Now we know Barack Obama’s foreign policy wasn’t principled, it was malicious.

"Obama might possibly have escaped into the history books only as a man who meant well feebly in foreign affairs. Not any more."

National Post

A warm handshake for our faithful ally, Israel.

. . . "His foreign policy has been a disaster almost from the outset in ways that contributed to the frustration and rage that poisoned the 2016 election. In part, Obama simply seemed languid, unable to stir himself in the face of threats or even look up from his putt. But there were always those who suggested that behind the indolence and prissy Wilsonian pose of being “too proud to fight” lurked something more sinister.

"Obama, they claimed, was viscerally hostile to the United States and the West. When he took office he had the bust of Churchill removed from the Oval Office. His relations with Israel were always prickly. He snubbed Canada in spiking Keystone XL. Yet he did not react with alarm or even visible discomfort to threats to NATO such as Russian moves to destabilize and partially dismember Ukraine, despite a firm American security guarantee when it gave up its nuclear arsenal in 1994." . . .

It speaks poorly of liberals that this man's behavior does not disgust them. TD

Denisha Merriweather’s Witness / She talks about the real-life consequences of school choice.

At a pro-school-choice rally in 2010, she noticed Matthews marching at the very front with parents and students. “That’s when it hit me that this is a civil-rights issue,” she remarks. “This issue affects low-income minority people. Even within public schools, low-income kids are not able to attend school on a wealthy side of the neighborhood. Red tape keeps these poor kids all in one area. It’s segregation.”

Alexandra DeSanctis  "I went to about four or five different schools before sixth grade, but as far as I can remember I never did great in school. Whenever I walked into a classroom, teachers would sigh. I got into fights a lot as a student. I failed out of third grade twice,” Denisha Merriweather tells me, explaining her early experience in public school on the east side of Jacksonville, Fla.

"But that very same girl received a standing ovation on the floor of the House of Representatives during President Donald Trump’s joint address on Tuesday, as the president lauded Denisha for becoming the first in her family to graduate from high school and college. And this spring, she will graduate from the University of South Florida with a master’s degree in social work.

"Her experience of Florida’s education system began with several years of struggling through East Jacksonville’s public schools. “My teachers knew the Merriweather name, and they didn’t really expect a lot from me because that’s who I was,” Denisha explains. “My home life was really in shambles, and so I’d lash out. . . . I didn’t feel like there was a reason to try.”

"She has come to believe that the structure of too many public schools makes it exceedingly difficult for children who have grown up in poverty — like all of the students with whom she attended grade school — to escape their situation. “I don’t fault the public schools, and I don’t fault the teachers there,” she notes. “This is the system we’ve made, where all the kids from one really poor neighborhood go to one school together. And that’s a lot of strain on the system, for teachers and administrators to have to figure out how to help all of these different kids, who are dealing with all of this crap at home.' ” . . .

Trey Gowdy: ‘Did You Ever Hear The Media Call For Special Counsel For President Obama?’

The Daily Caller   "Rep. Trey Gowdy talked at length about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal during a Friday interview on “The Mike Gallagher Show.”

"The South Carolina Republican agreed that the attorney general’s decision was the correct one before launching an assault against Democrats and the media for making a mountain out of a molehill.

“ 'The reality is Jeff Sessions is not going to be in the courtroom prosecuting this case,” he stated. “If it was good enough for the media for Holder and Lynch, look — it exposes their hypocrisy all of the sudden about Sessions, but did you ever hear the media call for special counsel for President Obama?”

“ 'I feel like I’m watching ‘The Notebook.’ They’ve fallen in love with the special counsel regulation they didn’t know existed a few months ago.”

Hat tip to M Fumie Craig

Andrew C. McCarthy asks: A Special Prosecutor . . . For What?
. . . "Yes, yes, Sessions is a good and decent man. He is a scrupulous lawyer who cares about his reputation. Thus, in stark contrast to Obama administration attorneys general, he strictly applied — I’d say he hyper-applied — the ethical standard that calls on a lawyer to recuse himself from a matter in which his participation as counsel would create the mere appearance of impropriety. The standard is eminently sensible because the legitimacy of our judicial system depends not only on its actually being on the up and up but on its being perceived as such.
"If it looks like you’re conflicted, you step aside, period. Simple, right? Well . . ." . . .

Wait'll Rep. Gowdy hears about this:

Obama appointee takes over Russia investigations
"Sessions handed over the reins for that investigation to Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente, who will oversee all aspects of the ongoing investigation.
. . .
"Deputy Attorney General Boente, appointed by Obama and promoted to U.S. Attorney in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2015, would eventually vacate that position once U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, a Republican, is confirmed. That hearing is scheduled for Tuesday."

I'm sure the Democrats will move that confirmation process along as fast as they can.

Up To 20,000 Members Across 46 States: MS-13’s Legacy Of Murder, Drugs And Human Trafficking Is Exposed

Weasel Zippers

"These animals are being protected by sanctuary cities right here in the U.S."

