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Friday, June 2, 2017
The Climate agreement is a bunch of oomgalagala…
HE DISCOVERED HIS WIFE WAS WORKING AS A PROSTITUTE: HIS RESPONSE COULD CHANGE YOUR MARRIAGE
by Dave Willis
One of the most popular TV movies in recent years was Lifetime’s “The Client List” which chronicled the “true story” of a Texas wife and mom who started making income by working as a prostitute. Her double life was finally brought to light when the brothel was raided by police and her secrets were exposed. Her husband was disgusted and shocked and she was eventually abandoned by everyone she loved including him.You might think that kind of provocative storyline only happens on TV, but the Bible actually has a similar story, but with a very different ending (and you thought the Bible was boring)! The Bible’s version is about a man named Hosea and a wife named Gomer. Hosea loved his wife unconditionally and those conditions were put to the test when she abandoned her husband and family to return to her old life of prostitution which she’d been in before their marriage.
By the time Hosea found out, they’d had several children and he wasn’t sure if any of them were his. To make matters even worse, her crimes had landed her in prison and based on the laws of the day, her next step was to be sold into slavery to repay her debts. Hosea had every earthly right to write her off and leave her to the fate she had created for herself, but God had a different plan. God wanted to use this whole situation to show the amazing grace and unimaginable love He has for us even in those moments when we are completely unworthy.
God moved Hosea’s heart towards forgiveness and compassion. He went to that slave auction and took most his life’s savings to purchase back his wife. Based on the culture’s legal system, she now would have had no rights at all. He would have had all the power in the relationship and he could have used it to punish her for the rest of her life. Knowing this, she bowed her head to him and called him “Master.”
What happened next is one of the most beautiful displays of grace ever recorded. In essence, he looks at her and says, “Never call me your Master…call me your Husband.”
He gave up his rights to punish, control or humiliate her, and instead, he welcomed her home as his wife.
This simple but powerful act of forgiveness shows us a beautiful picture of the unmerited grace and love God offers to us all.
Yes, to you!
In spite of Gomer’s infidelity, Hosea won’t let her go. He won’t stop loving her.
This is how God views you. You may have strayed far from God, but He’s not giving up. He still loves you, and he’s calling out to you to come back. You may think you’ve gone too far away to come back home, but he’s made a way for you.
I hope this story will open your mind and your heart a little wider to let more love and grace flow into your marriage and into your own heart.
If we deserved forgiveness, it wouldn’t be grace. If we could earn it, it wouldn’t be real love.
White House preps broad exemptions from birth control mandate
BY JESSIE HELLMANN
White House preps broad exemptions from birth control mandate
The Trump administration is poised to make changes to ObamaCare’s birth control coverage mandate by granting broad exemptions to employers that object on religious or moral grounds, a move that would impact thousands of women who currently get contraception from employer-provided insurance plans with no out-of-pocket costs.
Any changes to the mandate, which requires that insurers cover birth control with no co-payment, would be a victory for religious groups and employers that have been engaged in legal battles since the requirement took effect in 2012.
Reproductive rights groups are already threatening to sue the Trump administration if it takes any action to weaken or undo the mandate.
According to a leaked May 23 draft of the rule obtained by Vox, any employer — including colleges, universities and health insurance companies — would be allowed to seek an exemption on moral or religious grounds. Currently, only houses of worship and some companies are exempt.
“We think that’s unconstitutional, both in terms of separation of church and state and discrimination against women,” said Brigitte Amiri, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project.
If the rule goes into effect as drafted, “we will be bringing a lawsuit,” she added.
Action from the Trump administration would likely build upon Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, in which the Supreme Court decided that “closely held” private businesses could be exempt from the mandate if it violated their religious beliefs. Churches and other houses of worship have also been exempt.
The Office of Management and Budget is currently reviewing the rule, the final step before it goes into effect. It’s unclear when OMB will complete the review and if it will make any change to the current draft.
The rule will be effective as soon as it is published in the Federal Register. In most cases, public comments will be accepted after and the rule can be changed, if deemed necessary. A spokesman for OMB did not comment on the process or the rule.
