Judge Jeanine hammered President Obama for essentially being the commander of injustice and chief fomenter of anarchy, during her opening statement last night. [insert] This is important because what Obama is trying to do is to create as much racial division as possible and then he and Hillary Clinton can pander to it, promising not only more free stuff, but tipping the scales of injustice his way. Their long-ranged goal is to fire up Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panther party to essentially bring the same destruction to America that ISIS has brought to Syria.
But this week, it’s to get as many to Cleveland in an attempt to destroy the Republican National Convention as possible. The question is, will it work? Not if we in the news biz can point out the connection between the upset and Obama and Clinton, and at the rate the American voters are fleeing from all things Clinton, we’ve got a good shot at keeping things under control. I’m Still reporting from Washington. Good day.
On Monday, Senator Mike Lee of Utah posted a late-night Senate floor speech by Senator Rand Paul explaining how Congress broke Senate rules by shifting $150 billion dollars out of the Social Security Trust fund to meet a 2-year budget deal struck with President Obama last week.
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This video went viral and as of this morning had over 60 million Facebook hits. As Senator Lee said on Fox this morning:
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However, even more troubling is the deal didn’t just raise the national debt limit – it obliterated it.
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This virtually guarantees that at the end of President Obama’s 8-year term, he will have added more national debt than all other presidents combined over 241 years.
But here’s a novel thought. Why should the U.S. have to borrow, when according to the Constitution, the nation can create all the money it needs.
This is not some pie-in-the-sky theory. We have done it time and time again throughout U.S. history. That’s the way the U.S. colonies funded themselves in the first place. We were forced to experiment in this way because the colonies had no gold or silver coin.
That’s the way the first Continental Congress funded the Revolutionary War.
That’s the way Abraham Lincoln funded the Civil War to prevent the breakup of the nation into two factions – North and South – which would have otherwise ended up in a state of perpetual war.
Could America have grown up to be a great, thriving economic power if that would have happened?
It’s only been since the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 that this ability of the U.S. Treasury to issue it’s own money without debt has been lost to history.
Now, politicians believe that when money is needed, it must be borrowed. But nothing could be further from the truth.
But what about inflation? Well, that’s simple. Don’t create so much new money that it causes inflation. Borrowing our money is just as bad – in fact, it’s far worse. You have the interest on the debt to pay as well.
But worst of all, who does the nation borrow its national debt from? Primarily banks, and that puts the banks in control over individual members of Congress and therefore the entire political process.
Consider this; what would happen to a Congressperson who supported ending national borrowing, just like Lincoln did? Don’t we all rely on banks now for our mortgages and car loans? Would such a Congressperson fear reprisals by the banking powers? You bet!
And who are the biggest funders of Congressional campaigns? Banks and related financial services companies, primarily centered in New York.
No, what should get 60 million hits on Facebook is the FACT that we don’t even need a national debt. It’s all one giant fake-out perpetuated by the biggest banks. This nation doesn’t need to borrow a single dime from anyone.
Why would we borrow when we can simply create – create the money we need for the common good?
I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
Good Sunday morning on Independence Day Eve. I’m still reporting on the Clintons -- and I guess because today is the Lord’s day, I feel a sermon coming on.
About 15 hours ago – that would be 16:39 on Saturday, July 2, 2016, Donald Trump put out one of his famous tweets:
“It is impossible for the FBI not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. What she did was wrong! What Bill did was stupid!”
114 characters – well under the 140 character limit.
But then, by 17:13 something happened – a remarkable reversal. Who did Trump talk to?
“It was just announced-by sources-that no charges will be brought against Crooked Hillary Clinton. Like I said, the system is totally rigged!”
First of all, call me a hopeless optimist, but I don’t believe that. The effects on the rule of law – the foundation of American freedom – would be just to terrible to contemplate.
As you’ll see from at least my next 2 reports, I believe there is still hope. To paraphrase Proverbs 29:18
“Without hope, the people perish.”
But more than that. Without hope, God’s people perish. Without hope, the people will not fight – they will not resist evil – they will not do what we in the Trump community are doing - fighting for our vision for our nation with every ounce of our creativity and strength. If we weren’t fighting for Trump, we’d all be fighting for whatever leader we thought was the next-best candidate.
But people can be easily discouraged. Fighting for a candidate takes energy, effort – and money. It’s a sacrifice. We have to spend our time and money to do it.
In my entire career, I have NEVER put out a hopeless message. Because without hope, the people will not fight. No matter how dark the situation I don’t give up, Find the next best alternate pathway.
I serve a God of hope, not a God who asks me to blow myself up, killing others in the process, so I can acquire some selfish carnal gain. That’s only self-serving, not God-serving.
