VIDEO: Drugged Drivers Twice as Likely to be involved in Vehicle Crashes

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DontLetFloridaGoToPot.com reports:

Drugged driving is a serious public health and safety problem, one that will likely intensify if voters pass Amendment 2 and legalize marijuana in Florida. Marijuana use negatively impacts coordination and impairs decision making skills, all extremely important when driving.

The normalization of marijuana use is already having an impact on highway safety. A study of college-aged youth showed that they perceived driving after marijuana use as more acceptable than driving after alcohol use. They also perceived that there were less negative consequences associated with driving after marijuana use.

According to a study conducted by the University of Auckland, regular cannabis users were 9.5 times more likely to be involved in automobile accidents. Marijuana Use and Motor Vehicle Crashes, looked at nine studies conducted over the past two decades on marijuana and car crash risk. They concluded, “drivers who test positive for marijuana or self-report using marijuana are more than twice as likely as other drivers to be involved in motor vehicle crashes.”

During the commercialization of medical medical marijuana in Colorado, fatalities with drivers testing positive for marijuana increased by 114 percent! This is a significant increase when compared to non-medical marijuana states.

To learn more on the harms of marijuana and the potential impacts of Amendment 2, please visit Don’t Let Florida Go To Pot

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Video Netanyahu speech: ‘The UN, begun as a moral force, has become a moral farce’

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This is a magnificent speech, one of the few times in recent years that the truth has been told at the UN about the jihad against Israel, and about the UN’s obsessive OIC-driven hatred of the Jewish State. His saying “I remain committed to a vision of peace based on two states for two peoples” is understandable but unfortunate, as a Palestinian state would only become a new jihad base for attacks on Israel, but that doesn’t outweigh Netanyahu’s calling-out of the UN, and of “Palestinian” jihad indoctrination of children, and much more.

“Full text of Netanyahu’s speech at 2016 UN General Assembly,” Times of Israel, September 22, 2016:

Remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 71st sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 22, 2016.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

What I’m about to say is going to shock you: Israel has a bright future at the UN.

Now I know that hearing that from me must surely come as a surprise, because year after year I’ve stood at this very podium and slammed the UN for its obsessive bias against Israel. And the UN deserved every scathing word – for the disgrace of the General Assembly that last year passed 20 resolutions against the democratic State of Israel and a grand total of three resolutions against all the other countries on the planet.

Israel – twenty; rest of the world – three.

And what about the joke called the UN Human Rights Council, which each year condemns Israel more than all the countries of the world combined. As women are being systematically raped, murdered, sold into slavery across the world, which is the only country that the UN’s Commission on Women chose to condemn this year? Yep, you guessed it – Israel. Israel. Israel where women fly fighter jets, lead major corporations, head universities, preside – twice – over the Supreme Court, and have served as Speaker of the Knesset and Prime Minister.

And this circus continues at UNESCO. UNESCO, the UN body charged with preserving world heritage. Now, this is hard to believe but UNESCO just denied the 4,000-year connection between the Jewish people and its holiest site, the Temple Mount. That’s just as absurd as denying the connection between the Great Wall of China and China.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The UN, begun as a moral force, has become a moral farce. So when it comes to Israel at the UN, you’d probably think nothing will ever change, right? Well think again. You see, everything will change and a lot sooner than you think. The change will happen in this hall, because back home, your governments are rapidly changing their attitudes towards Israel. And sooner or later, that’s going to change the way you vote on Israel at the UN.

More and more nations in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, more and more nations see Israel as a potent partner – a partner in fighting the terrorism of today, a partner in developing the technology of tomorrow.

Today Israel has diplomatic relations with over 160 countries. That’s nearly double the number that we had when I served here as Israel’s ambassador some 30 years ago. And those ties are getting broader and deeper every day. World leaders increasingly appreciate that Israel is a powerful country with one of the best intelligence services on earth. Because of our unmatched experience and proven capabilities in fighting terrorism, many of your governments seek our help in keeping your countries safe.

Many also seek to benefit from Israel’s ingenuity in agriculture, in health, in water, in cyber and in the fusion of big data, connectivity and artificial intelligence – that fusion that is changing our world in every way.

You might consider this: Israel leads the world in recycling wastewater. We recycle about 90% of our wastewater. Now, how remarkable is that? Well, given that the next country on the list only recycles about 20% of its wastewater, Israel is a global water power. So if you have a thirsty world, and we do, there’s no better ally than Israel.

How about cybersecurity? That’s an issue that affects everyone. Israel accounts for one-tenth of one percent of the world’s population, yet last year we attracted some 20% of the global private investment in cybersecurity. I want you to digest that number. In cyber, Israel is punching a whopping 200 times above its weight. So Israel is also a global cyber power. If hackers are targeting your banks, your planes, your power grids and just about everything else, Israel can offer indispensable help.

Governments are changing their attitudes towards Israel because they know that Israel can help them protect their peoples, can help them feed them, can help them better their lives.

This summer I had an unbelievable opportunity to see this change so vividly during an unforgettable visit to four African countries. This is the first visit to Africa by an Israeli prime minister in decades. Later today, I’ll be meeting with leaders from 17 African countries. We’ll discuss how Israeli technology can help them in their efforts to transform their countries.

In Africa, things are changing. In China, India, Russia, Japan, attitudes towards Israel have changed as well. These powerful nations know that, despite Israel’s small size, it can make a big difference in many, many areas that are important to them.

But now I’m going to surprise you even more. You see, the biggest change in attitudes towards Israel is taking place elsewhere. It’s taking place in the Arab world. Our peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan continue to be anchors of stability in the volatile Middle East. But I have to tell you this: For the first time in my lifetime, many other states in the region recognize that Israel is not their enemy. They recognize that Israel is their ally. Our common enemies are Iran and ISIS. Our common goals are security, prosperity and peace. I believe that in the years ahead we will work together to achieve these goals, work together openly.

So Israel’s diplomatic relations are undergoing nothing less than a revolution. But in this revolution, we never forget that our most cherished alliance, our deepest friendship is with the United States of America, the most powerful and the most generous nation on earth. Our unbreakable bond with the United States of America transcends parties and politics. It reflects, above all else, the overwhelming support for Israel among the American people, support which is at record highs and for which we are deeply grateful.

The United Nations denounces Israel; the United States supports Israel. And a central pillar of that defense has been America’s consistent support for Israel at the UN. I appreciate President Obama’s commitment to that longstanding US policy. In fact, the only time that the United States cast a UN Security Council veto during the Obama presidency was against an anti-Israel resolution in 2011. As President Obama rightly declared at this podium, peace will not come from statements and resolutions at the United Nations.

I believe the day is not far off when Israel will be able to rely on many, many countries to stand with us at the UN. Slowly but surely, the days when UN ambassadors reflexively condemn Israel, those days are coming to an end.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today’s automatic majority against Israel at the UN reminds me of the story, the incredible story of Hiroo Onada. Hiroo was a Japanese soldier who was sent to the Philippines in 1944. He lived in the jungle. He scavenged for food. He evaded capture. Eventually he surrendered, but that didn’t happen until 1974, some 30 years after World War II ended. For decades, Hiroo refused to believe the war was over. As Hiroo was hiding in the jungle, Japanese tourists were swimming in pools in American luxury hotels in nearby Manila. Finally, mercifully, Hiroo’s former commanding officer was sent to persuade him to come out of hiding. Only then did Hiroo lay down his arms.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Distinguished delegates from so many lands,

I have one message for you today: Lay down your arms. The war against Israel at the UN is over. Perhaps some of you don’t know it yet, but I am confident that one day in the not too distant future you will also get the message from your president or from your prime minister informing you that the war against Israel at the United Nations has ended. Yes, I know, there might be a storm before the calm. I know there is talk about ganging up on Israel at the UN later this year. Given its history of hostility towards Israel, does anyone really believe that Israel will let the UN determine our security and our vital national interests?

We will not accept any attempt by the UN to dictate terms to Israel. The road to peace runs through Jerusalem and Ramallah, not through New York.

