U.S. Senator James Lankford: Biden’s Policies Are Taking Us in the Wrong Direction

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Seventy-two percent of Americans say we’re headed in the wrong direction under President Biden’s leadership. I am one of them, and it’s pretty likely you are too.

In Oklahoma, and much of the nation, everyday life is harder and less safe under President Biden’s economy and policies. Groceries, rent, and crime rates are up, but retirement savings are down. More people are forced to live paycheck to paycheck. These are the areas we should focus on solving.

We finally convinced the Biden administration to restart construction on the southwest border wall and to start dealing with the open border asylum policy he created. I spent hours over the past few days meeting with immigration officials and asylum officers to lay out practical ways to stop illegal immigration. The administration has the tools to stop illegal immigration; they have just chosen not to do it.

When the California-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed, the administration panicked. We need calm leadership that will confront bad management at one of our nation’s largest banks but not cause bank problems in well capitalized banks like what we have in Oklahoma. It’s clear now that this administration is willing to put a new fee (read: tax) on every bank, and by default every person with a bank account, to cover the losses of big California and New York banks who are more concerned with their ESG score than their liquidity and good management.

After passing the forced government price controls in the partisan so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” at least four drug manufacturers have pulled new drugs, many being cancer treatments, from development in the last six months because they can’t make them work under President Biden’s new overreaching law. So, the new drug-pricing scheme from the president has already started reducing the number of new cancer treatments available to Oklahomans. More government control often means fewer options for Americans, and it’s already proving true on the new drug pricing policy.

In the same “Inflation Reduction Act” and in President Biden’s latest State of the Union address, he told everyone that we were going to “buy American.” But the new Japanese, German, and Canadian green energy projects will all be called “American” projects for the special tax treatments and purchasing under the Inflation Reduction Act. I bet you never thought about Japan, Germany, and Canada when the president stated that he would “buy American.”

There are solutions to bring down the price of drugs by increasing competition, not government controls. I’ve proposed solutions to address our debt and deficit and waste in federal spending. I continue to push the Department of Homeland Security to enforce the border and address the loopholes in our immigration laws. We have a stable banking system in Oklahoma, but we need national leadership that does not undermine our economic health.

I hear my neighbors in Oklahoma who also see the problems and want solutions. I will keep pushing to help make life better for every American, so we can get our nation headed back in the right direction and people can stop worrying about the future of the greatest nation that has ever existed on God’s earth.

AUTHOR

Senator James Lankford

James Lankford has served as a U.S. Senator for Oklahoma since 2014.

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Afghanistan, WWIII and the Treacherous Controlled Oppositions

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“You bring me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” –  Lavrentiy Beria, Chairman of the KGB in Soviet Russia.

My definition of WWIII will give you the history of Stalinist Communist Russia of the 20th century. Regrettably, this war has escaped the American mind. It was Stalin who designed and waged the war against Western civilization. The war had a variety of different shapes, forms and locations with one agenda to confront the global capitalist economic system and implement a Police State of Soviet Socialism. Yuri Andropov, the KGB Chairman 1967-1982 advanced Stalin’s war by designing a direct infiltration of America over simultaneous penetration of the American security forces and the media. The next Stalin’s disciple Vladimir Putin due to the sophistication of the new technology enhanced Stalin’s design with enormous hacking ability…

And the war against Western civilization is going on. Years ago, I introduced you to my definition of the war–WWIII: Recruitments and Drugs, Infiltration and Assassinations. The war has been waged by the Soviet/Russian government against Western civilization and has never ended since then. But Americans don’t know that and people are still voting for the Democrat Party, a Party that is interested only in control and power. People still don’t understand that the Democrat Party is their enemy #1, I hope to prove that. Remember, what you see in Chinese behavior today had started by Russia in the 20th century…

It also happened in Russia, when I was a member of the Russian Legal community. I have learned the term Controlled Opposition from the KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov. Perhaps, the term is familiar to the American lawyers. You can learn it in detail from my columns, in short, it is literary Controlled Opposition, controlled by the opposite, adversary force. When we unexpectedly surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban, I knew why that happened and wrote several columns explaining that America has become   a Controlled Opposition. Yes, Biden’s White House is under control of Stalin’s devoted disciple Vladimir Putin and his KGB’s Mafia/Army.

Putin’s Operation: Afghanistan

If you read my columns about Afghanistan, you will learn the history of Afghanistan and the Biden family, as a Mafia/Clan colluded with Putin’s Intel, at least since 2013-2014. Another two prerequisites to be aware of are: Andropov’s design to follow the mechanism involving all family members. That design had become a legacy of the Dem Party started with Clinton’s Mafia. The Second prerequisite: The KGB’s Mafia/Army is serving both Russia’s and China’s Intel as Stalin had created them the para-military entity tied to each other for actions under the Communist Party’s agenda. Remember their modus operandi: lies, deceit, fabrication, and fraud. Look at Biden’s America and you will find all four there. In addition to that, they are monitoring my computer to use the information about Russia.

Reading my above mentioned columns about Afghanistan and the Putin KGB’s Mafia/Army, you will agree with me: There is an indisputable connection between the Biden family Mafia/Clan and the KGB’s Mafia/Army. The Hunter’s deal with the wife of Moscow’s Mayor had guaranteed the KGB in the White House since. “Biden’s cognitive decline is a national security risk.” Sen. Rand Paul. I agree. Don’t you feel Biden’s inability to run the country? Do you remember his answer about “minor insurgence” in Ukraine? The name of demented Biden had been used by his staff in participation with the KGB to run America, which means Vladimir Putin. If you know Communist expansionist policy and dirty tricks of the KGB’s Mafia/Army you will recognize it instantly analyzing the statistical numbers presented by the Washington Free Beacon, March 8, 2023:

“Nearly $7.2 billion worth of aircraft, guns, vehicles, ammunition, and the specialized equipment” was abandoned in Afghanistan when the Biden administration carried out its rushed evacuation, according to a report published in late February by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the federal watchdog group that monitors U.S. expenditures in the country.

“At least 78 aircraft worth $923.3 million, 9,524 air-to-ground munitions valued at $6.54 million, over 40,000 vehicles, more than 300,000 weapons, and nearly all night vision, surveillance, communications, and biometric equipment provided to the [Afghan defense forces] were left behind,” according to information disclosed in SIGAR. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R. Texas) says the Biden administration has stonewalled his committee’s attempts to obtain documents that could provide a window into the administration’s mishandling of the operation. Taliban Has $7.2 Billion Worth of U.S. Military Equipment Abandoned in Afghanistan, Report Says, by Adam Kredo, March 8, 2023, the Washington Free Beacon.

