https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...sense.html

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ba...aws-again/

Good luck legally buying a gun over the internet.

Former President Barack Obama is again busy lecturing Americans on politics. His speeches have contained many snappy lines that would deserve attention if they came from an untainted source. But Obama as president was guilty of many of the things against which he now warns his fellow citizens.
Last September, Obama received the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government at the University of Illinois in Champagne/Urbana. Obama told students that “the biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism” and called for “a restoration of honesty and decency and lawfulness in our government.”
Obama flailed cynicism as in the glory days of his 2008 presidential campaign. He declared that “making people cynical about government … always works better for those who don’t believe in the power of collective action.” He also warned that “the more cynical people are about government, the angrier and more dispirited they are about the prospects for change, the more likely the powerful are able to maintain their power.”
But his eight years as president fueled the distrust of Washington that Obama now condemns. How can he blame Americans for being cynical after his dozens of false promises, such as “If you like your doctor, you’ll be able to keep your doctor” despite all the mandates in Obamacare? Millions of Americans got shafted by his bait-and-switch. How can he blame Americans for being cynical after his 2016 assertion that “it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book”?  Amazon Prime does not offer to send AK-47s, unlike copies of War and Peace and Pride and Prejudice. Or how about in 2015 when he complained about “neighborhoods where it’s easier for you to buy a handgun and clips than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable.” Obama never offered any evidence that carrots are rarer than .38 Specials. How can he castigate cynics after he campaigned in 2008 on a peace platform and then proceeded to bomb seven nations?
Obama declared in his Illinois speech that Americans are “supposed to stand up to bullies, not follow them.” But Trump won in 2016 in part because many Americans considered the federal government the biggest bully in the land. Obama relied on “bureaucratic bulldozing rather than legislative transparency,” according to the New York Times, issuing 50 percent more “major regulations” than the George W. Bush administration. When Congress refused to accede to his demands, he declared that he would use his pen and phone to rule by executive order.
Obama told the student audience, “Most of you don’t remember a time before 9/11, when you didn’t have to take off your shoes at an airport.” Did the students realize that the Transportation Security Administration became far more punitive and intrusive during Obama’s presidency? Obama appointees brought in Whole Body scanners across the nation and entitled TSA agents to aggressively touch travelers’ genitals and breasts. But despite all that additional power and groping, TSA remained the poster boy for incompetence: TSA checkpoints still failed to detect 95 percent of smuggled guns and bombs. But because Obama never went through a TSA checkpoint as president, the abuses didn’t exist — at least not for him.
Information and the press
Obama also told University of Illinois students that “democracy depends on transparency and accountability” and said, “It shouldn’t be Democratic or Republican to say that we don’t threaten the freedom of the press because they say things or publish stories we don’t like.” But despite boasting of  “the most transparent administration ever,” Obama expanded federal secrecy and prosecuted more journalists and whistleblowers than any previous administration. Obama appointees helped turn the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into a charade. The Associated Press reported in 2015 that the Obama administration “set a record again for censoring government files or outright denying access to them” under FOIA. The State Department ignored 17 FOIA requests for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails before 2014 and insisted it required 75 years to disclose emails of Clinton’s top aides. When Obama took office, the United States had the 20th-most free press in the world, according to the Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index. By 2016, it had fallen to 41st — worse than South Africa and barely ahead of Botswana. Obama appointees severely undermined the Freedom of Information Act.
As the audience cheered him on, Obama declared, “It should not be a partisan issue to say that we do not pressure the attorney general or the FBI to use the criminal justice system as a cudgel.” Trump’s declarations about federal prosecutions are appalling. But while the FBI was investigating the legality of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, Obama repeatedly publicly declared that she had committed no crime. The Inspector General report released last June revealed that, after a half-hearted probe, the FBI planned to absolve Clinton unless she openly confessed to wrongdoing when FBI agents finally talked to her. That is not routine FBI procedure though perhaps there is a secret protocol for such cases.
Obama declared in Illinois that “in a government of and by and for the people, there should be no permanent ruling class. There are only citizens, who through their elected and temporary representatives, determine our course and determine our character.” The perception that Obama had designated Hillary Clinton as his successor helped undermine potential Democratic Party challengers to her nomination. If Clinton had been elected, then the United States would have had a stretch of 24 out of 32 years in which two politically connected families stocked the White House — too close for comfort to a “permanent ruling class.” The façade of an FBI investigation of Clinton’s email
shenanigans helped ensure for her the Democratic Party presidential nomination and, indirectly, paved the way to a Trump presidency.
Obama lamented, “Cynicism led too many people to turn away from politics and stay home on Election Day.” But many Americans boycotted the 2016 election because they believed that the major parties offered them merely a choice of liars and scoundrels.  In 2015, Obama offered an easy solution to that problem in another speech in Illinois: make voting mandatory.
And in his January 10, 2017, farewell address, he gibed those who “blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.” But Obama never examined his role in covering up the crimes and other abuses of one of the 2016 candidates. In his Illinois speech, he lamented that the news “makes a lot of people feel like the fix is in and the game is rigged and nobody’s looking out for them.” Legions of Democratic voters felt that way after WikiLeaks exposed the Democratic National Committee’s emails that proved that the 2016 primaries had been rigged in favor of Clinton.
Killing and spying
Obama has gotten an almost free pass from the media on his dubious declarations the past couple years. In that 2017 farewell address, he boasted, “We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists.” Was he counting the wedding parties blown up by drones on his watch?
Obama administration lawyers asserted a right to kill U.S. citizens whom it labeled terrorist suspects without trial, without notice, and without any chance for the marked men to legally object. At least five Americans died in Obama-era drone attacks, including a 16-year-old boy. Drone strikes increased tenfold under Obama, helping fuel anti–U.S. backlashes in several nations. Obama personally chose who would be killed at weekly “Terror Tuesday” White House meetings that featured PowerPoint death parades of potential targets. The CIA often did not know whom it was killing but counted all adult males “in a strike zone as combatants … unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent,” the New York Times noted.  The Times also revealed that U.S. “counterterrorism officials insist …  people in an area of known terrorist activity … are probably up to no good.”  The “probably up to no good” standard absolved almost any drone killing within thousands of square miles in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
Some Obama defenders may insist that his anti-terrorist policies were necessary to achieve bipartisan political support. But there’s no excuse for his prying into average Americans’ lives. Prior to becoming president, Obama pledged “no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens.” But after taking his oath of office, he quickly perpetuated and expanded some of the most sweeping and extreme Bush administration surveillance programs. Obama’s Justice Department secretly decreed that all phone records of all Americans were “relevant” to terrorism investigations and thus that the National Security Administration (NSA) could justifiably seize everyone’s personal data.
In 2013, thanks to former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, Americans learned that the NSA can tap almost any cell phone in the world, exploit computer games such as Angry Birds to poach personal data, access anyone’s email and web-browsing history, and crack the vast majority of computer encryption. Obama went on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show and ludicrously announced, “There is no spying on Americans,” while his appointees insisted that the NSA targeted only persons linked to terrorism. But the NSA’s definition of “terrorist suspect” was ludicrously broad, including “someone searching the web for suspicious stuff.”
In his farewell address in January 2017, Obama appealed to “the rule of law that holds leaders accountable.” But Obama helped establish an Impunity Democracy in which rulers pay no price for their misdeeds. The Obama “administration fought in court to prevent any ruling that the defunct practices [such as torture and detaining Americans arrested at home as ‘enemy combatants’] had been illegal,” as Charlie Savage noted in the New York Times a week after the 2016 election. ACLU executive director Anthony Romero lamented, “Obama’s failure to rein in George Bush’s national-security policies hands Donald Trump a fully loaded weapon.”
In his speech to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Obama declared, “We don’t look to be ruled.” Unfortunately, this lofty sentiment was scorned more than it was heeded during his presidency.
The lies that Obama told while he was president help explain why only 20 percent of Americans trusted the federal government at the end of his presidency. Who cares if an ex-president belatedly cheers for transparency and accountability? Obama has never admitted that his policies made the federal government more dangerous at home and abroad. Nothing that Donald Trump can do or say should be permitted to expunge Obama’s derelictions.

