The Patriot Post Digest 2-9-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 2-9-2016
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Daily Digest

Feb. 9, 2016

THE FOUNDATION

“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” —Samuel Adams, 1781

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

New Hampshire Primary: The Race to Second Place1

If the fickle polls ahead of the New Hampshire primary are any indicator, then Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders will walk away winners. The question then becomes: Did the two win big enough? According to Real Clear Politics2, Trump has a 17-point lead. But if the ultimate poll — the vote itself — shows a more lackluster support from living, breathing voters, then Trump faces a rocky road as he didn’t meet “yuge” expectations.

For the rest of the GOP field, the race has come down to who can finish with a strong second. The polls place Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush in a dead heat. Rubio’s strong third-place finish in last week’s Iowa caucus raised his profile, but that surge was perhaps tempered during Saturday’s debate performance3 that involved scripted talking points in response to scripted talking points from Chris Christie.

Furthermore, New Hampshire primary goers are much more moderate than those in Iowa. The Granite State could be where the establishment strikes back. Kasich — the GOP candidate who told a voter4 he’s “the right temperature” between Clinton and Sanders — has placed a strong New Hampshire performance at the cornerstone5 of his campaign strategy. Whatever the returns may be tonight, we expect some of the GOP candidates to pack their bags and drop from the race as the field becomes further defined.

Meanwhile in the Democrat primary, Hillary Clinton is trying to limit the damage from Sanders' expected win, but she faces problems from outside and within her campaign. Inside Clinton campaign headquarters, the “inevitable” candidate has been criticizing her campaign staff, dissatisfied with how her campaign communicates her message. (We sympathize: It’s hard to keep the lies straight.) Leaving New Hampshire, she’s reportedly planning to restructure her operation. Looming on the horizon, the FBI finally officially acknowledged6 that it is investigating Clinton’s homebrew email server. If charges are eventually brought, then Clinton’s New Hampshire results won’t matter.

Clinton’s XX Chromosome Voter Mandate7

Hillary Clinton is a female. This just in, we know. But it appears she thinks flaunting her status as a victim of the war on women might be her golden ticket to the Democrat nomination. During last Thursday’s Democrat debate, Clinton said, “Senator Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me — a woman running to be the first woman president — as exemplifying the establishment.” She can’t be establishment; she’s a woman. Never mind her two and a half decades in Washington.

And she’s working that line of attack on Sanders, even deploying Bill Clinton to defend her womanhood. Bill spoke of a Hillary-supporting blogger who writes pseudonymously because she has been “subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often, not to mention sexist, to repeat.” Welcome to the Internet. And yes, Bill Clinton, who has been credibly accused of rape8, is worried about someone being sexist.

Meanwhile, feminist icon Gloria Steinem mused, “When you’re young, you’re thinking: ‘Where are the boys?’ The boys are with Bernie.” Isn’t that, well, sexist?

On top of that, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright declared, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!” The implication, we suppose, is that people with two X chromosomes must vote for Hillary Clinton, or risk hellfire and damnation. When asked about that on Sunday morning TV, Hillary immediately began her grating and awkward laughter9.

In any case, Clinton’s record speaks for itself10, and even were she a man, she’d be unfit for command.

Obama Ordered Cleansing of DHS Terrorist Connections11

In 2009, an Islamist planned to kill 290 civilians on a Christmas Day flight from Europe to Detroit. Fortunately, the bomb material concealed in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s underwear failed to detonate after alert passengers subdued and detained him. At that time, Obama condemned the intelligence community, declaring, “This was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had.” In the latest report from DHS whistleblower Philip Haney12, just before the “underwear bomber” incident, he was “ordered by my superiors at the Department of Homeland Security to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). These types of records are the basis for any ability to ‘connect dots’. … Even worse, going forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database. … The type of information that the Obama administration ordered removed from travel and national security databases was the kind of information that, if properly assessed, could have prevented subsequent domestic Islamist attacks like the ones committed by Faisal Shahzad (May 2010), Detroit ‘honor killing’ perpetrator Rahim A. Alfetlawi (2011); Amine El Khalifi, who plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol (2012); Dzhokhar or Tamerlan Tsarnaev who conducted the Boston Marathon bombing (2013); Oklahoma beheading suspect Alton Nolen (2014); or the Muhammed Yusuf Abdulazeez attack (2015) killing five military personnel13 in Chattanooga Tennessee.”