Reproductive rights groups have argued that the Trump administration draft rule could jeopardize access to birth control.
“It is really sweeping. We’re pretty disturbed about the vision they have here for birth control,” said Mara Gandal-Powers, senior counsel at the National Women’s Legal Counsel, another group that has threatened to sue over the rule.
“I think based on what has been leaked, we have very strong claims that what they’ve done is not allowed [under the Affordable Care Act.]”
Congress is working to repeal ObamaCare, though the bill passed by the House earlier this month wouldn’t impact the birth control requirement. That means the administration will have to take separate action through rulemaking.
Changing the mandate was a Trump campaign promise, and Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price have railed against the ObamaCare provision in the past.
Trump signed an executive order earlier this month instructing HHS and other departments to “address conscience-based objections” to the mandate, which faced strong opposition from groups and employers such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, who argue it violates Roman Catholic doctrine and puts them in a position of participating in something they considered sinful.
The Supreme Court ordered the Obama administration and the Little Sisters to reach a compromise, which didn’t happen before Obama left office in January.
Shortly after Trump’s executive order, Price said HHS would take “action in short order to follow the president’s instruction to safeguard the deeply held religious beliefs of Americans who provide health insurance to their employees.”
Conservative groups praised the proposed changes as a win for the Little Sisters and other groups.
“Making this as broad as possible for people who do want exemptions is a good thing in our book,” said Melanie Israel, a research associate at The Heritage Foundation.
“I imagine there would be a great sense of relief” for employers that have wanted exemptions, she said.
Democrats promptly blasted the proposal, vowing to fight to ensure women are covered when seeking access to birth control.
“The draft rule announced today attempts to tear away women’s control over their own private health decisions and put that control in the hands of employers and politicians,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
“Every woman has the right to make her own intimate health decisions — and Democrats will never stop fighting to defend that right.”
Any changes to the mandate, which requires that insurers cover birth control with no co-payment, would be a victory for religious groups and employers that have been engaged in legal battles since the requirement took effect in 2012.
Reproductive rights groups are already threatening to sue the Trump administration if it takes any action to weaken or undo the mandate.
According to a leaked May 23 draft of the rule obtained by Vox, any employer — including colleges, universities and health insurance companies — would be allowed to seek an exemption on moral or religious grounds. Currently, only houses of worship and some companies are exempt.
“We think that’s unconstitutional, both in terms of separation of church and state and discrimination against women,” said Brigitte Amiri, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project.
If the rule goes into effect as drafted, “we will be bringing a lawsuit,” she added.
Action from the Trump administration would likely build upon Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, in which the Supreme Court decided that “closely held” private businesses could be exempt from the mandate if it violated their religious beliefs. Churches and other houses of worship have also been exempt.
The Office of Management and Budget is currently reviewing the rule, the final step before it goes into effect. It’s unclear when OMB will complete the review and if it will make any change to the current draft.
The rule will be effective as soon as it is published in the Federal Register. In most cases, public comments will be accepted after and the rule can be changed, if deemed necessary. A spokesman for OMB did not comment on the process or the rule.
Reproductive rights groups have argued that the Trump administration draft rule could jeopardize access to birth control.
“It is really sweeping. We’re pretty disturbed about the vision they have here for birth control,” said Mara Gandal-Powers, senior counsel at the National Women’s Legal Counsel, another group that has threatened to sue over the rule.
“I think based on what has been leaked, we have very strong claims that what they’ve done is not allowed [under the Affordable Care Act.]”
Congress is working to repeal ObamaCare, though the bill passed by the House earlier this month wouldn’t impact the birth control requirement. That means the administration will have to take separate action through rulemaking.
Changing the mandate was a Trump campaign promise, and Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price have railed against the ObamaCare provision in the past.
Trump signed an executive order earlier this month instructing HHS and other departments to “address conscience-based objections” to the mandate, which faced strong opposition from groups and employers such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, who argue it violates Roman Catholic doctrine and puts them in a position of participating in something they considered sinful.
