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There Is No Reason The Environmental Protection Agency Needs Military Weaponry
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a perfect example of an agency that needs to be cut back, defunded, and dis-empowered. A recent examination of its budget shows that it has spent tens of millions on assembling its own private army replete with aircraft, machine guns, body armor, and tanks not to mention money wasted helping foreigners push “global warming” and unnecessary “grants” given to partisan, left-wing groups to push so-called “environmental justice.”
Open the Books, a watchdog group out of Illinois run by Adam Andrzejewski, has released an oversight report showing the waste, fraud, and abuse endemic in the EPA and proves that this agency is ripe for reform.
“Our report discovered that when the EPA comes knocking they are armed with a thousand lawyers, arrest/criminal data, credit, business and property histories, plus a ‘Special Agent’ with the latest in weaponry and technology,” Open The Books notes.
Each of these so-called “special agents” cost the American Taxpayer $216,000 per year, the report finds.
Now, before we get further into the utter waste and illicit spending on itself, we need to also point out the money the EPA wastes by throwing it out at unworthy private entities in “grants.” Open The Books (OTB) discovered that the agency spent over $72 billion giving grants to outside groups and non-governmental organizations for their partisan, left-wing causes.
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There Is No Reason The Environmental Protection Agency Needs Military Weaponry”
Fire The Leeches: Now Federal Employees Make 78 Percent More Than Private Sector Workers
-By Warner Todd Huston
A new report show once again that government workers–all of them–are leeches, most of whom we should fire. Now we find the outrageous statistics showing that federal workers earned on average 78 percent more in total compensation than private sector workers in 2014. 78 percent! This is intolerable.
The stats were found in a new report from Government Magazine that assembled the numbers for us.
“The Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards compared data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis to show that, in his view, civilian federal workers are overcompensated,” the report says. “Factoring both salary and benefits, Edwards pointed to BEA data showing the average federal employee earns about $119,000 annually, compared to the private sector worker who earns $67,000 per year. When comparing just salaries, feds collect 50 percent bigger paychecks, Edwards said.”
It all goes to prove my long-time claim that If You Work for Government, You Deserve to be Fired. I really don’t care what you do for government I think you deserve to be fired.* In fact, I think that you need to be fired to save this republic. Not only do I want you fired, I want your pension negated. You don’t deserve one.
I’ll let that sink in a bit.
Of course, conservatives have the reputation of wanting to oust everyone in office and for wanting to “vote the scoundrels out.” But, I am not just wallowing in a trope, here. In fact, I’d like to add one more level to the throw-them-out-of-government concept. Let’s fire every government worker from the smallest village receptionist or sewer worker to the staffers of the highest Senator and every menial clerk and recalcitrant paper shuffler in between.
I am, here, indulging a little bombast, of course, but only a little. A very little.
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Fire The Leeches: Now Federal Employees Make 78 Percent More Than Private Sector Workers”
Of COURSE Obama Lied About States With Stricter Gun Laws Being Safer
-By Warner Todd Huston
After the shootings at an Oregon College, Obama ran as fast as he could to the TV cameras to exploit the deaths and flog his failed gun-banning policies. During his cynical presser he made the claim that states with stricter gun laws were safer for residents. He lied.
During his press conference to the nation immediately after the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, Obama made the claim that strict gun laws equates to fewer deaths.
“There is a gun for roughly every man, woman, and child in America,” Obama carped. “So how can you, with a straight face, make the argument that more guns will make us safer? We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths. So the notion that gun laws don’t work, or just will make it harder for law-abiding citizens and criminals will still get their guns is not borne out by the evidence.” (My bold)
But do we “know” that? Many liberal websites immediately came out to support Obama’s claim saying that he’s right; more gun laws means fewer gun deaths.
But is this claim factual?
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Of COURSE Obama Lied About States With Stricter Gun Laws Being Safer”
Feds to Release Nearly 6,000 Inmates to ‘Reduce Over Crowding’
-By Warner Todd Huston
The federal Bureau of Prisons has announced the release of nearly 6,000 prisoners in an effort, the agency says, to reduce prison overcrowding. But one Senator is warning that many violent offenders will end up being released early.
