bThere are actually four boxes that help keep us free:
The soap box,
The ballot box,
The jury box,
And the cartridge box.
The ballot box,
The jury box,
And the cartridge box.
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Steal for a long time then quit in order to give the appearance of being clean.
We have tolerated the Clinton's for over 35 years. We have looked the other way, we have allowed them to get off the hook and, more recently, we allowed them to escape jail. Their failed indictment and their being allowed to rise above the law is actually an indictment against our evolving contemporary values, is a reflection of public indifference and, if continued, will simply become one more reason for our Republic's decline.
Corruption has crept into virtually every facet of our lives and institutions. We are far more likely to rot from within than succumb to external forces though the former could eventually lead to the other as China expands, Russia challenges and Iran and N Korea extend and perfect their nuclear capabilities.
Trump is the only candidate who has been willing to touch the third rail. He has done so in ways that have cost him mightily because of his personality and style of speaking but he is due credit for sensing and articulating our deteriorating domestic circumstances, ie. addiction to drugs and alcoholism, opiod abuse, gang membership, family breakdown, mental illness, brittle communities, distrustful citizens, a corroded culture, growing racial divide, mountains of deficits spawned by unrestrained spending in the mistaken belief every unsolved problem is because of lack of funding, collapsing education and curriculum's driven by a PC culture among many others.
Hillary offers more tunnel vision and the embrace of old and failed attempts. Very little she says has a ring of sincerity because we have heard it all before and she adjusts according to the audience. Her record of achievements is barer than Mother Hubbard's Cupboard.
The current president seems to have decided he will coast and leave his predecessor with a mountain of problems and unpaid bills which, like pigeons, will come home to roost and will, again like pigeons, leave deposits on the Oval Office Desk beyond any future president's ability to wipe clean.
Some of these problem he inherited and made worse, most he created because of his misguided beliefs, lack of sound judgement and narcissistic personality.
America is in a mess, the king is naked and all Obama seems capable of is gnawing at his own tail between his legs.
Though Trump remains an unknown quantity he still is preferable to his opponent.
Trump has not failed as Hillary has in terms of government service. Trump has not used an elected office to enrich himself as Hillary has. Trump has not lied to Americans for over 30 plus years as The Clinton's have and Trump, at least, has proven Capitalism works and Hillary never built anything that employed anyone. (If memory serves me correctly according to Obama only government creates.)
As Trump corrects course and allows himself the luxury of being consistent, on message, more adult like perhaps he can resuscitate both himself and his candidacy.
Eight years of Obama has been a chilling experience and the prospect of Hillary's election is even more depressing.
(See 1 below.)
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A man Obama should have listened to just turned 100. Bernard Lewis could have helped Obama but when you are the smartest person in the room, when you have convinced yourself you know more than anyone else and when you enjoy playing with your brains who needs to listen to the likes of Lewis? (See 2 below.)
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Trump has posed a rational question to black voters! In essence he told them when you have been consistently raped and lied to by Democrats why not try something else like voting for me?
The problem could be black voters might not be smart enough to understand what Trump said and/or perhaps they have become so accustomed to what the Democrats have done to them they are no longer capable of believing there is another way out of their morass. Or worse, perhaps they find rape and dole preferable to jobs and a better future.
When you have been abused, lied to and taken advantage of for so long, your spirit can be crushed and you become distrustful of any challenge that speaks of betterment. (See 3 below.)
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This video is only for Jews, those liberal Jews who distrust Trump and cannot unwean themselves off the liberal Kool Aid they have been slurping up for decades.
http://www.israpundit.org/
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Welcome to Obama's military. Hope they respond better than the sailors who were taken in by Iran recently: http://www.mikenew.com/082615. html
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Dick
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1)
Steal for a long time then quit in order to give the appearance of being clean.
We have tolerated the Clinton's for over 35 years. We have looked the other way, we have allowed them to get off the hook and, more recently, we allowed them to escape jail. Their failed indictment and their being allowed to rise above the law is actually an indictment against our evolving contemporary values, is a reflection of public indifference and, if continued, will simply become one more reason for our Republic's decline.
