Did Obama pay a ransom to Iran for our captured sailors?

OUTRAGE! Iran Mocks Captured US Sailors at Revolution Day Parade  Do they have one sailor sucking his thumb?

Rick Moran  "One day after Iran released the 10 sailors they had abducted for strayinhg into Iranian territorial waters, the administration released $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars to Iran. The money was part of a settlement of a decades old legal claim by Iran and came from a special fund that the executive department can tap to pay claims against the US.

"Or was it a ransom paid for the kidnapped sailors?

"The administration insists the timing of the released funds is coincidental. But legislation introduced in Congress now seeks to discover the truth of the matter." . . .

"Why would Congress disbelieve the president? Perhaps because the Iranians themselves are claiming the money was part of the deal to release the sailors."  Emphasis added, TD
. . . 
"The final report on the incident has been continuously delayed by the [Obama] Pentagon. A Congressman who has seen the details of the capture says that the American people will be shocked when the truth comes out:" . . .

Honest Hillary Might Not Be the Nominee

Douglas Schoen: A Sanders win in California would turbocharge the mounting Democratic unease about her viability.  "There is now more than a theoretical chance that Hillary Clinton may not be the Democratic nominee for president.

"How could that happen, given that her nomination has been considered a sure thing by virtually everyone in the media and in the party itself? Consider the possibilities.

"The inevitability behind Mrs. Clinton’s nomination will be in large measure eviscerated if she loses the June 7 California primary to Bernie Sanders. That could well happen." . . .

. . . There is every reason to believe that at the convention Mr. Sanders will offer a rules change requiring superdelegates to vote for the candidate who won their state’s primary or caucus. A vote on that proposed change would almost certainly occur—and it would function as a referendum on the Clinton candidacy. If Mr. Sanders wins California, Montana and North Dakota on Tuesday and stays competitive in New Jersey, he could well be within 200 pledged delegates of Mrs. Clinton, making a vote in favor of the rules change on superdelegates more likely. . . .

Hillary’s long record of lying to keep the public in the dark



2015: Hillary Clinton -- Once a Congenital Liar, Always a Congenital Liar   . . . "But the late New York Times op-ed columnist, William Safire, had her number early on, as this gem from 1996 about the prevaricating first lady illustrates:

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -- a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -- is a congenital liar. Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.

1. Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading? We now know that was a lie told to turn aside accusations that as the Governor's wife she profited corruptly, her account being run by a lawyer for state poultry interests through a disreputable broker.

 Hillary is still a bad liar despite decades of practice

"Hillary Rodham Clinton lies.

"This is a widely acknowledged fact among people who pay attention and aren’t on her payroll.

"Nearly 20 years ago, New York Times columnist William Safire wrote: 

“Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our first lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.' ” . . . 

Target boycott petition surpasses a million signatures

WaPo  . . . "Melissa Arnoff, on the other hand, doesn’t see cause for worry. The senior vice president at crisis communications firm Levick told USA Today that she didn’t think the boycott will hurt Target in the long run. In fact, it could actually help the brand as it upholds its self-curated identity.

“ 'I don’t think they stand to lose much at all,” Arnoff said. “This isn’t unusual for them. It’s actually very true to who they say they are as a brand. I think the people who shop there loyally know that.' ” . . .

What Target is doing with rest rooms it is also doing with toys and bedding   . . .  "Of course, getting rid of gender-based marketing is a marketing move, too. Target will surely be looking out for customers’ reactions, and so far, many of them are major eye rolls at this show of political correctness.
“ 'Why don’t you paint your store white so you offend nobody at all,” one Facebook commenter wrote.

“ 'This is a pr stunt and a bad one. All they want is to save money on decorating the section,” another said.

"Next to watch: toy makers such as Lego or Disney and similar retailers, i.e. Walmart and Toys ‘R’ Us." . . .

Benghazi Survivor: Hillary Clinton Has ‘No Soul’

“I don’t think she has a soul,” Paronto said of Clinton . . .  “I hope it haunts her. I don’t think it will.”

Weasel Zippers

"Nailed it."

BRIDGEPORT — A survivor of the 2012 Benghazi siege that claimed the lives of four Americans and subject of the movie “13 Hours” repudiated Hillary Clinton Thursday night in Connecticut’s largest Democratic stronghold.

Kris “Tanto” Paronto, a military contractor and former Army Ranger, said Clinton failed as secretary of state to send in adequate reinforcements when the U.S. mission in Libya was under terrorist attack.

Part of the security team that tried to defend the compound, Paronto headlined the annual Lincoln Day fundraising dinner of Bridgeport Republicans, who make up less than 10 percent of the city’s electorate.

