Bernie Sanders is very much like Karl Marx
April 2019, Both Karl Marx and Bernie Sanders were indifferent students at college and dedicated much of their time towards radical activism. Marx - Karl's dad got him into a number of fine schools. He wasn't a very good student so the family connections came in handy …- Sanders studied at Brooklyn College for a year in 1959–60 before transferring to the University of Chicago and graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in political science n 1964. He has described himself as a mediocre college student because the classroom was "boring and irrelevant," while the community provided his most significant learning.

Virginia braces for enormous gun-rights rally Monday, 1-20-20 ...
1-18-20, Telegram.com -- Headed to Virginia's capital on Monday to take a stand for gun rights - or, in the words of some, to fan the flames of a civil war. "I'll be rolling into town early. Police expect rallygoers to start lining up Sunday night, despite freezing temperatures. Authorities are setting up two medical tents in the area in case of injuries.
The hoopla is focused on promises by Northam to enact sweeping gun control this year, including limiting handgun purchases to one per month, banning assault weapons and silencers, allowing localities to ban guns in public spaces and enacting a “red flag” law so authorities can temporarily seize weapons from someone deemed a threat.
Democrats across Virginia ran on the promise of gun control in last year’s legislative elections, winning majorities in both the House of Delegates and state Senate for the first time in a generation. That gives them the power to act - and has inspired outrage from SECOND AMENDMENT SUPPORTERS.

Ezekiel 38:12; Psalm 83:1-8

In scripture the Islamic Nations are named one by one; those who intend to annihilate the Jewish nation of Israel. And the nation of Iran most vocal with their Gen Salami in 2014 proclaiming they have troops in Lebanon ready to attack Israel; and Turkey's Erdogan not far behind. These current Iranian horrors are no surprise.
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​1-13-20, * -- The foreign policy of the immediate past US president [Obama] engineered a destabilization in the Middle East that has resulted in great suffering of humankind as well as advancing the march of end time prophecy. Strategically, that president locked in an irreversible pathway that accelerated world events toward the Ezekiel 38 prophecy where Magog, Meshach and Tubal (Turkey) leads Persia (Iran), Ethiopia (Sudan) and Libya against Israel in the end of times: "To take a spoil, and to take a prey (Ezekiel 38:12)."

Think about the truth in Obama's 2011 Arab Spring, assassinating Libya's head of state, Muammar Gadhafi, promoting the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign policy partner, and sending Iran billions of dollars in cash. Also think about the consequences.

In March 2011, Obama ordered the bombing of Libya, and he did not seek approval of Congress to conduct this act of war. Over six months later, on October 24, 2011, The Daily Jot reported that the "man who occupies the Oval Office [Obama] claimed victory in Libya, spending about a billion dollars of taxpayer money to topple the Gadhafi regime and replace it with Islamic fundamentalism." Indeed, the US had approved the assassination of Libya's head of state and supported a Muslim Brotherhood, [Islamic terror groups] al Qaeda and Islamic State-backed military group to do the dirty deed. These actions were not met with outrage by Democrats in Congress or the mainstream media as they are with the current President Trump ordering the assassination of the Iranian terrorist leader, Soleimani. Now Turkey has sent military to Libya to "ensure a legitimate government." [Israel Peace with Libya here -- Ed.]
 
Obama also bolstered Iran's terror-sponsoring activities as well as its nuclear ambitions. On November 25, 2013, his White House announced that it was entering into a deal with Iran to "stop" its nuclear program. The pact was ratified by the Senate in September 2015, empowering the president to complete a deal with Iran that would allow the terrorist state of Iran to build a nuclear bomb over the next ten years and pay them over $300 billion to do it; some $1.8 billion in cash arrived in Tehran on a pallet. Iran then ignored the deal, advanced its nuclear development, attacked oil tankers, embassies, killed Americans in Iraq, and fomented terrorism around the world. 
 
As current President Donald Trump stated on January 8, 2020 and it is true based on events reported during the previous presidency: "Iran's hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013, and they were given $150 billion, not to mention $1.8 billion in cash. Instead of saying "thank you" to the United States, they chanted "death to America."