The Supreme Court ordered the Obama administration and the Little Sisters to reach a compromise, which didn’t happen before Obama left office in January.
Shortly after Trump’s executive order, Price said HHS would take “action in short order to follow the president’s instruction to safeguard the deeply held religious beliefs of Americans who provide health insurance to their employees.”
Conservative groups praised the proposed changes as a win for the Little Sisters and other groups.
“Making this as broad as possible for people who do want exemptions is a good thing in our book,” said Melanie Israel, a research associate at The Heritage Foundation.
“I imagine there would be a great sense of relief” for employers that have wanted exemptions, she said.
Democrats promptly blasted the proposal, vowing to fight to ensure women are covered when seeking access to birth control.
“The draft rule announced today attempts to tear away women’s control over their own private health decisions and put that control in the hands of employers and politicians,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
“Every woman has the right to make her own intimate health decisions — and Democrats will never stop fighting to defend that right.”
After months of delays, Planned Parenthood finally released their 2015-2016 Annual Report.
Planned Parenthood aborted more preborn babies last year (328,348) than it did the year before (323,999). Every single day, 897 little boys and girls have their lives ended at the hands of Planned Parenthood abortionists.
Planned Parenthood aborted more preborn babies last year (328,348) than it did the year before (323,999). Every single day, 897 little boys and girls have their lives ended at the hands of Planned Parenthood abortionists.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood performed 19,843 fewer breast exams and pap tests than they did during their 2014-2015 fiscal year.
The bottom line is this:
Last fiscal year, Planned Parenthood received more taxpayer dollars from us, committed more abortions, and performed fewer real healthcare services that women actually need.
Over the coming weeks, the latest ObamaCare replacement bill – which would defund Planned Parenthood of over $400 million, giving that money instead to local Federally Qualified Health Centers that do not perform abortions – will be debated and voted on in the U.S. Senate, so it’s critical that you and I continue to ramp up the pressure on Washington, D.C.
While the school year is quickly winding down, our team at Students for Life is working harder than ever before.
Students for Life is the only pro-life organization battling Planned Parenthood not just in Washington, D.C., but in every state across the nation.
In just a matter of days, we’re launching our 58-stop Rock for Life National Tour, where we’ll reach at least 1.5 million young people with our pro-life message at both Christian and secular music festivals.
We’re also running other programs at full blast – like our Pregnant on Campus Initiative.
Through Pregnant on Campus, we give pregnant students the resources they need – everything from help finding a babysitter on campus to local connections with pregnancy centers who can help with formula and diapers – to ensure they don’t feel forced to choose between having their child and finishing their education.
We’re on the front lines every day fighting for the demographic that matters most to the abortion industry – college-aged women. And we’re winning.
Right now is the best opportunity we’ve ever had to defund Planned Parenthood– which will be a major step toward reaching our ultimate goal of abolishing abortion in our lifetime.
Moe, there’s one more fact I wanted to point out from their latest Annual Report: Planned Parenthood boasts that they have 300 on-campus groups.
Thanks to your action and support, Students for Life of America now serves over 1,141 active groups across the nation – nearly four times as many as Planned Parenthood brags about!
I truly believe that young people are turning the tide from Planned Parenthood’s culture of Death to one that promotes Life.
Young people today are seeing through the abortion Goliath’s lies. Polls consistently show that this generation is more pro-life than their parents.
What Barron Screamed After Seeing Griffin Holding Dad’s “Head” Is Gut-Wrenching
BY BENJAMIN ARIE
The photo of liberal actress Kathy Griffin holding a fake severed head of Donald Trump has been widely condemned, but it may have made a particularly disturbing impression on one person: The 11-year-old son of the president.
According to a report by the celebrity news magazine TMZ, Barron Trump was horrified by the bloody image of his father’s head when it appeared on the television he was watching.
“Trump family sources tell us Barron was in front of the TV watching a show when the news came on and he saw the bloody, beheaded image. We’re told he panicked and screamed, ‘Mommy, Mommy!'” the magazine stated.
