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(Via AllenWest) The FBI has taken over the investigation surrounding Hillary Clinton’s emails. And while Hillary may think she has nothing to hide among the emails she’s sent or received, her staff members can’t say the same.
Even if some of us are starting to get tired of hearing about her damn emails, it may not be what we find in her emails that ends up making headlines.
(Via FoxNews) President Obama has been lecturing the media for its coverage of the 2016 race, suggesting that it is to blame for the rise of Donald Trump.
“There’s enormous pressure on journalists to fill the void and feed the beast with instant commentary,” Obama said.
(Via FoxNews) Are we doing enough to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists?
Fox News military analyst Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.) broke down the answer on Happening Now this afternoon.
Five individuals who have donated to Democratic politicians pleaded guilty to a scheme that drained Medicare out of $33 million dollars.
Two physicians and three owners of hospice and home care companies based out of Detroit, Mich., were charged on June 18, 2015 as part of the largest Medicare fraud case in history for submitting fraudulent claims for home health care and hospice services that were either not provided or deemed medically unnecessary.
The elaborate operation revolved around Muhammad Tariq, Shahid Tahir, and Manawar Javed—the owners of the home health care and hospice companies—paying kickbacks and bribes to physicians for referrals to their companies that included A Plus Hospice and Palliative Care, At Home Hospice, and At Home Network Inc.
The State Department is halting its internal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server to avoid interfering with an ongoing FBI probe, ABC News reported on Friday.
The move was in response to a formal directive from the FBI. A State Department spokesperson told ABC News that it is “standard practice” for agencies to defer to the FBI in such cases, and did not rule out reopening the internal review after law enforcement completes its investigation:
In January the department revealed that during its review of Clinton’s 52,000 pages of private email it had come across 22 documents that had to be upgraded to “Top Secret” and totally withheld from public release. It said at the time that it would conduct a separate internal review to determine if the secret information in those emails had been mishandled at the time the emails were sent.
There is certainly a conflict of interest concerning the FBI's alleged desires to deal with Hillary Clinton in a criminal matter, but is subservient to the Department of Justice that is run by a known Constitution violator by the name of Loretta Lynch. However, though Lynch is a Constitution violator, it is her law firm that is tied to Hillary Clinton that is a part of the issue in the current matter regarding Clinton's blatant disregard for federal law concerning her illegal and unsecured email server.
(Via CNSNews) Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared Wednesday that Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities are crucial for the country’s defense, and – in an apparent swipe at an influential former president – added that those who argue that this is a time for talks rather than for missiles are either ignorant or traitors.
At a time when some U.N. Security Council members are mulling a response to Iran’s recent missile launches, Khamenei used an address to Iranians marking the birthday of Mohammed’s youngest daughter to laud the program.
(Via Breitbart)A White House official is blaming a “technical issue” for the sudden loss of sound on a White House video in which French President François Hollande said the words “Islamist terrorism.”
Yesterday, a video of Hollande’s remarks was pulled from the White House website, according to a report from the Media Research Center. The video was reloaded on the website with a version that not only muted the French president’s remarks in French but eliminated the English translation as well.
Demonstrators seeking change in immigration policy march on May Day in Los Angeles, California, May 01, 2013. Some 2,000 demonstrators marched in May Day rallies calling for immigration reform, a key issue just north of the US-Mexican border. AFP PHOTO/JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
(Via Breitbart) Radical leftists pushing for an open borders agenda are attempting to destroy the ability of over 80 percent of our nation’s Border Patrol agents to speak out and sound the alarm to the public and to Congress. The Huffington Post reported that the open-borders extremist group, Not1More, is a “prominent immigrants rights group” and that they were behind an effort to have the AFL-CIO kick out the National Border Patrol Council from its ranks. Not1More derives its name from the idea that “not one more” illegal alien should be deported from the U.S.
(Via Daily Caller) Huma Abedin said in an interview this week that she has yet to read the emails she exchanged with her longtime boss, Hillary Clinton, but that she is “mortified” by what may be in them.
“Terrifying,” is how Abedin described the existence of the records in the public domain during an interview on the “Call Your Girlfriend” podcast.
Via Breitbart) Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) attacked the Ayn al-Assad Iraqi air base housing American forces, according to the Pentagon.
There were no casualties from the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS, added the Department of Defense (DOD).
Citing Iraqi officials, CBS Radio News correspondent Cami McCormick reports that an American military official said between three and four fighters wearing explosive vests perished during the attack.
Earlier this week Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a merits brief on behalf of a majority coalition of states arguing against President Obama’s illegal immigration executive actions. Texas is now joined in lawsuit against the Obama administration by Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin. That means a majority of our nation, 26 states thus far, are standing in defiance of what they argue (and we agree) is the illegal and unconstitutional actions taken by the Obama administration on illegal immigration. “The Obama Administration has consistently demonstrated disregard for the rule of law in asserting that it has the legal authority to unilaterally change the immigration policy of the United States,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Rewriting national immigration law requires the full and careful consideration of Congress, not the political will and assertion of one person. As the president himself said numerous times, he alone does not have the authority to grant millions of unauthorized aliens a host of benefits, including work authorization.”
Donald Trump fired a warning shot at establishment Republicans on Thursday — cautioning that if he fails to win the GOP presidential nomination, he’ll run as an independent and take “millions” of voters with him.
