming aware of that.”</p>

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	Mohamed then adds his son to the mix, claiming Ahmed was a victim of Islamophobia rather than Zero Tolerance policies that have&nbsp;<a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/09/blame-zero-tolerance-insanity-not-islamophobia-for-tx-schoolchild-clock-incident/">precipitated</a>&nbsp;a number of dubious student suspensions. “Moreover, what happened to Ahmed Mohammed would not have occurred were he not Muslim and Sudanese,” the translation reads, with Mohammed further insisting the incident “shocked the West, and made Obama seek to honor him, rather than his terrorizing his fellow students.”</p>

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	Another part of the post charges the “state-controlled" American media with engendering an attitude of “fear" towards Muslims "that has no relation to reality.” Mohamed believes that fear campaign will lead to the growth of Islam in America:</p>

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		<em>American society has come to live in fear of all that is Muslim or black due to the state-controlled media. And I would add:</em></p>

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		<em>It is a fear that will turn into confidence in all that is Muslim, because what the American media present is nothing more than a lie that has no relation to reality.</em></p>

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	The post also links to an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/09/22/ahmed-mohamed-something-nobody-is-talking-about-when-it-comes-to-terrorism-the-clock-making-teen/">article</a>&nbsp;by Arjun Walia at the Collective Evolution website. Walia contends people have been “conditioned” to believe terrorism “threatens us,” and that Western nations are fighting the good fight against those "who&nbsp;have supposedly committed a number of atrocities on Western soil. This couldn’t be further from the truth,” he insists. He further states "it’s a well documented fact that Al-Qaeda was a creation of the CIA – there are multiple sources which&nbsp;show that – and it seems that ISIS might not be any different,” adding there is “no proof” Middle Easterners pose a threat to our safety. Rather, it is "corporately owned media groups that have been consolidated in the hands of a few, like CNN that are responsible” for what he describes as a “false flag terrorism "run by covert operations designed to deceive&nbsp;and manipulate in such a way as to&nbsp;appear as though they had been&nbsp;carried out by groups, nations, or entities other than those who actually planned and executed them.”&nbsp;</p>

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	9/11 is one such example.</p>

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	This week, Mohamed joined his son and the rest of the family in Saudi Arabia, the latest stop on a&nbsp;tour that began in Qatar&nbsp;when an&nbsp;invitation to visit that nation was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260279/ahmed-mohameds-qatari-vacation-muslim-brotherhood-arnold-ahlert">extended</a>&nbsp;by the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.qf.org.qa/about/about">Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development</a>.&nbsp;Their sister institution, the Qatar Foundation International (QFI), has&nbsp;<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/03/tucson-schools-to-take-465000-from-arab-charity-with-muslim-brotherhood-ties/">links</a>&nbsp;to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).&nbsp;</p>

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	The Saudis picked up the next leg of the trip,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/13/clock-boy-ahmed-makes-mecca-saudi-funds-pushes-u-s-islamophobia-narrative/">sponsoring</a>&nbsp;a family pilgrimage to Mecca that included Ahmed’s uncle Moussa Al-Hassan.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/816821">According</a>&nbsp;to the Arab News, al-Hassan kept the theme alive insisting the "ordinary American citizen lives in a state of fear of Arabs because of the American media’s portrayal of him as an extremist terrorist.” Ahmed himself played the game as well. “It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of (my clock) and I got arrested,” he told reporters.&nbsp;</p>

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	Ahmed also filmed a “come meet the clockmaker” video for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for their 21st “Champions for Justice” Anniversary banquet held in Arlington, VA on Oct. 17. That would be the very same CAIR that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12688-cair-launches-website-exposing-americas-islamophobia-network.html">launched</a>&nbsp;an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.islamophobia.org/">Islamophobia.org</a> website&nbsp;in 2014 in an effort "to monitor and challenge the growing anti-Muslim bigotry in American society”--even though the organization itself remains an unindicted co-conspirator in the Texas Holy Land Foundation trial where several people were&nbsp;<a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-judge-hands-downs-sentences-holy-land-foundation-case">convicted</a>&nbsp;of providing material support to the U.S. designated terror organization Hamas.</p>

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	While in Saudi Arabia, it might be useful for a family seemingly attuned to the injustices of religious intolerance, to explore the policies and traditions of what is arguably the most religiously intolerant nation on earth. Government policy in Saudi Arabia&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/09/sean-hannity/hannity-you-cant-build-christian-church-sau">prohibits</a>&nbsp;the building of churches. Yet at the same time it not only&nbsp;<a href="http://theweek.com/articles/570297/how-saudi-arabia-exports-radical-islam">promotes</a>&nbsp;the most virulently intolerant version of Islam known as Wahhabism domestically, it spends billions to export it all over the world. Its most recent effort in that regard was an offer to build two hundred mosques in Germany, a country inundated with Muslim “refugees” the Saudis themselves want no part of, despite&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/refugee-crisis-2015-saudi-arabia-criticized-100000-air-conditioned-tents-not-use-2095403">having</a>&nbsp;100,000 air-conditioned tents capable of housing up to three million people.&nbsp;</p>

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	As for traditions, there aren't many nations that would grant Ahmed’s sister, Eyman, also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/17/man-i-went-viral-my-day-with-ahmed-moahmed-the-most-famous-boy-on-earth.html">suspended</a>&nbsp;from middle school in the same district in 2009, less rights and privileges than the nation where a women who reported she was gang-raped was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/60339/eleven-things-women-in-saudi-arabia-cannot-do">sentenced</a>&nbsp;to receive more lashes than her alleged rapists, because she was not accompanied by a male escort when the crime occurred.</p>

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	Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed and his entire family are free to take any political positions they choose. Yet what began as something that might be construed as a reasonable response to a school district’s zero tolerance over-zealousness, has deteriorated into something best described as an&nbsp;Islamophobia awareness tour, all the requisite amount of America-bashing included. It remains to be seen if an&nbsp;equally tone-deaf President Obama will&nbsp;further promote that agenda when Ahmed and company&nbsp;<a href="http://www.abc2news.com/newsy/ahmed-and-other-young-scientists-to-stargaze-at-white-house">meet</a>&nbsp;with the president on White House Astronomy Night next Monday.</p>

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Ahmed’s <b>9/11 Truther</b> Father

The story of Texas ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed, made famous by his homemade “clock” that resembled a suitcase bomb, has taken a&nbsp;curious&nbsp;turn. His

Ahmed’s 9/11 Truther Father

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	Abdullah Demirbas, Kurdish human rights activist and twice-elected former mayor of the Sur municipality in Diyarbakir, has long been&nbsp;<a href="http://bcrgroup.us/critical-condition-of-a-kurdish-politician-abdullah-demirba.html" target="_blank">targeted</a>&nbsp;by Turkish authorities who apparently view him as a threat to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s&nbsp;<a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/robert-fulford-erdogan-is-turning-his-country-into-an-islam-tilted-dictatorship" target="_blank">determination</a>&nbsp;to “re-Islamify” his nation. "I would like to emphasize that we believe in that inter-religious and intercultural dialogue a will bring communities together in this century,” Demirbas told his lawyer, Ms.&nbsp;Irina Tsukerman, while he languished in prison.</p>

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	Turkish officials saw it differently. They apprehended Demirbas on Aug. 5, 2015,&nbsp; and charged him with financing terror and being a member of a terrorist organization, according to his daughter,&nbsp;Berfin Demirbas<em>.</em>&nbsp;Yet a Sept.16 article&nbsp;<a href="http://armenianweekly.com/2015/09/16/petition-release-demirbas/" target="_blank">published</a>&nbsp;in <em>The Armenian Weekly</em> reveals the real motivation behind Demirbas’s detainment. "This latest arrest comes amid charges against a number of Kurdish politicians, following the June 7 parliamentary elections that saw the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lose its majority, while the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) successfully surpassed the minimum 10-percent threshold required to gain representation in the Turkish Parliament,” the paper explains. "The AKP subsequently failed to form a government.”</div>

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	As a result, snap elections will be held on Nov. 1. In the meantime, Turkish authorities have allegedly been conducting a campaign against&nbsp;the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), bringing a number of Kurdish centers and villages under siege. Turkish officials insist they are attacking ISIS strongholds, but many believe the effort is aimed at provoking violence, even to the point of civil war, in order to undermine the HDP before the election takes place.</div>

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	A Sept. 8 press release from the Kurdish National Congress (KNK)&nbsp;<a href="http://armenianweekly.com/2015/09/09/lynching-campaign-targets-kurds/" target="_blank">gave</a>&nbsp;additional weight to these assertions. They insist a series of coordinated mob attacks and lynchings were precipitated Sept. 6-8, targeting hundreds of Kurdish villages in Western Turkey. Turkish police were accused of participating in the carnage. “The mobs are organizing themselves across social media, forming groups and attacking homes known to belong to Kurdish families,” the statement read. “Attacks on 128 HDP offices have occurred with HDP signs and slogans ripped off and replaced with the Turkish flag. Other offices have been set on fire.”</div>

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	HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas accused the AKP, President Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of making the decision to "start this war and intensify it,” further insisting the crisis was manufactured by AKP’s loss of majority status in the June election. Regime critic Garo Paylan, one of three Armenian Members of Parliament in Turkey, echoed that assertion, insisting Turkish authorities refused to intervene when HDP offices were attacked. “Police are just watching…what’s being broken there is our hope of living together,” Paylan told the BBC.</div>

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	During the unrest, Diyarbakir’s Surp Giragos Armenian Church sustained damage. Demirbas was an active participant in the Church’s reconstruction in 2011. He also presided over the official inauguration of Diyarbakir’s “Monument of Common Conscience” on&nbsp;Sept. 12, 2013, during which he offered an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/armenian-genocide-kurdish-leaders-set-moral-example-turkey-by-facing-their-crimes-1498053" target="_blank">apology</a>&nbsp;on behalf of the Kurds for their participation in the Armenian genocide that took place in 1915. "We have learnt lessons from our history... And as children of this people, we clearly say this out loud: Despite the sovereigns that put us through all those sufferings, we will live together,” he stated. "We will not make one another suffer any more... In this sense, we criticize our [own history] before humanity, peoples and faiths.”&nbsp;</div>

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	That admission conflicted with Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. Beginning in 2005 it became illegal "to insult Turkey, the Turkish nation, or Turkish government institutions.” Last April, Erdogan revealed the suppressive nature of that law and its attempt to whitewash Turkish history,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/25/erdogan-armenian-genocide_n_7142300.html" target="_blank">taking</a>&nbsp;the nations of France, Germany, Russia and Austria to task for describing the deaths of more than 1.5 million Armenians as “genocide.” Erdogan insisted those nations supported "claims constructed on Armenian lies.”</div>

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	Demirbas’s latest arrest was not his first. After his first election as mayor in 2004, he&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/kurdish-mayor-decries-hypocrisy-on-language.aspx?pageID=517&amp;nID=26075&amp;NewsCatID=339" target="_blank">faced</a>&nbsp;dozens of investigations for attempting to establish a multi-lingual municipality service that ostensibly breaches the equity principle of the Turkish constitution. In 2008 he was one of several Turkish politicians&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/magazine/17turkey-t.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">targeted</a>&nbsp;for Kurdish-language usage. His “crimes” consisted of printing a children’s book and tourist brochures in Kurdish, for which he was accused of misusing municipal resources. Accusations of misusing his position also followed his granting of a blessing in Kurdish while officiating at a wedding ceremony. And when Demirbas suggested his district should employ Kurdish-speaking phone operators and print public-health pamphlets in Kurdish, charges of aiding the PKK, a Turkish-designated terrorist organization, were leveled.&nbsp;</div>

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	As a result Demirbas was detained on December 24, 2009 and put in&nbsp;detention for five months for his ostensible links to the&nbsp;Kurdistan Communities Union&nbsp;(KCK), the alleged urban wing of the outlawed PKK.&nbsp;He was released in 2010 due to health problems that plague him to this day. Speaking to the <em>Hurriyet Daily News</em> in 2012, Demirbas&nbsp;referred&nbsp;to the&nbsp;74 ongoing prosecutions against him, most for multi-lingual municipal services, and the 486 years in total prison sentences being sought in regard to those probes. He also accused Erdogan of hypocrisy. “We face a very strange situation,” he said at the time. "When the prime minister speaks Kurdish on TRT 6 [the state-owned channel that broadcasts in Kurdish], they call it a revolutionary development. But when we put multi-lingual signboards around the city our move was considered as a crime. Interestingly, some acts that are legal for the government are illegal for us,” he added.</div>

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	Attorney Tsukerman further illuminates Demirbas’s current dilemma. "Mr. Demirbas had a plan to restore a number of religious minority sites in his town of Diyarbakir, including a synagogue, Armenian churches, and Yezidi shrines,” she explained in an email to Frontpage. "Mr. Demirbas was known for these activities not only locally but internationally and with many different minority groups. He had received an EU grant to continue his work. Mr. Demirbas gained notoriety for daring to apologize to Armenian and Assyrian groups for the role Kurds have played in the massacres perpetrated by the Ottomans. He quickly became a hero for the Armenians, but that created a divisive effect in light of the rising xenophobia and extreme nationalism being whipped up by the administration.”&nbsp;</div>

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	Nonetheless he persisted, bringing a&nbsp;delegation of&nbsp;Christians and Muslims to the Vatican for an interfaith visit with Pope Francis. The Pope returned the favor,&nbsp;asking Demirbas to accompany him when he&nbsp;visited Turkey last December.&nbsp;</div>

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	Tsukerman notes Demirbas’s latest arrest followed his visits to&nbsp;Tel Aviv and Hebrew University, where he&nbsp;participated in a series of seminars with Professor Ofra Bengio, an expert on the Middle East and Kurdish issues, and&nbsp;Armenia, where he participated in the 6th Pan Armenian games and met with the president&nbsp;Serzh Sargsyan. "He believes that it is his visit to Israel and Armenia that was the last straw that caused his arrest, though the timing of it is more than a coincidence,”&nbsp;Tsukerman explained.</div>

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	While he was incarcerated, Demirbas’s medical condition, deep vein thrombosis that can lead to possibly fatal blood clots in the lungs, continued to plague him. As a result his daughter created a personal appeal for his release and posted it&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.change.org/p/abdullah-demirba%C5%9F-in-tutuklanmas%C4%B1-onu-%C3%B6l%C3%BCme-terk-etmektir-serbest-b%C4%B1rak%C4%B1ls%C4%B1n-freedemirbas" target="_blank">change.org</a>, where it gathered 12,000 signatures. “I am reaching out to you as someone whose father is imprisoned and under risk of death,” it&nbsp;<a href="http://armenianweekly.com/2015/09/16/petition-release-demirbas/" target="_blank">stated</a>. "My father is ill and is currently in jail. We feel that he is basically being condemned to die in jail and that his continued incarceration is an invasion of his right to life. As his family, we are most worried and demand that he be released.”</div>

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	The petition further demanded the state take responsibility for "the lives of those it has incarcerated—the individuals whose basic rights and liberties have been denied behind cement walls and prison bars. Yet, the state is leaving more than 130,000 sick inmates to die through the politics of violence and massacre, as well as the pain of isolation in the prison system.”</div>

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	The effort was successful. Last week Turkish officials released Demirbas following an appeal by his lawyers based on his faltering health condition, that may now include gangrene and emboli,&nbsp;<a href="http://armenianweekly.com/2015/10/07/demirbas-released/" target="_blank">reports</a>&nbsp;Turkey’s Bianet news service. According to his daughter, he has been transferred to Dicle University hospital in Diyarbakir for treatment.</div>

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	Nonetheless, Tsukerman explains his ordeal remains ongoing, noting that his movements remain “heavily monitored,” his charges “remain undisclosed” and that the prosecutor has twice tried to remand him to prison, “but the judge overruled.” Demirbas&nbsp;is "an innocent man, whose peaceful and uniting ideology heavily clashes with the current actions by the administration and the increasingly conservative and suspicious outlook among many parts of the country, that is being courted by President Erdogan prior to the elections on November 1,” Tsukerman insists. "There is little surprise that heroic, idealistic individuals like Mr. Demirbas become scapegoats to these sentiments.”</div>

