THIS 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND IS ALL ABOUT ‘REDISCOVERING AMERICANISM’



By Jonathan E.P. Moore, and Friends of America!
THIS 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND IS ALL ABOUT ‘REDISCOVERING AMERICANISM’ 

The ‘loons’ from the left are at it again, and creating a ‘Fake News’ narrative about the 17 Intel Agencies that say that ‘all’ 17 agencies confirmed that the Russians did hack into, and try to influence America’s election, but now being retracted by the New York Times, who are now saying it’s really only 4 Intel Agencies, and now retracting those ‘fake news’ stats, but doing so by secretly hiding those retractions below the fold and hidden somewhere in the deepest and darkest corners of their NYT supermarket tabloid. If you don’t know, but want to see what I’m talking about, you can pick up a copy of the New York Times or Washington Post right next to the ‘Enquire’ in the checkout line of your favorite supermarket! 

When it comes to President Trump and his addiction to honesty and keeping the public informed through his ‘Tweeting,’ it’s because the Agenda journalists that represent the ‘Paid to Report’ Media chooses not to do their job, and keep President Trump’s accomplishments and passed legislation on the back burner, and away from the public’s view. 

Thursday was a very big day for America, and that’s because two pieces of legislation were passed by the house, and now on the desk of Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell for introduction to the members of the Senate, but has anyone seen 1 second of coverage on the Main Stream Media, or written in what’s become the supermarket tabloids duo of the NYT and WaPo? 

HOUSE PASSES KATES LAW AND BILL DEFUNDING SANCTUARY CITIES! 

The House of Representatives passed Kate’s Law, a bill that increases penalties against deported illegal aliens who reenter the country illegally.  The bill is named for Kate Steinle who was murdered in San Francisco in 2015 by an illegal alien who was previously deported five times and convicted of seven felonies.

The passing of Kate’s Law followed passage of another bill that allows the federal government to strip so-called “sanctuary cities” of federal funding if they refuse to cooperate with federal officials on immigration enforcement. San Francisco, where Steinle was killed, is a self-proclaimed sanctuary city. ~~By Sundance, a Friend of America

The significant importance of these two bills is that it’s going to show the American people how their elected officials truly believe and follows our country’s Constitution, rule of law,’ and finding out who needs to go during the next election cycle. I get tired of hearing the obstructionist’s and resistance argue ‘moral reason’ when talking about the why’s and how’s we should allow anybody and everybody into America who don’t have any interest in assimilating, but just to undermine our liberties, freedoms, and the self-determinate path each individual chooses for themselves and their families:

“WE ARE A COUNTRY MADE UP OF IMMIGRANTS!!!,’ and they’re absolutely right, but what’s so hypocritical about these free roaming Progressive liberal immigrants and refugees, and backers, are they want you to believe, and screaming to defend their position, is that they have all the rights and freedoms of American citizens that pay taxes! They are not citizens, and even though they may be paying taxes in some instances, they are still here illegally, and until they do step to the plate and go through the process to legal, then they are just outright breaking the law! Now please understand that they're good, though illegal immigrants and refugees that are contributing to America and its bottom line, but there are still the unknown illegal immigrant and refugees that have no intention to assimilate, or add to the country’s bottom line, but live off the hard working past legal immigrants and refugees who have made their way here legally, and are now the ones who are writing the immigration laws, and enforcing the ‘rule of law’ which every legal citizen is required to obey and follow. In other words, these same immigrants and refugees all along are the same 'immigrants' that are writing and legislatively passing the laws that these unvetted and illegal ‘Never Trumpers’ immigrants and refugees are protesting against!