In fact, they chanted "death to America" the day the agreement was signed. Then, Iran went on a terror spree, funded by the money from the deal, and created hell in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq." These are the true consequences of bad leadership. These events, set in motion by the previous president, are irreversible and will have even deeper prophetic consequences in the years ahead. The prophecy clock advances each day because of them. 
*Excerpted and adapted full original message from Bill Wilson, Daily Jot here

The Hearsay Impeachment - Lawyer,  Gregg Jarrett
10-23-19, Fox News -- The Democrat Party has painted itself into a corner promising the American people that they have evidence showing that President Trump has committed multiple impeachable offenses. However, the witnesses they're attempting to use have no first-hand information about the actions that the Democrats cite for the grounds for impeachment. Most of the evidence that these witnesses offer are their own feelings and opinions on hearsay information that they heard through office gossip. The American people must demand an end to the tomfoolery that has consumed those we entrust with our country.
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Looks like Pelosi and her minions may have fraudulently taken back the house - here
11-22-19, AmerThinker — In essence, widely understood among reasonably sophisticated IT people the security protections in software operated on voting machines throughout the USA had been purposely disabled or ‘un-activated;’ allowing possible penetration of the machines via online access methods. Also mismatches in time-stamped data flows suggest votes were changed.   For example, using open-source “Burp Suite” web-crawling software, the investigators looked into a company that supplies software used at polling locations in Texas and 15 other states.  They found readily accessible information within this company’s website showing purposeful disclosure of passwords by which anyone could log in to databases that include a wide range of voter and precinct and poll-worker information, including voter names, addresses, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, etc. 

More here: https://bit.ly/2skMejS

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Ilhan Omar a 'Qatari asset' who passed secrets to Iran
11-26-19, WashingtonExam -- Muslim woman Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota freshman congresswoman said she is the victim of Saudi propaganda after she was accused of being a "Qatari asset" and conduit to Iran during a Florida court case.

NOW she is attacking President Trump ...
1-9-20, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. called on members of Congress to join her in an effort supporting Iran and stopping President Trump following the removal of the notorious monster Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani. Ms Omar said: “So what if Trump wants war, knows this leads to war and needs the distraction? Real question is, will those with congressional authority step in and stop him? I know I will.”  See 2 minute video here More here

11:30 am, Wednesday, January 8, 2020
United States White House
Washington DC, USA

President Donald J. Trump:
"As long as I am President of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
Good morning. I’m pleased to inform you the American people should be extremely grateful and happy that no Americans were harmed in last night’s attack by the Iranian regime. We suffered no casualties, all of our soldiers are safe, and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases.

​Our great American forces are prepared for anything. Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world.

No American or Iraqi lives were lost because of the precautions taken, the dispersal of forces, and an early warning system that worked very well. I salute the incredible skill and courage of America’s men and women in uniform.

For far too long — all the way back to 1979, to be exact — nations have tolerated Iran’s destructive and destabilizing behavior in the Middle East and beyond. Those days are over. Iran has been the leading sponsor of terrorism, and their pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world. We will never let that happen.

Last week, we took decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist from threatening American lives. At my direction, the United States military eliminated the world’s top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani. As the head of the Quds Force, Soleimani was personally responsible for some of the absolutely worst atrocities.

He trained terrorist armies, including Hezbollah, launching terrorist strikes against civilian targets. He fueled bloody civil wars all across the region. He viciously wounded and murdered thousands of U.S. troops, including the planting of roadside bombs that maim and dismember their victims.

Soleimani directed the recent attacks on U.S. personnel in Iraq that badly wounded four service members and killed one American, and he orchestrated the violent assault on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. In recent days, he was planning new attacks on American targets, but we stopped him.

Soleimani’s hands were drenched in both American and Iranian blood. He should have been terminated long ago. By removing Soleimani, we have sent a powerful message to terrorists: If you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our people.

As we continue to evaluate options in response to Iranian aggression, the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian regime. These powerful sanctions will remain until Iran changes its behavior.

In recent months alone, Iran has seized ships in international waters, fired an unprovoked strike on Saudi Arabia, and shot down two U.S. drones.

Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013, and they were given $150 billion, not to mention $1.8 billion in cash. Instead of saying “thank you” to the United States, they chanted “death to America.” In fact, they chanted “death to America” the day the agreement was signed.

Then, Iran went on a terror spree, funded by the money from the deal, and created hell in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration. The regime also greatly tightened the reins on their own country, even recently killing 1,500 people at the many protests that are taking place all throughout Iran.

The very defective JCPOA expires shortly anyway, and gives Iran a clear and quick path to nuclear breakout. Iran must abandon its nuclear ambitions and end its support for terrorism. The time has come for the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and China to recognize this reality.

