You could say that it all depends on how you define “lie.” Or, perhaps, that it’s hell to have a public record.
Either way, Hillary Clinton’s vast resume of, shall we say, inconsistencies, is the dog that caught the car and won’t let go. A viral video collection of her comments on various subjects through the years is bestirring Republican hearts.
To those who’d rather vote for a reality show host than a Clinton, the video merely confirms what they’ve believed all along. For independents and even Democrats, it’s a reminder of how often Clinton has morphed into a fresh incarnation as required by the political moment.
Most of the highlights will be familiar to anyone who follows politics — her varying takes on Bosnia, health care, Wall Street, NAFTA — but the juxtaposition of these ever-shifting views is more jarring than one might expect. Politicians count on Americans’ short attention spans (and memories) as much as they do their own policies and/or charms. This video , inartfully titled “Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight,” clarifies blurred recollections and recasts them in an order that, among other things, reminds us how long the Clintons have been around. (Read more from “Hillary Clinton’s Viral Nightmare: A Video of Her ‘Lying for 13 Minutes'” HERE)
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So, it seems the Republicans in the Senate have decided to launch a new PR campaign. Which makes total sense, since the only thing lower than Congress’ approval rating is the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
But is this the best way to get people to start liking Senate Republicans?
Initial reaction: Jeez, what a bunch of dorks.
Second reaction: Wait a minute. Ok. So we have Mitch McConnell (F, 42%) and his Senate lackeys bragging about all the great “accomplishments” they’ve achieved this year. That’s ok, maybe, but here’s a question.
Which one of these “accomplishments” advanced small-government conservatism?
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By Kate Irby. The floor of the U.S. House of Representatives descended into brief chaos Thursday morning following the defeat of an amendment on religious freedom.
Republicans switched their votes from yea to nay after the clock ran out on time to vote, and it’s unclear why the votes were allowed to switch. If the amendment had been declared approved or defeated right after the clock ran out, it would’ve been approved by a vote of 217-206.
The amendment, proposed by Rep. Sean Maloney (D-NY), would have prohibited the use of federal funds to enforce a provision that was part of the Defense Authorization Act, passed by the House Wednesday night . . .
When the clock ran out, votes stood at 217-206, with 35 Republicans joining Democrats to approve the amendment. But then one by one, five Republicans switched their votes to nay.
People started booing, chanting “shame” and saying various other things such as, “Make the order,” “votes are done,” and “let’s go!” Making the order refers to proclaiming the amendment defeated or approved, based on the current votes. (Read more from “In Chaotic Scene, Democrats Chant ‘Shame’ on House Floor After Switched Votes” HERE)
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Here’s What the Failed Amendment Was All About
By Cristina Marcos and Mike Lillis. The failed amendment would have effectively nullified a provision in the defense authorization that the House passed late Wednesday night. The language embedded in the defense bill states that religious corporations, associations and institutions that receive federal contracts can’t be discriminated against on the basis of religion.
Democrats warn that such a provision could potentially allow discrimination against the LGBT community in the name of religious freedom. Maloney’s amendment specifically would prohibit funds to implement contracts with any company that doesn’t comply with President Obama’s executive orderbanning federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT workers. (Read more from this story HERE)
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While Wall Street has had its generous Federal Reserve sponsor for the past 8 years, literally printing money out of thin air, showering banks with risk-free profits and making the rich richer beyond their wildest dreams (although ever since the end of QE the pump has run dry), the rest of the US population was largely left to fend for itself. In the process, just as Wall Street demonstrated unprecedented creativity to come up with fraud that will make one’s head spin (if never lead to an actual prison sentence), so did the “99%”, the only difference being, of course, that for the mere mortals jail time is an all too certain outcome as are dramatic police raids.
This is the story of one such extremely creative if abhorrent crime, and raid, involving what may have been the biggest food-stamp crime ring bust in history.
As CSP reports, in Operation Stampede, what is being called the largest food-stamp trafficking takedown in history in terms of financial loss, law enforcement agencies filed federal charges last week against 22 Florida store owners or operators, including one convenience-store owner, in connection with schemes to illegally redeem food-stamp benefits for cash. Allegedly, the defendants fraudulently obtained more than $13 million dollars in EBT deposits for transactions in which the stores did not provide food.
