Hell Hath No Fury Like A President (And His Supporters) Scorned - Brian C. Joondeph

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by Brian C. Joondeph

Democrats will rue the day they chose to abdicate their Constitutional legislative duties in favor of an illegal and unnecessary persecution of a president chosen by the American people.

We’ve all heard the expression, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” and most of us have witnessed it at some point in our lives. It typically refers to betrayal, especially regarding love, when a woman is spurned and replaced by another.

It could also explain the righteous anger and rage one would feel if their greatest effort and achievement were taken from them, even more so if it was taken under false pretenses and through illegal subterfuge.

Is anyone surprised that President Donald Trump would be royally pissed off over how his political opponents have treated him during the first three years of his presidency?

Senator Lindsey Graham acknowledged this after meeting with Trump post impeachment vote saying the President is, “Mad as Hell…He is demanding his day in court.”

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Trump’s opposition is an eclectic mix, well beyond elected Democrats. There are members of his own party, the NeverTrumpers, entertainers, athletes, and other celebrities who were once happy to hang out in business mogul Donald Trump’s orbit, but now call him a racist, sexist, pig, wishing for his imprisonment or his death.

Doug Wead, in his recent book Inside Trump’s White House, notes Trump saying to his son shortly before his campaign announcement in June 2015, “Now we find out who our real friends are.” And so he has.

Trump defeated a mostly talented and competent, although unelectable, field of Republican primary candidates, many senators and governors, dispatching all of them as he won the nomination. He worked long and hard as a political novice without the political entourage of some of the other candidates.

Then it was on to the big leagues, facing the vaunted Clinton machine, with Hillary Clinton having spent eight years in the White House, eight years as a US Senator, and four as Secretary of State. Over the years, favors were bought and sold through the Clinton Foundation with a formidable body count of those standing in her way.

Trump, with a haphazardly thrown together campaign apparatus, outworked and outsmarted the Democrat machine and the rest of the deep state ruling class that Trump declared war upon during his campaign. And against all odds, at least based on antagonistic media prognosticators and endless predictions by those “in the know” that he would never be president, that is exactly what he became.

Despite a full court press by “the resistance”, he still is the president. And what a resistance that was. The Obama administration began spying on him and his campaign before he even secured the nomination. The spying continued into his presidency. A concerted effort was made to prevent him from securing the GOP nomination then winning the election and serving in the office he was duly elected to worked so hard to achieve.

FISA warrants were sworn out against his campaign advisors, using knowingly bogus information, with senior FBI and DOJ officials lying in their FISA warrant applications. The purpose of these “official” warrants was likely to cover up previous and highly illegal spying on Trump, providing a veneer of legitimacy if the spying was ever brought to light.

How many such warrants were issued? Were any of his immediate family members, such as Don Jr or Jared Kushner, spied on through as yet undisclosed FISA warrants? Perhaps that answer will come via FISA Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer’s recent letter to the FBI and DOJ.

A special counsel was orchestrated and arranged to hamstring his presidency and ultimately bring it down, but that failed. We heard three years of “Russia” only to be quickly replaced by “Ukraine.” Whistleblowers and deep state bureaucrats “knew” the President’s state of mind and that was enough for the Democrats.

They had whipped their base into a frenzy over “orange man bad,” ably assisted by CNN and MSNBC endlessly promising their handful of viewers that “the walls are closing in.” When Trump objected to bogus accusations and persecution, he was accused of obstruction – whether of Congress of justice in general.

That was all that the three stooges of the House – Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler – needed to render Donald Trump as the third president in nearly 250 years to be impeached, by a completely partisan vote, another historic first. Yet he may not actually be impeached yet according to lefty Harvard law professor Noah Feldman who testified for the House Judiciary Committee.

None of the Congressional witnesses, from bow tie wearing diplomats to angry law school professors, could name a crime or impeachable offense. But no matter. It was a solemn occasion for everyone, at least those not caught on camera, like the gaggle of Washington Post hacks celebrating “Merry Impeachmas.”

Trump was branded a modern-day Hester Prynne with a “Scarlet I” for all eternity all because he had the audacity to beat the deep state’s chosen candidate and threaten the corrupt global order. After assuming office, he had the further gall to quickly accomplish what so many Republican presidents promised but couldn’t deliver, and what Democrat presidents said could only be achieved with a magic wand.

And now he is rightfully pissed off. His greatest achievement, winning the presidency as an outsider and proving all of his detractors wrong, continues to be taken from him, through any means necessary, from the unethical to the illegal.

He has been accused of cheating and winning the presidency fraudulently, ignoring his focus, persistence, and hard work. His family has been impugned and threatened. He has few true friends in Washington, DC. But he has 60 million plus loyal supporters across the fruited plains.

Trump supporters have faced their own derision, from losing jobs and friendships to strained or alienated family relationships. They are spit on, attacked, denied service, and called names like deplorable, racist, or Nazi.

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As Dov Fischer recently wrote, “Those pathological haters and congenital liars impeached not only President Trump on Wednesday night. They impeached us.”