“Do I want to? No. I’m leading by a lot with Republicans,” the GOP presidential front-runner said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program.
(via Daily Caller)Black Lives Matter protesters burned an American flag Wednesday night after the announcement that no officers would be charged in the death of Jamar Clark. The flag burning was not well received by some of the other protesters who stuck to signs and chants that justice prevail for Clark.
(Via Breitbart) Texas’ senior U.S. Senator says that building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is not the solution to border security. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)50% said during a tour of the border on Tuesday, “It’s more than just a physical obstacle.”
In a press conference following the river tour, Cornyn told reporters, “What we need is a virtual border.”
(Via FoxNews) There are multiple unconfirmed reports that an interview will take place soon between Hillary Clinton and the FBI about her use of a private email server for official government business.
Judge Andrew Napolitano said on “Special Report” that Clinton is currently at “the vortex of a perfect storm of legal misery.”
(Via FreeBeacon) The Pentagon plans to transfer roughly a dozen detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison to other nations, including an Islamic extremist who fought in Osama bin Laden’s 55th Arab Brigade.
U.S. officials confirmed to the Washington Post Wednesday that Tarik Ba Odah, a Yemeni who has been on a hunger strike for more than nine years, would be among those resettled within the next few weeks in at least two cooperating countries.
(Via Mediaite) Sean Hannity and PastorRobert Jeffress both confronted an imam tonight over radical Islam. Hannity repeatedly demanded to know if he thinks radical Islam is evil.
Jeffress mocked President Obama as a “defender-in-chief of Islam” before Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi asked him and Hannity to “stop saying radical Islam” because “it is either radical or Islam, but it can’t be both.”
(Via The Hill) A “covert counter-terrorism operation” is underway to halt an extremist plot in Turkey that earlier this week prompted the United States to urge the withdrawal of American families, the head of the House Homeland Security Committee said on Wednesday.
“There’s an active plot underway in Turkey,” Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on Fox News’s “America Newsroom.” “This is an imminent threat.
Don’t you love it when hostage situations end with the bad guy being shot instead of the innocent victims? This sniper shot from Denver police will make you cheer.
(Via Fox News) A federal judge granted Judicial Watch approval to gather records and communication given from the White House to former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice in the wake of the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack.
According to the conservative watchdog, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth gave them “limited discovery” to seek out “evidence of government wrong-doing and bad faith.”
(Via Breitbart) Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly have launched a group in Virginia to push gun control; it’s their same message, with different packaging.
The name of Giffords’ national gun control group is Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS). The name of the Virginia gun control group is the Virginia Coalition for Common Sense (VCCS).
(Via Foxnews) Donald Trump has come out forcefully in defense of his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who was charged with misdemeanor battery stemming from an incident involving reporter Michelle Fields.
A surveillance tape of the incident, which occurred after Trump’s March 8 victory speech at his Florida golf club, shows Lewandowski grab Fields by the arm as she approaches Trump.
Last night was the second
round of budget workshop for the 2016-2017 Municipal budgets.The workshop concentrated on departments
controlled by Mr. Ryan Leighton.The
workshop lasted for approximately two hours with the following break-down.
All these departments are
asking for increases that total $493,761.This is not the final budget so do not panic yet; hopefully the Town
Council can make serious adjustments before the budget is approved.
Public Works - $391,254.00
Solid Waste - $3,153.00
Town Buildings - $36,939.00
Technology - $55,173.00
Sewer Department - $7,242.00
If you add last night’s total
of $493,761.00 and the first budget meeting of $115,052.00, the new total
increase is $608,813.00.See if you can
figure out what this does to your taxes?
A Democratic lawmaker is paying his longtime girlfriend the maximum congressional staffer salary of $168,411, and she has collected more than $2.2 million working for him since 2000.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) has employed his girlfriend, Patricia Williams, for more than 20 years.
Williams began working for Hastings as a staff assistant in 1993 and held this position until 2006. She became his deputy district director in 2006 and currently works out of his district office in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Williams has been compensated handsomely for her work with Hastings, according to publicly-available information about congressional salaries on LegiStorm.
Via Judicial Watch (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth granted “limited discovery” to Judicial Watch into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email matter. Lamberth ruled that “where there is evidence of government wrong-doing and bad faith, as here, limited discovery is appropriate, even though it is exceedingly rare in FOIA cases.”
The court’s ruling comes in a July 2014 Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit seeking records related to the drafting and use of the Benghazi talking points (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). The lawsuit seeks records specifically from Hillary Clinton and her top State Department staff:
The Obama administration recently gave a $270,000 grant to an Islamic charity that has been banned by Israel and the United Arab Emirates because of alleged financial ties to the terrorist group Hamas and to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided the funds last month to the U.K.-based Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) for its work in Kenya, according to the federal spending database USASpending.gov. TO READ MORE: http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/03/30/feds-give-270k-grant-islamic-charity-alleged-ties-hamas-muslim-brotherhood/
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Earlier this week Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a merits brief on behalf of a majority coalition of states arguing against President Obama’s illegal immigration executive actions. Texas is now joined in lawsuit against the Obama administration by Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin. That means a majority of our nation, 26 states thus far, are standing in defiance of what they argue (and we agree) is the illegal and unconstitutional actions taken by the Obama administration on illegal immigration.
