How Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Strategy Got North Korea to the Table

Obama didn't do it; what Democrat do you know of that would have done it? Remember that Americans who support North Korea would vote for a Democrat or socialist candidate. TD

Observer.com  "Donald Trump’s October 24, 1999 Meet the Press interview with Tim Russert is a historically illuminating flash forward to the most surprising, promising and history-altering opportunity since the Soviet Union collapsed: “denuclearizing” North Korea without the could-be belligerents waging a hideously destructive war that scars East Asia and seeds a global economic depression.

"Yes, those are the stakes: millions of dead and trillions of debt.

"In the interview, Russert says Trump once indicated if he were president he would attack North Korea preemptively in order to end its nuclear threat.

"Despite Russert’s vapors and wailing, Trump’s grammatically-challenged beer and barbecue answer is a superb twofer. One: Trump answers Russert’s core question. Two: Trump accurately summarizes the American government’s spaghetti-spined responses to North Korea’s slow but insidious quest for nuclear weapons.

"Trump says, “First I’d negotiate and be sure I could get the best deal possible… These people in three or four years are going to have nuclear weapons… The biggest problem this world has is nuclear proliferation. And we have a country out there in North Korea which is sort of whacko, which is not a bunch of dummies and they are developing nuclear weapons… If that negotiation doesn’t work then better solve the problem now than solve it later.' ” . . .

Mr. Obama, this is what a good, non-Democrat Commander-in-Chief does . . .

. . . while you were organizing our military into some politically correct social justice institution. TD

US Military Details Latest Attacks On ISIS

"The United States military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) has released the details of the latest strikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The strikes were conducted by U.S. units assigned to Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTFOIR) and their international partners.
"The strikes took place between March 9-15 and resulted in 37 engagements.

Syria
"In Syria, coalition forces conducted operations near Abu Kamal, Shadaddi, and Dayr Az Zawr.

"Among the targets destroyed were ISIS tactical units, ISIS occupied buildings and an observation post. An ISIS controlled drone that was discovered near Dayr Az Zawr was also destroyed.

Iraq
"The majority of the fighting in Iraq has been spread out between Qaim, Qayyarah, Baghdad, Rutbah, and Hawijah.
"ISIS tactical units, supply routes, and fighting positions were all destroyed along with ISIS occupied buildings, vehicles, and a watercraft.
"There were also three engagements near Tal Afar which resulted in the destruction of an ISIS tunnel system.
"Several different weapon systems were utilized during the fighting, including fighter and bomber aircraft, helicopters, land-based artillery systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles. CJTFOIR does not release the exact types of aircraft used or the specific units that were involved.
"All of the strikes in both Iraq and Syria were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, which is the U.S. military’s continued mission to completely destroy ISIS.

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The Irish Brigade in the American Civil War, 1861-1865

The Tunnel Wall

. . . " He was protesting the inadequate and ineffective response of the British government to the potato famine in Ireland [1845-1850] where approximately one million Irish-British subjects starved to death and approximately another two million emigrated in coffin ships to Australia, Canada and the United States. Corcoran was relieved of command and court-martial proceedings were instituted. The charges were dropped when the 69th New York State Militia responded to President Lincoln’s call to defend Washington City. " . . .

The Irish Brigade at Gettysburg

What can we contribute to St Patrick's Day?

The Unspoken Ghosts of Irish-Americans
"Ireland had no defense forces until about 1913, so its people were captured and enslaved by many nations over the years. They endured more oppression than American blacks and suffered living conditions not unlike Jews of the Holocaust. But harboring grudges against ghosts of heritages past was not a mainstay for Irish Americans*. They had more important things to do. We know so little of our Irish’s torturous past because of their impressive will to live beyond victimization rather than living in it. America’s Irish are prime examples of sheer determination turning adversity into stepping stones of a better life."
. . . 
 "Throughout the 1600-1700s the Irish settled in Early American colonies and by the 1860s they were among America’s greatest Civil War heroes, renowned for their bravery and leadership. Their competence, patriotic enthusiasm and ingrained confidence in overcoming obstacles helped to diminish some of the religious bigotry against them in a predominantly Protestant America. 

