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Speaking of Democrats and their problems with morality and ethics this extends charges to date.  http://americanactionnews.com/articles/shocking-allegations-emerge-against-powerful-dems  You may want to check out the "See Also" items at the end of the piece.   Here is another Democrat politician with ethical problems.    http://www.libertyheadlines.com/drunken-dem-rep-gave-staffer-48k-keep-secret/

This item provides just one more example of demented leftist thought.  People who think and say things like this have had their minds destroyed by liberal/progressive unbelievably stupid and hateful propaganda.  Quote: "Homann told the Washington Examiner: “I have no doubt that racism is still alive today. Look no further than this blatantly racist, divisive article posted by the University Star. While I believe Mr. Martinez has every right to express his disparaging world-view, I am appalled that the school paper, funded by tuition and tax dollars, would give this guy a platform to do so.” The editorial concludes: “Whiteness will be over because we want it to be. And when it dies, there will be millions of cultural zombies aimlessly wandering across a vastly changed landscape. Ontologically speaking, white death will mean liberation for all… Until then, remember this: I hate you because you shouldn’t exist. You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon meeting you, die.”   https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/11/30/your-white-dna-is-an-abomination/

This item illustrates the illogical thinking that populates so many liberal minds. It is a truly sad thing to observe.  Quote: "While nearly every news agency in existence reported on the attack, virtually none of them have reported on the guns used by the terrorists. However, a local Egyptian news correspondent reported that the terrorists used “automatic rifles,” which are banned in Egypt."    http://www.dailywire.com/news/23934/gun-control-fail-terrorists-use-banned-guns-murder-ryan-saavedra    Bad people do not follow the law so laws to keep them from doing things do not matter.  Bad laws only hurt good people.

This kind of sums up the corruption resident within the legislature and our nation's spy organizations. Quote: "Most people are naïve about how intelligence operations are run. Holding damaging secrets on public figures equals the opportunity for blackmail. This strategy was probably discovered by cave men. —Sex-abuse claims filed against members of Congress—beyond Al Franken and John Conyers— Where are all the names of these Congressmen? We’re now told that, in the past 10 years, $17 million has been paid out to accusers in small sums. An unknown part of that money was compensation for explicitly sexual offenses. There are more cases where the accusers simply gave up and refused to pursue claims. They’re potentially waiting in the wings. Not only are the Congressmen guilty, they’re open to blackmail. As they vote on bills; as they decide which lobbyists to favor; as they decide what advice to follow from intelligence agencies; as they decide whether to take meetings with agents from other countries; they’re always looking over their shoulders, wondering: HOW MUCH DO THESE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT ME? WHAT SHOULD I DO TO STAY SAFE?    https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/11/23/compromised-sex-abuser-congressmen-are-open-to-massive-blackmail/

Continuing the Speaking of Democrats theme, this is just one more example how corrupt so many of politicians are.  Quote: "The FBI documents said law enforcement had “probable cause to believe that Kenneth Smukler, Robert Brady, Donald ‘D.A.’ Jones, Jimmie Moore, and Carolyn Cavaness and others known and unknown have committed violations.” These violations could include “charges of conspiracy, false statements, producing false records, causing false campaign contribution reports and violating limits on campaign contributions and expenditures,” The Daily Caller reported. Given a busier off-year electoral season than usual, it hardly made a blip on the political radar in October when federal prosecutors in Philadelphia indicted two of Brady’s consultants on the 2012 campaign. According to The Associated Press, Kenneth Smukler and Donald Jones were indicted and charged with masterminding a scheme in which Moore was paid $90,000 to drop his challenge to Brady. The two faced charges that included conspiracy and lying to the FBI." https://conservativetribune.com/democrat-under-fbi-investigation/? 

