Surveillance Sauce for the Goose

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Volokh Conspiracy  "Having trouble understanding what President Trump and Rep. Nunes are banging on about?  Try putting the shoe on the other foot…

"It’s 2020. Kamala Harris finishes a close second in New Hampshire, beating expectations that Elizabeth Warren would sweep her neighboring state (and its shared media market).  Harris roars into South Carolina, where she suddenly leads in the polls with a message of repudiating what she calls the Trump administration’s  dangerous foreign brinksmanship.

"Whatever you call it, you can’t call it dull.  President Trump has forced Iran to renegotiate the nuclear deal by the simple expedient of expanding US sanctions to include the seizure and impoundment of any tanker carrying Iranian oil.  The oil market remains stable, buoyed by record US oil and gas production.  But the move prompts a diplomatic rupture and some tense maritime confrontations with India and China. Undeterred, the President says North Korea is next in line for what he calls, “Sanctions that work. Unlike the last guy’s. Not a leader!”

"But it will only take one foreign mishap to make Harris tough to beat.  She’s fresh and virtually untouched by Warren’s surprised oppo research team.  The Trump team vows that it won’t be caught similarly flat-footed.

"In July, the intelligence community picks up rumors that intelligence services from Iran, North Korea, and China are working together to ensure a Harris victory in November.

"The President erupts at an NSC meeting.  “This is intolerable!  I want to know everything about foreign interference in our election – and whether any Americans are colluding with Iran.  This is a top priority for all of our counterintelligence agencies.' ” . . .

What of medical care as of today?

Tony Branco

Republicans rebelling against health care risk Trump's wrath  . . . "The scheduled roll call vote for the bill backed by President Donald Trump is a crucial first test of whether Republicans are willing to defy the White House and face the wrath of a president who has bragged about never forgetting a slight. Trump has shown he's willing to use his megaphone and practiced counter-punch against his allies. But the vote comes as Trump's poll numbers have slouched and his White House is consumed with damaging distractions.

"A group of breakaway Republicans, including several members of the deeply conservative House Freedom Caucus, on Wednesday remain unbowed, taking comfort in the political safety they feel in their home districts.

"Members are well aware they face possible primary threats if they vote against the bill the White House has cast as the only chance to make good on a GOP promise to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care law.

"White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told holdout lawmakers Wednesday: "You all have to vote for this. We've got to do this. I know you don't like it, but you have to vote for this," according to several representatives present. The comment came after Trump told a group Tuesday that "many of you will lose your seats in 2018" if Republicans don't pass a health care bill." . . .

Obamacare’s Mistakes: GOP Sets Dial to Lather, Rinse, Repeat    "Republicans should slow down, write a better bill, and build the political support they need. It feels like 2009 all over again."

President must close the ‘deal’ on Obamacare  . . . "And given his low approval ratings, he needs a win.

"Dealing with the Obamacare mess has been the core focus of the Republican party for the past 7 years — not to mention a major campaign promise that helped propel Donald Trump to the White House. So it’s imperative that the president seal the deal and obtain the 216 House votes needed tomorrow to move the GOP replacement plan — unoffically dubbed “Ryancare” or “Trumpcare” — to the Senate floor.

"Given that health care is a pocketbook issue directly impacting voters — and it’s one-sixth of the U.S. economy — the stakes are extremely high for Trump and the Republicans to get this done right, and not ram through a clunker like Democrats did the first time around." . . .

Chuck Schumer announces he will oppose nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court

UK Independent

"Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer has announced he will oppose Donald Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

"The New York Democrat also said he would lead a filibuster against Mr Gorsuch's confirmation. He said Mr Gorsuch “almost instinctively favours the powerful over the weak.” 

"Mr Schumer said doesn't think Gorsuch would serve as a check on Mr Trump or be a mainstream Justice. He blasted Mr Gorsuch for refusing to answer “question after question after question” in hearings this week. " . . .

"If at least eight Democrats join the 52 Republicans and back Gorsuch, that will provide the 60 votes needed to pass a procedural motion letting the Senate move quickly to an up-or-down vote on his nomination, with only a simple majority for approval."

