[Guardian] The FBI will not interview Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, according to multiple reports and Republican senator Lindsey Graham, highlighting the narrow scope of the agency’s supplemental investigation into Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee.
After NBC News and the other outlets said Swetnick would not be questioned, the White House, which has stood by Kavanaugh through the fallout from an explosive Senate hearing on Thursday, denied it was limiting the investigation.
On Saturday Donald Trump said on Twitter he wanted the FBI "to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion".
On Sunday Kellyanne Conway, a senior Trump counselor, told CNN’s State of the Union: "We trust the hardworking men and women of the FBI to do their jobs, and they will determine what will be included within that scope."
[PJ] In the short time since Christine Blasey Ford testified, many have gone out of their way to equate her emotional testimony with credibility. But, there are several red flags that should inform reasonable people that she can’t be trusted.
5. Her Bogus Fear of Flying Story
By her own testimony, she revealed she flew to Washington to give her testimony, contradicting earlier claims that her fear of flying prevented her from testifying. Rachel Mitchell then uncovered that Ford flies frequently for business and pleasure. Still, Ford claimed she was hoping the committee would come to her. Well, it turns out they repeatedly offered, but she claimed she’d been unaware of this fact.
How could she have not known about the offer, which was made repeatedly and reported on widely in the media? Was she sequestered by her lawyers and completely disconnected from news coverage? That may be the case, but that seems unlikely. If she was, they were still obligated to inform her of the offer.
In short, there are only two conclusions we can reach: She was lying about the fear of flying in order to delay the hearing, or she legitimately didn’t know because her lawyers never told her, which proves she’s been manipulated by them and the Democrats entirely for politics. Either option is devastating for her credibility.
4. All The Bizarre Demands
Further proof that Ford is being manipulated by Democrats and her lawyers came immediately after the new supplemental FBI investigation was announced. Ford’s lawyer Debra Katz released the following statement.
"A thorough FBI investigation is critical to developing all the relevant facts. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford welcomes this step in the process, and appreciates the efforts of Sens. Flake, Murkowski, Manchin, and Collins ‐ and all other senators who have supported an FBI investigation ‐ to ensure it is completed before the Senate votes on Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination. No artificial limits as to time or scope should be imposed on this investigation."
Christine Blasey Ford is in no position to make any sort of demands about how the FBI investigation should be handled. This comes in the wake of prior demands, which were beyond absurd, asking, amongst other things, that Ford be allowed to testify after Kavanaugh and that GOP senators ask her questions. Despite extensive efforts to accommodate Ford, they were bashing the process as unfair. Ford and her lawyers seem more concerned about politics, optics, and delaying the process than the truth.
3. Her Incomplete Polygraph Results
John Hawkins previously noted weird issues with Professor’s Ford’s answers regarding the polygraph test she took, including her inability to say for sure when it happened and who paid for it. But, by her testimony, she sounded strangely ignorant of polygraphs, how they work, and was unable to say whether she was recorded, be it by video or audio. But, she said she was "asked a lot of questions" and described it as taking "much longer than I anticipated." She also said she"told my whole life story." But, the committee was only provided with the results for two specific questions. Those two questions were based on a handwritten statement, and not multiple, specific questions about the incident. The statement also included revisions like cross-outs and added words. Did we only get the results for two questions that referenced her sloppy handwritten statement, because answers to questions regarding specific details were exculpatory?
2. Her Immediate Family Is Silent
Does it seem convenient that the only people close to Ford who have come out in support of her are friends and non-blood relatives? The Washington Post noted the following a few days ago:
The letters appeared within days of Christine Blasey Ford’s name becoming public. One was from her high school classmates. One was from her colleagues at Stanford University. Her Palo Alto neighbors wrote another letter. Groups of attorneys, statisticians and teenagers wrote too. Then came a letter that began, "As members of Christine Blasey Ford’s family ..."
It was signed by a dozen people. But none of them were related to Ford by blood. The letter was from the relatives of her husband, Russell Ford.
Christine’s own parents and siblings ‐ the Blaseys ‐ have not released any similar statement of support. As their daughter and sister has become the country’s most talked-about woman for accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault while both were in high school, the Blaseys have strategically avoided the press. Voicemails, texts, emails and letters from reporters have gone unanswered. Friends of the family have politely declined to comment on what they are going through.