According to the indictments, the defendants or their co-conspirators or employees swiped the recipient’s EBT card at a point-of-sale (POS) machine for an inflated amount and paid the recipient, in cash, a reduced percentage of the value of food-stamp benefits charged on the card. The defendants would realize a guaranteed, significant profit from each fraudulent transaction. In most situations, the recipient did not actually receive any food or eligible items in return for their food-stamp benefits.
In addition to the federal indictments, the Office of Statewide Prosecution charged six individuals for their alleged receipt of additional illegal payments during the course of their participation in fraudulent food-stamp schemes.
While most of the business are best classified as food stands, produce stands and “flea-market” retailers, one—ABC Food Market in Miami—is a convenience store owned by Zulfiqar Mithavayani. Since March 2013, Mithavayani and associate Jamal Al-Hawa allegedly redeemed and caused to be redeemed more than $1.1 million in EBT food-stamp benefits, more than $1 million more than the average convenience store in Florida during this period, according to the indictment.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federally funded, national program established by the United States government to alleviate hunger and malnutrition among lower income families. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers SNAP through its agency, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). FNS is responsible for the authorization and disqualification of retail food establishments participating in the redemption of SNAP benefits.
In this case, and in many others like it which have not been quite as prominent, the foodstamp program also led to criminal abuse of taxpayer funds. What is more troubling is that $13 million is an amount most financial professionals would barely sneeze at. While we applaud the law enforcement involved in this crackdown, we only wish regulators and enforcers demonstrated the same zeal when breaking up criminal cartels which have led to criminal gains that are orders of magnitude greater than the amount under consideration in this particular bust.
Below is a video clip of the historic bust.
(For more from the author of “SHOCKER: Militant Quakers Busted In “Biggest Ever Food Stamp Fraud”” please click HERE)
Some might say a rather disturbing moment occurred Wednesday during a Hillary Clinton rally at Camden County College in New Jersey.
Before taking the podium, the woman introducing the Democratic presidential candidate attempted to rally the crowd by reciting part of the Pledge of Allegiance. However, it’s the part she left out, and Clinton’s reaction to it, that is turning heads.
“Only Hillary can bring us together as one nation,” the woman began, before emitting a loud guttural noise to avoid saying the words “under God.”
Continuing right along, she finished the line from the Pledge, saying, “Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
As the crowd erupted in cheers, Clinton began laughing.
Some might question what was so funny about the willful omission of God during a presidential campaign rally.
This is also not the first time Democrats have had such an aversion to God or the concept of our country being under divine authority.
After Democrats stripped any mention of the word “God” from their charter, a vote was raised at the 2012 Democratic Convention to reinclude the word.
After the vote passed (although some might question the dubious method by which it was approved), the Democrats in attendance began booing.
As the Associated Press reported at the time:
“The party reinstated language from the 2008 platform that said ‘we need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.’” (For more from the author of “Watch: Clinton’s Reaction After ‘Under God’ Omitted From Campaign Introduction” please click HERE)
“We’re heading toward totalitarianism,” economist Walter Williams tells The Daily Signal in an interview at The Heritage Foundation’s annual Resource Bank meeting. The famed George Mason University professor says the government is gradually gaining more control over the lives of the American people. What can be done about it? Williams explains why it’s hard to change course, especially in regards to young people who embrace socialist ideas.
(For more from the author of “An Economist Explains Why America Is Moving Toward Totalitarianism” please click HERE)
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Do you know the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic? Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett wants to clear up any confusion.
Barnett, director of Georgetown’s Center for the Constitution, wrote the book “Our Republican Constitution” to explain what the founders really meant by “We the People” in the U.S. Constitution.
During a recent visit to The Heritage Foundation, we caught up with Barnett to talk about the book and why he’s pessimistic about the outlook of the U.S. Supreme Court following Antonin Scalia’s death and President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland.
