DHS Investigation: More than 70 Percent of TSA Screenings Missed Test Weapons, Bombs

A recent undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security revealed that Transportation Security Administration screenings at airports around the country fail most of the time.

The House Homeland Security Committee was told Wednesday that DHS investigators found that undercover officers were able to pass TSA checkpoints over 70 percent of the time with mock knives, guns, and explosives, CBS News reported.

Just two years ago, testing found a 95 percent failure rate, reports CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave.

The hearing was supposed to be closed but was opened to the press after members of Congress decided the findings were too urgent to be kept under wraps.

"We found that briefing disturbing," said Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

The DHS Office of Inspector General made eight classified recommendations based on the undercover operation. In a statement, the TSA said it took the "OIG findings very seriously and are implementing measures that will improve screening effectiveness at checkpoints."

The TSA and members of Congress support replacing old check point scanners with new CT technology.

"In this system, we use high power algorithms to detect explosives," said Mark Laustra, a vice president at Analogic, the company developing the technology."

TSA administrator David Pekoske told Congress on Wednesday that the CT technology is the most effective way that his agency can keep passengers safe, but stressed that the cost is a hurdle.

"To invest in the CT technology requires funding above what TSA currently has," Pekoske said.

Frank Cilluffo, a former director of the Homeland Security advisory council, said the TSA cannot be complacent as long as terrorists target airports.

"They’re looking for vulnerabilities that can be exploited, and we need to make sure that we can push that as far as we can to minimize the risk," Cilluffo said.

The TSA this summer was a year behind schedule in launching a pilot program with the CT scanners. The agency announced last week that it is investing an additional $4 million into the technology.

American Airlines bought some of the scanners for the TSA to speed up the limited deployment of CT technology.

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What?! Rather: GOP Ran ‘Dirty’ Divisive Ads, Dems ‘United’ Voters With ‘Old-Fashioned’ Campaigns

If the media genuinely wants to turn around their reputation for reporting fake news, here’s an idea: Stop turning to disgraced news anchors, fired for essentially lying, as your experts on “truth-telling!” But as per usual Wednesday night, CNN predictably brought on Dan Rather to give his words of wisdom on Tuesday night’s election results.

As is his standby target, Rather blamed Trump for the big Democrat wins, saying voters had rejected Trump’s “divisiveness.” Even better, Rather laughably claimed that in Virginia in particular, the GOP had ran a “very dirty” campaign, while Democrats had run a campaign based on unity.

After talking about the Russia investigation, anchor Don Lemon asked Rather “what happened, in his view” Tuesday night:

“It was supposed to be very tight in Virginia. What happened in your view?” he broached.

Rather gushed the election results were a “big deal,” before making some truly ludicrous claims about how each party ran their campaigns in Virginia.

Well, I think what happened — first of all, this is a big deal. This was a big win for the Democrats. No other way to read it. They among other things particularly in Virginia, the Republicans found out that running a Trump-ism kind of campaign without Trump himself campaigning directly for you doesn’t work. And also this campaign in the end the Republican candidate for governor, thinking he was behind, began to run a very dirty campaign. As I said before, this campaign was nasty enough to gag a buzzard. That didn’t work.

As Newsbusters has noted, the Democrats ran an ad through the Latino Victory Fund, that showed a voter for the Republican candidate, Ed Gillespie, running over minority children with his truck. But Rather doesn’t see that as a “dirty” smear campaign(to say the very least)?

I guess it should come as no surprise since Don Lemon’s show actually defended the nasty ad that painted Republicans as racist murderers the morning following the election.

Regardless, the woefully obtuse Rather continued praising Democrats for running “old-fashioned” campaigns, that provided a positive “climate” that “united” the country:

So by any reasonable analysis coming out of last night, good news, very good news for the Democrats in not only Virginia but New Jersey and other places. They did it the old-fashioned way. They really got organized and they got people out to vote…

But hope and optimism, they only work if people are willing to act. So it’s a very old story. What counts the most is the vote. And in this case the Democrats worked hard to get their vote out. They were in a climate I think generally speaking that people want the country to be united.

 

 

And then he brought up Trump, because of course Trump is to blame for everything, ignoring the media’s role in causing division with their partisan and sometimes unfactual reporting:

“And much of the rhetoric and the tone coming from the Trump administration has been to divide us. You know, race against race, in some cases religion against religion. And that’s contrary to our history and the natural American spirit. And I think that’s some of what moved these ballots to go democratic last night. But any reasonable reading of those results, a lot of Republicans who are up for re-election next year, their fingernails will begin to sweat now given these returns,” Rather stated.

He went on to blame Trump some more, saying his lack of “nobility” was “beginning to show at the polls.” (Because voters didn’t know what kind of candidate Trump was until after he was elected?)

DON LEMON: Let me ask you because I’m going to put our poll up. It’s a very troubling numbers for President Trump here. Only 34% of Americans say the president is honest and trustworthy. 64% think he is not. One year in, I think that’s pretty astonishing. What forces are at work here?