Animated map of the Battle of Fredericksburg

The Battle of Fredericksburg : "The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought December 11-15, 1862, was one of the largest and deadliest of the Civil War. It featured the first major opposed river crossing in American military history. Union and Confederate troops fought in the streets of Fredericksburg, the Civil War’s first urban combat. And with nearly 200,000 combatants, no other Civil War battle featured a larger concentration of soldiers."

 Below, the stone wall that no Yankee ever reached until 2nd Fredericksburg the following year. Beyond this wall the field was carpeted with the prone blue forms of Union dead and wounded .

Hillary owes America an apology

Don Surber "How dare she go overseas and bad mouth the United States of America while in India just because she blew an election despite spending a record one billion dollars?

"According to the man who beat her in 2008, she is helping our adversaries by trying to discredit our elections.

"Hillary is the worst spoiled brat, crybaby, sore loser. More than a year after the 2016 election she has not accepted the results, despite Trump taking more states than Obama ever did.

"In India, she insulted Americans.

"Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tore into US President Donald Trump's election campaign strategy today saying that he won the first TV reality election in the US. She said that on the basis of what he said in the election campaign in 2016, America did not deserve to have Donald Trump as the US President," India Today report.

"She lost because Americans saw her as a manipulative little sneak who used her sham marriage to a previous president to gain power.

"Her brand of feminism is to deride women in a way that makes "Mean Girls" seem tame.

"Most Americans saw through her like cheap wet cheesecloth. That is why 52% of Americans voted for someone else. They knew she is as untrustworthy as a Nigerian email. Many people didn't just hold their nose to vote for Trump; they wore gas masks.

"We the people do not want her, OK?" . . .

Elizabeth Warren Is In A Spin War With Democrats, And Conservatives Should Pay Attention

The Federalist

"Warren semi-regularly fluffs her facts on what is supposed to be her area of policy expertise. Anger seems to matter more to her than getting stuff right."

"Elizabeth Warren is pissed, people.

"This week, the Senate passed a financial reform bill that she did not support. Not one little bit. And neither did fellow “progressives,” like Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who is up for re-election this year and is speculated to be a potentially hot contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

"But a bunch of Warren’s fellow "Democrats did support the act, including many from redder states where availability of banking services is a challenge. These Democrats were more sympathetic than Sen. Warren & co. to the plight of regional banks — the ones this week’s bill — S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Reform, and Consumer Protection Act — was trying to help, as one banking industry figure said, banks like “Eagle Bank, Union First, Zions.” . . .

Liz Mair is president of Mair Strategies, LLC. She has consulted for Carly Fiorina, Sen. Rand Paul, Gov. Rick Perry, Gov. Scott Walker, and a variety of Fortune 500, major trade association, and large non-profit clients.

Cherokee genealogist slams Elizabeth Warren’s ancestry claims as ‘ludicrous’

. . .  “ 'She’s a lawyer, and she’s supposed to understand you need proof, yet she keeps claiming,” said Ms. Barnes, whose research appears on the Thoughts from Polly’s Granddaughter website. “Many are angry because they feel like she’s appropriating an identity to gain something from that. And she has no respect for true Native Americans.”

"Ms. Warren’s Cherokee heritage claims have dogged her during her 2018 re-election bid, thanks in large part to President Trump’s repeated referrals to the senator as “Pocahontas,” a nickname she has denounced as a “racial slur.' ” . . .

Correction: Trump’s Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah UPDATED

You will not hear about this from Democrats and the press. 

UPDATE: Soros's ProPublica makes a major, embarrassing correction
Pro Publica   "ProPublica, the high-and-mighty investigative-reporting foundation financed by George Soros, Herbert and Marion Sandler, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation and other leftwing elitist moneybags, has been forced to issue an embarassing correction to one of its vaunted investigative reports.

"According to the Washington Examiner:. . .  

. . . “It is now clear that Haspel did not take charge of the base until after the interrogation of Zubaydah ended,” ProPublica said in the correction Thursday." . . .

ProPublica erred when it reported in 2017 that Gina Haspel was in charge of a secret prison in Thailand during the infamous interrogation of an al-Qaida suspect.