Sundance at Conservative Treehouse describes this as “Cold Anger”

There’s a level of anger far deeper and more consequential than expressed rage or visible behavior. Cold Anger does not need to go to violence. For those who carry it, no conversation is needed. You cannot poll or measure it; and even those who carry it avoid discussion. And that decision has nothing whatsoever to do with any form of correctness.

President Trump and his supporters have had enough. His greatest life achievement, something no one else could come close to doing, is being smeared and taken from him. His supporters are being tarred as mind-numbed jack-booted brown shirts.

Now that the build-up to impeachment is behind him, expect Trump to release the hounds of hell on his deep state persecutors. His daughter Ivanka says “Impeachment energized her father and his 63 million supporters.” Welcome to cold anger.

Democrats have poked the New York City junkyard dog one too many times and the dog has bared his teeth. Democrats will rue the day they chose to abdicate their Constitutional legislative duties in favor of an illegal and unnecessary persecution of a president chosen by the American people.

Let the reckoning begin.


Brian C. Joondeph, MD, is a Denver based physician, freelance writer and occasional radio talk show host whose pieces have appeared in American Thinker, Daily Caller, and other publications. Follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and QuodVerum.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/hell_hath_no_fury_like_a_president_and_his_supporters_scorned.html

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Candace Owens Video: Blexit We The Free - Frontpagemag.com

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Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/candace-owens-video-blexit-we-free-frontpagemagcom/

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Hanukah: The First Battle against Transnationalism and the Deep State - Rabbi Aryeh Spero

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by Rabbi Aryeh Spero

A relevant history lesson

Many think of Hanukah as a fight for religious freedom. While religious freedom was at stake, it was part of a broader battle in behalf of the concept of national identity. The Maccabees, local Judeans who spearheaded the revolt against the overpowering northern Syrian Greeks and who inspired the grassroots, did so for the overarching cause of retaining Judea’s identity and Jewish character, which were under assault by those trying to denude Judea of its distinctiveness.

The story begins in the waning years of the Greek empire, 150 years after the death of Alexander the Great. The eastern branch of the Greek empire was headquartered in Antioch, Syria and under the Seleucid monarch, Antiochus. He expected all countries under his jurisdiction to surrender their national sovereignty and independence and its citizens begin seeing themselves as citizens of the world, the Hellenic world. 

At first, there were the usual military attacks by the Seleucids against Judea. But that changed. Instead of undertaking costly military campaigns to accomplish this, Antiochus, circa 175 BC, reasoned it would be easier and less conspicuous to bring Judea under heel by simply de-Judaizing it, by forbidding Israel’s core and distinctive religious practices and educating its children in the mores of the hedonistic gymnasium. It worked.

In the beginning, many Judeans were lulled into feeling that the multicultural push would not endanger their own culture and distinctiveness and were actually open to the benefits of global Hellenism. Soon, however, the Seleucid’s moved beyond multiculturalism to demonizing the Judean and Jewish way of life as anachronistic and an impediment to Hellenistic fraternity and progress. Religious observance -- that part of the religious milieu that was distinctively Jewish -- and religious teachers were outlawed. 

Antiochus went so far as to desecrate the Temple in Jerusalem (known as the Beit Ha’mikdash) by installing images of Zeus on its holy platforms and altars. This was meant to be more than a defilement of Israel’s religious ethos, but a pulverizing of its very national identity as well, since the Temple was the religious and civic symbol of Jewish nationhood. The goal was to sweep away Judea’s sense of nationalism and replace it with trans-nationalism, a loyalty and conformity to global Hellenism.

Moreover, it was a brazen transformative act, one specifically aimed at redefining and changing the concept of holiness so important and central to the residents and ancestors bequeathed the land between the Mediterranean and Jordan. The Syrian-Greek social engineers understood that when you redefine the historic morals and animating principles of a people and country, the nation has been conquered. 

The Maccabee family, headed by Mattityahu and his five sons, rose up and said: “No More!” Through guerilla tactics they defeated the Syrian soldiers stationed within the borders. They began as a small group who immediately attracted hundreds of other patriots. After many skirmishes, they finally reached the Temple in Jerusalem, captured it, cleaned and purified it, and re-lit the Menorah whose oil shouldn’t have lasted longer than its one-day’s supply, but miraculously burnt for eight days. 

Lighting the candles of the Menorah commemorates the miracle in the Temple

Photo credit: Gil Dekel

Some of the Maccabees perished in battle. But in the end, the Maccabees achieved a military conquest on the ground, a spiritual victory in the Temple, and an ideological affirmation in the hearts and souls of their countrymen. A dedicated few, as during our Revolutionary War, can pull off miracles.

Why, however, did it take a small band of ancient Minutemen to rise up against the invaders? Where were Judea’s rulers, its powerful elites? Why was the rebellion left to the grassroots? It is because the elites had already been co-opted and had succumbed to the power and glamour of the Seleucids. They had forsaken their own countrymen, had bought into fashionable transnationalism, and were amply rewarded, elevated, and honored by the Syrian-Greek rulers. They were on the side of Seleucid and wanted a neutered and uber-cosmopolitan polity. They were what we call the “Deep State” and globalists, a cadre of government insiders who identify more with the prevailing world ruling class than with their own countrymen.

