The Patriot Post Digest 8-9-2016

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Mid-Day Digest

Aug. 9, 2016

THE FOUNDATION

“The first transactions of a nation … are to form the leading traits in its character.” —George Washington (1788.)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Terror Dad Photobombs Clinton1

Remember when the Leftmedia called on Donald Trump to disavow David Duke? The way the media had a fit, one would have thought Trump had just joined the KKK. Well, now an interesting story has emerged out of Florida. On Monday, Hillary Clinton was in the Orlando suburb of Kissimmee speaking at a campaign rally when the cameras happened to catch someone in the audience. That someone was Seddique Mateen, the father of terrorist Omar Mateen, who just a couple of months ago murdered 50 people in the Pulse night club in Orlando2.

After the rally later that evening, a local news crew ran into Mateen at a rest stop as he was traveling back down to West Palm Beach. They asked to interview him, and he happily obliged. He praised Clinton, who he called “good for [the] United States versus Donald Trump who has no solutions.” He also held up a sign he had made for Clinton that listed his reasons for supporting Hillary — ironically one of which was her stance on gun-control.

It remains to be seen, but it is almost a guarantee that there will be no calls from the sycophantic Leftmedia for Clinton to publicly disavow his support. In fact, she probably won’t even be questioned about it. For the Left, such negative Democrat affiliations just don’t really matter. Now if Mateen had supported Trump, it’s all we’d hear about for the next three months. Not only Trump but every Republican would be forced to answer for Mateen. Quite the double standard.

Trump Touts America First Economic Plan3

Donald Trump was in Detroit Monday and delivered a stirring speech outlining his plan for renewing the stagnating American economy. He began by giving a brief history of the city of Detroit, from its once grand status as the economic engine of America’s great prosperity throughout much of the 20th century to the now moribund and dilapidated shell it has become today. Trump placed the blame for this economic collapse where it belongs — squarely on the socialist policies of Democrats who for a half century lead Detroit into ruin4. He said it exactly right: “The city of Detroit is the living, breathing example of my opponent’s failed economic agenda. Every policy that has failed this city, and so many others, is a policy supported by Hillary Clinton.”

He then pivoted into laying out his economic plan by pushing his “America first” strategy. Trump called for an “across-the-board income tax reduction” to the rates favored by House Republicans — 12%, 25% and 33%. That’s three brackets instead of the current seven. Furthermore, he said, “Under my plan, no American company will pay more than 15% of their business income in taxes. Small businesses will benefit most from this plan. Hillary Clinton’s plan will require small business to pay as much as three times more in taxes than what I am proposing.” He also promised to “cut regulations massively” because regulations are “a hidden tax on American consumers, and a massive lead weight on the American economy5.”

“Americanism, not globalism, will be our new credo,” Trump declared, as he laid out his vision for the future. He continued by painting a picture of America freed from government over-regulation where Americans would rise to the top of the world, and their industrious nature would be allowed to thrive once again in creating and developing a bright economic future. He said, “We will put new American metal into the spine of this nation. It will be American hands that rebuild this country, and it will be American energy — mined from American sources — that power this country. It will be American workers who are hired to do the job.”

Finally, Trump pointed to the current Washington governmental practice being endemic with political cronyism. “We can’t fix a rigged system by relying on the people who rigged it in the first place. We can’t solve our problems by relying on the politicians who created them. Only by changing to new leadership, and new solutions, will we get new results. We need to stop believing in politicians, and start believing in America,” he concluded.

If he’ll stick to this message of hitting the Obama-Clinton economic malaise while promising something better, he stands a real chance in November.

Chuck Schumer’s Olympic Pander6

“It’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.” That was Joe Biden back in 2008, and he was talking about how paying taxes is “patriotic.”

That’s also the typical Democrat line for those who need to “pay their fair share.” So it was awfully surprising to hear soon-to-be Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer arguing just the opposite — that because people were patriotic, they should not be met with a “bill from the IRS.”