Rick Moran sees it just the opposite.  . . . "In truth, Senate Democrats are between a rock and a hard place on the Gorsuch nomination. Not only did Gorsuch do extremely well in the confirmation hearings, he has given Democrats no earthly reason to oppose him except partisan spite. Since the GOP and President Trump will almost certainly nuke the filibuster if they can't get the 60 votes needed to confirm Gorsuch, the thinking of some Democratic Senators is to run away and fight another day." . . .

Partisanship with the scent of Reid  . . . "The U.S. Senate looks more and more like a place for partisanship rather than statesmanship, as Michael Barone wrote:

Democrats have consistently been more willing to attempt to defeat or discredit nominees of Republican presidents than vice versa. 

Few Republican senators voted against confirmation of Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor or Kagan; many Democratic senators voted against confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito.

Judging from the hearings, nearly all Democratic senators seem inclined to vote against the confirmation of Judge Gorsuch.  . . .

Because it was never women they were marching for, was it…

Liberal Logic 101

From Ethan Benton at DysfunctionalVeterans

NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN refuse to cover Maryland rape by illegals  . . . "If you remember other famous rape cases and hoaxes like the Duke Lacrosse rape case, the media (ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN) spent hour upon hour covering because the accused rapists were white and the victim was black. This is course turned out be a major hoax, but that never mattered to the media."

"Here’s a great poster illustrating the [Western liberal] approach to terror:"

Bookworm Room  . . . "In the wake of the deadly terrorist attack in London, people were remembering last year, when London’s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, said that terrorism is just part of life in the big city. He’s correct — that is, he’s correct if Islam is ascendant in the world. It is, after all, a faith that has terror as its foundation. Wherever Islam goes, it brings with it the fire and the sword. It’s a safer world when Islam is cowed, not ascendant.

I do feel terribly sorry for the people who were hurt and I’m saddened about the lives lost. 

"My sympathy lies with their families and friends. Having said that, I’m quickly running out of patience for the whole European attitude towards Islamic terrorism. We get one attack after another filling our screens with bloody images, and all that the Europeans do is mull over what could possibly have caused someone suddenly to go off his rocker, scream “Allahu Akhbar” and kill a bunch of people."

. . . "Until Europeans start taking Islamic terrorism seriously, why should I? If you all are so filled with cultural self-loathing that you have a death wish, my only hope is that you don’t drag me down with you."

An inconvenient cartoon

Rich Terrell

We Have Now Hit Full-On Crazy

thepoliticalinsider.com

Ann Coulter   "For most of the last two decades, Ngombwa has been living in Iowa with his wife and eight children in a house built by Habitat for Humanity -- because no Americans need houses. He came to the authorities' attention a couple years ago by setting that house on fire after a domestic dispute, then filing a fraudulent $75,000 insurance claim. 

"Another Rwandan genocidalist living in America was featured in Adios, America: Beatrice Munyenyezi, granted refugee status as an alleged victim of the genocide, even though she, too, had helped orchestrate it. 

"Munyenyezi was living safely in Kenya when she applied for a refugee visa to America. The welfare is way better here. And, luckily for us, she had a "chronic medical condition" that required constant attention from a New Hampshire hospital. 


"Hesham Mohamed Hadayet arrived in the U.S. on a tourist visa, then immediately applied for "asylum" on the grounds that he was persecuted in Egypt -- for being a member of an Islamic terrorist group. 

"Being a member of a noted terrorist group cannot be used to block you from coming to America, thanks to Barney Frank's 1989 amendment to the Immigration and Naturalization Act, because liberals love this country so very, very much. Being a talented neurosurgeon from Switzerland, however, is disqualifying. 

"Hadayet's refugee application wasn't denied until he'd already been living here for three years. When he was called in for a visa overstay hearing, he didn't show up, and the INS didn't bother looking for him. After allowing Hadayet to mill about America for another year, our government granted him permanent residency and a work permit. 

"On the Fourth of July following the 9/11 attack, Hadayet shot up the El Al ticket counter at the Los Angeles International Airport. I guess the Egyptians were right! 