Why is this significant? Her immediate family would be able to corroborate her story. Ford has said she never told anyone but has testified to the impact the alleged assault had on her, resulting in various symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. She blames the alleged assault for, amongst other things, academic troubles and a fear of flying. Anyone in her immediate family could corroborate this happened during the summer she was fifteen but nobody has. Why not?
1. Her Claiming Privilege on the Therapist’s Notes
Was it not suspicious that the therapist's notes from the 2012 couples therapy sessions were repeatedly cited as corroborating evidence but then suddenly declared privileged? Why would Ford want to hold back corroborating evidence?
Lawyer Margot Cleveland, who is a contributor to The Federalist, National Review, and Townhall, explained in a long thread on Twitter that the therapist’s notes are more than likely exculpatory. I’m posting the original tweet below but will summarize the key points.
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I spoke to a relative who works at a high dollar girls' school, and as a consequence deals with lying teen aged girls a loopy socialist academics on a daily basis. She listened to her, then watched her without the sound and said she found what she called 'hiding behind her hair' an absolute tell, that and what she felt were vocal manipulations. In the final insult, she reported that even some of the girls weren't buying it.
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Read somewhere too that someone actually investigated the light refraction of the overly-large (and atrocious) glasses she wore at the hearing.
Apparently they couldn't detect the normal 'color blooms' or prismatic glare that a normal pair of prescription eye-wear would reflect under studio or other production lighting.
Could be that the hearing lighting was perfectly aimed, though.
Or just more theater.
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Apparently they gave a similar glare to 'flat glass' with no modifications.
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Read somewhere too that someone actually investigated the light refraction of the overly-large (and atrocious) glasses she wore at the hearing.
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Fresnel prism lens - Rumors said she hit her head during a drunken blackout and had double vision. Luckily Huma was underneath her to soften the blow
Prove me wrong ;-)
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[Detroit Free Press] An unprecedented truck war is raging in Detroit.
Is it possible for the all-new Ram 1500 or Chevy Silverado to cut into the dominating market share of the best-selling Ford F-150 and F-Series pickups?
Consumers are buying. Bean counters are watching, with billions of dollars on the line.
Fiat Chrysler's five-year plan, outlined this spring, aspires for Ram to overtake Silverado as the nation's No. 2 pickup. But truck buyers are a loyal bunch. History suggests shoppers don’t switch brands lightly.
The F-Series is not just the best-selling truck with Silverado and Ram second and third; these are the best-selling vehicles of any kind in the United States. They are crucial to domestic automakers' profits and, along with SUVs, an increasing share of their production as consumers move away from sedans.
"Detroit may have been through hell and back in the last 10 years, but these are the best three trucks ever built," said Eric Noble, a product development consultant and professor of vehicle technology at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. "Their factories are running flat out, import competitors have faded into the rearview mirror, and transaction prices have never been higher.
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Is it possible for the all-new Ram 1500 or Chevy Silverado to cut into the dominating market share of the best-selling Ford F-150 and F-Series pickups?
A qualified yes, I think.
If 'market share' is ranked by buying, I voted 15 years ago. My F-Series is still running strong. I should vote again I suppose but the new tech is not enough of a draw for me.
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....or Dallas, where they run 25mph under the speed limit.
Houston. Drove a rental around there for a bit. Like every classic dinosaur movie, where I was the little critter getting out of the way of the Brontosaur.
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GM says in the TV ads I could save $9,000 if I buy now. That only makes me wonder: if they can shave that much off the price, how much does the damn thing cost?
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Got a 2017 Ram 2500 crew cab with cummins diesel engine. Built a 60 gal aux tank. Thing pulls a good load up the Alcan, with compression braking, 13 mpg, and 20 mpg light. Great quality.
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I looked into that. They will take off the price, if you use GM financing. Then they add it all in and add a higher interest rate, bang! You pay more in the end. I used USAA pricing. Solid price and no add ons...
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Congrats on the new truck.
I thought you were trying to throw those cans back into the bed?
[Politico] MILAN ‐ The Italian government’s decision to bust the deficit limits it had agreed with the European Union is depressing. But it’s not surprising.
