Why Donald Trump Should Be the Nation’s ‘#1 Pick’ in November

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KAPA COVER DONALD TRUMPCORAL SPRINGS, Fla. /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new article from Kapa Publishing makes a strong case for putting Donald J Trump in the White House. “People’s Review: Trump for President” is available on the company’s homepage.

“The wasteful spending in this country has reached critical mass and we need to get it under control,” argues Kapa. “There’s not one politician that has the know-how, strength or boldness to get it done. We need to give Donald J Trump the opportunity to help us make America great again.”

Kapa’s article outlines Donald J Trump’s platform in great detail, looking at all of its major components: Healthcare, Veteran Affairs, Second Amendment Rights, Infrastructure, Taxes, Education and Immigration.

Healthcare

Kapa points to wasteful spending and the excessive influence of Big Pharma and insurance companies as the reason why Americans’ healthcare is so expensive. He suggests Trump, as a political outsider and successful businessman, will be unafraid to rock the boat and deliver real change to a broken system.

Veteran Affairs

Veterans should never have to worry about finding a job or getting healthcare upon their return to the United States. Trump’s platform details how he will achieve this and other objectives that will benefit the nation’s brave soldiers.

Second Amendment Rights

Trump has voiced support for the simple, sane answer to gun violence – universal background checks – but “politics as usual” has prevented its passage, says Kapa. Furthermore, background checks don’t infringe on citizens’ Second Amendment rights, as do some of the more radical proposals.

Infrastructure

As a successful real estate developer, Trump understands the critical importance of modern, well-maintained infrastructure. Investing in roads and bridges could revitalize the nation’s economy, but Washington has neglected this obvious solution over and over again.

Taxes

The nation’s tax code is 70,000 pages long, and the corporate tax rate of 40% is driving job creators overseas. Kapa proposes that cheap labor is only a small part of the issue. With a Trump-led overhaul of the tax code, corporations will return in droves, bringing jobs, opportunity and innovation back to this county.

Education

“Nothing in this world is free,” explains Kapa, “and anyone hoping for free education or healthcare will get a surprise when the tax man comes calling.” Trump, on the other hand, is pushing to make quality education more affordable by trimming wasteful and frivolous projects.

Immigration

The current immigration process hasn’t changed in decades, and it’s most punishing to those trying to become citizens the right way. Because he’s not concerned with votes and election cycles, Trump is able to introduce a new process that guards the borders while making immigration less exhausting for law-abiding, hard-working foreign nationals.

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International Institute of New England abandons Iraqi Family of Seven

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Jeffrey Thielman is the CEO of the International Institute of New England which did not respond to a Boston Globe reporter’s call. This family is his responsibility!

….where are all of you ‘Christian’ do-gooders with your personal charitable giving?

This story should make your blood boil.  We are lectured that we should “welcome” refugees to our towns and cities and then those doing all the yammering leave families like this one high and dry, living in a series of motels and expecting their teenage children to morph into successful assimilated American citizens (yeah right!).

Jeffret Thielman

Jeffrey Thielman, CEO of the International Institute of New England

Read this story, read the whole thing from the Boston Globe on Friday (hat tip: Diane).  And, don’t get mad at the refugees, get mad at your Senators and Members of Congress, get mad at the UN, get mad at the U.S. State Department and get especially mad at the International Institute of New England which brings them in and drops them off!

Do not read this as a plea for more taxpayer funding, but as a plea for a reduction in the number of refugees we admit.  If we can’t take care of them, then don’t bring them.

And, for those of you contemplating ‘welcoming’ refugees to your town for the first time, you will be paying for it.  This article highlights the fact that local and state taxpayer dollars are involved; and, that many of these traumatized families require expensive mental health treatment.

It also points out that your local refugee resettlement contractor simply washes its hands of troubled families and moves on to the next paying ‘clients’ the State Department sends them!

I told you yesterday, that the U.S. State Department is accepting testimony (by May 19th) about the size and scope of the Refugee Admissions Program for FY2017 (Obama has already signaled it will recommend bringing in 100,000 for that year). Someone should write up this story from Massachusetts as an important point in your testimony.

Boston Globe (this is just a bit of the story about the contractor):

Refugee families depend on the federal government to help once they arrive. To assist them, the State Department contracts with nonprofits to help families find an apartment, sign up for health care, enroll in ESL classes, obtain food stamps, and look for employment opportunities. But the organizations are only required to provide guidance for three months, and refugees who need more help must turn to state programs and case managers for other benefits such as welfare.

Samantha Kaufman, a spokeswoman for the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, declined to comment on the Rubayes’ plight. “We can’t release any personal information about individuals and families,” she wrote in an e-mail.

Dr. Richard Mollica, director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, called for increased refugee benefits from the government.

“If you have a medical problem or a mental health problem or you’re a survivor of torture, the probability that you’re going to make it to independent living after eight or nine months is probably nil,” Mollica said.

Currently, the biggest allotment of financial aid for refugees is a one-time federal payment of $2,025 for each family member. Some families pool those funds for rent and clothing, but at least $900 of each allowance goes to pay administrative costs to such resettlement agencies as the International Institute of New England, which was assigned to the family originally for three months, according to Rubaye. The International Institute did not respond to queries about resettling refugees. [No surprise!—ed]

There is much more, read it all.