What do you think, who designed the Operation Afghanistan and refused to provide a window into the administration’s mishandling of the operation? What American President, in his right mind, would surrender the Bagram Air Base to China? The logic of the statistic tells you the motivation and the Kremlin’s address —arrogant and aggressive ideological expansion over Control Opposition on American land—follow the money. As I have reported before, the same ideological expansion by the KGB-Doer over Taliban’s gangs took place in 1970s. It is still alive and well. Perhaps, the events on the Southern Border show the visible collusion of the Biden administration with the Russian Intel, where Alas! America has no operational control. Biden policy of open borders and the Russian Cartels are working hand and glove to demolish the America constitutional republic. Yet, to grasp it, you have to know the Russian KGB’s Mafia/Army and its WWIII against Western civilization…

A Catastrophic Incompetence of Our Government and More

It is not a coincidence that after the Moscow connection, Hunter Biden and his Father Joe Biden had been moving to Ukraine: President Barack Obama has appointed Joe Biden as a point man for Ukraine. It is not a coincidence that all three Democrats had been silent when Putin swallowed Crimea. Ukraine is the continuation of the same Putin’s policy—expansion of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. It is more dangerous than territorial dispute, it is a prolog to WWIII. Putin is not alone, the Chinese Intel of the CCP is helping him in many different levels of the infiltration in America—TikTok and many other kinds of dirty tricks. We are at war with a strategic ideological alliance—Russia’s/China’s Intel Apparatus.

I have been writing about Kremlin and Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism, for the last forty years. My main goal is to educate the American people, who still trust to the Democrat Party. That is one of the reasons, I made the KGB’s Mafia/Army the major topic of my writings. Yes, the catastrophic incompetence of the Biden Government is the other reason. Some Democrats still don’t know that their leadership lied, deceived, and defrauded them. The decent Democrats and some Republicans still don’t know that their leadership had been colluded with the Russian Intel. That collusion helped the KGB’s Mafia/Army turned the Dems to Socialist Party. The decent people still don’t know that Russia is a Terrorist State and the enemy of Humanity.

But, this is more. To prevent decent people from learning the truth, the KGB’s Mafia/Army has infiltrated the American security services and the Media by Andropov’s designs. My entire writing had been sabotaged by the FBI, submitting my name to the FISA Court and the Court made me a Foreign Agent and banned my writing in 2002. That is why very important pieces of information have escaped you. You don’t know that the terrorist gangs of Pablo Escobar, Bin Laden, ISIS, and many others had been created by the Russian Intel and used as the Controlled forces against the West. Had you read my columns you would also know the Clinton Mafia and its collusion with the Russian Intel to destroy America from within.

The Biden administration is also a Controlled Opposition. It consisted of the group of the Communists to destroy the American successful capitalism and implement Soviet Socialism. Mayor Pete’s Father was a lecturer of Marxism-Leninism with ties to the KGB in Russia. He prepared his son to “fix” the American Transportation accordingly. A sabotage in Ohio, Soviet Style is directly connected to Mayor Pete-a part of the Criminal Cabal. The current banking failure is also a real threat. I am afraid Biden’s team is preparing a nationalization of the American Banks a-la Soviet banks. http://bit.ly/3YQhpND and https://bit.ly/3wtBwCu

Had you read my columns you would know the Clinton Mafia and its collusion with the Russian Intel, I was reporting for decades. There is a possibility that Trump will be indicted. I want to tell you who and how it is orchestrated. All America’s problems started with Clinton’s Mafia and conversion of the Dem Party to Socialist Party, mostly in New York City. The current lawyer of M. Cohen is Larry Davis, a member of Clinton’s Mafia. Now we are expecting a Soviet Style performance of Show Trial familiar to you for all seven years of the Witch Hunts against Trump. The Clinton Mafia and Soros sponsored prosecutor Alvin Bragg coordinated by Vladimir Putin through the Democrat’s machine, will perform another lawless recital of the Soviet Style Show Trial in America. It is a coup! Maybe now you can grasp the desperate need to know Russia and its Intel Apparatus…

The Pentagon representative John Kirby executes theatrical performances, deceiving and defrauding you by helping the demented Biden to keep you defenseless. We are not ready for a war, our army has been demoralized psychologically by the Biden leadership. We have spent $113 Billion in Ukraine and don’t have enough ammunition and sophisticated weaponry due to Biden’s erroneous foreign policy. A demented man has allowed his staff to run America, to cover up the Dem collusion with Russian Intel for decades. Putin knows all our secrets, by colluding with Biden since 2013-2014. Our national security is in a catastrophic state, while our enemies Russia and China are prepared for a total war. Putin will never surrender Crimea and Chairman Xi will try to occupy Tavian due to the American demented President Joe Biden.

We are at WW III and dealing with TREASON. Republicans can lose 2024 without learning about Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. The Dem leadership implements it in America by demolishing us from within. If you remember Socialist modus operandi, you will find all elements of it used by Biden’s team. Moreover, watch them, they now used the Russian policy of “Disinformation” lying, defrauding, and misleading you. They have a lot of help from the media: Progressive Insurance Company is one of them promoting Progressive Dems by violating the American Law. TikTok is a propaganda tool for the Chinese Communists. Watch Communists on American land!

To end of this column, I’d like to give you the recent story at the American Philharmonic: On March 19, 2023, I listened to the Philharmonic Romeo & Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev for the first time and I cried nonstop. I was 10-12 years old in Russia when I heard about this Prokofiev music. Brought up in the family of a musician, I adored Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev had offended me by writing another music to Shakespeare’s play. Living under Soviet Socialism and serving as a defense attorney for twenty-five years, I’ve learned things that America doesn’t know. The Communist Party targeted all artists plus composers to be loyal to the Party and praise its leader Stalin. Prokofiev and Shostakovich refused to do that. The entire Socialist punitive machine had been directed against them in everyday surveillance, censorship, and an anxious awaiting of a knock on the door by the KGB in the middle of night.

That was the life of Sergei Prokofiev in Russia. In Philharmonic March 19, 2023, the conductor gave us a short description of the music and its constant changing of multi-movements. But neither he nor the audience knew the conditions Prokofiev had created his masterpiece. I think it is my duty to write this story: Prokofiev had purposely taken the title Romeo & Juliet: to escape censorship and to use the human tragedy of the 16th century to show the ideological tragedy of the 20th century. He had sent a warning to Humanity! Mankind will hear that warning listening to his Romeo & Juliet.

That is also the reason I’ve become a writer describing the ideology of Stalinist Soviet Socialism and its criminal agency called the KGB. All my writings are dedicated to giving America and the world the information about that criminal agency, I called the KGB’s Mafia/Army. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. Vladimir Putin is the leader of KGB’s Mafia/Army—a Doer of the crime committed in Ukraine. Read my columns for free: www.drrichswier.com/author/spipko/

To be continuer at www.simonapipko.com and www.drricswier.com/author/spipko/

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Multiple Biden Calamities Make 9/11 Commission Report ‘Required Reading’

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That multiple Biden policies and decisions have undermined national security and public safety has not been a surprise to anyone capable of being objective.

Consider Biden’s disastrous immigration policies that include eliminating border security and gutting the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States.

As a consequence of these policies unprecedented numbers of illegal aliens from countries around the world, were emboldened and encouraged to flock to the United States thus overwhelming the Border Patrol and also overwhelming the entire immigration system across our entire nation.  Among the millions of aliens who entered the United States were criminals and terrorists.