And yet another example of lack of logic of Democrat thinking regarding efforts to fix immigration problems our country faces.  This is the mayor of Philadelphia displaying his moral judgement of Trump's attempts to fix a long broken immigration system.  The mayor bases his outrage on emotions and not facts which have serious consequences for American citizens Democrats never want to address.   http://www.libertyheadlines.com/mayor-calls-trump-bully-ending-immigration-program/?   The mayor is obviously appealing to his far left socialistic base and not the interests of law abiding and tax paying American citizens.

This is an unconscionable act built on a joint government and big pharma lie.  Fifty people get the shaft for refusing to get flue shots that are provably unreliable and even can be dangerous.  https://eaglerising.com/48929/company-fires-50-employees-over-refusal-to-get-flu-shots/   The government health agencies and big pharma are in collusion making big pharma financial bottom line more robust than it deserves and challenges the ethics of those responsible for false advertising.

It has long been my belief that this Republican is a very unethical man and a dirty politician.  This item suggests that he is a big time liar seeking much underserved sympathy.  https://eaglerising.com/48938/smells-like-bs-faker-mccain-explains-photos-of-boot-on-wrong-foot/ 

This item will cause you to pause and think.  It is a narrative discussing IQ's and their relationship to ethnicity and the goodness/idiocy of people regardless of IQ.    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/11/25/fun-with-iq-deep-thought/

 

This demonstrates what the leftist IRS workers loyal to Obama are like.  They are cowards who callously violated the law but do not want their sins exposed and linked to them personally.  They do not deserve anonymity.  http://www.conservativefreepress.com/legal-scoops/obamas-irs-thugs-beg-court-keep-testimony-secret/

So what's new??? The Obama administration was just one lie after another. Quote: "In a speech to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies last week, a New York Times reporter claimed that the Obama administration deliberately misled the press in regards to the al-Qaeda terrorist network in order to avoid losing ground in the 2012 presidential election. Rukmini Callimachi, a top foreign correspondent for the paper, said that Obama’s top officials misled the American public about the strength of the terrorist organization by painting Osama Bin Laden as a leader in isolation, without any remaining power over the group."    http://www.themadpatriots.com/politics/reporter-accuses-obama-administration-of-hiding-truth-about-al-qaeda/ 

Anyone who thinks the foolish notion of sanctuary cities is sound and humane policy needs to consider this. Quote: "Nearly a dozen members of the hyperviolent MS-13 street gang lured a man into a park and stabbed him over 100 times, cut his head off, and cut his heart out of his chest and threw it on the grave they buried him in, authorities say.     http://www.dailywire.com/news/23904/police-illegal-alien-ms-13-gang-member-decapitated-ryan-saavedra?

This is an example of how stupid so many of academics really are.  Their thinking is decidedly to the left and void of any common sense.  To support Muslim control over any country is absolute insanity.  To say the whole of Europe should accommodate demands from Islam is suicidal.    https://conservativetribune.com/french-academic-only-way-to/?

An insightful piece.  It resonated with me anyway.  https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/11/23/the-end-of-the-age-of-benevolence/

This piece reveals two evil socialists working together to collude against Trump.  That Trump is undoing the damage done to the country by Obama, Democrats and socialists is disturbing to them.  Their march to make "our" country "their" socialist paradise is being dismantled and they are pulling out all the stops to get rid of him.    http://teapartyusa.org/private-memo-released-pelosi-and-soros-caught-colluding-in-lefts-biggest-dark-money-donor-meeting/  

George Burns

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This item suggests that if Trump continues his assault on the administrative state remarkable growth will follow. Quote: "Occurring largely behind the scenes, President Trump’s most significant contribution to a more prosperous America is also his least understood: his assault on the administrative state. The administrative state is the manifestation of a form of government that invests power in an unelected bureaucracy that can write the rules, enforce the rules and sit in judgment on the rules – essentially combining the power of three branches of constitutional government into one."    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/11/26/trump-s-assault-on-administrative-state-will-benefit-america.html

Another Trump accomplishment good for the country.  Trump got China to lift a bunch of import taxes on American goods.  And, liberals/Democrats want to impeach him...but never even thought of lifting a finger to put a stop to the many Obama presidential crimes and misdemeanors.   https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trump-notches-another-win-on-trade-as-china-slashes-tariffs/   Democrat's irrational hate of Trump is almost as their visceral hate of our federal republic...they pine for their socialist paradise.   

