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Patriot Headlines | Grassroots Commentary Daily Digest
July 27, 2015
THE FOUNDATION"If [the People] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves." —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, 1787TOP RIGHT HOOKSIs the Firearm Background Check System Broken?After last Thursday's Lafayette theater shooting, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called on the nation to bolster background checks for anyone seeking to purchase a firearm. "I think every state should strengthen their laws," the Republican presidential candidate said. "Every state should make sure this information is being reported in the background system. We need to make sure that background system is working. Absolutely, in this instance, this man never should have been able to buy a gun." John Houser cleared his background check when he bought a .40-caliber High-Point handgun from an Alabama pawn shop. But this was after Houser was denied a concealed cary permit in 2006 after he was charged with domestic violence and soliciting arson. It was also after his family committed him involuntarily for psychiatric care in Georgia in 2008. Jindal continued, "In Louisiana, we toughened our laws a couple of years ago. If he had been involuntarily committed here, if he had tried to buy that gun here, he wouldn't have been allowed to do that." While Jindal used the inexact phrase "strengthen their laws," his view is similar to that of Nick Leghorn at The Truth About Guns blog, as both of them believe the current system is broken and must be fixed. Houser likely lied about his history of mental illness on ATF Form 4473, but that lie should have been caught. The system failed because of human error, like it did before the Charleston shooting.Comment | Share DOJ Limits Inspectors GeneralThe Most Transparent Administration in History™ decided that "privacy" is more important than allowing the independent inspectors general to do their jobs. The Department of Justice's Office of Legal Council issued an opinion declaring the organizations within the federal government designed to ferret out waste, fraud and corruption must seek permission from the head of the agency before collecting "statutorily protected information," like grand jury or wiretap information. "In reaching these conclusions," the opinion read, "our Office's role has not been to decide what access [inspectors general] should receive as a matter of policy. Rather, we have endeavored to determine as a matter of law, using established tools of statutory construction, how best to reconcile the strong privacy protections … with the interest in access reflected in … the IG Act." There has been bipartisan condemnation from Congress regarding DOJ's decision, saying that the Obama administration has played verbal gymnastics over a statute that was intended to be plainly read. Think a cabinet member will be beholden more to the bureaucracy than an independent review? It already happened under Eric Holder's DOJ when the inspectors general tried to investigate the Fast and Furious gun walking scandal.Comment | Share CT Dems Remove Jefferson and Jackson From FundraiserThe leaders of the Democrat Party in Connecticut voted unanimously to remove the names of Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson from an annual fundraiser. At the behest of the NAACP, the enlightend progressives in the Nutmeg State decided to scrub all mention of the two founders of the Democrat Party because Jefferson owned slaves and Jackson instigated the Trail of Tears. Nick Balletto, the recently elected chair of the state party, said, "I see it as the right thing to do. I wasn't looking to be a trailblazer or set off a trend that's going to affect the rest of the country. Hopefully, they'll follow suit when they see it's the right thing to do." As pundit Dan McLaughlin notes, this is also the party of Franklin Roosevelt, the man who signed off on the Japanese internment, and Woodrow Wilson, the anti-Semite who segregated the federal government. Under Barack Obama's leadership, race relations are in the tank, as The New York Times reports about 60% of Americans think race relations are generally poor — down from the two-thirds of Americans who thought race relations were good when Obama first entered office. Thanks Obama. So what's the solution? For the enlightened leftist Nutmeggers, the first step is erasing their party's history and denying that their intellectual forbearers had anything to do with where the country is today.Comment | Share FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSISPantsuit on Fire — Hillary’s Busted, but Is She Caught?By Robin Smith
“I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email,” Hillary Clinton said of her secret servers in March. “There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.” But last week, I. Charles McCullough, inspector general of the intelligence community, contacted the FBI about a "potential compromise of classified information" through Clinton's email. The IG found four instances where Clinton handled information labeled “secret" — classified information that he noted should "never have been transmitted via an unclassified personal system." And that was out of a sample size of just 40 emails. Imagine what he'll find in the rest of the 30,000 emails she didn't already destroy. In March, the nation discovered that Clinton used a personally owned email server housed in her New York residence to conduct official business on behalf of the State Department. At long last, after five months of curtailed information and growing controversy, it appears Hillary and Bill’s habits of disregarding the law might catch up with them. At least we hope so. As The Wall Street Journal notes, "Other senior officials have faced criminal charges for misusing classified information. Former CIA Director David Petraeus pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor this year for disclosing classified information to his mistress, while Clinton-era National Security Adviser Sandy Berger copped a misdemeanor plea in 2005 for walking off with classified documents from the National Archives." Or how about the sailor facing prison for taking photos of a U.S. submarine? Could the same be in store for Hillary? Following the sputtering start of her campaign, investigatory hearings, and enough versions of events surrounding her email use to rival Baskin Robbins’ 31 flavors, have the Clintons finally been exposed as the corrupt, self-serving political hacks they are? Throughout months of investigations, serving up whoppers seems like standard operations for Team Hillary:
