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The New American
by William F. Jasper
5/14/2018

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“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within,” the great Roman statesman Cicero opined before the Senate. That warning is as applicable today as it was 2,000 years ago.

In 1965, best-selling historical novelist Taylor Caldwell published her great work on Marcus Tullius Cicero, A Pillar of Iron. A central focus of her meticulously researched study was Cicero’s political combat with, and triumph over, the treasonous conspiracy led by Roman Senator Lucius Sergius Catilina, known in English as Catiline. While Rome’s wealthiest and ablest citizens timidly evaded their duties to defend the commonweal against the impending mortal danger, Cicero, the incomparable rhetoretician, aided by Cato the Younger, dauntlessly exposed and opposed the Catiline conspiracy, which had penetrated all levels of the government. Prominent senators and aristocrats in the conspiracy included Lentulus, Cethegus, Longinus, and Paetus.

“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within,” Caldwell records Cicero declaiming before the Senate, in A Pillar of Iron. “An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

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The time has come to part ways with the unhinged Erdoğan.

FrontPage Mag
by Art Lieberman
5/11/2018

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Turkey’s acceptance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in October 1951 was a boon for the organization. Though its human rights record was far from stellar, it was staunchly anti-Communist, maintained a formidable army, was amenable to the placement of NATO assets in the country, including nuclear-tipped Jupiter ballistic missiles and was strategically located, flanking the Soviet Union on the south and acting as a bridge between Europe and Asia.

Though Turkey was technically a Muslim country, it leaders, following the doctrines espoused by Kamal Ataturk, zealously guarded the secular nature of the state. Religious influence was kept to a minimum and this was especially true for government officials and parliamentarians. Indeed, there was a significant Jewish population in Turkey and Turkey was the first Muslim majority nation to recognize Israel, extending recognition in March 1949.

During the Korean War, Turkey sent a sizable contingent to fight alongside the United States-led United Nations coalition, and its troops acquitted themselves well in combat. Turkey’s strained relations with its neighbor Greece and its human rights record proved to be problematic issues for NATO but were overlooked in light of the benefits conveyed to NATO by Turkish membership.

With the ascension of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as prime minister in 2003, the equation began to change. Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot, began systematically changing the character of secular Turkey, incrementally at first so as not to upset the Turkish Army, but at an accelerated pace in recent years. Now president, Erdoğan has consolidated his power and has neutered his foes in the press, the judiciary, the political opposition, and the army.

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Senator Charles “Chuck” Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, left, speaks while introducing John Kasich, governor of Ohio and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, during a town hall meeting at the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 ……….

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Image source — TIME — http://time.com/5048019/chuck-grassley-booze-women-estate-tax/

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American Thinker
by Thomas Lifson
5/12/2018

Excerpt:

Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, the laconic Midwesterner with a steel trap mind, dropped a bombshell yesterday with a letter (the full letter appears below – pdf here) to Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein (who supervises the Mueller probe) and FBI director Christopher Wray.  But in keeping with Grassley’s style, which has so often misled his opponents into overconfidence, you have to read between the lines to see where he is heading.  The end point: uncovering the plot to frame General Flynn for lying to the FBI, including likely criminal acts by senior members of the FBI.

Recall that facing financial ruin, and threats to prosecute his son on unrelated charges, General Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, yet James Comey told the Grassley Committee in a briefing:

[T]he FBI agents who interviewed Lt. General Michael Flynn, “saw nothing that led them to believe [he was] lying.” Our own Committee staff’s notes indicate that Mr. Comey said the “agents saw no change in his demeanor or tone that would say he was being untruthful.”  Contrary to his public statements during his current book tour denying any memory of those comments, then-Director Comey led us to believe during that briefing that the agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe he intentionally lied about his conversation with the Ambassador and that the Justice Department was unlikely to prosecute him for false statements made in that interview.  In the months since then, the Special Counsel obtained a guilty plea from Lt. General Flynn for that precise alleged conduct.

Comey has since changed his tune, in “a Fox News interview in which he denied he ever told lawmakers that he did not believe Michael Flynn lied.”

General Flynn’s sentencing has been delayed repeatedly, as Judge Emmett Sullivan (who replaced Judge Contreras after he was removed from the case) has demanded that all exculpatory evidence be handed over to him.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/05/senator_grassley_appears_to_be_preparing_to_bust_the_frameup_of_general_flynn.html

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The American Mirror
by Victor Skinner
5/11/2018

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http://www.theamericanmirror.com/rep-waters-offended-by-call-for-unity-i-resent-making-america-great-again/

Gateway Pundit
by Jim Hoft
5/10/2018

Excerpt:

PAY DIRT!

Now we know why the Deep State has been working so hard to take down President Trump and the republic.

OBAMA DEEP STATE HAD A SPY INSIDE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN!

Barack Obama, arguably the worst president in US history, was wiretapping and listening in on all of the Trump campaign and transition team calls.
And now we know his Deep State minions had a spy inside the Trump campaign!

This is all starting to make sense now.

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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/05/pay-dirt-house-discovers-fbi-had-spy-inside-trump-campaign-while-obama-doj-wiretapped-campaign-transition-calls/

ZeroHedge
by Tyler Durden
5/11/2018

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Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti has some explaining to do…

After appearing on CNN 59 times to claim the moral high ground over President Trump’s alleged decade-old affair with Daniels, skeletons in Avenatti’s closet are now beginning to pour out.

Questions have emerged over who’s funding Avenatti, how he was privy to Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s bank records – and how exactly did he obtain banking transactions for two men also named Michael Cohen, who he wrongly accused in a seven-page “dossier” released this week. 

Other questions have come to light over a bankrupt coffee chain Avenatti left in smoldering ashes with $5 million in unpaid taxes to the IRS, an alleged $160,000 owed for unpaid coffee, and over 45 lawsuits filed in connection with the failed venture. 

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-10/avenatti-exposed-stormys-lawyer-may-face-disbarrment-legal-action-past-catches

Breitbart / Big-Hollywood
by Jerome Hudson
5/10/2018

Excerpt:

Veteran Hollywood actor and stand up comedian Dennis Miller joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to dissect the President Trump-induced cultural and political shift that’s seen stars like Kanye West embrace the MAGA mantra and Democrats and the Left ramp up their attacks on free speech.

Marlow asked the Saturday Night Live alum if there’s anything to author Bret Easton Ellis’ argument that there’s a backlash brewing against the “leftist hysteria” in Hollywood and in Congress that will eventually result in more celebrities, such as Kanye West, rebelling against the liberal agenda.

“If you’re going to be the cool kids, you cannot be hysterical every day,” Miller said of Democrats and the activists left who are constantly campaigning for Trump’s impeachment. “If you’re saying the guy is Hitler-like or he’s a hooker junky, you’re missing the point. Because eventually the boy who cried wolf syndrome takes over and people go ‘Geez, it seems to me that Trump won on November 8th and every single day it’s the end of the world.’”

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/05/10/dennis-miller/

Twitter link: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/994182263960162304

Gateway Pundit
by Jim Hoft
5/7/2018

Excerpt:

It seems like it was just yesterday that Politico Magazine was cheering New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as the man who would take down Donald Trump.

Eric Schneiderman is celebrated on the left.

He is was the Democrat Party’s great hope to take down Donald Trump.

Schneiderman is a frequent guest on far left TV.

The conspiracy media cheered when Schneiderman filed his 100th case against President Donald Trump.

But tonight their dreams were shattered.

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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/05/the-great-hope-of-the-dnc-to-take-down-trump-is-charged-with-beating-slapping-choking-threatening-4-women/