Paronto stopped short of endorsing the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, but said he will work with Republicans to shine a light on what happened in the confusion of the attack that killed U.S. ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens on Sept. 11, 2012.

“I don’t think she has a soul,” Paronto said of Clinton during an interview with Hearst Connecticut Media. “I hope it haunts her. I don’t think it will.”

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Telemundo caught staging #NeverTrump Mexicans for camera shot

Rebel Pundit

"Filmmaker Andrew Marcus, on the scene for Rebel Pundit at yesterday’s anti-Trump protest in San Diego, caught a Telemundo cameraman red-handed as he was staging a camera shot with #NeverTrump protesters brandishing the Mexican flag (upside-down).

"Marcus confronted the Telemundo journalist instructing the protesters to gather for a shot for his camera, and then telling them to change the position of the Mexican flag, which they were displaying upside down.

"As for the protesters, they proceeded to harass Marcus, obstructing his camera and spitting on his face. One of the female protesters defended the spit by saying it was a minor who had done it."

Kristol Eyes Conservative Lawyer David French for THE OPPOSITION Kristol Eyes Conservative Lawyer David French for Independent Presidential Run

Bloomberg  . . . "[David] French is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. According to the website of National Review, where French is a staff writer, he is a constitutional lawyer, a recipient of the Bronze Star, and an author of several books who lives in Columbia, Tenn., with his wife Nancy and three children.

"Reached in Israel late Tuesday afternoon, Kristol declined to comment on his efforts to induce French to run. The two Republicans confirmed that French is open to launching a bid, but that he has not made a final decision." . . .

Check out the Donald Trump Unity Tracker

. . . "Bloomberg Politics’ Unity Tracker shows where things stand: who's backing Trump, who isn't, and who's trying to carve out a position somewhere in between. We looked at almost 1,000 qualifying people*, then assigned the nearly 400 who have weighed in so far (by our latest count) to one of five categories" . . .

Texas’s War Against Washington DC

"Texas is involved in suits against the federal government about abortion clinic regulations, immigration, and now school bathrooms. And that’s not all."

arkansasgopwing

The Federalist  "The number of Texas suits against the federal government is growing. One might—accurately—deduce that Texas is presently not thrilled with Washington DC.

"We will need to call the new suit filed against the United States in the Northern District of Texas something besides Texas v. United States in the popular media, as the suit comes while we wait for the Supreme Court opinion in United States v. Texas, in which the Obama administration issued regulatory directives that amend U.S. law on immigration. We are also waiting for the opinion in the Texas abortion regulations case this term. Both are popular news cases, although the latter is called Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt, so is less likely to cause confusion when the press refers to it properly." . . .

We must never take our eyes off the media

Couric Takes Responsibility for Inaccurate Edit in 'Under the Gun' Film   . . . "When I screened an early version of the film with the director, Stephanie Soechtig, I questioned her and the editor about the pause and was told that a "beat" was added for, as she described it, “dramatic effect," to give the audience a moment to consider the question. When VCDL members recently pointed out that they had in fact immediately answered this question, I went back and reviewed it and agree that those eight seconds do not accurately represent their response." . . .

First Couric, Now Gumbel Accused of Deceptive Edits in Anti-Gun Segment  "Sullivan went on to list his specific objections: 

The examples I most object to are: 1) When I appear to say that the civilian-model AR-15 is just as effective or deadly as the military M16, they omitted that I had said “When firing semi-auto only” and that “the select fire M16 on full auto is of course more effective”; and 2) the interviewer pretended not to understand the relevance that, due to the Hague Convention, military bullets cannot be expanding hollow points like hunting bullets that give up all of their energy in the target body instead of passing through with minimum wound effect, with most of the energy still in the bullet and wasted.

Brian Williams: America Bombed Japan ‘in Anger’   "Friday on MSNBC, anchor Brian Williams remembered the bombing of Japan as the United States bombing “in anger.”

“ 'If people have found the U.S. to be preachy in the years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki about the use of weapons because we are the only nation to have used them in anger,” he said."

Journalist Laments: We ‘Won’t Be Forcing the Faithful into Straightjackets Any Time Soon’  . . . "Alas for Mr. Tayler. Indeed, the journalist had already treated religion as a mental illness before this study had seemed to confirm it. Yet, “the hour was not nigh,” he wrote sadly. “Psychologists were not yet ready to diagnose firm belief in God as what it is: an unhealthy delusion.”

“ 'Yet, would that it were so,” he whined in a piece for Salon. “Imagine, so many Supreme Court justices and Republican politicians, from Antonin Scalia to Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, disqualified in one fell swoop on mental health grounds from holding public office!”