DAN RATHER: Well, you know, general speaking with the Trump administration his problem, and it’s a growing problem with the electorate and I think for the country as a whole is the tone of his administration. You know, with some policies you can see well, he’s not that far out of the mainstream but it’s the whole tone of the presidency that I think what he says, what he tweets. People want a president to be strong, but they want him to be noble or at least have some noble instincts. And these are pretty hard to find with this presidency and it’s beginning to tell at the polls.

 

 

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Republican senator won’t guarantee middle class families won’t see their taxes go up under GOP plan

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said Thursday during an interview on “CBS This Morning” that he couldn’t guarantee that no middle-class family will see their taxes go up under the Republican tax plan.

What did Thune say?

The Senate is expected to unveil its own version of the House Republican tax plan on Thursday. Thune said the Senate bill will “largely follow the House’s action.”

“The details are in some cases slightly different than what House did, we took a slightly different approach on some of the major issues but the contours of the bill will largely follow the House’s action,” Thune said, arguing that the bill will spur economic growth and lead to job creation.

Asked if he could guarantee that no middle-class family will see their taxes go up under the plan, Thune replied: “I don’t think you can guarantee every filer — that that’s going to be the case.”

“As we look at this, we’re trying to maintain the tax burden similar to what it is today, that the distribution of this flows through all the different brackets in a way that’s consistent with what Americans are seeing today in terms of their tax burdens,” he said.

Thune said the bill will keep “progressivity” in the tax code and make sure that people in all income brackets see “meaningful tax relief.”

“Can you guarantee that every single filer might have some different experience? I don’t think you can guarantee that,” Thune said.

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Devin Kelley Went To First Baptist Church’s Fall Festival The Week Before He Shot Everyone

Horrible.

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It was just five days before gunman Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire on the congregation in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that the members of the small church welcomed him in under much different circumstances.

On Sunday, Kelley killed 26 people and injured 30 others. But less than one week before, he brought his children to First Baptist Church’s annual fall festival, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Though his attendance wasn’t expected given his past troubles with his mother-in-law, Michelle Shields, who attends the church, the congregation still welcomed Kelley with open arms — some even thought he and his family were turning a corner.

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Judge Rules DACA Recipients Have Due Process Rights

A federal judge in Seattle, Washington, ruled that illegal aliens receiving amnesty under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) cannot have their status revoked without due process.

Judge Ricardo S. Martinez, appointed by President George W. Bush, said illegal aliens have due process rights and that DACA cannot be canceled justification, The Washington Times reported.

“While the Court recognizes and acknowledges that DACA does not confer lawful status upon an individual, the Court also finds that the representations made to applicants for DACA cannot and do not suggest that no process is due to them, particularly in Plaintiff’s case where benefits have already been conferred,” Judge Martinez stated in his ruling.

The judge did not explain what that due process might be or how what reasons could be acceptable.

“What process is due, and whether Plaintiff received such process, are ultimately questions for another day. But at this stage of the proceedings the Court is satisfied that Plaintiff has raised a plausible due process claim that will not be dismissed,” Martinez explained.

Texas and nine other states announced they would sue the Trump Administration if it did not end the DACA program in June, Breitbart Texas reported. The states threatened to add DACA to an existing lawsuit that effectively ended Obama’s other amnesty program, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA).

“We respectfully request that the Secretary of Homeland Security phase out the DACA program,” Texas Attorney General Paxton and the coalition wrote in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “Just like DAPA, DACA unilaterally confers eligibility for work authorization and lawful presence without any statutory authorization from Congress.”

“For these same reasons that DAPA and Expanded DACA’s unilateral Executive Branch conferral of eligibility for lawful presence and work authorization was unlawful, the original June 15, 2012 DACA memorandum is also unlawful,” the letter continued. “The original 2012 DACA program covers over one million otherwise unlawfully present aliens.”

As the deadline for the threatened lawsuit approached, Attorney General Sessions announced the Trump Administration would end the DACA program, Breitbart News reported.

“I’m here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated by the Obama administration is being rescinded,” Sessions said. Later calling for an “orderly and lawful wind-down.”

President Donald Trump put the responsibility for a DACA replacement program in the laps of congressional leaders — giving them six months to act or he would revisit the program, Joel Pollack reported for Breitbart News.

Shortly after the administration’s announcement, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the states would drop the threatened lawsuit.

Paxton and other officials from 10 states were hit with major pushback efforts by the open borders lobby to drop their lawsuit against DACA. Paxton refused to do so, Breitbart Texas reported.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTXGAB, and Facebook.

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What GOP Must Learn from the 12 Reasons Virginia Went Democrat in 2017

Much of the commentary on Election Day 2017 is misinformed or only half of the picture. There are 12 reasons that Virginia went Democratic on November 7, and lessons the GOP can learn from them if they want to turn future wipeouts into victories.

Historical pattern: past five presidents, Virginia goes the other way. Ever since 1988, when one party wins the White House, Virginia swings the other way. It started when Bush 41 was elected president in 1988, followed by Democrat Douglas Wilder in 1989. Then Republican George Allen (1993) followed Democrat Bill Clinton (1992). Then Democrat Mark Warner (2001) followed Republican Bush 43 (2000). Then Republican Bob McDonnell (2009) followed Democrat Barack Obama (2008). Now Democrat Northam (2017) has followed Republican Donald Trump (2016).

