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Conservative? How about just plan Constitutional? Read it and apply it. No skipping Article V process and issuing royal decrees. Go back to Congress and/or the states and seek redress there.
#4
Yea, well, I'm afraid we'll see that the Mandarinate ignores Supreme Court decisions that they don't like - just as they're doing with Trump's executive orders.
[Wash Times] President Trump has some unwavering support from a very unique demographic: Republican military veterans. An extensive new Pew Research Center reveals that 98 percent of these GOP vets approve of the job Mr. Trump is doing. He has some fans across the greater population of vets as well. The poll also found that 54 percent of them also approve of the president.
Another 47 percent of independent vets and 10 percent of Democratic vets approve of the president.
"U.S. veterans, who broadly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 election, have remained positive about the job he is doing as president," wrote Shiva Maniam, and analyst for the pollster.
"In April, 54 percent of those who have served in the military approved of his job performance. Trump’s job approval among the overall public was just 39%, according to the same survey, which was conducted using Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel," Mr. Maniam said.
"Last fall, Trump held a wide 60 percent -- 34 percent advantage over Hillary Clinton among veterans, according to the national exit poll conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool," he added.
#1
This is the sort of demographic on which one could build a solid constituency. And if Trump has a constituency, he can use it to drive better results in Congressional races (and I'm not talking about beating Democrats).
#2
"In April, 54 percent of those who have served in the military approved of his job performance.
Another Poll that over represents the Democratic numbers and then tries to read an augury from the resulting entrails?
[JEWISHPRESS] Despite heroic efforts by BDS Leb to block the screening of the new Wonder Woman movie in Leb, starring Israeli actress Gal Gadot,
...the former Miss Israel, among other things...
the superhero movie may still open on the big screen nationwide.
Leb’s Daily Star is reporting that the showing will be cancelled, but on ArabNews.com, after speaking to one of Leb’s theater chains, declared that the premiere screening is still on.
According to a report on Israel radio on Tuesday afternoon, the Hezbollah terrorist group, which controls Leb’s government, has said the movie will be banned.
On Tuesday, Leb’s Ministry of Economy and Trade announced that they will forbid all movie theaters in Leb from showing the movie, and even wrote to the heads of Leb’s security administration to take all necessary measure to enforce this decision.
We’ll let you know after the Shavuot holiday what happened.
Hezbollah is terrified of a strong Israeli woman -- as they should be.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] The idea of forming a Syrian opposition army is long overdue, but proposing the idea now is more suitable than ever.
Positions of concerned parties including those of the countries supporting the Syrian revolution as what is secretly known in Jordan as "military room", varied about the opposition army.
The situation now requires the establishment of a new Syrian army for several reasons. First of all, this army will represent all Syrians, and not just one sect or religion, or an bad boy group and will not be affiliated with any country or mercenary in the region.
Syria needs an army that represents all Syrians, reestablishes the state, imposes order and operates under international legitimacy.
The biggest challenge threatening Syrians today is the emergence of an Iranian army on their soil led by Revolutionary Guards and composed of militias from Iraq, Leb, Afghanistan, and Pakistain and of course troops from the Iranian Quds Force.
This is a direct threat to the project of the Syrian state as Iranians could stay there for a long time.
Two US Congressmen sent letters to the US secretaries of state and defense warning them that Iran is planning to use its presence in Syria to build military bases on the Mediterranean Sea.
Indeed, there no longer is an opposition free Syrian Army like the one we knew. It disintegrated into smaller groups after being a target of Iranians, Russians, ISIS, al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and other groups.
So, why are we discussing the establishment of a new Syrian army?
The incentive is the proposed political solution and to help plan safe zones for refugees. The idea also derived from some countries’ desire to form a power that fights terrorist groups which have infiltrated within opposition-held areas.
In addition to all of that, we must not forget that establishing a military power is a requirement to recognize the opposition’s role in the new project of governance as it cannot live under the shadow of Assad’s army.
The need is for a new Syrian army that puts an end to the chaos resulting from the deployment of dozens of militias and unifies armed oppositions under one flag and leadership. Thousands of military defectors who refused to kill their fellow Syrians and left the Syrian army could be the foundations of the new army.
Everyone needs this army, not just Syrians. They need an army that fights terrorist organizations threatening Syria, the region, and the world, and confronts Iranian army and its militias if they refuse to leave Syria and clear the country of all hostile regional movements like Turkish Kurds and Iraqi ISIS.
In the case of a political agreement, the new Syrian army could be complementary to the regime’s Arab Syrian Army which has become weak with mere remnants left.
A political solution is useless if not preceded by a project that establishes army and security entities first and foremost. The opposition doesn’t trust the regime and wants a military power to protect the areas under its control and represent it within the adopted political solution.
When other countries insist on evacuating Syria of all imported muscle, the regime will also insist on Iranian militias unless a national army is formed to do the job.
It may be long before a political solution is agreed upon, and this should prevent the formation of a Syrian army during the negotiation period to fight terrorism and refute the alibi that the Assad regime needs Iran’s militias to stay.
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As if they don't have enough armies in Syria already. But, hey, it's fine with me as long as I don't have to pay for it or accept any more refugees.
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Owner(s): Turki bin Salman Al Saud
The Saudis want Syria to remain a unitary Sunni Arab majority state. Easier said than done. In reality, it may split into three states - one for the Sunni Arabs, one for the Kurds and one for the Alawites (and other Arab religious minorities).
[Asharq al-Aswat] It’s an idea that Syria, Russia and the US all might be willing to tolerate. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... however ... Outside the headlines, something remarkable is going on in Syria. The Kurds, making a long-term play for an autonomous region, seem to have decided that their best bet is to buy it from Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... . And the US is signaling that it may be on-board -- a startling reflection of its pro-Russian, anti-Turkish policy.
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[Right Scoop] The black activists who appeared to put Evergreen college under complete mob rule are demanding that a video be taken down from the internet because it shows how crazy they actually are.
Video can be seen at the link -- just click on the headline and scroll down.
That is just pathetic and shameful. Even if they had a reasonable, rational argument to make against whites at the college, they completely and utterly undermined their credibility by screaming and yelling like petulant childish idiots. How despicable.
Here’s their demand:
"We demand that the video created for Day of Absence and Day of Presence that was stolen by white supremacists and edited to expose and ridicule the students and staff be taken down by the administration by this Friday."
And here’s how the college president responded:
"Based on conversations with the attorney general’s office, the most likely course of action requires an investigation. We commit to launching an extensive forensic investigation of the theft of this video and to determining who stole it from the student. If that investigation yields a suspect, we will seek criminal charges against the individual in consultation with the attorney general."
That’s pretty pathetic. Although he didn’t back down to all their demands, he DID back down to this one, and it’s just sad.
Luckily it seems that this obscene stupidity is an affliction of exclusively liberal colleges, but I fear for the future of our country when these idiots spew forth onto the American landscape...
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How low are the admissions requirements that allowed these entitled idiots into a place of "higher education". At about the 4 minute mark of the video one of them can't even read a document without stumbling and mispronouncing most of the words. These miscreants don't need college, they need reform school.
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.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Right Scoop] The black activists who appeared to put Evergreen college under complete mob rule are demanding that a video be taken down from the internet because it shows how crazy they actually are.