The Trump family member explained that the president’s son did not know the context of the fake but disturbing image, and was shocked. “He’s 11. He doesn’t know who Kathy Griffin is and the head she was holding resembled his dad,” the source reportedly said.
That incident matches information posted by Donald Trump early Wednesday morning. “My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!” the president wrote on Twitter.
According to a report by the celebrity news magazine TMZ, Barron Trump was horrified by the bloody image of his father’s head when it appeared on the television he was watching.
“Trump family sources tell us Barron was in front of the TV watching a show when the news came on and he saw the bloody, beheaded image. We’re told he panicked and screamed, ‘Mommy, Mommy!'” the magazine stated.
The Trump family member explained that the president’s son did not know the context of the fake but disturbing image, and was shocked. “He’s 11. He doesn’t know who Kathy Griffin is and the head she was holding resembled his dad,” the source reportedly said.
That incident matches information posted by Donald Trump early Wednesday morning. “My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!” the president wrote on Twitter.
Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!
One of the president’s adult sons, who is the half-brother of Barron, explained that he was dreading having to explain the gruesome image to other children in the Trump family.
“I’m counting down having to explain it to my 8 and 10 year olds who I’m sure will see/hear about it at school,” wrote Donald Trump Jr.
And I'm counting down having to explain it to my 8 and 10 year olds who I'm sure will see/hear about it at school. https://twitter.com/chrisrbarron/status/869872326770180096 …
Melania Trump had similarly harsh words about the publicity stunt. “As a mother, a wife, and a human being, that photo is very disturbing,” she admonished, according to the Washington Examiner. “When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong.”
NEW: First Lady Melania Trump says Griffin photo "very disturbing" & "makes you wonder abt the mental health of the person who did it."
11:23 AM - 31 May 2017
Liberals love to pretend that they are the most considerate and kind people on the planet, and frequently attack conservatives as “hateful.” As the Kathy Griffin incident shows, the truth is often the opposite… and it looks like some on the left don’t care who gets hurt in the aftermath.
Watch: Insurance Companies Recommending Assisted Suicide for Terminally Ill Patients
A newly released video reveals that health insurance companies, seeking to keep their costs down, now can include assisted suicide as a viable option for the terminally ill when these patients live in a state that has legalized assisted suicide.
On Wednesday, patient advocacy group Patients’ Rights Action Fund (PRAF) is releasing the video in which a physician discusses he is now encountering insurance companies that refuse to reimburse life-saving treatments for terminally ill patients – who live in states in which assisted suicide has become legal – because they can now recommend less expensive lethal drugs for ending the patients’ lives.
The new video features Dr. Brian Callister of Reno, Nevada, who explains that two of his terminally ill patients from neighboring states required life-saving treatments. The internal medicine specialist says that both of his patients live in states in which assisted suicide is legal, and both were denied the therapies they needed to continue to fight their illnesses. The insurance companies instead, however, offered to cover the costs of assisted suicide drugs.
Callister, who notes that neither he nor his patients had expressed interest in assisted suicide to the insurance company, says the fact the practice was legal in those states limited the choices for his patients.
“Quite frankly, I was stunned,” Callister says in the video. “It’s a lot cheaper to grab a couple drugs and kill you than it is to provide you life sustaining therapy.”
“I chose to become a physician because I wanted to make a difference in people's’ lives,” he asserts.
“With our broken healthcare system, assisted suicide legislation does not increase the individual's’ autonomy they already have under current law, but rather makes killing oneself the only ‘treatment’ option to which everyone has equal access,” explains J.J. Hanson, president of PRAF and a terminal brain cancer patient, in a statement.
“After a state adopts pro-assisted suicide legislation, insurance companies can deny coverage to patients seeking life saving treatment. It comes down to resources for the insurance companies and government insurance providers,” adds Hanson, a former United States Marine.
Battles continue to wage in various states over the legalization of assisted suicide.
New York State’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday in a case filed by terminally ill individuals who want to receive lethal drugs from their physicians to end their lives.
