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Saturday, March 4, 2017
The American Left’s Love Affair With Putin’s TV Network
Via David
Eight days after the 2016 presidential election, Douglas Schoen — President Bill Clinton’s past pollster and advisor — charged that former defense intelligence chief Michael Flynn was “dangerously pro-Russian” because he participated in the 10th anniversary celebration of RT, the Russian state-owned Television network formerly known as Russia Today.
Only a few weeks after Flynn resigned as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces resignation demands from congressional Democrats making similar charges based on two meetings he held in 2016 with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Eight days after the 2016 presidential election, Douglas Schoen — President Bill Clinton’s past pollster and advisor — charged that former defense intelligence chief Michael Flynn was “dangerously pro-Russian” because he participated in the 10th anniversary celebration of RT, the Russian state-owned Television network formerly known as Russia Today.
Only a few weeks after Flynn resigned as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces resignation demands from congressional Democrats making similar charges based on two meetings he held in 2016 with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
More @ The Daily Caller
Barbershop owner speaks out after firing back at would-be robber
Via Billy
Omaha police say a man intent on robbing a South Omaha barbershop Friday morning ended up shot during a gun fight with an employee.
Police initially received a report of shots fired at Fadekings Barbershop at 2907 Q St. shortly around 9:45 a.m.
Officers found Lucas M. Ortiz, 23, on the sidewalk outside suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken into custody and transported to Nebraska Medicine.
Omaha police say a man intent on robbing a South Omaha barbershop Friday morning ended up shot during a gun fight with an employee.
Officers found Lucas M. Ortiz, 23, on the sidewalk outside suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken into custody and transported to Nebraska Medicine.
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The Sense of “Southernizing”
For as long as people have been writing about Southern character—and that’s getting to be a pretty long time now—they’ve been inclined to mention Southern individualism. From Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Marquis de Chastellux to Charlie Daniels’ “Long-haired Country Boy,” Southerners have been inclined to mention or exemplify this trait themselves. W.J. Cash has probably discussed it most thoroughly, in The Mind of the South. He did not entirely (or even mostly) approve, but his description, strikes me as right on the money.
More @ The Abbeville Institute
Anti-Trump Communist Arrested For Jewish Community Center Bomb Threats
Via Billy
A disgraced former reporter was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Friday for several bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers, Jewish schools and other Jewish organizations around the country.
Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis by the FBI for making at least eight bomb threats and the cyberstalking of an ex-girlfriend. Thompson was a former reporter for The Intercept, and was fired after it was discovered that he made up sources and stories, including one about Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.
A disgraced former reporter was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Friday for several bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers, Jewish schools and other Jewish organizations around the country.
Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis by the FBI for making at least eight bomb threats and the cyberstalking of an ex-girlfriend. Thompson was a former reporter for The Intercept, and was fired after it was discovered that he made up sources and stories, including one about Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.
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The Appalachian Messenger March 3, 2017
Robert Gore
Plot Holes
Samuel Culper
A Full List of US Government Documents Published Regarding Russian Hacking
T. L. Davis
The Only Option
Kit Perez
Learn From the Idiocy of Others
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Undermining Academic Achievement
Via Billy
According to The Nation’s
Report Card, only 37 percent of 12th-graders were proficient in reading
in 2015, and just 25 percent were proficient in math (https://www.nationsreportcard.gov).
For black students, achievement levels were a disgrace. Nationally, 17
percent of black students scored proficient in reading, and 7 percent
scored proficient in math. In some cities, such as Detroit, black
academic proficiency is worse; among eighth-graders, only 4 percent were
proficient in math, and only 7 percent were proficient in reading.
U.S.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement, “The
president’s decision to ask Betsy DeVos to run the Department of
Education should offend every single American man, woman, and child who
has benefitted from the public education system in this country.”
Expressing similar sentiments, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman
Cedric Richmond said, “I expect that Mrs. DeVos will have an incredibly
harmful impact on public education and on black communities nationwide.”
Those and many other criticisms of Department of Education Secretary
Betsy DeVos could be dismissed as simply political posturing if we did
not have an educational system that is mostly mediocre and is in
advanced decay for most black students.
More @ LRC
Trump's advisers push him to purge Obama appointees
Via Billy
Advisers to President Donald Trump are urging him to purge the
government of former President Barack Obama's political appointees and
quickly install more people who are loyal to him, amid a cascade of
damaging stories that have put his nascent administration in seemingly
constant crisis-control mode.
A number of his advisers believe Obama officials are behind the leaks and are seeking to undermine his presidency, with just the latest example coming from reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice last year with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. and apparently misled senators about the interactions during his confirmation hearing.
That was coupled with a New York Times story that Obama appointees
spread information about the investigation into the Trump campaign's
contacts with Russia in an attempt to create a paper trail about the
probe. Trump's aides have also blamed Obama appointees for other
damaging leaks, like Trump's erratic phone calls with foreign leaders.
