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DeSantis Exposes Why This Allegation Against Him From His Time Serving at GITMO Is 'Total BS'
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Joe Biden uses the word "freedom," but what he is speaking of is the freedom of government to dictate, mandate, order, and decree your life. This is the same fella, who as president, stated, "no amendment is absolute," referring to our rule of law, the US Constitution. The very first ten amendments of our Constitution are the individual Bill of Rights. Here we have Joe Biden, who as a sitting president sworn to uphold our Constitution, claims it is not absolute. This is the same Joe Biden who just released a presidential reelection campaign video saying he is fighting for freedom? What freedom?
LTC Allen West
Executive Director, American Constitutional Rights Union
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One more down, many more to go.
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Top Iranian cleric gunned down in broad daylight
Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was a member of the Assembly of Experts, a group of 88 clerics that selects the country’s supreme leader.
Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, a high-ranking Iranian cleric, was assassinated on Wednesday at a bank in the city of Babolsar in the northern province of Mazandaran.
He was a member of the Assembly of Experts, a group of 88 clerics that selects the country’s supreme leader, and a former representative who officiated at the provincial level on behalf of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Soleimani was reportedly shot dead while in the financial institution. CCTV footage showed him sitting on a chair, apparently waiting his turn, when the assailant nonchalantly approached him and shot him in the head with what appeared to be a submachine gun.
The governor of Mazandaran, Mahmoud Hosseinipour Nouri, said the attacker was a local man and that “our information and documents indicate that this was not a security or terrorist act.”
The assassin’s motive remained unclear as of Thursday.
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There are many issues parading as background in the2024 election such as domestic, foreign and social. However, the key elements remain the Democrats desire for power at any cost and contempt and utter disregard for America's welfare versus America's needs and The GOP's inability to construct a winning message that resonates and produces honest victories against our adversaries.
Put another way, a failed president versus a successful former president who has a failed personality.
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'Salt of the earth' — the stories that make America
By Salena Zito
OXFORD, Pennsylvania — Despite the wealth of information at our fingertips in the information age, there is a glaring emptiness that plagues us in our storytelling.
We remove nuance and replace it with sensationalism. We shun original stories because they stray too far from the pack. In the process, we miss the beauty, pain, and magic, the simplicity and grace of simple, real-life stories about the ordinary lives of people who work the soil to make America possible. The result is that we lose touch with who we are as a nation.
Bill Hostetter was sitting in the
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For the past two weeks I have been on the road more than not so some of my stories weren’t sent out and I’d love for you to catch up with them here if you’d like: https://salenazito.com/ 
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Strong arming FBI ?
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FBI Agents Were Forced To Sign NDAs
According to a report, an ex-FBI agent claimed he was coerced into signing a non-disclosure agreement which did not incorporate the legally mandated whistleblower exceptions permitting him to come forward to Congress.
Republican senators Ron Johnson (WI) and Chuck Grassley (IA) wrote to the Justice Department demanding answers.
Federal agencies cannot utilize public funds for confidentiality agreements without containing whistleblower exclusions since whistleblower rights have been embedded in federal regulation for over a decade.
After coming forward in the fall with allegations that the FBI had used extreme tactics and not followed its own rules in investigating the January 6 riot, former Special Agent Steve Friend supplied the senators with the NDA (nondisclosure agreement) Friend had been forced to sign, which did not include the required anti-gag provision.
The senators want to know how the FBI handled Friend and how often it got workers to sign nondisclosure agreements without including the proper anti-gag language.
The report shows the Senators also requested an investigation into the FBI’s alleged retribution against former Special Agent Friend by writing to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and informing him of further actions of apparent impropriety by the FBI.
Empower Oversight’s president, Tristan Leavitt, argued that the FBI isn’t above the law and that Congress should hold it responsible. Congress must not let agencies ignore its authority over funding. Whistleblowers should be safeguarded, not silenced and penalized.
According to the GrassleyWorks website, when it comes to protecting the rights of whistleblowers, no one in Congress has done more than Senator Grassley.
Senator Grassley has been the only lawmaker in either chamber to regularly and vigorously advocate for the protection of whistleblowers.
All key whistleblower legislation enacted in the previous forty years has his signature. Before President Richard Nixon dismissed Military Department officer Ernie Fitzgerald for testifying to Congress regarding billions of dollars in waste and fraud in military contracts, he showed bipartisan support by siding with Fitzgerald.
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A true American Classic. Most young people of today have no idea how this anthem originated....and they need to know!
A Nice Bit of History
(Did you know there are lyrics before the words "God bless America, land that I love."?)
Frank Sinatra considered Kate Smith the best singer of her time and said that when he and a million other guys first heard her sing "God Bless America" on the radio, they all pretended to have dust in their eyes as they wiped away a tear or two.
Here are the facts... The link at the bottom will take you to a video showing the first public singing of "GOD BLESS AMERICA". But before you watch it, you should also know the story behind the first public showing of the song.
The time was 1940. America was still in a terrible economic depression. Hitler was taking over Europe, and Americans feared we'd have to go to war. It was a time of hardship and worry for most Americans.
This was the era just before TV, when radio shows were HUGE, and American families sat around their radios in the evenings, listening to their favorite entertainers, and no entertainer of that era was bigger than Kate Smith.
Kate was also large; plus size, as we now say, and the popular phrase still used today is in deference to her, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings". Kate Smith might not have made it big in the age of TV, but with her voice coming over the radio, she was the biggest star of her time.
Kate was also patriotic. It hurt her to see Americans so depressed and afraid of what the next day would bring. She had hope for America and faith in her fellow Americans. She wanted to do something to cheer them up, so she went to the famous American songwriter, Irving Berlin (who also wrote "White Christmas") and asked him to write a song that would make Americans feel good again about their country. When she described what she was looking for, he said he had just the song for her. He went to his files and found a song that he had written, but never published, 22 years before - way back in 1917. He gave it to her and she worked on it with her studio orchestra. She and Irving Berlin were not sure how the song would be received by the public, but both agreed they would not take any profits from God Bless America. Any profits would go to the Boy Scouts of America. Over the years, the Boy Scouts have received millions of dollars in royalties from this song.
This video starts out with Kate Smith coming into the radio studio with the orchestra and an audience. She introduces the new song for the very first time, and starts singing. After the first couple of verses, with her voice in the background still singing, scenes are shown from the 1940 movie, "You're In The Army Now." At the 4:20 mark of the video you see a young actor in the movie, sitting in an office, reading a paper; it's Ronald Reagan.
To this day, God Bless America stirs our patriotic feelings and pride in our country. Back in 1940, when Kate Smith went looking for a song to raise the spirits of her fellow Americans, I doubt whether she realized just how successful the results would be for her fellow Americans during those years of hardship and worry... And for many generations of Americans to follow.
Now that you know the story of the song, I hope you'll enjoy it.
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