Via Daily Mail:

The El Salvadorian criminal enterprise MS-13 which saw two of its members sport sickening smiles in court for the ‘satanic’ kidnap and murder of two female teens in Houston is estimated to have between 10,000 and 20,000 members nationwide.

MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, is believed to have a presence in 46 states according to an independent study done by University of Pennsylvania.

The gang is thought to be behind a string of murders and violent crimes although the exact figures are not known.

Thirteen alleged members, ten of whom are illegal immigrants, were arrested in connection to seven slayings in Long Island over the last year.

The latest murders have begun to push into the public eye the decades of evil perpetuated by the group – and the terror of those living among it which sees female members inducted by being gang raped.

The MS-13 is the first and only criminal organization in the United States to be named as ‘transnational’ by the FBI and operates on the motto of ‘Kill, Rape, Control,’ Massachusetts Attorney Carmen Ortiz said.

The group was started nearly 20 years ago in Los Angeles after millions of immigrants from El Salvador came to the United States after a violent civil war left over 100,000 dead.

The gang has since spread all over the country, and are known widely as the best killers – due to their exceedingly brutal weapon of choice, a machete.

The two young women killed in Houston, Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, were beat with bats and hacked with machetes so severely that their bodies were unrecognizable. They were both students at Brentwood High School.

 Keep reading…

Daily Mail Reporter: Women in Sweden Live in Fear

Legal Insurrection  . . . "To make matters worse, Hopkins reports that many of the same women who live in fear of attack are afraid to speak out about it for fear of being called racists by feminists." . . .

"Katie Hopkins Visit to Sweden Exposes the Muslim’s War on White Swedish Women. This Daily Mail reporter tells Tucker Carlson how militant feminists, a conspiracy of silence and self-censorship on immigration bury the truth crimes against women in Sweden - Where females fear to tread: KATIE HOPKINS reports from Sweden, the Scandi-lib paradise where terrified women have vanished from the streets and a conspiracy of silence and self-censorship on immigration buries the truth. "

Still, being a liberal feminist, she assigns blame to Trump.

Obama Administration Officials Set Up Jeff Sessions’ Meeting With the Russian Ambassador. Oooh, and what is THIS!

And we thought dingy Harry Reid was more despicable than Chuck Schumer

The Resurgent

"We now have the details on Jeff Sessions’ first meeting with the Russian ambassador in 2016. It turns out the Senator spoke to the Russian ambassador on the invitation of the Obama Administration. Fox News reports:

The first came at a conference on “Global Partners in Diplomacy,” where Sessions was the keynote speaker. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, The Heritage Foundation, and several other organizations, it was held in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention.

The conference was an educational program for ambassadors invited by the Obama State Department to observe the convention. The Obama State Department handled all of the coordination with ambassadors and their staff, of which there were about 100 at the conference.

Apparently, after Sessions finished speaking, a small group of ambassadors—including the Russian ambassador—approached the senator as he left the stage and thanked him for his remarks. That’s the first “meeting.” And it’s hardly an occasion—much less a venue—in when a conspiracy to “interfere” with the November election could be hatched.

"So wait a minute — the Obama Administration set this up and the New York Times reports it is Obama administration staffers who are working to push out all the Russia information being used against Donald Trump and his administration.". . .    Emphasis in the original.


U.S. Senator Colludes With Russians to Influence Presidential Election

. . . "While Sen. Al Franken (D-Ringling Bros.) and other Democrats have the vapors over a truthful, complete, and correct answer Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave in his confirmation hearing, it's worth remembering the reprehensible behavior of Senator Ted Kennedy in 1984.

"This reprehensible behavior didn't involve launching an Oldsmobile Delmont 88 into a tidal channel while drunk.  This reprehensible behavior was collusion with America's most deadly enemy in an effort to defeat Ronald Reagan's reelection." . . .

"Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election." . . . Emphasis in the original.

Obama And His Lapdogs Did THIS Before Trump Took Office!

Clash Daily  "It’s been confirmed. As President Obama was leaving office, he and his Administration took great pains to sabotage incoming President Trump.

"Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary, has said that the Obama administration was creating a ‘false narrative to make an excuse for their own defeat’.

"Aaaand it turns out that Spicey was right.

"During Obama’s final days the administration was spreading ‘fake news’ about Trump Administration connections to Russia.

President Trump’s claims that the Obama administration sought to undermine his presidency received some support on Wednesday from a New York Times report on the Obama White House’s activities in the weeks before the inauguration.

President Trump against Obama, Democrats and the media

comicallyincorrect.com

Sessions flap shows a Trump administration under constant oppo pressure "Yesterday, we saw that the Democrats will not stop until they destroy the ability of the Trump administration to enact any meaningful legislation and make the changes he was elected to accomplish.  Senator Schumer and his cohorts in the Senate have muddied the waters enough to confuse people regarding Attorney General Sessions's truthfulness.  It is possible that former president Obama might have prompted his outgoing administration to leak the information regarding the Russian computer hacking of the DNC and attempts to disrupt our electoral process to damage the Trump program's effectiveness." . . .
. . . "Now they seek Jeff Sessions, since he would lead an investigation against the leakers.  The leaks are illegal.  Congressional leaders see foreign ambassadors regularly.  Destroying Sessions's effectiveness will allow these embedded Obama holdovers to continue the dripple of questionable material." . . .  Read more

We have documented often the vindictiveness of Barack Obama, now being turned onto Donald Trump and yet he is adored by millions. Is there nobody who has become fed up with this man?