They must now break away from the remnants of the Iran deal -– or JCPOA –- and we must all work together toward making a deal with Iran that makes the world a safer and more peaceful place. We must also make a deal that allows Iran to thrive and prosper, and take advantage of its enormous untapped potential. Iran can be a great country.

Peace and stability cannot prevail in the Middle East as long as Iran continues to foment violence, unrest, hatred, and war. The civilized world must send a clear and unified message to the Iranian regime: Your campaign of terror, murder, mayhem will not be tolerated any longer. It will not be allowed to go forward.

Today, I am going to ask NATO to become much more involved in the Middle East process. Over the last three years, under my leadership, our economy is stronger than ever before and America has achieved energy independence. These historic accompliments [accomplishments] changed our strategic priorities. These are accomplishments that nobody thought were possible. And options in the Middle East became available. We are now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. We are independent, and we do not need Middle East oil.

US Officials believe Iran intentionally killed no one
1-8-20, Fox News -- Reportedly Iran fired dozens of missiles aimed at bases in Iraq in retaliation for the American strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week. Iran may have chosen to just send a face saving message rather than take significant enough action to provoke a substantial US military response. Many believe the current action is possibly a signal that the Iranian administration's current desire is to calm tensions. Iranian missiles landed close to the US consulate in Erbil, but didn’t target the consulate itself, though the belief is that they could have...

1-5-20, * -- Recently US embassy in Iraq was attacked by Iran’s Islamic Shiite members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), it was a deliberate recreation of the February 1979 attack on our embassy in Tehran Iran that ushered in a new age of Shiite terror, the media was quick to label it 'Trump's Benghazi.' The parallels are certainly there.
 
In both Benghazi and Baghdad, Islamist terror militias who we thought were our allies turned on the United States. In both cases, there was nothing surprising or unexpected about this inevitable development to anyone except foreign policy experts and the media. Obama had helped birth the Islamic State by backing Iran's takeover of Iraq. Forced to fight ISIS, he doubled down on the same strategy. And that completed the takeover.
 
 
And, in both Benghazi and Baghdad, the Obama administration's policy of cultivating Islamic terrorists had come home to roost. The current Islamists who attacked the US embassy in Baghdad were not Trump's allies, but Obama's allies. When in 2011 the head of Badr Brigade of Iraq visited the White House … it was Obama’s not Trump’s. The close IRGC ally was welcomed by Obama, and played a role in the current embassy attack. Trump listed the IRGC, Iran's global terror hub as a terror group - Obama resisted it dating back to his time in the Senate [2005-08].
 
Once in the White House, Obama's policies so empowered and enabled the IRGC that in one of the most infamous incidents in American history, members of the Islamic terror group captured and humiliated American sailors. There is little doubt that the IRGC was the hidden hand behind the embassy attack in Baghdad through its PMF proxies.
 
The rise of ISIS and the attack on our embassy in Baghdad had their roots in Obama's backing for Iraq's Shiite dominated government. [..] Obama wanted to pull out of Iraq as soon as possible. His plan for a quick pullout was to allow Iran a free hand in Baghdad. The Sunni Islam tribal leaders who had made the 'awakening' against Al Qaeda possible were ignored by Obama when they came to D.C. seeking support against Iran.
 
While the media went on touting Obama's incredible successes in Iraq, the country split into two terror camps. While the Popular Mobilization Forces rolled up Shiite areas, Al Qaeda in Iraq reinvented itself as ISIS.
 
Unlike President Trump, Obama chose not to hit ISIS hard. Instead, after Iraq's military collapsed, his administration's anti-ISIS strategy relied heavily on supporting the Shiite PMF militias which included embedded Iranian forces.
 
Iran's takeover of Iraq, like its involvement in Yemen's civil war, in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza [in Israel] were funded by the wages of Obama's nuclear sellout. The billions that Obama directly and indirectly handed to the terrorists of Tehran were used to fund soft and hard influence across the region.
 
The Iran deal didn't just mean that the terror regime was able to continue building up its nuclear program, but that it could increase its financial commitments to the Islamic terror group Hamas [in Gaza], help build up Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and the PMFs in Iraq. [..]
  

In Dec 2011 Obama hosted known Islamic terrorists in the White house - in above photo Obama's sitting alongside Iraq's then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Hadi al Amiri, who led a pro-Iran siege on the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, 12/31/19 stands behind the sofa wearing a blue tie as part of Maliki's delegation  ... here
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Under Obama, billions in foreign currency were illegally flown into Iran on unmarked cargo planes, then Pres Trump cut off the cash.
 
