Trump Wants Illegal Aliens Who ‘Invade’ U.S. Sent Immediately Back Home

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President Trump on Sunday called for illegal immigrants who “invade” the U.S. to be sent “back from where they came” from without due process for deportation cases.

“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order,” he tweeted. “Most children come without parents…”

“Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years! Immigration must be based on merit – we need people who will help to Make America Great Again!” he added.

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“Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!” he wrote on Twitter Friday. (Read more from “Trump Wants Illegal Aliens Who ‘Invade’ U.S. Sent Immediately Back Home” HERE)

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Supreme Court Tosses Ruling Against Christian Florist Who Refused to Do Arrangements for Gay Wedding

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The Supreme Court vacated a 2017 Washington state court ruling Monday that a Christian florist violated an anti-discrimination measure when she declined to make flower arrangements for a same-sex wedding.

In an unsigned order, the high court sent the case back to the Washington State Supreme Court asking them to revisit their ruling in light of the court’s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission in which they ruled 7-2 in favor of a Christian baker who declined to make a custom cake for a same-sex wedding. . .

The Supreme Court has handed the case back to the Washington Supreme Court “for further consideration in light” of the ruling in favor of Colorado baker Jack Phillips, however, that ruling was very narrow in scope.

It focused primarily on the hostility of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission towards Phillips’s religious beliefs in violation of his free speech rights. It did not address generally whether businesses can decline services to same-sex weddings because of religious beliefs. . .

“The U.S. Supreme Court has rightfully asked the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider Barronelle’s case in light of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision,” she explained. “In that ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court denounced government hostility toward the religious beliefs about marriage held by creative professionals like Jack and Barronelle. The state of Washington, acting through its attorney general, has shown similar hostility here.” (Read more from “Supreme Court Tosses Ruling Against Christian Florist Who Refused to Do Arrangements for Gay Wedding” HERE)

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Whoa: Americans Have Bought More Guns in the Past Two Months Than Our Military Has on Hand

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May was another solid month in gun sales, with over two millionbackground checks being run according to the FBI. Yet, Stephen Gutowski of The Washington Free Beacon also touched upon the Small Arms Survey, which showed that Americans own 393 million of the one billion-plus firearms in worldwide circulation. So, while we’re not the majority owner of all guns worldwide, Gutowski broke down some interesting aspects of this report. First, that in the last two months alone, Americans have bought more guns that our entirely military has on hand, and that Americans bought more guns in 2017 than every police agency in the world did combined:

…American civilians own nearly 100 times as many firearms as the U.S. military and nearly 400 times as many as law enforcement.

Federal Bureau of Investigation background check records suggest that civilians bought more than 2 million guns in May alone, which means civilians purchase more than double the number of firearms owned by police departments. The number of gun-related civilian background checks in May and April, at over 4.7 million, is greater than the number of firearms currently owned by the American military.

The FBI reported processing more than 25.2 million gun-related civilian background checks in 2017, which is more than the 22.7 million guns the Small Arms Survey estimates are currently held by every law enforcement agency in the world combined. Between 2012 and 2017, the FBI reported conducting more than 135 million civilian gun checks—more than the 133 million guns the Small Arms Survey estimates are in all the world’s military stockpiles.

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What Ultimately Took Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain Wasn’t Mental Illness. It Was Something Worse

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. . .Every human being must at some time confront the same disease that claimed Anthony, Kate, Robin, and every other person who takes his or her life: meaninglessness. Why are we here and is this life worth living? It’s a sobering thought. . .

There is a reason trauma victims, combat survivors, and celebrities are so vulnerable to suicide. Victims of abuse and witnesses to war are exposed to a depth of humanity that many of us never get to. The lowest lows show us just how depraved and hopeless this world can be.

As Kate, Anthony, Robin, and so many other entertainers show, even giving joy to others, in the end, is not enough. So in the end, why bother? How can we not be defeated when we set our eyes on the brokenness of this world? The answer: to fix our eyes on another world. The writer C.S. Lewis famously said that, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” If we believe this life is all there is, the darkness will blind us to the majesty and beauty of life.

Suicide is the tragic, but reasonable response to being confronted by life’s reality with no salve of deeper meaning to bandage the wound. This is why a life without God, no matter how grand, will always leave our hearts unfulfilled.