Each time, the out-of-power national party declared the election results a sign of national rejection of the president’s agenda. But that has not been true for five consecutive presidencies. Instead, it has been a natural swinging back of the pendulum. However, people wonder if McDonnell’s 2009 win could be the last Republican victory in Virginia, regardless of which party wins the White House. That may be true unless the Trump administration can drain the swamp in Washington to dredge out the Virginia suburbs of the nation’s capital.

Virginia is an indigo state—in reality, two states. The Old Dominion was once reliably Republican. But with the growth of the federal government, NOVA (Northern Virginia) is now populated by hundreds of thousands of big-government employees, contractors, recipients of federal and state welfare dollars, and liberal devotees who vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Most Americans want to drain the swamp, but swamp creatures rather like their ecosystem. Virginia has gone from red, to purple, to now a midpoint between purple and blue—indigo.

Although not as bad as when deep-blue Chicago jerks the entire state of Illinois to the left in statewide elections, with Democrats’ massive and growing stronghold in NOVA, a Republican must post very strong wins in the western and southern parts of the states to take the whole state. Virginia has joined Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, and Missouri as a state that is in reality two states. Fortunately for the GOP, though, President Trump proved that a Republican can win some of those states.

Targeting the swamp. In addition to NOVA’s general inclination to vote Democrat, President Trump has promised to drain the swamp. Nothing is more dangerous than a cornered animal. D.C.’s swamp creatures in NOVA know that the president is targeting their environment, explaining the record turnout of Democrats in NOVA precincts, giving Northam record turnout in those places.

Northam was not an inspiring candidate. Gillespie was a better campaigner and a smarter strategist. Democrats did not chant Northam’s name as they marched en masse to polling locations in the counties of Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William. Swamp creatures’ self-preservation instinct is what motivated them to vote.

Growth of the federal government masked Virginia Democrats’ terrible mismanagement of Virginia’s economy. Under three Democrats and one moderate Republican, the commonwealth has sunk to the bottom bracket in America for economic growth, job creation, stifling regulation, and losing young families to other states. But trillions of dollars in federal spending has included billions spilling over into Virginia, making many voters feel pretty good without realizing that their own state was making the situation worse, not better. They were living a subsidized lifestyle, so a factor that should have cost Northam votes was instead was a plus.

Felon voters. In 2015, Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe violated the Virginia Constitution by granting mass amnesty to 206,000 convicted felons in the commonwealth. Felons vote overwhelmingly Democrat. The Virginia legislature challenged McAuliffe’s actions as unconstitutional. The Virginia Supreme Court agreed, saying his actions violated by the Virginia Constitution. But when McAuliffe reissued 13,000 of those pardons months weeks later, implausibly claiming that he had personally considered each individual application, the Virginia Supreme Court denied the legislature’s follow-up motion to enforce the court’s decision. All those felons were added to the voter rolls, with many thousands more added since.

Gillespie ran on Bush issues, with Bush style. His campaign was taken straight from the Bush 43 playbook of moderate, soccer-mom issues with which Republicans could carry elections in 2000 and 2004, but not since then. Generic calls for economic growth and job creation through cutting taxes and regulations, improving education through teacher pay hikes, and safer neighborhoods through supporting law enforcement in feel-good tone are worthwhile issues, but do not carry the day anymore. The ads emphasized words like “compassion,” “pragmatist,” and “centrist,” and was soft on illegal aliens. That is not where the electorate is in 2017 if a Republican wants to win.

GOP voters noticed Gillespie did not embrace Trump, or Trumpism. These issues and style were a refusal to embrace President Trump and his agenda. The GOP nominee refused to campaign with the GOP president. Republican voters strongly support the president, and were turned off by the fact that Gillespie kept President Trump at arm’s-length. The Republican trailed Northam by up to 17 points in the polls.

Gillespie’s raising a couple Trump issues was too little, too late. A sophisticated and experienced political strategist (albeit running on the wrong strategy), Gillespie changed course in the final weeks of the campaign, hitting Northam hard on illegal immigration, sanctuary cities, and protecting historical monuments that Democrats were attacking. He closed the gap, with some polls showing him tied or possibly slightly ahead. But on Election Day too many voters were unpersuaded that these positions were heartfelt, or that they went far enough.

Northam adopted Trump positions. The Democrat candidate raced to the right to co-opt several Trump issues to neutralize Gillespie’s advantage there. Northam never reversed his call to tear down historical monuments and markers, but he denounced sanctuary cities, and toned down his support for amnesty for illegal aliens. That likely helped him claw back in the last few days some of the ground he had lost to Gillespie on those issues.

Republicans lost even in red states on November 7. While losses in Virginia and New Jersey were expected, there was a nationwide trend on Election Day, as Republicans lost some local races in solid GOP areas in other states. Part of this is the natural pushback against any new president, but there was much more. Namely …

Democrats are angry, but Republicans are not happy. There is currently a gross imbalance in enthusiasm. Democrats have mobilized against President Trump’s agenda, but Republican voters do not match that enthusiasm with positive energy, because Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate have failed to pass legislation enacting that agenda. The House has passed over 300 bills that are paralyzed in the 52-48 Republican-controlled Senate.