But regardless of what happens in the months ahead, I have total confidence that in the years ahead the revolution in Israel’s standing among the nations will finally penetrate this hall of nations. I have so much confidence, in fact, that I predict that a decade from now an Israeli prime minister will stand right here where I am standing and actually applaud the UN. But I want to ask you: Why do we have to wait a decade? Why keep vilifying Israel? Perhaps because some of you don’t appreciate that the obsessive bias against Israel is not just a problem for my country, it’s a problem for your countries too. Because if the UN spends so much time condemning the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, it has far less time to address war, disease, poverty, climate change and all the other serious problems that plague the planet.

Are the half million slaughtered Syrians helped by your condemnation of Israel? The same Israel that has treated thousands of injured Syrians in our hospitals, including a field hospital that I built right along the Golan Heights border with Syria. Are the gays hanging from cranes in Iran helped by your denigration of Israel? That same Israel where gays march proudly in our streets and serve in our parliament, including I’m proud to say in my own Likud party. Are the starving children in North Korea’s brutal tyranny, are they helped by your demonization of Israel? Israel, whose agricultural knowhow is feeding the hungry throughout the developing world?

The sooner the UN’s obsession with Israel ends, the better. The better for Israel, the better for your countries, the better for the UN itself.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

If UN habits die hard, Palestinian habits die even harder. President Abbas just attacked from this podium the Balfour Declaration. He’s preparing a lawsuit against Britain for that declaration from 1917. That’s almost 100 years ago – talk about being stuck in the past. The Palestinians may just as well sue Iran for the Cyrus Declaration, which enabled the Jews to rebuild our Temple in Jerusalem 2,500 years ago. Come to think of it, why not a Palestinian class action suit against Abraham for buying that plot of land in Hebron where the fathers and mothers of the Jewish people were buried 4,000 years ago? You’re not laughing. It’s as absurd as that. To sue the British government for the Balfour Declaration? Is he kidding? And this is taken seriously here?

President Abbas attacked the Balfour Declaration because it recognized the right of the Jewish people to a national home in the land of Israel. When the United Nations supported the establishment of a Jewish state in 1947, it recognized our historical and our moral rights in our homeland and to our homeland. Yet today, nearly 70 years later, the Palestinians still refuse to recognize those rights – not our right to a homeland, not our right to a state, not our right to anything. And this remains the true core of the conflict, the persistent Palestinian refusal to recognize the Jewish state in any boundary. You see, this conflict is not about the settlements. It never was.

The conflict raged for decades before there was a single settlement, when Judea Samaria and Gaza were all in Arab hands. The West Bank and Gaza were in Arab hands and they attacked us again and again and again. And when we uprooted all 21 settlements in Gaza and withdrew from every last inch of Gaza, we didn’t get peace from Gaza – we got thousands of rockets fired at us from Gaza.

This conflict rages because for the Palestinians, the real settlements they’re after are Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv.

Now mind you, the issue of settlements is a real one and it can and must be resolved in final status negotiations. But this conflict has never been about the settlements or about establishing a Palestinian state. It’s always been about the existence of a Jewish state, a Jewish state in any boundary.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Israel is ready, I am ready to negotiate all final status issues but one thing I will never negotiate: Our right to the one and only Jewish state.

Wow, sustained applause for the Prime Minister of Israel in the General Assembly? The change may be coming sooner than I thought.

Had the Palestinians said yes to a Jewish state in 1947, there would have been no war, no refugees and no conflict. And when the Palestinians finally say yes to a Jewish state, we will be able to end this conflict once and for all.

Now here’s the tragedy, because, see, the Palestinians are not only trapped in the past, their leaders are poisoning the future.

I want you to imagine a day in the life of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy, I’ll call him Ali. Ali wakes up before school, he goes to practice with a soccer team named after Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the murder of a busload of 37 Israelis. At school, Ali attends an event sponsored by the Palestinian Ministry of Education honoring Baha Alyan, who last year murdered three Israeli civilians. On his walk home, Ali looks up at a towering statue erected just a few weeks ago by the Palestinian Authority to honor Abu Sukar, who detonated a bomb in the center of Jerusalem, killing 15 Israelis.

When Ali gets home, he turns on the TV and sees an interview with a senior Palestinian official, Jibril Rajoub, who says that if he had a nuclear bomb, he’d detonate it over Israel that very day. Ali then turns on the radio and he hears President Abbas’s adviser, Sultan Abu al-Einein, urging Palestinians, here’s a quote, “to slit the throats of Israelis wherever you find them.” Ali checks his Facebook and he sees a recent post by President Abbas’s Fatah Party calling the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics a “heroic act”. On YouTube, Ali watches a clip of President Abbas himself saying, “We welcome every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem.” Direct quote.

Over dinner, Ali asks his mother what would happen if he killed a Jew and went to an Israeli prison? Here’s what she tells him. She tells him he’d be paid thousands of dollars each month by the Palestinian Authority. In fact, she tells him, the more Jews he would kill, the more money he’d get. Oh, and when he gets out of prison, Ali would be guaranteed a job with the Palestinian Authority.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

All this is real. It happens every day, all the time. Sadly, Ali represents hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children who are indoctrinated with hate every moment, every hour.

This is child abuse.

Imagine your child undergoing this brainwashing. Imagine what it takes for a young boy or girl to break free out of this culture of hate. Some do but far too many don’t. How can any of us expect young Palestinians to support peace when their leaders poison their minds against peace?

We in Israel don’t do this. We educate our children for peace. In fact, we recently launched a pilot program, my government did, to make the study of Arabic mandatory for Jewish children so that we can better understand each other, so that we can live together side-by-side in peace.

Of course, like all societies Israel has fringe elements. But it’s our response to those fringe elements, it’s our response to those fringe elements that makes all the difference.

Take the tragic case of Ahmed Dawabsha. I’ll never forget visiting Ahmed in the hospital just hours after he was attacked. A little boy, really a baby, he was badly burned. Ahmed was the victim of a horrible terrorist act perpetrated by Jews. He lay bandaged and unconscious as Israeli doctors worked around the clock to save him.

No words can bring comfort to this boy or to his family. Still, as I stood by his bedside I told his uncle, “This is not our people. This is not our way.” I then ordered extraordinary measures to bring Ahmed’s assailants to justice and today the Jewish citizens of Israel accused of attacking the Dawabsha family are in jail awaiting trial.

Now, for some, this story shows that both sides have their extremists and both sides are equally responsible for this seemingly endless conflict.

But what Ahmed’s story actually proves is the very opposite. It illustrates the profound difference between our two societies, because while Israeli leaders condemn terrorists, all terrorists, Arabs and Jews alike, Palestinian leaders celebrate terrorists. While Israel jails the handful of Jewish terrorists among us, the Palestinians pay thousands of terrorists among them.

So I call on President Abbas: you have a choice to make. You can continue to stoke hatred as you did today or you can finally confront hatred and work with me to establish peace between our two peoples.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I hear the buzz. I know that many of you have given up on peace. But I want you to know – I have not given up on peace. I remain committed to a vision of peace based on two states for two peoples. I believe as never before that changes taking place in the Arab world today offer a unique opportunity to advance that peace.

I commend President el-Sissi of Egypt for his efforts to advance peace and stability in our region. Israel welcomes the spirit of the Arab peace initiative and welcomes a dialogue with Arab states to advance a broader peace. I believe that for that broader peace to be fully achieved the Palestinians have to be part of it. I’m ready to begin negotiations to achieve this today – not tomorrow, not next week, today.

President Abbas spoke here an hour ago. Wouldn’t it be better if instead of speaking past each other we were speaking to one another? President Abbas, instead of railing against Israel at the United Nations in New York, I invite you to speak to the Israeli people at the Knesset in Jerusalem. And I would gladly come to speak to the Palestinian parliament in Ramallah.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

While Israel seeks peace with all our neighbors, we also know that peace has no greater enemy than the forces of militant Islam. The bloody trail of this fanaticism runs through all the continents represented here. It runs through Paris and Nice, Brussels and Baghdad, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Minnesota and New York, from Sydney to San Bernardino. So many have suffered its savagery: Christian and Jews, women and gays, Yazidis and Kurds and many, many others.

Yet the heaviest price, the heaviest price of all has been paid by innocent Muslims. Hundreds of thousands unmercifully slaughtered. Millions turned into desperate refugees, tens of millions brutally subjugated. The defeat of militant Islam will thus be a victory for all humanity, but it would especially be a victory for those many Muslims who seek a life without fear, a life of peace, a life of hope.