Haney also notes the 2015 San Bernardino attack14, killing 14 and severely wounding 22 others, could have been thwarted had intelligence not been scrubbed.

This politically correct “cleansing” of references to Islamic terrorist ties from critical national security databases is not only reckless, but is reminiscent of the last Democrat president’s obsession with keeping up PC appearances. In 1998, almost three years prior to the devastating 9/1115 attack on our nation, then-Demo chief Bill Clinton16, who had already declined to capture Osama bin Laden twice — and kill him twice — also refused an FBI field agent’s efforts to open a case file17 on Arab nationals who were, curiously, training to fly commercial aircraft, but not training for takeoffs or landings. The stated reason for the case file denial was to avoid the appearance of any presumption of religious bias against Muslims18.

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FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
A Chance to Defeat the ‘Assault Weapon’ Deception21

By Paul Albaugh

Despite Barack Obama and the Left’s continued assault on the Second Amendment, gun rights advocates (a.k.a. those who cling to their guns) received some welcome news. And it’s the kind of news that is certain to put many Democrats and those who hate the freedom to defend all other freedoms into panic mode.

We previously noted22 that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the state of Maryland’s “assault weapons” ban, which had in effect prohibited some semiautomatic rifles and so-called high-capacity (read: standard-capacity) magazines. Following a 2-1 decision, the Appeals Court sent the case back to the U.S. District Court with instructions to apply “strict scrutiny.”

If the U.S. District Court follows those instructions, then it will almost certainly have to delve into the meaning of the term “assault weapon” and what constitutes a firearm being in “common use,” per previous Supreme Court rulings. This is what has anti-gun groups in a state of fear; that the truth about assault weapons23 may be exposed.

For starters, the term “assault weapon” is often confused with the term “assault rifle.” Prior to 1989, the term “assault weapon” was unheard of, but anti-gun publicists started using the term to expand the category of “assault rifles.” For the most part, they succeeded in lying to the American public in order to scare them. Who would need an “assault weapon,” after all?

An assault rifle is a firearm that has the capability of firing fully automatic, or in other words by holding the trigger, it will continue to fire. Machine guns and the military’s M4A1 carbine (which can fire a three-round “burst”) fall into this category and are severely limited for being sold to the public — as in next to no one owns them. So-called “assault weapons” are not fully automatic; they are semiautomatic. That means only one round can be fired each time the trigger is pulled. The AR-15, pistols, revolvers and most hunting and sport rifles fall into this category, and all are popular among the public.

Following more than a decade of deceiving the American public that “assault weapons” were the same as assault rifles, the first Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) was introduced in Congress in 1993. But in order to ban these, legislators had to define them and they came up with “semi-automatic firearms that shared too many cosmetic features with their fully automatic counterparts.” The perception that a firearm was fully automatic was the key.

(One of the more infamously funny episodes in explaining these cosmetic features was Rep. Carolyn McCarthy’s (D-NY) claim that a barrel shroud is the “shoulder thing that goes up24.”)

On Sept. 13, 1994, the federal ban went into effect. Fortunately, Republicans in Congress forced the inclusion of a sunset provision for the ban to expire, and, 10 years later, a Republican Congress declined to renew the ban.