Historians tell us that Menelaus, a powerful Judean eager to shed Judea of its distinctively Jewish character, strategized the infiltration of Syrian Greeks into Judean institutions.

Worse, a large segment of the priestly cast, the clergy who worked in the Jerusalem Temple, sided with the transnationalists and, reports indicate, it was they who made possible Antiochus’s placement of Zeus in the Temple. Many even betrayed Mattityahu and his five sons. The Maccabees and their partisans battled not only an enemy from without but enemies from within, including civil servants and old-line families. These were the multi-culturalists, the cultural Marxists of their time.

After the victory, sovereignty was restored; a sense of pride and nationalism obtained, and the Maccabees became the new rulers and the kings of Israel, its royalty. They called themselves the Hashmanoim. For almost a century, the efforts and effects of the original Maccabees prevailed. But after a century, Mattityahu’s great, great descendants were lured away by the same notions and enticements of transnationalism and betrayed to the Romans the very Judea handed to them by their Maccabee forebears. This perfidy ended much worse. The Temple was not simply temporarily defiled as before, but in 70 AD destroyed by the Romans completely.


Rabbi Aryeh Spero is author of Push Back: Reclaiming our American Judeo-Christian Spirit, president of Caucus for America, spokesman for the Conference of Jewish Affairs, and a frequent guest on Fox News.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/hanukah_the_first_battle_against_transnationalism_and_the_deep_state.html

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French justice protects criminals - Abraham Chicheportiche

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by Abraham Chicheportiche

The French justice system has lost its moral foundation in deciding that the murderer of Sarah Halimi is not fit to stand trial for temporary incapacity.

Declared criminally irresponsible, the murderer of Sarah Halimi will not be tried

The Sarah Halimi case concerns the murder of a Jewish woman aged 65 in Paris on 4 April 2017 by Kobili Traoré, a native of Mali who shouted "shut your mouth", "Allahu Akbar", and "I killed the Shaitan" during the murder. The suspect claimed insanity and was hospitalized.

Dr Sarah Attal-Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish woman, mother of three children, and retired physician, was beaten and thrown out of her apartment window. It is uncertain if she was killed before the fall or if death occurred as a result of the fall. This occurred at her residence, a 3rd-floor apartment in the Belleville district of Paris on April 4, 2017.

Justice has declared Kobili Traoré, then under the influence of cannabis, irresponsible for the murder of Sarah Halimi.

The long awaited trial by the civil parties will not take place. On Thursday, December 19, the instruction chamber ruled. Kobili Traoré, indicted for the anti-Semitic homicide of his neighbor, Sarah Halimi, retired from 65 years of Jewish faith, beaten then defenestrated with the cry of "Allahu Akbar" at her Parisian home in April 2017, should not to be judged at the assizes.

The Paris Court of Appeal declared that the young man's discernment - 27 years old at the time and under the influence of illicit substances - was abolished at the time of the facts and that he is therefore criminally irresponsible. The civil parties have five days to decide whether they can appeal to the Court of Cassation.

"The issue here was neither the fight against this scourge which is anti-Semitism nor the desirable criminal policy against cannabis, but only the question of the discernment of Kobili Traore at the material time. However, it was clearly abolished," said the suspect's lawyer, Mr. Thomas Bidnic, who said he was "satisfied" and "relieved. "

Speaking to the press, Mr. Francis Szpiner, lawyer for the three children of the victim, denounced the outcome as  "an outrageous decision".

"A man whose experts said that he had had a delusional puff as a result of a deliberate intake of drugs was therefore granted impunity," he added. "We have just created in our country a Sarah Halimi jurisprudence, that is to say that any person who will suffer from a delirious drug addiction because he will have taken an illicit substance that is dangerous for health will be exempt from criminal responsibility ."

This inadmissible and incomprehensible decision shows the dilapidated state of French "justice", incapable of punishing the criminals. 

Laws and justice are the foundation of any decent society, in fact for every decent life.
France has lost this moral foundation


Abraham Chicheportiche, born in Paris France, began writing articles in response to the exponential rise in anti-Semitism and hostility to Israel in the wake of 9/11 and is a contributor on Dreuz and other sites. He studied in the US, then made Alyah in 2012 and lives in Southern Israel.

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/24914

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Report: 3 soldiers killed in Israeli strike in Syria - Arutz Sheva Staff, AFP

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by Arutz Sheva Staff, AFP

Monitor group claims three non-Syrian, pro-Assad soldiers killed in Israeli airstrikes south of Damascus. Soldiers likely Iranian.

Israeli airstrikes in Syria overnight killed at least three fighters aligned with the Assad regime, a monitor organization reported Monday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday night's attack hit Syrian regime and Iranian positions south of Damascus, killing at least three foreign pro-regime fighters.

It said three non-Syrian loyalist fighters were killed by a missile blast between the suburb of Aqraba and the nearby Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood, home to a shrine revered by Shiite Muslims.

It did not specify their nationality but said they were likely Iranian.