My God wants us to be selfless servers of humanity. Spend your brief time in this frail body doing what is good and right. Do things that glorify our God, the God of hope.
Now that doesn’t mean I’m going to tell people to walk over a cliff and hope for the best. As long as I see hope ahead, I’m going to fight for it and I’m going to urge others to do the same. I’m not going to exaggerate to create false hope. But there is ALWAYS a better alternative, and I’m on that wall looking for the best path out of this jungle! If you believe me, keep watching. If not, Godspeed.
Back when I was a competitive chess player I lived by this motto:
“Make your next best move.”
In other words, forget about your previous bad moves. Remember, your opponent isn’t perfect either. On the very next move he can make a horrible move as well, opening up an unseen door for you - putting you right back in the game in a way you never could have imagined.
The God of hope always has an alternative. In this case, America is going to have an alternative – a next-best-move.
If Hillary is not indicted, then Trump will win in a landslide.
Be hopeful. Never look back – the direction of your past mistakes.
Never look down – the direction of your fears – the worst possible outcomes.
Look up for guidance. Look forward for the best path ahead.
Encourage others to be hopeful because I believe each of us has a next-best-move no matter what our situation is.
I’m Still reporting from Washington. Good Day.
Carly Fiorina, apparently itching to get back into the good graces of mainstream conservatism after humiliating herself as the Mama Protectress of the Junior Senator from Alberta, made some great points at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s conference yesterday in Washington.
Fiorina dealt a blow to Hillary Clinton, saying that as a feminist, she will not be supporting her bid for the White House:
“"Mrs. Clinton, newsflash, I'm a feminist and I'm not voting for you."
Fiorina made an excellent case for why progressivism doesn’t work to create the representative, incentive-driven society the Founders intended.
"Progressivism, pure and simple, is the tyranny of the few over the many. It is what our founders feared most. It is one of the reasons why they wrote the Constitution — to prevent the concentration of power. This is a fight that we must win."
"Progressives believe some are smarter than others, some are better than others. So some are going to decide for others and choose for others. This is not what this nation can stand for….”
Fiorina than drew a sharp distinction between what Clinton et al stand for, and what the rest of us believe.
“Our government was intended to be a citizen government — of the people, by the people and for the people — that is what our founders intended."
“… every single one of us is gifted by God. All of us have the capacity to live lives of dignity and purpose and meaning. And all throughout time, work, if done well, brings us dignity. Family brings us purpose and faith brings meaning to our lives.”
However, Fiorina stopped short of an outright endorsement of Donald Trump. And if I were writing her speech, here is how I would express the will of the average American.
We don’t care if Donald Trump doesn’t know all the details of foreign policy necessary to sound good in response to a reporters’ trick question. Experts will know all that. Here is all we care about:
We would vote for any American over Hillary Clinton no matter how little they knew about issues – if – and only if we believe that they will #1, tell us the truth, and #2 put the interests of America first for a change.
I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
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Good morning, I’m still reporting on Berlin Truck Terrorist Killed in Italy
Good morning, I’m still reporting on the invasion.
Suspected Berlin truck terrorist Anis Amri, was shot and killed this morning by an Italian police trainee near Milan, Italy.
Amri, who had evaded a 4-day European manhunt was stopped by a two-man patrol in a piazza around 3 am on suspicion of burglary.
When the officers asked for his identification, Amry pulled a gun and shot one officer in the shoulder. The second officer, police trainee, Luca Scatà, shot and killed Amri.
According to Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti:
“There is absolutely no doubt that the person killed is Anis Amri.”
German security officials confirmed that the fingerprints of the dead man match Amri’s prints.
Amri hijacked a truck on Monday evening – probably in Germany – driven by Polish truck driver who fought him and was finally shot and stabbed by Amri. He then drove the truck into a Berlin Christmas Market, killing 12 and injuring dozens more.
Amri evaded police by zigzagging his way by train, first into France, and then returning to Italy – where he had spent several years – mostly in prison – after migrating across the Mediterranean.
I’m still reporting from Washington. Tomorrow is Christmas eve. Merry Christmas.
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Good morning, I’m still reporting on the economy.
Worldwide stock markets are down sharply this morning after Friday’s plunge in New York stocks.
In London, the British FTSE – which stands for Financial Times Stock Exchange – plunged 1.5% in the first 5 minutes of trading this morning.
According to one British online newspaper that’s a loss of one billion British pounds a minute.
The situation in France and Germany is even worse, both markets are down 2% at this hour. However, markets are now relatively flat as the big money overseas waits to see if on the open @ 9:30am. New York will continue Friday’s 2% drop, or rally back.