Corruption has crept into virtually every facet of our lives and institutions. We are far more likely to rot from within than succumb to external forces though the former could eventually lead to the other as China expands, Russia challenges and Iran and N Korea extend and perfect their nuclear capabilities.
Trump is the only candidate who has been willing to touch the third rail. He has done so in ways that have cost him mightily because of his personality and style of speaking but he is due credit for sensing and articulating our deteriorating domestic circumstances, ie. addiction to drugs and alcoholism, opiod abuse, gang membership, family breakdown, mental illness, brittle communities, distrustful citizens, a corroded culture, growing racial divide, mountains of deficits spawned by unrestrained spending in the mistaken belief every unsolved problem is because of lack of funding, collapsing education and curriculum's driven by a PC culture among many others.
Hillary offers more tunnel vision and the embrace of old and failed attempts. Very little she says has a ring of sincerity because we have heard it all before and she adjusts according to the audience. Her record of achievements is barer than Mother Hubbard's Cupboard.
The current president seems to have decided he will coast and leave his predecessor with a mountain of problems and unpaid bills which, like pigeons, will come home to roost and will, again like pigeons, leave deposits on the Oval Office Desk beyond any future president's ability to wipe clean.
Some of these problem he inherited and made worse, most he created because of his misguided beliefs, lack of sound judgement and narcissistic personality.
America is in a mess, the king is naked and all Obama seems capable of is gnawing at his own tail between his legs.
Though Trump remains an unknown quantity he still is preferable to his opponent.
Trump has not failed as Hillary has in terms of government service. Trump has not used an elected office to enrich himself as Hillary has. Trump has not lied to Americans for over 30 plus years as The Clinton's have and Trump, at least, has proven Capitalism works and Hillary never built anything that employed anyone. (If memory serves me correctly according to Obama only government creates.)
As Trump corrects course and allows himself the luxury of being consistent, on message, more adult like perhaps he can resuscitate both himself and his candidacy.
Eight years of Obama has been a chilling experience and the prospect of Hillary's election is even more depressing.
(See 1 below.)
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A FLORIDA COURT SETS
ATHEIST HOLY DAY
In Florida , an atheist created a case against Easter and Passover Holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians and Jews and observances of their holy days. The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized days.
The case was brought before a judge. After listening to the passionate presentation by the lawyer, the judge banged his gavel declaring, "Case dismissed!"
The lawyer immediately stood and objecting to the ruling saying,
"Your honor, How can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas, Easter and others.
The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, yet my client and all other atheists have no such holidays..."
The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, "But you do. Your client, counselor, is woefully ignorant."
The lawyer said," Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance or holiday for atheists."
The judge said, "The calendar says April 1st is April Fool’s Day. Psalm 14:1 states, 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.' Thus, it is the opinion of this court, that, if your client says there is no God, then he is a fool. Therefore,
April 1st is his day.
Court is adjourned..."
A man Obama should have listened to just turned 100. Bernard Lewis could have helped Obama but when you are the smartest person in the room, when you have convinced yourself you know more than anyone else and when you enjoy playing with your brains who needs to listen to the likes of Lewis? (See 2 below.)
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Trump has posed a rational question to black voters! In essence he told them when you have been consistently raped and lied to by Democrats why not try something else like voting for me?
The problem could be black voters might not be smart enough to understand what Trump said and/or perhaps they have become so accustomed to what the Democrats have done to them they are no longer capable of believing there is another way out of their morass. Or worse, perhaps they find rape and dole preferable to jobs and a better future.
When you have been abused, lied to and taken advantage of for so long, your spirit can be crushed and you become distrustful of any challenge that speaks of betterment. (See 3 below.)
===
This video is only for Jews, those liberal Jews who distrust Trump and cannot unwean themselves off the liberal Kool Aid they have been slurping up for decades.
http://www.israpundit.org/
===
Welcome to Obama's military. Hope they respond better than the sailors who were taken in by Iran recently: http://www.mikenew.com/082615. html
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Dick
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1)
Now the Clinton's Tell Us
The family foundation has done its job. Now they can pretend to honor ethical limits.
Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative America, a part of The Clinton Foundation, in Denver on June 10, 2015. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
After years of claiming that the Clinton Foundation poses no ethical conflicts for Bill and Hillary or the U.S. government, Bill Clinton now admits the truth—sort of. If his wife becomes President, he says the Super PAC masquerading as a charity won’t accept foreign or corporate contributions. Bill will also resign from the foundation board, and Chelsea will stop raising money for it.
Now they tell us.
If such fund-raising poses a problem when she’s President, why didn’t it when she was Secretary of State or while she is running for President? The answer is that it did and does, and they know it, but the foundation was too important to their political futures to give it up until the dynastic couple were headed back to the Oval Office. Now that Hillary is running ahead of Donald Trump, Bill can graciously accept new restrictions on their pay-to-play politics.
Bill must be having a good laugh over this one. The foundation served for years as a conduit for corporate and foreign cash to burnish the Clinton image, pay for their travel expenses for speeches and foreign trips, and employ their coterie in between campaigns or government gigs. Donors could give as much as they wanted because the foundation is a “charity.”
President Obama may have banished Sidney Blumenthal from the State Department, but Bill could stash his conspiratorial pal at the foundation, keeping him on the family payroll while Sid flooded Hillary with foreign-policy advice. Her private email server was supposed to hide their email traffic—until that gambit was exposed last year. But FBI Director James Comey let Hillary off the hook on the emails, and he declined to investigate the foundation, so it looks like they’re home free.
By now the corporate and foreign cash has already been delivered, in anticipation that Hillary Clinton could become the next President. So now it’s the better part of political prudence to claim the ethical high ground.
If you choose to believe or have a short memory. Readers may recall that the foundation promised the White House when Mrs. Clinton became Secretary of State that the foundation would restrict foreign donations and get approval from the State Department.
It turned out the foundation violated that pledge, specifically when accepting $500,000 from Algeria. The foundation also agreed to disclose donor names but failed to do so for more than 1,000 foreign donors until the failure was exposed by press reports.
You also have to suspend disbelief that the foundation won’t live on as a Clinton political vehicle. Even if Bill and Chelsea take eight years off, the Clinton entourage appears to be taking no such vow. That would let friends and retainers continue to solicit donors and keep the joint running until the First Couple can return in 2025.
As an ethical matter, is a donation solicited by long-time Clinton body woman Cheryl Mills different than one solicited by Bill? Even in a smaller, more restricted form under these new donation limits, the foundation will continue to operate as a campaign-in-waiting for a future Senator Chelsea Clinton.
If the Clinton's were serious about their new ethical virtue, they wouldn’t merely limit donations. They’d shut the foundation down. The inherent conflict of interest in keeping it running has even some Democrats, such as former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell,calling for exactly that. Mr. Rendell is old enough to recall the 1990s and that if there’s an ethical temptation anywhere, the Clinton's will find it and compromise Hillary’s Presidency.
Far from offering some new clean ethical slate, this latest foundation gambit ought to be a warning about a third Clinton term. Protected by Democrats and a press corps desperate to beat Donald Trump, the Clinton's really do think they can get away with anything.
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2) A Middle East Studies Legend Turns 100
by Daniel Pipes
National Review Online
National Review Online
This article appeared in a National Review Online symposium celebrating Bernard Lewis.
The historian Bernard Lewis celebrates his 100th birthday today.
Three quotes establish his career.Martin Kramer, a former student of Lewis, sums up his teacher's accomplishments:
Lewis' career spanned a monumental 75 years, from his first article ("The Islamic Guilds") in 1937 to his autobiography in 2012. Midway, in 1969, he entered my life. In Israel the summer between my sophomore and junior years in college, with my aspirations to become a mathematician in doubt, I thought of switching to Middle East studies. To sample this new field, I visited Ludwig Mayer's renowned bookstore in Jerusalem and purchased The Arabs in History, Lewis' 1950 book.
