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(Breitbart) Pinal County, AZ Sheriff and Congressional candidate Paul Babeu (R) stated that ” Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of illegals that are coming in. And we pointed out, there’s not just a 25% increase in the first four months of this fiscal year, there’s 102% increase in unaccompanied juveniles, and 170% year-over-year increase in family units” and Border Patrol agents aren’t allowed to go into “known high-traffic areas” a move he said “is intentional” on the Obama administration’s part on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto.”
Babeu said, “I stood with Border Patrol agents, Brandon Judd and other leaders, right here from Arizona, as well as from Texas, the top sectors, that are being overrun. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of illegals that are coming in. And we pointed out, there’s not just a 25% increase in the first four months of this fiscal year, there’s 102% increase in unaccompanied juveniles, and 170% year-over-year increase in family units. And so, you don’t have to be a Border Patrol agent to figure out what’s happening here. And the president, and what is disturbing is that these Border Patrol agents are not only releasing these illegals out the front door, in many cases they’re not giving an NTA, which is a notice to appear. Which was a joke to begin with, because most of them never showed up for their court hearing, but they’re not even giving them this paper any further in many instances.”
Fareed Zakaria: A main cause of the rise of extremism in the world of Islam has been the cowardice of Muslim moderates, who… chose not to condemn bad ideas and ugly rhetoric… It is now clear that a similar dynamic has been at play in the world of conservatism… Some of its most distinguished mainstream members” of the conservative movement “have embraced the rhetoric and tactics of the extremes.”
Just how vulnerable are are Nations Power Grids? Few people have been willing to talk about this subject, but Fox’s Judge Jeannie has been warning us about the Power Grids and just how vulnerable they are. With a Terrorists attack on our Power Grid you could take us to our knees. Nobody thought 9/11 could happen and look how that turned out.
So just what is been done to protect our Power Grid?
President Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser disclosed on Monday that international terrorist organizations, including ISIS and al Qaeda affiliates, are “planning for sophisticated and coordinated terror attacks,” according to determinations made by the U.S. government.
Lisa Monaco, a top counter-terrorism adviser at the White House, warned that the risk of terrorism, both at home and abroad, has reached peak levels, with threat levels becoming “broader, more diffuse, and less predicable than at any time since” the 9/11 attacks.
“We continue to see planning for sophisticated and coordinated attacks, such as those in Paris,” Monaco said, referring to last year’s mass attack by ISIS in France. The United States also continues “to disrupt plots also from al Qaeda’s largest affiliate, the Nusra Front, operating in Syria.”
President Barack Obama signs an executive order after speaking about jobs, energy independence, and climate change, Monday, Jan. 26, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
It has long been said by many, sometimes not in jest, that the various agencies and bureaucracies of the government are filled with criminals.
President Barack Obama’s extensive use of executive orders bears that out, but the one revealed by the White House Monday could make it literally true — and by design.
On Friday, the Alabama Supreme Court rejected the US Supreme Court's marriage opinion and basically told them to take a hike in favor of following the Alabama Constitution and Alabama law.
On March 4, 2016, the Alabama Supreme Court ordered that all probate judges cease and desist in issuing marriage licenses to sodomies.
The court issued its 170-page ruling in favor of Petition for Mandamus by Liberty Counsel.
Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel said, "The ruling last year by the Alabama Supreme Court was historic, and is one of the most researched and well-reasoned opinions on marriage to be issued by any court in the country. Today's opinion by the Alabama Supreme Court calling the U.S. Supreme Court's marriage opinion 'illegitimate' will be remembered in history like the 'shot heard around the world."
(Daily Caller) Donald Trump be warned: Famed Mexican-American boxer Oscar De La Hoya says it would only take him one punch to knock out the Republican front-runner in a boxing match.
Now a promoter, De La Hoya is using Trump’s provocative campaign-trail comments about illegal immigrants and Muslims to hype his promotional company’s May 7 bout between Mexican fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and British Muslim fighter Amir Khan.
(CNSNews) David Clarke Jr., the sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wis., said on Thursday that black on black violence is a much greater problem in the United States than the much rarer incidents of police using deadly force in the line of duty.
“You know when they talk about black lives matter, black lives really matter, they’d back off the police, and they’d focus their efforts on things like black on black crime, which is a much bigger problem in the black community than the few instances – fortunately – few instances of police having to use deadly force, you know, to save their life or somebody else’s,” Clarke told CNSNews.com at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.
The crime crisis born of the influx of Muslim refugees may no longer be limited to Europe. According to a former resident of Amarillo, Texas, it has already started in America.
Karen Sherman, formerly of Amarillo, now of Missoula, Montana, stood in front of the local courthouse on Monday to warn citizens of just that. Should Obama’s plans to plant foreign migrants in Missoula succeed, those citizens could they could well be facing the kind of “civil unrest” Europe is dealing with now.