Written by James Bovard
Anyone who has read Mr. Bovard's books realizes he deals only in facts, not opinions.

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): When the United States is attacked by a hostile foreign power, it must strike back. And make no mistake Mexico is a hostile foreign power. For decades the Mexican government has sent its poor north to our country. This has allowed that country's criminal oligarchy to maintain power and get even richer but at great expense to us. The flood of illegal workers into the United States has damaged our communities, ruined our schools, burdened our health care system and fractured our national unity

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/...ack/223846

St. Louis, Missouri — The last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri says it expects to be shut down this week, effectively ending legal abortion in the state.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/planned-par...019-05-28/

Tear down those statues and erase MLK Day. Why would you want to be associated with this guy?

FBI recordings indicate Martin Luther King, Jr. had over FORTY affairs and accuse MLK of watching and laughing as a fellow "pastor" raped a woman. The tapes further reveal that the paid communist agitator engaged in orgies and normal and abnormal sexual activities (whatever the hell that is supposed to be). It has been known since the huge marches and rallies of the 1960's that night time brought marathon sexual parties complete with "gangbangs" and other deviant sexual practices by the "marchers and supporters". The MSM rarely ever talks about these happenings. MLK was a regular participant. In his 1989 book And The Walls Came Tumbling Down long time friend and confidant of MLK, Ralph Abernathy exposed King as a man who suffered from temptation. He outlined how King had a severe "weakness" with women. Abernathy also stated in his book that King was with not one, but six different women the night before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Below is a photo and a caption caught on one of the many FBI tapes in Washington, D.C. in 1968. The FBI even sent King an anonymous copy of this particular statement telling King "you are finished" and "you should go ahead and kill yourself".

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201...ew-mexico/
There ya go.