So please, take medication. Talk to your family. Go get treatment. Your life is precious to God and the people around you. It is worth fighting for. But no matter what help those things bring, our hearts only find true peace when they live for the one who created them. I wish my friends Kate and Anthony had felt that peace. (Read more from “What Ultimately Took Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain Wasn’t Mental Illness. It Was Something Worse” HERE)

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IG Report Shows James Comey Lied About Why He Publicized New Clinton Emails

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A few hours into a House committee hearing Tuesday, Rep. Eric Swalwell asked Inspector General Michael Horowitz: “Do you agree that there is no evidence Jim Comey lied to you in your investigation?” . . .

Swalwell’s line of questioning was intended to summarize what the IG didn’t find—examples of improper prosecutorial decisions based on political biases revealed in text messages; definitive evidence that Hillary Clinton was guilty of a crime; or evidence that Comey leaked the existence of the Russia investigation—to set up his final question, which was, “Mr. Horowitz, do you think it’s time to move on past the Hillary Clinton emails?”

While Horowitz deflected that decision to Congress, his direct answer whether Comey lied was curious, in that his conclusion conflicts with facts and testimony detailed in his own report. Perhaps the most controversial issue the report examined was Comey’s late-October decision to notify Congress of new evidence that “may be pertinent” to the Clinton email investigation: thousands of Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. . .

Comey defended his decision to submit the letter, on purely ethical grounds. In his book and all of his subsequent interviews, he described his dilemma as a binary decision between “speak” and “conceal,” repeatedly and consistently declaring that he chose the “speak” option to avoid the “catastrophic” and “corrosive” ramifications to the FBI and DoJ that would come with a decision to “conceal.”

Absent from this explanation is any mention of leaks. Not a word. It was widely reported at the time, and since, that Comey was responding to the threat that FBI agents in New York were beginning to leak elements of the story to the media. It was widely believed at FBI HQ and the DoJ that it was simply a matter of time before the press would report that the FBI was sitting on explosive new evidence in the Clinton email investigation, and Comey’s FBI was slow-walking the investigation to avoid re-opening the investigation. (Read more from “IG Report Shows James Comey Lied About Why He Publicized New Clinton Emails” HERE)

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Bombshell Report: Lynch Promised Clinton She Wouldn’t Let FBI ‘Go Too Far’ With Investigation

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. . .The inspector general’s report on the FBI’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state has already documented just how riddled the bureau was with bias against Donald Trump when he was the Republican candidate for president. . .

In a Twitter post last week, Paul Sperry, who has written extensively about the FBI in columns published by the New York Post, hinted that Inspector General Michael Horowitz could have solid grounds to show “obstruction” in the Clinton email case – by none other than former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

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Sperry linked to one of his own columns in the Post from July 2017 that described a document indicating that Lynch had assured Clinton’s presidential campaign that she would make sure the FBI did not “go too far” in its investigation of the email case. . .

But if the IG report really does contain proof that Lynch put a limit on the FBI’s investigation to benefit the woman most of the political world expected to be elected president of the United States in November 2016, it puts things in a different light.

Lynch’s now infamous meeting with former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac in Arizona on June 27, 2016, has never been adequately explained. The then-attorney general’s story that the two had crossed paths by accident never passed the laugh test. (Read more from “Bombshell Report: Lynch Promised Clinton She Wouldn’t Let FBI ‘Go Too Far’ With Investigation” HERE)

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When Obama Pressured Big Banks to Break the Law for Iran, They Resisted

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While the story was about yet another Obama administration Iran scandal in which Tehran’s American lobbyists-in-chief sought to make liquid $5.7 billion more dollars for the “moderate Rouhani regime”, for once in the tragedy there was an unlikely unsung hero.

American financial institutions, though often maligned, especially in the post-financial crisis world, serve a vital marketplace function. Just like all enterprises, they can be vehicles for good, such as raising capital to help businesses grow, and ill, such as engaging in fraudulent activities. On the negative side of the ledger, there is a sordid history of banks prioritizing profit over principle when it comes to doing business with evil regimes and sinister characters.

Perhaps the most sickening instance involves the conduct of Swiss banks before, during and after World War II. These institutions accepted Nazi deposits expropriated from Jews and refused for decades to acknowledge these holdings, let alone provide restitution to the families of those looted and often massacred by the German forces.