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	He is not alone. At last week’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/10/10/world/europe/ap-eu-turkey-blast.html" target="_blank">terror attack</a>&nbsp;in Ankara, targeting a largely&nbsp;pro-Kurdish and pro-HDP&nbsp;"Labor, Peace and Democracy” demonstration, 97 people were killed and 248 were wounded, further&nbsp;exacerbating the political divide in that nation. HDP leader&nbsp;Selahattin Demirtas&nbsp;<a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/turkey/ankara-attacks-intensify-kurdish-party-s-conflict-with-erdogan-1.1600024" target="_blank">accused</a>&nbsp;Erdogan of presiding over a “mafia state” responsible for the atrocity, while Erdogan dismissed Demirtas&nbsp;as&nbsp;a “pretty boy.” Previously, Erdogan had insisted Demirtas would flee to the PKK stronghold in Qandil, Iraq if given the chance to do.&nbsp;</div>

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	Prime Minister Davutoglu believes either Kurdish rebels or ISIS is responsible for the carnage. Yet this latest attack is the third bombing of a Kurdish-linked political gathering in recent months. Four people were killed HDP rally in Diyarbakir on June 5, and 34 were killed in the border town of Suruc on July 20. Moreover the fight between the Turkish government the PKK has been&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-mourn-victims-of-terror-attack-in-turkish-capital-ankara-1444564778" target="_blank">ongoing</a>&nbsp;since 1984, claiming over 40,000 lives.</div>

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	In 2014, Demirbas bemoaned the plight of his people, and offered a seemingly prescient view of Turkey’s future. "Humans die once," he said. "But for Kurds … we die every day. I don’t see things getting better.”&nbsp;</div>

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	The Nov. 1 election may prove or disprove that assertion. Regardless, Demirbas’s story&nbsp;"is an antidote to violence, extremism, and intolerance that plagues and fractures the region," Tsukerman&nbsp;notes. "He is a Muslim who chooses to build strong relations with Jews, Christians, and all other groups despite the fact that such activity presents a direct risk to his life."</div>

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Kurdish Activist Takes On Turkey's<b> Descent into Extremism </b>

Abdullah Demirbas, Kurdish human rights activist and twice-elected former mayor of the Sur municipality in Diyarbakir, has long been&nbsp;targeted&nbsp;by

Kurdish Activist Takes On Turkey's Descent into Extremism 

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	The American left’s contemptuous disregard for laws it doesn’t like is metastasizing. Despite the public outrage that attended the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3147942/Woman-randomly-shot-death-popular-San-Francisco-pier.html">murder</a>&nbsp;of Kate&nbsp;Steinle by Juan Francsico Lopez-Sanchez, a seven-time convicted felon who had been deported five times, the number of illegal alien protection centers known as sanctuary cities has <em>increased</em>. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)&nbsp;<a href="http://cis.org/Sanctuary-Cities-Map">reports</a>&nbsp;the number of these&nbsp;law-obstructing entities has grown to 340, compared to only 276 identified as recently as last July. CIS’s analysis is based on new information released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that covers the months of January through September of 2014.</p>

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	It gets worse. As CIS reveals, a whopping 9,295 alien offenders that ICE was seeking to deport were released on the streets of America, including more than 600 people released at least twice. Moreover, 5,947 or 62 percent of these criminal aliens "had significant prior criminal histories or other public safety concerns even before the arrest that led to a detainer,” CIS states. Those histories included 58 percent with prior felony charges or conviction, 37 percent with serious prior misdemeanor charges, and 5 percent with multiple prior misdemeanors. Adding insult to injury, 2,320 of those released were arrested for&nbsp;new crimes committed during the same time frame.&nbsp;</p>

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	Unsurprisingly, ICE was not able to re-apprehend the overwhelming majority of offenders released by the sanctuary cities with 6,460, or 69 percent, remaining at large.</p>

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	CIS director Jessica Vaughn was infuriated. "Our elected officials must not continue to sit back and watch these sanctuary jurisdictions release thousands and thousands of deportable criminal aliens back into our communities in defiance of ICE efforts to deport them, and then witness the harm that inevitably ensues when these removable offenders strike again," she said. "There is no more obvious immigration issue on which Congress could act now than to rein in this obstruction of a vital law enforcement mission that keeps our communities safer.”</p>

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	Senate Republicans are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/07/senate-republicans-move-target-sanctuary-cities/">attempting</a>&nbsp;to do just that. Legislation introduced by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) aims to restrict federal funds and grants to cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials. The bill would also establish a mandatory five-year sentence for illegal aliens convicted of re-entering the U.S. following a felony conviction,&nbsp;<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/256196-senate-fast-tracks-sanctuary-cities-bill">raise</a>&nbsp;the sentence for re-entering the nation twice from two to five years, and establish a maximum punishment of 10 years in jail for immigrants still in America after being removed three or more times. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

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	“Three months ago, Kate Steinle was murdered in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant who should have never been walking the streets in the first place,” Vitter said Wednesday. "In the time since Ms. Steinle’s death, we have seen similar murders and other terrible acts of violence against law abiding citizens across the United States – it is outrageous that the policies allowing these crimes to happen have not changed. We need to send a loud and clear message to any sanctuary cities that their dangerous policies are not acceptable.”&nbsp;​</p>

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	The murder of Kate Steinle exposed the bankruptcy of the Obama administration, the Democratic Party and a corrupt media for whom the rule of law is only sacred when it aligns itself with the progressive agenda. When it doesn’t, all of them embrace the selective enforcement of the law that saw the Department of Justice sue states like&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/06/AR2010070601928.html">Arizona</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/01/holder-sues-south-carolina-over-immigration-reform/">South Carolina</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-challenges-utah-s-immigration-law">Utah</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-challenges-alabama-immigration-law">Alabama</a>&nbsp;for attempting to enforce federal immigration law it conspicuously ignored. That would be the very same DOJ that has <em>never</em> filed a single lawsuit against any sanctuary city in <em>open defiance</em> of immigration law.&nbsp;</p>

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	This blatant double-standard in favor of the progressive&nbsp;agenda is so despicable, that a certain level of mayhem, including murder, rape, child molestation and other heinous activity is viewed as a reasonable tradeoff for not only tolerating sanctuary cities, but apparently countenancing the aforementioned increase in the number of them.&nbsp;</p>

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	If Republicans are genuinely serious about taking on sanctuary cities, it would be quite useful to add a critical element to this piece of legislation. A hint of what the element is was contained in a Politifact hit piece&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/06/donald-trump/trump-immigration-claim-has-no-data-back-it/">hammering</a>&nbsp;Donald Trump for his assertion that “hundreds of thousands” of illegal aliens are going to state and federal penitentiaries. Politifact gave Ramiro Martinez, a pro-amnesty criminal justice professor at Northeastern University, a platform to insist that Trump’s assertion was "at best unsustainable or more likely pure fiction.”&nbsp;</p>

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	In a sense Martinez is right, but Politifact was forced to admit why. "Turns out Homeland Security doesn’t regularly track the number of incarcerated illegal immigrants, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Press Secretary Gillian Christensen,” the website revealed.&nbsp;</p>

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	It is far worse than that. In her book&nbsp;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Adios-America-Ann-Coulter/dp/1621572676">"Adios, America!”</a>&nbsp;Ann Coulter reveals the insidiousness of the federal government's effort to conceal this information from both Congress and the public. She reveals that in 2011, when Congress “expressly requested" data on immigrant crime, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated there were approximately 351,000 incarcerated criminal aliens in the United States—before saying the state and local portions of that total were “partial.”&nbsp;</p>

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	How partial? The GAO omitted counting: all legal immigrants in those prisons; convicted illegal aliens for whom the states did not submit federal reimbursement requests; prisoners whose country of birth could not be determined; immigrants who have been naturalized; children born to illegal immigrants on American soil (aka, anchor babies); immigrants without at least one felony or two misdemeanor convictions; immigration “detainees;” and former illegal aliens who committed crimes after being granted amnesty via the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.</p>

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	Coulter reaches an obvious conclusion. “Knowing how many criminals are immigrants might affect our opinion of our current immigration policies,” she writes.</p>

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	So would part of a sanctuary city bill <em>requiring</em> the federal government to provide regular and public statistics on illegal aliens who commit crime. That particular&nbsp;addition to a bill virtually certain to be vetoed by Obama—if Congressional Democrats, along with some weak-kneed Republicans, don’t kill it first—would clarify the fault lines between members of our political ruling class still looking out for Americans, and those beholden to special interest groups more than willing to abide the “fundamental transformation of the United States”--into a sanctuary <em>nation</em>.&nbsp;</p>

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	What may be the most critical election in modern history will occur less than 13 months from now. Americans need to know which politicians are willing to embrace American exceptionalism—or American decline.</p>


Taking On<b> Sanctuary City Lawlessness</b>

The American left’s contemptuous disregard for laws it doesn’t like is metastasizing. Despite the public outrage that attended the&nbsp;murder&nbsp;of Kate

Taking On Sanctuary City Lawlessness

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	A bombshell&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/5/bill-clinton-white-house-suppressed-evidence-of-ir/">report</a>&nbsp;by the W<em>ashington Times</em> reveals that fecklessness in the face of terror isn’t a condition exclusive to the Obama administration. "Bill Clinton’s administration gathered enough evidence to send a top-secret communique accusing Iran of facilitating the deadly 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist bombing,” the&nbsp;<em>Times</em> states, "but suppressed that information from the American public and some elements of U.S. intelligence for fear it would lead to an outcry for reprisal, according to documents and interviews.”</p>

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	Nineteen American servicemen were killed in that attack and another 372 people were wounded when a tanker laden with plastic explosives was driven into the parking lot and detonated next to the eight-story dormitory used for U.S. Air Force personnel assigned to the Gulf. A U.S. indictment was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/21/world/21CND-TERR.html?pagewanted=all">issued</a>&nbsp;in 2001 charging 13 Saudis and a Lebanese man with the crime for which then-Attorney General John Ashcroft blamed Iran, stating they "inspired, supported and supervised members of Saudi Hezbollah.” Yet no Iranian officials were named or charged, nor was the Iranian government accused of any legal responsibility for the atrocity.</p>

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	According to memos obtain by the <em>Times</em>, the intelligence demonstrating Iranian involvement in the attack was characterized as extensive and credible. It included interviews by the FBI of a half-dozen Saudi co-conspirators who told the agency their passports were provided by the Iranian embassy in Damascus. They further revealed they reported to a top Iranian general, and received training from Iran’s&nbsp;Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), according to FBI officials.</p>

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	The <em>Times</em> further notes the revelation about what former President Clinton knew has taken on "new significance” due to the August&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/man-arrested-in-1996-khobar-towers-bombing-1440602634">announcement</a>&nbsp;that Ahmed al-Mughassil, described by the FBI in 2001 as both head of the military wing of Saudi Hezbollah and the alleged leader of the attack, had been captured. According to the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, al-Mughassil was arrested in Beirut and transferred to Riyadh. U.S. officials contend his capture has revealed new evidence of Iran’s and Hezbollah's complicity in the attack—as well as Clinton administration efforts to shield both from responsibility.</p>

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	Former FBI Director Louis Freeh minced no words describing what occurred. “The bottom line was they weren’t interested,” he stated during an interview. "They were not at all responsive to it. They were looking to change the relationships with the regime there, which is foreign policy. And the FBI has nothing to do with that. They didn’t like that. But I did what I thought was proper.”</p>

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	Freeh insists that when he initially sought help from the Clinton White House to gain access to the Saudi suspects, he was repeatedly turned down. When he went around the Clinton and succeeded in bringing the evidence to light, it was dismissed as “hearsay,” and a request was made not to disseminate it to others because the administration was endeavoring to improve relations with the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror. Freeh was also dismissed as a partisan when he revealed the same allegations in a book he wrote a decade ago about his time with the bureau. The same Clinton defenders further insisted the evidence obtained by Freeh was inconclusive.</p>

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	“But since that time, substantial new information has emerged in declassified memos, oral history interviews with retired government officials and other venues that corroborate Mr. Freeh’s account, including that the White House tried to cut off the flow of evidence about Iran’s involvement to certain elements of the intelligence community,” the <em>Times</em> reports.</p>

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	The chief piece of evidence cited by the paper is a damning memo sent in 1999 by Clinton to newly-elected Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. Clinton stated the American government "has received credible evidence that members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), along with members of Lebanese and Saudi Hizballah were directly involved in the planning and execution” of the bombing. Clinton insisted the United States viewed the evidence “in the gravest terms,” and though the atrocity had occurred before Khatami’s election those responsible “have yet to face justice for this crime.” Clinton further stated "the IRGC may be involved in planning for further terrorist attacks against American citizens,” and that such a possibility remains a "cause of deep concern to us.”&nbsp;</p>

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	The 2001 indictment was issued after Clinton left office, and whatever doubt remained about Iranian involvement in the crime was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/22/AR2006122200455.html">shattered</a>&nbsp;in 2006, when U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that Iran was responsible for the bombing, and ordered the Iranian government to pay $254 million to the families of 17 Americans who died.&nbsp;"The totality of the evidence at trial . . . firmly establishes that the Khobar Towers bombing was planned, funded, and sponsored by senior leadership in the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Lamberth wrote.</p>

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	Following the linkage of Iran to the attack, Clinton had initially ordered the military to come up with plan for a retaliatory strike, and gave the CIA the green light to pursue&nbsp;“Operation Sapphire” aimed at disrupting Iranian intel operations in several nations. Yet just like our current president, Clinton believed the election of the ostensibly more moderate&nbsp;Khatami would produce a thaw in the U.S./Iranian relationship leading to Iran aiding the investigation, and renouncing terror.</p>

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	Iran pushed back with a vehement denial—and a threat to publish Clinton’s cable to Khatami. Clinton officials were scared such a revelation would force the president’s hand.&nbsp;“If the Iranians make good on their threats to release the text of our letter, we are going to face intense pressure to take action,” wrote top Clinton aide Kenneth Pollack in a Sept. 15, 1999 memo.</p>

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	As the evidence linking Iran to the crime piled up, the administration was backing down, speculating that Saudi Arabia was fanning a Shia-Sunni confrontation and that it would be better to work with the new Iranian regime rather than dealing with the possibility of engendering a wider war against terror, according to former aides. Thus, despite the State Department and FBI getting increased cooperation from the Saudis with regard to Iranian involvement, the flow of information suddenly stopped.&nbsp;“We were seeing a line of traffic that led us toward Iranian involvement, and suddenly that traffic was cut off,” said career intelligence officer Wayne White, who served as deputy director of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research’s Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia.</p>

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	When White tried to get the intel flowing again, he discovered “the stream had been cut off by Sandy Berger, and the original agency producing the intelligence was struggling to work around the roadblock,” he said. Berger was Clinton’s top security aide—and the man who was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/08/berger.sentenced/">fined</a>&nbsp;$50,000 following his 2008 conviction for&nbsp;illegally removing highly classified documents from the National Archives, some of which he intentionally destroyed.</p>

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	White’s account was confirmed to the <em>Times</em> by several U.S. officials “with direct knowledge of the matter” including Freeh, who also revealed he tried to get around Berger by contacting former President George H.W. Bush, who had a good relationship with the Saudis. "I explained to him what my dilemma was and asked if he would contact the Saudis. And he did,” Freeh revealed. White noted that intel analysts didn’t want Iran involved in the attack because of the serious long-term ramifications it would engender for America. But when the evidence became irrefutable, he was disgusted with the administration’s politically-motivated reaction. “You cannot provide your intelligence community selective intelligence without corrupting the process, and that was an outrage,” he declared.</p>