Republicans have not delivered on the Trump MAGA Agenda that Americans voted for. To his credit, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) understands this, using unprecedented tactics to block all things Trump to stifle Republican excitement. Judges are (slowly) being confirmed over Schumer’s objections, but enough moderate Republican senators have joined Schumer to kill Trump-agenda bills, keeping them from reaching the president’s desk for his signature into law. Some Republicans appear to be on a suicide mission, evidently oblivious to the severe consequences the GOP could suffer in 2018 if they fail to get things done.

Fortunately for the GOP, all is not lost.

The Left is already overreaching. Democrats are misreading the failure of establishment Republican candidates in blue states as a repudiation of President Trump’s agenda. Groups like the Latino Victory Fund promising to double down with extremist ads that people across the political spectrum denounce as despicable—showing a Gillespie supporter in a pickup truck trying to run down minority children—could chase voters by the droves into the GOP’s column.

Most Democrats’ 2018 and 2020 candidates will not resemble Northam. Although a liberal, he was challenged from the left in the primary. The Sanders-Warren wing of the Democratic Party is ascendant, and more stridently liberal candidates can be expected over the next couple years. The perfect illustration of Democrats’ problem and direction is that Northam was shouted down during his victory speech by advocates for sanctuary cities and illegal alien amnesty. Security had to escort Northam off the stage.

Republicans might be turning the corner. Since Tuesday, several establishment Republican elected leaders have told the media that they know voters are very unhappy with their failure to pass legislation enacting the president’s agenda. Their instincts for self-preservation may overcome their non-MAGA preferences, and rally a few crucial additional votes to pass legislation.

Election Day 2017 was a lousy day for Republicans. But it was not a repudiation of President Trump or his agenda, and it is possible that enough politicians are figuring out that the MAGA agenda that carried Election Day 2016 may be the key to their success in 2018 and 2020.

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Liberal Freaks Scream at Sky Like Mental Patients One Year After Hillary Went Down in Flames

Mental illness is a very serious thing and is no joke and it isn’t going to get better without seeking serious professional help.

That would be damned good advice for the pathetic liberal crybabies who still can’t wrap their minds around the very simple concept that elections have winners and losers and while losing sucks, that’s just the way that life is – especially in the system that exists in here in the USA.

But millennial brats and other low-information freaks have become so used to being rewarded for failure that one year after the worst day in their lives, they are still unglued that President Trump pasted the heavily favored Hillary Clinton right in her ugly kisser.

On Wednesday, many of them gathered across the country to pointlessly throw their stupid ongoing hissy fits, wave signs and scream like a pack of baboons, many doing so aimlessly at the sky that God didn’t see fit to give Mrs. Clinton a participation trophy.

Here is a sample, I don’t know whether to laugh my ass off or recoil in horror that these folks are out walking around instead of being securely locked up in mental institutions.




These people are just plain nuttier than squirrel turds.

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‘Insane’ wait time of 4.5 years for new patients to see specialist, Canadian doctor says

What happened?

  • Canadian doctor Joy Hataley, a family practice anesthetist in Kingston, Ontario, told CTV News she was “shocked” after trying to refer one of her patients to a neurologist at Kingston General Hospital and was told in a letter the wait time for new patients is 4.5 years.
  • The outlet said that while Hataley was used to long wait times — particularly from specialists — she called the 4.5-year delay “insane.”
  • “Initially I was just a bit stunned,” she told CTV News Toronto on Friday. “I actually thought I misread it.”
  • “I put my reading glasses on — because I am that age — to check if it was a 1.5,” Hataley added. “I couldn’t fathom it was a 7.5. I walked to a physician’s room nearby me just to verify that I was actually reading 4.5.”
  • She said such a wait time deems the referral moot: “Who knows what happens in 4.5 years?” Hataley noted to CTV News Toronto. “Will we even remember that we had a consult? Will we still be on the list?”
  • Hataley posted an image of the letter to Twitter and asked Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins and Kingston MPP Sophie Kiwala for an explanation:

What is Hataley saying about Canadian patient wait times in general?

  • “I sense that this is not a problem, I perceive, to be in isolation,” she told CTV News. “This issue is an issue for people across the country.”
  • “I don’t think this is the norm by any stretch of the imagination,” Hataley added, “but [the fact that] it even occurs at all is shocking.”
  • She also told the outlet she believes the system has “hit a wall.”
  • “My main message is: We need timely, consistent and reliable health care in our province and we do not have it,” she told CTV News.

What are other Canadian doctors saying?

  • Dr. Shawn Whatley, president of the Ontario Medical Association, told CTV News the wait times are “atrocious.”
  • Wealthier patients at least can travel to get care faster, he told the outlet, which creates “a massive two-tiered system.”
  • “We’ve known about it for 15 years where people with means can get procedures and test more quickly,” Whatley added to CTV News.
  • A 2016 Commonwealth Fund survey focusing on 11 developed countries found 56 per cent of Canadians waited more than four weeks to see a medical specialist compared to about 36 percent, which is  the international average, the outlet reported.

How are Canadian institutions reacting?