It’s not just that Rome is now governed by a grand coalition of extremists: Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s far-right League and Economic Development Minister Luigi Di Maio’s anti-establishment 5tar Movement.
For years, Italian politicians have portrayed the country’s fiscal constraints as the result of foreign machinations ‐ unfair limitations imposed by Brussels or Berlin.
Right-wingers have portrayed the financial storm that ousted then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in 2011 as a conspiracy. Italy’s rising cost of borrowing, they claim, was somehow weaponized to drive out one of the few politicians who stood up to Germany.
More recently, former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi demanded, and obtained, "flexibility" over Brussels-mandated budget constraints, thereby undermining the legitimacy of fiscal rules.
[Free Beacon] Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) said on Sunday that Democrats have disgraced the United States Senate in their orchestrated smear campaign against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
"The Democrats have disgraced this process and the United States Senate in the orchestrated smear campaign of character assassination they've run against Judge Kavanaugh," Cotton told "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson.
Kavanaugh has faced a series of sexual misconduct allegations that, according to the accusers, occurred decades ago. Ford told the Post that Kavanaugh, then a junior in high school, attacked her when they were at a party in Maryland in the early 1980s. A second allegation came from a woman named Deborah Ramirez who accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself at a dorm party during his freshmen year at Yale. Another allegation was brought forth from a woman named Julie Swetnick, who is represented by anti-Trump lawyer Michael Avenatti. Swetnick claimed Kavanaugh committed a series of "gang rapes" when he was in high school, but she offered no additional evidence or witnesses to support her allegations.
Kavanaugh has vehemently denied all accusations and there have been no corroborating witnesses to the assaults.
[Townhall] That simpering sap Jeff Flake ‐ he’s the kind of guy who voted for Evan McMullin and still doesn’t regret it. It’s sad to see what was once allegedly a man be utterly emasculated in public and then proceed to dance to please his new masters. He ought to be, and henceforth shall be, known as Jeff! since he’s essentially Jeb! without the pedigree or ‐ here’s the scary part ‐ the spine. Yeah Jeff!, you’ll get your one-shot 60 Minutes tongue bath, and there’s probably a 3:00 a.m. Sunday MSNBC program in it for you, wedged between reruns of Lockup. A hosting gig for a crappy show on a doofus network is today’s equivalent of 30 pieces of silver.
Flake does not care about you Normals, especially you Normals from the Grand Canyon state who are now regretting your decision to send McCain Superlite to the Senate. At least John McCain, for all his faults, flew fighters and took no guff; Jeff! takes a little guff from some shrieking leftist in an elevator and he’s suddenly primed for his Democrat buddies to talk him into helping carry some of the wood for the Brett Kavanaugh witch burning.
The "Democrat buddies" part is key. See, they are his real constituency. Like all Fredocons, he chose trying to please his elite pals over keeping his promise to serve Normals like you. But, of course, he’s been doing that for a while, ever since he was so greatly disappointed in you for choosing Donald Trump and not Moby McMuffin or even Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit. So, it was no surprise that the Dems ID’d him as the weak link, swarmed, and rolled him. In a town like DC that is known for changing the soft and feckless, Jeff! was especially mushy and feck-free.
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Not much has changed since the American Revolution. The conventional historical wisdom is about a third favored independence, about a third were "loyalists," and about a third were "on the fence," (what today the media calls the smarter-than-average "indepencent" voter.
Nowadays the "king" the modern loyalists support is Marx. Zman says up to 90% of so-called conservatives are in fact go-along-get-along "CivNats."
And the independents read Reason magazine and think Antifa is actually anti fascist.
So there ya have it.
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There needs to be a counter-balancing force to the left-wing nutjobs (Marxist) or we are going to get "Swamped" forever.
With its dramatic reveals, shocking allegations and stunning confessions, the fight over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has had more plot twists than a telenovela.
And the Court has only itself to blame.
"The Court’s adventurism and self-aggrandizement has had insidious consequences," said David A. Kaplan, author of "The Most Dangerous Branch" (Crown), out now.
This month’s bare-knuckle brawl in the Senate is all the proof we need that judicial activism has grotesquely warped American politics, Kaplan argues.
"By inserting themselves into our most controversial political issues, the justices raised the stakes and led us into to these confirmation battles," he told The Post. "They didn’t intend that, but you can draw a straight line."
