It’s Time for Team Hillary to Shut up About Conspiracy Theorists

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Hillary Clinton collapsed after a 9/11 remembrance ceremony at Ground Zero yesterday. This is a critical event that may finally force some medical transparency on the Clinton campaign for president. If Clinton continues to stonewall the press and make believe that she does not owe the American people an in depth explanation of her health problems, Sunday’s medical incident might prove to be a turning point where voters shift to Trump and Hillary’s campaign falls apart.

The “Ill-ary” jokes and Trump’s constant ribbing that Hillary needs a nap have gone from humorous a serious matter. It is time for Team Clinton to come clean.

According to the New York Times:

Hillary Clinton on Sunday abruptly left a ceremony in New York marking the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and a video appeared to show her struggling to maintain her balance as a pair of Secret Service agents lifted her into a van. The incident, according to a statement from her physician, was related to pneumonia and dehydration.

The video released to the public is shocking. It appears that she did more than struggle “to maintain her balance.” It looked like she collapsed.

More from the NYT.

Secretary Clinton has been experiencing a cough related to allergies. On Friday, during follow up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia,” said Dr. Lisa R. Bardack, who examined Mrs. Clinton at her house in Chappaqua on Sunday. “She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule. While at this morning’s event, she became overheated and dehydrated. I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely.

The problem with this explanation is that this latest Hillary incident is not isolated; it is part of a pattern. The M.D. talking heads on our cable networks are going to have quite a bit to talk about for the next 48 hours as they analyze Hillary’s medical history and condition. Expect a large dose of Dr. Sanjay Gupta over at CNN.

Ultimately, the health of the candidate is a very important issue for three reasons.

Hillary has seemed ill for weeks

Clinton’s constant coughing over the past few weeks has been a real concern for many Americans. Concealing a real medical problem from the public would be yet another example of her dishonesty with the American people.

The New York Times reported on September 6, 2016, that Hillary was blaming her cough on “allergies.

Her allergies, Mrs. Clinton explained, flare up twice a year, in the spring and fall, when pollen and other allergens come out. “I just upped my antihistamine to try to break through it,” she said. “It lasts a couple days and then it disappears.”

It’s no secret Hillary struggle to tell the truth. When convenient, she has blamed her inability to answer questions from the FBI on a concussion. Now her claim about allergies seems to be another misrepresentation of her actual health situation.— pneumonia.

Hillary has avoided interactions with the press until only recently. Maybe she was avoiding the press getting an extended look at her. I theorized in the past that Hillary was walled off from the press because she didn’t see any value in speaking to them. Now I think it possible that she didn’t want the press to spend too much time seeing her in person and assessing her health.

Hillary has made quite a few bizarre statements over the past few months, and one has to wonder if health problems are a contributing factor. Hillary called millions of Americans who support Donald Trump “deplorables” recently, and basically argued that Trump’s base is a bunch of racist, sexist haters. The constantly changing excuses for her emailing of classified information on a personal server while secretary of state seems irrational. Maybe these bizarre statements are a symptom of something more serious?

Her health history is in dispute

Conspiracy theories have bounced that Hillary has some very serious health problems. The only way to dispel the theories is for Hillary’s doctors to provide full details of her current medical condition. Instead, they have chosen to attack anybody questioning her health.

Chapter one of the Clinton PR Playbook, as you may recall, is to attack any reporter who asks a tough question (just ask Matt Lauer) or to attack anybody who questions Hillary on a substantive matter. It’s why the water carriers for Team Clinton have spent the last few months attacking anybody who questions Hillary’s health.

Think Progress, the Clinton family think tank blog, wrote a piece titled “Trump Campaign Embraces Conspiracy Theory About Hillary Clinton’s Cough.” In the article, Think Progress argued that the Trump Campaign pointed “people down a rabbit hole of right-wing conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health.” Well, it seems like there may be a rabbit in that hole.

The Daily Beast wrote “Is Hillary Clinton’s Cough the New Benghazi?” The article argued this has been a vast Right wing conspiracy for over a decade:

If all else fails, the people dreading a Hillary Clinton presidency can comfort themselves with her coughing fits. The presumptive Democratic nominee’s occasional coughing on the stump—a staple of this year’s campaign reports in various right-leaning media outlets—has been a conservative meme for nearly a decade.

If Hillary wants to stop answering questions about her health, she and her doctors need to release a new report. Take a look at the last available report of the Democratic nominee’s health, written by Hillary’s own doctors in a letter released a year ago:

Ms. Clinton is a healthy 67-year-old female whose current medical conditions include hypothyroidism and seasonal pollen allergies. Her past medical history is notable for a deep vein thrombosis in 1998 and in 2009, an elbow fracture in 2009 and a concussion in 2012.

That’s an old letter. It’s time for a new letter from an unbiased and independent doctor to put these concerns to rest.

