Month: January 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democratic leaders are decrying President Donald Trump’s use of force against Iranian Quds force commander Qassem Soleimani without congressional authorization but allowed former President Barack Obama free rein to carry out military operations.

Obama oversaw military actions in both Syria and Libya for months without seeking the approval of Congress.

The Washington Times reported in April 2015 that U.S. strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq surpassed 2,800 by that point in the conflict.

“The U.S. military has been conducting strikes in Iraq for 10 months, and began striking directly at targets in Syria last September as part of Mr. Obama’s announced campaign to degrade the capabilities of the Islamic State,” according to The Times.

By mid-April 2015, the U.S. had carried out 1,458 strikes in Iraq and 1,343 in Syria.

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Obama pointed to his powers as commander in chief, as well as the September 2001 “Authorization for Use of Military Force” resolution passed by Congress, which recognizes, “the President has authority under the Constitution to take action to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States.”

The Obama administration also relied on the 2002 AUMF resolution calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein as leader of Iraq.

The Times reported that Obama continued his military campaign in Iraq and Syria, even after a new authorization for the use of force against the Islamic State was introduced, but had not been passed by Congress.

While ISIS was certainly a purveyor of terrorism, some of which was directed at the U.S., such was not the case when Obama decided to commit the American military to assist in the toppling of Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.

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The Washington Post reported in June 2011, nearly three months into the air campaign, that the Obama administration had yet to seek congressional approval.

The president did not comply with the 1973 War Powers Resolution, otherwise known as the War Powers Act, by either obtaining congressional authorization for the military action or pulling U.S. forces out of the conflict within 60 days of committing them.

Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state during the operation, said in October 2011 regarding Gaddafi’s overthrow, “We came, we saw, he died,” mimicking Roman Emperor Julius Caesar’s famous line, “veni, vidi, vici.”

That was then; this is now.

Suddenly with one voice Democrats are concerned that Trump overstepped his authority as commander in chief by green-lighting the killing of Soleimani in Baghdad, just days after our embassy was attacked and Americans were killed and injured by Iranian backed forces.

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In a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Sunday, Pelosi wrote that this week that the House will introduce a war powers resolution “mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken, the Administration’s military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer charged on Friday that Trump has no authority for a war with Iran.

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin and Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia have introduced a war powers resolution seeking to block further acts by Trump directed at Iran.

“The resolution requires that any hostilities with Iran must be explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force, but does not prevent the United States from defending itself from imminent attack,” Durbin and Kaine said in a joint news release on Friday.

The Associated Press reported that Trump met “the 48-hour deadline required by the War Powers Act to notify Congress” via a Saturday communication, following Friday’s deadly drone strike on Soleimani, but neither Pelosi nor Schumer was satisfied.

Pelosi responded to Trump’s notification in a news release on Saturday, saying, “This classified War Powers Act notification delivered to Congress raises more questions than it answers.”

“This document prompts serious and urgent questions about the timing, manner and justification of the Administration’s decision to engage in hostilities against Iran,” she continued. “The highly unusual decision to classify this document in its entirety compounds our many concerns, and suggests that the Congress and the American people are being left in the dark about our national security.”

In a Sunday letter to Trump, Schumer called for the immediate declassification of the notice president sent to Congress regarding the Soleimani strike.

All the messaging appears aimed at trying to cast doubt in the minds of the American public that Trump made the right decision to kill the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans and thousands of others.

After all, if Trump is a good commander in chief, protecting Americans, why in the world would the Democrats be pushing forward a purely partisan impeachment, in which they do not allege he engaged in any sort of criminal conduct?

As I have previously argued, one result of Trump’s decisive response to last week’s attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad has been to once again highlight what competent leadership looks like, particularly when compared to the actions of the Obama administration.

Unlike at the Benghazi, Libya, consulate attack in 2012, the call for U.S. military help was answered in a timely fashion. The result was no dead Americans. Further, the Trump administration was clear about who was responsible for the attack — Iran — and what the consequences would be if the aggression persisted.