(Fox5) FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – Two volunteer Stafford County firefighters have been suspended after they transported an 18-month old child to the hospital in a fire engine. The father of the little girl tells FOX 5 he is grateful for the actions of those two first responders, who may have saved his daughter’s life.
The suspended firefighters, Captain James Kelley and Sgt. Virgil Bloom, volunteer for the Falmouth Volunteer Fire Department in Fredericksburg. They were the first to arrive when called to a location near a McDonald’s restaurant last Saturday because the child was having a seizure, Kelley said.
The Jerusalem Post reports: A 16-year-old boy was beheaded by the notorious fundamentalist organization Islamic State for not attending mandatory Friday prayer services in the border town of Jarabulus, Syria, the Kurdish News Agency reported Sunday.
The boy was arrested last Saturday by the organization’s secret police services after he was discovered hiding out at a relative’s house near the Turkish-Syrian border.
(Daily Caller) Judge Andrew Napolitano says, “The case for prosecuting Mrs. Clinton for espionage is well-known, well-documented, and publicly revealed already.”
In an interview with Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney on Monday, Napolitano said the question that Clinton does not want to hear her IT guy Bryan Pagliano answer is: “How did you migrate secure state secrets into a non-secure venue? Did Mrs. Clinton give you her password?” (RELATED: Napolitano: Hillary Clinton Should Be ‘Terrified’ IT Guy Was Given Immunity [VIDEO])
(Breitbart) Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 44% is asking people to sign a petition opposing President Barack Obama’s effort to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away last month.
“There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that we will confirm President Obama’s appointment to the Supreme Court,” McConnell, a Republican, wrote in an email statement on Monday evening,
It is once again that time of
year to start the budget process for both the School and Municipal side of the
town.This is always an interesting time
of year.The residents get to sit back
and see what our elected officials determine to be important and what is not.It
also is a time in which the people find out how much their taxes are going to
be for next year.
Last year, Councilors Pesce,
Bickford, Metivier, Brunelle and Crafts decided to cut the School budget by at
least $600,000.00.This caused a massive
problem for the School Department and cost the taxpayers a great deal of money
in legal fees.It would appear that Councilor Metivier is
going to challenge the School Department budget again; so get ready for an
another very costly year.
I have very little knowledge
about the School side of the town’s budget but I do have what I consider a good
understanding of the Municipal side.So,
I will only talk about the Municipal side.Thanks
to the previous leadership of the town, Lisbon is a haven for individuals with
little or no credentials to be place in positions with outrageous salaries.The major two individuals
are Ryan Leighton, Director of Public Works and Superintendent of Sewer and
then Fire Chief Sean Galipeau.Ryan
Leighton combined salary is over $80,000.00 and the last time I checked he had
a Grade 2 level for the Sewer Department which requires by the state that the
individual be at least a Grade 4 to operate the facility.The Fire Chief is supposed to have a bare
minimum of Associate Degree in Public Safety and he has been working on his
Associates for twelve years.The town is
paying him roughly $67,413.00 according to last year’s budget.
Former Councilors Pesce and
Garrison was looking into ways to save taxpayer money and determined there was
acost saving of approximately
$199,000.00 by closing the Lisbon Communication Center.The Town Manager estimated the savings at
roughly $163,000.00.I determine it to
be closer to $250,000.00.Whichever
number you want to choose, it would be a significant savings to the
people.So where do we stand on this
issue?The Sheriff and County would like the
emergency services for Lisbon to be by the Androscoggin County Dispatch.However, this
initiative has been stopped by Councilors Pesce, Bickford, Metivier,Brunelle and Crafts.According
to Chairman Bickford, the question is if the people want to close the Lisbon
Communication Center will appear on the November ballot.I was under the impression that we elected
these officials to make this type determination so we could save money
now.Also, there will be no facts put out to the people so once again the
people will be voting without the benefit of ALL the facts.
Now, we have one
Administrative Assistant which receives roughly $10,000.00 tax dollars more
than any other Administrative Assistant in the town.This same individual Job Description is so
outdated it is not funny.By the way, the Ethnic Panel determined
that this individual was not doing what is in her Job Description but the
Department Head never rewrote the Job Description to coincide with the duties
she is actually doing.
It appears that Lisbon’s salary structure is
NOT determined by the duties you are performing but by what previous leadership
determined they wanted you to have.Lisbon has individual’s receiving large salaries and they no credentials
to support these salaries.
There are plenty of
reductions that can make on the Municipal side before anyone does a hatch job
on the School Department.I agree the School Department needs to
reduce its operating cost but I trust the School Committee and Richard Green
make the cuts.
HILLARY’S INSINCERE SPEECH AFTER WINNING THE CAUCUSES IN NEVADA
Hillary Clinton made her typical, insincere, meretricious speech in Nevada after being declared the winner of the caucuses.
If you take her words at face value they seem generous and cozy. If you read between the words, you hear the music of selfishness and the cacophony of deception.