The cash crunch not only weakened Iran's regime, where fresh protests arose, but its terror networks, including in Iraq, began facing their own cash shortages. And so Iran's rulers, their IRGC hidden hand, and their Islamist PMF proxies decided to send America and the protesters a message. [..]
 
Who helped build up the Islamic terrorist infrastructure? The Obama administration did. Beyond the cash shipments to Iran and the sanctions relief, the PMFs benefited from US foreign aid directed through Iraq's Interior Ministry. Even as Iraq's Interior Ministry was headed by a Badr leader trained by Iranian forces who had been arrested for smuggling explosives used to attack American soldiers, US foreign aid kept flowing through an Iraqi ministry run by terrorists.

Kim Jong-Un is the current leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, often called North Korea; he was born in 1984 - his father was Kim Il Sung.
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Bill Clinton Once Struck a Nuclear Deal With North Korea
In 1985, despite his apparent commitment to developing nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung did ratify the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Then on Oct 18, 1994 US President Bill Clinton said in a speech announcing a landmark nuclear agreement between the United States and North Korea he said: “This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world.” It was called the "Agreed Framework", it was designed to put the brakes on North Korea’s nuclear program promising to put an end to years of increasing nuclear tension, including halting a near war. It didn't. More here from TruthorFiction

Erick Erickson has a good report and summary of the history of the Islamic terror regime's - IRAN'S  terror - on the world and why President Trump's recent act was the right thing to do killing the monster Iran's General Soleimani.
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1-2-20, Erick Erickson -- I won’t play Iran expert here. I grew up in Dubai in the 1980s. I remember once my school had to be evacuated for days on the threat of a bomb. I remember for a long time having to go through police checkpoints to get into school. Our lunch boxes would be open and book bags searched for bombs.

It was all thanks to the Iranians. At the height of the Gulf War, my father on an oil platform had to be evacuated as the Iranians decided to blow it up. Thankfully, they didn’t hit his, but others. One day, from school a few blocks from the Persian Gulf, we could see smoke on the horizon as platforms burned. We could hear the explosions. 
 Iran has been messing with us for a long time and we have treated them like gnats to be swatted. Eventually, a gnat might bite; it can become more than a nuisance. 
 Over the past few years, the Iranians have become more aggressive. The Obama Administration’s Iran Deal did not stop Iranians from exercising terroristic intent across the Middle East; but it did give them money to pay for their attacks.

 Since 1998, Iran's general Qassem Suleimani has been Iran’s puppet master, orchestrating terrorist brigades around the world.  He's now dead thanks to American resolve. If you want a sense of the damage inflicted, survey the headlines of drone attacks, terrorist attacks, bombings and more destruction across the Middle East for the past twenty years.
  Suleimani and Iran have been fighting us and our allies and we have restrained ourselves. Suleimani and Iran could be emboldened knowing we would never strike at them directly.

 Now we have and he is dead and Iran will retaliate.

US President Trump Orders Attack and Kills Iranian General Soleimani
1-3-20, DailyNews -- US officials confirm that the politically powerful Iranian general -the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force - Qassem Soleimani [62] died at Baghdad’s international airport Thursday, Jan 2, 2020 also Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, head of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces was killed. The general was referred to as Tehran’s “shadow commander” during his time as the head of the Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for conducting special operations outside Iranian territory. The drone strike was directly ordered by President Trump; the Pentagon said: “The strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans." [Obama and Bush tried sanctions and diplomacy even bribery with the rogue Islamic terror nation to no avail - many believe force is the only thing they understand.]Reportedly the recent attacks on the US Iraq Embassy was ordered by the Iran General Soleimani; he was hit near the Iraq airport’s cargo area as he disembarked his plane to be greeted by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. General Suleimani was the architect of nearly every significant terror operation by Iranian intelligence and military forces over the past two decades and his death was a staggering blow for Iran at a time of sweeping geopolitical conflict. More here and here from NY Times

BREAKING: Trump blames Iran, calls on Iraq to protect US embassy after Baghdad attack
12-31-19, Baghdad Iraq gunfire reported after Iraqi Shiite [Irainian] militia supporters storm compound and started fires. US President Donald Trump sending additional military support to the U.S. embassy. Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the US embassy 100 acre compound smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area. American guards fired tear gas at protesters while columns of smoke rose over the embassy grounds. A reporter at the scene saw flames rising from inside the compound and at least three U.S. soldiers on the roof of the main embassy building. 