Syrian state news agency SANA reported the attack just before midnight on Sunday.

It said Syrian air defenses fired on "hostile missiles" coming from "the Occupied Territories", referring to Israel.

It said one missile came down in Aqraba, southeast of Damascus.

Israel has not publicly claimed responsibility for the raids.

An Israeli army spokeswoman contacted by AFP said Israel does not comment on reports in foreign media.

Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes in Syria against Iranian targets and pro-Tehran militias allied with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

An Israeli strike on November 20 killed 21 pro-regime fighters including 16 foreigners, along with two civilians, according to the Observatory.

In July, six Iranians and three pro-regime Syrian fighters were killed in reported Israeli missile strikes in the southern provinces of Daraa and Quneitra, according to the Observatory.

A month later, the Israeli army carried out a strike in Aqraba, killing two Hezbollah terrorists and one Iranian soldier.

The war in Syria has killed more than 370,000 people and displaced millions since it began eight years ago.


Arutz Sheva Staff, AFP

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/273536

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Israel officially opposes Turkey-Libya sea corridor deal - Mordechai Sones

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by Mordechai Sones

'But that doesn’t mean we're sending battleships to confront Turkey.' - Foreign Minister.

When confronted on Channel 13 News with a report that Prime Minister Netanyahu had told Cyprus’ president last Friday that a maritime deal between Turkey and Lybia was to be condemned as “illegal”, Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz confirmed that "that is the official position of Israel. But that doesn’t mean we are sending battleships to confront Turkey.”

The deal between Ankara and Tripoli carves out a corridor of maritime boundaries between Libya and Turkey, potentially clearing the way for oil and gas exploration there.

The Israeli government had previously made no public comment on the accord signed last month between Libya and Turkey that maps out maritime boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean.

Greece, which is a close ally of Israel and is at odds with Turkey over a host of issues, called the accord absurd because it ignored the presence of the Greek island of Crete between the coasts of Turkey and Libya, according to Reuters.

Katz, in a television interview, said that while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was an adversary, he does not think Israel nor Nato-member Turkey was looking for conflict.

“We have no desire, and Turkey has no desire for a confrontation with Israel,” he said.


Mordechai Sones

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/273568

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The Hellish Legacy of the Dingell Family - Daniel Greenfield

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by Daniel Greenfield

If you’re going to drain the swamp, you’ve gotta call it out.

 

A decade ago, Time Magazine unveiled an in-depth article on the death of Detroit. One of the politicians whom the article blamed for Detroit’s woes was Rep. John Dingell.

The Dingell clan has held a congressional seat outside Detroit since 1932. Their 87-year tenure has not coincidentally coincided with the decline of a thriving industrial city into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

But it’s been good for the Dingells, three of whom have sat in their congressional seat since the days of Herbert Hoover, the rise of Hitler, and the radio age, and fattened their pockets on its sinecures.

Dingell Sr. was the son of Polish immigrants who started out in politics as a union boss, jumped into a newly created seat, and kept it through eleven elections before passing it on to his son. Dingell Jr, outdid daddy by becoming the longest serving member of Congress in American history. Before he died, he passed on the seat to his second wife, whom he married when she was 28 and he was 55 years old.

She was a GM lobbyist who married the Congressman from GM. What was good for GM was good for the Dingells.

By 2014, Dingell Jr. was listed as the third richest member of Congress from Michigan with a net worth of $3.5 million. When Debbie took over for him next year, her net worth was up to $3.6 million. The salary for House members was $174,000. The median household income is $57,000 in the 12^th.

Not bad for a family whose business was and is the 12^th district from western Detroit through Ann Arbor. Much of the Dingell money came through GM. And Rep. John Dingell had vocally fought for the GM bailout. The GM couple, which had millions in GM stock, had a lot riding on taxpayers bailing them out.

Taxpayers spent billions and the Dingells got millions in an arrangement made in the depths of hell.

Even though Rep. Debbie Dingell ran unopposed in the Democrat primary, and even though she was running for office in one of the most heavily Democrat districts in the country, she still raised over $1 million for that campaign, and another $1.2 million for 2018, and is already up to half a million now.

Even though no one running in the 12^th whose last name is Dingell could lose an election to Abe Lincoln.

Where’s the money coming from? Unions, PACs, including the GM PAC, the Ford PAC, Walmart, and, insurance companies. GM, Ford, and Chrysler had also been paying her an undisclosed salary before she took over her husband’s congressional seat. It was a very neat arrangement.

The Dingells take care of them and they take care of the Dingells. Everyone else can go to hell.

Despite Rep. John Dingell’s motorcade pausing at the Capitol, and the gushing tributes to the “longest-serving” member of Congress, even his own party loathed him in life.

In 1996, the New York Times called him a “bully”. Some years earlier, Bloomberg had accused him of the, “bullying of bureaucrats, executives, and colleagues.”

“In the arrogance of his power, he terrorized individuals and institutions that he wanted to humble,” Anthony Lewis wrote in the Times.

"There isn't an industry in the country not touched by our committee,” Rep. John Dingell had bragged.