Officials say that the releases will begin later this month and will be just the beginning of “tens of thousands” of early releases.
The plans were initiated by the U.S. Sentencing Commission which recently lowered the maximum sentences for offenders last year. The new sentencing rules were made retroactive to all current inmates.
The new rules, being called “drugs minus two,” could reduce the sentencing of as many as 46,000 convicted criminals. Supporters say the rules should affect the sentences only of non-violent offenders.
But Senate Judiciary Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley (R, IA) criticized the new rules saying that thousands of violent felons could also be released out into the public.
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Feds to Release Nearly 6,000 Inmates to ‘Reduce Over Crowding’”
Obama Just Handed the U.N. Power Over Our Response to Terrorism
-By Warner Todd Huston
Our Constitution is supposed to take precedence over all foreign laws or any arrogant edicts from the fetid U.N. But now Obama has made a move that would put the mechanics of the response to terrorism in some of our biggest cities in the hands of foreigners. President Obama has essentially just signed away U.S. sovereignty.
In August U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the Obama administration signed onto what is essentially a new international police operation with an initiative called Strong Cities Network (SCN). Lynch reported that this new organization would be operating out of some of the country’s largest cities.
Naturally, despite that this new policing initiative is essentially a U.N. treaty, Obama never presented the plan to Congress for approval. Bypassing our elected officials, Obama singed onto the U.N. effort on his own hook.
The new effort was announced in a press release last week with a statement headlined, “Launch of Strong Cities Network to Strengthen Community Resilience Against Violent Extremism.”
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Obama Just Handed the U.N. Power Over Our Response to Terrorism”
New York Police Allow Muslims to Openly Attack Journalists, No Arrests Made
-By Warner Todd Huston
New York police stood by and did nothing as a pack of raving Islamists physically and verbally attacked several Egyptian journalists right out in the open, on the streets, and right in front of police.
Members of the terror group the Muslim Brotherhood accosted the journalists who were in New York as part of the Egyptian media covering Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as he attends the 70th annual session of the United Nations General Assembly.
You may recall that back in 2013 the terrorist group the Muslim Brotherhood had control over Egypt when their man, Mohamed Morsi was president of the ancient country. Morsi was in power with the backing Barack Obama, but the people of the country rose up to eliminate the terror-connected candidate and paved the way for el-Sisi to take the office.
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New York Police Allow Muslims to Openly Attack Journalists, No Arrests Made”
Wyoming Students Launch ‘America Pride Day’ Despite Principal Forbidding it
-By Warner Todd Huston
Administrators at a Wyoming high school decided that their school shouldn’t have a day to celebrate American pride and so canceled the school’s “America Pride Day.” Fortunately, the students thought better of their administration’s anti-American sentiment and held their pride day anyway!
Some of the kids at Jackson Hole High observed America Pride Day despite the administration’s ban of the day.
Naturally the un-American, PC-infected, limp-wristed principal of Jackson Hole High School in Jackson, Wyoming was afraid that if the school had a day where students celebrated the American flag that *some* kids *might* feel “excluded.” So, he canceled the America pride day and tried to ban the American flag.
Fortunately the kids told him to shove it and dozens of them came to school on the designated day wearing red, white, and blue decorations and carrying Old Glory despite the lilly-livered principal’s hand-wringing idiocy.
In defiance, one kid even drove his truck through the parking lot festooned with multiple flags.
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Wyoming Students Launch ‘America Pride Day’ Despite Principal Forbidding it”
Ben Carson: CAIR Broke the Law With Its Political Attacks
-By Warner Todd Huston
GOP candidate Dr. Ben Carson says that the non-profit Muslim activist group CAIR broke the law with its recent political attacks on him.
In an email sent to supporters on Saturday, Carson said, “The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a public press conference demanding that I withdraw from the presidential race.”
“Here’s the catch,” Carson’s email continued, “CAIR is a tax-exempt nonprofit, and the IRS rules explicitly prohibit such groups from intervening in political campaigns on behalf of–or in opposition to–a candidate.”