The tragic result of the Obama administration’s incompetence in Benghazi was the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.

Everything that Pelosi, Schumer and their cohort say and do should be viewed through the lens of their one and only objective: to remove Trump from office, whether by impeachment or in November’s election.

Trump made the right call to take out Soleimani, and the Democrats likely know it’s true, but their hypocrisy in the pursuit of political gain knows no bounds.

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Candace Owens sent out a notice on Monday that she won a victory against socialist leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Back in July 2019 AOC discovered she was unable to defend her crackpot positions from assault by Candace Owens.
So, like a true socialist, Ocasio-Cortez decided to block the incoming assault from Candace Owens. AOC blocked her on Twitter.

Congratulations Candace Owens!

Dear all,

In July of 2019, a New York Federal appeals court upheld a lower court decision from 2018, which disallowed President Trump to block his critics and naysayers from his personal twitter account. This decision set a first-time precedent stipulating that “the First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise‐open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees,” wrote Judge Parker, who was nominated to the appeals court by President George W. Bush.

So, you can imagine my surprise when I learned that during that same month, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez blocked me from her twitter account!

Too often it seems that the law is only applicable to one side of the political aisle. As a matter of ensuring equality, this week, I hired New York lawyer Jacob Weinstein to send Ms. Ocasio-Cortez a demand letter, highlighting our intention to litigate the matter, should she not unblock my account by end of day, January 6th 2019.

I am pleased to announce that as of writing, her lawyer has indicated that his client would concede to our demand (letter below).

This outcome is important for a few reasons:

AOC blocked me because I am without question, her toughest critic. While she uses her social media presence to pollute the youth with fraudulent promises of a socialist utopia, I have used my online presence to directly refute such patently false indications. This outcome then assures us that there will continue to be a loud answer to the far-left’s predatory misinformation campaign aimed at our youth.
It is due to your continued support of me and my various projects that we are able to set aside funding to pursue these seemingly small legal battles, that can have major outcomes in the long run. We must never allow people that wish to bring socialism to America, create pockets within society (whether online or otherwise) where their ideas can go unchecked.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is 2020. This year, everything counts. Every battle, every word, every event, and every dollar will go toward or against the future of this country. My ask of every single one of you is to make this year count. In whatever capacity you can— FIGHT.

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Onward & Upward, Patriots!

Candace Owens

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One of the most important things we can do in this election year is continue to force states and counties across the nation to comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).

And we are. We have sent notice-of-violation letters to 19 large counties in five states that we intend to sue unless they take steps to comply with the law and remove ineligible voter registrations within 90 days. Section 8 of the act requires jurisdictions to take reasonable efforts to remove ineligible registrations from their rolls.

Despite our successful litigation to bring counties and states into compliance with the NVRA, voter registration lists across the country remain significantly out of date. According to our analysis of data released by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) this year, 378 counties nationwide have more voter registrations than citizens old enough to vote, i.e., counties where registration rates exceed 100%.

These 378 counties combined had about 2.5 million registrations over the 100%-registered mark, which is a drop of about one million from our previous analysis of voter registration data. Although San Diego County removed 500,000 inactive names from voter rolls following our settlement with Los Angeles County, San Diego still has a registration rate of 117% and has one of the highest registration rates in the county.

Judicial Watch Attorney Robert Popper is the director of our Election Integrity initiative. In the latest round of warning letters, we explain that implausibly high registration rates raise legal concerns:

An unusually high registration rate suggests that a jurisdiction is not removing voters who have died or who have moved elsewhere, as required by [federal law].

Judicial Watch also considers how many registrations were ultimately removed from the voter rolls because a registrant [had moved]. If few or no voters were removed…the jurisdiction is obviously failing to comply . . . States must report the number of such removals to the EAC.