“There’s a lot at stake with the next Supreme Court justice, but I can already tell you, I believe that fight has been lost,” Barnett said. “We have to decide how we’re going to survive under a court that is hostile to how we think.” (For more from the author of “What Does ‘We the People’ Really Mean? A Constitutional Scholar Explains” please click HERE)
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Just over two years after narrowly escaping off the back of a truck to freedom in the middle of the night, a Nigerian schoolgirl who was kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 says that she still has hope for the future of her country and her classmates.
“I have had dreams. With what I have been through, some of the dreams are scary. But now my dreams are good,” ‘Sa’a’ (a pseudonym used for protection), told congressmen at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights. I have a dream of a safe Nigeria; a Nigeria where girls can go to school without fear of being kidnapped; a Nigeria where girls like me are not made into suicide bombers and little boys are not routinely stolen and turned into terrorists.”
You can watch her full testimony here.
Below are excerpts from Sa’a’s submitted written testimony:
I am one of the 276 Schoolgirls who was kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in Chibok by the terror group Boko Haram. Sa’a is not my real name. It is a name that I use for my protection.
Before attending the Chibok Secondary school, I also survived an earlier Boko Haram attack at my former high school. After I escaped from that school invasion, my parents decided to move me to the Chibok Secondary School because they thought that it would be a safer place nearer home for me to continue my education.
However, on the 14th of April 2014, the Boko Haram came to my school at Chibok when we were all sleeping at night. They were shooting guns and yelling. They were yelling, “Allahu Akbar.” Everyone woke up, and came out of their rooms. We were wearing our pajamas when they came in. They asked us, “Where are the boys?” The boys are day students. The boys usually came to school in the morning but went home after school. They also asked us where the food was kept. They pointed out two girls to show them where the food store was and took it in a truck. Then they made us move from where we were staying to the class area. Next, they started burning everything – our clothes, our books, our classrooms – everything in our school.
They marched us out of the school for miles to where their trucks were. Then they asked us to enter the trucks and said that if we did not, they were going to shoot all of us. We were all scared, so we entered the trucks. They started driving us through the forest. When we were all riding in the trucks through the forest, I just had this feeling I should try to escape because I don’t know where I’m going and neither do my parents. I said to one of my friends that “I’m going to jump out of the truck. I would rather die so my parents will see my body and bury it than to go with the Boko Haram.”
So my friend said, “OK.” She would jump out with me. I jumped out first, and she jumped after me. We hid in the forest while the cars passed. We were in the forest that night without knowing what to do. It was very dark. We didn’t know where we were. My friend injured both of her legs from jumping. She couldn’t walk. We just sat under a tree until morning. She cried. She said that I should go home and let her die in the forest. I said, “No. If we are going to die, we are going to die together. I won’t leave you here.”
I decided to go and look for help in forest. I was going around not far from where we slept, and I found a Fulani man – a shepherd. I asked him for help, but he said, “No, I can’t help you.” So I tried to convince him. Then he did help us. He put my friend on his bicycle and took us to Chibok, and that’s how we got home.
Before I got home in the morning, my parents heard what happened in my school and one of my brothers and his friend went back to Chibok to find out what happened. When I got home, my mom, my dad, and my family, everyone was crying. Our neighbors came to the house. They were all happy and crying because I’m home, but they were asking about the other girls. There was a man who came to my home. He was asking about his daughters. I told him we managed to escape, but I didn’t know if his daughters would manage to escape the way we did. I didn’t know what happened next after we jumped out of the truck…
Recently I saw the video of some of my classmates that were missing for two years now. I am glad to see that some of them are alive. The moment I saw them and recognized their faces, I started crying, with tears of joy coming rolling down from my eyes, thanking God for their lives. Seeing them has given me more courage not to give up. Seeing them gives me the courage to tell the world today that we should not lose hope.
Boko Haram, now also known as The Islamic State in West Africa, is now considered the deadliest terror organization in the world, with a deal toll surpassing that of ISIS. According to a report at the International Business Times, the group, which is primarily organized in and around northeastern Nigeria, has killed roughly 20,000 people and displaced over 2 million others since 2009.