Our open borders have also enabled huge quantities of deadly illegal drugs to flow freely across our nation resulting in the deaths of record numbers of Americans.

Contrary to the bald-faced lies of Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) that our borders are secure, on March 15, 2023 The House Homeland Security Committee held a field hearing in McAllen, Texas, on the crisis on the border.

Incredibly no Democrat attended that hearing even though the Democrats did provide a witness for that hearing.  Joe Biden actually referred to that hearing as a “political stunt!”

C-SPAN posted a video of that hearing:

House Homeland Security Committee Field Hearing on Border Security, Part 1

Here is a brief video clip from that C-SPAN video of a statement by U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul L. Ortiz about the issue of border security:

User Clip: Chief Ortiz Admits No Operational Control over Border

Furthermore aliens do not only enter the United Stated by crossing our southern border and once in the United Staes an abject lack of interior enforcement means that aliens who violate our immigration laws have absolutely nothing to fear.

As I noted in a recent article:

Crisis On The Southern Border: Only The Tip of Biden’s Immigration Iceberg

Now let’s turn our attention to how Biden withdrew our military forces from Afghanistan, literally overnight, while leaving behind billions of dollars of U.S. military hardware and weaponry, capped off by the subsequent release of thousands of terrorists.

I articulate my concerns about the confluence of these two disastrous Biden calamities in two articles published in August 2022:

Biden’s Catastrophic Policies: Immigration and Afghanistan

Biden’s Afghanistan Catastrophe Increases Terror Threat in US

It now seems that because of Biden’s disastrous policies the terrorists are “coming home to roost.”

On March 16, 2023 Stars and Stripes Magazine published a worrisome article, ISIS in Afghanistan capable of foreign attacks in 6 months, CENTCOM commander says, that began with this except:

WASHINGTON — The Islamic State network in Afghanistan will be able to attack American or Western interests outside the country in less than six months “with little to no warning,” the top commander for U.S. forces in the Middle East said Thursday.

Army Gen. Michael Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Islamic State’s Khorasan Province, commonly referred to as ISIS-K, is rapidly developing the ability to conduct “external operations” in Europe and Asia.

The terrorist group will not be able to strike the U.S. homeland in the near future, however.

“I think it is a higher probability overseas than it is in the homeland,” Kurilla said, acknowledging hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens living abroad could be in range of an attack.

The general’s assessment comes more than a year after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 and adopted an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism approach that collects intelligence and carries out strikes without a permanent military presence in the country.

Even before the stupefyingly flawed manner in which our troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan by the Biden Administration, the “All Clear” concerning the threat of terror attacks had not sounded.  Indeed, since the terror attacks of 9/11 there had been numerous terror plots devised by foreign terrorists in the United States that resulted in loss of life while others failed for a number of reasons.

Furthermore while General Kurilla stated that he did not think that an attack on U.S. soil is imminent, given the huge numbers of aliens who have entered the United States including more than one million “Got-Aways” – aliens who evaded the Border Patrol.  (On January 22, 2023 Fox News reported: Border agents confirm 1.2 million ‘gotaway’ migrants under Biden administration.)

Our nation’s borders and immigration laws constitute America’s first line of defense and last line of defense.  A review of a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S. Code § 1182 (Inadmissible Aliens) enumerates the categories of aliens who may not be admitted into the United State and makes it clear that immigration law enforcement has nothing to do with race, religion or ethnicity but is focused on protection public safety, national security and the jobs and wages of American workers.

Nevertheless, since even before being sworn into office, Joe Biden made it clear that as President he would not secure our borders or enforce our immigration laws, thereby encouraging unprecedented levels of illegal immigration and the influx of record quantities of illegal deadly drugs such as fentanyl, meth and other drugs to flow freely into the United States leading to the deaths of more than 100,000 people to drug poisoning annually.

My December 7, 2020 commentary, Biden’s DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender, was predicated on the announcement that Alejandro Mayorkas would be the incoming Biden Administration’s pick for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  Mayorkas’ performance at the DHS during the the Obama administration evidenced repeated examples of malfeasance.

The bi-partisan 9/11 Commission was created in the wake of the deadly terror attacks of September 11, 2001 to “connect the dots” and identify the multiple vulnerabilities the terrorists exploited to enter the United States and launch the deadliest terror attacks ever carried out on U.S. soil.

Therefore The 9/11 Commission Report and the official companion report, 9/11 and  Terrorist Travel should be “mandatory reading” for the President, the Vice President and every cabinet officer and their high-ranking deputies.  Those reports should also be mandatory ready for every member of the House and Senate and their senior staffers.  Finally those reports should be on the mandatory reading list for every governor, mayor and police chief.

The findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission should have served as the guidebook for actions of every administration since the 9/11 Commission made their findings and recommendations known.

This is not unlike the ways that other such investigative commissions were created to prevent future disasters.  For example, commissions were created to discover how and why two space shuttles were lost in tragic accidents.  As a result of the findings of those commissions changes were made to the shuttles and operating procedures were modified..

When airliners crash the FAA and the NTSB investigate the cause(s) of every crash to see if changed nee to be made in the way airplanes are constructed, maintained and flown.

The point is to learn from what goes wrong.  My dad taught me that in life things that go wrong should be viewed not simply as mistakes, but as lessons that teach us how to do things better and safer.  However, for my dad, it was unforgivable and inexcusable to refuse to learn from mistakes.

The point to this exercise was not just to answer a multitude of questions, but to devise strategies to close the gaping holes in various system to prevent future such attacks.

Instead, particularly where immigration-related issues were concerned, each administration, with the exception of the Trump administration, utterly ignored the 9/11 Commission and, indeed, frequently implemented policies that were diametrically opposed to those findings and recommendations.

This brings us to the Biden administration, particularly where the administration’s immigration policies are concerned.  It would seem that the Biden administration has made the willful decision to devise and promulgate policies, with impunity,  that are in direct opposition to the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

Individuals who hold positions of authority make decisions that cause injury and/or death are held accountable.  Think of how police officers are investigated and, when appropriate, prosecuted.  Think about the ramifications that doctors and health care professionals face when they are found guilty of medical malpractice.

Drivers who drive under the influence and/or drive recklessly also face severe consequences, especially when their actions kill or injure others.

Should not politicians who govern recklessly or demonstrate blatant malfeasance governing “under the influence” of campaign contributions or morally bankrupt political ideologies to garner political power that undermine national security, public safety and cost innocent victims their very lives be similarly held accountable?

In the weeks and months after the terror tracks of 9/11 there was no shortage of politicians who flocked to podiums festooned with a forest of microphones, eager to stare into the television cameras, thump the podium and demanded, “Why did no one connect the dots?”

The 9/11 Commission and the reports it produced certainly connected the dots.  Many congressional hearings were also convened to “connect the dots”- in point of fact I was called to testify before quite a few of those very hearings.