That includes finance which dragged him into the BCCI scandal through a $10,000 contribution and a mortgage on a home in McLean, Virginia.

After ruling the Committee on Energy and Commerce for 28 years, his own party grew tired of him and unprecedentedly forced him out in 2008. The overthrow of the corrupt "old bull" was the work of none other than Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Despite eventually becoming the longest-serving member of the House, it was his fellow Democrats who conspired to take away the privileges of his seniority.

All that has been forgotten. Dingell’s descriptions of Asians as “little yellow people”, his greed, shameless abuse of power, and arrogance were replaced with empty tributes to his greatness.

President Trump hasn’t forgotten.

And so, at a campaign rally in Michigan, Trump recalled a phone call from Rep. Debbie Dingell on her husband’s funeral. “‘He’s looking down, he’d be so thrilled,’” He recalled her saying. “I said, that’s okay, don’t worry about it. Maybe he’s looking up, I don’t know. I don't know. I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe. But let’s assume he’s looking down."

The locals laughed.

It was impossible to be from Michigan, to have had a front row seat to the antics of the Dingell clan which practically date back to the birth of mass automobile ownership, and imagine “Big John” in heaven. The image of the old crooked thug with wings and a harp is hopelessly laughable.

It’s easy to imagine him looking up, but President Trump generously tried to assume otherwise.

This isn’t the first time that Trump has gotten into trouble for bluntly poking fun at the niceties of a political industry where every crook is “honorable” and everyone pretends to believe it in public.

Does Speaker Pelosi really believe that Rep. John Dingell was a saint? If she does, why did she conspire to take away his chairmanship, against precedent and the seniority rules of the road?

Do the New York Times and Bloomberg want to apologize for calling him a bully?

John Dingell was not a nice guy. Nobody seriously thinks he would have been traumatized by the suggestion that he might not be going to heaven. This was a man who admired a tombstone that read, “He’s done his damnedest.” There’s two ways to read that one. But Dingell never pretended to be a saint. His calling card was hauling pork back to his district and supporting local companies. Like GM.

Nor did he restrain his rhetoric.

"I've read enough of that Steele dossier to know just how risky a ‘used Trump hotel mattress’ can truly be," he tweeted in 2018, referencing a smear by the Clinton campaign.

But Trump reached out to Rep. Debbie Dingell. John got a nice funeral in Washington D.C. And Debbie responded by voting to impeach President Trump for the smears of her fellow Democrats.

Nor is Debbie a nice person. At one point she inveighed against the, "the 13 white boys–sorry to say it that way–that are going to be doing this in the Senate". So much for civility and collegiality.

Was Trump really supposed to pretend that this racist, thieving clan is heavenly?

The D.C. political class throws a fit every time President Trump speaks bluntly about members of the swamp. And Rep. John Dingell wasn’t just part of the swamp. He owned his own mire. In his days ruling the Committee on Energy and Commerce with an iron fist, he would define his jurisdiction by pointing at the planet. These days his ambit, wherever it may be, is a whole lot smaller. And that’s for the best.

There’s a place for civility and collegiality. And had the Dingell clan sailed off into the sunset, maybe we could all remember them fondly the way we do the Hapsburgs, the Bourbons, and the Gambinos.

But they’re not going anywhere. That’s what this is all about.

After John Sr, came John Jr, and after John Jr. came Debbie, and after Debbie will come Christopher, currently a Michigan judge, and on and on, endless generations of Dingells, marching through the House, porking, thieving, and procuring, passing the family legacy of taxpayer money on through the ages until the Republic falls. Should President Trump or anyone else really be afraid to say it’s so?

America didn’t need a single Dingell in her House. It certainly didn’t need three.

If the country is to be rid of them, the chattering classes will have to accept hearing that John Dingell Jr. might not, despite his lifetime of good deeds for GM at taxpayer expense, have made it to heaven.


Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/hellish-legacy-dingell-family-daniel-greenfield/

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New ICC ruling reveals organization's true anti-Semitic intentions - Eldad Beck

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by Eldad Beck

If and when ICC judges rule it is within their jurisdiction to put Israelis on trial for "war crimes" allegedly committed in Judea and Samaria, east Jerusalem, and Gaza – the idea of an international court will have reached a point of historical, moral, and legal bankruptcy.

Palestinians taking part in the "March of Return" protests hurl objects at Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border | Archives: AP/Adel Hana

The first international court convened for the first time after World War II, when the Allies put Nazi leaders on trial for the heinous crimes they committed across Europe, including the Holocaust.

More than 50 years passed between the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials and the establishment of the International Criminal Court at The Hague – and for good reason. The deep concern that the ICC would eventually turn into just another international body – despite the good intentions behind it, and that instead of promoting a humanistic view it would be appropriated by the distorted interests of certain pressure groups – has come to fruition.

Indeed, this concern is materializing before our very eyes. If and when ICC judges rule it is within their jurisdiction to put Israelis on trial for "war crimes" allegedly committed in Judea and Samaria, east Jerusalem, and Gaza – the idea of an international court will have reached a point of historical, moral, and legal bankruptcy.