But to defeat the forces of militant Islam, we must fight them relentlessly. We must fight them in the real world. We must fight them in the virtual world. We must dismantle their networks, disrupt their funding, discredit their ideology. We can defeat them and we will defeat them. Medievalism is no match for modernity. Hope is stronger than hate, freedom mightier than fear.

We can do this.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Israel fights this fateful battle against the forces of militant Islam every day. We keep our borders safe from ISIS, we prevent the smuggling of game-changing weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon, we thwart Palestinian terror attacks in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, and we deter missile attacks from Hamas-controlled Gaza.

That’s the same Hamas terror organization that cruelly, unbelievably cruelly refuses to return three of our citizens and the bodies of our fallen soldiers, Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin. Hadar Goldin’s parents, Leah and Simcha Goldin, are here with us today. They have one request – to bury their beloved son in Israel. All they ask for is one simple thing – to be able to visit the grave of their fallen son Hadar in Israel. Hamas refuses. They couldn’t care less.

I implore you to stand with them, with us, with all that’s decent in our world against the inhumanity of Hamas – all that is indecent and barbaric. Hamas breaks every humanitarian rule in the book, throw the book at them.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The greatest threat to my country, to our region, and ultimately to our world remains the militant Islamic regime of Iran. Iran openly seeks Israel’s annihilation. It threatens countries across the Middle East, it sponsors terror worldwide.

This year, Iran has fired ballistic missiles in direct defiance of Security Council Resolutions. It has expended its aggression in Iraq, in Syria, in Yemen. Iran, the world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism continued to build its global terror network. That terror network now spans five continents.

So my point to you is this: The threat Iran poses to all of us is not behind us, it’s before us. In the coming years, there must be a sustained and united effort to push back against Iran’s aggression and Iran’s terror. With the nuclear constraints on Iran one year closer to being removed, let me be clear: Israel will not allow the terrorist regime in Iran to develop nuclear weapons – not now, not in a decade, not ever.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I stand before you today at a time when Israel’s former president, Shimon Peres, is fighting for his life. Shimon is one of Israel’s founding fathers, one of its boldest statesmen, one of its most respected leaders. I know you will all join me and join all the people of Israel in wishing him refuah shlemah Shimon, a speedy recovery.

I’ve always admired Shimon’s boundless optimism, and like him, I too am filled with hope. I am filled with hope because Israel is capable of defending itself by itself against any threat. I am filled with hope because the valor of our fighting men and women is second to none. I am filled with hope because I know the forces of civilization will ultimately triumph over the forces of terror. I am filled with hope because in the age of innovation, Israel – the innovation nation – is thriving as never before. I am filled with hope because Israel works tirelessly to advance equality and opportunity for all its citizens: Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, everyone. And I am filled with hope because despite all the naysayers, I believe that in the years ahead, Israel will forge a lasting peace with all our neighbors.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am hopeful about what Israel can accomplish because I’ve seen what Israel has accomplished. In 1948, the year of Israel’s independence, our population was 800,000. Our main export was oranges. People said then we were too small, too weak, too isolated, too demographically outnumbered to survive, let alone thrive. The skeptics were wrong about Israel then; the skeptics are wrong about Israel now.

Israel’s population has grown tenfold, our economy fortyfold. Today our biggest export is technology – Israeli technology, which powers the world’s computers, cellphones, cars and so much more.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The future belongs to those who innovate and this is why the future belongs to countries like Israel. Israel wants to be your partner in seizing that future, so I call on all of you: Cooperate with Israel, embrace Israel, dream with Israel. Dream of the future that we can build together, a future of breathtaking progress, a future of security, prosperity and peace, a future of hope for all humanity, a future where even at the UN, even in this hall, Israel will finally, inevitably, take its rightful place among the nations.

Thank you.

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Obama vetoes bill allowing families to sue foreign governments linked to terror attacks

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“Obama Vetoes Terrorism Bill as Override Votes Loom,” by John T. Bennett, Roll Call, September 23, 2016:

President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill that would allow families of the victims of terrorist attacks in the United States to sue foreign governments believed to be linked to the strikes, setting up a difficult election-year decision for congressional Democrats.

Obama expressed “deep sympathy” for those who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001, writing in a statement accompanying the veto that he has “deep appreciation of these families’ desire to pursue justice and [is] strongly committed to assisting them in their efforts.”

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump called the veto “shameful,” and said he would have signed it into law. Earlier in the day, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton broke with Obama and said she would have signed it.

Obama cited concerns that the legislation, which passed both the House and Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support, could prompt other nations to pass look-alike laws, leading to more lawsuits and inconsistent standards for what constitutes state support for terrorist attacks. Proponents, however, call it “narrowly” crafted to guard against such things.

He wrote that he could not sign the measure into law because it “would neither protect Americans from terrorist attacks nor improve the effectiveness of our response to such attacks.” Instead, Obama concluded, as crafted it would allow cases to be brought to U.S. courts against other countries based solely on allegations, not longstanding methods of determining state sponsors of terror.

What’s more, the president argued the bill could open the door for other governments to allow cases in their court systems against “U.S. officials — including our men and women in uniform — for allegedly causing injuries overseas via U.S. support to third parties.” Obama also said if it became law, the measure “threatens to create complications in our relationships with even our closest partners.”…

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Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops finds Marijuana Amendment 2 Problematic

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The following is a statement by the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops titled “AMENDMENT 2: Concerns to Weigh Before Voting” dated September 19, 2016:

On Election Day, Floridians will vote on an amendment to the Florida Constitution that would allow the “use of marijuana for debilitating medical conditions.” At first glance, the proposed amendment appeals to a sense of empathy and implies safe and limited use by the infirm; however, closer inspection reveals that the framework established by Amendment 2 is problematic in the following ways:

  • Potential for fraud and abuse

The definitions and terms in the full text of Amendment 2 are vague. The amendment does not require a doctor’s prescription that specifies dosage and frequency. Instead, the physician issues “certificate” allowing the purchase of marijuana in any quantity and form. Ambiguities of Amendment 2 create opportunities for abuse and fraud similar to the “pill mill” scenarios experienced in Florida and elsewhere.

  • Edible marijuana products present a significant risk

Amendment 2 does not specify the physical form of the marijuana or limit the potency of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the euphoric component. Marijuana infused products (cookies, candies, beverages) are made using oils or other extracts that concentrate the THC potency at dangerously high levels of 40-90%. Marijuana edibles (“medibles”) are packaged to look like everyday food products, confections, etc. Accidental ingestion by children, some as young as 2, have resulted in a significant increase in emergency room visits and calls to Poison Control Centers.

  • No assurances of quality, consistency in products

There are pharmaceutical grade products that harness therapeutic properties of marijuana, such as MarinolTM, used for nausea and loss of appetite for cancer and HIV/AIDS patients. Other products are under development at different stages. Amendment 2 does not relate to these, but rather to marijuana plants, which pose unique problems for “medical” use. It is not possible to standardize the 66+ active chemical compounds in the stems, leaves and seeds of the marijuana plant, which poses risks for those who use it. Batch-to-batch variations increase the likelihood that no two products derived from the marijuana plant will be the same and have the same effect when inhaled or ingested. Marijuana products provided under Amendment 2 will not be subject to FDA regulations and safeguards that protect the patient and guide the physician; in addition, licensed pharmacies and pharmacists will not dispense them.

  • Allows for greater access to marijuana by youth

Increased access to marijuana and its presence in the home has the potential of leading to dangerous experimentation by youth. In states with more lenient marijuana policies, attractive packaging and aggressive marketing campaigns are used to attract younger individuals to become lifelong users.

Compassion compels efforts to care for the sick and to alleviate suffering. However, in this pursuit, society must ensure that those in need are not further endangered by exposing them to even greater harm. While there could be beneficial applications to the proposed use of marijuana, voters must carefully assess the risks and anticipated problems involved in amending the Florida Constitution to garner them.

Senator Ted Cruz: My Six Reasons for Endorsing Donald Trump for President — I’m #NeverHillary

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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz released the following statement on why he is endorsing Donald Trump for President of the United States:

This election is unlike any other in our nation’s history. Like many other voters, I have struggled to determine the right course of action in this general election.

In Cleveland, I urged voters, “please, don’t stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.”

After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.

I’ve made this decision for two reasons. First, last year, I promised to support the Republican nominee. And I intend to keep my word.

