PIlot who took out Soleimani!
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I have been writing for years it is way past time for liberal Jews to awake, smell the roses and leave the Democrat Party which has deserted them in its demonic desire to embrace anti-Semites for fear of not being politically correct.
Now they are being rewarded by physical attacks, bombings, knifings and campus disturbances. (See 1 below.)
And:
Not only Jewish liberals are tone deaf. (See 1a below.)
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A few adults still abound. (See 2 below.)
And:
FBI Investigators Say McCabe Apologized for Lying about Clinton-Probe Leak - Read More
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Naturally anything Trump does to avoid a massacre of American diplomats, military personnel and civilians is unacceptable by the Trump Haters. Seems they prefer more Benghazi episodes as if it was an Obama/Clinton continuing TV documentary.
Democrats assume their usual pose - feed/ignore bullies and criticize Trump.
But there still are some rational minds who believe you do not shrink from bullies.(See. 4, 4a and 4b below.)
https://foreignpolicy.com/gt-
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The real Biden: https://spectator.org/the-
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1)
When Will American Jewry Wake Up?
Was the machete attack at Rabbi Chaim Rottenburg’s home in Monsey, NY last Saturday night wake-up call enough?
Are liberal American Jews ready to accept the truth about anti-Semitism in America?
Following the December 10 massacre at the kosher supermarket in Jersey City, Chris Gadsen, a local high school principal shared an op-ed calling for dialogue between the city’s Jewish and black communities on his Facebook page.
Joan Terrell-Paige, an elected member of the Jersey City school board responded angrily. She began her response to Gadsen’s post by vilifying the city’s Jews as “brutes” who oppressed blacks by buying apartments from them.
Then she accused “6 rabbis,” of “selling body parts.”
Then she accused Jews of planting “drugs and guns” in the black community.
By Caroline Glick
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Tone-deaf Democrats risk handing western Pennsylvania to Trump
PITTSBURGH — To date, Darrin Kelly, the respected president of the powerful Allegheny-Fayette Central Labor Council, says not one of the Democratic candidates running for president has reached out to him to ask or listen to what union families in western Pennsylvania are looking for in a nominee to challenge President Trump in November. “Not one,” he says abruptly.
That omission is obvious in just about every proclamation about the energy sector coming from the mouths of most of the candidates seeking the Democratic nomination, whether it is Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrenpledging to ban fracking or Joe Biden’s recent proclamation that workers in the fossil fuel industry need to learn how to program: "Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for god's sake!"
Youngstown State political science professor Paul Sracic said there is one thing that is strikingly clear about all of the Democratic candidates running for their party’s nomination. “They are spending way too much time listening to elites that sit on their staff or advise them, or worse yet, taking the voters pulse from Twitter, and zero time listening to Midwest swing voters."
“It doesn’t matter who politicians talk to, but it sure does matters who they listen to,” Sracic said. He cautions that these repeated mistakes, in particular, Biden’s statement on fossil fuel workers, are no different than Hillary Clinton’s tone-deafness in 2016.
Biden also pledged in that same speech to eliminate fossil fuel use and put energy executives “in jail” if they did not comply.
Nick Deluliis, president and CEO of CNX, a natural gas company headquartered in Pittsburgh, is, in theory, one of those executives Biden would jail. He responds with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, saying he could “maybe” see why the former vice president would want to indict the natural gas industry.
“The shale gas industry in Pennsylvania is guilty of decarbonizing the state by over 20% in the last decade and a half, and the shale revolution is complicit in reviving the manufacturing sector in western Pennsylvania,” Deluliis said. He adds that the energy sector has restored the middle class and family-sustaining jobs in disadvantaged communities across Pennsylvania. “And natural gas is blameworthy for bringing disruptive technology to the fore and driving down the cost of gasoline and electricity for consumers. And let’s not forget the industry should be answerable for breaking OPEC’s and Russia’s stranglehold on global energy markets and strengthening the U.S.’s geopolitical posture."
Deluliis said, “If these are now crimes in this upside-down political landscape we’re living in, consider us guilty as charged.”