It launched my career. Over the next 47 years, Lewis continued to exert a profound influence on my studies. Although never his formal student, I absorbed his views, reading nearly all his writings and favorably reviewing seven of his books (in 1982, 1986,1988, 1989, 1994, 1996, and2000), far more than those of any other author. His name appears on 508 pages of my website. Beyond numbers, he more than anyone else influenced my understanding of the Middle East and Islam.
That said, he and I argued strenuously during the George W. Bush years, narrowly on Iraq policy (I was more skeptical of U.S. efforts) and broadly on the matter of bringing freedom to the Middle East(ditto).
I first met Professor Lewis in 1973 in London, when he generously invited me to his house and offered advice on my Ph.D. studies. I saw him most recently, twice, at his small apartment in the Philadelphia suburbs.
He's impressively fit in body and mind, spending time on the computer, ever the raconteur ("What's a Jewish joke? One which non-Jews can't understand and Jews have heard a better version of"), and conjuring up anecdotes from a time before the rest of us were born (his 1946 discussion with Abba Eban about the latter's career choices). It's wonderful to see him doing well even if it's sadly understandable that he no longer engages in scholarship nor opines on current events.
Born a mere 15 days after the Sykes-Picot agreement that defined the modern Middle East, their common May centennial finds Syria and Iraq in shreds but Bernard Lewis more than ever is an inspiration to his many self-identified disciples, including this one.
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3)
Donald Trump makes a plea for the black and poor vote at a campaign rally Friday night in Dimondale, Michigan following a tour of the devastation of flood-ravaged Louisiana earlier in the day.
Trump said Americans must reject the "bigotry" of Hillary Clinton as she only sees African-Americans as votes and not as people. Trump said, speaking of cities like Detroit, "this is the legacy of the Democratic politicians who have run this city."
"No group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton's policies than African-Americans. No group," he said. "No group. If Hillary Clinton's goal was to inflict pain on the African-American community, she could not have done a better job. It's a disgrace."
"Tonight, I am asking for the vote of every African-American citizen in this country who wants a better future," Trump said in Michigan.
Trump said a new future requires new leadership. The Republican presidential nominee reached out to black voters and asked, "what do you have to lose by trying something new?"
"At what point do we say enough?" Trump asked.
Trump said Clinton would rather have immigrants come to the country and take jobs than to assist the poverty-laden inner-cities.
"Hillary Clinton would rather provide a job to a refugee from overseas than to unemployed," Trump said Friday.
The inner cities of our country have been run by the Democratic Party for 50 years. Their policies have produced only poverty, joblessness, failing schools, and broken homes.
It is time to hold Democratic Politicians accountable for what they have done to these communities. It is time to hold failed leaders accountable for their results, not just their empty words.
Look at what the Democratic Party has done to the city of Detroit.
Forty percent of Detroit’s residents live in poverty. Half of all Detroit residents do not work.
Detroit tops the list of Most Dangerous Cities in terms of violent crime.
This is the legacy of the Democrat politicians who have run this city. This is the result of the policy agenda embraced by Hillary Clinton.
The only way to change results is to change leadership.
We can never fix our problems by relying on the same politicians who created our problems in the first place.
A new future requires brand-new leadership. Look at how much African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control. To those hurting, I say: what do you have to lose by trying something new? Like Trump? What do you have to lose?
Look at how much African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control. To those hurting, I say: what do you have to lose by trying something new? I say it again, what do you have to lose? Look, what do you have to lose? You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs. 58% of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?
And at the end of four years I guarantee that I will get over 95% of the African-American vote. I promise you. Because I will produce for the inner-cities and I will produce for the African-Americans.
And the Democrats, the Democrats will not produce, and all they've done is taken advantage of your vote. That's all they've done. And once the election's over, they go back to their palaces in Washington, and you know what, they do nothing for you. Just remember it. So, you have nothing to lose. one thing we know for sure is that if you keep voting for the same people, you will keep getting the same, exactly the same result.
My administration will go to work for you as no one has done before. We will work. We will bring back jobs. We will work.