Second, even though I have had areas of significant disagreement with our nominee, by any measure Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable — that’s why I have always been #NeverHillary.

Six key policy differences inform my decision. First, and most important, the Supreme Court. For anyone concerned about the Bill of Rights — free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment — the Court hangs in the balance. I have spent my professional career fighting before the Court to defend the Constitution. We are only one justice away from losing our most basic rights, and the next president will appoint as many as four new justices. We know, without a doubt, that every Clinton appointee would be a left-wing ideologue. Trump, in contrast, has promised to appoint justices “in the mold of Scalia.”

For some time, I have been seeking greater specificity on this issue, and today the Trump campaign provided that, releasing a very strong list of potential Supreme Court nominees — including Sen. Mike Lee, who would make an extraordinary justice — and making an explicit commitment to nominate only from that list. This commitment matters, and it provides a serious reason for voters to choose to support Trump.

Second, Obamacare. The failed healthcare law is hurting millions of Americans. If Republicans hold Congress, leadership has committed to passing legislation repealing Obamacare. Clinton, we know beyond a shadow of doubt, would veto that legislation. Trump has said he would sign it.

Third, energy. Clinton would continue the Obama administration’s war on coal and relentless efforts to crush the oil and gas industry. Trump has said he will reduce regulations and allow the blossoming American energy renaissance to create millions of new high-paying jobs.

Fourth, immigration. Clinton would continue and even expand President Obama’s lawless executive amnesty. Trump has promised that he would revoke those illegal executive orders.

Fifth, national security. Clinton would continue the Obama administration’s willful blindness to radical Islamic terrorism. She would continue importing Middle Eastern refugees whom the FBI cannot vet to make sure they are not terrorists. Trump has promised to stop the deluge of unvetted refugees.

Sixth, Internet freedom. Clinton supports Obama’s plan to hand over control of the Internet to an international community of stakeholders, including Russia, China, and Iran. Just this week, Trump came out strongly against that plan, and in support of free speech online.

These are six vital issues where the candidates’ positions present a clear choice for the American people.

If Clinton wins, we know — with 100% certainty — that she would deliver on her left-wing promises, with devastating results for our country.

My conscience tells me I must do whatever I can to stop that.

We also have seen, over the past few weeks and months, a Trump campaign focusing more and more on freedom — including emphasizing school choice and the power of economic growth to lift African-Americans and Hispanics to prosperity.

Finally, after eight years of a lawless Obama administration, targeting and persecuting those disfavored by the administration, fidelity to the rule of law has never been more important.

The Supreme Court will be critical in preserving the rule of law. And, if the next administration fails to honor the Constitution and Bill of Rights, then I hope that Republicans and Democrats will stand united in protecting our fundamental liberties.

Our country is in crisis. Hillary Clinton is manifestly unfit to be president, and her policies would harm millions of Americans. And Donald Trump is the only thing standing in her way.

A year ago, I pledged to endorse the Republican nominee, and I am honoring that commitment. And if you don’t want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency, I encourage you to vote for him.

For liberty,

Ted Cruz

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Black Lies Matter

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Except in the world of theology possibly, black lies and white lies mean a world of difference.  Except in the world of theology possibly and in the world of political reality, black lies and white lies, as we were taught to differentiate between these two broad classification schemes, lie worlds apart from each other.

As we were taught from infancy or toddler-hood onward, black lies were hurtful and destructive; they cause the loss of trust and could cause the loss of life and reputation.  They might entail the kinds of lies told when we cheat on an exam or steal or cause bodily or monetary harm to someone else, even accidentally.  How many black lies have been told in how many criminal cover-ups for how many years just recently?  No one could accurately approximate the number of black lies spread, for instance, in the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey or in Operation Fast and Furious.  These are black lies that kill.

As we were taught throughout our childhood years, white lies are sometimes false compliments to a friend to cheer him up or untruths said to cover up the fact that we honestly forgot an important birthday or anniversary.  These are lies, for the most part, that are meant to create peace and harmony within families and between friends.  Truly, they are lies, but their logical consequences do not rob another of his life or his reputation.

Then there are the lies that are as black as a black hole, which, depending upon their source, are given a pass by society.  When icon Margaret Sanger, for example, created a mechanism to reduce or eliminate undesirables, meaning primarily poor persons and dark-skinned citizens of the United States, from our midst, her racist and filthy writings and speeches were given a blank check to pass on for generations to come.

Margaret Sanger, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Alfred Kinsey, the Rockefellers, Roosevelts, and virtually all of the political and ruling class of America were eugenics zealots against disposable human beings, intolerables, deplorables, degenerates, undesirables, as the underclass was called by the upper class for 100 years and counting.  The tie that bound all of these elitist leaders to each other was their mutual belief that undesirables had no right to reproduce or to born at all, and one’s status as an undesirable was immutable by birth due to hereditary poverty or racial inheritance.

None other than beloved Teddy Roosevelt wrote with fanatical conviction to a prominent attorney of the time:  “… society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind … permit[ting] unlimited breeding from the worst stocks, physically and morally,….”

In 1927, one U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, esteemed by the world, epitomized the pervasive elitist belief system known as eugenics in his haunting immortal and immoral words of law, subsequently causing untold thousands of young poor or dark-skinned persons to lose their reproductive capabilities at the ends of blades held in the hands of merciless physicians for most of the twentieth century:

It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind…. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Black lies really, really matter today and always because they are filthy means to isolate, segregate, and discriminate against fellow human beings who are reduced by lies to sub-human status.  And so our world that constantly blurs black and white lies with endless shades of gray because of the sources of the lies is exemplifying and modeling to our children that truth is simply relative to its source.

Sources of black lies that are upper class are deemed or treated as acceptable, even a member of Congress who wantonly exposes his body through electronic means.  How many years has society given him a pass to commit crimes … or a football coach who preys for decades upon boys desperate to find an admirable role model?  How many black lies covered up the heinous crimes committed upon these suffering children?  How many sports fans still give this football coach a pass for all of his touchdowns upon fatherless boys?

There is really only one question to ask of ourselves …. Do black lies matter, or do they no longer matter when they are told by the upper echelons of the sports world, academia, politicians, and social elites?  Ask the question, and then tell the answer to every one of your children and grandchildren, present and future, that they may walk through their lives knowing the legacy you have left them.

If black lies do not matter anymore then neither do Black lives or White or Yellow or Red ….

Hey Office Holders — Do Your Job!

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Okay, here we go again.  More Islamic terrorist goons have seized upon the weakness displayed even in the highest levels of the government.  Those committing Islamic terrorist attacks against Americans are simply taking advantage of what has been given to them over the past almost eight years.  It’s like a football team taking what the defense gives them and if unchecked will score.  Yes, these recent attacks were by those already living in the United States.  Either through birth or allowed in by the government.  They were most likely recruited via the internet before traveling abroad for further indoctrination against our republic.

Of course many young Americans today are easily recruited because, (thanks but no thanks) over the past four decades, American schools, colleges and universities have been systematically indoctrinating students against our nation and all of the good aspects of our way of life.  In addition, the moral based lessons concerning right and wrong have been abolished along with proper teachings concerning the blessings of capitalism.  Equally wrong has been the total purposeful neglect of instructing students about our Constitution, Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, Blacks Law, the Magna Carta and even their great state constitutions.  So, if you don’t know your rights, you don’t have any.

It is America’s self-induced ignorance which has led to chronic weakness, thus opening the door to and encouraging those who wish to do us deadly harm.

The Obama administration has willfully refused to properly identify those that have helped to embolden the Islamic enemies of our republic who are acting on their bigoted based hatred of us.  It is also a shame when millions of Americans display more disdain against those of us who express strong opinions and observations concerning terrorism, than against those Islamists who would rape, kill, steal from and destroy both you and I if given the chance.

Such stupidity can only be remedied in the long run, by a complete overhaul of our nation’s school system.  It must be placed back into local and state control in order to eliminate the need for the Department of Education.  That horrid entity has become the world’s largest waster of both young minds and money.  One cannot defeat an enemy they refuse to properly identify and fight to overcome.

But despite the wretched offerings of the Obama regime and evil mission of Mrs. Clinton to continue the awful legacy of the White House occupier, I believe that America will soon arise from her current state of impairment.  I have faith she will soon return to the One who shed His grace upon our republic and seek His providential guidance.  Then America will once again be the land of the free and home of the brave.  But while we hopefully turn to God on behalf of our nation, we must also keep up with whatever madness the Obama administration is doing or not doing in regards to the protection of America.