" 'Of course, call any sort of gender dysphoria or non-heterosexual orientation a mental illness and the PC police would be on you in a moment. But religion? Fair game!" . . .

The media corruption was in force back during the Vietnam War. Many Americans (loathed by Democrat Bill Clinton, you may recall) died because of it and their killers were praised by the left.  “The media fueled the anti-war movement, empowering the protestors, the North Vietnamese, and the Vietcong,” he told The DCNF.

“ 'It was rare to have a ‘good news’ story about what was happening there,” Cowan said.

“ 'I recall a reporter coming to interview me at the village I was living at and apologizing after she was done by saying, ‘You know, this story will probably never see the light of day. My editors will quash it because it has too many good things in here about what you guys are doing.’” Cowan told The DCNF." . . .   Emphasis added by TD.

Read NYC’s List Of 31 Different Gender Identities You Must Recognize, Or Be Fined…

Weasel Zippers   "We brought you this story last week, but actually seeing the list that they put out is a bit stupefying. It’s not just that they believe this, it’s that they will fine you if you don’t also adhere to this nonsense. Just exactly how do I judge whether someone is a ‘two-spirit’? And what is the ‘appropriate’ pronoun for such a person? Who is gender-gifted? Isn’t that elitism, and isn’t that bad? And you list 31. At what point does it stop, because sure as God made little green apples, having gone this far, someone will say you haven’t gone far enough."

After waiting 70 years, WWII B-17 gunner, 94, revisits Britain and dies there

Toronto Sun

. . . "On May 6, Rector stepped foot on British soil for the first time in 71 years. The group first visited RAF Uxbridge in the London borough of Hillingdon.

"Rector toured Battle of Britain Bunker, an underground command center where fighter airplane operations were directed during D-Day. After climbing back into the sunlight, he told Jowers he felt dizzy. She grabbed one of his arms, and a stranger grabbed the other.

"There, just outside the bunker where Winston Churchill famously said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few," Rector died quietly.

" 'He walked out of that bunker like his tour was done," Jowers said." . . .

FLASHBACK: Donald Trump Breaks Up Mugging By Thug with a Baseball Bat

Jim Hoft  "As the liberal media continues to try to dig up dirt on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (Hegave a girlfriend a swimsuit at a swim party!) — Here is a heroic story that won’t make any headlines anytime soon.

"In 1991 Donald Trump saved a man from a mugging. Trump told his car driver to pull over and he confronted the mugger with a baseball bat. The mugger recognized Trump and then ran away."

. . . "Witnesses said Trump, with Marla Maples tugging at his arm to try to stop him, leaped from his black stretch limousine Monday evening during the Manhattan assault.

“Someone in the car looked over and said, ‘Gee, look at that, it’s a mugging,’ ” Trump said. “I said to my driver to stop the car because it was brutal-looking.”

"Trump was at first reluctant to discuss his daredevil deed, but then he warmed to the task.

“ 'The guy with the bat looked at me, and I said, “Look, you’ve gotta stop this. Put down the bat,”‘ Trump said. “I guess he recognized me because he said, ‘Mr. Trump, I didn’t do anything wrong.’ I said, ‘How could you not do anything wrong when you’re whacking a guy with a bat?’ Then he ran away.”

"Trump said the incident occurred at 8 p.m. as he, Maples and another couple were heading toward the Lincoln Tunnel on their way to the Meadowlands in New Jersey for a Paula Abdul concert."

Emphases in the original.

Vietnamese Communist Leader Says US Anti-War Activists Helped Their Victory

"Activists", you mean like this guy?

Obama's friend, Bill Ayers

Daily Caller

In the weeks leading up to Memorial Day and President Barack Obama’s scheduled trip to Vietnam, a prominent Vietcong communist leader privately thanked American anti-war activists for helping defeat the U.S.-allied government in Vietnam in the 1970s, saying protest demonstrations throughout the United States were “extremely important in contributing to Vietnam’s victory.” . . .

 Vietnamese guerrilla leader Madam Nguyen Thi Binh:  "Binh actually recalled in her latest letter many meetings she had with American anti-war activists. She wrote, “The first time I met representatives of the American anti-war movement was at a week-long conference held in Bratislava in 1967, with the attendees of about forty Americans.' ”

“Before parting, we were shaking hands, holding hands,” she recalled in her letter, adding, “During the war years, I also met many other Americans in different places organized by U.S. citizen groups opposed to the war.”

"The defeat ultimately triggered an international humanitarian crisis where at least 800,000 Vietnamese “boat people” fled their communist conquerors. Many bravely undertook perilous journeys in small boats across the Gulf of Thailand to escape the new communist warlords. An unknown number of refugees drowned in the exodus."

Re-education camps brought to you by the American left and their Communist yokefellows.