Hillary Health Issues are Not a Conspiracy

The fact of the matter is that Hillary continues to keep the press in the dark. If she was diagnosed on Friday with pneumonia, then why didn’t we find out until after her meltdown on Sunday? And if she has pneumonia, then why did she have that awkward walk from her daughter’s apartment after her collapse to her caravan of secret service where she yelled to the press about it being a nice day? It was yet another way to make believe that Hillary is completely healthy.

It is time for the Left to stop slandering individuals who have theories as “conspiracy theorists,” because they refuse to come clean. If the Clinton campaign wants people to go away and stop talking about her health problems, it is time to tell the truth and explain why they sat on her diagnosis as having pneumonia and what actually happened when she could not walk into her car during the 9-11 remembrance ceremony.

If Hillary Clinton, possible next President of the United States is sick – the American people have the right to know. The Left has been clamoring for Trump’s taxes, yet this seems far more important to know if a candidate for President is healthy enough to take on the job.

No matter how you feel about Hillary Clinton, it is time for Americans to wish her the best and hope she can get some rest and back on her feet. (For more from the author of “It’s Time for Team Hillary to Shut up About Conspiracy Theorists” please click HERE)

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10 Pictures of Hillary Clinton Wobbling and Then Collapsing Today That Legacy Media Will Never Show You

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They now claim it’s “pneumonia”, but Hillary has had a longstanding and persistent cough that has defied treatment and couldn’t possibly be a months-long case of walking pneumonia.

In short, Hillary is very ill. She can’t stand up without supporting herself using railings, stools, tables, chairs, her mysterious Epipen-equipped handler, and — of course — Huma Abedin.

Her latest health scare involved collapsing into her wheelchair lift-equipped van, nearly knocking herself out.

Of course, the media are doing their level best to cover it up.

Via Mike Cernovich, I’ve come across two separate videos that show Hillary wobbling twice, unable to support herself and finally collapsing. The snapshots are quite telling:

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As Bill Clinton has admitted, Hillary’s health problems are “very serious.”

His wife appears to have little to no muscular strength, exceedingly poor balance and coordination, and — worst of all — a pathological disease called “Liar-itis”. (For more from the author of “10 Pictures of Hillary Clinton Wobbling and Then Collapsing Today That Legacy Media Will Never Show You” please click HERE)

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This Isn’t Clinton’s First Fainting Attack

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First Hillary Clinton had allergies that drove her into coughing fits at speaking events.

Then, she was overheated.

Next, she was dehydrated.

Now, she has pneumonia.

What is it, really? It’s an open question after an amateur video surfaced on Twitter of Clinton wobbling and nearly falling to the ground as she awaited a car to pick her up from a 9/11 memorial service yesterday.

No reporters were there to capture the event themselves since Clinton, without warning, made an abrupt departure from the ceremony and refused to allow what’s called a “protective press pool” of reporters to travel with her at all times.

No matter how big or how small the health issue may be, it’s clear Clinton is trying to hide her health problems from the press. She admitted being diagnosed with pneumonia only after she was caught on camera stumbling. And the illness is so serious that she has cancelled fundraising events this week. But, had that video not been taken, no one would know about it. Thus, it remains an open question what health problems she really is suffering from and why it’s been kept out of the press.

Compounding to this problem is something that most of the press isn’t acknowledging: This isn’t Clinton’s first major health stumble.

As recently as 2012, Clinton sustained a concussion after she fainted. The culprit, her staffers said, was dehydration and a stomach virus. Her injury was bad enough she had to cancel events at that time. Due to her illness, she delayed testifying to Congress about the terrorist attack on Benghazi. When she finally did appear, she wore corrective glasses to alleviate what her staff described as “lingering issues stemming from her concussion.”

That, according to the Clinton camp’s own explanations, makes for two serious episodes of dehydration and virus resulting in Clinton losing control of her faculties in the last four years.

So, it’s one of two things. Clinton may be suffering from something more severe and long-term, or she simply isn’t taking care of herself. The health matter is so serious that she concussed herself in the past. Only this time, she was fortunate that her staff was there to catch her before she could fall.

There’s no reason to think it won’t happen again. (For more from the author of “This Isn’t Clinton’s First Fainting Attack” please click HERE)

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Think You Need Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote? DC Circuit Court Says Not a Chance

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Non-citizens voting in our elections poses one of the most foundational threats to our republic. As I detail in chapter eight of my book, Stolen Sovereignty, a record high level of immigration, in conjunction with Motor-Voter laws, has resulted in so many non-citizens voting that elections are actually swayed, especially in close House and Senate elections. In fact, non-citizen voting likely gave Democrats the margin of victory needed to pass Obamacare back in 2010. Now, the federal courts are stealing the sovereignty of the states and disenfranchising the citizenry by preventing them from guarding the benefits of citizenship.

On Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has been overrun by leftists, ruled that Kansas, Alabama, and Georgia could not ask for proof of citizenship on mail-in federal voter registration forms — pending the outcome of litigation. In addition to mandating that individuals be allowed to vote without presenting any form of identification, courts have been forcing states to allow individuals to register to vote without even demonstrating that they are citizens. The 2-1 decision overturned a district judge’s denial of an injunction against the federal voter forms requested by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, noting that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits of the case. The two majority judges were Judith W. Rogers (a Clinton appointee) and Stephen F. Williams (a Reagan appointee).

As we’ve dissected many times throughout the litigation against basic election integrity laws, Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution clearly grants states the power to determine eligibility for voter registration: “The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.” The dissenting judge, senior Judge Raymond Randolph, one of the few originalists left on that court, raised this same point and noted that it would “raise serious constitutional doubts” if the federal government prevented states from enforcing its voter qualification laws.

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals already “struck down” laws in Arizona and Kansas in November 2014 requiring those who register to vote with federal forms to show proof of citizenship in order to vote. Overturning a district judge’s opinion, the appeals court denied requests from those states that the federal government alter their forms to require the additional proof and protect the integrity of state elections. [1] The Supreme Court, in a growing pattern of letting the lower courts run roughshod over the states, refused to hear the case.

The following year, however, Brian Newby, the Executive Director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) — the agency responsible for drafting the federal voter registration forms — accommodated those states and provided for space on the form to require proof of citizenship. When liberal groups brought the lawsuit against Newby’s decision in the District Court of the District of Columbia, Obama’s DOJ took the unprecedented step in February of consenting to the injunction against the EAC instead of defending the government agency. Kansas got lucky and the case was heard by Judge Richard Leon, perhaps the only originalist left on the D.C. District Court (11 of 12 active judges are Democrat-appointed). Judge Leon summarily blocked the request for an injunction.

But alas, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is likely gone forever thanks to a slew of Obama appointees on top of existing judicial activists, granted the request for an injunction.

[As an aside, the destruction of the most important circuit by the Left is another reason why I believe we can never fix the judiciary through conventional means.]

Disenfranchising the citizenry and a permanent Democrat majority

It is serious business when a state cannot even prevent non-citizens from voting and must spend years and millions of dollars to merely have a shot at extracting a few concessions from the feds. As I lament in Stolen Sovereignty, “[T]hat states are prevented from even upholding the integrity of their elections from illegal voters of foreign invaders violates the very essence of popular sovereignty, the social contract, and the social compact expressed in the preamble of the Declaration.”

Motor-Voter laws, unless states have the ability to protect themselves against non-citizens voting, will create a permanent Democrat majority. In 2015 alone, 605,000 drivers’ licenses were handed out to illegal aliens in California, accounting for half of all licenses issued in the state that year! How many of them are now registered to vote?

But the problem is not just with illegal aliens. As the flood of legal immigration continues, the growth in non-citizens voting will only continue to skyrocket. While we don’t want illegal immigrants obtaining driver’s licenses, we certainly want legal immigrants to have all the privileges of residents, albeit not the citizen right to vote. But with near-automatic voter registration of those applying for driver’s licenses — without the ability to check for citizenship status — how many legal immigrants are registered to vote and don’t even realize there is something wrong with it?

As the Center for Immigration Studies reports today, “[I]n 1990, immigrants were at least 20 percent of the adult population (18-plus) in just 44 counties; by 2014 they were at least 20 percent of the adult population in 152 counties.” They further note that “the immigrant share of adults has more than quadrupled in 232 counties.” Putting the broader immigration debate aside for a moment, even those who favor mass immigration must admit that the unprecedented growth in immigration poses a foundational risk unless states are able to ensure that non-citizens are not registering to vote through Motor-Voter forms.

If nothing is done about the federal judiciary, unelected judges will not only render elections moot by their self-declared status as the final arbiter of every political and social issue; they will prevent Republicans from winning elections in the first place by stealing the sovereignty of the citizen. (For more from the author of “Think You Need Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote? DC Circuit Court Says Not a Chance” please click HERE)

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DEMOCRAT VP CANDIDATE TIM KAINE: Confirmed — He’s a Radical Leftist Gun-Banner

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In May 2000, Tim Kaine, then-mayor of Richmond, Va., used more than $6,000 in public funds to charter eight buses. The buses were used to transport city residents from Richmond to the anti-gun, and inaccurately named, Million Mom March in Washington, D.C.

The Million Mom March was sponsored and organized by extremist gun control organization the Bell Campaign, which was later renamed the Million Mom March Foundation. The Bell Campaign supported a litany of gun control measures, including gun rationing, a ban on the possession of commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and their magazines, firearm owner licensing, and gun registration. In regards to the right to keep and bear arms, the Bell Campaign contended, “The Second Amendment does not, and never did, protect the private ownership of guns for private purposes.”