This is what socialists do with our money.  Bernie Sanders serves as our guide.   https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/11/26/isnt-socialism-great/  Do you have a car like that?  By the way, he also has three, maybe four different homes.  This illustrates that the truth Socialism is good for the socialists but not good for the masses. Socialists use the masses to satisfy their own socialist needs for control and riches - that is what happens everywhere it has been tried. Is that what you understand of socialism?  If not a further investigation into the matter is required.

This item addresses the faulty, no biased, logic of some on the judicial left.  They prove themselves to be incompetents by mindless twisting of the First Amendment.  According to them Colorado law overrides the US Constitution.  Christian's cannot deny homosexual demands to make them a cake promoting their lifestyle.  But, homosexuals can deny performing the same service to Christians.  The court even required the Christian baker to attend "reorientation" training - State forced homosexual propaganda training which is a clear violation of the First Amendment.  Homosexuals apparently neither do not have to obey or require training in accommodating First Amendment Christian rights.    http://www.wnd.com/2017/11/wedding-cake-prosecution-bible-verses-not-religious/   If this is not state sponsored propaganda, blatant bias on part of Colorado's judiciary and even illegal behavior I have completely lost my mind.   The political left has lost its way and is going from really bad to really, really, really bad.  Laws are what they want them to be, not what they are.  Such is the mindset of progressive leftist Democrats.

This is an example of a politician's irrational thought process.  Quote: "But zero tolerance sexual harassment chickenhawking doesn’t help solve the problem, especially when there’s somebody in her own party, right under her nose, whose misdeeds deserved something beyond the quietly and privately arranged punishment they received. Solving the old problems in the same old way they’ve always been solved won’t put a stop to them. Pelosi is far from the only partisan who has demonstrated uneven morals when it comes to sexual misconduct. She’s not the only one who doesn’t understand what must be done. She’s just the most visible and the latest, and likely won’t be the last.  The cathartic first steps in the #MeToo moment have passed, leaving an uncertain path ahead on Capitol Hill. The next steps probably will involve more awkward rhetorical switchbacks, probably some lost seats, and maybe some tarnished legacies, even for “icons.” Today, however, two things are clear: most politicians haven’t thought the #MeToo moment through, beyond the tasty grandstanding opportunity it’s presented them with. And the old ways, while certainly persistent, simply don’t work."    https://www.thedailybeast.com/nancy-pelosi-botches-the-metoo-moment

Anyone who believe Jeff Bezos is a good man doing good things for the people out of the goodness of his heart needs to give a bit of time to this piece.  He is definitely one of our nation's leftist elitists wielding his money and power for his benefit and benefit of movement of our political system to the socialistic left.  Quote: "There is a basic premise behind reporting .vs. editorializing — one is llegedly unbiased, although we all have our personal prejudices while the other is labeled opinion (it’s found on the opinion page and is disclosed as such.) Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, it is now clear, in order to effect a public lobbying strategy much larger than that which Hastings “organized” and led to a five times increase in his firm’s stock price revolving around net neutrality. That latter event occurred after ISPs, properly recognizing that he was effectively driving semi trucks over the roads built for cars and refusing to pay higher fuel taxes and license plate fees for same, or, if you prefer, opening up a 2″ water connection to a 6″ main and demanding not to be charged by the gallon, resulting in you having no water pressure, started pushing back and demanding that Netflix cover the outsized costs being imposed on said ISPs to prevent service-quality collapses to everyone, including those who didn’t want his service. In response Hastings got a bunch of left-aligned media to whip the public into a froth and Obama’s FCC obliged by handing him tens of billions of dollars of money literally forced out of non-subscriber’s wallets."

