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American Thinker
by Thomas Lifson
3/1/2018

Excerpt:

I have a strong suspicion that the current kerfuffle between President Trump and Jeff Sessions is part of a strategy, not merely – as the left has it – a rogue president shockingly, immaturely, and inappropriately attacking his attorney general on Twitter.

By now, you have probably seen the tweet in question:

Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 28, 2018

Occam’s Razor suggests that the president means it and that he really wants DOJ prosecutors charged with going after Comey and is genuinely angry at Sessions.  But I always see Donald Trump as a master of the video narrative, an expert crafter of story arcs that work to his advantage, and which often lure his opponents into positions that redound to his benefit once all the facts and drama have played themselves out before the nation’s eyes.  Never forget that Donald Trump is the most successful reality television producer in the history of the medium.  And never forget that he played the media like a Stradivarius violin during the campaign, exploiting their predictable outrage.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/03/understanding_the_strategy_behind_president_trumps_twitter_slam_of_ag_sessions.html

The statistics the media won’t let us talk about.

Front Page Mag
by Ann Coulter
2/27/2018

Excerpt:

As fun as it is to ridicule the FBI for devoting massive resources to chasing down Hillary Clinton’s oppo research while blowing off repeated, specific warnings about school shooter Nikolas Cruz, we’ve put a lot on the agency’s plate.

We’re hauling in nearly 2 million manifestly unvetted Third World immigrants every year, leading to a slew of FBI “Watch Lists” with a million names apiece. In 2015, Director James Comey said that there were ISIS investigations in all 50 states — even Idaho and Alaska! And that’s just one terrorist organization.

Maybe the FBI brass would still be a bunch of incompetent, PC nincompoops if we weren’t dumping millions of psychotic and terrorist foreigners on the country. But even the most efficient organization would have trouble keeping track of the Nikolas Cruzes when our immigration policies require approximately one-third of the country to be constantly watching another third of the country.

Thanks to our Second Amendment, the United States has fewer mass shootings per capita than many other developed countries, including Norway, France, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium and the Czech Republic. (And 98 percent of our mass shootings occur in “gun-free zones.”)

But imagine if we could cut our mass shootings in half?

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269391/amazing-new-breakthrough-reduce-mass-shootings-ann-coulter#disqus_thread

Image source: International Business Times – http://www.ibtimes.com/amazon-nearly-20-years-business-it-still-doesnt-make-money-investors-dont-seem-care-1513368

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FOX Business
by Megan Henney
2/27/2018

Excerpt:

Jeff Bezos’ sprawling e-commerce giant Amazon reportedly raked in more than $5.6 billion in U.S. profits in 2017, but despite that, the company essentially paid $0 in federal income taxes.

That’s largely attributable to “excess stock-based compensation deductions” and the effect of the 2017 Tax Act, according to the company’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing earlier this month. In other words, Amazon was able to leverage the tax credits and breaks to zero out taxes it owed this year, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economy Policy (ITEP), a non-partisan think tank.

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https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/amazon-earned-5-6b-in-2017-but-paid-no-federal-taxes

Illustration by Sonia Roy; Zeitgeist/Photofest (Cherbourg), Clarence Sinclair Bull/John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images (Thin), Twentieth Century Fox Pictures/Photofest (Stormy), iStock (Lights, Clapper, Film, Hand, Countdown, Chair)

The Hollywood Reporter
by Camille Paglia
2/27/2018

Excerpt:

The social critic and academic questions special protections for women (“Speak up now, or shut up later!”) and prescribes classic films to “inform the alluring rituals of attraction” amid Hollywood’s harassment crisis.

It’s open sex war — a grisly death match that neither men nor women will win.

Ever since The New York Times opened the floodgates last October with its report about producer Harvey Weinstein’s atrocious history of sexual harassment, there has been a torrent of accusations, ranging from the trivial to the criminal, against powerful men in all walks of life.