By contrast, the one thing every item in Hillary Clinton’s agenda has in common is that it takes jobs and opportunities from African-American workers.
Hillary Clinton supports open borders. Which means many things, but it means people pour in and they take your jobs, whether you like it or don't like it, they take your jobs.
Her fierce opposition to school choice. You need choice. You have to get your children into good schools. You do that through competition. You need choice.
Her plan to massively raise taxes on small businesses and everyone... Her opposition to American energy. And her record of giving our jobs away to other countries.
It takes jobs away from all workers because your companies are leaving Michigan, your companies are leaving every single state in our union. They're going to Mexico. They're going everywhere but here.
America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton who sees communities of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.
Hillary Clinton would rather provide a job to a refugee from overseas than to give that job to unemployed African-American youth in cities like Detroit who have become refugees in their own country.
It's time to get our country back to work, and that includes an all-out effort to help young African-Americans get the good-paying jobs that they deserve...
Hillary Clinton wants to be America's Angela Merkel. By the way, for the price of supporting one refugee in the United States, we could support 12 in a safe zone in the Middle East, in Syria.
Bernard Lewis has irrevocably shaped the landscape of modern Middle East Studies.
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The historian Bernard Lewis celebrates his 100th birthday today.
Three quotes establish his career.Martin Kramer, a former student of Lewis, sums up his teacher's accomplishments:
Bernard Lewis emerged as the most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East. His elegant syntheses made Islamic history accessible to a broad public in Europe and America. In his more specialized studies, he pioneered social and economic history and the use of the vast Ottoman archives. His work on the premodern Muslim world conveyed both its splendid richness and its smug self-satisfaction. His studies in modern history rendered intelligible the inner dialogues of Muslim peoples in their encounter with the values and power of the West.The University of California's R. Stephen Humphreys notes "the extraordinary range of his scholarship [and] his capacity to command the totality of Islamic and Middle Eastern history from Muhammad down to the present day." And, as the late Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins University put it on Lewis' 90th birthday, he is "the oracle of this new age of the Americans in the lands of the Arab and Islamic worlds."
Lewis' career spanned a monumental 75 years, from his first article ("The Islamic Guilds") in 1937 to his autobiography in 2012. Midway, in 1969, he entered my life. In Israel the summer between my sophomore and junior years in college, with my aspirations to become a mathematician in doubt, I thought of switching to Middle East studies. To sample this new field, I visited Ludwig Mayer's renowned bookstore in Jerusalem and purchased The Arabs in History, Lewis' 1950 book.
Left: Bernard Lewis (right) with the author's father, Richard Pipes, in London, May 1974. Right: Lewis (left) with the author in New York City, May 2008.
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It launched my career. Over the next 47 years, Lewis continued to exert a profound influence on my studies. Although never his formal student, I absorbed his views, reading nearly all his writings and favorably reviewing seven of his books (in 1982, 1986,1988, 1989, 1994, 1996, and2000), far more than those of any other author. His name appears on 508 pages of my website. Beyond numbers, he more than anyone else influenced my understanding of the Middle East and Islam.
That said, he and I argued strenuously during the George W. Bush years, narrowly on Iraq policy (I was more skeptical of U.S. efforts) and broadly on the matter of bringing freedom to the Middle East(ditto).
Bernard Lewis more than ever is an inspiration to his many self-identified disciples.
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He's impressively fit in body and mind, spending time on the computer, ever the raconteur ("What's a Jewish joke? One which non-Jews can't understand and Jews have heard a better version of"), and conjuring up anecdotes from a time before the rest of us were born (his 1946 discussion with Abba Eban about the latter's career choices). It's wonderful to see him doing well even if it's sadly understandable that he no longer engages in scholarship nor opines on current events.
Born a mere 15 days after the Sykes-Picot agreement that defined the modern Middle East, their common May centennial finds Syria and Iraq in shreds but Bernard Lewis more than ever is an inspiration to his many self-identified disciples, including this one.