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	It is an outrage allegedly reprised by the Obama administration, which has been&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html">accused</a>&nbsp;by 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command of doctoring their reports in an effort to downplay the danger ISIS and the Syrian branch of al Qaeda presented. The same Obama administration got equally traitorous Democrats to sustain a filibuster against the Iran deal in Congress. The GOP abetted the outrage, allowing a vote to proceed despite the law requiring all parts of that agreement, including Iran’s “side deals” with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to be part of the process. Their cowardice was exemplified by Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, who refused to invoke the nuclear option and force a vote on what is arguably the most important national security issue of our time.&nbsp;</p>

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	Exactly like Bill Clinton, who also promised us the Agreed Framework of 1994 would prevent a nuclear North Korea, Obama is embracing appeasement with Iranian Islamo-fascists responsible for far more American deaths than the Khobar Towers attack. Beginning with the 1979 hostage crisis, during which Americans were beaten and placed in solitary confinement, Iran has precipitated numerous instances of aggression, including kidnapping and murder, against America. The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/terrorism">terror timeline</a>&nbsp;is highlighted by 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut, killing 17 Americans and the Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines. Moreover their involvement in both Afghanistan and Iraq cost at least 500 American soldiers their lives, according to Congressional testimony&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/07/15/incoming-chairman-of-joint-chiefs-iran-killed-500-u-s-soldiers-in-iraq-afghanistan/">presented</a>&nbsp;last July by current Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford. And one is left to wonder if Iran’s propensity for killing Americans was part of the equation to which our contemptible Secretary of State John Kerry referred, when he a<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/09/02/kerry-probably-fair-to-say-some-of-cash-iran-will-get-may-find-its-way-to-nefarious-activity/">dmitted</a>&nbsp;the part of the Iranian deal that frees up billions of dollars for their use will be devoted to “nefarious activities.”</p>

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	Like the Clinton administration before them, the Obama administration is indulging the fantasy they can improve relations with terrorist thugs whose contempt for America hasn’t diminished an iota in 37 years. And as these revelations from the <em>Washington Times</em> indicate, Bill Clinton and his apparatchiks were every bit as dishonest as Barack Obama and his equally duplicitous underlings when it came to pursuing an agenda utterly inimical to American interests and security. Make no mistake: both men have demonstrated a willingness to countenance the murder of their fellow countrymen in pursuit of appeasement. Times have changed. The unconscionable nature of the Democratic/progressive mindset with regard to America’s enemies remains a constant.</p>


<b>Iranian Terrorist Attack </b>Against U.S. Revealed

A bombshell&nbsp;report&nbsp;by the Washington Times reveals that fecklessness in the face of terror isn’t a condition exclusive to the Obama administration. "

Iranian Terrorist Attack Against U.S. Revealed

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	For Navy Secretary Ray Mabus it would appear that progressive ideology trumps inconvenient reality. In an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/09/11/439381272/navy-secretary-ray-mabus-takes-issue-with-marine-combat-study">interview</a>&nbsp;with National Public Radio (NPR) Mabus criticized a nine month study revealing that women sustain injuries at a higher rate than their male counterparts&nbsp;and shoot with less accuracy under combat-simulated conditions. "(The study) started out with a fairly large component of the men thinking this is not a good idea and women will never be able to do this,” Mabus told NPR’s David Greene. “When you start out with that mindset you're almost presupposing the outcome.”</p>

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	Apparently Mabus is immune to the irony that attends his own presuppositions. The study itself, known as the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force (GCEITF) and&nbsp;<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/10/marine-corps-study-shows-that-men-are-better-in-ground-combat-than-women/">conducted</a>&nbsp;with 200 male and 75 female volunteers, couldn’t have been clearer. As the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/280017557/Marine-Corps-gender-integration-research-executive-summary">executive summary</a>&nbsp;reveals, all male squads, teams and crews "demonstrated higher performance levels on 69% of tasks evaluated (93 of 134) as compared to gender-integrated squads, teams and crews.” By contrast, gender-integrated units outperformed their all-male counterparts in two events.</p>

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	In the Speed category, and regardless of Military Occupational Specialties (MOS), all-male squads were faster than gender-integrated ones in each tactical movement. Furthermore, those differences "were more pronounced in infantry crew-served weapons specialties that carried the assault load plus the additional weight of crew-served weapons and ammunition,” the summary stated.</p>

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	The Lethality category showed similar&nbsp;discrepancies. Other than the&nbsp;probability of hit and miss with the M4, all-male squads&nbsp;demonstrated greater&nbsp;accuracy than gender-integrated ones with a&nbsp;“notable difference” recorded between genders for "every individual&nbsp;weapons system.” All male squads had higher hit percentages, engaged targets in shorter time periods and registered more hits on those targets than their gender-integrated counterparts, with the only exception being M2 accuracy.</p>

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	In addition, all male squads demonstrated superiority in the performance of the basic combat tasks that required negotiating obstacles and evacuating casualties. "For example, when negotiating the wall obstacle, male Marines threw their packs to the top of the wall, whereas female Marines required regular assistance in getting their packs to the top,” the summary revealed. "During casualty evacuation assessments, there were notable differences in execution times between all-male and gender-integrated groups, except in the case where teams conducted a casualty evacuation as a one-Marine fireman's carry of another (in which case it was most often a male Marine who ‘evacuated'&nbsp;the casualty).”</p>

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	In the Health and Welfare of&nbsp;Marines category, "well documented comparative disadvantage in upper and lower-body strength resulted in higher fatigue levels of most women, which contributed to greater incidents of overuse injuries such as stress fractures,” with men outperforming, or demonstrating greater degrees of strength and endurance, than women in all categories, including body composition, anaerobic power and capacity, and aerobic capacity.&nbsp;</p>

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	The injury differences were especially stark. According to research at the Infantry Training Battalion, females undergoing that entry level training sustained injuries at six times the rate of their male counterparts. In the categories of task movements while carrying loads, males were injured at a rate of 13 percent while females sustained injuries at a rate of 27 percent. Female musculoskeletal injury rates were more than double those of males, coming in at a staggering&nbsp;40.5 percent, compared to just 18.8 percent for males.</p>

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	Mabus was unmoved, insisting that “empirical standards" are determined by "what you put in” the tests and that the&nbsp;Center for Naval Analyses have discovered ways to "mitigate this so you can have the same combat effectiveness, the same lethality, which is crucial.” He further insisted the idea that women are injured more often than men was not shown in the study, but based rather on "an extrapolation based on injury rates,” and that the Marines could have chosen women for the study&nbsp;<a href="http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2015/09/11/secnav-criticizes-marines-infantry-study-interview/72059308/">better suited</a>&nbsp;for the task of shouldering heavier loads. "For the women that volunteered, probably there should have been a higher bar to cross to get into the experiment," he said, apparently ignoring what the word “volunteers" actually means.</p>

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	Sgt. Danielle Beck, a female anti-armor gunner with the task force was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/09/14/navy-secretary-threw-us-under-the-bus-say-marines-in-gender-integrated-infantry-unit/">contemptuous</a>&nbsp;of Mabus’s contentions. "Our secretary of the Navy completely rolled the Marine Corps and the entire staff that was involved in putting this [experiment] in place under the bus,” she said. That sentiment was echoed by Sgt. Joe Frommling, one of the Marines acting as a monitor for Beck during the tests. “What Mabus said went completely against what the command was saying the whole time,” Frommling explained. “They said, ‘Hey, no matter what your opinion is, go out there and give it your best and let the chips fall where they may.’”</p>

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	Another Marine officer took Mabus to task for the Secretary's suggestion the test was rigged. “If you were to look at our training plan and how we progressed from October to February, you’re not going to find any evidence of institutional bias or some way we built this for females to fail,” he stated.&nbsp;“We consulted physical trainers&nbsp;from [the school of infantry] to help develop an&nbsp;appropriate hike plan, and we fired roughly a year’s worth of ammo for a regiment in a quarter. In the time that we had, there wasn’t a day wasted when it came to training for California . . . From the top down, we were trying to level the playing field.”</p>

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	Congressman Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), a member of the&nbsp;House Armed Services Committee,&nbsp;took it one step&nbsp;further,&nbsp;<a href="http://scoopdeck.navytimes.com/2015/09/17/congressman-calls-for-navy-secretary-to-resign-as-marines-women-in-combat-feud-escalates/">calling</a>&nbsp;on Mabus to resign. In a scathing&nbsp;<a href="http://1yagfs484emu4czx4mgnhyha.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/09/Rep-Hunter-to-Secretary-Carter-Gender-Integration.pdf">letter&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;sent to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Sept. 17, Hunter, who served as a&nbsp;Marine in both Iraq and Afghanistan, criticized Mabus’s assertion that he would not support any requests for gender-related exemptions <em>before</em> he was even briefed on the 900-page report’s findings.&nbsp;“This alone underscores the fact that the Navy Secretary is&nbsp;biased in his judgment and should be withdrawn from any&nbsp;decision-making with&nbsp;respect to the Marine Corps’ gender&nbsp;integration plan,” Duncan wrote. In calling for Mabus’s resignation, Hunter cited the Secretary’s&nbsp;disrespect&nbsp;for the Marine Corps as an institution and for insulting its competency&nbsp;“by disregarding their professional judgment,&nbsp;their combat experience and&nbsp;their quality of leadership.”</p>

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	Four days later, Mabus&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/navy-secretary-women-should-be-among-the-few-and-the-proud/2015/09/25/0648ca22-6249-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html">penned</a>&nbsp;an editorial for the <em>Washington Post</em> reiterating his commitment to&nbsp;diversity, and once again implying the tested were rigged. "The Marines deconstructed each job in a unit to specifically detail its requirements so that individual members could function better as a team," he wrote. "During the study, however, the Marine Corps did not rely on the data for, or evaluate the performance of, individual female Marines; instead, it used only averages. Averages have no relevance to the abilities and performance of individual Marines.”&nbsp;</p>

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	In its Oct. 1 release, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cmrlink.org/">Center for Military Readiness</a>&nbsp;(CMR) refuted that assessment.&nbsp;“Secretary Mabus betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of statistical analysis,” CMR stated. “Data points are derived from the performances of multiple research participants – not just the highest-scoring or lowest-scoring. It matters, therefore that all-male squads, teams, and units outperformed gender-integrated teams in&nbsp;<strong>93 of 134 tasks”</strong>&nbsp;(bold in the original).</p>

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	Mabus sounded even sillier when he noted the&nbsp;language rescinded by former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey to integrate combat units had its roots in a 1992 recommendation by the&nbsp;Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces that excluded women from combat. Mabus insisted the Marine Corps “relied on that language” when conducting its tests.</p>

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	Yesterday was the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/01/us-usa-military-women-idUSKCN0RV3AM20151001">deadline</a>&nbsp;for armed service recommendations for gender integration into combat units by top U.S. military leaders. The Marine Corps has requested a partial exemption from the 2013 directive issued by Panetta and Dempsey. According to <em>Reuters</em>, the Army, Navy, and Air Force have "hinted that they will not seek exemptions.” Current Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford recommended maintaining the Marine Corps exemption. Secretary Carter, who stated he would “carefully review" reports from all four service branches and the Special Operations Command, remained noncommittal. "Everyone who is able and willing to serve and can meet the standards we require should have the full opportunity to do so," he told reporters. "I am going to be very facts-based and analysis-based. I want to see the grounds upon which any actions that we take at the first of the year are going to be made.”&nbsp;</p>

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	Few things are more emblematic of the fecklessness of Obama administration than its obsession with progressive pieties while Vladimir Putin and the Iranians are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3255876/Russia-pouring-gasoline-fire-Syria-s-civil-war-says-America-Putin-defies-West-drops-bombs-non-ISIS-forces-fighting-Assad.html">turning</a>&nbsp;the Middle East into their personal playground. While Obama and company pursue the Holy Grail of diversity, our enemies pursue a realignment of the world in ways utterly inimical to our national security. If it continues, these doyens of gender equality irrespective of reality may get their wish: <em>every</em> soldier in uniform may be called upon to defend this nation from an unprecedented level of aggression. Aggression enabled by what is arguably one of the worst assemblages of clueless government officials and their military enablers in the history of our nation.</p>

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Navy Secretary Dismisses<b> Risks to Women in Comb</b><b>at</b>

For Navy Secretary Ray Mabus it would appear that progressive ideology trumps inconvenient reality. In an&nbsp;interview&nbsp;with National Public Radio (NPR)

Navy Secretary Dismisses Risks to Women in Combat

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	The story of Ahmed Mohamed, the Dallas schoolboy made famous by the reaction to his arrest for bringing a homemade clock that resembled a suitcase&nbsp;bomb&nbsp;to school, has taken another curious turn. According to the&nbsp;<em>Dallas Morning News</em>, Ahmed and his family have&nbsp;<a href="http://irvingblog.dallasnews.com/2015/09/ahmeds-celebrity-tour-goes-global-as-family-heads-to-qatar.html/" target="_blank">accepted</a>&nbsp;an invitation extended by the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.qf.org.qa/about/about" target="_blank">Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development</a>&nbsp;to visit Qatar. Their sister institution, the Qatar Foundation International (QFI) was founded by Sheikh bin Al Thani, who also created Al Jazeera. QFI has&nbsp;<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/03/tucson-schools-to-take-465000-from-arab-charity-with-muslim-brotherhood-ties/" target="_blank">links</a>&nbsp;to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).</div>

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	The trip is another leg on what is best described as a celebrity-like tour. On Monday, Ahmed's newfound status took him to New York’s City Hall, where he&nbsp;<a href="http://nypost.com/2015/09/29/new-york-city-bigwigs-cant-get-enough-of-terror-clock-kid/" target="_blank">received</a>&nbsp;a proclamation from Public Advocate Letitia James. James referred to Ahmed as a role model and allowed him to sit in her council chamber chair. Ahmed was also given a tour of City Hall by Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, and was presented with framed commendation by city&nbsp;Comptroller Scott Stringer.&nbsp;“All students should engage w/ science and technology – Ahmed Mohamed is a role model for all NYers,” Stringer tweeted after the meeting.&nbsp;</div>

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	Such enthusiasm for Ahmed’s scientific acumen is belied by some inconvenient realities. In a YouTube&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEmSwJTqpgY" target="_blank">video</a>&nbsp;entitled "Ahmed Mohamed Clock is a FRAUD,”</div>

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	electrical expert Thomas Talbot makes the case that Ahmed’s timepiece is actually a commercial clock removed from its casing. “This child, uh, nothing against him personally, never built a clock," Talbot insists, further adding he believes the device was “intentionally" built to look suspicious. A blog known as Art Voice,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.disclose.tv/news/hoax_exposed_muslim_student_ahmed_mohameds_briefcase_clock_is_1980s_digital_alarm_clock/122440" target="_blank">identifies</a>&nbsp;the device as one sold in a 1986 Radio Shack catalogue, and cites two investigators who conclude that Ahmed "disassembled a manufactured clock and installed it in a large pencil box without its casing,” possibly to "provoke suspicion or to resemble a bomb.”&nbsp;</div>

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	Adding further fuel to such speculation is the reality that Ahmed’s older sister, Eyman Mohamed, revealed she was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/17/man-i-went-viral-my-day-with-ahmed-moahmed-the-most-famous-boy-on-earth.html" target="_blank">suspended</a>&nbsp;from middle school in the same district in 2009. “I got suspended from school for three days from this stupid same district, from this girl saying I wanted to blow up the school, something I had nothing to do with,” she insisted. “I got suspended and I didn’t do anything about it and so when I heard about Ahmed, I was so mad because it happened to me and I didn’t get to stand up, so I’m making sure he’s standing up because it’s not right. So I’m not jealous, I’m kinda like—it’s like he’s standing for me.”</div>

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	District spokeswoman Lesley Weaver explained the&nbsp;<a href="http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/students.html" target="_blank">Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act</a>&nbsp;prevented her from providing any details about Eyman’s suspension unless her parents signed that document. They have refused to do so, and thus the school is unable to release information.</div>