See our recent post on the number of (potentially troubled) Iraqis entering the US and note that in recent years Iraqis made up the largest ethnic group admitted (82% are Muslims).  We also have an extensive archive with 688 previous posts on the Iraqi migration to America.

Way back in 2008, a wise Iraqi refugee boy penned a letter to the editor in which he said this about the large number of Iraqis entering the US as refugees:

It is better to have 10 Iraqi refugees who are satisfied with their lives than having 100 angry ones with no life at all.

But, the truth is that resettlement contractors can’t keep their doors open if they slow the flow as each refugee brings money (your taxpayer dollars) per head they resettle.  The whole resettlement model is (wrongly, I believe) built on increasing the numbers we admit! It is not about assuring assimilation and success!

RELATED ARTICLE:NGOs called out, care more about flooding Europe with ‘diversity’ then with the well-being of refugees

EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Ahmed Al Rubaye, right, and his son, Abdul Wahab, 11, study an Arabic to English dictionary in their room at the Colonial Traveler Inn in Saugus. Photo: Craig F. Walker/Boston Globe Staff.

Christian Syrians: Pope Francis Left Us Behind in Lesbos

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You knew the minute you heard it—that the Pope choosing 12 Muslims to take to Rome with him on his plane—was one of the more troublesome actions (of a long list) of this Socialist Pope.  See our post on the Pope’s Syrian Muslim refugees by clicking here.

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Christian Syrian refugee woman Pope Francis left behind on Lesbos. Photo: Daily Mail

Now from the Daily Mail yesterday.  It answers our primary question—weren’t there any Christians and other religious minorities to choose from?

And, this bureaucratic (red tape!) excuse for passing up this brother and sister is ridiculous.

A Christian brother and sister from Syria say they have been ‘let down’ by the Pope after he left them behind in a Lesbos refugee camp despite promises they would be given a new life in Italy.

Roula and Malek Abo say they were two of the lucky ‘chosen 12’ refugees selected by the Vatican to be taken from the desperate camp and housed in Rome.

But what seemed like the chance of a lifetime was cruelly snatched away when they were told the following day they couldn’t go. Instead three Muslim families were taken.

Neither Community Sant’Egidio, the charity which organised the trip, or the Vatican would explain the selection process over which migrants were picked.

Spokesman Massimiliano Signifredi called the incident ‘regrettable’ – adding: ‘The problem here is the three Syrians arrived after the March 20 deadline. They arrived just after the agreement between the European Union and Turkey.

Mr Signifredi said: ‘Our staff went to Lesbos and spoke with the people who were selected. But everything was decided by the Vatican.

‘The question why the Pope took only Muslims is difficult to understand and he was suffering, I think, because he wanted to do something also for Christians as the chief of the Catholic Church. But he couldn’t because there is this international agreement [with the EU].’

There is much more here.

See our ‘Invasion of Europe’ archive here.

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Comment worth noting: ‘7delta’ answers Hetfield of HIAS, Inc.

Are you within a 100-mile radius of a resettlement site? If so, you are in the (ever-expanding) target range

Cruz’s “Natural Born” Eligibility: Law Professor Sends Open Letter to RNC in Florida

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BETHESDA, Md. /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ted Cruz continues to tell the biggest lie ever in American politics – that he is constitutionally eligible to be President.  If Cruz is nominated, Washington, D.C.Law Professor Victor Williams warns that the Democrats will forcefully challenge Cruz’s obvious ineligibility in every one of the 50 states.

Cruz’s falsehood is of constitutional proportions.  In order to gain ballot access, Ted Cruz has repeated the Big Lie many times over to 50 state election officials – the eligibility lie was made in writing and under oath.

Having told the Big Lie so often for so long, has Cruz now convinced himself of eligibility?  No – Cruz knows the truth and so do Democrats.

Victor  Williams continues  to campaign as a “write-in” presidential candidate, while prosecuting ballot fraud charges against Ted Cruz, in the remaining primary states. www.VictorWilliamsforPresident.com

U.S. CONSTITUTION’S ARTICLE II, SECTION 1:  An Age Exam and Two Soil Tests 

By his own adult admission, little baby Teddy Cruz came into the world a natural-born Canadian.

As every American school child knows, the Constitution’s Article II, Section 1 requires an age exam and two soil tests for the presidency. First a candidate must be 35 years old.  A candidate must have been a 14- year resident on the American soil and he must first have been born on that same, sacred American soil. The two soil tests insure the Commander-in-Chief will have exclusive allegiance to America.

Cruz was a loyal-Canadian-citizen until May 2014.

VICTOR WILLIAMS’ OPEN LETTER: Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the RNC

If Cruz is nominated, Democrats, like Alan Grayson, have pledged to immediately sue.  Scores of millions of dollars will be thrown into multiple litigation efforts to disqualify Cruz.

Williams’ Open Letter tells Pennsylvania’s unbound 54 Delegates (not to be pledged on April 26) that a vote for Cruz in July is a vote for Hillary Clinton in November.

