The Patriot Post Digest 11-7-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 11-7-2016
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Mid-Day Digest

Nov. 7, 2016

IN TODAY’S EDITION

    Comey says, once again, there’s nothing to see here. What’s the real agenda?
    Voter disenfranchisement, Democrat style — illegals and felons.
    Debunking Hillary Clinton’s “toughness” with Russia.
    Rolling Stone gets its comeuppance after defaming UVA dean.
    And more news, policy and opinion.

THE FOUNDATION

“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” —Samuel Adams (1749)

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Comey’s Layup for Clinton1

By Mark Alexander

Over the weekend, Democrats and Republicans retreated to their initial assessments of FBI Director James Comey after he retreated to his initial exoneration of Hillary Clinton2 three months ago.

However, in my analysis 10 days ago3 regarding Comey’s “reopened investigation” into Hillary Clinton4, I emphasized this caveat: It was possible this was an eleventh hour play for Comey to exonerate Clinton — again. I based this assessment on Barack Obama’s highly suspect praise of Comey right after the re-opened case announcement.

Then, I wrote that Obama’s affirmation of Comey could mean he already knows that Comey will announce, by the end of the week, that the FBI has completed a preliminary review of the new emails and that Comey will, again, clear Clinton of any wrongdoing.

Indeed, Comey did just that in a follow-up letter to Congress Sunday: “Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton. I am very grateful to the professionals at the FBI for doing an extraordinary amount of high-quality work in a short-period of time.” (Apparently, his investigators were able to read 650,000 emails in seven days — that’s 92,857 a day…)

So, what to conclude about this latest political charade? Either Comey is profoundly inept, or his “case re-opened” notification to Congress was a lay-up for Clinton’s campaign — to raise her corrupt off-grid communications5 again just so he could exonerate her again right before the election.

And that leaves us right where we started regarding the Clintons' criminal enterprises6, as I noted last Friday.

Our nation has survived two World Wars and a catastrophic Great Depression. Can our country survive the abject corruption of another Clinton administration in the wake and ruins of two Obama terms — and the appointment of Supreme Court justices who will shred our Constitution?

The nation will survive but the Republic, and its foundation of Liberty7 as affirmed in our Constitution, is on the eve of suffering the most significant insult in American history.

The only way to avoid nationalizing the Clinton’s crime syndicate8 is to defeat Hillary Clinton9 at the polls.

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Disenfranchisement, Democrat Style10

In an interview with actress Gina Rodriguez, Barack Obama was asked the following question: “Many of the Millennials, Dreamers, undocumented citizens — and I call them citizens because they contribute to this country — are fearful of voting. So if I vote, will immigration [officials] know where I live? Will they come for my family and deport us?” Obama replied, “Not true. And the reason is, first of all, when you vote, you are a citizen yourself and there is not a situation where the voting rolls somehow are transferred over and people start investigating, etc. The sanctity of the vote is strictly confidential in terms of who you voted for. If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote.” Did Obama just declare that it was ok for illegal immigrants to vote? It seems so, though it’s not case closed because he went on to say illegals are “counting on you to make sure that you have the courage to make your voice heard.” His deliberately ambiguous words are alarming given all that Obama has done to eviscerate Rule of Law on the immigration front.

Meanwhile in Virginia, it was recently learned that Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe has successfully granted 60,000 ex-convicts voting rights in time for voting in the election, helping tip the state in favor of his long-time friend Hillary Clinton. It had been initially reported by his office that he was able to review and sign only 13,000 approvals after the state courts overruled his attempted illegal blanket pardon11 of more than 200,000 ex-convicts. In fact, those pardoned felons received voter registration forms with a letter from McAuliffe with pre-paid return postage.

It’s clear that Democrats have little problem with the legality of voters, so long as those voters support their candidates. What’s ironic is just how much Democrats wail about voter disenfranchisement, all while disenfranchising citizens with their continued efforts to get votes from illegal immigrants and felons. Is it any wonder that many Americans believe Donald Trump when he talks about the election being rigged?

Clinton’s Russian Weakness12

The Washington Post has been completely in the tank for Hillary Clinton this year. The latest story is no different — attempting to paint Clinton as a tough opponent of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, which is supposedly the “real” reason he’s opposed to her candidacy. Aside from her infamous “reset,” the Post specifically referenced her as telling Barack Obama that “strength and resolve were the only language Putin would understand.” The problem is that Clinton and Obama have been anything but tough with Putin. According the Post, Hillary’s idea of being tough with Putin is to “snub him” and avoid “flatter[ing] Putin with high-level attention.” In other words, get on your high horse and act like he doesn’t exist. While that type of passive-aggressive behavior might work for one who is seeking to show dominance over weak-minded subordinates, it tends to have the opposite effect on those who are of a discerning mind and see through the power play charade.