“Our Olympian and Paralympic athletes should be worried about breaking world records, not breaking the bank, when they earn a medal,” ‎Schumer said in a statement in support of a bill that would relieve Olympic athletes from taxes on their cash prizes. “Most countries subsidize their athletes; the very least we can do is make sure our athletes don’t get hit with a tax bill for winning. After a successful and hard fought victory, it’s just not right for the U.S. to welcome these athletes home with a tax on that victory.”

If only Democrats had an attitude even remotely similar when it comes to the rest of us who work hard and “win” at what we do to put food on the table.

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BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

Michael Barone: The End of History Not Turning Out as Hoped9
Stephen Moore: The Infrastructure Illusion10
Gary Bauer: Obama’s Lie11

For more, visit Right Opinion12.

TOP HEADLINES

‘Clock Kid’ Files Lawsuit Against Irving13
Denver Police to Begin Collecting Racial Data14
Secret Deal to Prosecute Climate Skeptics Challenged in Court15

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report16.

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Death and Hillary Clinton17

She’s the common denominator in a number of deaths.

By Paul Albaugh

For as long as the Clintons have been in the national spotlight, people linked to them have turned up dead. We’re sure that’s only the stuff of mythology among the “vast right-wing conspiracy,” but this week brings news of more of the same.

Despite FBI and Leftmedia attempts to keep Americans as uninformed as possible about Hillary Clinton’s history of corruption and lies, there is new information about the death of an Iranian nuclear scientist named Shahram Amiri. Normally, the death of a foreigner wouldn’t catch the attention of many Americans. But in this case, Amiri was in contact with Clinton via email, and the circumstances and timing of his death are more than suspicious.

Who was this man that was just publicly hanged18 shortly after returning to Iran? Amiri was one of Iran’s nuclear scientists, and in 2009 he disappeared while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, and he reappeared in several online videos in the United States. The timing of his disappearance was at the height of Western efforts to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. In 2010, he returned to Iran, and was greeted with a hero’s welcome. Soon after, he disappeared again.

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This past weekend, he was publicly tried and executed. According to an Iranian judiciary spokesman, Amiri had access to Iran’s secret and classified information and was linked to Iran’s number one enemy (and financier), America. He was also accused of providing the U.S. with vital and secret information about Iran. So what happened between his 2010 return to Iran and this past weekend?

Well, the revelations of Hillary Clinton’s email scheme and the release of her emails, which contained several references to Amiri.

Did Clinton’s emails seal this man’s fate? As National Review’s Jim Geraghty notes19, “It’s unnerving to see she was discussing such material on an insecure system. We don’t know for certain that the Iranians had successfully hacked into Clinton’s server — as FBI Director Comey said, hackers are good at covering their tracks — but it seems foolish to assume Tehran could not. Friendly references to Amiri in private email by Hillary and her staff would destroy his claims to his captors that he wasn’t voluntarily helping American intelligence.”

More likely than Iran doing the hacking is that Russia is the culprit. The two nations are thick as thieves when it comes to Iran’s nuclear program, and it’s extremely likely that Moscow has some valuable dirt on Clinton20, some of which was perhaps shared with the mullahs.

So what of Clinton’s emails? In 2010, Jake Sullivan sent two emails21 about a week apart to Hillary’s private server. Neither of the emails mentioned Amiri by name, but the first email notes that the videos were a “psychological” issue and that “our friend has to be given a way out.” The second email, sent two days before CNN reported a $5 million payout, warned of “problematic news stories” to come as a cover for Amiri’s return to Iran.

So while the emails didn’t mention Amiri by name, Iranian intelligence could have no doubt figured out that the person she was referring to in these emails was indeed Amiri.

This is what FBI Director James Comey meant when he called22 Hillary “extremely careless in the handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

There are other untimely, mysterious deaths in the last six weeks as well — all with ties to the Clintons. Last week, there were two deaths within two days23. The first was a prominent Clinton critic, researcher and reporter for the American Free Press named Victor Thorn. He was found in his home, dead of a gunshot wound to the head, in what has been reported as a suicide. It was his 54th birthday.