Williams’ Open Letter also asks all unpledged RNC member-delegates — returning from their Florida Spring Meeting  — to face reality:  The Clinton war-machine will destroy Ted Cruz on the eligibility issue.

Williams’ Open Letter also addresses his fellow Marylanders who vote on April 26.  As Maryland’s early filing deadline prevented his candidacy in his adopted-beloved home state, Professor Williams will proudly cast hisMaryland vote for Donald J. Trump.  Williams urges his Maryland neighbors to help him keep Ted Cruz in a distant third place.

ROUND TWO of the WILLIAMS v. CRUZ FIGHT: California After New Jersey   

In New Jersey, Victor Williams’s legal team is now moving the Cruz challenge from the Secretary of State to the Appellate Division of the New Jersey judiciary.  Soon, in delegate-rich California, Williams will open a Pacific front against Cruz.

ABOUT VICTOR WILLIAMS 

Victor Williams is a Washington, D.C. attorney, long-time law professor, prolific author, and 2014 founder of www.disruptivejustice.org.

Earth Day Fact: Marijuana harms the earth

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Today is Earth Day. As we celebrate our planet and all its wonders, we should also consider the effects of trending marijuana policies. As more states push towards a commercialized market for marijuana, cultivation and production of marijuana is increasing to meet the needs of the masses. Let’s look at what that means.

According to Josh Harkinson, Brett Brownell, and Julia Lurie from Mother Jones:

You thought your pot came from environmentally conscious hippies? Think again. The way marijuana is grown in America, it turns out, is anything but sustainable and organic. Check out these mind-blowing stats, and while you’re at it, read Josh Harkinson’s feature story, “The Landscape-Scarring, Energy-Sucking, Wildlife-Killing Reality of Pot Farming.”

Beau Kilmer of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center argues that the government estimates of domestic marijuana production used in this piece and many others are in fact too high. Kilmer’s research, published last week, suggests that total US marijuana consumption in 2010 (including pot from Mexico) was somewhere between 9.2 and 18.5 million pounds.

Using the RAND numbers, U.S. pot consumption causes between 42.3 and 85.1 billion pounds of CO2 to be released in the air annually.

Did you also know…

  • Research estimates indoor marijuana production accounts for about 1% of our national electricity use, equal to $6 billion each year. That is enough to power 1.7 million homes!
  • Each pound of marijuana produced is associated with 4600 kg of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere. That’s equal to emissions of 3 million average U.S. cars!
  • Outdoor marijuana grows in California use approximately 60 million gallons of water each day. That’s 50% more than what is used by all of the residents of San Francisco!
  • At 329 outdoors grows in California, authorities seized 17,000 pounds of fertilizers and 40 gallons of pesticides. They also hauled away 119,000 pounds of trash!
  • Bottom line, Marijuana is not Earth Friendly!

Source: Josh Harkinson, Brett Brownell, and Julia Lurie, 24 Mind-Blowing Facts About Marijuana Production in America, Mother Jones, April 2014.

EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is by Mother Jones.

Three reasons why Trump’s support of transgender bathrooms is wrong

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Politico’s Nick Gass reported:

Transgender people should be able to use whatever bathroom they want, Donald Trump said Thursday [April 21, 2016].

“Oh, I had a feeling that question was going to come up, I will tell you. North Carolina did something that was very strong. And they’re paying a big price. There’s a lot of problems,” the Republican presidential candidate said during a town hall event on NBC’s “Today.”

Referring to comments from an unnamed commentator who on Wednesday said North Carolina should “leave it the way it is right now,” Trump said he agreed.

Read more.

Here are three reasons why Donald Trump is wrong for supporting transgender bathrooms:

  1. James Thomas Shoemaker, 19, from Pennsylvania was charged after 10-year-old girl found him in women’s restroom stall. Wesley Robinson from PennLive.com reported, “James Thomas Shoemaker, 19, of Quarryville is accused of using his cellphone to look over and under the restroom stall walls, as well as viewing pornography on his phone while in the bathroom, according to Lancaster police. Around 9 p.m. April 14, police responded to the Sheetz on the 1100 block of Manheim Pike for a report of suspicious activity. The girl had told her mother, who was waiting outside the bathroom, that Shoemaker was holding his phone over the top of an adjoining stall while she was in the bathroom, police said in a news release. Employees said Shoemaker had gone to the store’s bathroom area about an hour before police arrived. An investigation determined that Shoemaker went into the restroom and viewed pornographic images, police said.” Read more.
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    Jason Pomare

    Jason Pomare, 33, who is suspected of dressing like a woman and carrying a camera inside her purse to allegedly film customers at a Palmdale, CA Macy’s store while they were changing. John Cadiz Klemack reports from NBC Channel 4 News reports, “Charges were filed Tuesday [May 14, 2016] against a man who wore a wig and women’s clothing to disguise himself as he allegedly used a concealed camera to record “hours” of video of women in a Los Angeles-area department store restroom. Jason Pomare, 33, of Palmdale, was arrested Saturday after customers contacted security officers at a Macy’s store to report a man in the women’s restroom. The security officers contacted a deputy, who was on patrol at the Antelope Valley Mall (map) when he saw a man matching the subject’s description leave the store…Pomare (pictured, right) was charged Tuesday with six counts of unlawful use of a concealed camera for purposes of sexual gratification. After his arrest, investigators said a video camera found in his purse had “hours” of video of women using the restroom inside the store.” Read more.