Following a public outcry over the use of public funds for political purposes, including criticism from Richmond City Council members, Kaine was forced to seek private funds to reimburse the city. Despite the disapproval of citizens and his fellow public officials, Kaine was reluctant to admit wrongdoing, with the Richmond Times-Dispatch noting, “Kaine defended the subsidy on the ground that Richmond always has supported stricter gun laws.” At the time, the Times-Dispatch also reported that in regard to gun control, Kaine said, “I can’t think of an issue I’d rather be aligned with than this.”

This gross misuse of taxpayer dollars to advocate for extreme gun controls is indicative of Kaine’s 20 year public career, during which he has ceaselessly attacked the rights of law-abiding gun owners. In choosing Kaine as her running mate, Hillary Clinton has chosen one of the rare politicians that comes close to matching her zeal for restricting gun rights.

Even before his anti-gun pilfering of the public coffer, Kaine was hard at work targeting Virginia gun owners. In 1997, as a Richmond City Councilman, Kaine suggested that the Virginia cities of Richmond, Fairfax, and Roanoke should team up to push a gun control agenda in the Virginia General Assembly. On June 1, 1999, then-Mayor Kaine was a noted guest at the White House Rose Garden for speeches by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton. A primary topic of both Clintons’ remarks was gun control, with the president specifically advocating for legislation that would eliminate traditional gun shows, and for further restrictions on standard capacity magazines.

In 2001, Kaine ran for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. During the campaign, Kaine staked out several anti-gun positions. On October 29, 2001, the anti-gun Washington Post endorsed Kaine, citing his support for Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month rationing law and restrictions on the Right-to-Carry in restaurants that serve alcohol. Kaine also earned the endorsement of the Brady Campaign, who called him the “clear choice,” noting, “As Mayor of Richmond, Kaine was a strong supporter of enforcing and strengthening Virginia gun laws…”
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Warner sought to differentiate between his views and Kaine’s extreme anti-gun positions. A June 14, 2001 Associated Press item reported, “Warner, who does not favor additional firearms restrictions, already is trying to distance himself from his ticketmate on gun control. He acknowledged at a news conference Wednesday that he disagrees with lieutenant governor nominee Tim Kaine… on the issue.”

In 2005, Kaine ran for Governor of Virginia. During the race, Kaine worked to disguise his anti-gun politics. Doing his best John Kerry impression, Kaine posed as a sportsman at a skeet shooting event, shotgun in hand.

For this race, Kaine staked out a curious position on guns by contending that he was not for further gun control, while openly advocating for further gun control. The Roanoke Times fell victim to Kaine’s ruse when on August 27, 2005 they summarized the candidate’s incongruent position by noting, “Kaine said he doesn’t favor the creation of more gun control laws, but does believe the ones that exist should be enforced – and indicated he would back an extension of instant background checks at gun shows for all sellers, not just licensed ones.” Kaine’s misleading gun stance led Richmond Times-Dispatch commentator A. Barton Hinkle to write, “He isn’t fooling anyone — so why does he continue to try?”

Once governor, Kaine pursued his anti-gun agenda at every opportunity. In April 2006, Kaine vetoed legislation that would have permitted law-abiding gun owners to store a firearm in a locked container within a vehicle without obtaining Right-to-Carry permit.

In April 2007, in the aftermath of the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, Kaine wasted no time in pushing for gun control. The Roanoke Times reported that on April 26, 2007, only 10 days after the shooting, the opportunistic Kaine “said he thought the time might be right to press the General Assembly to address the gun-show loophole.” On January 8, 2008 Kaine continued his push to eliminate traditional gun shows, stating, “Now more than ever in the aftermath of April 16th, Virginians understand that this is a public safety issue.” Typical of gun control efforts, the legislation Kaine sought to enact could not have prevented the tragedy he cited to advance it. The perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shooting did not purchase the two firearms used in the attack at a gun show. Kaine’s gun show legislation was rejected in committee in 2008, and rejected by the Senate again in 2009.

In March 2008, Kaine again vetoed legislation that would have permitted law-abiding individuals to possess a firearm in a locked container within their car without obtaining a Right-to-Carry permit. Kaine also vetoed legislation that would have allowed Right-to-Carry permit holders to carry concealed in restaurants that serves alcohol.

In March 2009, Kaine once again vetoed vehicle and restaurant carry legislation. Kaine also vetoed separate legislation that would have merely permitted retired law enforcement officers to exercise their Right-to-Carry in restaurants that serve alcohol. Further, Kaine rejected legislation that would have made it easier to obtain a Right-to-Carry permit, by allowing applicants to complete the requisite training online. He also rejected legislation exempting active-duty service members from Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month law.