“We don’t view this as suicide,” said attorney Edwin Schallert, who represents a group known as End of Life Choices New York, reports the Associated Press. “It’s a medically and ethically appropriate treatment … these are people who wanted to live.”
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, however, said his office is defending current state law that makes “promoting a suicide attempt” a felony, reports Newsday.
Like abortion proponents, however, assisted suicide advocates see the issue as one of privacy and freedom over one’s body.
“This is a case about mentally competent, terminally ill New Yorkers,” said Kathryn Tucker, executive director of End of Life Choices New York. “They are not making a choice between continuing to live or die. It’s really a privacy-liberty-autonomy argument first.”
In an op-ed at the Buffalo News, Dr. Harvey Berman, who teaches pharmacology and medical ethics at the University at Buffalo, observes End of Life activists claim physician-assisted suicide deaths will always remain few in number. Berman adds they dismiss “slippery slope arguments” as they cite regulations and protections for the vulnerable disabled and elderly.
“This assertion ignores data from Oregon showing that the number of deaths from physician-assisted suicide has grown more than eight-fold since it was introduced in 1997,” Berman writes, continuing:
Such growth in assisted suicide prompts a related concern of “suicide contagion,” the idea that assistance with death comes to be seen as a medically ordinary and routine therapeutic option.
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Over the past 30 years, since it was legalized in the Netherlands and Belgium, euthanasia has devolved from assisted death only for the terminally ill to include those who are chronically ill, from those with physical illness to those with psychological illness, from adults to children, and ultimately to those who are simply “tired of living.”
“The bizarre notion of a right to die – a right that everyone will eventually exercise – will be seen by tired, confused and pressured patients as a ‘duty to die,’” Berman concludes.
End of Life Choices New York is opposed by the New York State Catholic Conference and “Not Dead Yet,” a group of disability activists.
As Newsday reports, the Catholic Conference refers to assisted suicide advocates’ preference for the phrase “aid in dying” – as opposed to “assisted suicide” – as “verbal engineering.”
Colorado, Washington, Vermont, California, Oregon, Montana, and the District of Columbia have passed assisted suicide laws that allow patients to request lethal drugs from their physicians.
President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget, however, could prohibit Washington, D.C. from using its taxpayer dollars to implement the assisted suicide law, if passed by the House and Senate.
House Intelligence Committee sends subpoenas to intel agencies
Three of the nation’s intelligence agencies received subpoenas Wednesday afternoon issued by the House Intelligence Committee, Fox News has confirmed, with each of the three demands for documents explicitly naming three top officials of the Obama administration: Susan Rice, who served as President Obama’s White House national security adviser; former CIA Director John Brennan; and former U.N. ambassador Samantha Power.
The three subpoenas, among a total of seven signed by panel chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), were served on the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency, and all three explicitly referenced “unmasking” – a signal that the House panel is intensifying its investigation into allegations that Obama-era aides improperly demanded the “unmasking” of names of associates of President Trump that had appeared, in coded form, in classified intelligence reports, then leaked the data to news media organizations.
The other four subpoenas were issued at the behest of the committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and were said to be duplicative of subpoenas already issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting a parallel probe. These four are focused, sources said, on persistent – but as yet unsubstantiated – allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, as well as the case of Michael Flynn. The former White House national security adviser was dismissed after three weeks on the job because the White House concluded he had misled Vice President Pence about private conversations Flynn had had with the Russian ambassador late last year.
The other target of these four subpoenas is said to be Michael Cohen, a longtime Trump attorney. Cohen has denied participating in any effort at collusion with the Kremlin. Flynn, through attorneys, has unsuccessfully sought immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony.
The issuance of the seven subpoenas was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The inclusion of Power’s name on the subpoenas marks the first appearance of the former U.N. ambassador in the controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s use of unmasking. Capitol Hill sources told Fox News they are devoting increasing scrutiny to Power – a former historian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize who worked as a foreign policy adviser in the Senate office of Barack Obama before joining his administration – because they have come to see her role in the unmasking as larger than previously known, and eclipsing those of the other former officials named.