Pres Trump blamed Iran for the embassy breach and called on Iraq to protect the diplomatic mission.  He said in a tweet: “Iran killed an American contractor, wounding many. We strongly responded, and always will. Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. They will be held fully responsible. In addition, we expect Iraq to use its forces to protect the Embassy, and so notified!” 

A U.S. defense official told Fox News 100 Marines are being sent to the embassy to bolster security. A U.S. Apache helicopter gunship also flew over the embassy and dropped flares in a “show of force,” attempting to disperse the crowd. A US spokesperson said: “As the president said, Iran is orchestrating this attack, and they will be held fully responsible. It will be the president’s choice how and when we respond to their escalation.”

HISTORY OF US BAGHDAD EMBASSY OPENED IN 2009 GW BUSH & OBAMA SPENT $850 MILLION ON 100 ACRE COMPOUND
In 2003 under Republican President George W. Bush the United States invaded Iraq and overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The U.S. then established diplomatic relations with the new Iraqi government. The old U.S. embassy was deemed unsafe for American diplomats and remained deserted so a temporary embassy was established in the Republican Palace.[10] Then on 100 acres in 2005 construction began on the decadent Baghdad US 'palace.' The completion target date was September 2007. Pres Bush sent Congress an FY2005 emergency funding request for the embassy in Iraq. In 2013 Business Insider reported that the cost of the embassy had surpassed $750 million.[14] The embassy formally opened behind schedule in January 2009 with a staff of over 16,000 people. In 2012 Obama requested more than $100 million for a "massive" upgrade to the compound.[15] ​ As of 2006, construction was being led by First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting. [18] [Didn't even give the job to American contractors??] The embassy features extensive housing and infrastructure facilities in addition to diplomatic buildings as follows[11]. Source Wikipedia

• Six apartment buildings for employees
• Water and waste treatment facilities
• A power station
• Two "major diplomatic office buildings"
• Recreation, including a gym, cinema, several tennis courts and an Olympic-size interior swimming pool as well as one outside

The complex is heavily fortified... including deep security perimeters, buildings reinforced beyond the usual standard, and five highly guarded entrances.
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SICK! As Fighters Stormed Baghdad Embassy, Democrats Blamed Trump for Iran Militia Attack, Some Cheered for Benghazi Replay 
12-31-19, A leading Never-Trumper attacked President Trump even as Iranian backed militias were storming the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, with several blaming Trump–not Iran–for the attack while others cheered for a Benghazi replay. It was so bad that a Hillary Clinton State Department/Obama NSC alum called on one Democrat group to delete a Benghazi tweet about the Baghdad attack.

Liberal Pundits Are Calling US Embassy Protests In Iraq 'Benghazi II"  
On Sunday, 12/30/19 approximately 25 Islamic terror group Hezbollah fighters died when the US bombed bases associated with the Kataib Hezbollah militia in western Iraq and eastern Syria. The current protests outside the US Embassy in Iraq apparently are in response to the US action against Hezbollah and orchestrated by Islamic 'Shiite' [Iranian] Protesters who managed to break through the main gate of the embassy.
(RELATED: Protesters Break Into US Embassy In Baghdad Following American Airstrikes, Gunshots Reportedly Heard)
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​Chris Stevens' Death & Benghazi -- Obama Administration ...https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/10/chris-stevens-death-benghazi-obama...When Chris Stevens died, I wanted to know why, when, how. I did not try to assess blame; I needed the answers to process my grief. Many people who have lost loved ones will understand this.

Eric Holder Unloads on AG William Barr
LAUGHABLE!
12-12-19, Salon.com -- Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder said that current Attorney General Bill Barr’s “deeply inappropriate” actions and rhetoric demonstrate that he is “unfit to lead the Justice Department.” Holder warned that Barr’s actions as attorney general set a dangerous precedent.  Holder said: “Virtually since the moment he took office, though, Barr’s words and actions have been fundamentally inconsistent with his duty to the Constitution. Which is why I now fear that his conduct — running political interference for an increasingly lawless president — will wreak lasting damage. The American people deserve an attorney general who serves their interests, leads the Justice Department with integrity and can be entrusted to pursue the facts and the law, even — and especially — when they are politically inconvenient and inconsistent with the personal interests of the president who appointed him. William Barr has proved he is incapable of serving as such an attorney general. He is unfit to lead the Justice Department.”
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​Obama and Holder Lied – Brian Terry US Border Guard Died
GUN RUNNING IN FAST  'N FURIOUS TO MEXICO
Jun 13, 2017 · Brian Terry’s mother, Josephine testified to the extent pf the coverup, lies and obstruction by the Obama administration and Eric Holder before the House Oversight Committee .