The Doctor is calling on the IRS to investigate the possible violation of it tax-exempt status.
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Ben Carson: CAIR Broke the Law With Its Political Attacks”
Man From U.N.C.L.E. ID Cards
For those of you who would like to order my reproduction of the ID cards seen on the 1960s TV show “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” I need to make a few points. And PLEASE read ALL of this page–especially the stuff at the bottom–before you think about ordering.
Here are what Mine look like…
NOTICE: If any of you out there have more info on the screen used ID cards or if I have anything wrong, here, please email me at the address down below.
First of all, the MGM prop department did not make these cards to be very sturdy. They were just a quick prop made by the studio printing/prop department and were printed on card stock not much heavier than a business card.
In fact, in “The Deadly Decoy Affair” you can see that the card Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hands another character is dented and creased showing that it is not a very stiff or sturdy affair.
The card featured a yellow front with an UNCLE logo and the agent’s names punched out on a Dymo label maker tape label that was then affixed to the front of the card. That was all there was to it. The card wasn’t laminated, it wasn’t made of real thick cardboard and it wasn’t plastic, or anything. (Info on the back of the card appears below.)
So, here are the cards as seen on the show…..
CARD ONE
Even though the photo is in black and white, you can see that this one has the agents’ names on red Dymo tape with the tape glued onto the card running through the middle of the globe and angling to the left of the card. The tape ended about 1/4 inch before the edge of the card. Both agents used this card on screen. (Illya’s card is on the left, Solo’s to the right)
CARD TWO
This card was used by Illya and featured his name in red Dymo tape affixed at the center top of the card.
CARD THREE
This one was used by Solo in “The Nowhere Affair.” Notice how the black Dymo tape with his name on it is right in the middle just under the globe.
CARD FOUR
This one Was used by Solo in “The Candidate’s Wife Affair.” Notice that the black Dymo tape with his name on it goes almost to the left edge of the card unlike card number one above which has the red tape ending about 1/4 from the edge of the card.
BACK OF CARD
As to the back of the cards, in “The Deadly Decoy Affair,” in the train scene you can see that there is some printing on the back of the card. Unfortunately, it is too indistinct to see what is really there, so I have decided to use the “section” info as printed on the ID cards the studio sent out to fans in the mail in 1965. I am only assuming that this is what was on the back of the screen-used cards as this is what the studio put on the cards they sent out when fans wrote in to ask for ID cards.
HOW TO BUY
NOTICE: I am no longer making these cards
Now, I will be charging $5 per card as these are all hand made. I use an antique, manual Dymo label maker (not a modern, computer-controlled one) so each name is punched out individually by hand, the same old fashioned way just like the prop department at MGM did it.
Please tell me which card type (version one, two, three or four) you want and which agent’s names you want on the front. Also you can order your own name, but be sure to understand that if you have a very long name it will be hard to fit on the card and won’t quite look like the cards as seen on screen.
Let’s put it this way, if your name is “William Pratt” it will fit better on the card than if your name is “Jonathan Montgomery Christensen, Jr.” if you know what I mean? So, try to keep it as short as possible if you want your own name on the card. Try to use only your first and last name, especially if you have a long name.
SHIPPING
I am going to charge $4 for shipping inside the U.S. if you order three or four cards. For overseas orders we will have to handle that on a case-by-case basis.
PAYMENT
So, I do Paypal and my address for it is igcolonel@hotmail.com. Please email me at this address with which cards you want and how many, what your name and shipping address is and I will send a Paypal invoice to you. Then you can pay and I’ll make them up and ship them out.
If you want a different way to pay, then email me using the address above and we can talk about it. But I am just a guy making some fun cards, NOT a business so I do NOT do credit cards or debit cards.
Please don’t try to order 20 or 50 or 100 cards. These are hand made, hand glued, and hand sprayed with a fixative, so I am not mass producing these. I am also not trying to make a ton of money, here. I have spent quite a bit in supplies and am basically just trying to break even. This IS NOT a money making deal for me.