More about Jeff Bezos.   https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/11/30/destroy-everything-bezos-touches-and-not-just-bezos/

This is an example of why you cannot believe the polls produced by many polling outfits - some are run by hateful idiots like this man who illustrates his ignorance of facts as much as his hateful leftist/socialist biases. But it isn't hard to recognize them for the repeated inaccuracies of their results.  If this charge is wrong let me know.  Quote: "Democratic pollster Fernand Amandi guest starred on MSNBC;s “AM Joy” on Saturday. During that broadcast, he claimed the Republican Party is not in fact a political party but rather “a domestic terror group.”  https://eaglerising.com/48966/msnbc-guest-republican-party-is-a-domestic-terrorist-group/    He comes across as a bit deranged.  He really seems to not realize that his disparaging words actually describe the Democrat party.

Hollywood is not the only cesspool in the socialist Democrat state of California.  The state capitol, Sacramento, is having its own sexual crisis with charges coming out all over the place.  Quote: "California lawmakers wrapped up work for the year two months ago, but state Sen. Kevin de Leon isn't resting easy: A torrent of sexual-harassment allegations in the state Capitol started raining down on top Democrats in Sacramento just 48 hours after de Leon announced his attempt to challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) for her seat. While de Leon has not been accused or directly implicated in any impropriety in the growing sexual harassment scandal, as president pro tempore, de Leon did nothing concrete to change what powerful California political women describe as a pervasive, long-standing climate of sexual harassment in the state capitol."   Do we want immoral, unethical and corrupt Democrats in charge of anything?  Not the current crop anyway.

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This is a very interesting piece dealing with the history of Isreal's political leftist leadership and the notion of genocide.  Quote: "So much for rogue religious rightwing settlers twisting Israel’s arm.  Those who have followed the Zionist historical trace may not be surprised by these statements, nor that they are uttered by ‘liberal-Zionists’, by ‘leftists’. The logic here is, after all, Zionism 101. Nonetheless, they can still be shocking to read, and they should be. These are statements that convey clear intention of ethnic cleansing, and even Genocide. Emptying out, suffocation, deprivation of water till orchards wither. These words are not uttered by rightist Zionist leaders, but by leftist ones. No wonder Israel keeps these archives hidden for 50 years and more."    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/11/25/plotting-genocide-in-the-only-democracy-in-the-middle-east/#more-164403     Ethnic cleansing has been a long standing tradition of American political leftists, too.  Before you say no way, check your history. Leftist activities by some of our past nation's leaders promoted genocide of both native American Indians and blacks.  Hitler admired their efforts so much that he copied some of them with his ethic cleansing of jews, homosexuals, gypsies and more. Leftist Planned Parenthood's founder Margaret Sanger preached genocide of blacks and other undesirables.  Ask yourself why is it that so many Planned Parenthood facilities are located near by to predominantly black communities. Sorry to say but that is all true.  One observation about the Jews and Muslims of today.  They employ genocide tactics against Jews, Christians and other ethnicities.  Jews do not promote genocide on anyone. Nor do Christians.  So when you think of the horrible crime of genocide you know that it predominantly comes from the twisted thinking of the political left, no matter how much they may claim to love everyone and are the nicest, most concerned and tolerant people on earth.  That is a patently false narrative if ever there was one.