 

"On Feb. 22, 2017, ProPublica published a story that inaccurately described Gina Haspel’s role in the treatment of Abu Zubaydah, a suspected al-Qaida leader who was imprisoned by the CIA at a secret “black site” in Thailand in 2002.

"The story said that Haspel, a career CIA officer who President Trump has nominated to be the next director of central intelligence, oversaw the clandestine base where Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding and other coercive interrogation methods that are widely seen as torture. The story also said she mocked the prisoner’s suffering in a private conversation. Neither of these assertions is correct and we retract them. It is now clear that Haspel did not take charge of the base until after the interrogation of Zubaydah ended.

"Our account of Haspel’s actions was drawn in part from declassified agency cables and CIA-reviewed books which referred to the official overseeing Zubaydah’s interrogation at a secret prison in Thailand as “chief of base.” The books and cables redacted the name of the official, as is routinely done in declassified documents referring to covert operations.

"The Trump administration named Haspel to the CIA’s No. 2 job in early February 2017. Soon after, three former government officials told ProPublica that Haspel was chief of base in Thailand at the time of Zubaydah’s waterboarding." . . .

Hat tip to Rush Limbaugh

Hillary's Hateful Harangue

"But again, my beef isn't with Clinton. It's with the Democratic Party proper, which has long been cynically peddling this very message in direct and subtle ways to alienate minority voters from the Republican Party, whose policies are manifestly more conducive to their economic well-being. . . . look at the racially charged statements Obama sprinkled throughout his terms in office."

Chaim Morgoles‎Snowflake's Safe Space & Buttercup Ranch

David Limbaugh  "Hillary Clinton's abhorrent remarks in Mumbai, India, last week warrant our attention because, like it or not, they represent the thinking of a large swath of the modern Democratic Party.

"But my aim is not to highlight Clinton's never-ending catalog of excuses for losing the presidential election, except to note that rather than blame everyone and everything but herself, she should apologize for stealing the nomination. If she hadn't done that, she wouldn't have to blame anyone. 

"She should also have to answer for FISA-gate, but I don't want to waste space demonstrating Clinton's unfitness for office -- because I have little fear she'll run again, and Democrats surely aren't crazy enough to indulge her if she tries. 

"Instead, let's review her disgraceful tirade in Mumbai, in which she blamed Americans' racism and misogyny for her election loss. 

" 'We do not do well with white men, and we don't do well with married white women," said Clinton. "And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should." 

"Hold the phone. Do you see the rich irony here? "Hear me roar" Hillary is impugning the independence and courage of women -- the very people she is pretending to defend against our misogyny? Seeing as she is maligning men, wouldn't it be prudent not to insult the other half of the human race at the same time? I know few men who don't have a higher opinion of women than this female liberal icon is displaying here." . . .

Korean Summit Strains Capacity of ‘Resistance’ To Debunk Trump

NY Sun  The news that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would meet with President Trump has strained the prodigious capacity of the Trump Resistance to debunk his accomplishments. 

 "Anti-Trump journalists who don’t know anything about war in general, and specifically very little about the deployment of forces in the Korean Peninsula, have been shrieking from the rooftops of America since the election that Mr. Trump was capable of blowing up the world in Korea.

"It has been generally assumed that any American military action would instantly lead to attacks upon South Korea and Japan. In their more agitated moments, the anti-Trump press has envisioned another Korean War and a million or more casualties. Some of the same people predicted a million Allied casualties in the first Gulf War. (The real total was 292 dead and 467 combat injuries among 956,000 Allied servicemen and -women deployed.) 

"The Washington press and the international community had uniformly predicted the complete failure of President Trump’s policy of escalating pressure on North Korea. Led by a self-satisfied Vladimir Putin, they smugly assumed that the total failure in this area of the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations would continue: The world would uneasily welcome North Korea to the nuclear club and the Washington press would conduct a stentorian rain dance of celebration at American impotence and Trump foolishness. 

"On the announcement of the impending meeting, the consternation of the rigid Trump Resistance took many forms. One Democrat lamented that “Trump’s bluster, unfortunately, has succeeded.” The inimitable Max Boot, a legitimate authority on many strategic subjects, as long as President Trump isn’t involved, hooted that MR. Trump had been hoodwinked by both Koreas." . . . 