Planned Parenthood Protesters Throw Condoms at Carly Fiorina During Iowa Tailgate Stop
-By Warner Todd Huston
After her impassioned plea for Americans to turn against Planned Parenthood delivered to great acclaim at the last GOP debate, Carly Fiorina has gained a new foe, an enemy that turned out to protest her during her latest campaign swing through Iowa.
Fiorina attended a tailgate event outside Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday only to be faced with a small group of about 15 pro-abortion protesters.
Sporting signs with Planned Parenthood’s logo, yelling slogans, and even throwing condoms at her, the protesters certainly aimed to disrupt the event. One protester even wore an oversized facsimile of a birth control pill dispenser as she stomped around with her partners.
But even as Fiorina’s attackers tried desperately to disrupt the event, the small group was far outnumbered by the many Fiorina supporters who came out to see the candidate whose profile has been rising in the 2016 GOP field.
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Planned Parenthood Protesters Throw Condoms at Carly Fiorina During Iowa Tailgate Stop”
Now Obama Wants to Bring Back Deported People Who are Mentally Ill
-By Warner Todd Huston
Apparently getting rid of dangerous, mentally ill illegal immigrants wasn’t good enough for the U.S. government because now a federal judge has decreed that every mentally ill illegal sent back to where they belonged should be brought back to the U.S. And guess who this idiot judge wants to pay for all this re-importing of dangerous, mentally ill illegals? Yeah, you guessed it on the first try.
A judge in (where else but) California has decreed that hundreds of mentally ill illegals who “represented themselves” at their deportation hearings were illicitly deported because they weren’t mentally competent to do so and now deserve to be brought back to the US–at our expense–for yet another trial with a lawyer provided–yes, again at our expense–so that they can have another shot to stay in the US and get free mental help–aaaaand, yes, all at our expense.
As the Associated Press reported late last week:
Federal Judge Dolly M. Gee’s ruling will let immigrants with serious mental disabilities request to have their cases reopened in hopes of returning to the U.S. The ruling covers immigrants deported from California, Arizona and Washington between Nov. 21, 2011 and Jan. 27 this year.
Naturally the ACLU loves this idiotic ruling.
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Now Obama Wants to Bring Back Deported People Who are Mentally Ill”
Clinton Foundation Celebration a Flop? What Do Theses Celebs Know About Hillary?
-By Warner Todd Huston
Just as she is considered a shoo-in for the Democrat nomination and thereafter purportedly President of the United States, Hillary Clinton’s “foundation” is seen floundering with invitations to its latest big time gala being turned down by celebs across the spectrum. One would think it would be just the opposite for someone everyone seems to think is about to become President.
Certainly I put “foundation” in quotes because it isn’t a real charity. Everyone knows that. But regardless of the fraud at its heart, the Clinton Foundation has always been treated like an important entity by celebrities and world leaders. That is until the last few years when it has started to go out of fashion among the fashionable.
Troubles started in 2013 when The New York Times dared to print a story that pretty much proved that this so-called charity is less a charity and more a bottomless pit of spending on the Clintons and their pals, a slush fund to keep the Clintons in enough cash for their high flying lifestyle and payoffs to their buddies.
Still, with Clinton running for president, donations have been up with the “foundation” making a very concerted effort to gain new donors in the first half of the year. But the fact that donations have swelled does not overshadow that the illiterati have begun to snub the Clinton Foundation and the failure of this year’s gala to attract the big names is telling.
A new report this month shows that some of the biggest names in politics and show business have ignored their invitations to attend and speak at the Clinton Foundation gathering starting this weekend. Further, many have also refused to renew their expensive memberships in the Clinton’s slush fund.
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Clinton Foundation Celebration a Flop? What Do Theses Celebs Know About Hillary?”
Joe Biden Highlights Liberals’ Disgusting Hypocrisy on Life and Abortion
-By Warner Todd Huston
Vice President Joe Biden broke one of the left’s most closely held beliefs with his pronouncement on when life begins. But he also showed liberals for their disgusting, anti-human hypocrisy.
