BLUF: [Daily Caller] The foundation’s revenues during the years up to 2004 exploded from $6.1 million in 2000 to $80 million.
The Clinton Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated in Little Rock Nov. 18, 2004.
The Clinton Foundation has raised an estimated $1.5 billion in the years since 2004.
Charles Ortel, an expert in non-profit governance and a determined critic of the Clinton Foundation, argues that "to informed analysts, the Clinton Foundation appears to be a rogue charity that has neither been organized nor operated lawfully from inception in October 1997 to date."
Ortel claims the foundation "has never been validly authorized to pursue tax-exempt purposes other than as a presidential archive and research facility based in Little Rock, Arkansas."
Judge Andrew Napolitano joined Bill Hemmer on "America's Newsroom" today to weigh in on the latest in the Hillary Clinton email scandal, including Mike Pence's accusation that the Democratic nominee engaged in the same kind of conduct that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency.
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I agree with Judge Nap. I also suspect, just like Watergate, the trail leads directly back to the Oval Office. This sophomoric cover up by the FBI is designed simply to protect the POTUS.
[Gateway Pundit] On Monday Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called Barack Obama a "son of a whore" as he vowed not to be lectured by the US leader on human rights when they meet in Laos.
Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his pre-departure message before leaving for the ASEAN Summit in Laos. (TimesLive)
On Tuesday Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe weighed in on the controversy. Mugabe told reporters Obama should prove he is not the son of a whore.
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How does one prove/disprove a negative? However, my lying eyes have also seen things on the net. Might be one of the reasons our dear leader is so screwed up in the head.
[BusinessInsider] Many years ago, the Obama administration had a good foreign policy idea. Remove your jaw from the floorboards and stay with me on this one.
Barack Obama was elected during a period of tense ceasefire in the Middle East. The violence in Iraq had dwindled, and new sanctions on Iran quickly rendered Tehran economically impotent. After years of immersion in Mesopotamia, it seemed we could finally move on, and so the Obama administration redirected its efforts towards East Asia.
Early Obama gestures towards Asia seemed astute. Having inherited America’s strongest relationship with China since before the Tiananmen Square massacre, Obama set about trying to expand our channels of cooperation. Washington also joined negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which the White House saw as a way to unleash commerce and, later, as a restraint on China, which wasn’t party to the talks.
This was sound policy, but it also rested on a mirage: that Obama’s overtures towards the Middle East and Asia would allow us to decamp from the former and swoop into the latter. Today, neither of those propositions has borne out: the Middle East is ablaze, East Asia is a far more dangerous neighborhood than before, and we’ve spent another eight years staring glassily into the Mesopotamian sand.
Part of it has to do with events beyond the White House’s control. The Arab Spring can’t be blamed on Obama (though our daft abandonment of allies like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak certainly can), and, contra the hawks, ISIS’s rampage isn’t his fault either. Obama also isn’t culpable for our invasion of Iraq, which sparked the current Sunni-Shia cold war. But Obama’s naiveté and missteps fueled this fire, too. When he should have been avoiding vacuums that might have been filled by jihadists, the president cheered and encouraged the Arab Spring. When he should have been worrying about al Qaeda in Northern Africa, he invaded Libya and helped depose Moammar Gaddafi, leading to a proliferation of terrorism there.
Where he should have seen extremists in the Syrian rebels, he instead saw democrats, and wasted more than two years arming an al Qaeda-infested insurgency. He also assumed what was left of the war on terrorism could continue via drone, never accounting for the blowback that’s left extremists in Yemen and Afghanistan even more fortified than before.
It’s a shame. Rather than going another six rounds in Iraq, the United States should have really and truly pivoted to Asia, bolstering its relationships with Asian Pacific nations like Vietnam and South Korea, and banding them together to form a front against Chinese and North Korean aggression. That doesn’t mean doing something stupid, like provoking Beijing or starting a trade war, and it doesn’t mean a return to nation building. But it does mean strengthening our allies to check Beijing. Instead, the Middle Eastern millstone weighs around our necks and Chinese ambitions seem almost peripheral.