Rice has previously denied any improper activity in her use of unmasking. “The allegation is somehow Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes, that's absolutely false,” Rice told MSNBC on April 4. President Trump said at that time that he personally believed Rice had committed a crime. None of those named on the subpoenas has been formally accused of wrongdoing.
Inquiries placed with representatives of Power and Brennan were not immediately returned.
That Nunes signed the seven subpoenas, as is standard practice, underscored the chairman’s continuing influence over key aspects of over his committee’s probe, despite the fact that Nunes in early April “stepped aside” from his panel’s Russia probe. He insists his decision was not a formal recusal, and he is still awaiting a hearing by the House Ethics Committee, which agreed at the time to investigate whether Nunes had improperly shared classified data with the White House before presenting it to Schiff and the rest of the intelligence committee.
Nunes told Fox News in an exclusive interview on May 19 that he is an active chairman, including continuing to preside over the unmasking angle of the investigation
Investigative sources on the committee’s Republican majority staff told Fox News that the unmasking subpoenas do not reflect a “fishing expedition,” but were issued because documentary evidence already in hand warranted demands for additional documents relating to Rice, Brennan and Power.
Where NSA had previously complied with the House panel’s investigators, sources said that cooperation had ground to a complete halt, and that the other agencies – FBI and CIA – had never substantively cooperated with document requests at all. The investigators believe that even rudimentary document production as a result of the subpoenas will enable them to piece together a timeline linking the unmasking activity to news media reports, based on leaks, that conveyed the same information provided to the officials requesting unmasking.
President Trump and the White House have dismissed the long-running allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, and possibly the transition team, as “fake news,” a scandal ginned up by supporters of President Obama and Hillary Clinton to explain the Democratic nominee’s stunning loss to Mr. Trump last November.
However, the Trump administration belatedly acquiesced in the appointment of former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III as a special counsel to investigate the allegations “and related matters.” Critics of the administration have also pointed to sustained reporting alleging undisclosed contacts between key Trump aides and various Russians – Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the probe at an early stage because of such contacts – and to a memorandum prepared in February by former FBI director James Comey, leaked a few days after his termination by President Trump, in which Comey alleged that the president had personally importuned him to abandon the FBI’s probe of Flynn.
James Rosen joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in 1999. He currently serves as the chief Washington correspondent and hosts the online show "The Foxhole." His latest book is "A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century" (Crown Forum, October 4, 2016).
The three subpoenas, among a total of seven signed by panel chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), were served on the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency, and all three explicitly referenced “unmasking” – a signal that the House panel is intensifying its investigation into allegations that Obama-era aides improperly demanded the “unmasking” of names of associates of President Trump that had appeared, in coded form, in classified intelligence reports, then leaked the data to news media organizations.
The other four subpoenas were issued at the behest of the committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and were said to be duplicative of subpoenas already issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting a parallel probe. These four are focused, sources said, on persistent – but as yet unsubstantiated – allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, as well as the case of Michael Flynn. The former White House national security adviser was dismissed after three weeks on the job because the White House concluded he had misled Vice President Pence about private conversations Flynn had had with the Russian ambassador late last year.
The other target of these four subpoenas is said to be Michael Cohen, a longtime Trump attorney. Cohen has denied participating in any effort at collusion with the Kremlin. Flynn, through attorneys, has unsuccessfully sought immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony.
The issuance of the seven subpoenas was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The inclusion of Power’s name on the subpoenas marks the first appearance of the former U.N. ambassador in the controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s use of unmasking. Capitol Hill sources told Fox News they are devoting increasing scrutiny to Power – a former historian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize who worked as a foreign policy adviser in the Senate office of Barack Obama before joining his administration – because they have come to see her role in the unmasking as larger than previously known, and eclipsing those of the other former officials named.
Rice has previously denied any improper activity in her use of unmasking. “The allegation is somehow Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes, that's absolutely false,” Rice told MSNBC on April 4. President Trump said at that time that he personally believed Rice had committed a crime. None of those named on the subpoenas has been formally accused of wrongdoing.