This is something many people have known and understood about our two major political parties and is why I do not owe my allegiance to either one. I am an independent conservative with some libertarian leanings.  Quote: "“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” — John Adams, The Works of John Adams  Political parties exist to give the illusion of choice. But the “choices” they give you are choices they decide upon. You have very little say in it. Plainly stated, an elite group rules no matter which political party appears to be in power."    https://personalliberty.com/myth-political-parties/

Much of what this assessment of past and ongoing performance of government affairs covers gives one reason to pause as to what in the world were/are we doing? https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/11/26/thanksgiving-2017-why-there-is-no-peace-on-earth/

Something to ponder. Quote: "I often write articles analyzing mainstream news assertions. I show that the implications of these assertions are titanic absurdities. This is one of those articles. People don’t seem to understand what the Trump dossier claims. Among other things, it states that the Russians had, and have, sufficient blackmail information on Trump to control him. This is quite fantastic. A US president under the thumb of Putin and his top intelligence operatives. Let that sink in. Now imagine you’re Putin. You’re holding this gigantic ace in the deck. Through a long and carefully wrought plan, you’ve won the Holy Grail of intelligence work. To what degree would you protect your secret and your victory? To the greatest degree possible."  Now read the ridiculous nature of the left's claims. https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/top-reasons-why-the-trump-dossier-is-not-believable/

Radical left leaning feminists are not nice people.  This item is just one example.  Quote: "This is modern feminism. What may have begun as a well-meaning movement to elevate women has now turned into a cancerous hatred of everything male. It isn’t enough that women advance; innocent men must be pulled down and made to suffer at the same time.  Let’s demonstrate just how vile these views are. By replacing the subject but leaving the rest of the message intact, here’s what Emily Lindin’s stance looks like in a different light. Imagine if she had said the exact same thing about people of color. “I’m actually not at all concerned about innocent black people losing their jobs over false criminal allegations.”    https://conservativetribune.com/liberals-admit-real-agenda/?   Hillary fits in this mode.  She is a total hypocrite.  Compare her effort to box in Trump during the presidential debates and her disgusting performance ever since she lost the election - a 100% turn around.    https://conservativetribune.com/hillary-defines-threat-falls/?

This is an apt depiction of the fiasco Nancy Pelosi pulled off on Meet The Press this past Sunday.  http://www.themadpatriots.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-the-most-pathetic-fake-feminist-in-the-democratic-party/ 

This item follows up the previous one.  It speaks to the unbelievable support leftists and especially feminists give to Muslims.  If they truly cared about women's rights they would condemn the horrific conditions women face from their dress, their ability to be independent of the control of men, call for the halt of mutilating female private parts, to honor killings and more. Quote: "A Jordanian woman living in Michigan is seeking court protection from being deported back to her homeland out of fear that she will be killed as soon as she returns in accordance with Islamic Shariah law."  Feminists and leftists are an irrational lot.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/11/death-threat-allows-muslim-woman-to-evade-deportation/   You will remember that Hillary collected millions of dollars from Muslim countries that treat women horribly.  She took the money and ran without any preconditions to improve their treatment of women.  So much for her claim to have been fighter and defender of women's rights all life.  That is just one more of her many lies.

This and the next item point out areas where progressive policies are failures.  https://fee.org/articles/progressives-suggestions-to-save-democracy-are-hilariously-terrible/?  And,  https://fee.org/articles/progressive-policies-make-philanthropy-less-effective/? 

This item shares information about the federal reserve and its repeated but failed attempts to manage booms and busts and issues now front and center.  https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/11/27/the-yellen-put/

Why Is Everyone in the Private Sector Held Accountable While DC Runs Wild?

Democrat Kathleen Rice is as fed up with Washington D.C. as the rest of the country.
During an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday night, Rice fumed about the double standard between the private sector and taxpayer funded politicians being protected on Capitol Hill.
"It's that kind of response that leads everyday Americans to say, 'What is going on in Washington? Why is everyone in the private sector held accountable and yet when the same kind of behavior is exposed in Washington D.C., they circle the wagons and protect their own?'" Rice said. "I for one am not going to be in that position.
While men like Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose and a long list of others have been fired for bad behavior, albeit maybe belatedly, politicians like Rep. John Conyers and Senator Al Franken get to stay and make their own decisions about resignation.
Yesterday Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi held a meeting to discuss sexual harassment with members. Rice walked out, saying she "doesn't have time for meetings that aren't real." She has introduced a bipartisan bill with Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock that would require sexual harassment training for all members of Congress, in addition to an overhaul of the reporting system on Capitol Hill.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/11/30/kathleen-rice-why-is-it-that-everyone-in-the-private-sector-is-held-accountable-and-dc-is-running-wild-n2416222