Hillary Clinton must feel as though the noose is tightening around her neck, her career and her legacy. Even as her campaign continues to limp along forced to compete for the Democrat presidential nomination with an aged and unaccomplished socialist, her legal troubles continue to mount. Over the last week the government has finally admitted that not only was there classified information on Clinton’s private server – she literally authored more than 100 classified documents herself! Along with the revelations came the news that one of her key aides had just made a deal with the FBI, promising himself immunity as long as he would testify as a witness in the Clinton server case.
The Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs cut its spending on scholarships for family members of prisoners of war and fallen soldiers by nearly $1 million during Rep. Tammy Duckworth’s tenure as director, according to an internal audit report.
Duckworth, a Democrat who is currently running for Senate in Illinois, served as head of the Illinois VA between December 2006 and February 2009. The year before Duckworth was appointed, the department spent $1.7 million on POW/MIA scholarships, according to the 2008 Department of Veterans’ Affairs Compliance Examination. In 2007, that number dropped to $842,497. In 2008, the department spent $839,792 on the program.
(Inquisitr) Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has decided to place a hold on the vote for S. 2012, which would provide desperately needed funding to Flint, Michigan — the community which has been devastated by water that has poisoned them.
According to Senator Charles (Chuck) Schumer (D-N.Y.), Cruz’s objection to the deal is directly related to the part of the deal which provides funding to the community. As Bloomberg reports, Cruz’s office has not responded to any requests for comments as to why the current senator from Texas has decided to block the vote that would ultimately provide Flint, Michigan, with the funds needed to deal with the pressing water crisis.
(Daily Caller)Of the dozens of intelligence memos that Sidney Blumenthal sent to Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of state, 23 contained information classified as “Confidential” or “Secret,” a Daily Caller analysis shows.
Sending nearly two dozen sensitive emails makes Blumenthal, a former journalist and aide in the Bill Clinton White House, one of Clinton’s most prolific sharers of classified information. The Democratic presidential candidate herself sent 104 emails containing classified information, The Washington Post found.
(FrontPageMag) Cologne is a warning sign of what is coming to Europe. The Islamic attitude toward women is a Pakistani or Egyptian problem for now. But it’s becoming a European and American problem due to migration.
What was a distant horror in Pakistan yesterday, is a nearby horror in our cities and towns today and a permanent reality tomorrow.
Dinesh D’Souza premiered the trailer for his new project, “Hillary’s America,” during his presentation at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
The film, which is scheduled to be released in select theaters the week of July 25, poses the question, “Who are these democrats?” as D’Souza explores the party’s roots and the rise of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
In December, House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) successfully pushed through Congress his $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that will also fund visas for nearly 300,000 more Muslim migrants over the next 12 months.
When Barack Obama announced his candidacy in 2007, the entire African -American population went into a battle cry for the first black president of the United States of America and instead of looking beyond the color of his skin and researching his policies and issues – even Oprah got bamboozled.
Popular actress Stacey Dash, known for her role in the 1990s movie “Clueless” with Alicia Silverstone, made a stunningly simple statement about the election and popularity of President Barack Obama at a Conservative Political Action Committee event.
“I think he bamboozled us,” she said. “I think we all got blacked into it.” Dash argued that Obama came to power promising an end to racism but instead fed the divide through his actions.
(Breitbart) Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio called former Mexican President Vicente Fox “disgusting” for saying Donald Trump echoes Adolf Hitler, during a Sunday radio interview.
“I just can’t believe what this guy has done and I can’t believe why our country hasn’t gone bananas against him and the Mexican government,” asserted Arpaio.
Arpaio took aim at the U.S. government, saying Congress and other American officials only react to the “sensitivity about illegal immigration,” thus allowing former president Fox to stick “his nose into the election.”
(Breitbart) During his March 3, CPAC speech, NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre said President Obama is avoiding an invitation to debate because he knows LaPierre “would clean his clock.”
He talked about how Obama taunted the NRA for not attending CNN’s January 7 gun control Townhall, which the NRA derided as a White House PR stunt. LaPierre used his CPAC speech to turn the tables on Obama and taunt him for avoiding a one-on-one debate on guns and gun rights in America.
(Bizpacreview) The liberal indoctrination of schoolchildren reached a new low as a kindergarten class was taught to pledge allegiance to an international flag.
Kindergarten Students in Public School 75 in New York City were given the task of creating an American flag with the flags of 22 other countries superimposed upon its stripes, Hannity.com reported. Below the flag were the words, written by the students, “We pledge allegiance to an International Flag.”
Thousands are demanding that the Massachusetts attorney general arrest and prosecute Bill Clinton following reports that he may have violated state election laws.
An online petition on Change.org, which has accumulated more than 88,000 signatures, calls for the “immediate arrest of President Bill Clinton for clear, knowing, and egregious violation of the campaign laws to swing an election in a significant way.” The petition is directed to Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat.
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