Now politicians who blatantly ignore the 9/11 Commission and its findings must be held accountable before the next terror attack.

©Michael Cutler. All rights reserved.

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Five-in-Six Americans Favor Constitutional Amendment on Term Limits for Members of Congress

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. /PRNewswire/ — An in-depth study conducted by the Program for Public Consultation at the University of Maryland finds that five-in-six Americans favor a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on Members of Congress.

While there has not been a vote on term limits in Congress since 1995, the issue was given new life during this year’s speakership negotiations when Speaker McCarthy guaranteed a vote on congressional term limits.

The public consultation survey of 2700 registered voters was conducted by the Program for Public Consultation (PPC) at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. Passing a constitutional amendment to establish term limits in Congress was favored by 83% of registered voters nationally, with little difference between partisans: 86% of Republicans, 80% of Democrats and 84% of independents.

Bipartisan support for this proposal has remained steady since PPC’s first public consultation survey on term limits in 2017, which found 80% in support.

To ensure that respondents understood the issue, they were first given a short briefing on the proposal and asked to evaluate arguments for and against. The content was reviewed by Congressional proponents and opponents of the legislation to ensure that the briefing was accurate and balanced and that the arguments presented were the strongest ones being made.

Respondents who favored the constitutional amendment were given the opportunity to specify the number of terms they prefer. Bipartisan majorities said four terms for House Members (60%, Republicans 64%, Democrats 54%) and two terms for Senators (63%, Republicans 69%, Democrats 56%). Another 17% said House Members should be limited to five or six terms, and another 16% said Senators should be limited to three or four terms.

“Bipartisan majorities of Americans continue to favor proposals to limit the terms of Members of Congress,” commented Steven Kull, director of PPC. “The overwhelming support for congressional term limits is also mirrored in the support for ballot measures to term limit state legislators in 16 states.”

The most popular argument in favor of term limits stated that incumbents have too much security in their seats, which reduces their need to be responsive to their constitutions (87% convincing, Republicans 90%, Democrats 84%). The con argument that did the best contended that term limits reduce the amount of experience in Congress, and cited research showing that they don’t increase responsiveness (50% convincing, Republicans 45%, Democrats 58%).

The sample was large enough to enable analysis of attitudes in very Republican and very Democratic districts based on Cook PVI ratings. In all cases, very large majorities in very red (86%) and very blue districts (78%) favored a constitutional amendment to establish term limits.

The survey was fielded Feb 1-14, 2023 online with a probability-based national sample of 2700 registered voters provided by Nielsen Scarborough from its larger sample, which is recruited by telephone and mail from a random sample of households. There is a margin of error of +/- 1.9%.

What are Public Consultation Surveys?

Public consultations seek to improve democratic governance by consulting citizens on key public policy issues. Conducted online with representative samples, citizens are taken through a policymaking simulation that puts them in the shoes of a policymaker. They are presented a briefing, evaluate pro and con arguments and then are asked to make their policy recommendations. Policymaking simulations are reviewed for accuracy and balance by experts on different sides of the issue.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Mortality Rates for U.S. Children and Teens are Rising for the First Time in 50 years

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President Joe Biden is so concerned about the future of American children that he inserted a mandate for affordable child care into a major bill authorising subsidies for vital semiconductor manufacturers.

“Lack of childcare is a significant barrier to labor force participation,” tweeted economist Joseph Stiglitz. Policies like these have the potential to increase the pool of available workers, a win for our economy.” The proposal has been applauded as a way of pushing women into a tight labour market. As an economist for the RAND Corporation tweeted: “Need workers? You need child care.”

Although this may be a vote-winner, the larger issue of whether children survive to be cared for is also an issue.

A heart-stopping editorial in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, states that mortality rates for children and adolescents rose for the first time in more than 50 years between 2019 and 2021. It has hardly been reported.

The reason? It’s not an increase in childhood diseases, or deaths through Covid-19. “COVID-19 mortality rates at ages 1 to 19 years nearly doubled in 2021 but explained only 20.5% of that year’s increase in all-cause mortality,” the authors write.

The deaths were caused by social and personal dysfunction: car accidents, overdoses, shooting, and suicides.

“Although the pandemic did not initiate these trends, it may have poured fuel on the fire. Injury mortality at ages 10 to 19 years rose by 22.6% between 2019 and 2020. Much of this surge involved homicides, which increased by 39.1%, and deaths from drug overdoses, which increased by 113.5%. Transport-related deaths at ages 10 to 19 years, which had decreased for decades due to improved vehicle safety measures and greater use of occupant restraints, increased by 15.6% in 2020. Among children aged 1 to 9, injuries explained two-thirds (63.7%) of the increase in all-cause mortality in 2021, including a 45.9% increase in deaths involving fires or burns.”

Great progress has been made medically, but these advances have been entirely offset by accidents in chaotic environments:

“[They] mark a tragic reversal to years of progress in lowering pediatric mortality rates through advances in injury prevention (eg, safer automobiles, occupant restraints, bicycle helmets, smoke detectors) and the prevention and treatment of lethal pediatric diseases (eg, prematurity, neoplasms, congenital disorders). These advances have reduced pediatric deaths, but the recent increase in all-cause mortality means that these gains are now being entirely offset by injuries, primarily those involving violence, self-harm, and drug misuse.”

“I have not seen this in my career,” said lead author Steven Woolf, MD, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. “For decades, the overall death rate among US children has fallen steadily, thanks to breakthroughs in prevention and treatment of diseases like premature births, pediatric cancer and birth defects. We now see a dramatic reversal of this trajectory, meaning that our children are now less likely to reach adulthood. This is a red flashing light. We need to understand the causes and address them immediately to protect our children.”

There is also a clear racial component to these dismal figures. In 2021, Black youths aged 10-19 were 20 times more likely to die by homicide than white and Asian American/Pacific Islander youths and six times more likely than Hispanic youths.

Child care is universally applauded. But the kind of child care that American children need desperately is not the kind President Biden is currently promoting.

They need care which keeps them off the streets, keeps them from doing drugs, keeps them from shooting each other. Barack Obama said it best in his famous fatherhood speech:

How many times in the last year has this city lost a child at the hands of another child? How many times have our hearts stopped in the middle of the night with the sound of a gunshot or a siren? How many teenagers have we seen hanging around on street corners when they should be sitting in a classroom? How many are sitting in prison when they should be working, or at least looking for a job? How many in this generation are we willing to lose to poverty or violence or addiction? How many?

We need more police, he acknowledged. We need gun control, more funding for school, better pay for teachers, more after-school programs. But that will not be enough:

But we also need families to raise our children. We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child — it’s the courage to raise one. We need to help all the mothers out there who are raising these kids by themselves … So many of these women are doing a heroic job, but they need support. They need another parent. Their children need another parent. That’s what keeps their foundation strong. It’s what keeps the foundation of our country strong.