Oops. Hillary has been proven a liar. But in addition to her dishonesty, she also stands as a manipulative tyrant with incredibly poor judgment, one who believes in distinct Rules and Laws for Thee but Not for Me. And now the voting public, tired of the swill served out of DC, is rejecting her toxic brew. Peter A. Brown, assistant director of a Quinnipiac University Poll conducted in June to survey Hillary’s trustworthiness, revealed that “Clinton’s numbers have dropped among voters in the key swing states of Colorado, Iowa, and Virginia. She has lost ground in the horserace and on key questions about her honesty and leadership.” Tim Malloy, another assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll, put it more succinctly: “Hillary Clinton’s numbers on honesty and trust may border on abysmal.” Not only that, but she trails three GOP candidates in three key swing states. It's early, so take that for what you will. These negative polling numbers, with up to 62% of respondents questioning Clinton’s honesty, came several weeks prior to the newest twist in her email scandal. If only we had a Department of Justice rather than a nest of political legal activism, these wrongdoings would result in criminal charges and not just falling poll numbers. Hillary dismissed the whole story, saying, "[T]here have been a lot of inaccuracies" in the news. You don't say. She then suggested, “Maybe the heat is getting to everybody." Let's hope she does feel the heat. Comment | Share
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OPINION IN BRIEFBurt Prelutsky: "The truth is that Neville Chamberlain had a far better reason to sign his pact with Hitler than we have for capitulating to the Ayatollah. For one thing, Hitler hadn’t spent the previous twenty years killing Englishmen. For another, England couldn’t rely on America, which was in the clutches of pacifists and the German-American Bund, and he certainly couldn’t count on France, which had anti-Semitism in common with Hitler and nothing in common with England. For his part, Obama’s role model is obviously Humpty Dumpty, who told Alice that words meant whatever he wanted them to mean. President Dumpty forges a treaty with Iran, but insists it isn’t really a treaty, because that makes it easier for him to bully the Senate into compliance. In Obama’s world, treaties aren’t treaties; and, as we’ve seen with Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, traitors aren’t traitors; and as we saw in Baltimore and Ferguson, thugs aren’t thugs and mobs aren’t mobs. It took Pearl Harbor before the majority of Americans came to their senses in 1941. I hate to think what it will take to wake up Americans these days, but I fear it will be something like the incineration of Tel Aviv."Comment | Share SHORT CUTSThe Gipper: "How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future — after all our hard-won victories earned though the patience and courage of every citizen — we cannot, must not and will not turn back."Defending gruesome: "This has been a three-year, well-funded effort by the most militant wing of the anti-abortion movement of this country to entrap doctors. They were completely unsuccessful, so now they’re using very highly edited videos, sensationalized videos, to try to impugn and smear the name of Planned Parenthood. They have zero credibility. ... These militant anti-abortion activists do nothing to improve the health and safety of women." —Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Defending gruesome II: “It is unfortunate that Planned Parenthood has been the object of such a concerted attack for so many years and it's really an attack against a woman's right to choose. I'm hoping this situation will not further undermine the very important services that Planned Parenthood provides across the country.” —Hillary Clinton Non Compos Mentis: "Being female is a wound that never heals." —Salon's Sonia Saraiya The BIG Lie: "[Capitalism] needs to be reinvented, it needs to be put back into balance.” —Hillary Clinton (Capitalism already has been reinvented, courtesy of Democrats, and that's exactly the problem.) Village Idiots: "I'm just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain. And I know what's happening in the world is going to have a big effect on my daughter and especially on my granddaughter. It's hard to believe there are people running for president who still refuse to accept the settled science of climate change — who would rather remind us they're not scientists than listen to those who are." —Hillary Clinton And last... "Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money." —Fred Thompson Comment | Share Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis! Managing Editor Nate Jackson Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform — Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen — standing in harm's way in defense of Liberty, and for their families. |
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