"As bodies were being cleared away from the ticket counter, including Hadayet's, his wife blamed America for the attack, denying her husband had anything to do with it. "He is a victim of injustice," she explained. "In America, they hate Islam and Arabs after Sept. 11.” 

"At least immigrants are grateful. " . . .

A Year After Brussels Atrocity, Islam Strikes Again in London

PJ Media   . . . "I suspect we will never know otherwise, and that this will turn out to be exactly what it appears, especially coming on the anniversary of the Brussels bombings last year. Muslims are obsessed with anniversaries, and often time their assaults on a technologically superior but morally supine West to mark them." . . .

. . . Now here we are, half a millennium later, and the war between Islam and the West has rushed in to fill the vacuum left by the U.S. victory against the Soviet Union in the Cold War. That grim conflict was fought out largely via proxies, and in the back alleys of Moscow and Berlin. Today's war -- which only one side seems to recognize -- is now being waged in front of the Mother of Parliaments."

Just days after the Brussels bombings, a British extremist released a pro-jihad screed filmed on a rainy city street . . .

Parliament terror attack suspect shot by police is wheeled into ambulance before dying later in hospital

ISIS supporters celebrate London terror attack as extremists say 'UK is paying blood for blood'  "ISIS supporters have taken to social media to rejoice at the Westminster terror attack today that killed four people and injured dozens.  

"Followers on pro-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant channels on the social media service Telegram posted messages applauding the knife-wielding suspect and called the attack “blessed”. 

"They suggested it was 'revenge' for the UK's airstrikes on the terror group in Syria and Iraq." . . .

Maxine Waters' crusade against Trump

Rep. Maxine Waters Tweets Trump Better "Get Ready For Impeachment"  "Out of everyone currently in Congress, I think it's safe to say that Rep. Maxine Waters (D­CA) is having the hardest time coming to grips with Donald Trump's presidency. She skipped the inauguration, passed on Trump's address to Congress, called the Trump White House a bunch of "scumbags," and has been daydreaming over Trump's impeachment since before he was even inaugurated. 

"Now, she's back at it again, tweeting on Tuesday morning that Trump had better "Get ready for impeachment." 

"At the time of publishing, Waters has not followed this tweet up with any further commentary. Given that President Trump is currently not in the midst of impeachment hearings, it seems rather unlikely that he'd actually be impeached any time soon. 

"Trump derangement syndrome is not a good look for anyone­­ especially not for members of Congress. . .

Lloyd Marcus: Impeach Trump? I Don't Think So  . . . "To this day, I suspect some politically sophisticated conservatives are so embarrassed by Trump and protective of the political status quo that they secretly wish Hillary won and hope Trump is impeached. It amazes me that anti-Trump conservatives and Republicans do not realize the bullet in the heart of freedom America dodged by choosing Trump.

"I spoke and sang at one of the national “March 4 Trump” rallies in Orlando. Trumpmania is as high as ever. Attendees were happy, excited, upbeat, enthusiastic, and highly motivated in their support for our new president." . . .

Unstable Democrat Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, tweets to Trump: “Get ready for impeachment” . . . "Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters is quickly becoming the looniest US politician on the planet. Waters thought Russia had invaded North Korea, and called Trump’s cabinet a bunch of scumbags, just to name a few of her recent mental breakdowns." . . .

Maxine Waters isn't in any position to lecture on ethics  . . . "After three decades in Congress, the California Democrat has a more than checkered past. But that didn't keep her from predicting President Trump's political demise. "Get ready for impeachment," Waters cryptically tweeted out of the blue on Trump's 61st day in office and without further explanation.  
"If Waters hasn't completely discredited herself already — last week, she claimed, sans evidence, that the salacious details about Trump contained in the BuzzFeed dossier were true — then a quick review of her record should be enough to dissuade Democrats from following her lead." . . .

Trump supporter sues bar for not serving him

Don Surber  "The Happiest Hour on West 10th Street in Manhattan may not be happy after a Trump supporter sued management for refusing to serve him because he wore a Make America Great Again hat.