In a new interview with a Catholic magazine called America, Biden actually said he is pretty sure life begins at conception. This is something liberals never say.
After all, if life begins at conception, then abortion is necessarily killing a human being. This is usually a point that liberals refuse to concede and to avoid the discussion they pretend that any infant before birth isn’t really a human being.
During the interview, Biden said, “I’m prepared to accept that at the moment of conception there’s human life and being, but I’m not prepared to say that to other God-fearing, non-God fearing people that have a different view.”
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Joe Biden Highlights Liberals’ Disgusting Hypocrisy on Life and Abortion”
Ben Carson Under Fire for Saying Islam Not Compatible With USA, But He’s 100% Right
-By Warner Todd Huston
Dr. Ben Carson sparked controversy by saying that he doesn’t think Americans should vote for a Muslim to become president of the United States and that Islam is incompatible with the American ethos. Naturally he was called an “Islamopphobe,” but in the end Carson is 100% right. Islam is simply not compatible with the American system of government and our democratic freedoms. After all, Islam is inherently against freedom.
During Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Carson told host Chuck Todd that he would be against a Muslim president saying that he “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.”
Later, in an interview with the Washington-based newspaper The Hill, Carson went even further.
“I do not believe Sharia is consistent with the Constitution of this country. Muslims feel that their religion is very much a part of your public life and what you do as a public official, and that’s inconsistent with our principles and our Constitution,” he said.
Carson’s reference to Muslim Sharia law is, of course, spot on. Sharia is the “law” that maintains that women can be beaten at will, that gays can be thrown off of tall buildings or hanged just because they are gay, that fathers can kill their daughters with “honor killings” if said daughter is dating the wrong sort of boy, that… well, let’s face it, Sharia is a backwards, disgusting, hateful, barbaric way to run things.
If this stuff isn’t “inconsistent” with the American way of life, what is?
I have to say that I was not very informed about Islam when back in 2001 George W. Bush was proclaiming that the great majority of Iraqis were “just like you and me and yearning to be free.”
That made sense to me. After all, we’ve spent our lives understanding that American government is the one most interested in human rights and that everyone loves to have their rights assured. Further liberals have told us all that people are the same everywhere you go. So, if that were true, then the second the great masses of Iraq and Afghanistan got a taste of true democratic freedom, wouldn’t they flock to it, wouldn’t they thrill to it?
But they didn’t. In fact, they used their freedom to vote to kill, oppress, dominate, and implement barbaric Sharia laws that simply exchanged one tyranny for another. Then millions of Muslims began to converge on other countries to force those countries into the same sort of barbarism.
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Ben Carson Under Fire for Saying Islam Not Compatible With USA, But He’s 100% Right”
Was Jeb Bush Caught Doing Trying to Make Himself Seem Bigger During Debate Photos?
-By Warner Todd Huston
Bush caught trying to trick the cameras?
Before the program began at the Reagan Library for Wednesday’s second Republican presidential debate all the candidates, including three of the four from the earlier, undercard debate, lined up for a group photo. But as the phtogs assembled, some accused Jeb Bush of rising up on his tiptoes and spreading his arms to make himself taller and wider than any of the other candidates.
Bush, who at six-foot-three is already one of the tallest candidates in the filed, stood near the center of the group denoting his status as a front runner for the nomination–at least by CNN’s reckoning. But as the cameras started to click, Jeb can clearly be seen rising up and spreading his arms.
As the Daily Mail jabbed, “Jeb Bush found a surefire way to put himself a head above the other candidates.”
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Was Jeb Bush Caught Doing Trying to Make Himself Seem Bigger During Debate Photos?”
Beltway Hacks Like Bill Kristol Are Why The GOP Needs to be Eliminated
-By Warner Todd Huston
For weeks the Republican establishment was attacking Donald Trump for refusing for a time to pledge that he would not run third party if he should lose the GOP nomination for president. Then he signed the pledge. But now establishment hack Bill Kristol is claiming HE will support a third party candidate if Trump wins the GOP nomination. It is this hypocrisy that shows why the rank and file are sick and tired of the Republican Party and why the GOP needs to be torn down and rebuilt as a real, conservative party.