  3. MaryAnne Sato – Alison Morrow from KING 5 News reports, “Seattle Parks and Recreation is facing a first-of-a-kind challenge to gender bathroom rules. A man undressed in a women’s locker room, citing a new state rule that allows people to choose a bathroom based on gender identity. It was a busy time at Evans Pool around 5:30 pm Monday February 8. The pool was open for lap swim. According to Seattle Parks and Recreation, a man wearing board shorts entered the women’s locker room and took off his shirt. Women alerted staff, who told the man to leave, but he said “the law has changed and I have a right to be here.’ ‘Really bizarre,’ MaryAnne Sato said. ‘I can’t imagine why they would want to do that anyway!’ Sato uses the locker room a few times a week, but she says this is a first for her. It’s also a first for Seattle Parks and Recreation. Employees report that the man made no verbal or physical attempt to identify as a woman, yet he still cited a new rule that allows bathroom choice based on gender identification. The issue drew protesters from both sides to Olympia on Monday. Opponents claim the rule opens up bathrooms to voyeurs but supporters say that’s an unrealistic fear. Read more.

This issue is one of public safety. It is an issue to protect underage children from sexual predators. It is an issue of public responsibility for protecting women and children, boys and men from sexual assault.

GrassRootsAction.com has created a petition campaign to keep men out of women’s bathrooms.

In a column titled “Our (Sexual) Carthage Must Be Destroyed” David Carlin writes:

[A] fter winning the Third Punic War, Rome razed [the city of] Carthage and scattered its people. A few centuries later, a new city with the same name was built on the site (it was this later Carthage where St. Augustine got his higher education and became a Manichean). But the old city, the Phoenician Carthage of Dido and Hannibal, was gone forever. It never troubled Rome again.

We are at about that point (the point at which the enemy has to be destroyed utterly) in the war between the Christian idea of sex and the modern secular idea of sex. The sexual revolution, which commenced about 50 or 60 years ago, has resulted in a very convincing victory for the revolutionists. The Christian idea of sexual conduct has been defeated. But now the secularists are proceeding to the next step, that is, the complete destruction – the pulverization, the atomization – of the Christian idea.

Christians, the defeated party, might wish to say, “Okay, you have won the war. We give up the fight for dominance. But can’t you be merciful? Can’t you tolerate us as a harmless minority, the way we tolerate persons who believe in flying saucers?” The secular sexual revolutionaries, however, will reply, “No, you and your sex ethic have troubled the world for too many centuries. Your crimes are innumerable and unforgivable. We have to make sure your ethic never comes back to spoil once again the pleasures of the world.”

Read more.

Transgender bathrooms are the new battleground, the new Carthage, the new moral line in the sand.

On this issue Donald Trump got it wrong, very wrong.

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A Steady Stream of Bathroom Backlash

The Politics of Child Molesting

VIDEO: They’re mainstreaming pedophilia!

But, How Did We Come to This Cultural Transformation?

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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Donald Trump speaking to the overflow crowd during a campaign event at Stephen Decatur High School on April 20, 2016 in Berlin, Md. Public school campuses have become a hot bed for the transgender bathroom issue. AP Photo.

VIDEO: Media won’t name sex assault suspect because he’s a Muslim migrant

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Shades of Chebucto Heights High School. The Canadian mainstream media, like the mainstream media all over the West, would apparently prefer that non-Muslims in the West get murdered in jihad attacks and brutalized by Muslim rape gangs than that people start to think that a massive influx of Muslim migrants might be a bad idea.

Video from The Rebel (thanks to Marc).

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Building Trades Unions to Sanders: Stop ‘the rhetoric and misguided attacks’

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WASHINGTON, D.C. /PRNewswire/ — The following statement was issued today by North America’s Building Trades Unions in response to Sanders surrogate Ben Jealous’ comments to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on construction workers.

“The rhetoric and misguided attacks from the Sanders campaign and its surrogates continues to sink to new lows. A speech before 3,000 Building Trades union members was characterized by top Sanders campaign surrogate Ben Jealous as a nefarious meeting with “donors.” The fact is, the proud men and women of the Building Trades are voters, and the only thing they have donated or contributed is their love of the country as they ply their craft building and rebuilding communities across this great nation.

“The Building Trades were honored to welcome Secretary Clinton and call on the Sanders campaign to stop the gimmicks and the desperate vitriol and get back to what truly matters to voters. What mattered to the hard hats in the room today was hearing a positive vision and dedication to the hard work to move this country forward by the next President of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

ABOUT NORTH AMERICA’S BUILDING TRADES UNIONS

North America’s Building Trades Unions is an alliance of 14 national and international unions in the building and construction industry that collectively represent over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada. Each year, our unions and our signatory contractor partners invest over $1 billion in private sector money to fund and operate over 1,900 apprenticeship training and education facilities across North America that produce the safest, most highly trained and productive skilled craft workers found anywhere in the world.