In 2011, there were 8,583 murders by criminals using guns, yet FBI data for that year shows that 323 murders were committed with rifles of any kind. Nearly 500 murders were committed with hammers and clubs, while another 1,700 were committed with knives. Yet the gun-hating Left would have us believe that semiautomatic rifles should be banned. Their logic is outright incomprehensible, though the emotional appeal has deceived many Americans into believing that those evil black rifles must be taken away.

The question that leftist gun grabbers refuse to answer is what part of “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” is not understood? They don’t ever answer this question because, for them, it’s not about your rights, it’s about the government’s control.

So we can rejoice that in Maryland, there was a legal victory for Rule of Law and Liberty. In part that’s because the victory creates an appeals court split, which could ensure the Supreme Court takes on the issue. Therefore, this year’s election is all the more important, as we determine who will choose the justices to fill any vacancies25. Should the High Court decide to hear the case and reach a decision, it will most likely be a narrow one — though we certainly hope it will be in favor of the truth and ultimately Liberty.

MORE ORIGINAL PERSPECTIVE

    ANALYSIS: Another Union Stronghold Falls26
    Obama Releases Last Spending Wish List27
    NYC Schools Trying to Solve Their Segregation Problem28
    Assad Slowly Regaining Foothold on Syria29
    Document Shows CFPB Shakedown of Ally Bank30

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

    Tony Perkins: When a Man Drafts a Woman31
    Tom Fitton: Hillary Clinton Discussed Prosecuting Republicans for Classification Violations32
    Todd Starnes: NASA Bans the Word ‘Jesus’33

For more, visit Right Opinion34.

TOP HEADLINES

    Illegals Get $750 Million in ObamaCare Subsidies35
    40% of California Driver’s Licenses in 2015 Went to Illegals36
    Wife of ISIL Leader Charged in Death of American Hostage37

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report38

OPINION IN BRIEF

Tony Perkins: “Like Governors Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) and Chris Christie (R-N.J.), [Marco] Rubio has no problem with ordering our daughters to the front lines — a fundamental departure from the Western worldview shaped largely by Christianity, which recognizes the unique roles of the sexes. … Here’s the underlying problem the GOP candidates are exposing in their rush to embrace a female draft: they’re making it clear that they lack the motivation and courage necessary to undo the damage done to the military under Obama. After seven years of sexual experimentation with the ranks, the next president is already inheriting a mess of morale and dysfunction. Under normal circumstances, we may be able to get away with electing a typical Republican who merely slows down the military’s demise. But these are not normal circumstances. The very survival our republic is in question. And we must have a bold leader who is not afraid to swim against the political currents.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.” —Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)

Upright: “There’s not a single Republican in this field who would, by virtue of inexperience, make the mistakes Obama is making, because Obama is not making mistakes. Obama has an agenda. I think the real important question here to ask and answer is why won’t anybody but Rubio and Cruz say it?” —Rush Limbaugh

Belly laugh of the week: “Republicans are running more ads against me than they run against each other. … Because they are afraid of me. They know that I will be a president who, yes, I will listen to people, but I will stand my ground and I know how to get things done. That’s the last thing these guys want to see again.” —Hillary Clinton

A promise she just might keep: “Yes, let’s fix the VA, but we will never let it be privatized, and that is a promise.” —Hillary Clinton

That’s not the point: “The secretary of state was not personally responsible [for Benghazi] because no secretary of state had ever overseen the details of security operations, even Colin Powell, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” —Bill Clinton

Honesty? “Sometimes, when I’m at a rally, on a stage like this, I wish we weren’t married. Then I could say what I really think.” —Bill Clinton, who has probably frequently wished they weren’t married

Wrong prescription: “The ideal situation would be to overturn [Citizens United] that allows for … unregulated money for the independent and regulated for the campaign.” —Jeb Bush

Late-night humor: “At the debate, Hillary Clinton addressed the controversy of her personal email server and said she has ‘no concerns about it whatsoever.’ Democrats were like, ‘Yeah, that’s what concerns us.’” —Jimmy Fallon

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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