Township’s Mosque Appeasement Case Hits Huge Snag

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A deal that many viewed as a $3.5 million appeasement payment to a mosque project has hit a huge snag, with a lawsuit claiming that the meeting at which township officials approved the settlement of an earlier lawsuit was illegal.

The case earlier raised eyebrows when officials in Bernards Township in New Jersey abruptly held a meeting on short notice to pay off the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge.

The Muslim organization sued after town officials said it couldn’t build a huge mosque in a residential area because the infrastructure wouldn’t support it.

According to the Thomas More Law Center, the settlement “reads more like an instrument of surrender.”

The settlement required the township to hold a public meeting about the mosque project, but it forbade anyone from commenting on “Islam” or “Muslims.” (Read more from “Township’s Mosque Appeasement Case Hits Huge Snag” HERE)

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Quit Starving Injured Patients, Activist for Handicapped Pleads

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The brother of Terri Schiavo is calling for the American medical and legal communities to stop using the term “persistent vegetative state” to describe the condition of seriously injured patients like his sister, whose high-profile case in Florida drew the intervention of Gov. Jeb Bush and President George W. Bush.

Such patients, said Bobby Schindler, associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, or CLI, and president of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, can be deliberately starved to death through the collaborative effort of families, physicians and others.

In his report, “Basic Care, Human Dignity, and Care for the Medically Vulnerable Persons,” published by CLI, he explains institutions have defined basic needs such as water and food as “medical treatment,” which then can be withheld, as people “allow their loved one to die.”

Schindler, whose sister died in 2005 when a judge allowed caregivers to deprive her of food and water, explains in the report that the problem begins with the term “persistent vegetative state.”

“A PVS diagnosis not only results in denial of insurance benefits, but also leads physicians to seek to convince the family decision-makers for medically vulnerable patients – who, it must be underscored, are not dying – to ‘allow their loved one to die’ by denying them food and water by means of the feeding tubes they rely on due to their brain injury,” his report said. (For more from the author of “Quit Starving Injured Patients, Activist for Handicapped Pleads” please click HERE)

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It’s Time for a U.S. DACA: Deferred Action From Criminal Aliens

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Only in our dystopian remnant of America can an illegal alien come here after being deported several times, snuff out the life of a young woman, and walk away scot-free. We are strangers in our own land of illegal alien supremacism and nobody in the political class wants to hear our side of the issue.

Late Thursday evening, a San Francisco jury acquitted Jose Garcia Zarate — an illegal alien from Mexico — of all murder charges, including manslaughter, for the death of Kate Steinle on July 1, 2015.

The 32-year-old woman was killed when Zarate decided to pick up a 40-caliber SIG Sauer he claims to have found on a pier bench and randomly fired it into her back. She died in her father’s arms.

This is not a random story. Sadly, there are well over a million criminal aliens in this country who are roaming the streets. Zarate was deported five times previously and racked up seven felony convictions in America, but was allowed to roam our streets and “accidentally” fire a gun because of sanctuary cities like San Francisco.

Many commentators will focus on the absurdity of the jury’s decision; there is certainly a lot to say about the jury pool in places like San Francisco. One has to wonder if we are entering an era reminiscent of the Jim Crow South, where in certain jurisdictions we can’t get justice if the perpetrator is of the right ilk, in this case being an illegal alien.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions already announced that DOJ might bring a federal lawsuit against Zarate. He is right to pursue federal charges because even if one believes the discharge was accidental, it is still a felony for an illegal alien to be in possession of a firearm, not to mention reentering the country illegally four times.

But the bigger issue here is not an individual trial or a jury pool but the broader questions of sanctuary cities, border security, and interior enforcement.

The Steinle killer was the poster child for sanctuary cities, because less than three months before the shooting Zarate was released by San Francisco Police after being arrested on drug charges.

Federal immigration officials had requested that he be detained for 48 hours so they can pick him up and deport him, but the neo-confederates of San Francisco took their nullification policies to such an extreme that even someone with the rap sheet of Zarate was set free.

This is part of a broader pattern. A few months ago, two illegal aliens stole a gun from a San Francisco cop and allegedly murdered someone with it. They had previously been arrested for other crimes but were released in defiance of an ICE detainer request. One of the suspects came here through the asylum loophole the politicians refuse to close.

And now judges, including federal judges in San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Chicago, are declaring sanctuary policies and prohibiting states from cooperating with ICE or creating an entitlement for sanctuary cities to obtain federal funds and even for sanctuary cities to obtain state funds.