Whether it is the call for fracking bans or making demeaning quips about coding, it is those kinds of remarks directed at the families and the communities in western Pennsylvania that Allegheny County chief executive Rich Fitzgerald specifically urged the candidates running for the nomination not to do in a letter he sent this past this year to all of the campaign headquarters: “To win voters back in this region outside of Allegheny County, in Beaver, Washington, Butler and Westmoreland counties we need two things from the candidates; talk about the things that unite us and show up outside of the urban areas like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and just listen to their concerns.” Fitzgerald is a popular Democratic county chief who was about to be sworn in for his third term.
Allegheny County Photo Department
A Democrat has to win Pennsylvania to win the presidency, and he or she has to win western Pennsylvania to win the state, something the party did consistently between 1992 and 2012. In 2016, Trump became the first Republican to win Pennsylvania since George H.W. Bush's first run in 1988, squeaking past Hillary Clinton by just more than 44,000 votes.
Trump deserves credit for his win by going to economically disrupted places such as Erie, Scranton, Mechanicsburg, Altoona, Ambridge, and Johnstown and asking for residents' votes, whereas Clinton centered her presence in the urban centers of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
The assumption was those disrupted places were going to just follow the lead of their big-city Democrats because they always showed up for a Democrat. What outsiders missed was the harm Clinton did to herself with comments such as calling Trump supporters "a basket full of deplorables" or saying, "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."
They also missed that Pennsylvania had become 0.4% more Republican every presidential cycle. Bill Clinton won 28 of the state’s 67 counties in 1996, but that power had eroded in 2012 to just 13 of the 67 counties won by Barack Obama.
Jeff Brauer, a political science professor at Keystone College in Factoryville, said, “
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2) 2019’s Adult of the Year
Attorney General William Barr has kept his promises and his independence.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
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Person-of-the-year awards are almost always bestowed on men and women who already meet with fawning praise. Let’s instead craft an award based on a person’s willingness to speak truth to power—whether to the press, the boss, or to partisan operators. Call it Adult of the Year. The winner: Attorney General William Barr.
President Trump nominated Mr. Barr in December 2018, and for a moment he received the respect he deserves. The press had grown accustomed to demeaning all Trump nominees, but was stymied by Mr. Barr’s impressive career and bipartisan legal support. A Justice Department and Central Intelligence Agency veteran, he served as attorney general from 1990-91 with distinction. Media outlets had to acknowledge his “pedigree,” and CNN even quoted an unnamed Justice Department lawyer who had been “nervous” about a Trump pick but pronounced Mr. Barr “a great choice” because “he’s tough he’s principled and he’s independent.”
Mr. Barr remains all those things. He has been vilified precisely because he has maintained an impartial view of the Justice Department and has kept his promises. The great hope—and demand—of the Russia-collusion crowd was that Mr. Barr—as a longtime man of the institution—would circle the department’s wagons. His refusal to do so has made him a threat.
And so commenced one of the more obvious, not to mention nasty, delegitimization campaigns in modern Beltway history. Journalists and Democrats accused him of manipulating the rollout of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in March. They pounced on his decision in May to name U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into the 2016 Trump campaign, accusing both of engaging in “conspiracy theories.”
They were particularly hysterical when Mr. Barr stated that his own view was that Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s December report confirmed that the initial FBI suspicions about Trump-Russia collusion were, as he put it, “insufficient to justify the steps taken.” This is a perfectly valid position for the head of a department to take.
Yet we now find former FBI Director William Webster slamming Mr. Barr for casting unfounded “aspersions” on the FBI, and former Attorney General Eric Holder—who once described himself as President Obama’s “wingman”—declaring Mr. Barr “unfit to lead the Justice Department.”
The attacks are all pointedly designed to cast Mr. Barr as a Trump toady. Yet Mr. Barr wasn’t originally a Trump partisan. He’s 69, isn’t seeking higher office, and left a comfortable private-sector position to take a job he needs like a hole in the head. He testified that he came back because he was in a “position in life” to help “protect the independence and reputation of the department.” He meant its long-term reputation, which won’t recover absent a thorough accounting of its 2016 actions.