Overlapping with his term as governor of Virginia, Kaine served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from January 2009 to April 2011. In this role, Kaine advocated for federal gun control legislation offered by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) that would have banned magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds. As pointed out by the Huffington Post, during an appearance on Political Capital with Al Hunt in January 2011, Kaine expressed his support for McCarthy’s bill, stating that it was the “kind of legislation that I’ve long supported.”

Since January 2013, Kaine has served as the junior senator from Virginia, and has continually used his seat to advance an anti-gun agenda.

In the wake of the December 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn. gun control advocates forced votes on several pieces of gun control legislation on April 17, 2013. The centerpiece of the gun control effort was the Manchin amendment, which would have banned the private transfer of firearms at gun shows and in transactions pursuant to an online or print publication. Kaine voted in favor of the restrictions.

That same day, Kaine voted in favor Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) amendment to ban commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds. Worse than the 1994 Clinton ban, the Feinstein amendment would have banned semi-automatic firearms that accept a detachable magazine and have only one disqualifying feature, such as a pistol grip or telescoping stock. Similarly, Kaine voted for Sen. Joe Lautenberg’s (D-N.J.) amendment to ban magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds.

When presented the opportunity to vote to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners, Kaine declined to do so. Kaine voted against a NRA-supported Right-to-Carry reciprocity amendment that would have ensured that Right-to-Carry permits granted in one state would be honored in all others. Kaine also opposed an NRA-supported amendment that would have improved the availability of disqualifying mental health information for NICS, clarified the definition of “adjudicated as a mental defective” to protect due process rights, required more robust prosecutions of federal firearm laws including straw purchases, restricted the unlawful practice of multiple sales reporting for certain types of semi-automatic long-guns, and permitted interstate handgun sales.

Incredibly, despite representing a state with one of the largest per capita populations of veterans, Kaine opposed an NRA-supported amendment to ensure that veterans’ Second Amendment rights would not be stripped without due process of law. The amendment was crafted to address an ongoing Veterans Administration practice where a veteran’s Second Amendment rights are removed following something as cursory as the agency’s decision to assign the veteran a fiduciary to manage their VA benefits.

On December 3, 2015, Kaine made it clear to all that he values the Fifth Amendment no more than the Second, when he voted in favor of terror watch list gun control legislation offered by Sen. Feinstein. The legislation would have illegitimately empowered the federal government to strip the Second Amendment rights of an individual on a secret government watch list absent the due process guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.

On June 20, 2016, Kaine again voted an iteration of Sen. Feinstein’s terror watch list gun control legislation. Further, Kaine supported legislation offered by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) that would have required nearly all firearms transfers to be conducted pursuant to a background check and through a Federal Firearms Licensee. The legislation also attacked gun owner privacy by placing a burden on gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms to the federal government within 48 hours.

In addition to his objectionable voting record, Kaine has sponsored or co-sponsored a host of anti-gun legislation in the 114th Congress. Kaine is a cosponsor for the latest iteration of Sen. Charles Schumer’s “Fix Gun Checks Act,” which would prohibit nearly all private transfers of firearms. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) gained Kaine’s support for a bill to eliminate the three-day safety valve for NICS checks, which would empower the FBI to severely delay firearms transfers. Kaine also signed on to Robert Menendez’s (D-N.J.) legislation that would ban magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds.

In September 2015, Kaine introduced his, “Responsible Transfer of Firearms Act.” The legislation would hold dealers liable for transferring a firearm to a prohibited person, unless they had “taken reasonable steps to determine that the recipient [was] not legally barred from possessing firearms or ammunition…” This ambiguous burden is presumably in addition to the background checks dealers are already required to conduct on their customers. In a further attack on the firearms industry and its customers, in January 2016, Kaine cosponsored legislation to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

Of all the gun controls Kaine has supported during his time in the Senate, his support for one particular anti-gun measure seems most fitting. In June 2016, Kaine announced his support for efforts to repeal the prohibition on the Centers for Disease Control’s use of public funds to advocate for gun control.

More than 15-years after being rebuked for squandering taxpayer dollars on gun control advocacy as mayor of Richmond, Kaine is still eager to attack gun own owners’ rights by any means at his disposal, and he still isn’t above looting the public treasury to do it.

It doesn’t appear, over this 20 year career, that Kaine has ever seen a type of gun control that he wasn’t in favor of. Clinton, based on her commitment to destroying the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans, couldn’t have chosen a more suitable running mate. (For more from the author of “DEMOCRAT VP CANDIDATE TIM KAINE: Confirmed — He’s a Radical Leftist Gun-Banner” please click HERE)

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Record Number of Tent Cities Springing up Around the Country

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Just like during the last economic crisis, homeless encampments are popping up all over the nation as poverty grows at a very alarming rate. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, more than half a million people are homeless in America right now, but that figure is increasing by the day. And it isn’t just adults that we are talking about. It has been reported that that the number of homeless children in this country has risen by 60 percent since the last recession, and Poverty USA says that a total of 1.6 million children slept either in a homeless shelter or in some other form of emergency housing at some point last year. Yes, the stock market may have been experiencing a temporary boom for the last couple of years, but for those on the low end of the economic scale things have just continued to deteriorate.