Because between the "war crimes" under investigation by chief ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and the request of a country that doesn't exist, "Palestine," are the Jewish communities beyond the Green Line and Israel's self-defense in Operation Protective Edge – versus the persistent attempts to invade Israel's sovereign territory from Gaza under the guise of "March of Return" border protests. In other words: Jewish settlement in all parts of the Land of Israel, which are not at all occupied territories according to actual international law, is a "war crime." Also a war crime, apparently, is preventing "Palestinian refugees" from invading Israel's sovereign territory from an area that Israel willingly transferred to Palestinian control.

Chief ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (AP/Peter Dejong)

This is not, therefore, a legal measure to bring any Israeli "war criminals" to justice, but the exploitation of the international judicial system to implement the diplomatic goal of destroying the State of Israel. According to the international definition of anti-Semitism, this amounts to pure anti-Semitism because it entails the denial of the Jewish people's right to self-determination and employs double standards against Israel.

Bensouda willingly ensnared herself in the web spun by the "Palestinians" around the international judicial system for the purpose of creating their own international law, to incriminate Israel and put it on the same footing with the Nazis. Thus, from their perspective, they can kill two birds with one stone: The Jews would no longer be perceived as victims of history, and another precedent will have been set in their war to delegitimize the existence of the Jewish state. It now remains to be seen whether the ICC's judges fall into this trap and further throw their own court's legitimacy into question by turning it into yet another absurd circus show – ala UNESCO, UNRWA, and the UN Human Rights Council.

Bensouda, who has struggled mightily to launch war crimes and crimes against humanity investigations in the most clear-cut of cases (such as Venezuela or Ukraine), has filed a request with judges to decide whether the ICC has jurisdiction in Judea and Samaria, east Jerusalem, and Gaza. Israel – similar to the United States and Russia – declared long ago that it has no intention of ratifying the tribunal's inaugural convention. Therefore the ICC has no authority to discuss Israel's affairs, unless crimes were committed against a country that is a signatory to the ICC convention (among its neighbors, only Jordan falls in this category), and unless it is proven that the Israeli justice system is incapable of properly trying suspected war criminals.

The judges at The Hague, therefore, must determine whether "Palestine" is a country at all, the status of the "territories," and whether the Israeli judicial system is functioning properly or not. Tackling these matters is akin to wading into a minefield, which could threaten the very viability of the International Criminal Court.


Eldad Beck

Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/12/22/new-icc-ruling-reveals-organizations-true-anti-semitic-intentions/

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Congressional Follies: Trump Is Still Your President - Clarice Feldman

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by Clarice Feldman

The Democrats and their Corrupt Journalist Corps never saw any of this coming.

When even CNN reports that the economy is booming and the President’s popularity soaring, what can a Democratic House stuck with loser candidates do? Peddle a phony impeachment. And when the President says, bring it on, I want the same rights you give a felon for a fair trial (in this case, the Senate), what do you do? Refuse to name managers for the trial and fail to move the matter over to the Senate, which according to the Constitution is the body vested with the obligation to decide the matter.

Of course, so many of their low-information base thinks that the House vote to impeach means the President is out of office. So they’ll be surprised to learn that this week the very people who “impeached him” agreed to his signature USMCA which scraps NAFTA, an act signed by Bill Clinton. 

They’ll be even more surprised to learn that on February 5 he will be in Pelosi’s House at her invitation to deliver the State of the Union Address. That address usually (but not last year) has been a boring drone no one watched. This year it surely will be a blockbuster, unlike the Democratic debates no one watches. Why should they? Those candidates promise to put hundreds of thousands of workers onto the unemployment rolls, raise taxes and health costs, flood the country with unemployable and unassimilable wretched refuse from around the world, support unrestricted abortion and such. These are not issues with broad voter appeal.

While self-described Constitutional scholars debate the next step -- will McConnell simply throw this out for failing to state a justiciable complaint; will there be a trial; how long must we wait for the House to act on the partisan vote taken after its outrageously one-sided “hearings”? -- Scott Adams (Dilbert’s creator) pithily summed up my take.

To be fair, Pelosi sitting on the impeachment is halfway to where that impeachment needs to go.

Over at the Spectator, Rabbi Dov Fischer argues that Pelosi is “terrified to hand it over.”