What’s this mini-panic all about? Sudden rumors that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates at its Sept. meeting next week.
A hike in America’s interest rates would mean higher borrowing cost worldwide. The Fed raised interest rates in December with little long-term effect. This broke an unprecedented 8-year decline in interest rates following the 2007 global crash.
If interest rates are raised again, it comes at an interesting time in the U.S. political cycle as Wall Street has heavily supported Hillary Clinton and her expensive television ad campaign against her opponent, Donald Trump, but she continues to sink in the polls.
Trump is the first candidate to self-fund his primary campaign and not take big donations from the Wall Street banks.
Raising interest rates causes a contraction in the U.S. money supply – in other words, less money in the system. That means less money in your pocket.
Why?
Because higher interest rates mean there is less borrowing and since all our money is created by banks when they make loans, there is less money.
If every American understood this one basic fact about the present-day American economy, we would be well down the road to fixing the inherent economic instability.
For example, the result of an interest rate rise is that the already teetering U.S. GDP growth could easily tip back into recession - a recession which an incoming President Donald Trump would have to handle.
However, the good news is that Trump is better prepared than any president since the creation of the Fed in 1913 to handle such an economic squeeze because he has acknowledged that he can order the Treasury to increase the amount of money in the system at any time to counter the Fed’s control over the quantity of money.
Yes, Trump is the first President who may try to negotiate a better deal for the average American by breaking the Fed’s stranglehold over the nation’s economy.
I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
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Despite Hillary Clinton being able to escape prosecution on charges of espionage – or, at least, mishandling of classified information – leading Democrats fear significant damage has been done.
According Democrat members of Politico’s “Political Caucus”, those on the fence are now increasingly concerned about Clinton’s trustworthiness. According to an Iowa Democrat quoted in yesterday’s piece in the left-leaning Politico:
“This is not a win. Comey eviscerated all the excuses for Hillary and her team’s behaviors. It plays into the narrative that she can’t be trusted.”
According to a New Hampshire Democrat:
“Every adjective [Comey] used confirms the worst suspicions of those who were a wee bit squeamish about voting for her.
“I cant think of a way it could have been worse, short of an actual recommendation to indict.
“In fact, because the case appeared to be laid out for prosecution of some nature, the fact that this wasn’t recommended only seems to reinforce Trump’s charge of a ‘rigged system.’”
According to a Colorado Democrat:
“She is lucky not to be indicted, but Comey’s comments were brutal. Luckily, Trump is so undisciplined that he missed his best chances to hammer her.”
According to one Florida Democrat:
“The whole thing is baked in at this point. The damage is done. Voters already assumed the worst.”
“The only thing that could have changed anything was if she was charged with crimes. Since she wasn’t, it will have no impact.”
That comment strikes me as a bit of “whistling past the graveyard” because FBI Director Comey quite specifically noted that his comments regarded only the Clinton email and email server scandal, and specifically dodged questions about the Clinton Foundation – and didn’t even look into numerous allegations of perjury before the Benghazi Committee.
Polls will begin trickling out this weekend that will likely show erosion in Clinton’s support.
I first did this story on Feb. 29, SR 668, and I stand by it. Nothing has changed. The press keeps trying to stir it up because it’s all the have.
Yesterday, Trump made a slip up when talking about the judge in the case and the MSM mobbed him for it, saying it’s evidence that Donald Trump is a racist. So now, the next time he speaks, the hired thugs will be reinforced. Great!
So tonight, Bill O’Reilly dug into the topic and made some really great points.
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Then he brought Trump on to correct his previous slip and he did great.
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Later in the show, O’Reilly brought on Newt Gingrich and he said that Trump was justified in being mad about it.
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A new USC/LA Times poll shows not only Donald Trump leading, but pulling away from Hillary Clinton by 2 percentage points a day!
The great thing about this LA Times poll is it is a national daily tracking poll, and includes a day-by-day graph from July 10 to yesterday, July 26.
Trump is the red line and Clinton the blue line. Yesterday, Trump was at 47% and Clinton was at 40. Trump went up at least one point from the previous day as Clinton dropped by a point. Remember, this includes the first day of the Democratic convention. She should be going up, not down.
Another interesting factor is that these daily moves do not represent only the raw vote from that day; they are the weighted averages of all responses in the last 7 days. So if it shows Trump going up one point, that means the raw, one-day increase is actually more.
Ok, now, last factor. Notice the gray area. According to the pollsters:
“The gray band is a ‘95-percent confidence interval’. Figures lying outside the gray band mean that we are at least 95% confident that the candidate with the highest percentage will win the popular vote.”
In other words, once Trump’s red diamonds go above the gray confidence area, there is a 95% chance that he is unstoppable.
I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.