Traditional families with a married mother and father are best equipped to ensure that kids don’t fall prey to drugs and gangs. They are the best child care – and the best health care. As Dr Woolf says:

“Modern medicine has fought the battle against pediatric diseases, but the threats to our children are now manmade. Without action, bullets, drugs and automobiles will continue to claim the lives of our most cherished population.”

The dismaying news about the rise in mortality was hardly reported, but it should have been on the front page of the New York Times. As the JAMA article says: “This increase in all-cause pediatric mortality has ominous implications. A nation that begins losing its most cherished population—its children—faces a crisis like no other.”

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Michael Cook

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Trump Unveils Plan To ‘Dismantle The Deep State’

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Former President Donald Trump unveiled his new plan Tuesday to “dismantle the deep state” by firing “rogue” bureaucrats and career politicians, according to a new policy agenda video.

Trump released a list of ten items that indicate how he plans to “clean out the deep state,” starting with re-instating an executive order that would give the president the authority to fire bureaucrats, according to the video posted on Rumble. The former president’s plan would dismantle the “Washington Swamp,” target corruption and ensure that federal bureaucrats and politicians are held accountable.

“The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left’s political enemies, which they’re doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible,” Trump said in the video.

Trump will ensure corruption is wiped out of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts and will create a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that will “declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship and corruption,” according to the video.

The former president promises to crack down on government actors working with the media to conjure up “false narratives,” that may result in criminal charges. Trump will ensure that Inspector General Offices act independently of the departments of which they govern.

“I will ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people, or that they are not spying on someone’s campaign like they spied on my campaign,” said Trump.

Trump would continue to move departments of the bureaucracy outside of Washington, like when his administration moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado, and noted that nearly 100,000 positions would be susceptible to a move, according to the video.

The former president will bar federal bureaucrats from seeking positions in companies that they deal with and regulate, such as “Big Pharma,” according to the video. Trump also promised to push term limits on congressmembers to combat career politicians.

“I will shatter the Deep State, and restore government that is controlled by the People,” Trump said.

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They’re coming for Trump. We’re next!

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“Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.” — Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph Stalin’s Комитет государственной безопасности (KGB).

Since January 6th, 2021 the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal government agencies have been on a quest to purge those who are part of the MAGA movement. Hundreds of citizens have been arrested and many imprisoned. These actions have open the flood gates to what is rapidly becoming a political purge before the 2024 presidential election.

Now, Manhattan’s Soros-backed and woke-addled District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg is trying to shackle former President Donald J. Trump with a trumped-up indictment, no pun intended, built on flimsy legal theory instead of the law.

But the foul plot may have been foiled by 11th-hour testimony from former federal prosecutor Robert Costello who exposed disbarred attorney Michael Cohen as a liar and serial perjurer.

Cohen is Alvin Bragg’s star prosecution witness.

The DA is trying to prosecute for alleged crimes that do not exist. The highly anticipated arrest or indictment did not happen.

Witness Robert Costello’s Testimony to Trump Grand Jury Should Sink the Case

By Nick Arama | 11:00 PM on March 20, 2023

As we reported on Sunday, the Trump indictment that has been reported wasn’t quite a done deal yet, as there was one more witness they had to hear from on Monday – Robert Costello. Costello is the former legal adviser for Michael Cohen. Cohen is one of the two key witnesses in the case, along with Stormy Daniels. Both have serious credibility issues.

Costello’s testimony further decimated any case that the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg may have thought he ever had.

Costello said that Michael Cohen has “far from solid evidence.” Costello said he used to be Deputy Chief in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, so he would know. Costello said he “never would have touched a guy” like Cohen (as a witness) because he was a convicted perjurer. Not to mention all the other lies that he told them that are in the emails that were being discussed, Costello said.

Costello ripped Cohen as a liar.

“There can be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Michael Cohen has great difficulty telling the truth,” Costello said. “He is, after all a convicted perjurer, and our track record with Mr. Cohen convinced us that he was a serial liar.”

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis weighed in on the political circus Monday saying:

“I have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by some Soros DA. Ok? He’s trying to do a political spectacle. He’s trying to virtue signal for his base.” 

As President Donald J. Trump has said many times, “They’re not after me, they are after you.”

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China Is Preparing To Challenge The U.S. Over Taiwan

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The following essay is an excerpt from Colonel Grant Newsham’s new book, When China Attacks: A Warning to America, due out from Regnery on March 28.

The combination of political warfare, gray-zone actions, and the potential for kinetic warfare come together most clearly around Taiwan, which offers the most immediate prospect of China going on a major kinetic offensive.

Taiwan remains the key objective for the Chinese communists, and Xi Jinping‘s declaration at the 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress in October 2022 that China would use all possible means (i.e., force) to seize Taiwan got loud applause from the audience. It’s presented as unfinished business from the Chinese Civil War. But even more, Taiwan is key to Chinese communist domination of Asia, the Pacific, and ultimately the United States.

Taiwan is where China is getting ready for a war of the sort the Americans will recognize.

It conducted a dress rehearsal in August 2022. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) established “live-fire exclusion zones” around Taiwan following Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi‘s visit. The Chinese fired missiles bracketing both Taiwan and southern Japanese islands and conducted a range of naval and air maneuvers towards Taiwan.

Was this an act of war?

The U.S. administration apparently doesn’t think so, and the Chinese communists are glad to let it think that. To the Chinese, however, it is war. Or at least a test run.

One American observer described it as follows:

This is not an infantile reaction to the denial of Beijing’s narrative about Taiwan. This is what the Chinese call a “demonstration project” to test how Taiwan and its allies and friends respond to these aerial (and naval) incursions (and missile launches). It gives the PLA the opportunity to measure and evaluate the aggregate Taiwan-U.S. defense umbrella performance from satellite overhead to sub-surface activity under the sea. It’s a tabletop (and field training) exercise in real-time, 3D, to access certain capabilities of the Taiwan-U.S. defense umbrella.

At the same time, Beijing intimidates Taiwan (as well as the Americans, the Japanese, and everyone else) and tests the response. If that response is weak or frightened, it advances China’s thinking and makes it more likely Xi Jinping will issue the “go” order.

Even before the August 2022 Chinese test blockade of Taiwan, the PLA air force’s aerial incursions were a regular feature in the airspace around Taiwan.

A U.S. Marine pilot described to me how one particular incident ties in with an eventual war:

This appears to be an armed electronic warfare reconnaissance team sniffing out Taiwanese aerial defense radars, locations, and arrays. Simultaneously conditioning the Taiwanese and the world to larger and larger intrusions, until one day that lead intrusion package initiates hostilities and takes out a meaningful wedge of [Taiwan’s] anti-access aerial denial systems in an entire sector. [This would create] a breech for the main assault package to enter and attack the remaining radar sites and missiles from the rear. This is not good, nor is it the action of a respectful neighbor.

The PLA has been preparing for an attack on Taiwan for the last 50 years. Since 2016, when Taiwan elected President Tsai Ing-wen (who, unlike her predecessor, was unwilling to kowtow to Beijing), Chinese military pressure on Taiwan has steadily increased. PLA aircraft and ships routinely encroach on Taiwan’s territory and airspace, and the PLA has laid the infrastructure for an assault on Taiwan—should Taipei not concede peacefully.