The Democrat Party is Unrecognizable
​10-15-19, RenewAmerica.com --  The leftists in the Democrat Party want a Godless society in the United States, just like their leftist counterparts have done in Europe. Anyone who remembers the political scene of the mid-20th Century may have trouble reconciling that Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Fitzgerald Kennedy belong to the same political party as Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. The Democrat Party is not the party of anyone's parents who - as conservative Roman Catholic Democrats - cheered when FDR spoke of World War II as the war to preserve "Christian Civilization," or when at JFK's inauguration he spoke "that the rights of man coming not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK's Inaugural Address. given almost 60 years ago, was inspirational. He addressed what it is to be an American with the main themes of freedom, peace, God's role in our lives and service to others or personal accountability.  More here

The Inconvenient Truth About the Democrat Party [Prager video]
5-22-17, Carol Swain, PragerUniv -- Did you know that the Democrat Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK & fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history?  In 1854 the Republican Party was founded as an anti-slavery political party. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest [Dem] was the KKK’s first grand wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan’s excessive violence but failed. In Tennessee under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the KKK employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. In a few Southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan. More here from History.com

12-20-19, Joseph Klein* -- After her Democrat-controlled House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Trump Wednesday, Dec 18, 2019 Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she’d wait awhile before sending the articles over to the Senate for trial. She said: “We will make our decision as to when we are going to send it when we see what they are doing on the Senate side. So far, we have not seen anything that looks fair to us.” [..snip]
 
Apparently the House Democrats got their idea to delay sending their articles of impeachment over to the Senate from Harvard Law School’s Professor Laurence H. Tribe. [1] who has been a strong advocate for impeaching President Trump. [..] He opined in a Wash-Post op-ed that “the House, whose historical role is to prosecute articles of impeachment in the Senate after exercising its ‘sole’ power to impeach, is under no affirmative constitutional obligation to do so instantly.” [..] Relying on Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution that says each legislative chamber sets its own rules, Professor Tribe also tweeted that “It’s up to the House when and how to prosecute its case in the Senate.” However, Article I, Section 3 provides that “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.” [..]
 
Speaker Pelosi and her cohorts are trying to exploit these Senate rules by delaying the rules’ trigger for Senate trial action. However, there's no constitutional requirement that the Senate must wait to act until the House formally names its prosecution managers and presents its articles of impeachment to the Senate. The Senate alone has the power to set and to change its own rules.

If the House Democrats persist in dragging their feet after rushing to complete their own rigged impeachment process, the Senate majority needs to consider its options. By majority vote, the Senate could set a firm date by which the House must provide notice of its appointment of managers and deliver its articles of impeachment. If the House refuses to comply with this deadline, the Senate could then immediately vote to dismiss the charges against President Trump on the grounds that the House accusers failed to prosecute their case in a timely fashion.
 
*Excerpted and adapted original full article from FrontPage here
 
[1] Professor Tribe here

​Lawyers Debate: If Articles of Trump's Impeachment Not Delivered to Senate Is it an Impeachment?
12-19-19, Hotair -- Lawyers are looking at various options for proceeding if House doesn't send articles of impeachment to the Senate. Pres Trump doesn't want it to be left hanging; he wants an acquittal - Dems do not want acquittal. Now that Pelosi refuses to send the articles to the Senate; the stalemate question  has an  impeachment even happened? The argument is that a trial in the Senate must be held on whether to remove the President for it to be an impeachment. Also, if Pres Trump has officially been impeached, the U.S. Senate should already have jurisdiction. Backers of the theory argue that the clause of the U.S. Constitution gives the Senate “the sole power to try all impeachments” indicating that the impeachment isn’t formalized until the House delivers the articles to the Senate. Many Dems are nervous that Senate Majority Leader McConnell may decide not to dispose of the matter at all and just leave it dangling over the House’s head throughout 2020 frozen in place. [Pres Trump calls this hoax of an impeachment: 'Impeachment lite!' ha ha] More here