But no profession has been more shockingly exposed and damaged than the entertainment industry, which has posed for so long as a bastion of enlightened liberalism. Despite years of pious lip service to feminism at award shows, the fabled “casting couch” of studio-era Hollywood clearly remains stubbornly in place.

The big question is whether the present wave of revelations, often consisting of unsubstantiated allegations from decades ago, will aid women’s ambitions in the long run or whether it is already creating further problems by reviving ancient stereotypes of women as hysterical, volatile and vindictive.

My philosophy of equity feminism demands removal of all barriers to women’s advancement in the political and professional realms. However, I oppose special protections for women in the workplace. Treating women as more vulnerable, virtuous or credible than men is reactionary, regressive and ultimately counterproductive.

Complaints to the Human Resources department after the fact are no substitute for women themselves drawing the line against offensive behavior — on the spot and in the moment. Working-class women are often so dependent on their jobs that they cannot fight back, but there is no excuse for well-educated, middle-class women to elevate career advantage or fear of social embarrassment over their own dignity and self-respect as human beings. Speak up now, or shut up later! Modern democracy is predicated on principles of due process and the presumption of innocence.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/camille-paglia-movies-metoo-modern-sexuality-endless-bitter-rancor-lies-1088450

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Leftists normalizing the crime of voting by non-citizens

INFOWARS
by Illinois News Network
2/27/2018

Excerpt:

A new municipal ID designed primarily for illegal immigrants will be accepted in Chicago as a valid form of identification to register to vote.

The CityKey will be a government-issued photo identification card available to all Chicago residents regardless of immigration status, criminal record, housing status, or gender identity, according to the city clerk’s website.

State Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich says the final call on what documents to accept rests with local officials.

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https://www.infowars.com/new-chicago-id-card-created-for-illegal-aliens-will-be-accepted-for-voter-registration/

“MASSIVE CORRUPTION”

The Post & Email
by Sher Zieve, ©2018
2/25/2018

Excerpt:

(Feb. 25, 2018) — Over the past several months—with particular emphasis on these last two weeks of the Florida high school shooting—the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has had many of its scurrilous secrets, corruption and lies exposed to the public.  The contemptuously blasé behavior patterns of its upper management or “the 7^th Floor” have left such an odious stench that its headquarters may need to be completely gutted.

The mandate to “if you see something, say something” no longer holds any credibility…whatsoever.  It is useless and nonsensical to, virtually, shout from the rafters to our chief investigative group, the FBI, and “law-enforcers” that people are going to be killed if something isn’t immediately effected to prevent it if said law enforcement has no intention of stopping the carnage.  The FBI ignored and/or dismissed at least 2 if-not-3 warnings that Cruz was going to “shoot up the school.”  Cruz had even posted his intentions on Youtube where he wrote:  “I’m going to be a professional school shooter” five months before the actual shootings.  What’s even worse is that this massacre of 17 human beings came directly after multiple still-ongoing Congressional investigations (including disturbing reports about the FBI leadership) and documents that both indicate and substantiate massive corruption within the FBI…itself.  This last episode, however, may be the worst of all.

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https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/02/25/fbis-dancing-devil-now-open/

He told the youth fighting for gun control ‘we’ve been waiting for you’.

Gateway Pundit
by Cristina Laila
2/22/2018

Excerpt:

The Gateway Pundit was the first publication to question the media’s agenda in only propping up students who push the anti-gun narrative. We took a lot of heat for it, but we stand by our reporting.

CNN and other fake news media organizations refused to allow pro-gun students to voice their opinions.

It was also revealed CNN scripted their Wednesday night anti-gun town hall.

The left is going for broke. After all, never let a crisis go to waste, right?

Obama tweeted, “Young people have helped lead all our great movements. How inspiring to see it again in so many smart, fearless students standing up for their right to be safe; marching and organizing to remake the world as it should be. We’ve been waiting for you. And we’ve got your backs.”

Remake the world as it should be? Chilling.

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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/obama-posts-chilling-message-teens-marching-organizing-gun-control-weve-waiting/

Link to National Enquirer Cover Page – https://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-fbi-corruption

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