Frustrated by the gush of leaks, the president's allies say it's time to take action.
A number of his advisers believe Obama officials are behind the leaks and are seeking to undermine his presidency, with just the latest example coming from reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice last year with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. and apparently misled senators about the interactions during his confirmation hearing.
More @ Politico
President Trump Saves a CIA Agent
Via Billy
Last month, President Trump stood in front of the CIA Memorial Wall and declared that Islamic terrorism "has to be eradicated just off the face of the Earth." It is front of this wall where, as Vice President Pence said, “we remember 117 who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom”, that real change in how we treat those who fight terrorism must begin.
The vast majority of the men and women added to that wall in the last few decades were killed by Islamic terrorists. They include Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods who were murdered in Benghazi.
And who were abandoned by their government, by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, before their deaths.
Last month, President Trump stood in front of the CIA Memorial Wall and declared that Islamic terrorism "has to be eradicated just off the face of the Earth." It is front of this wall where, as Vice President Pence said, “we remember 117 who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom”, that real change in how we treat those who fight terrorism must begin.
The vast majority of the men and women added to that wall in the last few decades were killed by Islamic terrorists. They include Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods who were murdered in Benghazi.
And who were abandoned by their government, by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, before their deaths.
More @ Front Page
Manchin: ‘I’ve Met With’ The Russian Ambassador — ‘We Meet With All The Ambassadors’
Via Billy
Sen. Joe Manchin told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Thursday that it isn’t unusual for senators to meet with ambassadors of other countries.
The West Virginia Democrat — in clear defense of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been accused of not disclosing alleged meetings with the Russian Ambassador to the United States during President Trump’s campaign — argued that there’s no way to know if Sessions was acting on “his official duty being on [the] Armed Services [Committee]” or discussing campaign strategies.
Sen. Joe Manchin told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Thursday that it isn’t unusual for senators to meet with ambassadors of other countries.
The West Virginia Democrat — in clear defense of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been accused of not disclosing alleged meetings with the Russian Ambassador to the United States during President Trump’s campaign — argued that there’s no way to know if Sessions was acting on “his official duty being on [the] Armed Services [Committee]” or discussing campaign strategies.
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Get real, Democrats, there is no good reason for Sessions to resign
Via Billy
General Jeff Sessions’ resignation reveals that Thursday’s brouhaha is driven by mere political grandstanding, not a real concern over unlawful behavior.
There’s a reason for that: the total lack of evidence that any illegal behavior occurred.
What sparked Thurday’s folderol was a Washington Post report that General Sessions, while still a U.S. senator, met with the Russian ambassador last year. Twice.
To characterize the first of these encounters as a “meeting” strains the meaning of the word—to the breaking point. But to claim that he “lied” when he did not reveal these “meetings” during his Senate nomination hearing is even more far-fetched.
Review the record of that hearing with an eye toward context, and you’ll find that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) was clearly asking Sessions if he was aware of any meetings between Trump campaign staff or surrogates and Russian officials to discuss the election. Franken specifically cites a CNN story about a supposed “continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump’s surrogates and intermediaries of the Russian government.”
General Jeff Sessions’ resignation reveals that Thursday’s brouhaha is driven by mere political grandstanding, not a real concern over unlawful behavior.
There’s a reason for that: the total lack of evidence that any illegal behavior occurred.
What sparked Thurday’s folderol was a Washington Post report that General Sessions, while still a U.S. senator, met with the Russian ambassador last year. Twice.
To characterize the first of these encounters as a “meeting” strains the meaning of the word—to the breaking point. But to claim that he “lied” when he did not reveal these “meetings” during his Senate nomination hearing is even more far-fetched.
Review the record of that hearing with an eye toward context, and you’ll find that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) was clearly asking Sessions if he was aware of any meetings between Trump campaign staff or surrogates and Russian officials to discuss the election. Franken specifically cites a CNN story about a supposed “continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump’s surrogates and intermediaries of the Russian government.”
More@ Fox
Interior secretary repeals Obama's ban on lead bullets
Via Bill
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed an order Thursday overturning a ban on using lead ammunition on wildlife refuges.
Zinke signed the order on his first day in office, overturning a policy implemented by former Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Dan Ashe on Jan. 19, the Obama administration’s last full day in office.
Ashe’s policy banned the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on all FWS wildlife refuges that allow hunting or fishing, as well as in all other hunting or fishing regulated by the agency elsewhere.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed an order Thursday overturning a ban on using lead ammunition on wildlife refuges.
Zinke signed the order on his first day in office, overturning a policy implemented by former Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Dan Ashe on Jan. 19, the Obama administration’s last full day in office.
Ashe’s policy banned the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on all FWS wildlife refuges that allow hunting or fishing, as well as in all other hunting or fishing regulated by the agency elsewhere.
More @ The Hill