We found major voting list issues in California, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, and Colorado. The following counties have excessive registration rates or have failed to cancel sufficient numbers of ineligible registrations:

• Colorado
• California
  • Imperial County
  • Monterey County
  • Orange County
  • Riverside County
  • San Diego County
  • San Francisco County
  • San Mateo County
  • Santa Clara County
  • Solano County
  • Stanislaus County
  • Yolo County
• North Carolina
  • Guilford County
  • Mecklenburg County
• Virginia
• Pennsylvania
  • Allegheny County
  • Bucks County
  • Chester County
  • Delaware County

We are the national leader in enforcing the NVRA, which requires states to take reasonable steps to clean their rolls.

In 2018, the Supreme Court upheld a massive voter roll cleanup that resulted from our settlement of a federal lawsuit with Ohio. California also settled a similar lawsuit with us that last year began the process of removing up to 1.5 million “inactive” names from Los Angeles County voting rolls. Kentucky also began a cleanup of up to 250,00 names last year after it entered into a consent decree to end another Judicial Watch lawsuit.

Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections and we will insist, in court if necessary, that states follow federal law to clean up their voting rolls. Our previous lawsuits have already led to major cleanups in California, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio – but more needs to be done. It is common sense that voters who die or move away be removed from the voting rolls.

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Preliminary numbers show that the 77th Golden Globes telecast suffered a six-percent ratings dive Sunday night.

Last year’s show was the lowest rated in a decade. This one is even lower.

Keep in mind that these are preliminary numbers, which could go up or down after the full and final numbers come in. We will update with the final numbers.

According to the early numbers, though, about 19 million tuned (18.95 million) in for the first half-hour, probably to see host Ricky Gervais’ monologue, which skewered Hollywood pomposity in a very satisfying way.

A mere 30 minutes later, though, at 8:30 p.m. ET, more than three million tuned out. Viewership dropped to just 15.91 million as Gervais ceded the stage to one pompous, left-wing Hollywood celebutard after another who used the spotlight to preen their self-importance and lecture the rest of us about important social issues ‘n stuff.

In fact, the show shed viewers every half hour. By 10:30 p.m. only 11.22 million were still watching, only a bit more than half the number of those who originally tuned in to see Gervais rip the hypocrites in Woke Hollywood.

It’s not supposed to work that way. As the night wears on and the awards are handed out in increasingly important categories –Best Picture, Actor, Actress — you would think more people would tune to see the winners and the “Big Stars.” At the very least, you would think the audience would hold on.

Nope.

About 8 million people, roughly 45 percent of viewers, were apparently so turned off by all the celebutard screeching about Trump and abortion and the global warming hoax, they voted with their remote controls.

The overall number for the full telecast averages out to 14.8 million viewers and a 3.8 rating in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 age demo.

Last year, the telecast drew 15.73 million viewers and a 4.5 rating in the age demo.

Sycophants in the entertainment media, like Deadline, are blaming this rating drop on nonsense like a “smaller NFL game lead-in boost.” You see, it’s their job to pretend everyone loves left-wing Hollywood’s preaching and to ignore the fact that a stupid football game had nothing to do with the show losing more than 45 percent of its audience over three hours as the shrill celebutarding grew more and more off-putting.

Ratings for these award shows are all hitting record lows. There’s just no doubt the American people are becoming more and more disgusted with our hideously arrogant and divisive celebrity class. Every year, as they burrow deeper in their velvet echo chamber, celebrities grow more insulated, mean-spirited, unhinged, and dumb. Who wants to watch that, especially when you don’t have to?

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The majority of likely swing voters say they want to end the process known as “chain migration,” wherein newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the United States, a new poll finds.

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey reveals that about 62 percent, or 5-in-8, swing voters said they oppose chain migration, which has been used to bring entire foreign villages to the U.S. — legally. Overall, nearly 6-in-10 of all likely voters said they oppose chain migration, while only about 30 percent said they supported the process.

Across racial lines, the majority of white Americans, black Americans, and Hispanics said they oppose chain migration. Specifically, more than 6-in-10 white voters, 53 percent of black Americans, and nearly 6-in-10 Hispanic voters said they do not support allowing newly naturalized citizens to bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S.