We have few serious interests in the Middle East, especially now that fracking has made us a petro-power. We don’t need to abandon it to its fate, but we also can’t ignore the problems mounting in East Asia, where China is building militarized islands in waters crucial for international trade, and North Korea, Beijing’s yapping little dog, has a longer leash than ever.
Encouragingly, some Asian nations are stepping up to balance the Chinese threat. Unfortunately, those are pebbles in the pond and they’ve only heightened Chinese aggression. Meanwhile, the Obama administration’s failure to sell the TPP to the public could scuttle an important economic counterbalance to Chinese power.
It is clear that the future of American foreign policy will be decided in Asia, not necessarily in the Middle East. But thanks to 15 years of foolish interventions and besotted idealism, that pivot is proving difficult. The next president should spin us on our heel.
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The only thing I can parse from the article is that the author thinks the world sucks and the most charitable explanation for US Policy is that the Obama crew were well-meaning idiots. Is the fact that this was in BusinessInsider mean that is what the Hamiltonians are currently thinking?
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As per the TOM SULLIVAN SHOW on Fox Radio this AM, the Bammer = US was perceived or sensed as weak by the majority of the G20 Nations in Beijing, something which could still lead to major, unresolvable FP problems for the Bammer Admin + spill over into a Trump or Hillary Admin.
Perceived US strategic weakness is something the Bammer supposedly does not want for his "legacy".
This is true of everything Obumbles touches. He lives in the mirage of his narcissistic.universe where he truly believes that he knows everything about everything. All problems are caused by others who failed.
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I don't buy any of this guy's B.S. China is not going well and the Mideast is a disaster in foreign policy. The Iran agreement (or debacle) is a disaster. Moreover, we have had elitist chronic liars lying about everything to us. They don't trust the American people to come up with the right answers.
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We have few serious interests in the Middle East, especially now that fracking has made us a petro-power. We don’t need to abandon it to its fate....
Less Israel, that is PRECISELY what needs to happen. Establish 'fire breaks' and let it burn itself out. Why is such a strategy so difficult to understand or employ ?
F'd up the middle east by withdrawing from Iraq and destabalizing Libya and Syria, yes.
China is seeing the US become oil independent due to fracking and realizes we probably won't even try to keep the peace much longer so if they want a safe and steady flow of oil they better do something themselves. They are welcome to try.
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That doesn’t mean doing something stupid, like provoking Beijing or starting a trade war, and it doesn’t mean a return to nation building. But it does mean strengthening our allies to check Beijing.
Got it. Cut n' Run from the Middle East and tell your new suckers friends in Asia that we have their backs.
[Claremont.org] 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You--or the leader of your party--may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees.
More to the point, what has conservatism achieved lately? In the last 20 years? The answer--which appears to be "nothing"--might seem to lend credence to the plea that "our ideas haven’t been tried." Except that the same conservatives who generate those ideas are in charge of selling them to the broader public. If their ideas "haven’t been tried," who is ultimately at fault? The whole enterprise of Conservatism, Inc., reeks of failure. Its sole recent and ongoing success is its own self-preservation. Conservative intellectuals never tire of praising "entrepreneurs" and "creative destruction." Dare to fail! they exhort businessmen. Let the market decide! Except, um, not with respect to us. Or is their true market not the political arena, but the fundraising circuit?
Only three questions matter. First, how bad are things really? Second, what do we do right now? Third, what should we do for the long term?
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...conservatism’s typical combination of the useless and inapt with the utopian and unrealizable
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You could have voted for another Jim Bob Bush....or Ted Cruz and beady eyes.
So its down to Trump and you better Vote.... or Hillary DOES her thingy. Not a lot of choices left now, are there? And can Trump OR Hillary hold onto what they win? WHAT do they win?
And you still lock your doors nowadays cause its DARK out there... and you just aren't the kind to go to Church.
( You can't fly the plane anyway, even if you do get to the controls. )
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Yup, 8 more years of rot and corruption or worse or a possibility that Flight 93 or the target the terrorists had in mind might be saved is where we are at this time.
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Yes, yes, Flight 93. The memorial that looks like a crescent moon and counts the hijackers as "victims." Good times...