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	Ahmed’s father,&nbsp;Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/09/texas-muslim-clockmakers-father-says-son-was-tortured-by-school-officials" target="_blank">insisted</a>&nbsp;his son was "hurt and was tortured and arrested and mistreated in front of his friends inside of the school,” and who subsequently&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3244248/Texas-boy-Ahmed-Mohamed-withdraws-high-school-just-days-arrested-homemade-clock.html" target="_blank">withdrew</a>&nbsp;all of his children from their Irving Independent School District schools earlier this month, has led a politically active life. The former customs worker at Khartoum International Airport, who earned a philosophy degree from Cairo University in Khartoum&nbsp;before emigrating to the U.S., ran for president of Sudan twice. In 2012 he made headlines for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/why-mohamed-elhassan-the-dallas-imam-who-played-defense-attorney-in-quran-torching-church-says-he-admires-terry-jones-7130292" target="_blank">participating</a>&nbsp;as a “defense attorney" in Rev.&nbsp;Terry Jones’s mock trial of the Quran at his Gainesville church. Jones ultimately burned a copy of the book, precipitating riots in Afghanistan.</div>

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	Such political activism may partially explain how effectively this family has managed Ahmed’s newfound celebrity status, to the point where a Dallas public relations firm wants to sign him. “The last few weeks have been truly life-changing for my son Ahmed and for our family,” his father explained -- in a prepared statement announcing the trip to Qatar. Mohamed also has plans to take his family to Mecca. And when he gets back, his son intends to take President Barack Obama up on his White House invitation.</div>

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	All of this has been driven by an American left that continues to insist Ahmed was singled out, not because his clock looked like a suitcase bomb (a side by side comparison can be seen&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youngcons.com/this-meme-shows-what-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-digital-clock-that-caused-a-muslim-student-to-get-arrested/" target="_blank">here</a>), but because the nation in general, and Texas in particular, is a seething cauldron of Islamophobia. Again, such accusations ignore inconvenient realities, beginning with the assertion by Irving, TX police spokesman James McLellan that Ahmed was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/dallas-county/2015/09/15/irving-isd-student-detained-for-device-resembling-bomb/72339246/" target="_blank">uncooperative</a>.&nbsp;"We attempted to question the juvenile about what it was and he would simply only say it was a clock. He didn't offer any explanation as to what it was for, why he created this device, why he brought it to school,”&nbsp;McLellan stated.</div>

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	Furthermore, this was not Ahmed’s first experience with trouble in school. At Sam Houston Middle School Ahmed "racked up weeks of suspensions,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150926-before-ahmeds-fame-fantastic-inventions-and-a-fight-with-authority.ece" target="_blank">according</a>&nbsp;to the Texas newspaper, which further noted that while "his discipline record is confidential and his father didn’t want to discuss it, the file was thick by some accounts."</div>

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	More to the point as the Daily Caller&nbsp;<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/28/on-ahmeds-clock-president-obama-once-again-spoke-too-soon/" target="_blank">explains</a>,&nbsp;Eagle Scouts, honor students and others, including kids as young as five, have had their lives upended, not by bigotry, but by “zero tolerance” policies. Policies that reached the height of stupidity when a second-grader was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/05/boy-7-suspended-for-shaping-pastry-into-gun-dad-says/" target="_blank">suspended</a>&nbsp;from school for biting a Pop Tart into the&nbsp;<em>shape</em>&nbsp;of a gun. Most of these students were white non-Muslim males. "But&nbsp;Obama never worried about the fate of those students,” the Caller reminds us.</div>

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	And if one is still inclined to excoriate the&nbsp;MacArthur High School officials for erring on the side of caution, perhaps they should take the Obama administration to task as well:&nbsp; “If you see something, say something” is a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something" target="_blank">trademarked slogan</a>&nbsp;of the Department of Homeland Security, and DHS also urges Americans to report&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something/what-suspicious-activity" target="_blank">suspicious activity</a>&nbsp;that includes the observation of “unusual items.”&nbsp;</div>

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	Suspicious activity is a term that might be aptly applied to the Muslim Brotherhood-linked QFI.&nbsp;In 2012 QFI launched the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cilecenter.org/en/" target="_blank">Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics</a>. The Center’s director is&nbsp;Professor Tariq Ramadan, who is the grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder,&nbsp;Hassan al Banna. Ramadan was banned from coming to the United States until 2010 when the Obama administration granted him a visa to lecture at a school in New York. QFI has also instituted Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi Scholarships, named after the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=822" target="_blank">notorious Egyptian cleric</a>&nbsp;who twice turned down offers to be the MB’s highest-ranking official. Al Qaradawi has been documented endorsing the "abduction and killing of Americans in Iraq,” and the desire to end his life as a martyr by&nbsp;shooting "Allah's enemies, the Jews.”&nbsp;</div>

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	"Qaradawi has personally attended scores of foundation events, including conferences at which he served as a keynote speaker,” World Net Daily reveals.</div>

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	QFI recently bestowed a $75,000 grant on&nbsp;the Arabic Immersion Magnet School in the Houston Independent School District to fund “Arabic language activities and Arab cultural events for students, teacher professional development, educational resources, promotion of the Arabic language, community outreach, and curriculum development to promote the educational mission of the Arabic Immersion Magnet School.” Ahmed has been offered a QFI tour of “Education City,” in Doha, Qatar’s capital city. The&nbsp;<em>Dallas Morning </em><em>News&nbsp;</em>describes it as a "5-square-mile cluster of universities and think tanks.”</div>

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	Upon Ahmed’s return, the family will retrieve the clock still sitting in the Irving police station and take it to the White House. “His main goal is to take it to the president,” said Ahmed’s uncle, Aldean Mohamed.&nbsp;</div>

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	President Obama’s main goal will be to use the Texas teenager as his latest prop to indict the nation for crimes of racism and intolerance, much as he did with Cambridge Professor&nbsp;<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8148986" target="_blank">Henry Louis Gates</a>, Florida’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2012/03/obama-if-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon-118439" target="_blank">Trayvon Martin</a>&nbsp;and Ferguson’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/28/obama-says-michael-browns-death-in-ferguson-stains/?page=all" target="_blank">Michael Brown</a>. Once again the president will embrace the selective indignity that is his trademark.&nbsp;</div>

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Ahmed Mohamed's Qatari Vacation with the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b>

The story of Ahmed Mohamed, the Dallas schoolboy made famous by the reaction to his arrest for bringing a homemade clock that resembled a suitcase&nbsp;bomb

Ahmed Mohamed's Qatari Vacation with the Muslim Brotherhood

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	On Tuesday, national sovereignty gave way to mandatory multiculturalism in the European Union. A plan to relocate an additional 120,000 Middle Eastern migrants was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/76c2dd9e-6111-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3mUXrNzqP">imposed</a>&nbsp;by EU ministers over the objections&nbsp;four Eastern European countries&nbsp;adamantly opposed to the plan. Slovakia’s Robert Fico illuminated the&nbsp;resistance.&nbsp;“As long as I am prime minister, mandatory quotas will not be implemented on Slovak territory,” he&nbsp;declared in Bratislava.</p>

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	Slovakia was joined by&nbsp;the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary. Finland abstained from the vote. Yet despite the quartet’s disapproval, the Justice and Home Affairs Committee, led by France and Germany, pushed through the plan&nbsp;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11852782/Jean-Claude-Juncker-State-of-the-Union-EU-address-refugee-crisis-live.html">proposed</a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;European Commission President&nbsp;Jean-Claude Juncker during&nbsp;his annual State of the Union address in Strasbourg earlier this month.&nbsp;The plan called for 160,000 migrants to be&nbsp;forcibly&nbsp;redistributed from&nbsp;Italy, Greece and Hungary to all other member states, save Britain, Ireland and Denmark, who&nbsp;remain exempt from EU treaties. In addition, Junker called for a&nbsp;review of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecre.org/topics/areas-of-work/protection-in-europe/10-dublin-regulation.html">“Dublin system”</a>&nbsp;that determines which EU nation is&nbsp;responsible for asylum claims.</p>

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	In order to make the plan more politically palatable, 66,000 migrants are currently slated for relocation, joining 40,000 migrants approved for asylum&nbsp;in July. The remaining 54,000 had&nbsp;originally been allocated to Hungary where they are currently camped out. But Budapest refused to abide a plan it&nbsp;characterized as an invitation to economic migrants. Thus, those migrants will be reallocated in 2016, possibly among&nbsp;Greece, Italy, Croatia and Austria,&nbsp;bringing the overall total of relocated migrants to 160,000. The plan is ostensibly limited to Syrian, Iraqi and Eritrean&nbsp;asylum-seekers, but the details have yet to be worked out.&nbsp;All of those migrants are people who have purportedly crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Turkey and northern Africa, fleeing the unrelenting violence in&nbsp;Iraq and Syria. &nbsp;</p>

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	Luxembourg minister and meeting chairman Jean Asselborn stated that ministers&nbsp;“would have preferred to have an agreement by consensus,” but&nbsp;nonetheless expected&nbsp;objectors to fall into line as required by the law. Germany has been the focus of&nbsp;resentment on the issue, no doubt due to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Sept. 7&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/europes-border-crisis/billions-migrants-germany-spend-6-6b-800-000-newcomers-n422811">announcement</a>&nbsp;that her nation would&nbsp;take 800,000 refugees this year at a cost of $6.6 billion ,and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/09/08/germany-europe-refugees-migrants-500000/71868970/">500,000</a>&nbsp;per year over the next few years. Less than a week later, German interior minister&nbsp;Thomas de Maizière&nbsp;<a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/9/13/9319741/germany-borders-merkel">announced</a>&nbsp;Germany would be imposing border controls in the southern part of the nation for what Merkel called “urgent&nbsp;security reasons.” Austria and Slovakia&nbsp;followed Germany’s lead&nbsp;<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/hungary-seals-border-to-migrants-as-germany-slams-disgraceful-eu/">shortly thereafter</a>&nbsp;as&nbsp;wishful thinking gave way to the&nbsp;inconvenient reality of as&nbsp;many as half a million migrants flooding into the EU.</p>

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	The plan&nbsp;itself, whereby the tens of&nbsp;thousands of migrants landing in Italy and Greece will be involuntarily moved by their respective national police forces to other EU nations is the epitome of wishful thinking. Those police forces are already overwhelmed, and the plan to relocate migrants&nbsp;bore little resemblance to the reality expressed&nbsp;by&nbsp;United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC), which insists 120,000 people represents&nbsp;just six days’&nbsp;worth of arrivals at the current influx rate.&nbsp;"A relocation programme alone, at this stage in the crisis, will not be&nbsp;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11878539/Our-moral-duty-to-the-migrants-is-to-make-Syria-safe-to-live-in-again.html">enough to stabilise the situation</a>,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11882355/Refugee-crisis-EU-migrant-refugee-quota-UN-ministers-meet.html">insists</a>&nbsp;UNHRC&nbsp;spokeswoman&nbsp;Melissa Fleming.</p>

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	Fleming is correct. After Hungary closed it border,&nbsp;refugees&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/22/refugees-stuck-no-mans-land-croatia-serbia-border">headed</a>&nbsp;west towards Croatia, and that nation allowed tens of thousands to cross into Europe. Now Croatia has&nbsp;blocked off part of its border with Serbia, because they can’t process migrants fast enough. It noted that 35,000 migrants crossed its border in the&nbsp;week&nbsp;following the Hungarian shutdown.&nbsp;In the Austrian town of Nickelsdorf, 8000 new arrivals filled the town square, as local officials insisted no accommodations were&nbsp;available because existing camps were full. And of the more than 4 million migrants that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11728266/More-than-four-million-Syrian-refugees-in-neighbouring-countries-UN-says.html">remain</a>&nbsp;in countries near Syria, at least&nbsp;270,000 Syrians have requested asylum in Europe.</p>

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	Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34311254">expressed</a>&nbsp;the sense of frustration felt by many in the EU. "They are overrunning us,” he told his nation’s Parliament. "They’re not just banging on the door, they’re breaking the door down on top of us. Our borders are in danger, our way of life built on respect for the law, Hungary and the whole of Europe is in danger.&nbsp;Europe hasn’t just left its door open but has sent open invitation... Europe is rich but weak, this is the worst combination, Europe needs to be stronger to defend its borders.”&nbsp;Hungary has passed a law allowing the&nbsp;army to use rubber bullets, tear gas and net guns to maintain control over migrants on its border.</p>

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	Unsurprisingly Orban was criticized by European&nbsp;colleagues, such as&nbsp;Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek, who, prior to Tuesday's meeting, declared Eastern European foreign ministers were "absolutely dedicated" to finding a solution with their EU partners. Since the Czech Republic was one of four nations&nbsp;utterly opposed to the agreement, such optimism was short-lived.&nbsp;“Soon we will find out that the emperor has no clothes,” he tweeted after the plan was announced. "Reason lost today.”</p>

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	One suspects reason was never in play. As <em>The Telegraph’s</em> Janet Daley&nbsp;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/11846760/Without-borders-in-Europe-there-is-no-hope-of-ending-this-migrant-crisis.html">warned</a>&nbsp;earlier this&nbsp;month, European elitists have used the now famous image of a dead child washed up on a Turkish beach&nbsp;“to support the notion of Western guilt,” even as Bashar Assad’s murderous&nbsp;regime gets a pass.&nbsp;"For some reason, the appalling photographs of the bodies of children who had been&nbsp;deliberately gassed by the Assad regime, laid out on a concrete floor in Syria two years ago, were not sufficiently moving to compel the world to take action,” she writes. "Are dead children only a moral outrage when they are on the beaches of Europe?”</p>

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	<em>Elitist</em> outrage is more like it, as Daley notes Germany’s&nbsp;magnanimity,&nbsp;which they and other economically&nbsp;advanced EU nations can afford, stands in&nbsp;stark contrast to the economically&nbsp;struggling eastern bloc nations that must&nbsp;initially accommodate that high-mindedness. "Imagine if you were a poor householder, just managing to keep your financial head above water while you attempted to turn your circumstances around, and a very wealthy neighbour decided to throw open his doors to the needy – and one obvious way that those in need could reach that welcoming haven was by tramping through your house," Daley explains. "Might you find yourself inclined to be unhelpful in the hopes of discouraging others from taking the same path?”</p>

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	Millions of&nbsp;ordinary Americans are undoubtedly pondering the same question. In&nbsp;addition to the hordes of illegals embraced by our own ruling class, the Obama administration&nbsp;<a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/09/20/kerry-us-to-accept-85-000-refugees-in-2016-100-000-in-2017">intends</a>&nbsp;to "significantly increase” the number of&nbsp;“worldwide&nbsp;migrants" this nation takes in over the next two years, reaching a total of 100,000 by 2017. Apparently the reality that the&nbsp;legal and illegal immigrant population in the United States has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424400/us-immigrant-population-record-high">reached</a>&nbsp;a record-breaking 42.6 million, or about one-out-of-eight residents in the U.S.—more than&nbsp;double what it was in 1980—remains insufficient with regard to the&nbsp;“fundamental transformation of the United States”&nbsp;the American left&nbsp;desires. And while the similar&nbsp;elitist-driven multicultural force-feeding&nbsp;devolving the Europe ethos is much more immediate, make no mistake: both are&nbsp;equally inexorable should current trends on both sides of the Atlantic continue.</p>

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	In Europe, the bill is coming due for a continent that largely relied on America to do the heavily&nbsp;lifting in&nbsp;response to Islamic terrorism, even as it&nbsp;remained largely contemptuous of the&nbsp;“vulgarities” associated with a military response to the problem. America is facing the twin deficits of a ruling class determined to shove illegal immigration down the throats of a&nbsp;recalcitrant public, and a feckless Obama administration whose foreign policy of phony red lines in Syria, leading from behind in Libya,&nbsp;untimely troop withdrawal in Iraq, and the apparent determination&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html">manipulate</a>&nbsp;intelligence regarding ISIS in the administration’s favor, has precipitated the largest refugee crisis since WWII.</p>