It was so bad that the plaintiff in the Massachusetts case that served as the impetus for their sanctuary policies was later re-arrested for slapping and robbing a wheelchair-bound woman leaving a bank. A 2014 analysis from ICE of sanctuary cities found that 8,145 individuals were released during a nine-month period and 1,867 were subsequently re-arrested a total of 4,298 times on nearly 7,500 criminal charges.

Overall, nearly one million have already received final deportation orders, and these are, for the most part, criminal aliens. Yet only a small percentage of this pool of illegals are deported in a given year. When will either party treat this issue like the emergency that it is?

We have a lot of violence in this country, but there are limits to what we can do about our inherent domestic problems. We don’t need to import the violent criminals of other countries. They should be deported immediately, and this should not be a partisan issue. While any murder is senseless, the death of Kate Steinle is even more tragic because Zarate should never have been in the country in the first place.

DACA is the cause, not the solution, to the violence

Appallingly, even some of the “conservatives” in Washington won’t stop talking about a “DACA fix” for “Dreamers.” What about a sanctuary fix in the budget? What about an asylum fix? What about a border surge fix?

Obama’s amnesty is exactly what broke the system and has led to a surge in criminal alien killings in this country. Over the past three years, 22 percent of all those arrested for involvement with MS-13 were Central American “children” who crossed the border.

This is the legacy of the DACA amnesty and yet the politicians have the temerity to talk about amnesty as a “fix.” A fix to what? Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., should hang their heads in shame for marshaling their respective state’s resources to focus on lawbreaking rather than representing their constituents.

It’s time to go on offense — President Trump and the Freedom Caucus should demand five particular things in addition to the border wall.

1. A denial of federal grant funds to sanctuary cities to be placed in the budget bill this month. Also, the defund effort should include transportation funds because California has granted 800,000 driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

2. There’s an epidemic of illegal alien drunk-driving fatalities, and while states can do what they want with driver’s licenses (except for when they don’t want to issue them to illegals and courts mandate it), they should also face consequences when it comes to federal funds. Let Democrats risk a shutdown in order to protect criminal aliens and lawless jurisdictions.

3. Passage of the Davis-Oliver interior enforcement act, which punishes sanctuary cities, deputizes states to enforce immigration laws, and bolsters expedited deportations. Why has leadership held this bill up from a floor vote for three years after passing committee twice?

4. Finally end the practice of dumping Central American unaccompanied children (UACs), many of whom are extremely violent, into our communities.

As we’ve noted before, almost none of them fit the statutory description of “severely trafficked” victims who are entitled to refugee resettlement. In fact, most are smuggled in by their families and many, as stated above, have ties to MS-13.

In FY 2017, over 42,000 were resettled, and their numbers are growing. Remember the MS-13 body count in once-peaceful Long Island we reported on last week?

Fox News reports that thousands of UACs have been dumped into their schools and local officials say their schools have now become breeding grounds for gang activity. So much for being victims. The victims here are our own communities, not criminal aliens.

5. Trump should order his IRS to stop giving refundable tax credits to illegal aliens.

And when, oh when, will Congress and Trump wake about regarding the stolen sovereignty from the courts? Congress could take immigration away from the lower courts in a heartbeat.

Trump’s tweets regarding Steinle were on message, but now is the time to see whether he is indeed serious about putting Americans first in practice. It’s time for an American DACA –Deferred Action from Criminal Aliens. (For more from the author of “It’s Time for a U.S. DACA: Deferred Action From Criminal Aliens” please click HERE)

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Mich. LGBT Advocate Admits Bias Against ‘Women’ With Penises

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For pure political chutzpah alone, Dana Nessel’s recent campaign commercial is about as perfect as it gets.

The Democratic candidate for attorney general in Michigan took a page out of Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst’s “Make ’Em Squeal” book and played the genitalia card. But whereas Ernst’s was a tongue-in-cheek attack on flaccid politicians in general, Nessel flat-out went after men as a whole.

Following week after surreal week of American politics, media, and entertainment being dominated by sex scandals, she told voters in her ad that they should vote for her for one simple reason: She doesn’t have manly parts.

“Who can you trust most not to show you their penis in a professional setting?” Nessel asks. “Is it the candidate who doesn’t have a penis? I’d say so.”

Like I said, that’s some quality theater right there. She clearly woke up one morning and said to herself, “I’m not going to bring a knife to a gun fight.”

But here’s the thing. That’s actually what she did. When you set aside the “shock” factor and break it down philosophically, how can this woman expect us to take her seriously, based on the arguments her very progressive worldview has foisted on the culture in recent years?

Nessel’s legal career includes work on behalf of so-called LGBT rights, including challenges to Michigan’s bans against same-sex adoption and marriage.