More than two years have passed since the “Chibok girls” were kidnapped by Boko Haram in a nighttime raid on their northern Nigerian Boarding school April 2014. Despite efforts by the Nigerian government, 219 of them still remain missing. According to another IB Times story, Andrew Pocock, the former British High Commissioner to Nigeria, revealed in a March interview that both the U.S. and U.K. knew about the location of at least 80 of the kidnapped girls, but declined to enact rescue operations for them because it was deemed “too risky.”
“A couple of months after the kidnapping, flybys and an American eye in the sky spotted a group of up to 80 girls in a particular spot in the Sambisa forest, around a very large tree, called locally the Tree of Life, along with evidence of vehicular movement and a large encampment,” Pocock diplomat told a British newspaper. “A land-based attack would have been seen coming miles away and the girls killed. An air-based rescue, such as flying in helicopters or Hercules, would have required large numbers and meant a significant risk to the rescuers and even more so to the girls.”
When asked about the statement, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department responded:
“The United States continues to support actively the efforts to locate and bring home the Chibok girls along with other kidnapped victims of Boko Haram’s acts of terrorism. The search for the kidnapped schoolgirls is ongoing. While the Nigerian government maintains its lead role, the United States continues to lend its unique assets and capabilities to assist in the search.”
Video released by CNN last month and reportedly filmed in December seems to show at least fifteen of the girls alive with “no obvious signs of maltreatment.”
However, once the girls return home, things do not necessarily return to normal for them.
“Young girls and women who have been raped, but released, by Boko Haram face extreme stigmatization from their communities where many label them as ‘Boko Haram wives. and fear that they have been radicalized and will be potential attackers,” testified former Congressman Frank Wolf, who is now Distinguished Senior Fellow at the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative at the same hearing.
“They’re victims twice. They’re victims when they’re captured and they’re victims when they’re released.” (For more from the author of “Watch: Boko Haram Survivor Tells the Story of Her Escape” please click HERE)
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President Barack Obama gave his review of the presidential election on Friday during a press conference in the White House and warned that it is not for a reality show . . .
“But most importantly, and I speak to all of you in this room as reporters, as well as the American public, I think, I just want to emphasize the degree to which we are in serious times and this is a really serious job. This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show. This is a contest for the presidency of the United States and what that means is that every candidate, every nominee, needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny.”
The comments about the campaign being a reality show can be interpreted as being referenced to Trump’s former reality show, The Apprentice.
“It means that you got to make sure that their budgets add up. It means that if they say they’ve got an answer to a problem, that it is actually plausible and that they have details for how it would work. And if it’s completely implausible and would not work, that needs to be reported on and the American people need to know that,” Obama said. “If they take a position on international issues that could threaten war or has the potential of upending our critical relationships with other countries or would potentially break the financial system, that needs to be reported on. (Read more from “Obama Scolds Press on Trump Coverage: This Is Not a Reality Show” HERE)
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By CR Wire. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said he is not ready to support Donald Trump.
Ryan said “we have a ways to go” in the unifying process, and that the burden is on Trump to unify the party on conservative principles and ideas. Ryan did go on to say that he hoped, for the sake of the party and country, that Republicans would come together. (For more from the author of “Speaker Ryan Will Not Support Donald Trump… Yet” please click HERE)
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Paul Ryan Spoils Trump’s Victory by Withholding Endorsement
By Newsmax. House Speaker Paul Ryan took the extraordinary step of saying he isn’t ready to support Donald Trump, and Trump fired right back, igniting a spat that pits one of the nation’s most popular and prominent Republicans against his party’s presumptive nominee.
Putting the brakes on Trump’s coronation, Ryan said on CNN that Trump needed to stop the bullying and demonstrate his conservative credentials in order to win the speaker’s support.
“I hope to support our nominee,” Ryan said. “At this point, I’m just not there right now.”
Trump quickly retorted: “I am not ready to support Speaker Ryan’s agenda.” (Read more from “Paul Ryan Spoils Trump’s Victory by Withholding Endorsement” HERE)
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