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	It is a refugee crisis tailor made for ISIS and other Islamic terror groups to exploit with impunity. On both continents, Third Worldism, in all its&nbsp;attendant dysfunction, is "breaking the door down on top of us,” even as our unconscionable leaders bemoan those who resist the cultural Armageddon&nbsp;it represents. Leaders whose ongoing love affair with&nbsp;multiculturalism is nothing more than an apology for the Western&nbsp;culture they disdain, even as millions of those Third Worlders are&nbsp;irresistibly drawn to its&nbsp;cornucopia of bounty and&nbsp;beneficence. Bounty and&nbsp;beneficence&nbsp;they will ultimately undermine with the blessings of the&nbsp;apologists who, despite this massive flow of humanity in only one&nbsp;direction, believe&nbsp;no culture is better than any other. It doesn’t get more&nbsp;ironic—or suicidal—than that.&nbsp;</p>


<b>Mandatory </b>Muslim Immigration in the EU

On Tuesday, national sovereignty gave way to mandatory multiculturalism in the European Union. A plan to relocate an additional 120,000 Middle Eastern migrants

Mandatory Muslim Immigration in the EU

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	Last night’s CNN-sponsored GOP presidential debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA was promoted with the title&nbsp;"It’s On: Watch Sparks Fly.” Debate moderator Jake Tapper was joined by&nbsp;CNN’s Dana Bash and radio host Hugh Hewitt, who posed&nbsp;additional questions to the 11 candidates, including&nbsp;Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz,&nbsp;Marco Rubio,&nbsp;Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul,&nbsp;Scott Walker,&nbsp;John Kasich and Chris Christie. And while CNN shamelessly attempted to engender a political food fight, the candidates themselves mostly refused to play along.</p>

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	Tapper opened the debate by giving each candidate 30 seconds to introduce themselves, and most of them spoke of the need to restore America and take on the status quo of out of control government.</p>

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	After a desperate attempt to goad several candidates into attacking Trump on stage, the first substantial topic raised was Russia moving troops into Syria. Tapper asked Trump what he would do to get Russia out. Trump was evasive, saying he would get along with Putin and he would allow Syria and ISIS fight it out, and then “we could pick up the pieces.” Meanwhile,&nbsp;Rubio noted that Obama is allowing Putin to reestablish Russia as a geopolitical force. Fiorina said she wouldn't talk to Putin at all, but engage in military maneuvers demonstrating American strength, which she then detailed.</p>

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	By far, one of the top foreign policy concerns of Americans at the moment is the disastrous nuclear deal brokered between the Obama administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran, which most Americans oppose. The Iran deal will no doubt be a major issue between any future Republican presidential&nbsp;candidate&nbsp;and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, who recently issued&nbsp;a full-throated&nbsp;defense of the accord. Republican candidates were not shy about making their&nbsp;positions on the deal known.&nbsp;Cruz was asked to respond to Kasich’s assertion that Cruz was “playing to the crowd” regarding his vigorous opposition to the deal. “I will rip up the Iran deal the first day in office,” Cruz stated, elaborating on the idea that no president has the right to give up national sovereignty. ​Kasich offered the already discredited idea that&nbsp;the sanctions could be "snapped back" if Iran cheats. Cruz highlighted the folly of that idea and further noted Obama is violating federal law by not turning over all parts of the Iran deal to Congress.</p>

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	Turning to&nbsp;an issue that has stolen&nbsp;the national spotlight as of late -- and causing tension among conservatives in Congress --&nbsp;Tapper brought up the growing movement&nbsp;to&nbsp;defund&nbsp;Planned Parenthood. The candidates on stage mirrored the growing split among congressional&nbsp;conservatives, some of&nbsp;whom are considering risking a government shutdown to accomplish the defunding, while others&nbsp;view this as a bad strategy.&nbsp;Defunding Planned Parenthood was advocated by Kasich, but he didn’t think the GOP should shut the government down to do so. Cruz encouraged every American to watch the recently released Planned Parenthood&nbsp;videos and chastised Republicans for “preemptively surrendering” on the issue. Christie was the first candidate to bring Clinton into the fray, saying she supported Planned Parenthood&nbsp;butchery. He further outlined a number of agendas the GOP should force Obama to veto, such as tax reform and defunding ObamaCare. Fiorina deftly explained that the Planned Parenthood&nbsp;videos are about defining the “character of the nation.” All the candidates generally agreed with defunding Planned Parenthood&nbsp;and funding women’s health at the local level.</p>

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	Tapper moved it back to personal attacks, asking Fiorina about Trump’s disparagement of her face. Fiorina responded gracefully, saying that every woman&nbsp;heard what Trump said,&nbsp;to loud applause.</p>

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	After the break, immigration took center stage, by far one of the top issues of concern to grassroots conservatives (particularly illegal immigration). The topic has created tensions between conservatives who favor a tough approach to immigration and those who&nbsp;have favored a more lenient approach, including some support for amnesty for illegal aliens.&nbsp;Trump reiterated his stance about building a wall. Christie wanted to use technology to keep track of everyone coming into the country. Carson promoted double-tier fences that were effective in Arizona.&nbsp;</p>

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	Immigration was another area where the CNN moderators tried desperately to engineer a dispute between the candidates.&nbsp;Dana Bash pushed another fight between Trump and Bush. Bush remains pro-amnesty and derided the notion of deporting people, while Trump, who criticized Bush for speaking Spanish at a campaign event,&nbsp;insisted we must have assimilation and that speaking English is an essential part of it. Rubio brought up his family story and insisted Spanish was part of the equation to get his message out. Carson wants to seal the border, seal off the “goodies” and allow a guest worker program. “I am the only candidate on this stage who never supported amnesty,” Cruz said.&nbsp;</p>

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	On economy and jobs Tapper once again fostered a confrontation between Fiorina and Trump. Fiorina defended her tenure at Hewlitt Packard, while&nbsp;Trump attacked it. Fiorina fired back that Trump used “other people’s money” to fund casinos that went bankrupt, likening it to the accumulation of our national debt. Trump defended his record saying he had “great timing” getting out of Atlantic City when he did. Responding to the exchange, Christie said Americans couldn’t care less about either candidates’ careers and that we should talk about how ordinary Americans are losing ground.</p>

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	Foreign affairs began with yet another attempt to create a rift between Rubio and Trump. It centered on Rubio’s concern about Trump’s failure to know the names of foreign leaders during a radio interview with Hewitt. Trump promised to get up to speed, while Rubio took on Obama and his foreign policy failures. Bush insisted America “needed to restore its leadership in the world” and he promised to employ a team of experts that would promote “peace through strength.”&nbsp;</p>

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	One particularly notable exchange on the issue of foreign policy occurred between Trump and Bush.&nbsp;Trump insisted he fought against going into Iraq because it would destabilize the Middle East and also&nbsp;said George Bush’s incompetence gave us Barack Obama. The harsh comment was met with silence from the audience.&nbsp;Bush fired back saying his brother “kept us safe,” which the audience applauded.&nbsp;The repartee, and the audience's reaction to it, suggested that candidates who are inclined to support isolationist policies, such as Paul, who bragged that he had made a political career out of opposing the Iraq war, ought to tread lightly;&nbsp;Republican primary voters do not widely agree with Trump or Paul's interpretation of Iraq and oppose&nbsp;soft approach to combating&nbsp;terrorism.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.6;">Christie, picking up on the vibe of the audience (and no doubt viewers at home),&nbsp;effectively spoke about his personal tribulation when America was attacked on 9/11 and added that he also supported George W. Bush for making America safe.</span><span style="line-height: 1.6;">&nbsp;</span></p>

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	In the final segment, candidates were asked how the world would be different after they left office. Paul wanted to leave the world in peace, and would only go to war when necessary. Huckabee provided essentially the same answer, along with abolishing the IRS. Rubio would like to leave the world freer, including his parents' native homeland of Cuba. Cruz would leave the nation far stronger and more economically secure, and “defend every single word” of the Constitution. Carson would leave the nation far more unified, fiscally sound and in a strong leadership position. Trump would make America “greater than it has ever been before.” Bush envisions a country of “high growth” that will lift millions out of poverty. Walker believes in reinvigorating American optimism. Fiorina referred to Lady Liberty and Lady Justice and a nation that promotes both ideals.&nbsp;Kasich will make America “a nation that solves problems” and revive the "concept of citizenship," while&nbsp;Christie emphasized&nbsp;“enforcing the law and leveling the playing field.”</p>

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	The debate concluded on that note. And while no clear winner emerged, no one did irreparable damage to his or her campaign. What did emerge was the reality that Democrats have a lot to worry about: each candidate demonstrated reasonable levels of insight regarding the various issues facing the nation, as well as a candidness and honesty unmatched by Democratic counterparts&nbsp;Hillary&nbsp;Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders or, presumably,&nbsp;Vice President Joe Biden.&nbsp;</p>

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	Going into last night, the 11 candidates had the following percentage of the vote, according to four separate polls&nbsp;<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html">averaged out</a>&nbsp;by Real Clear Politics:&nbsp;Trump (30.5%), Carson (20%), Bush (7.8%), Cruz (6.8%), Rubio (5.3%), Huckabee (4.5%), Fiorina (3.3%), Paul (3.3%), Walker (3%), Kasich (2.5%) and Christie (1.5%).&nbsp;It will be up to the public to move these totals one way or the other. If one were to pick a candidate who might move up more than others, perhaps Fiorina, because she carried herself well and was the only newcomer to the first-tier debate. If one were to pick a candidate who might lose support, perhaps it’s Trump, as the race has entered a new level of competitiveness and voters&nbsp;are searching for more specific policy proposals. However, with the candidates as competent as they are, the winnowing process is sure to be a lengthy one.&nbsp;</p>

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The Competition <b>Heats Up</b>

Last night’s CNN-sponsored GOP presidential debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA was promoted with the title&nbsp;"It’s On: Watch

The Competition Heats Up

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	In yet another descent into Orwellianism, on&nbsp;Thursday, the Regents of the University of California’s Committee on Education Policy will attempt to formulate an agenda for students and faculty that amounts to nothing more than a censorship free pass by establishing a right not to be offended<span style="line-height: 1.6;">.</span></p>

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	The&nbsp;<a href="http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept15/e4.pdf">“Statement of Principles Against Intolerance”</a>&nbsp;is a compendium of progressive contradictions that begins by stating the University of California (UC) "is committed to protecting its bedrock values of respect, inclusion, and academic freedom,” as well as free expression and the open exchange of ideas that are "principles enshrined in our national and state Constitutions” and “part of the university’s fiber.”&nbsp;</p>

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	Not exactly. "Intolerance has no place at the University of California,” the statement continues. "We define intolerance as unwelcome conduct motivated by discrimination against, or hatred toward, other individuals or groups. It may take the form of acts of violence or intimidation, threats, harassment, hate speech, derogatory language reflecting stereotypes or prejudice, or inflammatory or derogatory use of culturally recognized symbols of hate, prejudice, or discrimination.”&nbsp;</p>

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	As defined by whom?</p>

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	Regardless, these doyens of political correctness believe they can successfully sidestep First Amendment protections by insisting the policy is limited “to attacks on individuals or groups and does not apply to the free exchange of ideas in keeping with the principles of academic freedom and free speech” and that it “shall not be used as the basis to discipline students, faculty, or staff.”</p>

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	Nonetheless an addendum to the policy contains a "non-exhaustive list” of behavioral examples that run afoul of UC’s "values of inclusion and tolerance.” Items on the list include vandalism and graffiti "reflecting culturally recognized symbols of hate or prejudice...intended to intimidate, threaten, mock and/or harass individuals or groups,” questioning a student’s fitness for leadership or campus community membership based on "race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, sex, or sexual orientation,” articulating a position that some ethnic or racial groups are "less ambitious, less hardworking or talented, or more threatening than other groups,” and expressing any view of people with disabilities—both visible and invisible—that depicts them "as incapable.”</p>

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	UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/09/11/university-of-california-considering-recognizing-a-right-to-be-free-from-expressions-of-intolerance/">illuminates</a>&nbsp;some of the problems associated with such nonsense, explaining that a student could face disciplinary procedures for making statements that people with intellectual or physical disabilities are incapable of performing certain tasks, or stating that illegal aliens "ought not be appointed to be, say, the student member of the Board of Regents.” He further cites potential problems that could be&nbsp;raised by criticizing religion, defending same-sex marriage, or discussing certain differences in the physical and mental makeup of men and women.</p>

<p>
	Volokh explains he’ll continue expressing his views despite this sort of policy -- because he is a tenured faculty member. "But what about undergraduates?” he asks. "Graduate students, who might be relying on the university for teaching assistant positions, progress in their departments, and more? Lecturers who don’t have tenure? Tenure-track faculty members who don’t yet have tenure?” He further wonders if students will feel comfortable discussing these verboten topics, or if they will simply "realize that they had best follow the orthodoxy?”</p>

<p>
	Unfortunately Volokh omits the most obvious question of all: how many faculty members and student will <em>champion</em> this policy?</p>

<p>
	And not just at UC. In an&nbsp;<a href="http://columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2015/04/30/our-identities-matter-core-classrooms">op-ed</a>&nbsp;written for the student newspaper, four Columbia University undergraduates have called on the Ivy League school to implement trigger warnings—for Greek mythology. "Students need to feel safe in the classroom, and that requires a learning environment that recognizes the multiplicity of their identities,” the undergrads&nbsp;declare. They suggest three solutions that include sending a letter to faculty members "about potential trigger warnings and suggestions for how to support triggered students,” implementing a "mechanism for students to communicate their concerns to professors anonymously,&nbsp;as well as a mediation mechanism for students who have identity-based disagreements with professors,”&nbsp;and creating a&nbsp;faculty training program "which will enable them to constructively facilitate conversations that embrace all identities, share best practices, and think critically about how the Core Curriculum is framed for their students.”</p>

<p>
	Laughably, they also insist they have no intention of infringing on the faculty’s&nbsp;academic freedom, but rather they are providing them with the tools necessary "to engage with potential conflicts and confrontations in the classroom, whether they are between students or in response to the material itself.”</p>

<p>
	UC remains on the leading edge of such&nbsp;hypersensitivity. Last year on the Santa Barbara campus, students belonging to the&nbsp;Associated Students Senate&nbsp;<a href="http://dailynexus.com/2014-02-27/a-s-senate-passes-proposal-to-label-trauma-provoking-academic-content/">passed</a>&nbsp;a resolution urging university officials to mandate trigger warnings on&nbsp;class syllabi that could induce Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).&nbsp;They further insisted that professors be required to warn students about offending material before it is presented and to refrain from taking points away from students who opt out of classes that might upset them. In a 2014 column for the <em>New York Times</em>, then-second year UCLA student Bailey Loverin made the ludicrous&nbsp;argument that trigger warnings <em>encourage</em> free thought and debate because without them, trauma survivors "might black out, become hysterical or feel forced to leave the room,"&nbsp;which "effectively stops their learning process.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Apparently the learning process of <em>every other</em> student forced to learn in an&nbsp;atmosphere more closely resembling a mental health facility than a college campus is irrelevant.</p>

<p>
	The 2014-2015 school year was also the time when a faculty seminar discussing “diversity in the classroom” was held at nine of the 10 UC campuses. It included a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/seminars/Tool_Recognizing_Microaggressions.pdf">worksheet</a>&nbsp;titled “Tool: Recognizing Microagressions and the Messages They Send.” The lowlight of that worksheet was the “Myth of Meritocracy” section that warned faculty members that statements such as&nbsp;“I believe the most qualified person should get the job,”&nbsp;“everyone can succeed if they work hard enough,” and "America is the land of opportunity,” were in conflict with a campus agenda dedicated to the proposition that victimization, racism, homophobia and misogyny are endemic parts of the American experience.</p>