If the Senate’s Republican majority holds together and seats Kavanaugh for the Court term that begins this week, the effects could be profound.
But in recent decades, dysfunctional legislators have prioritized incumbency and shied away from contentious debates. Their refusal to write laws that would force them to choose sides has conferred power on the judicial branch ‐ and judges have leapt into the vacuum to make the rules themselves.
...
"The justices do because the justices can," Kaplan said. "But we too readily look to the courts to solve our problems. We ought to have more faith in our democracy."
The court lets gutless politicians off the hook. And the general electorate none the wiser.
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The Court seems to have lost sight of just what it's function is. While it can at times redress some ills of the nation (segregration for one) it can also rules based on convluted arguements as to constutionality. But let's be honest. All three branches have overstepped their brief. Congress with legislation that invokes the Interstate Commerce Clause. Even when the legislation has little or nothing to do with commerce.The Executive doesn't get of the hook either. And both sides of the aisle do it. And always have
[Breitbart Israel] The long-standing platitude that peace can only come to Israel and Palestinian Arabs through the creation of a Palestinian state seems alive and well.
Thus, at the September session of the United Nations General Assembly currently in progress, French president Emanuel Macron promoted its creation, saying that, "There is no other credible alternative to the solution of two states living side by side in peace and security, with Jerusalem as their capital."
Notably, in this context, President Macron also referred to what he called the "legitimate rights of the Palestinians to achieve sustainable peace." Even President Donald Trump has recently stated that he is open to discuss Palestinian statehood.
Accordingly, when an international leader promotes a Palestinian state as well as the notion that Palestinians Arabs seek a sustainable peace, it is timely to recall why creating a Palestinian state under prevailing conditions would actually be harmful to the cause of peace.
The most compelling reason against establishing a Palestinian state is that neither the Palestinian leadership nor society seek a sovereign state peacefully neighboring Israel. No perusal of Palestinian Arabs’ statements (at least in Arabic, among themselves), sermons, and speeches indicates the slightest desire for such a state. The emphasis, rather, is on diverse forms of eliminating Israel, as unfortunately it has always been.
Every genuine effort at peacemaking in the past century has foundered on Palestinian and wider Arab refusal: the 1937 Peel Commission partition plan; the 1947 United Nations General Assembly partition plan; the 2000 Camp David negotiation and the 2000-2001 Clinton parameters; the 2008 Olmert peace offer; and the 2014 Obama proposal all came to nought based on Palestinian Arab rejection ‐ the last three having proposed full Palestinian statehood on over 90% of the territory of Judea/Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza, with a capital in the eastern half of Jerusalem.
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"The most compelling reason against establishing a Palestinian state is that neither the Palestinian leadership nor society seek a sovereign state peacefully neighboring Israel."
Seems to be the Holy Grail of western diplomacy--hasn't been found. As long as the Palestinians are calling for death to the Israelis and trying to bring this about, there is not going to be peace. Both Sadat and Rabin were assassinated over these issues.
Call it a stand-off or stalemate. Keep supporting Israel but there are also large issues here at home.
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Nonsense. A killer robot's would run out of ammo before long rendering it mostly harmless. Even a laser requires more CO2 and other chemicals to run and these things run out. Battery power runs out. Unless it's got nuclear power or something the robot would have to develop an entire civilization to keep itself supplied.
Yes one could go nuts and bash people around and perhaps kill a lot of people with its hands and metal body but that's hardly a threat to humanity.
#3
Uncharted minefields and UXO (explosive munitions that failed to explode the first time) litter the battlefields of the world... Should we outlaw these also?
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They have tried, intentionally conflating anti-personal mines with anti-tank mines in order to blame the US as the worst mine-layer because of our use of mines along the North Korean border when it is anti-personal mines used throughout africa that are causing the trauma such folk use in their anti-mine propognada.
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They can "outlaw landmines" ...and then hours after the onset of war the nations that signed the treaty will start making them because of "National emergency"...
Still my favorite phrase in this hypocritical vein was the US Army grandly announcing that "No, no, NO! We use 'mechanical ambushes' and never use nasty things like 'booby traps'!!"