So traditional gender roles be damned then, right? Because they said so, bigot. Fine. Why then should I believe the exclusive addition of women to the political mix will right any wrongs?

I mean, if Bruce Jenner can be Woman of the Year, it seems silly, counter-productive, or flat-out offensive to insist that women are the sole answer to anything based on nothing more than anatomy. After all, aren’t we taught that not all women have vaginas, and not all men have penises, according to the likes of Nessel? So which is it? Is gender a predetermined binary exercise, or a fluid social construct? Progressives like Nessel can’t have it both ways, although they often try.

Shouldn’t Nessel be expected and willing to follow her worldview all the way through to its logical conclusions if she expects Michigander votes? Oh, I’m a bigot for asking that question, too? I see how this works.

Two legs good, four legs bigot. But what the heck, I’ll just have to take that risk, because I’m not done yet.

Along with Nessel’s philosophical musings running afoul of the transgendered “principle,” they are also guilty of breaking the egalitarian ethos that has driven feminism for decades.

Women were said to be capable of doing anything a man could do — and, in many but not all cases, that was correct. And so it was that a whole new world of career options and lifestyle opportunities were made available to women.

But what Nessel suggests is to replace misogyny, whether real or imagined, with its female doppelganger. Or to paraphrase President Donald Trump, “Women alone can solve” what ails us.

Um, no. It seems that hardly a week has gone by for decades now without a new story about a female schoolteacher charged with having sexual relations with her underage students. So why doesn’t this string of scandal cause Nessel to say that women should no longer be hired as teachers?

Progressivism is nothing without its hypocrisies.

Women are broken and in need of redemption every bit as much as men are. Which the hypocrisy and self-refuting logic of Nessel’s pagan worldview proves. (For more from the author of “Mich. LGBT Advocate Admits Bias Against ‘Women’ With Penises” please click HERE)

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No ‘Russia Collusion’ in Mueller’s Case Against Flynn

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By Art Moore. It’s significant that Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, pleaded guilty Friday to the “process crime” of lying to FBI agents rather than to a conspiracy of collusion, contends a former assistant U.S. attorney.

Flynn’s plea in federal court centered on his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. in December 2016, during the presidential transition period. ABC News reported Flynn plans to testify that Trump himself directed him to reach out to Russians.

But Andrew McCarthy, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, argues Special Counsel Robert Mueller would not permit Flynn to settle the case with a single count of lying to FBI agents if his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak had provided evidence that the Trump administration would ease or eliminate sanctions on Russia as a payback for Russia’s cyber-espionage against the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party.

He pointed out that the only major case Mueller previously has brought was against former Trump-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an associate, which had nothing to do with the 2016 election.

“It is becoming increasingly palpable that, whatever ‘collusion’ means, there was no actionable, conspiratorial complicity by the Trump campaign in the Kremlin’s machinations,” McCarthy wrote in a column for National Review. (Read more from “No ‘Russia Collusion’ in Mueller’s Case Against Flynn” HERE)

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Dem Senator: Mueller Must Be Protected From ‘Another Saturday Night Massacre’

By Brandon Carter. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) warned Friday that Congress must protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by President Trump, or risk “another Saturday Night Massacre.”

“We proposed legislation that would stop [Trump] from firing the special counsel, and it would shield the special counsel from any sort of political interference, which now seems increasingly threatening,” Blumenthal said on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.”

“It is a shattering moment for the Trump presidency,” he continued. “Comparing it to Watergate – there’s a real danger of another Saturday Night Massacre.”

The “Saturday Night Massacre” occurred in 1973 when then-President Richard Nixon fired the special prosecutor in charge of the Watergate investigation, which also triggered the resignation of the attorney general and deputy attorney general.

Blumenthal said the Senate should “send a signal” and pass a bill to protect Mueller to ensure Trump is “discouraged or deterred from endangering our democracy.” (Read more from “Dem Senator: Mueller Must Be Protected From ‘Another Saturday Night Massacre'” HERE)

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Woman Who Says Bill Clinton Raped Her Sees Dynasty Falling

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In an exclusive interview with WND, Juanita Broaddrick said that 40 years later, she’s beginning to receive support for her claim that Bill Clinton raped her when he was Arkansas’s attorney general.

It’s happening because the Clinton dynasty is falling, a fate deserved by the the former president and his twice-failed presidential hopeful wife, Hillary Clinton, Broaddrick said.

“I think it’s happening now. Their loss of power that we’re seeing right now is very important. That is why you see so many people now coming out to support me – these people in the media that downed me years ago, that said ‘she’s lying’ and would ridicule me – it’s only because the Clinton are losing their power,” she said.