Visit www.Facebook.com/NorthAmericasBuildingTradesUnions or on Twitter @BldgTrdsUnions.

Colorado Establishes Baseline for Impact of Marijuana Legalization

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Warning that data is not available in most cases past 2014, the first year legal recreational marijuana was commercialized, this week the Colorado Department of Public Safety issued its first report on the impact of marijuana legalization. The report is mandated by the legislature.

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In addition to the information in the Denver Post infographic from the report above, other notable findings include:

  • Denver reports that burglary represents 63 percent of marijuana industry-related crime within its borders.
  • Driving fatalities involving THC only or THC in combination increased 44 percent, from 55 in 2013 to 79 in 2014.
  • Marijuana-related hospitalizations escalated from 803 per 100,000 in the pre-commercialization years (2001-2009) to 2,413 per 100,000 after full legalization, (2014-June 2015).
  • Marijuana-related calls to poison control centers rose from 44 in 2006 to 227 in 2015.
  • One survey shows 14 percent of adults reported marijuana use in the past 30 days with fully one-third of those using daily.
  • Data from the Division of Probation Services finds that the percent of 10 to 14-year-olds testing positive for THC rose from 19 percent in 2012 to 23 percent in 2014, while testing positive three or more time rose from 18 percent to 25 percent over the same time.
  • During the 2014-15 school year, discipline for drugs accounted for 41 percent of all expulsions, 31 percent of all law enforcement referrals, and 6 percent of all suspensions.

Read Denver Post story here. Read Department of Public Safety report here.

PY=Past Year. PM=Past Month.

NYU Cannabis Summit Unveils Stunning Information

“Americans now consume about 6,500 metric tons of marijuana a year and spend something on the order of 40 billion hours a year under its influence,” Professor Jon Caulkins of Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College, told conferees in his keynote address at the Cannabis Science & Policy Summit in New York April 17. The two-day summit was hosted by the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University. He argued that the change in the number of hours under the influence will be the most important marijuana-specific outcome of legalization, so it is important to understand what proportion of those hours are associated with harmless pleasure and what proportion reflect problem use.

Dr. Caulkins noted that the relatively small number of daily or near daily marijauna users dominates both use and use-related harm. About 20 percent of Americans who report using marijuana in the past year and about one-third of those who report using it in the past month say they use the drug daily or near daily. Yet together, both groups were responsible for two-thirds of the total days of marijuana use, and they used 80 percent of all marijuana consumed.

In 1992, nearly ten times the number of Americans reported using alcohol as used marijuana on a daily or near daily basis. By 2014, the ratio had fallen below 2 to 1. That’s because daily or near daily marijuana users increased 770 percent over that time.

“If we continue down a ‘regulate like alcohol’ legalization path, which allows for-profit corporations to produce, distribute, and promote marijuana, in 25 years the public health community and some of the public may be asking those of us living in 2016, “What were you thinking? Why did you think it was a good idea to create another industry whose profits depend on promoting daily and near daily use of a dependence-inducing intoxicant?”

Note: the slide above is Dr. Caulkins’ analysis of data from the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

EDITORS NOTE: The information in this column is by National Families in Action’s The Marijuana Report

A S. Carolina state Senator’s insightful and profound statement on the Muslim refugee debate

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South Carolina Senator state Kevin Bryant exposes ‘church’ refugee resettlement agencies as federal contractors with no special religious freedom protections for the agency itself. “My role in the government is to protect South Carolinians.”

Most of you are probably aware that a bill is working its way through the South Carolina legislature that would put responsibility on those agencies which resettle refugees for acts of a criminal nature that might be perpetrated by refugees they place in the state.

Mother Jones (of course) takes a whack at the “anti-refugee” bill, but in the course of reporting on it, they inadvertently allow a State Senator to scoff at one of the most important arguments ‘religious’ resettlement contractors use to promote their role (as middlemen) in the UN/US State Department Refugee Admissions Program—that they do it out of religious conviction and not as paid federal contractors.

To set the stage, here are some of the opening paragraphs, emphasis is mine (hat tip: Joanne):

A South Carolina bill that would create a registry of refugees and would hold their sponsors liable for any crimes they commit has sparked a debate over religious liberty in South Carolina.

The bill, which would require all recently resettled refugees to register with local law enforcement, would also hold each refugee’s sponsors liable if he or she commits a violent crime or an act of terrorism. “We are protecting South Carolina citizens’ safety,” State Senator Kevin Bryant, one of the bill’s lead sponsors, told members of the local press. “And if we have to do something that would de-incentivize the sponsoring of refugees, well, we’ve got to choose our own citizens over those that are not citizens of this country.”

The contracting agencies say the bill violates their religious freedom:

Some religious groups have denounced the bill as a violation of their First Amendment freedoms because it infringes their belief in caring for those in need. “We’re a Christian organization,” says Ted Goins, the president of Lutheran Services Carolinas, one of the state’s two main sponsors of refugee resettlement. “We get our marching orders from a Biblical perspective [as if there is no government cash involved!—ed]. It says we’re to love our neighbors as ourselves. Refugees are our neighbors.”  [A bit of irony here as several “Lutheran” agencies around the country have dropped the word Lutheran from their names, see Michigan earlier this month.—ed]

[….]