As Chuck Schumer’s hapless demands for even more witnesses evince, Pelosi and Schiff did such a feeble job that she has no case to present. She is humiliated, like a Marcia Clark who gets the courtroom spotlight for a year and leaves behind a legacy that she could not convict an obvious murderer even with so much evidence that, in order to make room to store all of it, they had to ask the guy to wear some of it. For Madam Speaker, like a dowager whose time has come to hand over the estate keys to her progeny, including to the hated and unworthy daughter-in-law who married her impeccable son, Pelosi’s moment is done, and she has to decide whether to (a) hand it over or (b1) Abuse her Power and (b2) Obstruct Congress by remaining petulantly puerile. Heading the Resistance, she resists history’s verdict as she now sets the table for President Trump to emerge, unexpectedly and unintentionally, with a remarkable new claim to Mount Rushmore: the first president in American history so deeply loved by the American people that they reelected him to be their president only months after he was impeached. Wow -- the Democrats and their Corrupt Journalist Corps never saw that one coming.
So the cipher trembles to pass along the indecipherable charges, aware that her ambitious production netted her the sum of aught and naught: three years to produce, a moment to dismiss. One is reminded of the epic scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, where an overbearing evildoer with contemptuous laughter in his voice and insatiable bloodlust in his eye, accoutered like Pelosi in Impeachment Black, ferociously demonstrates publicly before a crowded audience on a parched dusty street somewhere in Arabia, dramatically twirling and flipping his ostensibly deathly huge saber to intimidate and terrify Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones, on the cusp of slicing him to pieces. Indie sees the overwhelming display of imposing doom, but -- bored and sweating -- just pulls out his pistol, eliminates the character instantaneously, and turns to the next order of business. Pelosi is that thug. Her two “Articles of Impeachment” are that saber. The Senate is that bullet -- and thus will pass the haters with the lost bark.

Even as impeachment dies aborning, other matters of greater significance require resolution.

Upcoming Criminal Prosecutions

We are waiting for justice for those who hatched and promoted through leaks the nonsensical RussiaGate charges against the President. Over at Powerline blog, Paul Mirengoff reviews the publicly known information and asks if John Brennan (and others) will be indicted.

He argues that Kevin Clinesmith (former FBI lawyer) will be indicted for materially altering documents. Andrew McCabe (former deputy director of the FBI) might be, too, for lying to prosecutors about his authorization to leak the FBI’s investigation to the Clinton Foundation. John Brennan may be for privately contradicting his public statements, including his testimony to Congress under oath in May 2017. He may also be charged with perjury in written testimony “to the House Intelligence Committee when he claimed that he had briefed each member of the so-called Gang of Eight about ‘Russian attempts to interfere in the election’ between August 11, 2016 and September 6, 2016”. Mirengoff isn’t “convinced that Brennan will be indicted,” but while I am not sure, I think the facts I see of the case warrant it. 

Archer 52, who commented on the article, says if any of these people are indicted their defenses will be easy to predict:

We did it because we were saving the country. 2. We did it because we are professionals and had no choice. 3. There were some mistakes made but they were minor and did not impact the operation. 4. The people around me lied, but I had no idea, because I am really bad at my job. And finally, 5. I make a far better witness than an inmate, so PLEEEAASEE do not throw me in jail.

Whatever happens, white-collar criminal defense counsel in Washington will clean up. And Archer has already summed up their work for them.

Fisking the FISA Court

A little over a week ago, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court slammed FBI misconduct in its four applications for warrants against Trump campaign official Carter Page. 

(As you may know, one FISA warrant on one person can lead to spying on thousands of people, not just those the subject of the warrant had contact with. This allowed massive spying on the Trump campaign.)

The order was a response to the IG Horowitz report, which documented the agency’s complete failure to include exculpatory evidence in these applications.
The order

…responds to reports that personnel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provided false information to the National Security Division (NSD) of the Department of Justice, and withheld material information from NSD which was detrimental to the FBI’s case, in connection with four applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for authority to conduct electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen named Carter W. Page.
The frequency with which representations FBI personnel made to the court turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case,” Judge Collyer continued, “calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable.

The document orders the government to, by Jan. 10, “Inform the Court in a sworn written submission of what it has done, and plans to do, to ensure that the statement of facts in each FBI application accurately and completely reflects information possessed by the FBI that is material to any issue presented by the application.

If the FBI is unable to comply, the court concludes, the FBI must explain why the order has not been implemented, what steps it is taking to meet the order, the timetable to meet the order, and ‘why… the information in FBI applications submitted in the interim should be regarded as reliable.

Many question why the FISC waited so long to respond, after all, Congressman Devin Nunes reported this to the court over a year ago. 

Others wonder what the heck FBI Director Christopher Wray is doing and what, if anything, this damning order will do to get him off his backside.

There are no hearings before FISC. We’re told this is not an impediment to a fair resolution of warrant applications.

David Kris, a former assistant attorney general for national security, shared a 2013 correspondence between FISC and then-judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), which he said shows that formal hearings are not typical.
Draft applications are submitted a week in advance, and after review by 'the Court’s legal staff' the judge makes a preliminary determination 'to approve… to impose conditions... [to decide] that additional information is needed... or... that a hearing would be appropriate,'" he said while sharing some excerpts on Twitter.
[M]any applications are altered... or... withheld from final submission... often after an indication that a judge would not approve'; the 'approval rate' for criminal wiretap applications 'is higher' than for FISA; & a sample showed 'substantive changes' made in 24.4% of cases," he continued. "'The frequency of hearings varies' with 'the nature and complexity' of a case & the judge, but the Court gets information 'from the government… through telephone conversations [&] meetings' as well as 'hearings,' & 'typically' the interaction is via 'informal communications.
These legal experts were backed by Andrew McCarthy, senior fellow at National Review and former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, argued that if a warrant application is not backed by probable cause, then a judge should simply reject it.
The argument should be that DOJ & FISA judges have higher duty to follow rules and scrutinize applications because, unlike criminal proceeding where there’s eventual discovery and hearings, that’s all the due process warrant target will ever get.