Trump did finally sign that pledge that the GOP establishment wanted him to sign. These hacks said that Trump couldn’t clam to be a Republican unless he pledged to run as a Republican but then also pledged to support the party nominee if he lost the primary. OK, this makes a certain amount of sense.
However, that was early in this cycle when Trump was only up a little in the polls. Now that he has surged to a commanding lead (for now, at least) the GOP establishment is getting nervous. Because their effort to force Trump to sign this one party pledge had nothing at all to do with party loyalty. It had to do with the fact that they fully assumed that Trump could never win the nomination and they wanted to prevent his third party run in order to eliminate the possibility that as a third party candidate he would act as a spoiler allowing the Democrat to easily win the White House in 2016.
But now that Trump is leading handily, as I noted, hacks like Kristol are growing worried. Now they are starting to wonder if it really is possible for Trump to win the GOP nomination. And in that case they are coming smack up against the possibility that they will be the ones who don’t want to support the party nominee.
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Beltway Hacks Like Bill Kristol Are Why The GOP Needs to be Eliminated”
Bernie Sanders Went To A Christian Conservative University And Claimed the USA is Racist
-By Warner Todd Huston
Democrat candidate for President and self proclaimed socialist Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders visited a Christian university on Monday and told students that our founders were racists and that the USA is inherently a racist nation.
It is a bit unusual that a Democrat would even accept the invitation to speak to a Christian university, of course, but with his claims that the USA is hopelessly racist, Sanders didn’t disappoint from offering the typical anti-American rhetoric that other Democrats indulge.
On Monday Sanders accepted the invitation to speak to a large audience at Liberty University, the college founded in Virginia by Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell, and during the questions and answer segment of the program, the Vermont Senator insisted that it was a “fact” that America was founded by racists and upon racist principles.
Sanders was asked by the moderator what he’d do about the deteriorating race relations in our country if he became president. His reply was typically liberal in its contempt for our founding.
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Bernie Sanders Went To A Christian Conservative University And Claimed the USA is Racist”
Miss America Contestant Says This Despite Undercover Videos Exposing Planned Parenthood
-By Warner Todd Huston
One-time disgraced Miss America, actress Vanessa Williams, asked Miss Tennessee about her thoughts on the move in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.
“Some legislators,” Williams asked Miss Tennessee, “are threatening to shut down the government over federal contributions to Planned Parenthood, even though no federal funds can be used for abortions. Should Planned Parenthood funding be cut off?”
Sadly, Hannah Robison replied with what seemed like a paid ad for Planned Parenthood, one filled with several lies and inaccuracies.
“I don’t think Planned Parenthood funding should be cut off,” Robinson said. “The $500 million that gets given to Planned Parenthood every single year goes to female care. It goes for scanning for cancer, it goes for mammograms. And if we don’t give that funding to Planned Parenthood, those women will be out of health care for reproductive causes.”
All of this is, of course, untrue. Planned Parenthood offers comparatively little by way of “health care” for women while the largest amount of its funding goes to its abortion mill services. Further, it doesn’t offer any mammogram services at all.
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Miss America Contestant Says This Despite Undercover Videos Exposing Planned Parenthood”
Maker of ‘Airplane’ Movies Destroys Obama’s Horrid Iran Deal With Hilarious ‘Iran Side Effects’ VIDEO
-By Warner Todd Huston
Obama bows after giving the nuclear
store away to the Iranian terrorists.
David Zucker, the producer of the hilarious “Airplane” and “Naked Gun” series of movies has now spoken up against Obama’s dangerous Iran nuke deal and he’s done it the way he does best, with an hilarious video and this one skewers Obama’s disastrous deal.
Zucker has created a new website called www.iransideeffects.com that you HAVE to see. The video is a pastiche of all those crazy drug commercials that tell potential customers about the horrible side effects of the drug.
Both hilarious and spot on right.