We all know that Obama almost foams at the mouth at the mere mention of protecting the United States from invading illegal immigrants.  He and all of his progressive democrats and rino republicans have stated that Trump cannot build a wall for our southern border.  To be honest, many among academe and activist groups have completely lost their grasp on common sense, rational thinking and putting America first.  That is why I was not shocked when I read what I am sure is a tongue and cheek article in Financial Times which details how in 2015 Mexico deported 175.000 Central Americans from that nation after they strolled in illegally.

The humorous article also stated that Obama was against illegal immigration into Mexico, so much so that he has given $75 million U.S. tax dollars to that nation to help pay for a wall on the Mexican southern border.  Now we all know that the same president who was willing to take Arizona to court for wanting to protect Arizonans from being brutalized by illegal immigrants streaming into our republic, couldn’t be helping another nation build a wall, right? The truth is, in this country, Obama does want illegal immigrants, Muslim refugees, even the diseased ones to pile into America and bring about a horrendous change.

So when you hear Obama, Mrs. Clinton, Black uncle Remus democrat types and others calling Donald Trump a bigot or xenophobe for wanting to build a wall on our southern border, watch out.  Because you are witnessing well paid traitors who want to overrun our society with problems like illegal immigration in order to weaken America for globalization.  If America is to be protected, reinvigorated and restored to greatness, “We the People” who pay the salaries of government officials must demand in masse they live up to their responsibility of protecting our republic.

Besides, no one forced politicians to run for office. If they cannot or will not do their job of protecting America, then their cushiony elected position should not be protected.  In the private sector, if someone refuses to do their job for thirty days, they are sent packing.  Thus it is immoral that many career politicians who have refused to support efforts to properly protect our borders are still allowed to hold political power.  Many of them have shown preference toward illegal immigrants, American and liberty hating Islamic refugees who will brutalize any community they live in when they reach a certain percent of the population, just like their brethren do in Europe. It’s either put up or shut up time for those elected to positions of responsibility in America.  It’s also wake up or don’t blame anyone but the person in the mirror time for “We the People.”

The choice you make on election day could determine if our republic will ever be great again or permanently on the slippery slope to oblivion.

EDITORS NOTE: Please get together with Ron every Friday on KCKQ AM 1180 Reno, Nevada. Or click on to www.americamatters.us also join Ron on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:05 a.m. and Saturdays at 4:05 a.m. on the best overnight radio talk show in the U.S. The Captain’s America Third Watch hosted by Captain Matt Bruce. It emanates nationwide from flagship station AM 860 WGUL to dozens of great affiliates, or am860theanswer.com.  Also catch a nightly page from The Edwards Notebook commentary.

Florida: Sarasota Hosts 3rd Annual Female Veteran’s Retreat — September 29th -October 3rd

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women-veterans-retreat-2SARASOTA, Florida – Approximately twenty-five “women warriors” will again converge on Day Spring Episcopal Conference Center in Parrish, FL on September 29th – October 3rd, 2016 to participate in the free 3rd Annual Retreat especially planned for women who have served in our Armed Forces.  During this 4 day/3 night retreat, the women will share their military stories with not only each other, but also with professional people from the community who are volunteering their time to help resolve issues that especially affect WOMEN VETERANS . These women have chosen to attend this annual event not only to seek out the support of their peers, but also to discover any new resources that may be available to them.

This year, Rebecca Ludwick, (Ret’d Army Lt. and Retreat Coordinator) has worked countless hours to plan and to fundraise for this very special event.  “No one seems to realize the work involved in pulling something like this off for us veterans; especially without a full staff”.  But Georgie Alfano-Cronk knows very well what the job entails.  She did it for the first 2 years and has willingly taken a back seat this year to allow Rebecca to “try her wings and fly”.  “It is wonderful to see women veterans coming out of their shells and realizing their dreams” said Ms. Alfano-Cronk. “We were creative and beautiful women before we joined the military, so why shouldn’t we revert back to that image when we leave the military?”

There are now over 214,000 female veterans on active duty serving our country and 118,000+ additional women serving in the Reserves.  Women warriors make up approximately 15% of the United States Armed Forces and the total number of women veterans has reached 1,853,690 and is steadily rising.  And sadly included as part of those statistics are that 1 out of every 5 veterans do suffer from Military Sexual Trauma (MST).  As a community; we have come to realize that “unchecked” Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) can easily lead to substance abuse issues.  And since it is a real concern in dealing with such sensitive female issues, Rebecca and Georgie want to stay on top of it and assist as many Women Warriors as possible prior to them becoming downtrodden or addicted to drugs and alcohol.

If you know of any female veterans who may need assistance, please encourage them to take the time to visit Georgie’s website at:  www.femaleveteransunite.com  Here they will be able to view a video of the 2 prior retreats and to possibly become involved with a veteran’s support group.

*We would also like to recognize and to thank the following people/organizations for their financial and/or in-kind donations:

Sarasota County Veteran’s Commission, Gold Coast Eagle Distributing (John Saputo, Hugh Shields, and Nate), Home Depo, Patty Maybray (also a female veteran) at the Cattleman Rd. store, Applebee’s Restaurant, located on Fruitville Road, and Dr. Margurite Barnett – Owner of the Mandala Med Spa, a local reconstructive surgeon, and a female veteran herself.

The wheels are already turning in preparation for next year’s FREE retreat.  There have been several organizations that have already contacted us and shown an interest in doing anything that they possibly can to assist the women who have served this great nation.  Might you be interested, too?

I’m on an ISIS ‘Hit List’ — Now what?

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On September 21st, 2016 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) notified me that I was on a ISIS hit list of 8,000 people. The list names individuals who live in countries across the globe, from the Middle East to Europe to the United States.

I spoke with the agent at length and gave him some background that may have led to me being targeted for assassination by the Islamic State (ISIS):

  1. I am a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel.
  2. While in the military I was the U.S. Army’s anti-terrorism and terrorism counter-action doctrine specialist at the Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia.
  3. I am listed by name on the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) national Islamophobia.org website as an “Islamophobic individual.”
  4. I am listed by name on the CAIR-Florida website as an Islamophobic individual.
  5. I run this e-Magazine with multiple contributors who expose the dangers of terrorism and analyse Islamic doctrine and teaching.
  6. I am a member of a Florida based organization The United West, which has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “hate group” for telling the truth about Islam.
  7. I am a contributor to the website Fitnaphobia.com, which counters the narrative of those websites targeting Islamophobia and Islamophobic individuals.
  8. Finally, I mentioned that when the U.S. Office of Personnel Management was hacked my Army personnel files were among those taken. The FBI agent said that his were taken as well. Small world.

The FBI agent I spoke with made note of my background and tried to assure me that there was no imminent threat of danger, but cautioned me to be observant and call 911 if I saw anything suspicious. He also gave me his direct line if I had any further questions or needed to update him.

After getting off the phone with the FBI agent I contacted several friends, one of which is a retired Department of Homeland Security agent, who worked to prevent terror attacks. His advice was that I should take being on an ISIS hit list seriously and take appropriate action to protect my family and close friends.

In February 2015 I wrote that the CAIR list of Islamophobic individuals was in effect a hit list for ISIS. This week the FBI has confirmed that statement.

The question for those on the ISIS hit list: Now what?

As FDR said, “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” One cannot be afraid to speak out against evil.

As Edmond Burke wrote, “All it takes for Evil to prevail in this world is for enough good men to do nothing.”

Good men must do something. That something is to fight evil wherever it may be.

EDITORS NOTE: On April 4th, 2016 we received an email from Google AdSense with “a warning message” to alert us that there is action required to bring our AdSense account into compliance with “AdSense program policies.” The warning involved the website Fitnaphobia.com which according to Google AdSense, “[D]oes not allow the monetization of content that may be sensitive, tragic, or hurtful.”

Google AdSense went on to state, “While we believe strongly in the freedom of expression and offer broad access to content across the Web without censoring search results, we reserve the right to exercise discretion when reviewing sites and determining whether or not we are able to provide a positive user experience delivering contextually targeted ads to a site with this type of content.”