As mentioned, Beijing is also looking at America’s political condition and strength—domestic and global. This directly affects America’s ability to respond effectively to a Chinese kinetic move against Taiwan. So, disruptions caused by activists burning down American cities, and half the country, and much of America’s elite class (including Republican Never Trumpers) being afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome, weigh in favor of going kinetic.

The United States’ economic and financial conditions also weigh into Beijing’s calculations. American supply chain dependency is in China’s favor. This works both ways, but less so if China is sanctions-proof, as it has been trying to make itself. U.S. manufacturing, especially the defense industrial base, has diminished to the point that it cannot produce weapons or build ships and aircraft fast enough (much less repair them) to fight a serious war against a serious opponent that is willing to roll the dice.

America’s heavy indebtedness, high inflation, and out-of-control entitlement (social) spending choking out defense spending are all favorable signs for Chinese planners.

Originally published by Newsweek

AUTHOR

Grant Newsham

Senior Fellow.

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Biden Gun Order Fails Background Check

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Like most grandmothers, Carolyn Pettiford thought she was done raising children. A horrible February night in 2022 changed that forever. Her daughter, Ashley, had been parked on a Kansas City street when a man walked up, leaned into the car, and fired a gun twice. When police arrived, they found Ashley and her boyfriend dead, and Carolyn’s terrified five-year-old grandson alive, but shot badly in the face in the backseat. “He’s a pretty strong kid,” Carolyn says. But “to have to tell a five-year-old that he won’t be able to talk to his mother… that he will never be able to see his mother or to hug her, it’s hard.”

There are 20,138 families like Carolyn’s, who started 2023 with an empty seat at the dinner table because gun violence killed someone they loved last year. And while everyone’s stories are different, they all have one thing in common: There isn’t a single gun control policy that could have prevented them.

President Joe Biden, standing in front of a California dance hall where 11 people were mowed down in January, claims otherwise. Last Tuesday, by executive order, he announced a series of new attacks on the Second Amendment — all under the guise that stricter gun policies will somehow end the violence. It’s time, he said emphatically, to “do something. Do something big.” The trouble is, Democrats don’t seem to care if that “something” is the right thing.

Under Biden’s latest congressional end-run, he aims to move America “as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation” — which, as conservatives know, is just his lawless way of pushing the country closer to a national firearms registry that could facilitate totalitarian control. Like most Republicans, Congressman Greg Murphy (N.C.) is outraged by the idea, since a) Biden has no constitutional authority to impose these policies without Congress, b) it’s an invasion of Americans’ privacy, and c) it won’t do anything to prevent the bloodshed on our cities’ streets.

“The sad thing is,” Murphy told me on “Washington Watch,” “this is an absolute aberration and misunderstanding of who commits crimes with guns. It’s not law-abiding people, but that’s who he’s after.” So what purpose does any of this grandstanding serve? “I don’t know of one,” the congressman replied. “I don’t know that [there’s] any need for … the government to know who owns a gun and who does not own a gun. I’d love for them to know which criminals own guns — I could probably get behind that. But … law-abiding citizens? That’s not the right of the government. We have a right to own a gun for hunting, for self-protection. And the government has no right to intrude upon that privacy.”

Among other things, the order also weaponizes the DOJ to crackdown on gun sellers they believe aren’t policing buyers strongly enough. But gun sellers aren’t the problem, the data argues. Criminals are.

Josiah O’Neil, a former deputy sheriff in southern California who just ran for Congress, believes there’s a major flaw in the Left’s thinking, which is that gun control laws always assume someone who’s willing to commit murder would hesitate to break gun laws. “I’ve never met a criminal, whether in my local law enforcement or federal work, that respected laws. By definition, criminals don’t,” he explained on “Washington Watch” after the Uvalde massacre.

If anything, these knee-jerk reactions — these supposed “gun control” efforts — turn innocent citizens into sitting ducks. “When places adopt stricter gun control laws, there tends to be an increase in violent crime,” explained scholar John Lott. His research at the Crime Prevention Research Center found that “every place in the world that’s banned, either all guns or all handguns has seen an increase in murder.” Domestically, “over 94% of the successful mass public shootings that have occurred in the United States since 1950 have taken place in areas where citizens weren’t allowed to … have guns.”

Just look at Chicago and Baltimore — cities with some of the strictest gun laws in the country. Gun-related violence is through the roof. That’s because the same criminals who break the law to shoot someone are breaking the law to get the guns to do it with.

In Kansas City, where Ashley was killed, federal investigators say there are more than 2,000 stolen and illegal guns “floating” around the area. In fact, the man who ended her life and blinded her son used one. That’s also in keeping with the Justice Department’s findings from 2019 (the most recent data available). Only 10.1% of the inmates the government surveyed got their guns from a retail source. The other 90% either stole their firearms, bought them from an underground store, took them from their victims, received them as a gift, had someone else buy them, or bought, borrowed, traded, or rented them from friends or family. Barely 7% bought the gun in their own name and just 6.7% underwent a background check.

Last month, a blockbuster report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms confirmed the trend, pointing out that more than a million guns were stolen from private citizens from 2017-2021. “Crime guns may change hands a number of times after that first retail sale, and some of those transactions may be theft or violate [firearm laws]. But what we know is from the large numbers of gun sales, there are lots of ways that legal guns end up in the hands of prohibited persons.”

And unfortunately, thanks to the Democrats’ other failed policies — defunding the police, for one — there’s a serious shortage of law enforcers to track those illegal guns down. From small towns to big cities, National Police Association spokesman Betsy Branter Smith warns that the “anti-police rhetoric of 2020 and its political fallout” has put departments at their lowest populations in 30 years. “I think this could be a generational problem,” she warned. “This could go on for years. Even if, let’s say, I could flip a magic switch tomorrow, and everyone loved the police and every kid in America wanted to be a cop … it takes nine months to a year from the date of hire for a person to become a police officer.”

But it isn’t just the reduction in force, it’s the reduction in penalties too. When people do commit crimes, Democrats are seeing to it that they aren’t punished. In Washington, D.C. right now, two-thirds of the arrests (67%) aren’t even prosecuted. The city’s criminal code has been so relaxed that “about half the people charged with murder typically have a prior gun arrest, according to police, though not necessarily a conviction.”

Even on routine traffic stops, The Washington Post reports, police are finding and seizing illegal guns. It’s a regular occurrence, officers say. In a single week last year, D.C. arrested 23 people for gun offenses, and “prosecutors did not pursue charges against 13 of them.” The city’s police chief, Robert Contee, fumed that the refusal to punish offenders is “very frustrating,” especially since so many of these people who are released from custody could be “picking up another gun.”

“[I] want to see people going to jail and being held accountable when they violate our community and go out there and use illegal firearms in our city.” Until then, Contee argues, nothing will change. The Left can scapegoat legal gun owners and sellers all it wants, but that doesn’t solve the deeper problems their policies are creating.