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Maker of ‘Airplane’ Movies Destroys Obama’s Horrid Iran Deal With Hilarious ‘Iran Side Effects’ VIDEO”
Some May Want to Forget 9/11–But We Must NEVER Forget!
-By Warner Todd Huston
It has been 13 years since that horrible day in 2001 when terrorism hit America with a vengeance. But many want to forget and pretend it never happened and we already have a generation of kinds just about to, or soon to enter into their teen years who can’t remember what happened on September 11, 2001. It is up to us to keep the memory of that day alive lest we allow it to be repeated.
But how do we approach that remembrance? But looking at an empty word document sitting ready to be filled with my 9/11 remembrance finds words coming slowly and I find it so hard to start this piece.
But I realized why it is so hard for me to start this piece. I am still furious, feelings are still too raw, I still well up when I see video of the towers falling, my heart still stops when I see that heart-wrenching image of bodies falling from windows hundreds of feet in the air. I still get that dark feeling in the pit of my stomach, the same one I felt that morning in 2001.
It’s all still too emotional to write a mere memorial. Words fail me.
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Some May Want to Forget 9/11–But We Must NEVER Forget!”
As Jihadi Attacks Are Up Dramatically in USA, Obama Says Conservatives are ‘Dangerous’
-By Warner Todd Huston
Since Barack Obama came to office, his security regime has repeatedly put out reports saying that conservatives, Republicans, patriots, white people, and our military veterans are “dangerous” and need to be watched, quite despite that NONE of these people have caused any troubles. On the other hand, not once has Obama put out a report saying that Muslims are dangerous. And now we get this report from Congress informing us that would-be jihadi attacks are up “dramatically” since 2010.
The new report from the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee notes that there has been a sharp rise in jihadi terror attempts inside the USA going from the 38 that were identified in 2010 to 124 by 2015.
“The Islamist terror threat in the US homeland has escalated dramatically this year and remains high,” committee chairman Michael McCaul said in the monthly “Terror Threat Snapshot” published Friday. “There have been more US-based jihadist terror cases in 2015 than in any full year since [September 11, 2001].”
Now, remember, this number represents the jihadi threats that the government has identified and cleared, so there are likely many more that they couldn’t report because they are still part of ongoing investigations. So, there are likely many more not on this list.
With the number of jihadi threats growing at a steady rate-and with some of these threats becoming real murders of Americans–it is clear that Islam is the most dangerous problem in America today.
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As Jihadi Attacks Are Up Dramatically in USA, Obama Says Conservatives are ‘Dangerous’”
Hugh Hewitt Absolutely Meant to Throw a ‘Gotcha Question’ At Donald Trump
-By Warner Todd Huston
Last week right of center radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt had Donald Trump on his radio show and during the interview began throwing a long string of terrorists’ names and organizations at Trump and needled him to say who he knew, what groups they were with, when they started, and all manner of ultra specific answers. Of course, even during the interview Hewitt claimed that he wasn’t trying to throw “gotcha questions” at Trump, but in fact that is precisely what he was doing, his disingenuous protests aside.
Yes, it is pretty disingenuous for Hugh Hewitt to claim he wasn’t trying gotcha questions with Trump. Throwing out a long list of names is not asking about foreign policy.
Asking “What would you do about Hamas” or directly asking about any other foreign policy issue is totally legitimate, of course. But to say, “do you know” this name, that name, these names, and his name, is not “foreign policy,” it is gotcha stuff. They tried this with Bush, they tried it with Reagan, but never once were questions like these asked of Democrats.
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Hugh Hewitt Absolutely Meant to Throw a ‘Gotcha Question’ At Donald Trump”
This Anti-American Pope Strikes Again, Slamming America Over Immigration
-By Warner Todd Huston
The red Pope is at it again. This time, in order to scold the U.S.A. over its already too generous immigration policies, Francis is purposefully giving a Mass in Spanish despite that less than 15 percent of the United States even speaks the language. On top of that, he went out of his way to praise an activist nun who has decided to specialize in giving aid to illegals in the U.S.
This pope has the temerity to attack the U.S.A. over immigration despite the fact that this country has allowed more people to come here than any other nation of earth. And today he praised an activist nun in an act the media is pretending was spontaneous!