<p>
	Yet it would seem some expressions of intolerance are “more equal” than others. Jewish students at UC have asked the university to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-higher-learning-uc-israel-20150909-story.html">formally adopt</a>&nbsp;a U.S. State Department&nbsp;<a href="http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/fs/2010/122352.htm">definition</a>&nbsp;of anti-Semitism that includes denying Israel’s right to exist and comparing Israelis to Nazis as part of their latest policy. The students cite campus demonstrations that cross the line from legitimate protests to anti-Semitism, creating a hostile environment for Jewish students. Opponents of the measure insist that definition of anti-Semitism is too specific and would limit freedom of speech at UC campuses.&nbsp;UC President Janet Napolitano and UC Regents Chairwoman Monica Lozano declined to be interview by the <em>Los Angeles Times </em>about the issue prior to Thursday’s meeting. In May Napolitano indicated she was comfortable with the State Department definition, but it would be up to the regents to decide whether it would be implemented at UC.</p>

<p>
	Twenty years ago, the notion that Greek mythology or any other subject taught on campus would require a trigger warning to prevent blackouts, hysteria—or PTSD—would have been completely dismissed as the psychobabble it truly is.&nbsp;Yet there is little doubt what the long-term objective is of promoting this thinking on campus. A greater number of hypersensitive students marinated in a campus culture of victimhood equals more human cannon fodder for the would be totalitarians, who provide ever more layers of emotional insulation from the vicissitudes of life. In other words an ever-expanding Nanny State requires ever-expanding infantilization.&nbsp;</p>


University of California <b>Totalitarians</b> Strike Again

In yet another descent into Orwellianism, on&nbsp;Thursday, the Regents of the University of California’s Committee on Education Policy will attempt to

University of California Totalitarians Strike Again

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	The Obama administration is reportedly considering exacerbating a crisis largely of its own making. Following the immigration onslaught in Europe that has generated graphic images, including a 3-year-old Syrian boy&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/image-of-syrian-boy-washed-up-on-beach-hits-hard-1441282847">washing up</a>&nbsp;dead on a Turkish beach, thousands of migrants&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/migrants-budapest-train-station_55e5c0d9e4b0b7a9633a3aec">trapped</a>&nbsp;in a Budapest train station, and 71 dead&nbsp;<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/austria-raises-refugee-truck-death-toll-70-150828062928406.html">discovered</a>&nbsp;in a truck abandoned on an Austrian roadway, Obama administration officials are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/07/obama-weighs-options-syrian-refugee-crisis/71857898/">considering</a>&nbsp;the possibility of allowing more Syrian immigrants into the United States. "The administration is actively considering a range of approaches to be more responsive to the global refugee crisis, including with regard to refugee resettlement," said Peter Boogaard, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council. "We are also in regular contact with countries in the Middle East and Europe who have been greatly impacted by the increased refugee flows."</p>

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	A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKYky8mJaBs">video campaign</a>&nbsp;entitled&nbsp;“Bring Them Here” has been&nbsp;launched by the St. Louis branch of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an un-<a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/11/027781.php">indicted co-conspirator</a>&nbsp;in the Holy Land Foundation case that garnered several convictions for providing support to the terrorist group Hamas. CAIR spokesman Faizan Syed likens the effort to St. Louis’s acceptance of refugees from Bosnia back in the 90s and insists that Syrian refugees would provide the same economic uplift to the city their Bosnian counterparts did.</p>

<p>
	Back in the real world House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) is urging the kind of caution that ought to be applied to any group of people coming from one of the world’s foremost terror hotspots. “We’re a compassionate nation and this is a tragic situation, but I also have to be concerned as Chairman of Homeland Security about the safety of Americans in this country. And the concern that I have and that the FBI testified to is that we don’t really have the proper databases on these individuals to vet them passed and to assure we’re not allowing terrorists to come into this country," he&nbsp;<a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/09/08/homeland-security-chair-urges-caution-on-bringing-syrian-refugees-to-us-n2049277">explained</a>. “And until I have that assurance, I cannot support a program that could potentially bring jihadists into the United States.”</p>

<p>
	Unsurprisingly, Democrats take the opposite view. In May, 14 senators, led by Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN),&nbsp;<a href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senators-urge-president-to-allow-more-syrian-refugees-to-resettle-in-us">urged</a>&nbsp;the president to “significantly increase" the number of Syrians from the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/06/16/414898818/of-4-million-syrian-refugees-the-u-s-has-taken-fewer-than-1-000">less</a>&nbsp;than 1,000 the U.S. has accepted so far&nbsp;to a staggering level of 65,000 asylees. In a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senators-urge-president-to-allow-more-syrian-refugees-to-resettle-in-us">letter</a>&nbsp;sent to Obama the senators wrote the United States "traditionally accepts at least 50 percent of resettlement cases from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).&nbsp;However, we have accepted only approximately 700 refugees since the beginning of the Syrian conflict, an unacceptably low number.” Yet they also admit the United States "is the largest donor of humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees."</p>

<p>
	The American public would be wise to view the word “refugee” with precisely the level of suspicion it so richly merits. President Obama has already engendered an influx of hundreds of thousands of “refugees” from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, along with their subsequent dispersal though out the entire nation in order to facilitate his pro-amnesty agenda. It is not the least bit inconceivable he and his fellow travelers in the Democratic Party would countenance a calculated risk to national security in their continuing effort to "fundamentally transform the United States of America.” It is also worth remembering that Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, along with the rest of their family, were granted asylum in the U.S. under a program similar to the one the Obama administration would like to apply to the Syrians.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Moreover the argument advanced by refugee advocates, who insist the extensive process involved in vetting Syrian immigrants would sufficiently address national security concerns, rings exceedingly hollow. That’s because the vetting process is no match for the combination of bureaucratic ineptitude and political correctness that makes an utter mockery of it. Six months after&nbsp;Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi flew planes into the World Trade Center, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE)&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/12/inv.flight.school.visas/">approved</a>&nbsp;their&nbsp;student visas.&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/24/globe-russia-warned-fbi-repeatedly-about-tsarnaev-before-bombing/">issued</a>&nbsp;several warnings to U.S. officials regarding Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s associations with known terrorist groups, but the FBI found no credible evidence to that effect and the alert issued against Tsarnaev had already expired by the time he returned home from a <em>six month</em> visit to the terrorist haven of Dagestan. Former&nbsp;Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano&nbsp;actually&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/homeland-security-janet-napolitano-claims-system-worked-terrorist-attack-foiled-article-1.432291">insisted</a>&nbsp;the “system worked” following the series of mistakes that allowed would be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board&nbsp;Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear.</p>

<p>
	Does anyone seriously think ISIS, which has demonstrated a level of military and propaganda-disseminating sophistication far exceeding any other terrorist organization in the world, isn't&nbsp;primed to exploit this crisis? A self-proclaimed Syrian operative working for ISIS&nbsp;<a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/555434/Islamic-State-ISIS-Smuggler-THOUSANDS-Extremists-into-Europe-Refugees">has told</a>&nbsp;Buzzfeed the effort to smuggle ISIS fighters hidden among “refugees" into Western nations is a “complete success,” with more than 4000 jihadist gunmen “ready” in the EU alone. “They are going like refugees," he said. "It’s our dream that there should be a caliphate not only in Syria but in all the world and we will have it soon, God willing,” he added.</p>

<p>
	That operative spoke to Buzzfeed in January. The humanitarian crisis has increased dramatically since then, even as Obama’s “war” against ISIS remains as flaccid as it has ever been. In the meantime, the administration has already&nbsp;<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-welcome-5-000-8-000-syrian-refugees-013545437.html">committed</a>&nbsp;to accepting between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian immigrants in 2016, with State Department spokesman John Kirby declaring the U.S. a “leader” in accepting refugees and making financial contributions to resettlement efforts. Yet he further insisted this effort was "not the metric of success here.” "And so, what we're really committed to is helping to foster the kind of political transition inside Syria, so that it is a safe environment for Syrian people to return, including the millions that are seeking refuge in Turkey right now," he explained.</p>

<p>
	That the Obama administration is fostering anything resembling a political transition in Syria is utter nonsense. Nothing highlights that nonsense better than two inconvenient realities. First, with regard to taking on ISIS, the Obama administration has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/07/unreliable-syrian-recruits-for-an-unworkable-obama-army-to-fight-isis.html">trained</a>&nbsp;a total of 60 Syrian opposition fighters to fight the terror organization in Syria more than a year after the administration began developing its “train and equip” strategy in May of 2014.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Second, anything resembling a regime change removing Bashar Assad from power has just hit a major snag. As the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-voices-concern-over-russias-buildup-in-syria-1441731196">reveals</a>, "Russian forces have moved new personnel, planes and equipment into Syria in recent days, raising new concerns that Moscow is moving to establish a new military base to aid embattled President Bashar al-Assad, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.” Secretary of State John Kerry contacted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to express his concern, but one might be inclined to think it will be taken as seriously as the president’s completely toothless red line “ultimatum.”</p>

<p>
	Hence a Syrian crisis precipitated largely by Obama’s arrogant impotence, brilliantly <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/21/americas-self-inflicted-wound-in-syria/">described</a>&nbsp;by former State Department adviser for transition in Syria Frederic C. Hof as a “pantomime of outrage,” will now be “fixed” on the other end of the equation. And the very same Muslim immigrants that have precipitated riots in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/08/greek-islands-turned-into-a-war-zone-by-migrants-supposedly-fleeing-war/">Greece</a>, as well as&nbsp;<a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/06/raging-horror-confirmed-at-austria-italy-border-mid-east-muslims-refugees-go-on-rampage/">violence</a>&nbsp;in Italy and Austria, will be invited here, as the same Obama administration that abandoned those Syrians, as well as Libyans and Iraqis to the butchers of Bahsar Assad and ISIS, demands the American public abide its latest “humanitarian” solution. And since time is critical, expect some sort of streamlining in the vetting process, similar to administration’s decision to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Texas/2014/08/07/Feds-Bend-CDC-Rules-for-Sick-Illegal-Immigrants/">bypass</a>&nbsp;CDC guidelines and allow normally inadmissible, unvaccinated illegals to enter the nation during last year’s “surge” at our Southwest border.</p>

<p>
	"We've arrested over 60 ISIS followers in the last year, more than one per week [and there are] 200,000 ISIS tweets per day,”&nbsp;McCaul reminds us. The FBI is&nbsp;<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-midst-broad-campaign-disrupt-isis-sources/story?id=31826983">conducting</a>&nbsp;hundreds of terror-related investigations in all 50 states, many of which&nbsp;involve suspected ISIS recruits. Syrian American Council president Shiyam Galyon insists any resistance to Syrian resettlement "is part of an Islamophobic anti-immigration stance adopted by right-wing politicians in several Western countries.” Yet five of the wealthiest Muslim countries&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/05/gulf-states-refuse-to-take-a-single-syrian-refugee-say-doing-so-exposes-them-to-risk-of-terrorism/">refuse</a>&nbsp;to take any Syrian refugees at all, citing threats to their safety because terrorists could be hiding among them. No doubt they are far better acquainted with jihad than Americans are. It may not remain that way much longer.</p>


Obama Mulls <b>Resettling Thousands</b> of Syrian 'Refugees'

The Obama administration is reportedly considering exacerbating a crisis largely of its own making. Following the immigration onslaught in Europe that has

Obama Mulls Resettling Thousands of Syrian 'Refugees'

<p>
	For an army of ethically compromised defenders in politics and the media, Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is being framed as little more than a political attack aimed solely at derailing her presidential candidacy. Yet while each new revelation makes it harder to dismiss&nbsp;Hillary and Bill's&nbsp;seemingly endless effort to monetize the Clinton Foundation by virtually any means possible, most of it is beside the point. What’s not beside the point is the reality that Hillary Clinton is a walking, talking national security disaster.</p>

<p>
	The Daily Beast’s John R. Schindler, who&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/02/will-hillary-clinton-s-emails-burn-the-white-house.html">wonders</a>&nbsp;if other officials in the Obama administration, including the president, will be burned by this scandal, notes that many counterintelligence officials now <em>assume</em> Clinton’s emails have been read by foreign intelligence officials in Russia and China because her server was “wholly unencrypted for months.” A Department of Defense counterintelligence official was so certain of that reality he insisted that anyone working for the Chinese or Russians would be fired if they couldn’t explain why "they didn’t have all of Hillary’s email.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	As if on cue, RadarOnline.com&nbsp;<a href="http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/hillary-clinton-hacked-emails-sale/">revealed</a>&nbsp;a person claiming to be a computer specialist allegedly has 32,000 emails from Clinton’s private server, and is putting them up for sale for $500,000. "Promising to give the trove of the former Secretary of State’s emails to the highest bidder, the specialist is showing subject lines as proof of what appear to be legitimate messages,” the website states.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	At least four of those emails contain subject lines with the word “Sid,” presumably referring to Clinton hatchet man Sidney Blumenthal, whose own AOL account was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/07/hillary-s-secret-email-was-a-cyberspy-s-dream-weapon.html">breached</a>&nbsp;in 2013 by the Romanian hacker known as Guccifer. That hack also revealed Clinton’s @clintonemail.com email address. The website’s source warns that if the 32,000 emails enter the public domain,&nbsp;"not only is Hillary finished as a potential Presidential nominee, she could put our country’s national security at risk.”</p>

<p>
	She already has, and the&nbsp;National Review's Stanley Kurtz reveals the unassailable logic behind that assertion. Even if Clinton was extraordinarily lucky, and the Russians and Chinese haven’t accessed some or all of her emails, it is nonetheless incumbent on the nation’s entire security community <em>to behave as if they did.</em> "Doesn’t that mean that we are now making massive changes to the sources and methods of our intelligence?” Kurtz asks. "Are we now withdrawing valuable agents? Are we trying to replace methods that cannot be easily replicated? Are we now forced to rebuild a good deal of our intelligence capabilities from the ground up? Are we not suffering tremendous intelligence damage right now, regardless of what foreign intelligence services did or did not manage to snatch from Hillary’s server—simply because we are forced to assume that they got it all?”</p>

<p>
	Considering the stakes—as well as the reality there have been massive&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/06/13/cyber-war-pearl-harbor-obama-administrations-excuses-and-lies-about-opm-hack-melt-away/">hacks</a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;Office of Personnel Management,&nbsp;<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/239893-russians-hacked-dods-unclassified-networks">networks</a>&nbsp;of the Department of Defense (DOD), the&nbsp;<a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/report-irs-admits-its-been-hacked-tax-info-stolen-for-100000-plus/">IRS</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/politics/state-department-hack-worst-ever/index.html">State Department</a>&nbsp;(called the “worst ever”), and the&nbsp;<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/07/politics/how-russians-hacked-the-wh/index.html">White House</a>, compromising the personal data of million of Americans—the answer is an unequivocal yes.</p>

<p>
	Yet arrogant as ever, Hillary completely&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-03/fbi-scours-clinton-server-for-evidence-of-spying">dismisses</a>&nbsp;the possibility her emails were hacked, insisting in March her private system "was set up for President Clinton's office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	FBI investigators refuse to confirm that assessment, and they will continue to probe for digital traces of cyber-espionage by foreign governments. That probe includes determining how the data on the private server were protected, a forensic analysis of the physical server to ascertain whether traces of code appear that suggest hacking programs, and an effort to reconstruct the logs of any machines that accessed Clinton's server during her tenure as Secretary of State.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	All this was necessitated by the reality that the server turned over to the FBI by Denver-based computer services firm Platte River Networks, who had been&nbsp;<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/13/fbi-reportedly-takes-possession-blank-clinton-email-server/">hired</a>&nbsp;by the Clintons in 2013 after Hillary had left the State Department, had been wiped clean.</p>