In fact, the handling of these most important warrant applications on Page revealed the FISC is simply a rubber stamp for the Department of Justice. And it was so even with respect to the intelligence community’s unprecedented, unwarranted spying on Trump before and after his election.

I was curious, in any event, to refresh my recollection of why we were told the FISC was a necessary creation and how we could be assured our civil liberties would be protected, even though this sidesteps Fourth Amendment protections that even murderers are entitled to before searches are conducted. I reviewed the hearing transcript of Andrew McCarthy before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 10, 2005 and see a vast disparity between what were told and what has evolved.

Here are some relevant remarks before that committee:

The government officials whose conduct, actual and potential, is at the heart of our inquiry here are not anything near Big brother. They are not even slightly interested, as a general matter, in what Americans are reading or what websites they are accessing. They are not desirous of poring over personal healthcare or financial information unrelated to some good-faith investigative imperative. In point of fact, in this information age, they are awash in data and severely challenged to sort the wheat from the chaff -- which is to say they don’t have enough time to read and process the things we actually want them to read and process. It would be counterfactual and perilous to legislate based on the assumption that honorable people will behave badly. It is also unbecoming.

Arguing for a presumption of regularity that courts use in judging congressional acts, he concluded: “But it is a salient aspect of the dignity that impels our society to respect its institutions -- the very respect which undergirds the rule of law -- that we operate from a premise that our officials are neither reckless nor roguish, and that they act responsibly.”

The government officials in RussiaGate, however, were not honorable, did behave badly, and are not entitled to any presumption of regularity. In sum, they were precisely “reckless and roguish.” They have undermined respect for law, and the tardy and weak judicial (FISC) response appears to have condoned that. Maybe a safer approach is to view any legal backdoor as a license for government intrusion. I’m old enough to remember when conduct like this would have had the ACLU screaming for change instead of its present focus -- like demanding tampons in men’s bathrooms to achieve “menstrual equity.” 

Clarice Feldman

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/congressional_follies_trump_is_still_your_president.html

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Sharyl Attkisson explains why one FISA warrant on one person can lead to spying on thousands of people - Thomas Lifson

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by Thomas Lifson

Believe it or now, intelligence agencies can use one legal wiretap to monitor as many as 25,000 people for which there was no wiretap justification.

The genuine magnitude of the FBI spying on the Trump campaign (or Adam Schiff's getting a hold of the phone records of journalists and fellow representatives) was far greater than most people realize, reading or hearing about a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page. Many people naturally presume that an operation to trample on the rights of one man — even an Annapolis graduate who served as a source for the CIA — was bad, but not a major spying operation. After all, Page was not a top-level campaign adviser, but an unpaid volunteer. So what's the big deal?

Here's what the deal is, as explained by Sharyl Attkisson:

Believe it or now, intelligence agencies can use one legal wiretap to monitor as many as 25,000 people for which there was no wiretap justification.
Through a single warrant, government agents can capture phone calls, texts, emails and bank records from people "two hops" away. That means all of the suspected spy's direct contacts — "one hop" — and everybody who contacts those people or even visits their Facebook pages or websites — two hops.
In this way, one analysis found intel agencies can use one legal wiretap to access to 25,000 people's phones. Consider at least a half dozen Trump officials were caught in the FBI surveillance dragnet, according to news reports: campaign chair Manafort, multiple "transition officials" including Lt. General Michael Flynn and Jared Kushner, and adviser Carter Page — who was wiretapped over and over though never charged with anything.
Sidney Powell (former prosecutor and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's attorney): And what most people don't understand is, they don't just get everything they want against Carter Page, they get everything they want against every person who communicated with Carter Page, and against every person who communicated with that person. So it goes out what's called two hops.
Sharyl: And that would allow them to find intelligence from someone nowhere near the original center that they went to the FISA Court about?
Sidney Powell: Exactly. They could have all kinds of banking records and personal information on tens of thousands of people by virtue of those FISA applications.
Sharyl: — including Trump who was known to be one or two hops away from surveilled targets.
On top of that, at least four key anti-Trump figures have admitted in testimony and interviews accessing sensitive, protected intelligence of US citizens — including Trump associates — under the Obama administration. All say they were guarding national security, had no political motives, and didn't leak the information. As the 2016 campaign peaked, Obama official Samantha Power's name was on hundreds of attempts to reveal the identities of Americans caught up in secretly-gathered intelligence. Obama adviser Susan Rice also took part. And Obama officials Sally Yates and James Clapper admit having reviewed intel gathered on US political figures.

If you are a target, Big Brother is watching not just you, but everyone you are in contact with, and everyone they are in contact with.

Photo credit: Sharyl Attkisson.com.

Thomas Lifson

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/12/sharyl_attkisson_explains_why_one_fisa_warrant_on_one_person_can_lead_to_spying_on_emthousandsem_of_people.html


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