President Trump, Syria, Congress: We the people vs. we the war people
Posted By: BigAlPeoplesPal, 10/23/2019 5:29:24 PM
The war world of Washington wrecks the so-called checks and balances not only in the Constitution but in the soul of the old Union. And the “we the people” concept is forgotten. Since 1946 (after WWII) over 100,000 Americans have died in combat without a single declaration of war being passed by Congress. Article I, Section 8 is clear that it is the responsibility of Congress to declare war. It is also clear that the president is not routinely the Commander in Chief; and certainly not the Commander in chief of the Country. Tucker Carlson revealed the common cowards who stood before the cameras to berate President Trump.
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Mitt Romney, being in a perpetual search for a spine, has finally discovered Twitter, and gee, you don’t even have to use your real name. Armed with newfound, Twitter-inspired boldness, Romney is feeling like his courageous old self… from way back in high school … when he gave someone an unwelcome haircut. Since he needs a nom de plume for tweeting why not something French? And Pierre Delecto is born. “C’est moi” exclaimed Romney, because that’s another French term Pierre would use. Romney realizes the chutzpah he can command with an alter-ego. If only that spine-inducing social media personage were in play during the 2012 election.
The nation owes a debt of thanks to President Donald J. Trump. The Trump presidency has proved to be a touchstone in American politics if not the nation’s history. Tweeting away like the canary in America’s coalmine, this presidency has forced the hard left and the soft, marshmallow right to remove their masks. The New York Times reassures an ignorant American electorate their ill-conceived selection of Donald Trump as the nation’s 45th president is in the process of being corrected by beings possessing a singular intellect and moral superiority. Unfortunately, their names are closely guarded secrets. You see, these angelic beings reside in the murky depths of the Deep State.
The war world of Washington wrecks the so-called checks and balances not only in the Constitution but in the soul of the old Union. And the “we the people” concept is forgotten. Since 1946 (after WWII) over 100,000 Americans have died in combat without a single declaration of war being passed by Congress. Article I, Section 8 is clear that it is the responsibility of Congress to declare war. It is also clear that the president is not routinely the Commander in Chief; and certainly not the Commander in chief of the Country. Tucker Carlson revealed the common cowards who stood before the cameras to berate President Trump.
For more on liberal labeling, read Delusional Hillary Clinton: Her endless Stalinist meddling in US elections. The current ginned up hysteria over Trump's legitimate use of the word lynching is another perfect example. Writer Steve Nemo says: “Almost daily, Clinton busies herself by filling the empty heads of her sycophantic, fake-news media minions with more stories of Russia collusion. In her first Russia collusion hoax, delusional Hillary foisted a phony anti-Trump narrative on the country, fueled by Russian disinformation as contained in a dossier.” A liberal lynching indeed, no apologies necessary.
While Halloween glorifies ghosts and goblins, death and mayhem, and maybe entertaining, don’t miss one of the most important events in Christian history: Martin Luther’s nailing of the 95-Thesis protesting the selling of indulgences to absolve purchasers from sin.
All Souls’ (Saints) Day (November 1) is a Roman Catholic, Anglican and some Protestants’ celebration of Christian saints.The night before, October 31, first known as All-Hallows Eve before its more common name Halloween. On October 31, 1517, Luther tacked a document on the Wittenberg Castle Church’s door attacking the Roman Catholic Church’s corrupt practices. Thus sparking the Protestant Reformation.
As a one-time college professor, I’ve been attempting to answer a torrent of questions via Quora from prospective students looking for help in the admissions process and advice as they plan their upcoming college majors and degree programs. Some of these questions are silly and unanswerable. Others, those involving the choice of a college major and the likely job prospects in such an area, are crucial. Practically speaking, making the right, not the emotional, choice here will determine whether the student will earn enough to pay off his or her absurdly high college loan debt; or be consigned forever to the dismal hell of sharecropping one’s way through life.
As you can see in image above, it looks like Warner Bros.’ hapless Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, has done it again. Apparently, he acquired a substantial position in Boeing (trading symbol: BA) shares last week on spec, expecting they’d head back up, soon. (He likely got that advice from his broker at the world-renowned Acme Brokerage House. But, as with his periodic, failed forays against the Road Runner, Wile E.’s speculative Boeing purchase quickly took a header in Friday trading action. And got hit again Monday with more bad news regarding the company’s still-grounded fleet of 737 MAX jets. The latest “bombshell” involved emails from a Boeing test pilot.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic candidate for President, has proposed the passage of a wealth tax. The tax would be 2% annually on net worth between $50 and $100 million, and 3% on net worth above $1 billion. This is a disastrous proposal for America. The proposed Warren tax on wealth is unfair, counter-productive, growth-killing and downright un-American. The Warren tax means families that have worked years, perhaps decades, to accumulate wealth, will be forced to pay millions in extra taxes each year. Their extra earned income is already taxed at 37%. Warren wants an additional wealth tax of at least $1 to $50 million.