The ‘Paid to Report’ Media didn’t report on the house passage of Kate’s Law or the defunding of Sanctuary Cities, but they did cover the President’s ‘Tweets’ regarding the antics of the crew over at ‘Morning Joes’ Cable news show. I think that President Trump is using his ‘Tweeting’ time like someone who works hard, uses a coffee or smoke break, to take a little time off during the day, and laugh! I also believe that President Trump could care less about the norms and protocols that these snooty blue blood political hacks choose to use to make them, the deplorables in Hillary’s basket, feel inferior and out of touch with the upper crust’s standard of acceptance. These snobs, because of the lack of ‘term limits for the politically insane, have become entrenched in the fabric of government, and running rough shod over the newbie’s who look up to their legend and celebrity, but don’t seem to understand the reason for them being sent to Washington was and is to initiate change. These newbies are supposed to be updating and using their technical skills and capabilities to help the old generation political leaders lacking communication skills gap that exists between the real world, and the world that our clueless ancient cellar dweller politicians are using to force their outdated message down the throats of the future leadership of America!

What we have here is a failure to communicate, and with these sanctuary cities giving more and more of our sovereignty away every day, it’s time for us to draw attention to some of the most outrageous proof of this occurring so that those who say, “Say it ain’t so,” can take a second to wake up call and smell the obvious for what it truly is, and that’s sh*t!

ILLEGAL ALIEN SUES SANCTUARY SAN FRANCISCO AND GETS $190K BECAUSE SFPD TURNED HIM OVER TO ICE!!!!!

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SH*T UP……NOW THE LEGAL TAXPAYER IS PAYING FOR THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEES BECAUSE THE RIGHTS THEY DON’T HAVE, ARE BEING VIOLATED BY THE POLICE WHO ARE JUST DOING THEIR JOB AS OUTLINED BY THE IMMIGRATION LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

A man who San Francisco police turned over to immigration authorities in violation of The City’s sanctuary ordinance is set to be awarded $190,000 in a settlement agreement reached with the City Attorney’s Office, which his lawyer hopes will push police to obey such laws.

Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, 33, sued The City on Jan. 17 for violating its sanctuary city laws when officers at Southern Station allegedly cooperated with immigration officials. Figueroa-Zarceno, an undocumented immigrant and native of El Salvador, went to the station at 1251 3rd Street in Mission Bay in December 2015 to report a stolen car.

But instead of helping him find his car, officers called immigration authorities, who took him into custody outside of the station.

Police reports and case documents previously obtained by the Examiner showed that officers at the station detained Figueroa-Zarceno after they ran his name and found a warrant for his arrest. But they were unable to find details on the warrant, so Figueroa-Zarceno was released from a side door, where he was then arrested by immigration officials. Those officials had been notified by San Francisco police.

“It’s really important for San Francisco to remain a sanctuary city not in name only but also in practice,” said Saira Hussain, a staff attorney at the Asian Law Caucus, who represented Zarceno.

Hussain said her client’s case is not an isolated incident, and she hopes the settlement will encourage the department to follow its own rules and city ordinances, BUT NOT FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAW. One recent case she mentioned was when an undercover officer, Joshua Fry, was caught on tape allegedly threatening to call immigration authorities on men in U.N. Plaza on May 5.

“Our hope is that the department is going to look into this further and really examine the way that the department can do more,” she said.

 The department did not return a request for comment Wednesday.

The settlement agreement — which was introduced to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday and has yet to be voted on — and lawsuit names a number of officers who were involved, including then-Acting Chief of Police Toney Chaplin, Sheriff Vicki Hennessy, sgts. Trevor Kelly and Eric Balmy, and officers Kevin Clifford, Nicole Chambers and Dayna Thibeaux.

Settlement agreements that are reached by the City Attorney’s Office are usually approved by the Board of Supervisors, but the body can reject them. The matter will next go before the Government Audit and Oversight Committee, which will then send their recommendation back to the Board of Supervisors.

City law, the Due Process for All Ordinance, bars law enforcement from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, among other federal immigration officials, except in a few exceptions when violent criminals are involved. Part of the law’s purpose was to encourage immigrants to report crimes they may otherwise not report because they fear law enforcement will turn them over to immigration authorities.