Justin’s note: Elizabeth Warren could cost America trillions of dollars.
Warren is, of course, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts. She’s also running for president.
And like many fellow Democrats, she’s full of wacky ideas. Most recently, she made waves by saying she wants to forgive more than $1 trillion worth of student loans if she becomes president. She also wants to issue reparations to African Americans, which could also cost trillions.
These sorts of ideas used to be considered extreme. A candidate would get laughed out of the race for suggesting them. But those days are over.
A recent poll found that just 27% of Americans oppose Warren’s debt forgiveness plan. As for reparations? Well, fellow Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris both support the idea.
Of course, not everyone’s a fan of these ideas. Doug Casey is one of those people. Below, Doug tells me why these ideas are not only ridiculous but destructive. He also tells me why he thinks Warren is part of a much bigger problem.

How could these centralists in Mizzou and others possibly make an exception for rape and incest ?

Bernie Sanders is truly special. He never held a job until he was finally elected mayor at age 53. He lived off of welfare and four different women, had a child out-of-wedlock with one and the three marriages did not work out.
In all his years in the Senate, he introduced 364 bills. 3 passed. Two of those were to name post offices. If you want to know what kind of leader Bernie is,
Go to Wikipedia, it’s a long report. The following is condensed:
Bernie Sanders’ father was a high school drop-out, who tormented his family with rants about their financial problems.
He blamed society and economic inequality for his plight, though as a white male in a middle class neighborhood, he was hardly among the downtrodden.
This was Bernie’s inspiration to take up the cause of economic justice, though he would spend half of his life as an able-bodied college graduate living off of unemployment checks, and the women in his life, between odd jobs.
By his own admission, Bernie was not a great student, starting at Brooklyn College and transferring to Univ. of Chicago, but his enrollment kept him protected from the draft.
He joined socialist organizations and dabbled in far-left communist politics, gaining national notoriety by petitioning the school to let students have sex in the dormitories.
This was before birth control and abortion were legal, when there were still very serious repercussions for women if the condom broke, but that didn’t stop him from crusading against those silly rules that were an obstacle to his own satisfaction.
He participated in the 1963 March on Washington, a few demonstrations, and was arrested once, but his activism for civil rights ended when he became obsessed with socialism. NOT “democratic socialism”, but oppressive far-left Marxism.
Bernie married his college sweetheart, Deborah Shilling, and spent his small inheritance on a summer home in Vermont on 85 acres.
The shack had a dirt floor and no electricity, maintaining his proletariat credibility, but not impressing his new bride.
He refused to get a steady job, so his wife didn’t stick around long, divorced after 18 months.
The Viet Nam war was escalating, and when the next draft was announced, Bernie applied for a conscientious objector deferment.
His deferment was denied, so he dodged the draft by having a kid out of wedlock in 1969 with his new girlfriend, Susan Mott, even though he STILL wasn’t working, and had no way to support the child. By the time his draft number came up, he was too old to be drafted anyway.
He continued to subsist on odd carpentry jobs and unemployment checks, and occasionally selling $15 articles, including the one about how women fantasize about gang rape. He still refused to get a steady job to support his child. His girlfriend left him.
In 1988 he married Jane Driscoll,and took a cold-war era honeymoon in communist USSR.
His new wife supported Bernie financially through his many attempts to win a public office, and shared his radical leftist political views.
They visited the pro-Soviet Sandinista Government in Nicaragua known for their human rights violations, support for anti-American terrorists, and the imprisonment and exile of opponents. Bernie blindly overlooked the carnage to stand with fellow socialists.
They traveled to Cuba in hopes of meeting Bernie’s hero Fidel Castro, but access to him was denied.
Bernie Sanders managed not to hold a full-time job his entire life or vote in a single election, until he finally ran for Mayor of Burlington at the age of 40.
After several failed elections, he finally won the office of Mayor of Burlington, VT, and eventually a Senate seat, which he has managed to keep off and on.
For all of his years representing Vermont, Bernie Sanders passed a total of three bills, and two of them were for naming post offices.
He’s a draft-dodging deadbeat dad, a globe-trotting communist dilettante, and a petulant detractor of hard-working honorable Democrats.
His one skill is yelling about how unfair the world is, and how everything SHOULD be.
But he has no plans for how to make it happen, and no idea what goes on in the rest of the world or how to deal with problems overseas.
His excuse for not having a foreign policy or national security plank on his platform: “I’ve only been campaigning for three months.”
His socialist friends are bitter about what they see as a betrayal of their values by Bernie’s pursuit of the Democratic nomination.
His former wife and girlfriend run when they see reporters and will not speak to the press.

Bernie’s past, including a brief stint living in a kibbutz in Israel is cloaked in secrecy. (It worked for B Hussein Obama.)
Former employees and coworkers describe him as hostile and belligerent. All of the Democrats in Vermont’s government endorsed Hillary Clinton.
The people who know Bernie best cannot stand him. His supporters cannot explain how he is qualified to be president.
As for his detractors, we can only watch in horror as this Nader 2.0 works an appalling act of sabotage on the United States.

Ocasio-Cortez: I Was Joking About The World Ending In 12 Years, And You're An Idiot If You Believed Me

https://www.dailywire.com/news/47098/oca...=dwtwitter