Broaddrick spoke with WND at the conclusion of a news conference Wednesday in which she and other women who claim to have been assaulted by Bill Clinton called for the resignations of two Democrats in Congress, John Conyers and Al Franken, who have been accused of sexual misconduct.

The Media Equality Project held the press conference at the National Press Club to also demand that Congress end taxpayer-funded payouts to harassment victims. (Read more from “Woman Who Says Bill Clinton Raped Her Sees Dynasty Falling” HERE)

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John McCain Reveals If He’ll Vote for GOP Tax Bill

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Sen. John McCain announced Thursday he will cast his vote in support of the GOP’s tax plan, a major sign of progress for GOP leaders who hope to vote on the tax overhaul by the end of the week.

The Arizona Republican said in a statement that the bill, which he believes is “far from perfect,” earned his vote because it “would enhance American competitiveness, boost the economy, and provide long overdue tax relief for middle class families.”

“This bill would directly benefit all Americans, allowing them to keep a higher percentage of what they earn,” McCain said. “According to the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation, every income bracket would see tax relief under this bill. The child tax credit would be doubled to $2,000 per child and the tax code would be substantially simplified.”

McCain also signaled his support of lowering the corporate tax rate to 20 percent, a move he believes would make the American economy more attractive for investment and help stimulate job growth.

He said he took seriously the concerns raised that the bill would increase the national deficit by $1.5 trillion over 10 years, but added it was clear to him the positives of the GOP tax overhaul override the negatives.

“This is not a perfect bill, but it is one that would deliver much-needed reform to our tax code, grow the economy, and help Americans keep more of their hard-earned money,” McCain said.

McCain also praised a “return to regular order” in the Senate.

“I am pleased that this important bill was considered through the normal legislative processes, with several hearings and a thorough mark-up in the Senate Finance Committee during which more than 350 amendments were filed and 69 received a vote,” he said.

McCain cast the decisive vote against the GOP Obamacare repeal bill over the summer in large part because he disapproved of the Republican leadership’s decision to rush the bill to the floor without going through the traditional Senate committee process.

With 52 members in the Senate, Republicans can only afford to lose two votes if they hope to pass their tax overhaul.

However, many commentators believe McCain’s support will pave the way for the bill to be passed.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was initially opposed to the tax plan, but said Wednesday he would vote yes after the small business deduction was increased from 17.4 percent to 20 percent.

Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana also announced Wednesday he changed his “no” vote to a “yes” after seeing “good progress for Main Street businesses.”

GOP Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Susan Collins of Maine have yet to announce their support of the bill. (For more from the author of “John McCain Reveals If He’ll Vote for GOP Tax Bill” please click HERE)

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Pelosi Finally Calls on Conyers to Resign

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It took nine days since the accusations were first leveled, but Democratic minority leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., finally thinks that accused serial sexual harasser Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., should resign.

Pelosi has reversed her position on Conyers. Just four days ago on Sunday, Pelosi called Conyers an “icon.”

Now, what about Al Franken and his five accusers? (For more from the author of “Pelosi Finally Calls on Conyers to Resign” please click HERE)

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We’ll Soon Find out How Much Robert Mueller Has Spent on Trump-Russia Probe

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The Justice Department is set to release a report next week that lays out how much Special Counsel Robert Mueller has spent on the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential campaign.

According to The Hill, the report will be made public and sent to Congress.

The document will provide the first insight into how much Mueller has spent on a sprawling investigation that is looking at Russia’s meddling in the presidential campaign as well as the activities of Trump campaign officials. Mueller is also investigating the business dealings of former Trump advisers, including campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Mueller indicted Manafort last month and secured a plea deal from former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos for lying to the FBI about contacts he had with Russians during the campaign. A former FBI director, Mueller is also keying in on Flynn’s consulting work last year for the Turkish government. (Read more from “We’ll Soon Find out How Much Robert Mueller Has Spent on Trump-Russia Probe” HERE)

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Lawyer for Illegal Alien Who Got off Murder Charge Has a Shocking Message for Trump

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A verdict was reached in the murder trial of Kate Steinle Thursday night.

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, a five-time deported illegal immigrant and convicted felon, was found not guilty of murder after shooting and killing the young San Francisco resident in 2015 . . .

Moments after the verdict, defense attorney Matt Gonzalez addressed reporters outside the courtroom. He addressed potential critics of the “not guilty” decision who might “criticize” the jury. Gonzalez specifically mentioned the president, vice president and attorney general. The attorney sent a blunt message to the Trump administration: “Let me remind them that they themselves are under investigation… and may avail themselves to the presumption of innocence.”

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