Weaponized Immigration — Suicide is not an act of compassion

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The United States is at war with international terrorists, who, as the 9/11 Commission noted, must first enter the United States in order to attack it.

Consider the preface of the official government report, “9/11 and Terrorist Travel: Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States” that begins with the following paragraph:

It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.

Furthermore, although much has been made of the lack of integrity with respect to the U.S./Mexican border, the 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel observed that most terrorists had entered the United States through international airports and then committed visa fraud and immigration benefit fraud to embed themselves in the country.

Page 54 of the report contained this excerpt under the title “3.2 Terrorist Travel Tactics by Plot,” which makes these issues crystal clear:

Although there is evidence that some land and sea border entries (of terrorists) without inspection occurred, these conspirators mainly subverted the legal entry system by entering at airports.

In doing so, they relied on a wide variety of fraudulent documents, on aliases, and on government corruption. Because terrorist operations were not suicide missions in the early to mid-1990s, once in the United States terrorists and their supporters tried to get legal immigration status that would permit them to remain here, primarily by committing serial, or repeated, immigration fraud, by claiming political asylum, and by marrying Americans. Many of these tactics would remain largely unchanged and undetected throughout the 1990s and up to the 9/11 attack.

Thus, abuse of the immigration system and a lack of interior immigration enforcement were unwittingly working together to support terrorist activity. It would remain largely unknown, since no agency of the United States government analyzed terrorist travel patterns until after 9/11. This lack of attention meant that critical opportunities to disrupt terrorist travel and, therefore, deadly terrorist operations were missed.

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Soldier of Allah with son.

On Saturday September 17, 2016 terror attacks put international terrorism and immigration on the front page of newspapers across the United States and onto the “A Block” of television news programs.

On the morning of that last Saturday of summer, a bomb hidden in a garbage can detonated along the route of the “Seaside Semper Five,” a five-kilometer run and charity event along the South Jersey Shore waterfront to raise money for members of the United States Marine Corps and their families.  Fortunately, because the crowds were much greater than expected, the event was late in starting and so no one was injured.

On that Saturday evening, a bomb, constructed in part of a pressure-cooker, exploded in a dumpster in the Chelsea section of Manhattan where it had apparently been planted.  Shortly after the explosion rocked that trendy neighborhood of Manhattan a second bomb of similar construction was discovered just blocks away.

Both of these bombings and that third, unexploded bomb have been attributed to Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized United States citizen who legally immigrated to the United States from his native Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, on that same Saturday evening, in Minnesota, allegedly Dahir Adan, an immigrant from Kenya, went on a violent rampage in the Crossroads Center shopping mall in St. Cloud, stabbing 9 innocent people.  His rampage ended when a police officer, Jason Falconer, confronted him.  Adan lunged at Officer Falconer who fired in self-defense, undoubtedly preventing a far worse attack.

According to an article published on September 19, 2016 in a local newspaper, the Star Tribune, during the attack Adan was wearing a security guard uniform and asked at least one of the victims if he was a Muslim.  Additionally, Adan was reported to have referred to Allah during the attack.

News reports assert he was 22 years old and beginning his third year at St. Cloud State University and was a member of the tight-knit Somalian immigrant community.

Information about the identity of this apparent terrorist was not provided by law enforcement authorities, but by his father who claimed that his son came to the United States some 15 years ago.

Aliens who enter the United States surreptitiously without inspection could be said to have entered the United States through America’s “back door.”  Most terrorists, however, enter the United States through America’s front doors located at the 325 ports of entry that are operated by CBP (Customs and Border Protection).

Both Ahmad Khan Rahami and Dahir Adan were admitted into the United States through America’s “front door.”

Given the severity of the threats America and Americans face and the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission it is incomprehensible that the failures of the lawful entry system and the systems by which applications for lawful status are adjudicated would face extreme scrutiny with the goal of insuring that these systems have real integrity.  Yet nothing could be further from the truth.

Politicians from both political parties have repeatedly called for providing lawful status for unknown millions of illegal aliens whose true identities, backgrounds and possible affiliations with criminal or terrorist organizations are unknown and unknowable.  There would be no way to interview millions of such aliens and certainly no way to conduct any field investigations.  This would create an open invitation to massive levels of fraud.

Should any doubt remain about the abject lack of integrity in the adjudications process, consider that on September 19, 2016 Fox News reported, “Watchdog: Feds wrongly granted citizenship to hundreds facing deportation” that focused on the findings of the Office of Inspector General for the DHS concerning how hundreds of aliens facing removal deportation had, instead, been granted United States citizenship.  These aliens were originally from countries identified as being “Special Interest Countries”- that is to say that these countries are associated with terrorism.

The report noted that of those who were able to game the naturalization process, some went on to acquire jobs, including in law enforcement where U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite.

Not long ago I wrote an article about a naturalized Somali immigrant who had “made it” to the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists List.” The title of my piece was, “The Immigration Factor –Naturalized U.S. Citizen Added to FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List.”

The FBI is greatly concerned about this individual who is charged with providing material support and resources to al Qaeda and al Shabaab, a Somali-based terrorist organization.  Additionally, he had worked as a cab driver in Washington, DC and has an intimate knowledge of DC’s infrastructure and government buildings.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to admit Syrian refugees who, according to FBI Director, James Comey, cannot be vetted.  Hillary Clinton wants to increase the number of such refugees admitted into the United States by more than 500%.

Clinton wants to provide unknown millions of illegal aliens with lawful status which would require that USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) to adjudicate all of these applications.

USCIS is the division of the DHS that is charged with adjudicating all of those applications for various immigration benefits including granting political asylum and conferring United States citizenship upon aliens.  This is the very same inept and and incompetent agency that naturalized hundreds of deportable aliens.

Repeatedly Hillary and her open borders / anarchist accomplices have invoked the issue of “compassion” to justify admitting huge numbers of refugees who cannot be vetted and providing illegal aliens who entered the United States covertly with lawful status, even though there would be no way to verify their identities, backgrounds, affiliations with criminal or terrorist organizations or even determine when they actually entered the United States.

Terrorists have come to see in our compassion vulnerabilities they can exploit and use against us.

The report, “9/11 and  Terrorist Travel – Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.” included this paragraph:

“Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.” Mohammed Salameh, who rented the truck used in the bombing, overstayed his tourist visa. He then applied for permanent residency under the agricultural workers program, but was rejected. Eyad Mahmoud Ismail, who drove the van containing the bomb, took English-language classes at Wichita State University in Kansas on a student visa; after he dropped out, he remained in the United States out of status.

It is time for our government to secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws and disarm the terrorists who would kill our citizens and destroy our nation by depriving them the opportunities to enter the United States and embed themselves throughout our country.

RELATED ARTICLE: Up to 15% of Non-citizens in U.S. Are Voting, Alleges Expert

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in FrontPage Magazine.

Liberal Mother Pushes Her Little Son into Masquerading as a Girl

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One of the characteristics of our declining civilization is that, more and more, reality seems like satire. A good example is a recent New York Times article titled “From He to She in First Grade.” Yeah, you guessed it, this is about another boy allowed to masquerade as a girl, aided and abetted by parents and teachers who belong in rubber rooms.

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Laurie Frankel

In the piece, a Seattle resident (first red flag, as Seattle is Lib-nut Central) and aspiring author named Laurie Frankel writes about how her six-year-old lad ultimately “decided” to attend school in a dress. However, it’s plain that she and her capon of a husband — I get the feeling he’s sort of a non-entity “Yes, dear!” type — steered her son into a Made-up Sexual Status (MUSS), which some people call “transgenderism,” a term new enough so that my Word 2007 program still flags it as a misspelling.

Frankel tells us that this MUSS adventure started when she and her capon bought their boy a puppet theater and dress-up clothes for his sixth birthday; the sartorial assemblage, she tells us, “included high heels, a pink straw hat, a dazzling fairy skirt and a sparkly green halter dress” because she didn’t want to limit her son’s costume choices. Frankel then writes, “He was thrilled with these presents. He put on the sparkly green dress right away. In a sense, he never really took it off.”

She goes on to explain that he began donning the dress more and more; where he would initially wear it only when the family was alone, he eventually started keeping it on even when friends and guests were over and when leaving home. About this, Frankel writes, “My husband and I were never of the opinion that girls should not wear pants or climb trees or get dirty, or that boys should not have long hair or play with dolls or like pink, so the dress did not cause us undue alarm or worry.” Yeah, your son is just cross-dressing. Nothing to see here — move along!