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3)
Trump to Black Voters: "What Do You Have To Lose By Trying Something New?" Reject Hillary's "Bigotry"
Donald Trump makes a plea for the black and poor vote at a campaign rally Friday night in Dimondale, Michigan following a tour of the devastation of flood-ravaged Louisiana earlier in the day.
Trump said Americans must reject the "bigotry" of Hillary Clinton as she only sees African-Americans as votes and not as people. Trump said, speaking of cities like Detroit, "this is the legacy of the Democratic politicians who have run this city."
"No group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton's policies than African-Americans. No group," he said. "No group. If Hillary Clinton's goal was to inflict pain on the African-American community, she could not have done a better job. It's a disgrace."
"Tonight, I am asking for the vote of every African-American citizen in this country who wants a better future," Trump said in Michigan.
Trump said a new future requires new leadership. The Republican presidential nominee reached out to black voters and asked, "what do you have to lose by trying something new?"
"At what point do we say enough?" Trump asked.
Trump said Clinton would rather have immigrants come to the country and take jobs than to assist the poverty-laden inner-cities.
"Hillary Clinton would rather provide a job to a refugee from overseas than to unemployed," Trump said Friday.
TRUMP: No group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton's policies than African-Americans. No group. No group. If Hillary Clinton's goal was to inflict pain on the African-American community, she could not have done a better job. It's a disgrace.
Tonight, I am asking for the vote of every African-American citizen in this country who wants a better future.
The inner cities of our country have been run by the Democratic Party for 50 years. Their policies have produced only poverty, joblessness, failing schools, and broken homes.
It is time to hold Democratic Politicians accountable for what they have done to these communities. It is time to hold failed leaders accountable for their results, not just their empty words.
Look at what the Democratic Party has done to the city of Detroit.
Forty percent of Detroit’s residents live in poverty. Half of all Detroit residents do not work.
Detroit tops the list of Most Dangerous Cities in terms of violent crime.
This is the legacy of the Democrat politicians who have run this city. This is the result of the policy agenda embraced by Hillary Clinton.
The only way to change results is to change leadership.
We can never fix our problems by relying on the same politicians who created our problems in the first place.
A new future requires brand-new leadership. Look at how much African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control. To those hurting, I say: what do you have to lose by trying something new? Like Trump? What do you have to lose?
Look at how much African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control. To those hurting, I say: what do you have to lose by trying something new? I say it again, what do you have to lose? Look, what do you have to lose? You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs. 58% of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?
And at the end of four years I guarantee that I will get over 95% of the African-American vote. I promise you. Because I will produce for the inner-cities and I will produce for the African-Americans.
And the Democrats, the Democrats will not produce, and all they've done is taken advantage of your vote. That's all they've done. And once the election's over, they go back to their palaces in Washington, and you know what, they do nothing for you. Just remember it. So, you have nothing to lose. one thing we know for sure is that if you keep voting for the same people, you will keep getting the same, exactly the same result.
My administration will go to work for you as no one has done before. We will work. We will bring back jobs. We will work.
By contrast, the one thing every item in Hillary Clinton’s agenda has in common is that it takes jobs and opportunities from African-American workers.
Hillary Clinton supports open borders. Which means many things, but it means people pour in and they take your jobs, whether you like it or don't like it, they take your jobs.
Her fierce opposition to school choice. You need choice. You have to get your children into good schools. You do that through competition. You need choice.
Her plan to massively raise taxes on small businesses and everyone... Her opposition to American energy. And her record of giving our jobs away to other countries.
It takes jobs away from all workers because your companies are leaving Michigan, your companies are leaving every single state in our union. They're going to Mexico. They're going everywhere but here.
America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton who sees communities of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.
Hillary Clinton would rather provide a job to a refugee from overseas than to give that job to unemployed African-American youth in cities like Detroit who have become refugees in their own country.
It's time to get our country back to work, and that includes an all-out effort to help young African-Americans get the good-paying jobs that they deserve...
Hillary Clinton wants to be America's Angela Merkel. By the way, for the price of supporting one refugee in the United States, we could support 12 in a safe zone in the Middle East, in Syria.
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