  • Kingston Health Sciences Centre told the outlet delays are “a challenge” across the board but the neurologist in this case is in high demand due to “referrals from a very large catchment area.”
  • “Ensuring the lowest possible wait times for all parts of our health-care system is a key priority, particularly including referrals from general practitioners to specialists,” Laura Gallant, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Long-term care, told Global News.

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Bannon Backs New Limits on Carried Interest to Spur Long-Term Investment in Companies

Bannon Backs New Limits on Carried Interest to Spur Long-Term Investment in Companies



Steven Bannon is backing a House proposal to spur long-term investment in companies and limit the ability of hedge fund and private equity managers to take advantage of the carried-interest tax break.

Bannon told Bloomberg news that he is backing a provision in the House tax bill that would require investment managers to hold investments for at least three years to qualify for the lower capital gains rate on carried interest. This would encourage hedge funds and private equity funds to focus on longer-term investments, Bannon outlined in a statement to Bloomberg. He said:

I have long called for the elimination of the carried interest loophole but I believe that the proposal in the House tax bill requiring investments be held for a minimum of 3 years to qualify for capital gains is a good way of eliminating short-term financial engineering that benefits no one, while encouraging long-term investments that create good paying jobs.

Carried interest is the share of a hedge fund or private equity fund’s profit that gets paid to investment managers. This has traditionally been around 20 percent of the profit but can be much higher in some of the more sought after investment funds. Currently, tax authorities treat that income as capital gains so long as the underlying investment profit is based on capital gains. That means the profit is eligible for a tax rate as low as low as 23.8 percent instead of being subject to ordinary income tax rates, which go as high as 39.6 percent.

It is employed by managers of real estate firms and venture capitalists in addition to some hedge fund and private equity managers.

Other changes to the tax code may make carried interest less important. If private equity firms qualify for the 25 percent pass-through rate, for example. Some may choose to organize as regular corporations to qualify for the 20 percent corporate tax rate.

On the campaign trail, Trump said he would  he would eliminate the carried-interest tax break.

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Down the Memory Hole: Obama Stole the 2008 Primary with Help of DNC


It’s an odd experience to dig this information out of the memory hole.  No Democrat cares: no party leaders, no members of Congress, no journalists, and no ordinary people.  Democrats do not care about  rule of law or fair elections.  All of them feel morally entitled to win.  That is the corrupting influence of their identity politics that tars political opponents as moral reprobates.


Democrat primaries show us who they are: their will to power trumps every other value.  Progressives want permanent power, not a functioning republic.    They don’t accept fair and free elections – witness their dirty attempts to overturn the last one and deprive Trump voters of their victory. 


As Hillary might say, Democrat corruption, Hollywood corruption – it takes a village.


Like the revelations of Harvey Weinstein’s abuses, one big dog gets punished, while the even bigger dog – Bill Clinton for sexual abuse, Barack Obama for political abuse – remains untouchable. 


A documentary by Hillary supporters on Obama’s cheating and abuse was reported on Fox & Friends only in 2010; at the time of the election, no one would cover their complaints. Read about it here.


In one documentary interview, civil rights activist Helene Latimer recounts seeing an elderly woman being intimidated at the polls. “As she approached the entrance way to go into the building, one of the young men said to her, ‘If you’re not voting for Obama, go home because you’re not voting here today.'”


“It’s our right as Americans to be able to vote and everybody was alerted, we went to press, we went to Fox, we went to CNN, nobody wanted to hear the story (in 2008),” Gaston told Fox’s Alisyn Camerota. “Nobody wants to deal with this.”


From “How Obama Used an Army of Thugs to Steal the 2008 Democratic Party Nomination”:


… the Obama Campaign… encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote.


Political junkies will recall that Obama gained crucial momentum after his surprise win of the Iowa primary.  He won in Iowa by breaking the law and busing in supporters to vote.  Everyone in Iowa could see it with their own eyes – and that includes the entire national press corps.


Dr. Long spent several months studying the caucus and primary results, published here


“After studying the procedures and results from all 14 caucus states… my conclusion is that the Obama campaign willfully and intentionally defrauded the American public by systematically undermining the caucus process,” she said.


In Hawaii, caucuses ended up with more ballots than participants.  In Nevada, Obama supporters upturned a wheelchair-bound woman who wanted to caucus for Hillary.  They flushed Clinton ballots down the toilets.  Union members were told they could vote only if their names were on the list of Obama supporters.


Two thousand Texas Democrats filed official complaints, in outrage and total frustration, against Obama’s lawless tactics. The party acknowledged that the Obama campaign’s actions “amount to criminal violations” and ordered them to be reported to state and federal law enforcement.  Nothing happened.


Thanks to these and other strong-arm tactics, Obama won victories in all but one of the caucuses, even in states such as Maine where Hillary had been leading by double digits in the polls.


Bernie Sanders supporters are justifiably angry that the superdelegates gave the nomination to Hillary.  The Washington Post reports in 2008 Hillary won the popular vote in the nomination process.  She was neck and neck with Obama in the delegate count.  Yet the DNC pressured the superdelegates who were pledged to Hillary to flip their votes.  From the Washington Post:


In 2008, the superdelegates became infamous — and essential. That year, as in this one, they helped the party’s front-runner cross the threshold by releasing endorsements around the final primary.  The irony was that the 2008 election, a near-tie, ended with pro-Clinton superdelegates flipping to support then-Sen. Barack Obama.