Since Obama has been in office, America has witnessed the rise of Russian strength and a rebirth of Cold War-like animosities between the U.S. and Russia. Mitt Romney warned about just that, while Obama and Clinton scoffed. Putin has successfully annexed Crimea, occupied eastern Ukraine, and propped up a once-faltering Bashar al-Assad, essentially securing his hold on power in Syria. Obama and company have issued ultimatums and endorsed sanctions that they have then failed to back up, which is no sign of strength but of weakness. Ignoring problems doesn’t make them go away, and talking tough while ignoring problems only makes one look even more foolish.

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While Clinton has the foreign policy “experience” that Donald Trump does not have, the outcomes of her decisions leave little in the way of confidence that the U.S. under her leadership would gain any more strength internationally. In fact, there is a good argument to be made that Putin would rather deal with the known of another four years of Obama-style diplomacy than the unknown of Trump.

Rolling Stone’s Terrible Defamation13

Rolling Stone should stick to reviewing music. The iconic magazine lost a huge defamation lawsuit Friday stemming from its fabricated story14 in November 2014 about a supposed gang rape by a fraternity at the University of Virginia. Reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely recounted the story of the college student known only as “Jackie” without corroborating her account. Police determined that key elements of Jackie’s story were false. There were serious lapses at all levels of reporting and editing at Rolling Stone, and the magazine eventually retracted15 the story. Former UVA dean Nicole Eramo sued, alleging the magazine’s careless and agenda-driven “reporting,” which cast her as the villain and face of an indifferent administration, had destroyed her entire career of helping victims of sexual assault. A jury agreed, and deliberations on monetary damages begin today. (The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity has also filed suit.) That defamation suits are notoriously difficult to win illustrates just how far off the rails Rolling Stone went.

Campus sexual assault has been a major theme for the Left — not entirely without reason16 — and Jackie’s story evidently proved too good to do even basic fact-checking. But it was all a lie, and lies are what make it harder for actual victims, not the fact that Rolling Stone is being held accountable. Anyone accused of a crime is innocent until proven guilty. That doesn’t change because the alleged crime was sexual assault on a college campus, and it doesn’t change because some “hip” leftists at a rock and roll rag have a story to tell. Reckless and deceitful reporting should have consequences, making this is a welcome turn of events.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

    Globalist Elites Hate Brexit — and Trump17 — And they’re pulling out all the tricks to stop both.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

    Peggy Noonan: Democracy’s Majesty and 2016’s Indignity18
    Ken Blackwell: Hillary Is a Cheater19
    Hans von Spakovsky & Charles Stimson: College Subsidies for Illegal Immigrants Get Their Day in Court20

For more, visit Right Opinion21.

TOP HEADLINES

    Controversial Ex-Attorney General Janet Reno Dies22
    IRS Is Still Targeting Tea Party Groups23
    Clintons Kept $1M Qatar Check Secret24
    Maine Governor: No More Refugees25

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report26.

OPINION IN BRIEF

Peggy Noonan: “One thing I saw this year was that sincere conservatives wholly opposed to socialism had real respect for Bernie Sanders because they saw his sincerity. He wasn’t part of the web and they honored him for it. Both parties have their webs. Maybe this year begins the process by which they will be burned away. A closing thought: God is in charge of history. He asks us to work, to try, to pour ourselves out to make things better. But he is an actor in history also. He chastises and rescues, he intervenes in ways seen and unseen. Or chooses not to. Twenty sixteen looks to me like a chastisement. He’s trying to get our attention. We have candidates we can’t be proud of. We must choose among the embarrassments. What might we be doing as a nation and a people that would have earned this moment?”

SHORT CUTS

The Gipper: “If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what’s at stake. … Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation.”

For the record: “Hillary is good at rigging things and her friends at the Department of Justice have control of her FBI Investigation. If Hillary was anyone else in the government, she could not get a security clearance and would face serious prison time.” —Ken Blackwell

Legacy project: “Not everything is supposed to be inspiring. You just do what you have to do. And one of the things you have to do right now is vote for Hillary Clinton.” —Barack Obama

“I can tell you unequivocally, without a doubt, with data to back it up, that this country’s a lot better off now than it was when I came into office. I can prove it. The numbers don’t lie. … You have proof that your vote matters. And I may not be on the ballot this time. But everything we’ve done’s been on the ballot.” —Barack Obama

Nothing to see here, move along: “Friends, please remember that if you see a whopper of a Wikileaks in next two days — it’s probably a fake.” —Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri

Best case for Trump: “Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it, the FBI knows it, the people know it. And now it is up to the American people to deliver justice at the ballot box on November 8.” —Donald Trump

And last… “So Congress couldn’t read 2,700 pages of Obamacare bill before voting on it, but the FBI read 650,000 emails in just 9 days.” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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