[The Hill] More than 200 years ago, the framers of the Constitution distributed federal power among three branches of government to ensure that no single branch was unchecked. Today, we are seeing that principle eroded as Attorney General Jeff Sessions wields his considerable authority over the immigration courts to advance a transparently anti-immigrant agenda. In the process, he is bending the system to its breaking point.
Many Americans are not aware that our nation’s immigration courts, unlike other courts, are a part of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) ‐ the very same law-enforcement agency that is charged with prosecuting immigration cases in federal courts.
Just as it would be unacceptable for a district attorney to supervise trial judges, it should be unacceptable for the Attorney General to control the jurisprudence, docket management, and even the terms of employment of immigration judges. This has long been recognized as a fundamental structural flaw in our immigration court system, but Congress has so far failed to rectify the situation and create a new system that is truly independent.
This flaw in our judicial system has made it vulnerable to the extreme policies of the Attorney General. One such policy goes into effect today, Oct. 1‐the imposition of numerical quotas to measure the performance of immigration judges. These quotas will require judges to adjudicate a minimum of 700 cases each year or possibly face disciplinary action. The National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) opposes the move, calling it a "death knell for judicial independence." The judges argue that quotas will compromise the integrity of the court, undermine due process, and add to the court’s backlog, which now exceeds 700,000 cases. In other words, the quotas are unethical, unfair, and inefficient.
The quotas are just one of many policies DOJ has implemented in rapid succession over the past year. In several precedent-setting decisions, the Attorney General has restricted asylum law so as to deny protection to nearly all survivors of domestic violence or gang-related persecution, and stripped immigration judges of nearly all power to terminate, administratively close, or continue cases. Across the board, these and other DOJ policies under the Attorney General’s leadership have emphasized speed and quantity rather than well-reasoned decisions.
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How many companies in the US could I just walk into, take over an empty desk and begin demanding a paycheck and benefits? OK, I'm sure it could be done, but not on the scale illegal immigrants are entering the US.
We don't need more bureaucracy, we need a simple, consistent non-subjective system where people apply to enter and present resume-like documentation that they will not be non-contributing dependents. Keep the naturalization timeframe the same but stretch right-to-vote out to 25 years with an exemption for anyone who has paid federal taxes for 10 consecutive years.
No more anchor babies either.
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Have you entered the country in accordance with the law? Yes or No. We're done here.
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The first thing we need to do is start treating Illegal Aliens as a 'border security' problem and not an 'immigration' problem - meaning no right to the immigration court or proceeding (because they are not immigrants!).
Do that and the need for immigration courts drops a lot.
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There is no right of aliens to be here. We need a controlled immigration system based on a merit system and assimilation. Build the wall and be done with it. Thought the wall was approved during the Reagan admin. and never fully completed?
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Immigrants should require a sponser the way they have in Australia. You can't find work the sponser has to pay your way and keep you off the dole.
Combine that with hammering anyone that employs illegals, and immediately rejecting asylum seekers that come from non-border nations as the law details and the problem will go away.
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What we need is more available doctors and nurses to type them and test them for diseases before they are broken up for the organ banks. No sense in wasting them.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐Upon the announcement that Justice Kennedy would be retiring soon, liberals across the country expressed their horror that they might soon lose the legal right to kill 60 million more American babies over the next several decades.
Worried that Roe v. Wade could be overturned by a new, conservative-leaning court, progressives expressed their sheer horror that the unalienable right to slaughter unborn children wholesale could be ripped away from the nation’s women.
"We’ve enjoyed so much freedom to kill innocent unborn babies over the past 45 years, but if we take that for granted, if we give up the fight now, the Supreme Court could rip that important, foundational right away from us," a Planned Parenthood spokesperson said at a protest rally Wednesday. "We must not give up. We must fight to prevent Trump from nominating a justice who doesn’t recognize that ending another human life is a core American right guaranteed by the founding fathers."
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I doubt Roe V Wade will be overturned, but if it is don't we have morning after pills and basically free contraception and such? There really is no excuse for abortions now except criminal carelessness.
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If the west coast wants to assure the protections of Roe v Wade, all they have to do is pass the equivalent legislation. (I doubt they have it now, and I doubt they can actually pass it.) Further, they want to lay the same morality on Iowa, to show how high-minded they are.