Tonight, countless numbers of homeless people will try to make it through another chilly night in large tent cities that have been established in the heart of major cities such as Seattle, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis. Homelessness has gotten so bad in California that the L.A. City Council has formally asked Governor Jerry Brown to officially declare a state of emergency. And in Portland the city has extended their “homeless emergency” for yet another year, and city officials are really struggling with how to deal with the booming tent cities that have sprung up…

There have always been homeless people in Portland, but last summer Michelle Cardinal noticed a change outside her office doors.

Almost overnight, it seemed, tents popped up in the park that runs like a green carpet past the offices of her national advertising business. She saw assaults, drug deals and prostitution. Every morning, she said, she cleaned human feces off the doorstep and picked up used needles.

“It started in June and by July it was full-blown. The park was mobbed,” she said. “We’ve got a problem here and the question is how we’re going to deal with it.”

But of course it isn’t just Portland that is experiencing this. The following list of major tent cities that have become so well-known and established that they have been given names comes from Wikipedia…

Camp Hope, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Camp Quixote, Olympia, Washington State
Camp Take Notice, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dignity Village, Portland, Oregon
Opportunity Village, Eugene, Oregon
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Tent City, Phoenix, Arizona
New Jack City and Little Tijuana, Fresno, California
Nickelsville, located in Seattle
Right 2 Dream Too, Portland, Oregon
River Haven, Ventura County, California
Safe Ground, Sacramento, California
The Jungle, San Jose, California
Temporary Homeless Service Area (THSA), Ontario, California
Tent City (100+ residents) of Lakewood, New Jersey
Tent City, Avenue A and 13th Street, Lubbock, Texas
Tent City, New Jersey forest
Tent City, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Tent City, banks of the American River, Sacramento, California
Tent City 3, Seattle
Tent City, Chicago, Illinois
Tent City 4, eastern King County outside of Seattle
The Point, where the Gunnison River and Colorado River meet
The Village of Hope and Community of Hope, Fresno, California
Transition Park, Camden, New Jersey
Tent City, Fayette County, Tennessee,
Camp Unity Eastside, Woodinville, WA
China Hat Road, Bend, Oregon

Most of the time, those that establish tent cities do not want to be discovered because local authorities have a nasty habit of shutting them down and forcing homeless people out of the area. For example, check out what just happened in Elkhart, Indiana…

A group of homeless people in Elkhart has been asked to leave the place they call home. For the last time, residents of ‘Tent City’ packed up camp.

City officials gave residents just over a month to vacate the wooded area; Wednesday being the last day to do so.

The property has been on Mayor Tim Neese’s radar since he took office in January, calling it both a safety and health hazard to its residents and nearby pedestrian traffic.

“This has been their home but you can’t live on public property,” said Mayor Tim Neese, Elkhart.

If they can’t live on “public property”, where are they supposed to go?

They certainly can’t live on somebody’s “private property”.

This is the problem – people don’t want to deal with the human feces, the needles, the crime and the other problems that homeless people often bring with them. So the instinct is often to kick them out and send them away.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t fix the problem. It just passes it on to someone else.

As this new economic downturn continues to accelerate, our homelessness boom is going to spiral out of control. Pretty soon, there will be tent cities in virtually every community in America.

In fact, there are people that are living comfortable middle class lifestyles right at this moment that will end up in tents. We saw this during the last economic crisis, and it will be even worse as this next one unfolds.

Just like last time around, the signs that the middle class is really struggling can be subtle at first, but when you learn to take note of them you will notice that they are all around you. The following comes from an excellent article in the New York Post…

Do you see grocery stores closing? Do you see other retailers, like clothing stores and department stores, going out of business?

Are there shuttered storefronts along your Main Street shopping district, where you bought a tool from the hardware store or dropped off your dry cleaning or bought fruits and vegetables?

Are you making as much money annually as you did 10 years ago?

Do you see homes in neighborhoods becoming run down as the residents either were foreclosed upon, or the owner lost his or her job so he or she can’t afford to cut the grass or paint the house?

Did that same house where the Joneses once lived now become a rental property, where new people come to live every few months?

Do you know one or two people who are looking for work? Maybe professionals, who you thought were safe in their jobs?

Don’t look down on those that are living in tents, because the truth is that many “middle class Americans” will ultimately end up joining them.

The correct response to those that are hurting is love and compassion. We all need help at some point in our lives, and I know that I am certainly grateful to those that have given me a helping hand at various points along my journey.