As plenty of people have pointed out, nothing the president has done would have stopped a single shooting we’ve witnessed — not Uvalde, not Monterey, not even Ashley Pettiford. This latest order isn’t action; it’s political theater, designed to play on people’s emotions and fears. Biden isn’t “accelerat[ing]” the work “to save more lives.” He’s distracting Americans from the border crisis, growing national security threats, and the economy — and wiping his feet on the Constitution as he does it.

Carolyn — and every parent who’s buried a child — deserves better.

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Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins is president of Family Research Council and executive editor of The Washington Stand.

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Dutch Farmers Fed Up With Climate Tyranny Win Shock Election Victory

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Dutch farmer party BBB has become the single largest party. The country has spoken and Mark Rutte must drop the ridiculous nitrogen policy and stand down effective immediately.

The Farmer-Citizen Movement, or BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB), was established in 2019 in response to the Netherlands government’s plan to “fight climate change” by restricting food production and putting farmers out of business.

The BBB (farmers citizens movement) gained a staggering 17 seats and the ruling parties have suffered severe losses and won’t reach a majority – not even with the help of the Green Party + Labour.

Dutch Farmers Fed Up With Climate Rules Win Shock Victory Against Establishment

Netherland Farmers Protesting Climate Policies

By: Kate Hirzel, Daily Caller, March 16, 2023:

The Farmer-citizen movement (BBB) in the Netherlands appeared set to win 15 of the 75 Senate seats in the nation on Wednesday, celebrating a victory over climate activists who are seeking to buy out farms and cut down on livestock numbers of Dutch farmers.

The BBB or BoerBurgerBeweging, as the party is called in Dutch, started in 2019 and won one single Lower House seat in 2021. After the recent election, the BBB is now the third-largest political party in the Netherlands.

“Nobody can ignore us any longer,” BBB leader Caroline van der Plas told broadcaster Radio 1, Reuters reported. “Voters have spoken out very clearly against this government’s policies.”

The movement started after farmers began protesting against the government’s aims to cut nitrogen emissions in half by 2030. Some emissions come from the manure of cows, pigs and chickens.

The government plans to reduce livestock by a third, which forces 11,200 farmers to sell their land to the state and another 17,600 farmers to significantly reduce livestock. After the U.S., the Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products in the world, according to Euro News

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On March 20, 1854 the Republican Party was Founded by Anti-Slavery Activists

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“We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.” — Margaret Chase Smith, American politician who served as a U.S. representative from 1940–1949 and a U.S. senator from 1949–1973. 

More essential education not taught in our garbage government public schools.

On this day in history, March 20, 1854, Republican Party founded to oppose expansion of slavery

Anti-slavery activists motivated as pending Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned Missouri Compromise

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The Republican Party, forged from of a coalition of political forces to oppose the advance of slavery in the American west, was created in Ripon, Wisconsin, on this day in history, March 20, 1854.

“The Republican Party grew out of resistance to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which overrode the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery to spread into Western territory by popular sovereignty,” writes PBS American Experience in its history of political parties in the United States.

“‘Anti-Nebraska’ men included anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, Free Soilers, reformers, and abolitionists.”

On this day in history, March 20, 1854, Republican Party founded to oppose expansion of slavery

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McCarthy: D.A. Alvin Bragg ‘Abusing His Office to Target President Trump’

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took to Twitter on Sunday to declare that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is “abusing his office” by going after former President Trump, while Democrats, including Bragg, are allowing crime to run rampant.

“Alvin Bragg is abusing his office to target President Trump while he’s reduced a majority of felonies, including violent crimes, to misdemeanors. He has different rules for political opponents,” McCarthy wrote following Trump saying he believes he will be arrested this coming week after “illegal leaks.”

“Republicans stopped the radical DC crime law, and we will investigate any use of federal funds that are used to facilitate the perversion of justice by Soros-backed DA’s across the country,” McCarthy also noted. He was referring to Congress passing a disapproval resolution that ultimately killed the Washington, DC, soft-on-crime criminal code revision legislation.

McCarthy also called for “relevant committees to immediately investigate” if Bragg is using federal funds to “subvert our democracy by interfering in elections” by going after the former president, who had already announced he would be making another White House bid in 2024.

“An outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump,” McCarthy added.

Alvin Bragg

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Support from George Soros

Bragg’s 2021 campaign for D.A. received the support of the powerful Democrat multi-billionaire, George Soros, who donated approximately $1 million to the leftwing activist group Color of Change, which in turn diverted donations to support Bragg’s candidacy in New York. Moreover, Soros contributed $50,000 to People’s Action Power and $72,000 to the New York Justice & Public Safety PAC, money that likely aided the Bragg campaign…

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The Truth Behind ERIC, the Syndicate Founded by Leftists to Manage Voter Registration Rolls

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The media is condemning officials in Republican-led states for withdrawing from a controversial data-sharing consortium that purports to help manage voter registration rolls and, not surprisingly, the news reports fail to tell the whole story. The system is known as the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) and it claims to be an efficient and cost-effective mechanism for states to maintain accurate voter rolls. ERIC is a nonprofit that was formed by leftist operatives in 2012 and, until recently, had more than 30 member states. It claims that its sole mission is assisting states to improve the accuracy of America’s voter rolls and increase access to voter registration for all eligible voters.

The reality is much different and Judicial Watch offers compelling information deliberately omitted by the media in a White Paper released this week. The document presents facts that directly contradict recent news coverage attacking Republican-led states—including Florida, West Virginia, and Missouri—for cutting ties with ERIC. The New York Times expresses fervent support for ERIC, writing that the nonprofit “has faced intensifying attacks from election deniers and right-wing media.” National Public Radio proclaims that “the far right is now running a disinformation campaign against one of the best tools that states have to detect and prevent voter fraud.” The headline of a recent Washington Post story reads: “Election deniers take aim at group that helps states maintain voter rolls.” The list of media critics is extensive and ranges from national outlets to small town newspapers.

The fact is that ERIC has been far more successful at identifying unregistered voters than duplicate or invalid registrations, according to research conducted by Judicial Watch. The organization reports identifying more than 60 million unregistered voters since 2012. That is not to say that it has not been effective at identifying many potentially improper or invalid voter registrations. However, certain aspects of its operations are incredibly dubious. For instance, ERIC was founded by the liberal Pew Charitable Trusts, potentially with funding that originated from leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) network. Its founder, who remains influential within the organization, has a history of leftwing activism and unethical conduct. ERIC also shares the vast amount of sensitive personal data it receives from member states with another liberal nonprofit, the Center for Election Innovation and Research, a key player in the Zuckerbucks scandal in which private entities donated millions of dollars to fund government vote counts in the 2020 elections.