[American Thinker] The Montagnard tribes in the Central Highlands were among our most loyal allies in the fight against the communists during the Vietnam War. They fought alongside the U.S. Special Forces in epic battles and rescued countless Americans, including pilots, crews, and aircraft passengers. More than half of the Montagnards' adult male population was lost fighting for and in the place of Americans. Without their sacrifice, there would be many more names on that somber black granite wall ‐ the Vietnam Memorial.
Today, our former Montagnard allies suffer immense persecution under the communist regime in Vietnam for their religious beliefs. Since the North's 1975 conquest of the Republic of South Vietnam, it is estimated that two thirds of the ethnic minorities have converted to Protestantism. They are forced to practice their worship in outlawed house-churches. The Vietnamese leadership is characterized by extreme paranoia and fear of organized religion, for it is in direct conflict with their political religion: communism. Those wishing to be ordained as a pastor must swear allegiance to the communist government and swear to put "the state" before God. All who refuse are arrested and tortured until they recant their religion, and if they do not, they are imprisoned or "disappeared." More than a hundred known Protestant Montagnard pastors are languishing in prison under deplorable and inhumane conditions. Despite this, they are not recognized by the Department of State as political prisoners.
More than 350 Christian Montagnard refugees have fled persecution in Vietnam and are seeking asylum in Thailand. Of these, 175 have been granted refugee status by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). However, they will continue to be held in the camps until a third country notifies UNHCR that it is willing to sponsor them. Countless other refugees who have fled religious and other persecution in Vietnam are also seeking refuge in Thailand.
There are frequent raids in the neighborhoods surrounding Bangkok, where refugees try to find a sense of community. According to International Christian Concern (ICC) (The Dispatch, 09/20/18):
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Three generations ago an old Baptist missionary with a long white beard ( actually looked like God Himself ) rode a horse up into northern Laos on the borders of Jungle China and converted tribal Hmong and Lahu and others to Christianity. The next generation during the second world war were hymn singing and fought the japaneses. The generation after WW2 fought for the US against the Communists. A hundred thousand died fighting to save downed US pilots and and were fighting a war to protect mountain radar stations on the North Viet border so the US could target the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They fought until Laos fell to the Communist invasion and they fled to Thailand Refugee camps. American settled 250,000 in America. They are citizens today. Their leaders Kong Li and Vang pao died in America. The american friends of that generation are all old veterans and are dying off now. These are good brave people, America should protect them if it can. Good brave men.
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A lot of the practice of Protestant Christianity by the "Montagnards" and others in the Central Highlands of Vietnam goes back farther than 3 generations, to missionary work performed in the 19th century by English and American missionaries during the time when Vietnam was run by Catholic France.
BLUF:
[Stars and Stripes] Mattis told the VMI cadets that he and senior uniformed officials, including Gen. Mark Milley, the Army’s chief of staff, and Gen. Robert Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, continue to study the issue and hope to have conclusive data soon.
"This is a policy that I inherited, and so far the cadre is so small, we have no data on it," said Mattis, who retired as a four-star Marine general in 2013 before women could serve in such roles. "We're hoping to get data soon. There are a few stalwart young ladies who are charging into this, but they are too few."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart Israel] The long-standing platitude that peace can only come to Israel and Palestinian Arabs through the creation of a Palestinian state seems alive and well.
[The Hill] More than 200 years ago, the framers of the Constitution distributed federal power among three branches of government to ensure that no single branch was unchecked. Today, we are seeing that principle eroded as Attorney General Jeff Sessions wields his considerable authority over the immigration courts to advance a transparently anti-immigrant agenda. In the process, he is bending the system to its breaking point. 
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐Upon the announcement that Justice Kennedy would be retiring soon, liberals across the country expressed their horror that they might soon lose the legal right to kill 60 million more American babies over the next several decades.
[American Thinker] The Montagnard tribes in the Central Highlands were among our most loyal allies in the fight against the communists during the Vietnam War. They fought alongside the U.S. Special Forces in epic battles and rescued countless Americans, including pilots, crews, and aircraft passengers. More than half of the Montagnards' adult male population was lost fighting for and in the place of Americans. Without their sacrifice, there would be many more names on that somber black granite wall ‐ the Vietnam Memorial.