Sadly, hearts are growing cold all over the nation, and the weather is only going to get colder over the months ahead. Let us pray for health and safety for the hundreds of thousands of Americans that will be sleeping in tents and on the streets this winter. (For more from the author of “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Record Number of Tent Cities Springing up Around the Country” please click HERE)

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Carson Reminds Interviewer What Really Matters When Asked Question on Race

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Former presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson had a lesson for Fox News host Chris Wallace about what is really important in the 2016 presidential race after Wallace asked a question about race.

“Do you worry that you’re being used as a prop for black voters and that supporting Donald Trump will end up hurting your credibility in the black community?” Wallace asked Carson during his appearance on Fox News Sunday.

“It’s not about me. I said a long time ago, it’s not about me, it’s about our nation,” the soft-spoken Carson shot back.

Pointing out the hypocrisy from those who criticize Trump, Carson reminded Wallace that in 1995, former President Bill Clinton used his State of the Union address to focus on illegal immigration.

“He said, illegal aliens are creating big problems for us and we’re going to put a lot more border patrol people on and secure our borders and we’re not going to have people able to work who come in illegally. We’re going to cut off their welfare benefits and we’re going to deport people in record numbers,” Carson said.

“You know, he says basically the same thing, but when he says it, wow, great, standing ovation, this is a great president. But when Trump says it, it’s hate speech. What hypocrisy! What incredible hypocrisy,” Carson added.

Earlier in the interview, Carson noted that historically, the Republican Party has ceded inner cities to the Democrats.

“Donald Trump is changing that narrative and is really starting to talk about this in a very serious way,” Carson said, noting that in his personal discussions with Trump, the billionaire “becomes animated during the discussions … this is a subject about which he cares deeply.”

Trump’s focus is on changing the political dynamics, Carson said.

“And what is going to be accomplished is something that many in the Democratic Party fear, and this is an alternative — an alternative to, you know, promises that are not kept,” he said.

Carson then recited a litany of the problems facing urban centers, from poor schools to high crime, to unstable families with few jobs and even less hope.

During the interview, Wallace played a clip of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attacking Trump’s outreach efforts to black voters.

“It really does take a lot of nerve to ask people he’s ignored and mistreated for decades, ‘What do you have to lose?’ Because the answer is everything,” Clinton said in the clip.

Wallace asked Carson to comment.

” … it’s really the Democratic Party that has the explaining to do. They’ve been in charge of our cities for a long time,” Carson responded.

“The city I grew up in, Detroit, was once the most prosperous city in the United States — some people say in the world. From there, it went to the largest bankruptcy. That was not a coincidence. And we see that in our large cities across the nation under Democratic control. That is a problem,” Carson said.

“And when that is happening, what Donald Trump is saying, why would you continue down that same pathway? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing, expecting a different result. The result will not be different,” Carson concluded. (For more from the author of “Carson Reminds Interviewer What Really Matters When Asked Question on Race” please click HERE)

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Hillary Suffers ‘Medical Episode’ at 9/11 Ceremony, Dr. Says She Has Pneumonia

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Hillary Clinton abruptly left today’s 9/11 commemoration in New York City after suffering what Fox News described as a “medical episode.”

A video available on Twitter appears to show the moment, confirming what law enforcement told Rick Leventhal. After leaving the ceremony, the Democratic presidential nominee is waiting for her van. The van pulls up. As she starts forward, her knees buckle, she spasms and appears to faint, and is maneuvered by her security into the van.

The van left and the pool reporters assigned to Clinton were prevented from leaving the media area to follow her. For over an hour, the campaign refused to say where the candidate was or her condition.

Finally, Clinton’s spokesman Nick Merrill released a statement saying, “During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better.”

It was in the low 80s when the incident occurred.

She left Chelsea’s apartment shortly before noon, declaring “I’m feeling great,” and remarking “It’s a beautiful day in New York.”

Suffering her second health-related incident in a week — followed by secrecy and the admission that Clinton has pneumonia — has brought questions about the medical well-being of the presidential front-runner out from speculation and into legitimate debate.

Just four days ago, in the wake of Clinton’s Labor Day coughing fit, The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza blasted those questioning the candidate’s health, asking “Can we just stop talking about Hillary Clinton’s health now?” However, Cillizza walked back his statements on Sunday noting that he originally “wrote dismissively” of allegations that Clinton was “hiding some sort of serious illness.” He continued, saying:

Coughing, I wrote, is simply not evidence enough of any sort of major illness that Clinton is assumed to be hiding. Neither, of course, is feeling “overheated.” But those two things happening within six days of each other to a candidate who is 68 years old makes talk of Clinton’s health no longer just the stuff of conspiracy theorists.