Inquiries placed with representatives of Power and Brennan were not immediately returned.
That Nunes signed the seven subpoenas, as is standard practice, underscored the chairman’s continuing influence over key aspects of over his committee’s probe, despite the fact that Nunes in early April “stepped aside” from his panel’s Russia probe. He insists his decision was not a formal recusal, and he is still awaiting a hearing by the House Ethics Committee, which agreed at the time to investigate whether Nunes had improperly shared classified data with the White House before presenting it to Schiff and the rest of the intelligence committee.
Nunes told Fox News in an exclusive interview on May 19 that he is an active chairman, including continuing to preside over the unmasking angle of the investigation
Investigative sources on the committee’s Republican majority staff told Fox News that the unmasking subpoenas do not reflect a “fishing expedition,” but were issued because documentary evidence already in hand warranted demands for additional documents relating to Rice, Brennan and Power.
Where NSA had previously complied with the House panel’s investigators, sources said that cooperation had ground to a complete halt, and that the other agencies – FBI and CIA – had never substantively cooperated with document requests at all. The investigators believe that even rudimentary document production as a result of the subpoenas will enable them to piece together a timeline linking the unmasking activity to news media reports, based on leaks, that conveyed the same information provided to the officials requesting unmasking.
President Trump and the White House have dismissed the long-running allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, and possibly the transition team, as “fake news,” a scandal ginned up by supporters of President Obama and Hillary Clinton to explain the Democratic nominee’s stunning loss to Mr. Trump last November.
However, the Trump administration belatedly acquiesced in the appointment of former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III as a special counsel to investigate the allegations “and related matters.” Critics of the administration have also pointed to sustained reporting alleging undisclosed contacts between key Trump aides and various Russians – Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the probe at an early stage because of such contacts – and to a memorandum prepared in February by former FBI director James Comey, leaked a few days after his termination by President Trump, in which Comey alleged that the president had personally importuned him to abandon the FBI’s probe of Flynn.
James Rosen joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in 1999. He currently serves as the chief Washington correspondent and hosts the online show "The Foxhole." His latest book is "A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century" (Crown Forum, October 4, 2016).
A face only a mother would love...
(George Rasley, CHQ Editor) - Alleged comedian Kathy Griffin, best known for her often vulgar jokes about her life on the “D list,” finally took Hollywood’s Trump derangement far enough over the line that normal Americans, especially normal American business advertisers said enough is enough.
Griffin’s choice – and it was a conscious choice to promote herself – to share an image of her holding what appeared to be the bloody severed head of President Donald Trump was so outrageous and offensive that Squatty Potty, the designers and creators of Squatty Potty® toilet stools and Unicorn Gold® bathroom products, has dropped Griffin as its spokesman.
We urge CHQ readers to call CNN headquarters, their phone number is (404) 827-2300 to demand that Kathy Griffin be fired for choosing to promote herself with such a vulgar and offensive image.
Cheers.
Dr. Chuck Muth, PsD
Professor of Psephology (homeschooled)
Nevada’s #1 Irritator of Liberals and RINOs
P.P.S. OK. You go into a store. You give the cashier your money. The cashier gives you your change…without saying “thank you.” This drives me nuts…especially since my upbringing results in a “thankyou” from me for returning my change.
Unfortunately, this is becoming all too common. And I’ve gotten to the point where I wait to see if the cashier says “thank you” before I do. And I’m half-tempted now to just stand there and wait and hold up the rest of the line until this tiny but deserved courtesy is offered.
Something tells me this is gonna cause problems. Somebody alert my lawyer.
WATCH: Defense Secretary Mattis Drops EPIC Truth-Bomb On Anchor
“I keep other people awake at night,” said Secretary of Defense James Mattis in a Sunday-aired Face the Nation interview with CBS’ John Dickerson.
Asked what keeps him awake at night, Dickerson replied, “Nothing.”
Describing Islamic State (ISIS) as a threat to all civilized nations, Mattis described a shift in military posture toward the Islamic terrorist organization from “attrition” to “annihilation:”
Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.