<p>
	Clinton continues to insist she has done nothing wrong. Yet the&nbsp;<a href="http://nypost.com/2015/08/16/hillary-clintons-5-e-mail-lies/">trail of lies</a>&nbsp;that attends this scandal says otherwise. At her press conference in March, Clinton claimed she carried “one device&nbsp;for my work.” Two weeks later a freedom of information request by the AP revealed Clinton’s use of multiple electronic devices, including an iPad and a BlackBerry. At the same presser she insisted she was "well aware of classification requirements and did not send classified material.” We now know Clinton <em>wrote and sent</em> at least six e-mails&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-wrote-classified-e-mails-sent-using-private-server/2015/09/01/5d456616-50bd-11e5-8c19-0b6825aa4a3a_story.html">containing</a>&nbsp;classified information using her private server. And the inspector general of 17 spy agencies told Congress a random sample of 40 emails already released contained information labeled “Top Secret.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Clinton also insisted there was no law or regulation preventing her from having “the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate.” Yet in 2009, shortly after Clinton became Secretary of State, the U.S. Code of federal regulations on handling electronic records was updated. It stated that “Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record-keeping system.” Responsibility for adhering to that law was the responsibility of “the head of each federal agency.” Furthermore, a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2015/03/05/state-department-cable-june-28-2011/">cable</a>&nbsp;bearing Clinton’s signature warned department employees to “avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.”</p>

<p>
	Apparently Clinton’s inner circle, which&nbsp;includes former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan, and personal aide Huma Abedin, never got the memo. Every one of them&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/heres-what-clintons-classified-emails-discussed/article/2570763">sent or received</a>&nbsp;classified emails from Clinton. And Abedin also had a private account on the server that is now in FBI custody.</p>

<p>
	And staying true to Clinton form, Hillary’s defense of her actions is “evolving.” When the scandal first saw the light of day, Clinton&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/2/monica-crowley-the-clinton-scheme-to-counterattack/?page=1">insisted</a>&nbsp;there was “no classified material" in her possession. Now she claims “I did not send nor did I receive material marked classified.” The <em>Washington Times’</em> Monica Crowley notes the change is due to the reality some of the documents involved have been “manipulated." “Their classified markings have been removed or changed, which would explain why she has changed her public statements about what was in her possession — and when,” she writes. Crowley also notes that even if a document isn’t specifically marked as classified, certain information, such as exchanges with a foreign government, are automatically assumed to be secret.</p>

<p>
	Since Clinton has already stated she was aware of classification requirements, her supporters face an unenviable dilemma: while they wait for the FBI to determine whether Clinton broke any laws, they must still come to grips with the gargantuan level of incompetence and contempt for national security Hillary has already demonstrated.</p>

<p>
	And what little credibility she has left will be taking another hit next week. That’s when Bryan Pagliano, a former presidential campaign aide who set up Clinton’s home server is 2009, has been subpoenaed to testify before Congress. Yet he made it known to the House Select Committee on Benghazi, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Homeland Security Committee that he will&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/staffer-who-worked-on-clintons-private-e-mail-server-faces-subpoena/2015/09/02/8b1e6438-51c2-11e5-8c19-0b6825aa4a3a_story.html">invoke</a>&nbsp;his Fifth Amendment rights to avoid testifying against the former Secretary of State. “In response to questions . . . Mr. Pagliano’s legal counsel told the committee yesterday that he would plead the Fifth to any and all questions if he were compelled to testify,” a spokesperson for committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) said in a statement released Wednesday.</p>

<p>
	Unsurprisingly, the House Benghazi Committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), leaped to Clinton’s defense. He insisted the subpoena issued by Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was an effort to smear her. “Although multiple legal experts agree there is no evidence of criminal activity, it is certainly understandable that this witness’s attorneys advised him to assert his Fifth Amendment rights, especially given the onslaught of wild and unsubstantiated accusations by Republican presidential candidates, members of Congress and others based on false leaks about the investigation,” Cummings declared. “Their insatiable desire to derail Secretary Clinton’s presidential campaign at all costs has real consequences for any serious congressional effort.”</p>

<p>
	Regardless, the sludge continues to pile up. As Breitbart News&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/02/exclusive-hillary-paid-to-hide-identity-of-the-people-running-her-email-server/">reveals</a>&nbsp;Clinton paid to hide the identity of people who ran her private email server, allowing "another faceless company access to her classified email information, while doing little to nothing to secure that information from hackers.” They further note she shared a server with the Clinton Foundation, as well as Bill and Chelsea Clinton, raising the possibility that employees unaffiliated with the State Department had access to it. The server also had a webmail subdomain called webmail.clintonemail.com that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/03/exclusive-hillarys-email-server-had-a-webmail-portal-that-allowed-unrestricted-access-to-hackers/">enables</a>&nbsp;web traffic to bypass hardware and software firewalls, allowing unrestricted access by hackers. Moreover the encryption used was so weak, companies have been phasing it out for the last decade.</p>

<p>
	“Of course (Clinton and her staff) knew what they were doing, it’s as&nbsp;clear as day from the emails,” one senior official who is close to the investigation told the Daily Beast. “I’m a Democrat and this makes me sick. They were fully aware of what they were up to, and the Bureau knows it.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	What the FBI knows and what the FBI does may or may not coincide. And while Clinton supporters and their media enablers have long been able to stomach a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-clinton-scandal-manual-1429831783">trail of sleaze</a>,&nbsp;from lucrative cattle futures and missing Whitewater and&nbsp;Rose Law&nbsp;firm records, to&nbsp;foreign cash donations for Russian uranium mines and other&nbsp;dubious deals reeking of quid pro quo that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/2/clinton-foundations-sweden-fundraising-arm-cashed-/?page=all">emanate</a>&nbsp;from the swamp known as the Clinton Foundation, it remains to be seen if they’ll countenance a national security disaster precipitated by nothing more than Hillary’s Clinton’s penchant for&nbsp;self-protection. It is one thing to elect a&nbsp;president and&nbsp;subsequently discover his or her flaws. It is quite another to&nbsp;knowingly place a congenital liar in the White House. One who has undoubtedly&nbsp;placed&nbsp;this nation’s security at considerable risk. Rabid partisanship is one thing. Intellectual and moral&nbsp;bankruptcy is quite another.</p>

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Hillary Clinton: <b>National Security Disaster</b>

For an army of ethically compromised defenders in politics and the media, Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is being framed as little more than a political

Hillary Clinton: National Security Disaster

<p>
	On Monday, as many as 126 teachers, schoolgirls and kindergartners were&nbsp;<a href="http://afghanistantimes.af/126-school-girls-teachers-poisoned-in-herat/">poisoned</a>&nbsp;at the Habibul Mustafa School in Afghanistan’s western Herat province. Herat provincial hospital spokesman Muhammad Rafiq Sherzai revealed some of the victims were vomiting and some were unconscious when they were admitted, but that they were all in stable condition. “A health team has been sent to the area for investigations,” he added. Herat police spokesman Abdul Raouf Ahmadi said police have initiated an investigation, but no arrests have been made at this point. And while no group has claimed responsibility for the incident, the Taliban have a despicable track record of targeting school girls.</p>

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	A 2001 State Department&nbsp;<a href="http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/6185.htm">report</a>&nbsp;titled "The Taliban's War Against Women” reveals that the “assault on the status of women” began immediately after the group’s takeover of Kabul in 1996, following 20 years of civil war. The women's university was closed, nearly every woman was forced to quit her job, access to medical care was restricted, and a restrictive dress code was brutally enforced. As many as 50,000 women who had worked as teachers, doctors, nurses, and clerical workers, because they had lost male relatives and husbands during the long civil war, were reduced to begging on the streets (or worse) to support their families. The Taliban also precipitated a campaign of violence against women that included rape, abduction, and forced marriage.</p>

<p>
	Beginning in 1998, girls over the age of 8 were prohibited from attending school.</p>

<p>
	The liberation of Afghanistan in 2001 changed that loathsome equation, but the Taliban continued to attack defenseless schoolgirls whenever the opportunity presented itself, especially in the neighboring country of Pakistan where many of them fled following their rout by US&nbsp;troops. A 2014&nbsp;<a href="http://www.protectingeducation.org/sites/default/files/documents/eua_2014_full.pdf">report</a>&nbsp;by the Global Committee to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) reveals that Pakistan endured more than 838 school attacks from 2009 through 2012 that left&nbsp;hundreds of schools destroyed.&nbsp;"When the Pakistani Taliban did gain control of the Swat Valley, they first banned girls’ education and banned women from teaching, through an edict in December 2008, and later amended their edict to permit the education of girls, but only up to grade 4,” the report stated.</p>

<p>
	A June 2014&nbsp;<a href="http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/asia/south-asia/pakistan/257-education-reform-in-pakistan.aspx">report</a>&nbsp;by the International Crisis Group also illuminated the twisted rationale behind such efforts, explaining that the Taliban target educational institutions in general, and girls'&nbsp;schools in particular, because they view education as the "promotion of Western decadence and un-Islamic teachings." "Militant jihadi groups have destroyed buildings, closed girls' schools and terrorised parents into keeping daughters at home," the report added. "More than nine million children do not receive primary or secondary education, and literacy rates are stagnant."</p>

<p>
	This overt viciousness remained largely under the media radar until Taliban gunmen attempted to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biography.com/people/malala-yousafzai-21362253#after-the-attack">assassinate</a>&nbsp;education activist Malala Yousafzai, then 14, as she rode the bus to her Pakistani school in 2012. Yousafzai was hit in the head by a bullet that traveled down her neck. She was brought to a&nbsp;military hospital in Peshawar where a portion of her skull was removed to treat brain swelling before she was transferred to Birmingham, England. Following a painful recovery that included multiple surgeries, she continued to promote the right to an education, ultimately winning the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize following her second nomination for that honor.</p>

<p>
	Taliban savages made sure other children weren’t as lucky. On December 16, 2014, six Taliban terrorists&nbsp;<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/peshawar-school-attack-i-will-never-forget-the-black-bootsit-was-like-death-approaching-me-9929563.html">massacred</a>&nbsp;132 children and nine staff members and wounded another 122, shooting their way through the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan. The eight hour atrocity included burning a teacher to death in front of her students, and Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Taliban claimed credit for it. Pakistan security expert Ahmed Rashid cited two reasons for the attack, including revenge for the Pakistani Army taking the fight to terrorists in the Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan, close to the Afghan border—and the accolades received by Yousafzai, who was "heartbroken by this senseless and cold-blooded act of terror in Peshawar.”</p>

<p>
	The poisoning in Herat follows a number of similar incidents that occurred beginning in April 2012 when 150 girls were&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/afghan-schoolgirls-poison_n_1430937.html">poisoned</a>&nbsp;by contaminated water, leaving some in critical condition at a high school in Afghanistan's Takhar Province. A year later at a school in Taluqan, the capital of Takhar Province, 74 girls were hospitalized when they became ill after complaining about a gas smell. In May another 150 were hospitalized in Kabul after voicing similar complaints about the smell of gas and bad drinking water at the Sultan Razia school.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Two other incidents&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rt.com/news/afghanistan-girls-school-poisoned-139/">occurred</a>&nbsp;in June. In Maimana, the capital of Faryab province, 77 girls were hospitalized due to suspected gas poisoning, followed by a similar incident the on same day in the town of Behsud, where 20 girls attending a local secondary school fell ill for unknown reasons.</p>

<p>
	In an April 2013 column for the <em>New York Times</em>, Kabul-based writer Matthieu Aikins&nbsp;<a href="http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/the-poisoned-girls-of-afghanistan/?_r=0">insisted</a>&nbsp;no one had been poisoned, citing "never-released reports showing that the United Nations, the World Health Organization and NATO’s International Security Assistance Force had investigated the incidents for years and had never found, despite extensive laboratory tests,&nbsp;any evidence of toxins or poisoning.” Rather the girls were victims of "mass hysteria.”</p>

<p>
	Perhaps. On the other hand, writer&nbsp;Andrea Ayres-Deets rightly&nbsp;<a href="http://mic.com/articles/39113/afghan-girls-school-poisoning-150-injured-in-latest-attack">takes</a>&nbsp;Aikins to task, citing a UN&nbsp;<a href="https://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/countries/afghanistan/">report</a>&nbsp;issued June 5, 2015. That report not only reveals the 185 documented attacks on schools in 2011 Ayres-Deets uses to mockingly pose the question, “Were all of those fabricated by scared school children too?” &nbsp;but a 48 percent increase in&nbsp;"the killing and maiming of children in Afghanistan" to 2,502 in 2014. Moreover, there were 163 verified incidents of school attacks that same year, including ”28 incidents of placement of improvised explosive devices inside school premises.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	A total of 94 of those school attacks were attributed to the Taliban and other “armed groups.”</p>

<p>
	Unsurprisingly, very little of these ongoing attempts to mortgage the future of women in Afghanistan has received much attention from the American feminist movement or an Obama administration determined to abandon these girls to the Taliban and their equally savage Haqqani network allies, courtesy of the president’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-agrees-to-slow-us-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/2015/03/24/6acd4834-d247-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html">vow</a>&nbsp;to “end” the war before his term in office expires. “Afghanistan is still a dangerous place,” Obama said. “The way it’s going to become less dangerous is by Afghan security forces­ being capable of keeping law and order and security in the country, and that is not going to happen if foreign forces­ are continually relied upon.”</p>

<p>
	If that has a familiar ring, perhaps it’s because Obama said virtually the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/14/remarks-president-and-first-lady-end-war-iraq">same thing</a>&nbsp;about Iraq in 2011. “Iraq’s future will be in the hands of its people.&nbsp;America’s war in Iraq will be over” he stated.&nbsp; “Now, Iraq is not a perfect place.&nbsp;It has many challenges ahead. But we’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people.”</p>

<p>
	One suspects the thousands of Yazidi women who have been&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape.html">systematically</a>&nbsp;raped, tortured and sold into slavery by ISIS, who filled the vacuum left by Obama’s fecklessness, would heartily disagree. That would be the same President Obama who steadfastly refuses to acknowledge ISIS’s Muslim roots, even as ISIS leaders have enshrined their “theology of rape,”&nbsp;which&nbsp;has&nbsp;“become an established recruiting tool to lure men from deeply conservative Muslim societies, where casual sex is taboo and dating is forbidden," as the <em>New York Times</em> puts it.</p>

<p>
	Beginning in July, the Afghan government began&nbsp;<a href="https://www.minnpost.com/foreign-concept/2015/07/negotiating-taliban-might-be-only-way-afghanistan-war-ends">negotiating</a>&nbsp;with the Taliban, despite the reality that in 2015, 4,000 Afghan soldiers and police have been killed, nearly 8,000 have been wounded, and the Taliban is making territorial gains. It follows the complete failure of negotiations by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010, when the Taliban completely rejected her demands for disarmament, acceptance of the Afghan constitution, and cutting ties with Al Qaeda.</p>

<p>
	Comedian Jay Leno’s wife, Mavis, who chairs a committee of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.feminist.org/">Feminist Majority Foundation</a>&nbsp;(FMF), a group dedicated to women’s equality, emphasized the grim reality that faces an Afghan government forced to negotiate with the Taliban before a U.S. withdrawal reduces what little leverage it has to zero. “I don’t believe (the Taliban) would consider themselves contractually, morally or in any other fashion bound by any agreements they made with us, or any of our allies,” she stated. "That is not their history and I don’t believe for one minute they are going to change because it’s their belief system.”</p>

<p>
	That assertion is well-founded. That it utterly eludes the Obama administration and its feminist allies—either by accident or design—is shameful.</p>


<b>Poisoning</b> Afghan Schoolgirls

On Monday, as many as 126 teachers, schoolgirls and kindergartners were&nbsp;poisoned&nbsp;at the Habibul Mustafa School in Afghanistan’s western Herat