The City’s sanctuary laws have been center stage in recent years in national politics, including in the killing of San Francisco resident Kathryn Steinle by an undocumented immigrant who at Pier 14 on July 1, 2015.

The suspect, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican citizen, had been sent to San Francisco on an old drug possession warrant from federal custody and then released months before the shooting.

The City came under fire from many who said that Steinle’s death was due to The City’s policies, which allowed the release of Lopez-Sanchez from jail because he had no violent convictions. ~~ By ‘The fallout shelter’

As Americans, and even San Franciscan’s, one can only hope that the courts are as generous with the Steinle family when they sue the shit out of the same city that gave this illegal immigrant $190K for being unjustly detained for being illegal, and asked by ICE to be detained because he was an illegal immigrant that was wanted by the Federal Government! Let’s see if the illegal immigrant that was deported 5 times and came back 5 times illegally, and released by the same police, and who has a violent history, was also asked to be held for ICE, but let go, and ended up murdering an American citizen in broad day light why walking with her father, isn’t that at least worth, $50M when settling that lawsuit!

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‘REDISCOVERING AMERICANISM’ 

Mark Levin loves the United States and its founding principles -- and his latest book, "Rediscovering Americanism," explains his passion and encourages ours.

Levin believes that America's greatness lies in its unique founding ideals -- and documents -- and correctly observes how far we've strayed from those principles and the structure of government they inspired.

In his other books, Levin has outlined the problems confronting us and proposed solutions, but in this book, he takes a deeper look into the Framers' vision and examines the anatomy and historical development of the pernicious progressive mindset that has systematically chipped away at our governmental structure and our liberties.

This book is remarkable in its simultaneous succinctness and thoroughness. It's hard to fathom how Levin could have adeptly covered so much important, relevant material in a relatively short book. But he did.

Why would Levin take us on this historical tour of our nation's competing political and philosophical ideas? Haven't we moved beyond such considerations in the modern age, with the federal government micromanaging so many aspects of our lives? Do these lofty notions even matter anymore in our modern era of short attention spans, sound bites and our endless obsession with daily polling? Why contemplate the proper role of government when our ruling class rarely concerns itself with preserving our liberties, when the Washington establishment rarely focuses on whether government has the authority to act but fights instead over the most efficient way it should act?

The answer is that Levin understands that our belief and confidence in our founding principles and our steadfast commitment to them are essential to preserving our individual liberties, our prosperity and our national uniqueness and greatness. In Levin's words, "philosophy and practical politics are linked and, therefore, have a real effect on the life of the individual." As our history has increasingly demonstrated, we cannot preserve our constitutional structure -- and thus our liberties and the rest -- if we do not understand and embrace its necessity. For our failure to grasp that truth has resulted in the steady erosion of the system built on it.

Levin is convinced that unless we have a national reawakening of the indispensability of our first principles, we will continue our march toward statism and squander the blessings bestowed on us by our visionary ancestors. "What will (future generations) say about us?" he asks. "Will they say that we were a wise and conscientious people who understood and appreciated the blessings of our existence and surroundings and prudentially and conscientiously cared for them; or will they say we were a self-indulgent and inattentive people, easily shepherded in one direction or another, who stole the future from our own children and generations yet born, and squandered an irreplaceable heritage?"

In other words, our remarkable system of government, despite its brilliance, is not self-sustaining. An intellectually lazy and spiritually negligent body politic will not nurture and care for this gift, and it will continue to descend by incremental steps into tyranny beyond the point of redemption.

By reintroducing us to our founding ideas and their importance, Levin is both sounding an alarm over the threats that imperil us and calling on us to man our battle stations by first understanding the gravity of our predicament and then arming ourselves with a true understanding of our national uniqueness.

In Chapter 1, Levin unpacks the concept of natural law (and natural rights) -- "the foundational principle at the core of American society." This principle "permeated American thought from the beginning of our republic and well before."