The Post makes it sound like the superdelegates flipped themselves.  Hillary delegates tell us the  DNC did the deed:


Basically, the delegations would meet and the leadership would say, ‘We need to vote for Obama. You need to basically switch your vote from Hillary to Obama.’ Even though in some 16 or 14 states it was required by law that the delegation needed to vote for the candidate that they represented on the first ballot. Those state party chairs were still manipulating that delegation to break the law and vote for Obama.”


As early as April, Virginia’s party leaders pressured their superdelegates:


Another Clinton superdelegate, senior Democratic strategist Mame Reiley, said she understood targeting undecided superdelegates, but including longtime Clinton supporters only created ill will.  “If we wanted to have a nominee decided in June then we’d have scheduled the convention in June,” Reiley said. “It sort of makes me wonder what they’re afraid of.”


In May 2008, Hillary wrote to the superdelegates, begging them to respect the popular vote.


As we reach the end of the primary season, more than 17 million people have supported me in my effort to become the Democratic nominee – more people than have ever voted for a potential nominee in the history of our party. … And with 40 and 35 point margins of victory, it is clear that even when voters are repeatedly told this race is over, they’re not giving up on me – and I am not giving up on them either.


Clinton trounced Obama by half a million Democrat votes in the 2008 Democrat primaries.  She bettered him among women, seniors, Latinos, the working class, those earning less than $50,000 and first-time voters.  Clinton won the primaries where it is harder to cheat; Obama’s delegate count was based on his fraudulent caucus wins.  Polls showed Clinton beating McCain and Obama losing.  Rasmussen showed Clinton was more competitive than Obama by 16 points.  Yet 100% of the superdelegates threw the nomination to the weaker, less popular candidate.


Senator Obama’s win in Indiana was used by the Democratic leadership to call for the party to unify behind him.  But Obama lacked the minimum number of signatures to legally run   In 2013 two county election board workers were convicted on felony charges for forging hundreds of signatures to get Obama on the ballot.  Separately, Acorn was caught turning in 5,000 fraudulent voter registrations.


In Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.


“All the signatures looked exactly the same,” Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”


As a Heritage Foundation expert on election fraud explains, Obama’s Indiana victory was at a crucial juncture. 


Had this fraud been discovered, Barack Obama would have been disqualified from the primary ballot in a major state…the course of the campaign—and history—could have changed. …


The Indiana fraud was uncovered in 2011 by a Democrat Yale college student.  The inquiring mind wants to know –did anyone bother to check Obama’s victories in other close primary states?


Nees said the fraud was easy to detect “because page after page of signatures are all in the same handwriting.”


Some of the Obama campaign abuses Democrat voters testified to in “We Will Not Be Silenced,” are disturbing in the extreme.  The documentary is available in four parts on YouTube here. (hat tip canadafreepress.)


In Texas, Hispanic voters were told to go home before they got a chance to sign the caucus sheets, so their vote was not counted.  In Indiana, parents were livid that their high school children were taken out of school, bussed to vote and told to vote for Obama.


The most emotional report is from a Civil Rights activist who had marched with Martin Luther King (Part 3, 3:54). 


I got out of my car and there was this lady, probably about 80 years old, who was slowly walking up the street. As she was approaching the entranceway to go into the building, one of the young men called to her ‘If you’re not voting for Obama, go home, because you’re not voting here today.’ She turned and walked away. The pain that I felt, because of the people who have fought for African Americans to have the right to vote… While I was standing there, there were other people approaching, maybe four or five, and when they heard that they all turned and walked away.


In Texas, elderly Hillary voters were also turned away from voting:


Part 3, 7:20, The two women saw that these women had Hillary stickers on them… so they weren’t going to let them caucus. They said ‘Oh, you must be in some other caucus.’ I said ‘Look lady, I’m from Chicago and I know tricks like this. Let me see that book or we’re going to get the precinct captain over here and we’re going to look and find the names together. I guarantee this woman’s in here, because she’s not a liar. She’s ninety years old and has been looking forward to this. Don’t tell me she’s not in the book.’ Well then, wouldn’t you know it, … she magically found her name in the book and let her go be a part of the caucus… I noticed that that was not happening for any of the Obama people, they were just getting waved right through.”


Fixing the nomination for Obama didn’t end with secret lawbreaking.  There was the infamous ruling by the DNC to not count the primary votes in Florida and Michigan, where Clinton won.  These two states were allotted 796 superdelegates.  After their ruling, Clinton came up 137 delegates short.


The Democrat primary process is not this corrupt and ugly by accident.  This is not a problem found in both parties.  It is characteristic of our leftist party, and its leading politicians, because they feel morally entitled to hold power, and are given cover by the mainstream media.  The Democrat lust for power destroys other civic virtues. They lie to voters about themselves, they lie to voters about this country, and they lie about their own elections. 