"Greg Piatek, 30, an accountant from Philadelphia, told the New York Post that the bar refused to serve him on January 28.". . . 

California being California

The Gateway Pundit

Rick Moran:  California looking to punish contractors who help build wall

. . . "If the bill passes, it will discourage California contractors from bidding on wall construction. That means a loss of hundreds of jobs - many of which would go to immigrants both legal and illegal. Instead, those companies involved in successful bidding on the wall could bring in workers from other states.

"It takes a special kind of idiot to become so slavishly devoted to a political agenda that a politician would harm their own constituents. 

"The legislation has a good chance of passing considering the massive advantage in the state legislature by Democrats. What would be California's loss could easily become another state's gain as Golden State politicians look to punish their state because someone in Washington is finally trying to address the problem of massive illegal immigration."

From the San Francisco Comical: Any company looking at President Trump’s proposed border wall between Mexico and the United States as a business opportunity may soon want to reconsider if it wants to do business with San Francisco.

California looks to become the first sanctuary state . . . "There are now 500 sanctuary cities in the United States, virtually all Democratic, which are pledged not to cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security in its efforts to secure our borders, identify terrorists, and deport criminal aliens. California has taken the lead in this pernicious movement and is about to become the first sanctuary state. Moreover, every public California institution of higher learning has declared itself a “sanctuary campus” including the University of California whose president Janet Napolitano is a former Obama appointee to head the Department of Homeland Security itself. This is the most massive movement of sedition since the Civil War and is the centerpiece of the so-called “resistance” – itself a form of sedition in a democracy - that Democrats have mobilized against the Trump administration." . . .

But those are California girls in their commercials. California's Carl's Jr. Says So Long, Golden State  

"We got more evidence of that this week when CKE Restaurants, the corporate parent of Hardee's and Carl's Jr. restaurants, announced that they are relocating to Nashville, Tennessee.  
"Hardee's will move its headquarters from St. Louis, Missouri, to Nashville, Tennessee, one of America's fastest growing states.  
"Oh, and did we mention that the state has no personal income tax? 
"Meanwhile, the Carl's Jr. move puts more egg on the face of California and the political class in Sacramento. Hamburger fast food chain Carl's Jr. was founded in California and for years has been headquartered in Carpinteria, California. The highest income tax rate in California is 13%, so moving to Tennessee, where the tax rate is zero, will save the company millions of dollars on taxes a year." . . .

Fox Throws Judge Napolitano under the Bus

There goes the judge.

Judge Obama and the intel agencies by their illegal actions and their lying words. Judge Andrew Napolitano by his track record of impeccable credentials and unchallenged integrity. Judge Fox News by their action throwing Napolitano under the bus. Fox News – unfair, unbalanced, and very much afraid.

Daniel John Sobieski  "Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications. "

 "Fox News anchor Bret Baier likes to end his Special Report broadcast with the claim that Fox News is “fair, balanced and unafraid.” Well, Fox News seems not to be fair when it throws contributor Judge Andrew Napolitano under the bus for linking surveillance of Team Trump to Team Obama’s links with British intelligence.

"Apparently, Fox News isn’t as “fair and balanced” as it pretends to be. While it endlessly repeats totally unsubstantiated claims of Trump critics of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as repeatedly dismissing Trump claims of Obama administration surveillance of Trump tower, they have dared to take Fox News contributor Judge Napolitano off the air for repeating what three intelligence agents told him -- that the Obama administration in fact had British intelligence conduct the surveillance so as not to leave a trail. As the Los Angeles Times reported:

The former New Jersey Superior Court judge, citing unnamed sources, said that the British foreign surveillance agency, the Government Communications Headquarters, “most likely” provided Obama with transcripts of Trump’s recorded calls.

“By bypassing all American intelligence services, Obama would have had access to what he wanted with no Obama administration fingerprints,” Napolitano wrote in a column on FoxNews.com.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited Napolitano’s charge last week when asked why President Trump continues to stand by his initial claim. The British spy agency sharply denounced Napolitano’s allegations, saying they are “utterly ridiculous and should be ignored." . . .