As the anti-refugee bill makes its way through the legislature, more religious leaders have publicly condemned it. A coalition of bishops from four different denominations sent a joint letter to Gov. Haley and lawmakers criticizing it.

Blah, blah, blah from the coalition of bishops, then see what Senator Bryant said.  But first know that the US State Department strictly forbids any of its contractors (Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, Jews and Lutherans) from proselytizing! Go here to see what duties the contractors must perform in order to be paid for their work (or have their contract yanked).  This is just one small portion of the State Department rules:

The Department of State has cooperative agreements with nine domestic resettlement agencies to resettle refugees. While some of the agencies have religious affiliations, they are not allowed to proselytize. The standard cooperative agreement between the Department of State and each of the domestic resettlement agencies specifies the services that the agency must provide to each refugee.  [This is effectively a contract since the federal government follows up with audits to assure compliance.—ed]

Continue reading to learn what else is required of them.  They might use the phrase “cooperative agreement,” but there is no doubt this is a contract for services.

Now, this is what Senator Bryant says:

“As a Christian, I would never put myself in a contract that prohibited me from sharing the Gospel,” Sen. Bryant says in an interview. The Republican from Anderson County says that because the bill holds resettlement groups, not individuals, liable, it does not infringe on religious liberty. He says because resettlement groups sign a contract with the federal government in which they agree not to proselytize to refugees—more or less promising to act in a nondenominational capacity—they have given up all claims to religious liberty.

Bryant separates church and state and it’s about time the ‘religious’ resettlement contractors who are paid millions of your tax dollars every year to resettle refugees (payment by the head) did the same!  (I repeat for the umpteenth time—where is the ACLU?)

Bryant, a born-again Christian, says he has been able to separate his faith from his work on this bill. He says he would rather donate to organizations who help refugees in the Middle East and North Africa. “My role in the government is to protect South Carolinians. My role as a Christian is to personally support different ministries that reach out to refugees,” he says. “I think we need to separate the commands of Christ from the role of government.”

Read the whole Mother Jones article by clicking here.

Confusion works against the taxpayer!

I believe that much of the reason the Refugee Admissions Program has escaped scrutiny for over 30 years is the confusion that was created when the federal government hired ‘church’ groups to be federal refugee contractors.  Most people who hear about the program for the first time are shocked to learn that ‘Christian’ (and one Jewish group) are being PAID taxpayer dollars to do their supposed charitable work.

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So much for the Pope’s power of persuasion

Demographic and Economic Infographics of States Holding April 26 Primaries

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WASHINGTON, April 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following tip sheet was released today by the U.S. Census Bureau:

In advance of the April 26 primaries, the U.S. Census Bureau presents a variety of statistics that give an overall profile of each participating state’s voting-age population and industries. Statistics include:

  • Voting-age population and estimate of eligible voters (i.e., citizens age 18 and older).
  • Breakdown of voting-age population by race and Hispanic origin.
  • Selected economic characteristics, including median household income and poverty.
  • Selected social characteristics, including educational attainment.
  • County Business Patterns (providing information on employment by specific industries).
  • Statistics on voting and registration.

Profiles are provided for the following states:

Connecticut
Delaware
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island

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Chuck Norris vs. Communism is Kicking the Censor’s ***

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What if it was illegal to watch your favorite film? If you risked confiscation of your property, jail time, or worse — would you still press play? In 1980s Romania, this wasn’t a hypothetical question.

Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme, inspired oppressed people to embrace pro-freedom ideas. 

Under its then-communist regime, Romania outlawed all uncensored Western media. The media ban cut off Romanians from the outside world. The country’s internal television offerings dwindled from 20 hours of content on two channels to just one state-approved daily two-hour broadcast. Hollywood blockbusters such as Rocky and Dirty Dancing became illicit contraband.

The country’s “Ideological Commission” used translators to help edit and recut “imperialist” media to reflect communist values. To that end, this censorship committee prohibited positive portrayals of capitalism — such as Western kitchens stocked with, yes, food. But just as drug and alcohol prohibition fails to eliminate the public’s desire to smoke and drink, Romanian censorship failed to squelch the public’s desire for unaltered media.

Chuck Norris vs. Communism, a fascinating, feature-length documentary now available on Netflix, tells the story of a courageous entrepreneur bootlegger, Teodor Zamfir, and a defiant state translator, Irina Nistor, who risked everything to bring banned films to their fellow countrymen.

The film features historical reenactments and interviews with film-loving Romanians who snuck into illegal screenings in cramped apartments. Viewers see how action stars, including Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme, inspired oppressed people to embrace pro-freedom ideas. This set the stage for Romania’s political revolution. The documentary also gives an often-comedic look into how Nistor dubbed the actors’ dialogue, making her voice one of the most powerful and recognizable in the nation.

Turning one’s living room into a secret screening room wasn’t easy. The host would need a television, but he’d also need the outlawed tapes and a VCR. At the time, VCRs were not sold in Romanian stores and they cost as much as a car. Those who acquired the equipment still had to avoid police raids. They had to avoid informants while spreading the word about the screenings. But if they were successful, the crowds would come.