And the bottom line is, we are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot. We have already shifted from attrition tactics, where we shove them from one position to another in Iraq and Syria, to annihilation tactics, where we surround them.
Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa. We are not going to allow them to do so. We are going to stop them there and take apart the caliphate.
The rules of engagement had not been changed from the previous administration, said Mattis, in order to reduce the likelihood of harm befalling civilians:
But I would point out here that we have not changed the rules of engagement. There is no relaxation of our intention to protect the innocent. We do everything we can to protect the civilians. And actually lowering, delegating the authority to the lower level allows us to do this better. …
Civilian casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation. We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.
Mattis expressed certitude in the eventual destruction of ISIS:
We know ISIS is going to go down. ... This is going to be a long fight.
War with the North Korean state, said Mattis, would be "catastrophic" given Seoul's — with a population of ten million — proximity to the demilitarized zone:
A conflict in North Korea, John, would be probably the worst kind of fighting in most people's lifetimes. …
The North Korean regime has hundreds of artillery cannons and rocket launchers within range of one of the most densely populated cities on earth, which is the capital of South Korea.
But the bottom line is, it would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat, if we are not able to resolve this situation through diplomatic means.
Old Photo Shows Kathy Griffin Hanging out With Trump
BY BENJAMIN ARIE
Hollywood D-list “celebrity” Kathy Griffin is trying desperately to recover after her publicity stunt against Donald Trump went horribly wrong.
Now, a photo from Griffin’s past proves that while she’s trying to “save face,” the term “two faced” is definitely more fitting.
The image showing Griffin enthusiastically posing with Trump is quickly making the rounds online. According to the Daily Mail, the snapshot was taken in 2010, when Griffin and “Apprentice” competitor Brandy Kuentzel posed with the future president at a golf outing.
“It’s amazing how many people, all of them celebrities, had no problems whatsoever with Trump while he was just a billionaire buying them dinners and cocktails and inviting them to his parties,” stated conservative pundit Derrick Wilburn.
“But now since he’s won an election all of a sudden he’s…
“… Satan incarnate,” he continued. “But Kathy you should know by now, the internet is forever.”
It’s a very valid point. If Trump is such a terrible person, why were left-leaning figures lining up to pose and shake his hand when they thought he was one of them?
The list celebrities and politicians who had no problem with “The Donald” before he came out as a conservative is long. As the National Review reported, famous liberal Al Sharpton acted like Trump’s best friend during the 1980s and 1990s.
Even Barack Obama seemed to admire Trump before the 2016 election. While attending Harvard, a young Obama spoke in glowing terms about the business tycoon who would go on to win the White House.
Videos and comments made by Trump before he ran for president show that his political views have not changed dramatically over the past couple decades. What has changed, however, is his job title.
Liberals seem willing to attack anyone and everyone who has an “R” next to their name. The same celebrities who adored Trump in past years simply cannot stand the fact that a Republican took the White House — and they will stop at nothing to smear and attack a conservative president.
“But now since he’s won an election all of a sudden he’s…
“… Satan incarnate,” he continued. “But Kathy you should know by now, the internet is forever.”
It’s a very valid point. If Trump is such a terrible person, why were left-leaning figures lining up to pose and shake his hand when they thought he was one of them?
The list celebrities and politicians who had no problem with “The Donald” before he came out as a conservative is long. As the National Review reported, famous liberal Al Sharpton acted like Trump’s best friend during the 1980s and 1990s.
Even Barack Obama seemed to admire Trump before the 2016 election. While attending Harvard, a young Obama spoke in glowing terms about the business tycoon who would go on to win the White House.
Videos and comments made by Trump before he ran for president show that his political views have not changed dramatically over the past couple decades. What has changed, however, is his job title.
Liberals seem willing to attack anyone and everyone who has an “R” next to their name. The same celebrities who adored Trump in past years simply cannot stand the fact that a Republican took the White House — and they will stop at nothing to smear and attack a conservative president.
Helen and Moe Lauzier
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