Though all 2020 Democrat candidates running for president have vowed to keep chain migration — calling President Trump’s proposal to end the practice “racist” — the Rasmussen poll finds that likely Democrat voters are evenly split on the issue, with about 46 percent opposing and 46 percent supporting chain migration.

About 7-in-10 of all legal immigrants to the U.S. arrive as chain migrants, with every two new immigrants bringing on average seven foreign relatives with them. Only one in 15 legal immigrants admitted to the U.S. come to the country based on skills and employment purposes. Though roughly 150,000 employment-based Green Cards are allotted every year, half of those Green Cards actually go to the foreign relatives of employees.

As Breitbart News has reported, chain migration — if not ended — is set to bring about eight million new foreign-born voters to the U.S. over the next two decades. This massive importation of new voters has major political consequences for Republicans as Democrats have a 90 percent chance of winning any one congressional district that has a foreign-born population over 14.5 percent.

The poll surveyed 1,250 likely U.S. voters and was conducted from December 23 to 28.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

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Bill, a lifelong Democrat decided to walk away from the Democrat party because they have moved too far left and he can no longer support them.

“Bill just walked into our office and told me he is a life long Democrat but that the party has moved so far left that he can longer support them,” Christopher, the VP for ‘Students for Trump’ at Arizona State University tweeted.

“He ripped up his Democratic voter registration card and I just registered him to vote as a Republican!” he added.

Bill just walked into our office and told me he is a life long Democrat but that the party has moved so far left that he can longer support them.

He ripped up his Democratic voter registration card and I just registered him to vote as a Republican! ?? ?#LeadRight #WalkAway pic.twitter.com/6wRFVwjQaP

— Christopher – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@Christ0pherAZ) January 6, 2020

Democrat voters across the country are fed up with the Democrat party’s corruption and radical far left agenda.

A Democrat voter in Alabama recently called in to a CSPAN program as Nadler and his lawless colleagues were in session debating impeachment articles and said he is so “disgusted” with Democrats that he will be voting for Trump in 2020.

“After watching the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, that was the most disgusting thing I’ve seen,” the caller named Jason said.

“And now we have this impeachment crap,” he added.

“My party has now made me a Democrat for Trump. I’m going to back Donald Trump all the way,” he said.

How many other ‘Jasons’ and ‘Bills’ are out there?

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American Dystopia: San Francisco in Decline

Tucker Carlson started a series on Monday “American Dystopia” on how politicians have destroyed America’s great cities.

Tucker sent a crew to cover the filth and drugs and sh*t on the street in San Francisco.

Carlson then dropped this bomb,

“Civilization itself is coming apart in San rFrancisco. Right there in broad daylight on the city’s sidewalks that are littered with junkies and feces and dirty needles. The jewel of our Pacific coast is now filthier and more chaotic than downtown Mumbai, India. Literally. How did that happen? We need to know.”

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“Don’t believe Iranian propaganda about the mourning for [General Qasem] Soleimani.” That’s the message or plea from Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad published by The Washington Post on Monday. Unfortunately, as NewsBusters reporting on the liberal media’s reaction to Soleimani’s demise shows, they were not heeding her warning and were willingly becoming mouthpieces for the murderous regime.

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In Showtime’s Shameless, seedy storylines are not unusual. In fact, it’s the norm. In the episode airing January 5, titled "O Captain, My Captain", as part of a side hustle, bar owners Kevin Ball and Veronica Fisher decide to make medical abortions available to teenagers.

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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley blasted the Democratic Party in a Fox News interview on Monday, saying that they are the only ones mourning the loss of Iranian terrorist Qassim Suleimani.

“What the president did left the Iranian regime completely flat-footed,” Haley told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. ” They did not see this coming. They thought they could continue to do their multiple strikes.”

“You could see the ayatollah crying today, because that was his number one strategist,” Haley continued. “That was the number one guy that has literally told all of the proxies in all of these countries who to kill, when to kill, how to kill. And that guy is now gone.”