As clearly and firmly reflected in the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal by God and have certain unalienable rights. These rights are universal to all men and are divine and spiritual in origin -- not government constructs -- and thus no government has the right to deny them. Levin shows further the importance of the rule of law, the mutual dependence between private property and freedom, and the interrelationship between economic liberty and political liberty.

The Framers designed our system to preserve these rights (and liberties), thus crafting a constitution that empowered and limited government -- with those powers and limitations each designed to achieve the overarching goal of establishing and preserving our individual liberties. The Framers understood that mankind is imperfect and that a government led by imperfect people would, unless checked, tyrannize citizens and swallow their liberties.

Progressives, on the other hand, believe that mankind is perfectible and that centralized government is the means to achieving this social engineering, and they have been working steadily toward that goal in America for more than a century.

Whereas our Framers ardently believed that mankind's natural rights are transcendent and that the principles they enshrined in the Constitution are also timeless, progressives have always been convinced that our founding principles and documents were applicable only to their unique historical setting and that our system must constantly evolve to accommodate the changing times.

The tragic irony is that our short national history has vindicated the Framers and exposed the folly of the progressives, who are still in denial that their arrogant attempts to engineer human perfection through expansive government -- particularly the runaway administrative state -- have resulted in a stunning erosion of our liberties.

Unless we dismantle the federal leviathan and its suffocating bureaucracy, we'll slide ever further -- and irreversibly -- into tyranny. Unless we "rediscover" our "Americanism," we can't conceivably resurrect and sustain our liberties. ~~By David Limbaugh, a Friend of America!

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DEMOCRATS REELING FROM A DEVASTATING ELECTION FACE A DAUNTING TASK: THE 2018 SENATE MAP!

It favors Republicans in a big way. The GOP will be defending just eight seats, while Democrats must fight for 23 — plus another two held by independents who caucus with Democrats.

What’s worse is the fact that many of the seats they must defend are in states won by Republican Donald Trump.

Midterm elections for sitting presidents are historically challenging. Democrats in the Senate are hoping to find some political momentum for 2018 given the difficult playing ground.

HERE ARE THE 10 SENATE SEATS THAT COULD FLIP.

Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)

Democrats came into 2016 bullish about the Sunshine State.

But Republican incumbent Marco Rubio’s decision to run for reelection cleared the muddled field and, ultimately, a surge in rural Republican voters outpaced Democrats’ gains in cities and with Hispanics. When the dust settled, Trump won by 1 percentage point, while Rubio held on to his seat by 8 points.

Nelson, a three-term senator, is a well-known commodity in Florida, having held public office there since 1972. And he starts with a net 14-point approval rating, according to an October poll from Public Policy Polling.

Possible challengers could include term-limited Gov. Rick Scott (R), a Trump ally, or any of the politicians who eyed the seat in 2016, including outgoing GOP Reps. David Jolly or Ron DeSantis.

Millionaire Carlos Beruff and Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, both 2016 candidates, could also jump in. But the two are Scott allies, so it’s unlikely either would challenge the governor should he decide to run.

Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)

No state’s Senate race changed more in 2016 than Indiana’s. Republicans started the cycle looking likely to keep control of outgoing Sen. Dan Coats’s seat with Democratic Rep. Barron Hill in the race. Then it seemed destined to go Democratic once Hill dropped out and former Sen. Evan Bayh jumped in. But a flurry of damaging stories and revelations stunted Bayh’s comeback, giving Rep. Todd Young a 10-point win behind Trump’s 19-point victory.

Donnelly seemed to have an uphill battle against Sen. Richard Lugar (R) in 2012, until the incumbent was toppled by former Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock.

Look for a much tighter race now, with potential GOP candidates such as Reps. Luke Messer, Susan Brooks or Marlin Stutzman, who ran in the primary this past spring, in the mix.

Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)

Democrats are fresh off of a tight loss challenging Republican Sen. Roy Blunt’s reelection and now have to pivot defending one of their own. Democrat Jason Kander fell to Blunt by 3 points, while Trump won the state by 19 points. McCaskill has won tough races before — she defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Jim Talent for her seat in 2008 and dispatched Rep. Todd Akin in 2012, a race that had been considered close until Akin’s infamous comment about “legitimate rape.” Republicans will likely eye the red-state seat as a major pickup opportunity, potentially by one of the state’s six GOP lawmakers.

Jon Tester (D-Mont.)

Tester steered the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2016, so he’s led the party through its share of tough races. And winning as a Democrat in Montana is no easy feat.

Trump won the presidential vote by 21 points in Montana, but Gov. Steve Bullock (D) tapped into the state’s bipartisan leanings with his own 4-point win.

GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke, the state’s only congressman, is seen as best positioned for a potential Tester challenge.

Dean Heller (R-Nev.)

Nevada was one of the shining lights for Democrats up and down the ticket in 2016 — Clinton held the state by 2 points, the same margin that former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican Rep. Joe Heck by to win the open Senate seat.

That’ll give Democrats confidence coming into one of their few strong pickup opportunities of 2018.

Look for the scramble to start right back up, with names like Rep. Dina Titus and retiring Sen. Harry Reid’s son Rory leading the first round of speculation.

Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.)

North Dakota is another ruby-red state coming off a Republican blowout in 2016. Trump won by 36 points, Sen. John Hoeven won reelection by 62 points, and Republican Gov.-elect Doug Burgum won by 58 points. Rep. Kevin Cramer (R), the state’s only congressman, could entertain a bid against one of the Senate’s 21 women.

Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)

Brown’s populist streak has won him favor in Ohio for more than two decades, including two terms in the Senate, helping him win reelection in 2012 by 6 points.

But Ohio took a sharp turn in the GOP’s direction in 2016, with Trump winning by 8 points, a larger margin than each of the past five presidential elections there. And Sen. Rob Portman won by 21 points over his Democratic challenger, former Gov. Ted Strickland.

A term-limited Gov. John Kasich (R) could look to jump back to Congress, or state Treasurer Josh Mandel could look for a rematch against Brown, depending on who decides to run to replace Kasich.

Bob Casey (D-Pa.)

The Casey name has been in Pennsylvania politics for about a half-century, beginning with Casey’s father, who started in the state Senate in 1963 before stints as the auditor general and governor.

Casey has won big even in the tight state — he defeated incumbent GOP Sen. Rick Santorum by 18 points in 2006 and won reelection by 9 points in 2012.

This year, GOP Sen. Pat Toomey won reelection by 2 points, bucking all the polls, and the electorate only stands to become more favorable for Republicans in an off year. Potential candidates could include two early Trump backers in Congress, Reps. Lou Barletta and Tom Marino, or others such as Rep. Pat Meehan. State Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman is another who could consider a bid, but many are in a holding pattern until Gov. Tom Wolf (D) decides whether he’ll seek reelection.

Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)

Manchin’s decision to run for reelection boosted the hopes of Democrats looking to hold the deep-red state. Trump won the state by 42 points, but the Mountain State bucked the idea of voting straight ticket, electing Democratic coal executive Jim Justice to the governor’s mansion with a 7-point margin.

Republican state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey could consider a bid, as could GOP Reps. David McKinley, Alex Mooney or Evan Jenkins.

Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)

The Wisconsin Republican infrastructure in the state helped Gov. Scott Walker win three elections in six years, including during the 2012 election that saw wins by both Baldwin and President Obama.

Trump’s 1-point victory there, as well as Johnson’s comeback 3-point victory, gives Republicans hope to build on those margins with a midterm electorate.

Walker is likely to run for reelection, but his lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, could decide to go national. Rep.

Sean Duffy is another name mentioned as a potential Senate contender.

These Senators, and even others from both sides of the aisle, should be held accountable for the attempted ideological overthrow of our Constitutional Republic by these members of Congress, and we as Americans do not need the outsider non-politician President Donald J. Trump to have to do the job that we, as voters, neglected to do in the first place, and that's drain the 'Swamp!'   

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