The second was a Bernie Sanders supporter named Shawn Lucas, who was serving the Democrat National Committee and former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz with a class action lawsuit for alleged fraud and rigging the primary election in favor of Hillary Clinton. He was found dead on Aug. 2, on the floor of his bathroom.

There are several others who have died strange and untimely deaths with unsatisfactory explanation. But the common denominator is that they were somehow tied to or knew something about the Clintons and had either reported or were about to blow the whistle on their wrongdoings.

It feels like the 1990s all over again, when Vince Foster and numerous others met an untimely and suspicious demise. This is the Hillary Clinton that the Leftmedia doesn’t want you to know about. The same woman who recently said that she may have “short circuited” her recent email explanation.

Speaking of deaths and lies, the parents of two Benghazi victims — Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, and Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods — filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Clinton Monday. The two allege that Clinton’s “reckless handling” of classified information contributed to their sons' deaths. And while the circumstances surrounding the Iranian scientist or the two Americans are mysterious, we know that Clinton is responsible for the deaths of Smith, Woods and two others in Benghazi. And then she lied about it for political gain.

Indeed, she lied to the public and then has the audacity to lie and say that she didn’t lie. This woman is filled with corruption and lies yet she is the “most qualified person ever” to run for president? Too few seem to know about her wrongdoings and malicious behavior. Or they don’t care.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

Clinton’s Leftmedia Enablers24
Jake Tapper Takes Out Clinton25
After Dallas Massacre, Police Recruitment Soars26
Emanuel Thinks More Taxes Will Solve Pension Woes27
Taliban Teams Up With Islamic State28
Turkey and Russia Warming to Each Other?29

OPINION IN BRIEF

Michael Barone: “The scholar Francis Fukuyama has been widely ridiculed for the title of his 1992 book, ‘The End of History.’ Critics point out that we’ve had — suffered — a lot of history since then: the 9/11 attacks, prolonged wars in the Middle East, a worldwide financial crisis and deep recession. But Fukuyama’s point wasn’t that all conflict would cease. His argument was that the Western model of democratic governance and market-based capitalism had emerged as the only intellectually serious model of a good society. … As one looks at this nation and around the world, one has to say that democratic governance has not been operating optimally and market capitalism seems to be going through a protracted rough patch. … In historic perspective, today’s advanced countries enjoy unprecedented levels of freedom and prosperity. The complaints of today’s voters would seem picayune to ordinary people in the 19th century. Fukuyama’s insight was fundamentally well-founded. But that doesn’t mean there’s not something to voters' basic message to elites: You need to do a better job.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” —Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

The BIG lie: “Somehow people think I made it an issue. I didn’t make it an issue.” —Barack Obama on the transgender bathroom issue that he signed an executive order about

Braying Jenny: “I take [this issue of mistrust] seriously. You know, it doesn’t make me feel good when people say those things, and I recognize that I have work to do. But when I started running for the Senate in New York, a lot of the same things were said. I won. I worked hard for the people of New York, and I was re-elected with 67% of the vote. … Ask yourselves: Were 67% of the people in New York wrong? Were 66% of the American public wrong? Or maybe, just maybe, when I’m actually running for a job there is a real benefit to those on the other side in trying to stir up as much concern as possible.” —Hillary Clinton

Non Compos Mentis: “Trump’s policies would throw us into a recession. That’s the last thing we need.” —Hillary Clinton (Apparently Clinton has not heard that most of the nation is still in the throes of the Obama-Clinton recession.)

For the record: “It is a sad day when one must choose between believing the American president or the Iranian government that has vowed to wipe out Israel and then come after America and subject the world to fundamentalist Islam.” —Cal Thomas

And last… “Tehran now knows that hostage-taking pays lucrative rewards. The Iranians have taken three more hostages. They are clearly hoping for another coincidence.” —Rich Lowry

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