As the on-screen characters overcame difficult circumstances, Romanians reveled in the small revolution of watching forbidden content such as Top Gun. An older woman explains that it wasn’t until she saw Last Tango in Paris that she realized how far behind the West Romania had fallen. A young man describes how empowered he felt while watching Chuck Norris’s character fight his enemies and escape capture. Cheesy ‘80s action films that feel less like Citizen Kane and more like two-hour memes inspired an entire generation of oppressed people to become the heroes of their own stories. This might be the ultimate lesson in subjective value.

State media bans still exist throughout the world, including in Cuba and North Korea. Chuck Norris vs. Communism gives viewers hope that great stories can empower even those who seem the most isolated. Through entrepreneurship and black markets, people living under tyrannical regimes can still see examples of humanity, love, and the promise of a better world beyond their borders.

Through entrepreneurship and black markets, people living under tyrannical regimes can still see examples of humanity, love, and the promise of a better world beyond their borders.  

Chuck Norris vs. Communism reminds American audiences that we are fortunate to live in a relatively free society that enables us to take our entertainment and access to information for granted. In spite of numerous problems in government and recent attacks on free speech, we don’t think twice when shows such as South Park, Making a Murderer, and Scandal criticize our public institutions. We binge watch House of Cards without fear of police raids.

Political satire is so ingrained in contemporary America that even our presidential candidates make comedy videos and visit The Daily Show. We don’t worry that a government censorship committee will cut important scenes in Game of Thrones or exile your favorite documentarian, be it Michael Moore, Dinesh D’Souza, or Ilinca Calugareanu, the filmmaker behind Chuck Norris vs. Communism.

And if we don’t like the content we see, we can just start our own YouTube channels.

Until then, Chuck Norris vs. Communism is a must-see documentary. It reminds us that freedom and film often go hand in hand.

Note: Chuck Norris vs. Communism was one of the Moving Picture Institute’s annual Liberty in Film Award winners.

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Lana Link is a FEE alumni board member and the VP of marketing for the Moving Picture Institute, which promotes freedom through film by creating original entertainment content and supporting filmmakers at all stages of their careers.

VIDEO: The Rise of America’s First Muslim Brotherhood Political Party

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star spangled shariahThe wolves have been at work for a while preparing for such a time as now. These wolves are cunning, patient, low profile, and terribly focused like a laser beam on their target; only their target is not simply a herd of sheep but an entire country that daily becomes increasingly like a herd of sheep. The country is the United States, and the wolves that have been at work are members of the Muslim Brotherhood and affiliate Islamic groups sworn to fulfill the Quran’s commandment to establish a Caliphate; a One-World Muslim religion, culture, law, and maniacal allegiance to their Prophet Mohammed. Any obstacle standing in their way of total achievement and domination is to be fully and completely eliminated – not tampered with, coddled or made friends with, but eliminated.

While a prodigious number of elected officials work diligently to make nice to all people everywhere, and struggle to bring about “political correctness” to win favor and reelection rather than lead for the sake and safety of the citizens to which elected them, and many citizens mumble and resent political correctness but go along with the ever multiplying tentacles, the wolves continue to pick off an institution or significant politician here and there, as they never once stray from their intended target, the elimination of our country! Many law enforcement senior commanders and chiefs have become politically neutered from being the once strong, respected, and proud sheepdog that historically stood post placing himself between the vulnerable flock and the wolves. Add the many facets of “transformation and change” Obama has brought forward, and very few have aggressively opposed, and the public herd is all the more confused and overwhelmed, and simply returns to eating and enjoying life for the moment. Thinking past the moment is too difficult, too scary, too mind boggling so the herd simply continues to enjoy the moment. All the while the wolves continue to focus on their target(s). One target in particular that has been illuminated is the American political process. The wolves’ intention is to become their own political force, but only insofar as to use this force to establish the Islamic Faith form of government and law supplanting the Constitution of the United States with Sharia Law!

You scoff and say this can’t happen! My very good colleague, Clare Lopez, Senior Vice President of The Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. shares the evidence to demonstrate otherwise. Watch the five minute YouTube presentation below. Please take steps to understand what is transpiring all around you as the culture and fabric of America is deliberately being shredded. Some of us “sheep dogs” have already engaged in the fight against the wolves consumed with diabolical schemes to eliminate the whole herd, America. While a remnant of the herd have heeded our warnings and have responded to being educated on the clear and present danger, most of the herd continues to eat placidly with not a care on their mind – just as the wolves would like.

Star Spangled Shariah: The Rise of America’s First Muslim Brotherhood Political Party

“The U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s stated goal in America is to ‘destroy the Western civilization from within.’ Star-Spangled Shariah: The Rise of America’s First Muslim Brotherhood Party reveals the newest weapon in their arsenal for doing so – a self-described Political Party called the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO). This new monograph connects the dots between the Muslim Brotherhood’s secret plan to impose Sharia in America, and the insidious use it intends to make of our democratic political system to that end.”