In 2008, Obama used the obvious but unstated threat of black voters boycotting the election to silence even Clinton, who knew very well he was cheating.  In 2016, Hillary adopted not only Obama’s identity politics but his cheating in the primaries.  She did it her own way, by buying the DNC, which had been cleaned out by Obama and left $24 million in debt.  (President Obama, it turns out, did that non-stop fundraising for his personal foundation, Organizing for America, not the party.) 


Obama, I suspect, is now busy destroying Clinton via his surrogates, trying to set her up as the fall guy for the administration’s corruption of the FBI and spying on candidate Donald Trump.  Neither Obama nor Hillary can reconcile themselves to honest elections, where there is a chance they lose. 


President Trump won free and on the square, relying on his message and his voters.  The Democrats are at their wits’ end.  They can’t scare Trump, they can’t fool Trump voters, and they can’t silence the conservative websites.  What was done in the dark is coming to the light.


The country is shocked, shocked that the DNC colluded with the Hillary campaign to anoint her as their nominee. In her 2015 caper, Clinton made a backroom deal with the DNC. In 2008, Barack Obama used outright election fraud and thuggery, the tried and true Chicago methods. to steal the nomination directly from the voters.  When he got far enough, the DNC pressured Hillary’s pledged superdelegates to violate their voters’ wishes and award Obama an unearned victory.


Obama’s illegal shenanigans in the 2008 Democrat primaries were far worse than Clinton’s – and will never be widely reported.  


It’s an odd experience to dig this information out of the memory hole.  No Democrat cares: no party leaders, no members of Congress, no journalists, and no ordinary people.  Democrats do not care about  rule of law or fair elections.  All of them feel morally entitled to win.  That is the corrupting influence of their identity politics that tars political opponents as moral reprobates.


Democrat primaries show us who they are: their will to power trumps every other value.  Progressives want permanent power, not a functioning republic.    They don’t accept fair and free elections – witness their dirty attempts to overturn the last one and deprive Trump voters of their victory. 


As Hillary might say, Democrat corruption, Hollywood corruption – it takes a village.


Like the revelations of Harvey Weinstein’s abuses, one big dog gets punished, while the even bigger dog – Bill Clinton for sexual abuse, Barack Obama for political abuse – remains untouchable. 


A documentary by Hillary supporters on Obama’s cheating and abuse was reported on Fox & Friends only in 2010; at the time of the election, no one would cover their complaints. Read about it here.


In one documentary interview, civil rights activist Helene Latimer recounts seeing an elderly woman being intimidated at the polls. “As she approached the entrance way to go into the building, one of the young men said to her, ‘If you’re not voting for Obama, go home because you’re not voting here today.'”


“It’s our right as Americans to be able to vote and everybody was alerted, we went to press, we went to Fox, we went to CNN, nobody wanted to hear the story (in 2008),” Gaston told Fox’s Alisyn Camerota. “Nobody wants to deal with this.”


From “How Obama Used an Army of Thugs to Steal the 2008 Democratic Party Nomination”:


… the Obama Campaign… encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote.


Political junkies will recall that Obama gained crucial momentum after his surprise win of the Iowa primary.  He won in Iowa by breaking the law and busing in supporters to vote.  Everyone in Iowa could see it with their own eyes – and that includes the entire national press corps.


Dr. Long spent several months studying the caucus and primary results, published here


“After studying the procedures and results from all 14 caucus states… my conclusion is that the Obama campaign willfully and intentionally defrauded the American public by systematically undermining the caucus process,” she said.


In Hawaii, caucuses ended up with more ballots than participants.  In Nevada, Obama supporters upturned a wheelchair-bound woman who wanted to caucus for Hillary.  They flushed Clinton ballots down the toilets.  Union members were told they could vote only if their names were on the list of Obama supporters.


Two thousand Texas Democrats filed official complaints, in outrage and total frustration, against Obama’s lawless tactics. The party acknowledged that the Obama campaign’s actions “amount to criminal violations” and ordered them to be reported to state and federal law enforcement.  Nothing happened.


Thanks to these and other strong-arm tactics, Obama won victories in all but one of the caucuses, even in states such as Maine where Hillary had been leading by double digits in the polls.


Bernie Sanders supporters are justifiably angry that the superdelegates gave the nomination to Hillary.  The Washington Post reports in 2008 Hillary won the popular vote in the nomination process.  She was neck and neck with Obama in the delegate count.  Yet the DNC pressured the superdelegates who were pledged to Hillary to flip their votes.  From the Washington Post:


In 2008, the superdelegates became infamous — and essential. That year, as in this one, they helped the party’s front-runner cross the threshold by releasing endorsements around the final primary.  The irony was that the 2008 election, a near-tie, ended with pro-Clinton superdelegates flipping to support then-Sen. Barack Obama.


The Post makes it sound like the superdelegates flipped themselves.  Hillary delegates tell us the  DNC did the deed:


Basically, the delegations would meet and the leadership would say, ‘We need to vote for Obama. You need to basically switch your vote from Hillary to Obama.’ Even though in some 16 or 14 states it was required by law that the delegation needed to vote for the candidate that they represented on the first ballot. Those state party chairs were still manipulating that delegation to break the law and vote for Obama.”