The Drudge Report seems to have lost its conservative-leaning. More and more the headline aggregator, whose claim to fame was Monica Lewinsky’s semen-stained blue dress, is highlighting articles that are anti-Trump, anti-Republican, and pro-Impeachment. It has been an obvious trend during the Trump Presidency that is accelerating as we get closer to the House Impeachment farce and the 2020 election. Drudge is increasingly anti-Trump. Top headline this morning, for example: “Romney Downloads on Trump: May vote to Remove!” in a glaring center headline.The article, from the known ultra-liberal magazine The Atlantic, could not be more open in its bias against the President.
A new Pew Report survey confirms what we all know: “Overwhelming majorities in both U.S. political parties (85% of Republicans and 78% of Democrats) say divisions between the two are increasing.” The details, however, reveal significant roadblocks to overcoming growing socio-political divisions. Perhaps now best seen in the House’s Trump impeachment inquiry. A procedure of concern to eight-in-every-ten Americans. “From the 1980s through the mid-2000s, no more than about a third of Americans said there were major differences between the two parties,” the survey says. Today, 55% of Americans say that is the case. Partisan antipathy is definitively more intense, and more personal.
Welcome back, fans of Truth, Justice and the American way. Round 2 of my comprehensive list of conservative (and in a few cases, mostly conservative) news and information sources you can substitute for the bankrupt newspapers and network and cable news conglomerates that now bring you nonstop fiction instead of actual news, facts and figures. Today, I’m focusing on the best breaking conservative news sites available online. I’d like to give a grateful shout-out to Don Surber and Ed Driscoll of Instapundit for alerting their readers to my first Media Stars column.Today, I focus on sites that offer in-depth coverage of breaking conservative news, plus some degree of analysis.
Talks between senior American officials, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Kurdish Syrian Defense Forces result in a short-term ceasefire, says the Whitehouse. The U.S. delegation including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien flew to Ankara to meet Erdoğan face-to-face. What President Trump calls “tough love” along with the threat of biting sanctions to Turkish President Erdoğan ended with a ceasefire deal between the two NATO giants. Also, participating in the talks indirectly, was the commander-in-chief of Kurdish Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) General Mazlum Abdi. Here’s how the negotiations affect U.S partners in Syria.
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GOP Pressure on Trump
Was Long Overdue 61 replies
Was Long Overdue 61 replies
Upon hearing the news that President Trump bowed to pressure from congressional Republicans and reversed his decision to hold next year’s G-7 summit at the Trump National Doral Miami, my immediate response was, “Ah, what might have been.”
No, I’m not wistful about the missed opportunity for taxpayers to throw a lifeline to Trump’s struggling resort. Rather, I’m a bit misty-eyed about what the last three years might have looked like if Republicans had shown this kind of spine all along.
There is an interesting consensus among the fiercely pro-Trump and anti-Trump forces on the right. For simplicity let’s call them Never Trumpers and Always Trumpers. Among the Never Trumper Republicans
By now everyone knows that Mitt Romney used a Twitter account named "Pierre Delecto" to attack President Trump, Newt Gingrich, and others. Further, Pierre defended and praised Mitt.
Too bad Pierre was not around to defend Mitt when the Democrats, led by Harry Reid, attacked Mitt for supposedly not paying income taxes, shipping jobs overseas, causing cancer to his employees, being mean to his dog, and so forth. (snip) The good news for non-quisling Republicans is that this should end the career of Pierre/Mitt to be the next John McCain as the go-to-guy whenever the Democrats and the media need a "Republican" to attack President Trump and conservatives.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced that its upcoming presidential primary debate will be moderated by an an all-female panel amid concerns over the event’s neutrality and sinking viewership.The debate, which is being sponsored by The Washington Post and MSNBC in Georgia on Nov. 20, will be moderated by NBC News’s Andrea Mitchel and Kristen Welker, The Washington Post’s Ashley Parker, and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.As the Post reported when announcing the lineup, the November debate will mark the second time in history that an all-female panel has moderated such an event.