During a broadcast hosted by ABC News, Pope Francis went out of his way to praise Sister Norma Pimentel, an activist nun from Texas who is making a name for herself working on behalf of people who break our laws.
During a “townhall” styled meeting the pope singled the nun out before the crowd.
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This Anti-American Pope Strikes Again, Slamming America Over Immigration”
Democrat Website Doesn’t Know the Difference Between Aging Polish Military Vets and American Soldiers
Democrats so hate our military and are so entirely unfamiliar our veterans that on the website for the Democrat National Committee they posted a photo of some aging members of the Polish military—who were, by the way, actually WEARING their European inspired, Polish military uniforms–and labeled it as a photo of U.S. military veterans.
President Obama greets Polish veterans in Warsaw, Poland, on May 27, 2011.
A Democratic website mistakenly posted the photo to represent U.S. veterans.
Come on. LOOK at that photo. Who couldn’t tell those weren’t American uniforms?
The photo that was on the DNC website until last week showed aging veterans of the Polish military greeting President Obama. But instead of being properly labeled as a photo of members of a foreign military the photo was labeled as one depicting American military vets greeting the President.
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Democrat Website Doesn’t Know the Difference Between Aging Polish Military Vets and American Soldiers”
Spanish Language Media Calling Donald Trump ‘Hitler’
-By Warner Todd Huston
As the Trump campaign rolls onward, Spanish language media in the U.S. are turning increasingly hostile with the real estate mogul being called everything from Hitler to a monkey.
Tempers flared at a recent Trump press conference when activist Univision TV personality Jorge Ramos leapt to his feet to interrupt the questions from other reporters and threw out a series of rapid fire statements and but no questions.
Trump had Ramos removed for the disruption, but then relented letting the activist TV star to engage him in a debate on some of the candidate’s immigration ideas.
Ramos has admitted that he isn’t really covering Trump as a reporter because Trump’s comments are “personal” to him.
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Spanish Language Media Calling Donald Trump ‘Hitler’”
What a Surprise: The Racist Virginia TV Killer Was a Big Obama Fan
-By Warner Todd Huston
Is anyone surprised at this? Anyone at all? We’ve now discovered that the failed TV reporter who filmed himself murdering two white former co-workers in Virginia on Wednesday was once reprimanded by his TV boss for wearing an Obama badge while reporting election results in 2012.
Murderer Vester Lee Flanagan was a former reporter at WDBJ TV before being fired in 2013. His rambling, race-tinged manifesto reveals that he had been disgruntled about being fired ever since and he claimed that racism was a motivation for the murders.
Flanagan, for instance, claimed that the shooting of several African American churchgoers in Charleston was a prime motivator for his own murder spree.
But Flanagan seemed to have many more problems than the Charleston shooting. As The Daily Mail reports, Flanagan had a habit of verbally assaulting cameramen in public and “intimidating them with his violent temper.”
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What a Surprise: The Racist Virginia TV Killer Was a Big Obama Fan”
Famous Illegal Alien Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Isn’t Paying the Taxes He’s Always Claiming He Does
-By Warner Todd Huston
Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, arguably the most famous illegal alien in the media, has repeatedly argued that he and other illegals are productive members of society and pay their “fair share” of taxes. But this claim just took a hit after news leaked that a federal tax lien of over $41K was levied against his property in California due to a failure to pay taxes.
Records showing the lien against Vargas’ property were revealed by Red Alert Politics this week. The filings show that the journalist was hit with a $41,945.44 tax lien on Jan. 7, 2015 for failing to pay his 2010 taxes.
On a myriad of occasions Vargas has claimed that illegals, including himself, are law abiding, tax paying citizens. He made the claim in the famous 2011 New York Times article in which he “outed” himself as an illegal alien who had been breaking the law for over a decade. He also made the claim in such places as Time magazine in 2012, on CNN in 2014, and in multiple other venues.
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Famous Illegal Alien Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Isn’t Paying the Taxes He’s Always Claiming He Does”