Records obtained by Judicial Watch show that ERIC is far more effective at swelling voter registration rolls than at keeping them clean. Our research also determined that the large amount of sensitive data provided to ERIC by member states and the organization’s role in maintaining voter rolls may violate a number of federal statutes. Among them are the Help America Vote Act, National Voter Registration Act and Driver’s Privacy Protection Act. The first statute provides states the authority and obligation to create and maintain electronic voter registration files but includes no provision that authorizes any state to outsource these obligations to a third party like ERIC. The outsourcing of voter registration list maintenance to ERIC may also violate the National Voter Registration Act, which protects from disclosure the identities of individuals who decline to register to vote. Finally, the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act specifically shields from disclosure the kind of data provided to ERIC by member states to conduct list maintenance.

These types of privacy concerns were among the reasons Florida officials recently severed ties with ERIC. “Withdrawing from ERIC will ensure the data privacy of Florida voters is protected,” according to an announcement issued by the Florida Department of State this week. In the press release Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd explains that he has an obligation to protect the personal information of Florida’s citizens, which ERIC requires the state to share. “Florida has tried to back reforms to increase protections, but these protections were refused,” Byrd said. “Therefore, we have lost confidence in ERIC.” Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft reveals that ERIC “allows for a hyper-partisan individual to be an ex-officio non-voting member on its governance board.” He also opposes ERIC’s focus on adding names to voter rolls by requiring a solicitation to individuals who already had an opportunity to register and made the conscious decision not to.

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U.S. to Spend $50 Million on “Post-Release Services” for Migrant Youths

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As part of the red carpet rollout for illegal immigrants the Biden administration is dedicating tens of millions of dollars to provide migrant youths with a multitude of services once they are released from government shelters. This includes medical, educational, legal and an array of other services. American taxpayers will also fund detailed home studies by deploying case managers to conduct intensive in-home engagements and virtual check-ins to ensure the safety and continued support for the young migrants and the families they have been released to. On its face the program for migrant youth—officially labeled Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) by the government—appears to be superior to the system that manages hundreds of thousands of U.S. children in similar situations, such as foster care.

Private and public educational institutions, small businesses, city and county governments, tribal organizations as well as nonprofits will receive government funding to assure UAC are well taken care off. The money will flow through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is charged with caring for illegal aliens under the age of 18. In a recent grant announcement the agency’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) reveals that it will allocate $50 million—and possibly up to $300 million—for the Home Study (HS) and Post-Release Services (PRS) for unaccompanied children. “PRS providers will be charged with a scope of services that includes three levels – virtual check-ins, case management services, and intensive in-home engagements,” the grant document states. “ORR provides Home Studies and PRS nationwide and needs HS/PRS providers to serve both high-need and remote locations where sponsors of unaccompanied children reside.” The agency encourages providers located in or near geographic areas where UAC are commonly unified with sponsors to apply.

HHS has spent a fortune to care for the onslaught of mostly Central American youths that have crossed into the U.S. through the Mexican border. Typically those under 18 are welcomed with open arms and hundreds of thousands have entered the country in the last few years. HHS spends billions of dollars annually to house, medically treat, entertain, and school UAC and the agency funds and oversees dozens of state-licensed care facilities to house the young migrants when they arrive in the U.S. As of January 27, 2023, there are approximately 7,565 UAC in HHS care, according to the latest agency figures. In fiscal year 2021 ORR housed an unprecedented 122,731 UAC. In fiscal year 2022, a record 149,000 UAC were apprehended by federal agents. The overwhelming majority of UAC in U.S. custody, approximately 72%, are over 14 years of age and 66% are male. Nearly half (47%) came from Guatemala, 32% from Honduras, 13% from El Salvador and 8% from other countries.

Since illegal immigrant minors are almost always allowed to remain in the U.S. and are quickly disbursed to a government-funded shelter upon arrival at the border, security screening is dismal. The flawed system has allowed hardcore criminals and violent gangbangers to slip through. For instance, a teenage Salvadoran gang member recently arrested for the murder of a Maryland woman came to the U.S. as a UAC. A few years ago two UAC were charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in the bathroom of a Maryland public high school. The illegal immigrants were both charged with first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree sexual offense. Both were in the ninth grade like their victim. One came from El Salvador and the other from Guatemala. A year earlier two UAC, both 17, from Central America executed a Massachusetts man by shooting him in the head shortly after being welcomed into the U.S. by the Obama administration. Both had ties to the notoriously violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), authorities disclosed at the time. The media described the violent gangbangers as “baby-faced boys.”

Shortly after the first batch of UAC arrived in mid-2014, Judicial Watch reported that many had ties to gang members in the U.S., specifically MS-13. Homeland Security sources directly involved with the border crisis told Judicial Watch that street gangs, including MS-13, went on a recruiting frenzy at U.S. shelters housing the migrant youths and Red Cross phones were used to communicate. The MS-13 is a feared street gang of mostly Central American illegal immigrants that has spread throughout the U.S. and is renowned for drug distribution, murder, rape, robbery, home invasions, kidnappings, vandalism, and other violent crimes. The Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) says criminal street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for most violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs.

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House Republicans Demand Documents From Prosecutor Investigating Trump

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Three House Republican committee chairmen are demanding documents from the New York prosecutor who is investigating former President Donald Trump’s payments to an adult actress.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, and House Administration Committee chairman Bryan Steil are calling on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to provide all documents and communications involving his investigation into Trump, as well as sit for a transcribed interview. A New York grand jury is investigating Trump’s 2016 payments to Stormy Daniels, and the former president said Saturday that he expects to be arrested Tuesday, March 21.

“You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office. This indictment comes after years of your office searching for a basis—any basis—on which to bring charges, ultimately settling on a novel legal theory untested anywhere in the country and one that federal authorities declined to pursue,” the lawmakers wrote.

Elected Republican officials and presidential candidates have defended Trump against the likely prosecution, highlighting liberal billionaire George Soros’ donations to Bragg. The Manhattan DA has also declined to prosecute numerous felonies, the Republicans have noted, while investigating Trump for allegedly falsifying business records, a misdemeanor.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy pledged action against Bragg on Sunday at the House Republican Conference retreat, telling reporters that he was speaking with Jordan about it. He later added that he does not believe people should protest an indictment.

“Your decision to pursue such a politically motivated prosecution—while adopting progressive criminal justice policies that allow career ‘criminals [to] run[ ] the streets’ of Manhattan—requires congressional scrutiny about how public safety funds appropriated by Congress are implemented by local law–enforcement agencies. In addition, your apparent decision to pursue criminal charges where federal authorities declined to do so requires oversight to inform potential legislative reforms about the delineation of prosecutorial authority between federal and local officials. Finally, because the circumstances of this matter stem, in part, from Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation, Congress may consider legislative reforms to the authorities of special counsels and their relationships with other prosecuting entities,” the Republicans added.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney, paid Daniels $130,000 days before the 2016 election as part of a non-disclosure agreement related to an affair. Daniels later violated the NDA and was ordered to pay Trump $300,000. Prosecutors reportedly believe that the payment violated New York law since Trump classified it as a “legal expense.”

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MICHAEL GINSBERG

Congressional correspondent.

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