As early as April, Virginia’s party leaders pressured their superdelegates:


Another Clinton superdelegate, senior Democratic strategist Mame Reiley, said she understood targeting undecided superdelegates, but including longtime Clinton supporters only created ill will.  “If we wanted to have a nominee decided in June then we’d have scheduled the convention in June,” Reiley said. “It sort of makes me wonder what they’re afraid of.”


In May 2008, Hillary wrote to the superdelegates, begging them to respect the popular vote.


As we reach the end of the primary season, more than 17 million people have supported me in my effort to become the Democratic nominee – more people than have ever voted for a potential nominee in the history of our party. … And with 40 and 35 point margins of victory, it is clear that even when voters are repeatedly told this race is over, they’re not giving up on me – and I am not giving up on them either.


Clinton trounced Obama by half a million Democrat votes in the 2008 Democrat primaries.  She bettered him among women, seniors, Latinos, the working class, those earning less than $50,000 and first-time voters.  Clinton won the primaries where it is harder to cheat; Obama’s delegate count was based on his fraudulent caucus wins.  Polls showed Clinton beating McCain and Obama losing.  Rasmussen showed Clinton was more competitive than Obama by 16 points.  Yet 100% of the superdelegates threw the nomination to the weaker, less popular candidate.


Senator Obama’s win in Indiana was used by the Democratic leadership to call for the party to unify behind him.  But Obama lacked the minimum number of signatures to legally run   In 2013 two county election board workers were convicted on felony charges for forging hundreds of signatures to get Obama on the ballot.  Separately, Acorn was caught turning in 5,000 fraudulent voter registrations.


In Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.


“All the signatures looked exactly the same,” Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”


As a Heritage Foundation expert on election fraud explains, Obama’s Indiana victory was at a crucial juncture. 


Had this fraud been discovered, Barack Obama would have been disqualified from the primary ballot in a major state…the course of the campaign—and history—could have changed. …


The Indiana fraud was uncovered in 2011 by a Democrat Yale college student.  The inquiring mind wants to know –did anyone bother to check Obama’s victories in other close primary states?


Nees said the fraud was easy to detect “because page after page of signatures are all in the same handwriting.”


Some of the Obama campaign abuses Democrat voters testified to in “We Will Not Be Silenced,” are disturbing in the extreme.  The documentary is available in four parts on YouTube here. (hat tip canadafreepress.)


In Texas, Hispanic voters were told to go home before they got a chance to sign the caucus sheets, so their vote was not counted.  In Indiana, parents were livid that their high school children were taken out of school, bussed to vote and told to vote for Obama.


The most emotional report is from a Civil Rights activist who had marched with Martin Luther King (Part 3, 3:54). 


I got out of my car and there was this lady, probably about 80 years old, who was slowly walking up the street. As she was approaching the entranceway to go into the building, one of the young men called to her ‘If you’re not voting for Obama, go home, because you’re not voting here today.’ She turned and walked away. The pain that I felt, because of the people who have fought for African Americans to have the right to vote… While I was standing there, there were other people approaching, maybe four or five, and when they heard that they all turned and walked away.


In Texas, elderly Hillary voters were also turned away from voting:


Part 3, 7:20, The two women saw that these women had Hillary stickers on them… so they weren’t going to let them caucus. They said ‘Oh, you must be in some other caucus.’ I said ‘Look lady, I’m from Chicago and I know tricks like this. Let me see that book or we’re going to get the precinct captain over here and we’re going to look and find the names together. I guarantee this woman’s in here, because she’s not a liar. She’s ninety years old and has been looking forward to this. Don’t tell me she’s not in the book.’ Well then, wouldn’t you know it, … she magically found her name in the book and let her go be a part of the caucus… I noticed that that was not happening for any of the Obama people, they were just getting waved right through.”


Fixing the nomination for Obama didn’t end with secret lawbreaking.  There was the infamous ruling by the DNC to not count the primary votes in Florida and Michigan, where Clinton won.  These two states were allotted 796 superdelegates.  After their ruling, Clinton came up 137 delegates short.


The Democrat primary process is not this corrupt and ugly by accident.  This is not a problem found in both parties.  It is characteristic of our leftist party, and its leading politicians, because they feel morally entitled to hold power, and are given cover by the mainstream media.  The Democrat lust for power destroys other civic virtues. They lie to voters about themselves, they lie to voters about this country, and they lie about their own elections. 


In 2008, Obama used the obvious but unstated threat of black voters boycotting the election to silence even Clinton, who knew very well he was cheating.  In 2016, Hillary adopted not only Obama’s identity politics but his cheating in the primaries.  She did it her own way, by buying the DNC, which had been cleaned out by Obama and left $24 million in debt.  (President Obama, it turns out, did that non-stop fundraising for his personal foundation, Organizing for America, not the party.) 


Obama, I suspect, is now busy destroying Clinton via his surrogates, trying to set her up as the fall guy for the administration’s corruption of the FBI and spying on candidate Donald Trump.  Neither Obama nor Hillary can reconcile themselves to honest elections, where there is a chance they lose. 


President Trump won free and on the square, relying on his message and his voters.  The Democrats are at their wits’ end.  They can’t scare Trump, they can’t fool Trump voters, and they can’t silence the conservative websites.  What was done in the dark is coming to the light.





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