For those Jews who had smuggled their funds to Swiss banks in the hopes of protecting them from Nazi terror, the Swiss banks made it almost impossible for the victims or their relatives to claim their assets after the war. The Swiss institutions – which further did substantial business with the Nazis throughout the war – only began to face justice some 50 years later following substantial pressure from federal and state governments as well as a series of class action lawsuits.

Less egregious examples abound of banks transacting with tin-pot dictators and crime syndicates. In the case of the Iran deal, many European businesses, including financial institutions, continue to fight tooth and nail to do business with an IRGC-controlled economy, overseen by the Khomeinist regime, which is the world’s leading state sponsor of jihad. These firms and supportive governments are steadfast in their desire to do business that will in whole or in part redound to the benefit of the terrorist-backing, tyrannical revolution-exporting regime, even with America out of the pact. (Read more from “When Obama Pressured Big Banks to Break the Law for Iran, They Resisted” HERE)

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BOOM: Transgender Man Claims DC Restaurant Demanded ID Before Using Restroom, Then Kicked Him out

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A Washington, D.C., restaurant may face legal action after an employee asked a transgender [man] for identification upon entering the women’s restroom over the weekend.

Charlotte Clymer said [he] was attending a bachelorette party at Cuba Libre Restaurant and Rum Bar with a “large group of women,” but claimed [he] was the only one who was asked to prove [he] was [‘female’] before using the ladies room late Friday evening.

Clymer tweeted that the Washington, D.C., Office of Human Rights and the city’s licensing authority will be conducting an investigation. [He] also plans to explore legal options against the restaurant, according to the Washington Post. . .

“Near the end our time there, I went to use the restroom with Bethany Quinn and before I reached the door, an attendant stuck out his arm and said he needed to see my ID. When I asked why, he said that ‘female’ must be on an ID to use the women’s restroom. No one else was asked,” Clymer wrote on Facebook. . .

“I tell him he’s wrong and there’s no chance I’m showing him my ID. There are people crammed into this hallway. It’s busy. He insists I need to show my ID, I tell him that’s not happening, and demand to see what law he’s citing,” [he] continued on Facebook. (Read more from “Transgender Man Claims DC Restaurant Demanded ID Before Using Restroom, Then Kicked Her out” HERE)

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Hollywood Director Says Trump Could ‘Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents in History’

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David Lynch — an award-winning director who helmed “The Elephant Man” and “Twin Peaks” among other notable projects — spoke out in what appeared to be support for President Donald Trump in an interview published Saturday in The Guardian. . .

During the wide-ranging interview, 72-year-old Lynch said that Trump could very well “go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much.”

Lynch, who has been open about his admiration of former President Ronald Reagan and who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during his 2016 presidential campaign, also noted that he feels Trump is able to get things done as president.

“I am not really a political person, but I really like the freedom to do what you want to do,” Lynch told The Guardian’s Rory Carroll. “No one is able to counter this guy in an intelligent way.”

Lynch doesn’t necessarily think that Trump is doing a good job as president, per se, but, according to Carroll, this allows other “outsiders” to come in and do the job as president in the future. (Read more from “Hollywood Director Says Trump Could ‘Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents in History’” HERE)

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Man Paddle Boards to Business Meeting in a Suit to Avoid Being Late

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Sure, it’s common in New York City to see men in suits commuting on the subway or in taxis — but on a paddleboard across the Hudson River? That may be a first.

Eunice Rivers was taking the ferry to work in Jersey City Thursday morning when she spotted a man paddleboarding across the Hudson River wearing a full suit, dress shoes and all. Without hesitation, she grabbed her phone to capture the odd moment on video and share it over social media.

The mysterious commuter turned out to be Scott Holt, who lives in Jersey City. The aspiring comedian says he was running late for a meeting in New York City with a potential manager, and he decided to hop on his paddleboard to cross the river faster. The trip only took him about half-hour to complete. . .

“Boats’ wakes were coming at me from different angles and the current was quick closer to Manhattan,” Holt told News 4 over the phone. He admits that there were a few moments where he almost fell into the water.

When he reached a closed water taxi port on the New York side of the Hudson, there was a very confused cop and an irate Water Taxi captain waiting for him. (Read more from “Man Paddle Boards to Business Meeting in a Suit to Avoid Being Late” HERE)

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