The Social Cost of Obama-Era Climate Calculations

More than 200 cities and 12 states have pledged to uphold the Paris climate accord, even after President Donald Trump announced his administration would withdraw the United States from the agreement. These pledges have led four states — Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York — to enact climate and energy policies based on the Obama-era social cost of carbon (SCC) calculations, which attempt to quantify the long-term economic damages associated with emitting one ton of carbon dioxide into the air. The Obama administration concluded for every ton of carbon dioxide released, $36 worth of damage occurs.

The SCC is based on flawed scientific and economic assumptions. As a result, the dozens of regulations imposed on the energy sector that were based on these calculations significantly and needlessly increase the cost of electricity without delivering any measurable environmental benefits.
The SCC overestimates how much warming will occur from increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the air because it is based on outdated estimates from 2007. These figures were derived from a study that concluded doubling the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would warm the planet by between 1.72 degrees Celsius and 7.14 degrees C, with their “most likely” estimate to be 3 degrees C.
More than a dozen scientific studies have since found the range of possible outcomes for global warming is much smaller than the scenario relied upon in the SCC calculation. For example, a study by a group of climate modelers who conducted analyses for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2013 found a much smaller range of potential outcomes; they concluded there is a low-end estimate of 1.2 degrees C and a high-end estimate of 4 degrees C, with a “best guess” of 2 degrees C. Other studies have found the best estimate to be a 1.64-degree C increase, if accompanied by a doubling of atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations.

https://spectator.org/the-social-cost-of-obama-era-climate-calculations/ 

The DEA and the Opioid Crisis

It’s difficult to know how the Drug Enforcement Administration is adjusting tactics following media scrutiny about a new law’s impact on its regulatory authority, namely what is called “immediate suspension orders.” These orders allow the agency to freeze suspicious shipments of prescription opioids involving manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, and doctors.
The Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016, enacted last year requires a higher standard before DEA can issue these orders, raising questions about how such a measure sailed through Congress and was signed into law by President Obama in the middle of a raging drug epidemic. While some see red flags, with the drug industry exerting undue influence in getting the measure passed, others say immediate suspension orders vested too much authority in federal law enforcement powers, citing civil liberty and due process concerns.
Nevertheless, an October Washington Post – “60 Minutes” investigation highlighting DEA whistleblowers prompted Tom Marino, President Trump’s drug czar nominee, to withdraw his name from consideration, and now Congress is considering bills to restore powers under the Controlled Substances Act to freeze more suspicious opioid shipments. 
Communicating with the public, press, and Congress in a clear and complete manner will go a long way to restoring confidence that there is a strong law enforcement response to the worst drug crisis in our nation’s history. Despite the increased scrutiny of the opioid epidemic, and more recently the inner workings of the DEA, there are more questions than answers at this point.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/11/the_dea_and_opioid_regulation.html#ixzz4zwdN0S4z

We're Going to Release Names of Lawmakers Who Used 'Hush Fund'

Americans were rightfully outraged when they learned that members of Congress had used taxpayer dollars to pay settlement claims to alleged victims of sexual harassment.
They were even more outraged when they saw the numbers. The secret payouts for harassment claims, of which there have been more than 200, amounted to more than $17 million. There's no telling so far how much of that money went to silence sexual assault accusers.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is seeking to release the names of lawmakers who used this "hush fund." She's a co-sponsor of the Congressional Accountability and Hush Fund Elimination Act, which would require full disclosure of the settlements within 30 days.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/11/30/blackburn-were-going-to-release-names-of-congressmen-who-used-hush-fund-n2416191