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The Patriot Post Digest 10-8-2015
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Daily Digest
Oct. 8, 2015
THE FOUNDATION
“In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate — look to his character.” —Noah Webster, 1789
TOP RIGHT HOOKS
Looks Like FBI Has Clinton’s Complete Email Trail1
While Hillary Clinton is doing everything in her power to portray her email server cover up as just a political hack job by the House Benghazi committee2, the FBI seized four servers3 from the State Department. The FBI does not work for Congress; the head of the FBI is appointed by Barack Obama. Soon, the FBI will have a complete record of just what happened on Her Majesty’s Secret Servers. Sure, as soon as Clinton realized she was being investigated, her team ordered the backup servers, anything older than 30 days, to be erased. But the politician who tried to wipe her server “with a cloth or something” didn’t do a complete job. Platte River Networks, the firm that operated Clinton’s email server, subcontracted some work to Datto Inc., but Datto archived some of the server’s contents in the cloud — despite being instructed not to do that.
On Wednesday, Datto Inc. said4 it would turn over the emails to the FBI. According to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), when Clinton ordered Platte River Networks to start destroying email, a Platte River employee emailed Datto writing, “Starting to think this whole thing is really covering up some shaddy [sic] s— … I just think if we have it in writing that they told us to cut the back ups, and that we can go public with our statement saying we have Head back ups sense day one, then we were told to trim 30 days, it would make us look a WHOLE LOT better.” Bottom line here: Clearly Clinton has been lying all along5 and endeavoring to keep her communications off books in order that they would not be subject to scrutiny before her presidential campaign. At best, Clinton has been grossly negligent in maintaining these private servers. At worst she has committed treasonous felonies.
Did we mention her staff emailed classified information to the Clinton Foundation3?
Clinton’s ‘Pivot’ Against the Trans-Pacific Partnership6
It’s a well-known fact that Hillary Clinton flip-flops on the issues. She was against same-sex marriage before she was for it. She supported her husband’s tough-on-crime policies before she said they damaged the nation. Sure, some of her changes can be chalked up to time and more information. But that narrative doesn’t fit Clinton’s recent stance against the Trans-Pacific Partnership7. “Based on what I know so far, I can’t support this agreement,” Clinton said8 in a statement Wednesday, implying that TPP would reduce the number of jobs in the nation. Based on what she knows? Of all the people in the nation, Clinton should know the most about TPP. After all, she was the person that negotiated the deal. When she was secretary of state, Clinton publicly lobbied for the partnership9 45 times. It was part of her “pivot to the Asia Pacific.” She told Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in January 2013 the TPP “holds out great economic opportunities to all participating nations.” The Trans-Pacific Partnership isn’t just empty words for Clinton or some kind of theory of what might be a future solution to a current problem. She invested herself into the partnership, presumably giving a part of herself to the diplomatic process. Yet she’s willing to throw that all away to cater to progressive voters (read: unions) ahead of next week’s first Democrat debate.
Concerted Effort to Silence Climate Opposition Exposed10
A clarion call11 by a group of professors demanding that climate dissenters be prosecuted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act backfired spectacularly12 last week when the Republican-controlled House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology launched an investigation into the group’s organization, the Institute of Global Environment and Society. IGES President Jagadish Shukla is now trying to stave off possible ethics violations — namely, using taxpayer dollars to attack opposing viewpoints, a move that perplexed even some Democrats. Emphasis on some. Others, like Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, the ranking Democrat on the committee, pretend to cherish freedom of speech while simultaneously ignoring the allegations against IGES. Johnson suggested13 the probe is unjustified and paints IGES as the victim. “Since the letter [ordering Shukla to retain information for investigative purposes] contains no specific allegations, I am puzzled as to the Chairman’s intent in writing it,” she said. Still, asserted Johnson, “To be clear about my own position, I would resist any attempt to stifle the constitutionally protected right of any citizen, including the nation’s scientists, to engage in free speech without interference.” But that’s exactly what the group’s letter demands. A letter that has since been taken offline because it was “inadvertently14” made public to begin with.
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FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Trump’s Domain17
By Allyne Caan
James Madison once wrote18, “Government is instituted to protect property of every sort. … This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.”
Good thing Madison never met Donald Trump.
Turns out the real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate not only has made it his practice to strip folks of their private property, but he also thinks it’s just fine for the government to do the same.
Recall the disastrous 2005 Supreme Court Kelo v. City of New London decision. In that case, SCOTUS ruled the city could take private property from its rightful owner and give it to a private developer for the “greater economic good” — not for public use. And Trump agreed with the Court19.
Incidentally, a decade after Kelo, the land that was supposed to deliver such a boon to the area still sits empty. As The Blaze reports20, “The only creatures making regular use of [the lots] in the intervening years have been a colony of feral cats.”
In an interview21 this week with Fox News' Bret Baier, Trump extolled the virtues of eminent domain and even boasted of his own abuse — er, use — of it. (Warning: typical Trump run-on sentence follows.)
“I think eminent domain is wonderful. … I build a lot of buildings in Manhattan, and you’ll have 12 sites and you’ll get 11 and you’ll have the one holdout and you end up building around them and everything else, okay? So, I know it better than anybody. I think eminent domain for massive projects, for instance, you’re going to create thousands of jobs, and you have somebody that’s in the way, and you pay that person far more— Don’t forget, eminent domain, they get a lot of money, and you need a house in a certain location, because you’re going to build this massive development that’s going to employ thousands of people, or you’re going to build a factory, that without this little house, you can’t build the factory— I think eminent domain is fine.” |