But when school was set to begin, Frankel actually had a dilemma. Should she protect him by limiting her kid’s drag-queen ambitions to the home front or say, she writes, “Wear whatever you’re comfortable in to school”? Now here’s a quiz question: do you think Mizz Hen and capon made the decision or that it was left up to the confused chick?

If you chose the latter, go to the head of the class. Frankel tells us her son dithered for weeks, but then made up his mind the day before school’s opening. She writes, “I later learned that this is remarkably common, that children who make decisions like this often do so as push comes to shove.”

Actually, lady, that’s called childhood impulsiveness. That’s why kids have parents (or, at least, some do).

Frankel continued, “They [children] achieve clarity when they are faced with two not-great options.”

Uh, six-year-olds don’t achieve “clarity.” Apparently, many adults don’t, either.

So Frankel goes out and buys her son a wardrobe because, she tells us, “The fairy skirt and sparkly green dress were play clothes. He didn’t have any skirts or dresses that were appropriate for school.” (By the way, if a child should be allowed to choose clothes based on his “identity” and not societal norms, which supposedly are wrong to impose, why then lend credence to norms dictating what is “appropriate” for school?) She was worried, however, that he might have to endure teasing; after all, it is possible there still are a few normal children left in Seattle. So she contacted her son’s teacher to notify her, which brings us to quiz question number two: do you think the teacher was taken aback or was all-in for the kiddy drag scene?

If you picked the latter, again, go to the head of the class. But since Frankel still was worried that normalcy could rear its head among some of the children, she writes about her and her son:

So we brainstormed. We role-played. We practiced saying, “If girls can wear pants or skirts, so can boys.” We practiced saying: “You wear what you’re comfortable wearing. This is what I’m comfortable wearing.” We practiced polite ways of suggesting they mind their own business.

Frankel tells us that while her son did endure some teasing, it was generally over within a month. At the end of her article, she was calling the boy a girl and referencing him using feminine pronouns. And regarding some thoughts she had about how his cross-dressing and MUSS confusion may just be a phase, she wrote, “He had already decided. He didn’t think about that anymore. And he — she — never looked back. She grew out her hair. She stopped telling people she was a boy in a skirt and started being a girl in a skirt instead.”

So he — a six-year-old — “decided.” Question: does Frankel let him decide whether or not he’ll go to school in the first place? Can he decide on what to have for dinner, maybe ice cream every night? Why not? After all, a common theme in Frankel’s article is that she and capon supported the cross-dressing because it was “what would make our child happiest”; in girls’ clothes, she informs, he was “grinning, glowing, with joy.” Well, I remember the night before kindergarten when, at a Chinese restaurant, I was still rationalizing and saying I wasn’t going to school the next day. I certainly would’ve glowed if I could have “decided” to skip it. And tell the average six-year-old he can choose ice cream, cake or candy for dinner and watch his face light up.

True love, and wisdom, mean giving children not necessarily what they want but what they need. After all, young children have little idea about what will make them happy and healthy over the long haul.

Nonetheless, Frankel writes, “Our child could go to school dressed in shorts and a T-shirt and feel wrong and awkward and not himself. Or he could wear what felt right….” Sure he could, but many wrong things feel right. Consider: Frankel’s son would be diagnosed as having so-called “gender dysphoria,” the sense that you’re stuck in the body of the wrong sex. Yet the psychobabblers also define something termed “species dysphoria,” the sense that you’re an animal stuck in a human body. Examples could be “Wolfie Blackheart,” a Texas girl who claims she’s a canine; and “Nano,” a Norwegian woman going the feline route. So if a six-year-old’s “feelings” can be considered arbiters of reality, why not let him attend school naked if he swears he’s a ferret? I mean, the idea of wearing clothes is anthropocentric, you know.

Raising children is all about imposing values. Because a boy is a human and not a ferret, we force not just to clothing upon him, but also manners, language and 1000 other things befitting a human. And it’s no more abnormal placing a child in a “gender straitjacket” (though the word should be “sex,” not “gender”) than in a “species straightjacket.” In fact, so called “sex stereotyping” is a good thing. Just as we train a child with a gift for music in music and not in tennis, so as to cultivate his talents, a sex-specific upbringing serves to help a child reach his potential as a member of his sex.

“Transgenderism” is not a scientifically determined designation but an ideologically determined one, as I explain in-depth here. It is the Lysenkoism of our time, and it will likely be discarded in two or three decades. Until then, sadly, children will continue to be irreparably scarred by what is nothing but a severe form of child abuse.

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The Stain that Would be on Obama’s Conscience — If He Had One

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While speaking at the United Nations Tuesday and advocating more Muslim migration into the West, Barack Obama likened a refusal to accept the Muslims to the “turning away [of] Jews fleeing Nazi Germany,” which he called “a stain on our collective conscience.” But while Obama sought to lecture us, he actually condemned himself.

Of course, there is no equivalence between the WWII-era Jews and the Muslim migrants, as no one had to worry about terrorists being embedded among the former. In contrast, we know for a fact that terrorists are among the Muslim migrants. Without comprehensive Western-style databases in Syria (which is supposedly the focus) and with bribery getting you official government documents saying you’re whoever you want to be in that nation, there simply is no way to vet these people. But that Obama would attempt a flawed analogy isn’t his real shame here. It’s that the real analogy isn’t between the WWII Jews and today’s Muslim migrants.

It’s between the WWII Jews and another persecuted minority: the Middle East Christians.

You know, the people who multiple sources say face genocide as Christianity is gradually wiped out in the Mideast.

They’re also the people Obama won’t lift a finger to help.

In fact, while Christians are 10 percent of Syria’s population and are being targeted by Islamic State, only one half of one percent of Obama’s Syrian migrants have been Christian.

That translates into 56 out of 10,801 “refugees.”

It’s so astounding that even liberal Newsweek ran an article titled “The U.S. Bars Christian, Not Muslim, Refugees From Syria.” Really compassionate guy that Obama, huh? Have any more lectures for us, Barry?

Since it’s clear Obama couldn’t care less who lives or dies in the Middle East, the question is raised: what is his real agenda?

Try this on for size: the vast majority of U.S. Muslims now vote Democrat, with Obama having gotten 89 and 85 percent of their votes in, respectively, 2008 and 2012.  In contrast, believing Christians are known to support conservatives. And it isn’t as if Obama doesn’t know this. He said last year that immigration was making America “more and more of a hodgepodge of folks” who he was “hopeful” would drown out conservatism (hey, didn’t you always want to live in a hodgepodge?).

Of course, this only works if you have the right hodgepodge. And with 70 to 90 percent of today’s immigrants voting Democrat upon being naturalized, liberals love the mix. Just keep the Christians out.

This is what Obama and his ilk mean when saying “Our strength lies in our diversity”: “Our [Democrat political] strength lies in our [orchestrated] diversity.” They’re just not as blunt as was Andrew Neather, ex-advisor to former British prime minister Tony Blair, when he admitted that the massive Third World immigration into the U.K. was designed “to rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.” Hey, it doesn’t matter if it destroys Western culture. Why serve in Heaven when you can reign in Hell?

The reality, again, is that Obama cares as much about Mideastern lives as he does about Hillary’s emails. Immigration, “refugee” acceptance, family reunification, etc. are all about one thing and one thing only: importing voters. If most new immigrants would support Republicans, we’d have about as much immigration as North Korea. And the border? There’d be an impenetrable wall, sunk down 100 feet into the earth, with an electrified fence on top of it and organ-disrupting, pain-inducing sound wave weapons mounted on turrets every thousand feet of its length.

Oh, and drones with heat and motion sensors would be buzzing about monitoring it 24/7/365.

Obama would have many stains on his conscience, if he actually had a conscience. But possession of such generally eludes twisted, evil, vile men.

By the way, below is a great 2015 interview with Dr. Mudar Zahran, a Jordanian academic and Muslim refugee living in the U.K. He explains why the notion that the current Muslim migrants are “refugees” is a con and issues a warning: keep the Muslim migrants out of the West.

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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image of President Barack Obama is by Doug Mills – New York Times.