$27M for slavery reparations
‘not enough,’ Princeton seminary
students say. They want $120M more. 36 replies
‘not enough,’ Princeton seminary
students say. They want $120M more. 36 replies
Princeton Theological Seminary pledged last week to use $27.6 million of its endowment to pay reparations for the school’s historic ties to slavery, believed to be the largest amount ever paid by a school to atone for benefiting from the slave trade. The school’s black student association says it’s “a great start, but not enough.” The Association of Black Seminarians at Princeton Theological Seminary—a student group that helped raise the slavery reparations issue at the school—plans to call for at least $120 million more in slavery reparations along with money for current African-American students and other changes, the association’s president said.
A fascinating look inside Democrats’ deepest fears about 2020 comes from a Bloomberg columnist. Democrats are afraid of President Trump expanding his voting base to people who haven’t voted in recent elections. (snip) what if Trump represents not a last gasp of cultural and racial revanchism but a new wave? What if the trickle of white men who voted for the first time in years in Wisconsin in 2016, despite widespread predictions that Trump’s candidacy was doomed, is followed in 2020 by a wave of previously nonvoting white males who conclude that Trump’s brand of tribal aggression is at last something worth voting for?
Consumers are paying more attention to their carbon footprint and it could cost airlines billions of dollars, Citi said in a note to clients Tuesday. The firm said that "flight shaming," which it defines as "the inherent guilt that an individual feels as a result of one's aviation-related carbon footprint" is causing consumers to explore alternative modes of transportation when possible and to look for ways to offset their carbon emissions. Citi estimates that over the next five years the cost of carbon offsetting economy flights will grow to $3.8 billion per year. It will either be absorbed by the
A Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is hoping to trademark the term “fake news.”As ridiculous as that may sound, Teen Vogue reporter Emily Bloch explained that her chapter of the organization believes “a joke sometimes hits harder than the truth.” “So yes, this is satire. It’s a joke,” Bloch wrote. “But it’s a joke with a point, and as any student of public discourse will tell you, a joke sometimes hits harder than the truth. And if anyone accuses us of trolling the president, well, nothing else seems to work with him, so what do we have to lose?” Covering education and government for The Florida Times-Union
The decision to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Colorado’s Western Slope should be viewed not as a one-off, but a good start, as far as some Senate Republicans are concerned.
GOP Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee introduced Wednesday legislation to move 90% of positions in 10 executive departments — including Agriculture, Education and Energy — to 10 states outside Washington, D.C., and “into the heart of economically distressed regions across the country.”
Mr. Hawley pointed to the Agriculture Department’s decision in June to move two of its agencies to the Kansas City area
I think I know what the deal is with all the gushing adoration Tulsi Gabbard has somehow managed to wrangle from ordinarily sensible conservatives. Think of a regular guy walking down the hall in high school, and the head cheerleader passes by and says, “Hi.” The dude’s going to think she’s awesome. Of course, just because she is polite doesn’t mean Regular Joe is ever going to take her to the prom.
Tulsi gets Strange New Conservative Respect for several reasons, but the primary one is that she doesn’t seem to hate our guts. She is what an opponent should be – an opponent, not an enemy.
Why the secrecy, Rep. Schiff?
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House Minority Whip Steve Scalise asks an excellent question: “What is Adam Schiff trying to hide?”
Schiff — the point man for impeachment — could at least try to explain why he’s holding all his hearings behind closed doors, with the public getting only leaked, and likely biased, accounts of the testimony.
To dramatize the problem Wednesday, 30 House Republicans stormed into the room that was to host Schiff’s next secret hearing. The chairman responded by leaving, postponing the testimony of Defense Department official Laura Cooper.
Massachusetts Rep. Democrat Daniel J. Hunt is driving a bill that would essentially make it illegal to call someone a “bitch” as part of his act “regarding the use of offensive words.”
Hunt — a Democrat — introduced a bill in May that would criminalize calling someone a “bitch” in an insulting manner.
The act states:
A person who uses the word “bitch” directed at another person to accost, annoy, degrade or demean the other person shall be considered to be a disorderly person in violation of this section, and shall be subject to the penalties provided in subsections (a) and (b). A violation of this subsection may be reported by the person
UPDATED: Lindsey Graham
clarifies describing GOP storming
of closed-door deposition as 'nuts' 22 replies
clarifies describing GOP storming
of closed-door deposition as 'nuts' 22 replies
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham condemned as "nuts" the actions of more than two dozen House Republicans who stormed a closed-door deposition of Defense Department official Laura Cooper on Wednesday afternoon.
"They’re making a run in the SCIF! That’s not the way to do it. That’s nuts," Graham said as the GOP House members remained in the Capitol basement, stalling the House Intelligence Committee's questioning of Cooper. The group of rogue congresspeople was led by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who has been sharply critical of the Democrats' secrecy in the early stages of an impeachment probe against President Trump.