Poisoning Afghan Schoolgirls

<p>
	Last week, 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, 25, and Capt. Kristen Griest, 26, became the first women to&nbsp;earn their Ranger Tabs,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/21/433482186/first-female-soldiers-graduate-from-army-ranger-school">graduating</a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;the U.S. Army's Ranger School at Fort Benning, GA. Maj. Gen. Scott Miller, the guest speaker at the graduation ceremony, emphasized that both women were held to the same standards as their male counterparts, insisting "a 5-mile run is still a 5-mile run. Standards do not change. A 12-mile march is still a 12-mile march.” True enough. But as&nbsp;Center for Military Readiness (CMR) president Elaine Donnelly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cmrlink.org/content/women-in-combat/37700/co_ed_combat_tests_hazardous_to_women_s_health">reveals</a>,&nbsp;there is a jarring flaw in the military’s headlong rush to make men and women interchangeable cogs in combat arms units: previously-undisclosed military combat experiments demonstrate that women sustain injury rates at double the rate of men.</p>

<p>
	The grueling Ranger course, emphasizing physical strength and endurance, was launched on a one-time basis as part of the Army’s effort to determine which combat jobs can eventually&nbsp;be opened up to women. Women were part of the training at Fort Benning due to a January 2013&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/politics/women-combat/">directive</a>&nbsp;by senior Pentagon leaders to integrate women into front-line combat units, including the Army Rangers and Navy SEALs, by 2016.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Haver and Griest were two of 96 soldiers who ultimately passed the course, with 40 of the 364 soldiers who began the training going straight through the course in 62 days. The rest of the graduates were soldiers who repeated parts of the course from earlier cycles. Nineteen women were part of the equation, and although Haver and Greist are the only two graduates so far, another woman is repeating an earlier phase of the training in hope of joining them. Regardless of their success, none of the women will be allowed to join the elite 75th Ranger Regiment, which conducts raids and other Special Ops missions.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	All three women had failed the first phase of training two previous times, but were given a third chance as “Day 1 recycles,” a status given to Ranger candidates who excel in some area of Ranger School while struggling to pass a key component. The component they had trouble with is known as the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.military.com/special-operations/army-ranger-training.html">Crawl or Darby Phase</a>, a 20-day course designed to assess and develop both the physical and mental skill required to complete combat missions.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	The three women were part of a group of eight who made it through the initial Ranger Assessment Phase, commonly known as “RAP Week.” During the training candidates are graded by both their peers and Ranger instructors (RIs). Some of the women who failed the Darby Phase were disappointed, and anonymous sources told the <em>Washington Post</em> there's the sense "that no RI really wants to be the first one to pass a woman.” Brig. Gen. James E. Rainey, the commandant of the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, took umbrage with that claim. “The women did worse than men at patrolling,” he declared. “That’s a fact.”</p>

<p>
	What’s also a fact is an unmistakable odor of political pressure. Despite the reality this course was launched on a one-time basis, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno&nbsp;<a href="http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/05/28/women-ranger-school-assessments/28070325/">insisted</a>&nbsp;the Army will "probably run a couple more pilots,” he told reporters last May. "It's been a real success for us, and we'll see how it goes from there.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Odierno’s statement resonated with reserve Army colonel Ellen Haring, a fellow at Women in International Security, an organization that deals with&nbsp;the integration of women in the military. In June she expressed disbelief that none of the 19 women who initially qualified for Ranger School passed the course, questioning how men with no combat arms background could pass Ranger School but no women had. “They just have to keep the course open, because this will normalize over time,” Haring said.</p>

<p>
	Donnelly disagreed, saying if the Army called the course a one-time event, it should remain that way. “Where do we get to the point where we say ‘Maybe this really isn’t a good idea after all?'” she said. “When they start making accommodations like that when you said that there wouldn’t be, you start to question the whole process.”</p>

<p>
	The process should be questioned, and nothing makes that clearer than the Army’s combat research on “Exception to Policy” (ETP<strong>)</strong> experiments, revealing the aforementioned injury rates. CMR explains the findings demonstrate disparate rates of injury in Military Occupational Specialties (MOS), such as field and air defense artillery where women were injured at double the rate of their male counterparts. "In the Field Artillery Surveyor Meteorological Crewmember MOS, for example, injuries for women were approximately 112% higher than men’s.&nbsp;In the Bradley fighting vehicle system maintainer MOS, the rate was 133% higher,” a CMR&nbsp;report reveals.</p>

<p>
	The&nbsp;U.S. Army Institute of Public Health provided CMR with another document revealing that even in basic combat training, the approximate average injury rates for women were 114 percent higher than for men, and in training for military police and engineers they&nbsp;were 108 percent higher. Moreover, while such training requires informed consent, CMR explains a sample consent form provided to them shows that injury rates were not included on it.</p>

<p>
	There are cost&nbsp;factors as well. Retraining women reassigned from positions beyond their physical strength would cost the Army $30,697 per soldier.<strong>&nbsp;</strong>An additional $17,606 in basic training costs, not counting individual recruitment expenditures that are higher for women, would be necessitated following&nbsp;decisions to drop out of courses. CMR wonders how the Army reconciles such “avoidable costs” with the reality that the Obama administration is determined to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/military-spending-cuts/pentagon-set-slash-military-pre-world-war-ii-levels-n37086">reduce</a>&nbsp;America’s military to pre-WWII levels.</p>

<p>
	The British Ministry of Defence conducted a similar study,&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cmrlink.org/articles/print/37629?author=0&amp;image=0&amp;domain=0">report</a>&nbsp;it issued confirms many of Donnelly’s fears. While conceding that there will be elite women capable of passing entry tests for Ground Close Combat (GCC) units, "these women will be more susceptible to acute short term injury than men” and the roles requiring women to carry weight for prolonged periods of time “will be the most damaging.” Furthermore and far more important, the report reveals that&nbsp;“combat marksmanship degrades as a result of fatigue when the combat load increases in proportion to body weight and strength.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Nonetheless, CMR notes the British report is laced with suggestions regarding how to “mitigate” such injuries, relying on social theories and unrealistic expectations completely undermined by the hard data contained in the same report. CMR insists those efforts are “not credible,” and that the burden to prove otherwise rests on "advocates of unprecedented changes affecting military effectiveness.”</p>

<p>
	CMR also received documents indicating the Army has prepared a&nbsp;Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, Facilities, and Policy (DOTMLPF-P) analysis. The topics on the analysis, which were almost completely redacted, only address some of the major sticking points.</p>

<p>
	CMR insists a more comprehensive list would include higher costs associated with recruiting and training, new separate-gender facilities, the remedial training necessary to eliminate attitudinal barriers, and the extra personnel necessitated by pregnancy and other extended leaves. The analysis should also include what social service/legal specialists will be required to deal with sexual misconduct issues in the combat arms arena&nbsp;and the expanded medical needs associated with higher rates of female injuries and disability.</p>

<p>
	"By any measure, this is an expensive, unnecessary social experiment,” CMR concludes. "Non-disclosure of the full consequences and costs prevents Congress, the media, and the general public from evaluating and criticizing policy changes that will affect every man and woman in the military.” Those changes include the daunting reality that "sequestration budget cuts are taking essential resources away, while heavy burdens of social experimentation are being loaded on.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Those burdens may be acceptable to those who view the military as the last bastion of resistance to the social engineering schemes they wish to impose on virtually every aspect of American society. But it is a fool’s errand in the military arena, especially during a period of global unrest that has reached ominous proportions.&nbsp;Inclusion is not, nor will it ever be, the ultimate barometer by which national security will be measured.&nbsp;</p>


Combat Roles <b>Hazardous to Women's Health</b>

Last week, 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, 25, and Capt. Kristen Griest, 26, became the first women to&nbsp;earn their Ranger Tabs,&nbsp;graduating&nbsp;from&nbsp;the U.S

Combat Roles Hazardous to Women's Health

<p>
	A disturbing yet familiar scenario is playing out once again in St. Louis, where police&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/us/st-louis-police-shooting/index.html">made</a>&nbsp;nine arrests and dispersed demonstrators protesting the shooting of black American Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, on Wednesday. According to police, Bell-Bey aimed a weapon at two white officers who returned fire, killing him. Unsurprisingly, the protesters are disputing police accounts of the incident.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	The Fountain Park neighborhood where the shooting occurred is an area of abandoned, boarded up houses&nbsp;“plagued by violence,” noted St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson. In recent days, a business near the shooting site was hit with gunfire, and a 93-year-old Tuskagee Airman was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/us/missouri-tuskegee-airman-robbed-carjacked/">robbed</a>&nbsp;and carjacked last Sunday when he got lost trying to find his daughter’s home and stopped to call her. A man got in the airman’s car robbing him and fleeing in another vehicle. The airman tried to track him, but pulled over once again to ask two men for help. The duo carjacked him.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	In addition, there have been four homicides within a half-mile of Fountain Park neighborhood where this incident took place.</p>

<p>
	The two officers were&nbsp;<a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/08/19/st-louis-police-officers-shoot-kill-suspect/">executing</a>&nbsp;a search warrant around noon Wednesday at a home near the Walton and Page street intersection. As they approached, two armed men ran out the back door. The officers&nbsp;<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/more-racial-unrest-st-louis-police-kill-black-000328233.html">ordered</a>&nbsp;them to stop, but Ball-Bey allegedly pointed his weapon at the policemen. Both officers fired a total four shots, one by one officer and three by the other. Despite being hit, Ball-Bey continued running until he collapsed. He was pronounced dead at the scene and police recovered a gun that had been a reported stolen from Rolla, MO. The other suspect remains armed and at large, and police described him as a man in his mid- to late teens. "Officers in the rear alley ordered them to stop and to drop the gun," Dotson told reporters. "As they ran, Ball-Bey turned and pointed the gun at the officers. There were two officers in the alley. Both officers fired."&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Another man and a woman were removed from the house without incident and Dotson revealed the house had been served with previous search warrants, including one about 18 months ago that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gopusa.com/news/2015/08/20/st-louis-police-fatally-shoot-armed-suspect-riot-follows/?subscriber=1">yielded</a>&nbsp;several illegal guns. Three additional weapons and crack cocaine were also recovered at or near the residence. One gun was found in the house itself and two others over the fence where they were tossed when the two suspects fled the house. Two of the three remaining guns were also stolen weapons. "Detectives were looking for guns, looking for violent felons, looking for people that have been committing crimes in the neighborhood," Dotson added.</p>

<p>
	Following the shooting, an angry crowd of approximately 150 gathered at the intersection, blocking it. Police initially cleared it, makings some arrests in the process. Yet when the officers left the crowd marched onto Interstate 70, and blocked that roadway before returning to the Walton and Page intersection. "We got called back to the neighborhood when a car was set on fire," Dotson said.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Upon their return officers officers were assaulted with bricks and bottles. "At at that point, after the crowd ignored repeated requests and directions, inert smoke was used. After that didn't have an effect, tear gas was used. There's a line that gets crossed from peacefully protesting, which we will support, to when laws are broken," Dotson said. "Police officers have to do their job.”</p>

<p>
	The two officers involved are 33 and 29 years of age, each with about seven years of employment on the force. They have been placed on administrative leave.</p>

<p>
	Some of the protesters who had already been on hand to mark the anniversary of the&nbsp;<a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/08/19/st-louis-police-officers-shoot-kill-suspect/">fatal shooting</a>&nbsp;by police of 25-year-old Kajieme Powell last August after he came at them with a knife, refused to accept police accounts of the shooting. "Another youth down by the hands of police,” said Dex Dockett, 42, who lives nearby. “What could have been done different to de-escalate rather than escalate? They come in with an us-against-them mentality. You’ve got to have the right kind of cops to engage in these types of neighborhoods.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Resident Fred Price insisted police "provoked the situation,” further stating incidents like this “make us want to keep the police out of the neighborhood. They’re shooting first, then asking questions.” Robert Phillips&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gopusa.com/news/2015/08/20/st-louis-police-fatally-shoot-armed-suspect-riot-follows/?subscriber=1">didn’t buy</a>&nbsp;the idea that Ball-Bey had pointed his gun at the officers. "They always say that," Phillips delcared.&nbsp;</p>

<p>
	Several crowd members also chanted “Black Lives Matter,” the slogan that has been an integral part of anti-police protests since the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson last year.</p>

<p>
	Those protests have been fueled in large part by the racist&nbsp;#BlackLivesMatter movement and other left-wing activists determined to drive a wedge between police and the residents of high-crime neighborhoods where such potentially deadly encounters are likely to take place. And while such activism may engender a level of satisfaction among those who view virtually every encounter between police and minorities as one of racial victimization, that satisfaction comes with a terrible price tag attached to it: St. Louis’s homicide rate is on target to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/growing-body-count-turns-crime-focus-to-st-louis-city/article_630affc0-09f4-55a6-b5cb-e81e7d3b2dba.html">reach</a>&nbsp;its highest level in two decades, already exceeding 100 murders by the end of July. &nbsp;</p>

<p>
	It is an ominous trend also playing itself out in other cities, including Baltimore, New Orleans and Houston where murders are up 30 percent or more. There are also increased homicide totals in Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. And despite the lip service given to the&nbsp;notion that black lives matter, the increased violence is&nbsp;<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/09/us-cities-homicide-surge-2015/29879091/">disproportionately</a>&nbsp;affecting poor and predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhoods that are bearing the brunt of the carnage.&nbsp;</p>

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	In St. Louis, a city that is 44 percent white, and 49 percent black, it is carnage being perpetrated&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/black-crime-explosion-americas-worst-city-revealed/">overwhelmingly</a>&nbsp;by black Americans themselves. In 2012, the most recent year for which statistics are available, a whopping 97.6 percent of those arrested for murder were black, compared to 2.4 percent who were white. Of those arrested for serious crimes overall, including murder, aggravated assault and larceny, more than 82 percent of those arrested were black, compared to 17.5 percent who were white.&nbsp;</p>

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	As bad as they are, those arrest stats may nonetheless be understating the problem. Earlier last month when the murder total had reached 93 homicides (compared with 58 at the same point last year) police had made only 29 arrests. Dotson admitted the city’s "clearance rates aren't where I'd like them to be,” a reality Mayor Francis Slay&nbsp;<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-plan-targeted-patrols-after-bloody-night-of-violence-in/article_785d41d9-c24f-52f2-b720-3e26244cf3ea.html">attributes</a>&nbsp;to a no-snitch mentality. “These are disputes, and there are victims who won’t talk to the police,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-plan-targeted-patrols-after-bloody-night-of-violence-in/article_785d41d9-c24f-52f2-b720-3e26244cf3ea.html">he said</a>&nbsp;following a spate of violence in June. "Trying to make an arrest isn’t that simple. In one case, they’ve got (multiple) people shot and not one of them would identify the shooter.”</p>

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	No one should be the least bit surprised. Ever since the death of Michael Brown and the rise of the contemptible “hands up don’t shoot” narrative that has driven the agenda of an American left—along with the equally false narrative that this is an endemically racist nation -- the effort to drive a wedge between police forces and the citizens they serve has been relentless. The shameless painting of police as an “occupying force” in minority neighborhoods stands in stark contrast to the calculated silence that accompanies the reality many of those neighborhoods are de facto war zones: it was the left-wing Huffington Post in 2012 that pointed out more people had been&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/chicago-homicide-rate-wor_n_1602692.html">killed</a>&nbsp;in Chicago than Afghanistan between 2001 and 2012. Doubtless it is equality indelicate to point out that America’s most&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailyfinance.com/photos/dangerous-cities/?photo=2#!slide=982797">dangerous</a>&nbsp;cities are Democratic strongholds—and that St. Louis tops the list.</p>

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	During the protests at Fountain Park, Joe Robinson who works with Better Family Life community outreach, was one of about a dozen people holding signs illuminating an undeniable message, one that ought to form the foundation of a <em>genuine</em> black lives matter movement: "We must stop killing each other.” "The sign says it all," Robinson explained. Maybe not all, but it’s a great place to start.</p>

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