“You don’t see anyone standing up for Iran,” Haley added several moments later. “You’re not hearing any of the Gulf members.  You’re not hearing China.  You’re not hearing Russia.  The only ones that are mourning the loss of Suleimani are our Democrat leadership, and our Democrat presidential candidates. No one else in the world, because they knew that this man had evil veins.  They knew what he was capable of. And they saw the destruction and the lives lost based from his hands.”

WATCH:

Transcript provided by Fox News:

HANNITY: I watch this, and I’m thinking, wow, — do they want to bribe the mullahs again?  The Clintons bribed Kim Jong-un.  That didn’t work out.  Bribing the mullahs didn’t work out.

And, by the way, there was never any place, any time inspections anyway associated with that 10-year deal that expired, for $150 billion.

To me, the Iranians have been at war with the world.  They want Iranian hegemony.

Am I wrong?

HALEY:  You know, I mean, you’ve got to look at the fact that the general provisions of the Iran deal were going to end in October.  So, we’re going towards a time where we have to bring them to the negotiating table anyway.

But make no mistake, Sean.  What the president did left the Iranian regime completely flat-footed.  They did not see this coming.  They thought they could continue to do their multiple strikes.

But when it got to the lives of Americans, the president is never going to allow that to happen.  It happened with the contractor.  When they started to threaten our diplomats at the embassy, our military personnel, the president put a stop to it.

You could see the ayatollah crying today, because that was his number one strategist.  That was the number one guy that has literally told all of the proxies in all of these countries who to kill, when to kill, how to kill.  And that guy is now gone.

HANNITY:  And killing Americans.

HALEY:  So, Iran is having to regroup and figure out, now what?

So, make no mistake.  They’re shaking in their boots.  They’re trying to figure this out.

HANNITY:  Well —

HALEY:  And I think the president showed great decisiveness, great resolve.

And I think that this was a long time coming.  If you look back two years ago, I gave a speech at the U.N. on Soleimani, and talked about the threats.  The president has had restraint all of this time since we gave that speech.

And I will tell you, we said then, he was not — by the entire Security Council, he was banned from leaving Iran.  What was he doing in Iraq anyway?

Trying to move in.

HANNITY:  Great question, yes.

What — do you agree with — listen, I have always liked General Petraeus.  He’s a great general, patriot, hero in this country.  He said, it’s impossible to overstate the importance of this particular action.  It’s more significant than the killing of bin Laden, even the death of al-Baghdadi.

And he said Soleimani was the architect, operational commander of the Iranian effort to solidify control, the so-called Shia crescent stretching from Iran to Iraq, through Syria and Southern Lebanon.

I think that’s the reason why the Jordanians, Egyptians and Saudis now are working with the Israelis, which I don’t think anybody saw coming.

HALEY:  Well, and I will tell you this.  You don’t see anyone standing up for Iran.

You’re not hearing any of the Gulf members.  You’re not hearing China.  You’re not hearing Russia.  The only ones that are mourning the loss of Soleimani are our Democrat leadership, and our Democrat presidential candidates.

HANNITY:  That is sad.

HALEY:  No one else in the world, because they knew that this man had evil veins.  They knew what he was capable of.  And they saw the destruction and the lives lost based from his hands.

And so…

HANNITY:  What a dumb — we have been hearing, oh, he’s evil, he’s a murderer, he killed Americans, and he — it’s the number one state sponsor of terror. And they’re fighting all these proxy wars, but, oh, we don’t want to make them mad.

That’s what it sounds like to me.

HALEY:  You know, and you go tell that to the 608 American families who lost a loved one.

Go tell that to the military members who lost a limb.  This was something that needed to be done, and should be celebrated.

And I will tell you right now, partisan politics should stop when it comes to foreign policy.  This is about America united.

We need to be completely behind the president, what he did, because every one of those countries are watching our news media right now, seeing what everyone’s saying.  And this is a moment of strength for the United States.  It’s a moment of strength for President Trump.

HANNITY:  I think Rouhani and the mullahs, they need to go to the refineries.  Just go visit.  Just hang out there for a few days.

All right, Governor, Ambassador Nikki Haley, thank you for being with us.

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