Democrats are starting to sound like modern Joe McCarthys  . . . "Of course, Democrats don’t just want Sessions’ head: They’re also calling for a special prosecutor — which would guarantee a years-long partisan probe. (Think the Valerie Plame case.)  

 'When it comes to investigating the election, we’re with Sen. Marco Rubio, who says there should be no “cover-up” — but no “witch hunt” either. No matter how shrill the Democrats’ McCarthyism."  Emphasis added, TD

Jeff Sessions and the Democrats' Politburo Politics   . . . Sen. Claire McCaskill jumped in to say that members of her (and Sessions') Armed Services Committee were never supposed to meet with ambassadors -- such meetings were exclusively for the Foreign Relations Committee -- only to have photographic evidence of her own meeting with the Russian ambassador appear on Twitter within minutes along with several other embarrassing tweets of previous and subsequent meetings.

"Hers was Politburo politics at its purest, behavior not all that distant from the purge trials where false accusations habitually sent defendants to Siberia.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with ideology or the public interest and everything to do with power." . . . 

From no less a source than Andrew C. McCarthy: The Perjury Allegation against Jeff Sessions Is Meritless   "On the overwrought, partisan allegations that Attorney General Jeff Sessions committed perjury in his confirmation-hearing testimony, let’s cut to the chase: There is a good deal of political hay to be made because Sessions made a statement that was inaccurate — or at least incomplete — especially when mined out of its context. But the claim that his testimony was perjurious as a matter of law is wholly without merit.

"Perjury is not inaccuracy. It must be willfully false testimony. Willfulness is the criminal law’s most demanding mens rea (state of mind) requirement. Prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the speaker knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally — not by accident, misunderstanding, or confusion — said something that was untrue, with a specific purpose to disobey or disregard the law." . . .

Flashback: Chuck Schumer Meets with Putin in New York City

NTK,  via the Gateway Pundit

"Where’s the outrage?

"Democrat Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer continues to push the Russia conspiracy.
"But it was Schumer who met with Putin in New York City – not Trump." . . .

Obama and his Media Allies

Jack Hellner  "The Democrats and their allies in the media certainly couldn’t allow the momentum from the speech to continue, do not want to focus on Trump’s initiatives, don’t want the public to see much about the meetings with different groups, especially minorities and certainly do not want to talk about the massive increases in consumer optimism and business optimism or the trillions in increases in the stock market. Therefore:


"They bring out the tried and true -- people around Trump talked to Russians. It is too bad they didn’t talk to the Iranians instead.


"Hillary always bragged about all her contacts around the world so I do not understand why the NYT, WP, and others haven’t received any information on calls by her or anyone surrounding her the last few years to Russians or other world officials.


"Were the intelligence agencies and Obama officials only targeting calls from Trump officials or from all campaigns including Hillary’s and Bernie’s? Were their court orders involved to authorize the recording of calls?" . . .

Revolt of the attorneys general

"Later, a majority of states secured stays for two egregious EPA measures. One had given the feds sovereignty over the generation and distribution of electricity (the Clean Power Plan), the other over practically every ditch and pond in America (the waters of the United States rule)."

Charles Krauthammer

"Among the many unintended legacies of Barack Obama, one has gone largely unnoticed: the emergence of a novel form of resistance to executive overreach, a check-and-balance improvised in reaction to his various presidential power grabs.

"It’s the revolt of the state attorneys general, banding together to sue and curb the executive. And it has outlived Obama.

"Normally one would expect Congress to be the instrument of resistance to presidential trespass. But Congress has been supine. The Democrats in particular, approving of Obama’s policy preferences, allowed him free rein over Congress’ constitutional prerogatives.

"Into that vacuum stepped the states. Florida and 12 others filed suit against Obamacare the day it was signed. They were later joined by 13 more, making their challenge the first in which a majority of states banded together to try to stop anything.

"They did not always succeed, but they succeeded a lot. They got Obamacare’s forced Medicaid expansion struck down, though Obamacare as a whole was upheld. Later, a majority of states secured stays for two egregious EPA measures. " . . .

How To Provide Universal Health Care Using This One Easy Trick

"(The “do you understand …?” formulation is a condescension reserved only for conservatives, whose disagreement with liberals is taken as a sign of stupidity.)"

Human Events

. . . "The goal of “universal health care” is very simple to achieve, just as the goal of “universal wearing of clothing” seems to have been taken care of.

"The government can provide for those who can’t provide for themselves, but the rest of us need to be allowed to buy health insurance on the free market — an innovation that has made America the richest, most consumer-friendly country in the world.

"It’s taken 50 years, but, thanks to Hillary’s losing the election, we finally have liberals on the record opposing the Soviet Union. Can’t all of Washington come together and end our soviet health care system?"