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Best thing I've read in a long time (RTWT). A pox on conservative pundits, apparatchiks, and funders. We will not be able to recover from Hillary - we might not be able to recover regardless.
The canonical definition of the Yiddish word chutzpah involves a man who murders his parents and then asks for clemency because he is an orphan. An unprecedented degree of chutzpah informs the machinations of radical Muslims, who engineer humanitarian disasters and then demand that the West intervene to save them.
Most of Clinton’s cabinet didn’t want to support the KLA, which made its money in narcotics and human trafficking, and they didn’t want to divide the sovereign state of Serbia--a precedent that Russia later used to justify its seizure of the Crimea. Nonetheless the moral blackmail succeeded, and Muslim radicals learned how to push the guilt button of the West.
[Breitbart] Director Oliver Stone opened up about his forthcoming Edward Snowden biopic Snowden in a recent interview, and called most Hollywood war movies "bullsh*t" -- thanks to the CIA.
"What you’re seeing is bullsh*t. And a lot of the war pictures you see, you don’t get, you know, you get it after the Pentagon has sanitized it. And they lie. They lie. As long as it is pro-American, that’s all that matters," the three-time Oscar-winner said during an August 26 interview at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television.
Stone says "the Pentagon has taken over. CIA has taken over Hollywood in that sense." Only Hollywood ?
Moving to closing paras:
During the Q&A, Stone also praised GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who filmed scenes for the director’s 1987 classic Wall Street that were ultimately cut out of the finished film.
"He was good," Stone said of the real estate magnate. "I have no complaint. . . I talked to him, and he’s a charming man in person. As an actor, he was stunning."
Last month, Breitbart News reported that Edward Snowden plans to appear live in U.S. theaters via satellite alongside Stone for a special one-night event ahead of the highly anticipated biopic premiere.
Snowden hits theaters on September 16, and also stars Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Scott Eastwood and Nicolas Cage. The film makes its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9.
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As long as it is pro-American, that’s all that matters
As opposed to your list of Anti-American films?
How'd all those Anti-War Anti-American films do during the Bush administration? How well did American Sniper do? Even for the American hating Hollyweird, they can read the bottom line. Why don't you go to Chinese financing for your movies. Cause if you're going to make a movie rather than art, it has to sell to the rubes.
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He's a marxist blinded by ideology. Some war movies lean pro-American and do well at the box office as a result. Others lean anti-American and sink at the box office. CIA has nothing to do with supply and demand.
In fact a smart person without ideology could have made a fortune churning out low budget pro-American war movies the last 15 years.
The Democrats have tried to bill themselves as a party of inclusion, and fierce defenders of LGBT rights. But apparently none of that applies to gay Republicans -- something one Congressional candidate is learning the hard way.
The LGBT community is furious after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee began airing on Arizona television attack ads against Sheriff Paul Babeu, an openly gay Republican running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Fifteen years ago, Babeu served as headmaster of a private school in Massachusetts, which became the subject of thoroughly debunked rumors about student abuse.
But it looks like the Democrats aren’t going to let the truth get in the way of some good hate speech. Throughout the commercial, words like "sexual abuse" and "strip" flash across the screen. The ad ends with the ominous warning, "We can’t trust him with our kids."
Meanwhile, Babeau has served as a member of the National Guard, as a police patrolman, and as Pinal County sheriff, where hundreds of thousands of people (including children) have trusted him with their lives.
The ad is designed to make voters fearful of Babeu’s sexuality, nothing more, and points out longstanding hypocrisy within the Democratic Party toward LGBT issues."
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All that's missing here is Claude Raines acting shocked.
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My only surprise is that anyone ever thought the Dems didn't have hypocrisy, lying, bigotry, homophobia and all of the other "phobias" they accuse everyone else of who speak against them in their DNA.
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.
[Gateway Pundit] On Monday Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called Barack Obama a "son of a whore" as he vowed not to be lectured by the US leader on human rights when they meet in Laos.
[Claremont.org] 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You--or the leader of your party--may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees.
It's not just the filmography, it's the stills as well. 
The Democrats have tried to bill themselves as a party of inclusion, and fierce defenders of LGBT rights. But apparently none of that applies to gay Republicans -- something one Congressional candidate is learning the hard way.