Cillizza may want to be careful speculating about Clinton’s health. Former CNN show host Drew Pinsky of Dr. Drew On Call had his show cancelled by the network after questioning Clinton’s health on a radio interview. He’s not alone either. David Seamon, a former Huffington Post contributor, said in late August that he was fired “without warning” after he included a video raising the issue of Clinton’s health in one of his articles.

After Sunday’s incident, the Clinton campaign took to warning reporters not to press the issue, and — even after Fox News broke the story — the Twitter accounts of most major American news organizations initially remained silent about Clinton’s abrupt, mysterious departure.

The media is not so quiet now. Outlets such as CNN, ABC and CNBC have followed Fox’s early lead in posting video and reports on Clinton’s abrupt departure.”

Now, with the video of Hillary’s collapse, voters will not only be talking about Hillary’s health, but likely praying for it. (For more from the author of “Hillary Suffers ‘Medical Episode’ at 9/11 Ceremony, Dr. Says She Has Pneumonia” please click HERE)

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Will Obama Veto Legislation Allowing 9/11 Families to Pursue Justice?

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In symbolic political timing, the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation on Friday that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers of the September 11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia, and it has long been suspected that people in the Saudi government helped finance those terrorists. The release this summer of the previously-classified 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry report into the 9/11 attacks heightened interest in allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.

One particularly interesting revelation in the 28 pages involved a Saudi national named Omar al-Bayoumi. The 28 pages reveal that:

“The FBI has received numerous reports from individuals in the Muslim community, dating back to 1999, alleging that al-Bayoumi may be a Saudi intelligence officer. FBI files suggest that al-Bayoumi provided substantial assistance to hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi after they arrived in San Diego in February 2000. Al-Bayoumi met the hijackers at a public place shortly after his meeting with an individual in the Saudi consulate and there are indications in the files that his encounter with the hijackers may not have been accidental.”

That’s just a slice of what the report says about al-Bayoumi and his interactions with the 9/11 hijackers (Khalid al-Mihdar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon). But revelations like this give many 9/11 families good reason to believe that members of the Saudi government were complicit in helping and funding the 9/11 terrorists.

The legislation that passed the House was already unanimously passed by the Senate earlier this year, which means it now goes to President Obama. He has 10 days to either veto the bill or sign it, and it’s unclear what he will do. The White House has expressed displeasure with the bill but has not said whether it will be vetoed.

If the bill is vetoed, however, signs are good that the veto will be overridden. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. (F, 2%) told The Hill earlier this year, “I think we easily get the two-thirds override if the president should veto.” (For more from the author of “Will Obama Veto Legislation Allowing 9/11 Families to Pursue Justice?” please click HERE)

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Trump Contends Faith in God Key to Reuniting Country, Restoring Greatness

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Donald Trump received a standing ovation coming and going at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

The theme of Trump’s speech was the centrality faith must play if America is to reclaim its heritage of greatness.

Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight introduced the candidate saying, “If God allows truth to be said and heard, we will see Donald Trump as the next president of the United States of America. He will lift the dark cloud that hovers over us now.”

“Our media culture often mocks and demeans people of faith,” Trump observed. “Your values of love, charity and faith built this nation.”

He promised, “In a Trump administration, our Christian heritage will be respected like never before. That includes religious liberty.”

Trump stated that faith in God has “the power to heal, the power to unite, the power to make all of us live better lives.”

“Our faith in God will lead us back to unity,” he believes.

A pledge that the GOP nominee made that particularly appealed to the Values Voter crowd was to repeal the so-called Johnson Amendment, which threatens churches and religious organizations with the loss of their tax exempt status if they take positions regarding political candidates.

Trump promised repealing the Johnson Amendment, which was passed in the 1950s, would be easy.

He joked that the repeal of the measure is “the only way I’m getting to heaven.”

Another issue that really resonated with the summit attendees was his commitment to support school choice.

“As your president, I will be the biggest cheerleader for school choice you’ve ever seen,” the candidate stated.

“School choice also means parents can home-school their children,” he said, which generated resounding applause.

Trump sees school choice as central to his new civil rights agenda, which he has proposed to help lift minorities out of poverty.

He said school choice is clearly the right thing to do, and there is one reason Hillary Clinton opposes it: “She is controlled like a puppet by special interests.”

Trump also addressed the future of the United States Supreme Court, noting that the next president will not only be replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat, but as many as four others.

He contended if, “You pick the wrong people [for the high court] you won’t recognize your country.”

The candidate argued the stakes could not be higher: “It will determine whether we remain a constitutional republic.”

Trump closed reiterating that he believes the key to uniting a divided America is a renewal of faith, which recognizes that we are all God’s children, made in His image.

He stated, “Together we will make America believe again, we will make America united again, and we will make America great again.” (For more from the author of “Trump Contends Faith in God Key to Reuniting Country, Restoring Greatness” please click HERE)

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