The Destruction of Haiti by Bill and Hillary Clinton

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The history of the Clintons involvement in Haiti dates back over 23 years, when then President Bill Clinton, in October of 1993, ordered warships into Haitian waters to enforce a U.N. trade embargo and prepared a small contingent of troops and show of force to pave the way for the return to power of  controversial, Marxist leader, Jean Bertrand Aristide.  Former leader of the Haitian Senate, Bernard Sansaricq, witness to the plan, recently presented his experience of working with the Clinton surrogates to an overflowing room at a recent Champions of Liberty Alliance, (formerly TPFL), meeting.

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Mr. Sansaricq, the son of a prominent coffee exporter, became involved in Haitian politics at a very young age, when his friends 15 and 16 years old were killed because of their ideology.  He was the subsequently sent to the U.S. by his father, who revered America, to attend military school and the R.O.T.C.  After graduation, he was drawn back home to Haiti, where he held dreams of transforming Haiti into a free market country, emulating America.

Mr. Sansaricq held the position of President of the Senate when preparations were underway for dictator Aristitide to come back to power.  The American government, under Clinton, supported the U.N. embargo cutting off Haiti’s lifeline of food and medicine; over 49,000 infants died as the result.  The coup to bring Aristide back to power was supported by the U.S. Black Congressional Caucus and over five billion USD backed the plan. Mr. Sansaricq was approached by Bill Richardson, a Clinton’s surrogate, who pressured him to back the plan; he unequivocally told him not to do it.  Weeks later, he received a call from a person in the U.S. Embassy and the message was clear: ‘back the plan and join our side and you will be the richest man in Haiti.’ He told them to go to hell.  One week later, the State Dept. revoked his U.S. visa because “he was not supporting democracy in Haiti.” (It would take 8 years for it to be reinstated.)

The Clinton administration ordered troops on the ground in Haiti and the invasion was taken to another level.  Aristide’s henchmen were ruthless, and Mr. Sansaricq related a story of a young 28 year old female attorney who was murdered in the process as well as other innocents.  Mr. Sansaricq, who survived one assassination attempt, was advised by a high level government official and confidant in the Dominican Republic to leave immediately, or he would be killed.

The Aristide-Clinton drug connection was a pathway for hard drugs and cocaine to enter the U.S. with the support of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.  (Some estimates were that over $20 million a month was trafficked through Haiti while the U.S.G. turned a blind eye and exported death to American youth.)

The pillage of Haiti was further underway after the 2010 earthquake, with over 300,000 people dead and 2 million people left homeless.  The Clinton “Con Game” began through the I.H.R.C, Interim Haiti Recovery Commission. Using her position as Secretary of State, Hillary devoted her efforts to the Haitian recovery and The Clinton Foundation led the fund-raising efforts for relief in this poor, third world country.

Bill Clinton had long been perceived as the ‘shadow governor of Haiti,’ and the Clintons were the power brokers in the Haiti relief effort, and if you wanted to do business in Haiti, you needed to have a relationship with The Clintons.  The hidden truth is that Haiti has a wealth of hidden resources such as gold and oil.  The VCS Mining Company received a gold permit and after the permit was issued, VCS put Hillary’s brother, Tony Rodham in charge.  The global communications provider, Digicel, run by Clinton Foundation contributor, O’Brien made millions in revenues.  Caracol Industrial Park, a $300 million investment the Clinton State Dept. claimed would produce 65,000 jobs never met that goal and the anchor tenant is a Korean manufacturer and Clinton Foundation supporter. The list of corporate donors involved in the Clinton scheme in Haiti runs deep.

The Clinton control of this small, destitute island has spanned over two decades.  Despite the relief efforts after the 2010 earthquake that left over 2 million people homeless, modest reconstruction has surfaced for the people of Haiti; many people are still living in tents with no running water.  However, the construction of corporate parks and enterprises abound. It is just another chapter for the Clintons in their ‘pay for play’ enterprise extracting riches for themselves and benefitting their donors.  The people of Haiti are still wondering where the millions in relief funds went.

Footnote:  In closing Mr. Sansaricq expressed outrage at what the Clintons had done to his country and told the group that Mr. Trump needed to hear his story. Apparently his wish was granted, within four days, this writer was contacted by Mr. Sansaricq and he said that Mr. Trump was having a rally in Miami and he was asked by a Trump official to meet with him and two other former Haitian officials for a roundtable discussion!

A Clip of the meeting:

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References:

Former Haitian Senate President: Clintons Exploited Haiti Earthquake ‘to Steal Billions of Dollars from the Sick and Starving’

U.S. Warships Sent to Enforce Haiti Embargo

The Clintons War on Women, Roger Stone

Marijuana: Inside the Most Talked about Amendment on the Florida ballot

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Over the weekend, the “Vote No on 2” campaign mailed out a powerful piece exposing Amendment 2 for the fraudulent scheme that it is.

As you can see, the mailer is already making an impact …

To view the full piece click here.

To see what’s being said click here.

Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society

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I have written that when tolerance becomes a one-way street it leads to cultural suicide. Aristotle said two millennia ago, “Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society.”

In Sarasota, Florida there is an organization headed by Dennis McGillicuddy called Embracing our Differences. Their mission is, “Through the transformative power of the Arts, we educate and inspire to create a better world. We envision a world that embraces diversity, respects differences and actively rejects hatred and prejudice.”

Labels such as bigot, racist, Homophobic, Islamophobic, Alt-Right, irredeemables, Xenophobic and deplorables are the weapons used by those who are intolerant of others. They are the same weapons used by the Embracing our Differences supporters to silence dissent. Embracing our Differences is dedicated to teaching children to be intolerant of those who have values, morals and speak truth to power.

Embracing our Differences is political correctness on steroids.

Paul Joseph Goebbels Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany said it is, “[V]itally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Embracing our Differences is dedicated to suppressing the truth and telling the big lie – that we should be intolerant of those who we disagree with.

In the column Florida High School promotes Godlessness in the name of ‘Diversity’ I noted:

Under the Riverview High School IB program is a category titled “Service Organizations.” One of these organizations is the Coexistence Club.

According to EmbracingOurDifferences.org:

The Embracing Our Differences partnership with Riverview High School’s International Baccalaureate (IB) Program continues to be the jewel in our crown.

Under our Docent Program, IB students and members of the Coexistence Club serve as docents and mentors to other students participating in our education program. Our student docents work in the parks daily leading groups and inspiring youngsters to recognize the messages delivered through the art and quotes. With their guided questions and planted seeds of inquiry, our young visitors are led to make realizations of their own about diversity and acceptance of others, including those different from themselves. [Emphasis added]

What are the ” inspiring messages” being planted like seeds into the minds of youngsters at Riverview High School (RHS) and the Sarasota community by the organization Embracing our Differences? Here’s a short list of statements found on an Embracing our Differences banner “Don’t Judge a Book by It’s Cover” at RHS:

  • Divorce was the best thing for my son
  • I have two mommies.
  • I am not the 99% and it makes me feel guilty.
  • My brother is now my sister and I still love her.
  • People say I am skinny but I hate my body.
  • Sober 3 years, two months and 3 days.
  • Born this way (with gay flags).
  • I Love My Bubber with Star of David (a bubber is a wino or junkie)
  • I am not sure who God is or if there even is a God.
  • Being Muslim in America is hard.
  • Human – everything else is irrelevant.
  • Every tattoo has a deep personal meaning.
  • My tribe was the original homeland security.
  • My piercings make me pretty.

This is a short list of the big lies. Embracing diversity is code for an anything goes mentality when it comes to family, marriage, sexual behavior, tattoos, body piercing, science, politics and God.

As Ronald Reagan said,

“Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience…without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure… If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under… Government should uphold–and not undermine–those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.”

Perhaps the “jeweled crown” of diversity needs to be replaced with one made from the vines of a thorn bush and placed upon the head of a Nazarene who was crucified by a people who embraced many of the ideals displayed on this banner.

You see, there is one book you can judge by its cover – The Holy Bible – for it is the book of life and living. Its lessons are a must for anyone’s Life Library.

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EDITORS NOTE: Below is the original “Life’s Library” by Andrea Rankin at RHS.

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A banner titled “Life’s Library” by Andrea Rankin. The banner hangs prominently on the wall at the entrance of the high school directly across from the Riverview High School’s administrative offices. The banner is in full color and sponsored by the Coexistence Club Riverview High School.