The downside of student protests against guns: moronic signs and "skulls full of mush"

Thomas Lifson  "The mainstream media and Democrat pols could barely contain their glee at student walkouts demanding gun control. They attach all kinds of virtue to innocents spouting the propaganda they feed them, and even coerce them into demonstrating for.

"Only one small problem: they have, in the immortal words of Professor Kingsfield in The Paper Chase, skulls full of mush.

. . . 

“They think there aren't any guns in the White House.”

Their magical thinking leads them to believe that gun free zones are safe zones, apparently.

On Facebook, David Baker spotted this gem, that reveals a poverty of knowledge:

"For those unfamiliar with ancient history or the NRA, Baker explains:

In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes demanded that the Spartans give up their weapons. King Leonidas responded with the phrase ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ (molon labe) which meant "Come and take them." This led to the Battle of Thermopylae, in which a small group of Greek warriors held off a far superior group of Persians for three days.

Similarly, in 1831, the Mexican army gave a small piece of field artillery to settlers in Gonzales, Texas, to help them fend off Indian attacks. At the onset of the Texas Revolution, the Mexican army asked for the cannon back. In response, the settlers raised a homemade flag with an image of the weapon and the words "Come and Take It" emblazoned across it.

The twin phrases "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ/molon labe" and "Come and Take It" have become synonymous with the promotion of the Second Amendment and other fundamental liberties. They are antithetical to the idea of unilateral disarmament.

Today, snowflakes across the country walked out of class to protest "gun violence" and demand new confiscatory gun laws. The poorly informed young woman in the photo was part of today's Tide Pod Walkout. Note the slogan (and date) on her shirt, and the protest sign in her hands. . . .

Bill Clinton gets no respect

Evolution of a Mike Ramirez cartoon

First the rough sketch:

Then on to the finished product to be published. Details are added plus one very subtle detail that many miss. See it?

Wait for it...

Here it is!

The media places targets on the backs of our ICE agents

Beyond Offensive — CNN ( of course!)Runs Story Comparing ICE Deportations To The Holocaust

CNN Runs Story Comparing ICE Agents To Nazis  "CNN is pushing a story that compares ICE to Nazis, citing a Jewish woman who believes that deporting illegal immigrants is similar to actions the Nazis took during the Holocaust"

. . . "The article apparently does not feel the need to point out the key differences between Jewish people during the Holocaust and illegal immigrants in the U.S. — chiefly that Jewish people were being exterminated by their own government.
"A number of people lashed out at CNN for the offensive comparison.

As the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, I am beyond offended that you compare the ‘comfort’ ILLEGAL aliens with the stripped right of European Jewish citizens. Shame on CNN.

Read the pushback CNN got:  At the link.

Honduran On Protected Status Plotted To Bomb A Miami Mall Pleads Guilty To Supporting ISIS  . . . "Solano is reportedly an illegal immigrant who obtained Temporary Protected Status (TPS), according to the Miami Herald, citing Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Gilbert. He arrived in the U.S. in the 1990s and resided in Miami, where this ISIS sympathizer produced terrorist propaganda videos and “planned to place and detonate an explosive device in a crowded area of a popular Miami mall.” 

"The man was, according to the FBI, self-radicalized, and in March 2017, he reportedly changed his name to Abad and posted on Facebook: “I am Abad, son of Allah. May our black flag live on and we continue our battle.' ” . . .

Undocumented immigrant appointed to state post in California  The Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday appointed the first undocumented resident to a statewide post, according to Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León's office.

"Lizbeth Mateo, a 33-year-old attorney and immigrant rights activist, will serve on the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee. The committee advises the California Student Aid Commission on efforts to increase college access for California students from low-income or underserved communities." . . .

Donald Trump Jr.’s wife Vanessa files for divorce

Late-night commenters have their writers in high gear.

NY Daily News 

"Like father, like son. "Donald Trump Jr.'s wife has filed for divorce.

"Vanessa Trump married Trump Jr. in 2005. They have five children.

"The reasons for the divorce filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court were not clear. The divorce was listed as "uncontested," indicating the split was amicable. Trump Jr., 40, has been traveling extensively while running his father's business with his brother, Eric."