Importantly, he also vowed not to “be bullied into doing anything I think is wrong”—including by the White House. Despite all the criticism, not one detractor has yet provided any evidence that Mr. Barr’s decisions or comments have been anything but independent. He vowed to protect Mr. Mueller’s ability to finish his probe, just as he vowed up front to investigate the investigators. Check and check. He likewise pledged to resign if the White House directed him to engage in any illegal action, and there is no reason to believe he’d suffer the abuse Mr. Trump heaped on predecessor Jeff Sessions. Note Mr. Barr’s silence throughout Congress’s impeachment circus; if he’s acting as a personal lawyer to the president, he’s doing a crummy job.
The criticism is even more outrageous given the overwhelming evidence validating Mr. Barr’s concerns. The Horowitz report was the third excoriating former FBI Director James Comey’s tenure—on everything from “insubordinate” to “dangerous” behavior. The inspector general has referred both Mr. Comey and former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe for criminal prosecution, the former for leaking and the latter for lying. The latest report also finds the FBI manipulated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, providing it false information and withholding exculpatory details to spy—yes, spy—on a former Trump campaign adviser.
Beware the claim that it is Mr. Barr’s job to “insulate” the Justice Department and the FBI from “political pressure.” That’s code. What the critics want is for Mr. Barr to insulate those bodies from accountability—and in the process protect all those who allowed their fanatical opposition to a certain candidate to help drag federal law enforcement into dangerous new territory.
The attorney general is, if anything, the rare official able to stand up to both Mr. Trump and the Democratic-media establishment that loathes him. He’s also the rare person willing to subject his institution to scrutiny for its own good—and that of the country. We could use more such adults in the room.
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3)Dear Richard, thank you for your kind thoughts. The fires are affecting us all, emotionally if not physically. There is a heavy haze over Melbourne and the air seems thick from the fires and the smoke and the air pollution in Sydney is extremely bad. It is not a good situation. The blame could rest with the extremes of the Green Party who have caused traditional burning off and cattle in the high country to be heavily restricted, leaving undergrowth to grow and get out of control in forests and forbidding householders to cut back trees close to houses. Things could have been done by a more militant government with “balls” but so far we haven’t had strong enough leadership, strong enough to stand up to the Greens and be practical. It seems though that some lessons have been learned and changes will now be made, but not soon enough. It really is a national disaster.
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains.Our famous poem, written by Dorothea Mackellar in 1904, so seemingly nothing much has changed with our landscape. Knowing when it was written should gag the climate change advocates who are blaming the fires on climate change or our poor Prime Minister, or carbon emissions... People are understandably angry, some have lost everything, people have died and they need someone or something to blame. xxxx Elaine
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4a) Dear Dick,
Below is our statement on the U.S. strike in Iraq last night. Please let me know if I can answer any questions.
The president’s decisive action brought to justice one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists, who was responsible for the deaths of over 600 U.S. servicemen.
As the commander of Iran’s IRGC-Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani ruthlessly carried out the regime’s revolutionary ambitions, causing death and destruction across the Middle East while endangering our allies and interests.
Like Osama bin Laden, Soleimani led a global terrorist network responsible for killing countless civilians, including many Americans. Under Soleimani’s command, the Quds Force planned terrorist attacks around the world, including in the United States, Israel, Europe, Asia and South America.
Soleimani’s demise weakens Iran and removes a terrorist mastermind, but it does not end the threat posed by Iran. We must work together with our allies to protect our troops and interests, and increase the economic and diplomatic pressure on the regime to achieve a broad agreement addressing Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missiles and destabilizing regional activities.
Sincerely,
Daniel "Doni" Fogel
As the commander of Iran’s IRGC-Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani ruthlessly carried out the regime’s revolutionary ambitions, causing death and destruction across the Middle East while endangering our allies and interests.
Like Osama bin Laden, Soleimani led a global terrorist network responsible for killing countless civilians, including many Americans. Under Soleimani’s command, the Quds Force planned terrorist attacks around the world, including in the United States, Israel, Europe, Asia and South America.
Soleimani’s demise weakens Iran and removes a terrorist mastermind, but it does not end the threat posed by Iran. We must work together with our allies to protect our troops and interests, and increase the economic and diplomatic pressure on the regime to achieve a broad agreement addressing Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missiles and destabilizing regional activities.
Sincerely,
Daniel "Doni" Fogel
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SHAPIRO: Trump Taking Out Soleimani Just Made The World A Better, Safer Place
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