EDITORS NOTE: The Muslim Brotherhood centrist US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), which is holding a Muslim Capital Day during the week of April 18th is made up of: American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), Muslim American Society (MAS), Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), The Mosque Cares (Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed).

Secret Cables Link Pakistan Intelligence Agency to Deadly Attack on CIA

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Recently disclosed documents suggest that Pakistan’s intelligence agency paid a terror group to perpetrate a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s intelligence agency paid a Taliban-affiliated terror group in Afghanistan to perpetrate one of the deadliest attacks on the CIA in the agency’s history, according to inferences made in recently-declassified U.S. government cables and documents.

On December 30, 2009, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew himself up in Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, located near the border with Pakistan, killing seven CIA employees. The bomber, a Jordanian doctor and double agent, tricked the Americans, telling them he would lead them to Ayman al-Zawahri, now head of al-Qaeda and, at the time, second in command.

A document dated January 11, 2010 , issued less than two weeks after the bombing, reports how the head of the Haqqani network, a Taliban-allied organization designed as terrorist by the U.S., met twice with senior officials of Pakistan’s intelligence agency (the Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI) the month of the bombing.

During the first meeting, funding for “operations in Khowst [Khost] province” were discussed. “Funds were later provided to tribal elders in Khowst province for their support of the Haqqani network,” according to the cable.

At the second meeting, ISI officials gave “direction to the Haqqanis to expedite attack preparations and lethality in Afghanistan.”

Although heavily redacted, a cable issued the following month specified the head of the Haqqani network as well as another individual were given $200,000 “to enable the attack on Chapman.” The cable specifically mentions a number of individuals involved in the operation, including an Afghan border commander who was given money “to enable a suicide mission by an unnamed Jordanian national.”

The Jordanian mentioned is assumed to be the suicide bomber, Humam al-Balawi, whom the CIA had cultivated as an al-Qaeda informant. Code-named “Wolf,” al-Balawi turned out to be a double agent, perpetrating the deadliest attack against the CIA in the 15-year history of the war in Afghanistan.

Although each document states, “This is an information report not finally evaluated intelligence,” Admiral  Mike Mullen (former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) terms the Haqqani network a “veritable arm” of Pakistan’s intelligence agency. The U.S. has long-documented the connection between the ISI and the Haqqani terrorist organization.

The documents were the first public disclosure connecting the attack on Camp Chapman to the Pakistani ISI. They were released in connection with a Freedom of Information Act request. The U.S. had previously blamed al-Qaeda for the attack.

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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Jennifer Ehle who plays Jennifer Lynne Matthew in the film Zero Dark Thirty about the killing of Osama Bin Laden, head of Al Qaeda. Matthews, a mother of three was described as “one of the CIA’s top experts on al-Qaeda.” She was head of Camp Chapman and killed in the attack on the base.

The ‘Top Ten Absurdities’ of the Gender Confused/Genderphobic

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It is always interesting to see how absurd some people become in their beliefs. Among the most absurd are those who are “gender confused.” These people may be classified as “genderphobic.”

Genderphobia may be defined as:

An overwhelming and unreasonable fear of forces that cause controversy, fragmentation, scandal, chaos or discord within the LGBTQ community, thereby disturbing homosexual peace and order, which requires immediate and brutal condemnation.

Genderphobia has led to a movement where the absurd (the quality or state of being ridiculous or wildly unreasonable) has become the norm and national public policy. Among those exhibiting Genderphobia, i.e. ridiculous and unreasonable qualities, are politicians, Hollywood stars, professors, public school teachers, parents and their children.

These people do not believe what science, biology and genetics say about gender.

We decided to compile a list of The Top Ten Absurdities to help normal (a.k.a. homophobic) people understand what they may be confronted with when meeting a gender confused (a.k.a. genderphobic) person. Here is our list:

  1. Questioning one’s birth sex (male/female) is the new normal.
  2. Calling someone a boy or girl is racist, bigoted and makes you a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
  3. Tolerance is a one-way-street (its my gender confused way or the highway).
  4. Buggery is normal and healthy behavior, procreating is evil.
  5. I can change my sex regardless of the laws of biology, science and genetics.
  6. By simply changing my appearance, I am the sex I am portraying.
  7. The needs of the 2% (gays) outweigh the needs of the 98% (straights).
  8. It is okay to become a priest or boy scout leader in order to have sex with an underage boy.
  9. Child pornography and pornography in general are healthy.
  10. Muslims are our friends, Christians and Jews are the enemy.

World Net Daily’s Erik Rush asks:

So, why is the political left so concerned about the supposed rights of homosexuals, transvestites and assorted sexual deviants?

Well, here’s why – and it’s quite simple: Leaders on the left are aware that a socialist state must be the sole arbiter of morality. It must be able to decree absolutely anything and establish any social convention it deems appropriate, including that which many in any given social order would consider profoundly amoral or primally repellant.

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Ayn Rand, the Russian born American writer and novelist, wrote:

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other – until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.

Since the 1950s we have seen the absurd become America’s official ideology.

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EDITORS NOTE: If you have other “gender confused” absurdities please add them in the comments section below. We will be posting other Top Ten Absurdities lists. If you have any areas of interest please note them in the comments section.